Thursday [6 to 10]

(1140) Bring on the afternoon. (1215)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Why men are staying away


8. The Cornell 7 case reappears


This also ties in with the rape gang inquiry here which would ordinarily be a whitewash if run by the State.

7. Wonder what Clancy thinks of all this


We now know the execution was botched, which brings up a new set of questions, yes?

6. Rancid Rantzen

Perfectly happy to eat that subheading should Rantzen, Harbag and and Hewitt be entirely innocent, proved beyond a doubt.

Thursday [2 and 3]

(0626) Morning all, light appearing right now. Continuing the theme from Thur 1, I just processed the remainder, then counted the post items so far, before any new ones today. 38 sshots. Thing is though that many are on the same topic or another, so it won’t translate into 38 post items. Plus I’m highly likely to miss one or two and shall put them in later in the morning. See how we go. (0654)

 

3. DAD at 1506

Update on the Famous Five. Did you notice that, Yesterday, the PM waved his magic wand and, suddenly, the diesel in the many containers in the three vans became highly flammable petrol?

a) France. Jordan Bardella’s Jewish ex-girlfriend rejects any anti-Semitism claims

He was accused by the left-wing investigative French outlet Mediapart on September 28 of having made anti-Semitic remarks in 2013.

b) Leaked EU Documents reveal plans for mass scanning of private chats.

The EU is advancing plans for automated scanning of private messages through “search plans” approved by authorities that could surveil millions without individual suspicion under child protection measures.

c) Sharia4Belgium founder seeks asylum to avoid Morocco return.

The founder of radical Islamist group Sharia4Belgium, convicted of leading a terrorist organisation, has filed for asylum in Belgium to avoid deportation to Morocco after losing his citizenship.

d) UK. Fawley maintenance shutdown will exacerbate diesel crisis.

e) Ana Boulter (and her black Labradors) comments on the Labour Minister’s statement that Pubs and Black Labs are faaaaaarrrrr right wing.

2. Jack Smith

Thursday [1]

(0341) Many are having sleep issues … Thur 1 concerns that and Unherdables. (0351)

 

The early morning issue

By about 2100, I’m done for the day, esp. with this heart condition. So I crash, get in 3 hours or so sleep, awake around 0230. That’s ok if I get a second sleep in, which puts first post at 0730 till maybe 0800.

But I need to do the first stage of news gathering before crashing:


Those are just the unredacted … there are about 25 redacted above that. If I do it now, the first post will not be till 0900, plus this is my OoL/Jstack day. And personal correspondence.

Decision? Shut down, awake again about 0730, redact as the Cornell 7 case has blown open again. Take my own advice and simply stop thinking. So … not so much night night as early morn early morn, dear reader.

Wednesday [12 till close of play]

(1718) Evening all. Absolutely nothing further needing posting this evening, chaps and chapesses, in the socio-political line. However Steve has something vitally important. (1939) Stories rolling in now, much on Jack Smith and on health … think I’ll go with the Ukraine and NATO.

 

13. The Ukraine and NATO


12. Steve and his airfix model

Apropos of nothing … this was my last Airfix model before age took me in other directions.. First flight: 22 December 1964.

Wed Mat too

 

Review:

“I am old enough to have seen “This Island Earth” when it was first released. After “Forbidden Planet”, it was the only other film for a decade to take place outside of Earth’s solar system.

Galactic fiction had been written for decades by Edmond Hamilton and a handful of others, very successfully; but it is still rare and hard to handle in film, because it requires some level of ideas and logical development of a political-philosophical system other than conventional and unimaginative acceptances–the stock in trade of those who rip off headlines, use titles such as “Across the Sea of Stars”–and then write nothing at all to go with the promising title.

Here we have a mysterious robot-controlled aircraft’s flight, mail from aliens, the building of an Inter-Rossiter communication device, tall-domed aliens (exhibiting a variety of ethical characters), interstellar flight, a war on a planet called Metalluna, flaming comet-missiles, a competent alien mutant creature, an intelligent cat named Neutron, romance, news conferences, good and bad advice and more.

The original story line, for those who have not read Raymond Z. Jones’ original mystery-sci-fi, is much better than what was done with its ideas in the film’s script. In that novel, Earth was to be destroyed, because it was in the way and being used as a base by one of two sides in a huge interstellar war; at the end, the hero, whose ingenuity has saved the one side, has to make a speech to save the Earth–a climax that did not make it into the film version.

Handsome Rex Reason, who lacks classical accent ability, plays scientist Cal Meacham, opposite Faith Domergue, a fair actress who does well as Ruth, his long-lost love, or is she. The film is stolen by Jeff Morrow as Exeter, also star of “Kronos”; Douglas Spencer is a bit disappointing as The Monitor, as is Lance Fuller as an evil Metallunan; the special effects such as rays that explode cars and the aforementioned comets are interesting for their time.

What is right about the film I suggest is its color, its adventure narrative and swift-paced unfolding, since it is rather well-directed; what is lacking is the first-rate ideas of the novel from which it was adapted.

“This Island Earth” ( a phrase later used in “Star trek’s “All Our Yesterdays”) is arguably a welcome change from all those sci-fi films where rockets seem tied to earth, unable to expand the human horizon.

I like it, and recommend it to anyone who wants to escape from the present mean-streets ugliness cult’s movies; it is physically beautiful and frankly more entertaining than most have credited it with being these past 50 years.”