I’m thinking we’re in a desperately dangerous situation just now:
Bezmenov in the mid 80s had it so right but without the sicko elements like this. He mentioned how by this stage, people would be no longer able to reason, to process fact from fiction but I’m not sure he saw beyond the political to the diabolical control of so many in the land.
A side issue about the reportage was that there was just a bit on X … I imagine there was far more in the MSM but then again … their reports can be discounted.
15. Housekeeping
Just been looking through the comments today (so far) and my habit of commenting within comment does not suit this amount of text, number of comments. I don’t mean I don’t wish, nor am I reticent to copy and paste … it just seems better in situ. I’d prefer to read them as a reader does, esp. about British history. They fit better where they are.
At 2 hrs 19 mins, the film is too long for embedding here, even were it available, which it’s not … they want money. Therefore, the only option, apart from your sharp memories, is a reaction vid.
Now, there are reaction vids and reaction vids. Both girls and guys like to rabbit on about anything and everything first as a rule of thumb, which is why I avoid pontificating podcasts like the plague. This gal below though answers the quesion … if one must put up with some form of podcasting, is it nicer with a hirsute male banging on … or the lovely Coby here, for all her foibles and terrible bright red claw polish?
Good luck.
Just an afterword. YouTube always ruin it by providing chopped up clips of major films, even distorting sound and, especially with 2001, it helps to have Coby in an arnchair there when they chop up the film every few seconds. In fact, YouTube ruin it, meaning she is the redeeming feature in the reaction.
Readers/viewers will know that if it’s excessively AI or the voice is grating or the noise in the bkgd unbearable … well, you know I shan’t run it. But if it’s acceptable and does relate to the main post later … well, here tis:
(0643) Woke up on time but just had a long letter to write. Sun’s out, let’s get going. (0730)
5. Just bringing us up to date
4. Steve at 1458
Arson Suspect Identified and Arrested in Spokane Wildfires that Torched Hundreds of Homes – Man Previously Gunned Down His Own Father
Rep. Andy Ogles Calls Out RINO Senate Leader John Thune for Failing to Pass SAVE America Act: “Do the Right Thing or Resign”
Malsi Call to Prayer Now Blasts Five Times Per Day Across Minneapolis – Setting the Precedent for Other US Cities
US Military Just Flexed The F-22 On Iran’s Mullahs
Kiev’s Plan To Build New Air Defense System Will Not Save Ukraine – Media
Leafy greens emerge as single most potent food for dementia prevention in massive analysis (JH: Preaching to the converted here … I’ve been on them for decades.)
UK government launches legal action to stop the release of data showing crimes committed by migrants
Fusion of AI with the American war machine is the most dangerous turn in human history (JH: Appropriate then that we run 2001 today as our Wed Mat one and two.
Much more.
3. Henley shirts
… otherwise known as grandpa shirts. While primarily winter undershirts, in summer that design can be used as standalone around the house and just outside. For shopping etc., a polo tee is the thing.
Now shorts. I see much online about too baggy shorts … I’m also not keen on those 3/4 or 2/3 shorts, hem over shin … they foreshorten even a tall guy, look ugly imho. I favour long, dark colour, just below the knee shorts, thick cotton and liner on pockets … well constructed I mean, not rags.
2. DAD at 1458
Weather note… Here July was a remarkable month – 31 days and 22 of them were 100% sunshine.]
a) France. A series of tragic incidents within the office of French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has led to the opening of a preliminary investigation by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office….
b) Germany prepares secret plan for electricity shortage for ‘several days to weeks’.
c) Spain. Despite repeated assurances from the Spanish government that the migration crisis in Ceuta is easing, residents of the Spanish exclave….
d) Firestarters light the flames, Bureaucracy feeds them. France’s forest fires reveal that bureaucratic paralysis and regulatory overload, not just arsonists, enable catastrophic spread despite clear solutions identified after 2022 blazes.
e) (USSD) has raised its travel advisory level for Belgium, urging American citizens to “exercise increased caution” when visiting the country over concerns related to crime, terrorism, and public unrest.
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JH: First, apologies to DAD for being so late to approve … I was in the middle (yes, an hour and more) of a long email.
Second, I’ve noticed DAD putting links in within the text of each item … seemibgly far more than before. It causes mayhem at this end, as it will not copy … only the text. So I’ve had to work outvdteategies around DAD’s new system.
1. Don’t read anything into this concerning me
I am not making any oblique point … I went to the email inbox, there it was … Quora, some guy calling himself Parallax … I copied but there is a time limit on copy here, ipad I suppose, so I must now paste … here tis:
“I’m a divorce attorney. One who has been divorced twice and made every relationship mistake in the book. I’m also very happily married for the last 16 years. I’m not cynical about marriage. I very much believe in it but one needs to be wise about who one marries. To me, that’s the key.
I’ve told each of my children and every young person who respects me enough to value my opinion that, in my view, good character is the key to good marriage. Yours and hers. If you don’t have good character, hang it up. No point in getting into a relationship and then not valuing your partner. I’ve been there and done that. It leads nowhere good.
The other part is focusing on the character of your partner. Who is this person. Is she (or he) an honest person? Does she (or he) treat others well. Not just you but friends, family, strangers, etc. Don’t worry so much about outer attraction. Good looks and charisma might pull one in but it doesn’t last if the relationship isn’t strong. There needs to be enough to have something to build on but that’s all.
My wife and I have both gotten older and yet I find her more beautiful now than on the day we met. Because we treat each other well. Because we care about each other. Because we are honest. Because we are best friends. Because we trust each other. Because we respect and even admire each other. That’s the foundation on which to build a solid marriage.”
… which has the trappings of devout piety but actually stems from the other side. It’s been on my mind but I had nothing concrete to present here till now.
Just went back into YT to see if there was a copy of 2001 … I’d found something on Kubrik and the whole biz, the 2hr 20m movie was too long anyway … I found three reaction vids and shall choose the best for tomorrow.
However, suddenly, right there, slap bang in front of me, was the young Scot as I’ve called him for a decade and a half. He is not the usual secular fayre here but he’s biblical (safe), lacking the whole charismatic possession style of faith, lacking the chanting en masse with a charismatic pastor urging them all on. There are a few denominations like that. I don’t like it and one of the most offputting X clips some time back was Bonny Blue being dunked in a pond in a church.
After that, days later, she was back to her old tricks so it seemed. Might be wrong but the whole thing seemed contrived. Anyway, the young Scot had an interesting intro on this woman but before that, two screenshots from comments:
Think everyone here, from avowed atheist to devout bible studier understands that the moment you let a charismatic “leader” start this sort of thing … think also of the White House head of worship, think of Jim Jones, Christian S******, S*****ology … once a church allows that in, esp. in rainbow oufits like the CofE Archd***n, once the red shoes start … well, here tis:
It’s the part starting about 6:12 which I was most interested in. Because The YSc refers to human coercion, also big groups … and he rebels. And that’s exactly what soooo many are doing now, but in a different context … usually political … rebelling against Unipartythink, Unipartythreats. It’s been all afternoon on X and it’s been all about coercion, forcing people, getting violent if they won’t knuckle under. Pushing people into things.
(1509) Way too early for this but I got my timings wrong … difficult morning, just going to start this now and be done. (1649)
19. Monsters and monstrosities
18. Whole politburo needs to go
17. In one
16. This is the reason for X and blogs (one of the reasons)
Was Polio Really A Disease? Or Was It Mass Poisoning?
A common insecticide in the 1800s called Paris Green contained arsenic combined with copper/lead. It caused neurological damage and organ failure in bugs.
… Restore keeps putting out policy documents, some a hundred pages long. Reform are reading them and making them into their own, nominally. If asked. Rupert Lowe was asked point blank by Dan Wootton if he had any deal with the Tories. Not at all, he replied.
This is more a prelude to today’s film later and if you can put up with that new youtube way they insist uploaders follow, then it does put some existential and theological points.
