(1725) Evening all … much happening. Quick housekeeping note … you may have noticed “screenshot” still below some pics … these are where there was a link or Read more or Show more or part of a text seems to be missing. It’s meant to indicate that yes, I did see the request to click, did in fact click and look. If worth posting … saved. If not … short form here. We can always go back if readers want. Have a lovely evening. (1859)
34. Last for this evening
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(1911 GMT) Eric Dondero: “Minutes ago… Pam Bondi just froze all federal funding to sanctuary cities, 200 in total. She has also filed charges against sanctuary city officials.”
Garage bands have always been interesting if they’re any good, if they can play. Experimenting with roles can be even better … for example, all guitars but bass laying down the rhythm section with drums … the bass and soft vocal, not alpha, dominating, playing lead.
Such was noise pop or shoegazing from 1989/90 which the song below is from.
Just setting the scene … we generally start, at this site, in the pre 1920s, a bit of ragtime, we heavily play the 20s, not going too far into the 30s when it went too orchestral. Big bands don’t do a lot for me … 30s/40s, occasional songs being all right. I particularly dislike squeaky new jazz such as the felonious monk.
It started coming good again in the 50s, then the music just died. The 60s had some fun early but became druggier and druggier, the flower in the hair thing was take it or leave it. British invasion had some good pop … almost completely missed mentioning jive, much which was fun.
Woodstock was the nadir for me … drugs, thots, over complicated sounds from bands fancying themselves as almost classical … many will disagree with me on Floyd and the like. Metal began, which to me was humourless, postulating noise with no rhythm. I don’t mind noise if melodic – see song below.
70s fashions were awful … flares, tight shirts unbuttoned to the waist, chains … the music though was experimental and fun again, punk was a phase we had to have, some of those bands came through and were great, late 70s saw some good things happening, musically, though forlorn like Joy Division. Around 1980 saw ska … fun again.
Glam and techno arrived, also awful, the 80s were pretty dire for music, with some exceptions. The late 80s picked up again with early rap, or pseudo with Betty Boo. The late 80s/early 90s saw some experimentation again but there were also dire boy bands … by 1997, the pop music scene was pretty much dead, with autotuned horrors, adenoidal voice throwers and so on.
Thus, if you take maybe 1917 as my start point, ending about 1997, then that’s eight decades of variable popular music. I’m not expecting anyone to like Pale Saints, not least because it is noisy, loud, but with soft overtones which certainly offer counterpoint. What I like are the drone, the use of bass as lead, the voice almost as instrument in itself, the highly melodic tone, not unlike with the Strangler’s Skin Deep.
Sadly, the phase, which had also seen New Order, died … had kids changed? Had they been ruined by then? Actually, who would have listened to this song apart from me? I’m thinking someone born in the first half of the 70s … still children in 1980. What Generation is that? Maybe later Gen X. Do we at this site actually know any later Gen X? Doubt it. Not expecting our readers to like this:
And a very good idea too … develop waterfront property, rake in the cash for the area, then some agriculture as it moves inland, non-jihadi Palestinians as workers, vetted, slowly develop the entire area.
Glancing down the sidebar, more politics there, let’s have a break. YouTube had this film front and centre recommended … I’m not a westerns fan as a rule … was moreso as a kid … however, reviews at Wiki, IMDb etc. say this is a bit unusual and not bad.
(1057) There’s quite a bit in the pipeline ready to redact and post … and that’s after deleting two-thirds of it as reiteration or iffy, confirmation-wise or now outdated. (1117) Sam Bondi confirmed 54-46. (1120)
19. Battery power the solution? Not really …
18. Nice
17. Was going to run her in Ladies on Friday
… but thought best not … best run her in “politics” today:
I’m afraid the anti-Enemies of Britain lot, supposedly us, are going to have to use this, in the same way they got Capone in the end … on a secondary issue.
(0841) Some brek and training coming up … hope both are efficacious. (0938)
13. Moosh corner again
12. The vlogging experience, such as it is
It’s not just that … it’s the fixation of drowning out the narrator with unwonted bkgd noise … it’s those awful ads (and nearly all are appalling) interrupting a piece of music for example … it’s the sanity, the voice, the thoughts of the narrator.
With the Uke three vloggers we use … Christoforou just wanders around the outskirts of some town in some Med country, putting a new point every ten minutes, sardonically … spinning it out … things we know already, Gudadze does show maps and give a Russian perspective, strange manner, the other was good but seems to be off air.
Kissin and some of the current and old GB News are ok, mostly, but when they start the empire building … give me money for my wisdom … bye bye … we have our own thang going here. Vox has insights still, so does the Z Man, occasionally:
When Trump halted all funding payments from USAID, for example, ninety percent of “independent media” in Ukraine had to close. Most of the pro-Ukraine accounts on Twitter suddenly fell silent. This is just one example, but it points to the enormity of the corruption centered in these quasi-government organizations. Much of what has been presented to the public as “democratic politics” has been theater staged by this swarm of not-for-profits and non-government-organizations.
One of the least surprising aspects of this is the realization that the people endlessly yelping about “our democracy” have been part of a system that works to prevent the will of the people. Similarly, it is no surprise that the lunatics screaming about fascism in the streets were underwritten by a network of organizations funding by the government and corporate donors. USAID was big into “gender” politics, for example. It was all a show, but also a massive fraud on the people.
The Z Man we mostly seemed to dump after his true colours showed quite a while back … but that doesn’t mean he can’t be right on some things.
11. Sooner or later, in the birthright citizenship question …
… each participant in the fight must come clean on certain issues:
Is being born into a certain nation, culture, heritage … a “thing”? That is … are you of the “stock” of that nation? This is complicated, in Oz and NZ for example, as they’re not original stock but are that of the longtime masters of that land.
How long is “longtime”? A century, two, five, a millennium? My feeling is that conquered peoples certainly have a case, just as the Englische did post 1066 under the Normans. Bloodlines? However, there’s such a thing as a long time. Moors in Spain? Ah but they were booted out.
What of language? Well, as someone a long time in Russia, with passable Russian language, half Russian in amused Russian eyes … I was ok … plus useful, needed by sectors. Speaking the language passably is certainly a thang imho, plus being au fait, sympathetically, with the land’s history. Most certainly not protesting over some other country.
Longtime? I’d say a millennium is fair. In Br and Oz, I understand you needed to produce a grandparent … I’d say that that should be great-great-grandparent before feeling secure.
In 2025, America is an outlier among developed nations in offering unrestricted birthright citizenship. Corporate media outlets will remind you that we aren’t alone, that around 30 other countries do the same. But what they usually don’t report is that those countries are the likes of Grenada, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. Not a single European country follows our lead. Nor do Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and the list goes on.
Only one country in the world with a per-capita GDP anywhere near the United States’ matches our policy — Canada. And Canada historically hasn’t had much to worry about on the illegal immigration front, because their only land border is shared with us.
To my mind, birth plus other factors come into it … looking at the invaders … ah, but which factors?
(0653) Morning all … some sleep always helps. (0759)
10. Under duress or eagerly?
9. Making sense of the nonsensical
Similar situation as Djoker in Melbourne with the vaxx … someone in govt was involved, for some reason, with politics in the home country, donor, whatever => visa revoked just like that.
8. TDS (blogrolls)
This is one of those situations where we can only imagine her own situation (item 1), if we accept for now the truth of these “14 medical experts” … even that is jaundiced today.
Recently, I was reviewing reaction videos to the first three Bourne episodes and there was one conversation which went along the lines afa I recal: “If Blackbriar goes south, we’ll wrap it up and hang it around Landy’s neck.”
What had been her crime in their eyes? Same anywhere, any big organisation … the one with sound values in real terms, with a conscience, is targetted as a bunny … were she a Nuland or that kind, protected at all costs. As a Landy, dangerous … might stumble upon, might let it get out.
This boycott – announced in an emailed statement to AFA’s supporters and via its website – was one of the largest in U.S. history. The associated online petition reached over 1 million signatures in a matter of weeks. To date, the boycott petition has over 1.5 million signatures.
AFA points out that since the start of the boycott:
“Target lost over $2 billion in stock value in the days following the boycott.
Other corporations took note about the misguided Target policy.
Target added single occupancy restrooms in response to the boycott.
Target scaled back LGBT Pride month products in May 2024.
Target recently announced it will no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s LGBT index.”
1. Steve at 960
Four: Shut Down USAID … January 6th as a Scam … Vance Visits East Palestine … Weidel To Visit Hungary … much more…..
Three: Rubio in El Salvador … Homan Says Border Crossings Down 93% … Gitmo underway, quite a deterrent … Musk’s yound assistants … much more…..
Two: Uke sit-rep … Kiev actions … regulars…..
One: Home Office downplays real threat … Euthanasia, immigration and electric cars … AfD Orban … challenge to birthright … much more….
