Monthly Archives: February 2025

Saturday [5 to 8]

(0735) Morning all … better sky than recently. (0832)

 

8. Roundup of snippets

Think I might just call this “snippets” hereonin because it conveys that such a sub-item contains just signposts, summaries, nothing in depth per se … you can always ask for more detail, I’ll try to track down the original and see if there’s anything more to report.


7. TCW item

Sir Roger Scruton: philosopher andgrand panjandrum of Apple Day

6. Steve summary of 975

Quick note … if I don’t do an expanded piece on each and every sub-item … well Steve graces us already with a mass of reading, which I usually reserve for the quiet part of the day later.

Four: Trump Announces Plan to Inspect Fort Knox Gold Reserves to ‘Make Sure the Gold is There’ … Musk personal security … Christian massacre in the Congo … much more…..

Three: Bondi Epstein list … see Jstack for comparison later … Biden employees gone … Maine Gov meathead … ICE … much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep … Uke fires … Zelensky … much more…..

One: Post-Vaccine Brain Fog, Immune Dysfunction … SPAFF by the Speccie … 70 Christians beheaded in a church … much more…..

JH: Both DAD and Steve are using terms, minus euphemisms, out of their understandable “high dudgeon” but NOWP is not free of WP control, as with UHC and it can rebound on the site (as in shutdown) … onus is on me, yes, but I’m loathe to edit your text unless absolutely necessary for site safety. Juss sayin’, lads.

5. Looking at just three items at TDS

… in not great detail:


The reason I don’t place as much store by TDS these days is partly the Lord Toby factor, a bit Lord Richard Tice if it happened, plus the appalling corporate layout of what was once a good source for comment, never really up to date and time … but the obstacles they place in our path to get money from us … bad move. As a fellow pundit … on yer bike.

First item above … nothing special, someone called Laurie … might be ok but I’m not jumping through hoops to read it. Second item … ain’t that the truth … always blame far right, Trump, misinformation or racism as a first reaction … never thin or delve. Third item … an opinion piece from a limited view, as DJT himself has, though his is better than everyone else’s except the Russian people, p,us Gen. Macgregor.

For those wanting to check for themselves (wise), then blogrolls have TDS.

Saturday [2 to 4]

(0131) Taking us into the daylight, Saturday … Steve’s will be in the next post. (0715)

 

4. Back with DAD at 975 at 0644

This is by JH on DAD’s drop over there:

a) “It comes from the unofficial IS associate outfit ‘Al Saif Media’….” writes DAD … telling those of the faith to drive into crowds … this is (quick glance) in Germany. All right, interesting because the main news headline in Geelong’s local rag, near Melbourne, Oz, has this:


You wot? For a start … heatwave in late Feb downunder? Hmmmm, in some years but usually by Labor Day (March 10 or so down there), it’s getting cool. No matter … onto the Pako reference … does that mean what I think it does? As a main regional daily’s lead headline?

Yep, it certainly does … paywall prevents me seeing more than a paragraph confirmation below it. Whoa … let’s “unpack this”, as pundits seem to say these days. To get away with that, obviously race relations are far better in Oz than in Britland … plus, the Kash Patel item celebrated an Indian, said Kash, in high office.

Whoa again … so could we say race relations are far better in both Oz and the US than in Britland and Frogland? Or maybe it’s just headline writers wanting it so. Plus, why would a heatwave wipe out a “Pako” fest? They come from a hot land themselves. And are Ozlanders unaware of the war we’re in in Europe? Sleepy hollow, still completely controlled by the MSM?

Hmmmmm, more on all this later.

b) “Deprived of power and majority for many months, President Macron is trying to rebuild his image and regain his political legitimacy by taking centre stage” … well, dictators do, do they not?

c) “A right-wing mayor is being prosecuted for refusing to perform the civil wedding ceremony of an Algerian national who was under an obligation to leave French territory.” Uh huh … compare to ICE in the States.

d) “In Marseille, jackets with an integrated hood to hide your face are all the rage, especially among young people. However, wearing clothes that prevent you from being identified in public places can result in a fine.”. Well yes … Marseilles has always been a crim hotbed … film and song mention it quite often.

3. Patel

2. Leavitt and Kelly

We missed out on ladies at lunchtime yesterday … will this suffice?

Pre-Saturday [1]

(2323)(0038)

 

Snakes and Allies

I should not have woken up, having crashed for the night … there are reasons I’ll go into one day soon, mainly neighbours doing shiftwork … anyway, here we are, not even Saturday, first sleep over with, thought I’d check X and there’s Publius, a key anon pundit close to MAGA.

Rand Paul tried to “@DOGE” the Senate Budget last night with a $1.5 trillion Spending Cut Amendment, but it crashed 24-76. All Democrats voted NO, joined by 29 RINOs like McConnell, Graham, Cornyn, Tillis, and Thune – thwarting his attempt to reduce inflation and debt.

Here are the 29 “Republicans” who joined every Democrat in voting this down:

Banks (R-IN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Blackburn (R-TN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Boozman (R-AR) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Budd (R-NC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Capito (R-WV) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Collins (R-ME) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cornyn (R-TX) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cotton (R-AR) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cramer (R-ND) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Crapo (R-ID) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Fischer (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Graham (R-SC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Grassley (R-IA) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hawley (R-MO) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Hoeven (R-ND) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Lankford (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Marshall (R-KS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) McConnell (R-KY) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Moran (R-KS) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Mullin (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Murkowski (R-AK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Ricketts (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Rounds (R-SD) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Scott (R-SC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Sullivan (R-AK) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Thune (R-SD) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Tillis (R-NC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Wicker (R-MS) – 2030 (Elected 2024)

*NOTE: These dates assume no resignations, special elections, or other unforeseen changes.

All right … the context for non-Americans and for Americans unaware:


Yes and no … the combined House and Executive does have a say and POTUS does have the right of veto on actual bills … which one would assume he would use with Thune’s big-spending bill, inc. the Ukraine money Zelensky demanded.

Remember that this just now was a vote against a bill, not a bill in itself … in other words, the Senate “vetoed” (voted against) Rand Paul’s amendment. POTUS therefore will instead veto (hopefully) the Thune bill itself to stop it becoming law … the one which bypassed the House proposed bill, backed by POTUS.

Are there any mitigating circumstances for those Republicans above voting with the demonrats?

Well there may be. If House plus POTUS already have a way to kill the bill later, then the Rand Paul amendment might have just been an opening play to flush out the RINOs … or else certain Senators knew of the later play (to come) and did not impede it … it’s a wafer thin argument imho and who am I … not an expert in US division of powers.

But to employ that overused word … the optics certainly look bad to MAGA eyes. They, MAGA, and the RINO GOP, are certainly a house divided, as Lincoln put it long ago. I’ll be interested to see Mike Davis’s comment, though he’s judiciary.

Now, let’s jump across the pond to us and the Llama-Harmer’s latest, as reported and commented on by Vance and one other (Musk? Bondi?):


Also, this comment below appears to be on part of Vance’s speech at CPAC:


The US MAGA govt seems here to be going in to bat for the common folk across Britain and Europe, against their govts.

Friday [14 till close of play]

(1606) Evening all.

 

17. Bobbie corner


16. Toodles


15. Two disturbing things

… which don’t seem all that disturbing until you think them through.

a. CPAC

“The Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and officials from across the United States. CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union. The first CPAC took place in 1974.”

(i)

Why were J6ers, who’ve been one of MAGA’s prime concerns to see released, plus that of many other demographics who voted Trump as the best bet, invited to CPAC, only to be escorted off the premises by security, on the orders of the chief organiser, saying they were “bad optics”, who then suffered a MAGA backlash and said they were now being allowed back in, only for him to lie and leave them outside, hoping it would all go away?


Who the heck are these CPAC people? RINOs?

(ii)


b. The tragedy of Ruth Ailing

At first sight, there’s no tragedy whatever … in that belligerently libertarian way so many of us adopt when any “nice” people are taken to task, I could say it myself … why shouldn’t she travel the world, discovering exciting things … after all, did I myself not do that for years?

First her history … I added it up that she’s now 33 or approaching it … no man, at least not just the one in her travels alone, I have no idea what her moral compass allows … yet 14 million online viewers … in all that time, no permanent partner, at least for sometime? And if so, why is it not mentioned?

What about the tick tock five to seven years from now? And is she way too independent now? Let’s get off the topic of her as one person and onto her as one of millions of young western ladies “discovering themselves”, being serviced by whomever along the way but no attachments … meanwhile the population dipping alarmingly in the west, along with male fertility now an increasing issue. Or unable to form any attachment at all.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

Screenshot

Meanwhile, of those reading this … how many can see the population issue in western countries, with determined feminists “finding themselves” till it’s too late … alternatively, how many of you see no issue whatever?

All right … why pick on her and not on myself, a man? My reply is that it is women who procreate, bring new life into the world … not us.

14. Steve at 975 with CPAC War Room

a. “We’ve Got The Power.” Vice President JD Vance Kicks Off CPAC 2025 |

b. John Eastman: There Is A Nationwide Conspiracy To Deprive People Of Their Constitutional Rights |

c. Mike Davis: “There Is A New Sheriff In Town Today And His Name Is Kash Patel” |

d. Bannon On The Establishment And MAGA: “They Can’t Defeat What They Don’t Understand.” | 

Friday [11 to 13]

(1126) Almost afternoon all. (1425)

 

13. Cover it up, any which way


12. Cross-pond relations

The other day, one of the newer MAGAs made an understandably unintelligent mistake due to lack of any investigative ability or interest … he called a British pundit, one of the key pro MAGA, pro-AfD, pro any patriot in any western country a “limey”.

Unfortunately, every western nation has them and they hardly help the international cause of populism. These two were different though:


From across the pond, horns locked with demonrats and RINOs, furiously typing from his cellar … that first one must have thought any Brit must, by definition, be a loving supporter of the Llama-Harmer … an understandable error.

Where he did have a point was how the hell was Starmer elected in a landslide with 20% of the vote? Similarly, how the hell was DJT way ahead in 2020, when a burst waterpipe changed everything? What could the ordinary man or woman do about those criminals on the left and the psychos above?


11. IYE

Friday [5 to 10]

(0835) Morning all … warmer. (0930)

 

10. And here it is yet again


Look at the young, ambitious lass on the left … compared to the other creature (photos Rogozin):


Empress Palpatine, anyone?


9. Not dissimilar motif


Not claiming she was an innocent caught up in her own pride and ideology, plus lack of experience, lack of vision … like the Delta co-pilot. And I’m quite sure there are genuinely evil wimmin such as Notnilc or Nuland but even Nuland may have been a bit like Rebekah Brooks … trying to make a big name for herself in a cavalier way … but actually being used, under someone’s influence. And essentially incompetent.

8. Not only as we expected


It’s true that my very first thought was: “Female pilot? Targetted missile?” As it has turned out a few times now … why not both? In fact, why not three components here … the Higher-Ups of the Adopted Narrative … the Manchurian man senior officer … the scapegoat girl complimented and pushed to show she’s as good as any man … then a fourth … the locking system which she cannot reverse.

The key in this is not the girl … she’s the bunny, just as Pamela Landy was in the Bourne series … it was to be tied up and hung around her neck. The key was the senior officer. Was he onboard or was the girl flying alone? If not onboard, why not? Was someone controlling the plane remotely? But if he was onboard, then the only explanation is Manchurian, knowing he would be dying.

My second thought on it all was that someone or some people were able to remote lock the plane course … not unlike a missile.

Beauty pageant winner? Who chose her? Why? How far up the feeding list was that person?

7. Etcetera etcetera


6. TCW

Conferences of the smug are no match for Satan’s foot soldiers

5. DAD at 975

a) TPTB, in France, are worried. [I have translated it all as it makes interesting reading.]

According to information from franceinfo, notes are being commissioned from social media experts to monitor several libertarian accounts that are becoming influential.

Libertarian theses are gradually penetrating public opinion in France, outside of a microcosm. A phenomenon is worrying the Élysée. The libertarian movement, in its extreme form, that of the far-right Argentine president Javier Milei, consists of wanting to cut state spending, or even destroy it, and cultivate a hatred of public services. For example, the Argentine seeks to eliminate 60% of public bodies. An ultraliberal movement that also promotes total freedom of expression, “free speech” à la Donald Trump, consisting of being able to say anything, even make racist remarks.

Notes are therefore being commissioned from several specialized companies, experts who decipher and sift through social media to better understand public opinion. What is of concern at the top of the State is not so much the ideology itself, since everyone can adhere to the project they want, but to see it spread in wider circles. Especially since it can lead to protests. 

More and more intellectuals or opinion leaders, from the right, like journalists, who are identified as credible, share on X the publications of certain accounts – often tinged with racism, which criticize the system, believe that we pay too much tax, sometimes followed by tens of thousands of subscribers.

[Funny how they bring in “Racism” – fear porn to frighten the masses.]

Summary of the other drops:

b) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pushed attendees at the Caribbean Nations Summit (Caricom) to call for peace in Ukraine…..

c) A tunnel has been discovered in Ceuta that could have been used to transport drugs from Morocco.….

d) Several migrant support associations denounce remarks deemed “racist” made by members of the collective Non au foyer MNA [Minor {illegal immigrants} Non Accompagnés] de Maignelay-Montigny during a rally on February 10 in Beauvais.….

e) From TCW…..

Compositional dissonance

 

Awkward heading but can’t think how better to express it … there’s a definite “something” drawing me to certain arrangements, the dominance of certain instruments, e.g. bass, bagpipes, others and not being a music professional, I wondered why for a long time.

When Dearieme mentioned, with Tuba Skinny, that the stronger and more numerous the rhythm section, often the better the sound, I thought on’t … also why basso continuo sounded so good in Baroque … why Adrian Rollini was so good. Then I saw this:

“Some Western Composers liked to use a drone (especially one in fifths) to make it sound like bagpipes or other folk instruments. Bach, François Couperin and other Baroque composers often called such pieces “Musette” (the French for “bagpipes”).”

It’s such a different way to approach a song. During the Shoegaze phase of noise pop in the early nineties, same thing often occurred … dominant bass, droning rhythm, high vocals … the Byrds had done similar with the jangly twelve string. Then I saw this about Lennon’s voice on Rain:

“Rain” strongly evokes the style of Indian classical music through its “droning harmony and the, at times florid tune.”

And:

”The increased volume of the bass guitar contravened EMI regulations, which were born out of concern that the powerful sound would cause a record buyer’s stylus to jump.”

EMI bleeding “regulations”? You whaa? Interference plus. I also read how the album Revolver marked the end of live performances in 1966 and heralded far more technique in the studio. One such technique was with Lennon’s voice:

“Geoff Emerick, who was the engineer for both sessions, described one technique he used to alter the sonic texture of the recording by taping the backing track “faster than normal”. When played back, slightly slower than the usual speed, “the music had a radically different tonal quality.” The opposite technique was used to alter the tone of Lennon’s lead vocal: it was recorded with the tape machine slowed down, making Lennon’s voice sound higher when played back.”

In fact, all voices were much higher … same with the singer in Pale Saints, replaced later by a girl … and the Beatles on this song quite easily replaced by a girl in the best cover I’ve heard, including enhanced bass and rhythm drone:

I was going to say that the drone and reversed lead technique was a power technique, more suited to a male, giving it that relentless driving quality, a la Donny T or Kash or Nole or Tom H … and yet here are girls doing it too, such as Kristi N and Pam B … I for one find it more relaxing than a dum-dee-dum, light pop song … it packs more authority … great for sleep at night too as it’s so atmospheric in a rain on the roof way.

However

There’s so much I don’t like in the technique, the scene as a whole I mean. For a start, I was thinking bagpipes rather than sitar, did not like Harrison’s swami phase in the least, nor that of the Moody Blues … and yet the final song in The Lost Chord was undoubtedly good, musically, and the Beatles sounded better with the work put in, just as with the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations.

Yet look at how artificiality has gone over time … auto-tuning, everything now in the engineering, not in the quality of the voice and playing … plus the narco connection, the psychedelic, never my thing, plus the eastern mumbo-jumbo. Plus that was the time of Lennon’s Jesus reference, the idiot.

There was so much wrong social direction which followed just a musical technique … why? In the hands of the wrong people … Lennon for a start was wrongheaded and destructive.

Friday [1 to 4]

(0406) Early. (0429)

 

4. TR news … monster governess


3. Steve at 974

Four: Vance to young men … Kristi Noem … that disgusting Hamas thing … Birx … more…

Three: Kash Patel … McConnell … DOGE and credit cards … much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep … war presses on … much more…..

One: Vaxxes in the US … USAID not only one … “smart” cities … much more…..

2. Very early roundup of snippets (no urls)

1. IYE in comments

“How Meghan Markle rebranded from burger-flipping seductress…who wanted to start a website called Spoon Me, Fork Me… to wholesome Netflix luxury lifestyle guru”

Thursday [23 till close of play]

(1639) Evening all.

 

28. Kash Patel through


27. DAD’s map of temperatures over there

… poor souls:


26. Steve has an interesting clip

… IYE warns that those not on X can’t easily access. True, unless I physically retrieve it:

25. Sharply put


24. CPAC sounds bad news to me


23. I haven’t checked yet if he’s through