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5. Steve at 1048

• US Lawmakers Warn EU Over Poland’s Globalist Regime’s Crackdown on Conservatives
• ‘I’m Sticking with Jesus’: Joe Rogan Goes Viral Explaining the Logic of Christ’s Resurrection *
• 17 House Republicans Led by Rep. Andy Ogles Demand Speaker Mike Johnson Codify Trump’s Executive Orders into Law
• Trump Sounds Off On Birthright Citizenship
• Putin Sends Strong Team To Istanbul, Includes Top Military Officials
• China’s vanishing population: What role did Covid play **
• ARIA’s Folly: Why Britain’s Taxpayers Deserve Better
• SOFREP report on Syria: CIA & Special Ops Training Al Nusra Terrorists
• Much more.

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*The wording is everything here … “logic”, not “proof”. Agreed.
**Most interesting … would like to read more on’t.

4. DAD at 1048

a) Elon Musk writes….South Africa has now passed 142 laws forcing discrimination against anyone who is not black! […] *

b) Violent culture-enriching theatrics in a Bordeaux courtroom…..

c) According to Le Figaro, Giorgia Meloni’s Italy and Denmark are preparing to unite several European states around a text denouncing the excessive influence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)…..

d) In Orléans, stickers appear around the city declaring a “M-free zone.”

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*Poor Elon … perma-expat now. I know the situation in reverse … came back here in 2008 and the country had been wrecked, esp. in education. Blair and Brown do need trying and executing. Australia looks a mess. Russia? War footing, not great for Brits just now, my ex-gf understands though. France? I miss her, looks a hellhole now it seems, no worse than UK urban centres though … glad to be outside the metropolis.

3. Sometimes a topic demands to be run up front, no waiting

This is especially so when there was no plan to run it but there it was, a quick exploration and there was this from Wiki:

“The Beatles’ emergence overlapped with the decline in British conservatism.^[56] In the description of author and musician Bob Stanley, their domestic breakthrough represented “a final liberation for Britain’s teenagers” and, by coinciding with the end of National Service, the group “effectively signaled the end of World War II in Britain”.^[57] For sociologists, the band typified new developments in postwar Britain such as social mobility, teenagers’ commercial influence, and informality in society.”

I “had to run this” (wearing my editor’s cap), simply because to store it somewhere and retrieve later was not worth the time and considerable effort … I have no Word facility here, not even Libre, and the Apple version is utter rubbish. So here tis above.

The premise I was exploring was that someone, some other force, such as those technically creating songs with tonalism and effects, were a sort of Dominic Cummings of the time … manipulative spads. In short, yes, the Beatles certainly became so creative, not just reflecting but extending and darkening yoof, of which I was one. Plus technically, they were improving … so was all pop/rock. While the Who were rebellious My Generation, Lennon was really dark inside, fixated on the influence of Jesus with oldies, fuddy duddies, squares.

Intent? Obviously to replace anything wholesome by having it only uttered by narrow Colonel Harrumphs as I call them. Yoof were not interested in the latter. Perfect for shaitan, would you not say, were you to concede that shaitan exists, e.g. driving the Taylor Swifts, Kiss, Metal etc. Laurel Canyon in the US was their satanic workshop, also NYC with its statue of Ish***. DC was and still is a cesspit.

Going off at a tangent now, am I “nostalgic” for the Beatles? Not in the least and my evidence is that, at age 11, I had the end of my desk at my bedhead and on it I had put cards of the fab four with sellotape. My dad wanted them down but did not insist … my mother had no opinion except … let him have them if he wants.

I took them down myself … bored. They were not my heroes … I tried to make footballers heroes … big yawn. There were no women or girls in particular … was never a Bardot or Julie Christie or Twiggy or Marianne Faithful devotee … don’t know why, it just happened that way. The stage antics of The Who, Kinks, the others, were immature in my eyes, which was a commentary on how today’s cynicism and curmudgeonliness began … it was way back then.

While my mates and gals were all “oh wow” and all that, I thought it was stoopid. Rebellious? Against what? Life was good … I did not have to be told by anyone. On the other hand, Spock had been stoopid too in the 50s … brats having tantrums? Forgeddit … boring little tits (for Americans, that’s not a rude word in this sense, it was jargon). So, in a way, I was already an old man, cautious, wary, finding ways around … and some things I was dead against.

One example was the song Multiplication, the theme later taken up by Benny Hill, Frankie Howard etc. As an older kid, I just found it all puerile, nauseating. I don’t want to talk sex, just have it for real if m’best gal is by m’side. The Americans at least kept things reasonably decent … and yet Leary, all those Beat Poets etc. … well I never wanted to meet them. Easy Rider? Forgeddit. I didn’t want porn around … for a start, my parents might find it … besides we invited girls to my place when my parents were out working. The real thing was far better.

Plus there was this factor of being into anything going. Always Mr. Polite, me, babyfaced with a halo in polite company, we used to scarper from school at lunchtimes for a smoke, sometimes alcohol, which was nice. And for our age, the boys were just street fighters of the day. And I’d suddenly get crazy ideas. Good thing the Holy Spirit got in about my 12th year, otherwise I might have ended up a Blair or Moriarty.

My heroes included people like Sherlock Holmes, Hughie Cornwell of the Stranglers … way cool in my eyes … eccentric but sound deep inside. Seemed way cooler to be the strong silent goody and fight anyone who attacked me. Defending damsels in distress? Way cool. Yet slight element of the nutter. Noticed that the nutter motif did work well … kept people at a distance. Why was that good in itself? No idea. Never stopped to find out.

Was never a gang person, tagged along with this one or that for awhile … good mates, don’t get me wrong, all good chums. Just didn’t need it every waking hour.

So … nostalgia? Not really, I liked driving, forceful, melodic, music with variation. 50s early 60s was so much fun. Wagner? Forgeddit. Mozart? Ah, yes … he da man, he was, and once I found out he Pd off most contemporaries, that was even better. When I saw those letters to his wife … wwweeellllll, he went up 1000% … what a romantic, but not in a soppy way. Not twee. Bach? Respected, highly so, my dad type. Haydn, Handel, Liszt? They were the goods, no? But Amadeus the film made Mozart da man to me. Eine Kleine. Been to Salzburg and Vienna too, a few times. Happy time.

Blake over here? A bit off his nut really. Too many substances? Keats? Nah. Rabbie Burns? Too far north. Byron? Idiot, like Shelley. Python in the 60s? Did some excellent things, commentary on life … most of it was a bit ordinary … the Gilliam animations my least fab parts … Palin my fave, though Jones was the brains. Welsh male choirs? Yes, commendable if you’re into saucepans.

Anyway, nuff of all that, need brekkie, need to put up DAD and Steve too.