The garden produce is starting to get a bit more prolific. Indeed, I forgot about the mangetout. I’d already picked the plants clean, but they produced a lot more and I didn’t notice until they had all plumped up full of peas. So I picked them all and shelled the peas, and have a nice little container full.
Produce July 21st
The early plums are absolutely crazy. If the jackdaws are taking them (and I guess they are because the upper branches don’t seem to have any – and they did a few weeks ago) they are still leaving plenty for us. I’m thinking plum jam is the way to go, although we did have some of them in a fruit salad last night which included our solitary strawberry. I picked a bowl full and there are easily twice as many left on the tree. I had to fight the wasps (eek!) and the apple tree (lots of long branches laden with apples that I have to work my way around and under to reach the plums).
After the recent rains, the courgettes have burst into fruitfulness. I found one large courgette (how did I miss it before??) and a couple of normal size. There are about a dozen baby ones on the way. And that’s only two plants.
Peas
The other two plants are not doing so well. They’re in a different part of the garden and my Beloved will have to gather those courgettes when they appear because the plants are surrounded by nettles and a huge tub of water that I can’t shift. So I can’t actually reach the plants!
Just in time for the fruit salad, I discovered two ripe blueberries. One each! The rest of the blueberries and still green and unripe. But I’m amazed. I was convinced the blueberry bushes had died, but I think the raspberries have been nurturing it. The bush is surrounded by self-seeded raspberries. I must keep an eye on those raspberries. We keep finding them popping up in the lawn which is across the path from the bed where the raspberries live.
(0601) A tad late, today’s start … just saw DAD’s opening item and then the Miliband thing at TDS. We are caught up in a murderous theatre of lunacy … more in item 5 this morning. (0752)
5. Short op ed on the murderous theatre of lunacy
Both IYE and I have been at this a long time … in my case since I began quoting Svali (year 2000 radio interview) in early 2007 at the ex blog N.O. Meanwhile, IYE (in whichever moniker manifestation of the time) has also been at it, esp. in quoting Miles Mathis and others … plus there was Revolution Harry … and the message is one that so many more today are coming out with:
The whole political and even religious scenario is one murderous theatre of lunacy out there. Now, some of us are coming at it from a largely eschatological angle … return of the Christian Messiah … whilst some of our other chaps are coming at it from an annunaki angle and yet others from a stage four communism angle … whichever angle, whichever denouement according to whomever’s writing it … it still comes down to the same gameplay that Them are pushing so hard, this juggernaut …
… this murderous theatre of lunacy which certainly does threaten to wipe us out … Zelensky’s clown genocide of his own people, but writ large for the entire west and entire world’s population.
In 2007, these sentiments would have been seen as utter fantasy, utter bollox … not so much in 2025 to 2030 though. Now it is looking remarkably more likely as species suicide or at least gross masochism, of rank stupidity on the part of the teeming normie populations.
Further, to return to the worthy Svali from 2000 … she stated that the nations’ controllers, far from being truly at each other’s throats, were in fact in cahoots as to the overall plan … the differences were in the details, who would get to be shaitan’s numero uno sidekick, to get the kudos, the glory … would it be Napoleon, Gitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Kalergi, Donny himself?
Whoever it was to be, they are in a dog eat dog internal fight to the death to out-top each other as shaitan’s numero uno deputy … and do mot forget Semiramis and Jezebel while we’re there.
Crazy talk on my part? Yes it is … undoubtedly … but not my personal craziness, insanity … but Them’s. And this is what I saw in 2007, others saw too in other damascene moments along the road. These people … the PTB … Them … are utterly criminally insane, irreversibly indoctrinated.
Obvious question is what to do about it. Some of us, maybe CS Lewis as well, TS Elliot, Charles Spurgeon, would point out that this war is on two planes … the ancient metaphysical … plus the worldly.
The vast majority, certainly in the west, can only see the worldly … they’ve been trained to from birth.
Strange people like us though, thinking further than seems seemly, see that there might just be something to this whole biblical warning, however messed with the text has become by now.
And there’s a corollary … throughout that series of books is the same message … if you’ve turned your back on the only Safety there really is on offer in this very ancient war … then you’re on your own, mateys, saith the Lord.
Esp. for Israel.
Now, what about the “rational” western world, our western world, the world of “respectable” politics, not apocalyptic, not eschatological … the everyday world of, say, Sundance, of Thomas Sowell, of the thinkers we know and respect, even of UHC? Will Reform be the answer, or farmer Rupert, or Donny, or Vlad? What of Mike Benz? What of Miles Mathis?
This being written now is item 5 of maybe 25 for the day, many screenshots, many opinions from across the west … as usual. Is it all pointless … that which we do?
Well you know … this is an old question … what should someone with an eschatological perspective be spending his time doing? Praying in a monastery, whilst doing nothing physically for our fellow men and women?
That’s not my reading of scripture … my reading is that we, all of us, inc. nonChristians, must do everything possible to oppose Them, to stop atrocities … yes, even heatpump atrocity for pensioners in midwinter, food scarce by then … strange allies we are to be sure … but still allies now that the enemy is so plain to see, so defined.
Call it a voice in the soul but yes, I must put myself on the line to help those in bother … nothing heroic in this … all “sane” people would do the same, shirley? Plus there’s some sort of social cobtract going on here with my Protector.
There we are. So here’s UHC … for now anyway … until clobbered by Them.
Meanwhile, the atrocities go on out there and contributors at UHC and elsewhere try to make sense of it all, fall out, fall in, keep at it.
4. Pammy actually comes good for once
If it turns out that I was quite wrong on AG Pammy, oh me of little faith in her, then I shall be the first to eat humble pie and admit that.
3. Steve at 1114
Trump Withdraws from Globalist UNESCO for the Second Time
Hillary Clinton’s Private Server Scandal Reveals Barack Obama’s Email Was Hacked
Gen. Flynn Torches Mike Pence, Says He Must Be Questioned in Criminal Probe
District Court Judges in New Jersey Vote to Oust Alina Habba *
Kiev Out Of Men Losing Pokrovsk, French Military Say Defeat Inevitable
Pfizer COVID vaccine spike prions enter the eyes and cornea, causing serious damage
Chile’s lithium mines fuel an ecological disaster, draining vital water supplies
Much, much more. **
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*Classic case of outdated news … please do NOT blame the bringer … at that moment of bringing, it was very much current news … later developments though render it with ????s, that’s all (see Wed 4).
**And overall, readers are asked to please understand that, on every single day, the items listed here at HQ (Steve’s and DAD’s drops) are not comprehensive summaries of all headlines our worthy chaps dropped … they are a cherry-picked selection by JH, just signposts of some of the topics over at NOWP … in this case at 1114.
2. From TDS newsletter email
Ed Miliband has pledged to stop noise rules blocking the installation of heat pumps – as his wife joins a protest against a new block of flats where his neighbours are objecting to the noisy heat pumps. The Telegraph has more.
1. DAD at 1114
a) On Sunday, July 13, Emmanuel Macron raised the specter of war in his address to the armed forces … According to him, the Russian army is already at the gates of Europe, and its imperialist ambitions are directly targeting our country.
b) X slams Musk’s ‘politically-motivated’ attacks as France investigates platform.
c) The government will clearly “give in” on a certain emblematic measure (for example, working public holidays) and thus give the impression of having “listened” to the opposition, while changing nothing in the overall structure of its budget.
d) Dutch Minister for Climate and Green Growth Sophie Hermans stated that the prior goals for wind energy were “no longer realistic”. She said that the demand for “green” energy was not growing as fast as previously hoped…
… on Sharon Osbourne’s man … sorry. Which leads to a reflection … so many people I know have warm feelings towards artists who leave me cold … let me list some … AC/DC, the glam bands and artists, Bowie, Mercury, Oasis … yet friends feel the same way about, say, Betty Boo … but I quite liked her.
23. Shocked? It’s their policy
22. The bstds are provoking us every which way
21. Steve at 1114, war room
“Japan’s Populist Wave Is Real.” Matt Braynard On The Sanseito Party’s Anti-Lockdown Platform
Gen. Flynn: “The Biggest Crime In Political History.”
Julie Kelly: “FBI Had 8 Thumb Drives Of Data Collected From A Major Breach, Including A Trove Of Hacked Emails From Obama”
“There Is A Very Good Chance” Former CIA Officer Sam Faddis On DNI’s Russiagate Bombshell Producing Indictments
Benny: “General Flynn demands FBI raid Obama’s DC Mansion immediately and strip passports from every Russia-Gate co-conspirator due to flight risk: “All of these people involved, starting with Obama Should have their homes raided and their passports revoked. Absolute flight risk. Raid Obama’s Kalorama mansion immediately. There is a lot of evidence there. He’s been running the White House through the Biden regime.”
“A film noir does not have to be totally realistic to become a classic; All it needs are the elements that make film noir the gritty and riveting thrillers they are. This plot surrounds amnesia, money laundering, and mistaken identities. George Taylor (John Hodiak) is an amnesiac veteran who finds a letter from a friend he doesn’t remember named Larry Kravat for a bank account in Los Angeles.
When he goes to the bank, he becomes nervous over the suspicious nature of the bank teller and flees. Mysterious encounters with several others makes him wonder about his own identity and who the mysterious Kravat really is. With the help of a kindly nightclub singer (Nancy Guild), he sets out to solve the mystery. What he finds he may not like.
In a year of such classic film noir as “The Big Sleep”, “Gilda”, “Decoy”, “The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers”, “The Killers” and “The Blue Dahlia”, “Somewhere in the Night” has been somewhat overlooked until recently. It has a somewhat convoluted plot line, and its structure moves all over the place like the roads in the mountains above Los Angeles. Characters come in and out of the script like bees out of a hive. Who is good and who is bad will have to be waited out until the ending revelation, but this isn’t the L.A. of movie studios and sunny days at the beach.
Sure, Taylor ends up at the beach, but it is to go into the bowels of an old wooden dock, not to catch rays between Santa Monica and Venice. Film noir vets like Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan add color, while Margo Woode is an interesting supporting “femme fatale”. (“Whose the character with the hair?”, she squawks upon meeting Guild….)
Guild does have an interesting look, sort of like a younger Kate Mulgrew. Veteran 30’s leading lady Josephine Hutchinson is memorable in one key scene as a seemingly middle aged recluse who dresses and lives like Whistler’s Mother. Look too for Harry Morgan as a rough character Hodiak encounters while investigating.
This was only the third film for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and he already shows signs of being a master story teller. With truly dark photography, a moody hero, a Lauren Bacall like heroine and other archetypes that make for essential film noir, this is worthy of becoming a small classic. I would like to have seen more films of this nature with Nancy Guild; She had the ability to make you trust her in spite of her involvements of unsavory characters, but appears to have had a very limited acting career.”
A different version of the first, in London, by Hillary:
Midnight on the water:
This popular composition is usually credited to Texas fiddler Luke Thomasson, although it has been published that Luke’s son Benny (a famous Texas-style fiddler who popularized the melody) long remembered the night he heard both his father and uncle composing the tune on the family porch (c. 1900?).
a) American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira films migrant street vendors and scammers. He is attacked and chased by a horde of Africans.
b) French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.”
c) According to the Daily Mail, an investigation reveals that 312 m1gr@nts housed in hotels funded by the British taxpayer were charged with 708 criminal offenses over three years.
d) Paris : la Place de la République become the Place de la 1slm1c prayer.
