An American or AI voiced take on the British audio brand QUAD way back when…
I never owned one but a friend of a friend did … a 405, with the pre and main amp, plus radio … it was the dials as well as the clarity of sound we loved. While I was running my Bang & Olufsen through a pair of Celestion Ditton towers, with twin decks, VHS, turntable and mixer … he ran his QUAD through Bose 901 speakers … rather nice they were.
At the risk of being pernickety though, audiophiles and engineers might say that to run the clean QUAD signal through bass biased speakers did negate the advantages … however, we move on.
(0536) Some clear sky behind the cloud film out there but the air is still heavily laden. Morning all … watch eyes and skin. It’s going to take a while to cover all the incoming, ta chaps. All morning I’d say. Slept well here, but iffy inside still. (0643)
5. Once seen, can’t be unseen
4. At 1383: 2, 5, 4 and 3
… there are DAD, Andy and IYE. The chaps discuss fungal infections at some length.
3. Steve returns, welcome “home”
Iran Seizes Ship Loaded with Weapons, Steers It Toward Territorial Waters
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Freight Brokers Can Be Sued for Negligently Hiring Illegal Alien and Foreign Truckers
DOJ Investigation Determines Yale’s Medical School Discriminated Against Whites and Asians
CNN, Network Which Stoked COVID Fears Constantly, Warns Against ‘Calm-Mongering’ on Hantavirus
Iran Just Seized A Chinese Floating Armory Then The US Military Responded
Andy Burnham or Keir Starmer makes no difference; they are both Fabians
FPÖ Raises Alarm Over Austria Grooming Gang Scandal
Right-wing One Nation Party ahead of both major parties
Much more
JH: With Steve, because of the sheer volume overall, it’s better to run, say, the Evets and HQ comments section X linked pieces separately.
2. DAD at 1383:11
a) France’s push toward centralized digital identity systems has suffered a devastating blow after hackers breached a government-run ID platform containing highly sensitive personal information tied to millions of citizens….
b) In October 2009, Mr Streeting publicly expressed the desire to establish a vigilante group to throw opponents under trains. One of the individuals singled out for physical elimination by Britain’s current Health Secretary was me (Geert Wilders)….
c) Met Police faces Two-Tier Row over Facial Recognition at Tommy Robinson Rally. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that live facial recognition (LFR) technology will be deployed at a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, but not at a nearby pro-Palestinian march marking Nakba Day…
d) The Romanian Ministry of Finance released a staggering report on May 13th, detailing a massive, repetitive flow of cash across the nation’s borders during 2024 and 2025….
e) “Reselling these books isn’t in the spirit of the place”: Little Free Libraries Fall Victims of Looting in Val-de-Marne. In Vincennes and Maisons-Alfort, in particular, people are taking the books to resell them.
1. Andy wrote, at 1383:9
“You all know that I’m a coincidence theorist. Take a look at Alpha-gal Syndrome and see if it ticks any boxes.”
It was time for a film but I’d used up the gathered good ones … suddenly, there was this below but with strange aspects. A notice came on to switch on commentary. You wot? Throughout a film? I checked another version and a notice came up … this video requires payment to watch. Uh huh.
(1045) Approaching elevenses, have to head out for a shortish break, taking us into post-prandial territory. In short … got some jobs to do. (1045)
20. Moo corner
19. MPs’ renting scandal
… snouts in the trough and alleged fraud:
18. X a/c is Architecture Hub
17. For those who still don’t know her
… she’s the one kicked out of the Methodist hospital for doing the right thing and suffering all sorts of things which have turned her into a warrior, authority on meds and still practising MD (GP). Nice “pedigree”.
(0630) Frenetic this morning, chaps and chapesses, much incoming … the way it should be, the way we hope it will be. Sky nondescript out there, was rain. (0708)
15. Garden edging … like it
14. Why has no one in power taken Gates out yet?
13. IYE corner
a. ”Three months ago I laid out exactly why “optional” digital ID in the UK was never really optional.
Today, King Charles confirmed the legislation is moving forward — and they’re still calling it voluntary while mandating the digital infrastructure underneath it.
This is the playbook. And it was built with American money.
b. ”In February 2011, a blueprint for an impact-investing vehicle landed with the head of JPMorgan’s investment bank. It identified a structural flaw with precision1: ‘The tension is making money from a Charitable Org. Therefore the money making parts need to be arms length’. Within eight months, JPMorgan was building the product, and within a year the Global Health Investment Fund2 was operational.
Jeffrey Epstein wrote that blueprint.
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment3 didn’t inherit a generic blended-finance template, but a specific architecture designed through named parties at JPMorgan in 20114, and in private forums at Waddesdon Manor between 2014 and 20185. The G7 summits simply put names and figures on a system developed upstream over the previous decade….”
12. Adding to Friday 8 on Woke left activist girls
I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist. pic.twitter.com/E54Fh9oEjb
“22. Good thing no one we know lives near Mobile AL
Matt van Swol brings the news:
“Divers doing a ROUTINE maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile, AL… …just found an underwater IED!!!! Apparently a grenade-type bomb was sitting submerged at the bottom of a dam that holds an entire city’s DRINKING WATER. It took FIVE agencies: the FBI, ALEA, the Sheriff, Mobile PD, and a maritime render-safe team, to pull it out and detonate it. Someone put a BOMB in our water supply…”
Toodles responds today:
I had not heard until I glanced at the blog. A man in the north part of England had to inform me who lives across the bay from Mobile of a near shattering blow to Mobile, AL!
The article I am sending you was a short one from AL.com. I couldn’t get a screenshot of the entire post but very little was written other than what you see.
……
“… and sewer system.
10:44 5G-UW
After the grenade type-lED was located at the Converse Reservoir dam, MAWSS contacted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office which facilitated a multi-agency response to retrieve and detonate the explosive. The Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team performed a successful retrieval and detonation of the IED.
“Our top priority is keeping your drinking water safe,” Bud McCrory, MAWSS director, said. “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals. We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers – in identifying this device and safely destroying it.”
Other agencies involved in the operation included the FBI Bomb Squad, ALEA Bomb Squad, Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordinance Detail, and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was notified of the incident, MAWSS said. The agency said it will continue to (liaise?) with law enforcement at the reservoir.
“The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning. Most mainstream media fearmongering stories over the last 15 years need to be moved into the junk file, as do the increasingly shrill sandwich-board pronouncements of King Charles and Sir David Attenborough.
But the rot goes much deeper than ill-informed public comment, although that alone has been enormously influential in promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Activist-ridden science bodies such as the UK Met Office have brazenly used RCP8.5 to flam up weather predictions which in turn has led to onerous requirements being placed on British industry and finance.
Politicians have been convinced by patently ridiculous claims and Net Zero rules and regulations have cascaded through the economy and society.”
6. Penseivat wrote, earlier
“Off topic, sorry if it appears I’m trying to take over the blog!”
Modest English understatement. It takes a fair bit to “regularise” at this place, or fancifully, this tavern, as the landlord is a known deleter and blocker, unlike Lady Julia at her site and at Orphans … her position is to let anyone through regardless, in that fine libertarian tradition.
My position is that we want as much good content as possible, content which has run the gauntlet and has had to prove itself … no one excepted, not even me … and in this, we must be ruthless. To be fair to Julia, she then deals with baddies or the mindless in other ways behind the scenes … I tend to be summary upfront … and yet to hold back, cautiously at times.
Perfect example was the report that Anna Paulina had said that the CIA had raided Tulsi’s dept … later disproved, hotly denied by Anna Paulina. It was right here as a screenshot, ready to roll. Then came the disclaimers … quietly thankful, moi, that I’d not yet posted it. No innate wisdom involved on my part … maybe guardian angel.
We really must be subject to caustic scrutiny and leave up only that which has come through as “proably correct”.
And we can only get that by a “multiplicity” (ouch, apologies) of sound sources … I’m sure you get the drift here. There are three other terms involved in this … “consistency”, “determination” and “sheer bloodymindedness”.
Now poor old Redacted ran that gauntlet and was savaged and yet, and yet … much of what Juan wrote was sound, backed up. We need that material, if not the unfortunate manner. Solution? Set up another site (UHC-WP) as an archive, create homepages, gradually … Torquaymada’s is about to go up … but sometimes it’s a bit hot to openly run … it will get us hit by professionals … e.g. IYE’s on Mossad etc. Not taken down or deleted, but not spotlighted, let’s say.
And it’s constant decisonmaking, usually all right, sometimes challenged, which is our modus operandi … to challenge.
Slowly, anecdotes came in and I need to put this strongly … we need your anecdotes here, we want them, your reminiscences … so if you fear it’s taking over the blog … go for it. We have five venues you can choose to post at … if three go down, two should still be up.
Some caveats to start with. The chap’s model is rapid speaking to get the max info out in the shortest time. Like it or not. He is also centrist in politics, slightly left, which does not always align with ours … ditto with Jago, coming up later. Nevertheless, the graphics and overall take are pretty good, so let’s do it:
