(0428) Morning all you nightowls or earlybirds. (0529)

 

5. It started with some banter with the Venerable DAD

… who pointed out that soon he’ll be nonagenarian and that we wimpy youngsters don’t have the stamina they did. I gave some “banterish” retort but then started to think it through … then started exploring the second half of the 30s onwards culture, houses, work, dental care etc.

Yesterday I discussed it with someone the other side of my age and was surprised that he experienced some of what I did too … I thought it was far better in his day. From my day … no anaesthetic at dentist visits but an ether cloth over your nose if bad cutting was needed … polio … twin concrete tubs with wringer for washing, outside loo in the backyard, Merchurochrome, cod liver oil … we could go on in a Four Yorkshiremen way but I’m thinking it was maybe 30% of the privations DAD had.

Thinking about it … just past midway through the 30s, Depression time, then war, evacuation, rationing … we also had the tailend of that last one. Primitive heating. But comparatively, it was hell on earth for DAD compared to today and yet I bet he didn’t feel deprived … just went out to play after school until the blitz.

I looked at that key set of years 1955 to 59 and wondered really why so raucous just then? Why the West Side Story stuff? The James Dean, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane posturing? The Peter Gunn? Why the seaside riots, e.g. Mods v Rockers? I did the Rocker bit when I was 11 … slicked back hair, greasy with Brylcreem … then realised I was way out of time by a decade. Went crewcut thereafter, well before the skinheads.

So yes, DAD was 70% right on that crack I’d say. As for men during the war, plus the Landgirls etc. … they were genuinely toof … and that time is almost upon us again … Starmer drones, the maniac, attacking Vlad’s home.

4. Interesting that they’d target this lot

Apart from the Blue Orders (the lowest three or “entry” levels), the Masons have been largely Illumined at the chessboard hooded ceremony levels for hundreds of years … the n1 enemy in those days were the Moose Limbs. Venezia comes into the equation too. But another enemy are the Catholic Knights, quite powerful.

So, who is behind this move on the Masons? The Moose Limbs?

3. Steve at 1248

• The Daycare Pirates of Somalia – Mainstream Media Calls It Islamophobia
• Tim Walz Lashes Out Blaming “White Supremacy”
• Former Trump Spox Liz Harrington Calls Out DOJ — Demands “Real Accountability” for Minnesota
• Ukraine’s “War Party” Provocation Targets Putin, Tests US-Russia Rapprochement
• Sasha Latypova: The Mysterious Death of Prof. Francis Boyle Before Testifying
• Cardiology is improving, focusing on inflammaton, not just cholesterol, to stop heart disease
• AI will eat itself (JH: See upcoming post on the subject of X)
• The Beginning of the End for Europe’s Old Security Order: Towards a Geoeconomic Architecture Emerging from the Washington – Moscow Dynamic
• Much more.

2. Why such appallingly low quality people in power?

1. DAD at 1248

a) The Trump Administration is considering the possibility of sanctioning judges or security officials if measures were to be taken against its European protégés, such as the AfD in Germany, or the RN in France, according to revelations by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel….

b) As a reminder, the Metz City Council, on Monday, July 15, 2024, decided to grant a subsidy of half million Euros to the Great Mosque of Metz association to contribute to the financing of the building’s construction….

c) The events in Brussels at the end of this year confirm what many of us have been warning about for years: The EU is sleepwalking into a self-inflicted historical catastrophe that bears a closer resemblance to the collapse of the French monarchy than any other event in modern history….

d) Arcom, the French broadcasting regulator [= Ofcom in GB], has issued a formal notice to CNews, projected to be the leading news channel in 2025, for comments made on air regarding immigration and Islam during two segments that could incite discrimination, according to a decision published Tuesday in the Official Journal….

e) I leave you with Hélène’s viewpoint on BB. Brigitte Bardot was more than just a beauty: she was an allegory of France.