Author Archives: James Higham

Sunday [6 to 9]

(0859) Morning all … bleah out there. (0936) Short break, maybe 1030 return, ok? (1030) Back again, no. 8 being compiled now. (1051)

 

9. Great training for us just now

Consider:


It’s really that old chestnut about trust. I was looking at Roy Orbison’s bio and his cheating on Claudette. He was 21 in 1957, she barely 16, so the bond faced challenges, let’s say. From what I can gather, she was still besotted, he was maniacally narcissistic even before he’d had the voice epiphany but there was only so much she could take of his attitude, so she cheated … they were on a motorbike, a truck came through and hit them, she was soon dead … at 25. Nine years of “marriage”.

Did he learn? Nope. Would you trust him with your daughter? Nope. Same sort of thing with Haley. No way.

More interesting though is how many snakes are putting on a pro-Trump face now, esp. as the steal looks like it’s very much on the cards (District 16, Georgia yesterday). Leopard … spots?

8. Waste management

In what was essentially a puff piece in one of the local rags (and why not?), nevertheless there was some interesting data near the end:

Wirral Council is currently reviewing its bin contract ahead of its current contract with waste company Biffa expiring in 2027. The local authority is currently exploring three different options for future bin collections as it prepares to spend more than £300m over the next 15 years.

The current Biffa contract covers all household waste and recycling collections, waste collection from council premises and schools, and street cleansing of adopted highways, pavements and alleyways. However, collection of litter and fly tipping on other council land, including parks, is not part of this contract.

At a meeting in July, councillors agreed to develop a business case to either outsource all services, create a council run company to run all services, or bring street cleaning in house while waste collection is outsourced. Big changes are also around the corner as food waste recycling will be rolled out nationwide by 2026 and an update on the issue is expected in January 2025.

Over the last two years, Biffa’s collected bins 17 million times, cleared 26,000 alleyways, cleaned 12,000 streets, and lorries have carried out over 75,000 trips to the Bidston tip. Since 2006, services have been provided through Biffa for roughly 147,000 homes.

Things haven’t always been smooth since Biffa started working for the council in 2006. Biffa was involved in a pay dispute with union Unite at the end of 2022 which saw strikes take place in the lead up to Christmas. Collections were disrupted for weeks long after the strikes were called off, leading to heavy criticism of the company.

Uh huh.

7. Why do people keep doing the same stoopid things?

During the Canadian trucker convoy thing, people were donating to GFM who allegedly embezzled, froze funds, whatever it was, such that all major pundits said don’t go near them … apparently there’s a better crowd called give something go.

So why the heck would anyone still send to this lot?


Major lawyer, major platform … why on earth would you not heed that?

6. “Par for the course” can sometimes strike a chord

… and then a mental process starts, bumping it up to a much higher place in the pecking order.

Tavern visitors and regulars … consider how much info you process daily now … it’s even biblical … knowledge will increase in the end days … plus there’s 5G damage to consider, WiFi, the constant bam bam bam … for example flooding in Sicily, France, elsewhere … just how much can you take in and process?

And after that … just how much can I, as the bottleneck admin here, post in a given time? What topics? There are two bottlenecks here … my router, and me. This is where you need to be bolder, methinks. If you think something needs publicising, within our constraint of no overt Wokery, then go for it … there are four sites in the herd where you can leave comment … choose your poison. There’s no rule about “on topic”, given security concerns we have at our bottleneck.

But there’s another factor … your own mental health and general health … walks, projects, house chores … they all take the mind off the horrors for a time. By no means would I you expect you’d hang in here getting constant bombardment about the horrors out there. There are parts you just have to shut out for your organism’s own health.

Having said all that … this seemingly par for the course item below … well, it certainly has me thinking.

Why? Because of things we’ve had here, e.g. from DR, on MM for example … and when you retrieve that from your mental and data archives, they do paint a picture. For example, Svali spoke of the tunnels under the Appallachians, others wrote of tunnels under Denver airport … forget not Terminator 3 (ending) … FEMA camps … Annunaki, Nephilim … Toodles’s point about the significance of locusts, literal and figurative … just throw it all on the table, then consider this:


Trump saw, Johnson saw … a clear game changer, yes? I’ll throw in here about the Statue of Ish in NY harbour, similar in Paris … which group donated it? Also, whom are Catholic knights, e.g. Malta, dead against … they immediately say Masonry but that side itself lambasts Loyola and Jesuits. Think on’t and there’s just so damned much we’re missing … chunks of the truth suppressed.

And also … where’s IYE?

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0645)(0808)

 

5. Faced with a claim about Emhoff on Gab

… Guess who has the biggest investment in the lithium mine industry in North Carolina? Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala’s husband.

… what does a pundit initially do? Check Wiki of course … subject avoided. Failing that and still on p1 of ggl, from whom you’d expect similar, some snippets do emerge:

… Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, could profit from Hurricane Helene due to his investments in Albemarle Lithium Mines in North Carolina …

… Emhoff has financial ties to companies like Piedmont Lithium, a fact that should concern all Americans. While his wife advocates for clean …

… Kamala Harris’ husband, has very strong ties to lithium mining. He is one of the largest investors in North Carolina …

So that puts us in the realm of confirmation bias, yet those appeared on ggl first page on Emhoff. Plus other things we’ve run. The obvious question is what to about it? Well vote for starters.

Reminds me a bit of Teapot Dome scandal.

4. David Vance on One Direction

HERE

Now I am of a generation that was all but oblivious to the music of the boy band that made him famous – One Direction. Liam’s life ended a few days ago (“fell off”) balcony.

He goes on to say:

People will make their own minds up about Cowell. To my mind, the Music Industry itself is corrupt and Satanic. I have no idea what sacrifices are made of those who make it to the top but the smell of sulphur is always present.

Well yes. The exact circumstances, no one’s saying but clearly lost inside, as was Roy Orbison and the various Beatles, so many others … Kristofferson accused by a few of being a vicious abuser, Swift we’ve covered, that Canadian woman, plus Whitney Houston … dark doings … that Diddy creature, Jimmy Page, Dylan … goes on and on.

3. Kathy wakes up ConWom (excerpt)

Like most people I’d got so wrapped up in the iniquities of Stalinist Starmer’s post-Southport ‘swift justice’, his blatant hypocrisy and greed, his winter fuel allowance cruelty and his net zero nightmare (to say nothing of the tax bomb about to fall) that I lost sight of the bigger picture. But the fact is Starmer doesn’t care what anyone thinks of his first 100 days. He doesn’t need to.

Kathy then links to “consolidation of the Blairites”.

2. DAD at 849

a) Keen to shed light on the dysfunctions that led to the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist on October 16, 2020, his sister, an anesthetist nurse, has just published a book.

b) Schengen is dead, but not forgotton. France has announced the reintroduction of temporary border controls with Luxembourg and five neighbouring countries from 1 November 2024 to 30 April 2025, highlighting growing security concerns in Europe.

c) The Italian right-wing [sic] government has said it intends to continue to pursue plans to examine asylum applications outside the EU, despite a legal defeat over the processing of the first group of migrants that arrived at Italy’s new camps set up in Albania.

d) The Mail reports: Girl, 17, with suspected autism faces 12-match ban from her football team for asking adult transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’

1. Over at Churchmouse (blogrolls, Scriblerus first column)

… Dearieme wrote:

I’ve just seen a fascinating little story. What is to become of the expelled people of the Chagos islands who do not want to live under the Mauritian jackboot? Apparently HMG is considering settling them on St Helena. But they have consulted neither the Chagossians nor the government of St Helena.

CM replied (excerpt):

I have not seen the article about resettling them on St Helena. That is shocking! There is nothing there, other than the governor’s house. That was why the British chose it for Napoleon’s exile, at which time there was no governor’s house. Pure punishment for Napoleon.

These are supposed to be historically oppressed persons of colour (POCs). The great tragedy is that they are being further oppressed by a powerful man who is himself a POC. Furthermore, this man is courting an internationally known oppressor, the Chinese. Last I knew, the Chinese did not look particularly kindly on POCs.

Oh, the sad, sad irony of it all. Lammy has said during the Chagos statement and debate that not everyone — meaning the Chagossians — agrees on what should be done. However, by saying that, he is indicating that Labour do not really care about the needs and wants of the Chagossians. Incidentally, Lammy considers himself to be a practising Anglican. That’s something else to add to the mix. Agree that Labour are frightful at governing.

I still do not understand why that land is being given to Mauritius. They never had an empire. From what I know, the Spanish had the Chagos islands centuries ago, then ceded them to the Dutch, who ceded them to the French, who ceded them to the British. Feel free to correct my history.

Saturday [17 till close of play]

(1701) Evening all.

 

20. Call me thick

… but I’m obviously missing some element in this quest. Why did the sax die out in popular music … because it all sort of coincided.

Been reading heaps about how rhythm n blues or rock was dealt a few death blows, not just Buddy Holly’s demise but other setbacks as well, to the point that by 1959 it had been strangled out, replaced by what the record labels wanted … soft Dion, Del Shannon smoothery … Lemon Pipers, Donovan, taking kids right away from the raw sound of Fats Domino, Little Richard, even Mitch Rider.

And guitars took over, which I find comparatively boring, except bass. The rhythm, the funk, the danceability disappeared, the romance of dance too … the two partners entwined, as in tango.

And it coincided with the removal of the saxophones … not just the Beatles were guilty in The Invasion but even Chuck Berry … I don’t think it was the kids changing … I think it was record labels and those controlling them, determined to change kids’ tastes in a sugarcoated way … Cliff Richard. This below was one of the last raw songs in 1961/2:

Just been reading how Chubby Checker was shunned by the R&RHofF … why? He stormed the world but they were determined, Them … take a look at CC’s wife … still with her I believe … could that be a reason? There just seem powerful forces involved. And it’s not as if people don’t like joyful, danceable songs:


In the early 80s, it did come back but then got swamped in turn by glam and techno:

Just seems to me that joy is one thing not allowed now, not to people’s tastes, affected, indoctrinated by Them above.

(2151) Further thoughts … I wonder how much the intention to flood kids with drugs … Woodstock, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds … came into it … sax music wrong for the hallucinating, uncool, needed to be dystopic as it is today, no fun allowed.

19. Malozadim


18. Energy policy insanity


17. Steve and the war room at 848

a. Natalie Winters Reads Prison Statement From Stephen K. Bannon | 

b. Sam Faddis: “We Are Designing For The Chinese The Fighters That Will Win The War Against Us” | 

c. Nate Hochman Discusses The Haitian Migrant Crisis Taking Place In Charleroi, Pennsylvania | 

d. Noor Bin Ladin On Globalist Elites: “Their Utopia Is Our Dystopia” |

Saturday [16]

(1407)(1407)

 

16. Weather

Here’s Catania, which I know well, having been there quite a few times:

And in Limony, en Ardèche:

Uh huh … and in Liverpool?

Map shows ‘wall of rain’ as danger to life ‘likely’ in Storm Ashley’s 80mph winds, Met Office warns

There is “a good chance” of power cuts in that area which could affect mobile phone coverage and buildings will probably be damaged

Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said on Friday evening: “At the time of recording, Storm Ashley is on the other side of the Atlantic and a relatively shallow area of low pressure.

“It deepens rapidly as it gets picked up by the jet stream during Saturday and ends up as a particularly deep area of low pressure, with a widespread swathe of gales and wind gusts in excess of 60mph for many western and northern parts of the country.”

Uh huh-huh. Here’s our forecast today:


To be a tad more honest, this is us tomorrow morn:

Wish I’d understood

… just how much inventiveness had gone into engineering even relatively simple 50s/60s songs … as yoof, we just enjoyed them, even the reversed lyrics, the obvious tricks … but it was only after seeing this tech analysis of Rain (below) did I really start to understand what it took.

The Beatles fab version itself, imho their best song

Grace Haylor’s multi-instrumental version … also fab in its own way

Many reviewers keep referring to the drumming and bass on that song and as a devotee of good bass, I was on clover.

As for Grace H … I’ve been with and/or seen hundreds of girls over the years of immense talent, which Grace H has in full measure … but I do suspect another influence in there and my best guess is daddy influence, as in “would do anything for daughter”, just as it should be. This was borne out in one of her duets with dad … cough, best he stick to engineering and producing.

Anyway, here she is on two other great choices from the era:

… and here:

Which brings us finally to the era … I was way too young to understand just how innocent it was compared to the vile things now. Don’t think we were simple and innocent in our aspirations … we were into anything going … and yet, comparatively, it was innocent, safe … free!

Saturday [7 to 12]

(0907) Bleah out there, the sky. (1026)

12. EU – US


11. Bananas

This might possibly apply only to the US:


10. TDS (url in blogrolls)


9. DAD at 848:2

China’s property crisis is expected to get worse as sales of new homes plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. (Video)

8. Just on the related subject of Christianity


7. Nothing whatever to say about Laura Dodsworth

https://www.thefreemind.co.uk/p/rebel-hearts-a-second-marriage-is

Clearly that’s her biz, as one of the 40% (her stats) … I can only pray that things sort themselves out on the marriage front … besides, my own messes in the past are hardly a position from which to preach.

Goodge Street and Ike

 

 Yerkes keeps on “bussin'”

One thing about Jago is that he’s oblivious to any history or politics apart from London railways and that of selected other British stations, he has no concept of the mess which is HS2 and he makes statements such as, “There’s little difference between literacy rates then and now.”

Gulp … pardon? With literacy taking a backseat to Wokism in today’s schools, plus the massive influx of “guests”, the standards of the late 60s have indeed plummeted. Jago is articulate, so he had a reasonable standard of education but after that …?

Saturday [2 to 6]

(0717) Just awoke from a fine sleep, apart from the one fly buzzing around. (0817)

 

6. And lastly for this post

… a bit of light reading with your Kellogg’s breakfast this morning.

5. DAD drops for Saturday at 848

a) The Cuban energy ministry announced that the [whole] grid had gone down hours after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant had ceased operations, at about 11 a.m. local time Friday.

b) DAD – loves graphs. Violences sexuelles en France – has the increase been because of the ‘Me to’ movement making the complaints more open?

c) Vigilance in schools. One example.

d) According to the latest figures from the UK government’s National Health Service (NHS), one thousand English people are now being diagnosed with cancer every single day.

4. Some quotations to start the weekend

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b.


3. WaPo warning

a. Andy sent yesterday

Yeh I know it’s the Wa Po but this carries a little more information about the internet archive. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/18/internet-archive-hack-wayback/

b. Now DAD has sent, via the tom-tom grapevine

Electromagnetic waves are a disaster for some:

In 2019, he began getting sick. And then sicker. Brain fog. Memory issues. Difficulty focusing. Depression. Anxiety. Fatigue. Brandon was pretty sure he knew why: the cell tower a quarter-mile behind his shop and all the electromagnetic radiation it produces, that cellphones produce, that WiFi routers produce, that Bluetooth produces, that the whole damn world produces.

2. We open today with Juan dela Cruz

At the risk of rolled eyes:

https://www.ktiv.com/2024/10/16/over-70-iowa-farmers-help-kingsley-family-with-harvest-after-father-killed-farm-accident

KINGSLEY, Iowa (KTIV) – Back on Saturday, Oct. 5, a Kingsley man lost his life in a farming accident during the harvest season. It happened near his family’s home in rural Kingsley. Fifty-eight-year-old Dana Sitzmann was working on harvest when he was struck by an unattended wagon and suffered fatal injuries.

Less than two weeks later, a group of over 70 farmers came together to help the Sitzmann family finish the job. Chad Isminger helped coordinate the Harvest Bee and described Dana to those who didn’t know him.

Plough him into the good earth, lots of nutrients?

Via Knuckledraggin