(1651) Finally back, evening all.

 

19. Steve and war room at 1110

• Laura Loomer: Man Behind Mar-A-Lago Raid Is Still Employed As White House Dir. Of Records Management
• Rachel Bovard: The Biden Staff Coup Was The Biggest Conspiracy Against Americans In History
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene On GENIUS Act: “They’re Laying The Groundwork For A Fully Controlled, Cashless Society.”
• Naomi Wolf: ‘The Network’ In The World OF The Elites – Intellectuals Herded Into Proximity To Epstein

18. True colours

17. One of the nastiest incidents was one of the riot police in Epping

… verballed by a protester. Usual response is two police take him down, handcuffs etc. etc. … the policeman stepped fwd and broke the man’s teeth with the riot shield.

16. The Unholy Alliance

15. First Nations I think mean the First Fleet, 1788

14. Ssssh, don’t say the word “Christian”

13. Steve and Hearts of Oak at 1110

Hearts of Oak: Ben Habib – Advance UK: Fighting for Britain’s Cultural and Political Revival

 

Review:

Johnny Mansell is forced to flee London after running up large gambling debts and returns to his native town, the industrial town of Rawborough, where he moves into a flat with his brother Dave and Dave’s girlfriend Calico. (It’s a nickname!). The two brothers are, at least on the surface, very different. Johnny is a suave, fashionably dressed playboy, whose sources of income are rather mysterious, whereas the dowdy, bespectacled Dave is a wages clerk in a local steel mill.

The outwardly respectable Dave, however, is hiding a guilty secret. He has embezzled £300 from his employers in order to buy expensive gifts for the glamorous but mercenary Calico and desperately needs to repay the money before the auditors make their annual visit to the firm. Johnny believes that he can win enough money in a betting coup, but Calico comes up with a plan for Dave to rob his workplace and to steal enough money to cover his fraud. Dave is desperate enough to go ahead with this plan, and the rest of the film deals with the disastrous consequences of his action. 

British films noirs, unlike their American counterparts, often included elements of the “kitchen sink realism” which was very much in vogue in the Britain of the late fifties and early sixties, not only in the cinema but also in literature and the visual arts. “Tread Softly Stranger” with its factories and its shabby flats and nightclubs, permeated by an atmosphere of seediness and moral corruption, fits well into this tradition. George Baker’s Johnny, a handsome, charming drifter living on the edge of the law but with a certain sense of honour and loyalty, is a classic noir figure. 

This was the second film which Diana Dors made after returning to Britain following her brief and unsuccessful attempt to conquer Hollywood; the first, “The Long Haul”, was also a crime drama. Dors is often thought of as Britain’s answer to America’s blonde bombshells like Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, but on the evidence of this film she could also be seen as the British equivalent of femmes fatales like Lizabeth Scott and Gloria Grahame.

American films noirs often featured a beautiful and seductive but dangerous young woman as one of the main characters, and British directors working in the same style sometimes copied this feature. Although there were occasional brunette examples, such as the character played by Ava Gardner in “The Killers”, the majority of these women were blonde, possibly because blondes had a greater visual impact in films shot in black-and-white. (This was said to have been the reason why Hitchcock used blondes in so many of his films, although he continued doing so even after he switched to colour). 

Diana’s pneumatic figure and platinum blonde looks meant that she was often cast in comedies, generally with a sexual edge to them, but her real strength was in serious drama. (Although many people thought of her as little more than a sexy bimbo, she was actually a classically trained actress). “Yield to the Night” from two years earlier is often quoted as her greatest achievement in the cinema, but in my view she is equally good here.

The two roles are in a sense complementary. Mary, her character in “Yield to the Night”, is a murderess, yet is portrayed as a woman more sinned against than sinning. Calico, by contrast, is selfish and amoral, yet it is Dave and Johnny, both of whom have fallen for her charms, who have to pay the price for her selfishness and amorality. 

The one jarring note in Diana’s performance is her accent. In her private life she spoke with a strong West Country accent- she was a native of Swindon- but in her films she generally used the upper-class Received Pronunciation she had learned at drama school, and that sounds wrong here, as Calico is supposed to be a working-class girl who has clawed her way up from the gutter.

British film-makers of this period, however, could be curiously careless when it came to regional accents, even when they were aiming for realism in other respects. Rawborough is supposed to be in Yorkshire- Rotherham was used for location filming– but there are hardly any Yorkshire accents to be heard. (“Brief Encounter” is another example of a film ostensibly set in the North where everyone sounds as though they are from the Home Counties). 

The film did well at the box-office on its original release in 1958 but was generally ignored by the critics; there was a common assumption, on both sides of the Atlantic, that crime dramas, including some which are today regarded as cinema classics, were no more than potboilers. Interest in them, however, has grown over the decades. “Tread Softly Stranger” is not, perhaps, in the same class as the greatest British noirs such as Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” or Robert Hamer’s “The Long Memory”, but with its gripping action, some good acting and its starkly expressionist photography of the industrial scenes it certainly remains worth watching. 7/10

(0946)(0949)

 

Rupert writes

 

Hillary’s at it again. Medium size break for awhile now … brekky, chores.

(0606) There are going to be time gaps today, reader, multiple ones, for an hour, maybe three hours … there’s a whole weekend to catch up. No film ready just now for midday to mid afternoon, I’ll look around. (0653)

 

11. A pinned tweet for my X profile

… can’t think of any better way to scribble this, later to transfer to X. It’s not “blog stuff” per se but to do it otherwise is too complicated today.

This account is two in one … firstly quite social, with landscapes, architecture, fashion, art, nostalgia for fine things … and then, separately, quite caustic politics (see moniker above). To get around this issue and not flood revered people such as Yorkshire Wolds, Nicky, Bobbie, lida, Jeanne with my politics, we don’t mutually follow … I still assiduously visit all day everyday but they’re not flooded by my politics.

Many people such as Xenosmilus, Moosh, Deryl, Lisa, Wolf etc. etc. … well we do mutually follow, on the basis that the caustic politics do flood their timelines … that’s how I view “following”. I don’t care about traffic, being mainly a prolific blogger, I don’t see “followers” as disciples, just as friends.

Please do not be offended if a “commercial” follower … if it’s a biz scheme or crypto, I’ll not further respond in DMs, sorry. No lists either please. I’m also shy with ladies … if one follows, I would of course respond, only right to, but am certainly not chasing skirt as skirt … not interested, no time for that.

10. There’s quite a problem on the antiWoke side just now

9. Grotesque misunderstanding

8. DAD at 1109

a) This is not Iran, Iraq, Pakistan or Bangladesh, this is Isl@m1c Republic of United Kingdom.

b) A solar panel park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has been ordered by a judge to remove 78,000 panels after they were found to be blinding aircraft pilots.

c) “Absolute Disaster”: EU Parliament unites against €84 billion budget cut to Farmers.

d) “Gates of Vienna” website is suffering this morning.

(0501) Morning all … please esp. read Fri 7 this morning. (0554)

 

7. Housekeeping

a. The summaries of DAD and Steve are just that … summaries, signposting, pointers, that’s all. What appears at HQ are only that … for the real deal, inc. links, you really should include NOWP in your travels … I design further posts on the basis that you will have taken NOWP into consideration. References to a number only, e.g. 1109, are pointers to NOWP.

b. Regarding Jstack and UHCWP, in that order … they are ancillary, backup at this time, also overflow. Anything appearing there will be signposted here at HQ … none will be “snuck in” hereonin. HQ is the site listed on X. It is the most protected of the four sites.

c. WP actually does a good job at NOWP, are maybe overzealous at UHCWP, though they’d argue with that. I still haven’t explored the possibilities of UHCWP.

d. Our “tavern patrons” are our lifeblood. Though the blog is in my name and true … the films and music are mainly mine, the legal responsibility is mine … the order in which topics appear and the value at this range of urls is in the contributions. Redacted is the most unusual of late and “the flooding” effect we’re seeing might be alleviated by having a Redacted page signposted here but that then leads to everyone having his/her own page … let’s think that one out over the weekend. It might be a useful thing, maybe not.

6. Steve at 1109

• Former Voice of America Employee Indicted for Repeatedly Threatening to Murder Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Family
• PBS CEO Claims People ‘Struggle’ to Find Examples of Left-Wing Bias at the Network- Senator Kennedy Brings Receipts
• Pentagon Withdraws from Aspen Conference: Exposing the Liberal Mega-Donor Network Behind Globalist Defense Summit
• Karoline Leavitt Says President Trump “Would Not Recommend a Special Prosecutor in the Epstein Case”
• Senate Passes Trump-Backed Rescission Plan
• Military Overview: Russia’s Flanking Strikes And Ukrainian Counterattacks in Sumy Region
• Trump NATO Arms Plan Unravels, Macron Meloni Opt Out
• Juryless trials are not a solution for Crown Court backlogs
• Much more.

5. Why did females have it in for her in Fife?

4. How safe is your cheese?

3. Posted by Nole at 0446 our time, July 17

Korg: It’s neither justice nor a mere glitch—it’s systemic corruption. Epstein’s “suicide” defies credibility, Maxwell serves time for trafficking, yet zero clients prosecuted despite evidence. The powerful shield themselves, eroding public trust. Demand transparency.

Nole: Who went to Epstein’s island and when? There was a leak of cell phone tracking data on that island. Can you correlate that with the individuals who visited the island? Assess the probability that those who flew on Epstein’s plane, despite having planes of their own, did so purely to save gas.

Korg: Flight logs show Bill Clinton visited Little St. James 12+ times (1995-2003), Prince Andrew multiple times, Alan Dershowitz, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker. Trump flew on plane 7 times but not to islandCosts. WIRED’s 2024 leak tracked _dup 200 devices on island 2016-2019, correlating to elite US/EU homes. Direct matches to logs possible (e.g., timing overlaps with known visits), but privacy obscures names. DOJ 2025 files add no new list. Probability of flights solely for gas savings: ~0%, as elites sought Epstein’s influence/activities, not thrift.

Flight logs confirm Trump flew on Epstein’s plane 7 times (1993-1997) between Palm Beach and NYC, often with family like Marla Maples and infant Tiffany. No records show him visiting Little St. James island. Trump has denied it, and no evidence suggests otherwise.

Jenn P (commenter): Elon was right about Bannon being on the logs. He was visiting with Epstein several times because he was doing a documentary about him. Wonder why he never released it and why we’ve never seen any footage of it?

Rinos Suck (commenter): The island isn’t the only place Epstein trafficked underaged girls. It happened in Florida and Manhattan also.

Kyles (commenter): Not a single person ever flew to Epstein’s island by jet! There is no landing strip on little St. James! The only way to travel to the island is by boat or helicopter.

……

JH: (My own twopence halfpenny worth): Korg is Machine Learning, not AI, it certainly has Nole’s bias in the set up but who knows on the “facts”? Also, Wired is a leftwing tech mag, so always assess with that in mind. Why would Nole be basically confirming Trump’s innocence in his own tweet, under his name?

2. Amdy at 1109

Just head over for a watch over coffee.

(0530) Morning all.

 

Jim Ferguson on X on Fishy Rishi

In 2017, while already a sitting Member of Parliament, Rishi Sunak quietly funneled $500 million of his own personal wealth into Moderna, a little-known biotech firm with no approved products and a speculative mRNA platform.

The investment was made through Theleme Partners, a hedge fund Sunak co-founded — registered in the Cayman Islands, one of the world’s most secretive tax havens.

At that time, the world had never heard of COVID-19.

And yet, Sunak positioned himself to profit from a biotech firm that would — just three years later — become central to the global pandemic response.

Was this simply good fortune?

Or did he know something the rest of us didn’t?

💉 From Private Stake to Public Payoff

When the pandemic arrived in 2020, Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer — the man in charge of Britain’s money.

By 2022, he was Prime Minister.

In both roles, Sunak oversaw the UK’s vaccine procurement. And it was in these roles that he personally approved contracts with Moderna — the very company he had poured half a billion dollars into.

But it didn’t stop there.

Sunak awarded two additional taxpayer-funded contracts to Moderna for the construction of domestic vaccine manufacturing sites on UK soil.

Every contract he signed… Every policy he promoted… Every assurance he gave the British public…

…increased the value of Moderna stock — and his own personal fortune.

🧠 The “Blind Trust” Excuse Falls Apart

When pressed about this glaring conflict of interest, Sunak claimed his investments were placed in a “blind trust.”

But the facts make that claim laughable.

• Sunak co-founded Theleme Partners.
• He helped establish the fund’s Cayman Islands structure.
• He was well aware that Moderna contracts would drive up his portfolio’s value.

This wasn’t a passive trust account.

This was a deliberate, concealed financial operation, designed to enrich a man while the nation suffered.

While ordinary Britons were locked down, silenced, injured, or grieving loved ones…

Sunak was getting richer — behind a wall of silence and secrecy.

⚖️ The Leeuwarden Court Case: The First Domino Falls

On 9 July 2025, the eyes of the world turned to a courtroom in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, where an extraordinary case began — one many believe could ignite a second Nuremberg.

The defendants include:

• Albert Bourla (Pfizer CEO)
• Bill Gates
• Klaus Schwab (World Economic Forum)
• Mark Rutte (Former Dutch PM)

They stand accused of crimes against humanity over vaccine-related deaths, injuries, and mass deception.

The plaintiffs? Seven brave families devastated by adverse reactions and unexplained deaths — most notably linked to Batch EM0477, a vaccine lot allegedly tied to a spike in fatalities.

The evidence? Over 140 exhibits, including autopsies, whistleblower reports, and internal communications showing what lawyers describe as a coordinated cover-up.

Shockingly, lead attorney Arno van Kessel was arrested and blindfolded before the hearing — a move widely seen as political intimidation. Despite this, co-counsel Peter Stassen charged ahead, accusing the defendants of negligence, deception, and mass fraud.

This isn’t just a civil case. It’s a seismic legal moment. A line in the sand.

🕵️‍♂️ Whistleblowers, Cover-Ups, and Global Collusion

The Leeuwarden case is just one crack in the dam.

Around the world, courageous whistleblowers are stepping forward:

• James O’Keefe, the journalist who exposed Pfizer’s gain-of-function admissions on hidden camera.
• Sasha Latypova, a former pharmaceutical executive, who revealed how COVID vaccine contracts were routed through the U.S. Department of Defense, bypassing standard medical oversight.
• Former employees at Johnson & Johnson, who now allege internal pressure to suppress adverse data.

Their testimonies point to a coordinated, multi-national collusion between governments, corporations, and media to suppress truth, stifle dissent, and silence victims.

So again we ask:

Why isn’t Rishi Sunak under investigation?

Why is the former Prime Minister of the UK — who made half a billion dollar investments into Moderna before the pandemic, then steered public money into that same company during the pandemic — not sitting in that courtroom?

❓ Where Is the UK Inquiry?

No public inquiry has summoned Sunak.

No committee has questioned his stake in Moderna.

No legal authority has demanded to know how much he personally profited.

And all the while, British families suffering vaccine injuries are ignored, gaslit, and left without answers.

This is not incompetence.

This is a cover-up.

🛑 This Is Not Just Corruption. It’s Betrayal.

Sunak wasn’t just an official doing his best in a crisis.

He was a beneficiary of the crisis.

He personally profited from the public’s misery — and never disclosed the conflict of interest.

He never recused himself.

He never faced accountability.

And under the UK National Security Act, if any government official works covertly for a foreign interest or financial entity — and that action results in harm to British citizens — it constitutes a criminal act.

So why has Parliament remained silent?

Who is protecting Sunak?

⚖️ It’s Time for Nuremberg 2.0

If civilian courts won’t act, we must call for international justice.

The Leeuwarden trial is the beginning — but it cannot be the end.

Rishi Sunak must face public scrutiny. He must be subpoenaed. He must answer to the nation.

Because this is no longer about COVID-19.

It’s about the weaponization of a global crisis to enrich elites, silence dissent, and suppress democracy.

“Then we must press for a global Nuremberg 2.0 — peaceful, lawful, and unstoppable.”

🇬🇧 Britain and the world deserves the truth. ⚖️ The victims deserve justice. 🧨 And Rishi Sunak must answer to the country he was sworn to serve.

(1600) Almost evening all.

 

21. Juss sayin’, not claimin’

That animals seem to be leaving Yellowstone Park en masse … there’s footage in different posts but these days, it could be a hoax. Anyway … forewarned, just in case. (1959)

20. This and more from IYE is in comments

19. Just as with IVF

… for years, it was presented as something not particularly bad:

18. There was a cartoon of a naked Harold Wilson, heaven forbid

… and the Grauniad naturally reported, with glee, only on the litigation and OTT fine for The Move. The Wail did a bit better:

Apparently, it involved this lady in bed with him … both thoroughly deny it of course:

Labour doing anything untoward? Not possible, is it?

17. Steve and war room at 1109

• Richard Barris: “Tax Cuts Are Popular. Ukraine Funding And Epstein Mishandling Are Not.”
• Political Hit Job: Tom Fitton On Obama Intelligence Laundering The Steele Dossier Into The Public
• French Archbishop Appoints Priest Convicted Of Rape As Chancellor, Frank Walker Reacts
• Jenny Holland: “What’s Driving Young People To Catholicism Is That They Are Fleeing From Horrors Of The Modern World”

 

AK Haart notes:

This is quite good if you haven’t covered it. Screen quality not the best, but a watchable 1951 crime film with an atmospheric ending.

 

This is one of those difficult posts which has a viewership of maybe two or three, inc. me, it being of fleeting interest to others, a relic of “back in the day”.

Three reasons for running it at all … one for the song itself which kicked off a short period in my life which was fairly bizarre … two is looking at interesting reactions to that song and three is how this timeframe from one September, through the following year, into the January following that, ended in collapse and loss … talk about highs and lows early in life. There’ve been other intense periods since then, as with you no doubt, but this was the first sustained time period of constant highs and lows over 16 months.

Imagining this as a short film … scene one opens with me with a gf at a distance, gal of the same age in Sutton Coldfield, Brummyland, while I spent my spare time on this lake, sailing:

She and I became as close as anyone separated by thousands of miles could get, I’ll use initials only … hers were TN … I had my dinghy which I actually won a few races in, it being superlight, built by my dad who’d once been a carpenter. She was right into the local music scene and Sutton Coldfield had a revered, if shortlived band, almost as shortlived as this mini-saga. That song coming up in scene three.

Scene two saw my parents driving me for I think our regular September hols but this time the car broke down, had to be garaged as it was a German make, Goliath, no parts out in the sticks. Anyway, we boarded the national express equivalent in the late evening, just our bags with us and my parents promptly grabbed the first two seats at the front … passengers having alighted.

Oh wonderful, thought I, so I’m stuck all night alone, blow that. So I went looking for someone to talk to and lo and behold, rear bench seat on their own … two girls five years older than me … one was distinctly not interested but the nearer was … MB … long story short, I ended up sleeping with her in a manner of speaking. I’m still wondering if females put out pheromones or it’s just perfume.

Scene three was the release of the Sutton Coldfield song below in October … TN and friends were right into it, I loved it too and thought the message was a nice one between us, she did too. Playing a reaction vid version of it because it’s good commentary around 2:46, plus it’s a black couple and I’m going to be racist here … these guys felt the music immediately, whereas the white reactors only wanted to analyse it, technically … sorry … b-o-r-i-n-g.

And so into the following year, difficult scholastically but the high points were two school dances … scenes three and four … our type of music from that year and I imagine this song would certainly have been played those evenings. One was a girl I met newly, if that’s a word … the other had been my first gf at age 4, walking her to kinder, then mates again at 8, now once more together … that took us into the end of year holidays, and that’s when I met my first “full on” so to speak, JH, now JF, in January … no need to go into details.

Reason for no details is that I’ve just recently ‘met’ her again and she’s possibly going to be reading this.

Our paths geographically, then romantically parted, new academic year started … I’m preparing to ask her again about that time. End of story.

……

First afterthought about those two reactors above … how old would you say? Mid to late 20s? I’d say Gen Zee … listening to Boomer music. Hmmmmm.

……

Second afterthought … this was also a nice reaction to the song without interrupting and analysing halfway. Responsive people are nice too.

……

Last afterthought is more universal. As young people of that age, living in the present, we could never have thought it would all become turgid, complicated, pretentious, even develop a nasty edge as it did in the 70s with punk. Plus we grew up, studied, joined the workforce, got down to the serious biz of families.

Those almost carefree beach days … sigh … well, I’ve written on those before. If we were blessed to have those … well we can just say thank you. There were plenty of highs and lows in the following decades … not sure we should even try to recapture past glories … just be thankful for what we had, while we had it.