Curious accent but follows the American pattern of ruining the narration with someone piano playing like that Python Cheese Shop bazouki playing … an apt and fitting early criticism. I found one way around it was to reduce device volume to about a third … his voice still audible, the bleedin’ piano less intrusive.
(0623) Morning all. (0733)
10. This is a classic case of “hiding to nothing”
Following discussions over the past two days here at the unherdable conglomerate, here’s another ethical issue. The video is one of many I’ve saved to run in our “post-politics” feature slots and it’s a good one … music level behind narration not unbearable, politically fairly neutral.
It goes with the holocaust being as portrayed in the 30s/40s, and I for one do go with it being at least historical to an indeterminate point … but it then branches into the differences between Ashken v Sephard, from health to food dishes.
The company it’s keeping is with how glass is made, how Stilton cheese is made and others … yet I don’t run it embedded here simply because the whole topic is a flashpoint, so with that warning, here tis.
9. Lord Toby at TDS
”Ed Miliband’s brazen claim that UK electricity prices are high because of gas – even though over half the cost comes from renewables charges – confirms him as the UK’s major source of Net Zero disinformation.”
8. Bea Johannsen
“BlackRock has a significant shareholding in Serco and also controls its pension fund. Was migrant housing one of the topics of discussion with Starmer and Rayner recently – notes of which No.10 refuses to publish?”
This is not unlike the Templar story in some respects (Wiki version):
“King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Molay and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March, 1314.”
Templar banksters roamed Europe with free passage lending or gifting moneys for wars in the main, Philip got greedy, did not ustd with whom he was really dealing, Templars went underground, sailing to Malta, Scotland, other places … veneer of The Cross, actually a double cross of Mammon.
In WW2, senior Nazis escorted Rothschild out of Germany. That area from Milan to Bavaria, inc. Genoa and Venice, were always the hotbed of Mammon. Includes Davos. And Rome further south on the peninsula.
Bea was actually writing about the current Serco issue of rental properties. One of her readers, “Maggie”, wrote:
“Serco control illegal immigrants. As they do of Prison transfers,food etc,also security people at these now hostels. Saw things when I was out shopping today, Frodsham places closed early before the illegals come out & prowl about. Beautiful Cheshire village being destroyed.”
7. Barron Trump reports, at his X account
“President Trump has officially warned Barack Obama to stay out of America’s foreign affairs or else face charges for violating the Hatch Act”
6. DAD at 1032
a) Tens of thousands of irish patriots rally in Dublin against ill*gal-migr**t influx
bi) Rennes. According to Ouest-France, for about six months, the daily lives of residents of Bellangerais, north of Rennes, have been undermined by gangs of very young teenagers, some under 12
bii) Rennes: According to France 3 Régions, two shots around 6:51 a.m., outside Le Mango nightclub on Rue du Noyer in the southeast industrial zone. Man in his thirties, hit in the knee by 12-gauge shotgun
c) Senior civil servant Céline Cléber has published Douce France (Toucan), a political fiction novel under pseudonym, in which France is “gradually falling under the blows of a small minority of violent extremists,” while “the authorities, paralyzed by fear, are unable to stem the conflict.”
5. This was from earlier yesterday
Update is that Clemson has now pulled the wording, now two genders.
4. Steve at 1032
(0328) Cunning plan is finish the hunting and gathering of stories … one via me below and one from Toodles. For me then … shuteye again till maybe 0730. Night night for now. (0343)
3. Toodles on those two unmentionable names
… plus others we shall not mention.
“One email exchange shows that Former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik was brought in to assist with public relations issues on June 28, 2016, the day after the tarmac meeting. (Kadzik is a longtime friend of John Podesta and a Hillary Clinton donor, who was criticized as being conflicted when he was assigned as the Justice Department attorney to oversee the probe of Hillary Clinton’s and her aide Huma Abedin’s emails found on Anthony Wiener’s computer.)
Melanie Newman, director of the Justice Department Public Affairs Office, sent an email to Richard P. Quinn, former national security assistant special agent, and Michael P. Kortan, who is currently the assistant director for Public Affairs for the FBI, advising them she wanted to “flag a story” about “a casual, unscheduled meeting between former President Bill Clinton and the AG.” And she provides the AG’s talking points.”
2. You wear Nike by any chance?
Nike is funding a study to give children injectable hormones and puberty blockers Riley Gaines “Nike, the shoe brand, the athletic wear brand, is doing medical experimentation on minors” Nike is “funding a study that disfigures young boys to understand if they can be physically impaired enough to compete with girls without significant retained male advantage” “The study is being funded by Nike, and Nike has yet to answer to this. They have spent days now avoiding all reporters and journalists asking them if this is true and why they’re engaging in this.
1. You saw the attack on away-from-London rental landlords
… and thereby tenants, by the govt … total nightmare for anyone renting … I ran the towns hit at OoL … did not link here. Saw this too:
(1615) Almost evening, all.
21. She’s usually not wrong
… what could it be for? Laura Loomer:
“US Secret Service just escorted a motorcade with what appears to be US military officials, including a US General, inside the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. Police and @SecretService just blocked off the road and sidewalk to the embassy entrance. This comes just hours after President Trump met with Ukrainian President this morning at the Vatican.
@LoomerUnleashed is on the scene getting video footage.”
20. They’re coming, they’re coming!
19. Steve at 1032 and war room
18. For us, the unrepresented
17. What are Labour any good for?
16. Via Steve
Thursday morning we went for a walk and I saw a gorgeous bank of primroses, so I had to take a photo for you all.
And the day before, I’d noticed that our ornamental cherry tree, which is blossoming like crazy, had a little bunch of flowers near the base of the trunk. No branch, just a bouquet of flowers. It looked very cute:
(1245) Afternoon all … no cunning plan as yet, RL things being sorted, no film yet but might be later. (1308)
15. The blighting of Blighty
14. Redacted’s linked article in comments had this
“Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is the Democrats’ Robespierre. He is promising his own reign of terror when his party recaptures Congress in the 2026 “midterm” election. Norm Eisen is his chief lawyer and legal strategist. His sole aim is to recapture power in order to restore the Democrats’ the Democrats’ sadistic regime of thought-control and the money- flows that feed it. That’s where things stand for the moment. You can sense how this tension is tending toward something that looks like civil war.”
13. IYE corner
a. “Where’s the Lists?” Mwerx not optimistic today.
JH: Link in comments. Fair warning … the front picture is vile so I can’t run the YT embedded here.
b. Enfant @buse scandal surrounding French PM
JH: Another where I’d best not open or run the link here.
c. As mentioned by mwerx – India and Pakistan gearing up to “start flinging curry at each other”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-pakistan-trade-gunfire-build-militaries-after-kashmir-terror-attack
d. “Criminal complaint unsealed in case of Wisconsin judge helping illegal. It is just jaw-dropping that a judge would do this to help this character!”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1915899682875969568.html
12. That which cannot be unseen
IYE requested and naturally we’d concur … this would be the criterion … “that which cannot be unseen” … for me it would be when X pundits insist on something or someone vile, such as that bald Sam character in lipstick … and our rule here at Unherdables is … “preferable not to run it but if it must be … for essential contextual, rather than for horror/sensational reasons … then plenty of adequate warning, in order to allow people escape routes, must be given to readers.
This was IYE’s text:
Dear Mr H
I would like to request, if I may, that any tweets, videos, photos, sound recordings etc with any violent scenes/ sounds come with a warning upfront signalling the content so that the reader is forewarned what is contained therein and can then decide whether they want to risk exploring further. As has been stated often by your good self and others, some things once seen cannot be unseen.
There are certain news outlets online that like to use shock and clickbait tactics. NO in all its forms has never to the best of my knowledge done that intentionally. If the Tavern is to remain a safe haven it needs its safeguards. In-yer-face violence is not something I wish to see at any time of day or night. That doesn’t mean denying it exists it means protecting oneself from psychological trauma.
Thank you for reading,
Sincerely, IYE
……
Ok, what I think is going down these days is that we’re all, to a point, in shellshock and people react differently to a steady diet of vileness and horror … most recoil, avoid, but some become first inured to it and then get into it bigtime, become sickos themselves. Some are traumatised, esp. children.
Many I know develop gentility, enjoy gardens, vistas, flowers and I try to run suchlike here between the mention of horrors. On X, my input/retweets are half the genteel topics, half the horrors … it’s easy to differentiate.
It is under the Sweet Chestnut trees, on the western edge of my garden. Also visible is a molehill; the pests in my life:
(0900) Gates poisoned sky out there. (0931)
11. Virginia G
Rolf, in his PMQs coverage today, had this as the intro:
Uh huh. Interesting extra to me though is my starting to think along similar lines about Virginia G. Yes, there can alwys be a staged murder, which always suggests direct agency involvement, replete with denials … but there’s also a remotely administered way an agency cannot be implicated … over time, they mess with everything from her doctor, shrink, water pipes, even building a chemical factory nearby …
… result not unlike the effect of the chemtrails and vaxxes, but with greater success at protecting the agency. Yes, technically she takes herself out after a long, drawn out campaign … but they still drove her to it. Even whispered phone calls at intervals would do that, would wear her down if isolated.
For mine, I don’t give a damn if she did extort from Them, if she kept pestering Them … she was really messed up … she might be entirely innocent, who are we to say? Irrelevant … what they did was unconscionable.
10. Cover all mics and cameras
9. Anyone like maps?
It used to be called netiquette but the term it’s derived from, having died an ignominious death, judging by the defecating in the streets, the knifings etc. … well any sort of ethics by late Gen X to Gen Zee or anyone woke, are a thing of the past.
But with some oldies, new to the net in the last few years … their eyes light up … one trick is to read something, wait a halfday or day, then run it, altered, as if it’s their own.
Now … what do net ethics entail? Hmmmm, on a scoop of some kind, yes … you must attribute … I try to do that within the screenshot.
On most fayre, already widely reported, just go for it … it would have to be a greedy n’er-do-well who tries to make a drama of those and I respond, on those rare occasions, with Arkell v Pressdram.
Quotes definitely need attribution … sometimes I just run the url behind the name in the text.
However … and this is a big however … often, esp. in my case, the blogger does not wish to be associated with me, thank you very much … not respectable, you see, one of those konspiracy truthers dontchaknow. Even one of those farrighters. Now I can fully ustd a fellow pundit not wishing my name tainting him or her … there’s such a thing as respektability, right?
Yet there are still (cough) net ethics.
(0548) Morning all. (0609)
8. How do demonrats live with themselves?
7. Quite a few “conservative pundits” are mentioning this
6. Steve at 1031
……
*Forgetteth not, we have mixed feelings at Unherdables about this man.
5. DAD at 1031
a) The Constitutional Council on Thursday censored certain provisions of the transport security law adopted last month, notably those “allowing the use of coercion by private agents.” The law provided that SNCF and RATP security forces could “force” any person disturbing “public order” to “leave” train stations, bus stations, or vehicles.
b) The town of Noyon [provided …] assistance from a municipal police officer when withdrawing money from ATMs, to address the concerns of seniors, like 74-year-old Jeannette: “Having a police officer accompany me gives me more peace of mind.”
c) Removing the UK’s classification of Hamas as a terrorist organisation would not only be an insult to the thousand-plus victims of October 7th and beyond but would also place Jewish communities in Britain at great risk, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has warned.
4. From TDS this morning
It was reported this week that “for the first time” Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has ordered officials to publish an official “migrant crime league table”. Her decision is being heralded as a big win for opponents of mass immigration. Robert Jenrick, the former Tory leadership candidate, was quoted as saying that “following over a year of pressure from campaigners, including my own attempt to change the law”, there has been a “breakthrough”. However, this seems like an overstatement.
In the first place, the figures that Cooper has ordered officials to publish correspond to “offences committed by foreign criminals living in the UK while awaiting deportation”, which are a subset of all offences committed by foreign nationals. For example, many offences committed by foreign nationals currently residing in British prisons will presumably be excluded.