“The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of the absurd, cloying bureaucratic tyranny which has sucked the life, the vital spark out of our freedom and almost everything we once valued.”
“Bentine is an interesting man, not just for this and other comedy work. He was an expert pistol shot who trained the SAS in his style; also he wrote of psychic experiences in his non-fiction and autobiographies – perhaps he inherited from his Peruvian father some of the otherworldly spiritual strain found in South America.”
(0513) If I’m a bit tardy in posting, dear reader, it’s not through sloth or snoozing … there are 15 items gathered, ready to run, plus today’s horror film (yes, you read that right) is loaded, ready to roll, plus our first feature short soon, after Thur 10. Grey and Gates poison gloomy out there … no matter, lots on here and at our brother/sister sites too, let alone on X. (0812)
5. From a major alt-pundit downunder
4. Claire Coutinho is worth a look
3. Steve at 1174
State Dept Revokes Visas of Foreigners Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Says They ‘Wish Death on Americans’
Pelosi Loses It – Screams and Points at Reporter After She Is Asked Why She Refused to Call in National Guard on January 6th! (JH: Such fun it was)
Moscow Prepares Donbass Cauldron
The Jab That Keeps on Giving…300% Increase in ALS (Motor Neuron Disease) Drug sales reveals Singapore’s Hidden Health Horror Story!
NIH quietly resumes banned “gain-of-function” bird flu research, with critics warning of engineered pandemic threat (JH: These are truly monsters still at the reins of power)
Collectivism is threatening our freedom and creating modern slavery
France. The prospect of censure is receding, but political tensions are far from over. Members of Parliament are preparing to plunge into debates that promise to be epic.
After his baptism of fire in questions to the government in the National Assembly on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, the Prime Minister went to the Senate to deliver a statement on his general policy.
(continued at 1174 and later at UHC-WP (under France)…
Eric Trump: Endless Wars, Senseless Spending, And Broken Lives – My Father Said No More. He’s Brought Peace Where No One Else Could, And The World Is Celebrating
Bannon: America’s Biggest Issue In The Middle East Is Saudi Arabia And Iran Providing Oil And Gas To The CCP
Cleo Paskal: If A Hostile Foreign Power Controls The Center Of The Pacific, The US Is No Longer Safe
Ben Harnwell: Ukraine’s “Green Goblin” inserts himself into POTUS’s MidEast peace-triumph news-cycle
19. Steve B’s chart quiz
THE CHARTS ARE BACK ❤️❤️
Please repost so others can play ! Top songs chart A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . Some great tracks here . #music#popchart#wednesdaypic.twitter.com/Dc70T7ZBhG
“As has been pointed out by most reviewers on IMDb, this film has all the perceived elements of cold war-period American cinema. However, what also should be considered is the influence it has had on contemporary SF movies and TV.
Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor and, especially, Morris Ankrum are well-known B-movie actors: they appeared in everything from Westerns to SF, with lots of stops in between. Thus, this film (complete with all the other stalwarts of ’50s and ’60s “Bs” who appear therein) can be seen as a progenitor of later low-budget productions which rely on a cheap yet capable cast.
At the time it was released (1956), Ray Harryhausen was proving his expertise with stop-motion special effects, later to be given much larger budgets in ’60s colour productions. “Gumby” and similar TV items owe much to this man, as does Aardman Productions and, possibly, Dreamworks.
It has already been indicated (by others) that “Mars Attacks” owes its saucers to this film. So, too, “ID4” has a debt, as does “Dr Who”! (Specifically the outfits worn by the aliens – that leaden ‘dome’ on top of their environment suits belongs to a famous adversary of the good doctor – check out a couple of Tom Baker serials!) Be that as it may, Fred F. Sears does an acceptable job as director; Curt Siodmak supplies a clever screenplay based on Don Keyhoe’s book (Keyhoe also wrote ‘non-fiction’ accounts of UFOs); and some of the dialogue is definitely quotable! IMDb has some ripper examples.
Watch it and enjoy it. Strip some of our contemporary SF of CGI and they really do lack substance in comparison with this entertaining and funny movie. OK. You won’t gasp and ooooh. If you have a love of ’50s B-movies however, this one is a ‘corker’!”
Had there been no messages (DMs) from Elon’s mother, his son, from Katie Pavlich, Eva Vlaar, Rubio, Draino, Vivek and clog dancer Hillary, I might have been silly enough to reply to Kai. Of all the messages, Katie and Hillary did seem genuine. I do have a soft spot for Hillary.
However, checking out that Kai link, it had something like 500 followers, as against:
… with her current profile saying:
… which is far more like it. I checked out her “following” list, meaning those she follows, and they’re the ones you’d expect … father, mother, gramps, golf coach, some others:
So, all good and hope no DM arrives, hope she and gramps are enjoying their golf. Oh, why would anyone have noticed my tweet in the first place? Well 70 or so fellow Xers follow Kai on X … lads are sad … aren’t we?
Democrat Strategist Stunned by Trump’s Success in the Middle East: ‘It’s Historic And He Deserves All The Credit’
Former Archdiocese of Detroit Superintendent of Schools Blasts Michigan Department of Education for Its Latest Ploy to Force Young Children to Learn Sick Sex Agenda Without Parental Consent
Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis: Systemic Failures and the Dilemma of Military Desertion
Flu outbreak cripples schools as cancer deaths projected to soar
Rassemblement National Hits Historic Membership Milestone
Why the “Palestinian cause” will never be satisfied with a ceasefire
Much more.
4. it’s just a snippet but …
… quite a significant one … it explains much happening on X:
To that can be added Dunning-Kruger ambitious, incompetent women.
In his own words, he can’t stand MAGA types, family, God etc., likes to crack down on them on X.
3. DAD at 1173
… and a longish piece (mercy buckets) on the govt turmoil:
Wednesday.
Decision day for the new French PM.
The motions of censure tabled on Monday, October 13, by La France Insoumise and the National Rally will be debated starting at 9:00 a.m. Thursday morning [today] in the National Assembly. Following the Prime Minister’s general policy speech on Tuesday [yesterday] afternoon, we know more about which groups will and will not vote for it ….. (continues at 1173)
… was my response to TDS opening teaser today on finance:
“On Friday, the FT reported that one of the UK’s largest philanthropic grant makers, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is withdrawing its support for US-based organisations. According to the pink pages, CIFF “no longer understands the US policy environment governing donations” and that it was “pausing donations until authorities clarified the applicable laws and rules related to the foreign funding of US NGOs”.
CIFF is the philanthropic vehicle of British billionaire hedge fund manage Christopher Hohn, whose firm, The Children’s Investment (TCI), has a history of reckless decisions and shareholder activism. Former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak was once a partner of the hedge fund …”
Twas a good teaser for an article behind a paywall, which Lord Toby likes to do. And what’s in it for plebs like us, poor sods? I keep coming back to a classic Russian song in which the Refrain opening was, too literally translated … “for what for you to know”? You could translate it as “why know” but “for what” better accentuates the “is there any legit or pressing reason which would give you any useful result”?
One obvious further question is who funded the grant fund in the first place? And which values govern their grant giving?
