“Mike Benz just dropped a wild bombshell on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During the Obama years, USAID pushed $1.2 BILLION through Cayman Island accounts, pretending it was “aid for Pakistan”… …but the cash actually funded ZunZuneo — a Cuban Twitter-clone built to spark rent-a-riots and topple governments around the world.”
16. Heroine
15. Don’t forget China and Swalwell
14. Yes Sophie
13. Steve and war room
Christina Bobb: What They’re Trying To Do Is Throw Sand In The Gears Of The Trump Administration To Make Sure It Doesn’t Actually Fulfill Its Mandates
Christina Bobb On Her New Book ‘Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare’
Jack Posobiec And Benny Johnson To Pass Out 3,000 Charlie Kirk ‘Freedom’ T-Shirts Ahead Of UFC 322 Tomorrow In NYC
Spanish nationalist Gonzalo Martìn warns “legal migration is the most dangerous form of migration”
Now there’s a reason for this episode, apart from taking us up to the evening posts which I hope to be up to. January 26th, 1969:
Review:
“The suave Simon Templar has encounters with two gorgeous blonde sisters, who make idealistic statements about death.
The Saint tracks down the ladies to a large remote country house, which is owned by a rich entrepreneur named Keith Longman (Clifford Evans). The ladies, Vanessa (Veronica Carlson) and Stella (Jayne Sofiano) are Longman’s daughters.
After he infiltrates Longman’s home, the Saint finds out from the man himself that he is experimenting with cryogenics. Longman has a bad heart, and he is determined to freeze himself into suspended animation until years later, when he assumes that heart transplants operations will improve. Longman’s freezing process has never been tested on humans–and he believes that the Saint will be the perfect subject.
When I first saw this episode I thought I was watching the Avengers, as it’s the kind of story Steed and Co would be involved in, but I guess it was an experiment, or even an ode to the Avengers; whichever it is, it’s an intriguing episode that borders heavily on horror/sci-fi.
The director is Freddie Francis who, of course, done countless hammer films, and here he keeps things watchable, but it is Joyce Sofiano as the eccentric daughter of the equally eccentric Longman who steals the scene.”
From Wiki:
“The Avengers is a British espionage television series that aired from 7 January 1961 to 21 April 1969. It initially focused on David Keel (Ian Hendry), aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee). Ian Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish, and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and Tara King (Linda Thorson). Dresses and suits for the series were made by Pierre Cardin.”
From me:
“I wonder if Hendry of The Avengers was cry-oed by Macnee. Also, I quite liked the insanity of the two females in this … in keeping with most of the girls I’ve known, though the ones I knew had better dress sense. Thank goodness all the ladies I know today are sane … the insane forming the wokerati, no?”
“Somewhere in the Night is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also co- adapts the screenplay with Howard Dimsdale from a story by Marvin Browsky. It stars John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson and Fritz Kortner. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Norbert Brodine.
George Taylor (Hodiak) returns from the war suffering from amnesia and trying to track down his identity by following a trail started by a mysterious man named Larry Cravat. Pretty soon George finds himself thrust into a murder mystery where nothing is ever as it seems.
The amnesia sufferer is not in short supply in film noir, neither is the returning from the war veteran, but Somewhere in the Night may just be one of the most under appreciated to use these central themes. Amongst film noir writers it has a very mixed reputation, yet the trajectory it follows is quintessential film noir stuff.
George Taylor (Hodiak assured and rightly playing it as low-key confusion) is very much at the mercy of others, thus he finds himself wandering blindly into a labyrinthine murder mystery. His journey will see him get a beating (no matter he is one tough boy), pulled from one suspicious location to the next and introduce him to dames, a stoic copper, a shifty fortune teller and a “too good to be true?” club owner.
The screenplay is deliberately convoluted, making paying attention essential, and the script blends tongue in cheek nonchalance with spicy oral stings.
The locations Taylor visits are suitably atmospheric, even macabre at times, which allows Mankiewicz and Brodine (Boomerang/Kiss of Death) to open up some noir visuals. Dr. Oracles’s Crystal Ball parlour really kicks things off, fronted by Anzelmo (Kortner deliciously shady), it’s a room adorned by face masks on the walls and lit eerily by the glow of a crystal ball.
Then there’s Lambeth Sanitorium, with low-lit corridors, many doors that hide mentally troubled patients and the shadow inducing stairs. And finally the docks, with dark corners down by the lapping silver water, a solitary bar at the front, smoky and barely rising above dive status. These all form atmospheric backdrops to enhance the suspicion and confusion of the protagonist.
Nancy Guild (apparently pronounced as Guyled) didn’t have much of a career, and much of the criticism for the acting in the film landed at her door, but unfairly so. It’s true that she’s more friendly side-kick than sultry femme fatale, but she has a good delivery style that compliments the doubling up with Hodiak. She’s pretty as well, a sort of Bacall/Tierney cross that’s most appealing.
Elsewhere Conte and Nolan offer up the expected enjoyable noirish performances while a host of noir icons flit in and out of the story, making it fun to see who will pop up next? There are undeniably daft coincidences and credulity stretching moments within the plotting, and in true Mankiewicz style the film is often very talky, but it’s never dull and quite often surprising, even having a trick up its sleeve in the finale.”
(1058) Coming up to elevenses folks, back in bed, about to snooze, quite a few jobs done all the same, spirits not bad (single malt, cognac), pleasantly shocked by the energy account balance, shall post this, then crash for a short while. (1146)
10. Moosh corner
9. It’s car attacks on the indigenous time again
8. This item some days old now
… just clearing the backlog …
7. Two nice articles imho at The Daily Sceptic (url in blogrolls)
First is this one DAD covers at 1203:
Second involves confessions of a former Beeb man:
“The BBC has always been very Left-wing. But it didn’t used to be biased.
I should know because I was one of those identikit Left-wingers who worked at the BBC for 25 years. Everyone thought the same: Thatcher was mad, the poll tax was evil, immigration was a good thing, the rich should be taxed and nuclear weapons were immoral. These liberal-Left attitudes were shared by the vast majority of the people I worked with in the British Broadcasting Corporation. With a few exceptions.
I remember a quiet young man called Robbie Gibb who appeared in the BBC’s Millbank complex in Westminster in the 1990s when I was presenting BBC political programmes there. He was a Tory, so I was informed, as if he had some affliction which was unfortunate but which should be respected and not mocked.
And on the whole he was respected.”
6. Andy
History doesn’t always repeat itself but often rhymes. Regime change needs a reason in the minds of the proles, in the past it has been either sponsoring terrorists or weapons of mass destruction. This time it’s narco terrorists. I am coming to the conclusion that Mr Prez is not all that he seems to be or is very poorly advised, maybe even compromised.
(0915) That was a tough night … not just the damage to the roof and the downpour inside but I was having heart recurrence which is always the sign to shut up shop. It was still bad by Saturday [1] externally, wild wind, window blown out and flood inside, so with seven tubs deployed, it was crash time … and here I am now, tubs and old teatowels washed and drying. Abode itself warm enough. Carpet washed and drying.
IYE you can read in situ lower right in sidebar … link here. (0945)
TL;DR: KP is an extremely well informed energy expert. Knows how leccy and gas work, at a market/economy level. The 2nd is well worth 90 minutes of your time. Tea and a biccie and learn stuff.
JH: I’m thinking … and don’t quote me on it … but Steve also covered this lady … either way, worth a look.
4. Steve at 1203
Meet Michigan’s Dead Voters: Several Voted “In-Person,” Others Voted “Absentee” — One Voted 41 Years After He Died
Is Texas About to Fall to Islam? JH: Under Abbott … yes.
[Anti]Pope Leo Embraces Transgenderism
Trump Announces He Will Order Pam Bondi to Investigate … JH: Sounds like a Bondi promise
Trump DHS Launches Nationwide Operation to Locate Hundreds of Thousands of Migrant Children That the Biden-Harris Regime ‘Lost’
Explosive Night: Russia and [The] Ukraine Exchange Massive Strikes
Kiev’s Darkest Day; Zelensky Begs More Missiles After Huge Russian Kiev Strike
Former MAHA director warns that COVID-19 vaccine issues are intentionally hidden, as RFK Jr. is manoeuvred into compliance … JH: This is the one I ran at OoL and in Sat 1 here
BBC doesn’t only have a global audience, it also heads the Trusted News Initiative, a global coalition of media to tackle “disinformation”
a) Ambarès-et-Lagrave (33): Two mosques installed in silence… and the rumor of a third is fueling tensions against the Socialist mayor, Nordine Guendez….
b) Paris: A Sudanese illegal migrant arrested for desecrating the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A 23-year-old man … born in El Fasher, Sudan….
c) Lies, damn lies and statistics… Bar graph of the intention to vote in the Presidential elections in 2027: do you believe this….
(0352) Morning! Not all that well, heart, gastric, last night’s storm, crashing again till maybe 0730, then to DAD, Steve, IYE, Andy. (0524)
Delve into the messenger first, to understand the angle
We have a watch list accessible from the navbar at Unherdables and it’s not the usual Obama, Blair etc. known-knowns … but the players behind the scenes in the current punditry, the ones who go under the radar because they’re the Paul Reveres they’d have you believe.
There are any number of people, often under reinvented moniker, who “rush” “breaking news” to you … they’re never there to examine in depth and to learn … watch out for these is my advice, just who are they? Whom are they representing in reality? Which lobby?
Part of the sum total of non-Wokerati pundits are the “would be big stars of punditry”, often with their own big followings and own site, e.g. Guido, but also a new breed, often found on substack for some reason, e.g. Dan Wooton. As one who uses substack himself, it has severe limitations … it’s for the pundit who wishes to bring the scoop or column in simple form, centre page, to be a “highly respected oracle, a go-to quotee” … these are the minor media empire builders.
What I’m asking you the reader to do is to be a bit more circumspect, a bit “uh huh, I’ll read you but what are your own antecedents, whom are you shilling for?” Before taking onboard and parroting. Beware those who are always wanting to bring the big scoop, the “Breaking News”.
I didn’t say dismiss … I’m saying place it alongside, on the table before you, with all the other “incoming”.
Slow down, examine, even against your own bias, your own natural inclinations. Sometimes a labelled “hostile” who may well be that due to his/her bad decisions on who’s good/who’s bad may have been diverted offtrack on some things. To my mind, blind faith in Donny is just as dangerous as TDS … slow down, examine via “trusted” sources you’ve built over time. Just whom are they lobbying for?
An obvious “be careful” is Ben Shapiro who may or may not have had a hand in the CK demise but is a known Nethanyahu European Zion exponent. Against that are almost the entirety of Whitehall, quite pro-deathcult and flooded-in illegals. Candace is another … I’ve read the criticisms, usually Zionist, which does not necessarily mean Jewish, which is another thing (see Revelation 3:9).
Beware those who immediately turn on you for quoting from the NT … what are they themselves? The secular Settled Science is god set? Again, be circumspect instead of grabbing your bat and ball and storming off.
Currently, I’m looking at this about Susan Wiles, gatekeeper to Donny, also exploring Ann Vandersteel:
…who seems more ultranationalist in a Stew Peters way, similar to Red Ice. I’m also posting this:
The links you need for that are currently at NOWP 1203:3 (Evets 1). And anyway, how sound are Natural News? And how about Gateway Pundit? Again, don’t dismiss out of hand but be circumspect.
Which brings me to navigation and transparency. If you visit any site, you should go straight to the About, to who’s funding this guy/gal? If it’s hidden away somewhere under all the waffle, if he/she won’t state his/her bias … then be most circumspect, reader. Some, like Rhoda at Expose, are basically sound, just derivative … as I am … name me a pundit who is not derivative … that’s quite different to carving out an empire on the back of other people’s resources and investigation.
Flag is often an indicator … my flag is the Cross of St George but also the Union Flag, but am also MAGA, pro-Orban, secret liking for Giorgia, I like people who use ✝️ in the profile but beware again … so does the socialist Chicago pope and the Canterbury graffiti loving new archbish to be, the rainbow ratbag. And the jargon “ratbag” is a giveaway too, it says Oz influence … I could have said “tosser” instead for her, or for Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Obama, Holder, McCarthy (ex House Speaker). Could have used “jerk”.
Then we should note strange likings, e.g. mine for Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Rupert, not Farage. But even here, apply the 70/30 rule. For every person we have misgivings about … do we like less than 70% of what they’re about? If we like 70 to 90% about them, then they’re on the “fairly trusted” list. I’d worry if you were 100% for any human.
(1709) Evening all. Wet and windy outside around here.
26. Xfriend Deryl wrote
“I have a roof leak and obviously the roofer doesn’t want to come back out in rain . He came yesterday but only made it worse . Am currently in loft stuffing rafters with absorbent material until it finally stops raining.”
I replied:
“Deryl, I hadn’t quite latched onto us being in a storm. True the rain started coming in through the roof … put out a tub … then the kitchen window blew open. Uh huh. A bit windy, thought I. Are we in a storm?”
Slowthinking day today. Um … er … do you have some wind and rain where you are?
25. Snippet
Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi both worked at Ballard Partners, a prominent lobbying firm with pharmaceutical clients including Pfizer.
Hearts of Oak at 1203: Dr Bradley Thayer – Identity Under Siege: The Trump Call to Counter Radical Ideologies
War Room at 1203:
Mark Mitchell: An Entire Generation Has Been Priced Out Of The American Dream. The Right Kept Repeating “They’ll Never Choose Socialism,” But They’re Starting To Because The GOP Never Delivered
Mark Mitchell: Remember The “Christmas Massacre” Of 2024 When The Youth Rejected Ramaswamy’s Defense Of The Indian Work Culture? Americans Aren’t Lazy Or Stupid; They’ve Been Sold Out
Charlie’s Kirk’s Plan for Revival: 1 – Mass Deportations 2 – Stop The H-1B Scam 3 – Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration 4 – End Chain Migration And The Visa Lottery 5 – Build 10 Million Homes For Americans 6 – Crush The College Cartel
Richard Baris: One of the GOP’s Biggest Problems? Donors Fund Cocktail Parties, Not Ground Games. Democrats Write Checks To Win. Republicans Write Them To Network
Claire Dooley: The World We’re Building With MAHA Is One Of Science, Not Censorship. We Don’t Silence Voices; We Win With Stronger Arguments
Natalie Winters: US Army Funded Research At China’s Top Semiconductor Lab Targeting America’s Chip Dominance
“This noir B thriller from 20th Century Fox shows the temptations that the police are under. William Gargan stars and plays a doggedly honest cop who has a homicide literally dropped on his doorstep at the precinct headquarters. It’s almost like someone was taunting the cops to solve this one.
The victim in Behind Green Lights was a seedy private detective who had a nice sideline in blackmail and no one really is going to mourn his passing. But the case is loaded with political implications because Carole Landis, daughter of the reform candidate for mayor was seen leaving the victim’s apartment.
The largest newspaper in town is supporting the current administration and Roy Roberts says that the easiest thing in the world for Gargan to do to advance his career is pick up Landis and book her. At least until the election is over which will be in a few days. Something about Roberts sticks in Gargan’s craw. He could easily justify holding Landis and helping his career, but he won’t do it.
There’s a nice array of suspects and by definition performances. There are two keys here, a very sleazy medical examiner played by Don Beddoe and a bag lady played by Mabel Paige. Between the two of them the real story comes out.
Behind Green Lights bears no small resemblance to Detective Story in structure. Most of the action takes place in the police station. This film is nicely paced with a few good comic touches. I can’t mention them because they are within the plot structure and not just added on. This noir film is a good one to check out.”
