(0746) Light’s up, looks drab out there. (0840)

 

5. Torquaymada

“As good a summation of a recent imposition that I’ve read so far….a useful article for sharing…”

https://restoremag.com/what-the-evidence-now-says-about-covid-prophylaxis

This will be saved in Bookmarks 3. We need to provide an insta-reference … yes, we have many, stretching back in time … but we need something we can lay our hands on instantly, comprehensive, written in a measured way … for me, when I go in to have anything medical done and they talk jab … I’ll have written the url on a slip of paper to give them, as one reason for my refusal.

Might be useful for you too to have tucked away.

4. Steve at 1280

• ICE Buys $70 Million Warehouse the Size of 7 Football Fields to House Illegals in Phoenix
• Trump Calls for “Scammer” Ilhan Omar’s Deportation, Slams Tim Walz Over Somali Fraud in Minnesota
• Disgraced Andrew Everywhere in Epstein Files – From Multiple Sexual Indiscretions to…. (JH: Post coming up after the OoL one is posted, not yet)
• Putin Meets Larijani As Iran Seeks Russia’s Help; Ukraine Hit By Massive Blackout Mass Drone Strikes
• Biological weapons, Chemical weapons, Brain machine interfaces … and that’s just the Covid-19 injections
• Russia Insists Venezuelan Scenario Will Not Happen In Cuba: ‘No Easy Ride’
• Much more.

3. If you get a chance, take a look at the Callan episode

HERE … I ran it two days ago. If you can stand Edward Woodward, Anthony Valentine, William Squires and Patrick Mower … good, as it was a tour de force in how to operate. My focus was on William Squires (Hunter) and the most important moment to my mind was when he appeared at the gun practice room and shot three bulls in front of Callan, who noted it (46:28).

Deskbound Hunter … a most significant move. Then in Hunter’s office later, the discussion about Cross. Highly significant about the value of all parties present.

2. DAD at 1280

a) This method of robbery of the elderly is becoming more common. Le Vésinet (78): An elderly couple in their eighties were assaulted and robbed by burglars armed with a hammer.

b) Here is another – NANTES, again. Horrific home invasion in Nantes: a 70-year-old jeweler and his daughter attacked, tied up, and robbed by a team of burglars…

c) Filming in Paris is a problem. “We no longer film in certain districts”: filming in Paris, prime targets for criminals… racketeering, threats, unreliable private security guards or even “big brothers” in the neighborhoods who no longer help.

d) A Canadian lawmaker and former provincial premier is sounding the alarm after reports revealed that an elderly woman was euthanized against her will…

e) Finally, something that gave me a smile. Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, joked on Saturday she does not look like an angel…

(0634) Morning all. Going to devote this entire post to a minor matter which might have theatened us, had it gone on. It’s also a micro-focus on what is happening between Reform and non-Reform right at this moment. Long experience teaches all of us where that ends up.

Keeping eyes on the main objective

Decades ago, as a young teacher in charge of a year level camp of children and staff, we had the chn ready and waiting half an hour before the sailing of a riverboat … we were first in the queue, the ladies looking after the needs of this or that child.

Riverboat captains were not noted for their bonhomie, their chatty manner … but nor was I. We were first because I wanted the kids on deck, with views, rather than down below in the “hold”. The captain greeted us, no naval cap, just a brimmed hat, hisself swarthy, feisty, gruff … he then proceeded to march us down into the bilges, to fill up the space … the latecomers would have the deck.

I was not having that and refused. No one need teach me, as a sailor, that the captain’s word is law and yet I was also representing these chn and staff, on behalf of the parents. I tried niceness, I tried reason … that “someone” had to be on deck, why not the earlybirds?

Challenge to his authority, a shock to all, he did the face to face eyeballing, our ladies stayed shtum, my natural instinct is always attack, quick knee to the groin and overboard with him but that was not going to work here … he did have a responsibility to the entire party from various schools, plus public, I’d already thought he might order us off so I was going to say no, don’t order them off, order me, I’m the insubordinate bstd, I’d wait onshore, the ladies would attend to our chn. Plus we were not yet “at sea”, so that law does not apply until we cast off.

Anyway, we did go downstairs but to the first level, he rotated who was on deck during the cruise and made sure we had our fair share, good result, but I awaited trouble once we got back … summoned to the franchise’s main office, ladies and chn eating afternoon tea not far away.

He was expecting a firebrand but I saw that he too was strong and ran a good tourist operation, he opened with soothing words, I said let’s get to the nitty gritty … I disobeyed a captain on water.

“Well yes.”

It turned out fine. Captain was already cruising with the next batch, I asked the boss here to convey my apologies to him for the earlier unpleasantness. Anyway, that was that.

Fun with creole

With a dour Yorkshire father and feisty Irish mother … I’m still wondering WTH they were thinking back in the day. Never mind. And yet I’m surrounded by Scots these days, useful to have by you in a fight … they’re feisty plus, whereas the English lad is a brick wall, with violence if necessary.

There’s another factor which came out during Chuckles’s time here. We can run an adversarial, parliamentary or academic style of pitched insult and counter-insult, steeped in rhetoric … or we can run a business model of everyone in a room, laying info on the table, which all present can see and we sort out if it can take us any forrarder or not … at present. But the prime directive, the imperative, is to at least get that info on the table, minus the peripherals.

Personal feelings, umbrage, whatever, have no place in this if we’re going to be a stopping off place for readers to see if there’s anything new. We are not a forum … no way, I’ve neither the time nor the inclination.

I’m quite interested in Dearieme’s stance: “English fits exactly the definition of a creole,” plus in Steve’s reply in comments (you can always find it at https://unherdablecats.com/2026/01/31/saturday-3-onwards-3/). With my landlord’s hat on, I want that discussion archived, preserved … it was interesting.

At the same time, now representing both our protagonists and readers, let’s keep the eye on that particular ball, eh? Are we any forrarder on “creole”? I’d say we are … and in my eyes, that’s a win for us as a whole. …/END.

(1633) Almost evening all. The history of English can be accessed from the sidebar, readers.

 

24. Leo Kearse at 1280

On Amelia.

23. Gentlemen … ready … set …

… tie your ties! (WARNING: sound off!)

https://twitter.com/itsme_urstruly/status/2017608994005934386?s=20

22. Steve’s Saturday evening thriller

Over at UHC-WP.

21. Obviously staged or for real?

https://twitter.com/DOGE__news/status/2017440201346371843?s=20

20. Debate ad infinitum

19. New Moosh corner

18. Oops, forgot who wrote this

17. Steve at 1280 with war room

• Prof. David Betz: civil war between Moose Limbs and Whites will turn the UK into Baghdad circa 2010

• Prof. David Betz: civil war is coming to the UK — and not even a Nigel Farage government can stop it

• Gonzalo Martin: democracy in danger if Spain regularizes 500,000 illegal invaders by Royal Decree

• Gonzalo Martin: foreigners commit 500% more rapes and 414% more murders than Spanish citizens

16. Ineligible voters

 

Rated 3/10, let’s have this again:

“There is definitely a place for movies like Journey to the Center of Time. I really believe that if it weren’t for astonishingly bad movies like this, it would be harder to really appreciate the good ones. I also, on the other hand, wonder what the people were thinking when they were making movies like this, because no one makes famously bad movies deliberately, do they?

At any rate, the movie starts out with a whole dialogue of scientific mumbo jumbo. A lot of it went right over my head because I have no background in science, but I don’t think much of it makes sense anyway, because would a movie like this really make a serious argument about the logistics and technical aspects of time travel? I doubt it, because their destination, as you know, is the “center of time.” Whatever or wherever or whenever that is. 

Early in the movie they describe their destination as “the balance between past and future,” which until now I had always assumed to be the tenuous and fleeting place known generally as “now.” 

But not in this movie, here there are enormously complex time travel experiments being conducted using enormously simple equipment. It’s not long before we are given the bizarre explanation that this is a $14 million project to create a satellite that can show pictures taken 24 hours ago. Is that how much $14 million buys? 24 hours? That’s really too bad. Maybe that’s why most people can only afford surveillance cameras. The cheap, boring time-travel- less ones. No one makes movies about those!

Then again, for all the cardboard simplicity of the lab, they did have a hydraulic lift built in to raise and lower people about 18 inches from the upper platform to the lower platform. A more frugal team would have installed the two stairs, but maybe these guys weren’t quite sure what to do with all that money. 

There is a scene about 30 minutes into the movie where the crew, under a surprisingly effective 24-hour deadline, finally manage to conduct a successful experiment using the, ah, temporal displacement device they have been working on, and they are all shocked to see, on the characteristically 1970’s oval-shaped big screen TV in front of them (and after more than a minute of pictures of galaxies, b-roll, and random head shots), what one of the scientists describes as “the test area. Time central!” I’m glad they knew what they were looking for, the rest of us may have reached the center of time and passed it on by without even knowing to stop!

But soon they notice that they’ve opened a window through which they can see 5000 years in the future, so I reckon it’s going to be a good idea to stop about then. But soon we learn that it’s a window that matter can pass through, so it’s not going to be long before some silver guys in shiny jumpsuits mosey on into the lab and say come with us if you want to live. 

They say that good science fiction movies, especially time travel movies, show us the future to comment on the present. This is a bad science fiction movie, but it still makes sure to comment on the present, specifically man’s seemingly endless capacity and drive to kill each other in war. Even super-advanced future-people can be killed by man’s “primitive” nuclear weapons!

The last third of the movie seems to consist of nothing but seemingly endless montages shown on that video screen, mostly of modern wars, and yet there’s still only enough here for an 82 minute movie. And don’t miss the hilarious hand-to-hand combat scenes! Classic!!”

(1048) Not quite elevenses yet. (1101) Tis now.

 

15. Visit multicultural London

14. Stalwarts notice

13. Spare a prayer for this lady

12. “Let the guilty be punished”

… quote from Calvin Coolidge during the Teapot Dome affair..

11. First they came for the farmers

Please see Torquaymada’s also from yesterday.

Right … my attitude to 60s pop is mixed … I rarely return unless via a current day reaction video and that was the case with these below. Thereafter, via word association football, certain artists who were curiosities for different reasons … well, they do intrigue.

First one up was a curious group of whom one of the reactors asked … why on earth could they not just give themselves a simple band name? There are two good versions … one on stage, with the singer trying to crack a whip, not shooting a pistol, the second below.

What on earth were they up to? It was in bleedin’ Suffolk of all places, real Rio Grande, no? Part of the British Invasion of the 60s. Frightening thing for me was … I was around … yikes!

Second curiosity was P.P. Arnold who was there at the right time, mixed with all the right people of the time, had a pretty powerful voice, was promoted by people such as The Small Faces, was liked by Tina Turner … so why on earth is there a dearth of good material online about her and why did she “never quite make it big”?

An unworthy thought was that she put it about a bit too much, as a groupie might … check out her Wiki entry … her lovelife started at fifteen. She also had an attitude of a sort of pouting, resentful kind and maybe white audiences didn’t take to it. Plus her voice was not quite Tina Turner, plus she was not managed well … headstrong?

Whatever … this was quite a song in the day, I remember it coming out of the transistor radio quite often.

We were spoilt back then.

The thing with this last one was the dancing or attempts to do it. Thinking back, I was never part of such a scene (sigma forever?) but I did go to a few and remember once even attempting rock n roll with her, a decade out of date.

(0828) Looks nondescript out there. (0848)

 

10. Moosh corner

As mentioned earlier, there are things going on with some ladyfriends just now and they’re hitting Moosh for one. Still, we have a large back catalogue, so you’ll not be starved of Moosherama.

9. Thank goodness there are still some wags left

8. Good idea? Not?

7. Why this Sveta piece

… but the other I buried?

Short answer is that there are certain people in this country it’s best not to directly attack, a bit like the Black Nobility over there or the Scottish Rite here.

6. Steve at 1279

• Joe Rogan Calls BS on Minneapolis ICE Protests
• Homan Promises ‘Justice is Coming
• Tulsi Gabbard Releases Documents that Prove it Was Barack Obama who Led the Russiagate Conspiracy
• After Alberta Separatists Reportedly Meet With Trump Officials, PM Carney Warns US to Respect Canadian Sovereignty
• Zelensky invite Moscow. Putin invite Kiev. EU needs new LNG suppliers. Graham happy. Cuba blockade
• Arizona Bill Designates mRNA a Bioweapon!
• NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 3
• Briefcases of money, settling of scores: Patrick Sébastien and Christine Bravo denounce the public broadcasting mafia
• Much more.

(0812) Morning again, all. (0827)

 

5. Mr. Gobby’s twofer

4. DAD at 1279

a) VPNs in France are the next on the agenda. Banning social media for those under 15: “Yes, VPNs exist, but if this legislation allows me to protect a very large majority of children, we will continue.”

b) This behavour is on the rise in France – mass rapes by teenagers in the basements of blocks of flats.

c) Image is more important than violence ! “We are not in a cutthroat France or a Clockwork Orange…”: Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, acknowledges a “rise in violence”….

d) Here is one group who will not be in my Will. In an internal document dated December 13, exclusively revealed by L’Incorrect, the APF France Handicap association calls on its members to maintain no ties with parties described as “far-right”…..

3. Toodles at 1280

A bit of light relief.

(0543) Morning all, good sleep, need a cuppa. Item 1 below will also be at OoL and Jstack, linked on X. (0644)

 

2. Quora fills a Readers Digest type function

… and most just goes through my inbox here but now and then something appears to repost. This is a cobstant thread … anything Beatles … some academic in London.

When did George Martin first realize that the Beatles were finished?

“He said that after the Let It Be experience, he was quite sad that it ended like that and he was surprised to get a call from Paul saying the Beatles wanted to record another album and they wanted him (George Martin) to produce it.

During the recording of Abbey Road, there was a feeling it might be the last album, but it was by no means certain – John had recently proposed an album with 4 tracks each for John, Paul and George and 2 for Ringo “if he wants them”.

However, a few weeks later John announced he was leaving the band – the other Beatles didn’t know whether to believe him (he’d recently announced he was the second coming of Jesus but forgotten all about it the next day!) however, In Feb 1970, John appeared on TV performing Instant Karma with a group of other musicians – that made Paul in particular realise that John was serious – and that was probably the moment that George Martin knew that the Beatles wouldn’t be recording together as they did before.”

Uh huh. As with Jim Morrison and his increasingly lost soul thing, shaking his fist at God etc., the one in the Beatles involved in the legend of urinating on nuns below was John, the one who went off the rails was John (to an extent George with his Maharishi bollox), the one shot was John. The most self-destructive was John … horrible new wife etc., way he had treated Cynthia … in my eyes, it was odds on, just as with François-Marie Arouet way back in France.

The essential difference, esp. with the Jesus Christ crack, was that he was the only one in the four openly hostile to God, just as with the original fallen angel. The others were just searching for the lost chord. And the most interest aspect for me, stretching back 2000 or so years, was how the most blinkered and obtuse were those supposedly intelligent, intelligentsia … yet so soul-dumb at the same time.

1. There’s most certainly mischief afoot online

… which was always odds on. The two latest in my sphere are Toodles and Moosh. Toodles attempted to write a reply to Steve, about family and friends I presume … just disappeared it did. Sometimes it can be intended by the good side, not just the mischievous techie goblins, elves and gremlins. Thing is, it could be absolutely anything, from the provider to the platform to the device to the person using it … we’re all of us under the hammer right now.

There are some golden rules. One is not to click on anything which just appears, however innocuous it seems … I was nearly tricked last night into installing something here. I suppose I’m mid tech savvy, very much front end, knowing some things about backend … knowing what not to touch is one step on that journey.

Looking at Moosh … a new account just appeared, using her images but I’m not sure it’s her, there was no indication from her own site, plus she has enemies, as many of us do. I’ll check that out a bit later. Latest for me is one of Elon’s developers, so he says.

I found this too … interesting, suspected as much:

Combining something my techie mate said about the evolution of devices … with a Happy Days observation about “jumping the shark” … the driving force behind any new “thang” is the creator, the innovator, those about him too, decades ago.

Gradually, it becomes apparent that nothing much has really changed … and why should it? Why fix that which ain’t broke? But the tech company mindset is “change for change’s sake”, staying “relevant”, unlike MTV, also a payroll of developers, all wishing to show off, earning brownie points.

So, inevitably, lesser techies are in there and the company fears losing market share. It becomes about profit … just that. Meanwhile, technically, they just have to “jump the shark”. It’s not unlike the imperative an addict feels.

Back to these two ladies … yes, easy meat for those wishing to stop them. Plus Roob, and to an extent Julia. Me? Semi-easy meat, obviously there are ways around me too. Having access to backenders does alter the equation, plus a cautious mindset helps, learnt over time. Plus a partly detached attitude, realising that anything potentially worthwhile will always bring out the stoppers.

Tomorrow’s post at OoL will be about something which was on X about health … thought it might be of interest. Have a good weekend, chaps and chapesses.

.o0o.

To all our readers … Moosh has been hacked … please instead use the attached handle for her and operate from there, ok?

(1559) Almost evening, all.

 

24. Inept or designed?

23. Local shopping again?

22. Steve at 1279

• Hearts of Oak with Peter Mcilvenna: Starmer’s Risky China Pivot: Espionage Fears, the Diego Garcia Deal, and Trump’s Backlash

War Room:

• Janice Johnstone: If These Findings In Fulton County Were Known At The Time, There Never Would Have Been A Fani Willis Grand Jury

• Matt Boyle: For Years We Heard The Left Scream, “Democracy Is Under Attack!” The People Who Are Engaged In These Signal Chats And Dispatch Against ICE Officers Are Actually Engaged In An Attack On Our Democracy!

• Doc Chambers On The Moose Limb Invasion Of Texas: This Is A Color Revolution That’s Been Hybridized

• Kevin Freeman On The Islamic Invasion Of Texas: This Is Financial Jihad. We Are In An Economic, Cultural And Spiritual War (recommended)

21. Fractured families

Miles had this to say (see sidebar, IYE):

“I am getting reports, from readers, of their families exploding, as society as a whole explodes. We know it was all pre-planned, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The events in the news are staged and astroturfed, but these smaller, more personal events are all-too-real. Society is being fractured on purpose, to keep you fighting your friends and family over these manufactured issues, so that you don’t ally against the governors. It was bad enough during Covid, fighting over vaccines and face masks and distancing, but it may be worse now, with families splitting over every new fake event in the news—just as they want us to. It has continued to accelerate after Covid.”