(0830) Slept in, good thing too, now upandattem. (0912)

 

5. Sarah from Alberta

4. Steve at 1542

• Another Historical First: Four Democrat US Senate Candidates Received More Votes than Kamala Harris in Prior Presidential Election – Odds of This Happening is “Effectively Zero” in Historical Record
• AI Caught Favoring Dems, AI Advanced Mode Finds “Zero” Individuals Questioning Recent Election Results Using Math or Graphs – And Much, Much Worse!
• Syria’s Christians Face Kidnappings and “Jizya” Protection Tax Demands as Population Falls 80 Percent
• Iran Still Producing Dozens of Ballistic Missiles a Month Despite Strikes
• Borrowed Time At Lyman: Ukraine’s Autumn Gamble
• A healthy gut microbiome is central to your overall mental and physical well-being
• CJ Hopkins: Lawfare, harassment and a fine for two tweets have not satisfied the German COVID establishment; now they’re prosecuting for the book itself
• Much, much, much more.

3. And so it rushes onwards, like a tidal wave

2. DAD at 1542

a) Protesters in the Bulgarian city of Varna pelted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s motorcade with fruit, vegetables, and eggs during a rally against her visit, Report informs referring to the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). The rally was held under the slogan “Varna wants peace, not war!” Von der Leyen was met with shouts of “Ursula, you are not welcome here!” and calls to leave the city.

b) German Authorities Start Initiative To Evaluate Public Register For Climate “Disinformation” Spreaders! Back to the Dark Ages… Elements within the German government are poised to take the authoritarian step of suppressing and restricting scientific discourse.

c) Hoax bomb threats empty hundreds of Italian schools as alerts spread to UK. The emails, signed with the same alias used in recent hoaxes against European flights and broadcasters, also threatened Italy’s Prime Minister.

d) Poland’s Supreme Court has overturned the suspensions of Constitutional Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski and his deputy, dealing a major legal blow to the attempted takeover backed by Donald Tusk. Yet the pro-government judges who seized control have refused to recognise the ruling, deepening the crisis on the eve of Independence Day.

e) Thousands of Muslims are being deported from France – here’s why.

1. The quality of Englishness is not strained

… it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

It’s not as if it’s a new issue … Somerset Maugham and Mr. Know-All (1925):

I had scarcely started before a man came up to me and asked me if he was right in thinking my name was so and so. “I am Mr. Kelada,” he added, with a smile that showed a row of flashing teeth, and sat down.

“Oh, yes, we’re sharing a cabin, I think.”

“Bit of luck, I call it. You never know who you’re going to be put in with. I was jolly glad when I heard you were English. I’m all for us English sticking together when we’re abroad, if you understand what I mean.”

I blinked. “Are you English?” I asked, perhaps tactlessly.

“Rather. You don’t think I look like an American, do you? British to the backbone, that’s what I am.”

To prove it, Mr. Kelada took out of his pocket a passport and airily waved it under my nose.

This was the latest attempt:

Ed Davey (Mr. Post Office) spoke in parliament on “Englishness” … comment on that:

Lisa is what people might call “white English” but she sports the Union Flag, not St George:

In my time in Russia, I was often spoken of like: “Он наполовину русский,” or “He’s half Russian.” It was an honorary title, not a citizenship claim … I was still “иностранец” or “a foreigner”, officially … but a friendly one who spoke the language passably.

(1637) Almost evening, folks.

 

24. I’ve heard of this David Jason

… but who’s this Louis Walsh? Or Ross, Noel Fielding, Frank Bruno, Mr. Blobby, Boaty McBoatface? Chris Moyles, Matt Lucas. Simon Cowell. Some people started talking about known-knowns like Smelly John or Fry-up but that seems a bit out there.

23. Nice

22. Need we be prepared for trouble at this end?

21. Confucius say

 

Your nanny state at work:

(1439) Afternoon wears on. (1451)

 

20. Twofer

19. Moo corner

18. ALG newsletter from his last evening

17. Lord Toby’s newsletter from this morning

16. Steve and Red Wave on Rubio

 

Wiki: When the film was released, The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, while giving the film a mixed review, wrote well of the screenplay, “No use to speak of the action or the acting. It’s strictly routine. But the plot is deliberately sensational.”

(1222) Afternoon all. (1251)

 

15. House of the Sleepy

Point of this item with full pic is to illustrate that even with someone in parlmt, what guarantee anyone will be there to hear it, that it will get out to the people, that any change can eventuate. Lord Toby (speaking) runs Daily Sceptic and is visible on soc-med … how many of the normies would quote him?

14. Brave New World

13. Strange

12. An old account

11. The poisoning of our food

The 11th of the 11th, at 11 a.m.

 

Be upstanding please, ladies and gentlemen:

(0859)(0959, genuinely)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Example of, at a minimum, inaccurate write-up

… maybe even careless, maybe deliberately misleading, maybe innocent:

You’ll notice “translated from the French”, so maybe slack should be cut to a point … and yet there’s one crucial difference from what I posted some days ago, a tweet from LB saying that what she saw included cannibalism, whereas the French report says “possibly even involving” … quite a different account of the matter.

Plus she lost her congressional seat among the general slaughter. The other things with her are that infamous sex in the theatre with a demrat setting her up, affairs with three staffers and tatts all over her body. While those would not raise too many eyebrows with Bonny Blue watchers, they do with her cross around her neck and “Christian” stance … the optics ain’t great.

Then again, I’m not too great myself taking moral stances, given my track record, inc. recently. On a more positive note, Stephen Miller’s wife has divested herself of a goldmine in order that no enemy can use that against SM himself, given what he’s about to do.

8. Other Congressional and White House news

7. Just when you thought it was safe in Alabama

I’m thinking that what we have here, and which was pointed out by the two retired letter agency men (we posted it), was that while we’re all concentrating on the blue states and known cheating centers, where their defences are intricate and all but covered up … that it would avail investigators to concentrate more in red states where no one’s going to much notice a few snomalies, as long as the state still stays red.

Texas was a glaring example where the Bush state was so egregiously out of skew that it was almost like a globo-psycho/deathcult thumbing of the nose … there ain’t nuffink you nazis can do to stop us.

Bama is a bit more off the radar concerning the cheating but it still occurs (see the chart), e.g. in Baldwin county … as it did not flip the result, doesn’t mean it was not going on.

6. Ta muchly to IYE for this retrieval made possible

The Triangle (May 28, 2017)

A derogatory article on the issue of just what’s happening in the White House was posted on May 13th:

http://journal-neo.org/2017/05/13/the-donald-meets-sun-tzu-and-is-found-wanting/

The Deep State exists, no question, a secret state within the state, like some kind of freemasonic Ur-Lodge, unelected by the public, unanswerable to anyone but their secret internal Brotherhood, the Deep State. Donald Trump is not their enemy, or he would have been shot down well before the first Republican primary. 

He is a creature of that Deep State. He keeps his word, but not to his voters; rather he keeps it, but to his Deep State controllers from Wall Street and the Big Oil and the Military Industrial Complex.

There is a different perspective below on the same question – the only way into power:

http://www.unz.com/article/political-sciences-theory-of-everything-on-the-2016-us-election/

“[T]he power elite can be best described as a “triangle of power,” linking the corporate, executive government, and military factions: “There is a political economy numerously linked with military order and decision. This triangle of power is now a structural fact, and it is the key to any understanding of the higher circles in America today.”

The 2016 US election, like all other US elections, featured a gallery of pre-selected candidates that represented the three factions and their interests within the power elite. 

The 2016 US election, however, was vastly different from previous elections. As the election dragged on, the power elite became bitterly divided, with the majority supporting Hilary Clinton, the candidate pre-selected by the political and corporate factions, while the military faction rallied around their choice of Donald Trump.

Now this is the crux, as Hillary found out, even after the blatant rigging and dead voters, the way certain districts suddenly went her way in the popular vote – it was not enough because she did not carry the Electoral College – that’s where it all is.

The Donald was always going to do well in the popular, with massive rallies and so on but he was not going to be selected by one of these factions for that particular platform and power base and as the only way to power in the country is through one or more of those factions, as the Unz article says, then ipso facto, he had to have at least done a short term deal.

So, which devil did he have to appease? The military of course – Mattis, and corporate – Tillerson.  The MIC.

As long as the Donald does their will, boosts defenc[s]e, drop a MOAB or two, then the machine is kept running for him and obstacles melt away.

If he starts taking the populism seriously, which he is inclined to do, making Bannon once again resurgent – then he is mad enough, in their eyes, to genuinely go down a populist path.

Why? Because the Donald does love the adoration, the rallies, the way he and he alone has MadeAGA. He’s made deals with the factions, realizing that technically, he was never going to get to power otherwise, thinking he could go his way once elected.

The temporary travel ban was a litmus test. Many pundits on our side were thinking it was so wrong – he had all the power he needed to implement it already and to hell with 9th Circuit but they wanted to let it run the whole distance for some reason which will eventually become apparent.

The agent the triangle appointed to curb him was Pence and closely connected to Pence – Ryan. Pence is being groomed to step into the shoes according to various pundits but I’m half and half on this. There is Pence’s overt Christianity and it is possible he really is. Thus the triangle uses religious arguments with him why to oppose this or that of the Donald’s ‘excesses’.

They’ve already had one attempt to oust Bannon from the west wing because Bannon represents our pressure group, the one the people think he was elected on – the Donald trusts Bannon the way a businessman trusts a person who rings true in his eyes. Bannon has zero power, except in the President’s ear. Pence has real power, backed by the MIC and finance.

Hence no moves on ‘lock her up’ Hillary, hence her impunity at Wellesley, hence the political impotence of the Donald as known by the inner players, inc. Clinton. She’s not going to prison. Whether she has the dirt on them or they have on him – things are not going to change, as Ryan assured Congressmen, as the health bill showed.

Why was Ryan not sacked for that? Because he’s above Trump, in the same way Osborne was above Cameron – both had deep hooks within the triangle. Cheney was theirs, Kissinger before him, Dulles, House – there’ve been a few.

They’ve obviously sorted out the balancing act for 2018 – if they feel they can keep the Donald bamboozled enough, thwarted enough, they might let the GOP take the mid-terms.

If they don’t feel they can, then the DNC will experience a resurgence – already reports are filtering through mentioning Sanders populism [Corbyn over here] making inroads on Trump territory – what that says for the deadheads even contemplating voting for that can wait for another post.

The Donald will have some victories – he has to so that his base does not dissolve as UKIP’s did. Perhaps Comey will be the sacrificial lamb, methinks Ryan is too big for that.

The mysterious silences and obtuseness of the Donald are explained by this scenario. Also how he goes to Twitter to rail against the courts. If he has the power, he need not do that – he can just exercise this power:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/03/is-trumps-travel-ban-constitutional-immigration-law-experts-from-both-sides-weigh-in/

But he doesn’t. Sessions does not allow him, rather going after Assange – Sessions is part of it too. Who swore them in?  Pence.

The Donald can make no real progress because he is waylaid by staff he cannot rely on – Bannon and other minor people are on his side. The main staff are playing for the triangle.

The one good bit of news is that the Donald, though old and understandably susceptible to a convenient heart attack, nonetheless is really a loose cannon and might do some damage on our behalf before he goes.

 

Think I agree with AKH about the production quality of this gumshoe series tradition in short form, over the others available, with maybe William Powell the standout exception.

Now, this is 2:23 … we then have 2:24 … then 2:25 is the key episode which to me was sad, especially with no further development of the idea. There’s one more in this UHC run … 2:29, regarded by some as one of the best. The atmosphere of those days was well captured by Peter Gunn.