Yes, I’ve been Van der Valking a bit because it’s a slice of our lives, the early 70s and early 90s … the episode already shown here was 1972 and this is 1992 … much water had been passed under the bridge inbetween.
The episode I clicked out of quickly, from series five, the final series of three, had VdeV trying to team up with an offsider, not unlike with Morse … they’re trying it as well below with greater success … plus they’ve put VdeV’s screen son in this … a youngish, more brash version of dad … jury’s out but methinks it would have worked, had they given it a few more episodes.
By doing it this way, father and son at some distance from one another, each with his own team (entourage), wife in a strange middling position … there were far more characters to get a line on, esp. in the plot, which involves members of a city firm, plus their family members.
One major plus of this short fifth series is location shots around Amsterdam … usually a lovely addition to a show, pity about the film copy (feature length by the 90s). For some reason, reviews of series four, after a good start, were fairly ordinary … this is rated better but maybe they were attempting too much … jumping the shark?
One thing methinks they avoided fairly well in this one was DEI, perversions … it was mainly adultery in this one, also starting to portray men as either violent or weak, women as strong, except when they break.
Still trying to get a handle on the early 90s … clearly once Blair arrived, it fell apart in the UK but I was overseas, so missed the second half in the west. What were you doing?
7. Interesting (pour moi) about these two seventies bands
The good die young? For me, “glam” rock was an excrescence at worst, ok I suppose at best … Slade I never got into, nor bands like Sweet, Strawbs, Queen, Oasis, boy bands (girl music) … but to a point liked Free and Bad Company … my tee shirts were Ramones and Stranglers, which gives you an idea, liked Splodginessabounds too.
Having said all that, I wasn’t crazy for punk punk, e.g. Johnny Rotten, unless it was both driving and highly melodic, with harmonies … the Ramones did that with California Sun, Do You Wanna Dance, Swallow My Pride. This below was, imho, classic Ramones, dressed as young street males should have dressed, not that *&£#£&*-y stuff with Slade etc.
(0657) Sun just struggling up now in this neck of the woods. (0752)
7. Tide is turning? Civil war looming?
6. TDS today
5. These are the people bussing protesters
… inc. paid agitators and terrorists … to demonstrations:
4. Steve at 1013
Laura Loomer Uncovers Another Shocking Conflict of Interest Involving Obama Judge Who Is Threatening to Jail Trump Officials
European Commission Paid Millions to ‘Environmental Associations’ for Targeted Campaigns To Smear Political Opponents
Colorado House Democrats Pass Bill That Allows State to Seize Children from Their Parents if They “Misgender”
Billionaire Bill Ackman Makes Compelling Case for President Trump’s Tariff Strategy: “I Wouldn’t Bet Against Him”
Journalist Says Democratic Party is in Even Worse Shape Now Than it Was
Zelensky Will Try To Hold On To Power With Surprise Election In July
US Neocons Sabotage Russia Talks, Stop Putin Call
Big Rx gravy train hits the skids under Trump
UK government is replacing government with private corporations
Rupert Lowe will do what the UK government won’t – hold a national inquiry into Muslim rape gangs
Much more.
3. DAD at 1013
a) “No one trusts you Macron. You are duplicitous….”
b) Anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt, whose case was championed by the White House over free speech concerns, has been convicted of breaching a ‘buffer zone’ outside an abortion clinic and ordered to pay costs of £20,000.
c) Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify. *
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*Excuse my French, my swearing on a Sunday morn, but bloody good stuff … well done, Pete H.
They were there in passing, often within someone’s reply … still worth showing … no urls, you’ll just have to guess the topic:
Quick notation here … if you’d like to quote from this item later, please apply your own lettering, even if I’ve not physically put it between sub-items, sshots. For example, say you wanted to put a comment elsewhere, quoting Kelvin MacKenzie, then it’s far easier to just write “Sun 2c” or after a few days, maybe “Apr 6, HQ, 2c”.
If you’d like readers to know to what you’re referring, then you need to signpost well. With some of you, the unherdable defiance kicks in and you simply do NOT wish to following any signposting method I seem to lock you into … fine, fine … as long as your own method is clear to readers.
1. The issues with capturing, gathering, collating
This is for all “droppers”, article writers, long commenters, short commenters at HQ, from the “chief cook and bottle washer” here. Every so often I must bore you with procedural things … but needs must.
First issue is that sources are so often snippets … and though I’m loathe to edit, a high sounding term for censor, often that source material contains insta-triggers for censorious bots which govt and platform providers put out to trap and trigger swat teams and/or close down sites, delete posts etc. etc. etc.
Against that, there is the rightfully seething anger in sane people … those in the land who can observe what’s going on and are clearly being provoked by bad players, let’s call them. Straight to Roger Scruton again:
Now I’m terribly sorry to our good droppers here but this is very, very real and bad players are poised to scan and troll, to censor on the slightest pretext … much of it coming down to the pundit’s “reach”. There is also a time factor … I find much which is fluttering by, ephemerally, I capture, post, the page changes … chances are that if you don’t get it the first time, then it stays ungotten.
Point of all this? For us to stick around, we do have to learn to euphemise. Yes, for sure, it’s more pure and honourable to shout it in all its anger, calling a spade a spade, but that’s also a surefire way for Them, not me, to block you, block me … and send round the boys early morn.
Second issue is simply technical … look first at this quote from the leftwing Quora and commenter Brian Overland, March 12th:
“There certainly have been some actors who are not nice people and have been difficult to get along with (or have the reputation of being that way). HOWEVER, I suspect that truly psychopathic actors who are fine actors tend to be rare. Because… acting, perhaps more than any other activity, depends on the ability to be able to imagine what it FEELS like to be in another person’s shoes.
Consequently, I would expect a really gifted actor to frequently have the thought, “I can understand why a person might feel that way.”
Now, what is the state of being a psychopath? I’ve learned that it is not the condition of being evil or dangerous, necessarily. It is a neurological condition that makes it harder to empathize deeply with another person.
People with this “neural atypical” condition CAN (if properly raised) be law-abiding citizens and avoid harm to other people… basically they have been raised to clearly understand long-term consequences. Deep empathy may come more slowly to these people than others, but they can be raised to be good citizens.”
To capture those words and get them to the stage of “fair use” took me nigh on half an hour just now … just for the quote alone. Yet I can capture whole, page long screeds from other sources in under three minutes. Why? Technical barriers … one who puts them in is Miles Mathis, another is Corey, Quora certainly do it, so do any using a “block” system of text, rather than just an ordinary copy and paste.
I also nearly forgot the author and date. Always assume here at HQ … that if unstated, it’s at least this current month and current year … if not, I’ll try to signpost that. The law itself changes the whole time regarding everything from copyright to defamation but “fair use” still applies. It’s a constant battle for any serious pundit.
Thirdly, there is the nuisance of amateurs with not a clue about typeface size, for example:
White on black is awful, technically, as is huge typeface … ordinarily, I’d go to text for that but this was just to illustrate. Also, any screenshot has quite a chance of containing trigger words which bots look for … if you tried it in comments, you might be blocked by the machine, almost never by me, myself, I.
I’m thinking, dear reader/dropper, that you’re getting the drift, yes. Free speech? Well of course but at the risk of being snuffed out early? Does an officer in the field of battle wear a top hat and neon sign saying “boss here, sitting target”?
Sometimes the outraged pundit, e.g. dear young Charlie Bentley-Astor, girl journo, one of the upcoming finest or else thirty month jailbird, renders her copy nearly unusable because it’s peppered with hurty trigger words. Ok, nuff for now on this. …/END.
For some strange reason, not as weary at this time of evening as usual … even seeing Steve posting at NOWP. There was an exchange with this narrowboat gal on X who, if not psychic, certainly feels changes to the atmosphere:
There is that feeling about and it’s been a weird day, from structural mini-calamities in our abode to zero really new political things to report on, to going into X this evening and the timeline being flooded by people seemingly losing their minds … just as Yuri B predicted in the mid-80s.
Think it was compounded by massed, paid-for, bussed-in protesters which even “our” side seemed to think needed covering … I just clicked out. What I was doing instead was checking out possible films and even some Van der Valk … there were two possibles but then I thought I might check out the very late episodes before Thames lost its contract … in fact the last episode of all.
It certainly showed far more of Amsterdam, the plot was more complex, the cast varied, the issue of water barriers and corruption in high places was prescient … however but but but and it was a big but, a deal breaker … they had someone brought in to work with VderV, which was all right in itself by me … I knew, despite the spelling of the first name, they were trying to disguise it … that it would be a young woman … that much DEI I can handle if she’s good, plus it fits to a point.
So I kept watching this movie length finale until the supergirl would appear. When she did, I clicked straight out … she was not even half Dutch nor Euro in the least and a Dutch senior officer would have been in February, 1992. She simply did not fit, was quite miscast … full-on miscast.
It was not unlike if, say, they were making a film about Joe Louis … you’d not expect Bruce Lee nor Riley Gaines in the role, however well those two might play characters within their own fields. You’d not cast me as Snow White.
Yet that’s what they were starting to do … the politics was intruding far more … it had deep left overtones which were sickening, they made it unwatchable in 2025, given the current state of the west.
16. Steve at 1013 and war room
Col. John Mills On South Korea Removing Anti-CCP President
Mina Kim Breaks Down What’s Really Happening in South Korea. The Coup d’Etat and Takedown
Ed Dowd: The Last Few Years Of The Biden Economy Was Fraud Fueled By Illegal Immigration
“We Are Getting Close To A Massive Recovery” Ed Dowd On The Leverage Behind Trump Tariffs
Van der Valk has one of the most iconic themes … Simon Parke’s Eye Level … plus it was a good concept … Barry Foster was ok, his screen wife drop dead gorgeous, the plots generally ok, up and down, it was in that Morse and Bergerac genre of the time.
This episode, unfortunately, though well plotted and well cast, well acted … could not run the theme tune without YT interference, with other dropouts here and there, as well as only reasonable picture quality. Worth it? Oh yes, I’d say so … fun, if regulation.
(1318) Afternoon all … just back from an action packed morn, plus I was right out of politics we’d not done a half dozen times already. As for the action … well, a burst waterpipe was part of it, house meeting etc. and then long talk with MMutR. Came back online and there was the Sat 11 item right there. (1410)
15. What’s the backstory here?
14. CIA docs released by Homeland Security
… confirm that Adolph did leave Germany for Argentina and other parts:
There are three main narratives either clashing or complementing one another.
The first is the Mullins’ and G Edward Griffin’s line, which includes the money power in Britain, also Warburg from Germany, with the Creature from Jeckyl Island in 1910 … very hush hush.
Second is the Titanic in 1912 in which four moneymen were booked onboard but only three went, one stayed ashore. All were involved in the Fed shenanigans but it seems these three had gone agin the plan. I’ve heard that one from different directions.
Third is the DTJ take in the video, which differs a bit but also essentially confirms the first two in many but not all ways … which is what he is doing right now … reversing the money power in deep ways … and tariffs are part of it.
Now, in US Presidential history, other than Washington/Jefferson, the real challenges to The Power planned by uppity Presidents were Jackson, with the Second Bank of the United States, Lincoln and Kennedy, all of whom attempted major changes on behalf of “we the people”.
Three others unsung in this respect were Woodrow Wilson who sold America out in 1913 under the control of Colonel House, Roosevelt did likewise over gold, plus Biden under Obama’s control.
Yesterday, one of the many items coming through was a youtube on “signs to look out for in your loved one’s final year”. It was aimed squarely at the grown children and grandchildren not aware of gramps’ slowly fading memory, tendency to sleep etc. To the young poster, as he spoke in soft, kindly tones, it meant that it was gramps’ last year, no doubt of it, so ease him or her out with close support.
What was left unsaid was that now the family could get their hands on the inheritance without having to wait. Awesome in its audacity. The whole tone was of a wokeleft branch of the deep state pumping out the “preparing boomers to die” … obvious rejoinder of course: “I may just surprise you.”
It anticipated people like me who were obviously going to scroll along from heading to heading … it had no headings, just a captioned text continuum but every so often, he’d suddenly say that if you liked that point, please subscribe below.
The points included tiredness, sleeping, loss of muscle mass, forgetfulness … all of which meant, to him, it was the final year. Now, it still might be the final year because of the “murder gramps in hospital” policy in the globopsycho west, plus digital ID, govt stealing personal savings in the EU to fund megaprojects overseas … and so on. WWIII.
Even were youtube down on such things, how would they know some line had been breached, unless they sat through it.
