Sunday [1 to 5]

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5. Faced with a claim about Emhoff on Gab

… Guess who has the biggest investment in the lithium mine industry in North Carolina? Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala’s husband.

… what does a pundit initially do? Check Wiki of course … subject avoided. Failing that and still on p1 of ggl, from whom you’d expect similar, some snippets do emerge:

… Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, could profit from Hurricane Helene due to his investments in Albemarle Lithium Mines in North Carolina …

… Emhoff has financial ties to companies like Piedmont Lithium, a fact that should concern all Americans. While his wife advocates for clean …

… Kamala Harris’ husband, has very strong ties to lithium mining. He is one of the largest investors in North Carolina …

So that puts us in the realm of confirmation bias, yet those appeared on ggl first page on Emhoff. Plus other things we’ve run. The obvious question is what to about it? Well vote for starters.

Reminds me a bit of Teapot Dome scandal.

4. David Vance on One Direction

HERE

Now I am of a generation that was all but oblivious to the music of the boy band that made him famous – One Direction. Liam’s life ended a few days ago (“fell off”) balcony.

He goes on to say:

People will make their own minds up about Cowell. To my mind, the Music Industry itself is corrupt and Satanic. I have no idea what sacrifices are made of those who make it to the top but the smell of sulphur is always present.

Well yes. The exact circumstances, no one’s saying but clearly lost inside, as was Roy Orbison and the various Beatles, so many others … Kristofferson accused by a few of being a vicious abuser, Swift we’ve covered, that Canadian woman, plus Whitney Houston … dark doings … that Diddy creature, Jimmy Page, Dylan … goes on and on.

3. Kathy wakes up ConWom (excerpt)

Like most people I’d got so wrapped up in the iniquities of Stalinist Starmer’s post-Southport ‘swift justice’, his blatant hypocrisy and greed, his winter fuel allowance cruelty and his net zero nightmare (to say nothing of the tax bomb about to fall) that I lost sight of the bigger picture. But the fact is Starmer doesn’t care what anyone thinks of his first 100 days. He doesn’t need to.

Kathy then links to “consolidation of the Blairites”.

2. DAD at 849

a) Keen to shed light on the dysfunctions that led to the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist on October 16, 2020, his sister, an anesthetist nurse, has just published a book.

b) Schengen is dead, but not forgotton. France has announced the reintroduction of temporary border controls with Luxembourg and five neighbouring countries from 1 November 2024 to 30 April 2025, highlighting growing security concerns in Europe.

c) The Italian right-wing [sic] government has said it intends to continue to pursue plans to examine asylum applications outside the EU, despite a legal defeat over the processing of the first group of migrants that arrived at Italy’s new camps set up in Albania.

d) The Mail reports: Girl, 17, with suspected autism faces 12-match ban from her football team for asking adult transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’

1. Over at Churchmouse (blogrolls, Scriblerus first column)

… Dearieme wrote:

I’ve just seen a fascinating little story. What is to become of the expelled people of the Chagos islands who do not want to live under the Mauritian jackboot? Apparently HMG is considering settling them on St Helena. But they have consulted neither the Chagossians nor the government of St Helena.

CM replied (excerpt):

I have not seen the article about resettling them on St Helena. That is shocking! There is nothing there, other than the governor’s house. That was why the British chose it for Napoleon’s exile, at which time there was no governor’s house. Pure punishment for Napoleon.

These are supposed to be historically oppressed persons of colour (POCs). The great tragedy is that they are being further oppressed by a powerful man who is himself a POC. Furthermore, this man is courting an internationally known oppressor, the Chinese. Last I knew, the Chinese did not look particularly kindly on POCs.

Oh, the sad, sad irony of it all. Lammy has said during the Chagos statement and debate that not everyone — meaning the Chagossians — agrees on what should be done. However, by saying that, he is indicating that Labour do not really care about the needs and wants of the Chagossians. Incidentally, Lammy considers himself to be a practising Anglican. That’s something else to add to the mix. Agree that Labour are frightful at governing.

I still do not understand why that land is being given to Mauritius. They never had an empire. From what I know, the Spanish had the Chagos islands centuries ago, then ceded them to the Dutch, who ceded them to the French, who ceded them to the British. Feel free to correct my history.

Saturday [17 till close of play]

(1701) Evening all.

 

20. Call me thick

… but I’m obviously missing some element in this quest. Why did the sax die out in popular music … because it all sort of coincided.

Been reading heaps about how rhythm n blues or rock was dealt a few death blows, not just Buddy Holly’s demise but other setbacks as well, to the point that by 1959 it had been strangled out, replaced by what the record labels wanted … soft Dion, Del Shannon smoothery … Lemon Pipers, Donovan, taking kids right away from the raw sound of Fats Domino, Little Richard, even Mitch Rider.

And guitars took over, which I find comparatively boring, except bass. The rhythm, the funk, the danceability disappeared, the romance of dance too … the two partners entwined, as in tango.

And it coincided with the removal of the saxophones … not just the Beatles were guilty in The Invasion but even Chuck Berry … I don’t think it was the kids changing … I think it was record labels and those controlling them, determined to change kids’ tastes in a sugarcoated way … Cliff Richard. This below was one of the last raw songs in 1961/2:

Just been reading how Chubby Checker was shunned by the R&RHofF … why? He stormed the world but they were determined, Them … take a look at CC’s wife … still with her I believe … could that be a reason? There just seem powerful forces involved. And it’s not as if people don’t like joyful, danceable songs:


In the early 80s, it did come back but then got swamped in turn by glam and techno:

Just seems to me that joy is one thing not allowed now, not to people’s tastes, affected, indoctrinated by Them above.

(2151) Further thoughts … I wonder how much the intention to flood kids with drugs … Woodstock, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds … came into it … sax music wrong for the hallucinating, uncool, needed to be dystopic as it is today, no fun allowed.

19. Malozadim


18. Energy policy insanity


17. Steve and the war room at 848

a. Natalie Winters Reads Prison Statement From Stephen K. Bannon | 

b. Sam Faddis: “We Are Designing For The Chinese The Fighters That Will Win The War Against Us” | 

c. Nate Hochman Discusses The Haitian Migrant Crisis Taking Place In Charleroi, Pennsylvania | 

d. Noor Bin Ladin On Globalist Elites: “Their Utopia Is Our Dystopia” |

Saturday [16]

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16. Weather

Here’s Catania, which I know well, having been there quite a few times:

And in Limony, en Ardèche:

Uh huh … and in Liverpool?

Map shows ‘wall of rain’ as danger to life ‘likely’ in Storm Ashley’s 80mph winds, Met Office warns

There is “a good chance” of power cuts in that area which could affect mobile phone coverage and buildings will probably be damaged

Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said on Friday evening: “At the time of recording, Storm Ashley is on the other side of the Atlantic and a relatively shallow area of low pressure.

“It deepens rapidly as it gets picked up by the jet stream during Saturday and ends up as a particularly deep area of low pressure, with a widespread swathe of gales and wind gusts in excess of 60mph for many western and northern parts of the country.”

Uh huh-huh. Here’s our forecast today:


To be a tad more honest, this is us tomorrow morn:

Wish I’d understood

… just how much inventiveness had gone into engineering even relatively simple 50s/60s songs … as yoof, we just enjoyed them, even the reversed lyrics, the obvious tricks … but it was only after seeing this tech analysis of Rain (below) did I really start to understand what it took.

The Beatles fab version itself, imho their best song

Grace Haylor’s multi-instrumental version … also fab in its own way

Many reviewers keep referring to the drumming and bass on that song and as a devotee of good bass, I was on clover.

As for Grace H … I’ve been with and/or seen hundreds of girls over the years of immense talent, which Grace H has in full measure … but I do suspect another influence in there and my best guess is daddy influence, as in “would do anything for daughter”, just as it should be. This was borne out in one of her duets with dad … cough, best he stick to engineering and producing.

Anyway, here she is on two other great choices from the era:

… and here:

Which brings us finally to the era … I was way too young to understand just how innocent it was compared to the vile things now. Don’t think we were simple and innocent in our aspirations … we were into anything going … and yet, comparatively, it was innocent, safe … free!

Saturday [7 to 12]

(0907) Bleah out there, the sky. (1026)

12. EU – US


11. Bananas

This might possibly apply only to the US:


10. TDS (url in blogrolls)


9. DAD at 848:2

China’s property crisis is expected to get worse as sales of new homes plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. (Video)

8. Just on the related subject of Christianity


7. Nothing whatever to say about Laura Dodsworth

https://www.thefreemind.co.uk/p/rebel-hearts-a-second-marriage-is

Clearly that’s her biz, as one of the 40% (her stats) … I can only pray that things sort themselves out on the marriage front … besides, my own messes in the past are hardly a position from which to preach.

Goodge Street and Ike

 

 Yerkes keeps on “bussin'”

One thing about Jago is that he’s oblivious to any history or politics apart from London railways and that of selected other British stations, he has no concept of the mess which is HS2 and he makes statements such as, “There’s little difference between literacy rates then and now.”

Gulp … pardon? With literacy taking a backseat to Wokism in today’s schools, plus the massive influx of “guests”, the standards of the late 60s have indeed plummeted. Jago is articulate, so he had a reasonable standard of education but after that …?

Saturday [2 to 6]

(0717) Just awoke from a fine sleep, apart from the one fly buzzing around. (0817)

 

6. And lastly for this post

… a bit of light reading with your Kellogg’s breakfast this morning.

5. DAD drops for Saturday at 848

a) The Cuban energy ministry announced that the [whole] grid had gone down hours after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant had ceased operations, at about 11 a.m. local time Friday.

b) DAD – loves graphs. Violences sexuelles en France – has the increase been because of the ‘Me to’ movement making the complaints more open?

c) Vigilance in schools. One example.

d) According to the latest figures from the UK government’s National Health Service (NHS), one thousand English people are now being diagnosed with cancer every single day.

4. Some quotations to start the weekend

a.


b.


3. WaPo warning

a. Andy sent yesterday

Yeh I know it’s the Wa Po but this carries a little more information about the internet archive. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/18/internet-archive-hack-wayback/

b. Now DAD has sent, via the tom-tom grapevine

Electromagnetic waves are a disaster for some:

In 2019, he began getting sick. And then sicker. Brain fog. Memory issues. Difficulty focusing. Depression. Anxiety. Fatigue. Brandon was pretty sure he knew why: the cell tower a quarter-mile behind his shop and all the electromagnetic radiation it produces, that cellphones produce, that WiFi routers produce, that Bluetooth produces, that the whole damn world produces.

2. We open today with Juan dela Cruz

At the risk of rolled eyes:

https://www.ktiv.com/2024/10/16/over-70-iowa-farmers-help-kingsley-family-with-harvest-after-father-killed-farm-accident

KINGSLEY, Iowa (KTIV) – Back on Saturday, Oct. 5, a Kingsley man lost his life in a farming accident during the harvest season. It happened near his family’s home in rural Kingsley. Fifty-eight-year-old Dana Sitzmann was working on harvest when he was struck by an unattended wagon and suffered fatal injuries.

Less than two weeks later, a group of over 70 farmers came together to help the Sitzmann family finish the job. Chad Isminger helped coordinate the Harvest Bee and described Dana to those who didn’t know him.

Plough him into the good earth, lots of nutrients?

Via Knuckledraggin

Saturday [1]

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1. Rather than reprint Steve, I’ll point to specific sections at NOWP

    • 847:4c (Alex Chr)
    • 847:4g (Victory plan)
    • 846:7b (Merz)

    Point was made that so far, the west has been putting its own red lines, then crossing them, whilst funding and supplying the psychoClown. Merz changes the game somewhat … staunch anti Communist Catholic, viable German candidate for Chancellor in 2025 … he seems to be one of “our side” until you realise two things … firstly, he’s Merkel’s man, so what’s with this Catholic anti Communist bit? Just words?

    And secondly, he is implacable in delivering to the psychoClown Taurus missiles, capable of striking deep into Russia, crossing Russia’s final red line. I’d suggest that what we have here is a highly dangerous mix of eschatological Christian theology twisted and mixed in with neo-con-ism not seen since Stalingrad, along with brinkmanship of the Cuban missile type from 1962.

    The whole point of eschatology is that it is interpretation of endtime events, just as this post is skirting around the edges of … but not actively bringing it about, which is what Merz is in the mindset to do, twisting German populist feeling into a diabolical kill the hated Russki insanity. I’d remind those of a historical bent that Stalin, Churchill and Kennedy prevailed in those conflicts in what turned out to be quite Pyrrhic victories.

    It’s quite diabolically clever … ostensibly a man of God (Catholic), he is in fact an utter nutter, delivering planks of the globopsycho platform (communism) in depopulation, turning society against Christianity (which this nutter uses the language of but is actually playing for the other side, as are Bergoglio and Welby), plus plunging Europe into poverty, misery, atrocity and fear. Possibly the end of things but 🍿🍿🍿.

    What it also does is put the nail in the coffin of populism, of the “low tax, pro family, leave us alone to create an inheritance for our children” type … that inheritance becomes doomed Dresden.

    Oh and then there is Iran-Israel and the millions-strong male murdering and raping invaders on top of that. Yep, Globopsycho has done a grand job so far.