There are two versions of this at hand … this one had the “cracklier” sound but the better picture, the other the reverse. On the other hand, I’ve had a report that some films are not crossing the ocean well. This might also be so for songs … imagine going to that trouble and some readers across the oceans or our ditch can’t watch them.

(1129) Another burst of “news”. (1139)

 

15. More horror for the ladies (and for some of us men too, just quietly)

14. Tell us about it, Sophie

13. Burnham’s “uplift on death”

12. Vaxx death

11. Russia parliamentary elections

 

Another claim to have the solution … worth it just for the detail, either way.

(0817) Morning again. Major post up at OoL and Jstack. (0831)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Big Pharma … why would they learn anything good?

8. Enoch Burke

7. Explains itself methinks

6. It’s going to need the army or marines

 

(0514) Dark out there. (0551) Becoming sort of light, dark, wall to wall clouds. (0557)

 

5. One for Brits

4. Steve at 1469

• Republicans Lose Deep-Red Pennsylvania House Seat Held for 30 Years — Trump Won District by 18 Points — Butler County, Site of Trump Assassination Attempt Decided by Just 88 Votes
• Alex Vindman, Key Architect of the Trump Impeachment and Ukraine Hoax, Gets Destroyed in Florida Democratic Primary by Nutty Socialist
• Paramount Board Approves Plan to Ditch California as Texas Courts Hollywood Giant
• Fauci’s Former Advisor David Morens Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States by Hiding COVID Origin Records and Evading FOIA
• Spread Thin: Russia Opens New Fronts Faster Than Ukraine Can Close Them
• Garlic Consumption May Lower Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar
• Comcast is rolling out identification of who is in your home using your internet router
• Much more.

3. Dearborn and Minneapolis

The first is about the bikers protecting the protest march (apparently Christian protest march) … item later on that … the second, about Chauvin … why now? Another question is why not now … yes … but why now?

2. DAD right on cue at 1469

a) Iran has assessed options for attacking US military assets in Europe should the US escalate its confrontation with Tehran, according to people close to the Iranian regime cited by the Financial Times.

b) Rome clashes with Berlin over German NGOs helping Illeg@l Migration

Italy argues that Germany demands that Italy assume responsibility because it was the first European country of entry, while German organisations such as Sea-Watch, Sea-Eye, SOS Humanity and Mission Lifeline have spent years carrying out operations in the central Mediterranean and subsequently disembarking those they rescue at Italian ports.

c) ‘I have trouble behaving around girls’ – Palestinian migrant convicted for sexually assaulting 15-year-old French girl on a bus While testifying in court, Ahmed said he was attracted to her “at first sight.”

d) Wartime elections are demanded in the Ukraine.

Pressure that elections be held in war-torn Ukraine is this time coming neither from Washington nor Moscow, but from within Ukraine’s own political system. Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as defence minister in July, has called on the country to find a way to return to the ballot box even while the war continues.

e) Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to concealing documents on Covid origins.

1. Opening with an unusual one here

It was a meme asking where’s the Boeing 757?

(1534) Good mid afternoon, chaps and chapesses.

 

15. A cautionary tale

Scene is a Russian republic near the Volga, late 90s, approaching summer holidays, thousands booking their place in the camps, Butlinesque. Not cheap, even for two weeks, but it’s the annual hols, innit?

Someone in govt decides that hundreds of Somalian yoof will come for a six week holiday instead, so all resident bookings are cancelled, the various huts now to be full of Somalians. Citizens … no summer holiday, unless they have dachas, gardens.

Two weeks after they arrive, every last Somalian is out of the country. Wonder why. The Russkies must be creasing themselves with laughter over the US situation in 2026.

14. Farrar, Farage … similar sounding names

… but different dodginess.

As news breaks of Jeremy Farrar's resignation from the WHO, here is a reminder that The Wellcome Trust, the UK charity led by Farrar in 2020/2021, "supported' the fraudulent Proximal Origins paper, funded the infamous Imperial College London 'lockdown until vaccination paper',… pic.twitter.com/0xyqCFAnf9

— Molly Kingsley (@lensiseethrough) August 19, 2026

13. Toxic mascuwimpishness

12. The cost of healthcare

11. Fraud and officialdom

10. Moo corner

9. Steve at OoL

Who could it be now?

8. Eggs and salmonella

Indeed … and why is free range not really free range but industrial?

7. The planned water crisis

6. Bad Enough, the anchor babe

 

Don’t know much about this one:

 

Steve had supplied The Norwood Builder but I understand it was not viewable outside of the UK … or at least not in North America. Maybe that will be so with this one too … The Dancing Men. It will take us through most of elevenses. Film this afternoon.

 

I found this most interesting, even if it’s about American towns and stops … the narration was to the point, the infernal background noise (inflicted as mood music) was tolerable … it was … interesting imho.