Two ways to go in this slot whilst I zip off and do some necessaries … either run twenty minutes of music I simply do not have yet, not even jazz for later … which is an auditory experience … whilst you zip off and do some necessaries … or else this visual expeience, which does require you to just relax with your tea, coffee or something stronger.
Just a warning for our jazzerati later … probably going to do three goodies from Tuba Skinny … today’s getting busy now, no time to explore.
Yes, we have had this below before and it was nice:
This is the eastern side of the garden last summer; between the two sides of the garden is grass and fruit trees. It is there where I receive my visitors [Late Autumn 2024.]
During the summer I spend many hours sitting on the patio in front of the Summerhouse relaxing and watching the grass grow.
When I arrived here 27 years ago the field was covered with brambles.
13. If it’s Nicosia, then it’s Turkish invasion pollie, innit?
So, what’s the surprise?
12. More scamming
Interesting that Elon admits AI is iffy.
11. Vancouver car into crowd situation
This one is X Grok news, 27 seconds before I started typing: “A tragic event unfolded at the Lapu Lapu Day Festival in Vancouver where an SUV drove into a crowd, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The incident occurred at a street festival at E. 41st Avenue and Fraser around 8 p.m. The driver has been taken into custody, and the investigation is ongoing to determine the details surrounding the incident.”
Poilievre writes: “I am shocked by the horrific news emerging from Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day Festival tonight. My thoughts are with the Filipino community and all the victims targeted by this senseless attack. Thank you to the first responders who are at the scene as we wait to hear more.”
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More:
The photo of the arrested man, blurred of course, seemed that of a Filipino, so the cover story would stand up … disgruntled over some local issue either in Vancouver or in the Phillipines … Them are happy with that, end of.
Two “more real, more often” reasons are cult nutters (always useful for Them) … or Manchurians (Bourne, Trump shooter, Oswald, Arlo Guthrie “you’re our boy”, Parallax View) … before we get to accidental plane crashes, Boston brakes type vehicle crashes, Sonny Bono skiing into a tree etc. Then being suicided. Take your pick.
Curious accent but follows the American pattern of ruining the narration with someone piano playing like that Python Cheese Shop bazouki playing … an apt and fitting early criticism. I found one way around it was to reduce device volume to about a third … his voice still audible, the bleedin’ piano less intrusive.
Following discussions over the past two days here at the unherdable conglomerate, here’s another ethical issue. The video is one of many I’ve saved to run in our “post-politics” feature slots and it’s a good one … music level behind narration not unbearable, politically fairly neutral.
It goes with the holocaust being as portrayed in the 30s/40s, and I for one do go with it being at least historical to an indeterminate point … but it then branches into the differences between Ashken v Sephard, from health to food dishes.
The company it’s keeping is with how glass is made, how Stilton cheese is made and others … yet I don’t run it embedded here simply because the whole topic is a flashpoint, so with that warning, here tis.
9. Lord Toby at TDS
”Ed Miliband’s brazen claim that UK electricity prices are high because of gas – even though over half the cost comes from renewables charges – confirms him as the UK’s major source of Net Zero disinformation.”
8. Bea Johannsen
“BlackRock has a significant shareholding in Serco and also controls its pension fund. Was migrant housing one of the topics of discussion with Starmer and Rayner recently – notes of which No.10 refuses to publish?”
This is not unlike the Templar story in some respects (Wiki version):
“King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Molay and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March, 1314.”
Templar banksters roamed Europe with free passage lending or gifting moneys for wars in the main, Philip got greedy, did not ustd with whom he was really dealing, Templars went underground, sailing to Malta, Scotland, other places … veneer of The Cross, actually a double cross of Mammon.
In WW2, senior Nazis escorted Rothschild out of Germany. That area from Milan to Bavaria, inc. Genoa and Venice, were always the hotbed of Mammon. Includes Davos. And Rome further south on the peninsula.
Bea was actually writing about the current Serco issue of rental properties. One of her readers, “Maggie”, wrote:
“Serco control illegal immigrants. As they do of Prison transfers,food etc,also security people at these now hostels. Saw things when I was out shopping today, Frodsham places closed early before the illegals come out & prowl about. Beautiful Cheshire village being destroyed.”
7. Barron Trump reports, at his X account
“President Trump has officially warned Barack Obama to stay out of America’s foreign affairs or else face charges for violating the Hatch Act”
6. DAD at 1032
a) Tens of thousands of irish patriots rally in Dublin against ill*gal-migr**t influx
bi) Rennes. According to Ouest-France, for about six months, the daily lives of residents of Bellangerais, north of Rennes, have been undermined by gangs of very young teenagers, some under 12
bii) Rennes: According to France 3 Régions, two shots around 6:51 a.m., outside Le Mango nightclub on Rue du Noyer in the southeast industrial zone. Man in his thirties, hit in the knee by 12-gauge shotgun
c) Senior civil servant Céline Cléber has published Douce France (Toucan), a political fiction novel under pseudonym, in which France is “gradually falling under the blows of a small minority of violent extremists,” while “the authorities, paralyzed by fear, are unable to stem the conflict.”
5. This was from earlier yesterday
Update is that Clemson has now pulled the wording, now two genders.
4. Steve at 1032
Rice [hissy fit]
Alarm About Massive Student Loan Debt, Young People Not Joining Workforce
Archbishop Viganò Interview That Was Pulled
Trump Speaks Out Following Meeting with Zelensky – NYT Dishonest Reporting
USDA New Verification Rules on Food Stamps
Wisconsin Judge Says She Won’t Allow ICE to Take Anyone
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine and Russian regions
Russian Armed Forces Сompletely Liberate Kursk region
New study finds risk of getting flu is higher after vaccination
(0328) Cunning plan is finish the hunting and gathering of stories … one via me below and one from Toodles. For me then … shuteye again till maybe 0730. Night night for now. (0343)
“One email exchange shows that Former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik was brought in to assist with public relations issues on June 28, 2016, the day after the tarmac meeting. (Kadzik is a longtime friend of John Podesta and a Hillary Clinton donor, who was criticized as being conflicted when he was assigned as the Justice Department attorney to oversee the probe of Hillary Clinton’s and her aide Huma Abedin’s emails found on Anthony Wiener’s computer.)
Melanie Newman, director of the Justice Department Public Affairs Office, sent an email to Richard P. Quinn, former national security assistant special agent, and Michael P. Kortan, who is currently the assistant director for Public Affairs for the FBI, advising them she wanted to “flag a story” about “a casual, unscheduled meeting between former President Bill Clinton and the AG.” And she provides the AG’s talking points.”
2. You wear Nike by any chance?
Nike is funding a study to give children injectable hormones and puberty blockers Riley Gaines “Nike, the shoe brand, the athletic wear brand, is doing medical experimentation on minors” Nike is “funding a study that disfigures young boys to understand if they can be physically impaired enough to compete with girls without significant retained male advantage” “The study is being funded by Nike, and Nike has yet to answer to this. They have spent days now avoiding all reporters and journalists asking them if this is true and why they’re engaging in this.
1. You saw the attack on away-from-London rental landlords
… and thereby tenants, by the govt … total nightmare for anyone renting … I ran the towns hit at OoL … did not link here. Saw this too:
“US Secret Service just escorted a motorcade with what appears to be US military officials, including a US General, inside the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. Police and @SecretService just blocked off the road and sidewalk to the embassy entrance. This comes just hours after President Trump met with Ukrainian President this morning at the Vatican.
Thursday morning we went for a walk and I saw a gorgeous bank of primroses, so I had to take a photo for you all.
And the day before, I’d noticed that our ornamental cherry tree, which is blossoming like crazy, had a little bunch of flowers near the base of the trunk. No branch, just a bouquet of flowers. It looked very cute:
(1245) Afternoon all … no cunning plan as yet, RL things being sorted, no film yet but might be later. (1308)
15. The blighting of Blighty
14. Redacted’s linked article in comments had this
“Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is the Democrats’ Robespierre. He is promising his own reign of terror when his party recaptures Congress in the 2026 “midterm” election. Norm Eisen is his chief lawyer and legal strategist. His sole aim is to recapture power in order to restore the Democrats’ the Democrats’ sadistic regime of thought-control and the money- flows that feed it. That’s where things stand for the moment. You can sense how this tension is tending toward something that looks like civil war.”
13. IYE corner
a. “Where’s the Lists?” Mwerx not optimistic today.
JH: Link in comments. Fair warning … the front picture is vile so I can’t run the YT embedded here.
b. Enfant @buse scandal surrounding French PM
JH: Another where I’d best not open or run the link here.
IYE requested and naturally we’d concur … this would be the criterion … “that which cannot be unseen” … for me it would be when X pundits insist on something or someone vile, such as that bald Sam character in lipstick … and our rule here at Unherdables is … “preferable not to run it but if it must be … for essential contextual, rather than for horror/sensational reasons … then plenty of adequate warning, in order to allow people escape routes, must be given to readers.
This was IYE’s text:
Dear Mr H
I would like to request, if I may, that any tweets, videos, photos, sound recordings etc with any violent scenes/ sounds come with a warning upfront signalling the content so that the reader is forewarned what is contained therein and can then decide whether they want to risk exploring further. As has been stated often by your good self and others, some things once seen cannot be unseen.
There are certain news outlets online that like to use shock and clickbait tactics. NO in all its forms has never to the best of my knowledge done that intentionally. If the Tavern is to remain a safe haven it needs its safeguards. In-yer-face violence is not something I wish to see at any time of day or night. That doesn’t mean denying it exists it means protecting oneself from psychological trauma.
Thank you for reading,
Sincerely, IYE
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Ok, what I think is going down these days is that we’re all, to a point, in shellshock and people react differently to a steady diet of vileness and horror … most recoil, avoid, but some become first inured to it and then get into it bigtime, become sickos themselves. Some are traumatised, esp. children.
Many I know develop gentility, enjoy gardens, vistas, flowers and I try to run suchlike here between the mention of horrors. On X, my input/retweets are half the genteel topics, half the horrors … it’s easy to differentiate.
