FRIDAY MUSIC: Classic Hits, part 7, by JD

 The CASCADES-Rhythm Of the Rain

Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)

My Girl - The Temptations (1964) (HD Quality)

Everly Brothers - Cathy’s Clown [Americana] HD

Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly (Muhammad Ali’s 50th Birthday)

Billy Roberts “Hey Joe”-

This is the very first recording of the song “Hey Joe”, ever made. It is a home demo recording by the song’s writer, Billy Roberts. The song has a long and complicated history regarding it’s authorship, but this is the absolute first version ever recorded, in 1961/62.

(Editor’s note: for even earlier roots please see this 2020 post on Broad Oak Magazine)

You suffer from COVID

That is, Censorship Of Valid Informative Discussion.

There are things that may not be discussed and awkward types who do so will be de-platformed and persecuted.

Take Dr Vernon Coleman for example. He is a retired GP and was a prolific and widely read journalist as well as successful author of fiction and non-fiction. Until he came out as a Covid dissenter in 2020. Now look: he is banned e.g. not only from posting on YouTube (which he did for years) but even from looking at it.

He is not completely an unperson - his name is still there on the Net - so the Narrative will poison the wells ahead of your quest to find him. Here is the opening paragraph about him on Wikipedia:

If only there were some easy way of collecting all reviews like this - it would make a handy guide to getting recommendations for reading about interesting people.

Anther man and issue is the comedy writer Graham Linehan, who controversially holds that men are not women. Wikipedia doesn’t quite do the boot-in-the-balls-and-strangle-him thing, but carefully includes this para compiling quotes from media tpes who know which hymn sheet to sing from:

There, be warned about an obsessive has-been.

Next after Covid-19 and transgender issues comes climate change.

In 2012 an American climatologist called Michael E Mann instituted a lawsuit against the conservative writer and broadcaster Mark Steyn and ‘rightwing’ blogger (sic Wikipedia) Rand Simberg for defaming him. Mann had allegedly misrepresented climate data to warn of a “hockey stick” leap in atmospheric temperature; the supposed abuse of the truth was compared to the abuse of a child.

The case ran for twelve years - who among us would withstand the strain of such a prolonged action, surely an instance of the process itself being the punishment?

The jury compensated Mann to the tune of $1 from each defendant. They also imposed punitive damages of $1,000,000 against Steyn but this was later reduced to $5,000 when it turned out Mann and his lawyers had misled the court about what Mann had lost in grant funding:

Each knowingly made a false statement of fact to the Court and Dr. Mann knowingly participated in the falsehood, endeavoring to make the strongest case possible even if it required using erroneous and misleading information.

It may seem unfair but for me, just a look at Mann’s photo on the Wiki page tells a story:

There are many other areas of public interest suffering from official oppression, lying and obfuscation: mass immigration, systematic child abuse, the alleged ‘genocide’ in Gaza, Ukraine…

Distraction, too: Some say that Sir Keir Starmer’s recent headline-hitting proposal to introduce digital ID was intended to drown-out the story around £740,000-worth of undeclared donations to Labour Together (LT), a think tank of which the PM’s now chief of staff Morgan McSweeney had been a director at that time.

This saga may run a long while yet as it is also germane to how Starmer rose to power. It is being pursued by Muslim convert Jody McIntyre who in last year’s General Election as a newbie Parliamentary candidate very nearly ousted Jess Phillips MP from what had previously been a very safe Labour seat. See his Twitter/X thread on LT-Gate here.

The tale is part of a bigger story, of how Labour is harming the country by pandering to a minority that seems destined to break away from its control no matter what the leadership does.

The truth is becoming elusive but those who steer us according to their preferred blinkered narrative may drive the ship onto the rocks.

We must resist “COVID”, the “Censorship Of Valid Informative Discussion.”

Extraordinary: Russell Targ on remote viewing

 Htp and thanks to JD.

Has the Labour Government targeted Nigel Farage for a rogue assassination attempt?

“Asking for a friend”…

How might it be done? Let’s look to the US for an example.

We know about two attempts on Donald Trump’s life, the first being 20-year-old Thomas Crooks’ long-distance shots at the Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024. Although Trump escaped with only a nick in his right ear the bullets actually killed an audience member and injured two others.

Following that incident people asked about what looked like lax security. The photo here shows agents clustering protectively around the Presidential candidate but you will see that brave as the female agent is she was not tall enough to shield him fully - Trump is six foot three. One more head shot might have changed history. The same article quotes a bystander who says he and others had spotted Crooks on a rooftop several minutes beforehand and tried to alert police, who seemed confused and slow to react.

All this in the context of years-long blackguarding of Donald Trump not only in left-leaning media - how about “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” ? -but by politicians such as Hillary Clinton (remember Reno?)

So, here and now: Farage.

Zia Yusuf of the Reform Party has said “Two weeks ago [mid-September], the authorities reduced Nigel’s security detail by 75 per cent.”

Mr Yusuf went on to accuse Sir Keir Starmer of embarking on the “most extraordinary, unprecedented vicious and coordinated set of demonisation attacks and incitement of violence” against the Reform UK leader.

He added: “We have seen [Sir Keir] get 11 cabinet ministers, along with his own rhetoric, calling him racist, one of those cabinet ministers - the Home Secretary no less - called him ‘worse than racist’, the Deputy Prime Minister in an extraordinary intervention, accused Nigel of ‘flirting with Nazism.’”

Mr Yusuf told GB News that if anything were to happen to Mr Farage, he would “hold the Prime Minister responsible”.

Coming back to the Deputy Prime Minister’s “Hitler youth” slur, I noted that when challenged by BBC News, Lammy did not retract, he simply said that he accepted that Farage had denied it!

In fact the biscuit-eating oaf doubled down on his evidence-free accusation with a sinister insinuation:

“I wasn’t at school with Nigel Farage. I don’t know what songs he sang at school.”

There’s a dog-whistle, if you like. Presumably we must imagine Nigel and his pals at Dulwich College marching around the playground singing the Hitlerjugend anthem “Es zittern die morschen Knochen” (The Rotten Bones Are Trembling).

Lammy should resign of course, but should never have been appointed in the first place. He is an ignorant and unscrupulous moron.

One suspects he was carefully briefed not only on his non-retraction “clarification” but also on the original vile slur, which may have been given to him because a brighter Cabinet minister would have had to fall on his/her sword if it became a serious issue. It’s a collective campaign and Lammy has been used as the mule for one of the worst bits; he may yet be forgiven by the public because he is so stupid that nobody expects anything better from him.

So, we’ve wound up the social media to fulminate against Farage; all we need is some crazy wokeist with a knife or a bomb. Or a gun, which few except criminals own these days.

And then there would be the sorrowful official reactions, like after this week’s Manchester Yom Kippur attack.

It is difficult not to think of this Government as almost evil.

FRIDAY MUSIC: Classic Hits, part 6, by JD

One Fine Day

At The Hop

BBC Proms: Booker T Jones and Steve Cropper: Green Onions

The Isley Brothers This Old Heart Of Mine

Ritchie Valens - La Bamba (Live)

Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace

Lammy has NOT backtracked

Wikipedia says 16 Labour MPs are of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Is David Lammy, appointed Deputy Prime Minister last month, really the best of them?

He was previously made Foreign Secretary even though when in Opposition he had called Donald Trump a “tyrant”, “xenophobic”, “a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer.”

Now he has said Reform’s Nigel Farage is “someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger.” The accusation is manifestly absurd not least because the Hitler Youth was disbanded at the end of WWII and Farage was born in 1964.

These are dangerous times, when self-appointed assassins have felt obliged to rid us of turbulent right-wing politicians.

So the BBC called him out on this allegation and the Deputy PM was “happy to clarify” his comment. Here is his clarification:

“He [Farage] has denied it and so I accept that he has denied it.”

Not “I accept that it was untrue and defamatory.” Not “I accept that it was a reckless and disgraceful lie and I apologise.”

Implicitly he has restated his slander.

He claims that “the prime minister is keen for us to focus on the policies not the individuals.” In other words, he could be taken to mean “it’s true, at least of Farage’s fascistic mindset, but as honourable politicians we are bound to conduct our debate on a more civilised basis.”

Unless he is willing to retract unequivocally his thoroughly unscrupulous and unprofessional slur he should resign.

Irrationality and the middle class

Professor Ed Dutton “The Jolly Heretic” has often quoted research indicating that our average IQ has been dropping for a long time, because our soft lives mean that foolish behaviour is not punished by Nature in terms of failure to survive and breed replacements.

But even today poor people have enough to do with the challenges in their daily lives and cannot afford luxury show-off beliefs. A life on benefits is no joke and even a small financial setback can throw a family into panic.

The middle class have much less excuse for stupid actions. Looking at the sort of people who adopt and protest fashionable causes that are ill-supported by logic one wonders how seemingly intelligent and well-educated people can behave so, and with such fanaticism.

Our population may be getting stupider on average but one wonders whether that element of the middle class that glues itself to roads, throws soup on paintings, marches in support of mass murderers, neuters itself or its children etc may be getting dafter faster than the underclass.

The Jolly Heretic tells me he is unaware of any research to show this but the suspicion remains.

Is there any longitudinal study of IQ by social class and sub-groupings?