SATURDAY NIGHT DON McLEAN, MELEE.

Don McLean with Castles in the Air. From the 1981 album Believers, although it was actually released a decade earlier as a single.





American folk rock legend from La Rochelle, New York. This year the 'King of the Trail', who is 78, has been active for a staggering 60 years!



Mêlée with Built to Last, from their 2007 album Devils and Angels.





American rock band from Orange County in California, which formed in 2000. The band consisted of Ricky Sans, Chris Cron, Ryan Malloy and Derek Lee Rock.


Goedenacht.



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POLICE STATE GREAT BRITAIN.

The Starmer government has been in power for about two months, and it shows. Boys are being arrested for waving a British flag and grandmothers for Facebook posts.


There's a red thread - no pun intended - running from Alexandre de Moraes banning X in Brazil over Maduro, over the weaponization of justice by Dems in the US, to the arrest of Telegram founder Durov in France, the imprisonment of Dries Van Langenhove in Belgium over memes by members of his organization, the suspension of Compact Magazine in Germany by Nancy Faeser, to the downright fascist behaviour of Britain's new Labour government. In almost all of the Western world, the left has embarked on an offensive against freedom of speech. And perhaps no case is more shocking than Great Britain's:

🚨BREAKING

British boy who waved England flag outside North Yorkshire Islamic centre jailed.

UK is falling pic.twitter.com/C9Ut9CW200

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 24, 2024

Left: Killed 14-year-old British boy with a machete. Sent to prison in March, to be released in 6 months.

Right: He was jailed after shouting at a police dog during riots.

UK has fallen. pic.twitter.com/ixmcdjITM8

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 20, 2024

🚨BREAKING

A 67-year-old man has been jailed for 20 months after chanting "you're not English any more" at police officers during a violent demonstration in London.

If he had killed a 14 year old British boy with a machete, he would have been released after 6 months. pic.twitter.com/MdniioPpj2

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 19, 2024

A 26-year-old boy has been sentenced to 3 years and 2 months in prison for inciting hatred towards immigrants in the UK riots. pic.twitter.com/kZLH5yqjZH

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 10, 2024

Left: Killed 14-year-old British boy with a machete. Sent to prison in March, to be released in 6 months.

Right: Commented on Facebook during riots. Will be in prison for 20 months.

UK is falling. pic.twitter.com/4LpNw7O9w9

— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 10, 2024

Make no mistake, those arrests - shameful as they are in themselves - serve a purpose. This is PSYOPS, this is intimidation of native Britons. It's telling them that they, too, if they don't accept the Umvolkung of their country, risk being arrested.


Be all that as it may, the new Labour government is resorting only to state terror and is doing NOTHING to investigate the unrest among British people; an unrest that is the logical result of seeing their country being flooded day and night by Third World wreckage, of learning for the umpteenth time that here and there a man, or a kid, or a grandmother has been murdered by an illegal immigrant, of having to cope financially in a harsh economy while the government is spending more than 8 MILLION £ a day to house the tsunami of welfare seekers in luxury hotels...


The next riots will see Britons use firearms against their government. And who could blame them?



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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF UKRAINES INCURSION IN RUSSIA - BY JACK WATLING.

Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow - Land Warfare, Military Sciences, posits that Ukraine, fearing a not so unlikely scenario of a 2nd Trump Administration and what it implies for Ukraine per recent statements by Mr Trump - tying negotiations with Russia to end the war as a condition for further help - invaded a chunk of Russia in order to obtain a bargaining chip.

Ukraine’s extraordinary incursion into Kursk has changed the narrative of the war – but is a high-risk strategy - I write for @ObserverUK https://t.co/wVoqeriZe2 @RUSI_org

— Jack Watling (@Jack_Watling) August 17, 2024

Personally, when the 'invasion' started on August 6, I only thought it was a raid as only elements of two brigades were involved. Primarily meant in the context of a psychological war, to give the Russians a taste of discomfort, the feeling that a supposedly far weaker adversary is, in the third year of the 'special operation', still capable not only of defending itself but even of attacking its foe on its own soil. I even thought that they were not going to hold on to their gains for long.

But in the meantime, at least 6 brigades are involved and it is indeed beginning to look like the Ukrainians plan to hold on to the conquered territory - something to bargain with if indeed a Trump Administration forces the two warring parties to the negotiation table. Per Mr Watlings column in The Guardian, Saturday August 17, 2024:

"Politically, the purpose of the operation is to build leverage ahead of possible negotiations. If Donald Trump wins the US presidency in November, the threat of withdrawing military-technical assistance is likely to force Kyiv to negotiate. The Ukrainian government wants to make sure that if it has to enter that process, it has things that Russia wants to trade for concessions. The Ukrainian military, therefore, must take and hold a sizeable chunk of Russian land for the duration of potential negotiations.

Another important element of the offensive is that Ukraine succeeded in maintaining operational security before launching the assault. This has been a significant problem with past Ukrainian operations, and the competence in the preparation and planning demonstrates lessons being learned from last year’s offensive that will encourage partners about the prospects for future operations.

It helped that Russian military intelligence appears to have suffered once again from a chronic lack of curiosity or imagination as Ukrainian forces were withdrawn from the line in Donbas.

So far Ukrainian forces in Kursk have been tactically successful. Undertrained Russian infantry have again performed poorly when lacking command and control, and confronted by a manoeuvring opponent without fixed points of reference. Surrendering Russian platoons are a symptom of the poor cohesion that exemplified the Russian collapse in Kharkiv in 2022.

While the Kursk operation is politically significant, a parallel series of Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian airfields is more militarily advantageous. Russian aircraft have been central to both the long-range strikes on Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, and the glide bomb attacks on frontline positions that are inflicting heavy losses on Ukraine. Damaging planes is vital in reducing pressure on Ukraine’s defences.

There is a limit to how successful Ukraine can be. It was suffering from a shortage of troops to rotate and hold the line prior to its operation in Kursk. Now it has pulled together what was available as an operational reserve and committed it to a new axis. There is a limit to how far this force can push before it overextends, meaning it will need to dig in soon if the Ukrainians are to hold the ground until negotiations. But as soon as the front stops being dynamic, the Russians will dig defences and then bring up artillery, electronic warfare complexes and fresh troops. In the short term, the operation has diverted the weight of Russian air-delivered bombs away from Donbas, but this will be temporary. Russia has enough personnel and equipment to fight both fronts. It is less clear that this is true for Ukraine.

The military risks build with time. Having committed its operational reserve, Ukraine will struggle to plug gaps in the line, and it has not yet managed to resolve the threat posed by Russian reconnaissance drones, glide bombs, artillery, electronic warfare and operational-tactical missile complexes. Collectively these capabilities are allowing Russia to continue a steady advance to Pokrovsk, Toretsk and other towns in Donbas. These towns will soon be depopulated, and defending them will be resource-intensive...."

Also, don't miss these videos, per Rob Lee, to get an idea of what front operations look like:

Video of the breach on August 6 with a UR-77 MICLIC.https://t.co/vttpNoKnNq pic.twitter.com/25iGLXJ778

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) August 17, 2024

One of the units involved is the 82nd Air Landing Brigade. Apparently the basic operational unit in the UA Army is the brigade. Nowhere have I seen divisions mentioned.

Video from Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the beginning of the Kursk operation. It shows a Russian Ka-52 helicopter being shot down.https://t.co/duiJ3rKPdY pic.twitter.com/IYlgDbNJiV

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) August 17, 2024

Good night.



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INSANITY IN THE UK.

A truly frightening evolution in the UK, where you can now be ARRESTED and IMPRISONED over social media posts deemed 'offensive' by the government. This is the head of London Police, "Sir" Mark Rowley. If it's up to him, Keir Jong Un's goons can grab you from behind your computer even if you are posting from abroad.

Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatens to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.

He does not rule out Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/AUJhEgTTtJ

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on London's streets:

This is Sadiq Khan's London. In two years there will be no British people left. pic.twitter.com/ccx0OYVxyP

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 10, 2024

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SATURDAY NIGHT WENDY AND BONNIE, AIR.

Wendy and Bonnie with I realized you. From their sole album Genesis (1969).





Wendy and Bonnie Flower were Californian singing sisters from Millbrae, San Francisco Bay Area.



Air with Playground Love. From the soundtrack of The Virgin Suicides (2000).





Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Formed in 1995, still around.


Hat tip for both OutlawDaughter. Good night.



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DREADFUL STAT OF THE DAY.

Per @cdrsalamander, our longtime ally, this appalling stat which sheds light on US women's fertility:



I don't have similar stats for Europe but there's no doubt that they tell a comparable story. Also, I'm not sure about the US, but what I am sure of is that these stats highlight the fertility status of WHITE women. If the examples I can witness firsthand are anything to go by, it may be even worse.


Excessive consumerism and rejection of conservatism - read, embracing of leftist adages - having already taken their toll, in recent decades other factors have manifested themselves which torpedo a white woman's desire for motherhood even more. They are:

* incessant propaganda for gay lifestyles

* third wave feminism

* gender insanity, which is catastrophically telling very young boys and girls that they can be girls and boys by mutilating them - thereby blocking forever the path towards being a parent

* climate lunacy, which essentially is telling young people that humans are the problem and the less there are, the better it is for Mother Gaia (think Extinction Rebellion)

* economic hardships. Indeed, as the European nannystate increasingly diverts resources to welcome and settle gargantuan imports of Third World welfare seekers, taxes and prices have gone up, and the first victims thereof are whites, who have to pay for it. Your typical euro couple which despite everything still thinks of having one and perhaps two children, postpones that wish until things get better. But it doesn't look like they will.


It makes me SICK, seeing how we are wiping out ourselves.


How will this all end? Well, do the math. Take e.g. the example of Ukraine, a country that faces the additional burden of a devastating war which, very unfortunately, wipes away cohorts of young men and women in their prime who should actually be starting families:

So, Ukraine has a fertility rate of 1.16 children per woman.

There are other nations who have less, but let's say they maintain their independence, but don't increase, or decrease their fertility rate.

How long until the Ukrainian people disappear?

233 years it seems.
/1 pic.twitter.com/araPZbW5tD

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) July 9, 2024

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REQUIEM FOR ALBION.

The UK elections are over. As expected, the Tories got - rightly so - a clobbering, and Farage's Reform did well. However, the UK electoral system being some kind of first past the post variety, the big winner is Labour, and Keir Starmer is the new PM.

The British pound will soon convert to the British Bolivar pic.twitter.com/SbV3Hb2NXM

— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) July 5, 2024

Starmer did not lose time in announcing the new top jobs. They spell disaster.


Angela Rayner is Deputy PM and Minister for Housing:

Labour's @AngelaRayner has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Housing.

She has promised migrants in every town, and is looking to build for them 250,000 new homes. No Brits need to apply. pic.twitter.com/0bJ7GephHU

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) July 5, 2024

Yvette Cooper becomes Home Secretary:

If you thought the tories had bad home secretary’s. You ain’t seen nothing yet pic.twitter.com/YoInhFQdM9

— Sick Of It 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@WayneGb88) July 5, 2024

Shabana Mahmood is the new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice:

Meet the UK’s new Justice Minister.
🇬🇧🇵🇸

Shabana Mahmood has become the new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

The ‘Free Palestine’ activist will be in charge of the administration and reform of core parts of the British justice system. pic.twitter.com/YschXz4oaC

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 5, 2024

etc


The most dangerous demographic subgroup in the West is formed by white 'progressive' women, of which there is no shortage in the new Starmer government. The UK is as good as dead.


But make no mistake: the Tories are responsible for this. Had they governed in a conservative way, the UK would be fine and dandy. It is NOT. They got punished for betraying conservatism, of which the migration tsunami which could on unchecked for years is but one aspect. The Tories got deservedly clobbered.


Unfortunately, Labour got undeservedly rewarded.


And now Britain, and Britons, will pay the price. A very hefty one.



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FORMULA OF THE DAY: THE FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT.

Fine-Structure Constant (approx. 1/137) is a dimensionless constant that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles. Its value is approximately 1/137, and it's one of the fundamental constants of nature whose origin remains… pic.twitter.com/VIteZcu4K2

— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) January 31, 2024

* e is the elementary charge (1.602176634×10−19 C);
* h is the Planck constant (6.62607015×10−34 J⋅Hz−1);
* ħ is the reduced Planck constant, ħ = h/2π (1.054571817...×10−34 J⋅s)
* c is the speed of light (299792458 m⋅s−1);
* ε0 is the electric constant (8.8541878188(14)×10−12 F⋅m−1).


So the Fine-Structure Constant is essential in defining the electromagnetic force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature.



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MARINE LE PEN'S RASSEMBLEMENT NATIONAL CONVINCINGLY WINS FIRST ROUND OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.

With 33% of the vote, Marine Le Pen's rightwing Rassemblement National (RN) seems to have won the first round of France's parliamentary elections. Second comes Mélenchons leftwing Nouveau Front Populaire, a coalition of greens, socialists and communists, with 28%. Macrons coalition only captured 22% of the vote.

Marine Le Pen wins first round as France outright rejects WEF’s Macron! pic.twitter.com/5NEVb4ZfZ4

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) June 30, 2024

The key to her succes might just lay with France's youth, who seem to begin to see through leftist gobbledegook of which they may suspect it threatens their future... and with the very young candidate-PM Jordan Bardella (28), who ticks:





Next week the second and defining round. This is going to be interesting.



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SATURDAY NIGHT CHRIS REA, ELO.

Chris Rea with Shamrock Diaries. From the eponymous 1985 album.





The least one can say about Rea is that he's a survivor. The man got peritonitis which nearly killed him, pancreatic cancer which nearly killed him, a stroke which nearly killed him etc. I hold him in very high regard, as despite these bumps in the road he managed to produce, almost behind our backs, a string of decent hits. The one thing I'm not going to forgive him, is his championship of Jeremy Corbyn.



ELO with Can't get it out of my head. From the 1974 album Eldorado.





English rock band which formed in Brum in 1970 by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood, and drummer Bev Bevan. Still around although Jeff Lynne will call it quits in OCT of this year.


Nite.



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WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LAST NIGHT.

Shocking ending to the Trump vs Biden debate, what most people didn't see.

This says it all. pic.twitter.com/ryE6qEIdpt

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) June 28, 2024

Good G*d.


Who's running the United States anyway???



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE HUMAN LEAGUE, STEVE WINWOOD.

First The Human League with Life On Your Own. From their 1984 album Hysteria.



English synth pop band which formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Still around!



Steve Winwood with Valerie. From his 1980 album Arc of a Diver.



Winwood played all the instruments on the album: Minimoog, Fender Stratocaster, Steinway Piano, Hammond B3 organ, bass guitar...


Nite.



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