On this website we regularly warn visitors that the MainStream Media (MSM) in the US and UK are propaganda machines, pure and simple. Our advice always is ‘believe your own lying eyes’ and not what the Newspapers print and certainly not the work of ‘experts’ selected by the MSM for publicity and promotion. The MSM has an agenda, as befits a Ruling Class, and that agenda fits snugly with the Leftist agenda of all the various Socialist and neo-Socialist groups who are allied to our new Ruling Class. The Leftists have a common agenda and it is to constantly expand the role of Government until society is truly totalitarian. Global Warming is the latest ploy to further that agenda of mass control by alarmism and fear and sham science. And so we join with those conservative and Nationalists who attempt, with evidence, to counter the climate lies that are now pedalled everywhere in the Media.
Here in central California we have had the coldest winter for many decades. Attached are photos taken on Saturday morning, February 19th 2011 at about 8.30am. You will see that the hills and mountains that stretch from Mount Diablo at least down as far as Mount Hamilton are snow covered – not just the peaks but to more than half-way down. As I write this article on Sunday afternoon, 20th February, the high ground is still snow-covered. Please believe your own lying eyes. Al Gore, the High Priest of Global Warming, the preacher of imminent doom, and incidentally the man who consumes carbon energy like a drunken sailor gulps rum, recently forecast that Americans would see no more snow.
snow on Mount Hamilton and Mt Diablo California 2011
snow on Mount Hamilton and Mt Diablo California 2011
Wisconsin: The Leftist Union mobs of ‘public servants’, encouraged by the US President and organized and funded by his rich comrades, are continuing in their attempts to intimidate the recently-elected Republican politicians of Wisconsin. We should not be surprised that they are receiving every encouragement from the MSM’s scribblers. They all understand that this is a crucial struggle in their revolution and that the counter-revolutionaries on the Right must not gain a morale-boosting victory.
Music: On Monday of last week the English-born pianist George Shearing died at age 91. George was blind from birth. In the beginning he played the swing and boogie woogie music that was popular in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s but not long after the end of the war, George moved to the USA and quickly became a leading bebop pianist on New York’s 52nd St. scene. In due course he formed a quintet with the unusual line-up of piano, vibes, guitar, bass and drums and using a mixture of unison and harmony arrangements began playing tightly arranged versions of quality ballads and an occasional original. Later, when he folded the Quintet he often recorded ballads with orchestras and enjoyed a lot of commercial success, which displeased those critics who measure all jazz by how ‘cutting edge’ it is rather than for quality. Later still, George began doing concerts with just a bass player. I was lucky enough to hear such a duo at the Bath Festival in the 1980’s. It was standing room only in a large concert hall and George got several standing ovations. I only wish I had also heard his early Quintets live too. George’s piano solos on the early Quintet recordings are masterpieces of short, tension-packed, precise improvisation in the bebop style. Not a note is wasted. ‘Lullaby of Birdland’, ‘Jumping With Symphony Sid’, ‘September in the Rain’ and ‘I’ll Remember April’ are all outstanding and I cannot select just one without leaving out so many great recordings that always respected good melody. I have picked an album to recommend and can kill two birds with one stone for it includes the great vocalist Peggy Lee. The album is ‘Beauty and the Beast’ recorded live in 1959 at a disc jockey convention in Miami. The two soloists had little time for choosing material, doing arrangements and rehearsal and George, being blind, always relied on head arrangements. The result was an album that is timeless, with superb introductions and backing by George and cool interpretations of outstanding lyrics by Lee. The audience is on the ball and if only disc jockeys today were as musically intelligent. No room here for a Rush Limbaugh nor Reggie Dwight. Listen to this album and compare its quality with the garbage that now passes for music. With luck, when the counter-revolution succeeds, albums like this will once again find an adult audience.