Betty Blue

I am feeling especially disheartened today, so I am not going to post for long. The primary reason for this deflation of spirits is that my wife reportedly drove out to the CBSA (Canada Customs) in Richmond to seek the release of a shipment from Thailand that DHL said has been languishing there under a succession of five different "Clearance Events" beginning on April 14 ─ that's 1½ bloody months ago! 

DHL gave her the address where the shipment was supposedly being held.

Well, if I understood her phone call to me this afternoon, they did not have it, and said that it was at what I presume was a Health Canada address in Burnaby ─ so off she went to seek answers there. 

Nothing. 

She said that a woman there checked through their records and could find no trace of any such shipment.

I had the impression that my wife mentioned one or two other addresses for CBSA or Health Canada, but I am unsure. She asked that I E-mail DHL and report these results, but I do not have the details straight and am not going to do so until I am able to query my wife in person so that I have accurate information as best as I can understand it.

I expect that she is working a half day today ─ the latter half ─ at the Thai restaurant where she has part-time employment, so she said that she would be home sometime this evening.

I have an early a.m. six-mile walk planned for the morning ─ I intend to try and rise at 2:30 a.m. and be gone 15 minutes thereafter ─ so it is quite possible that I will have retired this evening before she is home. 

This is all so damned discouraging because that shipment is worth around $1,500 ─ a loss we cannot afford.

Anyway, I will obviously not be sitting up late this evening like I did last evening, operating our Android TV Box so that my younger brother and I can watch episodes of a few of the T.V. series that we follow in common once he shows up from his daily beering somewhere that I euphemistically refer to here as 'socializing'.

(Last evening we watched an episode each of Versailles; Chapelwaite; and Chicago Fire.)

If he does show up no later than 9:30 p.m., I am amenable to watching an episode of something, but it is imperative that I try to get as much time in bed before 2:30 a.m. as is sensibly possible.

This mid-morning I used the Android TV Box to locate episodes of a number of scamdemic / plandemic / casedemic videos, but I will only mention two of them.

First off I tried watching a ROAR Media upload to Rokfin.com that had been recorded on May 13: Brave Nu Future 46 20220513. 

We are back with host Amber King as Brave Nu Future seeks to break the chains that bind us: expose the realities behind the NWO, help the people prepare, & organize to keep a free society at the end of late-stage capitalism on the brink of the automation age. 

Amber's two guests were James Roguski, whom I was unfamiliar with; and Alexis Baden-Meyer of Organic Consumers Association. I watched Alexis once before ─ she has such an extremely and naturally pretty face that I love gazing at her. 

Unfortunately, the video failed maybe four times ─ when this happens, the Rokfin page displays a heading of "Snap" and says to press a retry or refresh icon that is displayed. Yet doing this only brings up the video at its very beginning, forcing the viewer to work his or her way through it in an effort to locate just where it had left off before 'breaking'.

Possibly this fault lay with trying to watch the video via the aforementioned Android TV Box, and might not have occurred if it was being watched on a computer. Whatever the case, my brother voiced that it was not worth bothering with any further, for by then nearly an hour of the video had passed and James Roguski was bowing out. His focus had been on the W.H.O. and their intended International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments that idiot President Biden has pushed for, and my brother wasn't keen on watching well over an hour more of talk about this topic.

I did later watch the video on my own, and found that the two ladies talked about quite a number of other topics, and left the IHR amendments more or less alone.

I had tried to locate this specific video on Rumble, for Amber had listed that platform as one of those where her Brave Nu Future broadcasts could be found. Not this one, however. And none of the other platforms she sounded off were familiar to me, so I was not about to spend time trying to locate them.

That's too bad. It is going to reduce viewership such as mine.

Anyway, the second video that my brother and I watched didn't particularly impress me, but he got value from it ─ and therefore I am mentioning it.

It was a YouTube upload on May 26 by Proletarian TV: Scott Ritter: "Europe is on the brink of total economic failure". 

Is Ukraine winning the war? According to Scott Ritter, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, quite the opposite is the case.

In this interview, Ritter, who has also served as a United Nations weapons inspector and was an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, calls Russia’s military operation in Ukraine a “masterful, stunning military victory that will be studied for some time”.

What does this mean for Europe as a whole? The Russian ruble is as strong as it has been in recent history, and the Russian stock market is alive and kicking. Meanwhile, global gas prices have doubled.

The cost of diesel is already disrupting supply chains, which run on thin margins of efficiency. Will transport costs be absorbed by the companies? By the truckers? Or transferred to the consumers? None of these offers a desirable outcome.

Ritter concludes: “Europe is on the verge of economic collapse”.

My brother and I have seen Scott Ritter before, and he does seem to have a solid understanding of Russian military strategy, particularly where Ukraine is concerned. 

I now want to talk about a movie that I watched on my own without my brother ─ he would only complain and bitch had I tried to watch it with him.

I actually had to tune it in three times, for it was three hours and five minutes in duration, and I never had sufficient time at one sitting to watch all of it. In fact, the second time that I broke off from it was last evening ─ my brother had come into view as he arrived home, so I had to quickly cancel out of the feature.   

The movie was entirely in French, but I wanted to watch it to enjoy the lead actress: Béatrice Dalle. I had become very curious about her after seeing her in the movie Trouble Every Day where she played a seductress who would cannibalize men she lured into having sex with her.

In that latter movie, she was oddly erotic to me, even though so very disturbing. And she was beautiful, with a very unusually large mouth and lower lip.

I definitely got a lot to see of her in 2016's Betty Blue ─ it was filled with nudity. Nevertheless, I probably got far more viewing of her nude co-star Jean-Hugues Anglade than I could ever possibly care to have. 

As the Wikipedia article does explain, there is a short version of the movie that was released theatrically ─ a mere two hours. But the three-hour director's cut offered so very much more story-building detail.

As for watching it with sub-titles, I located a version at the Internet Archive here ─ just be certain to select the CC (Closed Captions) option near the bottom right of the screen once the movie begins to play. There is one fairly important caveat about this, as I was to find ─ the "closed captions" or sub-titles that appear only do so for what seemed to me to be approximately a third of the dialogue. Consequently, a lot does get missed; but there is enough English there to keep the non-French-speaking viewer privy enough to what is going on that he or she oughtn't to become lost. 

Now, with all of that explained, what I saw of naked Béatrice Dalle was definitely pleasant enough, but she had enough physical flaws at her young age of maybe 21 years that I could easily be critical. Notwithstanding, her allure was so strong that those flaws would never have even remotely been of any consequence to this male had I ever been exposed to the woman and her amorous attentions.

I will be seeking out other movies featuring her.

I must bring this post to a close, for it is already after 8 p.m.

Before I do, I just want to complain about the wretched weather. At some point overnight we had some rain ─ or possibly it came very early in the morning.The day remained overcast and excessively cool, so there was not even the vaguest consideration by me of trying to sit out in the backyard this afternoon to benefit from some daylight.

I am fed up beyond expression by what is happening to the world with this diabolical geoengineering and climate manipulation by the meddling wealthy and 'the Elite' who believe they own and control us.

I conclude with this Facebook post by my wife optimistically advertising Boom Cocoa Plus, one of the products in her lost shipment.