Quite surprised that we were allowed to have this one … it’s rather special due to the conductor … who is clearly well regarded by orchestra and audience alike.
Thursday [1 to 5]
(0523) Morning all … still dark. The sharp eyed might have noticed, Laze and Gem, that 1 to 5 these days is taking a lot to complete … this is because I’m also gathering, collating, posting at our other outlets, inc. X, doing correspondence. Purpose doing all that early is, just as with you, getting an overview of what’s happened overnight. (0636)
5. Reactions from Meloni’s Italy
4. At our other venues
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/hope-for-vaccine-injured.html
https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/hope-for-the-vaccine-injured
3. Steve at 1354
- War Powers Resolution to Restrain Trump’s Action in Iran Once Again Fails in the Senate – One Republican Votes with Dems
- US Military Releases Audio of US Naval Vessels on Patrol in the Gulf of Oman, Warning Other Vessels Amid Blockade – “We Will Use Force”
- Lifelong Catholic Tom Homan Pushes Back Against Pope with Realities of Immigration
- Radical Democrat Virginia Governor Signs Away the Commonwealth’s Electoral Votes to the National Popular Vote Scam
- Irish Government Survives Vote of No-Confidence
- Thousands Of Additional US Troops To Be Deployed Near Iran
- Orekhov’s Clock Is Ticking: Ukraine’s Offensive May Delay, But Not Stop, The Inevitable
- Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice
- UK grid buckles under unmanageable green energy surge
- Much more.
2. Main news is from downunder this morning
1. DAD at 1354
a) Alain Juillet, a veteran French intelligence figure who served as director of intelligence at France’s external intelligence service (DGSE) , has publicly stated that teams in power in Brussels do not hesitate to influence the course of elections in European Union member countries.
b) I found this ‘X’; I do not know if it is true – be careful. Péter Magyar (Tisza), the new Hungarian Prime Minister, drops a bombshell: This is Orbán’s policy… ONLY HARDER!!! THE EU HAS BEEN TAKEN FOR A RIP-OFF!!! “We will maintain and strengthen the border fence. We’ll even repair the holes!”
c) Two brothers of Moroccan nationality, managers of several barbershops, are suspected of being at the heart of a large-scale migrant trafficking operation in the Tarn and Ariège regions.
d) France is facing record prison overcrowding. As of March 1st, prisons held 87,126 inmates for 63,353 places, representing an overall occupancy rate of 137.5%. In remand prisons, this rate reaches 168.4%….
e) A widely shared story by left-wing investigative outlet Correctiv in Germany, which claimed that at a “secretive” gathering ahead of the 2024 elections in Germany, several right-wing politicians and others discussed the possible deportation of two million migrants, was “plucked out of thin air”, according to a Berlin court.
Wednesday [21 till close of play]
(1642) Almost evening, chaps and chapesses. We’re a bit short of news and sshots right now. DAD has Sam up over at 1354.
19. Moo corner
18. When they lose all femininity
There was a comment by Charlotte Gill on some chap and they agreed on feminism being the killer of relations today. I’d add that in turn, it turned men into wimps or satyrs. Anyway, that’s all been talked through.
What I did notice was a picture of a scene, maybe near a clinic during covid … various people but one stood out as offputting. I’d say it was female and yes, carrying some extra lbs, not a bad face, drak hair, no effort put into style … in fact, there was zero style. If she was just big-bodied, well ok … we are what we are. Not particularly Amazonian, nothing to specifically say this or that was wrong.
So, what was offputting? I’ve thought it through a bit since an hour ago … the shape was certainly female, even if hands and feet were brutal. Yes … I’m thinking that that may be it … brutal. Standing, leaning against a walkway pillar in a very masculine way, full of herself, the voice would be deep and harsh … very arrogant, the features, as if she’s a Boss deciding this or that about people’s fate.
Masculine, which sat quite badly with her overall features, which were certainly female. That’s about it.
17. This has actually happened to me a few times
16. Diesel reserves
Wed Mat
“I had my hopes up for this movie for three reasons. First, it was pre-code (though only in American years–this is a British movie). That always adds hope. Second, it had a young Ida Lupino. Third, it was about photography, or at least hinted at it, and I’m a photographer. All of this is to say, I assumed the movie would be nothing much, and was watching just for kicks.
I was pleasantly surprised in several ways. It is a cute story with some simple twists that only go so far, but it is told really well–the camera-work and the editing are adventurous and loose and downright inventive. You can’t miss it. The cameraman Ernest Palmer I’ve never heard of (and looking at his movies, there’s nothing that jumps out there). But the editor?
You won’t believe it–none other than David Lean. Makes me want to watch it again. Lean was in fact an editor before becoming a star director.
“The Ghost Camera” is a thoroughly British movie, even though Palmer is American and in fact so is the director here, not the very British Lean but Bernard Vorhaus, who made his reputation in England. And the two leading characters are both British. Yes, Ida Lupino for all her hard luck urbane American reputation was born and raised in England.
Here she’s plays a common type well, a girl with a heart who’s in a little trouble. The other lead, Harry Kendall, is a kind of British Harold Lloyd, and he takes some getting used to but in the end he’s really rather funny and fun. He’s famous at home for his work on stage, and was always dismissive of his movie career, but the movies are all we have now, so the irony of that must irk him in the grave.
The story? A classic idea not far off from Antonioni’s “Blow Up”–a camera accidentally gets in the hands of a pair of goofy innocent types who develop the film in it and discover a crime. Using clues in the negatives, Kendall bumbles his way into a comic and silly mess, filled with great camera-work and that fast, creative editing.
There is subjective camera (from Lupino’s eyes) and wobbly hand-held camera, and a series of wipes following a series of opening doors that will blow your mind. Or your eyes. It’s genius, even if it’s low budget stuff. It even has the elements of a screwball comedy, where two unlikely leads are destined to fall in love after all.
You can find a free stream or free download of this non-copyrighted movie on line easily. The quality is passable on a computer screen, but little else. But it’s worth it!”
Wednesday [16 to 20]
(1338) Afternoon all. No Moo just at this moment. (1347)
20. Those disappearing scientists
19. Birth of a new riding
18. Arch criminals
17. Never let them out of your sight
16. DAD from 1354:2
JH: Always good, that one.
Have we already had these?
No matter … let’s have them again:
Wednesday [11 to 15]
(0925)(1022)
15. Turned into a right bad’un, this one
14. Moo corner
13. Just adore Naomi’s new moniker
12. The crooked Catholic Church
… plus Meloni in with the wrong side on so many issues:
11. Unconstitutional blue states pact
… to bypass the Electoral College, plus another scam:
Lighthouses
Wednesday [6 to 10]
(0543) Still a bit dark but so far looks gloomy out there. Morning all.
10. The Catholic Church money racket
… and other rackets they have going. Maybe first look at Chaucer and the Indulgences racket.
Maybe look at this Perry Mason episode.
Also this:
“The Vatican Bank scandal primarily refers to the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, where the Vatican Bank (IOR) was the main shareholder and implicated in laundering over $1 billion for the Mafia and illegal organizations. Known as “God’s Banker,” Banco Ambrosiano head Roberto Calvi was found hanged in London in 1982. The Vatican denied wrongdoing but paid $244 million to creditors” (www.worldfinance.com)
That’s before even looking at the Chicago crook who followed Bergoglio.
9. Moo corner
8. Steve corner
7. Bolshevik twofer
6. IYE corner
a. China’s not happy:
b. JH: sometimes I need to “bury”. If I tell you where it’s buried, it involves no work on your part, which is against our philosophy here, nor could it be called “buried” … it’s instead a waste of time on my part.
What we’d expect is that if you see it in the sidebar, that gives you about two days to bookmark it for yourself. There are regular places I archive it to, known-known, but also this new set of pages from time to time. There’s another place … remember what date N.O. was stolen by ggl blgr? I was there a few days back at NOWP … yes, it does require you to use the sidebar archive.
c. JH posts IYE on bugs and plandemics:
“Just remember not to touch your eyes, nose or mouth until you get chance to wash your hands first.”
d. This:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
Wednesday [1 to 5]
(0506)(0532)
5. Jeanne is one of the constant Xers in our sphere
Great idea, yes, in a high trust society. Do the western nations have one any more? Why not?
4. Martin Sellner
… is Identitarian movement Austria leader, here on Hungary:
3. Steve at 1353
- EU’s Epic Hypocrisy on Full Display: Demands the World Keep Oil Flowing While Cementing Its Own Wells and Flooding Coal Mines – Straight Out of the Cultural Marxist Playbook
- Trump Calls British Labour Government ‘Crazy’ for Banning North Sea Oil Exploration
- Trump Torches Italy’s Meloni for Her Defense of Pope Leo XIV and Stance on Iran War
- Nicaragua Bans Several Christian Groups As Persecution Worsens
- USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Is Travelling Around Africa To Avoid Attack By Houthis
- Too little too late! (Irish) Government faces new level of scrutiny despite throwing a few crumbs to fuel protesters
- Trump and the US MIL Setting Sights on Strait of Malacca
- Much more.
2. The reference to Noelia Castello below
… is it already too late for her to be remembered?
1. DAD at 1353
a) The Baron and Jombo agree. Adequate vetting a chronic weakness of the Trump Administration.
b) That’s the way the money goes: Pop goes my Bentley. Kiev has become one of the strongest Bentley markets in Europe, according to Richard Leopold, Bentley regional director for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.
c) The new frontage for Angers Cathedral – [I hate it].
d) France is finished? And the EU?