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The significance today of the SCOTUS ruling later

In Britain, in the middle of the night before the Last Supper at the other end of the day, are the issues of age verification (or digital ID) rollout, Starmer’s speech to “the nation” and that of other toothless “leaders”, plus the appalling state of the NHS.

Across the pond are the Artemis rocket thing, approaching Easter, plus a most critical piece of condtitutional law before SCOTUS today, hours from now.  Some screenshots sum up the state of play:

Just looking at the last item above here … Alito is staunch conservative, Thomas is too, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are the newbies and are “often” but not always conservative, meaning for the western nation first.

The problem is the leftist Barrett, while Epstein compromised Roberts will vote with the Demonrats.  The significance of the application to SCOTUS, causing Trump to actually be in the gallery yesterday, is that it snuffs out foreign freeloaders, just as with the Windrushers and boat people here.

The argument of the EO is those capitalised words above … if the proposal is approved, 5/4 … and it’s down to Barrett now today, then flying in from Kenya or British Guiana in our case (Gina Miller) is not sufficient for citizenship … the person must embrace the law of the land, uncompromised.

Meaning, a Chinese woman can’t rock in, or a Moose Limb, have a child and then go back to Chinese or Moose Limb jurisdiction, whilst eligible to US benefits.

It’s down to Barrett … which way the raving leftist, appointed by Trump … votes.  What we know is she hates Trump with full TDS. Will that win out … or the good of the nation?

(1704) Evening all.

 

20. From a nurse

A veteran nurse just dropped the BOMBSHELL…patients didn’t die of ‘Covid’…they died FROM the protocols.

Hospitals raked in TENS OF THOUSANDS per labeled ‘Covid Death’ while the wards stayed half-empty.

It was murder for money.

They knew. They lied. pic.twitter.com/7lSaKzWxUw

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) April 1, 2026

19. Moo corner

18. Greece again

17. Steve below 11 to 15

In Latin the motto of the Royal Navy is “Si vis pacem, para bellum”: If you wish for peace, prepare for war. The Senior Service has been with us for the better part 500 years. Now this:

Royal Navy Not War-Ready Until 2030, First Sea Lord Admits Amid US Criticism

16. DAD at 1340

Sam goes to ‘Checkers’.

 

“This is the fourth and last of Fritz Lang’s American espionage films and it is certainly a strange one. Written by Albert Maltz and Ring Lardner Jr. who were later blacklisted for their Communist sympathies, the film’s anti-atomic sentiments have been expunged by the studio. As expected from Expressionist Lang the film looks wonderful but despite some thrilling moments it is on the whole uneven.

Inspired by the exploits of OSS operative Michael Burke this has Gary Cooper as a mild-mannered nuclear physicist who is attempting to smuggle a fellow physicist out of occupied Italy. He is aided in this by Italian partisans, one of whom is played by Lilli Palmer. Naturally, a romance blossoms…….

The character of Professor Jesper is surely one of the dullest heroes in film history which makes the casting of Gary Cooper a masterstroke. He carries it off wonderfully with his customary ease and we are with him all the way. He is especially sympathetic in his scenes with the marvellous Helene Thimig and Vladimir Sokolov and utilises the old charm with the double agent of Warner’s contract player Marjorie Hoshell who is straight out of a film noir.

His scenes with the Gina of Lilli Palmer just about work. There is certainly an emotional chemistry between them but alas not a physical one. As for Miss Palmer this is her first Hollywood film and proved to be a baptism by fire. Not only is her role as a traumatised bordering on paranoid resistance fighter extremely demanding, she was given a hard time by the director.

Lang was known to be a bully and like all bullies picked on those least able to fight back. At one stage the entire crew walked out in protest at his treatment of her. When filming ended he told her; “I’ll look after you in the cutting room.” To his credit he did and she comes out very well. Needless to say Herr Lang was respectful towards Mr. Cooper!

The scene that lingers longest and the one directed by the sadistic Lang with true relish is the fight between Cooper and the Italian fascist agent of Marc Lawrence. Their gruesome and vicious struggle is played out to the sound of an Italian street singer while the child’s toy ball bouncing down the stairs to the feet of the corpse is very effective and evidently a nod to his masterpiece ‘M’.

Lang never concealed his loathing of meddling Hollywood producers and here once again his original ending in which the Germans appear to have the atomic bomb, has been cut. The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were of course all too recent and it is one of Life’s supreme ironies that ex-Nazi scientists were assisting America in its nuclear programme.

Despite its weaknesses this is still extremely watchable thanks to its charismatic cast, Lang’s mastery of light and shade and of course the sine qua non of a Warner’s film, Max Steiner’s score.”

(1141) Elevenses … morning all … 19 mins of April Fools’ Morn left to go. (1201)

 

15. More Met mendacity

14. The upper comment is a downunder pollie

… the lower is a human.

13. Moo corner

12. Govt dept euphemising

11. IYE corner

a. “ U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. (Url under the last post on Monday.)

b. “ The NWO & alien invasion script”

https://substack.com/@rightsideofhistory822195/p-191696629

c and d … over at 1340.

 

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10. We, and in particular IYE, have more detail

… than below (Steve and DAD too) and yet it just confirms that things are indeed going down … three national leaders right now until tomorrow addressing their nations:

9. Moo corner

8. One from “Everywoman”

7. Same over there

6. Ratchetting

 

Some of the finest pieces in popular music (speaking purely musically) have unfortunately been based around someone cheating and I was dismayed to find three of my all time faves, with three of the best singers going, almost labours of love, were excusing, even pushing, that unacceptable lifestyle.

So I decided not to post them after all in expanded form:

Dark End of the Street

Angel of the Morning

She’s a Mystery to Me

I researched each song and that was even more dismaying.

The first, sung by Linda, I knew was about wrong, so when in RL I said to my new friend Ay, having split with Aa, one of many times as it turned out … I suggested let’s reconstruct it, actually do that song, meet at the dark end of a street I know well, easy enough for both of us to get to, and she’d heard the song … so we met up, as in the song, but not as a cheating tryst … rather as an opening scene for a new beginning. Supposedly.

Who was I kidding? She secretly had someone as it turns out and Aa got to hear of it and came back to “reclaim her property”. And so to the second, with Merrilee, which was not only about cheating but was also a double entrendre on a different Angel of the Morning … the chief fallen angel himself, the enemy of humankind. I used it in my book with a character, Julia, in a tryst with the very man she’d betray next morning, in a hail of gunfire.

The last was Bono’s song for Roy the Boy … a bit different in that it is her leaving him on a jet airliner for a rich man. The dark joke was that the actress in the clip was actually Bono’s wife of the time.

In one sense, all very exotic and chic … but in another … just tawdry, the whole thing. What sort of person actually embraces such things as a lifestyle? Either a lost soul … or a loser.

So, in that mood, I cast around for a more up tempo, happier song … guess which one appeared?

Again … fabulous singer, very good instrumentation, esp. with Dave Swarbrick, a trad storytelling from the C17th revamped by an English 60s/70s folk/rock band. And again, in the subject matter … tawdry.

(0542) Before going any further, remember that April Fool’s morn only works till your noon, after which the joke is upon you. (0616)

 

5. A reminder of the time period of this holiday

… and the programme for the Holy Week part of it:

4. Steve at 1339

• President Trump Tells Europe and Gulf States to Fix the Strait of Hormuz Themselves Amid Reports That He is Willing to End War Without Reopening Strait
• US Mideast Allies including Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Others, Urge President Trump to Continue War on Iran
• Bombshell Defense Filing: ATF Cannot “Identify” Bullet in Charlie Kirk Assassination With Accused’s Rifle
• [The] Ukraine Is “Mafia State” And Europeans Don’t Want It To Join EU, Says German Media
• Likely 60,000 German Deaths from mRNA COVID Vaccine
• Crowborough’s Illegal Migrants Are Catching Their Taxpayer-Funded Bus to Crawley and Not Coming Back
• Much more.

3. Noelia Castillo Ramos

A reminder that she’s a bit different to the “average” child rape by “Them”:

2. DAD at 1339

a) In a clip that exploded across the platform on Monday, Cheltenham MP Max Wilkinson described X as a “massive problem” precisely because it gives critics of unchecked migration a voice.

b) Operators knew from the start that the 2025 Iberian blackout was due to renewable energy, according to audio recordings Spain’s legislature has obtained.

c) As much as leftists want her to fail—and are hoping that last week’s referendum defeat might trigger her downfall—Giorgia Meloni is holding onto her support base, and her party remains easily more popular than any other.

d) The Phone That ‘Had’ to Disappear.

e) Especially for today.

1. While we’re thinking “reprieve”, fellow reprobates

… Alex downunder reminds Brits:

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13. Moo corner

12. Noem is either right or she is wrong

11. What’s beneath the ballroom?

 

Going to post this, then go back and look at the previous film. Well rated, this episode: