18. Problem with this one is primarily journalistic
The facts and figures might have something to them, might not, he might have got them from elsewhere … so what, we all have sources … no the thing is him. John F Kennedy is dead, so who is this? Also, the last line in capitals I left out … asking us to follow him. I don’t like this sort of empire building “jounalism”.
However, we need to at least table the data to check against later.
“The Green Party has attacked the BBC for exposing the lies that migrants are telling about their personal lives in order to have their asylum claims approved. The Mail has the story.
In a surprise attack on the corporation, the Greens on Thursday accused it of worsening the already “hostile environment” faced by those claiming asylum.
It followed the BBC revealing that migrants are falsely claiming to be gay, victims of domestic abuse or to have bogus medical conditions to stay in the UK.
In some cases, law firms and advisers are charging thousands of pounds to advise migrants how they can claim to be gay and in fear for their lives if they return to Pakistan or Bangladesh.
Immigration services commissioner Gaon Hart, who oversees the regulation of immigration advisers, said there was “abhorrent abuse of the system” and a minority of advisers were damaging the reputation of the sector.
The Government has launched an investigation into asylum seekers lying about their sexuality or being victims of domestic abuse, branding the practice “shameful”.
But the Greens turned on the BBC for trying to “heighten the hostile environment facing those claiming asylum” through its reporting – despite a third of Britons thinking the broadcaster has a Left-wing bias.
“We are disappointed the BBC failed to put this report in context, showing the challenges those genuinely claiming asylum face,” a Greens spokesman said.
“When it gives so much prominence to the report, stretching it out over multiple days of reporting, it ceases to be in the public interest and instead serves to heighten the hostile environment facing those claiming asylum.”
The spokesman added that the report “gives an entirely false impression of a system which is, in reality, stacked against people seeking asylum”.
Setting a new record, 4,733 local bureaucrats enjoyed six-figure pay deals in 2024-25, up more than 20 per cent on the year before. Rubbing salt in the wound, those getting over £150,000 hit 1,255. There’s no getting away from the simple truth of these numbers – as your taxes go up, those who are meant to be delivering services are laughing their way to the bank.
Topping this year’s table was an unidentified individual at Staffordshire council who had total remuneration of £457,000 while Westminster once again took the prize for most employees getting over £100,000 with 92.
Though the rich list focuses on total remuneration, including things like employer pension contributions, bonuses payments and benefits in kind, even basic salary entitlements are surging. While the prime minister had a salary entitlement of £172,153 in 2024/25, 320 council employees got even more. We know councils are complex organisations but do those running them really have more responsibility than the prime minister?
50 minute episodes are as near as dammit to a film for presenting purposes … shorts being under 30 minutes. Most of our films and shorts shown here are Bs … B not being dirty word unless we point out low production values on this episode or that.
Now and then, an A lister slips through … AKH pointed out how good the Brett episodes were … and this below, actually the series opener, does take the biscuit.
“ In Part 1, we profiled the nine worst offenders among the 197 members of Congress who voted Aye on Roll Call Vote 124, the procedural vote that brought the FISA Section 702 reauthorization to the floor at 2:09 AM on April 17, 2026. Those nine members had a combined $11.5 million in pro-Israel donor and lobby money, 4,000+ stock trades, offshore shell companies, sealed felonies, and federal indictments.
But the other 188 Aye voters are not clean…”
(Are all politicians bent? Sheesh!)
9. Moo corner
8. Poor Virginia
7. Views of the other sex
🚨Feminists realise they've destroyed society
– Only 7% of young men have an unfavourable view of Women
Contrast that with Women: – Only 50% have a favourable view of men – UNDER 25's just 35% have a favourable view of men
“ At 2:09 in the morning on Friday, April 17, 2026, with most of the country asleep, the United States House of Representatives voted to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The program allows intelligence agencies to compel internet service providers to hand over the communications of foreigners located abroad, without a warrant. In practice, it has been used to sweep up the emails, texts, and phone calls of millions of Americans who happen to communicate with anyone overseas.
The vote was not supposed to happen that way. House Speaker Mike Johnson had originally scheduled the vote for Wednesday afternoon. It was supposed to be a straightforward five-year reauthorization. But the plan fell apart. A bipartisan coalition of privacy hawks demanded a warrant requirement for searching Americans’ data. Other factions wanted the bill loaded with unrelated immigration provisions. Johnson pulled the vote Wednesday. He tried again Thursday. Multiple proposals failed. A five-year extension died. An 18-month compromise died. About 20 Republicans joined most Democrats in killing it.
So they waited. They waited until the cameras were off, until the reporters had gone home, until the C-SPAN audience was in bed. And at 2:09 AM, they passed a 10-day emergency extension by voice vote. No recorded roll call, no individual accountability. The Senate rubber-stamped it unanimously the next morning.…”
There are so many versions of Hungarian Rhapsody 2 on YouTube, mainly for inidividual instruments, e.g. piano but I prefer the orchestral version … this stems from my early childhood … an EP my parents bought, with n2 on one side, n12 on the flipside.
There was only one version until late of an orchestral version plus a potted history of Liszt overlaid … I’ve posted it three or four times. Today, suddenly there was a new orchestral … I eagerly loaded it … guess what? Yep, embedding disabled.
But now there’s another which seems embeddable … let’s find out…
3. Think Jeremy Clarkson was suggesting we support our local butcher
2. DAD at 1357
a) French judicial investigation into X.com: the United States refuses to cooperate and accuses France of inappropriately using its law to attack freedom of expression.
b) France. The bill put forward following the tragic death of Philippine, a 19-year-old girl who was raped and killed in September 2024 by a migrant subject to a deportation order, is currently under consideration in the French National Assembly….
c) France. Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (94): A memo from the LR-led town hall aimed at “removing harmful populations” in order to “encourage the settlement of more European middle classes” is causing controversy.
d) The entire leadership of Your Party in Scotland has quit and declared the party is “over”. The left-wing vehicle was set up by English MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn and attracted a mass of Scottish sign-ups, including prominent members of the Scottish Greens.
(0716) Slow start, chaps and chapesses … heart and migraine issue, now stabilised … bear with me this morning, it will take some time. (0722)
The future of AI
Lord T, whose field is IT (slightly longer profile below the article over at OoL plus Jstack, text copy backed up), has sent a piece on where “AI” is headed … he should know as he has to negotiate these things in a professional capacity. This is just the opening below:
… I lost my post at OoL. By the way, RFK Jr has come out in support of this Schwartz.
16. CK, EK etc.
Let’s open with Steve with this Xer Jacktron:
“The prosecution revealed that UVU cameras CAPTURED Tyler Robinson killing Charlie Kirk. The prosecution says the cameras captured Tyler Robinson going to the snipers perch, taking the shot at Charlie Kirk, and then running away into a wooded area. No wonder Crazy Candy the Bisexual Occultist is wetting her diaper: her entire shtick that she’s been building over the last six months is about to go down in flames. Never forget those who participated in this and those who refused to call it out for the sham it is.”
There were comments for and against. I found this one:
This below is from IYE:
CK was either electrocuted or there was an explosive in the microphone. Tyler wassisname is just another patsy. IMHO.
Another deep dive on CK from Leah:
“Was The TOUSA Insurance Policy Under Our Nose The Entire Time?”
My own thoughts but by no means definitive conclusions:
It’s so three letter agency JFK killing … the patsy who did fire, who knows where, the professional assassins, shenanigans with the body after it, the Warren Report. Almost the same playbook.
“Having just watched the “Poseidon Adventure” (1972) it thought I ought to stick to the maritime theme and watch this rather enjoyable, if pretty procedural smuggling yarn. Preston Foster has some charm as “Sully” and Irene Harvey some pluck as “Joan”, involved in an investigation by the US treasury department into a clever criminal operation that uses some pretty ingenious publicity stunts and willing tourists to distribute their illicit contraband. There’s plenty of chemistry between the two in the lead; it moves along at a fairly ripping pace – with the occasional bit of wit and the odd twist to keep it interesting. The ending isn’t up to much, and the romance between Foster and Harvey does, on occasion, clutter up the flow of the adventure, but an adventure it is – and at just over an hour is well worth a watch.”
The IMDb mess:
I decided to try joining IMDb if it didn’t involve much. It did. The initial setting up of login and pword was fine … then they wanted phone.
Why?
I clicked out. Reviews will be from here and there from now on.
