(1600) Closing in on evening, folks.

 

13. Why is Donny incapable of standard vetting

… of due diligence? If we can do it, why can’t he?

12. Intellectual property, copyright, AI

… what thinkest thou?

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms…… pic.twitter.com/GUf09zRuJi

— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) April 4, 2026

11. And here’s another one

10. We’ve been looking at many tales of late

… at possible explanations … the constant factor has been that “crazy” today seems not so crazy once we’ve lost all faith in people “above”, in positions of power. In social media, we can construct any sort of plausible case, throw in some hard data, and Pammy’s your aunty.

9. Moo corner

8. The Paris Review

… is an old publication of the “left literary establishment”, specialising in literary pieces by “highly regarded authors” from their world … maybe “high-toned” is a better way to put it.

So, if an author is to give creedence to the Kubrik moon landing yarn, he must first give some detail but then question it, thereby being “evenhanded”, which is more than, say, the BBC and other MSM do today.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/18/how-stanley-kubrick-staged-the-moon-landing-and-other-stories

7. While Steve comments at HQ about the F-15E pilot rescue

… Andy posts at 1344 that he was not rescued. Your choice in this fog of war.

6. IYE has a piece at 1344 on “the energy beast”

He quotes from it … I also have a takeaway from it:

“In 1932, the Fabian-linked organisation Political and Economic Planning published a pamphlet titled Freedom and Planning. It proposed decoupling distribution from production, installing an unelected planning authority between producer and consumer, and setting the standards by which goods would flow. The farmer would retain operational freedom over his fields. The quantities, the pricing, and the market access would be determined by a distribution authority he never voted for. 

The pamphlet noted that of all Britain’s institutions, only one would require no structural change to fit the new order: the Bank of England.

Ninety-four years later the architecture is the same, but the scale is now global. 

The distribution authority is a physical corridor. The standards are environmental, financial, and regulatory. And the institution that requires no change is the Bank for International Settlements — which published the unified ledger blueprint, calibrates the capital requirements, and built the settlement infrastructure through which the corridor will clear.”

 

First up was sent by Toodles as a lullaby … how sweet:

Second this afternoon is an ensemble some of us know and appreciate:

Last this afternoon is an old fave of mine … I suspect also of many listeners:

 

“It was made by Teddington Studios, the British studio then under the control of Warner Brothers. It was a “quota quickie”, a film made under the British Cinematograph Films Act of 1927- created to counter the dominance of American films in Britain.

The film is a simple (if properly restrained British) love story. It begins as an unemployed car salesman, Peter Middleton, who has lost the last of his money in cards, takes a street orphan under his wing and pretending the orphan is his son, persuades a softhearted landlady to rent him a room, although he has no money.

The next day, while trying to con the chauffeur of a fancy motorcar, he meets the rich young Cynthia Hatch. However, intrigued by his audacity, she hides her identity from him when he mistakes her for a working girl and to impress her, he pretends that the car is his.

And so, in the best scene in the movie, she convinces him to take her to a fancy restaurant that he, of course, he can’t pay for. There she puts him up to going to the powerful Mr. Hatch (her father, still unknown to him) to pitch a scheme for petrol (gas) stations. He promises that he will make good and then hire her as his secretary.

However, her scheme backfires when her father rejects him and he goes to work for the competition. He holds her to her promise, and she finds herself working for her father’s chief competitor. 

Its all wrapped up neatly in a little more than an hour as the young entrepreneur gets the best of his future father-in-law and wins the girl. As the girl, Nancy O’Neil is quite good and Ian Hunter is good, if a little stiff, as the lead. After this film, he went to Hollywood, where he may be best known for playing King Richard in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”.

It was directed by Michael Powell, who went on to make “Black Narcissus” and “The Red Shoes”, among other classics.”

(1330) Afternoon all, hope all is well. (1330)

 

5. Moo corner

4. Bondi

3. Steve at 1343

• 77 Years Ago Today, NATO Was Created to Defend the West – But Is It?
• Easter and Holy Week Celebrations Cancelled Across the Middle East
• F-15E Pilot Reacts to Daring F-15E Crew Rescue Mission in Iran
• Iran Reports Deadly Attack On Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Russia Evacuates More Staff
• The 40 Mechanisms: Exposing the COVID-19 vaccine bioweapon
• The algorithmic frontline: How Ukraine became the world’s AI warfare laboratory
• Shroud of Turin DNA study deepens mystery: New findings suggest complex history
• More.

2. Is this the other pilot or someone else?

Plus Sunday 7 says something else.

1. DAD at 1343

a) A large-scale police operation, conducted after several months of investigation, has dismantled a structured network facilitating illegal immigration in southwestern France. Two men have been charged and placed in pretrial detention.

b) Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands. All five have drawn up a list of countries with which they could open migrant centers or consider other “innovative solutions,” according to sources cited by AFP.

c) Military authorization required to stay abroad? A German law on military service stipulates that men (aged 17 to 45) “must obtain authorization from the army recruitment center” if they leave the country for more than three months.

d) Discovering Chartreuse Elixir: a Very Spiritual Spirit. There is something rather mysterious about the aura surrounding this green bottle, crafted in silence by the monks.

 

Housekeeping … 0620 BST … cunning plan is to resume hostilities around 1330 today with our chaps’ and any chapesses’ incoming, plus a few other items, then a film, then music including at least one jazz track, then back to full-on posting approaching evening. This morning, for me, involves personal contact around the west and a short service of sorts.

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter Day … or Resurrection Day … or choc eggs and bunnies day … or even Brit bank holiday … however you commemorate it, may you stay safe and well through these iconic few days.

This below was saved about 5 a.m. BST, Sunday, posted on X by Malcolm Roberts, Queensland, Senator for One Nation downunder, which shows that the cultural underpinning for the west is well summed up … yes, it is the rolling away of the stone which was the first scene to greet those coming to the tomb and was also the first Easter reference I saw upon logging in just now.

Whichever way you observe today and Malcolm Roberts quoted this:

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” — Matthew 28:6

… or you can go the egg route (sidebar) or whatever … it certainly set the cat among the pigeons from that point forward, around AD33, even to the dating of our current era, plus many political scribes are noting, on this 2026 day, that events are moving in an apocalyptic direction, millions around the world are flocking to churches still not burnt down by the baddies.

And so, thoughts and prayers for readers and the suffering out there. See you in the next post around 1330.