Author Archives: James Higham

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0447) Not a bad time to start Thursday. (0522)

 

5. General idea … US news


4. General idea … Brit news


3. Catherine Herridge on Arctic Frost

According to new records provided through “legally protected whistleblower disclosures”

@ChuckGrassley 197 subpoenas sought testimony, records and communications.. “…related to at least 430 named Republican individuals and entities. Some of the records (Special Counsel Jack) Smith subpoenaed from banks, individuals and businesses included: •Communications with media companies such as CBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, Sinclair and others.  •Communications with “any member, employee or agent of the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government.” •Communications with White House advisors, such as Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, Lara Trump and others. •Statistical data and analysis relating to donors and fundraising efforts.   •Broad financial data relating to conservative individuals and entities.” +1700 Pages / Subpoenas

https://grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/arctic_frost_197_subpoena_records_obtained_by_chairman_grassley.pdfhttps://grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/arctic_frost197_subpoena_tracker_compiled_by_sjc_staff.pdf

2. DAD at 1187

a) Did Punitive British Net Zero Taxes Just bankrupt an Oil Company? A major North Sea oil and energy giant has filed for administrators….

b) Tolkien Hobbit Sire thing … read it over there (JH)

c) A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”….

d) Some lovely Strauss over there (JH)

1. Combined items

Goes Steve, Steve, Penseivat below:


The Sydney Jones bit … I saw this in comments:

Wednesday [11 till close of play]

(1818) Evening all, sorry a bit late.

 

19.

18. Course is clear what needs doing


17. Juss sayin’ like

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16. Plod flatly refuse to do their job

15. Govt totally out of order


14. Reykjavik yesterday

13. The autopen and pardon scam

12. It never, ever ends


11. Steve corner

Opening with Steve’s remarks in comments under Wednesday 6-10. Suggest you bookmark, should you wish to return to the link:

“Be warned: the following film contains dramatic reconstruction of court proceedings.”

Now war room at 1187:

  • Phelim McAleer: British Establishment Froze Because It Was Too Afraid Of Being Called Racist To Confront The Truth. When The Abuse Finally Came Out, Media And Politicians Stayed Silent, Because Admitting It Would Expose The Failure Of Mass Muslim Immigration
  • Peter McIlvenna: A Survivor Of A Grooming Gang Won A £425,000 Judgment Against Her Rapist, But The Courts Have Refused To Enforce It For Over A Year!
  • Jack Posobiec: One Name Everyone Needs To Remember When It Comes To Who Screwed Up Europe: Angela Merkel. The EU Forced Nations To Open Their Doors, Erasing Culture, Faith, And Identity
  • Laura Loomer: Of The 1 Million Barrels Of Oil Pumped Per Day In Venezuela 916,000 Are Going To China (much more than the title suggests)

Wed Mat

 

I must declare, straight away, that though this is about the RC Church, you could have made it about *any* church based on a priesthood and money, gold, property … it’s about corruption, plus about so many supposed godly people’s personal little sins, skeletons.

Yes, we’ve run it twice, not everyone likes PM, I could have chosen a film … this was still a very good episode.

“A priest, Father O’ Neil (Timothy Bottoms), and a young nun called Sister Margaret (Michele Greene) are carrying out a full financial audit on behalf of the church, including the church hospital. Father O’ Neil suspects that embezzlement on a grand scale is taking place and the church’s lawyers, accountants and even the hospital’s chief of medicine fear that their gravy train is about to be brought to an end.

Father O’ Neil is murdered at his hotel by a hitman disguised as a priest who calls himself Father Logan (Hagan Beggs). He lures Sister Margaret to the hotel where he drugs her and squeezes the knife into her hand. When she recovers and is found with the murder weapon and the body she is duly arrested and charged with Father O’ Neil’s murder.

Rumours had been circulating around the convent that she and Father O’ Neil were having an affair, and a letter supposedly written by him to her ending the so-called relationship is found in her room. Sgt Brock (James McEachin) believes it to be her motive, but Perry has his doubts and suspects that whoever is embezzling the church hired the mysterious Father Logan to murder Father O’ Neil and then frame Sister Margaret…

The first sequel to the successful TVM Perry Mason Returns (1985), which was based on the classic 1950’s-60’s courtroom drama series. Numerous sequels followed and this stands as one of the best.

There is some entertaining chemistry between William Katt (here reprising his role as the PI Paul Drake Jnr) and Michele Greene as Sister Margaret that is a joy to watch. She and Drake fall out after she insists on helping him carry out his investigation. He traps the phoney priest Father Logan in a health club, but Sister Margaret’s meddling means that he loses him.

Later, Della Street (Barbara Hale), urges him to make things up with her since everyone is shunning her because she’s a murder suspect and she is all alone and needs a friend. Initially, Drake is reluctant and asks “Why are you looking at me?”, but he finds her praying alone in the chapel and she confides in him that she doesn’t feel she can make it as a nun. She is due to take her final vows soon, and although there was no actual affair between her and the murdered man, she admits that she loved him and as a result of that feels that she cannot meet the standards required of her by the church.

In a moving scene, Drake manages to convince her that she does have the strength to do it and it isn’t wrong to have feelings for somebody. There is also another powerful scene in the courtroom where she takes the witness stand against Perry’s wishes and the prosecutor, Michael Reston (David Ogden Stiers), predictably, goes for her and attempts to bully her into confessing to Father O’ Neil’s murder and into admitting to their alleged affair.

In a show of strength she denies it and then speaks out defending the murdered priest’s integrity and that he never once broke his vows with her and she never did with him. Drake’s encouragements lead her to take the brave stand she did and their friendship is restored. This provides the emotional element in the story and it comes off well thanks to good writing, Greene and Katt’s performances and Ron Satlof’s skilled direction.

Raymond Burr is in top form as Mason and his courtroom scenes are in full throttle here as he gives the witnesses both barrels on the witness stand. As he unmasks the killer, his repetitive “Isn’t it true?” line of questioning builds it up to a real crescendo as the prosecutor keeps trying to object, the public gallery is loud in astonishment and Mason keeps going on and on despite the judge’s furious and futile attempts to bring his court to order.

In some later episodes, the courtroom scenes did not always manage to be as dramatic and as suspenseful as they are here.

The supporting cast is excellent with the most notable being Timothy Bottoms and Michele Greene as Father O’ Neil and Sister Margaret. But, Barbara Parkins, Gerald S. O. Loughlin, Jon Cypher and Edward Winter also deserve praise as the people entrusted to look after the affairs of the church and hospital, and they all look untrustworthy, devious and on the make. But, you will be hard pressed to guess which of them is the guilty party before the end.

Mention should also be made of Hagan Beggs as Father Logan.

Dean Hargrove’s script contains a good plot, peopled with interesting characters and it plays as fair as one could wish with the audience. Ron Satlof, the series’ best director, directs with aplomb, exploiting the setting of wintry Denver Colorado to maximum effect.”

Wednesday [6 to 10]

(1043) Phew, been a bit frenetic, folks but you see the result before you on our various pages. Time for brunch. (1147)

 

10. Moosh corner


9. Emerald


8. The issue today across Britain


7. Time for our own English perspective

… after some time away:

6. Awwwwww

… and much of this is our longtime readers … ta.

Wednesday [3 to 5]

(0703) Morning all. (0807)

 

5. Steve at 1186

  • House Oversight Committee Deems ALL Biden Autopen Actions Null And Void – Demands Investigation by AG Pam Bondi (JH: Then investigate do nothing Bondi)
  • Hard-Liner Prince William Reportedly Threatened Royal Future of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie To Get Their Father Andrew to Leave 30-Room Royal Lodge (JH: Natch … they want to move in closeby)
  • Democrat Sen. Chris Coons Admits Denying Americans Their SNAP Benefits Is “Unpleasant” But “Worth It” Because It Gives Democrats Political “Leverage” (JH: ditto the chief Dem whip)
  • Trump-Appointee Paul Ingrassia Slaps Politico with $150 Million Defamation Lawsuit After ‘Fake News’ Smear Campaign
  • “No One Left to Fight”: Why Only 7 Out of 125 Soldiers in Ukrainian Battalions Are Infantry
  • Online Safety Act: Wikipedia will not comply, says co-founder Jimmy Wales (JH: Obviously … no international clout)
  • ‘It’s only going to get worse’ – Irish teen girl delivers passionate speech warning against mass immigration (read it and weep) …

… JH: Have a closer look … she’s prepared by someone for it … be both outraged but cynical, discerning watcher.

  • Much more.

4. The bleedin’ obvious

There’s most certainly an organising brain behind it all and the goal is either all-in race war, religious war, any sort of war will do. Kissinger flew in to Rwanda and a month or so later, the all in tribal war started … a different set of combatants but similar situation occurred in Vietnam when Kissinger flew in to speak with south viet persons and events caught fire not so long after.

Always remember, with Kissinger and others, the secret flight in to speak with dept officials versus later “peacekeeping”, official visits, with all the razzmatazz.

There’s a long history of similar with US figures, the most obvious being Colonel House from Woodrow Wilson’s time onwards. The Dulles Brothers were two more. Madeleine Allbright was another. In the case of those, receipts were brought at the old N.O. in posts but of course, where’s the old N.O. now?

And naturally, try to find all that evidence now in 2025 and all there is is a ggl front page whitewash, similar with Bing and others. That’s how it’s always done.

Meanwhile, there’s a growing backlash against soc-med like this very blog … there was a clip on X following the Afghan killing in Uxbridge … a man in his 30s, patriot type, saying he was deadly serious now, he was not going to take any more … it was dashcam as he was driving his car.

I waited for his call to arms but of course, naturally, he stopped short … that gets you a visit from half a dozen plod and incarceration in short order. So why even post it? Well there are two answers … one is for outrage effect, a call for arms … but there’s a second reason it’s left up online … it shows impotent rage, with the emphasis on impotent.

There were of course, the Curtis Silwas and Proud Boys etc., all infiltrated, there’ve been FBI units, pretending to be patriot vigilantes … the whole thing is scripted by some one or some people who are highly knowledgeable historians of how things always proceed.

In semi-fiction, which I myself used to write, certain events are redrawn and human interest aspects dominate … it’s a novel after all … done more professionally, let’s say, by Graham Greene in The Quiet Man. Wiki:

“Alden Pyle is the “quiet American” of the title. A CIA agent working undercover, Pyle is thoughtful, soft-spoken, intellectual, serious, and idealistic. He comes from a privileged East Coast background. His father is a renowned professor of underwater erosion whose picture has appeared on the cover of Time magazine; his mother is well respected in their community. Pyle is a brilliant graduate of Harvard University. He has studied theories of government and society, and is particularly devoted to a scholar named York Harding. Harding’s theory is that neither Communism nor colonialism is the answer in foreign lands like Vietnam, but rather a “Third Force”, usually a combination of traditions, works best.”

Once, when travelling back to Stockholm on my first class Eurail, in our compartment was a US Eastcoaster and we got down to the geopolitics very quickly. Why would he have bothered?

Greene’s was the bowdlerised, romanticised take. In 2025, it’s easily understood that Pyle has diabolical orders … but from whom? And to answer that, one goes to 1915’s The 39 Steps and Scudder’s take on who’s actually behind Prince von Whoever, who’s further down the corridor, behind another door. In The Time Machine film, it’s Jeremy Irons. In Christian works, plus the UN’s, it’s Lucis, son of the new dawn.

Thus, someone sets off the killing of illegals, they’re well armed and trained by the state and make mincemeat out of the badly organised, unherdable patriots … at first. There’s the permawar. So easy … just send out an Afghan into leafy Uxbridge, not Toxteth and ensure the clown heads are well fortified in their bulletproof cars. The plan proceeds.

My question of course is … if I’m writing this, then who’s the conflagrationist Voltaire? There’s always a Voltaire.

3. DAD at 1186

a) [I have noticed that, in France, elderly ladies are increasingly the target of Illeg@l Immigr@nts.]

a1) Paris: 79-year-old woman raped by Algerian illegal immigrant who offered to deliver her groceries.

a2) Voiron (38). The lifeless, stabbed body of an 81-year-old woman discovered in her apartment.

b) “Hard-left political party erases women and now refers to two sexes as ‘men’ and ‘non-men’ to keep trans activists happy”.

c) On X, the LFI [Neo-communist] MP denounced “fascists,” quoting a message written by Patrick Jardin. Éric Zemmour responded, castigating “the pure inhumanity behind the anti-fascist charade.”

d) A huge French flag was painted last weekend on the steps of the Grande Côte hill in Lyon’s 1st arrondissement, covering the Palestinian flag

Wednesday [1 and 2]

(0115) Not a time to wake unless another sleep overtakes. Uneasy but that’s because of things happening within this house from November … more on that as it happens. Must try to hit the hay again by 0315. (0244)

 

2. At the same time as the defence article

… Andy has dropped two pieces at NOWP which I saw in extract form, even checked out the video and she is very good in that video.

a. NOWP 1186:8

James, I would like to hear your take on this, an explanation of the root causes. You’ve lived over there and I appreciate that you will have a better understanding than me. You’re a busy man and this is a fairly long video (35mins), so I understand if you can’t watch it all.

JH: Initial look … it seems very good. More expanded take later. (0308) Had a second look … very, very good indeed. But must stick to my timetable … sleep before 0315, se y’all on the morrow.

Having now looked through, it’s rubbish, viewed only through a western lens, ignoring two major factors, skipping over them … the rise of the Ukrainian fascist groups including Azov for example, plus groups such as Right Sektor, plus the misstating of tribe Rus history, which she has no idea of, being from the western perspective only.

Where I lived, I was getting the khanate version itself through my Tatar gfs, the tribe Rus version through my Rus gfs, plus the Uke version through my mate who was from Donetsk. There’s another version, the Soviet take on history and no one was defending that.

Be very careful, any westerner watching this … you are only getting one lens, not the others.

I shall expand this on a separate page, for the benefit of Andy but even then, it will not be very long as I must get on with the general blogging.

Russia and the Ukraine

b. NOWP 1186: 7

It’s a YT short on a huge revival (in troubled times) in churchgoing in a US state. My immediate question is … is it good teaching though? Remember that horrible service the Donald and entourage had to endure with that far left feminazi female “pastor”, plus that black pastor the other day haranguing a parishioner for only giving $1200 and not $2000 … seems to me there are so many pointy hatters, even baldies, pontificating, the media calling it Christian and yet it’s quite unChristian, unbiblical in nature.

This concerns me as all those people want to hear the Word (not in doomed godless Britain, this is in the US) and what they’re getting is perverted Wokeness from a synagogue of satan.

c. NOWP 1186:4

This is not one of the charities which I support but is of some concern. | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-investigated-over-funding-of-non-charitable-company

Lastly for now … never so busy, Andy, for vital things like this. I always half hope you’ll have dropped something overnight as it is almost invariably good.

1. What to do with an item which has come through

… and though the material demands posting, the author , the local rag and the topic overall requires work and yet does not interest me. I imagine that’s how actual journos feel, being assigned filler pieces to do.

More interesting to me, not to you perhaps, is where to actually place this article. Not NOWP, as its space is filling up gradually and I’d rather readers owned that space. Not Jstack as I’ve never come to terms with its limited tools (that I would ever need) and strange control they keep, substack. Not UHC-WP with its ridiculous 1 Gb limit to storage space. It’s for longer pieces in almost all text, which uses far less space. Once it fills, I’ll need to make another blog beside it.

No, I’m back to the old (one year old?) trusty HQ with cavernous amounts of space … we could even create a second and third blog beside this one if we wanted. The downside is that there is an in-house threat now here (in RL) from Nov 1 and it could conceivably take out HQ but the other blogs stay up, the ones being criticised here … making them the trusty sites.

Thinking out loud but think I’ll run “pages”, not “posts” which don’t post publicly but can be accessed from signposts at HQ.

And so to the two parts. One is the Sydney author and the curious reason why on earth he’s being syndicated through local rags as part of some govt push downunder. The other is some quite strange sabre rattling by this guy on a defence topic … sabre rattling at Russia. Seems govt top down, this, through captured MSM.

Article and surrounding story is found HERE.

Tuesday [21 till close of play]

(1548) Almost evening … getting darker anyway.

 

31. Eco-criminals


30. Dozens of ladies retorted today

… this is an example.


29. Prunella again

28. Johnson


27. Corruption allegedly provable


26. Probably pointless explaining

… they just don’t want to know.

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25. Steve at 1186 and war room

  • Alex Jones: The Globalists Declared America Was Finished, But Trump Changed The Trajectory. If He Breaks Through The Lawfare And Deep-State Sabotage, We Enter A New Golden Age. If Not, The Great Reset Wins
  • Mark Mitchell: The GOP Is Outmatched And Off The Field While Trump Fights Alone. The Base Wants To Drain The Swamp And End Corporate Welfare, But Their Representation Is Asleep
  • Kyle Olson On Democrats Nationwide Campaign To Test President Trump’s Presidential Power
  • Del Bigtree: Why Can’t A Single Health Agency In The World Do A Study On Health Outcomes Of Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated?

24. In part 3 of my long saga

… the gallant ragtag find themselves on an island as exiles, they build, in the trees, a series of interconnected treehuts with walkways. Compare to that Oz house earlier today.


23. The pollies need to be tried and executed

… a bit like Nuremburg.


22. RIP Prunella Scales


21. Uxbridge

… adding to Steve in comments.

Tue Mat

 

One more time, on the grounds that it’s so good:

“The Lady Vanishes is a wonderful piece of fluff, the culmination of Hitchcock’s British period, after which he started to explore more serious themes in his American films. Of course the basic plot is absurd, centering around the most ridiculous way to get a secret message through one can think of, and why did…..oh well, never mind, it’s the handling that matters, and Hitchcock achieves a near perfect balance here of humour and suspense that he only really matched on one other film, North By Northwest.

The film spends 20 or so minutes just introducing it’s characters, but they are all so great, especially the two men so obsessed with returning to a cricket match that a case of disappearance and possibly murder is relatively unimportant, that it hardly matters, while Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood simply sparkle as the main couple who of course initially can’t stand each other.

Once on the train, the ensuring mystery and sleuthing are riveting,and full of fantastic little details- the name on the window, the nun with high heeled shoes, the fight amidst a magician’s paraphenalia The final shootout is excellently staged and still quite exciting. The laughs are constant, with some hilarious lines, but they never detract from the suspense. Of course there’s those shoddy model shots, but hell, this is a film from 1938!

Hitchcock had countless classics to come, including such complex masterpieces as Vertigo and Rear Window, but the delightful, hugely enjoyable The Lady Vanishes is a little masterpiece all of it’s own.”