This particular episode had more accolades than normal … might be worth a look.
Postwar White Elephant
Author Archives: James Higham
Sunday [1 to 5]
(0845) Morning all … very late start … the day looks mild, cumulus cloud, some nimbus … I’m sure the planes will be out there soon, ruining it.
5. Andy corner
At 1218
Users of VPN can dodge pesky ads on utub if they set it to Albania. Not for long as they’re working on stopping the workaround.
JH: Don’t forget Andy’s dayjob back in the day.
Just now
Some very was breaking new from California. | https://news.sky.com/story/children-killed-in-mass-shooting-at-birthday-party-in-stockton-california-13477351
4. Steve at 1218
- Oregon’s Democrat Attorney General Threatens to Arrest Federal Agents for Enforcing Immigration Law and Protecting Portland ICE Facility (JH: think about this one … Fed v state … trying to arrest each other … the “system” turned to insanity)
- Northwestern University Folds to Trump to End Funding Freeze, Will Pay $75 Million Fine and End DEI Discrimination
- ‘We Are Being Forced to Fund Our Own Destruction’: The Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars Behind Afghan Resettlement Program That Brought National Guard Shooter to US
- British Covert War On Russia: Actions At Sea Pointing Towards Total Naval War (JH: Crimean War all over again … post item coming up later)
- Yermak Goes Zelensky Regime Unravels; Belgium Blocks EU’s Russian Asset Plan US Cuts EU Out of Talks
- Why is Britain’s official inquiry into COVID handling blaming a ‘toxic culture’ for a late lockdown?
- UK’s open border policy is not normal; nor is it acceptable
- AI isn’t just taking over jobs; it’s now taking over creation itself (JH: They wish, the old old story)
- Much much more.
3. First nasty item out of Canada for Sunday
Old story … saw it on socmed … how much weight to give it?
2. DAD at 1218
a) The left is evil 1. Far-Left mob tries to shut down AfD Youth launch. Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed Giessen….
b) The left is evil 2. The town hall of Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine) announced in a press release issued on Friday, November 28, 2025, that it will cease providing accommodation for young exiles on December 1st….
c) Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has issued a scathing letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to abandon plans to tap into €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war efforts. (JH: Evil woman)
d) Listen ! Can you hear the threat of war drums in the background. President Macron wants to reinstate voluntary military service….
e) Confirmation of d). ‘They’ need the Russian bogeyman: Why Europe won’t let the war end.
1. Over at OoL
This states the problem in Britain quite clearly:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/11/its-not-just-about-incompetent-lying.html
The bigger two issues are firstly how to stop the rot before it goes any further … and secondly how mechanisms can be put in place to institute some sort of recall of a govt and/or judiciary which acts counter to agreed platforms or long precedent.
They’re the thorny questions.
Saturday [16 till close of play]
(1734) Evening all. Thanks for the comments today, have read them, much to post at this moment.
22. Quite liking this new commentator
21. Britain
22. America
21. Canada
20. Australia
19. Deryl corner
18. Scandinavia
17. Constantinople
16. Steve at 1218
War Room snippets…
- The Posobiec Brothers On Migrants Being Treated Better Than American Citizens In Our Own Country
- Jack Posobiec: Why He Believes the Left Uses Mass Migration to Undercut the Middle Class And Destabilize Western Society
- General Flynn: I Think The Operational Commander Of The Color Revolution Here In America Is John Brennan
- Steve Cortes On The Zelenskyy Government: No More Blank Checks For Crooks, It Is A Middle Finger To Every Single American
Sat Mat
“If they had beefed up the dialogue, replaced the rather wooden actors, and cut the running time from 70 minutes to 50 minutes. It actually has an ironic ending that is worthy of the master of suspense.
You can see where this film is going from a mile away. Valerie Bancroft is a young heiress who has a fatal heart condition. She and her paid companion, Marsha, decamp from New York and go to California for the sunshine and hope that it will improve her life expectancy – she should live a year at the most. While in California, they meet con man Ricardo De Villa. He claims to be a businessman from South America who is using the lull in business to holiday in California.
Instead he is broke, wants to run off with the female half of a professional dance team, and does not have the money to do so. Marsha told him about Valerie’s heart condition hoping he would cut down on all of the night life with Valerie if he knew. Instead he woos and marries Valerie, hoping that the increase in activity, which she loves, will kill her off early. And even if it doesn’t, a year is not so long to wait to inherit Valerie’s money. Complications ensue.
Nobody in this film is that bad, but one part is done very badly. That would be the part of the cuckolded ballroom dancing husband, Don. He hardly ever says anything. But he is always looking around corners and either following his unfaithful wife or Ricardo. Another role is done rather hilariously. Don’s cheating wife, Fritzie, is always dressed in one of her ballroom dancing gowns no matter what the surroundings. She could be on the beach or in the supermarket and there she would be, conspicuously dressed to the nines.
I would mildly recommend this one.”
Saturday [12 to 15]
(1352) Afternoon all. Brightening up out there just a bit. (1410)
15. This is a quiz question … try this
Here’s a statement by a sitting Senator:
Question is … which western, though now fourth world, nation?
14. Is the BofE or CofE worse?
13. The only trustworthy MP at Westminster
12. Monsters
This:
… reminds me of this:
Saturday [11]
(0949)(0951)
11. There’s a phenomenon I for one am noticing
… though certain men are making the running, as they do, that can be bad or good. At the same time, they are staffed by a flood of females, again bad (Rachel from accounts, Clinton etc.) but also good … they get the bit between the teeth and refuse to lay off, which is precisely what’s needed in westwide punditry right now.
The thing with women is … while they believe in you, they are lionesses defending some one theirs … but if the Blair, Alistair Campbell, whoever loses them, then the miscreants are already on the way out … because women do not hold back, esp. on bad women. Later I have two shorts by Jed Bila and those two shorts show everything a man should know about women.
This is a core reason I think we on this side of politics, trying to restore order, MUST combine men plus women, not one, not the other but side by side … in turn, children observe that and learn.
This below is par for the course for the ladies:
The Humber Armoured Car
New channel for me … see what you think …
Saturday [6 to 10]
(0659) Morning all … have a good one … low Gates poison clouds out there, 8/8 cover. (0842)
10. Moosh corner, whilst still in a good mood
… with good coffee beside me:
9. Not even going to bother exploring this from TDS
… not because I don’t buy that it happened … it most probably did … but the whole topic disgusts me:
8. Colleen Moore
Never let it be said that we do not profile noted women here, albeit occasionally … this lady I’ve always been intrigued by, as she was a massively popular star of her day, commanding large weekly fees, with one film costing $1m, recouping it in a few months.
She was the first to model the new “flapper” bob, later popularised … forever … by Louise Brooks … and another “forever girl” was her friend, initially her idol … Lillian Gish … she had two major loves, Colleen did … acting plus dolls and dolls houses, all her life.
Wiki is rubbish on anything political, yes, but on things like this, it’s definitive … do read it fully if you would … quite a story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Moore
My search question can be guessed in this response:
She was one of those women of the time in Hollywood who were their own people, sane, astute, knew how to invest her earnings, having had a rough intro to the film industry, she later joined an investment firm once it was apparent that her future was not in talkies. Sadly, just like today where women who are driven to being Boss Girls end up with money cats and regrets … but also not in the same way … Colleen Moore was shrewd behind the ingenue image she projected (as was Gish) … Colleen kept remarrying.
Anyone who knows of the era knows of Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Lillian Gish, Annette Hanshaw but Colleen Moore? Maybe many today see the pictures and think Brooks or Gish … when it’s actually Moore.
Once more … why? Why not known to the same extent? Well, the deterioration of the films which were given to a museum and the “curator” just left them open on the shelf … certainly that was a huge factor. But there’s also another imho. Some people are fine in almost all respects but something in their face, manner, even intelligence, is not so much offputting as it stops people warming to them.
Just the very factor of being in control of their business, their life … well it leaves no room for emotion, warm fuzzy feelings. Wanting to play the ingenue in film, seeing how popular that was with the wartorn public … there was just some X factor which allowed people to simply forget her later … time and events do move on. She was, at heart, conventional. That’s that.
7. This is being “buried” here
… coz it’s a major topic, a sleeper, arguably with eschatalogical implications. IYE:
Donny’s Executive order of 25 November, 2025
The Genesis Mission
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-genesis-mission
Not giving me a warm cosy feeling but that’s just me….Dark Maga comes to mind.
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JH: I suggest you do set aside some time today if possible. Nuff for now.
6. Hope she’s his foreign policy adviser
Saturday [1 to 5]
(0615) Late start here as it took an hour to put up up the OoL post. (0646)
5. In one
4. Steve at 1217
- Horrifying Scandal Reveals Brutal Underbelly of Zelensky’s Regime: Ukrainian Draft Officer Arrested for Mutilating Conscript’s Genitals
- Parents Sue District After School Forced Daughter to Share Bed with ‘Trans’ Male Student on Trip
- Classic Video: Rush Limbaugh Tells the True Story of the First Thanksgiving
- Trump Confirms His Admin is ‘Looking at’ Deporting Wife and Five Kids of National Guard Shooter
- Trump Declares Any Document Signed by Biden with Autopen is Terminated – Threatens Biden with Perjury Charges
- Collapse Risk Grows: Russian Troops Push Ukrainian Forces Toward Critical Line
- Trump administration secures historic Medicare drug price cuts, challenging Big Pharma’s grip
- AI Toys Tell Young Kids to Start Fires and Initiate Sex Talk: A Stark Warning to All
- General Flynn Calls For National Address From Trump On Color Revolution
- Trump Halts Migration From all Third World Countries and Demands “Reverse Migration” After Deadly DC Attack
- Much more.
3. Incompetence THROUGH design
2. DAD at 1217
a) ‘Covid’ type of “Science” again. According to the program #Complementdenquete, there is no correlation between immigration and crime: “that’s what science says.”
b) Last year, France was shocked by a crime of unspeakable cruelty. In June 2024, a 12-year-old Jewish girl was gang raped by three young Muslim boys.
c) French lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal [between the EU and South America], call on Macron to block it in Brussels.
d) France’s domestic intelligence service has warned of a growing threat to Christian communities, according to a confidential report obtained by Le Figaro that links recent attacks in Europe to decades of jihadist propaganda.
1. And so this is Christmas
… over at OoL:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-in-rome-do-as-romans-do.html
Reason it took an extra hour is that the text I was quoting went haywire and I had to manually put it in, in html.
Friday [18 till close of play]
(1728) Evening all.
22. Despicable Morgan and his curry
21. Moosh corner
20. Trojan mice tactic
19. Andrew Wolfe
18. Steve corner
War Room at 1217:
- Episode 4857: War Room Thanksgiving Day Special 2025
- Episode 4858: War Room Thanksgiving Day Special 2025 continued
Svetlana Lokhova:
Seditionist Elissa Slotkin spoke at the Brookings Institute a month ago, predicting an incident involving National Guard. She estimated that it would take place in around two weeks from when she spoke. Seditionist Maggie Goodlander’s husband Jake Sullivan is closely associated with Brookings. He is the protege of former Brookings President and the Clintons’ buddy Strobe Talbott. Jake Sullivan was Hillary’s closest aide, and Biden NatSec Advisor, who also worked with Obama.
JD Vance:
Here is my message to Ben Sasse and other establishment Republicans who seem to care more about bringing 30,000 unvetted Afghan refugees into our country than getting our own people out safely. (footage was attached of him saying that).
Nick Sortor:
President Trump just LAMBASTED a “reporter” for asking why Trump blames BIDEN for this Afghan terrorist being in our country 47 even pulled out the photo of Afghans stuffed in US military planes “Are you STUPID?! They came in big planes… UNVETTED. UNCHECKED.” “THIS is how they come in. With THOUSANDS of others. They came in, and they SHOULDN’T have come in.”
Laura Loomer:
NEW: Before committing Islamic Jihad in our nation’s Capitol yesterday, shooting 2 National Guardsmen, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan Islamic terrorist who committed this act of Islamic terror, was staying at the home of a man named Stanley Creighton in Bellingham, Washington. The terrorist was staying there with his wife and 5 sons. I screen recorded this Go Fund Me, which has now been deleted. The Go Fund me was last updated on January 30, 2023.
The description for the Go Fund Me says: “This is Stan and Val, and we are fundraising for an Afghan refugee family who stayed at our home for 2 months before finding permanent rental housing in Bellingham, WA. Rahmanullah and Khamila have 5 wonderful boys ages 11 to 2. Before being evacuated to the US in September 2021, Rahmanullah served for 11 years as a member of the Afghan Special Forces alongside U.S. service members fighting the Taliban. This is an opportunity for you to help a truly wonderful family. They left Afghanistan with nothing, and they need household and kitchen items of all kinds. Please give whatever you can to help them start a new life in the US. They are truly genuine, kind people.”
Looks like the authorities need to go pay Stan and Val a visit to find out why they provided this jihadi and his family aid and comfort. There should be consequences for people in our country who provide safe haven to Islamic jihadists under suicidal empathy. The public should know who these people are. I looked up Stan and Val’s House, and it’s a $2.6 million home in Bellingham, Washington. Stan and Val said the terrorist and his family are “truly genuine, kind people.” Is that what you call Islamic terrorists who shoot National Guardsmen? Also. Where is Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s wife and his 5 kids? Where are they? They need to detained immediately before they become jihadists like their dad. Send the wife and kids back to Afghanistan. They are a national security threat! Cc:
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JH: I’ll just add that during the Canadian trucker convoy, they used GoFundMe and it was then found the funds had been diverted, not getting through to truckers and families. They had to change to GiveGetGo. I don’t trust any of these methods of transfer. Also, an Xer called Hungry Trucker was constantly tweeting about Tamara Lich and that partner who were in charge of that whole thing.