Iran Ramps Up Threats as Tide Turns Against the IRGC
Arctic Frost’ Scandal: Biden FBI Wiretapped Trump Adviser Susie Wiles During Privileged Attorney Call, Then Hid Evidence in “Prohibited” File
British Female Sailor Court-Martialled for ‘Sexually Assaulting Four Shipmates’ on Royal Navy Destroyer
It Has Started. Catastrophe On Ukraine. Russia’s Spring Summer Offensive. Front Update
US Military Is About To Do Something Huge To Iran’s Kharg Island
Study: Millions report illness from proximity to wireless radiation
French court orders probe into ex-Frontex chief turned MEP Fabrice Leggeri over migrant deaths amid NGO pressure
US Weighs Deployment Of Elite Airborne Troops As Hawks Push Kharg Island Takeover
Much more.
4. Oops
3. DAD at 1332
a) A Typically Lefty – does not know what the word ‘Democracy’ means. Writer and philosopher Mazarine Pingeot has decided to cancel her participation in a cultural event in La Flèche, Sarthe. This decision comes in the wake of the National Rally’s victory in the municipal election….
b) Saint-Denis, ‘City of Kings’, and the Great Replacement: a case study. At the foot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of France since Merovingian times, the descendants of the subjects of Their Majesties the Most Christian Kings are becoming increasingly rare.
c) Belgian public broadcasters smash Christian figures but say [that they] would not do so to Islamic or Jewish ones. Presenters on Studio Brussel….
d) Psssst; wanna buy the Eiffel Tower? A section of the helical staircase trod by millions of visitors to reach the summit of the Eiffel Tower is going under the hammer at Artcurial in Paris in May.
Crisis of integrity in online reportage, journalism
One of the things any pundit must be wary of is the scam account. At a minimum, the departure from straightness in the approach to this below is a lesson in not jumping in without due diligence. Voila:
For a start, it’s not written in ordinary citizen language, it’s MSM, then there is that JFK Jr died in a plane crash in 1999. So who is this person on X? The profile says WH. Even if we accepted the content at face value … and my other digging says that we can for Qatar, are still waiting on Saudi … there is still a lack of journalistic or scholarly ethics which in my former working life would have had us out on our ear.
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That above is the screenshot for the X version of this post. This is the long version continued:
MMutR was asking me to include Gab in my posting and to a point I do, but it’s far less stringent over there at Gab … that can be good, can be bad, a bit of both. For example:
Who’s Wendy Milling when she’s at home? No pic, no profile on Gab. I found this on the first search:
At Forbes 10 years ago:
Back to the Gab posts … clearly anti Israel, anti Zionism … but who for? Maybe not the mussies, except as zero sum rejection of Net the Yahoo … I see someone here at least onside with, say, Candace … “Christian Nationalism”, which we know Gab is. END/.
Have aleady mentioned the lighter vein, the lightheartedness but that’s the type of film I’ve skimmed through for the site, filled with women of a non-feminist type, nice fashions … the films themselves, during the depression were heavy on happy endings.
One I was looking at for today was The Mystery Man, ended up posting it … uninspiring review below it but halfway through, a real “keeper” suddenly appeared and altered his arrogance just like that. The audience must have been urging these two on to the last gasp happy ending.
Started thinking why these films are nice … could the stagey nature, out of the silent era, be a factor? The woodiness of the acting? The almost amateurishness? Thought back to The 39 Steps and though far more serious, the values were still nice. 20s for jazz, 30s for film?
15. Steve at 1332
Hearts of Oak: Brian Harrison – The Myth of Conservative Texas: Big Government, Islamization & RINO Sell-outs.
“I like Monogram movies – you can generally be sure of two things – (1) the movies will be entertaining and (2) there will be either a silly plot or a plot with big enough holes in it to drive a truck through.
And this movie is no exception. Robert Armstrong’s Larry Doyle is a cock-sure but good reporter for a Chicago newspaper. The police respect him (indeed, they give him a gun to show their appreciation for his help with a case) but his editor can’t stand him.
Larry spends his $50 bonus on treating his pals to a night on the town. His editor fires him but Larry goes on celebrating and winds up in St. Louis where he befriends a down and out but spunky young woman, Anne Ogilvie (played by Maxine Doyle).
One of my favorite bits in the movie is where Larry secretly pays for Anne’s coffee and donut when she finds out she doesn’t have enough money. Larry sees himself as Anne’s protector and because of Larry’s moxie, they end up staying in a hotel suite (with two bedrooms).
In spite of his former editor’s trying to prevent it, Larry eventually gets a job on the St. Louis News. He is soon hot on the trail of the notorious criminal known as “The Eel.”
The rest of the movie doesn’t make much sense but all’s well that ends well.
Armstrong does a good job but does not do the snappy reporter type as well as Chester Morris or Wally Ford. However, he does such scenes as that at the coffee shop better than they so it all evens out. I had never heard of Maxine Doyle and she did a somewhat surprisingly good job as Anne.
(1014) Morning all … chores this morning, back inside again, wind chill factor out there. Two days running very little on X, usually should at least be US news. Now, either X is restricting what is seen (and there were harsh words spoken yesterday by many) or else there is just fatigue with people. (1103)
10. The Prince
I can only return, yet again, to the chapter in my long book entitled:
… take a glance at the picture of a Dorian Gray type and reflect on why I’d nominate him as the aC for the purpose of the story. If the book had gone on, Barron would have made his enteance at some stage but it didn’t … so he didn’t.
9. Moo corner
Just now, we have a surfeit of Moos, so will run them at 9, 13, 19 … last evening, there were not enough items to reach 19, a great pity.
… via pete. It’s audiobook and only audio, which presents some obstacles for HQ. With films, it’s better they’re embedded, not just linked back, as it cuts out ads. However, this one refuses to embed, which means it’s on YT and is therefore ad-ridden, unless you have your own mechanism to prevent that.
That’s the gamut we run every time we bring in outside content, chaps and chapesses.
(0446) Not a lot to report. Dark still, in ok condition here, starting the rounds. Surfeit of films, dearth of poltics so far, thank goodness. (0735)
5. Consequences
(Also at OoL, at Jstack and on X.)
First off … in 1984/5, Yuri Bezmenov, Soviet defector, gave an interview on “demoralisation” of a society, the word used in a broad sense, from loss of moral compass to a feeling of helplessness down the track.
He said that producing such a result in a society was the result of long planning and it crosses generations, to the point that once the disease gets into families, schools, media, entertainment, the judiciary, medicine … there’s no coming back.
He added that people reach a point, esp. on the Left, where they can be presented with “authentic information” and those people are then unable to reason, to draw valid conclusions, to see that their behaviour has consequences.
Contrived, handed down non-reality, disguised as wisdom, or in other words … narrative … replaces real reasoning, mental health plummets and behaviour involves deep depression at core level, interspersed with lashing out.
One consequence for this girl below was set in motion long before the actual incident. For a start, what on earth was she even doing on her own? Part of the answer appears further down here. She simply had not adjusted to new societal realities. Just as with Iryna on that subway train. No concept of danger whatever. But much “independent, strong woman” about it … cue disaster in 2025/6.
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Consequences. One who did understand it played for the other side … he was referring to love/hooking up but it applies just as much to societal changes overall imho.
4. At Lord Toby’s TDS today
3. Steve at 1331
Iranian-Backed Houthis Poised to Join War Against US and Israel as Early as Monday
Iran Threatens to Wipe Out Middle East Water Supply Including Desalination Plants After President Trump Issues Brutal 48-Hour Ultimatum
Trump Installs Columbus Statue at White House, Restoring Monument Destroyed in 2020 Riots
Budapest’s Spring Of Discontent: Foreign Powers Align To Topple Hungary’s Leader
American B-52 Bombers Are Now Dropping Heavy Bombs On Targets In Iran
Before Rotherham, Birmingham Already Knew (essential reading)
French Election: Socialists Secure Paris, LePen’s Populists Make Historic Local Gains
Much more.
2. Quite like this lady
… but she can’t face harsh truths as diggers, ferreters and castigators can … and even we have things we can’t face either. Still, she seems Everywoman to me in a non-offensive way:
She’s Reform, as many others who saw hope are, struggles to handle Rupert’s “agricultural” manner, hometruths, wants everything back nicely nice, as it was. Not just you, sister, but it’s not going to do it by itself.
1. DAD at 1331
a) The death of Lionel Jospin brings back into focus the career and personal life of this former Prime Minister, a major figure on the French left between 1997 and 2002. Discreet about his private life, he divided his time between Paris and the Île de Ré
b) ‘Free Tina!’: Trump calls to release imprisoned county clerk convicted in 2020 election case.
c) AfD cracks Western Germany, doubles support in Rhineland-Palatinate Election.
d) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni conceded defeat Monday in a referendum on judicial reform but said she would not resign.
(JH: I’d be interested to know what exactly Italians rejected.)
“The round table is one of the oldest techniques for manufacturing consensus among people who would otherwise have no reason to agree with one another. Cecil Rhodes formalised it. The Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations institutionalised it. The Bilderberg Conference perfected it.
The underlying method is older than any of these, and the pattern — once recognised — is visible in nearly every major policy shift of the past century.
No single group of participants ever sees the whole. Each group endorses one piece, genuinely and in good faith, understanding only the piece in front of them. The pieces integrate — across convenings, across decades, across continents — into a unified architecture that none of the individual participants designed, intended, or understood. The compartmentalisation is what makes the system invisible.
The moral cause at each stage is what makes it politically untouchable. And the Chatham House Rule, present in every instance, ensures that the public can never trace the institutional outcome back to the private convening that produced it.”
11. DAD’s analysis of France’s municipal elections
Now that the dust has settled, the Municipal Elections show France is stuck in same old patterns. Limited success for the Right; disaster for the Centre; tears for the Left.
The second round of France’s municipal elections on March 22 confirmed a familiar pattern: Low turnout, fragmented politics and little real change in major cities.
Voter participation reached 57.8 per cent, down four points compared to 2014. Far from being a surge of protest, the fall may reflect a growing sense of distance from local politics.
