Author Archives: James Higham

Monday [1 to 5]

(0516)(0544)

 

5. Deserves commemorating

Those Kenyans are pretty good, apart from Obama the Monster of course.


4. Steve at 1365

  • Kari Lake, Ajit Pai, and Other Attendees Expose Shockingly Relaxed Security at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘No Bag Check. No Real Screening. Just Waved Through.’ (JH: Almost as though “someone” wanted an incident.)
  • Trump: ‘I Hate to Say I’m Honored’ by Repeated Assassination Attempts, ‘They Go After the Most Impactful People’
  • Western Leaders Downplay Islamic Terrorism, Pin Threat on White Supremacists
  • Russian Advance Igla-S MANPADS Makes Surprise Appearance In Iran (JH: Donny does NOT want the Russkies overtly involved.)
  • Ukrainian Bridgehead On Vovcha River Faces Destruction
  • UK Dependence on Palantir is Growing, at Great Public Cost
  • Muscle-vascular crosstalk: The secret to aging strong and healthy
  • Much more.

3. The Martinez factor

The whole things reeks of “disingenuous” or “mendacious” by someone quite arrogant and smug. There is much JFK anout it in its playbook. It reeks of three letter agency “pretend lack of oversight”. These were posted yesterday:


2. DAD at 1365

a) The spectre of a machine uprising is often raised: a future where artificial intelligence seizes power by force. This scenario fascinates us because it casts us in a favorable light—as resistance fighters. But it distracts us from what truly matters. The real danger is more subtle, more insidious, more intimate….

b) Sabotage-for-hire: ‘Iranian agent’ offers to pay undercover LBC reporter for criminal acts on London’s streets.

c) Unredacted Court Filing exposes Amazon’s ‘Retail price fixing’.

d) After nearly three years of legal proceedings, Reconquête Rhône claims to have won its case before the administrative court. The court overturned the subsidy granted by the City of Lyon, then headed by Mayor Grégory Doucet, to the SOS Méditerranée association.

1. Rupert now has a target on his back

Sunday [16 till close of play]

(1545) Day draws to a close, people. Hope all those unwell, inc. IYE, recover.

 

22. Well this is awkward, innit?

Forgot the third and final part of Mink de Ville, was listening to the jazz, clicked awkwardly, up came Just Your Friends. Plus this is the one where he shows his awkwardness at the start … he’s just not a “people person” but the song is typical MdeV … then at the end, two things … I suspect at 4:16 that the lady right at the front in blue top, something on each wrist, might be the uploader Agnes. Might be wrong …

… then he has a sudden idea, grabs flowers from the vase and throws them to the audience, who love that. I know some people who do good things but are intensely awkward about it … they can’t handle compliments. JJ Cale was a bit like that. A year and a bit after this Sat, Jul 19, 2008 concert, in Bonn, around dusk … he was dead.

Where were you at the time of this concert? I was in Sicily, on a hilltop, possibly at an open air concert, can’t remember exactly.

So, an awkward end to Sunday, which seems quite appropriate somehow.

21. This item depends on your memory of some footage

Do you remember, at the start of Starmer’s term, that at the end of one session, he wandered over to the opposition benches and chatted to Farage? It’s on film. Yesterday, he was saying that at the next GE, it would be Reform v Labour. Now this:


Whole thing preordained … Starmer the pantomime villain, intractable, blacker than black, man on a mission … Farage making the necessary noises for the sheeple’s vote, the fear being the loony greens this time. Rupert really only concentrating on Great Yarmouth … now with a target on his back.

20. Donny on the WHCD


19. Wall Street Apes

“Iran was searching for the new Donald Trump assassin’s name “Cole Tomas Allen” this morning, before the assassination attempt happened. Google has just scrubbed this data and is now no longer allowing results for Iran with the assassin’s name.”

18. Take it easy

17. Steve on the dinner

There’s a picture of the baddy on the floor. Plus:

“Jeffery W. Carroll says an armed suspect (shotgun, handgun, multiple knives) charged a Secret Service checkpoint in Washington, DC. • Suspect was not shot, taken to hospital for evaluation • Early info suggests he wanted to “hit as many people as possible” motive still unknown • One agent shot during exchange of gunfire, hospitalized in stable condition.”

16. Nicking bottles

… coz that’s the kind of peeps they are:

Sunday [11 to 15]

(1103) Nice time, elevenses. (1123)

 

15. Trooble at t’X platform


14. Moo corner


13. The rundown Royal Navy


12. Quite a few today on feminism


11. TPA promo in their newsletter

“Classic TPA research like the Quango Rich List revealed how 1,472 quangocrats had received over £100,000 in 2023-24, while Big Spending Projects Gone Wronguncovered billions of pounds of waste and years of delays to projects run by quangos. Elsewhere, Members of the Board exposed 285 quango board members sitting on more than one board and one person sitting on nine, while our Quango Database laid bare the true scale of the quango state.”

Sunday [6 to 10]

(0922) Morning all again. No Moo just now, hope she’s resting up. (0929)

 

10. Put the pieces together bit by bit


9. The iniquity of inheritance tax


8. What it’s about


7. Fluoride and aluminium


6. In case you missed DAD’s 1364:2

“Royal Grifty latest. King Charles US Trip to be over shadowed by Scandal at 10 Downing Street. Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has been summoned to appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee next week amid the Lord Peter Mandelson vetting scandal.”

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0629) Morning all. Health update … I’m all right but dodged a bullet … it only reinforces all the precepts and practices which keep a person alive and stay away from those which run down and kill. Not particularly wonky but very, very careful all the same. Have a good Sunday. (0815)

 

5. How do you rate on these?


4. Steve at 1364

  • Detroit Thieves Destroy 75 Fire Hydrants in Just 48 Hours, Stealing $600 Metal Parts and Leaving Firefighters Without Water for Emergencies
  • CBS News Visits the Southern Border – Is Stunned to Find No One is There Anymore
  • Air Force Veteran Died in an ‘Accidental’ Drug Overdose Just Months After Agreeing to Testify Before Congress About Secret Government UFO Crash Retrieval Programs
  • US Military Build Up Detected In UAE’s Dhafra Air Base
  • Exchange Of Strikes: Russia Launched 666 Missiles And Drones At Ukraine, Ukraine Attacked The Urals
  • WHO Emergency Use Listing scheme is designed to override national vaccine approval processes while taking no responsibility
  • A daily ritual for heart health: Science says tea and chocolate are far more than just comfort food
  • Meta-Analysis Reports Associations Between Heavy Smartphone Use and Structural Brain Changes
  • Users claiming to be Iranian Intelligence Services are recruiting Britons on Telegram to cause chaos on London’s streets
  • Much more.

3. World Penguin Day


2. DAD at 1364

a) France. After five months, the Saint-Polycarpe church closed its doors this Friday, April 24. The unaccompanied minors had to return to the Chartreux camp, as no other solution was available….

b) France, Tomblaine (54): The nursing board has authorised healthcare workers to stop going to a certain neighborhood. A repeat offender, convicted and fined, continues to harass and threaten them.

c) USA. Here’s Why $96 Million Worth Of Electric Buses Sit Idle Across South Florida.

d) The EU. On April 17, the press revealed that the Élysée Palace is pressing the European Commission to revise the guidelines of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in order to broaden the definition of ‘disinformation’, particularly during election periods.

1. This was at Lord Toby’s site this morning

“We are about to witness an implosion in British politics with a real risk that we will reach entirely the wrong conclusion. Keir Starmer is already a lame duck Prime Minister but – like many who hold that office – he is stubborn and thus likely to stagger on until the untenability of his position is punched into him by his Parliamentary colleagues.

Starmer’s political obituary will read that he misled Parliament (or at best was economical with the truth), that he ran a No. 10 operation that was out of control and alienated many of his own MPs, that his judgement on the big decisions he was actually willing to take (few in number) was deeply flawed and that his unpopularity with the British public led his party to electoral oblivion….”

It’s quite possible to identify stances, reactions from pundits which identify their own predilections, their own refusal to see … and there is no fool like an old fool who flatly refuses to see. Such things are exacerbated by, for example, the M25 bubble, by northern city bubbles, by town and country.

Take, for example, GB News which project’s straight Reform sensibilities … no reality please, we’re staying in our Alex woman comfort zone … Rupert to these people is gauche, rough, rural … way too much reality. Or is seen as a closet Tory (landed).

Middle-class people, esp. southern women, vastly prefer a nicely nice style, nothing blunt trauma please … sleepwalking into a Reform govt which was anointed long ago by the deep state … kabuki theatre, melodrama, with Starmer blacker than black and Nige with the numbers, tailoring policy to suit the latest crisis and undercutting the main opposition to them … Restore.

And so the Old Britain sleepwalks to oblivion, hankering for an ex-Britain in which no one has the wherewithal to restore it. Unless something jolts the middling normies … something like the Falklands perhaps?