Author Archives: James Higham

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0443) Two announcements (of a sort) … one is that your humble blogger (YHB) is not a well cat … gastric, bad last night, seems to be resolving now, junk food goes in the bin, sadly. Second is covered in item 1 below. (0622)

 

5. Steve at 1047 last evening

  • Macron Says France Has “Given Everything” to [The] Ukraine
  • Minnesota Gov and National Guard Preparing for Riots Over Possible Derek Chauvin Pardon
  • Top European Court Slams Corrupt Globalist EU Chief Von der Leyen in Bombshell Ruling
  • Tulsi Gabbard Fires the Top Two Deep State Officials from the National Intelligence Council
  • Speaker Johnson Floats Possible Expulsion For NJ Democrats Who Stormed ICE Facility
  • Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 14, 2025
  • The dark art of manufacturing consent *
  • Natural gas is the cheapest power source
  • Trump Torches Neocons & Interventionists

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*Thurs 2 at HQ, also Orphans.

4. DAD at 1048

a) In a letter addressed to Johanna Rolland this Wednesday, May 14, the Force Ouvrière union—the majority union among agents—is calling for the arming of the municipal police and the Metropolitan Public Transport Unit (UMTC) following the two exceptional and unusual events that took place in Nantes at the end of April…..

b) The U.S. has found Trojan horse communication devices in Chinese-made solar power inverters. They are used to connect solar panels to electricity grids.….

c) A number of anti-White slogans were used in an art installation at the University of Grenoble in France for “Equality Month,” with widespread outrage …..

d) French President Emmanuel Macron shot down calls for a national referendum on the mass migration policies imposed on France…..

3. Redacted and IYE

The exchange over Monkeywerx was not something I felt I needed to enter … my mode on it is Learner, not even Digger. Legit question, put bluntly, answer comprehensive, seemed to me. That’s precisely what this site is trying to do, exhaustively, slowly. I’ve always liked this cartoon:


2. One of Steve’s 1047s today has this

A few decades later, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman analysed how corporate media organisations were using a “propaganda model of communication” to further the agendas of elite groups. ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media’argued that the US media were fulfilling “a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalised assumptions, and self-censorship, and without significant overt coercion.”

[…]

Based on a citizens’ panel convened by the CCC, chief executive Emma Pinchbeck claimed the recommendations had the broad support of the public: “The citizens’ panel were often ahead of even our advice on some of the things they were willing to consider. They are interested and want to do their bit. The public really are proud of the UK’s progress on climate action – we can’t see any evidence that the public wants us to slow down.”

I’m covering this in more detail at OoL in a few minutes (0506):

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/05/manufactured-consent.html

Last evening, our Toodles sent this:

1. Readers recollections file

Readers’ recollections

The whole idea is not so much political writings, although they’ll appear now and then when a reader’s gone to a great deal of trouble. It’s not even reports of how the garden’s looking … it’s more recollections of events in personal pasts.

Now, not having collated these along the way but with this still being year one of HQ, if I go back ten comments pages at a time … that will enable the gathering of at least some of these recollections … slowly.

Wednesday [14 till close of play]

(1627) Almost evening all.

 

19. Moosh corner


18. The two serious negotiators


17. Steve and war room snippets

  • John Soloman: 2021 Biden Memo Radically Changed Domestic Terrorism Investigations
  • “I’m Sick And Tired Of The Pandemic Of Passive Voice” Natalie Winters Blasts House GOP
  • “None Of These Other Externalized Costs That Make Chinese Goods More Competitive Are Being Addressed” Spencer Morrison On China Tariff Issues
  • “Congress Is Not Filling The President In On What’s In The Big Beautiful Bill” Rep. Burchett On The House Being Owned By Lobbyists

16. ARIA

Daily Sceptic:

“The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), established in 2023 with an £800 million purse of taxpayer funds, received a burst of publicity last week when it was unveiled that the agency was planning to “dim the sun” to fight global warming. The agency approved £56.8 million to be spent on “climate cooling” projects which include looking into the logistics of building a ‘sunshade’ in space and injecting plumes of salt water into the sky to reflect sunlight away from Earth.

ARIA is the brainchild of Dominic Cummings, a prominent British political strategist who served as the chief adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2020. Cummings pitched a lean, “audacious” agency to fund high-stakes research in AI, quantum computing and synthetic biology, sidestepping the “timid bureaucracy” of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

In a research paper published in 2018 on his website, ‘On the ARPA/PARC “Dream Machine”, science funding, high performance and UK national strategy’, Cummings proposed a high-powered publicly-funded British research agency to emulate the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC).”

15. Who’d live in Australia?

14. DAD mentioned the case

The CPS says with regard to Rupert Lowe: “We have decided that our legal test for a criminal prosecution has not been met.”

I’m not running Rupert’s response until after tomorrow’s by-elections, then full-on you can be sure. This is deliberate … I’m not anti Reform, just anti Zia-Farage. I’d say not many of those voters would be looking here anyway but just best wait till Friday imho.

Eurovision this weekend … apparently

 

I’ve so far only watched three minutes and I’d expect a Christian perspective on how Eurovision has changed … not just shlock now but vile shlock. See what you think.

1997 … first born Gen Zee appeared … end of the now lost Millennial generation (1978 to 1997). Music virtually died about then.

Last time it died before that was 1959 (American Pie) through to around 1964/5.

1997 was a watershed for sure … I’d gone to Russia, still in a better time over there, still innocent outside of Moskva, Britain was about to endure Blair … and you kept voting the *&£#£&* back in, over and over. Why?

Wednesday [5 to 7]

(0552) Just repeating … there’s a scheduled gap coming up late morning during which MMutR and I will talk software, hardware and setting the world to rights … over tea and coffee. So civilised. (0657)

 

7. Two topics


Yes.

6. Films and shows

Gathering these is ongoing and we’re still ahead … except that some turn out to be unshowable, inc. some from the later 40s revolving around infidelity. The unfaithful man is one thing but the unfaithful woman was having a postwar resurgence in film and I for one do not wish to watch such things, all resolved in a jolly manner at the end no doubt … no thanks.

Sorry to be a wet blanket but this is the same strategy as 12 atonalism … to blight marriage, blight enjoyment and exactly as I’m thinking this, what appears on YT recommended but the young Scot, on Eurovision. Immediate thought was ah … young Scot … EuVn, that gross, emptyheaded perversion fest … Christian homily about nobility versus Eurotrash follows.

Watched his intro and you know … it wasn’t bad, a nice potted history … then I had to write this, so I’ll watch the rest of it later. Yes, EuVn was a bit of fun years ago, hosted from the UK by Tel Wogan.

Not now. Meanwhile, into the recommended came a George Baker episode I’d never watched … Wexford. Ah, thought I, he’d been in Bertram’s Hotel, hence the recommendation. Then I started watching and yikes … no way am I running that episode, An Unkindness of Ravens in a post.


It was about an older man doing it with his daughter(s), there are other women, one once 15, now his wife, there’s a girl’s tennis club, there are murders … the whole thing is far too seedy. While I can at least claim not to have watched it through, I did check the last five minutes to see whodunnit. Yuk.

Quite apart from protecting your virgin eyes and ears, readers dear, there’s self-preservation involved … no way should any man my age be anywhere near anything like that, esp. as we’re hacked … on X, I’ve noticed certain men of an age focussing on way too young females … I avoid both, quietly deleting those accounts. Had to drop Ladies at Lunchtime, dinn I?

The upshot is that we have to be vigilant, we have to preview material via, say, IMDb, Wiki … it’s also why films and shows after the mid 70s are not so much tacky but they’re unpleasant … at least to my sensibilities. Am I censoring? Well yes but openly … you know ahead of time what I’m not running here.

5. Steve at 1047

  • Federal Judge Gives Green Light for IRS to Share Illegal Immigrants’ Tax Data with ICE *
  • Trump Says EU “Nastier Than China **
  • Trump Secures $600 Billion Investment From Saudi Crown Prince
  • Inflation Drops to 2.3%, Lowest Since 2021, and US Treasury Records Second Biggest Surplus in History Thanks to Trump’s Record Tariff Revenues
  • Goodwill Gesture: Only Ten Russian Drones Reportedly Targeted [The] Ukraine ***
  • Climate data manipulation published in blogs key to climate change myth
  • Much, much more.

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*Necessary I’m afraid.
**Both communist.
***Drones seem the thing now … worrying … remote controlled death.