Author Archives: James Higham

Friday [2 to 5]

(0506) Morning all … dark out there. (0554)

 

5. DAD at 1494

a) UK. The RNLI has temporarily closed its Portsmouth station following anti-migrant protests in the city. 

Volunteers for the service were branded “traitors” after bringing 120 migrants, who had been rescued from a single dinghy, ashore near Portsmouth Lifeboat Station.

[Actions have consequences.]

b) EU. Pedro Sánchez and the European left have suffered repeated humiliating defeats in the European Parliament over Ceuta, with MEPs endorsing the terms ‘invasion’ and ‘hybrid warfare’ for July’s mass border breach. The outcome also underlined an increasingly reliable EPP–ECR–PfE–ESN voting alignment on migration, already visible in June’s tougher EU Return Regulation.

c) France. More than six months after the municipal election, on Thursday, the public rapporteur recommended to the Orléans Administrative Court that the municipal election result in Montargis—a town in the Loiret department won by the National Rally in March—be annulled due to irregularities. Following the vote, RN candidate Côme Dunis had won by a margin of 59 votes in this town of 15,000 inhabitants, which had been governed by the political right since 2001. 

Administrative courts generally follow the recommendations of public rapporteurs. The court will issue its ruling in the coming days.

[Lawfare, again.]

d) Italy. Meloni scraps road tax for one year due to high fuel prices

The exemption covers petrol, diesel and hybrid cars of up to 80 kW (109hp) and all motorbikes and mopeds.

e) UK. Tommy Robinson exposes a Jihadi spy working inside parliament.

4. Greenwald

I’ve seen this guy as a conservative till now, but criticising all sides when necessary.


Then I noticed the profile pic and so checked it out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald

3. Steve at 1493 and 1494

  • US Data Centers Projected to Consume 15 Billion Cubic Feet of Gas Daily by 2035
  • UN moves forward with plans to take control of AI globally
  • The Mysterious 9/11 Apology By Condoleezza Rice
  • Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa: Russian Missiles Hit Steel And Electronics Plants In [The] Ukraine
  • Trump Admin Celebrates 16 Straight Months of Zero Releases at Border, ‘Levels Not Seen in Over Three Decades
  • FOX’s Resident Democrat Jessica Tarlov Was “Gobsmacked” by Drone Footage of Biden’s Open Border — Then Admits the Biden’s White House Only Tightened Up When the Election Got Close
  • During Her State of the European Union Address, Ursula von der Leyen Offered Canada ‘Associate Member’ Status – But Furious EU Leaders Were Blindsided by Announcement
  • Germany: Public Hospital Fires Senior Pediatric Surgeon Following AfD Candidacy
  • Much more.

2. “Lawyering up”?

Friday [1]

(0408)(0458)

 

Always explore who’s really saying it

Certainly for any pundit worth his salt but also for self-respecting readers, it’s not enough to just state something or to quote someone from our own confirmation bias unless we have back-material or links to it which establish who we are, what we are about.

One aspect of that is to create a “watch list” of “iffy sources” … ours here are both under Other in the Navbar and at NOWP in various places, also at UHC-WP. One not on that yet is Bannon and yet in the last few months his connection with Epstein has corroboration to it, if not final proof.

Why it matters

I should have thought it self-evident … not only does the admin/pundit stand or fall by “the receipts” but regulars are also “tarred” by his/her modus operandi. The admin needs to have at least “checked out” the source and if he/she misses something, always a chance if editing an extensive blog on news of the day, he needs to feel other contributors will point something out.

An example in my scrolling through X this morning was looking at, say, Diane Kruger, seemingly a typical MAGA/AF but there were questions … firstly, which one?


Having decided that, go to the profile:


Real Estate? Chicago? Uh huh. The profile itself tells much, inc how many of our own followers follow her. So I went to another one:


Manhattan? Numbers followed vs following? Email up front is interesting. FP? Free Press. Uh huh … checking that out, guess who is a major contributor there, from West Seattle? Amanda Knox … remember her? Would Lucy, being so young, be aware of all that? And her own story? A bit like Lara Logan’s to my mind. Lucy explains and will take out this post now …

“In three parts, I explain how I was brainwashed into becoming a biased climate reporter.

Step 1: Deconstruct your identity.

When I entered a newsroom at 25, this was the pervasive ideology: The world is divided into two groups—the oppressed and the oppressors.

If you are white, straight, privileged, or American, you are inherently an oppressor. Everything you grew up believing is wrong or evil. You cannot be trusted to see the world as it really is because you are inherently racist, biased, and part of the oppressor class.

I was young, excited to be there, and surrounded by people I thought were smarter and cooler than I was. So I absorbed their worldview and ceded my judgment to the group.

Once you are demoralized, feel guilty for being an oppressor, can no longer trust your own intuition, or your own interpretation of the facts, you will believe whatever the group tells you to believe.

Step 2: Atone for your sins.

Because you are an oppressor all you can do is atone for the sins of your birth. You can do that by repeating and advancing the group’s ideology. You never question it, because questioning the ideology is treated as proof that you are racist, selfish, or an oppressor.

Thursday [12 to 15]

(1229) Cunning plan is this post, then film. Afternoon all. Lots of food and washing at this end. (1252)

 

15. Housekeeping in a cyber way


I’ve been thinking it’s Nikita Biers and the new scriptkiddies more than Elon hisself (sic). Whoever, whatever … instead of an X avatar now, I have a thin smiley. Hmmmm. Not bluecheck you see. Reach restricted, limits to posting.

Am watching. This week, being watchful in many fields.

14. Not too sure how au fait Rupert is with modern political procedure


13. ALG piece yesterday


12. Greece and Turkey


I have been down that way, even made it to Egypt with m’best gal, the mood towards Turks on Cyprus was not, shall we say, friendly. It’s not just the Mussies who insist on ladies covering up. My gal was not overly given to covering up, we went to go into Makarios’s chapel … no uncertain terms no to her. They found her some clothes.

Kissinger was Sabbatean controlled … nasty piece of work.

Cantankerous curmudgeons

ddddd

There are chaps, guys … gals too but more usually guys … and they have a certain skills set and interesting backstory … they’ve done a lot. They’re experienced.

But they’re also irascible, do not like doing what they’re told … they’re fairly self-contained … and so one is careful to a point but not too far, otherwise it is simping and none of these are simps. As I mentioned to MMutR … only an idiot fights such people, rather one provides a pleasant haven afap and if each one is “his own man” or “her own woman”, I’m fine with it … it’s the readers who benefit, which is the prime directive, innit.

Way back, getting on for 60 years, there were some musical artists who were like that … they wanted things done their way. In the case of CCR and Steppenwolf, it eventually broke the bands up, band members would leave, they were almost pariahs … I for one am fine with pariahs. There’s a huge difference between being difficult and being s total a***h***, excuse my French. Imho, these two guys, Fogerty and John Kay … they were the goods.

That does not apply on this blog as there are upwards of a half dozen who could be called the goods, so it requires diplomacy which I’m not particularly good at. In music, I’m not crazy for all John Kay’s output … after the megahits Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride and the Pusher, played constantly, reacted to constantly … I prefer back catalogue gems, in my eyes.

One of those, You’re Wall’s Too High, is below the interview and then I finish up with a CCR I love. So first the John Kay interview. Look at his bio, tough upbringing … so be careful with this man … still not in the R&R hall of fame … offended too many bigwigs.

Now to the song I chose out of the entire back catalogue. Why? Because critics called it repetitive, even dull. Not to me … it has my required elements, i c. raunchy groove, strong bassline etc. etc. It has grit.

You want repetitive? Try this:

Thursday [7 to 11]

(0804) Sunny day out there, mornin’ all. Sorry I could not tailor my sleep pattern to exactly 8 a.m., then I realised I’d changed it to 8.30 a.m. Anyway, the main post is up at Orphans and Jstack. (0917) All right, folks, must fly. Back after this thing is done. Hopefully. Hour and a half, all right? (0918)

 

11. Another tale with Noah Woods in mind

Was about to run some sicko’s comment under the “no further news on Noah” Sun item, then realised it was a sick attempt to provoke us, just as was intended by the sickos in power. And a quick scroll down X and there does seem no further news.

Now … our Steve mentioned about water claiming them and I left it at that but of course the mind wanders to the state of our streets just now … either our “guests” or homegrown sickos you understand.

Last thought was just let it be, buy in no further.

I do have a memory of my own though. Three memories actually.

First is when I was a child, seeing a photo of myself at what must have been about 6 to 9 months. I’d been put on the driveway, sloping down to no gate but the road at the end of the down-driveway. I was in nappy and top and I had my eyes on that road. Plus I had a way of moving called “the crab”.

The fact that someone had taken the shot was safety enough but all the same … I could motor along quite quickly using “the crab”. It was not a high danger road though.

Second was after I’d learnt to ride a bike without training wheels. I was always allowed out for some reason … maybe they wanted peace and quiet … it must have been holiday time. Anyway, off I pedalled.

Thought struck me that if I was careful, I could go past my usual limits and as long as car drivers would give me a wide berth or I kept my wits about me and would walk the bike through narrow sections, it should be ok-ish. So off I headed towards the big smoke some ten miles away. Sounded reasonable … maybe a twenty mile round trip.

The drivers were quite accommodating (maybe I was 8 at the time) … at least I made it home in one piece, yet mother was perturbed. Er … why?

The third and last for now I’ve told before. Now that make of sailing dinghy I know had to mean about 12 years old, maybe 13. Summer holidays. This time I asked my olds could I do this trip past three rocky points to a yacht club down that way, maybe four miles? Yes? Oh, ok, fine. So I prepared the eight foot dinghy and off I went, nice breeze, tacking into it on the outward journey, a nice run back later.

That one went off well, it was boring at the other end so I launched and headed back again. Turned out my mother had been watching through the binocs most of the way and I suspect m’da had driven down there just in case. It all seemed quite reasonable, that voyage.

It’s only now I’m thinking … what the *&£#£&* were they doing allowing me to do that? Were they … er … hoping against hope …?

Nah, never … I was a lovely little chappy, a bit loud at times, salt of the earth. Yeah.

10. Moo corner


9. The bona fides of med qualifications


After I had the heart attack, a fair time after, I was called in by the med practice and told I needed to see a specialist at the big hospital. The crusty, crotchety GP was typical Brit, everything too much trouble but one of the old school. So I turned up at the hospital and waited. And waited.

Out came an Indian, sat by the far wall, asking maybe three questions, nothing to do with meds, then said I was coming off one of them.

Within three days, I made an appointment to see the GP … yes it was still possible in those pre-covid-scam days … and I could not breathe properly. She was angry, the GP, said all right, you can have it back but it’s not doing anything for you.

Next day, I was fine, breathing fine, all well. Not daring to look at qualifications as a topic, you understand.

8. We may have had this one already, sorry me


7. News from downunder

Thursday [1 to 6]

(0404) The main post of the day is up at OoL plus Jstack, on “Fragmentation”. Having a short hiatus or kip now, back around 0830, dear reader, briefly, as I have a visitor after that. Fragmented this morning I’m afraid. (0548)

 

6. Andy at 1493

… unsourced, no idea where it’s from:

“The man who painted free plasticine slogans on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been found not guilty f criminal damage. Caspar San Giorgi, who is also known as Olax Outis, admitted painting the slogans but said that he doesn’t consider it to be damage. The jury acquitted him.”

5. The Mayflower, September 16th, 1620


4. Steve at 1493

  • Lifelong Democrat Tells Congress She Is ‘Ashamed’ of Her Party After Illegal Alien Truck Driver Licensed in Gavin Newsom’s California Killed Her Newlywed Son and Bride
  • Trump Redirects $52 Million in Military Aid From Europe and Middle East to Allied Nations in the Western Hemisphere
  • Bishops, Evangelicals, and Conservatives Push Back on Canada’s Military Prayer Ban (JH: By definition then, anytime Canadians henceforth go into battle, God will not be with them.)
  • Germany’s Merz Cancels NY Trip – Failing Chancellor Under Massive Pressure After Saxony Defeat Ahead of Next Week’s Berlin Vote – Right-wing AfD Surges to 30% in the Polls
  • New Photos Reveal Massive Damage At US Bases In Middle Eas
  • Study: Israel, Pfizer Knew of COVID-19 Vaccine Cardiac Risks Before Public Disclosure
  • The AI power crunch is forcing Big Tech to abandon its climate script
  • North Korea’s Bridge Of Death
  • Much more.

3. Battle of Kips Bay, September 15th, 1776


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Kip%27s_Bay

2. DAD at 1493

a) Sky News reports that Burnham has cancelled the major investment summit due to take place in the capital on 1st December. Not enough interest?

b) The King’s Guard bearskin hats threatened by woke MPs’ modernisation push

A cross-party group of MPs is urging the British military to replace the King’s Guard’s traditional bearskin caps with fake fur alternatives on ethical grounds. {Made from oil?.]

c) European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen has backed Canada’s accession to the EU as its first “associate member.” 

Mark Carney has been posturing towards Europe amid a bad relationship with Trump’s White House. Seeing as there is no framework for an ‘associate’ membership it will have to be unanimously approved by all 27 member states…

Note…The EU-Canada trade deal is still waiting for ratification by ten EU member states ten years after it was signed.

d) BoJo Demonstrated either Lies or Stupidity

e) The UK. The state of modern policing.

1. From Lord Toby’s site today

Far be it from me to cast aspersions upon the honour of the daughter of the Prime Minister of Kurdistan, but she would appear to be a woman of distinctly easy virtue. According to the testimony of a Home Office whistleblower revealed in the Times this week, the number of Iraqi asylum seekers who have claimed that they have been in a relationship with this highly accommodating lady, thereby necessitating their being allowed to stay here in the UK to escape the jealous wrath of her possessive Islamic father, is “in the hundreds”.

Meanwhile, a similar number of Pakistanis have likewise claimed asylum here from their notably homophobic home-nation on the sole basis that they are in possession of an Official Letter of Gayness from the exact same easy-loving gentleman back home who claims to have slept with each and every one of them; isn’t that how AIDS got started? It may be simpler for the British state, all things considered, to just give this single highly promiscuous individual asylum here in Brighton, before he can seduce anyone else and leave them in need of an immediate free passport.

Wednesday [9 till close of play]

(1540) Afternoon all.

 

17. Little Noah

“A body has been found in the search for missing three year old Noah Woods. The body was pulled from the lake just next to the playground Noah went missing from.”

That’s all I’ve seen so far. Prayers.

16. Might be of interest to any of you liking chocolate


15. Compensating for instead of fixing


14. Clark a disappointment


13. CHSR just like HS2

Screenshot only

13. The four horsemen and …


12. Mail in fraud


11. There are ways


10. Moo corner


9. Inverse thuggery