(1053) Elevenses almost upon us. (1109)

 

10. Moo corner

9. The TPA on Cardiff’s war on vans

“This week saw the TPA team returned to the streets of Cardiff, fighting the fight against the city council’s plan to impose higher parking charges on vans and family cars. The first-of-its-kind scheme would see tradesmen just trying to make a living having to pay more to park their vehicles outside their own homes. As the plans are based on vehicle weight, family cars will be included too, penalising households who need larger cars to get their kids to school or do the weekly shop. Our team were joined by local Reform activists for a spot of door-to-door campaigning alongside a street stall near Victoria Park.”

8. Von Leyen wants to stop your VPN

7. IYE and the colour of your pee

Sun 3. The colour of your pee is a good indication of how hydrated you are. Food contains water too so drinking buckets of water all day long as the youngsters seem to do these days is OTT.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hydration-chart

6. Steve with Abigirl reacts

… at 1372:1.

(0818) Difficult morning, cyber-wise, dull grey and damp outside but we’re ok, yes? By the way, the jazz segment this afternoon is not just jazz … yes, Tuna Skinny are there but so are two others from southern Louisiana, playing Zydeco and Cajun … so I can’t rightly call it jazz. (0955)

 

5. Housekeeping

There’s a three way battle right now between Ggl, Apple and me … Blgr simply refused to upload graphics at OoL, so I had to use a convoluted method to get around it. Anyway, the post is up:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/hanging-out-washing.html

4. Steve at 1371

• Trump Administration Fights Anthropic’s Plan To Expand Mythos AI Tool That Could Cause Doomsday ‘If It Falls in the Wrong Hands’
• Stanford Biosecurity Expert Says AI Chatbot Gave Him a Blueprint for Genocidal Bioweapon, Including Step-by-Step Instructions for Modifying Deadly Pathogen and Conducting Mass Transit Attack
• Two More Executed By Brutal Iranian Regime
• Pope Leo Appoints Former Illegal Alien and Rabid Progressive as Bishop to Deep Red West Virginia
• US Military Just Caught Iran Building Insane Weapons During Ceasefire
• Methylene blue has been shown to shrink cancer tumours
• Japan’s Coal and Nuclear Expansion Poses Risk to Renewable Energy Growth, Report Claims
• Much more.

3. Ageing

Earlier, I saw a YT on ageing and will only summarise it so that you don’t have to … it has everything wrong with it* compositionally (ouch).

Anyway, before that … this was on Quora, from a Mary Gebsoni (med doctorate University of Melbourne):

“One of my patients celebrated his seventieth birthday and felt that being seventy-one years old was merely a suggestion. He was still working, still as sharp as ever and walking three miles every day prior to having breakfast. However, three other factors had slowly sneaked into his life to start aging him faster than time ever would.

When I mentioned these factors to him, he looked as if I was reading his diary. This is something no doctor has yet found the courage to mention because it is not one of those obvious solutions, but rather an extremely important factor affecting our health which almost no one knows about.

One of the factors is chronic dehydration caused by the body’s natural reduction of thirst as we get older. Starting from the age of seventy the body’s mechanism to signal dehydration becomes less reliable and most elderly people become chronically dehydrated leading to accelerated brain function decline, thickening of blood, greater risk of strokes, destruction of joint lubrication and kidney problems since kidneys must now do much more work than they did when the person was younger. According to ancient Chinese medical practices, water consumption and kidney health was the cornerstone of longevity as kidneys were considered the source of life force itself and special foods and herbs were prescribed in order to counteract this age-related phenomenon.

The second and the third factors are loneliness and consumption of processed food. The latter starts to steal energy from elderly people’s already tired organs, while loneliness causes inflammatory processes inside the body which can be measured through blood work. Amish communities and other Old World cultures used to know something about keeping elderly people alive and healthy and realized that a family dinner table is actually the ultimate medicinal treatment because they consumed real ancestral food products together and maintained social contacts which helped elderly people to stay healthy long enough to celebrate many more years to come.”

* The composition issue … There’s a “doctor” supposedly speaking (he’s in a white jacket, which means he must be a doctor instead of a paid actor … or both?) over that is what appears to be an “AI” voice … but at least there are subtitles. It really is a terrible video for production values.

That video summary … ok, first few points quite good:

a. Until maybe 70, stress training helped … think think think and stay fresher … push weights … stress training … muscles grow. This slowly ceases after 70 or so.

Now interestingly, this is what I thought happened last weekend … I overlifted but actually, it was a light weight cf. my PB last year. The lift went fine but straight after, the heart overstressed, which in turn brought on hearing, sight and circulatory issues. Some people need to learn the hard way … I seem to be one of those. I’ve trained twice this week after that … no issues, new riutines, more aerobic than anaerobic.

b. Restrictive eating habits not good for you later according to official guidelines. Age related malnutrition … body is not processing nutrients as well. When protein reduces, muscle decline starts … which for oldies is a killer. Legs, arms, hips, bones, internal organs, processes decline. In turn, susceptibility to strokes etc. Fats are essential, not the processed carbs.

c. Forcing yourself to wake up at the same time each morning. Changes in sleep are natural later … melatonin declines, deep sleep shortens. You wake up during the night, earlier in the morning or later. Don’t force yourself to get up and rush off … so much to do, oh goodness, must get to work quickly.

That’s short changing your body. The essential though is not to stress over sleep. Whatever your bod needs, it needs. Relax over it. You’re an oldie now, you’re allowed. However your bod and mind need you to do it … do it. Never mind other people’s expectations. Let go of “all sleep must happen in one block”.

d. This next one is me now. So much online about Big Pharma, all medication is unneeded … some does help. For example, I experimented with a day off meds etc, having more natural foods. Once I went back on, it was better … that’s just me.

However, all we’ve been posting is still right about side effects, esp. with statins. So it’s a complex thing. Doctors today are awful, the NHS is awful, yet there is still some knowledge in them, e.g. blood pressure meds. I have no advice for you, the video does.

e. Unnecessary relationships. We need to gently let go certain obligations, while keeping up necessary ones, e.g. spose, chn, grandchn, very close friends. Dtop trying to be everyone’s friend … coworkers, acquaintances etc. Out of obligation, out of fear of resentment.

This is a biggy with me. My gamut of blogs, tweeters, one or two DMers … is extensive and at a certain level, it’s wunnerful to keep. For example, Deryl’s hubby had a heart attack (she posted on it). So I occasionally tweet “thoughts and prayers”, just those three words, while keeping up with all the others … yet it becomes more and more clear whom to keep going … some take themsekves away … just let it go, stick with those who appreciate the effort.

Exactly the case with Unherdables … we have our circle and occasional chaps and chapesses … attend to them, even a few words help. Correspondents, two people closest to me, my neighbours here too. You know where this is. You can’t do everything … but you can do much … and should do.

f. Pretending you are still as young as you were. Any issues putting on socks? How about getting out of a chair without using your arms (quads and glutes, hamstrings and calves). Work your legs moderately each day … walks, riding, whatever. In your legs is your independence. Knees, hips. Gently, gently.

After 70, the most dangerous accident is a fall.

My bath has handrails, my corridors about four feet … yes, sudden movemt and I fall, with strong shoulders and arms into a doorway upright … piece of cake, no issue … every room here has something at least to break a fall.

g. Meaningful solitude. Mix formal obligations with a feeling that a certain person gets benefit from you … but also spend time on peaceful self time, reflection … don’t let people rush you. For example, I know that I need to post DAD and Steve, maybe others start kicking in later, e.g. IYE … yet I also feel that this vid has turned out to be important. Unherdables is a meeting place for ideas … therefore I gpfeel I really must post this item.

2. DAD at 1371

a) Britain needs a Bastard. Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.

b) Free Speech win: Scottish Grandmother cleared for protesting outside of Abortion Clinic. (JH: Hallelujah)

c) United Kingdom: According to an article written by two researchers from Oxford University, between 2000 and 2025, transgender people were more likely to have killed than to have been killed.

d) Stagflation is coming, but the ECB Is in denial. The numbers don’t lie, but euro zone money chief Christine Lagarde still refuses to be responsible and admit the obvious.

(0621)(0711)

 

The narrow gate

The human mind, esp. the libertarian human mind, is given to reacting obstinately, as I know I do … if a crowd is going that way … I’ll go this. Often that means trying to rejoin the broad way later once I realise I was headed up cul-de-sacs, dead ends.

For example, there was a youtube and yes, it turned out to be propaganda. It was a girl (in the mid 20s sense) and she was saying that Protestants are wrong … that’s how it opens. She’d always believed the bible was the scriptures but it couldn’t have been because the bible was not written before the “later era”. Where the hell had she got that from?

To say to her that scholarly dating puts many epistles, books, close enough to the AD 0050s and very much concerns the early church, the apostles, the apostles of the apostles and so on … that the later era was about which works to include, which not to … the search has always been by scholars to find authenticity … but here was the trap her mouthpiece was leading to.

She said that we err on our own, therefore we need a human leader or father to lead us the right way, true up to a point … the trap here though is that we then only see what the self-appointed Cabal of Eminents want us to. Leave bibles chained to pulpits, do not allow people access because only the Serene Cabal of Priests could possibly ever understand, through much learning. You plebs must do as the human priest orders. There’s a mix of truths and errors swirling around on this point of the Priest.

Who does he think he is?

“I’m God’s chosen teacher.”

“Well I didn’t vote for you.”

“You don’t vote for Priests.” (The Priestly Caste.)

I’m the first to say that that girl is being drawn into a cult … dead easy getting girls into it:

Behold the holy gourd, the holy sandal, the holy handgrenade of Antioch. By the same token though, it does take someone who’s longer in the tooth, has made this journey … and is still unsure himself, is still learning, even in his final years. Same with science:

There is certainly truth in the need for wise men but what if there’s an ancient Greek like space where people go along, maybe a Hyde Park corner and to complete the metaphor … there’s a table of ideas there, constantly being evaluated. Do you see how a blog fits in here? And the admin is no wiseman, no guru, no swami, rabbi nor mullah … he’s just a fellow traveller who’s found things and wants to keep finding. The setting up of the meeting place is a piece of cake for his techie mate, trickier for him but it’s still possible.

But people stopping in are still going to take one of the ways after that. Another youtube was all about the narrow gate and the steep path following it. Fine but he continually had the “good” way leading up to the left and the broad road to hell curving down to the right.

Nope, no way. Left means sinister, right means correct, plus a physical direction. Though all of this is symbolism, I’d still prefer the accompanying graphic flipped horizontally back to how it was before the inversion.

Then come the false prophets at each and every gate. I don’t buy this Hebrew guy in the youtube, nor that girl suddenly following the way of the Priest, font of all learning, with his ritual, regalia, pomp and circumstance … the Priestly Caste.

Yet the wisdom of ages is found within those pages, maybe in the Dead Sea scrolls, maybe in archaeological artifacts … and that requires wisdom … in fact, even the community of the inquisitive develops wisdom over time, if they allow it. No one more obstinate than an older person or a donkey.

Here endeth the sermon, as I need brekky. My latest brilliant piece of wisdom is to open with coffee, move to black tea, then green tea, then to mineral water in the evening.

(1553) Afternoon all.

 

21. Olive oils and seed oils

20. Moo corner

19. The solar and wind scams

18. Steve

Heavy rain came earlier than forecast in my area of Dorset. Shame that sort of weather wasn’t around for this part of France..

Another French church has been destroyed by a fire.

The Saint-Cyriaque Church in Montenach, built in 1884, has been completely destroyed by the flames

🇫🇷✝️ pic.twitter.com/ptMwa0xWGd

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 1, 2026

Church in Montenach destroyed as flames consume roof and bell tower | https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/church-in-montenach-destroyed-as-flames-consume-roof-and-bell-tower-2027212807

Same thing has happened to over 200 parish churches since 2018. Import the Third World, etc.

17. Humans only please

16. This was over on Gab

 

In his 1979 autobiography, science writer and science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov called the Pal film “the first intelligent science-fiction movie made”.^[31]

“Today it seems dated and slow-moving with flat characters”. —John Brosnan in The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1979)^[32]

Science fiction film scholar Bill Warren in Keep Watching the Skies! (first edition 1982, pages 1—6) found the film “dully conventional” beyond its special effects, noting that, given Heinlein’s role, “it’s surprising that Destination Moon was not more sophisticated in terms of drama and characterization”. The “wisecracking electronics technician played by Dick Wesson” was meant to provide comic relief, “but today he’s highly noticeable, seeming painfully forced and unbelievable”.^[5]

Peter Nicholls in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) said, “Destination Moon is a film with considerable dignity and, in a quiet way, a genuine sense of wonder”.^[33]

“The Destination Moon script seems colorless and wooden”. —Phil Hardy in The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction(1994)^[34]

 

15. Moo corner

14. Lord Toby’s newsletter earlier

13. Old car models

12. Ladies talking about ladies

11. This was up on X

… and methought let’s run a post on it. Then there was Yorkshire Wolds Weather’s post:

I mentioned running a blogpost on the dangers to the bees but when I started exploring … afraid I couldna go past this “AI” below:

Bees face severe global declines driven primarily by habitat loss, intensive agriculture, pesticides, climate change, and pathogens. The loss of wildflowers, hedgerows, and nesting sites, alongside exposure to toxic chemicals like neonicotinoids, disrupts foraging and reproduction. Parasites such as Varroa mites, along with emerging threats like microplastics, pollution, and disease from managed hives, threaten both honey bees and wild species.

Key Threats to Bee Populations

• Habitat Loss and Fragmentation: Intensive farming and urbanization destroy wildflowers, meadows, and nesting sites (soil, hedgerows) that bees rely on, creating a shortage of food and shelter.
• Pesticides and Chemical Exposure: Pesticides, including insecticides and fungicides, weaken bees, disrupt navigation, and directly kill them. “Pesticide cocktails” and herbicide use further complicate survival.
• Govt messing with the weather: Unpredictable springs disrupt hibernation and force bees out of sync with flower blooming times. Extreme weather also makes recovery difficult.
• Pests and Disease: The Varroa destructor mite, which sucks blood from bees and spreads viruses, is a major cause of colony collapse. Other pathogens can be transmitted between managed and wild bees.
• Invasive Species: Non-native species can introduce new diseases or compete for resources.
• Newer, Emerging Threats: Recent studies highlight novel threats including air pollution, microplastics in hives, and light pollution affecting nighttime pollinators. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Impact of Bee Decline
The loss of bees significantly affects ecosystems and agriculture. Without these pollinators, many plants cannot reproduce, and food production for crops like apples is threatened. In some highly affected areas, such as parts of China, the lack of natural pollinators has led to the need for hand-pollination.

……

We need those bees. Manmade messing with agriculture, horticulture is a no-no.

 

Might as well go straight to a film … was thinking that the 30s, if the copy is all right, is a nice type of film … fashions, manners, all sorts of things.

However, it was also often raunchy, risque, even post-code. (Continued below movie…)

(Continued) The plot of this one is “Rich woman runs over man on the road.” That’s it. Uh huh. So what fills the running time then? There seemed to be a strong accent on this sort of thing in the 30s, prewar. After … not so much, much darker, more hardbitten.

(0815)(0825)

 

10. Deryl corner

9. Pull the other one

8. Ridding themselves of nuisance investigators

7. Germany and Lexus

6. Steve corner

“In the 1990s Cathy O’Brien became known alleging that she was a victim of a U.S. government mind-control program associated with “Project Monarch,” which was an offshoot of MKUltra.”

JH: Brice Taylor was another well known whistleblower.

“Seeing is believing. They already had 2x MK hearings that did shit. And besides, it all moved far beyond classic MK-Ultra. MK-Delta was the culmination of MK-Ultra. MK-Naoimi & the eugenics vax was an MK subproject.”

“John Gittinger was testifying at the 1977 Church Committee, saying it was all over, while simultaneously MK-Ultra programming me in Sydney. MK-Ultra never stopped – it simply branched off into other related projects.” (Fiona Barnett)

As per @RepLuna today. The House Oversight Committee is finally holding a hearing on MK-Ultra. We hope the hearing and the findings will be made immediately public. 50+ years of Mind Control programs MUST END.

Only scratching the surface … try Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks, GH Estabrooks, Jolyon West, Sid Gottlieb.

 

Was it corruption, incompetence … how did it ever get built?