(0628) Morning all … not completely dull, poisonous grey out there. Say hello to your mothers today and maybe learn what Mothering Sunday originally was. (0722)

 

5. Steve at 1322

• Trump Calls Out Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum – “The Cartels Are Running Mexico. We Can’t Have That!”
• Netherlands: Bomb Blast Targets Jewish School in Amsterdam Neighborhood
• Israel Preparing ‘Massive’ Ground Invasion of Lebanon to Wipe Out Hezbollah: ‘We Are Going to Do What We Did in Gaza’
• Capitol Hill Standoff: Up to 50 House Republicans Say Senate Bills Are Dead on Arrival Until SAVE America Act Passes
• Ukraine Devastated. Russia Benefits Greatly from USA Iran Conflict. Front Update | Ukraine Devastated. Russia Benefits Greatly from USA Iran Conflict.
• Finland Announces Possible Deployment Of Nuclear Weapons, Directly Threatening Russia
• Medical professionals call on UK Health Secretary to investigate serious bias from the GMC and the MPTS
• Negotiations Underway”: Cuban President Acknowledges U.S. Talks Amid Fuel Supply Crisis
• Much more.

4. As in the screenshot

3. DAD at 1322

a) The gesture seems so simple: press “off” when the far-right channel is playing in cafes, bars, and other betting shops, thanks to a universal remote, an app, or a hacked mobile phone. A handful of activists do it every day, seeing it as “a mix of fun and activism” that they consider beneficial in these times….

b) Honda Projects First Loss Since 1957 – $15.7 Billion – Thanks To EV Strategy Fail….

c) Canadian Government ‘Celebrates’ Euthanizing 100,000 Citizens….

d) Want to cancel your BBC TV licience. You face a difficulty….

2. Coming back to the Net the Yahoo rumours

… Dearieme saw them too, maybe we all have now … on X, the battle is raging and one who is getting amazing flak is Liz Crokin, high traffic “conspiracist” (not said in a negative way). She agrees with Candace and goes further … is sure that the Israelis (Shapiro, EK et al) were the killers of CK:

1. Steve posted a polit analyst which I have too before

I looked at his hidden background this time, then wrote this:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/theres-info-which-is-no-one-elses-biz.html

Thus, I post the analysis below with huge caveats, given that we don’t know who or what he is:

“The organisation that Iran armed, funded, trained, and deployed as the southern blade of the Axis of Resistance has issued a public statement calling on “our brothers in Iran not to target neighboring countries” and urging “all countries in the region to cooperate to stop this aggression and preserve the bonds of brotherhood.” Al Jazeera Arabic and Palestinian media confirmed the statement. Hamas has not denied it. No Axis member has contradicted it. The most important fracture of the 2026 war was not caused by a bunker buster. It was caused by a press release.

Hamas is Iran’s creature. The IRGC-Quds Force has provided $100 to $350 million annually since 2007 through cash smuggling via Sinai tunnels, Hezbollah intermediaries, cryptocurrency transfers, and direct Quds Force payments. The funding survived the Syria civil war split in 2012, the reconciliation that followed, and the October 7 operation that Hamas coordinated with Iranian strategic guidance. For seventeen years, the money flowed in one direction and the loyalty flowed in the other.

The statement breaks that symmetry. Not completely. Not irreversibly. But publicly. Hamas affirmed Iran’s right to respond to American and Israeli aggression “by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws.” That is the loyalty clause. Then it asked Iran to stop hitting the countries that Hamas needs to survive.

That is the survival clause. The two clauses are incompatible, and Hamas knows it. You cannot affirm a nation’s right to fire missiles at Saudi Arabia and simultaneously ask it to stop firing missiles at Saudi Arabia.

The statement is not diplomacy. It is a distress signal dressed in diplomatic language.

The distress is real. Iran has struck the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and fired toward Oman and Qatar since 28 February. Every one of those countries hosts Palestinian communities. Qatar mediates Hamas’s ceasefire negotiations. The UAE processes Hamas-linked financial transfers. Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic weight shapes the Arab League position on Gaza. When Iran fires missiles at these countries, it is not attacking Israel’s allies. It is attacking Hamas’s lifelines.

Hamas depends on $100 to $350 million from Iran for weapons and military infrastructure. It depends on Qatar for diplomatic survival and political legitimacy. It depends on Gulf states for the financial channels that keep Gaza’s economy from total collapse. Iran’s war is destroying the second and third dependencies to prosecute the first. Hamas just told its patron that the price of resistance has become the destruction of the support network resistance requires.

The IRGC will not respond publicly. Axis discipline demands silence on internal disagreements. But the statement will be read in Tehran as what it is: the first public acknowledgement by an Iranian proxy that Iran’s war strategy is damaging Iran’s own alliance architecture. Hezbollah cannot issue this statement because it is fighting in Lebanon at Iran’s direction. The Houthis cannot issue it because they are firing missiles at Gulf shipping at Iran’s direction.

Only Hamas, the proxy furthest from the current battlefield and most dependent on Gulf mediation, has the strategic distance to say what the others cannot. The Axis of Resistance was built on a simple proposition: Iran funds, Iran arms, Iran directs, and the proxies fight Israel on five fronts simultaneously. The proposition assumed Iran would never attack the countries the proxies need to survive. That assumption died when Iranian missiles hit Dubai, Riyadh, and Bahrain.

Hamas’s statement is the death certificate. The organisation that started the war Iran is now fighting just asked Iran to stop fighting it the way Iran chose to fight it. The Axis is not broken. But for the first time in seventeen years, it is arguing in public. And the argument is about whether the war is destroying the alliance the war was designed to defend.”

(1709) Evening all.

 

22. Reports of Net Han the Yahoo’s demise

… abound, supposedly hit by missile. No confirmation but:

“Reports of Indian journalist Aditya Raj Kaul, who had revealed Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s location, has been arrested by Israeli police from his shelter during the Iranian missile attack.”

21. Mothering Sunday or Mothers’ Day tomorrow

Don’t forget the simnel cake! (Pic from Dove’s Farm)

20. Ides of March tomorrow, folks

(Graphic from Farmer’s Almanac)

19. Moo corner

18. Andy at 1322:3

Iceland in the news.

17. Could be worse

16. IYE at 1322:2

“The Bank of England has requested a closed-door briefing with the Prime Minister on the ‘transition architecture’ for a retail central bank digital currency pilot4, due to launch in three English cities within the year. The Governor has prepared a slide deck: the first slide is titled ‘Programmable Money: Opportunities for Inclusion’56, the second contains the phrase ‘conditional spending parameters’, and the third has been redacted by the Treasury, which is never a good sign.”

 

I was interested in why, after it had taken the west by storm in the mid 70s, with the possible exception of Britain, southern rock faded into obscurity, given that there were such good bands and it was great “road trip” music.

An AI search brought this up:

“Southern Rock | Country Music Project Southern country rock faded from the mainstream due to a combination of tragic deaths (notably Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977), the rise of MTV prioritizing visual aesthetic over bluesy, jam-heavy music, and mainstream country music absorbing the Southern sound. As 70s rock evolved, it became more polished, while country music rebranded to adopt rock elements, taking its audience.”

There are a few things I could add. In large places such as the US and Australia, both where I spent time, long road trips were better fitted by ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, Allman Bros, Byrds, Doors, CSN&Y, Marshall Tucker, Elvin Bishop and so on, the surf rock having largely gone its way. Brit rock and glam was more suited to Brit pubs, seaside piers and promenades perhaps.

To say that Yes and Floyd were more “thinking” prog rock, before being overrun by punk and post punk … that just adds weight to the dismissal of southern rock as hick music … the rhythm and whooping it up being more important and in this is another truism … it’s more “fun”, more simple perhaps, redolent of nicer days past.

Interesting some of the players on this album below:

Brits might recognise a few of those names. Another point is that the studio version was often better than the live, the solos more distinct and so, this track is from the studio album, even though it’s a partying number at its core:

 

“The Card must have been an interesting if somewhat painful film for Alec Guinness to make. This might have been the most autobiographical piece of work Guinness ever did.

In The Card Guinness plays the son of washerwoman who learned early on to keep an eye out for the main chance and always strive to improve yourself by whatever means. In real life Guinness’s mother should only have been a washerwoman In fact she was a prostitute who never married his father, whomever that could have been. In real life Guinness overcame bigger obstacles than his character in The Card ever did.

But I’m sure he drew from real life in playing Denny Machin. Guinness in 91 minutes goes from a humble clerk to a position of real power in his area of England. The story is how he did it, the legal and extralegal methods employed and the people he used. When you think about it, The Card is a kinder, gentler version of Room At The Top.

Guinness courts two women on his way up, Valerie Hobson the widow of a local lord and dancing instructor Glynis Johns. Glynis is quite the climber herself as we learn when the story unfolds. In fact she nearly steals the film from Guinness, no easy task.

The Card which was released in the USA under the title of The Promoter is a good followup to such other Guinness everyman roles like he had in The Lavendar Hill Mob. The screenplay is quite good, I was kept very entertained seeing how Guinness could always make lemonade out of lemons. Definitely required viewing for Alec Guinness’s legion of fans.”

(1302) Afternoon all, been away usb sticking, getting nice pictures for new profile pics on X … trying them out like.

 

15. The moneygrubbers

14. Do you implictly trust tech

… when it’s in the hands of govt?

13. Flags all over the place now

12. The inhospitable Spaniards

… we might have to get an armada together here, they’re getting a bit cheeky:

11. Notta lotta people …..

Peter Sellers telling a story about Michael Caine who was born #OTD in 1933. pic.twitter.com/jtZ1bnqQhX

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) March 14, 2026

 

Isilme spent a day with her mate (girl) doing gelli printing. She notes, on that and also on the previous post on spring:

“I laughed about the photo composition because usually my main thought is, “Is it in focus? Did I get it all in?” So it is all subconscious (unconscious?) or something like that. I did notice the stripy shadow on the wall in the photo of the wild garlic and thought it was fun. And it might cause people to wonder what on earth that could be. Actually it is a lot of bamboo canes, leaning against the apple tree.

Isilme and signs of spring

And the gelli printing…! Well, it was wonderful to be honest. It has been ages since I spent such a lovely long time with a friend. Also, it’s been a long time since I spent all day ‘playing’!!”

JH: So here it is … gelli printing day:

“Meanwhile, up in the craft room… Or, rather, up in a friend’s craft room…

I got together with my friend for what was meant to be a morning of crafting. Her craft room is also in the attic. The plan was to do some gelli printing and just generally have a good natter. She’s a very accomplished crafter – she spins her own wool, dyes it, and weaves it. Some of the clothes she makes are so lovely. She has a huge weaving loom (the type that takes a day or two to set up before you even start to weave).

So we planned to do gelli printing until lunchtime, have a sandwich, and I’d go home and do boring chores.

So, we kept doing gelli printing until past 1pm – we decided we’d just clean up our gelli plates which involves brayering paint over them and printing on to paper in the hope that it will print off all the remaining bits and pieces of paint left from previous printings (you get that sometimes, and it looks really good).

So I have no idea what time it was when we finally went downstairs to eat. We ate lunch, while talking away and finally her husband appeared and said he was going to walk the dog. He said goodbye to me as I might not be there when he got back (was that a hint I should go….?) So I asked what time it was. 4pm!!!! Yikes!

(Beloved) was astounded that I’d been crafting all day and laughed his head off that I was only now coming home. But I had good fun and discovered some new techniques and got to know my friend a bit better too. All good.

Craft club (itself) this morning was fine – I’m currently knitting a cardigan in the hope that I’ll use up two giant balls of wool and thus create a bit more space in the craft room. Although, I suppose I shall need more space in the wardrobe when I’ve finished it!

Have a look at the photos of some of the prints I made… Some are done using random plants from the garden and squishing them into the paint on the gelli plate. Others are done using stencils. The trick is to limit myself to three colours – that actually works better than grabbing random  paints on the spur of the moment. I’ve only photographed the best prints. There are a lot more that look a bit ghastly, but I can probably salvage them by printing over them.

Some prints are done on tissue paper. I thought that was a bit odd when I first heard of doing it. However, my friend showed me how you can stick the tissue paper on to something (card, wood, tiles, etc) and the tissue paper doesn’t show up! It looks as if you’ve painted it straight onto the item. That’s a game changer because I don’t have to try to get a perfect gelli print on anything, especially if it’s an awkward shape. I can try it out on the tissue paper and if it works, I stick it on!

Another reason to hoard small boxes, tins, picture frames, etc, etc.”

(0914)(0932)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Messing with nature

8. Let’s not forget how they had it back then

7. One of the historic near-consensus on men’s faves

… up there with, say, Bardot and Audrey Hepburn:

French singer Françoise Hardy being interviewed about The Beatles in 1964. pic.twitter.com/eDXACBuMAI

— Rock'n Roll of All (@rocknrollofall) March 13, 2026

6. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-rise-of-karen-stasi-in-2020-and-new.html

(0756) Morning all, this Pi Day … been gathering since 0500, sorry to be a bit late for HQ. Looks sunny through the wall to wall poisoned cloud out there. (0919)

 

5. Sydney Watson

4. Steve corner

JH: The case for Trump, rather than his strange doings of late:

Steve: If you didn’t know who the Basij are..

“An Israeli drone strike hit a Basij paramilitary checkpoint in Tehran overnight. The Basij is widely used by the Iranian government for internal security and protest control. Israeli officials have previously confirmed strikes on Basij bases and internal security command centers across Tehran during the current campaign. Some reports circulating online claim that Iranians opposed to the regime are feeding checkpoint locations to Israeli intelligence in real time, allowing rapid targeting of security positions. Those claims about citizen tips have not been independently confirmed by major international outlets. Source: Rerum Novarum / conflict reporting..

|https://x.com/stevenjlatham1/status/2030676436843986952?s=46

From Mossad:

A Basij checkpoint has been obliterated. At least ten checkpoints like this were attacked overnight. • Intelligence suggests Iranian civilians are helping identify checkpoints and regime hideouts. • The Basij are the regime’s street-level enforcers used to suppress the population. Stay connected, follow..

@MOSSADil

From 1321:

• ROTC Students at Old Dominion Beat Shooter to Death With Their Bare Hands
• France and Italy Quietly Seek Deal With Iran to Safeguard Shipping Through Hormuz
• Hungary To Declassify Bombshell National Security Report Proving Globalist Opposition to Viktor Orbán Is Illegally Funded by [The] Ukraine
• US Is Sending Thousands Of Marines To Middle East And Their Target May Be Lebanon, Not Iran
• English Translation of Attorney Peter Stassen’s Historic Presentation to Netherlands Appellate Court in Bioweapons and Genocide Civil Case Against Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, Mark Rutte, et al
• WHO claims radiation from EMFs is safe; WHO is plagued with conflicts of interest and flawed studies
• AI expert: We don’t know how AI works (JH: Greetings and welcome, Skynet and HAL 9000.)
• Much more.

3. This relates directly to 1322:1

It’s the rationale for 1322:1, I posted on X about it:

Now, what about the rationale behind nourishing-unherdables itself? Has that altered? Not a bit of it … we’re still centrist within antiWoke space, which globopsycho and the wokerati naturally misname. It was just time Christians started asserting themselves as well as all the rest of us outting what we usually put and shall continue to do today, Pi Day.

Rationale behind pushing Pi Day? Reader Chuckles, dear reader … the ghost of reader Chuckles who died two years ago … he was crazy for Pi Day, plus May the Fourth be with You. Let’s never forget our regulars, afap.

2. DAD at 1321

a) Macron’s disastrous Nuclear [Electricity] policy. After years steering France away from nuclear power, the president now concedes the strategy was a costly mistake….

b) French mayoral candidate suspected of staging anti-Semitic hate crime on himself. [He has been] The mayor of Nice since 2008 and a prominent figure in the centrist Horizons party….

c) The UK’s Regime Is not Anarcho-Tyranny; It’s worse than that. The more chaotic and corrupting and violent society becomes due to the government’s refusal to govern, the more justified the government deems itself in intensifying its totalitarian regulation of society.

d) King Penguins vote for climate change…….Scientists had so much money they were able to follow 17,000 penguins for 24 years….

e) Andrew Bridgen on ‘X’..Unbeliveable but true in Sussex – banned from preaching from the bible.

1. Something I’m thinking we can be proud of at nourishing-unherdables

100 day streak … just think of that for a moment, even 100 moments. It means we had a sufficient number of drops to run a new post every day for 100 days, no break. Awesome.

(1822) Evening all.

 

19. Moo corner

18. Who, do the MSM never attack?

17. Surfeit of bins

16. Orla

15. Sidelights on AI

14. Overbuilding in conservative areas

13. NHS Palantir

12. Arbitrary sectioning of dissidents

11. Steve at 1321

Hearts of Oak: Jerod Ochsendorf – Faith, Freedom & Informed Choices: Inside the 2026 Health Freedom Summit