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Thursday [16 till close of play]

(1449) Just starting to come back from not so good, as happened yesterday.

 

23. A book at bedtime

Just in case you’ll be needing something to read:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/75288/75288-h/75288-h.htm

22. DAD at 1368

a) Man in court over police stabbing 24th January 2008

A Somali translator was remanded in custody today after appearing in court charged with stabbing a police officer and his dog.

Essa Suleiman, 26, of Boundary Lane in Camberwell, south-east London, is alleged to have inflicted grievous bodily harm on Pc Neil Sampson as he responded on January 3 to a 999 call reporting a knife attack in Swindon, Wiltshire.

b) 30/04/2026. The suspect being held after Wednesday’s Golders Green knife attack is 45-year-old Essa Suleiman from south-east London, the BBC understands

Earlier, it emerged he was referred to the government’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme in 2020

Is this the same person?

21. For anyone choosing hurricane alley

20. Yet another


19. Miscarriage v abortion


18. Fun future for the west and for mankind


17. Wolf has an interesting chart


16. Steve on the oil chokepoint

… and implications … it’s Last Refuge on X:

“You might have seen the report of the UAE making a surprise announcement to exit OPEC effective in 3 days, on May 1st.

THREE DAYS!

The background story here is only just now beginning to sink in.

If the UAE exits OPEC that means it no longer has limits on oil production. That means effective immediately they can start pushing oil to the Fajairah port terminal, which is beyond the Hormuz chokepoint.

This announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying last week the U.S. was likely to provide increased currency swaps to the UAE in order to help offset the mid-east oil crisis.

WASHINGTON

– US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a number of allies in the Gulf region and in  Asia have requested currency swap lines from the United States to help deal with energy shocks and other fallout from the Middle East war.

Bessent told US senators that both the US and the United Arab Emirates would benefit from a proposed swap line that President Donald Trump said he was considering on Tuesday.

Bessent did not name the countries making such requests, but told a US Senate Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing that such facilities would help stabilize financial markets amid turmoil from the Iran war.”

The UAE can bypass the Hormuz chokepoint, and Saudi Arabia can pump oil to the Red Sea via their

east/west pipeline .

If Trump keeps the blockade against Iranian oil shipments in place, the UAE and Saudi Arabia can fill the global oil void; however, they need to get outside the OPEC restrictions to do it.  Thus, the UAE exiting OPEC makes strategic sense both now and in the geopolitical longer term.

In the short run the UAE, and potentially other GCC member states, needs financial stability as the switch is done.  Enter Scott Bessent with the currency swap lines for the UAE.

Brilliant planning.

Iran just lost all their leverage.

Oh, and Iran cannot look for help/support from Russia because Trump/Bessent just took that card off the table:

WASHINGTON

– “The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and extended a waiver on sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products amid the Iran war, just days after a top Cabinet official said the U.S. would not be doing so.

A license allowing countries to purchase Russian oil from Friday through May 16 was posted on the Treasury Department’s

website

“So, the UAE increases oil output (exits OPEC) no Hormuz problem. Saudi Arabia already has a big max output (OPEC) and pumps west. While Russian oil (OPEC) is unsanctioned and flowing to Asia.

All of this activity done in petrodollars.

Yup, Iran just lost all their leverage.

Sometimes necessity is the mother of ingenuity.”

……

All right … difficulty here for redaction/copyright is that many are still not on X, therefore they can’t see it. Not being sure if this also appears at his blog, the question of usage and attribution arises. Link is in comments (sidebar).

As for the premise, not all in comments there agreed … they were of the opinion that the pipeline was already at full capacity. I need to read it all again.

Thursday [11 to 15]

(0918) Still sun above the cloud, currently being added to by four criss-crossing planes. (0945)

 

15. Moo corner


14. Heat pumps … not just expensive

… inefficient and an eyesore but I was thinking (brain hurts) about them. Do they work by funnelling air from outside? As in poisoned air, now full on in winter, pumped in to sicken residents? Was this planned?


13. On the surface it seems a reasonable request


However, if you consider new 5G and similar, sending out radiation to brains, there’s a case for keeping the phone at a distance. Solution?

12. The climate scam


11. A sad moment

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0304)(0635)

 

5. Moving hydrogen


4. Steve at 1368

  • James Comey Under Arrest – Surrenders to Law Enforcement at Federal Courthouse in Alexandria
  • US Prepares For Extended Blockade On Iran
  • Why Ukraine’s New 300-Kilometer Defense Line Won’t Stop Russia
  • From Depopulation to Repopulation? The Dramatic Global U-turn
  • Major Victory for the French Right: Scandal of State Media Revealed
  • Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes’ escape to Italy and those ties to the Italian deep state
  • Much much more.

3. Both of these comment on Nige with no little bias 😄

One is a Tory MP, so of course he’ll comment that way. The other is a former guestposter at N.O. during our UKIP days, was mistreated by Farage, her former website is still in my blogrolls.


This might also be of interest from some time back:

2. DAD at 1368

a) Fourteen terrifying cases of migrants raping elderly women in France, French journalist calls it a ‘shocking pattern’ that happens ‘again and again’

b) Eurostat[istics]: France becomes the most dangerous country in Europe.

c) Ignore the Trump-haters, Iran is desperate.

d) Macron makes a mess in row over foreign Doctors.

e) Even U.S. Can’t Believe What UK and Ukraine Are About to Do in the Strait of Hormuz

1. No Digital ID

Three million Britons signed a petition against digital ID, which was not part of the Labour election manifesto: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-1… The government has admitted online restrictions will be applied regardless of the outcome of a similar consultation into an under-16 social media ban: news.sky.com/story/educatio…

Wednesday [16 till close of play]

(1505) Possibly too early, midway through the radio play etc. but radio plays are usually come back to, planned for sometime … meanwhile, there’s nothing posted for hours.

 

25. DAD at 1368

Sam goes to Liverpool and finds the Masons everywhere. (Video)

24. Age at which to have a baby


23. Consider this when deciding whom to vote for


Farage says one thing to one group and another to a different group … just like this one:


22. Weeeell, it’s YouGov, innit?


21. Steve with Jim Chimirie


20. Landlords and tenants


19. This 👇🏻


18. The dishonesty involved in tertiary education


17. Roobeedoo certainly explores some “out there” things


16. Ugly habits with age

The danger here was of course who was saying it, whether it was being forthright … hut when I saw he was of a certain age, plus it was subtitled, that changed it from an audio lecture, which is what puts me off podcasts and lectures … to something visual where I could switch off the noise and just follow the text.

And it seemed to me that he gave a good checklist to measure myself against. So here tis:

HERE

Try these

 

Author and title of book please:

  1. It is a truth universally acknowledged …
  2. All happy families are alike …
  3. It was the best of times …
  4. Once upon a time and a very good time it was …
  5. It was a bright, cold day in April …
  6. All children, except one, grow up …
  7. One day, when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do …

Quite an Endeavour

 

… was this series. I was not a mad, crazy fan of Morse, mainly because Thaw was not one of my faves, either as Regan or Morse. There were also episodes I really did not like, e.g. Cherubim and Seraphim, quite contrived through the writers and crew not having been involved in RL within the scene. I also did not like the lesbianism, the harshly masculine females in Brit fiction, e.g. in Sayers’s Gaudy Night. Nor was Morse anything but embarrassing as a lover.

However, the rest of it was wunnerful, from the Jag to the settings to the leisurely pace, to Lewis, to its very Britishness at its height, before the massed invasion.

Many episodes did stand out and the one getting my vote was Death of the Self, set in Italy. The irony, for me, was my RL partner was involved with the mayor of one of those V named cities, I even spoke with him once … and the settings and plot were pretty good, plus I bought the booklet, which led in all sorts of directions.

One last negative … not sure if it was AI or real narration in this, I’m thinking real … but YT obviously tell creators to go with sensational clickbait thumbnails and titles. Dark? It was just facts about Morse the series, oft repeated to pad it out, but overall worth it.

By the way, did you also see the oft repeated schoolgirl in the lesbian episode … she was actually a 22 year old Elizabeth Hurley.


https://youtu.be/tmvu_s_MAWs?si=KcDM5fFlOcMBVKve

Oh guess what … it’s embedding disabled … utter horses’ backsides.

Oh, and at the end of the Morse series, the character has a heart attack and dies. Charming.