(1051) Coming up to elevenses … very rough out there, even white caps on the sheltered water. Have to go out just before midday and might be some time. (1136)

 

15. My question

… who’s more trustworthy today … the Met office, Met plod or the NHS?

14. Leaving no doubt of her view on the matter, ha ha

13. Moo corner

12. IYE corner

Matt Walsh on Doomerism “. By Miles Mathis

”By the way, although Walsh doesn’t mention it here, Meta and Google have recently lost huge lawsuits on this “doomscrolling”, being found liable for creating addiction, depression, and even suicide. So it isn’t just me and Walsh who are claiming this. Multiple juries have ruled that Big Tech is doing this on purpose, and found that some levels of malevolence are involved. Plaintiffs weren’t required to explain exactly WHY Big Tech would wish to make its consumers miserable, only that it had done so withmalice—the cause of the malice being beyond the scope of the trial. But I have told you why:

Big Tech is an arm of the government, and the government needs you to be confused and powerless. Operation Chaos. The bludgeoning of your sanity by a full-spectrum attack, to prevent revolution…..”

https://mileswmathis.com/matt.pdf

Interwebs playing up over here. Doesn’t matter which devices. (JH: DAD too today.)

11. Some housekeeping

Nothing particularly technical this time, more about what we’re offering. I say “we” because of reader offerings, which are appreciated, natch.

Thing is this … certain types of offerings almost run themselves from my position here … but some are more problematic. Now that Dearieme has lost interest in the jazz on Sundays … yes, even if only one person still likes it … AKH for example, then I’d keep it going in that slot.

However, AKH also likes the films, as does Toodles, plus they keep appearing, unlike the jazz. This coming Sunday is Easter Sunday or Resurrection Day, so maybe I’ll do something other than jazz on the 5th.

Another problematic offering is the “serious” music. Now it just so happens we have some rippers coming up, suddenly having appeared … first tomorrow around 0800. So they’re all right for two weeks.

Another is the Ruairidh or Jago type … they’ve slowed down but are still occasional.

One which has almost disappeared is my own music from the past (quiet at the back there, enough of this “thank goodness” business) and my attitude now is not to run it unless it connects to a time and topic, e.g. as the Don MacLean did. I have three right now which very much related to past events.

Of all the above, the most problematic, as it’s been before, is the jazz.

 

(0758)(0848)

 

10. For those of a certain age and homeland

9. Moo corner

8. No Kings again

7. Faith in the medical industry

6. The second and more final “day the music died”

We know about the Buddy Holly crash in Feb, 59 and Don McLean’s song of 1971. Yes, that was the death of innocence, but not of creativity, clever playing and untainted singing.

The second and more permanent death though was in 1997. As many Gen Zee (1997 to 2014) reactors admit … music after the mid 90s became total autotuned drivel, adenoidal, soulless and untalented, just as with film … satanic and dripping with Woke. Sad Gen Zee and Alpha.

(0639) Morning all, got in a short second sleep here, hope all is well there for the new week, Holy Week. I never used to commemorate this week all that much until Good Friday but this year … yes … mainly because the Christian underpinning of our society, our west, is under serious assault, plus I must admit … using the word Holy infuriates all the right people. (0745)

 

5. The state of the NHS now

4. Before going any further

… I’m going to re-post DAD’s last item in full:

“Although Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party is far from having secured the resounding victory it claims in the press following its results in the March 2026 French municipal elections, it has won a few symbolic strongholds that allow it to assert that a “new France” is emerging.”

There’s all out war there, all out war here, truth is obviously the first casualty. The creeps controlling our pollies obviously feel they’re on the home stretch here, otherwise they’d not show their corruption so openly. At this point, cue Steve’s General Kemp summary at 1337 … who, precisely, is going to stop globopsycho? The supposed right is banned or crippled on the continent, despite the gender win at the EU parlmt, all eyes on Orban, though he has the added bonus of Vlad being an ally in real terms.

Meanwhile, the duped normies in all western countries are just that … duped and unwilling to face reality, preferring to call the refuseniki such as Restore “extremists” and “racists”. There’s a thing called recognising reality too early … give it time and far more will see it … everything has its time.

3. DAD at 1337

Monday. Computer problem – better late than never. (JH: Indeed DAD, much appreciated by all.)

a) Is Pakistan finally facing the monster it created? Is Europe prepared for the consequences? The answer is in the smoke rising over the Durand Line. For decades, the Islamabad establishment has played a dangerous game, nurturing the Taliban as a strategic depth agent against India.

b) This is Paris, France 2026. Relax and enjoy the new culture.

c) In the areas where they have just been elected, the mayors from La France Insoumise (LFI) are already making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons.

2. Steve’s last evening summaries at 1337

• Pentagon Hands Trump Iran Ground Invasion Plans as President Weighs Next Move
• Iranian Proxy Group the Houthis from Yemen Say They May Close Bab El Mandeb Strait
• JD Vance Wins CPAC’s 2028 GOP Presidential Straw Poll
• Ballistic Missiles From Iran, Cruise Missiles And Suicide Drones From Yemen Target Southern Israel
• Study Finds Nearly Half of Seniors Show Cognitive or Physical Improvements Over 12 Years
• The digital cradle: New study links infant screen time to premature brain maturation, lasting anxiety
• Over 3,500 US Troops Arrive In Middle East As Houthis Enter War
• Much more.

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Overview on the Monday of Holy Week

If you glance at the previous post … the programme for Holy Week, you’ll notice what’s on Monday.

All right, now look at Steve’s two part comment below the post (and in sidebar) or else go direct to 1337:1 and 1337:9 (same thing).

All right, before even getting onto Steve’s other (regular) fayre from last evening (Mon 2) or DAD’s coming up around 5 a.m. (Mon 3), there’s a succession of emotions, yes, provided of course that you are still of sound mind.

And there’s the rub … staying sound of mind.

For example, how much doom and gloom can one person take in a sustained assault on our minds over a long period of time? We’re talking here about those not yet shellshocked, not yet in deep PTSD. You know how it goes … succession of emotions until they reduce you to a quivering wreck. They can do that you know … over a long enough time period, esp. by controlling food, water, heating, digital ID.

The alternatives, imho, are two … either become that quivering wreck, still trying to keep the head down below the parapet, hoping the croc eats you last … until it does … or drop into “fight or flight”, the most primal of human reactions.

I’m assuming here that you’ve already taken care of your home defences for when the economy crashes, including barriers to your home, food, water, shelter, medicines. How long will those last, incidentally?

So yes … we’re assuming here that you’re still sound of mind, you’ve not yet succumbed.

Or have you actually succumbed, like everyone else, e.g. Reform voters, refusing to face reality, e.g. the reality on the streets, in hotels and barracks, in every town centre, as the orcs roam around, picking off the vulnerable? Sitting ducks.

Now, that whole point of “succumbing or not succumbing” is physical, mental and spiritual … there’s been enough on the first two to know which steps you MUST take … but what about your soundness of mind?

We’re moving here onto another level … sheer survival and Steve, for example, plus a few other readers, having had either military, boy scout or survivalist training in the past, will probably do better than the couch potato or wimpy new SNAG or vulnerable lass.

By the way, who’s coughing a lot of late under these poisonous skies? How well are you? How’s the health?

And there’s another question here … about me, myself, JH. Am I a fiend relishing in all the horror or am I trying to find ways for both of us to stay of sound mind, simply in order to continue to function, in order to be able to fight or fly when it comes to it? In order to prevail, not to put too fine a point on it?

Lastly, I’m going to drop, in here, a fairly standard Anglican prayer-intro from long ago, not to “proselytise” by any means but because it might just be a last alternative.

In this prayer intro, the wording goes: “Lord [or whichever terminology you use], bless, guide, protect, comfort and give courage to …” … and then you add all the people you’re praying for … family, nation, people needing respite and even redress, justice.

I hasten to add here that it does not actually save you from the assault, the slaughter, the poisoned land or skies per se but it does give all those things listed in the prayer, if you believe it can … and incidentally, further keeps you safe by keeping your mind clear enough to make the right choices at each point along the way. But again … only if you believe it can.

From my point of view here, I could either write that above … or not write it, not tell you at all, for fear of what someone might think of me, how someone might mock. Which of those two choices would be gutless and which, alternatively, a responsibility towards our readers?

Are we not here to find solutions?

Another question is that Palpatine question, the Anakin Skywalker … are we to succumb to our anger and hatred of the enemy and go out slaughtering whole villages ourselves, or are we to focus on clearing obstacles threatening our territory and protecting those needing protecting?

Which solutions leave our mind clear enough to still be effective? /END.

(1628) Almost evening all, hope you had a good one. Much up at 1337 just now, much reading and watching.

 

20. Palm Sunday across the west, plus Israel

… ring those church bells loudly this week, people.

The programme for Holy Week:

19. Moo with Dickens

18. On IYE’s item at 1337

It’s a lot of reading and suggests confirmation bias, the linked guy at his site. However, if there could be any non-AI confirmation picture of her making that gesture for real … well, that would be pretty clear, would it not?

17. A good arrangement it seems

16. One of the key culprits in the mass murders

 

Now, this is what we were talking about … not a sharp copy, vision just acceptable, sound better than that. Think it’s worth it.

“A serviceable thriller about spies on a train maneuvering to obtain a stolen diary with international implications. The main cast is Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney, and David Tomlinson, with many others in an ensemble cast that tries its best to weave together a half dozen stories, not all of which are interesting.

De Marney I expected the most from, as I liked him in Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent (1937), but he has matured here into blandness. Lieven I didn’t know at all, and he is good and savage as the head spy. Tomlinson with the jug ears is always fun to watch, the pip-pip cheerio Brit.

However — and it’s a big however — this is a remake of Rome Express from 1932, and it doesn’t have near the excitement and suspense of the original. The original had Esther Ralston and a ton of Hitchcock actors: Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, and Frank Vosper.

Most importantly, it had Conrad Veidt as the head spy. Good as Lieven is in the remake, he can’t top Veidt, and really no one could. Veidt gives a strange shading to the most innocuous lines — he’s the kind of villain who would knife Granny if she got too nosy. (He also resembles Bruno Hauptmann somewhat — I wonder if audiences in 1932 made that connection.)

The 1948 version is good, but the 1932 version is more fun to watch. Both have a killer climactic scene in the train’s luggage car — a chance for both Veidt and later, Lieven, to shine.”

JH: I’ll be looking out for a good copy of Rome Express.

 

(1145) Nearly afternoon all … jazz at 1230. (1147)

 

15. The problems changing clocks cause

14. ASDA is off my list too

13. Moo corner

JH: Going back through the Moos, I see I ran this twice … once shortened, once expanded. Oops. Thinking here … hmmmm … think I’ll not replace this now as it would be burying a good Moo offering.

12. This day back then

11. More on how bad that Thune sellout was