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Easter or Bank Holiday Monday [1 to 5]

(0620) Seems bleah out there, although it was a lively, fiery red and dark cloud dawn earlier … now billowing over into low, poisoned, Gates cloud cover now. Have a wunnerful Monday.

 

5. Steve at 1344

  • Navy SEAL Team 6 Rescues Downed US Airman From Deep Behind Enemy Lines in Bold Mission — The Same Unit That Killed Osama bin Laden
  • President Trump Reveals Details on Negotiations with Iran to Fox News’s Trey Yingst After His Explosive Truth Social Post – Also Says US Sent Guns to Iranian Protesters
  • Serbian President Vučić Says Explosives Were Found Near a Pipeline Carrying Gas From Russia to Serbia and Hungary
  • US Special Forces Insane Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran
  • More.

4. Why indeed


3. Andy at 1344

I’m hurt. I want to be the smartest thing in my house, that’s why I won’t have smart meters. Now they tell me that a grain of rice can be smart! | https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-strange-property-of-rice-and-turn-it-into-a-smart-material/ | Smart things have a mind of their own, what has my jar of rice got in store for me?

2. Shan’t add to this


1. DAD at 1344

a) Artemis II’s crew sent a heartfelt Easter message to the world as they approached the moon Sunday — a remarkable echo of a Christmas address given by the mission’s closest cousin in space history, Apollo 8. (JH: Wonderful theatre. Do not wish to tread on sacred cows or shibboleths but the re-run of 1969 … well, the time had come, in their eyes, to head off Elon.)

b) USA. Figures reported by the National Catholic Register and several diocesan sources reveal a dramatic increase in the number of adults preparing to join the Catholic Church. (JH: Please see Mon 6.)

c) Rémi Brague: “The Problem of Malsi is that it is a Legislation”. Rémi Brague chooses his words with care, so that his observations about Islam seem understated, and his conclusions mild. But if you pay careful attention, you’ll notice…. (JH: Please see Mon 8.)

d) Why Gulf Won’t Attack Iran! Here’s Why Gulf Nations Are IGNORING Iran Attacks.

Sunday [6 till close of play]

(1600) Closing in on evening, folks.

 

13. Why is Donny incapable of standard vetting

… of due diligence? If we can do it, why can’t he?


12. Intellectual property, copyright, AI

… what thinkest thou?

11. And here’s another one


10. We’ve been looking at many tales of late

… at possible explanations … the constant factor has been that “crazy” today seems not so crazy once we’ve lost all faith in people “above”, in positions of power. In social media, we can construct any sort of plausible case, throw in some hard data, and Pammy’s your aunty.


9. Moo corner


8. The Paris Review

… is an old publication of the “left literary establishment”, specialising in literary pieces by “highly regarded authors” from their world … maybe “high-toned” is a better way to put it.

So, if an author is to give creedence to the Kubrik moon landing yarn, he must first give some detail but then question it, thereby being “evenhanded”, which is more than, say, the BBC and other MSM do today.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/18/how-stanley-kubrick-staged-the-moon-landing-and-other-stories

7. While Steve comments at HQ about the F-15E pilot rescue

… Andy posts at 1344 that he was not rescued. Your choice in this fog of war.

6. IYE has a piece at 1344 on “the energy beast”

He quotes from it … I also have a takeaway from it:

“In 1932, the Fabian-linked organisation Political and Economic Planning published a pamphlet titled Freedom and Planning. It proposed decoupling distribution from production, installing an unelected planning authority between producer and consumer, and setting the standards by which goods would flow. The farmer would retain operational freedom over his fields. The quantities, the pricing, and the market access would be determined by a distribution authority he never voted for. 

The pamphlet noted that of all Britain’s institutions, only one would require no structural change to fit the new order: the Bank of England.

Ninety-four years later the architecture is the same, but the scale is now global. 

The distribution authority is a physical corridor. The standards are environmental, financial, and regulatory. And the institution that requires no change is the Bank for International Settlements — which published the unified ledger blueprint, calibrates the capital requirements, and built the settlement infrastructure through which the corridor will clear.”

Sunday

 

First up was sent by Toodles as a lullaby … how sweet:

Second this afternoon is an ensemble some of us know and appreciate:

Last this afternoon is an old fave of mine … I suspect also of many listeners:

Sun Mat

 

“It was made by Teddington Studios, the British studio then under the control of Warner Brothers. It was a “quota quickie”, a film made under the British Cinematograph Films Act of 1927- created to counter the dominance of American films in Britain.

The film is a simple (if properly restrained British) love story. It begins as an unemployed car salesman, Peter Middleton, who has lost the last of his money in cards, takes a street orphan under his wing and pretending the orphan is his son, persuades a softhearted landlady to rent him a room, although he has no money.

The next day, while trying to con the chauffeur of a fancy motorcar, he meets the rich young Cynthia Hatch. However, intrigued by his audacity, she hides her identity from him when he mistakes her for a working girl and to impress her, he pretends that the car is his.

And so, in the best scene in the movie, she convinces him to take her to a fancy restaurant that he, of course, he can’t pay for. There she puts him up to going to the powerful Mr. Hatch (her father, still unknown to him) to pitch a scheme for petrol (gas) stations. He promises that he will make good and then hire her as his secretary.

However, her scheme backfires when her father rejects him and he goes to work for the competition. He holds her to her promise, and she finds herself working for her father’s chief competitor. 

Its all wrapped up neatly in a little more than an hour as the young entrepreneur gets the best of his future father-in-law and wins the girl. As the girl, Nancy O’Neil is quite good and Ian Hunter is good, if a little stiff, as the lead. After this film, he went to Hollywood, where he may be best known for playing King Richard in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”.

It was directed by Michael Powell, who went on to make “Black Narcissus” and “The Red Shoes”, among other classics.”

Easter Sunday [1 to 5]

(1330) Afternoon all, hope all is well. (1330)

 

5. Moo corner


4. Bondi


3. Steve at 1343

  • 77 Years Ago Today, NATO Was Created to Defend the West – But Is It?
  • Easter and Holy Week Celebrations Cancelled Across the Middle East
  • F-15E Pilot Reacts to Daring F-15E Crew Rescue Mission in Iran
  • Iran Reports Deadly Attack On Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Russia Evacuates More Staff
  • The 40 Mechanisms: Exposing the COVID-19 vaccine bioweapon
  • The algorithmic frontline: How Ukraine became the world’s AI warfare laboratory
  • Shroud of Turin DNA study deepens mystery: New findings suggest complex history
  • More.

2. Is this the other pilot or someone else?

Plus Sunday 7 says something else.


1. DAD at 1343

a) A large-scale police operation, conducted after several months of investigation, has dismantled a structured network facilitating illegal immigration in southwestern France. Two men have been charged and placed in pretrial detention.

b) Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands. All five have drawn up a list of countries with which they could open migrant centers or consider other “innovative solutions,” according to sources cited by AFP.

c) Military authorization required to stay abroad? A German law on military service stipulates that men (aged 17 to 45) “must obtain authorization from the army recruitment center” if they leave the country for more than three months.

d) Discovering Chartreuse Elixir: a Very Spiritual Spirit. There is something rather mysterious about the aura surrounding this green bottle, crafted in silence by the monks.

Easter or Resurrection Sunday

 

Housekeeping … 0620 BST … cunning plan is to resume hostilities around 1330 today with our chaps’ and any chapesses’ incoming, plus a few other items, then a film, then music including at least one jazz track, then back to full-on posting approaching evening. This morning, for me, involves personal contact around the west and a short service of sorts.

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter Day … or Resurrection Day … or choc eggs and bunnies day … or even Brit bank holiday … however you commemorate it, may you stay safe and well through these iconic few days.

This below was saved about 5 a.m. BST, Sunday, posted on X by Malcolm Roberts, Queensland, Senator for One Nation downunder, which shows that the cultural underpinning for the west is well summed up … yes, it is the rolling away of the stone which was the first scene to greet those coming to the tomb and was also the first Easter reference I saw upon logging in just now.


Whichever way you observe today and Malcolm Roberts quoted this:

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” — Matthew 28:6

… or you can go the egg route (sidebar) or whatever … it certainly set the cat among the pigeons from that point forward, around AD33, even to the dating of our current era, plus many political scribes are noting, on this 2026 day, that events are moving in an apocalyptic direction, millions around the world are flocking to churches still not burnt down by the baddies.

And so, thoughts and prayers for readers and the suffering out there. See you in the next post around 1330.

Saturday [9 till close of play]

(1618) Call me a loony but I have a contractual obligation with my Maker to give the politics a rest until tomorrow afternoon, post-prandially, following this post. Music, film, docu-short, yes but no real world politics until maybe 1330 Sunday. Similar arrangement at OoL which I’ll post there. Must do this.

 

14. Toodles at 1343

… with Grifty.

13. More Moo

… can one ever have enough Moo?


12. A Sophie double


11. IYE corner

There are four linked comments by the noble IYE but only one is being posted … here:

Urgh!
“FDA Rubber-stamps Approval of Lab-grown Salmon” 

https://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/fda-rubber-stamps-approval-of-lab-grown-salmon

……

JH: The other comments stay in situ for sensitivity reasons, let’s say. Easily found by our regulars … just been looking at them after the Delingpodcast. Think we have enough for now to keep us occupied.

10. A most interesting podcast

9. Moo corner

Sat Mat

 

There were a couple of other hour long films/episodes but I need an hour and a half one, plus I mooted running this one, plus it’s maybe, imho, the best of the series … why? This continues below the film:

Synopsis … Wolfe is visited by an upper-middle lady (with house staff back at home in her mansion) … the lady is being heavied by the FBI and she’ll pay Wolfe to rid her of the Feds, as if it’s possible.

It turns into a caper movie, a genre like Ocean’s 11 where Wolfe uses his group of organised guys to put one over on the Feds … in a most novel way. Much as I like gals to be plentiful in a film, I also chuckle when a bunch of chaps work together to achieve an end … the mix in this episode is rewarding. There is another episode, called Motherhunt, not currently usable, which has a similar madcap series of premises.

Hope you enjoy.

Saturday [6 to 8]

(0953) Just ticked over to elevenses near the end. (1118)

 

8. The Unherdables approach to its incoming intel

There’s been a bit of confusion about how readers should take what appears here … is it a ringing endorsement for, even pushing hard for all that is stated in the item? For example, here?

Last supper and agony in the garden [12 till close of play]

Answer is … sometimes, in some respects, rarely every single word of it. There’s a delicate juggling act going on on my part … yes, shutting out Wokery and Globopsycho narrative but letting through our chaps and chapesses who are regulars, plus occasionals and some newbies who obviously seem good hearts who are for saving the west, our heritage, our faith, our families etc.

On the Seder question, for example, I explored and foubd this:

“A core section of one text said: “Some Christians choose to observe a Passover Seder, adapted to emphasize Christ as the Messiah, as a way to understand the roots of their faith and the significance of Jesus’ death.”

Sounds reasonable to me … but we do need to read the fine print … plus some sources need to go on our watch list in the navbar and at NOWP.

Then we come to items 7 and 6 below. If I might take the moon landings from 1969 onwards, there are clearly anomalies, Diamonds Are Forever satirised it, so many articles also have, in detail. Some is speculative, some ask good questions. Against that, what of the moon rocks? Were they real? What of maps with the Van Allen Belt?

I simply don’t know. I do lean towards no, they did not land but you might have a good case as to why they did.

I just think we need, at Unherdables here, to at least present what people are saying, somewhere on-site, barring Woke and Globopsycho narrative of course … if any of the latter stands up in some respects, then ok, our own sources will at least address those worthy points. We don’t need trolls though, muddying everything. That’s all.

The model we follow here is … look, let’s table it, examine it, comment, see what we think of this new snippet or that. …/END.

7. IYE corner

“Hey, Franklin Graham! Read Your Bible. Or Your Torah. Or A History Book!

On the Book of Esther, the evangelical delusion, and a warning about lying about the wickedness of other people to those in power.”

”……

The alignment between American evangelicalism and Israeli hard-right politics is one of the more remarkable theological phenomena of our era, and it deserves to be named clearly: it is not principally about Christianity. It is about the myth of American providential destiny, dressed in biblical clothing. As I’ve written about here.

When Franklin Graham maps Donald Trump onto Esther — a Jewish woman who risked her life going to a foreign king uninvited, who survived by hiding who she was, who acted in secret and in fear — the theology has departed the building. What remains is something older and more American: the conviction that God is on our side, that our enemies are History’s enemies, and that military power exercised by the right people is the same thing as divine intervention.

This is not Christianity. It is not even a particularly coherent reading of the Old Testament, which is, if nothing else, a sustained argument against exactly this kind of self-congratulation. The God of the Hebrew Bible has a habit of using the wrong people — the foreigner, the woman, the coward, the liar — and embarrassing the ones who were certain of their own righteousness. Haman was certain. He had the king’s seal. He had the gallows ready. He had the date on the calendar……”

https://jonathanmillard.substack.com/p/hey-franklin-graham-read-your-bible

(What a week for Donny to be likened to Esther and Jesus! [sarc] )

6. Just reviewing this again and adding to it

… with a view to taking that, plus IYE in n7, plus Seder the other day, and drawing the threads together, restating Unherdables’ overall stance on such things.