Welp… here we are at Monday again. Now, where I am, it’s a public holiday, but unfortunately, for yours truly, it ain’t no vacation, because I’ve got about ten different things that I have to do, and I’ll probably only manage about three of them. (We’ll see – the day ain’t over yet.) That being said, since it IS Monday, it’s also time for a Great Mondaydact Browser Melter, and today we can take some time to look at one of the most underrated films of the early 1980s – John Boorman’s Excalibur.

That movie set a standard that, in many ways, has never really been met, never mind exceeded, especially when it comes to adaptations of the Arthurian legends. The 2004 film, King Arthur, came pretty close, though there were quite a few wooden moments in the acting – the director’s cut is WAY better than the theatrical release. The Guy Ritchie film from a few years back was pretty damned stupid. And I honestly can’t be arsed to remember any of the others, including the Devil Mouse kiddie cartoon version that I grew up with, which had absolutely sod-all to do with Excalibur, the sword, itself.

The 1981 film, though… DAMN but it was great!

All you have to do is watch some scenes from it to get an idea of just how good it was:

And, of course, there is the legendary scene in which King Arthur rides to meet his destiny, to the tune of “O Fortuna”:

This is a film that cries out for a high-quality restoration. Note, we DO NOT NEED or want a remake, because Hollyweird would just ruin it with a bisexual Lancelot, a repressed gay Arthur, and a bunch of STRAWNG INDEPENDENTIS WAMMENZES!!!, like Marion Zimmer Bradley, the prolific child molester and embodiment of pure evil now roasting in Hell as she so richly deserves, portrayed the Arthurian legend in The Mists of Avalon.

(DON’T read that book. Just don’t. In light of what we now know about MZB and her family life, her book series is a psychosexual horror show of extreme degeneracy that will infect you with its evil. I’ve read one book in the Avalon series, which wasn’t even written by her, and that was quite enough, thank you very much.)

Oh yeah, I just remembered – there is another Arthur movie starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere, I think. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the whole thing, though.

Anyway – if you want a great way to waste some time this Monday, watch Excalibur. And then listen to the GRAVE DIGGER song of the same name, partly because it’s fantastic, but MOSTLY because the accent is hilarious.

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain is here with the usual collection of good stuff to help us think and block out the horrors of the day. We start with a video from Destiny about some of the really weird things at the very outer edges of the Solar system:

Beluga explains what the much-ballyhooed “Dark Web” really is:

In fact, the “Dark Web” is not nearly as anonymous as everyone seems to think it is. Transactions there CAN be tracked and indexed. And while there is a real cesspool of nastiness out there, there are also plenty of legitimate activities to be found on the Dark Web.

Moving on – Solid jj has a funny meme video about the Justice League, and once again, the Gamma Wet Dream that is Batman puts everyone right in his place – but ends up being so Gamma that he gets kicked out of the group:

See? Even the Justice League hates Gammas.

WION unpacks the truth about “Ze” – though admittedly you do have to deal with quite a strong Indian accent, and this is distinctly unpleasant:

It’s a real pity about Indians. There are lots of very nice, decent, kind, smart people in India. But they have some of the most messed-up psychologies in the world, the least cool accent EVER (though some African crapholes can give Indians a run for their money in terms of horrible accents), and a low-trust, hierarchical, amoral mindset that results in a severely messed-up and deeply unpleasant country.

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Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice offers up some thoughts about Elon Musk‘s proposed buyout and privatisation of Twatter:

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Alexander Mercouris has a deep analysis of the RVR Moskva’s demise and other geopolitical issues:

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Alex Christoforou also did an excellent summary of the state of the world on Easter Sunday:

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Grandpa Grumpuss (aka Дед Сварливый, or Andrei Martyanov) grumps, grumpily, about the situation surrounding Moskva and the latest sitrep in the Banderastan War:

I really enjoy listening to Martyanov speak. He’s like everyone’s favourite grumpy granddad growling about getting those kids off his damn lawn and telling them to pull up their damn pants. And the thing is, he’s not even trying to be funny – he’s just as Russian as borsch and pickled cabbage.

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Bill Whittle FINALLY got around to recording a new Firewall episode, this time about the Great Reset:

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China Uncensored notes that shit is getting really weird in Commiestan over the latest round of Kung Flu lockdowns:

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America Uncovered breaks down the latest raft of daft economic stories coming out of the Empire of Lies:

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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance picks apart the sheer stupidity of birthright citizenship in the USSA:

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Righteous Rantery

Paul Ramsey offers up some thoughts on whether Bro Elon’s bid for Twatter is really about MUH FREE SPEECH!:

Let’s be clear about something: Elon Musk is a gazillionaire oligarch. He bends the knee for governments around the world who offer his companies subsidies and free shit and tax breaks. He will NOT restore free speech of ANY kind to Twatter.

But he’s still a better candidate for ownership and management of Twatter than the amoral Hindu, Parag Agarwal, currently running the place.

On a related note – if you do not want to see Indian-style corruption, nepotism, mismanagement, and caste-based thinking in action, DO NOT put Indians in charge of Western companies or countries. It is a basic truism of life that, if you bring lots of Indians into your country, YOU END UP WITH INDIA.

And I can tell you very bluntly that you don’t want this – especially if you value streets that look clean and don’t stink of piss and shit, and sewage systems that actually, y’know, work.

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PJW analyses the recent attack by a Dindu on commuters in Brooklyn:

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The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey has a very interesting long interview up with Dr. Kevin Corbett about the realities of the Scamdemic:

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Lord Razor of the Fist Clan reckons that Brolon is simply trolling the hell out of Twatter:

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Warriors of Faith

The Dizzle just can’t help beating up on the dumbest and most ridiculous Izzlamist dawahgandist of the bunch:

Zakir Naik really is astonishingly dumb. He makes genuinely absurd claims that take all of about 2 minutes to debunk, yet he gets away with them simply because he never actually debates real Christian polemicists in front of neutral audiences – he only ever debates lightweights in front of crowds that support him.

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Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms has a great video up with his buddy Joe from Red Judaism that notes the gradual swing in mainstream scholarship toward the notion that the Standard Izzlamic Narrative simply does not hold up to scrutiny:

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Al-Fadi from CIRA International did a long live-stream yesterday with ex-Muslims who came to Jesus about the Lord’s resurrection:

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Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined talks about Calvinism:

I know next to nothing about Calvinism, so I cannot take any sort of position on the subject. I’m just putting this here to provoke some thinking.

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp and Blake O. Kleiner talk about the kiddie-fiddlers that permeate the House of the Devil Mouse:

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Joker from Better Bachelor reckons that the dating landscape is changing, substantially for the better, as young women begin to realise that their best days are NOW, not later:

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge notes that there appear to be major changes happening at the newly merged Warner-Discovery, or whatever it’s called, with the knives out for Amber Turd and Ezra Miller:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock put someone on his channel who paid with HIS OWN MONEY for a 2-night STAR WARS Galactic Starcruiser experience, and you really have to listen to the whole thing to understand just how awful this “holiday package” really is:

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Ryan Kinel points out that the latest Fantastic Beasts movie – whatever that is – has a very difficult time ahead of it due to the controversies surrounding Pirate Guy, who was fired by the head of Warner Media, back when it was still part of AT&T:

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The Drinker literally can’t even be arsed to deal with the latest season of Star Trek Picard:

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and confirms a longstanding theory about how the longest-lived animals have the slowest rates of genetic mutation, which explains quite a bit about their ability to live so long in the first place:

The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in aging and cancer. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found that despite huge variations in lifespan and size, different animal species end their natural life with similar numbers of genetic changes.

The study, published in Nature, analyzed genomes from 16 species of mammal, from mice to giraffes. The authors confirmed that the longer the lifespan of a species, the slower the rate at which mutations occur, lending support to the long-standing theory that somatic mutations play a role in aging.

Genetic changes, known as somatic mutations, occur in all cells throughout the life of an organism. This is a natural process, with cells acquiring around 20 to 50 mutations per year in humans. Most of these mutations will be harmless, but some of them can start a cell on the path to cancer or impair the normal functioning of the cell.

Since the 1950s, some scientists have speculated that these mutations may play a role in aging. But the difficulty of observing somatic mutations has made it challenging to study this possibility. In the last few years, technological advances have finally allowed genetic changes to be observed in normal tissues, raising hopes of answering this question.

Another long-standing question is Peto’s paradox. Since cancers develop from single cells, species with larger bodies (and therefore more cells) should theoretically have a much higher risk of cancer. Yet cancer incidence across animals is independent of body size. Animal species with large bodies are believed to have evolved superior mechanisms to prevent cancer. Whether one such mechanism is a reduction in the accumulation of genetic changes in their tissues has remained untested.

In this study, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute set out to test these theories by using new methods to measure somatic mutation in 16 mammalian species, covering a wide range of lifespans and body masses.

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Your long read of the week is an interview between Pepe Escobar and Sergey Glazyev, one of the foremost policy wonks at the Kremlin with respect to geopolitics and economics, about what Mr. Glazyev sees in Russia’s future as a commodities superpower:

Glazyev: In a bout of Russophobic hysteria, the ruling elite of the United States played its last “trump ace” in the hybrid war against Russia. Having “frozen” Russian foreign exchange reserves in custody accounts of western central banks, financial regulators of the US, EU, and the UK undermined the status of the dollar, euro, and pound as global reserve currencies. This step sharply accelerated the ongoing dismantling of the dollar-based economic world order.

Over a decade ago, my colleagues at the Astana Economic Forum and I proposed to transition to a new global economic system based on a new synthetic trading currency based on an index of currencies of participating countries. Later, we proposed to expand the underlying currency basket by adding around twenty exchange-traded commodities. A monetary unit based on such an expanded basket was mathematically modeled and demonstrated a high degree of resilience and stability.

At around the same time, we proposed to create a wide international coalition of resistance in the hybrid war for global dominance that the financial and power elite of the US unleashed on the countries that remained outside of its control. My book The Last World War: the USA to Move and Lose, published in 2016, scientifically explained the nature of this coming war and argued for its inevitability – a conclusion based on objective laws of long-term economic development. Based on the same objective laws, the book argued the inevitability of the defeat of the old dominant power.

Currently, the US is fighting to maintain its dominance, but just as Britain previously, which provoked two world wars but was unable to keep its empire and its central position in the world due to the obsolescence of its colonial economic system, it is destined to fail. The British colonial economic system based on slave labor was overtaken by structurally more efficient economic systems of the US and the USSR. Both the US and the USSR were more efficient at managing human capital in vertically integrated systems, which split the world into their zones of influence. A transition to a new world economic order started after the disintegration of the USSR. This transition is now reaching its conclusion with the imminent disintegration of the dollar-based global economic system, which provided the foundation of the United States’ global dominance.

The new convergent economic system that emerged in the PRC (People’s Republic of China) and India is the next inevitable stage of development, combining the benefits of both centralized strategic planning and market economy, and of both state control of the monetary and physical infrastructure and entrepreneurship. The new economic system united various strata of their societies around the goal of increasing common wellbeing in a way that is substantially stronger than the Anglo-Saxon and European alternatives. This is the main reason why Washington will not be able to win the global hybrid war that it started. This is also the main reason why the current dollar-centric global financial system will be superseded by a new one, based on a consensus of the countries who join the new world economic order.

In the first phase of the transition, these countries fall back on using their national currencies and clearing mechanisms, backed by bilateral currency swaps. At this point, price formation is still mostly driven by prices at various exchanges, denominated in dollars. This phase is almost over: after Russia’s reserves in dollars, euro, pound, and yen were “frozen,” it is unlikely that any sovereign country will continue accumulating reserves in these currencies. Their immediate replacement is national currencies and gold.

It must be noted and stressed here that Mr. Glazyev IS NOT some sort of hard-money advocate who believes in putting currencies back onto gold standards. He categorically does not. He is in fact a real enthusiast for digitised fiat currencies. The major difference between him, and a lot of genuinely nutty MMT types and central banksters, is that he believes in having a BASKET of currencies and commodities against which the value of the ruble should be pegged.

in this respect, at least, I actually agree with him. I think it makes sense to have some sort of basket of currencies, because there is simply no way that gold can possibly cover the entire money supply of a country as large as Russia.

The Russians are very cannily and prudently moving toward a currency backed by commodities – gas, wheat, oil, gold, and so on – that will give them tremendous economic power in the decades to come. Keep an eye on Mr. Glazyev – he is one of the men talked about as a potential successor to the Neo-Tsar himself, and that alone makes him worth watching.

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Linkage is good for you:

• The great Dr. Ron Paul points out just how badly the alphabet-soup agencies have misled the American people, and how deeply untrustworthy they are as a result, in their coverage of the Banderastan War;
• Timur Fomenko notes that NATO does not appear to want peace at all, and does in fact want the Banderastanis to fight right down to the last Ukie;
• Batko Milacic writes for The Saker about how “Elensky” thoroughly miscalculated in his attempt to use the “captured” opposition leader, Viktor Medvedchuk, to attempt to extract POWs and concessions from the Russians;
• Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks a rhetorical question about whether NATO is going to bother going to war against Russia to defend Finland – which is led by Millennial women, and that tells you all you need to know, really;
• Kevin Barrett and Larry Johnson break down Russian goals in carving up Banderastan, which precisely match what I have been saying for weeks, about how the Russkies plan to partition Ukraine into a land-locked rump state;
• Something very odd is going on with the Turducken Plane – the Marine Colonel in charge of a project designed to strengthen the airframe of the F-35B, has been fired without any apparent reason;
• The Russians have always had some remarkable military technology, and the Papa-class submarine prototype, of which only one ever saw the light of day, could have been a revolutionary example of their futuristic tech;
• While we are on the subject of really cool Russian tech, let’s look at the Su-47 “Berkut”, the only forward-swept-wing fighter jet that they ever made, which served as an amazing technology demonstrator for years;
• The Chinks claim to have set a brand new record in quantum communications by sending data over 100Km in their latest tests;
• It’s not all bad news and horror these days – sometimes we have feel-good stories, like this one about an Italian violinist whose stolen $110K special violin was found and returned to him, and who basically came back to life as a result;
• It is an extremely bad idea to put Indians in charge of non-Indian institutions, as the Limeys are discovering with their “coconut” of a Chancellor, who has a US green card, and whose wife is a “non-dom” for tax(-dodging) purposes;
• In a glorious moment of great irony, the President of South Africa is telling his people to watch out for anti-immigrant attacks – clearly, Blacks don’t like illegals any more than the rest of us do;
• Ann Coulter breaks down the Brooklyn subway attack in her signature style – it is a real sign of just how badly the USSA has degenerated when people can’t even bring themselves to point out the likely race of the perp;
• The Z Man has mixed feelings about Congressional candidate J. D. Vance – now endorsed by His Trumpness – but concludes that he is probably the least bad of all possible choices, given his background and views;
• Serial grifter Ian Miles Cheong thinks that Brolon’s proposed takeover of Twatter poses a huge threat to the Establishment – which is a pretty good sign that very little will ever actually change;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• EasyJet just set a new record for tastelessness – outside of its inedible onboard food – by posting, and then deleting, an image of a man with his flight and seat number tattooed on his arm;
• Letting scientists beam messages about human civilisation into deep space is likely to end very, very badly, if generations of cheap sci-fi movies are anything to go by;
• The Aussies apparently have a very different definition of “topless” than either of us do, but they tackled a chunky chick with TITANIC tits in a bra and jeans running across a rugby pitch, in an excellent demonstration of tackling skills;
• Clearly we don’t have enough Clown World to go around right now, so an exclusive girls’ school in Australia – where else – now lets its students identify as animals;
• If driverless cars (no thank you) are the way of the future, what happens when the coppers pull one over for a minor infraction? Curious minds want to know, dammit! (The results are hilarious);
• Anyone who had “Super Gigantinormous Big-Ass Megacomet Smashing into Earth” in the Doomsday Apocalyptic Bingo Sweepstakes for October 2031 is actually likely to be SOL, because said megacomet isn’t going to come anywhere close;
• The Babylon Bee continues to report all the news before it ever happens, and notes that if you want a secure place to store the nuke codes, where the Fake Prez can’t set them off accidentally during a nap, then CNN+ is the way to go;

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar did not hold back in the slightest when asked about the Bucha false-flag:

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Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week:

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Your Great Man of the Week is Brolon himself:

Look, let’s get this straight, once and for all:

ELON IS AN OLIGARCH. He’s going to do what oligarchs do. He isn’t on our side – he isn’t a Christian and he doesn’t believe in moral restraint. He IS probably a damned sight better than any of his co-oligarchs, like Jeff “Destro” Bezosoy and Bill “VAXX THE WORLD!” Gates. But he’s also the guy behind a project designed to implant microchips in people’s brains and fuse AI with human intelligence. His intentions are NOT benign. So let’s stop pretending that he can fix Twatter, because he can’t.

Unlike the God-Emperor, Musk has never done anything that would pit him against the Establishment. His Trumpness largely spurned the Deep State, though he was destroyed by it in the end. But Brolon is a paid-up member of the Establishment, as far as I am concerned, and until he does something to prove otherwise, I will continue to look upon him with deep suspicion and distrust.

(It’s worth noting that I was extremely sceptical of Donaldus Triumphus Magnus as well, back in late 2015 – you can go lookup the posts if you want. And he turned out to be a legend, if not quite as great as he should have been.)

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HALO Nation

Slayergod Mint Blitz notes that Frank O’Connor, the head of 343 Industries, has responded at some length to many of the criticisms about HALO Infinite, and has done so in a pretty calm and temperate manner to address the concerns that the fanbase has on the game:

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That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

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Comedy hour:

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Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews

We begin with some hilarious memes sent to me by our good friend, Dawn Pine, via LinkedIn:

Pretty much my entire life for two years at Big Bad Globohomobank #2 involved debugging and maintaining spreadsheets that were buggy and crufty as hell. That shit didn’t get fixed until I, personally, wrote a bunch of scripts to speed things up and make them SUBSTANTIALLY more robust.

Onward:

Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man is getting some very odd ideas about how to save money on electricity bills:

I’m not making this up when I tell you that one of my readers, who is a good friend, is very likely to be the guy behind that headline. He got into deep shit with the authorities as a young-‘un for building something like a nuclear reactor for a science project.

Your “Chickenshit Crazy” moment of the week:

Your “Weird Accent” moment of the week:

So does this mean that these specific fish lisp their “S”?

Your “Birthing People” moment of the week:

Your “Laugh Riot” moment of the week:

Your “Gator Hater” moment of the week:

Your “Alaska Chaga” moment of the week:

Your “Strange Love” moment of the week:

Come for the craptions, stay for the boobage.

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Animal Planet

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

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The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to a Polish dude – no joke – named Konrad Blewązka:

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Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster breaks down the latest rumours surrounding “The Notorious” Conor Macgregor:

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Jesus loves knockouts:

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Icecapades

Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’:

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The Lords of Steel

#Metal

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Hot Totty

All right, finally we get to the real reason why you’re all here – the Instathot to get the week off to the right start. This week’s e-thot is Nyvi Estephan, age 30, from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is an e-sports e-thot, playing and presenting video games. (Apparently that’s a real job these days.) Since I only play campaign FPS games these days, pretty much – with the odd foray into HALO Wars from time to time – I can’t say I understand the first thing about the idea, and I promise that’s not just me being a Grande Olde Pharte. At any rate, she’s it for the day.

OK, boys, back to work, most of you have REAL jobs, so get on with them.

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