The X account @visitnorthyork is fairly self explanatory as to its purpose. He asked a question … could you name any film or TV series from North Yorks?
I replied but was not expecting this:
Heartbeat
Thursday [7 to 10]
(0619) This might take awhile … gone back to bed for a snooze. (0908)
10. Moosh corner
9. Woman of many names
8. More on Steve earlier
7. DAD at 1256
Thirstday.
a) “Où va ma France?”: The App the Left wants To ban. An App stirs controversy by graphically showing the devastating impact of immigration on the daily lives of French people.
b) For 14 years, a crazy eco-terrorist group has attacked Berlin’s energy infrastructure with impunity. Authorities have done nothing despite enormous damages and wide-scale disruption.
c) Euthanasia: Pharmacists’ Conscience Clause Back Under Review A country cannot simultaneously have a policy on death (abortions, euthanasia, etc.) and a policy on life (doctors, hospitals, medications, etc.).
d) Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Paris, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Nantes, Toulouse…: cars burned, vandalism, and police targeted with mortars.
Why?
Thursday [6]
(0528) Still dark out there for a dark tale below. (0553)
There’s such a thing as “cascading” tragedy, cause and effect
… and associated with all those cascading policies and consequent events is the human tendency, over and over, to grab onto part of the facts which suit the mindset, eschewing all the other related bits and pieces, together which quite alter the picture.
The other fragment required to trigger the tragedy is the demographic involved, from deathculters to pointy-hatters to silly young women who are full of total loyalty, 💯full-on, attaching themselves to some cause or other … it then depends on who has bothered brainwashing them … more usually today that’s bad people such as Fabian teachers and professors.
And there it is. Let’s open with the aftermath:
The well-fed one centre-frame gives you the idea. Now to look at the dead woman herself:
Which of course causes all our mothers, ladies, to react this way and rightly so:
The next sshot underscores my constant hobbyhorse that it must never be just men or just women but man + woman = some chance of getting to the nub of life. And yet there are things he’s just accepting at face value in the way the Woke left do:
Woman? With a “wife”? Whaaa? You wot? And further delving uncovers:
And there’s the cascading tragedy waiting to unfold, just as the Fabians and globo-psychos planned it to happen … or at least to vastly increase the chances of it happening down the track.
Thursday [1 to 5]
(0347) DAD will be at Thu 7 today as there was a fair bit posted or ready to go up before today’s DAD drop at 1256. (0441)
5. Quite like this guy
… mainly “Dad jokes”, along with Shoolie’s “Mum jokes”:
4. From today’s TDS
Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm wasted three quarters of the energy it produced last year after being paid hundreds of millions of pounds to switch off its turbines. The Telegraph has the story.
The Seagreen wind farm off Scotland’s east coast is squandering vast amounts of its power because there is not enough grid capacity to transport it to areas of the country where it is needed most.
3. Steve’s roundup from 1256
- Somali Gangs Were Indicted for Running Child Sex Trafficking Rings in Three States – With Children as Young as 14-Years-Old
- Trump Delivers Grave Warning to House Republicans: Losing the Midterms Guarantees a Third Democrat Impeachment Coup — Demands Congress Pass Nationwide Voter ID
- CMS Chief Dr Oz Confirms SNAP and Medicaid Are Being Weaponized for Massive Voter Fraud in Blue States
- Trump Puts Venezuelan Interior Minister Cabello on Notice: Cooperate or Be the Next Target – New President Delcy Rodríguez Fires All Security Detail and Hires ‘Torture Czar’ (JH: Similar to Mon 21 last night)
- US Seizes Fleeing Sanctioned Tanker Marinera Despite the Presence of Russian Military Vessels and Submarine
- E3 Boots on the ground. Denmark warns US on Greenland. Trump, Venezuela shakedown. Oil tanker chase
- A Tactical Trade-Off: Sacrificing Gains At Slavyansk To Win At Konstantinovka And Zaporizhzhia
- We don’t want your culture of dominance’ — Denmark to ramp up deportations of criminal foreigners
- Have You Seen Of The Most Frightening Building In Caracas? It’s Called El Helecoide.
- More over there too.
2. US hardware to the UK?
1. Steve corner
a. Please see Wed 21 for maybe the definitive statement on Iran
… HERE … looking at now, plus what happens in the aftermath if it does succeed.
b. Footage (from Steve’s second link)
c. The US response
Wednesday [21 till close of play]
(1526) Not all that far from evening here. (2046) Er … um … fell asleep earlier, dinn I? (2048)
26. Fairly much my food programme right now
25. Moosh corner
24. What a dead giveaway
23. Another vital map showing the situation
… we really must stop using Mercator for Greenland and surrounds.
22. Rupert corner
21. Steve with whatever he comes up with
This comes from Steve’s first link, which was mainly scenes in Iran we have seen. Tucked away though was this gem by facts about @destinationXIX:
“The Iranian uprising is real – but regime collapse is not automatic. History is clear: pressure alone does not bring a dictatorship down.
Three conditions must converge – sustained mass unrest that breaks fear in the streets, a fracture or paralysis of the security forces, and a psychological collapse at the top. Without all three, even a deeply weakened system can survive.
Yet even if the Islamic Republic falls, a hard truth remains largely unspoken: there is no unifying alternative waiting in the wings. Reza Pahlavi lacks both the charisma and the broad legitimacy needed to lead a post-revolutionary Iran, particularly among non-Persian populations such as Kurds, Azeris, Arabs, and Baluchis.
The idea of a clean transition to a liberal, centralized state is comforting – but unrealistic. The more plausible outcome, should the IRGC collapse, is fragmentation along ethnic lines. The regime suppressed these identities brutally, but it also froze them into place. Remove that coercive lid, and Iran is more likely to splinter than to democratize overnight.
This leads to an uncomfortable strategic paradox. The IRGC is an evil Shiite jihadist force that spent decades destabilizing the Middle East through terror proxies, subversion, and the systematic weakening of sovereign states. Yet it also served as a counterweight to Sunni radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood network.
If that pillar collapses, the critical test will be whether Sunni Islamist movements – bankrolled and promoted by Turkey, Qatar, and now Syria – are allowed to fill the vacuum. If they do, the region will not become freer; it will simply exchange one form of Islamist imperialism for another.
Throughout this unfolding crisis, the role of much of the mainstream media has been deeply troubling. By minimizing the uprising, soft-pedaling the nature of the regime, and consistently offering one-sided sympathy to Islamist movements while ignoring their victims, large parts of the media have functioned less as watchdogs and more as enablers, complicit with the Islamists’ agenda.
Still, this moment matters. For the first time in decades, millions of Iranians are openly imagining a future without clerical rule. That alone is historic. Whatever form the post–Islamic Republic landscape ultimately takes, the moral right to decide Iran’s future belongs to Iranians – not to mullahs, not to terror commanders, and not to foreign patrons.
This is the moment for Iranians to take their country back: to reclaim their history, identities, and sovereignty from an ideology that held them hostage for 46 years.
And it is also a moment of responsibility for the West – not to impose solutions, but to stop enabling radical Islam, to cut funding, legitimacy, and media cover for jihadist movements, and to finally draw a firm line between genuine reform and ideological extremism.
A freer Middle East will not be built by appeasing radicals. It will be built by standing with those who are trying – often at immense personal risk – to break free from them.
Wed Mat
With all the doom and gloom out there, readers, let’s have something lighter and more jolly:
Wednesday [16 to 20]
(1257) Afternoon all … seems like sunshine out there … remember sunshine? (1319)
20. China
19. Moosh corner
18. The inexorable death of London
17. The inexorable death of football
16. Greenland continued
Wednesday [11 to 15]
(1036) Morning zooming by. (1051)
15. The essentially fascistic nature of left leaning politics
14. Unusual one for Unherdables
… I couldna watch the clip, way too mushy for mine, but the principle seems sound to me … see which owner the dog likes:
13. Appropriate on Christmas Day today
… to see this through an ancient, godly lens, rather than politics in isolation:
12. Is this what they have in mind for us?
11. J6 injustice continued
1932 Roehr Streamliner
Once we get past the beauty of the car, we have the question of how are the specs? Is she road-practical?
Wednesday [6 to 10]
(0615) Still in bed … too cold to be up. (0700)
10. Moosh corner
9. Velocity Black
I’m suggesting that readers must not just take a passive role in finding things out. At the same time, some hints on how to proceed can sometimes help. This is as cursory as you should go:
Wolf is an English nationalist afa I can see, quite an opaque profile. The item has expandable complaints about Velocity Black but the unexpanded still give the idea in the sshot:
And this is my initial look at the outfit itself:
There is the bias to consider too … Yusuf’s manner and approach, whilst I’d not use the term “shyster”, certainly raises questions. Wolf of course is dead against Yusuf-Farage-Tice as a unit, as are many pundits, councillors etc.
8. Steve sends
I did a cursory bkgd on this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Nawfal
This is what he wrote:
“Iran shut down Wednesday as businesses, universities, and government offices closed across 21 of 31 provinces. Protests are now in their fourth day. Video footage shows intense clashes in Shiraz, Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Tehran. Crowds chanting “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the Dictator!” In Fasa, protesters stormed the governor’s office. IRGC forces opened fire. Military helicopters flew overhead. Now unconfirmed reports claim protesters have taken control of Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province and are burning down the local government headquarters. Analysts suggest more towns may be falling to demonstrators, leaving the regime with few options beyond mounting counter-offensives. The regime’s moves: A new central bank chief after the last one resigned. Khamenei appointed an IRGC general wanted by INTERPOL for the 1994 Argentina bombing as deputy commander. President Pezeshkian acknowledged the situation is “extremely difficult and complex.” The economic crisis is severe: inflation, currency collapse, declining living standards. Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi: “The current regime has reached the end of the road.” Source: Fox News, NYP, @WalidPhares … @visegrad24“
However, there was this in comments:
7. Just a few from TDS (blogrolls for further detail)
6. IYE reports
Thread: “The Venezuela plot thickens:
While Venezuela holds 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, much of this is HEAVY crude oil.
Texas and Louisiana also *happen* to have 6 of the LARGEST HEAVY crude oil refineries in the world.
What does this mean? Let us explain…..”