Sunday [11]

(1615)(1615)

 

Steve corner

Last night I watched a recording I made of a three-part series called Platoon 24/7. This was back in February and I’ve only just got round to watching it:

During 2025, a film production company was embedded with 13 Platoon, D Company, 5 RIFLES, filming a documentary called ‘Platoon 24/7: Preparing for War’ (‘24/7’ is a C5 ‘brand’ they use on a few access series). The documentary highlights the personal journeys of some of the key Riflemen within the platoon | https://www.therifleslikoyli.co.uk/post/platoon-24-7-preparing-for-war-a-new-channel-5-series-featuring-d-coy-5-rifles

You always compare your time in the forces to what it is like today – well I do anyway. What I saw was less discipline certainly and every other bloke has a full set now. We know why they made this change to King’s Orders and I commented on it at the time. In my day the lads were a muscular lean, and very fit but some would say that’s because you were in Commando Forces where standards are different.

True, but when I was at Woolwich Garrison there were no ‘fatties’ as I recall. Blokes didn’t wear glasses either so something must have changed with the eyesight test to allow it.

Having said that the soldiers are the same, it’s just the age we live in that makes them seem somewhat different to my generation – I’m sure my Dad’s generation would look upon mine and come to the same conclusion. What I’m describing is a societal change and the Army it do recruit from it. On to the AFV they dismount from to do their fighting and it’s the FV 510 Warrior.

A little secret: the company I did my apprenticeship with made the gearboxes, a subcontract from David Brown. I know because my Dad worked there at the time. Next year marks its 40th anniversary in service with the British Army.

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Could this be the one to replace the worst rifle ever issued to British squaddies..?

FN ARKA®: Built on Combat-Proven Reliability, Refined for AR Users | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49PrxoaZZpo

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JH: Plus this, Steve? |https://youtu.be/pIra7mnqE10?is=yL92SDLGmzoZAnpB

Yeah, lot of balls being juggled. I like it but stuck as it is on 5.56mm this platform may not make the cut. As per your video the 6.8mm intermediate round is gaining traction. There’s also the 6.5mm Grendel, which I’ve fired from a bolt-action rifle. The current NATO standard is beginning to fail against the latest body armour, or enemy forces out of their minds on drugs.

Sunday [7 to 10]

(0945) Quiz of sorts at 1100. (1035)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Over at 1455


8. Sunday morning gathering

The simple truth of the matter is that I am but one ageing guy and there is only so much I can gather, esp. with youtube making it increasingly difficult, esp. with films, to find … required seeking time has now exponentially increased.

One way around it is to go back to old posts, say a particular post from some years ago, and scroll down through that month, saving anything interesting, e.g. screenshots, posts, songs and films. Sometimes they’re still on youtube, sometimes not.

This requires that golden gem … available time … not helped by the ipad or WP playing up in compose mode. Those who can rightly expect me to be there for them … I do need this hour which one month’s scrolling takes … and the benefits will soon be apparent … you should see the material we now have in the wings for a start.

Humbly request that you can cut me some slack on this.

7. The talking heads read their scripts

… who sends the scripts? Who writes them?

Sunday [6]

(0915)(0915)

 

A bit of ancient history

Just an overview, all right, a first dive into the topics, later to develop (cunning plan).

Talmud

In antiquity, the two major centres of Jewish scholarship were located in Galilee and Babylonia. A Talmud was compiled in each of these regional centres. The earlier of the two compilations took place in Galilee, either in the late fourth or early fifth century, and it came to be known as the Jerusalem Talmud (or Talmud Yerushalmi).

Later on, and likely some time in the sixth century, the Babylonian Talmud was compiled (Talmud Bavli). This later Talmud is usually what is being referred to when the word “Talmud” is used without qualification. Traditions of the Jerusalem Talmud and its sages had a significant influence on the milieu out of which the Babylonian Talmud arose.

Babylonian captivity

The northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed around 720 BCE, when it was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. While the Kingdom of Judah remained intact during this time, it became a client state of first the Neo-Assyrian Empire and then the Neo-Babylonian Empire. However, Jewish revolts against the Babylonians led to the destruction of Judah in 586 BCE, under the rule of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. According to the biblical account, the armies of Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalembetween 589–586 BCE, which led to the destruction of Solomon’s Temple and the exile of the Jews to Babylon; this event was also recorded in the Babylonian Chronicles. The exilic period saw the development of the Israelite religion towards a monotheistic Judaism.

The exile ended with the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenid Empire c. 538 BCE. Subsequently, the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great issued a proclamation known as the Edict of Cyrus, which authorized and encouraged exiled Jews to return to Judah. Cyrus’ proclamation began the exiles’ return to Zion, inaugurating the formative period in which a more distinctive Jewish identity developed in the Persian province of Yehud. During this time, the destroyed Solomon’s Temple was replaced by the Second Temple, marking the beginning of the Second Temple period.


Khazars

Ashkenazis

Nephilim

The Nephilim are mysterious beings or people in the Bible who are described as being of great strength and size. They are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Christian Old Testament, in the books of Genesis, Numbers, and Ezekiel. 

The word “Nephilim” is sometimes translated as “giants” or “the fallen ones”. The identity of the Nephilim is debated by scholars and theologians. Some possible interpretations include: 

  • The Nephilim were the offspring of angels and humans, resulting from the “taking of wives” in Genesis 6. 
  • The Nephilim were the children of males from the line of Seth and females from the line of Cain. 
  • The Nephilim were called Nephilim because they “fell short” of their fathers in some way. 

Some say that the Nephilim were similar to the demigods of the Greeks

Sunday [2 to 5]

(0747) Morning all … looks sunny out there. (0821)

 

5. IYE

a. Just a coinky-dink.

https://archive.is/xmCR7

b. Hmm.🤔

“ Analysis: How Madrid’s appeasement of the Axis of Resistance transformed a European ally into Washington’s greatest strategic liability”

https://archive.is/Pp0S0

“ Analysis: Morocco’s border posture with Spain came under scrutiny after a mass migrant surge into Ceuta, underscoring Rabat’s leverage over Europe’s southern frontier amid regional rivalries and shifting North African diplomacy”

https://archive.is/ycYGV

🤷‍♂️ Somebody punishing Spain? Them playing dirty?

4. Steve at 1455

  • US Embassies Urge US Citizens to Leave Middle East Amid Potential for “Unforeseen Escalation” as Trump Weighs Massive Attack Targeting Iranian Energy Sites
  • Time to Hire Americans: Mass Layoffs Begin as Temporary Protected Status Ends for 350,000 Haitians
  • Musk Refused To Meet Zelensky, Who Asked Trump for Help Getting Starlink Tech To Guide Deep Strikes Inside Russian Territory
  • Drought at Danube River Forces Hungary and Romania to Cut Nuclear Power Output
  • Christian Veterans Use Military Filmmaking Skills to Shine a Light on War and Suffering in Burma
  • Poland Criticizes European Narrative On Russia (JH: Meaning EU of course, different other beast)
  • Tomato Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits: What Research Shows

  • “Palestine” is a tool to further Islamic plans
  • Before Mamdani… There was John Reed
  • Much more.

3. Martin sums it up


2. DAD at 1455

a) France deploys rapid border force and tightens checks at Spanish bordder over Ceuta crossings. The force was created in 2023 under then prime minister Élisabeth Borne and first deployed in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the Italian border.

b) It has been over a month since the Brussels, Belgium-based conservative think tank MCC Brussels had its registration in the EU Transparency Register suspended. Now, the organisation has published a video … titled The EU Tried to Shut Us Out | MCC Brussels vs EU Bureaucracy. explaining the details of the unfortunate situation.

c) Germany. Despite topping national polls with more than a quarter of the vote, the AfD has received just 4.7% of invitations to Germany’s flagship ARD and ZDF TV talk shows this year—a gap that raises fresh questions about whether public broadcasters are meeting their legal duty of political balance.

d) France took a radical stance no other European nation dared: confronting “Islamist separatism.” Driven by terror attacks, the nation transformed its legal framework, targeting organisations, schools, and even dress codes. But with a powerful new administrative machine now in place, is France truly fighting political Islam, or has it blurred the lines between faith and ideology, with unintended and dangerous consequences for its own citizens and identity?

Sunday [1]

(0638)(0744)

 

Order out of Chaos?

… or visiting chaos upon us in order to invert the natural order, and subvert safety and wellbeing? The fabian globopsychos want the latter. There is our choice before us.

Yesterday at HQ, IYE theatre had 4:50 From Paddington, in which Lucy Eyelesbarrow brought order to the kitchen chaos of an old family home in the countryside … everyone seemed to welcome it except for the head honcho and the baddy of the story for whom it wrecked his/her plans.

My parents were sticklers for order but not in an oppressive way … they instilled a way to bring order to chaos, not unlike Lucy E … but not everyone likes that. All my life, a chaotic life which seemed to attract the more Bohemian women, I did chaos in an orderly way, which I don’t expect to make sense.

In my army days, we went on exercises and bivouacked, e.g. on hillsides, just under the ridge and it was obvious that I did jot see it in the same light as my mates. They got under the ponchos quickly, happy to sleep rough on tree stumps etc, coz that’s the manly thing … so they thought.

Not my sergeant and I. I insisted we gather brush, bracken and ferns and half fill the tent before kipping down … result was we were well rested next morning. My field officer senior over me would have questioned that, had he known, probably with the argument that we were meant cover all signs of habitation next morning, to fool the enemy.

My argument would have been that any good tracker would discern we had come through and camped there anyway, plus it was not war, it was friendly countryside and just an exercise. Which would have sent him out of his head, which unfortunately was a penchant of mine … sending superiors out of their trees.

And had it been the real deal, I’d not have bivouacked but maybe stayed on a thick tree branch, tied on. And so on. Where’d I get the idea of making the most uncomfortable chaos comfortable and orderly? From Baden Powell of course. It’s unfortunate that his reputation has suffered due to a certain penchant similar to those who burnt down Starmer’s abode but he also made much sense.

He said that a good bushman never roughs it … he brings order and comfort to wherever he finds himself. You dan say what you like about my humble abode here but at least it’s fairly clean and most orderly, organised to the last detail. On socmed, that comes through in the various connected sites, which need to run nearly like clockwork.

What happens when someone threatens that? Well it’s happening right now, minutes ago. Readers see the posts and layout, I see the 89 overnight spam, some pages long. However, there’s a nice system to get around it. Why not just antispam? Because it’s all an attemot to impise DigID, so I have to out a spanner in their works that way. So yes … bring my own chaos to their New Order.

The two are easily switched. An irderly mind who keeps his/her head can switch from order to chaos and back. A disorderly mind can only stay disorderly. Orderly mind is therefore so b-o-r-i-n-g?! Can be, yes, WN1 told me that … she wanted only excitement 24/7 … I was one though who switched to chaotic if I wanted but my default position was orderly.

To be fair, hers was too. We “did” chaos at times, if that makes sense … we weren’t chaotic in the brain unless we wanted. In fact, there were certain core rules, which I know in Russian … my darling’s mother often reminded me … “na myesto”, J, “na myesto” … in its place. Everything has a place and everything goes into its place.

Usually I organise my writing into “threads”. When someone threatens that, I become quite edgy, don’t like it. There are certain brains which simply cannot handle orderly, hate it, it’s no “fun”. You think this tavern is all order, no fun? Wot … nowhere fun?

My darling’s mother once, when I wanted to help her in the kitchen before a meal, marched me straight out, putting table cloth etc. into my hands … your place is in there. TV remote is on the sideboard. Organise the wine. Uh huh.

Let’s now look at Ceuta, coming up again at Sunday 3. That was organised complete chaos, to demoraluse westerners, frighten them … fabians organising savages. Two can play at that though, can’t they? We, the non-freaking-out, can see that they could do with a bit of chaos in their own clever schemes.