“We had venison steaks and chunky roasted vegetables and a tiny pumpkin between us. The venison is not something we normally have, but it was in the reduced section of the supermarket and we couldn’t resist.
We had a whole deer once (not in one sitting, I hasten to add) because we came across one dying in the road and phoned the police. They came out with a chappie with a shotgun and put it out of its misery – and they then asked us where we would like them to put it (!!!?!) so we suggested our driveway.
My Beloved, not being a butcher, cut it up with a chainsaw (I kid you not). It took ages to wash all the little hairs off the resulting weird cuts of meat. I ended up stewing quite a lot of it because I wasn’t quite sure how else to serve it up!
Oh, the stories I could tell about roadkill or whatever. Maybe another time. We seem to have been very busy lately with barely any time to do laundry, ironing, housework, etc.”
(0741) Only really moving now, all … looks fairly autumn gloomy out there, warm enough in here, hope you’re all right. (0911)
3. Due diligence is a must with today’s incoming “news”
Especially on soc-med, X included, it’s who the poster is, what bkgd, transparency, also the nature of the article, the likely bias, the receipts.
For example, on France, coming up tomorrow as the main post in four places, it’s about it not being a zero sum game. It’s perfectly possible for blackpillers to point out the targetted areas for max outrage and yet so many across the land remain unscathed … the anti-blackpillers can point out that it’s certainly not in every village, every nook in those villages … which in turn certainly does not debunk central organisers somewhere in Europe … Alpine mountaintop retreats? Beside Lake Como?
In the possibly factual category might be:
Do you trust a Korean or Chinese report? How about this girl below? Paid? Genuine? Needs checking out in profile on X.
Then the one which might be real outrage but might also be journo pap for the day to fill column inches.
Then we get to the AI generated conflict tales
Those AI tales are actually insulting … for example, there’s a gung ho hunk of US special forces standing over neatly seated but grinning SAS types and the former is making some OTT demand … thus he’ll get his comeuppance at the end. Or vive-versa.
One variant is the lanyard class … someone nasty at the office, gets stuck into a poor nobody … who turns out to be the Big Boss. Or similar is the Perfect Boss Babe coming out on top. All trivialise conflict in favour of one type … it’s all so directed, manipulated. Blocking does not help … they generate more.
The aim? Wear us down whilst monetising the process … quite the opposite of fearless factual reporting. And they only need catch you out two or three times and there goes your reputation, also part of the idea. Already, some of the big names seem iffy, e.g. those who are highly performative, love a good podcast, always looking for the scoop or sensation … you heard it here first, folks.
The type I mean is the Benny Johnson or Dan Wooton, certainly Hannity, Meghan Kelly, even Allie Beth Stuckey, even Jenna Ellis. Prob is that they might start with a kernel of truth but then play it for all it’s worth over half an hour or so.
2. DAD at 1519
a) [In a weak address last night] Macron urges calm as France counts cost of worst unrest in years. Macron says ‘we all feel anger and shame’ over violence but does not declare state of emergency
Rioting broke out in multiple cities across France on Saturday
Limoges town hall mostly destroyed in arson attack
Police make more than 2,000 arrests
France faces tinderbox social atmosphere ahead of 2027 elections.
b) The Republic of the Spoiled Child. France faces violent student riots destroying historic buildings and looting stores, which critics attribute to decades of permissive child-rearing philosophies rooted in Rousseau’s idealisation of youth.
c) Far-Left Rioters storm Right-Wing Media HQ; torch historic buildings as France burns.
Far-left militants attacked three conservative French media outlets in Paris on Saturday as riots spread across the country, leaving more than 150 police officers injured.
Rioters burned down Limoges’s 19th-century town hall, stormed Marseille city hall and vandalised state buildings elsewhere, turning the protests into an assault on institutions central to French civic and national identity.
d) As France is burning, I keep thinking of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a few years ago. He accurately predicted this.
e) Scotland’s Communist Terrorist they don’t want you to know about.
1. Russia, the Ukraine, NATO/CIA
The raw news is this, purpotedly Russian, certainly sympathetic to them:
This is one western take in it all:
To attack St Petersburg itself is quite major, esp. by former Soviet republics … I’ve been there (St P) and it’s a historic place, side by side with the west across the water. It’s eyebrow raising why Putin would have attacked “Kiev” … that’s if he did, rather than strategic sites of military value … the energy source is of course a target. My feeling is that the Uke baddies are ensconced deep in the old town, ordering not rockets but drones fired at a distance, under NATO/CIA direction.
There is, of course, another view from San Diego, on the Mexican border, in 2000, in an interview on Toronto radio, with the alleged formerly illumined Svali. How she escaped Them is a mystery:
It does explain the Black Forest, Bavaria, as the centre of illumined operations, though that might be Davos now, or even Scotland.
