Daily Archives: February 2, 2025

Sunday [25 till close of play]

(1711) Evening all.

 

34. Truman

33. A European family

…. or from North America or from the Antipodes, maybe even from South Africa … who knows?


32. More lies from Them


31. MASA


30. Fentanyl flow


29. Comparative tariffs


28. USAID


27. The lies go on


26. We may have had this one


25. AK Haart

Javier Milei in Argentina:

“One of the most interesting aspects of Milei’s radicalism is that governments of the developed world already know reforms like his do work. Their problem is that genuine reform downgrades the role of government. They prefer fake reform. 

Governments don’t see radically slimmed-down and more tightly focussed government as a price worth paying for the plebs to gain prosperity and freedom. They can vote for it, but they ain’t going to get it.”

Sunday [20 to 24]

(1412) The jazz is ready, probably at about 1530, no filum, a series of short items instead. (1445)

 

24. Steve at 957

23. Andy at 957

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/russia-to-cut-off-gas-to-the-world/10900

22. pete at 956

https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-jerm-warfare-november

And a musical gem

21. Two items I don’t want to run in full but shall link to

Candace

Pluto

The second is curious … like Grifty but more scathing, really taking Whinge apart, not so much Ginge.

20. IYE’s American Grift

Grifty

Candlemas [12 to 19]

(1111) Happy elevenses. Time for a kip => (1230)

 

19. Rather than analyse this about Germany and the vote loss

… Alice and the anti-immigration vote failure … I’ll certainly look at it or one of us shall … I’m ready for a post-prandial kip but it does remind me of a time back in 1989 I think it was when I was in Klagenfurt or was it in 1980, can’t recall, standing near the Woerthersee, near Minimundus, must have looked forlorn, as a lady of around 40 years started speaking with me and we got along, she showed me some sights, speaking partly English, partly Deutsch.

Something possessed her to ask me if I’d like come to some festivity or knees up or whatever, never caught the name, she phoned someone and resumed the conversation, I asked something political without having any side, she went cold, said it had been fun, she’d see me around perhaps.

Now I’m perfectly happy if people do not seek my company, even pretty ladies … but this had not been so till then … so what had I said? I was thinking the Austrians were pretty sensitive about some things … yet it had not been a total loss … she’d been a bit scathing about Germans … apparently this place was like our Blackpool, Scarborough, Brighton or Bangor … except not for Austrians … the Germans came here in droves for their holidays. Had my German been too Haupt-Deutsch? Who knows.

Anyway, I just remembered it now before exploring what went wrong in Germany yesterday or whenever.

18. EU fun

17. New broom


16. Drax


15. Net Zero bollox

HERE

14. Kathy’s newsletter today (also via blogrolls)

“Another fight back caught my eye, less newsworthy but I bet no less fraught: that parents at a Secondary School in British Columbia had forced the school to re-open single-sex bathrooms. So what, you may say? Well, in gender-neutral, trans-mad Canada, where the odds are totally stacked against any dissent, it must have taken courage, organisation and persistence. 

There’s a lesson in it, I thought: moral courage. President Trump’s one signature sweep executive order to end gender ‘indoctrination’ and critical race theory in US schools was a message to the world, like his very effective tariff threat to Columbia when they refused their deportees. It was like an adrenalin shot; all the human rights excuses shown up as balderdash.”

13. Candlemas today.

(Pic: myriad natural toys & crafts)

12. Two recommended by YT to watch


With the deepest respect … er … no thanks … pass.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0541) The order in which I see items, good reader, is the order they’ll appear, that is … all over the place. (0741)

 

5. More Housekeeping I’m afraid

… this time as part of an Op Ed. If I’m going to do this noticeboard thang, better Sunday morn … get it all done at once. Take a look at this, pertaining to X:


There’s far more to what online pundits do than meets the eye … some are large traffic building, many “monetising”, thinking they can make a living this way … some do … down to those just putting mini-rants as and when, with some friends. Females can garner massive numbers coz … they’re female, aren’t they? Yet they have to watch the simps and come-ons 24/7. That’s online life.

My thang is building a timeline of stalwarts there and here, welcoming many without much comment, insta-blocking the unwanted who are awful and out to harm. Slowly, a pattern emerges. Traffic? Moderate, modest, enough to keep shills and bots away but sufficient to be worth our while.

Therefore, the aim is not to overly-argue, life and death, which some online are there to do, esp. some of the gals … past experiences too … more to find out “what is” and report on it, comment, for the X family, Gab, Unherdables here. It’s “clubby”, not in its exclusivity because most are initially welcome, but those who stick around derive some benefit, inc. it being socially pleasant. But it takes vigilance, it really does, on my part, on the part of our core people too.

On X and Gab it keeps changing … their algorithms, procedures, censoring … change … it also needs vigilance and adjustment. Done seriously, it’s a time consumer … you’d probably want to be retired or a housewife. Not all … but many.

The ones I lose interest in are those not willing to “one-to-one” at times, to be genuine, who are all into their own empire building, or into having a bevy of satellite simps or comer-onners … I for one am not remotely interested … just not enough time for soc-med as it is, plus RL house chores here, plus having at least some life, training too. Non-genuineness … waste of time, seriously.

There’s also priority order … we all have our closest, then fairly close people, then pretty close …. down to a nice “say hello in passing” … that’s esp. useful with the male-female thing. I’m closer to some onliners than to my actual neighbours here, though we neighbours have a laugh when we meet, occasionally text. My closest in RL is MMutR. I see one, two, three online people as ultraclose, just as real as RL.

Why not? These are fellow humans. I feel ultra-protective of our patrons at Unherdable Promontory … no way are you having anything nasty coming back on you.

And so it goes.

4. Steve at 956 from last evening

Five: Death of DEI? Hegseth cancels “Identity Months” … Belgium now rightist Government with Antwerp Mayor De Wever … Airmiles Epstein again … much more …..

Four: Leavitt announces arrests, Soros radio tips off miscreants … Musk and Trump strong moves on miscreants … much more…..

Three: Trump airstrikes kill many ISIS … cartels in sights … military whistleblowers … Venezuela developments … much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep … interview with Uke border guard … Rubio unipolar again … much more…..

One: Argies, Indonesia to leave Climate Accords (?) … net zero collapse … car industry ditto … German migration bill fails … much more…..

JH: Housekeeping here too … priority order: summaries here first, numbering over there after that, more pronounced one, two, three etc., trying to keep each summary to two lines, so jot all items of news summarised … it’s just a signpost here.

3. DAD at 957, Life in France 2025

a. Bayrou announced to La Tribune dimanche his decision to use article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution to have the State and Social Security budgets adopted ….. more over there.

b. Around 200 people demonstrated against the presence of a Roma camp in the woods next to the town … .. more.

c. While the Chinese New Year celebrations were taking place with the Chinese Ambassador and many elected officials, a rap video ended in a riot….. more.

d. Senate inquiry commission depicting a France “submerged by drug trafficking”, result of the “democratization” of cocaine, corruption and violence, has led to a bill….. more.

JH: Just a tad more housekeeping … with DAD drops, I’m only signposting here, which is better done abridged, within two lines for each section.

2. Housekeeping

When it’s a procedural thing, cyber/blog … I’ll head it “Housekeeping”. When it’s more commentary on current events, it’s “Some sort of Op Ed”. Any illness, lurgy for example … that’s Housekeeping, as it affects the blogging that day.

Most times I’ll try to put it succinctly, in the opener after the timestamp.

Now, as for this current experiment with colours for quotes, the best hex code so far seems to be 007050 … I’d like to get the shade a bit like linked text over at NOWP. Any changes are cosmetic tweaking … zero intention of any big changes as it’s part of what we’re trying to do here … be consistent.

Been thinking this out, about quotes. WP have a messy method of quoting imho and not sure I like the look with this specific Theme … sometimes it’s been a teal or bluish shade, sometimes just plain, with “quotation marks”. Think maybe I need to state a standard way to do it (newish blog, don’t forget, still finding my way around it). Let’s do it this way:

If it’s just plain text, nothing added but a screenshot, then that’s usually me writing … or else one of you, e.g. “Microdave writes”. If the latter and I comment, it will be “JH: …”. If it’s a blockquote, e.g. Wall Street Apes, then quotation marks, plain text.

If it’s more vital it stands out, then I’ll shade it 007050. Anyway, that’s the cunning plan.

1. Corruption but sometimes the opposite too

Wall Street Apes:

“DOGE has just gained access to the US Treasury System, this is going to be insane The previous Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was bribed by Wall Street, making over $7 MILLION in “speaking fees” She also openly worked to use US Taxpayer funds to build China’s Economy Janet Yellen encourages using Federal Funds for “The building of the Chinese Economy” Who have these people been working for? I think that’s very clear DOGE is going to find some INSANE corruption.”

The item heading says “sometimes the opposite”, meaning yes, there are monsters, their myrmidons, various margarets and karens … but at a lower level again … sometimes those under duress to keep their jobs. My feeling is that Homan and Co are not without compassion for these low level people … depends completely on history plus attitude overall. Shirley a case by case study.