(0556) Morning all, rise and shine. Busy one this morning around here, hopefully to settle down in the afternoon. (0632)

 

6. Saturday satire from Andy

JH: Were you to go into the “more” part at his YT site, you’d find a petition:

5. Torquaymada raises the tone at 1018

For consideration…a little (if not in these times, confusing) Kipling. Who is who these days?

https://allpoetry.com/Norman-and-Saxon

“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears,
But don’t try that game on the Saxon; you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.”

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JH and TQM: Be sure to read it all, else you’ll have the Saxons at your door.

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TQM is also fond of Shirley Bassey but alas, we cannot run Beeb media here for legal reasons. Never mind, here she is:

This Shirley Bassey’s Life

4. Bindergate revisited

3. Steve at 1018

• Sen. Hawley Considers Criminal Referral for Zuckerberg
• Top Biden Officials Held Secret Talks with Chinese About Their Spy Balloon Traversing the US Before the Public Spotted It in the Sky – They Were Worried About Optics
• ‘We May Be Dealing With an Artificially Engineered Virus’: Hungarian Senior Official
• Obama Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Revoking Legal Status
• Alina Habba Opens Criminal Probe of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy For Obstructing ICE
• Pam Bondi goes after Tesla terrorists
• Trump envoy Witkoff in Russia plus Uke sit rep
• Attali: Euthanasia essential instrument for those costing society rather than producing *
• Eco-zealots are not having children because of the carbon they emit **
• Much more.

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*Such as politicians of course

**Natural selection of species

2. DAD at 1018

a) This is another refusal to comply that ended badly. The individual who was riding a scooter at high speed in Paris on Wednesday, fell after refusing a police check. He was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries……

b) France “Deliberately Colluding” with Illegal Channel Migrants. Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ buddy Emmanuel Macron has been accused of encouraging the lucrative migrant Channel crossings…..

c) In an explosive report by the French Government, the transnational[…] organisation […] Brotherhood has been portrayed as “a threat that is spreading in a pernicious and progressive way”.

d) “Tusk’s Poland is no longer a democracy”….“They are losing and that is why they are resorting to more persecution, more circus instead of bread.”