Not quite clickbait but there are no photos of a line-up of wedding guests actually with Trump in them in this article. None. I’d need to see the guest list for confirmation E was there. If DJT did actually invite Island man to his wedding then should DJT explain himself? Has he made a rod for his own back over his attitude to Bindergate?
… highly significant things … but in passing … and yet we should not let them go by. Those who do think things through, particularly those of a certain age who know how it was, even ten years ago, fifteen, at the end of the 90s … well, pre-Blair at least … and we know full well how very wrong this thing is today … China + Sharia.
Difference from Russia? Well yes, if they perceive that the west plans to bring them down … what would you expect might happen? But they’re still vastly more western than either of the other two. More aligned, in many ways, with the underpinnings, not with globopsycho.
And this whole Shariah and Chinese court system must be nipped in the bud. Easier said than done.
This is 56 minutes long, like a slick TV doc, labouring to get to the points, loud mood music … you know the type of thing. Worth it? If you don’t know anything about this … yes.
(0332) Middle of the night here, trying for second sleep, shall resume battle here around 7 a.m., current thinking. (0547) Back again and think all the things needing writing are best done in Monday 1. (0739)
5. A comparative
4. Things we can’t report on
3. England
2. Steve at 1119
Team Obama Concocts a Silly Scheme to Try to Rescue Themselves
Google Silences Conservative Media
Passengers Spring into Action After Deranged Man on Flight to Scotland
More Evidence Directly Implicating Hillary Clinton in Russia Hoax – Comey, Brennan
Media Not Reporting New Russiagate Developments Because ‘They Were Complicit’
Trade Deal with the European Union-EU Will Invest $600 Billion
Military Situation In {The] Ukraine On July 27, 2025
Strength training’s cognitive payoff: How muscle fitness may shield against Alzheimer’s
How China Silently Won Global Control in Less Than a Decade
Much more.
1. Housekeeping and Op Ed
a. The definitions in the subheading:
I use “housekeeping” as meaning anything cyber, anything blog nuts and bolts … there’s one at Orphans right now.
b. DAD has cyber issues right now:
… and he did mention that it would be handy to have a MutR like me to run it by. I did not commit on that but shall ask him today, the mate, as I plan to phone, as by accident yesterday, my phone was turned off and that leads straight to “c” below, which is about age.
c. Generations:
A not bad analogy for the stages of life is not so much the rings of a tree but the tree itself. In this analogy, if we appear on the earth where the roots become trunk, then most people are believing in the same sorts of things, basically, our music is pretty much the same … the popular tunes I mean, e.g. Vera Lynn, Sinatra, Elvis but then it starts to divide over time, as the tree grows … Mods v Rockers v Skinheads, Beatles v Stones and as the trunk continues to grow upwards, branches start growing outwards in any which direction, sub-branches from them and so on, down to twigs, leaves, flowers.
Right … so we might have started from a common trunk, but now everyone’s at a different height, at a different point of branch growth … in fact, heading off in different directions … some drooping, some boldly reaching for the sky.
That’s as far as that tree analogy can be taken, perhaps. At this point, I switch to Generations as the model but even more importantly … age gaps, plus state of health differences. There’s something behind this and I might make it the next point.
d. Staying on top of it:
Increasingly as we age, we become less capable, coping less. I give the impression, apart from some memory fade, that I’m still coping, still capable of putting this blog and X content out, which is so … but only because I stick to the routine, the system, ruthlessly excluding side issues which can destroy and even wreck. This might be called increased brittleness and we might not even be aware how brittle we actually are … until something tests it out.
Not being one to do things by halves, I have three issues on the go just now … one of my choosing and two thrust upon me. The age gap factor does come into this, so if it does with me, then think how much more it’s a factor between, say, DAD and me.
The first of the issues was a week or so ago … I was asked by a friend to do something quite straightforward for someone his age, still adept and mobile … in fact, a bit like I was, immediately before my heart attack … I do remember building that boat, pretty fit, on top of it … then uggggh, it struck me down it did. I was phoning this supplier or that at the time, sorting this or that, dealing with govt etc. Piece of cake.
If I’d seen today’s me at that point, I’d assume I was still as capable as he was (the younger me). But what the younger me could never know was that the current me is not as capable and a very simple ask (in his eyes) suddenly balloons to huge proportions (in my eyes) and threatens to crash my entire today’s world (again in my today’s eyes). Not sure if you’re following my gist here.
See, that younger man is younger, inn he, therefore he can no way feel how it is to be older. He can observe all right, he can hear me explain … but feel it? Far too big an ask. Mind you, among those of the same age, there can be wide variations, as you know.
Incidentally, right at this moment, 0629, one part of the hardware here is beeping like crazy, flashing like crazy, it could bring down HQ, were there an actual issue. On the other hand, at this time … it’s generally the time when international and earlybird readers pile in and overload the site … what would be unusual is if it were to continue past 0900. 🍿🍿🍿
e. You can never go back to a former self:
For some weeks now, I’ve been revisiting part of my past and while that’s good in some ways, it is also not good, for the simple reason of “overloading”. As a person used to living in different time zones, operating in the middle of our night etc., it’s par for the course … but may well not be par for the course for the other end. Plus one more thing:
Raking over old coals is not a good exercise … all kinds of memories return and yesterday, as well as forgetting to switch my phone on … I was not making the effort to remember … I was retreating into the cocoon, the citadel a bit to tell the truth.
At the same time, a third issue, a house issue had arisen, current, ongoing today.
f. People who agree to something, then let you down:
… also lie about it, sneakily. This ties into the age gap thing again, the tree analogy. Now I need provide no examples for readers … you have your own, don’t you … you could list dozens these days … and as if that were not enough, I have about eighteen news items ready to go in the course of today’s blogging … all to do with people failing to observe protocols, procedures, as they were designed.
g. Be careful before interpreting something in the obvious way
… when what I’m putting to readers is actually about finding ways around the enemy’s moves, finding loopholes, finding unorthodox ways through it.
Yes, I’m referring to Orphans and monikers. Read the post … it only partly adds a burden … in reality, it does not change how readers there comment, technically, just an addition to their own text.
h. Pending civil war out in the world, esp. in Britain?
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i. The citadel must remain calm:
If we plan to take on, to report on, to deal with, the insane doings of globopsycho out there, then the verylast thing we need is hysterics within the citadel itself. Our inner citadel itself must remain a model of civility and calm. Call it an age thing but one needs histrionics like a hole in the head. Those who can see … will see.
j. You want the good news first … or the bad?
(0708) Well it’s not the HQ hardware … so that’s good. It’s the house itself, which is bad, as it raises bigger issues involving several people. Ho hum.
(0844) Sorted with the neighbour next door. Good. Quick … mechanical issue fixed.
