(0534) Think it’s US Labor Day, must check. In various countries, the chillun go back to school. (0621)

 

5. Rupert

4. Steve at 1146

• Trump Blames Euro-Globalist Leaders for Sabotaging Peace Process Between Russia and [The] Ukraine
• Why You Never Hear Back from Aggressive Indian Recruiters: The H-1B Visa Scam Explained
• Lawsuit: Parents Say ChatGPT Convinced Their Teen to End His Life: AI Was His ‘Closest Confidant’
• 19 Local British Councils Vowing Legal Action to Remove Migrants From Hotels
• Chicago’s Far-Left Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs ‘Protective Order’ to Try and Block Trump’s National Guard Deployment
• Russia’s Autumn Offensive: Preparation, Resources, and Operational Logic
• From Blacklist To NIH Director: Jay Bhattacharya On Fauci, Bioweapons, And The Collapse Of Free Speech In Science
• Parties in Cologne Elections Agree to Speak of Migrants Only in Positive Terms
• Much more.

3. Germany seems a bad place just now

2. DAD drops at 1146

a) Despite several calls to resign, Emmanuel Macron assured in Toulon on Friday, August 29, 2025, that he intended to “execute to the end” the “mandate…..

b) France is staring down a full-blown fiscal crisis. Public debt has hit 114% of GDP, with the IMF expecting it to rise beyond 116% in the months ahead….

c) Just Amazing – Germany Borrowing War Money, UK Looking for IMF Handout, Citizens Losing Services….

d) France is on the brink of chaos, but the minister of education has nothing better to do than try to rewrite the dedication on the Pantheon.

1. Housekeeping and Op Ed combined

a. The Principle of Practical Limitations:

At what point do we no longer commemorate Agincourt and Crecy? What about Waterloo? What about the Armenian atrocity? What about St Bartholomew’s? What of Guernica? There’s no disrespect in the question intended.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege#/media/File%3AKrest_v_zale_shkoly_Beslana.JPG

b. Issues at NOWP, plus poor(s) DAD and Steve:

My erratic sleeping, controlled by the good Lord, the previous day’s doings, interruptions through the night … many things can affect the order of drops, plus when the next post goes up at NOWP. Plus DAD waking earlier these past few days, plus Steve being later than usual last evening, plus one more thing.

c. The purloined post:

It was only late Sunday, yesterday, that I discovered a missing Steve drop … added to the missing Redacted item some time before. Were this happening at HQ, then it’s not as hard to track down why it would be … but being at one of the two WP controlled sites … NOWP and UHC … it’s much harder to pin down.

What has happened is that one of Steve’s drops is completely missing … the post is from last Friday. Now, that was either Steve removing it himself, in which case it should show up in trash (bin) or someone else removed it. I can assure him and readers that it warrnt me, guv … but how can I assure readers of that? What if it were a mistake on my part?

Answer is it was mid afternoon Sunday that I settled down to “do all the spams” with a clear head, i.e. I was watching like a hawk the spam lists, trash lists. Friday had been my medical day, some might recall. F Fwd to yesterday and it was clean gone … not in spam, bin or pending. Ah, I do have another list where that registers.

Nope, no sign of Steve’s drop anywhere. Also, it’s curious that these things only occur a few days later, once I’ve moved on and am not now watching. Now, before I interpret what I think happened, I’ll cease writing on that. Because if it’s the platform doing it, then that raises certain questions, no? Questions involving bringing those drops across to HQ … but that’s then all the eggs in one basket. 🍿🍿🍿

d. The seasonal factor in sidebar pics:

There are two forest pics I use … one up now at 0626 and t’other at the ready … but I just now realised that there’s and evergreen/deciduous factor involved in September … and I do not know my trees beyond saying “conifers” but even then, I’ve no idea if they drop needles or not.

Which suggests I need to start getting back into autumn pics, go a bit more seasonally with some of the photos.