(0821) Morning all … awful out there. Short hiatus after this, maybe even until elevenses but let’s see. (0827)
Of swedes, apples and Isilme
On Wednesday I went to the pop up pantry and got a very large swede! I took a photo of it next to a grapefruit so you can get the scale of it. It’s almost the size of my head. I’m not sure how on earth I’m going to cut it up to cook it. Perhaps my Beloved will have to take the chainsaw to it…
Our next door neighbour (in her nineties) and her daughter (in her sixties) asked if they could have some of our apples a week or two back and I said yes, go and help yourselves. They very kindly picked all our apples.
Actually, that’s not true, they picked all the eating apples and about a quarter of the Bramleys. Two crates of Bramleys and one of eating apples (pippins). The ladies said they thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon of apple picking, and they kindly cleared up the garden a bit in the process! There are still Bramleys left on the tree. Probably another two or three crates worth – I kid you not.
Today Beloved is trying to get a garden shredder to work to see if he can quickly shred apples to make cider. We don’t like cider, so it will end up as cider vinegar, which is really good for you.
Why is a member of British royalty performing investitures in the USA, apart from the fact hes the “Grand Prior”…
JH: From the get-go, this one was antiChristian, despite any regalia or maltese cross, it also brought in elements of the earlier post Mon 2, plus this look at the Anglican schism and conservatives finally waking up.
His premises in that argument are fraught. He says, rightly, that “conservatives” in the old sense were moderate, go no further, keep dialogue open with the other side, hence CK on enemy territory … Woke universities … while the other side, the Wokerati, hate conservatives with a passion, want them expunged, just as the death cult is committed to doibg with all … Wokerati through to conservatives.
There was another youtube about five types you never help, if Christian. One of those is the compromised, as it inevitably corrupts over time … the other is the enemy sworn to destroying you. Officially forgive but be on alert and have your defences at hand nonetheless.
The argument the Wokerati can then put is that the new toleration-of-evil-intolerant … us … are just as uncomprosing as the Wokerati are.
I’m afraid this argument does hold water. This blog itself is Woke-intolerant, so are we not as bad as the Wokerati? Just a different camp? Each camp utterly convinced of their own first principles!
If you accept that, then the proof can only be in subsequent events following one side or the other having the hegemony. The current is the globopsycho, marxist, deathcult hegemony with all the paedo, invasion, rapes, penury etc. versus the old hegemony with “home is your castle”, job, house, car, family etc.
Even there, the perps of the current hegemony are never going to admit their folly … ever. Their solution is to expunge us … what’s our solution?
Thanks, Steve, just watched a bit late for 26 Aug, 1346, but there it is. I enjoyed it but there was much criticism in comments:
Oh I don’t know … thought the footage of the event quite good for 1346. Naturally, after Crecy, one reads Agincourt and by degrees … the Siege of Orléans … which in turn involves Jeanne la Pucelle.
The Rothschilds own Europe (including Britain) and Europe does whatever their owners want done. A significant majority of (((tribe))) across the West – 70-75% – yearn for the “good old days” of their Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin – ad intend to get there BAMN. And that is on BOTH side of the Pond. Hence Rabbis for Mamdani, Soros, and Sanders.
They screech “NAZI! NAZI! NAZI!” and call all who oppose them “Hitler”. But none dare mention Stalin, even though he made Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini COMBINED look like angels in comparison. And they ignore the foulest Nazis of all – the Ashken!
4. Steve at 1184
Massive Purchases of Riot Gear Suggest Antifa Backed by Major Dark-Money Organization
UK Government’s Grooming Gangs Inquiry Faces Crisis: Resignations, Cover-Up Claims, and Calls for Accountability
Ireland Elects Far-Left President in Landslide Victory — Says Her Priority is to ‘Existential Threat’ of Climate Change
Michael Shellenberger Suggests the Growing Rift on the Left Could Spell the END of the Democrat Party
The hidden driver of aging: How your stress hormone predicts your healthspan
Governments Keep Letting AI Make Decisions & It’s Already Going Wrong (JH: Coz it’s Machine Learning, fed by humans, not AI, plus conscienceless choices)
Much more.
3. DAD at 1184
a) Politics in France continues its crazy path. A day off this Sunday in the National Assembly, but the pressure remains. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure continues to raise the specter of a new vote of no confidence…..
b) … but the French Senate [Upper House] puts in the boot. The Senate, controlled by the right and centrists, will “reinstate the pension reform” as part of the review of the 2026 Social Security budget…..
c) Moody’s maintained its rating for France but changed its outlook from “stable” to “negative.” Fitch and S&P Global lowered their ratings by one notch. A critical situation, according to the Governor of the Banque de France.
d) Two men were arrested on Saturday, October 25, 2025, following the theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum in Paris on October 19, 2025. They were taken into custody for organized theft and criminal conspiracy.
Was thinking to m’sel at the above time … now what exactly do Andy and other nightowls need at the bottom of their glasses in the middle of the night … I know, a learned youtube on Manichaeism and Gnosticism during the time of Augustine … a full blown debate over Original Sin and Original Guilt, stemming from naughty Adam in the Garden of Eve-den.
Yep, that’s just the thing, just the ticket, to take the night owls through to brekky and DAD’s report from Macronland. So here tis, over a new cuppa coffee:
Free will v Determinism
Firstly free will, as expressed in John 3:16 … we can all be redeemed, we are responsible for our choices as adults and what flows from those. We are not born depraved but innocent, and from that moment, in infancy, are influenced by our situation, e.g. born to a prostitute or raped girl, liable to be drawn into that lost life unless something happens to break you out of it. Or born into a sanctified marriage and therefore trad family upbringing, along with its values.
The Determinists say you cannot escape, therefore the wrong you do is the fault of your bad childhood, therefore you are locked into cycles forever, plus your children’s children. Blacks start talking reparations. In “Christianity”, it means you cannot escape Adam’s and Eve’s sin, you are born depraved, plus it’s predetermined already who is saved and who is not, so no point even trying.
Complication here for free willers is that there are such things as congenital defects and today, that’s especially so with jabbees, those mothers who took the death vaxxes because the hospital pressured or fooled them into protocols. Free willers say yes, that may well be so … your parents transfer much to you but you can fight to minimise, to manage, plus you can be redeemed. How? Well a Christian says through faith that you can be. On the basis that a Certain Person died on a Cross 2000 years ago in order to do away with all other sacrifices.
The Determinist asks, sardonically … oh, so you can do all sorts of sinning during the week, then on Sunday restate your faith, you now say a few hail Marys and you’re free to start sinning again on Monday, are you? If the priest tells you so. The free willer says there are consequences to all your actions, choices. But you can be redeemed through remorse and atonement. Providing you believe you can. If you don’t believe you can, then you won’t be.
I have something to add. I’ve always seen that model of the upwards road and everyone strewn along that road at different levels of understanding as a good model of our path through life. So why would I argue with someone halfway back down the road?
Ah, says the contrary me … so some sort of “special knowledge” of someone further up the road makes them somewhat druidic? Priestly? Superior, as yet hidden knowledge?
The reply to that is that everyone knows more on some things than others, and others know more than I do on other things. People who’ve studied the bible in fine detail know vastly more about it than I do.
But the idea of a pointy hatted clerical conclave further up the road determining my fate like a college of cardinals, a synod or a Masonic Temple of the Illumined, a guild, keepers of the Secret Knowledge … sod off with that idea. In that youtube just now were two chaps, both with a certain knowledge and respectful of the other … that’s it. Hopefully, after their discussion, both have increased that knowledge and will again the next day, in a process of constant learning, until finally shuffling off.
Charlie Kirk’s idea was that it’s never too late, that you have free will to reject what is destructive and forced on you by a college of baddies, e.g. academic staff who themselves only keep their jobs because they obey some other ideological compliance or be destroyed. Incidentally, in a second youtube, I saw that CK was given to wearing flak jacket. If that were so and others knew it, then to kill him, you’d need to hit head or neck, rather than chest or arms.
There were obviously many priestly castes who didn’t like his redemptive message … that those kids did not need to be brainwashed by priestly castes such as govt, globopsycho, the Fabian caste, the deathcult imams or zionists for the truth … Ardern’s single point of truth … they could read the bible for themselves … Gideon had an idea like that … they could reject the moral malaise, the hookup culture, inflated pride, ego, entitlement etc. etc. … the cult of victimhood as well. Big bucks of course.
Cultleaders would not like that, having expended so much money, time and effort to hook entire generations.
Determinists like the Manichaean gnostics, with their dualism of doing equal amounts of good and evil to keep things “balanced” … hence Gates’s “philanthropic” work, as with every other alleged mass murderer of means … these are damned from birth in their eyes and as Svali and others mentioned … they start ensuring their progeny’s depravity and misery from the womb onwards, intergenerationally. No one gets out alive.
The sort of Christianity Augustine had started teaching in the middle period was redemptive, very John 3:16. Forces got to him though in his later period, obviously, and he returned to Manichaeistic gnosticism blended in, in order to corrupt the message. Hence Calvinism.
There’s one more factor for now … trad is a bulwark against “change for the sake of change”. If you’ve had a system which by and large worked, without the situation we see out there now, then the key tenets you obviously protect. To overturn it, you need a new, corrosive, compulsory ideological straitjacket, imposed from above, vast resources expended to impose it, draconian punishments for resisting … and all the while, the new stasi congratulate each other on being so tolerant. Douglas Adams summed it up with the robots of Krikkit … extermination of all life forms not Krikkit.
Whilst dedicated to soft live, peace and mutual understanding … so sod off, you others … you’re all going to die.
Dropping into this inbox are local rags from around the world, including Liverpool Echo and Geelong Advertiser … the latter I keep on as its head office is situated, I’m guessing here from some ferreting, across the road from Geelong Football Club’s home ground forty miles south of Melbourne.
Interesting to me is that this rag is behind a paywall, a bit as The Grauniad here would like to be and puts the hard word on to be. Which is one essential difference between the left rags here and left rags downunder … downunder, they do charge to read any pearls of wisdom as a rule.
So to get an actual article gratis is quite out of the blue and I read it with curiosity, realising how few names I recognise but at the same time noticing the difference between the Aussie soft left, along with the Old Left here … as against this new, vile, Far Left thing in Leyen, Starmer, Obama, Rutte and the Global Left politics of “misery and degradation for thee, cushy jet jollies and obscene moneygrubbing for me”.
The writer is kicking off a campaign, I presume, to Reclaim Patriotism from the Hated “Far Right” … I wonder if all the other local rags across Ausland and NZ are simultaneously being ordered to run this campaign, gratis, at the same time, this Monday morning. Shan’t bother to find out.
Good morning James,
Some years ago I was talking to a friend who was the head of a Labor think tank — and the thoughts he was thinking were troubling him.
“Why can’t the left be patriotic?” he asked.
These were dark days for the Labor Party. Bill Shorten had just lost the unlosable election to Scott Morrison and Chris Minns was yet to take over as leader in NSW, where the ALP had been foundering for a decade.
Meanwhile Donald Trump had surged to the US presidency for the first time on a wave of unbridled nationalism. And the more the left sneered at figures like Trump and Morrison for their flag-waving, the more it seemed like loving your country had become the domain of the right.
And this is what pissed off my mate: Left-wing urban elites turning their noses up at patriotic sentiments when in fact the centre-left should be embracing, celebrating and proclaiming national pride.
All of this is a very 21st century phenomenon and it is no coincidence that the public takeover of the Western left by globally focussed activist elites — see “Greta Thunberg” and “Academics on Twitter” — has corresponded with an exodus of the working class and the rise of right-wing populism.
Even the spectacular failure of the Voice campaign just two years ago can basically be summed up as the utter rejection of identity politics progressivism by plain and simple patriotism.It is almost impossible to reconcile this vision of the left with the image of Bob Hawke squeezed into a green and gold jacket and squawking with delight at Australia II’s victory in the Americas Cup.
Or indeed the ultimate Labor patriot John Curtin, who unashamedly put Australia’s national interest first during World War II and in so doing literally saved the country.
But in recent months, Labor has begun to reclaim patriotism and it is again no coincidence that Anthony Albanese chose to do this at the John Curtin Oration in July this year. In his speech, the PM openly spoke of embracing “progressive patriotism” and noted that Curtin pivoted from the UK to the US in 1941 not because he was pro-American but because he was pro-Australian.
Indeed, this comment was singled out for criticism for being too strident and not deferential enough to the US at a time when Albanese was yet to secure a meeting with Trump. And when the right is accusing the left of being too patriotic you know that something has changed.
Indeed, the perception that the ultimate Australia-first figure Peter Dutton was too pro-Trump and not enough pro-Australia was a major factor in him losing the election and his seat in the bargain. In other words, Australians love Australia — and they will punish any politician they think doesn’t love it enough.
Unsurprisingly, this is exactly the sentiment that has come through loud and clear in the research for this masthead’s Back Australia campaign, a massive initiative that ranges from the economic benefits of buying Australian-made to the need to bolster local manufacturing for the sake of our national security and sovereignty.
Because patriotism isn’t just a warm and fuzzy feeling, it is vital to a nation’s survival.My friend’s lament that there wasn’t enough patriotism in the Labor Party was one of many conversations that have been taking place for years inside the ALP. Those conversations have now become declarations at the apex of Labor’s success.
Once more, this is no coincidence.A strong national economy, a strong national border and a strong sense of national pride should never be anathema to the Labor Party. They should be at its very heart.
As a potential future prime minister recently told me of a former prime minister, John Howard, saying “We will decide who comes to our country and the circumstances in which they come” should never have been seen as a controversial statement. It should simply have been seen as a statement of fact.
Snooty inner-city elites might still sneer at national pride but they were wrong before and they are wrong today. But the most important thing is that they are not in control. We are.
Joe Hildebrand
He does look like a Labor scruff to be sure, quite different to the new, vicious, global, coloured hair, beta-violent, vehicle keying, bicycle chain bashing, road gluing Antifa hood and mask wearing young paid thugs flinging soup or paint at works of art in galleries or joining in with the gang rapes of minors.
Joe Hildebrand