(0531) Morning all. I just wrote to a friend:
“And praying for Old Peculier’s wife. Horrible circumstances. Think I mentioned he’s not peculiar that way … it’s the name of a famous beer here from the 70s/80s … I preferred XB but I do know the drop OP. That tells me he’s a north-easterner, transported to NZ.” (0626)
5. IYE and that Vanity Fair biz
4. Steve at 1235
- Sources Telling Mark Halperin That Republican Student Ella Cook Was ‘Target’ of Shooting at Brown University
- Secretary of War Hegseth Reviews Biden-Era COVID-Vaccine Discharges for Upgrade, Reinstatement, and Benefits Restoration
- Europe’s Desperate Scheme to Steal Billions in Frozen Russian Assets Collapses Under US Pressure and Financial Reality
- UK’s Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred Definition
- Senate Passes $900 Billion Defense Spending Bill Funding Ukraine
- Ukraine Can’t Stop Russian Advance Along Haichur, Or In Huliapole
- Report from the NL about yesterday’s press conference in the case v. the Dutch state officials, Albert Bourla, Bill Gates and others alleging genocide
- Ivermectin, HCQ advocate Harvey Risch officially named chair of President’s Cancer Panel
- Much more.
JH: A word about not only Steve’s signposting here but everyone’s … the idea is to only give secondary source (reportage by me) at HQ … here is primarily a site for headlines. The actual good oil is across the way … my first stop, after looking at the inbox, is NOWP and then Jstack (we have a readership over there), plus a quick check of OoL, then Bookmarks 3 and of UHCWP for any new url buried in there … no one expects anything sensitive there … perfect storage place. Then out to key fellow bloggers, then X.
3. IYE and the burying of treasure
JH: There have been a few of these of late and the way they must be handled is to bury and go back to first principles. And what are these first principles? Well it comes down to what the site is about.
There are those into “scoops” on their “show”, monetising their soaring ratings … and then those whose job they see as bringing it but then the reader needs to exercise some brainpower to follow up. The principle is that we, the pundits, can lead a horse to water but that’s it.
What I’d personally do is get out the dead tree A5 pads I use and jot down, for example, the Thu 1 to 5 url, which is sufficient to access the comment … thence the good oil … and send it out to one of the archive centres. That’s all. What is of sufficient value to warrant such measures? Well, in Italy for example, one does not make reference to the Nobility of a darkish colour. There are local triggers too. Also, why do you think the old OoL went down? It wasn’t LR, it was poor security plus an anathema topic approached.
Not insulting you, reader, as you’ve bothered to come to find out, even to dig out. Here’s a snippet:
“Robert Kilroy-Silk’s former Veritas Party to undertake a detailed examination of the extent to which senior and junior ministers close to (one of the PMs) were given free licence to engage in paedophiliac activities under the protection of the (Sceptr’d) (dumbness) services.”
2. This was the door security DAD was referring to yesterday
1. DAD at 1235
a) The Farmers are angry. The map shows Autoroutes, but the protests are spreading to other roads; even my little nearby town is bloqué….
b) On Saturday, December 13, 2025, in several bookstores in Bordeaux (Mollat, Fnac, Relay, etc.), members of Extinction Rebellion carried out an action against books published by the Hachette group, owned by Vincent Bolloré**** since 2023.
c) If one does not want to invest money in the usual places, how about an Abbey? Would you like to give meaning to your savings by lending to the monks of Barroux to finance the construction of their wine tasting cellar?