(1716) Evening all.

 

21. Update on Iran at 1947

• Regime has called martial law, 6 p.m. curfew, anyone out will be shot
• Army called out to replace police to stop burning of buildings
• People still out in numbers, about 200 dead at this point.

20. Not going to live blog Iran tonight

… these are as current as we have just now. Anything major … hope I wake up for it. US does seem to be moving.

This was this morning:

19. Moosh corner … have we already had this one?

18. One argument made for X, not against

… is that it’s most sociable, with a fairly equal proportion male-female … well actually, about 60% female, which suits me fine for one. It matters not what the response is, it’s just “nice”, easy on the mind.

An example:

17. This was at 0720 (this morning)

16. Harry Rag is an important person for me, like Vicky

… also Stop the EU … their sense of relevance is very high.

15. I say nuffink

14. Steve at 1259 with war room

• Julio Rosas: These New Protests In Minneapolis Are Basically Just A Continuation Of What Happened In 2020. The Left Is Trying To Activate Their Street Activists To Get Out And Cause Mayhem

• Bannon: The Illegal Alien Invasion Of Our Country Is Our Biggest National Security Issue Ever! They Do Not Want To Assimilate. They Do Not Believe In Our Values. They All Have To Go

• Wade Miller: We Have To Stop Hiding Behind This False Notion That We Can’t Stop Radical Islam From Fundamentally Reshaping Our Entire Culture And Constitutional Order

• Rep. Chip Roy (R): The Radical Left Is Not Only Engaged In Massive Fraud But Also In An Effort To Pack America With Non-Citizens So They Can Take Our Country Over

13. Housekeeping

Partly because many of us are not 100% well just now … I’m not, Steve, IYE perhaps, other chaps and chapesses … and partly because there do seem inconsistencies as to how some incoming gets expanded youtube or Xclip, while others get url or just a summary and no url, some must stay in situ in comments … there IS reason, if not rhyme to it.

The very first point to make is that distribution decisions, afap in original form unless it’s an HQ summary, depend on the material plus original source, not our chap(ess) bringing it.

But there’s also an aesthetic requirement too … early day output tends to be very text heavy, then in come the youtubes, then things go quiet. By late afternoon, the occasional Xclip is ok but mainly screenshots thereonin.

Thing is that there is no size reduction function on youtubes on this WP site theme, not even in html, given the backend … small price imho for the advantages. Ditto with Xclips but at least they’re a reasonable size. Youtubes are more for films or features here.

If an expanded YT is important in order to ustd the topic, NOWP is the place for that … it often expands. With Andy’s tonight, it’s important, the youtube, yet we can’t run it openly here, nor at NOWP, because of Granny Harmer himself and Ofsted … we don’t want HQ or NOWP hit. That still leaves us with three options but not all run YTs or Xs.

And so it goes on … partly it’s the provocation level to those who can actually harm us, partly it’s an aesthetic thing over the course of the day. It’s never for patron personal reasons … I do hope that’s a known-known.

As for illness, chaps and chapesses … please take care of your health … get yourselves back up to scratch first.

12. Steve at 1259

Steve Bannon Speech – Save Texas From Radical Islam.

11. Andy at 1259

This guy plays a clip of a British journalist ripping into TTK, just listen to her rant. Epic. |  https://youtu.be/k_aaqWuuWm0?si=CmcfxOCwmyZTIzUL

 

Fell asleep, missed lunch today. Never mind, here’s a flawed film … I’ll have late lunch now.

“Among titles that have been included in Fox’s Studio Line classic DVD series, Edmund Goulding’s “The Razor’s Edge” is a leviathan of powerhouse entertainment. At 146 minutes it’s certainly one of the longest films Fox ever made especially during its golden period.

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, the film stars then reigning heartthrob, Tyrone Power as wealthy Chicago playboy, Larry Darrell.

Without much cause, except that he’s bored with life in general, Larry breaks his engagement to Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney) in favor of becoming a world traveler. Eventually, his trips abroad lead to India, to the very seat of spiritual enlightenment under the tutelage of a guru.

Meanwhile, back in Chicago, the impatient Isabel decides to marry Gray Maturin (John Payne). After the stock market crashes, Isabel leaves Gray to go continent tripping with her social climbing, egotistical Uncle Elliot Templeton (Clifton Webb at his usual acerbic best).

Eventually, all this intercontinental head bumping leads straight to a reunion of sorts for all concerned; one that is made bittersweet when it is discovered that an old family friend, Sophie Macdonald (Ann Baxter), after having lost both her husband and child in a terrible accident, has succumbed to a life of spousal abuse and drug use.

Having awakened his moral center, Larry makes a vein attempt to reform Sophie. But Isobel’s jealous need to have Larry all to herself even though his interest in her has never been rekindled leads to a bitter and tragic end.

Goulding’s direction on this magnum opus of a motion picture is slick, stylish and polished. Around every turn he imbues the staging of events with an overall sense of foreboding tragedy that, like the final flowering of the old south in Gone With The Wind, simply reeks of a time far removed from the currency of life in which his characters ultimately find themselves living.

Only the central, world-weary performance of Tyrone Power seems to hit the high notes acting wise. For the rest, but especially with Gene Tierney, the cast seem to be going through the motions, albeit with considerable flair and panache as is befits classically trained actors from Hollywood’s golden age.

There is also something to be said for Herbert Marshall’s characterization of the author, Somerset Maugham. Though probably inaccurate as to history, it is nevertheless one of the great bits of character acting ever put on film.

 

(0931) Morning all. Busy morn here. (0944)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Solzhenitsyn

8. Iran

This chain of stores in Iran is owned by the IRGC. Protesters have also targeted stores run by the Baseej (the paramilitary force of the IRGC), police stations, statues & posters of regime figures, and interestingly mosques, shrines & husseyniyat (halls for mourning the martyrdom… https://t.co/XWwRnR7F7a

— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) January 10, 2026

7. Do Granny Harmers wear bikinis?

6. (Cough)

Very risqué comedy . Not sure they would get away with this on today’s world .. 😳😳😳🙈🙈🙈🙈 pic.twitter.com/SBFjbTFn1t

— steve (@bagshaw2112) January 10, 2026

 

(0630) Rough night for Iran, rough night for me. In my case … better with eventual sleep. Iran? (0819)

 

5. Over at OoL this morning

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/01/on-loonies-occupying-all-key-roles-in.html

Something a bit unusual over there in that I’m going to delete the content of that post at midday, mainly because it shall reappear elsewhere in our labyrinth at that time, unsignposted.

4. Steve at 1258

• James Comer Slams Pam Bondi DOJ After Viral Chart Shows Zero Arrests — DOJ Still Sitting on Biden Autopen Pardons Trump Says Are Null and Void
• UAE Cuts State Funding for Students Studying in UK Over Fears of Islamist Radicalization on British Campuses
• Bible Sales Surge 134% in Britain and Hit Record Level, as Generation Z Embraces Christianity in Droves (JH: Hmmmm, need corroboration on this one)
• Chicago PD Chief Larry Snelling Issues Brutal Warning to Leftist Mobs Targeting ICE Agents (JH: We need to come back to this)
• Russia Sends Strong Message To Kiev With Oreshnik Strike (Largest Gas Storage)
• Monsanto Sues Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson Over Alleged Theft of COVID-19 “Vaccine” Technology
• EU’s flagship industrial-scale insect farming operation goes bust
• Much more.

3. Interesting from Reform backer and Nige mate Arron

2. DAD at 1258

a) The European Parliament’s ‘Patriots for Europe’ group is to table another confidence vote against Ursula von der Leyen and her European Commission for “forcing through” the Mercosur trade agreement.

b) The Mercosur deal has been concluded against the will of farmers and key member states, in the name of a geopolitical strategy detached from the social reality of rural Europe.

c) According to a study by business consultancy Falkensteg, the number of large German companies – defined as those with more than €10 million in turnover – going bankrupt has grown by about a quarter to 471 last year.

d) Showdown expected as U.S. plans European visit about Greenland.

e) New financial declarations from top woke charities Stonewall and Mermaids show massive declines in income. Spare a thought for Jolyon Maugham…

1. Iran sit rep as far as we know

Given that the regime henchmen still in town do their worst during the day, Nioh Berg possibly has it right:

“Tehran earlier tonight. Like I said it’s becoming more and more like a war, and Iran is still holding strong against the demonic islamic regime. Many casualties but people are pushing forward instead of retreating.”

Why such inordinate time spent on this site on Iran? Aside from the moral question, there is the geopolitical … then there is the politico-philosophical, the strategic. How many armchair pundits of the gung ho type have urged OTHERS to get out there, be counted, fight back, with homilies about we are millions, they are but a few. Or translated, by mixing metaphors … just who exactly is going to bell the cat? Who is going to risk rape, torture, gruesome murder, to save his or her land?

Physically. Sure we pundits are taken down, threatened, blacklisted, consta-insulted … compare that to what Iranians in the streets are facing, particularly as the regime is known for trying to take out known rabble raisers.

That’s as far as we can know at this point. More if it breaks.