(0806) Morning all … awoke late, 0757, and had to sort some matters first. (0933)

 

5. Something different … remember this?

4. Steve at 1260

• President Trump Issues a Dire Warning to Cuba as He Cuts Off All Oil and Money to the Island Dictatorship – Then He Teases a New Leader for Cuba (JH: This was in 3a below)
• Feds Release Chilling List of Violent Criminal Aliens Arrested in Minnesota Sanctuary State
• [The] Ukraine Purges Recruiters Amid Army Mobilization Crisis
• Russia Prepares Biggest Ukraine Strike Duma Wants Reserve Armies Committed [JH: This will be covered around Mon 8)
• Macron and Husband Go Into Hiding in Paris Amid Farmer Revolt – Redacted
• EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show
• Three Takeaways From The US Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic
• Much more.

3. Some sort of slow op ed

… slow because I’d like to cover most key points and the memory’s been better.

a. X, Iran summary, Trump and implications:

(I) There are issues with X this morning, inc. with Julia and others, me of course. They are stalling the retweet button, as well as rewarding comment rather than retweet. This can be read as Elon responding to govt threat or his woke techies tweaking the algorithm to put us into a lower band.

(ii) With what is appearing … very little on Iran, which is highly significant because DJT and intervention don’t enter into reports at all … Cuba does. Whilst DJT has Venz, Iran, Cuba, Minne all on his plate, he has deputies … are they themselves up to scratch, biased towards a MAGA position? I need to go into this in more depth in Mon 7.

b. The threats we’re facing

(i) Govt, banking, didge id

I’ll post a sshot summary of X this morning at Mon 6 … it includes the debanking in the UK, which has sharply risen, along with yesterday’s stats on plod raids. There’s also Mon 1’s issue of the blocking by Aus govt, which they’re hoping to roll out here soon, if Starmer can survive … it’s line ball, as in Iran … or is it? Is it all part of the theatre? Or is that last sentence part of the theatre too?

(ii) Health and indifference

Everyone I know who cares is under the hammer right now. The old advice for when the airmasks over your plane seat drop down, put your child’s on first, then yours. Same here … your mental health under this sustained barrage of things going wrong … the meme about the Amish holds true … why are you folk not at your wits’ end? Er … we don’t have television (radio, MSM in all forms).

But we can add to that … online, the net. The trolls are out in force for sure, false prophets … and the guy I blocked last evening, saying I was shilling for Israel … he may have had a point. Does not change my angle … the safety of those ordinary Iranians but … well, wait for Mon 7, all right?

(iii) Mindset and action plans

This is related to Mon 3b(ii) above plus that bit about X retweeting being interfered with.

Firstly, slow down … nothing you/we can rush out now, or in twenty minutes, or an hour later is going to alter the reality on the ground or in the minds of the movers and shakers.The entire issue is how we can get around this, that, or the other barb for now … whilst joining the general groundswell of seething anger and pushback.

It may sound trite but get onto that RFK diet priority order if you can, look after yourself, keep your tootsies warm at all times, your skull too, keep moving all parts of the old bod, have sustained breaks but also use your energy well.

Keep your friendships in good repair … write down on paper those you need to get to today to reassure … check it off, point by point. For example, I must get to MMutR later, plus Amfortas’s son, plus reassure IYE that all is well. Big clothes wash too, food tomorrow.

Operate on that level, with “cleared” mind. I did not say “clear” mind because that presupposed being a serene, indifferent bstd … and we are not that. Nor are we hysterical over all the wrong things. As for insults and attacks … that’s their issue, not ours. Yet do think about the points in the attacks, without woe-is-me despondency … is there any point where they may just have a point? Adjust.

That’s about it for now.

2. DAD at 1260

a) Threatened by two motions of no-confidence, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked the Minister of the Interior to look into the possibility of holding legislative elections on the same dates as municipal elections.

b) Macron announces the creation of a High Commission for Diversity. It will more likely be a low commission for “wokism,” repentance, and the promotion of anti-white racism.

c) The port of Le Havre has been the target of a roadblock set up by farmers since Sunday, January 11, 2026. They are protesting the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur [South American] countries.

d) The number of people being debanked has increased tenfold in less than a decade, with anti-Debanking campaigner Nigel Farage calling the new-year statistics “appalling”, it is reported.