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2. DAD at 1511

a) Macron dilemma.

High school student protests: “Emmanuel Macron has been shouting a lot in recent days, deeming the police response too harsh… It’s also very bad for him; he had said he would wrap up his five-year term with a focus on youth…”

b) Macron Attacks Free Speech and Urges the EU to Censor Online Posts Faster

Macron’s theory of liberty begins where the government’s permissions end.

c) France & Israel. Minister Ofir Sofer told the cabinet that, in light of the unrest in France, Israel must prepare a plan for the potential mass absorption of French Jews. 

He warned that Jews in France are increasingly afraid to walk the streets and that Israel must prepare for the possibility of further attacks.

d) Germany. (Reuters) – Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted treason ‌in a case that ranks among Germany’s biggest intelligence scandals since the Cold War.

Prosecutors accused him of paying for secret documents and using them in an analysis for a foreign spy service. They did not identify the intelligence service and it was not immediately clear whether the analysis reached its intended recipient.

e) France – riots. Thaïs d’Escufon To American an European friends.

I’m so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become. 

Don’t make the same mistakes we did.

(0628) Been up and attit from about 0430, mainly correspondence plus gathering for HQ, OoL and Jstack. Item 1 today is from that.

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X never ceases to amaze

… whilst YouTube never ceases to disappoint (item 3). I never intended anything religious in item 1 today, was looking for a key issue to tackle … but this came up:

When a Christian Actually Knew the Bible.

I just watched that clip of the aerospace engineering student questioning Charlie Kirk, and wow it was the smartest question anyone has asked him in a long time.

The student wasn't attacking faith. He was defending it. He basically…

— 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 (@DKH013) October 2, 2026

Having said that, an item came up quoting the Scarman report but a note came up further down that it was not a (heavily underlined) quote from the report but instead from (some named MP) opposing the report (possibly correctly so).

My beef? It was shoddy scholasticism, unnecessary, designed to persuade by half truth, gilding the lily.

And this above, this debate, is precisely what Toodles and southern US study were debating with me (hardly a biblical scholar). The point was I was only really looking at the NT, particularly Ephesians but all the law and prophets hang on certain behaviours, so I read. And they require the whole picture, the evidence of ages. But that also requires looking at Assyria, Babylon, the Sea Peoples (Gaza and other places?) … and so it goes on … it’s a deep rabbit hole.

Obviously such things are trending on X, they keep recurring. Plus the young bucks of Restore are starting to flood X too. Plus Rubio’s speech at the Acropylis.