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5. Faced with a claim about Emhoff on Gab
… Guess who has the biggest investment in the lithium mine industry in North Carolina? Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala’s husband.
… what does a pundit initially do? Check Wiki of course … subject avoided. Failing that and still on p1 of ggl, from whom you’d expect similar, some snippets do emerge:
… Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, could profit from Hurricane Helene due to his investments in Albemarle Lithium Mines in North Carolina …
… Emhoff has financial ties to companies like Piedmont Lithium, a fact that should concern all Americans. While his wife advocates for clean …
… Kamala Harris’ husband, has very strong ties to lithium mining. He is one of the largest investors in North Carolina …
So that puts us in the realm of confirmation bias, yet those appeared on ggl first page on Emhoff. Plus other things we’ve run. The obvious question is what to about it? Well vote for starters.
Reminds me a bit of Teapot Dome scandal.
4. David Vance on One Direction
Now I am of a generation that was all but oblivious to the music of the boy band that made him famous – One Direction. Liam’s life ended a few days ago (“fell off”) balcony.
He goes on to say:
People will make their own minds up about Cowell. To my mind, the Music Industry itself is corrupt and Satanic. I have no idea what sacrifices are made of those who make it to the top but the smell of sulphur is always present.
Well yes. The exact circumstances, no one’s saying but clearly lost inside, as was Roy Orbison and the various Beatles, so many others … Kristofferson accused by a few of being a vicious abuser, Swift we’ve covered, that Canadian woman, plus Whitney Houston … dark doings … that Diddy creature, Jimmy Page, Dylan … goes on and on.
3. Kathy wakes up ConWom (excerpt)
Like most people I’d got so wrapped up in the iniquities of Stalinist Starmer’s post-Southport ‘swift justice’, his blatant hypocrisy and greed, his winter fuel allowance cruelty and his net zero nightmare (to say nothing of the tax bomb about to fall) that I lost sight of the bigger picture. But the fact is Starmer doesn’t care what anyone thinks of his first 100 days. He doesn’t need to.
Kathy then links to “consolidation of the Blairites”.
2. DAD at 849
a) Keen to shed light on the dysfunctions that led to the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist on October 16, 2020, his sister, an anesthetist nurse, has just published a book.
b) Schengen is dead, but not forgotton. France has announced the reintroduction of temporary border controls with Luxembourg and five neighbouring countries from 1 November 2024 to 30 April 2025, highlighting growing security concerns in Europe.
c) The Italian right-wing [sic] government has said it intends to continue to pursue plans to examine asylum applications outside the EU, despite a legal defeat over the processing of the first group of migrants that arrived at Italy’s new camps set up in Albania.
d) The Mail reports: Girl, 17, with suspected autism faces 12-match ban from her football team for asking adult transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’
1. Over at Churchmouse (blogrolls, Scriblerus first column)
… Dearieme wrote:
I’ve just seen a fascinating little story. What is to become of the expelled people of the Chagos islands who do not want to live under the Mauritian jackboot? Apparently HMG is considering settling them on St Helena. But they have consulted neither the Chagossians nor the government of St Helena.
CM replied (excerpt):
I have not seen the article about resettling them on St Helena. That is shocking! There is nothing there, other than the governor’s house. That was why the British chose it for Napoleon’s exile, at which time there was no governor’s house. Pure punishment for Napoleon.
These are supposed to be historically oppressed persons of colour (POCs). The great tragedy is that they are being further oppressed by a powerful man who is himself a POC. Furthermore, this man is courting an internationally known oppressor, the Chinese. Last I knew, the Chinese did not look particularly kindly on POCs.
Oh, the sad, sad irony of it all. Lammy has said during the Chagos statement and debate that not everyone — meaning the Chagossians — agrees on what should be done. However, by saying that, he is indicating that Labour do not really care about the needs and wants of the Chagossians. Incidentally, Lammy considers himself to be a practising Anglican. That’s something else to add to the mix. Agree that Labour are frightful at governing.
I still do not understand why that land is being given to Mauritius. They never had an empire. From what I know, the Spanish had the Chagos islands centuries ago, then ceded them to the Dutch, who ceded them to the French, who ceded them to the British. Feel free to correct my history.