(0758) Greetings, chaps and chapesses … looks reasonable outside at this point, if cold.
5. Steve at 1211
- Five People in Texas Become First Antifa Members to Get Terrorism Convictions in American History
- Trump Announces He is Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota – Effective Immediately
- Nigeria School Abduction – Christians Being Killed and Abducted by the Thousands (Boko Haram)
- Putin Signals Support for Trump’s New Peace Deal, as Zelensky Is Pressured To Sign on by Thanksgiving
- World Leaders Bail on G20 Summit in South Africa as WH Spox Karoline Leavitt Accuses President Ramaphosa of “Running his Mouth against the US President”
- Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On November 22, 2025
- UK COVID Inquiry’s conclusions are as farcical as its “investigations”
- Texas secures $41.5 million settlement from Pfizer and Tris Pharma for knowingly poisoning kids with an adulterated ADHD drug
- Much more.
4. Lord T made a point about the picture below
“That picture of the internet is simply wrong. Cloudflare and AWS are not in the stack like that. If you move them further up the stack to the towers and put them there. You have to chose both of them to include in your Application. None of my sites nor sites I have set up went down when those went out.
People chose these to save themselves some hassle. Subcontracting the problems out saves money on a day by day basis but as you see when things go wrong it ends up as your problem and you lose lots of money. Simply stupid and it has been like this for a very long time. AWS and Cloudflare, and a few other recent issues are just some of the tools that IT have subcontracted out and you can expect more issues.as time goes on.”
3. DAD at 1211
a) The end of French [and EU] farmers? For the past few days, a video has been circulating on YouTube. In it, Pierre Guillaume Mercadal summarizes the content of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and representatives of agricultural unions. This meeting, obtained with great difficulty by farmers following the President’s recent inflammatory statements regarding the Mercosur trade agreement….
b) Baccarat (54): An 18-year-old girl was held captive and abused for three days by her Algerian father, and his brothers, for a relationship with “a Frenchman” while she was “promised to a cousin”….
c) Nantes – again. 52nd shooting recorded in 2025; two teenagers aged 15 and 17 injured….
d) Gender ideology is poised to dominate COP30, taking place from November 10 to 21 in Belém, Brazil, with the “Gender Action Plan,” a roadmap designed to guide climate policies by integrating gender considerations….
e) Cuncy-lès-Varzy (58): under the weakened vault of Saint-Martin, the interior restoration reveals 16th century paintings buried for centuries….
2. The Across the Ditch vlog
… turned out to be useful … you can follow in comments, plus in this post now:
I also have this to add … it’s from that reactor girl, Frenchtastic Marie, from Troyes in NW France:
Obviously an issue both sides of The Ditch.