(1526) Not all that far from evening here. (2046) Er … um … fell asleep earlier, dinn I? (2048)
26. Fairly much my food programme right now
25. Moosh corner
24. What a dead giveaway
23. Another vital map showing the situation
… we really must stop using Mercator for Greenland and surrounds.
22. Rupert corner
21. Steve with whatever he comes up with
With all the doom and gloom out there, readers, let’s have something lighter and more jolly:
(1257) Afternoon all … seems like sunshine out there … remember sunshine? (1319)
20. China
19. Moosh corner
18. The inexorable death of London
17. The inexorable death of football
16. Greenland continued
(1036) Morning zooming by. (1051)
15. The essentially fascistic nature of left leaning politics
14. Unusual one for Unherdables
… I couldna watch the clip, way too mushy for mine, but the principle seems sound to me … see which owner the dog likes:
13. Appropriate on Christmas Day today
… to see this through an ancient, godly lens, rather than politics in isolation:
12. Is this what they have in mind for us?
11. J6 injustice continued
Once we get past the beauty of the car, we have the question of how are the specs? Is she road-practical?
(0615) Still in bed … too cold to be up. (0700)
10. Moosh corner
9. Velocity Black
I’m suggesting that readers must not just take a passive role in finding things out. At the same time, some hints on how to proceed can sometimes help. This is as cursory as you should go:
Wolf is an English nationalist afa I can see, quite an opaque profile. The item has expandable complaints about Velocity Black but the unexpanded still give the idea in the sshot:
And this is my initial look at the outfit itself:
There is the bias to consider too … Yusuf’s manner and approach, whilst I’d not use the term “shyster”, certainly raises questions. Wolf of course is dead against Yusuf-Farage-Tice as a unit, as are many pundits, councillors etc.
8. Steve sends
I did a cursory bkgd on this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Nawfal
This is what he wrote:
“Iran shut down Wednesday as businesses, universities, and government offices closed across 21 of 31 provinces. Protests are now in their fourth day. Video footage shows intense clashes in Shiraz, Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Tehran. Crowds chanting “Death to Khamenei!” and “Death to the Dictator!” In Fasa, protesters stormed the governor’s office. IRGC forces opened fire. Military helicopters flew overhead. Now unconfirmed reports claim protesters have taken control of Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province and are burning down the local government headquarters. Analysts suggest more towns may be falling to demonstrators, leaving the regime with few options beyond mounting counter-offensives. The regime’s moves: A new central bank chief after the last one resigned. Khamenei appointed an IRGC general wanted by INTERPOL for the 1994 Argentina bombing as deputy commander. President Pezeshkian acknowledged the situation is “extremely difficult and complex.” The economic crisis is severe: inflation, currency collapse, declining living standards. Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi: “The current regime has reached the end of the road.” Source: Fox News, NYP, @WalidPhares … @visegrad24“
However, there was this in comments:
7. Just a few from TDS (blogrolls for further detail)
6. IYE reports
Thread: “The Venezuela plot thickens:
While Venezuela holds 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, much of this is HEAVY crude oil.
Texas and Louisiana also *happen* to have 6 of the LARGEST HEAVY crude oil refineries in the world.
What does this mean? Let us explain…..”
(0536) Morning all … rain has slushed away the snow. (0607)
5. Not sure how accurate this is
4. Iranian report US nased I think
3. Steve at 1255
2. Greenland
1. DAD at 1255
a) “The European Union is German, courage is Belgian, tactics are Italian, and stupidity is French.”
b) “Racist,” “supporter of the Trumpian far right”… La France Insoumise (LFI) is vehemently opposed to a Charlie Hebdo cartoon caricaturing Mélenchon as Maduro and urging Trump to arrest him.
c) It is less than a week into the New Year and Nantes is in the news, again.
d) Industry discounts for electric vehicles are “unsustainable”, a major motoring group has warned, as the number of new cars registered in the UK exceeded two million last year for the first time since the pandemic.
(1503) Afternoon all, almost evening. Beautiful news from Venezuela and Iran … but watch that woman in Vzl now in official control. One of Them. Mexican one too.
26. Emerald
25. Iran on a knife edge
24. Steve at 1255
War Room snippets…
23. Whoever could have visited 12 times
… according to GM’s diary? Lainey reports on Gab.
22. Looking good (via Steve)
21. Venezuelan joy
20. Act Blue crims
19. Moosh corner
18. Shirley they can’t be serious
17. Switzerland getting serious
16. Greece
“This is the great granddaddy of train portmanteau thrillers and Walter Forde, like Hitchcock, had a thing for trains – he even remade his now lost 1931 “The Ghost Train” and became a serious leading British Director.
The production of Rome Express opened the large new Lime Grove (Gainsborough) studios in W London, using two huge sets to accommodate both terminii & the impressive express. Conrad Veidt was a comparative newcomer to London from Germany escaping a future under the Nazis and stayed to make a number of other acclaimed 30s films like “Jew Suss” “Passing of the Third Floor Back” “Dark Journey” & “Under The Red Robe” until ending up at Denham with the Kordas.
He loved Britain and loathed Hitler but this didn’t stop his 40s performances as an assortment of nazi officials – “Escape” “Spy In Black” and,of course,”Casablanca”. The popular Scottish actor,Finlay Currie played the same part in this and its almost shot-for-shot remake 15 years later at 70. He was probably best known as the convict, Magwitch, in the superb 1946 remake of “Great Expectations”.”
(0911) Time for breakfast and reading about Epiphany. (1052)
15. They breed em toof
… as in Tue 12.
14. Twofer
13. Going to run this one at OoL and here as well
The text below is exactly as I wrote it at Orphans:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/01/predictable.html
… plus there are lessons here for readers to see for themselves. For that reason, this is a good cautionary tale.
There are two admins at OoL … Julia and myself. She takes care of the overall, plus comment moderation, I look after the tech side.
As part of that, I expressly agreed with the host that there can be nothing misleading allowed to stay up … fully agree with that. Sometimes we might run something, or a reader might, which turns out not to be initially, factually, completely so … this happens on X a fair bit, resulting in a “community note”. However, I’ve seen a “community note” to a “community note”, disagreeing with the first “community note”.
To my mind, that’s fine, however ludicrous it seems, as it enables readers to see different angles. The one exception is that if something has been thoroughly debunked over a long period, e.g. Net Zero, then it gets short shrift at sane sites such as OoL, Julia’s or ours across the way … sites where we do deep dives, do our homework before mouthing off.
Uh huh. So what’s the issue? This is:
Now, there’s zero point arguing with them as it’s a bit like someone trying to get justice for DJT. So Letitia James flags it, on the phone to Obama, the case is heard in NYC by Jack Smith, with a handpicked anti Trump jury. Hardly justice, is it? Zero percentage for the defamed and that’s the case with all issues today, e.g. the raped girls seeking justice or the vaxx injured and dead.
So, moving past that … that post has clearly gone forever … the more important issue is the toerag or toerags who “flagged” it to a known-known unjust committee and once again, truth bites the dust.
Now, moving even further along, Julia is a libertarian, I am a “classical liberal” in the sense of freedom afap but if there is a clear enemy trying to harm us or in blig terms, a hostile troll … well it’s insanity to allow them. Yes, so there are two readers only on permamoderation, put there by me, plus I request you use a moniker, not Anon by itself, or Unknown. Occasionally the Blgr comments mechanism plays up with that, so it’s a fluid situation.
The libertarians and classical liberals can argue this point until the cows come home. It still doesn’t alter the situation that some toerag flagged the post and I was given no say, except by kangaroo court or star chamber.
On the other hand, this is a known-known, par for the course … we makes our choices, we takes our chances. And we can never be free of trolling. Just one more thing … if by some chance anything happened to OoL, you know where Julia blogs from, you know where I do. Keep your eyes open, dear sane reader.
12. Chuckling quietly about this one
… adore it:
11. Epiphany and this winter season
Epiphany (from Greek for “manifestation”) refers to both a Christian feast day on January 6th celebrating Jesus’s divinity revealed to the world (Magi, Baptism, Cana) and a moment of sudden, profound realization or insight in general life, like Archimedes’s “Eureka!” moment, often occurring after deep thought or a new piece of information. It marks the end of the Christmas season in the West, while some Orthodox churches call it Theophany, celebrating Christ’s revelation.
Uh huh … sounds good enough to me. I’ve been trying to get my past in proportion in terms of world events, songs, things which happened to lil ole me (excuse an aging man) and one of those things is exactly when does “my” winter season start and end?
Problem is this … and Dearieme and Toodles might actually agree on this point … the chance of it actually being December 25th, even January 6th/7th, is fairly slim, given that many who’ve studied it put it more likely in September or whenever.
For me, it’s reasonably irrelevant … we need a date or three, the west and east do not agree, just as Iona and Lindisfarne did not agree … so let’s settle on an official Advent, Christmas, Twelve Days of, then Epiphany, Orthodox Christmas (this evening and tomorrow morning) and that’s about it.
In Russia, we’d go back to studies (this year Monday the 12th) somewhere around the 10th … that was a fair end of year break, any longer would be a bit uncomfortable, weatherwise … thus I can count back to just before Christmas during advent … pretty much near the shortest day or the nearest weekend before that (December 20th/21st this year) and again that seems a fair timeframe.
Thus, were someone to ask my fave season, I’d say that specific winter period first, about to end this coming weekend … my second fave would be autumn when the weather turns, leaves fall … third would be early spring when new life appears, rivers flow etc.