(1616) Not 100%, just this afternoon, feels lurgyish, doing all I should. (2010) Not lurgyish.
29. Rev. Andy with the church news at 963
“The latest news from the CofE is that the public may be asked to name the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Get ready for Bishy McBish Face.”
28. Steve’s opening item looked intriguing at 963
”Despite the government’s strict measures to control the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdowns, social distancing, and mandatory vaccinations, there was no infectious disease testing at the southern U.S. border for four years.”
27. Most important item today?
26. It’s closely organised worldwide, as we’d been warned
It’s true … these are the sorts of YTs that are much needed BUT they take effort and even money. Ruairidh is always reliable, Jago too but he does not do variety, just trains. Drachniwhatever does ships but the YTs can be long and turgid. With car YTs, they can be good but usually lack in some way.
Truth is … they take effort and imagination to keep finding new topics, then film them … while we here lap them up, hungry for more. Then we get those out for wealth from it. There are those who let politics of the Woke kind creep in … there are those who insist on annoying noise behind which they call music … there are those with unfortunate voices, such as that American History Guy, with the bowtie.
If we can find something varied enough, it’s a boon all right, as you read above. I’ve subscribed but it’s early days … let’s see how he does … were you to go over and give him traffic … who knows?
(1033) Time does … well you know what it does. (1104)
17. TCW (see blogrolls for link)
Comparing TCW and TDS … I’m afraid I’ve gone off TDS for a few reasons … the Sir Toby bit is a red flag … then there is the attempt to make it into a moneyspinner by using days old news with opinion … yes, we also do that but we don’t charge for it, we don’t shut off most of an item as “premium” content behind a paywall … that’s MSM behaviour.
TCW is still a blog, it’s mainly opinion (Kathy’s is due tomorrow) but it’s not money-grubby. As Tim Worstall wrote years ago … there’s no money in blogging. If there were, then I’d urge you to be highly suspicious of the content.
16. Toodles pointed to this item
… to peruse … what do we make of it?
Well, for a start, it’s clearly Woke left in its phraseology and so the usual question remains at the end:
But what if it’s actually true?
15. Natural art
14. Behind the Chagos Islands crime
13. Proper Irish dancing
… not that rubbish with their arms jammed hard against their sides:
The problem with this “breaking the law thing” is … does one make a distinction between inadvertently doing it (e.g. through ignorance of the law, the prime defence of the invader) and deliberately doing it … or is that not the only criterion? Maybe another criterion is the extent to which there is a victim or not.
Example … in Russia, my international driving licence, backed by my home one allowed me to drive on this town’s roads. Now, there was a notorious corner near the opera house where the road veered left, the side of the road packed with parked vehicles (it was an office block area of town).
The road was shaped and narrowed in such a way that every single vehicle heading into town had to pull out to avoid the parked cars BUT that took us into the tram lane and at one crucial spot the wheel’s of any normal car had to cross the double line for seconds.
Now, as everyone charged said … what the hell were there double lines where no vehicle whatever could get through? Why were cars allowed to park just there? Not our problem said the traffic police. Thus, if that month, they were short of their quota of fines … well, you know where this is going.
Now, one picks up points for every violation, and after a certain number, it’s an interview in police HQ. In practice, plod were not interest in the minnows … they were after the bigger fry … I was never acosted there but was at another time, another place.
The judgment was given against the native as it happened and an officer took me over to the screen to see my history for further action … I had zero points. Whaa? He looked at me and said goodbye.
The Soviet days had put vastly more new “crimes” on the books than even Gordon Brown over here and by definition … by obeying one dept’s law, you were transgressing another’s. Everyone knew it from childhood, everyone knew it was the whim of the authorities, had you not geen a good boy or girl.
The second solver of the conundrum was a word known as roubles or rubles … lots of them.
4. Criminal insanity ruling govts west-wide
3. Illinois
Sometimes it’s not necessary to deep dive into a US state … just note the sort of things happening, the various reactions … Western Lensman:
2. DAD at 962
a. Yesterday I asked, “What is it with Rennes and Nantes?”. Here we go again ! The investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal has refused to release a 44-year-old man from Nantes accused of “aggravated rape” on partners forced to take drugs during their sexual relations.
(JH: As every reader who is up to speed on such matters knows full well, there is no way I can mention the name in Britain. The “incarcerable stricture” applies equally to admin and readers but also extends back to platform provider … thus I must modify the name where it appears … sorry, DAD.)
b. Two French Maires in Trouble … for having “deliberately” refused to remove a Christmas crib installed in its town hall … “I’m angry, astounded by what’s happening to me. I hope to deal with sensible magistrates,” (Maire Ménard) added.
c. …fraudulent network in the ambulance and medical transport sector, with undeclared work and fraud against health insurance and Urssaf.
d. 45-year-old bank branch manager was arrested on January 29 at her home in the western Paris region. In total, twenty-three men and women, aged 37 to 59, were taken into custody in this case. And the amount of money concealed through a myriad of “taxi companies” is estimated at twenty million euros.
1. Steve at 962
Four: USAID Accused of Funneling $260 Million to Organizations Linked to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations … $100 BILLION in Medicare and Medicaid Waste … AfD’s Petr Bystron Demands Investigation into USAID in EU … more vital items…..
Three: Comprehensive Audit of Pentagon … Slash Tax Breaks for Billionaire Sports Owners … “Individuals and Networks Stealing Government Property” … much more…..
… if it weren’t how sad it all was, the situation as it was under the demons:
21. Interesting conversation yesterday
… how to track things and prevent it using sequences, blank spaces … point is that it was tech which exposed tech:
That was one of the shots in IYE’s latest in the sidebar. Still thinking how best to display IYE … safer in comments, more troubled if I copy to post. Steve drops at NOWP tomorrow morning as usual.
19. Interesting things happening just now over there
Also … look at the way the cars are parked.
18. The nasties in the bkgd interfering, manipulating
This was a newsletter from Gab, unabridged although curtailed at the foot at the point of asking us to consider going premium … nothing wrong with that as long as we are not severely disadvantaged, which would be a form of censorship in itself.
Posting it here? Think it was interesting in its content for many readers. (Not coloured teal below so as not to overly highlight it.)
“The Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have recently launched an investigation into the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), alleging misuse of taxpayer funds for left-wing causes. President Trump has claimed that billions of dollars have been stolen from USAID and other agencies to fund favorable media coverage of Democrats. The administration has taken swift action, placing senior USAID officials on administrative leave, locking employees out of internal systems, and seizing control of critical databases and financial management systems.
DOGE representatives, reportedly acting on behalf of the State Department, have moved to take over USAID offices, escalating tensions within the agency. Elon Musk, who has been actively involved in the restructuring efforts, has called USAID a “criminal organization” and stated that it’s “time for it to die.”
The investigation has uncovered that a foreign company, Moonshot, was paid nearly $1.5 million to target and monitor alternative platforms like Gab. A significant portion of their research focused on analyzing social media data from platforms such as Gab and scrutinizing online discourse surrounding offline events. These findings were used to “inform threat assessment frameworks and produce academic publications.” Gab has long suspected that bad actors were being paid to monitor, troll, and defame us, but now we have definitive proof that our own government was funding a foreign company to do so.
Moonshot, founded in 2015 by Vidhya Ramalingam and Ross Frenett, claims to use technology to disrupt and end “extremism” and other “online harms.” The company has received substantial funding and support from major tech players like Google and Facebook, collaborating closely with Google’s Jigsaw on projects like the “Redirect Method,” which uses search advertising and YouTube to deter potential “extremist recruits.” Moonshot employs artificial intelligence to identify vulnerable individuals online and develops software to analyze digital footprints and encrypted platform data.
This revelation underscores the lengths to which the establishment will go to silence dissent and suppress free speech. Gab remains committed to standing against this tyranny, and we need your continued support to keep this fight alive.
We have faced relentless opposition from the entire system as we’ve fought to defend free speech online. Shockingly, our own government has been funding foreign-owned companies like Moonshot to target, track, and smear Gab. The countless “academic papers,” hit pieces, and attacks on our community over the years were bankrolled by taxpayer dollars.”
17. We’ve had it before … yes
16. Shoolie
15. As one does
14. Steve drops at 962
War Room:
– Natalie Winters: “Every Person Who’s Been Appointed By Trump, Especially At DOJ, Is An Absolute Killer”
– Ben Bergquam On Deportations So Far: “It’s Not Enough To Stop The Bleeding”
– Todd Bensman On Confronting The Cartels: “I Think Things Are Gonna Go Kinetic”
– Catharine O’Neill Breaks Down President Trump’s EO Targeting Anti-Christian Bias
Hearts of Oak:
– Tommy Waller – The Vulnerable Grid: Protecting and Rebuilding America’s Energy Infrastructure
10. IYE seems to be hard at it today in the sidebar
9. There are a couple of a/cs just now which seem impressive
… to li’l ole me … No Context Brits and Amuse. Amuse seems to be privy to some inside information at times:
8. Classic case we were discussing
… at least, I was discussing with MMutR … that of links here at HQ and formerly at … t’other place. Thing is, some readers like to be spoonfed and if that link they see before them does not go directly to the required page, they become miffed … yessiree … miffed I say.
This is the complete intolerance of any delay whatever in this online era … gimme it all now or I’m leaving. Matters not if I explain that there is only so much one aging man can pack into a day’s blogging, whilst trying to keep the reader from having to go to an older page … in other words, putting abridged versions up to avoid space wastage … endless scrolling down.
Plus these days, certain links are verboten … bots look out for these, certain things happen to the site, esp. if British, as we’re under a communist regime right now … incarceration etc., ten plod at your door early morn. Why do you think I use the word Nole for my favourite Martian? Our reader droppers get it … sadly, some of our reader “fly in, fly out esteemables”, worthy souls all … don’t quite get it.
Take this one for example:
Now, I do see how difficult it is for a backend techie to take that half url and find the article … it takes anything upwards of two clicks … but I’m relying on our boys to be able to do it, seeing if there’s anything worth following up. If so … then we follow it up.
