Some time back, we ran the Bergerac opener, where we met the delectable Francine. There are only two episodes available this way and this is the other, which some reviews say is one of the best. I’m off for brunch, back to politics later.
(0815) Moosh will be in the next post. This one is to try to bring us up to date, as of 0800, with issues arising from Persia. (0834)
11. Just a few more
Wendy:
Am I partial to Persians? The real ones, the Farsi speakers … yes. A bit partial to Orla too.
Bleedin’ Tice … truly an M25 bubble idiot … he’ll allow in “good” refugees, not bad. Those two have not a bleedin’ clue … they’re charlatans.
Richard Donaldson:
“Only hope this post is taken as it is meant, as the last thing I ever want to do is frighten people. However, I made an oath to my followers when I first started that I would always be open and honest with you all. WE MUST BE VIGILANT! In the coming hours and days, we could likely see attacks on our own soil. We currently have circa 30,000–40,000 Islamist “sleeper cells” here in the UK (confirmed by the Home Office and MI5). Almost all of them have loyalties to Iran. With the recent attack on RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and Keir Starmer’s response to enhance our military efforts in the Middle East and join America and Israel, we could likely see terrorist attacks here in the UK. It is incredibly important to remain vigilant at all times. Our current threat level in the UK is: “SUBSTANTIAL: an attack is likely”. I have been told by two separate sources within the military that this is due to be upgraded to “SEVERE: an attack is highly likely”. The only reason it hasn’t already is because MI5 are being instructed by the government to “wait until the last minute” so as not to “cause panic”. Keep your wits about you, look out for one another and, if you see anything suspicious, report it.”
10. More on Persia and Persians
Truth is though … they are honeys, that race.
Is this thing ethnic or religious? Just cultural? Cultlike? Well, in the sense that even gnosis, Wicca etc. are cults, I’d use “religious” as a description. Shiva, Kali, Buddha, Confucius. Call it just a philosophy … maybe. But it completely rearranges thinking.
If there’s a devil, then what would he want? Primarily for people to imagine themselves in control of their own lives, given to academic philosophical observations and theories, from Aristotle to Nietsche, even existential … it all denies the devil exists, which he’s delighted about. Thus we get pompous, godless Royal Societies, Smithsonians etc.
The key is human ego, man as his own god, self-entitlement, a sense of victimhood, plus viciousness in the sense of Douglas Adams’s Krikkit. In other words, the devil delights in splits and strife.
Toodles notes that the Persian delight at the excrescence which has now all but gone does not look further ahead as to what, exactly … cough … replaces it? What fills that void? Something worse? The next stage of the snuffing out of humanity?
Esp. If Donny is a baddy, not a goody. Not saying he is, just sayin’, just tabling it like.
9. The eschatological overtones
First, this lady:
Even within Christian eschatology, there are myriad splits. For a start, pretribbers (mainly US) saying the faithful will be spirited away in the rapture before any personal unpleasantness, midtribbers and endtribbers who say we’ll suffer all right but then H will come.
Arnold Murray (now deceased) said that the new kingdom is on earth, not up in the sky. The earth is cleansed, that’s all. Throughout the bible, there are references to this … even Noah’s flood was that, plus Sodom and Gomorrah.
The antiChrist has many references as to who … Donny made an interesting comment about fearing Barron far more than him. In my long book, I have it being Wills, mainly because of the accident when young, plus the solstice, plus the overall demeanour. Yet the aC is meant to have no regard for women, whereas Donny most certainly is enamoured of them.
One major factor is that he’s meant to not actually be the aC until just before his “anointing” … so I include that in my book in his hospital bed, with shadowy ancients at the bedside. In other words, he’s not aware of his destiny till just before it happens.
The seven year tribulation is major. In the middle, the third temple rebuilt, the aC goes into the inner holy of holies in Jerusalem and does dirt on it … the abomination of desolation. That’s when the champion of Israel, of the Jews, is revealed, though his army defeated the ten northern nations, presumably the mussies.
Somehow, China comes into it with 200 million troops along the Silk Road, crossing the Tigris and Euphrates.
Some maintain it all ended in AD68-70 snyway.
Stepping outside Christian eschatology for a moment, there is pretty universal agreement in the non-Asian world, that the final massed battles are in the ME, specifically around Jerusalem. Nothing under the Temple Mount? Tell the Jews that, the mussies, the Christians, plus the Templars. Mesopotamia plays a big part, the mystery religions.
First an array of support for DJT’s action, then more from this Shanaka in Oz (see Mon 1):
“The Israeli Air Force released footage of strikes on the IRGC headquarters in Tehran. Millions are sharing it. Almost nobody understands what they are actually watching.
You are watching the largest Israeli air sortie in history. Two hundred fighter jets launched simultaneously as part of Operation Roaring Lion, striking five hundred targets across Iran.
The United States ran its parallel campaign under Operation Epic Fury, deploying Tomahawk cruise missiles, HIMARS rockets, and for the first time in combat, the Precision Strike Missile, a next-generation ballistic weapon that had only entered full-rate production months earlier. CENTCOM released the footage of its first operational firing.
A weapon went from production line to combat debut faster than most defense programs complete testing. The strikes were timed with intelligence precision that borders on the surreal. According to Reuters, the operation was launched to coincide with a high-level meeting at a secure compound in central Tehran where Khamenei was present with his inner circle.
The CIA had tracked his movements for months. When signals intelligence confirmed the meeting, the order was given. Israeli officials told Axios they were targeting the entire Iranian leadership, political and military, past, present and future.
Fox News reported the division of labor. Israel targeted leadership. The United States targeted military infrastructure and ballistic missile sites. This is not two countries cooperating. This is a single integrated kill chain across two sovereign command structures with shared intelligence and synchronized timing. The IDF Chief of Staff said the two militaries worked together for months with unprecedented cooperation.
The first wave was pure decapitation. CNN reported strikes on residences of Khamenei, Pezeshkian, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff, and the IRGC Commander. Iran International reported four intelligence officials killed: the head of foreign intelligence, the chief of the security branch, the director of counterterrorism, and the adviser overseeing the war portfolio with Israel.
This was not a bombing campaign. This was an organizational chart converted into a target list. Footage shows more than twenty one Tomahawk cruise missiles transiting Iranian airspace in a single sequence. A Reaper drone operated over Shiraz before twenty explosions were reported. Strikes hit Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kermanshah, Bushehr, Qom, Isfahan, Chabahar, and Konarak.
The geography tells you this was not a limited strike. This was a nationwide campaign from air and sea simultaneously. Every defense ministry on Earth is downloading this footage right now. Not because it shows explosions. Because it shows what an integrated precision strike architecture looks like when the political decision is made to use it at full capacity. This was the demonstration.
The question every capital is now asking is not what happened to Iran. It is what would happen to them.”
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US defense and tech sectors face crippling shortages of key minerals controlled by China
Much more.
4. Cyborgs need R&R too
3. DAD at 1309
Today there are two themes, The bizarre effects of Ramadannyboy and the thought processes of the ‘Far Left’. Firstly, the Strange Green Party (EELV in France) and the Neo Communist LFI..
a) Poitiers (86) : Convicted as a repeat offender for drug trafficking, Chiacap Kitoyi is in fourth position on the list of the outgoing EELV mayor Léonore Moncond’huy. [Poitiers has been Green for years – perhaps it is the large Student population.]
b) Clichy (92) – sentenced to 30 months in prison for kidnapping, Ibrahim Diallo remains on the LFI municipal list. “We pledge that he will not take any responsibility” – they say.
c) Marseille – Around 150 people gathered on Friday evening, February 27th, in Font Obscure Park, in Marseille’s 14th arrondissement, to share Iftar, the meal that breaks the R*m***n fast. The gathering was marred by mortar fire and clashes, leading to the arrest of seven individuals.
d) Doubs: He cited “R*m***n” to explain his refusal to comply and the 70 km chase with the police… A one-year suspended prison sentence with electronic monitoring for this driver already known to the justice system.
Shanaka Anslem Perera, author of The Ascent Begins. Independent Analyst. Money, geopolitics, AI, science, and sovereignty. Mapping the collapse and the reconstruction of order. (Seems Indian, lives in Australia.)
On July 16, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a drone at a Pentagon event. It had a delta wing, a pusher propeller, and a silhouette that anyone who had watched the war in Ukraine would recognize immediately.
It was a copy of the Iranian Shahed-136, the kamikaze drone that Russia had fired (by the thousands into Ukrainian cities)*, the weapon Iran distributed to Houthi proxies in Yemen, the airframe that humiliated Western air defense systems through sheer volume and cheapness.
*(JH: This is not so … by his own admission, they had coordinates, they flew there, they took out targetted infrastructure. The Russians retaliated after 2014 after NATO, CIA, US pollies, plus Britain and others, had no intention of a peace process, were trafficking, using biolabs and Russian speakers were being targetted. This Perera is being disingenuous … see text in my brackets.)
Except this one was American. Built by an Arizona startup called SpektreWorks from a captured Iranian airframe. Seven months later, on February 28, 2026, CENTCOM confirmed that the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System flew in combat for the first time during Operation Epic Fury. Against Iran.
The country that designed the original. CENTCOM’s statement was direct: “Task Force Scorpion Strike, for the first time in history, is using one-way attack drones in combat during Operation Epic Fury. These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution.”
Task Force Scorpion Strike was established in December 2025 with an explicit mandate. A US official told The War Zone the unit was created “to flip the script on Iran.” On December 16, a LUCAS drone was test-launched from the Littoral Combat Ship USS Santa Barbara in the Persian Gulf. Ten weeks later, the script was flipped.
Here is the economics. A Tomahawk cruise missile costs approximately $2 million. LUCAS costs $35,000. For the price of a single Tomahawk, you can launch 57 LUCAS drones. A Shahed-136 in Russian production costs approximately $80,000 per unit at the Alabuga facility. The American reverse-engineered version costs less than half the Russian licensed copy of the Iranian original.
SpektreWorks received a $30 million initial production contract. That buys 857 kamikaze drones for what the Navy spends maintaining a handful of Tomahawks.
But cost is not the (real) story. The original Shahed-136 navigates by pre-programmed GPS and inertial guidance. It flies to a fixed coordinate and detonates. It cannot be retargeted in flight. It cannot communicate with other drones. It cannot adapt. LUCAS integrates with the MUSIC mesh network, a multi-domain unmanned systems communications architecture that allows each drone to function simultaneously as a strike weapon and a communications relay node.
Some units carry Starlink terminals, specifically the military Starshield variant, enabling beyond-line-of-sight satellite communications, real-time human oversight, and autonomous swarm coordination in GPS-denied and electronically jammed environments.
The original Shahed is a flying bomb with a coordinate. The American version is a networked intelligence node that happens to explode. Russian military commentators are already sounding alarms. The integration of Starlink with a mass-producible airframe represents a threat class that existing electronic warfare cannot reliably counter.
You cannot jam a mesh network the same way you jam a GPS receiver. The drone that does not reach its target still relays targeting data for the drone behind it. Every unit the enemy shoots down costs the defender more in interceptor ammunition than the attacker spent building it.
That is the Shahed math, the logic Iran invented and Russia perfected in (the) Ukraine. The United States just applied it to the country that wrote the equation. Seven months from Pentagon debut to combat deployment.
For context, a traditional major defense acquisition program takes seven years to reach Milestone B. Iran spent a decade refining the Shahed-136. The United States reverse-engineered it, improved it, networked it, and sent it home in under a year.
