(1056) Approaching elevenses. Binn finking about sidebar comments … those in the screen window when you come to HQ (at the moment Penseivat and maybe Fido) don’t need signposting until other comments push them down the sidebar, then I’d signpost as a post item, if it has links attached, not X). (1211)
15. DEI?
14. Just as neighbour’s boiler breaks down
13. Laila Ahmed El-Meleigy and Khanate for Cimalsi Nodnol Etahpilac
R.I.P. Dolly Parton as well. WN1 and I had Islands in the Stream as our song (with Kenny Rogers).
Three Voices, One Old Song, and a Nearly Perfect Moment
In 1976, on a simple stage lit by warm golden lights, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris sat side by side. Dolly held a guitar, her blonde hair glowing under the lights. The three of them began to sing “Bury… pic.twitter.com/PHl5QIcgxl
Now, having listened to their dulcet tones, time to turn this sour, as is the Unherdables wont. I don’t mean on these three themselves, I mean on the whole US country music scene, behind the scenes. And I don’t mean just the drinking and debauchery, nor even the drugs.
I’m thinking specifically of Kristofferson and the DID trauma training. Many know of Bob Hope … a way down that rabbit hole is Joey Heatherington’s messed up life … and Dick Cheney has been mentioned by some women, apart from his shotgun skills … but someone like Kristofferson gets clean away with it (allegedly).
It’s a nasty scene. One worth exploring is Tammy Wynette, though she’s more in the messed up category.
(0448) It’s another of these first sleep, second sleep things … I must have that second sleep in order to make it to 2200 this evening. So this is a housekeeping notice, see you all the other side of shuteye hopefully. (0651) Here we go again. (0718)
5. Interesting sidelight on American politics just now
4. Left Wokery is a mind virus
3. Leading Lord Toby’s newsletter today
The underlying topic is one my mate and I covered yesterday … the early moves by Blair and just how evil that muvva really is.
2. Steve at 1474
Trump Admin To Carry Out Largest Mass Visa Revocation in American History
The Rise of the New South: Economy, Population Growth, and Political Power as Blue States Cede the Top Spots
Sweden Slams the Door on Citizenship: 96% of July Cases Not Approved as Only 98 Become Swedish Under Tough New Rules
Soros-Funded NGO Pressures Procter & Gamble, ALDI, AXA and Others: “Don’t Advertise with Right-Wingers”
Iran’s Latest Strike In Strait Of Hormuz Tells Us Everything We Need To Know
Russian Army Pushes Toward Slaviansk, Last Villages Fall
Study Links Varied Diet in Older Adults to Lower Anxiety, Better Cognitive Function
The Mohammunist Manifesto—Surveillance, Informants, And Social Enforcement Networks
UK Decline: The money the UK government has wasted on projects that failed to get off the ground
Much more.
1. Most surprisingly, this is from the US Quora
… a sort of online Readers Digest. Almost all readers are middling left leaning, having bought the narrative in lieu of anything authentic in the MSM. But this is a turn up:
Food. We all have our doubts about folic acid, whether it be its effects on the immune system or blood health. This video gives some us the facts beyond myth information (pun intended).
19. Moo corner
18. Food
17. One by one they fall
16. Hearts of Oak
Enables me to avoid Bannon.
"The moment the state decided to promote Guy Fawkes as the emblematic Catholic, instead of St. Edmund Campion, who was one of the cleverest, holiest, and bravest Englishmen who had walked the earth." @gavinashendenhttps://t.co/jGgZdUVUE6pic.twitter.com/bkB3cvISFu
“Wildfires in Argentine and Chilean Patagonia have burned more than 90,000 acres of land since January 5. In Chile alone, at least 18 people have been killed this month as a result of the fires. While efforts to contain the flames are ongoing, outbreaks can rapidly reignite with a single gust of wind or heatwave.
“There was a confluence of many climatic factors,” said Andrés Nápoli, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN). “This year has not had enough snowfall; there are low humidity levels and a high accumulation of combustible elements in the forest” — a reference to monoculture pine plantations, which act as “powder kegs.”
Compounding these conditions, Milei’s government defunded the forestry law that allocated resources to protect native forests. Firefighter salaries have fallen below $500 a month, under Argentina’s poverty line for a family of four. As a result, communities have stepped in, creating makeshift firebreaks with chainsaws, rakes, hoses, and other everyday tools. Firefighters continue to work on the front lines, often taking on second jobs just to survive.
Conspiracy theories have circulated claiming that Israeli citizens are responsible for the fires or, as suggested by Argentina’s president Javier Milei, that they were deliberately started by the Indigenous Mapuche people in Argentina and Chile. The prosecutor investigating the case, Carlos Díaz Mayer, confirmed that accelerants were found at the site where the fire likely began, but there is no evidence to support these claims.”