(0539)(0557)

 

5. Julia on some clowns mishandling a standard request

☺️

4. Steve at 1257

• Authority of a Special Counsel’: Vance Announces New Assistant Attorney General Position to Investigate Fraud Nationwide
• Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Criminally Referred to DOJ
• Germany’s Free Speech Trial: A Meme, a Minister, and the Criminalization of Dissent
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals What ICE Agents Told the Leftist Agitator Who Tried to Run Over an Agent Before Deadly Self-Defense Shooting
• Moscow Strikes US Assets In [The] Ukraine; Warns Will Protect Its Ships; Calls Starmer Macron Axis Of War
• Denmark confirms 1952 “shoot first” order remains active as Trump renews threats to annex Greenland
• The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the US Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People
• First AI Designed Drug Is Nearing Approval – Can It Be Trusted?
• RFK Jr. Flips the Food Pyramid
• UK prepares post-Brexit reset bill allowing automatic alignment with EU rules
• Hungary Won’t Leave The EU, It Will Fall Apart On Its Own, Orbán Says
• Much more.

3. That critical time in Iran

2. DAD at 1257

Fryday. Egg and Bacon for Lunch.

a) Success for the French Farmer’s protests, but…. Mercosur: [the Trade agreement between the EU and South America] This Friday in Brussels, France will vote against signing the trade agreement with the South American countries of Mercosur.

b) In justifying his desire to ‘take’ Greenland, Donald Trump effectively dismissed Europe’s militaristic capabilities, saying—in capitals, of course—“I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM.”

c) Censorship: EU online regulation is not about protection, it is about narrative control.

d) Beware of Pizza Hut’s Halal Evolution if you come to France. While previously only certain foods were halal certified, the pizza brand is launching a 100% halal offering in certain test restaurants.

e) Brigitte Bardot’s Funeral: Macron not welcomed. In an intimate, private ceremony, French icon Brigitte Bardot was laid to rest in the cemetery of Saint-Tropez….

(0401)(0448)

 

Details of the funeral service for Amfortas

Our fellow blogger’s son has provided this below, this Friday, and I had to decide whether to run it publicly here or via email to those I know who knew him and read this blog. Notes on that decision and about other aspects are below this posted notice.

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Please find below the link to access the live stream of the funeral service for my Dad, Christopher Langan-Fox: 

LINK

The stream will go live some time shortly before the commencement of the service at 11:00am on Monday, 12^th January 2026.

Please note the link will activate around 30 minutes prior to allow our checks to be done. The service itself will not begin until 11:00am, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time.

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Notes

1. Being unfamiliar with organising such things, the procedure, the proprieties, the etiquette so to speak, I’m not even sure I should be posting this but I reason that as it’s been posted downunder, plus there are many who might wish to attend, some who have spoken to me about it … well here it is.

2. Amfortas’s blog was HERE. You can familiarise yourself with “Amfy” by simply reading it and you might or might not agree with some or all his points of view. As an old serviceman, RAAF was his service, that will no doubt come out at the funeral.

3. Amfy was also a Catholic Knight, strongly anti-Freemasonry in the Church, he was also a fierce Pro-Life man. On other issues, he might have differed from me, certainly in my non-denominational stance on the faith … that was not the point, to my mind. We agreed on sufficient to have become friends at a geographical distance.

4. That point of how close we were came up when his son asked me and it was difficult to explain. Just how close are bloggers or bloggers and readers? My contention is … very close … and his recent years and months in particular saw him value my correspondence and me his. I feel the same for our patrons at nourishing unherdables in a broader sense. One or two have become very close indeed.

5. Details of Chris’s life will emerge, no doubt, at the service. As I stated, hinted, I’m inept at this deceasing business, I avoid it afap and yet we really should remember our former friends and colleagues, not just out of duty but out of bonds.

6. Aus EST is currently 11 hours ahead of GMT. Thus, the boadcast checks will start at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, our time, and the service would commence at midnight this coming Sunday, our time.

7. This will be the sole notice from this blogpage but I’ll drop this post’s url in different places this weekend. Prayers for Amfortas and family at this time.

(1633) Night falling. (2007)

 

16. Running out of steam, chaps and chapesses

Mind firmly on Iran … massed marching, flag burning, symbol removing but the Iranian internet went down across the country, which means massacres are a real thing. The Mullahs are still in power, sitting it out. It needs agencies of some kind, on top of the marching.

Christians? I’d say pray for the peoples, just as for our own. Also Venezuela, Nigeria, Syria, Brazil. Night night all.

https://twitter.com/__Injaneb96/status/2009309870927855880?s=20

15. Going out for one drink only?

14. It’s a thought

13. Reconquista news

12. Steve at 1257, with war room

• Jackie Toboroff: The New Flag Of Minnesota Directly Represents Its Growing Moose Limb Population, And No One Got To Vote On It At All!

• Todd Wood: It’s Europe That Is Standing In The Way Of Peace Between [The] Ukraine And Russia. There Is A Deal To Be Made, But Europe Doesn’t Want Peace!

• US Seizes Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker In North Atlantic, Sam Faddis Breaks It All Down

• Captain Fanell: We’re Not Saying We’re Disregarding The Existence Of Venezuela. We’re Just Saying We’re Not Letting Outside Influence Come In To Steal Resources And Prop Up Dictators

 

This had some good reviews:

“Richard Basehart shoots down an LAPD officer one night after the offduty patrolman stops him for some suspicious activity. The officer who paid with his life had every reason to be suspicious, Basehart was attempting to break into an electronics store.

The shooting sets off a manhunt that takes more than a month. Captain Roy Roberts and Detective Scott Brady lead the investigation which takes both men into some unexpected places in trying to track down the culprit.

This was Richard Basehart’s breakthrough role in He Walked By Night. He plays a really diabolical stone cold killer in this one who apparently has no liking for humans. His only companion in the world is a dog.

This clever little noir thriller is done in the documentary style that seemed to be in vogue after World War II. I’m also sure that the final chase scene through the storm drain must have inspired Carol Reed to put it in The Third Man where the idea got more notice.

The lack of really big name stars gives this film a realistic approach. Look for Jack Webb in a supporting role as a police lab technician. I Don’t doubt he got the idea for Dragnet from working on He Walked By Night.”

(1245) Afternoon all. (1258)

 

Evri

I feel duty bound to backtrack a bit here … Evri have exerted NO pressure whatever but by the same token, theirs was a pretty impressive response time (as Tom Cruise might say) to two Xers an hour or so ago:

… and:

… to which Evri instantly responded:

… then followed up with a request to DM or email, then a further message from a lady named Linda. As I said above … pretty impressive response. Ok, my tale:

I order through Amazon. They used to (2024) sometimes use a different courier, inc. Evri. Four times there were issues with Evri and I was not the only one … the local head office lady took over herself and was impressive.

I’m going to wait until next time Amazon delegate to Evri after I order and report here how it goes. They do seem to be on top of things now … can’t speak for Lisa.

 

The X account @visitnorthyork is fairly self explanatory as to its purpose. He asked a question … could you name any film or TV series from North Yorks?

I replied but was not expecting this:

(0619) This might take awhile … gone back to bed for a snooze. (0908)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Woman of many names

8. More on Steve earlier

7. DAD at 1256

Thirstday.

a) “Où va ma France?”: The App the Left wants To ban. An App stirs controversy by graphically showing the devastating impact of immigration on the daily lives of French people.

b) For 14 years, a crazy eco-terrorist group has attacked Berlin’s energy infrastructure with impunity. Authorities have done nothing despite enormous damages and wide-scale disruption.

c) Euthanasia: Pharmacists’ Conscience Clause Back Under Review A country cannot simultaneously have a policy on death (abortions, euthanasia, etc.) and a policy on life (doctors, hospitals, medications, etc.).

d) Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Paris, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Nantes, Toulouse…: cars burned, vandalism, and police targeted with mortars.

Why? 

(0528) Still dark out there for a dark tale below. (0553)

 

There’s such a thing as “cascading” tragedy, cause and effect

… and associated with all those cascading policies and consequent events is the human tendency, over and over, to grab onto part of the facts which suit the mindset, eschewing all the other related bits and pieces, together which quite alter the picture.

The other fragment required to trigger the tragedy is the demographic involved, from deathculters to pointy-hatters to silly young women who are full of total loyalty, 💯full-on, attaching themselves to some cause or other … it then depends on who has bothered brainwashing them … more usually today that’s bad people such as Fabian teachers and professors.

And there it is. Let’s open with the aftermath:

The well-fed one centre-frame gives you the idea. Now to look at the dead woman herself:

Which of course causes all our mothers, ladies, to react this way and rightly so:

The next sshot underscores my constant hobbyhorse that it must never be just men or just women but man + woman = some chance of getting to the nub of life. And yet there are things he’s just accepting at face value in the way the Woke left do:

Woman? With a “wife”? Whaaa? You wot? And further delving uncovers:

And there’s the cascading tragedy waiting to unfold, just as the Fabians and globo-psychos planned it to happen … or at least to vastly increase the chances of it happening down the track.

(0347) DAD will be at Thu 7 today as there was a fair bit posted or ready to go up before today’s DAD drop at 1256. (0441)

 

5. Quite like this guy

… mainly “Dad jokes”, along with Shoolie’s “Mum jokes”:

4. From today’s TDS

HERE

Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm wasted three quarters of the energy it produced last year after being paid hundreds of millions of pounds to switch off its turbines. The Telegraph has the story.

The Seagreen wind farm off Scotland’s east coast is squandering vast amounts of its power because there is not enough grid capacity to transport it to areas of the country where it is needed most.

3. Steve’s roundup from 1256

• Somali Gangs Were Indicted for Running Child Sex Trafficking Rings in Three States – With Children as Young as 14-Years-Old
• Trump Delivers Grave Warning to House Republicans: Losing the Midterms Guarantees a Third Democrat Impeachment Coup — Demands Congress Pass Nationwide Voter ID
• CMS Chief Dr Oz Confirms SNAP and Medicaid Are Being Weaponized for Massive Voter Fraud in Blue States
• Trump Puts Venezuelan Interior Minister Cabello on Notice: Cooperate or Be the Next Target – New President Delcy Rodríguez Fires All Security Detail and Hires ‘Torture Czar’ (JH: Similar to Mon 21 last night)
• US Seizes Fleeing Sanctioned Tanker Marinera Despite the Presence of Russian Military Vessels and Submarine
• E3 Boots on the ground. Denmark warns US on Greenland. Trump, Venezuela shakedown. Oil tanker chase
• A Tactical Trade-Off: Sacrificing Gains At Slavyansk To Win At Konstantinovka And Zaporizhzhia
• We don’t want your culture of dominance’ — Denmark to ramp up deportations of criminal foreigners
• Have You Seen Of The Most Frightening Building In Caracas? It’s Called El Helecoide.
• More over there too.

2. US hardware to the UK?

1. Steve corner

a. Please see Wed 21 for maybe the definitive statement on Iran

… HERE … looking at now, plus what happens in the aftermath if it does succeed.

b. Footage (from Steve’s second link)

NOW: Big clashes happening.

People are pushing back regime forces, who seem confused and defeated.

pic.twitter.com/t2bEfEtm7E

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) January 7, 2026

c. The US response

The U.S. is preparing for a move against Iran’s regime. https://t.co/ILESqllFWx

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) January 6, 2026

(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

This comes from Steve’s first link, which was mainly scenes in Iran we have seen. Tucked away though was this gem by facts about @destinationXIX:

“The Iranian uprising is real – but regime collapse is not automatic. History is clear: pressure alone does not bring a dictatorship down.

Three conditions must converge – sustained mass unrest that breaks fear in the streets, a fracture or paralysis of the security forces, and a psychological collapse at the top. Without all three, even a deeply weakened system can survive.

Yet even if the Islamic Republic falls, a hard truth remains largely unspoken: there is no unifying alternative waiting in the wings. Reza Pahlavi lacks both the charisma and the broad legitimacy needed to lead a post-revolutionary Iran, particularly among non-Persian populations such as Kurds, Azeris, Arabs, and Baluchis.

The idea of a clean transition to a liberal, centralized state is comforting – but unrealistic. The more plausible outcome, should the IRGC collapse, is fragmentation along ethnic lines. The regime suppressed these identities brutally, but it also froze them into place. Remove that coercive lid, and Iran is more likely to splinter than to democratize overnight.

This leads to an uncomfortable strategic paradox. The IRGC is an evil Shiite jihadist force that spent decades destabilizing the Middle East through terror proxies, subversion, and the systematic weakening of sovereign states. Yet it also served as a counterweight to Sunni radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood network.

If that pillar collapses, the critical test will be whether Sunni Islamist movements – bankrolled and promoted by Turkey, Qatar, and now Syria – are allowed to fill the vacuum. If they do, the region will not become freer; it will simply exchange one form of Islamist imperialism for another.

Throughout this unfolding crisis, the role of much of the mainstream media has been deeply troubling. By minimizing the uprising, soft-pedaling the nature of the regime, and consistently offering one-sided sympathy to Islamist movements while ignoring their victims, large parts of the media have functioned less as watchdogs and more as enablers, complicit with the Islamists’ agenda.

Still, this moment matters. For the first time in decades, millions of Iranians are openly imagining a future without clerical rule. That alone is historic. Whatever form the post–Islamic Republic landscape ultimately takes, the moral right to decide Iran’s future belongs to Iranians – not to mullahs, not to terror commanders, and not to foreign patrons.

This is the moment for Iranians to take their country back: to reclaim their history, identities, and sovereignty from an ideology that held them hostage for 46 years.

And it is also a moment of responsibility for the West – not to impose solutions, but to stop enabling radical Islam, to cut funding, legitimacy, and media cover for jihadist movements, and to finally draw a firm line between genuine reform and ideological extremism.

A freer Middle East will not be built by appeasing radicals. It will be built by standing with those who are trying – often at immense personal risk – to break free from them.