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Trying to escape folic acid (and bovaer)

… while still buying from UK supermarkets. An increasingly difficult task with so much subterfuge going on.

Starting here:

Morrisons sell one bread sourced from a private baker afa customers can know … Jason’s. Here it is:

Clearly labelled wholemeal all over the packet but it also mentions ciabatta … so I’m expecting wholemeal ciabatta:

Note Arla Foods there (bovaer peddlers). Also note the front label:

Read the fine print below. “Meets”? At this stage, I ask … do all UK food customers have to go through forensic investigation, just to ensure non-toxic nutrients, esp. when the firms show not the slightest interest in providing pure foods? Is it unreasonable to demand non subterfuge and non adulteration?

And demand it where? In the MSM? In parliament or congress? Hardly. Obviously only on socmed. What of all the other poor sods in society?

 

*All we seem to need just now is some serious common sense

(0732) Morning all. (0838)

 

5. Dusk and dawn around these parts

It’s magic here at dusk where, just before, slashes of sunlight from somewhere suddenly illuminate the surrounding buildings, brickwork, in a golden reddish glow. Can’t think of a better word than “magic”.

And then there’s the dawn, from dark to sunbathed:

Crescent moon I see. The moon likes to hang around outside my kitchen window … you’d think it would have a home to go to somewhere. Just watching it all throughout the day at intervals … even the tides are interesting through the sunroom window or Manchester through the bedroom window.

4. Steve at 1511

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio Gives Passionate Speech in Greece Rejecting Globalism and Urging a Fight Against ‘Decline of the West’

• Trump Goes Off on Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, and Biden After Biden FBI Caught Spying on Melania and Barron Trump (JH: “Goes off on”? Not “is indicted”? Not “is arrested”?
• Republicans Starting to Realize They Have a Shot at Picking Up a Senate Seat in Minnesota With Michele Tafoya
• Remember this on Election Day: Iowa City Council Meeting Opens With Prayer to Satan – Councilwoman Objects When Mayor Calls for Prayer to “Reverse” It
• Russian Overnight Strike Hits All At Once
• Report Outlines Six Carrying Exercises for Strengthening Multiple Muscle Groups (Remember that we bring it but if you choose to implement it, you should get professional medical advice beforehand)
• White fibrous clots found by embalmers: What’s in them?
• Roger Harmer refused calls for an inquiry into Moose Limb rape gangs in Birmingham; now he’s trying to control what the inquiry investigates
• Much more.

3. First of two items on clickbait

… and the need to keep the guard up. The theme was why the George Takei episode was banned (Twilight Zone).

There was nothing about that in there, except possibly in passing, certainly no discussing of it specifically. Now that goes beyond the trick of placing the promised item last … it does not place it at all in the sense promised. Plus AI slop language.

Maybe worse is that people watching YT seem to be accepting this shoddiness without complaint.

2. DAD at 1511

a) Macron dilemma.

High school student protests: “Emmanuel Macron has been shouting a lot in recent days, deeming the police response too harsh… It’s also very bad for him; he had said he would wrap up his five-year term with a focus on youth…”

b) Macron Attacks Free Speech and Urges the EU to Censor Online Posts Faster

Macron’s theory of liberty begins where the government’s permissions end.

c) France & Israel. Minister Ofir Sofer told the cabinet that, in light of the unrest in France, Israel must prepare a plan for the potential mass absorption of French Jews. 

He warned that Jews in France are increasingly afraid to walk the streets and that Israel must prepare for the possibility of further attacks.

d) Germany. (Reuters) – Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted treason ‌in a case that ranks among Germany’s biggest intelligence scandals since the Cold War.

Prosecutors accused him of paying for secret documents and using them in an analysis for a foreign spy service. They did not identify the intelligence service and it was not immediately clear whether the analysis reached its intended recipient.

e) France – riots. Thaïs d’Escufon To American an European friends.

I’m so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become. 

Don’t make the same mistakes we did.

(0628) Been up and attit from about 0430, mainly correspondence plus gathering for HQ, OoL and Jstack. Item 1 today is from that.

ddddd

X never ceases to amaze

… whilst YouTube never ceases to disappoint (item 3). I never intended anything religious in item 1 today, was looking for a key issue to tackle … but this came up:

When a Christian Actually Knew the Bible.

I just watched that clip of the aerospace engineering student questioning Charlie Kirk, and wow it was the smartest question anyone has asked him in a long time.

The student wasn't attacking faith. He was defending it. He basically…

— 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 (@DKH013) October 2, 2026

Having said that, an item came up quoting the Scarman report but a note came up further down that it was not a (heavily underlined) quote from the report but instead from (some named MP) opposing the report (possibly correctly so).

My beef? It was shoddy scholasticism, unnecessary, designed to persuade by half truth, gilding the lily.

And this above, this debate, is precisely what Toodles and southern US study were debating with me (hardly a biblical scholar). The point was I was only really looking at the NT, particularly Ephesians but all the law and prophets hang on certain behaviours, so I read. And they require the whole picture, the evidence of ages. But that also requires looking at Assyria, Babylon, the Sea Peoples (Gaza and other places?) … and so it goes on … it’s a deep rabbit hole.

Obviously such things are trending on X, they keep recurring. Plus the young bucks of Restore are starting to flood X too. Plus Rubio’s speech at the Acropylis.

(1512) Afternoon all … best start shutting up shot as it’s both been non-blogging RL busy, plus it looks like being so into the evening. Wed 11 is fairly important in my eyes as a blogger, a pundit.

 

15. We desperately need third-worlding

14. Green terrorist organisation

13. Pandemic of two

12. IYE

I’m not sure but I think the custody battle for the son is still ongoing.
https://redactedreport.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-amanda-ungaro

11. The classic impossible question

Christian apologists (of which I am one) are notoriously easy to tie up in non-arguments … mainly because they’re operating on a metaphysical plane with a literary interface (bible). There are many bibles too but that’s just an added complication.

There’s also the old chestnut that those books cannot be documents, cannot be history, because they differ in some fine detail. The real scholar knows that, if there had been a metaphysical communication, everyone hears aspects a bit differently … that’s what history is in the final analysis.

There’s also the interference by humans over the two millennia journey … for example Mark has almost certainly had the ending added much later but many Christians are in error in saying the pages are “unerring”. RC Sproul points out that it’s not the documents themselves which are the faith … the nature of faith in itself is the core belief (John 3:16 and elsewhere) … that this incarnated man died and arose, was reincarnated, plus faith that that was so is the entire entry ticket to heaven, if there be one.

But it is not in the least that some Essene radical rocked up out of a bad town and was, in a stroke, suddenly God. While it would take the previous millennia of humankind to build the case, referring to all ancient civilisations of the area, ancient lineages, ancient books … while it would take every last incident, agreement, war, utterance, papyrus to finally reach the Garden of Gethsemane … even if I summarised it over the course of my remaining days, the chances of me missing parts are great.

The aggressive radical atheist then asks what he thinks are gotchas, for example the simple, “Explain it to me.” Wot, have you got a few thou years to sit and listen? “Well give me the potted version, the salient points.” Wot, in my remaining time on earth, dropping the blog complex here called nourishing unherdables, ignoring my ill health, neither eating nor sleeping? Sorry, there are commitments to others, there is our mission here to nail these baddies.

You not only have to go back to the Torah and the books of all faiths of the time … simply an impossible ask within a blog format.

Then there is the second vital point … the atheist says, “There, you see, you can’t coz there is no God, you’ve given me no proof.” Actually I have, over the past quarter century … it’s just that this person never bothered with it or skimmed through … short shrift.

The exercise is a hiding to nothing. Three examples of hidings to nothing:

On Meredith Kercher, one of the Knox fanbois wrote to me with 100 “unanswered” questions. Harry Rag saw it and pointed to the places in TJMK where a dozen were very much snswered. But the Knox fanboi was not interested in that … he was only interested in taking me out of the game while I wasted my time on that already answered.

On Robert Mueller and the World Core Curriculum in schools, a troll said he’d been “through everything on Mueller” and none of my allegations about being globalist were true. Prove it. Same tactic. We had proved it … I was at the end of a chain of deep divers such as Leah and MM, that sort … thousands of pages.

DK, a well known blogger around the mid to late 2000s when I first saw him, made some comments about fake charities. I asked him where, in his writings, to find the evidence? He said simply … it’s on the blog, find it yourself. End of. And he was right to say that.

Finally, after all the words, the showmanship, the haranguing, the atheist sums up: “You have no proof.” Despite everything which had gone before in human interaction over millennia.

My reply to him is … prove there is no God. Where’s your own categorical, unassailable proof? He ends up with, “No one can know.”

Which is my basic argument … it’s a stupid argument to try to debate in the first place. This is where faith comes in. The entire thing rests on faith. Based of the evidence of ages. What evidence? Here we go again, incitcles. I’ve simply neither time nor inclination.

Going to finish with this about trolling … it does not apply only to this topic but to every bit of politics we’re dealing with out there at the moment:

This is why I advise anyone Christian never to be drawn in by softly spoken invitation. But what if they were genuinely willing to reconsider? Then he/she needs to do as we had to … the long, slow process of wide reading.

 

This episode has a thumbnail of Suzan Farmer (it seems) who does not appear. Why? It is subterfuge but YT have created a set of conditions whereby only subterfuge can get around restrictions on “fair usage” … in short, uploaders must lie, by YT rules, in order to bring anything to watchers. Anyway:

(1013) Have to head off for a short while … main blog task finding IYE’s posts. (1016) Found em in trash … warrnt me, guv, dindo nuffink. More when I get back. (1243)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Just not the full spreadsheet

8. More of the same

7. An op ed of sorts

a. Walkies:

Didn’t note the departure time, I’d say 1021, a definite 1036 return, abode to abode. Distance I’d say about 1 km, slowed only by the seagulls. Wore autumn jacket, too hot to wear. Further notes:

Not sure if it’s that I smell but chaps tend to avoid, cross road, or look straight ahead and scoot by … their loss. Two sweet ladies out for a stroll were quite different … morning, ladies … morning, morning. Now, not knocking the chaps, maybe we’re more situationally aware today. The gulls? Hungry, only flew upwards when I was within a yard of them, clearly avoiding them.

Sight for sore eyes on the water … gulls, swans, all sorts, hundreds of the varm- er lovely wildlife. No lizards sunning themselves. Warmish today. Verdict … limited walkies good, too often possibly not great for hips and ankles.

b. Cyber woes:

First thought is algorithm catches certain key words and dumps them but it does not put spam to spam. This is a war between WP HQ and any of us not willing to enter Didge ID and all that. Standoff for now. What is less forgivable is … fine, let me do my own spam (a hundred or so a day) but let me do my own trash too.

The upside is that I never permanently delete unless I skim through first, seeing if any of us have been caught up. What I cannot control though is you pre-comment-click. I don’t know how you approach it, no monitoring facility for me. IYE or the doggy I’m thinking needs to stay creative to get through. After all … look at the nature of the fayre.

(0915)(0915)

 

The issue with “Plod”

That jargon term is not the most respectful, better is “Bobbies” … and yet today, it’s more and more applicable. I think of our resident Dixon of Dock Green here, Penseivat, and welcome his counterpoint … there are some not so pleasant things in the sshots below.

My own tuppence worth is two incidents, both in Russia …

I was driving with my mate beside me, former tax inspector, we were at the lights, turning right, “road plod” were ahead, the green arrow was on, they never moved, maybe unaware … I honked them .. my mate sank down in the seat, mouthing jargon at me … the police did go right, clearly taking the honk as a signal that the lights had changed.

For fifteen minutes, I now received the lecture on how police were now so openly tools of the state, having to fill a quota of fines each month … one thing they were not was to be there for you. My mate was amazed I’d got away with it … Russians steer well clear of that sort of trouble as a rule.

The second was in Moscow, I’d got off the train, had to put 24 hours in, needed a place, approached a young plodster if he knew of anywhere. He just stared at me, realising of course that I was foreign. An Asian came up, said he knew of a place. Once there, I phoned my friends in south Moscow, they came by train.

First question was … however had I found this place, miles from the centre? I said I’d had to go with my reading of the man, plus the policeman had heard all too. I reasoned that he might have intervened. Weeks later, back in our town again, my mate was stunned again, then shrugged.

Anyway, here are those sshots …

 

… vis-a-vis your garments. Err … or did I mean you chapesses?