(0453 new time) Particularly difficult day chez Higham today with appointments and govt inspectors in the house … it might play merry havic with posting from around 0930 onwards, throughout the day. (0535)
2. DAD at 1526
a) French authorities arrested over 1,300 rioters and reported 53 injured police officers as violent unrest continues at the week-end….
b) Dijon (21): a man steals a goat from the Parc de la Colombière, ties its legs together, and locks himself inside a toilet with the animal; police intervene.
c) These people don’t belong in the West. They are not like us.
d) France’s ten-year borrowing rate (OAT) has soared this week, while the country is under strain after the riots of 17 October, which have added to investor unease. Moody’s nevertheless justified its stance in a statement, explaining that “the AA3 rating is based on the assumption that a 2027 budget reducing the deficit will be adopted, while funding costs and social tensions will moderate somewhat over the coming months”.
e) French police intercepted three buses carrying about 220 illeg@l immigr@nts to an anti-National Rally protest in Orléans, detaining passengers for hours and issuing deportation notices.
1. Lula
On a morning when the catalogue of criminality ranges from big crimes such as Lula’s swindle in Brazil and Danielle Smith’s major move on Albertans, to localised scandals in various countries, plus peripheral big moves such as Putin’s … best cunning plan might be to present post item by post item, then use a summary for the main post tomorrow at OoL, Jstack and on X.
That’s basically what happened … this commentary below is more widely worrying for us:
It’s his comment about Le Pen, as if she’s any different to Meloni, Smith or Farage … all controlled opp and you’ll see it at Mon 3 with Smith’s latest move.
The UK government has spent years heaping costs, regulation and tax uncertainty onto British food producers, Farmers, and Small businesses – then turns around and tells the public to stockpile three days of tinned food and bottled water because “unexpected events seem to be becoming more common.”
Official figures show a net loss of more than 3,000 agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses in 2025 alone, the highest on record, with thousands more closures in the years before that.
Inheritance tax changes on family farms (even after partial U-turns), soaring energy and inspection costs, labour shortages, post-Brexit trade deals that opened the door to cheaper imports, and chaotic subsidy schemes that left most applicants empty-handed have all piled on the pressure.
Local abattoirs have collapsed from roughly 2,500 in the 1970s to around 200 today; surveys of farmers show large numbers warning they may have to stop producing meat locally or exit entirely if the next one closes.
This week the government launched its “Be Ready” campaign, advising households to keep non-perishable food, litres of bottled water per person, cash, torches and radios in case of cyber attacks, extreme weather or other disruptions. That is sensible basic preparedness.
What is absurd is watching the same state systematically weaken the domestic producers who actually grow and process the food that would make the country more resilient in the first place, while imports fill the gap and rural businesses fold.
You cannot talk seriously about national resilience and food security while watching the infrastructure that produces British food shrink year after year. The contradiction is obvious.
Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian nationals together accounted for 207,013 registrations — 36.9% of the annual total. Across the full three years, the table records:
These locations reflect the address recorded when the person registered. What do these figures actually measure?
National Insurance registrations, classified by nationality at registration. They do not count everyone arriving during those years, measure net migration, or tell us how many people are still in the UK. Nationality also does not necessarily identify the country someone travelled from. A useful part of understanding migration — provided we are clear about what the numbers show.
With the announcement of the deployment from El Salvador to Haiti of a contingent of 3,000 troops, whose mission is to locate the 4 members of that country’s armed forces who were kidnapped last Sunday—when they entered territory controlled by gangs and were attacked by a gang of armed irregulars—fierce armed clashes are looming in the coming hours.At this point, knowing how things are resolved in Haiti, the chances of these soldiers still being alive are minimal…We thus have the table set for an armed confrontation just 45 km from the Dominican Republic-Haiti border: an army of armed gang members with nothing to lose facing off against regular El Salvadoran troops, who will fight an urban war in the streets of a country that isn’t theirs and is utterly unknown to them.
Vox says:
I wouldn’t bet against Bukele and the El Salvadorans. This is a spiritual war and the voodoo masters cannot stand against a Christian army.I don’t know that I’d be averse to him invading Hollywood and Los Angeles.
(Clock is showing 0443 … does that mean 0553 in summer time?)(0533)
5. Get your E. Coli today
All natural chlorine washed chicken?
4. Steve at 1525
DOJ Rushes to Block California From Counting 20,000 Ballots Tied to Suspected Noncitizens Before Votes Are Mixed Forever
Democrat Scandal Unravels in Wisconsin – Involves Rotating Candidates and the Infamous Magic Flash Drives
Leftist Pollsters Admit to being Totally Fake Polling Firm – Giving Hope to Democrat Nimrods and Leftist Hacks Like the NY Time
Communist Parties Cross Borders: Portugal, Spain and Greece Join Calls for a November 20 Youth Strike
Iran Draws Up Plans to Strike Gulf’s Undersea Cables in Next War
Ukraine Prepares to Repeat the Azovstal Experience at Kramatorsk Plant
UK’s regulatory body pulls vaccine for causing neurological injuries and death; but it’s not the COVID vaccine
Only Citizen-Patriots Can Save the West
Much, much more.
3. The policy of Denunciation
In Russia, very early in my stay there, the landlady told me about the Soviet policy of Denunciation, a formal policy in which a neighbour goes to a special office in the yard to officially denounce you, which results in official investigation, followed by whatever action they deem necessary and you now having a next to criminal record, a person of some concern to Authority.
Similar to the Blgr Ggl policy of anonymous complaint, Blgr Ggl then shuts down the site, pending investigation and summary punishment by some anonymous bunch.
What it does to social cohesion was of course the general idea planned into it. Soviet era but the office was still down there in the yard.
2. DAD at 1525
a) French Users flock to Bitchat amid Social Network shutdown fears’. France’s interior minister floated suspending social networks amid riots. Offline messenger Bitchat surged. France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez may not have been trying to advertise the messenger app bitchat when he said that “social networks are becoming a real problem” and that the government had the option of “suspending the use of the networks,” but that’s exactly what seems to have happened.
b) France faces a critical choice as Zemmour eyes 2027 election amid rising unrest. France faces unprecedented civil unrest as coordinated riots by radical left-wing groups and immigrant-descended populations erupted in September, resulting in over 6,000 arrests and damage to more than 1,000 schools.
c) UK. Small-Boats Crossings are a policy choice, not a fact of nature. Small-boat crossings persist because of political decisions, and Britain has the power to reverse them.
d) Germany plans to force social media platforms to fill 20% of algorithmic recommendations with ‘state-approved’ content. The German government wants to spam social media feeds of citizens with content from “pre-approved” media sources. The growing anti-government sentiment may have something to do with that trend.
e) Israel seals off Hebron and prepares full West Bank closure. The order came four days before a general election and a week after masked settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats in the same territory.
1. Around the blogs
There’s enough current horror to blog on for sometime but I thought it still might be of value to revisit old haunts and one was Bruce Charlton’s:
“People apparently have difficulty understanding (or explaining to themselves) just why post-November 2022 “AI” is qualitatively worse than the previously-existing computer-media phenomena – such as the internet, social media and smartphones.
The answer is quite simple: upfront and no secret.
As usual; probably because evil must be invited into the heart in order to damage the soul; the agents of strategic evil always tell us what they intend for us, before they try to do it.
In this case, “They” have told us explicitly that the purpose of “AI” is to replace human thinking, judgment, creativity – and loving-relationships.”
In Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot delivers this famous warning to Jacqueline de Belfort:
“Do not open your heart to evil. Because if you do, evil will come… It will enter in and make its home there, and after a little while it will not go away.”
Poirot says this after noticing Jacqueline’s intense, consuming bitterness and her dangerous obsession with reclaiming her former fiancé, Simon Doyle, who left her for her wealthy friend, Linnet Ridgeway.
