Again, this narrator has been criticised … last time for the children’s instructional manner, today for constant repetition of key points. This is not really his fault … it’s the fault of the medium, the youtube rules as well, how they have to pad vlogs out, whereas blogs can vary their output and its form.
Having said all that, it’s still interesting in its key points. I like the chap.
(0817) Gates sky and cold out there. Ta for the kind words but I could easily send the same to you chaps and chapesses. And in the end, we’re only as good as our last post. (0914)
5. Steve at 1249
4. The law is an ass
3. DAD at 1249
a) Andrew Bridgen … The problem in the house building trade in the UK. Why houses are not being built. It’s not about planning permission.
b) As France prepares to enter an intense period of elections—municipal in 2026, legislative and presidential in 2027—the way French voters think about politics is starting to change, with opposition to the far-left, particularly La France Insoumise (LFI), now outweighing the long-standing desire to block the right-wing Rassemblement National (RN).
c) A long-running criminal case against Gunnar Beck, a former Member of the European Parliament for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has imploded before a Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia district court.
d) Can a Statue be the victim of Sexual Assault? Parisian feminists prefer wasting their energy defending the rights of a statue over preventing attacks on real women.
2. The Iranian situation
Let’s open with this:
I wrote (a couple of days ago I think) that all this in Iran is good but the regime are cowards … they’ll wait till the fervour subsides, runs out of steam, then hit at pinpoints with thugs, acting with grotesque, demonic brutality
Forget not the situation in Brazil as well with Bolsonaro. Some more reports, remembering that the most penetrating will be Israeli:
(0759) Predictably late start, Happy New Year, going to open proceedings by expanding a post just up at OoL. (0809)
This was my opening at OoL:
Greetings on New Year, readers … Julia spoke for both of us last evening.
We tend at Orphans to run mainly Britcentric fayre but do mention events in other places. Thinking what to put up this morning, what crystallised in the blurry NYD brain was why not post just a few street scenes, including those in Iran, which is the main news coming out at 7:30 a.m. GMT.
Going to post some Brit, one Amsterdam and one Tehran scene below. At Unherdables, I’ll expand the Iran situation as a separate post item.
A few street scenes
Our isles over the past few days:
Previously:
Amsterdam overnight:
The Iranian situation shall be in NYD [2], DAD will be NYD [3].
(1557) Almost evening, all.
25. Aunty Toodles recommends
I am sending a link of The Patriot Nurse. She is giving out suggestions for the flu. You may know all about what to do, but review is always good. She may have a surprise thing to do so that is interesting to know about.
Make sure you order several containers of bone broth on your next grocery order. Also maybe have other items on hand too. If the broth is too plain you can add lemon juice, even tomatoes…fresh or canned. I would do that soon…just in case.
Also, teas, and epsom salt as well as the other suggestions given by her.
I hope you get all or at least most of her suggestions and not need to use any of it. Well, the vitamin rich foods you will use now as well as if you come down with the malady.
24. NGO racket
23. Tale of a monster
22. Dutch royal family
21. The IYE iceberg
Here’s the first openly visible bit:
Here’s a fragment from a second item:
The other two parts … your job to find them.
20. Steve at 1249
19. Moosh corner
18. Rogue surgeon of Scotland
17. May did zero to fix it
16. Steve and THAT family
A short 25 minute Peter Gunn again. Last evening, I was watching the first Link Wray version of Rumble, which took off after it was banned. On the Waterfront had been in 1954, Rebel Without a Cause followed.
I couldn’t help feeling it was all poseur, playing the tough … for what reason? Motif continued in Peter Gunn but more acceptably … opens reasonably and fairly but if someone pushes it, he’ll hit back … as it should be. Looks after his Edie girl without fawning over her … nice plots in the main:
The characters are good on the good side … Mother at Mother’s Bar, the clientele … I was never into the Felonious Monk type jazz, too discordant for mine, torch singers … was more the later Crystals. And yet the series is nicely handled … it’s my older brother and sister type culture.
Oh dear … much married:
(1015) Yes, had another sleep, now awake. Amfortas, for those following his story, passed away on Christmas Eve. No word on Old and Peculier. Toodles wrote. Am about to start my card sending to the Russkies and others celebrating New Year. (1147)
15. For our fallen
There’s an interesting thought about the fallen in an online context … it might be more “fallen away” in many cases, most usually due to policy differences, stances. There’s not a lot which can be done about that.
Amfortas had differences too, too few to mention, but much which was appreciative of friendship and that stayed until his last typing to me. Vice-versa too. Another I’m thinking about where friendship overshadows differences is Rolf or Sackerson.
There are those who were simply taken, e.g. Chuckles and Ripper, always welcome here. Haiku I suspect was taken from this world due to age. Many though drifted away due to Woke or left ideology. I had a comment dropped the other day, calling me a horrible person, a “Rugby playing bully”. That was well out of order as I’m not playing rugby at all these days.
I’m aware that you, reader, our patron in most cases, regular or occasional, are observing my tone, my handling of the passing over of Chris, Amfortas … essentially what we ourselves would hope for … a dignified exit. In my case, having never had close family I knew … those that I did know are now all gone … well, it’s more a case of mates and mate-esses who are still here.
Which is fine by me, as each I count as close to me, even at a geographical distance. And that’s all there is, good compatriot … all there needs to be too … after God in Three Persons. Amfortas was a Catholic Knight, so his Church will most certainly turn out for the yet to be announced funeral. Good thing too. Plus nice to know about his son being in the action.
There it is.
14. For those who sell their souls
13. Minnesota
12. MIC, as Ike referred to them
11. X is most certainly playing up, playing tricks
There was an X by a big player, saying how wonderful Elon was in buying X and exposing corruption. That’s as maybe but there’s another side for conservative voices.
Thought I’d check out the chap’s account:
They are also saying, at X HQ, that they are temporarily restricting content on my timeline until X can estimate my age. Plus:
10. Moosh corner
9. Reform and Fabians
1975 to 2025
This is fraught, to employ that word again … it’s a major piece of work by Ruairidh, needing to be preserved … it’s very, very long, info intense and yet his delivery is flat and dense … about ten to twelve minute bursts seem the way to go.
Whilst it’s very well done, some have noted the strange pronunciation of some words. For example, I thought I heard him saying “malaise-iya” for “malaise” early on. I wonder if being Welsh has anything to do with it?
Going to take a break now for some time to try to throw off this unwellness. Back soon.
(0611) Very cold morning, back to bed, not 100% while out of bed earlier. (0636)
8. Wendy corner
a. Abbott and Malsi:
b. Noem:
c. Bondi:
7. This “Coalition of the Willing” threaten world security
… in short, they’re criminal psychos.
6. IYE corner
a. The drone attack:
CONTEXT: British intelligence previously confirmed their participation in the successful Ukraine drone attack against long-range Russian bombers. That operation, highly controversial at the time, was previously confirmed by President Trump saying the U.S. was not informed in advance.
The “coalition of the willing” has also expanded. Outside the Ukraine regime, the current group making up the “coalition of the willing” includes: the U.K, France, Germany, Canada and Australia. It is worth noting the additions are all part of the British commonwealth (U.K, Canada, Australia).
Most observers note that Ukraine President Zelenskyy is not an independent actor in the warfare decisions as carried out from within Ukraine itself. In fact, British intelligence has now replaced U.S. intelligence for providing the majority of the satellite guidance systems, targeted systems and missile operations. German and French intelligence have been closely coordinating with the U.K. on behalf of European Union stakeholders.
b. Silver:
How do you “blow up” the world’s entire corrupt financial system? The “City of London” is no longer the cabal capital of the world’s financial system. If you are following the SILVER price, it’s telling you that everything has changed. There are those who thought this could never happen. They are the same people, who are saying, “nothing is happening” and they also have no clue that everything has changed. And if you think that Wall Street, will forever remain the cabal “center” of the world’s stock markets, you are mistaken. A “new” market is opening in Texas and it will transform markets. Decentralization. Competition.
Two important safeguards, that are ALREADY being implemented. Shanghai is competing with London and New York, for one of the most “valuable” and “leveraged” commodities on the planet. SILVER. The massive “leveraged paper” SILVER positions are being obliterated. Derivatives. They are blowing up the entire system.
Remember this term: SYSTEMIC RISK. This is the WEAPON being used to bring down the entire corrupt system. “A significant portion of the derivatives market operates “outside of the public view.” Most derivatives are traded over-the-counter (OTC) as “private” deals between two parties, rather than on “public exchanges” like the New York Stock Exchange. These OTC contracts are “not publicly traded,” so no market price is available to validate their “theoretical valuation,” making it difficult to assess their true risk and exposure.
This “lack of transparency” is a major challenge, as the pricing of OTC derivatives depends heavily on the inputs used, and their results can vary significantly based on assumptions. While exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) offer transparency and real-time pricing, the OTC market remains dominant and “largely unregulated,” contributing to concerns about “systemic risk.”
This UNREGULATED, PRIVATE market in SILVER is based on THEORETICAL VALUATION. This GAME has been going on for a long time. A corrupt manipulation of the entire system. But then some huge things happened.
One after the other.
1) The leaders allied with Trump to destroy the system, began adding massive SILVER purchases, to go along with their massive GOLD purchases through their central banks. Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and India.
2) Trump placed SILVER as a “critical mineral.” That made SILVER a strategic industrial commodity. That prioritized domestic mining production and enabled stockpiling.
3) JPM began dumping ALL of their short positions and for the first time in their history, went fully long on SILVER. As the largest holder of “physical SILVER” in the world (750 million ounces), they are no longer putting a ceiling on the price of SILVER.
4) JPM and other traders started demanding “physical delivery” on the COMEX, instead of cash. SILVER starts flowing from London to New York.
5) Traders in Shanghai massively bought SILVER on Christmas Eve and Christmas. This completely decouples the physical price of SILVER from the manipulated paper price in the derivatives market. Immediate PANIC ensues. Big banks shorting SILVER are likely ALREADY broke. This massive derivative SILVER market, is the TOOL to bring down the entire centralized and corrupt system. SILVER is now on a trajectory towards real “price discovery,” as central banks compete with massive tech corporations to secure “physical SILVER” for the future.
That DEMAND from big money entities, is now driving the rush from “paper” into real physical SILVER. Who knows where it finally tops.
……
JH: Best to you, IYE with the new internet cafe thingy there in the freezing cold. Rug up.
(0428) Morning all you nightowls or earlybirds. (0529)
5. It started with some banter with the Venerable DAD
… who pointed out that soon he’ll be nonagenarian and that we wimpy youngsters don’t have the stamina they did. I gave some “banterish” retort but then started to think it through … then started exploring the second half of the 30s onwards culture, houses, work, dental care etc.
Yesterday I discussed it with someone the other side of my age and was surprised that he experienced some of what I did too … I thought it was far better in his day. From my day … no anaesthetic at dentist visits but an ether cloth over your nose if bad cutting was needed … polio … twin concrete tubs with wringer for washing, outside loo in the backyard, Merchurochrome, cod liver oil … we could go on in a Four Yorkshiremen way but I’m thinking it was maybe 30% of the privations DAD had.
Thinking about it … just past midway through the 30s, Depression time, then war, evacuation, rationing … we also had the tailend of that last one. Primitive heating. But comparatively, it was hell on earth for DAD compared to today and yet I bet he didn’t feel deprived … just went out to play after school until the blitz.
I looked at that key set of years 1955 to 59 and wondered really why so raucous just then? Why the West Side Story stuff? The James Dean, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane posturing? The Peter Gunn? Why the seaside riots, e.g. Mods v Rockers? I did the Rocker bit when I was 11 … slicked back hair, greasy with Brylcreem … then realised I was way out of time by a decade. Went crewcut thereafter, well before the skinheads.
So yes, DAD was 70% right on that crack I’d say. As for men during the war, plus the Landgirls etc. … they were genuinely toof … and that time is almost upon us again … Starmer drones, the maniac, attacking Vlad’s home.
4. Interesting that they’d target this lot
Apart from the Blue Orders (the lowest three or “entry” levels), the Masons have been largely Illumined at the chessboard hooded ceremony levels for hundreds of years … the n1 enemy in those days were the Moose Limbs. Venezia comes into the equation too. But another enemy are the Catholic Knights, quite powerful.
So, who is behind this move on the Masons? The Moose Limbs?
3. Steve at 1248
2. Why such appallingly low quality people in power?
1. DAD at 1248
a) The Trump Administration is considering the possibility of sanctioning judges or security officials if measures were to be taken against its European protégés, such as the AfD in Germany, or the RN in France, according to revelations by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel….
b) As a reminder, the Metz City Council, on Monday, July 15, 2024, decided to grant a subsidy of half million Euros to the Great Mosque of Metz association to contribute to the financing of the building’s construction….
c) The events in Brussels at the end of this year confirm what many of us have been warning about for years: The EU is sleepwalking into a self-inflicted historical catastrophe that bears a closer resemblance to the collapse of the French monarchy than any other event in modern history….
d) Arcom, the French broadcasting regulator [= Ofcom in GB], has issued a formal notice to CNews, projected to be the leading news channel in 2025, for comments made on air regarding immigration and Islam during two segments that could incite discrimination, according to a decision published Tuesday in the Official Journal….
e) I leave you with Hélène’s viewpoint on BB. Brigitte Bardot was more than just a beauty: she was an allegory of France.
