(0736) Another late start, fellow hibernators, after a broken night around 0100 … no matter. Main thing today is, apart from DAD and Steve, four or five quite interesting items, quite specific items for those British, items which have dropped and I’ve saved for retrieval. Then there are the western items in general. Hope the tree and baubles are up, the Christmas fayre and gifts organised. Let’s start. (0916)

 

5. And so this is Christmas? Another year gone?

Another nail in the coffin?

4. DAD at 1225

a) In the face of growing violence in French society and resentment of its role, “the gendarmerie increasingly feels it is losing its soul and the meaning of its mission”….

b) “To save France, to save its schools, to save its public services, to save its economy, we have no other choice but to reduce immigration,” Charles Rodwell declared this Friday morning….

c) Donald Trump has just published the 2025 edition of the National Security Strategy, a US document that lists national security issues…. (JH: As I took apart two days ago … no mention of the real issues of deathcult invasion and takeover, no China, nothing about the other major threats. It’s rubbish … please see Mon 6)

d) Since the Revolution in the 1790s, and strengthened in1901, there has been a firm division between Church and State in France. This has been emphasised by the banning of Crèches in Mairies. A recent poll shows that the people oppose that requirement….

3. Somalis again

Obviously a cautionary tale … but which way? For whom? She maintains the Somali pair came at her provocatively, in order to get her reaction on film … and she gave it them. Her racism? Versus their criminal ethnicity? You can see how the globo-politburo-somali axis are shoring up their AOC position. And bunnies like Crystal and Bernie over here do what Aussies call “come in, spinner”:

Wiki: (It) refers to a phrase used in the Australian gambling game of two-up. “Come in spinner” or “Righto, come in spinner” is the call given by the game manager when all bets are placed and the coins are ready to be tossed.

In common parlance 70 or more years ago downunder, it’s a reference to the gullible being easily gulled.

2. Steve at 1225

From yesterday again:

• Matt Boyle: It’s A Lot Easier To Keep Fighting And To Keep Engaging In War Than It Is To Actually Get To Peace, And That’s Why I Think You’re Seeing A Lot Of These People Praise President Trump
• Gen. Flynn: Qatar Is The Foundation Of A Large Terrorist Organization And Network Globally (JH: That’s where Tice has his bird Oakeschott is it not?)
• Julie Kelly (and the pipebomber)

From today:

• Trump Admin Informs Europe: Lead NATO Defense by 2027 or Shoulder the Burden Without US (JH: Watered down like a Bondi again)
• MEP Petr Bystron Welcomes Trump’s New Europe Strategy
• Jesse Kelly and Tyler O’Neill on Why Somali Communities Aren’t Assimilating to US Culture (JH: The bleedin’ obvious again)
• President Trump Orders RFK Jr. and HHS to Fast-Track Review of Childhood Vaccine Schedules, Demands Science-Based Overhaul Aligned with Leading Nations (JH: Code for let’s do as Pharma wants, tricked out in antivaxx language … or else a real move fwd for people)
• Big 3 plan to save Zelensky
• Much more.

1. For those renting … or perhaps soon to be

There was a debate between Anna Paulina and some interview bird over Black Rock or Stone or whatever it is … the evil muvver who has visited N10 a few times about buying up property, inc. farmland and private homes … lo and behold, a landlord came fwd to Lord Toby in Greater London, in TDS newsletter today:

HERE

I dare not put my own name to this article because, if I admit to being a private rental landlord, I will attract as much disgust and horror as if I were a paedophile. I am Satan incarnate. And because people believe this, I will actually have to make 10 children homeless over the next few months. I may not be Satan, but I am also not a charity.

My time as a landlord began, as for quite a few of my generation, after I retired. I am someone who hates the idea of being dependent on the State and worries that even a private pension may not meet my needs in extreme old age. So I saved like crazy for decades.

As most pundits say these days … well worth a read … through to the end, I’d suggest. Implications for the soon to be renting are many.

(1626) Closing in on good evening all.

 

19. Moosh corner

18. Who’s burning down churches? Why?

17. Steve at 1225

• Matt Boyle: It’s A Lot Easier To Keep Fighting And To Keep Engaging In War Than It Is To Actually Get To Peace, And That’s Why I Think You’re Seeing A Lot Of These People Praise President Trump
• Gen. Flynn: Qatar Is The Foundation Of A Large Terrorist Organization And Network Globally
• Rabbi Wolicki: Now, In Doha Today, Both The Turkish Foreign Minister And The Prime Minister of Qatar Said That It’s Time To Bring In The International Stabilization Force And That It Has To Happen Before Hamas Is Disarmed
• Julie Kelly: The Lead Attorney, The Prosecutor On This Case, With The Pipe Bomber, Is One Of The Worst Demons That Were Out There Prosecuting The J6 Folks 

16. Either way, in Sun 15

… the EU has bought trouble, not unlike the Japanese with Pearl Harbour.

15. Knowing the EU’s rapacity

… do you buy the benign explanation or something more demonic?

The official story is Europa was a Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus, who transformed into a white bull to carry her to Crete. There, she became his consort, bore him three sons—Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon—and later married King Asterius. The continent of Europe is believed to be named after her. Zeus was smitten by Europa’s beauty and transformed himself into this gentle, white bull to approach her while she was gathering flowers by the sea. Europa was charmed by the bull and climbed onto its back. Zeus then ran into the sea and swam with her to the island of Crete.

There is another way to view this:

14. Apples

It's slowly starting to happen pic.twitter.com/ofpmBYisLh

— raze (@rajedalla) December 7, 2025

13. Against all the nasties going on in Sun 12

… is this piece of EU lunacy … they really are that arrogant:

12. Steve with Hearts of Oak at 1225

Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Bernie Spofforth.

This is the X version:

The Week According To . . . Bernie Spofforth@Artemisfornow pic.twitter.com/rYbiF7Qa1j

— Hearts of Oak (@HeartsofOakUK) December 6, 2025

11. DAD in the afternoon at 1225

Lara Logan: A Deep State Coup Is Coming for Trump — Here’s the Proof.

The video is already expanded to watch at 1225 … shall look myself now. Here’s some of her early text:

 

 

Another of these strangely sourced ones which seem to work, if you go HERE.

Incidentally, there’s a baroque piece for DAD and baroque fans all but it will now be on Tuesday as there’s jazz following the film and it would be too much after the earlier Jago.

 

 

(1103) Elevenses is or are upon us. (1143)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Let’s run this as a quiz

8. Just one of a number of preposterous legends about these sceptr’d isles

Thoughts on’t?

7. The blue plaque

6. Of Rolf, Wiggia and JD

At the old N.O., we used to have a few regulars writing … two were Wiggia and JD … both took umbrage over some politically motivated remarks of mine at the time and that was that. Both were taken in from the cold by Rolf (Sackerson), bless his heart … I still remember his many kindnesses (or should that be “acts of kindness”.

Anyway, I’m not sure whether (or should it be “if”) it’s Wiggia writing in the quote (or should that be “quotation”) below (should that have been split or not split 🤔, should I use or not use emojis, should I be using question marks) … or was it Rolf who had the medical situation or was it someone else being quoted?

Whichever way it is, this HERE is the quote:

“I normally manage to put together an article on the best wines for Christmas according to what I have tasted, but this has been a strange period in my imbibing journey and I explain below why I have had to pull the plug on this year’s edition.”

He refers to a medical procedure three years ago … and that leads me (this is JH now) to reflect on chaps (and chapesses) of our vintage … to our medical issues which start to accrue … it took our Steve out but as he wrote … his sense of duty had him return early.

Yes … and I’m wondering just how many serious or approaching issues are not being mentioned in the interest of male stoicism (mustn’t grumble). In short … we communicate, post, operate … just how well is each of us?

(0559) Dark out there. (0814) Not dark now. (0815)

 

5. The attack on Pearl Harbour

What can we possibly add? Wiki:

Over the course of seven hours, there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the American-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.^[17]

Does it help to remember this particular history and what led to it?

4. A quote within a tweet within a fellow blogger’s post

HERE

3. Steve at 1224

• Watchdog Claims US Weapons Left Behind by Biden in Afghanistan Now Make Up ‘Core’ of the Taliban Military
• Medical Doctor Confirms: There Are Only Men and Women – The Rest Is Trans Ideology
• Election Interference and Migration: EU Pumped Over $542 Million Into Four USAID-NGOs
• 10 Dead, At Least 19 Injured in Car Ramming Attack on Christmas Market in France’s Guadeloupe in the West Indies
• West Virginia National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe ‘Slowly Healing’ After D.C. Shooting
• Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon Reveals that 260,000+ Dead Voters, Thousands of Illegals are Registered to Vote in 2026 After Limited Review of State Voter Rolls – 15 Lawsuits Pending Against States for Refusing Record Review
• Ukraine Admits Losses Following Massive Russian Group Strike
• Real-world testing reveals EVs consistently fail to meet advertised range
• The War on Pete Hegseth
• Much more.

2. The philosopher George Santayana wrote

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

This quote is from his 1905 work, The Life of Reason, though it’s also variously been attributed to Burke, Churchill and others … and though the core idea is right, it’s also fraught. The other day, in the course of the day’s doings, I heard someone say that he was never really interested in history as cold, hard dates and events, only insofar as a particular history pertains to our current events.

Uh huh … and how would he know what pertained from the past and what didn’t, in order to make that considered judgement, unless he were widely read about the past? I’m thinking he meant that not all in-school histories were ever going to be all that relevant, just as how much trigonometry was going to impact the ordinary person’s life? How much calculus? That’s fair.

Is it also fair that a teacher decides what his class should know according to his/her whim, or even his/her heavily feelings-laden ideological narrative, usually handed down via the politburo? The Ministry of Truth? A la Ardern’s single point of truth in NZ?

Who decides which history comes down through the ages … and which does not? Is that the preserve only of the victors of wars? Or should every bit of pretty much verified knowledge, e.g. an archaeological artifact or a rock etching or papyrus be taught the children at some stage from early primary to late secondary, at which point the child starts to specialise?

So that he/she, at around 16/17, starts to see which course to pursue, which to leave for the moment?

I was never a history teacher in any formal sense, though history formed part of any topic, e.g. a nation’s culture. Do we teach that the St Bartholomew’s massacre was a good thing … ridding ourselves of pesky protestants … or is it an appalling stain upon the nation, where elite-ordered mob violence was visited upon those the boss didn’t like much? Those who’d been causing trouble? A la Thomas à Becket?

On the other hand, the Old Testament of the bible can maybe help. “The Bible verse commonly associated with increasing knowledge is Daniel 12:4: “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase”.”

That’s been interpreted by many scribes and pundits as referring to the end times, in which, as Yuri Bezmenov noted … demoralised populations will run around, unable to reason, only to take on board the Fabian marxism from above, from the pointyhatters. The real knowledge is lost in the swirling storm of faux “facts”, or irrelevancies, such that wise sages need first sort the wheat from the chaff before even seeing where it leads. And of course Tower of Babel type striving for some sort of knowledge nirvana to out-god God.

A biblical scholar has precedent to draw on in seeing how all that can only lead to trouble and strife across a nation, culture … across the entire west. A Christian, non-denominationally, can instantly see where such a course leads and who is ultimately behind such diabolical, civilisation-ending horror. A being whom most children are kept unaware of or adults are then in denial about.

Which leads me to a song quote to finish up this post item for now: “Зачем тебе знать” or “For what for you to know”?

1. DAD at 1224

a) Nantes in the news – again. But this time it is GOOD news. “The Living Heritage Association invite you to experience the spirit of Christmas through its Grand Living Nativity Scene: a performance featuring nearly 250 volunteer actors….

b) “If you dig up LGBTQI people in 200 years, you’ll only find the skeletons of men and women….” JH: plus children

c) Louvre … it is now the turn of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities to be struck. Specifically, its precious library….

d) During rush hour, prime time for groping, or on deserted platforms in the evening, many women are on high alert as assaults increase….

e) “We take our responsibility as parents seriously, but this is not the solution”: after a series of attacks

(1640) Evening all.

 

17. Lord T

… and working with robots. My question [JH] is can humans eliminate robots if they get in the way?

16. Moosh corner

15. The sly untruths of the EU

14. Today at TDS

13. Domestic violence

12. Steve at 1224

• Brian Harrison: Texans Across Our State Are Having Their Eyes Opened Like Never Before To The Rank Corruption That Has Been Perpetrated At The Hands Of “Republicans”
• Liz Truss: Free Speech Is Under Attack In The UK Because They Want To Hide What Is Happening In Our Country. That’s Why I’m Starting “The Liz Truss Show”
• Leader of Italy’s far-right Roberto Fiore tells War Room of POTUS’s US security strategy importance
• Protesters shut down entire German city to stop 50,000 AfD youth from attending inaugural conference