Thanks, Steve, just watched a bit late for 26 Aug, 1346, but there it is. I enjoyed it but there was much criticism in comments:
Oh I don’t know … thought the footage of the event quite good for 1346. Naturally, after Crecy, one reads Agincourt and by degrees … the Siege of Orléans … which in turn involves Jeanne la Pucelle.
(0555) Phew, back to more worldly things eh?
5. Mark Matis at Jstack
https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/the-main-reason-we-cannot-combine?
And yet again:
The Rothschilds own Europe (including Britain) and Europe does whatever their owners want done. A significant majority of (((tribe))) across the West – 70-75% – yearn for the “good old days” of their Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin – ad intend to get there BAMN. And that is on BOTH side of the Pond. Hence Rabbis for Mamdani, Soros, and Sanders.
They screech “NAZI! NAZI! NAZI!” and call all who oppose them “Hitler”. But none dare mention Stalin, even though he made Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini COMBINED look like angels in comparison. And they ignore the foulest Nazis of all – the Ashken!
4. Steve at 1184
3. DAD at 1184
a) Politics in France continues its crazy path. A day off this Sunday in the National Assembly, but the pressure remains. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure continues to raise the specter of a new vote of no confidence…..
b) … but the French Senate [Upper House] puts in the boot. The Senate, controlled by the right and centrists, will “reinstate the pension reform” as part of the review of the 2026 Social Security budget…..
c) Moody’s maintained its rating for France but changed its outlook from “stable” to “negative.” Fitch and S&P Global lowered their ratings by one notch. A critical situation, according to the Governor of the Banque de France.
d) Two men were arrested on Saturday, October 25, 2025, following the theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum in Paris on October 19, 2025. They were taken into custody for organized theft and criminal conspiracy.
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Was thinking to m’sel at the above time … now what exactly do Andy and other nightowls need at the bottom of their glasses in the middle of the night … I know, a learned youtube on Manichaeism and Gnosticism during the time of Augustine … a full blown debate over Original Sin and Original Guilt, stemming from naughty Adam in the Garden of Eve-den.
Yep, that’s just the thing, just the ticket, to take the night owls through to brekky and DAD’s report from Macronland. So here tis, over a new cuppa coffee:
Free will v Determinism
Firstly free will, as expressed in John 3:16 … we can all be redeemed, we are responsible for our choices as adults and what flows from those. We are not born depraved but innocent, and from that moment, in infancy, are influenced by our situation, e.g. born to a prostitute or raped girl, liable to be drawn into that lost life unless something happens to break you out of it. Or born into a sanctified marriage and therefore trad family upbringing, along with its values.
The Determinists say you cannot escape, therefore the wrong you do is the fault of your bad childhood, therefore you are locked into cycles forever, plus your children’s children. Blacks start talking reparations. In “Christianity”, it means you cannot escape Adam’s and Eve’s sin, you are born depraved, plus it’s predetermined already who is saved and who is not, so no point even trying.
Complication here for free willers is that there are such things as congenital defects and today, that’s especially so with jabbees, those mothers who took the death vaxxes because the hospital pressured or fooled them into protocols. Free willers say yes, that may well be so … your parents transfer much to you but you can fight to minimise, to manage, plus you can be redeemed. How? Well a Christian says through faith that you can be. On the basis that a Certain Person died on a Cross 2000 years ago in order to do away with all other sacrifices.
The Determinist asks, sardonically … oh, so you can do all sorts of sinning during the week, then on Sunday restate your faith, you now say a few hail Marys and you’re free to start sinning again on Monday, are you? If the priest tells you so. The free willer says there are consequences to all your actions, choices. But you can be redeemed through remorse and atonement. Providing you believe you can. If you don’t believe you can, then you won’t be.
I have something to add. I’ve always seen that model of the upwards road and everyone strewn along that road at different levels of understanding as a good model of our path through life. So why would I argue with someone halfway back down the road?
Ah, says the contrary me … so some sort of “special knowledge” of someone further up the road makes them somewhat druidic? Priestly? Superior, as yet hidden knowledge?
The reply to that is that everyone knows more on some things than others, and others know more than I do on other things. People who’ve studied the bible in fine detail know vastly more about it than I do.
But the idea of a pointy hatted clerical conclave further up the road determining my fate like a college of cardinals, a synod or a Masonic Temple of the Illumined, a guild, keepers of the Secret Knowledge … sod off with that idea. In that youtube just now were two chaps, both with a certain knowledge and respectful of the other … that’s it. Hopefully, after their discussion, both have increased that knowledge and will again the next day, in a process of constant learning, until finally shuffling off.
Charlie Kirk’s idea was that it’s never too late, that you have free will to reject what is destructive and forced on you by a college of baddies, e.g. academic staff who themselves only keep their jobs because they obey some other ideological compliance or be destroyed. Incidentally, in a second youtube, I saw that CK was given to wearing flak jacket. If that were so and others knew it, then to kill him, you’d need to hit head or neck, rather than chest or arms.
There were obviously many priestly castes who didn’t like his redemptive message … that those kids did not need to be brainwashed by priestly castes such as govt, globopsycho, the Fabian caste, the deathcult imams or zionists for the truth … Ardern’s single point of truth … they could read the bible for themselves … Gideon had an idea like that … they could reject the moral malaise, the hookup culture, inflated pride, ego, entitlement etc. etc. … the cult of victimhood as well. Big bucks of course.
Cultleaders would not like that, having expended so much money, time and effort to hook entire generations.
Determinists like the Manichaean gnostics, with their dualism of doing equal amounts of good and evil to keep things “balanced” … hence Gates’s “philanthropic” work, as with every other alleged mass murderer of means … these are damned from birth in their eyes and as Svali and others mentioned … they start ensuring their progeny’s depravity and misery from the womb onwards, intergenerationally. No one gets out alive.
The sort of Christianity Augustine had started teaching in the middle period was redemptive, very John 3:16. Forces got to him though in his later period, obviously, and he returned to Manichaeistic gnosticism blended in, in order to corrupt the message. Hence Calvinism.
There’s one more factor for now … trad is a bulwark against “change for the sake of change”. If you’ve had a system which by and large worked, without the situation we see out there now, then the key tenets you obviously protect. To overturn it, you need a new, corrosive, compulsory ideological straitjacket, imposed from above, vast resources expended to impose it, draconian punishments for resisting … and all the while, the new stasi congratulate each other on being so tolerant. Douglas Adams summed it up with the robots of Krikkit … extermination of all life forms not Krikkit.
Whilst dedicated to soft live, peace and mutual understanding … so sod off, you others … you’re all going to die.
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Dropping into this inbox are local rags from around the world, including Liverpool Echo and Geelong Advertiser … the latter I keep on as its head office is situated, I’m guessing here from some ferreting, across the road from Geelong Football Club’s home ground forty miles south of Melbourne.
Interesting to me is that this rag is behind a paywall, a bit as The Grauniad here would like to be and puts the hard word on to be. Which is one essential difference between the left rags here and left rags downunder … downunder, they do charge to read any pearls of wisdom as a rule.
So to get an actual article gratis is quite out of the blue and I read it with curiosity, realising how few names I recognise but at the same time noticing the difference between the Aussie soft left, along with the Old Left here … as against this new, vile, Far Left thing in Leyen, Starmer, Obama, Rutte and the Global Left politics of “misery and degradation for thee, cushy jet jollies and obscene moneygrubbing for me”.
The writer is kicking off a campaign, I presume, to Reclaim Patriotism from the Hated “Far Right” … I wonder if all the other local rags across Ausland and NZ are simultaneously being ordered to run this campaign, gratis, at the same time, this Monday morning. Shan’t bother to find out.
| Good morning James, Some years ago I was talking to a friend who was the head of a Labor think tank — and the thoughts he was thinking were troubling him. “Why can’t the left be patriotic?” he asked. These were dark days for the Labor Party. Bill Shorten had just lost the unlosable election to Scott Morrison and Chris Minns was yet to take over as leader in NSW, where the ALP had been foundering for a decade. Meanwhile Donald Trump had surged to the US presidency for the first time on a wave of unbridled nationalism. And the more the left sneered at figures like Trump and Morrison for their flag-waving, the more it seemed like loving your country had become the domain of the right. And this is what pissed off my mate: Left-wing urban elites turning their noses up at patriotic sentiments when in fact the centre-left should be embracing, celebrating and proclaiming national pride. All of this is a very 21st century phenomenon and it is no coincidence that the public takeover of the Western left by globally focussed activist elites — see “Greta Thunberg” and “Academics on Twitter” — has corresponded with an exodus of the working class and the rise of right-wing populism. Even the spectacular failure of the Voice campaign just two years ago can basically be summed up as the utter rejection of identity politics progressivism by plain and simple patriotism.It is almost impossible to reconcile this vision of the left with the image of Bob Hawke squeezed into a green and gold jacket and squawking with delight at Australia II’s victory in the Americas Cup. Or indeed the ultimate Labor patriot John Curtin, who unashamedly put Australia’s national interest first during World War II and in so doing literally saved the country. But in recent months, Labor has begun to reclaim patriotism and it is again no coincidence that Anthony Albanese chose to do this at the John Curtin Oration in July this year. In his speech, the PM openly spoke of embracing “progressive patriotism” and noted that Curtin pivoted from the UK to the US in 1941 not because he was pro-American but because he was pro-Australian. Indeed, this comment was singled out for criticism for being too strident and not deferential enough to the US at a time when Albanese was yet to secure a meeting with Trump. And when the right is accusing the left of being too patriotic you know that something has changed. Indeed, the perception that the ultimate Australia-first figure Peter Dutton was too pro-Trump and not enough pro-Australia was a major factor in him losing the election and his seat in the bargain. In other words, Australians love Australia — and they will punish any politician they think doesn’t love it enough. Unsurprisingly, this is exactly the sentiment that has come through loud and clear in the research for this masthead’s Back Australia campaign, a massive initiative that ranges from the economic benefits of buying Australian-made to the need to bolster local manufacturing for the sake of our national security and sovereignty. Because patriotism isn’t just a warm and fuzzy feeling, it is vital to a nation’s survival.My friend’s lament that there wasn’t enough patriotism in the Labor Party was one of many conversations that have been taking place for years inside the ALP. Those conversations have now become declarations at the apex of Labor’s success. Once more, this is no coincidence.A strong national economy, a strong national border and a strong sense of national pride should never be anathema to the Labor Party. They should be at its very heart. As a potential future prime minister recently told me of a former prime minister, John Howard, saying “We will decide who comes to our country and the circumstances in which they come” should never have been seen as a controversial statement. It should simply have been seen as a statement of fact. Snooty inner-city elites might still sneer at national pride but they were wrong before and they are wrong today. But the most important thing is that they are not in control. We are. |
  Joe Hildebrand |
He does look like a Labor scruff to be sure, quite different to the new, vicious, global, coloured hair, beta-violent, vehicle keying, bicycle chain bashing, road gluing Antifa hood and mask wearing young paid thugs flinging soup or paint at works of art in galleries or joining in with the gang rapes of minors.
(1559) Almost evening … actually looks like it, soggily, out there.
17. Steve the chart quiz man
16. Steve at 1184
War Room snippets…
15. This is the lady currently being hit
… from obvious quarters:
14. Which one’s the Republican?
13. London plus Stan
12. There was an Irish election
11. There are Dutch elections coming up
Hmmmmm, think I prefer her playing off the men with this type of song.
Review:
“For those who think of Dame May Witty as the kindly, slightly batty, old lady from Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, this movie requires an adjustment. Here, she’s anything but kindly or batty. Instead, her son, George Macready is the loony one. Just don’t give him a knife, otherwise his eyes light up and no furniture cushion in the house is safe. Now we know what he has in mind for the trapped Nina Foch if he can just get out from under Mother’s domineering hand.
Really tight little woman-in-danger film that keeps the suspense on high throughout. The script never strays from Foch’s dilemma. She’s held prisoner in a big old Gothic house on the edge of an angry sea. They’re going to kill her, but why. Her predicament makes no sense. The tension mounts as she tries one escape ploy after another, but even strangers seem against her. We begin to feel her helplessness and mounting paranoia as the world turns away from her.
Director Joseph H. Lewis took a big step toward cult status with this film and understandably so. Then too, watch Foch run subtly through a gamut of emotions without once going over the top. Witty too shines as a really intimidating matriarch who knows what she wants and how to get it if she can just keep her wacko son in line. My one reservation is the climax which seems too contrived considering the timing of the events. Nonetheless, it’s a good, nerve-wracking way to spend a little over an hour, courtesy Columbia studios.”
(1303) Afternoon all. (1316)
10. AKH on Lucy Dogwhistle
https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/10/twenty-warnings-for-sir-keir.html
“All we learn from this is that Lucy Powell’s approach is to be more assertive and hard-nosed when pressing ahead with changes which won’t work, never have worked in the past and aren’t going to work in the future. More of the same but louder seems to be the message.”
9. Steve … two drops today
This is how far the sickness has gripped public and private life:
“The wind-instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded and posted a comment that said, “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”
Brünisholz then received a knock on his door from the Burgdorf police and then a prosecution letter for engaging in “hate speech” and “publicly belittling” comments based on sexual orientation under the Swiss Criminal Code. He was convicted and fined 500 Swiss Francs.”
“As well as being associated with initiatives such as the World Goodwill, the Lucis Trust has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (“ECOSOC”).
In 2011, Walter Veith gave a lecture on the United Nations’ (“UN’s”) agenda during which he exposed the real motives behind the UN’s New World Order: the creation of a global religio-political system.”
Quick word to Steve … this below was in the delivery chute, saw your Crecy YT, next on the list, ok?
(1042) Back on track, chaps and chapesses, time to find out what’s in the queue. Zero actually, TDS just came through. Need to explore again. (1200)
8. Housekeeping
Broadening that heading to mean more than cyber issues … in fact encompassing anything not strictly politics of the day … I’ve just looked around and not even the Americans have much of note … that New York monster standing for mayor, shutdown still on, the Russian sounding lady being attacked by the demonrats and deep state trolls, Starmer and Khan … I’ve a few items, not much, will post later.
No film, no jazz, yet, quite a few features though … we roll with what we have, rather than trying to make something out of a thin day so far. Might play some chantoosies in the afternoon for jazz.
Commentary on one or two of Steve’s overnight drops … these will open the afternoon’s politics just past 1300.
7. Evil muvvers
6. Ah, here’s the meat we need
5. Quite a few of interest in here
