Tuesday, Autumn, Beslan [1 to 5]

(0625) Morning all … nondescript out there. Busy morning today. (0733)

 

5. Fido corner

a. Jessica Mulroney?

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2026/08/blind-item-14_0179147118.html

b. “The Best Time to Eat a Kiwi For Sleep, Energy, and Immunity”

https://www.health.com/best-time-to-eat-a-kiwi-11868812

c. Enough to make a glass eye weep:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/travis-kelce-taylor-swift-2-161448593.html

d. (JH, h/t Fido)

|https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/sunday-debrief-aug-16-23-why-is-kushner

“The Iran deal is dead. The 60-day deadline expired Monday with no talks and no plan, and the president responded by threatening to bomb Oman and promising “Economic D-Day.” Oil closed at $94 a barrel. On Friday, 50 percent tariffs on Canada went into effect after trade talks collapsed, and Carney promised retaliation in two weeks. The administration is now fighting a shooting war, a sanctions war, and a trade war with its closest ally, all at the same time, 72 days before a midterm it is on track to lose.

And the people around the president know it. Kushner spent Monday in Jerusalem trying to save the Gaza plan, and then he turned up in New York meeting privately with Hakeem Jeffries to discuss what cooperation looks like after the midterms. You do not send your fixer to meet the likely next Speaker unless you have read the polls. A new financial disclosure dropped Saturday showing another 1,000 stock trades in June, including defense contractor trades timed to the Iran deal. The DOJ announced it will deploy 1,000 monitors to midterm polling places after going 0-23 in election fraud cases. Fauci’s senior advisor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

4. Steve at 1479

  • Trump Says Iran’s Oil Hub Kharg Island Is Being Blown “To Smithereens”
  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Mocks Canada’s Threats During Interview: “What are they gonna do? Take their 2 submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sic them on us?”
  • Prosecutor Blows the Whistle on NY AG Letitia James’ Office, Says He Was Ordered to “Find Crimes” Committed by Trump Despite Zero Evidence
  • Transportation Secretary Duffy Announces Emergency Shutdown of 110 CDL Schools That Gave Licenses to Drivers Who Failed English Proficiency Tests
  • Attorney General Todd Blanche Secured Dominion Voting Machines from 2020 Election that Allegedly Showed Proof of Foreign Involvement
  • Right-wing One Nation Party Wins Parliament Seat in Western Australia – Surging Anti-Globalists Defeat PM Albanese’s Ruling Labour Party
  • Musk Open to Allowing [The] Ukraine to Use Starlink for Strikes Against Russia
  • Net Zero: China’s plan to take over the West
  • Despite becoming politically unacceptable, major corporations continue to pursue DEI agendas
  • Much more.

3. Hitchens

… by @RestorerRB

For any onlookers who may be surprised at this, longstanding Peter Hitchens watchers will know that for the better part of three decades he has almost never actively supported or recommended voting for any party and generally denigrated anyone you think he might have at least some favourable attitude toward, so this comes as no surprise. Raheem Kassam once said something to the effect that you could start the Peter Hitchens Party with a manifesto written entirely out of snippets from his columns and he would still treat it with contemptuous derision.

The only voting recommendations I can recall were for Sunak’s Tories in 2024, on the grounds that Starmer was significantly worse, and to avoid voting Tory in 2010 in the hope that another loss would sweep their fake conservatism aside entirely. Possibly he quietly preferred Theresa May over Corbyn, but I might be misremembering. He had nothing but scorn for UKIP, predominantly it seemed based around Farage being soft on drugs (a subject that barely ever came up and had next to no political relevance, and the one time he was asked Farage said the party’s stance was that they should be tougher on them even though his own leanings were otherwise).

Despite being one of the most consistent anti-EU voices in media (he even made a documentary for the BBC called This Sceptic Isle, which you can watch on YouTube), he also recommended boycotting the 2016 referendum. This matches a curious pattern when it comes to his rhetoric vs when a subject actually becomes politically relevant. He spent years talking about the state’s diminution of marriage, then when gay marriage emerged as new step down that path during the coalition government, he seemed to strenuously make a point of not addressing it. He once appeared on Question Time with transgender activist Paris Lees, was even directly challenged by that individual and declined to address transgenderism at all, despite being the one individual you’d think you could rely on to do so on the biggest platform for it.

Whether it’s his actual agenda or not, it matches double agent behaviour – giving you true and accurate information almost all the time, only to then set you wrong at very precise moments for maximum damaging impact to your cause. He may be a contrarian (I have seen him strenuously reject that label, carrying as it may seem to the implication of an irrational cognitive bias, but as a descriptor it matches his positions); in any case, he operates according to his own logic.

I doubt we’ll get a proper response on his actual issues with Restore, but good luck to Charlie in the attempt – operating at an average of 50 tweets per day, Hitchens is more geared toward quantity than quality on this platform. I get the impression that he is against the use of state power to correct issues that opponents themselves have used state power to create, out of a principle I consider misguided as it can only ever tend towards defeat. That seemed to be his objection when he debated Ann Coulter.

More precisely though, I would guess that his biggest problem with Restore is mass deportations. Yes he’s spoken against mass immigration for decades, but correcting the issue of the people already here sounds too much like ethnic cleansing, and at his core I think Hitchens still has the instinctive boomer recoiling at anything that sounds like the dreaded ‘racism’. Better to let yourself be violently driven to extinction by foreigners (and pay for the privilege!) than send them back to their ethnic kin – doing that would be low status.

His advice for decades at this point has been for young people to abandon the country, though at this point I’m not sure where else there is as the rest of western Europe and the Anglophone countries are all afflicted by the same ideology (anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Western civilisation – however you want to characterise it, it amounts to the same thing). His big advice is to ethnically cleanse yourself from your own country, but don’t you dare think that you should remove anyone else.

Last I saw, he had also started to become quite soft on Muslims compared to how he used to be; I think he’s swayed by viewing them as social conservatives. Yes they may fill up council houses and claim benefits for endless offspring, but they do it in a classier way than our own dreaded chavs at least (no matter who actually does it more). The hijabs reminds him of how English women would dress in the 1950s, and in a broadcast with turbulent priest Giles Fraser, I remember him calling Muslims brothers and sisters. Perhaps I am way off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s developing an out-group preference for them compared with the British of the present generation.

For my Restore Britain friends, hopefully this helps to explain the curious figure that is Peter Hitchens. It would be too easy just to write him off as the grumpy Victor Meldrew of the right, railing against everyone else; if he reads this he will likely shudder to see it, but the breadth and depth of his writings has had a huge impact on me in years past. As John Calvin once said of St Augustine (roughly), he is so wholly with me that I could right my entire confession out of his writings. But just like in your teens there’s a Christopher Hitchens phase that you do well to get over quickly, so too for the conservative follows the Peter Hitchens phase – and so too must those of us who care to retain a nation move on from that as well.

Thanks for your service PH, we’ll take it from here.

2. DAD at 1479

a) UK forced marriage unit takes 100 referrals for children aged 12 or under. The Home Office declined to give the age of the youngest child referred over the period, saying disclosure could deter others from coming forward.

b) One month later, will Ceuta finish with Sánchez, or will Sánchez finish with Spain?

c) Russia intensifies Ukraine Campaign after failed CIA talks. Just days after the CIA director’s visit to Moscow the Kremlin stepped up its campaign against Ukraine, with a combination of drones, decoys, as well as ballistic and cruise missiles.

d) The Trump administration just released new details about the federal police snooping on Catholics.

1. Beslan commemorated

One year ago, I asked the question … for how long do we commemorate? Hastings, Agincourt? Trafalgar? Custer’s last stand? The Light Brigade? Armistice Day? D Day? ANZAC Day?

Beslan?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege#/media/File%3AKrest_v_zale_shkoly_Beslana.JPG

Monday [16 till close of play]

(1628) Almost evening all.

 

21. A two-fer


20. The sewerfest


19. Moo corner


18. Out of the mouth of the abused herself


17. Lucy speaks


16. DAD at 1479

MIGRANTS REBUILD CAMP ON CEUTA BEACH DAYS AFTER CLEARANCE Days after Spanish authorities tried to clear Ceuta’s Trampolín beach, moving migrants to specialist centres and temporary camps, the settlement is back. 

Footage shows men rebuilding makeshift huts across the sand, hauling in branches, cardboard and sheeting to throw up new shelters, right in the middle of the beach. As the clip’s narrator puts it, instead of numbers dropping, they’re gathering materials to build even more.

This is the reality behind Madrid’s “we’re handling it.” Clear the beach, and within days it’s rebuilt, hut by hut. A tiny enclave overwhelmed, its authorities going in circles, while the government insists everything is under control. It plainly isn’t. Credit: @Visegrad24

Mon Mat too

 

Cunning plan is, after the Peter Gunn … Fido’s Alleyn radio play, coz it’s YT … plus there’s another Paul Temple up already on that page … then Fido’s Christie radio play (multiple titles archive) tomorrow … Sittaford to be exact … but you can decide to go for whichever radio play you like on that menu. And thus to today:

Now I do understand that I’m in the doghouse with certain readers at the moment but as I’ve never learnt when to shut it … I’ll say this anyway …

… I was never really enamoured of Patrick Malahide’s Alleyn in the visual play … just thought the whispering voice a tad annoying … but there we are. I suspect I have this new condition called Asparagus Syndrome, in which the victim suffers from a total inability to shut the gob, especially if something’s simply crying out to be said. 😎

Monday [11]

 

Sudden, late degeneration

By what looks like a lady on Quora, no particular claim to medical expertise:

“When a 70-year-old marathoner suddenly “falls off a cliff” at 82, it seems their healthy habits failed them. In reality, this rapid decline is the direct result of those habits.

In gerontology, this is known as the compression of morbidity. Unhealthy people often experience a slow, agonizing decline starting in their 50s or 60s, spending decades managing chronic diseases. People with excellent habits delay serious illness for so long that they eventually hit a hard biological wall, compressing all their physical decline into a brief, dramatic window at the very end of their lifespan.

This sudden crash is driven by homeostenosis, which is the age-related loss of physiological reserve. In youth, human organ systems have massive redundant capacity. If a 30-year-old gets a severe flu, their body has the shock absorbers to bounce back. By age 85, even in a perfectly healthy person, the heart, kidneys, and immune system operate near their maximum capacity just to maintain normal resting homeostasis. Because there is zero reserve left, a minor stressor—like a urinary tract infection, a change in medication, or a minor fall—can trigger a catastrophic cascading failure across multiple organ systems.

Beneath this system-wide fragility is a hard cellular limit. No amount of exercise or nutrition can stop cellular senescence.

Human cells can only divide a finite number of times, a boundary known as the Hayflick limit. Every time a cell replicates, the protective caps at the ends of its chromosomes, called telomeres, get slightly shorter. Once those telomeres degrade, the cell enters senescence, refusing to divide and instead secreting inflammatory markers that damage surrounding tissue. Over decades, this microscopic damage accumulates until entire organs lose the ability to repair themselves.

Evolutionary biology offers the final piece of the puzzle through antagonistic pleiotropy. The human genetic blueprint prioritizes traits that guarantee survival and reproduction up to about age 50. After humans pass their child-rearing usefulness, natural selection stops optimizing for tissue repair. The genetic instructions simply run out. A lifetime of healthy habits maximizes a person’s potential within that biological blueprint, allowing them to coast smoothly to the very edge of the map, but it cannot redraw the map itself.”

Monday [6 to 10]

(0815) Sun’s out, cloud dissipating and the remainder fluffing up. (0849)

 

10. Moo corner


9. The NHS

… forcing their idea of good health onto you.


8. Folic acid for those with meds, stents etc.


7. There’s one at NOWP by Steve


And my initial attitude is that, not knowing occident observer at all, this could be anything … it could be a Tory, Labour, Libdem, Green, Reform or Restore view. Its value comes down to your own tribal predilection of that fabulous beast “the Independent observer” (so many centrists fully believe they are truly “Independent”).

In some ways, this makes a clearly biased source, e.g. South Front as Russian govt friendly, far easier to assess. It’s the trumpeting “Independence” claimant who is the problem, as he/she often accompanies it with vehemence on this sacred cow or that.

To specifics and OO opens with this:


That’s NOT opaque to the ferreter … it’s all upfront … unlike Leah … but that still needs qualifying:


Mark Collett, as far as I can remember, is not down on Malsi as such but rather on specific ethnicities and nations, e.g. Sikap, Silamos et al. He was, I think, EDL, maybe BNP before that but don’t quote me on it, married, I think, to Laura Towler, Yorks lass (not her real surname so she said).

Which brings me to the need for that extra knowledge from long dealings with something. MC and crew seem down on TR, seeing him as Jewish lobby. Therefore no surprise to see this:


There’s obviously cross-Pond communication here. Now, before even reading the Reform/Restore piece, whilst I think we’ll get an anti Znist angle, does that actually mean proMalsi? We’d need to read it. Also, don’t forget the England v Britain debate either. Methinks we’ve got around that by running the four home country flags alongside the Union Flag … each with its adherents.

I would worry about anyone who saw a Welsh and a Union flag, in Wales, and was down on that. Yes, I was Witanagemot around 2006/7 but I do feel the five flag solution works.

All right, I’ve read it and it’s very nationalist or ethnat. My own alignment is a bit more centrist than Zoomer ethnat … the example I give is the Estonian coming here the right way, jumping through hoops fifty years ago, quite assimilated, working for Britain. My view is … well, he’s western or European … and there are two questions.

Firstly, is he British/English/whatever? Answer … no. Is he a bona fide citizen after this long, a thinking Brit? In short, does he belong here? I’d say why not? As long as he’s not a crim.

But of course, there are those who would vehemently disagree.

6. Justin

Mansion tax police ‘to target houses with scenic views, conservatories and big garages’ for new punitive levy
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16091039/Mansion-tax-police-target-houses-scenic-views.html

Yes, it’s the DM, so of course they’re obsessed with house prices and other middle class status indicators, but even so it would seem the politics of envy is rolling up its sleeves and donning latex gloves in search of more pennies and the enthusiastic applause of it’s phocine sycophants.

Bank Holiday Monday [1 to 5]

(0415) Not a bad sleep at this end. (0529)

 

5. DAD at 1478

a) Marseille: Fighting Crime With Couscous and Karaoke. Marseille’s Socialist mayor prioritises karaoke and festivals while crack consumption surges and residents fear open-air drug use near homes and businesses.

b) This is what the streets of Ceuta look like at night. Would you go out? Would you let your wife, your mother, your sister, or your daughter go out alone? Would you let your children go to school? Well, it’s been like this for 30 days, and the government is doing absolutely nothing.

c) Historic Australian victory: One Nation Party takes WA “safe” state seat from Labour with thumping win and 39% primary vote.

d) DAD’s pet hates.


4. Subrosa retweets someone called TobeHonest

Wonder what Professor Charles Kelly, Lady Thirlwall’s husband thinks about his wife being tasked with justifying witchcraft and ignoring things like antibiotic resistant pathogens found in Countess of Chester (pseudonomas) when it’s his specialism? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11060770/

No idea what that one’s about but you might have.

3. Some sort of op ed

John D wrote, at OoL: “Oi! As someone who is almost 89 and still driving, don’t write off everyone who has reached a certain birthday.”

That’s similar to item 17 yesterday about Boomers and the young bucks snapping at their heels. It also shows that it’s possible for an admin at a site to point out anomalies without “sky is falling” overreaction. Something either IS so or it’s an a-priori interpretation based on tribal loyalty … “tribe” here meaning on any grounds, e.g. sex.

Last evening, the Paul Temple I was listening to, trying to create some downtime to relax, had PT say to Steve (interesting feminist name) that women were extraordinary (or some such name), to which Steve took exception and Sir Graham walked in at that point, Steve tried to co-opt Sir G, to which he replied that he was not entering into this argument (between hubby and wife).

One can make the division about anything at all if wanting to prise a fissure into a chasm and certain groups with influence globally do just that. It’s possible to quote someone “we’re” quite against as “enemy”, should that person say something we agree with (the clock right twice a day argument) …for example:


Which brings in the issue of consistency as well as the nature of the division itself. It’s a minefield. And yet another aspect is allowing personal leanings to descend into emotion, esp. anger, when on an investigation depending on dispassionate heads to able to pick up on anomalies, esp. on one’s own side.

Which brings us to that point made by Fido on looking for “common ground”. Which in itself comes back to the ole “80-20” point … that at best, two people, two sides, are going to, at best, agree on 80% and the remaining 20% are ranked, prioritised, in order of decreasing compatibility … we’re speaking here of “deal-breaking” red lines.

The person sending me the Chere Denise series had reservations over some things CD was saying, putting it down to age again. At what point would it become a deal-breaker? Similarly or the opposite with Erika Frantzve Kirk … despite CO’s and TC’s interesting behaviour and strange (to us) positions … that does not, by definition, exonerate EFK herself on many points, inc. Romania, inc. all the anomalies, aling with Shapiro.

This was the case with Colin Ross’s taking down of the global “psychiatric community”. So what does Wiki do? Spends the first part taking down Colin Ross on his own general whackjobbery. Which still does not negate Sid Gottlieb, Jolyon West nor Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks.

In fact, an “independent” (often self-styled) might look at all this and say “they’re both as bad as each other”. They might not be though. One might be far worse in terms of ongoing damage done, as distinct from mere eccentricity.

Think you get the overall idea of this post item.

2. Steve at 1478

  • US Signs Historic Venezuela Oil Deal Giving America Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels
  • Democrats Advance Bill Recognizing Two Moose Limb Holidays and Authorizing Eid Lessons in Public Schools — No Matching Provision for Christmas, Easter or Good Friday
  • Moose Limb Migrants Threaten To Go on Strike in Venice After Local Mayor Blocks Construction of Large Mosk
  • Fauci Told Aide to Permanently Delete Emails About Gain-of-Function Research
  • Russia Prepares Massive Strikes On Ukrainian Power Grid, Calling It Retaliation For Kyiv’s Attacks On Civilian Targets
  • Summertime and Antifa was Uneasy
  • Much more.

1. Grand Canyon flooding

This is from CBS News, August 30:

Sunday [12 till close of play]

(1739) Evening all.

 

18. Trial by jury


17. Curious

It appears to be Take Umbrage Sunday today

… I put it down to this weather and situation affecting us. For example, in response to young bucks in Restore whining about anyone Boomer or Gen X:


16. Moo corner


15. It’s about the Met


14. Sticking to our guns


13. Saw it in passing


12. Statins and dementia