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11. Obvious what the TPA would say

HERE

“Well folks, we knew it wasn’t going to be pretty. We knew it wasn’t going to be fun. And we knew it would hurt. But I’m not sure anyone foresaw just how vicious and vindictive Labour’s first budget in over 14 years would prove to be.

As the chancellor took to the despatch box, like taxpayers across the country, the TPA held its breath hoping we would be wrong. Hoping that Rachel Reeves meant it when she said she wanted to drive growth.

That she meant it when she said she didn’t want to hit workers. That she meant it when she said she wanted to fix the finances. On all counts, it was bad news for taxpayers and bad news for Britain.”

10. Kathy part two

“It didn’t take me much research yesterday to confirm Woodhill’s shocking reputation in terms of prisoner safety and its out-of-control (deathcult) regime. This is the prison which an inquest jury only earlier this year concluded (eight years after the event) that ‘the reprehensible failures by two senior prison officers amounted to unlawful killing of Robert Fenlon in 2016 by gross negligence manslaughter’. Robert Fenlon’s historic unlawful killing conclusion at Woodhill.

Fenlon was no isolated case but the 18th prisoner to have died there in the previous four years, The Guardian had reported in 2017. According to this more recent Guardian report there have been others since.

Returning to Fenlon, what stands out is a pattern – a total lack of urgency and probity. The Crown Prosecution Service took its time in deciding, five years later, in 2019, not to bring charges against a number of suspects, including the Ministry of Justice & National Offender Management Service …”

JH: And so on.

9. I’m looking at Kathy’s review (TCW) in two parts … part one

“I was going to talk about so much this week – Donald Trump’s amazing campaign, the belated release of information about the Southport child killer’s Islamo-terrorist interests, upon which we must anyway be careful not to comment in case we prejudice a fair trial, so the Liverpool female police chief adjured us (are all prison governors and police constables women now?), also our own unprejudiced report of the Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday October 26 not to forget Rachel Reeves’s ‘suicide for the UK’ budget and Kemi Badenoch taking the helm of her 121-MP rump of a Tory party.

But I am sorry, I’m not going to write on those matters. Not that they are not all important, but I haven’t been able to rid the treatment of Tommy Robinson from my mind, and what I suspect to be the grossest ongoing miscarriage of justice this century …”

8. Sad story

Mossad reports that they arrested her after this, beat her to death.

7. The reality of the false dream of alt-media

Tim Worstall said decades ago that there was no money in blogging, in social media … I would add unless it’s honeys hawking their wares. Those honeys certainly have panting men at their behest and many actually think it’s over the wisdom they’re putting out.

On the nonWoke side … those gals often do put good thoughts out, do their homework, e.g. Grifty, Corey, Rhoda etc. and have earned a rightful place as alt-media … we have two here as well.

But overall, there’s no money in it unless you sell your soul, as outlets such as Epoch have … the paid advertising immediately compromises you. It’s far better to be in a position, e.g. self-employed or a boss who can take time … or a retired person, grandmama etc. … these do not need to be beholden to special interests.

Two who are discovering the reality are Dan Wootton and Levan Gudadze. Dan W first:

“The Outspoken Uncancelled Aftershow is moving to Substack daily and on demand – exclusive stories, columns, royal news and shows are now in one place for members. The decision has been made by popular demand after overwhelming feedback from Outspoken’s growing number of viewers and readers.”

Dan W was household at GB, his sacking was great for his numbers, I do subscribe still to the free version.

Levan (see Steve’s second drop each day) brings … or did bring … the good oil from an openly Russian viewpoint, and yet seemingly fair, about the Ukrainian situation and region in general. He has … or had … a nice manner but now he’s totally P-ed off and is attacking his viewers about the piddling 18 euros or whatever they’d paid last month … very bitter indeed. How can I put food on the table, pay the rent, he demands?

Dear oh dear … how sad that he should find out that alt-media does not pay. He is married, with children, he recently moved from “derevniye” or town and countryside to the big smoke of Moskva. Now look, I know Moskva reasonably well and everyone there is on his/her own upwards trajectory. Prices, costs, are western, income is Russian, unless you’ve “made it” by selling your soul to someone … ditto in Paris, Rome, London … different dog eat dog world.

I’m so sad for his family that he even thought he could provide for them on vlogging … he ain’t no shapely honey.

Another is Neil Oliver … yep, he certainly had his 15 days or so … boy dun well … and then? In the following days, months, years? Vlogging is always going to be a second string to your day job … blogging even more so.

Rule n1 is to drop the airs and ego, even just being right-chuffed by traffic. Nothing wrong with the latter, mind, but not if you start seeing yourself as anything better than those coming to your site.

Rule n2 is to develop a model by which people would wish to drop in on the site now and then … then stick to it. Iain Dale was the one who kept referring to consistency … look at AKH. And don’t be lazy, as Kate at SDA became, handing over to “her boys”. If you vlog or blog, do it daily and keep going. Have something to present.

Rule n3 is you MUST bring in other people’s angles, even if you yourself are the ultimate guru in your own lunchtime.

Rule n4 is don’t bother with traffic or stats … it compromises you just as much as money. MMUTR asked if I wanted a stats package. Hell no … for that reason just now … I have no idea of our traffic, nor do I wish to know. We just do what we do.

Rule 5 is look after your regulars, protect them afap as your lifeline online. Datsit.

(0911)(0911)

 

Irish Oracle on Gab … on 007 Roger Moore

When Roger Moore passed away in 2017, the following story made the rounds online …

As a seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I’d just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words “my grandson says you’re famous. Can you sign this?”

As charming as you’d expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I’m ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It’s hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn’t say ‘James Bond’. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says ‘Roger Moore’ – I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he’s signed it wrong, that he’s put someone else’s name – so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he’s only just signed.

I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying “he says you’ve signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond.” Roger Moore’s face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, “I have to sign my name as ‘Roger Moore’ because otherwise…Blofeld might find out I was here.” He asked me not to tell anyone that I’d just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he’d signed ‘James Bond.’ “No”, I said. “I’d got it wrong”.

I was working with James Bond now.

Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said “Well, I don’t remember but I’m glad you got to meet James Bond.” So that was lovely.

And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car – but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, “Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn’t say anything in there, because those cameramen – any one of them could be working for Blofeld.”

I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

https://mindspaninc.com/The-Greatest-Story-of-Empathy-Ever.html

 

Isilme’s November harvest report

Thought I’d catch everyone up on the garden / produce.

After our two weeks away, we returned to find most of the green tomatoes have actually ripened. We had a few black cherry tomatoes (they are meant to be black!) and I discovered that even they were red underneath – the skin that didn’t turn black turned red. Fun!

Apparently, while we were away there was a storm. We had lovely sunshine down south. But up north, it was a bit more grim! Our neighbour told us that one of the small trees in our front garden ended up on the road so they threw it on the bonfire. That was fine, but it took us a while to find out where it had gone from (we hadn’t even missed it). It looks like one of the trees split in two and that was what fell. How it happened to that tree and not the others around it, I don’t know!

Due to the storm, the apples in the back garden were mostly on the grass. The pippin had no leaves. I had picked some of the pippins before going on holiday and managed another full basket after we came back. I’m contemplating what to do with them all. Maybe I’ll make apple jelly again. Maybe I’ll make apple pie filling and bottle it.

My Beloved has, for the past week, gathered the cooking apples practically every day and put them in the press to make cider or cider vinegar. They’re Bramleys and are surprisingly sweet. No wonder the jackdaws come in flocks to eat them. Still, there’s plenty to go round and we’ve already given away several bags full.

The strawberries are coming along well. Getting bigger and one even has a blush of red. I don’t know if they’ll ripen if I bring them in. I’ve never had strawberries in November before. We’ve never had such a large crop of strawberries before either, almost continually since the summer.

Remember I picked every last runner bean before we left for our holiday? Well, the beans are producing more now! It’s crazy.

Meanwhile, the holly tree is preparing for a hard winter. I’ve rarely seen so many berries on it! It looks lovely and Christmassy!

Meanwhile, the flowers are still looking good. Some had died off and are now into their second blooming this year (unusual). They’re a cheerful sight on these grey November days. And to my astonishment, one of the garden trees has mostly yellow leaves – and one that is PINK! Red I expect, but never have I seen them pink before.

(To be continued)

(0553) Dark but not gloomy.

 

4. Some sort of Sunday op ed

a. First of two … see 863:7a about Fulton County not informing GOP it was counting over the weekend, no GOP observers present … out and out fraud. For a start, I’m both used to and actually was, on more than one occasion, a “scrutineer”:

I’m stunned that the concept does not exist in the USA, at least in Federal elections … maybe they call it “observer” … whereby parties with over X% of the vote last election get to appoint one scrutineer per counting table, the count only taking place between certain set hours … very strictly for obvious reasons.

As for vote flipping machines controlling the count from overseas via intranet or internet … I’m just stunned. How on earth can an electoral process take place under those conditions and not be called third world? And counts going past midnight on election day, without troops being detailed to watch from outside the counting room?

Having said all that … just how does an incoming party, as in the UK, get to promise their manifesto, get in on 20% of the eligible vote, then promptly reverse the policies they were returned on the basis of? How does that keep happening if there’s an independent and fair MSM?

b. Second of two is from 863:4e: “Jena Griswold “breaks” 2024 election in Colorado: Results will be 100% non-certifiable, warns Patrick Byrne” and concentrates on Patrick Byrne himself.

I’d suggest first familiarise yourself, through the enemy Woke left Wikipedia with its attempted takedown:

Coming from the business sector for a start means he lacks the study tools to dig deep enough but it means he’s a key observer of anomalies … which combination makes him less party-loyal and more pragmatic about reality.

He’s well nigh useless where loyalty to a human organisation is involved as he is just as liable to critically look at his “own” side of politics as he is at the enemy … and in that sense, it places him vaguely where IYE and I am … no one quite knows how far to trust, not being entirely sure how the guy ticks … which again is a good place to be if you’re a ferreter or alt-journo.

For now.

c. Reader pete at 863:6, on “Global Technocratic Governance” … and the end of democracy forever … plus IYE returned in comments at UHC under the post on accountability.

The latter will take some unpacking but I’d suggest you really owe it to yourself to explore that … the biz on Rowan Williams came from there.

3. Steve drop selection from 863 last evening

MftWC 4: France on the Edge Due To Drug-Related Violence, as 400 Gang Members Clash in Poitiers After Shootout

MftWC 3: Fulton County Did Not Inform Georgia Secretary of State They Would Count Ballots Over the Weekend without GOP Poll Workers Present – State Senators Descend on Fulton County

MftWC 2: Collapse of the southern sectors – Ukrainian front. US Citizen – Russian Hero. Iran to attack Israel – Levan Gudadze

MftWC 1: Jena Griswold “breaks” 2024 election in Colorado: Results will be 100% non-certifiable, warns Patrick Byrne

2. DAD has just dropped at 864

”Wake-up, it’s morning. Today’s Wyoming sunrise was captured by Sandra Hughes. Sandra writes, “Sunrise over the Uintas in Uinta County this morning.” (864)

a) France’s Interior Minister decried a “a shooting at a restaurant, which ended in a fight between rival gangs” on national television Friday morning, after five people were seriously injured as hundreds of people looked on in a suburb of Poitiers late Thursday night …

b) According to the Ministry of Education’s findings published on Thursday, less than half (46.7 percent) of these students show proficiency in “conjugated verb agreement,” and more than 50 percent struggle to “recognize the main components of a sentence.”

c) “It’s against our values”… Independent bookstores refuse to offer Jordan Bardella’s [Leader of the RN Party in Parliament] book for sale …

d) How to answer a heckler.

1. Reader Bob

(JH: The intrepid two have returned from their jaunt far afield, a domestic discovery from Isilme coming up here just short of 0730.)

Meanwhile:

Snippet from a Kemi Badenoch interview on Politico:

“Ahead of a decisive U.S. election next week, Badenoch praised the Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris. “She’s got a very good sense of humor. She’s clearly somebody who speaks with a lot of positivity and optimism.””

That attitude doesn’t bode well for the Tory party.

https://www.politico.eu/article/kemi-badenoch-uk-conservative-party-tory-leadership-contest-power-play-podcast/

(1715)

 

21. Steve with war room at 863

a. Caroline Wren: Republican Early Voting “Is Ahead Of Pace Of Where They Were In 2020 And 2022

b. “We’re Hitting Historic Margins”: Kirk Walks Through GOP’s Monumental Early Voting Statistics

c. Scott Presler Gives Updates On The 5+ Hour Wait Times At The Polls In PA

d. Rep. Andy Biggs: They Already Have Articles Of Impeachment Drawn Up In case Trump Wins

20. Just saw the horror of Kemisabi appointed

… you do know she’s a WEFer, yes? Sickening, innit?

(1430)

Today’s cryptic commentary

From the mouth of the oyster itself came this article over 22 years old:

“An ancient early morning ceremony yesterday saw the incoming (dignitary) stepping into a circle of Pembrokeshire stones and into a controversy. (He) donned a long white robe, stood inside the sacred circle in a mist shrouded field in Wales, and became a druid … one of 50 people to be inducted into the Gorsedd of Bards during the service at the National Eisteddfod, a celebration of Welsh culture this week at St David’s, Pembrokeshire.”

What’s unusual or untoward about that, you might say … those sorts of things happen in Wales, at Glastonbury, on Anglesey and so on. True but he was also a supposed major Christian … damned funny way to practise biblical Christianity.

Now I discover that he is also a member of the Collegium Internationale … you know, the new rulers of the world. How did I discover this? Well I didn’t really … an old friend delivered some notes … I read them but went further afield after that … ask and it shall appear in print.

It does confirm to me things about Welby of course … but that’s par for the course.

Could you also read all this? But of course … they’ve been left lying around somewhere around our tavern grounds, in some outhouse … anyone might stumble upon them … mind you, it may take a bit of work, a bit of effort … but it’s all there should you want.

 

(0946)(1026)

 

18. TCW (blogrolls)

17. All bets, ladies and gentlemen, please

There’s the public account we’re all watching … how the heroes such as Pressler and others are stemming the fraud … and well done.

That’s in swing and Dem states. But what of the bought or threatened Electors themselves, who decide, many allegedly compromised? What of the millions who have crossed the border and cast votes, controlled by Obama and the gangs? What of US forces bosses who have promised to use lethal force on key characters? Will an adoring public defend these or run for cover? When the chips are down, what will people actually do?

Then there’s the global “coming out”, the actual start of the new World Govt … Obama seems to me to be smug, having all bases covered in the west.

16. Excerpt from Vox

HERE

”Anyone who has even a modicum of fighting or sports experience knows that temporary retreats are always necessary, and an intrinsic element of engaging in conflict at any level. The fighter who never retreats is one who leads with his face. The general who never retreats is one who soon finds himself cut off from reinforcements and logistics, and is certain to be surrounded and forced to surrender.

The media doesn’t understand even the first thing about war. When Putin was mocked for months because the Russians withdrew from Kiev, and later, from part of Kherson, what was characterized as “a humiliating setback” was nothing more than saving one’s forces and correctly prioritizing men and material over territory that couldn’t be held anyhow.”

15. Jo Nova on Wayback

HERE

“Four weeks before the biggest election in history, the The Wayback Machine, was hacked in a major DDOS attack. The site was restored partially, but for the moment operates as “read only”. It is not possible to ask the archive to save a page. In a strange coincidence, Google caching stopped earlier this year and officially ended in September. So there is suddenly no recognised source of common shared truth about the history of the internet at the moment. Officially, supposedly, they will be back in action, sometime, one day, and theoretically they are copying the same pages they normally copy, they just can’t update yet, or archive new pages…

Imagine how convenient that might be if someone were planning to lie, cheat, or change their story after the election?”

(0747) Morning all!

 

14. Over at OoL

HERE

13. Via Lyd, highlights of the Vance interview

HERE

12. Start of the end of corporate DEI?

11. Andy on the Skripal thing at 863

10. TDS (blogrolls)

9. Rolf’s interesting look at our socio-political setup

HERE

“We need to be clear: the aim of the Blair-Brown-Starmer constitutional changes is to take power away not from Westminster but from us.

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 put the Crown under Parliamentary control, counterbalancing it with a Protestant male bourgeoisie. In the centuries since then we have seen a Glorious Evolution into a secular non-sexist democracy with religious and ceremonial trappings.”