(1239) Afternoon all, after not getting back in time to say morning all.
10. Moosh corner
9. Gen Zee
8. In one
7. You might have felt Annunziata was a strange choice for UHC
… but I always felt she’d come good when the chips were down:
6. Pesticides
(0841) Ok, time is charging on. Just a quick note about Redacted’s latest. It needs preserving … a good read too … it stays right there. As long as HQ exists, it does. Therefore, you need to bookmark the post it’s under. Now, if HQ disappears (my constant warning), this does not mean it won’t reappear somewhere else down the track … that’s all I’m saying. It’s designed this way. (0945)
5. We can either remain asleep
… or we can wake up to what’s about to go down.
4. There’s a post going up at OoL soon
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/06/sarah-pochin-v-reform.html
3. Steve at 1082
2. DAD at 1082
a) The Aisne prefecture has announced the administrative closure of two butcher shops in Saint-Quentin: eight sick children consumed meat from these shops before contracting food poisoning….
b) Questions…
c) France’s National Assembly voted on Thursday to impose a moratorium on new wind and solar energy project…..
d) French plans to intercept people smugglers guiding small boats at sea – so-called “taxi boats” – could be blocked by legal action.
(0727) Very late start, slept through but then had to attend to pressing matters till now, inc. raw material for this morn at HQ. Sunny window (real window, at home) closed, shady window on another wall open. Ok, item 1 below is long, extended, needs writing though. Next post will have Steve and DAD, after short brek. (0759)
Housekeeping
Cunning table of contents:
*On Redacted and other “longs” from readers … the single, simple reason I can’t “invite authors” into the main HQ posts is security … just that, five way … for the author/contributor/commenter, for me, for the site … as there are other things connected, powering the site, which are incog.
Solution? To provide space so that you can write longs if you like, e.g. the Last Refuge repost, in one of four places, plus OoL … the two main ones being NOWP and to a lesser extent … here. Why “to a lesser extent”? Well look at this for example:
Composing longs at HQ is not fun unles one first composes elsewhere, copies, then pastes in the tiny window.
But WP security then kicks in … rightly so, as they have their own limits on comments. Obvious q is … why don’t I change it? Even change site theme? Answer is … do you really think I’d not have already done so? I myself am caught in a “default” straitjacket which can’t be changed.
Why not blgr/ggl? Think back to July 26th last year. Ghost or other platform? Sorry but WP is the most comprehensive and best for serious blogging, despite the strictures. For now. And they know it too.
**Penseivat and ***Steve … the anecdotal reflections I’m capturing for the navbar sections Quotes and Reader recollections. Trouble is … it can become unwieldy, difficult to navigate, so a certain amount of “take this one, leave that one” is involved, on the run. You can always leave a note for me if you’d like it preserved.
****Central registers … this affects both blog and at home … obviously, a well signposted central place helps anyone seeking to find but … big butt … do you actually want bad players finding, e.g. where your cash is kept, where your most explosive posts can be found?
Obviously not, so what’s the solution? One is using dead tree rather than online but that’s not useful online. Online, I’ve suggested that if you see anything to keep, have a multi-gigs usb stick of your own Amz, PC World, whatever) or even hard drive and copy it there. If you do not bother, dearest reader … I can only say bad luck ole chap because the chance of it surviving at HQ is low … HQ is in bad player crosshairs … the spam attacks alone are insane each day.
*****Toodles and other occasional commenting. Clearly, some comments are just “shorts”, not meant to be more … fine. When they become long and preservable, I’ll preserve some. For example, the Last Refuge repost is way too long, so it stays in place where it is. The backup is at the Last Refuge hisself, see blogrolls.
*******My mindset is that NOWP and HQ are equally valid, with UHC and Jstack one rung below that … but still valid. OoL is a different matter, with Julia. In the morning, I use NOWP as my portal actually, before HQ … that’s how I navigate. That navbar is vital to me too. I find NOWP easier to read, while HQ is our central depository. 6th floor? Never mind … poor joke. …/END.
(1733) Evening all. Been one of those days … posted at OoL now rather than tomorrow morning.
17. Summer solstice
In 2025 the summer solstice will occur on Saturday 21 June at 03.42 BST (02.42 GMT).
16. Moosh corner
15. A big barrier to understanding
14. Steve at 1082 with war room
13. Sums up the state of govt
12. Don’t know what happened in Alberta
… but here’s Danielle Smith:
11. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/06/chamber-of-ghouls.html
Let’s make the Russkies such as Brosnan the villains again, as China and the jihadis … well we’ve done them already each day, n’est-ce-pas?
A review:
“I wouldn’t consider this movie a “classic” or even particularly “great”, but for some reason I really enjoy watching this film. I haven’t read the book, however I used to own “The Fourth Protocol” computer game for the Commodore 64, and was vaguely familiar with the basic storyline.
I can’t pinpoint what exactly it is I like about this movie, but I did enjoy seeing Michael Caine as a British agent tracking down the nuclear bomb. I could probably watch a whole series of films based around his character. I also liked some of the other characters and I think it had a good cast of actors. The workings of government agents was very compelling to watch, but it was good to see that the film wasn’t overwhelmed by ridiculous gadgets and stuck to the drama involved.
The 80’s technology in the film also had an element of nostalgia about it. This film reminds me of a bygone age of the BBC Micro and Ford transit vans. In fact, I love watching the film just to see the various parts of England as well.
I liked the fact that its a rather ‘quiet’ movie, but I do think it needed to be re-edited. Some parts of the film just skimmed through major plot developments without giving them time to breath, and other times the film would show a character hopping from various locations in England without giving a sense of the travelling in between. Watching this film would give the impression that England is only about 10 miles wide! Some elements of the film really needed to be fleshed out a bit more.
This isn’t the sort of movie I would go to a cinema to see, its more of a “Friday night in” movie that I would watch on TV. I would only recommend it to someone if they were die-hard fans of this genre.”
(1304) Afternoon all. (1315)
10. Starmer lets slip what we already knew
In warning Trump not to attack Iran, The Beloved Sausage mentions jihadis up and down the country who’ll attack. Nice to hear the plan from him.
And then, of course, as a demonstration, word went out to the jihadis about Brize Norton. At the same time, secret meetings about how best to implement the Slamophobia Blasphemy Law went ahead recently:
Meanwhile:
Yes, she’d be advised not to cross the road alone, fly, go on holiday, go skiing etc. etc.
9. Freedom
8. IYE
The Death of Democracy
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-death-of-democracy
7. Steve
Brize Norton – Voyager are Airbus A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) aircraft. This was sabotage of a strategic military asset. That raises the crime to the level of treason. Whoever did it should spend many years in prison. That is all.
At 1081:
6. DAD at 1082 on Brize Norton
Guido reports….
Protesters from Palestine Action managed to gain access to RAF Brize Norton and spray red paint into two Voyager planes. Zipping around unabated on electric scooters and leaving undetected…
And so to bring it to a close …
(0812) Morning all. (1122) Morning again … it’s truly been non-stop this morning … the NHS was the main cause.
5. Part of the busy morning was the fun
4. Brize Norton
https://infogalactic.com/info/Hultgreen-Curie_Syndrome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
3. Andy’s Great Western Railway
… modern Woke ad … careful if you’re having breakfast.
(0622)(0732)
2. Andy wrote, at 1081
“We all know about these long chain molecules called forever chemicals. What I didn’t know was the where, the who and the when of them and how they were inflicted upon us by corporations who knew of their toxicity. The linked utub opened my eyes to all of the above but surprisingly taught me that djt has reversed some of the recent advances in reducing our exposure. Some of his appointees have history with the corporations accused of serious crimes. | https://youtu.be/Y0lsLnXX4U8?si=URzD2iungJOJRWqb | Please don’t think that I am some green activist by putting this here, I just want to turn on the tap for fresh, clean water, to cook in pans which won’t make me sick and to eat food which won’t poison me.”
My two bob’s worth (to employ and antiquated expression):
Back in my university days as a student, not so very long after the student uprising in Paris, there were the students, yes, green up to their gills in both adopted colours Green and Red but also green as to why we were not universally loved when all we wanted was to ‘save the planet’.
Then there were the Old Labour working class (Jarrow March etc.), led by Union Leaders who were often Scottish but also often Scargill types … they became quite well off, as do the Islington set today. My comment is that nothing was quite as it seemed, nor was Maggie, with her son in Africa, not unlike Ginge and Whinge today.
To say that the landed gentry were not Green is not correct … for example, North Yorks heather which requires burning off for regrowth … yet the enemy at one point was the Duchy of Lancaster which had authorised the cutting off of heather to sell to some Dutch firm … huge swathes of it … those up in arms were certainly not the Left, Labour … they were dyed-in-the-wool Conservative Party.
What Andy brings up with an apology needs no apology as his concern is a universal concern to us … but not to the ideological Net Zero Wokerati. Pantomime theatrics in politics has all members of what become designated parties or camps all believing the whole manifesto … officially … when shades of opinion are nothing of the sort.
And so to this about … well, the opening blurb:
… and sshots:
… hint at the issue. The youtube itself (1.51) sets it out, the presence of the Patriarch suggesting it was not driving Christians out but driving tourists in … see what you think.
And yet it’s not far from Alexandria which has a quite loaded history, both mystically and in ancient history, lending it’s name to the Alexandria of east coast USA. Plus I still say the aim is to divest it of sanctity, just as with Notre Dame.
Bottom line … it’s not quite as clear ut as the clickbait headline would have us believe. And I’m saying that as one who’s clearly pro-Christian.
1. DAD at 1081
a) More bizarre rulings from the ECHR. On June 12, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a judgment finding the Czech Republic guilty of a “violation of respect for private life” in a case involving one of its nationals who identified as “non-binary.”
b) Some German Green party members also have bizarre ideas. Should Germany’s AfD voters be refused organ donations? A Green Party politician launches a controversial survey on X.
c) EU climate bizarre plan: more taxes, fewer jobs, no debate. Even after green parties lost big in the elections, Brussels is pressing ahead with policies most voters didn’t choose.
d) J D Vance says… [This is not bizarre]Look, I’m seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on social media…..