Monday [1 to 5]

(0514) Morning curmudgeons all. (0657)

 

5. Injustice yet again … this time downunder


4. The still daring and debonaire Steve at 1463

  • Elon Musk is Putting up Big Money to Try to End Alaska’s ‘Ranked Choice’ Voting System
  • ICE Issues Ultimatum to Sanctuary Sheriff Tom Dart: Serve Immigration Subpoenas or Face Criminal Witness Tampering Charges
  • More Than Half of New York Students Grades 3-5 Failed Basic Reading Tests This Year
  • Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier Chimes in on DiJonai Carrington Clotheslining Sophie Cunningham, Says She Should be Charged with Assault
  • Israel Is Planning To Attack Iran On Its Own To Provoke War (JH: According to the Kremlin’s organ South Front)
  • Russian Army Seizes Key Heights, Disrupts Ukrainian Logistics In Kharkov
  • Resistance Training Improves Muscle Repair System, Study Finds; Gains Fade After Three Weeks (JH: I need to address this with a WARNING … plan to today, a must-read, says I)
  • Abolish the District of Columbia’s Clown Courts.
  • Much more.

3. Cold calling and other scams

Yesterday, DAD included in his drop, and I replied:

“Cold calling is about to come to an end. (JH: I’m taking this one up later, separately.)”

The way around cold calling and why it’s just as bad using answerphone or voicemail is the imperative that you need to disconnect your landline. Have one, yes, by all means, for official reasons but have an old, antediluvian phone, not plugged in and make sure you still pay the ÂŁ4 a month or whatever for it.

Your primary phone is your mobile, one of the old dumbphones and remember to conduct no business whatever with organisations on it. Nothing. All in one? Forgeddit. Any attempt at getting you to one-login is an attempt to scam you out of your savings.

I’m talking there about any cold calls, not from someone in your address book. Oh yes, you old dumbphone has an address book but no voicemail set up. You in fact do not wish to speak to anyone outside of that address book. Inside the address book, you do include gummint depts you do need. You phoned them ling sgo to insist on texts as your primary method incoming … SMSes.

And of course, with it being a dumbphone, any time they say scroll down and click on … don’t … coz you can’t. Plus when you do eventually speak with them, via you calling the Indian at the other end, after all the “press onefers” … you sre 102 years old, remember, with querulous voice and zero understanding of this modern way.

And as for the ladies who wish to chat with you by phone, sorry, no can do … because it’s hacked and monitored. Ladies I know cannot stand this … to them, the only satisfying way is nattering on the phone. As all the ghouls and hackers expect you to. Thereby robbing you blind and comprising now extant threats. In fact there’s one right now, let’s call her Janice, lives in Alaska (naturally both names are made up), and that’s precisely what happened.

Some Brit firm had contacted her to say she was owed money, oodles of it … you see already where this is going? And she talked to them. She’d picked up her still-connected phone. “Go to your computer, dear and I’ll walk you through it.” Not even an English voice.

Going to stop here now. Has the message got through, dearests?

2. DAD (still venerable, even if I forget) at 1463

a) French Green leader calls for X to be shut down over ‘supremacist’ Musk’s support for Marine Le Pen.

b) UK. Local Government Policy reaches Peak Absurdity in latest move. Westminster Council’s proposed ban on standing while drinking in London pubs has sparked ridicule and renewed concerns about government overreach eroding personal freedoms in Britain.

c) Germany. Berlin Terror Suspect was under surveillance until an hour before attack.

d) There is seemingly no end to the fertilisation effect of carbon dioxide and warm weather. In 2025 there were more leaves on trees, more food on the farm and more grass in the grasslands.

1. Yesterday’s TPA newsletter

“Britain’s national debt has now surpassed ÂŁ3 trillion. ÂŁ3,000,000,000,000. That’s three thousand billion pounds that we’re all on the hook for. At over ÂŁ100,000 per household, our national debt now means that every British child is born owing more than ÂŁ44,000. This is quite simply a damning indictment of consecutive governments’ failure to get to grips with public spending. If all that wasn’t bad enough, as our debt clock shows, it’s still ticking up by over ÂŁ4,000 per second. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the national debt has increased by almost ÂŁ13,000.”

Those are impressive numbers for sure in a negative way but I do ask, as I would have in days of yore when the Conservative preoccupation was balancing “the” national books above all else … just what do those numbers mean to you, personally? You in your little living space, in your returement or in your job or on your dole?

Do they not mean how secure are you from galloping inflation swallowing up your “incoming”, such as it is? Utilities bills for example? Personal credit debt? Council tax for no return, e.g. rubbish disposal? Inheritance tax? Govt raiding any part of your nest egg they can get their thieving hands on?

And why are the teeming millions on the state teat one way or the other not impressed by “the” national debt, as long as their own keeps coming in? What does that ÂŁ3 trillion mean to you, personally? Truly? In your head? Is your only concern that the “govt” does not do something precipitate and the whole house of cards officially falls, on the numbers?

Where are you on the sliding scale with the left at one end seeing just “the wealth” which they want their “fair share of” and govt must rob you of it … or the “centre-right” at the other end, concerned with “balancing the national books” and protecting their own best eggs, not giving a damn about your miniscule savings?”

Sunday [11 till close of play]

(1605) Good afternoon evening, wunnerful ones.

 

16. Prop-rail


15. Moo corner


14. Thetford


13. How much longer will these things continue?


12. Chief Ferreter IYE has this at 1462:10&11

“On a company called Polymarket, wagers on American military action win far more often than they should. Their investors and operating model took me down a yellow brick road. Enjoy!

On July 2nd, the investigative journalist Whitney Webb published a piece on where a company called Polymarket actually came from. Nikita Bier, the head of product at X, replied to her in public. His entire reply was: “Thinking this way is a form of mental illness btw.””

11. Tsunami

Sunday [6]

(0848)(0911)

 

The early years of the world

This re-runs something I put up at the old N.O. and is, imho, a fine overview, in which he takes one of a number of interpretations on each successive point, which together form a cohesive whole. The episodes below are 4 to 8 of some 70+ overall … in these in particular, I thought he did a pretty good job.

The key episode, imho, is n8, as it explains so much of today’s dire situation and for me personally … well I’ve been involved with some of these people, face to face so to speak.

The eighth seems to have been embedding disabled … it says by the video owner but this would only be because Them disapproved of it getting out … which our experience tells us means the nail has indeed been hit on the head.

I’m not upset by this as it could well turn out to be a safety valve.

| https://youtu.be/iLhjH1SgzJY?is=h5OM_PjCivI8DyDS

Sunday [2 to 5]

(0632) Morning all. Grifty, you’ll recall, opens her pieces with “… you gorgeous, good looking people” and I was thinking (dangerous I know) … that that’s quite nice. Critics might call it insincere but I’d call it all-inclusive for those of her mindset. And let’s face it … would you prefer waking up to “we’re doomed, doomed y’hear” or to… “Morning, you intelligent, discerning, patient patrons …” or similar? (Brits of course would recognise Private Frazer in that “doomed” one and might smile at it.) (0734)

 

5. The formidable Steve at 1462

  • Senate Confirms Attorney General Todd Blanche in Overnight Vote, Leaves for August Recess Without Passing SAVE Act
  • Greg Gutfeld on the DSA: ‘I Resent Having to Debate Ideologies That Have Not Only Failed, But Killed Millions’
  • Long-time Vocal Democrat “Jumps Ship” Says “Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum” – Will Support Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Election
  • Italy Shrugs Off Spanish Ultimatum, Says It Has no Plans to Reopen Border With Invaded Country – Madrid to Retaliate
  • The Numbers Don’t Lie: [The] Ukraine Is Losing The Infrastructure War
  • Researchers Name Dietary Nutrients Linked to Vision Protection
  • How Little has Changed Between ‘Political Correctness’ and ‘Woke
  • Much more.

4. Shorts

Bin thinking … when I group multiple shorts under one number, the power of each seems diminished, unless a single author. I’m thinking let each have it’s own number. Quite like this guy:


3. The Venerable DAD at 1462

a) Britain’s food supply is facing a growing new threat after a wave of suspected arson attacks targeted farms across the country while the UK endures what experts warn could become the worst harvest since records began. 

Police have urged farmers to remain on high alert amid a series of suspicious fires destroying hay and straw stores, with investigators examining whether the attacks are being fuelled by a viral challenge circulating on the Chinese Communist Party-linked social media platform TikTok.

b) Despite a raft of measures in recent years, cold telephone calls still plague daily life in France. The government has now opted for a tougher crackdown.

Cold calling is about to come to an end. (JH: I’m taking this one up later, separately.)

c) Giorgia Meloni rejects SĂĄnchez ultimatum to lift Schengen checks

Rome has tied any review of the suspension to intelligence warnings of a fresh mass crossing attempt at Ceuta.

2. Over at Jstack and OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/08/aml-on-inversion.html