Gold, silver, metals and stones

There's copious material, this Tuesday morn, on the burning church, on the mosque inside the Vatican, on all sorts of CofE corruption, or Orthodox tales ... that's too much of a rabbit hole early morn ... shall look at that over at Unherdables later.

Today at Orphans ... money.  Mammon. As in how to preserve whatever hard assets you have. Zero Hedge, predictably, suggest this:

How many of you would risk govt bonds and securities today in the west?  As for gold, I saw this:

Gold is widely considered a strong "sound" or safe-haven investment in early 2026, with many analysts expecting prices to consolidate or rise towards $5,000–$6,000 per ounce due to persistent geopolitical tension, central bank buying, and high global debt. While 2025 saw massive gains, 2026 is projected to maintain high demand. tavexbullion.co.uk tavexbullion.co.uk

The disclaimer of course is that I'm the last person to take any investment advice from ... money and I are longtime strangers through poor choices. However, I was looking around just for interest's sake:

In April 2026, amid high market volatility from geopolitical tensions and inflation, defensive investments focus on low-volatility ETFs, utility stocks, and dividend-paying companies.

Women have their jewellery, men have ... er ... whatever we still have left. Personally, methinks  diversity is not a dirty word when it comes to our assets.

Life's Grey And Miserable Enough...

...in Skegness:

A school in a seaside town known for ice cream and chips has banished "beige" food in a bid to help pupils eat more healthily. Skegness Grammar School has ditched sausage rolls and pizza in favour of "nutritious" alternatives, such as smashed pea and feta pitta bread and waffles with fruit.

I bet they sell like hot cakes (which are probably banned too!).

Head teacher Lorraine Walker said: "There was a lot of beige food on offer, and we wanted to support our students to get a balanced diet."

Lady, if your sausage rolls are beige instead of golden brown, they are undercooked! 

Not everyone agrees with the move, however. Chloe, a year nine student, said: "They've changed it to healthier, but it's not as good quality. Everyone's talking about it in lessons, that they don't like it."

But there’s always one little suck-up in every classroom: 

Tom, a year 13 student, said he found the food "very nutritious" and "tasty". He had noticed a positive effect on his peers since the change. Some pupils did "miss" the old menu, he added. "But they know it is for the greater good."

Tom has a future ahead of him as a politician! 

Mark and Sarah Wheatley, both 60, said the most important thing was to have a balanced diet.Sarah added: "Some are quite fussy. And if they're not eating that, then they're not eating nothing, are they?"

I guess they didn’t attend a school that taught them about double-negatives, even if the lunch was delicious…. 

H/T: Battsby via Twitter

The contrived Generation War, using pensions and benefits as the vehicle

Here are some screenshots, mainly from one pundit, versus Miriam Cates and a genuine Gen Zee Jess Gill. She uses GB News to attack pensioners on the State Pension.

The argument centres around the poor youngsters supposedly having nothing coz the nasty Boomers refuse to give them their money and provide, while their lives were cushy and secure in boomer days. Interesting ... I don't recall my parents providing everything still after 21 ... they expected I'd get a job and pay for myself.  No job, no benefits.

On the other hand, the young have a point in this respect ... the Uniparty are ensuring that 18 to 30 are today mentally deficient, ignorant, uneducated, violent and undisciplined and many of those miscreants ruining kids are leftist women, quite a few being boomers ... yes.

Anyway, in no particular order:

Thoughts?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

In order to run this post at Orphans, our various positions need restating, plus where we're the same. My libertarian mate says we're only ever going to agree, at best, on around 80% of things.  I note our Julia concentrates on the minutiae of our western, civic life, even British life ... for example:

... whereas I tend to go for the westwide topics in the X news, from a strongly antiWoke, antiUniparty, antiDeepState, anti WEF, antiTavistock, antiEU, antiVaxx, anti ClimateBollox, antiFabian stance.  With both of us, we want our civic life back, our heritage ... on X, I'm constantly retweeting Old Britain, Old England, even Old France, US, Canada, even down to old architecture versus the new brutalism.

Julia has strong views on arrogant cyclists and dangerous dogs ... I agree.

As far as the party political goes, within Britain for example, I'm thnking both Julia and I are antiUniparty, esp. on illegals and women's safety. Think it's safe enough saying that.

Trouble is that there's a confused dissident scene just now.  It was all pretty clear for awhile, up to Clacton ... the dissident side were fairly "at one" ... but then something happened ... one of the Reform MPs had the police called on him, a rough speaking farmer ... by M25 bubble, City types, plus by one of the "invaders" who seemed to have become their mate.

That could only result in a split, nothing less.

It was such an unfair, antiBrit, antiLibertarian act that it shocked most of voting age.  I myself am still not a member of Restore, am watching carefully, I'm just against govt running my life.  I'm also watching Reform closely, knowing they're being groomed for govt. We've posted stats on how many times NF appears in the MSM, esp. GBN, which pretends it's dissident, yet has banned Restore.

I keep repeating ... I'm in no party right now, I'm a voter who is watching carefully. And one thing many of us saw yesterday was this:

There is a rush to put these non-Brits into candidature by NF and his committee. Why?  What has he been tipped off about, which might be not far off, GE wise, soon?

Restore?  They're in no position for an early election ... still a few years away. Meanwhile, this above might well be about to become govt, under NF, whose behaviour has been mentioned.

Now, one of two things is going to happen.  Either NF gets in as PM and then betrays all the invader candidates, let alone supporters and voters in general ... or pretends to, thus incorporating Restorites ... or else there never really was any intention to break from the WEF/EU agenda after all.

In which case ... meet the new boss, same as the old boss.  Meanwhile, the left sees these as the new, dissident saviours:

Is it lack of anger or just fatigue?

This was the exchange which kicked it off:

Then, two days ago, was this:

Yes, fatigue at all the constant assaults on us, our lives, on the most vulnerable parts of our populations, whilst ... well, you know the "whilst".

But it's more than that ... it's the constant "unfairness", designed to make us humiliated and angry in favour of all the wrong people.  And even as I sit here typing, looking out of the window, upwards, they're laying chemtrails again in order to kill off the sun.  These are demonic criminals we're dealing with.

They want, planned and need conflagration, dead bodies. If they can't get em through war, they do it through vaxxes and lockdowns, through speaying.  How do they continue to get away with it?  Rampant fraud of course, devoid of conscience.

Are You Not Getting The Attention You Feel You Deserve? Westfield Has Your Back!

Your backPACK, that is....

Westfield London understands that guests with additional sensory needs may find visiting our centre a daunting experience. To help support guest’s visits, we offer sensory packs that have been selected with key sensory items to offer children and adults a broad range of sensory opportunities and therapeutic benefits.

And they are bright red, and labelled, so everyobe can see you are a special person, not just one of the hoi polloi.

The pack has been designed to support people living with a wide range of disabilities who are likely to benefit from sensory resources to make their shopping experience more enjoyable.

I work in Stratford and have to go through Westfield - what would make it more enjoyable for me is a free stab-vest or a compete ban on diversity. It would certainly make it safer.

But this is not what the people who are the target of this advert want, they want the cachet of being different, special and singled out for special treatment and attention.

Our sensory packs contain items such as ear defenders and sunglasses to help with noise and light sensitivity, fiddle toys to keep hands busy and relieve stress and feeling fans to express how you are feeling.

I thought about Googling ‘feeling fans’ to find out what they are but thought better of it. I cannot be doing with any more coddling of pathetic kids and adults for whom the best advice would be ‘GROW UP!’

Our sensory packs can be hired at Guest Services.

Pity you can't hire a backbone. That's what would do these people the most good.

In praise of home cooking

Not just because it's usually better, has ingredients you've reviewed and decided upon, better know the source of, is more to your taste, covers the range of required nutrients ... but it also, directly and indirectly, partially keeps at bay everything out there from unhygienic people to chemtrails.

Partially ... only to a miniscule extent ... that's conceded ... but even controlling the air within your abode has at least a partial effect on your ailment reduced health and possibly greater longevity. If you can possibly do it, try to have some medium intensity exercise in there as well ... aerobic plus some resistance training.

Having said all that, various health, vaxx, bioengineered disease, iffy medical "profession" tweets from X are below ... truly food for thought.

Easter or Resurrection Day

Housekeeping ... my next post is Tuesday morn, Julia's Wednesday.  We wish you all a wonderful Easter Day ... or Resurrection Day ... or choc eggs and bunnies day ... or even Brit bank holiday ... however you commemorate it, may you stay safe and well through these iconic few days.

This below was saved about 5 a.m. BST, Sunday, posted on X by Malcolm Roberts, Queensland, Senator for One Nation downunder, which shows that the cultural underpinning for the west is well summed up ... yes, it is the rolling away of the stone which was the first scene to greet those coming to the tomb and was also the first Easter reference I saw upon logging in just now.

Whichever way you observe today and Malcolm Roberts quoted this:

"He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." — Matthew 28:6

... or you can go the egg route (sidebar) or whatever ... it certainly set the cat among the pigeons from that point forward, around AD33, even to the dating of our current era, plus many political scribes are noting, on this 2026 day, that events are moving in an apocalyptic direction, millions around the world are flocking to churches still not burnt down by the baddies.

And so, thoughts and prayers for readers and the suffering out there. See you in the next post.

State Pension

Those within the UK will most likely know of the brouhaha over the state pension increase, the triple-lock and some quite nasty young hotheads, manipulated by those above, posting all sorts of things about boomers needing dispossessing.

There have been hundreds of comments and this is a small selection:

Thoughts?

How Can You Be A Carer With This Record?

A violent and abusive man has been locked up indefinitely for stabbing his sister 40 times in what her family described as a "totally avoidable" killing.

Yet another case where the warning signs of dangerous mental illness were ignored. They come along so fast now I've quite lost count...

At the time of the fatal attack, he was suffering a severe depressive episode with psychotic symptoms, having repeatedly sought medical help.Cunningham admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility and was handed a hospital order without limit of time.

Or until someone who won't face any consequrnces for a wrong decision lets him out, 

Sentencing him on Wednesday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said: "This was a sustained attack resulting in multiple injuries and would have continued over some period of time."He noted Cunningham's history of "violence and abuse" towards his sister and a non-molestation order against him.

Earlier, prosecutor Nneka Akudolu KC said the defendant had lived alone with his mother, Margaret Cunningham senior, in Greenland Quay and been her carer since the death of his father in 2022.

What!? How can he be judged to be a suitable carer for a vulnerable person? And it gets worse: 

His family had repeatedly raised concerns with his GP and the defendant had himself contacted the surgery 10 times in October and November 2024. The court was also told Cunningham had a history of drug-induced psychosis and smoking cannabis.

The court was told Cunningham had 21 previous convictions for 31 offences including assault, burglary and an armed robbery when he was aged 19.

 A mentally ill criminal drug taker - how can that be judged to be a suitable carer?

"Explaining behaviour is not the same as excusing it. Accountability matters. Margie's suffering matters. Margie's life matters."

Yes, it does. But there won't be any in this case, as in so many others.