Today

Today, of course, is the US July 4th “celebration”, for what it’s worth, with Heels Up about to become Pres. Meanwhile, over here it’s not much better. Yesterday a lady friend posted that she was voting Labour because:

* All the people she’d spoken to were and

* Reform could only talk about immigration.

Uh huh. I ran out of time but was going to ask if she was happy voting for one of the two parties anti women and anti children, one of those with a harbag about to become equalities minister … this is the harbag who supports PIE. And the party pushes this:

It’s possibly too late anyway for this post … most have postally voted … a few of the naive still walk up on the day … hope you can avoid the machetes and raping out of nowhere.

Right … below the line are two voters’ views and I’ll leave it at that, ok?

But Won’t It Be The Customers Who Determine Success, Nils?

It’s a euros triumph already: the value of all the companies on the London stock market is greater than all those on the Paris exchange: $3.18tn plays $3.13tn, calculates Bloomberg. Actually, we should probably contain our excitement. First, the position is not groundbreaking: until only a few years ago, London was miles ahead as the biggest stock market in Europe. Second, the current position could reverse in an instant: it would merely take a marginal improvement in the value of fashion stocks such as LVMH, Hermès and Gucci-owning Kering that are heavyweights in Paris.

Well, I guess that's up to the people that buy frocks then. If, that is, they buy enough of them...

Relative size versus Paris is a diverting yardstick, but success for London should really be measured in terms of quality of new listings, capital raised, the ease of doing business and so forth. The fascination with pure size quickly leads to the current silly idea that it would somehow be a “boost” for London if Shein, the Chinese-founded, but Singapore-based, fast-fashion retailer could be persuaded to list here, carrying a supposed £52bn valuation.

Why is that a silly idea?  

What would count as success? Well, here’s a small example from another weekend story: the founders of Melrose Industries, the deal-making company that bought the aerospace and automotive group GKN for £8bn in a hostile takeover in 2018, will return to action with a London-listed investment vehicle. Rosebank Industries – a sort of Melrose 2.0 – will raise £40m-plus via an offering on Aim, London’s junior market, Sky News reported, before hunting for deals of up to $3bn and then moving up to the main market.

This is why I never dabble in finance. I cannot fathom from this article why one is desirable and the other isn't.  

Just WHO is qualified to advise us?

The introductory part of this we were alerted to by contributor In Yer Ear at the reader site of nourishing obscurity but what I subsequently discovered ... maybe you knew this all along ... IYE had written ...

Uh huh. A week or so earlier, the NHS had sent out an urgent text to those afflicted this way:

... listing various unpronouncable ingredients but including aspirin, which is one of mine in low doses. The NHS standard advice:

Low-dose aspirin helps to prevent heart attacks and strokes in people who are at high risk of them. Aspirin is also known as acetylsalicylic acid. Your doctor may suggest that you take a daily low dose if you have had a stroke or a heart attack to help stop you having another one.

However, this one has long been contra-indicated, if on heart meds ...

Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is used to relieve pain, fever, and inflammation

And the texted advice said:

How on earth is the average bear supposed to know even a fraction of that? Evidence Based Medicine which allows a mass of WHO approved literature has much on drugs but again ... how's the average tik-tok (Chinese) dancing nurse to know which drugs to prescribe, which not?

So back to the blood pressure medication IYE opened with ... this was from the article ...

Potassium Chloride eh? This Potassium Chloride ...?

In the United States, potassium chloride is used as the final drug in the three injection sequence of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment. It induces cardiac arrest, ultimately killing the inmate.

Now, clearly, you're not to blindly panic on the say-so of some non-medical blogger on a freedom site (moi) who may just have it a***-end around ... so WHOse say-so can you accept? Someone sending a text, no bona fides stated?

All right ... a GP? Good luck finding one at the clinic's "press one for ... press two for" disembodied or script reading telephone answerer. Medical qualification? Level of nonWoke education, if under 35 years of age? Or even to 50 years of age now?

So what we have here is a cascading conglomeration of factors piling up, inc. NHS woes, plus the WEF and WHO necessity for the culling of the ageing population ... the Agenda. That was partly what the plandemic was about, 2015 to 2019.

WHO ya gonna call? Ghostbusters?

The Same Way All Other Big Charities Do, George…

How does it happen? How does an organisation end up doing the opposite of what it was established to do? This month marks the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: the world’s oldest animal welfare organisation. I wonder what there is to celebrate.

Me too, albeit I suspect for vastly different reasons... 

If you mistreat your dog or cat or horse or rabbit, you can expect an investigation by the RSPCA. If the case is serious enough, it could lead to prosecution.

But run over an escaped calf with your police car and claim it was 'for the protection of the public' and you'll probably get away with it. 

If you abuse animals on an industrial scale, you might face not investigation and prosecution, but active support and a public relations campaign to help you sell your products.

Oh, he's going for the farming angle, isn't he? 

This is the conclusion of the deepest and most wide-ranging report yet conducted into something called RSPCA Assured. When you see meat or fish or eggs in the supermarket, you might find the RSPCA’s stamp of approval on the packaging, telling you that the animals they came from benefited from “high welfare” farming. It might seem odd that an organisation devoted to animals is promoting their exploitation and killing. It seems odder still when you discover that this “high welfare” farming includes massive factory farms, indistinguishable from the norm, in which animals live short, distressing lives before being trucked away to be stunned and slaughtered.

And that's without considering the halal angle, noticably missing from your screed, George... 

The new report, by the organisation Animal Rising...

Ah. Those nutcases. 

Expert assessors concluded that in many cases the farms not only failed to meet the RSPCA criteria, but didn’t even achieve the legal standard for animal welfare. Altogether, they alleged 280 legal breaches.

Then perhaps this is one we can leave to the ASA, George?  

It gets worse. Until the new report was published at the weekend, at which point it deleted them, the RSPCA’s website carried recipes for meat and fish, showing how you could cook cuts of the animals that receive its stamp of approval. Of 159 recipes on its site, only four were plant-based. Stand back and marvel at the perversity. It’s as if a children’s welfare charity had published a directory showing where you can hire child labour.

We're not going to go vegan anymore than we are going to eat the bugs, George. Give it a rest! 

When I asked the RSPCA about the new report, it told me it is looking into the allegations. It claimed that: “If we stepped back from RSPCA Assured, we risk leaving millions of farmed animals with even less protection.” I believe that’s the opposite of the truth.

Well, as a famous fictional lawyer once said, 'It doesn't matter what I believe, what matters is what I can prove!'  

Armed Forces Day today

One wartime memory:

Let not the punishment fit the crime

I’m not suggesting in the least that the punishment should fit the crime … that in the infinite mercy and compassion of this bleedin’ religion of peace, the culprit should be tethered by the ankles and bounced along behind the very Beemer, driven by the family head for, say, one kilometre …

… nope, not suggesting this justice at all. Rather I’m suggesting he be let off completely, free to commit more atrocities coz otherwise, it might be seen as Ahmedophobia, might it not?

Sorry, Progressives, No Takesy Backsies…

Paul Friedrich, 16, could not wait to cast his first ballot and had no doubt which German party had earned his support in the watershed European elections. “Correct, I voted AfD,” he said proudly in the bustle of the commuter railway station in Brandenburg an der Havel, an hour from central Berlin. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland made particularly stunning gains on Sunday among young voters.

For the first time in a national poll, 16- and 17-year-olds could cast their ballots – a reform that had been strongly backed by left-leaning parties. After overwhelmingly supporting the Greens five years ago, Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote – an 11-point rise – helping place the party second behind the opposition CDU-CSU conservatives and well ahead of the Social Democrats of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

Whoops! That backfired spectacularly, didn't it?  

...his concerns echo those of many teenagers and twentysomethings in town: fears of war spreading in Europe, inflation, economic decline, “unchecked” immigration and, above all, violent crime, which they say is rampant when they use public transport or hang out in public spaces at night.

A familiar refrain, the sort of urban petty crime that impacts the youth more so than the adult voters is driving the 'lurch to the right' as this is being described.  

“A lot of things are moving in the wrong direction with the current government,” Friedrich said, referring to Scholz’s increasingly loveless centre-left-led alliance. “I want to change things with my vote – I want the AfD to shape that.”

And the left have helpfully tied the noose around their own neck and shown you how to kick the chair they are standing on! Oh, if only there was a German word to describe how I felt reading this article...

Brushing aside party scandals and attempts to whitewash the Nazi past, Konstantin and his friend Leonard, 18, also voted AfD. “When I go out I get insulted and even spat on by, let’s just say, non-Germans – those aren’t German values,” Leonard said. “If refugees come here and work and behave and leave me alone that’s fine, but if not, they should go home.”

It seems the education system in Germany hasn't been totally conquered by the progressives. Unlike ours. 

What do these 'new Germans' think about this? 

Noura Abu Agwa, a 24-year-old refugee from Damascus, said she and her mother also felt increasingly unsafe in town, but blamed the strong presence of the far right. “When I arrived I was wearing the hijab but I got harassed so I took it off,” she said. “I feel bad for my mom because she’s still wearing it, and once she was walking in the street and a man stopped her to shout at her. She was so confused because she only speaks Arabic.”

QED. 

First quick take …

 … on the “debate” I didn’t watch as I fell asleep first for six hours.

The result you can get from your own honed “resourcing” … my first move, after a prayer for y’all was to see what Toodles the Bama gal had sent … reaction by reaction … yep, now to G*b who are no beg pardons and I prefer for hard news to X, which is either social or big players in stock positions.

All right … one of the opposition first (AOL):

… and one of our “gang”:

The talk of replacing Biden … who with?  Big Mike?  Newsom?  What of Trump’s VP.  Nothing yet, I’d like Carson … never Gabbard, Haley, probably not Noem, possibly he might with Sarah Huck.  Kari Lake? I’m sure he was looking at Elise Steph.

All right, now to look at X, then my fellow pundits …

Someone wants total division and conflagration

My questions today include … how on earth does such a cover (below) improve race relations?

Does it not just vigorously underscore pre-existing biases? On the fringes, that sort standing on the table starts race wars.  Same with the deathculters in Britain … all the young, Woke 5304* just playing into the rapists’ and murderers’ hands, again just underscoring public perceptions.

And then someone like this appears … Melanie King … who is fully on-topic, without the race resentment of a Candace Owens … MK minces no words over the Fani Willises, Letitia Jameses, the corrupt judges etc. etc.

So there are two clear sets of behaviour going on and someone up high, some organisation(s), are exploiting it to the full because they want total conflagration, it’s their agenda … yea, even between the sexes. As if we don’t have enough division.

…….

* Code for hoes

"...poor policing, weak prosecution, dereliction of duty in medical care and a series of catastrophic missed opportunities ..."

The families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks have vowed to take their fight for accountability “to the next level” on the one-year anniversary of the killings. In a joint statement, the families of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, who were killed by Valdo Calocane in the early hours of 13 June last year, said they had instructed a legal team to help them “leave no stone unturned on our quest for answers”.

And so they should - who wouldn't wish them every success?  

Calocane was given a hospital order after pleading guilty to three counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility owing to paranoid schizophrenia, as well as three counts of attempted murder. In May, the court of appeal rejected an application to increase his sentence to include jail time, with the lady chief justice, Sue Carr, saying “schizophrenia was the sole identified cause of these crimes”.

Solely identified as such by those who wanted to hide the fact they were accomplices. 

The families said the outcome “was disappointing but not unexpected”, and blamed it on an “utterly flawed and under-resourced criminal justice system”.They said it was “because of a weak investigation and prosecution, over-reliance upon doctors’ evidence and archaic out-of-date laws that Calocane receives no punishment for his heinous acts. “We recognise his previous diagnosis of mental illness, however, maintain that he knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong, but he did it anyway. And therefore, he is a murderer,” they said.

Indeed he is. And if they don't win this, he won't be the only one let out to kill again...