Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store have spoken by phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Finnish presidential office said.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the report to TASS.
The states of Scandinavia and the Baltic region must row back on their recent extreme hostility to Russia.
The Houthi have launched missile attacks on oil facilities in the city of Najran, in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia offered the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) one billion dollars through Iranian mediation to halt attacks on the Kingdom, according to diplomatic sources in the Gulf, as… pic.twitter.com/20tEl73Hvy
At first, the Yemeni Houthis were regarded by many in the West as a bit of a joke, unlikely to be militarily effective, and reminiscent of the adoo of the 1960s and early 1970s in Dhofar, but they are now a very significant force in the region, and their actions are having effects globally.
More photos showing the aftermath of the attack by Russian armed forces on the Southern Bridge in Kyiv.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the destruction of the Southern Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/xKjKK0dWs9
Meanwhile, the government of little twerp Burnham is cutting the cost of gherkins by a few pence. It’s almost (?) insulting.
As I said on the blog recently, Burnham majors in minor things.
Most people forsee a collapse, they are waiting for an apocalyptic explosion. In reality you are living through the collapse. Everything just gets worse and worse until you accept any offer of assistance the system offers you.
I understand that the little twerp currently posing as Prime Minister took part in the TV show Gogglebox recently. I have never seen the show, but I believe that it consists of people sitting on a sofa and commenting on other TV shows. If so, pretty pathetic even without the Prime Minister being there.
Once again I was reminded of the pathetically low standards of those presently allowed (and I do use the word advisedly) to become MPs, ministers, prime ministers.
I also saw a clip of an interview given by Angela Rayner a few days ago. Again, absolutely pathetic. No point in reiterating my views about her. Regular readers of the blog will know my opinion. Suffice to say that I do not think some uneducated, uncultured, “chavscum” woman, utterly dishonest, and complete with tattoos, “vapes”, and a liking for booze and vulgar noisy “clubs” on Ibiza (at the age of 46, at that) should be anywhere near political or social power.
Those now “at the top” of the political totem-pole are almost ludicrously poor-quality. A few examples? Lammy. Burnham (obviously). Angela Rayner (ditto). Shabana Mahmood. Kemi Badenoch. Many others.
A different subject. Oxford Street.
I used to live in and around London (various times during the overall 1976-2002 period, and in a number of places, but most often in the Little Venice neighbourhood). Occasionally, I would go to shops in Oxford Street, mainly to Selfridges, which then sold Russian beer, Zhiguli (now all but unobtainable in the UK), and other items of interest.
I see now that the main part of Oxford Street, between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus, has been pedestrianized. Big mistake, in my view. Now, if anyone wants to get to a shop or store in Oxford Street without a walk, he or she will apparently have to get a taxi or bus to the streets round the back of the shops, somehow. Most people will not bother.
I saw a few minutes of an interview with that unpleasant little Pakistani, Sadiq Khan, in which he said that the decline of Oxford Street will be reversed by reason of the pedestrianization. Ha. I doubt it, and such pedestrian streets usually end up as the haunt of petty criminal elements, street buskers and jugglers, and beggars.
That Sadiq Khan individual is plainly, like so many political nonentities in the UK, living in a bubble of self-delusion.
Final stray thought: the less I hear, or see, of that ridiculous princeling, Harry Windsor, and (a fortiori) Meghan Mulatta, the more content I shall be.
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Invaders film themselves tormenting an elderly man for "fun".
They each need a [REDACTED] or two in the head. To each his own…
I suppose that they think —know— that nothing much is going to happen to them. It would be great if they were mistaken.
Europe is now infested with trash.
US forces in the Middle East could launch new, potentially large-scale operations against Iran within 96 hours of an order from Donald Trump, CNN reported, citing two US officials:https://t.co/X2WjnZYSc7pic.twitter.com/nWDXJniC8J
Russian forces delivered an overnight strike on Ukraine’s logistics hubs, energy facilities and port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
It’s so tiresome that TERFs still won’t acknowledge the massive elephant in the room and say that trans ideology is the only issue… pic.twitter.com/eE49gsZZep
I used to have an interesting book called A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, but it was lost in 2009, along with most of my old 2,000-book library in France.
Their plan: Controlled decline, Controlled collapse, Controlled replacement.
We've got our own plan. Land, Freedom, Future. Self sufficiency. A parallel system, a parallel society.
We're not waiting for permission, not waiting for an election, we're building now. pic.twitter.com/oBClvDWaLk
Russia is interested in all markets that are profitable for it when it comes to gas exports, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained on several occasions, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
[“Russia is interested in all markets that are profitable for it when it comes to gas exports, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained on several occasions, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Asked about the situation regarding gas supplies to Europe, Peskov clarified that Moscow is ready to consider this issue if European countries show interest.”]
The Kurier (Courier) ground robotic system of the Berkut special mining battalion of Russia’s Battlegroup South’s 11th Engineer Brigade is capable of withstanding a series of hits from FPV drones and remaining operational thanks to its anti-drone armor, the Zvezda TV channel… pic.twitter.com/F7mqV2eTNV
Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 Ukrainian army explosives and mines near Alyoshki in the Kherson Region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported.
According to its statement, the Ukrainian army is remotely laying mines on access routes to… pic.twitter.com/3O8B257aLA
[“Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 Ukrainian army explosives and mines near Alyoshki in the Kherson Region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported. According to its statement, the Ukrainian army is remotely laying mines on access routes to Alyoshki to prevent the evacuation of civilians and block the delivery of medicine. TASS has compiled the Russian Defense Ministry’s key statements: https://vk.cc/d3hy3p“]
The opposite of the story broadcast by Sky News a day or two ago.
Two civilians were killed and 17 others, including a child, were injured in a Ukrainian attack on the Voronezh Region in central Russia, Governor Alexander Gusev reported.
Makerfield "misinformation" (working folk call lies) followed Wythenshawe disinformation on election fraud leaflets that promised "kajillions" [SIC] to England's working poor debt slaves that Israel's Labour forces to rent their own rain with EU (Eternal Usury) in banker interest https://t.co/olrBCK5Loh
Russian troops liberated the community of Obshcheye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/l0TmS2qAh9pic.twitter.com/eiqoQkcXgN
The Ahnenerbe involvement wasn't just protection. Dölger used the occupation to systematically catalog documents that had been inaccessible to Western scholars for centuries.
[“During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, Mount Athos—the autonomous monastic republic—occupied a uniquely remarkable diplomatic position after its Holy Community (Iera Koinotis), fearing plunder or annexation by Bulgarian forces, sent a formal petition directly to Adolf Hitler in April 1941 asking for his intervention.
Hitler accepted the appeal and declared the holy mountain under his personal protection (Sondergebiet), assigning a minimal German garrison while tasking Ahnenerbe scholars like Franz Dölger with surveying and photographing the priceless Byzantine manuscripts and treasures rather than looting them.
Seeking to maintain local stability, prevent the peninsula from becoming a base for Greek resistance or Allied intelligence, and respect the ancient monastic Avaton (prohibition of women), German authorities strictly regulated military conduct on the peninsula, enabling the visiting Wehrmacht soldiers and the centuries-old monastic state to coexist in relative quiet until the German retreat in late 1944, leaving Mount Athos’s sacred architecture and millennia of historical archives virtually intact.“]
Late tweets
I am so glad he decided to do the right thing and return the money. May God bless this young man 🙏🏼 https://t.co/uWA6De29UR
Several times, over many years, I have handed in (to the police, or to the owners directly) money and other property found lying on the ground. Smaller amounts than in the above example, and always with some kind of ID with it. I would not take on the karmic burden of appropriating it. Admittedly, if it were a suitcase containing a million pounds, I might take a different view…
Ukraine Tightens Rules for Exemptions from Mobilization
💊 Enterprises in the defense industry and energy sector will be able to exempt up to 95% of conscripted employees. Employers will decide who qualifies;
A team of engineers from the Chinese company Damoda recently presented a light show using the largest number of drones in North America, in the state of Texas, USA.
During the seven light shows, a total of 71,207 drones were deployed. To create the image of the giant dragon (as… pic.twitter.com/dpf1iEoYHg
▪️The price of natural gas in Europe has exceeded 97 euros per megawatt-hour for the first time since 2022, as concerns grow about the fragile supply balance in the region this winter and the outlook for the Middle East conflict.… pic.twitter.com/JQom18PKLp
Ukraine’s military spending in 2027 will amount to $473 million per day if the conflict with Russia continues, according to TASS calculations based on the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s reports:https://t.co/2A29KcuZtppic.twitter.com/DTOjDPqcac
If damage to internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz plunges Western Asia into darkness, then a disruption in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait would paralyze both the East and the West of the world! pic.twitter.com/3OC7y4nsm8
Is that why, or partly why, we see constant “prepare for emergencies, prepare for black-outs, prepare for food and water-supply disruption” propaganda in the msm, and from government now?
This is all being driven by the Israeli Jews… so, if the USA launches another massive attack on Iran, the Iranian forces should concentrate most of their response on Israel, particularly on central Tel Aviv, the Dimona nuclear complex, and the Ben-Gurion international airport. After that, on the fake mini-states— Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait etc. Collapse them. They are a waste of space.
In case you missed this week: Marine Le Pen is on course to win the presidency by winning not just national populists but disgruntled traditional conservatives and even liberals who are fed up of the chaos https://t.co/DYsBl6DPp2
When “Boris”-idiot and others used to talk about importing “skilled workers”, I assumed —I thought maybe too cynically at the time— that what was meant was “Indians that can work a computer” (as I put it on the blog).
Even I, though, was not cynical enough to think that the “skilled worker” visa designation would or could be perverted to the extent that blacks and browns etc whose only skill is flipping burgers or delivering takeaway curries would be called “skilled workers”, and allowed into the UK on that basis. Mad.
Probably planned, though. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
This country is so ****** now, that only methods consisting partly of a mixture of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Dzerzhinsky are likely to be able to save it, or to salvage a future from the wreckage.
[“Having spent two years attending marches around central London during 2020-22, I can assure you they achieve absolutely nothing.
Nobody will hear about them, if they’re reported at all it will be inaccurate, nothing will change.
Focus on building parallel systems outside of centralised control. New systems of culture, economy and even governance are the way forward.
And don’t expect anyone to do anything for you. Especially not the state.”]
As the wind whips through the trees and darkness falls, nothing beats the heat and light from a fire using the logs you cut and seasoned yourself. pic.twitter.com/AQwbTBTJAU
I happened to see online a recent 7-minute Sky News clip about a place on the front-line between Russian and Kiev-regime military formations. 2,000 out of the original 100,000+ population were still living in the partly-ruined city.
One man stuck there was describing life as lived in that place and said that people were (in the translated words) “eating grass“. That was used in the headline as well.
Well, I could understand some of what he was saying, and the word used was not (in Russian anyway) the word for “grass”, but something called “portulak“. I looked it up. Turns out that the English word is “purslane“:
“Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley)[3] is a succulent plant in the family Portulacaceae. All parts of the plant are edible raw or cooked... All parts of purslane are edible raw or cooked. The seeds can be eaten raw or used to make flour.[30]
The plant may be eaten as a leaf vegetable.[31]William Cobbett noted that it was “eaten by Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing else. Both use it in salad, that is to say, raw”.[32] It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Mexico.[5][33] The stems, leaves, and flower buds are all edible raw or cooked.[34] Purslane may be used fresh as a salad,[35]stir-fried, or cooked as spinach is, and because of its mucilaginous quality it also is suitable for soups and stews.” [Wikipedia]
Still a terrible situation for those unfortunate civilians, of course, but is it really so hard for Sky News, with all their resources, to get it right?
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This is a supertrawler. One of 26 that operate in British waters.
Together with the EU they scrape over 500,000 TONNES of fish from our sea a year. Leaving our fishermen on their knees and supermarkets importing the fish we eat from … China.
Warn them off. If they ignore the warning, sink them.
Putin: Western companies were leaving Russia crying. When some companies were leaving under pressure from Western European governments, our friends from those countries were almost crying. Russia provided Western companies with a large market, and Moscow has many friends in… pic.twitter.com/0VeBev0FhG
[“Putin: Western companies were leaving Russia crying. When some companies were leaving under pressure from Western European governments, our friends from those countries were almost crying. Russia provided Western companies with a large market, and Moscow has many friends in Europe, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.“]
I saw, when I was last in Moscow (2007) that some Russians, working for large Western companies and firms, had hitched their wagons firmly to the Anglo-American horse. When sanctions were applied, those Russians were left out in the cold.
Grushko: The EU's stance on the parameters for resolving the conflict in Ukraine excludes Europe from the negotiation process.
"If you want peace, you must first stop supporting the regime. In fact, the position they have expressed regarding the final parameters for resolving… pic.twitter.com/PxFhLttPo6
[“Grushko: The EU’s stance on the parameters for resolving the conflict in Ukraine excludes Europe from the negotiation process.
“If you want peace, you must first stop supporting the regime. In fact, the position they have expressed regarding the final parameters for resolving the conflict essentially excludes Europeans from that negotiation process,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.“]
Ah…that rings a bell. Grushko…
Just checked. Yes, and as I was just surmising, that Grushko is the son of Viktor Grushko (1930-2001), the one-time colleague and boss of Oleg Gordievsky, the intelligence officer, spy, and then famous defector of the 1980s. They both served at the same time in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB (now the SVR), and Grushko senior became its Deputy Head, right up to the official disbandment of the KGB in 1991, and transition of the First Chief Directorate into the SVR (External Intelligence Service).
Ironically, in view of his risky espionage against the KGB, and his famously perilous interrogation and later escape, Gordievsky (1938-2025) outlived Grushko by many years, dying at age 86 as against Grushko’s 71 years. Seems that being a “double agent” is sometimes not as risky as vodka, smoking, and Soviet careerism (presuming —I do not, in fact, know— that Grushko senior indulged in all three).
Incidentally, I was just looking at that “Stalin skyscraper”, the Russian Foreign Ministry building, shown in the tweet; a building now dwarfed by the “capitalist” skyscrapers behind it in the Moscow International Business Center, aka Moscow-City, hardly any of which existed when I was first in Moscow in 1993, or even when I was again in the city in 2007.
[Moscow International Business Center, aka Moscow-City; also showing the Foreign Ministry building at far right of photograph]
I think that, of the cities I have visited, Moscow has changed the most over the years, with the single exception of Doha (Qatar), which in 2026 is a completely different city to the one(s) I visited in both 2001 and 2008.
Marine Le Pen, France’s National Rally parliamentary faction leader and candidate in the 2027 French presidential election, has pledged that France will not send its soldiers to fight in other countries’ wars:https://t.co/J09wvwDZF7pic.twitter.com/Npks3MrrXT
Europe is heading toward self-destruction whilst its officials are indulging in shirking responsibility instead of correcting their mistakes, Russian president’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries and Kirill Dmitriev said:… pic.twitter.com/IVyj9gQ8WQ
Well, a pretty poor week, only 4/10, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10.
I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 4, and 10.
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Israel is actively urging the United States to launch immediate strikes against Iran, but these efforts have so far yielded no results, according to CNN. pic.twitter.com/o3B4sSvEDw
France today, Britain tomorrow? The riots are not only about mass migration. The West has trained an entire generation of young people to hate their own nations. https://t.co/3qt9eJ2gPP
…and which (((element))), Goodwin, has been behind most of that indoctrination and brainwashing? Yes, “them” (again).
Incidentally, a goodly (and increasing) proportion of the “younger generation” in both France and the UK are really neither French nor British. Non-whites born in France and the UK.
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black seas, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/npxG5BGT09pic.twitter.com/BwlrNMvvb1
Russian air defense systems downed a SCALP air-launched cruise missile, four Neptune long-range cruise missiles, and 1,297 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/xREpAG46gMpic.twitter.com/6wiQO6XTip
[“The Church has been in schism since the mid twentieth century. People are only now realising it.
There is the Catholic Church, which rose from Sacred Tradition, with the deposit of faith, celebrating the Mass of the Ages.
Then there is the New Order, which sometimes goes by Holocaustianity, replacing Tradition with novelty, so subtly most people do not notice until it is too late. Like a frog in increasingly boiling water. High altars gone, nave tables in, the Sacrifice gets demoted to a Jewish meal. They revert to the passover which was fulfilled in Christ; the Mass of the Ages is suppressed; prayerful posture such as kneeling and receiving communion on the tongue is discouraged; homosexuality and women in positions of leadership is encouraged, by act if not decree; universal language of the Church is replaced with a thousand vernacular dialects; good priests are silenced, their obedience weaponised, whilst bad bishops are promoted, the very ones who push lgbtq; the catechism is infected with just enough vagueness and ambiguity to sow confusion.
The Church cannot change her teaching. Yet, the New Order will be quiet on issues they should speak out on, and vocal on issues they should remain quiet on. The New Order hierarchy uses enough abstractions to make it seem like the Church has “modernised,” where she cannot and should not. From the mass migration of Mohammedans, to the death penalty.
Modernism is the enemy of the Catholic Church, and the fruit of the New Order.
Can it be said that any one of those territories is better-governed now than during the days of the British Empire? No.
**If Starlink were to be shut down in Kyiv, the Ukrainian front would collapse immediately. This is a fact.*
Elon Musk made this statement and noted that the Ukrainian armed forces violated the terms of service of the system by using it to conduct offensive drone strikes, which… pic.twitter.com/u3783PZGvj
Another interesting “Matt and Julia” vlog about “the real Iran” (and a few memories of my own)
Persian food can be very nice indeed. I often recall the food prepared by a Persian lady in London, cooked as a kindness for a friend of mine (and hers), an aristocratic lady from East Prussia displaced by both the Second World War and the decolonizing nonsense in the East Africa of the 1950s.
That Persian food was sent across the road, via one of the Persian lady’s adult sons, packed in takeaway-type foil containers. Fantastic stuff.
As to those Persians, they had a lucky escape. The father of the family had been an MP in Iran, was I think strongly connected to the Shah, and had been hanged after the Shah had been deposed. The family lost pretty much everything in Iran, but the lady herself was allowed to leave thanks to some kind of family influence. Fortunately, her two sons were both students at Imperial College in London. A flat in Little Venice had been bought as somewhere for them to live while studying. That became the home for the three of them and their little cat.
Of course, a mansion flat in Little Venice is hardly poverty (the pop group, Bros, were their nearest neighbours), but back in Iran they had had rural estates (near Shiraz, I think) and numbers of servants.
Nice people. They thought that my German friend, by then in her 60s, ate too little, and should be encouraged to eat. They were right: my old friend could not cook, and tended to subsist on bread (she liked, ironically, a Jewish bread with caraway seeds, bought locally), eaten with butter and a lot of salt, and washed down with lemon tea or sparkling water.
I still remember how nice the Persian food, cooked by that Persian lady, was. My friend used to share it with me, if I were around when it was delivered.
Small world: I was dining at the Persians’ one evening, for the first and last time in fact, in company with both my German friend and her young (20-something) step-grand-daughter, when the subject of the contemporaneous Darius Guppy trial came up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Guppy]. The Persian family had known Guppy as a small boy, Guppy being half-Persian; the Persian lady referred to him as having been “a nice boy”.
Many years later, about 24 years in fact, in 2017, I gave a half-hour political-legal talk at the then-popular London Forum. Afterwards, who should come to to me and introduce himself but Darius Guppy. A personable fellow, who had the interesting knack of being able to appear as if from nowhere, then later disappear the same way…
I did not of course refer to his 1993 trial and imprisonment, but I did tell him about the Persians with whom I had been acquainted and who knew Guppy through having known his mother, a folk singer who was involved with a film that won an Oscar; I once owned one of her albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusha_Guppy.
I mentioned to Guppy that, as an Amazon Top 50 reviewer, I had once reviewed his interesting memoirs, Roll the Dice, on Amazon (that being before the Jew-Zionist lobby had my very popular reviews expunged).
Guppy is or was a great friend of “Boris-idiot” (Boris Johnson), via their Eton and Oxford days.
As said, small world.
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Russia is not preparing for war with Europe, while the statements about the "threat of the war" with Russia are "political schizophrenia," President Vladimir Putin told Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin:https://t.co/WLWA5Wy7VUpic.twitter.com/ikjSceKR7L
Russian forces continued overnight strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles against railway infrastructure facilities, as well as Ukrainian ports and vessels used to support the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/L91vdrgPpPpic.twitter.com/YTxgusc8qC
Arakchi: The United States has spent $11 billion of American taxpayers' money on Israel's missile defense system.
Over the past three years, the United States has spent $11 billion from the taxes of American citizens on Israel's missile defense system. In fact, the United States… pic.twitter.com/WXq4RxZlgP
Christian militias have appeared on the streets of France, demanding the resumption of the Crusades and the expulsion of migrants. pic.twitter.com/kYd3i07Gvd
Exclusive footage, published for the first time, shows the moment Iranian missiles directly struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/TBZmWIsIdJ
Several Russian military aircraft have landed in Bushehr.
According to reports, several Russian military aircraft landed today at the 6th Tactical Air Base in Bushehr, on the southern coast of Iran. It is believed that these aircraft delivered military cargo to Iran, although… pic.twitter.com/SPWa7u6qct
British political life, as mediated by the msm, is just a bad joke. Are we expected to take the rote-learned mantras of monkeys-on-sticks as something serious?
Roberto Vannacci, the main political rival of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and leader of the "Futuro Nazionale" party, has criticized the European Union for allocating billions of euros to support Ukraine, despite economic problems in Europe. He also accused Zelenskyy of… pic.twitter.com/R1ncMtaH3k
The newly published video of the 40-day war between Iran and the United States shows the impact of an Iranian ballistic missile on the American base (probably in the UAE) from the perspective of an American soldier. According to the above video, 2 Patriot missiles unsuccessfuly… pic.twitter.com/tNinjaynNO
NATO representatives visit Ukraine to discuss the country's needs ahead of winter
▪️ During their visit to Ukraine, NATO representatives met with Ukrainian officials to discuss the situation on the front lines and the country's urgent needs ahead of the winter, but they did not… pic.twitter.com/XjC0WhvMpi
Russia has brought home 270 servicemen from territory controlled by the Kiev regime in exchange for 270 Ukrainian servicemen captured in combat, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Demographic collapse. Something that has engaged me for a number of years, perhaps triggered in part by my own increasing age (I was 70 in September 2026).
I notice that other thinkers into the future are also increasingly interested in the question; Nick Griffin for one (see his Substack blog).
In the part of the country where I live, on the southern coast of England, the ageing population is very evident. Not only in hospitals but also in supermarkets etc, it appears that almost everyone is well above retirement age. At 70, I should be considered “senior”, to put it politely, but (albeit that many think that I look many years younger than my real age) I at least feel fairly youthful compared to most of the shoppers around me, many of whom require sticks, Zimmer frames, mobility scooters etc.
Will robots save our society, or will they —literally— just support the aged as our whole society becomes totally sclerotic?
The crunch has not quite arrived. 2040?
Gloomy thoughts for a late-Autumnal day.
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Last night and on Wednesday evening, Moscow came under one of this year’s heaviest drone attacks, calculations by TASS based on official data from the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, showed:https://t.co/50z7OeMZOapic.twitter.com/qQ2UJgWEbF
Both the First World War, and that of 1939-1945, did not start without a build-up. One sees the Western ruling circles and cabals pushing non-stop for conflict with Russia over (supposedly) the war between Russia and the Jew/Ukrainian-thug regime in Ukraine, a war which really has nothing to do, in its ground-reality, with the West, or NATO, let alone with the UK, which has never had more than peripheral contact with Ukraine over the past thousand years.
Were the West to stop supporting the brutal, corrupt, and shambolic Kiev dictatorship with arms and money (etc), the war would fizzle out in weeks. However, that result does not interest the NWO/ZOG cabals which are fuelling the conflict.
The result may be that Russia is pushed and pushed until it strikes with its one real trump card, its nuclear arsenal, at the societies of Western and Central Europe.
The USA would probably strand back, not respond. In the final analysis, the NATO treaty is just a piece of paper. I doubt that the USA would want its 100 biggest cities destroyed for the sake of the cities and military/naval installations of Poland, Germany, France…or the UK (probably the most exposed country of all in some respects).
The Cold War has long vanished into history. There is now no Soviet Union, with an expansionist and Marxist-Leninist ideology.
People who destroy whole nations do not have the right to teach us democracy and the values of living freely.
– Never point a gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. – Never put your finger on a trigger unless you’re ready to fire. – Treat every gun as if it’s loaded. – Be aware of what’s in front and behind the target.
(a number of tweeters saying that there is no magazine in place; true, in theory, though, there could still be a round “up the spout”).
One has to consider a. why Muslim women want to join the UK police; and b. why they want to join the specialist firearms units.
During the overnight massive strike, the Russian Armed Forces hit military-industrial complex facilities and transport infrastructure in Kiev, as well as port infrastructure in the Odessa region, the Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/JQZ8mcTR7Lpic.twitter.com/0x0K7Suuws
Air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed a total of 808 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/z6PBrI1L1Kpic.twitter.com/H0h1y17IBD
Moscow will not agree to a new round of "Minsk agreements" and a "freeze" that would allow the criminal authorities in Kiev to stay in power, as it has lost trust in the EU and Ukraine, Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky said:https://t.co/Z4IJLlQeDMpic.twitter.com/bNagXQSeGJ
The West’s aggressive activity towards Russia and Belarus is growing and NATO, the European Union and the Kiev regime deliberately choose the path of escalation, Russia’s Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said:https://t.co/jTGea5KVbTpic.twitter.com/WXE3c8R3YI
According to the Atlantic, Trump believes that Ukraine is deliberately targeting Russian oil refineries to drive up global energy prices and hurt Republicans' chances in the November 3rd midterm elections. pic.twitter.com/OPitw13TBD
Al Jazeera: "Approximately seven major underwater internet cables pass through the Strait of Hormuz. This means that 80% of the world's internet traffic is within Iran's reach." pic.twitter.com/MzSJ1tGSVI
#PoliticsLive showing why it's dangerous to let moronic MPs decide what is a terrorist organisation. These grifters would burn the bible for an Armani suit.
Russian troops liberated the community of Mirovka in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/ndDe65j295pic.twitter.com/vu4tU53Shh
Yes, there have been a large number of cases over the years and decades, in the USA, UK, and elsewhere, of “antisemitic” vandalism (and other types of incident) in fact perpetrated by Jews trying to bolster the “Jews are victims” narrative(s).
National Grid : Re :Storm Austen : "Report it online during a power cut." How, exactly? The router's dead, whole street's dark. "keep the free emergency number handy" handy on what? A carrier pigeon? These people have never sat in the dark waiting for the lights to come back on. pic.twitter.com/Q1baNFUfec
I happened to see, yesterday, a brief segment of some political discussion programme featuring the dim-witted Con Party MP, Joy Morrissey. I wrote a short piece about her last year:
“EcceJoy Morrissey, “Conservative” fake, and MP for Beaconsfield
I’m not Jewish. I’ve never been to Israel.
But I believe in standing up for British values – tolerance, fairness, and the courage to speak out against hate. pic.twitter.com/YYP9ESrmQl
Translation: “I am not British. I was born in Indiana, and brought up in Ohio. I only came to the UK in the first place to get a degree at the LSE. I married an EU citizen, and then divorced him to marry another. I thereby got the legal right to stay in the UK. I also got the right to work in the UK, but in fact never exercised that right, except that I was briefly and totally unsuccessfully a soft-porn would-be actress. Never mind; my second husband has plenty of money, so I never needed, in 18 years, to get any real job or profession… I just played at Con Party politics— in a think tank, with a Con MP, and as a local Con Party councillor. I then tried, unsuccessfully, to be selected as Con Party candidate for Mayor of London. I did, however, eventually get selected for the safe Con seat at Beaconsfield, because the existing Con MP, Dominic Grieve, was expelled from Con Party by “Boris”-idiot, whom I supported. I have been MP since 2019. In those 6 years, I have accomplished absolutely nothing, and, despite Beaconsfield having been (before I was MP) a very safe seat, my vote at Beaconsfield has fallen from 56% in 2019 to 38% in 2024. I supported uneducated, uncultured and stupid nobody Liz Truss as PM (for 49 days) as well as “Boris”-idiot. I doubt that I will be MP for much longer, but in the meantime will continue to support Israel and its UK Jewish lobby, and support mass immigration, as well as blagging my unmerited and generous salary and expenses.”
I lived for 6 months (2001-2002) at Higher Denham, Bucks, within the Beaconsfield constituency, so that idiot would have been my MP had I stayed in the area. At least Fate spared me that.“
The woman wants to destroy what is left of the Welfare State, and also throw money and other support at Israel and the Kiev regime dictatorship.
[“They Planned the 2020 Lockdowns to Secretly Bail Out the Banks With $6 Trillion Without Hyperinflation
They didn’t lockdown the world because of a virus. They locked you down because the entire banking system was already on the brink of collapse. In September 2019 the REPO market exploded. Overnight lending rates spiked. Corporate loans and derivatives were quietly failing. There was no cash left in the repo market and in the system even through banks had Treasuries as collateral. The Federal Reserve was staring at a full-blown liquidity crisis that could have taken down major banks. Then, just weeks later, a “once-in-a-century” virus conveniently appears. By early 2020 the Fed starts pulling hundreds of billions out of the REPO market… right as the first cases hit U.S. soil.
They shut down the entire economy. Why? Because if people stop spending, stop borrowing, and stop circulating money, the system can suddenly print $6 TRILLION and dump it straight into the banks without causing immediate hyperinflation.
The lockdowns were a financial operation. While you were terrified of a virus and watching your business die, the biggest bailout in history was being executed behind closed doors. The timing wasn’t coincidence. The scale wasn’t accident. The narrative wasn’t organic. They needed you scared, isolated, and offline so they could quietly rescue the system that was already breaking in 2019. This wasn’t chaos. This was the plan.
The famous City Of London banker @LordBelgrave already warned about how central banks, IMF and BIS have been planning the new monetary order. Oil shock? AI crisis? Cyberattacks? They’re already preparing for the next one.”]
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/JNDeagpb28pic.twitter.com/WFmFWRu9TQ
Netanyahu on Iran: "My order today to Mossad, the Israel Defense Forces, and military intelligence is to overthrow this regime." pic.twitter.com/0QbM5ATCCH
He stated that he would be willing to reach a peace agreement that would freeze the current situation, allowing him to retain 75% or more of his country's territory.
If you took away the non-whites, the figures would look very different. Labour would be on about 15%, for a start.
British landlords are being offered thousands of pounds more in rent to house illegal migrants rather than British families.
In one case, a landlord in London was offered £4,500 a month for a 3-bed flat he was already renting to Southwark Council for £1,790, reports the Mail.…
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children“
[Germany 1945: “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
1488.
Late tweets
Russian forces delivered strikes in the afternoon, hitting a logistics hub in Rovno used by the Ukrainian army and a ship in the Black Sea delivering military supplies to the Chernomorsk port, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/5KTvysa0aIpic.twitter.com/rZYwWOPQJC
I happened to see the tweet below, which echoes in a satirical way some of my own views about Burnham:
BREAKING NEWS
Prime Minister Andy Bullshit is heading to an emergency meeting with Macron in Paris to suggest capping Bus Fares at £2 to stop the protests. They will also discuss where Pork Scratchings sits on the pub snack league table. pic.twitter.com/bYvpuGrwvV
Many years ago, when Burnham was previously in the lineup to become Labour leader (but failed), I commented that he was the best of an extremely poor bunch. My present views are not very different.
The American self-help guru Anthony Robbins [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Robbins] has a phrase, “don’t major in minor things“. Good advice. That, though, is exactly what Burnham has done since having been elevated to the position of Prime Minister. He has majored in minor things.
I see not a lot wrong with at least some of the fairly modest policies announced over the past weeks and months (on car parking, rights for renters, bus fares etc), but —looking at their modest scope— these are relatively minor though certainly (in some cases anyway) welcome reforms.
My concern lies with what Burnham has done or, rather, not done, in the major-policy arena. He has continued (indeed, increased) the funnelling of UK taxpayer monies (actual cash, as well as expensive arms and ammunition etc) to the Kiev regime. He has done nothing to stop the migration-invasion of Britain (the contrary, in fact), and I see nothing of real substance anywhere else, in any area at all.
More tweets seen
US law enforcement agencies have obtained information about cooperation between Mexican drug cartels and the Kiev regime, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said in a press release:https://t.co/h67OZR8rqlpic.twitter.com/0kzTmczqqC
Russian forces struck logistics facilities and port infrastructure in Ukraine, as well as vessels at sea used in the interests of the Ukrainian army last night, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday morning.
The US administration has not approved the delivery of interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems to Kiev, The Washington Post reported, citing sources:https://t.co/fD5RThulVgpic.twitter.com/LpzHe8PxNU
Russian troops liberated the community of Timoshevka in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/p0sYqhN0xs
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Andrey Lugovoy has proposed closing the UK Embassy in Russia on December 14, 2026:https://t.co/xEmBnydiGhpic.twitter.com/a3HoOrwKHn
Moscow will see what US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner propose but will not make any political concessions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said:https://t.co/1VKgecF2kspic.twitter.com/zejnPUUGdw
Those who think that Russia will make concessions by reason of the fact (insofar as it is a fact) that Russia is under economic pressure, misunderstand the Russian character, which at heart is very resilient, very resistant to external pressure, and very much able to take considerable hits (and also able to give some hits…).
Προάγγελος κακών μαντάτων είναι για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης.
Συνεχίστε να φέρνετε και να δίνετε άσυλο σε ότι κυκλοφορεί σε μελαμψή απόχρωση και κάποια στιγμή οι σκηνές από τη Γαλλια θα φαντάζουν πικ νικ μπροστά σε αυτά που διεξάγονται.…
See the images in France. It’s a harbinger of bad tidings for the future of Europe. Keep bringing in and granting asylum to anything that roams around in a dark-skinned shade, and at some point the scenes from France will seem like a picnic compared to what’s taking place.“]
Untermenschen. Enemies of Europe’s future.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine that would favor Moscow, said people familiar with the discussions. https://t.co/F43ytZwD6o
Spreading unrest across Europe is in fact bordering on chaos, however, this is an internal affair of EU member states, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday:https://t.co/hDpR1elTfWpic.twitter.com/L6pnGYr6Go
I agree with his conclusion: “The BBC needs to be gutted“.
The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future.
As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely.
After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become… pic.twitter.com/KquPy2260S
[“The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future.
As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely.
After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become unsustainable, both financially and operationally.
After 11 years, we take this action with deep sadness and regret. The extent of the lies, defamation, and harassment by ex-staff – coupled with the constant attacks by the state and those who’d see us destroyed – has become too much.
However, it is not over. This week, we will publish what really happened at the Canary and push back against the vicious campaign against our team and us.
We may be down, but we’re not out yet.“]
The main enemy of that online magazine has been the Israel/Jew-Zionist lobby. “They” have been trying to get the outlet closed down for many years.
Russian troops liberated the community of Omelnik in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/GL3DZkHg1Apic.twitter.com/GMnBo33TrI
According to a report by the IMF, Ukraine is currently the largest debtor to the IMF in Europe and the second most indebted country to the IMF in the world pic.twitter.com/uFBYRfqk1z
Like the Norwegian Blue Parrot in a Monty Python sketch, “Ukraine” (of the Kiev regime) is dead, and would fall off its perch were it not nailed to it (in the case of the Kiev regime, by massive transfers of money, arms, ammunition, medical supplies etc from EU states and NATO states).
It's likely time for Ukraine to put someone other than Zelenskyy forward for peace negotiations – Trump. pic.twitter.com/8Rdh1TXvQ1
Of course Zelensky has never wanted peace. His only chance is to drag NATO into the war.
Zelensky and his cabal have stolen billions of dollars of “aid”, have multimillion villas and other property all over the world (Florida, Israel, Caribbean etc), rule without elections or human rights, and are just a dictatorial gang of leeches.
🍿While heavily armed and clad in plastic armor, French, Italian, and Belgian gendarmes, police forces, and other Spanish national guards are trying to quell migrant protesters, stylish Dutch police officers are brutally beating residents of a small town in the Netherlands who… pic.twitter.com/qxffluXdVh
[“While heavily armed and clad in plastic armor, French, Italian, and Belgian gendarmes, police forces, and other Spanish national guards are trying to quell migrant protesters, stylish Dutch police officers are brutally beating residents of a small town in the Netherlands who are protesting the construction of a refugee center. How interesting.”]
I myself saw the gradual slide and disintegration of Dutch society from the 1960s, then 1970s and 1980s; I then heard more from Dutch family friends in the 1990s and in more recent years. Very sad, not to say angering.
Not that the UK is any better.
Mearsheimer: If I had to bet – Russia or NATO, I would bet on Russia.
IN THE MOVE WITH DIESEL AND STARLINK, SEES THE FIRST SIGNS OF A SECRET GEOPOLITICAL PLAN BY TRUMP AND PUTIN
John Mearsheimer, professor at the University of Chicago: "The West has shown that it can endlessly… pic.twitter.com/ZZTIQYunTD
[“Mearsheimer: If I had to bet – Russia or NATO, I would bet on Russia.
IN THE MOVE WITH DIESEL AND STARLINK, SEES THE FIRST SIGNS OF A SECRET GEOPOLITICAL PLAN BY TRUMP AND PUTIN
John Mearsheimer, professor at the University of Chicago: “The West has shown that it can endlessly issue declarations of support for Kyiv, but it is unable to create a real economic and military-industrial base, not even for a prolonged artillery conflict.”
“Ukraine is doomed to defeat in any case. Attempts by the West to organize temporary peace negotiations without taking into account the fundamental demands of Moscow are meaningless, because Russia will not agree to a ceasefire in the middle of military operations.“
“Russia is systematically reclaiming territory and will achieve what I previously called a ‘ugly victory.’ This will turn Ukraine into a non-functional stump that will never be able to join NATO. They [the West] don’t want to leave, but they are also unable to win.“]
I prefer my own proposed solution to this geopolitical problem: Russia to keep Crimea, and to keep or take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper; for Russia to keep or take a strip of 50-100 miles north of the Black Sea; Odessa and Kiev to be “open cities” run autonomously. A rump Ukrainian state to be established in Western Ukraine, centred upon Lvov, that state to be independent but constitutionally neutral and unarmed (disarmed).
General Sir Roly Walker, the head of the army says the UK's political leaders are about to start a "frank conversation" with the public about the need to prepare for war, per Sky News.
That officer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Walker] may be a skilled soldier —his record certainly suggests that— but fails to see that, increasingly, there is no “nation” for which to fight, the way things are, and the way things are going. A mixed-race population, and the wealthier part of the society (English, but also many Jews and other non-Brits, meaning non-Brits in any real sense) not interested in the welfare of the majority.
For whom does General Walker think we must fight? The finance-capitalist exploiters? The Jew-Zionist lobby? The buy-to-let parasites? The migrant-invaders and those facilitating the invasion? The corrupt and incompetent “political class”?
Only brainwashed idiots want to fight Russia on any basis, certainly not because the Kiev regime is losing its war.
Likewise, no real British person should have to accept even lower living standards and services because generals without an army want to foment a totally unnecessary war with Russia, a war which Russia —a nuclear power with over 6,000 nuclear weapons— cannot lose.
There is no “conversation” to have.
I am a British Army veteran, and I would never fight to the death for this government, its politicians, or their “plans”.
I would, however, absolutely fight to the death defending my home, my family and my country.
I am a British Army veteran, and I would never fight to the death for this government, its politicians, or their “plans”.
I would, however, absolutely fight to the death defending my home, my family and my country.
And if that means standing on my own doorstep, refusing to be carted off to fight somebody else’s war, then so be it.
Russia is NOT our enemy. The real threat is already here. I, and every other veteran I’ve spoken with, will be staying on home soil, thank you very much.”]
Well said.
The Kiev regime is in its death throes and is trying to resist, but this cannot change the course of events, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked by TASS about Moscow’s response to the massive attack by Ukrainian drones on St. Petersburg:… pic.twitter.com/jRzfKwzSm4
British people are being treated in NHS car parks & corridors while we spend £13 billion on overseas aid and £12 billion on welfare payouts for foreign nationals.
Stop it all. Invest every penny into the national health service until it works for the British people.
It has been obvious for many years that the NHS, despite its virtues, is simply not up to the job. The migration invasion has pushed the population up from about 55M when I was born (1956) to somewhere around 70M in 2026. That alone has placed huge burdens on the Service. Then you have the general ageing of the population, and also the unhealthy diet and lifestyle of many, including abuse of drugs and alcohol.
Late tweets
It is tragic but France has fallen. Whatever our historic rivalries, Britain needs a strong France and you need a strong Britain.
This can only be achieved if you reject the EU and its absurd Schengen zone.
France must regain its sovereignty, its culture and its self…
Trump’s approval rating has hit a record low, with popular support for Democrats growing fast two weeks ahead of the midterm elections, according to an opinion poll conducted by The Washington Post, the ABC television channel, and the French pollster Ipsos:… pic.twitter.com/AqtYICpAm1
Trump is all over the place, but Russia must finish off the Zelensky regime in Kiev before the next President is installed in 2029 (after the 2028 election). Russia has only 2 years and a couple of months in which to “clinch the deal” (as Trump might say).
Russia needs a gamechanger, something that will finish off the Kiev regime, and do so completely.
#LePen needs to prepare to govern…but it may to late for #France, massive immigration of animals has changed France, as it has all of western Europe The time to do something was 30+ years ago! Still she can immediately stop all immigration, ignore all court rulings stopping her
Not “animals“— don’t insult our animal friends. “Untermenschen” is a better description of those rioting in France, and those invading the UK on so-called “small boats”.
Of course he’s checked out, he’s now completed his tasks, just like Starmer he will soon disappear into the shadows forever protected by the state and congratulated for playing his part in the downfall of Europe.
Amid the trumpeting —for war with Russia— of bought political creatures, bought military top brass, bought msm scribblers and TV talking heads, there is something we, as individuals, can do to fight against the war drums. What is that? It is to “just say no“. What I mean by that is to simply stand as individuals, stand against the entirely unnecessary frenzy.
“What if they held a war and no-one came?” was a question once asked. Well, in my view, the individual can simply say “NO!“, and not vote for warmongering “democratic” political careerists, not agree (if 18-40) to register for any proposed conscription or draft, not appear if ordered to appear for anything to do with that etc.
Some people may decide to do more (I prefer not to specify), and to take individual actions against any mooted war (which would soon leave our poor country as an irradiated wasteland).
Both the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 set the world, and especially Europe, back. A third such war might destroy Europe as a European civilization and culture.
Do not comply and, if you can, do what you can to prevent it.
