Morning music
Battles past
Saturday quiz
Well, this week brings another victory, though narrow, over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, and 5.
From the newspapers
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/5/prominent-neo-nazi-propagandist-arrested-in-canada-police;
Freedom of expression is under attack as never before (in the modern era) in the West.
Higher powers may have to step in to put and end to all this crazy nonsense.
The Church of England— the home of the lunatic.
A more pleasant story.
Toronto, London, Paris. See the connection? (look at the photos).
“Thought for the Day”
I was just looking at tweets mentioning me, going back years. Good to see that many of those who attacked me on Twitter for years are now missing, presumed dead. That is, missing from Twitter, with timelines either ended some time ago, or just posting automated follow/unfollow tweets. I know that several are no longer on this Earth.
Tweets seen
Charmant…
Could it be because many MPs are not too different from Osborne in being soulless? As to the general public, I do not think that Osborne (a part-Jew whose brother and father are both sexually deviant) ever was popular with most British people when he was Chancellor.
Don’t forget those who should be deported to Israel.
It is now clear that the “British” Government (which contains few real Brits) is working, and quite deliberately, against the interests of the British people.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
That will probably trigger a frenzied effort to destabilize Russia, an effort mounted by NWO/ZOG.
At this point it becomes a race as to what happens first, the collapse of the entire post-1945 Western order, or a Third World War…
More tweets
The madness of Queen Merkel…
Equally true in the Netherlands, France, UK etc…
More tweets
For a brief moment, I thought that the girl in the photo was his (alleged) girlfriend. (only my little joke).
Ah, Jeremy Vine, the “Covid” “vaccine” partisan and sometime pro-police-state drone (during the “Covid” craziness), who is also pro-EU, pro-mass immigration, and a fanatical pro-cycling and anti-car troublemaker.
Still, I shall be sorry to see him go from (was BBC, now Channel 5) Eggheads (if reports are accurate). He presents that rather well.
Makes a million a year. Not bad for someone who, after an expensive private education, left Durham University with only a 2:2 in English.
I once had a girlfriend who opined that Durham University was where people study if they are from wealthy families but cannot get into Oxford or Cambridge. That was in relation to a barrister who was a friend of a couple she knew, someone with a very unusual name— something like “Mauleverer”.
In fact, I met said barrister when we attended a dinner party (not my favourite activity) in Blackheath in, I think, 1987 or thereabouts, at which that barrister was also a guest. I was a belated Bar School student at the time (though about 31). The barrister in question must have been 40-something, but in my opinion looked 50+.
The hostess was a charming blonde lady of Polish origins (but I think born in the UK), whose familiar name I forget and was something like Dushka (but not that). Her husband was a friendly chap who seemed amused by that barrister’s seemingly dog-like devotion to the hostess.
If truth be known, the barrister in question struck me as a bit of a nitwit, and I was told that the hostess later said to my girlfriend that I had given more of an impression of being a senior barrister than the said real senior barrister, despite my being ten years younger and a mere Bar student.
Well, perhaps my view was wrong, or at least superficial, because I believe that I read that the barrister in question was then or not long afterwards a silk (QC, now of course KC) and later became a commercial arbitrator and judge (I think in Hong Kong), as well as a trustee of one or two well-known institutions. So maybe he was not a nitwit, at least not entirely. Or maybe our social system rewards people from privileged backgrounds who make the right noises. Take your choice.
More tweets
Tweeter “Mido” needs to know that, without the almost endless arms, ammunition, money, medical supplies, and other aid (eg food) being channeled to the Kiev regime from the West, the war would stop in a matter of weeks, perhaps even days, and what is left of the Ukrainian state and society would simply cease to function, also in weeks or days. Even state benefits and pensions in Ukraine are now being underwritten by the NWO/ZOG states.
As for troops, the Kiev regime is already pressing into service all sorts of people hitherto exempt. Kiev is running out of cannon-fodder.
Just imagine— were Biden to drop dead, that would be the new U.S. President…
Never assume that progress, or civilization, or culture, cannot just stop, or be destroyed, or that society cannot fall into decadence, backwardness, and evil. In the UK, a gradual slide is happening right now, all around us, but most people are still blind to it.
Late tweets
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 
I wonder how the Iranian Shah’s government controlled the production of heroin there? Was it better or worse than the Taliban?
I was totally opposed to our involvement in war against Iraq as I couldn’t see how any vital British national interest could be served by it but I wasn’t so opposed to the Afghan war.
If we disrupted their drug producing activities by it then it did some good.
To me, invading Afghanistan in order to try and stem their production of illicit drugs like heroin is a national interest of ours and the wider West as these drugs go onto our streets and are a cause of much ill health, deaths and are a significant contributing factor in our crime rates.
LikeLike
John:
I believe that I read, long ago, that poppy production in Iran, prior to the fall of the Shah, was widespread, and usually took place hidden amid legitimate crops (of course, aerial and satellite surveillance was then less developed). The product was then smuggled (no doubt with bribery being used) across remote borders into Turkey, where illicit laboratories would refine it into morphine base, or even into heroin (a more sophisticated operation technically). From there, the morphine base would be sent to France and elsewhere for refining; the heroin proper would be sent, one way or another, to the USA and elsewhere.
I expect that you have seen films such as Midnight Express and The French Connection.
Not that such films are 100% accurate, of course. Midnight Express certainly was not.
LikeLike
Hello Ian: I do not know what do you think about AI. I believe it is a double-edged sword. I shall give you an example of how dangerous might be if not checked, and this applies to the legal profession.
An American YouTuber posted a video where he mentioned a recent case in the US; a lawyer asked/ordered his robotic personal assistant to get some background information related to a case he had taken. His AI assistant supplied him with a series of cases that NEVER EXISTED. He discovered it, to his huge embarrassment, a bit too late when he was at court.
The assistant made-up all those “cases” (LOL)
Have you heard of something similar?
LikeLike
Claudius:
I am not really qualified to give an accurate opinion about AI, though I do take an interest in what is written about it in the msm. It seems to hold a great danger *if* the AI systems create systems which *cannot* be over-ridden by human agency, and/or if robotic mechanisms are created which then overwhelm human agency or calculating power. Also, the ghastly prospect of robot/AI/living organisms.
As to that legal case, no, I have never heard anything like it. Of course, I am scarcely any kind of lawyer now, after so many years out of that milieu.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, just look at that poor man above! How profoundly EVIL and anti-British the Tory scum and Labour are that they would rather fund a pointless war in Ukraine that Russia is highly likely to win anyway and illegal immigrants and blatantly fake, so-called ‘asylum seekers’ than British poor people jn great pain and need.
No wonder the so-called Conservative Party is polling just 22% to 25% of the national vote and looks destined for a landslide defeat at the next election. Not that Keir Starmer and his globalist, anti-British, deeply uninspiring rabble are any better.
Tory and Labour traitors should be publicly [redacted] in Trafalgar Square for what they have done and continue to do to our poor country just like this man accused and convicted of rape was in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea
LikeLiked by 1 person
Make public hangings great again!🤣😃😀😅🤣🤣🤣
https://en.wikipedia..org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea
https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Kentucky
LikeLike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Kentucky
LikeLike
Hello Ian: Here is the original video about AI, it includes a far more important story about a military drone. The author of the video makes the same point as you do: AI without close human supervision AND control is potentially lethal.
LikeLike
Claudius:
Thank you. I watched it.
For me, the point here is that, yes, people are talking about AI, but 999.99% or more of those people have no power to change the trajectory, none at all. The AI development continues to proliferate. Governments are not stopping it, partly because several, eg in China, are hoping to gain an advantage from it; individual people cannot stop or even slow this trend; companies cannot do more than slow it, because, as with governments, they hope to profit from it. The same goes for armies, air forces etc.
LikeLike