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Saturday quiz
Well, this week a firm victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored a modest 3/10, which was trumped by my 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, and 7 and, though I had an idea about question 3, did not get the name.
Tweets seen
[“Ukraine: the video embarrassing Kiev, filmed by Swedish television itself A few seconds before SVT’s live broadcast from central Kiev, Bengt Norborg’s team’s camera captures a scene to say the least brutal: several men pounce on a Ukrainian and forcibly bundle him into a van. The most embarrassing thing for Kiev? It’s not an anonymous video from Telegram.
It’s Swedish public television that filmed the scene.
It’s their own correspondent who notes that a man has just been arrested to be mobilized.
And SVT itself describes a hunt conducted day and night in Ukrainian streets. (SVT Nyheter) According to SVT, up to two million men are trying to evade mobilization within the country, while recruitment service and police patrols continue to search for them.“]
To be forcibly “recruited” by the goons of the Kiev regime is as good as a death sentence. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men per day on its crumbling front lines.
Meanwhile, the recent ballistic missile attacks on Kiev have (as predicted on the blog some time ago) made the point that Russia will not tolerate the daily escalation by the Kiev side in attacks on Russian civilian areas. Russian patience is now wearing very thin, I think.
Neither side should be directly targeting civilians. The Russian side has hit Ukrainian civilians mostly as collateral damage (not that that makes it any the more bearable for the victims) but the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting Russian civilians; their homes, hospitals, warehouses, school buses etc.
So the Kiev regime is currently sending about 350 drones every day, and that is only to the Moscow region.
[“It has become clear why the video of the victims was blurred in Ukraine, following the Iskander strike with a cluster munition component on trucks near Kyiv in Boryspil.
In the photos taken inside the burned-out trucks, you can see transport and launch systems for long-range drones, specifically the FP-2.”]
15 million (mostly) untermenschen have flooded into Germany in recent years. Mad.
Germany, like the UK, is a fake “democracy”. The facade is democratic, but that soon morphs into tyranny, when stressed.
Talking point
Ha ha! I had better say nothing…
More tweets
[“Pointless looking at individual polls which are out of whack with all the others. Look at the weekly poll of polls. Labour’s at 26 – a crushing loss that would leave them with 220-260 seats – and Reform’s at 25. It’s fractionally better in the Andy Honeymoon phase but still disastrous and likely to get worse not better. Still disastrous for the Tories too. The complacency from everyone is stunning. Reform are a mess but still polling at 25. Nobody’s found the antidote. Hence #Moderates!“]
Leaving aside that lady’s own fantasy political party, the “Moderates”, I agree with the rest of that. Reform are a disaster in every way but one, i.e. that they will be (continue to be) voted for as a default attack on the old System parties. People see nothing good in those old parties; to get rid of them, they have to vote Reform despite its poor policy offering. People are voting against, rather than for, and that has been the case for several years now.
(((Typical)))?
The Jew backed down and deleted his Twitter/X account once he realized that his business, and his money, might be affected….
(((Typical)))?
Late tweets seen
Never forget…
Britain really is a joke country now. Not only is Lammy an MP and indeed Cabinet minister, but is now also appointed a Bencher at my old Inn of Court, Lincoln’s, whereas —by reason of my wrongful and unlawful disbarment in 2016— I myself am now persona non grata there. Sour grapes aside, is it not truly ridiculous? False modesty aside, I should be the one in government (and respected elsewhere), not that stupid monkey.
I know that others have been unjustly degraded, historically, whether it be Jesus Christ or Sir Thomas More (or Hitler, if you like), but it really is absurd.
Sometimes you have to accept Fate, without however accepting the rightness of it.
I was surprised to discover, last year, that I had (though only very slightly) met one or two of the defendant’s relatives in the mid-1980s; I blogged about it:
[“Bashirov: All the bad things Ukraine is doing are the work of British intelligence services.
LONDON PROVOKES CONFLICTS AROUND THE WORLD IN EVERY WAY AND SUPPORTS THEM BECAUSE IT PROFITS FROM THEM.
Approximately 75% of its GDP comes from services: banking, insurance, marketing, and the stock market. The British control about 10% of the global services market. If Russia, the United States, and China one day agree on a new transportation and economic model, many British brokerage firms will become unnecessary.
Trump began fighting for transportation corridors. He not only expelled China from Venezuela, but also Chinese port companies from the Panama Canal. He closed it. Trump is also controlling the current Suez Canal crisis with the help of Israel. Things are more complicated with China, but he has secured control of the European market.”]
Looks like the UK is in the gunsights of some of the Russian leadership, or those around them, which would not be the case were the UK not controlled by the NWO/ZOG cabals.
The tweet seems to refer to this individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Bashirov.
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Ian Robert Millard 
OK, here is my VERY modest contribution to the Quiz:
No. 5 =The Spice Islands
No. 7 = Brazil (I found out that I was wrong, so I take this as a failure)
No. 9 = Peggy Guggenheim
I am quite sure the other two answers are correct. A VERY poor result.
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Claudius:
As you say, “Peggy Guggenheim” and “the Spice Islands” were correct, but Brazil not (as you now know, the correct answer was Colombia. I also guessed wrongly. I thought one of the countries in that region, maybe Venezuela. I thought it had to be a country in that part of the continent).
If you are interested, the other answers I knew or later discovered were “Sparks” (Marks & Spencer and a rock duo), “custard creams” (biscuit), neither of which I knew, the ones I did know being your two answers and also “Edward VII” (delayed coronation), “board game” (Nine Men’s Morris), “Three Men on the Bummel” (Jerome K. Jerome), and “copy of U.S. Constitution” (National Archives, Kew, discovery).
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The scope of your knowledge is amazing. I was really surprised when I found out that Brazil was not the right answer. My first thought was “the rainforest of the Amazon River”; therefore, I said to myself: “That´s it, it must be Brazil!” WRONG! HAHAHAHAHA
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A very good English film from the 1970s with a great cast: Eric Porter, Edward Woodward and Peter Egan.
Callan – The Movie (1080p) st. Edward Woodward, Eric Porter
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Claudius:
Thank you. May take a look later (I think I may have seen it long ago on TV or video).
The Callan TV series I certainly saw. I once read the short book on which that series was based: A Red File for Callan. I still remember the story, 50 years on.
Ah, I see just now that in fact the book was based on the pilot for the TV series, so the other way around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_(film)
Incidentally, I see that that fine actor, Peter Egan, appears in the film. He used to retweet me, a few times, many many years ago, re. animal welfare, a subject close to his heart. He was very good in A Perfect Spy.
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