Well, 6/10 this week, thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Thought out of season
Not so long ago, Britain had a great empire, at peak (after 1919) controlling a nearly a third of this world. Britain took on and won —albeit not alone— great (if unnecessary) wars against both the second German Reich and the later Third Reich (in 1914-1918 and then 1939-1945) and, still later (in the post-1945 Cold War) the Soviet Union.
Now look. Brought down, or being brought down, by a ragtag “army” of blacks and browns (etc) that are not even, most of them, under arms. Migration invasion, and the consequent societal parasitism, cultural collapse, and racemixing (ethnic collapse).
All co-ordinated —at a high level— by those who are the enemies of the future of Britain and the rest of European and European-origined humanity.
While that happens, the mass of the British population are amused by TV game shows, televised spectator sports, gossip about supposed “celebrities” etc.
Russian forces struck a sea vessel to the south of Odessa carrying military cargo for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday:https://t.co/rvC4oP15kApic.twitter.com/wRQElruKni
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova and Human Rights Ombudsman of Ukraine Dmitry Lubinets have established good and trust-based relationships, which are important for human rights activists, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with… pic.twitter.com/cWYrmCj52D
According to journalist of Kyiv Post, Ukraine will not receive the promised 500 Patriot missiles before 2030.
Zelenskyy got emotional, but also confirmed the information that Ukraine will only receive a "donut hole" (meaning very little) in the coming years. pic.twitter.com/3m3qS05IV1
Hopefully, the Ukraine war will have ended by 2030, but Russia needs a gamechanger; the present attritional advance is far too slow.
In the past few hours, Shahed-4/5 kamikaze drones have struck targets in Dnipro and Pavlograd, as well as in the Kyiv and Kirovohrad regions. pic.twitter.com/L57M759FAN
The price of natural gas in the EU has increased by more than 250% since the beginning of the year, making it the most expensive commodity on global markets during the reporting period.
This is according to data from ICE Futures, CME Group, and the Shanghai Metal Exchange, as… pic.twitter.com/VsnACPmXwn
As previously and repeatedly blogged, Britain should leave NATO, not rejoin the oppressive EU, and should develop better relations with Russia. Cost-price gas, and a huge market for British products and services.
Several Middle Eastern media outlets have published maps of Iranian strike targets, covering eight countries.
It is stated that the "zero hour" strikes will occur within 24 hours of the start of a new attack by the United States and/or Israel.
[“Several Middle Eastern media outlets have published maps of Iranian strike targets, covering eight countries.
It is stated that the “zero hour” strikes will occur within 24 hours of the start of a new attack by the United States and/or Israel.
The targets are located in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Jordan, and include ports, airports, power plants, water treatment facilities, underwater cables, hotels, and shopping centers.“]
The Iranians are more than justifying the historical reputation of Persia for cunning and subtlety in diplomacy. Despite having only a tiny fraction of the military-destructive power available to the Americans, or even the Israelis, the Iranian leadership has been able to all but cripple the economies of the Gulf mini-states, and badly damage that of Israel.
Moreover, the whole security situation in the Gulf is affecting the economies of various parts of the world: parts of Asia, Europe, and the USA itself.
Meanwhile it is clear that Saudi Arabia is also in serious trouble via the attacks by the Yemeni Houthis.
As a child of 10-12, I used to think that the waves at Manly Beach (Sydney) were big sometimes, but that clip is another level.
Have a great weekend everyone. We have a small October meet up at one of our larger land locations, I'll post some photos up next week pic.twitter.com/pbzoZKOs1n
Russia possesses a large arsenal of nuclear weapons. Perhaps people have forgotten about this. So, we will remind them, because it is important. pic.twitter.com/RtnZV2Wpun
Iran has purchased millions of “fake” military equipment from China, such as fighter jets, air defense systems, tanks, and more, in order to deceive the US and Israeli air forces and trap them. pic.twitter.com/oer1F7peBk
Interesting piece by Tucker Carlson. Huckabee is effectively an agent of Israel. Hopefully, he will soon follow Lindsey Graham up the chimney.
Talking point
Well, at least Trump has not, as yet anyway, launched a war against Russia. That is his best point, and arguably his only good point.
Stray thought
I happened to see a few minutes or so of BBC TV News. Almost all about the recent Spanish rail crash. As on previous occasions, I fail to see the interest here, in the UK, in an unfortunate but foreign national or Spanish-regional matter. The same thing occurred after the Lisbon tram crash a couple of years ago. That dragged on for days.
With all the serious international news around, one would imagine that rail or tram crashes in other countries would be a fairly low priority.
I also have often wondered why the British TV always puts crashes of light aircraft on regional if not national TV news. After all, fatalities are usually one or two, no more than in car crashes, which happen daily. Are air crashes, crashes of Cessnas etc into ploughed fields, thought more newsworthy? I cannot see why.
Another thought, this time about Jews and Gaza
I see the usual UK-resident Jews prolific online still whining about how the mass slaughter in Gaza is not, they claim (for hairsplitting technical reasons) a “genocide”.
Well, the [Israeli] Jews have destroyed virtually all the houses and flats which housed about 2 million Gazans (not “6 million”, because there are only 2 million people there). The same [Israeli] Jews have also killed about 75,000 Gazans, of which the vast majority were civilians (at least 21,000 having been under the age of 18). They have also horribly wounded and/or mutilated hundreds of thousands, including large numbers of small children and babies.
The guilt devolving upon the Israeli Jews, the pro-Israel Jews living outside Israel/Palestine, and the pro-Israel non-Jews, from all that (and more) is not vitiated merely because a few Jewish lawyers say it is “not genocide”. Whether it be so labelled is actually irrelevant. They have done what they have done, and must —and will— bear the consequences of their sin.
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IN BRIEF: Russia pounds Ukraine’s defense plants, energy sites in massive overnight strike. In the city of Kiev, the strike hit a missile assembly and components plant manufacturing components for reconnaissance and strike drones, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:… pic.twitter.com/tsxBE2ovqC
The United States has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for $2.1 billion.
The purchase will be financed by Canada, Germany, Norway, and Ukrainian funds supported by the EU. The main contractor will be Lockheed Martin. pic.twitter.com/myxQUexqyY
More than 50 large US oil and gas companies earned over $130 billion from April to September, nearly triple their profit a year earlier. Refiners gained most due to tightened fuel supply from war damage to plants in the Middle East and Russia. pic.twitter.com/WlDS2XvmR0
Some residents of Alyoshki in the Kherson Region travelled freely towards Russia, while the others travelled to Ukraine, said Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Yana Lantratova.
This part of the video, he is describing Tikkun Olam. That’s what this is. A social justice practice in Judaism – and specifically from Lurianic Kabbalah pic.twitter.com/4Wbvu1ExkM
The country is a shit hole. We have an octopus wrapped around our neck strangling us to death.
And quite frankly I have no confidence we'll survive. It's tentacles are too embedded. A country cannot survive such levels of treason & treachery. It's impossible.
EU next seven-year budget will have to find at least €35 billion to repay old loans to Ukraine, EC wrote in a note seen by the European Politico edition:https://t.co/y4y2aSF6YBpic.twitter.com/z7iXvlAELv
Putin: Ukrainian forces mined the approaches to Aleksandrovka, creating a humanitarian catastrophe.
The mission in Aleksandrovka is aimed at helping the civilian population, and the situation there has been deteriorating for some time. The enemy deliberately pushed it towards a… pic.twitter.com/6LjLQ7jZKL
Liz Truss, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a mere 45 days, reflects on the significance of the position:
– "…the fact that we've had seven Prime Ministers in the last ten years speaks volumes about our country. It indicates that our system is broken. And… pic.twitter.com/fkEnhEG7Vu
Another indication that the UK political system is broken is that a woman of very mediocre ability can become an MP, firstly, on her back, and then be promoted to Cabinet minister and even Prime Minister…
The unconventional Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten:
– It's clear that we must continue to put pressure on Putin, so that he takes the negotiations seriously. He needs to understand that he is losing this war. He is losing not only on the battlefield, where the… pic.twitter.com/ZppqTvHZNp
Dutch bum-boy posing as statesman pretends to lay down the law to Putin. Meanwhile, the Netherlands, a country I really liked in the 1970s and 1980s, is degenerating in every way (and has been for at least 25 years). Putin must be shaking his head…
As I have been predicting on the blog for years. The “boat people” will, some of them, now have no need to cross the Channel, because they will, like millions of other non-Europeans, simply be “processed” (i.e. given visas) before they get to the Channel, or even before they leave their home countries.
This is socio-political treachery. This is the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. The Great Replacement. Migration invasion on a huge scale.
As far as I am concerned, expenses cheat, fraud, and Labour Friends of Israel member, Yvette Cooper, is a complete traitor to the British people.
Russian forces struck transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian army and enemy deployment sites over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/r26wi5Y54Gpic.twitter.com/v4bLifzQl9
Dozens of tons of humanitarian aid, including food, sanitary supplies, medicine and fuel, will be delivered to civilians in the town of Alyoshki, Yana Lantratova said.
Russia and NATO are moving closer to a direct military clash with each passing day, said Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe:https://t.co/H2g6DgYNHrpic.twitter.com/LMV9B12I5M
It starts at the Polish border, with luxury cars pouring into Ukraine. It continues with families denied compensation because of corruption, soldiers forced to pay for their own equipment, and families barely able to afford food. Ordinary people pay the price… https://t.co/slYEh45Wg3
According to CIA estimates, Iran has accumulated stockpiles of food and fuel that would be sufficient for several months of resistance in the event of renewed attacks by the United States.
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
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.
Tweets seen
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.
The US administration is considering the possibility of easing restrictions on blacklisted Russian and Iranian ships, the Financial Times (FT) newspaper wrote citing sources:https://t.co/VhvQYVLGWPpic.twitter.com/b0uK40NkTE
European leaders have achieved an incredible geopolitical hat-trick. First, they became energy-dependent on Russia, trade-dependent on China, and security-dependent on the United States, and then, in some inexplicable way, they managed to fall out with all three at the same time.… pic.twitter.com/wLkME5miy8
I watched an interview of a young woman the other day from Ukraine.
And she said, "President Zelensky has destroyed our country. President Zelensky has taken our men away from us. Our men have no legs, no arms. Our men, in many cases, are in mental…
British workers are being shafted. Between 2014 & 2025, 3.7 million jobs were added to payrolls. But only one in five, went to British people. Meanwhile, by 2030 foreign nationals will be claiming nearly £30 BILLION in welfare payouts !!https://t.co/nyG1Uh4WnA
Having sex with your cousin is considered extreme if it's pornography in Britain, while at the same time, 55% of Pakistanis in Britain are married to their cousins.
Will their wedding albums fall under the Obscene Publications Act after this ban? https://t.co/6XCTReKVoS
Russia’s battlegroup North has established full control over the Volchansk-Budarki highway, which Ukrainian troops had been trying to use as a logistics supply route, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/npwvKNPXmupic.twitter.com/ZypyfeybDn
I presume bulletproofed. If not, over-priced, arguably…
Russian troops liberated 12 communities in the Kharkov and Zaporozhye Regions and the Donetsk People’s Republic over the week of October 10-16, including two communities during the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:… pic.twitter.com/cmq2jbo9aF
Politics is an endlessly interesting passtime, if it doesn't lead to power in 2029 that route will be pretty much shut off.
We will continue to add benefits and resources to The Woodlander Initiative as well as empowering our members. To ensure existence. pic.twitter.com/79Gt3t9kLf
Most jobs added to payrolls in Britain have gone to overseas workers. And at the very same time British workers are being forced to spend tens of billions in welfare payouts for foreign nationals.
Calum Miller spent months calling the MoD Bicester plan for 1,256 men “the wrong site,” “totally inappropriate,” and bad for his constituents. Then when Parliament voted to condemn it, he (and every other Lib Dem) abstained. The women of Piddington were in the gallery. Conservatives and Reform voted against the camp. Their local MP did nothing. Talks a good game. Disappears when it counts.“]
Typical LibDem. Utter waste of space.
Russian oil companies are ready to start shipments of diesel fuel to global markets at any moment, with commercial terms being negotiated now, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on the sidelines of Russian Energy Week:https://t.co/FFwdUsLgwEpic.twitter.com/lZspyF5IY9
Russia’s Federal Security Service detained a Swedish national who had fought alongside Kiev for illegally crossing the Russian border to carry out terrorist attacks on military facilities:https://t.co/AsIrTjro7lpic.twitter.com/VFNf4LZgSW
Air defenses intercepted and destroyed 166 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian regions during the past night, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Kharkov Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/Ei63aLEEIcpic.twitter.com/t7QxAbaxQQ
"Only about 10% of Germans support further aid to Ukraine. Or, to put it another way, 90% of Germans are against continuing to spend German taxpayers' money in Ukraine. Act accordingly."
Alice Weidel, leader of the German party "Alternative for Germany" (AfD), delivered a speech… pic.twitter.com/ZdwiJPvAkg
[“”Only about 10% of Germans support further aid to Ukraine. Or, to put it another way, 90% of Germans are against continuing to spend German taxpayers’ money in Ukraine. Act accordingly.”
Alice Weidel, leader of the German party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), delivered a speech in which a significant portion was dedicated to the issue of German support for Ukraine and relations with Russia:
“While you are trying to virtually single-handedly finance a proxy war against the nuclear power of Russia, our European partners are already cautiously showing restraint.
And while you approve one package of sanctions after another, thereby destroying our own economy and state finances, the United States and Russia are negotiating the supply of diesel fuel and concluding other agreements that are beneficial to both sides.”]
Pity the UK has no such politicians.
"I am a genius"
Trump delivered a speech at a rally. Here are some other things the "genius" said:
💊 I am number one in the TikTok popularity rankings.
💊 Canada will eventually become the 51st state of the United States.
…and look at the deadhead nodding dogs in the audience!
When you understand the system is your enemy and that it is designed to hold you down, crush you and eventually destroy you and have you replaced by a Somalian, the intelligent thing to do is EXIT the system.https://t.co/3XziTpe0Rypic.twitter.com/iggzREncBa
6 locations. Number 7 being viewed and negotiated. Land is our most precious resource, it should be conserved and used for our benefit.
The Woodlander Initiative has achieved great things in the past 2 years, the future belongs to those who build today so we have tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/NOIhdYotlY
In any case, soon (if not already), the UK inhabitants of that age-group will be mostly non-white, so non-British in any real sense, with little or no emotional connection to, or respect for, our history and culture. Why would they fight for a Britain that scarcely exists any more?
The women of Piddington came all the way to Parliament and the MPs who say they speak for women couldn't find the time to sit on those benches. People notice who shows up.
Those MPs are in the pockets of either the Jew-Zionist manipulators, or the Islamist plotters in their constituencies. In a few cases, both apply.
Westminster monkeyhouse.
Get him back and ask him about the recently ex-partner facing trial for indecent child images. She was charged a long time ago, he would’ve known. I’m sure he’ll be happy to clear it up. https://t.co/QYsPHu7ywQ
Drunken cocaine-abuser, fraudster, and doormat for Israel and the Jewish lobby, Michael Gove, I have blogged about several times, many times, over the years. As for Rory Stewart, he just becomes more and more ludicrous. My very popular assessment of Stewart (from 2019, but with updates):
As to Gove’s former (?) girlfriend, Lola Salem, the mainstream media are saying almost nothing about her since she was committed for Crown Court trial a week ago on charges of possessing indecent images of children.
The mother of Henry Nowak's murderer who tried to help cover up the crime is set to walk free after serving ***less than half*** of her three year prison sentence thanks to the Labour Party's early release scheme.
Only £369 to go, and we've raised a quarter of a million pounds. Money raised by our members and supporters to use building for our peoples future. If you'd like to get us over the line, hit the link below.. share if you can.https://t.co/fO5MapAXZzpic.twitter.com/W0zCw7Hc9g
Last night’s drone attack on Moscow became one of the largest this year, according to calculations by TASS based on official data from the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin:https://t.co/AmilVoVTxApic.twitter.com/6mSvcRDS3I
Russian forces hit military-industrial facilities and logistics centers as well as railway and port infrastructure as a result of last night’s strikes, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday morning.
On “British” TV etc, you only see the Ukrainian conflict from the Kiev-regime side.
MBS IS FINISHED: THE HOUSE OF SAUD FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer, warns that Mohammed bin Salman has entered a death spiral with no way out. A war launched in 2014 for quick military glory has become a 12-year… pic.twitter.com/ISfuGpWCXB
[“MBS IS FINISHED: THE HOUSE OF SAUD FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer, warns that Mohammed bin Salman has entered a death spiral with no way out. A war launched in 2014 for quick military glory has become a 12-year nightmare that is now physically dismantling Saudi oil production. The American umbrella has failed, allies will not ride to the rescue, and the kingdom is losing decisively. The only remaining question is how fast the collapse arrives.
THE CORE VERDICT
Ritter states the demise of Muhammad bin Salman is inevitable.
“He’s finished.”
If lucky he catches the last gold-plated 747 out of Riyadh to a London hideaway or the United States.
If not, his head is removed by sword amid shouts of Allahu Akbar.
“It’s the end of the House of Saud.”
THE 2014 STRATEGIC ERROR
MBS tried to earn his military spurs with a fast victory over Ansar Allah.
The campaign turned into a 12-year nightmare.
His later decision to expand the war by striking Sanaa airfield only accelerated the destruction.
There is no political off-ramp left and no salvation coming.
THE OIL DESTRUCTION
Ansar Allah is no longer limited to blocking Bab el-Mandeb or hitting pipelines and storage.
They are now attacking production facilities and the wells themselves.
“This is the end of Saudi Arabia.”
Without oil the entire Vision 2030 fantasy collapses into what Ritter calls a Bedouin-infested sand pit with nothing left.
NO ALLIES WILL SAVE HIM
The American security umbrella proved nonfunctional.
Saudi forces are ineffective, overweight, proxy-driven and overmatched.
Pakistan faces massive Imran Khan protests and will not send tens of thousands of troops into a losing desert war.
Turkey has no interest in dying for the Saudis.
The Mecca Pact is a joke of maps and chalkboards with no real troop movement.
THE RIYADH PREDICTION
If MBS is removed and internal fighting follows, Ritter says Ansar Allah columns could drive through the streets of Riyadh.
Saudis have feared this outcome since 1990.
“Saudi Arabia is losing this war decisively. And there’s nothing that can be done to save them.”
The world will experience the same shock that hit when the Shah of Iran fell in 1979.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Scott Ritter sees MBS as toast and the House of Saud heading toward the same abrupt end that surprised everyone in 1979. Energy production is being dismantled, no outside force will intervene, and the collapse is already underway. History is about to deliver a shock that almost no one in the West has priced in.”]
Labour supporters who didn’t really know much about Burnham and were giddy with excitement when he got the job must be nearing the devastated stage about now. The man has been an absolute flop.
Refers to Burnham’s stupid comment to the effect that Russia somehow procured the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote. Now Burnham admits that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that. He is pathetic.
If white people did this it would plastered all over the news as an evil white supremacist community and some Jewish person would come out of the woodwork and sue them for discrimination.
[“Historic Milestone in Florida as Over 80 Orthodox Jewish Families Move Into New $100 Million-Plus Community and Schools Open
More than 80 families from New York have moved into Lakefront Estates, where schools have now opened. Dozens more families are expected in the coming weeks, following reported investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the project.
Located in Glades County near Lake Okeechobee, Lakefront is a purpose-built residential community. The broader development plan calls for up to 1,000 single-family homes and 300 rental units.
The vision goes beyond housing: plans include synagogues, mikvahs, boys’ and girls’ schools, a yeshiva, a kollel, kosher shopping and medical services. Developers are targeting families seeking more space and an alternative to soaring housing costs in established Orthodox neighborhoods.
Hatzalah South Florida has also begun organizing a local branch, meeting with prospective responders who will serve Lakefront. With families arriving and classrooms opening, the focus now shifts from construction to building the services a growing community needs.“]
FSB detained a Russian woman suspected of preparing a drone attack on a military airfield on orders from the Security Service of Ukraine, the FSB said in a statement.
Russian forces have destroyed over 260,000 Ukrainian military drones since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, according to the latest report released by Russia’s Defense Ministry:https://t.co/I8AdAgKuAmpic.twitter.com/c7gIP0B9t5
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 AOL have now deleted their story about Dr. Lola Salem, ex-girlfriend of Michael Gove.
The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, GB News and LBC all published news reports that Dr. Salem had been charged with possessing indecent images of children, then deleted it. https://t.co/iZJZmpf7uTpic.twitter.com/913wkIwo8L
It has been suggested that there may now be some variety of superinjunction in place, an injunction which prevents being published even the fact of its existence. I wonder. The msm deletions would seem to support that theory, but how can such an injunction cover even the fact that a woman has not only been charged but has been committed for trial?
Apart from that, I have nothing further to say at this time about Lola Salem and the horrible little degenerate, Gove, having said it all in the past few days on the blog, and previously.
Diesel power plants in the United States have declared a state of emergency in 13 states due to a shortage of diesel fuel. pic.twitter.com/Va9jSs7Nj7
A correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia’s Far East has been detained on suspicion of espionage, transported to Moscow and placed in custody, the FSB said:https://t.co/QIlz7lMofx
Relations between Russia and Japan continue to deteriorate.
Labour is clearly gearing up to re-join the European Union without asking the people, to turbo-charge immigration from Afghanistan & Gaza without asking the people, to dropping ID checks at elections without any serious scrutiny.
If the next general election does not move things in at least a generally social-national way, the British people will be fully justified in taking whatever action is required to save this country.
