This week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 10. I really should have got numbers 4 and 10, but there it is.
“Two amphibious warships are set to be ‘mothballed’ in a move critics have said could spell ‘the beginning of the end’ for the Royal Marines, as the Navy tries to tackle a sailor shortage crisis.
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be retired from active service under plans put forward by Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, according to The Times.
The plans would be designed to help deal with the manpower crisis in the Royal Navy, freeing up more than 200 sailors for other ships – most likely the force’s new fleet of Type 26 frigates when they come into service.
But the move has been slammed by critics who say the ships are crucial to the functioning of the elite commando force, with experts saying their retirement would weaken the Marines by diminishing their ability to storm beaches from the sea.”
[Daily Mail]
Ha ha! In what world does Britain presently need the “ability to storm beaches“? Not the world where the only “storming” of beaches is by migrant-invaders invading the UK.
As far as I am concerned, the armed forces have virtually no useful role in a Britain becoming totally alien, and which soon will have nothing its inhabitants will wish to defend anyway.
Come to think of it, I was just watching an episode of Spooks, a TV series I did not see when it was first broadcast. That led me to thoughts around what use is MI5. The damage (possibly mortal) being done to the UK is not by spies infiltrating government offices, and not by anarchists or others wanting to assassinate MPs etc, but by a tsunami of immigration, and by the cultural trashing of our mass media, publishing, schools etc. About all that, MI5 has nothing to say, and even less to do.
“A man and a teenager have been convicted of murder after detectives used CCTV footage to track down their escape routes home.
[defendant]
Nah’shun Thomas, 20, of Bournemouth Road in Peckham, and a 17-year-old who cannot be identified because of his age were convicted on Friday January 5 of murdering Kalabe Legesse in Peckham Rye.“
[Evening Standard]
More “diversity”.
How on Earth can we create a more advanced society without —without creating— a more advanced population? Instead, the UK is nosediving to demographic disaster. The overall IQ of the population is sliding, and has been for some time. Not surprising when you look at specimens such as that in the above photograph.
complete Israeli withdrawal from the areas of the Gaza and North governorates to the cover areas, with the exception of Al-Tawam and Al-Maqousi Towers.
Israeli Channel 12: A state of fear prevails among the residents of the North and the Golan, especially after today's targeting that shook the region. There are several injuries that have been transported to Safed hospitals.
Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That's not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly. It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our… pic.twitter.com/Kgx2LgOuKQ
“Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That’s not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly.
It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our assistance on the ground and in the air – all of it failed against the Russians.
The only thing we have achieved is that we have increased Russia’s prestige, power and influence in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what we said we wanted to achieve.”
Massive destruction caused by the Israeli bombing of the Palestine Mosque area in Gaza pic.twitter.com/EoN8cUSsOM
There will be no aid to Ukraine without congressional approval – Biden administration
“Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, emphasized that there is no other way to help Ukraine except for Congress to approve additional funding,” the Associated Press… pic.twitter.com/OwUGixWTYA
It's also now beyond doubt mass immigration is worsening Britain's wider housing crisis. You can pretend it's not happening & put your head in the sand. Or like our community you can get real about the problems facing Britain and talk about them openly https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
The facts would be even more striking if the msm etc stopped calling people “British” just because they have a UK passport.
The worst thing for our soul is to go through life not knowing who we are.
If our identity is taken from us then all we have left is to flail around in darkness, satisfying ourselves with even the most vacuous and superficial of identities that we can relate ourselves to; all in… pic.twitter.com/dtbb7kCmTd
A picture of Mike Pence, the former vice president of the United States, visiting and signing an artillery shell to be fired by the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/j6zI9l05Xt
After an absence of decades, pine martens are now present across the New Forest and successfully breeding here according to the results of a three-year study. https://t.co/ViMyKo7zkz
Pipe down love. Hes an unelected WEF stooge driving this country into oblivion. Starmer will continue on the same path if he gets in, as it’s the same hand that controls these clowns. But you already knew that
I wonder how many are embedded in the UK political parties at Westminster.
In one of the desert regions of China, a full-size replica of the newest American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford for target practice. pic.twitter.com/uxzWyRcZhY
…and the Kiev-regime navy is nowhere to be seen (because the Kiev regime no longer has a navy…).
🇮🇱 Israel's Defense Ministry says 12,500 of its soldiers may be classified as disabled after the war, meaning they have varying degrees of disability pic.twitter.com/o6hnZYEoj0
As Enoch Powell said about 55 years ago, “we must be mad, literally mad” [to allow this flood of uselessness].
One reason so many doctors in Britain are from abroad (& often less qualified than British ones) is because for years both Left & Right FAILED to expand medical school places for British kids. We reject thousands each year. Once again, short-term sticking plaster rather than… https://t.co/NxyRCo9L1r
The very parts of the economy that should be in public ownership. Railways. Water supply. Energy (on the large scale). Royal Mail and post office services.
Rachel Reeves can find money to cut income tax or national insurance, but can't find the money to end the two child benefit cap. https://t.co/OdZxCNQAZU
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel member. Expenses and perks freeloader. Failed to pay back her interest-free House of Commons credit card debt for years…
Anyone who thinks that the likely Starmer-Labour government from 2024-25 will be better than the bunch of clowns currently in office is being very very silly.
Having said that, the only way to (“peacefully”) destabilize the failed two-party rigged system in the UK is to destroy at least one major party. The “Conservatives” have volunteered, by their corrupt ineptitude, to be that party. At the upcoming General Election, all that is required is for people to punish the Con Party by not voting for it. Either abstain, or vote anywhere but Con.
Tice, of Reform UK, is scarcely my kind of politician, but he has caught the mood. In a recent interview (a few days ago), Tice made the necessary point: punish (his word) the Con Party, no matter whether voting for Reform UK means more Labour MPs. Labour will almost certainly “win” anyway, and almost certainly with a large majority. Think strategically. Wipe out the Con Party by either abstaining or by voting anywhere but Con.
Good. Another total waste of space gone. I never liked what I saw about or from him.
“He is also a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs, founded by Liz Truss, and along with Truss, Priti Patel, Kwasi Kwarteng and Dominic Raab, he co-authored After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012). The authors of Britannia Unchained claimed that “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” [Wikipedia].
So wrote a man who has never done a day’s actual or non-political work in his life. He was even useless as an MP and junior minister, getting sacked at least three times from various portfolios (despite having been one of the least rebellious and most toadying of the Conservative MP-cadre).
Skidmore tries to present an “intellectual” front, but not convincingly. He does not have the horsepower, when all is said and done.
Skidmore, though now claiming to have resigned on a matter of principle, had himself earlier said (in 2022) why he would not be continuing as MP:
“On 26 November 2022, Skidmore announced that he would be standing down at the next general election, later stating in Parliament that ‘my constituency of Kingswood is being formally abolished in the boundary changes and there is nowhere for me to go.’[37][38][39]” [Wikipedia].
Translation: he has been both useless and disliked as MP and junior minister, and no other constituency would want him once his present one is abolished. In any case, there may well be few Conservative Party seats left after 2024.
Skidmore has spun getting kicked out of Parliament (by the time of the 2024 General Election) as a principled resignation, no doubt hoping to be given some lucrative and maybe environment-oriented quango appointment later. He might have been better to wait to see whether he would be in line for a peerage. No chance of that now.
…and the Zionist Jews in the UK, at least those making public statements on Twitter/X and/or on msm, are following that line; as are political doormats such as Starmer and that little Indian money-juggler currently posing as Prime Minister.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: 4% of Gaza population killed, missing or wounded, 70% of buildings destroyed, as war enters fourth month pic.twitter.com/GZu8LaAejc
'Fundamentally, British people need to be housed first.'@GoodwinMJ says 'close to half of all social housing in London goes to households who are headed by somebody who is not born in Britain'.
“The Tories have been lying —they’ve been gaslighting the British people, promising them one thing while delivering something else altogether.
They promised “lower overall numbers” only to then send net migration soaring to levels that have simply never been seen before in British history.
They promised to “take back control” and restore Britain’s status as a self-governing nation only to then completely lose control of Britain’s borders.
And now –as the latest data shows– we can see that while they promised a high-skill, high-wage, and highly-selective immigration policy that would attract “the best and the brightest” global talent they have instead delivered the very opposite.
They’ve further pushed open the floodgates to a new era of low-skill, low-wage immigration from outside Europe —the very kind of immigration which, as the latest studies show, is a net cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies and welfare states.
They need to stop lying to the British people. They need to level with the British people and admit that what they have delivered since the vote for Brexit is the total opposite of what they promised.
The British people deserve better than this. And it’s high time somebody speaks up and gives it to them. They deserve the truth. And they deserve leaders who will give them nothing but the truth.”
…and they deserve political leaders and parties not in hock to the international Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby.
[Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, 1936; “Speer described the effect: “The feeling was of a vast room, with the beams serving as mighty pillars of infinitely light outer walls“.[7][3] The British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Neville Henderson, described it as “both solemn and beautiful… like being in a cathedral of ice“.[1] —Wikipedia]
Housing as a national 'top issue' is up 8pts to 25% since the beginning of last year, making it the issue where concern has grown most – immigration is also up 7pts to 39%.
@Keir_Starmer, I can’t believe that you’ve selected to head the Labour Party replacing Jeremy Corbyn. The UK will be no better off with you as PM. Your unconditional support of Israel makes you complicit in genocide. Do the country a favour and resign the leadership. @kennardmatthttps://t.co/P9ZQbhGQ9O
That weasel Starmer, with his almost shamefaced (as well as shameful) self-serving lack of moral compass —albeit concealed behind a facade of faux-“decency”— reminds me very much of Cecil Parkinson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Parkinson].
Americans no longer believe in Kyiv's victory – The Washington Examiner
More than half of Americans believe that the fighting in Ukraine has reached a stalemate, The Washington Examiner reports, citing a Rasmussen Reports poll.
One of my most bizarre moments in 2023 was attending a debate in Oxford to find senior academics denying evidence on the widespread sexual exploitation of young white working class girls by mainly Muslim Pakistani gangs. Here's what happened.https://t.co/2XFSjqnEnW
We were told we would get a high-skill immigration policy which fuels economic growth. But much of the immigration into Britain, we now know, is low-skill, from outside the EU & a net fiscal cost not plus to the economy. Somebody has to be honest with the British people in 2024. https://t.co/ZBirF3iemM
The little Indian money-juggler must be well-aware that most voters (even former Conservative voters) view the state of the country as terrible and getting worse.
If a general election is held “now” or soon, i.e. sometime in Spring 2024, the Conservative Party MP-cadre may be all but wiped out— possibly with only about 50 MPs left, though maybe 100 or, if Sunak is exceptionally lucky, 150.
If, on the other hand, the 2024 General Election is delayed until the winter of 2024, the state of the UK will almost inevitably be yet worse, and therefore the popularity of the (supposedly) governing Con Party will be even lower.
The usual stresses on NHS, transport etc will be even more severe, and the international situation may place greater stresses on the economy. Added to those factors, the migration-invasion will have continued for another year (nearly). On those premises, the Con Party may face not only the possibility but the probability that it will be reduced to something like 50 MPs.
It seems to me, therefore, that the GE will take place in late Summer or early Autumn, before the cold weather again arrives. So about 6-9 months from now. That gives time for Labour to make mistakes.
Even so, it seems unlikely (even in the “glorious uncertainty” of the UK electoral system) that the Conservative Party can hope for an MP-cadre much if at all higher than 100; certainly no more than 150. 150 would be bad for the Con Party (similar, though worse, to 1997 and 2001), whereas 100 or fewer would be seen as disastrous.
For me, perhaps for others in the social-national milieu, the main thing is to break the whole binary electoral system, which presents, every 4-5 years, a false choice to the electorate.
If the Conservative Party is trashed in the 2024 General Election, Labour will be able to form an elected dictatorship even worse than under Blair and Brown. That will lead to popular discontent (when it fails to address the several major challenges facing the UK), with the people even more eager to embrace a new way forward under a new political party or movement, and with the small rump Conservative Party having no credibility as an alternative government.
“A Las Vegas judge was pounced on and attacked by a criminal during a hearing after she denied him bail.
Judge Mary Kay Holthus from the Clark County District Court was mid-sentencing when convicted criminal Deobra Delone Redden launched at her on Wednesday morning.
Video footage shows the wild moment Redden leaped out from where he was standing and hopped into the judge’s bench to tackle her.“
[Daily Mail]
Ha ha! Not that I myself would do the same (regular readers of the blog will know that I recently joined the convict classes, having made the mistake of thinking that England still had left at least some free speech or freedom of expression).
The American incident reported upon above reminds me of another incident, which happened when I was a Bar pupil (trainee barrister). That must have been in 1992.
The case involved two West Indians alleged to have robbed a petrol station in NW London, using a machete. They had been arrested the same evening, not very long afterwards, in the (alleged) getaway car.
There were oddities in the evidence. The car had been searched following the stop. No money or weapons had been found. Later, at the police station, a further search revealed a wad of cash. A week later, a further search “discovered” a container full of coins (allegedly from the filling station) and a machete. The allegation from the defendants was that everything had been planted.
In fact, though I did not know said little twerp barrister, I recognized him, having been on the Bar Finals course with him (and hundreds of others) in 1987-88. I however had gone to the USA a while after that, so had not been Called to the (English) Bar until 1991; I also qualified at and was Admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.
All this took place at Wood Green Crown Court. As a Bar pupil, in 1992, I was there fairly frequently.
[Wood Green Crown Court, North London]
Both defendants were in custody, having been refused bail prior to trial.
The evidence against the defendants was non-existent, save for that “found” in the car. There was no cctv evidence, no fingerprint evidence, no DNA evidence (this was in 1992, and such evidence was still in its infancy). The (apparently) diminutive Indian cashier in the petrol station had been terrified, and gave no testimony. Neither did the defendants.
Despite the paucity of evidence, the jury came back with “Guilty” verdicts. There was a moment of silence. A member of the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad then gave the judge a rundown of the previous most relevant convictions of the defendants. The judge knew most of that already, as did Counsel, but of course the jury did not. There were gasps as the long list of increasingly-serious convictions was read out, topped finally by the information that the defendants still faced another upcoming trial in which they would stand accused (at the Old Bailey) of conspiring to rob building society branches, armed with sawn-off shotguns.
The judge listened patiently while, for 20 minutes, little twerp barrister attempted to mitigate. My pupilmaster declined to attempt any mitigation. The judge then sentenced the two to exactly the same term— 5 years each.
Another moment of silence preceded an explosion from the dock (behind us) as the defendants shouted out (to the jury) “YOU DOGS! YOU FUCKING WHITE DOGS!“.
The jury members (in fact not all white, there being one black woman and at least one Indian) quailed; I thought that one woman jury member might faint or cry out, though she bravely sat it out. The little twerp Counsel looked nervously over his shoulder, as did my pupilmaster. I had also looked round as the outburst had happened, but now pretended to be writing (in order to seem stoic, I think, pointless and perhaps ludicrous as that was).
The defendants then tried to fight their way out of and over the dock. The judge pressed his concealed button but stayed seated. His face was that “Judicial Livid” (red/purple) that I later saw once or twice at the High Court when a judge did not wholly appreciate my argument…
After a lot of banging, thudding, and swearing, the defendants were subdued by the two prison guards accompanying them. Other court security people then entered the courtroom. The defendants were taken down (to the cells below).
Just a day in the life, as they say.
Late music
[German; 16thC, Three Couples in a Circle Dance, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper; Rosenwald Collection]
Most of which are either women or persons aged under-18.
Since the beginning of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 4,000 schoolchildren and students in Gaza, the Palestinian Government Information Office reported.
Everyone in Gaza is hungry! Every day is a desperate search for food. People often go all day and night without eating. Adults starve so children can eat. pic.twitter.com/mBgOmXmvUt
The US national debt has exceeded 34 billion dollars for the first time in history, according to updated data from the US Ministry of Finance, as reported by "RIA Novosti". According to experts, the US government will have to spend up to a third of budget revenues just to service… pic.twitter.com/S2v0d0nJZ9
It is always hard to assess what is the reality behind figures of that sort.
US national debt reaches $34 trillion for first time in history – The Washington Post
“Washington spent money as if it had endless resources. But there will be no more free lunch, and the prospects are pretty bleak,” said economist Son Won-sung, interviewed by the publication pic.twitter.com/Aptp3A76Cv
Israeli officials have been conducting secret negotiations with the African state of Congo and several other countries on the potential acceptance of refugees from the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported today.
"Congo is willing to accept refugees, but we are in negotiations…
So there it is. Israeli Jews are planning to deport non-Jews to Africa. Ironically, Hitler and the SS had a similar plan in the 1930s, to deport Jews to Madagascar. That might have really worked, and would not have created this “Israel”, which now (via its worldwide web) menaces the whole world.
Avigdor Lieberman, the former minister of war of the Israeli regime, said that the regime may have to re-occupy southern Lebanon for 50 years. pic.twitter.com/hYfyt6FP6g
The long-term plan seems to be “Greater Israel”, which some dismiss as a “conspiracy theory”…
The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse… pic.twitter.com/tof57nmgAZ
“The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska.
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse with missiles for the Patriot air defense system were destroyed (in fact, this is why the Americans, headlong, announced the supply of shells for these same systems).“
🇵🇱The head of the Polish Foreign Ministry , proposed giving Ukraine long-range missiles to attack command centers on Russian territory pic.twitter.com/mh2EueeLob
That, if it were to happen, might trigger a Russian response of such a kind, and on such a scale, that a major regional war, or even a world war, might in turn then be triggered; so not a very intelligent suggestion. Or is that what the System wants to happen?
“The conflict between Zelensky and Zaluzhny is growing in Kiev: no one wants to take responsibility for the new law on mobilization.
The Financial Times again writes about the conflict between the political and military elites in Ukraine.
It is connected with the upcoming draft law on mobilization, within the framework of which it is planned to conscript at least 500 thousand people into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Neither side appears willing to take full responsibility for conscripting hundreds of thousands of possibly reluctant Ukrainians to serve in a grim, grueling war,” writes FT columnist Ben Hall.”
The Kiev regime has run out of soldiers after the huge number killed, badly wounded, or captured. Zelensky’s cabal is trying to call up people over 40, over 50, even over 60. Also, some disabled people and those who care for them. The conscription or draft offices are riddled with corruption (bribery to avoid being drafted), and the main reason many have escaped Ukraine to Western and Central Europe is to avoid military service.
In the longer term, Ukraine as a “state” (failed state) has no future in terms of demographics. Young men are either fighting, or have been killed, or are hors de combat by reason of injury or capture. Others are overseas, as are huge numbers of Ukrainian women (and children).
The result is a rapidly-ageing population, and so also a declining population.
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” – Kierkegaard
A New Forest farm owner is offering a novel and alternative solution to people looking to dispose of their Christmas trees – by feeding them to her alpacas https://t.co/TAbCdUe99F
What I know about alpacas would probably fill only a very small postcard. I was surprised to read that they can eat fir or pine trees and the like. According to Wikipedia, their usual diet is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca#Diet.
I've got my Union Jack flying high in North West London. Surrounded by non British but don't give a f*ck pic.twitter.com/YrWAMW5ZWR
Police vs rioters in lawless London on New Year’s Eve. Once upon a time, London was not a Third World shithole. Politicians and mass immigration changed that. pic.twitter.com/9bdRNWMXso
You still see tweets etc demanding that “the authorities” or “the Government” should “do something”. Such tweets (etc) miss the point. The “authorities”, “Government”, “Opposition”, mainstream media drones and scribblers, and the craven legal and judicial system, are those, or some of those, responsible, pushing mass immigration, pushing the lie that it is a good thing, and pushing the multikulti society which is in the process of destroying what is left of our own society.
Israeli media publishes an opinion poll showing Netanyahu in last place, with 15% wanting him to become prime minister after the war. pic.twitter.com/bkteLkQPSE
Lost wars are never popular and, while the Israeli war machine is slowly grinding the life out of Gaza, there is no easy victory for the (Israeli) Jews in that theatre, and casualties are mounting (though a small fraction of those suffered by both Gazan combatants and non-combatants).
Meanwhile, it seems to me that the strategic position of Israel has never been so precarious, even in the 1950s. Hezbollah threatens the northern border, Iran is developing longer-range missiles, and the Israeli economy is battered by the Gaza conflict, the evacuation of the northern border areas, by the situation in the Red Sea, and by a worldwide consumer boycott. Also, Israeli society itself seems fragmented, disunited.
To my mind, and for the first time in my lifetime [b. 1956] one can see a possibility, even a probability, that the State of Israel may not survive for very long into the future. Ironically, the nuclear and other advanced weapons of Israel may prove to be irrelevant, in that what seems most likely is a mass “invasion” or insurrection by lightly-armed militants (as in the recent Hamas incursions into southern Israel). Israel cannot use its most powerful weapons on its own territory.
A word about junior doctors striking
I have little time for the selfish yet virtue-signalling junior doctors. Many of them are useless anyway, and now we see that, when push comes to shove, they are willing to abandon their patients in order to demand better pay.
Yes, there remains a “skeleton service”, but that is a conscience-salve equivalent to the blank round given secretly to a randomly-selected member of a firing squad.
What about that pay? In the first year of work, they get a basic salary around £33,000, but that can greatly increase for overtime work of various kinds. Many are making over £45,000.
Admittedly, £33,000 is no fortune, but that is, after all, for persons recently-qualified. There are huge numbers of people in the UK making less, even after 20 or 30 years of work, and that is even disregarding the unemployed, sick, disabled, pensioners etc.
A second year doctor in a hospital gets £37,000+ (up to about £50,000).
Salaried GPs get between £70,000 and £105,000. Partner-GPs get far more.
Hospital doctors get increments annually; a complicated series of payments for various training programmes and placements raises the salary of many far beyond the minima.
NHS consultants start (in their first year of consultancy) on basic pay of just under £100,000, and make far more with seniority etc.
I say nothing about whether doctors (at any level) “should” get more pay, simply that it is disgusting that the junior ones seem willing to abandon sick and helpless people, often very vulnerable people, often people in pain (and in need of strong painkillers which can only be prescribed by doctors, meaning the “men —and women— in white coats”).
If junior doctors and, beyond that, what is so often —and cringingly— called “our NHS” callously abandon the British people, it may be that the British people will eventually abandon the doctors and demand a health service that works for its patients and not mainly for the benefit of those that work in it.
More tweets
Remember in 2019 when ABC News Anchor Amy Robach was allegedly stopped from airing her Jeffrey Epstein expose implicating Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton at Epstein Island? Did Hillary Clinton ask ABC to stop? pic.twitter.com/O3KQ62n5FH
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein’s court documents with the list of over 200 names is getting released in a few hours. Nothing will ever be the same again. pic.twitter.com/WFVvZYWJor
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) January 2, 2024
Actually, I do have one observation to make, which is that, obviously, in this conflict, truth has been the first casualty, but that, after truth, the next casualty has been the supposedly “elite” reputation of the Israeli Army.
I see that opinion polls are now indicating that Trump is gaining ground among the “young”, Hispanic, and black voters. That could be a gamechanger, if Trump can survive to be voted in and his second term inaugurated.
How much is it costing us to protect a genocidal state? "… British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea." Grant Shapps "said the UK was 'willing to take direct action' to protect the key shipping lane."https://t.co/zhJWxAEKnI
🇺🇦 In Kyiv, they announced the destruction of more than half of the city’s energy infrastructure in a year
The Kyiv authorities decided to take stock of the outgoing year 2023 and announced the destruction of 63% of energy infrastructure facilities by the Russian army.
I remember visiting the UN Centre in Vienna sometime in the mid-1980s; cannot recall exact year now. I knew someone who was doing some temporary work there. I spent a couple of hours in the Centre. Various impressions, but my overall impression (of what — admittedly little— I saw) was that the place was a huge waste of space (and money). What is it for?
There is a daily tour for visitors but I did not experience it (because I was not a “tourist” visitor officially, though really I was).
“They” have control of the strategic or key areas of public life in the USA— the politicians, the mass media (especially TV), the film industry, the legal milieu (in the states that matter most: California, New York etc), publishing.
I believe I read somewhere, years ago, that Israelis are often cruel to donkeys, which are such gentle animals, so ready to be friendly with humans. It is true that donkeys are over-worked and abused in other countries too, including Arab countries, Pakistan etc.
The Jew settlers in Israel/Palestine (often from the USA) are horrible, though, fully displaying the malice for which “they” have always been well-known.
In the village of Al-Jab'ah, Hebron District. A Palestinian oldman in tears after Israeli settlers cut down his 300 olive trees and order him to vacate from his own farm. Why do Israelis hate Palestinians this much? Why do they do such inhumane, indescribable and unthinkable… pic.twitter.com/vaFQWPlkQy
The moment the Yaara barracks in the Western Galilee was targeted, which led to 5 casualties among the ranks of the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/e1OU8i4jEU
Ukraine is just a tool in the hands of the collective West, which is using it to fight against Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. He stated this at the military hospital in Moscow where he met with Russian soldiers wounded… pic.twitter.com/eKFO3asiup
Hard to believe, but there it is: “normal” life, or a semblance of it, despite the fact that that area, 2-3 miles north of Gaza City, has been attacked heavily from the air for two months, and despite the fact that heavy ground fighting has occurred recently at Beit Hanoun, only a mile or so away.
Reuters:
A US official said: Israel's decision to withdraw some of its forces from the Gaza Strip is the beginning of a gradual shift, indicating a slowdown in the pace of operations in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/FODK46dwmP
“A key centre-left Labour MP says Keir Starmer appears to lack a clear sense of purpose due to his detachment from his party’s traditions, and casts doubt on whether he can become one of its more successful prime ministers.
“In his immediate circles, he appears to value the familiar and unchallenging. It is difficult to identify the purpose of a future Starmer government – what he seeks to accomplish beyond achieving office. Labour appears to be content for the coming election to amount to a referendum on the performance of the governing Conservatives rather than a choice between competing visions of politics and justice.”
[The Guardian]
Quite. The misnamed Conservative Party is going to lose the 2024 General Election because of its own 14 years of ineptitude, sleaze, and uselessness, not because of anything that the ridiculous Labour Party is putting forward.
As a Jew, I have become increasingly worried that the charge of antisemitism is being levelled to silence legitimate and important debate. Antisemitism is on the rise, but there is also a rise in the unscrupulous use of the term to silence reasonable questions about the Israeli…
“As a Jew, I have become increasingly worried that the charge of antisemitism is being levelled to silence legitimate and important debate.
Antisemitism is on the rise, but there is also a rise in the unscrupulous use of the term to silence reasonable questions about the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza.
In the UK, the police and even the Crown Prosecution Service have been much-suborned by the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby, which has also corrupted the Westminster political milieu.
This is London in about 1963-4, I spotted a couple of Triumph Spitfires, first sold around then. Places include London Bridge, Knightsbridge, Fleet Street and the West End.
When we were happier as a country & Eritreans were not rioting in the street. pic.twitter.com/aW5cxMcHdL
According to my follower, Political Analyst Dr Andrew @AKorybko, the Eritreans have been given asylum here is because they face conscription back home.
Deport all these Eritreans rioting in London . They come by dinghy. They are entering Germany and England illegally in big Numbers and committing huge amounts of crime. My town centre is full of men who look like this. Newly arrived In hotels. Can’t speak word of English pic.twitter.com/LXKEoJE00B
I think that we know what will have to happen in the end but, in the unfree and censored UK of 2023, we cannot speak or blog about it.
‘What we are seeing is the consequences of mass, uncontrolled immigration from people all over the world, who do not understand our culture and don’t empathise with our values.’@TiceRichard reacts to police being attacked in London with large sticks by Eritrean protesters. pic.twitter.com/OmeY7NlwvL
Covid has given joyless nanny statists the upper hand. Rather than leaving us alone after lockdown they have doubled down on their authoritarianism. Anything that is pleasurable is now slated for prohibition. Enough, writes Christopher Snowdonhttps://t.co/ig979sZ2UB
Israeli Channel 12: Recently, there were reports of criticism and insults directed at the Chief of Staff during Cabinet discussions. pic.twitter.com/vMqDdxWK9I
The sky of Tel Aviv and its suburbs as the zero hour of the New Year enters due to the large rocket launches launched by the Qassam Brigades on Tel Aviv and the cities of the center pic.twitter.com/9ZwV6XwkSY
Well, this week brings a return to winning form: I scored 6/10 as against John Rentoul’s 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 4, 6, and 10.
A remarkably stupid woman, who only became an MP on her back.
Half the faculty jobs in history over the last three years focus on ethnic identity, 35% on African American history. And this doesn’t account for the jobs focused on social justice/equity.
The cultural fall of the USA has been absolutely incredible.
Most academic jobs & research grants now also demand "diversity statements" which is, essentially, an ideological litmus test whereby you must swear allegiance to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI). https://t.co/yCoIWH0upH
The contamination, in the UK, has reached deeply into the police, the legal professions etc.
‘The Conservatives are entering 2024 in a very vulnerable position.’ @GoodwinMJ responds to the GB News end of year poll finding over half the country feel 'worse off' compared to a year ago. pic.twitter.com/shfvUsj6nj
I shall be surprised if the Conservative Party has more than 100 seats this time next year; if it has over 150, I shall be astonished. If it has fewer than 50, I shall only be mildly surprised. I think between 50 and 100.
“This is the terrifying moment a teenage girl was sprayed in the face with ammonia and bleach in a random attack on her doorstep.
Shannelle Farrier was left in excruciating pain and needed her eyes washed out with several litres of water at hospital after brute David Nicholson threw the chemicals in her face. The shocking assault was captured on CCTV in the hall way of the 19-year-old’s flat in Newcastle.
She said: “I felt burning in my eyes and my mouth. I was screaming in pain yelling that something was in my eyes. I honestly thought that I was going to die and screaming out for help. It was instant, I didn’t know what was happening. They did it without rhyme or reason.
“There was a strong smell of bleach. We thought it was an acid attack. I eventually ended up unconscious. My friend had rang an ambulance who turned up in protective masks and hauled me in the shower to wash off as much of the substance as possible.“
Shannelle was rushed to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary where her eyes were swilled with litres of water to return them to a normal Ph level. She spent a total of five hours being treated before she returned home. She said: “I felt violated. The attack happened in my own home.
“After that, I went to stay with my mother for months. For me, last Christmas was totally ruined. I spent the entire time worrying about my sight. I couldn’t leave my home, I had to quit my college course as I was too nervous to be outside. I was constantly looking over my shoulder.
Nicholson, of Hauxley Drive, Gosforth, Newcastle, was arrested a week after the attack. He later admitted assault. He was sentenced to 20 months, suspended for two years with rehabilitation requirements and an alcohol abstinence requirement at Newcastle Crown Court earlier this week (December 20).
The thug was also given a five-year restraining order to protect the victim. Shannelle has now slammed the sentence, claiming he got off lightly after he intended to cause harm.“
[Daily Mirror]
As regular readers of the blog will know, I am not a “hanger and flogger”, but this seems ludicrously lenient.
Afternoon music
[painting by Volegov]
Late tweets
NEW. Which ONE issue do you think gvt shd prioritise in 2024?
ALL VOTERS 1. Tackle cost of living 2. Improve NHS 3. Stop the boats
CONSERVATIVES 1. Stop the boats 2. Tackle cost of living 3. Improve NHS
LABOUR 1. Tackle cost of living 2. Improve NHS 3. Tackle climate change…
Five years ago I was bullied out of the Labour Party. They described me as an appalling transphobe. @UKLabour needs to recognise women are not being silent any more. #labourlosingwomen
Britain has had enough of the “trans” nonsense. Anyone who imagines that Eddie Izzard is a woman is someone who should never be in any position of power or influence. Societal poison.
Return to the Shujaya region after the defeat of the Israeli Golani brigade.
RITTER: UKRAINIAN FORTIFIED DEFENSE MAY BEGIN TO CRASH WITH MARJINKA AND AVDEJEVKA
Associate Professor of the Russian Economic University "Plekhanov", Colonel Aleksandar PERENDZHIEV: "Zaluzhny did not embellish the situation… pic.twitter.com/SzJMX4M0h4
I happened to watch a Celebrity Weakest Link show today on TV. As usual, the “celebrities” mostly knew almost nothing. The comedian Joe Pasquale was a deserving winner, but it was funny to see Jew-Zionist “activist” Tracy-Ann Oberman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy-Ann_Oberman] not only struggle in places with fairly simple questions but also get voted off, and then, it seemed to me, fume (though looking as if she was trying to disguise it, at least a little) about having been voted off.
Also, I may be wrong, but it seemed to me that she looked drunk as she walked off (the so-called “Walk of Shame”). I do not say that she was drunk, but she certainly looked (to me) as if she was, looking at her gait. Just my honest opinion based on what I saw, of course.
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[ruins of Kiev, 1943, the same year as the composition of Myaskovsky’s 24th Symphony]
[Paris under German occupation, c.1942. Note that the young soldier has no need to be armed as he fraternizes with a Parisienne in the Jardins du Trocadero]
As Enoch Powell once said, “we must be mad, literally mad [to allow this]”. The sheer sense of entitlement is stunning. Even the liberalistic Netherlands turned down the invader’s application, so he comes to the UK, where flourishes a combination of political and administrative inability to organize anything, and a miasma of “woke” craziness, meaning that the invader is still here at Government (taxpayers’) expense and may never be removed.
As Enoch Powell said, “literally mad“.
Now multiply the above case by the thousand, by the million…
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I see the RNLI are heavily advertising at the moment 🤔 ‘Just £3 a month’ ‘We can’t do our work without your donations’
So they want us to contribute to assist their efforts ,mostly collecting illegal spongers , which we then pay to house and keep in hotels here
It looks more and more to me that there must come a time when, in the words of Nietzsche, there will have to be “a revaluation of all values“…whatever it takes.
We, eg in the UK, are now living in a largely alien and hostile culture.
Every time the question feels redundant but how can this country's senior leadership be this stupid. https://t.co/GeYnyV5ijI
"While Europe shifts right and Donald Trump continues to poll strongly in America, 2023 saw the continued implosion of the British Tories — a conservatism that is electorally, ideologically, philosophically lost" https://t.co/XMZzynXtk3
The Conservative Party— a completely useless and clueless party, whose MPs are almost all just incredibly self-serving, and almost all incredibly stupid. On top of that, 80% of them belong to Conservative Friends of Israel.
Not that the Labour Party is hugely better. The only thing to do, for voters at the 2024 General Election, is to try to destabilize the fake binary system by making sure that at least one major party (i.e. the Con Party) crashes and burns, even at the expense of having to endure, for a while, a kind of elected dictatorship under Labour idiots.
I think that most voters, even former Con Party voters, have now written off the Conservative Party, and will not vote for it. Many, though, will never vote Labour either. It is an open question how many will simply abstain. Somehow I think, at the GE, not so many. They may seek out protest votes. Reform UK is plainly controlled opposition and pro-Israel etc, but will probably get a much higher vote than many are predicting; certainly 10%, possibly 15%, and I would not completely rule out 20%, depending on events.
Only a social-national movement can save our society, but at present it does not exist in any serious or hard-hitting way.
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[VDNKh, Moscow]
More tweets
Jeffery Sachs confirms that it’s the US that’s isolated not Russia.
The USA should ditch Israel, but “their” influence is too embedded in Congress, the American economy, the American legal system, the “American” mass media etc. The tail truly wags the dog, despite Israel being entirely dependent, in big-picture terms, on the American defence umbrella.
Mainstream Yale economist Bob Shiller predicts "Cataclysm" for USD as Biden and EU move to seize Russia's sovereign assets.
There was a time when the adults were in charge of the dollar's reserve status. Those days are gone. pic.twitter.com/cFAyhOyZKR
“In 1947, in the aftermath of the Exodus incident, and the” dismay of many in the nationalist camp that the British government was prohibiting large-scale Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, Korff led a Lehi (Stern Gang) plot to firebomb the Foreign Office in London in protest.[4]
He traveled to Paris and offered money to a decorated member of the United States Army Air Forces, Reginald Gilbert, to fly the plane that would first drop leaflets, then drop the bombs.“
[Wikipedia].
Another Jew terrorist, in other words.
According to Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky], MOSSAD has secret arms dumps in every country where there are Jews (except the USA, arms presumably being widely available there). Hundreds of young Jews go to Israel from the UK every year on special courses. Most are trained in the use of weapons; some are trained with explosives. So when they return to the UK, what are they? Sleeper agents? Future terrorists?
If someone leaves Europe to go fight in the Middle East because of their religion, you would certainly describe them as religious extremists.
"Israel" is a colony of religious extremists. They have come from Ukraine, Morocco, France, the US, to steal land and kill for Zionism.
⚡️ Great Britain is urgently sending hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine for British air defense systems – the Ministry of Defense of the country.
This decision was made against the background of today's morning attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mZfSJIyKGn
That’s right, waste millions of taxpayer pounds on aid to the corrupt, shambolic, and brutal Zelensky dictatorship. Meanwhile Britain’s own shores are being invaded by migrant-invaders who are not being resisted in the slightest. Indeed, the British forces are actually aiding the bastards to contaminate our country.
Late tweets
Patrick Christys and his panel react to exclusive GB News polling on the public's priorities and political leanings ahead of the next general election.
'Most people in Britain want the boats to stop, they want the borders to be strengthened and they want less immigration.'@GoodwinMJ reacts to files which detail the tough measures Tony Blair considered for dealing with illegal migration when he was Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/BrTx5dA4Zq
Mere numbers are only the starting-point. The vital point is, if there is a massive nuclear exchange between, mainly, the USA and Russia, what happens? One of today’s warheads probably does almost as much damage as two, or ten, or more, if all hit more or less the same place.
Obviously, were there to be such an exchange, the USA, as a functioning state, would more or less cease to exist. The same is true of Russia. As for the UK, it might be wiped out not only as a state, but as a nation (taking it still to be a nation), because of the small geographic size of the UK as compared to the two major nuclear powers.
…which is being underwritten by the taxpayers of the USA, UK, EU states etc.
Hope everyone can start to see that all this chaos, BLM, Palestine,Ukraine, Politics, Covid, jabs, energy etc, etc is brought about on purpose by the WEF trying to divide and conquer!
⚡️🇺🇦Tymoshenko demands Zelensky present the Ukrainian people with a realistic Plan B, because the maximalist goals of Plan A (pushing Russia to '91 borders) are too "difficult" (read: has caused a tragic genocide of Ukrainian men) pic.twitter.com/HSAs9TpuzO
Ah. I remember her. Corrupt (like all “Ukrainian” political leeches), but I have to admit that she had a very beautiful daughter; the daughter married a rock musician from Yorkshire called Sean Carr. Michael Palin interviewed the daughter and her husband in one of his travel shows. At the time, that daughter would have been in her twenties, and he would have been nearly 40. They eventually divorced (Carr died in 2018, at the early age of 50).
See how quickly Democrats turn on anyone that disobeys them? A legal gun owner is being evicted over shooting a criminal that entered into her daughter’s bedroom window. She has 30 days to vacate. Dems would prefer a law abiding person or child dead. pic.twitter.com/sCmfI6LBx2
Horses for courses. There are places, there are parts of the world, where you cannot rely on the police to respond. In much of Europe, including the UK, that is not (yet) the case, but in the UK the situation is clearly deteriorating. The police are attending fewer and fewer incidents and/or reported crimes.
Ian Robert Millard 