Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
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The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy.
The odd thing is that, as opinion polls —and simple observation— show, most of the blacks and browns (certainly those under 60) have no time for, or interest in, the Monarchy.
The same is true of the metropolitan LGBTQXYZ crowd, as seen on Twitter.
Yet Charles is bending over backward in the attempt to appeal to those and other “diverse” groups.
In other words, Charles is trying to appeal to those who either hate him and the Monarchy (a relative few), or to those (the vast majority) to whom the Monarchy is a total irrelevance.
It will no doubt be argued by the msm that Charles is being brave and principled. To me, that whole project comes over as weak and ineffectual. As does he.
As blogged in the past, I have nothing much against Charles himself, whom I once met at a small diplomatic reception in Kazakhstan (in 1996). He has championed some issues of importance, including matters of architecture, town planning, animal welfare, and the environment. He may not always have been successful in that —a chequered picture—but he has tried. I think that that cannot be denied.
It must be hard simply to behave decently when you are told by pretty much everything and everyone around you since birth that you are wonderful, special, way above others etc.
However, this Coronation, far from boosting Charles, may well prove to be the start of his —and the Monarchy’s— downfall. He has invited the head of Sinn Fein to attend, yet not members of families close to the Monarchy for decades, even centuries (and not some individuals close to the late Queen).
The whole thing seems to be a “woke”, fake-“diverse” circus of nonsense grafted onto the comfortable and customary mediaeval and Victorian base.
Maybe that is why Meghan Mulatta is not going to attend, because she realized that she would just be one more “diverse” exhibit in the show.
The last Coronation, in 1953, was (apparently) eagerly awaited by much of the population. Sales of then-still-new- TV sets exploded, because it was going to be the first televised Coronation. Much of the population was engaged and, it seems, felt involved, even if, inevitably, only as background chorus and spear-carriers.
Now? Well, writing this piece, I actually had to look up the date of this Coronation, to remind myself (Saturday, 6 May 2023). I noticed one of the Readers’ Comments to that Daily Mail report: the comment said “I am being swept along in [sic] a wave of apathy“. Despite the error, surely correct. I have not yet spoken to anyone who has mentioned the Coronation in any way, positive or negative. Public interest is at or near rock-bottom.
I have blogged before to the effect that what will kill the Monarchy is not hatred, anger, or even principled dislike, or ideological opposition. No, what will kill it (and is killing it) is apathy as much as anything; the fact that the Monarchy, the Royal Family, their activities etc, have just no connection to, or relevance for, most of those living in the UK today.
For all the “diverse” nonsense, most of the non-whites, indeed most of the non-Brits, are simply not interested. Even in the white (British) “community”, there is a demographic split, most of the over 65s not only interested in the Monarchy but supportive of it; as for the under-30s, not. I think that a recent opinion poll said that about two-thirds of the under-30s would like to get rid of the Monarchy. Again, though, the reason is not anger (as in England in 1649, France in 1789 or Russia in 1917) but simple apathy and lack of interest both in the Monarchy and in getting rid of it.
The other glaring fact is the sheer struggle so many now have simply to pay bills, keep a roof over the head, children and companion animals fed, and so on.
The Monarchy will go at some point but , in the much-used phrase of Nevil Shute, “not with a bang but a whimper”.
Marina Purkiss
One of the dumbest guest interviews in the history of UK broadcast television.
The staggering ignorance of the know-it-all Remainers
Marina Purkiss’s car-crash GB News interview reveals the hollowness of the #FBPE worldview.
“In one astonishing moment, she raised the recent renaming of Black Boy Lane in Haringey, north London. Believing she had found a winning line, she insisted that ‘If you had a street named White Trash you might want to rename it’. Why Purkiss considers ‘black boy’ to be a slur on a par with ‘white trash’ was never made clear.“
[Spiked magazine]
Marina Purkiss, a “woke” idiot who thinks that civil rights or human rights such as freedom of expression are unimportant.
Alarming but not surprising that huge numbers of Twitterati think that she is great (and that she somehow “smashed” Jacob Rees-Mogg in that interview).
No doubt Marina Purkiss will continue to make a kind of career out of intellect-free emoting on socio-political issues. She apparently also has other, and remunerated, activity online.
Not that cost-of-living issues are unimportant. In fact, when people start to really struggle, in large numbers, that is precisely when they turn to radical and even revolutionary alternatives which may, down the line, be dictatorial and anti-free speech.
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The Kiev regime has realized that it will lose Bakhmut….🫣
Ukrainian army corpses litter the trenches near western Bakhmut. Zelensky’s orders to not retreat is causing a very high death rate as more reserves with minimal training are sent to defend frontline positions near the city outskirts pic.twitter.com/ZWsDnNKlBa
In Ukraine, the shortage of mobilization resources in general and officers in particular is becoming more acute. Zelensky instructed the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny to send most of the military commissars from the recruitment centers to the front
I've never seen such protocol for any other PM of the UK. Genes never change. Rishi sunak's blood is indian n carrying the same genes of show-off and abuse of power. One gets to see in the subcontinent, so it didn't surprise me at all when I the video.
And when the banks / pensions market fail next time round – less bailouts and instead, bank acquisitions by governments – the Trojan horse towards CBDCs.
That could be the moment for social nationalism to strike. The missing element is a party or movement. At present there is none worthy of the name. However, in times of crisis and desperation, a party, movement, or individual personality may arise suddenly, out of the depths of the people and events.
During lockdown we couldn’t even mourn our loved ones properly. A son moves his chair next to his mother to comfort her at the funeral of her late husband and was told to separate. And all because governments framed political motives as “The Science”.pic.twitter.com/fjOnOzqYRy
Look at that crematorium drone, ordering better people than himself back to their places. The “panicdemic” really brought out numbers of self-important nobodies of that type. No more were they simple supermarket workers, shopworkers, or filling station cashiers. Oh, no! Now they were workers on the front-line of the “Covid” “emergency”, armed with powers (they thought) to order people back, forward, sideways, or to wear muzzles etc, just like instructors dealing with slow-minded military recruits. I had a few clashes with that sort in 2020-21. How they must have hated having to return to stacking shelves…
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[East Berlin, 1970s; reminds me of a few places in South London]
You still see anti-Hitler propaganda about the alleged euthanasia of some medical “hopeless cases” in the late 1930s. Not everything done in the Reich was correct, but what was done of that type was pretty much on a par with what was happening in the UK, USA and elsewhere. The Jewish lobby (mainly) screams endlessly about “the evils of Nazism“, when in fact the same was happening across Europe and North America, but you never or rarely hear about that.
As for a situation such as that in the last few years in the UK, even the Jewish lobby can hardly blame Hitler and the NSDAP for that…
By reason of the repression of free speech already well-advanced in the UK, I am “not allowed” to say what I want to say about what should be done right now…
So people will be “expected” (required?) to stay incarcerated in something akin to an open prison, albeit with cafes and wine bars (in some cases)? Presumably, also forbidden from saying or writing anything anti-“communitarian”…
Zelensky continues to beg for money from the world for military equipment, ammunition, etc. This time the held a meeting with the President of Slovakia and the Czech Republic pic.twitter.com/fPrp9nuT5F
Made me feel physically sick seeing about Andrew Bridgen. People being silenced & cancelled for asking unanswered questions. And then answering for it with their hard earned careers. @mattletiss7@ABridgen@JohnBoweActor and many many more…..sad state of society/free speech.
Here is a very well documented example, where the Israeli state uses soldiers and paid student troll farms against the much weaker Palestine: https://t.co/Qiu7hBVYlU
Russia vs Ukraine is another well documented example. See also the UK's JTRIG.
Do Jews in Britain today face any type of structural racism? I’ve tried- but there’s no evidence of disadvantage in health, education, political representation, mortality, housing, income, employment, incarceration or any other sphere
I recall when I returned to the UK from the USA in the early 1990s and was trying to launch myself as a practising barrister out of rather rackety chambers in London. Through a series of odd events involving people from the former Yugoslavia, I had met a lady who lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Though not Jewish, she knew a number of wealthy Jews in Hampstead and elsewhere. She had been a high-flying model many years before, and had been on the cover of magazines such as Vogue. She had lived in Switzerland and in Montreal, and her style might be called “cosmopolitan wealthy”— a big Mercedes, furs, jewels etc.
We became involved, and she wanted to help me get work (legal cases) via wealthy solicitors that she knew. She told me post factum about one with whom she lunched, and to whom she had recommended my abilities. A Jew, his first question in reply had been to say, “is he Jewish?” Obviously, my girlfriend replied in the negative. Needless to say, no briefs came my way from that one.
He went on to say that he was desperate to work despite being, quite obviously, disabled. He had contacted his old boss)who regularly asks him to help out for free) to beg for some work. He said he'd do it for £7/hr. His boss offered him £5/hr. Travel would cost more. /2
…as possible for him to make a successful claim. Because that's the system we have created.
People are desperate. People who have worked for this country. People who have given their all. And the @Conservatives delight in demonising & abandoning them.
Sad, and slightly infuriating, though tweeter “@JasonPedlow” is wrong in saying that the said pensioner could “obviously” get Personal Independence Payment [PIP]. In fact, the very opposite is true— he obviously could not, because he is, on the facts as given, a pensioner, and a claimant has to be under State Pension Age to apply for PIP: see https://www.gov.uk/pip/eligibility. He could, however, apply for Attendance Allowance, worth rather less than PIP but still worth having: see https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility.
Said pensioner would also be entitled to Pension Guarantee Credit: see https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/eligibility. That would also confer, in principle, further benefits: maybe housing benefit, if he rents where he lives; also various one-off government payments.
Having said all that, it sounds like the said pensioner is a bit of a dimwit, worrying about what non-existent or unimportant people might think about him collecting various benefits, or worrying about some absurd “principle” invented in his own head. At a time when the Government has thrown away billions, hundreds of billions, on the “panicdemic”, on “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime), on the importation of millions of blacks and browns and others etc.
Some people actually wilfully deprive themselves, and often pointlessly.
Super-rich Bank of England chief risks fury as he says Brits must accept they are poorer after ‘Covid’ and energy crisis (both created by the people who appointed him) and stop chasing big pay rises to keep up with soaring inflationhttps://t.co/KDqfhl9THK
The Bank of England’s chief economist had a message for Britons: “Someone needs to accept that they’re worse off.” His comments were quickly followed by indignation, @eshelouise reports. https://t.co/JZfVJBIOzc
Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is basically a System drone, so of course he opposes proportional representation. Also, it looks possible that Labour will achieve a majority in 2023 or 2024. Short-term thinking, of course.
As for the graphic re. public ownership, it is clear to me that what real British people want, if only unconsciously, is social nationalism.
The territory of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Paris was filmed from a helicopter at the beginning of March, on which the marking of the Ministry of the Interior of France is visible The Russian Embassy in Paris sent a note of protest to the Ministry of the Interior… pic.twitter.com/OwLsBui0ds
In fact, tweeter “Spriter” has got it wrong this time.
In international law, the once-accepted theory of “extraterritoriality”, i.e. that the territory of an embassy consists of the territory of the sending state (the state to which that embassy belongs) has not been accepted for many decades. The currently-accepted theory is that an embassy (building with grounds) is on the territory of the accepting state, but that privileges and immunities attach to both the embassy site and (in varying degrees) to its diplomatic, administrative, and technical/logistical staff.
The commander of the ground forces and the Bakhmut grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, convinces Zelensky that his plan for a flank strike is realistic, even if Bakhmut falls.
Syrsky believes that the configuration of the front in the Seversk region (ledge) does not…
I look at the retirement that my boomer parents are living right now and think about how they are certainly the last generation to retire that way. The world has changed.
The England of 1966 (the last year before my family moved to Australia when I was 10) may not have been a Garden of Eden, but it had something the England of 2023 does not have; it also did not have quite a lot that our present society does have— and which is so hateful.
What has happened to the UK? When I was born in the 60s we were safe & happy. Everyone was kind to each other & enjoyed their lives. Now there are so many who seem to hate the UK. The enemy is now within this country & it’s such a shame we can’t all enjoy the time we have left.
It is tragic. I was just thinking about where the UK would be, in what state, had it not been swamped by waves of mass immigration and births to immigrant mothers. There have been other factors too, but the one that stands out is the demographic change since the 1960s.
It is true that white British people still comprise about 80% of the UK population, but the change has still been huge. Particularly so since the 1970s/1980s. A tipping-point was reached, sometime in the past 30 years or so, since when Britain has degenerated in most respects quite swiftly.
Even in the 1970s (which I well remember, having been born in 1956) Britain had so many paths open before it. The Second World War and its effects were receding into history, the standard of housing was improving, and the cultural life was lively. The Welfare State was generally improving the lives of millions, and there were improvements in areas such as educational access, pensions, disability benefits and services etc.
Now, in the past few decades, one feels that the world has shrunk, Britain has shrunk, and the possibilities open to British people (especially the “young”, say <30 years old) have also shrunk, and shrunk accordingly.
Look at housing. The pressures of mass immigration, births to non-Brits, commercial speculation, and lack of vision, have combined to create, over large areas of the country, huge tracts of “boxes for people”, without sufficient garden space, road access, or service areas (shops, libraries, parks etc).
There is a pervasive sense of the population being almost entombed alive in their inadequate —and increasingly inadequate— housing.
The “revenge evictions” and “no-fault evictions” by residential landlords have become a scandal, millions of people are living in poorly-repaired, poorly-maintained, homes, and the governments of the past couple of decades have done nothing to change that. Indeed, they have made it all worse.
Britain is going back in some respects to the socio-economic conditions of the era before the mid-Victorian age, in that what mattered then —and increasingly now— is how much capital was (or is) bequeathed to people from parents etc. Jobs or positions held were secondary.
Today, we have a society in which young people have to borrow large amounts just to go to a (so-called) university, and it is no argument to say that most will never have to pay it back, because the precondition for non-repayment is that the ex-student will never have a sufficiently high income to trigger repayment! What a commendation!
Basic work scarcely pays at all, once taxes and the costs of simply being in a job (travel, clothing, inflated housing costs etc) are taken into account.
Even “professional” work now pays only a modest amount on those preconditions. We see now strikes and protests by the junior ranks of the medical and legal professions.
Even in simple economic terms, it is clear that Britain would be such a better place had the influx never happened. The British people would be, as individuals, hugely better off in everyday financial terms. Not only in financial terms, though; also, in terms of vision, society, and further possibilities on the national and individual levels.
The question though, is how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
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Then eventually those who still have brains and authority in the system are pushed out for being racist, not diverse, transphobic, basically any excuse to get them removed and replaced with what we have now which is just puppets for the WEF young global leaders sect.
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 25, 2023
Very true.
I agree with you but it’s your kids and grand kids etc that’s gonna see the worst of what’s to come
It started with mass immigration and the 'racism' being shoved down our throats. You can't help but notice how citizens are last on the agenda of paid politicians these days. They only care about themselves.
— Do research, never take anything at face value. (@junertcb) April 25, 2023
I know, and it’s so sad. Social cohesion and overall morale in our country is so much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s 😢
The sad thing in the wider sense is that even those decrying the way things are have been brainwashed into saying “what’s racist about XYZ?” rather than saying “whether XYZ is ‘racist’ or not is of no matter“…
Sceptics were correct all along. The same with this new religion of climate change. But the damage governments do will be catastrophic before they wake up to the destruction they've caused. Primarily on the world's poorest!
I've been saying this to my Hubby as of late. Am so saddened at state of the UK. If I didn't have school age children, don't think I would choose to have any now. I fear for their futures. Seriously thinking of where we can move to, but most countries seem to be facing same.
Many echo those sentiments, and that fact accelerates the relative decline in numbers of white European people. Meanwhile, of course, the non-white population is reproducing in far greater numbers.
The social decline has also been impossible not to notice. Look, for example, at this tweet by the police:
This morning @HantsPolRoads attended a two vehicle collision outside a school during the morning school run. The drivers of both vehicles provided a positive sample on a roadside drugs test. Luckily no serious injuries this time, two in custody.🤦♀️🤦♂️
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) April 25, 2023
“Mr Martin was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999.
Some locals quietly praise Mr Martin for taking a stand against crime. One said: “We had four break-ins. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but what he did stopped the burglaries.”
He added: “I don’t agree with the police and the legal system. They’re supposed to be impartial but they’re far from impartial.”
[Daily Mirror]
In fact, the isolated home of Mr. Martin was broken into at night by a group of “gypsies” (in fact, UK-resident Irish so-called “Travellers”), not (as the Mirror report implies) only two. He managed to get two of them (one killed, one injured).
The incident happened in 1999. I supported Mr. Martin then, and I have not changed my mind since then. He should have been given an award for courage, and certainly not charged with anything.
HISTORY. Until Thatcher came along we owned our own gas, electric, water, railways and telecommunications. There were approx. 200,000 miners, 40,000 ship builders,100,000 steelworkers. I don't think the Tories want that part of our factual history taught to children.
A one-sided point of view in its implications, but still true.
"The Labour Files dismantles the central narrative of the media and the BBC about the Corbyn years, a narrative pushed on to the front pages of all the papers" pic.twitter.com/nqafSY2EvP
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) April 25, 2023
I had and have little time for Corbyn, but the fact is that he was destroyed as Labour leader by a pack of malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionists and/or Israel lobbyists, posing (some of them) as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
I was just engaging in my frequent not-guilty pleasure of looking at the Google Map and Street View site. Very addictive.
I have blogged before about how much London has changed since I stopped living and/or working there. I was a resident —on and off— from 1976 to 1998 in various sections of the metropolis, though mainly in Little Venice, and also for a while in 2001-2002, when I lived on the edge of London, in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, working out of both Mayfair (off Berkeley Square) and “legal London” (Gray’s Inn Square, where I was leaseholder of chambers in 2002; ironically, also the site of my unmerited, wrongful, and also unlawful disbarment in 2016, the so-called Bar Standards Board being situate in the same square).
Looking at Street View, I see that the area around St. Giles’ High Street (between Charing Cross Road and Holborn) has been hugely redeveloped. The Oasis open-air swimming pool, which I used a great deal in the 1980s, is still there, as is the old church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, but a large development of new buildings occupies the area opposite that church, part of which area once had a government building without signs or markings, the car park of which always contained a number of unmarked Commer vans in green or grey, in the 1970s and 1980s used extensively by State organizations.
That building was possibly an outstation of MI5 or GCHQ, but I have no idea whether either was the case. The street entrance always had a standing sign just inside, displaying the “security status” or “threat status”.
I notice that a nearby site, that was once occupied by a pub or bar carrying several different names over the years, is now occupied by a new building containing, inter alia, some pizza joint called Vapiano. I often used one of its former incarnations, in the 1980s, when it was a marble and glass bar called the Cafe Munchen; I was a regular customer at that time.
Looking very different, that place had also (in the early 1960s, I think) been a location for a few scenes in a Peter Sellers comedy film about a group of London crooks (I am unsure about the film title).
A little way further afield, I noticed that the Punjab restaurant (est. 1946), on the corner of Neal Street, is still there. Another place that I occasionally visited, though later, in the early 1990s.
My having Saturn in Scorpio does tend to make me visit Memory Lane a lot, perhaps too much.
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The sapper of PMC "Wagner" told and showed what kind of mines one has to face in Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/foLa0U5kXT
Theresa May, prior to becoming an MP, spent 20 years at the cheque-clearing organization, BACS. Her case is far from unique. Take a look at my “Deadhead MPs” series on the blog. Tip of the iceberg. Many, perhaps most, MPs cannot even be described as “mediocre” overall. Deadheads.
The UK political system actively rejects anyone with real depth.
Hard going. They are apparently now in slow withdrawal or retreat.
Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian thinker, in a conversation with Al-Mayadin: The global structure is between two possible scenarios; The first scenario belongs to the year 2050, in which the complete and irreversible victory for globalization and the unipolar era and the… pic.twitter.com/ia4TsTSGRy
The current crop of American politicians who have declared their candidacy are more like grandstanding, short-sighted Internet celebrities than politicians with long-term strategic ideas.
I have wondered, since this time last year, whether the main Ukrainian cities will be left standing at the end of the present conflict.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Today we visited a very dear friend currently in hospice care.
Your reminder: these special places receive NO funding from the govt. if you have a local #hospice or a hospice charity shop in town, I urge you to support it. Or leave it a bequest. pic.twitter.com/NNgvhLhGuC
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) April 26, 2023
It’s like having a final drink with a passive aggressive, soon to be ex girlfriend.pic.twitter.com/Ip1nTKjrbS
Idiots, and indeed malicious idiots, such as Marina Purkiss, think that free speech being taken away does not affect people. Wrong. I know exactly how the attacks on free speech, and the general attacks on British culture and our (former) way of life, affect people, including me. I also know exactly (((what))) and (((who))) are (mostly) behind those attacks.
Part of the problem in the UK is that the police often do not understand the law and, moreover, often think that their powers under the law are either (as in the above case) fewer or lesser than they actually are, or greater than they actually are (and I have been the subject of the latter incomprehension more than once over the past decade, and have had to put policemen and policewomen right on various points).
What’s harmful to public health is rolling out a deadly poison jab to millions of people including healthy children. Prison is too good for you, scumbag. https://t.co/NSgER8UNnM
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 25, 2023
Little Matt Hancock trying to be the big bad scorpion with a sting in its tail.
OMFG… hahaha!!! This is beyond parody… Sinn Fein (IRA) attending the coronation… I’d love to be a fly on the wall when you and Charles are reminiscing about Charles’s favourite uncle Lord ‘Dickie’ Montbatten … 🙈😫😆😆😆 https://t.co/eDsTAJfuWO
Typical response of those without an argument. Try this. EU commission hearing. Listen carefully to what is said now if you can. pic.twitter.com/sNfW06Rllw
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 26, 2023
“A father who murdered a burglar outside his house had previously posted a photo of the vigilante played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies on a neighbourhood group with the comment: ‘This is who we need.’
David King put the photo of Deathwish anti-hero Paul Kersey on the WhatsApp group in June 2019 after the wheels of his wife’s BMW M3 were stolen.
The career criminal [burglar/car thief] was left with a 5in-deep wound to his chest and the injury to his knee. He was so distressed as he hammered at a nearby door for help that he smashed the glass.
” Car thief/burglar] Neil Charles, 47, who had 66 previous convictions, turned up at the estate shortly before 1am on June 20, 2021, and was spotted on CCTV trying the doors of the Kings’ cars.”
[Daily Mail]
66 previous convictions…
Frankly, I think that those citizens are heroes, albeit that they arguably went too far in the heat of the moment. The sentences of “life, with minimum 21 years” (the father) and 19 years (the son) were very very harsh in all the circumstances. I should have thought that a minimum term served of, say, 5 years, would have been enough to mark any judicial disapproval (judicial, not societal— most British people would back the father and son, at least in principle).
The police too often show themselves completely unfit for purpose, useless, and the same is often true of the courts. People like singer and satirist Alison Chabloz actually get imprisoned in the UK for (in her case) lampooning some Jewish behaviour in song or in cartoons, while real criminals, who stab or slash people, or steal cars etc, are effectively let off.
Finally, I see that the Daily Mail has shown no photograph of the killed individual. I wonder why not…
David Irving was the academic hero of the above story. The report in the Guardian downplays his role.
I once heard a taped speech by Irving (given to the then-active discussion forum, the Clarendon Club, in the 1980s) which went into his role in some detail. Incidentally, Irving showed himself to be a confident, assured, and amusing speaker.
The Guardian report notes that System historian Hugh Trevor-Roper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper] was damaged by his failure to see through the Hitler Diaries fakery, but downplays that too, in my view.
Trevor-Roper (a freemason who was very pro-Jew-Zionist) is still regarded by many as worth reading, while the Jewish lobby has demonized Irving and trashed his reputation, despite his books being far more interesting and accurate in relation to 1933-45 (Trevor-Roper covered a far wider historical time-scale in his works, from the early Enlightenment to the contemporary era).
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“We need to stop violence against women.“ – Emmanuel Macron
All it will do is create more separate car use for under 25s. Crass logic.
The mass banning of groups of folk from civil core liberties under the auspice of health and safety is a slippery slope. We should have learnt that from Covid.
PM Rishi Sunak enjoying VIP protocol of motorcade of cars, bikes, close protection and police running along North Korea style – no other UK PM ever seen doing this pic.twitter.com/m03tFbgokH
Sixty-nine percent of French people believe that the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as head of state was a mistake, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Elaba Institute for the Study of Public Opinion. pic.twitter.com/ceFuxJm0Gy
The Russian Armed Forces began to use the latest main tanks T-14 "Armata" for firing at Ukrainian positions, – the source of RIA Novosti. pic.twitter.com/cfW3h3nMTI
Andrew Neil used to be, maybe still is, the best political interviewer around, but a few years ago started to come off the rails a bit, ranting about “Nazis” and “neo-Nazis” etc on his now-binned late-night BBC 2 TV show. Then he became part of the System “Covid” propaganda campaign.
— Geoff' The Frenchy Fella – War News 🇺🇦 (@Geoff_WarNews) April 25, 2023
Russia has become the largest supplier of oil to India. Daily deliveries reach amounts of almost 280 million liters of "black gold" and have a trend of further growth . 🇷🇺 Russia has taken the first place among oil suppliers to India, displacing 🇮🇶Iraq and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia in,…
Reacting to Biden's re-candidacy for the US presidential election, the former American president warned that the dollar and American banks are collapsing and soon the dollar will no longer be the world standard currency. pic.twitter.com/SB7MiKlmSr
Dmitriy Kuleba, the head of diplomacy of Ukraine and a newly minted Ukrainian, admitted today that Ukraine does not have enough stockpiles of weapons and that the aid coming from the West is not enough. pic.twitter.com/rtigvWsmeH
Macron has become the first “unpopulist” President of France for a long long time.
Journalists are gently wondering if Biden will last another four years: “Does the president plan to serve all 8 years? – I'm not going to speak for the president. It's up to him" pic.twitter.com/KGEEy7Ry85
Important because, should Biden retain the US Presidency after 2024, and then retire or die, Kamala Harris will automatically be sworn-in as President!
“Britain’s £3.2 billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been reduced to acting as a scrap-yard. Essential pieces of equipment are being ripped out of the stricken warship, a move that raises questions over its long-term future.
The UK’s second carrier has been in dry dock since breaking down off Portsmouth in August 2022.
Now Navy top brass have begun stripping the carrier – a process known as ‘cannibalisation’ – which will render HMS Prince of Wales inoperable for much longer. Lift chains, which allow fighter jets to be raised from below deck, electrical systems and sections of the ship’s gas turbines have been taken out.“
[Daily Mail]
So will the few functioning ships of the Royal Navy now be tasked to fight Russia? Or China? Both? Or neither?
The UK armed forces have become a bad joke. They cannot even protect our own borders from migration-invasion by untermenschen.
Better not rename HMS Prince of Wales as the HMS Charles III. If it were to break down again, people might start to see parallels with the Monarchy…
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Look at the replies to this. Scroll down beyond the e-celebs, and you will find an endless cascade of Muslim people congratulating Yousaf. Virtually no Scottish people at all. It's incredible. https://t.co/zDn1eyPYLK
Are the Scottish people finally waking up to the ludicrous faux-“nationalism” of the SNP?
What it ACTUALLY was, was a symbol of social acceptability, ie. conformance with the regime. But they rename "social acceptability" to "high quality", implying that the two are the same. They're not. Most of these people are fucking dimwits. https://t.co/7RxOtlDCan
And there you have it. EXXON, HALLIBURTON & CHEVRON, after Iraq, are now taking over the Ukrainian oil and gas fields. Planning to introduce large scale fracking – a clear and present threat to poison U's agriculture pic.twitter.com/LlC0nv39qk
A shambolic failed state. Without foreign money, arms, ammunition and direct intelligence flow, Kiev-regime “Ukraine” would now be merely territory to be occupied.
residents of the Kherson region, do not panic! Everyone who claims that the Ukrainians have occupied the bridgehead in Alyoshki or that there are battles there are disinformers!!! pic.twitter.com/byelNa7wqO
Who commands Wagner They say the real commander is a reserve officer who graduated from several prestigious Russian military academies, including the elite paratrooper school of the Suvorov Military Guard in Ulyanovsk and Ryazansk. He was in the 10th brigade spec. the strength of… pic.twitter.com/lhKttMj4zr
BREAKING – British Medical Association suspends Corbynista activist Dr Martin Whyte, Deputy Chair of its Junior Doctors’ Committee. The BMA activist was posting ‘jokes’ about gassing Jews and ‘totally acceptable views’ on Twitter and other social media. https://t.co/HHSseUvJOj
Three Tory MPs who have criticised the Government’s asylum policy have received services from a pro-migration policy group. The trio are among six MPs who received £160,000+ in services & research support from Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy project.https://t.co/mCIixwjsou
— DoNotVoteForAnyOfThePartiesInParliament#CreweFirst (@CllrBSilvester) April 23, 2023
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, in this case facilitated by three corrupt System MPs.
We have no choice but to start a new nation. Runaway degeneracy has made western nations unlivable. Men and women of healthy spirit must form a new union—a union that will one day conquer the Earth.
Considering Rome’s founders propagated their early citizenry using kidnapped brides and subsequently built the greatest empire the world has ever seen, is bridenapping therefore virtuous? pic.twitter.com/Z0MO9TkezX
The Asia Times, a newspaper based in Hong Kong, notes in its article that Russian UPAB ballistic missiles have blocked Western air defense systems transferred to Ukraine, as none of these bombs have yet been shot down.
The Ukrainian General Staff is urgently trying to change the defense tactics of Bakhmut/Avdiivka/Ugledar, due to the massive use of aerial bombs by Russian troops.
The West knows that Ukraine's weapons are leaking onto the black market – Seymour Hersh Poland, Romania and other countries are flooded with Western weapons destined for Kiev, says a veteran journalist pic.twitter.com/2sRTLylnhp
How long before a ground-to-air missile supplied to the Kiev regime, then sold on the black market, brings down an airliner at Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, or Brandenburg?
Video from the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction. The trenches are filled with water because of the rain. pic.twitter.com/wj0q6huwAp
The head of the British Ministry of Defense said that 1,200 British soldiers participated in the evacuation of embassy staff and their families from Khartoum. pic.twitter.com/zmijA4oQHd
Sudan was once just one minor part of our huge and generally well-run Empire. Pity that that has passed into history. Now the blacks and browns fight for the right to cream off the bribes that accompany power in black Africa and elsewhere.
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‘US doctor who believed a patient had a heart attack because of covid mRNA vaccine refused to put it on official report because of fear’
‘If a doctor cannot tell the truth because he’s scared of losing his license what has medicine become?’
“Euthanasia” or State-sanctioned killing of the “inconvenient”, not in National Socialist Germany, not even in Stalin’s Soviet Union, but in our supposedly “caring sharing” UK, in the 21st Century.
Well, a modest 5/10 this week, but I still managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8.
“…he thinks schools, universities and employers should actively discriminate against white applicants, purely because of their skin colour and their inherited guilt. Never mind that, say, a little girl born in the 21st century can hardly be blamed for the history of slavery. For Kendi, the mere fact of her genetic heritage is enough to damn her.
The second example is even more shocking. This is a chart produced in 2020 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture — part of the Smithsonian Institution, probably the most prestigious U.S. educational body of all.
The chart gives examples of ‘whiteness’ and ‘white culture’, which it clearly regards with disapproval. Sinister aspects of ‘white culture’ apparently include ‘hard work’, ‘self-reliance’, ‘the nuclear family’, ‘competition’, ‘delayed gratification’ and even ‘rigid time schedules’.
In just the first three weeks of this year, the NHS advertised for 19 ‘diversity and sustainability’ posts, with a combined salary of a cool £1 million. Indeed, in total the NHS in England alone employs an estimated 800 diversity and inclusion officers, costing a staggering £40 million a year.“
[Daily Mail]
Is there any peaceful way to stop this slide to complete chaos or dystopian tyranny? Frankly, I think not.
Africa is no good for the white man any more. All African countries are now (i.e. now that they are African-ruled) shambolic, corrupt, and suffused with crime and extreme violence, though some more than others.
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UK police no longer deal with burglaries. However, the fight against "offensive stickers" does not subside pic.twitter.com/cdgvNuj9cr
Another UK policeman playing the poundland KGB operative in uniform instead of doing his proper job. It has become pervasive. The police are now almost useless in terms of protecting the British public, while waging the culture war against the British people, and at the instigation of both “woke” activists and (of course) the endlessly, relentlessly, whining and demanding Jew-Zionist lobby.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced that the decision of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria regarding restrictions on the import of Ukrainian grain is a heavy blow to the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Harley Schlanger says the the war in Ukraine and the Green Revolution of energy reduction are driving factors behind the economic collapse that European countries are facing pic.twitter.com/GlUhrGpO7V
As I have blogged previously, for me there are two main issues that stand out: firstly, at some point (and as Elon Musk has mentioned), AI gets to the point whereby it takes over the reins of its own evolution, no longer requiring, or even permitting, human decision-making to control that; secondly, AI may become so pervasive that it becomes almost impossible for any individual human being, or for humanity as a group, to live without it.
That is already to a large extent so in relation to, inter alia, mobile telephones, online access, debit/credit cards etc. Yes, you can live without internet access, without a mobile telephone (I have not had one for many years), without debit or credit cards etc, but it gets harder every month to live “off-grid” in that way.
Once cash becomes a medium of exchange used only by the marginalized, and not used much in supermarkets, larger shops etc, the System/matrix will have almost power of life and death over citizens. Say or do something anti-System, or anti the System agenda, and your banking services will be cut off, and you will find it hard to continue your political life, hard to conduct any business or profession, hard even to buy food, in the end.
“Conspiracy theory”? No. A number of people, such as Laura Towler, Mark Collett, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative) have had exactly that happen to them in the past couple of years.
The possibility now exists for one, two, or more encirclements.
Press TV's correspondent,@johnnyjamesmiller, says that Russia's primary goal is to defeat the Ukrainian army rather than gain territory. pic.twitter.com/0ZvvIiUefk
Britain: Ukraine will lose control of its skies in a month The shortage of anti-aircraft missiles will lead to Ukraine losing control of the sky as early as next month. This is reported by the British newspaper The Times. pic.twitter.com/YMx1LBjFTd
According to Chinese experts, Ukraine is weakening every day due to a shortage of ammunition. This is due to the fact that the pace of industrial production in Western countries cannot meet the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
It was largely an invention of the western media but then grew a life of its own to the extent that people such as Adam Kinzinger believed it to be true.
I wonder whether “the Ghost of Kiev” will become, over time, a figure thought by many to have been a real person, in the manner of Wilhelm Tell (or William Tell): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell.
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[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg]
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Zakharova: Statements about Ukraine joining NATO "short-sighted and dangerous pic.twitter.com/K2UpQlO22V
and then aired a CNN report stating that the aforementioned ministry sent a "warning letter" to the Russian company "Rosatom ", which currently manages the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, not to touch the plant since it contains sensitive American nuclear technology
I have already blogged a few times about my visit to the UK’s Porton Down “biolab” campus in Wiltshire in or about 1995, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK; incidentally or co-incidentally, he was a trained scientist in the field(s) of biochemistry, microbiology etc: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down.
Ukrainian General Krivonos: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing a shortage of shells and will soon be counted individually, if mass deliveries from Western countries do not begin.
The sooner the Kiev regime runs out of arms, ammunition, and personnel, the better. Russia can take over Kiev and eastern Ukraine (east of the Dnieper) and start the work of rebuilding the damaged areas. Ukrainians (and Russians in Ukraine) live, in general, with lower living standards than Russians, certainly Russians from central or Baltic Russia (Moscow, Petersburg etc), and (as Putin has recently said) should be helped to a better standard of living.
Ukrainian police act as a press-gang, trying to force random and unwilling young men to become soldiers in Zelensky’s war.
The founder of the PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin turned to the commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky. The reason was the information that Zelensky demanded that Syrsky hold Artyomovsk until May 9.
London and the other large UK cities have gone the same way.
The former commander of the US Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges , claims that the main goal of the UAF counteroffensive is to isolate the Crimean peninsula. pic.twitter.com/OByiv9kMpw
The cretins of what passes for the Kiev regime “high command”, and the similar idiots in Washington, cannot or will not see that, were Crimea actually to be isolated by a Kiev-regime fantasy “counter-offensive”, the Russian response might well be a tactical nuclear strike on the Kiev-regime forces, or even on central Kiev itself, obliterating Zelensky and his cabal (if that is where they really are).
a fuel depot continues to burn in Kharkiv. The Russian AirForces delivered pinpoint strikes on the places of concentration of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparing for the notorious counteroffensive. pic.twitter.com/T7HPWa9sdQ
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, said that fighter jets would not be given to Ukraine. Only air defense pic.twitter.com/t08sz6IhIf
🇺🇦 Protests by relatives of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin in Ukraine. In Krivo Rog, people protested because, as they say, soldiers thrown to the front without training, without equipment, many died, and they are missing, and payments are not paid. pic.twitter.com/1eDLd7dNZn
The Ukrainians themselves are now starting to push back against the Zelensky regime.
Ukraine had hoped to launch an offensive in April, but postponed it indefinitely due to a shortage of weapons, writes Foreign Policy, citing a Ukrainian lawmaker.
The Government’s “emergency alert test” tomorrow isn’t a technical test, the purpose is a lot more sinister. It’s a test to see how many people will comply, with an added touch of predictive programming thrown in, to get the population prepared for what’s coming. Turn them off!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 22, 2023
Daughter's school is doing a "Stephen Lawrence Day", which is all about "systematic and institutional racism".
This is your pitiful "conservative" government in action. They should all be beaten up by their own rent boys.
Tired trope but imagine for a second the r*ces were reversed. This would be talked forever, with anniversaries from its happening, and it would be denounced by every celebrity and politician https://t.co/KpGfOYEwLW
Neil Oliver: ALL manners of freedom are being eroded | Neil Oliver Live https://t.co/59ojOyUInX via @YouTube@JoeBiden@VP Hey, whatcha y’all doin? Simple peasant, just askin!?!?
Jaguar Land Rover will rebrand as JLR in a company image shift, marketing its cars under four brand umbrellas: Range Rover, Discovery, Defender and Jaguar https://t.co/O65ZVCipDz
So the name Land Rover, one of the most recognized and recognizable brands in the world, is going to be dropped. Who on Earth makes stupid decisions like that? What sort of people run such companies?
Cardiff is to introduce a charge for driving in the city centre.
Because apparently my car that I had to pay road tax for, out of my money that’s already been taxed, that runs on fuel that’s been taxed, and protected by an insurance policy I paid tax on, just wasn’t enough. 🖕🏻🖕🏻
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 18, 2023
America 🤝 Israel
Committing international war crimes while accusing everyone else of being war criminals
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
…aided and abetted by the Jewish lobby embedded within individual countries such as the UK.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
I have infinitely more respect for people who speak the truth even if it might offend someone, than for people who beat around the bush for the sake of being polite.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
He is right— I myself am often too polite to those who do not deserve it.
More of the same lying propaganda that has been swirling through the UK and the rest of the Western world for many years, particularly in the past decade.
In the Zaporozhye region, the Buk air defense system of the RF Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft. The fate of the pilot is unknown. pic.twitter.com/toLy1Tt2hM
The tank crew of the T-90M "Breakthrough" of the company hits with direct fire from the intersection of Svoboda and Sadovaya streets in Bakhmut. ㅤ The tank supports the offensive of attack aircraft, which occupy one of the high-rise buildings when moving to the west of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/Bcv0Fob3k1
“Kiev“. Note the guard force. When some supposed VIP goes to Kiev to meet Zelensky or one of his cabal, and to create a photo-opportunity, the streets around are deserted, except for any sole “local person” allowed to approach the foreign visitor to thank him for his country’s “support” (arms, ammunition, money); as when “Boris” Johnson visits.
So, those deserted streets. Are they cleared as a security measure, or has a large part of the civilian population of Kiev fled?
😳Inappropriate ostentatious display of wealth, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis, or a welcome distraction and cause for a united display of patriotism and joy, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis? https://t.co/WCVRY8iFNo
— Enough is Enough 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 🏴✝️ (@FreedomsBritish) April 20, 2023
David Clews giving his verdict on NATO’s deliberate provocation to spark the war in order to get public support in the West. pic.twitter.com/6iSHNaQr38
— 🇬🇧 National Housing Party U.K. 🏴 (@NHPUKOfficial) April 19, 2023
I'm not avoiding this subject any longer. Trump left the WHO, UN, and UNESCO, and he threatened to leave NATO so they know it's over if he wins. Everyday I hear people ask, "why aren't our Representatives doing what we elected them to do?" Well I'll tell you! NWO is no longer a… pic.twitter.com/2uFFGJmZDK
A video of the visit of the NATO Secretary General to Kyiv has been published, he visited an exhibition of broken Russian military equipment on Mikhailovskaya Square. pic.twitter.com/RJj7xjlGJp
More of Stoltenberg in Kiev, in Mikhailovskaya Ploshchad (Square), which is in central Kiev, near the Foreign Ministry and the British Embassy, among other headquarters and diplomatic installations. Still no “real people” (locals), only bodyguards, Army, police, TV crew(s), and Press photographers. Of what are they so afraid? Can it be that the Zelensky regime (and/or NATO) is not as popular, even in Kiev, as it likes to have portrayed?
A bright flash seen over #Kyiv was probably a meteorite, #Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a #Russian missile attack. https://t.co/AYuuT1L9E5
I have never expected much from Starmer. For one thing, he is a puppet and mouthpiece of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, even as compared to other System politicians. Also, he is as dull as ditchwater.
Beyond that, I have noticed (and have long blogged) that Starmer’s general attitude to the past 13 years of “Conservative” misgovernment has been to say, in effect, “we support workhouses, but they should be run more efficiently“.
Starmer is not only not a “socialist” in any meaningful way, but not even much of a social-democrat. A different label from the Conservative Party, but little else substantially different.
In fact, looking at how Starmer vacillates, fails to make up his mind (even as to what is “a woman”!), and tries to evade difficult moral choices, while mouthing “me too!” on various issues, I can see what a rotten Prime Minister he would make, just as I saw —years before most people— what a rotten PM “Boris”-idiot would make.
As time goes by, my view against Starmer becomes less and less favourable, not that itwas actually ever favourable.
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🔻In Bakhmut, the Wagner assault detachments completely cleared the territory of the Transit Hotel, thereby pushing the Ukrainian formations away from the positions at the railway station along the railway. Attempts of unsuccessful counterattacks of the AFU were noted.
The position of the AFU in Bakhmut has become seriously complicated, and at the moment, if the current onslaught is maintained and there are no attempts to counterattack from Slavyansk and Chasiv Yar, the AFU will be completely driven out of the city.
Additional units of the AFU were deployed to Kramatorsk. The city was marked by a congestion of people and equipment. And in Novodmitrovka, near Konstantinovka, a positional area for launching missiles from the HIMARS MLRS has been equipped. FULL: https://t.co/VSGaJUInJA
After Bakhmut: Draining Battle Leaves Ukraine Battered, Russia Rising | Opinion **** How a situation is viewed depends who you support. Without Western support, Ukraine could not have lasted this long. https://t.co/o5fAVB4vGs
Was that a purely Chinese decision, or did elements of the Russian state unfriendly to the Wagner PMC/Wagner Group advise the Chinese —covertly— not to sell the weapons?
As blogged in the past, if the police and courts fail to deter these misguided fanatics, the Great British Public will start to kick the **** out of them, including the smug retired ones (who are often much in evidence when roads are blocked or trains held up).
I have mentioned Tobias Ellwood a number of times on the blog. The part-time Reserves officer who was once an Army captain but who now carries the rank of a “colonel” in the State propaganda outfit called 77 Brigade.
“Economists yesterday blamed the Bank of England’s money-printing spree for fuelling double-digit inflation – as Britain faces another painful interest rate hike to try to bring it back down.
The Bank pumped £450billion into the economy to help steer Britain through the pandemic but experts told MPs that helped to create the price spiral that it is now battling contain.
Inflation has been above 10 per cent since last summer and – though figures out today could see it dip below that level – more rate rises are likely to be needed before the battle against it is won.”
[Daily Mail]
Still think that all that “Covid” nonsense (“working from home, “furlough money”, “business loans” stuff etc) came at no cost to you, British taxpayer and worker? Think again. Keep clapping…
“The arrest of a French publisher by UK counter-terrorism police over claims he took part in protests in Paris was described as an ‘assault on freedom of expression’ yesterday.
Ernest Moret, the foreign rights manager for Éditions La Fabrique in Paris, was stopped by ports officers and questioned for six hours under terrorism laws when he arrived at St Pancras station on the Eurostar from Paris at 6.30pm on Monday to attend a book fair.
His colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, who was with him at the time of the arrest, told the Guardian: ‘When we were on the platform, two people, a woman and a guy, told us they were counter-terrorist police.
‘They showed a paper called section 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 and said they had the right to ask him about demonstrations in France.’ She added: ‘I’m still shaking, we are in shock about what happened.'”
[Daily Mail]
Once again, the British police acting like a poundland KGB.
The same or similar happened, a few years ago, to satirist and singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz, when she was travelling through St. Pancras to the Eurostar. She was en route to Paris, was detained by British police, taken away, and later excluded from France for a purported 40 years.
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Do not take this statement as a sign of Weakness. Russia extends the Olive Branch after laying siege on #Bakhmut.
From here, Russia has an advantageous position and cannot be forced to cede territory.
Peter Hitchens highlights the danger of labeling dissent as enemy propaganda, a tactic employed by tyrants throughout history. He emphasises the importance of critical thinking to avoid falling prey to such manipulation. #FreeSpeech#CriticalThinking#Historyhttps://t.co/78Zw1PEE8W
ADL on White nationalism:⁰“Whites having homogeneous countries is extremist terrorism and racial supremacism.”
ADL on Jewish nationalism:⁰“It is unacceptable to expect Jews to voluntarily subvert their own nationalist identity and become a vulnerable minority” pic.twitter.com/KZkSiXbnCr
As I have warned, the UK is not a safe place for publishers, journalists or dissidents. Foreign powers have seen the US government launder it’s repression and persecution against Assange through the British system. UN rulings concerning Assange’s right to liberty ignored and… https://t.co/zlVyFsmmxGpic.twitter.com/bIMrV40rze
Senior Ukrainian politician’s wife was pulled over by police for violating traffic laws. She starts screaming: “Go die in Bakhmut! My husband works in the government! Fuck you!"
“Ukraine”, a shambolic, corrupt, Jew-Zionist-ruled dictatorship, with no civil rights, and where opposition political parties and trade unions have been closed down.
Russian-backed forces in #Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region say that Ukrainian forces have blown up four residential buildings in the city of #Bakhmut, killing 20 civilians, the TASS news agency reports.https://t.co/ljFeDLPNJG
In the trite but true expression, “war is hell”, and civil war (which is, in a sense, what this has been) is worse. If only the Russian Army, GRU and SVR had been able to fulfil their missions properly at the start, everything would have been over in a few weeks, with minimal damage, hurt, and bloodshed, and with Russia controlling Kiev and all Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
Zelensky is the lynchpin. Had he been captured or eliminated over a year ago, at the start of the operation, the whole house-of-cards “Ukrainian” regime would have crumbled. The GRU and SVR failed, and were shown to be near-useless.
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Somewhat ironic that @bootstrapcook Jack Monroe is also howling about Sunak and financial transparency when she is one of the shadiest and dishonest people on Twitter when it comes to any sort of financial transparency.
…and the same 460 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of several thousand pounds monthly, via Patreon (between £3.60 and £44 monthly from each mug).
I think there needs to be a major reset in all honesty and a place to start again.
— SickofEverything 🥰🥰(no dms-sorry!) (@SickOfEverythi6) April 19, 2023
I have repeatedly proposed, on the blog, redoubts for a core of English people; in particular, in the peninsula that includes Cornwall and Devon, as well as Dorset and Somerset.
The “pyramid builders” comment refers to the ludicrous notion (espoused by pathetic Afro-American pseudo-academics at places such as Berkeley) that black Africans built the pyramids and other ancient Egyptian structures.
White folks only make up 8% of earth's population. This figure is falling. Also, some of that 8% are anti-white traitors. It is looking dangerous. Terrifying.
Our present culture and civilization, for all its flaws, has many potential paths ahead of it. It is the advanced pinnacle of thousands of years of historical evolution (overall). Were it to be flattened by e.g. a nuclear war, we might have to start from scratch, which might take hundreds, maybe thousands or tens of thousands of years (until a similar level of development is reached). How long would depend on whether “only” Europe, North America, and Eurasia were destroyed, or whether the other parts of the world are also flattened. I refer to South America, Africa, Australasia etc.
Here's a thought Why do all those lovers of the ILLEGAL poncers invasion not stand with a placard saying they are welcome at their address –all found ??
— John F Austin GCE "Eng Lang. 0 level" A* (@actiontiff) April 19, 2023
This is Portland, Oregon. An American city, this is crazy it’s looking like a third world slum. Look how many tents they have for the homeless. Western countries prioritise the needs of others before their own. Remind me again how much has the US sent to the Ukraine? 🥴 pic.twitter.com/xyKV36Hkku
Not even arrested the people we are importing are not only a burden expecting to be housed ,fed,educated,clothed,free healthcare ,dental care,given free money they expect use to allow them to commit Crimes ,openly beg they have no respect,Care or Loyalty at all for our Country https://t.co/I7yitmdPlZ
Still, looking on the bright side of life, that young girl may later develop into a staunch social nationalist…
Today this is celebrated. Leftists fail to understand that in supporting people like this you are doing more harm. This is clearly a mental illness, a need to be something you are not, to escape reality is illness not a celebratory coming out story. Help don’t hinder. pic.twitter.com/f9o1Xi3135
Imagine bragging to social media that you’ve taken your child to a #trans rally. Children are a blank canvas, we create their world view, this is just brainwashing innocent children into believing this is normal 😡😡 pic.twitter.com/jKHIz2VjfJ
Crying over the past won’t make today any better. The victim mentality that people have today keeps people caged. You will never experience freedoms or rewards if you live in a mental prison of victim mentality. You choose your today, no one else. And people today shouldn’t pay… https://t.co/vCfkBtklW3
This is so true. The past gets lost in the present. A little history reading wouldn’t go amiss with many people.
— Jan Collins – 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (@JanColl05831542) April 19, 2023
We Europeans will not be guilt tripped into allowing our civilization to be destroyed , we will not make excuses for ourselves or apologize for anything. We do not ask permission from anyone to preserve our nation's people's and cultures. The right is already ours.
…and I note that the Twitter account of Laura Towler, @thisislaurat, is still “suspended”.
I myself have decided not to bother having my own Twitter account reinstated, with blue tick or not. Regular readers will be aware that a pack of malicious Jews had me expelled, in a co-ordinated operation, in 2018. I see no real mileage in demanding reinstatement.
Russia needs a “gamechanger”. If Bakhmut/Artyomovsk falls completely, and Russian forces move north from there, there may be the possibility of an eventual approach to Kiev from both south and north (via Belarus), but if that is to happen, the blow will have to be massive, overwhelming.
“Labour ministers in Wales have announced plans that could see young asylum seekers in the country receive £1,600 a month and taxpayers’ cash for legal aid to fight deportation.
Three Welsh Labour ministers – Jane Hutt, Julie Morgan and Mick Antoniw – are signatories of the letter, which demands that all migrants aged 18 and over should get universal basic income without being deprived of legal aid.
The UK Government spends around £6 million a day accommodating migrants across the country in hotels, former military bases and barges.
Under the Welsh plan, the Government would provide migrants with both a wage and their lawyers’ fees to stop them being deported.”
[Daily Mail]
In the current conditions of repression of free speech in the UK, we are effectively “not allowed” to print what we think should happen to any persons who encourage or facilitate the non-white migration-invasion of this country…
Vladimir #Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. | [Reuters] pic.twitter.com/M26tclA0NY
French President Emmanuel Macron intends to address Chinese officials with a plan that could lead to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine . According to that plan, negotiations could begin this summer, Bloomberg reports. pic.twitter.com/FqSCvqjl7I
Across France, people took to the streets to express dissatisfaction with Macron's announcement that the pension reform will come into force this fall.
🇸🇾 The Syrian flag was displayed on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in honor of the 77th anniversary of Syrian statehood. The return of Damascus to the Arab League is in full swing pic.twitter.com/aSkUQxv2Bk
Well, thank you so much angel my dear driver for your kindness that let the mum deer and her baby deer to across the road patiently ❤️👼 God bless you and the creatures in the world 🌹✨✨🇨🇦🇺🇸 https://t.co/UIrNsLdINK
Russian forces have taken control of almost 90% of the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) leader, told TASS on Tuesday.
"The Wagner private military company controls about 90% of Artyomovsk and its…
"Russian artillery and aerial attacks against Bakhmut are growing fiercer, Ukraine says." by BY MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG via NYT New York Times https://t.co/2sC5XTTNLy
[Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
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Dutch political activist, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, on why politicians are pushing people to eat insects, "to save the planet".
"The push for insect eating is just a compliance test, because our politicians know that when they control the food, they control the people".… pic.twitter.com/Fan1XZ5BxH
Where I part with what Griffin is saying (on the video clip, not perhaps overall) is that I see the conflict (which has already started) as being not a “race war” but a “race/culture/ideology war”. A complex and slow-burn conflict, in other words.
the embarrassingly dire performance this ego maniac gave on BBC Question Time did an incredible amount of damage
As the National Socialists of the 1930s put it, “National Socialism— the expression of our biological knowledge“.
#SS #Ahnenerbe.
The dollar's dominance as a reserve currency eroded last year at 10 times the pace seen in the past 2 decades April 17, 2023 by Phil Rosenhttps://t.co/aX7UgjV3JG
Bahmut : In today's fighting, units of the "Wagner" managed to reduce the territory controlled by units of the Ukrainian army to 10% of the city's territory.
According to him, the Bakhmut direction remains the epicenter of hostilities. He added that the Russians are increasing the activity of artillery and air strikes in the Bakhmut direction