Well, once again I beat political journalist John Rentoul, scoring 7/10 as against his claimed 5.5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 6, and 9 (had I thought for a moment, I would have recalled No. 5).
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1 in 4 soldiers to be 'let go', while the entire ruling elite push for war with Russia. UK joins Western sanctions v Afghanistan, now sending £97million in foreign aid to help save Afghans from the deadly impact of sanctions. "I don't understand this bit at all" – Sid Vicious.
War with Russia is “unthinkable”; it would result in the near-obliteration (and nuclear pollution) of the British Isles. There are a large number of air bases, some naval ports, a couple of submarine bases, early-warning stations, not to mention electrical power generators such as nuclear power stations. Also, the centre of government and politics (London).
The only slight positive amid a forest of negatives would be that, in the inevitable chaos following a nuclear missile attack, certain hostile elements could be eliminated.
Australia has fallen.. Western Australia police arrest the owner of Tisabilas cafe for not wearing a mask.. then arrest his co-worker for filming the arrest.! pic.twitter.com/kIcOJcxTRo
I do not think that I can usefully add to that which I have written in previous blog posts about how the “White Australia” “Lucky Country” I knew for a few years of childhood (in the late 1960s) has become, incredibly, a stressed and multikulti biosecurity police state.
One of the most telling indications that Britain has been sliding into a kind of fake “communitarian” fake “caring sharing” police state is that, during 2020 and 2021, and up to the present, Lord Sumption, a former “Law Lord” (Supreme Court justice), has been presented by the msm, System politicians, and of course the know-nothing pro-facemask, pro-lockdown Twitter mob, as a kind of lunatic or eccentric, to be ignored, sidelined, or just laughed at.
I have blogged fairly extensively on Ukraine in previous blogs over the past week. There are number of reasons why Russian forces may well invade at least the Eastern Ukraine area (i.e. East of the Dnieper river), as well as the Kiev area. There are few if any compelling reasons not to.
The Ukraine has been a shambolic corrupt mess for 30 years, and its military preparations look like something out of the First World War, with a bit of WW2 Dad’s Army thrown in. In fact, that Daily Mail account refers to British-sent weapons arriving in Lvov, in the deepest part of Western Ukraine, the least likely area to be occupied by Russian forces.
[Kiev. Civilians “training” with cut-out wooden “weapons”—suicidal]
[Russian self-propelled howitzers, training recently in the Urals— part of what is coming down the road at the Kiev-government forces]
As I have blogged in recent days, if there are sudden acts of sabotage in Kiev or elsewhere in the region (probably executed by Spetsnaz contingents), the countdown will have begun, and the “war” will have begun, in effect, major Russian armoured and other formations following within a few days. I imagine that the initial phase will be short, perhaps less than a week. Putin holds all the cards of importance.
Talking of the corruption of the past 30 years in Ukraine, I am reminded of an egregious carpetbagger whom I encountered in the late 1990s.
A lawyer originating in Virginia, the said carpetbagger —I shall call him “Z.”, not so much to protect the guilty but so as to make a libel suit even less likely— had an office in the City of London and one in Kiev. He wanted me to come to work with him, and probably relocate to Kiev before too long. I had recently returned to London from a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and was interested. I had never been to Kiev, but knew that it was considered, in Soviet days, as the greenest (the most “treed”) city in the Soviet Union, and in other respects quite pleasant.
I found Z.’s London office utterly chaotic. Just him, a secretary, and a rather pretty receptionist whom I had encountered somewhere previously, though I could not recall where exactly. She remembered me too.
Z.’s own office looked like a bomb had hit it. Anyway, I agreed to do some work for a few days on a trial basis, but soon found that Z. was a very strange individual, despite stellar paper qualifications. He once again proved the “rule” that, if someone has half a dozen degrees from various countries, he is either a brilliant near-genius, or a charlatan. Z. was no near-genius, in my opinion anyway.
It soon proved impossible to work with a near-lunatic of that sort. I left after 2-3 days, and needed to shake Z.’s cage a little to get him to pay up even a modest amount in recompense.
I did see Z. once more, about a year or two later, travelling on the Central Line. I was standing, he was seated. He pretended not to have seen me, and kept his eyes averted. Perhaps he was afraid of being assaulted (I confess, the thought did cross my mind!).
As it was, I exited at Chancery Lane and he disappeared with the train, eastwards.
There is an odd coda to this little reminiscence. I was talking over lunch, a year later, with someone who might or might not have been connected to SIS (I am still in two minds about that). Somehow, Z.’s name came up, and the luncher told me that Z. had a rather bad reputation in Kiev, partly because he paid girls aged about 16 to walk, naked except for high-heeled shoes, on Z.’s back as he lay on his front…
The luncher added that he himself found it distasteful, not least because Z., a person in his 40s, himself had a daughter of the same age.
Whether the luncher had some particular reason to tell me about Z.’s proclivities, I have no idea. Perhaps the Italian white wine had affected his tongue, though somehow I doubt it. Anyway, if there is one thing I am fairly good at, it is keeping a secret, so Z.’s oddness has not seen the light of day (via me) until now, about 24 years later. Anyway, as said, I got the story about the naked 16-y-o girls secondhand, and have no idea whether it is true.
I see now that “Z.” (whose name does not contain a Z) still has those London and Kiev offices, though.
This situation has been building up for years. There was an understanding, when the Soviet Union collapsed or, more accurately, faded away, that NATO would not expand its membership or operations.
NATO, after all, only existed in the first place as a solidification of the Western alliance of the Second World War, and then only because of the massive Soviet military presence both in the western Soviet Union itself and also in Eastern and Central Europe: the “Pribaltika” (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Poland, the DDR/East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and, until 1955, Austria (the last foreign troops occupying Austria left in 1955). NATO was established in 1949, the Warsaw Pact in 1955 (after West Germany joined NATO). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact.
The USA (really NWO) also established the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) on the other side of the Eurasian landmass.
[2021: NATO member-states in green]
[NATO timeline: existing members in dark-blue, new members in light-blue, non-members in grey]
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist (formally in 1991, but in reality from 1989-90).
There was an opportunity in the early 1990s for a real partnership between the West and the former Soviet Union, but it failed for several reasons: among others, the wish for nominal “independence” on the part of areas that had been part of the Soviet Union and, before then, the Russian Empire; the wish on the part of “Western” companies, law firms etc to exploit Russian and other people and resources; a wish on the part of the NWO to rule Russia, in effect; the collaboration of Jew “oligarchs” with the “Western” gameplan in the Yeltsin era.
The Confederation of Independent States [“CIS”] was, unfortunately, blown apart by the combination of post-Soviet nationalism(s) (in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia etc) and the infiltration of American military activities into the newly-independent states around Russia.
Some of the former satellites (Poland etc), were keen to join NATO after their experience of Soviet occupation, and effective Soviet rule, over many decades.
NATO has, since the 1980s, got involved in South-Central Asia, the Middle East etc. Far from its original geographical area and purpose. It is the NWO battering-ram.
We have seen NATO “pushing the envelope” over recent years; not only in Ukraine, but in Georgia and elsewhere. However, things have now progressed to the point at which Russia cannot accept more encroachment.
The Soviet Union had an ideology of world domination, albeit muted in latter decades. It was a serious danger to Western Europe. Russia now has no such ideology, and is basically defensive. It poses no danger to Western Europe, unless constantly provoked.
The USA is now beefing up the forces of the Kiev government, so Russia would be advised to strike earlier rather than later.
There should be an institute, similar to SS-Ahnenerbe but focussed more on the future rather than (only) on the historical and prehistorical past, to examine all such questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe.
[Jaguar diving and swimming to catch fish, Brazil]
It is the centenary of Michael Bentine, the half Peruvian old Etonian Goon Show co-founder and inventor of Potty Time. He also helped set up the counter-terrorism section in the SAS’ 22 regiment and participated in the first hovercraft expedition to the Amazon. He died in 1996. pic.twitter.com/eikSv5aZF6
I am, by synchronous co-incidence, just re-reading one of Bentine’s memoirs, The Door Marked Summer. I did have a couple of other books by him, but they were lost, along with most of my 2,000+-book library, when I returned, unwillingly, to the UK from France in 2009.
An interesting character, whom I recall seeing on TV in the early 1970s. A man of many parts, and many talents, though with a few obsessions and, in some respects, narrowness of view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bentine.
One of Bentine’s most interesting recounted experiences was when he and his father accompanied someone (obviously some kind of occult initiate) to a hidden place in a Kent wood at night, not long before the Second World War, and where they were greeted by the entire realm of Nature present, animals, birds, insects, and plants.
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Note the eye colour – because it's the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beasts who make public transport so uncomfortable & even dangerous for single women….#antiracism is code for #antiwhitepic.twitter.com/IjmHd3WPou
Watched by 800,000 people in the first 24 hours, this remarkable video & event are being totally blanked by the MSM. Find out what they don't want you to know…. https://t.co/DtiHDTT029
For those who haven’t had time to watch the full five hour discussion, COVID-19: A Second Opinion, I am imploring you to watch this 30 minute highlight video.
Was interested to see the proportion of facemask-wearers at Waitrose in the early evening. About 20%. The facemask nonsense has had its time in the sun, at least until what passes for a government in the UK finds an excuse to re-impose the nonsense.
The “panicdemic, together with its absurd “laws”, “rules” and “guidance”, has exposed, brutally, the level of psychopathology in large parts of the population. In various ways. Those who fear, not “the virus”, at root, but everything outside their own circle. The obsessive and pointless mask-wearing is one example. Another is the alacrity seen in those suddenly given petty power to tell others to wear a facemask, wear it differently or better, stay x-feet away from other shoppers (or from the said obsessive), and so on.
“The virus” has also exposed what little real respect most people now have for civil liberties, or even logic. So it was that the people —many, perhaps most, of them— accepted the ludicrous “Rule of Six” made up by the part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer and liar posing as Prime Minister.
Doubt about the official narrative has grown, but only slowly, and it may be that the System overplayed its hand, in that the conspiratorial “SAGE” committee (I used to call it “DUMB”— the “Department Under Matt and Boris”) heralded the “Omicron variant” as something likely to kill hundreds of thousands.
Well, now, only weeks after the latest alarmist predictions of the egregious Professor Ferguson and his cohorts, we see that “Omicron” is killing almost no-one, despite the frenzied testing and consequent announcement of millions of “cases”.
The public is waking up, though seems to have little real anger about having been played for two years. The System has spun it as “the measures taken mean that —if we keep “vaccinating”— we can live with Covid“. That spin or gloss pats on the back SAGE, the No.10 chancer, the government as a whole, and the poor saps otherwise known as The Great British Public…
Thus the Government (weakly opposed by the “we can run workhouses better” fake Opposition) can remove the various restrictions without having to admit to having got it wrong for 2 years, and without having to impliedly admit that the “panicdemic” was also —largely, not entirely— a “scamdemic”, and the measures taken for other reasons.
Seems that the latest news is that canvassers for the Conservative Party have been met with “a wall of disapproval” never previously encountered. That may mean a very low turnout as people “vote with their feet”. They cannot vote for any credible alternative because they have been denied that option.
The System parties have decided that, as with the Jo Cox assassination, the David Amess incident must be marked by the voters being denied a proper choice at the by-election, leaving standing only the “Conservative” Party candidate and a ragbag of small and/or joke parties and independents.
It will be interesting to see what proportion of the vote will go to Steve Laws (UKIP), who is somewhat known, by reason of his monitoring of, and tweeting about, the cross-Channel migration-invasion. He seems to be the front runner after the “Conservative” woman, though Catherine Blaiklock (English Democrats) may get quite a few votes.
I doubt whether Jayda Fransen (standing as Independent) will do well, but perhaps the Southend West voters will confound me.
Southend is not an area I know. I have been there, though only for an hour or so, and long ago, in 1977 or 1978.
I had returned from a youthful misadventure in Rhodesia, aged 20-21, and had signed up for a temporary job doing various kinds of casual work. One such, for a few days, was travelling around London delivering booze to various places as the driver’s mate, hauling crates around.
I remember that one destination was Pentonville Prison (for the guards), a cavalry barracks in Hounslow (the Sergeant’s Mess), and a bingo hall in some concrete town in Essex (Basildon? I forget now). Also, to what was either the Conservative Club, or the Naval and Military Club, Southend-on-Sea.
I remember that the Club to which we delivered was on a kind of bluff or clifftop overlooking the sea. There was a greensward between the Club and the clifftop. A tree growing there too (a monkeypuzzle tree? Or is that my memory inventing something?).
The sun was just setting over the sea, and that, together with the Union Jack on a flagpole, rendered the scene somehow elegiac. The Evening Hymn and Last Post might have been fitting.
Looking now at Google Maps and Google Earth, I think that that club was “Naval and Military” rather than “Conservative”. The latter seems to have been in a less pleasant setting in the middle of the town, and to have closed permanently a few years ago, a function of the declining membership of the Conservative Party: https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/16385600.southend-conservative-club-close-doors-final-time/.
I remember the day mentioned partly because, having launched a crate of Scotch down a wooden chute to the cellar from the street, it had unfortunately slid down far too fast, and right into the gammy leg of the steward, who let out a few oaths that were certainly blue, and possibly naval, though not necessarily Conservative.
Thanks to the incredible resources now available via Google, Google Earth etc, I have just tracked down the place: Naval and Military Club, 20 Royal Terrace, Southend-on-Sea.
[Naval and Military Club, Southend-on-Sea]
Still going, it seems.
I have just been looking at some photos of Southend. Not terribly pleasant-looking overall. In a way surprising that it is a Conservative Party stronghold.
In fact, that seems not as clearcut as the election results for Southend West and other other local constituency (Rochford and Southend East) would suggest. Quite a high level of poverty, and the Southend local council is a non-Conservative minority-coalition administration, with little more than a third of all councillors Conservatives (20 out of 51).
The well-known anti-poverty campaigner and creator of recipes made on a shoestring, “Jack” Monroe, aka “the Bootstrap Cook”, is from Southend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Monroe.
I notice that the local newspaper report on the closure of the Conservative Club in 2018 reported that Southend “is not safe at night“…
…but the death rate will be far higher in the next few years, because the NHS has almost stopped treating people with non-Covid conditions, particularly those whose pathologies are at earlier stages.
Still clapping??
BBC “News”
This morning, watched, for the first time in a while, a whole half-hour of BBC TV news. Of the 30 minutes, about 20 mins was given over to the idiot posing as Prime Minister, and as to whether he broke his own ludicrous “Covid” “rules” or “laws”. Then we had 5 minutes about Ukraine and the possibility of invasion by Russian forces. A strange disproportion, to my mind: 20 mins about the idiot at Downing Street, and his cake and wine, but only 5 mins about the possibility (I would think probability) of (more) war in Ukraine.
The remaining 5 mins was mostly the weather report and forecast, the most accurate part of the whole broadcast.
The bit about Ukraine was mostly devoted to someone called James Nixey, an expert from the Chatham House think tank formerly (and surely better-) called the Royal Institute of International Affairs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House].
I have little quarrel with what the said Nixey had to say, though it did not tell me anything that I did not already know (but then the news broadcasts are supposedly for the population as a whole).
If true, it is one of the (very few) things “Boris” has done of which I approve wholeheartedly. Why lie about it? I would rather those innocent animals be rescued than many of the Afghans, some of whom hate us or despise us, and none of whom will ever be anything but a nuisance to us (at best). If “Madame Boris” (Carrie Johnson) got him to do it, well, never mind. It is the sort of thing a “first lady” should do— exercise compassionate influence.
Ukraine: Biden warns Putin of personal sanctions if Russia invades – video https://t.co/wAfiUtbN4Y
Personal sanctions may be inconvenient to Putin (and those close to him) but they will not change his intent for a second. What is happening now around Ukraine is not the impetuous policy-on-the-hoof of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and Nicholas Sarkozy, when they stupidly decided to help the Libyan rebels in 2012. This is a long-considered and carefully worked-out plan by Putin, the Russian General Staff or Stavka, and the intelligence services, especially the GRU.
Putin and others see the Ukraine situation in the light of the 1100 years of conjoined close connection between Russia and Ukraine more than the 30 years of shambolic Ukrainian independence. They see it as a matter of territorial integrity (of the Slavonic heartlands), and also as a matter of existential national survival; they want a dead stop to NATO installing advanced weapons in Ukraine (and Poland, and the Baltic states).
What now? I myself would expect, as blogged recently, there to be an invasion at least of the Eastern part of Ukraine, and probably Kiev area too. I would expect the Spetsnaz forces of the Stavka, perhaps partly undercover, to create chaos in Kiev and some other key cities and non-urban locations first, before tanks roll in. and before the skies are full of descending parachutes.
I doubt that Russian forces plan to occupy anywhere much west of the Dnieper. Putin would rather install a pro-Russian Ukrainian government in Kiev, which would at least try to control the western part of Ukraine, while allowing the eastern part to exercise (pro-Russian) near-autonomy.
The Biden Administration is ready to go to war with Russia to save Ukraine’s corrupt so-called “democracy” while destroying our own democracy here at home.
US and NATO discussing deployment of more troops to Eastern Europe prior to any Russian invasion of Ukraine? If anything, NATO is going to provoke a preemptive strike by Russia. 😨 😟 😱 Although that might be the idea. This is utter madness. pic.twitter.com/e2LAXQKEU0
Russia gains little or nothing by delay. Every day that passes now makes a potential invasion or “incursion” slightly more difficult for Russian forces.
The Soviet Union always had awesome capabilities for swift mass deployment of forces (eg in Afghanistan), especially by air, and Russia’s newly-upgraded forces still have that, as far as I can see. The main reason that Russia did not simply invade a week or more ago was probably that Putin needed to “condition” the European states and the USA to the idea of Russian incursion, so as to obviate a sudden “Cuban Missile Crisis” situation developing.
Now, Putin can be sure that all that the NATO core states (really just USA and UK) will do is to impose blah-blah “sanctions” on Russia and its leaders. No attempt at direct military parrying. Biden has said as much. As for “Boris”, he is just a spectator, really.
Putin would probably prefer to “win without war”, in the famous phrase of Sun-Tzu, but it seems doubtful that the Kiev government will give him what he wants (though the Kiev leaders do seem to be disenchanted with the USA’s lukewarm support, so there is a slight possibility).
As said previously, I doubt that Russian forces would invade, or need to invade, more than a few miles west of Kiev. Mostly in the eastern part of the country, where there are several million ethnic-Russian civilians living.
Also, Russia will try to work psychologically on the Ukrainian population, mainly in Kiev and east of the Dnieper. Anxiety, maybe panic etc. If unexpected sabotage etc takes place, the countdown has begun.
I would expect the storm to break, if it does, within a week or so of today.
Just heard on GB news that one economic migrant costs £40k per year, when you think how much a state pension per year is worth (when we finally get it ) around £10k that's 4 pensioners for one migrant, no wonder we have to wait until 67yrs for ours.
Well, I have once again beaten political journalist John Rentoul. This week, he scored 6/10, but I trumped that with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4 and 6, and I hit the post on question 5 (I chose a neighbouring county), so disallowed that too; that left me with 7.
…and the Jewish hypocrites (in Israel, in the USA, in the UK etc) have the gall to whine about what happened here and there in the Second World War…
…and while we are on the subject of hypocrisy…
"In and from"? You weasel. How about urging your armaments client, Saudi, to stop bombing the bejaysus out of them? Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all the saints……!!!
— CrémantCommunarde #BeAPeacemonger ☮️ (@0Calamity) January 22, 2022
Imagine…Britain has a Minister of State, no less, whose degree was in “Hospitality Management”…Increasingly, I feel that there is just nothing left of Britain’s institutions but facades behind which are crumbling and rat-infested ruins.
For decades, Israel denied the massacre at Tantura in 1948. Now, the soldiers who committed the heinous acts of ethnic cleansing are confirming what Palestinians have said all along: villagers were systematically slaughtered. https://t.co/haAO36N360
How is that different from the alleged shootings of Jews by German forces and, more often, Baltic, Ukrainian and other volunteers and auxiliaries, in Eastern Europe during 1939-42?
Haifa University took the degree back from the MA student who wrote about the Tantura massacre in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948; Benny Morris wrote about the lack of credibility of oral history based on victims' testimonies… now it turns out the victims were right https://t.co/W3nDvlaozE
This photograph of Palestinians commemorating the Tantura massacre in 1947 while israelis relax on the beach is the perfect encapsulation of what israel was built on and what it continues to be pic.twitter.com/QKidzn187U
…imagine the scream the Jew-Zionist lobby would raise if people in the UK engaged in family recreational activities anywhere near the Jews’ endless “holocaust” “remembrance” photo-opportunities, even in England where no such massacres ever took place, not in the past 700+ years anyway.
Through oral history recordings and well-presented research, TANTURA lays out how atrocities were committed by Israeli forces during the founding of the state in 1948. Long suppressed, this is a difficult and vital record that challenges Israel’s founding myth about itself. 4.5/5 pic.twitter.com/JmA7eAwyoT
As if the Tantura massacre by the Zionist terrorists was any kind secret. This will only be a revelation to Nakba deniers. The whole of “Israel” is built over Palestinian mass graves and the ruins of hundreds of towns and villages. https://t.co/e6EAzIQOLe
Germany was devastated during the 1941-1945 period of history; it does not want that to happen, and even worse, a second time. (True, Estonia suffered greatly as well…).
Here's a time-lapse of all of the United Kingdom to #Ukraine weapons airlift flights from the morning of the 17th of January to this very minute on the 19th of January 2022. The UK has no intention of letting Ukraine fall. pic.twitter.com/p4DcNv25mt
Who pays for propaganda-journalism of that type? As for the ludicrous conclusion that “the UK has no intention of letting Ukraine fall“, it will take more than a few tweets by Liz Truss, a few remarks by Boris-idiot, and a few planes filled with weapons, to ensure that. How many such flights were sent to the equally-useless and corrupt Afghan government in Kabul?
I wonder whether Biden might accept any Russian offer to decide the matter by a referendum of the people of Eastern Ukraine? I suppose not, because 90% would want to separate from Ukraine and, in some way, cohere with Russia.
Putin will, in these last days, still try to “win without war”, in the words of Sun-Tzu, but as every day passes, more arms and ammo are flown into Ukraine by the USA, UK and others. That obviously makes a swift invasion, at least into Eastern Ukraine, more likely.
Very interesting thread on the true cost of living……..makes you think https://t.co/tW40ZOdSXj
Boris Johnson is a symptom of a much broader problem in British politics – which can only be fixed with new policies, and – almost certainly – new parties and a new electoral system https://t.co/4XUQ8YGAZ8
Rory Stewart – #PartyGate should be the last nail in Boris Johnson's coffin… Johnson was manifestly unsuited to be Prime Minister from the beginning, & it's very, very disturbing that a great country, like Britain, should have chosen somebody so unsuitable for the role. pic.twitter.com/sZK1PDoyJD
Almost all correct from Rory Stewart, but is he correct in saying that Britain is still “a great country”? I think not. Not now. It could be, though, that under the right ideology and the right leadership, Britain could rise again, if it changed some demographics and some habits.
Rory Stewart, in 2007, in order to gain more space for his growing staff, Stewart orchestrated the eviction on an impoverished Afghan family with ten children. https://t.co/wNLuGdoNeZ
Of course, Stewart is no longer an MP, and so could not, as things stand, be a Conservative Party leadership candidate.
Scoop: Some European nations worried that punishing Russia with deep sanctions over Ukraine could cause Putin to cut off gas supplies in middle of winter. Biden officials seeking help from Qatar, leading LNG exporter in world, sources tell me & @annmarie.https://t.co/SfHLMbSoFl
I would rather trust Putin and Russia any day rather than those Qatari bastards.
Look at Twitter. Every well-connected American msm Jew is anti-Putin, anti-Russia: David Frum, Ben Shapiro etc.
Wow! Russian late-night breaking news Putin sanctions bill submitted in Congress targeting various financial institutions, sanctions against many including Putin, and my favorite.. disclosure of Putin and his inner circle's assets publicly. Plus lots morehttps://t.co/9Dm0VjmIw6
Actually frightening, not just because the author explicitly commends what he calls the “brownification” of Europe, but also because he thinks that the population of the world is not really very high, whereas the truth is that the natural world is now breaking under the strain of numbers, most of which hordes are non-white.
When was it that the journalistic trade in London became almost entirely Jewish? I suppose sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. Certainly, looking at what was once “Fleet Street”, that trade has become so and, today, almost every newspaper scribbler, at least in the national Press, seems to be Jewish, or at least partly so.
Late tweets seen
Americans were asked to fill in a blank map of Europe.
I wonder what percentage of Americans want war with Russia over Ukraine or Eastern Ukraine? Whatever the answer to that, I imagine that the figure drops towards zero if those polled are told that war with Russia means a nuclear attack near to their own homes.
In that year-ago blog post, I saw a few things that now make me laugh all over again, like the very true assertion, contained in a tweet from one of the huge number of Twitter accounts now closed down by the online censors: “Leftism is when you think the best way to stick it to your boss is to ensure he has an unending supply of cheap imported labor..”
Quite. In a nutshell. That Twitter account was American, but it applies just as well here in the UK. Those (eg the “refugees welcome” dimwits) who think that you can have unlimited or almost unlimited mass immigration, yet still have a high-income, high-skilled economy (and also a properly-funded Welfare State), are just completely wrongheaded.
I myself never use “Right”, Left” terminology in any sense which confers legitimacy upon it.
The only extra point to add (and only necessary because there is so much deliberate misinformation around, especially on Twitter) is that many of the migrant-invaders entering the UK will never enter the UK workforce as such, because they not only have no usable skills, meaning skills useful in an advanced economy, but also either speak no English at all, or only at the most basic level (and in many cases never will).
In other words, mass immigration creates a huge drag on the society and economy; you could even call it a millstone around our collective neck.
Of course, the self-describing “Left” have pretty much given up any struggle to create a better society. They have no ideology (beyond vague “anti-racism”, “anti-sexism” etc) which might underpin such a struggle. Socialism in the old sense more or less died in and after 1989, the last significant year of the 1956-1989 ~33-year cycle. What is left is effectively worthless, a farrago of mixed-up nonsense, not only ideologically vague, but practically confused.
The above example about mass immigration is just one example of the confusion. Another is about free speech online. The virtue-signallers of the self-describing “Left” almost all celebrate the removal of social-national Twitter accounts such as mine (rubbed out in 2018 after a conspiracy by a pack of Zionist Jews); the same virtue-signallers celebrate equally the removal of Twitter accounts belonging to so-called “alt-Right” figures such as Katie Hopkins, and those of dissidents such as David Icke.
The “online fora” (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, ebay etc) are of course all run and actually owned by hugely wealthy companies (and individuals, mostly Jews), but the self-describing “Left” has nothing to say about all that, still less any plan to change the structure; for them, all that matters is that “fascists” (those with whom they disagree) are removed from having any online “platform” (where they might enjoy freedom of expression).
They just do not see that what has happened is that they, and those like them, are now contained in a big gilded cage, where they can squawk endlessly about “racism”, “sexism” etc while having not the slightest real impact on the world.
The same kind of dissonance as over immigration is seen in the attitude of the same people about Palestine, Israel, and the Jewish situation in the world. They (most of them) oppose Israel as a state, and go halfway toward such ideas as “BDS” (economic boycotts of Israel, and avoidance of Israeli products etc), but the majority of them are still brainwashed by the whole “holocaust” farrago, and almost all of them no doubt think that the disastrous and destructive war against the German Reich was A Very Good Thing. Few would see a problem in the fact that exploitative Jewish control of economies, legal systems, political systems permeates what might be called “the Western world”, our world.
Even when they see fraudulent Jewish exploiters such as Philip Green, Robert Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and others, those self-describing “Left” people see only finance-capitalists…
As Goethe put it in Faust, and from the mouth of Mephistopheles, “the good folk do not see the Devil, even when he sits on their shoulder.” The “Leftists” see only the part of the narrative that fits in with their pre-1989 ideology.
You saw all of the above in the UK Labour Party’s Corbyn and McDonnell double-act: Corbyn with his skeletal “ideology” composed of elements taken, half-baked, from 20thC history, such as the so-called “Battle of Cable Street”, selected and half-understood bits from the Spanish Civil War (“!No Pasaran” etc), anti-Israel support for Palestine, yet at the same time his lip-service to the “holocaust” farrago, and of course “anti-fascism”. As clunky as a Trabant.
Both “sides” of the Labour Party offer nothing to the British people (though neither does this shambolic “Conservative” government, of course).
Unusual travelogue
That YouTube account, though slightly irritating at times, is usually quite interesting. The subtitles are rubbish, but you don’t need to know Russian: mostly English commentary.
As for BAM (Baikal-Amur-Mainline), it was once said, by dissidents, that every Soviet generation had its large and, they claimed, not very useful, engineering project: inter alia, the White Sea Canal, the Turk-Sib railway, the Virgin Lands scheme, and BAM. True, but some of those are at least not useless, and some are also very impressive.
“Thought for the day”
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!“
[Kipling, If]
[“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…”]
Our public health establishment has no explanation for the historically unprecedented 40% rise in all-cause mortality over the past year, most of which is not due to Covid.
Thread- the knepp castle estate in the United Kingdom and how simple ecology can truly be. The Knepp castle estate is a section of land that once was farmed traditionally, but has since been turned to one of Britain’s most promising rewilding project. (1) pic.twitter.com/8qeD4cQxJ4
Something really worth reading in the Grauniad today. Well done, that man!#SaveOurSwifts "‘I feel I’ve made a mark’: the man who built homes for 60,000 swifts | Birds | The Guardian" https://t.co/GjZetm4s7X
Only social nationalism has even a chance of saving anything worthwhile in Britain, but there is no social-national party worthy of the name, let alone any social-national movement.
Friendly reminder world: Canadians cannot leave their own country if they don't have the C19 vaxx nor can they travel domestically by plane, train or boat.
Being arrested right now! Christine Massey, biostatistician, FOI researcher & activist showing to the world that over 160 health institutions explicitly state they don't have any record of an isolated/purified coronavirus. https://t.co/DNwYCkVoPSpic.twitter.com/hVMElVWxOO
— EXiT the Germ Theory Prison #novirus (@ExitEUbefree) January 20, 2022
Austria passes their Enabling Act as the Parliament approves compulsory vaccines.
The measure went through by 137 to 33. It was supported by the political class, except ironically by the "far right."
If the State, controlled secretly by inner ruling circles and cabals, turns against the people, then the people have the inherent right to fight back, using whatever methods are expedient.
For “the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
A few more thoughts about Ukraine
Any Russian incursion into Eastern Ukraine would have been bloodless, but will now not be, partly because the corrupt Kiev regime will probably try to resist, despite the vast bulk of the Eastern Ukraine population favouring Russia.
The arms and money (and “advisers”) from the UK and —mainly— USA being sent to Ukraine contain the seeds of a wider conflict, because any large-scale resistance by the Kiev government will probably result in retaliation against it by Russian forces. That might include massive attack on Kiev itself. Whether that will result in American direct involvement remains to be seen, though I doubt that the USA has the will to fight Russia directly, on the ground.
Eastern Ukraine was part of the Russo-Slavonic polity for over a thousand years. It was under Muscovite control for hundreds of years. The present corrupt, and basically Jew-dominated, Ukraine, has only been around for 29-30 years as a (failed) state. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine.
Without interference from outside, Eastern Ukraine would fall under Russian control as willingly as Austria joined with the German Reich in 1938.
As for the USA, does it have the will to put its own safety on the line for the Kiev regime? I doubt it. Biden’s recent statement was a nod and wink to Russia that this will not cause a superpower conflict (if Russia still counts as a superpower…perhaps not, but near enough!).
Yes, the USA probably does have many times the military-destructive power of Russia, but the fact is that Russia could still annihilate most if not all American cities if it so chose, albeit at a like cost. You can only wipe out a city once, no matter how many and how powerful are your nuclear weapons.
As for political leadership, Biden seems to have some form of dementia. If he had to resign, the government of the USA would be, at least nominally, in the hands of part-black, part-Indian, part (small part) Irish, Kamala Harris, but one can assume that the “deep state”, i.e. the secret cabals and ruling circles, would continue to pull the strings. NWO, if you like, and “ZOG”.
Russia looks like it is about to make a big move on the geopolitical chessboard.
Late tweets seen
The liberal #globalelite are moving fast to switch from covid to carbon as their BS excuse for taxing & controlling the swinish multitude. The resistance to lockdowns & coerced vaccination must be ready to switch to fighting their #climatecommunism tyrannyhttps://t.co/eupw1BnLec
Yes, the “panicdemic” has only partly succeeded in corralling the public worldwide, and only partly in the UK as well. Suddenly, “Covid” “restrictions” are going to be stood down, only weeks after the latest scam propaganda over “Omicron”, and how hundreds of thousands would be filling NHS hospitals. All lies.
However, the repressive laws will mostly still be there, ready to be used and indeed repurposed, any time that the “secret state” decides.
Absolutely typical. “They” are very often bullies who, however, when people stand up against them, suddenly present themselves as the whining Jewish “victims”.
Anyway, there it is; she has bitten the hand that fed her for 29 years, and can now pocket £100,000 extra.
One notices that, on UK Twitter, many of the fanatical Jew-Zionists, who have been harassing non-Jews (and even some anti-Zionist Jews) for years, either have pseudonymous “sock accounts”, or hide full-time behind pseudonyms. Some have been exposed, some not (as yet). Time to go en ratissage, to see if others can be uncovered.
Not mentioned in that Times of Israel report is the fact that the fugitive Jew(s) (how many of them are there?) also targeted brave and now-deceased “revisionist” historian (surely most good historians are revisionist?), Robert Faurisson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Faurisson], in poor health at the time. Well, you would not expect decent behaviour from “them”, would you? In that respect, “they” never disappoint.
Tweets seen
🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson has vowed to fight a leadership challenge if Tory rebels were to force a vote of no confidence
All UK MSM outlets have been gagged there is no news reported about the ethnic cleaning in #SheikhJarrah by the Israelis? It’s as though the Palestinians do not exist
Tweeter “@MaierViv” is worth following, for those who still have a Twitter account. The Jew-Zionists have been trying for years to have her expelled, so far without having succeeded.
Rachel Reeves is glad 200,000 members have left the Labour Party because they don't share her values.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) January 20, 2022
Rachel Reeves, MP, Shadow Cabinet minister under Keir Starmer, and (of course) a member of Labour Friends of Israel (like the rest of the Shadow Cabinet). I have as yet been unable to discover whether she is part-Jewish or not; my instinct is that she is, but I have as yet no direct evidence of the fact, if it is a fact.
There is a ~33-year cycle, as I have blogged on previous occasions: 1923, 1956, 1989, 2022.
The New World Order was proclaimed openly by President Bush snr. in early 1990. Socialism collapsed worldwide from the 1989 pivot-year, symbolized of course by the literal collapse of the Berlin Wall. South Africa was destroyed as a white European country in Africa, destroyed from within. The UK Labour Party removed “Clause Four” (nationalization etc) from its Constitution in the early 1990s. The USA started its campaign of attacking Iraq, in order to remove the anti-Israel states in general; since then, we have seen Iraq, Syria, Libya and Lebanon effectively neutralized, and Egypt controlled from a distance by bribery and infiltration. A few examples…
The post-1989 effect ripples on, as do the effects from 1956 etc. A new impetus is now brought in, which can be summarized as putting into effect, as far as possible, the “White Genocide” implicit in the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, meaning the destruction of white Europe, and its replacement by a mixed race population, ruled over and/or influenced by (brainwashed by) Jews and part-Jews. That, and the microchipping of the population of the Earth, starting with the advanced countries.
That silly woman, “@furnessgirl”, used to attack me on Twitter before the Jew-Zionist lobby had me expelled. Typical of much of the self-describing “Left” (a meaningless descriptor) on Twitter. Seems to be, like so many of them, fairly comfortably-off, and lives far away from the multikulti urban hellholes which she thinks should be “enriched” by more mass immigration; and so on.
What a surprise— not only a Remain whiner but, as we see so many times, yet another one totally brainwashed by the “panicdemic” propaganda.
How typical of the “@furnessgirl” type to dismiss a man such as Henry Williamson with the dismissive or “cancelling” (?) “…a fascist“. Someone who loved animals and wanted to protect them; someone who wanted to avoid a second disastrous 20thC war in Europe (he fought in the first one); someone who saw the good National Socialism had brought to Germany.
As I said, a silly woman, who thinks that she is very clever.
In fairness to her, though, I do agree with her tweet below:
One of the things that infuriate me is that you can be almost certain that, if a British schoolteacher or trainee schoolteacher appears on a TV quiz show, he/she/it will be frighteningly ignorant.
It is hardly surprising that children in the UK so often come out of up to 13 years of full-time primary and secondary education almost devoid of any real knowledge at all, when those who have taught them are themselves often unbelievably ignorant.
I think that a very great deal of the huge amount of money (£99 Billion p.a. at present, 4.5% of national income) which the UK state spends on “education” (as it fondly supposes), is just wasted. https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15858.
[Update, 19 January 2023: “@FurnessGirl” was finally expelled from Twitter for her ignorant trolling, but has returned under cover of “@ScouseLakes”].
More tweets
Reading today Cabinet discussions 1863-4 on Schleswig-Holstein, hope some in Ukraine have also read re London encouraging a small country to resist vs a Great Power, then abandoning… pic.twitter.com/0OAon94h5b
In the late 1930s, Britain and France started to offer worthless guarantees to states in Central and Eastern Europe. When Poland called in the chit, in September 1939, and despite the fact that both Britain and France did declare war on the German Reich because of the invasion of Poland by the German Reich, the chit or guarantee was worth nothing.
Poland was still invaded (indeed also invaded from the East, by Soviet forces). No French or British forces fought (or ever could have fought) in or for Poland. As for the Soviet Union, Britain and France did even less to stop its 1939 invasion of Poland; even the words were muted.
Now we see the UK, which has virtually no useful armed forces anyway, alternately threatening Russia (over Ukraine, which was part of the Muscovite state for well over a thousand years, and has had less than 30 recent years of chaotic and corrupt “independence”), and then back-pedalling. The less Liz Truss says, the less foolish she will seem.
Take the hint, part 94. Lavrov on Jan 17th: "Our patience has been exhausted. We are very patient. You know what they say about how long Russians take to harness their horses? We harness them slowly but then it’s time to ride." https://t.co/xaxG805Vtn
When push comes to shove, what then? The USA has been pumping weapons and money into the Kiev regime’s reserves. Let’s say that Russia annexes Eastern Ukraine, where the population are heavily pro-Russian. The shambolic army and militias of the Kiev regime will be defeated. Will the USA declare then war on Russia? I very much doubt that. Obviously, the same applies to the UK. That is not even a question.
Having said that, even if the Russian leaders would prefer to achieve victory without having to fight, there is no doubt that they will fight if they have to. That applies particularly knowing, as they do, that the opposing forces are unable to resist for long, and that the USA will not want to get involved directly.
Russia would prefer to have a referendum in Eastern Ukraine (only) on whether that region should reintegrate with Russia. Such a referendum would result in a —genuinely— 95%+ vote in favour. Somewhat similar to what happened in Crimea.
The Kiev government would never accept such a referendum. It stands by its view on “territorial integrity”, but that integrity rests on a mere 29-30 years of “independence”, out of about 1,100 years. In Soviet times the Ukraine-Russia border was really just lines on a map, almost meaningless.
So there we have it. The tendentious Defence Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Con Coughlin (very pro-Israel etc)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Coughlin] scribbles that “this is only the start, if we appease Putin now“. So…what does Coughlin want Britain to do? Fire our —few— nuclear missiles on Russia?
Not very clever as a strategy, when dozens (at least) of Russian missiles would then devastate the small UK (which is only a 72nd of the area of Russia). Fight for Ukraine in Ukraine? Again, unintelligent, when the Russian armies massed near Ukraine are already twice the size of the whole British Army.
Anyway, why? Why should British soldiers fight for the Kiev regime? It is a corrupt —and very Israeli-dominated— cabal, which has little legitimacy.
If the UK helps Russia, we can open new trading links, get cheap natural gas, and forget about trying to be a poundland world policeman; that was finished half a century ago at least.
My argument regarding Russia's behavior: 1) Moscow switched from deterrence to compellence 2) The key issue is Moscow believes Kyiv will remain hostile and is increasing its defensive capabilities 3) the costs of inaction are greater than an escalationhttps://t.co/fkHT6VCJXF
Tory MPs: every day you delay the inevitable is a day the new PM ISN'T spending *doing stuff to save your seat*. In 2024 youre asking for 18 yrs & 5th term. V v tough. Promises wont cut it. New PM must have DELIVERED. Tick tock…
"Varlam Shalamov spent 15 years imprisoned in the Gulag. He wrote how quickly normal people can crack under stress and uncertainty. Take a good, honest, loving person and strip them of basic necessities and you’ll soon get an unrecognizable monster" https://t.co/uyXQF0q8Sl
Saw a TV documentary about the Epstein/Maxwell scandal. Somewhat interesting, but they managed to get through a whole hour without once mentioning the role of Israeli Intelligence…
As blogged previously, the next big step, either right away or over a number of years, will be the microchipping of the population. Complete centralized control over the individual.
The media hops from one fake narrative to another. We had nearly 20 years of terrorism hysteria. Brexit was several years of hype and was an obvious story about nothing. C19 is going into its third year and now they’re awkwardly ramping it down.
…and civil rights are fast-disappearing anyway under the multi-headed assault of “wokery”, the Jew-Zionist lobby, and such as the excrescences of the “Covid” madness.
I could design something far better than both, easily, and I am not even an architect.
I think this tweet by illustrates my point pretty clearly. If you’re raised to fear and hate white people and see yourself, in spite of your privilege, as a likely victim just because white people exist then this is clearly going to shape your prejudices later in life. pic.twitter.com/nSDkQUqHmz
The statement shown [update, next day: removed…], a statement of how a young Jew was indoctrinated at a young age by his mother into having a pathological fear of “anti-Semitism”, could have been used as an example of a typical such upbringing by the defence in the last Alison Chabloz trial…
Looking at those statements, it is clear why virtually all the Soviet spies in the USA in the 1930s and 1940s were Jews. Look at the atom bomb spies. Pretty much every one was a Jew (there were a few exceptions, such as Melita Norwood, and a few others were only half or part-Jew, e.g. Klaus Fuchs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies#Notable_spies.
Well worth reading. Which is why I am reposting long extracts here:
“A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy.
As executive compensation reached the stratosphere in Big Tech and finance, small businesses face what the Harvard Business Review calls ‘an existential threat.’ Experts now warn that one third of small businesses, which comprise the majority of US companies and employ nearly half of all workers, could ultimately shut down for good. Hundreds of thousands have already disappeared, including nearly half of all black-owned businesses. Particularly damaged have been the small merchants along Main Street and those working for them, such as restaurant and hospitality workers.
Climate-change policies could nurture the new autocracy for a generation. As tech oligarchs and the financial establishment implement the Davos notion of a Great Reset, they will force a quick end to fossil fuels. There are huge opportunities for massive investment by super-rich companies and speculators in the ‘green economy,’ all made possible with tax breaks, loans and guaranteed sales to governmental units.
This promises to create a new crop of mega-billionaires like Elon Musk, today the world’s richest man. In the era of super-subsidies, a wannabe electric-vehicle maker like Rivian, which has negligible sales and consistent losses, can be valued higher than General Motors, which sells almost seven million cars and has $122 billion (£90 billion) in revenues each year. In Green Capitalism, the British Marxist James Heartfield labels this ‘austerity socialism’: reaping governmental edicts as opposed to actually producing real goods. Nice work if you can get it.
For the middle and working classes, however, the Great Reset may prove somewhat less promising — if not disastrous. For most people, notes Eric Heymann, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research, the rapid ‘green’ transition will mean ‘a noticeable loss of welfare and jobs.’ The conscious policy of degrowth as a means of forcibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require getting most people out of their cars, and forcing them to travel far less and to live in tiny apartments. Enforcement will be necessarily intrusive as well. Planners in the UK and elsewhere are pushing for family ‘carbon budgets.’ Add surveillance technology and we end up with something akin to China’s ‘social credit’ system, in which your right to free movement is subject to government approval.
The young are particularly threatened by these changes — younger people already face much harder prospects than any postwar generation. Few expect things to improve: across the higher-income countries, roughly two-thirds of people surveyed by Pew Research see a poorer future for the next generation. According to researchers at the Equality of Opportunity Project, about 90 per cent of those born in 1940 grew up to earn higher incomes than their parents. The same is true for only 50 per cent of those born in the 1980s. A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis warns that millennials are in danger of becoming a ‘lost generation’ in terms of wealth accumulation. To make matters worse, over half of all young people, in a survey of ten countries, think the world is doomed by climate change.
As housing and other costs skyrocket, class lines are hardening. Inheritance as a share of GDP in France has grown roughly threefold since 1950, with some upper-income French millennials inheriting more money than many workers make in a lifetime. The growing importance of inherited assets is even more pronounced in Germany, Britain and the United States. In the US, a country with a national mythology that looks askance at inherited wealth, the children of property-owning parents are far better situated to own a house eventually (often with parental help) and enter what is now known as ‘the funnel of privilege.’ In America, millennials are three times as likely as boomers to count on inheritance for their retirement. Among the youngest cohort, aged eighteen to twenty-two, over 60 per cent expect that inheritance will be their primary source of income as they age.
How will the downwardly mobile react to the prospect of permanent rental serfdom and, ultimately, total dependence on the state? A recent Edelman survey reveals that increasing numbers no longer trust institutions or believe hard work pays off. In a world dominated by a few institutions, today’s precariat of gig and short-contract workers, and those who have dropped out of the workforce entirely, could become an economically less useful version of Marx’s proletariat: a permanent underclass requiring aggressive, quasi-military policing.
Meanwhile, large tech firms and financial giants — even those sceptical about climate change zealotry — see the prospect of record profits and valuations in ‘disruption.’ The pandemic accelerated the white-collar shift to remote work, and the broader demand for automated solutions skyrocketed. A future less reliant on human labor elevates the tech oligarchs to the highest perch on what Lenin called ‘the commanding heights’ of the economy.
In a digitalised economy, it’s good to control the critical niches. The oligarchs do this brilliantly. They have seized dominant shares of key markets from search (Google) to social media (Facebook) to book sales (Amazon). Google and Apple together provide over 95 per cent ofoperating software for mobile devices, while Microsoft still accounts for over 80 per cent of the software that runs personal computers around the world.
We are increasingly ruled by a perfect marriage of class convenience, with more power for the clerisy and ever-greater economic opportunities for the oligarchy — all with the added benefit of encouraging them to feel good about themselves. Even as they push austerity on the masses, they live like medieval lords, indulging in lavish weddings and building estates reminiscent of the Habsburgs’. Jeff Bezos just spent $100 million (£80 million) on a Hawaiian retreat. Bill Gates’s daughter just enjoyed a $2 million (£1.5 million) wedding. John Kerry, president Biden’s chief climate scold and beneficiary of an heiress’s fortune, travels on a private jet that use thirty times the energy of the average American vehicle.
The tech oligarchs are creating something similar to what Aldous Huxley called in Brave New World Revisited a ‘scientific caste system.’ There is ‘no good reason,’ Huxley wrote in 1958, that ‘a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.’ It will condition its subjects from the womb so that they ‘grow up to love their servitude’ and ‘never dream of revolution.’ It will maintain a strict social order and provide enough diversion through drugs, sex and videos to keep their artificially narrowed minds occupied and sated.“
[Joel Kotkin, in The Spectator]
Sobering analysis.
Still, it may be that the “perfect system” the Western ruling circles and cabals strive towards will be smashed, either by natural events or by war. Not a nice prospect but something of the sort may be, also, the only way for Western society to escape from socio-political sclerosis.
Full disclosure. I have publicly stated that I think this is a serious issue, I have given evidence to (UK) parliament on it & I support the UK Higher Education & Academic Freedom Bill. I appreciate people have different views but such a thread might be useful.
Arif Ahmed who led the Cambridge campaign explains how difficult it was to get profs to support publicly, only when they were allowed to do so in secret did they voice support. His piece here:https://t.co/6p2790SQr4
Report based on new database finds that the number of scholars targeted for speech issues has risen dramatically over the last six years. 74% resulted in some kind of sanction. Most came from the lefthttps://t.co/nmtbF8mTvn
New study at Harvard surveys political scientists around the world. Finds 72% lean left with 14% of those radical left. Right-wing academics more likely to report "chill effects" esp. in advanced Western democracies https://t.co/jDA0vvm8Sy
A study at Kings College London finds 12% of UK students have heard about incidents where academic freedoms have been inhibited and, remarkably, 25% of students are scared to express their views openlyhttps://t.co/j0gvYatPZz
A series of individual cases in UK including: Professor at Royal Holloway leaves job due to concerns over dogmatic thinking, public humiliation, no platforming & attempts to have other scholars firedhttps://t.co/Oewx7MmYux
A range of senior academic experts give evidence to Public Bill Committee and share consensus there is a serious threat to academic freedom in the UKhttps://t.co/ltOtkqQyWy
The “Left”/”Right” terminology is useless. Let’s be specific: much of the censorship and “cancelling” comes from the Jew-Zionist element; the rest from the “woke”, multikulti, fake “diversity” side, but in fact much of that has been fostered by Jews as well, at least in its origins. Those two “sides” may clash on some issues (mostly Israel/Palestine) but are both drivers of intellectual repression.
Outside academia too. I have been attacked without pause by the Jew-Zionist element, and for many years, not least since this blog started just over five years ago.
Local journalism at its finest: Christian Wakeford @Christian4BuryS defects to Labour in a crushing blow to Boris Johnson as a growing chorus of Conservative MPs call on the Prime Minister to resign.
BREAKING: Christian Wakeford, Tory MP for Bury South, has defected to Labour.
Wakeford tells Boris Johnson that he and the "Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership & Govt this country deserves".
Regular readers of the blog will know that I was recently blogging about all of this (in general, not this latest news), concluding that the Conservative Party probably can recover its position if it bins Johnson fairly soon. Initially, I thought that idiot would go before summer this year, but corrected myself to say spring 2022. Now? Seems that it could be any moment.
There is no constitutional imperative for a General Election to be held before late 2024 and, at the end of the day, Labour is offering nothing to the British people either, so once The Idiot is binned, the Cons may be able to recover at least to near-parity with Lab.
I saw an interesting analysis, to the effect that, even if there were a general election right now, Labour might still have a majority of a handful of seats, or even no majority.
In the end, though, both Lab and Con are two faces of the (((System))), and are under the same concealed flag.
More music
Late tweets seen
Seriously, this is how the establishment captured the left working class, by tying them to the Covid narrative, with "defend the NHS at all costs" sentimental bollox.
This globalist pip-squeak will cling on to any scrap of power going. Even the power to make you wrap a piece of spit and snot soaked rag round your face is worth having when you're adrift from all natural and moral authority. https://t.co/pX2ZYrilnw
Dame Maureen Lipman has sparked a "Jewface" row by criticising the casting of actress Dame Helen Mirren as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in the film Golda because she is not Jewish. https://t.co/KbOMtBwXN5
It’s a one-way street: Jews can play non-Jew roles, but non-Jews cannot play Jewish roles. Typical Jewish attitude. Oh, and you find that the most vocal voices shrieking about how blacks can play English roles (even historical roles such as Anne Boleyn) are those of Jews, who also say that English people cannot or should not play black roles, using “blackface” (examples would include Othello and such as the Black and White Minstrels), despite those being traditions going back, in origo, centuries.
The hypocrisy of Zionist gobshite Maureen Lipman
Just two weeks ago she complained about ‘cancel culture’
Two weeks later, Lipman wants to cancel Helen Mirren playing the role of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in an upcoming film – because she isn’t Jewish pic.twitter.com/Q4P7cm8mAj
The Maureen Lipman intervention reminds me of this absolute cracker from @WestminsterWag, probably one of my favourite ever tweets. https://t.co/L0psYn0dbN
Not the first time Maureen Lipman has made an absolute arse of herself
Back in 2014, she withdrew her support for Labour for 'the first time ever' [this was in response to the party announcing it would recognise Palestine]
Reminds me of the time (read about in that excellent biography, Just the One) when booze-consumption champion Jeffrey Bernard, reduced to serving drinks behind a bar, listens for too long to a young actress telling everyone about a part she had landed, then snarling —as the young woman leaves— “Off home, are you? Off home to learn your line?“…
Maureen Lipman also seems to have only one line, saying that she will leave the UK, and then go to Israel or the USA if [fill in demand]. Unfortunately she is still here.
When Veit Harlan played the eponymous Jud Suss (The Jew Suss) in the acclaimed 1940 costume drama (there was an earlier version, from 1934), set in the 18th Century and based on real historical events, he had so many hostile letters that he had to put notices in newspapers saying that he was not really a Jew! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veit_Harlan for more about Harlan.
The film is available for purchase via some of the smaller online retailers: https://ihffilm.com/22935.html. The Jewish lobby has “cancelled” Jud Suss on the main platforms, and it is not, needless to say, ever broadcast by any mainstream TV stations.
The film, in essence, shows how a Jewish cabal, and in particular one Jew, infiltrates into the 18thC society of the kingdom of Baden-Wurttemberg, doing corrupt deals and buying influence. Rather topical in the UK of the present-day, especially with the kefuffle around “cash for honours” sleaze, and the New York trial about the Epstein/Maxwell case…
And who's going to do the educating? Maureen Lipman? The Board of Deputies? 🤣 Time to give up that game.
Jewish groups are very active in trying to shut down free speech, not least where the speech in question exposes Jewish behaviour. I myself have been one of “their” prime targets for years, despite the fact that I do not belong to any party or group.
I covered this yesterday, and previously. Part of an attempt in several countries now to marginalize and criminalize dissidents generally, not only “the unvaccinated”. Once the microchipping takes off, you will see.
Next stop? Microchipping of the bulk of the population and, very likely, the gradual elimination of cash as legal tender. Then a dissident will easily be able to be barred from political office, election candidature, professions, jobs, even buying food. There will be no outright mandate to be microchipped but (as with Internet, mobile telephones, debit cards etc), life will just become very inconvenient and eventually almost impossible without it. Then the individual will be trackable 24/7, worldwide.
Not that everyone will be tracked and targeted (except when required); you can forget about 90%, maybe even 99%, of the population. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the “proles” were free to drink, have sexual liaisons, play the lottery…only the few in the Outer party and Inner party were under total control…
The virus “panicdemic” is a medium-to-serious (but not existential) public health problem, possibly spread deliberately, which however leaves alive (in the UK) about 999 out of 1,000 people infected, and the recent variants probably 9,999 out of 10,000.
The whole Covid thing has been weaponized for reasons of creating a global fake “biosecurity” police state.
At first, for the first week or two of the contrived “crisis”, in early 2020, I myself was open to the idea that this was a kind of “Black Death” in terms of seriousness. Unlike most people, I woke up or understood the reality within a few weeks. At least half of the UK population have been conditioned into a kind of mass hypnotism over the past 2 years.
Well, if the “antifa” cheerleaders are attacking PA, it must be doing something right…
I myself do not belong to any party or group, though I try to be supportive, in a small way, of worthy individuals and groups, via this blog. Were my circumstances and those in the country different, I would establish my own movement; not yet at least.
It’s never “raise concern” or the like, but always “fury“…
“The BBC has demanded that teenagers who suffered anti-Semitic abuse in Oxford Street should reveal their identities before the corporation responds to a legal complaint over its report suggesting victims used ‘anti-Muslim slurs’.
The claim was criticised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and lawyers acting on behalf of the victims, who ‘categorically deny’ the slur was said, wrote to the corporation to contest it.
In response, the BBC said: ‘We will be unable to substantively further progress your legal complaint until you identify your clients.‘
Leading legal expert Lord Carlile said the BBC’s demand was ‘wholly unacceptable’, while Jonathan Turner, executive director of UK Lawyers for Israel, accused the corporation of ‘attempting to intimidate the youngsters into dropping the claim’, the Jewish Chronicle reported.” Daily Mail].
“Leading legal expert Lord Carlile”— Jewish.
“Jonathan Turner…of UK Lawyers for Israel”— Jewish.
“Campaign Against Antisemitism”— a handful of well-funded Jews (posing as an important organization) and who are fanatically pro-Israel, and fanatically trying to, inter alia, take away the freedom of expression of British people.
As a matter of fact, I have not seen any msm or even social media comment raising the point that the young Jews in question made a special journey in a chartered bus in order to engage in Jewish-supremacist ritual singing and dancing on the pavement in Oxford Street, the very heart of London.
Look at that; and at 10 Downing Street before Christmas there was, not a Christmas tree but a Jewish religious candlestick lit and placed in the window. What’s going on?…
Mostly, it is the white women not having children (with white fathers), and the blacks and browns proliferating. Only a European —or post-European based on European— future is worth having.
Boyfriend, 35, who killed girlfriend's unborn baby is jailed for life – so, finally, someone gets serious time for doing what abortionists do every day. https://t.co/OJmOKoQkFk
Yes, only the start…to be followed in a while by microchipping almost everyone. Those who refuse will be under effective house arrest, not only in Canada, but all across the Western world.
If by chance there's a journalist out there who made a New Year Resolution to report just one really inconvenient truth, here it is….https://t.co/3DsapynyGm
Exactly right. The medium-term endgame, maybe in 2022 or 2023, maybe slightly later, will be to demand that everyone in “advanced” countries gets microchipped, not only as a “Covid passport” but supposedly to protect financial information, because debit cards and credit cards will slowly be replaced by the implanted chip. The same with medical information on the individual. Then will come police records and actual passports etc.
Naturally, anyone deemed “racist”, “anti-Semitic” (that most of all) etc will have those “facts” recorded on the chip (or may even not be chipped, thus excluding them from society). A fine police state tool, useful for barring “unpersons” from professions, jobs etc, most of all barring them from politics and other opinion-forming activity.
It is already happening, though less efficiently, using more basic methods, in the msm, mainstream politics, and the higher-profile professions and occupations, such as the Bar, as well as in the Diplomatic Service, SIS, MI5 etc.
In short, the individual will be totally identifiable, checkable and (once synchronized with 5G etc) trackable 24/7, worldwide.
The global fake “biosecurity” police state will then come into being.
Anyone not part of “the only game in town” will be (in fact, certainly in the UK, already is) marginalized, and later will be starved, made homeless and/or then criminalized and probably incarcerated in (though they will be called something else) concentration camps .
There may be ways of fighting this evil but not, primarily, via ordinary political activity, and certainly not by tweeting, blogging etc. That is, at best, preparatory.
More tweets
Our people should come first, these others don't belong here and should return home. pic.twitter.com/z6zsPNHPbh
Marx said that “the point is not to understand the world but to change it“, a very limited but not entirely incorrect viewpoint. We now have many people who think that the most important thing is to be able to express views publicly, by which is usually meant online. I sympathize, and have myself suffered from the repression against free speech (unlawfully disbarred, expelled from Twitter etc), but the mere expression of views cannot be a substitute for real action for a better and/or completely different society.
#Antifa rioter @JasonRCharter, who was arrested by the FBI in 2020 over his role in trying to topple statues in the US capital, pleaded guilty last year in federal court. Like for other left-wing extremists, the federal government has recommended he be sentenced to no prison time pic.twitter.com/MazzjI9LJR
I think that it has become worse in past decades. There is now, certainly in the UK, an unofficial or semi-official canon to which a journalist who wants to have a job must subscribe: pro-Jew, probably/mostly pro-Israel, “anti-racist” (apart from pro-Israel), pro the “BLM” nonsense (tweak a little for Daily Mail etc readership), pro-facemask nonsense, believing most of the official “Covid” propaganda line and that of the “holocaust” farrago; and so on.
Tweeting or blogging will not stop evil bastards of that sort.
We are slowly being conditioned to Susan Michie's "masks forever" world. Dubious levels of protection and a huge reduction in the level of human interaction. Sick idea.
The cupola of Cathedral of Saint Isaac's in St Petersburg. Built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand. pic.twitter.com/EzitNXf3KN
Hard to know which is the most shocking, the way in which an elderly person was treated, or the incompetence which meant that the police not only went to the wrong address but also mistook a house for a flat, and then also mistook a white man of 80 years of age for a black man in his thirties!
The police are fortunate that most people who commit crimes are not very intelligent; if they were, the success rate for the police would be even lower than it is.
Update, same day: I happened to see the tweets now appended below, which cover the incident in more detail:
Incidentally, the police sending their victim a £30 bill for securing the door they themselves had damaged is contemptuous and rather Kafka-esque.
Hard to believe the attitude…it reminded me of a news report I saw decades ago: a helicopter was used in a prison escape, I think from Gartree prison in Leicestershire (a top-security place then, where Professor Hugh Hambleton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hambleton] and other high-profile prisoners were held).
When the police recaptured one notorious criminal, they beat and kicked the **** out of him. Appearing in the local mags court, one charge against him was escaping from the prison, but the other was “criminal damage to a police boot” (with his head and face! True; this actually happened; at least, it was reported in at least one newspaper).
I am not by nature “anti-police”, they being a necessary evil in a modern society, but the police in the UK are now rather disturbing, often uninterested in real or “ordinary” crime, yet focussed on things like malicious complaints made by dishonest Jews about comments made about current affairs on social media.
Also, the police seem to be alternately far too lenient on things such as anti-social street behaviour, yet sometimes, as above, absurdly heavy-handed.
The police should take a look at where they are, and on their priorities.
Music not well-known to the public, especially outside the former Soviet Union (and maybe also inside it, now), but beautiful; it should not be forgotten.
More music
Town planning and architecture
Quite interesting American overview of Soviet town planning, focussing mainly on residential units:
Another town planning video:
If there is something missing from that video, it is that cities are for people, and it is the nature of the population that determines whether a city is a pleasant or unpleasant place in which to live. The same city can be a centre of culture and science, or just a human zoo, depending on the nature of its inhabitants.
“Emmanuel Macron says he wants to ‘p*** off’ the unvaccinated in foul-mouthed rant vowing to ban them from public places including restaurants, cinemas and coffee shops from next week” [Daily Mail]
“I won’t send (the unvaccinated) to prison, I won’t vaccinate by force. So we need to tell them, from Jan. 15, you won’t be able to go to the restaurant anymore, you won’t be able to down one, won’t be able to have a coffee, go to the theatre, the cinema.” [Daily Mail]
Exactly what I was saying earlier in today’s blog. Those resisting the System (which is presently using the Covid “panicdemic” as excuse) will be gradually reduced to the status of a marginalized and bullied underclass. Fight now or fight later…
Friends of Israel and it’s Jewish support in the Labour Party worked to remove a Democratic leader , Corbyn,is that acceptable? The term Antisemitism was used hundreds of times more in media than the word racism, or mental health , or poverty, so I ask which is more important 🤔
I would like to thank Twitter for not pandering to #Zionists groups tried to block my account,Epstein, Maxwell, jews who ran a under age sex ring , FACT, and I call for investigation into Friends of Israel influences in lobby for Israel, what’s to hide, it’s a Democracy
Unfortunately, Twitter did listen to (and obey) the Jew-Zionist claque re. me; I was expelled in 2018. Having said that, I had already woken up to the fact that Twitter is of limited utility in socio-political terms and is, to a large extent, a waste of time.
Nikki is sleeping in a car she borrowed from her nephew and has been forced to wash and brush her teeth in supermarket toilets
Understandably, Nikki has spent almost a fortnight in a state of high anxiety and misery pic.twitter.com/O7x9M8pS5J
With nowhere to go on Christmas Eve, Nikki again slept in the car by New Brighton Promenade, where she awoke on Christmas morning pic.twitter.com/kMgplvrxW6
What kind of society allows (forces) a nurse actually employed in a hospital to sleep in her car along with her animal companions, while at the same time putting large numbers of unwanted non-European migrant-invaders —who will never be of the slightest use to the British people, quite the contrary— into 4* hotels, sheltering them, feeding them, giving them spending money, and even providing them with computers and mobile telephones? It is mad, just mad.
Not completely wrong; Colston did trade in slaves and/or directly profited by that. He was, however, also a merchant generally, and a philanthropist on a large scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Colston
These days, everyone in history (or politics) has to be a hero (often fake) or villain (often exaggerated).
As for “GB News”, I have not seen it even once, but it is obviously more “controlled opposition”.
Anyway, if you pull down the Colston statue, why do you leave standing those to most British monarchs and other major figures from about 1500 to 1800?
I suppose it is just a matter of time before a crazed multiracial mob of near-zombies destroys all of our history, race, and culture. Or will the British people awake at the last moment?
Late music
“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [Chinese proverb]
A Jewish careerist called Mark Damazer got rid of the Radio 4 UK theme in 2006, supposedly because he wanted to put a “pacy news briefing” in its place. I myself suspect that the theme was just too traditionally British for him…
Quite right. That Maguire idiot is a typical System-Labour drone. No ideas about how to improve society, no proper analysis of current events, just kneejerk tribal Labourism and politically-correct infantilism, while coining as much money as possible from scribbling and being a TV talking head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Maguire_(journalist). Oh, and of course he tends to play the “gritty and disillusioned Northerner” on Sky News newspaper reviews etc, while actually living rather comfortably in affluent Richmond, South West London (when not at his holiday home) with his (privately-educated) journalist/novelist wife: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Burstall.
The “gutless, dishonest politicians” (“Conservatives”, in power since 2010) to whom Farage himself gave, in 2019, a large Commons majority (by shooting his own Brexit Party supporters and candidates in the head at the General Election).
I return again to the question of the prospects of the Labour Party now that its leadership is totally controlled (once more) by the Jew-Zionist element.
I recently examined the North Shropshire by-election in this regard, inter alia. This is what I wrote on the blog:
“Since North Shropshire was re-dedicated in 1983, and until the by-election, Labour has failed to come in second only four times, and only once (2010) since 1992.
It is all very well to talk about tactical voting, or Labour supporters “lending their votes” to the LibDem in order to beat the Con candidate. Yes; no argument on that, but is that the whole story? The 9.7% scored in the by-election was the lowest Labour vote ever in North Shropshire. Even in 1983, at the height of Thatcherism, and when Labour suffered its crushing national defeat under Michael Foot [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election], it still scored 14.7% (third place) in North Shropshire.
The conclusion must be that, while many formerly Labour votes went tactically (or otherwise) to the LibDem, many Labour voters just voted with their feet, if such be the bon mot, and stayed home. Labour scored 22.1% in 2019, and 31.1% in 2017 (both under Corbyn) in the constituency.
If this by-election result is bad for Boris-idiot, it is arguably at least as great a blow for Labour’s Jewish-lobby leadership under Keir Starmer. The problem is not just the “Israel first” aspect of Labour’s present leadership, but also the way in which the supposed “Opposition” keeps propping up “Boris” over various matters, such as the Online Harms Bill and, of more immediate political importance, the Covid/Omicron “panicdemic” “rules” and “laws”.
Starmer-Labour may be doing well in the opinion polls now (is that a surprise, looking at the Boris-idiot disaster?) but we all know how volatile polls can be, and how inaccurate, especially a year or two before any general election.
It may well be that, were “Boris” to be dumped, the Conservative Party might recover ground, despite its lack of credible leadership candidates.
Labour’s basic problem remains, as seen in the graphic below, showing voter migration from the 2017 General Election to the 2019 election:
Labour’s problem is not how popular the Conservatives are (they are not, and were not even in 2019), but in how unpopular Labour is, resulting not so much in voters moving to the Conservatives, but in former Labour voters either voting for minor protest parties, or voting tactically for LibDems but, more than either of those options, simply not bothering to vote.
Look at North Shropshire: former Labour voters either voted tactically for the LibDems, or stayed home and/or did not vote for Labour anyway.
A far less significant, but still interesting, election, a local one, has just happened not far from where I myself live:
Bransgore & Burley (New Forest) by-election result:
The Conservative Party vote was previously around 72%, but now has fallen to 18.5%, and a poor third place. Look at Labour’s result, too; a fall from nearly 28% to 4.2%, and (as usual) last place.
A local by-election result of that sort is, at best, a small straw in the wind, but does indicate the disdain in which both main parties are held by the voting public. It looks as if the former Conservative voters mostly voted for the Independent (a local farmer and former Conservative Party county councillor), while the former Labour vote migrated to the Green Party (which was not in the last election). As for the LibDems, they seem to have been unable to find a candidate at all.
It is a matter of speculation to what extent such a local election is affected by national political factors, but I do not think that those national factors can be entirely discounted.
Labour may be favoured in recent national opinion polling, but I am sceptical as to whether it really can pull a rabbit out of the hat and achieve a Commons majority in 2022, 2023, or 2024.
What about that other celebrated 2021 by-election, at Chesham and Amersham? Yes, the LibDems took the formerly considered safe Conservative seat, as at North Shropshire; the Labour results for the constituency, though, are again very striking: in 2017, 20.6%; in 2019, 12.9%, then a collapse in 2021 to only 1.6%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesham_and_Amersham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.
Same direction of travel— a collapse in the Labour vote. True, not directly significant, in that neither seat has ever been won by Labour. However, similar decline elsewhere, in seats where Labour has succeeded in the past, could all but finish Labour as a party of government.
Of course, those who control the System do not care which of the two main System parties wins, because both parties are part of the System.
As always, I believe that a credible social-national movement —and party— could rise up, to all but annihilate the System parties; but, as always, I have to note that no such party presently exists.
Watched the start of Norwegian crime/drama series, Twin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(TV_series)]. Slightly underwhelming; probably not quite my sort of crime drama, and the bleak Norwegian Atlantic winter (I presume) scenery I find depressing.
The oddest aspect of that series is that here we are in some remote part of Norway, and one of the detectives from the local town is an African! I know that Norway, like much of Europe, has seen a massive influx (invasion), but surely this is just grotesque? In fact, there were two more non-Europeans, one an (?) Indian woman, and also a small child whose supposed parents were both Norwegians. Why? How? No explanation offered.
Seems that the Coudenhove-Kalergi propaganda is not confined to UK TV shows…
“Boris”-idiot
Saw this by Guardian writer John Crace. Not sure of the date, but it is very good as a summary, obvious though it is:
“…Boris Johnson. If he has a talent, it’s a talent for lying. And while it may have cost him countless relationships and friendships, it has taken him all the way to Downing Street. Put simply, he has become prime minister by lying better than all the other contenders for the job. But now he has run out of road and the lies have caught up with him. He’s the cartoon villain hopelessly spinning his legs before plunging into the abyss. Brexit has failed to deliver any of its promised rewards, and inflation, at more than 5%, is far higher than wage growth. No matter how Boris tries to spin it, people are feeling more broke by the week.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crace_(writer)#Views]
National Service
Many of the Twitter-twits highly agitato because some Daily Telegraph scribbler has floated the idea of reintroducing “National Service” (I believe that the “Royal Cuck” has mentioned it in the past).
My view? First of all, that National Service, which ran, in the usual meaning, from 1948 to 1960 (the last such conscripts were demobilized in 1963) was not a hugely effective or cost-effective thing from the point of view of the Army (which used the bulk of the manpower). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Kingdom#After_1945
These days, it is considered necessary to train soldiers for six months or more before they are much use in action. Thus, to train millions of young men, only to release them from their obligation a year or 18 months later, is very wasteful.
Secondly, the pushback from those unwillingly recruited, then demobbed, may have been one fact fuelling the decadence of the 1960s.
Thirdly, Britain, even in the 1950s, had both an empire, albeit one being dismantled, and an enemy (the Warsaw Pact bloc, or SovBloc) which also had huge numbers of men under arms and was thought to pose a credible invasion threat to all of Western Europe.
You cannot compare the 1950s to today. It follows that, as things stand, I should not like to see National Service reintroduced. Actually, I very nearly had to do the Australian equivalent, having lived there from 1967, aged 10, to late 1969, aged 13. The SEATO Treaty then in force meant that Australian (and New Zealand) forces were fighting in Vietnam on the American side. At age 18, from late 1974, I would have been subject, possibly, to conscription, but as things turned out, my family returned to the UK before the end of 1969, and in any case Australian forces in Vietnam were slowly reduced from 1970; the last few “advisers” left Vietnam in 1974: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia_during_the_Vietnam_War.
It makes me laugh, though, to see the Twitter-twits attacking Britain in the 1950s. They all seem to have three points, which might be summarized as “blacks were badly treated”, “gays were badly treated”, and “food was terrible” (because of rationing, in part).
In fact, while gay activities were unlawful, it seems that the laws were not heavy-handedly enforced; some areas (eg Soho, in London) were notorious for such activity.
As to blacks, well despite what present-day msm propaganda (eg in dramas such as Grantchester etc) portrays, there were almost no blacks (or browns) in England then, with the exception of a few ports and a few parts of London. The Empire Windrush had scarcely disembarked its passengers, and they had only just started to breed.
I myself can only remember seeing one black person in the UK before 1969, and that was an NHS consultant (ENT) at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, circa 1962.
Other aspects of life in the 1950s compare badly to life today: the lack of central heating in most houses would be one such. On the other hand, the UK population was about 55 million, compared to maybe 70 million today. The countryside was uncrowded and had hugely more wildlife (overall) than now, there was incomparably less crime (especially violent crime) in the UK, society was more stable, less volatile, and children could generally wander safely around the countryside (as I did, though a few years later, in the early/mid 1960s, both on foot and bicycle, the number of cars being only a fraction of the number filling the roads of England today). There were very few non-Europeans around.
Either way, it hardly matters now; “we are where we are“…
This government (and its advisers) are more like a dystopian black comedy than a real one could possibly be. To what can one compare it all? Blackadder? The Goons? The Goodies?
Absolutnie prawdziwe zobrazowanie sytuacji, w jakiej się obecnie znajdujemy. Ci którzy dali się złapać, już są straceni. Nieliczni przeżyją! https://t.co/zteJpRGMuO
[“Absolutely true picture of the situation we are in now. Those who get caught are already doomed. Few will survive!”]
Unpleasant, but thought-provoking…
Evening music (Richard Rodney Bennett) and some film history
Social history too: I remember looking, as a small boy, at my feet, through a “pedoscope” as used by Michael Caine/Harry Palmer in that clip. They were banned later because of the radioactive matter used (radium). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope.
Ian Robert Millard 