However rough, and in places savage, was the Hamas attack in October, the Israelis have now killed tens of thousands in what amounts to a quasi-genocidal retaliation. The wounded, many badly wounded (amputations, mutilations etc), must be approaching a hundred thousand in number. Half have been under-18, and a quarter, more or less, small children and babies.
The Jews, not only in Israel, but in the UK, USA, France etc have tried to justify such terrible retaliation as “self-defence” but, certainly after the first few days, that really does not wash.
There is also the point that, if some of the Palestinian Arabs sometimes behave monstrously, it is mainly because they have been made monstrous, over 70-80 years, by the Israelis.
War has, of course, a human cost. Sometimes there is no alternative to war, but often there is.
"I LOST MY FAMILY IN GAZA!" A Palestinian who lost his mother, brother & nieces to Israel's bombing in Gaza confronts Angela Raynor & the Labour Party at a Stockport fundraiser. How can the Labour Party & any party not call for a ceasefire when Israel's genocide has killed 25000… pic.twitter.com/LvEbVIyw5x
One sometimes wonders what drives System political drones such as Angela Rayner. Political tribalism, aka Labour right or wrong? Personal (inc. financial) selfishness, or acquisitiveness? Egoism and/or egotism?
Hard for me to understand, because I have always been described by others (not always favourably, though) as an idealist. I suppose that I could have joined, in youth, one of the two main System parties, which might have led eventually to a Parliamentary seat and —who knows?— to a ministerial portfolio, perhaps even to the Cabinet.
I am, however, not a careerist. In the end, ideology, belief, truth matters to me; policy matters to me; results matter to me; beyond that, the well-being of people and animals matters to me.
Germany plans to deliver more than 80 Leopard 1A5 of different versions to Ukraine in 2024. pic.twitter.com/m9zLl2SKfR
👍The Minister of Defense of Germany announced the delivery of the following weapons to Ukraine in 2024:
– air defense system IRIS-T SLM; – Memory card "Gepard"; – additional artillery systems with more than 230,000 ammunition; – more than 80 Leopard 1 A5 tanks; – additional… pic.twitter.com/jrhgkeertl
“The Minister of Defense of Germany announced the delivery of the following weapons to Ukraine in 2024:
– air defense system IRIS-T SLM; –
Memory card “Gepard”;
– additional artillery systems with more than 230,000 ammunition;
– more than 80 Leopard 1 A5 tanks;
– additional BMP;
– additional engineering machines and bridge-layers;
– 450 armored vehicles;
– demining systems;
– drones;
– radar systems and intelligence systems.
This year, Germany also plans to train 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.“
What incredible impudence! The German Government is going to gift the Kiev regime 80 more tanks, and 450 other armoured vehicles. This is almost direct involvement in the war.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 FPV operator skill.
In the Kherson direction, #Russian operator, using an FPV drone, hit a motor boat with an Air Force Serviceman of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/aweeDuxcTY
Ukraine signed its own death warrant, Vladimir Putin addressed the people.
The Ukrainian henchmen of the West have already crossed all lines, first they shelled Belgorod, then they staged real terror in the Donetsk market, today they shot down our plane on our territory! pic.twitter.com/6EEPmsxS8i
Russia has not, as yet, deployed more than a small fraction of its mighty military-destructive power. The West must back-pedal on the present headlong rush to regional and even world war.
The US will deploy nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years to counter the threat from Russia – The Telegraph.
The warheads will be stationed at RAF Lakenheath. This is evidenced by the Pentagon documents pic.twitter.com/8mUx80xJqv
I can only hope that the prevailing winds across the UK continue to blow from west to east…
Israeli police did not allow a disabled Palestinian to pray on the street and did not allow him to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque. pic.twitter.com/JYjQ9bbLBk
The inhabitants of Gaza are now worse off than were the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s. History can certainly take some surprising turns.
Photo of the inside of an Israeli heavy armored personnel carrier "Namer" destroyed in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Q3rxwmWEsL
One of the most interesting pieces of news I have read recently is that 14% of Israelis with dual nationality have fled the country in the past 3 months. Israel is doomed.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron:
“It is impossible to stop the war in the Gaza Strip while Hamas can still fire rockets into Israeli areas.” pic.twitter.com/4ZWILLNZRJ
What we, those of us interested in the future of the European peoples, must do is to prepare as best we can for what might well be the situation after the next great war. Preservation of a core of European humanity, and the foundation of a society to provide a basis for a superculture, indeed for successive supercultures of the far future. We shall be there too, via reincarnation.
“A far-right activist who was caught with a library of online stickerstelling non-white people to “go back” has been found guilty of inciting racial hatred.
The jury at Leeds Crown Court returned a verdict this afternoon after spending less than a day deliberating the case of Sam Melia.
The 34-year-old was on trial following a raid at his Pudsey home on Town Street in April 2021 in which police uncovered a catalogue of downloadable stickers which were “intended to stir up racial hatred” and encouraged racially-aggravated criminal damage. They also found a poster of Adolf Hitler on his wall and a book by the infamous British fascist, Oswald Mosley.“
[Yorkshire Evening Post]
There was a time in England, not so very long ago, when people had real freedom of expression. Even in the 1970s, when free speech had already been cut back, it still existed to an extent unthinkable in the England of 2024, in which the “woke” or “politically correct” rule almost supreme, and in which the malicious and fanatical Jew-Zionists “monitor” anything British people say or write, lest it might be —or can be be contrived to look— “grossly offensive” (to “them”).
The great British jury has also fallen by the wayside, and now almost inevitably finds anyone accused of “inciting racial hatred” guilty, no matter how flimsy the evidence. Rubber-stamp juries. I have no idea whether that was the case in respect of the Sam Melia trial. I know only what has been in the Press over the past day or two.
Not only that. Anyone found with such innocuous things as “racist” stickers may get, not even months but years of incarceration, in an England where real crime, even violent crime, is often scarcely punished by the courts.
Look at that Yorkshire Evening Post report. Things actually perfectly lawful (having a poster of Hitler on the wall at home, owning a book by a long-dead British politician) added to the mix in a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” way…
I do not know Sam Melia, only of him, and only slightly even on that basis, but I very much regret that he has been found guilty. My thoughts are with him, and with his wife, the socio-political activist Laura Towler.
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I asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov if western leaders were psyching us up for an all-out war against Russia.
He gave a very eloquent answer, showing the reality of what’s happening as contrary to Washington & London’s heated rhetoric.
Ukraine’s (Kiev regime’s) only hope in this war is to bring in NATO on the Kiev-regime side; to widen the conflict. Russia has not taken the bait so far, but the Zelensky regime keeps pushing, keeps prodding, in the hope of provoking a massive Russian response which might draw NATO into the war directly. If that were to happen though, it would be but a short step to a world war.
🚨Update: Russia demands Security Council meeting in response to Ukraine transport plane attack!
The IL-76 cargo jet was transporting 65 Ukrainian POWs when Kiev’s forces shot it down!
Russia requested an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the shooting… pic.twitter.com/TZ9tkxzhQl
Russian forces have destroyed a French-made SAMP-T air defense system in service with the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily bulletin of the special military operation:https://t.co/Q1nW9Mjxnhpic.twitter.com/x6fklpStXg
The European Union does not have any Plan B in the event that the decision to provide 50 bln euros in aid for Ukraine be blocked by Hungary at next week’s summit, Belgian Finance Minister Vincent Van Peteghem said:https://t.co/opVCPEi9jEpic.twitter.com/CAZCXp5QGI
They say 'bring back National Service'. I say bring back secure well-paid jobs, final salary pensions, union rights, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition and student grants, affordable rail fares and social housing.
The ITN film of a Palestinian civilian shot dead under a white flag is horrific. Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and now the US State Department have all point blank refused to condemn it. More and more people are realising that the political class are utterly subservient to Israel.
The guilty verdict for Sam Melia today really does mean that anyone pushing back against the agenda can have a case manufactured against them by the state.
The same state that wants you to go to war for them.
The toad set up an organisation called the 'Free Speech Union'.
Over the last year there have been a number of cases where people have been falsely imprisoned on clear free speech issues with state persecution such as the case of Sam Melia.… pic.twitter.com/Px4n1W4uc7
Tell me about it…I myself face a sentencing court next week, after my conviction for having published a few supposedly “grossly offensive” comments, cartoons etc on this blog.
Many people kid themselves that we live in a somehow “free” country, when what it really is, or has become, is an “iron fist in velvet glove” dictatorship. Well-disguised at times, yes, and somewhat shambolic too, which gives the appearance of laxity (and so “liberty”), at times, but still a repressive dictatorship under (((the usual))) influence; and it is getting worse almost daily.
For asking whether the host of 'Free Speech Nation' would cover the political persecution of Sam Melia, an archetypal free speech case: https://t.co/3CmuJWlsdD
Sam Melia has been convicted of producing stickers that the prosecution admitted contained no unlawful statements, meanwhile the "Free Speech Union" stays silent on the matter and concerns themselves with this nonsense instead. https://t.co/C7IjBzVcdG
The usual “controlled opposition” grifters, such as Toby Young, can be disregarded as a total waste of space.
While I've no time for #PA, this has to be said: Sam Melia is dragged through the courts and portrayed as a racist monster over stickers with messages such as "White Lives Matter", which graced a few hundred lampposts.
“While I’ve no time for #PA, this has to be said: Sam Melia is dragged through the courts and portrayed as a racist monster over stickers with messages such as “White Lives Matter”, which graced a few hundred lampposts.
Meanwhile, Tommy Robinson is allowed to post blatant incitement and heavy-duty ‘Islamiphobia’ like this to a gigantic audience.
I have always believed that the Muslim #grooming gangs – and the native traitors who facilitated them – should be tried and, if convicted, executed. But to use their crimes to incite generic hatred of an entire community is nothing more or less than conditioning for war against Iran – a war for Israel, without a shred of legitimate British interest.
Make no mistake, this is the UK deep state giving an asset free rein to prod the herd to war.“
Griffin is, of course, correct.
All the same, we must be clear from where the poisonous repression is coming. Not from, at root, the police, MI5, the CPS, but from the “special-interest cabals” behind them…
“David Mundell says Scotland Office was not consulted about Mone’s 2015 appointment.
David Cameron breached “proper process” when he appointed Michelle Mone to the House of Lords in 2015, David Mundell, who was the secretary for Scotland at the time, has said.
Ms Mone is not a successful entrepreneur, she is a small-time businesswoman with a PR exposure far in excess of any actual success,” Anderson wrote. “Awarding her a peerage for a very mediocre business performance brings the awarding of titles into disrepute by rewarding failure.” [a well-informed Glasgow business leader wrote— to Cameron privately— at the time].
[The Guardian]
I blogged about Mone’s fakery at the time. Like so many in both the Commons and the Lords, she was always a fake.
“Forests with two or three tree species are on average 35% more resilient to storms than forests with only one species, simulations created by researchers found. The type of trees also matters – forestry plantations are typically made up of fast-growing tall trees such as conifers, but they are more vulnerable to high winds than slower-growing hardwood species such as oak.“
“Conservationists have praised the launch of a new government strategy to revive the remaining fragments of the vast temperate rainforests that were once “one of the jewels of Britain’s nature crown”.
Temperate rainforest, also known as Atlantic woodland or Celtic rainforest, once covered most of western Britain and Ireland. The archipelago’s wet, mild conditions are ideal for lichens, mosses and liverworts. But centuries of destruction have meant that only small, isolated pockets remain.“
[The Guardian]
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Behave yourself Tice / the only agitators is our government Putin causes no risk to the UK https://t.co/zGGxAkKdQJ
Tice is hopeless. It is a measure of how unpopular the present misgovernment is, and how discontented are many of the voters, that Reform UK, even under Tice, even though it is not social-national, is apparently now on 13%, acc. to opinion polling.
Whether that will cut much ice at GE 2024 remains to be seen. We have, in a sense, been here before, with both UKIP and Brexit Party (both Farage vehicles, as is Reform UK). The difference, maybe, is in the degree of desperation felt by the voters.
When the voters feel real desperation, and in sufficient numbers, they may be ready, finally, to turn to real social-nationalism.
Richard Tice is no leader. We need someone with charisma a man of destiny no less.
“...the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not“…
Those latest polling figures are striking all the same. They might translate, at GE 2024, to a Labour majority of 420, with the “Conservatives” left as a rump of 35 MPs.
There are a legion of half-wits who are compelled to throw their money at anyone who utters anything remotely anti-Tory, and the grifters like Jolyon Maugham, Dr Julia, Simon Harris, Supertanskiii, Jack Monroe etc are more than happy to take their cash.
It is depressing, though, to observe how many of the said idiots are unwilling to see the truth even when it is presented, unambiguously and with irrefutable supporting evidence, to them… a bit like the people in the 1930s, 1940s, even up to the 1980s, who sincerely believed both in Marxism-Leninism and in the idea that the Soviet Union was a wonderful society, maybe with a few flaws here and there. I must have met hundreds like that.
Gaza (and the Jew-Zionist quasi-genocidal devastation there) is a very important issue but, as an acerbic Dutch lady once told me, about 42 years ago, “the shirt is closer than the skirt” (apparently an old Dutch proverb akin to “blood is thicker than water”). First things first. This country is now in a truly terrible mess. Our own people have needs that are not being addressed, still less satisfied. No wonder so many people say that they are “politically homeless”, and are unwilling to vote for any System party.
So it seems that the winds are set fair for a second Trump presidential term.
Argentina erupts in widespread protests as thousands hit the streets to decry President Javier Milei's controversial economic policies pic.twitter.com/jf13n9OEFS
General Sir Patrick Sanders, Chief of the General Staff, will stress the need for ministers to ‘mobilise the nation’ in the event of a wider conflict against Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine.
Gen Sir Patrick – who has been openly critical of staff shortages in the military – believes there should be a ‘shift’ in the mindset of the public who should be willing to defend the UK against foreign adversaries.
But while the Army head – who is standing down in six months after allegedly falling out with Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the overall chief of the Armed Forces – is not thought to be in favour of conscription, Nato bosses have warned allied nations to be prepared to take any and all actions necessary to fight Vladimir Putin’s forces.“
[Daily Mail].
[Daily Mail graphic]
What utter nonsense. Conscription would never produce effective soldiers in the social milieu of Britain in the 2020s. Look at the population! Look at those aged 18-40!
Apart from that, what world do our politicians and military “geniuses” live in? One, it seems, in which the atom bomb, nuclear weapons and ICBMs have not yet been invented. The general appears (as portrayed by the Daily Mail, anyway) to envisage a WW2 scenario of massed armies fighting a ground war across Europe. Someone really ought to tell our military men that the massed armies of conscripts will not last long once their home cities and towns, and Army/Navy/Air Force bases, have been turned into charred craters by Russian nuclear attack.
Indeed, the said armies of conscripts would quite soon be turned into irradiated facsimiles of the Terracotta Army.
Even leaving all that aside, there is no overarching Russian plan, and no ideological impetus, to invade central and western Europe. Russia under Putin is not the Soviet Union in 1948, 1962, or even the 1980s.
Russia has no incentive to attack or invade NATO territory, unless itself attacked, or pushed too far. Put simply, Europe now has nothing Russia would want.
The hysterical propaganda from the msm calling for, or fomenting fear of, war with Russia seems to blithely ignore the fact that Russia has been trying —but not succeeding— to crush the shambolic forces of the Kiev regime for nearly two years. So now Russia is set to invade Central Europe? Western Europe? Scandinavia? How? With what? Why?
What is really behind this NWO/ZOG propaganda?
As for Sweden and Finland joining NATO, their leaderships must be mad, or part of an NWO/ZOG conspiracy. They have just made themselves targets for potential annihilation.
Thinking again about General Sanders, and his apparent view that the UK should be ready to “defend itself“, he appears to be unaware that, for many real British people (let alone the blacks, browns etc), there is a feeling abroad at present that there is now not much left to defend. Not much worthwhile, at least.
What are the serried ranks of the new conscript armies to defend? Enormous income and capital inequality and inequity? A nation and society largely destroyed already by mass immigration? The Zionist control, influence, and takeover of the UK’s mass media, publishing, law, legal system, and politics? Collapsing living standards?
If General Sanders (and his seaborne and aerial colleagues) want to “defend Britain”, they might start by securing the UK’s borders from migration-invasion, or from cultural invasion (i.e. from the USA). They can no more do that, though, than build (in their own little minds) a farcical copy of the Allied armies of WW2, and/or pretend to be about to face some fantasy conflation of the Soviet forces of the Cold War, and Hitler’s Wehrmacht.
The general in question is apparently about to retire. Looks like that might be not before time.
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🎥 – An incredibly touching moment as a baby gorilla meets his father for the first time ever. 🦍 🥹
Gorillas are highly attentive and nurturing parents, with mothers focusing on nursing the young while fathers help them develop physical and social skills. 💪 🔊 pic.twitter.com/MLxJkwx7Ed
— posts you’ll find interesting (@_woahthatscool_) January 23, 2024
Yes my family is from Dagenham, my Grandfather worked at the Ford Motor Company. He moved to NZ when they started filling up east London with Blacks after WW2, which he fought in.
I plan on going back to England one day, but on a War Chariot, and I will swing the axe.
I too was tried (in November 2023) for having published the truth, though was not actually arrested (merely summonsed, in early 2023, by postal requisition). Incidentally, I shall learn my fate within about a week (at the sentencing hearing). Free speech is effectively dead in England.
…not to mention that it would prevent the present migration-invasion.
It surely says something about the state of the country that many people think that it would not be worse-ruled were it actually conquered by Russian forces…
The Jew Shapps, he of the dodgy get-rich-quick schemes (scams) and fake identities, now poses as Defence Secretary as he trumpets the wasting of a further £2.5 BILLION on Zelensky’s shambolic, corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
NWO/ZOG conspiracy.
How can the UKs politics be so broken that Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak could happen as well. Truly the bottom of the barrel
The answer to part of that first question is, surely “Biden” (and before Biden, “the great non-white hope”— Obama)…
We will be following all three of the big elections this year –in America, UK, and across Europe. And we will definitely not be afraid to challenge the consensus! https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
By calling for Rishi Sunak to go, Simon Clarke has realised what is now clearly happening. The British Tories have entered a death spiral 👇 https://t.co/qvt1imaWrh
One key reason why national populists are set for yet more gains this spring is because of their strong support from Generation-Z. Much of this turns lazy liberal progressive narratives upside down.
Israeli media admit defeat of the Zionist regime after more than 100 days of war in Gaza.
Military observer for Channel 11: 🔻 “Personally, this situation reminds me of the US situation in Iraq. It seems that in Gaza we are at the beginning of a war of attrition. Very difficult… pic.twitter.com/1Wy6jvbdPw
All this talk of conscription into the British Army doesn't worry me. I know I can avoid it. After all, it's a job, and I've successfully been avoiding those for many, many years now. I'm an expert at job avoidance, qualified by experience.
I find the whole (obviously contrived) “debate” puzzling. The whole idea that huge numbers of British citizens will “have to be” conscripted “if there is war with Russia” is simply bizarre, some kind of Loony Tune.
If NATO is at war with Russia, it will not be long before Russia’s 6,000-7,000 nuclear bombs and missiles are deployed. At that point, you can forget the new “Dad’s Army”, and much of the regular Army as well. Do idiots such as Tobias Ellwood really think that there would be much left of the UK in that scenario?
Yes, Russia would have its cities and bases destroyed too, but it has space beyond our usual imaginings. 70 times the size of the UK. Three times the size of the contiguous USA.
The fact is that any war with Russia which went nuclear (as it probably would) would spell the complete end of anything resembling the present UK.
This feverish speculation about upcoming war with Russia is being seeded by remarks from NWO/ZOG puppets, both military and civilian (military personnel, politicians and msm scribblers) across Europe and North America now. There is some kind of plot being hatched. A fairly obvious one, really, but the masses do not see it, they only see the noise and chatter, and take it as genuine.
The Kiev regime is now in serious trouble, and the Israeli regime is also on the back foot. The ruling circles of the West therefore deflect to the non-existent “threat” to western Europe and central Europe from Russia.
Is part of this “conscription” and “wartime regulation” thing just another attempt to corral the populations of Europe into behaving like compliant sheep, as during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic?
Incidentally, Wikipedia is very reticent about Ellwood’s parents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood. He was born in New York, but they also lived (1970s/early 1980s) in Bonn and Vienna. Diplomats? Nothing on Wikipedia. SIS? Maybe. Bonn and Vienna were centres of both diplomatic and espionage activity in those Cold War days; and Ellwood junior is now an officer in the sinister TA/Reserves 77th Brigade (disinformation, online snooping etc).
“Politicians hide themselves away, They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that all to the poor.”@Tobias_Ellwood, you can poke your war up your arse. Sideways.
That should always be and should always have been the case.
Bob Moran
I see that the cartoonist Bob Moran, so prominent in the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic (he was sacked by the Daily Telegraph for being too honest and too cuttingly satirical) is now in (more) trouble with the Jew-Zionists:
Disgraced cartoonist who sparked outrage for Netanyahu cartoon charges £75,000 for paintings https://t.co/PJq8lGsm8F
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) January 22, 2024
First of all, note the “typical” language. Those thought hostile to Jew-Zionism are always labelled “disgraced” (by the Jew-Zionists). In the same way, the (((very same))) “ones” always describe me as “disgraced and disbarred“. Disbarred (wrongfully and unlawfully)— yes. “Disgraced“— no.
Ironic, nicht wahr? They hate that Bob Moran cartoon so much that they have reposted it, many times now.
Note, also, how the money he is apparently getting for his pictures has “triggered” them…”A shark can smell blood in the water a mile off when he is hungry” [Control, in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]
Looking at the cartoon, several aspects strike me. First of all, the cartoon is very hard-hitting. Why should it not be? After all, the Jewish government of Israel has killed, in the present campaign in Gaza, about 26,000 people, mostly civilians (and wounded, many badly, about 64,000).
Half the population of Gaza is under 18, and about a quarter is under 12. The arithmetic may not be exact, but that means that, in three months, the Israelis have killed about 6,500 small children and babies, and have wounded (including mutilation, and injury leading to amputations) about 15,500 children under 12, including babies.
It might be argued that the “offending” (?) cartoon is far more hard-hitting than any posted by me on this blog (and in respect of which, inter alia, a magistrates’ court will sentence me next week); likewise, that Bob Moran cartoon is, arguably, more hard-hitting than anything posted by Alison Chabloz years ago (in respect of which she was actually imprisoned in the end).
Not that I wish for the cartoonist to be prosecuted. Far from it. Satirical cartoons were always part of the rough and tumble of British opinion and commentary, that is until “they” arrived and started to influence the legislature, the police and, now, the Crown Prosecution Service.
Free speech is now all but dead in the UK.
Finally, funny how those who have reposted that cartoon in order to attack Bob Moran have spread the cartoon far and wide online and offline! Indeed, I myself would otherwise have been unaware of its existence.
I noticed that the following blog post from over 6 years ago was looked at overnight by someone somewhere. It has in fact not been much read since I published it in December 2017, which (I think) is a pity. Still, “one human soul is a big audience“…
According to Israeli media, 75% of the settlers who fled northern Israel after the Hezbollah attacks have now started a new life elsewhere. According to official data, about 80 thousand settlers left the north, according to unofficial data – about 250 thousand, and their number… pic.twitter.com/FWBMPe9JoV
Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen claims that Helsinki does not expect Moscow to attack, but still seeks to maintain a strong defensive position pic.twitter.com/wz4NLcj99G
That is OK, in principle, but Finland last year joined NATO, which has moved from being a mainly defensive alliance during the Cold War to its present expansionist and rather aggressive posture.
Member of Israel's War Council, Eisenkot: Only an agreement with Hamas can guarantee the release of the hostages, and Israel must ask itself how it will continue with a leadership that has completely failed.
Administration of Al-Isra University in Gaza: We condemn the bombing of the university headquarters by the occupying forces and the looting of more than 3,000 artifacts inside pic.twitter.com/uJmOKPuEi9
"The Tories now trail Labour, which is not united, and Keir Starmer, who is not charismatic, by a staggering 27-points. They only command the loyalty of one in three people who voted Tory in 2019. And they are now being battered on three sides at the same time—by a growing number…
"Here’s one scenario to consider. What might happen if the Tory vote continues to slide, if Nigel Farage returns to Reform, and if Reform pushes ahead of the Tories in the national polls — much like the Brexit Party came close to doing in 2019? And what happens if, like Douglas…
Hard to believe that anyone ever gave the likes of “Boris” Johnson, Liz Truss, or Theresa May any credibility; same for the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak. There it is, though. Winston Churchill said that belief in “democracy” only lasts as long as a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.
Who are they trying to fool? As soon as he is kicked out, the little Indian money-juggler will be off, with his ultra-wealthy Indian heiress wife, to somewhere like Palo Alto or Bel-Air. Yes, he was born here, went to Winchester and then Oxford, but he has about as much in common with this country as Ali Bongo (the African one).
The boss of the British Gas owner, Centrica, has admitted it is “impossible to justify” his £4.5m pay packet. Politicians can't control pay; but they can and should increase taxes on the super rich.#ToryBrokenBritain#GeneralElectionNowhttps://t.co/5Jloxumqx7
Partly-true, but the State could control pay if that were required (which I think it now is): set limits for pay, with exceptions for genuine inventor-entrepreneurs such as Dyson. People who are just executives could be restricted to somewhere around £500,000 a year (gross), or even as “little” as £200,000 (net). The same goes for the likes of TV presenters, footballers etc.
The vast majority of UK workers and others in this country (eg pensioners, disabled non-workers, unemployed etc) receive net pay and/or benefits of £25,000 p.a. or below. Even my own relatively modest income when a barrister (1991-2008), though sometimes (rarely, though, and expressed in the money of 2024) above £100,000 p.a., was often far far less (sometimes almost zero).
I do not think that many people will be sorry if the high-paid were to be restricted to a net income of, say, £200,000 p.a.
Powerful text from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“Zelensky is demanding peace talks in Switzerland, while warmongers in Washington are desperately trying to fund $60 billion to continue the war in Ukraine.
Unless, of course, the USA and EU take away Zelensky’s ricebowl and stop funnelling arms, ammo, and cash to Kiev. In that event, the war will grind to a halt in a few months.
Russia will prevail whatever is done or not done.
A Bayraktar TB2 belonging to the Malian army neutralized a large convoy of militants preparing to attack in Burkina Faso. pic.twitter.com/snZcR5kZfm
Biden should not copy that. He would snuff it immediately.
I just took two tote bags full of books to my local National Trust second hand bookshop, and the lady working in there said “thank you so much for bringing them, I understand how hard it is to let go”.
When I had to leave behind (in France) almost my entire library of 2,000 or more books (in 2009, 14 years ago— long story), the loss felt catastrophic (and the books were not the whole of the story). Sometimes loss, whether voluntary or involuntary, cannot be avoided, and is a matter of Fate. Sometimes you have to stand before the blows of Fate, then move on, hardened in your resolve.
Strategically, what really challenges the Conservative Party is not that Israel-puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc might form an “elected dictatorship” for 4-5 years starting in 2024, but the fact that, at present, only 10% of those under 50 intend to vote Con. As for those under 30, I do not have the figure to hand, but it is something like 4%.
At the same time, very few of the ethnic minority voters, even Indians, are intending to vote Con; also the ethnic minorities, at present about 20% of the voting public, may soon be 25% or even 30%. A large minority of those under 18 in the UK are already non-white.
That means that, even in the next decade, unless something very big and unexpected happens, the Con Party vote will not even be at 20% (where it now is) but more like 10% or so. LibDem level. UKIP (2015) level. Reform UK level. That is when the Con Party will probably fade out, except for a few outposts here and there. Around 2030.
Germany refused to increase military aid to Ukraine
" We cannot go all or nothing, as some demand. Otherwise, we ourselves will be left without protection. So far we have sent everything we could ", he pointed out.
“…He emphasized that of all the countries of the European Union, Germany made the biggest contribution to Ukraine, and now it is the turn of others.“
France does not have enough shells for Ukraine
▪️A group of senators of the Upper House of the French Parliament made a report stating that Ukraine's position at the front is deteriorating, as well as that the supply of ammunition from France is not large enough to replace the…
The Zelensky regime is toast. Ukrainians outside Ukraine refuse to return to fight for the corrupt, brutal and shambolic dictatorship, and there are few Western mercenaries still fighting; most have returned to their home countries, or have been killed in action, or captured.
🗣 Former MI6: "High Probability" of Israel-Hezbollah War in 2024
"I think that Israel has suffered major setbacks in this period, setbacks in Gaza, setbacks internally. The West Bank is on a knife edge. There are problems that are developing there. The government had a vote… pic.twitter.com/iqJLkLWI0v
“I think that Israel has suffered major setbacks in this period, setbacks in Gaza, setbacks internally. The West Bank is on a knife edge. There are problems that are developing there.
The government had a vote against it in the Supreme Court by one vote. And then it now faces a court case in the Hague accusing it of genocide.
It desperately needs some sort of victory. It needs something to bring people together…This prompts people to want to try and find some military outlet that will provide some sort of semblance, some sort of idea of a success,” Alastair Crooke told#NewRulesPodcast.”
So about twice the number of children killed or mutilated by the (Israeli) Jews since the conflict (this time around) started, in early October 2023.
That seems to indicate that the population growth in Gaza is about (?) 4% per year. Something like that, anyway. If that is true of the Arab populations of the West Bank and elsewhere in and around Israel/Palestine, the Jewish population will eventually be demographically swamped, and then quite likely wiped out or driven out…
The latest situation of the deployment of American soldiers in the region , Kuwait and Qatar have by far the largest number of American soldiers pic.twitter.com/NnBmNV6e1U
When I was first in Qatar, in 2001 (when it was a far more pleasant, sleepy place), the American presence was already strong. As I was being driven across the airport tarmac in a limousine (because I was flying back to London in First Class), I noticed, parked next to my Qatar Airways plane, the American “Air Force Two”, which was (I later discovered) carrying General Colin Powell.
NATO Admiral Rob Bauer warns: “Peace is not guaranteed. We are preparing for a war with Russia and its terrorist groups. Maybe not tomorrow but certainly within the next 20 years. People should be prepared for the first 36 hours”#NATO#Russia#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/OrNssDs6il
A Dutchman, of all things, “warning” that “we” (the populations of NATO member states) are “preparing for a war with Russia“.
It strikes me as odd, a Dutchman fomenting war in this way. After all, the Netherlands was last a major power in the 18thC, 250-300 years ago.
The Netherlands was neutral in the First World War, neutral for the first 8 months of the Second World War, and then was invaded in May of 1940, an operation which took the forces of the German Reich precisely 4 days, on the fourth day of which invasion the Dutch forces formally surrendered.
Now some jumped-up Dutch mariner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bauer] seems to be cheerleading for a war with Russia, which would devastate our continent and much of the rest of the world. Madness. The bastard even admits that our way of life would change out of all recognition, and that civilians would have to be conscripted!
There seems to be a sinister agenda here, promoting a false narrative according to which Russia wants to invade Central and Eastern Europe. It’s rubbish. Indeed, the opposite is the case.
The old Soviet Union gradually lost its expansionist ideology in the 1980s, and the post-Soviet Russia has no expansionist ideology akin to Leninism.
Russia is nationalist in a defensive way, and even the Ukraine war can be seen as defensive, as being within the old imperial boundaries that existed long before the revolutionary upheavals of 1917.
Let us be clear. If there is a NATO-Russia war, among the first countries to be entirely wiped out by nuclear attack would be the UK (because of the American and other bases here) and the smaller states of NATO in Europe. The Netherlands would have no chance.
The UK should join with Russia, but the secretive Zionist and Masonic cabals that rule this country from behind the scenes are completely against any such idea. They stand ready to sacrifice the people of the UK to their evil NWO/ZOG plans.
The most important thing for the future of the world is that a core of people of white European humanity survive and are able to repopulate the world after any such disaster; indeed not only to repopulate the world but also to create the racial-cultural basis for a future superculture.
“…the transformation of the popular but difficult University Challenge into a festival of political correctness, some of whose questions are more or less impossible to answer, and many more (I suspect) are only answered because so many teams now train for them.”
Yes. I have noticed the change over the past months. Absurdly specialized questions in mathematics and physics etc. Also, the fact that the students often seem stumped by fairly basic questions of history and geography.
“A passenger was pushed onto the tracks of a West London Underground station by a man who then walked off. The incident happened at around 9.30am on Wednesday, January 17.
The victim was stood on the eastbound platform of Westbourne Park underground station when they were approached by a man and pushed onto the tracks. After shoving them onto the tracks, the man casually walked away and left the scene.
Detectives are investigating the serious assault and have released a CCTV image as part of the investigation. British Transport Police believe the man in the image could help.”
[sought by police]
[My London]
London 2024. What will it be like by 2034?
Incidentally, I note that, once again, one of the “pay peanuts get monkeys” wannabee “journalists” of the Press has written “was stood” rather than the correct “was standing“. Standards of literacy in journalism, as with everything else in contemporary Britain, have fallen through the floor.
“A fraudster tried to impersonate would-be drivers in theory exams even though he looked nothing like them. Christian Kabungulu used the driving licenses of paying customers to fool Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency officials at London, Essex, and Berkshire test centres eight times between June 2021 and December 2022, the Old Bailey heard on Thursday, January 17.
But the brainless scheme, which involved posing as people, his own defence counsel conceded, ‘he did not look like’, fell apart when officials twigged he was a fraud.”
[“brainless” fraudster]
[My London]
More wonderful “diversity”. Why is the “brainless” invader even here? Why is he allowed to stay? How can the present society even be maintained, let alone advanced, when much of the urban population of the UK is similar to that?
If repeated at the election, Conservatives would lose all but 41 seats. MPs facing the axe include Liz Truss, Suella Braverman, Jacob Rees-Mogg and… Rishi Sunak
That tweeter suggests that Con Party might have 41 seats after the GE. My own attempt to predict it via Electoral Calculus (on the same figures but including EC’s Scottish seats prediction and my own “tactical voting” estimates) leaves the Cons with only 36 seats. Almost existential for them, especially as hardly any people under 50 (about 10%, according to YouGov) will be voting for the Conservative Party. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
The British electoral system moves slowly over the years, but it really looks as though the Conservative Party is on the way out. It happened to the once-mighty Liberal Party after the First World War; and look at the SNP, in the other direction: the SNP took about 40 years after its foundation (early 1930s) to get a single MP (1970) and then another 45 years (2015) to get more than a handful of Scottish seats.
Incidentally, the YouGov figures also suggest a possible/likely LibDem bloc of 30 seats, double what they now command. That despite an opinion poll level of only 8%, re-emphasizing the importance of concentrations of votes. Seems that Clausewitz was right even off the literal field of battle.
As to Reform UK, the prediction indicates either no seats or 1 seat, despite the 12% polling. However, the night is young. Matt Goodwin does not rule out 15%, most of which would come out of the 2019 Con Party vote. Above that level, seat gains become possible, certainly if Reform UK managed to get 20% at the GE. If the Conservative vote continues to slide, 15% is quite likely, 20% not impossible, even if only as a despairing protest vote from “Middle England”.
Reform UK is not social-national, merely conservative pseudo-nationalist, of course. Also pro-Israel, and pro the Jewish lobby. Still, I am hoping that Reform UK does well, because that will help to destroy the Conservative Party (one of the two main System parties) and so destabilize the System as a whole. Again, a good showing at the GE by Reform UK will help to shift the “Overton Window” a little towards my way of thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window.
I myself have met a number of Ukrainians in the past and almost-present, from (in the 1990s) people at ministerial-ambassadorial level, right through to riff-raff parasites (in more recent years). Only one out of the whole lot was a decent person. I concede that that is purely anecdotal but, for what it may be worth, there it is…
Paris, like London, has effectively fallen. Macron is in (((the usual))) pocket, and merely presides over burgeoning chaos. Only Marine le Pen has a chance of getting on top of this (not that I agree with all of her policies and views— her father was better).
Happened to see that tweet by accident, if you like. Nothing on mainstream news (that I have heard).
"Conservative voters are becoming more, not less, concerned about immigration. Between 2011 & 2020, they were 20-30 pts more likely to cite immigration as a top issue than Labour voters. Since 2020, that gap has grown to 50 pts. And those who have left the Tories for apathy are…
“Conservative voters are becoming more, not less, concerned about immigration. Between 2011 & 2020, they were 20-30 pts more likely to cite immigration as a top issue than Labour voters. Since 2020, that gap has grown to 50 pts. And those who have left the Tories for apathy are especially worried about it”. https://mattgoodwin.org/p/this-one-map-tells-you-a-lot-about
Many Labour voters are also “concerned” (horrified) by the migration-invasion of Britain, but are also “concerned”, perhaps more, about cost-of-living, housing, the slide in the standards of the NHS, education etc (though immigration impacts on all of those issues). Much depends on how questions are put, and whether people understand how different issues are in fact connected.
Every Conservative manifesto since just after Windrush has promised reduced immigration. The only changes introduced have been hate crime and DEI legislation to force us to keep quiet and tolerate their repeated betrayal.
Doesn't that just reflect the fact that the only people who still plan to vote Tory are the relatively small number of people who are very anti immigration of any kind? Also, how can you be very worried and apathetic? Doesn't seem to square
Look at that last tweeter. She is so typical of the pseudo-liberal shallow thinkers who so often think of themselves as educated and intelligent (and “up with the times”, of course). Lives in Newbury, Berkshire, a place scarcely impacted by the migration-invasion. Probably comfortably-off financially, as well. Typical msm type, on the face of it.
That tweeter claims that only a “relatively small number of people are very anti-immigration“. Well, recent polls indicate that about 35%-40% of the British or UK-resident population think immigration the most important politico-social issue facing this country, so on that basis alone immigration is a very great concern for well over a third of voters.
If you take out non-white UK residents, that would be well over 40%.
That, however, is not the end of the matter. The other 50%-65% are, most of them, still “concerned” about immigration (taking out non-white votes, maybe 75%?) but, when asked to prioritize, have put cost-of-living, NHS, and housing or other topics above immigration. Many would still say that mass immigration is in their top five issues.
I believe that I saw an opinion poll recently to the effect that about 80% (without the non-white votes maybe 90%), have at least fairly considerable concerns about the invasion and occupation.
In other words, tweeter Penny French/Penny Horwood is the one in the “small minority”…
‘The Conservative Party doesn’t really know how to speak to the voters it inherited from Brexit.’ @Jacob_Rees_Mogg and @GoodwinMJ respond to findings that support for the Conservatives is at its lowest level since Liz Truss. pic.twitter.com/I83v0CyYQJ
Rees-Mogg does not seem to know the history either of England or of his own party. The Conservative Party does not go “back to the early 18th Century“, as Rees-Mogg says in that clip, but only to the 1830s, over a hundred years later.
It is true that a faction of the Whigs in the 1780s, friends of Pitt, are sometimes regarded as the ancestors of the Conservatives, but they were not so called at the time, which anyway was at least 50-60 years after the “early 18th Century” suggested by Rees-Mogg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#Origins.
We need migration they said, we need carers they said. If this is what care looks like, I'd rather go to Switzerland and end it myself I said.
— Ʈᖾᥲt ᒐᥲᥒᥴᥲ⳽ᖾɩɾᥱ ᙖꙆoƙᥱ ™ 🏴🌹 (@NelsonsLeftEye) January 18, 2024
[abusive “carers”]
…and the four monkeys concerned got between 4-6 months imprisonment each, so will be out in between 2 and 3 months. Pity they cannot be taken out over the Irish Sea in a helicopter and pushed out, 50 miles from shore.
Jez Turner of the London Forum got a year in prison for merely making the semi-humorous suggestion that Jews in the UK should be expelled, as happened in the reign of Edward I (13th/14thC). Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch) got longer merely for running a free speech Internet “radio” podcast show.
Where are the priorities of the CPS and judiciary?
There are wider questions of course, such as whether care homes of all sorts should be (as they now are) cash cows for exploitative profiteers such as, in the past, Duncan Bannatyne (the Dragon’s Den know-all/know-nothing), or run and organized quite differently.
Wider still is the question of the general —and quite apparent— slide in standards since Britain became “multicultural”. We just do not need such backward populations in our European lands.
European Central Bank Governor Christine Lagarde: “Actually advancing the green transition towards the hope of creating a clean energy environment will cost at least $620 billion a year.” pic.twitter.com/0BrmK82bJE
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron at the Davos Forum: The United States spent 10% of its defense budget to destroy 50% of Russian weapons without losing a single American. This is an excellent result pic.twitter.com/6SlNLgkKf5
Despite that, Russia is winning, slowly, in Ukraine. It has the positional and strategic edge now. The Kiev regime can only decrease, as the Russian forces increase in both size and tactical skill.
So long as Russia has its nuclear arsenal, the West will always pull back from direct attack by NATO (NWO/ZOG) forces. Before the USA changes that caution to recklessness, it should consider what the USA would look like without its top 50 cities…
Ukrainians have joined the losing side several times in key moments of their history, and now they are again working against their interests, said the former adviser of the President of Ukraine Zelenskiy Alexey Arestovich.
“Ukrainians have joined the losing side several times in key moments of their history, and now they are again working against their interests, said the former adviser of the President of Ukraine Zelenskiy Alexey Arestovich.
“Our problem is that in the turning points of our history, we bet on the side that loses. The point is not to bet on the winners, the point is that, again and again, we don’t bet on our interests.”
[Hitler, as Chancellor, greets wellwishers at the Berghof]
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Miriam Cates is much closer to the public mood on Rwanda, illegal & legal immigration than the vast majority of MPs in Westminster. Wanting strong & secure borders and lower migration is not "culture wars" — it's what the vast majority of Brits want See https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYhttps://t.co/AdjlXYBXHI
Non-white professor (Imperial College) and tweeter thinks (or at least implies) that “proper public services” can be had when a million non-white migrant-invaders, almost all low-skilled or no-skilled, are entering the country every single year.
An example of what we, the British people, are up against in trying, at the last moment, to save this country.
There are millions of foolish people who think that you can degrade a country’s population over decades, yet at the same time maintain, or even improve, that society and its overall standard of living, public services etc. No. That is impossible.
The main thing of importance now is to create the conditions for a people which can then, over time, be a foundation for a much later superculture.
Demography is destiny? "Between 2016 & 2020 Trump gained support among Latino voters. The Democrats have an increasingly tenuous hold on Asian vote & their support from black non-college-educated voters is slipping. Biden fell short of earning the support of a majority of…
Until yesterday, Bob Dole held the primary record in Iowa with a 12 point lead. Trump, as I said to Substack subscribers he would, just smashed that with a lead of almost 30 points. https://t.co/ucJXg3GWbc
Dole, of course, failed to become President of the USA. Trump is a different story. Against demented and half-dead (not to mention corrupt) Biden, Trump would have every chance.
As well as the sheer scale of public disillusionment on this issue. When Brits are asked who they trust to fix the crisis they do NOT choose Labour over Cons. The most popular answer by a country mile is "none of them"https://t.co/aXOiNbcq6Opic.twitter.com/6cCB1CA6O4
A real social-national party would, if one existed and were resourced, capture about 40% of the UK voters almost immediately, but “a certain tribe” makes sure that one cannot exist or survive for long, and that tribe effectively controls or very strongly influences the mainstream media, publishing etc in the UK.
Lastly, the Conservative failure to resolve the crisis is a major reason why about 10-15% of their 2019 voters are defecting to Reform, and another 30%-ish defecting to apathy. Many of these are pro-Brexit and sceptical of both mass legal and illegal migration…
I am sceptical of the Rwanda plan for several reasons, but would rather have it than not have it, the way things are. At least some of the bastards would thereby be expelled from the UK and Europe.
Of course, even if it worked perfectly, the Rwanda plan would affect mainly the “small boat arrivals”, not the vast mass of so-called “legal” migrants or migrant-invaders (which are 90%+ of the whole).
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New statement from the IRGC :
◾️ we used 24 ballistic missiles to hit terrorist bases, Mossad headquarters in Iraq and Syria
◾️ 4 missiles hit an ISIS base in Syrian Idlib, 11 missiles hit the Mossad headquarters in Iraqi Erbil pic.twitter.com/GsXy1NFN30
The Israeli army announced that it carried out artillery and airstrikes on dozens of Hezbollah positions in the Wadi Saluki area in southern Lebanon pic.twitter.com/USThduhoyg
I have heard or seen almost nothing about those networks (supposedly 100+ miles) of tunnels dug by Hamas in Gaza. The Israelis have apparently taken a few miles of tunnels; what about the rest?
Scenes of destruction caused by the ongoing Israeli aggression on neighborhoods in the city of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/LrrCfCFJc0
I suppose that, were I to say what I think should happen to them, “a certain tribe” (((the usual suspects))) would claim that my remarks would be “grossly offensive” or some such.
Either defend civilization, or let the jungle encroach on it until it is choked.
Did you know King Charles is a descendent of Vlad Dracula?
Amusing, but given that most of the people of Europe are now known to have descended from only 1-3 men of the Bronze Age, genealogy can show descent from almost anyone, as one sees in those British Royal family trees.
When I was at school, there was a rather mordant boy in my class, by name Waldron, who claimed descent from Henry VIII. No need to mock it; it was probably true— of him and thousands of others. I recall that he had a slightly dark skin, but whether that was of ethnic causation, or maybe a kidney problem, I have no idea. The only other thing I recall about Waldron is that he almost always carried a copy of Wisden, the cricket-statistics book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisden_Cricketers%27_Almanack].
“The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of wasting £123million of taxpayer cash on ‘misplaced priorities’ during his time in City Hall……£70,000 on a drag act called ‘Duckie Loves Fanny’, hosted by the city’s night czar, Amy Lamé, whose salary has risen 40 per cent to £117,000..“
What we are seeing is not just chaos over Rwanda. What we are seeing is the beginning of a Tory civil war between Establishment Tories and National Conservatives, the main fault lines of which are here 👇👇https://t.co/xBkvcoUyMXhttps://t.co/WUWlkoL0jR
CNN interrupted the broadcast of Donald Trump's speech after winning the intra-party vote in Iowa immediately after the ex-president spoke about problems at the border, and MSNBC did not air the speech at all, Fox Business reports.
Allegedly, The transfer of an entire train of American Stryker armored personnel carriers through the territory of Poland in the direction of the Belarusian border pic.twitter.com/R4AsS4UQe2
If the beleaguered Palestinian Arabs in that small territory can already launch thousands of missiles, albeit mostly not hugely powerful ones, what could happen in, say, 10 years’ time, and not only from Gaza? The top brass of the Israeli apparat must be contemplating a not-unlikely endgame, with no way out for the Jewish state.
The 36th Division of the Israeli army, defeated by the resistance in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/FvmWSOuwwl
“Oh, when will Britain just grow up? We have no money, yet we spend billions on arming Ukraine in a dubious war in which we have no national interest. We cannot control the beaches on our southern shores, on which strangers land almost daily, but we tail along behind the Americans in the pretence that we can control the Red Sea as we seek (as far as I can grasp) to get entangled in yet another war in the Middle East. Haven’t we had enough of these stupid brawls?
We spend decades failing to do justice to wronged postmasters. We cannot keep order in our pothole-peppered streets. Our children can’t read or write. Our universities, when they are not imposing mad speech codes on students and teachers, sell themselves to the highest bidder to ensure they can pay their vice-chancellors’ enormous salaries.
We have created a society in which working hard is probably the worst possible route to riches. If you want to be comfortably off (and perhaps get a decoration or a peerage too), go and strip some assets, or sell dodgy PPE to the NHS, or some such.“
[Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday]
Also, from the same Peter Hitchens column:
“Might I too be sanctioned for saying the ‘wrong’ thing?”
“At some point I shall write at more length about the High Court’s failure last week to come to the aid of Graham Phillips, the unlovable video blogger sanctioned by the Foreign Office.
The case is not about Mr Phillips. It is about free speech, and whether the Government can punish people for exercising it.
I might say I was (in the judge’s words) ‘an objective independent and fair-minded journalist’ who had happened to say things that ‘did not align’ with UK Government policy. But how would I prove it? The Government would be its own prosecution, judge and jury, and my only recourse would be to take the matter before someone, well, like Mr Justice Johnson. Be warned. These are dark times for dissent.”
Don’t I know it! Sad to say, the likes of Peter Hitchens, Toby Young, Farage, the “Free Speech Union” etc have not mentioned my “case” once. Disbarred (wrongfully and unlawfully, which the Bar Standards Board itself accepts was the case) in 2016, and now facing court sentence (in a few weeks’ time) for having allegedly posted a few home truths about the Jew-Zionists in the UK and Israel/Palestine.
People might argue that the apparent lack of interest (or is it out of fear of the Jewish lobby?) on the part of Hitchens (himself of course part-Jew), Toby Young (uncertain) etc is because I am not sufficiently well-known (and so of too little importance) for those puffed-up characters to take an interest in how my rights to freedom of expression are being trashed.
Well, if so, that scarcely chimes with the assertion of the malicious Jewish or Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] itself, on their own website and Twitter/X account, to the effect that it has taken them seven years of effort to finally have the (corrupt and/or suborned) police and Crown Prosecution Service get me into court (magistrates’ court) and have me tried and convicted of having posted supposedly “grossly offensive” remarks, cartoons etc about Jews or Jew-Zionists on my blog (those remarks and cartoons being only a small part of the allegedly posted blog posts, and those five blog posts only 5 of over 1,700 posted since this blog started to operate in late 2016, over seven years ago).
As to my case itself, anyone interested might like to know that, though I am inclined to appeal the conviction (the trial was a couple of months ago), I shall only decide on that after the sentencing hearing.
If I do appeal, the appeal would be, in effect, a complete retrial, but this time in the Crown Court. There does exist another route of appeal, by “case stated” to the Divisional Court (i.e. High Court) on point of law, but I should probably take the more usual route if I do appeal, i.e. via the Crown Court. If that happens, the appeal might not be heard until late 2024, or even on some date in 2025.
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Believe me when I say that Israel is facing an unprecedented crisis.
All their bogus claims of "anti-Semitism" don't work anymore. No one cares. No one is intimidated.
If you scan major UK news websites, you will see almost no mention of Saturday’s massive anti-Israel protest in London. BBC said “thousands” attended. Does this look like “thousands” or “tens of thousands”? Zionists went too far this time. The world has turned against them. https://t.co/l0McGOAipM
“They”, meaning (((they))), have thoroughly infiltrated the UK mass media, publishing etc over the past 75+ years. That applies even more to anything published about the Second World War, “holocaust” etc.
The next EU budget, which will run until 2034, may not include support for Ukraine
“Developing a budget until 2034 that did not include Ukraine joining by then would be a political gift to Vladimir Putin, on top of terrible financial planning ,” writes the Financial Times.
Ha ha. The Financial Times has lost all credibility in recent years, and politically is on or about the same level as someone such as Paul Mason. Pathetic.
Biden allows funding to Ukraine to cease.
The journalist asked the question: “What will be the next step to help Ukraine?”
To which the US President replied: “If my Republican colleagues do not finance Ukraine, they will have to pay very dearly for it.” pic.twitter.com/jjLhHo9wte
Yemeni Houtis maintain offensive capabilities despite US bombing
US and British forces in the Red Sea struck 30 targets of Yemen's Houthis. It is stated that “about 90 percent of targets were damaged or destroyed.” Lieutenant General Douglas Sims even states that "the strikes… pic.twitter.com/L96R6GYpMN
“Yemeni Houtis maintain offensive capabilities despite US bombing USand British forces in the Red Sea struck 30 targets of Yemen’s Houthis.
It is stated that “about 90 percent of targets were damaged or destroyed.” Lieutenant General Douglas Sims even states that “the strikes achievedtheir goal of crippling the Houthis’ ability to conduct sophisticated drone and missile attacks.”
At the same time, two American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times that even after massive bombing, the Houthis retain “three-quarters of their offensive capabilities.”
“Locating Houthi targets has proven more difficult than expected,” as, according to the officials, “US and other Western intelligence agencies have not spent significant time or resources in recent years collecting data on the locations of Houthi air defenses, command centers, ammunition depots, as well as facilities for the storage and production of drones and missiles.” Currently, the Pentagon is forced to conduct an urgent analysis of the situation and literally in real time assign targets for troops to strike.“
The USA has a short collective memory. “What goes around comes around”…
Israeli Mental First Aid Association: More than 100,000 Israelis have submitted requests for psychological assistance since the beginning of the war.
The Israeli army destroyed more than 200 of the 325 archaeological sites in Gaza. These include the Al Omari Mosque, a Byzantine church and the historic Az Zawiya Market. pic.twitter.com/XVuWd596aR
You cannot compare the Israeli-Jew mindset with that of nominally Christian countries, or even that of the Soviet Union under Stalin; you have to revisit the Old Testament, in which the ancient Israelites wiped whole tribes and nations off the map.
Gaza government office -In 100 days, 23,843 people were killed in Gaza and 60,317 were injured. pic.twitter.com/DfTta7RC64
So in just over three months, the Israeli war machine has killed or injured over 84,000 people, the vast majority civilians. It is worth remembering, also, that about half of those killed or injured have been under 18 years of age, and about half of those under 12 years of age. Israeli war crimes.
Those supporting those war crimes, and who are resident in the UK, France, USA, are also guilty.
I certainly disagree with the overall state of society in Russia (as well as in the UK and Western Europe, let alone USA etc), but the fact remains that Putin “bestrides the narrow world like a colossus” when compared to political pygmies such as Sunak, Starmer, Macron etc, and of course poor old dementia sufferer Biden.
If you would not have sympathy for predators and pillagers who get hurt trying to break into and enter your individual home, why would you sympathize with predators and pillagers trying to break into our collective home— “this England“?
Gonzalo Lira’s last public statement is chilling. He knew that if arrested, he would die in a Ukrainian prison. He pleaded for public outcry to put pressure on the U.S. State Department to do what it ordinarily does for American citizens trapped in these circumstances. But the… pic.twitter.com/4UENSlAB7h
“Gonzalo Lira’s last public statement is chilling. He knew that if arrested, he would die in a Ukrainian prison. He pleaded for public outcry to put pressure on the U.S. State Department to do what it ordinarily does for American citizens trapped in these circumstances. But the outcry never came. The mainstream media ignored his story. So State Department officials were free to ignore the plight of a journalist who had criticized them. Gonzalo was abandoned.
And so the Ukrainian government could treat him as they wished, as they treat other dissenters and critics — with imprisonment, brutality and murder.”
Journalists and American citizen Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 has died in the hands of the oppressive Ukrainian regime. The Biden run US government did nothing to help him while he was tortured over the past year. News of his death was met by leftist celebrations! pic.twitter.com/Ky6jBX8oQA
I published Lira’s last tweet (before his final arrest) a few months ago on the blog. Sadly, it looks as though the brutal, murderous, corrupt yet shambolic Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev has finally killed him.
Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler presently posing as UK Prime Minister, is just now gifting the Jew Zelensky another £2.5 BILLIONS of UK taxpayers’ money.
— Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (@PalominoOMG) January 13, 2024
Breaking: US citizen, author and journalist Gonzalo Lira died in Ukraine while in detention. He was harassed, arrested and tortured by the Zelenskyy regime after reporting the truth about the US proxy war. He was placed on a kill list by the Ukrainian Govt.
The Kiev regime is toast regardless of how many billions are thrown its way by Sunak, Biden etc. Its people are not reproducing themselves, its population numbers are collapsing, it has no volunteers asking to join its armed forces, only foreign mercenaries from poor parts of the world (the Western ones have all gone home or been killed off in battle), and the Kiev regime is press-ganging any Ukrainians able to walk and talk, regardless of health, fitness, and age (except the gilded offspring of the pseudo-elite).
“Ukraine”, the failed state, only keeps fighting because the UK, USA etc are supplying arms, ammunition, medical supplies, food, and vast amounts of UK/US/EU taxpayers’ money.
All the same, strategically, Ukraine has already lost. The failed 2023 summer counter-offensive proved that. Once the ground is hard, very soon, Russian armour will rule the land, as Russian air already rules the skies.
Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure is already largely shattered.
The Russian economy is doing better not only compared to the collapsed economy of Ukraine but also better than those of the UK, USA, and EU.
In any case, even if (which cannot now happen, realistically) the Kiev regime could contemplate advancing in eastern Ukraine or (impossible) southern Russia, Russia has devastating weapons which have not even been used yet, not least tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.
I repeat, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) simply cannot “win” this war.
Jesus H. Christ! There are still idiots, or maliciously tendentious types, like that Dominic Campbell tweeter, who can claim that Europe (inc. UK) is somehow better off because it is flooded by huge numbers of low-skilled, often hostile, immigrants. “Treason” is a word often bandied about carelessly, but what else is such deliberately misinformed and misinforming nonsense?
The said tweeter is obviously one of those who thinks himself part of a self-regarding “enlightened”/”woke” fake “elite”. Wrongly, at that.
Immigration doesn't lead to economic growth once you control for population growth.
It adds to total GDP by adding people & therefore transactions to the economy. It doesn't improve household incomes. https://t.co/6EGcE71xic
Immigration is good for the ultra-wealthy, and exploitative transnational companies, because a larger population creates more consumer demand, and because pay rates and benefit rates are automatically lower as more potential workers flood in. For 99% of the population, though, mass immigration is a disaster.
Research which CHALLENGES pro-immigration consensus is automatically challenged &/or "discredited" (Katwala/Ford/Portes) while research which REINFORCES pro-migration consensus is not. We need much more viewpoint diversity in universities, think-tanks conferences, etc https://t.co/Y0uaa16S3c
We, the British people, do not need more “debate”, more research papers, more msm yapping on chat shows or Question Time, more pointless dialogue with idiots or enemies. We need political action to create an ethnostate.
I myself am already facing a sentencing hearing in court, after my recent political trial, for having published the truth about what is happening in our society. I therefore cannot speak freely. Read between the lines, dear blog readers…
[Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, 1936; “Speer described the effect: “The feeling was of a vast room, with the beams serving as mighty pillars of infinitely light outer walls“.[7][3] The British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Neville Henderson, described it as “both solemn and beautiful… like being in a cathedral of ice“.[1] —Wikipedia]
Housing as a national 'top issue' is up 8pts to 25% since the beginning of last year, making it the issue where concern has grown most – immigration is also up 7pts to 39%.
@Keir_Starmer, I can’t believe that you’ve selected to head the Labour Party replacing Jeremy Corbyn. The UK will be no better off with you as PM. Your unconditional support of Israel makes you complicit in genocide. Do the country a favour and resign the leadership. @kennardmatthttps://t.co/P9ZQbhGQ9O
That weasel Starmer, with his almost shamefaced (as well as shameful) self-serving lack of moral compass —albeit concealed behind a facade of faux-“decency”— reminds me very much of Cecil Parkinson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Parkinson].
Americans no longer believe in Kyiv's victory – The Washington Examiner
More than half of Americans believe that the fighting in Ukraine has reached a stalemate, The Washington Examiner reports, citing a Rasmussen Reports poll.
One of my most bizarre moments in 2023 was attending a debate in Oxford to find senior academics denying evidence on the widespread sexual exploitation of young white working class girls by mainly Muslim Pakistani gangs. Here's what happened.https://t.co/2XFSjqnEnW
We were told we would get a high-skill immigration policy which fuels economic growth. But much of the immigration into Britain, we now know, is low-skill, from outside the EU & a net fiscal cost not plus to the economy. Somebody has to be honest with the British people in 2024. https://t.co/ZBirF3iemM
The little Indian money-juggler must be well-aware that most voters (even former Conservative voters) view the state of the country as terrible and getting worse.
If a general election is held “now” or soon, i.e. sometime in Spring 2024, the Conservative Party MP-cadre may be all but wiped out— possibly with only about 50 MPs left, though maybe 100 or, if Sunak is exceptionally lucky, 150.
If, on the other hand, the 2024 General Election is delayed until the winter of 2024, the state of the UK will almost inevitably be yet worse, and therefore the popularity of the (supposedly) governing Con Party will be even lower.
The usual stresses on NHS, transport etc will be even more severe, and the international situation may place greater stresses on the economy. Added to those factors, the migration-invasion will have continued for another year (nearly). On those premises, the Con Party may face not only the possibility but the probability that it will be reduced to something like 50 MPs.
It seems to me, therefore, that the GE will take place in late Summer or early Autumn, before the cold weather again arrives. So about 6-9 months from now. That gives time for Labour to make mistakes.
Even so, it seems unlikely (even in the “glorious uncertainty” of the UK electoral system) that the Conservative Party can hope for an MP-cadre much if at all higher than 100; certainly no more than 150. 150 would be bad for the Con Party (similar, though worse, to 1997 and 2001), whereas 100 or fewer would be seen as disastrous.
For me, perhaps for others in the social-national milieu, the main thing is to break the whole binary electoral system, which presents, every 4-5 years, a false choice to the electorate.
If the Conservative Party is trashed in the 2024 General Election, Labour will be able to form an elected dictatorship even worse than under Blair and Brown. That will lead to popular discontent (when it fails to address the several major challenges facing the UK), with the people even more eager to embrace a new way forward under a new political party or movement, and with the small rump Conservative Party having no credibility as an alternative government.
“A Las Vegas judge was pounced on and attacked by a criminal during a hearing after she denied him bail.
Judge Mary Kay Holthus from the Clark County District Court was mid-sentencing when convicted criminal Deobra Delone Redden launched at her on Wednesday morning.
Video footage shows the wild moment Redden leaped out from where he was standing and hopped into the judge’s bench to tackle her.“
[Daily Mail]
Ha ha! Not that I myself would do the same (regular readers of the blog will know that I recently joined the convict classes, having made the mistake of thinking that England still had left at least some free speech or freedom of expression).
The American incident reported upon above reminds me of another incident, which happened when I was a Bar pupil (trainee barrister). That must have been in 1992.
The case involved two West Indians alleged to have robbed a petrol station in NW London, using a machete. They had been arrested the same evening, not very long afterwards, in the (alleged) getaway car.
There were oddities in the evidence. The car had been searched following the stop. No money or weapons had been found. Later, at the police station, a further search revealed a wad of cash. A week later, a further search “discovered” a container full of coins (allegedly from the filling station) and a machete. The allegation from the defendants was that everything had been planted.
In fact, though I did not know said little twerp barrister, I recognized him, having been on the Bar Finals course with him (and hundreds of others) in 1987-88. I however had gone to the USA a while after that, so had not been Called to the (English) Bar until 1991; I also qualified at and was Admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.
All this took place at Wood Green Crown Court. As a Bar pupil, in 1992, I was there fairly frequently.
[Wood Green Crown Court, North London]
Both defendants were in custody, having been refused bail prior to trial.
The evidence against the defendants was non-existent, save for that “found” in the car. There was no cctv evidence, no fingerprint evidence, no DNA evidence (this was in 1992, and such evidence was still in its infancy). The (apparently) diminutive Indian cashier in the petrol station had been terrified, and gave no testimony. Neither did the defendants.
Despite the paucity of evidence, the jury came back with “Guilty” verdicts. There was a moment of silence. A member of the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad then gave the judge a rundown of the previous most relevant convictions of the defendants. The judge knew most of that already, as did Counsel, but of course the jury did not. There were gasps as the long list of increasingly-serious convictions was read out, topped finally by the information that the defendants still faced another upcoming trial in which they would stand accused (at the Old Bailey) of conspiring to rob building society branches, armed with sawn-off shotguns.
The judge listened patiently while, for 20 minutes, little twerp barrister attempted to mitigate. My pupilmaster declined to attempt any mitigation. The judge then sentenced the two to exactly the same term— 5 years each.
Another moment of silence preceded an explosion from the dock (behind us) as the defendants shouted out (to the jury) “YOU DOGS! YOU FUCKING WHITE DOGS!“.
The jury members (in fact not all white, there being one black woman and at least one Indian) quailed; I thought that one woman jury member might faint or cry out, though she bravely sat it out. The little twerp Counsel looked nervously over his shoulder, as did my pupilmaster. I had also looked round as the outburst had happened, but now pretended to be writing (in order to seem stoic, I think, pointless and perhaps ludicrous as that was).
The defendants then tried to fight their way out of and over the dock. The judge pressed his concealed button but stayed seated. His face was that “Judicial Livid” (red/purple) that I later saw once or twice at the High Court when a judge did not wholly appreciate my argument…
After a lot of banging, thudding, and swearing, the defendants were subdued by the two prison guards accompanying them. Other court security people then entered the courtroom. The defendants were taken down (to the cells below).
Just a day in the life, as they say.
Late music
[German; 16thC, Three Couples in a Circle Dance, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper; Rosenwald Collection]
…which is being underwritten by the taxpayers of the USA, UK, EU states etc.
Hope everyone can start to see that all this chaos, BLM, Palestine,Ukraine, Politics, Covid, jabs, energy etc, etc is brought about on purpose by the WEF trying to divide and conquer!
⚡️🇺🇦Tymoshenko demands Zelensky present the Ukrainian people with a realistic Plan B, because the maximalist goals of Plan A (pushing Russia to '91 borders) are too "difficult" (read: has caused a tragic genocide of Ukrainian men) pic.twitter.com/HSAs9TpuzO
Ah. I remember her. Corrupt (like all “Ukrainian” political leeches), but I have to admit that she had a very beautiful daughter; the daughter married a rock musician from Yorkshire called Sean Carr. Michael Palin interviewed the daughter and her husband in one of his travel shows. At the time, that daughter would have been in her twenties, and he would have been nearly 40. They eventually divorced (Carr died in 2018, at the early age of 50).
See how quickly Democrats turn on anyone that disobeys them? A legal gun owner is being evicted over shooting a criminal that entered into her daughter’s bedroom window. She has 30 days to vacate. Dems would prefer a law abiding person or child dead. pic.twitter.com/sCmfI6LBx2
Horses for courses. There are places, there are parts of the world, where you cannot rely on the police to respond. In much of Europe, including the UK, that is not (yet) the case, but in the UK the situation is clearly deteriorating. The police are attending fewer and fewer incidents and/or reported crimes.
Well, this week one of my poorest scores ever, a miserable 3/10. Political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (with 6/10), a rare occurrence indeed. I only knew the answers to questions 5, 7, and 10.
Tweets seen
A Labour MP reported Mumsnet to the police for "extremism" after some mums said men shouldn't be in women's spaces. If you thought counter-terror rules would be used to actually tackle terrorism – sorry, Labour need them to enforce their weird gender ideology. https://t.co/Pfw769fgjt
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) December 23, 2023
Much of the “counter-terror” stuff in the UK is a fake, and a cover for repression of opinion unwanted by and disapproved by the System, or by special-interest groups such as —and mainly— the Jew-Zionist cabals (malicious nuisances such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a kind of volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in the UK).
A mother on Mumsnet has revealed her 14 year old daughter is upset and concerned that she is in trouble because her new substitute teacher snapped "It's miss to you" at her when she called him "sir" pic.twitter.com/zlPm7LbFjA
More “trans” nonsense. Why are so few people, even now, pointing out the sheer oddness of the fact that an absolute tidal wave of this stuff has crashed over the UK in, mainly, the past few years? What is happening? What is being encouraged to happen? What is behind it all?
Consequences of the destruction in the Gaza Strip: The residential area of Sheikh Zayed in the north of the enclave was completely destroyed during the aggression of the Israeli army pic.twitter.com/S9BMNRJlGQ
In 1877, The Times leader column tackled the issue of "oral telegraphy". We declared, authoritatively, that people who hope to send "audible sounds across the Atlantic", were frankly very silly. Telephones had uses in the home, perhaps – to summon servants. But that was it. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DUpG8ZIUBI
I do not say “never believe the experts“, but the fact is that they (and, more so yet, scribblers pretending to be expert) are usually wrong, especially when they try to predict the future, or when unexpected events happen.
The recent “Covid” “panicdemic” showed up ignorance of the supposed experts of the so-called SAGE committee (I called it “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris).
There are, actually hundreds of similar examples, especially if you move from scientific-milieu examples to those of politics and economics. Lenin thought that the Bolsheviks would come to power when the 1905 “Revolution” (uprising) was taking place. Wrong… and Lenin did not think that the Tsarist state of Russia would fall as a result of the first (Spring) Revolution of 1917. Wrong again…
Scenes of destruction caused by Israeli forces in the Jabaliya camp, north of Gaza pic.twitter.com/PeYdhofYnn
Probably a poor-looking place even before the destruction, but these were people’s homes, now blasted by some of the war crimes of the Israeli military machine.
The destruction caused by the Israeli misdeeds in the Awni Al-Harsani school in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/I40O27m6Fw
Zakharova: The refusal of the OSCE to provide us with a list of those killed in Buca – proof that everything was staged " The refusal to provide the Russian side and the media with the list of those killed in Bucha indicates that it was a staging carried out by Ukraine with the… pic.twitter.com/cDWe6lxEWH
At first, I myself believed that the 2022 devastation in Bucha (a small township or suburb very close to, or effectively part of, Kiev) was a real event, albeit one committed by poorly-disciplined allies of Russia (Chechens etc). It is claimed that hundreds of civilians were killed and/or tortured.
Now, I wonder whether it ever happened at all (as reported). The much-photographed devastation seems to have been mainly in one small section of a single street; burnt-out Russian vehicles, destroyed single-storey houses etc. Hard to get to the truth. It may lie somewhere in the middle.
Dozens of adults and children were killed today in the Israeli bombardment of the refugee camp in Jabalia, "Al Jazeera" reported. As stated, members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are trying to advance towards the city from the west and east, disrupting all lines of…
Footage of a mass raid of Ukrainian military commissars in Dnepropetrovsk
Dozens of armed military registration and enlistment office employees and police began a roundup of “volunteers” in Dnepropetrovsk. pic.twitter.com/wi3SjtcQjg
The Russian army is seizing the initiative at the front, Germany is worried
The Russian offensive picked up pace, while the Ukrainian army began to move into a defensive position. This opinion was expressed by German political scientist and chief of staff of the German Defense… pic.twitter.com/hHkQtcRHWp
Lack of ammunition and allied aid forces Kyiv to curtail operations
The Ukrainian army lacks artillery shells on the front line, forcing the command to cancel planned operations, writes The Washington Post. This exacerbates Kyiv’s already palpable anxiety amid delayed financial… pic.twitter.com/m2VT1nTIGt
She seems to be mentally disturbed, and/or perhaps a drug-abuser. God help the USA (and Europe) if that crazed woman becomes U.S. President.
Her Wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley] contains a couple of interesting facts. Turns out that she is an Indian (Sikh), and that her personal wealth, estimated at USD $1M in 2018, had jumped to USD $8M only 2-3 years later, in 2021. How?
London will continue to ignore the reality unfolding in #Ukraine. Acknowledging a failed strategy by the #UK would require further explanations and admitting a huge strategic miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/uJZzXABFXv
Saw a tweet from a tweeter claiming that “Hitler was a great failure“. So tweeted a professed fortune-teller [“I read tarot cards with numerology, & zodiac signs“] with exactly two Twitter/X followers and who is following 91 others…
Laugh of the day? Maybe; maybe just unconscious irony of the day…
In fact, I think I see what that tweeter was getting at with his comment, but think also that I shall not comment further on it today…
“A restaurant that drowned three hundred cats a month to fuel Vietnam’s cruel meat trade has been closed for good.
The Gia Bảo restaurant in Thai Nguyen city, in the country’s northeast, ran a lucrative trade selling cats, likely including stolen pets, drowned in a bucket one after another.
For five years, Pham Quoc Doanh, 37, ran the establishment after struggling to feed his family selling ‘other normal food and drinks’.
‘It was then I tried selling cat meat since there was no other available restaurant serving this in the area,’ he told Metro.
Doanh reached out to the Humane Society International, campaigning to ban the trade in Vietnam, who offered him a one-time grant to set up a grocery store instead.
On December 6, he symbolically tore down the banners outside his slaughterhouse and restaurant and began a new life.
‘For a while now I have felt a genuine desire to leave the cruel cat meat business and switch to something else as soon as possible. When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,’ he said.
‘Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.’
An estimated one million cats are killed each year for their meat in Vietnam, according to the charity – despite 71 per cent of the population favouring a ban.“
[Daily Mail]
Well, my opinion of Vietnam has never been very high (I admit that I have never actually been there), but at least 71% of the population apparently want this trade banned, and they do seem (from what I read today) to be taking steps in the right direction.
Zelensky's Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty… pic.twitter.com/LPFArRrtRu
“Zelensky’s Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization received too favorable conditions to remain in the West forever.
He admitted that Kyiv is interested in bringing them back and giving them the opportunity to “repay their debt to the state.“
The British Guardian newspaper writes that Israel lost the war, but Netanyahu and his radical cabinet do not want to admit it. pic.twitter.com/G4F9WIwrZz
