Very typical of our times: the System repressing freedom of expression not only by opposing individuals politically but also by attacking their personal, family, and business life. It happened to Laura Towler, Sam Melia, and Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative. Their personal bank accounts were shut down, not by the State directly, not by the courts, but by the unilateral decision of each individual’s bank. Meaning by malicious individuals in those banks, sitting in positions where they had the executive power to do what they did.
Reverting to the pub golliwogs story, obviously Heineken and Carlsberg should both be boycotted, but that is mere gesture-politics, really.
This is no trivial story, but goes to the root of what was once, but is no more, a “free society”.
One has to ask, at what point does the repression contra freedom of expression in this society invite direct action against those repressing free speech?
“The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now law.
The Public Order Act was given royal assent and became law yesterday. Today, the Government will activate powers which prevent demonstrators from engaging in all kinds of activities.
[the Act] introduces Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPOs), a kind of protester Asbo, which, if they’re imposed, can demand the individual report to authorities, or be banned from meeting certain associates, or be blocked from campaigning online.
The House of Lords did what it could to kick back. The original text of the bill allowed the courts to impose an SDPO even if the person had never been convicted of a crime, a truly unthinkable Orwellian proposition. The Lords killed it. They also killed a power to impose a 24/7 GPS monitoring tag on those who received a SDPO.”
[from the i newspaper]
Still, it is easy enough in these times for the political police, or malicious special-interest groups, such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, to conspire to get someone convicted on some trumped-up minor charge (the Jew-Zionist fanatics have been doing that for years, as with the Alison Chabloz prosecutions), after which that individual will now perhaps be made subject to one of these “Serious Disruption Prevention Orders”, which in their effect are not really any different to the way in which the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB, prior to about 1989, controlled and regulated minor dissidents in the Soviet Union.
Of course, the i newspaper people will have been all in favour of the repression exercised against the golliwog pub owners, while paying lip service to freedom of expression re. the new Public Order Act.
It is that hypocrisy that prevents so many “free speech” campaigns being effective, as with Toby Young and his “Free Speech Union”, which seems to take the view that free speech is all-important except when Jews complain about the free speech of those opposing Israeli or Jewish interests. The “FSU” never said a word in defence of Alison Chabloz or others; neither has it ever said one word in defence of my rights.
Come to think of it, I do not recall the writer of that opinion piece, Ian Dunt, supporting my free speech rights. In fact, rather the reverse, if I recall aright. One can guess why, of course…
NATO intelligence chief says Russia is mapping critical undersea systems – Bloomberg He stated that "Moscow can target infrastructure in Europe and North America." “There is concern that Russia could target submarine cables and other critical infrastructure to undermine…
‼️🇷🇺 The Drone Assassination on President Putin last night by Ukraine leaves the Russian Military with no other choice than to “Eliminate” Ukrainian President Zelensky and his Cabinet — Former president of Russia
Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. It is a large open air prison, home to 2+ million Palestinians under siege by the occupier. No matter where the Israeli bombs are galling, civilians suffer the impact, if not physically then psychologically. pic.twitter.com/57JiXMzal0
— Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine (@nour_odeh) May 2, 2023
“The most unbearable thing is that a man was killed and dozens maimed by my hands,” Daria Trepova said in her first interview since her arrest.https://t.co/IZdquMaLez
Armed forces of Ukraine shelled a school in Aleshki
The footage shows that several private houses were damaged, windows were broken in the school, and there were no casualties. pic.twitter.com/mrMFxalr2y
Antonov: Russia will respond to the Ukrainian attack on the Kremlin when necessary "How would Americans react if a drone hit the White House, the Capitol or the Pentagon. The answer is obvious to every politician, as well as to the average citizen: the punishment will be harsh…
Sky News correspondent : “Ukrainians are really attacking Russian territory” Journalist John Sparks questioned the statement of the Ukrainian side that they allegedly do not have the resources, capabilities, weapons to carry out attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.… pic.twitter.com/r6T5IbxHZF
"I would like to warn the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors of the inevitable sad consequences of what they intend. Sending modern Western weapons to Kiev and encouraging its ideas about a counter-offensive will lead to further escalation of the conflict and bloodshed,"…
The 25 Division Special Task Forces of the Syrian Arab Army ( Tiger forces) conducted parachute airdrop exercises over Hmeimim Air Base. pic.twitter.com/5j6zmjtCzY
Millions of parents are struggling to buy toothpaste or soap
A charity warned being clean is becoming an unattainable luxury as the cost-of-living crisis forces parents to choose between feeding their children and buying hygiene products https://t.co/KaezgUyV0U
Presumably, because it is much easier to live off the thousands of pounds per month sent to her via Patreon by hundreds of utter mugs (429 as of today, each sending between £3.50 and £44). Not to mention paid bits and pieces in the Guardian etc, or fees for appearing at small “festivals” of various kinds. Maybe still some royalties from the “back list” of books as well.
All that and minor “celebrity” too…
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Arrival of 500-kg UMPC at the warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Berislav , Kherson region pic.twitter.com/68yotgoc70
Haynes: If the West stops arming it, Ukraine will not be able to deal with Russia
Scott RITTER: Russia is able to defeat Ukraine without using nuclear weapons. Even if Kiev were able to carry out a full mobilization pic.twitter.com/UBcEbrLnfX
In France, a pension no longer allows you to live with dignity.
Frenchman Jacques had to return to work at the age of 80 due to high inflation in the country, he took a job in a supermarket after 15 years of retirement.
The newspaper "Maariv" reports that since yesterday morning, more than 70 rockets have been fired at the settlements around Gaza. pic.twitter.com/wzaSAYa4zd
I think that everyone is missing the point- meat grinder. After Bakhmut, there will be Krematorks, Nykolaiv, and Slovyansk, same setup, grinding the Ukraine manpower and NAOO resources to the point where collapse will be a realistic scenario. Ukraine cannot do a thing about it.
Il video di un veicolo che si avvicina verso Bakhmut passando da Ivanoskoe in un paesaggio apocalittico all’orizzonte tra veicoli distrutti e con il sottofondo di “Fortezza Bakhmut”. pic.twitter.com/izYmSEWUu7
Reports of Drone attack on Kremlin could be false flag operation by Putin designed to justify even more brutal Russian imperialist aggression by his murderous regime. Or it could be a welcome sign of Ukraine increasing capability to hit back against Russia state #SlavaUkraini.
Yet another Zionist (ex-MP, expenses cheat etc) “supporting” “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime in Kiev) from a London armchair. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gapes].
Will Putin respond by launching a tactical nuclear strike on Kiev? An open question.
Idiotic anti-Russia drones are applauding the attack. They seem to have missed the fact that nothing could be better calculated to result in a firming of Russian public sentiment around Putin. Maybe that is why there are already claims that the attack was a Russian “false flag”. Perhaps, but to Russians the Kremlin is almost “sacred” in a sense. Not sure that even the most ruthless Russian politician or military leader would do it.
“A Bulgarian ‘professional pickpocket’ was deported from the UK but returned using a passport in her maiden name and stole £4,000 from a pensioner, a court heard.
Serial thief Keranka Nicolova, 27, was deported for street stealing in 2018 and banned from Britain.
But the Bulgarian national returned in March this year ‘to commit crime‘, a judge said. And now she has been jailed for two years after admitting theft.“
[Daily Mail]
In fact, not “Bulgarian” except in terms of one of her passports. A Gypsy. Look at the photo…
That is not a “Bulgarian”, in fact not any kind of European.
A video of a burning Tamanneftegaz terminal in Krasnodar region – it was allegedly attacked by a drone. Five fire trains are working to extinguish the fire.
Weakening the enemy's logistics is an important part of preparations for counteroffensive operations – military theory.… pic.twitter.com/LaYhtVItII
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023
You can see the way this is going— escalation. I would say that is is no better than 50-50 as to whether Kiev and other large cities in Ukraine will still be standing in 5 years’ time.
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Immediately after the Kremlin's statements about the attempted using a drone, Finnish television reported that Zelensky "will stay in Finland longer than planned." The original schedule called for a one-day visit. pic.twitter.com/yylmxH04lx
He lit the blue touch-paper, and is now standing well back…
Our spirit is stronger than their weapons, we won, we did it and we move on. There is very little left, so we will work, win" – Wagner PMC fighter in Bakhmut ㅤ pic.twitter.com/PxmT5yloge
US does not encourage Ukraine to strike on the territory of the Russian Federation – the White House on the question of involvement in the attack of drones
Perhaps the American leadership is now a little worried that World War Three might be triggered by the nonsense regime in Kiev and that, if it is, America’s 50 largest cities might cease to exist.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is flying to the Netherlands aboard the Dutch government business jet pic.twitter.com/NlIqaWxW0g
Looking at Gates gesturing and gesticulating, I cannot but wonder what might lurk in his ancestry…
Beyond that, human beings have an unfortunate propensity to over-value the views of those who happen to have huge amounts of money and/or social position (eg the case of the UK royals).
France 🇫🇷
Welcome to Macron’s ‘progressive’ politics. A police state where any dissent or protest is accompanied by the bludgeoning baton of authoritarianism. The diametric opposite of liberté, égalité, fraternité.pic.twitter.com/eEVJUzd1MM
[conducted by Andrew Davis. I recall buying him a pint of beer and having a brief chat once, in 1995 or 1996, at the Colonnade Hotel, Little Venice https://www.colonnadehotel.co.uk/]
Again, all true, except that the upcoming local elections will change little or nothing in terms of actual improvements to anything.
‘Net Zero is taking the population of this planet backwards.’
As Sadiq Khan continues to plough on with Ulez, GB News’ Neil Oliver warns the move is part of a ‘bigger picture’ which could result in millions of deaths.
I should like to see a reduction of about 4/5ths in the world population, leaving 1/5th, mostly northern European. Not because of “hate” toward the non-Europeans but because, firstly, the natural world is under unprecedented strain and, secondly, only a European population in Europe (particularly) and northern Eurasia can form the basis for a necessary quantum leap in human evolution.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 2, 2023
Jack Monroe has one troll from what I've noticed. Everyone else is just exasperated by her lies and grifting. It's infuriating and indicative of the state of the left in this country.
Well, a first (I think) for the blog today. No less than 8 hits (possibly from only one person, though) from Tadzhikistan (my preferred spelling, btw), one of the wildest corners of the old Soviet “empire” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan].
Those who know about such things tell me that the location of hits from overseas is unreliable, by reason of “proxy servers”, but I prefer just to believe that someone in Dushanbe or wherever, for whatever reason, has been reading my output.
I recall that, when I was on the committee of the Central Asia and Transcaucasia Law Association (CATLA) in the mid-1990s, someone had been reporting from Dushanbe (former Stalinabad, during the 1930s and 1940s) on the telephone, before gasping that she had to run “because a tank has just come around the corner“; there was a civil war going on at the time.
[Rudaki (formerly Lenin) Avenue, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan, the main thoroughfare]
The blog has had a few very obscure hits before, including one or two from Antarctica.
For me, the main danger of AI is that it will become so inconvenient for people to avoid its effects and control that most will become almost slaves to a mechanized, digitized society in which the individual (and free speech, and free thought) may be of little value.
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Putin: Life is returning to normal, Marijupol is getting trams. The Russian Federation will actively and consistently try to return life in the new regions to normal , said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the tram lines in Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/E0EBxeimG2
Appalling. I see so many similar situations, all over the country, certainly all over what I think is the best part of England, meaning below a line stretching from the Bristol Channel to the Wash. (yes, I know that there are also some beautiful areas elsewhere, such as Herefordshire).
Ukrainian resources confirm the today's advance of PMC Wagner across Tchaikovsky street in Bakhmut. Approximate control of AFU is about 5% of the city, namely the last high-rise buildings in the western districts of the city. The epic of Bakhmut operation is coming to an end. pic.twitter.com/JWxAQhnO5E
Population of Ukraine over the years. It's from an Ukrainian source from 2019. By 2019 the population almost halved compared to 1991 (peak number). pic.twitter.com/o2Bq2GBJUe
Satellite images confirm the fears of Western journalists. The footage shows "thousands of defensive positions on a vast territory" in the southeastern part of the Zaporozhye region.
corruption in the army, low morale of the mobilized masses, the ideological and religious split of society, and many other things that prevented and prevent Ukraine from becoming a "healthy" state.
🚨🚨🚨Looks like Russia decided to stop the Ukrainian counterattack in its tracks with what may prove to be the largest air raid and missile barrage since the war started. 8 earlier, now 10 more TU-95 bombers. Black Sea fleet cruise missiles. Retribution for Sevastopol at a… https://t.co/uXuVJGlw5L
The sign (in Russian) on her back says “I love to steal“, i.e. this is some sort of equivalent of putting a relatively minor malefactor in the stocks or at the pillory, as happened in Western Europe hundreds of years ago.
She may have done something as minor as shoplifting. The major thieves in the Ukrainian failed state are those in the Kiev “government”.
CNN : According to CNN, Ukraine successfully destroyed 100 Russian missiles in a single day.
BBC : Russia is losing, they now has zero missiles left.
NYT : Russia has suffered a major setback as all of their missiles, including the S-300 in the Black Sea, have been destroyed. https://t.co/uMuc5MyPx2
British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons called the nighttime missile attack on Ukraine "Russia's May Day alarm clock" “Now it’s noisy outside, judging by the sound, it looks like Ukrainian air defense has to answer Russia’s May Day alarm,” she wrote on Twitter pic.twitter.com/8LTJAlX3il
The UK Ambassador to the Kiev regime is a scruffy Jewish woman. Is that a co-incidence, or not?
The West has been secretly preparing anti-Russian sanctions since the end of 2021 – Politico President Joe Biden and European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen agreed in November 2021 to prepare anti-Russian sanctions before the start of a special operation in Ukraine. Then the… pic.twitter.com/SD99dWgTWk
Alina Lipp: Today, if you want a career in journalism in the West then you have to serve the ruling elite, which means slamming Russia and China at every chance and promoting conflict with those countries.
Just looked, for the first time in a few weeks, at the Patreon website. Turns out that “grifting” fraud “Jack Monroe” has yet again seen a fall in the number of utter mugs each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month. At one time last year (mainly thanks to promotion by Jewish TV talking heads and cuisine experts Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner) she had nearly 900 mugs regularly transferring cash to her; as of today, only 428. A few weeks ago it was still about 460. Still, “not a bad little earner” even now…
Israeli aggression was reported on Syrian international airport of Aleppo and Al- Saffirah city According to some reports 17 out of 22 missiles were intercepted, and 5 hit the targets The targets in Al-Saffirah city are potentially facilities belonging to the ministry of defence…
Over 100 policemen and gendarmes were injured during demonstrations across France , the French Ministry of the Interior announced. As many as 291 people were detained, 90 of them in Paris alone, said the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
US may run out of emergency measures as debt ceiling hits June 1st This is stated in a letter from US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to the leadership of Congress. “After reviewing recent federal tax returns, we will not be able to continue meeting government commitments by June… pic.twitter.com/5QaWoPtMhW
So much for African “independence”, “decolonization” etc. In reality, European, American etc financial and commercial organizations control almost everything, and the weak and corrupt African misgovernments do nothing but take bribes and mess up life for the ordinary African. The truth is that, in almost all cases, white colonial rule was better for Africa, for its human and animal inhabitants, in almost every way, if not every way.
footage of yesterday's most powerful explosion in Pavlograd was filmed by a surveillance camera pic.twitter.com/qMfVmpAnES
Protests in France are extremely violent, and a large number of police officers and demonstrators have been seriously injured pic.twitter.com/FDqB2StofA
We are to the point in this conflict when it's impossible to control the Western narrative of "helping "democratic" Ukraine maintain its sovereignty". It's a classic case of 🇺🇲 proxy war against 🇷🇺 using 🇺🇦 as the battlefield and 🇺🇦 lives as the means to weaken or destroy 🇷🇺. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/X5bwmo8asM
…while the soldiers of the Kiev regime die and suffer in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk. Ukraine is two worlds, and the wealthy few are as remote from the war as people in London or New York.
Incidentally, why do such revellers enjoy horrible noise, disruptive lighting, and jumping up and down? I was not like that even at 21 years of age (or 18, or 16).
“Liz Truss was last night at the centre of an extraordinary row after the Government demanded she pay more than £12,000 following the disappearance of items including bathrobes and slippers from her grace-and-favour country home.
The Cabinet Office was told by staff at the house that items such as towelling robes and even slippers vanished during that period, and have asked her to cover the cost.
‘They have also objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties, and say she owes more than £12,000 for it.’
In December, The Guardian reported that traces of a suspected Class-A drug were found at Chevening after the parties – which Ms Truss has said is ‘categorically untrue’.
The newspaper said members of staff twice found traces of white powder in a games room, after nights where Ms Truss was known to have entertained guests. The workers claimed they tested the powder with a swab which changes colour when it comes into contact with cocaine, and got a positive result.“
[Daily Mail]
I presume that drug-abusing Israel puppet Gove was there, together with Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng).
I was doing some cursory reading on some of 60s race riots (having first read many years ago). somehow I had completely forgotten that the famous 1965 Watts riots (probably the worst in the 60s up to that point) was basically just the Ferguson of the 60s, founded on a total lie pic.twitter.com/z7xDLVeY8o
Helped heal this ones broken leg when she fell from the rafters of my barn as a fledgling. Flew off about a month later and never saw her again. pic.twitter.com/SgMs1RksM3
Washington will not help Kiev forever, and sooner or later the US will leave Ukraine, like Afghanistan So says Scott Ritter, a former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. “When we leave – and we will definitely leave – Ukrainians will be left on their… pic.twitter.com/TV7usQzCck
The GUR Ukraine is preparing a series of operations on the territory of Russia to shift the focus from Bakhmut, who is being held back with the last of his strength, while losing several blocks a day.
Germany has confirmed the transfer of the second air defense system Iris-T to Ukraine, – on the website of the Federal Government of Germany pic.twitter.com/9ZznO02Bbu
President Biden is pressuring Zelensky to launch a spring counteroffensive or surrender talks now. This was stated by American presenter Clayton Morris. At the same time, the Biden team is afraid of the consequences of an unsuccessful Ukrainian offensive. According to the… pic.twitter.com/yi2aIPWXml
Never give in to “them”, never give in to their whining, or demanding, or to their attempted intimidatory behaviour.
So now Richard Sharp, instead of being some corrupt Tory money-man who used his influence and contacts to get power over the UK's state broadcaster, is a 'victim of antisemitism'. Couldn't be more convenient, could it.
“Poverty increased from 5.5% to 24.2% in Ukraine in 2022, pushing 7.1 million more people into poverty with the worst impact out of sight in rural villages, according to a recent report by the World Bank. With unemployment unofficially at 36% and inflation hitting 26.6% at the end of 2022, the institution’s regional country director for eastern Europe, Arup Banerji, had warned that poverty could soar.“
[The Guardian].
Even before the war, Ukraine was the poorest state in Europe per capita. 30 years of shambolic, chaotic, corrupt misrule.
Ukraine is not really a state at all at this point. It would already have collapsed, both economically and militarily, without the huge influxes of Western money, arms, ammunition, and other aid.
“Of the 57 people who have held the highest office, Seldon suggests, Johnson was probably unique in that he came to it with “no sense of any fixed position. No religious faith, no political ideology”. His only discernible ambition, Seldon says, was that “like Roman emperors he wanted monuments in his name”.
“I suppose at least Cummings did believe in Brexit, although ultimately, really, did he?” he says. “From everything we heard [for the book] it just seemed Cummings was full of hatred. He probably hates himself; he certainly hates other people. He wants to destroy everything. Johnson in his own way never knew what he stood for, but he shared that contempt for the Tory party, contempt for the cabinet, contempt for the civil service, contempt for the EU, contempt for the army, contempt for business, contempt for intellectuals, contempt for universities.
About a decade ago, Seldon, who is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, began an informal programme with David Cameron’s government that sought to provide for the present incumbents of the highest office some history of No 10 itself and their predecessors there. He staged a series of talks from prominent historians, as well as performances of Shakespeare in the rose garden, in the belief that politicians “might root themselves in the arts, in the benchmark of what is good and true”. He recalls a performance that the RSC gave for Cameron and guests just before the former resigned as prime minister: “It was quite a moving occasion in the garden. The killing of Caesar was one of the scenes and I remember watching Cameron with his daughter leaning on his shoulder and Samantha next to him.”
When Johnson came to power Seldon hoped the programme might continue – Johnson did after all have a lucrative contract to write a book about Shakespeare. There was no interest whatsoever. “Covid made things difficult obviously,” he says, “but we did come in. Johnson never once showed up. As [his school reports showed] he had no deep interest in any classical history, language or literature or Shakespeare. His examples were always for show. At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty. He can’t keep faithful to any idea, any person, any wife.”
[The Guardian]
Typical of failing societies throughout history; symptomatic.
That photograph, taken on the last day in office of Boris the Clown, is telling. The Poseur in Chief, trying to show off with his younger and new-ish wife, a brainless bimbo almost personifying the kind of careerist know-nothings so prominent in the Westminster bubble of the past decade.
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Here it is, clear as day. Anyone who insists from this moment onwards that Keir Starmer supports PR, or that Labour will introduce PR if they win, is fooling themselves.
The decisive moment" according to Ritter Scott: In the battle for Artyomovsk, the backbone of the Ukrainian army was broken.Due to the serious losses of the Ukrainian armed forces, especially after the battle for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the conflict in Ukraine could enter a new…
NATO sent only 98% of what they needed for the "counterattack" to the Ukrainians. Now Russian forces will destroy everything "necessary", but it turns out that not everything!
After strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the railway junction of Pavlograd, eyewitnesses report a mass detonation of anti-aircraft missiles for the S-300 complex,two divisions (up to 16 installations) of S-300P were destroyed. In addition, supply vehicles with reserve… pic.twitter.com/omZzPXt2zM
🇷🇺The Russian army during the special military operation in Ukraine started using a new command for artillery fire, which reads "three hundred and thirty three". pic.twitter.com/78MPZclJ1f
Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
See also:
The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy.
The odd thing is that, as opinion polls —and simple observation— show, most of the blacks and browns (certainly those under 60) have no time for, or interest in, the Monarchy.
The same is true of the metropolitan LGBTQXYZ crowd, as seen on Twitter.
Yet Charles is bending over backward in the attempt to appeal to those and other “diverse” groups.
In other words, Charles is trying to appeal to those who either hate him and the Monarchy (a relative few), or to those (the vast majority) to whom the Monarchy is a total irrelevance.
It will no doubt be argued by the msm that Charles is being brave and principled. To me, that whole project comes over as weak and ineffectual. As does he.
As blogged in the past, I have nothing much against Charles himself, whom I once met at a small diplomatic reception in Kazakhstan (in 1996). He has championed some issues of importance, including matters of architecture, town planning, animal welfare, and the environment. He may not always have been successful in that —a chequered picture—but he has tried. I think that that cannot be denied.
It must be hard simply to behave decently when you are told by pretty much everything and everyone around you since birth that you are wonderful, special, way above others etc.
However, this Coronation, far from boosting Charles, may well prove to be the start of his —and the Monarchy’s— downfall. He has invited the head of Sinn Fein to attend, yet not members of families close to the Monarchy for decades, even centuries (and not some individuals close to the late Queen).
The whole thing seems to be a “woke”, fake-“diverse” circus of nonsense grafted onto the comfortable and customary mediaeval and Victorian base.
Maybe that is why Meghan Mulatta is not going to attend, because she realized that she would just be one more “diverse” exhibit in the show.
The last Coronation, in 1953, was (apparently) eagerly awaited by much of the population. Sales of then-still-new- TV sets exploded, because it was going to be the first televised Coronation. Much of the population was engaged and, it seems, felt involved, even if, inevitably, only as background chorus and spear-carriers.
Now? Well, writing this piece, I actually had to look up the date of this Coronation, to remind myself (Saturday, 6 May 2023). I noticed one of the Readers’ Comments to that Daily Mail report: the comment said “I am being swept along in [sic] a wave of apathy“. Despite the error, surely correct. I have not yet spoken to anyone who has mentioned the Coronation in any way, positive or negative. Public interest is at or near rock-bottom.
I have blogged before to the effect that what will kill the Monarchy is not hatred, anger, or even principled dislike, or ideological opposition. No, what will kill it (and is killing it) is apathy as much as anything; the fact that the Monarchy, the Royal Family, their activities etc, have just no connection to, or relevance for, most of those living in the UK today.
For all the “diverse” nonsense, most of the non-whites, indeed most of the non-Brits, are simply not interested. Even in the white (British) “community”, there is a demographic split, most of the over 65s not only interested in the Monarchy but supportive of it; as for the under-30s, not. I think that a recent opinion poll said that about two-thirds of the under-30s would like to get rid of the Monarchy. Again, though, the reason is not anger (as in England in 1649, France in 1789 or Russia in 1917) but simple apathy and lack of interest both in the Monarchy and in getting rid of it.
The other glaring fact is the sheer struggle so many now have simply to pay bills, keep a roof over the head, children and companion animals fed, and so on.
The Monarchy will go at some point but , in the much-used phrase of Nevil Shute, “not with a bang but a whimper”.
Marina Purkiss
One of the dumbest guest interviews in the history of UK broadcast television.
The staggering ignorance of the know-it-all Remainers
Marina Purkiss’s car-crash GB News interview reveals the hollowness of the #FBPE worldview.
“In one astonishing moment, she raised the recent renaming of Black Boy Lane in Haringey, north London. Believing she had found a winning line, she insisted that ‘If you had a street named White Trash you might want to rename it’. Why Purkiss considers ‘black boy’ to be a slur on a par with ‘white trash’ was never made clear.“
[Spiked magazine]
Marina Purkiss, a “woke” idiot who thinks that civil rights or human rights such as freedom of expression are unimportant.
Alarming but not surprising that huge numbers of Twitterati think that she is great (and that she somehow “smashed” Jacob Rees-Mogg in that interview).
No doubt Marina Purkiss will continue to make a kind of career out of intellect-free emoting on socio-political issues. She apparently also has other, and remunerated, activity online.
Not that cost-of-living issues are unimportant. In fact, when people start to really struggle, in large numbers, that is precisely when they turn to radical and even revolutionary alternatives which may, down the line, be dictatorial and anti-free speech.
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The Kiev regime has realized that it will lose Bakhmut….🫣
Ukrainian army corpses litter the trenches near western Bakhmut. Zelensky’s orders to not retreat is causing a very high death rate as more reserves with minimal training are sent to defend frontline positions near the city outskirts pic.twitter.com/ZWsDnNKlBa
In Ukraine, the shortage of mobilization resources in general and officers in particular is becoming more acute. Zelensky instructed the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny to send most of the military commissars from the recruitment centers to the front
I've never seen such protocol for any other PM of the UK. Genes never change. Rishi sunak's blood is indian n carrying the same genes of show-off and abuse of power. One gets to see in the subcontinent, so it didn't surprise me at all when I the video.
And when the banks / pensions market fail next time round – less bailouts and instead, bank acquisitions by governments – the Trojan horse towards CBDCs.
That could be the moment for social nationalism to strike. The missing element is a party or movement. At present there is none worthy of the name. However, in times of crisis and desperation, a party, movement, or individual personality may arise suddenly, out of the depths of the people and events.
During lockdown we couldn’t even mourn our loved ones properly. A son moves his chair next to his mother to comfort her at the funeral of her late husband and was told to separate. And all because governments framed political motives as “The Science”.pic.twitter.com/fjOnOzqYRy
Look at that crematorium drone, ordering better people than himself back to their places. The “panicdemic” really brought out numbers of self-important nobodies of that type. No more were they simple supermarket workers, shopworkers, or filling station cashiers. Oh, no! Now they were workers on the front-line of the “Covid” “emergency”, armed with powers (they thought) to order people back, forward, sideways, or to wear muzzles etc, just like instructors dealing with slow-minded military recruits. I had a few clashes with that sort in 2020-21. How they must have hated having to return to stacking shelves…
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[East Berlin, 1970s; reminds me of a few places in South London]
You still see anti-Hitler propaganda about the alleged euthanasia of some medical “hopeless cases” in the late 1930s. Not everything done in the Reich was correct, but what was done of that type was pretty much on a par with what was happening in the UK, USA and elsewhere. The Jewish lobby (mainly) screams endlessly about “the evils of Nazism“, when in fact the same was happening across Europe and North America, but you never or rarely hear about that.
As for a situation such as that in the last few years in the UK, even the Jewish lobby can hardly blame Hitler and the NSDAP for that…
By reason of the repression of free speech already well-advanced in the UK, I am “not allowed” to say what I want to say about what should be done right now…
So people will be “expected” (required?) to stay incarcerated in something akin to an open prison, albeit with cafes and wine bars (in some cases)? Presumably, also forbidden from saying or writing anything anti-“communitarian”…
Zelensky continues to beg for money from the world for military equipment, ammunition, etc. This time the held a meeting with the President of Slovakia and the Czech Republic pic.twitter.com/fPrp9nuT5F
Made me feel physically sick seeing about Andrew Bridgen. People being silenced & cancelled for asking unanswered questions. And then answering for it with their hard earned careers. @mattletiss7@ABridgen@JohnBoweActor and many many more…..sad state of society/free speech.
Here is a very well documented example, where the Israeli state uses soldiers and paid student troll farms against the much weaker Palestine: https://t.co/Qiu7hBVYlU
Russia vs Ukraine is another well documented example. See also the UK's JTRIG.
Do Jews in Britain today face any type of structural racism? I’ve tried- but there’s no evidence of disadvantage in health, education, political representation, mortality, housing, income, employment, incarceration or any other sphere
I recall when I returned to the UK from the USA in the early 1990s and was trying to launch myself as a practising barrister out of rather rackety chambers in London. Through a series of odd events involving people from the former Yugoslavia, I had met a lady who lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Though not Jewish, she knew a number of wealthy Jews in Hampstead and elsewhere. She had been a high-flying model many years before, and had been on the cover of magazines such as Vogue. She had lived in Switzerland and in Montreal, and her style might be called “cosmopolitan wealthy”— a big Mercedes, furs, jewels etc.
We became involved, and she wanted to help me get work (legal cases) via wealthy solicitors that she knew. She told me post factum about one with whom she lunched, and to whom she had recommended my abilities. A Jew, his first question in reply had been to say, “is he Jewish?” Obviously, my girlfriend replied in the negative. Needless to say, no briefs came my way from that one.
He went on to say that he was desperate to work despite being, quite obviously, disabled. He had contacted his old boss)who regularly asks him to help out for free) to beg for some work. He said he'd do it for £7/hr. His boss offered him £5/hr. Travel would cost more. /2
…as possible for him to make a successful claim. Because that's the system we have created.
People are desperate. People who have worked for this country. People who have given their all. And the @Conservatives delight in demonising & abandoning them.
Sad, and slightly infuriating, though tweeter “@JasonPedlow” is wrong in saying that the said pensioner could “obviously” get Personal Independence Payment [PIP]. In fact, the very opposite is true— he obviously could not, because he is, on the facts as given, a pensioner, and a claimant has to be under State Pension Age to apply for PIP: see https://www.gov.uk/pip/eligibility. He could, however, apply for Attendance Allowance, worth rather less than PIP but still worth having: see https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility.
Said pensioner would also be entitled to Pension Guarantee Credit: see https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/eligibility. That would also confer, in principle, further benefits: maybe housing benefit, if he rents where he lives; also various one-off government payments.
Having said all that, it sounds like the said pensioner is a bit of a dimwit, worrying about what non-existent or unimportant people might think about him collecting various benefits, or worrying about some absurd “principle” invented in his own head. At a time when the Government has thrown away billions, hundreds of billions, on the “panicdemic”, on “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime), on the importation of millions of blacks and browns and others etc.
Some people actually wilfully deprive themselves, and often pointlessly.
Super-rich Bank of England chief risks fury as he says Brits must accept they are poorer after ‘Covid’ and energy crisis (both created by the people who appointed him) and stop chasing big pay rises to keep up with soaring inflationhttps://t.co/KDqfhl9THK
The Bank of England’s chief economist had a message for Britons: “Someone needs to accept that they’re worse off.” His comments were quickly followed by indignation, @eshelouise reports. https://t.co/JZfVJBIOzc
Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is basically a System drone, so of course he opposes proportional representation. Also, it looks possible that Labour will achieve a majority in 2023 or 2024. Short-term thinking, of course.
As for the graphic re. public ownership, it is clear to me that what real British people want, if only unconsciously, is social nationalism.
The territory of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Paris was filmed from a helicopter at the beginning of March, on which the marking of the Ministry of the Interior of France is visible The Russian Embassy in Paris sent a note of protest to the Ministry of the Interior… pic.twitter.com/OwLsBui0ds
In fact, tweeter “Spriter” has got it wrong this time.
In international law, the once-accepted theory of “extraterritoriality”, i.e. that the territory of an embassy consists of the territory of the sending state (the state to which that embassy belongs) has not been accepted for many decades. The currently-accepted theory is that an embassy (building with grounds) is on the territory of the accepting state, but that privileges and immunities attach to both the embassy site and (in varying degrees) to its diplomatic, administrative, and technical/logistical staff.
The commander of the ground forces and the Bakhmut grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, convinces Zelensky that his plan for a flank strike is realistic, even if Bakhmut falls.
Syrsky believes that the configuration of the front in the Seversk region (ledge) does not…
I look at the retirement that my boomer parents are living right now and think about how they are certainly the last generation to retire that way. The world has changed.
The England of 1966 (the last year before my family moved to Australia when I was 10) may not have been a Garden of Eden, but it had something the England of 2023 does not have; it also did not have quite a lot that our present society does have— and which is so hateful.
What has happened to the UK? When I was born in the 60s we were safe & happy. Everyone was kind to each other & enjoyed their lives. Now there are so many who seem to hate the UK. The enemy is now within this country & it’s such a shame we can’t all enjoy the time we have left.
It is tragic. I was just thinking about where the UK would be, in what state, had it not been swamped by waves of mass immigration and births to immigrant mothers. There have been other factors too, but the one that stands out is the demographic change since the 1960s.
It is true that white British people still comprise about 80% of the UK population, but the change has still been huge. Particularly so since the 1970s/1980s. A tipping-point was reached, sometime in the past 30 years or so, since when Britain has degenerated in most respects quite swiftly.
Even in the 1970s (which I well remember, having been born in 1956) Britain had so many paths open before it. The Second World War and its effects were receding into history, the standard of housing was improving, and the cultural life was lively. The Welfare State was generally improving the lives of millions, and there were improvements in areas such as educational access, pensions, disability benefits and services etc.
Now, in the past few decades, one feels that the world has shrunk, Britain has shrunk, and the possibilities open to British people (especially the “young”, say <30 years old) have also shrunk, and shrunk accordingly.
Look at housing. The pressures of mass immigration, births to non-Brits, commercial speculation, and lack of vision, have combined to create, over large areas of the country, huge tracts of “boxes for people”, without sufficient garden space, road access, or service areas (shops, libraries, parks etc).
There is a pervasive sense of the population being almost entombed alive in their inadequate —and increasingly inadequate— housing.
The “revenge evictions” and “no-fault evictions” by residential landlords have become a scandal, millions of people are living in poorly-repaired, poorly-maintained, homes, and the governments of the past couple of decades have done nothing to change that. Indeed, they have made it all worse.
Britain is going back in some respects to the socio-economic conditions of the era before the mid-Victorian age, in that what mattered then —and increasingly now— is how much capital was (or is) bequeathed to people from parents etc. Jobs or positions held were secondary.
Today, we have a society in which young people have to borrow large amounts just to go to a (so-called) university, and it is no argument to say that most will never have to pay it back, because the precondition for non-repayment is that the ex-student will never have a sufficiently high income to trigger repayment! What a commendation!
Basic work scarcely pays at all, once taxes and the costs of simply being in a job (travel, clothing, inflated housing costs etc) are taken into account.
Even “professional” work now pays only a modest amount on those preconditions. We see now strikes and protests by the junior ranks of the medical and legal professions.
Even in simple economic terms, it is clear that Britain would be such a better place had the influx never happened. The British people would be, as individuals, hugely better off in everyday financial terms. Not only in financial terms, though; also, in terms of vision, society, and further possibilities on the national and individual levels.
The question though, is how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
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Then eventually those who still have brains and authority in the system are pushed out for being racist, not diverse, transphobic, basically any excuse to get them removed and replaced with what we have now which is just puppets for the WEF young global leaders sect.
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 25, 2023
Very true.
I agree with you but it’s your kids and grand kids etc that’s gonna see the worst of what’s to come
It started with mass immigration and the 'racism' being shoved down our throats. You can't help but notice how citizens are last on the agenda of paid politicians these days. They only care about themselves.
— Do research, never take anything at face value. (@junertcb) April 25, 2023
I know, and it’s so sad. Social cohesion and overall morale in our country is so much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s 😢
The sad thing in the wider sense is that even those decrying the way things are have been brainwashed into saying “what’s racist about XYZ?” rather than saying “whether XYZ is ‘racist’ or not is of no matter“…
Sceptics were correct all along. The same with this new religion of climate change. But the damage governments do will be catastrophic before they wake up to the destruction they've caused. Primarily on the world's poorest!
I've been saying this to my Hubby as of late. Am so saddened at state of the UK. If I didn't have school age children, don't think I would choose to have any now. I fear for their futures. Seriously thinking of where we can move to, but most countries seem to be facing same.
Many echo those sentiments, and that fact accelerates the relative decline in numbers of white European people. Meanwhile, of course, the non-white population is reproducing in far greater numbers.
The social decline has also been impossible not to notice. Look, for example, at this tweet by the police:
This morning @HantsPolRoads attended a two vehicle collision outside a school during the morning school run. The drivers of both vehicles provided a positive sample on a roadside drugs test. Luckily no serious injuries this time, two in custody.🤦♀️🤦♂️
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) April 25, 2023
“Mr Martin was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999.
Some locals quietly praise Mr Martin for taking a stand against crime. One said: “We had four break-ins. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but what he did stopped the burglaries.”
He added: “I don’t agree with the police and the legal system. They’re supposed to be impartial but they’re far from impartial.”
[Daily Mirror]
In fact, the isolated home of Mr. Martin was broken into at night by a group of “gypsies” (in fact, UK-resident Irish so-called “Travellers”), not (as the Mirror report implies) only two. He managed to get two of them (one killed, one injured).
The incident happened in 1999. I supported Mr. Martin then, and I have not changed my mind since then. He should have been given an award for courage, and certainly not charged with anything.
HISTORY. Until Thatcher came along we owned our own gas, electric, water, railways and telecommunications. There were approx. 200,000 miners, 40,000 ship builders,100,000 steelworkers. I don't think the Tories want that part of our factual history taught to children.
A one-sided point of view in its implications, but still true.
"The Labour Files dismantles the central narrative of the media and the BBC about the Corbyn years, a narrative pushed on to the front pages of all the papers" pic.twitter.com/nqafSY2EvP
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) April 25, 2023
I had and have little time for Corbyn, but the fact is that he was destroyed as Labour leader by a pack of malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionists and/or Israel lobbyists, posing (some of them) as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
I was just engaging in my frequent not-guilty pleasure of looking at the Google Map and Street View site. Very addictive.
I have blogged before about how much London has changed since I stopped living and/or working there. I was a resident —on and off— from 1976 to 1998 in various sections of the metropolis, though mainly in Little Venice, and also for a while in 2001-2002, when I lived on the edge of London, in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, working out of both Mayfair (off Berkeley Square) and “legal London” (Gray’s Inn Square, where I was leaseholder of chambers in 2002; ironically, also the site of my unmerited, wrongful, and also unlawful disbarment in 2016, the so-called Bar Standards Board being situate in the same square).
Looking at Street View, I see that the area around St. Giles’ High Street (between Charing Cross Road and Holborn) has been hugely redeveloped. The Oasis open-air swimming pool, which I used a great deal in the 1980s, is still there, as is the old church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, but a large development of new buildings occupies the area opposite that church, part of which area once had a government building without signs or markings, the car park of which always contained a number of unmarked Commer vans in green or grey, in the 1970s and 1980s used extensively by State organizations.
That building was possibly an outstation of MI5 or GCHQ, but I have no idea whether either was the case. The street entrance always had a standing sign just inside, displaying the “security status” or “threat status”.
I notice that a nearby site, that was once occupied by a pub or bar carrying several different names over the years, is now occupied by a new building containing, inter alia, some pizza joint called Vapiano. I often used one of its former incarnations, in the 1980s, when it was a marble and glass bar called the Cafe Munchen; I was a regular customer at that time.
Looking very different, that place had also (in the early 1960s, I think) been a location for a few scenes in a Peter Sellers comedy film about a group of London crooks (I am unsure about the film title).
A little way further afield, I noticed that the Punjab restaurant (est. 1946), on the corner of Neal Street, is still there. Another place that I occasionally visited, though later, in the early 1990s.
My having Saturn in Scorpio does tend to make me visit Memory Lane a lot, perhaps too much.
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The sapper of PMC "Wagner" told and showed what kind of mines one has to face in Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/foLa0U5kXT
Theresa May, prior to becoming an MP, spent 20 years at the cheque-clearing organization, BACS. Her case is far from unique. Take a look at my “Deadhead MPs” series on the blog. Tip of the iceberg. Many, perhaps most, MPs cannot even be described as “mediocre” overall. Deadheads.
The UK political system actively rejects anyone with real depth.
Hard going. They are apparently now in slow withdrawal or retreat.
Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian thinker, in a conversation with Al-Mayadin: The global structure is between two possible scenarios; The first scenario belongs to the year 2050, in which the complete and irreversible victory for globalization and the unipolar era and the… pic.twitter.com/ia4TsTSGRy
The current crop of American politicians who have declared their candidacy are more like grandstanding, short-sighted Internet celebrities than politicians with long-term strategic ideas.
I have wondered, since this time last year, whether the main Ukrainian cities will be left standing at the end of the present conflict.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Today we visited a very dear friend currently in hospice care.
Your reminder: these special places receive NO funding from the govt. if you have a local #hospice or a hospice charity shop in town, I urge you to support it. Or leave it a bequest. pic.twitter.com/NNgvhLhGuC
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) April 26, 2023
It’s like having a final drink with a passive aggressive, soon to be ex girlfriend.pic.twitter.com/Ip1nTKjrbS
Idiots, and indeed malicious idiots, such as Marina Purkiss, think that free speech being taken away does not affect people. Wrong. I know exactly how the attacks on free speech, and the general attacks on British culture and our (former) way of life, affect people, including me. I also know exactly (((what))) and (((who))) are (mostly) behind those attacks.
Part of the problem in the UK is that the police often do not understand the law and, moreover, often think that their powers under the law are either (as in the above case) fewer or lesser than they actually are, or greater than they actually are (and I have been the subject of the latter incomprehension more than once over the past decade, and have had to put policemen and policewomen right on various points).
What’s harmful to public health is rolling out a deadly poison jab to millions of people including healthy children. Prison is too good for you, scumbag. https://t.co/NSgER8UNnM
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 25, 2023
Little Matt Hancock trying to be the big bad scorpion with a sting in its tail.
OMFG… hahaha!!! This is beyond parody… Sinn Fein (IRA) attending the coronation… I’d love to be a fly on the wall when you and Charles are reminiscing about Charles’s favourite uncle Lord ‘Dickie’ Montbatten … 🙈😫😆😆😆 https://t.co/eDsTAJfuWO
Typical response of those without an argument. Try this. EU commission hearing. Listen carefully to what is said now if you can. pic.twitter.com/sNfW06Rllw
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 26, 2023
“A father who murdered a burglar outside his house had previously posted a photo of the vigilante played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies on a neighbourhood group with the comment: ‘This is who we need.’
David King put the photo of Deathwish anti-hero Paul Kersey on the WhatsApp group in June 2019 after the wheels of his wife’s BMW M3 were stolen.
The career criminal [burglar/car thief] was left with a 5in-deep wound to his chest and the injury to his knee. He was so distressed as he hammered at a nearby door for help that he smashed the glass.
” Car thief/burglar] Neil Charles, 47, who had 66 previous convictions, turned up at the estate shortly before 1am on June 20, 2021, and was spotted on CCTV trying the doors of the Kings’ cars.”
[Daily Mail]
66 previous convictions…
Frankly, I think that those citizens are heroes, albeit that they arguably went too far in the heat of the moment. The sentences of “life, with minimum 21 years” (the father) and 19 years (the son) were very very harsh in all the circumstances. I should have thought that a minimum term served of, say, 5 years, would have been enough to mark any judicial disapproval (judicial, not societal— most British people would back the father and son, at least in principle).
The police too often show themselves completely unfit for purpose, useless, and the same is often true of the courts. People like singer and satirist Alison Chabloz actually get imprisoned in the UK for (in her case) lampooning some Jewish behaviour in song or in cartoons, while real criminals, who stab or slash people, or steal cars etc, are effectively let off.
Finally, I see that the Daily Mail has shown no photograph of the killed individual. I wonder why not…
David Irving was the academic hero of the above story. The report in the Guardian downplays his role.
I once heard a taped speech by Irving (given to the then-active discussion forum, the Clarendon Club, in the 1980s) which went into his role in some detail. Incidentally, Irving showed himself to be a confident, assured, and amusing speaker.
The Guardian report notes that System historian Hugh Trevor-Roper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper] was damaged by his failure to see through the Hitler Diaries fakery, but downplays that too, in my view.
Trevor-Roper (a freemason who was very pro-Jew-Zionist) is still regarded by many as worth reading, while the Jewish lobby has demonized Irving and trashed his reputation, despite his books being far more interesting and accurate in relation to 1933-45 (Trevor-Roper covered a far wider historical time-scale in his works, from the early Enlightenment to the contemporary era).
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“We need to stop violence against women.“ – Emmanuel Macron
All it will do is create more separate car use for under 25s. Crass logic.
The mass banning of groups of folk from civil core liberties under the auspice of health and safety is a slippery slope. We should have learnt that from Covid.
PM Rishi Sunak enjoying VIP protocol of motorcade of cars, bikes, close protection and police running along North Korea style – no other UK PM ever seen doing this pic.twitter.com/m03tFbgokH
Sixty-nine percent of French people believe that the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as head of state was a mistake, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Elaba Institute for the Study of Public Opinion. pic.twitter.com/ceFuxJm0Gy
The Russian Armed Forces began to use the latest main tanks T-14 "Armata" for firing at Ukrainian positions, – the source of RIA Novosti. pic.twitter.com/cfW3h3nMTI
Andrew Neil used to be, maybe still is, the best political interviewer around, but a few years ago started to come off the rails a bit, ranting about “Nazis” and “neo-Nazis” etc on his now-binned late-night BBC 2 TV show. Then he became part of the System “Covid” propaganda campaign.
— Geoff' The Frenchy Fella – War News 🇺🇦 (@Geoff_WarNews) April 25, 2023
Russia has become the largest supplier of oil to India. Daily deliveries reach amounts of almost 280 million liters of "black gold" and have a trend of further growth . 🇷🇺 Russia has taken the first place among oil suppliers to India, displacing 🇮🇶Iraq and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia in,…
Reacting to Biden's re-candidacy for the US presidential election, the former American president warned that the dollar and American banks are collapsing and soon the dollar will no longer be the world standard currency. pic.twitter.com/SB7MiKlmSr
Dmitriy Kuleba, the head of diplomacy of Ukraine and a newly minted Ukrainian, admitted today that Ukraine does not have enough stockpiles of weapons and that the aid coming from the West is not enough. pic.twitter.com/rtigvWsmeH
Macron has become the first “unpopulist” President of France for a long long time.
Journalists are gently wondering if Biden will last another four years: “Does the president plan to serve all 8 years? – I'm not going to speak for the president. It's up to him" pic.twitter.com/KGEEy7Ry85
Important because, should Biden retain the US Presidency after 2024, and then retire or die, Kamala Harris will automatically be sworn-in as President!
Ian Robert Millard 