“The toddler’s frail, malnourished body scarcely twitched as she lay helplessly in an incubator chamber in the already-decimated Gaza hospital.
Leila Jeneid, one of countless children who have passed through the doors of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has suffered as a result of starvation and dehydration.
In a video clip, Leila can be seen quickly breathing in and out, desperate for a breath of fresh air in one of the 12 remaining hospitals in the besieged enclave.
The outline of her ribs, along with all her other bones, are visible through her pallid, paper-thin skin, which sits in stark contrast to the blue blanket underneath her that provides little comfort to the toddler, who is not old enough to comprehend the hellish suffering she is undergoing.
Her jaw is slack as she lies on her back inside the plastic cage of the incubator, barely able to move her arms and legs.
She can’t keep her eyes open as medics at the hospital, which UN official Andrea De Domenico this week said was receiving ‘about 15 malnourished children a day and is struggling to maintain services,’ run tests to understand how to help her.
But it’s food, water and proper rest she needs, all things that the whole enclave is desperately in need of, and all things that Israel has been accused of deliberately withholding from civilians in its bitter war against Hamas, which – according to a top UN human rights official – could amount to a war crime.”
[Daily Mail]
Israel, and the Jewish lobby outside Israel, can now shut up about various matters that they claim occurred during the Second World War.
The “usual suspects” constantly promote books, films etc about events and/or invented events that are said to have happened, in any event, over 80 years ago.
“A father-of-five who was jailed and handed a £475,000 court bill after a dispute with his neighbours has been ordered to sell his home to pay for the huge sum.
Mark Coates, 56, and wife Louise, 52, have been involved in a ‘bitter, aggressive and violent’ dispute with their neighbours Brian Greenwood, 69, and Janice Turner, 65, after moving in next door in the countryside near Hastings in 2015.
The row arose out of a disagreement over a fence between their homes on a quiet road in Robertsbridge, a court heard. The Coates family wanted to replace the structure with a brick wall but Mrs Taylor argued this would encroach on her land.”
[Daily Mail]
When I was at the Bar, I advised and appeared on several such cases in the County Court, both in London and the provinces. Almost all, in fact all, should have settled long before they got to court, long before any barristers were instructed.
I think that I can say that I, and other counsel in the cases known to me, did our best to achieve reasonable closure, but these are cases (often involving trivial amounts of land) where reason always seems to fly out out of the window.
In many cases, all Counsel, solicitors, and the judge in the matter, understand that the matters in question should settle before enormous costs are racked up but, often, the litigants are effectively willing to risk bringing down ruin on themselves for a chance of gaining a victory over their neighbours (with whom they will have to live —nearby— afterwards, after the case ends, whichever way it goes), unless one party sells up and moves (in which event…well, you get my point).
If you told someone to remortgage his house, take out equity of £50,000, £100,000 or more, then go to Las Vegas, and stake the entire amount, maybe in one spin, on red or black at the roulette table, the houseowner would call you crazy, but that is, often, exactly what he or she —often a couple— are willing to do in taking to the County Court (in some cases to the High Court) such cases.
I remember one case I had that was about a wedge-shaped piece of land running the length of a North London suburban garden; at one end it was only about an inch or so wide and, at the other, about a foot.
What can one say? Territorial feeling can be very powerful.
Private enterprise —properly regulated for honesty, health and safety, employee rights etc— should run most commerce and industry, but there are exceptions, among which are the main structures of the economy providing services to the whole people: water supply, large-scale energy, electricity generation and supply, roads, railways.
I love talking to old people, people who don't have smart phones, and aren't on Twitter.
It's a window into a different world, the 1950s, 1940s, 1930s that is rapidly fading from memory.
Talk to these people any opportunity you get, learn about their world, you won't regret it.
Very true. As for me [b.1956], my memories of even the late 1950s are few, but those of the 1960s, and up to the present year, are many. Speaking very broadly, I should say that the dividing line between the UK of 2024 and an earlier and different UK lies, arguably, somewhen between the Thatcher election victory of 1979 and the fall of socialism in or about 1989. Maybe 1979 as far as the UK is concerned, domestically. Too much to cover here in a few paragraphs, though.
American urban planning history
When you think of American cities you think of places built for maximum efficiency and commerce – not necessarily for beauty and harmony. This photo often does the rounds… pic.twitter.com/REkPBUZTbe
It wasn't only public buildings. Take the Erie County Savings Bank in Buffalo (since demolished in an attempt at "urban renewal"): pic.twitter.com/0LKmMcLmCO
The public pushed back. The “Design Excellence Program” was established in 1994 to ensure higher quality public buildings. But the results weren't great:
San Francisco's Federal Building is so bizarre that it almost defies analysis… pic.twitter.com/huMW8VtzUQ
But something eroded American beauty more than this misguided artistry: efficiency.
The US once had dense, more European-style cities, and workers commuted via public streetcars. These were soon to be sacrificed for the great highways… pic.twitter.com/ti7vMxiVXp
Amidst a frenzy of industrialization in the 1940s, the US launched a decades-long project of freeway construction. Huge swathes of existing cities were demolished in the process, like in Kansas City: pic.twitter.com/BJhetxzhQh
Ironically, this breakneck pursuit of efficiency sacrificed what would today be some of the city's most profitable real estate. Those downtown buildings would be worth around $655 million today. pic.twitter.com/TBxcmKLrQ4
The dream of European-style cities in America was all but eradicated. Suburban sprawl meant cities lost significant chunks of their tax bases, and inner cities fell into spirals of decline.
"Reform party is now ahead of Tories among the working-class and northerners" (The Times). If you belong to the Substack (https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY) you already knew this –and where Reform will do best at 2024 GE https://t.co/ADIm6HRXer
“Reform UK” is just more “controlled opposition”, of course, and pro-Israel controlled opposition at that; still, its existence moves the “Overton window”, and that may be significant.
Israeli drones attacked a car in the village of Bazurieh in southern Lebanon. It is reported that at least one person died pic.twitter.com/kOy9XcnE5Q
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
To call that a zoo would be unkind to zoos, and to the inherent grace and charm of most animals.
I told you – with money!" Ukraine is dissatisfied with Western gifts
It seems that Zelensky is not happy that billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine are coming in ammunition and not dollars. pic.twitter.com/CPLQTCees9
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
Naturally, Zelensky wants cash, not arms and ammunition. You can’t transfer arms and ammunition into an offshore account…
Saudi Arabia will take part in the Miss Universe beauty pageant for the first time, which will be held in Mexico in September. She sends 27-year-old model and social media star Rumi al-Qatani to the competition. pic.twitter.com/LFR1N2QpZD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
[Rumi al-Qatani]
Not bad…
Israel is preparing to invade Rafah, home to about 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.
Al Jazeera and Israel's Channel 12 reported that Israel had launched an operation to relocate refugees ahead of an invasion due in a few days. pic.twitter.com/pwYFzG5PY7
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
The “most moral” army in the world poses with toys of Palestinian children – Gaza 💔 pic.twitter.com/oNBmFDpq2J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
Group psychopathy.
It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue to embark on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.
— Socially Recruited (@socialrecruited) March 6, 2024
Seems that H.M. Land Registry (or its ad agency) does not know the difference between “principle” and “principal“. On that basis, I am sceptical about anything they say they will do; it is not trivial, but a matter of both basic education and checking what is put before the public.
Meet some of IFAW’s animal friends! Social bonds are key to helping orphaned animals regain their confidence, and overcome loneliness and trauma. Take our quiz now to find out which IFAW #animal friend you match with most! 👇
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
So much for the “military experts”, many of which (as in the case of the reporter David Axe) turn out to be not very expert at all: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axe.
People of that sort write their rubbish for (in his case) Forbes magazine, the Daily Telegraph etc, and people believe it implicitly because it is in (albeit wrongfully) “trusted” publications, yet much of the content is unreliable. Read Axe’s Wikipedia entry. Not an ex-officer, not a military historian as such, but a writer of fiction primarily, at least until recently. His reporting on military matters has been patchy; refer to the Wikipedia entry.
There are many scribblers of that sort. He is far from being the only defaulter.
Of course, in relation to the Ukraine war, a significant factor in reportage is that most Western msm outlets are openly biased to an extent not seen since the 1940s. Anything seen in the msm relating to Ukraine, Russia, Putin etc has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Forbes" columnist David Ax criticized the "Challenger 2" tanks which Great Britain sent to Ukraine and called them useless. He pointed out that Ukraine received tanks without a set of additional armor, while the additional three tons of weight would make this tank even less… pic.twitter.com/7Idf0GZUyQ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Future archaeologists may find such tanks buried under a hundred feet of chernozem, and wonder what they were.
Late tweets
This is the problem with Shadi’s new identitarianism when it comes to Hamas.
Mainstream news sources have no idea nor any way to check the numbers coming from Hamas. But here he argues that not to trust those Hamas numbers is genocide.
Jew-Zionist argues that the numbers of civilian and other dead and wounded in Gaza are not accurate and may be, at least in part, invented.
I dare say, though, that the same Jew-Zionist (and many another) thinks that any attempt to critically examine the numbers involved, or the nature and extent, of the so-called “holocaust” of WW2, is not only “antisemitic” but evil…
💣 The first episode of Bombshells with guest @GoodwinMJ is out!
FREE SAM MELIA!!! Please support Laura Towler’s business. The baby is almost due, and her husband is one of our most important political prisoners. Every little bit helps. https://t.co/FyrJPKKDlfpic.twitter.com/9UlLOobWSP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Green. Some look about 14 or 15. Obviously untrained, looking at their posture, body language etc. God help them if they are not taught how to stay alive in the field.
Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot win this war, or even keep the front stable. Russia cannot lose, and will not lose.
The Biden administration has secretly approved the transfer of significant military aid to Israel in recent days – Washington Post
▪️25 F-35 fighters ▪️1800 MK-84 bombs weighing almost a ton each. ▪️500 MK-82 bombs weighing about a quarter of a ton each. pic.twitter.com/pLxYPQ3oEj
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Tail wags dog…again.
No one in their right mind should vote Tory at the general election. Yes, we have a lack of viable alternatives and we should work to find good independent candidates. But anyone who votes Tory has a form of Stockholm syndrome. The Tory government destroyed the country.
The servants of the State, or the creatures of the “you know whos”?
To those who smear me as a conspiracy theorist…
The way I see it, I’m not here to tell you WHAT to think, I’m here to tell you TO THINK.
I CAN tell you that the media is lying to your face about everything. I have my theories and I speculate, but it’s on YOU to find the truth.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 28, 2024
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]
Crowdfunder
My appeal (to pay the costs of my recent free speech trial) remains open. If you can, please donate; if you are unable to donate, please share the link.
One of my favourite TV shows when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
Tweets seen
No more celebratory dunks in the river for winning boat race crews, due to e-coli. “Instead the Oxford and Cambridge crews will be encouraged to wash themselves down at a dedicated cleansing station at the finish.” Festive. #sewagecrisishttps://t.co/fAFIa6gusm
Seems to sum up everything about Britain in 2024: the environmental calamity, the nanny-state-ism, but also the historical ignorance. The lower Thames (in my meaning, the Thames below Reading, and especially below Kingston) was actually far dirtier in the past, in the 1950s, and back to the 1850s, perhaps even the 1750s.
Still, it is true that the rivers of England and Wales have been almost abandoned by this Government. Effluent and agricultural (farmers’) vandalistic fertilizer and other runoff going into the waters; and water itself being abstracted to service the needs of a UK population growing by 500,000-1,000,000 each year (by reason of mass migration and/or migration invasion).
“The most important and urgent task is to expand wild populations, encourage natural recolonisation and cushion the expected impacts of climate change,” says Seth Jackson @nationaltrust News today of work to save microhabitats on the Lizard. https://t.co/ThqP6ME8gZ
Another sentimental memory, this time from when I was about 6 years old.
Brilliantly-presented music and colour film from the 1930s.
Looking at the crowds, how sincerely and genuinely happy they look, as compared to (for example) the enforced jollity of the parades in the Soviet Union of the 1930s.
I do not agree with all of that article by ex-MP Emma Dent Coad in the rump Morning Star, above, but I do agree with some. Worth reading, though she fails to point out at least one possible reason why faux-radical Paul Mason got so angry when Labour’s Israel lobby was mentioned: Mason himself is partly Jewish, and also seems to be very pro-Israel, certainly opposing those he considers “antisemitic”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Early_life_and_education.
Looking ahead
It is all too easy to get distracted by the noise of the world, by short-term politics, by the daily news agenda, by personalities etc. We must try to look ahead, beyond the present year, the present decade; even beyond the present century and the present millennium.
My thesis, though complex in total, is simple in essence: humanity needs to make a quantum leap in evolution. In order for that to happen, there has to be a suitable demographic, ethnic basis. For me, that has to be the European peoples as a whole, particularly the Northern Europeans.
However, the European people(s) are not the end result, or the highest possible stage, but merely a base, also a transitional stage to higher evolution of consciousness.
It is a matter of concern that births and birth-rates to Europeans (including Russians and some other Slavs, the peoples of the far future) are falling quite fast now.
The above factor may be a sign of an impending civilizational catastrophe, but may also be more than merely a “crisis”; it may also be an opportunity for the European peoples to seize the world-historic initiative in terms of demographics. In other words, to start creating the basis of a basis for a future super-race, to put it that way; an advance on —and by— present-day humanity.
More tweets seen
A genocidal and dehumanising rant from an extremist far-right politician. Israel must cast out these types of politicians, from the cabinet, from the Knesset, from its political landscape. Just hideous pic.twitter.com/Fvhz9mbXPO
As seen in that tweet, even some Jews, indeed even some Zionist pro-Israel Jews, find many of the members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) beyond the pale, so to speak. All the same, that ranting Jew politician was elected by Israeli voters. He is only expressing, in an extreme form, what is, at least arguably, the mainstream Israeli view in substance, though usually couched in a less extreme, less obviously violent way.
So far, the Israeli revenge attack on Gaza has killed 30,000-40,000 of the inhabitants, mostly women and children. The number grievously wounded must now be as many as 100,000.
Yet one sees Jews in the UK and elsewhere defend the Israeli actions (use of white phosphorus, use of famine as a weapon, flattening of huge areas of residential housing etc, use of drones and snipers killing families or lone unarmed civilians) as “defensive”, “justified“, “not genocide“, “not war crimes” etc. In effect, those (Jews and non-Jews) who support Israel, and who are tweeting support for Israel, are supporting those actions.
They are often the same ones whining and screaming that some child in London or wherever has chalked a swastika on a garage door or the side of a bus, and that that is a kind of “terrorism”, and that they feel “afraid” to go out of their houses. Pathetic.
Two-fifths of Starmer's cabinet have received funds from pro-Israel groups, Declassified UK findshttps://t.co/3kWHNYrCqL
Trevor Chinn donated £50,000 to @Keir_Starmer’s leadership campaign.
As have many “Conservative” MPs. Britain’s immediate political problem in a nutshell— a special-interest group influences, and as good as controls, both main System parties.
So you haven’t been libelled, Paul? Just caught out?
Of course, I have no idea whether Paul Mason is or is not actually an agent of one or another secret government service, as many claim, but he has always struck me as being inherently unreliable, and not very trustworthy in any respect. That’s my honest opinion, anyway. Also, Mason is a little too enthusiastic about the idea of locking people up for their views…
Police in Nashville, USA, detained a journalist on the grounds that he had interviewed people demonstrating support for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/2o1SwNNeJ5
Well, one of the comments on the blog (made allegedly by me) that “got me into trouble” over the past year or three referenced Jewish/Zionist/Israeli influence in the USA, and/or the mindset of many Americans who (influenced by TV, radio, and Press) blindly support the Israel lobby, so I had better not say too much here about “freedom” in the supposed “land of freedom”…
It’s strange…as recently as the 1970s, Britain had almost complete free speech on political, social, historical and other topics. What a contrast to today’s “iron fist in velvet glove” repression, abused by —mainly— the groups associated with the Jewish lobby and Israel; the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] etc.
I think that, eventually, the huge defensive works undertaken by the Kiev-regime forces will lie abandoned by their former defenders. Already, the regime is using press-gangs to “recruit” soldiers, and is slowly running out of arms, ammunition, and other supplies.
[above, the “suspect”, a denizen of Britain’s wonderfully “diverse” multikulti society. Does anyone seriously think that a better society can ever develop when untermenschen of that sort inhabit the UK, or Europe generally? Indeed, can even our existing society be maintained?].
Even now, if I say or write something about how British society is steadily collapsing into chaotic dystopia, many will smugly smirk, “knowing better”. What will it take before those people start to listen, properly hear, then combine to do something about it all?
Late tweets seen
"Under the next Labour gvt illegal & legal migration will soar. Labour has no serious plan on illegal migration while the party, like the Tories, is instinctively comfortable with mass legal immigration –even if most voters are not"https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
Our society is going either to collapse or to explode; maybe both. That situation, either way, will see the best chance ever for social nationalism in the UK, and the best chance in Europe generally since Germany awoke in 1933, then plunged into defeat in 1945.
"Keir Starmer will not be a popular PM. You can already see it in the data. There is no enthusiasm for the Labour leader. His approval ratings are weak. YouGov might call him our "most popular politician" but his net favourability rating is MINUS 18!"https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
Starmer will be an unpopular PM, indeed an unpopular, if “elected”, quasi-dictator. I could say more but regular readers will know that I am restricted at present.
"Labour is not as strong as some suggest. Only 1 in 4 voters think it's “in touch”. Only 18% think it's “strong”. Only 22% think it's “trustworthy”. Only 26% it's “competent”. Only 1 in 3 think it's “united”. Only 24% say “it's got a clear purpose”https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
True but, as far as GE 2024 is concerned, the electorate will not be voting for Labour, they will be voting against the Conservative Party which has ruined so much over the past 14 years.
Both System parties are enemies of the people.
Late music
Crowdfunder
If any readers can help defray the costs imposed by the Court after my recent trial, their donations will be gratefully received; if not, then please share the link on social media and/or elsewhere.
I am that age, consume almost no mainstream media and have no interest in supporting foreign wars. Learned my shameful lesson with Iraq. I try to encourage everyone to use X. Even MY mother (in her eighties) gave up on Fox over its coverage.
There is a definite gulf between the older and younger generations (without defining the exact age boundaries too precisely). The older someone is, the more likely that that person will both watch and trust the TV news (in the UK, BBC, ITV, Sky, in that order), and will also take seriously the print newspapers, either in their original form or in their online offshoots.
I doubt whether anyone under 30, perhaps anyone under 40, actually buys print newspapers any more. I am 67, and have not bought a real newspaper for at least 20 years. Looking in the local Waitrose, I notice that the only people buying newspapers are those in their eighties, at a guess.
There's no money to invest. The US Govt is broke. No surplus in decades. $34 trillion in debt. $214 trillion in unfunded liabilities (without surplus that's debt). You run a bankrupt nation surviving with money printing. For that reason the world stops trading in USD. It's over.
“Almost unnoticed amid the drama and crisis that hit Latin America every week, in the last days of February the Cuban government asked the United Nations for aid to address a growing food shortage.
The unprecedented cry for help from a communist regime that has always prided itself on its social welfare model captures Cuba’s dire economic straits. Hurt by tightened US restrictions, decaying domestic production, a weak post-Covid tourism industry and indifference from its allies, the island is living through its worst economic days since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. A string of blackouts brought people into the streets last weekend, shouting for “food and power” — a rare display of social unrest since the turmoil that shook the island in July 2021, which the regime contained with crushing force.
Once you get past the finger-pointing, what we’re witnessing is the collapse of Cuba’s socialist regime. This transition could take decades. Or it could happen in much the same way as that great Cuba aficionado Ernest Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy: “Gradually, then suddenly.”
[Bloomberg]
While I would not regard myself as “expert” on Cuba, I think that I probably know a bit more than the Average Joe. I once passed an exam in Cuban History 1940-1970, and have read the main histories, albeit long long ago (early 1980s).
I have never actually been there, though I have seen it from the air (overflying from Tampa, Florida to Grand Cayman) and sea (en route from Panama to the Bahamas); pace Sarah Palin, claiming to be informed about Russia because she had seen the extremity of Russian Federation territory from Alaska…
I wonder why? 🤔 The only time ever I didn't have to block hundreds of Z scum in the comments, they suddenly disappeared after seeing this video! https://t.co/HqyQecWdsD
— Knights Templar International (@KnightsTempOrg) March 25, 2024
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to all Russian people. We stand together with our brothers and sisters in this difficult moment. God help and protect Russia.
"Swedish Social Democrats are turning into Blue Labour". Interesting piece on how even the left in Sweden now accepts mass immigration has been a total failure | @unherdhttps://t.co/53HERXWCCU
Disingenuous. Only 15% migrants come to Britain for high skill jobs
We could dramatically slash numbers outside NHS to lower migration
We cd reform medical places + social care, increase pay + improve conditions so less reliant on immigration Ponzi scheme + avoid looming… https://t.co/BmUHBGARir
"Remarkably, Reform is now polling ahead of the Tories among men, Brexit voters, northerners, the working-class, and is just two points behind in England"https://t.co/YuCB28cxic
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 25, 2024
Utter lunacy. The bottom line from all of the Russian sanctions is that the UK is poorer, with a tanking economic trajectory. Meanwhile the Russians are coining it in, selling energy to the UK through 3rd and 4th parties.
China, Russia and the BRICS Alliance nations are doing a…
— Herd Immunity News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) March 24, 2024
“Utter lunacy. The bottom line from all of the Russian sanctions is that the UK is poorer, with a tanking economic trajectory.
Meanwhile the Russians are coining it in, selling energy to the UK through 3rd and 4th parties. China, Russia and the BRICS Alliance nations are doing a roaring trade, fuelled by the sanctions and fossil fuels at record low prices for themselves.
These traitors need to be ousted.“
All true, but the little Indian money-juggler posing as Prime Minister either cannot see it or is following another agenda, one in which the interests of the British people are of little or no importance.
The Iron Dome missile defense intercepts missiles launched from the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/ysoqPgCoLX
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Zelensky’s statements that Ukraine has never used terrorism as a means of struggle are a lie.
Journalist Vincent Hervouet said on TV channel Europe 1. He recalled two high-profile murders behind which Kyiv was – Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky. pic.twitter.com/qndaisrCmy
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Member of the British Parliament George Galloway named 4 probable reasons according to which the USA, Great Britain and Ukraine were involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.
“When the US, UK and others quickly tried to convince me that it was only ISIS that carried… pic.twitter.com/z8k9pZ6Z0D
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Putin said that it is necessary to answer the question of why the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine after committing a crime in Crocus, and who was waiting for them there pic.twitter.com/mFfsH9vC9A
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Residents of the Russian Far East noticed an unidentified luminous object in the night sky. pic.twitter.com/k67rxjfbJz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Late music
Crowdfunder
My crowdfunder, to help pay the costs imposed by the Court after my recent trial, remains open. All donations gratefully received; I should also be grateful for any sharing of the link: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
“Three out of the four Tory MPs seen as the most likely replacements for Rishi Sunak would fare even worse than the current prime minister in a general election battle against Keir Starmer, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.
The Conservatives have been involved in a fresh bout of leadership speculation over the past week, after rumours surfaced of a plot to dump Sunak and replace him with Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the House, before the next election.
But Opinium found that of the four most likely replacements for Sunak, were there to be a contest – Mordaunt, James Cleverly, the home secretary, Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, and Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary – only Mordaunt would have any positive effect at all on the Tory vote.
And even then, the “Mordaunt bounce” would only be marginal and still end in a large defeat.”
[The Guardian]
The Guardian scribbler either cannot see or —probably— prefers not to see the main reason why voters polled prefer Penny Mordaunt to the other three— she is the only European (white) of the quartet.
This is to what the Conservative Party is now reduced. Out of three potential party leaders, only one, Penny Mordaunt, is even English (Cleverly has an English father).
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
That Opinium poll puts the Cons on 25%, Lab 41%, Reform UK 11%, LibDems 10%, Greens 8%.
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that would leave the Conservative Party with 124 MPs (Lab 437, LibDems 47, Greens 2, Reform UK 0); a bad defeat, but less of a complete collapse than shown in other recent polls (one of which put the Cons on only 19%).
The fact is that, since the 1970s, the UK has changed out of all recognition, and in the next 50 years will probably be completely ruined, unless something really big happens. A million a year coming in, and only about 200,000 a year leaving (but mostly English/British people emigrating to Australasia etc). Even in terms of sheer numbers, and “net”, 700,000+ every single year…unsustainable. UK society is already near breaking point.
The flight path of cruise missiles and kamikaze drones during today's night strikes on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/9txU6kYfdz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 24, 2024
After Russia’s victory in 2024-2025, there will have to be rebuilding of the infrastructure of however much of Ukraine will be under Russian administration.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 24, 2024
A statement by an FBI employee that was made much earlier became a hot topic again after the terrorist attack in Moscow: pic.twitter.com/czVqaPhoTQ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 24, 2024
Just as Osama bin Laden and his ghastly rabble were CIA creations, at root. The same with most of those groups.
A search dog walks through the ruins of "Crocus City Hall", while members of the Ministry of Emergency Situations work to clear the ruins pic.twitter.com/DDNrw2W5L1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 24, 2024
🇬🇷 Members of the Communist Party of Greece stopped a freight train transporting American tanks from the port of Alexandroupolis to Bulgaria and forced it to return , writes "Pentapostagma".
People shouted slogans: " Alexandropolis is the port of the people, not the stronghold… pic.twitter.com/PG54F6LDnD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 24, 2024
I have been to, or through, Alexandropolis, or Alexandropouli as the Greeks call it: April 2001, when I drove from the UK to Turkey, a more difficult trip then than it is today (for several reasons). Alexandropolis is not very far from the border of Turkey; about a half-hour drive.
JUST IN:
The Israeli Occupation Forces RAPE a PREGNANT Woman in front of her HUSBAND and her KIDS in AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL.
Jeremy Hunt says the pensions triple lock is expensive. So is the cost of foreign aid, maintaining illegal immigrants, and NHS wastage. I don’t see any politician trying to cut those costs. https://t.co/ixHRXK64Ic
— 🏴English Rebel – Kingdom of England (@TheEnglishRebel) March 24, 2024
“Will the triple lock [on pensions] be in the Tory manifesto this time around?” asks #BBCLauraK
For the Conservative Party, it is now not about trying to “win” GE 2024, but trying to mitigate losses— damage control.
Apart from the wealthy/very wealthy, the core Conservative Party vote is composed of persons over the age of 65. About 20% in toto. Recently, that core vote has been showing signs of erosion. Hence Jeremy Hunt’s triple lock pledge.
If the core vote stays quite firm, and the Conservative Party gets about 25% in the upcoming General Election, Con Party might expect to be left with maybe 100 MPs, possibly more if Labour dips below 45%.
If, on the other hand, the Cons only get 20%, their MP-cadre might only be 40. The first scenario is very bad for them but the second, disastrous.
Should the Con vote overall fall to 15% (admittedly unlikely), the number of Con MPs would fall below 15, effectively a wipe-out.
So that is Hunt’s idea. Keep the pensioners on board, and so end up in 2025 with 100+ MPs instead of 50 or fewer.
Anneliese Dodds, the uninspiring Labour Shadow Chancellor, has responded sluggishly to Hunt’s foray, and will not commit to the triple lock. Result— not a knockout, but a win on points anyway for Hunt and the Cons.
In reality, Hunt’s pledge was an easy and cheap one to make. He knows that there is a 99% (?) chance of the Conservative Party not forming the next government; he will never have to implement his “pledge”.
That being so, the pledge is worthless, and any thinking pensioner voter will (?) understand that it changes nothing, and the pensioner vote changes nothing, in terms of formation of the next government.
On the premises, that may mean that the “pledge” will not be fully effective in influencing intended voting. Still, it may have some effect.
I should add that, though I myself do now receive a State Pension, it is only about half of the maximum, by reason of my many years overseas. The pledge by Hunt therefore impacts me far less than it does others.
An old one, from 2016, prior to my wrongful and indeed unlawful disbarment in October of that year, which disbarment was procured by so-called “UK Lawyers for Israel” or “UKLFI”.
Still true, though. You never find those making money out of clicks and donations, such as “Prison Planet” Watson, supporting social-national people whose freedom of expression is stolen by “the usual suspects” and their dupes in the police and CPS etc.
Stealing our homes is a crime. Killing our loved ones is a crime. Killing children is a crime. Raping Palestinian women is a crime. Bombing hospitals is a crime.
Palestinians have every right to defend themselves.
Ep. 83 The Biden administration is trying to send an 82-year veteran to prison for life for the crime of repeating ‘Russian misinformation.’ The scariest, most important criminal case you’ve probably never heard of. pic.twitter.com/r9v9RDZt62
📍# Gaza: as of today, @UNRWA, the main lifeline for #Palestine Refugees, is denied from providing lifesaving assistance to northern Gaza.
Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve any @UNRWA food… pic.twitter.com/lfp9xRQuh1
“Gaza: as of today, @UNRWA, the main lifeline for #Palestine Refugees, is denied from providing lifesaving assistance to northern Gaza. Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve any@UNRWA food convoys to the north.
This is outrageous & makes it intentional to obstruct lifesaving assistance during a man made famine. These restrictions must be lifted. UNRWA is the largest organisation with the highest reach to displaced communities in Gaza. By preventing UNRWA to fulfill its mandate in Gaza, the clock will tick faster towards famine & many more will die of hunger, dehydration + lack of shelter. This cannot happen, it would only stain our collective humanity.“
Israeli war crimes continue.
Why do Palestinians not leave Palestine despite so much bombing? The reason is that loving one's country is a part of a Muslim's faith.
They couldn’t win on the battlefield with billions of Western aid. They mocked Russia, told us their army is depleted and sanctions are wrecking the Russian economy. Biden declared Putin had lost the war. The opposite is true. Now the sore losers murder civilians with terrorism.
🇷🇺 Russia's role in world history has been to defend the message of Jesus (PBH), not just in word but in deed, to bring justice and freedom to the enslaved and downtrodden of mankind.
My crowdfunder remains open at https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J. If you are unable to donate, sharing the appeal on social media etc is also useful. Thank you.
What happened with British kids and puberty blockers is one of the most insane, upsetting and infuriating things I've written about. People are right to be sceptical of experts –this is simply outrageous.https://t.co/DfVK0ENRiL
This is without question one of the most shocking, upsetting and infuriating things I've ever written about. Many people are right to be sceptical of the expert class. This is a total scandal –the dismissal of evidence, the cherrypicking, & the use of children.
"By 2036, which is not far away, Britain will add five cities the size of Birmingham, or 70% of London to its population —a scale and speed of demographic change we've simply never experienced in our entire history"https://t.co/XGDh2Eh9rs
The UK’s fertility rate has fallen from 2.19 in 1950 to 1.85 in 1980 and 1.49 in 2021, one of the lowest in western Europe. A Lancet study now forecasts this decline will continue to 1.38 in 2050 and 1.3 in 2100
The Russians destroyed the most important military objectives in Kiev with Daggers two nights in a row
ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 22, THERE WERE THREE SERIES OF IMPACTS AT TWENTY MINUTES INTERVALS
Moscow military expert Vasily DANDIKIN about the raids on the night of March 21: "NATO… pic.twitter.com/86qxDIiEIU
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 22, 2024
Time for the Kiev regime to give up.
“In 5 months, Israel has become the most hated country in the world with the most hateful, cruel and heartless people the world has ever known.” – Dutch politician Arno van Doorn. pic.twitter.com/sbNteg4Ap4
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 22, 2024
Freedom of expression in the UK is as good as dead (“they” killed it), so I suppose that I should not add to that comment, or extrapolate…
Keir Starmer explains to Harry Cole how law works, after he tries the ‘you represented unsavoury characters’ nonsense.
“Lawyers represent clients. Doctors treat patients. The fact a doctor treats a patient doesn’t mean the doctor agrees with what the patient’s beliefs are.” pic.twitter.com/Zyde6u6wTE
Emily Thornberry is a freeloading pro-Israel hog, riding high on her portfolio of rented-out houses and the monies she has taken from public funds. A parasite.
[Emily Thornberry at a Zionist dinner in London, with the former Israeli ambassador, Mark Regev (at centre)]
Emily Thornberry only became a supposed “socialist” because her affluent father abandoned her and her mother, they thereafter living in relative poverty, in a council house in Guildford, Surrey.
All Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet are complete tools of the Israel lobby. Agents of influence, really.
When I still had a Twitter account (until mid-2018), Owen Jones tweeted to Israel-lobby creature John Woodcock (the depressive sex pest MP later “ennobled” by “Boris” Johnson as “Lord Walney”) that Woodcock should block me on Twitter. He did.
As most readers will be aware, I was recently sentenced for breach of the notorious police-state Communications Act 2003, s.127. My sentence was to complete, between now and the end of the year, 15 (notional) days or part-days similar to the old-style “probation”; mostly quite short meetings with the Probation Service.
I also have to pay a notional sum re. costs of my trial in the magistrates’ court, assessed at £734. My crowdfunder, first published several days ago, has reached £195, leaving another £539 to be raised to meet that main target, or another £805 to meet my full target.
If you can afford to donate (minimum amount is only £4), then your donation will be accepted with gratitude; if not, then I should be grateful to anyone copy/pasting, anywhere, the link to the appeal: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J
As to the blog itself, it will continue to be published daily, or near-daily.
The malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (“CAA”) cabal and Crown (“Clown”?) Prosecution Service (which the “CAA” —typically—badgered for 7+ years to prosecute me) completely failed to persuade the sentencing judge to curtail publication of, or censor the content of, the blog.
I myself, however, have decided to make the blog gradually more focussed on analysis, and less on comment, as well as making it more diplomatic, but without compromise on ideology or principle.
The “CAA” is evidently embarrassed by the ultimate result. Their endless whining and demanding may have led to me being charged and —after a year— convicted , and to my having to waste much time defending myself, but the ultimate result, apart from the £734 in financial imposts (which may be largely covered by donations), is that I have to meet once every 1-3 weeks with the Probation Service for the rest of this year; 15 meetings in all; I have already attended one (short and not at all unpleasant).
The “CAA” crowed mightily on Twitter/X when I was convicted (November 2023), but since the sentencing hearing (14 March 2024), they have not tweeted once about me. Ha.
More tweets seen
Recommend! Really good report by Zewditu Gebreyohanes on the decline of the National Trust. National Distrust: The End of Democracy in the @nationaltrusthttps://t.co/qZ3y2vx5pB
🇺🇦Sick? Ukrainian MP Vatsak became the first in Europe to own an electric Rolls-Royce Spectre 👍
The pricetag: Over 600,000 dollars
"The collective west" pays MPs so they can drive around in luxury cars, all they have to do is to send ordinary Ukrainians to die in the trenches. pic.twitter.com/gCPg3Jh5Cj
I would like to express my deepest condolences to the people of the Russian Federation following the heinous terrorist attack that took place near Moscow this evening. We pray for the families of the victims!
I was expecting a storm (even if in a teacup) after my sentencing, rather as happened after I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016. The Crown Prosecution Service (or should that be Clown Prosecution Service?) also seem to have been expecting a great deal more interest from Press and public than there has been.
The CPS posted this:
⚖️ Ian Millard, 67, denounced the Holocaust as ‘fake history’ and claimed there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being antisemitic.
Today, the ex-barrister has been sentenced after a CPS prosecution.
“A disbarred barrister who posted grossly offensive antisemitic material online has been sentenced.
Between May 2021 and April 2022, Ian Robert Millard persistently posted about his hatred of Jewish people online, while claiming he was simply exercising his freedom of speech.
Statements made by Millard included that ‘there is nothing wrong with being antisemitic’, that England would ‘be a great deal better’ with more antisemitism and suggestions that the Holocaust was ‘fake history’.
He also posted imagery which portrayed antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Working closely with Hampshire Constabulary, the CPS trawled through twelve months’ worth of evidence from Millard’s blog.
Unpicking the evidence, piece by piece, including one month of posts alone which totalled 450 pages, prosecutors were able to show the continuous barrage of offensive material – all of which needed to be considered by prosecutors to build the strongest possible case.
At trial, prosecutors utilised the evidence to prove Millard was not simply expressing his freedom of speech, but was engaged in a campaign of antisemitic hate, publishing grossly offensive material which breached the Communications Act.
Having been found guilty after trial of five charges of breaching the Communications Act, Millard, 67 and of the New Forest, was sentenced at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on 14 March 2024 and received a nine month Community Order.
Sophie Stevens, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor with CPS Wessex, said: “Antisemitism has a devastating impact on individuals and communities – we won’t hesitate to bring offenders of hate crime to justice.
“This was a complex prosecution which required many hours scrutinising the masses of online content that Ian Millard deemed perfectly acceptable.“
[Crown Prosecution Service public/Press statement]
A few points about that.
Firstly, the malicious and politically-motivated pro-Israel group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, or “CAA” (effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy) have admitted on both their website and Twitter/X account that they brought political pressure to bear on the CPS to prosecute me for something/anything, including a letter written directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions by “Lord” Ian Austin, the notorious ex-MP. The “CAA” campaign against me has lasted a whole decade now.
Second, the words allegedly used on the blog were “…a lot better for a little more defensive antisemitism“. The CPS has left out that important qualifier.
Thirdly, imagine the waste of public money in which the CPS has indulged. Hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of blog material, examined minutely. A court process involving some half dozen days or part-days of hearing during 2023 and 2024. Instruction of outside Counsel to appear at each hearing etc.
Also, months of enforced activity by me as I fought to defend myself without any legal or financial assistance; a certain amount of stress, inevitably. The necessity to drive to Southampton several times, too.
The result? Slightly more severe than I had hoped (I was hoping for a conditional discharge or small fine of about £200), but far less severe than the “CAA” and its horrible supporters wanted to see. They really wanted the manacles on me, to quote the late Sir Roger Hollis.
So. 15 meetings with the Probation Service spread over the next 9 months. Also, a nearly £800 costs order and “surcharge” [see also https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J].
Notice how the CPS was obviously desperate to have the result of my case in the newspapers, even adding “Notes for Editors” to its statement.
The question now is whether the CPS will be pressured further by the “CAA” to take other action against me, particularly in respect of blog posts in late 2023 and early 2024 (after conviction but prior to sentence). Needless to say, all further attacks will be vigorously defended, should push come to shove.
Looking at the CPS statement, the old saying “it ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings” comes to mind.
As for the blog, I have already announced that, while the blog will continue to be published daily, or near-daily, its content will inevitably have to change slightly, be more diplomatic etc. Also, I hope to shift the emphasis from comment more towards how to build for the future.
Naturally, in a situation where free speech is all but dead in this country, I cannot invite further politically-motivated prosecutions. I must tread the line, as did Sir Thomas More [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More], between (metaphorically, in my case) keeping my head on my shoulders, and staying true to principle and honour.
There have been a few tweets about my trial and sentence. The “no-one watches” Talk TV (part of the mass media empire founded by the ancient billionaire, Rupert Murdoch), tweeted thus:
Ian Millard, 67, of Pennington, Hampshire, was found guilty at Southampton Magistrates' Court of five offences of posting the messages between April and December 2021.
As one would expect from a Murdoch operation, there is dishonesty in that tweet. For one thing, the image and quotation is from my old Twitter/X account. The Jewish lobby or members of it had Twitter delete my account in 2018, almost 6 years ago, and the tweet probably comes from well before even that date.
I notice that Talk TV’s tweet has had some 3,400 views, yet only 9 people have “liked” it, and only 9 (presumably the same 9) have retweeted it. About a quarter of one percent. So somewhere between 99.5%-100% are either with me or are just not very interested in the story.
The tweet by the “Clown” Prosecution Service followed the same pattern. No less than 13,000 people have apparently viewed it, but only 85 have “liked” it, and even fewer (29) have retweeted it. 85 out of 13,000; about half of one percent. So —again— about 99% of people are either with me or are not terribly interested in what the CPS has to say.
“Millard and the People!” (?) (and with apologies to Ceausescu).
I suppose that it proves how nervous the System is at the popular mood under the surface. People in the UK may be unaware of their own unconscious political preferences…
I noticed that one clown tweeter seems unable to read:
Well if he’s reached 67yrs with that mindset then I doubt anything will cause him to change now. I hope his past cases are reviewed and that he is disbarred. #IanMillard#TalkTV
One of the few other reply-tweets about the matter:
.@cpsuk act like authoritarian dictators, like Hitler and Mussolini, using violence to suppress ideas they don't agree with. Why can't CPS behave like adults and debate opposing points of view here on Twitter instead of abusing their power to silence legitimate free speech.
— Dave. Anti-Fascist As Feck. 𝕏 🇺🇦 (@DaveAFAF) March 15, 2024
That lunatic (he is actually a mental case of some sort, on medication) has been making silly and rude remarks about me for many years, and inciting various people, various organizations, the few who bother to read his tweets, against me.
If I had more money (well, it is just possible that I might hit the Euromillions lottery…), I should apply for a Norwich Pharmacal Order, thus have his identity and address confirmed (like others, he may not be quite as anonymous as he thinks anyway), and then take legal action against him. That would prove expensive for him…
For more about that lunatic, and others of similar type, see this blog post from 5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/. In that article, I examined the strong links between “antifascism”, Zionism, and mental illness, linkages rarely if ever noted by the mainstream media.
This was tweeted too, by the “Searchlight” “organization” (one old “you know who” in an East London backroom):
— @Searchlightmagazine (@Searchlight_mag) March 15, 2024
Note that “Searchlight“, which has been tracking me since about 1975, is completely washed-up.
Their tweet (politely pretending that it is more than one individual…) has had (after 2 days) only 575 views, and only 5 “likes”. Malicious, but ultimately pathetic, idiot(s).
In fact, I see that “Searchlight” only has about 2,800 “followers” on Twitter/X. When I was expelled at the behest of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby in 2018, I already had over 3,000, and by now would have had probably at least 10,000 (which, of course, was why “they” had me expelled…).
This time round, there has been no interest by Sky TV, the Daily Mail (the scribbler whom I believe was in charge of my disbarment story in 2016 has left and is now the editor of…the Jewish Chronicle!) etc. Only the BBC, the “no-one watches it” Talk TV, and a small provincial newspaper which describes me as “disgraced barrister“. “Disgraced“? Now I think I know from (((where))) that description comes…
I may be disbarred, but am not disgraced except in the little minds of the “usual suspects” and the fools who listen to them.
Incidentally, there were no reporters at all at the sentencing hearing, so that “journalist” (stupid scribbler) has taken his “report” straight from the “CAA” and/or CPS.
There is a lot of news around at present: the Israeli mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza, the Russian elections, the now rather rapid destruction of the misnamed “Conservative” Party. Even in the area of so-called “far-right” “extremism”, on the very same day that I was sentenced (last Thursday), a supposed “far-right” or “neo-Nazi” young man was sentenced to over 2 years in prison for having done not very much.
In view of all that, the story about the retired barrister who said a few supposedly “grossly offensive” things about Jews etc on his blog (read by a fairly small number of people worldwide), and allegedly posted a few cartoons, hardly makes the cut.
I suppose that I should be grateful to, especially, the CPS and the “CAA”, as well as Talk TV, the BBC, and the various Jewish/Zionist and supposedly “antifascist” Twitter/X accounts, and a few small online news outlets, for their diligent work over the past days and months, spreading my words, or alleged words, and my views (or supposed views), so widely.
Their attacks on me, their reportage, and of course the whole recent prosecution of me, have brought my views to the attention of a wider audience by far than my modest blog had so far reached. Thank you.
Finally, I forgot to note that the main policeman (a uniformed constable) who has been involved in my “case” (since 2021), was in court for my sentencing.
I do not propose to name him here (despite his name having been read out in open court), and actually he seems to be generally an amiable young man, though seemingly rather misled ideologically, judging by his dogged snooping on my blog, and by his witness statements.
My point here is that was the same policeman whose “neighbourhood policing team” failed (as far as I know) to do much to deal with a spate of anti-social and acquisitive crime incidents in 2021-2023 in the relatively not-good neighbourhood where I now, perforce, live. Those incidents included the theft of a wheel from my own car in early 2023.
Putting it less politely, the Hampshire Constabulary proved to be utterly useless in doing their proper job.
So there we have it. Next stop— 15 meetings with the Probation Service…
I suppose that I should add a word about appeal to the Crown Court.
At present, I do not intend to appeal on either conviction or sentence.
The present political climate —and this was a political case, and I was charged as part of the UK’s present political repression on free speech— would make an appeal against conviction unlikely to succeed.
Appeals to Crown Court from the magistrates’ court are before a Circuit Judge, assisted by one or two magistrates. So no jury to whom to speak, or to persuade. As for appeal against sentence, the present sentence is not particularly severe. 15 days or part-days of meetings, and a financial impost. The maximum sentence would have been 6 months’ imprisonment (in reality, about 2-3 months).
For me, there would thus seem to be little point in appealing, even though I dispute that I was convicted correctly, or charged correctly.
Finally, I do have a crowdfunder in place to help pay for the £1,000 the case has cost me. Any and all donations gratefully received. Thank you.
[Update, 15 April 2024: I only today noticed that the “no-one watches” Talk TV has it on its website that I was “jailed” at my (March 2024) sentencing hearing! Ha ha! The stupid bastards at Talk TV cannot even get the most basic facts right.]
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Parasitic Locust from Pakistan (a safe country without free speech) explains how he lost his passport in Scotland but lived in Birmingham for 6 months and now wants a house in Ireland… Shady, disingenuous, lying snakes… GET THEM OUT! #IrelandisFullpic.twitter.com/vcFCQBeR3L
Barrister Steven Barrett: "The far-left will come first. The far-right will only come in response. If we don't want the far-right, let's deal with the far-left now."
All that money, yet the little money-juggler fails to look, think, or behave like a Prime Minister.
Among the items stolen were a rosewater dish described as a sister piece to the Wimbledon women's singles trophy, a military polo trophy, statuettes of mounted soldiers, and a cavalry trumpet.
“In August 2020, wildfire burned almost the entire Big Basin Redwoods state park in California, scorching ancient redwood trees, some dating back more than 1,500 years and among the tallest living things on Earth.
Redwoods are naturally fire resistant thanks to their thick bark, but the wildfire was so intense and flames so high the trees’ foliage was destroyed, even in tree canopies more than 300ft high.
It was feared the redwoods would never recover, but a few months later something incredible happened – many of the trees began sprouting tiny leaf needles from blackened trunks and branches, and two years later the forest had turned green.
Much of this fresh growth sprouted from buds under the bark and also deep inside the trees, some buds having lain dormant for more than 1,000 years.”
[The Guardian]
Very good news.
More tweets seen
Blog post from Ian Millard regarding his recent trial and sentencing under the Communications Act. Ian is another victim of modern Britain's politically-motivated prosecution and persecution system.#FreeSpeech#Nationalismhttps://t.co/Br9DeSSuKq
🚨Russie 🇷🇺 : Vladimir Poutine remporte l'élection présidentielle pour six années supplémentaires, avec 95,23% des voix. Âgé de 71 ans, il est au pouvoir depuis 24 ans.
Putin: Few people are interested in a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO
In the event of a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO, the world will be on the threshold of the third world war, however, few people are interested in such a thing happening, said the… pic.twitter.com/qAqP0kar6o
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
“Putin: Few people are interested in a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO In the event of a large-scale conflict between Russia and NATO, the world will be on the threshold of the third world war, however, few people are interested in such a thing happening, said the candidate for the president of Russia Vladimir Putin.“
Trump on the start of the SVO: “If we had a real leader, Putin would never have done this. Remember, he didn’t do it, for four years he didn’t do it.” pic.twitter.com/bImJTYjhmJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
The White House says that Ukrainian Armed Forces units in Donbass are running out of ammunition and are retreating to the “second and third lines of defense.”
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 17, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
More tweets seen
The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
Most readers of the blog will be aware that I was sentenced yesterday for breach of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so defective that the Law Commission has recommended its repeal.
I shall blog about my trial and sentencing hearing etc either later today or tomorrow.
Today, the most important thing is to think about forward strategy.
We see, in the Britain of today, a level of repression on free speech and/or freedom of expression never seen previously, not even during times of war, at least since the 17th Century.
Countries which are not cohesive, and which are sometimes called “diverse”, always have to have tyrannical police and secret police, and repressive laws. The modern paradigm, I suppose, was the Soviet Union.
My trial last November, and yesterday’s sentencing hearing was only one small example of the repression which is still increasing. Israel-lobby puppet Michael Gove introduced his “extremism” proposals and was supported by such as “Lord Walney” (the former MP, John Woodcock, who had to step down as MP after sex-pest allegations etc), who has always been a vocal advocate for Israel and its lobby in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodcock,_Baron_Walney#Adviser_on_Political_Violence_and_Disruption.
In fact, Gove, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, seems to be mainly targeting entirely non-violent British groups such as Patriotic Alternative, already attacked both by State agencies and private interests (as when Sam Melia and his wife, Laura Towler were “de-banked” for political reasons a few years ago). See also https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
Incidentally, “Labour” supports the latest anti-free speech repression. At least, those with power in the Labour Party: Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc; all Labour Friends of Israel members.
What I want to do here is look at “what now?“, in the context of a British society where free speech (especially speech critical of “certain groups”) is finished, at an end, extinct.
Nick Griffin was (also) on the right track when he tweeted (and I think that his views remain the same) that there was “no Parliamentary road” to power for us as social-nationalists, but that we should avoid getting involved in “terrorism” (hard to define, of course, but let that lie for now).
The Parliamentary road is no good mainly because the game is so rigged that the Chicago mobs of the 1920s would feel ashamed. Look at the latest Israel-lobby-procured “extremism” nonsense coming out of Gove and the rest. That means that entirely lawful bodies such as Patriotic Alternative (mentioned by name by Gove) would never be able to take part in elections (certainly not if they looked like having success), might well find it hard to hold bank accounts, or operate any “regulated” mass media etc.
Of course the “antifa” clowns (unwitting pawns of “others”) will think this all wonderful, at first. Later, of course, they will find themselves fed into the meat-grinder.
As for anything approaching the usual view of “terrorism”, that would have no chance even were it morally acceptable. The State holds all the cards— police, military power, secret and security services, arms and ammunition, the mass media (more or less), and pretty tight control over international travel; and so on.
I think that that has to be the way forward. It is in concord with Clausewitz and his views (in another context) re. concentration of forces, sometimes referred to as a kind of Schwerpunkt, or focussed point or area.
On this day in 1938, Austria became part of the German Reich, the forces of the Wehrmacht having crossed the border unopposed on the previous day, welcomed enthusiastically by crowds of Austrian people passed en route:
“On the morning of 12 March 1938, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the border into Austria. The troops were greeted by cheering Austrians with Nazi salutes, Nazi flags, and flowers.[57]
For the Wehrmacht, the invasion was the first big test of its machinery. Although the invading forces were badly organized and coordination among the units was poor, it mattered little because the Austrian government had ordered the Austrian Bundesheer not to resist.[58]
That afternoon, Hitler, riding in a car, crossed the border at his birthplace, Braunau am Inn, with a 4,000 man bodyguard.[53] In the evening, he arrived at Linz and was given an enthusiastic welcome.
The enthusiasm displayed toward Hitler and the Germans surprised both Nazis and non-Nazis, as most people had believed that a majority of Austrians opposed Anschluss.[59][60]
Many Germans from both Austria and Germany welcomed the Anschluss as they saw it as completing the complex and long overdue unification of all Germans into one state.”
[Wikipedia]
“Most people...” in the UK etc were no doubt being informed, or misinformed, by newspapers owned by or influenced by “the usual suspects” (the “you-know-who”…). The enthusiasm of Austrians for Anschluss was therefore a shock to them.
Their crowdfunder [https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia] has now reached £60,532. The minimum level of donation is a mere £4. Help these people and their cause.
[Laura Towler and her husband, Sam Melia, with one of their small children, another being expected to be born very soon]
I myself do not, at least as yet, have any crowdfunder, but am due to be sentenced this week (for allegedly having written unwelcome truths on this blog).
Tweets seen
Russia responded to unprecedented Western sanctions with an “indecent gesture” – CBC
In early February, Vladimir Putin joked that he wanted to show a “well-known gesture” to the sanctions-imposing West, but would not do so because there were “many girls in the room.” Instead,… pic.twitter.com/MGWnMR0UKX
“Russia responded to unprecedented Western sanctions with an “indecent gesture” – CBC.
In early February, Vladimir Putin joked that he wanted to show a “well-known gesture” to the sanctions-imposing West, but would not do so because there were “many girls in the room.”
Instead, the Russian president boasted about the country’s economy and its ability to expand its military-industrial complex in the face of unprecedented sanctions, writes CBC journalist Briar Stewart.
Indeed, over the past two years, the Russian government has managed to circumvent sanctions and limit inflation while investing nearly a third of its budget in defense spending. He also managed to increase trade with China and sell his oil to new markets, in part by using a shadow fleet of tankers to get around a price cap that Western countries hoped would reduce the country’s military budget.
In 2022, Western countries froze Russia’s sovereign assets worth $300 billion. Then more than 16 thousand sanctions were introduced. European airspace was closed to Russian aircraft, and hundreds of Western companies left Russia or curtailed their activities.
But today there are the latest iPhones and MacBooks on Russian shelves because government and business have largely been able to adapt. Russia has relied on Asia, and especially China, as its main economic lifeline. Russia’s ability to produce weapons and use its oil money to finance them is a pressing issue for Ukraine, which is struggling with arms and ammunition shortages, and for its allies.
“However, there are no simple steps left to tighten the sanctions regime. It’s a game of cat and mouse. Any delays in making decisions on additional sanctions give Russia the opportunity to adjust its policies and its economy,” the article says.”
The British Tories are now falling to lows in the polls we've not seen since the final days of the Liz Truss premiership. The party is in a death-spiralhttps://t.co/UkQl6UYyjf
The “Conservatives” have given up trying to win, or even not badly lose, the 2024 General Election. They are now focussed on giving whatever they can while they can, not to their “core voters” but to the very core of that core, the wealthiest 1% or 2%.
67% of Britons think it is likely that Israel has committed war crimes during their attack on Gaza
Quote of the Day: "What disability group can you serve in the army?"
With anyone. If a person can tie a grenade to himself and jump into a dugout, that means he is fit,” – Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoly Bargilevich pic.twitter.com/lWx7jCxeWY
Ukraine has never been famous for great minds, but that quoted remark must take the biscuit for recent comments by members of the Kiev regime. That man is the Chief of their General Staff!
I’m not that easily cancelled! The MSM can try, but they haven’t realised yet it’s them that are finished. I'm now FINALLY free to speak the truth without fear of the Ofcommunist censors. This is why I HAD to leave GB News and go independent. My story…https://t.co/Puyv9xE64hpic.twitter.com/zMVEukUoaX
The hate monster? Seriously? Are we, and police Scotland, being run by a fucking primary one class? Or are they just allowing the lowest IQ idiots to dictate to them? Frankly, it doesn’t even matter. It’s offensive to any half intelligent adult. pic.twitter.com/tXNjBzpoiD
That is the level on which much of the police force seems to be, now. Incapable of doing their proper and authorized job(s), and wasting enormous time and money behaving like a poundland KGB or Stasi, spying on tweets and blogs, and “monitoring” what the British people say about the migration invasion, about corrupt and/or useless MPs, and about those “special interest groups” and cabals which hide in the shadows, controlling or influencing events to our detriment.
US Columbia University Vice President Gerald Rosberg could not directly answer “yes” or “no” to the question of whether Palestinians are human. pic.twitter.com/ECNKSe8ZyT
"I think it's time for politicians in Washington to face reality. Chuck Schumer came out of a meeting at the White House and said, 'It's simple, $60 billion and Ukraine will win. If you don't give them $60 billion, they'll lose.'" How they plan We're now in… pic.twitter.com/GRRXLk66fz
“Senator Ron Johnson: “I think it’s time for politicians in Washington to face reality.
Chuck Schumer came out of a meeting at the White House and said, ‘It’s simple, $60 billion and Ukraine will win. If you don’t give them $60 billion, they’ll lose.'”
How they plan. We’re now in a two-year bloody stalemate, and I think you really need to start asking yourself, is it worth spending another $60 billion to fan the flames of the bloody stalemate? Because every day more and more Ukrainians die, more and more Russian conscripts, more and more Ukraine is destroyed. If you care about the Ukrainian people, you should worry about this too.
We don’t have a winning strategy. The administration does not lay it out. If we are going to support Ukraine, it must be done in a way that forces Putin to come to the negotiating table and end this war. I don’t hear it at all. I hear that President Biden hasn’t even talked to Russia on this issue. And I would be very interested to know what happened in Istanbul shortly after the war began, when Boris Johnson, essentially halfway through the Biden administration, torpedoed the peace agreement.
So we really need to do a complete re-evaluation of this issue. And we should secure our own border before sending $60 billion down the rat hole to secure other countries.”
Quite. In fact, you could give the Zelensky regime USD $60BN or $600BN, and it would make no difference. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) cannot “win”, even to the extent of “taking back” Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk, let alone anything more ambitious.
The present Ukraine is a failed state, and in fact a fake state.
🇵🇸 This is what Khan Younis, a city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, looks like today pic.twitter.com/JV180rNlSX
Russian troops advance even though Zelensky says Moscow's forces are 'stopped' – Newsweek
“Russia’s offensive has been stopped,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday. “Our command, our military stopped Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine.” But Western analysts say… pic.twitter.com/uqhklu4ESR
“Russian troops advance even though Zelensky says Moscow’s forces are ‘stopped’ – Newsweek.
“Russia’s offensive has been stopped,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday. “Our command, our military stopped Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine.”
But Western analysts say Russian troops continue to advance in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Kharkov and Luhansk regions. “Russian troops recently achieved confirmed successes in the areas of Bakhmut, Avdeevka and Donetsk amid ongoing positional battles along the entire line of contact on March 12,” Newsweek quotes analysts.
In the Kupyansky direction there is progress in the area of the village of Sinkovka. In the south, Russian troops are regaining positions lost during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023. Fierce fighting broke out around such settlements as Robotino, Urozhainoye and Staromayorskoye.
To repel the Russian onslaught, Kyiv has mobilized some of its best units, equipped with American-made armored vehicles and tanks, Newsweek notes.“
“I don’t want to cross this line”: Scholz again stated that he is against the supply of Taurus missiles to Kyiv
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that supplying Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles would be “irresponsible,” Politico reported.
The crowdfunder set up to support Laura Towler and her child (soon to be two children), to help Melia himself while he sits in prison (possibly until the end of this year and even into 2025, depending on any appeal —none as yet lodged, as far as I know), and to maintain political resistance, now stands at £60,782: see https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.
[Valkyrie and hero— Laura Towler and Sam Melia, with their little child; Laura is expected to give birth to another very soon]
What happened to our political class? With much coverage of Lee Anderson dripping with class prejudice, my piece on the dire state of our ruling class is open to all https://t.co/0Ozspo8kpF
The so-called “political class” has been (((captured)))…
"Britain issued nearly 280,000 visas to dependents of workers –80% up on 2022 and 403% higher than when Boris Johnson & the Tories came to power in 2019"https://t.co/3HlwWpqTvb
So you import, say, an Indian who can work a computer (“high-skilled worker”), or an NHS hospital cleaner or nursing assistant from Africa (“key worker”), and then they all come— husbands, wives, “fiances” or “fiancees”, children (of any age), “wider family members” etc, few of which will contribute anything, and all of whom will need to use UK services— NHS, roads, rail, schools, you name it.
More important yet is the effect on UK demographics. In 1956, when I was born, 99% of the UK population was white, almost all Northern European. By 1989, that 99% had become about 95%, and now stands around 80% but dropping rapidly.
Present projections say that white people (“the people formerly known as British”) will be a minority in the UK by 2066, if indeed the UK as such still exists by then. I think that 2040 is a more likely date.
Both System parties are following the same conspiratorial agenda, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan [be aware that the transnational Jewish lobby organizes “volunteers” to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia, and has infiltrated quite a number of Jews (especially American Jews) into Wikipedia as “editors”, “monitors” etc. Wikipedia is therefore sometimes biased on certain political and historical topics].
🌙🇵🇸 A Palestinian couple breaks their fast in the ruins of their destroyed home. pic.twitter.com/qLpKaHPWio
“What goes around comes around” and if, at some point, Israel itself lies in ruins to such an extent as it has reduced Gaza, the UK and other European states will, I hope, bar their gates and pull up their drawbridges to any Israeli Jews who may wish to enter as “refugees”.
“Israeli” media: 135 rockets were identified as having been launched from Lebanon since the morning hours
Israeli army radio: Hezbollah does not stop, and in the north there is increasing concern about an economic collapse
Former head of the National Security Council: We must…
There will be no permanent US bases in Sweden – Foreign Minister
After Sweden joined NATO, the Scandinavian country changed its security policy doctrine and approach to it. From now on, it will be developed jointly with other members of the NATO bloc. However, in an interview… pic.twitter.com/W1DqFp2pvS
I cannot see any benefit accruing to Finland or Sweden by reason of their having joined NATO. Au contraire— they have just painted target-roundels on their own countries. Meanwhile, they have already been invaded, by black/brown Afro-Asian hordes, and the Finns and Swedes are being quite literally raped and pillaged by them.
Instead of NATO, let escaped conscripts defend Ukraine – Slovak Defense Minister
Instead of discussing the possibility of sending NATO military units to Ukraine, Kyiv's Western allies should help Ukrainian men of military age return home and join the ranks of the country's Armed… pic.twitter.com/4DcjP06hL3
Those Ukrainians, hundreds of thousands if not millions of them, know that the Zelensky regime in Kiev is a brutal, shambolic, and corrupt police state dictatorship. They have no intention of going back to fight for it.
— Antifa Public Watch official (@UnmaskedAntifa) March 12, 2024
This week, I myself face my sentencing hearing for supposed political “crimes” under Communications Act 2003, s.127. Free speech is now all but dead in the UK.
I'm sure the memes that triggered this "sentence" weren't about Muslims or blacks….maybe about the very influential 1% ethnic group ?
Yes, the same 1% Sam Melia offended. We can see this is working towards the jail sentences they want made law here for antisemitism/anti zionism to silence us and enslave us to their demands. No more protests, free speech will be hate speech, either we stand up or we bow to them.
Completely useless. An enemy of the British people in every respect.
Odd that Woollyhead claims to be “interested in the General Election“, in which election he is not even going to be a candidate. I suppose that he hopes to be elevated to the Lords afterwards, and then get £350+ a day just for turning up to sign in for 20 minutes, and be able from time to time to show off in robes quite as quaint and silly as those of his native West Africa.
Sweep all that away.
🇬🇧 Reino Unido: 🧑🏻 Shaun Tuck – 4 meses de prisão por um post "racista" no Facebook
🧑🏻 Sam Melia – 2 anos de prisão por disponibilizar stickers anti-imigração para download
👨🏾 Al Soami – 180 horas de serviço comunitário por violar criança de 12 anos
The "Marian" newspaper obtained three confidential military reports that talk about the "critical situation" on the territory of Ukraine. These reports, among other things, state that the Ukrainian army is unable to win the conflict, that soldiers from Western countries are… pic.twitter.com/LZf1iCxtAd
“The “Marian” newspaper obtained three confidential military reports that talk about the “critical situation” on the territory of Ukraine. These reports, among other things, state that the Ukrainian army is unable to win the conflict, that soldiers from Western countries are already present in Ukraine, and that Russia has a great advantage in all aspects.”
Ian Robert Millard 