In France, a pension no longer allows you to live with dignity.
Frenchman Jacques had to return to work at the age of 80 due to high inflation in the country, he took a job in a supermarket after 15 years of retirement.
The newspaper "Maariv" reports that since yesterday morning, more than 70 rockets have been fired at the settlements around Gaza. pic.twitter.com/wzaSAYa4zd
I think that everyone is missing the point- meat grinder. After Bakhmut, there will be Krematorks, Nykolaiv, and Slovyansk, same setup, grinding the Ukraine manpower and NAOO resources to the point where collapse will be a realistic scenario. Ukraine cannot do a thing about it.
Il video di un veicolo che si avvicina verso Bakhmut passando da Ivanoskoe in un paesaggio apocalittico all’orizzonte tra veicoli distrutti e con il sottofondo di “Fortezza Bakhmut”. pic.twitter.com/izYmSEWUu7
Reports of Drone attack on Kremlin could be false flag operation by Putin designed to justify even more brutal Russian imperialist aggression by his murderous regime. Or it could be a welcome sign of Ukraine increasing capability to hit back against Russia state #SlavaUkraini.
Yet another Zionist (ex-MP, expenses cheat etc) “supporting” “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime in Kiev) from a London armchair. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gapes].
Will Putin respond by launching a tactical nuclear strike on Kiev? An open question.
Idiotic anti-Russia drones are applauding the attack. They seem to have missed the fact that nothing could be better calculated to result in a firming of Russian public sentiment around Putin. Maybe that is why there are already claims that the attack was a Russian “false flag”. Perhaps, but to Russians the Kremlin is almost “sacred” in a sense. Not sure that even the most ruthless Russian politician or military leader would do it.
“A Bulgarian ‘professional pickpocket’ was deported from the UK but returned using a passport in her maiden name and stole £4,000 from a pensioner, a court heard.
Serial thief Keranka Nicolova, 27, was deported for street stealing in 2018 and banned from Britain.
But the Bulgarian national returned in March this year ‘to commit crime‘, a judge said. And now she has been jailed for two years after admitting theft.“
[Daily Mail]
In fact, not “Bulgarian” except in terms of one of her passports. A Gypsy. Look at the photo…
That is not a “Bulgarian”, in fact not any kind of European.
A video of a burning Tamanneftegaz terminal in Krasnodar region – it was allegedly attacked by a drone. Five fire trains are working to extinguish the fire.
Weakening the enemy's logistics is an important part of preparations for counteroffensive operations – military theory.… pic.twitter.com/LaYhtVItII
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023
You can see the way this is going— escalation. I would say that is is no better than 50-50 as to whether Kiev and other large cities in Ukraine will still be standing in 5 years’ time.
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Immediately after the Kremlin's statements about the attempted using a drone, Finnish television reported that Zelensky "will stay in Finland longer than planned." The original schedule called for a one-day visit. pic.twitter.com/yylmxH04lx
He lit the blue touch-paper, and is now standing well back…
Our spirit is stronger than their weapons, we won, we did it and we move on. There is very little left, so we will work, win" – Wagner PMC fighter in Bakhmut ㅤ pic.twitter.com/PxmT5yloge
US does not encourage Ukraine to strike on the territory of the Russian Federation – the White House on the question of involvement in the attack of drones
Perhaps the American leadership is now a little worried that World War Three might be triggered by the nonsense regime in Kiev and that, if it is, America’s 50 largest cities might cease to exist.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is flying to the Netherlands aboard the Dutch government business jet pic.twitter.com/NlIqaWxW0g
Looking at Gates gesturing and gesticulating, I cannot but wonder what might lurk in his ancestry…
Beyond that, human beings have an unfortunate propensity to over-value the views of those who happen to have huge amounts of money and/or social position (eg the case of the UK royals).
France 🇫🇷
Welcome to Macron’s ‘progressive’ politics. A police state where any dissent or protest is accompanied by the bludgeoning baton of authoritarianism. The diametric opposite of liberté, égalité, fraternité.pic.twitter.com/eEVJUzd1MM
[conducted by Andrew Davis. I recall buying him a pint of beer and having a brief chat once, in 1995 or 1996, at the Colonnade Hotel, Little Venice https://www.colonnadehotel.co.uk/]
Again, all true, except that the upcoming local elections will change little or nothing in terms of actual improvements to anything.
‘Net Zero is taking the population of this planet backwards.’
As Sadiq Khan continues to plough on with Ulez, GB News’ Neil Oliver warns the move is part of a ‘bigger picture’ which could result in millions of deaths.
I should like to see a reduction of about 4/5ths in the world population, leaving 1/5th, mostly northern European. Not because of “hate” toward the non-Europeans but because, firstly, the natural world is under unprecedented strain and, secondly, only a European population in Europe (particularly) and northern Eurasia can form the basis for a necessary quantum leap in human evolution.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 2, 2023
Jack Monroe has one troll from what I've noticed. Everyone else is just exasperated by her lies and grifting. It's infuriating and indicative of the state of the left in this country.
Well, a first (I think) for the blog today. No less than 8 hits (possibly from only one person, though) from Tadzhikistan (my preferred spelling, btw), one of the wildest corners of the old Soviet “empire” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan].
Those who know about such things tell me that the location of hits from overseas is unreliable, by reason of “proxy servers”, but I prefer just to believe that someone in Dushanbe or wherever, for whatever reason, has been reading my output.
I recall that, when I was on the committee of the Central Asia and Transcaucasia Law Association (CATLA) in the mid-1990s, someone had been reporting from Dushanbe (former Stalinabad, during the 1930s and 1940s) on the telephone, before gasping that she had to run “because a tank has just come around the corner“; there was a civil war going on at the time.
[Rudaki (formerly Lenin) Avenue, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan, the main thoroughfare]
The blog has had a few very obscure hits before, including one or two from Antarctica.
For me, the main danger of AI is that it will become so inconvenient for people to avoid its effects and control that most will become almost slaves to a mechanized, digitized society in which the individual (and free speech, and free thought) may be of little value.
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Putin: Life is returning to normal, Marijupol is getting trams. The Russian Federation will actively and consistently try to return life in the new regions to normal , said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the tram lines in Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/E0EBxeimG2
Appalling. I see so many similar situations, all over the country, certainly all over what I think is the best part of England, meaning below a line stretching from the Bristol Channel to the Wash. (yes, I know that there are also some beautiful areas elsewhere, such as Herefordshire).
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy.
The odd thing is that, as opinion polls —and simple observation— show, most of the blacks and browns (certainly those under 60) have no time for, or interest in, the Monarchy.
The same is true of the metropolitan LGBTQXYZ crowd, as seen on Twitter.
Yet Charles is bending over backward in the attempt to appeal to those and other “diverse” groups.
In other words, Charles is trying to appeal to those who either hate him and the Monarchy (a relative few), or to those (the vast majority) to whom the Monarchy is a total irrelevance.
It will no doubt be argued by the msm that Charles is being brave and principled. To me, that whole project comes over as weak and ineffectual. As does he.
As blogged in the past, I have nothing much against Charles himself, whom I once met at a small diplomatic reception in Kazakhstan (in 1996). He has championed some issues of importance, including matters of architecture, town planning, animal welfare, and the environment. He may not always have been successful in that —a chequered picture—but he has tried. I think that that cannot be denied.
It must be hard simply to behave decently when you are told by pretty much everything and everyone around you since birth that you are wonderful, special, way above others etc.
However, this Coronation, far from boosting Charles, may well prove to be the start of his —and the Monarchy’s— downfall. He has invited the head of Sinn Fein to attend, yet not members of families close to the Monarchy for decades, even centuries (and not some individuals close to the late Queen).
The whole thing seems to be a “woke”, fake-“diverse” circus of nonsense grafted onto the comfortable and customary mediaeval and Victorian base.
Maybe that is why Meghan Mulatta is not going to attend, because she realized that she would just be one more “diverse” exhibit in the show.
The last Coronation, in 1953, was (apparently) eagerly awaited by much of the population. Sales of then-still-new- TV sets exploded, because it was going to be the first televised Coronation. Much of the population was engaged and, it seems, felt involved, even if, inevitably, only as background chorus and spear-carriers.
Now? Well, writing this piece, I actually had to look up the date of this Coronation, to remind myself (Saturday, 6 May 2023). I noticed one of the Readers’ Comments to that Daily Mail report: the comment said “I am being swept along in [sic] a wave of apathy“. Despite the error, surely correct. I have not yet spoken to anyone who has mentioned the Coronation in any way, positive or negative. Public interest is at or near rock-bottom.
I have blogged before to the effect that what will kill the Monarchy is not hatred, anger, or even principled dislike, or ideological opposition. No, what will kill it (and is killing it) is apathy as much as anything; the fact that the Monarchy, the Royal Family, their activities etc, have just no connection to, or relevance for, most of those living in the UK today.
For all the “diverse” nonsense, most of the non-whites, indeed most of the non-Brits, are simply not interested. Even in the white (British) “community”, there is a demographic split, most of the over 65s not only interested in the Monarchy but supportive of it; as for the under-30s, not. I think that a recent opinion poll said that about two-thirds of the under-30s would like to get rid of the Monarchy. Again, though, the reason is not anger (as in England in 1649, France in 1789 or Russia in 1917) but simple apathy and lack of interest both in the Monarchy and in getting rid of it.
The other glaring fact is the sheer struggle so many now have simply to pay bills, keep a roof over the head, children and companion animals fed, and so on.
The Monarchy will go at some point but , in the much-used phrase of Nevil Shute, “not with a bang but a whimper”.
Marina Purkiss
One of the dumbest guest interviews in the history of UK broadcast television.
The staggering ignorance of the know-it-all Remainers
Marina Purkiss’s car-crash GB News interview reveals the hollowness of the #FBPE worldview.
“In one astonishing moment, she raised the recent renaming of Black Boy Lane in Haringey, north London. Believing she had found a winning line, she insisted that ‘If you had a street named White Trash you might want to rename it’. Why Purkiss considers ‘black boy’ to be a slur on a par with ‘white trash’ was never made clear.“
[Spiked magazine]
Marina Purkiss, a “woke” idiot who thinks that civil rights or human rights such as freedom of expression are unimportant.
Alarming but not surprising that huge numbers of Twitterati think that she is great (and that she somehow “smashed” Jacob Rees-Mogg in that interview).
No doubt Marina Purkiss will continue to make a kind of career out of intellect-free emoting on socio-political issues. She apparently also has other, and remunerated, activity online.
Not that cost-of-living issues are unimportant. In fact, when people start to really struggle, in large numbers, that is precisely when they turn to radical and even revolutionary alternatives which may, down the line, be dictatorial and anti-free speech.
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The Kiev regime has realized that it will lose Bakhmut….🫣
Ukrainian army corpses litter the trenches near western Bakhmut. Zelensky’s orders to not retreat is causing a very high death rate as more reserves with minimal training are sent to defend frontline positions near the city outskirts pic.twitter.com/ZWsDnNKlBa
In Ukraine, the shortage of mobilization resources in general and officers in particular is becoming more acute. Zelensky instructed the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny to send most of the military commissars from the recruitment centers to the front
I've never seen such protocol for any other PM of the UK. Genes never change. Rishi sunak's blood is indian n carrying the same genes of show-off and abuse of power. One gets to see in the subcontinent, so it didn't surprise me at all when I the video.
And when the banks / pensions market fail next time round – less bailouts and instead, bank acquisitions by governments – the Trojan horse towards CBDCs.
That could be the moment for social nationalism to strike. The missing element is a party or movement. At present there is none worthy of the name. However, in times of crisis and desperation, a party, movement, or individual personality may arise suddenly, out of the depths of the people and events.
During lockdown we couldn’t even mourn our loved ones properly. A son moves his chair next to his mother to comfort her at the funeral of her late husband and was told to separate. And all because governments framed political motives as “The Science”.pic.twitter.com/fjOnOzqYRy
Look at that crematorium drone, ordering better people than himself back to their places. The “panicdemic” really brought out numbers of self-important nobodies of that type. No more were they simple supermarket workers, shopworkers, or filling station cashiers. Oh, no! Now they were workers on the front-line of the “Covid” “emergency”, armed with powers (they thought) to order people back, forward, sideways, or to wear muzzles etc, just like instructors dealing with slow-minded military recruits. I had a few clashes with that sort in 2020-21. How they must have hated having to return to stacking shelves…
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[East Berlin, 1970s; reminds me of a few places in South London]
You still see anti-Hitler propaganda about the alleged euthanasia of some medical “hopeless cases” in the late 1930s. Not everything done in the Reich was correct, but what was done of that type was pretty much on a par with what was happening in the UK, USA and elsewhere. The Jewish lobby (mainly) screams endlessly about “the evils of Nazism“, when in fact the same was happening across Europe and North America, but you never or rarely hear about that.
As for a situation such as that in the last few years in the UK, even the Jewish lobby can hardly blame Hitler and the NSDAP for that…
By reason of the repression of free speech already well-advanced in the UK, I am “not allowed” to say what I want to say about what should be done right now…
So people will be “expected” (required?) to stay incarcerated in something akin to an open prison, albeit with cafes and wine bars (in some cases)? Presumably, also forbidden from saying or writing anything anti-“communitarian”…
Zelensky continues to beg for money from the world for military equipment, ammunition, etc. This time the held a meeting with the President of Slovakia and the Czech Republic pic.twitter.com/fPrp9nuT5F
Made me feel physically sick seeing about Andrew Bridgen. People being silenced & cancelled for asking unanswered questions. And then answering for it with their hard earned careers. @mattletiss7@ABridgen@JohnBoweActor and many many more…..sad state of society/free speech.
Here is a very well documented example, where the Israeli state uses soldiers and paid student troll farms against the much weaker Palestine: https://t.co/Qiu7hBVYlU
Russia vs Ukraine is another well documented example. See also the UK's JTRIG.
Do Jews in Britain today face any type of structural racism? I’ve tried- but there’s no evidence of disadvantage in health, education, political representation, mortality, housing, income, employment, incarceration or any other sphere
I recall when I returned to the UK from the USA in the early 1990s and was trying to launch myself as a practising barrister out of rather rackety chambers in London. Through a series of odd events involving people from the former Yugoslavia, I had met a lady who lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Though not Jewish, she knew a number of wealthy Jews in Hampstead and elsewhere. She had been a high-flying model many years before, and had been on the cover of magazines such as Vogue. She had lived in Switzerland and in Montreal, and her style might be called “cosmopolitan wealthy”— a big Mercedes, furs, jewels etc.
We became involved, and she wanted to help me get work (legal cases) via wealthy solicitors that she knew. She told me post factum about one with whom she lunched, and to whom she had recommended my abilities. A Jew, his first question in reply had been to say, “is he Jewish?” Obviously, my girlfriend replied in the negative. Needless to say, no briefs came my way from that one.
He went on to say that he was desperate to work despite being, quite obviously, disabled. He had contacted his old boss)who regularly asks him to help out for free) to beg for some work. He said he'd do it for £7/hr. His boss offered him £5/hr. Travel would cost more. /2
…as possible for him to make a successful claim. Because that's the system we have created.
People are desperate. People who have worked for this country. People who have given their all. And the @Conservatives delight in demonising & abandoning them.
Sad, and slightly infuriating, though tweeter “@JasonPedlow” is wrong in saying that the said pensioner could “obviously” get Personal Independence Payment [PIP]. In fact, the very opposite is true— he obviously could not, because he is, on the facts as given, a pensioner, and a claimant has to be under State Pension Age to apply for PIP: see https://www.gov.uk/pip/eligibility. He could, however, apply for Attendance Allowance, worth rather less than PIP but still worth having: see https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility.
Said pensioner would also be entitled to Pension Guarantee Credit: see https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/eligibility. That would also confer, in principle, further benefits: maybe housing benefit, if he rents where he lives; also various one-off government payments.
Having said all that, it sounds like the said pensioner is a bit of a dimwit, worrying about what non-existent or unimportant people might think about him collecting various benefits, or worrying about some absurd “principle” invented in his own head. At a time when the Government has thrown away billions, hundreds of billions, on the “panicdemic”, on “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime), on the importation of millions of blacks and browns and others etc.
Some people actually wilfully deprive themselves, and often pointlessly.
Super-rich Bank of England chief risks fury as he says Brits must accept they are poorer after ‘Covid’ and energy crisis (both created by the people who appointed him) and stop chasing big pay rises to keep up with soaring inflationhttps://t.co/KDqfhl9THK
The Bank of England’s chief economist had a message for Britons: “Someone needs to accept that they’re worse off.” His comments were quickly followed by indignation, @eshelouise reports. https://t.co/JZfVJBIOzc
Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is basically a System drone, so of course he opposes proportional representation. Also, it looks possible that Labour will achieve a majority in 2023 or 2024. Short-term thinking, of course.
As for the graphic re. public ownership, it is clear to me that what real British people want, if only unconsciously, is social nationalism.
The territory of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Paris was filmed from a helicopter at the beginning of March, on which the marking of the Ministry of the Interior of France is visible The Russian Embassy in Paris sent a note of protest to the Ministry of the Interior… pic.twitter.com/OwLsBui0ds
In fact, tweeter “Spriter” has got it wrong this time.
In international law, the once-accepted theory of “extraterritoriality”, i.e. that the territory of an embassy consists of the territory of the sending state (the state to which that embassy belongs) has not been accepted for many decades. The currently-accepted theory is that an embassy (building with grounds) is on the territory of the accepting state, but that privileges and immunities attach to both the embassy site and (in varying degrees) to its diplomatic, administrative, and technical/logistical staff.
The commander of the ground forces and the Bakhmut grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, convinces Zelensky that his plan for a flank strike is realistic, even if Bakhmut falls.
Syrsky believes that the configuration of the front in the Seversk region (ledge) does not…
I look at the retirement that my boomer parents are living right now and think about how they are certainly the last generation to retire that way. The world has changed.
The England of 1966 (the last year before my family moved to Australia when I was 10) may not have been a Garden of Eden, but it had something the England of 2023 does not have; it also did not have quite a lot that our present society does have— and which is so hateful.
What has happened to the UK? When I was born in the 60s we were safe & happy. Everyone was kind to each other & enjoyed their lives. Now there are so many who seem to hate the UK. The enemy is now within this country & it’s such a shame we can’t all enjoy the time we have left.
It is tragic. I was just thinking about where the UK would be, in what state, had it not been swamped by waves of mass immigration and births to immigrant mothers. There have been other factors too, but the one that stands out is the demographic change since the 1960s.
It is true that white British people still comprise about 80% of the UK population, but the change has still been huge. Particularly so since the 1970s/1980s. A tipping-point was reached, sometime in the past 30 years or so, since when Britain has degenerated in most respects quite swiftly.
Even in the 1970s (which I well remember, having been born in 1956) Britain had so many paths open before it. The Second World War and its effects were receding into history, the standard of housing was improving, and the cultural life was lively. The Welfare State was generally improving the lives of millions, and there were improvements in areas such as educational access, pensions, disability benefits and services etc.
Now, in the past few decades, one feels that the world has shrunk, Britain has shrunk, and the possibilities open to British people (especially the “young”, say <30 years old) have also shrunk, and shrunk accordingly.
Look at housing. The pressures of mass immigration, births to non-Brits, commercial speculation, and lack of vision, have combined to create, over large areas of the country, huge tracts of “boxes for people”, without sufficient garden space, road access, or service areas (shops, libraries, parks etc).
There is a pervasive sense of the population being almost entombed alive in their inadequate —and increasingly inadequate— housing.
The “revenge evictions” and “no-fault evictions” by residential landlords have become a scandal, millions of people are living in poorly-repaired, poorly-maintained, homes, and the governments of the past couple of decades have done nothing to change that. Indeed, they have made it all worse.
Britain is going back in some respects to the socio-economic conditions of the era before the mid-Victorian age, in that what mattered then —and increasingly now— is how much capital was (or is) bequeathed to people from parents etc. Jobs or positions held were secondary.
Today, we have a society in which young people have to borrow large amounts just to go to a (so-called) university, and it is no argument to say that most will never have to pay it back, because the precondition for non-repayment is that the ex-student will never have a sufficiently high income to trigger repayment! What a commendation!
Basic work scarcely pays at all, once taxes and the costs of simply being in a job (travel, clothing, inflated housing costs etc) are taken into account.
Even “professional” work now pays only a modest amount on those preconditions. We see now strikes and protests by the junior ranks of the medical and legal professions.
Even in simple economic terms, it is clear that Britain would be such a better place had the influx never happened. The British people would be, as individuals, hugely better off in everyday financial terms. Not only in financial terms, though; also, in terms of vision, society, and further possibilities on the national and individual levels.
The question though, is how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
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Then eventually those who still have brains and authority in the system are pushed out for being racist, not diverse, transphobic, basically any excuse to get them removed and replaced with what we have now which is just puppets for the WEF young global leaders sect.
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 25, 2023
Very true.
I agree with you but it’s your kids and grand kids etc that’s gonna see the worst of what’s to come
It started with mass immigration and the 'racism' being shoved down our throats. You can't help but notice how citizens are last on the agenda of paid politicians these days. They only care about themselves.
— Do research, never take anything at face value. (@junertcb) April 25, 2023
I know, and it’s so sad. Social cohesion and overall morale in our country is so much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s 😢
The sad thing in the wider sense is that even those decrying the way things are have been brainwashed into saying “what’s racist about XYZ?” rather than saying “whether XYZ is ‘racist’ or not is of no matter“…
Sceptics were correct all along. The same with this new religion of climate change. But the damage governments do will be catastrophic before they wake up to the destruction they've caused. Primarily on the world's poorest!
I've been saying this to my Hubby as of late. Am so saddened at state of the UK. If I didn't have school age children, don't think I would choose to have any now. I fear for their futures. Seriously thinking of where we can move to, but most countries seem to be facing same.
Many echo those sentiments, and that fact accelerates the relative decline in numbers of white European people. Meanwhile, of course, the non-white population is reproducing in far greater numbers.
The social decline has also been impossible not to notice. Look, for example, at this tweet by the police:
This morning @HantsPolRoads attended a two vehicle collision outside a school during the morning school run. The drivers of both vehicles provided a positive sample on a roadside drugs test. Luckily no serious injuries this time, two in custody.🤦♀️🤦♂️
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) April 25, 2023
“Mr Martin was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999.
Some locals quietly praise Mr Martin for taking a stand against crime. One said: “We had four break-ins. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but what he did stopped the burglaries.”
He added: “I don’t agree with the police and the legal system. They’re supposed to be impartial but they’re far from impartial.”
[Daily Mirror]
In fact, the isolated home of Mr. Martin was broken into at night by a group of “gypsies” (in fact, UK-resident Irish so-called “Travellers”), not (as the Mirror report implies) only two. He managed to get two of them (one killed, one injured).
The incident happened in 1999. I supported Mr. Martin then, and I have not changed my mind since then. He should have been given an award for courage, and certainly not charged with anything.
HISTORY. Until Thatcher came along we owned our own gas, electric, water, railways and telecommunications. There were approx. 200,000 miners, 40,000 ship builders,100,000 steelworkers. I don't think the Tories want that part of our factual history taught to children.
A one-sided point of view in its implications, but still true.
"The Labour Files dismantles the central narrative of the media and the BBC about the Corbyn years, a narrative pushed on to the front pages of all the papers" pic.twitter.com/nqafSY2EvP
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) April 25, 2023
I had and have little time for Corbyn, but the fact is that he was destroyed as Labour leader by a pack of malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionists and/or Israel lobbyists, posing (some of them) as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
I was just engaging in my frequent not-guilty pleasure of looking at the Google Map and Street View site. Very addictive.
I have blogged before about how much London has changed since I stopped living and/or working there. I was a resident —on and off— from 1976 to 1998 in various sections of the metropolis, though mainly in Little Venice, and also for a while in 2001-2002, when I lived on the edge of London, in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, working out of both Mayfair (off Berkeley Square) and “legal London” (Gray’s Inn Square, where I was leaseholder of chambers in 2002; ironically, also the site of my unmerited, wrongful, and also unlawful disbarment in 2016, the so-called Bar Standards Board being situate in the same square).
Looking at Street View, I see that the area around St. Giles’ High Street (between Charing Cross Road and Holborn) has been hugely redeveloped. The Oasis open-air swimming pool, which I used a great deal in the 1980s, is still there, as is the old church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, but a large development of new buildings occupies the area opposite that church, part of which area once had a government building without signs or markings, the car park of which always contained a number of unmarked Commer vans in green or grey, in the 1970s and 1980s used extensively by State organizations.
That building was possibly an outstation of MI5 or GCHQ, but I have no idea whether either was the case. The street entrance always had a standing sign just inside, displaying the “security status” or “threat status”.
I notice that a nearby site, that was once occupied by a pub or bar carrying several different names over the years, is now occupied by a new building containing, inter alia, some pizza joint called Vapiano. I often used one of its former incarnations, in the 1980s, when it was a marble and glass bar called the Cafe Munchen; I was a regular customer at that time.
Looking very different, that place had also (in the early 1960s, I think) been a location for a few scenes in a Peter Sellers comedy film about a group of London crooks (I am unsure about the film title).
A little way further afield, I noticed that the Punjab restaurant (est. 1946), on the corner of Neal Street, is still there. Another place that I occasionally visited, though later, in the early 1990s.
My having Saturn in Scorpio does tend to make me visit Memory Lane a lot, perhaps too much.
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The sapper of PMC "Wagner" told and showed what kind of mines one has to face in Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/foLa0U5kXT
Theresa May, prior to becoming an MP, spent 20 years at the cheque-clearing organization, BACS. Her case is far from unique. Take a look at my “Deadhead MPs” series on the blog. Tip of the iceberg. Many, perhaps most, MPs cannot even be described as “mediocre” overall. Deadheads.
The UK political system actively rejects anyone with real depth.
Hard going. They are apparently now in slow withdrawal or retreat.
Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian thinker, in a conversation with Al-Mayadin: The global structure is between two possible scenarios; The first scenario belongs to the year 2050, in which the complete and irreversible victory for globalization and the unipolar era and the… pic.twitter.com/ia4TsTSGRy
The current crop of American politicians who have declared their candidacy are more like grandstanding, short-sighted Internet celebrities than politicians with long-term strategic ideas.
I have wondered, since this time last year, whether the main Ukrainian cities will be left standing at the end of the present conflict.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Today we visited a very dear friend currently in hospice care.
Your reminder: these special places receive NO funding from the govt. if you have a local #hospice or a hospice charity shop in town, I urge you to support it. Or leave it a bequest. pic.twitter.com/NNgvhLhGuC
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) April 26, 2023
It’s like having a final drink with a passive aggressive, soon to be ex girlfriend.pic.twitter.com/Ip1nTKjrbS
Idiots, and indeed malicious idiots, such as Marina Purkiss, think that free speech being taken away does not affect people. Wrong. I know exactly how the attacks on free speech, and the general attacks on British culture and our (former) way of life, affect people, including me. I also know exactly (((what))) and (((who))) are (mostly) behind those attacks.
Part of the problem in the UK is that the police often do not understand the law and, moreover, often think that their powers under the law are either (as in the above case) fewer or lesser than they actually are, or greater than they actually are (and I have been the subject of the latter incomprehension more than once over the past decade, and have had to put policemen and policewomen right on various points).
What’s harmful to public health is rolling out a deadly poison jab to millions of people including healthy children. Prison is too good for you, scumbag. https://t.co/NSgER8UNnM
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 25, 2023
Little Matt Hancock trying to be the big bad scorpion with a sting in its tail.
OMFG… hahaha!!! This is beyond parody… Sinn Fein (IRA) attending the coronation… I’d love to be a fly on the wall when you and Charles are reminiscing about Charles’s favourite uncle Lord ‘Dickie’ Montbatten … 🙈😫😆😆😆 https://t.co/eDsTAJfuWO
Typical response of those without an argument. Try this. EU commission hearing. Listen carefully to what is said now if you can. pic.twitter.com/sNfW06Rllw
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 26, 2023
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Not that I ever “supported” Corbyn anyway, but there is no doubt that the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and other Zionist-Jew orgs and individuals conspired to remove Corbyn from the Labour Party leadership.
The silly thing is that Corbyn was not what I would call “anti-Semitic” anyway.
As for Diane Abbott, obviously I have no time for her on any basis.
Tucker Carlson is the only main steam journalist who speaks truth so I knew it was only a matter of time before he was fired pic.twitter.com/O0sqDrwni9
Yes, we live (whether in UK or USA or EU) in a Western society with various rights and mostly fair-seeming laws etc…on the surface. Excavate a little, though, and you come to a very different layer, as Julian Assange discovered.
My Grandfather was born in kent in 1913 from Italian immigrants and fought in the RAF as a rear gunner in ww2. He married my grandmother an east girl a real Londoner from a family history of real Londoners, he lived to 90.
In his own words.. I'm Italian, my parents were italian.
I'll just correct Mordaunt here.. What the government and all those involved with mRNA are doing is pushing false propaganda and trying to cover up the facts.
At some point people involved in this terrible crime against humanity will need to be brought to justice. https://t.co/n5mWeCxEY1
Penny Mordaunt is yet another of those MPs who have no intellectual or —crucially— financial independence, which means that she is totally dependent on the favour of the System.
It is important to spread positive energy and truth not negative energy and lies. Facts not fiction. It's important to keep focused, on track and not become confused and sidetracked by propaganda and manipulation.
There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the prize for the best corn grown. One year, a reporter interviewed him and discovered something interesting about the way he grew corn. The reporter discovered that the farmer shares his seeds with his… pic.twitter.com/8ikV7wCjkS
— @AndTartary and antiquity (@andtartary2) April 20, 2023
That cycle of life is continuous, every day you will find a bush of some fruit or some vegetable where you never sowed.
Mother Earth renews herself.
— @AndTartary and antiquity (@andtartary2) April 20, 2023
AI and robotics will finish the process. Untold millions of British and other workers will fall into unemployment and poverty, because their labour will not be required, having been largely replaced by ever more sophisticated machines. Without pay, and dependent on State benefits, they will be unable to buy the luxury, or even basic, products of the AI/robotics economy.
In those circumstances, “basic income” schemes will be brought in (we already see a crippled version of that with the UK’s “Universal Credit”).
In the end, in the title of the David Icke book, there may be a”robot’s rebellion” by the human beings thrown on the scrapheap, unless the people are too drugged by the opiates of the age, i.e. televized football, pop music, “celebrity” nonsense etc.
What is required is not 1930s National Socialism, as such, but a form of social nationalism which honours 1930s National Socialism and contains within it the essence of National Socialism.
Perhaps, but does the ultra-powerful USA really need “allies” to fight a nuclear, or even conventional, war? “Need” militarily, that is, not as a propaganda figleaf.
Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew almost all troops from Artemivsk – El Mundo, citing an unnamed source Spanish journalists report that the main equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is leaving Bakhmut along the only remaining "road of life". And in the city itself there were… pic.twitter.com/U6atS0sT2G
Destruction of the positions of the UAF with incendiary ammunition. The work of the NM DNR artillery in the direction of Avdejevka. pic.twitter.com/xr2oEgvtOz
“Britain’s £3.2 billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been reduced to acting as a scrap-yard. Essential pieces of equipment are being ripped out of the stricken warship, a move that raises questions over its long-term future.
The UK’s second carrier has been in dry dock since breaking down off Portsmouth in August 2022.
Now Navy top brass have begun stripping the carrier – a process known as ‘cannibalisation’ – which will render HMS Prince of Wales inoperable for much longer. Lift chains, which allow fighter jets to be raised from below deck, electrical systems and sections of the ship’s gas turbines have been taken out.“
[Daily Mail]
So will the few functioning ships of the Royal Navy now be tasked to fight Russia? Or China? Both? Or neither?
The UK armed forces have become a bad joke. They cannot even protect our own borders from migration-invasion by untermenschen.
Better not rename HMS Prince of Wales as the HMS Charles III. If it were to break down again, people might start to see parallels with the Monarchy…
Tweets seen
Look at the replies to this. Scroll down beyond the e-celebs, and you will find an endless cascade of Muslim people congratulating Yousaf. Virtually no Scottish people at all. It's incredible. https://t.co/zDn1eyPYLK
Are the Scottish people finally waking up to the ludicrous faux-“nationalism” of the SNP?
What it ACTUALLY was, was a symbol of social acceptability, ie. conformance with the regime. But they rename "social acceptability" to "high quality", implying that the two are the same. They're not. Most of these people are fucking dimwits. https://t.co/7RxOtlDCan
And there you have it. EXXON, HALLIBURTON & CHEVRON, after Iraq, are now taking over the Ukrainian oil and gas fields. Planning to introduce large scale fracking – a clear and present threat to poison U's agriculture pic.twitter.com/LlC0nv39qk
A shambolic failed state. Without foreign money, arms, ammunition and direct intelligence flow, Kiev-regime “Ukraine” would now be merely territory to be occupied.
residents of the Kherson region, do not panic! Everyone who claims that the Ukrainians have occupied the bridgehead in Alyoshki or that there are battles there are disinformers!!! pic.twitter.com/byelNa7wqO
Who commands Wagner They say the real commander is a reserve officer who graduated from several prestigious Russian military academies, including the elite paratrooper school of the Suvorov Military Guard in Ulyanovsk and Ryazansk. He was in the 10th brigade spec. the strength of… pic.twitter.com/lhKttMj4zr
BREAKING – British Medical Association suspends Corbynista activist Dr Martin Whyte, Deputy Chair of its Junior Doctors’ Committee. The BMA activist was posting ‘jokes’ about gassing Jews and ‘totally acceptable views’ on Twitter and other social media. https://t.co/HHSseUvJOj
Three Tory MPs who have criticised the Government’s asylum policy have received services from a pro-migration policy group. The trio are among six MPs who received £160,000+ in services & research support from Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy project.https://t.co/mCIixwjsou
— DoNotVoteForAnyOfThePartiesInParliament#CreweFirst (@CllrBSilvester) April 23, 2023
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, in this case facilitated by three corrupt System MPs.
We have no choice but to start a new nation. Runaway degeneracy has made western nations unlivable. Men and women of healthy spirit must form a new union—a union that will one day conquer the Earth.
Considering Rome’s founders propagated their early citizenry using kidnapped brides and subsequently built the greatest empire the world has ever seen, is bridenapping therefore virtuous? pic.twitter.com/Z0MO9TkezX
The Asia Times, a newspaper based in Hong Kong, notes in its article that Russian UPAB ballistic missiles have blocked Western air defense systems transferred to Ukraine, as none of these bombs have yet been shot down.
The Ukrainian General Staff is urgently trying to change the defense tactics of Bakhmut/Avdiivka/Ugledar, due to the massive use of aerial bombs by Russian troops.
The West knows that Ukraine's weapons are leaking onto the black market – Seymour Hersh Poland, Romania and other countries are flooded with Western weapons destined for Kiev, says a veteran journalist pic.twitter.com/2sRTLylnhp
How long before a ground-to-air missile supplied to the Kiev regime, then sold on the black market, brings down an airliner at Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, or Brandenburg?
Video from the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction. The trenches are filled with water because of the rain. pic.twitter.com/wj0q6huwAp
The head of the British Ministry of Defense said that 1,200 British soldiers participated in the evacuation of embassy staff and their families from Khartoum. pic.twitter.com/zmijA4oQHd
Sudan was once just one minor part of our huge and generally well-run Empire. Pity that that has passed into history. Now the blacks and browns fight for the right to cream off the bribes that accompany power in black Africa and elsewhere.
BREAKING
‘US doctor who believed a patient had a heart attack because of covid mRNA vaccine refused to put it on official report because of fear’
‘If a doctor cannot tell the truth because he’s scared of losing his license what has medicine become?’
“Euthanasia” or State-sanctioned killing of the “inconvenient”, not in National Socialist Germany, not even in Stalin’s Soviet Union, but in our supposedly “caring sharing” UK, in the 21st Century.
“Now, a leaked trove of US intelligence documents has given us the clearest answer to date. It is not good news for Kyiv, and it could be about to get a whole lot worse.
Overall, Russia has lost more men and more firepower than the Ukrainians, the documents show, but its losses are nowhere near as devastating as many in the West had been led to believe – with less than two Russian casualties for every one Ukrainian.
…ammunition for Ukraine’s Soviet-era air defences, which make up 90 per cent of its anti-air defences when you take low-altitude weapons like Stingers out of the equation, is perilously low.
Rockets for its BUK launchers were due to run out on March 31, while its S-300 systems only had enough to last until early May.
If those rockets do run out, the documents warn Ukraine will not only struggle to protect its cities but also its troops as it masses them for the expected counter-attack.
With Western stocks of ammunition and armour all-but exhausted, it is unlikely Ukraine’s allies will be able to build another army any time soon – added to which, the death toll may mean President Zelensky is running low on troops.“
[Daily Mail].
Tweets seen
Footage from Bakhmut/Artyomovsk from Russian paratroopers supporting Wagner's assault units with artillery fire. A group of APU officers wanted to hide in the entrance of a high-rise building. But after them, a large caliber began to enter the entrance. pic.twitter.com/g3F2CGCULe
From what I can see (on the msm but also online, social media etc), the Kiev regime is running out of troops, recruits, and maybe —despite frenzied NWO resupply— arms and ammunition.
The gender woo-woo cult is like a medieval religion. They'd put Galileo on trial if he dared to say there are biological differences between males and females. https://t.co/Atg2wbj6FC
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) April 13, 2023
Interesting and well worth reading. I myself am, however, more concerned about the still-increasing Jew-Zionist power and influence in the UK, which includes the corruption and suborning of officials of the police and Crown Prosecution Service [CPS], of MPs and ministers etc, as well as their takeover of the mass media.
Two Israeli soldiers vandalized a car used by a Palestinian couple to transport their disabled daughterhttps://t.co/fkcwes25Vq
Lord Bethel is very unlucky. No one can find the notes of his meeting about the £600 million contract given to Randox and he lost his phone so all his WhatsApp messages got lost. So unlucky. pic.twitter.com/Ty6IwiLDJw
“Police investigating an alleged hate crime over the display of golliwogs in an Essex pub are to examine online messages by the pub’s landlord in which he apparently joked about Mississippi lynchings alongside an image of the racist dolls.
Essex police confiscated the golliwogs last week after receiving a complaint about an alleged crime.
The force has now confirmed that detectives conducting the investigation are aware of Ryley’s Facebook posts. It is understood the posts are being reviewed as part of the investigation.
Earlier this week, a source close to Suella Braverman suggested Essex police had been reprimanded by the home secretary. The police force denied this.
Sunder Katwala, the director of the integration thinktank British Future, said: “It is important that police can do their job. These Facebook posts are important…”
[Guardian]
Are there actually any British people in or around this absurd misgovernment of Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak?
Apart from that aspect, it must be comforting to the people of Essex that the Essex Police have time to waste on “investigations” about golliwogs, arising from complaints by troublemaking organizations. After all, it is not as if Essex has any real crime occurring within its boundaries…
Homeschooling is the only way in modern Britain, and the USA (etc). So far, contrary to what many think, it is perfectly lawful in the UK: see https://www.gov.uk/home-education.
Great article by a teacher who behaved exactly how all teachers should have behaved and so was inevitably attacked.
Hi @Schwarzenegger countless lives ruined by government tyranny and coerced injections because “screw your freedom.” An apology won’t exactly cut it. Action is required. Let me know when you want to donate to @React19org and help those injured by the shot you pushed on the public pic.twitter.com/fGLqR7FGUl
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) April 8, 2023
Well, if you will give political or scientific credibility to a careerist bodybuilder/actor…
2. Zelensky wanted to bomb Rostov, but Zaluzhny was against it…. on attacking an unspecified Russian base in Rostov in late February. 3. The Russian army is taking steps to combat Ukrainian-made Western-made main battle tanks that will appear on the battlefield in April
They are protecting the flanks of our assault squads advancing towards the western outskirts of the city. At the same time, the VDV are blocking, i.e. – preventing the transfer of Ukrainian reserves to the city, as well as the possibility of withdrawing enemy units from Bakhmut."
I don't care what the motivation may or may not be. All I care about is it being a significant step in the cancellation and destruction of Jack Monroe's scamming, and helping bring about her downfall.
And despite being harassed and bullied off social media by the Jack Monroe flying monkey mob, there is an archive of the AwfullyMolly investigation.https://t.co/TzAXw2v9SP
Back in the day, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper before our enrichment had even picked up any momentum and before 'diversity built Britain', stabbings in London were around three times a year.
It's a White country built by and for White people . Why are you antiWhite? Why do you want to dispossess native British people of their land? https://t.co/FvFlov4cPp
multiculturalism is not about making societies better. It's about bringing the story of the white man to a close. In one form or another, this realisation will be the defining idea of this century.
The sad thing is that, at some point, it might even seem that something as devastating as a nuclear attack on our major cities might not be, ultimately, as entirely negative as we usually think (taking the argument to absurdity, admittedly).
Britain took a very wrong path after about 1975 or so.
I saw a French activist using the term "immigrationists". I like it. It neatly lumps Tories, bankers, socialists, celebrities and oligarchs into the same heaving pile – where they belong.
I have to admit that I agree with most of that, even if it is from Polly Toynbee.
More tweets
A few months ago I made the suggestion to @elonmusk on Spaces to add state-affiliation not just to foreign media but also to US state-affiliated media. He liked the idea and today Twitter has started to implement it. Thanks Elon. pic.twitter.com/qNCX4CSrEI
Exactly. The self-describing “Left”, mostly unthinking individuals, tend to believe that they are somehow “against the System”, while gagging to be controlled and ordered by that very matrix. Look at how they all complied, to the letter, with the “Covid” police state “measures”— the facemask nonsense, the movement restrictions, even the ludicrous “Rule of Six” thought up by “Boris”-idiot (though tweeter “ihearthockey29” seems to be American).
It's still amazing to me that the media will run headlines like this while also insisting that immigration has no effect on housing shortages, and people actually accept that. pic.twitter.com/HA1rDcZugd
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
It has been a long time since I was in the Kremlin (I paid my rouble or two); 1993. On my last visit to Moscow, in 2007, I was too busy talking with boring people to sightsee, though I did walk up to GUM, off Red Square, but GUM, like much of Moscow, had changed out of all recognition.
Lunch time in Moscow as I continue my quest to find signs of economic doom courtesy of Western sanctions.. I guess I'll have to travel to UK or Germany to accomplish that goal! pic.twitter.com/07TqEAEGJV
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
Lots of traffic in downtown Moscow.. Where is the economic collapse msm continues to rant about? pic.twitter.com/7K3vQEAAMQ
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
There has always been a big difference between Moscow and the provinces. Indeed, I was told in the 1980s that if you went even 5 or 10 miles outside Leningrad, as it then was, you could find villages where the houses, or some of the houses, were without running water. They all had electricity, though. After all, Lenin himself had defined socialism as “Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“.
As to who or what groups are affected by Western sanctions against Russia, I would think (I concede that I have not studied it, and I now have no contacts in Russia) that the effect of the sanctions has been to deprive the most wealthy Russians of opportunities to enjoy themselves in Western capitals and large cities, and resorts. The Russian post-Soviet middle class may have been affected in terms of holidays and career opportunities. I have always been sceptical as to whether the vast mass of Russians is affected at all. They buy domestic food, which is plentiful, domestic vodka and beer (and wine, including Crimean), and do not travel overseas anyway.
“Benefit sanctions slow down claimants’ progress into work and are likely to force them into taking lower-paying jobs that leave them hundreds of pounds a year worse off, according to an internal report that the government tried to suppress.
The findings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report echo a series of independent studies showing sanctions – in effect fines amounting to hundreds of pounds imposed on claimants for supposed infringements of benefit rules – are ineffective as a way of getting people into jobs or to work more hours.
The report is embarrassing for the government, which has aggressively promoted sanctions as part of its plans to force claimants to take a job or work more hours. Completed in August 2020, its release was blocked by the then work and pensions secretary, Thérèse Coffey, on the grounds it was “not in the public interest”.
Experts said it was shocking that the government had clear evidence of the negative effects of sanctions for more than two years and had actively sought to keep the findings under wraps while overseeing a huge rise in the numbers of sanctions on universal credit claimants.“
It seems clear to me that the State benefit sanctions regime has nothing to do with incentivizing the unemployed, but is basically political, a way of chucking some red meat to the pleb-Cons, the Mail and Sun readers, whether retired or working for small pay. A contemporary equivalent of the Roman games, with all thumbs pointing down.
Botton Village
Interesting documentary, that I recall seeing in the past; I picked up a VHS video from somewhere:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦“Wagner” is storming Bakhmut from all sides, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking, trying to throw PMCs off the “road of life” https://t.co/6kNbLepN1b
While Macron is in China … protesters stormed the theater of Bordeaux and sing … he really should take care of France first maybe? -> “Emmanuel Macron, if you continue it will be dark at your home” pic.twitter.com/zp7rgvrotl
When I was 28, I belonged to the university Taekwando Group. I was not very good, though I managed to get one level up from the bottom before I was injured by a careless kick, and so cracked, or maybe even fractured, a rib or ribs.
No medical attention was required but for the next 3 months I woke up in pain. Once one rose and started to move, it was OK, though it hurt anew if you laughed, just as in the old saying.
We support freedom of speech and the unhindered transmission of information, we serve to report on global current events without exception in a decent manner. Maximum commitment to reporting. @Spriter99880 North Korea special forces 👇 pic.twitter.com/sYRrDPMHZu
— Sprinter Press Agency SPA (@SprinterPress) April 4, 2023
— Sprinter Press Agency SPA (@SprinterPress) April 6, 2023
A complete puppet of Israel, like most U.S. Presidents.
Real Paris
Due to nationwide strikes by various professions, including city hall workers, the image of Paris is becoming more interesting day by day. pic.twitter.com/9xRpZeItqs
— Sprinter Press Agency SPA (@SprinterPress) April 6, 2023
🇫🇷 New poll: Le Pen would convincingly beat Macron if the elections in France took place today The leader of the National Alliance, Marine Le Pen, with 55 percent of the votes won, would convincingly defeat the current president, Emmanuel Macron, if the presidential elections… pic.twitter.com/74CbPY8QCf
— Sprinter Press Agency SPA (@SprinterPress) April 6, 2023
Fighting in the area of Bogdanovka, west of Artemovsk.
The Wagner break through the enemy defenses and enter the rear of the entire group. pic.twitter.com/cQMqlK1RYr
— Sprinter Press Agency SPA (@SprinterPress) April 6, 2023
In 1989, when the Soviet crew of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race contender, Fazisi, were in the yachting hub of Hamble (Hampshire), I was also there for a couple of days. I was, with my then girlfriend, an Anglo-Russian (the Russian part being from pre-revolutionary White Russian origins), visiting my parents, who lived in Hamble at that time. In fact, they lived in a small private road, Crowsport, built upon in the 1920s, and only a stone’s throw from the marina where the Soviet yacht was being made ready. You could see the tops of the masts of the yachts in the marina from their house.
Having heard about the Soviet yacht (this was about 2 years before the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991), we decided to walk down to see the yacht and maybe say hello to its crew.
The yacht was there, crew aboard, and we started talking to one of the sailors, a handsome blond giant who was very taken with my girlfriend and, in a polite way, said at the end that we (it sounded more like she —not sure that I was included!) would be welcome to visit any time (she didn’t, though).
The crew spoke Russian language only, apparently.
I remember that the blond sailor said that he was from “Novgorod by Moscow“, more or less a suburb, to distinguish it from the large and historic town halfway between Moscow and the then Leningrad.
We were briefly introduced to the captain, who was carrying a rope, and who seemed stressed. He was going ashore, presumably to the marina office or repair sheds. He nodded to us, maybe shook hands (I do not recall), and trudged away.
The article above, written in 2008, mentions “tragedy” during the race, but does not mention the fact that the captain of the Fazisi committed suicide on the journey round the world, hanging himself in a wood in Uruguay: see https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-sp-245-story.html.
In the end, the Fazisi, which had been delivered to Heathrow in one main piece (minus masts) in an Aeroflot cargo plane, the largest in the world, then on a road transporter, did not win the ocean race but still put in a creditable performance, including a one-day run of 386 miles which may have been a world record for a monohull.
That was a more hopeful time for Russia and the world. Sovietism had collapsed in all but name, all the chatter was about Russia becoming partner to the West, rather than enemy, and no-one was thinking about nuclear war any more.
This was before the horde of Western carpetbaggers hit Russia in the 1990s, and before the pack of Jew “oligarchs” got their claws into Russia’s money and natural resources during the Yeltsin years.
It was also before it became publicly known, in the 1990s, that the USA had a “secret” game plan to keep Russia down, and the USA as “world’s only superpower”.
Another, and even less-likely, scenario in 1989 was that Ukraine would break away from Russia, and then much later be at war with it. The captain of the Fazisi was himself of Ukrainian origin, judging by his name (Gryshenko).
Russia has advanced further inside Bakhmut in recent days, capturing areas along the west bank of the river with Ukrainian troops perhaps pulling back as far as west of the railway pic.twitter.com/Ioj5dMM40s
The paved T-506 Highway Ground Line of Communication into Bakhmut via Khromove remains open and clear – there is one new van that is disabled from the last video
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦According to sources, Russian forces have joined Wagner in Bakhmut street fighting. Not just VDV Paratroopers but also SOF units.
No clear visual proof of this has come out. The Russian troops don't carry their phones with them to the front.
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Soledar fell because the VDV and Russian SOF was able to keep Ukrainian forces from regrouping and captured and held the high ground. Wagner is not working alone contrary to popular belief.
@antinatocoalition
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Map of situation in Bakhmut City from MiltaryMaps….yellow line is the extent of Russian advance according to latest field reports pic.twitter.com/PnTiTChUdy
For once, I can agree with at least some of what Owen Jones has written. Not his pro-“diversity”, pro-immigration stuff, though. Those and other factors have to be included in the reasons why western societies are decaying, declining, and not unlikely to collapse.
“Musicians” seems to be the self-designation of Wagner Group contract soldiers, as I noted recently on the blog. Presumably a reference to Richard Wagner.
How shallow. Immigration is a key factor in dragging down wages, and overwhelming the NHS and other services. It is not a discrete or a side issue unconnected to the others.
The Tories are also heavily distrusted on immigration among key target voting groups (between -53 and -76)
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time“… [Abraham Lincoln].
As a voter, you can vote for the misnamed “Conservative” Party, which at times has talked a semi-good game on immigration but done little or nothing to fulfil the big talk talked, or you can vote equally-misnamed “Labour”, which does not even bother to pretend that it would slow (let alone stop, or reverse) mass immigration, but weasels about “managing” it better, meaning automatically allowing most applicants for asylum or visas of various kinds to enter the UK.
A very shocking case, and unusual in the ethnic background of the defendants. Still, it would not be right to turn a blind eye just because most of the defendants appear to have been white.
Not quite the usual fact matrix as in the Asian/Pakistani cases, in fact. As bad, though.
Same reason the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, and everywhere else haven't. You have a large enough brainwashed leftist domestic population who holds power and will use it to terrorize anyone who doesn't tow the line – those who change their minds is too gradual/too late.
"a substantial section of whites have become Black, a particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture. along with the wholly false Jamaican patois that has been intruded in England. This is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country" pic.twitter.com/yb7PsNJepc
Canada's Envoy to the UN @BobRae48's justification of terrorist act killing Russian war reporter Vladen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) is both disgusting & shocking.
Does this mean Canada supports terrorism? If Amb Bob keeps his job, then apparently that is exactly the case.#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/313V12935h
Ian Robert Millard 