Well, this week brings me an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored only 3/10, compared to my 7/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, and 8. In fact, I “hit the post” on questions 2 and 8, and no.5 is arguable, depending on what you class as “a vineyard“, whatever “Wine GB” may say.
Looks as though curbing the Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other would-be censors of freedom of expression, has encouraged better functioning at Twitter, and attracted more users and/or use.
Hi @BootstrapCook are you ever going to tell the people that donated money to you that you stole where it went?#JackMonroe is a THIEF
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
She is (in my opinion).
Some of these people on Jack Monroe Twitter are fucking nutters! All obsessed with the one same person because he stood up to her and took her to court for her grift. Very concerning behaviour.
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
They are (in my opinion).
There is no climate crisis. The alleged climate crisis is the most expensive and devastating lie of all time.
We look back at the Incas, and wonder why their priests had a kind of handball game in which you got executed if you dropped the ball [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#Human_sacrifice]. We look at the Aztecs, and wonder what motivated their bloodthirsty and cruel human sacrifices. Yet we (meaning society as a whole) accept the cruelties and stupidities of our own age as right and proper: “net zero”, “lockdown(s)”, killer “vaccines” and “boosters”, the 2010-2023 “austerity policies”, the importation into the UK of millions of culturally and ethnically backward people; and so on. The full list would be too long to publish today.
President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of "Operation Atlantic Resolve." I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It's about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https://t.co/YCzL0UWoo0
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
I do not like George Osborne at all, but at the same time that very clearly terminally-smug “protester” (a woman aged maybe 60-70) could not have complained had she been hit in the face and/or given a good kicking.
Those “Just Stop Oil” loonies have to be stopped. In fact their sheer smugness (especially the ones aged 60+) is one of the most hateful things about them.
In some ways, British “toleration” is a very good thing, but it goes too far when it becomes toleration of malice and/or evil.
If Biden drops dead, or becomes even less compos mentis, that creature would be the U.S. President…hard to believe…
Belarusian sources report that a large convoy of Wagner PMC vehicles with LDNR numbers was seen this morning. She proceeded towards Bobruisk, and then – to Osipovichi. At least 60 cars were seen in the convoy, including at least 10 trucks, 3 buses, pickups and other equipment.… pic.twitter.com/ikgAfXmMrp
I wonder how long before “the musicians” start to play (again)…
Russian forces have eliminated two sabotage-reconnaissance groups in the Zaporizhzhya region , said the acting governor of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace is considering leaving the position he has held since July 2019 and to stop engaging in politics, The Times reported, citing government sources.
UKRAINIAN ARMY TRYING TO BREAK THE FRONT NEAR DONETSK AND ARTYUMOVSK (BAKHMUT)
They have some success on both fronts. If the Russian units do not launch a counterattack and regain certain positions, they would find themselves in a big problem.
Lockdown Vax Passes Net Zero including 15 minute cities Biometric Digital ID Programmable CBDC Biometric CCTV Silencing free speech Stopping right to protest
The one thing they have in common is control. Control of you.
Wake up people!
— Lady Jane Simkins 💜🌸🏴🇬🇧 (@JaneSim66) July 15, 2023
The only "Inclusion" those behind the United Nations really want, is the entire world's population to be forced into their proposed digital control matrix.
It’s time for people to stand and fight back. Remove Party Politics and bring the Country back to the people. #StrongerTogether
— Betula Independent Alliance (@BetulaAlliance) July 15, 2023
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Not only that, but its Founding Chairman, Gerald Ronson, served time in prison for fraud. Is this really an organisation that can be relied on to produce accurate "antisemitism" statistics every year?
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) July 10, 2023
I think that the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”] is separate from the “Shomrim” Jewish private police, but I may be wrong.
“EXCLUSIVE – A tale of two hotels: How migrants set to be housed in four-stay luxury hotel would be ‘treated’ while homeless people will be put up in cheap hotel so grimy that it shut and was then converted into a hostel”
“Antifa” idiots and “refugees welcome” dimwits are, thankfully, only about 1% of the UK population. Get in your tank and roll over them.
Get the names and addresses of every one of the banner wavers! Send them 2 ILLEGAL immigrants each to house,feed and clothe I suspect it will be the same answer as these🤡🤡https://t.co/H1zuHXuWBZ
I have still not seen anything anywhere indicating where “Dr” Louise Raw obtained her “doctorate” (specialized subject— one strike in 1888). She seems very reticent about it, and about where she obtained it, assuming she did obtain one (and even if the doctorate is genuine, she should not use the title “Dr” in the UK, not being a f/t academic, or clergy, or medical practitioner. It’s infra dig).
This is the way forward a list compiled of people who want illegal invaders in the country a simple yes or no to each household and the yes households would then house the invaders, and be financially responsible for them
Here she is. She will be reelected and knows it. The people of wales hate the tories. All labour mps and ams.Have a job for life. Moan, Moan, Moan, Whinge, Whinge, Whinge. Then reelect witha larger majority. "Asylum Seekers welcome" pic.twitter.com/25YIUMrDJw
Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli: among other things, a Labour Friends of Israel member, and an expenses cheat who owns three houses and flats, at least one with land. She should be able to accommodate some migrant invaders, surely? Oh, no, wait…
⚡️FSB claims that the preparation of the assassination of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak was “prevented” pic.twitter.com/jFAtrMx0Fn
(but what is now happening in Rostov and elsewhere right now strikes me as more like the rebellion of the Streltsy in the 17thC than the opening of a second Russian Civil War; we shall see). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journal John Rentoul. I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10. I did not know the answers to question 5 (actually, I “hit the post” with the name), or questions 6 and 9, and I pretty much guessed numbers 3 and 7, if truth be known.
“The Home Office is planning to house hundreds of migrants in marquees across the country.
The government’s plans come as today it was revealed that the number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is now higher than the number for June last year.
According to official figures, 312 asylum seekers were intercepted in eight boats by UK officials yesterday.
[“Intercepted“? You mean “ferried to the UK”].
This brings the official number of migrant crossings this month to 3,303 in 68 boats – an average of 49 people crammed into each inflatable dinghy or other small craft.
More people thought to be migrants arrived in Dover earlier today as people smugglers took advantage of the weather of low winds and no rainfall.
Border Force vessel Ranger was spotted this afternoon patrolling the 21-mile Dover Straits after dropping a group of migrants at the port.“
[Daily Mail]
Get that— the “Border Farce” vessel (taxi service for migrant invaders) dropped off a group of invaders at Dover, then went out looking for more “customers”…
“Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice.
Decision comes after a government report found the hunt does not comply with Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act.
Iceland’s government has said it is suspending this year’s whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, a move that is likely to bring the controversial practice to an end.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists hailed the decision, with the Humane Society International calling it “a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation”.
Shocking video clips broadcast by the veterinary authority showed a whale’s agony as it was hunted for five hours.
The country has only one remaining whaling company, Hvalur, and its licence to hunt fin whales expires in 2023. Another company stopped for good in 2020, saying it was no longer profitable.
Iceland’s whaling season runs from mid-June to mid-September, and it is doubtful Hvalur would head out to sea that late in the season.
Annual quotas authorise the killing of 209 fin whales – the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale – and 217 minke whales, one of the smallest species. But catches have fallen drastically in recent years due to a dwindling market for whale meat.
…but why call her (“Jack Monroe”, alias Melissa Hadjicostas) “they“? It’s not “their silence” but “her silence”. Proper English.
Jack Monroe is an out and out fraud.
Russian insurgent forces are spreading in all directions. Volgograd, Krasnodar, Moscow, you name it. No serious resistance is reported.#Russia#Couppic.twitter.com/5lCy7HA6Rt
Is that so? Truth or speculation? I do not know at present.
Thinking ahead, what happens if the present Russian Government is toppled? What replaces it? Would that be one willing to (in effect) surrender to the NWO/ZOG cabals, or one willing to really take the fight to Zelensky in Kiev?
Nothing firm is known as yet.
🚨 Russian aviation is conducting strikes on Wagner PMC columns moving toward Moscow on the M4 highway. pic.twitter.com/JNGK5Uu2uC
Truth is, of course, the first casualty. Speculation abounds, and of course the “usual suspects” are stirring everything, as are other pro-Zelensky tweeters.
I imagine that even the Russian overseas diplomatic missions do not know what is going on, not even the SVR and GRU.
🚨LATEST COUP UPDATES: PUTIN SPEAKS, PRIGOZHIN RESPONDS, HEAVY CLASHES BEGIN NEAR MOSCOW
– Putin FINALLY made a speech in which he mentioned “treason” and “mutiny” twice, talked about Russia “fighting hard for its future”, labelled the events as an “internal mutiny” and a “stab… pic.twitter.com/dXVeG72cw6
"We will only move towards Moscow. We ask the Armed Forces not to resist us" – Wagner PMC pic.twitter.com/2ZodCwkdMY
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
Again, who he? I have no idea. Is he a Wagner operator, or merely someone pretending to be one? If it is true (as claimed by many on Twitter) that official checkpoints are merely waving Wagner units through without check or opposition, then that mirrors what happened in previous Russian upheavals, from the Yeltsin and Gorbachev eras right back to the two Russian revolutions of 1917.
A huge Wagner / renegade Russian army convoy is in Voronezh oblast and on the way Moscow. I counted no less than 72 vehicles and the camera was several times not pointing at the road. Could be 100 or more.#Coup#Russia#Voronezh#Moscowpic.twitter.com/rbjHg9H5TE
Reportedly, Medvedev was evacuated from Moscow region together with his family and assistants.
Previously there was information that a helicopter allegedly with Putin on board left for Valday. pic.twitter.com/hixuuqtXfn
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
What now? Is there time (and the requisite high-level military support) for Putin to order a massive and unrestrained strategic missile attack (a last-ditch and bitter action to achieve battlefield victory) on Kiev, regardless of the Wagner Group situation? We have to just sit and wait to see.
Navigation on the Moskva river, which runs through the Russian 🇷🇺 capital Moscow, was temporarily suspended on Saturday amid a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, the state TASS news agency TASS reported, citing the authoritieshttps://t.co/Qg18KzpHCohttps://t.co/tcL4MsKyqF
Well, if Prigozhin actually topples Putin, then he follows in the tradition of Russian revolutionary leaders (and others) having (in the Russian word) “sat” in prison. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky etc. They were there mainly for political crimes, though, whereas Prigozhin was imprisoned for crimes of acquisition: fraud, theft, robbery, burglary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#Early_life. He did 9 years altogether.
Also, the conditions of confinement for the Bolshevik leaders were comfortable, once they arrived in Siberian exile. Houses in remote villages, not much restraint on their liberty, and Lenin was even allowed a hunting rifle with ammunition, as was, I think, Stalin!
Prigozhin’s 9 years of Soviet-era prison must have been far less easy. He’s a tough ex-con, among other things.
At any rate, it looks at present as if PMC Wagner is the Praetorian Guard of Russia now. Tomorrow? Maybe, maybe not— “tomorrow is another day“…
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Sadly not as she has a Patreon and gigs about once a month and a tipjar still rattling and royalties truckling in. She relies on passive income. Time was when we had to work through the night battling FMs. Now crickets. She can't come on here even to talk about ice cream flavours
(the “FMs” refers to “flying monkeys“, the term used by “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” for her fanatical supporters, many of which have mental problems).
Average £11pcm per rage nan so still £4,500pcm for lying in bed stoned.
https://t.co/1OlfSsQwzn She survived the siege in part cause her family were theater set designers and always had plenty of carpenter’s glue lying around. During the worst times they smeared it on bread and ate it like jelly. Someone tell #JackMonroe.
Ha. If “Jack Monroe” were to eat glue, at least she might be unable to utter more lies. Well, it’s a thought…
All & any of which would equally testify as to my legitimacy & my intentions in the ongoing quest to expose Jack Monroe for the thief, liar & fraud that she is. I am sure that i can count on @frugally_minded to confirm that she knows my real name 4/.
“Jack Monroe” is still, as of today, being sent between £3.50 and £44 a month by each of 414 utter mugs. Thousands of pounds being sent to her monthly, in cash, and for absolutely nothing.
I cannot see Reeves successfully running a bath or even a corner shop, given the depth of financial competence & judgment needed to plan, run & rescue the sliding post-Tory Bexshit UK capitalist economy so it works sustainably again for the many as well as the few. So. GIGO.🇵🇸🇺🇦
If the opinion polls are correct, Labour may form the next government, but when people vote “Labour”, they are actually getting pro-Israel careerists and money-grubbers such as Rachel Reeves, who is little different, though possibly better-educated, than the likes of Iain Duncan Dunce Smith.
Labour is now just a label; some of its own MPs have said as much.
Early this morning, #Trantifa clashed with protesters of a children’s drag event at the Honor Oak Pub in south London. One of the #Antifa hit a woman on the head with a stick. Antifa are furious police weren’t there to protect them at around 6 am. pic.twitter.com/3z5DfOV09d
Seldom have I seen anything this surreal. Tanks on streets, snipers kneeling waiting for the imminent arrival of the Chechen units in what may be one hell of a battle.
And the people of #Rostov seem to be blissfully unaware or determined not to move from their front row seats! pic.twitter.com/GQKJMx9EAi
Slightly reminiscent of the staged “popular uprising” against Ceausescu in 1989. Not that it was not popular in the sense of many, probably most, Romanians liking it, but it was not popular in the sense that the “plebs” took an active part. It was a stage-managed thing, and many of those on the streets were aware of that. They knew that they were just “spear-carriers” in a show put on for the overseas and domestic TV audience.
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Don't think I've ever seen Jack as "positive". All I see from her are snark, bullying and threats.
Poor people know more about cooking on a budget than a scrounging middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe. Poor people don't need condescending advice, they need money. Jack is called out for missing charity money, unfulfilled patreon subscriptions, and missing legal funds
It really is incredible how many people (at least on Twitter) think that saying “effing Tories” and making the right noises about the cost of living under them (with the assumption that fake “Labour” would be much much better, of course) constitutes something massive. As for those “recipes”, have you seen them? I should prefer bread and cheese, or just bread…
“Jack Monroe” is not the only one making a fairly good living out of Twitter “activism” of that sort. There are a number of others, e.g. “@supertanskiii”. Completely useless pseudo-activists who are basically “grifters” (at best).
That useless NIgerian parasite, “@FemiSorry”, is another one.
Her recipes are frequently debunked as inedible, unworkable or nutritionally devoid.
Its all an act from Jack Monroe, her entire back story falls apart at the lightest scrutiny, and she's been caught lying and grifting too many times to be credible.https://t.co/zM5NRDPC8P
The lack of real ideology (going beyond vague nationalism and fawning over replicas of pre-1917 Russianism such as the Orthodox Church) in Putin’s Russia worked only so long as there was relative peace and prosperity. Now, the peace and much of the prosperity has gone or is going, and hope with it, and that leaves a vacuum. Russians need more than bread alone.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority admitted it wrongfully allowed the payments to be made when it was revealed that a Tory minister and three other MPs were able to claim hundreds of pounds of driving fines on expenses https://t.co/qXmTAo1Uht
Four MPs – three Conservative and one SNP – are being asked to repay hundreds of pounds in driving fines which they claimed on expenses. https://t.co/zb0fSV6UWJ
In fact, a large amount of damaging material about Amanda Solloway has been removed from Wikipedia over the years, including that concerning her “dodgy” (possibly now “ex”) husband or “partner” and their business activities (his very existence is now expunged from that Wikipedia entry).
Four MPs claiming expenses to pay driving fines is yet another example of us being taken for mugs. Whilst workers are told to accept real terms pay cuts these people are living life of Larry. Subsidised high end food whilst many can't put food on table. It stinks to high heaven!
A Schauspiel to bamboozle the masses. Figures on an electronic scoreboard such as the one by Times Square in New York: see https://www.usdebtclock.org/.
Meaningless, in the sense that, with a stroke of a pen, the “debt ceiling” is raised, and taken care of via a small increase in inflation, i.e. decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar.
Bloomberg: Don't let Ukrainians hope that F-16 fighters will bring about a revolution on the battlefield pic.twitter.com/GvDRkJt6GU
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that the escalation of the plans of Western countries to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine is unacceptable .
"It is understood that this escalation is unacceptable." I believe that in the West there are still people who… pic.twitter.com/UKcn6hsm78
The armed forces of Ukraine could lose control over the city of Chasov Yar after withdrawing from Artyomovsk, writes the American newspaper "Military Watch Magazine".
"Western analysts expect that the next target of the Russian offensive will be the town of Chasov Yar, which is…
the financial octopus BlackRock began the takeover of Ukraine, hiding behind funds for post-war reconstruction. Officially, the funds must attract investments in energy, infrastructure and agriculture
Lavrov: US began to look more realistically at the Ukrainian conflict Lavrov came to this conclusion after the statement by US Chief of Staff Mark Milli that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not be able to return their lands in the short term. “ The words of the head of the US… pic.twitter.com/RwljKgNAp9
The former territories of Ukraine must be split— Russian or pro-Russian territories east of the Dnieper, in Crimea, and along the Black Sea littoral to Odessa and then west to Trans-Dniestria. The other territories west of the Dnieper, including —and run from— the city of Lvov, can become a rump Ukrainian state.
Among other comments made, I said in that blog post:
“The System relies on complete or near-complete “control”, which was one reason there was such a massive campaign against Corbyn, spearheaded by the Jew-Zionist element.
Liz Truss, by reason of her sheer lack of ability, threatens System “stability”. She will, therefore, be removed, to put in place a (superficially) better Prime Minister-figure.
…When Liz Truss became Prime Minister, I predicted the following, in such terms: that I would be “surprised” if her term lasted as long as the end of 2022, and “astonished” if she lasted as long as Spring 2023. One gold tick for this blog…
No wonder that journalists, MPs, ministers of foreign governments etc read this blog.“
Well…so was I right, or not?
In fact, the resignation of Liz Truss happened later the very same day as the first two paragraphs of my above assessment. Things moved very fast; there was a degree of “groundrush”.
Ha ha! So speaketh a former (?) msm drone, one Peter Bale, who tweeted last year something which showed that he had no idea that Hugh Carleton Green and Hughie Green were not one and the same!
Housing 🏘️ "The clearest issue where millennials differ from the general population and the older generations is in worrying about the shortage of affordable housing. Twenty-nine per cent said it was their top concern, compared with 21 per cent of all voters."
Few under-30s or even under-40s will be voting for the Conservative Party. At the same time, many others in the <40 age group may not vote at all, given the pseudo-“centrist” but in fact extreme neo-liberal finance-capitalist direction now being taken by the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet.
Both System parties (and the LibDem false choice) are effectively the same in terms of overall real policy (not the soundbites issued for cheap point-scoring on TV etc).
The whole UK political system, including the electoral system, is a sham.
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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
That reminded me of the continued existence of Ghislaine “Maxwell”. Looking at Wikipedia, I saw that “In August 2022, her former lawyers sued Maxwell, alleging that she failed to pay $878,000 in legal fees.[157].”
The apple did not fall far from the (((tree))).
The Ukrainian army warns that a massive missile strike with Ḫ-101/Ḫ-22 missiles could soon occur.
Air defense operates over the cities of Mariupol and Berdyansk. British Storm Shadow missiles were launched from Ukrainian territory. pic.twitter.com/5tLbDHVJJ7
That idiot, Ben Wallace, is funnelling arms to Ukraine, at vast cost to the British taxpayer, at a time when the poorer type of British family cannot even heat its cramped little house, nor feed its children properly, and when nothing is working properly here.
Amazing how the Covid dissidents who were eventually proven right still have an aura of disrepute, while the experts who stated falsehoods with such assurance still hold positions of authority and influence. #Kennedy24
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 26, 2023
💬 Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to #BBCLauraK: The duration of the Ukrainian conflict will depend on how much it will be escalated by #NATO countries, including the #UK.
A poor week for me, in that I was beaten by political journalist John Rentoul, who only scores higher than me in about one in twenty such quizzes; he scored 7/10, whereas I scored only 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 8, 9, and 10 (and I admit that I guessed no.5, though it was sort-of an educated guess).
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I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
8/ As latest ONS data showed net migration to the UK reached 606,000 last year, we asked people if there should there be more or less migration to the UK?
⬇️ 49% less migration ⬆️ 10% more migration 🔄 27% the same amount 🤷 13% don’t know
Re. that second poll, for me it means that 10% of the UK population are direct enemies of our country and people, that 27% are non-Brits and/or enemies and/or completely stupid, that 13% are stupid or totally unaware or blind to what is happening all around them, but that about 49% or 50%, half of the entire population, are aware and perhaps angry. What matters, though, is just how angry.
3/ The battle for “Best Prime Minister” is tighter than a pair of ill-fitting Speedos, as Sir Keir Starmer maintains a narrow four-point lead over Rishi according to our latest poll:
…or to put it another way, a near-plurality of voters think that both Sunak and Starmer are both incompetent and dishonest. I wonder why they might think that?
Brexit didn't even happen. It's just a political football to kick around when the fault is lockdowns and sanctions
…and the present Waitrose situation is by reason of “a massive IT failure” at their head office in Bracknell (i.e. nothing to do with Brexit), or so I overheard this morning when getting a few “necessary” items (lottery tickets, kefir, pineapple juice, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean antipasti, Charentes croissants etc). Waitrose gave me a £5 voucher for next time.
I have noticed, in the past couple of years especially, a general lessening of choice, though, but not only at Waitrose. To my mind, UK supermarkets actually had a better selection of goods in 1988…
The System was pushing hard for David Miliband in 2010. A complete System drone, who failed to take over the Labour Party, and then went to the USA thereafter to make a very large salary (now over USD $1M a year) to head “International Rescue”, an NGO with assets of hundreds of millions of dollars: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee#Finances.
A million pounds or more per year, maybe even two million, if his speaking fees and other “earners” are included.
He belongs to the Trilateral Commission as well:
“Membership in the Trilateral Commission is highly selective and by invitation only; as of 2021, there were roughly 400 members, including leading figures in politics, business, media, and academia. Each country within the three regions is assigned a quota of members reflecting its relative political and economic strength. The organization represents influential commercial and political interests that share a commitment to private enterprise and trade, multilateralism, and global governance; this has subjected it to criticism for elitism.”
— raymond delauney (@raymonddelauney) May 27, 2023
People sometimes claim that I focus too much on Jewish or Jew-Zionist influence in international and national politics. Well, just look at the facts.
In almost every instance.
Still, even a stopped clock is right sometimes…
Ukraine should not try to return Crimea and Sevastopol, as this could lead to negative consequences for the whole world. This was announced on May 26 by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
He pointed out that the peninsula had never been Ukrainian in history.
Russia stated the conditions for a peace agreement with Ukraine Kyiv should rule out joining NATO and the EU and respect the rights of minorities, said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. pic.twitter.com/FxyJbq0YSJ
It’s “Kiev”, and always has been, not “Kyiv“, and certainly not the BBC/Sky invention, “Keeev“…
MI6 intelligence has passed on intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that the Russian military is not transferring equipment and military personnel to the Belgorod region from Ukraine. The Kremlin decided to reinforce the borders with regular troops
Cryptic. Does that mean that the Czechs think that the long-talked-about Kiev-regime counter-offensive may start but then stall or even be obliterated?
This man is sick and he is as just as bad as his cadres. I thought he had brains but I was so wrong. Cannot run a bath never mind a country. Ian Smith Warned everybody and so did FW de Klerk. Give the country to the black people and see what happens. https://t.co/6s9Gjvf6tX
[Girls from the Bund Deutscher Maedel —similar to the Girl Guides in Britain— riding out]
“Thought for the day”
Looking at Twitter today in relation to mass immigration and the migration-invasion, it struck me just how many outright traitors and enemies there are in this country. Twitter is of course perverse, and is far worse than the country as a whole. Still, down the road, harsh measures will be inevitable.
— JAMES – ONTHERIGHT (@Jim_OnTheRight) May 27, 2023
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Russia does not need standards, crudely imposed from the outside, which suppress any identity, the time has come for the country to self-determination, the struggle for the right to be themselves – Putin.
Last night in Lyon, France, anti-pension reform protesters set fire to barricades, broke into and smashed the police station and attempted to take over the city hall. pic.twitter.com/u7nTmVTrWP
After Artemovsk, the next Russian target is Chazov Yar. Military Watch analysts believe that after Wagner units take control of Bakhmut, Ukraine may lose control of Chazov Yar. pic.twitter.com/MmHjTZnuBZ
In the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, the authorities seized about 390,000 books in Russian from libraries. Among the authors whose books were decided to be completely removed were Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Yesenin and other Russian writers. pic.twitter.com/VLvVeTAb78
Former Pentagon adviser: Artyomovsk was the biggest trap in the history of warfare Bakhmut became the biggest trap in the history of warfare in which Russian commander-in-chief Vladimir Putin buried the Ukrainian army, former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor said in his blog on… pic.twitter.com/wG247qkqXR
“[Rachel] Reeves said: “What I want to see is people who are already in Britain being trained up for the jobs that are available in the economy… there are many people who are not in work who with the right support, could get into work.
She threw her weight behind plans to devolve back to work support to town halls, with localised drives to get people off benefits and back into work as part of a focus on “incentivising people“.
[The Sun].
There is no real difference between the drivel spewed out by Labour Friends of Israel MP Rachel Reeves and that emitted by Conservative Friends of Israel MP Iain “Dunce” Duncan Smith over the past 13+ years.
“Localized drives” to harass the unemployed and/or disabled, and to take away the tiny incomes (from the State) that they need? Sounds as if any people without high income or capital voting Labour-label will be turkeys voting for Christmas…
“German investigators are pursuing leads which could implicate Ukraine in carrying out the mysterious Nord Stream pipeline blasts last September, according to a new report.”
[Daily Mail]
Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl. Why start a world war for a pack of corrupt Jews in Kiev?
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James Allchurch, the prolific nationalist podcaster better known as Sven Longshanks, was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison after his conviction for ‘inciting racial hatred’. This related to his podcasts on Radio Albion, previously – https://t.co/Lq8wee6rDfpic.twitter.com/0QIeVzA2n8
— Heritage and Destiny (@HandD_Magazine) May 19, 2023
Always remember “the men behind the wire”…
Putin presents state awards in the Kremlin, including to participants in a special operation pic.twitter.com/7CJMtNNKFf
Zelensky announced the creation of the Marine Corps in Ukraine. This means landing in the Crimea and receiving airborne landing craft from NATO pic.twitter.com/Grl0qCZanR
Russia will continue to build ties with friendly countries — Prime Minister Last year, Russia's foreign trade grew by more than 8% to 850 billion dollars, with exports growing by around 20%. pic.twitter.com/peoyZMXUvV
Medvedev: Kiev's accusations that Ukraine has nothing to do with the sabotage attacks in Russia are an absolute lie. Subversive groups of Kiev must be destroyed "like rats", not even captured.Ultimately, the sponsors of the Kiev regime – USA, EU and Great Britain – are… pic.twitter.com/WJNnerpxt5
Idiots such as “Boris”, Liz Truss, and now the Indian money-juggler, Sunak, have been busy painting a big bullseye onto the UK…
Western intelligence is confident that the protracted nature of the war in Ukraine will allow Russia to achieve its goals, which means it is necessary to change the approach.
Look at Ukraine under Zelensky’s regime— no economy left, except for harvesting grain and potato, pensions and State employees only getting paid because the West, mainly USA, is squeezing its own taxpayers for this garbage. “Ukraine” only has arms and ammunition because NATO states and others are funnelling them to Kiev free of charge. The Zelensky regime has shot or arrested opponents and dissidents, closed down trade unions and critical newspapers. As for ordinary justice, young girls suspected of shoplifting get sellotaped to trees on city streets and verbally (and maybe physically) abused.
Ukraine, as it now is, is a “failed state” in all ways.
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No, we should not be bulldozing our beautiful countryside to accommodate an endless stream of migrants from Eastern Europe, while our health system crumbles. https://t.co/3u18ihUeII
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 23, 2023
BBC News is state-funded propaganda. There is no one I trust less to tell me what is and what isn’t “misinformation”. https://t.co/PL9f6niLuB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 22, 2023
You just spent 3 years destroying the economy in the name of a virus with a 99.8% recovery rate and a war that has nothing to do with us. Go fuck yourself. https://t.co/5YxsdSzRba
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 17, 2023
Any stray Russian or “Ukrainian” missiles would be welcome.
Neither Kerry nor any one else has the lawful authority for such an egregious act. Tricksters may insist it might be declared legal, but that doesn't make it lawful. https://t.co/YwsEoP9TZw
The UK police, many of them, are far more interested in doing fake “communitarian” things than doing their proper job, “proper job” meaning deterring or investigating those old boring crimes such as murder, other offences against the person, crimes of acquisition etc.
No, all too many of them have embraced all too readily their new role of being the militia of a toytown “woke” police state, and a poundland KGB, snooping on tweets and other online material (whether they understand that material or not). Still, what goes around comes around, in the end…
The above clip is a typical example. The police in question are chatting about (?) football or (?) Eurovision, and are ignoring the unlawful blocking of the road… until their chat is interrupted. Then they take action, but against a victim of the malicious little pseudo-eco mob, not the mob itself!
Sometimes you can just see what may well happen not far down the road, and if the police fail —continue to fail— to stand with the British people, they themselves will fall victim.
— Sue Lees #EnoughisEnough (@sue_lees) May 22, 2023
Many very silly people think that the Suffragettes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette] were justified in their “direct action” programme, a kind of low-level “terrorism”, because without it, women would never have been granted the vote. The only thing about that, though, is that it is not true.
Women all over the world gained the vote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, almost all without violent protest. Indeed, the Suffragists in the UK were on that same road: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage.
As to whether “the vote” really is useful, in 2023, that is a debate for some other time.
Still, she and her sister, and the husbands of both, have a “nice little earner” going on: both sisters are “Labour” MPs, and the sister is married to yet another Labour MP, while Rachel Reeves’ husband is also well-embedded in the present System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Joicey.
Add up the salaries of that quartet, their personal expenses, their “perks”, and their various other income streams, and you are probably looking at £1M-£2M p.a.
I am now old enough (66) to remember when “Labour” was at least notionally connected to “the working man”, or what were once called (by Labour MPs) “working people“.
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The United States of America did not give permission to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to hand over the delivered equipment to third parties , Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder answered the question about the possible use of American weapons in the attack in the Belgorod region. We… pic.twitter.com/4Ogaws9Adr
Ukraine will never join the EU, never join NATO, and may well not exist in its present form by 2030.
The United States is monitoring reports that the Ukrainian DRG that penetrated the Belgorod region used American equipment, according to the Pentagon. pic.twitter.com/RpihpuVH8r
The USA may be waking up to the dangers of supplying “Ukraine” with endless American arms and cash. Cut off the supply.
Were the pieces of equipment supplied on the nod, without an end-user certificate?
Colonel-General Alexander Lapin against the backdrop of a wrecked American MaxxPro in the Belgorod Region Lapin personally led the operation to liquidate the Ukrainian DRG. To date , 70 Ukrainian militants have been reported killed.
“A gang of dozens of youths terrorised motorists and attacked a bus and police car as they drove through Wembley, north-west London yesterday.”
[Daily Mail]
“Youths“? Ha ha… Even the Daily Mail will not, in the old phrase “tell the truth and shame the Devil”…
The only thing —apart from a riot squad— that might work (but it will never be implemented under the System as it now exists in the UK) would be to have regulations akin to the old South African “pass laws”: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_laws.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) May 13, 2023
All the same, do not be so silly as to oppose “them” in Israel/Palestine and yet fail to oppose their behaviour in the UK, France etc…
Appalling as is the “Conservative” government of Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak, Starmer and his crew are already exhibiting the behaviour that made the Blair-Brown governments so hated in the end. No real choice. Fake democracy.
Has Martin Lewis only just realised Therese Coffey speaks sewage?
When she was at the DWP she killed disabled people. When she was at the NHS she killed sick people. Now as Environment Secretary she kills the environment.
Coffey got thrown out of Oxford for poor grades and too much attention being paid to "extra curriculum activities." I wonder what exactly those activities were?
— CATHY JONES 🇺🇦 🇮🇲 🌹 (@CathyJones65) May 21, 2023
Crimea is part of Russia, and US threats to attack the peninsula are irresponsible. Russia will find a way not to allow that , said Deputy Head of Russian Diplomacy Sergey Ryabkov. pic.twitter.com/HXDVCmQi9Z
Zaporozhye NPP lost its external power supply as a result of the shutdown of the Dnieper power line. Nuclear safety situation at site now 'highly volatile': IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi pic.twitter.com/LVR9NrA10i
Ukrainian sources report heavy losses of the 55th separate artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Zaporizhzhya Sich" near Katerynivka, Donetsk region
RUSSIA IS INCREASING MISSILE PRODUCTION‼️ "Russia stockpiled long-range missiles for Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukraine's public estimate of Russian missile production is now 60 Kh-101s per month, plus 5 Iskanders and 2 Kinzhals. Previously, they estimated the production of…
Russia allegedly could install hidden explosives at critical infrastructure in the North Sea of Great Britain – media
Former head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Lord West, says offshore wind farms and submarine cables are under threat. Fears are growing in London that Moscow could… pic.twitter.com/O8huT52If5
Remember, this week a nationalist podcaster went to jail for 2.5 years for “incitement to racial hatred” while a black kid goes viral for approaching a lone white woman at night, touching her and asking her if she wants to die.
In much of the United States, the young woman could deploy a personal sidearm, and deal with the situation on the spot.
Making it illegal for people to question an event, that's losing more credibility by the day, only serves to make more people ask more questions. https://t.co/bgH6EXH1HY
Departure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemivsk = political defeat of Zelensky At the end of March, the leader of the Kyiv regime predicted his "political career", after which everything turned against him. pic.twitter.com/AVQu4TIbmk
Zelensky’s words in March: “The loss of Artemivsk will lead to pressure from the West, which will force Ukraine to compromise with Russia” Ukraine president, foreseeing the imminent liberation of Artemovsk by Wagner PMC units, defiantly whined at the end of March that a defeat…
The upcoming transfer of F-16 aircraft by the West to Ukraine will not fundamentally turn the tide of hostilities in favor of Kiev – US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
WAGNER" IS GOING ON A WELL DESERVED VACATION The founder of the "Wagner" group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his fighters will go on "annual vacation" from June 1 "From June 1, no "Wagner" ČVK fighter will be on the front lines until we undergo reorganization, replenishment of… pic.twitter.com/LPvBQKC3eo
John Cleese said London is less English now and is 100% correct. This sketch is also 100% correct and was ahead of its time. pic.twitter.com/d6y8nupzQF
China says it sees no reason to keep talking with the United States as long as it pursues a wholly disingenuous policy and continues to step up pressure on the country through sanctions pic.twitter.com/cjZNUApybj
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called all peace initiatives that could lead to freezing the conflict in Ukraine fundamentally wrong. pic.twitter.com/cMdHB31JhO
Even leaving aside that nonsensical statement, I doubt that I am the only one who is just ashamed that my country is now headed by an Indian money-juggler.
A new advance of the Russian army units on the outskirts of Bakhmut, towards the village of Ivanovskoye from the northeast. pic.twitter.com/sc0kF8eawq
Great Britain and the USA are great allies, but disagreements arise regarding the situation in Ukraine, writes the "Wall Street Journal", adding that the British would like the Americans to be more aggressive, and the USA wants the United Kingdom to be more cautious.
That is because the UK is now headed by a pack of cretins of very low cultural and intellectual level.
While some nurses have to access food banks, Tory Foreign Sec James Cleverly, who defended Zahawi saying MP's tax should be private 🤔, has been using a jet identical to that in TV series Succession at £10,000 an hour..
Who could have guessed that Cleverly would be able, thanks to events, to parlay his “Mcdegree” in “Hospitality Studies” and his TA/Reserves part-time Army activity into a stint as Foreign Secretary? Also, has the UK gone totally mad?
“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.“
This looks hopeful, on the face of it. Kennedy is all for taking away the ricebowl of the Kiev regime. At the same time, Biden is very clearly mentally unfit to continue in his office.
The West is not able to make up for the loss of armored vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, admitted in an interview. “The Ukrainian army has lost almost 10,000 armored vehicles since the beginning of… pic.twitter.com/bLKcEW4uhQ
Massive protests against arms supplies to Ukraine take place in Germany.Thousands of Germans in many cities took to the streets demanding an end to the pumping of weapons into the Kyiv regime. pic.twitter.com/WZwIexSpbZ
Russia exported more oil in April than in any month last year. Almost 80 percent of crude oil deliveries went to China and India , and that same India sells to Europe .
Economic sanctions either do not work at all or have unexpected consequences. When I visited Rhodesia in 1977, aged 20, I half-expected to see a country weighed down by sanctions imposed by the UN. What I found was a country where those who owned cars mostly drove quite new ones. The UK complied with the sanctions regime, but France, Germany, Japan etc did not, judging by the cars seen on the road. Outside the capital, Salisbury (now Harare), though, there were often empty roads— one sanction that did have an effect was that on fuel, which was rationed.
I noticed that books were hard to get. The main bookshop (I was told it was the main one) in Salisbury had few if any serious books (and none of my then-favourite Penguin Classics), but plenty of books from South Africa, most seemingly (my perception, anyway) about how to take care of your horse/dog/cat/tropical fish. You could buy Wilbur Smith adventures, another South African import [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Smith]. Also, no American or British news and current events magazines, no Time, Newsweek, Spectator etc. Rather poor South African magazines such as Scope were available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(magazine).
The dearth of serious reading material was probably the result of both sanctions and the disinclination of most Rhodesians to spend time on intellectual pursuits even of a superficial nature.
As to other effects of the sanctions regime against Rhodesia, imported booze (from Europe or North America) was almost unobtainable, but that did not affect me personally during my time there, because my main drink, apart from water and orange juice, was beer, and the local product was of high quality (Lion Lager or Simba, pronounced “Shumba“, or South African Castle Pilsner, my favourite).
The Rhodesians tried to get around sanctions by diversifying, producing admittedly inferior substitutes for previously imported products. Everything from chocolate to whisky, and even some firearms. I remember seeing ads in the local press for a highly inaccurate submachinegun called the Rho-gun. I seem to recall that the price was about $290 (Rhodesian dollars, not exchangeable outside the country officially, though I did manage to sell quite a few —at a poor exchange rate— to a businessman in Gaborone, Botswana, after I left Rhodesia).
I noticed that “white goods” such as refrigerators, icemaking machines etc were very expensive, whereas locally-produced food such as oranges, nuts, and biltong (meat, often beef or antelope, dried in the sun) etc was not too expensive.
As for exports (supposedly impossible under the UN sanctions regime), the Rhodesians were able to export minerals and some fruit etc. Years later, I discovered that the Soviet Union, one of the states pressing for harder sanctions against Rhodesia (and South Africa) had in fact been secretly buying Rhodesian exports (at a substantial discount). Chromium and other minerals, and Mazoe oranges (sold in the Soviet Union as “Chinese”, apparently). All shipped out of Mozambique.
Tobacco was another prime export, sold on world markets by a sanctions-busting operation based, I think, in Rotterdam.
The idea that Russia will be “brought to its knees” by economic sanctions is a pipe-dream. In fact, such sanctions help Russia in a “be cruel to be kind” way. They force Russia to diversify, and to improve agriculture and horticulture. The sanctions have also forced Russia to create new trading links, and to strengthen existing ones.
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[regrets for the silly and weaselling intro to the music, and the equally silly graphic…]
“Human rights abuses”
The next time some bought-and-paid-for “British” or American politician-for-hire, or some Jew neo-con publicist, or fake “centrist”, talks about “human rights abuses” by Russia or others, remember the behaviour of the USA itself. Here are a few examples:
The above two images show the American concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, on the island of Cuba.
…the fact is that the German camp guards of WW2, and even the brutal Soviet guards in their labour camps, behaved better than the Americans have in recent decades.
In 2016, one of the five tweets that got me disbarred, at the instigation of two connected packs of Jews, was that describing Sarkozy —accurately, except that he is not a full Jew, only part— as “a corrupt little Jew“. Well, scroll on 6-7 years and here we are…
Another of the five supposedly “grossly offensive” tweets posted by me, as a result of which I was unlawfully disbarred, was that describing snivelling cocaine user and drunk, Gove, as corrupt, as a fraudster and as a freeloader, and also as being in the pocket of the Israel/Jewish lobby.
Well, any argument on that now?
Look at the above news report. Speculators and parasites are favoured by Gove’s latest policy U-turn. Not all are Jews (and not all Jews are speculators and/or parasites) but, at the same time…
So, of the five “offensive” tweets, turns out that, in fact, two were undoubtedly —and now provably— simple true statements of fact, as were also (in reality) the other three tweets in question.
The greater the number of humans, the greater number of houses you need.
The ‘housing crisis’ is therefore due to mass immigration.
You want to concrete over the Green Belt to accommodate endless mass immigration.
Corbyn was not even decently “antisemitic”, despite the constant (((whine))) about him. In general, a complete idiot.
700,000 immigrants last year. That’s “net”, meaning maybe a million entered but 300,000 (mainly real British people going to Australia, NZ, Canada etc) left.
Britain as a dustbin.
As, I think, Lord Green of Deddington said in the Lords recently, that amount of immigration means that, just to stand still, Britain requires 300 new dwellings every single day!
The Green Belt was championed by the London County Council under Herbert Morrison in 1930s, legislated for by the Attlee Labour Government in 1940s & has been the fundamental basis of a battle to protect the environment in working class urban constituencies like mine over decades https://t.co/aXMSXtaXw4
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) May 17, 2023
Horrible little blots such as Tom Harwood are now showing tiny bits of the Green Belt as scruffy here and there. The exceptions that prove the rule— the Green Belt must be saved and, yes, improved.
Starmer can now, I hope, kiss goodbye to his desired Commons majority in 2024. Much as I want rid of the “Conservatives”, Starmer-Labour is now showing its hand…and it is looking even worse.
It has nothing much to do with “dream of home ownership“. In any case, who wants to own a concrete or brick box in a hellhole landscape, and in which “neighbourhood” your “neighbours” may well be persons of backward culture not long off the boat (literally)?
Rishi Sunak has reportedly told Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Britain will back NATO membership for Ukraine once the war with Russia is over. Seven in ten Britons back this move
Is that an honest poll? I wonder. Of course, the public has had 1-2 years of brainwashing or conditioning.
I wonder whether the results might have been different had the question made the point that if Ukraine joins NATO and has a war with Russia, it will be mandatory for all NATO states to join in. That is to say, it would be mandatory to join in a war against Russia which would almost certainly either be or become nuclear.
I suppose that, even were the question to elucidate the situation to the people asked, a few lunatics would still want to fight Russia, but most might think that the utter destruction of their homes and whole way of life would be a high price to pay for supporting “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime)…
Suella Braverman favourability among…
All Britons Favourable: 14% Unfavourable: 52% NET -38
Starmer still no more popular than Sunak, give or take a couple of points. Both stupid wasters unpopular with 60%-69% of the voters.
I daresay that, in a month’s time, once people realize that Starmer wants to continue to import millions of unwanted migrant-invaders, and destroy what is left of the still-beautiful English countryside so that millions of hutches can be built to house them, the popularity of Starmer —and so, Labour— will fall further yet.
The whole two-party system (with LibDem/dustbin add-on) is very ingrained. It is, in itself, a potent form of conditioning or brainwashing.
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Thinking about that visit to Rhodesia in 1977: many people imagine that a collapsing society looks like Germany in 1945 (or 1923). Not so. I was in Poland (several times) in 1988 and 1989; also, in the DDR/East Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
The whole socialist system fell apart in late 1989. Yet the police still patrolled, the borders were maintained and guarded (until the Berlin Wall fell), utilities still worked, and there were few political demonstrations, let alone riots or the like. Letters continued to be delivered. Shops remained open, even if they had little to sell in some cases. The seismic changes were about to happen, but there were only slight external signs of that.
One got a sense of considerable discontent, talking to people in Poland and Czechoslovakia (on those visits and elsewhere as well), but the surface normality prevailed. The police still functioned, even in Poland (I myself picked up two tickets for, in the American phrase, “jaywalking”, i.e. crossing the road at the wrong place). Fined on the spot…twice. A recidivist.
Turning from those situations to the UK, there often seems to be little public appetite for swift political change. Frustrating for many of us.
We have seen, over 20 years, almost uncontrolled mass immigration (including, now, direct migration-invasion in small boats across the Channel, thousands of the bastards per day), crushing “austerity” for the poorer half of the society, ridiculous policies about the “Covid” “panicdemic” etc, an inability of Government to supply (directly, or via the private and/or third sectors) services vital to the people (such as trains, road repair, NHS or other healthcare, social care for various groups). Also, a failure to guard our borders, and a failure to clamp down on real crime (theft, drug abuse, social nuisance etc)., while kow-towing to Jewish/Zionist pressure re. social media non-crime.
Now we see idiots such as Ann Widdecombe criticizing parents who cannot afford to feed their children cheese sandwiches, while pumping billions out to “Ukraine” (the Jewish regime in Kiev) and to house and feed unwanted nuisances who have arrived via unauthorized Channel crossings.
Talk to people, and you get a sense of weary resignation in them, rather than anger, though that may also be there, under the urbane English exterior.
Still, there is everything yet to play for. The NSDAP vote in Germany was only 2.6% in 1928. Events happened, and the NSDAP triumphed only 4-5 years later.
“Purplebricks, the once high-flying online estate agent that reached a peak valuation of more than £1.3bn, has been sold to Charles Dunstone-backed rival Strike for £1 with all of its more than 750 staff put at risk of redundancy.
Purplebricks launched in 2014 and received early backing from Neil Woodford, the former star stockpicker. It floated on London’s junior market, Aim, in December 2015.”
[The Guardian].
Another example of the madness of crowds, and the madness of finance-capitalism, though I concede that there are arguments to the contrary.
Remember Lastminute.com? The newspapers boosted that simple and actually not very clever idea, made an entitled/privileged and silly woman (and her Jewish business partner) incredibly wealthy in the speculative scramble, but it ended with the small shareholders all wiped out; cheated, in reality.
The only thing that can be said is that at least most of those small shareholders lost only a few hundred pounds, if that, their share allocations having been very small.
Lastminute is still, I think, trading, technically. I tried to use the booking service once, about 20 years ago. Useless.
As to Purplebricks, looks as if many shareholders are now left with the value of their shareholding being worth little more than 1% of the peak valuation.
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Jack Monroe – I'm a poor single mum on benefits that hasn't got much money.
Not her real name. Not a truthful backstory. Not real food.
Her lies, the media bought them, changed her life… She's got a cushy unemployed lifestyle funded by other people whisky she does fuck all
— ThruppenyBit (Eric B. Johns) (@BoredTillSleep) May 17, 2023
I’m not a detective, but if you give loads of money to an alcoholic/drug addict and they disappear with the dosh, I’d have a fairly good idea on where one might find them. In this instance I’d recommend not starting the search in a paralegals office
“Jack Monroe”, someone with a 10+ year history of successful “grifting” and fraud, yet a few nincompoops in the msm have still not woken up to her dishonesty.
Looks as though she is more or less washed up now as a public figure or minor “celebrity”, despite 430 mugs still sending her a total of thousands of pounds each month via Patreon.
61% of Republicans are ready to support the candidacy of Donald Trump in the upcoming primaries for the presidential election in 2024, according to Morning Consult research. pic.twitter.com/zmo90mbZ9v
PMC "Wagner" advanced to 260 meters in Bahmut. The enemy is fighting for every house, every entrance, every square meter of territory. In the near future, Bahmut will be busy."
“Labour, as we know from the blurted revelations of the Blairite functionary Andrew Neather, actually wanted to change the character of the country. The Tories wanted lots of cheap labour, and didn’t care if it changed the country. The policy continues. I doubt that the latest law on migration will make much difference.
Lord Green of Deddington – a measured former diplomat who deals in hard fact – mordantly pointed this out during last Thursday’s debate in the House of Lords. He said: ‘The Government have actively encouraged large-scale economic migration,’ and produced clear evidence of this.
He warned: ‘The current scale of immigration, of which asylum is only a small part, simply cannot be allowed to continue. The pressure on our schools and public services is heavy and increasing. We already have to build… nearly 300 homes every single day just to house immigrant families.’“
[Peter Hitchens, in the Daily Mail]
[should be captioned “MIGRANT INVADERS”]
Naturally, the pro-immigration careerists and “useful idiots” will display the details of some “refugee” brain surgeon or scientist, maybe one single individual out of every thousand.
John Osborne
“Given a platform to express his views in the 1957 anthology Declaration, he took the opportunity to criticize monarchy:
I have called Royalty religion the ‘national swill’ because it is poisonous… the leader-writers and the bribed gossip mongers have only to rattle their sticks in the royalty bucket for most of their readers to put their heads down in this trough of Queen-worship… My objection to the Royalty symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay.[67]“
[Wikipedia]
Polemical, but he had a point.
More from Osborne:
“Critics saw a conservative attitude to empire reflected in West of Suez,[41][36][45] and later in the 1970s he expressed support for Enoch Powell;[76] in the words of Osborne’s biographer Michael Ratcliffe, “he drifted to the libertarian, unorganized right”.[69] Several commentators have argued that a conservative and nostalgic strain was apparent in Osborne’s work from an early stage.[77][52][76] As early as 1968, in an interview with Kenneth Tynan, he had declared himself “a patriot in the sense that my life only has meaning here, not somewhere else. This sort of spurious internationalism, where people respond to one another across nations and continents — it seems to me very unreal.“[47]“
[Wikipedia]
I am warming to his words, especially after the pathetic “Conservative Democracy” “conference” (about 100 people), at Bournemouth yesterday, had an even more pathetic knot of pro-“refugee” (migrant-invader) protesters (about 3 or 4) outside the “conference”. They were there, apparently, to support non-existent “climate refugees”.
The unreality has now permeated all levels, from mainstream System political parties (look at the last few Prime Ministers— Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris-idiot, Theresa May) to tiny groups on all sides, even the British nationalist side in some cases.
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a plea for controlled immigration by Lambeth Mayor Herbert N White back in 1955.
fast forward 68yrs and now Lambeth is just 40% English
At the end of the day, do you want your kids to grow up in a world ruled by corporations, with no freedom, no privacy, no ability to travel, where their mere existence will be reduced to a QR code, or do you want them to have a future?
Take a stand now while you still can.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 14, 2023
Your Government is nothing more than an organised crime syndicate, working on behalf of a much larger organised crime syndicate, to ensure the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, all at the expense of the law-abiding majority. You can not and will not vote your way out.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 14, 2023
If we all stopped fighting with each other over which politician should be elected or which party should be in office, and instead united against the people who actually pull the strings behind the scenes, perhaps we’d finally be able to make some progress as a civilisation.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 14, 2023
Voting at the polling station and expecting your life to improve is no less delusional than writing a letter to Santa or leaving a tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 14, 2023
“No way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.” ~Carl Jung
— Inner peace and calm (@AdGurayNameh) May 11, 2023
…and do not forget that millions of “me too” idiots promoted the facemask nonsense, including many many “healthcare professionals” such as doctors. Those who realized the nonsense was nonsense mostly kept quiet to protect their jobs and money.
Interesting but, if the KGB was so cunning, why was it unable to save the Soviet Union itself? The collapse of “the West” may be in train, but that of the “socialist” world already happened, starting (arguably) in 1989.
Not that that means that Bezmenov was completely wrong.
Talking about Golitsyn, his stock was low for decades. I recall discussing the matter in the early/mid1980s, after dinner with a senior member of the (British) Foreign Office research apparat. It was at his home in Blackheath (London), and was a merely social invitation via one of his daughters.
The FO man was dismissive of Golitsyn and, after a couple of his excellent aged Scotch whiskies, emphatically so. I had, at the time, the bad habit of playing devil’s advocate or advocatus diabolus…
All the same, while the Soviet and Chinese communists may not have expressly plotted together to deceive the West about the Sino-Soviet split [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn#Controversies], look at what is now happening— what looks very like a slowly-emerging Russia-China rapprochement against NATO/NWO.
Slightly alternatively, a Russia-China rapprochement combined with a strategy of undermining the West not only militarily but also in financial and commercial areas; weakening the dollar as the default world currency, and bypassing the financial centres of the USA, UK, and EU.
Sometimes, ideas may not become official policy yet have unexpected effects later, down the line. An example of that would be the Helsinki Accords of 1975 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Accords].
Many saw them as meaningless, an example of the Soviet Union “fooling” the West. That may well have been the intention of the Soviet leadership. However, the dissidents in Russia and the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia etc, used the superficially “paper” agreements to push for liberalization of the whole socialist system in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The rest is history.
Also, speculating philosophically a little, I think that, once an idea has passed through even one human mind, it has incalculable effects down the line.
A somewhat similar idea (re. Helsinki etc) was behind the episode of The Sandbaggers (for me, one of the very best spy story series on TV) called My Name is Anna Wiseman.
I confess that, when I first saw that episode, I thought it rather far-fetched. I thought the same, more or less, about Andrei Amalrik’s Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984?, which I first read sometime in the early 1980s. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Amalrik]. In both cases, I was (at least partly) wrong. Sometimes, life can be very surprising. I have found that.
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Not only to “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), but also to Israel:
The Jewish lobby in America captured Congress decades ago. The same is true, to a large extent, of the House of Commons in the UK.
I wonder how long it will be before the first nuclear missiles explode in or over Western Europe, and where they will be exactly. In the UK, for example. Faslane? Chicksands? London?
I myself live only about 20 miles from a major likely target area (Southampton). Maybe, in the end, the thing to do would be to buy an excellent bottle of Chateau Margaux or, maybe, Chateau d’Yquem, and just accept that one can do nothing to stop the madness.
If the Russians keep getting poked and prodded and, indeed, endangered by the NATO powers (egged on by the “you-know-whos”, as usual), this can only end one way.
I recall that, when I was living in the South West of the UK, ~20 years ago, a large amount of cocaine was discovered by a dog walker or the like on the wooded banks of the river Torridge, near Bideford. Obviously left by a small boat at night, probably off a larger ship (this was a couple of miles from the estuary, beyond which is the open sea).
Cannot quite remember the value, but I think it was in the hundreds of thousands, at least.
The finder reported it to the police. What else? After all, even leaving aside moral or legal imperatives, most people would have no idea how to sell such a haul. I certainly would not. I do not take prohibited drugs, and know no-one who does, or who would buy that —or any— amount of them.
The Israeli agency i24 News reports that Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi will soon visit Egypt and meet with the President of this country Al-Sisi. pic.twitter.com/DjYINqpsTs
Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat said: "Fighters and helicopters in the Bryansk region were shot down by Russian air defense." He claims that in total 2 aircraft and 3 helicopters were shot down. pic.twitter.com/vq5qQoJeKf
The Ministry of Defense of Russia confirmed that they hit the storage sites of ammunition, weapons and military equipment of Western countries in Ternopil and Petropavlovsk, as well as the gathering places of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian military attacked Ternopil and Petropavlovka with high-precision weapons The Russian Armed Forces delivered a strike with high-precision weapons at the points of deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and at the places of storage of ammunition, weapons and… pic.twitter.com/v3xWsfMVvw
Russian tanks in Bakhmut terrify Ukrainian soldiers – New York Times “Russian troops are furiously storming the city. Artillery fire, rocket and air strikes do not stop for a minute. Every meter of the city is now under fire. Russian tanks are causing nightmares,” Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/FM8bHaOcKU
Germans know that their territory might well be the first to be obliterated if a terrible nuclear war were to start.
Zelensky again suspected of using psychoactive substances During a visit to Germany, Zelensky carried some nonsense and compared the Russian president to a "Disney princess." pic.twitter.com/VwpAq4a7BS
This is the Jewish comedian before whom the entire “Western” msm and political rabble have bowed down…
Zelensky always looks unwashed to me; frankly rather unclean.
I think that the musicians will beat the comedians…
Ukrainian President Zelensky, who met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, broke most of the rules of etiquette. In particular, he did not miss the pontiff at the entrance to his office. “When Zelensky arrived at the Vatican, after greeting the Pope, both went to the… pic.twitter.com/3F1ic9WahJ
Do you expect manners from “them”? Don’t expect it, then you will not be disappointed.
The Israeli Iron Dome missile not only failed to intercept a Palestinian resistance missile, but failed to land safely in the Gaza Strip and fell into the hands of resistance groups, writes Tasnim pic.twitter.com/Nt93y2YPcb
"95% Artyomovsk, 5% Bakhmut. Until we hoist the banner of the Wagner PMC, this is enemy territory." ㅤAlthough the Ukrainians control less than 2 kilometers of the city, fierce fighting continues in it. Now there is an assault on the "Nest" in the west.
In Khmelnitsky, after the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the ammunition for the Leopard and Marder tanks was destroyed. There was also a cargo from Denmark, Germany, Italy and Japan for €200-220 million Also, in addition to ammunition, €83 million worth of satellite… pic.twitter.com/AmVB85nZmo
“Jack Monroe”, a complete fraud. Amazing that she is still being invited to various festivals, though I think only small ones, and she is still occasionally seen in the mass media. In fact, there are still (as of today) 429 utter mugs each sending her between £3.50 and £44 monthly via Patreon. Those idiots must have cotton wool for brains.
Yes, I know that there are other online “grifters”, such as one “Supertanskiii”, a blond woman who has made a living ranting pointlessly on Twitter about “the Tories” (because fake “Labour” under Starmer would be so much better…oh, no, wait a moment…). “Jack Monroe”, though, is a particularly egregious, and indeed pathological, liar.
I'm sure we can all be pompously dismissive but it doesn't really further the discussion.🤷♀️ Some people care about pretence & hypocrisy. Jack Monroe has her lifestyle funded because she led people to believe she was in dire straits. Legitimate questions remain about other funding
I blogged about those events several times in 2022. As I guessed, there never was a libel action launched, but “grifter” Jack Monroe pretended for quite a while that there was, and solicited donations from mugs.
In fact, her one-time chosen lawyer, Israel-based self-promoter Mark Lewis (about whom I have also blogged in the past), has not even come out of his kennel on her behalf in the past year, as far as I know.
As a matter of law, she should refund the donors because they have contributed to a fund for a purpose which hasn’t been pursued. Unless it was clear when they contributed that they consented to their money being used for another purpose eg charity if the primary purpose failed
The Russian military launched a strike with incendiary ammunition on the areas of Bakhmut, which are occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/uzNIklH5Pm
Inexorably, the war moves towards total war. The Russian side cannot tolerate forever the continual escalation.
Footage of hits with thermobaric projectiles "Solntsepeka" on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the special operation zone pic.twitter.com/P6Ds8dQpZQ
Hard for the Jews (in Israel) to continue to present themselves as perennial “victims” when advanced jet aircraft supplied by or paid for by the American taxpayer mercilessly attack Arab real victims, who have no means of self-defence at all.
Since 1992, the United States has had plans to include Ukraine in NATO
This was stated by the American economist Jeffrey Sachs, relying on his sources. “I will tell you a secret. The US lied because already since 1992 there were plans to expand NATO, including, by the way,… pic.twitter.com/7IMFldIcSe
Comment about Starmer’s latest speech. I agree with the extract quoted by Rentoul but, having said that, one could say that “Labour” is no longer “socialist” or even broadly “social” (politically) and is (just like the “Conservatives”) also completely out of touch.
Both System parties, and both entirely in the pocket of the Jewish-supremacist lobby.
As a Londoner, I can testify that if you travel regularly on London public transport, every week or two you are likely to experience or witness verbal harassment or threatening behaviour from some damaged individual or street thug. It's disgusting.
Import the uncivilized non-white world (and allow the non-whites to breed prolifically, and also fail to control them) and you import these sorts of social problems.
Not that all such problems are caused by non-whites, but most are. About 90%, even though the non-whites are “only” about 20% of the UK population, and about 40%-50% (?) of the London population.
Paris, France
Why do strive so much for the EU when the countries that are in it strive to leave? pic.twitter.com/EWyYVq5o9m
The Eastern European states, and the poorer EU states generally, love the EU for its financial largesse, the redistribution of wealth from the “old EU” to the “new EU”. Ireland, the Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc. For the larger, longer-membership, western and central European states, the wealthier ones, the EU is disastrous. UK (until recently), France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands; also Sweden, Denmark etc.
There is also the problem of non-white migration-invasion.
The original EEC/EC was not so bad — relaxed trade and travel, even relatively easy residence and work—. It worked because the original EEC populations were closely-related northern European nations, and because it was primarily a trading bloc, not an ever-expanding political project.
There was no non-white migration-invasion, because Libya under Gaddafi, Morocco, and Algeria all stopped Africans from coming across the Mediterranean; also, the NWO had not yet destabilized the Middle East and Afghanistan. Even the Roma Gypsies were “imprisoned” behind the so-called “Iron Curtain” until 1989, and so unable to travel to the UK and other parts of Western Europe.
Press TV also claimed that the first batch of Sukhoi 35s will arrive in Iran next week. pic.twitter.com/KS39rJgWKq
In the long-term, perhaps even medium-term, Israel is doomed.
Battle for Bahmut, 13/05/2023 PMC Wagner troops advanced in the city districts of Zabolnica, 18th school (Constructor) and Cherema (nest) pic.twitter.com/XeHEbmzgw4
Prigozhin reported on new captured buildings in Bakhmut. During the night, Wagner PMC units continued to advance in Bakhmut's nest. Three more buildings were taken over. pic.twitter.com/CFXEFtK1Vi
The Palestinians Saraya al-Quds battalions have received Baraq-85 missiles, which will be used in the battle with the Israeli regime. According to the Sama information site, the range of these missiles is 85 km, the diameter is 220 mm, and the weight of the warhead is 40 kg pic.twitter.com/hgqHmLyst0
Walla Hebrew news site announced that up to this moment 10 thousand Israeli locals have fled from the settlements near the Gaza Strip due to the fear of resistance rocket attacks
“Britain’s compensation bill for victims killed or maimed by AstraZeneca‘s Covid jab could theoretically exceed £1billion, MailOnline can reveal.
Around 90 families are currently pursuing legal action against the pharmaceutical titan, claiming the jab was essentially a defective product.
Lawyers representing the claimants believe that some of the cases could be worth up to £20m in compensation, which is roughly 160 times more than the £120,000 Government support available. They hope to be able to prove that the vaccine was to blame in court.“
[Daily Mail]
The woman who developed that “vaccine” was not only applauded by the stupid rabbits at Wimbledon but also got some kind of official “honour”, I seem to remember.
The Daily Mail refers to the individual as “her” and “she“, and also makes spelling mistakes (but then, the “journalist” scribbling it is one “Vivek Chaudhary”…).
I think that many people, even today, will be honest if they find a purse or wallet. In the past few years, I myself have found two or three. One was a kind of wallet I happened to see in a clifftop parking place. I was there, unusually, early one morning, not long after dawn. I saw the item in the half-light, was curious, so went to pick it up.
The wallet contained about £50 in cash, I think also a debit card, a couple of other bits and pieces, and a student railcard in the name of some girl.
I went home, thinking that the girl must be fairly local, in view of the station which had issued the railcard, only about 8 miles from that car park. Her surname was unusual, so I called the few telephone numbers (landlines) with the same name. Only one answered. An old lady, so no-go.
In the end, I drove to the local police station (its desk manned by an old fellow, a civilian support person) and gave in the wallet. I made the point that there was a large college near the rail station which issued the card, so the girl was almost certainly one of the students there.
I hope that the girl got back her money and the rest. As for what a young girl aged 16-18 was doing in a clifftop car park and (presumably) after dark, and how she managed to lose her wallet, maybe it is better not to speculate…
The second wallet was larger, newer, and packed with both money and cards (an incredible number, literally dozens, neatly and individually carefully tucked into pockets), and had been left in a shopping trolley at Waitrose. I took it in to the help desk, and a member of staff took it from me. Probably the woman who lost it got it back soon afterwards. I imagine that she must have called the store in a panic.
Not that I promise to be a good citizen if someone leaves an attache case containing a million pounds somewhere, which amount of cash could not, in my view, be the property of any honest person. No, the (so far, hypothetical) million pounds stays with me, in that event.
The Conservative Democratic conference. Hall almost empty. Rows and rows of empty seats. The photos show no more than 100 in the audience. In fact, I think that I addressed a larger audience than this one when I spoke at the London Forum in 2017.
Hard to judge the age demographic accurately from the photos, but apart from a few younger persons under 30 (possibly students), and a few youngish blonde women (possibly journalists), the audience seems to have been predominantly grey-haired or bald. I should say, at a guess, that there were more people over 70 than there were people under 50.
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Secret talks between the heads of the special services of Syria and Turkey took place in Moscow.
This makes me sick. So many Britons have died to defend our homeland, yet the Tories have flung open the borders and we face catastrophe as a result 😫 pic.twitter.com/JNGdnBUi3U
“Liz Truss was last night at the centre of an extraordinary row after the Government demanded she pay more than £12,000 following the disappearance of items including bathrobes and slippers from her grace-and-favour country home.
The Cabinet Office was told by staff at the house that items such as towelling robes and even slippers vanished during that period, and have asked her to cover the cost.
‘They have also objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties, and say she owes more than £12,000 for it.’
In December, The Guardian reported that traces of a suspected Class-A drug were found at Chevening after the parties – which Ms Truss has said is ‘categorically untrue’.
The newspaper said members of staff twice found traces of white powder in a games room, after nights where Ms Truss was known to have entertained guests. The workers claimed they tested the powder with a swab which changes colour when it comes into contact with cocaine, and got a positive result.“
[Daily Mail]
I presume that drug-abusing Israel puppet Gove was there, together with Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng).
I was doing some cursory reading on some of 60s race riots (having first read many years ago). somehow I had completely forgotten that the famous 1965 Watts riots (probably the worst in the 60s up to that point) was basically just the Ferguson of the 60s, founded on a total lie pic.twitter.com/z7xDLVeY8o
Helped heal this ones broken leg when she fell from the rafters of my barn as a fledgling. Flew off about a month later and never saw her again. pic.twitter.com/SgMs1RksM3
Washington will not help Kiev forever, and sooner or later the US will leave Ukraine, like Afghanistan So says Scott Ritter, a former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. “When we leave – and we will definitely leave – Ukrainians will be left on their… pic.twitter.com/TV7usQzCck
The GUR Ukraine is preparing a series of operations on the territory of Russia to shift the focus from Bakhmut, who is being held back with the last of his strength, while losing several blocks a day.
Germany has confirmed the transfer of the second air defense system Iris-T to Ukraine, – on the website of the Federal Government of Germany pic.twitter.com/9ZznO02Bbu
President Biden is pressuring Zelensky to launch a spring counteroffensive or surrender talks now. This was stated by American presenter Clayton Morris. At the same time, the Biden team is afraid of the consequences of an unsuccessful Ukrainian offensive. According to the… pic.twitter.com/yi2aIPWXml
Never give in to “them”, never give in to their whining, or demanding, or to their attempted intimidatory behaviour.
So now Richard Sharp, instead of being some corrupt Tory money-man who used his influence and contacts to get power over the UK's state broadcaster, is a 'victim of antisemitism'. Couldn't be more convenient, could it.
“Poverty increased from 5.5% to 24.2% in Ukraine in 2022, pushing 7.1 million more people into poverty with the worst impact out of sight in rural villages, according to a recent report by the World Bank. With unemployment unofficially at 36% and inflation hitting 26.6% at the end of 2022, the institution’s regional country director for eastern Europe, Arup Banerji, had warned that poverty could soar.“
[The Guardian].
Even before the war, Ukraine was the poorest state in Europe per capita. 30 years of shambolic, chaotic, corrupt misrule.
Ukraine is not really a state at all at this point. It would already have collapsed, both economically and militarily, without the huge influxes of Western money, arms, ammunition, and other aid.
“Of the 57 people who have held the highest office, Seldon suggests, Johnson was probably unique in that he came to it with “no sense of any fixed position. No religious faith, no political ideology”. His only discernible ambition, Seldon says, was that “like Roman emperors he wanted monuments in his name”.
“I suppose at least Cummings did believe in Brexit, although ultimately, really, did he?” he says. “From everything we heard [for the book] it just seemed Cummings was full of hatred. He probably hates himself; he certainly hates other people. He wants to destroy everything. Johnson in his own way never knew what he stood for, but he shared that contempt for the Tory party, contempt for the cabinet, contempt for the civil service, contempt for the EU, contempt for the army, contempt for business, contempt for intellectuals, contempt for universities.
About a decade ago, Seldon, who is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, began an informal programme with David Cameron’s government that sought to provide for the present incumbents of the highest office some history of No 10 itself and their predecessors there. He staged a series of talks from prominent historians, as well as performances of Shakespeare in the rose garden, in the belief that politicians “might root themselves in the arts, in the benchmark of what is good and true”. He recalls a performance that the RSC gave for Cameron and guests just before the former resigned as prime minister: “It was quite a moving occasion in the garden. The killing of Caesar was one of the scenes and I remember watching Cameron with his daughter leaning on his shoulder and Samantha next to him.”
When Johnson came to power Seldon hoped the programme might continue – Johnson did after all have a lucrative contract to write a book about Shakespeare. There was no interest whatsoever. “Covid made things difficult obviously,” he says, “but we did come in. Johnson never once showed up. As [his school reports showed] he had no deep interest in any classical history, language or literature or Shakespeare. His examples were always for show. At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty. He can’t keep faithful to any idea, any person, any wife.”
[The Guardian]
Typical of failing societies throughout history; symptomatic.
That photograph, taken on the last day in office of Boris the Clown, is telling. The Poseur in Chief, trying to show off with his younger and new-ish wife, a brainless bimbo almost personifying the kind of careerist know-nothings so prominent in the Westminster bubble of the past decade.
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Here it is, clear as day. Anyone who insists from this moment onwards that Keir Starmer supports PR, or that Labour will introduce PR if they win, is fooling themselves.
The decisive moment" according to Ritter Scott: In the battle for Artyomovsk, the backbone of the Ukrainian army was broken.Due to the serious losses of the Ukrainian armed forces, especially after the battle for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the conflict in Ukraine could enter a new…
NATO sent only 98% of what they needed for the "counterattack" to the Ukrainians. Now Russian forces will destroy everything "necessary", but it turns out that not everything!
After strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the railway junction of Pavlograd, eyewitnesses report a mass detonation of anti-aircraft missiles for the S-300 complex,two divisions (up to 16 installations) of S-300P were destroyed. In addition, supply vehicles with reserve… pic.twitter.com/omZzPXt2zM
🇷🇺The Russian army during the special military operation in Ukraine started using a new command for artillery fire, which reads "three hundred and thirty three". pic.twitter.com/78MPZclJ1f
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