A New Forest farm owner is offering a novel and alternative solution to people looking to dispose of their Christmas trees – by feeding them to her alpacas https://t.co/TAbCdUe99F
What I know about alpacas would probably fill only a very small postcard. I was surprised to read that they can eat fir or pine trees and the like. According to Wikipedia, their usual diet is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca#Diet.
I've got my Union Jack flying high in North West London. Surrounded by non British but don't give a f*ck pic.twitter.com/YrWAMW5ZWR
Police vs rioters in lawless London on New Year’s Eve. Once upon a time, London was not a Third World shithole. Politicians and mass immigration changed that. pic.twitter.com/9bdRNWMXso
You still see tweets etc demanding that “the authorities” or “the Government” should “do something”. Such tweets (etc) miss the point. The “authorities”, “Government”, “Opposition”, mainstream media drones and scribblers, and the craven legal and judicial system, are those, or some of those, responsible, pushing mass immigration, pushing the lie that it is a good thing, and pushing the multikulti society which is in the process of destroying what is left of our own society.
Israeli media publishes an opinion poll showing Netanyahu in last place, with 15% wanting him to become prime minister after the war. pic.twitter.com/bkteLkQPSE
Lost wars are never popular and, while the Israeli war machine is slowly grinding the life out of Gaza, there is no easy victory for the (Israeli) Jews in that theatre, and casualties are mounting (though a small fraction of those suffered by both Gazan combatants and non-combatants).
Meanwhile, it seems to me that the strategic position of Israel has never been so precarious, even in the 1950s. Hezbollah threatens the northern border, Iran is developing longer-range missiles, and the Israeli economy is battered by the Gaza conflict, the evacuation of the northern border areas, by the situation in the Red Sea, and by a worldwide consumer boycott. Also, Israeli society itself seems fragmented, disunited.
To my mind, and for the first time in my lifetime [b. 1956] one can see a possibility, even a probability, that the State of Israel may not survive for very long into the future. Ironically, the nuclear and other advanced weapons of Israel may prove to be irrelevant, in that what seems most likely is a mass “invasion” or insurrection by lightly-armed militants (as in the recent Hamas incursions into southern Israel). Israel cannot use its most powerful weapons on its own territory.
A word about junior doctors striking
I have little time for the selfish yet virtue-signalling junior doctors. Many of them are useless anyway, and now we see that, when push comes to shove, they are willing to abandon their patients in order to demand better pay.
Yes, there remains a “skeleton service”, but that is a conscience-salve equivalent to the blank round given secretly to a randomly-selected member of a firing squad.
What about that pay? In the first year of work, they get a basic salary around £33,000, but that can greatly increase for overtime work of various kinds. Many are making over £45,000.
Admittedly, £33,000 is no fortune, but that is, after all, for persons recently-qualified. There are huge numbers of people in the UK making less, even after 20 or 30 years of work, and that is even disregarding the unemployed, sick, disabled, pensioners etc.
A second year doctor in a hospital gets £37,000+ (up to about £50,000).
Salaried GPs get between £70,000 and £105,000. Partner-GPs get far more.
Hospital doctors get increments annually; a complicated series of payments for various training programmes and placements raises the salary of many far beyond the minima.
NHS consultants start (in their first year of consultancy) on basic pay of just under £100,000, and make far more with seniority etc.
I say nothing about whether doctors (at any level) “should” get more pay, simply that it is disgusting that the junior ones seem willing to abandon sick and helpless people, often very vulnerable people, often people in pain (and in need of strong painkillers which can only be prescribed by doctors, meaning the “men —and women— in white coats”).
If junior doctors and, beyond that, what is so often —and cringingly— called “our NHS” callously abandon the British people, it may be that the British people will eventually abandon the doctors and demand a health service that works for its patients and not mainly for the benefit of those that work in it.
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Remember in 2019 when ABC News Anchor Amy Robach was allegedly stopped from airing her Jeffrey Epstein expose implicating Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton at Epstein Island? Did Hillary Clinton ask ABC to stop? pic.twitter.com/O3KQ62n5FH
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein’s court documents with the list of over 200 names is getting released in a few hours. Nothing will ever be the same again. pic.twitter.com/WFVvZYWJor
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) January 2, 2024
Actually, I do have one observation to make, which is that, obviously, in this conflict, truth has been the first casualty, but that, after truth, the next casualty has been the supposedly “elite” reputation of the Israeli Army.
I see that opinion polls are now indicating that Trump is gaining ground among the “young”, Hispanic, and black voters. That could be a gamechanger, if Trump can survive to be voted in and his second term inaugurated.
Well, this week brings a return to winning form: I scored 6/10 as against John Rentoul’s 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 4, 6, and 10.
A remarkably stupid woman, who only became an MP on her back.
Half the faculty jobs in history over the last three years focus on ethnic identity, 35% on African American history. And this doesn’t account for the jobs focused on social justice/equity.
The cultural fall of the USA has been absolutely incredible.
Most academic jobs & research grants now also demand "diversity statements" which is, essentially, an ideological litmus test whereby you must swear allegiance to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI). https://t.co/yCoIWH0upH
The contamination, in the UK, has reached deeply into the police, the legal professions etc.
‘The Conservatives are entering 2024 in a very vulnerable position.’ @GoodwinMJ responds to the GB News end of year poll finding over half the country feel 'worse off' compared to a year ago. pic.twitter.com/shfvUsj6nj
I shall be surprised if the Conservative Party has more than 100 seats this time next year; if it has over 150, I shall be astonished. If it has fewer than 50, I shall only be mildly surprised. I think between 50 and 100.
“This is the terrifying moment a teenage girl was sprayed in the face with ammonia and bleach in a random attack on her doorstep.
Shannelle Farrier was left in excruciating pain and needed her eyes washed out with several litres of water at hospital after brute David Nicholson threw the chemicals in her face. The shocking assault was captured on CCTV in the hall way of the 19-year-old’s flat in Newcastle.
She said: “I felt burning in my eyes and my mouth. I was screaming in pain yelling that something was in my eyes. I honestly thought that I was going to die and screaming out for help. It was instant, I didn’t know what was happening. They did it without rhyme or reason.
“There was a strong smell of bleach. We thought it was an acid attack. I eventually ended up unconscious. My friend had rang an ambulance who turned up in protective masks and hauled me in the shower to wash off as much of the substance as possible.“
Shannelle was rushed to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary where her eyes were swilled with litres of water to return them to a normal Ph level. She spent a total of five hours being treated before she returned home. She said: “I felt violated. The attack happened in my own home.
“After that, I went to stay with my mother for months. For me, last Christmas was totally ruined. I spent the entire time worrying about my sight. I couldn’t leave my home, I had to quit my college course as I was too nervous to be outside. I was constantly looking over my shoulder.
Nicholson, of Hauxley Drive, Gosforth, Newcastle, was arrested a week after the attack. He later admitted assault. He was sentenced to 20 months, suspended for two years with rehabilitation requirements and an alcohol abstinence requirement at Newcastle Crown Court earlier this week (December 20).
The thug was also given a five-year restraining order to protect the victim. Shannelle has now slammed the sentence, claiming he got off lightly after he intended to cause harm.“
[Daily Mirror]
As regular readers of the blog will know, I am not a “hanger and flogger”, but this seems ludicrously lenient.
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[painting by Volegov]
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NEW. Which ONE issue do you think gvt shd prioritise in 2024?
ALL VOTERS 1. Tackle cost of living 2. Improve NHS 3. Stop the boats
CONSERVATIVES 1. Stop the boats 2. Tackle cost of living 3. Improve NHS
LABOUR 1. Tackle cost of living 2. Improve NHS 3. Tackle climate change…
Five years ago I was bullied out of the Labour Party. They described me as an appalling transphobe. @UKLabour needs to recognise women are not being silent any more. #labourlosingwomen
Britain has had enough of the “trans” nonsense. Anyone who imagines that Eddie Izzard is a woman is someone who should never be in any position of power or influence. Societal poison.
Return to the Shujaya region after the defeat of the Israeli Golani brigade.
RITTER: UKRAINIAN FORTIFIED DEFENSE MAY BEGIN TO CRASH WITH MARJINKA AND AVDEJEVKA
Associate Professor of the Russian Economic University "Plekhanov", Colonel Aleksandar PERENDZHIEV: "Zaluzhny did not embellish the situation… pic.twitter.com/SzJMX4M0h4
I happened to watch a Celebrity Weakest Link show today on TV. As usual, the “celebrities” mostly knew almost nothing. The comedian Joe Pasquale was a deserving winner, but it was funny to see Jew-Zionist “activist” Tracy-Ann Oberman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy-Ann_Oberman] not only struggle in places with fairly simple questions but also get voted off, and then, it seemed to me, fume (though looking as if she was trying to disguise it, at least a little) about having been voted off.
Also, I may be wrong, but it seemed to me that she looked drunk as she walked off (the so-called “Walk of Shame”). I do not say that she was drunk, but she certainly looked (to me) as if she was, looking at her gait. Just my honest opinion based on what I saw, of course.
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[ruins of Kiev, 1943, the same year as the composition of Myaskovsky’s 24th Symphony]
[Paris under German occupation, c.1942. Note that the young soldier has no need to be armed as he fraternizes with a Parisienne in the Jardins du Trocadero]
As Enoch Powell once said, “we must be mad, literally mad [to allow this]”. The sheer sense of entitlement is stunning. Even the liberalistic Netherlands turned down the invader’s application, so he comes to the UK, where flourishes a combination of political and administrative inability to organize anything, and a miasma of “woke” craziness, meaning that the invader is still here at Government (taxpayers’) expense and may never be removed.
As Enoch Powell said, “literally mad“.
Now multiply the above case by the thousand, by the million…
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I see the RNLI are heavily advertising at the moment 🤔 ‘Just £3 a month’ ‘We can’t do our work without your donations’
So they want us to contribute to assist their efforts ,mostly collecting illegal spongers , which we then pay to house and keep in hotels here
It looks more and more to me that there must come a time when, in the words of Nietzsche, there will have to be “a revaluation of all values“…whatever it takes.
We, eg in the UK, are now living in a largely alien and hostile culture.
Every time the question feels redundant but how can this country's senior leadership be this stupid. https://t.co/GeYnyV5ijI
"While Europe shifts right and Donald Trump continues to poll strongly in America, 2023 saw the continued implosion of the British Tories — a conservatism that is electorally, ideologically, philosophically lost" https://t.co/XMZzynXtk3
The Conservative Party— a completely useless and clueless party, whose MPs are almost all just incredibly self-serving, and almost all incredibly stupid. On top of that, 80% of them belong to Conservative Friends of Israel.
Not that the Labour Party is hugely better. The only thing to do, for voters at the 2024 General Election, is to try to destabilize the fake binary system by making sure that at least one major party (i.e. the Con Party) crashes and burns, even at the expense of having to endure, for a while, a kind of elected dictatorship under Labour idiots.
I think that most voters, even former Con Party voters, have now written off the Conservative Party, and will not vote for it. Many, though, will never vote Labour either. It is an open question how many will simply abstain. Somehow I think, at the GE, not so many. They may seek out protest votes. Reform UK is plainly controlled opposition and pro-Israel etc, but will probably get a much higher vote than many are predicting; certainly 10%, possibly 15%, and I would not completely rule out 20%, depending on events.
Only a social-national movement can save our society, but at present it does not exist in any serious or hard-hitting way.
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Jeffery Sachs confirms that it’s the US that’s isolated not Russia.
The USA should ditch Israel, but “their” influence is too embedded in Congress, the American economy, the American legal system, the “American” mass media etc. The tail truly wags the dog, despite Israel being entirely dependent, in big-picture terms, on the American defence umbrella.
Mainstream Yale economist Bob Shiller predicts "Cataclysm" for USD as Biden and EU move to seize Russia's sovereign assets.
There was a time when the adults were in charge of the dollar's reserve status. Those days are gone. pic.twitter.com/cFAyhOyZKR
“In 1947, in the aftermath of the Exodus incident, and the” dismay of many in the nationalist camp that the British government was prohibiting large-scale Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, Korff led a Lehi (Stern Gang) plot to firebomb the Foreign Office in London in protest.[4]
He traveled to Paris and offered money to a decorated member of the United States Army Air Forces, Reginald Gilbert, to fly the plane that would first drop leaflets, then drop the bombs.“
[Wikipedia].
Another Jew terrorist, in other words.
According to Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky], MOSSAD has secret arms dumps in every country where there are Jews (except the USA, arms presumably being widely available there). Hundreds of young Jews go to Israel from the UK every year on special courses. Most are trained in the use of weapons; some are trained with explosives. So when they return to the UK, what are they? Sleeper agents? Future terrorists?
If someone leaves Europe to go fight in the Middle East because of their religion, you would certainly describe them as religious extremists.
"Israel" is a colony of religious extremists. They have come from Ukraine, Morocco, France, the US, to steal land and kill for Zionism.
⚡️ Great Britain is urgently sending hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine for British air defense systems – the Ministry of Defense of the country.
This decision was made against the background of today's morning attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mZfSJIyKGn
That’s right, waste millions of taxpayer pounds on aid to the corrupt, shambolic, and brutal Zelensky dictatorship. Meanwhile Britain’s own shores are being invaded by migrant-invaders who are not being resisted in the slightest. Indeed, the British forces are actually aiding the bastards to contaminate our country.
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Patrick Christys and his panel react to exclusive GB News polling on the public's priorities and political leanings ahead of the next general election.
'Most people in Britain want the boats to stop, they want the borders to be strengthened and they want less immigration.'@GoodwinMJ reacts to files which detail the tough measures Tony Blair considered for dealing with illegal migration when he was Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/BrTx5dA4Zq
Mere numbers are only the starting-point. The vital point is, if there is a massive nuclear exchange between, mainly, the USA and Russia, what happens? One of today’s warheads probably does almost as much damage as two, or ten, or more, if all hit more or less the same place.
Obviously, were there to be such an exchange, the USA, as a functioning state, would more or less cease to exist. The same is true of Russia. As for the UK, it might be wiped out not only as a state, but as a nation (taking it still to be a nation), because of the small geographic size of the UK as compared to the two major nuclear powers.
The forces of the Kiev regime may be able to launch missile attacks such as that on a Crimean port overnight, but the bigger picture is that the Kiev regime’s summer counter-offensive got nowhere and achieved nothing, that the Kiev-regime forces are rapidly running out of ammunition despite huge shipments from USA, UK etc, and that the Kiev regime is now very short of recruits, having to employ ever-more persistent press-gangs; Kiev is now asking EU states to repatriate Ukrainians living in the EU, so that the repatriated people can be put straight into uniform.
Russia is upgrading its heavy weaponry, building ever-more tanks, planes, and missiles. The summer of 2024 may see a general Russian advance which will overwhelm the ragged and exhausted Kiev-regime defences in Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
Even if that does not happen, the Kiev-regime forces cannot themselves advance. They have not the arms, ammunition, or men with which to do that. Their best possibility is to hold the line where it is.
The transnational conspiracy has had its support for the Zelensky regime sidetracked by the Gaza conflict; that is especially true of the USA. Zelensky and his cabal may be able to ban opposition parties, to arrest those opposed to war with Russia, to ban trade unions, and to refuse to hold elections, but what the Zelensky group cannot to is magic into existence more soldiers, more arms, and more ammunition.
The foreign mercenaries and other volunteers have mostly gone home now, those not captured or killed. The Kiev regime now seems to be paying mercenaries from countries with low living standards, such as Peru. Their pay is low. Still, you get what you pay for, quite often.
I doubt that many “contract soldiers”, even from regions such as South America, will now be applying to become casualty statistics in the Kiev regime’s failing war.
My assessment is that Russia is biding its time. That may mean no 2024 offensive (though, to the contrary, one may be launched in order to demoralize the all-important backers and “generous” suppliers of the Kiev regime in the EU and North America).
In the USA, the Presidential election may bring to power a President hostile to more support for the Zelensky regime. Trump is only the main possibility; there are others. Likewise in the EU. “Populist” parties are in the ascendant. Most do not want to funnel endless taxpayer funding to the ungrateful and failing Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
The conflict in the Palestine/Israel region, which has now spread southward to the Red Sea, is already impacting EU trade lines.
Economically, Russia is thriving, overall. While the West generally, and especially the EU, is faltering economically, Russia is doing fairly well. As I predicted 18+ months ago, the sanctions imposed have forced Russia to both diversify and to find other suppliers of food and raw materials. Sanctions rarely have huge, certainly not decisive effect anyway. I myself saw that when, aged 20, I was in Rhodesia (in 1977).
Ukraine (Kiev regime) is, by contrast, not thriving; it only keeps going by reason of the money and other support and aid supplied from outside. Its agriculture is finding export difficult, and some markets closed or restricted. The industrial sector is running at a low level. Electricity supplies are interrupted, and gas supplies more so.
In the long run, what will sink Ukraine as a state (failed state) is the very low birth-rate, combined with the huge numbers of Ukrainians now living in a number of EU states and elsewhere. In the short-term, the ranks of the army are not being replaced.
Russia will win (in Eastern Ukraine), and the NWO will retreat.
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[Tintoretto, The Last Supper]
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🚨🇺🇦 @NYTimes Revelation: #Ukraine employing 'people snatchers' to forcibly recruit untrained men for frontline combat against #Russia. Harsh tactics exposed in a grim #wartime reality. Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson remarks on the Times' late arrival to the truth. pic.twitter.com/Mc6tyUaQyn
SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars because Biden is blocking mining in America. h/t @JamesMelvillepic.twitter.com/V4eR349y1c
Looking at the bigger picture, this is but one of the terrible consequences of decolonization in Africa (etc) from the 1950s through to the 1970s. That process was itself a consequence of the disaster of WW2 and the even more disastrous defeat of the German Reich.
Who now —save for the ignorant and/or brainwashed— can doubt that the post-WW2 ending of European rule over Africa has resulted in war, civil wars, degradation of the environment, and misery for the Africans themselves, as well as irreparable loss of wildlife and tree cover?
The most heartwarming of threads. The fortitude of a dog called Shaq. 👇♥️ https://t.co/iQywJpuOuv
It’s been amazing to see him heal up fully in the last 2 weeks especially. The whole weight of the world has been lifted from him. So today I wanted to give him a big big treat (3/5) pic.twitter.com/MpcYcTAcV1
9 weeks between these 2 sets of photos. You truly are a miracle Mr Shaq.
Have a wonderful day everybody and if you feel a little down or low maybe Shaq can show you comebacks are always possible 🥰🙏 (5/5) pic.twitter.com/PO7oUSFdAg
Not a particularly original or surprising thought (or two), but never mind…
I happened to see, a day or two ago, a Celebrity Chase quiz show, I think first shown several years ago. Nadine Dorries.
Hard to understand why Nadine Dorries was on a quiz show, except for the fact that, though any money won goes to a chosen charity, the contestants are paid (how much, I do not know; I presume somewhere around £1,000).
I cannot now recall the exact questions asked of Nadine Dorries, but she knew very few of the answers, and was quickly knocked out. Her ignorance was, even for a cynic such as myself, almost beyond belief.
The above experience once more led to thoughts of how MPs now really are the bottom of the barrel. Compare them to the better type of MP from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. Jo Grimond, the one-time Liberal leader, for example. A very erudite man who had also served in WW2 as an officer, and been a barrister. His memoirs are well worth reading, incidentally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond.
Not that I agree with all of his views, and the same would be even more true of Denis Healey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Healey], but these people had character, depth, real erudition, and were not simply self-serving careerists.
Compare them to (ex-MP) Nadine Dorries, to “Boris” Johnson, to Corbyn, to Keir Starmer, to Jo Swinson (a later LibDem leader of sorts), to Liz Truss, to Sunak, Matt Hancock etc… Among many many others.
Whatever method is chosen for selecting or electing MPs, Cabinet and other ministers etc, is of secondary importance. Prime importance must be given to the quality of those selected. In darker moments, I tend to think that the fall in overall quality of MPs just reflects the decline and/or degeneration of the society from which they have emerged.
Incidentally, on that Celebrity Chase show, Nadine Dorries claimed that she was the only MP not claiming expenses (in fact, she just meant certain “personal” expenses). Also, that she was campaigning to end MP expenses! The presenter was too polite (or short of time) to retort that she had already been caught actually cheating on her expenses several times, and had only just escaped prosecution: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Expenses_claims.
Zionism and Jews in the UK
Look at the tweet below, from the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]:
To those gentilesplaining that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”, our representative polling of British Jews has found that only 6% are not Zionists, and 97% feel personally connected to events unfolding in Israel.
Yet we constantly see or hear, from Jew-Zionist “activists” (troublemakers), that Jews in the UK have nothing to do with Israel or what Israel is now doing to the people of Gaza…
We also see or hear that “criticism of Israel is legitimate, but any criticism of Jews is ‘antisemitic’ and (they claim) not legitimate“.
The “CAA’s” own survey indicates that at least 80% of Jews in the UK are content to accept the label “Zionist”, and that no less than 88% of them feel “personally connected” to whatever is happening in Israel.
Also, note the derogatory term “gentilesplaining“: in other words, non-Jews cannot say anything about Jews (but Jews can —and do— say the most insulting things about British and other European cultures and peoples).
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Donald Trump leads Biden by four points in Daily Mail national poll despite battling lawsuits pic.twitter.com/QpfnGzKYbF
🇮🇷Iran reversed months-long slowdown in uranium enrichment to 60% weapons-grade purity
Iran already has quite a lot of uranium enriched to 60%. If it continues to enrich, it will be possible to create three nuclear bombs (one requires 42 kg), the IAEA says.
"China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder. India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and…
“China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder.
India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and soon will start attacking Germany’s position, which is currently sixth,” said Maxim Oreshkin, assistant to the Russian president, in an interview with “Expert” magazine.
In his words, the United States of America is killing the European economy, adding that “as soon as they finish cannibalizing their European partners, they will focus on the Asian market.”
Retired US Army officer:
We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
🔺Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be… pic.twitter.com/7BtXMa8iWQ
“Retired US Army officer: We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be afraid of so many American warplanes?
If Iran starts this war, the world economy, especially the economy of Western countries, will suffer. Biden needs to wake up from his sleep, this problem is bigger than the US.
Iran has many missiles and could bring death and destruction to Americans like they haven’t seen since World War II.”
Late thought about Ukraine
UK television news full of the Kiev-regime attack on the Russian ship, and saying that Russia is losing the battle in the Black Sea. Well, the Kiev regime no longer has a navy at all.
Naturally, the loss of a large ship, even a supply ship, is very bad but, the very same day, Russian forces took what is left of the city of Mariinka in the Donbass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67820916.
That is where the war is happening, on the ground in Eastern Ukraine. Russia is slowly winning there.
As for the attack on the ship, already the biased commentators on Sky News etc are heralding the dawn of a Kiev-regime strategic advantage in the Black Sea which does not exist.
In the final analysis, and if push came to shove, Russia could totally flatten Kiev and all other cities of Ukraine, if the leadership were so to decide. What is stopping that is firstly, that Moscow and Kiev were the centrepieces of Russian life for many centuries and, secondly, the fact that Russia is slowly winning this war.
Russia, though, is still one of the two main nuclear powers, and also has awesome conventional destructive capability. In extremis, that power could be unleashed. Kiev should be talking to Moscow about redrawing borders.
Well, this week one of my poorest scores ever, a miserable 3/10. Political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (with 6/10), a rare occurrence indeed. I only knew the answers to questions 5, 7, and 10.
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A Labour MP reported Mumsnet to the police for "extremism" after some mums said men shouldn't be in women's spaces. If you thought counter-terror rules would be used to actually tackle terrorism – sorry, Labour need them to enforce their weird gender ideology. https://t.co/Pfw769fgjt
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) December 23, 2023
Much of the “counter-terror” stuff in the UK is a fake, and a cover for repression of opinion unwanted by and disapproved by the System, or by special-interest groups such as —and mainly— the Jew-Zionist cabals (malicious nuisances such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a kind of volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in the UK).
A mother on Mumsnet has revealed her 14 year old daughter is upset and concerned that she is in trouble because her new substitute teacher snapped "It's miss to you" at her when she called him "sir" pic.twitter.com/zlPm7LbFjA
More “trans” nonsense. Why are so few people, even now, pointing out the sheer oddness of the fact that an absolute tidal wave of this stuff has crashed over the UK in, mainly, the past few years? What is happening? What is being encouraged to happen? What is behind it all?
Consequences of the destruction in the Gaza Strip: The residential area of Sheikh Zayed in the north of the enclave was completely destroyed during the aggression of the Israeli army pic.twitter.com/S9BMNRJlGQ
In 1877, The Times leader column tackled the issue of "oral telegraphy". We declared, authoritatively, that people who hope to send "audible sounds across the Atlantic", were frankly very silly. Telephones had uses in the home, perhaps – to summon servants. But that was it. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DUpG8ZIUBI
I do not say “never believe the experts“, but the fact is that they (and, more so yet, scribblers pretending to be expert) are usually wrong, especially when they try to predict the future, or when unexpected events happen.
The recent “Covid” “panicdemic” showed up ignorance of the supposed experts of the so-called SAGE committee (I called it “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris).
There are, actually hundreds of similar examples, especially if you move from scientific-milieu examples to those of politics and economics. Lenin thought that the Bolsheviks would come to power when the 1905 “Revolution” (uprising) was taking place. Wrong… and Lenin did not think that the Tsarist state of Russia would fall as a result of the first (Spring) Revolution of 1917. Wrong again…
Scenes of destruction caused by Israeli forces in the Jabaliya camp, north of Gaza pic.twitter.com/PeYdhofYnn
Probably a poor-looking place even before the destruction, but these were people’s homes, now blasted by some of the war crimes of the Israeli military machine.
The destruction caused by the Israeli misdeeds in the Awni Al-Harsani school in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/I40O27m6Fw
Zakharova: The refusal of the OSCE to provide us with a list of those killed in Buca – proof that everything was staged " The refusal to provide the Russian side and the media with the list of those killed in Bucha indicates that it was a staging carried out by Ukraine with the… pic.twitter.com/cDWe6lxEWH
At first, I myself believed that the 2022 devastation in Bucha (a small township or suburb very close to, or effectively part of, Kiev) was a real event, albeit one committed by poorly-disciplined allies of Russia (Chechens etc). It is claimed that hundreds of civilians were killed and/or tortured.
Now, I wonder whether it ever happened at all (as reported). The much-photographed devastation seems to have been mainly in one small section of a single street; burnt-out Russian vehicles, destroyed single-storey houses etc. Hard to get to the truth. It may lie somewhere in the middle.
Dozens of adults and children were killed today in the Israeli bombardment of the refugee camp in Jabalia, "Al Jazeera" reported. As stated, members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are trying to advance towards the city from the west and east, disrupting all lines of…
Footage of a mass raid of Ukrainian military commissars in Dnepropetrovsk
Dozens of armed military registration and enlistment office employees and police began a roundup of “volunteers” in Dnepropetrovsk. pic.twitter.com/wi3SjtcQjg
The Russian army is seizing the initiative at the front, Germany is worried
The Russian offensive picked up pace, while the Ukrainian army began to move into a defensive position. This opinion was expressed by German political scientist and chief of staff of the German Defense… pic.twitter.com/hHkQtcRHWp
Lack of ammunition and allied aid forces Kyiv to curtail operations
The Ukrainian army lacks artillery shells on the front line, forcing the command to cancel planned operations, writes The Washington Post. This exacerbates Kyiv’s already palpable anxiety amid delayed financial… pic.twitter.com/m2VT1nTIGt
She seems to be mentally disturbed, and/or perhaps a drug-abuser. God help the USA (and Europe) if that crazed woman becomes U.S. President.
Her Wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley] contains a couple of interesting facts. Turns out that she is an Indian (Sikh), and that her personal wealth, estimated at USD $1M in 2018, had jumped to USD $8M only 2-3 years later, in 2021. How?
London will continue to ignore the reality unfolding in #Ukraine. Acknowledging a failed strategy by the #UK would require further explanations and admitting a huge strategic miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/uJZzXABFXv
Saw a tweet from a tweeter claiming that “Hitler was a great failure“. So tweeted a professed fortune-teller [“I read tarot cards with numerology, & zodiac signs“] with exactly two Twitter/X followers and who is following 91 others…
Laugh of the day? Maybe; maybe just unconscious irony of the day…
In fact, I think I see what that tweeter was getting at with his comment, but think also that I shall not comment further on it today…
“A restaurant that drowned three hundred cats a month to fuel Vietnam’s cruel meat trade has been closed for good.
The Gia Bảo restaurant in Thai Nguyen city, in the country’s northeast, ran a lucrative trade selling cats, likely including stolen pets, drowned in a bucket one after another.
For five years, Pham Quoc Doanh, 37, ran the establishment after struggling to feed his family selling ‘other normal food and drinks’.
‘It was then I tried selling cat meat since there was no other available restaurant serving this in the area,’ he told Metro.
Doanh reached out to the Humane Society International, campaigning to ban the trade in Vietnam, who offered him a one-time grant to set up a grocery store instead.
On December 6, he symbolically tore down the banners outside his slaughterhouse and restaurant and began a new life.
‘For a while now I have felt a genuine desire to leave the cruel cat meat business and switch to something else as soon as possible. When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,’ he said.
‘Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.’
An estimated one million cats are killed each year for their meat in Vietnam, according to the charity – despite 71 per cent of the population favouring a ban.“
[Daily Mail]
Well, my opinion of Vietnam has never been very high (I admit that I have never actually been there), but at least 71% of the population apparently want this trade banned, and they do seem (from what I read today) to be taking steps in the right direction.
Zelensky's Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty… pic.twitter.com/LPFArRrtRu
“Zelensky’s Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization received too favorable conditions to remain in the West forever.
He admitted that Kyiv is interested in bringing them back and giving them the opportunity to “repay their debt to the state.“
The British Guardian newspaper writes that Israel lost the war, but Netanyahu and his radical cabinet do not want to admit it. pic.twitter.com/G4F9WIwrZz
The Israeli military released a video showing the destroyed of an entire neighborhood in the Al-Rimal area in the western Gaza Strip.
The destruction area includes a rehabilitation hospital as well as other institutions, including the Gaza Civil Registry Office. pic.twitter.com/OPsDV7bVZw
The IDF's elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have demolished the major Hamas tunnel network hidden under Gaza City’s Palestine Square, where the terror group's top officials hid on October 7. pic.twitter.com/USy0jwzhn8
I have to admit that I have always found the idea of secret tunnels quite compelling. The KGB had a specific directorate specializing in tunnelling, though one finds little printed about it.
In the case of the Gaza tunnels, we are told that they extend for more miles overall than the London Underground, which has 250 miles of track, much of which, however, is overground. About 110 miles of the London Underground is actually below ground-level.
On that basis, only a small part, maybe 5-10 miles, or <10%, of the Gaza tunnels have been explored or destroyed by the invading Israeli forces so far. Information is obviously being restricted at present.
It makes me wonder whether similar tunnels do not also penetrate Israeli state territory from Lebanon or elsewhere, tunnels perhaps so far underground that they are undetectable.
Germany will not return fugitive Ukrainians to Kiev for mobilization
This was stated by German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann to the Tagesspiegel.
“We are trying to ensure that more people from Ukraine find employment, go to work and do not live on benefits,” he explained. pic.twitter.com/2UEyXKu6hD
In the south of the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, where the border crossing of the same name is located, Israel launched a series of airstrikes in the area of the Kuwait hospital and the Awad Shabana Ali mosque pic.twitter.com/q9yqQsUEau
Let them laugh. “They” will not be laughing in a few years’ time, and not only in Israel/Palestine…
The volume of road transport within the framework of the One Belt and One Road project has increased significantly More products are sent through Russia or Iran by trains and trucks. 🇾🇪 This happened after the actual closure of the Red Sea to shipping due to Houthi attacks. And… pic.twitter.com/LvkmW9d5YZ
Events are constantly putting Russia in a better position strategically.
Kyiv may be left without sufficient military assistance from both the United States and the European Union. A similar opinion was expressed by Swedish expert Bjorn Fegersten. 🇺🇦 He believes that the military potential of modern Europe may be insufficient for the supplies Ukraine…
This is an Egyptian teenager who delivers bread to Gazans through a small hole in the border wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, working harder than any Arab ruler.
When I was several months in Egypt in 1998, I used to really enjoy the flat bread fresh from local bakeries, usually bought from a hole in the wall about a foot or so wide. Still very warm, and with a unique taste not experienced anywhere else in the world. The (Egyptian) Arabic word for it is aysh, implying its importance to life.
🇷🇺 🤝 🇵🇸 Russia is sending another 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza pic.twitter.com/iZwjxXoCa2
“Labour MP Dawn Butler has vowed to report online message board Mumsnet to the Metropolitan Police after users on the site and other social media slammed her reaction to the Brianna Ghey murder trial verdict.“
[Daily Mail]
This is where we are now in the UK. Anything online that some idiot like Dawn Butler dislikes is now “reported”, either to the police or other bodies. If a prosecution under Communications Act 2003, s.127, occurs —and despite the Law Commission having recommended repeal of that as “bad law”— anything highly critical or satirical is now deemed “offensive”, and in practice as “grossly offensive” (and so unlawful).
It is a Kafka-esque farce which I saw at first-hand as defendant in such a case only last month.
The law in this area gives carte blanche to, especially, the usual malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionist whiners, such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, with the police and CPS as dupes.
Still, we must always remember that “the stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].
Dawn Butler’s actions give indication of what the likely “elected dictatorship” under Starmer may look like. Repressive.
Still, the only way at present to destabilize the mainly binary Lab/Con system is to knock out one or other main party. That will be the misnamed Conservative Party, which may be largely wiped out next year at the 2024 General Election, but the price for getting rid of the Conservative MPs will be a near-dictatorship under Starmer-Labour.
The developing “social dictatorship” trialled (in various respects) during the contrived panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022.
If the authorities really wanted to address persistent (real) crime, they might start by banning anyone not on bona fide holiday, or bona fide recreational travel, from using a caravan or motorhome on the roads etc. You know what I mean…
“Britain’s rapidly shrinking military has prompted defence chiefs to shift hundreds of troops from the front line and into recruitment offices.
More than 400 soldiers from across the British Army have been ordered by top brass to join the effort to try and get more people to enlist.
It comes as figures from the Labour party revealed the Army has shrunk by more than 3,000 troops in the past 12 months, with 9,438 personnel leaving while only 6,308 joined.
Britain’s part-time reservist force is also shrinking despite recent efforts to grow it. Between October last year and September 2023, 5,580 reservists left and only 3,780 joined.
The latest recruitment statistics from the Ministry of Defence reveal the total Army strength plummeted from 79,139 to 75,983 during the same period, as recruiters failed to hire fresh new personnel to plug the gaps, leaving key roles unfilled.“
[Daily Mail]
So the first move in getting more troops on the front-line is to…take 400 soldiers out of the spearhead forces and sit them in offices?
“Lions led by donkeys“, as someone once said.
Why do we actually bother with an Army and Navy now? They seem incapable of stopping the only invasion happening, or likely to happen these days— the migration-invasion.
Empty bluster from political nonentities just makes Britain look even weaker than it is, and that is pretty weak.
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Had a bit of luck in Waitrose’s car park this morning. I found a £50 note by my car. As it’s Christmas I thought “what would Jesus do”. So I turned it into wine !! 😂.
Ha ha! I liked that. It made me laugh. It may even be true.
I’m not sure where this took place, but I’m sure this gentleman is merely putting into eloquent words what many, many people in this country are thinking – I’ll probably be shot down for reposting this – but the conversation needs answers… https://t.co/hU1DemzUU9
I think —not quite sure— that that was somewhere in Mid-Bedfordshire constituency during the 2023 by-election.
[Note: the post mentioned, about a young man talking to a by-election crowd about the migration-invasion, has been deleted for some reason].
Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
Doggerland was a mix of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys and hills, and most likely inhabited by humans during the… pic.twitter.com/RkAURmYH6X
If Johnson had been honest about Arcuri – maybe, just maybe UK citizens wouldn't be so untrustworthy of his motives regarding Charlotte Owen. Everything involving Johnson is surrounded by corruption/treason. Just incredible he managed to con so many people. pic.twitter.com/e1idU0SkIc
I think that I was one of a small minority who distrusted “Boris”-idiot from the time when he first became an MP in 2001. I was right…
As to the young woman in question, she quite obviously is either secretly related to “Boris” Johnson, or was sexually-involved with him. I think the former.
Christmas is time for family that’s why Charlotte Owen is round at the Johnson’s… pic.twitter.com/cCMveoUtns
How difficult would it be to get DNA samples from @BorisJohnson, his rumoured half-sister Charlotte Owen, his father Stanley & her mother Kathryn L Grantham? pic.twitter.com/2fNFqOC4cS
As for the rumoured “super-injunction”, no-one has told me…
The Internet makes mock of many things, and the various “little Britain” things especially. The overall situation, however, is not new.
In the 1930s, the public of the USA, France, Germany etc were aware, if interested at all, that Edward VIII was involved with a Mrs. Simpson. In Britain and its colonies, though, that was kept secret (from the British public) until 1937 (to be exact, from December 1936).
In the 1980s, similar situations arose. In the early 1980s, I was told that, at a State banquet held at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for an important Soviet delegation, and attended by someone I knew, the leader of the Soviet group said to a British minister how sad it was that former Prime Minister, Harold Wilson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson], had become completely demented (Alzheimer’s, or similar). Apparently, the British minister nodded sagely before changing the subject.
So the Soviet Government knew, the British Government knew, but of course the British public did not know.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, those interested in the rather underwhelming book could buy it and read it without let or hindrance. Absurdly, the same was true in Scotland, because Scotland has its own legal system and the British Government had not thought to apply for any restrictions in that jurisdiction.
I myself had a copy of the book soon after publication. Not a total bore but not exactly riveting either. Had the Government simply let Wright, the author, sell the book without all the publicity occasioned by the attempt to ban it, it would never have become a bestseller. As it was, millions of copies were sold, and Wright died, possessed of huge royalties, in 1995.
In fact, had the Government paid Wright his full pension at an earlier stage, he never would have written the book, or at least published it.
Now we have the Internet. Anyone with, say, a Twitter/X account can publish or republish under their own name, or a pseudonym. The English courts are unable to prevent —and/or in most cases even punish— any breach of injunction, certainly not before millions of people around the world have seen the material.
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I have numerous hotels full of illegal migrants in my town. Sheltered, fed and all needs catered for. Meanwhile they congregate in the town centre free to roam whilst walking past our homeless on the streets. What an utter betrayal to our own😡😥
Dutch political commentator, Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar), on the WEF's plan to impose a personal carbon allowance, connected to digital ID, under the guise of tackling the imaginary "climate crisis":
“Dutch political commentator, Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar), on the WEF’s plan to impose a personal carbon allowance, connected to digital ID, under the guise of tackling the imaginary “climate crisis”:
“The CEO of one of the largest Dutch banks said, if everyone gets individual personal carbon credits, why don’t we make it so that rich people, who for example want to go on holiday a little too often, can buy personal carbon credits from people who can’t afford buying plane tickets or eating meat too often?”
So what will happen is the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and they’re saying it openly as if it’s not a controversial thing at all. It’s neo-feudalism. That’s what it is.”
They’re sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel while America looks like this 👇
Orban: Ukraine's membership in NATO would only drag the Alliance into conflict
▪️Hungary opposes Ukraine's intention to join NATO, because it could lead to the involvement of the member countries of the Alliance in a military conflict, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán… pic.twitter.com/ZHXKrtGKWW
Regardless of whether or when Israel crushes the population of Gaza and maybe occupies Gaza indefinitely, Israel’s days are numbered. Hamas is not Israel’s only opponent.
In the event that Germany confiscates Russia's assets, it is not excluded that Moscow will take reciprocal measures, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. We have something to confiscate in return, Lavrov emphasized. "Now they are thinking of finding some legal way to… pic.twitter.com/VGdok7d1id
Nonsense. Speak to anyone who works in recruitment or University admissions. Educational standards have fallen dramatically since the late '90s. Grade inflation has given us a generation of "highly qualified", semi-literate young adults who know next to nothing of any real value. https://t.co/uGBI5LMyNK
When I opined, at various times over the years, that the UK would gradually decline, crumble, break down, most people either disagreed or replied that nothing could be done about it.
BREAKING: Chaos has erupted at London Euston station after all trains have been cancelled due to a fault on the line
I’m meant to be travelling up to Manchester for Christmas today and I’m looking at the Euston clusterfuck and wanting to fucking scream/cry. Can this country stop being so unendingly shit for five fucking minutes
Somewhat akin to my curses as I traversed the crumbling roads of coastal southern England today. Potholed roads (mostly “A” roads, at that, not “B” or unclassified), and mostly not being repaired.
The UK Government has money with which to close down the economy for months and years because of panic over a virus that killed hardly anybody, it has money to spend on housing and feeding hundreds of thousands of migrant-invaders, it has money to throw away as “aid” to the corrupt, brutal shambles posing the the “state” (failed state) of “Ukraine”, but little for the British people.
At the same time, in the UK itself, almost nothing works properly: the migration-invasion continues, people generally are getting ripped-off right, left, and centre, living costs continue to increase relative to both pay and benefits, the NHS is at best now a skeleton service, and the schools and supposed “universities” are churning out “highly-qualified” (thanks to award inflation) “graduates” who know, most of them, ****-all.
That does not cover the entirety of the shambles; just a selection.
⬆️ Update: Passengers onboard the Eurostar have been left stranded in France after the rail company cancelled all trains to and from London due to ‘last-minute’ strike action. pic.twitter.com/1V1mguA5yl
“Former defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned Israel that it risks undermining the legal basis for its action in the Gaza Strip, adding to growing international pressure over the escalating conflict.
Writing in the Telegraph, the senior Tory warned against a ‘killing rage’ and said Israel’s ‘original legal authority of self-defence is being undermined by its own actions’.
The intervention by Mr Wallace, who left office earlier this year, is the latest warning to Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration amid deepening concern over the scale of civilian casualties.”
[Daily Mail]
Even pro-Israel drones such as Wallace are now trying to distance themselves from Israel’s “massacre of (mainly) the innocents” in Gaza.
The Israelis and other Jews may not be (mainly) descended from the original Israelites of thousands of years ago (the Jews of today being descended mainly from Black Sea or other Khazars), but the former model their actions on the Israelites’ genocidal wars as recounted in the Old Testament.
“Jack Monroe”
Certainly overdue for a reckoning on this one. She seems to have gone silent which is a good thing in terms of her dangerously misguided "campaigning" but can't help wondering why none of the celebrities that defended her have nothing to say now. #JackMonroe
I do think she wrongly perpetuated the idea that one could feed a family healthily for £20/week. Which was a lie. And contributed to some terrible stereotyping of pple in poverty. Aided austerity, rather than challenging it.
You're right. The lack of due diligence in fact-checking #JackMonroe backstory or whether any of her claims actually held any weight is a shocking indictment on the press.
Rufus Hound blocked me for suggesting that Jack Monroe was not as squeaky clean as people believed. @RalfLittle was also quick to defend the patreon. @Nigella_Lawson was taken in by the lies and, in turn, earned Monroe over £10.000 in a single month. Where are they now? pic.twitter.com/pLyp48i2EU
The above details only “Jack Monroe’s” Patreon “grift”. In addition, the “grifting” fraud also got money from stray donations direct to her, from newspaper interviews, radio, and TV shows and interviews, from “consultancy” “work” for major supermarkets, from well-paid appearances at various festivals and other events, and from book royalties, as well as from fake appeals for money based on non-existent legal actions against Lee Anderson MP and others (monies which “Jack Monroe” then pocketed for her own use). A total of tens of thousands of pounds a month at peak.
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🇮🇱Zionist infiltration of our government and institutions is the ONE thing we’re NOT allowed to talk about.
If you do, you risk (in the UK) being prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby, eg the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. They have corrupted or otherwise suborned the police and CPS. I myself was recently convicted in the magistrates’ courts by reason of such a prosecution, as regular readers of the blog will know (I may appeal; we shall see).
Incredibly, there are millions of poor saps who believe loonies and/or liars of that sort. If you are told constantly, for example, from age 5 or 7 or 10, or 14, and from all manner of “authoritative” msm and other sources, that millions of Jews were killed during 1941-1944 in “gas chambers” by German SS personnel in Poland, then that idea becomes embedded in your psyche, and stays there until you are, so to speak, “cured” in —usually— later life, whether that be at age 21, 28, 35, 42 or whenever.
They sit there in their armchairs, calling for genocide, while fellow-Jews smile and laugh in the TV studio or elsewhere, yet if anyone in the West posts a comment about them, or a satirical cartoon, they are —or pretend to be— horrified, and equate that to “terrorism”…
Will Esther McVey investigate the Tory MP who claimed £8,750 in expenses for her own personal photographer, while sanctioning 1,000's of disabled people for being a few minutes late for their benefit appointments? Esther?
Esther McVey is merely one of hundreds of “deadhead MPs”. The fact that so many clowns can become MPs and even Cabinet ministers proves, in my judgment, that the whole system is rotten.
Wanting to lower immigration, stop the boats, defend free speech, and defend kids from woke ideology is not "extremist". It's what must people in this country supporthttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/A2xyXtQcVs
Goodwin is right on those points, but goes very far wrong in persisting in his support for the Israel lobby, aka Jew-Zionist lobby, the very pack that is closing down free speech in the UK, not to mention supporting the migration invasion.
Adam Fleming: Is Rishi Sunak right to say that illegal migration is a risk to the country & we could be overwhelmed?
Stupid “Conservative” drone thinks that about 50,000 migrant-invaders crossing the Channel every year is “not a huge amount“. 1,000 each week. Where does the Government intend to park 1,000 new arrivals each and every week until the year dot (or until the UK explodes)?
While Zelensky is buying luxury yachts and foreign mansions with laundered US taxpayer funds, his people are going without food. pic.twitter.com/am0IxjD9pO
In 2013, The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed that the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality. pic.twitter.com/9cCZo82NJs
“It is not in US interests to see German, European let’s say, European industrialism & technology united with Russian natural resources. This is not what US grand strategy really wants to see happen.”
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report. pic.twitter.com/JLioOfXf12
Yet another breakthrough for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), this time winning a mayoralty on outskirts of Dresden ahead of crunch state elections next year. None of this will surprise our regular subscribers who were again ahead of the curve https://t.co/1BOBz9pmiz
Just caught the last bit of Channel 5 news.Stephen Fry will give alternative christmas message,talking about the rise of anti semitism. I think,I'll give it a miss this year as long as he is happy in supporting Netanyahu and the genocide of the Palestinians.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Metropolitan Kirill's speech in Kiev in 2008, it's only been 14 years since this video, but watching Kiev today, someone could thing a century have past.
Ukraine along with Russia were then celebrating the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 18, 2023
“Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk addressed the crowd of thousands in Kiev: “What was Russia baptised for? For us to be happy. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus – this is Holy Russia! Holy Russia is not an empire, it is not a union: former or some future one. Holy Russia is an ideal of love, goodness and truth. We are all with you, one Holy Russia! Remain who you are and nothing will shake our unity.“”
I myself once met a Metropolitan of Kiev (the second-ranking dignity in the Russian Orthodox Church). At breakfast. My then girlfriend was looking after him that day (he spoke no English).
I think that that was at the de Vere Hotel by Kensington High Street, and in the early/mid-1980s. Maybe 1983 or 1984. He gave me some of his kefir (the first time I had tried it) and, at the same time, deftly fielded a question from me about his view of Tolstoy. Later that morning, at the empty Russian Orthodox Cathedral (also in Kensington), he gave me a bottle of Moskovskaya vodka.
Political drones and mouthpieces such as Indian money-juggler Sunak are effectively signed-up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and the destruction or deformation of what is left of our white European societies (in Europe, in North America, in Australasia etc).
Statements such as the above are designed purely to mitigate the upcoming destruction of the Conservative Party (again, what is left of it) at the 2024 General Election.
If Sunak can get the nationwide Con Party vote up from its present (opinion poll) 20%, to 30% at the 2024 General Election, then the Con Party will survive, as will the fraudulent UK binary political system.
Note, though, who Sunak (impliedly) blames for the migration invasion— Putin! Not the “LibLabCon”-men and women who have encouraged non-white immigration to the UK for the past 50-60 years, and not “them” (((the usual suspects))), aka (((the “you know who”))), but Putin, the System’s current favourite msm ogre.
In any case, the Rwanda policy, if ever implemented, would deal with only a fraction of the “illegal” invaders, and none of the “legal” ones, so would only reduce the migration-invasion from maybe a million invaders per year (700,000+ “net”) to maybe 950,000 (650,000+ “net”), at best.
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I often listened to Rory Stewart speak and was confused how such a decent man could be a conservative politician. It seems even he is now confused.
If Starmer can indeed give Rory Stewart a job and put him out of his often expressed misery of not being a politician with a brief anymore then that really would be great for everyone including those who are tired of hearing him pine pic.twitter.com/83Q6CfN6Lz
Rory Stewart demonstrates ably that there is no difference whatsoever between a Tory wet & a Labour moderate. There is no choice either when both parties are the same
Rory Stewart, like Keir Starmer was a member of a group called the Trilateral Commission.
The Trilateral Commission's purpose is to engineer an enduring partnership among the ruling classes of North America, Western Europe, and Japan-hence the term "trilateral" https://t.co/SvDntgD8Ov
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) December 17, 2023
Despite its enormous military-destructive power, the USA is rotting from the inside out. Within 20 years, its world power will have come to an end, either via complete decadence and the prominence of the stupid and uncultured, or via a world nuclear (or other) war.
When that happens, the remaining and properly ideological post-Aryans can build a true “New World Order” on the ashes of the old.
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Freudian projection?
Just saw a tweet from an elderly Jew-Zionist woman prolific on Twitter/X:
“Already this morning, I’ve had one person tweet that I’m personally a genocidal maniac, another that Jews are deicides (in the usual phrase, which Twitter is alert to). We can see that contemporary Jew hate has both ancient & modern components.“
None of the innocent Twitter-X readers reading the above tweet would be aware, naturally, that the same woman once openly tweeted (several years ago) to another elderly Jew-Zionist woman that both I and another then tweeter (that tweeter in fact unknown to me) should be made to drink strychnine…
Need any more be said?
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When you visit, as I have, the marble cistern at Zaghouan (modern Tunisia) and its aqueduct flowing (originally) a hundred miles to Roman-era Carthage, or when you visit, as I also have, the Alexandria Museum in Egypt, and see the classical era statues and other exhibits, you feel a sense of racial-cultural kinship which you emphatically do not feel in respect of the Arab societies around those oases of Western/European culture.
A simple yet clever idea, though it would not work well (or maybe at all) in parts of the world where the temperatures are extremely cold (eg Russia/Siberia/Canada).
What looks like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie, actually shows how a reforestation session in British Columbia takes place after wildfires.
A mortar is a hell of a —fairly close-quarters— weapon, if in skilled hands. The range can be 2+ miles, but is usually well under a mile, often just a few hundred yards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(weapon).
“An inferno ripped through a 19th Century Georgian country hotel last night in Galway, as police confirm they are investigating an incident of criminal damage by fire.
It comes just hours after protesters gathered outside the Ross Lake House hotel, Rosscahill, amid concerns about migrants in the area.
The elegant hotel has not been used in a number of years, but was due to accommodate 70 asylum seekers this week.
Gardaí, Ireland’s National Police and Security Service, say they are investigating this as an incident of criminal damage.“
[Daily Mail]
[I think that that should be “Garda” not “Gardai“, but I may be mistaken].
Incidentally, last Friday I was in a medium-size UK city. Not far from the centre of the city. A street with a Tesco Express, a Starbucks, estate agencies, various professional offices etc. All that, and —at about 0800 hrs— a number of people still sleeping in the streets in sleeping bags, blankets etc. Terrible (both in itself and aesthetically).
I had a mediocre cappuccino and croissant in the nearby Starbucks, until the horrible “music” drove me out. I thought to give a coin to a fellow in a shop doorway who had evidently woken up while I was in the Starbucks place (it hardly merited the title, “cafe”). A white Englishman aged maybe 30-something, or 40, maybe an ex-soldier, who growled “thanks, mate” as I pressed a £2 coin into his hand, suggesting that he buy himself a drink (probably not the best thing I could have said).
As I walked away, and about 50 feet further on, a black woman without most of her teeth (drug abuser?) accosted me and started on a story about how she wanted to get into a shelter but needed £20. I told her that I did not have £20, but felt in my pocket for another coin; a 50p was the only one. I gave it to her, and she took my modest offering without a word of thanks as I departed.
Britain’s cities in 2023…
My point (apart from just reporting what I experienced) is that neither of the two people I encountered was a migrant-invader (both spoke with British accents), and both were sleeping in the streets, in winter. Had they been migrant-invaders, they would have been in hotels paid for by the Government (i.e. by UK taxpayers). They would have been sheltered, fed, and given pocket money of (?) about £40 a week (the exact amount seems to vary), as well as provided with transport, medical and dental services, even online services.
How can this be right? Also, if another million immigrants arrive in 2024, and another in 2025 (etc), and even if “only” about 50,000 a year are small boat invaders asking for or demanding help, how is this situation sustainable? Answer— it isn’t.
[Update, 18 December 2023:it occurs to me that readers may object that the black woman mentioned was also a kind of migrant-invader, even if born in the UK. True in essence, but my point was that she had not just “got off the boat”; I should have been clearer].
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A HOTEL SET TO HOUSE ILLEGALS HAS GONE UP IN FLAMES 🔥
Ross Lake House Hotel in Galway, ROI which was set to house illegals has gone up in flames pic.twitter.com/b2bE3OXhGb
However, when pressed by the interviewer as to policies he thinks will win the support of the voters, all Francois could come up with were two: getting rid of inheritance tax, and spending more on defence.
Inheritance tax only impacts a tiny number of people anyway, all of whom already vote Conservative.
As to Defence, which Francois (military background— a year reading War Studies for a Master’s degree, and 3-4 years in the TA, final rank Lieutenant) thinks will be a huge issue next year, that again is not something which most voters think is important.
Our armed forces are now quite weak, and very small, but our traditional enemies (Germany, France, maybe Denmark and the Netherlands —going back 300 years or more—) are now not enemies or potential enemies. The larger potential opponents (Russia, China) are so powerful that the UK could not think of fighting them, and anyway they are far away, and the UK has only limited air/sea transport capability.
The armed forces have shown themselves incapable even of preventing migration-invasion, let alone any real one (which would come from…where?).
For me, Francois’ remarks are a measure of how out of touch with the people the Conservative Party now is. He has no idea; the Conservative Party has no idea.
Listening to Francois trying to express what his preference for “overall narrative” of his party would be just underlines the sheer mediocrity (at best) of so many MPs now.
Not only that, but when they are settled/housed, they will all be bringing their 4 wives and 20 children over. Then the numbers will dramatically increase.
This week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10; I scored 5/10, if you include my answer to question 5, which was a pure guess; apart from that, I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, and 10.
“More and more Americans believe it’s okay to be racist against WHITE people – and segregation is getting worse“
On the night of her election as Boston’s first Asian mayor, Michelle Wu proclaimed defiantly: ‘We are ready to become a Boston for everyone. We’re ready to become a Boston that doesn’t push people out, but welcomes all who call our city home.’
It was a rallying cry for unity and inclusion from a young, idealistic politician who was determined the capital city of New England should shed its conservative image and embrace its increasing ethnic diversity.
But two years later, Wu is in the extraordinary position of herself being accused of racism after hosting a Christmas party on Wednesday night exclusively for ‘non-white’ members of the city council.
Her decision has stoked a nationwide row over ‘reverse racism’ and exposed once again a deeply polarised American electorate that once put Donald Trump in the White House because they shared his contempt for wokeness, and may well do so again.
…it dawned on the seven white councillors that not only had they been disinvited to the bash, but they were never supposed to be there in the first place due to the colour of their skin.
…for others the hypocrisy sweeping the U.S. is no laughing matter. A country where racial discrimination is technically illegal is seeing an increasing number of schools, universities and large businesses creating ‘safe spaces’ where ethnic minorities can ‘escape white oppression’.
There have even been calls for black people to get racially-segregated ‘safe spaces’ outdoors so they can enjoy activities such as hiking and camping without suffering ‘harassment’ and ‘trauma’ from white people, while also subverting stereotypes that African-Americans don’t enjoy such pursuits.
In the words of one Boston ‘anti-racist’ academic, Ibram X Kendi, (whose work on deeply divisive ‘critical race theory’ is studied religiously in schools and colleges): ‘The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.’
In short, it’s entirely fair or ‘equitable’ that the boot is now on the other foot. It’s OK to be racist against white people.
In 2021, a school district in Wellesley, Massachusetts, reportedly excluded white students from a ‘healing space’ after shootings in which eight students — six of them Asian-Americans — were killed. The email announcing the event read: ‘*Note: This is a safe space for our Asian/Asian-American and Students of Color, *not* for students who identify only as White.’
In the same year, black mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot — under huge pressure over her city’s appalling black-on-black murder rate — announced she wouldn’t allow white journalists to interview her on the two-year anniversary of her inauguration.
South Korea-born technology writer Sarah Jeong was hired by the Left-wing New York Times as a member of its prestigious ‘editorial board’ of senior writers.
But then critics found some of her old tweets on white people and they weren’t a pretty sight. ‘Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like grovelling goblins,’ she wrote.
In another, she confided: ‘It’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.’
Others included ‘#cancelwhitepeople’, ‘f*** white women lol’ and ‘White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along.’
Opponents snorted with derision. Try substituting ‘whites’ in her tweets for ‘Jews’ or ‘blacks’, they said, and imagine what the famously self-important newspaper’s response would have been.
Whatever sanitised image of integration Hollywood puts out to the world, this is a country divided: across state lines, income disparities and, without doubt, by a racially-charged culture war. More and more Americans believe it’s okay to be racist against WHITE people – and segregation is getting worse.”
Studies show that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they’ve heard.
An example is how their mother's voice and presence can be calming and soothing.
After been terrorised in captivity these men escaped only to be murdered by their own, Just shows how indiscriminately the IDF have been and how many innocent Palestinians they have killed over the decades ? https://t.co/fRkLXO29yy
“They walked in daylight without shirts waving a white flag and still were shot by a sniper from a small distance 1 hostage found shelter and shouted in Hebrew help, yet hewas shot.”
A very elderly neighbour just rang me up to tell me that she's inherited an "ancient document" with relevance to our area, and invited me round for lunch after Christmas because there is something that puzzles her about it, and now I'm officially living in an MR James story
[Note: the tweet/embed issue continues. If it persists, there will be no point displaying tweets at all on the blog. The problem seems to be at Twitter/X, not WordPress].
Update, same day: The tweet-embed issue seems now to have been resolved.
Late tweets
Really honoured to be somehow back in the Times Bestseller at number 2 this week – thank you to everyone who has been buying #PoliticsOnTheEdge – and hope you are enjoying it 🙏 pic.twitter.com/fYOgqNKNEv
That Rory Stewart can go from running to be Conservative Prime Minister, to issuing a come-and-get-me plea to become a Labour Minister, via a tilt at being the Independent Mayor of London, suggests a man who is easily seduced by any shiny new attention-seeking opportunity. https://t.co/GLKJaleDMf
If Starmer can indeed give Rory Stewart a job and put him out of his often expressed misery of not being a politician with a brief anymore then that really would be great for everyone including those who are tired of hearing him pine pic.twitter.com/83Q6CfN6Lz
Ian Robert Millard 