“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.“
All over the world, we see huge enterprises (or their advertising agencies) hitting one “woke” button after another. In this case, two— “trans” nonsense and the “blacks with everything” campaign of fake “diversity”.
One sees calls to boycott the companies involved, or to “hit them in the wallet“. However, those calls miss the point, because the individuals and cabals behind the brainwashing do not care whether the companies concerned lose money or customers over these outrages.
Think of the finance-capitalist companies involved as merely shells, to be used as convenient for the long-term purposes of the real powers behind the System. “Black Lives Matter”, “refugees welcome” “Covid”, “climate change”, “Ukraine” etc are just some of the “causes” used to further wider objectives connected with the world-history 33-year cycle (in this case, 2022-2055).
“The world is not without kind people” (Russian saying).
Xi Jinping unveils ambitious development plan for Central Asia
The Chinese leader spoke at the China-Central Asia summit in Xi'an, Reuters writes. The forum was also attended by the presidents of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
The “presidents” of the Central Asian joke-states —I myself lived in Kazakhstan 1996-1997— may feel themselves big fish in their small ponds (small in most ways except geographically), but a large shark is about to invite them to lunch, and they will be the lunch.
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Politics overheard
I happened to be in the local Waitrose not long after it opened. Heard a brief conversation between a cashier (about 60 y o) and a customer (about the same, or older— the area is demographically weighted heavily in favour of middleaged and elderly people).
The first topic (that I heard), after agreeing that “nothing works any more“, was the recent local elections. Both agreed that they had received no literature from “any of the three parties” (the area is almost exclusively Conservative in terms of local and central government; Labour usually comes third or, not infrequently, fourth). Both also complained that no-one had knocked on their doors (for me, that is a very good thing—F.O.!), and that, in any case, “all three parties” were saying the same thing, and none could be trusted to carry out whatever they said anyway.
You would think that all of that boded well for any new social-national party, but the “three main parties” scam is deeply deeply entrenched, ingrained like brainwashing in the minds of the people. Despite the crying need for a new movement, the mental leap required of the mass of the people to vote for one, let alone join one, is enormous. There is the additional fact that no credible social-national party or movement exists in the UK.
Political success and failure
Anyone worried about AI taking over….it already has! Beth Rigby gives him a chance to be human and should a bit of disappointment. Instead he answers any question by parroting his 5 priorities like a malfunctioning robot. https://t.co/sbkVnjOWGz
Real political leaders have usually “failed” at more than they have “succeeded”, and of course the biggest cliche about that is that “all political careers end in failure“.
Hitler failed at secondary school, failed to get into art school, failed to get into architecture school, failed to become an independent artist, was not promoted in the WW1 German Army beyond corporal, joined a tiny group of “extremists” in 1919, failed to become much more than a political joke for the 10 years 1919-1929, but then burst onto the national and international stage as destined leader of Germany, achieving huge successes for 6 years of that peaceful rebirth of a nation. After a few more years of success in war, the tragic failures of 1943-45, and a tragic death.
Churchill too. Born with a “silver spoon”, yet a failure at school (Harrow, where his application was nearly rejected). Churchill only gained admittance to Sandhurst at the third attempt, then was allocated a place in one of the least cerebral parts of the Army, the cavalry.
Churchill’s 4-5 years as an officer (mostly spent as journalist rather than soldier, though he saw action in the Sudan and South Africa and, much later, in WW1 Belgium) were crowned with a single promotion, to lieutenant in his younger years, though much later to —temporary— Lt. Col. in 1916, reduced to major when he withdrew from active service after only 4 months.
Churchill’s political life was likewise chequered. He defected, re-defected, lost and won seats. Famously, the lost election of 1945, then a muted victory in 1951.
As strategist, Churchill was a disaster in both world wars: Gallipoli, Singapore, Norway, Greece, North Africa (at first), the Italian campaign etc. His “success” in WW2 was of course by reason of the participation of the USA and Soviet Union. That had its price(s): the slow dismantling of the British Empire, the gradual subservience of the UK to the USA both in WW2 and after 1945, the condemnation of much of Central and Eastern Europe to live under Soviet or Soviet-influenced socialism for 40-45 years.
Abraham Lincoln too. A litany of failed attempts to be elected to a number of offices, but crowned ultimately with election to the highest office, President of the United States. His assassination while still in office followed on the heels of his victory in the American Civil War.
Those three examples show the difficulty of assessing political success and failure. In the end, all three have gone “beyond success and failure” by becoming world-historic figures who will be remembered as such for as long as, say, Julius Caesar or others will be remembered.
As for Indian money-juggler Sunak, he is not and never will be in the same league as Hitler, Churchill, or Lincoln. Eminently forgettable. In fact, he will leave scarcely more of a ripple on the surface than Liz Truss or Theresa May.
Beth Rigby is easily impressed. So what if Sunak was Head Boy at his bloody school (Winchester)? As for his having made a gigantic amount of money by having worked for the Goldman Sachs vultures, and then having married into a mega-wealthy Indian family, well, such things happen. “Success”?
Meanwhile, Britain is visibly falling to pieces.
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Ukr sources report that Britain supports a sharp escalation of the conflict in Ukraine , for these purposes the Armed Forces of Ukraine received long-range missiles and can now use them without territorial restrictions
The cabal ruling Britain behind Indian money-juggler Sunak and his crew have no loyalty to the people of the UK, only to the Money Power and its NWO agenda. The British people are expendable, in their eyes. We slide towards a third world war with people little better than “erudite cretins” (so to speak) pretending to be in charge (Sunak, Ben Wallace, James Cleverly etc). Most are not even particularly erudite, come to that…
…and the same idiots will call 1930s Germany (which never thought of doing anything of that sort) “evil”…
Of course, once Germany had a decent and efficient government under Hitler and the NSDAP, there was no homelessness anyway. New houses for German people. Britain in 2023 could learn a lot from 1933 Germany…
The police already had powers to clear nuisances off the roads. Try lying down outside fortified Downing Street, and see. Or wherever.
The System is (as the tweeter says) allowing the connected Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion idiocies for its own purposes. Not necessarily, though, (only) the ones claimed in that tweet.
A 6 month pregnant woman was harassed by 5 men for a bike she paid for after a 12 hour shift, smeared as a racist online and then loses her job over this viral video.
New York City was a zoo (in part, or parts) when I was there (1989-1993, on and off); God knows what it is like now. As a matter of fact, the first time I ever heard it called a “zoo” was in 1989, by an American. Not, incidentally, a rednecked crazie with a rifle-rack in his pick-up truck, but a well-travelled and late-middleaged nuclear scientist.
Not sure why anyone (even anyone wealthy) would really want to live in New York City.
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
The map shows the countries with the largest projected growth (green) and decline (red) in population by 2100. According to UN forecasts, by 2100 the population of African countries will grow the most: Niger will add 761% compared to 2020, Zambia – 455%, Tanzania – 380%.
“The map shows the countries with the largest projected growth (green) and decline (red) in population by 2100.
According to UN forecasts, by 2100 the population of African countries will grow the most: Niger will add 761% compared to 2020, Zambia – 455%, Tanzania – 380%.
In total, in 25 countries the population will more than triple, and almost all of them (except Iraq – 16th place, + 291% of the current population) – in Africa.
Eastern Europe will be the leader in population decline: the population of Moldova and Bulgaria will decrease by more than half, Bosnia and Herzegovina – by almost half (by 48.9%).
Outside Eastern Europe, significant population declines are expected in China, Japan and South Korea.”
This has been the case for years. The only new rule is that the anti-white agenda has become so undeniable that gatekeepers like Ben now have to halfway acknowledge it or lose their audience to people with more integrity. https://t.co/QhByzvWSkR
I was unaware until I read that report that about 60 MPs are currently being investigated on a variety of sex charges. Then there are the financial cheats, freeloaders, and outright fraudsters.
“ReligionFOOTBALL (and other televised sport)is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” [Marx, as amended for the UK in 2023]…
Head Wagner 🇷🇺:
0.6 square kilometers remain until Bakhmut is completely liberated.
Despite all the intended and executed actions (by a number of European powers, not just Germany, as the simpleminded like to believe) just before the start of both the First and Second world wars, in the end those wars started almost “by accident” at the same time. The states of Europe blundered into them. Will the Third World War be the same?
“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
“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
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the British Monarchy.
The odd thing is that, as opinion polls —and simple observation— show, most of the blacks and browns (certainly those under 60) have no time for, or interest in, the Monarchy.
The same is true of the metropolitan LGBTQXYZ crowd, as seen on Twitter.
Yet Charles is bending over backward in the attempt to appeal to those and other “diverse” groups.
In other words, Charles is trying to appeal to those who either hate him and the Monarchy (a relative few), or to those (the vast majority) to whom the Monarchy is a total irrelevance.
It will no doubt be argued by the msm that Charles is being brave and principled. To me, that whole project comes over as weak and ineffectual. As does he.
As blogged in the past, I have nothing much against Charles himself, whom I once met at a small diplomatic reception in Kazakhstan (in 1996). He has championed some issues of importance, including matters of architecture, town planning, animal welfare, and the environment. He may not always have been successful in that —a chequered picture—but he has tried. I think that that cannot be denied.
It must be hard simply to behave decently when you are told by pretty much everything and everyone around you since birth that you are wonderful, special, way above others etc.
However, this Coronation, far from boosting Charles, may well prove to be the start of his —and the Monarchy’s— downfall. He has invited the head of Sinn Fein to attend, yet not members of families close to the Monarchy for decades, even centuries (and not some individuals close to the late Queen).
The whole thing seems to be a “woke”, fake-“diverse” circus of nonsense grafted onto the comfortable and customary mediaeval and Victorian base.
Maybe that is why Meghan Mulatta is not going to attend, because she realized that she would just be one more “diverse” exhibit in the show.
The last Coronation, in 1953, was (apparently) eagerly awaited by much of the population. Sales of then-still-new- TV sets exploded, because it was going to be the first televised Coronation. Much of the population was engaged and, it seems, felt involved, even if, inevitably, only as background chorus and spear-carriers.
Now? Well, writing this piece, I actually had to look up the date of this Coronation, to remind myself (Saturday, 6 May 2023). I noticed one of the Readers’ Comments to that Daily Mail report: the comment said “I am being swept along in [sic] a wave of apathy“. Despite the error, surely correct. I have not yet spoken to anyone who has mentioned the Coronation in any way, positive or negative. Public interest is at or near rock-bottom.
I have blogged before to the effect that what will kill the Monarchy is not hatred, anger, or even principled dislike, or ideological opposition. No, what will kill it (and is killing it) is apathy as much as anything; the fact that the Monarchy, the Royal Family, their activities etc, have just no connection to, or relevance for, most of those living in the UK today.
For all the “diverse” nonsense, most of the non-whites, indeed most of the non-Brits, are simply not interested. Even in the white (British) “community”, there is a demographic split, most of the over 65s not only interested in the Monarchy but supportive of it; as for the under-30s, not. I think that a recent opinion poll said that about two-thirds of the under-30s would like to get rid of the Monarchy. Again, though, the reason is not anger (as in England in 1649, France in 1789 or Russia in 1917) but simple apathy and lack of interest both in the Monarchy and in getting rid of it.
The other glaring fact is the sheer struggle so many now have simply to pay bills, keep a roof over the head, children and companion animals fed, and so on.
The Monarchy will go at some point but , in the much-used phrase of Nevil Shute, “not with a bang but a whimper”.
Marina Purkiss
One of the dumbest guest interviews in the history of UK broadcast television.
The staggering ignorance of the know-it-all Remainers
Marina Purkiss’s car-crash GB News interview reveals the hollowness of the #FBPE worldview.
“In one astonishing moment, she raised the recent renaming of Black Boy Lane in Haringey, north London. Believing she had found a winning line, she insisted that ‘If you had a street named White Trash you might want to rename it’. Why Purkiss considers ‘black boy’ to be a slur on a par with ‘white trash’ was never made clear.“
[Spiked magazine]
Marina Purkiss, a “woke” idiot who thinks that civil rights or human rights such as freedom of expression are unimportant.
Alarming but not surprising that huge numbers of Twitterati think that she is great (and that she somehow “smashed” Jacob Rees-Mogg in that interview).
No doubt Marina Purkiss will continue to make a kind of career out of intellect-free emoting on socio-political issues. She apparently also has other, and remunerated, activity online.
Not that cost-of-living issues are unimportant. In fact, when people start to really struggle, in large numbers, that is precisely when they turn to radical and even revolutionary alternatives which may, down the line, be dictatorial and anti-free speech.
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The Kiev regime has realized that it will lose Bakhmut….🫣
Ukrainian army corpses litter the trenches near western Bakhmut. Zelensky’s orders to not retreat is causing a very high death rate as more reserves with minimal training are sent to defend frontline positions near the city outskirts pic.twitter.com/ZWsDnNKlBa
In Ukraine, the shortage of mobilization resources in general and officers in particular is becoming more acute. Zelensky instructed the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny to send most of the military commissars from the recruitment centers to the front
I've never seen such protocol for any other PM of the UK. Genes never change. Rishi sunak's blood is indian n carrying the same genes of show-off and abuse of power. One gets to see in the subcontinent, so it didn't surprise me at all when I the video.
And when the banks / pensions market fail next time round – less bailouts and instead, bank acquisitions by governments – the Trojan horse towards CBDCs.
That could be the moment for social nationalism to strike. The missing element is a party or movement. At present there is none worthy of the name. However, in times of crisis and desperation, a party, movement, or individual personality may arise suddenly, out of the depths of the people and events.
During lockdown we couldn’t even mourn our loved ones properly. A son moves his chair next to his mother to comfort her at the funeral of her late husband and was told to separate. And all because governments framed political motives as “The Science”.pic.twitter.com/fjOnOzqYRy
Look at that crematorium drone, ordering better people than himself back to their places. The “panicdemic” really brought out numbers of self-important nobodies of that type. No more were they simple supermarket workers, shopworkers, or filling station cashiers. Oh, no! Now they were workers on the front-line of the “Covid” “emergency”, armed with powers (they thought) to order people back, forward, sideways, or to wear muzzles etc, just like instructors dealing with slow-minded military recruits. I had a few clashes with that sort in 2020-21. How they must have hated having to return to stacking shelves…
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[East Berlin, 1970s; reminds me of a few places in South London]
You still see anti-Hitler propaganda about the alleged euthanasia of some medical “hopeless cases” in the late 1930s. Not everything done in the Reich was correct, but what was done of that type was pretty much on a par with what was happening in the UK, USA and elsewhere. The Jewish lobby (mainly) screams endlessly about “the evils of Nazism“, when in fact the same was happening across Europe and North America, but you never or rarely hear about that.
As for a situation such as that in the last few years in the UK, even the Jewish lobby can hardly blame Hitler and the NSDAP for that…
By reason of the repression of free speech already well-advanced in the UK, I am “not allowed” to say what I want to say about what should be done right now…
So people will be “expected” (required?) to stay incarcerated in something akin to an open prison, albeit with cafes and wine bars (in some cases)? Presumably, also forbidden from saying or writing anything anti-“communitarian”…
Zelensky continues to beg for money from the world for military equipment, ammunition, etc. This time the held a meeting with the President of Slovakia and the Czech Republic pic.twitter.com/fPrp9nuT5F
What has happened to the UK? When I was born in the 60s we were safe & happy. Everyone was kind to each other & enjoyed their lives. Now there are so many who seem to hate the UK. The enemy is now within this country & it’s such a shame we can’t all enjoy the time we have left.
It is tragic. I was just thinking about where the UK would be, in what state, had it not been swamped by waves of mass immigration and births to immigrant mothers. There have been other factors too, but the one that stands out is the demographic change since the 1960s.
It is true that white British people still comprise about 80% of the UK population, but the change has still been huge. Particularly so since the 1970s/1980s. A tipping-point was reached, sometime in the past 30 years or so, since when Britain has degenerated in most respects quite swiftly.
Even in the 1970s (which I well remember, having been born in 1956) Britain had so many paths open before it. The Second World War and its effects were receding into history, the standard of housing was improving, and the cultural life was lively. The Welfare State was generally improving the lives of millions, and there were improvements in areas such as educational access, pensions, disability benefits and services etc.
Now, in the past few decades, one feels that the world has shrunk, Britain has shrunk, and the possibilities open to British people (especially the “young”, say <30 years old) have also shrunk, and shrunk accordingly.
Look at housing. The pressures of mass immigration, births to non-Brits, commercial speculation, and lack of vision, have combined to create, over large areas of the country, huge tracts of “boxes for people”, without sufficient garden space, road access, or service areas (shops, libraries, parks etc).
There is a pervasive sense of the population being almost entombed alive in their inadequate —and increasingly inadequate— housing.
The “revenge evictions” and “no-fault evictions” by residential landlords have become a scandal, millions of people are living in poorly-repaired, poorly-maintained, homes, and the governments of the past couple of decades have done nothing to change that. Indeed, they have made it all worse.
Britain is going back in some respects to the socio-economic conditions of the era before the mid-Victorian age, in that what mattered then —and increasingly now— is how much capital was (or is) bequeathed to people from parents etc. Jobs or positions held were secondary.
Today, we have a society in which young people have to borrow large amounts just to go to a (so-called) university, and it is no argument to say that most will never have to pay it back, because the precondition for non-repayment is that the ex-student will never have a sufficiently high income to trigger repayment! What a commendation!
Basic work scarcely pays at all, once taxes and the costs of simply being in a job (travel, clothing, inflated housing costs etc) are taken into account.
Even “professional” work now pays only a modest amount on those preconditions. We see now strikes and protests by the junior ranks of the medical and legal professions.
Even in simple economic terms, it is clear that Britain would be such a better place had the influx never happened. The British people would be, as individuals, hugely better off in everyday financial terms. Not only in financial terms, though; also, in terms of vision, society, and further possibilities on the national and individual levels.
The question though, is how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
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Then eventually those who still have brains and authority in the system are pushed out for being racist, not diverse, transphobic, basically any excuse to get them removed and replaced with what we have now which is just puppets for the WEF young global leaders sect.
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 25, 2023
Very true.
I agree with you but it’s your kids and grand kids etc that’s gonna see the worst of what’s to come
It started with mass immigration and the 'racism' being shoved down our throats. You can't help but notice how citizens are last on the agenda of paid politicians these days. They only care about themselves.
— Do research, never take anything at face value. (@junertcb) April 25, 2023
I know, and it’s so sad. Social cohesion and overall morale in our country is so much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s 😢
The sad thing in the wider sense is that even those decrying the way things are have been brainwashed into saying “what’s racist about XYZ?” rather than saying “whether XYZ is ‘racist’ or not is of no matter“…
Sceptics were correct all along. The same with this new religion of climate change. But the damage governments do will be catastrophic before they wake up to the destruction they've caused. Primarily on the world's poorest!
I've been saying this to my Hubby as of late. Am so saddened at state of the UK. If I didn't have school age children, don't think I would choose to have any now. I fear for their futures. Seriously thinking of where we can move to, but most countries seem to be facing same.
Many echo those sentiments, and that fact accelerates the relative decline in numbers of white European people. Meanwhile, of course, the non-white population is reproducing in far greater numbers.
The social decline has also been impossible not to notice. Look, for example, at this tweet by the police:
This morning @HantsPolRoads attended a two vehicle collision outside a school during the morning school run. The drivers of both vehicles provided a positive sample on a roadside drugs test. Luckily no serious injuries this time, two in custody.🤦♀️🤦♂️
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) April 25, 2023
“Mr Martin was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999.
Some locals quietly praise Mr Martin for taking a stand against crime. One said: “We had four break-ins. I know you’re not supposed to say this, but what he did stopped the burglaries.”
He added: “I don’t agree with the police and the legal system. They’re supposed to be impartial but they’re far from impartial.”
[Daily Mirror]
In fact, the isolated home of Mr. Martin was broken into at night by a group of “gypsies” (in fact, UK-resident Irish so-called “Travellers”), not (as the Mirror report implies) only two. He managed to get two of them (one killed, one injured).
The incident happened in 1999. I supported Mr. Martin then, and I have not changed my mind since then. He should have been given an award for courage, and certainly not charged with anything.
HISTORY. Until Thatcher came along we owned our own gas, electric, water, railways and telecommunications. There were approx. 200,000 miners, 40,000 ship builders,100,000 steelworkers. I don't think the Tories want that part of our factual history taught to children.
A one-sided point of view in its implications, but still true.
"The Labour Files dismantles the central narrative of the media and the BBC about the Corbyn years, a narrative pushed on to the front pages of all the papers" pic.twitter.com/nqafSY2EvP
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) April 25, 2023
I had and have little time for Corbyn, but the fact is that he was destroyed as Labour leader by a pack of malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionists and/or Israel lobbyists, posing (some of them) as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.
I was just engaging in my frequent not-guilty pleasure of looking at the Google Map and Street View site. Very addictive.
I have blogged before about how much London has changed since I stopped living and/or working there. I was a resident —on and off— from 1976 to 1998 in various sections of the metropolis, though mainly in Little Venice, and also for a while in 2001-2002, when I lived on the edge of London, in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, working out of both Mayfair (off Berkeley Square) and “legal London” (Gray’s Inn Square, where I was leaseholder of chambers in 2002; ironically, also the site of my unmerited, wrongful, and also unlawful disbarment in 2016, the so-called Bar Standards Board being situate in the same square).
Looking at Street View, I see that the area around St. Giles’ High Street (between Charing Cross Road and Holborn) has been hugely redeveloped. The Oasis open-air swimming pool, which I used a great deal in the 1980s, is still there, as is the old church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, but a large development of new buildings occupies the area opposite that church, part of which area once had a government building without signs or markings, the car park of which always contained a number of unmarked Commer vans in green or grey, in the 1970s and 1980s used extensively by State organizations.
That building was possibly an outstation of MI5 or GCHQ, but I have no idea whether either was the case. The street entrance always had a standing sign just inside, displaying the “security status” or “threat status”.
I notice that a nearby site, that was once occupied by a pub or bar carrying several different names over the years, is now occupied by a new building containing, inter alia, some pizza joint called Vapiano. I often used one of its former incarnations, in the 1980s, when it was a marble and glass bar called the Cafe Munchen; I was a regular customer at that time.
Looking very different, that place had also (in the early 1960s, I think) been a location for a few scenes in a Peter Sellers comedy film about a group of London crooks (I am unsure about the film title).
A little way further afield, I noticed that the Punjab restaurant (est. 1946), on the corner of Neal Street, is still there. Another place that I occasionally visited, though later, in the early 1990s.
My having Saturn in Scorpio does tend to make me visit Memory Lane a lot, perhaps too much.
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The sapper of PMC "Wagner" told and showed what kind of mines one has to face in Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/foLa0U5kXT
Theresa May, prior to becoming an MP, spent 20 years at the cheque-clearing organization, BACS. Her case is far from unique. Take a look at my “Deadhead MPs” series on the blog. Tip of the iceberg. Many, perhaps most, MPs cannot even be described as “mediocre” overall. Deadheads.
The UK political system actively rejects anyone with real depth.
Hard going. They are apparently now in slow withdrawal or retreat.
Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian thinker, in a conversation with Al-Mayadin: The global structure is between two possible scenarios; The first scenario belongs to the year 2050, in which the complete and irreversible victory for globalization and the unipolar era and the… pic.twitter.com/ia4TsTSGRy
The current crop of American politicians who have declared their candidacy are more like grandstanding, short-sighted Internet celebrities than politicians with long-term strategic ideas.
I have wondered, since this time last year, whether the main Ukrainian cities will be left standing at the end of the present conflict.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Today we visited a very dear friend currently in hospice care.
Your reminder: these special places receive NO funding from the govt. if you have a local #hospice or a hospice charity shop in town, I urge you to support it. Or leave it a bequest. pic.twitter.com/NNgvhLhGuC
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) April 26, 2023
It’s like having a final drink with a passive aggressive, soon to be ex girlfriend.pic.twitter.com/Ip1nTKjrbS
Idiots, and indeed malicious idiots, such as Marina Purkiss, think that free speech being taken away does not affect people. Wrong. I know exactly how the attacks on free speech, and the general attacks on British culture and our (former) way of life, affect people, including me. I also know exactly (((what))) and (((who))) are (mostly) behind those attacks.
Part of the problem in the UK is that the police often do not understand the law and, moreover, often think that their powers under the law are either (as in the above case) fewer or lesser than they actually are, or greater than they actually are (and I have been the subject of the latter incomprehension more than once over the past decade, and have had to put policemen and policewomen right on various points).
What’s harmful to public health is rolling out a deadly poison jab to millions of people including healthy children. Prison is too good for you, scumbag. https://t.co/NSgER8UNnM
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 25, 2023
Little Matt Hancock trying to be the big bad scorpion with a sting in its tail.
OMFG… hahaha!!! This is beyond parody… Sinn Fein (IRA) attending the coronation… I’d love to be a fly on the wall when you and Charles are reminiscing about Charles’s favourite uncle Lord ‘Dickie’ Montbatten … 🙈😫😆😆😆 https://t.co/eDsTAJfuWO
Typical response of those without an argument. Try this. EU commission hearing. Listen carefully to what is said now if you can. pic.twitter.com/sNfW06Rllw
— It's us against them and we're the many. (@WeTheMany_) April 26, 2023
“A father who murdered a burglar outside his house had previously posted a photo of the vigilante played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies on a neighbourhood group with the comment: ‘This is who we need.’
David King put the photo of Deathwish anti-hero Paul Kersey on the WhatsApp group in June 2019 after the wheels of his wife’s BMW M3 were stolen.
The career criminal [burglar/car thief] was left with a 5in-deep wound to his chest and the injury to his knee. He was so distressed as he hammered at a nearby door for help that he smashed the glass.
” Car thief/burglar] Neil Charles, 47, who had 66 previous convictions, turned up at the estate shortly before 1am on June 20, 2021, and was spotted on CCTV trying the doors of the Kings’ cars.”
[Daily Mail]
66 previous convictions…
Frankly, I think that those citizens are heroes, albeit that they arguably went too far in the heat of the moment. The sentences of “life, with minimum 21 years” (the father) and 19 years (the son) were very very harsh in all the circumstances. I should have thought that a minimum term served of, say, 5 years, would have been enough to mark any judicial disapproval (judicial, not societal— most British people would back the father and son, at least in principle).
The police too often show themselves completely unfit for purpose, useless, and the same is often true of the courts. People like singer and satirist Alison Chabloz actually get imprisoned in the UK for (in her case) lampooning some Jewish behaviour in song or in cartoons, while real criminals, who stab or slash people, or steal cars etc, are effectively let off.
Finally, I see that the Daily Mail has shown no photograph of the killed individual. I wonder why not…
David Irving was the academic hero of the above story. The report in the Guardian downplays his role.
I once heard a taped speech by Irving (given to the then-active discussion forum, the Clarendon Club, in the 1980s) which went into his role in some detail. Incidentally, Irving showed himself to be a confident, assured, and amusing speaker.
The Guardian report notes that System historian Hugh Trevor-Roper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper] was damaged by his failure to see through the Hitler Diaries fakery, but downplays that too, in my view.
Trevor-Roper (a freemason who was very pro-Jew-Zionist) is still regarded by many as worth reading, while the Jewish lobby has demonized Irving and trashed his reputation, despite his books being far more interesting and accurate in relation to 1933-45 (Trevor-Roper covered a far wider historical time-scale in his works, from the early Enlightenment to the contemporary era).
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“We need to stop violence against women.“ – Emmanuel Macron
All it will do is create more separate car use for under 25s. Crass logic.
The mass banning of groups of folk from civil core liberties under the auspice of health and safety is a slippery slope. We should have learnt that from Covid.
PM Rishi Sunak enjoying VIP protocol of motorcade of cars, bikes, close protection and police running along North Korea style – no other UK PM ever seen doing this pic.twitter.com/m03tFbgokH
Sixty-nine percent of French people believe that the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as head of state was a mistake, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Elaba Institute for the Study of Public Opinion. pic.twitter.com/ceFuxJm0Gy
The Russian Armed Forces began to use the latest main tanks T-14 "Armata" for firing at Ukrainian positions, – the source of RIA Novosti. pic.twitter.com/cfW3h3nMTI
Andrew Neil used to be, maybe still is, the best political interviewer around, but a few years ago started to come off the rails a bit, ranting about “Nazis” and “neo-Nazis” etc on his now-binned late-night BBC 2 TV show. Then he became part of the System “Covid” propaganda campaign.
— Geoff' The Frenchy Fella – War News 🇺🇦 (@Geoff_WarNews) April 25, 2023
Russia has become the largest supplier of oil to India. Daily deliveries reach amounts of almost 280 million liters of "black gold" and have a trend of further growth . 🇷🇺 Russia has taken the first place among oil suppliers to India, displacing 🇮🇶Iraq and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia in,…
Reacting to Biden's re-candidacy for the US presidential election, the former American president warned that the dollar and American banks are collapsing and soon the dollar will no longer be the world standard currency. pic.twitter.com/SB7MiKlmSr
Dmitriy Kuleba, the head of diplomacy of Ukraine and a newly minted Ukrainian, admitted today that Ukraine does not have enough stockpiles of weapons and that the aid coming from the West is not enough. pic.twitter.com/rtigvWsmeH
Macron has become the first “unpopulist” President of France for a long long time.
Journalists are gently wondering if Biden will last another four years: “Does the president plan to serve all 8 years? – I'm not going to speak for the president. It's up to him" pic.twitter.com/KGEEy7Ry85
Important because, should Biden retain the US Presidency after 2024, and then retire or die, Kamala Harris will automatically be sworn-in as President!
“The pub at the centre of an online furore over controversial golliwog dolls was graffitied with offensive slogans in an act of vandalism that left five windows smashed.
The White Hart Inn in Gray’s, Essex, was vandalised at about 12.40am on Sunday and Essex police say they are conducting extra patrols in the area.“
[Daily Mail]
Essex Police deployed five or six police personnel to raid the pub and to seize the “offending” golliwogs. Will they deploy as many to protect the pub and its residents?
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Times: "Rishi Sunak – economy suffering from failure of numeracy"
No mate, I'd say it's suffering more from multi-millionaire treasonous CUNTS who blew £500bn on a fake virus in service of their globalist masters. pic.twitter.com/8ynB6fA7If
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the mercenary group is short of manpower as it faced high losses in the battle for Bakhmut. https://t.co/KJ1145gJMQ
In fact, it seems clear that, whatever manpower shortages are being suffered by Wagner Group or by the overall Russian forces, those of the Kiev regime are worse. As for arms and ammunition, Russia is in a better position than the Kiev regime.
The United States will transfer military equipment through Estonia to exercises in Finland – embassy in Tallinn
The "defensive" alliance continues under the guise of exercises to increase the presence of a military contingent in Finland after its admission to NATO
Toxins and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were found in several batches of corn imported from Ukraine to Hungary, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
Sergey Lavrov: The goals of the special operation in Ukraine are to protect against the extermination of Russians and people who speak the Russian language, as well as to eliminate military threats to the security of Russia on our western borders pic.twitter.com/4lHKJwchXl
Political will and ability to provide assistance to Kiev is declining in 10 European countries, writes Newsweek referring to confidential documents that have reached the network.
Russian and Turkish military personnel conducted the 134th joint patrol of the outskirts of the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) in the north of Aleppo province, northern Syria pic.twitter.com/FV8v6Tp32x
"Bild" in the hell of Bakhmut: Ukrainian soldiers wonder what they are fighting for "It seems that it is only a matter of time before Bakhmut falls completely into Russian hands", this is how "Bild" journalist Jan Humin describes the situation in Bakhmut, who visited the city pic.twitter.com/qH7xhKcYMl
– The Russian military has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and is closely allied with the Chinese military – Only the West suffers from the sanctions imposed on Russia.
The extravagantly smug Ed Balls. His maths ability was certainly found wanting when he & his wife @YvetteCooperMP fiddled their second home allowance. In 2007-08 alone their joint expenses fiddling brought them almost £310,000. They have benefited immensely from a rigged system.
Unfunded spending: Kwarteng flushed £60 billion down the toilet in one day by publishing a budget based on unfunded spend. Higher debt: £850bn in 2010. £3 trillion now. Uncontrolled immigration: 5,000 asylum cases awaiting initial decision in 2010. 155,000 now.
The vast majority still think that there is a “democratic choice” between “the two main parties”, plus the add-ons. In reality, there is no choice. All the System parties (Lib, Lab, Con, and the Farage vehicles for mugs, and in reality the Greens too, at the higher level) are controlled or strongly influenced by the same connected groups and cabals: NWO groups, Bilderbergers etc, freemasonic groups and, of course, the pervasive Jewish/Zionist lobby.
When will this nonsense stop? Not until we stop it, and I mean STOP it…
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Deputy head of the Pentagon Colin Kall: We do not want a direct conflict with Russia in Ukraine, we do not want a third world war pic.twitter.com/l9Hf5W314e
Spontaneous protests erupt across France following Emmanuel Macron's speech announcing that the pension reform will take effect this fall.Demonstrators burn barricades and rubbish, block police cars. pic.twitter.com/OgLW34EtVv
🇫🇷 A peaceful gathering of citizens in front of the City Assembly in Paris turned into riots and conflicts. The police used tear gas against the demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/hQZdR0uh8k
Well, this week brings me another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 7, and 9, and thought at first that I had got question 1 right, only to discover shortly afterwards that I had selected the wrong group of 17thC activists, dissenters or dissidents. So 6/10 it is this week.
Now imagine the disaster that will happen when the remaining UKR soldiers in Western Bakhmut try to retreat, clogging the road due to all the destroyed/stuck vehiclec. Becoming easy prey for the Musicians https://t.co/57CoS6j9oc
Since you've hitched your wagon to the Ukraine flag, when are you picking up arms & going over to help them? Haven't you heard the latest? Russia forces have reached the centre of key city, Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/POFzmoGyg7
In the well-known words of Marx, “first time— tragedy, second time— farce” and, while it seems wrong to call an event as bloody and terrible as Bakhmut/Artyomovsk “farcical”, one has to compare it to Stalingrad, which at least was genuinely strategic. War is hell, and is often not even logical.
Ukraine's key supply route in Bakhmut the 0506 road west of the city, is likely severely threatened, according to the UK intelligence.https://t.co/FQij4KpFVT
Looking beyond the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk situation, we see that the Kiev regime has a problem of recruitment to its armed forces, made worse by the fact that about 20% of the Ukraine population has fled beyond the borders, and that includes many families with teenage children who will now not be conscripted.
If (I do not know) Russia is recruiting and training new “levies”, then it may be that, after the losses suffered by the Kiev-regime forces recently, the Russian armed forces may be able to advance steadily for the first time in quite a while.
As to arms and ammunition, the NWO/ZOG supplies to the Kiev regime are enormous but possibly (I do not know) inadequate as compared to the usage and/or attritional rate. We shall see.
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One frontbencher says a current online video of Starmer’s flip-flops is a taste of things to come.
"The general election campaign is going to be full of videos of Keir, ‘he said this, now he’s says that’.”pic.twitter.com/BK0IO7DkRC
Other notable elections due in 2024 include presidential elections in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Indonesia, general election in India and the European Parliament election
— Tomorrows Papers Today (@TmorrowsPapers) April 7, 2023
Not sure what Labour thinks that it is achieving by these attacks on Indian money-juggler Sunak. After all, Labour has for some time been far far ahead in the opinion polls, the present Sunak government seems headless at times (as did its predecessors), and people generally know that Sunak is, firstly, very very wealthy and, secondly, non-white (both of which tend to make him an unpopular PM). So why make these absurd “sex crime” attacks on him?
What makes the absurd attacks even more absurd is that there is no shred of evidence that Sunak himself is sympathetic to any form of child abuse or other sex offence(s), let alone any evidence that he himself is some kind of sex criminal. So why do it?
It may be that Starmer has tripped over his own shoelaces here.
GM. Remember to be kind to animals today. God gave YOU dominion, which means to be a good lord and protector of your charges. pic.twitter.com/Cw2B90nNBt
I never listened to Radio Albion and cannot comment in detail about it but what I can say is this man has been persecuted not prosecuted. Non-whites incite racist attacks on white people frequently, not one prosecution. White man speaks out, prison it is!https://t.co/nTYe7QYG6G
After my wrongful (and indeed actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016 (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/), I was invited not only to speak to several members of the msm Press (a Daily Mail slug even came to my door) but also to talk on, or be interviewed on, various online “radio stations”. I declined all, mainly because I doubted that my contribution would have much effect on the “big scheme of things”. I believe that Radio Albion was one of those.
The present repression, driven entirely by the fanatical Jew-Zionist element, is destroying what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in this country.
If you get burgled or robbed, be sure to mention Golliwogs and / or pronouns for a swift response https://t.co/KSThDIepw9
“This is the bizarre moment police stormed a couple’s pub and seized their golliwog dolls – saying the toys were a suspected ‘hate crime‘.
Benice Ryley, 61, was quizzed by six officers after police received an anonymous complaint about The White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex.
She and husband Chris, 64, who is currently abroad, had displayed their collection of 15 dolls after receiving them as gifts from customers over the years.
On Tuesday, Essex Police raided the pub and confiscated the dolls, saying they were investigating a ‘hate crime’. They also took a book about the history of golliwogs.
Branding the incident a ‘waste of taxpayers’ money’, she continued: ‘When the police officers came, I pointed to the dolls and said they haven’t done anything.
‘The gollies all went quietly – none of them resisted arrest at all. I think the racist people are the ones who complain – it’s their problem, not us.
Mrs Ryley is demanding the dolls are immediately returned and has vowed to put them back behind the bar.
She fumed: ‘It is unreal – we haven’t broken the law and there is no legal stuff that says I can’t display them. It’s just silly.’
A spokesman for Essex Police said: ‘We are investigating an allegation of hate crime in Grays reported to us on 24 February.“
[Daily Mail].
So who made the anonymous and timewasting complaint? A spiteful golliwog? Or one of “the usual suspects”, as in my case of 2017? We do not know.
Incidentally, look at the comments of the Daily Mail online readers. Others have voted about 12,000 against the police action for every half-dozen in favour.
Migrant boys raped in 'Calais Jungle' camp so violently they needed surgery https://t.co/wEzgcMp4MP@Care4Calais Can you understand why the people of the UK do not want the perpetrators any where near our shores?
I looked up that weird young or young-ish woman. A failed journalist or, rather, online scribbler, from Canada (what is wrong with Canada?), and who cannot keep her tendentious and ignorant views out of even her Linked-In profile. Sacked a month ago from her most recent job (at “Global News”, which I think is linked loosely to the BBC’s commercial arm).
Probably unemployable as a journalist, looking at her near-hysteria.
One of her other tweets said “You’re supposed to have the right to freedom of opinion. But what if misinformation and disinformation is making that right hard to actually enjoy?” She simply misses the point. “Freedom of opinion” is self-standing. It does not exist simply so that she can “enjoy” it…
I urge anyone with a Twitter account (I do not have one— a pack of Jews conspired to have me expelled in 2018 and I now see little point in returning) to follow tweeter “@Nature_and_Race”.
Russian Lancet hitting three Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers and a tank in the area of the city of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/MCwt4DCSLd
The compassionate face of elite soldiering— I like that. The bearded man, though, introduced himself to the remarkably resilient old lady not as a soldier but as “a correspondent…from Russia.”
Scott Ritter:“Bakhmut has fallen. Ukraine has lost the war.“
This is the quintessential turning point of the war. Yes, the fighting will continue and it will be bloody and messy but this was the case for 2 horrible years after Gettysburg & Kursk as well.pic.twitter.com/pl2LEF99ab
The head of the IMF issued an alarming warning about the global economy
The world economic system is in a vulnerable situation due to the attempts of the world's central banks to fight inflation, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
First, the whole crazy finance-capitalist system of speculation going haywire, then the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, then the economic sanctions against Russia, and now the unwarranted and almost unlimited support for the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev. The whole house of cards of the Western world is quite likely not far from collapse.
The Kremlin responds to the leak of NATO's "secret" war plan
Russia was aware of the West's involvement in Ukraine even before the documents were leaked on the Internet, Dmitry Peskov repeated pic.twitter.com/sLAKwyTPlJ
Maybe the SVR is not as incompetent as I had surmised. On the other hand, the NWO/ZOG gameplan re. Russian and its “near-abroad” has been obvious for years. I have been blogging and, before 2018, tweeting about it for a decade or so. In fact, I was aware of the overall strategy as long ago as 1990, when the Soviet Union was still officially still in existence.
French demonstrators attacked banks during the protests.
The unrest in France is gaining wider proportions every day. Bank attacks are a new dimension to the protests because they see it as a symbol of ruthless capitalism. pic.twitter.com/mfTFGe6nkS
The Biden administration has been trying to end the use of spyware made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government got the message. A secret government contract violates the public policy, and still appears to be active. https://t.co/V5ZpyXzaV7
The Israeli government agreed in principle on Sunday to establish a national guard, handing a political victory to the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who had long demanded the militia as a condition for supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/PuwT02QWkf
Not just “Tommy Robinson”. Nick Griffin and the BNP were leading on this for years, but (quelle surprise) were demonized by “the usual suspects”. Even now, Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer says that “more whites than Pakistanis and other Asians are paedophiles“.
Well, Starmer is not telling the whole truth.
Even now, the white European population of England (not UK) is about 81%, and the Asian population “only” 10%. In other words, in proportion to population, the incidence of underage molestation is far higher among the Asian (mainly Pakistani) population.
There is another point. “Grooming” gangs (to use the vulgar usage now part of the law) are almost entirely a South Asian and mostly Pakistani-origin phenomenon in the UK. The white European offenders are mostly lone wolves, not part of organized packs. In other words, the phenomena are entirely different in type.
Incidentally, all Starmer’s recent (and not so recent) pronouncements show what a bloody awful Prime Minister he would —and almost certainly will— be, but after 13 years of a pseudo-“Conservative” “shitshow” (in the elegant word of Johnny Mercer MP), it is of course hard to argue that he would be much worse than the present idiot, the Indian money-juggler Sunak, or his four predecessors in the period 2010-2023.
In 1981, 95.4% of the population of England was described as “white”; in 2021, only 81%. Now? Probably well below 80%. A stunning collapse in only 40 years.
(and that is even, and absurdly, counting non-whites such as “Roma” gypsies as “white”: see that Wikipedia page).
2066? Make that 2050, or even 2040.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Still astonishing how this is taken for granted and presumed completely normal in Western countries.
Would China, Saudi Arabia, or Bangladesh desire that their national population should go from being over 90% to only 60% themselves in just two generations? Wouldn't that be odd? https://t.co/HUrNcvnFEE
Looking back over the past few years, it is clear that social-national commentators have faced a wave of State repression, instigated mainly by Jewish pressure groups and lobbying organizations, though carried on to prosecution mainly via the police and CPS.
It is clear to me, though, that the brunt of the repression has been borne by those operating podcast “radio” stations, YouTube channels etc: Sven Longshanks, Alison Chabloz, and others. The System fears those with large potential audiences.
Millions of White people are seeing the same things we're seeing. And they're coming to similar conclusions. If you run in to such a person, don't info-dump on them. Redpilling is not an event; it's a process. And White people across the country are now in the middle of it. WAGMI https://t.co/aKtLrRqPQQ
— McCarthy_was_right (@4theritereason) April 2, 2023
“Some Hutchinson residents are angry“, says the talking head. Yes, I can just imagine who or at least what “they” might be…(((you know who))).
The only grooming gang I ever heard of prior to about 1980 was the Moors murderers during the 1960s.
So what suddenly changed in the psyche of British men since then so that after centuries they begin to form grooming gangs to coincide with the arrival of the Pakistani migrants?
There are few if any white “grooming gangs”; there never were. As noted above in this blog, most white sex offenders act alone. There may be the odd exception here or there. The Moors Murderers were not a “grooming gang” but merely two evil and/or crazed lunatics.
In the end, there will be a war across the Western world. Not solely a race war, but also a culture war and/or ideology-war and/or a living standards or lifestyle war. We are just now seeing and hearing the opening shots, mostly still metaphorical.
A kippah-wearing Jew now sits in judgement over all British MPs.
If he decides that they have violated vaguely defined "standards" or "damaged the reputation of the House", he can stop them representing their constituents in Parliament.https://t.co/TL7dU7DYyO
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) April 2, 2023
We do not, but bosses like this would rather we import anyone and everyone rather than invest in building up our own people.
We must invest in our own people and their future, not race to the bottom of the barrel on wages and harm our growth. https://t.co/Q9JoveAfEp
“You are 55.8% good, 18.3% chaotic, making you neutral good.“
Not quite a rousing vote of approbation, but not as harshly marked as my ideological enemies would prefer.
“Neutral Good
People who are Neutral Good are guided by their conscience and typically act altruistically, with only secondary regard for whether their actions are lawful or in line with cultural expectations or traditions. Neutral Good individuals have no problems with what is lawful as such, and nor are they rebels by nature, but they believe in furthering kindness and good deeds through whatever means seem necessary to them. If fostering good means supporting an organized society, then that is what must be done. If good can only come about through the overthrow of the existing social order, then so be it. For many who are Neutral Good, insistence on either lawfulness or rebellion is seen as detriments to or distractions from the greater goal of promoting true kindness in the world.” [https://www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignment/test.php].
Fair enough…
I have seen tests like that before, though not that exact one. I have posted a few on the blog, though a few years ago.
Amusing. I did one years ago comparing the user to characters from Harry Potter, something with which I am only a little familiar. I had to look up the details of the character whom, it transpired, was apparently most similar to me, one “Lucius Malfoy”: “Lucius Malfoy is a Death Eater, head of a wealthy pure-blood wizarding family.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Eater].
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In a nutshell, you will never be left alone by the PC mob.
At first, I was thinking “April Fool” about that Telegraph report, but apparently not so (published on 29 April).
More seriously, I know what I would do with the so-called “hate crime experts”, but by reason of the ever-increasing repression on freedom of expression in the UK, cannot express it here. You, readers of this blog, will just have to read between the lines, as in every police state.
Science has brought you cold and heartless tree alternatives so that you can transition into the grey, compact and mundane.
Britain— a banana republic minus the bananas and the republic.
And THIS is a perfect example why brands/events/media need to distance from Jack Monroe Bootstrapcook – association with her makes them look shady & harms their reputation. Why anyone would now platform this conwoman is beyond me 🤷♀️🤦♀️🤡 https://t.co/2Mr7b8eu0Y
Yesterday, I noted on the blog how the Patreon donor mugs (each sending between £3.50 and £44 a month to “Jack Monroe”), once numbered well over 800, fell back to about 600 late last year, then (yesterday) to 460. Today— 458. It seems that even some of those utter mugs are waking up, slowly.
This is great but what was he/she doing signing up for Patreon as late as January? Awfully molly was rife by then right?
Unless you were looking, you may not have seen all the coverage at that point – hence bookings from festivals, plus how many people haven't even heard of Jack Monroe. Thankfully word has spread much further since.
Can I kindly & respectfully put together a list of questions based on the proven inconsistencies in Jack Monroe's story as evidenced here, and you ask them in front of a live audience then? https://t.co/GrTwVKavOj
Unreality is everywhere now. Not just the “trans” nonsense but also the fiction that black Africans were prominent in ancient Rome, Tudor England, and even created the ancient Egyptian culture (which we know is rubbish by reason of DNA, apart from anything else). Then there is, or recently has been, the “Covid” “panicdemic” and/or “scamdemic”. What else? The British Empire as something almost entirely evil, the Second World War as “good triumphs over evil” etc, Hitler as both mad and bad (with a little bit of sad, too), and of course the (literally) fabled “gas chambers” narrative.
The above list is merely a part of what has been happening in the Western public forum generally.
The “karma of untruthfulness” can be cancer, and in this case may result in a form of progressive societal cancer, as society becomes ever-more diseased.