Category Archives: Party Politics

Diary Blog, 18 November 2023

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[Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire]

Announcement

As announced yesterday, the magistrates’ court trial to which I was made subject went badly for me. I cannot blog about that at present.

I am presently due to be sentenced at the end of January, or in February, of 2024. After that, I have 15 working days, i.e. three weeks, in which to serve any Notice of Appeal. Any appeal hearing, before a Circuit Judge (sitting with two magistrate-assessors), would be a complete rehearing, which would probably not happen until the Autumn of 2024, perhaps not until 2025.

I shall decide in February 2024, post-sentencing, whether I shall appeal.

Saturday quiz

Well, a poor score this week, a mere 4/10; I see that John Rentoul scored similarly. I knew the answers only to questions 2, 3, 4, and 7.

From the newspapers

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24778179/moment-teen-kills-army-veteran-bus-station/.

SHOCKING CCTV footage shows the moment a teenage boy killed an 82-year-old Army veteran with a single punch.

Omar Moumeche, who was 16 at the time, attacked Dennis Clarke at Derby bus station after the veteran told off his friends for messing about on an escalator.

The pensioner suffered a fractured skull as well as a bleed on the brain and died in hospital nine days after the assault on May 6, 2021.

Moumeche, now 18, was found guilty of manslaughter in July, with the judge sentencing the killer yob to two years in youth detention at Derby Crown Court today.

No further action was taken against two other teenage boys who were arrested at the time in connection with the attack.”

[The Sun]

[the defendant]

Omar Moumeche“? So… Algerian, presumably. Why is he even here? Why is his family here?

Life certainly is cheap in Britain’s wonderful new “diverse” multikulti paradise…

Imagine what this country will be like in another 30 or 50 years. I am actually glad that I shall not be here to see it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12763583/Care-home-nailed-window-shut-stop-holding-Mums-hand-ex-BBC-star.html

Thus Britain, through the gradual acceptance of stupid “laws” and “rules” (invalid and/or misinterpreted) becomes a multikulti and “biosecurity” “poundland” police state.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12764141/Man-alive-EXECUTED-Death-Row-Alabama-failing-lethal-injection.html

The only man alive who can tell you what it is like to be EXECUTED after three Death Row staff in Alabama spent 90 agonising minutes trying – and failing – to give him a lethal injection.”

[Daily Mail]

The U.S. Constitution is a bad joke in most respects. Here is one example. The 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids “cruel and unusual punishment“. Then look at what has been found to be not “cruel and unusual,” such as these ghastly lethal injection executions and, of course, the classic one, the electric chair, which can take several minutes and may fry someone alive, in effect.

The U.S. Constitution, looked upon by most Americans as if holy writ, when in fact it was just a document cobbled together by a bunch of freemasons (many of them), partly (it is said) in a New York City tavern.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt8-4-9-10/ALDE_00000975/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair#Botched_executions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12762433/four-million-kardashian-style-surrey-mansion-scotland-yard-notorious-corrupt-commander.html

Another symptom of the rot in plain sight now in our society.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12763029/gang-thugs-kick-punch-police-officer-McDonalds-Kingston-London.html

…and again…even more “diversity”. How wonderful…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12763249/migrants-dover-channel-crossing-rwanda-unlawful.html

A total of 356 asylum seekers were intercepted by Border Force officials from seven boats and escorted into Dover, Kent, throughout the day.”

[Daily Mail].

…and still they come. Migrant-invaders. Migration-invasion.

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The wrongheadedness of the “austerity” drive since 2010, which badly damaged the UK economy, especially in the years 2010-2015, but was sold to the unthinking British people as “necessary”.

That was a long time ago. The world is now overpopulated, and particularly with non-Europeans. A reduction of the world’s population to about 10% of what it is now is very desirable, but of course the remaining population has to be mainly ethnically European.

Talking point

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I do not know the details of the case, but the penalties do seem extremely heavy, just speaking generally.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/01/19/diary-blog-including-thoughts-about-prepping-on-the-individual-level/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/02/03/diary-blog-3-february-2021-including-more-thoughts-about-prepping/.

You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your
fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who
have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the
past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon
the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in
which their bodies have long decayed.

Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can
change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has
inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will
and courage.

You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass
your blood on to your children, for you are a member of
the chain of generations that reaches from the past into
eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent
must do its part so that the chain is never broken.

But if your blood has traits that will make your children
unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the
heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will
lives.”

[SS Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]

[SS-men take their sacred oath at midnight, Munich, 1940s]

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If I am not mistaken, that is the India/Pakistan border. Both sides indulge in military march theatricals, a strange macho posturing performance.

“They” can never be believed.

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Diary Blog, 15 November 2023

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12748225/Bill-Gates-buying-farmland-land-fake-meat-climate.html

Bill Gates‘ recent buying of American farmland is doing more for his bank account than the planet, a new book claims.

[a varied picture, quite modest in part, but Gates is only one such buyer]

Penned by bestselling journalist Seamus Bruner, the work also asserts the billionaire’s investments in fertilizers and plant-based meats are doing little to slow carbon emissions as he claims, and come at the expense of everyday Americans.

A section of the just-released book titled Controligarchs, that hones in on this so-called ‘war on farmers’ elaborates on these claims.

There, Bruner writes how figures like Gates are monopolizing the nation’s food supply with their purchases, paving the way for an at least partial takeover over the country’s food system as families like the Rockefellers have done in the past.

The book claims to reveal how billionaires like Gates, Jeff Bezos, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg plan to control every aspect of daily life.

 Bruner’s book – which boasts the tagline ‘exposing the billionaire class, their secret deals and the globalist plot to dominate your life – was released Tuesday, and is available for purchase both in stores and online.”

[Daily Mail]

I was writing on Twitter/X about the buying-up of farmland (not just in the USA; also in the UK, New Zealand etc) a decade ago.

Very sinister.

The thing is, though, that as far as the named individuals are concerned, one or two, or three, ordinary Americans, or a small group, could quite quickly call a halt to the said conspiracy. Need I say more?

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Liz Truss, like many MPs, deserves, at the very least, [REDACTED…].

So the (Israeli) Jews are now attacking hospital patients, including babies in intensive care. Their excuse? That there may be combatants concealed somewhere below ground. What does that say about them?

Meanwhile, in the UK, Jewish whiners such as the fake charity known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” say that UK-based Jews are “afraid”, because they might see a Swastika drawn on a wall…

Israel’s military superiority does not work Haaretz newspaper military analyst Amos Hareil: Israel is facing three crises in Gaza: So far, military superiority has not been evident on the battlefield and it has not been able to surrender Hamas;

After this, such a thing is unthinkable. The army has almost no presence and activity in the south of Gaza, where the refugees poured into this area, Israel must clarify its position regarding this area, especially after the humanitarian crisis intensified with the arrival of winter and the spread of various worse diseases.

This war started with the overwhelming superiority of Hamas and this movement is trying to take advantage of this superiority to sign two prisoner exchange agreements in order to record it as two strategic victories for itself.

America can’t fight in the Middle East – Douglas McGregor .

The US armed forces are currently not ready to directly intervene in the Middle East conflict, says retired American Colonel Douglas McGregor.

As McGregor said on the Redacted podcast, American troops are even worse prepared for such an operation than for a possible campaign in Ukraine, which ultimately never took place – they have neither ammunition nor logistical support.

Meanwhile, the situation in the Middle East is developing in such a way that what is happening could at any moment result in a large-scale war in which almost all major regional players will oppose Israel, the retired officer warned.

Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl, and stop throwing money and arms at Israel.

Yet another totally idiotic “Conservative” MP: Laura Farris

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12752005/Home-Office-minister-Laura-Farris-taking-knee-support-Black-Lives-Matter.html

A newly appointed Home Office minister sparked fury on the Tory right today after pictures were unearthed showing her taking the knee during the Black Lives Matter protests.

Laura Farris, the MP for Newbury, said how it was important MPs and other public figures ‘are there with the community showing their support’ in the fight against racism in 2020.

She attended the event in the Berkshire town in June 2020 in a mask during the Covid pandemic, less than a month after the murder of George Floyd by police in the US city of Minneapolis sparked worldwide protest.”

[Daily Mail].

[idiotic MP Laura Farris]

Not only bending the knee in sign of fealty to the black mob, but wearing a stupid facemask as well. What a cretin.

Silver-spoon idiot, whose father was MP for the same constituency: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Farris. Play-barrister and play-journalist for a few years before latching onto the old MP racket in 2019.

I had never heard of this MP before today, so undistinguished is she.

[Update, 15 November 2024: Cretinous “Conservative” Laura Farris is an MP no longer, having been ousted at GE2024 by the LibDem candidate: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/03/17/diary-blog-17-march-2024/. Neither does she seem to have resumed Bar practice. “Gone girl”].

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The infamous fake “poverty expert”, and “grifter”/fraudster, “Jack Monroe”, has been the subject of a few blog posts by me over the past year or two especially. I just looked at her Patreon “grift” for the first time in a month or so. I see that the number of utter mugs still sending her between £3.50 and £44 per month has fallen to 339. Still, don’t knock it! I would not mind getting £1,200 upwards (at minimum) each month for doing nothing at all.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bombarded-twice-gaza-4-year-old-ahmed-loses-parents-then-legs-2023-11-15/.

The karmic burden on Israel, and on Zionist Jews, becomes ever-heavier. God knows what will be the outcome, further down the line.

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Who on Earth would think Jess Phillips capable of holding down a ministerial position anyway must remain a mystery; Starmer, presumably.My assessment of Jess Phillips from 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/07/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-jess-phillips-story/.

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Diary Blog, 14 November 2023

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[swimming pool “Moskva”, 1970s]

Battles past

Stray thoughts

Several aspects of the initial Hamas attack on southern Israel last month struck me at the time and thereafter. First, the fact that the Gazan forces were able to plan and carry out such an operation at all. Secondly, that they were able to keep up what seems to have been complete operational security until “D-Day”. Thirdly, that it took Israeli Army forces 12 hours to arrive.

Israel is a kind of armed camp. Most citizens are liable for full-time or reserve service, Israel spends over 5% of GDP on military activity, and it is constantly on alert, yet here we see that there was a large-scale incursion at a known flashpoint (the Gaza border region), and it took Israeli forces 12 hours to respond effectively.

The relatively short distances also make that response time seem long; Tel Aviv itself is only 44 miles from the Gaza northern border, and perhaps another 10-20 miles to the scenes of attack.

There have been “conspiracy theories” asking whether this was a “Pearl Harbor”, i.e. did the Israeli Government know in advance, but allow the attack to happen, in order to have an excuse to reduce Gaza to rubble and destroy both Hamas and much of the population?

That theory sounds monstrous and also unlikely, but it cannot be ruled out, especially with factors such as the offshore oil.

I suppose that history will judge.

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I remain surprised that no-one at all has taken action directe against Cameron-Levita, Osborne, Dunce Duncan Smith or others in the Con Coalition of 2010-2015, but there it is…English/British people tend to be rather tolerant and long-suffering. Many of the guilty go unpunished.

Instead of monitoring actual terrorists, the UK’s shadowy disinformation units, in liaison with the intelligence agencies and Big Tech, monitored people like me.

My “crime” on one occasion was saying that “children have wonderful immune systems” and that “I have a legal duty to safeguard children against harm”.

At the same time, psychological nudge units were employed by the UK government to encourage the public to view anyone who questioned the government as an extremist.

Members of the public, who had been evangelized by the now debunked “safe and effective” mantra, set about hunting down those who questioned government pandemic policy. Often reporting them to their employers and unleashing what I have described as Britain’s unofficial social credit system.

In other words, seeking to punish them via the complaints process and cancel culture. This Chinese Communist style censorship, and resulting self-censorship by vast numbers of the population, allowed ever more extreme policies to go unchallenged and unchecked.

For example, the government announcing that a child would not require parental consent to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Or the government ignoring the advice of the JCVI and pushing ahead with the rollout for children.

It is hardly surprising that there are increasing reports of traditional terrorists and radicalised behaviour within the UK. While the likes of the 77th Brigade were all eyes on British citizens who were critical of government Covid policy, they were all eyes off the real terrorists and threats to our national security.

If the @covidinquiryuk is to be worth the eye watering cost it will eventually rack up, it must address the egregious way the State went about silencing dissenting voices during the pandemic.”

Sobering.

Sunak, the Indian money-juggler, is just another Israel puppet or “monkey-on-a-stick”.

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Binned.

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Diary Blog, 7 November 2023

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[Petrograd, 1917]

Today is the 106th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12716987/NHS-age-limits-health-screening-save-older-peoples-lives.html

The NHS is becoming unfit for use. It has the excellent aspect of being free at the point of use, but increasingly that has to be weighed against what are said to be worsening outcomes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12716051/Incest-rape-horror-Three-brothers-subjected-sister-years-sickening-sexual-assaults-jailed-Ireland-abusing-child-relatives-taught-rape-father.html

Irish tinker/”traveller” news.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12717581/NADINE-DORRIES-Not-convinced-Boris-forced-sinister-clique-No-10-Iain-Duncan-Smith.html

More from Nadine Dorries about the sinister No.10 clique involving Dominic Cummings, as well as expenses fraudster, drunk, cocaine-abuser and puppet of the Jewish lobby Michael Gove, and others.

The advisers to William Hague at the time, Michael Gove, Danny Finkelstein and the like — that’s who they were.”

[Daily Mail]

Wouldn’t you know it? The Jew scribbler, Finkelstein, was allegedly involved in the secretive cabal(s) even two decades ago. Typical. That Zionist bastard used to tweet to people asking them not to retweet me (a Jewish pack had me expelled from Twitter in 2018). He is now in the totally discredited House of Lords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Finkelstein.

Contrived machinations at the heart of a state. Reminiscent of the 1940 film Jud Suss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud_S%C3%BC%C3%9F].

[https://archive.org/details/jud-su-ss-english-subbed-1940].

“They” destroy anything they touch.

My own view of Cummings from 2020: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/03/dominic-cummings-a-government-of-dystopia-and-lunacy-posing-as-genius/.

More: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/10/les-eminences-grises-of-dystopia/.

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark the UK.

I also find it incredible that there is someone who has been at the heart of affairs (read that how you will) at No.10 for many years, one Smith, who was apparently the head of a company engaged in organizing discreet and expensive “swinger” parties; and that creature’s much younger wife, a Pakistani called Munira Mirza, was at one time the closest adviser to “Boris” Johnson.

Could the “Conservative” Party be any more rotten?

Had I the power and position, I should institute a massive purge across Westminster. Stalin and Hitler would both have done the same. I might even outdo them both. The whole system is corrupt, rotten, and deserving of a chistka.

It can be seen that the Jew-Zionist element runs through the whole story like Brighton rock. Look at Gove. That little bastard has been a key mouthpiece for Israel since he was at the Times (with Finkelstein). Regular readers will be aware that one of the 5 tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 (it now turns out, unlawfully, as well as wrongfully) was one critical of Gove, whom I described (entirely accurately) as a “pro-Israel, pro-Jew expenses cheat“; I had no idea then that he was a regular cocaine-abuser and drunk as well.

On the facts, one wonders how deeply Israeli Intelligence is embedded in Downing Street. Pretty deeply, I imagine, looking at the Israeli flag being projected onto No.10 after dark recently. (((Occupation))).

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The state which terrorism founded now arms a new generation of terroristic Jewish land-thieves.

Chris Bryant: expenses fraudster, Common Purpose drone, Labour Friends of Israel member, among other defaults. A sleazy little weasel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12720179/wework-bankrupt-worth-47-billion-founder-adam-neumann-lavish-lifestyle.html

WeWork, once pegged as a pioneering solution to modern office constraints and valued at an astounding $47bn, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.

It is a devastating fall from grace for the desk-rental company founded in 2010, which on New Year’s Eve 2022 operated 43.9mn square feet of space globally.

The company was one of the great startup success stories of the early 2010s and had built an empire spanning 100 countries at the time of its peak valuation in 2019.

We are here in order to change the world,’ its eccentric cofounder Adam Neumann once explained triumphantly. ‘Nothing less than that interests me.’

As it filed for bankruptcy this week, the company once worth $47bn was reportedly valued at just $45mn.

Adam Neumann, now 44, founded WeWork in 2010, promising an alternative to traditional office rental for modern businesses looking to attract top candidates with a comfortable work environment on a budget.

His dream was to reinvent the work of work, and his passion shone through to investors as he spoke of replicating the feeling of togetherness he had experienced growing up in Israel, that he felt was lacking in the West….Neumann once joked he could one day become Israel’s Prime Minister, or ‘President of the world’ – and reportedly said he hoped to live forever.

Neumann continued attending meetings barefoot and insisted poorly-paid staff should use a ‘sense of purpose’ and free beer to pay their bills, according to Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork.

Neumann has continued to seek opportunities in business despite the setback.

Even as the company he founded files for bankruptcy, the entrepreneur is still worth $2.2bn in 2023 according to Forbes.

[Daily Mail].

Yet another Jew fraud. He has left the investors with a loss of USD $9.99 out of every $10 invested, yet he and his wife have managed to keep their claws on over two billion dollars. Or about nine billion Israeli shekels.

…and yet another…

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23890534.oxford-chippy-conman-run-two-years-jailed/.

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There are rumors that due to a shortage of armored vehicles, the Israeli army has decided to form an armored brigade from Merkava-3 tanks, which are in storage. It is noteworthy that Merkava Mk 3 tanks are most often seen in battles in the Gaza Strip, while most Mk 4 tanks are ready to escalate the conflict on the border with Lebanon.”

I saw a facemask loonie myself a few days ago; a middleaged man striding into Waitrose. First one spotted for a few weeks.

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The USA and Ukraine are behind the scenes accusing each other of the failure of the Ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield, writes “Washington Post” columnist Max Booth.

“Why hasn’t Ukraine made progress? Behind the scenes, there is a lot of recrimination between Ukrainian and American officials. The Americans privately complain that the Ukrainians have failed to launch a NATO-style combined arms offensive and have returned to the war of attrition characteristic of Soviet military strategy, while diverting desperately needed personnel in secondary operations around Bahmut,” Booth assesses.”

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Diary Blog, 1 November 2023

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[painting by Volegov]

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12694209/United-Nations-Craig-Mokhiber-RESIGNS-Israel-Hamas-war-Gaza-genocide.html

A United Nations Human Rights New York office director has resigned in protest of the UN’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war – after calling attacks on Gaza ‘a text-book case of genocide.'”

[Daily Mail]

Yet you see countless Jew lawyers and armchair “lawyers” on Twitter/X denying it.

Good to see that at least one person still has honour and principle.

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My dear friends – please watch this video! Is it a plane? Is it a bird? No, it’s not….and it’s most definitely not a helicopter or a drone either! This mysterious light made absolutely NO sound at all. And it remained perfectly still and static while I watched it – hovering high in the sky above the holy land.

Is it possible that “They” are watching over us all during this dangerous and tumultuous time?

During World War II many Airforce pilots reported seeing similar anomalous balls of light, which they nicknamed Foo Fighters, and historically there have been many UFO/UAP sightings which happened in close proximity to military bases and manoeuvres.

I believe that the human race has long been observed by a higher intelligence…and these beings are watching us because they care about our wellbeing and are worried about our ongoing survival as a species. #MysteriousLight #UnidentifiedFlyingObject #UFOs #HigherIntelligence #Observation #Survival #FooFighters #HolyLand #WatchfulBeings #AnomalousLights #MilitaryBases #Manoeuvres #WorldWarII #HumanRace #Wellbeing

I am interested in the same questions and the same phenomena.

Do people really need to read a “report” from a “think-tank” to see what has happened to the UK over the past 13 (in fact more like 20) years?

Labour 1997-2010 was not quite as bad as the Con Party has been (2010-2023), but they were going along the same lines, especially after 2005.

Little friends. “The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb].

Oliver Dowden. What a total deadhead.

There you have, in that interview, in 2 minutes of floundering nonsense, why very few people are going to be voting “Conservative” next year. Complete incompetence, total lack of preparation, just unwarranted self-confidence based on nothing more than always having had money and an easy career progression. A belief that you can always “blah blah” out of any difficulty. The “Boris Johnson” school of incompetent political pseudo-leadership.

How do such idiots ever get appointed? Oh…(see below)

Dowden is a former officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel, and has twice chaired the APPG for British Jews. Dowden has said he feels a “cultural affinity” with the Jewish community – his constituency of Hertsmere has the largest Jewish population outside of London.[14]” [Wikipedia]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Dowden].

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[Adolf Hitler signs a portrait photograph for a young admirer]
[Adolf Hitler accedes to requests for his autograph]

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https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/veryurgentcrisiappeal

That Jewish Lobby puppet sees himself as a “statesman”, it seems. The Israel lobby is trying to present him as such. Nein danke!

David Lammy, that ridiculous monkey-on-a-stick, again. Incredibly, that ignorant creature will probably be Foreign Secretary a year or so from today.

In the case of the egregious Cummings, that is just a label. I blogged about that particular crazie a couple of times, years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munitions#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/white-phosphorus

Her expensive lawyers“? I suppose that that must refer to the vituperative Mark Lewis, the Jew-Zionist solicitor who fled to Israel after having been found guilty on several charges by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority. His fine was considerably reduced because Lewis’s own counsel pleaded that Lewis’s only assets were “...his clothes, a personal pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12696759/Passenger-hell-yelled-white-children-easy-rape-white-men-jailed-hurling-drunken-abuse-white-women.html

A plane passenger from hell who shouted ‘white children are easy to rape’ has been jailed for 14 months after drunkenly hurling racist and misogynistic abuse towards women on two flights back to Britain. 

Father-of-three Mohammed Shiraz Riaz, 42, fat-shamed an air stewardess and called her a ‘f…ing white b****’ during a nightmare journey from Marrakesh, Morocco, to Liverpool John Lennon airport, before later biting a policeman and leaving him with teeth marks on his arm.

Despite being arrested and bailed to face trail, car valeter Riaz was able to book a second flight to Istanbul, and on the way back to Manchester hurled a torrent of sexist and racist abuse towards cabin crew, fellow passengers, police and female airport officials.

During the flight Riaz, who it emerged had a string of 30 offences on his record, was seen drunkenly shadow boxing in the aisles and punching the seats.”

As he was placed in a police van, he went on: ‘No wonder it’s so easy for us to rape your white children – you’re all a bunch of p******. You f***ing s***s, fat-a*** c****. White woman are easy to rape. White children are easy to rape because white men are p******.’

Riaz was not charged with any racially aggravated offences.

Another of the fruits of “diversity”…

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/girl-sexual-assault-south-london-train-police-cctv-appeal-b1117310.html

A man sexually assaulted a girl in front of her friend on board a train in south London.

Detectives on Wednesday released a photo of a man they want to speak to in connection with the attack, which happened around 10.15pm on September 16.

[Evening Standard]

[police want to talk to this creature]

More wonderful “diversity” in our country…

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/israel-palestine-war-kibbutz-rachel-johnson-boris-johnson-b1114616.html.

I have to admit that that piece by Rachel Johnson is quite fair.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/black-lives-matter-george-floyd-london-romford-bristol-b1117250.html

An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest who used tens of thousands of pounds in donations from a fundraising page to back her expensive lifestyle has been jailed for two and a half years.”

[Evening Standard]

When will “Jack Monroe” face charges? She has also defrauded hundreds of people, and kept crowdfunded monies raised (in some cases) for specific and/or charitable purposes for her own use.

Seems that I am not the only one who has noticed.

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I missed those tweets, posted a couple of days ago.

Jews with weapons. Jews with power. Need I say more?

Israel, the state founded by terrorists who shot and hanged British troops in the 1940s, and also British (and Arab) civilians, the state founded on ethnic cleansing, mass graves, theft of land, and Jewish supremacism, has over the past decades shown its real face more and more clearly. It is also the hub of a global financial and criminal empire.

As for Jews living outside Israel, the two “communities” have a symbiotic relationship, each feeding from the other.

This could be the moment… the Arabs (and Iranians) have always been disunited or mutually-opposed both in general and vis-a-vis Israel. Could this be the moment when all fall upon Israel, from all sides? We wait to see…

So that’s the end of that.

So that means that, probably, the Israeli Jews have killed at least 2,000 young children and babies, and wounded (including tearing off limbs etc) about 6,000, in less than a month.

I wonder how many will, one day soon, be landing in Tel Aviv?

Interesting.

Looks more like 1938 Vienna. Ironic…

Zionist Jews in the UK, USA, France etc support, most of them, the carnage unleashed by Israeli forces and their political leaders.

Look at Twitter/X etc. It is all there, in plain sight.

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Diary Blog, 30 October 2023

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If one were to hit the reactors at Dimona, that really would put the cat among the pigeons (or should that be the vultures?).

Clausewitz recommended that offensive force be concentrated on one direction, ideally upon a single point, later termed the Schwerpunkt, not dispersed here and there.

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Israel is doing this. Those who support it, and who live elsewhere in the world, are complicit.

The weasel words of the supporters of Israel cannot justify the destruction of a whole city, the inhabitants of which are, half of them, under -18; a quarter of the population consists of babies or small children.

Israel may have nuclear weapons, nerve gas, tanks, jet aircraft, missiles etc, not to mention an over-wealthy and over-powerful support group in the rest of the world, but its days are numbered.

A degree of global warming may be happening, but the causation seems to be largely not human activity. It is suspicious how much fakery there has been around it all.

Again, weather in any given place is not the same as climate globally, but Greta Nut, in any event, has nothing interesting or useful to say.

Jews abusing “law”, or laws, in order to get what they want (in that clip, in occupied Palestine).

Now where have I heard about Jewish “lawfare” before?…

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/30/bilal-went-out-to-harvest-his-olives-an-israeli-settler-shot-him

The inhuman hand of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby reaches right into the heart of most Western governments.

Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak is just another of “their” puppets, likely to be replaced next year by “Labour” Israel-puppet Starmer.

As for Paul Bristow, at least one Con Party MP has not completely sold out his own sense of decency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bristow

I suppose that he feels that he has little to lose. Peterborough will probably swing back to Labour next year: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s

I blogged about the 2019 Peterborough by-election (in which Bristow came in only third) at the time: see my pre-poll blog post https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/09/notes-from-the-peterborough-by-election/; he was elected several months later, at the 2019 General Election.

I also penned a post-poll analysis: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/06/07/peterborough-by-election-post-poll-analysis-and-thoughts/.

In fact, I had already, earlier, blogged about the “deadhead MP” Fiona Onasanya, whose removal and imprisonment triggered the by-election: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/21/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-fiona-onasanya-story/. As far as I know, she is still “on the dole”, having also been struck off the roll of solicitors (she had worked as a legal gopher for a couple of years prior to getting in on the old “MP” racket).

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Suella Braverman has nothing but her political career. She was no more than mediocre as barrister: her “KC” status is an honorific one, in effect, granted after she became Attorney-General; in fact, at one time, all MP-barristers were granted “KC” on the nod (one such, in the 1960s, was John Mortimer, the writer). Suella Braverman will never return to the practising Bar.

My view is that Suella Braverman can see the way the wind is blowing; most Con Party MPs will not be MPs after next year. She, however, is in a very safe Con Party seat (Fareham), where she scored 63.7% of the vote in 2019. She will almost certainly be re-elected in 2024.

Suella Braverman’s populist anti-migration-invasion stance will also prove popular (both in Fareham and elsewhere). Even I like the (empty) rhetoric. In a Conservative Party in which many of the recent quasi-“big beasts” are or soon will be gone (stepped down or chucked out) or discredited (e.g. Liz Truss), Suella Braverman might actually be in a strong position to become leader of whatever rump rabble of Con Party MPs is left, especially with her supposedly (?) anti-immigration, and other, rhetoric.

As to the Jew/Israel aspect, she is married to a Jew (and he certainly sounds like a Zionist, pro-Israel Jew). She has effectively pledged fealty to the Jewish lobby by attending their dinners etc; and now this. She needs to get the Israel lobby and/or Jewish lobby onside if she is going to try for the Con Party leadership.

That might have amused me were I ignorant of the fact, if it is a fact, that Hancock is being paid a hundred grand or more (?) for it…I am presuming…[I just read £45,000; still, not bad].

My assessment of Hancock from 5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/09/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-matt-hancock-story/.

When you look at bloodied children, dead children, how women, old people suffer, how doctors die, and fists clench, and tears well up in your eyes, you can’t say it any other way, but we shouldn’t, we don’t have the right to allow ourselves to be guided by emotions.

We must clearly understand who is really behind the tragedy of the people of the Middle East and other regions of the world. Who organizes deadly chaos, who benefits from it. Today this has become obvious and clear to everyone, the customers act openly and brazenly – it is the ruling elites of the United States and their satellites that are the main beneficiaries of global instability.

(((“the main beneficiaries“)))…

Israel set out in theory to destroy Hamas. It is now confronting an increasingly united Islamic world. For the first time in 1,000 years you have the Shiites and Sunnis who are united with one purpose, to STOP Israel. Instead of responding to this the President as he always does is escalating. Netanyahu is betting on this very heavily and believes that Israel together with our military power can prevail. This is a big mistake.

This is what the supporters of Israel in the UK and elsewhere are supporting, whatever weasel words they may utter.

Incidentally, it was —almost boringly— to be expected that the “human rights specialists”, often Jewish lawyers, in England, almost all seem to have fallen silent; a few are even excusing Israel, while whining at the same time how they feel “afraid” to keep on living here because they saw a Swastika drawn on a wall as they drove past somewhere, or they heard a few chants by Palestinians on TV news reports. What hypocrites (also expected, frankly…).

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Diary Blog, 29 October 2023

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The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb].

A complete lunatic, in my opinion. I should add that, until recently, I had never heard of her. She seems to be the absolute personification of the obsessed “family law” practitioner— thankfully, a type only encountered by me personally rather rarely; I did not in general practise “family law”, though I did do a handful of “ancillary support” (financial) matters in the early 1990s, and one (I think only one) large-scale child custody matter, all of which, by Grace of God, ended successfully for me.

Again, my above view is only my opinion as a —wrongfully and unlawfully— disbarred ex-barrister…

The Bar as a whole seems to bend over backward to accommodate certain types: see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

The Bar is now living off its hump, as I have blogged in the past. Same as the BBC, SIS, the armed services, the Monarchy, the police etc. The facade is there, but the content is either absent or rotten.

I presume that that last question is purely rhetorical.

Another of the fruits of “diversity”…

https://twitter.com/ricwe123/status/1718420652477002035

As far as I have seen on Twitter, the Israel-supporting Jews in the UK mostly offer weaselling excuses for why the Israeli war machine “has to” attack these children along with the Hamas fighters. Some even applaud the slaughter openly.

From what I have read in the newspapers, Hamas operatives are about 4% of the population of Gaza, whereas under-18 non-combatants are about 50%. Actual children and babies are probably about 25% of the population.

Israel is either completely callous towards the suffering and death meted out to the children of Gaza, or is, in the typically crude Israeli phrase, “mowing the lawn“, i.e. killing as many Gazan children as possible, every few years, so that they do not grow up to fight Israel.

This is exactly the situation. “Entitled” Jew-Zionists in the UK pretending to be “in fear”, and making themselves out to be “victims”, when they are (many of them anyway) cheerleading the murderous assault on the civilians of Gaza and elsewhere.

Jew-Zionists in the UK are, in the contemporary term, merely “cosplaying” being victims. I even saw tweets today about how “scared” some pretend to be because they saw a photo on Twitter/X showing a small and crudely-drawn (or cut) reverse Swastika on an Underground train seat, obviously drawn by some vandal, probably a child or teenager.

We may never know the full truth.

Russia is already in a strategically-winning position.

2024 may see a general Russian advance through Eastern Ukraine, perhaps to, or close to, Kiev itself.

Do they mean it, or is it just more hypocritical weaselling? Hard to say, when the US political system and legal world is so Jew/Zionist-permeated.

When Turkey speaks, Europe has to listen.

An Israeli army attack in the Beit Lahia area in the northern Gaza Strip was repulsed by intense mortar, anti-tank and rocket fire. Following the kamikaze UAV attack, Hamas troops following Israeli soldiers through the tunnels scattered the Israeli army in the region and forced it to retreat north again.”

The Jew-Zionist cheerleaders in the UK and USA must love to see such wanton destruction. In fact, we can see that they do, from their social media posts. A few add some weaselling words, and a few others add some nonsense about how they are so “afraid” of “antisemitism” in the UK that they may move (but never do) to…Israel.

Tragic. Europe, including the UK, should be joining with Russia to form a new white-magic “Christendom” for the 21st Century and for future centuries— contra Islamism, contra Jew-Zionism, contra Americanism, contra Chinese expansionism. A Grail-Christic autarky.

I have to admit that that clip amused me a little, but Laurence Fox is really wrongheaded in his support for Israel’s Gaza “holocaust” and for worldwide Jew-Zionism, though I support his view on the statues of our great past Empire.

Politically, Laurence Fox and Reclaim Party are a waste of space, and quite obviously will get nowhere at the General Election of 2024.

As for the Richard Tice/Nigel Farage latest “controlled opposition” party, Reform UK, the same. The only real difference is that Reform UK is better organized and seems to have at least (?) 3%, maybe 5% of the voters willing to back it. It might even get to 10% in some seats, as a protest vote. Still just a waste of space and a waste of time, of course.

Only a real and tightly-run social-national party can change the way things are going in this country.

Migration-invasion.

Look around you, in Ireland, in the UK, in France, in Germany, in Sweden etc. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan— no mere “conspiracy theory”.

Israeli and other Jew-Zionists really exposing their true nature.

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I just noticed that a certain tweeter (nameless for now) and who tweeted about me unpleasantly for years, seems to have (some time ago, I think in 2022) gone “up the chimney”. Not the first, and not the last. Several are going that way right now, if I read things aright. Nothing to do with me personally, though, in terms of physical causation.

#TenGreenBottles.

The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].

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The war crimes of Israel are horrific. Those who support them or excuse them are complicit.

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Diary Blog, 26 October 2023

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Let’s talk about rape in France. We all know who is doing the raping, so we don’t have to talk about that. But, let’s prove it by numbers.

In 1971, the rate of declared rapes in France stood at 2.0 cases per 100,000 people. In 2015, when the “great migration” started the rape rate for France was 20.1 cases per 100,000 people.Today, they’re sitting at 39.59 cases per 100,000 people. You’re looking at nearly 94,000 reported rapes a year. About 5,000 to 7,000 of those rapes are gang rapes.

The other day, some migrant raped a 93 year old woman and a 95 year old woman while they were in a hospital.

Yet, many young liberal French women are still encouraging the illegal migration to continue. Do they think they’ll be passed over when a migrant randomly gets horny for something and they’re in arms distance? None of it has to be this way.

Eventually, what has to be done will be done, but how many White Northern European people will have to suffer and die before the iron necessity happens?

My own reminiscence of a day spent in a form of captivity in the Middle East about 25 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.

Rachel Reeves is a horrible woman, completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, completely dishonest, and a freeloading pseudo-Labour MP of the worst kind.

Rachel Reeves currently poses as Shadow Chancellor, yet she ran up a large debt on her (interest-free) House of Commons credit card, and for a long time refused to repay it. Typical unmerited “entitlement”, and reminiscent of the Blair-Brown “MPs in clover” days. The details of that credit card fraud/freeloading have been removed from Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Reeves#Political_positions_and_views

Sunak

I heard a droning political address on Sky News this morning, and thought that it was Blair but, when I looked up, saw that it was Sunak! Their voices are almost identical. How is this possible?

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The Universe is built on order, Divine order.

“They” always try to twist everything, and try to take over…

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“Where are the limits of religious freedom?

A blog post published 5 years ago, but since then read by almost nobody. I think that that is a pity, because I think it worth reading. I happened to notice that it had a hit, a single hit, this morning, the first for many months, so thought to republish it by the link below:

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Get lost, you freeloading pseudo-intellectual fake.

If the Triple Lock is cut down, weaselled away, effectively abandoned, legions of State Pensioners will lash back at the “Conservative” Party. People aged 66+ years are the mainstay of the Con Party (both as voters and as members); if they go, the Con Party has no chance at the 2024 General Election and no future beyond that.

The Con Party (a far more accurate name than “Conservative”) is currently running at 25% in the opinion polls. The proportion of people of 65+ years in the UK is around 19%. The proportion of people aged 60+ is around 23%. Most of both categories vote Conservative. If even half of those abstain, or vote elsewhere, the nationwide Con Party vote might be as low as 15%, or even lower, and the number of Con Party seats after 2024 might be as few as 16 (Labour seats 548).

The two main System parties are both now without purpose. I had thought, a few years ago, that Labour would collapse first. Turns out that it will be the Con Party. Much as I despise most of the Labour MPs, particularly the Shadow Cabinet, and especially Israel puppet Starmer, the Con Party MPs have forfeited the right to live (speaking metaphorically and politically). Completely useless.

Incidentally, despite my now being (since 2022) a State Pensioner myself (hard for me to believe though that is), my views are not much coloured by that. I only receive about a half-pension anyway, having spent so many years overseas.

History comes full circle. Even a Jewish (albeit apparently anti-Zionist) tweeter has echoed my view that the attack on Gaza is most similar to the Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943.

[Jews being led out of the Warsaw Ghetto by Waffen-SS men, 1943]

The German forces of 1943, mostly Waffen-SS, did not use poison gas in attacking the Warsaw Ghetto, and fought against the Jews (many of them armed) on the ground.

On that basis, the Jewish/Israeli attack on Gaza and its 2 million civilians is far more extreme than the German attack on the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Jews/Israelis are using massive air power to demolish whole neighbourhoods in Gaza. Now, if the Middle East Eye and Daily Telegraph reports are accurate, it seems that the Jews/Israelis may use poison gas (from what I have read somewhere or other —admittedly unverified— a cyanide compound similar to the “notorious” Zyklon B) to gas both Hamas operatives and unarmed civilians hiding below ground, and/or will use chemical “sponge bombs” to fill those tunnels, asphyxiating those in them.

History is more than ironic at times.

Having said that, we on the outside must just wait to see what happens. “In war, truth is the first casualty“…

See also: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sponge-bombs-israels-tactical-breakthrough-fight-against-gary-ramah-dxkac/.

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Diary Blog, 25 October 2023

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“Doctor” Coffey…Ha ha! She’s a fake.

What is disturbing about Therese Coffey being a Cabinet minister is not the mere fact that she is an idiot —she is not alone— but precisely that the present system leads to people quite as ill-suited as her becoming Government ministers.

I blogged a few years ago about Therese Coffey (updated from time to time): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/16/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-therese-coffey-story/.

Seems that the Jews of Israel want “Lebensraum“, and Gaza to be “Araberfrei“…. Who would have thought it?

I want to see a similar map of the UK, but about economic power and showing exactly “which groups” have it. Same about ownership, control, and influence over the “British” mass media.

As soon as the Israelis started the present round of their repeated slaughter of the population of Gaza, up popped Rachel Riley (and a few other Jews and Jewish organizations, such as the tiny but well-funded “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) to threaten, on Twitter/X, anyone opposing Israeli actions by reason of, or connected to, so-called “antisemitism”.

She strikes me as a very unpleasant woman.

Jewish-Zionist scribbler Nicole Lampert platforms more basically pro-Israeli propaganda in the pages of the Daily Mail.

Rachel Riley supposedly left “shaking with fear“?…I doubt it.

In case anyone wants to read the nonsense of Rachel Riley and Nicole Lampert, here is the full article/report/propaganda piece: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12669923/countdown-rachel-riley-antisemitism-jews-hamas-attack-israel.html.

Unlike Rachel Riley, I always support freedom of expression. #MoralHighGround.

But she said the positive support in contrast had been ‘heartening’ – including the 50,000 British people who signed their name to an ‘October Declaration’ speaking out against antisemitism and the need to call out Hamas as ‘terrorists’.”

[Daily Mail]

50,000“. So about 1 in 1,000 people in the UK (and elsewhere?)…or, to put it another way, only 1 out of every 5 or 6 Jews in the UK. Not very impressive.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12661747/Hezbollah-Israels-monster-north-Iran-backed-terror-group-join-war-region-ten-times-stronger-Hamas-200-000-missiles-rockets-mortars.html.

[Daily Mail]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust.

[Guardian].

Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox really should stop posing as a political leader. He is a political bad joke. He is, or thinks that he is, pro-free speech, and I approve of that (though, like Toby Young, Delingpole, and the whole “Free Speech Union” mob, his support is limited and biased), but he is basically a disconnected Conservative Party person who (understandably) wants less censorship, and fewer migrant-invaders coming to the UK.

Fox is currently parroting Israeli/Jewish lobby propaganda. He should stop pretending that “Reclaim Party” is anything other than a political joke (and far less amusing than the Monster Raving Loonies) and either return to acting, or join a real social-national party (when one exists).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Fox.

Jew-Zionist flyposting

I notice that Jews are actually reporting pro-Palestinian people who have been removed pro-Israel posters in London (and maybe elsewhere) to the police. In fact, tearing down such posters is not a crime. Putting up such posters is a crime (all flyposting is a crime in London).

Typical, though…

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Next stop Armageddon? That is inland, I believe.

“Raus!”

The Swedes should feel grateful. Stockholm would not look very nice after having been hit by a nuclear missile.

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Diary Blog, 23 October 2023

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659621/Right-wing-populist-party-campaigned-against-mass-migration-woke-madness-comfortably-tops-early-results-Swiss-general-election.html.

It may be good news; certainly not bad news.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659891/Suella-Braverman-demand-police-explain-demonstrators-called-jihad-London.html

As I know only too well, free speech is on the way out in the UK. I am (obviously) not a Muslim, let alone an “Islamist”, but I am not at all “offended” by some foreign person shouting about “Jihad” against Israel in the streets of London. I am not even very offended, or would not be, if the same foreign individual were to cry out for “Jihad” against the UK, or against me personally. After all, the most extreme Zionist Jews have been tweeting malevolently about me for about 13 years. The people of whom to be afraid are those not shouting in the streets.

If foreign (inc. foreign but born here) groups are a danger, then resettle them outside the UK.

As for Suella Braverman, she (like Jenrick, and Mark Harper, who was weaselling for Israel, as usual, on Sky News this morning) is just another doormat for the Jewish lobby. She has no idea of much, either politically or, I think, legally. A silly woman who is trying to position herself to be the leader of whatever small group of Conservative Party MPs is left after 2024.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659759/tech-boss-warns-artificial-intelligence-one-four-chance-destroying-us.html

A significant problem that deserves a great deal more attention from society than it is getting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659927/Rishi-Sunak-faces-mounting-pressure-reshuffle-cabinet-weeks-bruising-election-defeats.html

In the old rhetorical question, how do you shuffle a pack consisting only of jokers?

The only “shuffle” that might have at least a slight effect would be to replace Sunak by someone recognisably English and at least superficially credible. The same with the Cabinet as a whole. At present, the song might be “where have all the English gone?

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[https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/veryurgentcrisiappeal]

Just what does this mean, when one also reads that no less than 75% of “asylum” claims are being approved?!

Just a weasel-trick lie from yet another corrupt puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Just another way of funnelling more non-whites into this suffering country.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

Eventually, Israel will be isolated, and its population will be trapped within its chosen boundaries, just as the people of Gaza are now trapped within their never-chosen boundaries.

The tweet refers to Nikolai Rerikh or Rerich, more often known as Nicholas Roerich, the once very famous Baltic German/Russian painter: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich.

I visited the Roerich Museum in Manhattan a few times in the past: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Roerich#Cultural_legacy.

[Roerich Museum, 319 W.107th, Manhattan, New York]
[Roerich Museum, Moscow]
[Nicholas Roerich, Guests from Overseas, showing Varangians (Vikings) exploring the great rivers of Western Russia about 1200 years ago]
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Ha ha! No comment, I think, except to say that the word you want is “effect“, not “affect” (but I should not want to be regarded as a “grammar nazi”…).

On September 25, 2000, 19-year-old Kevin Hines attempted to end his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Plunging over 220 feet at a speed of 75 miles per hour, he hit the water below, shattering three of his vertebrae and narrowly missing severing his spine by two millimeters.

Despite the odds, he miraculously survived the impact. Upon realizing he was still alive, an intense will to live surged within him. Yet, the weight of his clothes continuously pulled him beneath the surface of San Francisco Bay. For what seemed like an eternity, he struggled to resurface briefly, gasping for air, just enough to hold on to life.

Suddenly, he felt an unusual force from below lifting him above the water’s surface, where he remained until the Coast Guard arrived. It was only later that he discovered the mysterious presence keeping him afloat: a sea lion had been supporting his body until the rescue boat arrived, as eyewitnesses had observed.

His story gained major media coverage and he has since become a motivational speaker and advocate for suicide prevention.

I read somewhere or other that, of those who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and then survive both the impact and the waters (about 2%), most recall having a moment when they wished not to have jumped, and/or prayed for a miracle. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicides_at_the_Golden_Gate_Bridge#False_suicides_and_survivors.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/an-atmosphere-of-fear-free-speech-under-threat-in-israel-activists-say.

Unsurprising. “They” have already destroyed free speech in the UK…

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Knowing almost no Arabic, I have no idea what he is saying; maybe praising the build-quality of the tunnel.

As I blogged before, the old Soviet KGB had great expertise in digging tunnels. The one shown above looks well-constructed, lined etc. No idea as to depth, though. Presumably very deep.

It is not impossible that there will eventually be a kind of sectarian/civil war across Israel/Palestine. The massive military advantages Israel possesses lie in nuclear weapons, tanks and other armour, air power, high-tech surveillance, much of which loses effectiveness or even utility in closely-packed areas (which describes much of Israel/Palestine).

There may be a war, eventually, in which infantry or guerrilla forces play a major part.

Impossible? Maybe, but my prediction, a few years ago, that the Palestinians might break out of their “open prisons” to attack Israeli civilians in Jewish areas has now come to pass in the recent attack on Southern Israel, so who knows?

As I blogged before, the Gaza situation, as it now is, is most similar, historically, to the Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, but this time the Jews are not the ragged defenders but the heavily-armed and armoured army, with air support, attacking an urban enclave filled with mostly-unarmed civilians (in this case, mostly babies, young children, and young teenagers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto

[A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza – Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Daily Telegraph]

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My very popular assessment of Therese Coffey from 4 years ago (updated): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/16/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-therese-coffey-story/.

…and in, say, 20 years’ time, when the children in Gaza suffering now are 25-35 years old, what do you imagine will be their feeling about Israel and Israelis? Israel may not —now— much care, but if the results are incursions and massacres on 10x the scale of that recently seen, it will have no choice but to care…

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