Political correctness was never about good manners or being nice. Neither is wokeness. They've both always been about imposing a worldview, warping reality in the name of ideology and shutting down those who disagree, writes @patrickxwesthttps://t.co/QANwAAjzrC
Britain’s armed forces have become a joke. Unfit recruits, female Royal Navy officers (!) working as moneygrubbing online “hoes” when off-duty, only 11,000 infantry available for deployment. It just goes on.
Interesting old film
Tweets seen today
UK Gov's SAGE released a paper on 13 Jan 2021 citing that masks are typically 85% to 94% INEFFECTIVE against Coronavirus. Not to mention the well documented dangers of bacterial infections from masks and the environmental wastage. Enough. @ClarkeMicah@thecoastguy@mrmarkdolanpic.twitter.com/uBpEN5yPof
Excellent. Everyone on the bus, then, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. There are lots of big passenger ferries not being used just now, they can all go back to France on those.
— Erictheowl-Labour is Never the Answer 🇮🇱 (@Erictheowl1) February 7, 2021
Meanwhile, the msm ignores, or almost ignores, the vast and increasing toll of death and misery caused by the unnecessary ad disproportionate “lockdown”/shutdown and allied measures such as the facemask nonsense.
I just heard on the radio about those having to pull out their own teeth in agony because dentists are operating at low capacity or not at all, while still being paid pretty much full whack by the NHS! Total scandal.
Human beings tend to complain. Once, long ago, when living in the Caribbean, I was chatting online to a girl who lived in the English town of Hereford. I was complaining about how boring day to day life was in a villa without TV, satellite or even a telephone (but it was a pleasant detached villa with no close neighbours and on what was in effect a private beach, the sea about 20 feet away…). Her reply? “You think you’ve got problems. It’s cold here, and it has rained so hard that the ceiling of my bedsit has just fallen in.” Life is always relative.
Columnist Peter Hitchens says lifting Covid rules requires political courage: “Once you put restrictions in place, no one will take responsibility for removing them.”
A boy of, at time of “offences”, 13-14, but now 16, made the focus of a prosecution and huge publicity. What, really, has he done? Nothing except shoot his mouth off and research things on the Internet.
The court obviously realized the specious nature of the prosecution. Non-custodial sentence.
There is far too much nonsense of this sort, driven by a ZOG political agenda, and facilitated by too-zealous police and prosecutors.
I have written before about “prepping” in the UK or Western European context. Those articles can be found using the search box on this blog.
In essence, I made a distinction between the kind of “prepping” or survivalism appropriate (arguably) in North America, and that appropriate in Western Europe and particularly the UK.
I also distinguished between pure survivalism on an individual and/or small group basis, and the kind of community “prepping” that might keep culture and civilization alive, forming a germinal ethnostate that might later blossom into something that might replace the lost world (the one in which we live at present).
Today, I want to address the steps that individuals can take to be more prepared for what might be coming. I mean realistic measures, not involving disappearing into the Scottish Highlands with a Swiss Army knife and a box of Swan Vestas.
To deal with the least likely scenario first, my blog posts about the formation of social-national communities (also available via the search box on here) covered the sort of situation where an individual or family have the means to buy a country estate, a farm, or a detached house with land or at least a large garden area.
An acre or two of land is enough to feed one person, possibly several people, depending on diet. A rule of thumb might be 1.5 acres per person. So a family of four might need 6 acres, well within the amount of land often found attached to houses in the country (as distinct from “country houses” stricto sensu).
The more one moves away from a purely vegetable, fruit and nut diet, the more land is necessary. A single tomato plant (a single seed may cost from 1p to 40p) can produce 30 pounds weight over a season; in exceptional conditions, 80 pounds weight.
At present in the UK, one can keep up to 20 chickens without notifying officialdom (DEFRA). 20 chickens will produce about 15 eggs per day, so if about 6 are required, you should only need about 8 chickens.
Anyone in the fortunate position of starting off with such property can improve its survival possibilities by, firstly, making it independent of the electricity grid. Solar panels for electricity, and (assuming roof space is available) the other kind of solar panels for production of hot water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_heating.
Such panels do not last forever. After 20 years they lose efficiency. Still, well worth having, and it may be possible to store some against a future collapse of society.
There are more traditional improvements to houses that can help save heat: insulation is one; roof, between attic and main floors, within walls. Another is double-glazing. In the UK, this is usually within a module, the panes not far apart. In other countries, such as Russia and Kazakhstan (where I once lived for a year), the panes are built in, and can be six inches or even a foot apart. They can usually be opened (in older buildings), and some people grow pot plants in the space. In some buildings in central and northern Russia, there is even triple-glazing. Ventilation is via a small window in the corner of each large window, that small window being called a fortochka.
Electricity can also be generated from small-scale hydropower, depending on whether a river or stream is nearby; it need not be expensive or complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_hydro. Small and very small readymade systems can be installed for a few thousand or even a few hundred pounds;
It may be worth having a generator which works off petrol or diesel, for short-term emergency use only. Expensive (at cheapest, several hundred pounds, usually more, in the low thousands). This usually requires construction of a fuel holding tank, which is also expensive, and potentially hazardous. Still, a generator may be worth having, despite its noisiness, with the idea of using it for a hour or two per day, perhaps in the evening, or purely for emergency power.
Not much electricity can be produced by human effort, though there are bicycle generators which produce enough power for a light bulb and or small devices such as radios etc while the pedalling continues. A relay of two or three connected to a charging battery could therefore produce perhaps two or three hours of small-use electricity for an hour of pedalling.
Small-scale wind turbines can produce enough for basic purposes, as an addition to the mix.
Traditional heating still has its uses: open fires or, more efficient, woodburning stoves.
Cheap coal is mostly to be banned soon in the UK (for domestic use), but a remote country house is unlikely to be checked out, and in conditions of societal collapse there would be no men with clipboards anyway. It is probably possible to buy a stockpile of, say, 100 tons of wet coal, fairly cheaply now if you know people. The approved kind of smokeless coal costs far more, about £300 per ton.
There are useful items that can be charged by human effort (wind-ups): radios, lamps etc.
There are table and other lamps that are powered by batteries that are recharged via solar power.
The country house owner may wish to install useful small-scale equipment for use in times of collapse: cider presses, threshing machines, nut-oil presses etc. It costs less than you think. Hundreds rather than thousands, usually. Also, the sort of equipment that can produce home-made beer or cider. I tried making beer once or twice when I had the lease of a large country house in Cornwall many years ago. My efforts were, putting it kindly, crowned with only modest success. Practice makes perfect, or as the Russians say, “repetition is the mother of learning” (it rhymes in Russian).
[cucumber growing in a greenhouse, Minnesota, 1910]
[Royal Greenhouses, Laeken, Belgium]
[1760s orangerie, Kuskovo, Moscow]
[Grand Orangerie, Peterhof/Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg region]
Whatever the scale of residence of the prepper, there can be improvements made.
Water purification is also key, in case the mains supply is cut off. Many but not all country residencies have a private supply. When I lived in Cornwall, the country house had its own abundant supply from a spring. When I moved to a more modest place, a 6-bed farmhouse on the Devon side of the Tamar, that also had its own supply. I read somewhere that somewhere between 5% and 10% of the UK population have access to private water supply. Surprisingly high, if accurate.
Something that almost everyone can do is to lay in extra longlife food. In his interesting memoirs, Drink and Ink, once-famous writer Dennis Wheatley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wheatley] describes how, in his late 1930s newspaper column, he advised his readers (in 1938 or 1939) to stock up on dried and tinned food. He did so himself, and later wrote that when rationing was mandated (1941), he and his family got through the war far better as a result.
Tinned food is good (in the sense of edible) for far longer than the 2-5 years “Best Before” date. Some dried foods, eg white rice, are OK (if kept very dry) for 20 years.
There is no need for immediate bulk buying. A few tins or bags of rice extra whenever shopping should do it.
People should lay in a supply of seeds, and of course a range of equipment relating to horticulture, as well as small but always useful items such as nutcrackers, kitchen equipment, matches, lighters, tealights and candles.
The same goes for first aid stuff: bandages, band aids (in England, “plasters”), and so on. Painkillers and other proprietary medicines (they become less effective over time, but better half a pint than none…). All useful; we saw in 2020 what happens when, suddenly, loo paper, kitchen roll, pasta, flour, antiseptic products etc become unavailable.
The above should at least be a basis for further research for people interested in mitigating the effects of a possible societal meltdown.
Yoshiro Mori, the Tokyo Olympics committee president and a former Japanese prime minister, prompted outrage after he said women talked too much in meetings and should have their speaking time regulated.https://t.co/AhCIgPJgpj
Ha ha. Made me laugh… I recall when I was a trustee of an educational charity some 30 years ago. The unofficial supporters were mostly women, very nice but very willing to talk endlessly. There is a skill to handling such situations.
France (presidential election, 1st round), Ipsos poll:
You can see the likely result, as has happened before in France and elsewhere (eg when David Duke was cheated out of his Senate win in Louisiana many years ago): the supposedly “far right” or nationalist candidate gets into the final two, only for the self-describing “Left” to abandon all principle and endorse the System finance-capitalist candidate, who then “wins the election”. Rigged.
Grandmother, 87, chases thief from her home with her late husband's military sword https://t.co/Yun8yOGDTu
“Will be released at age 36″… I have always opposed capital punishment as such, but it probably will be necessary at some stage to restore order by putting up against a wall a few thousand of this sort. The wider question, though, is how to build a better society, an advanced society. You cannot do that when huge numbers of socio-ethnic degenerates exist.
One of the fundamental mistakes of the modern world is the belief that quantity of life is more important than quality of life. Gatesian neuroticism is the antithesis of enlightenment. https://t.co/XBsjtWmhfc
William Butler Yeats b1865 – d1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. Warlock left. Yeats right pic.twitter.com/cTOOl7OpSS
"Like their neighbors in Britain, the Irish imported an American-style race problem and imposed it on themselves. There was no need to do so; wise men argued against their doing so; their descendants will curse them for it."https://t.co/OYg84PPqRppic.twitter.com/pi7ZKXvhEs
I'm reluctant to dismiss Leftists as nuts–everyone involved in politics is odd to some degree–but Lance Welton has assembled an archive drawn from technical literature demonstrating that it's really truehttps://t.co/0UI0qf2XaLpic.twitter.com/fdLP7jAuu7
I think that we know that this nonsense is not going to be eliminated by tweets, blogs or debates, at the end of the day.
More tweets
Not as much as Johnson laughed when the ‘Corbyn Out’ lot sabotaged their own party & ensured the Tories won the last election. And it scarcely matters what socialists say, Starmer is tanking in the polls by his own efforts anyway.
Well, “Dr.” Raw does have a point. True, Labour is closer behind the Conservative Party than was the case at the 2019 General Election, but that is mainly because the Jewish press (both msm and otherwise) has almost stopped demonizing Labour now that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is leader.
Still, looking at the incompetence and nonsense of the present ZOG/NWO regime at Downing Street, it might have been expected that Labour would be miles ahead. It might be, were it a real Opposition, but Starmer just supports everything that “Boris”-idiot is doing, but says that it should be done more! Lockdown, the facemask nonsense, you name it. On immigration, Labour cannot attack the Government’s poor record, because Labour still favours mass immigration…
An elderly lady I once knew used to say, in the 1980s, if a picture of Brittan came up on TV, “doesn’t that snout just need kicking?!“
When you wake up tomorrow, it will be February. But it will feel remarkably similar to January. As will March. Unless you #UseYourVoice and speak out to get our country back to normal. There will always be another demand for another week or month of lockdown. So speak out. Now.
The first tweeter has a “prison” mentality: obey the “rules”, denounce “rulebreakers”, and maybe the “authorities” will “allow” you a period of outside exercise every day…
Ironic…if I am not mistaken, that “antifascist” tweeter, “@jdpoc” (who in the past has tweeted against me) was quite recently tweeting something online about his own “issues”…
Par for the course, it seems.
‘The woke seek to deploy, not the jackboot of totalitarianism, but the cancel culture of intolerance. In the name of democracy they must not succeed.’
I explain here why I was expelled from my Chambers for challenging the mainstream discourse on race.https://t.co/SlyBK3c0SZ
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 31, 2021
What's your point, Guardian?
The Judge concluded the claimant (failed asylum seeker) had brought a claim that misled the court. See 24-27: https://t.co/lhMbbggP5v
It's a bad day for justice if only Guardian approved barristers can act for councils.https://t.co/ekSNXJT2aE
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
I could write a book about the immigration cases I did in the early 1990s; I appeared before immigration tribunals at first instance, in the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, and also in the High Court (on judicial review applications).
Some cases were run of the mill, involving marriages etc, others involved fugitive members of foreign secret services, and yet others alleged members of extremist or “terrorist” groups (mostly Kurdish).
Check out the comments beneath this article. Cancel culture is:
If only Holbrook and other members of the Bar had broken cover and spoken up clearly (or at all) when a pack of malicious Jews instigated my disbarment in 2016, he might not be where he now is…
This is what happens when one challenges the woke: others attempt to cancel you, as has happened to @JonHolb. Their loss, our gain: his (shamefully disproportionate) expulsion now makes him a seriously important asset to the campaign for free speech.https://t.co/sl4rBlfsIa
Oh, really, “@KathyConWom”? Where were you and Conservative Woman etc in 2016, after I was disbarred (and then pilloried in the “free” Press)?
I have also not heard a word or seen a word in support of persecuted satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz from such “free speech” advocates…in fact she is still facing both persecution and actual prosecution.
[Alison Chabloz]
This is what the tyranny of woke does to young minds. A survey of students found:
• over 25% censored their own views on politics or ethical matters,
• 40% believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts. https://t.co/by0FrK8MjF
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) February 1, 2021
This is the tweet that has resulted in my expulsion from my chambers.
Cancel culture means that the mainstream can proselytise but that when populists present a counter-narrative they must be driven out of mainstream society.
MSM going mad about Russian police and their rough tactics. The Russian police are rough at times. Russia is a rough country. So what is the excuse of the Dutch police, who on the weekend were using mounted police, water cannon, and rubber bullets on pensioners and young women (among others) protesting about the “lockdown” repression? The Dutch mounted police were filmed cracking open the heads of fleeing protestors with heavy clubs.
Strangely enough, the UK msm went mad today about Russia, but forgot to mention the Netherlands. BBC propaganda was blatant. All very (((odd))).
Late music
Below, same orchestra, same conductor (the composer) but a different recording of Hanson’s Romantic Symphony , with far better sound quality:
In fact, I had ceased practice in 2008 anyway, so that little charade was merely a Schauspiel for the public and msm.
Anyone interested in the msm view of the matter can google “Ian Millard barrister” to find what the Daily Mail, Independent, Sky News etc had to say to their misled readers and viewers. Incidentally, the Press photo of a headless barrister, implied as being me, was of someone else: I have never smoked cigarettes, and always had better shoes than had the barrister in that picture!
I was disbarred, expelled from the Bar, because I had tweeted, as part of my private life (I had no professional life after 2008), tweets (in the end, only 5 in number, out of at least 150,000 tweeted or retweeted) deemed “grossly offensive”.
My “grossly offensive” five tweets were general comments on society and “our” corrupt MPs, and were not addressed to any other tweeter. One, for example, called Michael Gove something like “a corrupt, pro-Jew, pro-Israel expenses cheat”.
It will be noted that my description of Gove was in fact entirely accurate and true! Truth is no defence in the age of (Zionist-controlled) msm “wokeness”. In 2016, I was, along with the general public, unaware that Gove is or was also a cocaine abuser. The snivelling little bastard only admitted that a couple of years later, when about to be exposed anyway.
However, my aim today is not to rehash my own unjust disbarment, but to speak up for another barrister whose head is on the block.
One of my own several observations about my own experience of being subjected to a “show trial-lite” is that, after it happened, I did not see one barrister speak up either for me or for freedom of socio-political expression.
I am blogging about my disbarment etc not only because the injustice should be known about, but also and mainly to support freedom of expression.
I do not know personally that other barrister now in trouble; in fact, I have only today seen his name for the first time. Jon Holbrook.
Holbrook’s profile at his chambers (which have now disowned him, i.e. bowed to external pressure) is still extant on the internet at time of writing, and says: that “Jon’s practice covers public law (including community care & court of protection), housing and property (including service charges & general management).”
“After twelve years at Garden Court Chambers and two at Hardwicke Building Jon joined Cornerstone Barristers in 2006. He is described as ‘terribly good – you get a QC service when you go to him’ – Chambers & Partners 2017.”
“Jon Holbrook is consistently praised in the legal directories for his intellect, advocacy and affable manner. Chambers & Partners describes Jon as “tenacious, extremely able and knowledgeable”, “a man with an affable manner” who “presents advice well to lay clients, allowing them to quickly make informed decisions” (Chambers & Partners 2013).”
“Jon is listed as a leading junior for social housing and public law in Chambers & Partners (2006 to date) and as a leading junior for administrative and public law in the Legal 500 (2005 to date).“
“In 2005 Jon instigated the formation of the Social Housing Law Association (SHLA), an organisation he chaired until 2008. He is a SHLA representative on the Administrative Court Users Committee.“
“Jon was General Editor of the Housing & Property Law Review and Consultant Editor of the Journal of Community Care Law. He has also written on a wide range of legal issues which can be found under the publications tab.“
“Before being called to the bar in 1991 Jon was a local authority housing advisor and tenancy relations officer for Westminster City Council.“[Cornerstone Chambers website].
I am writing this blog on a Sunday. I daresay that, by Monday or Tuesday, the above will have disappeared from the website in question, and Jon Holbrook will have become an “unperson”, in the Orwellian term.
There are now voices calling for Holbrook’s suspension or disbarment. His now-former chambers have expelled him already.
‘The woke seek to deploy, not the jackboot of totalitarianism, but the cancel culture of intolerance. In the name of democracy they must not succeed.’
I explain here why I was expelled from my Chambers for challenging the mainstream discourse on race.https://t.co/SlyBK3c0SZ
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 31, 2021
https://thecritic.co.uk/cancelled-by-my-barristers-chambers-over-a-tweet/ “I have been expelled from my barristers’ chambers because of a tweet. During my fifteen years as a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers and thirty years at the bar, I had an unblemished professional record and was top ranked by legal directories for my work – particularly in public law. And yet my one sentence tweet on a platform designed to be polemical has ended this particular career.“
Snap…
“I tweet regularly: identifying myself as a barrister, but never as a member of Cornerstone. In fact, I had two accounts, the other identified me as a member of Cornerstone and was used for professional purposes. And yet, a thirteen-word tweet on my political account has caused me to be expelled from my professional workplace.”
Snap…(except that I had but one Twitter account, and never identified myself in my profile as barrister (or in any of the “offensive” 5 tweets, though the Bar Standards Board lied outright about that in its public statement of 2016).
I notice that “Secret Barrister”, a prolific tweeter who has also written a bestselling book on the collapsing UK justice system, had called for Holbrook to delete at least his particularly-objected-to tweet.
I have no idea of the identity of “Secret Barrister”, but he or she may be Jewish, or at least connected with the Jewish element.
I note that a whole group of barristers on Twitter have gathered to attack Holbrook’s tweet.
Below, the actual tweet in question:
The Equality Act undermines school discipline by empowering the stroppy teenager of colour. https://t.co/XLZYQg1Lmw
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 17, 2021
Now other barristers prolific on Twitter are tweeting, casting their stones:
Swift and decisive action from the members of @cornerstonebarr. I applaud their determination to disassociate themselves from the words and actions of Jon Holbrook. I hope and expect @barstandards will now follow their lead. https://t.co/n4LJCGouk1
…and note that Nadine White, a black woman who scribbles for Huffington Post and is described as “Multi-award winning journalist leading @HuffPostUK‘s coverage of race“, is plainly ignorant about the fact that, in England, a set of barristers, aka “chambers”, is not a “law firm”. Just another example of the pervading ignorance around. “Journalism” now is as contaminated and effectively dead as the Bar…
Your tweet & article in Conservative Woman demonstrated not only your lack of understanding of discrimination law, but your prejudice. You were challenged on your views, but chose to double down. You were asked to delete your tweet & refused. It's the consequence of your actions.
Others, however, are tweeting in support of free speech. Shamefully, though, few if any are barristers. The Bar is now full of cowards too frightened to challenge either political correctness or the Jew-Zionist element. The whole idea of the independent Bar —and independent-minded Bar— is now something in the past, dead.
I shall rejoice now at news that any barrister has been bankrupted or impoverished, whether by reason of the “lockdown” shutdown or by reason of government spending cuts. Screw the Bar as it is. It does not deserve to survive.
You always fought for free speech and always said what you thought. Can't wait for the news. @JonHolbhttps://t.co/CjLAoPozFK
— Academics For Academic Freedom (@AFAF_freespeech) January 31, 2021
Nobody has the right to stop someone working for exercising their right to Free Speech.
Breaking: I have been expelled from Chambers. This has freed me to continue my campaign in support of free speech and against all things woke. More news shortly.
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 31, 2021
Due to popular demand I’m back.
But at the price of cancelling my appeal against Twitter’s claim that I violated their rules.
Twitter gave me a “choice”:
• abandon appeal & lift the lockout, or
• remain locked out for unknown period (it’s already been 5 days).
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) January 25, 2021
Ah, Holbrook, where was Douglas Murray when I was disbarred? He is paid, in effect, by the Jew-Zionist lobby (not that he does not sometimes say correct things). Where was Toby Young and where were all those “free speech” people when I was disbarred for having tweeted (truthfully, at that) on socio-political issues? They were all afraid of the Jew-Zionists, and/or in some cases paid by them.
Until you recognize the (((core))) of the problem, you cannot tackle it.
Incidentally, there were a few actual barristers (apart from wannabees and pupil-barristers wishing to score brownie points by joining in the attack on me a few years ago) who went out of their way to kick me (on Twitter) when I was (as they imagined) down. A few were gratuitously rude and insolent. They are not forgotten…
As a matter of fact, I do not recall Holbrook himself tweeting in support of me in 2016 or later. Oh, well, I suppose that I shall just have to take, once again, the moral high ground…
More stupidity. No barrister accepting a case should think about anything but the case. Otherwise people of whom others disapprove do not get representation. Which, of course, disproportionately affects all minorities, as history shows. Turkeys need to think about voting for Xmas https://t.co/LwGIwkIk6Q
For once, I agree with Jew-Zionist barrister Myerson, who was obsessed with attacking me on Twitter and elsewhere for years. When I was a barrister, especially when I was doing criminal cases (among others), in the early to mid 1990s, I had numerous defendants who were West Indian, African, various “browns” etc. I always did my best for them even when I disliked them and indeed thought that they should not be in the UK (whether born here or not).
That old-style Bar ethic is now in danger of being lost.
Is it time to revisit this extraordinary case, involving several high profile persons, and a seemingly most peculiarly unjust outcome?https://t.co/fdHeTkotYg
This is the mysterious Trill Mill Stream. In 1832, some of the cleverest men in the world, the governing body of Christ Church , Oxford, built walls around it to keep the Cholera in. pic.twitter.com/Kc41g7qFbw
I have always loathed the self-aggrandising echo-chamber of social media. Starved of any iota of debate or opposition to the demands of the new church of Covid, the voices of reason I have found here over the last year have kept me sane. Particularly @Iromg & @ClarkeMicah.
According to this account from 1934, wild cats were still occasionally found in Wales (though it later says ‘probably completely vanished’) – what do you reckon, @gow_derek @PeteMRCooper? pic.twitter.com/4WEPP2S6MR
Ministers finally announce legislation to ban moorland burning by grouse moor estates – but not before time, & the legislation contains some glaring loopholes that need closing. Upland estates must end these damaging practices & embrace rewilding.https://t.co/u22XwYIANR
Imagine a rake of trees on the sides of the mountains and possibility of wolves, lynxes, boars or capercaille wandering through them https://t.co/12ZWH2pFpJ
Thank you @philip_ciwf for sharing this shocking information ‘humane slaughter’ clearly occupies the lowest commitment from the industry. This cruelty must be stopped. It is deeply upsetting & one of the reasons why I choose to be an #ethicalvegan#plantbasedhttps://t.co/PxVUwHMJx2
Here we have another turdwit..going to make a bed display out of a beautiful corpse..she won’t get nightmares because her soul is already dead..her mind is a graveyard which isn't troubled by imagination, sensitivity or love..poor giraffe murdered by a dead soul..it’s sickening! https://t.co/tubjo6D99m
Why why why import Africans to Australia? I can only ascribe it to evil traitors in government and msm; that, and a stupidly somnolent mass population that is more interested in winning brainless team sports across the world than in protecting their own race and culture from migration invasion.
[Philip Green, wife, daughter; examples of “the simulacrum of the human”…]
As the Daily Mail article says, while such parasites stole hundreds of millions of pounds, thousands of British employees lost out and now have lost their jobs.
It has happened before, most obviously in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic [1918-1933].
See the resemblance?
Something far more beautiful
Rewilding is obviously an important part of the way forward for the UK.
Alison Chabloz was treated more harshly for having sung supposedly “grossly offensive” songs about Jews and “holocaust” hoaxes and frauds. Jez Turner of the London Forum was even imprisoned simply for having made a speech saying that Jews should be chucked out of the UK! Real justice is failing in England.
British Army boxer, “who wanted to represent the Philippines at the Olympics“…
This country is now a complete dustbin.
As for those sentences, the defendants were fortunate that they said nothing about Jews. Now that really would have been treated as a “serious offence”…
If you look at the photo of the poor little girl closely, her hair is pulled very tightly like an afro style. Straight European hair is more delicate, and cannot be styled in this manner. Such treatment would result in hair loss. This is racism and cultural insensitivity.
It gives me a headache just looking at that cruelty to the little girl's hair. Mine is similarly fine. Yanking and long term pulling like that makes for a constant sore scalp and tension headaches. Was the *adoptive mother* taking out her resentment and hatred of whites on her?
“Wera Hobhouse is a Christian.[22] Although her mother and grandmother identified as Christians, her great-grandfather was Jewish.” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wera_Hobhouse.
The Jewish/Israeli takeover of the USA really took place after the Second World War. At the time of the Suez affair (1956), the USA (as a state) was keeping Israel (as a state) at arm’s length [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis].
Even in the 1960s, the USA was still not entirely under the sway of its domestic Jew (and pro-Israel) lobby. However, the American film industry had been under Jewish control since the 1920s, and the American television industry was under Jewish control from inception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Paley [CBS]; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_J._Roberts [NBC].
Thus the American public was brainwashed by Jewish and Israeli propaganda from, at latest, the 1950s onward. That brainwashing encompassed everything from academic works through to the “nightly news” on TV, as well as works of fiction and “faction” (examples? Exodus and Schindler’s List, to name but two of the more influential).
We have recently seen that even a “outsider” like Trump was really just a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, completely under Jewish control. The new President, Biden, is under even greater control. All of his top team and Cabinet are Jewish; even his children are all married to Jews. The penetration is so great that even Israeli (and other) newspapers have commented on it.
More tweets
This is such a very sad story of ruined happiness. Those who have pretended for years, for their own varying selfish purposes, that marijuana is a harmless drug have much to answer for. And if they do not stop, they will have much more to answer for. https://t.co/yOgELGCu1Y
I always ask for details of what happened beforehand when I see such films, but walloping a seated man, from behind, seems very hard to justify under any rules. What *is* happening to the formerly free world? https://t.co/nRl1FTKtd5
“Liberal”, supposedly “caring sharing”, Holland/Netherlands. I and my family had friends in Amsterdam, and for many years I had an almost rose-tinted view of life there (and I visited on a number of occasions in the 1970s and 1980s), but since then, in the past 30 years, I have encountered a number of far less congenial Dutch people, very superficial and moneygrubbing; I have realized that much of the famed Dutch “liberalism” is just a lack of real concern, and a superfluity of moral cowardice.
As for the above film clip, I think that the cartoon below is instructive:
Not very much @dsbahia1, because these debates were always empty and without force. I am more worried about Parliament's abdication of its duty to hold the executive to account, and the resulting government by decree. https://t.co/FpERKERtYp
⚠️URGENT⚠️ As a small charity we rely heavily on the income of many funds that have been completely wiped out due to the pandemic. We urgently need help to feed & care for every sick, injured, abused & abandoned animal who needs us.
Read this fascinating article..today China consumes 28% of the worlds meat..including half of all pork. Following the coronavirus outbreak govts & consumers around the world are more cognizant of the risks posed by industrialised animal agriculture #veganhttps://t.co/349RxRkKZC
I went to the local supermarket yesterday, in the mid-evening. Very few customers shopping. Waitrose “Handmaid’s Tale” militiamen on duty, clothed in black, as always, faces covered with black scarves and masks like the ISIS barbarians.
The funny thing was that there was a shopper there, a grey-haired woman probably in her sixties if not seventies, wearing a cloth (i.e. useless) facemask and who insisted on giving me a wide berth of at least 10 feet! I saw her shaking her head, probably because she divined that I was not at all interested in pretending that the population has Ebola, or maybe she thought that I should be more fully masked than I was. I was the only other shopper around.
At any rate, I would have loved to have just said “wake up! It is not the Plague, and hardly anyone in this whole district has even had it!”, but (typically English?) I just ignored her scarcely-hidden rudeness and carried on.
The mad thing is that you see scared rabbits or extreme social-compliers like that woman everywhere now, masked even when alone on wet windy footpaths or in supermarket car parks. The social pathology is disturbing; I am sure that that is why “a majority of the population want more severe lockdown” (opinion polling) despite the country obviously showing signs of falling to pieces. A kind of mass agoraphobia and fear, and “Soviet” levels of —superficial— compliance; the fear has been whipped up by this government of clowns and their absurd “expert advisers”. That fear has taken on a life of its own now…
Still, I am not afraid, and after dark shop peacefully…
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Tweets
Welsh police stop customers going to a farm shop to buy their milk – telling them they should get it from a supermarket instead Can you explain the logic in this? Beats me…https://t.co/Kv7WX6UvRd
It was a year ago that Jack's Yak (Jack's oak tree) near Penrith #Cumbria fell in a storm. Its demise was supposed to foretell great disaster. Yep, they got that right! #treespic.twitter.com/mPaA4IvFcX
In addition, you still won't be allowed to travel anywhere. So what exactly do fit & healthy people get in exchange for risking all sorts of allergic reactions?
Define denier? Do you deny the mounting evidence that proves lockdowns cause greater excess mortality? Do you deny the inaccuracy of PCR tests? Do you deny the growing assault on our civil liberties?
Yes, @leehurstcomic, there is much in what you say. Many believe their opinions are facts, and that the subjective and the emotive are superior to the objective and testable. The Age of Enlightenment appears to be one of the victims of this outbreak. https://t.co/vD211TfXPD
1/2 'We need proper information to inform our responses to the virus… Instead, we have no idea how many of the deaths attributed to Covid-19 really were due to the disease…' https://t.co/ls7LBFVBot via @spectator
2/2 The way ‘Covid deaths’ are being counted is a national scandal https://t.co/ls7LBFVBot via @spectator '…And we have no idea how many of the excess deaths were really due to Covid-19 or to the effects of lockdown'.
…and if that presenter woman is not Jewish, I’ll eat my hat.
Always. Every. Single. Time.
Facebook, “Doomsday Machine”
An article attacking Facebook, from the editor of an msm outlet. In fact, just another attempt to shut Pandora’s box. There is a huge campaign now by NWO/ZOG to shut down even the limited free speech that exists.
In a time when the news is overwhelmingly gloomy, there's a ray of sunshine this morning: "Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, 29, 'is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus'. https://t.co/mL0eYf164X
What is the phrase? Something like “a waste of oxygen“… We Europeans, especially perhaps we British, are in general and by nature more compassionate than Africans, North Africans, Orientals, Muslims generally, but that does mean that, sometimes, the unworthy benefit.
Yes , @golbadockdan, as D.H.Lawrence (of all people) warned nearly 100 years ago. https://t.co/1hXTLklx9F
1/2 D.H Lawrence , in his essay ‘Apropos Lady Chatterley’ quoted in the chapter ‘Difficulties with Girls’ in my 1999 book ‘The Abolition of Britain’. pic.twitter.com/TbtSnHXfgv
The truth of that was made manifest in the survival of decency and culture within families even in the terrible milieu of Jewish Bolshevism, and later Stalinism, in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s,1950s, and on to the collapse of socialism around 1989. I suppose that the worst time for secrecy plus denunciation was the 1930s, especially the Yezhovshchina of 1937-1939, and then the late 1940s.
@davidknopfler 'Robbie Fox, the great 20th century editor of the Lancet, who was no admirer of peer review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked `publish' and `reject'. https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
@davidknopfler ' In addition to being poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless for detecting fraud it is slow, expensive, profligate of academic time, highly subjective, something of a lottery, prone to bias, and easily abused.' https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
This statue of Pavlik Morozov,the mythical martyred boy who denounced his parents,who Soviet children were taught to revere,still in Moscow when I lived there in 1990. Vanished without trace when Commiunism fell in 1991. Perhaps now on its way to London? https://t.co/wKVTXr6AHp
Here he is, the prototype of the child asked to spy on his parents for the state ( as now proposed by HMG) , Comrade Pavlik Morozov: https://t.co/cSz96bdLWX
New law being determinedly pushed by ‘Conservative’ govt says children should spy on their parents only in ‘exceptional circumstances’ . So that’s all right then. (Daily Telegraph report). pic.twitter.com/cS06CNGlvO
The Covert Human Intelligence Source Bill will allow 22 state agencies, including the likes of HMRC and local councils, as well as the intelligence services and police, to recruit children as “covert human intelligence sources”… https://t.co/n3gjO5MZrO
In fact, the “Conservative” government “child spies” campaign or proposal is merely the logical consequence of what has gone before (in recent years); it is a continuation of what already exists.
In and after 2010, we saw part-Jew Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, call upon curtain-twitching pleb-Cons to “report” their neighbours who were unemployed and/or disabled, and who might be sleeping late rather than hurrying and scurrying to “seek work” (often unobtainable anyway) in the (((finance-capitalist))) economy.
For years we have seen the authorities demand that neighbours, families, churches, mosques, schoolteachers, even Church of England priests (if there are any left who are not arse-faced lesbians), report or denounce their own families, and friends, acquaintainces, pupils, parishioners etc; not only for “terrorism”, by the way, but also for supporting animal welfare, for opposing mass immigration (migration-invasion) etc. The government even established “Morozovist” organizations, such as “Prevent” and “Channel”, in order to facilitate it all.
More recently, we have see government attempts to get people to denounce neighbours, friends, family who might have exceeded the arbitrary “Rule of Six” invented by Boris-idiot, or who might actually have invited family members to visit at Christmas.
Over the years, we have seen the users of Twitter etc delight in “reporting” “wrong thinking” and “wrong speaking” people to Twitter, or to police, or to others who might punish the dissident. Employers, academic institutions etc. As always, the Jewish element was in the forefront in “reporting” people, though others joined in, particularly the “antifa” idiot-crowd, and the allied self-describing “Left”.
Now this.
I wonder whether Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer will go along (yet again) with what this government is going and proposing?
The real agenda lies behind the supposed reasons for the “reporting” campaigns; to create a serf or slave society somewhere down the line.
Final thought (for today) on all that: remember what happened to Pavel Morozov. After all, if you play by Moscow Rules…
I wonder where the blacks, browns, even Orientals would be, had our white European civilization, especially that developed since about 1400 AD, never existed? Oh, no, wait…
I’ve absolutely had enough of people saying ‘This is not a proper lockdown’ when so many are struggling to cope with it. What do these lockdown zealots want? For us all to be welded inside our own homes till the summer? I’m genuinely shocked by the authoritarianism we’re seeing.
What we are seeing is not exactly “authoritarianism” but the infantilism of, mostly, the self-describing “Left”, who just want to be told what to do by the Big Brother State. Those types are the core of the lockdown and facemask zealotry. A chance for them to see people bullied and bossed around, while retaining a figleaf of “caring sharing” fakery at the same time.
EXCLUSIVE: Boohoo is set to acquire the Debenhams brand in a deal that will resemble the online retailer's previous swoops on Karen Millen and Oasis
Does not include the stores, sad but probably not surprising news for the 10,000+ people who still work there
Just what I was blogging about recently. I shall be laughing when the UK and connected “antifascist” Twitter-twits are expelled. They have little or nothing else.
A now-deceased friend of mine, acquainted with both Mosley and his wife Diana in the 1950s, always said that Mosley’s mistake was to accentuate the “Man of Action” and military aspect of his character (genuine though that was: WW1 officer of both the Army and the Royal Flying Corps; wounded in action), while playing down his more intellectual side (which my friend thought reflected his overall character more, though in the late 1950s Mosley was, of course, over 60).
UK quarantine
Unless the Government simply props up airlines and travel companies (pointlessly), they are finished. Who on Earth will book a foreign holiday from the UK when that tourist (and family, if any) will now quite likely have to spend 10-14 days quarantined in a guarded hotel, and even have to pay for their own incarceration?! Forget it.
In fact, the country where the tourist is booked may also impose some such requirement, and at short notice…
In short, the travel and tourism sector, both domestic and overseas, is totally screwed, as are its huge number of employees.
Incidentally, the whole travel and tourism sector in the UK employs a total of 3.8 million people, about 11% of the entire UK workforce.
Let's help him out. Here is Czechia. It closed its borders, locked down and introduced compulsory masking outside of residence *before* the UK went into Lockdown.
Yet although once hailed as a "Covid success story", it is now 4th worst in the world for deaths/million. pic.twitter.com/Z7gDanOXer
Good to give the movement some exposure today and continue the discussion. Thanks to @bwebster135 for the article and to @AliDriverUK for the connections. Love it. Hope I haven’t angered the local farmers quite as much as the headline suggests! pic.twitter.com/0NusjlDGAM
I took an online quiz purporting to show to what extent one is “a difficult person”. My result: “You are a very difficult person to get along with (68.7%)“! If I am honest, I really do not think that that is so.
I probably judged myself too harshly…
Such tests are amusing and interesting, but probably do not mean much.
Intrigued (as people often are when it is “all about them”, as with popular astrology), I took another such test, this a Jungian one. The result: “Versatile, dynamic, and quirky, you are tireless in your pursuit of the untested, the untried, and the fight against the status quo. You love to interact with all kinds of people and you carry yourself in an expressive and warm manner that ideally sees lots of affirmation flowing both ways. Charismatic and imaginative, you tend to have a well-honed ability to see the world through the eyes of those who do not normally have an advocate to speak for them. You are interested in the potential of others and you often long to help them develop their own aspirations more fully. Ever-inquisitive and appreciative, you have a love of fantasy and adventure and are easily bored by the business-as-usual routines of the corporate and business world. Your own enthusiasm and energy for finding a new and better way arises spontaneously and can often be quite contagious. However, you tend to have little love for resolving the factual specifics of a case, preferring to work by pure inspiration and bursts of energy instead.“
Again, interesting, but I think that I took a similar test last year and came up with a slightly (though admittedly not very) different result.
This is addictive! I did a “Harry Potter” test too, but because I do not know the characters well (I have seen one or two of the films, on TV, but was probably not really concentrating) had to look up the one supposedly (according to the online test) most like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Eater#Lucius_Malfoy
Bottom line: you cannot create an advanced society with a backward population. The migration invasion over the past 70 years has badly damaged the quality of the UK population.
A connected point: if you are employed, or in a “regulated” profession, you are never free. Even the formerly quite free occupations of a professional nature, such as the Bar, are now “regulated”, which means in effect under Jew-Zionist control.
A self-employed person in an occupation unregulated by malicious parasites is in an inherently better position, whether he (or she) is a car repairer, plumber, small business owner, estate-owner, farmer or smallholder (etc), than is an employee or “regulated” professional.
Today's Poll 👇
"Has the BBC provided 'impartial news and information' about the Covid 19 situation, as required by the BBC Charter?"
Anybody who can read and think knows that @fenman3. The research (a recent very large RCT conducted by pro-maskers) provides no evidence that masks have any statistically signifcant ability to safeguard wearers from infection. As there already wasn't any evidence, that's it. https://t.co/nIbxCXVEjo
Japan simply has not strangled its economy and society to the extent that we did @stevene38505742 and it is naughty of you to suggest it has. The damage is nothing like as great. Also, its non-lockdown did not lead to huge numbers of deaths. Rather the reverse. https://t.co/j0R7unTRoB
Do you not see @stevene38505742 that this only works if it is established that lockdowns reduce pressure on the NHS, and do so in a way that is proportionate to the problem? It is not established. We know the govt believes this, but the govt believed there were WMD in Iraq. https://t.co/qaTGxqpmPC
I saw a temporary parking restrictions sign also "due to covid 19", which I found bizarre. Not sure if its still up or not but I might check at lunchtime if we're collecting weird and unnecessary covid measures.
Reminiscent of a scene in the film of The Cruel Sea, in which scene the waiter at the Trocadero (I think), asked about dust in the water brought to accompany whisky, says “Oh, I’m so sorry, Sir. It’s the War, you know“! [the particular clip, I could not see on YouTube]
Today, grey skies, dry, with little wind. In the neighbourhood where I now live, no noise at all. A strange feeling of stasis. Am I extrapolating too far in extending that to the society as a whole? Maybe not. Calm before the storm?
The latest “lockdown” has shut down society, economy, and politics to an extent never before seen in the UK, as far as I know, together with the same in early/mid 2020. As far as System politics is concerned, there is a clownish but still quite sinister UK Government, its sinister nature not entirely mitigated by its incompetence.
The official Opposition does not really exist, and is simply supporting Government policy (unsurprising in view of the fact that both parties are ZOG/NWO-dominated and that there may be no General Election until 2024), and Parliament itself is only pretending to sit. The Chamber of the House of Commons now only has a token number of MPs present when officially sitting.
The System msm has only one story— “the virus”. Everything else is all but ignored.
Under the surface, though, there is movement. We hear that half a million small and medium-size businesses are going under now or soon. Fools (including highly-paid “expert” fools in the City of London and msm) think that almost all of that hurt can be mitigated by “Government help”. Really? For how long?
In the end, notwithstanding government borrowing, the government of a country only has such financial resources as are the product of its economy. The UK economy has been partly, in fact largely, shut down for much of the past year. Now again, and until a date uncertain in March, April, or even later.
So far, the various “furlough”, no-eviction, and rent holiday measures have softened the blow, but they will not continue indefinitely.
The UK is heading for a massive economic and political crisis. There must arise a social-national movement to lead the way out of all this nonsense.
Online censorship
Heard a discussion on the Radio 4 Today Programme. “Baroness” Nicky Morgan [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Morgan]. and some American Jew whose name and job I did not catch.
Nicky Morgan is promoting an Online Harms Bill, whch will cut down even the limited free speech online that still exists. The American Jew mentioned wanted even more strict “regulation”. There was (quelle surprise) no-one speaking up for freedom of expression online, unless is included the presenter.
The presenter asked the killer question, as I remembered it: “what if Twitter or Facebook decide to take down Nicky Morgan’s account, and perhaps decide to retain Vladimir Putin’s? You have no right of appeal anywhere...” Nicky Morgan did not even address that question, which is the most important.
As I have been blogging, speaking and (ironically, before the Jew lobby had me expelled from Twitter in 2018) tweeting for years, the point is that there has been “privatization of public space”.
The huge transnational quasi-monopolies such as Twitter, Facebook, ebay, Amazon, provide the citizen with no rights qua citizen, only worthless contractual rights as “customer”. There is no right of appeal to being expelled, not even in-house (worth a dime), let alone any right of appeal to an outside body such as a tribunal or court.
I suppose that the organized Jewish lobby, and their dupes, think it wonderful that the “far-right” “extremists” (so-called) may soon (as with the present Twitter/Parler/GAB situation) have nowhere to go online. When you take away the possibility to protest and put forward views and ideas peacefully, you open the door to violence, as John F. Kennedy said.
Tweets seen
I was in East Germany in 1989. Believe me, Anu is right. The atmosphere in Britain in 2021 is a lot more oppressive. https://t.co/oFxth6c9Ac
I agree. In many ways, the old DDR (which I saw, briefly, just a couple of days, in 1988) was a real police state, and had been since Soviet occupation in 1945. On the other hand, the once-free UK is also getting that way: “laws” (and “advice”/”guidance” with almost the force of law), never really validated, or nodded swiftly through an elected dictatorship “Parliament”; mass media all singing the same tune in various ways; dissidents arrested if they dare to protest on the streets or even online; young scapegoats and teenaged sacrificial lambs (often with problems of autism etc) sent to prison for years on trumped-up “preparation of acts of terror” charges. Satirical singers prosecuted for irritating Jews.
In what way are you oppressed? The very fact you are free to express this opinion on here is proof that we are not living in anywhere near what it was like in East Germany.
Tweeter “@cashandcarrots” has obviously missed the recent “deplatforming” of so many people with “unapproved” views: in the UK, USA, Australia etc. Not just people complaining about the behaviour of Jews, or about the continuing black/brown migration-invasion, but people examining how “the virus” came about, and what is the real hidden agenda behind it and the vaccine campaign.
It’s worst, people went about their business in East Germany, had a life. Sport was allowed, music, believe it or not people did enjoy themselves.
The regulator (Ofcom) won't control political speech – it will get the companies to uphold their own terms and conditions in the context of a duty of care owed to their users/customers
That tweet seems to be at odds with Lewis’s tweets to Alison Chabloz and others! See below:
[a few of the abusive messages that caused self-promoting Jew solicitor Mark Lewis to be fined and censured by the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority; he fled to Israel shortly afterwards]
And why shouldn't she? Only an evil racist would object to this celebration of diversity. Voodoo rituals are as valid an expression of culture & talent as a performance of Handel's Messiah.#celebratediversityhttps://t.co/qj1WyiWmqA
Thought-provoking article. To what extent is the lockdown disaster a brilliantly wicked master plan, and how much is it about over-promoted idiots repeating the elite sleeping walking into disaster in 1914? Well worth reading.https://t.co/eQnEM0kWKv
I've finished with you, Hodges @dpjhodges, for the day (I note this is a feeble copy of the 'lie down in a darkened room with a cold compress' tweet I sent you earlier this week). I remain both underwrought and deeply unimpressed by you. Come back when you've stopped lying. https://t.co/UzqZl7fibs
Doesn't tally with facts @ralphralph987 I have been contacted by followers , perfectly ordinary Twitter users, who have just found, when they looked, that they have 'unfollowed' me, when in fact they have not. https://t.co/AC8nBmEs3U
Twitter has been fooling around with followings for years. When I was expelled in 2018, I had 3,000 followers. I suppose that, today, that would probably be about 6,000. In fact, many others told me that they had tried to follow but could not. There was shadowbanning etc. Meanwhile, there are those, such as “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (see above) and his one-time wife (they divorced after a year), washed-up local radio presenter Caroline Feraday, who bought tens of thousands of “followers” about 7-8 years ago.
Many Twitter accounts are Potemkin villages, with little behind them.
Twitter is basically a waste of time now, though I find it convenient to use the tweets of others in my blog.
On re-reading this, I love that phrase 'allows for', so slippery it might be written in hair-gel. Hodges @dpjhodges can't bring himself to admit that the iron compulsion in use here, in what was once the freest country on earth, has not been and will not be employed in Japan. https://t.co/tY0qITSnPZ
So he is, and lacks the manners or courage to admit it @juliahb1@dpjhodges. Shrinking fast, Hodges. The Incredible Shrinking Pundit, quick to attack, useless at providing evidence for his accusations, gutless at admitting it. https://t.co/FMMjfTZfnI
Interesting letter in BMJ : 'Clinically we cannot tell the difference between a pre-symptomatic individual, an asymptomatic “carrier” and a false positive result from a healthy individual, because by definition none of these individuals have symptoms' https://t.co/w0U5GaauNJ
'Even during the Spring peak, restrictions played a huge role in excess deaths. Covid killed 25,000 people but… 6,000 people died because they didn’t attend A&E through fear and 10,000 people died in care homes…' https://t.co/5G9MapkFfA
@soumndfriend. I operate the Presumption of Intelligence – everyone is presumed to be intelligent until he or she has proved beyond doubt that this is not so. Also it is useful to keep going back to first principles, and to be reminded of how few people are properly informed. https://t.co/uumUh3V3tJ
2/2 @stevene38505 Lockdown is unprecedented and has huge collateral costs in lives, liberty, employment and wealth. The burden really is on its supporters to show this price is justified. https://t.co/FAiqESxkDM
Starmer reading out Government school meal box guidelines which sound like this raise questions Johnson can't dodge for ever when the PM's trying to pin blame entirely on companies #pmqspic.twitter.com/8xor2yzknj
Leaving aside the racial-cultural aspect, the prominent footballer, Rashford, is right to say that the feeding of poorer children is a complete disgrace.
Historical note
Paula Hitler’s 1957 statement:
“Gentlemen!
Never forget this: Your names will long be forgotten even before your bodies have rotted away in the earth. But the name Adolf Hitler will still be a light in the darkness. You cannot murder him by drowning his memory in your sick-buckets and you cannot strangle him with your filthy, ink-stained fingers. His name exists forever in hundreds of thousands of souls. You are far too insignificant to even touch him.
He loved Germany, he fretted over Germany. When he fought for honour and respect he fought for German Honour, for respect for Germany and when there was nothing left, he gave his life for Germany.
What have you given so far? Which one of you would give his life for Germany? The only things you care about are riches, power and never ending luxurious living. When you think of Germany, you think of indulging your senses without responsibility, without cares?
Trust me on this: The Fuhrer’s utter unselfishness in word and deed alone guarantees his immortality. The fact that the bitter fight for Germany’s greatness wasn’t crowned by success, like for example Cromwell’s in Britain, has a lot to do with the mentality of the people involved.
On the one hand the Englishman’s character is essentially unfair, ruled by jealousy, self-importance, and a lack of consideration. But he never forgets he is an Englishman, loyal to his people and to his crown. On the other hand, the German with his need for recognition is never first and foremost a German.
Therefore it doesn’t matter to you, you insignificant beings, if you destroy the entire nation. Your only guiding thought will always be, me first – me second – me third.
In your worthlessness you will never think of the welfare of the nation – and with that pitiful philosophy you wish to prevent the immortality of a giant?
What I wrote down immediately after the war has been proven to be correct. That my convictions are true is evident even as late as 1957.
Signed, Paula Hitler, Berchtesgaden, May, 1st. 1957“
🛑Pompeo meets with #Israeli Mossad chief ahead of anti-#Iran speech: Pompeo has reportedly been spotted dining with Yossi Cohen, head of #Israels Mossad spy agency, at a café in Washington ahead of a planned anti-Iran speech by the top US diplomat. https://t.co/d5L1gaPvFl
Useless African “Covid marshal” tells jogger that “running is not allowed”. Jesus Christ! This country!…
They may want to @Ryan__92. They just won’t be able to afford to. And think how many jobs that will cost, and how many more people will then cease to be able to afford what once was normal. https://t.co/FTtxcQFoHr
Prayer for the Day, the Three Wise Men, and James Mason
Prayer for the Day, Radio 4’s ludicrous and platitudinous “god slot”, broadcast daily at about 0540, once again hits comedy gold. Chris-Someone, with a possibly Indian surname that I could not catch, tells the assembled listeners (though quite subtly, not expressly) that the so-called “Three Kings” or “Three Wise Men” of Biblical legend (mentioned in the Gospel of St. Matthew) were equivalent to the present wave of “refugees” (migrant-invaders), i.e. people who deserve or at least should be proffered our hospitality.
Leaving aside the politically-correct 2021 gloss, the “Three Wise Men” have proven to be a puzzle to historians as well as theologians. Wikipedia has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi.
[Update, 8 January 2022: please refer to the comments section below for identities of two of the figures].
The main SS figure in the painting looks rather like James Mason [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason]. Was that deliberate? Mason’s political views seem to have been obscure. There are a few faint indications, though. He was a conscientious objector during WW2, and the basis for that is (as far as I know) unknown. There is no known religious reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason#Second_World_War.
In fact, Hitler did tolerate persons in high positions who were at least ambiguous in their views, so long as not proven to be actual traitors. Canaris was another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris.
Like Hitler, James Mason the actor was very interested in architecture, having been awarded a First in Architecture from Peterhouse, Cambridge, at a time when a First was worth something.
Reverting to the Three Wise Men, it has been said that they were the representatives on Earth of the three main types of practical occultism (Hygienic, Eugenic, and Mechanical). Valentin Tomberg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Tomberg] made that claim in his Anthroposophical Studies of the New Testament and other works.
@andrewschramm The issue is not ‘proving that lockdowns don’t work’.As in all such arguments, it’s the duty of the one proposing the action(in this case strangling civil society & the economy, crippling the NHS, wrecking education,putting thousands out of work) to show they *do*. https://t.co/KvoD8GwmhF
People talk here, stupidly, of the American "Deep State" and yet the CIA's leadership is so stupid it traded its historic symbol for some management consultant's idea of what an insolvent architecture firm would use for a doorplate and mousepad. Utter Muppetry. https://t.co/7m3ZJHTw3o
In less than a year, our government has dictated 1) when we can leave our homes; 2) if we can work; 3) what we can buy; 4) what we have to wear in public; and 5) who we can see in private. All from the initial ‘ask’ of a two-week lockdown to “flatten the curve”. Let that sink in.
Nobody tells you this in Parenting School, but the biggest hack you can do to start enjoying taking walks with the stroller—on cobblestone, city streets with tram or rail, gravel, forest paths, beach sand etc. is getting properly thick wheels. Thin wheels are good for malls only. pic.twitter.com/JOpE9yAZGs
寶藏巖: Treasure Hill, Taipei, Taiwan. An illegal micro-village funded in the 1940s by Kuomintang Army veterans of an anti-aircraft position. Cut off from the grid, it had to evolve organically and sustainably, recycling water, farming, etc. Redeveloped in 2010, artist community. pic.twitter.com/zPiQIAjhco
"By 2008 food gardens, despite their small scale, made up 8 percent of the land in Havana, and 3.4 percent of all urban land in Cuba, producing 90 percent of all the fruit and vegetables consumed." https://t.co/dbDJq9twr2
Interesting. I have blogged previously about the situation historically in the Soviet Union, where from 1936-1989 private plots (from tiny strips of garden to about 2 acres at maximum in some oblasts and republics, particularly in Georgia) produced at least 40% of all fruit and vegetable production despite being less than 4% of the country’s productive land area.
How Cuba went from a petro-industrial and hugely disruptive agriculture to one of draft animals, no pesticides, traditional fertilizers and small urban farms, virtually overnight. And vastly increased harvests doing so. https://t.co/WwwqXBuyDjpic.twitter.com/O3pmqg1tgw
You know a town or a city is full of good people when the cats are cool and relaxed even with strangers. #GoodUrbanism is also good our pets. pic.twitter.com/b54iGT2XxW
Quince fruit is naturally very rich in pectins, which is a must if you want to make long lasting marmalades, jams, preserves, jellies, etc. Growing lots of fruits without being able to preserve them wasn't optimal, so every kitchen garden had a quince until lemons became common. pic.twitter.com/O12uEngnb3
The idea is to leave the fruit to fall to the ground by themselves, when they are ready, so you just let the tree grow as tall as it pleases, the fruits will come down with a big plonk just in time for when you need it to make jam out of all the other fruits you have harvested. pic.twitter.com/h12w8Eva6V
But here is why you should plant one and why every city where you can not grow lemons naturally, should have at least 10-25% of its fruit stock in quince: should the hard times ever come, should global shipping fail, should the industrial lemon orchards be wiped out by disease…
It you live in New York I recommend going to see the quinces at the Cloisters Museum. There's four of them in the main garden. Medieval architecture too, and it is outdoors or old fashioned natural ventilation so you won't catch anything (other than UV and vitamin-D). pic.twitter.com/JfwE3wZz6P
Well worth reading, especially the research on comparisons with flu hospitalisations in previous years. Has anyone done the same for here? https://t.co/nrcn5aMiBE
Replies don't matter @sarakeelcube . Most of these boobies can't reason. What matters is – how many people write. Because all MPs can count….votes. https://t.co/sPs4L9hnP2
What Peter Hitchens forgets is that most MPs are in what even now are “safe seats”. Yes, if such MPs were each to get 5,000 or 10,000 letters from actual constituents all demanding an end to the “panic” measures of the “panicdemic”, they might sit up and take notice. As it is, even after Hitchens’ best efforts, they will each get a few hundred at most, which will not affect them in the slightest.
Naturally, as a constitutional purist, Hitchens wants to believe in a peaceful and reasoned transition to or return to actual “democracy”, but that is pie in the sky in a situation where corporatized msm propaganda is easily manipulating (mainly) uneducated, cultureless and unthinking rabbit-plebs.
Ah…seems that Hitchens agrees with me, at least in part:
Then there is the Royal Mail, but I agree with you @no_leaderhip. The numbers need to be bigger to achieve anything. https://t.co/oRJWCCSri9
Why @jenniferthornb do so many people not know the basic rule of argument? The *proposer* has to give evidence for his assertion. There is *no* evidence that lockdowns work. There is nothing you need to counter. https://t.co/cPug9FksAJ
Yes. Naturally, people think that it stands to reason that if human interactions are reduced, as in “lockdown”, virus transmission must also be reduced. However, if people are confined together in small houses and flats, as many British people are, that alone may increase transmission, in view of the fact that outside contacts cannot be reduced to zero.
Nostalgia corner part 2. What U.K. Chief Medical Officers said in August about reopening schools: pic.twitter.com/oob4E2Rv8S
God, how sad. A 150-year-old tree, with its neighbours, it seems, felled so that more hutches for immigrants can be built. I have never seen that particular tree, but feel sad when any tree is felled or cut back, even if for better reasons, such as coppicing. As Chekhov wrote (not sure where, offhand, not I think in The Cherry Orchard, maybe in Uncle Vanya), “there are men to whom a tree is sacred“. It may even have been in Gorky’s book Literary Portraits, where Chekhov is quoted several times, Gorky having been well-acquainted with Chekhov.
Trees, even when few in number in an area, even when solitary, add so much to human perception, to the whole feel of an area, or a street, or even an individual house and garden.
This is no longer just “infringement of civil liberty” but straight tyranny, and if the police act as the goons of the tyrants, then they themselves deserve to be treated as tyrants or goons thereof.
“Wonderful” might be going too far, but still generally better than today. Amazing to see how empty of traffic was London Wall in 1966.
I recall going to London one Saturday in 1970, I believe, with a friend from school. We wandered in, out of curiosity, to a small gallery in Jermyn Street. The door to the street was open. The day was hot. We were just admiring some Old Master painting when the (?) young owner came in. A very relaxed Old Etonian type. Instead of clearing us out, he was very friendly and polite, and told us a little about the painting, before we left to explore further. London had more character then, and was still overwhelmingly an English city.
Oh, no! (see below)…
Clap for Carers looks set to return this Thursday at 8pm, under a new namehttps://t.co/CUqdlH9MHW
Not that utter shite again! This is an Orwellian fake communitarian North Korea-lite cringe-fest and virtue-signal Twitter-fest. The public services clapping themselves, just at the time when they offer the British people less than they have done for a century. That, and scared rabbits in muzzles, clapping because they feel socially-pressured to do so.
The whole thing is a disgrace; absolutely stupid.
Instead of #clapforheroes can I propose a weekly Two Minute Hate where we can all go outside our front door and scream obscenities? Genuinely feel like it would be much more therapeutic for everyone right now.
I'm sorry but #clapforheroes just lets the government (and a weak opposition) off the hook again. Applause doesn't pay the bills or keep workers and others safe.
— Prof Gayle Letherby 💙 #PeaceAndJustice (@gletherby) January 6, 2021
Can we just boycott this clapping nonsense. What we need is pay rise for all the key workers#clapforheroes#clapforcarers
Made mistake of doing it last time before I realised what was going on , wont be fooled again , lives are being destroyed through lockdown , those people are the real heroes
Agreed. The ‘key workers’ are the lucky ones. Full pay whereas thousands are struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own. Let’s keep THAT perspective.
No, as a carer, I’m telling you we don’t want it. It would mean more if everyone made an effort to hold the government to account for their ineptitude.
Not in Warrington, they had pipers & singers outside which then made the general public wander over every week for their chance to get there picture in the paper. They were organised by hospital management who all week wanted you to stay in. Bonkers.
I sincerely hope that everyone will boycott this stupid System “clapathon” (again).
As for “@AnnemariePlas”, I think that that was the idiotic woman who started the first “clapathon”. Danish, I think. Ah…just looked her up on Google. Dutch.
Despite her Twitter and Facebook (etc) activism, despite her “clapathon” nonsense, only 730 Twitter “followers”. Even I had 3,000 by the time the Jews had me expelled, and were I still on Twitter now, 2-3 years later, that would probably have been 6,000 or more.
Nonsense people such as Caroline Criado-Perez are bad enough. Here’s another one trying to make a career out of pointless “activism”, and on a risibly poor level.
I see now that Annemarie Plas tried to get a Christmas bell-ringing thing going too:
Amazing scenes. What strikes me is that at least some Americans have begun to think out of the box. It may well be that, according to the antiquated system of voting etc, Trump lost. I don’t take a lot of interest in Trump anyway. What interests me is that at least some Americans have thrown out the whole concept of “well, we got 49% and the [other] unwashed got 51%, so they win, and winner takes all.“
In the UK, we see that the majority of the voters are either scared stupid manipulated rabbits, or non-Europeans of various kinds. So what if that “majority” gets a majority of seats in “Parliament”, a result of a manipulated, unfair, ridiculous voting, electoral, and overall political system? Screw that!
Typical covid doom porn headline. But it took me 45 seconds searching to find that in 2019 40% of excess deaths in England & Wales were due to respiratory disease. Mainly flu & pneumonia – both of which are often now recorded as covid.#lyingpresshttps://t.co/d6DFaffRSp
Vitally important that people understand that 'infections' (as BBC call them, actually positives, often without symptoms) are reflection of the number of tests done, not a measure of the level of illness. https://t.co/vbrIgiezKT
Because you don't yet have enough power @climatewarrior7.Alas, you'll probably obtain it before long. Then you'll find, like every revolutionary before you, that those who live by hatred & intolerance are in the end devoured by others who take the same principle a little further. https://t.co/Aprxd76yZM
Even the Johnson Govt cannot stomach YouTube's attempted censorship of dissent: Google restored TalkRadio's YouTube channel when UK intervened https://t.co/4TT7moh1zt via @MailOnline
Some of Britain's oldest cheesemakers are at risk of closure, as #COVID19 restrictions and uncertainty over Brexit take their toll https://t.co/0jqSbmAUgv
These tiers don’t work, lockdowns didn’t work, wearing a mask everywhere doesn’t work, how about we protect those that are vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives
Fences going up at London hospital. Are they expecting an announcement that the 'mutant strain' actually kills more than 0.06 of 'victims'? Are they aiming to shut out heart attack, stroke & RTA victims? Or is it just another piece of ill-judged crisis acting grandstanding? pic.twitter.com/WTfKBBHGXy
Interesting to read this Time article fr 13 March:
"But others question the cost of China’s containment, and are asking if it’s worth turning to draconian measures that indiscriminately infringe on citizens’ civil liberties and cripple their livelihoods."https://t.co/bJlCgtlMve
In any case, China is (obviously) a huge country with a huge population, and only small parts were “locked down”. The main Chinese economy was not much impaired. In the UK, the economy has been crippled by “lockdown” and other nonsense, the effects of which are mostly yet to be felt.
Pure sentimentality @usambuk. Those of us who witnessed the Clinton administration's ruthless strongarming of this country over a visa for Gerry Adams (as I did) will never be taken in by that sort of syrup again. https://t.co/vU3hWButAJ
Until I went to stay and live in the USA (on and off, mainly in 1989-1993, but also in 1999-2002), I thought that the “Special Relationship” was at least to some extent real. I soon understood, however, that to Americans, even Anglophile ones, and certainly to the broad mass, the UK was down the other end of the telescope, hardly visible.
Long ago, in the mid/late 1970s, I was friendly with a lady of unusual and obscure Eurasian origins (part-Afghan, I believe; part-Irish too), who lived in London (in Kensington). She had been a journalist at one time in her youth, covering the Algerian conflict, unusually, mostly from the side of the Algerian rebels rather than from that of the French government and so-called pieds-noirs (French and other Francophone people long-settled in Algeria). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War
It was not until years later that I knew that, on one side, her descent was from the mediaeval Norman rulers of Cyprus. Her maiden name had been de Lusignan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan].
Strange to think that, under other circumstances, this odd but rather fascinating (at times) woman (I should add that I was a possibly impressionable teenage boy of 19 when we first met) might have been a princess or whatever of a royal house.
Those memoirs are a good read, by the way. Incidentally, also, Wyatt’s daughter, Petronella, now a more or less washed-up journalist, was once and notoriously involved with the person presently posing as the Prime Minister of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronella_Wyatt.
Petronella Wyatt, however, is not descended from the Plantagenets.
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Thread on how easy it is to get tricked into haemorrhaging money from your bank account after an online purchase – and why financial regulators seem to be behind the curve on this.🧵💸💻
Forgive the personal story, but I think it's relevant…1/
Rentoul got 3/10 this week (he claims an extra bit because he got part of question 4 right…). I usually beat Rentoul, but did no better this week, also 3/10, I think the worst I have ever done on these Saturday quizzes (I only knew the answers to questions 2, 5 and 6).
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The latest song from persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz:
Ian Robert Millard 