Well, this week I scored only 4/10, though still beat political journalist John Rentoul, who only managed 2/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 10. On question 7, I came very close (“but no cigar”); and on question 5, which I really knew in the back of my mind, could not quite bring it to consciousness, so 4/10 it is.
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They’re as much Pen Farthing’s pets as Ben Wallace is Johnson’s pet. However, the animals are more faithful & reliable, & don’t shit on us at the first opportunity.
It's also important to remember that the Taliban have never summarily executed a dog. Dogs should not occupy air rescue space at the expense of vulnerable human beings.
Tweeter “@socialist1959”, a typical-seeming Twitter-twit, ever-ready to display ersatz socio-political virtue.
This is why Labour is so washed-up, because on the one hand you have the now-in-control pro-Jew-Zionist element under Starmer (“we agree with 90% of what the Government is doing but it should be doing it better, and while both wearing a facemask and bending the knee to the blacks”), and on the other the mass of politically-correct box-tickers such as tweeter “@socialist1959”, who are no doubt pro-migration-invasion, “anti-racist”, pro the “refugees welcome” nonsense etc.
Neither main wing of Labour has much of a mass appeal, even when set against the present shambolic government headed by a part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer.
British nationals stuck in Kabul have described of 'feeling abandoned' by UK officials. @CliveBull asks: Has the Afghan withdrawal been a political disaster for the British government? pic.twitter.com/PDavGVesL7
Please, people, no more about how, thanks to the UK’s supposedly excellent FCO (diplomatic staff), SIS (para-diplomatic and intelligence staff), and armed forces, “Britain punches above its weight”. It does not.
Claims of that sort have now been floodlit as completely hollow.
Britain now has little more than mirages. In place of a properly functioning Foreign Office, a box-ticking, virtue-signalling and bureaucratic culture which accomplishes almost nothing. In place of a properly-functioning secret service, fantasies of one (whether the fantasies of supposed past —Second World War and Cold War— “successes”, or the outright fantasies peddled in James Bond films and the like). In place of a properly-functioning army, navy, and air force etc, we have stripped-down, stripped-out skeleton forces unable to do jack **** most of the time (as witness the Kabul situation).
Kabul
Kabul is a city which I have never visited, in a country which I have never visited. I have only met a relatively few people who have actually been there (whether before its post-1978 troubles, during the years of Soviet occupation, or more recently, during the past 20 years of Western control or partial control).
I do not claim to know a great deal about Kabul. Thank God for the Internet and for (whatever its flaws) Wikipedia.
For me, slightly unexpected. There again, msm focus has always been on a few locations; at present, the airport. Fact is, of course, that most of the nearly five million inhabitants are not at that airport but, probably, keeping their heads down and waiting to see what transpires.
That tweeter, who thinks that 200 suffering cats and dogs are just “stupid pets“, is a Zionist lecturer who, a number of years ago, made a demonstrably false documentary (I think shown on Channel 4) about the Treblinka site in Poland (critical youtube videos about which documentary have since been expunged from YouTube and Twitter by the Jewish-Zionist lobby).
Do you think that human lives are worth more, less, or the same as animal lives?
The Japanese are said to have an answer as an alternative to “yes” and “no“: “mu“. This apparently means, “I do not agree with the assumption of your question“.
The bald question is too wide; all human lives, all animal lives. For me, some animal lives are worth more than some human lives.
🇦🇫 EXC 🇦🇫
As Pen Farthing escapes Afghanistan with 150 cats and dogs, there are British people still there.
This is Ben Slater, former bodyguard to ambassadors, who has spent 2 weeks helping evacuate people.
That, though, is in no way the fault of Pen Farthing and his supporters; any fault lies with the British Government, and a UK bureaucracy incapable of doing its job properly.
Late thoughts about Pen Farthing and his critics
This man is a hero and the British public recognise that. Any attempts by anyone to say otherwise are shameful. @PenFarthing represents all that is good in humanity and has restored faith at a time when it was needed most. We're right behind him! pic.twitter.com/k35LU82JQQ
In my view, the supporters of Pen Farthing and the cats and dogs rescued are those who, in general, have their hearts in the right place. The critics and (if you like) “haters” of Pen Farthing seem to be mostly cruel, callous nobodies, often posing as great humanitarians (online Twitter-twit squad).
The other tweets of “@Jonny_Nowak33” show someone somewhere in the “Conservative”/Brexit Party ideological zone. A silly little person trying to be edgy.
I also saw tweets by some little wheelchair-bound autistic and mental afflict (whose name I cannot now find), one of which said simply, “Pen Farthing is a coward“. A man who served in the Royal Marines for decades, with final rank of sergeant. I do not claim that all Royal Marines are heroes, but I should doubt that many are cowards.
Twitter is now largely the comfort zone of the crazed, those with mental problems, and those without any real principles or ideology to speak of. Many are pathetic virtue-signallers, some are trying to make a impact on the other nuts who tweet.
Twitter is still of use as illustrative material (as used on my blog), but not as a serious ideas exchange. Also, the (often mentally-disturbed) “antifascist” idiots and/or Jew-Zionists have had most serious thinkers expelled from Twitter.
For me, from what I have read and seen in the past week (I had not known of him before that), Pen Farthing is someone who has been trying, against the odds, to help animals and people, and who has found himself up against large-scale situations, and large and uncaring organizations and agendas: US forces, a US government shamefully fleeing and leaving its allies in the lurch, Taliban barbarians, mass panic at a shambolic airport, a UK government trying to limit the domestic political fallout, and a UK mass media which both wants a story and is trying to give covering fire to a badly-prepared, chaotic UK government.
Maybe Pen Farthing did shout threats at a UK minister’s adviser. The bastard weasel probably deserved that, and maybe more.
The same goes for the UK governmental and diplomatic bureaucracy, which is near-useless. As for UK MPs and ministers, I doubt whether so many useless deadheads have ever been collected together at Westminster.
As I have mentioned before in the blog, those whom I knew in the mid/late 1970s and afterwards, and who used cannabis, all more or less dropped out of society, though most were sufficiently insulated by money not to fall to the bottom of society. They were mostly able to find a niche here or there, or marry into —at least some— money…
I myself was never a smoker of any kind of cigarettes, though I did enjoy Havana cigars when I had a girlfriend who used to bring me some quite often from various places, via duty-free shops. 1980s.
Thank God for that. Here’s hoping all will now go well.
The clash between the Kabul hero Pen Farthing & Defence Minister Ben Wallace was never about ‘people over animals’ – it’s about our Government’s chaotic evacuation https://t.co/Fwtj0LZiPY via @mailplus
The Johnson govt are a disgrace, they've implied Pen Farthing has jumped the queue, prioritised animals over people, absolute bollocks, #PenFarthing is all about compassion, empathy and humanity, he's been betrayed by liars and propagandists, Pen is everything they're not..
A charity worker whose campaign to evacuate animals from Afghanistan has been closely followed across the world is being processed at Kabul airport and awaits a flight to safetyhttps://t.co/ok3OGn5oTA
A second-generation Nevisian migrant demands that indigenous Britons must become minorities in their own country to satisfy her feigned altruism and the greed of her corporate masters. https://t.co/S56xieiZBq
A sharply cunning but basically simplistic woman. One thing she did have, though, which the present government of clowns entirely lacks— decisiveness (and executive ability).
Massive house price rises have meant the ratio of home value to earnings is at its highest since 2007, just before the financial crisis triggered a 20% drop in prices 👇 pic.twitter.com/TMMMNrs9uI
Not being funny but haven't you had 18 months to prepare for this evacuation, didn't France get their people out last month? Why then blame Pen Farthing for taking your time away from the evacuation programme? And wasn't Raab still on holiday when the Taliban marched in?
Anyone who, like tweeter “Anastasia”/”@Speakingasl”, talks about “a crate full of cats” is indeed a heartless type, the sort that probably likes to think she is full of love of humanity etc, but actually is lacking in real compassion; a box-ticker. We saw the same mentality recently over the alpaca Geronimo. Quite a few of the pseudo-socialist and other Twitter-twits saying that the animal was “just an alpaca” etc, and “what about [fill in virtue-signal]?”…
I’m not rebelling against anyone. I’m just not wearing a mask because I don’t have to, and because in my opinion it’s a total nonsense to do so. It’s an even bigger nonsense to define yourself by your mask wearing status, and to use it as an instrument to signal your virtue.
King Hussein of Jordan is said to have asked, rhetorically, after having met David Owen, then Foreign Secretary of the UK, “do you suppose that he is any good as a doctor?“
We all knew that when we reached the last week of August the ‘cases are surging’ propaganda pushing for a return of restrictions & a further round of lockdowns in Sept/October would begin. And so it has. Expect the propaganda to intensify in the next 2/3 weeks.
"shipped in from other ISIS strongholds". i.e. Syria, from which these head-cutters were airlifted by US planes to save them after Russia stopped them doing NATO's dirty work against Assad. US #DeepState still trying to play its Islamist terror card.https://t.co/DAVkLEWYRQ
I was opposed to the invasion of Afghanistan, and in principle would be against further intervention(s), but I have to admit that it would be great to swamp that country with huge forces if only to see the panic on the faces of those backward and cruel Taliban (and other) barbarians as they realize that the chopper is coming for them…
Plane leaving Luton to evacuate Paul "Pen" Farthing's rescue animals and staff from Kabul https://t.co/zMeidXjkHY
What a dreadful and poorly prepared interview by @SKinnock It’s not blocking anything and as for his ‘pets before people’ comment he’s once again showing a complete disregard for the truth. They go in the cargo hold as we have been told time and time again. Absolute #PenFarthing
In an ideal world”, weasels like Stephen Kinnock would [redacted…]. Apart from anything else, the weasel almost personifies nepotism. His father, NWO/ZOG former “Labour” leader Neil Kinnock, got little Stephen a well-paid sinecure at the useless British Council, arranged other lucrative jobs for him, then had him parachuted in as an MP. Complete NWO/ZOG drone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kinnock].
I keep finding myself positing #PenFarthing's honourable, life-risking attempts to save people and animals against those of Dominic Raab, who couldn't be arsed to get off his sunbed.
I wish that I could say that “I cannot believe how disorganized” has been the UK/US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sadly, but at the same time lividly, I can believe it all too easily. Taking the British aspect, the quality of British politicians (there are no statesmen) and bureaucrats has declined very much in the past decades.
Britain may pose as a world player, but the major states know that the UK is now a “man of straw”, and no amount of “comms” and public relation bs about “punching above its weight”, “intelligence successes”(where are they?) , “intangible assets”, “soft power” and the like can put that Humpty-Dumpty back together again, not for a very long time, if ever.
As for the Americans, they have betrayed their allies and clients before, but I doubt that any government or group will now place much reliance on American honour or loyalty, or on American words.
Right. Look for the enemy at Westminster, at the BBC, at Sky News, at ITN, in the Church of England, in other churches, in synagogues and mosques, in the City of London, in the White House, at Israeli embassies worldwide, in infested universities, and in the gatherings of Common Purpose, freemasons, and (((others))).
The censor's universal appeal, 'Free speech is irresponsible and dangerous', voiced here shamefully by an academic supposedly committed to the pursuit of truth, @scottlucas_ea. Graham Greene liked to quote Robert Browning: 'Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things'. https://t.co/teRe9G7rtU
2/2 @jdportes Jonni Porter, I have repeatedly shown you here to be a twister and a liar who cannot be honest even when it would be easier to do so. I could not be ruder without actually swearing. Yet you keep coming back for more. Should we call a Freudian? https://t.co/9SMSYilC2j
@_thegman I find Jonni Porter @jdportes educational, in that he teaches me how the Blairite mind works, and how power-worship and complacency drive reason out of that mind and replace it with sour, embittered bilge. https://t.co/sti17NtlkT
I hear stories about NHS inattention and/or negligence constantly. The work of the more dedicated NHS people is weakened by a system grown complacent, and by the fact that for most UK people there is no choice. Like other parts of British life —Oxford and Cambridge, the SIS, the Bar, the Foreign Office, the legal system generally, the Monarchy, the (largely fake) “aristocracy”— the NHS is living off its reputation, not (mostly) from its real value today.
Radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer once again shows her ignorance. Some animals are worth more than some human beings. Fact. In relation to the Afghan situation, those cats and dogs are completely innocent victims, unlike most of the people there.
“Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things. … The day has been, I grieve it to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated … upon the same footing as … animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse?…the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?… The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes…“ [Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)].
My latest solo show. What white nationalists need to learn from Northern Ireland. Food shortages and dying boomers. Afghanistan and the latest excuse for #replacement#immigration. 45 minutes of plain truth. Watch it and, as always, thanks for all shares.https://t.co/aceCBU4K8P
Out fungi hunting in the #Shropshire hills. This field never fails to produce a good crop of parasol mushrooms. Just avoid any where the largest is smaller than 4 or 5 inches, as they may be poisonous amanitas. But good size parasols are great eating – cooked. pic.twitter.com/hOf6xOgzci
Happened to see a tweet about the most recent Extinction Rebellion demonstrations (or should that be “tantrums”?):
Extinction Rebellion has begun two weeks of protests, but Professor Frank Furedi calls it "moral and physical blackmail on the lives of ordinary people".
I would not in general be much on the same page as Frank Furedi, or indeed radio loudmouth Julia Hartley-Brewer, whom I had to set straight once or twice when I had a Twitter account (a few malicious Jews managed to have me expelled in 2018), but “there is no religion higher than truth”, as they say…
Socio-political hypocrisy: there’s a lot of it about. Not that the phenomenon is new. For decades, there have been the pro-immigration and “refugees welcome” idiots and virtue-signallers; more often than not they live in leafy suburban areas where the effects of the UK migration-invasion have been muted, at least on the surface.
I myself recall a girlfriend of the 1980s who once said to me (we were certainly not ideologically completely compatible!) that the British people who did not want mass immigration were mostly those who did not like to see council houses going to immigrants instead of to them! A neat British way of bringing social snobbery into the discussion (something that we saw also in recent years in relation to Brexit: the Remainer mythus that pro-Brexit people were little more than British hillbillies).
Easy for a woman whose father, upon her return from living in a foreign capital, simply bought her a London house outright as a present, who got paid far more for occasional or part-time work than most people did for working full-time, and who also had considerable inheritance expectations, to express scarcely-veiled contempt for the poorer section of the British population.
She simply did not see that many poorer British people were and are angered by the way alien imports take British social housing. Not everyone can be housed just by asking their father to buy them a house!
Just yesterday it came to light that central government is helping local councils buy “large houses” so that Afghan families with 10 or 12 members can live in them. Most of those large houses will be in the more expensive neighbourhoods as well, so British people are going to be doubly cheated.
The British people will also end up working, and being taxed, so that the Afghans (and the rest) can live parasitically upon the Brits. The Afghans will mostly not even speak English, will mostly have no skills or qualifications, but will have (according to studies) a far lower average I.Q. than the British, and so will be just a drag or a millstone round the necks of the people of this country.
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2/2 Jonni @jdportes. Your approach, to start with the theory, and to choose those figures which suit that theory( the fashionable but i suspect doomed Blairite view that manufactiring employment doesn't matter) is the classic approach of the dogmatist…. https://t.co/Riehfc3Omq
3/2 Jonni @jdportes. The belief you try to defend with these figures, as well as wholly lacking concern for human beings, is the policy which led directly to the Trump convulsion you no doubt despise. His election was the revolt of those whose lost jobs you think don't matter. https://t.co/Riehfc3Omq
Jonni @jdportes. I stick to what I first said, that most of it was destroyed after we entered the Common Market in 1972. Subsequent events, measure them how you will (and I believe such measurements are variable) , do not alter that observable fact. The jobs never came back. https://t.co/GL7QiMwUHT
Councils 'will be given grants to buy family homes to house refugees'.
If you still feel the slightest obligation to pay tax to a regime hell-bent on turning your children into an oppressed minority, there's something very wrong with your moral compass. https://t.co/lzCuiOsbqQ
How to characterize the Extinction Rebellion nonsense and demonstrations? “Woodstock with worry”?
FRANCE: Reims tonight – this is the makeshift restaurant of the day – around 200 people – no Vax Pass – just the Resistance taking over the street. Free people – isn’t it beautiful? 👊🏻🇫🇷#NonAuPassDeLaHontehttps://t.co/HMOmE36T0B
In the recent Alison Chabloz appeal, the Crown Prosecution Service applied for an absurdly badly-drafted (well, is it a surprise? “Pay peanuts, get monkeys”) Criminal Behaviour Order against Alison. The judge apparently treated that with the contempt it deserved, and refused to make such an order. No doubt the application was suggested in some way by the malicious Jew-Zionists who are behind the whole persecution (and prosecutions) of Alison Chabloz.
It seems to me that the existence of dedicated cycleways between road and pavement/sidewalk is the key factor, an arrangement I first saw when I was first in the Netherlands, in 1975.
The Vale of Glamorgan farming family being evicted by landowners Legal & General to make way for a new business park. https://t.co/jG06E1UEnd
Crete, as part of Greece, uses the Euro, but even if the £5,000-£6,000 a night cost is nearly 6,000 Euros, that makes little difference. In fact, the ad is clearly aimed at UK people paying in pounds.
On the face of it, there are questions to be answered here.
That man is right. What we are witnessing across the white Western world is an exercise in psychological conditioning on a vast scale. A distortion of the truth on the scale of the “holocaust” narrative, and with far more immediate, and on-the-ground, effects.
Once more, Peter Hitchens trying to fit actual facts into the very outdated “right”/”left” structure of thought. Why bother with this? It is at least 80 years out of date, if not 250 years.
They have gone @jenswoone, not by some accident but because the tax and benefits system, and the greed of employers for cheap labour, brought them to an end. You can get state help for any sort of childcare except the sort you can do yourself. https://t.co/xjUto3OO7y
Lovely to see Blairism still has its defenders in the media even after all this. I never forget the women in Baghdad who gave birth prematurely during the Blair-backed, Bush-imposed 'Shock and Awe'. Shock indeed, but an absence of awe, I rather think. https://t.co/ZErIxhV3Ru
Yes, those who sit in London, or New York City, find it easy to give glib support to the various NWO/ZOG “interventions” in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Libya etc. It is all very different when your own city comes under attack. Two buildings were destroyed, unexpectedly, in New York City in 2001, and the Americans have still not got over the “shock and awe”…
If they tell people to stock up, and people do, then there will be less pressure. Bring down the biosecurity “woke” Australian and New Zealand police state(s)!
Australian former NBA star Andrew Bogut says he was offered money to promote lockdowns, but refused. Clip below, and link to the full 11 minute video released on Instagram yesterday: https://t.co/M2nRfvHlpnpic.twitter.com/vuqk340sM7
Man jailed for eight months for promoting an antilockdown protest in Australia. His sentance was handed out just 1 day after he was arrestedhttps://t.co/KqteLBHzYN
…and all the pseudo-socialists, and self-descibing “Left” on Twitter will welcome the useless untermenschen, and say that they must be prioritized before white Brits. Just as they support “strict lockdown”, the facemask nonsense, “Covid passports” etc. Sick. They have thrown away the substance of socialism while retaining the outward forms of its mid-20thC coercion and propaganda.
I have even seen some (mostly rather old) lunatics (pretending to offer or) offering rooms in their modest homes to migrant-invaders (via Twitter or local newspapers). The same people never offer homeless Brits shelter. Why? Those people are virtue-signallers and/or deluded.
It is absolutely shameful someone should be sent to prison for saying something that offends. Obviously I understand that governments, laws and sentencing are influenced by pressure, funding and lobbying but I didn’t think it would ever be made so obvious.
Had their victim been able to defend himself, the Jews would immediately have presented themselves as Jewish “victims”, attacked because of “antisemitism”.
Remember this in 2013? Every nation should fear the west 'standing with them'. It means destruction, bombs and bullets.
Is David Cameron still standing with the people of Libya, by the way? https://t.co/ukaeI1LlRZ
If you are an Afghan and arrive in this country, you will be housed, clothed and fed. If you are British and fought in Afghanistan, you can sleep on the streets. Let that sink in.
This has all happened in the historical blink of an eye. And the authority figures seem to be LOVING every minute of it. It is truly chilling. https://t.co/Eco1ZvKcJz
The new Australian multikulti “woke” biosecurity police state gets worse daily now. If there is no rebellion against this, Australians will be serfs forever.
This is how the French dealt with supposed female collaborators after the German occupation. They shaved their heads and paraded them through the streets full of baying mobs. Many were horribly tortured, raped and murdered. Imagine if this were happening in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/unzNKibj0F
A certain section of the French population found free rein for their vindictive sadism. Often Communists, some Jews, but various types, usually those who had never fought German Occupation themselves anyway. There is a certain type that does that kind of cruelty. The same was true in Northern Italy, and elsewhere (e.g. Netherlands) after hostilities had ended.
This is impossible. You can't be this strong without 'the greatest strength': DIVERSITY! https://t.co/4blidL8ELP
We saw the same phenomena in 2020 in the UK: the worst-performing police forces (Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall, Wales etc) going after British people walking on moors, on beaches, in woods, and so on, police “woodentops” even checking people’s shopping purchases to see whether (in opinion of said woodentops) they were “reasonable” purchases! Even North Korea did not do that…
The very same police forces are also the ones most obviously in the pocket of the Jewish lobby, having prosecuted, in 2021, “antisemitic” and other “unapproved” online posts and the like, posted by dissidents: Alison Chabloz, Graham Hart, “Sven Longshanks”, as well as many others.
Is Afghanistan offering political asylum yet?
New Zealand extends national lockdown after 11 new Covid cases found, as PM says ‘don’t know full scale of Delta outbreak’ — RT World News https://t.co/2bvNZTGc2q
Jacinda Ardern: completely crazed, or just another tool of the transnational conspiracy? Maybe both.
A problem of comprehension
Earlier in the week, my car needed AA assistance. It did not break down, but the fuel flap locked itself, meaning no fuel could be put into the otherwise unlocked tank. I was at a filling station when I discovered the problem. A silly problem but —short of forcing the flap open— insoluble for me.
I am an AA member. Whether that is cost-effective is arguable. The last time I had called them out to assist was about 3 years before. £13+ pcm for three years is about £450, but when you are stuck somewhere in the evening, with no fuel left…
It took 20 minutes or more just to get through to an operator. When I did, I was told that arrival of assistance would be about 2 hours! In fact, it was less than 1 hour.
The AA patrolman, the (to me) oddly-named Wayne, was both polite and efficient. He had to take out interior panels and remove a solenoid (whatever that is), but that fixed the problem. Job done. Excellent.
I later thought that I would leave a favourable mention for the patrolman on the AA feedback system. Too few people commend good service. So I left that favourable feedback, while mentioning that the overall wait for assistance had been fairly long.
To my surprise, someone at the AA thought that my comments constituted a complaint, when in fact I had meant to be favourable. I was told by email that the AA would compensate me to the tune of £10, but the next paragraph said that a cheque for £20 would be issued.
I replied, thanking the AA but clarifying that I was not complaining as such but wishing to commend the patrolman, despite the wait.
The upshot? A cheque for £30 has arrived! I had not asked for money, but thank you…
The AA is still a pretty useful organization.
What interests me, though, is the apparent lack of comprehension. I was not making complaint, certainly not formally.
This is a trend that I see on Twitter, in the msm etc. One example would be the person (and there are many such) whose Twitter headline says “free speech” and “civil rights” but who actually wants to repress the speech with which that person disagrees…Another example, even more common, the people who say that they support caring, love, openness, but then tweet (about those with whom they disagree) that they are evil and should be locked up forever!
I saw one of the latter retweeting a recent tweet of the malicious “CAA” Jew-Zionist “charity” about Alison Chabloz. This retweeter, apparently a former nurse and matron, said that Alison is “scum” and that she should be locked up and the key thrown away! For making up songs and satire, and taking part in Internet “radio” discussions! A little research discovered that the same retweeter is apparently suffering from a possibly terminal and very unpleasant medical condition which may have affected her mind. That too is all too common on Twitter.
There again, there are the many who imagine that the UK can take millions, tens of millions, of migrant-invader immigrants (many of which are totally useless) and yet still offer a wraparound welfare state!
…and most of the self-describing “Left”, “socialist”, “civil rights” fakes on Twitter will openly or covertly applaud such actions of the police state in Australia or elsewhere…
Readers of the blog over recent days will have seen that there was a possibility that Alison Chabloz might have been made subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order, one both very wide in its ambit and very long in duration, and which would have prohibited her from talking, writing or singing about WW2 (!), the NSDAP, Jews, Israel, Zionism and the “holocaust” farrago, inter alia.
Usually-reliable sources had reported that such an Order had actually been made by the presiding and sentencing judge. Yesterday, however, it was reported that such an Order did not form part of the judge’s sentence.
Impeccable sources now report that, while application for such a clumsily-drafted Order was made (by prosecuting Counsel), the application was refused outright by the presiding judge.
It does leave unanswered the question of why the CPS (and, indeed, police) continue to allow themselves to be manipulated and used by the tiny and malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] “charity” (pressure group), whose leading members were exposed years ago in open court as pseudonymous harassers and trollers of a number of people (mostly women); Zionist supremacists who, when it suits their purposes, whine to social media organizations, the msm, the police and the courts that they are “victims” of “antisemites”.
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Forfuxxake why don't they concentrate their time on real criminals?!? This lass has committed no crime!! Yet she's been persecuted for years for a made up bullshit offence 😠😠😠
The prisoner number (A6478EK) must always be included.
Books must be *new, *paperback, and preferably sent by commercial booksellers such as Abe Books (nb. Bronzefield does not accept any Amazon deliveries).
Money can also be sent, via the official system: see https://www.gov.uk/send-prisoner-money. With money sent, a prisoner can buy stamps, stationery, food etc. Also telephone credits.
Alison is likely to be a prisoner for the next 5-7 weeks, until some date in October, but she is also being subjected to a fresh trial on 1 September 2021 (((thanks to “the usual suspects”))). If that trial goes the wrong way, she may well be incarcerated for longer, though there seems to be a possibility that the trial will be deferred to a later date, or the proceedings simply discontinued.
I like this piece, though prefer it played slower, as it was when performed by Segovia.
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I think @Kostjamarschke deserves some sort of award for determined, unstoppable wrongness. Even the pro-lockdown rag @Privateeyenews now (quietly) admits that the Danmask study found masks were ineffective. https://t.co/49CBdZpR63
Basically, the importation of 20,000 (and probably more) completely useless and mostly backward people. At least 20,000 houses and flats, that should go to British people, going to aliens.
If I were not personally involved (being English), I suppose I could sit back, drink a glass of Khvanchkara, and wait to see for how long the British people will tolerate this.
The police are a necessary evil in most societies. They have to be controlled closely, though, so as not to arrogate tyrannical powers to themselves. Look at the mindset of that New Zealand tweet. Here in the UK, too, the police have gradually become unpleasant blunt instruments of State dictatorship, Jewish-Zionist influence, and “woke” nonsense.
Why rent free? Are they here on a 2 year holiday? Where's the encouragement for them to settle down, find employment and "contribute" to our society? 🤔
“Contribute“? How? Even the few who will speak English have few or no useful skills. The UK has more than enough ethnic minority taxi drivers, the only job that (as with the Somalis) the men are likely to do, be able to do, or want to do. As for the women, most will not want to, and will be unequipped to, work. These incomers are the latest millstone around the British neck.
…and Churchill might now be able to add “and a host of Jewish scribblers will make careers and money out of fashioning a narrative according to which the British Empire “had” to (help) destroy the German Reich.” [see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert].
I have blogged about the new Australian “woke”, multikulti police state and biosecurity state in recent days and weeks. Nothing more to add to that, except to pose the question how “the lucky country”, with its white European population, freedom of expression, prosperity and strong national identity went so wrong so quickly. My answer? Corrupt politicians in the pocket of finance-capitalism and the Jew-Zionist lobby; a similarly venal msm; and mass immigration of non-Europeans, starting in the mid/late 1970s. Sad. Very sad.
#SOHR Loud explosions rock #Damascus city and surrounding areas due to #Israeli attacks on military positions, amid attempts by regime air-defences to intercept the Israeli missiles pic.twitter.com/dk2fRqGHyA
As Lenin said, “worse will mean better”. As yet, probably only 5% of the British people support my views (unknowingly, at that), certainly not wholeheartedly, and another 30% would support me to some extent, if they were even aware of my views as my views, or indeed of my existence. The situation has not yet gone far enough, and is not yet bad enough in any way, to fully awaken national rebirth.
The most rebellious person in the uk today is Peter Hitchens. Weird but true.
The re-sentencing of Alison Chabloz is set down for today. The re-sentencing has now been deferred twice (last Friday and this Monday) because material about Alison held by the probation people could not be released without the permission of undesignated “higher authority”, apparently. In the meantime, Alison has been in Bronzefield Prison, near Heathrow, for the past 4-5 days
All because of some remarks on an internet podcast about Jews, Zionism, “holocaust” fakery etc.
As far as the resentencing for the matter directly in question is concerned, the judge at Southwark Crown Court cannot hand down more than the maximum laid down by law, 6 months. That would in effect be 3 months actually in prison, and Alison has already served 9 weeks, has a 4-day credit for time wrongly served in 2020, and has now been remanded in custody for 5 days.
On the above premises, Alison would serve less than 2 weeks extra even if sentenced to “6 months”.
It occurs to me, though, that the court may find other ways of tacking on extra prison time, such as any finding that Alison was improperly let off from completing the “Unpaid Work Requirement” aka “community service” (forced/slave labour), which was part of her sentence from her yet earlier 2018 trial before Westminster Magistrates (for the heinous crime of mocking the “holy” Jewish Zionists and the “holocaust” farrago).
Alison did actually spend a few days in 2018 picking up litter in wet Derbyshire churchyards.
I was never, mainly, a criminal barrister, despite having done Crown Court and magistrates trials as Counsel, mainly in the London area in 1993-1995. Also, I have not practised at the Bar since 2008 (and, famously, or notoriously, was —wrongfully— disbarred in 2016). I therefore may be wrong about this, but I cannot see how the sentencing judge today can do anything about any incomplete slave labour from another case, and years ago.
More likely, the sentencing judge may be thinking about sentencing Alison to “slave labour” (community service labour) for this present matter. That would probably be more onerous to her than spending what amounts to, in practice, probably only about a week or so extra in prison, unpleasant though that may be (though information from a usually-reliable source says that she at least has had her own modern cell, and a television, over the past 4-5 days spent in Bronzefield Prison).
What was that phrase, about those who would “break a butterfly upon a wheel”?…
As I reported yesterday, Alison has also now been made subject to an Order, pursuant to a 2014 piece of police-state legislation, purporting to ban her from making any public —or even, it seems, private— mention of Jews, Zionists, Zionism, Israel, or the “holocaust” farrago. The Order even covers mention of WW2, and even any member of the NSDAP! For 3 years (the maximum duration permitted by the legislation). Draconian. She will be appealing that to the Administrative Court. The ambit of that Order is absurdly wide, in my view.
I shall relay news of the re-sentencing result when I have it, later in the day.
[Alison Chabloz: singer, songwriter, satirist, and imprisoned revisionist dissident]
[Update, 24 October 2021: in the event, Alison Chabloz was sentenced to an extra term of imprisonment, mostly flowing from —as I speculated might happen, but which I thought unlikely to happen— the Unpaid Work Requirement from her previous sentence. Most unjust. However, she has now, at time of writing, been out of prison for many weeks]
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Photos: Anas Haqqani, a member of the Taliban's political office, met with Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah in #Kabul today, sources said. #Afghanistanpic.twitter.com/mndPU3lq1h
“20 years of war“? 42, surely? The Soviet Union instigated a coup d’etat and later invaded, both in 1979.
It is worth taking a few minutes to brief yourself about the history of Afghanistan, which goes back thousands, and even tens of thousands, of years: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#History.
Looking down today’s list at Southwark Crown Court, I noticed that, out of 5 trials listed, only one defendant has a British (Welsh) first name and surname (if that means anything). The rest? 3 are obviously Muslim and the other something like Malay, or Thai, at a guess.
In fact, even that one “Welsh” name may not be really British (I do not know).
I was going to copy and paste the list, but it is Crown Copyright, with reproduction strictly prohibited.
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#NigelFarage is calling for Britain to take in #Afghan 'refugees'. Let's have a think about that. Who are fleeing the Taliban? Noisy feminists, LGBTQ+, criminals, heroin producers & traitors who took foreign money to aid the foreign occupation of their country. SHUT THE DOOR!
Unconfirmed reports state that Alison Chabloz has now been re-sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.
If the said reports are accurate, the sentencing judge has trawled back through the non-custodial part of the sentence Alison received, not for the most recent conviction, but the earlier one, in 2018! That sentence included a suspended prison sentence, as well as several non-custodial aspects.
It seems that what today’s sentencing judge has done is decide, on the basis of probation reports from 2018 (which are disputed), that Alison has not completed certain aspects of that 2018 sentence (eg enough hours of “slave labour”); the judge has also given Alison (as expected) an increase in sentence from the 18 weeks ordered by the magistrates earlier in 2021.
The result is that Alison has been sentenced to a headline sentence of a total of 32 weeks of imprisonment, of which she must serve half, i.e. 16 weeks, minus the 9 weeks already served, making 7 weeks extra.
I do not know whether Alison will be credited with the 4 days she served in 2020 prior to her (in effect) successful appeal on an earlier matter, or the 5 days which she has now served on remand, while awaiting this sentencing hearing. Presumably so. All the same, that would still leave Alison in prison for at least five and a half weeks from today.
I do not know whether there will be an appeal on sentence to the Court of Appeal.
The one bright aspect of the re-sentence, assuming that the unconfirmed reports are correct, is that there will now be no Criminal Behaviour Order, apparently. It may be that reports from yesterday (from usually-reliable sources) referred to what the judge was considering rather than what he eventually ordered. The presiding judge today said that to impose such an Order would be “unjustifiable“. With respect to His Honour, I can only agree!
However, the judge “advised” Alison to steer clear of social media.
The malicious Jew-Zionist pressure group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], has admitted “pursuing” Alison Chabloz relentlessly “for years” (their words). The court might have taken that harrying and trolling into account, at least in mitigation, but obviously did not.
Some people, even on the social-nationalist and anti-Zionist side of the argument, have had their disputes with Alison Chabloz. There is, however, no disputing her courage.
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Laughter, the best medicine…
Alison Chabloz— more detailon the re-sentence
Usually-reliable sources now report that Alison will be credited at least with the 5 days spent in custody on remand; she will therefore spend just over 6 weeks more in prison. No news as to the 4 other days, served in 2020.
More detail about how the sentencing judge today [H.H. Judge Beddoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Beddoe] calculated his sentence: on the three charges wherewith Alison was convicted by magistrates earlier this year, 12 weeks each on the first two, consecutive, making 24 weeks. A further 12 weeks, but concurrent; then 8 weeks activated of the original 2018 suspended sentence, making 32 weeks in toto.
As noted earlier, that 32 weeks is then reduced by half, and then further reduced by the 9 weeks and 5 days Alison has already served, making about 6 weeks to be served, which, if she is credited with the other 4 days mentioned, might reduce the actual time to be served to about 5 and a half weeks.
It will be noted that, had the sentencing judge today not activated 8 weeks of the original 2018 suspended sentence, the total sentence today would have been 24 weeks, which would then have been reduced by half to 12 weeks, minus time served of 9 weeks, and also minus 5 days spent on remand in prison, which would have left Alison with no more than about 2 weeks to serve (less than two weeks if the extra 4 days were credited).
In other words, had the sentencing judge today not activated 8 weeks of the 2018 suspended sentence (an unexpected and remarkable decision), my previously-blogged calculations re. how much extra time Alison would have to serve would have been completely correct.
Further reports indicate that Alison is in good and defiant spirits despite the relatively harsh sentence. She is already working on a new song, this time about her various judges!
A final note, this time about the probation monkeys: on Monday, the probation “service” claimed that Alison had performed none of the “unpaid work requirement” (forced labour) from 2018. Today, when the reports were made available (the accuracy of which the presiding judge apparently criticized), it became clear that Alison had actually done 43 hours. Quite a difference. Administration is breaking down in the UK.
Write to Alison Chabloz
We should always support “the men (and women) behind the wire”. Alison is now in Bronzefield Prison. She would no doubt once again welcome cards, letters, books and small monetary gifts.
Her address is: Alison Chabloz A6478EK, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZ.
The prison number must always be included.
Books must be *new, *paperback, and preferably sent by commercial booksellers such as Abe Books (nb. Bronzefield does not accept any Amazon deliveries).
Money can also be sent, via the official system: see https://www.gov.uk/send-prisoner-money. With money sent, a prisoner can buy stamps, stationery, food etc. Also telephone credits.
Addendum
I have just now received a report to the effect that the presiding and sentencing judge in Alison Chabloz’s case did actually make a Criminal Behaviour Order against her yesterday. So my blog was accurate after all. He must have changed his mind, i.e. thought better of it. A Crown Court judge is in fact entitled to amend his own sentence within 56 days of it having been passed.
As I blogged yesterday and today, the Order that was apparently made yesterday would have been eminently appealable, in that it was ludicrously wide in its ambit, and unreasonably harsh in its duration. Still, water under the bridge…”and no need to mention the war”!
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Quite an appalling, halting, meandering, unconvincing, staccato performance by PM Johnson opening Commons debate. Nobody could accuse him of rising to the occasion.
“What does it say about us as a country…?” Well, let me see…that the UK is scarcely a country, let alone a nation, any more. Swamped by non-European immigrants who are breeding fast, exploited by finance-capitalists and others (often —though certainly not always— Jew-Zionists), ruled by a cabal of NWO/ZOG puppets and Friends of Israel zealots (many Jewish, part-Jewish, Pakistani, Indian etc), and with standards sliding in all areas. Oh, and a state with only small and shrinking military and naval forces.
The UK has been increasingly in a dependent position, via a vis the USA, since 1940. So many people in the UK, though, cling to the idea that the UK is still the world power it was in the times of Empire.
Longer than that, actually. More like 1916, when we went bankrupt and launched the Somme offensive on borrowed money. https://t.co/qeIGRxNmIP
It has been many years since I was a practising barrister, but that tweet by Stephen Silverman, self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” at the CAA “charity”, appears to me to be a plain contempt of court. [Update, 27 September 2021: the tweet commented on by me now appears to have been deleted, probably because “someone” saw my comment about it being a plain contempt of court re. an upcoming trial].
As for “small world“, those in that CAA cabal that still tweet repeatedly about me number only about half a dozen; most of the bile is from from 4 or 5 individuals, at least three suffering from serious mental (and/or physical) problems which may affect what they tweet.
…and that painting becomes more true with every passing election…
I am increasingly fascinated by the contrast between the British political class's attitude towards the Taleban's policies towards women, political freedom etc, and its very different attitude towards the very similar attitudes of the Saudi Arabian state.
And here @faulknall is the item I published on November 15, clearly committing myself to record the ultimate result whatever it was. pic.twitter.com/givDwrlGSy
It has now been reported by usually-reliable sources that Alison Chabloz has now been made subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order under the “police state” Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. See https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-behaviour-orders.
In Alison’s case, this means that she is now prohibited from talking about, singing about, or writing about Jews, Zionists, Zionism, Israel, or the “holocaust” farrago.
This police state order has been expressed to endure for the maxmum time allowed by that law— 3 years.
The Order includes Internet, radio, social media, in a podcast, or during any public performance.
“They” really do fear the truth…this is akin to what one might expect in a jurisdiction such as Belarus or, indeed, Israel…
The Jew-Zionists will be laughing (but they have laughed prematurely on previous occasions…).
There will, apparently, now be an appeal to the Administrative Court (in effect, the High Court).
I confess that, having ceased Bar practice years before this evil and Draconian legislation was passed, I am not much au fait with its provisions, still less with any case law (precedents), but to give a woman convicted of merely discussing matters in a form of interview the maximum duration for such a Order cannot be just or right. Also, the purported ambit of the prohibition is incredibly wide.
A judge has a measure of discretion, but that judicial discretion must be exercized both lawfully and (in the strict legal sense) reasonably.
As far as I know, Alison will still appear for sentence tomorrow, Wednesday 18 August 2021. Southwark Crown Court.
Thoughts
Who, say 50 years ago, would have thought it possible, in England, that expression of thoughts, views, satire, and the lampooning of influential groups or cabals, would become illegal and the subject of harsh prohibitory laws?
Britain foolishly gave refuge to those, and the parents or grandparents of those, who now tie and bind British people.
As President Kennedy said more than once, when peaceful reform is made impossible, revolution is made inevitable.
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The Afghans we were with in February, were all executed outside their homes in Kandahar on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/SdTkM7qzmJ
Dodgems and rape gangs? Afghanistan sinks towards the level of #Rotherham and Blackpool. But at least their police and government won't turn blind eyes while victims are turned into kebabs. https://t.co/4Z5GjDYYms
Raab may be able to bully his office staff and get away with it (because none of them felt able to hit him) but Raab cannot bully the Taliban, or China, or Russia, or even Belarus. He’s another completely useless member of a Cabinet of clowns.
If you put an impurity, a drop of something, into a large amount of water, it usually makes little difference. The more of the impurity you put into the water, the less pure is the water, the less like ordinary water it is. If a huge amount of the impurity is poured in, eventually the water is not really water at all, but just takes on the characteristics of the impurity. That is Britain (and much of Europe) today.
Britain has around 79,000 Afghans living here (2019 ONS estimate).
Peak number of British troops in Afghanistan 9500.
More news from and about the new crazed “woke” multikulti police state that has emerged in Australia. New Zealand is no different, because this is a transnational conspiracy.
…and, yes, that spectral and drugged creature on the left is Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of the new “woke” multikulti New Zealand. Australasia has fallen.
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Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
The opium production in Afghanistan went from 2% to 200% in 20 years and yet centrist shysters are still spinning that we were there to save women and little girls. @lisanandy
In the 1980s British mercenaries supported the Afghan mujahideen. The scale of their involvement remains shrouded in secrecy and MI6's archive from this period has never been declassified. It's time for transparency on 40 years of failed foreign policy towards Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/1JJa4U7uWz
Good grief! While I reluctantly accept that, as a matter of loyalty and honour, the UK should save the lives of the relatively small number of interpreters etc who worked with UK forces, and who now face execution (perhaps support them, and their immediate families, in some third country, not the UK), I oppose this further swamping of my poor native land completely. This is no more than another expression of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/].
I pity the Scots, living under that crazed and fanatical dwarf-woman. Sadly, the SNP seem to be digging in their heels. The “majority for Independence” the SNP seeks seems further away than ever, but that may actually strengthen the electoral showings of the SNP, in that everything not working properly up there can be blamed on Westminster.
Not that I myself oppose “independence” for Scotland, i.e. Scotland going its own way, no longer dependent on the English taxpayer. Good luck and (sincere) good wishes. However, the entirely fake “nationalism” of the SNP means Pakistani “Scottish” ministers of “justice”, dictatorial powers, a very politicized police force, an (((occupied))) Press, radio, and TV, and a Scotland basically run by Zionists, freemasons, and Common Purpose conspirators.
– The knowledge for advocating a general use of face-mask is very *weak*, and it still is after this study, says Kjell Torén, Chief Physician and researcher in Community Medicine & Public Health at Gothenburg Univ.
@johnhundeslit Maybe . Will these rules be repealed? The power to rule by decree, located amazingly in the Public Health Act of 1984, discovered by HMG lawyers in 2020, unchallenged by courts, remains. https://t.co/9ocrJcOaZ9
The current predicament of Alison Chabloz is illustrative. Anyone who successfully forms and articulates a dissident view of history is a massive threat to the system and treated accordingly. "Those who control present control the past and those who control past control future."
— Pureblooded Holocough Survivor (@adolf_hodler) August 17, 2021
Exactly. Even a blog such as mine faces attacks from the Jewish-Zionist element. False and malicious accusations etc. However, while these legal methods of propaganda and enlightenment exist, we should use them, even if it at times seems to be akin to firing your Walther PPK or Schmeisser out of the window at the invading hordes in 1945 Berlin, i.e. a valiant but doomed attempt to defend European race and culture.
The tide will turn. When it does, the boot will be on the other foot.
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[Afghanistan: women at an audio library in the 1950s]
Meanwhile, “from the sublime to the ridiculous”, Rory Stewart, “the man who thought he could be king”, bleats about a few young Afghans going to Oxford University. Amid these possibly world-historic events!
Very pleased that the UK government has now agreed to take the Afghan Chevening scholars who were promised places earlier this year. Thank you to everyone who campaigned on this
At first, and briefly, I was rather impressed by Rory Stewart; about 2-3 years ago. Now, my view is that the UK dodged a bullet when Stewart failed to become leader of the Conservative Party, and that despite my never having had any time for Boris-idiot. My blog assessment of Stewart from a couple of years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/03/will-rory-stewart-mp-be-prime-minister/
#UPDATES "I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air," witness tells @AFP as US troops fire shots into the air at Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans crowd onto the tarmac in the hope of catching a flight out of the country pic.twitter.com/XdBNs8aVvo
Kabul city People are on streets, they are in Bazzar. Some security events reported at night. The Taliban Military Comission of Kabul are busy and working to provide security and better situations to the ppl of Kabu. Situation will get better insha'Allah. pic.twitter.com/WBOIorvPCr
A pro-Taliban tweet? Rather different from others seen:
Panic is gripping Afghanistan as the Taliban tears through territory, forcing people to flee their homes for the relative safety of the capital. “If they take over Kabul they’re taking your daughters, your wife, they don't care," one man says. https://t.co/BvFvIy18iu
Look at the eyes of those children. Palpable fear.
This is the fault of the US and its allies (notably the UK), which should have imposed a new form of society, even if that meant exterminating backward elements en masse. In fact, what was done was an attempt to control and “manage” Afghanistan, to just keep a lid on it, in the manner of the British policy in Northern Ireland from 1969-1997. Doesn’t work.
Now, or soon, it may be terrible in Afghanistan. We shall see. It does not look hopeful.
The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan over after taking control of the presidential palace in Kabul while Western nations scrambled to evacuate their citizens amid chaos at the airport as frantic Afghans searched for a way out https://t.co/SP97nAAx7Npic.twitter.com/0dxu9VWGTQ
Pentagon deploys another 1,000 U.S. troops to Kabul to help with the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan's capital city. https://t.co/EMQ74fRgFo
Total chaos at Kabul airport, contractors working for the US, UK, and other western nations, their families, and people who feel the urge to leave fearing for their lives, wanted to be the last passenger on this plane. pic.twitter.com/XI6oGCsR49
The sort of literate, measured TV report that was standard in the 1970s but looks incredibly good when compared to the sort of trash that the BBC, ITV, Sky etc put out today.
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace breaks down admitting "some people won't get back" from Afghanistan and "it's sad that the West has done what's it's done." @NickFerrariLBCpic.twitter.com/UKMrUAQlDx
“Appalling lack of intelligence” [Nick Ferrari on LBC radio]. Well, that’s SIS for you. A career opportunity for some of the British middle classes, but not much good when you come right down to it, and when you strip away the (hugely overblown) WW2 “successes”, the rather few Cold War successes (I suppose that Penkovsky was the numero uno), and the fantasies of spy fiction, such as Ian Fleming’s James Bond books and the subsequent films, not much is left, certainly not in the public domain.
Forget Philby. He was of little real interest (though that would not have been the case had he gone on to be Chief of the SIS).
The real SIS failures have not been its probably small number of traitorous staff but its actual intelligence failures, such as failure to predict the fall of the Shah, fall of the Soviet bloc, invasion of the Falklands etc. Actual uselessness.
Operations such as putting Gordievsky in a car boot and smuggling him to Finland were of rather small importance in the big scheme of things.
Mitrokhin? His material is of huge historical importance, but that is another matter. There may well have been other, still-confidential material, but whether that was so or not, he was a “walk-in”, and all SIS had to do was not reject his approach (and later excavate the bulk of his material from under his dacha). He was never cultivated or developed prior to his “recruitment” (if such be the bon mot); the initiative was his. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin
Incidentally, Ian Fleming was far from being an “intelligence expert”: he was found a job (having been useless at everything beforehand) by his loaded banking family [Fleming’s Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fleming_%26_Co.] as the assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, basically a male PA. He was given a courtesy rank, Lieutenant, then Lt. Commander. He was never a real naval (or intelligence) officer, neither was he given any training, whether naval or otherwise. Most if not all of the operations he planned during WW2 were failures or nullities. A play “intelligence officer”.
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Prem, could this be a clue? CEO Ian McAulay 2019/20 Salary £435k, Bonus £538.1k Total £990.4k 2018/19 Salary £431.3k Bonus £570.3k Total £1,094.6k And the raw sewage (saving money) flows on, and on. Sounds shit, doesn't it?
Sorry, Chris, I think you only get half my point. Bonuses are the devil's brew. They lead to greed at the top, to sacrificing the long term for short term gain and take undeserved income by bribing shareholders with inflated profit. They should be made illegal.
Almost right. The migration-invasion continues, reinforcing the non-European occupation of the cities. As for “MI6” (or “MI5”, for that matter…), forget it.
So far, the Israelis (Jews) have interfered with British politics and society far more than have the barbarians of the Taliban or ISIS…shall we invade Israel (occupied Palestine) next?
As I have been blogging recently, the transition of Australia into a multikulti “biosecurity”, “woke” police state has been among the most surprising of the manifestations of the transnational conspiracy as we rush to the year 2022. What about New Zealand, as well?
Kabul is a city of 4.5M people. Some (I daresay) support the Taliban; the majority are probably waiting to see what will happen (and have little choice anyway). Only a few thousand (those who know that they face arrest and possibly death) are at the airport, scrambling to get onto evacuation flights.
Try this book. How consensus is generally reached frequently has little to do with what is correct. As a psychologist, surely you know this? https://t.co/TzqH8zCsUN
I have now formally asked the 'Ministry of Justice' to explain. Assange long ago completed his May 2019 sentence for breaching bail. He is not charged with a violent offence. So surely he is entitled to be treated as an unconvicted remand prisoner? Belmarsh? https://t.co/btEEdsP9oC
Where Julian Assange has gone, others will go, now that the UK is becoming, slowly, gradually, a police state. Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum, for making a speech urging the deportation of Jews from England; Alison Chabloz, imprisoned for her socio-political remarks on an Internet “radio” discussion podcast; Graham Hart, recently sentenced to 32 months (!) for making some contentious remarks on an internet “radio” show he presented. And so on.
Evidence for sure, reason for sure, @jeremiah_allsop. but our education system seems to have left millions unable to tell the difference between evidence and proof. The so-called 'gaps' still look pretty big to me. https://t.co/meFEW4zdK6
There is a an extraordinary desire among certain media to *politicise* what is clearly an individual crime by a politically-illiterate person quite possibly deranged by legal or illegal psychotropics. No doubt I will now be accused of trying to excuse the perpetrator. I am not. https://t.co/J8ljl6eL7R
Readers of the blog will recall that, last Friday (13 August 2021), Alison Chabloz, having lost her appeal from the Westminster Mags, was (oddly) remanded in custody pending sentence today (Monday 16 August 2021) by the presiding judge, H.H. Judge Beddoe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Beddoe].
The current situation is that Alison was “produced” in court today, but the Court is still having “difficulties” accessing Alison’s probation records, it having transpired on Friday last that “higher authority” would be required to allow access even to the judge (who is a Circuit judge)!
The net result of this bureaucratic nonsense was that, today, sentence could not be passed, because the judge wanted to see those probation records first. He has therefore once again remanded Alison in custody, this time until Wednesday!
As I blogged previously, Alison has already served about 9 weeks in prison as a result of the 18-week sentence given by the lower court, which means that any greater sentence given by this present court (to a maximum of 6 months) would, in reality (bearing in mind the usual release after half of the sentence is served) mean that Alison would have to do about another 2-3 weeks (she has several days “credit” for having served a few days in 2020 prior to a successful appeal).
Alison now has another 5 days served in Bronzefield Prison, so (if my calculations are accurate) even if she gets the maximum sentence on Wednesday, can probably expect release about 1-2 weeks later.
I am beginning to think that she will not get further imprisonment, or that perhaps some way will be found to “embugger” her otherwise, by adding on “community service” or some other onerous penalty.
We shall discover what “British justice” has to say on Wednesday.
Quite. Why are Britain’s left the last to grasp that the British Empire is over? ‘It has taken 20 years to prove the invasion of Afghanistan was totally unnecessary ‘ | Simon Jenkins https://t.co/D1BvIgIudY
Anecdotal but…in the early 1990s, a Sri Lankan solicitor, a woman, used to instruct a few members of my then chambers (including me, occasionally). Thick as two short planks, and seemed to think that paying Counsel was optional. In the end, she was about to be indicted for embezzlement when she killed herself. My point is that she was presumably part of the “educated elite” of Sri Lanka.
All the same, it may be that, after almost unimaginable destruction and bloodshed, the first generation of a post-Aryan super-race may one day (maybe as soon as 2050 or 2100) walk the depopulated and greening expanses of what were once the British urban and suburban areas.
I visited a Tesco store about 6 miles from home today. About 50% or so of the shoppers were masked, including two virtue-signalling fat women who were slapping vast amounts of free Tesco hand gel all over their hands, arms etc at the entrance, while loudly talking about how they were protecting themselves and others. It was amusing to walk past them, unmasked, while almost laughing at them.
Ian Robert Millard 