Sam Melia, of Patriotic Alternative, imprisoned in March this year for having organized distribution of socio-political stickers, has been released, though he will remain under licence (monitored, censored etc) for the whole of 2025.
Melia was sentenced in March 2024 to a headline term of 2 years. He has thus been released after nearly 10 months in prison for having organized the distribution of stickers themselves not unlawful in content.
Injustice can take many forms.
Melia will now be able to enjoy Christmas with his wife, the well-known activist Laura Towler, and their two small children.
Incidentally, supporters and well-wishers raised nearly £70,000 for Melia and his wife via GiveSendGo.
I do not belong to Patriotic Alternative (nor to any political organization), but I commend the courage and fortitude of both Melia and Laura Towler.
System politicians and scribblers seem to find the idea that the water industry should be nationalized (re-nationalized) a problem. “Where does the money come from?”, they cry.
I do not recall the same people asking the same question when it comes to rubbish like “Test and Trace”, or any of the other stupid “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “measures taken”. Nor when it comes to importation of millions of useless parasites from Africa and Asia etc.
Money for necessary work on the water and sewerage system exists, but is presently being wasted on importation of millions of inferior people (and their upkeep, one way and another), on pointless —and in fact dangerous— foreign policy mistakes such as throwing money at the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, and also at literally dozens of shambolic “states” in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Not a new story. In fact I featured it on the blog, I think at least 2 years ago. Still shocking, though. I think that it took place somewhere in Sussex.
Back after small break, partly b/c I feel I am shadow banned and my posts here don't get engagement. Hardly anyone noticed I wasn't here – which kind of proves my point! https://t.co/WgUoKKE61V
I am always going to advocate for my beloved people and country, I am just not sure I am going to continue this fulltime. No matter what, it has been a rewarding ride and have met some amazing folks doing this! https://t.co/8NXrGDcUQw
[“Get down there where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!”]
“IsraellyCool” featured me on his hate-blog about a decade ago, so good riddance (assuming that he actually leaves Twitter/X, rather than —like so many of “them”— merely whining about leaving, but then either not going, or going then immediately returning; cf. “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, Maureen Lipton etc re. UK “antisemitism” and living in the UK).
“IsraellyCool” seems to want to be paid by the Israeli government, or to be a direct part of Israeli government disinformation, as others are (see below):
Tremendously honored to have been invited to the ministry of foreign affairs to discuss Israel’s digital war efforts.
Joining me this morning are some of the most impactful Israel warriors on the internet. The fire power in this room is spectacular, and the minister, Gidon Saar… pic.twitter.com/Rko7sY92pN
'A one trick phony prime minister who says one thing and does another'@DaveDooganSNP says Starmer has 'betrayed' the Waspi women 'in the most scandalous way possible' pic.twitter.com/JIPOv2eMNQ
As I predicted long before GE 2024, Starmer is a pathetic little bureaucrat-lawyer box-ticker (who would be) given unwarranted power by a broken electoral system. Only 4 out of every 20 people eligible to vote voted Labour.
Starmer has none of the qualities of a Prime Minister.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party has rejected the possibility of sending Taurus cruise missiles and Bundeswehr troops to Ukraine, even as a peacekeeping force. pic.twitter.com/alSlc8pHvQ
The Israel took control of the Al-Wahda Dam on the Yarmouk River in Daraa Governorate which usually supplies Syria with 30% and Jordan with 40% of fresh water, which strengthens "Israel's" control over vital water resources in the region. pic.twitter.com/SR4nso625E
Despite my having been subjected to false accusations from the Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (amounting to attempted perversion of the course of justice from its “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”, one Stephen Silverman), despite my having had to suffer “voluntary” interview by police, despite my having been (quite wrongfully) put on trial (and convicted), and despite having been sentenced to a “community order” (and a financial penalty) in mid-March 2024, the blog continues, and has been published on a near-daily basis throughout.
“They are the must-have kitchen gadget of the moment – but your air fryer might just be spying on you.
Now the UK’s data watchdog is planning new rules after a shock investigation revealed just how much information apparently innocuous gadgets have been harvesting.
Consumer magazine Which? discovered several popular models were capable of snooping on their owners, listening in to conversations via their associated phone apps.”
[Daily Mail]
If this is happening in 2024, what might things be like in 2034, 2044, or 2124?
“Angela Rayner’s plans to build 1.5 million more homes by 2029 will leave Britain at risk of drought, experts said last night.
The extra households will create demand for an extra half a billion litres of water every day.
Yet the Environment Agency says the UK is already heading for a shortage of more than a billion litres a day by the end of the decade.
An industry source said: ‘This country hasn’t built a reservoir in 30 years despite the population surging.
‘Ofwat and the Government have got to step up this week if the country is to avoid this catastrophe.”
[Daily Mail]
Stop mass immigration. Start “remigration”. The two essential measures to be taken. After that or, rather, at the same time, nationalize the water industry.
“PETER HITCHENS: Here’s what we need to do to the people who supported mass immigration – and why they need to pay for the terrible consequences themselves…“
[Daily Mail]
Behind a paywall, so not read by me. Anyway, I have my own view on what should happen to those who have supported mass immigration into the UK. Including those in the present Cabinet. ‘Nuff said…
I shall not believe that any “revolution” (of any type) has happened, if Harriet Harman and her type are still free to talk on TV or to sit in Parliament.
They’re gaslighting us—labeling our valid concerns as “misinformation” while hiding the facts. Demanding answers isn’t “misinformation”—it’s our right as taxpayers! Here’s a sneak preview of what I told the @reformparty_uk Conference in Wales this weekend. #MattGoodwin#ReformUK#Wales#EnoughIsEnough#ShowUsTheData
As for that peculiar-looking young woman, Marianna Spring, before she became the face of BBC disinformation she committed a fraud by inventing details on her CV to try to get a job. She was found out, but still (later) hired by the BBC as its “truth verification” person! You really could not make it up!
Looking at her, I think that she must be (((the usual))) or partly so.
Whatever the truth of that, she must somehow “know the right persons”.
“Outrageous. An academic claims he was “sacked” by a university after writing a paper that was negative about foreign migrant workers. Professor Steve Fothergill said his contract was terminated by Sheffield Hallam University after he found that half of the jobs in former coal mining areas were taken up by immigrants. Unfortunately, this does not surprise me at all. As I show in my new book “Bad Education”, out in February, academics who challenge the left-wing consensus on campus are routinely sacked and shunned https://amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1787635244/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=” [Matt Goodwin]
Unfortunately, it seems for whatever reason that the british government lacks common sense. Or maybe which i tend to believe is that theres evil forces at work set out to destroy the british way of life.
Man dragged out of Peoples Question Time for asking why Khan labels anyone that doesnt agree with him as far-right. So its question time but only if u ask questions they like pic.twitter.com/An0TIReWIX
Die Deutschen Wochenschau (German weekly newsreel) from 1941, including, at 06:09, Hitler meeting, at the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs.
A good week for me: 9/10, thus beating —again— political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a more modest 6/10. I did not know the answer to question 8.
Talking point
Though Powell would never have spelled “dependants” in the American fashion as above. No matter. The quotation is otherwise correct, and accurate in terms of Powell’s prediction. The only thing he got wrong was in the numbers. If as few as 50,000 non-Europeans were to invade the UK in 2024 or 2025, even Reform UK, even the rump of the NF or BNP, indeed even I (perhaps) would be sighing a sigh of relief.
At present well over a million a year are flooding in; about 1.4M. Only a couple of hundred thousand are leaving in the same time period, together with 50,000-100,000 Brits. That means over a million more inhabitants each year, which would be unsustainable even if they were all British, or white Northern European generally. However, a million more a year, of which many, indeed most, are useless, parasitic, criminal, or downright hostile to European culture and people, is indeed mad, just mad. It must lead to the breakdown of society sooner or later, probably sooner.
In fact, as the links clearly show, the father was “typical” in that, despite making millions out of commercial litigation, he supported not only thick-as-two-short-planks would-be black revolutionist Nelson Mandela but also the (other) terrorists (Africans and Jews) put on trial with Mandela in the Rivonia trial of 1963-64 (they intended to start a race war against white European people in South Africa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.
Incidentally, if you look at the tweets of Matthew Stadlen, which I have just been doing (for the first time, I think, certainly the first time for a number of years), you see that he is socio-politically confused. He welcomes the end of the Assad government in Syria, but lashes out at a tweet by Kelvin Mackenzie who makes the point that the 30,000 Syrians now in the UK as asylum-seekers or grantees can now go back.
Likewise, Stadlen praises the open spaces he and his dogs are able to enjoy in southern England, yet wants migrant-invaders to be allowed to arrive unimpeded, and to be housed (etc) at UK-taxpayer expense.
Meanwhile, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer and his thick-as-two-short-planks supposed “deputy”, Angela Rayner, prepare to trash even more of England so that hutches for migrant-invaders can be built on a massive scale.
Again, Stadlen seems irritated by the decline of London into a city of crime, violence and anti-social behaviour, but fails (wilfully, I think) to note who is actually doing the vast majority of that…
Appreciate your answering but won't pretend I understand these particular distinctions on advising. I don't think it really addresses the issues you raised in your first tweet. Seems evasive to this layman.
“So, one of the things the SRA seem to be saying – and I think this comes from the very top, Juliet Oliver, general counsel – is; – a solicitor can continue to advise a former client where a conflict has arisen between that solicitor and client – so long as the solicitor only advises the client and does not ‘act’ by communicating with third parties or the court.” [James Wilson]
I mean I could guess what sort of response the SRA would get, and what sort of epitaphs would be used against them, if they reined in what I also regard as excessive generosity.
The top graph refers to inflation, the bottom graph to national or state debt.
The above graph refers to percentage rate of poverty by household (black line) and of the population as a whole (blue line). A steady increase of both over the last 8 years.
Unidentified flying objects appear over New York and New Jersey, USA.
Donald Trump calls on the military to shoot down these objects, and state authorities ask the White House to send additional security reinforcements. pic.twitter.com/eywgd50fWE
Austrian MEP Harald Vilimsky against the European Commission:
" We reject this commission because it is synonymous with mass migration, deprivation of liberty, warmongering, deindustrialization and the decline of Europe!". pic.twitter.com/xtegGxYBwb
The new goal in Britain is to build 370,000 homes a year. But according to analysis we need to build 550,000 a year just to keep up with mass immigrationhttps://t.co/pWTmH3GVcU
If you look at this poll in detail you’ll find Reform are more popular than the Tories among everybody under 65, are more popular among men, are already taking 1 in 5 2024 Tory voters & are most popular among “none of the above” non-voters https://t.co/SnwoSmwwFz
The police can’t ban anything. The police can only apply to the Home Secretary for a ban if there’s a belief there will be serious violence or disorder or serious damage to property. Disruptions don’t meet the threshold.
Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson getting the law wrong (again)…
On a wider point, that whole traditional rank of “King’s Counsel” or KC should be done away with. Outdated, and now all but meaningless. As an ordinary barrister from 1991 (in practice from 1993) to 1996, and then from 2002-2008, I encountered QCs (as they then were) in court a number of times, and did OK against them quite a lot of the time, if I say so myself. Sometimes they won, sometimes I won.
I believe that about 1 in 6 of practising barristers are now “KC”. In the past, particularly before the Second World War, the proportion was far smaller, partly because those in a position to recommend and/or make the decision were more selective; partly, also, because there were fewer applications, and that was partly because a “KC” then usually had to “lead” a junior (non-KC) barrister, and so cost the lay client 2x, sometimes 3x or more, in fees. Some took silk only to find that they became far less busy. These days, not only does a KC often appear alone, but in some cases even unattended by a solicitor.
I believe that I recall from the memoirs of Lord Denning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning] that when he “took silk” (became a KC), in 1938, there were only 4 such “letters patent” granted that year, including his own. In 2024, no less than 100 persons became “KC” (5 honorary only, 95 ordinary).
Of course, in recent decades, arguably starting in the early 1990s, the pernicious influence of “political correctness” (now often termed “woke-ness”) has had its effect; it has never been admitted that the Bar now has some King’s Counsel appointed at least partly by reason of their “ethnic” background, but that such is the case is the opinion of not a few (including me).
Well, there it is.
As to Lord Denning, in his day, he was the most popular judge among the public; arguably the only popular judge, as well as the one with the most name-recognition. Opinion among barristers was less unmixed, though few if any would dispute his very great ability.
I saw Lord Denning up close only once or twice, notably when hurrying to the Library at Lincoln’s Inn in the early 1990s. My chambers were in the Inn at the time, and I was also a member of the Inn then (I was much later —2017— expelled, as an automatic consequence of my politically-procured disbarment of 2016).
I pushed open the very heavy oakwood Library door and missed, by only an inch or two, knocking over Lord Denning, who must have been about 94 (b.1899). I recall that he did not flinch, and smiled benignly as I held open the door for him.
[Lincoln’s Inn Library]
Incidentally, just now looking at Wikipedia’s article on Denning, I see that, by 1936 (2 years before he took silk), his income was some £3,000 a year (arguably worth about £200,000 in the money of today, and income tax was far lower in 1936). Impressive, but the leading silk of the day, Birkett, at about that time had an income of £25,000 (between £1.5M and £2M today).
By comparison, in that era, domestic staff in a large country house might receive between £100 a year (kitchen maid) to £250-£500 a year (chief gamekeeper, or for a valued chief cook or butler in a great household). Of course, most were fed, clothed, and given accommodation as well.
Still, Denning, in the mid-1930s, was making about 10x the income of a head gamekeeper, and perhaps 30x the income of a kitchen maid. Birkett, on a fee-income of between £25,000 and £40,000 a year, was making as much as ten times even those figures! Several millions a year, in 2024 money.
Social history. Interesting.
I see that, when Denning was made a High Court judge in 1944, his salary was set at £7,000, perhaps £300,000-£400,000 in today’s money, so rather more than High Court judges now get (around £225,000; and income tax is higher today).
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Ukrainian police are throwing more and more forces into forced mobilization The video shows the detention of a "hijacker" with the purpose of sending him to the front in the city of Khmelnitsky pic.twitter.com/LwZ0kPXqXd
“Towns targeted by Labour’s ‘bulldozer blitz’: The English councils that must build up to 21 TIMES more homes than they had planned to as Angela Rayner releases list of targets.”
The traitors at Westminster have to be rooted out, and the migration-invasion first stopped, then reversed.
“A homeless man who killed an NHS worker mother-of-three by repeatedly orally raping her as she lay unconscious on a park bench has been jailed for life.“
[Daily Mail]
So why was the bastard even here in the UK? Nothing in the Daily Mail report (of course). Looks Somali, but nothing in that very poor report about the origin or background of the criminal.
The Daily Mail “journalist” also describes the untermensch in question as having been “homeless” at the time that he killed the victim, but then goes on to say that the defendant drove away, went shopping after the attack, and then returned to his home!
No indication in that report as to why the defendant was even in the country. Nothing about the savage having a job, either, yet here the bastard is, in the UK, and with a home and a car, at that. Oh, and he had enough money to buy cocaine, apparently.
At least he thought to buy food for his cat, as it seems. I hope that the cat was not made homeless.
This country is so screwed, incredibly so.
Nothing that mass deportations or executions could not at least start to solve, though.
That maternity hospital looks as good or better than most hospitals in the UK.
Odd, in a way, though. Russian Orthodox Christmas is a couple of weeks later than the Western version, by reason of the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church applies the Julian Calendar rather than the Gregorian (even though Russia as a whole uses the Gregorian, and has done for the past 100+ years), so this upcoming Christmas in Russia will not be until 7 January 1925 by our reckoning.
When will the British people finally rise up and say “NO!” to all of the evil nonsense happening, including mass immigration? Soon, I hope, before it really is too late.
None of this propaganda is actually FOR these other groups.
It's function is to be AGAINST the indigenous population. To marginalise and demonise us. https://t.co/z3D9aMQyph
Hard to think of Australia as it is now, compared to the easygoing and (except for a relatively few indigenous people) all-white society of the “Lucky Country” I saw as a child of 10-13 in the mid/late 1960s, when my family lived in Mosman and Cremorne (Sydney).
This is surreal. Thousands of almost exclusively young Syrian men have flooded Berlin to celebrate the fall of Assad.
Assad is gone now, there’s no reason for them to remain in Germany as refugees.
I wonder how many of the “woke” (etc) are aware of facts such as that?
Liberals and lefties celebrating the victory of fundamentalist Jihadi terrorists over a secular government. What can be done with these people? https://t.co/s1NE2OSQbG
'If anything in this country is extreme it's the policy of mass immigration.' @GoodwinMJ reacts to a report that claims the 'inflammatory language' of politicians is stoking extremism.
Assuming that the reports are correct (they seem to be), and that the longstanding government of the Assad family in Syria has fallen, there now stands only Iran against the Jewish state of Israel.
The Assad family has controlled Syria since 1970, 54 years, so this marks a great change in the geopolitics of the Middle East.
What will never be admitted by the System parties is that we have been, for decades, in a deliberately-managed slow decline, which is now become a faster decline; in fact a slide. It is very much connected with mass immigration (the migration-invasion), and with the agenda of making the UK a multikulti, multiracial, and fairly poor country, with most of the economic benefit of its economy going to about 5%, if not 1%, of the population. That 1%, or even 5%, is mainly, though not exclusively, non-European. It includes many of “the usual suspects” (((them))).
“Shocking four in five limb amputations on the NHS are ‘unnecessary’, new research reveals“
[Daily Mail]
Still clapping?
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Former Israeli officials are writing op-eds about Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinians while Biden officials deny reality. pic.twitter.com/YrUvLQdJVv
Why should Russia stop now, and thus allow the Kiev regime to restock, re-arm, and acquire new and more powerful weapons? Russia can advance across the east of Ukraine, and along the Black Sea littoral, in 2025.
RIA reports looting in Syria's Latakia, the province where the Russian Khmeimim military base is located pic.twitter.com/clzYt6OdQL
Current situation in Syria. Control is now left with two forces – the militants, who are now called the victorious opposition, and the Kurds pic.twitter.com/a3nS2f7QPp
The units of Russia’s Battlegroup East have liberated the settlement of Blagodatnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/scPVXoUFfDpic.twitter.com/4XWZhJcnE1
I don't know, is Angela Rayner as stupid as Helen McEntee or more stupid than her! There is a UK housing crisis; the UK government will build 1.5 million homes while importing 2.5 million migrants! Make it make sense!🙄 https://t.co/qttqqhilSO
Angela Rayner, David Lammy, others…is this both the most stupid Cabinet in living memory and the lowest (in reality, not bits of paper) in terms of educational level?
Angela Rayner is setting a dangerous precedent that she can overrule local councils and the communities that live there.
It's clear as daylight the reason they are building 1.5 million homes.. 5/7 will go to migrants already waiting here plus the 2.5 million expected to come in…
[Jorge Ortega, victim of attack at Ilford Station, East London]
“The Ilford station victim has been named and pictured for the first time as his family pays tribute to him. Sixty-one-year-old Jorge Ortega was taken to hospital in a critical condition after he was seriously assaulted at Ilford railway station around 8.49pm on Wednesday, December 4. Jorge sadly died in hospital two days later on Friday, December 6.
Jorge’s family paid tribute to him yesterday (December 7) in a statement released by his son, saying: “Our dad was the most loving person, the kindest soul you could have the pleasure of meeting. Everyone who has met our dad or who has ever worked with him over the years will tell you this.
“He had a brilliant mind, enjoyed cooking, loved drawing, and was highly skilled in art. He was an amazing family man and would always put other people first. He loved his grandchildren, and in turn, they adored our dad. He was totally devoted to our mum and loved her beyond what words can describe.“
“British Transport Police officers were called to Ilford Station following reports of a serious assault on Wednesday. Paramedics and members of the Air Ambulance attended, and Jorge was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries.
28-year-old Ayodele Jamgbadi of Kingston Road in Ilford was arrested the next day and has been charged. He will appear at Inner London Crown Court on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.“
[My London]
‘Nuff said…
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Less than 2% of British people have Roman blood.
— 🏴 Lost London Girl 🏴 (@lostlondongirl) December 8, 2024
…and the Angles, Saxons, and Normans were closely-connected, as indeed were the Vikings (Normans were simply Vikings settled in what is now Northern France).
The British public have had enough of this anti white and anti British bullshit. We have an identity, you won’t destroy it, nor change it to something that suits a multiracial agenda. Our country is white British and has been for centuries, the modern british men need to grow a…
— 🏴 Lost London Girl 🏴 (@lostlondongirl) December 8, 2024
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 8.
Historical note
83 years ago.
Surely one of the best films of its type.
Talking point
“But you can give it up, stop Shirriffing, if it has stopped being a respectable job,” said Sam.
“We’re not allowed to,” said Robin.
“If I hear not allowed much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.”
“Can’t say as I’d be sorry to see it,” said Robin, lowering his voice. “If we allgot angry together something might be done.”
. . . This was Frodo and Sam’s own country, and they found out now that they cared about it more than any other place in the world. Many of the houses that they had known were missing. Some seemed to have been burned down. The pleasant row of old hobbit-holes in the bank on the north side of the Pool were deserted, and their little gardens that used to run down bright to the water’s edge were rank with weeds. Worse, there was a whole line of the ugly new houses all along Pool Side, where the Hobbiton Road ran close to the bank. An avenue of trees had stood there. They were all gone. And looking with dismay up the road towards Bag End they saw a tall chimney of brick in the distance. It was pouring out black smoke into the evening air.
. . . “This is worse than Mordor!” said Sam. “Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Book VI, ch. 8.
Unfortunately, basically “System” historians and academics such as Ferguson are easily held to ransom by the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby. Their own careerist interests tend to get in the way of truth-telling.
The Lord of the Rings quotation there, though, resonates with me. That is more or less how I feel about England. There is, almost daily, less and less left of the England I remember from childhood (early-mid 1960s) and my teenage years (early to mid 1970s) (I was in Australia 1967, 1968, 1969).
Now we are told that, even “net”, the migration invasion will be around a million a year, indefinitely. That means continual degradation of housing availability, healthcare availability, law and order, availability of decent education, ever-lowering real pay; it also means the destruction of the welfare state.
It makes no difference at all whether those entering the UK do so with various visas, and on scheduled flights, or do so in rubber boats, invading the beaches of southern England.
The questions raised are:
how many years before this society collapses, together with its corrupt and decadent political system?
how many years before a real social-national government can take power and exterminate the societal evils that are being visited upon us (not all of which, however, are by reason of mass immigration)?
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Sweden has taken immigration below net zero – eg, more are now leaving than arriving.
It tightened rules, upped deportation and agreed to offer up to £25k to those who “re-emigrate” (aka voluntary repatriation).
Each immigrant to the UK, at present, is costing the UK about a million pounds over a lifetime, taking everything into account. It therefore makes sense to say “go out and stay out of the UK and we shall give you a gratuity of £50,000 [or more].” There would have to be a second, firmer statement, i.e. “return to the UK without permission, and you will be shot.”
Of course, such an offer might attract others. That posits the need for firm measures to prevent that.
We could even go further, inviting non-whites born in the UK to emigrate, and providing a similar and larger gratuity to them on that basis, maybe £200,000 in cash. Same (not some) conditions apply…
Expensive, but not so expensive as having them here.
Note: “other solutions are available”.
According to U.S. federal law, Americans are required to cover all Israeli debt.
Americans are also legally required to pay the moving expenses for any jew worldwide that decides to move to Israel.
Had this story appeared on the 1st of April, I should have assumed that it was a hoax. This country is now so screwed that it is hard at times to believe the extent of it.
In case you missed:
Britain's fertility crisis -we need to get serious before it's too latehttps://t.co/6IGXVftqjJ
The British Council is both useless and expensive. As Martin Bell pointed out many years ago, the (old) BBC World Service did “soft power” diplomacy many times better on a fraction of the budget.
The Labour Party succeeded at GE 2024 (albeit to the extent that 33.7% of voters that voted, voted Labour) not on its own merits, but because “almost everyone” (at least 9 out of every 12) wanted rid of the Conservative Party.
Now we see a similar phenomenon— the people want rid of both of the main System parties. So far, Reform is the only game in town.
“One day he [Heydrich] told me that a decision had been made in Hitler’s Headquarters, to create a big reservation for the Jews in Russia, which could be developed into a Jewish State. Considered the great advances of the German troops in Russia, everything looked very positive. A resettlement of such a magnitude appeared possible.” [from the 1976 memoirs of Lina Heydrich (geboren von Osten)].
“The Oreshnik strike is a signal to the United States and its allies that Moscow will be ready in any way to prevent them from inflicting a strategic defeat. Sergey Lavrov said this in an interview with Tucker Carlson: “Westerners are fighting to maintain their hegemony in the world, in any country, region, on any continent. We are fighting for our legitimate security interests.”
“Key statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Tucker Carlson:
Russia and the US are not officially at war, but a hybrid war is being waged against Moscow. And what is happening in Ukraine is the most visible and obvious part of this hybrid war. Moscow does not want to make things worse, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used on Russian territory, Russia is sending signals and hopes that the latest of these signals, from the new Oreshnik system, will be taken seriously.
It is obvious that the Ukrainians could not do what they do with modern long-range weapons without the direct participation of the American military.
The message we wanted to convey by testing this hypersonic system in real conditions is that we will be ready to do everything to protect our legitimate interests. The Minsk agreements stipulated that Kyiv should enter into direct dialogue with the people who did not accept the coup d’etat and promote the development of economic relations with this part of Ukraine, but none of this was done.
We prefer a peaceful settlement through negotiations based on respect for the legitimate security interests of Russia, respect for the Russian people living in Ukraine, their fundamental rights, linguistic and religious rights, which have been destroyed by a number of laws adopted by the Ukrainian parliament.
It is absolutely useless to claim that the people who came to power as a result of the military coup in February 2014 represented the Crimeans or the inhabitants of the east and south of Ukraine. The Crimeans rejected the coup, demanded to be left alone and said that they did not want to have anything to do with these people. So did the Donbass.
If there had been no coup d’état in February 2014 and if the agreement reached the day before between then-President Poroshenko and the opposition had been implemented, Ukraine would be united and Crimea would be part of it.
Russia is ready to send additional “messages” to the West if they do not draw the necessary conclusions after the launch of Oreshnik.
Russia is not considering the possibility of a nuclear war with the US.
Trump is friendly in conversation, but this does not mean he is pro-Russian.
Russia does not intend to destroy the Ukrainian people, they are brothers and sisters for Russians.
It is not his responsibility to disclose information about the number of Russian citizens killed since February 2022; this is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense.
Russia still hasn’t received Navalny’s test results after his treatment in Germany.
Talk of a limited nuclear strike is an invitation to a catastrophe that Russia does not want.
Russia has never set out to kill people, unlike the Ukrainian regime.
There is a tragedy in Ukraine, while in Palestine there is a catastrophe
The number of civilians killed in Palestine in a year is almost twice the number of civilians killed in the Ukrainian conflict over 10 years.
US ‘feeding’ some Kurdish separatists in Syria.
Moscow does not believe that the solution to the Ukrainian issue is only for Russia and the US.
Statements by individual NATO officials about the possibility of preemptive strikes against Russia raise concerns.
The West is making a serious mistake in believing that Russia’s “red lines” can shift.
Zelensky is inadequate if, after everything he has done, he wants to return people of Russian culture to Ukraine.
For peace in Ukraine there should be no NATO, military bases or exercises involving foreign troops.
West will have to consider realities on the ground for agreement on Ukraine.
Russia will judge the Trump administration on its specific steps, but Biden wants to leave him a difficult legacy.“
This essay on the dire state of Britain from @nfergus in the @TheFP is a must read. Everybody in Westminster and beyond should read it.
“Why are @Nigel_Farage and Reform surging again in the polls? Because of one word. Immigration. Because of mass, uncontrolled, unprecedented immigration.
Consider just a few things we’ve learned since the election in July —and which you’ll already know if you read my newsletter.
We’ve learned that despite all the promises on Left and Right to reduce net migration it’s now rocketed to nearly one million people a year —more than twice what it was at the time of Brexit.
We’ve learned that neither Left nor Right, nor more importantly the Treasury, have any serious interest in slashing net migration and their forecasts now assume ongoing mass immigration forever.
We’ve learned that enough people to fill the city of Birmingham migrated into Britain last year —in just ONE year.
We’ve learned that the government departments and agencies that are supposed to count immigration cannot even get the numbers right.
We’ve learned that according to the government’s own forecasts Britain’s population is forecast to grow by at least another 6.5 million people by the year 2036 —equivalent to six Birmingham’s.
We’ve learned via the centrist Pew Research Centre that between today and 2050 Britain will see the largest increase in the absolute number of Muslims of all European nations.
We’ve learned that Muhammad has become the most popular baby name for boys in Britain for the first time, overtaking Noah.
We’ve learned that mass immigration is not only the biggest driver of Britain’s population growth but is now, in fact, the ONLY driver of our population growth.
We’ve learned that the fertility rate among the British has fallen to 1.4 and is forecast to fall below 1.3 by the end of the century, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 and while nobody in Westminster will dare talk about pro-family policies, we’ve learned that 86% of all immigration that’s now coming into Britain is coming from outside Europe —from poorer and radically different nations and cultures.
We’ve learned that our broken asylum system which neither of the big parties are willing to fix is now costing us at least £5.4 billion a year and has cost us around £18 billion since 2018.
We’ve learned about these costs at the very same time as our leaders have taken winter fuel payments off pensioners and smashed family farms to save £2 billion We’ve learned that over the last four years, only 15-18% of people who migrated into Britain came here to work in skilled jobs.
We’ve learned that on average each low-wage, low-skill migrant is now costing British taxpayers between £150,000 & £1 million a year.
We’ve learned that while Keir Starmer is talking about building 1.5 million homes we need to build more than half that JUST to keep up with the demand from immigration.
We’ve learned that over the last 4 years some 40,000 criminal offences were committed on Britain’s streets by immigrants who have avoided deportation.
We’ve learned that at least 1 in 4 migrants who avoid deportation have gone on to reoffend.
And we’ve learned, only this week, that since the financial crisis some 441,000 people from outside the UK have been given new social housing lettings at the same time as British families and young people have been plunged into a major housing crisis by our hapless elites.
This. This is why one in four Brits are now turning to Nigel Farage and Reform. This is why Reform is now ahead of Labour and looks set to pick up the realignment which the Tories squandered by lying to the country.
Millions of British people have simply had enough. Had enough of Labour Had enough of the Tories. Had enough of the expert class. Had enough of the lies. Had enough of the gaslighting. Had enough of the insults. They want their country back. And they will use whatever vehicle is available to get it back.”
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, an international, transnational conspiracy to create a mixed-race population, especially in Europe.
Both main System parties (and the LibDems) are connected to that conspiracy. Traitors who should be, and one day will be, dealt with.
The mainstream media also is riddled with traitors and those who go along with the evil plans of the conspirators for reasons of money and/or careerism.
There will one day have to be a thoroughgoing purge of the political, mass media, and general cultural milieux.
When Germany was on its knees after the First World War, and riddled with traitors and exploiters, one man, with a few followers, stood up against the tide. He attracted support and, despite the attempts to repress the national rebellion, prevailed and created the most advanced state in the world at the time.
Britain, and much of Europe, now also needs to free itself from exploitation and treachery.
Temps perdu
I just read one of my blog posts from 2018, but about events in 1992.
[Ilyushin Il-14 passenger aircraft; introduced into service in 1954]
Vysotsky musings
I happened to find an old Vysotsky CD in the car. Playing it as I drove along, I found myself musing on Vysotsky. I was actually unaware, until I looked more closely at his Wikipedia profile, that he was half-Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky#Early_life. Surprising, perhaps, in view of his occasional lampooning of Jewish types and/or accents in some of his songs.
When I got slightly involved with the Soviet and Russian milieu in the late 1970s and then 1980s (though only in and/or from the UK; I never went to the Soviet Union, and first visited Moscow only in 1993), it struck me rather unpleasantly what a decadent society had grown up in that part of the world. In particular, the excessive drinking of some Soviet citizens (mainly men) and also the heavy smoking (especially though not exclusively men). Not everywhere, certainly not everyone, but enough to rot the society from within. That, and corrosive cynicism.
Vysotsky was to some extent the personification of all that. That is not to take away from his great talent as a singer-songwriter, but that sort of unhealthy lifestyle was, in my view, a large part of the reason why the Soviet Union collapsed so completely so unexpectedly, just as its semi-toleration of underhand dealings, criminality, and (largely Jewish) underground business activity in the 1970s and 1980s led, in the post-collapse 1990s, to the glitzy tasteless Russia of the (mostly Jewish) “oligarchs” under Yeltsin and, to a lesser extent Putin, and to the gangsterism rampant in the 1990s (though far less so now).
Andropov was probably a highly unpleasant man, and extremely repressive, as well as possibly half-Jew (it is not certain), but I think that he saw the train coming down the tunnel at Soviet society, and decided to stop it. His unexpected death really sounded the death-knell of Sovietism.
I read a Daily Telegraph piece about “middle class” homeless people (i.e. people who had good jobs, decent houses or flats, and then didn’t). The article waxed eloquent about the pressure on social housing etc, but the words “immigration” and “migration” did not appear; not once.
As Hitler said of many during the Weimar Republic period, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“…
BREAKING.
A poll by Findoutnow has shown Reform (24%) ahead of Labour (23%) for the first time ever.
Another interesting thing about this poll is that while @Nigel_Farage & Reform are ahead of Labour they’re also more popular than the Tories among the under-65s … https://t.co/0qKp502tEw
While FPTP voting would still be cheating Reform of nearly half of its potential seats under full proportional voting (156), those figures would give Reform about 95 seats, according to Electoral Calculus (Con 219, Lab 207, LibDem 67, Greens 6, SNP 22 etc). Thus Reform would be the “kingmaker”, though even then the Cons would have to agree with another party to get over the 326 line, or even the ~315 practical line.
In fact, as Goodwin implies, the only factor that keeps the Cons even as high as 26% in the polls is the pensioner vote. That may reduce by 2029; we shall see. A result of Reform 26%, Con 24%, Lab 23% would result in a Commons with Lab 195, Con 174, Reform 149. Still unfair and illogical, but on that showing, Labour would be unable to form a government even with LibDem, SNP and Green support, whereas a Con-Reform coalition could, just about.
If Reform, Con, and Lab all got 25% (others as given), then the result would be Lab 245, Con 188, Reform 93, LibDem 69, SNP 22, Greens 6.
I myself tend to think that Reform’s star is waxing, but the others waning, so a result somewhere in the area(s) above is not unlikely, with 3 or even 4 parties having almost equal success.
Ian Robert Millard 