“Britain’s youngest ever female murderer who stabbed a stranger to death when she was just 12-years-old could be freed in days, it has been reported.
Sharon Carr, dubbed the ‘Devil’s Daughter’, knifed 18-year-old Katie Rackliff 32 times in an unprovoked attack as the teenager walked home from a night out in June 1992.
The hairdresser’s murder went unsolved for two years as police officers hunted an adult man rather than the child.
It was only after she attacked another schoolgirl with a knife in Camberley, Surrey, and bragged about killing Katie while in a young offender institute that she was arrested.“
“A cabinet minister faces a police probe over an election leaflet attacking Labour regarding plans to put a traveller site in his constituency.
Locals were asked a number of questions including ‘Would you like to see a traveller site next to your house?’ According to The Times, police have confirmed they are looking into the leaflet.”
Britain in 2023, a country where publishing the truth may result in the toytown police “investigating” you (even if you are a Cabinet minister), instead of doing their proper job.
Well worth reading. I may not much like Jew-Zionist lawyer Dershowitz, but not many know American laws as deeply as he does.
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[Kiev] Ukrainian counter-intelligence authorities exposed the scheme of the organized "escape" of military-capable men outside the country: the head of a department within the headquarters of the Ground Army, as well as a high-ranking official of the Kyiv city administration,… pic.twitter.com/ShExeP27fl
Ukrainian men do not want to go to near-certain death at the front. That speaks more eloquently than the propaganda of the Kiev regime.
is reported that yesterday in Kyiv "Gerani" hit the building of "Ukrgospetssvyaz"
Ukropabliki wrote that in the Solomensky district, a certain “administrative building” was damaged and it was “not particularly important.” pic.twitter.com/euZ5fDIn70
Mike Pence, Trump's former vice president and Republican challenger in the 2024 presidential election who, according to the latest New York Times poll, has only 3% of the support vote, said of the third accusation against Donald Trump that… pic.twitter.com/r7diIxa31m
A US official speaks at length in Seymour Hersh's latest study on Volodymyr Zelensky's "Fools in Ukraine".
It is, the official continued, as if the President of Ukraine were an orphan — “a scoundrel in underwear” — and we have no idea what Zelensky and his people are thinking.…
“The most corrupt and stupid government in the world, with the exception of Nigeria”…
Russian air defense systems in the Kaluga region discovered and shot down the seventh Ukrainian drone since this morning , reports the governor of that region, Vladislav Shapsha.
There are no consequences for people and infrastructure, the governor added.
A heartbreaking stream of posts from simple minded members of the covidian cult, terrified of fresh air with a serious mask fetish. If you don't know that you have brainwashed and manipulated, it's because you have been manipulated and brainwashed. #CovidIsAirborne
As thievery goes, that black’s attempt must be the least skillful ever. The denouement reminds me of that of a scene in the film Taxi Driver:
Anesthesiologist Roland Louis Pinkney, filmed next to TikTok's 'Dancing Doctor' Windell Davis-Boutte, is cleared of malpractice
An anesthesiologist who was filmed dancing beside a doctor to the song 'Cut It' for TikTok during a patient's liposuction has been cleared of medical… pic.twitter.com/WyiL0PHaiI
“The fascinating thing about that story for me was that people read it in two completely different ways,” Caroline Kitchener tells guest host Will Oremus. “You had antiabortion people saying, ‘This is wonderful. There are two babies in the world.… pic.twitter.com/eAq2p0ZsAc
The decline of white European-derived populations in the world (in both absolute and percentage terms) has to be reversed, by increasing their numbers, and by decreasing those of other groups.
In every situation, in every political policy, new immigrants will side with other immigrants, legal & illegal. Indians, Chinese, Latinos, Africans, Europeans, it's all the same. They are all Foreign Invaders. We do not owe them anything & they are not us. #EndMassImmigrationhttps://t.co/o708hyhTei
Kiev-regime Ukraine is one of the most rotten countries in the world. Even in the 1990s, that was so. I was told in 1998 by a Brit who knew it well (I think that he was probably an SIS officer) that an unpleasant American whom I had in fact met several times, a lawyer from Virginia with offices in both Kiev and London, and who was (maybe still is) well-connected with the Kiev government and business circles, regularly paid teenage Ukrainian girls —the same age as his own daughter— to wear nothing but stiletto heels and walk up and down on his back.
I have no reason to doubt what I was told, though by the same token I have no other evidence that such was the case.
The Soviet Union, always very flawed in terms of human ethics, fell apart morally from the 1960s, and what we saw in terms of gangsterism, Jewish “oligarchs” in Russia, other degeneracy, was all an outcome of that in the 1990s and since then.
If Vivek wins, he will be the continuation of a trend in the West, which is our leadership being White Erased with the help of South Asians. UK prime minister = Rishi Sunak London mayor = Sudiq Khan Scotland FM = Humza Yousaf Ireland PM = Leo Varadkarhttps://t.co/CcbgaatzBC
…unless a minority of the German population, even a small minority, starts to do what has become necessary…
Sec for Work & Pensions Mel Stride has tones of Norman Tebbit, saying to those 50+ not in work – get on your bike!! More importantly, Tories have delayed decision on raising Pension age to 68 until after general election. We all know what that means!!!
People 50+ (and especially those 60+) are the only demographic as a group still voting “Conservative” in decisive numbers. If those aged 50-65 not already in employment are now being told to get minimum-wage jobs or else, the Con Party really will be toast at the next general election.
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It’s a shame the Telegraph don’t mention the elephant in the room which everyone else’s can see – the vaccine harms. Apart from that it’s a good article , they can’t listen to the voters as they are bought and paid for.https://t.co/8mk54HIFKJ
“Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “vaccine” dangers are an important issue, but not as important as the continuing mass immigration migration-invasion, the Jew-Zionist stranglehold over the msm, politics, finance, and legal system; also, not so important as the necessity to realign geopolitically, more towards Russia, less towards the USA.
The general tenor of the article is right, though. The System in the UK, vis-a-vis the British people, is now pretty much where the old Soviet and satellite system was in the 1970s/1980s vis-a-vis the populations of Russia, East Germany, Poland etc.
Thank you, @telegraph, for firing me when I tried to defend children against those who wished them harm through lockdowns. Great to see such ethical consistency. pic.twitter.com/RGAl8jQWIV
— Professor Karol Sikora (@ProfKarolSikora) August 2, 2023
Because I don’t give a flying f about what people think of me, I think I actually do forget how vile they were!! Im so glad I was never manipulated about their totally incorrect opinion pic.twitter.com/9KI8d6WeRV
— leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ (@LeilaniDowding) August 1, 2023
The Armed Forces of Ukraine followed the path of the Soviet gunsmith Nadashkevich and reinvented the air-cooled Maxim machine gun, known since 1926 as the PV-1 pic.twitter.com/CRWSFsTZpR
WSJ: Russian economy withstood Western sanctions and showed its strength
As the article says, “the failure of the West to quickly bring the Russian economy to its knees” due to the launch of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine is “identical to the stalemate on the… pic.twitter.com/1pMa0iSYP2
On May 1, I was arrested for my YouTube videos. The photos of my arrest are pretty funny—morning bed-head made me look like a character out of Dr. Seuss.
My crime was making videos critical of the West and their proxy regime in Kiev—and how they are destroying Ukraine.
So far, nothing more on Twitter from Gonzalo Lira. Looks like he has been arrested. It seems naive to have posted the above tweets and then tried to cross the border. It occurred to me that Lira was going to try to cross a different border than the one specified, but that might not have made any difference in the digital age.
The rest of his important Twitter thread:
My indictment explicitly states that all I did was discuss publicly known facts about the war—the epitome of free speech in a democracy.
But Zelensky’s Ukraine is no democracy—it is a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime PRETENDING to be a polite “western” democracy.
In other words, the formalities were carried out scrupulously—while judicial and ethical grotesqueries ruled.
That's Zelensky’s Ukraine. That's what his thuggish regime cares about: The >perception< of democracy and the rule of law, so as to mask the sordid, corrupt reality.
As you can see by the indictment, the video I made that really chapped their ass was “Ukraine: A Primer”, which gives the historical background to the conflict—where I state outright that this invasion wasn't out of the blue. That indeed, it was provoked by the Kiev regime.
I got a cracked rib in my first cell, but it wasn't too bad. The worst stretch was in my fourth cell.
From 1pm on June 21 until 7pm the next day—30 hours—I was beaten and sleep deprived, my arms twisted the wrong way around at the shoulders, and generally beaten pretty bad.
Near the end of this session, one of the thugs struck me in the chest so hard and so repetitively that the beating left a yellow-and-green splotch dead-center on my sternum.
He was >berated< by the cell boss, because he'd left a mark on me—which was a no-no.
The guard told me to remove my shirt so he could look me over. The bruising was really spectacular—but he just nodded and pretended he didn't see a thing.
>Perceptions< He'd checked me, right?
Why was I beaten to the point of torture? Well—it wasn't over my YouTube videos!
So once they had me imprisoned for my videos, the SBU took the opportunity to extort money from me—using the guards as accomplices, who in turn used the prisoners as the muscle.
How I discovered this is too complicated for a Twitter thread. But I'm writing a book about it.
And the US State Department would return me too. I'm not a black lesbian druggie, or a transgender grifter. Besides, Victoria Nuland hates my guts, or so I'm told.
I'm hoping the Hungarians will read my indictment and say, “This is bullshit—we’re not sending him back.”
[Update, 11 September 2025: Gonzalo Lira died in Kiev-regime custody in January 2024, 6 months after he posted the above tweets and tried to escape from Ukrainian territory. Cause of death officially pneumonia (possible in view of the terrible conditions in which he was apparently held), or he might have simply been murdered one way or another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira#Death]
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The cast of Disney's new woke remake of Snow White: "It's not 1937. She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be." 🙄#EverythingWokeTurnsToShit#GoWokeGoBrokepic.twitter.com/XX5NIwGvqH
Part of a huge transnational campaign by the forces of evil, the aim being to trash or replace what are sometimes termed “the Good, the Beautiful, and the True”.
Lush – pushers of trans ideology, general wokery and stink bombs. Gets £5 million government bail out. Gives £4 million in bonuses to its bosses. Hmm…certainly know how to grift!#Lush#GoWokeGoBrokehttps://t.co/qKOwmMgVL3
The help that the US and its allies are providing to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is not enough, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Brazilian television Globo News in an interview last week pic.twitter.com/TfIHDGEgD7
Armed forces of Russia destroyed the stronghold of Ukrainian forces in Zaporizhzhia with the help of an FPV drone , the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced. pic.twitter.com/QWIxSSprT9
An interesting opinion regarding the hryvnia exchange rate is that it is absolutely artificial and does not reflect past and current economic realities. With such a huge volume of external injections, the National Bank of Ukraine can easily support it through the constant sale of…
Ah. That had puzzled me. Here we have a notably corrupt and shambolic “state”, Ukraine, which for 30+ years has become ever-more corrupt and shambolic. That state has now been invaded, a tenth of its territory occupied, and about 20% of the population has fled to other countries. Industry is largely idle, while agricultural produce cannot be, for the most part, exported. Despite all that, the exchange rate of its currency, the hryvnia, has not dropped through the floor. Why not?
Scouts of the Dnepr group hit the enemy's IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system with the Lancet loitering ammunition. pic.twitter.com/gjCW5PqN9q
As far as the medical profession is concerned, very few of such incidents involve (real) British/English doctors, as everyone knows. The case reported on is no different.
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Tory-run Thurrock Council secretly handed £655m to a local businessman.
He spent the money on a private jet, a yacht, a 232-acre mansion, a Bugatti, and loads of other stuff.
Then he wound up the company.
Thurrock Council is now bankrupt and cutting services to local people.
Please, tell me what isn't insulting and patronising about being told to wash the sauce of Spaghetti hoops?
— Sassy Vagrant 🏴🏳️🌈 (@myloveisdrunk) July 31, 2023
People aren't poor because they haven't been 'taught how to look after themselves'. No one knows more about budgeting than people in poverty. And coming from a middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe it's condescending, and damaging to the conversation around poverty.
Jack Monroe refuses to be transparent about missing Teemill charity money, 30p Lee 'legal fund', 3 years unfulfilled Patreon, falsely claimed abject poverty whilst buying luxury goods and begging for money, and blocks anyone who asks reasonable questions.
Online “grifter”, “Supertanskiii”, who apparently makes some kind of living partly via pretending to be an “anti-Tory” “activist” (i.e. she tweets ranting, repetitive, and boring remarks about “the Tories” several times a day, and is, or so I read, sent money by, I also read, pathetic middle-aged men, mostly), engages in dialogue with someone about better-known “grifter” “Jack Monroe”. Note also how “Supertanskiii” uses that stupid “they” thing when she means “she“.
The conversation was all about how MP Lee Anderson (admittedly not someone of whom I particularly approve) was evil etc when he claimed to be able to make food for 30p (while fraudster “Jack” claims to be able to do the same for 11p). Both totally implausible, in my opinion.
Louise Theroux and Nick Fuentes
Saw a recording of a recent Louis Theroux TV show. His usual modus operandi, i.e. try to appear friendly or at least honestly inquisitive, while plotting how to entrap his interviewers and/or make them look stupid. It often works. The only one of his interviewees (from the relatively few of his shows seen by me) who managed to put Theroux in his place was the late Max Clifford.
This show was about one Nick Fuentes and his followers in the USA. I had heard of Nick Fuentes, but knew little of him.
I have to say that Theroux did not have a difficult task this time. Weird people giggling and making jokes out of serious issues, these Nick Fuentes followers (and the man himself) came across more like silly boys aged about 10 (in most cases) rather than young or youngish men in their twenties and thirties trying to put forward serious points and maybe attain to political leadership.
Not that I disliked or disagreed with all that they said. They seemed to be fairly solid on the “Jewish Question”, though their views were pretty superficial.
Nick Fuentes himself seemed reasonably intelligent, and is plainly making a small fortune out of his activities, but some of his views are just mad, and I have nothing in common with the “nothing is serious”, or “making jokes to make a semi-serious point” tactics he and his followers deploy. I also have nothing in common in terms of lifestyle with these “gamers” and their Call of Duty (etc) interests. I have never played such a game, not even once. There again, I am now 66, twice or even three times the age of these —to me— strange young/youngish men (apparently there are a few women, but not many).
They all expressly disclaimed any connection with, or interest in, National Socialism, or what they termed “white supremacism“, or even “white nationalism“. That rang a couple of alarm bells for me. It occurred to me that Fuentes, and the movement as a whole might be a kind of plant, or at least being loosely manipulated as “controlled opposition”.
Here is a movement of the contemporary computerized era: no ideology to speak of (from what I have seen so far), no real programme, no administrative structure beyond whatever is necessary to publish their views online. A rag-tag bunch of followers, though quite numerous (Fuentes was said to be able to gather a crowd of several thousands at short notice, and in any state of the Union).
I enjoyed seeing the scenes of the U.S. Capitol invaded, but that did not amount to a putsch, even on the slightly comic-opera or tragi-comic level of, say, the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 in Munich, which at least had real aims, real ideology, serious people (Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Ludendorff, Rudolf Hess, Dietrich Eckart etc), and real courage and steel.
The U.S. Capitol “riot”, by contrast— no discipline, no ideology, no real leadership; chaotic, and with nothing to fall back upon afterwards.
Not very impressive (both Fuentes’ movement and Theroux’s show). The nagging thought is in my mind— what interests are served by a phenomenon such as that? It may be little more than a safety-valve for the System.
I hope you'll ask direct qus about why Jack, having received cash via Patreon, hasn't delivered promised rewards for years/paused it, & hasn't refunded people contributing to sue Lee Anderson when she failed to sue? Why the VBI hasn't materialised? Why she's so unpleasant online?
“The VBI” refers to the “Jack Monroe” invention (which does not in fact exist) of a so-called “Vimes’ Boots Index” of inflation monitoring of basic or staple products. Another “Jack Monroe” scam, in short.
@rhiroberts – another subject to discuss is her alleged heroics at Grenfell Tower, when Jack Monroe was behind the police cordon.
Why did she delete this from her blog, and never mention it again? Was she even there?https://t.co/FU9vLHV3Zx
Tweeter “Birdy Bart”: joined Twitter late June 2023, and only 1 “follower”. The latest “Jack Monroe” “sock account”. Pathetic, but not as pathetic as the 379 utter mugs still each sending the fraudulent “grifter” between £3.50 and £44 a month, a total of thousands of pounds a month.
Still, the tide has turned.
Last year, “Jack Monroe” was being chucked money by about 850 mugs (she having been endorsed by Jewish “celebrity” “foodies” Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner).
In the latter part of 2022, that ~850 declined to about 400 or so as people started to wake up to the fraudulent and abusive behaviour etc by “Jack Monroe” and her fans; then the number declined further, to 396-397, and stuck there for quite a while, several months. Now— 379. Must still be several thousand a month, though, as noted. Even on the lowest level (£3.50 each), that is still over £1,300 in cash, though, every month, and taxfree. At a guess, she must still be pulling in about £4,000 a month from those mugs.
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They're just stealing bread to feed their families Ian, from the Gucci store… pic.twitter.com/pv845jaa6T
— Millard Roswell™/AbortionisMurder (@MistrJustaguy) August 1, 2023
It was funny, Lee couldn't hit a barn door, that's what ruined his career. As for Baddiel's opinions on a movie actor, it's going along with this new rubbish that actors can't act as someone else. Makes as much sense as needing a dead person to play a ghost.
Because most Africans are incapable of organization.
There are other factors, of course: corruption, wars and civil wars and (yes) exploitation by outsiders, but that is last and least.
The blog has had only one or two hits from Burkina Faso in the past years. Maybe it was that President? Who knows?
“An attack by the Wagner Group on Poland will be regarded as an attack by Russia,” US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, answering a question about a possible outbreak of hostilities in Poland
In the future, say 200 years from now, will 2023 be classed alongside 1941, 1939, and 1914, and will earnest discussion among academics ask “could that war have been prevented?”
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
[so-called “travellers” causing chaos in Bournemouth]
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
[HS2 ground preparation scars the landscape near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 2021]
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
“Lionesses”
Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
[Wikipedia].
If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
"The main thing is that Russia does not participate." Zelensky announced the terms of the discussion of the peace plan in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/IVDqnFdbGL
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Wagner PMC fighters may attempt to invade NATO territory
According to the Polish vice-marshal Kaminsky, the "musicians" will carry out a military operation to attack the territory of Poland in order to "test NATO" for a response.
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
The Wagnerians are entering Poland as migrants – claims Polsat News
A new wave of panic gripped Poland. Namely, the local population believes that illegal migrants who are essentially members of PVK Wagner are penetrating the territory of Poland from Belarus, this was said by… pic.twitter.com/rbi7giOqvE
PMC "Wagner" and military personnel of the Belarusian mechanized brigade held a joint training , – the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/9w1owa0hyK
How ridiculous, to move a successful company like English National Opera out of its long-established home to some provincial centre.
Most countries concentrate their cultural treasures in terms of opera, ballet etc in one city, usually the national capital, a concentration of cultural forces. Moscow, Paris, etc. Not all, but the exceptions are countries which were only unified (or created) in the 19thC (Germany and Italy, the USA).
By all means tour around the UK, but base yourself in London. Also, the concentration of cultural companies in London leads to cross-fertilization of the arts.
The most important thing is to keep a bloc of white Northern Europeans intact, because that bloc can be the foundation for a later “super-race”, one far ahead of where we are now. That foundation has to be “post-Aryan” and white European; the other races and groups cannot provide such a foundation. The later “super-race” will be a quantum leap in human evolution. The other races and ethnicities will be left behind, just as, compared to our world of today, previous forms of humanity have been left behind.
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Rachel Reeves implies Alison Rose should be let off because she’s a woman (doesn’t sound much like equality).
Then says she doesn’t know the details of the case. Which is odd, because everyone else in the country does. Plus she’s Shadow Chancellor.pic.twitter.com/TrVcPyXvfu
Israel-puppet Rachel Reeves. She would never acknowledge that a large number of organizations including banks and law firms have been promoting —and, in many cases, over-promoting— women for virtue-signalling and box-ticking reasons for about 30 years. I myself have seen many examples.
One correction: as far as I can see, the only “neo-Nazi problem” that Ukraine has is that so few “neo-Nazis” seem to exist there. If that is wrong, why do they tolerate Zelensky’s corrupt, brutal, and shambolic NWO/ZOG tyranny?
Instructor of PMC "Wagner" and servicemen of the 51st artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/ktamYD3lFo
Interesting. Usually, the “instructor” in such a situation would be the one from the army of the state, not from the private military company. However, who knows from where that “instructor” has come, in career terms? Russian Spetsnaz? The post-Soviet VDV? These are not fake “mercenaries” as once found in Soldier of Fortune etc. They are a very serious fighting force.
“A historic royal census, known as “swan upping”, has revealed a 40% drop in the number of cygnets on the River Thames, compared with last year.
The decline has been blamed on avian flu but also a growing problem of violence, including shootings, catapult attacks and dogs killing swans.“
[BBC]
I was saddened to hear, on BBC Radio 3 news this morning, that same report, i.e. that the number of swans counted on the Thames this year is about 40% lower than in previous years, and that, worse yet, part of the decline is because of “increased violence towards swans“. Jesus Christ! What sort of horrible bastards are cruel to swans?! They should be flayed alive if caught mistreating swans.
Having said that, there was always a small amount of such badness. I remember rowing my inflatable boat, with someone from my school, down the then-still-closed river Kennet in 1971, and seeing a dead swan in the water. The swan was obviously not long dead. That happened somewhere between Newbury and Reading. Not long after having seen the dead swan, we passed an unpleasant-looking young man on the bank, not older than about 20, with some kind of rifle or air-rifle. Were the two sights connected? I think probably they were.
Incidentally, the Kennet, and connected Kennet and Avon, was then only navigable by carrying the boat around disused locks, over barbed-wire fences etc. Since then, volunteers have been able to re-open the waterway to traffic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennet_and_Avon_Canal.
[where the Kennet meets the Thames at Reading; viaduct bridge carrying the mainline Paddington to Reading railway also in the picture]
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'The housing crisis has been caused by mass rapid immigration.' – GB News debate. pic.twitter.com/lxOnRrbkuA
Let’s not forget that Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lied for nearly a YEAR about suing 30pLee, claims she raised less that £1400 for it, but also bought a £2k+ designer dog and a £7k+ watch during that time. How can anyone defend, support or promote this grifter? pic.twitter.com/rLOI0NMHem
Bless her. Faux poverty conwoman & fake fundraising fraudster Jack Monroe bootstrapcook hates it here. Simple solution: Stop using the platform to top up your scam scam sales funnel, delete account, stop patreon, refund #suelee cash, get a job. Easy 👍 pic.twitter.com/ddZJMAAubZ
She hopes that her critics will tire of trying to enlighten the public (including the 397 utter mugs still —as of today— sending her a total of several thousand pounds per month via Patreon). If the critics tire, then she can resume (on a larger scale) her decade-long career of “grifting” and defrauding and embezzling and “cosplaying”, as may be convenient for her; maybe even get onto Question Time again (which does not usually pay, but does tend to validate her with the msm in general and with the uninformed majority of the public.
The MET office established in 1855 didn’t record temperature until 1912. In 1974 climate scientists said we will have ice age in 2000. Man made global warming wasn’t invented until 1985. pic.twitter.com/5fvXzV0sXc
Save this video and send it to @maitlis when she’s quite rightly appalled that she can’t buy food or access basic services. Free speech is defending the speech of those you disagree with the most. Moronic lack of self awareness.
Ignorant Jewish talking head Emily Maitlis, hugely overpaid by the BBC thanks to the outdated and tyrannical “licence fee” system, wilfully fails to see the bigger point about freedom of expression. I can only assume that she is unaware that other people, less famous than Nigel Farage, have also been “cancelled” for having the “wrong” views (i.e. anti-System views), people such as Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative), and others. They all lost their personal bank accounts, and they were not “cancelled” by Coutts but by standard high street banks such as Barclays and (I think) Halifax.
You hear much (and rightly so) about the attempted bank account cancellation of Farage, but where were Laurence Fox, the “Free Speech Union”, Toby Young etc when those other victims had their bank accounts cancelled? Where were those “champions of free speech” when Alison Chabloz was imprisoned for posting online legitimate satire about Jewish and Zionist behaviour, or during my continuing persecution at the hands of the Jew-Zionist lobby? Absent.
Coutts (obviously) Rose Starmer Just Stop Oil Simon Jack Dale Vince The BBC Vorderman Maguire Mason Biden Rayner Bray Stonewall Khan O’Brien The BMA ULEZ Lynch Bryant Izzard Packham Harman Brian Cox Cooper Soubry The RMT Yorkshire BS Burley Ellwood Maitlis
Ukraine may not have a single port left in three months – representative of the operational command "South" of the armed forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk
Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot win this war; indeed, without having been propped up by vast amounts of money, arms, ammunition, clothing, food etc from the West, it would already be totally on its knees.
Abandoned Ukrainian T-72M on the outskirts of Rabotino, Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/nnwxai246A
He left out a fourth aspect— Jewish-Zionist control (of banks, businesses and commerce, legal services, newspapers, television, radio, and pseudo-democratic politics).
The remains of NATO armored vehicles in the SMO zone Another column of UAF armored vehicles was destroyed before reaching the positions of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/sndmK0E2a8
Nothing will stop the Russians – ex-Trump adviser Douglas McGregor “And if we decide to whisper to the Poles: they say, well, for the cause, cross the border, go to Lvov. What will happen? I think that Lvov will be easily razed to the ground , and the troops that try to cross… pic.twitter.com/yXp7MNHFlt
In our paper published today, 🏴 @ScotGov proposes an open and inclusive approach to citizenship in an independent Scotland.
One that welcomes people who want to settle in Scotland, rather than putting barriers and excessive fees in the way of individuals and their families. pic.twitter.com/x8kK94lMnh
Pakistani “Scotsman”, SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf, now proposes the flooding of Scotland with new huge numbers of Pakistani and other migrant-invaders.
If that were ever to happen as proposed, many migrant-invaders would take up Scottish citizenship purely in order to, sooner or later, relocate to England. That in turn would entail the building of…a wall…to keep them out. Certainly the construction of border fortifications.
In reality, though, it will almost certainly never happen. Even bearing in mind the pseudo-nationalist idiocy that leads to nearly half of the Scottish electorate voting SNP (that’s right— the SNP has never garnered even half of Scottish votes), this must surely give even die-hard SNP supporters pause.
Yousaf may just have cost the SNP a goodly portion of its votes.
I usually steer clear of commenting on Scottish politics, but think that faux-“Independence” is losing traction.
🇺🇦 "Ukraine may not have any ports left in three months" – said the representative of the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk. pic.twitter.com/3cMGBLSYTy
Ukraine's army has lost almost a fifth of its NATO counteroffensive equipment, including armored vehicles" – Financial Times. pic.twitter.com/uMeMhBgVaz
The Kiev regime’s “big push” may soon become its “long walk home”.
The hilariously miscalculated closure of @Nigel_Farage’s account tells a wider story: one of corporate virtue signalling which, since last February, has weaponised Russophobia for the sake of moral posturing. https://t.co/G85dWnk3Y6
*NIGERIANS WERE JUMPING DOWN FROM A MOVING BUS BECAUSE THEY WHERE TAKING TO AIR PORT FOR DEPORTATION FROM TURKEY NOBODY WANT TO COME BACK TO NIGERIA* pic.twitter.com/2VcfYkrP1B
Donetsk under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.Arrivals near the Vishnevsky hospital, it is also known that a shell hit the apartment of the house pic.twitter.com/JktrmTQMz7
The contract soldier or “mercenary” has fallen somewhat onto the margins of European affairs since the condottieri of the Renaissance era, though in the 20thC many Europeans served, some more honourably than others, in mercenary forces elsewhere in the world, mainly in Africa. Among the better ones were 5 Commando under Mike Hoare in the Congo of the early/mid 1960s, and those who served under the Rhodesian flag in the late 1960s and 1970s. Among the less honourable, les Affreux (“the Frightful”), Belgian and French mercenaires in the Congo circa 1961-62, and some of those who served in Biafra; also, arguably the rock-bottom, those (some completely untrained) who went to Angola under “Colonel” “Callan” (in reality, Costas Georgiou, a Greek-Cypriot dishonourably discharged from the Parachute Regiment of the UK, and who never held a rank higher than corporal, if that): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Georgiou; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary#Africa; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mike_Hoare.
“To recruit his force, Hoare placed newspaper advertisements in Johannesburg and Salisbury (modern Harare, Zimbabwe) for physically fit white men capable of marching 20 miles per day who were fond of combat and were “tremendous romantics” to join 5 Commando.[5] The moniker Mad Mike which was given to him by the British press suggested a “wildman” type of commander, but in fact Hoare was very strict and insisted the men of 5 Commando always be clean-shaven, keep their hair cut short, never swear and attend church services every Sunday.[5] The men of 5 Commando were entirely white and consisted of a “ragbag of misfits” upon whom he imposed stern discipline.[5] 5 Commando was a mixture of South Africans, Rhodesians, British, Belgians, and Germans, the last of whom were mostly Second World War veterans who had arrived in the Congo wearing Iron Crosses.”
[Wikipedia].
[Mike Hoare, when commander of 5 Commando in the Congo]
The Wagner Group, aka PMC Wagner, has changed the rules. Here is a notionally private military company effectively acting as the private part of a state military force, though not signatory to any international conventions and, by the same token, unprotected by any.
In the 1960s and at most other modern times, mercenaries were seen only in quite small groups, certainly no more than a few hundred. That alone marks out Wagner Group as something new. Even Mike Hoare’s successful 5 Commando consisted of only about 300 men. The Wagner Group can (or could, until the recent fighting for Bakhmut/Artyomovsk) muster tens of thousands. The whole of the British Army is now no more than about 70,000-80,000, and most of those are either headquarters or “rear-echelon” forces, not combat-ready.
It comes as a slight surprise to realize that Wagner Group might even be a match for the maybe 30,000 troops who comprise the whole of the fighting part of the British Army.
It is an open question as to what would happen were Wagner Group to attack and/or get into combat with, the forces of a NATO state (eg Poland). That is, would it trigger Article 5 of the Treaty, and so create a general European conflict?
I suppose that the last time the British used private forces on any scale would be the seaborne “privateers” of the 16th-18th centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer, unless you include the arrangement with the Gurkhas, though they are now completely subsumed into the British and other armies.
The British Ministry of Defense has shown the latest modification of the Challenger 2 tank – the Challenger 2 Theater Entry Standard (TES) 'Megatron', designed for fighting in urban areas pic.twitter.com/TNBsVRWmDf
The Polish army is transferring the promised two battalions to the Belarusian border due to the presence of PMC "Wagner" on the territory of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/YySk0WEp6b
Polish roads have certainly improved since I was there (late 1980s).
Pushilin: Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Uluhdar direction make at least five attempts to attack every day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulse them
The acting head of the DPR added that Russian troops had improved their positions in the Avdeevka and Krasnoliman…
WSJ: The West knew in advance that Ukraine was not sufficiently prepared for a successful counteroffensive.
When Ukraine launched its major counter-offensive this spring, military leaders in the West knew that Ukrainian forces lacked the training or weapons arsenal—from…
She speaks !!! 😳😳😳 30 year old Charlotte Owen today became "Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge" – for life. No one knows why Johnson gave her the peerage, coz there's apparently a super-injunction stopping anyone from reporting on her. So let the rumours continue! Who is she? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/VMPEL9jh78
— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed (@BrexitBin) July 24, 2023
Baroness Owen & Lord Kempsell who have less than a decade work experience between them but who now have jobs for life making laws because Boris Johnson said so, have made the case for abolition of the House of Lords clearer than I could pic.twitter.com/Zz6nwUcKPg
They both look hugely smug, as well they might. I wonder what could wipe the smirks off their faces?
Labour’s stunning success in Selby can’t disguise that failing to win Uxbridge, given changing demographics there and real anger at the government, is a very poor result. Easy to say it’s all about ULEZ but having spent time there recently, I’m not convinced that’s true.
Nonsense. Mass immigration has suppressed wages, the reason British people don't do the work is because they can't afford to. The so called "benefits" have not materialised. We compete with the world for both jobs and housing. Its absurd
Reading tweets from pro-immigration cretins such as tweeter “@DawnRowatt” is more than irritating; it is actually slightly frightening. It shows that there are rather a lot of people in this country devoid of any real awareness of how the country is changing for the worse (the much worse) via mass immigration and migration-invasion. Such “refugees welcome” and similar dimwits are immune to logic, to facts, to intelligent analysis. What does that leave?
They are the gravediggers of our still relatively-civilized, though declining fast, white European society.
It's interesting that you're that familiar with the situation, Mr Account with one follower, with your account only hours old that has *checks notes* ONLY tweeted in defence of Jack Monroe. Nothing suspicious to see here, nothing at all.
As mentioned on the blog and by others, fraudulent “grifter” “Jack Monroe” uses literally hundreds of Twitter and other “sock accounts”, some prepared years ago, as long ago as 2013 in some cases. Such “non-people” argue with those exposing “Jack Monroe”, and they also praise her, or her dire food “recipes”.
As for me, I fail to understand why the police have not (as far as I know) launched investigation into what is really a long-running fraud, or series of frauds.
“A spokesman for the National Police in the Balearic Islands said: ‘Officers have arrested a Moroccan man as the suspected author of a crime of unlawful detention, sexual assault, resisting arrest and disobedience after he tried to take a two-year-old girl on a beach in Ibiza who he kissed on the face.”
[Daily Mail].
That is what is invading Europe. That is what the “refugees welcome” dimwits (whether on Twitter, in the Labour Party, or in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) are facilitating.
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Scottish broadcaster, Neil Oliver, eloquently rebuts the mainstream media's relentless "human-induced climate change" fear mongering.
"A rising volume of CO2 in the atmosphere is a consequence of a warming planet, not the cause of one. You might as well watch a horse-drawn cart… pic.twitter.com/RpEnFD4LsT
This is Bill Gates. Bill is very concerned about climate change. He flies in his private jet to conferences all over the world to ask you to stop driving cars. pic.twitter.com/oWIk0qQmXu
I usually believe in the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum, but I have to say that when Gates drops dead, I shall be pleased, even though we are all on the same conveyor belt.
Not only Gates, incidentally.
The only "democracy" in Western Asia is collapsing.
Interesting fact: Israel just a few months ago said that Iran is brutally treating armed rebels. pic.twitter.com/JtTWFhgvyg
Hollywood in Ukraine 🤭🤭 It would be good if the woman with the vest came out of the frame when they are already filming the scenes 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/wcL4jV2j4G
West Germany, pre-1990, pre-Reunification, was pretty impressive; East Germany (DDR) not so much, and very strange, but still pretty clean and efficient, from what I saw in a brief visit at the time.
Now look at it. Migration-invasion and cultural decadence has done huge damage even as compared to the Weimar period of the 1920s and early 1930s.
UAF General Sirski admitted that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not going according to plan
"Due to the complex situation on the Bakhmut and Liman fronts, the plans will have to be corrected," said the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Sirsky…
“No military plan survives the first contact with the enemy” [von Moltke].
The Israelis train their staff officers and others by telling them to prepare a plan over a period of a week. 24 hours before the wargame is due to start, the officers are told that the situation has changed radically along lines explained. A new plan therefore has to be prepared. Then, less than an hour (I think a matter of 10-20 minutes) before the start, the officers are told that the situation has changed again. They are instructed to think of a new plan at once.
That method has been proven to have been effective in training officers able to think on their feet, as seen both in 1967 and in 1973, and plays to the Jewish/Israeli strength in off-the cuff innovation.
The Russians and Ukrainians of senior rank were, at least until recently, brought up in the Soviet idea of carefully-thought-out plans, and wargames that were mostly for show, to be displayed like a panorama to senior officers, political leaders, and in propaganda films. In a word— inflexible.
“...Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe’s policies on immigration in order to create a “populace devoid of identity” which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite.“
[Wikipedia].
Western leaders have normalised treason to the point of daily practice
Yvette Cooper explains why the next Labour govt won't scrap the two child benefits cap and lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty #GMBpic.twitter.com/jXoYnUdiLn
The present Conservative Party thoroughly deserves to lose the 2024 General Election, but anyone who thinks that Labour-label, under a pack of Jewish-lobby puppets (Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc) is going to be even slightly better is sadly deluded.
As for Yvette Cooper herself, she was an outright fraudster during the main MP expenses scandal, along with her husband, Bilderberg attendee Ed Balls, and is totally in the pocket of the Israel lobby. She wants even more non-white immigrants (migrant invaders) to arrive. Dead eyes, dead voice, dead soul.
Were I in Putin’s shoes, I should first of all destroy Ukraine’s rail system, then its electrical-generation and distribution system (the Russians are now, very belatedly, doing that), then go all-out to eliminate Zelensky and his cabal, something that should have been done on day 1 of the war.
So far, most of Kiev has not been heavily attacked.
A pleasant tweet. The animal kingdom has more potential than most people realize.
🇺🇸 At the time of the attack, the US intelligence apparatus was located over the Black Sea
This was stated by Pushilin's adviser Yan Gagin . He added that the attack on the Crimean bridge was most likely carried out by NATO surface drones. pic.twitter.com/Y2WMTtrk3X
The Chinese army is developing a neuroweapon designed to control the functioning of the human brain. The Washington Times writes about this , citing publicly available intelligence.
“The danger of Chinese weapons that could be aimed at a person’s brain before or during military… pic.twitter.com/mI0K8bCBPD
Ukraine needs to be cut off from the Black Sea for the attack on the Crimean bridge, "Odessa and Nikolaev should again become Russian regions," said Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council
Obviously, only a small section of Philadelphia will be like that, but it should not exist at all. I believe, from what I have read, that those “zombies” are users of the drug Fentanyl, but for me, looking at their degradation, the mystery is why they use it at all.
I recall when I was first in the USA as an adult, in 1989, asking a Federal employee (later my first wife), as we drove through some unpleasant section of Harlem in New York City, why there were so many suspicious-looking, mainly black, individuals congregating on corners, pretty obviously dealing drugs, without being moved on by the police. The answer? Constitutional right of free assembly (First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution).
For me, the law (including constitutional law) is there to serve the people, “for the welfare of the people is the supreme law” [Cicero]: salus populi lex suprema esto. If the law does not do that, it must be changed, however old and venerable it is.
Hence trans men must be the ultimate acceptance of the patriarchy. Your logic is impeccable (for a five-year-old, although that’s unkind to five-year-olds). 🙄 Trans women embody the ultimate acceptance of regressive gender stereotypes, the idea that being a woman is simply a…
Vineall has, I read on Twitter, attacked some tweets or other comments which have been critical of Charlotte Proudman.
Well, there it is. I do not regret that I decided to cease practice at the Bar in 2008 (though my wrongful and unlawful disbarment, at the instigation of a pack of Jews, did not happen until 2016).
The Bar of England and Wales, looking at it overall, is now little better than a dustbin, like much of England itself.
A reminder that the appeal fund to support Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), both while he sits in prison and upon his release (sometime next year), is still running.
“Drummond Street, a south Asian hub, is under threat from HS2 works at Euston station in London but now moves are afoot to revive the area.“
I used to eat there occasionally in the 1980s, along with two now-deceased people: Ig Avsey, lecturer in Russian and noted translator of Dostoyevsky, and Guy Churchill, retired academic and one-time SAS soldier (mainly in Malaya in the 1950s).
I think that I have blogged about the pair before: Ig a good friend and one-time teacher of mine (at the nearby language school, part of the University of Westminster, which I attended p/t in the 1980s), and Guy Churchill, a mixture of resigned though amused cynicism and English eccentricity.
Guy surprised me (and Ig, I think, with whom he was more friendly) by suddenly getting separated and/or divorced at (?) maybe 70 (he looked older), while Ig surprised me even more by later getting married, a second marriage, to a young Russian woman he had met at, I think, a bus stop in Riga. My wife and I attended the wedding reception in 2002, where the bride, 20-something, looked out of place among the guests, 40-something and older (many 50+ or 60+).
I was already acquainted with a few of the other guests, including Gerald Brooke, who was exchanged in 1969 for the Krogers (Cohens), long-term Soviet KGB “illegals” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy)]
Brooke had spent 4 years in Soviet custody; in the Lubyanka, and then at Vladimir prison, about 100 miles east of Moscow.
Both Ig and Guy were rather eccentric. Ig’s main room was full of huge railway clocks, while Guy’s fridge (in the old person’s apartment in Vauxhall Bridge Road he took on after his separation/divorce c.1989) contained only a 6-pack of lager beer. Guy also had another odd habit, one I have never seen anyone else display— he would break off the filter tips from cigarettes before smoking them.
Strange to think back on times past, though it is probably a bad habit when one does it as much as I do (and have always done). Saturn in Scorpio…
As for Drummond Street, there is a similar street in Manhattan, E. 6th St. All Indian restaurants, or was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Row]. I visited that street too, once only, around 1990 or so.
[Strange synchronicity: after I wrote the above, including the sentence about the Krogers, I turned on Talking Pictures TV, and they were showing Ring of Spies, a 1963 British film (released 1964) about the Krogers and the Portland spy case (1953-1961). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Spies.
Not a bad film in a low-key way, and it keeps pretty much to the known facts of the case.
Also interesting from a social history point of view are the bits of London shown, that now look very different compared to how they were in 1963. Examples include the area of the Tolworth Tower near Surbiton, outer London (the building is still under construction in a scene from the film), and the 1.5-acre public roof garden of the old Derry & Toms department store in Kensington, which later became a nightclub, and later still a restaurant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolworth#Tolworth_Tower; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_%26_Toms; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Roof_Gardens].
she wants like starmer privatisation of NHS, all Dental Services, Take away food from children, let her poor constituents STARVE, more audestrity depression whilst she joins the Zionists to destroy the UK from the inside to appease another state..she supports Israel no the UK.. https://t.co/mA3VHzRRqr
— Isobel_Waby we NEED a COALITION (@Isobel_waby) July 17, 2023
Amazing isn’t it? I would love someone to do a proper expose podcast on Jack Monroe as she’s a grifter and scammer who’s also deployed health issues and law suits to keep up her thieving.
In Rzeszow, which is a transport hub through which all the weapons of the West go to Ukraine, a large number of military aircraft have been arriving all day today.
Strange to see various talking heads on msm terribly pleased at the terroristic attack on te Crimean Bridge, an attack which left a young girl injured and orphaned, her parents having been killed. I suppose that the talking heads would not be so happy were a bridge in, say the Bristol Channel or Humber Estuary to be blown up.
Traffic for cars was opened on one lane of the Crimean bridge in reverse mode. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin announced this on his Telegram channel.
“Vehicle traffic on the Crimean bridge has been restored in reverse mode along the extreme right lane of the Taman-Kerch… pic.twitter.com/boJN34eFBn
Good grief. Looks like they need a sergeant-major…
The commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky admitted that Russian troops went on the offensive in the Kupyansk direction.
According to him, the Russian group set itself the goal of defeating the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk region and… pic.twitter.com/92NhiIiz0p
The entire territory east of Dneiper river will be annexed by Russia.
— Africa is beautiful (@beuatifulAfrica) July 17, 2023
I agree with tweeter no.2. As to tweet no. 1, that is quite a force (if it exists)— 100,000 men, and 900 tanks (about 3x the number of tanks Rommel had, at max strength, in North Africa in 1942).
Russian fighters opened and destroyed a camouflaged artillery mount of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction pic.twitter.com/xhvt71efKj
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has developed a counteroffensive tactic in which the Ukrainian army will use a minimum of heavy armored vehicles.
All the main tasks will have to be performed by infantry on light pickup trucks with MANPADS and ATGMs, they will…
Lambs to the slaughter. I regret that, despite the fact that I recognize that this is a war Russia has to win, whatever “victory” looks like.
A senior official in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) called the war in Ukraine a "stalemate" and said that no weapon the U.S. and NATO are providing will help Ukrainian forces "break through" in their counteroffensive.
Well, this week brings me an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored only 3/10, compared to my 7/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, and 8. In fact, I “hit the post” on questions 2 and 8, and no.5 is arguable, depending on what you class as “a vineyard“, whatever “Wine GB” may say.
Looks as though curbing the Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other would-be censors of freedom of expression, has encouraged better functioning at Twitter, and attracted more users and/or use.
Hi @BootstrapCook are you ever going to tell the people that donated money to you that you stole where it went?#JackMonroe is a THIEF
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
She is (in my opinion).
Some of these people on Jack Monroe Twitter are fucking nutters! All obsessed with the one same person because he stood up to her and took her to court for her grift. Very concerning behaviour.
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
They are (in my opinion).
There is no climate crisis. The alleged climate crisis is the most expensive and devastating lie of all time.
We look back at the Incas, and wonder why their priests had a kind of handball game in which you got executed if you dropped the ball [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#Human_sacrifice]. We look at the Aztecs, and wonder what motivated their bloodthirsty and cruel human sacrifices. Yet we (meaning society as a whole) accept the cruelties and stupidities of our own age as right and proper: “net zero”, “lockdown(s)”, killer “vaccines” and “boosters”, the 2010-2023 “austerity policies”, the importation into the UK of millions of culturally and ethnically backward people; and so on. The full list would be too long to publish today.
President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of "Operation Atlantic Resolve." I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It's about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https://t.co/YCzL0UWoo0
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
I do not like George Osborne at all, but at the same time that very clearly terminally-smug “protester” (a woman aged maybe 60-70) could not have complained had she been hit in the face and/or given a good kicking.
Those “Just Stop Oil” loonies have to be stopped. In fact their sheer smugness (especially the ones aged 60+) is one of the most hateful things about them.
In some ways, British “toleration” is a very good thing, but it goes too far when it becomes toleration of malice and/or evil.
If Biden drops dead, or becomes even less compos mentis, that creature would be the U.S. President…hard to believe…
Belarusian sources report that a large convoy of Wagner PMC vehicles with LDNR numbers was seen this morning. She proceeded towards Bobruisk, and then – to Osipovichi. At least 60 cars were seen in the convoy, including at least 10 trucks, 3 buses, pickups and other equipment.… pic.twitter.com/ikgAfXmMrp
I wonder how long before “the musicians” start to play (again)…
Russian forces have eliminated two sabotage-reconnaissance groups in the Zaporizhzhya region , said the acting governor of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace is considering leaving the position he has held since July 2019 and to stop engaging in politics, The Times reported, citing government sources.
UKRAINIAN ARMY TRYING TO BREAK THE FRONT NEAR DONETSK AND ARTYUMOVSK (BAKHMUT)
They have some success on both fronts. If the Russian units do not launch a counterattack and regain certain positions, they would find themselves in a big problem.
Lockdown Vax Passes Net Zero including 15 minute cities Biometric Digital ID Programmable CBDC Biometric CCTV Silencing free speech Stopping right to protest
The one thing they have in common is control. Control of you.
Wake up people!
— Lady Jane Simkins 💜🌸🏴🇬🇧 (@JaneSim66) July 15, 2023
The only "Inclusion" those behind the United Nations really want, is the entire world's population to be forced into their proposed digital control matrix.
It’s time for people to stand and fight back. Remove Party Politics and bring the Country back to the people. #StrongerTogether
— Betula Independent Alliance (@BetulaAlliance) July 15, 2023
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Not only that, but its Founding Chairman, Gerald Ronson, served time in prison for fraud. Is this really an organisation that can be relied on to produce accurate "antisemitism" statistics every year?
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) July 10, 2023
I think that the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”] is separate from the “Shomrim” Jewish private police, but I may be wrong.
“EXCLUSIVE – A tale of two hotels: How migrants set to be housed in four-stay luxury hotel would be ‘treated’ while homeless people will be put up in cheap hotel so grimy that it shut and was then converted into a hostel”
“Antifa” idiots and “refugees welcome” dimwits are, thankfully, only about 1% of the UK population. Get in your tank and roll over them.
Get the names and addresses of every one of the banner wavers! Send them 2 ILLEGAL immigrants each to house,feed and clothe I suspect it will be the same answer as these🤡🤡https://t.co/H1zuHXuWBZ
I have still not seen anything anywhere indicating where “Dr” Louise Raw obtained her “doctorate” (specialized subject— one strike in 1888). She seems very reticent about it, and about where she obtained it, assuming she did obtain one (and even if the doctorate is genuine, she should not use the title “Dr” in the UK, not being a f/t academic, or clergy, or medical practitioner. It’s infra dig).
This is the way forward a list compiled of people who want illegal invaders in the country a simple yes or no to each household and the yes households would then house the invaders, and be financially responsible for them
Here she is. She will be reelected and knows it. The people of wales hate the tories. All labour mps and ams.Have a job for life. Moan, Moan, Moan, Whinge, Whinge, Whinge. Then reelect witha larger majority. "Asylum Seekers welcome" pic.twitter.com/25YIUMrDJw
Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli: among other things, a Labour Friends of Israel member, and an expenses cheat who owns three houses and flats, at least one with land. She should be able to accommodate some migrant invaders, surely? Oh, no, wait…
⚡️FSB claims that the preparation of the assassination of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak was “prevented” pic.twitter.com/jFAtrMx0Fn
“As a child aged just nine, I endured the longest and most terrifying night of my life, fleeing with my family from our home.
Nearly 70 years later, every detail of that escape is still burned into my memory. All my life I have had the deepest sympathy for fellow refugees: those who leave behind everything they own and everyone they know to reach safety.
It was at the beginning of winter in 1956 that the Furedi family fled Hungary. My father was one of the leaders of the workers’ councils in Budapest organising resistance to Soviet Union control. That culminated in an uprising, which was mercilessly crushed by Red Army tanks and troops.
Many of these peers inhabit a fantasy world. The soaring numbers of illegal migrants entering Britain don’t lose them any sleep at night. In their ermined world, any attempt to find a practical solution to the problem is dismissed as ‘isolationist’, ‘morally unacceptable’ and ‘impractical’.
The BBC is equally detached from reality.
As a university sociologist, listening to the whining in the Lords, I cannot help but draw the conclusion that the very existence of this narcissistic, unelected, unaccountable chamber is a political corruption of democracy.“
[Daily Mail]
Completely correct.
One of the worst abusers of the House of Lords system is “Lord” Alf Dubs, a half-Jew whose (Jewish) father fled from Prague in 1938, leaving behind his (Austrian) wife and his son (they arrived in London a year later).
Alf Dubs, Labour MP for 8 years before later joining the misnamed “Lords”, was (maybe still is) a cheeky freeloader and expenses cheat (by any other name):
“Dubs lists his main home as a cottage in the Lake District in Cumbria, which enabled him to claim over £26,000 of overnight subsistence expenses in 2007–08,[15][16] although he has lived in Notting Hill, London, since 1964. In May 2009, he argued in justification that Lords regard the overnight allowance as a payment in lieu of salary. “We are the only legislators in the world that don’t get paid,” he said. “The overnight thing is quite generous because it compensates for not having a salary. In practice that’s how it works.“
[Wikipedia]
That was 15+ years ago. I wonder how much the old fraud drags down these days while trying to import as many migrant-invaders as possible to batten upon the British people who, generously but wrongheadedly, gave him and his parents refuge in 1938 and 1939?
“A 98-YEAR-OLD war veteran who is battling cancer has been evicted from his bungalow and is now homeless.
Alfred Guenigault, who served in World War Two as a paratrooper, was issued with a no-fault eviction notice two months ago by the landlord of the Ferndown bungalow he has lived in for the past seven years.
He is now living in St Gabriels hostel in Verwood with his daughter Deb Dean and her husband Bert and says he feels “terrible” about the situation..
The great-grandfather-of-six-fears he will not be able to see his grandchildren from his new residence.
The family was forced to pack up their belongings and leave Ferndown on Thursday afternoon.
They turned to the council for help, which told them to go to First Point, a Dorset-based support service.
Deb said: “They were amazing and helped us so much with the forms and explaining things and told us we were eligible for a bungalow.
“They said there is a duty to house us temporarily, which we understand, but we didn’t think it would be in a hostel.”
Deb said the one room provided for them is empty, with no beds, apart from one provided by the hospital for the veteran, and has a shared kitchen and bathroom.
He also won’t be able to see any of his church friends who come over to see him or the vicar as well; his life is here in Ferndown.
Deb, a pensioner herself, lives with her father as his full-time carer while he battles cancer and severe kidney disease and said the situation is “very unfair” on her dad in his final years.
She added: “Dad has his carers in three to four times a day and I have to be with him 24 hours a day but because I recently became a pensioner, they have stopped my carer’s allowance which is about £700.
“We are told we will be in a hostel for six to eight months and it’s very unfair on him.
“My concern is that in six months, he may not even be here anymore.”
Mr Guenigault, who has been awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, said: “None of my grandchildren will be able to stay in the hostel. I feel terrible, but mostly for Deb.
“I also have to change my doctor, who is brilliant, as it is outside the area, but I don’t want to do that.”
A spokesman for Dorset Council said the authority will work with the family to find suitable accommodation in “as short a timescale as possible” but that they “need to be realistic about what is achievable in the current climate”.
“The council takes the Military Covenant very seriously and has a former veteran working within the team so really do appreciate the sacrifice our veterans make.”
Secondly, that landlord (a buy-to-let parasite?) is a prime subject for “naming and shaming”, if there ever was one.
Thirdly, how unjust that the old man’s daughter is now deprived of her Carer’s Allowance just because she has now become eligible for a slightly higher weekly amount by way of State Pension.
Fourthly, there would at least be decent alternative accommodation available for people like this were Britain not flooded with millions of black and brown migrant-invaders and other immigrants (“other” including about 150,000 bloody Ukrainians alone since last year).
Lastly, note the meaningless weaselling by the local council about the “Military Covenant” brought in by the government of David Cameron-Levita. Just lip-service. Useless.
At some point, Britain will explode, one way or another. This whole situation is unsustainable, and insupportable.
A final thought on this: is there no ex-members’ welfare organization attached to the Parachute Regiment that might help?
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'Men who haven’t paid a single penny into our country will be put up for free.’
Allison Pearson reacts to a community in Wales protesting against the housing of illegal migrants in a local hotel.
Marine Le Pen for the first time categorically opposed the supply of weapons to Ukraine
The politician broke her silence and spoke out sharply against the supply of longer-range SCALP missiles to Ukraine, which was announced by French President Macron.
The BBC is an in-club, where conformity rules. They all support or believe in “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev), “climate change” (via “emissions”) and the “necessity” for the UK to become much poorer (by going “net-zero”), “Black Lives Matter” or similar, “Covid” and all the stupid or crazy “measures taken”, the EU as something wonderful, the supposed “duty” to import, feed, and house millions of fake “refugees”, and of course the “holocaust” farrago in all details accepted by the Jewish lobby…
Nearly 7.5 million Britons waiting in line for hospital According to The Independent, citing data from the UK Health System (NHS), this is the highest figure since 2007. Of those on the waiting list, nearly 400,000 people are unable to reach the hospital for more than 52 weeks (… pic.twitter.com/csUM8SbzEH
The cluster bombs that the US is sending to Ukraine will result in higher casualty rates among Ukrainians and less efficiency on the battlefield, says ScottRitter. pic.twitter.com/Zkopu5UX9r
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the Totsky training ground in the Orenburg region
He said that he would make a report addressed to the President of the Russian Federation on the combat and political training of future… pic.twitter.com/60m6SBd4Vl
Emmanuel Macron was booed as he drove through the Champs-Elysées in the Bastille Day parade
Representatives of the “yellow vests” protest movement, who came to the Champs Elysees, where the military parade was held, expressed their dissatisfaction, Huffpost reports. The French… pic.twitter.com/959wtJYVKp
“An environmental charity is bidding to create an “M25 for nature” that would encircle London in woodland, hedgerows and street trees to boost biodiversity, carbon capture and wellbeing.
The countryside charity CPRE London hopes to weave together existing areas of green belt in the city’s 18 outer boroughs to create an uninterrupted ring of trees around the capital.“
[The Guardian]
Not all news is bad.
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"The risk of fraud should not put you off – make sure you're giving safely" i.e. via a proper platform and not via online "fundraising campaigner" grifters like Jack Monroe bootstrapcook https://t.co/Z2vXXyCKlS
Local/personal/individual before either “grifters” such as “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii” etc, and also before the sort of big charities where chancers such as, at least in the past, sex pest Brendan Cox (the widower of assassinated MP, Jo Cox) get a couple of hundred thousand a year as “executives”.
Of the well-known charities, Cats Protection is a good one, usually (the local branches are run semi-autonomously, I believe). The Cats Protection branch near Exeter was, probably still is, very good.
Also, GoFundMe has numerous appeals from UK, USA etc, mostly very genuine.
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Watched a couple of episodes of the detective series, Vera. As previously, very well put together, but why oh why is every second major character a black? In the North East of England, where there are relatively few non-whites. This “blacks with everything” agenda is now more than tiresome.
Tucker Carlson: “Sorry, sir, but are you sad that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks? Every city in the United States has gotten a lot worse over the past few years. Go and tour the cities yourself and you will see that not a single city in our country has improved, the economy is in decline, suicides are on the rise, our streets are full of filth, and yet you only think of Ukraine? That country that most Americans can’t even locate on a map!“
Mike Pence: “All of the things you mentioned don’t worry me.”
Pence’s loyalty is to NWO/ZOG, not the USA and/or the American people.
The White House spokesman said that the United States is very close to making a decision to supply Ukraine with ATACMS long-range missiles (range 300 km, launched from the HIMARS platform, guided by GPS).
We are rather close to World War Three, which approaches us rather rapidly…
The rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, had his staff and cross taken away before being sent to the pre-trial detention center
Believers of the UOC sing in front of the police cordon. Today, a Ukraine court changed house arrest to detention and posted bail of… pic.twitter.com/BCvzII4O95
Close-up shot of destroyed Western-made armored vehicles in the south-Donetsk direction. During the counter-offensive, the armed forces of Ukraine were left without a significant number of armored vehicles supplied to them by Western countries. pic.twitter.com/bYqoSELlIX
🇬🇧 BBC Salaries for some well known male TV presenters – just saying
Gary Lineker £1.35m Huw Edwards £415k Amol Rajan £330k Jeremy Vine £295k Jason Mohammed £290k Clive Myrie £260k Mark Chapman £250k Faisal Islam £240k Jermaine Janus £225k#DefundTheBBC 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/hbni1RLE5g
— Jacob Hunt #BringBackBoris (@JacobHuntCON) July 8, 2023
Not everyone on the list is guilty, but I doubt they are all innocent. How many have been questioned? Wonder how Prince Andrew feels since King Charles is on the list. pic.twitter.com/jVEvobyGIO
Kinzhal hypersonic missile system is now mass produced
This was announced in Rostec.
"If we previously produced it to a certain extent in order to further modernize it and complete R&D (research and development), today we entered serial production, and what the Ministry of…
The Ukraine-NATO Council will cease to exist, because one of the parties will disappear, said Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the formation of this Council. The official reminded on his Twitter account that in 2002 a similar… pic.twitter.com/Zfu8FAfx7S
Alarming indeed. If there is a nuclear attack, though, there may be no warning at all.
If F-16 fighters that can carry nuclear weapons appear in Kiev, Russia will consider it a threat in the nuclear sphere, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. pic.twitter.com/EmbfgtuKmS
13-07-2023 M4 highway towards Moscow (western direction).
A column of PMC Wagner equipment and buses with personnel in Belarusian numbers, accompanied by the VAI and the traffic police, are marching towards the Republic of Belarus pic.twitter.com/mOJf5GgB6s
Eliminate drug abusers. They drive the whole illegal-drug economy.
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Get rid of Sunak – he’s under the EU & US thumb. Britain is disintegrating before our very eyes under this pretend Tory Leader. Who will make a move or are they all empty vessels?
Just visualize that— a million new, and also unwanted, inhabitants in the UK in the space of a couple of years. The equivalent of a city such as Birmingham.
Anyone who supports or promotes mass immigration or migration invasion into the UK is, in real —not legalistic— terms, just a traitor.
European Colombia Ukraine will soon turn its entire population into drug addicts
The former convict Tymoshenko said that the law on the distribution of marijuana is so undeveloped that soon they will sell drugs at every step. pic.twitter.com/nsdwXS8cJ1
I recall that Michael Palin, about 18 years ago, in Michael Palin’s New Europe, sympathetically interviewed both Yulia Tymoshenko (at the time, Prime Minister of Ukraine) and her then very attractive daughter, who was about 25 and was a former student at the LSE and, according to Wikipedia, Rugby School (I had thought Cheltenham Ladies’ College; maybe I mixed her up with someone else).
At that time, Eugenia Tymoshenko was married to an Englishman called Sean Carr, a rock music singer, who was then in his late thirties. He was also featured on Palin’s show. A bearded motorcyclist. The couple divorced about five years later.
Since Palin did his TV show, Yulia Tymoshenko has been convicted of corruption etc, been imprisoned, appealed, been released, and is now an MP again, and the leader of a political party. Her daughter has remarried and has a high profile but is not a politician, and the English (I think Yorkshire) rock music person, Sean Carr, died in 2018 at the relatively early age of 49 or 50.
That was another Jack Monroe cash grab that she got caught out for.
Why do you think she has been keeping her head down on social media for the last 2 months?
One of the five (5) tweets that resulted in my unjust and in fact unlawful disbarment in late 2016 (8+ years after I gave up Bar practice) was that describing Gove, entirely accurately, as something like a freeloading, fraudulent puppet of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. At that time I had no idea that he was also both a drunk and a cocaine abuser. A country less decadent than the UK would have dealt with Gove long ago, and certainly would never allow the bastard into government.
Michael Gove approvingly quoting Labour Friends of Israel and Luke Akehurst in his promotion of the disgusting anti-BDS bill in the Commons pic.twitter.com/jzRWB7aZg5
Saw a Russian film this evening: Silver Skates, set in 1900. Rather un-Russian in that it was quite watchable, had a plot that was not obscure, and a relatively happy ending. Not bad. Well put-together.
There were a couple of small historical errors, but overall it was a fairly impressive effort. Slight, though. Not in any way deep or thought-provoking. As I say, rather “un-Russian”.
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No it was before gchq, a little known bloke called Alan Turing and his team broke the code. Later in of act of generosity the British state hounded the man to death because he was gay.
— Without The Butchers Apron (@hebjackundeb) July 13, 2023
Second tweet not entirely accurate. While it is true that GCHQ was established under that name only in 1946, it seamlessly took over the similar though (in the pre-1939 era) much smaller org known as the Government Code & Cypher School, which operated from a number of places between the two world wars, one being a station or outstation located in the Dog Kennel Hill (East Dulwich borders) and Denmark Hill border of South London. That base, not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry below, was active certainly until the late 1980s, though I think not used by GCHQ (possibly by MI5 or other org ) at that time. For all I know, it may still be in use, if not turned into a housing development as has been almost everything else in Southern England.
PMC "Wagner" exists, but from a legal point of view, it does not exist. This was stated by Russian President Putin.
“[PMC Wagner] exists, but legally does not exist! This is a separate issue related to real legalization, ”Kommersant reports Putin’s words. pic.twitter.com/SiaSPiXTps
Well, after all, that was the status (in the UK) of SIS until about 30 years ago. A real organization that operated under the legal fiction that it did not exist.
This is how the strike on the mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind Kremennaya looks like – from the closest possible distance pic.twitter.com/eS2uHPnCbV
I see that the “BBC presenter” story is still rolling. A couple of things strike me about the story and also about the reaction to it.
Firstly, the sheer hysteria. It seems that the girl involved was 17 at the time, assuming that there is any substance to the story. It is one of the oddities of the English law at present (as I understand it— I admit to being not very au fait with it now, having not practised at the Bar since 2008) that the unnamed BBC presenter could actually have had full sexual relations with the girl (or any girl of 17, or indeed 16) without being in peril of the law, yet if he paid for nude photographs of her (even though she may have taken them herself, and willingly) he might actually be at risk of imprisonment: see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-photos-could-face-jail-term-if-guilty.
To my mind, this makes a mockery of the law. The “photographs” law should surely be in line with the law on sexual relations, and so the age reduced to 16 years.
I am unsure about whether a “photographs” law of that kind was or is necessary at all, or if it is, whether the relevant age should be 16 or lower, as with some provisions of, eg, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
The Protection of Children Act 1978, the present “photographs” law, does not (as far as I know) specify an age, but refers only to “children“.
This was never the kind of law I did when at the Bar, so I may be out of my depth on the detail here but, to my mind, that 1978 “photographs” law (which I have never read in full) seems to be on the face of it yet another badly-drafted law of the past half-century. There are several others, including the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Communications Act 2003, s. 127. Both of those have been superseded or are about to be superseded by newer laws.
I find it strange that the 1978 “photographs” law was thought to be necessary at all. It was brought in 20 years before the Internet was widely available for public use and, after all, photography itself has been around for about 200 years if you include its earlier modern manifestations such as the daguerrotype. Photographs as such have certainly existed since the 1860s, yet only in 1978 did Parliament consider that such a penal law was desirable, or at all necessary. Very odd.
Leaving all that aside, there seems to be a strange dissonance now— UK and general Western society almost eliminating real childhood and/or childhood “innocence”, and yet going mad if someone, especially anyone famous (such as George Osborne), has sexual relations, even if completely lawfully (in Osborne’s case, that is disputed), with a teenage girl of 16 or 17, or if such a person (as alleged of the unnamed BBC presenter) pays a girl of 16 or 17 for some risque photographs.
Well, there it is. To my mind, this “BBC presenter” story is a bit of a storm in a teacup anyway, looking at the challenges our country and society face at present. There are bigger issues.
The other aspect which I find striking about the “BBC presenter” story is that the unnamed defaulter has such a high level of income that he can, and apparently is willing to, pay out £35,000 for photographs of some girl.
The BBC gets almost all of its money from the outdated tax misleadingly called a “licence fee”. Radio licences, dog licences etc have passed into history, but the BBC licence fee marches on. Not only that, but enforced by criminal sanction. There are many people (mostly women) actually in prison because of having not had a TV licence, and then unable or unwilling to comply with the order of a court: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-fee-women-convictions-b1763192.html.
Out of the huge revenues thus raised, the BBC pays its staff well, often very well, and in some cases far too well. Gary Lineker, that loudmouth ignoramus, is paid a million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Alan Shearer, another ex-footballer, gets about half a million. Zoe Ball apparently gets about a million. A number are getting around £400,000. Looking at them, most are, frankly, overpaid.
Why should the public subsidize what is increasingly, “Soviet” TV and radio output, largely unwatchable and unlistenable?
My final thought about this nonsense is that George Osborne must be loving it. The notorious email about his own peccadilloes is now already all but forgotten. I suppose, though, that despite his former, though fairly brief, political prominence, Osborne is now yesterday’s news…just not very interesting to most people.
“It’s deeply worrying that many older people are ending up in hospital due to lack of the right sort of services in the community. No one wants to be in hospital but for older people all too often it can lead to an avoidable deterioration in their health,” said Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director.
Prof Adam Gordon, the president of the British Geriatrics Society, said the report “makes grim reading [and] rightly identifies that older people are currently being let down by NHS and social care services”.”
[The Guardian]
This has been a scandal (and a massive waste of money) for years, certainly since 2010 and probably long before. No care at home means more demand at hospitals. District nurses were once ubiquitous; now they seem hardly to exist at all. I was told by one, a decade ago, that she was fed up with NHS mismanagement, and so was emigrating to Australia, where she would also be paid far more.
As with so many areas of life in England, Government and Opposition talk a good game, but fail to deliver for the people.
“Nearly 10,000 small-boat migrants who reached Britain in the past four months were last night handed an ‘amnesty’ from the Government’s tough new immigration measures.“
[Daily Mail]
More treachery.
10,000 more deadbeats, criminals, potential terrorists, and/or useless millstones round the neck of the British people.
However bad and (at best) useless Starmer-Labour will be, this “Conservative” Party misgovernment really has failed on every metric. It has to go, and I hope that almost all of its MPs will be dumped by the voters. Then a new fight will begin, against the “Labour” version of the System…
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"We have to have a buffer somewhere because if we don’t we know what happens," says Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft, alluding to dangerous overcrowding, disorder and diphtheria at Manston last year
For context, the current "buffer" in prisons is just 1,000 cells
Imports of goods from Russia to the United States in May increased compared to April from $215.6 million to $504 million, according to the monthly report on trade turnover of the main US statistical agency Bureau of the Census,… pic.twitter.com/HTwEKfeEiR
Most of the inhabitants of Poland are against the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO , according to a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the country and published by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Well, there it is. The Poles are sensible after all…
Biden admitted: The US Army is running out of artillery shells
In an attempt to justify his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US President Joseph Biden said in an interview with "CNN" that it is necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because there… pic.twitter.com/N697vRVGzl
Stocks of artillery provided by the West to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out.
US national security adviser Sullivan said that without the supply of cluster munitions, Ukraine will not have enough artillery not only for the offensive, but also for defense. pic.twitter.com/cH1zvh6sJg
and “Labour”, under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, will be saying, in effect, “vote for us…we can make workhouses run more efficiently, and more fairly, and with full implementation of any anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQXYZ measures you can imagine“…
Jeremy Hunt …Yet another multi millionaire politician who knows whatever chaos he brings will have zero impact on him personally …Crooks in Suits… #MartinLewispic.twitter.com/w1lZyIVyf2
2%, though? Surely that (((group))) is more like 0.5% of the population?
Theresa May led a revolt against Rishi Sunak’s small boats bill on Tuesday as she accused the Govt of consigning more people to slavery. The arch-Remainer tried to derail Brexit, and now she’s trying to support the dinghy armada! https://t.co/DWdhCZG5WR
A horrible woman, and completely out of her depth when Prime Minister. I suspect part-Jewish. She strengthened the bad law of Communications Act 2003, s.127 by introducing a 3-year longstop limitation period in place of the formerly-existing 6-month one, which change has emboldened evil little cabals such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which use “lawfare” (abuse of our legal and justice systems) to repress British people.
China, India, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE have increased their imports of Russian oil by 140%, while exports of oil refining have suddenly increased by 26% – The Economist
Against the background of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine, and in order to cover up the catastrophic losses of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime has increased recruitment in the countries of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in…
The number of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war approached 350,000. It is impossible to even think about Ukraine's victory over Russia. There are many Ukrainians who did not want to enter the war. They surrender and go over… pic.twitter.com/7Z9jvnWsr5
Unless NATO forces join in the war (as the Zelensky cabal wants), the Kiev regime has no prospect even of recovering Donetsk and Lugansk regions, let alone Crimea.
If NATO forces were to join in the war, directly, a major conflagration would start across Central and Eastern Europe, maybe even into Western Europe. It might then go nuclear.
Zelensky has failed in his last desperate bid to win an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO – The Guardian pic.twitter.com/x3K5f5D632
This is why I wrote "How Shrinks Think" in 2014. Sometimes, our patients' stories are our stories, and when told respectfully and anonymously, they can do a great deal to reduce stigma.
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