Category Archives: the Great Reset

Diary Blog, 22 September 2023

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[Hampshire— the living fields]

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FORMER British MI6 agent Alastair Crook has said that Ukrainian soldiers will start refusing to carry out an order to launch a new offensive if President Volodymyr Zelensky issues it on his return from the United States.

Kruk put forward the assumption that it will look like this: Zelensky addresses his generals with the words: “We must continue […] and break through the Russian defenses.” So he turns to his generals and realizes that none of them will follow him in this. Kruk estimates that the Ukrainian army is exhausted and that there is no продавница where Zelensky can buy new troops…

MI6 agent A. Crook“? Buyer beware, I suppose…

Thousands of Ukrainian men who are recognized as partially fit for military service will be drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The so-called “reserve” battalions will be formed from them. It was announced that there will be no combat training with them, nor will they be involved in combat tasks.”

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12548375/Is-world-running-patience-Zelenskys-blank-cheque-demands-Poland-stops-giving-arms-gives-fraction-Ukraines-leader-asked-visits-Canada-today-win-support.html.

Is the world running out of patience with Zelensky’s ‘blank cheque’ demands? Poland stops giving arms and US gives a fraction of what Ukraine’s leader asked for as he visits Canada today to win support

[Daily Mail]

Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.

Russia cannot “lose” this war, whatever happens (unless there is a palace revolution in the Kremlin).

The best solution is for Russia to retain Crimea, take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also retain or take all of the coastal regions of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to a depth of (arguende) 50 miles, including the city of Odessa. Kiev can either be taken by Russia or operated as a condominium, or maybe as a “free city” not fully controlled either by Russia or by a rump Ukrainian regime based (probably) in Lvov.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547357/Hospital-discharges-elderly-patient-83-wrong-house-40-miles-lives-shocking-mix-up.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12545887/NHS-nurse-health-worker-swapped-messages-saying-Im-going-kill-bed-five-Ha-ha-yeah-sedation-love-trial-hears.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12549117/Police-Catholic-woman-praying-offence-arrested-abortion-clinic-apologise.html

Once again, the police make fools of themselves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12547193/jan-moir-queen-royals-macron.html

Since the Queen died, I’ve struggled to see what the point is of the Royal Family any more. Is that wrong?

[Daily Mail]

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12547199/Brute-32-caught-camera-beating-puppy-named-Lazarus-sickening-five-minute-attack-banned-keeping-dogs-five-years.html

A mere £80 fine? What a pathetic sentence for being cruel to his own dog.

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The article: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/21/the-casual-authoritarianism-of-caroline-dinenage/.

I covered this on the blog yesterday, concentrating on the linkage between the Secretary of State (Caroline Dinenage) and her husband (Mark Lancaster, life peer, former Con MP, Major-General in the Reserves, and former second-in-command of the Army’s 77 Brigade, which operates around online disinformation etc): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/09/21/diary-blog-21-september-2023-with-material-about-freedom-of-expression-russell-brand-caroline-dineage-and-77th-brigade/.

More from the newspapers

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/far-right-attitudes-on-rise-in-germany/2997571.

One in 12 people in Germany shares a right-wing extremist worldview, according to a new study published on Thursday.

The research by Friedrich Ebert Foundation has found that the number of people with far-right views has significantly increased in the past two years, and has exceeded 8%.

In the foundation’s 2020/2021 survey, less than 2% of the respondents had clearly expressed support for right-wing extremist views.

Researchers said the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war, skyrocketing energy prices, and high inflation are creating challenges for the democratic parties in the center, and strengthening the far-right.

Insecurities and conflicts over who gets what and how much, are providing a gateway for right-wing extremist ideologies and anti-democratic attitudes,” the researchers said in a summary of their report.

According to the survey, trust in the institutions and in the functioning of democracy in Germany has fallen to below 60%.

The number of those who see themselves more to the right of the democratic center has significantly increased, from 9% to 15.5%.

More than 16% of those surveyed approved xenophobic statements, while 5.7% expressed antisemitic views. Some 4% played down crimes committed by Hitler and praised Nazi ideology or policies.”

[Turkish news agency Anadolu: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/p/history]

In 1928, the NSDAP was voted for by only 2.6% of German voters nationally. By 1932, that had grown to over 33%, and by 1933 to nearly 44%. With God, all things are possible.

At present, there is no suitable party or leader known to the people (the same is true in the UK), but “cometh the hour, cometh the man“…

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[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]

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Dried whole fish, leaves, live crayfish (or are they insects?), Red Bull…;Thai military rations?

Diary Blog, 21 September 2023, with material about freedom of expression, Russell Brand, Caroline Dinenage, and 77th Brigade

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[Cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral]

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Caroline Dinenage, Russell Brand, the 77th Brigade, and freedom of expression

A sign of the times, at one with bank staff deciding to “de-bank” (cut off banking services from) people with the “wrong” sort of socio-political views, and the UK police taking the side of the corruptors of society, and getting involved in the persecution and prosecution of people such as myself who are trying to defend European civilization and culture.

Caroline Dinenage seems to have written to other persons and organizations in the same way:

Caroline Dinenage, however, has less influence than she seems to think:

Of course, the hell of this sort of situation is that one is forced to defend, by default, persons for whom one has no liking —or even interest— in general, such as Russell Brand.

Interesting. Having never taken any interest in Caroline Dinenage, I had no idea that she was that kind of slut. Still, who knows the ins and out of such situations, which would usually be considered part of a politician’s purely personal life, and not usually a matter for public discussion. Things happen, as they say…

In the interests of fairness, I should add that at least she belongs to Conservatives Against Foxhunting.

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

Interestingly, Caroline Dineage’s present husband, Mark Lancaster, a former Conservative Party MP who, despite his own apparently-bad behaviour, now sits in the House of Lords as Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton, was 2-i-c of the “dark arts” 77th Brigade for two years (2018-2020), and carried the rank of Colonel.

Lancaster, who was a mere 2nd Lieutenant when serving for 2 years in the regular Army (Royal Engineers, 1988-1990), afterwards achieved regular seniority in the TA (now, the Reserves), and completed three tours of active service overseas. He is now Director, Reserves, and carries the rank of Major-General.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lancaster,_Baron_Lancaster_of_Kimbolton;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lancaster,_Baron_Lancaster_of_Kimbolton#Military_career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom);

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#Role_and_composition.

[Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton, photographed wearing uniform bearing the insignia of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army]

So we have Caroline Dinenage who is Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, and then her husband, a Conservative life peer who was second-in-command of 77th Brigade and its interference with Internet information and/or disinformation.

Then we have the “cancellation” of the admittedly unpleasant Russell Brand who, however, has apparently been on a socio-political journey placing him in opposition to the “dark powers” who have such influence in our society.

In relation to the “cancellation” of the Russell Brand character, and the letters and emails sent by Caroline Dinenage, that is all rather relevant, nicht wahr? I wonder whether I am the first person to have spotted the linkage.

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The System is using Brand as a kind of stalking horse; to put it another way, taking down the low-hanging fruit, i.e. the easy targets first…

Incidentally, I see that, whether via the reading of my blog or independently, hundreds of tweeters are now (several hours after the start of today’s blog was published) mentioning the Caroline Dinenage/Mark Lancaster/77th Brigade connection, as seen in some of the following tweets:

Not 100% right; it was 2018-2020.

Some tweeters are taking an even-more-conspiratorial line:

“The wilderness of mirrors”…

As some cartoonists’ captions said after Germany passed the world’s first law banning cruel experiments on animals, in 1933 (sadly repealed after the disaster of 1945), “even the animals support the Fuhrer!“.

[“Heil Goering“, a reference to the 1933 anti-vivisection law in Germany]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12545075/Ukraines-leader-arrives-Congress-convince-Republican-lawmakers-continue-giving-aid-Poland-axed-weapon-supplies-boost-Putin.html.

…doubts are growing over the future of US assistance, with hardline Republicans saying they won’t approve funding to prevent a US government shutdown if it includes aid for Ukraine.

Zelensky’s trip to Washington – his second during wartime – is a dramatic departure from the first in December 2022, when he secretly flew in and received a hero’s welcome at the White House and on Capitol Hill. 

This time he is desperate to drum up support and win over skeptical lawmakers, insisting that Kyiv needs continued funding as well as a beefing up of air defences after Moscow hit Ukraine with another barrage of missiles overnight. 

The Ukrainian leader is under added pressure to secure US support after Poland sensationally declared it would no longer arm Ukraine amid a row over grain exports in a move sure to delight Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

[Daily Mail]

Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl. As to Poland, it should keep those weapons for Poland’s own use; that might be necessary if the NWO/ZOG powers keep stoking the new Cold War/hot war.

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For once, I agree with Piers Morgan, but what a prize hypocrite! Morgan wanted to enforce the dangerous pseudo-vaccines for “Covid”, and to criminalize and socially-penalize those aware and intelligent enough to see through the weaponization of the virus by the transnational conspiracy.

Sooner or later, these msm liars are going to have to be dealt with. A thoroughgoing purge not only of the msm but also of publishing, politics, law and the legal professions, the police, even SIS and the Security Service.

BBC Newsnight

I happened to see a 10-minute report from BBC Newsnight about the protests in Wales and elsewhere around the migration invasion and, especially, protests caused by the commandeering of hotels to house the migrant-invaders.

What can one say? A rehash, pretty much, of all the similar dog***t TV reports on the so-called “far right” that I have ever seen, going right back to the mid-1970s. The only difference was the cross-Channel boat invasion aspect. In the past, we had an effective Navy, Coastguard, and police force (and courts), and were not being quite literally invaded by hundreds each day in small boats.

As always with such dull repetitive reports on TV, the assumption from the start is that anyone who wants to stop the migration-invasion is bad through and through, and the TV drone “reporting” (always) rubs that in with suggestions that (“ooh!“) some people actually think that Adolf Hitler was in many ways a positive influence, and that (“ooh!“) it might have been a good idea had the Second World War never happened. And so on.

Another aspect of Newsnight’s “report” which has been part of pretty much every similar TV show I have seen from 1975 to the present is the “honest local person” who has legitimate (minor) grievances (ie that could, it is implied, be dealt with by better admin etc) about matters such as migrant-invaders being housed in local hotels. Such “honest locals” invariably (as in the Newsnight report) decry any “far right” “infiltration” into their local protests.

This is what the Soviet Press and TV used to do. By all means protest (quietly) locally, and ask the Government to do things better, but do not question the whole policy, or the agenda behind it. In this case, yes, by all means protest about your local hotel being taken over, but do not say that the migration-invasion should be stopped, and do not protest about the black-brown migrant-invaders on a national or racial basis, and do not ask what is the agenda behind the migration-invasion (the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, in this case).

In the Newsnight report, there were two approved “honest locals” in two places, one an exhibitionistic fat woman who is, apparently, a local councillor in the Wigan area. She deplored the way “her” protest was “infiltrated” (ie outnumbered) by Patriotic Alternative and other protesters.

Needless to say, the views of the Patriotic Alternative and other people were only given briefly, and in such a way that they could be trashed.

There were two (if you like) “expert witnesses” as well: fat cat “Conservative” truffle-snuffler Tim Loughton (a noted expenses freeloader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Loughton), who thought that the people who had to be, as he put it, “guarded against” were not the migrant-invaders but the “far right”…

The other “expert” was the egregious Neil Basu, a mixed-race ex-policeman whose chosen role (apart from expostulating about “racism”) is that of “counter-terrorism” etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Basu.

Basu seemed to be saying that anyone alive to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, or who wants an end to the migration-invasion (which must surely destroy our society within one or two generations) is a “terrorist“.

It is that kind of muddled thinking that has led the UK police to where they are today— almost useless at their proper job, while (many of them) spend their time on duty playing at “counter-terrorism” and acting like a poundland KGB, as I blogged 5 years ago: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/05/30/one-mans-extremism-is-another-mans-struggle-for-liberty-and-justice/.

Late tweets

In the Zaporozhye region, the Ukrainian army launched new attacks in the Orekhov-Rabotino sector. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are intensifying their attacks to break through the anti-tank ditch and reach Verbovoye, but there are no signs of previous massive attacks. A large number of infantry groups of 10 to 15 people are trying to advance under Russian artillery and tank fire. Half of them are scattered during the advance stages, and the rest are destroyed by mortars, grenade launchers and FPV drones after reaching the ditch.”

Zelensky knows that the only hope for the Kiev regime is to drag NATO into direct war with Russia, though that would trigger a major European war, and quite possibly an East-West nuclear exchange.

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Diary Blog, 20 September 2023

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12538083/Grandfather-74-slipped-broke-neck-Premier-Inn-bathroom-forced-wait-excruciating-pain-10-hours-ambulance-arrived.html.

Britain in 2023. A 10-hour wait for an ambulance summoned by a 999 call.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12536765/Nurse-drugging-patients-amusement-easy-life-stroke.html.

No comment, purely because the trial is ongoing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12535433/Convicted-rapist-mugged-model-Rolex-Cartier.html

[Afghan “asylum-seeker” robber living in London; why are they even here?]

“Diverse” Britain…

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/robbery-baby-pram-patek-philippe-watch-mayfair-london-b1107897.html.

[North African robber living in London; why are they even here?]

More news from “diverse” Britain…

London. Zoo.

We all know that, in the end, many of the problems of the UK will only be solved one way, but our freedom of expression is now so restricted that we cannot speak or write the truth.

Tweets seen

Remarkable clip.

The USA has an even more serious problem in academia than has the UK, from university level right down to government-operated schools in black/brown “hoods”.

Surely Biden will not be put forward for a second term? If he is, and if he were to win (unlikely as both now seem), he might be replaced while in office by Kamala Harris, which would be just absurd.

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See also my own blog post from 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/02/04/white-flight-in-a-small-country/.

[symbolic burning of degenerate literature, Germany, 1936]

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[Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936]

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Whether that fall in inflation will help the present Government either in the upcoming by-elections or in the 2024 General Election is an open question. My feeling is that even usual Conservative Party voters have given up, and are shaking their collective head at the present incompetent misgovernment. I see no enthusiasm for Labour, though, just a kind of angry apathy, which may be reflected in abstention from voting, or in protest voting. One thing is sure— not very many people, relatively, are going to vote “Conservative”, as things stand.

Madness. Get rid of them, one way or another. This is all part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan].

At least there is one piece of good news.

More good news.

Positives and negatives. One positive is that the new Act will supersede the notoriously “bad law” of the Communications Act 2003, s.127, which has been so badly abused over past years, mainly by the nasty little Jew-Zionist cabal called the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

As regular readers will know, as things stand I myself still face trial in late November 2023 under that same 2003 Act, which however was recommended for repeal by the Law Commission a couple of years ago. Indeed, it may well be that (if the trial actually takes place) I may turn out to be the last person to be prosecuted under its very-poorly-drafted provisions criminalizing the posting of so-called “grossly offensive” material (which can mean anything or nothing).

However, it now seems that internet websites will be forced to censor material, and we can be sure (((which kind))) of (((pressure groups))) will be pulling the levers from the shadows…

As always, the cloak for censorship is “protect children!” and “protect the public from terrorism!“…

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Jacinda Ardern is part of a conspiratorial transnational cabal; call it “NWO/ZOG” if you like. I am not sure, in fact, that she is fully human. Same goes for Tony Blair, among others.

There will only be one way to survive the encroaching darkness, in the end.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/hard-work-rich-social-mobility-uk-wealth-life

Now it’s clear: hard work doesn’t make you rich. Surely that’s the death knell for the myth of social mobility…Where you are born in the UK and the wealth of your family are the key factors that determine life outcomes, new figures reveal.

[The Guardian]

Very true. What puzzles me is how many people were or are unaware of that…

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I agree with him (and have been saying this, and more, for years).

I believe that Griffin does read my blog, at least from time to time.

…and, only a couple of years ago, Patriotic Alternative people Mark Collett, Sam Melia, Laura Towler etc were all deprived of their personal bank accounts for political reasons.

The Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed, overall. The Kiev-regime forces have so far managed to advance only a few miles in a few areas of the front, and at the expense of perhaps 50,000 or more killed, wounded and/or captured.

At the same time, the Kiev regime has been exposed yet again as corrupt, brutal, and shambolic.

The cold weather is only a few weeks off. Rain and cold, followed by ice and snow by November-December. When the ground is hard, Russia may launch a massive armoured onslaught, supported by thousands of missiles and drones attacking military formations, rear-area supply and logistics hubs, and the energy infrastructure of the Ukrainian cities. After that, in early 2024, there may be an advance by armies hundreds of thousands strong.

The Kiev regime cannot “win” this war, even to the extent of taking Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk. Where it is now is the best it is going to get for Zelensky’s cabal.

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The bitch gave the game away. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) likes to pose as fully European, democratic, with free speech etc, when it is really a corrupt and brutal dictatorship which has existed for 30+ years in a state of semi-chaos.

Ah…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ashton-Cirillo. More or less a lunatic…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bush]
[1930s Soviet cinema; an imagined “socialist city”]

Diary Blog, 19 September 2023

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[Akademgorodok, near Novosibirsk, Western Siberia]

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12533021/PETER-HITCHENS-Trying-argument-Russell-Brand-like-playing-chess-squirrel-given-place-national-debate.html

I agree with Hitchens. I have not bothered to address the UK’s exploding Russell Brand scandal on the blog because, first of all, the man himself seems to me to be not worth analyzing. Just one more cheap, tawdry, pseudo-“celebrity” know-nothing paid millions by the corrupt msm for nothing very much; plainly a negative contributor to society.

Secondly, there are more important issues around. The migration-invasion. The destruction of our society in many different ways (the fake “celebrity” culture being but one of those). The war in Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war between the USA and Russia (with the UK likely to cease to exist if such a war ever happens). World overpopulation. The threat to the bees. The Jew-Zionist situation. Many other issues.

Having said that, it is interesting that Brand is in process of being “cancelled” just as he (apparently) has (as I read, quite recently) started to publicly question some of the recent socio-political shibboleths. Co-incidence or, as with some other public people, pour encourager les autres?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12532535/Diner-orders-175-lobster-high-end-restaurant-sets-crustacean-free-returning-ocean.html

Good to see some true humanity. The lady who liberated the lobster will herself remember the feelings of that evening all her life, while a mere lobster dinner would soon be forgotten.

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A complete victory for Kiev will take a lot of time, and expelling all Russian troops from Ukraine is “too high a bar,” US Chief of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with The Hill.

Zelensky has resisted peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia needs to be pushed out of all “Ukrainian territory.” However, according to General Milley, during the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces it is impossible to achieve this goal.

“There are significantly more than 200,000 Russian military personnel in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine. This offensive, although significant, even if its goals are fully achieved, they will not drive out all the Russians, which is Zelensky’s broad strategic goal,” Milley said.”

Denmark, and the other countries in the NATO alliance, had better hope that there is not going to be a conventional war with Russia. They might find that all their armour has been turned into scrap metal in Ukraine.

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[Levitan, Vladimirka]

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Deceit is everywhere in the UK these days, but the fraudster/”grifter” who calls herself “Jack Monroe” is in the premier league for the sheer gall of her lying narratives.

I just checked the Patreon website for the first time in quite a few days: “Jack Monroe” still has no less than 366 utter mugs each sending her between £3.50 and £44 per month.

“Jack Monroe” may have crashed and burned as a minor “celebrity”, and I doubt whether she will be writing any more recipe books after the disaster of the last one, and her appearances on Question Time etc are (one hopes) at an end, but all the same, if the aforesaid mugs keep paying her a total of, probably, a few thousand pounds per month, she can scarcely complain.

When I was about 10 or 11, and living in Sydney (Australia), I sometimes thought how nice it would be if every person in the country were to give me 1 cent. The population of Australia was then 12 million, so my idea would be worth about AUS $120,000. Why I even thought that, I have no idea.

The amount I mention might seem to have been modest, but houses in the best areas of Sydney, such as where I lived, were only about $30,000 or so in those days.

Incidentally, the Australian population is now about 27 million, more than twice the size it was in the late 1960s, the result of mass immigration from all over the world (rather than only from the UK and mainland Europe), which started in the late 1970s.

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Pretty much what I have been saying for the past 18+ months.

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Diary Blog, 14 September 2023

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]painting by Russell Flint]

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Blog note

There still seems to be a problem embedding tweets seen to this blog. Whether that is so by reason of some general situation or whether it applies to my blog alone, I have no idea (and lack the computing skills that might resolve the issue).

In the meantime, I shall have to change the format of the blog by not exhibiting tweets seen, which is a nuisance. Perhaps the matter will resolve.

Popular blog post from 2019

From the newspapers

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23946849/moment-teen-driver-ploughs-into-dog-walker/

Horrifying video shows Ms Faulkener walking along the side of the road in Great Barr, Birmingham before his black Renault Clio slams into her, throwing her into a bush.

Aish, who was 17 at the time, immediately fled the scene – and was only caught when cops released the CCTV showing his car.

Aish admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving without a licence and insurance, criminal damage as well as possession of cannabis back in 2021.

He was finally sentenced today to 22 months, suspended for 18 months, after proceedings were delayed as he had been receiving treatment for cancer, reports Mail Online.

Mrs Faulkner suffered a broken leg and concussion while her dog was fatally injured.

A victim impact statement to the court said her dog was “my world, an absolutely wonderful dog.”

She added: “I can’t understand how anybody could leave a dying dog alone in pain. I will forever miss her. Nothing will replace her.”

[The Sun]

Far too lenient, on the surface, but the sentencing judge obviously took the surrounding facts into account: see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12513947/Outrage-unlicensed-driver-seriously-injured-dog-walker-75-killed-pet-losing-control-country-lane-avoids-jail-judge-heard-later-suffered-karma-skull-shattered-hit-run.html.

The Mail report above gives more facts. I still think that the defendant was treated pretty leniently, though.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12515459/I-thought-knife-crime-happened-people-stranger-pulled-10-inch-blade-busy-London-street.html

“I thought knife crime was something that happened to other people… until a stranger pulled a 10-inch blade on me in a busy London street

[Daily Mail]

[“Tedi Fanta, 27, on a day trip to London’s West End from his home in Swansea, knifed retired civil servant Stephen Dempsey outside the Microsoft store on Oxford Street in July 2021“]

If you import the denizens of the jungle, if they start to breed, then you and your children start to live in that same or very similar jungle…

Incidentally, the above-pictured “denizen” is described by Wales Today as a “Swansea man” despite the fact that the horrible bastard is a bloody Eritrean, who only arrived in the UK a few years ago! See https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tedi-fanta-boy-soldier-face-26136258.

The msm call it “knife crime”, but really it is —mostly, though not entirely— black/brown thug crime.

In the same online newspaper, I noticed another example of the wonderful “diversity” we now “enjoy” in the UK: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jewellery-thief-fled-cardiff-store-27664170?int_source=nba.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12511119/Millionaire-boss-Tim-Gurner-slammed-hurts-LinkedIn-calling-Aussie-workers-arrogant-obsession-staying-young-biohacking-revealed.html

Incredible. In the 1970s, when social conditions in the UK, Australia, (West) Germany etc were actually better, overall, than now (in my view), there were all sorts of “urban guerrilla” and similar groups around, such as the German “Rote Armee Fraktion”, aka Baader-Meinhoff gang, playing at revolutionary war. Now, you have selfish ultra-wealthy individuals, such as the one featured in that report, saying that the bulk of the population (of Australia, in his case) should be pretty much ground underfoot, yet with little pushback beyond social media tweets or comments.

The ageing population of the West is quiescent, all but dormant. Very strange, at least to me. It may be that the ageing of the Western populations is key; surely that cannot be the whole picture, though?

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[Red Square, 1946]
[“Don’t cry, girl“]
[painting by Volegov]

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I am still unable to simply copy and paste tweets seen, but can post a few screenshots of interest:

Is that really Kissinger? Reads rather roughly for his usual style.

Ukraine news

A popular uprising against the Zelensky regime will begin in Ukraine this winter This forecast was announced on Wednesday, September 13, in his YouTube blog by Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. He explained that Zelensky and his clique usurped power in the country and established a dictatorship, taking advantage of martial law.

The adviser is confident that the revolutionary situation has matured in all elements of the system: social, demographic, political, economic, financial. He recalled that a similar situation existed in the eighties and nineties. According to Soskin, the revolutionary situation will move into the stage of a new Maidan in the coming winter, when public utilities will stop working.

“When there is no light, no water, neither hot nor cold, when the sewage system does not work, when it all freezes, when there are various regional blackouts, God forbid, a central blackout throughout the country, then, of course, the people will start,” – confident expert.

According to him, the start of the revolution will also be facilitated by the onset of famine and the collapse of transport logistics amid a lack of fuel. “When the cars don’t run, the cities don’t get cleaned up, food can’t be delivered to populated areas, then mass protests will begin,” predicted Kuchma’s ex-adviser.

[YouTube vlog by Oleg Soskin]

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Ritter: I’m not sure that the Russians – when they reach Odessa – will give Ukraine a “last chance”

HE IS CONVINCED THAT THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS ABLE TO REACH THE GREAT BLACK SEA PORT AND TAKE IT

Former UN weapons inspector in Iraq Scott RITTER: It’s not just a military issue, it’s a political one. Therefore, we cannot even predict the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict.”

“Johnson: Russia will destroy all F-16 aircraft that the US sends to Ukraine

FORMER CIA ANALYST CONVINCED: ALL PREPARATIONS BY KYIV FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE ARE IN FUSION

ANY F-16 the United States sends to the war zone in Ukraine will be destroyed by Russian air defense systems, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said. According to him, the Russian Federation has the most advanced and developed air defense system in the world.

Johnson was even categorical: “The US doesn’t have anything like that.” He additionally warned his own: “This means that our planes will simply be shot down.” And it doesn’t matter how many of them we send to Kiev. Everyone will simply be destroyed, so we should stop dreaming.”

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Rebroff]

Diary Blog, 13 September 2023

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12510625/SARAH-VINE-does-no-one-care-vile-pornographic-music-videos-doing-young-people.html

I am increasingly tending to the view that what Britain, the USA, and much of Europe need is not only a political party or movement but also (as much, or more) something akin to the “Witchfinder General”…

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Russia has stopped the Kiev-regime counteroffensive in its tracks. Attacks such as the above are a substitute for substantial advances on the ground.

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There seems to be a problem copying tweets to the blog today. There must be a technical obstacle within Twitter/”X”.

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More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/13/antisemitism-definition-used-by-uk-universities-leading-to-unreasonable-accusations

Antisemitism definition used by UK universities leading to ‘unreasonable’ accusations.

An antisemitism definition adopted by most UK universities has come under fire in a report, which ​says it has led to 40 cases being brought against students, academics, unions, and societies – 38 of whom have been cleared.

The remaining two cases have yet to conclude, meaning that none of the allegations – all based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition – have been substantiated, according to the analysis by the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Brismes).

The report, published on Wednesday, echoes criticisms previously voiced by the leading lawyers Hugh Tomlinson KC and Geoffrey Robertson KC, and the retired lord justices of appeal Sir Stephen Sedley and Sir Anthony Hooper.

The report said: “Accusations of antisemitism levelled against students and staff in UK universities are often based on a definition of antisemitism that is not fit for purpose and, in practice, is undercutting academic freedom and the rights to lawful speech of students and staff … University staff and students are being subjected to unreasonable investigations and disciplinary proceedings based on the IHRA definition.”

[The Guardian]

In fact, the so-called “International Definition of Antisemitism” has been adopted by only about 20 states out of 200. The Jew-Zionist lobby (eg the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” in the UK) pushes it constantly, but it is just a cloak for the destruction of freedom of expression.

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So far, the problem preventing transfer of tweets seen onto the blog has not been resolved. Still, tomorrow is another day…

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Diary Blog, 12 September 2023

That brings back a few memories.

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Not just “Tory” MPs…most System MPs, whatever the label.

As for my view of Rory Stewart, my (frequently updated) blog assessment from 2019 has proven to be quite popular over the past 4 years. I stand by it, overall, as updated.

Rory Stewart certainly fits the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan mould— three-quarters white European, one-quarter Jewish, wealthy via inheritance, with familial links to “British Intelligence”, as well as having been an attendee of Bilderberg and other conferences. He favours mass immigration, too.

Stewart and his book are certainly being pushed by the msm.

Ha. Well said. I think that it was Valentin Tomberg who said that the “mask of Evil” would be partly removed from the 20th Century onward. It has become increasingly clear to what extent many of the socio-political campaigns whirling around us are interconnected.

[photograph of the Bohemian Grove ceremonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove]

…and most of the Prime Ministers of the UK in the past 30+ years have either been part-Jews or (Sunak) non-white. I think that that does not apply to Gordon Brown or Liz Truss. Still, that means that it does apply to the past 6 out of 8 PMs. About 30 years out of 33.

Expenses fraudster Yvette Cooper and her equally-corrupt and moneygrubbing husband, Ed Balls, would have been imprisoned for fraud in any decently-run country.

Anyone who imagines that the likes of Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves, and Keir Starmer will improve Britain in the slightest are just deluded.

Both main System parties are pushing the same basic agenda.

Well, there it is. Anyone over State Pension age voting for Labour is a turkey voting for Christmas. There are many reasons not to vote “Conservative” but, by the same token, there are (as far as I can see) also no reasons at all to vote for fake “Labour”.

Actually, listening to that horrible woman took me right back to the days of Blair/Brown: the unwillingness to answer a question honestly, the soundbite mantra etc. Very offputting.

Angela Rayner wants to build huge numbers of new houses, presumably to house the millions of migrant-invaders, without which we should have no housing crisis at all. The housing crisis is, 90%+, a migrant invasion crisis.

The next general election will be in 2024. If the Sunak misgovernment fails to implement fully the Triple Lock, thus raising the State Pension by over 8%, the Conservative Party is toast, not because the over-65 demographic will all go to vote Labour, but because some will vote that way, some will vote LibDem, some will vote elsewhere yet, and because many, perhaps very many will simply abstain.

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[Central Kiev devastated during WW2]

Diary Blog, 10 September 2023, including some discussion of Keir Starmer, Tony Blair, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Rory Stewart (etc)

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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Roberts_(judge)

Makes you realize how much British taxpayer-money is thrown away on “defence”. Not just the fact that the UK Government has given tanks to the Kiev regime, which tanks then get destroyed in combat almost immediately; also, the fact that the UK Government saw fit to commission and pay for them in the first place.

Each of those tanks costs £4.2M, and seems to be all but useless against aerial attack or artillery bombardment, despite supposedly being superior to Russian equivalents.

The UK has not only given the Ukraine regime about 14 of these tanks but also has trained, free of charge, their Ukrainian crews in the UK.

See https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-are-the-invincible-challenger-2-tanks-that-uk-is-sending-to-ukraine-12001052.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2.

Starmer, Blair, and the WEF (etc)

You can see, on the face of Jewish-lobby and Israel-lobby puppet Starmer, that same bedazzled look that Tony Blair had on his simian mug when he went to Camp David for the first time. The “I’ve made it…I’m one of the global elite!“…

[see how star-struck were “Tony and Cherie”…]

Not that Starmer is wrong about Westminster. The UK Parliament is indeed a provincial, “tribal, shouting place“, as Starmer says in that oddly-incoherent “explanation”.

The point though, is that Starmer will never put the British people first now that he has been accepted, if only at this stage as a spectator or poor relation, at Davos, amid the helicopters and private jets.

No. He sees himself, in the future, “working with” people who (as he obviously imagines) really matter: billionaires, secret cabals formulating a new dystopian world etc. He is not the first, after all.

The primus inter pares pupil of the modern Mephistopheles, Blair, is now far far away from his grim Scottish school [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College], far from the Bar of England and Wales, at which he practised for about 5-6 years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and from his 1983-2007 Parliamentary constituency in County Durham [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency]

Blair, now ensconced in a large country house in Buckinghamshire, heads the “Institute for Global Change” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair_Institute_for_Global_Change] as well as Tony Blair Associates and other bodies.

That organization, TBI, is funded partly by Blair himself (he having made many tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of pounds after having left office, and his moneygrubbing wife, Cherie, as much or more, apparently), partly by the USA, and partly by Saudi Arabia.

One way or another, Blair employs a number of more or less washed-up System politicians from a number of countries: Sanna Marin of Finland is one such: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/sanna-marin-finland-prime-minister-tony-blair-institute.

You find that many threads connect those who believe that they constitute a global elite and who are involved with the WEF/Davos, Bilderberg and/or connected secretive cabals. For example, Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand worked for Blair when he was Prime Minister.

The linkages go beyond mere function, i.e. beyond the fact that almost all leaders of governments are bound to have meetings together etc. The Western world’s leaders are connected, bound, tied by the secretive cabals to which most of them belong and whose conclaves they attend: WEF/Davos, Bilderberg, freemasonry, the Jewish/Zionist connections, and so on.

Blair, Jacinda Ardern, Justin Trudeau, Macron etc are but a few out of hundreds. Blair seems to have climbed to a certain level, though.

Note the ideological and practical similarities they all share: the whole “Covid” stuff, facemask nonsense and all; the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan and so the idea of mixed-race populations ruled by European and Jewish (often mixed) ruling strata; “climate change”/Net Zero, with all the dictatorial powers of government involved in that; the Money Power controlling democratic assemblies; and so on.

The outsiders who occasionally attain to political power in the West are tolerated temporarily if not too disruptive; if they become a nuisance, they are removed from power or actually eliminated, as are those who become unreliable and have served the “global elite” much lower down the food chain: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell etc.

Reverting to Keir Starmer, you can see that, for him, the British people are —at best— about fourth in his priority list, after the “global elite”/WEF/Davos and connected cabals, the Jewish/Israeli interest(s), freemasonry etc.

The present UK Government is of course pathetic, incompetent, undeserving of survival, and that applies to 90%+ of the “Conservative” MPs as well. However, the idea that “Labour” will be —in any substantial way— different or better, if/when forming a government in 2024, is just naive.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Meeting;

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations;

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

[WEF HQ, near Geneva, Switzerland; much of the complex is underground]

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The people voting for this Draconian energy Bill, should have been the people. The home owners lumbered with up to £15,000 fines and the possibility of 12 months jail time, for not being able to afford an inefficient electric heat pump boiler, or other enforceable purchases. This gives Government the powers to force you to have a smart meter, and enforce their way into your home. Read The Bill

For me, Rory Stewart is just one more “part of the problem”: see my (updated) assessment first published in 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/03/will-rory-stewart-mp-be-prime-minister/.

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/10/how-austerity-and-ideology-broke-britain

The fake “austerity” spending cuts brought in by part-Jew liars George Osborne and David Cameron-Levita-Schlumberger have destroyed both Britain and the misnamed “Conservative” Party.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/10/rishi-sunak-challenges-premier-li-after-spying-for-china-arrests

It will be interesting to see whether the two arrested persons are of actual Chinese ethnicity or not. If they are, it will be yet another nail in the coffin of multiculturalism.

Incidentally, an interesting account of Chinese intelligence down the ages is https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Chinese-Secret-Service/dp/0584101147 by “Richard Deacon”. As with Deacon’s other books, accuracy is disputed, but it is a good read all the same. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McCormick.

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(the short answer, now, is “no”…)

I cannot quarrel with that headline.

Ditto. Stewart, however, is himself a prime example of that which he criticizes, particularly careerism and amateurism, not to mention also nepotism in his case (recruited after university to SIS, where his own father had quite recently been second or third in the hierarchy…).

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MEMBER of the German Bundestag Sara Wagenknecht has announced that she is founding her own political party. At first glance, nothing significant outside of Germany, but it’s not quite like that.

In August, Wagenknecht became the third most popular politician in the country, and she consistently criticizes the German authorities regarding their support for Kiev and their anti-Russian course. She announced that her 4 main principles will be – economic expediency, social justice, maximum state regulation of prices and emphasis on diplomacy in foreign policy. She also opposed increased military spending and called for renewed relations with Russia.”

Sounds promising.

McGregor: The Russian army prepared a trap for Ukrainian troops.

FORMER adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, said again that during his offensive, Russian troops will surround Kharkiv. He stated that the Russians are now advancing in the northeast of Ukraine and pointed out: “Eventually, the Russian army will move further west and encircle Kharkiv in the process.” McGregor assessed that Russia has an intelligence and reconnaissance system that allows it to detect and destroy any target on the battlefield. And Ukraine and Western countries, he pointed out, have nothing to oppose it.

He particularly emphasized that the Russian army had prepared a trap for Ukrainian troops. When the Ukrainian armed forces enter it – they will have huge casualties.”

https://twitter.com/welli69haj/status/1700912959919099956?s=20

Translation: “I was crap at my job(s), and gave up being a minister and MP because I did not get the status or positions I personally wanted out of it (despite high pay and expenses) but I am now going to blame others or ‘the system’ for it...”

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Diary Blog, 8 September 2023

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[painting by Volegov]

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12493713/BBCs-disinformation-correspondent-chief-fact-checker-Marianna-Spring-accused-lying-CV-falsely-claiming-worked-Beeb-journalist-applying-job-Moscow.html

Well, well. So BBC/NWO/ZOG mouthpiece Marianna Spring falsified her background in order to get a job. Who would have thought it? What other lies has she put about?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12491859/Finlands-party-loving-PM-Sanna-Marin-quits-MP-join-Tony-Blairs-Institute-Global-Change.html.

Sanna Marin is another one of the puppets of the transnational conspiracy. Just like Justin Trudeau. Just like Jacinda Ardern. Many others too.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12493711/Climate-scientist-wildfires-published.html.

More “climate change” lies.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/07/holey-shoes-and-abscessed-teeth-oldham-school-sees-impact-of-cost-of-living-crisis

Terrible. Britain in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/gerry-bermingham-obituary

Not someone I knew personally, though he was pointed out to me at Harrow Crown Court in 1992, he having become briefly notorious by reason of his apparently tangled sex life. An MP and barrister.

The Guardian obit is rather poor, and the Wikipedia entry too. Neither says much about the scandals that were part of the reasons why Bermingham’s political career ground to a halt. Also, the Guardian says that his second wife, married in 1978, was a senior lawyer with the CPS. Perhaps later, but not in 1978; the CPS was only established in 1986.

Oddly enough, one of my first wife’s colleagues, an American girl, told me, at a baseball game at the old (now-demolished) Veterans’ Stadium in Philadelphia, that she had done an internship with Gerry Bermingham at Westminster. That baseball game must also have been in 1992, or maybe 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Bermingham. Bermingham started out as a solicitor, but later converted to the Bar.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-12493401/Rory-Stewarts-time-MP-left-disillusioned-politics-especially-Cameron-not-mention-Tory-told-Speak-like-Ill-punch-nose.html

Interesting. I have now again updated my very popular blog post from 2019, which was an assessment of Rory Stewart, and which has been occasionally updated, to include this new information: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/03/will-rory-stewart-mp-be-prime-minister/

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I wonder how much of the American taxpayers money has been stolen. Still, wasted either way, I suppose…

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…and, incredibly, as of today there are 365 utter mugs still paying out £3.50-£44 each, monthly, via the Patreon website, to the “grifter”/fraudster who calls herself “Jack Monroe”.

A very good cause.

Another very good cause.

[Vauxhall City Farm]

It would help if msm outlets such as the BBC, Sky News etc stopped their one-sided pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) propaganda and actually tried to report accurately on the conflict.

No wonder that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men, and now also women, are desperately trying to avoid being conscripted.

I was stopped by a man just outside Parliament yesterday evening. He introduced himself as a civil servant. He told me to ‘keep doing what you are doing, everyone knows it’s the truth. The establishment are very worried because they know what’s coming down the track for them!’ This is not the first civil servant to say this to me in private . They all know the truth and they all know it has to be exposed.

The Westminster monkeyhouse…

The BBC found a well-paid niche for a young woman unafraid of making up lies to look like the truth— Marianna Spring.

I wonder what is the real or full provenance of Marianna Spring.

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The out-of-control “woke” police of the state of Victoria, Australia, arresting a girl who refused to wear a mask-muzzle during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of a couple of years ago.

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[Red Army T-34 tank, Crimea, 1943]

Diary Blog, 7 September 2023

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudepo%C3%AAma]
[M. Lounis, Florida Tropical Garden]

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12488561/I-sedated-one-inch-life-lol-Bet-shes-flat-week-haha-xxx-Court-hears-chilling-texts-two-nurses-sent-drugging-patients-hospital-stroke-unit-amusement-shifts.html

Our NHS“…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12488563/Scientists-grow-artificial-embryo-model-WITHOUT-using-sperm-egg-world-tested-positive-pregnancy-test.html

Scientists have grown an entity very close to a human embryo — without using sperm, eggs or a womb.

The embryo even released enough of the hormone pregnant women produce that turns a pregnancy test positive, resulting in a positive test result in the lab.

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel made the complete models of human embryos from stem cells generated in the lab after building on previous research where they had made mouse embryos.

[Daily Mail]

“The simulacrum of the human” creates another simulacrum of the human…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12487959/Putin-gambling-Donald-Trump-winning-election-2024-hope-end-backing-Ukraine-Western-officials-warn.html

Yes, but other US Presidential candidates are also saying that they want to pull away from the Ukraine situation (thank God).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12488513/ANDREW-PIERCE-British-taxpayers-paying-army-shirkers-unless-tough-sickness-benefit-scroungers.html

Is that the best the rotten “Conservative” Party can come up with, yet another attack on the sick and disabled etc? Yes, there are some fraudulent claims, but the vast majority are not fraudulent.

Basic Income has to come, and with it an end to this nasty and pointless “jump through hoops or starve” way of running a “welfare” system.

As for Andrew Pierce, if ever an msm scribbler deserved a kicking, it must be him.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/work-capability-test-changes-could-cost-some-claimants-400-a-month

What kind of system targets the sick and disabled? This one; the UK’s one.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/06/excess-winter-deaths-caused-by-cold-homes-in-great-britain-up-by-about-a-third

What a disgrace.

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Moreover, most of the jobs on any of the websites noted above will also be on the others. The total is probably only around 15,000; perhaps not even as many as that.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

A typical “Jack Monroe” supporter: not “poor” (in fact, quite comfortably-off), a pseudo-socialist virtue signaller, living in comfortable surroundings, extremely rude, and “of a certain age”…[“Laura Davies: over 30 years’ experience in cross-sectoral and cross-organisational strategic planning and delivery.
Chair of the board of trustees for Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union. Former vice-chair, non-executive director and trustee of numerous higher education and representation charities in the North West of England.
“]

Probably one of the Common Purpose rabble too.

That Saudi prince is huge and rather dangerous-looking, like a genie who has just emerged from a bottle.

Cheerful music and film from the days of the German Reich

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If that were to happen (which I doubt)— goodbye Kiev…

What a monkeyhouse; even worse than Westminster.

Western sanctions against Russia hurt Europe itself Europe, like the rest of the world, confrontation with Russia is not cheap, writes The Telegraph. The confrontation has led to rising costs of living across the continent, runaway inflation and economic stagnation, and politically it is increasingly dividing the region.

As another winter approaches, European energy prices are rising again, exposing cracks in the economy once again. There is growing concern in Germany about the damage the conflict is doing to the country’s once well-oiled economic machine, partly dependent on cheap energy supplies from Russia.

The belief that Europe can emerge from the situation relatively unscathed has always been a self-deception, the author of the material summed up. Also illusory were the expectations that sanctions would break Putin. After all, the European economy continues to weaken, and over time, sanctions can finish it off.”

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[Museum of Natural History, the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in winter]