Jaguar Land Rover will rebrand as JLR in a company image shift, marketing its cars under four brand umbrellas: Range Rover, Discovery, Defender and Jaguar https://t.co/O65ZVCipDz
So the name Land Rover, one of the most recognized and recognizable brands in the world, is going to be dropped. Who on Earth makes stupid decisions like that? What sort of people run such companies?
Cardiff is to introduce a charge for driving in the city centre.
Because apparently my car that I had to pay road tax for, out of my money thatโs already been taxed, that runs on fuel thatโs been taxed, and protected by an insurance policy I paid tax on, just wasnโt enough. ๐๐ป๐๐ป
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 18, 2023
America ๐ค Israel
Committing international war crimes while accusing everyone else of being war criminals
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
…aided and abetted by the Jewish lobby embedded within individual countries such as the UK.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
I have infinitely more respect for people who speak the truth even if it might offend someone, than for people who beat around the bush for the sake of being polite.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 16, 2023
He is right— I myself am often too polite to those who do not deserve it.
More of the same lying propaganda that has been swirling through the UK and the rest of the Western world for many years, particularly in the past decade.
In the Zaporozhye region, the Buk air defense system of the RF Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft. The fate of the pilot is unknown. pic.twitter.com/toLy1Tt2hM
The tank crew of the T-90M "Breakthrough" of the company hits with direct fire from the intersection of Svoboda and Sadovaya streets in Bakhmut. ใ ค The tank supports the offensive of attack aircraft, which occupy one of the high-rise buildings when moving to the west of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/Bcv0Fob3k1
“Kiev“. Note the guard force. When some supposed VIP goes to Kiev to meet Zelensky or one of his cabal, and to create a photo-opportunity, the streets around are deserted, except for any sole “local person” allowed to approach the foreign visitor to thank him for his country’s “support” (arms, ammunition, money); as when “Boris” Johnson visits.
So, those deserted streets. Are they cleared as a security measure, or has a large part of the civilian population of Kiev fled?
๐ณInappropriate ostentatious display of wealth, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis, or a welcome distraction and cause for a united display of patriotism and joy, in a country suffering a cost of living crisis? https://t.co/WCVRY8iFNo
— Enough is Enough ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ท๐บ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟโ๏ธ (@FreedomsBritish) April 20, 2023
David Clews giving his verdict on NATOโs deliberate provocation to spark the war in order to get public support in the West. pic.twitter.com/6iSHNaQr38
— ๐ฌ๐ง National Housing Party U.K. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ (@NHPUKOfficial) April 19, 2023
I'm not avoiding this subject any longer. Trump left the WHO, UN, and UNESCO, and he threatened to leave NATO so they know it's over if he wins. Everyday I hear people ask, "why aren't our Representatives doing what we elected them to do?" Well I'll tell you! NWO is no longer aโฆ pic.twitter.com/2uFFGJmZDK
A video of the visit of the NATO Secretary General to Kyiv has been published, he visited an exhibition of broken Russian military equipment on Mikhailovskaya Square. pic.twitter.com/RJj7xjlGJp
More of Stoltenberg in Kiev, in Mikhailovskaya Ploshchad (Square), which is in central Kiev, near the Foreign Ministry and the British Embassy, among other headquarters and diplomatic installations. Still no “real people” (locals), only bodyguards, Army, police, TV crew(s), and Press photographers. Of what are they so afraid? Can it be that the Zelensky regime (and/or NATO) is not as popular, even in Kiev, as it likes to have portrayed?
A bright flash seen over #Kyiv was probably a meteorite, #Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a #Russian missile attack. https://t.co/AYuuT1L9E5
I have never expected much from Starmer. For one thing, he is a puppet and mouthpiece of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, even as compared to other System politicians. Also, he is as dull as ditchwater.
Beyond that, I have noticed (and have long blogged) that Starmer’s general attitude to the past 13 years of “Conservative” misgovernment has been to say, in effect, “we support workhouses, but they should be run more efficiently“.
Starmer is not only not a “socialist” in any meaningful way, but not even much of a social-democrat. A different label from the Conservative Party, but little else substantially different.
In fact, looking at how Starmer vacillates, fails to make up his mind (even as to what is “a woman”!), and tries to evade difficult moral choices, while mouthing “me too!” on various issues, I can see what a rotten Prime Minister he would make, just as I saw —years before most people— what a rotten PM “Boris”-idiot would make.
As time goes by, my view against Starmer becomes less and less favourable, not that itwas actually ever favourable.
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๐ปIn Bakhmut, the Wagner assault detachments completely cleared the territory of the Transit Hotel, thereby pushing the Ukrainian formations away from the positions at the railway station along the railway. Attempts of unsuccessful counterattacks of the AFU were noted.
The position of the AFU in Bakhmut has become seriously complicated, and at the moment, if the current onslaught is maintained and there are no attempts to counterattack from Slavyansk and Chasiv Yar, the AFU will be completely driven out of the city.
Additional units of the AFU were deployed to Kramatorsk. The city was marked by a congestion of people and equipment. And in Novodmitrovka, near Konstantinovka, a positional area for launching missiles from the HIMARS MLRS has been equipped. FULL: https://t.co/VSGaJUInJA
After Bakhmut: Draining Battle Leaves Ukraine Battered, Russia Rising | Opinion **** How a situation is viewed depends who you support. Without Western support, Ukraine could not have lasted this long. https://t.co/o5fAVB4vGs
Was that a purely Chinese decision, or did elements of the Russian state unfriendly to the Wagner PMC/Wagner Group advise the Chinese —covertly— not to sell the weapons?
“Labour ministers in Wales have announced plans that could see young asylum seekers in the country receive ยฃ1,600 a month and taxpayers’ cash for legal aid to fight deportation.
Three Welsh Labour ministers – Jane Hutt, Julie Morgan and Mick Antoniw – are signatories of the letter, which demands that all migrants aged 18 and over should get universal basic income without being deprived of legal aid.
The UK Government spends around ยฃ6 million a day accommodating migrants across the country in hotels, former military bases and barges.
Under the Welsh plan, the Government would provide migrants with both a wage and their lawyers’ fees to stop them being deported.”
[Daily Mail]
In the current conditions of repression of free speech in the UK, we are effectively “not allowed” to print what we think should happen to any persons who encourage or facilitate the non-white migration-invasion of this country…
Vladimir #Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. | [Reuters] pic.twitter.com/M26tclA0NY
French President Emmanuel Macron intends to address Chinese officials with a plan that could lead to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine . According to that plan, negotiations could begin this summer, Bloomberg reports. pic.twitter.com/FqSCvqjl7I
Across France, people took to the streets to express dissatisfaction with Macron's announcement that the pension reform will come into force this fall.
๐ธ๐พ The Syrian flag was displayed on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in honor of the 77th anniversary of Syrian statehood. The return of Damascus to the Arab League is in full swing pic.twitter.com/aSkUQxv2Bk
Well, thank you so much angel my dear driver for your kindness that let the mum deer and her baby deer to across the road patiently โค๏ธ๐ผ God bless you and the creatures in the world ๐นโจโจ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ https://t.co/UIrNsLdINK
Russian forces have taken control of almost 90% of the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Donetsk Peopleโs Republicโs (DPR) leader, told TASS on Tuesday.
"The Wagner private military company controls about 90% of Artyomovsk and itsโฆ
"Russian artillery and aerial attacks against Bakhmut are growing fiercer, Ukraine says." by BY MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG via NYT New York Times https://t.co/2sC5XTTNLy
[Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
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Dutch political activist, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, on why politicians are pushing people to eat insects, "to save the planet".
"The push for insect eating is just a compliance test, because our politicians know that when they control the food, they control the people".โฆ pic.twitter.com/Fan1XZ5BxH
Where I part with what Griffin is saying (on the video clip, not perhaps overall) is that I see the conflict (which has already started) as being not a “race war” but a “race/culture/ideology war”. A complex and slow-burn conflict, in other words.
the embarrassingly dire performance this ego maniac gave on BBC Question Time did an incredible amount of damage
As the National Socialists of the 1930s put it, “National Socialism— the expression of our biological knowledge“.
#SS #Ahnenerbe.
The dollar's dominance as a reserve currency eroded last year at 10 times the pace seen in the past 2 decades April 17, 2023 by Phil Rosenhttps://t.co/aX7UgjV3JG
Bahmut : In today's fighting, units of the "Wagner" managed to reduce the territory controlled by units of the Ukrainian army to 10% of the city's territory.
According to him, the Bakhmut direction remains the epicenter of hostilities. He added that the Russians are increasing the activity of artillery and air strikes in the Bakhmut direction
“The pub at the centre of an online furore over controversial golliwog dolls was graffitied with offensive slogans in an act of vandalism that left five windows smashed.
The White Hart Inn in Gray’s, Essex, was vandalised at about 12.40am on Sunday and Essex police say they are conducting extra patrols in the area.“
[Daily Mail]
Essex Police deployed five or six police personnel to raid the pub and to seize the “offending” golliwogs. Will they deploy as many to protect the pub and its residents?
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Times: "Rishi Sunak – economy suffering from failure of numeracy"
No mate, I'd say it's suffering more from multi-millionaire treasonous CUNTS who blew ยฃ500bn on a fake virus in service of their globalist masters. pic.twitter.com/8ynB6fA7If
— ๐๐ ฒ๐ พ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ (@ScottyGoesAgain) April 17, 2023
Rather vulgar, but true au fond…
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the mercenary group is short of manpower as it faced high losses in the battle for Bakhmut. https://t.co/KJ1145gJMQ
In fact, it seems clear that, whatever manpower shortages are being suffered by Wagner Group or by the overall Russian forces, those of the Kiev regime are worse. As for arms and ammunition, Russia is in a better position than the Kiev regime.
The United States will transfer military equipment through Estonia to exercises in Finland – embassy in Tallinn
The "defensive" alliance continues under the guise of exercises to increase the presence of a military contingent in Finland after its admission to NATO
Toxins and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were found in several batches of corn imported from Ukraine to Hungary, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
Sergey Lavrov: The goals of the special operation in Ukraine are to protect against the extermination of Russians and people who speak the Russian language, as well as to eliminate military threats to the security of Russia on our western borders pic.twitter.com/4lHKJwchXl
Political will and ability to provide assistance to Kiev is declining in 10 European countries, writes Newsweek referring to confidential documents that have reached the network.
Russian and Turkish military personnel conducted the 134th joint patrol of the outskirts of the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) in the north of Aleppo province, northern Syria pic.twitter.com/FV8v6Tp32x
"Bild" in the hell of Bakhmut: Ukrainian soldiers wonder what they are fighting for "It seems that it is only a matter of time before Bakhmut falls completely into Russian hands", this is how "Bild" journalist Jan Humin describes the situation in Bakhmut, who visited the city pic.twitter.com/qH7xhKcYMl
– The Russian military has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and is closely allied with the Chinese military – Only the West suffers from the sanctions imposed on Russia.
The extravagantly smug Ed Balls. His maths ability was certainly found wanting when he & his wife @YvetteCooperMP fiddled their second home allowance. In 2007-08 alone their joint expenses fiddling brought them almost ยฃ310,000. They have benefited immensely from a rigged system.
Unfunded spending: Kwarteng flushed ยฃ60 billion down the toilet in one day by publishing a budget based on unfunded spend. Higher debt: ยฃ850bn in 2010. ยฃ3 trillion now. Uncontrolled immigration: 5,000 asylum cases awaiting initial decision in 2010. 155,000 now.
The vast majority still think that there is a “democratic choice” between “the two main parties”, plus the add-ons. In reality, there is no choice. All the System parties (Lib, Lab, Con, and the Farage vehicles for mugs, and in reality the Greens too, at the higher level) are controlled or strongly influenced by the same connected groups and cabals: NWO groups, Bilderbergers etc, freemasonic groups and, of course, the pervasive Jewish/Zionist lobby.
When will this nonsense stop? Not until we stop it, and I mean STOP it…
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Deputy head of the Pentagon Colin Kall: We do not want a direct conflict with Russia in Ukraine, we do not want a third world war pic.twitter.com/l9Hf5W314e
Spontaneous protests erupt across France following Emmanuel Macron's speech announcing that the pension reform will take effect this fall.Demonstrators burn barricades and rubbish, block police cars. pic.twitter.com/OgLW34EtVv
๐ซ๐ท A peaceful gathering of citizens in front of the City Assembly in Paris turned into riots and conflicts. The police used tear gas against the demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/hQZdR0uh8k
“The Home Secretary has scolded a police force for sending five officers to a family-owned pub to seize a collection of golliwog dolls, it was revealed yesterday.
An anonymous complaint was made about the White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex, and 15 dolls were seized because their presence was a suspected ‘hate crime‘.”
[Daily Mail]
The same Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who is married to a Jew, and recently appeared at the Jewish-Zionist snoop and strongarm squad, “Community Security Trust” [“CST”], vowing to crack down on any (free?) speech that mentions Jews or Jewish behaviour…
“Jewish communities are to be better protected from vile antisemitic attacks with a ยฃ1 million funding boost and a new dedicated police taskforce.”
Note the vituperative and not very “official” language.
“The new funding will bring the total amount allocated through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant to ยฃ122 million since 2015.”
The simple and harmless pleasures of the past, such as the 1960s Black and White Minstrels (not my usual kind of entertainment but that is not the point), are now the target of brainwashed and joyless “wokes”, some of whom inhabit the remnants of the (?) all-but-useless police forces.
head of the DPR Denis Pushilin visited Artemovsk/Bakhmut โThe city is being liberated by the Wagners, the enemy spares neither the city nor his own,โ said Pushilin. pic.twitter.com/4yHBN3LKRf
Wenn diese Derivatenblase platzt dann ist Deutschland und die Europรคische Union am Ende, gefolgt vom Rest der Welt. Dies kรถnnte die Supernova sein, die das gesamte globale Finanzsystem detoniert. Dann sind eure Einlagen auch nicht sicher. pic.twitter.com/MmHL4lXzFX
The whole Western finance-capital model, as it has existed since the late 1980s, is a house of cards ready to collapse.
Since Ashley Bidenโs diary is now confirmed as authentic, we can safely conclude that Joe Biden is something very close to an incestuous pedophile. Or is there another way to look at it? pic.twitter.com/PGxc4N5kjE
The Macron visit to Beijing has been wildly misrepresented in the Western media. The Ukraine lobbying was always going to be a dead letter and the French knew that. The real purpose of the trip was to position Europe for the new multipolar world. https://t.co/UYzyU03Int
I would love to see warmongering one-time soldier Ellwood [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood] removed from Parliament. An unpleasant character altogether, and one who not only seems to want war between the UK and both Russia and China but also has a Reserve role in the notorious online propaganda outfit, the 77th Brigade, in the rank of Colonel or at least Lt.Col., rather higher than the rank he held as a Regular officer (Captain). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom).
His parents’ origins and work overseas seem to be slightly mysterious; he himself was born in New York City, and was educated in both Bonn and Vienna, at the time (1970s/1980s) both major centres for Cold War intelligence and espionage activity.
Looks as if that “grifter”, Amanda Solloway, may have to return to working in Sainsbury’s or somewhere. Incredible that someone like that could even be an MP; she even made it briefly —for a couple of months— onto the lowest rung of the Government ladder as a PUS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Solloway] under that clown, “Boris” Johnson.
Amanda Solloway’s Wikipedia entry has been heavily massaged over the years to delete damaging material. I see that any mention of her “controversial” husband (maybe now ex-husband or “partner”…I forget) has been expunged. Other material about Amanda Solloway herself has been removed.
— UK Polling Report (@PollingReportUK) April 8, 2023
Looks as though former Labour MP (and total ignoramus), Claudia Webbe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Webbe] will also be heading to shelfstacking or the dole queue…
Wow this voting doesnโt add up. Bit like the MP.
So both Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwarteng) seem likely to stay on as MPs. There really is no justice in this world.
Of course, his every action shows that Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer would (probably will) make a rotten Prime Minister, but then look at the last half-dozen.
Russia has taken Bakhmut. When the admin centre (town hall) is taken the town has fallen.
Right now we have a mop-up exercise against stiff resistance.
To get the town back, Ukraine has to conquer the town hall again.
— Make Peace Now; alternative news (@AlternatNews) April 10, 2023
Simplistic, but it is clear that the Russian forces, spearheaded by the Wagner Group, are now very much in the ascendant in the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk sector of the overall south-eastern front.
More than 75% of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) is under the control of Russian units as stated by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin. ๐ท๐บ
— ะะพะปััะบะธะน ะะฐะทะฐะบ 'Z.O.V' ๐ต๐ฑโค๏ธ๐ท๐บ โญ (@pktr_Ruski) April 10, 2023
A Russian๐ท๐บ Lancet loitering ammunition hits another US๐บ๐ธ 155mm M777 howitzer heading towards Bakhmut. Ukrainians ๐บ๐ฆ flee upon realizing the fate of the Howitzer. pic.twitter.com/5KIvvfAxFd
I once met a fellow, boyfriend of a girl I knew slightly, whose work was as a balloon pilot based in Bristol, which I believe is one of the main UK centres of such activity. I was a belated Bar Finals student then (late 1980s), and being a balloon pilot seemed a wonderfully carefree way to make a living.
“In practice, the Worker Protection Bill is a sinister threat to our freedom of speech. It will impose on employers a responsibility to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent their staff being offended.
That can only lead to bosses trying to impose pre-emptive forms of censorship to avoid being dragged to a tribunal. Do we want to see our lively pubs reduced to a state of silent sterility, as if they were public libraries rather than public houses?“
“The total collapse and break-up of Vladimir Putin‘s Russia has begun and the West must be prepared to deal with the potentially catastrophic aftermath, a top official in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Government has warned.
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said the West must be on high alert, having in the past failed to be ready for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He said Kyiv [Kiev] believed Russia was about to fall apart in ‘spectacular’ fashion within the next few years.
But he warned that China currently holds the upper hand over the Kremlin’s imminent capitulation. He said if the West allowed China to take territory in Russia, a new grave problem would be created.“
[Daily Mail]
Normally, I would discount anything said by members of the corrupt and dictatorial Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, but in this case the prediction may be accurate, at least in part.
Russia today has no ideology beyond pro forma Great-Russian shadow nationalism and chauvinism, mixed with a pathetic 1930s/1940s pseudo “anti-Nazi” propaganda campaign (re. Ukraine), which campaign fell flat as soon as it was introduced a year or two ago.
In the past (pre-Russian Civil War, and pre-1917/18), there was Tsarism and the Russian Orthodox Church; in the formulation of Pobedonostsev, “Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality” (ะัะฐะฒะพัะปะฐฬะฒะธะต, ัะฐะผะพะดะตัะถะฐฬะฒะธะต, ะฝะฐัะพฬะดะฝะพััั).
Later, there was Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism, which from the early 1940s mixed elements of the previous “Holy Russia” into the mix. Post-Bolshevik messianism mixed with geopolitical expansionism and the other bits and pieces.
After 1989, Russia and many of its people signed up to Western materialism and the largely but not entirely (of course) fake “liberal democracy” Schauspiel. That, in its very active phase, lasted for only about a decade. The Russian people soon discovered, like the cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, that the “freedom” promised by the semi-Americanism under Yeltsin included some unwelcome “freedoms”, such as the “freedom” to be homeless, jobless, cold, and hungry (though, to be sure, Sovietism itself had produced plenty of most of those, especially before the 1960s).
This lack of overarching ideology is Russia’s primary problem, the one which underpins all the others (e.g. the poor morale of the Russian Army and intelligence services).
Russia has to find an ideology which is both intellectually coherent, and able to inspire the Russian masses emotionally.
Looking at the situation now, Russia has only one indisputable trump card— its strategic nuclear arsenal. In all other respects, Russia has few if any cards to play. So far, its military machine has proven so poor that it has had to be stiffened by the mercenary Wagner Group. As for the SVR and GRU, Stalin would have shot half of them by now. The same goes for much of the senior officer corps.
Russia does seem to be reprising its historical role of the “colossus on legs of straw“. Judging from the outside (I have not been there since 2007, and now have no connection with Russian laws, business, or people), it seems to me to have only limited internal stability, though at the same time little significant political opposition to the present Putin government.
I doubt that there will be a split into separate countries, if only because Russians remain one people (albeit with hundreds of minor nationalities alongside), with one language (ditto), and a shared history. What might happen, and has happened since 1991, is increasing autonomy of various far-flung territories.
Ukraine was always almost one country with Russia. The present war is almost a civil war, which may explain its bitterness, and its sometimes barbaric standards.
In the end, Ukraine will probably be devastated and then repopulated with Russian settlers, at least east of the Dnieper. We shall see.
One thing is for sure: if Putin does not do something to break the static situation that now exists in eastern Ukraine, he will follow the Soviet Union and DDR, and Nikolai II, into history, and sooner than he ever imagined.
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#Bumblebee queens emerge in early spring from #hibernation and immediately need to feed – thatโs why early flowering plants are so important. Apart from feeding their mission at this time is to find a suitable site to establish a nest. Hence you will observe queens flying low 2/8 pic.twitter.com/f3sAzBcCmg
These between flight stopovers can last for up to an hour and #bees are not always careful about where they take them – sometimes the middle of a footpath can be the โidealโ spot! So if you see a big #bumblebee chilling on the ground donโt always presume she needs rescuing! 4/8 pic.twitter.com/U4FnJFYt16
In this case preference is to move her to a nearby source of #nectar – a #flower! If no flowers are nearby she can be offered a 50/50 mix of white sugar and water. NEVER offer her honey as although it would seem to be the obvious action honey can contain pathogens that may 6/8 pic.twitter.com/1psryPDnMl
Thanks for reading/caring. PLEASE #retweet this forward. The more informed, the more queens survive and the more #bumblebees we have. Simple. Our native wild #bees are in trouble and we need to be there for them every way we can. Thanks again for helping! Have a great one. 8/8 pic.twitter.com/1fiGIG2OlN
Reminder that the excellent blog by AwfullyMolly on antics of uber-grifter Jack Monroe is still available to read on the archive of the web. Read it & then see how @LegalGengar is getting on with CCJ that started with being owed ยฃ10 and is now around the ยฃ600 mark with costs. https://t.co/ngPTbmqfmL
Carol Vorderman is a rather uninteresting careerist “celebrity”, who left university with a third-class degree (which was poor even in the days of the 1970s before award inflation took hold; effectively a fail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Vorderman#Early_life_and_education.
It might be said that Carol Vorderman is to mathematics what “Jack Monroe” is to cuisine…
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I happened to see the YouTube video below: DDR (East Germany) in 1988. I was there in the summer of that year, though in the south of the country, and only for a couple of days. I have blogged before how, though there was no sign of imminent collapse, yet the DDR seemed to be a kind of stage-set of a state rather than a real one. Just impressions here and there.
About 14 months later, in 1989, the whole system collapsed and, in a final irony, the President, Honecker, sought political asylum in Chile, the government of which the DDR had for years called “fascist” etc. I recall having been very amused by that.
Anyone watching such a parade in 1988 would have thought that the display exuded statist stability and permanence. So much for that.
Does our own system in 2023 present even the appearance of stability? I think not. Perhaps the difference is that, in 1988 and 1989, the East German population could look to the West, to —immediately— the wealth and relative freedom of the Bundesrepublik and then, beyond German borders, to the rest of the EC (as the EU then was), and to the Americas.
To what, to where, can our people look for a potentially better life? Nowhere.
Incidentally, here is another DDR ceremony, this one in 1979, utilizing marches that include old German ones and at least one from 1920s Bolshevism (slightly pre-Soviet Union):
The marching steps could also have been seen in both the Second and Third Reich.
I looked today at Amazon. The “Jack Monroe” book Thrifty Kitchen, which bombed on release a couple of months ago, is now no. 26,957 from the top of the bestseller list. This indicates sales of about 160 copies per month at its new reduced price of ยฃ8.50 (original price was nearly ยฃ20, but that was immediately reduced to ยฃ9.99), out of which “Jack Monroe” may be getting between 50p and ยฃ1 per copy. New or near-new copies can be had on Amazon for as little as ยฃ5.
No wonder that she wants to keep going the Patreon scam, which must still be providing several thousand pounds each month, presumably taxfree as well.
After over a trillion dollars given by global citizens to the #ClimateChange movement, how many rainforests have been replanted? How many rivers have been cleaned of their plastic and rubbish? How many third-world dictators have been forced to give up war and fix the environment?
Another (Chinese?) social control measure. How long before that sort of control arrives in the UK? The police of today, often politically-correct/”woke” automatons, would enforce it— we saw that during the “Covid” “panicdemic” and “scamdemic”.
The similarity between the technocratic authoritarianism of the lockdowns & the anti-car movement is no mere coincidence. โThe Future of Mobilityโ, a 2019 government report that championed a โbehavioural scienceโ approach to transport policy, was edited by https://t.co/YsbYq6gVi6โฆ
If only that could be a matter of selection, affecting only certain groups.
When blacks say they want to kill all white people, we should believe them. That is not a joke. And how disgusting was that old Jewish lady that was supporting this antiwhite hatred? She was smiling. Every single time!
I propose that both men and women regain our private spaces. As I have been saying for long, the greatest civil rights issue of this century is the right to freedom FROM association. We must be allowed to live without Other/s inserting themselves into our lives by force.
Regardless of the source, the side that maintains abundant, affordable energy will win.
Forcing a premature transition away from fossil fuels is literal economic suicide, not an opportunity.
— often uncommon ๐ดโโ ๏ธ (@oftenuncommon) April 4, 2023
Even GPT-4, as coherent as it is, can feel a bit dreamlike. It can answer most of your questions, it can write silly little poems, it feels like the lights are on when you talk to it pic.twitter.com/LTEZGwJbKU
— Zero HP Lovecraft ๐ฆ ๐ (@0x49fa98) April 3, 2023
We also get the distinct sense that a lot of human labor, especially in white collar fields, is superfluous. We can think of how Twitter works fine after Elon made deep cuts to the staff
— Zero HP Lovecraft ๐ฆ ๐ (@0x49fa98) April 3, 2023
If you have AI, do you really need project managers and middle managers whose main function is organizing and propagating data through the organizational hierarchy?
Probably you don't need very many
— Zero HP Lovecraft ๐ฆ ๐ (@0x49fa98) April 3, 2023
Stray thought
Most of what one does, in any given occupation, is a waste of time from the point of view of the individual’s own utility or satisfaction.
For example, it is hardly a new idea that, in many ordinary, modest, occupations, one almost works in order to pay out to be able to work.
Leave aside highly-paid professional or other activity and focus on modestly-paid work (let alone minimum-wage activity). The employee, say an office bod, needs to spend out in order to get clothing for the office, say a few suits.
He (or she) needs to pay out for daily travel (which can be very considerable in cost), for luncheon food (even if only a roll and coffee, which might amount to ยฃ10 a day in Central London), and for various other things as well.
All so that the employee can work at all. Then there might be occasional or regular socializing, in which said office bod is more or less expected to participate. The resulting remuneration, after tax and “National Insurance” (more tax), is scarcely enough to do more than pay for the costs of having a job, plus food and basic shelter. Maybe not even that.
Likewise, look at someone who wins on a lottery, say ยฃ50,000. People say “like a year’s (or two years) pay” within the usual range in the UK. Not so, though. In terms of real pay, even a relatively modest sum such as ยฃ50,000 is huge, because most people, after all their taxes, costs, and expenses, have almost nothing left at the end of a month, or even year.
Itโs not โpuritanicalโ to say that everyone should have upheld the most fundamental & universal ethical values we have as a society during the last 3 years.
This was not a great mystery that only a few were capable of solving. It was a basic and obvious test of decency.
— Russia's MFA in Crimea๐ท๐บ (@PMSimferopol) April 4, 2023
FM #Lavrov: West was using #Kievregime not only to destroy everything Russian which existed in modern Ukraine throughout history of these lands, but also to create in #Ukraine a direct threat to #Russiaโs security, incl by setting up #NATO military bases & other infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/g1LBK4c1R7
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 4, 2023
The Biden administration has been trying to end the use of spyware made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government got the message. A secret government contract violates the public policy, and still appears to be active. https://t.co/V5ZpyXzaV7
The Israeli government agreed in principle on Sunday to establish a national guard, handing a political victory to the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who had long demanded the militia as a condition for supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/PuwT02QWkf
Not just “Tommy Robinson”. Nick Griffin and the BNP were leading on this for years, but (quelle surprise) were demonized by “the usual suspects”. Even now, Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer says that “more whites than Pakistanis and other Asians are paedophiles“.
Well, Starmer is not telling the whole truth.
Even now, the white European population of England (not UK) is about 81%, and the Asian population “only” 10%. In other words, in proportion to population, the incidence of underage molestation is far higher among the Asian (mainly Pakistani) population.
There is another point. “Grooming” gangs (to use the vulgar usage now part of the law) are almost entirely a South Asian and mostly Pakistani-origin phenomenon in the UK. The white European offenders are mostly lone wolves, not part of organized packs. In other words, the phenomena are entirely different in type.
Incidentally, all Starmer’s recent (and not so recent) pronouncements show what a bloody awful Prime Minister he would —and almost certainly will— be, but after 13 years of a pseudo-“Conservative” “shitshow” (in the elegant word of Johnny Mercer MP), it is of course hard to argue that he would be much worse than the present idiot, the Indian money-juggler Sunak, or his four predecessors in the period 2010-2023.
In 1981, 95.4% of the population of England was described as “white”; in 2021, only 81%. Now? Probably well below 80%. A stunning collapse in only 40 years.
(and that is even, and absurdly, counting non-whites such as “Roma” gypsies as “white”: see that Wikipedia page).
2066? Make that 2050, or even 2040.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Still astonishing how this is taken for granted and presumed completely normal in Western countries.
Would China, Saudi Arabia, or Bangladesh desire that their national population should go from being over 90% to only 60% themselves in just two generations? Wouldn't that be odd? https://t.co/HUrNcvnFEE
Looking back over the past few years, it is clear that social-national commentators have faced a wave of State repression, instigated mainly by Jewish pressure groups and lobbying organizations, though carried on to prosecution mainly via the police and CPS.
It is clear to me, though, that the brunt of the repression has been borne by those operating podcast “radio” stations, YouTube channels etc: Sven Longshanks, Alison Chabloz, and others. The System fears those with large potential audiences.
Millions of White people are seeing the same things we're seeing. And they're coming to similar conclusions. If you run in to such a person, don't info-dump on them. Redpilling is not an event; it's a process. And White people across the country are now in the middle of it. WAGMI https://t.co/aKtLrRqPQQ
— McCarthy_was_right (@4theritereason) April 2, 2023
“Some Hutchinson residents are angry“, says the talking head. Yes, I can just imagine who or at least what “they” might be…(((you know who))).
The only grooming gang I ever heard of prior to about 1980 was the Moors murderers during the 1960s.
So what suddenly changed in the psyche of British men since then so that after centuries they begin to form grooming gangs to coincide with the arrival of the Pakistani migrants?
There are few if any white “grooming gangs”; there never were. As noted above in this blog, most white sex offenders act alone. There may be the odd exception here or there. The Moors Murderers were not a “grooming gang” but merely two evil and/or crazed lunatics.
In the end, there will be a war across the Western world. Not solely a race war, but also a culture war and/or ideology-war and/or a living standards or lifestyle war. We are just now seeing and hearing the opening shots, mostly still metaphorical.
A kippah-wearing Jew now sits in judgement over all British MPs.
If he decides that they have violated vaguely defined "standards" or "damaged the reputation of the House", he can stop them representing their constituents in Parliament.https://t.co/TL7dU7DYyO
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) April 2, 2023
We do not, but bosses like this would rather we import anyone and everyone rather than invest in building up our own people.
We must invest in our own people and their future, not race to the bottom of the barrel on wages and harm our growth. https://t.co/Q9JoveAfEp
“You are 55.8% good, 18.3% chaotic, making you neutral good.“
Not quite a rousing vote of approbation, but not as harshly marked as my ideological enemies would prefer.
“Neutral Good
People who are Neutral Good are guided by their conscience and typically act altruistically, with only secondary regard for whether their actions are lawful or in line with cultural expectations or traditions. Neutral Good individuals have no problems with what is lawful as such, and nor are they rebels by nature, but they believe in furthering kindness and good deeds through whatever means seem necessary to them. If fostering good means supporting an organized society, then that is what must be done. If good can only come about through the overthrow of the existing social order, then so be it. For many who are Neutral Good, insistence on either lawfulness or rebellion is seen as detriments to or distractions from the greater goal of promoting true kindness in the world.” [https://www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignment/test.php].
Fair enough…
I have seen tests like that before, though not that exact one. I have posted a few on the blog, though a few years ago.
Amusing. I did one years ago comparing the user to characters from Harry Potter, something with which I am only a little familiar. I had to look up the details of the character whom, it transpired, was apparently most similar to me, one “Lucius Malfoy”: “Lucius Malfoy is a Death Eater, head of a wealthy pure-blood wizarding family.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Eater].
More tweets
In a nutshell, you will never be left alone by the PC mob.
At first, I was thinking “April Fool” about that Telegraph report, but apparently not so (published on 29 April).
More seriously, I know what I would do with the so-called “hate crime experts”, but by reason of the ever-increasing repression on freedom of expression in the UK, cannot express it here. You, readers of this blog, will just have to read between the lines, as in every police state.
Science has brought you cold and heartless tree alternatives so that you can transition into the grey, compact and mundane.
Britain— a banana republic minus the bananas and the republic.
And THIS is a perfect example why brands/events/media need to distance from Jack Monroe Bootstrapcook – association with her makes them look shady & harms their reputation. Why anyone would now platform this conwoman is beyond me ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คก https://t.co/2Mr7b8eu0Y
Yesterday, I noted on the blog how the Patreon donor mugs (each sending between ยฃ3.50 and ยฃ44 a month to “Jack Monroe”), once numbered well over 800, fell back to about 600 late last year, then (yesterday) to 460. Today— 458. It seems that even some of those utter mugs are waking up, slowly.
This is great but what was he/she doing signing up for Patreon as late as January? Awfully molly was rife by then right?
Unless you were looking, you may not have seen all the coverage at that point – hence bookings from festivals, plus how many people haven't even heard of Jack Monroe. Thankfully word has spread much further since.
Can I kindly & respectfully put together a list of questions based on the proven inconsistencies in Jack Monroe's story as evidenced here, and you ask them in front of a live audience then? https://t.co/GrTwVKavOj
Unreality is everywhere now. Not just the “trans” nonsense but also the fiction that black Africans were prominent in ancient Rome, Tudor England, and even created the ancient Egyptian culture (which we know is rubbish by reason of DNA, apart from anything else). Then there is, or recently has been, the “Covid” “panicdemic” and/or “scamdemic”. What else? The British Empire as something almost entirely evil, the Second World War as “good triumphs over evil” etc, Hitler as both mad and bad (with a little bit of sad, too), and of course the (literally) fabled “gas chambers” narrative.
The above list is merely a part of what has been happening in the Western public forum generally.
The “karma of untruthfulness” can be cancer, and in this case may result in a form of progressive societal cancer, as society becomes ever-more diseased.
Incidentally, the “academic”, Tema Okun, whose crazed ideas are noted in that Daily Mail report, is —as is (almost) inevitable— Jewish. Every. Single. Time (almost).
Ireland is every bit as crazy as the UK now. A country of about 7M now faces migration-invasion on an unprecedented scale. Even as it stands, foreign-born nationals in Ireland comprise somewhere close to 15% of the population. If you add in births to foreign elements, make that ~20%.
Having said that, the Labour Party of Ireland has only 6 out of 160 members of the lower house (the Dail), a mere 4 out of 60 in the upper house or Senate (the same as Sinn Fein and the Greens), and no longer any MEPs at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(Ireland).
We're likely headed for a massive reset in a global, probably nuclear war. Empires are at their most rotten just as they fall. Stockpile kids' how-to-read books, as far out back as you can get. And hope that not every university library goes up in smoke.
Quite. One of those who persistently tweets the rubbish about how “freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequences” is the part-Jew academic (incredibly, a professor of laws in East Anglia), Paul Bernal.
According to that definition, people had “free speech” in Mao’s China, Stalin’s Russia, even Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
Idiot.
You are an utterly ignorant man to make this assertion, and I say this as a non-Christian but a person deeply interested in the history and topography of the UK, including its cathedrals, churches and other material evidence of Christianity in these islands
Whatโs astonishing is the sheer, crass stupidity and avarice. You go on a zoom ask for 10k a day(not sure about whether in $ or ยฃ), and donโt even bother to check whether company is for real or not. #stitcheduplikekippershttps://t.co/ZBIIoZMVY4
Woollyhead Trussbanger (aka Kwasi Kwarteng) seems to believe that some business enterprise would pay ยฃ10,000 a day for his services, after all that he has done (or failed to do). What a complete yet “entitled” waste of space.
Itโs time to declare an all out war on woke.
They will not debate. They will not discuss or accept different points of view. They have ruined society with their ridiculous climate/gender/race hysteria.
Interesting story, though weakened by the authoress’s perceived need to call South Africa, in the days before it was ruined, as “apartheid South Africa“. “Woke” box-ticking.
Presumably part of the mass media barrage of support for the Kiev regime.
Hard to know what to make of Bear Grylls. I have only seen one episode of one TV show he did. I disliked it, and his attitude. Very full of himself. Also, he killed a small and harmless animal entirely unnecessarily.
As I say, I do not have a developed view about him. One hears about him having been selected for the TA SAS thirty years or so ago (at age 20, younger than f/t SAS personnel), though that was the (then) part-time TA version (now called The Reserves), and he was in it for only 2 years actively (3 officially).
Plainly not a “fake”, but whether (as with Rory Stewart) the sum of the parts seems to add up to more than the whole, hard to judge. The TV image may or may not fully reflect reality.
As far as I can judge “survival experts” (perhaps not greatly), I think that I prefer Ray Mears [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears], despite disagreeing with some of his views about the Second World War etc.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 26, 2023
That may be. If we ever have a real government, an investigation can be carried out by some equivalent of the Gestapo and SS, in order to ascertain the truth.
This Globalist POS pretending to be our Prime Minister was installed despite not receving a single vote from anyone.
Don't ever talk to me about how we're defending "freedom and democracy" by warmongering in Ukraine while our own country has become a Banana Republic. pic.twitter.com/55dfg3B4rP
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 26, 2023
Rishi Sunak, the globalist Indian money-juggler.
Modern life as we know it depends on oil and gas. Iโm completely in favour of taking reasonable steps to protect the environment, but this promised utopia of a world that runs on windmills is not based in reality. Your children have no future without traditional energy sources.
— David Morgan ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 26, 2023
Untrained or scarcely-trained Ukrainian recent civilians being sent to the front line and ordered to perform unnecessary and stupid actions by incompetent superiors.
I have to admit that I find modern China fascinating —from a distance— though I have never been there (I have been to Hong Kong and Macau, but never to mainland China).
[Chinese pastiche of a town with “Tudor” buildings; looks a bit like the centre of Hereford]
2/2 The president also visited the building of the restored Mariupol Philharmonic โ he examined the situation inside the building and assessed the quality of the work performed: โComfortable, beautifulโhttps://t.co/uYfVai6mQO
#Putin meets with ppl of #Mariupol They were taken aback bc this was very unexpected. He is asking them if they like the new buildings that have been built for them. pic.twitter.com/wyKGT2zhNI
Interesting. I have blogged a few times about the day in 1994 or 1995 (I think 1995) when I visited the partly-privatized but still heavily-guarded Porton Down biolab campus in Wiltshire, UK, with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, a trained scientist who was later both a Presidential candidate and director of a biochemistry and biosecurity institute in Ukraine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko].
Many Russians know whatโs happening. This 92yo woman says TV has brainwashed Russians to hate the West, support Putin & act like animals in Ukraine. Asked why sheโs not brainwashed, she says, โIโve lived thru 4 wars. I can think critically & analyze.โpic.twitter.com/rtdUCts3sp
— ๐บ๐ฆPaula Chertok๐ฝ (@PaulaChertok) March 19, 2023
Well, OK, but that old woman can express her views freely on the streets of (?) Moscow, and have them broadcast without repercussions. If she had been in Kiev, and had opposed the regime of the corrupt Jew Zelensky, she would probably, almost certainly, have been arrested; the interview would certainly not be broadcast or allowed to be put on social media. Everyone involved would be arrested.
So who is “brainwashed“? The Western msm is more or less brainwashing people in the UK, USA etc, though many are “thinking for themselves” and not supporting the war or the Kiev regime.
Watching a few academics on here lose their marbles over a book they've not even read is a sight to behold! Do look around and note what happens when you appear to challenge the orthodoxy. And grab the book to explore for yourself!
Bolloxs…..you think the govt going to pay for illegal immigrants, no it'll be pushed onto everyone and struggling hard working families to pay. Lineker won't be paying he'll use loophole to get out of it, while others lose their homes
Not on small boats. Lineker represents 16% of Britain at best. Most people support the gvt. But progressives like Lineker also tend to dominate Twitter so what you are seeing on here every day is a sort of progressive worldview on steroids https://t.co/rzJ8dfbg4J
The Twitterati were all so shocked to find that there was a majority in favour of Brexit (meaning,mainly, in favour of stopping immigration), and that America voted Trump in 2016.
Lineker is a good example of the luxury belief class. High paid elites (often dodging tax, indulging in selective outrage e.g. Qatar ok but not Con gvt) who preach luxury beliefs to garner status among other elites but do not have to live with the effects themselves https://t.co/iJvCHhEYwz
The fantastic BBC Singers, Britainโs only professional chamber choir, to be disbanded in July to save about ยฃ1.5m, only a tad above Gary Linekerโs annual BBC salary. Strange priority for a supposedly public-service broadcaster.
I obviously have skin in the game here but I'd gently point out there's a whole chapter on the negative economic effects of Thatcherism. The new elite let down the country economically, culturally and politically, it's not either/orhttps://t.co/G3C3UtcvJuhttps://t.co/YnjmIqirjv
Britain has always had an elite. The difference between the old & the new elite, however, is that whereas the former broadly shared the cultural values of the masses the latter, who are increasingly embracing radically progressive values, do not. https://t.co/2X0J8vP2gP
I do think Jeremy Hunt is sounding dangerously out of touch with much of the country. Families are not experiencing a "pinch" – it's the sharpest decline in living standards since the 1950s.
As I blogged yesterday, Jeremy Hunt seems to have a political cloth ear.
Goodwin’s tweet about “1950s” is not quite right though. “1940s” would be better. It is a linguistic point. The 1950s were when Britain began to exit from the terrible privation of the unnecessary war against the German Reich. The poverty of Britain was actually worse in the decade (and especially the 5 years) after the end of the war than it had been during that misconceived war. The decline in living standards during the war itself lurched lower in 1946, 1947 and did not improve, substantially, until about 1954 or 1955. The last remnants of WW2 rationing ended in 1955.
Incidentally, it is interesting to note that many poorer Brits actually had a better diet during WW2 rationing than they had had in the prewar 1930s.
Some of the (pro-immigration) replies to Goodwin’s tweet are unintentionally hilarious: idiots saying that the UK “needs” immigrants, that the UK is not “full” (despite housing covering more of our green fields daily), and one pro-invasion tweeter (one of the most vituperative) who lives on the Costa Tropical in Spain!
I think there a is a very strong consensus that this and the reduction of BBC World Service output is a serious mistake. I wonder who made the call.
According to some tweets I saw, the decision was made by some black woman, by name Lorna Clarke: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lorna-clarke-3a19b415. She, it seems, is actually the “BBC Director, Music” and formerly “Head of Rock and Pop“.
“How has this been allowed to happen? Early last year, the BBCโs music review recommended an extraordinary restructure. Alan Davey, the recently departed controller of BBC Radio 3 and the Proms, ceased to have direct responsibility for the classical ensembles that are now under the control of former head of rock and pop Lorna Clarke, while [Simon] Webb, the former director of the BBC Philharmonic, is the new head of orchestras and choirs in England.
The BBCโs timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling to recover from the pandemic, exhausted from keeping the show on the road throughout, three of the ensembles without a permanent director and all contractually gagged. There is not one single champion for classical music left at the BBC in any position of power or influence. Herod has been left minding the creche.
I no longer know if the BBC is a public service broadcaster; I donโt recognise it any more, or its values. If it no longer exists to do that which others cannot or will not, then what is it for? After 23 years of constant change, the ensembles of the BBC have never been more agile, flexible or willing to adapt, and they represent tremendous value for money in the grand scheme of the BBCโs budget and our licence-fee payment.
The role of cultural patron is not optional, and the responsibilities as custodian of music ensembles do not give the BBC permission to dispose of and dismantle them without serious public discussion, not to mention honest, transparent internal debate. The values and behaviour of what we are told repeatedly is โour BBCโ must matter to all of us as much as the content.”
[Paul Hughes, in the Guardian]
Apart from the actual absurdity of having blacks and merely business-trained persons in positions of power in the cultural sphere, this damage goes right back to the 1990s, to John Birt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birt,_Baron_Birt] and Greg Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Dyke]. Those two, who knew and worked with each other, both had poor educational and —initial— work backgrounds, yet were allowed to take leading positions in British television and radio.
“Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (pre-1918: ะะปัั ะัะธะผะพะฒะธัั ะ ัฃะฟะธะฝั) ะะปัั ะัะธะผะพะฒะธั ะ ะตะฟะธะฝ, pronounced [หrสฒepสฒษชn];[a] 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 โ 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter.[1][3][4][5][b] He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century.
PMC "Wagner" is attacking, trying to take the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut into the cauldron This is reported by the officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: โช๏ธโIn the Sobachovka area, the Wagners are trying to close the ring and are advancing alongโฆ pic.twitter.com/yKlfUS0Jsg
Polish Ambassador to France Jan Emeryk Roลciszewski: "Either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will be forced to enter into this conflict." pic.twitter.com/1noohyDhjy
If Poland fights against Russia in 2023, that would trigger a Russian response which might mean that there will be no Poland, and certainly no Warsaw, by 2024. In fact, Poland being now a member of NATO, it might just trigger WW3.
The SNP may have had its day in the sun, but it could reinvent itself if it became more social-national, opposed mass immigration and migration-invasion, binned non-whites/non-Brits such as Humza Yousaf as candidates and office-holders, and announced a policy of leaving NATO and closing down all RAF/USAF bases, as well as submarine bases, while asking Russia for closer relations. None of that will happen, of course.
A gentle reminder that @NicolaSturgeon invited this cretin into power to protect herself in Holyrood. Another one of her many many failures as first minister. Slater shouldnโt be allowed on a PTA never mind be a government minister. https://t.co/U9MlhXH8M2
The idiotic woman even wears a rainbow scarf. Like a red flag, a warning signal. Just looked her up on Wikipedia; she is actually Canadian! How mad is that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Slater.
Oh yes. I recall once running late at Gatwick, only to be told by some simpleton in uniform to remove my shoes! I only caught my plane because it was delayed by engine trouble.
Even worse are the self-important armed police, strutting around with their Heckler & Koch MP5s or other weapons. So, if there are suspected terrorists, will they just open up with automatic weapons in a crowded terminal? I hope not. They are basically there “for show”.
In 2019 John Mearsheimer laid out an argument that perfectly explains why Australia is preparing to go to war with China, its primary trading partner, against its own security and economic interests: Australia is more afraid of the US than it is of China.https://t.co/qPYbuS418Z
What can one say when a great number of the more influential people in the UK actually want more backward non-whites in the country, to add to the millions already here, and seem to think that that makes them, the “refugees welcome” idiots, occupiers of the moral high ground? The so-called “refugees” will, of course, not live anywhere near where those “anti-racists” etc live. Oh no, they live near other people’s homes, or even in them.
What can one say when large areas of the country are not policed properly, and where feral teenagers and other riff-raff are allowed to roam almost free of accountability? Where the police are noticeable by their absence. Where the silent majority suffers because corrupt and/or stupid and/or malicious politicians (at both central and local level) will not do what is necessary to contain and then eradicate the problem.
There is a kind of national death wish on the part of many. You see it on Twitter, in the msm, and elsewhere.
I was born in 1956. To my mind, the decline of the UK in world terms, which historians have placed variously as having started in 1956 itself (with Suez), or in 1945 (i.e. after the military victory over the German Reich, which victory mortally wounded all the European empires or colonial powers, and thus ensured the rise of the Soviet Union, the USA as superpower and, eventually, China, has been made permanent by the past 40-50 years of do-nothing policy.
Not that Barnett was always correct, as seen here:
“After the historian’s E.P. Thompson planned Dimbleby Lecture on the Cold War was cancelled in 1981, Barnett asked whether he (Thompson) saw any connexion between the internal nature of the Soviet empire as an oligarchic tyranny and its external policies? As a former communist he must know that the Soviet regime is of its very nature and from earliest origins a minority conspiracy that has gained and maintained power by force and trickery; that because of this inherent nature it always has been and remains terrified of independent centres of thought or power, whether within the Russian empire or beyond its present reach. It is the conjunction of such a regime, and its manifested wish to dominate others, with armed forces powerful beyond the needs of mere defence that is the engine of the present “armaments race”. Who believes that Nato and its armaments would exist if Russia had been a Western-style open society these last 60 years? The first requirement for large-scale nuclear or any other kind of disarmament is the withering away of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[15]“
[Wikipedia]
Well, Russia today may not be an “open society” in a Western sense, but the CPSU “withered away“, more or less, over 30 years ago now, yet NATO is as active as ever.
Reverting to the main issue (the decline of Britain), we come again to the famous axiom of Dean Acheson: “Britain has lost an empire, and has not yet found a role.” Spoken in 1962.
61 years ago and, to my mind, at least equally true today.
Once Britain lost its Empire, much of its manufacturing, supported by the policy of Imperial Preference, faded away. That happened gradually from 1945 to, say, the Thatcherite 1980s. The North stopped being a powerhouse, and became a millstone round the neck of London and the south of England.
What is “the North” today? (Incidentally, my own father was born in Co. Durham). The Angel of the North (which I very much like, by the way)? The drunken or drugged “party goers” of Friday and Saturday nights? The “left-behind” cities, towns and villages? The largely-rather-poor population, many of whom are living only via State benefits and/or State pensions? The one-time mill towns now home to vast numbers of backward populations of Pakistanis and others?
The main difference between northern and southern England is economic rather than social. The south is just as decadent but has more money, in a word.
Rising to consider Britain’s “role”, what has it been since 1945, and especially in the past 40-50 years, since, say, 1989? “America’s poodle”, as someone put it during the Blair years. On its own, Britain (despite its small number of nuclear-missile submarines) is not a superpower, not really more than, at best, a regional power. In fact, France is far more powerful militarily than the UK, Germany about the same as the UK, but without any nuclear weapons.
I remember having heard, in the 1970s, economically and politically-illiterate arguments such as “the British people are better-off now than when Britain had its Empire” and “immigration did not and does not affect wages because the immigrants got or get the “union rate” for the job.“
In fact, that first argument can only be countered by citing Chou en-Lai’s reply to the question of (I think) Pat Nixon as to what he thought of the French Revolution: “it is far too early to judge”. Actually, the effects of British imperial decline and now near-decease are already becoming apparent, both in the UK and in the former colonies.
As to the second argument, the immigrants of the 1950s, 1960s, and up to today, may be getting the same rate as existing British workers but, over time, the rate for that job in real terms declines when the labour supply increases. You only have to look at pay (for most people) now, and what it was in the 1970s. Living standards too. Far higher in most respects in the 1970s.
Just this morning, I saw a piece in a newspaper about NHS junior doctors, by a more senior one, which made the point that, while pay for junior doctors is by no means terrible, after the first year or so, it was higher in real terms decades ago. The same is certainly true at the Bar (of which I was a member until a pack of Jews procured my unwarranted, and indeed unlawful, disbarment in 2016: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/). It is true in non-professional work, too. Many UK jobs now pay too poorly to afford the worker even basic food and shelter.
The UK economy is now a banking, service industry, also a light industrial economy. The heavy industry of yesteryear is history, and the coal mines and steel works etc have, those still in existence, become museums and educational monuments. The Angel of the North is both a monument of honour and a gravestone.
Socially, educationally, there has been a huge fall since the 1970s. All over the UK. One can quote statistics either way, but the reality stands. For me, and many of my age, who knew England during the 1970s, the difference is palpable and unmistakeable.
As a matter of fact, what I also see is that large sections of the population either support Britain’s continuing decline, or are completely apathetic to it.
On Twitter etc, and at the Westminster monkeyhouse, you see those who actually think that taking in further vast hordes of backward blacks and browns will somehow improve the country, or that to do so is a kind of 21st Century “White Man’s Burden”, a duty of some kind.
In fact, Suella Braverman (whatever one may think of her) put the killer point recently: in principle, under the laws, regulations, and realities as they actually are, there is nothing to stop literally hundreds of millions of blacks and browns (and others) coming to the UK either lawfully or unlawfully, and completely destroying, by their very presence, what is left of our society and way of life.
The “refugees welcome” dimwits and others either howled outrage when the above truth was uttered, or just sneered and dismissed it. The truth, however, remains.
I should say that the greater dishonesty comes from those who are just thinking in terms of “socialism” or “communitarianism”.
The others, who think in terms of production and consumption, and profits for the few, are equally enemies of the people, but more honestly so. The Andrew Neils. The Tom Harwoods. The Rishi Sunaks. In general, those who are unashamedly finance-capitalist. They think that increasing the UK population, destroying our countryside, creating an even more rat-race society, is the best option, because it will (they claim) “help the economy”, even if the benefits of that will go mainly to 10%, 5%, or even fewer than 1%, of the population.
As for most of the British people, they are drugged (those not also literally drugged or drunk) with trash TV, trash radio, trash Press, and other trash.
There is only one way forward, which is for those who are social-national in ideology to break away as far as possible into a parallel society, ideally created in a corner or corners of the existing UK.
It is not impossible that a major war will come soon, which —if it happens— will destroy the mainstream society. If social-national people are then ready to seize the initiative, we shall be able to rise up, gather around us the main population, and exterminate the most obvious evils, while establishing the basis for a better societal future.
“Russian state media has urged Vladimir Putin to use his underwater nuclear missile to wipe Britain off the map with a 1,000ft-high radioactive tsunami if NATO troops put boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Retired Russian general Yevgeny Buzhinsky called for attacks on Britain with a Poseidon underwater missile that he said would trigger a 1,000ft radioactive tidal wave.
Lt-Gen Buzhinsky, chairman of the Russian Centre for Policy Research, said Britain ‘will definitely not exist’ if Russia unleashed the wrath of the nuclear missile.
Buzhinsky also threatened the UK with an attack by the 14-storey high Sarmat 2, Russia‘s largest nuclear missile, which he claimed would destroy the country.“
[Daily Mail]
The West must pull back from the Ukraine conflict. The so-called “leaders” such as Sunak cannot play (almost literally) Russian roulette with the lives and futures of the British people.
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Jack Monroe is a terrible example to make your point. She comes from a wealthy, supportive family and was using up resources at a food back because she was larping at being poor. She has made a whole career out of being poor for a few months in 2012, now is a professional scammer
Jack Monroe? The same Jack Monroe who laughed at how she grifted thousands in cash from donors, blew it on drink drugs & sideboards, and has an entirely fabricated back story?
479 utter mugs are still sending her between ยฃ3.50 and ยฃ44 each, every month, via Patreon.
I find it completely absurd. His entire message is about the very values and ideas that have been systematically dismantled over the past three years and yet he did nothing to oppose it. He's a total fraud.
No doubt African labor was exploited and I am staunchly against slavery, it should also be noted that it is only because of Whites that you wear clothes, use metals, drive cars, read/write, live in a house, use a computer, and participate in an advanced agricultural civilization. https://t.co/3nTEDOeY26
As I have repeatedly blogged, the blacks not only cannot build a civilization of any sort, but cannot even maintain one if it is given to them. It is just not in them.
I can still remember little William Hague proclaiming, as UK Foreign Secretary in 2012, that “Assad will be gone in no more than a week“, if I recall aright. Eleven years ago.
Yes the USA has always had the best interests of the Middle East in their hearts. Those coups, Shock and awe campaigns, sanctions, theft, and illegal occupation were all done with good intentions. https://t.co/pgjDRSWelM
UkroSMI reports that the fighters of the โorchestraโ are storming Khromovo (west of Artyomovsk)
According to UkroSMI sources, the fighters of the PMC "Wagner" break through the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from two sides. pic.twitter.com/SBudqfs6Mp
Hard to know what exactly is happening without more context. Still, seems that the Russian (Wagner Group) forces are pressing forward.
The problem with focussing on a relatively small battle area which is but part of a very large conflict is that you lose sight of the bigger picture.
I was amused to hear (either on BBC TV News or Sky News), the correspondent in Ukraine saying something such as “military analysts are unsure whether it is a good idea for Ukraine to defend Bakhmut to the end, but President Zelensky says that it is essential.“
Well, after all, if a corrupt Jew ex-comedian says it, it must be right…
โก๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ: A Ukrainian commander gave the following response to suggestions of a major counter-offensive from Business Insider.
"I'm looking at the resources and asking, 'With what?'"
“Statues of historical ‘old white men’ such as Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington could be removed from public view in Wales in order to ‘set right the historical narrative’ and prevent offence to a ‘diverse modern public’.”
[Daily Mail, quoting Daily Telegraph].
At what point do we start to deal directly with the enemies in our midst?
Quite apart from the very important free speech issue, anyone who has had to report a real crime to the UK police knows how useless they are, most of the time.
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โก๏ธNotable Russian sources, including those close to Wagner, report that the armed forces of Ukraine have a large strike group made up of up to 10 brigades currently in Chasiv Yar, preparing to conduct a wide counterattack in the Bakhmut direction.
If I am not mistaken, that building was and is not far from where I used to live in Little Venice, West London. It is (I think) either in nearby Maida Vale or St. John’s Wood. I have certainly seen it before.
Ah, just looked it up. St. John’s Wood area. There are a number of other very similar mansion-flat buildings in that part of London.
5) If the BBC wants controls on presenters they have to be more explicit 6) Mr Blobby could present MOTD and people would still watch 7) The quality of analysis is pisspoor compared with YouTube 8) Tim Davie has no credibility left 9) Suspect he and Lineker both gone in a year
Oh and one last one: 10) Most people on Twitter took sides and argued the exact opposite of what they usually argue (free speech/cancelling) based on their views of Lineker
I agree with most if not all of that. I have given my views on the Lineker storm-in-a-teacup already. My main problem with him as BBC presenter is his absurdly inflated remuneration (somewhere approaching ยฃ2M a year). Otherwise, though of course I despise his views and his hypocrisy, he is no different to hundreds or thousands of idiots on Twitter.
As Shipman has tweeted, the views of BBC staff (at least the highly-paid presenters etc) are at odds with the majority of the British people; and as he also tweets, by implication, this is not a “debate” but a war, and the BBC types are on the other side to that of the British people. Enemies of the people.
Itโs double the number on the other side and there is a majority who thinks it damaging in 75% of seats. See recent research by JL Partners for Onward cited in my piece at the weekend
Note that other tweeter. Ex-ambassador. The FCO, like the BBC, is also riddled with (in the lay sense) traitors to our future, speaking ideologically; persons who want this country swamped even more.
The tweeter was H.M. Ambassador to Cuba at one time.
That Guardian report on Cuba is well worth reading. The self-describing “Left” in the UK would do well to read it, and be reminded how old-style socialism (effectively dead after 1989 in most of the world) failed and (where it still exists) still fails, especially where the population is mainly non-white. Even Che Guevara saw that:
Another point is that, while apologists for Cuba and the late Fidel Castro always point out what a good health service Cuba has (supposedly), health is, before anything else, an outcome of clean air and water, decent living conditions, healthy food and drink, modest exercise, and absence of negative factors such as excessive alcohol, and/or drug abuse.
A health service is something to fill in where the above factors have failed.
Once again, the police, faced with real everyday crime, are proven lazy, uncaring, and in fact useless.
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On the plus side, unlike much of Monroe's recent advice ("you can eat mouldy yoghurt as yoghurt is basically mould anyway" / "sure you can use plastic explosive to open a can of Big Soup"), at least that coffee won't kill you.
There are so many now making a living online and even partly offline by simply pretending to be “activists” of various kinds. “Jack Monroe”, Julia Grace Patterson, the part-Jew calling himself “Russ in Cheshire”, some other Jew in Essex, that Nigerian waste of space called “Femi”; the dull “anti-Tory” blonde calling herself “Supertanskiii”. Others too. “Griftocracy”?
SNP in freefall: Support for Scottish independence dramatically COLLAPSES following Sturgeon's resignationhttps://t.co/ak45lc4ZzX
Interesting. Of course, the SNP may still be able to keep going as a, perhaps the, major party in Scotland even if “Independence” becomes just a stuffed animal under glass, to be revered or looked at, but without hope that it might revive.
The SNP may have 45 out of 59 Scottish MPs in the House of Commons, but only 64 out of 129 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, and a mere 453 councillors out of 1,227 in local councils.
Now that the SNP is fairly well entrenched in Scotland, it may decline a little, but I cannot see any immediate collapse of the SNP vote.
'This one really is large. Junior doctors make up 40 per cent of the NHS medical workforce.'
GB News' Jeff Moody reports as junior doctors begin three days of strike action over pay and working conditions. pic.twitter.com/iRKNplkO6Q
I have just read that “A junior doctor in their first year as a foundation doctor will receive basic pay of just under ยฃ29,400, with earnings typically rising to almost ยฃ37,000 after taking into account payments for extra duties. Second-year doctors earn an average of ยฃ43,300.” Not a fortune but, after all, that is just in the first 1-2 years. Some more senior doctors —consultants and GPs— make hundreds of thousands of pounds. The junior doctors do progress incrementally and may even hit those six-figure salary heights before too many years have past.
I suspect that the medical profession (generally) is squandering its credit with the British people, just as the police, MPs, NHS generally, and BBC (among many other groups) have already done.
Putin 'killing Russian elite' to cling to power as 39 oligarchs and officials mysteriously diehttps://t.co/XbH5BmMuAM