Well, not a good week. I scored only 4/10, but still just beat political journalist John Rentoul, who got a mere 3/10. I knew only the answers to questions 4, 5, 8, and 9. I might also have guessed question 7 but, out of the two or three most likely battles, guessed the wrong one.
JFK rejected Operation Northwoods when it came across his desk and was shot.
A conspiracy theory surrounding JFK’s assassination claims he was killed by Israel which allegedly controls the US ‘Deep State.’
Now, President Donald Trump has promised to release all classified documents relating to JFK’s assassination, which could potentially lead to more shocking revelations about the US government’s activities during the 1960s.“
[Daily Mail]
Plus ca change…
cf. the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. of 11 September 2001. Iraq was (wrongly, inaccurately) blamed, and that set the scene for the American invasion, thus greatly furthering the agenda of World Zionism and Israel.
“Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations”— latest
“The number of firms on the brink of collapse has surged under Labour.
Rachel Reeves was last night warned that her tax-raising Budget threatens to push many over the edge following an unprecedented 50 per cent rise in businesses in ‘critical financial distress’.
Separate figures yesterday showed private-sector jobs falling in January at the fastest pace since 2009 – excluding the pandemic – in another blow for the beleaguered Chancellor.“
That refers to the case, and the aftermath of the case, of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor, in which it seems that self-promoting Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis gave advice, and committed acts, both negligent and dishonest (and not for the first time, by any means).
Wes Streeting, and his fellow Labour Friends of Israel members in Starmer’s hapless hopeless Government, are just empty vessels, making much noise. Even their noise, though, strikes me as being of the past, a tired rehash of Blair-Brown-ism mixed with rather a lot of Cameron-Levita/Osborne pseudo-“austerity” nonsense.
Starmer-Labour has nothing at all to offer the British people (as I predicted a year ago).
They are still, also, pushing the obviously false, untrue, mantra, “Diversity is our strength“, which only the very dim and/or totally deluded still believe.
That bombshell poll this week would put Reform on 170-190 seats –more than the Torieshttps://t.co/nNKaiX62eb
Parents in Northamptonshire claim asylum seekers are loitering around the school gates and filming their children on phones. Police say they have talked to asylum seekers about “different cultural expectations” https://t.co/H8q0fpwr1k
The dental lab I work in tried 2 buy scalpel blades from Amazon as we saw they were much cheaper than from a dental supply company. The business was refused the purchase and our manager had to buy them privately to be delivered to his house. How can that be the right way round?
According to Electoral Calculus, that would mean about 303 Labour seats, 138 Reform UK, 91 Con, 71 LibDem. So probably a Lab minority government with LibDem support, but possibly a Labour minority govt. with support from SNP and other minor parties. Labour would have to get a dozen or two dozen votes from somewhere.
Reform UK would be the official Opposition either way, on those figures.
Half neither approve nor disapprove of the “diversity hire” “Conservative” leader, it seems. I suspect that many have never heard of her.
Elon Musk tells an AfD rally in Germany: "I think there is too much focus on past guilt (in Germany), and we need to move beyond that. Children should not feel guilty for the sins of their parents – their great grandparents even" pic.twitter.com/xtFMfAYrIp
Well, here we are again. On the “original” 11 September, meaning “9/11” 2001 (in the American format), I was in the back of a taxi driving down the Strand in London, with an American colleague. Mid-morning. He received a call from his wife in Charleston, South Carolina. Something about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
My colleague relayed the news to me, and the typically know-all London taxi driver told us that he already knew all about it.
My American colleague asked me where we could get to a TV. I replied that our office in London (off Berkeley Square in Mayfair) had one, but that there used to be a Dixons (electronics and home electrical goods store) in the Strand. We saw it, disembarked and went into that store. Hundreds of TV sets, all showing what looked like a disaster movie. A few customers wandering around, looking at the goods, seemingly unaware of the enormity of what was happening, vicariously, in front of them.
After about 10 minutes looking and listening, we left and went to my then office. The staff there were getting the latest on-the-ground and diplomatic news.
My American colleague was both grim and angry, and muttered something about how “we” should respond in the same way the Israelis always did. Needless to say, I disagreed, though as politely as I could. For one thing, the origins and motives of the perpetrators had not yet been established (he was saying that it must be the Iraqis, which of course turned out to be wrong). I do recall remarking that if a state was proven to have been behind the attack, then it was undoubtedly an act of war in terms of international law.
Of course, the 2001 WTC attack was used as the fuel for the American-led invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan.
I well remember my American colleague’s anger, which I think was general across the USA, from what I not only saw on TV but also what I noted once or twice in the USA not long afterward; I flew to Washington about a week or so after the attacks.
I myself was relatively unemotional about it, despite the horrible images and evident suffering etc. That’s just me, I suppose. After all, many horrible things happen in the world, and the Americans themselves perpetrate quite a few of them. Having said that, the attack was an appalling outrage from almost any point of view.
That report is really worth reading. The Israeli intelligence connection to the “9/11” attack is more than a simple “conspiracy theory” that can be simply laughed off.
“After the attacks on New York and Washington, the former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked what the terrorist strikes would mean for US-Israeli relations. He said: “It’s very good.” Then he corrected himself, adding: “Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for Israel from Americans.”
[Herald Scotland]
As with the Kennedy assassination, some of the “9/11” conspiracy theories, mutually contradictory as some are, cannot be entirely discounted.
One thing that I found odd at the time was that members of the bin Laden family living in the USA at the time were flown out of US airspace on private jets only a day or two after the attacks (the Pentagon also having been hit), and authorized in person, it seems, by George W. Bush, the U.S. President, and at a time before ordinary commercial flights were allowed to resume.
Of course, since the attacks of 2001, the area of the attack has been redeveloped.
The original “Twin Towers” complex was a very powerful architectural statement, partly because of the two almost identical main buildings:
In fact, there were minor differences. I went up both towers. Once only, in 1989, onto the open observation deck of the South Tower:
…and also once only to the Hors d’Oeuvrerie and Cellar in the Sky near the top of the North Tower, where I enjoyed the view and a couple of glasses of Californian Chardonnay with my first wife, an employee of the Federal Government. That would have been in 1990 or 1991.
In fact, during the years 1989-1993 I was occasionally at the World Trade Center, but only because I sometimes used the PATH line from Newark (New Jersey) into Manhattan, a service that terminated either at the WTC or at 33rd Street/Herald Square in Midtown (I more often went to Midtown).
Incidentally, one of the things I noticed about the South Tower was the speed of the very large express lift/elevator (the size of a room), which transported tourists to the floor below the Observation Deck in a matter of only a couple of minutes, if I recall aright. I think 107 floors. There was a staircase from there to the outside Observation Deck.
Having said that, such shouting matches and trivia do have their effect on voter response.
At this point, I have no idea who supposedly “won” the TV debate, or who is going to come out on top in the election.
The “Twitterati”, or Twitter/X twits, heavily pro-Kamala Harris, think that she has “won” the TV debate, but that is near-meaningless: they were also sure that the Remain side would win the Brexit Referendum, and that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
If you're wondering why the ABC moderators are trying to discredit Trump every time he finishes a sentence, it's because David Muir has covers him negatively 93% of the time, and is the most PRO HARRIS host on TV. #Debate2024
America is now so polarized that it would take a President ten times better than the two present contenders rolled together to patch it up.
They are sacrificing pensioners rather than offend their globalist paymasters by cutting climate aid or money to ukraine. They showed who they are early.
Starmer-Labour is a Labour Friends of Israel project.
More reminiscences
It seems that today is a day for Memory Lane.
I notice that Larkbeare House in Exeter, not far from the barristers’ chambers where I was professionally based during the years 2002-2008 (though actually resident much of the time after 2005 and until mid-2009 in France), is up for sale.
Larkbeare House was, at that time (and, indeed, since 1876), the Judges’ Lodgings. High Court and Circuit Judges on the Western Circuit of the Bar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuits_of_England_and_Wales] would stay there when sitting at Exeter.
I attended a couple of receptions there in 2006/2007.
Judges’ Lodgings, which go back hundreds of years, came into existence as a way of isolating judges from the opinions and potential pressures of the local populations, and also protecting them from potential intimidation or protest.
The sale is a sign of the times. The misgovernment of David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne decided to sell off most of the remaining Judges’ Lodgings. Judges now often stay in hotels when on circuit; to my mind not entirely satisfactory.
Incidentally, if anyone wants to buy the property, the “guide price” is £4M.
More tweets
The names of COWARDS.
All these Labour MPs abstained rather than voting against the evil bill that their OWN research claims will kill thousands this winter.
NOT IN MY NAME. I cannot accept being governed by this vindictive, incompetent and morally bankrupt government. How can we take 5 more years of this, the country will be destroyed. How can we let this happen
Say what you like about conservative blokes (or normal men tbh), but they don't block in the same way as their "liberal" equivalents. Proper oestrogen in the water vibes, never mind that two work in JOURNALISM. Probs cowering in a bunker together, the door blocked with bicycles. pic.twitter.com/KHDw0HebEh
She probably worked her whole life, paying tax and NI, so she is eligible for a full state pension. When she was working very few had employer contributed pensions so that is all she has – £221/week – that is £3/week more than the pension credit level. https://t.co/NfZa4HyuS5
I will say it again for those at the back. People just above the Pension Credit threshold are actually far worse off than those who receive it. Pension Credit is a gateway benefit and opens the door to about £3k of financial help. Income of over £218pw denies you that, and WFP.
Another huge response on Winter fuel allowance. This is the MP for Lincoln Hamish Falconer talking to me about why he voted for the cut. https://t.co/idEQxE2qQB
Listen to that little bastard (Hamish Falconer MP). Parroting the exact same words that many “Conservative” MPs did 2010-2024. No difference whatsoever. “Tough choices” etc. The little bastard has never had to make a “tough choice” in his life, let alone one that impacted him personally.
Since leaving the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, Falconer worked as an associate fellow at the IPPR,[6] and was a Policy Fellow at the think tank Labour Together alongside standing as a candidate for Parliament.“
[Wikipedia].
A horrible little System-careerist bastard, in short. Moreover, one born with a double-size silver spoon in his mouth.
There’s absolutely no defence for a LABOUR government to do this! Fix the cut off point first. I hate Cameron with a passion however he made a good point “the upper tax bracket as the cut off point” that way you’re not penalizing those just above the pension credit cut off.
Starmer and his cohorts, including the said horrible little careerist bastard, are sending £3 BILLION a year to the brutal Jewish dictatorship in Kiev, apart from anything else. More than they are confiscating from British pensioners.
As he orders his MPs to vote to freeze pensioners this winter, it is worth remembering that @Keir_Starmer has his own law to protect his pension and he pays no tax on it.
The “Conservative” government of that little Indian money-juggler had to go, had to be binned, but what has replaced it (as I predicted, though not alone) is a kind of useless, pointless, sleazy, box-ticking Blair Mark Two government of would-be dictatorial idiots, headed by chief idiot Starmer.
Nigel Farage asked PM if he understood why people were getting annoyed with two-tier policing. “Is the prime minister aware that there’s increasing frustration in the country over what seems like two-tier policing?” #PMQspic.twitter.com/DncwFkp8O1
Also seen there, jeering, is bad-joke “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice, Shabana Mahmood, a Pakistani woman whose entire “legal career” (even including Bar pupillage) lasted for only about 3 years, mostly spent being a “gopher” at a firm of solicitors.
If you voted @UKLabour you OWN the political choices & pain they will impose on the UK!! Hope it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling in your decision!!
Sour faces on the Government side at PMQs when asked about the removal of the Winter Fuel Allowance for the majority of pensioners.#PMQspic.twitter.com/5C3mE3vqEv
What a line-up of unpleasant individuals. Look at sour-faced would-be dictator Yvette Cooper! Has she been told that her Labour Friends of Israel subscription is due? Have some of her latest fake expenses claims been queried?
Britain is in an economic doom loop.
Punitive taxes, Net Zero zealotry and a bloated state are driving business and growth away.
Labour has punished pensioners by taking away the #WinterFuelAllowance and is raising taxes.
They are already worse. Starmer-Labour, Friends of Israel-Labour, has nothing it really wants to do, except sit as a “government”, get paid well, make connections with big business, and “govern “, punishing anyone who expresses alternative views of the world.
They have no policies worth a plugged nickel, and they have no mandate— only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted for them, and most of those were people wanting only to bin the “Conservative” Party.
Starmer's shocking conduct brought about the extraordinary situation where Sunak looks competent over the winter fuel payments scandal says @wrightismight WHERE'S THE ASSESSMENT?👇https://t.co/4rLKDTysi7
Starmer-Labour has a list of people they want to kill off or at least imprison and/or silence: pensioners (hardly any of whom vote Labour now), alternative political voices, those opposed to Israeli war crimes and the UK Jewish lobby.
This is a (barely-)”elected” dictatorship, composed mainly of people who can fairly, if loosely, be described as traitors.
Talking point
Britain (and some other countries, such as Sweden) in 2024?
It was cats and ducks according to eye witnesses and police worn camera footage but let's not let the facts get in the way of your retarded delusions. https://t.co/e4UzeZzDOS
That Dunt individual is not objective. I believe that he tweeted or retweeted about me a few times in the past. Unpleasant, and usually wrong in his views.
Starmer and his cabal think that the recent protests and their “riotous” offshoots are as bad as it gets for him and Labour. Think again. 4+ years of this type of quasi-tyrannical misgovernment and anything could happen.
“Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are set to be insulated from the impact of energy bill hikes as pensioners face a struggle without winter fuel payments.
The PM and Chancellor only pay a taxable benefit on running costs at the grace-and-favour apartments – capped at 10 per cent of their ministerial salaries.
It means that they contribute around £3,000 to cover all utilities and other expenses, and the sum will not go up when the Ofgem cap increases by 10 per cent next month.
…critics have warned that thousands of pensioners on low-incomes could die through lack of heating when the weather turns.”
[Daily Mail]
Late tweets
This is my MP. HELENA DOLLIMORE, wet behind the ears, newly elected 28 year old, Oxford educated Labour MP who voted with the government and put ambition before vulnerable pensioners in her constituency of Hastings and Rye. pic.twitter.com/WqE1ilrur8
As I have said, Iran’s tactics of uncertainty keep Israel off-balance, but such tactics cannot be kept in deployment forever. In the end, Iran will have to either put up or shut up.
Britain will allow Kiev to use "Storm Shadow" missiles to target targets in Russia , "The Guardian" claims, citing government sources.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said that representatives of NATO countries should be aware of "what they are playing with" when… pic.twitter.com/TXG93GLOJ2
The way things are going, Britain’s future looks very dark (literally), but I should still much prefer this country not to be blasted and irradiated by nuclear war…
The UK must withdraw all support from the Kiev regime.
Farage is right. And he is also the target of major a type of hounding that is very dangerous for democracy.
The Radical Left has near complete institutional control & huge amounts of funding yet can't stomach ONE man, his crime being to provide opposition!
I shall have a little more to say about all that either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Late music
[c.1941: Wehrmacht soldier chats with a Parisienne on the promenade of the Palais de Chaillot, by the gardens of the Trocadero, and across the river from the Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower]
It seems to me that the existence of dedicated cycleways between road and pavement/sidewalk is the key factor, an arrangement I first saw when I was first in the Netherlands, in 1975.
The Vale of Glamorgan farming family being evicted by landowners Legal & General to make way for a new business park. https://t.co/jG06E1UEnd
Crete, as part of Greece, uses the Euro, but even if the £5,000-£6,000 a night cost is nearly 6,000 Euros, that makes little difference. In fact, the ad is clearly aimed at UK people paying in pounds.
On the face of it, there are questions to be answered here.
That man is right. What we are witnessing across the white Western world is an exercise in psychological conditioning on a vast scale. A distortion of the truth on the scale of the “holocaust” narrative, and with far more immediate, and on-the-ground, effects.
Once more, Peter Hitchens trying to fit actual facts into the very outdated “right”/”left” structure of thought. Why bother with this? It is at least 80 years out of date, if not 250 years.
They have gone @jenswoone, not by some accident but because the tax and benefits system, and the greed of employers for cheap labour, brought them to an end. You can get state help for any sort of childcare except the sort you can do yourself. https://t.co/xjUto3OO7y
Lovely to see Blairism still has its defenders in the media even after all this. I never forget the women in Baghdad who gave birth prematurely during the Blair-backed, Bush-imposed 'Shock and Awe'. Shock indeed, but an absence of awe, I rather think. https://t.co/ZErIxhV3Ru
Yes, those who sit in London, or New York City, find it easy to give glib support to the various NWO/ZOG “interventions” in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Libya etc. It is all very different when your own city comes under attack. Two buildings were destroyed, unexpectedly, in New York City in 2001, and the Americans have still not got over the “shock and awe”…
If they tell people to stock up, and people do, then there will be less pressure. Bring down the biosecurity “woke” Australian and New Zealand police state(s)!
Australian former NBA star Andrew Bogut says he was offered money to promote lockdowns, but refused. Clip below, and link to the full 11 minute video released on Instagram yesterday: https://t.co/M2nRfvHlpnpic.twitter.com/vuqk340sM7
Man jailed for eight months for promoting an antilockdown protest in Australia. His sentance was handed out just 1 day after he was arrestedhttps://t.co/KqteLBHzYN
…and all the pseudo-socialists, and self-descibing “Left” on Twitter will welcome the useless untermenschen, and say that they must be prioritized before white Brits. Just as they support “strict lockdown”, the facemask nonsense, “Covid passports” etc. Sick. They have thrown away the substance of socialism while retaining the outward forms of its mid-20thC coercion and propaganda.
I have even seen some (mostly rather old) lunatics (pretending to offer or) offering rooms in their modest homes to migrant-invaders (via Twitter or local newspapers). The same people never offer homeless Brits shelter. Why? Those people are virtue-signallers and/or deluded.
It is absolutely shameful someone should be sent to prison for saying something that offends. Obviously I understand that governments, laws and sentencing are influenced by pressure, funding and lobbying but I didn’t think it would ever be made so obvious.
Ian Robert Millard 