A New Forest farm owner is offering a novel and alternative solution to people looking to dispose of their Christmas trees – by feeding them to her alpacas https://t.co/TAbCdUe99F
What I know about alpacas would probably fill only a very small postcard. I was surprised to read that they can eat fir or pine trees and the like. According to Wikipedia, their usual diet is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca#Diet.
I've got my Union Jack flying high in North West London. Surrounded by non British but don't give a f*ck pic.twitter.com/YrWAMW5ZWR
Police vs rioters in lawless London on New Year’s Eve. Once upon a time, London was not a Third World shithole. Politicians and mass immigration changed that. pic.twitter.com/9bdRNWMXso
You still see tweets etc demanding that “the authorities” or “the Government” should “do something”. Such tweets (etc) miss the point. The “authorities”, “Government”, “Opposition”, mainstream media drones and scribblers, and the craven legal and judicial system, are those, or some of those, responsible, pushing mass immigration, pushing the lie that it is a good thing, and pushing the multikulti society which is in the process of destroying what is left of our own society.
Israeli media publishes an opinion poll showing Netanyahu in last place, with 15% wanting him to become prime minister after the war. pic.twitter.com/bkteLkQPSE
Lost wars are never popular and, while the Israeli war machine is slowly grinding the life out of Gaza, there is no easy victory for the (Israeli) Jews in that theatre, and casualties are mounting (though a small fraction of those suffered by both Gazan combatants and non-combatants).
Meanwhile, it seems to me that the strategic position of Israel has never been so precarious, even in the 1950s. Hezbollah threatens the northern border, Iran is developing longer-range missiles, and the Israeli economy is battered by the Gaza conflict, the evacuation of the northern border areas, by the situation in the Red Sea, and by a worldwide consumer boycott. Also, Israeli society itself seems fragmented, disunited.
To my mind, and for the first time in my lifetime [b. 1956] one can see a possibility, even a probability, that the State of Israel may not survive for very long into the future. Ironically, the nuclear and other advanced weapons of Israel may prove to be irrelevant, in that what seems most likely is a mass “invasion” or insurrection by lightly-armed militants (as in the recent Hamas incursions into southern Israel). Israel cannot use its most powerful weapons on its own territory.
A word about junior doctors striking
I have little time for the selfish yet virtue-signalling junior doctors. Many of them are useless anyway, and now we see that, when push comes to shove, they are willing to abandon their patients in order to demand better pay.
Yes, there remains a “skeleton service”, but that is a conscience-salve equivalent to the blank round given secretly to a randomly-selected member of a firing squad.
What about that pay? In the first year of work, they get a basic salary around £33,000, but that can greatly increase for overtime work of various kinds. Many are making over £45,000.
Admittedly, £33,000 is no fortune, but that is, after all, for persons recently-qualified. There are huge numbers of people in the UK making less, even after 20 or 30 years of work, and that is even disregarding the unemployed, sick, disabled, pensioners etc.
A second year doctor in a hospital gets £37,000+ (up to about £50,000).
Salaried GPs get between £70,000 and £105,000. Partner-GPs get far more.
Hospital doctors get increments annually; a complicated series of payments for various training programmes and placements raises the salary of many far beyond the minima.
NHS consultants start (in their first year of consultancy) on basic pay of just under £100,000, and make far more with seniority etc.
I say nothing about whether doctors (at any level) “should” get more pay, simply that it is disgusting that the junior ones seem willing to abandon sick and helpless people, often very vulnerable people, often people in pain (and in need of strong painkillers which can only be prescribed by doctors, meaning the “men —and women— in white coats”).
If junior doctors and, beyond that, what is so often —and cringingly— called “our NHS” callously abandon the British people, it may be that the British people will eventually abandon the doctors and demand a health service that works for its patients and not mainly for the benefit of those that work in it.
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Remember in 2019 when ABC News Anchor Amy Robach was allegedly stopped from airing her Jeffrey Epstein expose implicating Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton at Epstein Island? Did Hillary Clinton ask ABC to stop? pic.twitter.com/O3KQ62n5FH
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein’s court documents with the list of over 200 names is getting released in a few hours. Nothing will ever be the same again. pic.twitter.com/WFVvZYWJor
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) January 2, 2024
Actually, I do have one observation to make, which is that, obviously, in this conflict, truth has been the first casualty, but that, after truth, the next casualty has been the supposedly “elite” reputation of the Israeli Army.
I see that opinion polls are now indicating that Trump is gaining ground among the “young”, Hispanic, and black voters. That could be a gamechanger, if Trump can survive to be voted in and his second term inaugurated.
We are constantly fed an NWO/ZOG msm narrative about how “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) is “defeating Russia”. Is it true?
What would “Ukraine defeating Russia” look like, ultimately? Presumably, in that scenario, all Russian forces would be forced to leave behind not only the pre-2022 borders of Ukraine but also the Crimea, the population of which is at least 85% Russian and only a few percent Ukrainian now (there are also Crimean Tatars and others).
So, in that scenario, Russia would have been driven back into its own unargued territory, and kept there by Ukrainian/Kiev-regime military might. Is there any logic at all to that?
Russia is, of course, famously the largest country in the world, over six and a half million square miles, so about 72 times the size of the whole of the UK, and 29 times the size of Ukraine (even including Crimea and the Donbass). A country which covers one-eighth of the landmass of the entire planet.
Russia has a population of over 144 million (147 million if Crimea is included); Ukraine had 41 million people (excluding Crimea) in 2021, before the Russian invasion or incursion, but about 20% of the population of Ukraine (I suspect the relatively affluent layer) has fled beyond Ukraine, so the real population, at present, is perhaps 30 million.
Russia has, therefore, almost five times the population of Ukraine.
Russia’s economy may not be booming, now that Western (NWO/ZOG) sanctions have hit hard, but it is still functioning. Russia is getting huge amounts from oil and gas (and mineral) sales, and has, of course, no problem with generating electricity. Russia’s domestic agriculture has actually been stimulated by the Western sanctions which prohibit import and export.
Compare that to Ukraine— it has very limited sources of fuel of all kinds, its electricity generating and distribution capacity is being smashed, possibly beyond easy repair, its industry is scarcely operational, and its agriculture is unable to export easily.
Even before the invasion/incursion of 2022, Wikipedia noted that “Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capita.”
The only material advantage that Ukraine has is that the Kiev regime is in receipt of enormous amounts of Western aid: arms, ammunition, military transport, food, clothing, medical supplies, and money.
There is no suggestion that Ukrainian forces can either invade or destroy Russian territory or cities. There can, likewise, be no suggestion that Ukrainian forces will actually topple Putin or the existing Russian Government (unless obliquely— e.g. should a coup d’etat take place).
The most that the Ukrainian forces can do, the peak of their realistic ambition, would be to expel all Russian forces from the pre-2014 Ukrainian borders, and then dig in, in effect.
Russia’s war aims have never been openly or clearly expressed in a manner that makes any sense, but part of them would be the necessity to demilitarize Ukraine, something that is now impossible without Russian control over the bulk of the territory, including Kiev.
Under other circumstances, Russia might now be sitting on the entire eastern half of Ukraine (ie Ukraine east of the Dnieper), but “we are where we are”, in the tiresome phrase.
As I predicted would happen on the blog months ago, Russian forces have recently been trying to think outside the box by applying “oblique warfare”, targeting the electricity production and generating system deep inside Ukraine, using missiles and drones.
While the Kiev-regime forces have supposedly been downing most of the attacking missiles, the ones that are getting through have been smashing the electrical system of Ukraine to pieces. What next? Possibly the railway network.
Russia is said to be mobilizing more troops, possibly with the idea of a mass assault on Kiev next summer.
Unless a peace treaty or armistice can be agreed and executed, the war can only escalate. However, Russia can only “win” this ghastly mess of a war by taking Kiev and toppling the present Kiev regime.
Hard to see why anyone not very feeble-minded would send money to “Jack Monroe” after reading that Tattle Life exposé . Surprising, therefore, to see that no fewer than 647 utter mugs are still sending her £3.50-£44 monthly, a total of between £2,265 and £28,468, each and every month. “A nice little earner“, in the estuary argot, even if the actual total amount sent is nearer to —at a guess— maybe £6,000 or £7,000 a month rather than the maximum. Probably taxfree as well.
I have no idea whether the Essex Police, Metropolitan Police, trading standards officers, or fundraising regulators are “on the case” or not. If not, though, why not?
“The composer of Jerusalem has been effectively ‘cancelled’ by the Royal College of Music (RCM) because his views on race a century ago are unacceptably offensive to today’s woke students, The Mail on Sunday understands.“
I have also been there (in the 1980s). Just as well that Blake and I do not walk around that part of London now; we might get stabbed by some untermensch, almost certainly non-white.
I recall having a beer at the Clock House pub once, in the late 1980s.
[The Clock House pub, Peckham Rye]
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I don’t say this with any glee: it sucks to be Cassandra all the time. It’s just that I’m nearly 60 & childless, it’s been a bit of a dreadful year here, & I’ll be checked out well before the inevitable social disintegration that’s now looming can do any worse to me.
A brief list of things that the press has declared white supremist in the last two years:
Exercise Healthy food The scientific method Being on time Reading old books Using correct grammar Christianity The nuclear family Opposing the sexualization of children Self defense
Preview my column in toimorrow's The Mail on Sunday : 'Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can’t even run our own?'https://t.co/elimw0DtcB via @mailplus
Peter Hitchens’ column is worth publishing in full:
“What a twisted society we have become. We stir up wars in other people’s countries and praise ourselves for doing it.
But there is no political reward for protecting our own people against crime and disorder on their streets and in their homes. It is no longer clear if anyone is governing the country at all, so busy are we putting other nations to rights.
Burglaries go unprevented, uninvestigated and unpunished, in colossal numbers. Our capital city seethes with uncontrolled knife crime and stinks of marijuana.
Christmas brings news of terrible ultra-violent crimes in supposedly peaceful suburban areas. Migrants stride boldly ashore in unknown numbers. We pay heavy taxes for pitiful services, cratered roads and a health system that is the envy of nobody.
Yet, nothing happens about all this. The surest way to gain praise in politics is to make simple-minded statements about a crisis abroad and demand that we send bombs and shells to some strife-torn state, or actually bomb it ourselves.
The idea that such things are often complicated and dangerous, and may do harm, has faded from view. When Prime Minister Anthony Eden dragged us into his disastrous attack on Egypt in 1956, the entire country was bitterly divided. And rightly so. The archives, when they were opened, showed that the adventure was based on lies, futile and doomed.
When the USA sank up to its waist in the bloody mud of Vietnam in the 1960s, the whole world was at odds. Once again, now that the truth is revealed, we know that thousands of brave men died, and many more thousands of innocent civilians were killed, because of a mistake.
But since the Blair revolution of 1997, pious, allegedly virtuous foreign crusades have come back into fashion. Criticising them gets you into trouble. There is only one permitted view. Few go back to find out how things actually went.
The Kosovo episode, for instance, did not bring paradise to that part of the world. Nor did the Iraq invasion. I know most people now pretend to have been against it at the time but as one who actually was against it at the time, I can assure you that they are mistaken. It had wide support. The same goes for the daft adventures in Afghanistan and Libya.
In fact, the last three did so much harm that it will never be measured. Together they began the era of mass migration from the Middle East and Africa to Western Europe. This is probably the biggest event in human history since the First World War, and perhaps bigger.
How can we do all this stamping about in foreign countries when we are so bad at governing our own and also not very strong? Our country doesn’t work properly. You can’t even see a doctor. The police are equally invisible. Our Army is as tiny as our debts are huge. Our grandest new warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, has broken down. Even when it works, we have to borrow aircraft from the Americans to fly off it.
None of this will be properly discussed at the rapidly approaching General Election and nobody will stand in that poll who prefers reforming Britain to foreign policy fantasy abroad. Why do we put up with it?“
My rhetorical answer to Hitchens’ rhetorical question? This:
“The British/English people do not rebel against all of the above, not yet anyway, because they are bombarded with propaganda brainwashing 24/7, because few have either the independence of thought, or the (real) education, to stand against the tide, and because the “plebs” think that all that matters, or that the main matter of importance, is whether the “England” sports teams (which are now largely black or brown anyway) win some meaningless game, match, or tournament somewhere or other in the world.”
That, and because those in political life, those of great wealth, those in the mainstream media, who should all be protecting the people, are exactly those who, from malice, evil, or just sheer inability and lack of basic competence (as with “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, Woollyhead Trussbanger —Kwasi Kwarteng— etc), are encouraging migration-invasion of this country, are letting standards and services slide, and are preventing —by ever more repressive laws— even obviously justified criticism from being made. They are, in effect, signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.”
[the odd link immediately above now seems to be the only one for the interesting Western Spring article].
Incidentally, I see that the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday is now, yet again, refusing to allow its readers to comment on Hitchens’ column, no doubt afraid that the readers will leave comments hostile to mass immigration, migration-invasion, “intervention” in foreign wars or countries, or even (could it be?) comments hostile to the Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev…
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From bison to pine martens to white storks, it's been a landmark year for species reintroductions in Britain. As we come to the end of 2022, it's amazing to know their footprints are amongst ours in the snow.
“The number of white terrorism suspects being arrested in Britain has outstripped those of Asian appearance for the third year in a row.
Official figures show that 89 white people were arrested on suspicion of terror offences in 2020, compared with 63 Asian suspects, 15 black suspects and 18 of other ethnicities.“
“Almost one-third of arrests had resulted in a charge by the end of December.” [The Independent]
So only about 20 or 25 white British persons were charged (with something, but not necessarily “terrorism”-related offences).
We have seen, in recent months and years, many people, mainly young, arrested, some charged and (despite a number of acquittals) some sentenced to fairly long periods of imprisonment on the basis of evidence that would have shamed the Star Chamber, or some 1950s socialist satellite-state’s “people’s court”: Swastika-shaped cookie-cutters, Swastika designs on cushions, young men shooting their mouths off in pubs about killing MPs, young men buying Samurai swords (what century is this?!) for supposedly murderous purposes; young women naming their babies Adolf etc…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber].
What I see in the msm is mainly some contrived “cases” based on evidence much of which shows completely lawful activity (see above) which is then twisted into a “terrorism” narrative by police, MI5 perhaps, and the CPS.
Of course, now that political groups can be “banned” by System political decision, all that the police and CPS have to do is weave a web suggesting that X belongs, or has belonged, to Y or Z organization.
If someone decides to commit an offence, then that is their decision and they take the risk of the consequences, but much of what we have seen is quite obviously a manufactured “terror threat” tailor-made for the newspapers and TV to present as a reason to further repress free speech and free political activity by white British people.
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Wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) thrives on this south-facing railway embankment at Maidstone's High Level Bridge Pocket Nature Reserve. Every town & city could create a network of such nature opportunity sites, where less maintenance will enable life to return.🌳@RewildingBpic.twitter.com/vLRKbuNKQH
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 3, 2021
Restoring lost tree cover, including sessile oak, wild service, crab apple & purging buckthorn, to this urban green space on #WorldWildlifeDay2021. Planting of uncommon trees & shrubs (in biodegradable cardboard guards), will be complemented by natural regeneration & rough grass. pic.twitter.com/uY9JnNr0dO
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 3, 2021
I spend much of my time talking to journalists and researchers obsessed with the cultural and political divisions around #rewilding. What is rarely reported is the huge groundswell of interest from young people hoping for a nature-rich future. #GenerationRestorationpic.twitter.com/Luwau1wjJa
A robin perches on signage at Buckland Hill Pocket Nature Reserve. A tiny brown-field site encompassing a part-demolished WW2 air raid shelter, spring-line, wet ditch, pond, hedge, secondary woodland & clearing, bramble thicket, undulating bare ground & tall ruderals.@RewildingBpic.twitter.com/okdgq13s7I
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 4, 2021
White dead-nettle (Lamium album) is an introduced (archaeophyte) perennial, long-established in woodland edges, hedgerows, verges & brownfield sites. It provides important early-season nectar & pollen for bees & other pollinators.🐝 @wildflower_hour@BSBIbotany@Britnatureguidepic.twitter.com/0iyrvr2eOQ
— Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone (@URewilding) March 6, 2021
The brain was frazzled, the weather was perfect, the bike was calling. 20 mins later, the soul was soothed surrounded by a sea of young pines on the march in every direction across @CairngormsCo. #futureforestpic.twitter.com/VYrLdyXDFH
Well, there’s a surprise! “Antifa” cheerleader Mike Stuchbery interested in the Tarot. Truly, as the Russian proverb has it, “the soul of another is a dark wood“! [чужая душа темный лес].
I was once, especially in the 1980s, very interested in different systems of divination: tarot, astrology, the I Ching etc. I settled on the I Ching as the one that worked best for me, though astrology can be accurate too; I don’t mean the rubbish found in newspaper columns; I used to cast my own charts using ephemeris tables etc (no computer programmes in those days, at least not for me). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching.
The one time head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Maurice Oldfield, was very interested in occult methods or disciplines such as astrology (both Western and Chinese), and in a Chinese system called “Nine Star Ki” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Star_Ki].
Oldfield apparently used a mixture of methods as a way of assessing character. For example, he is said to have remarked upon the fact that, using both Western and Chinese astrology, Kim Philby was a “Capricornian Pig”: see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biography-Sir-Maurice-Oldfield/dp/0356104001. [Caveat: not everyone regards Deacon as the most veracious writer on the subject(s) of espionage and intelligence, but his books are interesting and original; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McCormick].
John le Carre [David Cornwell] had one of his characters call “Control” (the head of the Secret Service in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), “a positive serpent“. Oldfield was certainly (one reads) a very complex character, probably one model for le Carre’s character, “Smiley”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Oldfield;
In that Western/Chinese conflation, I would be a “Virgoan Monkey”! Western (sun in) Virgo, Chinese Monkey (Fire Monkey, 1956).
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Another beautiful day at Bealtaine Cottage! The old #compost heap is almost transferred to it’s new site and I will be moving the #rhubarb to it’s new bed. #herbs are growing and blossom is appearing all over the #permaculture gardens, even on the #Nectarine tree in the tunnel! pic.twitter.com/PZQkDt2rxe
I might not agree with all of that lady’s superficial political views, but her experience of having turned a typically near-treeless Irish landscape into something beautiful and productive is worth examination.
I was listening on the car radio to the pathetic BBC Radio 4 PM show yesterday. Vox pop from Liverpool. A mixture of the half-witted and the lunatic, with a couple of more or less sensible voices as well. One loonie said that he has been washing pineapples bought in supermarkets in case the outer husk has “the virus” on it!
This one especially – Perhaps if less time and money was spent on non-existent 'hate-crime' – but in the meantime this copper is like a coiled spring ready to arrest a burglar. pic.twitter.com/xO2TqsnX8k
One of the best assaults on the pandemic hoax in the mainstream press published in the Mail this morning. Seems to be a crack opening up between the liberal elite with their global Communist #GreatReset and some of the old capitalist elite. Big shift!https://t.co/ZJs3cQO6yA
The Keys of this Blood is well worth reading even today, 30 years after first publication (which is when I first read it).
“Martin wrote this book as a geopolitical and georeligious analysis of the last decades of the 20th century. He identifies this period as the millennium end-game for a new world order, which has three main contenders. It will establish the first ever one-world government. Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and international business leaders are in competition to establish this one world government and that this competition will intensify around the turn of the 21st century (around 2000). The book further claims to be an inside account of what the pope is doing to win this geopolitical struggle and how he played an instrumental role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain.“
“Martin identifies the three main players vying for world domination in the world today and thus lays the ground for his historical analysis: materialism with the East and West in their communism or socialism and capitalism or liberalism, which he places on one side together, and the Roman Catholic Church, the only truly geopolitical spiritual organization in existence today. One of the two sides must win, for they cannot coexist.” [Wikipedia]
I wonder, though, whether Martin’s conclusion is still valid, bearing in mind that the present Pope (possibly the last Pope) is “on side” with secular globalism and with transnational ideas such as “The Great Reset” and “The Great Replacement”. Significantly, Pope Francis is a Jesuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis.
The other great change since the book was published in 1990 has been the disappearance of socialism across the world. In all forms, not only the old SovBloc. In fact, that started to happen a few years before 1990.
We have seen that socialism has not only “failed”, if you like, but has become a shadow of its former self; if you like, a “spectre”, no longer “haunting Europe” like the 19thC/20thC communism of The Communist Manifesto, but lingering here and there, powerlessly, like wisps of mist.
The Roman Catholic presence, still powerful 30 years ago, has also faded. The child abuse scandals worldwide weakened the Church hugely, despite the fact that such crimes also existed and exist in other organizations such as those of the secular state(s).
The general materialism of the age, stronger since 1989, has also sapped all life from the Roman Catholic and other churches.
What is left on the main stage is transnational capitalism and, with it, a “communitarian” consensus/conspiracy on a huge scale. “Black Lives Matter” and the “virus” “panicdemic” are just parts of all that.
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Cover of book published back on July by boss of the #WorldEconomicForum. The slogan was first used by UN Sendai report in 2015. So the liberal elite media are right to say there's no 'conspiracy' – because the whole globalist #greatreset coup is being done in plain sight. pic.twitter.com/Q86jQAHIc2
Anyone, of any rank or condition, who supports or encourages the migration invasion, is an evil traitor and must be dealt with.
Yes @rustyjeffears , I am sick of being told that Johnson really, really hates what he is doing. In that case, he should stop doing it. https://t.co/muH10vDFju
1/2 I spent several years as a Parliamentary lobby reporter, @primeshade, and so have no difficulty in accepting that politicians are often poorly-informed, prone to panic, not very bright and unwilling to admit error. https://t.co/IAwansK57G
Actually, Jonathan Sumption is a distinguished historian with a great knowledge of human society, which he has put to practical use on the bench. Proportionality between action and supposed purpose is one of the things which history explores. https://t.co/EfWVz9wQcG
I mean, it is bizarre that Johnson is talking of a new big Navy and a space programme, while this is going on. Is he in an alternative reality? https://t.co/GITJ0yNplA
It does not surprise me that Boris-idiot is full of “ideas” such as a big navy, a space programme etc. They are the sort of puerile ideas that he has: bridges over not only rivers but even seas, superfast trains, cable cars, fantasy airports on fantasy islands. Schoolboy ideas.
“Boris” has no serious ideas at all; he’s just not up to it. Anything involving real thought about the direction of society is just too complicated for him. He is a simple pizza and booze (and ****) person, not someone fitted to be a Prime Minister.
Conservative Freedom Works. Christmas is now the property of the state, which will allow you to celebrate it if it thinks you’ve been good. pic.twitter.com/yrUjZZuKbc
Is this a surprise? The Cabinet, including the person posing as Prime Minister, are a bunch of Jews, part-Jews, Indians etc. What does Christmas mean to them anyway? What does England or Britain mean?
The hidden persuaders who clamber inside your mind. You think that's your own opinion? Don't be so sure. https://t.co/LyRzLwGdi1
So,@MattHancock@Helen_Whately you both think that this acceptable seeing our mum? Like she's in prison! 57years married and now dad can't even touch her hand 😓 all because of your care home guidelines! You are torturing all of us!This has got to stop! @rightsforresid2pic.twitter.com/WN1MktKzWT
At some point, the British people have to stand up against this, against all of this, meaning the fear propaganda, the fake scientific “advice”, the invalid “rules” and “laws”, the ZOG/NWO “government”, the facemask nonsense, and the rest of it.
Sadly, I see only small signs of rebellion (active rebellion) so far.
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Meanwhile, in Germany. Massive protest today in the German capital of Berlin as the Merkel government wants to pass a new law against the coronavirus outbreak which destroys fundamental rights of the citizens. pic.twitter.com/XOhzuJ4dGP
— NinnyD 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 Waiting~4~the Revolution (@ninnyd101) November 18, 2020
Another BBC, Sky, CNN etc cover up. Stunning footage as infamously brutal & robotic #Paris riot police remove helmets in solidarity with crowds protesting against repressive new laws proposed by Macron, including outlawing posting photos of police brutality online.#Resistancepic.twitter.com/1Vl442Wz41
Possibly a normal decline in the prevalence of the virus @amie0311. Who can say? But the timings mean that the decline after April 8 *cannot* have been caused by a shutdown on March 23. Almost two weeks too soon. https://t.co/zHiWanlflI
Pretty much the same @amie0311 , there is no evidence, not even correlation, that all these shutdowns have any effect. Amazing, I know, but there it is. My advice, stop believing what governments tell you without checking. https://t.co/2ZSeWfnvXH
The police are no longer enforcers of law but enforcers of arbitary Government diktats presented variously as “advice”, “rules” and “laws”.
The failure of press, Parliament, courts and public opinion to challenge arbitrary authority since March has created or revived the Strong State almost everywhere. This was what I was trying to warn against, while so many sat on their backsides. Probably too late now. https://t.co/FzjGYmkr3z
“There is no religion higher than truth” [Theosophical saying], and now that science has become, at times, quasi-religion, the same saying applies, mutatis mutandis.
Presidential pardon
Trump still has over 2 months in which he can pardon social-national prisoners being held in Federal prisons. Just do it!
“Votes, constitutions, divine salvation, and other solutions are the pipe dreams of cowards or the honey coated deceptions of enemy agents. A people without the courage or integrity to identify their executioners, or their executioners’ institutions, are doomed to extinction.” [David Lane]
I agree with the second part of that paragraph by David Lane, though not necessarily with all of the first part. As to the “14 words”, they are the bedrock of our belief.
Light relief
Silly, but it made me laugh:
“A group of five Jewish women are eating lunch in a busy cafe. Nervously, the waiter approaches their table. “Ladies,” he says. “Is anything okay?”” [anon.]
“Lockdown”/shutdown economic news
“The average house price fell for the third month in a row in May, according to an index.
Across the UK, a 0.2% month-on-month decline in property values in May took the average house price to £237,808, Halifax said.” [MSN News]
“…employment is expected to continue to fall, until the end of 2020 when it could be down by as much as [10 points].“[Yahoo Finance]
“The Bank of England has lent nearly £2 billion to some of Britain’s biggest airlines and paid £1 billion to a German chemicals giant as part of its emergency pandemic funding, it has been revealed.
Ryanair and easyJet have won loans of £600 million each, with BA ownerIAG and Wizz Air both accessing £300 million, raising concerns from environmental campaigners who want the loans to come with strings attached.
The central bank revealed 53 businesses had borrowed a total of £16.25 billion under the scheme, as it published a full list of all borrowers on Thursday.” [MSN Money]
“Car dealership Lookers plans to cut 1,500 jobs and close 12 dealerships as it returns to selling and servicing vehicles after the coronavirus shutdown.” [The Guardian]
“British Airways (BA) has told staff it is burning through £178m of cash a week and does not have “an absolute right to exist”.” [Sky News]
“The luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda plans to make 500 workersredundant as it looks to cut costs under new chief executive, Tobias Moers, because of the slump in sales due to the coronavirus pandemic.” [The Guardian]
For “coronavirus pandemic“, read “lockdown/shutdown”…
Coronavirus
Official figures now released show that the number of people in the UK with Coronavirus is under 1 per every 1,000 of the population.
Hardly anyone even has it now, let alone requires any form of medical care, yet this government of idiots continues with the ludicrous and hugely-damaging “lockdown” (shutdown) and has now even laid down a quasi-dictatorial “rule” that anyone using a bus or train must wear a facemask.
This whole thing is rubbish. The scientist -“advisers” have been proven to be rubbish, the government have been proven to be rubbish, as have the police and the msm (including the “free” Press); likewise the virtue-signalling Twitter mob; last but not least, the British public have been proven to be rubbish, first for not bothering to properly examine the facts, for not bothering to think for themselves; also, for not bothering to stand up for their own or anyone else’s freedom of expression and belief, and for allowing centuries of civil rights to be expunged overnight, for nothing.
Typical “cuck”
Typical “cuck” (in Americanese…I use it because English English would need half a dozen words, some of them expletives):
The waste of space and oxygen above claims to be friendly with the two below, who say that they are in danger of being killed by the British police! Only if they trip over the police while the latter are “bending the knee”, surely?
Two 18-year-old organisers of the London Black Lives Matter protest make incredible claim https://t.co/uq6XtpJhgl
Because we know this stuff is more or less permanent, until either a) the government admits it was all a mistake or b) the next panic begins. Which of those is more likely? The most amazing thing has been the willingness of supposedly free people to submit to absurd regulations. https://t.co/bPMCTmrUxY
Hitchens is right. In a free country, which (speaking loosely) the UK was, once, an “emergency” regulation such as the diktat to wear masks on public transport would have (if ever implemented), have an end date or point. Not this time.
This time, people are to wear masks until told not to, despite the fact that (as I guessed some time ago) only 1 in 1,000 British people, or people living in Britain (even including the far more susceptible blacks, browns and Jews) even have the Chinese virus; despite the fact that the vast majority of people either are never infected or are infected but show no symptoms; despite the fact that almost all those infected need no medical help at all; despite the fact that (even on official inflated statistics) the death toll is about 1 out of 1,900 people and the real death toll about 1 out of 10,000 people.
Why do people submit to this absurdity? I think that there are several reasons, one being that those who refuse to be put into muzzles will not be allowed onto buses, train, planes etc, or will be fined.
Another reason is because people are brainwashed by the constant msm propaganda pumped out. There is virtually no real dissent on TV or radio. The TV news has become a terminally dull recitation of official propaganda: split-screens full of multiracial children howling pop songs “for the NHS” or some such, and “interviews” with dull academics or government drones. Foreign news is almost absent, except eulogies for the deceased black robber/community leader in Minnesota.
Perhaps the most English reason to submit to wearing a facemask is that of wanting not to be seen causing a scene, not to be heard complaining…
“Equivalent to wearing a dirty tissue “ as described by an nhs nurse . They’re germ harbourers.
— Beaumont 🌍🇬🇧💙💛🇪🇺 (@Beaumon93854163) June 4, 2020
The Jew Shapps again. My tweet identifying him (as if that were necessary) as a fraudulent Jew was one of the tweets (in the end, 5 tweets, out of over 150,000) that resulted in my disbarment (8 years after I had given up practice!), so I am pleased to repeat the identification, in case some typically naive English people are unaware…
'Have we been duped?' asks Frederick Forsyth in the dear old Daily Express. Yes, Freddie, we have been. But gosh, we could have done with more people saying so from the start. https://t.co/aN7kprYTbA
'Draconian restrictions were not responsible for the decline in [Covid] deaths and cases' ''https://t.co/D6lX3G56f9 Looking forward to that Public Inquiry.
Evidence from Oxford CEBM (Chart4) https://t.co/Fyzd4932gM that Covid peaked on April 8th, before the Johnson Panic could have had time to affect it, is backed up by this study showing infections falling before the Panic measures began. https://t.co/D6lX3G56f9
Slowly, slowly, the doubts creep in. Even in the Panic Zealot’s Gazette :’The costs are too high': the scientist who wants lockdown lifted faster https://t.co/vcqmZBHTts
The only reason why it has taken so long for the “blame game” to start is because, so far, the “lockdown” (government shutdown of the economy and society) has not hit very many individual people or families very hard. That is changing, and with it is going what remains of the post-GE2019 “Boris bounce”:
NEW from @IpsosMORI: Starmer opens up a clear lead over Johnson in terms of 'net favourability' and Labour draw level with Cons. But that is just part of the story – read on for more…. pic.twitter.com/JW1AtnGsJu
As far as “financial genius” and “future Prime Minister” Rishi Sunak is concerned, less is now heard of him. I wonder whether his —so far unmerited— reputation for sagacity will survive the coming economic cataclysm, or whether he will just keep his head down while Boris-idiot takes the flak.
Boris-idiot himself is trying to keep his head down (for once), but that is the one thing all but impossible for a prime minister to do. Fairly or not, the buck really does stop at the door of no. 10.
Strange “fact”
In the 1970s, it was said that the entire population of the UK could be housed at a density similar to Hampstead Garden Suburb and within 30 or perhaps it was 35 miles of Charing Cross. Of course, since then the population has gone up from about 56 millions to maybe 65 million and possibly 70 millions, thanks to mass immigration and births to immigrants, and to the offspring of immigrants, so maybe that would read “35-40 miles” now.
I once, in the late 1970s, lived partly at Reigate Hill, Surrey; before that, in a house just over the top of Reigate Hill, not far from where the M25 interchange now is (the M25 was still being laid out then, in 1977 and the few years beyond). On the road there (the A217), was a sign, “London 20 miles”. Surprisingly close in miles, though it did not really feel so close to London, the outer suburban sprawl of which started about 6 miles North of that sign, beyond Burgh Heath.
Not that I like Hampstead Garden Suburb much. I knew someone who lived there. To me, it was just generally underwhelming, neither country nor town.
Having said that, there are worse places in which to live. Mancunian council estates; privately-owned but poorly-conceived tract housing, with (in many cases) small gardens, inadequate parking, no public green space etc; then there is Earl’s Court, or Magnitogorsk…
[above: Magnitogorsk, conceived and built mainly during the 1930s][above: Magnitogorsk State Technical University]
[above: a Danish planned community][above: a Chinese development]
Tweets recently seen
Over 40,000 loyal British Airways staff face the prospect of losing their livelihoods or potentially being re-interviewed for their own jobs on vastly reduced terms — to be clear: in other countries, this is not happening to their national airlines. https://t.co/Kh4YPjFxjO
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Ah, @McCarthylarry, I see you have mistaken a *fall* in *unemployment* from a cataclysmic 14.7% to a catastrophic 13.3% ( a change resulting from the relaxation of the shutdown) for a *rise* in *employment*. I should check this month’s figures against those if a year ago, first. https://t.co/kZREdS7wpw
I wondered how long it would take them to do this. Their original advice was *so* inconvenient to so many governments. But of course this change has *nothing* to do with politics. https://t.co/TyYGZTRwEC
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