A very truncated blog post today (by reason of a computer connection problem), so I shall write a little tonight, then add more tomorrow.
Facemask nonsense
While running a few errands yesterday (in the American phrase), I saw quite a few silly people still wearing masks even outdoors, including several people wearing them while walking on a clifftop overlooking the Channel! In a strong breeze of at least 15 mph, at that! I saw one family, a man, woman and two small children, all masked on the clifftop! They must have noticed my gaze, or realized the absurdity of their behaviour, because I noticed that when they walked back 10 minutes later, only the woman was still wearing the mask.
Admittedly, most people were not wearing the masks outdoors, but in a Tesco supermarket about 6 miles from my home, more wearing masks than not. However, no-one looked oddly at unmasked me, let alone said some, or any, virtue-signalling nonsense.
I get the impression that, now, the facemasks are less about any perceived (wrongly imagined) health benefits and more about saying “look, I am a member of the virtue-signallers’ tribe”…
Oddly, in view of the fact that most Jews (at least on Twitter) seem to be facemask zealots, I saw a horrible-looking Jewish woman unmasked; not at that supermarket, but in a large village somewhat inland; she was with not only three small children (one actually wearing one of those skullcaps…a yarmulka?), but also two even younger ones, pushed in a double pushchair. None were masked, in fact. An unpleasant sight all the same. An unusual thing to see in this part of the world.
Having said that, I wonder whether Israel can be eliminated within the next, say, 10 years? If so, the centre of the worldwide web would be gone. That would certainly be strategically-good news.
You tell the doctor, Petey! But I'd look him up before lecturing him too sternly on the subject. Amusingly, I'm sure you'd be among those telling *me* I'm not an expert.And I'm not. But here we have a risk manager instructing a UCL medical doctor and epidemiologist on masks. https://t.co/O5Gm6M3tWI
If Lloyds Bank can’t even sustain a branch 200 yards from Oxford Circus, how long before there are no bank branches at all? Closure notice, Upper Regent Street. pic.twitter.com/4unrahXMgA
Society is moving towards the individual becoming totally dependent on centralized control.
The abuse spans the period when the police in #Bradford & other northern towns were accusing complaining parents, and campaigning BNP activists, of 'racism' for daring to speak of this. They refused to lift a finger. Still, better late than never!https://t.co/BfnXRm1Of7
So did the late, great Christopher Booker. The campaign to restore our political independence was hijacked by a collection of Ultra-Thatcherite free trade buccaneers, who couldn't care less about this country's history and institutions. https://t.co/JKV2HNxjhJ
Also note in the Guantanamo *pictures* 20 years ago that the chained prisoners are in several cases wearing little blue cloth masks. Hard to see what purpose they serve – except to emphasise the submission and subservience of the captives. https://t.co/7yxY1EAkmc
Lest we forget. Please read this excellent, dispiriting article about the War on Freedom. DAVID ROSE reveals the savagery at Guantanamo Bay https://t.co/orPD4gaVko via @MailOnline
Now that Fiona Onasanya is no longer an MP, Claudia Webbe may be the flag-carrier for thick-as-two-short-planks non-white female MPs in the Commons. Painfully thick.
Ha. Quite. Seems that the holes in cloth masks are 500,000x the size of “Covid-19” particles. In other words, facemasks are all but pointless. The main reason millions of “rabbits” are still wearing them (many even outside!) is because those deluded people want to proclaim that they are members of the tribe and/or good compliant citizen-serfs.
A couple of days ago, I saw two teenage girls, maybe 16-17, talking on the high street of a small town. Strong sunshine, a fairly strong breeze, no people anywhere near them either, and they were both wearing facemasks! One black mask and one polka dot mask. The masks did not match their outer clothing, anyway! Why were they behaving like that? God knows. Social conditioning. MSM conditioning. Such people are beyond reach. I drove on, shaking my head…
The illicit purported “laws” are now in place. Should the government of clowns want to mandate facemasks again, say in November, or December, 2021, and on some spurious biosecurity ground, they will be able to do so, and millions of citizen-serfs will obey, at once.
1/2 Of course it is about whether masks work @mrssarahmurray. That was its stated purpose. And the study said there was no statistically significant difference for the infection outcomes between those who wore tham and those who didn't. https://t.co/y87FpwkQXO
Indeed @briwright70. The UK Department for Business and Enterprise used the wording 'the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likley to be small' in many guides to businessmen in June 2020. Then masks were politicised. https://t.co/aN2o37uver
Israel doesn't murder children exclusively. Stats prove that. They focus on children whether it's live fire or administrative detention. Or wounding. Or multiple rounds into a soccer players foot denying them a future. Israel is one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.
“Bronco Bullfrog@BroncoBullfrog_·Replying to @jackscht and @MaierVivThis is the tiny memorial to honour the British men and women killed by Zionist terrorists in Palestine. It was funded by the families of those killed because the British government refused to pay for it.”
Peter Hitchens: "Brexit was designed to save the Conservative Party rather than the country…..and that's what it ended up doing….Instead of being dominated by Brussels we are now pushed around by China. I don't see that as much of a swap frankly."https://t.co/BOMs8ZyoX0
In the end, only a synthesis of old-style National Socialism with new social nationalism, the better aspects of old-style socialism, and the less raw aspects of private enterprise, all combined in a new way, can save Europe now.
Late music
[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians”]
I suppose that some people will accuse me of being “anti-vaccination” or an “anti-vaxxer”, which is not (necessarily) the case either in general or in respect of the vaccine(s) which have been developed in respect of the “panicdemic”. I myself was, as a child, vaccinated against various diseases; I have also been vaccinated a few times since then, in respect of tropical diseases, prior to visits to places in Africa and elsewhere.
However, while historically, vaccines are said to have saved millions from terrible conditions, and even lingering or other death, the matter might not be as clear-cut as many, including I myself, have always thought:
I have seen similar graphs for half a dozen deadly diseases, all of which seem to show that the diseases in question were already very fast-declining in incidence before the vaccine in question was introduced.
There is little doubt that the improvements in public health in the 19th and 20th centuries were largely a result of improved water supply, sanitation, air quality, food quality and quantity, rather than a consequence of vaccination, though that too may have contributed in a minor way.
The girl in the picture above may be simply an unfortunate victim, a statistical anomaly. I do not know (and I concede that I cannot vouch for the veracity or accuracy of the facts asserted with that picture). It may be that people will say that her case is one in a million, or one in a hundred thousand etc. Cold comfort for the girl herself, to be regarded as simply a sad casualty of the “war against Covid-19”, or as an unfortunate guinea-pig.
Had someone such the notorious Dr. Mengele conducted a test with such a result, people would be less charitable (ironically, the girl in the picture seems herself to be Jewish). True, the girl in the picture was presumably a volunteer, but can a girl of 12 really give informed consent to be such an experimental subject?
Another graph, showing the experimental use and effect of the same vaccine given to that girl:
I do not want to be too “ideological” about this, and I concede that I am not medically-qualified. However, even the NHS doctors and nurses often so zealous about the “anti-Covid” vaccines are not, usually, specialists in vaccination, virology, epidemiology etc.
I myself have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. My choice and my risk. Were it to become a condition of using international public transport, or UK pubs, then too bad. No more travelling or pubbing for me. The pleasures of both are, in my view, over-rated anyway.
My provisional view is that the vaccination(s) are being used as a painless way for the UK government (and others?) to wind down the panicky measures introduced over a year ago. They will be able to say “thanks to vaccination, we can all return to normal”, rather than “we got it wrong”…
Tweets seen
"Lighting a fire in China vs lighting a fire in India". Now that's what I call racial supremacism! pic.twitter.com/wHIgq4oIHT
'The post-1965 schools are not fairer, and are not truly comprehensive. They solidify class privilege rather than weakening it. And they hurt the poorest, who had better access to the old grammar schools than they do to the best comprehensives.' https://t.co/mvj4ufxytD
Broken eggs, no omelette; The Sutton Trust found in a March 2017 survey that children from poor homes were far less likely than those from better-off backgrounds to win places at the 500 top-ranked “comprehensives”. ' https://t.co/mvj4ufxytD
I blogged briefly about this yesterday: the fact of “postcode selection” in State-school intake, not only in the UK but in Paris, Moscow etc.
'A radical official called Graham Savage wanted Britain to adopt the USA’s high school system because it would be more “democratic”. He admitted that it would lead to lower standards, but could never have imagined quite how much lower they would be.' https://t.co/mvj4ufxytD
Was there such a general right @beestergee? I don't recall any such thing operating during my brief tenure of a council flat in Swindon in 1975-6. https://t.co/BE69okFcIH
I disagree with tweeter “@BeesterGee”. If you want reasonably stable communities, you have to create stability, via security. You cannot create a feeling of security when people fear that they may have to move within 5 years, and moreover move if others say that they must move.
BMJ April 1966. Who realises now that abortion was legal, and done in the NHS, before 1967? pic.twitter.com/z14YMAwWV3
1960s claims of mass backstreet abortion were ‘without any secure factual foundation of which we are aware’ . BMJ April 1966. pic.twitter.com/YYBwe6Hocq
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 3, 2021
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is an ancient Roman equestrian statue on Capitoline Hill, Rome. The statue was erected ca. 175 AD. Its original location is debated: the Roman Forum and Piazza Colonna (where the Column of Marcus Aurelius stands) have been proposed. pic.twitter.com/ja2bn7Celg
This video is not merely about vaccination (nb. I myself am not an “anti-vaxxer”, by any means), but about large-scale transnational changes taking place around us.
A few basic thoughts I have had over the years about a possible “33-year cycle”
1923: seeds of WW2, as in Italy…the March on Rome (late Oct. 1922) and Mussolini asked to become Prime Minister (October/November 1922); the invasion of Corfu (1923) ; Russian Empire becomes the Soviet Union on 30 December 1922; in Germany, the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923; hyperinflation across Germany (1923, though inflation in Germany had been increasing from 1921).
1956: Suez Crisis, when Israel joined with UK and France against Nasser; this was the start of the Arab/West conflict in the modern era; Khrushchev’s Secret Speech denouncing Stalinism (in which he was himself one of the worst offenders), leading to the Thaw, and eventually (not in a straight line) the total collapse of Sovietism; also, the first big rebellion of the satellites, the 1956 Hungarian Uprising; final end of WW2 rationing in the UK and start of consumerist UK in 1955-56; [and my own birth];
1989: the fall of all kinds of socialism and even social democracy worldwide, inc. effective fall of the Soviet Union (officially 1991), fall of Berlin Wall, Chinese transition to full capitalism behind “Communist” facade; Cuba becomes effectively private enterprise after 1989; also, the NWO/Israeli attack on the powerful states of the Arab world starts in Iraq; in the UK, the end of Thatcher’s rule leads to Labour Party abandonment of “socialism” even in its party constitution;
Also, George Bush snr. proclaims the NWO openly in early 1990;
2022: [personal note: I shall be 66 on 2 September 2022]
It will be noted that these years also link themes: 20thC socialism, the Arab/Muslim v. “West” situation etc.
Let’s start with a typical Twitter conformist, tweeting typically —and typically meaninglessly (the police who ride around in jeeps and cruise up and down empty motorways, or fly drones over national parks, are of course not “putting their lives on the line”):
One third of Britons:
‘All these fucking police, putting THEIR LIVES on the line, trying to save OUR LIVES all the time.
They’ve gone too far!
Let’s all go to the beach and be ravished by this highly infectious, fatal disease. Let’s spread it to our selfless NHS workers too!’ https://t.co/g0RIQSCAnL
I just noticed that this odd-looking creature has no less than 551,000 Twitter followers. She must be one of the ever-growing mob of “celebrities” and the temporarily famous.
Ah, God bless Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Spraggan Seems that she is a lesbian singer who nearly won the TV talent contest, X Factor, in 2012. I myself had never heard of her, but that is not her fault; pop singers and talent shows are not my milieu.
So what other tweets are being sent out today?
“The theory of lockdown, after all, is pretty niche, deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested. It’s not Sweden that’s conducting a mass experiment. It’s everyone else.” Precisely. https://t.co/kSvU6oZgTH
'In Sweden’s ICU census, which is updated every 30 minutes nationwide, admissions to every ICU in the country are flat or declining, and they have been for a week.'https://t.co/kSvU6oZgTH
Sweden has not had a “lockdown” so far, and it looks as if it will not have one. It has also, as far as I know, not had a Swedish equivalent of Britain’s “clap for the NHS” either. Not that most nurses and doctors (etc) in the NHS do not “deserve” a clap (and a decent pay rise) for their valuable work, but for the virtue-signallers of Twitter what seems to matter is the almost enforced “me-too-ism” (cf. Poppy Day and its surrounds).
'The social-isolation advocates frantically grasp at straws to support shutting down the world. It bothers them that there is one country in the world that hasn’t shut down and that hasn’t socially isolated its population.' https://t.co/kSvU6oZgTH
The government had *no* idea what it was committing itself to when it launched this scheme. I cannot see how the economy can survive unlimited spending on this scale. Like throwing new schools and hospitals into the sea. And for what? https://t.co/Y8vzXDUhMT
Hitchens is of course right here. The economy of the UK, of the EU, of much of the world, cannot in fact be shut down indefinitely without almost everyone in this country starving to death eventually. A “lockdown” must of necessity be temporary. The first question is “how temporary?”
The problem with comparing the Coronavirus situation in the UK to that obtaining in USA, Sweden, Italy, China etc is that
every country has different demographics, lifestyles, transport, health services etc;
every country is collecting statistics differently (e.g. as to what is a “Coronavirus” death in the first place): to take a reductio ad absurdum example, if someone has flu and Coronavirus, is his/her death from Coronavirus or simply with Coronavirus? What about if someone has Coronavirus, feels unwell and, perhaps even as a result, crashes his/her car and dies?;
every country has a different level of testing in place. Some test only those in hospital, some test medical staff, some (e.g. the UK until now at least) test hardly anyone.
The result is that, in looking at “the statistics”, we are comparing apples and oranges.
But @leamwick the idiocy of the shutdown is not apparent to the Cabinet or the majority of the media, who continue to act as if 'There is No Alternative', the dim watchword of the person who knows very well that there is an alternative – but does not want you to consider it. https://t.co/lLOasXhZfz
First of all we had all the “race relations”, “community relations” etc laws, then came the crackdown on other freedoms, including Internet freedoms, mostly at the behest of the Jewish lobby. Now the System is experimenting to see how far can it go in restricting quite ordinary daily activity, such as a motorcyclist going for a spin, or a family walking across the Derbyshire moors. The Coronavirus is being used as a fine cover story for a dry run for total System tyranny (though the Coronavirus situation iself is bad enough, of course). The mass media have ceased even to try to question government policy (as was also seen throughout the 2010-2019 “austerity” repression. Same now:
The Underground travellers (who probably have little choice) being blamed, impliedly, for crowding the trains, when, as we have seen, the trains are crowded because people like NHS staff still need to travel, and because that hopeless little Pakistani, Sadiq Khan, reduced the number of trains being run.
Dictatorships and tyrannies have had sycophant newspapers for a couple of hundred years, radio since about 1920, TV stations since (for this purpose) the 1950s. A new element is the online mob, particularly on Twitter; happy to be slaves of the System if they can hate the targeted dissenters.
In view of the fact that North West London is a major “hotspot” for Coronavirus, as are parts of Paris and certain urban parts of Israel, it might be more accurate to say that the spread of this virus comes not from “antisemitism” but from a quite different direction…
“Always look on the bright side of Life”…
Karma is a wonderful things folks.Last week the editor of Jewish Chronicle the odious Stephen Pollard was part of a vile co-ordinated attack on me, designed to cause me & family great distress. Today we learn the paper he edits is being liquidated. https://t.co/7WEcRiAGQ4
Only last week @StephenPollard the utterly odious editor of the Jewish Chronicle was part of a vile co-ordinated attack on me clearly designed to do me reputational harm & cause me and my family great distress during a pandemic. This is a seven-day karma. https://t.co/nAXopclKMX
Couldn't happen to two nicer people than Stephen Pollard and Jake Mendel #JewishChronicle Jeremy Corbyn still has his job. Null Point to the haters. https://t.co/rc2eYoCybM
Oi Vey, someone runs out of shekels.. I hope Britain survives the ‘lost’ 🙂 : Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News to be liquidated and staff laid off https://t.co/sD4SEoJmwS
Good riddance to the Jewish Chronicle, a vile publication who has a very nasty editor Stephen Pollard, who also writes for the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Sun, Telegraph et al – in other words another of Murdoch's henchmen
Toxic media deserves to go down the pan, where it belongs
— All tories out-blue/red & yellow (@Tinkerbell32112) April 8, 2020
Breaking: I'm told the Jewish Chronicle – one of the UK's top Jewish news publications – will soon go into liquidation, seeking a buyer to survive the coronavirus crisis.
Imagine if I hit the Euromillions and put in to the administrators or eventual liquidators the only bid for whatever is left of the Jewish Chronicle! Ha ha! I wonder what I could put on the front page once I become the new proprietor? Something historical?
I could even have a section devoted to historical revision. Alison Chabloz writes nicely…
Maybe Pollard would agree to stay on as Editor (under suitable supervision and control, of course…), if I were to make him an offer he would be unable to refuse…
I just thought of another good aspect to the Jewish Chronicle closing down: Stephen Applebaum, Twitter troll (who secretly, using pseudonyms, trolled quite a few anti-Zionists, mostly women, with equally horrible Stephen Silverman and other “Campaign Against Antisemitism” bastards), will now find it even harder to pose as a soi-disant “film critic”. As far as I know, the Jewish Chronicle has been the only newspaper to print his occasional reviews for years.
I have been freelancing for @JewishChron since 1997 and greatly enjoyed the opportunities to write about fascinating people and subject matter. I hope for the sake of the title, its staff & freelancers, a way to help the title survive can be found. For now, though, it's a sad day https://t.co/onRnEfxQ0r
— Stephen Applebaum (@grubstreetsteve) April 8, 2020
(“@grubstreetsteve” is his present personal Twitter account, along with “@rattus2384”).
Ha ha!
It even looks like Pollard! But if the cap fits, Applebaum too…
Quite a few Jew scribblers —including several connected with the Jewish Chronicle—enjoyed my being disbarred in 2016 (no doubt in ignorance of the fact that I had in any case ceased active Bar practice in 2007-2008). Not all will now lose their jobs, livelihoods, maybe even houses and flats, but some will. As for the rest, their time will come.
Ha ha! Just what I needed on a day like this (a boring day, and me living under a “Conservative” pseudo-communitarian ZOG semi-dictatorship)! A boost like no other! I begin to see, in minor key, why people always said that Saddam Hussein was never so happy as when his enemies were being killed off! Well, some of mine are not being killed off, just losing jobs etc, but in times like these, one must take one’s pleasures where one can.
I still like the idea of winning the Euromillions jackpot and then buying the rump of the Jewish Chronicle! I could staff it with anti-Zionist Jews, the ones the Zionist Jews hate: Gilad Atzmon could do the show business stuff, while the commentator-at-large might be…hm, let’s see…Mira bar Hillel!
Coronavirus view from Israel
“Israeli virologist urges world leaders to calm public, slams ‘unnecessary panic’
‘People think this virus is going to attack them all, and then they’re all going to die,’ says Prof. Jihad Bishara. ‘Not at all. In fact, most of those infected won’t even know it’”
“A leading Israeli virologist on Sunday urged world leaders to calm their citizens about the coronavirus pandemic, saying people were being whipped into unnecessary panic.
Prof. Jihad Bishara, the director of the Infectious Disease Unit at Petah Tikva’s Beilinson Hospital, said that some of the steps being taken in Israel and abroad were very important, but the virus is not airborne, most people who are infected will recover without even knowing they were sick, the at-risk groups are now known, and the global panic is unnecessary and exaggerated.
That’s not the way it is at all. It’s not in the air. Not everyone [who is infected] dies; most of them will get better and won’t even know they were sick, or will have a bit of mucus.”
But in Israel and around the world, “everybody is whipping everybody else up into panic — the leaders, via the media, and the wider public — who then in turn start to stress out the leaders. We’ve entered some kind of vicious cycle.”
He urged the public to internalize that “we’re talking about a virus that is not airborne. Infection is via droplet transmission… Only if you are close to someone who has the virus, and you get the saliva when he sneezes or coughs, can you get ill. And if you don’t then maintain personal hygiene,” primarily by washing hands.
Referring to Italy’s national lockdown, he said that “quarantine is an effective precaution, but there has to be temperate use. You can shut down a whole country, but there are other means.”
At this stage, he said, “we know how the virus behaves, how it spreads, and which groups are in danger. We know now that his virus is primarily dangerous to old people, and to people with a history of chronic disease, and those who are immunocompromised.””
[The Times of Israel]
By the way, if anyone is surprised that I quote an Israeli in my blog, my response is “why not?”
If I want a great performance of Rachmaninov, I might turn to Vladimir Ashkenazi, if I want one of J.S. Bach, I might choose Evgeny Kissin; if Chopin, Emanuel Ax…
Just watched the above-named documentary. The main character was Alexandra Tolstoy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Tolstoy], an adventuress of several sorts, married to but estranged from Sergei Pugachev [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Pugachev], a former “banker” and criminal “businessman”, who is now on the [Russian] wanted list for having allegedly made off with about a billion US dollars’ worth of State assets.
Pugachev is in fact a slightly unusual Russian gangster-businessman, in that he really is Russian (not Jew or whatever). Looks like a “tough guy”, but if the question is whether to bet on a exiled tough guy or the Russian state, I know where my money is going…
Oddly enough, I once met the father of Alexandra Tolstoy, who is the interesting writer Nikolai Tolstoy, a former cavalry officer of the British Army [perhaps so only briefly; Wikipedia says nothing of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy]. I was introduced to him in 1981 or 1982 (I think 82) at the Russian Refugees jumble sale at Chelsea Old Town Hall in the King’s Road (the sale is or was a Russian New Year tradition going back to the Russian Revolution(s) and Civil War, when many anti-Bolshevik Russians came to the UK penniless).
A friend of mine flew to Switzerland with Nikolai Tolstoy not long before that, in order to help with information for his book, Stalin’s Secret War. That would have been 1980 or 1981.
As for my impression of the lady in the documentary, perhaps I should not say, but after all she did volunteer to be judged by the TV public…Well, to me she seems as thick as two short planks, for one thing. As to why she divorced her first husband and married Pugachev, I think that a good deal of the answer, probably 90% or 80%, was his wealth, at a mere guess. She has dead eyes.
As for her being too bored in France, it is clear that, for her, the world revolves around London, Harrods, Harvey Nicholl’s and her no doubt equally empty-headed friends. Her children too, of course…
Alexandra Tolstoy seems to want us to feel sorry for her, though she could well have simply continued to live in a beautiful belle epoque place on the Cote d’Azur, with her children, and her husband (and his guard force). I have seen too many people really suffering in the UK and elsewhere (including the former Soviet Union) from lack of quite modest funds to feel sorry for a woman who has a “cottage” (actually a quite decent modest house) in middle England, not to mention her parents’ place, a nice house in a pleasant part of Oxfordshire with an outside swimming pool (the pool was not shown in the documentary).
I certainly do not believe that she is in any danger at all from Putin or the Russian state. If she herself felt in danger, she would not now be once again running tours to the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, and herself visiting those republics.
Pugachev? He may be in more danger. There are warrrants out for him in Russia, and if he sets foot in the UK, a warrant for his committal to prison (for 2 years) for contempt of a High Court order. If the Russians get him, though, he may end up, like his 18th Century namesake, in a cage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugachev%27s_Rebellion#Defeat
Ian Robert Millard 