More than 80% of #Bakhmut, including all the administrative centers, factories, plants, are under the control of Russian forces, said the PMC "Wagner" mercenary head Prigozhin. pic.twitter.com/MonQ7uqHb1
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine's frontline cities, as Russian forces launched attacks. The battle for the largely ruined city of Bakhmut, on the edge of Russian-controlled territory in Donetsk, has been the bloodiest of the war https://t.co/25IGf4cBiUpic.twitter.com/nY92DAq2iw
Its all too easy to forget that Liz Truss was only recently considered the brightest and the best to lead the Tories and be the PM. It's mind blowing. https://t.co/ePF6Xu81hO
Typical BBC cretin. Has no answers. A complete deadhead. Eventually has to say that various (unnamed) organizations talk about “hateful content” (on Twitter). One gets you five that the BBC cretin is referring to the troublemaking and constantly demanding Jew-Zionist orgs in the UK and USA.
Elon: "You can't give me a single example of this 'hateful content.' Name a single example"
The overarching problem today, as compared to the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and up to the 1980s, is that there are few real journalists. Instead, there are, to use the Japanese word, “salarymen”, pushing a System agenda. Most of them are, also, extremely poorly-educated (despite their paper “qualifications”), and some near-illiterate (as can be seen in the online newspapers, especially the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Sun, and even the Times.
Anyone asking for donations to themselves rather than send money direct to the people who need it, should be avoided. Jack Monroe made a very profitable career out of other people's genuine poverty and misery. Her whole backstory was a lie. She comes from a middle class family
This apple farm in the south of England has been growing apples since 1882, but the fruit that helped give the ‘Garden of England’ its name hundreds of years ago is no longer making money https://t.co/D52cq4p70Xpic.twitter.com/Ucxm1tEZ5U
Pretty sad. The continuation of a process or trend that started in the decades after the Second World War, and accelerated in the 1980s and thereafter, with horrible housing developments of various kinds often covering what were once fields, woods, and orchards.
“A pub landlady today defied authorities and put more of her golliwog collection back on display just days after 20 of them were seized by police as part of an investigation that she and her husband had committed a hate crime.
Benice Ryley proudly placed five of the controversial dolls behind the bar of The White Hart pub in Grays, Essex, which she has run for the past 17 years with her husband Chris.
Read that article. The Essex Police clowns are still claiming that the golliwogs they seized are “part of an investigation” into a so-called “hate crime“, which is complete nonsense. It is not unlawful to own or display a golliwog.
One of the alarming aspects of contemporary Britain is the degree to which the police are (wilfully?) unaware of the limits to their power and, indeed, jurisdiction.
“Today’s revelation that suspected terrorists have entered Britain posing as small boat migrants brings a whole new context to the Channel crisis.
It was already known that hundreds of criminals had been identified among arrivals from France – raising huge questions about Britain’s porous border and the Government’s ability to protect its citizens.
Now we know that the problem is far, far worse.
The 19 terror suspects who camouflaged themselves as would-be refugees to enter the UK are known to be affiliated with some of the most murderous groups in the world, including Islamic State and the Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab.
The security services were already under pressure keeping tabs on thousands of individuals who pose an active threat in the UK.”
“Ukraine’s air defence could crumble ‘within weeks’, according to leaked US intelligence documents.
The New York Times reported that newly leaked Pentagon documents and US officials suggest that a huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war.
According to one leaked document, missile stocks for Soviet-era S-300 and Buk air defence systems, which constitute 89 per cent of Ukraine’s protection against most fighter aircraft and some bombers, could be fully depleted by May 3 and mid-April.
One leaked document reportedly assessed that Ukrainian air defences designed to protect troops on the front line will be “completely reduced” by May 23.”
[Daily Telegraph]
There it is. The air defences of the Kiev regime may have “crumbled” and will be “fully depleted” and “completely reduced” within 1-5 weeks from now.
At the same time, the Kiev-regime infantry still living is suffering poor morale and huge losses.
The conclusion must be that Russia can press its advantage in the warmer weather expected soon.
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Russian troops are simply razing to the ground the fortified area in the west of Bakhmut, created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in high-rise buildings, heavy casualties pic.twitter.com/65Zc9KbDEH
A brief conclusive summary of the Ukraine war by Scot Ritter: "Russia has broken the back of the Ukrainian military.. the battle of Bakhmut is over, so too is the chance of Ukraine coming out of this war with any semblance of victory." pic.twitter.com/KT5u4jYm1X
Zelensky will have to stop pretending to be a great (or any) statesman and/or great (or any) military leader, and go back to clowning on TV comedy shows. Either that, or retreat to his USD $40M villa in Florida.
Putting up the Russian flag east of Bakhmut, now that the Ukrainians aren't just going to try to shell it out of spite.
Though I wouldn't mind seeing them try. Its a waste of their dwindling shell supplies. pic.twitter.com/yhCY6xrEhd
“I don’t know if Ukraine will even exist as a nation state by the end of 2023,” McGregor said. Douglas McGregor, a retired US Army colonel and former White House adviser, expressed uncertainty about the existence of a country called Ukraine on Stephen Gardner's YouTube channel.… pic.twitter.com/w3pvsLBxc9
Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" continue fighting for quarters in the central part of Artemovsk, pushing the enemy to the western outskirts – Russian Defense Ministry
Western-made armored vehicles supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to be successfully disposed of by Wagners in Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/JbaqDfDp1g
NYT: Leaked US Documents Reveal Ukraine's Plans to Move Elite Troops to Bakhmut According to US intelligence, the situation in Bakhmut is "catastrophic" for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qeMdBrDTHE
We invaded Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and each time we survived the consequences of the war because we had the global monetary reserve currency. Today's war with Russia and China is not like those wars" … Details about the future of the dollar in the video pic.twitter.com/VvEcXqsKuW
The above analysis is very weak re. Weimar hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic did not collapse because of hyperinflation.
The Weimar hyperinflation period was 1921-1923, but mainly summer 1922 to November 1923. In other words, hyperinflation really only existed for about 18 months.
The hyperinflation did not “collapse” the Weimar Republic, though it did destroy the savings of those who had savings, thus making the whole political situation in Germany, already unstable, more unstable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic. It did rob the Weimar Republic of authority, to be sure. People distrusted it.
The final collapse of the Weimar Republic, which stabilized to some extent in the mid/late 1920s, came about more because of the Depression, which was born outside Germany, in the USA.
Hitler and the NSDAP did not attain full State power until 1933, a decade after the end of the hyperinflationary period.
I was just looking at the memoirs written (actually, ghost-written) by some “senior” (so-called) politicians. Liz Truss’s Out of the Blue, which came out too late, after she had already been deposed, is at present selling about 200 new copies monthly on Amazon. Not very impressive, but better than Andrea Leadsom’s effort, Snakes and Ladders, which is managing a mere 20 per month.
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Heard about this on the radio this morning. Apparently one of those involved is a Ukrainian refugee, who is back there over the Easter break, for a holiday. Who leaves a war zone as a refugee and goes back as a holiday maker while the war is ongoing?
“A newly-leaked top-secret Pentagon document reveals American planners doubt Ukraine’s ability to launch an effective counteroffensive against Russian invaders this spring.
Outlining the developments of the war since February, the document picks up on ‘force generation and sustainment shortfalls’, predicting Ukrainian forces will fail…“
Morris dancers perform with blacked faces despite bans from ancient tradition's governing body https://t.co/zDhfhOCpNP England is a Free Country, so well done to all the Morris Dancers with Blacked Faces for standing up to all the Woke Madness🏴
“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 £1 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 £122 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 “The city is being liberated by the Wagners, the enemy spares neither the city nor his own,” said Pushilin. pic.twitter.com/4yHBN3LKRf
Wenn diese Derivatenblase platzt dann ist Deutschland und die Europäische Union am Ende, gefolgt vom Rest der Welt. Dies könnte 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 Biden’s 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…
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. 🇷🇺
— Польский Казак 'Z.O.V' 🇵🇱❤️🇷🇺 ☭ (@pktr_Ruski) April 10, 2023
A Russian🇷🇺 Lancet loitering ammunition hits another US🇺🇸 155mm M777 howitzer heading towards Bakhmut. Ukrainians 🇺🇦 flee upon realizing the fate of the Howitzer. pic.twitter.com/5KIvvfAxFd
The Chinese army presented an animation of a joint high-precision strike on Taiwan by aircraft, ships, missile forces and multiple launch rocket systems of the ground forces. pic.twitter.com/D1awtTRasb
The CIA believes that Beijing can increase support for Moscow in case of Ukraine's strikes deep into the Russian Federation. In general, the leak led to a panic in the Pentagon and the defense department limited the process of transferring intelligence, according to WP. pic.twitter.com/ekxTbXzzlJ
"Global Times" published a cartoon under the title "Declining Dollar" to speculate about the possibility of the end of the hegemony of the US dollar. pic.twitter.com/2n3JpOGAVe
“If you wish to destroy capitalism, first destroy its currency” [Lenin (?)—possibly apocryphal, though quoted in altered form by Keynes].
Actually, Lenin was not always mistaken. His words, “Capitalism is commodity production at its highest stage of development, when labor-power itself becomes a commodity“, reflect a form of reality.
Rudolf Steiner said that, in the 4th Post-Atlantean Age and culture, the predominant form of work or labour was slavery; in the 5th Post-Atlantean Age (which includes the present time), the predominant form is labour or work as commodity, something to be bought and sold, but in the 6th Post-Atlantean Age, work will be, predominantly, “free gift“.
Kyiv will disclose data on losses after the armed conflict with Russia, it will be a "terrible number" – Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko in an interview with Daily Express
— Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении (@russembkenya) April 8, 2023
The Western leaders have brought their nations to the brink of disaster. First the banking crisis, then another, as well as the “Covid” nonsense, and now “support for Ukraine” (meaning arms and ammunition and money for the dictatorship of the cabal of Zionist Jews in Kiev, of which Zelensky is the figurehead).
The peoples of Europe are suffering because of the crazed obsessions of the NWO/ZOG leadership of the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany etc.
The single Iranian-Saudi handshake buried trillions of dollars of western divide-and-rule investments across West Asia. By @RealPepeEscobarhttps://t.co/hpD6gVoMAm
Special groups have been created in the Russian Armed Forces to fight tanks that were supplied to Kyiv by Western countries – Head of the Combat Training Center of the RF Armed Forces Yevgeny Arifulin
If the involvement of the United States of America and Norway in the bombing of the Nord Stream lines is proven, then we must remove the United States from the list of allies because it seeks to achieve its goals at the expense of… pic.twitter.com/ZqlH2Fz4oA
In fact, the above ages relate to the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Washington was 44 at the time, though lived until the age of 67.
Aaron Burr was 20 in 1776, but 45 by the time he became vice-President (1805).
The 18thC was a time of young men rising suddenly to high position, as was the case with Napoleon, who became First Consul at the age of 30 (1799) and Emperor at the age of 35 (1804), having already achieved high rank (Lt.Col at 23, and Brigadier-general at 24).
In the Second World War, young men were able, if they had luck, Fate, and maybe a good start, to rise rapidly, even if they were not always the brightest: Colonel Stirling, the SAS founder, for a start. He was commissioned in 1940, yet left the Army in 1945 as Lt.Col.
Enoch Powell, later famous as politician, enlisted voluntarily as a private soldier in 1939, was commissioned in 1940, and ended the war in 1945 as a brigadier.
Those were exceptional times and exceptional people too— Enoch Powell in terms of intellect and willpower, Stirling in terms of daring, courage, and unconventionality. Stirling in particular would not have gone beyond major, if that, in more peaceful years, certainly not in 5 years of service.
Now, we see that, except for pop singers, hardly anyone comes to real prominence below the age of 30, or even 50. One can think of the catspaws of the transnational System, perhaps, the likes of Greta Nut, or Malala Yousafzai. There are occasional unexpectedly young MPs here and there, such as the fairly idiotic young woman who was 20 when elected in 2015 to Parliament in the SNP interest.
They, however, are not truly prominent. A couple of media freaks, arguably; a minor MP from a minor political party.
The very structure of society and its occupations now militates against early prominence. The pace of promotion for almost everyone is incremental rather than sudden.
The population of society is becoming older. That is to say, the main population, the white population. The UK non-white population grows steadily younger (and larger).
There is also to be taken into account the increasing repression of freedom of expression in the UK and some other countries. Enoch Powell, as a captain in the Intelligence Corps, was arrested briefly (as suspected spy) when singing the Horst Wessel Lied. In wartime England! Nothing untoward happened, and he was promoted to major not long afterwards.
Imagine that today! Impossible. The young officer (Powell was about 29) would probably, at very least, kiss goodbye to his Army career.
That “chilling effect” on freedom is everywhere now, the product of a general fear of sticking the neck out. Behind it? Partly the “political correctness” and/or “woke” element, partly the Jew-Zionist lobby and its constant conspiracy to repress the free speech that used to be one of England’s most treasured possessions.
Out of the loop
I was once,a decade ago, accused by a C. of E. vicar on Twitter of being “a bit out of the cultural loop“. Maybe. I was certainly puzzled to see today on Twitter that “Martial” was trending.
I thought, certainly not the ancient Roman poet [Marcus Valerius Martialis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial], but what else? Something military?
Maybe the vicar had a point. On the other hand, maybe it is not worth being in “the cultural loop“, if that is the content.
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This is, relevantly, true.
The Government holds the BBC's purse strings, with all that implies for control of the BBC. And there is little practical difference between a state backed consumption tax and money from general public funds. pic.twitter.com/uEYfEn7MEv
For once, I agree with Maugham. Yes, the “licence fee” is not called a tax, but it is a tax by any other name, and people can and do go to prison for non-payment (which is a disgrace). The BBC knows that if it annoys the prevailing government too much, the “licence fee” will not be increased, or may be binned altogether, thus taking away the BBC’s rice bowl, and those of its overpaid and mostly pretty poor presenters, “comedians”, and other talking heads.
Ukrainians have never been an intelligent nation. What good will it do to fight till the last men, and then what ?
I think that the only intelligent Ukrainian I ever met was the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Sergei Komissarenko, with whom I travelled in the ambassadorial limousine from the London embassy to the Porton Down scientific complex (biolab campus) in Wiltshire, about 28 years ago. I have blogged about that previously.
They know they can’t win, their only hope is for nato troops to join and zelenskiy is doing everything he can for that to happen. How can anyone with at least one active brain cell think you can win against a nuclear power?
A playful beluga whale returned an iPhone after a woman accidentally dropped it into the water in Hammerfest Harbor, Norway. pic.twitter.com/fiTOnTxFH5
Well, this week brings me another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 7, and 9, and thought at first that I had got question 1 right, only to discover shortly afterwards that I had selected the wrong group of 17thC activists, dissenters or dissidents. So 6/10 it is this week.
Now imagine the disaster that will happen when the remaining UKR soldiers in Western Bakhmut try to retreat, clogging the road due to all the destroyed/stuck vehiclec. Becoming easy prey for the Musicians https://t.co/57CoS6j9oc
Since you've hitched your wagon to the Ukraine flag, when are you picking up arms & going over to help them? Haven't you heard the latest? Russia forces have reached the centre of key city, Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/POFzmoGyg7
In the well-known words of Marx, “first time— tragedy, second time— farce” and, while it seems wrong to call an event as bloody and terrible as Bakhmut/Artyomovsk “farcical”, one has to compare it to Stalingrad, which at least was genuinely strategic. War is hell, and is often not even logical.
Ukraine's key supply route in Bakhmut the 0506 road west of the city, is likely severely threatened, according to the UK intelligence.https://t.co/FQij4KpFVT
Looking beyond the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk situation, we see that the Kiev regime has a problem of recruitment to its armed forces, made worse by the fact that about 20% of the Ukraine population has fled beyond the borders, and that includes many families with teenage children who will now not be conscripted.
If (I do not know) Russia is recruiting and training new “levies”, then it may be that, after the losses suffered by the Kiev-regime forces recently, the Russian armed forces may be able to advance steadily for the first time in quite a while.
As to arms and ammunition, the NWO/ZOG supplies to the Kiev regime are enormous but possibly (I do not know) inadequate as compared to the usage and/or attritional rate. We shall see.
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One frontbencher says a current online video of Starmer’s flip-flops is a taste of things to come.
"The general election campaign is going to be full of videos of Keir, ‘he said this, now he’s says that’.”pic.twitter.com/BK0IO7DkRC
Other notable elections due in 2024 include presidential elections in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Indonesia, general election in India and the European Parliament election
— Tomorrows Papers Today (@TmorrowsPapers) April 7, 2023
Not sure what Labour thinks that it is achieving by these attacks on Indian money-juggler Sunak. After all, Labour has for some time been far far ahead in the opinion polls, the present Sunak government seems headless at times (as did its predecessors), and people generally know that Sunak is, firstly, very very wealthy and, secondly, non-white (both of which tend to make him an unpopular PM). So why make these absurd “sex crime” attacks on him?
What makes the absurd attacks even more absurd is that there is no shred of evidence that Sunak himself is sympathetic to any form of child abuse or other sex offence(s), let alone any evidence that he himself is some kind of sex criminal. So why do it?
It may be that Starmer has tripped over his own shoelaces here.
GM. Remember to be kind to animals today. God gave YOU dominion, which means to be a good lord and protector of your charges. pic.twitter.com/Cw2B90nNBt
I never listened to Radio Albion and cannot comment in detail about it but what I can say is this man has been persecuted not prosecuted. Non-whites incite racist attacks on white people frequently, not one prosecution. White man speaks out, prison it is!https://t.co/nTYe7QYG6G
After my wrongful (and indeed actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016 (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/), I was invited not only to speak to several members of the msm Press (a Daily Mail slug even came to my door) but also to talk on, or be interviewed on, various online “radio stations”. I declined all, mainly because I doubted that my contribution would have much effect on the “big scheme of things”. I believe that Radio Albion was one of those.
The present repression, driven entirely by the fanatical Jew-Zionist element, is destroying what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in this country.
If you get burgled or robbed, be sure to mention Golliwogs and / or pronouns for a swift response https://t.co/KSThDIepw9
“This is the bizarre moment police stormed a couple’s pub and seized their golliwog dolls – saying the toys were a suspected ‘hate crime‘.
Benice Ryley, 61, was quizzed by six officers after police received an anonymous complaint about The White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex.
She and husband Chris, 64, who is currently abroad, had displayed their collection of 15 dolls after receiving them as gifts from customers over the years.
On Tuesday, Essex Police raided the pub and confiscated the dolls, saying they were investigating a ‘hate crime’. They also took a book about the history of golliwogs.
Branding the incident a ‘waste of taxpayers’ money’, she continued: ‘When the police officers came, I pointed to the dolls and said they haven’t done anything.
‘The gollies all went quietly – none of them resisted arrest at all. I think the racist people are the ones who complain – it’s their problem, not us.
Mrs Ryley is demanding the dolls are immediately returned and has vowed to put them back behind the bar.
She fumed: ‘It is unreal – we haven’t broken the law and there is no legal stuff that says I can’t display them. It’s just silly.’
A spokesman for Essex Police said: ‘We are investigating an allegation of hate crime in Grays reported to us on 24 February.“
[Daily Mail].
So who made the anonymous and timewasting complaint? A spiteful golliwog? Or one of “the usual suspects”, as in my case of 2017? We do not know.
Incidentally, look at the comments of the Daily Mail online readers. Others have voted about 12,000 against the police action for every half-dozen in favour.
Migrant boys raped in 'Calais Jungle' camp so violently they needed surgery https://t.co/wEzgcMp4MP@Care4Calais Can you understand why the people of the UK do not want the perpetrators any where near our shores?
I looked up that weird young or young-ish woman. A failed journalist or, rather, online scribbler, from Canada (what is wrong with Canada?), and who cannot keep her tendentious and ignorant views out of even her Linked-In profile. Sacked a month ago from her most recent job (at “Global News”, which I think is linked loosely to the BBC’s commercial arm).
Probably unemployable as a journalist, looking at her near-hysteria.
One of her other tweets said “You’re supposed to have the right to freedom of opinion. But what if misinformation and disinformation is making that right hard to actually enjoy?” She simply misses the point. “Freedom of opinion” is self-standing. It does not exist simply so that she can “enjoy” it…
I urge anyone with a Twitter account (I do not have one— a pack of Jews conspired to have me expelled in 2018 and I now see little point in returning) to follow tweeter “@Nature_and_Race”.
Russian Lancet hitting three Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers and a tank in the area of the city of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/MCwt4DCSLd
The compassionate face of elite soldiering— I like that. The bearded man, though, introduced himself to the remarkably resilient old lady not as a soldier but as “a correspondent…from Russia.”
Scott Ritter:“Bakhmut has fallen. Ukraine has lost the war.“
This is the quintessential turning point of the war. Yes, the fighting will continue and it will be bloody and messy but this was the case for 2 horrible years after Gettysburg & Kursk as well.pic.twitter.com/pl2LEF99ab
The head of the IMF issued an alarming warning about the global economy
The world economic system is in a vulnerable situation due to the attempts of the world's central banks to fight inflation, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
First, the whole crazy finance-capitalist system of speculation going haywire, then the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, then the economic sanctions against Russia, and now the unwarranted and almost unlimited support for the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev. The whole house of cards of the Western world is quite likely not far from collapse.
The Kremlin responds to the leak of NATO's "secret" war plan
Russia was aware of the West's involvement in Ukraine even before the documents were leaked on the Internet, Dmitry Peskov repeated pic.twitter.com/sLAKwyTPlJ
Maybe the SVR is not as incompetent as I had surmised. On the other hand, the NWO/ZOG gameplan re. Russian and its “near-abroad” has been obvious for years. I have been blogging and, before 2018, tweeting about it for a decade or so. In fact, I was aware of the overall strategy as long ago as 1990, when the Soviet Union was still officially still in existence.
French demonstrators attacked banks during the protests.
The unrest in France is gaining wider proportions every day. Bank attacks are a new dimension to the protests because they see it as a symbol of ruthless capitalism. pic.twitter.com/mfTFGe6nkS
We are not just facing opposing “ideas” or “policies”, and are not just speaking up for what is right, and/or as a contrary social or political bloc. We are facing new forms of Evil in much of the world, especially the advanced “Western” world. Evil must, eventually, be vanquished directly. That time will come. A titanic battle for race, culture, and civilization.
Looks like San Francisco is even more of a jungle now than was portrayed in The Streets of San Francisco.
I have never been there, though I knew a few people who did visit, and who liked it, but that was then… 1970s and 1980s.
[Russian Hill, San Francisco]
“So far this year there have been 39 murders in the city. The San Francisco Police Department is currently experiencing a shortage of 541 officers.
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was among a host of tech leaders hitting out at the lawlessness in the wake of Lee’s slaying, writing on Twitter: ‘Many people I know have been severely assaulted.
‘Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.’
Locals told DailyMail.com they blamed the ‘soft-on-crime’ progressive policies brought in by the likes of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was tossed from office in a recall election last year.
‘It’s too liberal. Too much. And we’re paying for it,’ said one. ‘Repeat offenders are back out on the streets in a heartbeat and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re scared.’
After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, had been members of the Weather Underground.[13] Boudin reports that he did not learn to read until age nine.[14] Kathy Boudin was released under parole supervision in 2003.[15][16] Gilbert was released in 2021.[17]
Incidentally, “Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernardine Ohrnstein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, and grew up in Whitefish Bay, an upper-middle-class suburb of Milwaukee.[1] Her father, Bernard D. Ohrnstein, changed the family surname to Dohrn (his middle initial plus the first letters of his last name) when Bernardine was in high school.[2]
Her father was Jewish, although the name change was intended to obscure that.”
[Wikipedia].
Is London not going the same way as San Francisco?
For example, my beautiful Bertie badly needs to see a Cardiologist about his severe heart murmur, and at least one operation to help him breathe because of his genetic condition.
He and the other last-chance cats here have no one else to turn to, and I'm desperate to help them pic.twitter.com/o8oJaqomf0
I was worried this would happen. Take in all the pets you can. Donate what you can. Give pet food to food banks. Pets literally save lives, mine keep me grounded in ways I can’t describe. In the dark, I think “I can’t leave them”. We need pets & they need us. https://t.co/9Qmnl1fKcB
Nah, this is required by the West's commitment to total equality of the sexes
Why are there MMA fights with women, anyway?
Look at the reasons for/justifications of women's professional combat sports being celebrated, let alone legal, and you'll see the basis of transgenderism https://t.co/xL2xfEVZ5l
— MikeOfTheSouthWest (@MikeOfTheSouthW) April 4, 2023
It's barbaric on the level of cockfighting, but worse because they're humans. The female fights are usually drawn out, bloody affairs as neither party has the strength to KO the other. Can't believe people watch it. https://t.co/jLtqIKEyYC
Zelensky, the Jew dictator in Kiev, is blowing out hot air rather than a realistic possibility. There is no prospect of Ukrainian/Kiev regime forces reaching the borders of the Crimean Peninsula.
Russia seizes west bank of Bakhmutka River, endangering key Ukraine supply route, in its push to regain control of devastated eastern city of Bakhmut – British defence ministry
Yet no less than 458 utter mugs, as of today, are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of several thousand pounds every single month via Patreon. Why that should be, I have no idea, though quite a few people tweeting in her favour (the ones who are not “Jack Monroe” herself using “sock accounts”) seem either not terribly intelligent, or seem to be mentally…er…odd.
Without the White Race beautiful astonishing Architecture wouldn't exist! To be honest nothing like in this picture would exist if Our White Race didn't exist. 🤍❄️ pic.twitter.com/j8UF1JQvV0
— MAKE EUROPA SNOW 🤍❄️ (@makeeuropasnow) April 6, 2023
Looking beyond the exact pictures shown, certainly largely true of the past couple of thousand years; however, equally obviously, looking at the central caption, there are exceptions in various parts of the world, mainly in east and south Asia.
All the same, true overall, as well as re. the pictures shown.
“Just before my father died he told me a story of his time in france serving with A squadren 1st sas. The same story was told to me after his death by one of his old mates who was with him at the time. Their job in france was to sabotage transport, communications, weapons. etc. in the day time they would live in the forests. Making their way back from a hard night blowing things up, they came across a group of french resistance soldiers who had captured a young German soldier. The German was very frightened, he begged the sas to take him with them as he said the french were going to make him dig his own grave and shoot him. One of the sas men said joking, lucky they don’t shoot you then make you dig your grave. The French weren’t very happy when the sas took him but they did. They told him that if he tried to escape the French would kill him. Every night the sas would go out and do their job and when they got back the German would have a brew waiting,as he was happy to be alive. When they flew back home they took the German with them. They had done their job and saved the life of a young German soldier. My dad’s friend also told me that the German soldier had attended an sas reunion many years later. This breed of soldier is fast dying out. I hope these stories will live on lest we forget them.”
[BBC website; republished here as originally written].
Stopping the invaders from invading would require firm political leadership, powerful armed forces and the willingness to use them, and both political and naval/military leaders who really love England and are going to fight to stop it being trashed further. None of that exists at present.
In fact, looking at this country now, it is almost a hollow space, without real content. Look at any major aspect— police, MPs and fake “peers”, legal system, msm, NHS.
LOL so the Ukies just lost Bakhmut and don’t have much of an economy left. Infrastructure and power are seriously compromised while credit ratings have them on the brink of default. And WEF puppet Zelenskyy refuses to talk about peace with Russia without Crimea. Comedian indeed. https://t.co/s7U1zoxLlG
I don't care what the motivation may or may not be. All I care about is it being a significant step in the cancellation and destruction of Jack Monroe's scamming, and helping bring about her downfall.
And despite being harassed and bullied off social media by the Jack Monroe flying monkey mob, there is an archive of the AwfullyMolly investigation.https://t.co/TzAXw2v9SP
Back in the day, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper before our enrichment had even picked up any momentum and before 'diversity built Britain', stabbings in London were around three times a year.
It's a White country built by and for White people . Why are you antiWhite? Why do you want to dispossess native British people of their land? https://t.co/FvFlov4cPp
multiculturalism is not about making societies better. It's about bringing the story of the white man to a close. In one form or another, this realisation will be the defining idea of this century.
The sad thing is that, at some point, it might even seem that something as devastating as a nuclear attack on our major cities might not be, ultimately, as entirely negative as we usually think (taking the argument to absurdity, admittedly).
Britain took a very wrong path after about 1975 or so.
I saw a French activist using the term "immigrationists". I like it. It neatly lumps Tories, bankers, socialists, celebrities and oligarchs into the same heaving pile – where they belong.
I have to admit that I agree with most of that, even if it is from Polly Toynbee.
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A few months ago I made the suggestion to @elonmusk on Spaces to add state-affiliation not just to foreign media but also to US state-affiliated media. He liked the idea and today Twitter has started to implement it. Thanks Elon. pic.twitter.com/qNCX4CSrEI
Exactly. The self-describing “Left”, mostly unthinking individuals, tend to believe that they are somehow “against the System”, while gagging to be controlled and ordered by that very matrix. Look at how they all complied, to the letter, with the “Covid” police state “measures”— the facemask nonsense, the movement restrictions, even the ludicrous “Rule of Six” thought up by “Boris”-idiot (though tweeter “ihearthockey29” seems to be American).
It's still amazing to me that the media will run headlines like this while also insisting that immigration has no effect on housing shortages, and people actually accept that. pic.twitter.com/HA1rDcZugd
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
It has been a long time since I was in the Kremlin (I paid my rouble or two); 1993. On my last visit to Moscow, in 2007, I was too busy talking with boring people to sightsee, though I did walk up to GUM, off Red Square, but GUM, like much of Moscow, had changed out of all recognition.
Lunch time in Moscow as I continue my quest to find signs of economic doom courtesy of Western sanctions.. I guess I'll have to travel to UK or Germany to accomplish that goal! pic.twitter.com/07TqEAEGJV
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
Lots of traffic in downtown Moscow.. Where is the economic collapse msm continues to rant about? pic.twitter.com/7K3vQEAAMQ
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
There has always been a big difference between Moscow and the provinces. Indeed, I was told in the 1980s that if you went even 5 or 10 miles outside Leningrad, as it then was, you could find villages where the houses, or some of the houses, were without running water. They all had electricity, though. After all, Lenin himself had defined socialism as “Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“.
As to who or what groups are affected by Western sanctions against Russia, I would think (I concede that I have not studied it, and I now have no contacts in Russia) that the effect of the sanctions has been to deprive the most wealthy Russians of opportunities to enjoy themselves in Western capitals and large cities, and resorts. The Russian post-Soviet middle class may have been affected in terms of holidays and career opportunities. I have always been sceptical as to whether the vast mass of Russians is affected at all. They buy domestic food, which is plentiful, domestic vodka and beer (and wine, including Crimean), and do not travel overseas anyway.
“Benefit sanctions slow down claimants’ progress into work and are likely to force them into taking lower-paying jobs that leave them hundreds of pounds a year worse off, according to an internal report that the government tried to suppress.
The findings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report echo a series of independent studies showing sanctions – in effect fines amounting to hundreds of pounds imposed on claimants for supposed infringements of benefit rules – are ineffective as a way of getting people into jobs or to work more hours.
The report is embarrassing for the government, which has aggressively promoted sanctions as part of its plans to force claimants to take a job or work more hours. Completed in August 2020, its release was blocked by the then work and pensions secretary, Thérèse Coffey, on the grounds it was “not in the public interest”.
Experts said it was shocking that the government had clear evidence of the negative effects of sanctions for more than two years and had actively sought to keep the findings under wraps while overseeing a huge rise in the numbers of sanctions on universal credit claimants.“
It seems clear to me that the State benefit sanctions regime has nothing to do with incentivizing the unemployed, but is basically political, a way of chucking some red meat to the pleb-Cons, the Mail and Sun readers, whether retired or working for small pay. A contemporary equivalent of the Roman games, with all thumbs pointing down.
Botton Village
Interesting documentary, that I recall seeing in the past; I picked up a VHS video from somewhere:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦“Wagner” is storming Bakhmut from all sides, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking, trying to throw PMCs off the “road of life” https://t.co/6kNbLepN1b
While Macron is in China … protesters stormed the theater of Bordeaux and sing … he really should take care of France first maybe? -> “Emmanuel Macron, if you continue it will be dark at your home” pic.twitter.com/zp7rgvrotl
When I was 28, I belonged to the university Taekwando Group. I was not very good, though I managed to get one level up from the bottom before I was injured by a careless kick, and so cracked, or maybe even fractured, a rib or ribs.
No medical attention was required but for the next 3 months I woke up in pain. Once one rose and started to move, it was OK, though it hurt anew if you laughed, just as in the old saying.
We support freedom of speech and the unhindered transmission of information, we serve to report on global current events without exception in a decent manner. Maximum commitment to reporting. @Spriter99880 North Korea special forces 👇 pic.twitter.com/sYRrDPMHZu
A complete puppet of Israel, like most U.S. Presidents.
Real Paris
Due to nationwide strikes by various professions, including city hall workers, the image of Paris is becoming more interesting day by day. pic.twitter.com/9xRpZeItqs
🇫🇷 New poll: Le Pen would convincingly beat Macron if the elections in France took place today The leader of the National Alliance, Marine Le Pen, with 55 percent of the votes won, would convincingly defeat the current president, Emmanuel Macron, if the presidential elections… pic.twitter.com/74CbPY8QCf
In 1989, when the Soviet crew of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race contender, Fazisi, were in the yachting hub of Hamble (Hampshire), I was also there for a couple of days. I was, with my then girlfriend, an Anglo-Russian (the Russian part being from pre-revolutionary White Russian origins), visiting my parents, who lived in Hamble at that time. In fact, they lived in a small private road, Crowsport, built upon in the 1920s, and only a stone’s throw from the marina where the Soviet yacht was being made ready. You could see the tops of the masts of the yachts in the marina from their house.
Having heard about the Soviet yacht (this was about 2 years before the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991), we decided to walk down to see the yacht and maybe say hello to its crew.
The yacht was there, crew aboard, and we started talking to one of the sailors, a handsome blond giant who was very taken with my girlfriend and, in a polite way, said at the end that we (it sounded more like she —not sure that I was included!) would be welcome to visit any time (she didn’t, though).
The crew spoke Russian language only, apparently.
I remember that the blond sailor said that he was from “Novgorod by Moscow“, more or less a suburb, to distinguish it from the large and historic town halfway between Moscow and the then Leningrad.
We were briefly introduced to the captain, who was carrying a rope, and who seemed stressed. He was going ashore, presumably to the marina office or repair sheds. He nodded to us, maybe shook hands (I do not recall), and trudged away.
The article above, written in 2008, mentions “tragedy” during the race, but does not mention the fact that the captain of the Fazisi committed suicide on the journey round the world, hanging himself in a wood in Uruguay: see https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-sp-245-story.html.
In the end, the Fazisi, which had been delivered to Heathrow in one main piece (minus masts) in an Aeroflot cargo plane, the largest in the world, then on a road transporter, did not win the ocean race but still put in a creditable performance, including a one-day run of 386 miles which may have been a world record for a monohull.
That was a more hopeful time for Russia and the world. Sovietism had collapsed in all but name, all the chatter was about Russia becoming partner to the West, rather than enemy, and no-one was thinking about nuclear war any more.
This was before the horde of Western carpetbaggers hit Russia in the 1990s, and before the pack of Jew “oligarchs” got their claws into Russia’s money and natural resources during the Yeltsin years.
It was also before it became publicly known, in the 1990s, that the USA had a “secret” game plan to keep Russia down, and the USA as “world’s only superpower”.
Another, and even less-likely, scenario in 1989 was that Ukraine would break away from Russia, and then much later be at war with it. The captain of the Fazisi was himself of Ukrainian origin, judging by his name (Gryshenko).
Russia has advanced further inside Bakhmut in recent days, capturing areas along the west bank of the river with Ukrainian troops perhaps pulling back as far as west of the railway pic.twitter.com/Ioj5dMM40s
The paved T-506 Highway Ground Line of Communication into Bakhmut via Khromove remains open and clear – there is one new van that is disabled from the last video
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦According to sources, Russian forces have joined Wagner in Bakhmut street fighting. Not just VDV Paratroopers but also SOF units.
No clear visual proof of this has come out. The Russian troops don't carry their phones with them to the front.
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Soledar fell because the VDV and Russian SOF was able to keep Ukrainian forces from regrouping and captured and held the high ground. Wagner is not working alone contrary to popular belief.
@antinatocoalition
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Map of situation in Bakhmut City from MiltaryMaps….yellow line is the extent of Russian advance according to latest field reports pic.twitter.com/PnTiTChUdy
For once, I can agree with at least some of what Owen Jones has written. Not his pro-“diversity”, pro-immigration stuff, though. Those and other factors have to be included in the reasons why western societies are decaying, declining, and not unlikely to collapse.
“Musicians” seems to be the self-designation of Wagner Group contract soldiers, as I noted recently on the blog. Presumably a reference to Richard Wagner.
How shallow. Immigration is a key factor in dragging down wages, and overwhelming the NHS and other services. It is not a discrete or a side issue unconnected to the others.
The Tories are also heavily distrusted on immigration among key target voting groups (between -53 and -76)
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time“… [Abraham Lincoln].
As a voter, you can vote for the misnamed “Conservative” Party, which at times has talked a semi-good game on immigration but done little or nothing to fulfil the big talk talked, or you can vote equally-misnamed “Labour”, which does not even bother to pretend that it would slow (let alone stop, or reverse) mass immigration, but weasels about “managing” it better, meaning automatically allowing most applicants for asylum or visas of various kinds to enter the UK.
A very shocking case, and unusual in the ethnic background of the defendants. Still, it would not be right to turn a blind eye just because most of the defendants appear to have been white.
Not quite the usual fact matrix as in the Asian/Pakistani cases, in fact. As bad, though.
Same reason the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, and everywhere else haven't. You have a large enough brainwashed leftist domestic population who holds power and will use it to terrorize anyone who doesn't tow the line – those who change their minds is too gradual/too late.
"a substantial section of whites have become Black, a particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture. along with the wholly false Jamaican patois that has been intruded in England. This is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country" pic.twitter.com/yb7PsNJepc
Canada's Envoy to the UN @BobRae48's justification of terrorist act killing Russian war reporter Vladen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) is both disgusting & shocking.
Does this mean Canada supports terrorism? If Amb Bob keeps his job, then apparently that is exactly the case.#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/313V12935h
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” (Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, наро́дность).
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 – that’s 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 ‘ideal’ spot! So if you see a big #bumblebee chilling on the ground don’t 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 £10 and is now around the £600 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 £8.50 (original price was nearly £20, but that was immediately reduced to £9.99), out of which “Jack Monroe” may be getting between 50p and £1 per copy. New or near-new copies can be had on Amazon for as little as £5.
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. ‘The Future of Mobility’, a 2019 government report that championed a ‘behavioural science’ approach to transport policy, was edited by https://t.co/YsbYq6gVi6…
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 🏴☠️ (@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
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
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?
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 £10 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 £50,000. 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 £50,000 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.
It’s not ‘puritanical’ 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 Crimea🇷🇺 (@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 #Russia’s security, incl by setting up #NATO military bases & other infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/g1LBK4c1R7
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 4, 2023
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor, said that, according to his sources, Russian troops completely surrounded Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
According to McGregor, the city has practically fallen, since now it is impossible to reach the Ukrainian units in the… pic.twitter.com/0UIMEEVakw
Ukraine is the best place for religious freedom, Zelensky said.
Is that why Bishop Pavel must wear an electronic tag /tracker on his leg?
The bishop endures it. He is happy that Zelinsky has not yet executed him. His flock needs him now. pic.twitter.com/8LF37snGiY
— Make Peace Now; alternative news (@AlternatNews) April 1, 2023
The Jew Zelensky is somewhere between dictator and figurehead, or between figurehead and puppet, and his regime has shot or imprisoned its political opponents, closed down trade unions, and repressed free speech.
Ukraine kids in Russia that Russia removed from the danger zone, the other is Yemeni kids. Who is being mistreated? The Ukraine kids are well clothed, housed and fed, good medical care the Yemeni kids begging on the streets being bombed with US bombs and no proper medicine pic.twitter.com/fbLEDDvgx2
— Gilda Morkert ❤️🫶🙏☮️ 🇾🇪🇵🇸🇮🇷🍉 (@g_morkert) March 31, 2023
It is noticeable that, in Western news photos and footage, the Ukrainian children repatriated to Ukraine, after having spent time in Russia, always look happy and well-fed.
In 2014 Ukraine attacked the city center of Luhansk … as a reminder -> A small thread on how it started …
Bush lied the American people into supporting invading another country killing about a million people, including our own troops and ran an illegal torture program
The British army couldn't fight in Ukraine, either, which begs the question: why is the British government pushing so hard for a confrontation with Russia. I for one think they have created an existential threat to our existence because of their bellicose policies and actions.
Why on Earth would Russia, which left Marxism-Leninism behind 30+ years ago, want to invade Western Europe (inc. UK)? How could it even try? The whole idea is ludicrous.
In 1967 israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents & leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes characterised as the 'forgotten occupation'… pic.twitter.com/RRAlPxKKim
WATCH: Far-right lawmakers walked out of the Austrian parliament to protest Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's speech. They claimed it violated Austria's neutrality. pic.twitter.com/apMtxg3dKz
It really is just that🇬🇧👏 Virtue signalling, WEF, etc is divisive, destructive and everything WOKE. pic.twitter.com/tshTGWk1WO
— Billy-Joe Salsbury Merritt (@SalsburyBilly) April 1, 2023
We know the way all of that is probably going to end, somewhere down the line…
What is it when, like —and yet unlike— those souls noted in Gray’s Elegy, some “wade through slaughter“, not “to a throne“, but simply “pro bono publico“? Duty? Higher law? “For the welfare of the people is the highest law“: salus populi suprema lex esto [Cicero, De Legibus].
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At this point I’ll vote for anyone who will just leave me alone to live my life (and isn’t a pedophile). Apparently that’s too much to ask for these days.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 30, 2023
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 30, 2023
We have to stop letting them normalize the abnormal. These are demonic forces at work.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 29, 2023
That comes out very strongly in certain recent msm/System campaigns, including (but not exhaustively) the “trans” nonsense, pro-“Ukraine” (Zelensky regime), “Black Lives Matter” (etc).
They are destroying everything on purpose. Nobody wants their New World Order. When you're cold, hungry and desperate, they can offer you their "solution" and they're hoping you'll gladly accept it.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 29, 2023
We're as British as you" so wearing westernised clothing, picking up a regional twang and also having that all important UK passport is all one requires to be English, Welsh, Northern Irish or Scottish nowadays! pic.twitter.com/rSoUQfZuN0
Idly “surfing the net”, I came across a brief obituary of a lady I had met a few times between late 1989 and early 1993, during which years I spent about half my time in the USA (mostly in New Jersey and New York City). I shall not name the lady or her family.
In 1989, I travelled with my then fiancee from New Jersey (near the Jersey Shore) to Fox Chapel, an affluent semi-rural area near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we having been invited to spend Thanksgiving with a family there.
The couple who owned the large, comfortable house were in their fifties, and their daughter, aged about 25, was a friend of my then fiancee. The father of that family was a nuclear scientist, and his wife what the Americans charmingly call a “homemaker”, a much more respectful term, I think, than the Anglo-German terms “housewife” or “hausfrau”. American to the core, they had both been born and brought up in the Mid-West, but had also lived in Belgium, and had travelled very widely, to dozens of countries from Mexico to the Soviet Union.
The house, though on a semi-rural, semi-suburban road with a few other similarly-large houses, had a large hinterland, mostly not so much a “garden” as a tranche of forest; I think they said about 40 acres, where some of Pennsylvania’s millions of deer were often seen.
The lady’s husband was a tough but very decent type, very solid (in both senses), rather like a more intelligent version of John Wayne (to my European perception). He was a fan of American football, and I think that he had played football himself at college (university) level.
I admired the lady’s collection of Palekh lacquer boxes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palekh_miniature], and also their very American cars, his a Cadillac (I forget the model), and hers a Lincoln Town Car, probably my own favourite at the time, though I myself did not have a licence then (I only held a driving licence —a foreign one— from 1999, and a UK one from 2002).
The couple were very hospitable to me; I have always remembered them with good feelings.
I last saw the couple in Maryland, in (I think) 1992.
The lady mentioned died a few years ago, it seems, aged 85 (at that time, at least, her husband was still living). I was unaware until today, not having kept up with any of those I knew or met so long ago.
I have been struck recently by renewed realization at how transient life is in any one incarnation. We must do what we can while we are still on the Earth.
Ian Robert Millard 