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Diary Blog, 23 March 2026

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[“Professor Jiang — the man nicknamed “The Professor” because he is truly one of the most dangerous geopolitical minds in the world — revealed to Tucker Carlson words you will not hear anywhere else:

Iran’s war is an American quagmire with no bottom… China is the biggest long-term loser… and the UAE will be affected in a way no one expected.

This man is not an ordinary analyst. He predicted Trump’s victory years ago — and he won. He predicted America entering a war with Iran — and it did. And today, he speaks about the future with the same confidence.

  1. Iran War = Second Ukraine
    The war will be long and exhausting. No side will admit defeat.
    America is stuck between two bad options: withdrawal = collapse of prestige… continuation = endless bleeding.
    My view: this is exactly what happened in Ukraine. Americans have no exit strategy, only an entry strategy.
  2. Why can’t America exit?
    Iran will demand $1 trillion in compensation + complete US withdrawal from the region.
    If America withdraws:

Gulf states will become clients of Iran.

Petrodollar will collapse.

America — with $39 trillion in debt — will face a real economic collapse.
The point no one talks about: America is not fighting for Iran… it is fighting so it does not collapse itself.

  1. Iran’s smart plan — $800 billion per year
    Iran plans to impose a 10% passage fee on every ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

    Expected revenue: $800 billion per year.
    This amount will rebuild Iran stronger than before.
    If this is correct — and I see it as not far-fetched — Iran will emerge from the war richer than it entered.
  2. The biggest loser is not America — but China
    China imports 40% of its energy from the Gulf.
    Its economy is entirely built on cheap energy.
    Even artificial intelligence — which everyone talks about — requires cheap energy.
    Any disruption in energy supplies will hit China more than any other country.
    And what no one notices: the war in Iran is not just an American war — it is a war on China’s future as a great power.
  3. The real beneficiaries? Israel and Russia
    Israel:

Wants “Greater Israel” from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Draining America in a long war = pushing it out of the region.

Weakening the Gulf = removing any competitor.
Russia:

America lifted sanctions on Russian oil (130 million barrels).

Russia sells its oil at record prices.

And finances its war in Ukraine from America’s pocket.
In short: America is paying for others’ wars while thinking it is winning.

  1. The religious factor — the hidden power no one talks about
    There are religious factions in Israel and America that genuinely believe this war is a prelude to the return of Christ.
    Blowing up Al-Aqsa Mosque and building the Third Temple is part of the plan.
    Netanyahu and Trump — according to Professor Jiang — are just tools in a project far older than them.
    This is one of the most dangerous statements in the episode, because when political decisions are driven by end-of-the-world ideology — there is no room for rationality.
  2. The ground invasion is coming — a new Vietnam
    America is considering sending 2,000 Marines to control Kharg Island (90% of Iranian oil exports).
    But Professor Jiang said clearly: “You can take it, but you cannot hold it.”
    What begins with 2,000 soldiers could end with half a million — just like in Vietnam.
  3. Weakening the UAE — the bubble is about to burst
    Dubai was built on the illusion of security.
    Simple Iranian strikes revealed the model’s fragility entirely.
    What was a “safe haven” became a target. And the confidence upon which all those towers were built is eroding.
    The UAE will not “end” — but its economic model will be severely shaken, because everything is based on the assumption of regional security — and that assumption has collapsed.
  4. Japan will recover — and China will decline
    Professor Jiang literally said: “If I had a billion dollars — I would put it all in Japan.”
    Japan has historically risen from anything: the Mongols, World War II, nuclear bombs.
    China, however: agricultural, closed, and unable to adapt to the new era.
  5. The West is collapsing from within
    Europe, Canada, and Australia are experiencing deliberate demographic change.
    The “democracy” that emerges looks more like the “organized demolition” of Western civilization.
    And the question: who is driving this? No one has a clear answer.

Conclusion
What Professor Jiang said tonight:
America is stuck in a quagmire it cannot escape.
Iran will return stronger after the war.
Israel achieves its expansionist dream.
China will be the biggest loser.
And the West destroys itself.

The remaining question:
If Professor Jiang predicted Trump’s victory and the start of the war — and he was correct…
Will his predictions today come true?
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Worth thinking about.

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Written and published on the blog 8 years ago, in 2018. I think that it still stands up pretty well.

On the face of it; though what Trump may say on day 1 may be the opposite of what he says on day 2, and both may be different than what he does on day 3 [etc].

For once, I agree with Hodges.

[“Ritter: The new US and Israel stance towards Iran could trigger a global catastrophe:

Israel and the US have now realized that regime change in Iran is not possible, the Iranian government will survive this conflict. Therefore, they are now trying to impoverish the Iranian authorities and everything they control. They aim to inflict long-term damage on Iran’s ability to produce gas, oil, and energy and to generate revenue from it. Iran has stated that it will not be the only country to go down this path. Therefore, I believe this is the beginning of one of the greatest mistakes. Conditions are being created for a global catastrophe,” emphasized military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter.”]

The U.S. Congress is 99% “occupied”:

Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham etc have blood on their hands, and gold in their pockets.

The facts speak for themselves, so there is little need to use such descriptive phrases as “fifth column” or “a state within a state“.

Having said that, there are other private ambulances in the UK, which may or may not (I do not know) also offer emergency cover.

I myself have only had private healthcare (insurance) in the past when living overseas at times (former Soviet Union, Caribbean), or travel insurance, and never had to call upon it.

I have no reason to suppose that such Jewish ambulance services would ignore a non-Jew suffering in front of the operatives concerned —if for example there were a car accident right in front of the private ambulance when it had not already been booked— but most people only have the option of calling a normal NHS 999 ambulance or paramedic.

English/British (i.e. non-Jew) citizens would not even know the emergency or other numbers for these “Hatzola” ambulances.

I am guessing, admittedly, but surely only Jews, and in certain areas of London, Manchester etc, would know those emergency numbers, and thus be in a position to appeal for help in the first place.

So it would seem that they are not —100%— “apartheid“-style Jewish-only services, but probably, admittedly at a guess, 99% so. If anyone knows differently, comment appropriately, and I may publish the comment or correction on the blog.

#MoralHighGround.

Of course, none of the above justifies the destruction of the “Hatzola” ambulances, any more than it would justify, mutatis mutandis, the destruction of private ambulances belonging to, say, BUPA or other private healthcare provider.

After all, if Jews in certain areas are using their Jewish ambulances, it must mean that they are not using NHS ambulances, thus ipso facto helping the non-Jew communities by not stretching the NHS skeleton service even more.

Still, it does show what a fractured society this now is, and how some people, some communities, are more privileged than others.

Finally, I note that £600,000-£700,000 has already been raised by Jews in order to replace the destroyed vehicles. Imagine that level of resource being available, within a few hours at that, to ordinary English/British communities…

Well, that information is new to me.

Incidentally, and at least according to Google, “Achdus” seems to mean “day”, and “shacharis” seems to mean Jewish morning prayer services, presumably part of Israeli army routine.

[“Mossad’s plan to destabilize Iran has failed

The idea to bring the Iranian people to uprising was proposed by the head of Israeli intelligence David Barnea during the preparation stage for the military operation. Later, he presented it to Netanyahu, and in mid-January — to Trump, writes The New York Times.

According to the publication, the conviction that the US and Israel could provoke a mass uprising was a key miscalculation in the preparation for the war. Three weeks after its start, no uprising occurred in Iran.”]

Unsurprising that the plan failed. For one thing, when a country is under external attack, most citizens tend to rally round the flag; secondly, the Iranian regime seems to have killed or imprisoned tens of thousands of its most active opponents, and to have done so within the past few months. A third factor may be (again, merely guessing from what I have read) that the Iranian counter-espionage groups have rolled-up many suspected MOSSAD, Aman, and CIA networks on the ground.

That does seem strange. After all, this was an act of criminal damage. Vehicle insurance should cover that, regardless of any (supposed) Iranian “terror” aspects. The insurers might try to wriggle out but surely a normal insurance policy would cover criminal damage, which is basically what this was.

Also, the UK Government is now going to stump up monies to buy new ambulances, while the normal ambulance service for English/British people is being cut back to nothing? Certainly gives the impression of prioritization of the Jewish community over the English/British…

Anyway, I read that well over £600,000 had already been raised by Jewish groups. Was that inaccurate? If not, why is the government wasting taxpayer money on vehicles not really available for most citizens, and when monies have already been raised anyway?

A totally incompetent and totally “occupied” Labour Friends of Israel government, headed by “Starmer-stein”.

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Even some of the Jews (the more cultured and nuanced Jews) are appalled by the Jewish settler gangs in the West Bank. Murderers and terrorists.

[“I am adamant that every White Person in the world has been psyoped in one way or another over the years when jewish influence has been at its height.

It is now we put our differences aside, and come together as one to claim sovereignty of our nations once more.

I don’t believe that most people who advocate for communism want communism, just as much as I don’t believe that most people who advocate for fascism want fascism.

What we can all universally agree on is that we want freedom. Freedom is what we want, and so desperately need.

The left need to give up their open borders fairy tale and the right need to give up on their “American dream” for this to happen.

Globalism and usury need to perish.

Britain for the British, Europe for Europeans. Whites for the Anglosphere.

No more immigration. Loads of remigration. Total remigration.”]

As Jack London once said, “I am a socialist, but a white man first“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London.

Is he wrong? Even the migration invasion cannot be stopped, or at any rate is not being stopped.

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[Ludlow Castle]

Diary Blog, 17 February 2026

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[Norwich Cathedral cloisters]

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They have had their own fake “police” force, called the “Shomrim”, for many years. North London heavily Jewish areas, such as Barnet. They drive vehicles made up to look like real police cars. If any other group did that, they would be prosecuted.

So speaks one Jacob Collier, 28-y-o MP for Burton and Uttoxeter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Collier_(politician). Looking at the voting history and statistics, I doubt that he will be MP beyond the present Parliament, so he may not be laughing at Reform UK for very much longer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_and_Uttoxeter#Elections_in_the_2020s.

“Free poppadoms for all! Free chicken curry for all Gorton and Denton (Labour) voters!

Not a white face there…

Bar of England and Wales

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15558043/Starmers-great-friend-shared-8MILLION-pot-earnings-work-Chagos-surrender-deal.html

A close friend of Sir Keir Starmer shared an £8 million pot for his work negotiating the Chagos Islands ‘surrender’ deal to cede the territory to Mauritius, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Philippe Sands KC, who describes himself as a ‘great friend’ of the Prime Minister, pocketed his share of the sum while acting as chief legal counsel to Mauritius between 2010 and 2024.”

[Daily Mail]

“Sands was born in London on 17 October 1960 to Jewish parents.”

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Sands

Every. Single. Time.

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The Greens, in the oft-seen Leninist term (usually misunderstood, however) are both infantile and disordered. Bad-joke politics, but (as one has seen with with Lab and Con over the past half-century and especially since 1989) that might not prevent them actually exercizing power and ruining society (even more), if the socio-political conditions were to become favourable.

Real “green” politics are different: see

[“Heil Goering!“— German cartoon from early 1930s, when National Socialist Germany, firstly in Prussia, became the first state on Earth to ban cruel experiments on animals]

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There are one or two English in that crowd. Just one or two, or three. Hello, Robinson Crusoe!

A reference to hard-faced careerist moneygrubber and expenses blodger Antonia Romeo.

More (((propaganda)))

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In that case, the Iranians have nothing to lose by launching an all-out and simultaneous attack on Israel using all available missiles and drones.

Dimona. Ben-Gurion Airport. Tel Aviv and nearby wealthy suburbs.

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Diary Blog, 4 January 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Parsadanian]

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[“A senior member of Hope Not Hate was convicted of paedophile sex offences yesterday.

Hope Not Hate is a far-left group connected to the Labour Party that attacks Labour’s political opponents by smearing them as “racist” or “far-right”. Hope Not Hate’s other senior members include Matthew Collins, who was filmed admitting to attacking women with a hammer.

The boss, Nick Lowles, is little better – at the height of the Southport riots he shared incendiary misinformation claiming that British rioters were attacking Muslim women with acid. A straight up lie that likely encouraged Muslim men to attack Brits. Even when advised by the police that he was wrong, Lowles did not delete his post. Unlike people on the right, he was never prosecuted. The Hope Not Hate paedo, Liron Woodcock-Velleman, was also in the Labour Party. He campaigned with Sir Keir Starmer and was described as an “ally” of Sadiq Khan.

Hope Not Hate receive taxpayer funding. Their staff spend long hours online using anonymous identities to try and catch any opponent of the Labour Party saying something they can smear as “bigoted”. Were taxpayers’ funds used in the course of Liron’s paedophilia? Did Hope Not Hate’s technologies and techniques facilitate his child abuse? This organisation stinks. It should have been closed down years ago due to the fact that it’s basically the attack arm of the Labour Party, using public funds to smear their critics and opponents. (And they paint their activity as just “combatting hate” when it’s blatantly politically aligned and senior members have spoken at Communist events promoting an ideology that killed and tortured millions). Of course, Hope Not Hate are lauded by the BBC, Channel 4 and the Guardian. But now that senior members have been outed as committing horrific crimes – misogynist hammer attacks, paedophilia – its position is untenable. They need to be shut down and investigated. What else are Hope Not Hate hiding?“]

“Hope not Hate” consists of Jews, mostly. The half-Jew Israeli/US agent and former Labour MP, Ruth Smeeth, now posing as “Baroness” Anderson in the House of Lords (“elevated” a few years ago by part-Jew “Conservative” Prime Minister “Boris”-idiot), is heavily involved. She is now married to Gareth Snell, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Snell; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Anderson,_Baroness_Anderson_of_Stoke-on-Trent.

Another member of the “Hope not Hate” cabal is Patrik “The Rat” Hermannson.

The most shocking aspect of “Hope not Hate” is that the UK taxpayer is funding many of its activities. Other donors include the billionaire Rausing family mugs (and pro-Zionists).

Israel is the hub of a worldwide web of crime, exploitation, and illicit control over whole populations via corrupt executives and legislatures. First remove that central hub, then the web generally.

I support neither Maduro nor Trump. Having said that, Trump’s USA is the only power on Earth constantly looking for opportunities to increase its global control by military means. China has not yet reached that point.

Interesting, but always remember “to win without war— that is the supreme excellence” [Sun Tzu].

You will never hear a Chinese leader directly threaten Europe with war. No, but Europe is flooded with Chinese people. Few are agents of Chinese Intelligence. They do not have to be. This is a long term project for China. They want to take over slowly, almost by osmosis.

The same applies to Chinese influence in Russia, especially in the East of Siberia and, particularly, the former Soviet Far East. The Chinese do not threaten, do not act belligerently; they simply trade and, where permitted, move into Russian territory as business people, farmers etc.

Not sure what tweeter Sophie Meaden means by “law suit“. Is she being prosecuted? If so, by the State, or maybe by the malicious Jew-Zionist troublemakers of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”? Or is she herself suing someone or some organization? I do not know.

Meanwhile, Starmer-stein’s misgovernment is moving migrant-invaders into British social housing, thus preventing British people, including poor families and even pensioners, from getting a home. Incredibly, the foreign invaders are being prioritized ahead of needy and desperate British people.

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[frequently updated]

People are trying to save because the safety net of social security (renamed, significantly, in the American word “welfare”), has been radically cut back over the past 20 years. Savings are a security blanket.

In fact, the so-called “austerity” policies of David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne etc shrank the real British economy hugely from 2010-2015 and even later, and the recovery from that was ruined by the wholly unnecessary measures taken in response to the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic nonsense (“lockdowns” etc).

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Equally absurd, but at least Corbyn is not a total puppet of Israel and the Jewish lobby.

Very true, but then you ask yourself why, with all that wealth, Venezuela has such low living standards…

Starmer may be bad but he is also sad, in his own person a sad commentary on the political, or socio-political, pygmies that purport to rule this country. Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Lammy, and the rest. Most corrupt, most pretty stupid and uncultured under a surface veneer, and mostly members of Labour Friends of Israel.

Off to a concentration camp with him (in a better society).

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[Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre]

Diary Blog, 21 July 2025

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[“These really are damning stats. British people asked, is Violent crime Under control 21% Out of control 60% Knife crime Under control 13% Out of control 74% Burglary Under control 22% Out of control 55% Shoplifting Under control 16% Out of control 70% Drug crimes Under control 15% Out of control 69% Anti-social behaviour Under control 20% Out of control 64% Sexual offences Under control 17% Out of control 63% Gang crimes Under control 15% Out of control 67% Source: Survation“]

Civil disobedience. Civil war. Social war.

Atmosphere, in both senses, caught perfectly.

That tweeter was the wife and (paid for via MP expenses) assistant to the former MP for Poole, who was narrowly binned at the 2024 General Election. She now runs a party or caucus called #Moderates, which seems to exist only in her own head. Why she thinks that the “Triple Lock” should be done away with, I do not know. Waste of money? I think that is wrong, looking at all the rubbish on which state funds are wasted. At least most pensioners are real British people, for one thing.

Basic Income is the way forward, though.

Any political party threatening the Triple Lock is doomed; pensioners will not vote for it, and the “grey vote” is the most important single factor in any UK general election.

I have always thought the existence of a “union” for students absolutely ridiculous anyway.

[“King of Belgium: The situation in Gaza is a stain on the conscience of humanity, where innocent people are held captive, starving, and dying under bombings.

And the West, as always, tries to blame everyone but itself. The West has lost its humanity; it is ruled by pedophiles. 50% of Western residents consider what is happening in Palestine acceptable — this is a huge number, as nowhere else in the world is there such a large proportion of people who think this is normal. People in the West are still “discussing” whether this is right — it is disgusting, and the rest of the world sees this clearly.“]

News from the “diversity”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/21/yostin-andres-mosquera-guilty-murder-albert-alfonso-paul-longworth-bristol-clifton-suspension-bridge

A man has been found guilty of murdering two men in London whom he decapitated and dismembered before taking their body parts in two suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.

Mosquera, who had been staying with the couple, froze some of their remains and brought the rest to Bristol, the court heard.

Alfonso enjoyed “extreme sex” and Mosquera, a Colombian national he had met online years earlier, was part of that world, jurors heard. Alfonso was stabbed to death during a filmed sex session.

[Guardian]

[defendant]

Britain has to be thoroughly cleaned up, in several ways.

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Agreed, but Goodwin fails to address the “two-tier” justice system which favours fanatical Jew-Zionists. They commit crimes online with no consequences, whereas the legitimate online free speech of non-Jews is criminalized.

“Slitherman”, and his co-conspirators at the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, constitute a prime example:

Far right” (like “rightwing”, “left-wing”, “centrist” etc) is just a label. Meaningless.

Deutschland erwache!

Once again, Israeli Jews using starvation as a weapon. After what they have done to Gaza and the people there, the Israeli Jews can just shut up about their “holocaust” farrago, events which are popularly supposed to have occurred 80 or 90 years ago anyway.

Next stop— Tel Aviv.

In any NATO-Russia war, the UK will be the USA’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier”. We shall all, or virtually all, be killed, just so that the US-based NW)-ZOG conspiracy can take on Russia.

Dystopia. This is where the UK is headed; this is where parts already are.

That kind of population cannot, and never could, create a better society. That kind of population cannot even maintain, nor even live peaceably in, the present relatively civilized kind of society. They are of little use, many of them, even as slaves or serfs, and unnecessary in that role, now that automation, computing, AI etc are becoming ubiquitous.

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Diary Blog, 6 April 2020

The world is not without kind people [Russian saying]

Nice story:

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This photo is from Paris Match, 1958. The Algerian donkey was starving to death, so a soldier from the 13th brigade of the French Foreign Legion carried it back to base where it became a regimental mascot named “Bambi”

Coronavirus

“Police across the country are wielding powers they do not have – with vanishingly little public scrutiny”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/05/police-across-country-using-powers-do-not-have-vanishingly/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

Italy has announced plans for ending its lockdown after the coronavirus-ravaged country today recorded its lowest daily death toll for more than two weeks.  

Rome recorded another 525 deaths, taking its total to 15,887 – the highest of any country in the world – however, this marked its lowest daily increase since the 427 registered on March 19.

Furthermore, the number of people in intensive care (3,977), fell by 17 since Friday, and the number of cases rose to 128,948 from yesterday’s 124,632, a lower increase than the day before.

It comes amid growing signs that Spain’s strict coronavirus lockdown may be working, as the country records its lowest death toll for a third consecutive day.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189585/Italy-records-lowest-daily-death-toll-nearly-two-weeks-525-fatalities-24-hours.html

Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

His surname is English, rather than Scottish, it seems:
https://www.houseofnames.com/starmer-family-crest

Keir is now a Scottish first name, Keir Hardie having been, of course, the main founder of the Labour Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie

but “Keir” was the surname of Hardie’s mother, which he kept as part of his surname, only later using it as a first name.

Keir Starmer’s parents named him after Keir Hardie:
Keir Rodney Starmer was born in Southwark, London, on 2 September 1962[5][6] and grew up in the small town of Oxted in Surrey.[7][8][9] He was one of five children of Josephine (née Baker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker.[9][10] His mother had Still’s disease.[11][12] His parents were both firm Labour Party supporters, and named him after the first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie.” [Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer

Note:
Personal life
Starmer married Victoria Alexander, a solicitor, in 2007. The couple’s son and a daughter are being brought up in the Jewish faith of their mother.[12][61]
[Wikipedia]

There you have it: Starmer’s wife is Jewish, and his children are therefore half-Jewish (according to ordinary genetics), and simply “Jewish” according to Jewish religious practice, as well as being brought up as culturally Jewish.

So far, Starmer has appointed members of Labour Friends of Israel to Shadow Cabinet: Rachel Reeves and Lisa Nandy. Emily Thornberry is to stay in Shadow Cabinet.

EmilyThornberryIsraelLobby

[above: Emily Thornberry at a Zionist dinner in London, photographed with her husband —a half-Jewish High Court judge— and —in central position— Mark Regev, the Israeli Ambassador]

I think that we can write off the Labour Party now.

Ghetto life in Israel

The Israeli state is considering sealing off “ultra-Orthodox” areas, thus creating quasi-ghetto zones within the Jewish state. Who would have predicted that?!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/calls-to-seal-off-ultra-orthodox-areas-adds-tension-to-israels-virus-response

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[above: Orthodox Jews in early 20thC Vienna]

The Guardian article also makes the point that the Orthodox Jewish areas in London may also have been major incubators for Coronavirus. The boroughs of Barnet and Harrow, as well as Brent, are in the top half-dozen Coronavirus “hotspots” not just in London but in the whole of the UK.

Coronavirus— the exit strategy

Or to put it another way, what exit strategy? It is one thing to say to people, “stay inside except for a few closely-defined outings for a few weeks“, and quite another to say “stay inside your homes for several months, and if you dare to come out even to spend an hour walking in a national park, or on the beach, or sunbathing harmlessly in a largely empty park, or driving on an empty motorway, the police will stop you, question you, fine you and may fine you as much as £1,000“…

How long is this “lockdown” going to be sustainable? I see that even the msm outlets are beginning to ask the question now.

If someone has a country estate, or even a sizeable ordinary detached suburban or smaller rural house, perhaps with gardens, a swimming pool, a tennis court, an orangerie, a vegetable garden, “staying home” is not so hard to do. For the majority of the population, stuck in small houses, flats etc, perhaps with children or bored teenagers, this “lockdown” is a house arrest which cannot continue indefinitely. At some point, before long, the Government is going to have to announce a relaxation and then an end, before people start to ignore the restrictions.

Good points by Lewis Goodall of BBC TV Newsnight (ex-Sky News):

Little Matt Hancock and others may threaten more severe restrictions, but without public consent, even the present restrictions cannot be enforced widely. The present conditions are holding because the public has been persuaded or stampeded into compliance. I think that we are just approaching 2 weeks of “lockdown”. Can the UK sustain 2 months? That would be five times as long.

The economic damage is already huge.

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Anyone who believes that Keir Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet is anything more than a nominal “Opposition” is very naive. In 2015, the Jewish-Zionist lobby lost control of one of the previously-controlled two main System parties. After nearly 5 years, that lobby now has regained control. The Jews as a group care only that the (sort-of) “anti-Zionist” Corbyn has been removed. Hardly any Jews have voted Labour for many years.

Quite. Unreasoning fear is all around. Shoppers at Waitrose stand about 10 feet apart before they are allowed to have a trolley and enter the store, but inside they shop sometimes only a couple of feet from one another!

Likewise, the usual type of Twitter virtue-signallers continue to tweet on silly hashtags demonizing (of all targets!) people doing completely harmless things, such as walking along largely-empty beaches, almost deserted national park moorlands and forest trails etc, driving or motorbiking on almost-empty roads and motorways to places (or simply around, just to get a change of view and some fresh air).

If I had to say what unites the majority of the “Twitterati”, it would be their love of conformity, their obedience to authority, and their love of the largely-failed “multikulti” society. I suppose that is why Twitter was mainly pro-EU…

Here is a typical example, from someone calling himself “@sychodefender”:

You see the mentality. Any dissent from the “authorized” version of the truth is to be suppressed, and anyone not going along with the official narrative is “murdering” those unfortunate enough to die from Coronavirus. Who then is “murdering” those who, by reason of the “lockdown” (house arrest of the British people), cannot access lifesaving operations or other medical help for many other life-threatening conditions which (unlike Coronavirus) can be treated? Coronavirus can only be managed, via ventilation, not “treated” or “cured”. Who is “murdering” those people? No-one? The Government? Conformist tweeters such as “@sychodefender”/Simon Burgess? The first thing being murdered is the truth; after that, the English language.

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Where do we go from here?

There’s a real question of whether we will have an economy to come back to at the end of this“.

Quite…

Screwup, James Screwup…

Interesting legal case…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189913/Ex-MI6-spy-dirty-dossier-Donald-Trump-sued-three-Russian-oligarchs.html

It seems to me that the thing SIS/MI6 is best at is bolstering its own reputation (not by its own successful product or analysis, but via self-serving propaganda or public relations). That, and providing fairly well-paid careers for often rather mediocre members of the Oxbridge-educated middle classes.

Let’s think of a few of the less ancient SIS/MI6 failures:

  • the invasion of the Falklands; failure to warn HMG;
  • failure to warn HMG about the likely fall of the Shah of Iran;
  • failure to warn of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe…to name but three very large-scale events.

What about SIS/MI6 successes in the past 50 years? The Gordievsky defection, I suppose, but that is or was “spy game” or “spy wars” stuff, rather than large-scale success in forecasting. The same might be said of the “Viktor Suvorov” defection from the GRU or that of Oleg Lyalin (KGB). Those were, in essence, “walk-ins”, of course, though Gordievsky “walked in” having been cultivated for some time (in Copenhagen).

Of course, it can always be said that “the successes must be kept secret”. Perhaps, but I have little doubt that many failures are also kept secret (aka “covered up”).

At some point, SIS/MI6 must be reorganized to provide useful information to government, especially on the strategic level. That might mean using more open-source material as a percentage of the whole.

Naturally, anyone who —like me— is not a member or former member of such an organization is commenting somewhat in the dark, but it is surely clear that this is not a properly-functioning organization.

Now this…

Good grief!

The Army is so desperate to fill its ranks that it is signing up recruits with a reading age as young as five. Normally, its rules bar hiring anyone with a reading age below ‘entry level two’ – equivalent to that of a child aged seven to nine.” [Daily Mail]

Last year, the Army was roundly mocked for recruitment advertisements stating ‘Your country needs you’ to ‘snowflakes, phone zombies, binge gamers, selfie addicts, and me, me, millennials’. Now it appears that some potential recruits would not even have been able to under stand the adverts – even as warfare become increasingly computerised.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8190009/Army-signs-recruits-reading-age-young-FIVE-desperate-bid-boost-troop-numbers.html

Petty police

A police officer uses a megaphone at Southwark Park, to announce sunbathing is not allowed, but exercise isA police officer uses a megaphone at Southwark Park, to announce sunbathing is not allowed, but exercise is” [Daily Mail].

How absolutely stupid! The Coronavirus is spread via water in air, so is far more likely to be spread via exercise than via sunbathing!

“...there are concerns that public confidence could be lost if those in power with gardens and ample living space tell those who live in crowded conditions they cannot go to the park or exercise outdoors.” [Daily Mail]

This is becoming very silly (which is why 90% of “Twitterati” support the “lockdown” in an extreme way…).

If the Government and police don’t stand down these restrictions pretty soon, there will be disobedience and perhaps actual disorder. At the very least, much of the public will “just say no”, or perhaps more likely “yes repeat no”, i.e, apparent compliance but followed by the opposite as soon as the police or other busybodies go away.

The rest of Europe is already starting to exit “lockdown”…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191185/Austria-Denmark-plan-lift-lockdown-restrictions-week.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed_desktop_news

The British government is headed by a pack of idiots that have no real idea what they are doing. Look at little Matt Hancock! His only pre-political job was “making tea” (not quite, but he was very junior) for a year at the Bank of England. Now he is a Cabinet minister! It’s mad. The present government is mad or stupid or both.

Has it peaked in the UK too?

England, Scotland and Wales have declared 434 more deaths caused by the coronavirus today, taking the UK’s total to 5,368. 

England accounted for 403 of the fatalities while Scotland and Wales independently declared 31 more deaths in the past 24 hours.

The statistics are a ray of hope as the daily death count has fallen for the second day in a row and was today the lowest it has been since March 31, when it was 381.

Today’s number is a 30 per cent drop from the 621 fatalities recorded yesterday, and a 39 per cent fall from Saturday, which was the worst day so far with 708.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191837/England-announces-403-coronavirus-deaths.html