[Wanda Landowska at the keyboard, as Tolstoy looks on; probably at Yasnaya Polyana, though possibly at Tolstoy’s house in the Kropotkinskaya district of Moscow. I myself have been in that latter house, long ago, and the parquet floor was similar]
“Cost of living catastrophe“, but that was written (and tweeted) by Sky News in December 2021, about 3 months before the Russian incursion into Ukraine that (we are now told) is the cause of all our woes…
Mainstream media lies.
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[š“Chinaās 64th launch in 2022] At UTC 04:43 Dec 29, Shiyan-10-02 space environment detection, new tech testing satellite was successfully launched by CZ3B rocket at Xichang, Sichuan. Itās also the 458th launch of Long March rocket family. HD: https://t.co/oySxQl6WeEpic.twitter.com/zMAMUFkpaY
Fist make anti-whitism / Europhobia illegal, and punishable by law.
However so long as circumstances and existing power-structures remain as they are, we all know that wonāt happen, donāt we? š Moreover, we all know exactly WHY that wonāt happen either, donāt we? š https://t.co/ErYaRnemuj
— IronAgeAgricvltvralist (absolute Xmas appreciator) (@FuriusPertinax) December 28, 2022
…and in the middle of the alien crowd, I see the philosopher Roger Scruton, now deceased. “And then there were none“.
A couple of friends of mine in South London were friendly with Scruton, back in the mid/late 1970s. He would arrive by bicycle, in the manner of Cambridge University.
Then a fairly obscure university college lecturer at Birkbeck College (part of the University of London), though already becoming known and communing with the famous and well-connected (including Margaret Thatcher), Scruton later dropped the couple I knew for fear of being associated with them after the popular Press ran a story about how Scruton of the Salisbury Review etc was associating with “fascists” and “neo-Nazis” etc.
In other words, Scruton put career before friendship.
Having said that, Scruton was a considerable figure, sometimes honoured more in the recently ex-socialist states such as the Czech Republic —where I myself once saw a whole bookshop window of Scruton’s works in Czech— than in the UK.
That display was seen by me in Central Prague in 1999; it could not have happened when I had previously been in that city (1988); very few Western visitors were there then, and the works of Scruton (and many others) were banned.
Scruton was born into modest circumstances and, when later both famous and wealthy (as some might say, “box office“, with his high-selling books in multiple translation, and with several income-streams), he took on some of the traditional habits of the English “upper classes”, such as foxhunting, and living in country houses. He also started to take money from tobacco-lobby interests.
[Scruton’s house —2004-2009— near Sperryville, Virginia, USA]
Scruton (whom I myself never met) strikes me as having been, like many, perhaps most people, a blend of the highminded and tawdry, of the original and the very derivative, of the highly ethical and the morally-suspect.
Perhaps the (at time of writing) 643 utter “mugs”, each presently donating between Ā£3.50 and Ā£44, and every month, might start to wake up if they saw the total income (from that source alone) of “Jack Monroe”, the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”. Somewhere between a few thousand pounds and tens of thousands, monthly.
Exactly. She acts like such a victim but shy can't she just address these serious issues? Surely if she is so poor she'd understand the importance of these issues to people who donated. Except she doesn't create because she's just a lowlife scammer
Jack Monroe appealing to Elon Musk about Twitter features as though the problem with her career is Twitter.
It's not. It's the fact that people woken up to the fact that she's a liar and a scammer. She knows exactly what she's done, she thinks she can just blag her way out of it
I'd love to know which part of "questioning an unlikely story and asking for transparency on fundraising & donations, plus promised refunds to be processed in a timely manner" is criminal as Jack Monroe alleges? https://t.co/9A3zUtZnLS
“Criminal?” My idea of “criminal” is pleading poverty or (when, e.g., Tiffany earrings are noticed by alert readers) near-poverty, in order to induce people to donate thousands of pounds monthly to a private bank account, while never or rarely providing the goods and services offered, and (it is said by many) never having intended to perform; or crowdfunding in order to fund a defamation case, with no real intent to launch such a case, and later (it is alleged by many, at any rate) keeping the donated monies for private purposes.
This will only be clarified if, or when, police and/or trading standards officers and/or various regulators properly investigate the activities of “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”.
This "Jack Monroe" character is a fraud. She's a middle class con woman pretending to be hard up and hard done by. She makes her money from fooling people into donating to her "cause".
No decent meal can be made for either 30p or 11p. This is reaching Monty Python levels of nonsense.
Hi @panmacmillan, can I ask why you have published and are promoting a book containing dangerous advice? Previews of Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen include using a knife & hammer to open a tin can and draining boiling liquid through cloth. Positively harmful suggestions. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/ILWq8Esi5Z
And here goes Catharine herself. Just like most things coming from Russia she belongs into a museum.
Anyway, the remnants of Russian chapter of Odesa are herewith closed for good, as it has been already the case since 1991. #Odesa#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/uo3wdt9BmJ
Without the Russian connection (there since Kievan Rus in the 9thC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27], there would be really nothing of note in Ukraine, and that is exactly what its present Jew-Zionist dictatorship wants; in other words, for there to be nothing in Ukraine that existed before 1991, when this shambolic, corrupt and Jew-Zionist-ruled and exploited republic emerged from the collapse of Sovietism.
— Ivan Trumpovic š¦šŗšš·šŗš²š·šŗ (@QualityTweets78) December 29, 2022
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Christmas University Challenge
A semi-final alumni teams match: Balliol, Oxford v. Exeter, Oxford.
At last, two teams which at least scored about the same as me, not far below as over the past two weeks. Balliol seemed rather better than on their previous appearance (admittedly not hard). Some incredible howlers all the same.
It cannot be denied that this conflict started in 2014, not in 2022.
This wasn't a mistake. This is the same as the Poland incident. The Ukrainians are losing badly and they are desperately trying to drag NATO into the conflict. They want Belarus to go to Ukraine so that NATO can have an excuse to go to Ukraine as well. pic.twitter.com/q0u8UJHWnR
The Zelensky regime in Kiev wants NATO to weigh in on the Kiev-regime side. If that were to happen even more blatantly than is presently the case, a nuclear exchange between NATO (NWO/ZOG) and Russia will be only a matter of time.
We have a new addition today. There are as many as 7 new kittens. They were just thrown out into the cold and frost. The electricity is off. But they are warm and will receive food and treatment. Kindly support us Paypal- https://t.co/rzrJz12GsS#Ukraine#animalrescuepic.twitter.com/ifXlGstekD
I cannot say whether the above is a genuine cause or not; probably it is. In any case, the true cost of war is the suffering of both human beings and their companion animals.
It is bad that Ukraine, whatever the reasons, is a theatre of war. Let us make sure that the rest of Europe is not dragged into a worse, and greater, war.
The “hypocrite of the year” award must go to U.S. President Biden, on behalf of the American military and intelligence hierarchy, after Biden’s comment that Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure were “brutal“: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63208897.
It seems that semi-demented Biden has forgotten the US bombings of, inter alia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Serbia, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and North Korea, not to mention the annihilation of whole cities in the Second World War, mainly but not only in Japan and Germany.
[Unter den Linden, Berlin, 1945]
The American governments of the past 80 years have killed untold millions.
Tweets about the Ukraine situation, seen overnight:
š“ Fears of new invasion as Putin and Lukashenko to form joint task force on Ukraine border
Comments by Russiaās staunchest ally is closest indication yet that Belarus will deploy troops against their neighbour
Alexander Lukashenko told a security meeting he and the Russian president last weekend agreed to bring their troops together ādue to tensions on the western border" of Belarushttps://t.co/pDQXZMEcsIpic.twitter.com/NkPrQEjbHs
My view has been that the Russians fluffed what could and should have been a swift and unstoppable coup de main in February 2022. The Russian General Staff, GRU, and large parts of the Russian Army were shown to be incompetent, while their allies (Chechens mainly) were again proven to be brutal and out of control.
Also, the Russian side was unable to win or even seriously compete in the information and propaganda war. The “Ukrainian” (Jew-Zionist, mainly) side have had 8 months of uncritical support from the “Western” msm, even down to the extent that Kiev is no longer referred to as “Kiev” on “Western” TV or radio, but (e.g. on the BBC) as “Keev” (written version being “Kyiv“).
I had assumed that the Russian plan, once their absurdly half-hearted initial “invasion” stalled, would be to seize the Black Sea and Sea of Azov littoral as far inland as possible (which they have largely done, though stopping far short of the Odessa region), and to press up the eastern side of the Dnieper to some point southeast of Kiev, while also expanding west from Kharkov and advancing north from the Donbass, all three advances meeting southeast of Kiev, and so not only occupying most of eastern Ukraine but also laying the ground for a serious advance on Kiev from south, east and north.
If the above was the Russian plan, it now lies in tatters. The Kiev regime side, pumped up with Western weaponry and money, has advanced, and the Russian side withdrawn. The forces of the Kiev regime, having taken towns occupied previously by Russian forces, have executed civilians known to be pro-Russia and/or anti-war.
The recent attacks on the Nordstream2 pipeline and the Kerch Bridge (and an airfield in Kaluga region) betoken a serious escalation by the Western/NATO/NWO/Kiev side.
In the contemporary phrase, though, “we are where we are”. So where now?
We have just now seen Russian attacks mainly directed at electrical-generation and heating plants. These mark a change in strategy.
It seems that the Russian strategy as it now stands is to weaken the morale of the —so far largely untouched— populations in the large Ukrainian cities under control of the Kiev regime— Lvov, Odessa, Kharkov, and Kiev itself, among others.
I think that Putin was holding back from a really large-scale targeting of the Ukrainian population in order to leave the door open for negotiation, but the Jew Zelensky has recently made it clear that no negotiation will happen while Putin remains in place; also, that sovereignty over the Donbass, Crimea etc is non-negotiable. An “ultra” position, if you like.
That leaves only continuing war as a likelihood.
Winter is coming. Without heating or electricity, the living conditions of the Ukrainian civilian population may become dire. War is cruel, especially this type of attritional war.
The Zelensky regime continues to exist only by reason of the tens or hundreds of billions of US dollars (and devalued UK pounds) being funnelled to Zelensky’s apparat, together with advanced weaponry.
The Russian strategy is not so much one of weakening Ukraine economically. The Ukrainian economy is dead or dormant anyway. It is a question of sapping the civilian (and so also the military) morale until the moment is ripe to launch a killer blow, meaning either a larger-scale invasion directed mainly at Kiev, or the use of tactical nuclear weapons to literally blow Zelensky off his perch.
Positionally, the Belarus situation is interesting. Kiev is little more than 60 miles from the border with Belarus.
If the Russian forces can take Kiev at some point, the war will have reached a tipping-point both strategically and in terms of morale etc. The Zelensky regime will have been decapitated in terms of geography, and the Kiev-regime forces in eastern Ukraine cut off.
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The actor and comedian John Cleese has announced his return to television as host of a new show on GB News focusing on free speech and cancel culture https://t.co/i05VcInMN3
Appearing on Today on BBC Radio 4, the 82-year-old actor said he would be cancelled or censored within āfive minutesā on the BBC now https://t.co/R2RQ3BRDNo
Cleese, who has been a vocal critic of āwoke cultureā, admitted that he had not heard of GB News, a right-of-centre talk channel, when he received the invite to join its line-up https://t.co/2V35A7w5UQ
š£ļø āThen I met one or two of the people concerned and had dinner with them, and I liked them very much. And what they said was, āPeople say itās the right-wing channel ā itās a free-speech channelāā
Cleese criticised the BBC after UKTV, which is owned by the corporation, temporarily removed an episode of his classic sitcom Fawlty Towers over apparent āracial slursā and āoutdated languageā
Even for someone as cynical as I am about the UK’s totally broken pseudo-democratic system, the idea that the people of Britain can be put through such pain because a stupid woman who only became an MP in the first place on her back is “Prime Minister”, is unbelievable. Especially since said “ho” is only Prime Minister (in name) because 80,000 mostly elderly and comfortably-off Conservative Party members voted for her; even so, the vote was close. If Indian “clever boy” Sunak had not cheated the pensioners last year by suspending the “triple lock” on State Pensions, he would have clinched it.
As for Old Etonian woolly-head, Kwarteng, he takes the price of so-called “diversity” to a whole new level.
Short of a “grassy knoll” situation, how can this crazed dim woman and her cronies be removed?
I read that there are moves afoot to change the rules for removal of a Conservative Party leader, to shorten the 12-month time limit. That will take months, if it happens at all.
Alternatively, if Con Party MPs refuse to vote for Government measures, Truss might have to resign, but “have to” is not quite what it seems. She might simply dig in. I read her as the type of careerist, self-publicizing woman who will hang on as long as possible to the office, the pay, the perks, and the fact of being simply being the number one figure, even if powerless and widely despised.
One thing is for sure, the Conservative Party is toast from now on, unless it can find a semi-presentable leader by —at latest— Christmas 2023.
I think that abstention or protest voting will be more likely than a huge move by people to Labour. The huge opinion poll leads now being seen may persist, in our rigged binary system.
The UKIP debacle of 2015 (12% of votes but no seats) has put off many dissident conservative-“nationalist” voters, and the treachery of Farage in 2019 re. his Brexit Party has surely finished off that “Conservative Plus Plus” populism, at least in any significant way.
As we know, what matters, usually, is what happens in a few dozen very marginal seats. That is where the Conservative Party’s main weakness lies. Seats such as those former “Red Wall” constituencies “up North”.
I am sure that the old “Red Wall” can never be put back together, by reason of societal changes. Instead of the “proletariat”— miners, dockers, railway workers, steelworkers— you have call centre workers, retail workers etc, the “precariat”. Volatile voters, who might vote Labour one year, Conservative the next, and (?) UKIP, Brexit Party (or whatever) the year after that.
Still, the former “Red Wall”, which voted Con in 2019, will probably swing back to Labour, if only in the short term, meaning in 2023/2024. That alone is enough to cook the Conservative goose.
If the Conservative Party continues at 20%-25% in the polls, then it will not win any marginal seats, and will almost certainly lose seats not usually marginal.
Much depends on what happens to people’s lifestyles between now and the end of 2024, the last time when a general election can be held. If the Conservative MPs cannot hold the Truss feet to the fire in a major way, Conservative Party support may “trickle down” the drain even further…
Sadly, there is no social national party to engage with the people. The little joke-parties, such as For Britain and Britain First, have disappeared from view, and recent by-elections have been embarrassing for the few sort-of social-national candidates (eg Jayda Fransen) who have tried to put themselves forward. Indeed, the mere fact that I have even bothered to mention Jayda Fransen etc shows how empty the social-national space is in the UK.
That is my view too. If the Scottish people want to be nominally “independent” (if that means anything when Scotland would still be part of NATO, a reconnected EU, and the international banking system), then fine, just go (and with my genuine blessings), but in that event Scotland will almost certainly have to accept far lower living standards. Fact.
In fact, it seems to be that many Scots want, not “independence” but simply greater autonomy, meaning freedom from Westminster. See, below, the latest YouGov poll re. retaining the Monarchy:
Would Scots want to keep the monarchy in an independent Scotland?
Evenly divided. In a sense, that poll surprises me; I should have expected at least a small majority to be hostile to the idea of retaining the Monarchy.
Of course it is deliberate. That WEF video a couple of years back told us what they were going to do. The puppet show at Westminster is only a distraction for the ignorant masses.
The pharmaceutical deep state and their complicit medical operatives have lost the confidence of an entire population, Wittingly or not. Another win for the well poisoners.
I remember when I was waiting for a prescription in the chemist next to the hospital. There were 6 of us waiting. I was the only English speaking person. I was also the only person who paid for their prescription.
The destruction of the West by any means features heavily in their handbook. Usury, biological warfare, starvation all tried and tested within isolated scenarios. Now the cabal have gone global.
Piers Morgan might be called just an idiot (after all, he is an uneducated and uncultured man— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan), but at the same time he is a chosen —or should that be “chosen by the (((chosen)))”— System mouthpiece on the msm.
People such as Morgan are pushing the idea that “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) can “win” this war. How? By NATO etc giving Zelensky long-range weapons with which to hit Moscow and Petersburg? Does Morgan himself really believe that Russia will just sit still if Kiev-regime forces capture all of the Donbass (and also Crimea, where 95% of the population is Russian)? The slaughter and terror likely to be inflicted on the Russian and also pro-Russian Ukrainian populations by the Kiev regime would be terrible.
Strange, I did not see or hear Morgan oppose the large-scale bombings (and huge civilian casualties) in Afghanistan and Iraq by American and UK forces. Maybe not so strange— Morgan’s brother is or was an Army officer of field rank, who served in at least one of those theatres; possibly both.
Reverting to the idea that Ukraine can “win”, what would that look like?
Let us say that Russia withdraws all forces from Crimea (Russian territory since the time of Peter the Great —and before then Tatar/Turkic— with the exception of the decades since 1953);
Let us say that Russia withdraws from the Donbass etc. What then?
Then Ukraine (Kiev regime) would be built up by NATO with huge new weapons influxes, possibly even tactical nuclear. Russia would be forced to agree “reparations” with Kiev (with NATO standing behind) and, down the line, Russia would be forced into a position of subservience to (((Western))) interests even worse than happened under Yeltsin in the 1990s. Russia was on its knees then. I saw it myself.
The more I look at it, the more I think it quite likely that Russia and the Western powers (NWO) will eventually end up in a strategic nuclear exchange that will change all of our lives irretrievably. If so, a large part of the blame and guilt will rest with a warmongering Western msm; people such as Piers Morgan. He may eventually reflect on that, if it happens and if he survives.
I see from his Wikipedia entry that Morgan has his main base not in the UK but in Los Angeles, though he has properties in both London and Sussex as well; maybe elsewhere too.
Well, not so good this week, though I still managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a mere 2/10. I scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10.
Rentoul is rather odd. He claims that “star signs do not count“. I am prepared to concede that popular newspaper-style astrology is almost worthless, but I say that it stands in the same relationship to real astrology as newspaper political journalism stands in relation to serious analysis…
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might actually be a girlfriend or something, not sure why its being posted on telegram with that title, seems to say "your boyfriend" at one point
mostly just laughing and talking about how dogs will eat him because they dont have time to bury during war
What a tasteless and horrible thing to do. I hope that that cruel bully gets what’s coming to him. Soon.
ā”ļøRussia hits Vinnytsia with 6 cruise missiles, some shot down by air defense.
According to the defense ministry, Russians targeted the territory of the Air Force Command in Vinnytsia, a city in west-central Ukraine. The rockets hit several buildings causing significant damage.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 25, 2022
Those who are pushing for war or near-war with Russia over Ukraine (a territory with which, historically, the UK has had little connection, ever, incidentally) should realize that even actual chess games and poker games have led to death of participants in the past, when one player is pushed and pushed and pushed…
A few more thoughts about Ukraine strategy
This invasion was mishandled from the start by the Russian General Staff and Russian intelligence orgs. It should have been meticulously planned, but obviously was not. It has more in common with the pathetic and botched Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939-40 than with, say, the Blitzkrieg advances of the German Reich in 1939, 1940, and 1941, or indeed with the well-planned and executed Red Army advance into the Reich from 1943 to early 1945. Terrible. Heads must roll.
The Russians should have planned this so that they could have pressed a metaphorical button and said…GO!
The invasion only came after weeks of pointless sabre-rattling. Why? It should have come, as far as possible, as a bolt from the blue.
The first step, before ANY ordinary military or naval action, should have been the assassination of Zelensky and other leading political and military executives of the Kiev regime.
I have no idea whether the Russians now have much in the way of the old Spetsnaz and “Olympic Spetsnaz” special forces. In Soviet times, “Olympic Spetsnaz” units (largely composed of Olympic athletes and persons on a similar physical level) were reserved for tasks of the highest strategic importance, such as (against NATO states) destruction of missile launch sites and early-warning stations, elimination of important communications hubs, and the assassination of heads of state, heads of government, and the highest-ranking military officers.
The elimination of the Zelensky cabal should have been top priority, not just one extra idea.
Once Zelensky and his cabal were no longer active, or almost simultaneously, the Russian Spetsnaz could have taken down any civil and military communications not rocketed, and created chaos, especially in Kiev.
The Russians could then have concentrated all available forces on capturing Kiev by Blitzkrieg attack, starting with overwhelming long-range missile attacks on all important government, communications and TV/radio buildings (including police stations and Army headquarters etc), followed by a mass parachute descent by the VDV (Russian parachute shock troops) direct onto those open areas not too heavily-wooded around Kiev, such as airports. Even onto wide roads and into main squares. Among the areas and facilities to be secured— airports, main railway stations, bridges, major routes going north and east.
A risky plan, true, but the shock value of thousands of parachutes descending would have been enough to cause mass panic in Kiev. Roads jammed with destroyed cars, buses, and trucks, a headless Ukrainian government apparat, and any Ukrainian military and police personnel eliminated on sight.
Long-range rockets would have taken out at least some of Kiev’s air defences, as previously located by intelligence work.
At that point, before NATO, Biden, Boris-idiot etc even had time to say anything, let alone do anything, the main Russian invasion contingents should have swiftly begun to approach Kiev, from the north especially. At the nearest point, the distance from the Russian border to Kiev is 200 miles.
With Kiev’s airports under command, and air defences damaged or destroyed, more Russian forces could have been flown in, fighting their way into the heart of the city and to nearby strategic areas such as the already-secured bridges over the Dnieper.
On the same day, or the following day, Russian naval forces should have begun to blockade and attack the Black Sea and Sea of Azov coastal areas, while other forces began (as they have done in the real invasion) to encircle or attack the main cities of the east, notably Kharkov. Strategic targets in the west and centre of the country should have been attacked at the same time, or not long after.
The Donbass should not, in the short-term, have been a priority. Even had the Ukrainian forces stationed there for 7-8 years broken through, they would have nowhere to go, Donetsk being a border city, except into the “endless” and sparsely-populated prostor (open space) of southern Russia.
Kiev is the jewel in the crown.
Once the above had happened, there should have been the installation of, and proclamation of, an outline puppet government. Any resistance put down firmly, using pre-gathered intelligence.
With no Kiev government, with communications in chaos, with Russian troops pouring into Kiev, the remnants of the Ukrainian Army and its ragtag volunteer forces would have been leaderless, in the dark, and easily overwhelmed, at least east of the Dnieper.
As we know, the above reads like a pipe-dream compared to what actually happened.
The one single aspect that has all but killed the Russian invasion has been delay. It was delay that enabled the Kiev regime to start organizing a defence, delay that enabled the cities to be turned into fortresses, delay that enabled Zelensky to parade on the world, media (and social media) stage, delay that enabled NATO and others to start to send advanced weaponry.
As things stand, the Russians are still just keeping things stable, overall, but that is not enough.
Below, the Daily Mail assessment:
It can be seen that even the Daily Mail, while noting everything that has “gone wrong” with the invasion (with most of which assessment I can agree), still also notes that, on almost all active fronts, Russia is “winning”, albeit at a terrible cost (both for Russia and for Ukrainian civilians— and I can only agree with that, too).
There are pieces available to Putin which he has not as yet played. The first is that of the Belarussian armed forces. Relatively small, the regular Belarus Army nonetheless could exert pressure in the north/northwest, which might help the Russians in that region.
There are advanced Russian planes that have not yet been much used because they might be shot down by Ukraine’s donated NATO weaponry.
Putin can call upon reserves amounting to several million, in theory, but any fresh levies have to be equipped, transported, and fed.
Putin can, if he so chooses, flatten Ukraine’s main cities without using nuclear weapons. A terrible thing, and not at all what he wants, but he might still do that rather than “lose” the war. If he did that to all the large unoccupied eastern/central cities except Kiev, then his forces would be able to focus on and take Kiev without destroying it (and its historic landmarks).
Above all, whatever happens, Putin and Russia retain their ace-in-the-hole, the Russian strategic rocket forces and nuclear-capable air force and navy. 6,200 nuclear missiles and bombs. That power may not be useful directly in Ukraine, but keeps NATO out of the war, so far.
The “great fact” of popular strategy is that “Russia cannot be conquered”, and both Hitler and Napoleon were defeated trying to beat the odds on that.
An interesting thing is to pick any random area of Russia south or east of Moscow and look at it on Google Earth. Cities exist, yes, but once you are outside them, in the country, you are quickly in the vast landscape that made battle-hardened Wehrmacht officers tremble.
That vastness, with the Russian people (and their sense of nationality) makes Russia the toughest nut of all.
Even a nuclear war would probably not entirely destroy the essence of Russia.
State of play at Kiev, as of 25 March:
In the Kiev area, Russia is not pushing forward, and may not even be maintaining position.
I still say that, in the overall war, and despite the limited Ukrainian counter-attacks, Russia is slowly winning this, though —as also said before— at a terrible cost in human and animal suffering.
The Kiev regime must be running out of fuel in the east and centre. Fuel dumps and storage areas have been rocketed by the Russians. Food is also running out, perhaps has run out, in most of the besieged cities, though not, it appears, in Kiev itself.
Russia will not have “won” this war unless and until it has taken over and occupied all of Ukraine east of the river Dnieper (and Kiev) and, realistically, all of the coastal regions and ports, including Odessa.
For Russia simply to retain the Donbass would be unsustainable, both militarily and politically. This is now, pretty much, a fight to the death.
Anything less than occupation of the half of Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and south of a line 50-100 miles north of the Black Sea/Sea of Azov, will surely mean the end of Putin, not only politically but actually, literally. If Putin were to go into exile, a very unlikely thing, where would he go? What state would shelter him? Not Belarus, I think. Not China. North Korea? An unappealing prospect for someone akin to a modern “tsar”, to live in some remote, and guarded, North Korean villa.
No, I think that Putin will fight this war to the bitter end, even if that means nuclear war with “NATO” (the USA).
Looking a few weeks ahead, we can see the prospect that, for all of the Kiev-regime propaganda, Kharkov and most of the other cities presently besieged will be controlled by Russia, and that resistance will be confined largely to the west of the country, to Odessa, and to Kiev. By that time, Putin will presumably have decided how to take Kiev, or what else to do to bring this terribly-mismanaged episode to a close (at least in the short term).
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Inconvenient Truth 2.
Pentagon sources say "carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is … This suggests … that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations."
I have had a letter from my ophthalmology clinic eye warning about wearing face masks. Some patients have developed endophthalmitis (infection imperilling sight) because āexhaled air & bacteria funnel towards..eye areaā. Masks can hurt vulnerable eyes.
Looking back, rock music was NEVER rebellion at all. Just selling the notion of 'rebellion' through gobal(ist) capitalism. The antidepressant in sonic form.
Exactly. False freedom(s). Even as a teenager, in the 1970s, I could see that all that almost all the pop/rock stars wanted was to acquire a lifestyle and, to get it, money. They could not be compared to the great composers, even the most venal of those great composers.
You can't have this AND half a million dependents coming in to the nation every year. https://t.co/Z8rCX1028y
Burgon’s tweet is a good example of the sheer unreality animating the self-describing “Left”.
Implied (by his other tweets etc), open borders and mass immigration (of lower cultures and races, at that), yet at the same time a better, more advanced, more prosperous, and more relaxed, society. Can’t be done. It is like pulling and pushing simultaneously at a door.
I have little quarrel with Burgon’s actual comment, taking it as it stands, but pious hopes and wishes count for little if not grounded in reality.
This is the logical destination of feminism itself. You wanted to use political power to deny the natural differences between men and women. You won it, now enjoy it! https://t.co/DcAxfcgCll
With the ending of the Cold War, it would have been possible for the advanced parts of the world to remove the backward Saudis, Qataris and Kuwaitis etc from rulership over the Gulf, and just use “their” hydrocarbon resources (entirely discovered, developed, refined, and utilized by Europeans and Americans) for the purposes of civilization. Instead of which, those backward and arrogant wastes of space have misused the monies garnered to build tasteless sprawling cities which only work because non-Gulf Arabs keep them going.
I may not like Israel and Jewry, but I dislike the Arabs too, as a group, or in general cultural-historical terms.
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Everyone please watch this before you go for anymore boosters. These jabs will be stopped very soon!! https://t.co/nFbHvW2uIJ
How can this he going on everyday? Makes me feel anxious, why doesnāt someone in power put a stop to this. These arenāt refugees, I just donāt understand the agenda. Do we need these young men here for a reason I donāt know about? Do they give more than they take over time?
That poor bamboozled second tweeter, one Annie Sheffer, still does not know that this is part of a transnational conspiracy, of which the misnamed “British” Government is but part. Will someone let “Annie Sheffer” know the truth, and that she should google “the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”, “The Great Replacement, or just “White Genocide”…
Yes, it’s all connected, meaning the weaponization of climate change, and of Covid, and the plan to destroy or subvert Russia, as well as the destruction of white European race and culture.
Idly perusing Wikipedia, I saw that the Danish Army now consists of about 25,000 men (and women), 63,000 reserves, and about 600 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles.
Modest on the world scale, of course, but I now see that the British Army, once mighty, now has only 82,000 active personnel, little more than three times the Danish equivalent, and only 30,000 reserves.
In fact, proportionately, Denmark has far more troops than does the UK, because the population of Denmark is less than a tenth of that of the UK.
Of course, mere numbers are only part of the story in the contemporary era, where technology plays such a big part. All the same, numbers are still part of the story.
At the end of the Second World War, the total strength of the British Army was over 3 million, and even in 1980, just before the Falklands campaign, 159,000 active and 63,000 reserves.
The notional 82,000 active troops in 2021 would be the lowest muster since 1780. Of course the population was then a fraction of what it now is: even in 1801, when the first British census was taken, England and Wales had only 10.5 million inhabitants (and Ireland about 5 million, interestingly).
As said, numbers are only one factor. As said, technology is also key. So, however, are factors such as morale, motivation etc. Those, at least, have not changed since the time of Napoleon, and indeed of Clausewitz. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz.
One hears of and sees, in the cheaper newspapers, stories of how drug abuse is rife in the British armed forces, not to mention drunkenness (that, of course, is scarcely a new problem!).
The British armed forces overall have about 10% of their numbers women. How effective they are is a question for others to answer.
As to the Army generally, one sees reports that of the 82,000 active soldiers claimed, only about 50,000 are actually fit for duty. In any case, very many are what the Americans call “rear echelon” forces, not frontline fighting men. Not that that means that those rear forces are useless. Napoleon himself pointed out that “an army marches on its stomach“, and in the modern era a fighting spearhead needs a very broad rear support, everything from supply and logistics to pensions and banking.
Still, at a time when the clownish political leadership of the UK seems intent on provoking Russia, I wonder how our forces would, if push came to shove, stack up against at least the more elite Russian contingents.
[members of the elite Air Descent Contingent march in Red Square]
Britain and all Europe should be standing with Russia at this time. Contra Zionism. Contra Islamism. Spiritual Eurasia, contra mundum, if necessary.
Well, once again I beat political journalist John Rentoul. My score was 8/10 this week. I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 7.
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Even though it's happening and I'm fully aware that it's happening … I still can't believe that they're actually doing this. That they think they can get away with it, that they are currently get away with it, that they're so bold & brazen.
Exactly. Nowhere, arguably, is that more obvious than in the UK.
If we as a people are not prepared to defend our country i.e getting down to the coast in our hundreds of thousands and making these boats turn back, then we deserve to lose it I am sorry to say.
Sadly misguided. The places where the “hundreds of thousands” need to go, suitably prepared, are not the beaches of Kent and Sussex, but the TV studios, radio stations, the “newspaper” propaganda offices, the Westminster monkeyhouse, and other System installations of importance.
The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people through the eyes of a child. This was their Jerusalem home.
Iāll ask you again @Keir_Starmer – what is the Labour Party position on ethnic cleansing and the actions of the apartheid state of Israel? pic.twitter.com/G4KD5yX5Jz
— Rachael āThe B*stard Whispererā Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 20, 2021
Wherever Jews have power, non-Jews eventually become victims or slaves. Look at history. The ridiculous thing is that, in the UK, many of those who oppose Jewish supremacism in Israel or occupied Palestine, effectively support the Jewish lobby in Europe, eg in the UK itself; they pay lip-service to the “holocaust” farrago, in particular, and applaud the Zionist efforts to destroy free speech.
Millennial Woes is still putting out excellent, thoughtful content.
Controlled-opposition kingpin Farage. Was he paid millions, or tens of millions, offshore, as a reward for stabbing his own Brexit Party in the back in 2019, thus ensuring a Boris-idiot “Conservative” government (and ensuring, also, the binning of Corbyn, so that the Jewish lobby could retake control over the Labour Party)? Maybe (I do not know). Will he get a “peerage” (absurd and almost valueless though they now are)? Maybe (I do not know). Farage’s crony, Claire Fox, is already elevated to the Lords…
So if you still need a booster after been fully vaccinated, testing after been fully vaccinated, and hospitalisation after been fully vaccinated, and masks, social distancing and lockdowns all after been fully vaccinated?
Then itās time to admit that youāve been FULLY CONNED.
The narrative is always along the lines of 'we must not endanger the lives of the invaders' when it comes to stopping them crossing. It's stupid. Our lives are at risk because of them.
Sink them all, in the Channel, if that is the only way.
So let me get this rightā¦.the new Covid variant is symptomlessā¦so what happens then? Oh I know, people are going to drop down dead āsuddenly and unexpectedlyā. Theyāll be called āCovid deathsā. See where itās going?
Griffin is right. He must be— he is in agreement with me!
Good to see resistance in Rotterdam and Vienna.
Wien! Not a government window in Vienna should remain intact until the Covid police state is stood down! Kristalltag jetzt!
Keep our beautiful culture alive, listen to and enjoy classical music and especially teach your children to love it. Arthur Sullivan : Victoria and Merrie England, Suite No. 1 from the ball… https://t.co/Sid3cIfrHx via @YouTube
Jonathan Sumption was one of the first barristers, in the 1990s, if not the first barrister, to earn over a million pounds per year in fees (albeit that a few pre-WW2 barristers made a similar real amount, in the money of their day). He later became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, aka a “Law Lord”, i.e. a Justice of the Supreme Court (nb. not Lord Chief Justice— that is something else). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sumption,_Lord_Sumption.
The above post is factually (and grammatically) inaccurate in that, but not wrong otherwise.
Now, because he has spoken out against the trashing of civil liberties and formerly accepted rights since the start of the “panicdemic”, Sumption is regarded by the System (of which he was, in a sense, part), and the msm, as a “conspiracy theorist” and effectively a crank.
I scored only 5/10 this week, same as political journalist John Rentoul, though I really knew one more (question 10) but it slipped my mind. I did not know, therefore, the answers to not only question 10 but also questions 1, 4, 6, and 9.
"At Polandās border with Belarus, nobody knows how many are dead. Officially, eight migrants have died crossing the swampland and forests into the EU, but with hundreds more attempting the journey every day." | Reports @idvckhttps://t.co/oKlVmVHcsO
These pages are from a small home-made book of Icelandic staves or magical seals. It dates from the 18th century and contains drawings of charms and instructions on how to apply them. (https://t.co/7wGnU0NYcA.21.8.16) #Halloween#Magicpic.twitter.com/RkawicKVxF
Peter Hitchens often fails to get to the roots of problems in UK society because he cannot see (((what))) is behind so many of them. In a word, “them”…
The revolution devours its own children…
Novara Media was cancelled by a culture it helped to create | The Spectator https://t.co/6KdTuMbUSI
Ha ha! You see the same lack of self-awareness in the Zionist Jew milieu online.
When I was up before a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal (which eventually wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred me in October 2016), one of my defence points was that the (eventually, only 5, out of 150,000+) tweets I had tweeted, and which were adjudged so offensive that I had, supposedly, no right to tweet them, had been tweeted in my personal capacity; also, that my Twitter account made no mention in its profile that I was a barrister.
The Tribunal, and the Bar Standards Board, twisted a very few other tweets to “prove” the contrary. All the Jews applauded both that (and my wrongful/unlawful disbarment).
Later, some of those very Jews, and who are solicitors or barristers, faced the same or similar problems as I had, but made the same plea, that their comments were made as part of their non-professional life. Other Jews weighed in on their side. What a pack of hypocrites they are (too)!
On the wider point, I have been blogging and (before the Jew lobby had my much-read Twitter account removed in 2018), often tweeted about the “privatization of public space” online. That also formed part of my talk to the London Forum in 2017.
On Twitter and other online fora, one has no rights beyond very limited contractual ones. There needs to be an independent appeal process but I fear that the Jewish element would infiltrate that (too), were it ever to exist.
It works in places with strong economies, they say, but fail to mention that it undermines those same economies, by flooding the market with cheap labour. These people are only here for the freebies and the hand ups. They're not here for the love of our culture.
As for the Ā£37 BILLION completely and utterly wasted on NHS “test and trace”, how infuriatingly crazy, when that money could have gone to new rail infrastructure, hospitals doing proper clinical work etc.
Nurse fired for not accepting the you know what. Religious exemption denied.. Freedom is everything and you must never give it up #coercionpic.twitter.com/g7BQ8t9YMR
#ClimateHoaxHypocrisy A thread of collated tweets exposing the gross hypocrisy of the global elites. Who have absolutely NO intention of abandoning their jetset lifestyle for the green agenda they're forcing on the masses & expecting us to pay for.#G20RomeSummit#COP26https://t.co/1wrqlMhAOl
All too many white people (in the UK too) simply accept the agenda being pursued. All too many ignorant and/or ill-intentioned schoolteachers and officials are poisoning the minds of the children, without sanction.
I notice, in that clip, among the most guilty of the school board officials was one “Ziegler”. As they say, “every single time”…
Nothing but praise for these Kent Rebels š .Listen to that noise and imagine how many people saw it šš. pic.twitter.com/nfmTgy8XLm
Just so. #Resistance to the global elite power & wealth grab thr covid & AGW transcends all other differences & old divisions. Left/right, black/white, Muslim/Christian, gay/straight – all pale into insignificance compared to elite tyrants v the rest of us.#GreatReset#freedomhttps://t.co/3BPyfc7y1D
— šššPureblood BellatrixLeStrangeššš (@Bella__Strange1) October 13, 2020
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What is wrong with these people? Do they wish this horror on everyone?Ā š Aussie actress who had a stroke after COVID-19 jab still fiercely supports vaccination says husband. pic.twitter.com/lNUp1CjW6Y
— The European Housewife ~ Supernova 888 (@housewife8888) October 28, 2021
God bless those who stand up against dictatorships and do what is right. š¤šš¤ Brave Melbourne Police defector leads huge protest against Premier Dan A… https://t.co/yG0KqPZ5eg via @YouTube
— The European Housewife ~ Supernova 888 (@housewife8888) October 30, 2021
Some people will never understand why you cannot remain silent about certain things going on in the world xx šššš¤šš¤ pic.twitter.com/sRSYs56UQk
— The European Housewife ~ Supernova 888 (@housewife8888) October 30, 2021
Twitter is the home of the ignorant, very often. People are able to post nonsense, which is rarely challenged and often applauded. Look, for example, at the tweet below:
Robert Buckland and Suella Braverman are both barristers
In the UK, lawyers can be struck off for "helping other people to act improperly", for example "knowingly advising or encouraging a client [in this case, the govt] to break the law"
The first sentence is correct. Suella Braverman and Robert Buckland are indeed both barristers, and moreover, and despite their political elevation, remarkably thick ones. Now look at the second sentence.
The “Guidance” gives 8 examples, of which the words cited are part and only part of one: “helping other people to act improperly, such as by giving credibility to a dubious or suspicious investment scheme run by others.”
While the example might, arguing as advocatus diabolus, cover political matters such as in the instant case, it probably would not, particularly as International Law (Public International Law) is not always as fixed as many imagine it to be (I myself studied it as part of my law degree, in the mid-1980s).
I suppose that those provisions might (but would probably not) apply to the behaviour of Suella Braverman and Robert Buckland.
Reverting to the tweet, you can see that the tweeter, one “@RussInCheshire” (why does it always seem to be people from Cheshire or nearby places such as Manchester?!) has that dangerous thing, “a little knowledge” (but not enough). He has tweeted something, with an air of authority, which is wrong in various ways. He has displayed ignorance but, importantly, few of his readers will know that he has tweeted bullshit!
“Russ in Cheshire” (whose Twitter profile is “Designer, coder, analyst, painter, wazzock. Centre-left, Remainer, work in progress and maker of mistakes. Working class Manc in Cheshire“) does at least admit that he is a “maker of mistakes“. My target is not “Russ in Cheshire” but Twitter itself. Not that the tweeter’s 103,000 (!) followers will be much misled. Most probably missed the tweet anyway.
What a waste of time Twitter is! I use tweets to illustrate my blog but most tweets are of little use and almost all are forgotten in minutes. Ephemeral. Political influence very limited.
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Just had coffee with a mild-mannered friend, a natural conservative who used to work in Cameronās No 10 and is now running his own business. āThe loss of our reputation internationally is catastrophic. People see us as a failed state.ā
Bus passengers threatened with meat cleaver in south London. The people of South London have been exposed to the benefits of cultural enrichment. https://t.co/GQmKiQuHpY
My God. David Hume is cancelled. Shame on U of Edinburgh.āFrom the start of the new academic year the David Hume Tower will be known as George Square.ā Why? His āviews on matters of race, though not uncommon at the time, rightly cause distress todayā https://t.co/IDesE5bh9e
As the long-deceased husband (ex-Guards and Royal Flying Corps) of an old friend of mine was wont to say, “one Jew can lead a thousand Englishmen by the nose“. He should have added “and two thousand Americans“.
The sheer callousness and heavy handed concrete-headed oafishness of this regime is perfectly demonstrated by the way it ruins happy events as well as coming between families at every level. @cazred1https://t.co/H55J4xIxEE
1/2 News that the mysterious, unique Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford will no longer display its shrunken heads https://t.co/CMRhPTKjIM reminds me of James Fenton's marvellous poem about this haunting place, known to me since childhood…
2/2 'You have come upon the fabled lands where myths go when they die… You are entering the climate of a foreign logic and are cursed by the hair of a witch, earth from the grave of a man killed by a tiger…' I'm pleased that I saw it when it was still dim-lit & unmodernised.
Oh, yes…take away anything from public view that shows the inferior peoples as sometimes being or having been savage, and not as always having been innocent victims of white colonialism…
This government and its servants are an elected tyranny, elected only by manipulation, lies and sheer chance. Illegitimate government. When will determined people take it on?
Hitchens is not so clever here. Yes, UK banking and other jobs could be done and are being done from China and India, because “our” illegitimate tyrannical government is globalist, Zionist-infested, and finance-capitalist. Were the UK government (as it should be) social-nationalist, the above cartoon would not be true. British jobs for British people!
Common sense from Salley Vickers, in a land where Common Sense is now an arrestable offence : pic.twitter.com/XfUkbmDNHv
Lord Sumption warns that new rules can only be enforced through āa Stasi-style surveillance state with a poisonous network of informersāhttps://t.co/SL8eLlU8hN
(((They))) care about their ethnostate, but not for our future. Actually, why should they? They are alien. It is up to us, up to the white Northern Europeans, to struggle for our future and for the future generations.
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Britain has given up any pretence of being a “free country”:
"Il faut denoncer ses voisins" Brits should snitch on their neighbours breaking the new rule of six, minister says https://t.co/EOuPoBe7KC
This is how a relatively free country becomes a police state. First, laws restricting so-called “hate speech”, which is quickly interpreted by the police (egged on by the Jewish element) to mean any political dissent of a nationalist character. Secondly, a contrived “emergency”. Third, laws passed on the nod, by a rubberstamp Parliament, and by manipulation of existing ambiguous statutes. Fourthly, repressive measures such as restrictions on assembly, travel, and mandates to enforce use of facemask muzzles. Fifthly, curfews (why?) etc, announced by thick drones such as Kit Malthouse.
The government and its servants have declared war on the British people.
You could not make this up. āSnitch on your neighbours to police if they break 'rule of six', says minister Kit Malthouse. https://t.co/iA11r2G4Wp via @Telegraph
No longer even a pretence that the UK is anything other than a “velvet glove” (so far) police state.
Looking beyond the encroaching police-state-ism, what will happen between now and the end of 2022, that most significant year? As far as the UK is concerned, it seems that unemployment will soon be in the several millions, that there will either be tax rises or heavy spending cuts, and that the people will be left desperate for a party to defend them in a situation where both “main parties” are basically Jew-Zionist and finance-capitalist fronts for globalism and the New World Order [NWO]. “ZOG”.
Sooner or later, the UK currency will collapse or depreciate significantly. Already we see the wealthy putting money into hedging assets: country estates, gold etc.
This is the calm before the storm. At the right time, a social-national movement can arise. I am not talking of, or not only of, System elections. It is possible that, despite the toytown police state, a movement might arise to sweep away what presently contaminates the UK.
Brief reverie
I am just amusing myself by looking at a few extant Twitter accounts which in fact are dormant because the individuals who used them, and who used to attack me and laugh at me being disbarred etc, are now dead (though not via my agency!). We may all go the same way in the end, but that does not entirely take away the pleasure…
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Black bloc rioters in Paris at the Yellow Vest protest smash up a luxury car parked on the street today. pic.twitter.com/KXGWCtuvA0
They can destroy, but cannot create. Europe has imported millions of useless and/or hostile “elements”. No decent future can be built while they exist in Europe…
Anyone interesting has already been expelled from Twitter now, pretty much. The Jewish lobby conspired to have me removed in 2018. I know who was responsible. To each his own.
The country that not that long ago ruled the world is defeated by a fear of a mysterious virus that may affect 0.004 of its population and may kill a tiny fraction of this number (due to improved medical protocols). https://t.co/nTYLk8rtr8
@welshgirl1900. No need to do so as all major political *parties* back the Muzzle Decree and the mistaken fantasies which lie behind it. There is no hard experimental evidence of the claim that the muzzles protect others, so no selfishness in declining to wear them. https://t.co/cRxIeVc1Hp
As noted previously, the absurd thing is that the once-“rebellious” parts of the population, meaning the “civil rights” “activists”, the “socialists”, etc, are now begging the State to take away their remaining freedoms, begging the State for stricter “lockdowns”, “social distancing”, wearing of facemask muzzles, curfews, fines, being ordered about by stupid little nobodies with clipboards etc, not to mention the Stasi-style informer culture being established by the most Jew-Zionist “government” Britain has ever had. “Socialism” died not with a bang but a whimper, and it whimpered “control us”…
This is indeed crucial @dougalhoff. The 1984 Public Health Act, on which all these intrusive decrees are based, is being abused by HMG. They fear the regular Parliamentary supervision they'd have to face if they instead used the Civil Contingenicies Act. https://t.co/csjleKSr2u
1. How do you reliably discover and measure an infection rate @jackhughman ? 2. What would its significance be if most of the infected had no symptoms? Please give figures on previous public health threats which support this statement https://t.co/8L3i33xzC7
Covid is not flu, but it kills in similar patterns and numbers @michaelrosenyes. The key thing is that its epidemics, while comparably lethal, have never served as pretexts for the sort of utopian measures deployed against Covid. Why is that? https://t.co/b3XeYEkX0w
Anyone English or British who tries to indoctrinate British children with “BLM” nonsense and poison is poisonous, and an enemy.
@toadmeister this is a school in Richmond. You and I have spoken before as I wanted my child to go to WLFS. Any advice as to how to tackle this, as it appears you cannot object to BLM or identity/woke politics without being accused of something dreadful.
To all those suggesting I home school or remove- what good is this? I can protect the mind of my own child but not the hundreds of other kids by doing this. They are our future and the society my own child will have to live amongst. This is not something I can fight alone.
Sadly for Rachel “@frangrantfeline”, the person with whom she wanted to speak (@BRLMatter) seems to have been removed from Twitter. Another example of System/ZOG censorship and repression?
This criminal government plans to change regulations to make untested #vaccines for Coronavirus compulsory, and more. They're hoping people will really notice this 'consultation' so they can say "you were asked & no-one objected. Well, we do!https://t.co/KSoj0LapF1
I think so too, but it is a long time since I practised at the Bar, and I was certainly never a specialist in the construction of statute law, or in the validity of “advice” or regulations purportedly made under secondary law and/or primary law.
Thanks @AllisonPearson. The key part of the interview is also transcribed on theāLockdown Scepticsā site. It is very powerful. I hope the Courts listen to@this acute legal mind. https://t.co/dYObpQfO3U
Indeed, the muzzles are starting to carpet the cityscape, and will soon be annoying whales, dolphins etc, already struggling to cope with the vast quantities of hand sanitiser now dribbling into the oceans. https://t.co/hMCv6igNfC
I have no difficulty with those who choose to wear these things. Believe what you like @_f_a_l_s_a_f_a_ .My complaint is against those who would force me and others to do so. Why is this simple point, that it is about *compulsion*, so hard to get across? https://t.co/P0ywl37F2n
Peter Hitchens on the ridiculous doubling down. But they *could* have claimed a victory in the summer, and the gullible would have let them. This feels now more like a blinkered, bunker mentality, an obsession. Like abandoned japanese soldiers, they canāt bear the war being over. pic.twitter.com/litHw2FpNe
Al 'Boris' Johnson is like a schoolboy trapped in a lie whose consequences grow worse and worse – and it is harder and harder for him to admit it. https://t.co/Uj5uGx6lNP
Quite. Also, while we are on the subject of American (government) behaviour, I have been struck by the hypocrisy of “the West” over the events in Belarus.
AsI have blogged previously, Belarus is, in effect, a dictatorship, though a far better one than many which the West supports with words and arms (inter alia, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar), not to mention China.
I daresay that there is discontent in Belarus, arising mainly from economic conditions, as well as those factors arising from relative lack of political freedom.
Having said that, the Western msm has been overplaying the “brutal tyranny” stuff. I hear on radio, see on TV, read about the repression of the discontent. Some people obviously have been badly treated, beaten etc. However, I also heard that some of those detained, and some who were ill-treated, were in fact released within hours, in some case a day or so, of having been detained.
In addition, some of the protesters themselves have admitted that the Belarus KGB and police were unwilling, generally speaking, to hit or brutalize women and old people. They obviously have some moral or ethical principles. European standards.
Compare that to how the USA often treats those whom it detains or abducts: “waterboarding”, i.e. cruel torture (in one case done dozens of times a day to a prominent prisoner, for reasons of sadism); hooding for hours, days, even weeks; cruel restraint techniques; use of attack dogs etc.
The names of the American “facilities” or concentration camps (those not still secret) are notorious: Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib. Things were and perhaps are done there that have not been claimed even of the Soviet GULAG system, or during the German rule over Eastern Europe in the early 1940s.
[above: torture of Arab prisoner by American forces, Iraq]
[above: ill-treatment of prisoner by subnormal American female”soldier” at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq]
[above: perverse American “soldiers” torture and brutalize Iraqi prisoners]
[above: forcible injection into bound prisoner by American female “soldier”, Iraq]
[above: American concentration camp, Guantanamo; prisoners muzzled and restrained, in tropical heat and humidity. Note the facemasks. NWO psychology now being used on the populations of Europe and elsewhere, and using “Coronavirus” as the excuse, in order to destroy any sense of being free citizens]
Actually @snarkydebastard , @johnnymercuk is in the right party – a Blairite rabble who don't even understand the left-wing policies they were browbeaten into adopting by Blair and the BBC. https://t.co/QWYl9ntuYF
Most ex-professional soldiers (in peacetime) who become MPs turn out to be useless.
Unsurprising you have no idea who Peter Hitchens is. He is socially conservative which you lot abandoned at some point between Maggie and letting the police take a knee.
The medical claims for masks are weak and not backed by RCTs. The U.K. govt itself admits this. The analogy is about *compulsion*Mask opponents regard them as a forced affirmation of support for a policy they oppose. Grasp that and youāll get it. https://t.co/zHFh0khuE2
To me, who was in Australia (Mosman/Cremorne, Sydney, NSW) for 2-3 years as a child of 10-13 (1967-69), it is incredible to see what a police state Australia has become. When I was there, the whole country had only 12 million people (it’s 25 million now). It was a white European-origined population, mostly of British ancestry. Now, very mixed. Result? You see it…
It occurs to me that Australia is being used as a laboratory, and its people as lab rats. Mixed population now (they have even imported Africans!); then made to fear “the virus”, with strict “lockdowns” and facemask police state-ism and all that nonsense.
Meanwhile, Australia has entered its first economic recession for about 35 years…
Actually deaths peaked on 8th April, @parsot , too soon for measures which were announced on the evening of March 23 to be the cause. https://t.co/4Ul2zELihb
Are you sure, @sirMustard? Most Tory social, educational and family policy is basically Eurocommunist, and indistinguishable from its Blairite original.Tory MPs these days are politically illiterate lobby fodder, clueless about their own partyās aims. https://t.co/isbnoxdJdo
My appearance on BBC Radio 4's 'Broadcasting House' to discuss the Covid issue with Professor Linda Bauld and Paddy O'Connell : https://t.co/20pxegV3I6
Here is a very useful site for those who think that the Covid-19 outbreak has been exceptional in modern times. Full of corrective facts. What us exceptional is the excessive government response.https://t.co/fdusp3eULW
Why? Because the msm is basically controlled or very strongly influenced by the NWO, ZOG, and the associated Jewish lobby. That’s why…
“The Government has no legal right to impose the severe and miserable restrictions on our lives with which it has wrecked the economy, brought needless grief to the bereaved and the lonely and destroyed our personal liberty.“
“This is the verdict of one of the most distinguished lawyers in the country, the retired Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption.
He said last week in a podcast interview: āI donāt myself believe that the Act confers on the Government the powers that it has purported to exercise.ā”
“He was referring to the Public Health Act of 1984, the basis for almost all the sheaves of increasingly hysterical decrees against normal life which the Health Secretary Matt Hancock has issued since March. I promise you that it is not usual for a retired senior judge to use such language in public.
This 1984 Act was drawn up mainly to give local magistrates the power to quarantine the sick.
Nothing in it remotely justifies these astonishing moves ā house arrest, travel restrictions, harsh limits on visiting family members, interference with funerals and weddings, closure of churches, compulsory muzzles, bans on assembly and protest.
English law just does not allow an Act of Parliament to be stretched so far.” [Peter Hitchens, quoting Lord Sumption, Daily Mail].
…and just in case you still imagine that you live in a “free country”, the Daily Mail has tipped the wink to its readers: “Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.” Quite. That would be going too far, would it not? After all, some of the comments would be about ZOG and NWO, and even “the Great Reset” etc…
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I have always found the SNP idea of Scottish “independence” odd. Free Scotland from Westminster and England, but not from supranational bodies such as the EU, NATO (probably), the international banking matrix, or the UN.
Also, what kind of nationalism is it that says that a Pakistani born or even simply living in, say, Glasgow, is more “Scottish” than a white European, say English but with Scottish or part-Scottish ancestry, and who may be living in England, maybe only on the border at Berwick on Tweed?
If Scotland departs, then it will be considerably poorer than it now is. Money is not everything, true, but the only benefit I can see to Independence is the right to stop mass immigration etc, and the SNP policies indicate that their intention is the opposite.
Having said that, if the majority of Scots want to pull away from the Union, then I say go with good wishes, so long as you do not become an enemy state.
Thoughts about the public mood in the UK as a government of clowns tries to act like a conclave of petty tyrants (forget “statesmen”)
We have seen the government of clowns first frighten the public out of its skin, then beg members of that public to return to work (muzzled on trains and buses), and we have seen all the other contradictory policies of a government that obviously has no idea of what it is doing; abetted by a non-Opposition that really just echoes the Government.
We also see much about how many people have got used to not going to work because paid as much or nearly as much (and in net terms, maybe more) to stay home and work online, or furloughed (paid by State benefit). Now we see others than Peter Hitchens telling people off for staying home etc, when the real culprits are the Cabinet of Boris-idiot, the ludicrously-misnamed “SAGE” committee, most MPs, and the compliant msm.
The fact is that the economy is crashing to a halt or at least a low point, all so that a virus which is not killing people now, can be confronted (and so that the Government is not exposed as totally incompetent).
Today, msm reports are that 3,300 people tested positive for “the virus”, and the number that died from it was…5. Not 500, not 50, but 5.
Can we get some daily stats for those dying of cancer each day? Or heart disease? Or the daily economic impact of each sector remaining closed because of COVID? Not a COVID nanny state please. #perspective#economicrecovery
Is there any point at which people will say āOK, the assault our basic liberties has gone too far nowā. Or are we saying if it can help save people from Covid itās a price worth paying. And if we are saying that, why should it stop at Covid. There will always be other threats.
āMatt Hancock does not deny that Operation Moonshot is set to cost a whopping Ā£100bn – almost half the NHS budgetā. Someone needs to get a grip of this lunacy. Fast.
The reality is we only have two choices. Return to some kind of normal, and accept infections and deaths will increase. Or lockdown, and accept economic collapse. But we donāt want to make that choice. So weāre fantasising we can be like Kirk in the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
Meanwhile, The Sun reports: āThe Duchess of Cornwall visits training centre where trials are underway to see if dogs could detect coronavirusā. Weāve basically flipped as a nation havenāt we.
Where are the public on this? I detected (look at my blogs posts from as long ago as April or even March) that the public mood was by no means gung-ho to return to work etc, even discounting the fear factor so incessantly whipped up by the government.
My view was and still is that people would like a better way of organizing the work-life balance. Less work, or less frenetic work, more leisure or at least other, more personal work, nearer to home.
I have, in earlier blog posts, postulated the idea of “a society of measure” to set against both the existing (pre-virus) frenetic workaholic society and also against the 1960s idea of the “society of leisure”.
In practical terms, that could mean people working fewer hours per week, or the same number of hours per week but on fewer days, such as 10 hours a day for 4 days per week, or even 13 hours per day for 3 days per week, leaving 3-4 days per week for other activity.
My view is that there should be one day a week when all or almost all shops etc are shut. That creates rhythm in the society.
A start must also be made with Basic Income, even if at first that Income does not cover even all basic necessities.
I think that the public, as individuals and families, are ready to consider other forms of societal organization. If paid work (talking about persons employed by others) occupies 3-4 days per week, and if a measure of Basic Income exists, people will be free to start businesses of their own in the remaining 2-3 days (with 1 day as “day of total leisure”).
This is not just pie in the sky. J.K. Rowling has written about how it was only the relatively more generous “welfare” arrangements of the 1990s that enabled her to sit in cafes writing Harry Potter. It was not that more money was given, though that might also have been true in real terms, but that she was not harried by DWP staff constantly (as her equivalent would now be under a system which was made far harsher by the part-Jap Iain “Duncan” Smith and the Jew “lord” Freud and others).
Because J.K. Rowling was not harried by petty bureaucrats, she was able to write her first bestselling book, which has created a huge industry for this country: books, films, spinoffs.
My sense is that people generally want a society which is less pressured.
As for the “measures” taken by government, most people are now rather sceptical, but the constant msm propaganda (esp. but not only on the BBC) is keeping some fear instilled too.
Good on you Claire, @fox_claire This is a classic Bonhoeffer moment. Anyone who abandons Assange now should not be surprised if they themselves are defenceless in the unpleasant years to come. https://t.co/R7uS4Ve6Ks
I have no idea whether Johnny Mercer had some decent intentions when he applied for selection as a Parliamentary candidate but it is surely clear now that he is basically a woodentopped moneygrubber and a waste of space.
Looks as though, as in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union in the fairly recent past, things are now hotting up in Belarus. Existing discontents are probably being used by the New World Order [NWO] conspiracy to bring Belarus (former Belorussia) into the NWO/NATO matrix.
Below, a “protester” runs down members of a riot squad (probably Belarus KGB-Alpha, a kind of spetsnaz unit) and drives away.
Whether you call the driver’s action “protesting”, “criminal” or “terrorism”, I should not like to be in his shoes. As the Cheka [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka] said in the Russian Civil War, “the legs of the traitor are not as long as the arms of the Cheka”…
Belarus is effectively a dictatorship, but one which has some positive aspects.
Talking about the Slavonic world, I happened to see the film report below:
The village is in the western part of the Urals region. As for the lady herself, her name suggests a Tatar origin.
The village had, formerly, nothing but the tarmac road laid down in Soviet times; otherwise, nothing, not a school, shop, or even a well.
The presenter describes the place as a “village”, but in England we would call it a “hamlet”. I think that the distinction is that a “hamlet” is very small and/or has no church. The Russian language before the revolution had the same distinction: a “derevnye” [Š“ŠµŃŠµŠ²Š½Ń] was a village (with church), whereas a “selo” [ŃŠµŠ»Š¾] was a hamlet or tiny village usually without a church.
In Soviet times, with most local churches destroyed, left to become ruined, or used as barns etc, places were often designated simply as “settlements”. A “settlement” was (or is) a “poselenye” [ŠæŠ¾ŃŠµŠ»ŠµŠ½ŠøŠµ]. Another word found is “gorodok” [Š³Š¾ŃŠ¾Š“ок] though that really means “small town”, a town being a “gorod”, which can be anything from a place with maybe 1,000 inhabitants to somewhere as big as Moscow, with millions.
It does show the importance of the individual in human and social life: one person can make a huge difference, the crucial difference.
Migrant-invaders
As far as I know, I was the first person to use the term “migrant-invaders”. That was when I had a Twitter account (from 2010, effectively from 2011; the Jews had me expelled in 2018).
This morning, I was listening to a few minutes of the now-almost-irrelevant BBC Radio 4 Today Programme; pathetically-poor Liz Truss was being grilled by Nick Robinson about the hundreds of invaders now crossing the Channel daily. It seems that at least a handful (about 20) Conservative Party MPs have signed a letter quite correctly describing the migrants as “migrant-invaders“, and —needless to say— Today presenter Robinson took umbrage at the phrasing. Idiotic Truss would not endorse the language her colleagues have used.
Still, interesting. Who knows, maybe my blog is more influential than I myself sometimes imagine…
More from Minsk
Looks as though there is a head of steam building up behind the protests:
Saw the video below, made by the same American as the video posted above in this blog post. The real Russian people, some of them, are among the best people you will find anywhere in the world.
Telling to see the magnificent 19thC main building in one semi-desolate place. Sovietism and in particular the Collectivization of agriculture ruined so much in Russia, though as always one could point to some positive aspects, and in particular, electrification as well as, in some cases, road construction and (sometimes, near towns and cities) piped water. As Lenin said, “Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.“
Now, population decline is ubiquitous in rural Russia, with villages and small towns left full of the elderly, the poor, drunks and those generally unable to migrate to larger places.
Rural and other collectives of social nationalists in various countries
Ah. Mentally-violent “antifa” cheerleader, grifter and self-described “historian”/”journalist”, Mike Stuchbery, now claims to “speak for most Britons“! He is an Australian now living in Stuttgart, someone who only lived in the UK for a few years.
I think I speak I speak for most Britons when I say, ' Get bent, you utter whazzocks! Stop threatening lives!'. https://t.co/QT89ugFgKy
Stuchbery, like so many self-described “Left” individuals, pro-EU partisans and multikulti enthusiasts, is also aggressively (from a distance) pro-facemasks or muzzles. It’s a pathology…
As always, Stuchbery is pro-violence, so long as he himself is not involved except as rear-echelon instigator.
Here’s another ignoramus, Paul Bernal, who is (incredibly) a lecturer in law, and who thinks that “free speech” is still free speech even when you get imprisoned (as under “holocaust” “denial” laws in France, Germany, Austria) or shot (as in Stalin’s Russia etc) for saying something unapproved. Here, in the tweet below, he calls the migration-invasion across the Channel a “story”. No…actually, it is an invasion. 50,000-100,000 a year; and that is only the number coming across in small boats. Others come hidden in yachts, fishing boats, car boots, trucks etc. Then there is “legally-permitted” immigration, which is about 99x the number coming across in rubber boats; and what about the number popping out of immigrant mothers resident in the UK? Pop! Pop! Pop!
Whatever else it is, the small boats story is *not* a ādead catā. Itās far, far worse than that. Dead cats are *just* distractions. This does much more. It feeds the worst of the xenophobia, the racism, the militarism, the blame-shifting, the ignorance.
Here is Owen Jones, too. A full house of idiots today!
The oldest trick pulled by rulers wanting to distract from economic turmoil at home is to redirect anger at migrants and refugees. When the furlough scheme unwinds and unemployment soars, this will only escalate.
Jones ispartly-right: the state of the country is the fault of those exploiting the British people, not (mainly) the migrant-invaders. However, we the British people do not want them here anyway!
Absolutely telling that the Twitter outrage against the BBC and Sky filming illegal Channel immigrants isn't that they should have been doing this months ago
But that they're being "inhumane" towards the illegals
Many supermarket staff welcome those who claim exemptions, as they themselves are under pressure to wear muzzles, and customer resistance strengthens their position. https://t.co/ZESs1vynWf
Very true. A Waitrose employee told me recently that their store management received an email from Waitrose HQ demanding that all staff wear facemasks or muzzles. Free country? Hardy ha ha!
Of course you were not, @Franresa1. Most people will not stand up for these things, and so they die out.I prefer to protect customs and taboos I think are beneficial. I think I have a pretty good idea of what happens to societies which give up this struggle. https://t.co/rlCg5pQEqO
Anyone who thinks that this is anything other than a giant international conspiracy must be rather naive, almost panglossian. Don’t forget that most of these “democratic” Western “national leaders” know each other rather well. Many studied together, went to Bilderberg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting] together etc…For example, Jacinda Ardern worked for the Labour Party in London! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern#Early_life_and_education
Sturgeon needs no encouragement to use her power, we are presently in lockdown in Aberdeen despite no coronavirus deaths for 25 days and the hospitals sitting almost empty. She closed us down to divert attention away from her exam results chaos.
I'd like to to see the less balanced ones, in that case @smallstocksjay. Amazing lack of consciousness of how *weird* this is in a formerly free country. Immediate and complete acceptance of this regime as normal. https://t.co/jfFeiJiJRg
Also, aside from the highly questionable effectiveness of cloth masks, consider that the virus is vastly oversold. I'm not denying that COVID exists or that it's deadly for some, but it doesn't mean we should all become Michael Jacksons on its account.
“Disturbing footage has emerged showing a woman being choked by a male police officer during a violent arrest in Melbourne after she was caught not wearing a face mask.” [Daily Mail]
In Melbourne, the very place where that nasty little bastard Stuchbery originated! Is it something in the water?
Will there now be demonstrations, marches, even riots in Australia, USA, UK, New Zealand? No, of course not! She’s white and probably has no serious criminal record…#WhiteLivesMatter…
Thank you @gorillabaz. While she's not blameless, the reaction appears on the face of it to be greatly excessive. This isn't what you would call policing by consent. What strikes me is the obvious sense of power which the Muzzle Decree has given to the police. https://t.co/7iqbV7jkIY
I'd like to to see the less balanced ones, in that case @smallstocksjay. Amazing lack of consciousness of how *weird* this is in a formerly free country. Immediate and complete acceptance of this regime as normal. https://t.co/jfFeiJiJRg
Yes. As I have blogged recently several times (echoed by Peter Hitchens and others), what is really crazy is that the sort of people who used to be rebellious, who prioritized “rights” and “civil liberties” and “freedoms” in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s (I mean those who think of themselves as “Left”, [“libertarian” or other] “socialists”, even “anarchists”) are now those who are begging, literally in some cases, to have stricter control by the State, stricter rules, harsher penalties for going out or not wearing a mask or muzzle. That mentally-disordered “antifa” nut, Stuchbery, is far from being the only one.
Look at Twitter. Virtually all those who identify, on or in the Twitter echo-chamber, as “anti-racist”, “FBPE”, “Remain”, “socialist”, pro-EU etc, the pro-Jewish lobby mob too, are fanatical in their support for facemask-wearing, “lockdown” and anything else that restricts the British people during the overblown Coronavirus “crisis”.
As for Australia, what has happened to them? I myself was there for 3 years as a child (in Sydney) and attended school there: Middle Harbour PS and North Sydney Boys’ High. 1967-69. The police were never even seen where I lived (admittedly a fairly affluent area, Mosman and Cremorne); I never noticed any police even at busy places where I might swim, such as Manly Beach and Balmoral Beach (the latter the nearest to my home), or even much in the city centre (they call that the “CBD” now).
Of course, Australia is now “diverse”: it has imported millions of non-Europeans since the 1970s, and its population is about double the 12 million who lived in Australia when I was at school there…
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20 āwith covidā deaths in UK yesterday. Population: 68 million.
Chances of dying from covid19 in the UK on any given day at the moment is 1 in 3 million.
Asked about mask and then for proof Iām exempt (not supposed to do that) at @ThreeUK today, but very politely, to be fair.
So your chance of dying from Coronavirus in the UK on any day at present is not much greater than the chance of hitting a major National Lottery prize…
This is exactly what about 90% of mask wearers are doing now. She called it out back in March https://t.co/yWcfS7JJwL