For successful mobilization activities in Ukraine, military commissars increasingly need to bring a potential conscript to an unconscious state In this case, in Uman, Cherkasy region pic.twitter.com/zrl14YAUnW
This is a fantastic argument against censorship. I've been following and learning about World War 2 for decades and I've never seen this video. Maybe if everything that has anything to do with N@ZI Germany wasn't censored people would know what really happened. https://t.co/Nl6UdYhnrz
Even discounting the obvious propagandistic element (in which all the main parties of WW2 indulged), the film is interesting. I was always struck by how healthy most of those released from German camps looked, as seen in Allied, not in German, films. For example, there are photographs of women released from concentration camps into the custody of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945. They all look healthy, not starved, and in fact quite normal physically.
It never was about just confederate statues clearly
He had a point, looking at the symbiotic relationship between technical innovation, industrial change, and social change in, say, the 19th Century. Not for nothing did Engels go to the rapidly expanding industries of Manchester and other parts of the North of England in order to study both the new industrial working classes and the parallel socio-political ferment of the early Victorian period.
That answer sure does sound a lot more like the young, foreign men pouring into Germany than it does the young German men they’re replacing.
People who say “pro-black doesn’t mean anti-white” treat pro-white as anti-every other race. Encouraging white women to have babies apparently Hitleresque. pic.twitter.com/gd8ZsUJxx8
Meet Charlotte Owen. The 29 year old advisor to Boris Johnson who will now put her vast experience of 18 months in government to good use as a peer in the House of Lords. Now that's democracy! pic.twitter.com/O5kyj7Mq3Y
A student until 2015/2016. An unpaid “gopher” “intern” for a year or two after that. Finally, a “Special Adviser” from 2017 or 2018. Five years of political gophering and toadying now crowned by elevation to the House of Lords. The beginning of the end for our fake “democracy”, in a single appointment.
My take? That the appointment is one of “Boris” Johnson’s fingers stuck up to his party, his critics, his now-former constituents, and to the country as a whole. Several of the others on the “honours” list may also have been “Boris”-idiot’s way of saying to the world, “F…U.”.
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$100 Billion for Ukraine, nothing to prevent Americas infrastructure from falling apart pic.twitter.com/xa8JebJUwQ
It now appears that, as a fellow investigator informed me at 6am this morning, poverty-cosplaying serial fraudster & thief of the fake Lee Anderson libel fund money Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook has now deleted/hidden the videos on her YouTube channels to hide yet even more evidence pic.twitter.com/HldMVE3csH
Unfortunately for her, the evidence of @BootstrapCook’s poverty-cosplaying lying about her wealth, Kickstarter, Teemill, Patreon, fake Lee Anderson libel fundraising & other scams are all still widely & readily available online, in archives, screenshots/recordings & oth. channels
As of today, a hard core of 411 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon. For (literally) jack s**t.
Even at the lowest level of “patronage”, that comes to £1438.50 a month, in cash. If all the mugs are giving £5 a month, the total would be £2,055 a month; at £10 each, £4,110 a month. In the admittedly unlikely case that all the mugs are giving £44 each, that would add up to over £18,000 a month. My guess? She is getting about £5,000 a month in cash from her mug-base.
This is the state of journalism … because @TIME doesn't even know where Chernobyl is….. One Google search. That's all they had to do. SMH pic.twitter.com/H3amqgSjk2
— Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) June 12, 2023
I blogged years ago about how, when I was at the old Warsaw airport in December 1988 (quite nice— white marble floors and oriental-style carpets in the cafe), waiting for a late flight to London, I got talking to the only other person there, a youngish American (I suspect, Jew) wearing an overcoat and hat (there was snow on the ground outside the terminal). It turned out that he was the Newsweek correspondent for Eastern Europe, which meant everywhere from the West German frontier to the Soviet one, and south/southeast as far as the Black Sea and Adriatic.
That young or youngish person, maybe late twenties, covered the waterfront of Central and Eastern Europe from Bonn, of all places. I quickly established that I, myself only an occasional visitor to places such as Poland, nonetheless knew far more about the situation there than he did, yet his magazine (and so all its readers) relied on him for accurate reportage. Enlightening.
American news magazines are pretty poor; the best was probably the one to which I used to subscribe when in the USA in the early 1990s, U.S. News and World Report. That magazine ceased print publication long ago.
“The engineer battalions of the 33rd Mechanized and 47th Assault Brigades, the lead formations in Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, suffered heavy equipment losses in their assault just south of Mala Tokmachka last week.
The losses include at least five of the battalions’ specialized engineering vehicles. Fitted with mineplows and minerollers, these vehicles lead tanks and infantry fighting vehicles through minefields, plowing and rolling a path so the tanks and IFVs can break through enemy defenses.
The Russian air force moreover has control of the air over the southern front line and has been able to fly back-to-back sorties with attack helicopters and fighter-bombers—a critical advantage that Ukraine’s ground-based air-defenses haven’t been able to blunt.“
[Forbes magazine].
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Max Hastings assesses a man who wrecked the UK: As editor of the Telegraph he sacked Johnson for lying. Here he recognises his own role in facilitating the early career of a mildly amusing writer but, reasonably, accepts no responsibility for the sociopath’s subsequent career. https://t.co/CW2crTLYcKpic.twitter.com/3KcMH6EhcB
— Lord Steve of Toffeeland (@marrtoffee) June 12, 2023
No-one, of course, suggests that Johnson simply be shot. Everyone these days is running too scared of the UK’s emerging toytown police state dystopia, its poundland-KGB police, and its risible “anti-terror” snoopers and prosecutors. I cannot, however, think of a suitable punishment for Johnson. In any case, while he is far less honest, honourable and worthy even than his former colleagues in the Westminster monkeyhouse, from the straight political point of view he is no worse than many of them.
@BorisJohnson are you going to make a statement for the benefit of Charlotte Owen & the speculation over your eleged daughter / mistress / sexmate / fuck-buddy. Not sure anybody will believe what you say but for her sake, if accusations are incorrect, you could at least try.
Charlotte Owen 29 , one of BoJos new House of Lords awards worked her way up to Senior Advisor status in his team. Junior Adviser £40k – £53k Special Adviser £57k- £84k Senior Adviser £73k- £102k Not bad for 2:1 at York Uni.#lovechild#bitontheside
Has anyone checked in on Nadine Dorries after she found out that Charlotte Owen was going to HoL and she wasn't?
— Scribbling Lark 🎥 🎞🖌🖋📖 (@CabinetStories) June 12, 2023
Ha ha! Cruel gibe…(“I’m lovin’ it“…)
Boris Johnson has bestowed a life peerage to this 29-year old woman who worked as a special advisor for him and others for 6 months. Charlotte Owen, b. 1993. Johnson’s first wife was Allegra Mostyn-Owen – they divorced in 1993. Coincidence? pic.twitter.com/NjjXfpPm7L
At first, I thought, “no, Charlotte Owen must be just another “Boris”-idiot roll in the hay“, but I am now wondering whether she really might be one of the idiot’s illegitimate offspring.
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Armed Forces of Ukraine assessed NATO equipment after the start of the "counteroffensive" Ukrainian military are disappointed with NATO armored vehicles. Many people call tanks "dummy" because of the low performance characteristics in comparison with Soviet technology. “We… pic.twitter.com/3oor3LIlWy
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10, whereas I managed 8/10. I did not know the answer to question 2, and I could not think of the answer to question 3 even though I “really” knew it.
Some woman called Charlotte Owen, apparently once “assistant” to Boris Johnson, is to be likewise elevated, at the early age of 29. Does that reward merit, or supine mediocrity (or worse)? I wonder.
I notice that Ben Houchen, once seen as a potential political star, has likewise been elevated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Houchen. A consolation prize, I suppose, for losing out on a Parliamentary seat now that the fortunes of the Conservative Party are diving in the opinion polls. The same would have been true of Alok Sharma and, possibly, Nadine Dorries, had their peerages not been blocked. Sharma and Houchen would certainly not have been re-elected or elected, respectively.
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It’s a sad day for Britain when Boris Johnson’s hairdresser is one of the most competent people on the honours list.
— Kate O’Pfehilighbh (@kmontaguekate) June 9, 2023
It is significant that despite the flood of the Dnieper, there are many more fires on the Russian coast, which refutes the version of the Ukrainian side about Russian shelling of the Kherson region pic.twitter.com/IJVsprMoiK
Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Orehov sector of the Zaporizhzhya Front: 4th day in short – failed, destructive pic.twitter.com/ED3aNFM8S7
One cannot expect loyalty or even basic decency from most people. When I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) in 2016, some 8 years after I had ceased Bar practice, and by reason of a malicious and contrived complaint by a pack of Jews, not one member of the Bar spoke up either to support me or to defend the principles of free speech and freedom of expression. The days of the free and fearless independent Bar of England have long gone. All that remains is a mass of craven careerists, fearful that “the authorities” (suborned by the Jew/Israel lobby) will look unfavourably upon them, and/or that Jewish solicitors will blackball them in terms of giving them work.
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
This war is testing the artefacts of 21stC warfare, and reshaping what warfare is. The use of drones is only one example.
In 1953 Britain looked to a young woman, for a new age. In 2023 Britain was renewed in the face and body of an old man. Both, perhaps, felt quite fitting, for the moment.
The 1953 Coronation still had something somehow sacred about it, even if perhaps not 100% genuine. Compare that to the Coronation of the new Charles III. He looked uncertain, like someone —to use the current phrase— “cosplaying” the role; an actor in a poor production, an actor slightly miscast.
The bizarre thing about this is that all it can do is wound Sunak and the party overall. Resigning reduces the prospect of Sunak’s removal. There are fewer MPs to write letters. There’s no alternative candidate. No clear alternative strategy. Apparently, just bloodlust.
“No clear alternative strategy“? That has been the leitmotif of “Conservative” governments for at least 8 years now, arguably longer, so why not of “Boris”-idiot and his cohorts not in government?
The West's accusations of aggressiveness against Russia are an attempt to cover up an unwillingness to listen to Moscow's concerns," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on statements by Biden and other Western leaders that "if Putin is allowed to win, then after… pic.twitter.com/L0HKLkIVm4
The Kakhovka reservoir has become shallow. The water has almost completely left the territory of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which was flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the city authorities said. pic.twitter.com/cS6LlFClx2
“Remember how Ursula von der Leyen announced to the whole world that due to Western sanctions, Russia would have to produce weapons from refrigerator parts? Watch how these refrigerator parts destroy the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia is making the entire NATO alliance… pic.twitter.com/mTj6TlwEX9
NEWS UPDATE INFOWAR SWEDEN EVENING JUNE 10 Another example of how MSM in the West distorts the truth are from Sweden's largest liberal tabloid Expressen. What do they say about the offensive? First of all they confirmed that there is an offensiv, but not until Zelensky also…
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 10, 2023
“Liz Truss was last night at the centre of an extraordinary row after the Government demanded she pay more than £12,000 following the disappearance of items including bathrobes and slippers from her grace-and-favour country home.
The Cabinet Office was told by staff at the house that items such as towelling robes and even slippers vanished during that period, and have asked her to cover the cost.
‘They have also objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties, and say she owes more than £12,000 for it.’
In December, The Guardian reported that traces of a suspected Class-A drug were found at Chevening after the parties – which Ms Truss has said is ‘categorically untrue’.
The newspaper said members of staff twice found traces of white powder in a games room, after nights where Ms Truss was known to have entertained guests. The workers claimed they tested the powder with a swab which changes colour when it comes into contact with cocaine, and got a positive result.“
[Daily Mail]
I presume that drug-abusing Israel puppet Gove was there, together with Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng).
I was doing some cursory reading on some of 60s race riots (having first read many years ago). somehow I had completely forgotten that the famous 1965 Watts riots (probably the worst in the 60s up to that point) was basically just the Ferguson of the 60s, founded on a total lie pic.twitter.com/z7xDLVeY8o
Helped heal this ones broken leg when she fell from the rafters of my barn as a fledgling. Flew off about a month later and never saw her again. pic.twitter.com/SgMs1RksM3
Washington will not help Kiev forever, and sooner or later the US will leave Ukraine, like Afghanistan So says Scott Ritter, a former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. “When we leave – and we will definitely leave – Ukrainians will be left on their… pic.twitter.com/TV7usQzCck
The GUR Ukraine is preparing a series of operations on the territory of Russia to shift the focus from Bakhmut, who is being held back with the last of his strength, while losing several blocks a day.
Germany has confirmed the transfer of the second air defense system Iris-T to Ukraine, – on the website of the Federal Government of Germany pic.twitter.com/9ZznO02Bbu
President Biden is pressuring Zelensky to launch a spring counteroffensive or surrender talks now. This was stated by American presenter Clayton Morris. At the same time, the Biden team is afraid of the consequences of an unsuccessful Ukrainian offensive. According to the… pic.twitter.com/yi2aIPWXml
Never give in to “them”, never give in to their whining, or demanding, or to their attempted intimidatory behaviour.
So now Richard Sharp, instead of being some corrupt Tory money-man who used his influence and contacts to get power over the UK's state broadcaster, is a 'victim of antisemitism'. Couldn't be more convenient, could it.
“Poverty increased from 5.5% to 24.2% in Ukraine in 2022, pushing 7.1 million more people into poverty with the worst impact out of sight in rural villages, according to a recent report by the World Bank. With unemployment unofficially at 36% and inflation hitting 26.6% at the end of 2022, the institution’s regional country director for eastern Europe, Arup Banerji, had warned that poverty could soar.“
[The Guardian].
Even before the war, Ukraine was the poorest state in Europe per capita. 30 years of shambolic, chaotic, corrupt misrule.
Ukraine is not really a state at all at this point. It would already have collapsed, both economically and militarily, without the huge influxes of Western money, arms, ammunition, and other aid.
“Of the 57 people who have held the highest office, Seldon suggests, Johnson was probably unique in that he came to it with “no sense of any fixed position. No religious faith, no political ideology”. His only discernible ambition, Seldon says, was that “like Roman emperors he wanted monuments in his name”.
“I suppose at least Cummings did believe in Brexit, although ultimately, really, did he?” he says. “From everything we heard [for the book] it just seemed Cummings was full of hatred. He probably hates himself; he certainly hates other people. He wants to destroy everything. Johnson in his own way never knew what he stood for, but he shared that contempt for the Tory party, contempt for the cabinet, contempt for the civil service, contempt for the EU, contempt for the army, contempt for business, contempt for intellectuals, contempt for universities.
About a decade ago, Seldon, who is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, began an informal programme with David Cameron’s government that sought to provide for the present incumbents of the highest office some history of No 10 itself and their predecessors there. He staged a series of talks from prominent historians, as well as performances of Shakespeare in the rose garden, in the belief that politicians “might root themselves in the arts, in the benchmark of what is good and true”. He recalls a performance that the RSC gave for Cameron and guests just before the former resigned as prime minister: “It was quite a moving occasion in the garden. The killing of Caesar was one of the scenes and I remember watching Cameron with his daughter leaning on his shoulder and Samantha next to him.”
When Johnson came to power Seldon hoped the programme might continue – Johnson did after all have a lucrative contract to write a book about Shakespeare. There was no interest whatsoever. “Covid made things difficult obviously,” he says, “but we did come in. Johnson never once showed up. As [his school reports showed] he had no deep interest in any classical history, language or literature or Shakespeare. His examples were always for show. At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty. He can’t keep faithful to any idea, any person, any wife.”
[The Guardian]
Typical of failing societies throughout history; symptomatic.
That photograph, taken on the last day in office of Boris the Clown, is telling. The Poseur in Chief, trying to show off with his younger and new-ish wife, a brainless bimbo almost personifying the kind of careerist know-nothings so prominent in the Westminster bubble of the past decade.
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Here it is, clear as day. Anyone who insists from this moment onwards that Keir Starmer supports PR, or that Labour will introduce PR if they win, is fooling themselves.
The decisive moment" according to Ritter Scott: In the battle for Artyomovsk, the backbone of the Ukrainian army was broken.Due to the serious losses of the Ukrainian armed forces, especially after the battle for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the conflict in Ukraine could enter a new…
NATO sent only 98% of what they needed for the "counterattack" to the Ukrainians. Now Russian forces will destroy everything "necessary", but it turns out that not everything!
After strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the railway junction of Pavlograd, eyewitnesses report a mass detonation of anti-aircraft missiles for the S-300 complex,two divisions (up to 16 installations) of S-300P were destroyed. In addition, supply vehicles with reserve… pic.twitter.com/omZzPXt2zM
🇷🇺The Russian army during the special military operation in Ukraine started using a new command for artillery fire, which reads "three hundred and thirty three". pic.twitter.com/78MPZclJ1f
Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
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The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
“Vladimir Putin‘s ‘martyr complex’ is so out of control there is a risk he will embolden Russia to use nuclear and chemical weapons, a think tank has warned – amid rising concerns over the Kremlin’s ‘hysteric rhetoric’.
A new report published by the US think tank Heritage Foundation has highlighted a growing risk the Russian president will ‘make one of the most fateful decisions of the century’ in the face of his faltering invasion of Ukraine.
The study, named The US and Its Allies Must Understand and Respond to Russia’s Nuclear Threats, explores the actual likelihood that Putin will turn to using weapons of mass destruction.
Russian generals are understood to have discussed the use of tactical nuclear weapons in November, but is said to be cautious about the use of long-range weapons.
However, Russia has ‘increasingly portrayed the West as an enemy and appears to now accept tactical strategic nuclear weapons as an option for deterring further escalation of combat.
The country is understood to have between 1,000 and 2,000 nuclear weapons of varying sizes.
The use of such weapons is seen by Western nations as a last resort, but the report states Russia may turn to tactical nuclear weapons ‘early in the exercise or at mid-point’.
The report outlines four situations in which Putin would turn to nuclear weapons; pre-empting an attack on Russia; use against Russia; a threat, such as a cyberattack on Russia’s command-and-control systems; and an existential threat to Russia from conventional or nuclear weapons.
It says: ‘Russia has failed to defeat the Ukrainian military and is now focusing on forcing the capitulation of the civilian population by attacking electricity and water supplies.
‘It is therefore plausible that Russia will not only threaten to use, but actually use, a weapon of mass destruction to target civilian resistance in Ukraine.
‘Russia is focusing on destroying Ukraine’s power infrastructure, and with the nuclear industry now producing around 60 percent of pre-war power, a Russian attack on nuclear power stations to cut off electricity and create an improvised nuclear incident is a real prospect.’
It has also warned that the use of chemical weapons against metro stations in eastern Ukraine would be ‘devastating’.
The report cites the use of chemical weapons in Syria as evidence of Russia’s willingness.
It has also highlighted Russia’s efforts to ‘weaponise refugees’ and create mass flows of people into Western countries to the point they become ‘overwhelmed’.”
[Daily Mail]
The growing escalation by the NWO (NATO etc) is concerning; the flow of advanced weapons to the Kiev regime, together with ammunition, non-military aid, and cash.
If I had to guess, I should put the chance of the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine by the Russian side at about 30%, depending on how the war goes in the next few months. Any chance of Crimea being lost would make their use almost inevitable, but that raises the question of where such weapons might be used— on the battlefield, or against cities? Could Kiev be completely flattened? If so, what would be the NATO (US) response? All-out strategic response? Unlikely but not impossible. Limited but major conventional response? Maybe, but probably not. Nothing much? Possibly.
Russia would not hold back if subjected to serious or sustained Kiev-regime attack on its own unquestioned territory, eg in Central Russia.
As to a full strategic nuclear exchange between NATO and Russia in general, my view would be that that is at present no more than a 5% chance, but that is a very pessimistic assessment. Horses win at 20/1 all the time.
“‘I know I’m being sent to my death’: Ukrainian soldiers admit ‘we are just getting killed’ as they defend Bakhmut…and say Russia can already ‘taste victory’.
Ukrainian soldiers have painted a bleak picture of their on-going defence of Bakhmut, the small eastern city that has become the target of Europe’s bloodiest infantry battle since the Second World War.
Kyiv‘s soldiers have said they knew they were being sent to their deaths when they were given the orders to go to the city, and admitted they are ‘just getting killed’.
The Jews usually degrade, or even destroy, other societies over time. Now it seems that they are quite close to breaking up their own, Israeli, society, only 75 years after its foundation.
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Destroyed Ukrainian T-64, 2 armored vehicles and 1 trucks somewhere around Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/7FE6ZYJVvy
Would that, and the whole situation around that, have been seen or even conceivable in the 1980s, 1990s, even a decade ago? I think not. The West is not, mainly, being pressured by outside forces, but is falling apart internally. Maybe that is often the way of things, thinking of the Roman Empire, the gradual collapse of Sovietism etc.
🔴⚠️A week ago, 🇺🇦 militants blew up the only bridge from #Bakhmut at the exit from the city and now the wounded are being transported by swimming – on rafts
Which ultimately leads to even greater mortality – the seriously wounded do not have time to get to the hospital and die pic.twitter.com/veymU8DK81
Like a scene from Stalingrad in 1942/1943. War is hell.
Ukraine’s best soldiers are dead. The battle at Bakhmut will destroy another 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers. What is left of weaponry is in the hands of untrained conscripts.
The Russian Su-27 veered near the spy-drone to force it away as it was about to enter a zone the Russian military had declared off-limits due to the on-going military action. The US was obviously spying on troop movements below, to advise Kiev's forces.
It has been clear from the start, over a year ago, that the Americans have been feeding a large amount of direct battlefield intelligence from satellites etc to the forces of the Kiev regime. Had that not been so, the Russian forces would have had greater success in the field.
This comes close to the USA being a direct participant in the war. Madness.
US and European officials estimate 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded, however, Kiev keeps actual numbers secret. Poorly trained rookies "just drop everything and run," and a "shortage of ammo including shells and bombs"is a problem, said a Ukrainian official.
Forced diversity always weakens structure, design, organization…whatever you want to call a succeeding entity. Force individuals into the line….and what happens to the end result?
Unbelievable! Numerous disturbing videoes have been shown on world networks of Ukrainian war crimes, using human shields, targeting civilian homes and public places, and murdering captured POWs, and yet, Lindsey Graham cites Russia for war crimes to keep the war going…insane.
Business News: European banks saw their shares nosedive, Wednesday. Trading had to be halted for a number of bank stocks due to the steep losses. Shares of the embattled Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, hit another all-time low for a second day.
The finance-capitalist system is inherently unstable, and linked in such a way that (as with an uncontrolled reaction in a nuclear power station) panic a fear creates an unstoppable or almost unstoppable momentum.
Imagine though, if a banking sector collapse internationally co-incided with a European war beyond the Ukraine borders. That could be the trigger for a social-national and pan-European upsurge across the continent, enabling the extermination of evil powers and person, and also the foundation of a new and better society in the long term.
More thoughts around Russia and Ukraine
The missing factor on the Russian side, domestically, is real determination on the part of the ordinary population. That would change if any one of two things were to happen: a direct conventional-arms attack (by Ukraine or its Western quasi-allies and backers) on any major Russian city, or a large incursion onto unambiguously Russian territory by forces of the Kiev regime (or foreign forces).
Either of those two events would probably trigger a large scale and probably (tactical-) nuclear response by the Russian leadership.
Russia values Kiev as one of the birthplaces of the Russian state [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27], and I think that the leadership will try to capture the city intact, if possible, but if the Russian leadership felt that the Russian state itself were in existential peril, their response might be to destroy Kiev rather than face extinction as a state, as a people (a collection of peoples, but Russified and Russophone), and as a distinct European/Eurasian culture.
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They hate that there are young people out there who see through the lies and the propaganda. And they REALLY hate that some of us have found a voice. We are the primary group they want to demoralise, since we are the next generation. Their attacks won’t work on me. Night all. ❤️
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 15, 2023
At 16 I can see through the lies, they are scared of us the power is in our hands
I am available for less than £1.35 million for the easiest presenting gig on television, I have done it before, and I have the added benefit of never ever being controversial. #bbc#garylineker#matchofthedaypic.twitter.com/ORg83orebR
Ha ha! I can vaguely remember David Icke reading out the football results on — was it Southern TV? Wikipedia says BBC, so maybe BBC South— sometime around 1980 or so. Not that I would have been interested anyway.
I did not hear of David Icke again until 1990 or 1991 (looking at his Wikipedia entry, maybe the latter year), when I returned one time from the USA, and a friend mentioned as an example of something or other “David Icke“, and I replied “who?” (I had forgotten the name of the young man reading out the sports news a decade before). My friend laughed and said “you must be the only person in England who has not heard of David Icke!“. At that time, he was completely unknown in America.
A few years later, September 1994, I was invited as a birthday surprise by another friend to what turned out to be David Icke speaking at the Wigmore Hall in Marylebone, London, only a short taxi ride from where I then lived in Little Venice.
A quite good and very impassioned speaker, and dressed —if I recall aright— in his famous purple tracksuit, Icke was introduced by a remarkably attractive woman (about 35-40) who said that he was something like “the greatest thinker of our time“. I found that his speech did not quite live up to that billing, but was all the same interesting. My friend also bought me, as a birthday present, a signed copy of The Robot’s Rebellion from the stall in the foyer.
Icke used to follow my Twitter account (and I think that he was only following about 100-200 other people and organizations, so he must be rather perceptive!…). That ended when a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018. Icke himself was (as I had predicted would happen) expelled from Twitter later (by the same or similar Jews), but is now back: https://twitter.com/davidicke.
I would not endorse everything that Icke says or has said, but much of what he says is correct, and has been proven to be, e.g. the following:
“Why do we play a part in suppressing alternative information to the official line of the Second World War? How is it right that while this fierce suppression goes on, free copies of the Spielberg film, Schindler’s List, are given to schools to indoctrinate children with the unchallenged version of events. And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
Of course the “usual” (((usual))) influence has contaminated Wikipedia, so its “facts” in respect of anything such as Jews, the “holocaust” farrago, and the Second World War, Hitler etc, are often not true facts at all.
The apparently intermittent dementia of the US President at such a time is more than concerning. Stupidity played a large part in the unwanted (by most people) start of the two really major wars of the 20thC; will actual dementia play a part in the start of the next such war?
Fury over plan to turn historic Dambusters HQ into refugee detention centre: Historians and locals blast ‘absolutely insane’ Home Office bid to use RAF Scampton ‘for 1,500 asylum seekers’https://t.co/OaAIzXII3U
Ironic. The same sort of people who are forever tweeting (or spouting on (((TV))) and in the (((Press))) about how Britain fought off German invasion in the early 1940s —and leaving the argument about that aside— are usually “refugees welcome” dimwits who want the UK to be a dustbin for the whole world. At present, they are certainly succeeding. I wonder whether they will like the eventual results (to them personally, as well) of their virtue-signalling “activism”?
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Act 2: Tracey & Caz explain that fascist group Patriotic Alternative have been supporting them with advice & social media, although they say they don’t know what PA stands for. pic.twitter.com/0831AEI5If
I have seen tweets from the usual self-describing “Left” suspects saying that even a critical interview like that should not be allowed on TV, because Patriotic Alternative (etc) are “fascists“. It just confirms the total irrelevance of Corbyn-style pseudo-socialists in the post-1989, post-socialist political space.
The British people, especially the poorer ones, are just ignored by the System, and nowhere is that more obvious than when it comes to mass immigration and migration-invasion.
…preferably with a good kicking as a not-golden farewell!
That sounds like a threat @SeanKellyMEP You should know that people, especially us Brits, don't respond very well to threats. Furthermore, by making unnecessary threats you re-emphasise the centralising, authoritarian and arrogant nature of the EU in Brussels and some of its MEPs https://t.co/AcOoQj7n94
Join with Russia if the EU turns even more against Russia.
Join in amity with Russia, cut ties with the EU completely if necessary, leave NATO, chuck out US spy bases and air bases.
The EU is not, on the whole, a Europe worth saving anyway. With Russia on one side and the UK on the other, the EU states will have to come to heel eventually, and give us what we want and need.
This cartoon is incredibly stupid but very helpful, in revealing the mindset that never learns that you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. pic.twitter.com/qE1QIa44dV
— ParentChain #BorisTheBoss #SunakOut (@parentchain) March 16, 2023
In fact, Plymouth has a minority Conservative Party-ruled council. 25 Labour, 23 Conservative, 9 others.
The tree vandalism is appalling. I know Armada Way, which is a long and mainly traffic-free avenue connecting the central part of Plymouth to the famous Plymouth Hoe where Drake played bowls before defeating the Spanish Armada in the late 16thC.
The bit of Armada Way where I often was has thankfully been spared the axe, and is closer to the centre of the city. I often appeared at the County Court there (the building also contains the rather busy Plymouth Crown Court).
[the very 1950s (though actually built 1963) frontage of Plymouth County Court]
Plymouth could be a fantastic city, with its water frontage, and its rural hinterland, but somehow isn’t. It has problems of crime, drugs, drunkenness etc, and the local council is completely incompetent. I used to park at the very top of a multistorey car park quite near the court building. The Plymouth Council owned that car park. In about 6 years of parking there (about once every couple of weeks), the lift worked once, I think. Once out of 100-200 times. A small example but, I think, telling.
Plymouth Council is riddled with both freemasonry and Common Purpose, so often the nests of the mediocre. As with other councils with those characteristics, such as Birmingham, Plymouth Council is both incompetent and corrupt.
Incidentally, if anyone wonders why I always parked on the open top floor of that car park (about 10 storeys high) despite knowing that the lift would almost certainly be inoperative, well, there are a number of reasons. I like being able to park where there is always a spot, in a space almost always free of any other cars, not having to bother with other cars’ owners, people parking or leaving etc. In fact, about the only time I ever saw another car up there, it turned out to be that of a rather attractive lady barrister I knew slightly from court, Rebecca something-or-other. Secondly, I enjoyed the view. Thirdly, it is my long-held habit— I always park at the top of multi-storey car parks.
Disgraceful. Government, central and local, must step in, but it abdicated its responsibilities years ago. Buy to let and other similar forms of exploitation have to be stopped.
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BREAKING:
The headquarters of the Russian security service FSB in Rostov is on fire after a major explosion.
As for Poland and its leadership, I can only think of Hegel, who wrote that “the lesson of history is that people do not learn the lessons of history” (may not be exact quotation, but near enough).
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BREAK: Boris’s spokesman confirms he has been reselected as the conservative candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
Local sources say he was reselected earlier today by a panel of his local branch. https://t.co/aPG6KKXr4W
So the “Conservative” Party panel of Uxbridge and South Ruislip have reselected a part-Jew who was born in New York City, brought up in the USA and Belgium mainly (except when at Eton and Oxford), who did time (a few weeks) on a kibbutz in Israel, who describes himself as “Zionist“, and who has a long history of disgraceful and dishonest conduct in his personal life, as a journalist of sorts, as MP, as Cabinet minister, and finally as Prime Minister?
What am I missing? Not that he is some kind of great brain, as once was thought by easily-fooled people. As for real intellect and culture, forget it.
Still, at least it looks as if his time as MP is very limited, if the opinion polls can be believed:
Unfortunately, instead of being put up against a wall and shot, the bastard is going to make millions out of memoirs, speeches, after-dinner ramblings etc.
Interesting to see. One of the worst aspects (culturally) of the Ukraine conflict is the ghastly music (I do not know what it is called), a kind of (?) Slavonic “rap”, and played constantly by both sides. At least the “turbofolk” played during the Yugoslav/Balkan war(s) was not completely offensive to the ear.
Well, not quite as bad, anyway…
The Russian equivalent of turbofolk (I think it can be called…apologies to any musical experts reading), which I well remember from when I was in Kazakhstan (1996-1997):
The Guardian that became a cheerleader for the 2020-2021 police-state “Covid” measures: “lockdowns”, facemask nonsense, and Boris-idiot’s own contribution, the ridiculous “Rule of Six”.
And of course they used a White child with blue eyes for this advertisement. Of course.
Denmark has taken on a special responsibility to rebuild the city of Mykolaiv in Ukraine. Hear 🇩🇰 Ambassador to Ukraine Ole Egberg Mikkelsen tell more 👇 pic.twitter.com/tQQ5UxE1h6
Well-meaning silliness. Mikolaiv, or Nikolayev, will probably fall back under Russian control before very long; after that, I expect that Russian authorities will rebuild the city.
Incidentally, the Danish Ambassador and his government might be better advised to use their time, money, and power to prevent Denmark being further swamped by non-European savages.
I am willing to accept that the Ambassador’s own motives are probably reasonably good or charitable, but this is wrongheaded. Better to stop funnelling arms to the corrupt and vicious Jewish regime in Kiev, which merely prolongs a war Russia cannot lose.
🗓 Today is the 9th anniversary of the Crimean status referendum.
On March 16, 2014, Crimeans made their historic choice on the basis of universal suffrage – the ultimate triumph of democracy.
When I had a Twitter account, pre-2019, I did what I could to tweet in support of those trying to save the trees of Sheffield, which was and maybe still is one of the top few UK cities with the most tree cover. The (Labour) council was, maybe (?) still is a disgrace. Those responsible for the vandalism should be punished, one way or the other.
So Russian people (again, as I predicted a year ago) are scarcely affected directly by EU or US sanctions. Quelle surprise...
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Watching the puddle-deep Rachel Johnson simp for her father’s knighthood, as bestowed on him by her brother, is, if nothing else, an hallucinogenic and mind-melting experience.
God, the part-Jew element really comes out in her gestures and facial expressions; as much as with, in fact actually more than, the two fully-Jewish journalists questioning her. That aside, the sheer entitlement of the bitch, not to mention her brother and father.
Apparently, wife-beating Stanley Johnson “deserves” a knighthood because he has spent half a century in (and for much of that time paid by) the Conservative Party, and because he spent 17 equally well-paid years in the European Commission, supposedly dealing with “the environment”.
Personally, I think that all the Johnsons “deserve”, not honours but a good kicking (followed by a trip to, and up against, the wall).
The honours system is now totally ridiculous anyway, but while it exists it is more than irritating to see (e.g.) Stanley Johnson get a knighthood, or Nadine Dorries, that dishonest and stupid creature, get a peerage (as rumoured).
Ah this explains it! I’ve been informed by a good source that Emily Maitlis and Rachel Johnson are mates. It’s all one big club that reinforces one big club. In a healthy country, the Johnsons would never be on any show again but we’re not a healthy country pic.twitter.com/rcjAwXC95Z
— Darshan Sanghrajka (@chiefchimpanzee) March 6, 2023
Rachel Johnson thinks that Stanley Johnson would be in line for a knighthood in his own right, regardless of who is Prime Minister. There's been 17 PMs since he was born- including 3 in the last 8 months- and only one of them, his own son, has even considered it. Vile family.
I love how Covid suddenly stopped “mutating” the second they moved onto something new to scare us all with. It’s almost as if it was all a load of horseshit.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 6, 2023
Matt Hancock, the former UK Health Secretary who was one of the top people involved in ruining your life for 2 years, just had his messages leaked saying the Government needed to “scare the pants off everyone” and even talked about DEPLOYING a new variant. If there was any shred…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 6, 2023
Deploying is interesting terminology because that's what you do with bio-weapons. pic.twitter.com/zzUNqwSWIe
Well, shithead (Hancock), come and get me, if you dare…
[a word of advice and warning of my own, though: I am extremely impecunious, own no real property, and therefore cannot be sued successfully in that sense].
[I might add that, as a former barrister (wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 as a result of a Jewish conspiracy), I am still reasonably conversant with the law of defamation]
Still, if you want to waste the £400,000 you “earned” by clowning around on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, I am easy enough to locate].
Who knows, to be targeted by shithead Hancock and his (I hope) very expensive lawyers for expressing my honest opinion (etc), or reposting the opinion of others, might be the projection into the public realm that I need (politically).
As a matter of interest, did Hancock ever sue anyone over that poster or tweet? I think not, and about 10 months has now elapsed. In fact, I read recently that Hancock himself was in process of being sued in libel (by Andrew Bridgen MP).
[Marshal Zhukov inspecting the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin 1945]
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Big shout out to all of those who didn't need thousands of leaked whatsapp messages from Matt Hancocks phone to know that the lockdowns and the handling of the pandemic was completely wrong and inhumane #lockdownfiles#NeverAgain
After the revelations over the last few days from Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages confirming what many many people felt was the reality, we must fight tooth & nail to not allow the government to sign up to the corrupt WHO pandemic treaty
JUST IN: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock threatened to block funding for a new centre for disabled children if a resistant Member of Parliament refused to support his lockdown.https://t.co/VaNEmp6ETIpic.twitter.com/UtBm7cutAO
So…Hancock up against the wall, along with his complicit “ho” Gina Something-or-other-foreign, also the rest of the then Cabinet, not forgetting “Professor” Ferguson and the rest of the “SAGE” manipulators, and many others.
This plan, if executed by Matt Hancock, would I believe have been criminal: misconduct in public office. pic.twitter.com/pbKzMpGUIs
This was never one of my areas of law when I was a practising barrister, but I hope that Maugham is, on this occasion, correct.
For most of the pandemic, I thought Sweden would have higher excess mortality but less economic and social damage.
It had lower mortality as well.
Matt Hancock hated "the f–ing Sweden argument” and asked aides to "Supply three or four bullet [points] of why Sweden is wrong". https://t.co/Aj1PyYwTV2
Those of us, at first a tiny minority, who realized that the “Covid” scare was, 95% of it anyway, just that, a scare (and a deliberately manufactured one at that) were called “conspiracy theorists” or, simply, “Covidiots” by the mainstream media, the “me too” groupthink Twitter mob etc; almost all of the Jew lobby too.
Well, who are the “Covidiots” now?…
The paid COVID actors make perfect sense now that we know how UK Health Minister Matt Hancock and health authorities worldwide deliberately wanted to “frighten the pants out of everyone." pic.twitter.com/FFEmHOAjPI
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) March 5, 2023
That kind of thing fooled millions. I myself recall, when the panic was at its height, and when supermarkets were only allowing people in slowly, 6 feet apart (which itself was a nonsense, because once inside, the distances reduced to a foot or so), the line of glum shoppers would be monitored and supervised by black-clad Handmaid’s Tale “militia”. Some of those jobsworths (at the local Waitrose) even had the words “National Security” emblazoned on the back! I believe that the appropriate Internet phrase would be “ROFL“, or maybe “PMSL“.
In fact, I recall one of those “militia” idiots saying to a pro-lockdown (etc) dork ahead of me in the queue that he had “lost” one of his close family members “to Covid“. As we now know, that almost must have been a lie, or at least a mistake, but the “militiaman” seemed to be genuinely angry that anyone even might question the “Covid” narrative (in that case, though, not me but some earlier-in-line dissident).
Oh well, most security guards are scarcely likely to be anywhere near the top of the IQ range, but it still proves how powerfully the “Covid propaganda worked on the masses.
Reminiscent of those Jews who pretend to be terribly angry and upset about “holocaust” “denial” (investigation and revision of previously-accepted historical narratives) because they “lost family members“. They are, of course, referring to people they never knew, and who died long before the former were even born. Ersatz emotion(alism).
Those of us who stood up for freedom and truth during the “Covid” “panicdemic” can now feel justly proud, or at least fully-vindicated.
As for the rest, the “sheeple” if you like, well they have moved on, and are now nodding in unison and saying “me too” to other narratives, particularly “Ukraine” (meaning support, or at least “slacktivism” on Twitter, for the regime of the Jew Zelensky and his corrupt, shambolic, and yet dictatorial regime).
You still see the odd loony wearing a facemask. I saw one today in fact. About 90, and shuffling around Waitrose in her filthy disposable mask (probably worn by her for the past 3 years…).
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So, we were told that during the ‘second wave’ that we’d have to give up more of OUR freedoms to take the pressure off the NHS…
— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 (@EssexPR) March 6, 2023
World govt is a conspiracy theory.
Matt Hancock-Health Secretary Damon Poole-Hancock's spin doctor@DrTedros-WHO chief Bill Gates-software salesman NVAP-New Variant Assessment Platform is an offer of UK expertise to detect & assess new variants of SARS-CoV-2 around the world. pic.twitter.com/SGKrNLjbMe
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 6, 2023
“Many a true word spoken in jest“, and if that was not so a year or two ago, it probably will be so in another few years.
A comment from a reader of the Daily Mail as to why trickster Hancock released the WhatsApp messages:
“JonnyRed, Worcester, United Kingdom, 13 hours ago
Totally….its leading us down the path to ushering in the handing over of sovereignty to the WHO and their pandemic treaty having total control of 194 countries. A certain Mr Blair and Mr Hague are leading the charge on this. Ultimately it will lead to digital identity and currency, digitilized health with mandated vaxxines.”
[Readers’ Comments, Daily Mail].
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@TalkTV @Iromg just breathtaking the bare face cheek of Yvette Cooper and the Labour Party who let’s face it, started all this, and she stands there and presents all these illegals as children or Afghans who helped us is nonsense and she knows it, she’s a disgrace pic.twitter.com/5pRnS4BAt6
Both true, i.e. it is true that Labour ministers under Blair (notably the Jews, Barbara Roche and Phil Woolas) wanted to flood Britain with immigrants in order, quite specifically (as as leaks proved) to ruin the white Northern European demographic of the UK. However, it is also true that the “Conservative” governments since 2010 have also, in effect, encouraged the migration invasion. Why? See below.
Google “Coudenhove- Kalergi Plan”…
Yvette Cooper is not only a proven expenses cheat and fraudster but also, more importantly, a would-be “woke” dictator and puppet of the Jewish lobby.
Incidentally, I see on Twitter, supporting Labour and Yvette Cooper, one “@Supertanskiii”. Seems to be another “grifter” in the mould of “Jack Monroe” and others.
In the case of “Supertanskiii”, though, she does not even offer ghastly food recipes in return for monies sent to her by mugs. Why do people do that (send money to those who offer not even original or interesting ideas)? For “Supertanskiii”, I suppose that it is just an easy way to make a modest living— just mouth off on Twitter against “the Tories” several times a day. The mugs love that…
She does also offer cod-“analysis”, i.e. pretty much repeating whatever the Labour Party is saying at any given moment. Seems to have about 5-10 different people each day donating small sums to her, maybe about £50 a day in toto, at a guess.
People were eating low-cost, good healthy meals long before she jumped on the poverty bandwagon and, unlike her recipes, they were and still are not only cheap and nutritious, they are tasty as well.
— Aunty Fah 🇵🇸 #IStandWithPalestine (@FahAunty) March 7, 2023
There isn't a passing bandwagon that Jack Monroe has not jumped upon and tried to set fire to.
The rinsed spaghetti hoops.. She also seems to think she "invented" using up what people have left over … and devising shopping lists based around stock items. My Grandma for example was doing that decades before she was even born..
Oh good grief.. Who has fire pits these days..?? Not only that she seems to be advocating the burning of rubbish in gardens.. I hate with a passion bonfires. Not to mention the damage and pollution they always create havoc with my breathing and give me sore throats.
It might be argued that the critics are now “kicking ‘Jack Monroe’ when she is down”, but I think that there are two counter-arguments to be made: first, she still has 479 utter mugs paying her a total of between (about) £1,800 and (about) £20,000 each and every month via Patreon.
Secondly, if the critics keep kicking her, maybe the msm enablers of this fraud (those still promoting her—if any are left) will awaken and thus prevent more naive and innocent victims from being scammed.
If that figure of 20,000 Kiev-regime fighters is correct, then if they are killed or captured, that would be a very significant success for the Russian side. If...
Yesterday, the Russian forces seemed to be in the ascendant. Now— uncertain.
Head of Wagner PMC Prigozhin makes grim predictions that Wagner might be encircled around Bakhmut.
He says he's told about that to Russian military leadership but got no results so far. pic.twitter.com/6j0bnujJsP
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) March 7, 2023
Well, I have to say that that is more impressive than any of the bureaucrat-statements I have heard broadcast from the senior Russian Army officers.
If that statement is taken at face value, Prigozhin has more courage than most of the Russian leadership put together.
I wonder whether the Russian Army and/or GRU are stabbing Prigozhin and Wagner Group in the back. If so, at least if using the terms broadly, that would be, in the circumstances, both sabotage and treason.
Visualization – In #Bakhmut, the ratio of control is about 50% Russian held (18.4 km²) and 50% Ukrainian held (18.2 km²).
The Ukrainian side has control over the central urban core of the city, whilst the Russian side controls the eastern suburbs beyond the Bakhmutovska River. pic.twitter.com/CdB37qyFUU
In a way, remarkable that the Russians plan to restore and rebuild in regions still part of an active war zone.
⚡️🇺🇦: The former deputy secretary for the Ukrainian Security Council has dissented from the 'unanimous' decision on Bakhmut. In his view, holding the city makes no sense, and he outright says they've lost some of their best forces.
Britain’s National Grid uses coal-fired emergency units for the first time as the country’s power market failed to provide enough electricity pic.twitter.com/jCCQiLl7V7
This is how the heroes of the Ukrainian Security Services deal with the threat of mean tweets. I guess no one will see that guy ever again.https://t.co/qHrNGqfPGX
Like a scene from Stalin’s day, during the Yezhovshchina or other of the Soviet purges.
So much for “free, democratic” Ukraine and its “human rights”. One word out of place, and civilians get arrested by a goon squad. The regime of the Jew Zelensky is a corrupt and tyrannical kleptocracy.
Zelensky sold >17 million hectares of agricultural land to Monsanto, Dupont, Cargill.
Zelensky sold 28% of Ukraine's entire landmass (603,500 km²) to these three US multinational enterprises.
Why have 300,000 young Ukrainian men been slaughtered on behalf of Zelensky?
Those of us that follow this conflict looking past the Western propaganda know that the goal of RF is not to annex but to destroy and demilitarize the AFU. Knowing that a good portion of Artyomovsk defenders most likely were forced to be in this cauldron it's nothing but tragic.
People in the USA, UK, and across mainland Europe are also starting to turn off from the war, especially now that it is obvious that the Zelensky cabal has no intention of negotiating. Not “Russian propaganda”, incidentally; Zelensky and others have admitted it outright.
According to Electoral Calculus, and depending on tactical voting etc, that would give the Labour Party a Commons majority of between 398 and 415. It would leave the Conservative Party with between 20 and 40 seats.
2/ 77% are dissatisfied with how the govt is running the country.
Public typically quite critical of how Sunak's govt have handled various aspects of the economy.
64% say they Sunak's govt have done a bad job overall. Here is how that looks over time for various govts: pic.twitter.com/piCNaUiwU3
All that, and then also— the person posing as Prime Minister is an Indian money-juggler…
The thing is Pippa, now that your husband Tom Whitehead is Head of Strategic Communications at the Cabinet Office you prob ought to let readers and viewers know that. Full disclosure. Or even partial disclosure, now we're discussing partiality…. @PippaCrerar#Graygatehttps://t.co/iJxaOcR2P5
We cannot, today, simply put most of the MPs and fake “peers” up against a wall (as they deserve). The first step to saving this country and getting rid of the broken Britain superimposed on it, is to destroy the two main System parties, and the immediate necessity is to destroy the Conservative Party. Once that happens, and Labour has a huge Commons majority, it will start to do things which will create pushback. Without a fake “Opposition”, the people will perforce turn to a new party, and/or deal with the anarchic mess in other ways.
I actually don't want my tax money to go towards building houses for foreigners. The government does not have my consent for such an action and they didn't campaign on this as a platform. It's starting to feel that the money taxed from me is really a form of theft. https://t.co/qEr10ADIX3
Refusing to call someone like Eddie Izzard a ‘she’, doesn’t make me transphobic. It makes me someone who refuses to pander to a man simply pretending to be a woman. He should not be allowed in women’s toilets or spaces, end of.
Stop pandering to this utter lunacy.
— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 (@EssexPR) March 7, 2023
'We cannot be told what to do by Government. That truth is final and can only be denied by those who either don’t know it … or who do know it and are lying.'
That idiot is such a hypocrite that he probably does not know that he is a hypocrite.
Incidentally, reading Clooney’s entry in Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney], I realized that I have seen not one film or TV series featuring him. That must be why I was puzzled, many years ago, when I kept hearing things about him on the TV; I was thinking “George Clooney? Who’s that?“.
He has good taste in domestic property, though. His house on a river island at Sonning, Berkshire, is very classic (Georgian), and in a beautiful location across the Thames from some of the grounds of the school I unwillingly attended in the nearly 4 years 1970-1973; and his house on Lake Como, in the Italian Lakes region, is also beautiful and in a beautiful place.
Trust in science is plummeting. While major disagreements lead to major discoveries, science is degenerating into dogma by calling any disagreement as "misinformation." A revolution of sorts by courageous citizens can revive the science: https://t.co/vW3aIRTvao
— Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist (@amitavb1) February 5, 2023
The evil and yet idiotic “SAGE” “scientists”, msm “me too” groupthinkers, and UK “health” bureaucrats would have been right at home in early Renaissance Italy, insisting that the Sun goes around the Earth and describing the truth as “heresy”.
'They invited us in to watch our mum die. We didn't even know she was ill.'
Tony Stowell shares his story of losing his mother after she was put in end-of-life care in a care home 'without his family's consent' during the Covid pandemic. pic.twitter.com/hRBSmOfoMh
State “quiet killing” of hundreds of thousands of elderly people thought of, by the State, by ministers and by most MPs, as simply “surplus to requirements”.
'There's been some fun and games going on behind the scenes. It is not good for a political power to have a citizenry that is properly aware of its constitutional powers.'
The Brits are fighting back. No to LTN,s. We don't want to live in controlled Zones with fines for those who dare to leave watched by CCTV cameras. Its time for free people to fight back and say No More. We also demand #FreedomOfSpeech#Resist No to this Dystopian Nightmare. pic.twitter.com/Oq2xM9iEzn
This is beyond the pale. And all because this woman had the temerity to criticise Jack Monroe, and share alternative cost-saving methods that she had found effective. https://t.co/Lbmuju6W21
— con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) (@racheledini1) February 5, 2023
“Jack Monroe” attracts the very worst supporters on Twitter, perhaps even worse than the “FBPE” loonies. Her core “constituency” is not “the poor”, but the unpleasant and/or mentally-disturbed.
Snap, is it a sock? Is it a sock showing how absolutely vile Jack Monroe can truly be under the guise of anonymity? @frugally_minded please take no heed of this twat. It says more about their mindset than anything else.
I think that there are at least half a dozen regular “Jack Monroe” Twitter “sock accounts” regularly posting while she pretends to be “taking (another) rest from Twitter”.
She has over half a million followers, her compulsive spending is funded by the public,and she is someone who made her name by giving advice to others about managing their budgets. Yet it turns out she cannot manage her own finances, let alone 'big Maths' or 'forensic detail'.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) February 5, 2023
It took me a while to realize the extent of it, but my opinion now is that “Jack Monroe” is, or has become, an outright fraud.
Incidentally, the new book by “Jack Monroe”, Thrifty Kitchen (which seems to consist, judging from what one reads in the msm and on Twitter, of recipes from the BBC and other sources already available for free online), is not selling.
At present, according to the Amazon Book Sales Calculator, only a few dozen copies a day, if that (about 600 per month) are being sold on Amazon (which must be the major outlet). In fact, nearly new copies (the book was only released a few weeks ago) are available on Amazon for as little as £7.
I was interested to see the reviews on Amazon. The 5* ones (about 70%), may or may not be genuine, and have only a handful of up-votes each, suspiciously, whereas the 20% of reviews awarding only 1* (with some wishing that they could award zero stars) have hundreds of up-votes: 400, 500, or more. Telling.
All the same, 498 utter mugs are still signed up on Patreon to send her a total of between £1,743 and £21,912 per month (probably in the region of about £5,000, realistically). The very silly, or outright loonies, I should imagine.
That composer, of whom I had never heard until today, seems to have been one of the millions displaced by the large-scale disruptions and dislocations of the 20th Century.
Stray thought about the NHS
I suppose that, as usual, I have to preface my remarks by repeating that I do favour the core principle of the NHS, i.e. that it should be free at point of use.
Beyond that, I was just trying to think of any other service or product which is defended mainly on the ground that it is free or cheap. Air travel using “low-cost” rubbish airlines, such as Ryanair? I suppose that that is one.
I understand that what people do is pay a ludicrously-small amount (eg £50, £20, or even £10) each way for the flight, but then have to accept that everything usually provided gratis is charged for, and that the flight will land a long way from where you really want to go, such as “Paris Beauvais” airport (Beauvais is 55 miles from Paris) or, I think in the past, even “Paris Amiens” airport (Amiens is 160 miles from Paris by road or rail).
Still, I see the point. Hard to complain about £10 each way London (Stansted) to/from La Rochelle, even if the service etc is near rock-bottom (though I concede that I myself have never used Ryanair). Incidentally, La Rochelle Airport is right by the city.
What else do people accept almost purely on the basis that it costs little? Not much, I think. State primary and secondary education? Possibly.
Still, Ryanair flights do arrive as promised, much of the time. Can the same be said of the NHS? I fear not, or often not, these days.
No-one (except perhaps the ultra-wealthy) wants to swap the NHS for an American-style system, but there are alternative systems that might be examined. What is not helpful is for people to shout out meaningless slogans about “our NHS” etc, to refuse to see what a poor service it is often —not always— offering now, and to refuse to think about how (beyond simply funding it better) the NHS might be improved.
Interesting. Is that a ploy to get “Boris”-idiot back? Or maybe some of them want sinister “let’s bomb Russia” candidate Tobias Ellwood as PM. That would solve all our problems— permanently…
Fascinating watching the Tories destroy themselves with no outside help. It is not as if the opposition are particularly popular with the general public.
While it is true that Labour are only popular by default, in a basically unfree and binary system, they are still well ahead at present.
I am not so sure that the Conservative Party might not be electorally better-off ditching the Indian money-juggler, and even going back to “Boris”-idiot, but better not that latter; they really need someone relatively untainted, and someone British/English, i.e. not non-white. That might not save them completely re. the next general election, but it might be enough to produce a hung Parliament.
I sense that Labour is, even in these conditions of shambolic incompetence in government, not truly “popular”, but many people are becoming desperate for something. If only there were a proper social-national party, credible and organized, but there is none.
A new Conservative Party leader would mean yet another unmandated or unvalidated PM, the fourth since 2015 (or fifth, if you include the first two years of “Boris”-idiot). What price “democracy”?
Not going to lie, am fascinated by the @bootstrapcook thing. I noticed her because of the @AsdaServiceTeam PR lies, but its actually staggering the level of batshit and fraudulent she got away with. Her sock puppet use is mental. Utterly batshit.
The “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” situation continues
People like this, thinking they're doing the best for the 'wonderful desperate people' at breakfast club. Now they'll be armed with thrifty tips and some extra smugness. pic.twitter.com/F4pyHKanJB
“@frugally_minded” is a woman who was cheated by “Jack Monroe”, and who, despite being now in a parlous financial state, has been refused a refund by the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”.
Yeah, it's vile. She's also sneered at social housing in other tweets, and said she was so relieved that she didn't have to apply for it. As well as being a habitual liar, she's a snob. Sadly, her fan base are mostly middle class people like her, and so they can't see through her
No, she regularly claims that she is working class – she isn't, she even describes herself as middle class. You don't suddenly become working class just because you signed on for a few months. She was never a single mum either – she's a co parent, and has supportive parents
She blocks anyone who asks reasonable questions about her patreon including those who've requested a refund, charity money, PayPal, backstory, and anyone who questions any of her provable lies.
I saw an interesting allegation, which may or may not be true, to the effect that “Jack Monroe” is now subscribing to her own Patreon donation appeal, in order to keep the numbers up and prevent the perception that she is being abandoned by her real donors (hundreds of utter mugs).
— ♥️ never Tory 🚫😡Toxic & Cruel. (@Politics1951) January 3, 2023
Quite. There are a number of recognized defences to an action in defamation, one of which is “Truth” (formerly called “Justification”).
Apart from that, as that tweet implies, many potential claimants (“plaintiffs”, as was) will not want their business and life generally, exposed to public view. That of course applies a fortiori to those who may have unethical, or even criminal, matters to hide.
There is a further matter, which is that a claimant claiming that he/she has been defamed will have to spend much money bringing the matter to court, money which can only be recouped (and it may not be) from a wealthy, or affluent, or at least solvent defendant, or one who at least owns valuable real property.
We hear much (mainly on Twitter) about how people can sue others using litigation insurance etc, or “pro bono” lawyers. It’s not as easy as that.
Firstly, litigation insurance will only be available where it is thought that a claim is not only well founded in law and fact but also where the putative defendant has assets, or income, that might satisfy any claim.
You can see where that leaves the “Bootstrap Cook”— up a gum tree. The last thing she wants is forensic and/or judicial examination of her allegedly dishonest and/or near-fraudulent “grifting” cottage industry.
In any event, most of those criticizing her probably have next to nothing, certainly not enough to satisfy the legal costs (and award of damages) flowing from a successful defamation action.
The house owned by Katie Hopkins had to be sold to cover both the actual award to “Jack Monroe” (£24,000) and the costs of the claimant (£300,000), most of which went to her lawyers, meaning to her solicitor and —I think, two— Counsel.
Incidentally, “pro bono” properly refers to cases taken by a lawyer for no fee, not the “no win, no fee” speculative type; as when one of my tutors at degree level, who was an Old Etonian, appeared pro bono for Eton College in a 1980s High Court matter involving, I believe, land and trusts.
Someone like me, without real property, valuable assets, or much of an income, is effectively “unsueable”, unless the claimant were willing to accept that any award made, and costs which might top half a million pounds (bearing in mind appeals etc) would be irrecoverable. Of course, what at least used to be called a “prohibitory injunction”, and/or a “mandatory injunction” (those being orders to prevent a repeat of any alleged libel, and/or to order the taking down of the libel complained of) might be ordered, true, but at what cost!
All those tips are good – nothing unsafe about them. My mum used to have a glass rolling pin to fill with cold water. We are so far removed from making things for ourselves, that it seems alien to us.
Because she's not helping only herself. She is patronising & adds to the narrative that the poor are stupid, when she calls herself a working class woman & takes up that space she takes it from actual working class women
So tweeter “@sarahcam3ron”, apparently one Sarah Cameron, thinks that “Jack Monroe’s” suggestion of using a mallet and a chisel or knife to open a can (when you can get a new basic tin can-opener for a little as £1 in a cheap supermarket, or a used one for 20p in a charity shop) is good advice for “the poor” (seen as a “huddled mass” yearning to be preached to). These “Jack Monroe” fans and partisans believe what they want to believe.
In fact, the same tweeter seems to think that the bad behaviour of “Jack Monroe” is de minimis in the face of larger injustices in society: see below.
Extraordinary unjustified cruelty against her, especially when so many people in power enable the deaths & suffering of 1000s. Tories prevent hungry children being fed, destroy the NHS, 1000s die from austerity & Covid. Jack writes a book, & she’s the villain. Ffs.
“Jack writes a book“? Try “Jack fleeces hundreds, indeed thousands, of people out of money most cannot really afford“. In any event her ‘recipes’ are largely carb-heavy slush that must be hard to stomach for many, from what I have seen.
Does anyone not totally loony think that a nutritious feed can be had for (as “Jack Monroe” claims) 11p per person? Even hardcore Con MP Lee Anderson only claims he can make such for 30p, and I (admittedly no cook) doubt whether anyone can make a decent lunch/dinner for less than about £1. I suppose a slice of toast with a Burford Brown very large egg on it— that would cost about 70p.
Frankly, I should rather have a peanut-butter and lettuce sandwich or two (cost? maybe 40p, if that) than any of the stuff I have seen from the “Bootstrap Cook”— and it would also remind me of when I was 10-11 years old and had that (with some slices of rock melon) every day at Middle Harbour School in Mosman, Sydney, in 1967, sitting outside in the warm sun.
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Melibe viridis is a carnivorous sea slug with a gelatinous vacuum cleaner for a head. 😮 pic.twitter.com/STJbC1e2c4
.@seosquinn. Nobody has to take my advice. Hardly anybody ever does But the idea that a battle is now raging for the soul of Britain, which we cannot desert, is just piffle. What struggle there was ( not much) ended many years ago . People should stop dramatising themselves. https://t.co/ZhtW9RmgWv
It would not matter were a kind of mundane Ragnarok to take place, so long as the 1% —or 10%, so be it— of the population left at the end were relatively cultured, reasonably capable, and European.
What "disabilities", what "disadvantages"? It's not about envy, it's about morals and her lack of them.
Using disabilities as an excuse from reprehensible behaviour is vile. But many have come to expect that from Jack Monroe.
She even tried to make #Grenfell all about herself.
Her ‘alcoholism’ back story is riddled with so many elements that just don’t add up. 200 units of alcohol a week? Then stopping completely. I word in healthcare and this would literally kill her.
There are bigger issues facing the UK than “Jack Monroe” allegedly scamming a few thousand well-meaning or virtue-signalling “mugs” out of a total of maybe (?) £6,000 a month. Yes. No argument.
There are bigger issues facing the UK than “Jack Monroe” (to use the Essex argot) “blagging” her way to a mass media semi-“celebrity” profile in the Guardian or on TV. Yes. No argument.
Having conceded the above, I just find it absolutely infuriating both that that person seems to have cheated all those people, some genuinely “poor”, out of money, and also that the msm scribblers and talking heads in this country are so dim and negligent that they accept many poseurs and/or frauds at face value, without checking them out; and that applies not only to the “Bootstrap Cook”, but to many many others, from “Boris” Johnson and Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng), to relatively obscure individuals such as Aisha Ali-Khan (featured on yesterday’s blog: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/01/02/diary-blog-2-january-2022-2/).
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@TrussellTrust having looked at the “tips” from @bootstrapcook in the book you’re planning to distribute to foodbank users I’m both concerned and deeply insulted. These tips are dangerous and patronising, as a food bank user myself I’d be insulted by this book.#thriftykitchenhttps://t.co/IMbrxeTfsa
No, you don't need to break your paring knife to open a tin: just buy a tin-opener—cheaper. You don't need to buy tins of spaghetti hoops & rinse them; just use dried spaghetti. Nor do you need to boil down soap to make shower gel; just wash with soap (which is no cheaper anyway)
As someone whose income is low & who has in the past been pretty skint (I was a dance teacher, guys), I empathise with poor people. But I also recognise that this has become another form of victimhood culture.
Awful too. Essentially saying that hopefully a book urging poor to budget better/embrace hideous 'tips' – supposedly purchased by those in poverty – will secure Monroe, from a middle class background with limited experience of poverty, a home. Mercenary! https://t.co/y5LDvlB73T
They are steeped in a long history of condescension and poverty tourism. Wealthy imagining poverty they'll never understand, judging behind thin veneer of helping, providing tips of no value because they write about an existence they've never had. It's harmful because rather than
challenge poverty it ultimately accepts it. Claims Italian meals can be had by poor from spaghetti hoops – ignoring lack of money to buy good ingredients, to travel, go to restaurants, even get a take away. It's a lie! Masks horrors of poverty to satisfy fantasies of wealthy.
“Jack Monroe” has surely descended into the realms of Monty Python now. Nutritious lunches made for only 11p a head, opening cans using a knife and a hammer, or mallet (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, ROSPA, must love that one), and her various weird and not very wonderful “tips” reading like a dystopian Blue Peter charade.
I think that it is no accident that most of her supporters on Twitter seem to have mental problems of one sort or another. Many seem pretty stupid as well. Example? See below:
I spent about a month using my lads pen knife (that hook like blade similar to the bottle opener) to open cans when my can opener broke. I had the money to get one but just kept forgetting and I don't open that many cans without ring-pulls these days.
Ffs, of all the things to get angry about. It goes to show that those fuckers have never struggled…and to be honest neither have I to that extent but it doesn’t stop me imagining or empathising. Happy new year Jack Monroe x
People are angry about “Jack Monroe”, and the reason is that she has been making a good living by pretending to care about “the poor”, while taking money from, in some cases, genuinely poor people, and not even giving them what she promised, and because her food looks to many like “Mahashma Gandhi”, a dog’s dinner of beans and noodles mixed with curry powder etc.
Below, someone with more sense:
I've been poor and even homeless for a while so I saw straight through Jack Monroe immediately and I can't understand why so many people on my timeline fell for it. Does it have something to do with her being a middle-class person's idea of what a person giving advice would be?
The only poverty she campaigns against is that of her own "faux poverty".
Jack Monroe is a scammer and fraudster – why not ask her how many copies of the cookbook actually made it to foodbanks after this little cash grabbing stunt?
Day by day more evidence emerges that lockdowns were a catastrophe. When will those responsible admit they got it horribly wrong? You know who you are!
She is right, just as I and others were. People, many of them, don’t want to hear that. No, our national economic problems, they say, are caused by “Covid”, by Putin, by the war in Ukraine, by “climate change”, by anything other than the 2020-2021 ridiculous lockdown shutdown(s) of the UK for up to 2 years.
Enjoy your 11p “Jack Monroe” dinner in the dark and cold, once you get that can of ASDA cheapo spaghetti hoops open with a mallet and knife! And don’t forget to bring a couple of forks to the feast!
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MFA spox #Zakharova: Ukraine, with its fertile lands & rich natural resources, through efforts of current #Kievregime pursuing a nationalistic Russophobic policy, has become one of the poorest European economies and is on its way to becoming a new colony of the #collectiveWest. pic.twitter.com/t6tCrXwx8Y
We are constantly fed an NWO/ZOG msm narrative about how “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) is “defeating Russia”. Is it true?
What would “Ukraine defeating Russia” look like, ultimately? Presumably, in that scenario, all Russian forces would be forced to leave behind not only the pre-2022 borders of Ukraine but also the Crimea, the population of which is at least 85% Russian and only a few percent Ukrainian now (there are also Crimean Tatars and others).
So, in that scenario, Russia would have been driven back into its own unargued territory, and kept there by Ukrainian/Kiev-regime military might. Is there any logic at all to that?
Russia is, of course, famously the largest country in the world, over six and a half million square miles, so about 72 times the size of the whole of the UK, and 29 times the size of Ukraine (even including Crimea and the Donbass). A country which covers one-eighth of the landmass of the entire planet.
Russia has a population of over 144 million (147 million if Crimea is included); Ukraine had 41 million people (excluding Crimea) in 2021, before the Russian invasion or incursion, but about 20% of the population of Ukraine (I suspect the relatively affluent layer) has fled beyond Ukraine, so the real population, at present, is perhaps 30 million.
Russia has, therefore, almost five times the population of Ukraine.
Russia’s economy may not be booming, now that Western (NWO/ZOG) sanctions have hit hard, but it is still functioning. Russia is getting huge amounts from oil and gas (and mineral) sales, and has, of course, no problem with generating electricity. Russia’s domestic agriculture has actually been stimulated by the Western sanctions which prohibit import and export.
Compare that to Ukraine— it has very limited sources of fuel of all kinds, its electricity generating and distribution capacity is being smashed, possibly beyond easy repair, its industry is scarcely operational, and its agriculture is unable to export easily.
Even before the invasion/incursion of 2022, Wikipedia noted that “Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capita.”
The only material advantage that Ukraine has is that the Kiev regime is in receipt of enormous amounts of Western aid: arms, ammunition, military transport, food, clothing, medical supplies, and money.
There is no suggestion that Ukrainian forces can either invade or destroy Russian territory or cities. There can, likewise, be no suggestion that Ukrainian forces will actually topple Putin or the existing Russian Government (unless obliquely— e.g. should a coup d’etat take place).
The most that the Ukrainian forces can do, the peak of their realistic ambition, would be to expel all Russian forces from the pre-2014 Ukrainian borders, and then dig in, in effect.
Russia’s war aims have never been openly or clearly expressed in a manner that makes any sense, but part of them would be the necessity to demilitarize Ukraine, something that is now impossible without Russian control over the bulk of the territory, including Kiev.
Under other circumstances, Russia might now be sitting on the entire eastern half of Ukraine (ie Ukraine east of the Dnieper), but “we are where we are”, in the tiresome phrase.
As I predicted would happen on the blog months ago, Russian forces have recently been trying to think outside the box by applying “oblique warfare”, targeting the electricity production and generating system deep inside Ukraine, using missiles and drones.
While the Kiev-regime forces have supposedly been downing most of the attacking missiles, the ones that are getting through have been smashing the electrical system of Ukraine to pieces. What next? Possibly the railway network.
Russia is said to be mobilizing more troops, possibly with the idea of a mass assault on Kiev next summer.
Unless a peace treaty or armistice can be agreed and executed, the war can only escalate. However, Russia can only “win” this ghastly mess of a war by taking Kiev and toppling the present Kiev regime.
Hard to see why anyone not very feeble-minded would send money to “Jack Monroe” after reading that Tattle Life exposé . Surprising, therefore, to see that no fewer than 647 utter mugs are still sending her £3.50-£44 monthly, a total of between £2,265 and £28,468, each and every month. “A nice little earner“, in the estuary argot, even if the actual total amount sent is nearer to —at a guess— maybe £6,000 or £7,000 a month rather than the maximum. Probably taxfree as well.
I have no idea whether the Essex Police, Metropolitan Police, trading standards officers, or fundraising regulators are “on the case” or not. If not, though, why not?
“The composer of Jerusalem has been effectively ‘cancelled’ by the Royal College of Music (RCM) because his views on race a century ago are unacceptably offensive to today’s woke students, The Mail on Sunday understands.“
I have also been there (in the 1980s). Just as well that Blake and I do not walk around that part of London now; we might get stabbed by some untermensch, almost certainly non-white.
I recall having a beer at the Clock House pub once, in the late 1980s.
[The Clock House pub, Peckham Rye]
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I don’t say this with any glee: it sucks to be Cassandra all the time. It’s just that I’m nearly 60 & childless, it’s been a bit of a dreadful year here, & I’ll be checked out well before the inevitable social disintegration that’s now looming can do any worse to me.
A brief list of things that the press has declared white supremist in the last two years:
Exercise Healthy food The scientific method Being on time Reading old books Using correct grammar Christianity The nuclear family Opposing the sexualization of children Self defense
Preview my column in toimorrow's The Mail on Sunday : 'Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can’t even run our own?'https://t.co/elimw0DtcB via @mailplus
Peter Hitchens’ column is worth publishing in full:
“What a twisted society we have become. We stir up wars in other people’s countries and praise ourselves for doing it.
But there is no political reward for protecting our own people against crime and disorder on their streets and in their homes. It is no longer clear if anyone is governing the country at all, so busy are we putting other nations to rights.
Burglaries go unprevented, uninvestigated and unpunished, in colossal numbers. Our capital city seethes with uncontrolled knife crime and stinks of marijuana.
Christmas brings news of terrible ultra-violent crimes in supposedly peaceful suburban areas. Migrants stride boldly ashore in unknown numbers. We pay heavy taxes for pitiful services, cratered roads and a health system that is the envy of nobody.
Yet, nothing happens about all this. The surest way to gain praise in politics is to make simple-minded statements about a crisis abroad and demand that we send bombs and shells to some strife-torn state, or actually bomb it ourselves.
The idea that such things are often complicated and dangerous, and may do harm, has faded from view. When Prime Minister Anthony Eden dragged us into his disastrous attack on Egypt in 1956, the entire country was bitterly divided. And rightly so. The archives, when they were opened, showed that the adventure was based on lies, futile and doomed.
When the USA sank up to its waist in the bloody mud of Vietnam in the 1960s, the whole world was at odds. Once again, now that the truth is revealed, we know that thousands of brave men died, and many more thousands of innocent civilians were killed, because of a mistake.
But since the Blair revolution of 1997, pious, allegedly virtuous foreign crusades have come back into fashion. Criticising them gets you into trouble. There is only one permitted view. Few go back to find out how things actually went.
The Kosovo episode, for instance, did not bring paradise to that part of the world. Nor did the Iraq invasion. I know most people now pretend to have been against it at the time but as one who actually was against it at the time, I can assure you that they are mistaken. It had wide support. The same goes for the daft adventures in Afghanistan and Libya.
In fact, the last three did so much harm that it will never be measured. Together they began the era of mass migration from the Middle East and Africa to Western Europe. This is probably the biggest event in human history since the First World War, and perhaps bigger.
How can we do all this stamping about in foreign countries when we are so bad at governing our own and also not very strong? Our country doesn’t work properly. You can’t even see a doctor. The police are equally invisible. Our Army is as tiny as our debts are huge. Our grandest new warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, has broken down. Even when it works, we have to borrow aircraft from the Americans to fly off it.
None of this will be properly discussed at the rapidly approaching General Election and nobody will stand in that poll who prefers reforming Britain to foreign policy fantasy abroad. Why do we put up with it?“
My rhetorical answer to Hitchens’ rhetorical question? This:
“The British/English people do not rebel against all of the above, not yet anyway, because they are bombarded with propaganda brainwashing 24/7, because few have either the independence of thought, or the (real) education, to stand against the tide, and because the “plebs” think that all that matters, or that the main matter of importance, is whether the “England” sports teams (which are now largely black or brown anyway) win some meaningless game, match, or tournament somewhere or other in the world.”
That, and because those in political life, those of great wealth, those in the mainstream media, who should all be protecting the people, are exactly those who, from malice, evil, or just sheer inability and lack of basic competence (as with “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, Woollyhead Trussbanger —Kwasi Kwarteng— etc), are encouraging migration-invasion of this country, are letting standards and services slide, and are preventing —by ever more repressive laws— even obviously justified criticism from being made. They are, in effect, signed up to the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.”
[the odd link immediately above now seems to be the only one for the interesting Western Spring article].
Incidentally, I see that the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday is now, yet again, refusing to allow its readers to comment on Hitchens’ column, no doubt afraid that the readers will leave comments hostile to mass immigration, migration-invasion, “intervention” in foreign wars or countries, or even (could it be?) comments hostile to the Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev…
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From bison to pine martens to white storks, it's been a landmark year for species reintroductions in Britain. As we come to the end of 2022, it's amazing to know their footprints are amongst ours in the snow.
This is just insane. Children don’t need a C19 vaccine. 1. Most have had C19 2. Potential harm of vaccine outstrips benefit 3. Healthy kids are at almost zero risk from C19 UK might approve Covid vaccines for BABIES before Christmas | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/eEPr3RR8OO
With all eyes on Westminster, I thought I'd offer a view before the Houses of Parliament were even built. Taken in June 1841, from the window of his flat in Cecil Street, this is Fox Talbot's view towards Westminster Abbey 181 years ago, amongst the very earliest photos of London pic.twitter.com/9k72vB3Tjb
That cartoon is out of date; the “Conservatives” are quite as bad as Labour now.
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Geez can we stop pretending public sector cuts are bc of Mini Budget. We borrowed £325 billion for Covid, at least another £60-100 billion for energy. Our debt, at £2.4 trillion, is highest for 60 yrs, nearly 100% of GDP. On both left & right politicians need to tell it straight.
Exactly so. The stupid, unnecessary and dictatorial “measures” taken during the “panicdemic” were what really shoved the UK into the economic mire.
Rishi Sunak becomes Britain's 57th Prime Minister. He inherits a divided party that is languising below 20% in the polls, a divided country in the midst of the most severe cost-of-living crisis for 50 years, & a divided Union that is cracking at the seams. A truly daunting inbox
"I don't think I'll be voting again after what happened to Boris Johnson", says one woman in a swing Red Wall seat. "My vote doesn't matter anymore". This is the big risk. Many people who were brought back into politics by Brexit & Boris Johnson now give up on politics altogether
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, but already it was impossible to say which was which – Animal Farm. https://t.co/WUBSohkIX7
A corollary is that all these fields have increasingly become provinces of the wealthy, because post-graduate education is expensive, and is now a gamble: it comes with no guarantee of a job in the relevant field.
(I think there was a golden age of literacy, between roughly 1850 and 1950 – the reading public was ever growing, and reading ever more, and serious writers could both emerge from and speak to this wide public.
There's nothing wrong with this, as a type of serious intellectual formation, but it's a problem if it's the 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 type of intellectual formation that can actually grant entry to the public sphere.
If we no longer have public thinkers sustained by a public readership, but rather only post-graduate-degree holders sustained by institutions, we have restricted intellectual respect to a class for whom deference to expertise and to authority are often second nature.
To be sure, there is cause for hope in the emergence, outside the approved public sphere, of a reasoned, multi-faceted and persisent Covid counter-narrative.
And I fear this pattern will repeat itself again and again, until the gap between blinkered expertise and addled ignorance is filled, or that gap leads to such ruination as to make the problem irrelevant.
I have blogged about some of that previously. Some fields of academia, eg sociology, linguistics, English language etc, are now replete with not only specialized language (as with mathematics, or physics, inter alia) but also empty jargon. Jews are not the only ones swimming in the polluted waters, but they are very prominent.
"What he said: This will mean difficult decisions to come. What he meant: I have nothing to offer but high prices, low wages and recession" – @JohnRentoul on Rishi Sunak's speech https://t.co/2a1SoPQqxU#RishiSunakPM
Sunak’s 1930s politics/economics, together with Labour’s unexciting similar policies, may open the door to a real alternative— social nationalism (once people wake up, if they wake up).
Do you agree these people have no business being MPs let alone being appointed as ministers?
1- Dorries 2- Therese Coffey 3- Suella Braverman 4- Patel 5-Dominic Raab 6- Kwarteng 7- Rees-Mogg 8- Nadhim Zahawi 9- James Cleverly 10- Gullis 11- Lee Anderson 12- Grant Schapps pic.twitter.com/dJms4kQW0t
There’s a staff shortage crisis in care homes. In England, there are 165,000 vacancies across this sector. So forcing out approximately 40,000 care home workers for deciding against a medical procedure was discriminatory and massively counterproductive. https://t.co/oJibPjdMQi
Absolutely disgusting. Those guilty of making the wrong decisions (eg Little Matt Hancock) were applauded at the time. The whole mess was also supported, overall, by Starmer-Labour, incidentally.
People working in those situations must now be better paid, and conditions improved.
A framed narrative has been peddled around our political discourse that Liz Truss (a 45 day Prime Minister) somehow trashed the economy. In reality, the economy was trashed by months of lockdowns & £500bn of quantitative easing. The Chancellor at the time was Rishi Sunak. https://t.co/VncHDKGKlY
Cleverly kept on. God. Why? Another embarrassment for our country.
As for Simon Hart, he is an expenses-blodger who employs his wife on expenses, and takes a very large number of free First Class rail journeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hart.
Good to see some thick dorks getting the sack though: barrow-boy barrister Brandon Lewis, thick Welsh barrister Robert Buckland, Wendy Morton (how did she ever become an MP?), Chloe Smith (ditto), absurd Kit Malthouse, Rees-Mogg.
Ben Wallace to stay at Defence. I suppose that means that vastly more sums of money (and arms) will be wasted on Zelensky’s Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, while British people starve in their unheated homes (if indeed they have a home).
The Jew Shapps removed as Home Secretary (that must have been another record (5-6 days?), but still in Cabinet as Business Secretary. I thought that Sunak wanted to project an image of probity?
I presume (no news yet) that horrible creature Therese Coffey will also get sacked.
If there is any justice in this world Therese Coffey will be relegated to back benchers today and voted out at next GE. The 9 reports she hid from DWP on disabled poverty and deaths plus not implementing safeguarding policy puts her up there with Himmler in my eyes. #Evilpic.twitter.com/hNuKE3EADo
Beth Rigby of Sky News, getting a selfie with Therese Coffey, in full Philip Schofield mode. "She's really quite lovely." Just fuck off, and take the rest of the UK media with you. You're no longer fit for purpose. pic.twitter.com/kLHq3C278D
I think he is being serious and not sarcastic, incredibly.
He did not add “Raab, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary—half-Jew“, of course. The msm do not want the British people to wake up to that (((aspect))).
Even so, what a disgrace— Jews, Indians, Kurds, blacks. Where are the English?
A few tokens here and there, such as Jeremy Hunt (even he has a Chinese wife).
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Again.
At least Thérèse Coffey has finally achieved something in her career
She now holds the record for the shortest serving Health Secretary in history.
That Therese Coffey is even an MP speaks volumes about how broken our political system now is.
As for the Indian money-juggler, if he is not careful, he may end his time as Prime Minister by being carried out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered.
Some weeks ago a Norwegian court ruled that covid border controls were illegal after 6 months.
Looks like common sense is prevailing at the courts all over the world now.
This is so important. NOBODY should have been bullied or shamed into having a vaccine, or been stripped of their livelihood for a medical decision. History will judge those who pushed this policy very harshly. https://t.co/JCrPwypKOd
Only the first step. Later, Little Matt Hancock, the Communist bitch on “SAGE”, “Professor Lockdown” (Ferguson) and many many others have to be —eventually— put on trial and/or otherwise punished.
Literally hundreds of people joined @reformparty_uk today. Presumably they’re former Tory supporters who no longer feel that the Conservatives are conservative. Bye bye red wall……
Quite. You still see people (who seem to think themselves terribly clever) tweeting “freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences“, whereas, as “@RealBlackIrish” points out there, that is exactly what it means. The “freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences” formula would mean, in effect, that Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China and present-day North Korea all had free speech.
There was (maybe still is) a mediocre law lecturer from East Anglia, one Paul Bernal (descended from the well-known part-Jew 20thC scientist, J.D. Bernal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Bernal), who used to regularly and unthinkingly tweet that formula.
"Look how we've deliberately socially engineered and demographically changed your country. Remember, if you suggest we've done this, we'll do you for a hate crime/extremism." https://t.co/RvFu40UHjh
Ian Robert Millard 