I have never claimed a long culinary repertoire; indeed, before I married for the first time, I lived almost entirely on cold food (whatever the season), or fed while outside my residence(s), though I did occasionally cook buckwheat kasha (quite nice if boiled then fried), scrambled eggs and, from time to time, vegetable curry.
Two marriages etc have, perhaps counter-intuitively, led me to pick up a few other recipes, such as fish pie. Today, though, I embark on something new, formerly had only at other people’s houses (often in gardens) in summer— okroshka.
Sometimes, okroshka has ham in it, but I do not eat meat, and I think that (as with Russian or “Olivier” Salad), ham or other meat is an unnecessary extra anyway.
I doubt that mine will match examples had elsewhere, prepared by foodie people, and I lack kvass (a drink made from fermented rye bread), a usual ingredient, but I expect it will be good enough.
On this hot day, I have also been thinking about something else, namely the fact that the Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government has lost control of this country in every way.
Migration-invasion continuing at an even greater rate, with an average of about 1,000 a day now crossing illegally, and a further 5,000+ coming in “legally”, as (or posing as) “dependent family”, “spouses”, “fiances”, “tourists”, “high-skilled workers” (Indians able to work a computer, medical staff etc), “students” (few ever return home), and so on.
We also have an “invasion by births”, births of non-Europeans, whether born in the UK or not.
Court system on its knees, street crime ubiquitous (in the London area). The latest wheeze is to release “some” (presumably, non-political) prisoners after they have served 20% of their headline sentence, so someone sentenced to a year will only do about 10 weeks, and a 3-month sentence will presumably be, in reality, 2-3 weeks .
If there were no non-Europeans in this country, or only small numbers, the prison population would not be about 120,000 but nearer to 20,000. In fact, if the Irish “tinker”/”traveller” element, and the Roma Gypsy element, were also both removed, the number of prisoners would fall to about 10,000.
The court system has backlogs which are getting worse. I noticed that Professor/Dr David Miller, now being privately prosecuted in the magistrates’ court by the malicious Jew-Zionist org “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, had his first appearance a few days ago. Trial is set for December!
In the Crown Courts, many cases starting their process now, have trial dates, in some instances, set as far ahead as 2029!
The streets, especially in London, are becoming an urban jungle.
This government has pretty much lost control. Ironic, really, because there has not been a UK government so full of control freaks since the days of Tony Blair.
Incidentally, another cold soup I like is vichyssoise. Maybe tomorrow or the next day.
Foreign Affairs magazine notes an unexpected trend: contrary to expectations, the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel have not weakened Iran, but on the contrary, have strengthened the country from within.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 10, 2025
Russia launched massive precision strike on Kiev's military-industrial sites and airfield infrastructure overnight, using long-range weapons and drones pic.twitter.com/9aKbjKTlrY
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 10, 2025
LMAO — Trump gestures to one of the African leaders to wrap it up and then says, "maybe we're gonna have to go a bit quicker than this, because we have a whole schedule. If I could just have your name and country it would be great." pic.twitter.com/Weyg26nDOR
Russian troops delivered an overnight strike on Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises in Kiev and a military airfield over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/ikKo3PoqfQpic.twitter.com/adx8BN7iYi
The "coalition of the willing" will be ready to begin its mission immediately after Russia and Ukraine reach a ceasefire agreement, French President Emmanuel Macron said:https://t.co/Z0oh5zTB82pic.twitter.com/eoz8DhLujX
That idiot thinks that Russia will allow a quasi-NATO force to occupy parts of Ukraine. That will never happen.
Iran condemns British intelligence report aimed at discrediting national interests
Iran has categorically rejected the report by the UK's parliamentary intelligence watchdog as baseless and politically motivated, warning that such a hostile move reveals a broader attempt to… pic.twitter.com/DvBsHcvc0w
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 10, 2025
The UK’s “intelligence and security” orgs usually act as puppets of Israel, the Jewish-dominated USA, and so on.
Rafael Grossi: Germany can create nuclear weapons within months
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, said that if Germany decides to create nuclear weapons, it will most likely be able to do so within a few months.
Opposition politician slams Macron for selling out French nuclear independence to US “[Emmanuel] Macron is pushing to put our nuclear deterrent in the hands of NATO and the United States!” French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot blasted on X, slamming the president’s… pic.twitter.com/WnDzQJn80P
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 10, 2025
[“Opposition politician slams Macron for selling out French nuclear independence to US “[Emmanuel] Macron is pushing to put our nuclear deterrent in the hands of NATO and the United States!” French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot blasted on X, slamming the president’s decision to sync nuclear policies with London. According to one of Macron’s loudest critics, British nuclear strategy is already fully integrated into NATO and coordinated with the US. “This man is methodically working against ALL aspects of our national independence. He must be removed as soon as possible!” insisted Philippot.“]
Macron is a Jewish-lobby, Israel-lobby, NWO/ZOG puppet.
The Gaullist force de frappe was the right idea— enough to deter hostile attack during the Cold War, but independent of the USA, and also not likely to cause a nuclear war. Defensive.
“I don’t know what Jake thinks he’s gone to, but it certainly isn’t a different flavour of the Conservative Party.”
I almost (but not quite) feel sorry for Penny Mordaunt. After a non-“silver spoon” childhood and youth, and some years in public relations, she became an MP at 37 (in 2010), a minister in 2015, and a Cabinet minister by 2017. By 2022, she was regarded as a potential Conservative Party leader and so, at the time, Prime Minister.
Now, Penny Mordaunt apparently makes an income as part-time “consultant” to British-American Tobacco, though it is hard to see what value, if any, she might bring to such a role.
Penny Mordaunt (whom, as a politician, I do not entirely dislike) is now politically irrelevant, and still seems to regard the Conservative Party as the main show in town, whereas in reality the Con Party is on its last legs. The polling says it all: Starmer-Labour is a dead party walking, in much of the country, but that does not mean that the Conservative Party will bounce back as in the past. Look at the opinion polling. The Con Party is on 16%, 17%, somewhere around there, with no sign of increasing its support.
Politically, and at only 52, Penny Mordaunt is finished, in my opinion. She has no Commons seat, and is unlikely to win back her former seat (though I concede that that might just be possible in a 3-way Labour-Reform-Con contest in —?— 2029 at Portsmouth North). I doubt that she would join Reform under any circumstances (and, to give her her due, I think that she is driven, partly, by principle as well as by expediency— but after her near-win in 2024, she would surely be “nailed on” if standing again but under the Reform banner).
Penny Mordaunt looks defeated on that video.
“Many are called but few are chosen” applies to politics as much as other things.
“MPs have voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies in the biggest change to the law on reproductive rights for half a century.
Women will no longer face prosecution for aborting their own baby for any reason and at any stage up to birth under the proposed legislation, which was backed by 379 votes to 137 on Tuesday night.”
[Daily Mail]
Horrifying. A form of infanticide or even murder, in lay terms. The deliberate killing of a completely viable foetus (which after all only means unborn baby). When you consider that it is commonplace for babies to be born days or even weeks prematurely, and then go on to thrive, this proposed law, which will obviously become law now, decriminalizes the killing of any unborn child, even if done only hours, minutes, seconds even, before actual birth, and for any reason whatsoever, so long as the expectant mother does the killing. Truly horrifying.
379 MPs voted for this abomination. These people don’t represent us – they are enemies of humanity. pic.twitter.com/KEFklaGaTD
Not sure whether the new law will validate that, exactly, because the killing will (from what I have read, anyway) have to be by the mother to escape legal sanction.
Disgusting
Labour cheered as they voted to become the party of baby killers
[“Witnesses have described scenes like “a horror movie” in Gaza after Israeli forces fired towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour near Khan Younis, on one of the bloodiest days for weeks in the devastated territory.
At least 51 Palestinians were reported to have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the southern city. People at the scene and doctors described seeing injured and dead with wounds typical of those caused by artillery or tank fire. Unverified video shared on social media showed about a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street.
Multiple other incidents of violence involving crowds of desperate Palestinians trying to get food were reported on Tuesday.
The Israeli military acknowledged firing in the area of the crowd in Khan Younis and said it was looking into the incident.
The IDF said it was aware of reports of casualties “from IDF fire.”
[Guardian]
What the Israeli Jews in uniform do is not so much a copy of what the German SS are alleged to have done in WW2 (there are no similar recorded instances, in fact) but a kind of horrific and ahistorical parody of what the Jews (Israeli and other) claim the SS were like.
“The stream of wounded in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran had been steady since Friday. On Sunday evening it became a flood. A renewed wave of Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital overwhelmed the hospital’s emergency unit, turning it into what one doctor described as a “bloodbath”.
“It was a bloodbath. We were overwhelmed by chaos and the screams of grieving family members. Dozens upon dozens of people with life-threatening injuries, minor wounds and even bodies were brought in,” a doctor at the emergency unit of the hospital told the Guardian on Monday under condition of anonymity.
As fighting between Israel and Iran entered its fourth day, Iranian hospitals were receiving a surge of wounded people, overwhelming medical facilities and exhausted personnel. Medical staff described scenes of bloody chaos and an influx of injured people that has only seemed to grow as Israeli strikes increased in intensity.
I’ve seen toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly alike. Profusely bleeding mothers were rushing in with their children injured by shrapnel,” the doctor said, adding that some parents did not realise they themselves were injured until they put their children down.“
[Guardian]
So…Israeli Jews killing children and others from the air. Of course, the Jews say that noticing such facts about their behaviour constitutes a so-called “blood libel”…
“Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?
Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites.
What are swifts and why are they in trouble?
The swift (Apus apus) is an acrobatic aerial bird, a remarkable sprinter and endurance flyer that rarely touches the ground. When these sickle-winged birds do come down – after several years in perpetual flight, even sleeping midair – it is to nest in the eaves of roofs across Europe after spending winters in sub-Saharan Africa, migrating 7,000 miles (11,000km) every year. They are celebrated by nature lovers, artists and poets as they race through city skies on long summer evenings, filling the air with their screaming calls.
The fastest bird in level flight (top speed: 69mph/111kph), they feed on airborne insects. Swifts are in trouble because of steep declines in insects, but also because they are losing traditional nesting sites. Swifts once nested in caves and hollow trees but moved into buildings hundreds of years ago. Modern insulation, particularly in roofs, removes the crevices and cavities where they have nested for centuries.
What are the prospects for swifts?
Grim. Swift populations in Britain slumped by 66% between 1995 and 2022 and have continued a rapid downward trend. Since the last count of 59,000 breeding pairs, the population this summer is set to be just 40,000 pairs. In five years’ time there could be fewer than 25,000, unless action is taken.
A swift brick is a hollow brick that slots into the brickwork of new or old homes, providing a cavity where swifts can nest. The bricks have also been found to help other cavity-nesting birds, including the rapidly declining red-listed house martin, house sparrow and starling. Other species including blue tits, great tits, nuthatches and wrens will also nest in the bricks.
Swift bricks are made by brick manufacturers large and small, and typically cost about £35. There is a British standard for them and some developers are already fitting them to new homes.
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) June 17, 2025
“There is no weapon there. Trump is just mouthing off.”@IAEAorg’s former chief nuclear inspector in Iraq Robert E. Kelley completely dismisses Trump’s claim that Iran is on the cusp of developing a nuclear weapon.@JPonpolitics | #TimesRadiopic.twitter.com/MPeXk7dejL
'We're not firing on civilians' Andrew: 'I'm sorry, but the evidence says you are' @AndrewMarr9 demands answers from the Israeli Ambassador over the death of 51 civilians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/9uM78v7xah
The Israelis are not like us. They are alien. Their supporters in the UK should be deported and/or otherwise punished.
“And still, even under attack, we’re treated as a threat, not as people.”
As Israelis gather in shelters amid Iranian missile attacks, Palestinian citizens say they continue to face discrimination and are being locked out https://t.co/nRILoAUY0lpic.twitter.com/O01BhtW4RE
The Israelis claim, for foreign consumption, that Israel does not practise a form of apartheid, but it obviously does. This is only one of many examples.
Washington insiders are saying ODNI Tulsi Gabbard will resign if President Trump orders the U.S. military to join Israel in their strikes against Iran.
Trump shows every sign of reverting to what he was 9 years ago— a squawking parrot surrounded on all sides by a phalanx of Jews.
Well, we shall soon know.
Had the Arabs (inter se) and Iranians not been so divided over the past 80 years, Israel would not now exist. Now look: one by one, the Israelis, via their influence over Washington, London, Paris, have had taken down for them all their surrounding potential enemies— Lebanon (invaded, part-occupied), Jordan (suborned), the Gulf Arabs and Saudis (suborned), Egypt (defeated and then suborned), Libya, Iraq, Syria etc. Only Iran and Yemen are left standing.
Even the way things are in the UK now, hard to believe that that is the “Deputy Prime Minister”.
American media: Israel's missile defense capability will last only 10 to 12 days. 🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/mODhTrX8gk
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Good news, if true, though possibly leaked by Israel and designed to push Trump into getting directly involved in bombing Iran.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, “We’ve pulled off a number of surprises — when the dust settles — your going to see some surprises on Thursday night and Friday, that will make the “Beeper” operation almost seem simple.” pic.twitter.com/o37KP01KBn
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
Official statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
The eleventh wave of the proud Operation True Promise 3, using the first generation Fatah missiles, marks the beginning of the end of the mythical air defense of the Zionist army, the confusion and self-destruction… pic.twitter.com/p5Ukqy8Tf0
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
[“Official statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The eleventh wave of the proud Operation True Promise 3, using the first generation Fatah missiles, marks the beginning of the end of the mythical air defense of the Zionist army, the confusion and self-destruction of the Zionist villains. We congratulate you, commanders and loyal fighters of the IRGC Aerospace Force. Fattah’s powerful and maneuverable missiles, having penetrated the anti-missile shield tonight, repeatedly shook the shelters of the Zionist cowards and conveyed a message of Iranian strength to Tel Aviv’s military ally, which lives in illusions and empty dreams. Today’s missile strike showed that we have complete control over the skies over the occupied territories, and their residents are completely defenseless against Iranian missile attacks.“]
Russia could, in theory, tell the United States that, should the US bomb Iran, Russia will bomb or rocket Israel. That would stalemate the situation, and stop the Americans from attacking Iran. It might also trigger WW3, though, and make “Armageddon” reality, both in Israel/Palestine and elsewhere.
However, Putin will not want to get Russia directly involved.
So far, Russia is winning all ways: the oil price is rocketing, gold is rocketing too, and Russia is one of the largest producer-states of both.
Also, Trump has apparently signalled to Zelensky and the Kiev regime that American military aid hitherto given to Kiev will be cut back, and priority given to the Middle East. That, as Russian forces press forward on all relevant sectors of the overall front.
In short, Putin is winning the geopolitical chess game.
The 28th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will take place from June 18-21, 2025. This year, SPIEF’s theme is "Common Values — The Foundation of Growth in a Multipolar World":https://t.co/h4z4s6JMDzpic.twitter.com/2XXEUI9ihW
“Here comes the sandman to send you to bed, here comes the chopper to chop off your head…one, two, three…chop.” [traditional English children’s bedtime words]
“Countries that refuse to take back illegal migrants from the UK could be stripped of visa access”
Another policy we pushed in our Substack a year ago is now going mainstream. Use visa penalties/foreign aid to force deportations https://t.co/xRsmjcykWY
On that basis, Reform 326 MPs (and a bare majority), Lab 129, Con 76, LibDem 50, SNP 39.
Different from other recent polls in that the Cons have edged ahead of Labour in terms of popular vote, though not enough to go ahead in terms of Commons seats; however, the Cons are seen there as the third-biggest party in the Commons, not, as in most other recent polls, fifth-placed. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
If we are honest and not idealistically blind, we can admit it will be the end of politics and the start of conflict in Britain.
How else will a newly made minority native people in their homeland, without a sense of democratic hope of undoing what has been done to them, react?
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Ah…
Israelis flee war through Sinai
The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that due to the ongoing closure of airports in the occupied territories, a large number of israelis are leaving the country, traveling through Sinai and then Cairo, to escape the war. pic.twitter.com/Wq4nU9RkMA
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
No comment necessary.
Netanyahu's Thirty-Year Lie
…. compiled a collection of clips of Netanyahu making statements he has made repeatedly since 1996, claiming Iran is close to nuclear weapons.
For almost 30 years he has been lying, saying that Iran is very close to creating nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/2hzDmEd3gw
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
The Guardian: Israel's attacks on Iran, including the killing of nuclear scientists and damage to some facilities, have had no impact on Iran's nuclear programme and may even have accelerated the pace of enrichment. pic.twitter.com/grS89WGWc6
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Israel Claims 1,100 Strikes on Iranian Targets in Five Days, Says It 'Operates Freely'
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Effie Defrin said the Israeli Air Force had struck 1,100 targets inside Iran over the past five days, saying the military was "operating freely in Iran,… pic.twitter.com/lWrxVZ1ZlG
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran: We will respond decisively in case of direct US intervention
Iran's representative to the United Nations: 🔴 Iran will set a red line and will respond decisively if the United States crosses it. 🔴 We are closely monitoring the level of US involvement. 🔴 We are vigilant… pic.twitter.com/ylQvQvmqoh
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iranian Leadership:
Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly cause irreparable damage. pic.twitter.com/KvdIpcvsSd
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
The Financial Times quoted a US defense official as saying: The Nimitz aircraft carrier will take at least a week to reach the region. pic.twitter.com/qSQd49BIKm
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
If it is true that Israel will run out of ground to air missiles within a week, and if it is also true that Iran still has thousands of missiles of various types, then Tel Aviv really will soon start to look like flattened Gaza as those Iranian missiles rain down, unimpeded, onto their targets.
Stray thought
Amusing to see rubbish newspapers in the UK, such as the Daily Mirror, talking about what occupations might be exempt from conscription if WW3 were to start! In the nuclear age, when immensely powerful missiles can reach UK targets in minutes (I am told, maybe 8 minutes) from launch sites thousands of miles away…
I wonder how many people actually read and believe all this 1940-cosplay?
The fact remains that, in any continental-level war, with Russia on one side, and NATO states on the other, the UK would quite soon be a charred and irradiated giant bombsite. In that terrible scenario, the Daily Mirror, the other “lying Press” outlets, and warmongers such as Tobias Ellwood, would be among the first to go (whether with a bang or a whimper).
Alternative idea: Britain enters into loose alliance with Russia, leaves NATO, kicks the EU hierarchy to the kerb (while maintaining correct relations with all European powers and peoples), and stands opposed to fanatical Jewish Zionism, extreme Islamism, and all other negative influences in the world.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran has a legitimate right to self-defense in front of a terrorist state " – Turkish President Erdogan pic.twitter.com/HKVAiufZcb
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran is defending itself. Israel is the aggressor. Israel attacked without declaration of war and without any warning, and Israel drew first blood.
Israel is running out of "Arrow" missile defense system Israel's stock of "Arrow" anti-missile systems is rapidly decreasing, writes the "Wall Street Journal". pic.twitter.com/IreRs07DFu
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
The arrest of mercenaries linked to Mossad who attempted to launch a drone towards the city of Shahriyar in western Tehran pic.twitter.com/yQnCKETfsW
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Whether guilty or not, they are probably not having a good day. I have no idea how efficient Iranian security may be; in the days of the Shah, SAVAK was feared, and its reach extended well beyond Iran itself.
SAVAK’s last three chiefs all met similar ends in the same year, 1979, after the fundamentalist clerics seized power in Iran: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK.
Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, confirms no proof of Iran's nuclear weapons program pic.twitter.com/r5OeOc3sK8
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
They will stab you in the back every time. Same thing will happen with Trump as soon as they're finished with them.
Gideon Lifi, Haaretz journalist: 🔹Everything is paralyzed. Everything is at a standstill. The economy is at a standstill, you can't live like this. I don't think Israeli society will be able to tolerate this situation for long.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
[“Gideon Lifi, Haaretz journalist:
Everything is paralyzed. Everything is at a standstill. The economy is at a standstill, you can’t live like this. I don’t think Israeli society will be able to tolerate this situation for long.
We feel safe in public shelters, but not everyone has access to these shelters. There are many people who have no shelter from danger.
At first, we were all happy because we were witnessing important achievements in Tehran. But everything changed quickly because the price we had to pay became high, and I fear that this price and cost we are paying will be much higher.
I don’t think Israeli society can tolerate this situation for weeks or a whole month or years. The airports are closed. There is no way in or out. Life here is not easy.”]
Late tweets
As usual John you give them way to much credit, its not that they don't know. Many of the sick and disabled community have been writing to our mps for months.
There are still plenty of people around who do not understand that Labour, as understood during almost all of the 20thC, ceased to exist during the 1990s, which was why it was called “New Labour” for a while. A different party supplanted 90% of what had been Labour.
That process, connected to the overall collapse of socialism after 1989, has continued in the UK to the extent that Starmer, or Starmer-stein, now sounds far more like Conservative Party leader than a Labour one. Why is that? Because he is more like one…
Keir Starmer mistakenly shakes hands with a Korean interpreter instead of the President of South Korea (2025) pic.twitter.com/OYDjij1aJ1
— insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments) June 18, 2025
Day after day, more evidence emerges that the mass immigration experiment has been a total failure pic.twitter.com/IzIzsEQovr
Iran has launched about 400 ballistic missiles and 1,000 drones at Israel so far." – CNN. pic.twitter.com/doBQmF2RPK
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iranian Fars News Agency: The Iranian army launches the sixth phase of its attack on Israel using suicide drones equipped with anti-fortification warheads. pic.twitter.com/wiuaIxmUTy
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
“A Utah mother whose harsh parenting advice made her a YouTube influencer has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for child abuse.
The two women were arrested in August 2023 after Franke’s malnourished 12-year-old son climbed out of a window at Hildebrandt’s house in Ivins, Utah. Police said the child then ran to a neighbour’s house and asked for food and water. He had lacerations from being tied up with rope, according to police records.
“[YouTube] fans started to become suspicious in 2020, when one of her sons mentioned that he had been forced to sleep on a bean bag for seven months.
YouTube viewers combed through her archives and pointed out other disturbing and controversial methods used by Franke – such as withholding food, threatening to chop the head off a toy stuffed animal and “cancelling” Christmas as a punishment.
Franke then began appearing in YouTube videos posted by Ms Hildebrandt – a counsellor and life coach – on her site, ConneXions Classroom.
Away from the camera, however, Franke’s children were being subjected to even harsher abuse.
This included tying them up, beating and kicking them, neglecting to feed them and forcing them to work outdoors in the summer without sunscreen, resulting in serious sunburn, according to police records.
In a plea agreement, Hildebrandt stated that she either tortured the children or was aware of the abuse and that she forced one of Franke’s daughters to “jump into a cactus multiple times”.
[BBC]
Terrible, and comes against a background of too-strict American parenting, though plenty of too-indulgent parenting exists there too. I concede that, as someone without offspring, I write as a mere observer. I do think, though, that many Americans are too strict with their children, but I admit that I have also seen much of the opposite tendency (children allowed to behave and speak rather rudely).
Tweets seen
Shapps should not be our defence secretary. He is a venal and corrupt politician. pic.twitter.com/iXOtZswHYm
From its proposed Racial Equality Act to exposing British children to critical race theory, the next Labour gvt plans to import the very same divisive ideologies that are tearing America apart https://t.co/NiXqpUIdeMpic.twitter.com/tT6JPf3Qba
Some type of civil war is coming. It may be in 2025, it may be in 2035 or later, but it is coming…
As to Matt Goodwin, I am wondering why he appears to be bolstering the electoral case for not only Reform UK but also the Conservative Party.
Having said that, I doubt whether anything can now save the Conservative Party, let alone the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
'Humphrey Burke was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of a prison van attendant & grandmother who he kicked to death while on his way to court.' Two years later, he is free https://t.co/QEkBWfnNzy Official who made this decision should have their signature…
As Powell said, “we must be mad, literally mad“, but it is not the British people themselves but a small minority —at Westminster, in the newspapers, on TV and radio, in the legal professions and the universities etc— who are the guilty parties.
In fact, the British people as a whole do bear at least some of the guilt, for being so apathetic as to allow themselves to be repressed and then, as is now happening, replaced.
"Over the next twelve years, 92% of all of Britain’s population growth will be driven by immigration"https://t.co/fvp6Iunciv
Nearly 100%, in fact, because almost all of the remaining 8% will be births to first, or second, or third-generation non-white women, and a relative few to white women but first/second/third-generation immigrant fathers. Hardly any to white couples.
“My daughter is two years-old. She’s already lived through three prime ministers, four chancellors, two monarchs, a global pandemic, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. What will she live through in the years ahead, I often wonder?
It’s a question most parents ask themselves. And it’s one I asked myself again yesterday while reading a new forecast on how Britain’s population will change over the next twelve years —which is not a very long time at all.
The forecast, from the independent Office for National Statistics, is striking to say the least. And I suspect many people out there in the country, many of the people who are perhaps reading this Substack, will find it deeply worrying.
By the year 2036, by the time my daughter turns fifteen, Britain’s population will have grown by another 6.6 million people. In just fifteen years, in just three election cycles, the population will surge by 10 per cent, rising from 67 million people to nearly 74 million. And of the additional 6.6 million people in the country —another 6.6 million people using the NHS, the GPs, the schools, the roads, and looking for a house to buy or rent— some 6.1 million will be here because of immigration.“
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The Gaza slaughter is only continuing because the Jewish lobby in the USA now effectively controls, as it has done since at least the 1960s, both U.S. policy in Washington and, also, the American mass media, thus cheerleading the largely-ignorant and easily-led American masses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Helping the people of Gaza is our sacred duty. It is our duty as humanity, and this is the requirement of our convictions.” pic.twitter.com/JP86WtJiGo
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Russia and China have announced that they will stop using the US dollar in their commercial transactions. pic.twitter.com/JJuebgSzRz
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said
The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who… pic.twitter.com/zf2CNeqTvY
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
“Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said.The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who called him a “tool of the Kremlin” because of the interview with Putin. But he asked him for a meeting for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins”:
“I’m not defending Putin, but Putin didn’t ask me for a million dollars. So Boris Johnson is a much more slippery and nasty guy than Vladimir Putin.”“
NATO Secretary General said that the best way to honor the memory of Navalny* is to ensure victory for Ukraine
“ I deeply believe that the best way to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny is to ensure that President Putin does not win on the battlefield, but that Ukraine wins , ”… pic.twitter.com/SdwhGzfUsq
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Does that idiot even believe what he is saying? Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot “win”. It cannot regain the oblasti of Donetsk, Lugansk (and/or Crimea etc). It cannot attack, in any serious way, Russia itself.
It could only achieve those objectives by drawing NATO directly into the war (leading, probably, to a world war), or by somehow contriving a palace revolution in Moscow. Neither of those possibilities is likely to take place.
I have been wondering why the Western msm obsession with Navalny. Was it because, after the death of Boris Nemtsov, Navalny was the only high-profile opposition figure in Russia? Like Nemtsov, his support was only about 5% of the population, and could never have reached even 20%.
As blogged previously, I think that Navalny was almost certainly a braver man than me (going back from exile in Germany to almost-certain arrest in Russia), and certainly a more reckless one, inter alia.
The pandemic was never “Covid”. The pandemic was cowardice.
People sat back and watched as they took a sledgehammer to small businesses.
People let them deprive their kids of 2 years of education.
People wore face nappies that did nothing except make them sick.
Cowardice.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 21, 2024
More music
More tweets seen
We pay more Council Tax than ever only for the bins to be collected less often than ever.
We pay more road tax than ever, when the roads are crumbing and vehicles are being damaged because of the number of potholes.
Why are we being robbed blind in the UK for nothing in return?
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 20, 2024
Various “reasons”, from the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic fallout to “Ukraine” (support for Zelensky’s corrupt, chaotic, and brutal dictatorship, and Israel), to the importation of millions of parasites. Overall, the shorthand terms “NWO”, “ZOG”, “WEF” and “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan ” pretty much cover it.
Baby is born. Allocated a slave number and given over 20 vaccines before they’ve even spoken their first word.
Child goes to school, gets indoctrinated.
They grow up, get a job just to pay tax all their life.
A few years retirement and it’s over.
We are pawns in their game.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 19, 2024
Under Elon Musk’s new “free speech” platform, you can freely criticise the Left, you can criticise woke culture, you can criticise BLM, the LGBT cult, but you CANNOT criticise Zionism.
So many Anti-Zionist accounts vanishing it’s hard to keep track.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 13, 2024
Elon Musk, though he strikes me as an interesting person, is at the same time rather disappointing. Take away his untold millions and billions, and what would be left? Not much, really.
Today's Washington Post acknowledged the death in Spain of Russian defector Kuzminov pic.twitter.com/zl7YbnXLpP
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The “whys and wherefores” are not yet known, as far as I can see, but the news brought to mind the old Chekist saying, “the legs of the traitor are not as long as the arms of the Cheka” [ЧК].
One of the vilest things I’ve heard on Gaza. From a public speaker outside of the Israeli government.
Andrew Roberts, from the UK House of Lords believes that there is a 2:1 ratio of Hamas fighters killed to Gazan civilians.
Roberts is, in my view, a largely ahistorical scribbler, who has posed as a kind of pseudo-aristocratic historian all his life, always having had plenty of money thanks to his father having owned both the well-known Job’s Dairy and also the UK franchise rights for Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC).
He is and always was pro-NWO etc. An “Atlanticist”, if you like. Now he seems to be regurgitating lying Israeli government propaganda instead of pro-Churchill ahistory.
A video circulating online shows an Israeli soldier mocking and riding a bicycle, as well as a scooter, reportedly inside a house in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4Ew3C5h9Js
Ian Robert Millard 