Rowan Atkinson was and remains right, but what he neglected to add, or perhaps did not foresee, speaking as he did in 2012, was that, in the succeeding decade or so, the Israel lobby, aka “Jewish lobby” or “Zionist lobby”, would carry on a relentless “lawfare” campaign to repress free speech in the host country (in this case, the UK). The instances cited above illustrate the point.
All too typical. I have a similar complaint. A few months ago, some feral untermensch stole one of the wheels of my car while it was parked overnight. The police were useless, and indeed not even responsive in any but the most superficial way, despite a certain amount of evidence having been given to them.
My insurers were at first also useless, almost impossible to contact and, when contacted, unwilling to make the calls back that they promised. I had to threaten them with either a small claim or the Insurance Ombudsman before they usefully responded (once energized by a kick in the rear, they did pay up).
Then, a month or so later, and adding insult to injury, it turned out that not only the same police force but the very same policeman whose team should have been investigating the theft from me as well as other similar incidents in the same neighbourhood, was actually spending at least some of his time snooping on the content of this blog! I can say no more at present (please refer to my statement published in the blog post dated 29 May 2023).
Why does nothing work properly in the UK anymore? Police, insurers, the legal system, the NHS, Parliament, banks, the educational system, you name it.
At some level, I think that it is deliberate; getting British people used to lower standards in all areas. “None dare call it conspiracy”…
Incidentally, I was out in the car rather early today, around 0600 hrs. Just noticing the state of the roads, including a rural A-road. Appalling. Potholes, deep ridges in the tarmac, generally poor surfacing. Jesus Christ! This country is throwing away billions on the Jewish regime in Ukraine, on sheltering and feeding unwanted migrant-invaders, on all manner of stupid and pointless schemes, yet cannot maintain even the road system for the British people. We really do need a social-national revolution.
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A sober look at the military potential of the two countries was shared by the German political scientist Wolf Merkel ( not a relative of Angela ). “If we compare the two armies, <…> then we will see that in Russia now 1 million people are armed, 2 million are in reserve. Another… pic.twitter.com/DxtrqMfHAo
The Russian Baltic Fleet has started operational exercises at sea and at combat training ranges in the Kaliningrad Oblast, which will last until June 15. pic.twitter.com/Gev9Ajpuur
HERE WE GO: Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England. How long have I been predicting this? It’s a lasso to pull you into total dependence on the statehttps://t.co/b7Xl4m4ejo
Yes, maybe, but there is no real alternative. At present, and since at least 2005, the unemployed, disabled, sick etc have been forced to jump through more and more hoops in order to get a tiny amount of income as well as other help (housing etc). I have been advocating “UBI” or Basic Income for years, and have been thinking about it for decades.
AI, robotics etc mean that (as Marx predicted), eventually the mass of people will have no jobs and so (in most cases) no income tied to those jobs. The result will be that the people without jobs will be unable to buy even necessities. The only solution to that situation will be to free income from being tied to work. Basic Income.
There are dangers associated with Basic Income, as Icke says, but to my mind there is no alternative to such a scheme.
Late tweets
The UK is sleepwalking into oblivion: Illegal Dover Dinghy Invaders Woke idiots often say: "OH but (they say) 70% are granted refugee status" F**k O*f That is only down to the blatant incompetence of the HO staff IMO THESE LEECHES ARE NOT REFUGEES IMO@RobertJenrickpic.twitter.com/iprXSJqDQR
— The UK is in a MESS ! 🇬🇧🇿🇦🏴 (@GreyER_13) June 5, 2023
Blinken: We've given Israel another billion dollars in aid.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in announcing $1 billion in aid to the Israeli regime, stressed Israel's unrestricted support and stated that he would strongly oppose any anti-Israeli efforts and actions in any… pic.twitter.com/cMiGGSErEA
I once met a fellow, boyfriend of a girl I knew slightly, whose work was as a balloon pilot based in Bristol, which I believe is one of the main UK centres of such activity. I was a belated Bar Finals student then (late 1980s), and being a balloon pilot seemed a wonderfully carefree way to make a living.
“In practice, the Worker Protection Bill is a sinister threat to our freedom of speech. It will impose on employers a responsibility to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent their staff being offended.
That can only lead to bosses trying to impose pre-emptive forms of censorship to avoid being dragged to a tribunal. Do we want to see our lively pubs reduced to a state of silent sterility, as if they were public libraries rather than public houses?“
“The total collapse and break-up of Vladimir Putin‘s Russia has begun and the West must be prepared to deal with the potentially catastrophic aftermath, a top official in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Government has warned.
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said the West must be on high alert, having in the past failed to be ready for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He said Kyiv [Kiev] believed Russia was about to fall apart in ‘spectacular’ fashion within the next few years.
But he warned that China currently holds the upper hand over the Kremlin’s imminent capitulation. He said if the West allowed China to take territory in Russia, a new grave problem would be created.“
[Daily Mail]
Normally, I would discount anything said by members of the corrupt and dictatorial Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, but in this case the prediction may be accurate, at least in part.
Russia today has no ideology beyond pro forma Great-Russian shadow nationalism and chauvinism, mixed with a pathetic 1930s/1940s pseudo “anti-Nazi” propaganda campaign (re. Ukraine), which campaign fell flat as soon as it was introduced a year or two ago.
In the past (pre-Russian Civil War, and pre-1917/18), there was Tsarism and the Russian Orthodox Church; in the formulation of Pobedonostsev, “Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationality” (Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, наро́дность).
Later, there was Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism, which from the early 1940s mixed elements of the previous “Holy Russia” into the mix. Post-Bolshevik messianism mixed with geopolitical expansionism and the other bits and pieces.
After 1989, Russia and many of its people signed up to Western materialism and the largely but not entirely (of course) fake “liberal democracy” Schauspiel. That, in its very active phase, lasted for only about a decade. The Russian people soon discovered, like the cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, that the “freedom” promised by the semi-Americanism under Yeltsin included some unwelcome “freedoms”, such as the “freedom” to be homeless, jobless, cold, and hungry (though, to be sure, Sovietism itself had produced plenty of most of those, especially before the 1960s).
This lack of overarching ideology is Russia’s primary problem, the one which underpins all the others (e.g. the poor morale of the Russian Army and intelligence services).
Russia has to find an ideology which is both intellectually coherent, and able to inspire the Russian masses emotionally.
Looking at the situation now, Russia has only one indisputable trump card— its strategic nuclear arsenal. In all other respects, Russia has few if any cards to play. So far, its military machine has proven so poor that it has had to be stiffened by the mercenary Wagner Group. As for the SVR and GRU, Stalin would have shot half of them by now. The same goes for much of the senior officer corps.
Russia does seem to be reprising its historical role of the “colossus on legs of straw“. Judging from the outside (I have not been there since 2007, and now have no connection with Russian laws, business, or people), it seems to me to have only limited internal stability, though at the same time little significant political opposition to the present Putin government.
I doubt that there will be a split into separate countries, if only because Russians remain one people (albeit with hundreds of minor nationalities alongside), with one language (ditto), and a shared history. What might happen, and has happened since 1991, is increasing autonomy of various far-flung territories.
Ukraine was always almost one country with Russia. The present war is almost a civil war, which may explain its bitterness, and its sometimes barbaric standards.
In the end, Ukraine will probably be devastated and then repopulated with Russian settlers, at least east of the Dnieper. We shall see.
One thing is for sure: if Putin does not do something to break the static situation that now exists in eastern Ukraine, he will follow the Soviet Union and DDR, and Nikolai II, into history, and sooner than he ever imagined.
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#Bumblebee queens emerge in early spring from #hibernation and immediately need to feed – that’s why early flowering plants are so important. Apart from feeding their mission at this time is to find a suitable site to establish a nest. Hence you will observe queens flying low 2/8 pic.twitter.com/f3sAzBcCmg
These between flight stopovers can last for up to an hour and #bees are not always careful about where they take them – sometimes the middle of a footpath can be the ‘ideal’ spot! So if you see a big #bumblebee chilling on the ground don’t always presume she needs rescuing! 4/8 pic.twitter.com/U4FnJFYt16
In this case preference is to move her to a nearby source of #nectar – a #flower! If no flowers are nearby she can be offered a 50/50 mix of white sugar and water. NEVER offer her honey as although it would seem to be the obvious action honey can contain pathogens that may 6/8 pic.twitter.com/1psryPDnMl
Thanks for reading/caring. PLEASE #retweet this forward. The more informed, the more queens survive and the more #bumblebees we have. Simple. Our native wild #bees are in trouble and we need to be there for them every way we can. Thanks again for helping! Have a great one. 8/8 pic.twitter.com/1fiGIG2OlN
Reminder that the excellent blog by AwfullyMolly on antics of uber-grifter Jack Monroe is still available to read on the archive of the web. Read it & then see how @LegalGengar is getting on with CCJ that started with being owed £10 and is now around the £600 mark with costs. https://t.co/ngPTbmqfmL
Carol Vorderman is a rather uninteresting careerist “celebrity”, who left university with a third-class degree (which was poor even in the days of the 1970s before award inflation took hold; effectively a fail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Vorderman#Early_life_and_education.
It might be said that Carol Vorderman is to mathematics what “Jack Monroe” is to cuisine…
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I happened to see the YouTube video below: DDR (East Germany) in 1988. I was there in the summer of that year, though in the south of the country, and only for a couple of days. I have blogged before how, though there was no sign of imminent collapse, yet the DDR seemed to be a kind of stage-set of a state rather than a real one. Just impressions here and there.
About 14 months later, in 1989, the whole system collapsed and, in a final irony, the President, Honecker, sought political asylum in Chile, the government of which the DDR had for years called “fascist” etc. I recall having been very amused by that.
Anyone watching such a parade in 1988 would have thought that the display exuded statist stability and permanence. So much for that.
Does our own system in 2023 present even the appearance of stability? I think not. Perhaps the difference is that, in 1988 and 1989, the East German population could look to the West, to —immediately— the wealth and relative freedom of the Bundesrepublik and then, beyond German borders, to the rest of the EC (as the EU then was), and to the Americas.
To what, to where, can our people look for a potentially better life? Nowhere.
Incidentally, here is another DDR ceremony, this one in 1979, utilizing marches that include old German ones and at least one from 1920s Bolshevism (slightly pre-Soviet Union):
The marching steps could also have been seen in both the Second and Third Reich.
I looked today at Amazon. The “Jack Monroe” book Thrifty Kitchen, which bombed on release a couple of months ago, is now no. 26,957 from the top of the bestseller list. This indicates sales of about 160 copies per month at its new reduced price of £8.50 (original price was nearly £20, but that was immediately reduced to £9.99), out of which “Jack Monroe” may be getting between 50p and £1 per copy. New or near-new copies can be had on Amazon for as little as £5.
No wonder that she wants to keep going the Patreon scam, which must still be providing several thousand pounds each month, presumably taxfree as well.
After over a trillion dollars given by global citizens to the #ClimateChange movement, how many rainforests have been replanted? How many rivers have been cleaned of their plastic and rubbish? How many third-world dictators have been forced to give up war and fix the environment?
Another (Chinese?) social control measure. How long before that sort of control arrives in the UK? The police of today, often politically-correct/”woke” automatons, would enforce it— we saw that during the “Covid” “panicdemic” and “scamdemic”.
The similarity between the technocratic authoritarianism of the lockdowns & the anti-car movement is no mere coincidence. ‘The Future of Mobility’, a 2019 government report that championed a ‘behavioural science’ approach to transport policy, was edited by https://t.co/YsbYq6gVi6…
If only that could be a matter of selection, affecting only certain groups.
When blacks say they want to kill all white people, we should believe them. That is not a joke. And how disgusting was that old Jewish lady that was supporting this antiwhite hatred? She was smiling. Every single time!
I propose that both men and women regain our private spaces. As I have been saying for long, the greatest civil rights issue of this century is the right to freedom FROM association. We must be allowed to live without Other/s inserting themselves into our lives by force.
Regardless of the source, the side that maintains abundant, affordable energy will win.
Forcing a premature transition away from fossil fuels is literal economic suicide, not an opportunity.
— often uncommon 👊 (consumptionist) (@oftenuncommon) April 4, 2023
Even GPT-4, as coherent as it is, can feel a bit dreamlike. It can answer most of your questions, it can write silly little poems, it feels like the lights are on when you talk to it pic.twitter.com/LTEZGwJbKU
We also get the distinct sense that a lot of human labor, especially in white collar fields, is superfluous. We can think of how Twitter works fine after Elon made deep cuts to the staff
If you have AI, do you really need project managers and middle managers whose main function is organizing and propagating data through the organizational hierarchy?
Most of what one does, in any given occupation, is a waste of time from the point of view of the individual’s own utility or satisfaction.
For example, it is hardly a new idea that, in many ordinary, modest, occupations, one almost works in order to pay out to be able to work.
Leave aside highly-paid professional or other activity and focus on modestly-paid work (let alone minimum-wage activity). The employee, say an office bod, needs to spend out in order to get clothing for the office, say a few suits.
He (or she) needs to pay out for daily travel (which can be very considerable in cost), for luncheon food (even if only a roll and coffee, which might amount to £10 a day in Central London), and for various other things as well.
All so that the employee can work at all. Then there might be occasional or regular socializing, in which said office bod is more or less expected to participate. The resulting remuneration, after tax and “National Insurance” (more tax), is scarcely enough to do more than pay for the costs of having a job, plus food and basic shelter. Maybe not even that.
Likewise, look at someone who wins on a lottery, say £50,000. People say “like a year’s (or two years) pay” within the usual range in the UK. Not so, though. In terms of real pay, even a relatively modest sum such as £50,000 is huge, because most people, after all their taxes, costs, and expenses, have almost nothing left at the end of a month, or even year.
It’s not ‘puritanical’ to say that everyone should have upheld the most fundamental & universal ethical values we have as a society during the last 3 years.
This was not a great mystery that only a few were capable of solving. It was a basic and obvious test of decency.
— Russia's MFA in Crimea🇷🇺 (@PMSimferopol) April 4, 2023
FM #Lavrov: West was using #Kievregime not only to destroy everything Russian which existed in modern Ukraine throughout history of these lands, but also to create in #Ukraine a direct threat to #Russia’s security, incl by setting up #NATO military bases & other infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/g1LBK4c1R7
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 4, 2023
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