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Saturday quiz
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 5/10 as against his 3/10, though I admit that my correct answer to question 1 was either a pure guess or something subliminal; I have never seen the show The Traitors. As well as question 1, I also got right the answers to questions 2, 6, 7, and 8.
From the newspapers
As Lenin said, “a revolution without firing squads is not worth much“…
Tweets seen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68035858
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24062813.new-forest-brothers-tortured-animals-filmed-phones/
“Tinker” types. Reading all those reports, it seems that most of the incarceration imposed was for offences other than the animal cruelty crimes.
Sentences for cruelty to animals are still ludicrously light in this country.
A sentence of 5 years or so really means release in about 2-3 years. Another defendant in the above case even got off with only a light “community penalty” despite having, inter alia, rammed a police car (read the reports, though not all of the reports agree exactly on the facts).
The penalties for offences of that sort (cruelty to animals) have to be revisited by Parliament, increased markedly, and the courts need to be firm in applying them.
All the same, most people in this country are kind to animals:
The backward few are a tiny minority, thank God.
https://twitter.com/RonEng1ish/status/1748642784054054960
“Ukraine – Here are the bodies of working class conscripted Ukrainian soldiers frozen to death. Last year, Zelenskyy’s wife spent close to 1 million euros in one shopping trip to Paris.”
The Ukraine-Russia war is closer to a civil war than to a normal inter-state war.
Is that Courchevel, the ski resort in the Alps? Seems to be. The caption says “Our Courchevel“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courchevel#Resort. The former “Courchevel 1850”, the most expensive of the linked Courchevel resorts.
As to the music, is it not Israeli?
For those revellers, snow is fun. It is different for the press-ganged soldiers of the Kiev regime, dying in the snow and ice of the front-lines.
Russia will and must prevail in Ukraine.
“Russia is advancing, and Ukraine is on the defensive – Austrian colonel.
Despite the military successes that Kiev constantly reports, Ukraine is now on the defensive, while Russia is actively advancing, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner said in an interview with ZDF.
In his opinion, Moscow’s military successes are mainly due to the fact that it was able to significantly increase the production of ammunition. Now on the battlefield, the Russian side fires 10 thousand shells every day versus 2 thousand from the Ukrainian side.
Russia is trying to advance along the entire front, depleting Kiev’s already small reserves. “It could lead to a major breakthrough,” Reisner emphasized.
The colonel also expressed concerns about the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. He recalled that Russia is a nuclear power: “And it is unknown what could happen if it is driven into a corner.” Only “historians in retrospect” will be able to assess whether sending new types of weapons to Kiev would be correct or not.“
[ZDF (German TV) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZDF].
The Zelensky regime is living dangerously. If any significant damage is done to the major historical buildings of Petersburg or Moscow, Kiev will be flattened.
Selling-off public assets such as council houses was and remains a disastrous policy.
Anything other than real social nationalism is a waste of time (and probably a fraud).
Lammy is really ridiculous! Imagine running away from a (loud but harmless) young woman like that, instead of either standing still until the guards removed her or, more impressively, engaging with her and showing yourself to be a leader…
Lammy is an ignorant joke anyway:
…and there was more…
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lammy#Comments_attracting_criticism.
Pathetic, nicht wahr? Lammy poses as a legal expert because (and how many similar examples have I seen in or from the “black community”?) he took his degree in the UK and then took a “Master’s degree” (a one-year course that hardly anyone fails) at Harvard (after having become a barrister in England). He did about two years as a gopher in American law firms before returning to the UK. He was then elected to the London Assembly and, later (2000), at age 27, to the House of Commons, as MP for Tottenham, a seat where only blacks need apply (in reality)— “bandit country”.
Lammy has now been an MP for nearly 24 years, and has made the most of it (financially) for himself, while accomplishing precisely nothing for the UK or his own constituents.
Lammy loves black people so much that he…married a white woman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Green]…
Now Lammy is set fair to be appointed Secretary of State for Justice in a Starmer-led fake “Labour” Government after GE 2024. He is also a Privy Councillor.
Lammy knows that he has to kow-tow to Starmer and the Israel/Jewish lobby in order to keep his career going.
So there we have it— Britain 2024 in a nutshell: the triumph of ignorance, stupidity, and tick-box careerism.
Incidentally, looking at that Labour Party audience, most of the people there are almost all as old as those attending Conservative Party events. Mostly in their sixties and seventies. Both major System parties are dying. Most people want a real alternative, not this rigged pseudo-democratic false choice.
Late tweets seen
Ukraine will never join NATO. Ukraine will never join the EU.
Yes. Beautiful…
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Ian Robert Millard 