Reminded of the fact the British public broadcaster went out of its way to paint a very feasible and relatively conservative tree-planting target as being extreme in the run up to the 2019 election https://t.co/VfY0t3Loedpic.twitter.com/WkptYF45Hb
A textbook example of the unreality that was Corbyn-Labour. Tweeter “@jrc1921” actually showcases the calculations of BBC journalist Chris Mason, and does not seek to say that they are inaccurate, but persists in the idea that planting 200 trees per minute (i.e. more than 3 every second!) is both “feasible” and ” relatively conservative”!
True, a British equivalent of the 1970s Khmer Rouge could, in principle, get millions of people planting trees, even on such a scale. 100 million trees per year could be planted, were every single adult of appropriate age to plant 2 trees per year.
The devil is in the administrative detail. That is the unreality. Organizing 50 million people to plant 1 tree each, every 6 months. How? Where?
Not that I am against tree planting. Au contraire. Let’s do some good! Let’s have some fun!
Political reality is what people can accomplish, and so to that extent is flexible, not fixed. Sometimes 2+2 can = 5… To that extent, I agree with the tweeter above, and not only with Chris Mason. Both are right, if you like…
More tweets
'The decent campaign to restore our traditions and liberties by leaving the EU was taken over by piratical free traders, and we have swapped being pushed around by Brussels for being pushed around by China' . My @GBnews discussion wiht Nigel Farage' https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
NIgel Farage : 'Nearly everything you write and say is essentially pretty negative' Peter Hitchens . 'Absolutely!' HItchens vs Farage, GBNews : https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
PH talking to Nigel Farage :'I am a British Gaullist . It's extraordinary that this combination of strong defence, national independence, patriotism and a strong welfare state is not more common in politics as it appeals to so many people.'https://t.co/pYwda9bkQb
Exactly my position, in the mundane sense. I call it social nationalism.
I think the belief in incessant mask-wearing for the benefit of others is the founding myth of what is effectively a new religion, that health is the highest law. That is why any serious discussion of the Danmask study is greeted as heresy.
2/2 @JoshGlancy The belief that the election was stolen from Trump' is just not comparable to the belief that Parliament, the opposition, the media and the courts all failed to protect liberty under the law, or prevent the pointless throttling of economy and society. https://t.co/CBsPo8jAj5
Not sure why intelligent commentators such as Hitchens persist in trying to squeeze people and policies into the now almost meaningless “Left”/”Right” straitjacket(s).
“No free society regulates opinion.”
Well said Peter Hitchens but sadly this is now exactly what regulators do. https://t.co/WJ4gfPjDK5
— Expelled & exonerated barrister Jon Holbrook (@JonHolb) August 8, 2021
…and guess (((who))) or (((what))) is behind most of the repression of opinion in the UK? The (((You know who)))…
Not a big fan of his generally but I like Peter Hitchens metaphor that the Tories and Labour are two dead corpses propping each other up
Exactly. Two moribund political parties. For the electorate, a false binary choice with, in general, the same sort of policies coming out in the end (in government).
Another e.g. of politicians finally catching up with advice I've given for free for a decade & more. University degrees are worth jack, so get a trade, dodge a mountain of debt & the libtard brain-mincing machine, maximise cash & minimise tax.#resistancehttps://t.co/En7il5KKFm
The early 1960s (or late 1950s) comment about “redbrick” university expansion, by (?) Kingsley Amis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis], that “more will mean worse“, may have been partly snobbism, but God knows what he would have made of the 2021 situation, with so many “McUniversities” that one has not even heard the names of many of them; God only knows, also, what Amis would have thought of a Government minister (James Cleverly), whose “degree” is apparently in “Hospitality Management”; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly#Early_life_and_education.
Well you and other MSM outlets are partly to blame for all of this, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS pouring into the Country every single day and how many times have you covered it? There are people on twitter doing more reporting than you will ever do.🤬
Of course, the young people, say under 21, who support the nonsense put out by Extinction Rebellion and Greta Nut, were only 9 (or younger) when the chaotic and ludicrous 2009 Climate Change conference was held in Copenhagen. I remember it mainly for the little monkey who was President or Prime Minister for the Maldives, and who was constantly excitedly clapping above his head, especially when some delegates said that Europe should direct much money to countries facing inundation (in fact, 12 years on, and the Maldive islands are still there…). https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1220/Chaos-in-Copenhagen-behind-the-scenes-at-global-warming-summit
There may be climate change, in some degree (e.g. Australia is now certainly much hotter than it was in the 1960s when I was there), but that has happened throughout history. Humanity is only partly responsible. Moreover, whatever Britain, or even Europe does, is of small, indeed minimal, importance. Britain’s CO2 “emissions” are about 1% of the global whole.
“Climate change”, like “Covid-19” and other stuff (eg “Black Lives Matter” nonsense) has been distorted and weaponized by transnational conspirators, in order to impose an agenda. Call it “The Great Reset” (in part), if you like.
Over 475 migrants crossed the English Channel in 15 small boats on Thursday, following a record 482 arrivals on Wednesday.https://t.co/FG6DulQpAY
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) August 9, 2021
Ironic. The best way (perhaps the only way) in which Britain’s depleted navy could defend the UK now would be to sink the ships of the UK “Border Force”…
@haydnjones1 I can hardly bear to think about what has happened to the old Waterloo to Plymouth LSWR mainline. I know bits of it still exist, singled down to make them inefficient, but not a day passes when I do not miss the glorious Exeter to Tavistock run over Dartmoor. https://t.co/yHAYTwufuD
Wikipedia is a useful resource if used with a sceptical attitude. For example, I saw this piece about one Anna Seghers, a Jewish woman who became a Communist Party member in Germany in 1928: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Seghers.
According to that article, Anna Seghers was “arrested by the Gestapo” in 1932. That would in fact have been impossible, if only because the Gestapo was established only in 1933, at which time it was a police organization purely in the region of Prussia, having been set up by Goering. It became a nationwide organization three or more years later, in and after 1936: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo.
Anna Seghers was from Mainz, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, and spent all or most of her life until 1934 in that region of Germany, mostly in Koblenz and Cologne. In other words, in the part of Germany where she lived, and when she lived there, there was no Gestapo.
It is possible that this Anna Seghers was questioned by local police, though not Gestapo, or even that she was briefly detained in 1933 or 1934 in Prussia (where there was a Gestapo), though that seems unlikely. Whatever the true facts, and even if she was arrested, she was then released. So she was not (as typical postwar propaganda would have it) brutalized, imprisoned, sent to a concentration camp, shot, “gassed” or her skull exhibited by SS-Ahnenerbe…
In fact, she went —and was allowed to go— to Switzerland in 1933 or 1934, and from there she went to Mexico.
“While still in Paris, in 1939, she had written The Seventh Cross, for which she received the Büchner-Prize in 1947. The novel is set in 1936 and describes the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie in 1944 by MGM starring Spencer Tracy. The Seventh Cross was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II.” [Wikipedia]
So look at that above paragraph: The Seventh Cross was “one of the very few depictions of concentration camps” before 1945, yet that description is entirely fictional! Anna Seghers was never anywhere near a concentration camp or any kind of camp! In fact, she had left Germany in 1933 or 1934, i.e. before or within a few months of Hitler’s accession as Chancellor.
Reminiscent of the above is the 1993 film Schindler’s List, which many think of as “history”, whereas in fact it was based on a novel, Schindler’s Ark, written by an Australian who was only born in 1935, and whose novel (i.e. a work of fiction, which in fact won the Booker Prize for Historical Fiction) was published in 1983.
Naturally, a few real facts are woven into the fictional narrative. This is common to all “faction” writing (cf. The Day of the Jackal etc).
Another is the film Sophie’s Choice, which is completely fictional, but which many naive people cite as a “true story” and an example of the behaviour of the SS etc!
#OtD 19 Nov 1900, German communist and anti-Nazi activist Anna Seghers was born in Mainz. She wrote a novel in 1932 warning of the dangers of fascism, Die Gefährten, which led her to be arrested by the Gestapo, but she survived pic.twitter.com/SkbVY9mIXH
The “Working Class History” Twitter account weasels about Anna Seghers having “survived”, as if “the Gestapo” did terrible things to her instead of…nothing. The tweet there is very misleading, implying that Anna Seghers was detained for years, maybe until 1945!
I notice that self-describing “historian” and “journalist” Mike Stuchbery, a twice-sacked temporary schoolteacher now living in Stuttgart, Germany, retweeted the above misleading tweet. He really ought to start to check his facts, in the manner of a real historian…[https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/].
Tweets seen
Yet more real news that the BBC, Sky, CNN and all the rest of the #fakenews media refused to let you see: The #WHO covid puppet regime in #Denmark has dropped its plans for forced #Vaccinations after massive & constant popular protests. We CAN beat them!https://t.co/1Bk1sz2Kg0
The BBC is riddled with traitors, as are all msm outlets.
It's obvious really. Whenever I go shopping I invite all of the shop staff to come and live with me. Not so sure my kids are that keen though, it's getting a bit cramped 🤔
Click! Off, yet again, goes the unbearable BBC Radio 4 Today programme, for decades my habitual morning listen. Relentless conventional wisdom, unquestioning, incurious, and therefore immensely boring as well as stifling. Yet day after day I hope foolishly for a change.
I fear not @wolf77925005. Quite a lot of people plainly like wearing them, for reasons I prefer not to guess at, and the government love the social control and conditioning they provide. they neatly symbolise the end of our old, lost freedom which most don't miss. https://t.co/4Zzwc4h63L
CRG not happy with Hancock spin of cases going down: “Government scientists briefing MPs were clear this week that the effects of lockdown would not be visible in the data until this weekend. Cases may have flattened since lockdown but any change is not yet because of lockdown”
One hour after I posted this, my account was suspended. Only the 2nd time that's happened in 10 years. Hilarious coincidence, right? https://t.co/yDnVfQ2nHl
A couple of “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] Jew-Zionists discuss one of the women they and their friends used to troll mercilessly online (using pseudonymous Twitter accounts), a fact the lawyer for the “CAA” had to admit in open court during one of the court hearings in one of the Alison Chabloz cases.
They also made malicious complaint against people offline, ruining, for example, the (until-then successful) photography business of Jo Stowell. Now they still push a stick in on Twitter from time to time.
[photographer Jo Stowell]
The odd thing about the above-noted remark by Applebaum is the contemptuous reference to the lady’s “failure in life“. A not uncommon remark by (((individuals))) like him, but does he ever look in the mirror? A former occasional/freelance scribbler, specializing in film, who has not had much published for quite a number of years (the occasional piece appears in the Jewish Chronicle). Applebaum is now, in effect, a 40-something house-husband. What right has he to look down on anybody?
Has Applebaum just explained, en passant, why he is so obsessive (about “anti-Semites”)?
'Shrimp are coming back' in Southern Brazil after Oceana-backed bottom trawling ban, local fishers report.These reports from fishers provide encouraging anecdotal evidence that the elimination of destructive fishing methods may be delivering results. More: https://t.co/fRroa4crFOpic.twitter.com/x3vnzXsfC6
I make no apology for the gut wrenching anger I express in this film
Boris Johnson has again ignored the rule of law & his cabinet of spineless, cowardly kowtowing cabbage head ministers are shamefully falling over him & the Home Secretary with gushing sycophantic support pic.twitter.com/cETJlHptKe
“Priti Patel bullied staff” [news reports]. It is well-known that Indian women often bully their staff, eg household maids etc. That is even more true of those employers (or, in Sun-speak, “bosses”) brought up in modest circumstances (as Priti Patel was— her parents were small shopkeepers who built up a chain of profitable small shops). What surprises me is the surprise shown by all (in the msm etc).
Actually, exactly what do you have to do now to get permanently binned as a minister or Cabinet minister? Seems that bullying your staff is not enough. Neither is being corrupt, nor being an agent of Israel. Priti Patel has now achieved the hat-trick…yet there she sits on her huge rear end, still posing as Home Secretary. Jesus CHRIST!
Jan Morris
Jan Morris, the writer, has died. As a travel writer, particularly, Jan Morris was unequalled, though “In an interview with BBC in 2016 she told Michael Palin that she does not like to be described as a travel writer, as her books are not about movement and journeys; they are about places and people.” [Wikipedia]; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Morris.
Chris Bryant
Not often that I find myself in agreement with “antifa” supporter, “Dr.” Louise Raw, but…
I haven’t mentioned it before, but Bryant was absolutely vile to me on here, then equally insulting in DMs when I tried to have a private discussion rather than making you all witness a row. Not a pleasant person. https://t.co/MV1HEecNbi
This is how the third rate fools who think they run the world believe their #greatreset is going to pan out.
If you ever wondered if there is any truth in that old phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", you're about to find out there is! pic.twitter.com/9WG3jx7Spa
Yes @coviddodgy , but who knows the article title? Someone who doesn't need Google to look. Anyone normal would search "Danish Mask Study" . And get sprayed with attacks on it, while the actual thing was miles down the pile. https://t.co/hCgQkv8J96
Ah. MSM drones who never said a single word in defence of Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, me, others, are finding out now that their own freedom of expression is disappearing because it is convenient for ZOG/NWO to repress it.
"Another toddler, two years old, wet her pants while watching the bulldozer strike the makeshift structures that were her home. The children’s wails were drowned out by the noise of the demolition. 2 & 1/2 yr old Mohammed shouted at a soldier, “Go away”https://t.co/eXRxyrveMWpic.twitter.com/dLAEALGgQM
— @DublinActivistDamandaC #StandWith🇵🇸🗝🇷🇺 (@dublinactivist) November 20, 2020
This is what the MPs who are members of Conservative Friends of Israel (80% of Con MPs) and Labour Friends of Israel (many, inc. Jess Phillips, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Keir Starmer etc) are supporting. Dictatorial Jew-Zionist power both in the Middle East and also in Europe, including the UK.
Palestinians are consumed by anxiety: they live permanently on the brink of homelessness as israelis force them out of their properties https://t.co/dumKHnMxll
Those who are or think that they are “Left” or “socialist” should simply call those they criticize what “they” really are, behind all the other “identities”… eventually, they must express themselves clearly as to the menace…
@mypawisstsuck. On what hard, experimental scientific basis do you make the assertion that 'Face masks help stop the spread of the virus.' https://t.co/YGhf20IEvR
Yes. They work to hugely increase mental health issues, suicides, poverty, unemployment, business closures, tyranny, destroying social relations & "collateral" deaths.
Or did you mean evidence that quarantining millions of healthy people saves lives? No, there is none for that.
Ah, it is you again Credulous, I mean @credula11. One day you will grasp that science works by the experimental objective testing of claims. I have always said there is no good evidence for compulsory muzzles. The Danish study underlines that absence. https://t.co/c6p2WiesI6
Indeed @theblogmire, 'Covidian' is a good name for our new age of unknowing and passionate turning away from hard knowledge , scepticism and enlightenment. 500 years of searching for truth end in a squalid, ignorant panic. https://t.co/lirGtmKG1V
See what you mean @natty_red, but the truth is that 1,600 people on average die in the the UK every day. Sad as this is for those affected, it is normal. What we have here is a problem of attribution. https://t.co/H1z2twARcY
God…first of all, British people all but genuflected to “the man in the white coat”; now they accept as gospel what “Dr. Hilary”, a TV talking head, says…
What I object to (mainly) is not black people being shown, as such, but mixed couples (commonly, black man with white woman) and “their” mixed-race children. I stand for a decent future for British, European and other people. The multikulti melting pot would destroy that. Therefore I oppose it.
All the same, fair’s fair. Priti Patel is one of life’s “winners”; after all, 99.99% of Indian women from East Africa, like her and yet unlike her, end up serving behind the counter of a grocery story somewhere like Kampala or Entebbe…
James Cleverly’s defence of Priti Patel is that civil servants don’t work hard enough. Smearing staff to excuse bullying is pretty low.
James Cleverly, a personification of much that is wrong with the political system in the UK: a half-caste with a “degree” in “Hospitality Management” from some degree mill. Selected for his seat in 2015 after some backstairs intrigues. Now, only 5 years later, he’s a Minister of State! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly
Met police effort to use far-left to launch false flag attack on nationalists exposed.https://t.co/lnnIjjBYo0
New web radio show. Discussing the revolutionary new Christian nationalist book 'Deus Vult – handbook for resisting the Great Replacement' with a veteran of the online truth movement. A great introduction to a book inspired by Codreanu, made for our times.https://t.co/XA4O8HBOAo
I was listening to Radio 4 in the early evening. There was a report about the delay to remedial work ordered to hundreds of tower blocks etc, ordered by reason of fire hazard after the Grenfell fire.
What struck me (apart from the typically-slow government reaction and equally typical maladministration) was amazement at how councils and private contractors were ever allowed to install cladding which, in one case mentioned, is said to be as flammable “as petrol“, leading to a necessity to maintain a 24/7 firewatch on that building (in which people are still actually living!). I thought that this country had building regulations and fire regulations…
Yesterday, we heard that the NHS has spent hundreds of millions of pounds buying medical protective equipment via a Spanish “go-between” (whose commissions added up to at least £20M!) and a jeweller based in Florida. What the hell is going on?
Ian Robert Millard 