The future of a slow, painful economic war waged on Ukraine, however much territory the Russians stil occupy. They've found another pinch point and they'll keep squeezing until people start asking for a deal. https://t.co/FEiGoqoQhs
Yes, it’s lovely when everyone comes together (while under house arrest 🤪) and cheers for their own oppression and destruction. https://t.co/DtHm1sf6iB
Well said, Cartoonist Bob. As for that Dunt person, how can anyone make a living in political journalism when just plain wrong all or (maybe) almost all of the time? I can only suppose that anything absurd is possible in the Britain of 2022.
What then happens is that the minority who are still of sound mind – i.e. those not proposing any drastic changes to our understanding of ethics or reality – are the people labelled as nutcases.
I was told by a friend, "we all have a right to our beliefs" when I tried to outline the current situation. I guess it does sound nuts. The truth is just too big for the majority to handle now I think. Head in the sand.
The majority just want to not have to bother with the Truth (with capital “T”). Too much effort.
I like the idea of a huge national party over an extended weekend. Just not right now. Stop the injections, make lockdowns illegal forever, arrest all the politicians, journalists, scientists & elites who have done this. Do the people’s great reset. Then I’ll put out the bunting.
There is no escape from ‘messaging’ even at a ‘Platinum Party’. Every-or nearly every-major event is used now to lecture us or promote a particular line or cause. This wouldn’t have happened in the Silver Jubilee of 1977. Different era. https://t.co/QN2jAxChEi
…and people will listen with exaggerated respect to the tame thick princeling simply because of the “Prince” title. Same with Harry, of course.
Not that the message is “wrong”, as such. The only way to “save the planet” is to reduce the population by a considerable amount, maybe to about a tenth of the present aggregate number of people; equally important, most of that tenth should consist of white Northern Europeans.
There are a number of different tendencies all now working more or less together to destroy the decent foundations of world, and especially white European —or European-origined— society.
Киев встретил нас многочасовыми очередями за бензином.Очень поразил комендантский час. Зловещая тишина, пустые улицы и воющая сирена. До сих пор не удаётся избавиться от ощущения, как возможна война в 21 веке? Хочется плакать от бессилия,почему мы не можем остановить это безумие? pic.twitter.com/7K1BxLMH08
A short video showing cars in Kiev queueing for a mile or more, waiting to fill up with fuel.
“Ominous silence, empty streets, [then?] a howling siren…“
Does not read like a description of a city whose governing rulers are “winning” a war…
I imagine that liquid fuel stocks will be major targets for Russian attack, eventually leading to both civilian and military vehicles under Ukrainian control being unable to move.
I am unsure as to exactly why the USA seems even more full of crazed lesbians, angry “trans” “activists” etc than the UK. Maybe the USA is even more of a sick society than the UK. Open question.
Imagine if almost all 5-y-o children had such talents. That is what we aim for in the creation of a “super-race”— not political or military power, primarily, but a quantum leap in the overall level of advanced humanity.
Well, only 5/10 this week, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10 (and, as always, I commend his honesty in admitting it).
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10.
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Just watching a man being interviewed by Kay Burley saying that St Paul's is a working cathedral – open for everyone. Last time I went it cost £12 to get in !!!
I recall being shocked, when aged about 22, and when I visited St. Paul’s for the first (and I think only) time, and found it had a revolving door like a busy hotel, and —inside— stalls selling souvenirs etc.
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” [Matthew 21:12-13]
[El Greco, Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple]
Here we are, 2000 years later, and Mammon still infects the house of Spirit…
Kay Burley pisses people off because she tends to scupper their enjoyment of bending their knee & doffing their caps to that lazy, lying, law-breaking oaf. I mean, ffs. Imagine claiming to be patriotic & still thinking that useless git is good enough to be British Prime Minister.
As far as Boris-idiot is concerned, one can only agree.
Asked by Kay Burley how many ounces were in a pound, he replied 14 – though the correct answer is 16.
He was also asked how many grams of sausage he would get if he ordered a pound and replied 250g. But the minister remained some way off, as the correct answer is 450g. pic.twitter.com/CKoLDfze6b
'[…] a number of reasons why Denisova was removed, including "the numerous details of 'unnatural sexual offenses' and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence and only harmed Ukraine."https://t.co/yV9MlTnJdk
The Ukrainian side has “played a blinder” on propaganda. The Jewish regime in Kiev has managed to convince much of the Western world that Zelensky’s regime is a democratic government, with civil rights, despite the facts that all opposition parties are now banned, all opposition leaders in the country are under arrest and badly-treated, and any criticism of Zelensky or the war is met with arrest or worse.
Even the fact that a Ukrainian government negotiator was shot in the head in Kiev by Zelensky’s security people for being “pro-Russian” or “a Russian agent” has not damaged much the propaganda picture shown on Western television, because that incident was scarcely reported.
Despite the above, the propaganda picture effort is faltering now. More and more incidents or events have been shown up as completely fake: the “Ghost of Kiev” (non-existent), the Snake Island retort (never happened) and, more importantly, the whole narrative that Ukrainian forces are winning this war.
Ukrainian forces are losing at least as many men as the Russian Army, about 100 per day. Ukrainian forces may be (in the east of Ukraine) running out of fuel, ammunition, and food. The whole of Ukraine east of the Dnieper river and south of Kiev may soon be under Russian control.
A personal reminiscence
As noted yesterday, I happened to see the following YouTube video:
[Robert Powell, astrosophist, talking about, inter alia, the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations, and about astronomy, astrology, and astrosophy]
That is someone whom I met about 43 years ago, in or about 1979, at the Goetheanum, in Switzerland.
I was at the time a frequent visitor to the Library of the Anthroposophical Society in Park Road, London (near Regent’s Park). The librarian there, on discovering that I was intending to fly to Basel and to visit the Goetheanum, said that Robert Powell was living there, and he would write to him to the effect that I might be arriving, and perhaps he could show me around.
Tomberg had settled, after WW2, in the mid-1940s, in the village (now a suburb) of Emmer Green, near Reading, Berkshire.
I myself was born, in 1956, at Reading. Now I discover (only yesterday) that Robert Powell was also born at Reading, at about the time that Tomberg settled in the area, in 1947.
As to my trip to Switzerland, I did go to the Goetheanum, arriving at Dornach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornach] late in the day. I checked into the little inn by the railway station and then set off at once to see the famous Goetheanum.
In fact, I had not been able to arrange anything specific by way of meeting Robert Powell.
On approaching the main doors of the Goetheanum (huge, like those at the Lubyanka in Moscow), I saw that the building had closed for the day, but an attendant appeared and, hearing that I had just come from London, offered to show me the building.
My impression? A feeling that it was halfway between a museum (such as the British Museum) and what I supposed an ancient Egyptian temple might have felt like (rather than looked like).
After that tour, I was shown out and, near the doors of the building, out of the near-darkness, a young man appeared and (having never met me, nor seen a photo of me) asked whether I was Ian Millard! This was Robert Powell, someone with a slight air of mystery, but worn lightly.
Powell lived somewhere in the vicinity (I do not believe that I ever saw where), and was apparently friendly with a German girl who also lived locally, whom I met, and who kindly took time to show me a couple of places.
Despite his having things to do, over the next few days, Powell met me several times, and showed me a few of the local sights seen by few: some ruined small mediaeval castles; the small lake where, supposedly, Parsifal first saw the Fisher King, another site by that lake where a small rivulet ran through stone blocks which formed a floor: this was, I heard, the place where Siegmund and Sieglinde lived, and where, in legend, “a river ran through their kitchen“.
Powell also showed me a place in the hills (Dornach is in the foothills of the Jura Mountains) where there was a kind of natural platform, in the stone of the hill itself, where there was a kind of oblong chamber in the rock, about the size of a human being plus about 6 inches all round. There was also a seat cut into the stone by the oblong chamber. This, I was told, was where a priest-initiate of the ancient (Central European) Celtic Mysteries would sit, guarding the pupil of those Mysteries who would be for three days in a comatose state in the oblong chamber, experiencing occult initiation. Geothermal warmth heated the oblong, almost magically so.
The German girl mentioned took me to see a pleasant if slightly eccentric old lady who lived in a house close to the Goetheanum. She was of Russian extraction, I think, and had been there since the time of the building of the present Goetheanum in the 1920s (the first, wooden, one having burned down). In fact, she had herself known, or at least met, Rudolf Steiner, who started it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner.
I spent the last few days of my week in the district mostly alone. I had transferred from the railway inn to an almost deserted anthropop guesthouse (this was Autumn-time) to save money, Switzerland being rather expensive. I attended a eurythmy performance at nearby Arlesheim, returned to the Goetheanum for a longer look around, and had a look around the nearby city of Basel and saw the turbulent river Rhine—10 miles away—as well.
Interesting to see that Robert Powell is still around. The young man I encountered in Switzerland, and who is now author of many books on spirituality, astrosophy etc is still recognizable at the age of 74 or 75.
Wes Streeting, a non-Jew member of Labour Friends of Israel (I believe that all or almost all of Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet are LFI members). Streeting is a complete puppet. In fact he only became head of the National Union of Students in 2008, aged 25, because the Union of Jewish Students supported his candidature: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Streeting.
Tory leadership manoeuvres latest: leadership candidates and their teams have been asking Tory staffers to “remain on standby” over the next few weeks and months. Told not to book holidays etc
One of the consequences of preventing almost anyone with ideas or independence from being selected as a System party candidate for Parliament is that only mediocrities, puppets, and complete idiots are selected. The pool of MPs is therefore composed largely of persons of those types.
Unwittingly satirical is the outfit, looking at the numbers of blacks who are trying to blag getting into Western Europe as “Ukrainian” “refugees”; Ireland has been stupid enough to allow in a number; maybe the UK as well.
I wonder what Rees-Mogg is thinking, as he stares down at that African woman, whom I presume (?) is some kind of diplomat.
I thought the sanctions are working and Ukraine are winning and that Ukraine will fight until they got everything back …!what happened to all the propaganda which destroyed our European economy?
💬 #Zakharova: We have reasons to believe that long-range artillery was used for shelling #DPR communities.
The West has recently started supplying Kiev with these weapons, cynically claiming that the Ukrainian Armed Forces need them for defensive purposes. pic.twitter.com/MH1ZtwVuZh
Very strange. Is there a concerted purpose behind this?
Yep "Europe being late stage Terraformed" for the next stage in the NW0-JW0. Sadly, so very true. The feeling of powerlessness and humiliation in the face of this heinous and traitorous crime against us is all consuming now. There is no punishment enough for all the traitors
Looking back now, it is clear that a major factor in the last two years or so of “panicdemic” was a mass psychological experiment, and on a huge scale across the world, with the intention not only of seeing how far the masses could be pushed, but of conditioning those masses to accept the most ridiculous strictures, such as the facemask nonsense, the “social distancing” nonsense etc. At what point would the masses say “this is just stupid…and I am not doing it!“?
Most never did. They obediently lined up, six feet apart, masks on, in order to buy bread, even when later (in the UK), the “rules” and fake “laws” were adjusted so that those stupid “rules” applied in the supermarket, but not in the pub across the road! Yet still 90%+ of the sheep complied, and even failed to see how ridiculous the whole thing was. Indeed, those who did protest online did so on the basis that the “rules” should apply everywhere, not because they should not have been imposed in the first place.
As Peter Hitchens predicted at the time, the present shambolic UK Government has managed to fairly easily create a propaganda narrative that the various “panicdemic” measures have been successful, and so, thanks to them (and of course the “vaccines”), the public is now free to enjoy the economic wasteland created by those stupid “rules”, “laws”, and “measures” (and the money largesse distributed by Indian “clever boy” Sunak).
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New study suggests reduced viral capsule antibody production or reduced sensitivity in vxxntd https://t.co/gVDTgcKncj
(((Barrister))) and LBC radio presenter apparently (but see below) cannot distinguish between “furlong” and “furlough“! Says it all about the state of both the Bar and msm broadcasting in 2022, unless he meant it as a deadpan kind of joke (I think that actually he was just joking; must have been).
Seriously, *who* still thinks in imperial measures? Surely only those in late 50s or beyond (and I suspect not even many of them).
I always thought I had strong, independent thinking, and capable friends. Then I learned, in a dark hour, 99% of my IRL friends absolutely wilt like flowers and get on their knees to beg someone to tell them what to do. To say it was world shattering is an understatement.
OSHA used to be pretty upfront about masking and how people using N95s had to be fitted and how their environment had to be regulated to keep the users same. How time in the masks had to be limited for health.
All that went out the window.
— Lara, soon-to-be business analyst! 🐈⬛📚☕📊 (@LaraKD_2020) June 1, 2022
They even scrubbed the Wayback Machine. It was an impressive effort. I remember when the WHO redefined herd immunity as being solely vaxx-generated. They seriously scrubbed everything before that change from the archives. Scary stuff, really.
— Lara, soon-to-be business analyst! 🐈⬛📚☕📊 (@LaraKD_2020) June 1, 2022
In a sense, the “panicdemic” was not just a conspiracy, but a concatenation of conspiracies.
'Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science' (La Nature se dévoilant à la Science) is an allegorical sculpture created in 1899 in the Art Nouveau style, by Louis-Ernest Barrias 1841-1905. Musée d'Orsay, France 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/ACFO4s6udK
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) June 3, 2022
Incidentally, I just saw, today, a YouTube video interview with someone I met about 43 years ago (at the Goetheanum, near Basel, Switzerland), and who knew someone I knew slightly in London. I think that I shall blog about that tomorrow, though, and will repost the video, which is here:
— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) June 3, 2022
I have no idea who is that silly woman who says, in that clip, when “Boris”-idiot gets booed, “I certainly didn’t see that coming“. What planet is she living on? Most of the people of the UK now hate the idiotic part-Jew poseur, and the only reason that Labour is not higher in the opinion polls is because most people do not think that Starmer and his motley crew are much (if at all) better, overall.
“Boris” has not been overthrown by his own MPs yet for a like reason: who will replace him? Not because there are no Conservative MPs who would be as good/bad as “Boris”, but because there are no obvious candidates who would be far-and-away better.
The absurdity of it all is that you now see the most ridiculous Conservative Party MPs being suggested, in the msm as well as on social media, as suitable replacements for Johnson, as suitable party leader, and so as suitable Prime Minister.
I am talking about the likes of Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt, even Nadine Dorries! How low, ethically, intellectually, and culturally, is the Conservative Party willing to go?
Maybe a more traditional figure such as Jeremy Hunt might still pick up the gauntlet.
The British police are no better. As said, this is a problem all across Europe, and maybe beyond. A problem, but also a symptom, a symptom of societies nearer to collapse than most people think.
Stand up, load up, and speak up for Western and white Northern European race and culture!
I heard of the situation in Gothenburg/Goteborg 15 years ago. Migration invasion, followed by breeding of untermenschen. Gangs of young Arabs and Africans (mainly Somalis), terrorizing whole districts of the city.
“[The Russians] are carpet-bombing us. The cities they attack are simply being erased from the face of the earth,” said Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk regional military government. “They are destroying everything and then moving through the ruins.” https://t.co/loblSC4F6xpic.twitter.com/1RcS4IT8QR
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) June 1, 2022
We spent time with Ukrainian mechanized brigades, territorial defense forces, police, others. I've covered the war in the Donbas since day 1; in 8 years I've never seen the situation so intense & terrible. Ukrainians are taking heavy losses, up to 100 a day. Russians, too. My 📸 pic.twitter.com/y4HESCXGrj
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) June 1, 2022
Historically, Russia usually wins in wars of attrition.
"This will enable Ukraine to protect an entire city from Russian air attacks," he said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 1, 2022
Looks like the Turks are avoiding the Zelensky regime.
@elonmusk Some of us still can't 'talk' on Twitter. Your bigoted liberal staff are ignoring your free speech ideal. They've made it impossible for non-users to see my feed and slapped a 'sensitive content' warning on me – treating dissident thoughts like pornography!#censorship
No 10 asked for views on banning fur – then completely ignored them @JournoJane There can be no excuse for farming and wearing fur for human adornment These beautiful sentient creatures are “ghosts, broken souls, living in barren cages” Simply #horrifichttps://t.co/A7zYxzuEgg
Japan imposed sanctions on Russia but plans to maintain the joint Russian-Japanese LNG Sakhalin-2 project, which is "an asset that our predecessors worked hard to acquire." The Japanese "do not intend to leave, even if we are told." (RIA) If only Germany were this far-sighted.
The Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, & now another case of outrageous claims that "could not be confirmed by evidence": this time Ukraine's Rada itself got rid of the Ombudsman spreading disinformation. All this was reported by the western media like gospel.https://t.co/7gpktyAgJfhttps://t.co/NicobFZ0wFpic.twitter.com/FteDDeIjis
I was living in the USA when a lying Kuwaiti girl claimed to have seen atrocities committed by Iraqi troops at a hospital in Kuwait City. Her lies were accepted unquestioningly by the “free” American msm (and, therefore, American people, most of them): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony.
Macron called this political cartoon unacceptable. The Russian ambassador to France got summoned by the French diplomats over its publication. Strange to see from the country that releases the satirical Charlie Hebdo. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/3WdmDntFWj
Something that has struck me in the past decade, when I have been a serial visitor (not usually as patient) to NHS hospitals, is the lack of any restful, peaceful atmosphere. It must be terrible to be unwell and not only have to live, and sleep, in a ward full of strangers but also with the amount of noise of all sorts. Like being in a busy railway station.
"- the ongoing and rapid inversion of so much we have previously taken for granted increasingly seems to be happening independently of human action. It is as if something else has become manifest in some way we can’t quite put our finger on"https://t.co/I3tj7ypKJG
Ricky Gervais claims to have always confronted dogma that oppresses people. I must have missed him confronting the dogma of lockdowns and coerced medical procedures. https://t.co/87bEHPaEC2
I never saw Ricky Gervais stand up for the free speech rights of, inter alia, me…or Alison Chabloz, or David Icke, or Jez Turner, or David Irving (etc)…
[Twyford Bridge, a 15th Century bridge at Yalding, Kent. Constructed at least 30 years before the birth of Anne Boleyn —b.1501— on the site of earlier, wooden, bridges]
A giant asteroid, approximately four times larger than the Empire State Building, will zip past the Earth at a min-boggling speed of 47,200 mph as we look forward to the weekend on Friday, May 27.
It was obvious to me almost from the start (about 2 weeks after the first fear-propaganda appeared) that “Covid” was not the deadly plague it was sold as, but the mass of plebs did not wake up until recently; in fact, many have still not woken up fully.
As for Boris-idiot and his pack, their behaviour makes it clear that they had little or no fear of “the virus”, and rightly so. What makes their behaviour so bad is that they colluded in the “panicdemic” scam and, indeed, threw fuel onto its pyre.
"German weapons are on their way". Ukrainian Ambassador gives us a glimpse of the narrative building up as Ukrainian authorities seek to blame their Western allies for the military disaster engulfing their collapsing armed forces. #gratitudehttps://t.co/F7iMdgGbG9
The Ukraine (Russia v. Jew-Zionist Kiev regime) war has been largely a propaganda war, and the Zelensky Kiev-regime side has been far more skilled in that than have been the Russians. However, in the real war, the Russians still have the edge.
Worse than this, it's a direct attack on us the ancestral British people, trying to bury us under waves of involuntary immigration. Treason is out in the open.https://t.co/qmJF4eY0mApic.twitter.com/eVMpJFRQuQ
— TraditionalBritain (@TradBritGroup) May 26, 2022
The members of the present House of Commons must be punished by the people themselves, directly.
Late music
[A.N. Benois, The Bronze Horseman, illustration to the work by Pushkin]
Even the map shown in that article does not tell the whole story, as where we see that fertility in Sweden, France, and Denmark is higher than one might expect; of course, because the map reflects births in those countries, no matter the race or nation of the parents. Many are themselves non-white.
Exactly. The conspirators in and around the UK Government knew perfectly well that “Covid” was not a plague, and carried little risk for almost everyone, but the plebs outside that magic circle were told by Government and msm to fear everything from breathing to pub-going and travelling by train, and were fined and harassed by the new UK toytown police state for engaging in such harmless activities as walking in the Peak District, camping on Welsh hillsides, having a few friends round for drinks, or even visiting girlfriends etc.
Even now, neurotic Jews and others are still wearing their useless silly facemasks.
I had not heard of the “University of West London”. Seems that it was formed out of the former Polytechnic of West London, which itself was, earlier, the Ealing College of Further Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_West_London.
Battlecruiser HMS Hood, seen here in Malta in 1939, was destroyed 81 years ago today during the second World War. Of the 1,418 crew just three survived.
Our political leaders allegedly want to engage with Russia in the Black sea off Odessa. pic.twitter.com/58yw8TuruK
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 24, 2022
The "Militias of Novorossia" painting series on the war in Donbass by Aleksei Kriukov (2015-16): Mozgovoi, Zakharchenko, Motorola, and Givi. pic.twitter.com/9tNaOHezDM
May 23rd is the anniversary of the assassination of the Lugansk commander Alexei Mozgovoi (1975-2015). He was one of the more enigmatic personalities in Donbass and even a poet who predicted his own death, “It’s not so bad to die in May…” pic.twitter.com/IKd33h5Oza
“Britain is co-ordinating with its allies on a potential plan to send warships to the Black Sea port of Odesa to offer a protective escort to ships exporting Ukrainian grain.
Britain, NATO and other nations could create a ‘protective’ corridor to Odesa
It would allow Ukraine to export large amounts of grain needed worldwide
Denmark meanwhile announced it will send US-made missiles to Ukraine
The Boeing Harpoon missiles could help Ukraine to deliver long-distance strikes
The Russian war in Ukraine has exacerbated a global food crisis
The plan would see allied navies clear the area around the southern port of Russian mines before protecting freight ships carrying the vital produce from Putin’s warships according to The Times.
Long-range missiles will also be deployed to deter any Russian attempts to sabotage the corridor.“
[Daily Mail].
This is mad, and carries with it obvious dangers, both of direct conflict between forces of NATO and Russia, and also that the Russians will increase attacks on Odessa itself, to destroy the port area and perhaps the whole city. Odessa is the third-largest city of Ukraine.
It would be tragic were Odessa, a beautiful city in large parts (look on Google Earth or elsewhere), as well as one with a history going back 2,000 years, to be destroyed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa.
[Odessa, c.1900]
[Odessa, 2020]
[part of the harbour area of Odessa in 1960, when it was the largest port of the Soviet Union]
[Chaika —“Seagull”— Beach, Odessa]
[Passage Galleries, Odessa, akin to Leadenhall Market or Burlington Arcade in London, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, or GUM in Moscow]
[Odessa Archaeological Museum]
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The Chinese delegation at Davos refused to participate in the Zelensky dog and pony show and walked out. Media coverage called this incident a clear signal of China’s position on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CxbIWQGyM1
This worldwide situation is not straightforward but, in part, is the New World Order [NWO] and ZOG [Zionist Occupation Governments] in opposition to states not part, or so much part, of that (notably, Russia).
It is a lie that sanctions against Russia will stop the war, they will only impoverish the citizens of the EU. If the EU really wanted to prevent the financing of wars, it would impose the same sanctions on the United States and Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/Aiy1gpzLao
— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) May 20, 2022
Quite @witty_original. In fact no modern civilised country treats minority language speakers as badly as Ukraine treats Russian speakers. Last time I looked, French had a higher status than Russian in Ukraine. That's just silly. @cobgreathttps://t.co/P4M52f6get
Evgenii Poddubnyi reported on the ground from Afghanistan, Syria (Aleppo, Palmyra), North Caucasus, Donbass, among others. Produced films that participated in the Cannes Festival. Received multiple awards for reporting + for courage.
That Shaun Walker (Guardian drone) seems to have missed the way British TV reporters are often seen dressed and accoutred these days.
Journalists for major msm orgs are often pretty ignorant. I recall encountering an American in 1988, the only other customer in the rather nice marble-floored cafe at the old Warsaw Airport (the terminal I knew was remodelled in the 1990s, then demolished and rebuilt a number of years ago, the new one being finished in 2015).
Not many people were travelling from Warsaw —or to it— on that dark and snowy evening in mid-December 1988.
The American (I strongly suspect Jew) turned out to be the Newsweek correspondent for not only Poland but the whole of Eastern Europe, though based in Bonn, then capital of West Germany.
Conversation revealed that said American knew little about Poland, even as compared to me, and I myself was little more than a casual visitor who had been there a few times.
Also, imagine the idea— the whole of Eastern Europe covered by one unimpressive “journalist” who did not even live in the region!
The readers of the American news magazines, UK/US newspapers, and the audience for TV reports, give the reporters more credence than they usually deserve.
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Donbass-themed paintings by Svetlana Shchibleva: Zakharchenko and a typical rural house labeled “people live here” shot up by Ukraine’s armed forces. Photos with the same text for comparison. pic.twitter.com/Y44twhp8bI
The 18th-century former coaching inn nestled by the clear waters of the River Coln in the village of Bibury, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. Englishness. 🏴 pic.twitter.com/pKQ9Z6BKog
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 24, 2022
I have driven past there a few times, though quite a few years ago. Picturesque.
Yesterday's #conspiracytheory becomes just another confirmed fact. All those cancelled off social media for questioning the #Covid Plague hysteria deserve reinstatement & apologies. But we'll all get the #WHOTreaty instead.https://t.co/qdezLyKbiE
I didn't agree with him when he was in his provocative NS phase, I don't agree with everything he says now, but #AndrewAnglin has much to say that deserves to be heard. Perhaps the most censored man in history is now back on the clear Web, pass it on!https://t.co/vnmQ9pBIPd
Very annoying (understatement) to see other cartoonists, who did nothing to oppose the mad tyranny of lockdowns, and many of whom attacked me for doing so, now drawing cartoons highlighting the awful 'cost of living crisis' they helped to create.
All my cartoons are hand drawn and painted in watercolour. Original artworks can be purchased on my website along with high quality prints, framed or unframed.https://t.co/0GnYs3wDLapic.twitter.com/S2iKzfdTTD
[Ukraina Hotel, Moscow, where I myself stayed in 1993]
“Ostalgie”
I am at present about halfway through reading The Stasi Files: East Germany’s Secret Operations Against Britain, by Anthony Glees, which was published in 2003.
Just saw this hearsay comment (somewhere else):
“The nostalgia referred to is called Ostalgie in German. Ost means East and Nostalgie means Nostalgia. Well, East Germany is still behind the Western part of the country, sadly. And the Ostalgie is there for a reason. I once talked to a man, an Ossie, a former East Berliner. In 2010 he told me: “I used to have one job. I couldn’t go where I wanted, for example Paris or London. But I could go on vacation to Prague, Budapest and the East-German and Polish coasts. We always went on summer holidays. Now, I have two jobs, and I barely make enough money to sustain myself. I can’t go anywhere these days. I haven’t been on a holiday for over 20 years now.”
Again, every story has at least two sides. The repression noted by the author of the book I am presently reading was real, but that was not the whole story, just as a picture of happy, perhaps wealthy, Americans enjoying the surf in Southern California is not the whole story about the USA.
I myself only saw the DDR/East Germany for a couple of days (in the summer of 1988). Not a terribly good impression (I have blogged on or around it in the past) but I have seen worse.
I sometimes wonder whether the East German rulers would not have been better to allow more travel to the West, and to allow their citizens to stay and work there at will. They might have found that quite a few returned, in the end, if given more freedom to come and go.
Of course, the drain of population East-West from 1945-1961 (1961 being when the Wall went up) was part of the reason, to stop that drain, but the Wall was a propaganda coup for the West. How could it not be? What kind of state needs to imprison its citizens? Etc.
The same factors might have been true of the Soviet Union.
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I am trying to work out how many of the prophecies of doom have come true over my 75 years. I think it is a nice round number.
The 50 year old woman counting her pennies to see if she can get the bus to Bournemouth to go shopping will be mighty pleased at Hampshire's effort. pic.twitter.com/d5Dcm8GZWx
I have tried to cover this issue before on the blog. Not easy, mainly because earnings of barristers in private practice (i.e. not salaried employees working for government or companies) vary widely, indeed wildly. Anything from almost pennies to a million or more a year.
The general public tends to think of barristers averaging at least a couple of hundred thousand a year, but in fact many (especially those doing legally-aided criminal and family law work) are earning well under £100K, and many of those are making below £50K.
Needless to say, the public does not feel very sorry for those earning as much or more than they themselves do, but at the same time, barristers do have many extra expenses, which can take thousands or even tens of thousands off their gross income.
In the end, there has to be an effective court system, and that does mean having at least a corps of advocates, and that composed of at least reasonably proficient persons, which in turn posits the need for adequate remuneration.
I have no real axe to grind here. When I was at the ordinary practising Bar (1992-1996 and then 2002-2008), my work was partly (and after 1996, entirely) non-legally-aided. Also, I am scarcely likely to be overly kind about a profession the regulators of which allowed themselves to be manipulated by Jew-Zionist troublemakers who complained about me on political grounds (long after I ceased actual work as a barrister): see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.
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Thank you- I tried to explain this to a German Lawyer friend today (I said some serious sounding words like ‘cab rank priniciple’ and ‘queen’s council’ but I ran out of steam)- I’ll send him to this feed next time
Seems unaware that “Queen’s Counsel” is spelled thus, not “queen’s council“. Writes books on the criminal justice systems of several countries, apparently. Also, it should have read “German lawyer“, not “German Lawyer“. Oh, and “principle“, not “priniciple“…
[Daily Mail map showing apparent state of play as of 10 March 2022]
I do not have comment re. that map specifically, beyond what I wrote yesterday, i.e. that the Russian immediate strategy seems to be to draw a line from Kharkov to Dnipro (former Dnepropetrovsk) and then down to where Russian forces are near Zaporozhye, to defeat all Ukrainian forces east of that line, and to occupy everywhere east of that line.
The Russians are now playing what is called, in chess, a positional game, relying on broad strategy and slow accretions, rather than swift tactics and bold moves.
Ukraine is now, having been for 30 years close to being a “failed state”, a complete shell of a state, at least in the east. The latest statistics show that its economy has collapsed by 50% or more already. It has limited vehicle fuel, and the besieged areas lack not only fuel, but food, ammunition, and even water in some cases.
Russian forces in Ukraine face logistical problems —unsurprising in a country the size of France— but not shortages as such. Time is on the Russian side in that sense. Their forces can be resupplied.
I should think that the Russians will start to target any large Ukrainian troop concentrations, as well as resupply lines, using more powerful missiles launched from inside Russia.
I remember well driving down the deserted Gallipoli Peninsula in April 2001, eventually reaching the ferry across from the collection of small buildings on that side, to what is now called Canakkale, the town on the other side of the water. Darkness was about to fall as we drove, with only a handful of other cars, motorbikes, and small trucks, onto the deck of the ferry.
[the Canakkale ferry]
I see from the Daily Mail report that the —I presume— now-superseded ferry crossing took 90 minutes. In my memory, the crossing took only about 30 minutes, which shows how faulty memory can be, I suppose.
[the very recently opened Canakkale Bridge, Turkey]
The return journey, three months later, in July of 2001, and in a very hot daytime, was considerably busier; the small ferry was full of cars, though mostly Turkish. As mentioned, I had driven in April from the UK to Turkey (eventually to Mediterranean Turkey), but only a very few foreigners from Western Europe then did that (and maybe few do even in 2022).
I spent about 3 days in Canakkale in April 2001; a large town, though not busy at that time of year (it was rather cold, with even a dusting of snow on the ground one day, and drizzly another day).
I suppose that most if not all traffic will now use that impressive bridge.
21 years ago. It seems almost like a different life…
Ukraine
I read that, for the first time, a Ukrainian missile has destroyed an arms storage area in Russia itself, at Belgorod, some 50 miles inside Russian territory. That certainly plays into the hands of Putin, who makes the point, at least impliedly, that Moscow is only 300 miles from Ukraine at the nearest point.
We read in the Western msm that Russian troops are pulling back from some areas near Kiev (or, as BBC, Sky etc have decided to call it, “Keeev“).
Kiev is essential to the outcome of this invasion which has become a war. Failing to secure Kiev means, pretty much, losing the war, especially for Putin and Russia.
If the Russian plan was (as I think, and suggested, was the case) to take over at least both Ukraine east of the river Dnieper, and the littoral areas of Ukraine on and near the Black Sea and Sea of Azov coasts, i.e. about a third to a half of the entire country, then Kiev had and has to be taken, because a. it is the accepted capital of Ukraine; b. it is the largest city (3 million inhabitants, pre-invasion); c. it sits on the river Dnieper between the east and west of Ukraine.
If Putin really does stick just with the two regions of the southeast centred on Donetsk and Lukhansk, or even those regions and also the eastern cities (the largest by far being Kharkov), then Russia has, despite any gained territory, lost this war.
Putin and Russia can only succeed if Kiev is taken and held, if all eastern Ukraine is taken (and held), and if all coastal areas (including the city of Odessa) are taken and held.
What should have been and could have been a swift operation lasting maybe a week, and resulting in both an easy victory and in little loss of life, with the Jewish regime of Zelensky eliminated, and a new government installed, has become a bloody, painful, and horrible mess because the Russian General Staff failed, because the GRU failed, because the SVR failed, and because the organization of Russia’s vast army has been shown to be sluggish, shambolic, and unfit for duty. The same seems to be true of many of the Russian soldiers.
Stalin would have shot a hundred senior military and intelligence officers by now.
This brings into question the whole nature of the “Putinist” regime in Russia. The old Soviet Union was dying in the 1980s (“the Soviet knight dying inside his rusting armour“, so to speak), but even so still functioned.
Yeltsin’s chaotic regime, which I myself saw at first hand in the Moscow of 1993, permitted the (mainly) Jew oligarchs to exploit the bejesus out of Russia. Putin came in as national leader in 1999, and since then has in many respects improved life in Russia from what it was under Yeltsin, and also upgraded the armed forces. What Putin has not been able to do is to formulate an ideology that goes beyond Great-Russian nationalism.
The “Putinist” facade of ideology, following on from Soviet Marxism-Leninism, and also following the crazed and chaotic crony-capitalism under Yeltsin, is a mere pastiche: some Great-Russian nationalism, a bit of Russian Orthodox traditional religion, a more statist form of crony-capitalism, a bit of Western consumerism; a bit of this, a bit of that.
When push came to shove, the ideological emptiness at the core of Putinism was unable to withstand any pressure. Look at the stories coming out of Ukraine: soldiers deserting, with their weapons (including a tank!), and for money and a passport out; soldiers having to loot grocery stores because they are not fed; ill-discipline generally.
Even if some of the stories are Kiev-regime propaganda, not all are. Morale in the invading army is obviously at rock-bottom, and the lack of any proper ideology is central to what must be seen as near-failure to complete the mission in Ukraine.
The death, hurt, and destruction now being inflicted on civilians and their companion animals (and their homes) is quite sickening, and need never have happened.
Having said all that, Russia can still at least complete the outline of this invasion. It must now either take or destroy the cities of the east and south now being besieged. With extra armies brought from reserves, it must be possible to take most of those cities almost intact; how much more fuel, food, and ammunition can the defenders have?
Once Russia has secured the major cities and rural sections of the east and south, it can move on blockaded Odessa (the third-largest city after Kiev and Kharkov) and then, with the entire east and south secured, on Kiev itself.
Everything would be easier for Russia if Zelensky himself could be located and either captured or eliminated. Why was that, in the pre-invasion period, not prioritized and carried out by the GRU or SVR?
Even if Russia prevails, it will now be a bitter victory, and a bitter harvest, but the alternative is for Russia to lose, and that will be followed at some point by the fall of Putin, and by a Russia in chaos again, bearing in mind the Western sanctions.
Russia needs to find a new ideology in which it can believe.
Russia in Ukraine needs to make some game-changing moves. Soon.
Unless somebody coughs. Then all children are denied the right to an education until our clutch of demonic witch doctors deem it 'safe'. https://t.co/2ickgER2N7
What sign shows most clearly how screwed the UK is, and is becoming?
The fact that part-Jew chancer and liar “Boris”-idiot was ever made MP, Cabinet minister, and now Prime Minister?
The fact that the sheep-population accepted, most of them, the “Covid” police state, facemask nonsense etc?
The fact that the sheep-population will not do anything serious to protest against, stlll less stop, the black/brown migration invasion (even to the extent of voting for anti-immigration candidates)?
The fact that many, perhaps most, Brits seem to think that Ukraine is somehow allied to the UK, and that the corrupt Jewish regime there is somehow worth supporting, or even going to war on behalf of?
The fact that there is, really, no Parliamentary Opposition now?
How about the fact that, by maybe as early as 2040, the UK will probably be majority non-white?
Of course Blair still wants it. He’s evil, and a creature of Evil.
Sharron Davies says 'we spend millions trying to spot people having the tiniest advantage by taking drugs… but yet women are supposed to move over so that males are able to come into their sports'https://t.co/hOTr09v3Rs
With Tory MP #JamieWallis in the news for his trans announcement, here's a reminder of an earlier escapade – specially for lazy & incompetent journalists. #beyondsatire "Bridgend, twinned with Gommorrah, Phuket & Greenwich Village".https://t.co/T110Twd9nB
Well, credit where it's due. The #BBC does an actual piece of investigative journalism & concludes that #ukrainianheroes are torturing POWs. Mind you, if it wasn't for the scraps of freedom still left on social media, no one would know & they'd be silent. https://t.co/4FHfb6bKCz
I raised the question about Kiev-regime treatment of Russian prisoners days if not weeks ago, and about how Western journalists seemed not even to be asking “where are you keeping your prisoners?“.
A very unsuitable person to be an MP, or in any position of responsibility. Now being treated as some kind of “hero” (or should that be “heroine”?) because of his adherence to the “trans” stuff, but look at his record of dishonesty! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Wallis#Career_before_politics.
The House of Commons is now a kind of Augean Stable…
I doubt that I am the only British citizen downright angry at the collection of idiots, corrupt criminals, mediocrities, foreign agents, moneygrubbers —and simple fuck-ups— now sitting on the benches of both houses of Parliament.
No, the notion that diversity is an unalloyed good is, and always was, absurd. It was invented to shut up members of British communities who could see that mass immigration was imposing unwanted cultural change. Their unease had to be dismissed as irrational and immoral.
One of Mrs Sunak's companies, Digme Fitness, has gone bust, owing around £6.1million in what is understood to be unpaid VAT and PAYE. They also received up to £635,000 in furlough payments I bet @RishiSunak doesn't know anything about this company eitherhttps://t.co/D2EUqV7Hok
— Simon says, DO NOT TRUST RISHI (@GapsinSupport) March 31, 2022
Import the blacks and browns, import their behaviours and ethics…
In a swamp of revolting yellow press warmongering over the #UkraineRussiaCrisis, one lone & brave voice of truth and reason: "PETER HITCHENS: Why I blame the arrogant, foolish West for the Ukraine crisis" https://t.co/B6NXYGTWTF
I have not seen the term “yellow press” for many years. Almost “Ostalgie“…
The hypocrisy deceit of our political & media over the #Ukraine is sickening. First war in Europe since 1945? Wrong to change borders by force? Only if you forget the murderous 78 day #NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 to hand Kosovo over to Islamist cut-throats. pic.twitter.com/cIquewXjJs
I'm sure you remember #JackDee & #jimmycarr both making a stand for MY right to free speech about the deadly serious hushed up problem of #grooming gangs, back in 2004. If only people had listened to their edgy bravery then…. #jokelivesmatterhttps://t.co/93VtO1p8w3
The sanctions against Russia may damage Russia economically, but are a double-edged sword— the economies of Western and Central Europe will also be damaged.
Politically, it may be that Russia will give practical support to social-nationalism in Europe. I hope so.
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German FM Annalena Baerbock on halting Nord Stream 2:
“For us as German government, it was important to show that for a free and democratic Ukraine, we are willing to also accept consequences for our national economy. Peace and freedom in Europe don’t have a price tag.”
Easy enough for a German pseudo-democratic drone of her sort, dragging down hundreds of thousands of Euros a year, to say that. What about the millions of poor or modestly-paid Germans?
Chomsky is asked about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and points out the obvious which is entirely absent in Western media: "The question we ought to be asking ourselves is why did NATO even exist after 1990? If NATO was to stop Communism, why is it now expanding to Russia?" pic.twitter.com/mkxoYlBeo8
There have been quite a few female politicians like that in the USA in the past several decades: shrill, anti-“racist”, anti-“sexist”, “pro-choice” (i.e. pro-abortion), semi-educated, semi-deranged, entirely irrelevant. I suppose that Hillary Clinton was the most prominent.
Well, after all, Churchill himself once exploded with “...traditions of the Navy? What are they? Rum, sodomy, and the lash“. Harsh…That must have been a good bottle.
“We” have not “given up“; we have woken up. There is a difference.
I was in a large Tesco store in the early evening. Very few mask-wearers left. Now mostly the hypochondriacs and the mentally not quite stable. Rough guess— about 5% still wearing their facemask muzzles.
Still believe that hundreds of billions wasted on stupid schemes such as “furlough payments”, “test and trace”, “eat out to help out”, loans and grants to failing businesses etc came free of charge? Ha. Think again.
Well, I could find them on a map, even before the “crisis” began, but that is true in the UK (even now) of only, maybe, one in a hundred, if that. In the USA? About one in ten thousand, I should think.
💬 President #Putin: One glance at the map is enough to see to what extent Western countries have kept their promise to refrain from #NATO’s eastward expansion. They just cheated. We've seen five waves of NATO expansion – its military infrastructure has reached Russia’s borders. pic.twitter.com/P9xhtUjIs3
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