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Diary Blog, 7 November 2023

Morning music

[Petrograd, 1917]

Today is the 106th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12716987/NHS-age-limits-health-screening-save-older-peoples-lives.html

The NHS is becoming unfit for use. It has the excellent aspect of being free at the point of use, but increasingly that has to be weighed against what are said to be worsening outcomes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12716051/Incest-rape-horror-Three-brothers-subjected-sister-years-sickening-sexual-assaults-jailed-Ireland-abusing-child-relatives-taught-rape-father.html

Irish tinker/”traveller” news.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12717581/NADINE-DORRIES-Not-convinced-Boris-forced-sinister-clique-No-10-Iain-Duncan-Smith.html

More from Nadine Dorries about the sinister No.10 clique involving Dominic Cummings, as well as expenses fraudster, drunk, cocaine-abuser and puppet of the Jewish lobby Michael Gove, and others.

The advisers to William Hague at the time, Michael Gove, Danny Finkelstein and the like — that’s who they were.”

[Daily Mail]

Wouldn’t you know it? The Jew scribbler, Finkelstein, was allegedly involved in the secretive cabal(s) even two decades ago. Typical. That Zionist bastard used to tweet to people asking them not to retweet me (a Jewish pack had me expelled from Twitter in 2018). He is now in the totally discredited House of Lords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Finkelstein.

Contrived machinations at the heart of a state. Reminiscent of the 1940 film Jud Suss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud_S%C3%BC%C3%9F].

[https://archive.org/details/jud-su-ss-english-subbed-1940].

“They” destroy anything they touch.

My own view of Cummings from 2020: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/03/dominic-cummings-a-government-of-dystopia-and-lunacy-posing-as-genius/.

More: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/10/les-eminences-grises-of-dystopia/.

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark the UK.

I also find it incredible that there is someone who has been at the heart of affairs (read that how you will) at No.10 for many years, one Smith, who was apparently the head of a company engaged in organizing discreet and expensive “swinger” parties; and that creature’s much younger wife, a Pakistani called Munira Mirza, was at one time the closest adviser to “Boris” Johnson.

Could the “Conservative” Party be any more rotten?

Had I the power and position, I should institute a massive purge across Westminster. Stalin and Hitler would both have done the same. I might even outdo them both. The whole system is corrupt, rotten, and deserving of a chistka.

It can be seen that the Jew-Zionist element runs through the whole story like Brighton rock. Look at Gove. That little bastard has been a key mouthpiece for Israel since he was at the Times (with Finkelstein). Regular readers will be aware that one of the 5 tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 (it now turns out, unlawfully, as well as wrongfully) was one critical of Gove, whom I described (entirely accurately) as a “pro-Israel, pro-Jew expenses cheat“; I had no idea then that he was a regular cocaine-abuser and drunk as well.

On the facts, one wonders how deeply Israeli Intelligence is embedded in Downing Street. Pretty deeply, I imagine, looking at the Israeli flag being projected onto No.10 after dark recently. (((Occupation))).

Tweets seen

The state which terrorism founded now arms a new generation of terroristic Jewish land-thieves.

Chris Bryant: expenses fraudster, Common Purpose drone, Labour Friends of Israel member, among other defaults. A sleazy little weasel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12720179/wework-bankrupt-worth-47-billion-founder-adam-neumann-lavish-lifestyle.html

WeWork, once pegged as a pioneering solution to modern office constraints and valued at an astounding $47bn, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.

It is a devastating fall from grace for the desk-rental company founded in 2010, which on New Year’s Eve 2022 operated 43.9mn square feet of space globally.

The company was one of the great startup success stories of the early 2010s and had built an empire spanning 100 countries at the time of its peak valuation in 2019.

We are here in order to change the world,’ its eccentric cofounder Adam Neumann once explained triumphantly. ‘Nothing less than that interests me.’

As it filed for bankruptcy this week, the company once worth $47bn was reportedly valued at just $45mn.

Adam Neumann, now 44, founded WeWork in 2010, promising an alternative to traditional office rental for modern businesses looking to attract top candidates with a comfortable work environment on a budget.

His dream was to reinvent the work of work, and his passion shone through to investors as he spoke of replicating the feeling of togetherness he had experienced growing up in Israel, that he felt was lacking in the West….Neumann once joked he could one day become Israel’s Prime Minister, or ‘President of the world’ – and reportedly said he hoped to live forever.

Neumann continued attending meetings barefoot and insisted poorly-paid staff should use a ‘sense of purpose’ and free beer to pay their bills, according to Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork.

Neumann has continued to seek opportunities in business despite the setback.

Even as the company he founded files for bankruptcy, the entrepreneur is still worth $2.2bn in 2023 according to Forbes.

[Daily Mail].

Yet another Jew fraud. He has left the investors with a loss of USD $9.99 out of every $10 invested, yet he and his wife have managed to keep their claws on over two billion dollars. Or about nine billion Israeli shekels.

…and yet another…

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23890534.oxford-chippy-conman-run-two-years-jailed/.

More tweets

There are rumors that due to a shortage of armored vehicles, the Israeli army has decided to form an armored brigade from Merkava-3 tanks, which are in storage. It is noteworthy that Merkava Mk 3 tanks are most often seen in battles in the Gaza Strip, while most Mk 4 tanks are ready to escalate the conflict on the border with Lebanon.”

I saw a facemask loonie myself a few days ago; a middleaged man striding into Waitrose. First one spotted for a few weeks.

Late tweets

The USA and Ukraine are behind the scenes accusing each other of the failure of the Ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield, writes “Washington Post” columnist Max Booth.

“Why hasn’t Ukraine made progress? Behind the scenes, there is a lot of recrimination between Ukrainian and American officials. The Americans privately complain that the Ukrainians have failed to launch a NATO-style combined arms offensive and have returned to the war of attrition characteristic of Soviet military strategy, while diverting desperately needed personnel in secondary operations around Bahmut,” Booth assesses.”

Late music

Diary Blog, 5 November 2023

Morning music

[painting by Volegov]

Battles past

Tweets seen

In 1981, Dr. Michael Shannon worked tirelessly through the night to successfully rescue a premature baby boy.

30 years later, in 2011, Dr. Shannon was trapped in his burning SUV following a collision with a semi-truck. Miraculously, he was rescued from the blazing vehicle by Chris Trokey, a paramedic with the Orange County Fire Authority.

Remarkably, it was revealed that Chris Trokey was the same premature baby Dr. Shannon had delivered three decades earlier.

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711197/PETER-HITCHENS-disdain-brave-scientist-tells-great-Covid-19-whitewash.html

Nadine Dorries on Dominic Cummings

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711263/NADINE-DORRIES-Dominic-Cummings-Downing-Street-Prime-Minister.html

I have to say that my blog posts about Cummings from 2019 and 2020 have held up rather well:

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_Smith.

In another society, at another time, the people, maddened by the evil exposed, would have stormed Downing Street, dragged out the schemers and evildoers, and executed them in the street.

Britain, even degraded as it now is, deserves better than this rabble.

More tweets

We often see or hear people claiming that phenomena in society are somehow inevitable— homelessness, grotesque inequalities of capital and/or income etc, when in fact these are usually the result of political choices by those in power.

Douglas Murray becomes ever more disgusting. He seems to be saying, along with the Jew he is showcasing, that the population of Gaza should again be without electricity (which most are anyway), and should be suffering more, as the Israeli Jews rocket and bomb effectively defenceless residential areas.

I see tweets etc from people speculating on what discreditable information Israeli or other Jews have on Murray, to make him such a complete puppet for Israel and Jewry. I have no idea, in detail, but my feeling is that it is a classic carrot-stick set-up: Murray, from modest beginnings, was awarded a scholarship to Eton when aged in his early/mid teens. He attended Oxford University. He has made a considerable and lucrative career sitting on the pseudo-national side of UK politics: Spectator, “Free Speech Union” etc.

The only area where I would agree with Murray would be re. immigration (he apparently opposes it, on the mass scale at least), but he never mentions, except in glowing terms, the Jewish immigration to the UK (1880s to 1940s).

Murray will never criticize anything Jewish; he may fear retribution. In any event, his formula has worked rather well for him so far.

So there it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Murray_(author).

Meanwhile, we see Jews on Twitter/X calling for arrests of any protesters re. Gaza for “terrorism”. Typical. Just typical.

Michael Crick seems very very full of himself, and is a typical System msm drone. An effective journalist but within set limits. Such people rarely look at the big picture, in this case the degradation of Britain through mass immigration, migration invasion, over-population, and also via cultural trash. He also seems to ignore the existence of the Jewish lobby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crick.

Quite so. Powell could have done what the last tweeter suggests; equally, he might have founded his own party at an earlier stage. He had the name-recognition etc to do that effectively. He failed because he was the prisoner of his own “Establishment” mentality, despite (or perhaps because of) having come from modest origins to be an MP, a Cabinet minister (in the 1950s), a brigadier (WW2), and a professor (1937) at the age of 25 (and long before the days when professors became two-a-penny).

Powell might have overthrown the “three main parties” scam, and taken much of the public with him:

Powell attracted widespread attention for his “Rivers of Blood” speech, delivered on 20 April 1968 to the General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre. In it, Powell criticised the rates of immigration into the UK, especially from the New Commonwealth, and opposed the anti-discrimination legislation Race Relations Bill. The speech drew sharp criticism from some of Powell’s own party members[1] and The Times,[2] and Conservative Party leader Edward Heath dismissed Powell a day after the speech from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary.

In the aftermath of the speech, several polls suggested that 67 to 82 per cent of the UK population agreed with Powell’s opinions.[3][4][5]” [Wikipedia].

Instead of doing that, Powell joined up with the Ulster Unionists. By doing that, he automatically became just a fringe politician. I suppose that he wanted to be a new Parnell, the head of a bloc of Westminster MPs. If so, he was deluding himself. Parnell had, at peak, 85 MPs; Powell’s UUP had only half a dozen, and he was not even their leader.

What might have been…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell.

More tweets

“They” are just monsters when given or permitted power.

Almost worse than, and quite as sickening as, the behaviour of the armed forces of the Israeli Jews has been the weaselling behaviour of Jews in the UK, who claim (without any justification) to be “afraid”, yet who —many/most of them— either cheer on the Israeli attacks, or claim that bombing little children (who are at least a quarter of the population of Gaza) is “self-defence”, or in any case justified revenge for the attack by Hamas on southern Israel a month ago.

Slight hyperbole, of course, but true enough, anyway…

Look at the Old Testament. Ingrained mindset…

A good attitude. I myself have always taken the view that “one human soul is a big audience“, so it matters to me only slightly whether I get 1,000 hits on the blog in one day, 100, 10, or even 1.

They started by asking you nicely to get vaccinated. They told you it would stop the spread and release you from lockdowns. They lied.

Then for those remaining, they moved onto coercion and fear tactics. They tried to turn families against each other. They destroyed relationships.

For those who held their ground, they pulled out the big guns. People were banned from public spaces, they created a two tier society. Canada removed children from their unvaccinated father. Australia put people in camps.

They will do the same with 15 minute cities, a cashless society, AI brain chips and the list goes on. They start by convincing as many as possible to do it for their own good. Then they gradually increase the pressure until almost everyone complies. They know they can’t get everyone, but they will try. And they have far worse up their sleeve.

What they have planned next will make the scamdemic seem like a day at the beach in comparison. I’m not hear to spread fear, or negativity. This is the reality we face. Now is the time to be ready for the next stage. Never, ever let them do this to you again.

Most people will comply, though, for reasons of convenience, money, careerism, whatever. A separation of the sheep from the goats has already started, and not only via the “scamdemic”/”panicdemic”. Various System campaigns.

The few who are awake are the better future, the many who comply are the evil future.

“Campaign Against Antisemitism” rally in Parliament Square

The so-called “CAA” held a kind of rally in or by Parliament Square today. From film I saw on Twitter/X, looked as though it consisted of a few hundred Jews. The “CAA”, however claims “thousands“. They could not tell the truth if it bit them.

More tweets

Late tweets

I predicted years ago that the missiles used by Palestinian Arab forces would become far more sophisticated than the early models, which were much like large fireworks. That was about a decade ago. Think a decade ahead. What will confront the Israelis then? Israel is still the pre-eminent military power in the region, but this may be the tipping point for Israel, even if the Israeli Jews flatten all of Gaza, and then kill or drive out its 2M suffering people.

Late music

[Arnold Bocklin, Triton and Nereid]

Diary Blog, 16 August 2020

Coronavirus

It is reported that, yesterday, 3 people died, in the whole of the UK, from or at least with Coronavirus. Three people. Out of nearly 70 million in the country. Out of several thousand being tested every day now as having Coronavirus.

It follows that there now is no substantial public health threat in the UK from Coronavirus; what does exist is panic and unwarranted fear, being stoked up deliberately by the UK government and its advisers.

The facemask nonsense has nothing to do with public health. It is as divorced from reality as the Dutch Tulip Craze of the 17th Century.

The same is true of the quarantine nonsense, which has already led to a rash of stories about how ingenious Brits have made it back to our sceptred shores with minutes to spare before they would have had to “self-isolate” (quaere: does the government really believe that people are going to “self-isolate”? It’s another “fantasy law” from Boris-idiot).

As to those just beating the quarantine deadline, we have had, in the msm today, bicycling families just breasting the tape with minutes to spare, and an octet which, having performed in a monastery in Normandy, hired a French fishing boat to get back to Newhaven in time. Stylish. In all, a Dunkirk-lite reprise. As Marx said, “first time tragedy, second time farce”…(and cf. Churchill/Boris-idiot…).

A quarantine (even an ineffective “self-isolation” one) might have had some logic behind it in March or April, but not now. Like the facemask nonsense, it is completely pointless.

Another point worth noting is that the countries now seeing upsurges in “the virus” are the very ones stupid enough to have imposed severe “lockdowns”: Spain, Italy, France. Hello? Is anyone listening?

Meanwhile…

Thousands of people could die of cancer after the number of urgent hospital referrals plunged by 43 per cent during lockdown…As fewer patients see their GPs with cancer symptoms – before being referred to specialists for scans – the disease is being picked up too late, experts fear.” [Daily Mail] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8632271/Thousands-people-die-cancer-urgent-hospital-referrals-plunged-250-000.html

Another story from “enriched” Britain

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8630829/Rapist-21-attempted-murder-victim-jailed-life.html

The poundland KGB police state

This is what Britain now is, a place where people can be questioned by the police, not for anything truly criminal, but for posting about matters online, even posts which the police themselves accept, and in advance of interview, are not criminal! This is what the police now are— socio-politicized, biased, and riddled with Common Purpose drones at a high level.

Note that that letter was from the Nottinghamshire Police, a force which has one of the least-impressive records in dealing with real crime; the same is true of Derbyshire Police, who have been snooping on and persecuting the satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz for years.

Snowden

Interesting report: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8631747/Trump-says-look-strongly-pardoning-Edward-Snowden-calling-traitor.html

Snowden was obviously not an agent of Russian Intelligence at the start, meaning at the time of his flight from Hawaii. The Russians would have extracted him much more efficiently if he had been an agent. Instead, he went to Hong Kong and messed around there for days, risking capture and/or extradition.

Still, interesting that Trump is considering the possibility of a pardon. Unless, of course, the news is just bait, to interest Snowden in returning to the USA.

Tweets seen

Very strange: a woman who, in effect, “inherited” her seat from her husband (who was recently convicted of some pretty silly sex crimes). A travesty.

As I have written previously on this blog, I repost quite a few Peter Hitchens tweets, not because I am a “supporter” or “fan” of Hitchens, but because he is quite often correct. That especially applies to his views about the “virus” panic and the absurd (and either mistaken or malicious) governmental over-reaction to it.

I have blogged previously about Hitchens himself: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/

Interesting…I blogged only last week about the 2019 General Election, the role of Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, and that Claire Fox peerage: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2020/08/09/diary-blog-9-august-2020/

Of course, Hitchens is right to say that discontent should grow and be expressed now that the State is seriously restricting freedoms such as movement, association, personal clothing, as well as free speech; and the fact is that Parliament now scarcely exists except as a rubber stamp. However, if I were to state my hopes for what might happen, I should no doubt have evil and malicious snoopers reporting me to the “authorities” in what has become a toytown police state. So I stay silent, or at least superficially silent.

Free speech on historical topics again under attack by Jews

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial?CMP=share_btn_tw

A facade of democracy

We see repeatedly that, in the UK, voters vote only for parties, not for individuals. One example was the ignominious defeat of Simon Danczuk in Rochdale in 2017. His first election, in 2010, resulted in a vote-share of about 36%. His second election, in 2015, gave him a vote-share of about 46%. Both times under Labour label. After Danczuk had been deselected by Labour, he tried to get elected as Independent in 2017. Result? 1.8% (883 votes). Fifth place (out of six). The new Labour candidate won, with 58% of the vote.

Another example. Anne Milton was Conservative Party MP for Guildford from 2005. She also won the elections of 2010, 2015 and 2017, at the last of which her vote-share was nearly 55%.

An important distinction from the Danczuk case was there had been no scandal attaching to Anne Milton; she was deselected (the whip taken away by Boris Johnson) purely because of her opposition to “no-deal Brexit” and she was given the chance to stand again as a Conservative Party candidate at Guildford if she dropped her opposition. She refused and stood as Independent.

Anne Milton’s principled stance availed her naught; neither did her 14 years as MP for Guildford, nor her uninvolvement in any expenses scandal (or any other scandal). She got only 7.4% (over 4,000 votes, a 4th place out of 5) at the 2019 General Election. The new Conservative Party candidate won, with about 45%.

While Anne Milton’s defeat in 2019 was more honourable than that of Danczuk, the result, in bottom-line terms, was similar, a bad defeat. Her only consolation: she retained her deposit.

The “main parties” (and that really means just Labour and Conservative) still have a complete stranglehold because the sleepy voters are still voting mainly for a label.

Fear of “the virus”

Look at the tweet below (the reply by “Stalker”):

This is a very good example of the pathology, not of “the virus” itself, but of the fear of it. A teacher in a State secondary school resigns because he fears that he might contract “the virus” by being in the same building or room as children or young persons. Well, it is possible, of course, though unlikely; any such school students infected would probably themselves not show any symptoms and be in no danger.

As for the teacher, yes, he might pick it up from those pupils, though it is probably a thousand to one chance. If the teacher were unlucky and were infected, his chance of needing any medical intervention would be small, hundreds to one. His chance of being seriously affected would be tiny. His chance of dying from “the virus” would be even smaller. His age is not mentioned, but probably under 60, probably under 50. His fear is misplaced.

Thus we see the way in which the fear whipped up by the government of clowns and its ludicrous “SAGE” advisers has led many rather unthinking people to make panicked decisions.

In any case, the alternative is simply to have no schools open until an effective vaccine is found and deployed, which might be months, years, or never. I have little respect for the UK educational system as it is, but the result of, in effect, having no education at all given to the young, would be worse (probably).

A reminder

More tweets

The good folk are unaware when the Devil sits on their shoulder…” [Goethe, Faust]

“Which country are you?”

I tried a quiz I saw online: “which [existing] government most closely matches your political views?” and got “Saudi Arabia”! Ha ha! I think that their site needs a little bit of a tweak or two! https://www.quotev.com/quiz/8888999/t

Tom Watson and Keir Starmer

Well, wouldn’t you know it? Tom Watson (Jewish lobby mouthpiece), is going to get a peerage after all, proposed by Keir Starmer (Jewish lobby mouthpiece). How utterly disgusting.

A few more tweets seen

Personally, I prefer to keep out of this “Labour Party antisemitism” stuff, not because I am afraid of being sued (least of all by the extreme Jewish lobby solicitor of choice, Mark Lewis) but because I am not a Labour supporter or member, and am well-known for being an independent anti-Zionist, overall, and a social nationalist.

I am confident that I can defend myself, should it be necessary, against any charge of defamation by anyone, but I have a copper-bottomed armour anyway, inasmuch as I have no money or real property now, so anyone who sues me will lose out (hugely, I would make sure of that) even if (unlikely) they were to win in court. Checkmate.

Ha ha! I typed, in error, “unkikely” instead of “unlikely“. I suppose that a psychologist could make something of that!

If anyone wants to see what I have written about that self-promoting fake, Mark Lewis, please use the search function on my blog. There are a number of what I think are interesting articles (certainly many thousands of people have seen them). They are quite hard-hitting (though accurate) and date from late 2018 and early 2019 .

Lewis has never threatened to sue me, not once, though I believe —and have reason to believe— that he was involved behind the scenes both in the malicious complaint made about me to the police in early 2017 by the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and in the complaint made about me by “UK Lawyers for Israel” to the Bar Standards Board in 2014 (which resulted in my disbarment in late 2016). See https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/ and https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/

Lewis had the chance to sue me in 2018 or 2019 if he thought that I was libelling him. He was well aware of my blog posts. He never did sue, he never threatened to sue. My impecuniosity may have been part of the reason, but I maintain that another reason was because my blog tells the truth. It is not a pack of lies but true right the way through.

Late music

Diary Blog, 9 August 2020, including thoughts about BBC World Service, Claire Fox and Nigel Farage

An annoying early-morning start to the day, waking up not far past the middle of the night to typical rubbish on the BBC World Service. A programme called United Zingdom, in which what sounded like two Welsh women (one certainly was, being one Lisa Angharad) got together to trash England, the UK, and the British people. One of them apparently has a Singapore passport as well as a British one.

Everything, it seems, is the fault of “the British” (English). They, the English, are basically nasty, “racist” etc. They should not want their own country, language, customs, population. Now Wales, Wales is different! It (apparently) should have its own language etc. The bias and sheer untruth in that little broadcast was incredible.

The woman with the Singapore passport was asked about whether she would prefer to live there and seemed to affirm, though she said that “but they have anti-gay laws there…”, which apparently was a drawback. She then added “…but the British brought those to Singapore“. Ah, so once more the British (and failing that, no doubt any other white Northern Europeans) were to blame! I should have guessed. The other woman then chimed in with “ah, the British again“. Why are we paying (forced to pay) the BBC so that it can pay bitches like that to spout anti-British propaganda?

They should have added that, until the British arrived on the island of Singapore, there was nothing there at all, and had not been for at least 200 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore

Another couple of deliberate inaccuracies: we were told that the Welsh language is vibrant and becoming more spoken, and that there is “a huge upsurge” in Welsh nationalism.

Language: I myself know from experience in the 1980s that Welsh is naturally a first language in some areas, in West Wales especially. It seems however that less than a quarter of the Welsh population as a whole speak Welsh to any useable standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language

Welsh nationalism: Plaid Cymru is only nominally “nationalist” anyway, willing to have people in Wales “whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed [etc]” [Plaid Cymru platform].

Even leaving aside the above, the Plaid electoral performance has been poor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Cymru#Electoral_performance

Plaid Cymru controls only one local council in Wales (out of dozens). It also has 4 out of 40 Westminster MPs (a figure unchanged or not much changed since the 1970s), and in the last (and final) EU elections had elected 1 MEP out of 4 (their best result was in 1999, 2 out of 5).

Conclusion: there is no upsurge of Welsh “nationalism”, let alone a huge one.

The trashing of the World Service has been one of the saddest things over the past 30 years. It was once interesting, lively, truthful, stimulating. 1970s and 1980s. Now, it cannot even seem to be able to tell the time clearly! The World Service seemed to go into a kind of spiral of decline in the 1990s. A Jewish woman whose name I forget was on constantly, and —quelle surprise— obsessed on air about “holocaust” and “Nazis” almost nonstop.

The decline of BBC World Service continued, reaching (I hope) the bottom round about 2010. In the past year or two, there has been a slight improvement, but only slight. There are still only a few worthwhile programmes, the best being The Forum, especially when presented by Bridget Kendall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjvc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Kendall.

Martin Bell, the famous broadcaster, journalist and one-term MP [Independent, Tatton] made the point several times that, in dangerous parts of the world (Iraq, Bosnia etc) people know the BBC World Service, yet the World Service is funded on a shoestring compared to rather useless projects such as the British Council [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council]

I really value the BBC World Service, which is precisely why I despise what it has largely become. As Nietzsche wrote: “the great despisers are also the great reverers” [Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra].

Tweets seen

Here we see science popularizer Professor Brian Cox putting forward, yet again, his tendentious political views. The sort of person all too common in the UK, meaning someone who wants the country to become even more of a multikulti dustbin. After all, “I’m all right, Jack”.

There are two types of scientist: the ones doing serious research and perhaps making real and even great discoveries or leaps forward; then there are the others, who are basically popular in the mass media, write books popular with the public, are on TV frequently, rack up official honours (and plenty of money) for all that. Nuff said…

https://twitter.com/osindileyo/status/1292355973420654592?s=20

https://twitter.com/ericbwfc/status/1292356271090302977?s=20

Cox is a good example of the “clever person” (not infrequently someone of scientific background) who has come to think that he is a good deal more clever than he is and who, at least when out of his specialist area or areas, is rather silly.

Incidentally, he presumably meant to say “arrant nonsense“, not “errant nonsense“…

There are huge numbers of bien-pensant idiots in the UK, who love to think of themselves as kind, compassionate, generous etc, as they virtue-signal on Twitter and elsewhere. The famous or infamous ones, such as Yvette Cooper, Lily Allen, Gary Lineker etc are only the tip of the iceberg. Below their capital, income, and public-recognition levels, there are thousands, perhaps even millions of others.

I hesitate to say that none of those people, the “refugees welcome” dimwits, would ever accommodate migrant-invaders in their own homes. A few of the brainwashed and obscure ones might, just as, out of tens of millions, a very few people swim the Channel (to France, usually!), or learn to speak 10 languages fluently.

I met a man once who worked near Elephant and Castle, London, and who could speak, not 10 languages, admittedly, but certainly 8 languages fluently, and those languages did include some of the near-“impossible” ones, such as Finnish and Hungarian.

Such people are rare. They are not the general run. Most of the “refugees welcome” dimwits want the State and/or other people (which is all the State is, in the end) to house and feed those migrant-invaders, and to educate the children of the invaders. The dimwits prioritize the invaders over English/British people such as the ex-soldiers sleeping on the streets, or the middle-aged Brits struggling to survive after the (basically Jewish-influenced) “austerity” of 2010-2020 and the socio-economic upheavals which have occurred and those which lie ahead.

Interesting report

Israel has the highest per capita COVID-19 morbidity rate in the world, according to Gamzu. As of Thursday, the total number of cases in Israel stood at 78,514 with 569 deaths and 53,362 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker.” [Jerusalem Post] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/tourism-officials-were-ready-for-foreign-visitors-when-skies-open-up-637789

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House of Lords, Brexit Party and Nigel Farage

I thought that Richard Tice, 2-i-c of Brexit Party, had been nominated for a peerage; apparently not. Claire Fox has, though. What a strange nomination that is.

I first saw Claire Fox [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox] on TV about a decade ago. I think that it was on Newsnight. Or Daily Politics. I think the former. She was supposedly the head of something called The Institute of Ideas. I was curious enough to look it up via Internet. There was not much to see. The “Institute” seemed to consist mainly of Claire Fox, and (I found out after a while) seemed to be funded mainly by a City of London hedge fund speculator Jew, whose name I cannot at present recall.

As for Claire Fox herself, as seen on TV, she was not at all impressive, not convincing; there was something fake about her and her “Institute”, even before I started to look into it.

I found the “Institute of Ideas” to be little more than a facade; indeed, little more than a catchy name. I was unable to discover much about it. The whole thing seemed opaque, insubstantial. One could not grasp hold of it.

I see now that others, such as the journalist and TV news presenter, Jon Snow, had similar problems:

” The news broadcaster Jon Snow, according to a Guardian article, withdrew from an event to which he had been invited by the Royal Society of Arts after realising the IoI’s involvement. Snow felt there was a lack of transparency. ‘I didn’t have a clear idea of who they were,’ he said.  This lack of transparency affects almost every aspect of IoI events, as the article notes:  ‘From the platforms and the floor, the LM [Living Marxism] line is assiduously promoted by the magazine’s supporters and contributors – often without clear attribution of their affiliations.’ ” [Lobbywatch] http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=142]

It seems that the “Institute” was founded in 2000 by Fiona Fox, sister of Claire Fox, and other undisclosed persons. Fiona Fox also heads the Science Media Centre [http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=121], which is embedded within the very Establishment scientific body, the Royal Institution [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution]. Another sister, Gemma Fox, heads an EU-funded IT organization in Wales.

As noted in the Lobbywatch piece, above, the so-called “Institute” was founded by people connected with the tiny, obscure, and superficially uninfluential Revolutionary Communist Party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(UK,_1978)] and its connected magazine, Living Marxism or LM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Marxism], which formally shut down in 2000 but in reality has now been rebranded as the online magazine Spiked [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine)], which has a fairly high profile on Twitter etc: https://twitter.com/spikedonline

Another fairly high-profile person connected with the above is Frank Furedi, a person of Hungarian origins, frequently on BBC radio [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Furedi], whose wife is the head of the UK’s largest abortion “advice” organization.

The “Institute of Ideas” has now retitled itself “The Academy of Ideas” [https://www.facebook.com/instofideas/]. Oddly, on Wikipedia, neither “Institute of Ideas” ror “Academy of Ideas” have pages, though the “Academy” has its own website: https://www.academyofideas.org.uk/.

Some of the tweets of Spiked can command my support, many cannot, such as this pitiful article:

Taking just the main contention of that article, the Anglo-American atom-bomb project aka the Manhattan Project or Tube Alloys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Alloys] had as its primary aim the destruction of Germany and the German people, not Japan. Most of the scientists of importance were Jews. They hated Germany and National Socialism. Some were also Communists. Germany was only saved from atomic destruction by its unconditional surrender before the bomb was ready to be used.

The above exploration may or may not be interesting, but what interests me now and particularly is why did Boris-idiot (Boris Johnson) nominate Claire Fox for a peerage? Why?

Claire Fox has no real academic pedigree. Even in the 1980s (i.e. before the start of the present “award inflation”, by which almost all students get a supposed “First” or “Upper Second” degree), a 2:2 in English and American Literature scarcely cut it in the academic world! She was a mental health social worker for some years after graduation, then for 10 years a lecturer in English Literature at a couple of technical colleges in South Essex and in South Hertfordshire.

I think that we can be sure that Claire Fox’s peerage nomination was not for “services to education”!

We have already seen that, as a “think tank”, the “Institute of Ideas” scarcely existed. Even as an active lobby group, its activities do not seem to have had much impact. Claire Fox, despite a few appearances on TV, including the —now very outdated— Question Time, was not until recently (until 2019) a very publicly-known person; neither has she been involved with anything normally likely to attract an honour of any sort, let alone a peerage.

What about Claire Fox’s political life? Well, membership of the Revolutionary Communist Party or anything like it has never been an easy route to the House of Lords! Anyone with similar views who ended up with a peerage at least had to pretend to be “Labour”! I cannot think of many, even so. A few Jews, now long gone, perhaps. As for a “revolutionary communist”, even one now sort-of apostate, being ennobled “on the recommendation of” a Conservative Party Prime Minister would have been unthinkable, until now.

Claire Fox joined Nigel Farage’s pop-up “Brexit Party” in 2019, was selected (along with at least two other “former” Revolutionary Communist Party members) as a candidate for the European elections. She was elected, and was an MEP for about a year, until the UK nominally left the EU. One year…

It goes beyond that. Claire Fox has said things that many consider unforgiveable, such as, and in particular, her championing of IRA bombing in 1993, specifically the killing of a child.

Looking at it all, it seems inconceivable that, even a few years ago, or today, such a person could ever be nominated for a peerage, to become one of the UK’s upper house legislators, even bearing in mind the weird collection now in the Lords. Yet there she sits (soon). In fact, her previous (never reversed) support for the IRA has not stood in her way. Even the Sun “newspaper” has her on its YouTube channel!

Not that I disagree with everything she says. I agree with some of what she is saying in the above clip. [Having now —several hours later— seen all of the interview, I concede that I agree with a good deal of what she says in it].

So why was she given (nomination for) a peerage? I cannot entirely work it out, but it is obviously connected with her work for Brexit, and even more so with the standing down of most Brexit Party candidates while the election campaign was ongoing. A stunning act of betrayal by con-man Nigel Farage. He shot his own party in the neck. Or the back. Moreover, he stood down only candidates facing previously-incumbent or new Conservative Party candidates! Including Conservative Party candidates who were Remain supporters!

Nigel Farage ensured that the Conservative Party won the 2019 General Election. It might have won anyway, but might not have done, and certainly would not have achieved a Commons majority of 80 (or any majority).

If I am correct, and Claire Fox has been somehow rewarded for supporting Farage in his betrayal, why has Farage himself (or his 2-i-c, Tice), not been nominated for the House of Lords? There could be a number of reasons, such as (speculating) that Farage has been paid, as his reward, millions of pounds into an offshore secret account. Why not? I have no evidence that that is the case, but it seems not unlikely to me. £10 million? £20 million? Cheap at the price, when you get the UK in exchange…

Anyway, “the night is young”. Farage still might get a peerage from Boris-idiot; next year, or the year after. Tice too, maybe. Maybe Claire Fox getting one now is in the nature of a “statement of intent” or down-payment to Farage. Maybe giving Farage a peerage right now would make the corruption and betrayal just too obvious. Next year? 2022? Maybe.

The present politics of the System is more than sleazy. It has to be exterminated.

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Patriots Day

Just watched an American film, Patriots Day, about the ghastly bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the hunt for the perpetrators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day_(film)

I think that the film is one of the best of its type that I have seen. Quite long on TV (with ad breaks, 2 hrs 35 mins), it nonetheless kept the attention throughout (and that is not always the case with me: in younger days, as a 20-something, I was notorious among my friends for getting bored and walking out of cinemas after 20 or 30 minutes of the start of a film).

Assuming that the film was accurate (and I do remember some of the details of that terrible event of 2013), the wife of the main terrorist —she was a Muslim convert, he a Chechen resident in the Boston area— was lucky that it was considered that there was insufficient evidence to charge her.

As for the surviving terrorist, he only last week won his appeal against the death sentence he eventually received. He will spend the rest of his life in some soulless American prison. He was only 19 when he helped his brother to bomb the marathon event.

Such people cannot be described as “urban guerrillas”, if that term is still in use. They are purely terrorists, actuated by malice rather than anything approaching real ideology.

Some may say, “but look what American forces do, bombing civilians“, and that is true, but even from the point of view of hearts and minds, and leaving aside ethics, to bomb a civilian event like the Boston Marathon has no point and indeed is counter-productive: the Islamists gain nothing but the enmity of a superpower and its people.

A film I can thoroughly recommend.

Music at midnight

Update, 16 August 2020