Well, this week I scored a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 2/10, whereas my score was 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 10. I admit that I guessed the answer to question no.1, but that still counts.
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He is nasty I’ve heard so many people say he’s nasty mothers who lost sons in Afghanistan he was truly awful to them
Now, Biden is demented; back then, in 2019, he was just a very obviously unpleasant person. Were he not a politician, notunder public scrutiny, and were he in, say, an Irish-American bar somewhere, one could imagine him viciously assaulting his interlocutor.
"We have a corrupt and compromised president, rogue Joe Biden dragging us into World War III on behalf of a nation that paid him millions and millions of dollars in bribes " – Donald Trump
Amid the ongoing legal investigation against Trump, his lawyer wants cameras in the… pic.twitter.com/M8gWN7Sgzo
The Harry Formerly Known as Prince, and Meghan Mulatta, are a pair of one-trick ponies. They are rapidly becoming yesterday’s news, except as a kind of joke.
Electricity prices rise in Germany without Russian gas — Die Welt In the coming years, the cost of electricity in Germany will remain high and may even rise. By 2025, electricity consumption is expected to increase in Germany, and gas is still used for its production. pic.twitter.com/7NSfqRuiQA
So, again, who is hurt by sanctions against Russia? The consumers and taxpayers of western and central Europe. Not Russia or Russians. The gas produced in Russia will still be sold elsewhere in the world, and Russian citizens are, if anything, better off than they were before the sanctions were imposed.
The Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine said that food exports from Ukraine decreased by at least 30% after the termination of the grain deal. pic.twitter.com/vJZtAXPN40
Another crack in Ukrainian-Polish friendship — Wprost
Poland's decision not to import Ukrainian grain outraged the Ukrainian prime minister. “This is an unfriendly and populist move that will hit global food security and Ukraine’s economy hard,” wrote Denys Shmyhal.
Ukraine will increase the tariff for the transportation of Russian oil through its section of the Druzhba pipeline by 23.5 percent
From August 1, Russia will pay 4 euros more for pumping each ton of oil in the direction of Slovakia and Hungary – the tariff will increase to 21… pic.twitter.com/g8qCa4nwi4
A strange “war”, in which Ukraine (Kiev regime) allows transit of Russian oil exports through its territory (at a price) and, until last week, Russia allowed the Kiev regime to export grain.
Destruction of the artillery arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Chudnov, Zhytomyr region pic.twitter.com/pErEOuUcZH
Two 9-ton furnaces have been restored at the Azovelectrostal plant in Mariupol “The territory has been demined and cleared of destroyed structures. An initial technical and economic audit was carried out. The backbone of the team has been preserved – 250 technical staff," the… pic.twitter.com/bqKupbFUSF
Is it not the other way around? Whatever. The fact is that there is little clear blue water between the two major System parties, a fact many voters have started to realize.
Map of the attacks of the Crimean peninsula by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this one pic.twitter.com/qzkPMs7LJs
I don't know how ANYONE can think it's right for Jack Monroe bootstrapcook to solicit donations under false pretences, refuse to prove where cash has gone & block donors who ask for transparency. Every day, she looks less like just a grifter & more like a serial fraudster https://t.co/J5tuoczDPa
🇬🇧 BBC Salaries for some well known male TV presenters – just saying
Gary Lineker £1.35m Huw Edwards £415k Amol Rajan £330k Jeremy Vine £295k Jason Mohammed £290k Clive Myrie £260k Mark Chapman £250k Faisal Islam £240k Jermaine Janus £225k#DefundTheBBC 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/hbni1RLE5g
— Jacob Hunt #BringBackBoris (@JacobHuntCON) July 8, 2023
Not everyone on the list is guilty, but I doubt they are all innocent. How many have been questioned? Wonder how Prince Andrew feels since King Charles is on the list. pic.twitter.com/jVEvobyGIO
Kinzhal hypersonic missile system is now mass produced
This was announced in Rostec.
"If we previously produced it to a certain extent in order to further modernize it and complete R&D (research and development), today we entered serial production, and what the Ministry of…
The Ukraine-NATO Council will cease to exist, because one of the parties will disappear, said Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the formation of this Council. The official reminded on his Twitter account that in 2002 a similar… pic.twitter.com/Zfu8FAfx7S
Alarming indeed. If there is a nuclear attack, though, there may be no warning at all.
If F-16 fighters that can carry nuclear weapons appear in Kiev, Russia will consider it a threat in the nuclear sphere, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. pic.twitter.com/EmbfgtuKmS
13-07-2023 M4 highway towards Moscow (western direction).
A column of PMC Wagner equipment and buses with personnel in Belarusian numbers, accompanied by the VAI and the traffic police, are marching towards the Republic of Belarus pic.twitter.com/mOJf5GgB6s
Eliminate drug abusers. They drive the whole illegal-drug economy.
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Get rid of Sunak – he’s under the EU & US thumb. Britain is disintegrating before our very eyes under this pretend Tory Leader. Who will make a move or are they all empty vessels?
Just visualize that— a million new, and also unwanted, inhabitants in the UK in the space of a couple of years. The equivalent of a city such as Birmingham.
Anyone who supports or promotes mass immigration or migration invasion into the UK is, in real —not legalistic— terms, just a traitor.
European Colombia Ukraine will soon turn its entire population into drug addicts
The former convict Tymoshenko said that the law on the distribution of marijuana is so undeveloped that soon they will sell drugs at every step. pic.twitter.com/nsdwXS8cJ1
I recall that Michael Palin, about 18 years ago, in Michael Palin’s New Europe, sympathetically interviewed both Yulia Tymoshenko (at the time, Prime Minister of Ukraine) and her then very attractive daughter, who was about 25 and was a former student at the LSE and, according to Wikipedia, Rugby School (I had thought Cheltenham Ladies’ College; maybe I mixed her up with someone else).
At that time, Eugenia Tymoshenko was married to an Englishman called Sean Carr, a rock music singer, who was then in his late thirties. He was also featured on Palin’s show. A bearded motorcyclist. The couple divorced about five years later.
Since Palin did his TV show, Yulia Tymoshenko has been convicted of corruption etc, been imprisoned, appealed, been released, and is now an MP again, and the leader of a political party. Her daughter has remarried and has a high profile but is not a politician, and the English (I think Yorkshire) rock music person, Sean Carr, died in 2018 at the relatively early age of 49 or 50.
That was another Jack Monroe cash grab that she got caught out for.
Why do you think she has been keeping her head down on social media for the last 2 months?
One of the five (5) tweets that resulted in my unjust and in fact unlawful disbarment in late 2016 (8+ years after I gave up Bar practice) was that describing Gove, entirely accurately, as something like a freeloading, fraudulent puppet of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. At that time I had no idea that he was also both a drunk and a cocaine abuser. A country less decadent than the UK would have dealt with Gove long ago, and certainly would never allow the bastard into government.
Michael Gove approvingly quoting Labour Friends of Israel and Luke Akehurst in his promotion of the disgusting anti-BDS bill in the Commons pic.twitter.com/jzRWB7aZg5
Saw a Russian film this evening: Silver Skates, set in 1900. Rather un-Russian in that it was quite watchable, had a plot that was not obscure, and a relatively happy ending. Not bad. Well put-together.
There were a couple of small historical errors, but overall it was a fairly impressive effort. Slight, though. Not in any way deep or thought-provoking. As I say, rather “un-Russian”.
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No it was before gchq, a little known bloke called Alan Turing and his team broke the code. Later in of act of generosity the British state hounded the man to death because he was gay.
— Without The Butchers Apron (@hebjackundeb) July 13, 2023
Second tweet not entirely accurate. While it is true that GCHQ was established under that name only in 1946, it seamlessly took over the similar though (in the pre-1939 era) much smaller org known as the Government Code & Cypher School, which operated from a number of places between the two world wars, one being a station or outstation located in the Dog Kennel Hill (East Dulwich borders) and Denmark Hill border of South London. That base, not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry below, was active certainly until the late 1980s, though I think not used by GCHQ (possibly by MI5 or other org ) at that time. For all I know, it may still be in use, if not turned into a housing development as has been almost everything else in Southern England.
PMC "Wagner" exists, but from a legal point of view, it does not exist. This was stated by Russian President Putin.
“[PMC Wagner] exists, but legally does not exist! This is a separate issue related to real legalization, ”Kommersant reports Putin’s words. pic.twitter.com/SiaSPiXTps
Well, after all, that was the status (in the UK) of SIS until about 30 years ago. A real organization that operated under the legal fiction that it did not exist.
This is how the strike on the mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind Kremennaya looks like – from the closest possible distance pic.twitter.com/eS2uHPnCbV
“Banks are to be warned by ministers that they must protect free speech as increasing numbers of customers are having their accounts closed for holding allegedly controversial views.
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reportedly ‘deeply concerned’ that lenders are blacklisting customers they are deemed to hold contrary political beliefs and social values.
I have blogged about this previously. Farage is, as the report notes, not alone. Repression on freedom of expression by banks (bank staff) has been a fact for a few years now. Laura Towler, Sam Melia, and Mark Collett, all of Patriotic Alternative, had their personal bank accounts closed. Straight political bias.
The only thing that will stop the trend to censorship and repression is if bank directors, managers etc are held accountable directly. The same goes for MPs, msm talking heads etc.
Incidentally, maybe 99% of the repression of freedom of expression in the UK comes from the malicious and manipulative Jew-Zionist element; certainly 90%+. See, for example, my own experiences, published at the top of this blog post. “They” are almost always the troublemakers, if you investigate the matter.
“Rosolino Palazzolo, a 44-year-old Sicilian farmer, has just finished picking the first pitanga (Surinam cherry) and acerola (Barbados cherry) on his farm in a tiny village called Terrasini, close to Palermo. He looks at the bright cherries in his hand, smiling proudly.
These fruits would normally be found growing along the equator but, in the past few years, climate change and year-round warm temperatures have led to a produce revolution in Italy’s deep south.
“Italy is turning into a tropical country. That’s why I also grow papayas, mangoes, passion fruit, baby bananas dubbed ‘bananito’, black sapote [a soft, orange-fleshed fruit], annona [custard apple] and even coffee and chocolate plants,” Mr Palazzolo [says].
“Tropical fruit is the future of Italy’s agriculture; it will save the country from the negative effects of rising temperatures and crazy, wild rainfalls.”
“The farmer still grows traditional fruits such as pears, citrus fruits and peaches, and vegetables such as tomatoes and courgettes, but in smaller quantities due to the tropical-like climate that has taken hold in Italy, particularly in the south.”
[i newspaper]
Interesting. Adaptation to a warmer climate.
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Less than a year ago, 12 year old Lola Daviet was sexually assaulted, murdered, stuffed into a suitcase and left in a carpet by an Algerian immigrant. No riots, looting or even mass protests, no outrage by politicians, #FranceHasFallen #FranceRiots#FranceOnFire Paris Macron pic.twitter.com/vwrEJFdJnY
Not just Farage: My daughter was blocked from opening a bank account https://t.co/9peuQMFO2u via @MailOnline / And this happens in a so called democracy…
The Taliban's drug operation is the most successful in human history," – The Telegraph UK
According to the publication, the production of Afghan poppy has fallen by about 80% over the past year, as the Taliban move from farm to farm, destroying crops and punishing "farmers". pic.twitter.com/yCrAIi5QFV
The only way to stop the epidemic of drug abuse in the West is to eliminate the users. Poppy cultivation cannot simply be banned everywhere, because opium derivatives are used for essential products such as morphine. India and Australia (Tasmania) are among the larger producers of legally-farmed opium poppies. Afghanistan accounts for about 80% of the illegal trade.
Former Israeli commander: No army has a missile structure like the Lebanese Hezbollah.
A former Israeli air defense commander noted: 🔹Hezbollah has capabilities at the country level. 🔹I don't know any army in the world that would have such a rocket design as Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/iDaxJ6oM8S
The results of the sixth night of unrest in France: – 352 fires on public roads – 297 burned cars – 34 burned buildings – deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes. – 3 policemen and gendarme injured – 157 people were arrested. pic.twitter.com/grhq7nt95w
Typically misleading Sky News. In fact, it was not “the hottest June everin UK” (as seen in that tweet) but the hottest June since records began, which was only in 1884. As the report does say, previous hot-June records were reached in both 1940 and 1976. Even the headline, “hottest June on record“, though technically correct, is misleading, because many will assume that records go back to maybe 1700 or so, which is not the case on a reliable or consistent basis.
In historical terms, 139 years (1884-2023) is almost nothing.
We know that there were relatively warm periods previously in recorded European history, notably in the “Mediaeval Warm Period”, often estimated as having happened from about 950 AD to about 1250 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period.
There was no measurement of temperature then, but warmer climatic conditions can be inferred from forms of agriculture known to have been current, and from animal and plant remains, tree rings etc.
There are various theories as to why those historical periods were warmer than other times before and after, but one thing is for sure— it had little or nothing to do with “carbon emissions”. These were societies without very large populations (the Roman Empire at height may have had 60 million inhabitants), without the internal combustion engine, without industry except on a very small scale, and without the widespread use of coal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#History.
Those two warm periods hosted higher levels of civilization and culture than the cooler periods on either side of each. Be careful what you wish for.
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Any one numerate who goes outside then looks at weather reports by the MSM & Met Office can see their overt deceit. The weather is not getting hotter so they changed the colours on the map? Really? We noticed what you did. How gullible do these mad alarmists think people are? https://t.co/uf1EJuSxbf
I agree with that tweeter about the sheer audacity, as I think I would term it, of the online fraud and “grifter” “Jack Monroe”.
That sheer gall is what really sets her apart from the numerous other online “grifters” around— her sheer criminal audacity, as well as her relentless use of about half a dozen tactics: pretending to be an “activist” for “the poor”; various mental and physical problems (useful to be able to blame critics for making them worse, though most if not all of them are non-existent); pretending to be short of money and/or living in poverty (rather than a house, possibly with a sea view, in a rather expensive Essex suburb); attaching herself to this or that group as expedient— LGBTQXYZ, disabled, “poor”, struggling single mother (despite her affluent family living in the same area), “socialist” (despite her false “feed a family for £20 a week” claims, “cosmopolitan” (despite rarely having been outside Essex), and displaying little or no obvious knowledge or education), etc.
Then there are the fake biographical details, such as having taken a leading role after or even during the Grenfell fire incident.
What is truly amazing is how many people, even some journalists, still believe all of her rubbish.
I still fail to understand why a black woman in Bristol is (I think) still facing Crown Court trial for allegedly having crowdfunded for legal costs to make a civil claim that (allegedly or apparently) never happened, and then having (allegedly) kept the monies raised for her personal use, but “Jack Monroe” raised monies similarly, supposedly to sue Lee Anderson MP, then did not even send preliminary formal complaint to Lee Anderson, and quite plainly ripped-off the said monies for her own uses, yet (so far) is not charged with anything. Why not?
🇺🇦 The first phase of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has failed, according to the German commander. "An attempt was made to go on the offensive, as from the textbooks of the American army. In principle, like the Russians at the beginning of the war, that…
Western tanks proved to be so weak that the Ukrainians are now sending Soviet T-64 and T-72 in their assault instead. THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE ALREADY DESTROYED 17 AMERICAN BRADLEY ARMORED VEHICLES Atlantic: Russian weapons are superior and much more…
The NATO Navy in the Arctic region is 10 years behind the Russian Navy in terms of military technology, reports Reuters, citing data from the Finnish Institute of International Relations. According to Samu Paukunen, head of the institute, despite the Russian special military… pic.twitter.com/3osQzT2R0J
So a bank can find some odd thing about you or your past they may not like and do this? Does the bank have to give you personal information about their board of directors? Can we find out if any of their employees have ever said or promoted anything slightly controversial?
The directors of the banks should be held accountable, directly.
A leading building society has revealed that it closes customers' accounts if they engage in "rude" or "discriminatory" behaviour as the fallout from Nigel Farage having his bank account closed continues. https://t.co/6FRJihd1Gy
I can’t stand Anderson, but Jack Monroe is a lying rich poverty-cosplaying fraudster & thief who steals charity & fake fundraiser money to fund her lavish lifestyle. She fakes poverty, illness & activism for attention & wealth. These crises are just an economic opportunity to her https://t.co/bJOvhZ9dKV
I happened to see this recent newspaper report: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sobbing-mum-finds-daughter-having-18194587 , which appalled me. I occasionally watch those rather repetitive police-cam TV shows, in which police stop “motorists” or at least car-drivers, as well as some pedestrians. Most seem to be carrying drugs.
I recall hearing a radio report from, I think, 1969, about heroin addicts in London, in which it was stated that most UK heroin addicts were in London and that the number was at that time, in 1969 or 1970, about 500. This was seen as a crisis at the time, apparently. I imagine that, were the number of drug addicts or hard-core abusers now in the UK only a few thousand, not a mere 500, that that would be seen as some kind of huge social or policing success.
Though it has not impacted me directly (except when I appeared once in court in London as Counsel in a drug-smuggling case, circa 1993), the UK has a drug crisis which has been made worse by half-hearted chop-and-change efforts to deal with it.
Some people say that the way to deal with the drug problem in the UK is to legalize now-illegal drugs and then to regulate the manufacture, quality-control, distribution and sale, thus controlling the use of them and also making it possible to tax them, so providing funds which can then be used to treat drug-abusers and generally reduce drug abuse.
The above is a cogent argument which has its attractions, but is expensive, at least initially, and also does not seem to put an end to the problem. It might cut off funds to presently-criminal operations, true, but would that not mean that the criminal operations just continue as “legal” commercial operations?
In the 1920s and early 1930s, one of the biggest Prohibition-busting operations run into the USA (from Canada) was operated by a criminal Jew family called the Bronfman family. Their company, Seagram’s (now and for the past decade or two under largely other ownership and called simply “Seagram”), supplied illegal booze to several major US states.
It could, again, be argued that Prohibition is a case in point, in that there was an attempt to criminalize something many, perhaps most people wanted to do and that, in doing that, organized crime was accelerated in its growth without stopping the actual use of alcohol (possession of alcohol for personal use was never illegal under Prohibition; neither was the consumption of it).
The counter-argument would be that alcohol has been tolerated (except, mainly, in Islamic lands) for centuries, indeed for millennia. Wine in particular is intimately bound to Western civilization. Beer and mead are also ancient drinks: the Egyptians drank beer thousands of years ago, and the Slavs drank mead long before –in the 17th Century– they ever discovered vodka and the like.
Drugs in the sense in which we speak here (opiates, cocaine, cannabis etc) are not part of our culture, or have not been until the past century (leaving aside a few oddities such as de Quincey). Indeed, for most people, this is a situation which has developed since the 1960s.
People often say that cannabis or marijuana has been used for many centuries and so is somehow OK. However, I believe that the Persian poet Hafiz wrote against the use of marijuana in Persia, to the effect that it had contributed to the decadence of the culture and people (it was introduced in the 13th Century). Certainly, I cannot think of any country where its use (legal or illegal) has improved society: Egypt, Jamaica etc.
The once-strict British legal situation has been liberalized almost to tolerance. I recall attending, as 16 year old spectator, the magistrates’ court at Henley-on-Thames, in –I think– 1973, where a severe-looking Lady Somebody presided (with the usual two useless me-too bookends). An epicene young man, the very picture of post-aristocratic dissipation, was charged with possession of a small amount of cannabis. He had been in the old and squalid Oxford Prison for the week since first appearance (the prison is now a luxury hotel, with even the smallest rooms made out of 2 of the original prison cells; some made out of 6 or 8. The hotel featured in one episode of Lewis: see trailer in Notes,below).
The defendant applied for bail. A character witness (his girlfriend, I think), a young blonde woman wearing a traditional fox fur round her neck, complete with head (well, this was 1973…), said that the defendant had been and would be staying at her family’s home (read “small estate”) near Pangbourne. I recall this case well, partly because the young woman was asked by the Clerk of the Court “are you Miss or Mrs?”, to which she replied, stiffly, “the Honourable”!
Anyway, the upshot was that bail was refused! Despite the small amount of drugs, despite the character witness, despite the obvious no-flight-risk…This was prior to the passing of the current Bail Act. I remember that the defendant was quietly in tears at having to return to Oxford Prison (the Honourable Blonde was also wiping away a tear). Another reason I remember it all well is that I cannot imagine what use that slight, sloping-shouldered and dissipated creature could possibly be to the blonde! Ah well, ours not to reason why, I suppose…
Today, that defendant would quite likely either be given a verbal warning by the police, or a formal caution. He would probably not find himself in court at all, let alone be imprisoned either pending or after trial. Even if he did go to court, the likely outcome would be a small fine, probation or maybe a community order or the like.
I suppose that many, looking at that Henley case, would say that it is better that minor cases like that do not now involve such upset to individuals and expense to the State. On the other hand, it seems to me that the drug “epidemic” has got out of hand. That applies even more so to the “hard” drugs, to cocaine, heroin etc.
We have recently seen that a Cabinet minister, Michael Gove, has admitted to regular use of cocaine when a journalist. It has certainly been tacitly admitted that the likely soon (hopefully brief) “Prime Minister”, Boris Johnson, has even more frequently abused the drug. Its use is ubiquitous in Britain’s corrupt and decadent mass media, artistic and political circles. An early exposure was that of Louise Mensch, briefly an MP and often talking about the faults of others less affluent than herself.
These facts are important. They have social and political, as well as personal, consequences.
America declared a “war on drugs”. It failed to work (as I knew it would) because it involved bombing South American peasants and their crops rather than shooting defaulters in Washington D.C. and across the USA.
Likewise in the UK, the State uses the Navy, SBS etc to catch large-scale drug imports at sea. The importers caught there or by highly-trained police detectives and Customs operatives in the UK are very heavily punished, distributors less so, sellers less so, and the actual consumers, who drive the whole process, scarcely at all!
I wonder (I say no more) whether we should start seriously purging the country of recreational drugs, drug abusers, drug suppliers and importers, starting with the corrupt wealthy metro-liberal pseudo-“elite” at Westminster and in the msm etc. Perhaps we as a society should start shooting people. Action not words. Action, not hand-wringing. Discuss.
(note: the Henley-on-Thames Magistrates’ Court is now no longer in existence, having fallen, like many hundreds of other magistrates’ and county courts —not to mention railway branch lines— to cost-cutting and “reorganization”. The branch line to Henley is still operational, but the court was closed in 1999: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-11-05c.295992.h
Ian Robert Millard 