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Diary Blog, 4 September 2025

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[El Escorial, Spain]

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Why would Angela Rayner and other brainless cultureless “chavs” “want to go into politics“? Maybe because said women (and men, for that matter) can then get three homes at the same time when still fairly young, get salaries and expenses in the several hundreds of thousands a year, and not have to stack shelves, or sit ticking boxes in some provincial council or trade union office for peanut pay…

…and in return, all they have to do is sell out the future of the British people (and join Labour Friends of Israel)…

Note the careerist language of that tweet, incidentally.

That’s too harsh, though many police are totally brainwashed, as I have discovered over the past decade or so.

A half-mad and conspiratorial cabal, it seems. Seems also that the Jew-Zionists and Israel lobby are not alone.

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I have no reason to like that Linehan person, who was rude about me several times a number of years ago on Twitter, and who is an idiotic supporter of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby.

However, as a supporter of free speech, who has himself been subject to (albeit relatively toytown level) police-state repression in recent years, I have to support him pro hac, even if (as a person, or in reference to character) he does not deserve it. I always prefer to take the moral high ground.

Very good, but where was Toby Young, where was the “Free Speech Union”, where were brainless scribblers such as Allison Pearson, when the Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby had me disbarred for a mere 5 tweets (in 2016) (all completely true and accurate tweets, by the way), then prosecuted for blogging (in 2023-2024), and when (many times) they (particularly Stephen Silverman of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”) made other, and completely untrue, allegations against me to the police (yet never faced, as he and others should have done, charges of both wasting police time and attempted perversion of the course of justice)?

Neither do I recall the Free Speech Union defending the many others arrested, charged, and some convicted and even imprisoned after having been persecuted by the Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby: satirical singer Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner of London Forum, Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative among many others.

Our animal friends.

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[painting by El Greco]

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Amazing, yet somehow not surprising. Why? Because most people can see that this country is headed for disaster if it continues on its present course.

A plurality of voters (so far, about a third) is intending to vote Reform UK for that very reason— to bin the present “main parties”.

Reform UK is the way to get a radical change, despite its leadership and candidates being almost as rubbish as those of the main System parties. People know that, but want rid of both fake “Labour” and fake “Conservatives”. Reform may do no better in the end, but by then will have opened the gates of real social nationalism. God mote it be!

A new day will eventually dawn.

Incidentally, that latest poll translates to Reform having about 412 MPs, Lab 79, LibDems 59, SNP 40, Cons 27, Greens 7 (etc) in a post-GE Commons.

I imagine that the Con Party MPs will ditch the Nigerian woman, Kemi Badenoch, by the end of 2025, and probably anoint (other) Jewish-lobby puppet, Jenrick, as Con leader. His tough talk re. the migration invasion may stem the electoral rot (or rout) to some extent, but I doubt whether, even then, the poll-share would get above about 25%. That might reduce the Reform cadre of MPs to below the level of an overall majority, but would still leave Reform as largest party by far (and would also cut Labour back to below 100 MPs). The end result, on those premises, would be a Reform minority government or a Reform-led Ref/Con coalition.

Addendum: I doubt that installing Jeremy Hunt as Con leader would change the ultimate result much, though it might. He is still an MP, still ambitious at age 58 (59 in November), English, and I think might seize his chance to become Leader of the Opposition and, potentially, PM. We shall soon know. Kemi Carpetbagger will be out by November this year.

Prison camps” seems inaccurate. Concentrating the invaders in camps, though, is at least better than what is now happening. Call them “concentration camps” (?).

Similar news every day. The front-lines of the Kiev regime are crumbling.

Look what is happening in Western and Central Europe, including the UK: migration-invasion from the most backward parts of the world, finance-capitalist exploitation— mostly involving the “you know who” element— and vast sums wasted propping-up the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.

Europe is being killed demographically, culturally, socially, and economically. Only real social nationalism can save it now.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/04/epping-asylum-hotel-resident-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault

So, after he is sentenced, and after prison time passes, I expect that the bastard will be released, and then housed, fed, and given money, free of charge (to him but not to the British people) indefinitely here.

My solution: a wall, a squad, and an end.

Incidentally, this was a magistrates’ court trial, so the maximum sentence (despite the bastard having been convicted of 3 offences) would be one year, and the likely sentence would be, probably, about 9 months, out of which the untermensch would serve well under 50%, so probably (and bearing in mind that he has been incarcerated since about the time of the offences) he will be released after about 2-3 months.

I think my solution would be better.

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So according to Canadian-born Jewess, Emily Maitlis, Farage has broken Britain? Farage, who has never held any political or other public office, at least until 2024, when he and a handful of his followers were elected MP. It’s nonsense. I am no Farage supporter, but the suggestion is rubbish, and certainly puts Maitlis and her fellow System scribblers and talking heads themselves under the spotlight.

I was in the forefront (online) in despising the 14 years of “Conservative” misgovernment, but this nominally “Labour” government is even worse, as I predicted on the blog at least 3 years ago would be the case, if I myself say so.

The fact is (as became clear as soon as this shite “government” was “elected”) that Starmer-stein and his closest cronies are all mainly in it to “fill their boots”, and Angela Rayner who, unlike Starmer and others, has no profession or family funds to fall back on, because she got “knocked up” at age (?) 15 and thereafter worked in low-level occupations until she latched onto the System political racket, is even more eager to stuff money away than the others.

Nadine Dorries is an idiot, but her defection is one of the earliest rocks falling away before an avalanche. The opinion polls make it clear that, even when Kemi Badenoch is turfed out as Con leader, the Con Party is seen as a total irrelevance now. All they can do is either ape Reform or try to recapture some so-called “centre ground” by seeming “moderate” under, say, Hunt, a strategy which cannot lead to success in a scenario where the British people are becoming, justifiably, livid at what is happening in our country.

Of course, Nadine Dorries expected to get a peerage off “Boris”-idiot, and even he would not stoop that low.

Ironically, Nadine Dorries is a “Conservative” equivalent —or parallel— to Angela Rayner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries

I think so. Both idiots (one superficially better educated but only superficially), but both (however unmeritedly) very high-profile.

Would they have made any difference anyway? Cue WW2 jokes (sometimes, not always, unfair) about their tanks and other vehicles having only reverse gears.

I should add that the Italian memorial at El Alamein says “We were short on luck, not courage“…

Migration invasion and multikulti dystopia.

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[an entrance gate to the suburb of Waldsiedlung —Forest Settlement—, near Wandlitz, East Germany; the suburb was also called, in private satire, “Bonzograd” —“city of big shots”, and “Volvograd” (by reason of the preference of DDR/East German high-ups for Volvo cars unobtainable by other citizens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldsiedlung]

Diary Blog, 20 June 2025: Israel, Iran, possible world war etc

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Israel, the leech-state…

Mostly Jews, many of them with dual nationality. They support Israel fanatically, in many/most cases. They made the bed, so let them lie on it…

Whatever happens in the next months, in the long term Israel is doomed.

This is a modern-day version of Old Testament ethnic cleansing. Look at the religion of the Jews; several of their religious festivals refer to military victories, execution of “antisemitic” rulers or advisers etc.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism#Jewish_holidays

The Gaza quasi-genocide has exposed the Israeli Jews not only for what they have done but for what they are, at least as a collective.

I prefer peace to war, but just as there are, in ordinary life, some individual people, lunatics, psychopaths etc, who will not stop, and cannot be stopped, not by ordinary peaceful means, so there are some states which just go too far…

Most mainstream politicians in the USA, UK, France etc are in the pocket of Jewish-Zionist or directly Israeli orgs. Look at Starmer-stein’s horrible yet pathetic UK government— almost entirely composed of Labour Friends of Israel members. Starmer. Rachel Reeves. Yvette Cooper. Liz Kendall. Dozens of others.

The same is true of most of the mainstream media.

Cleverly’s suit is not as striking (neither is it as good or as well-made) as the off-white/cream suit I had made at Sam’s Tailor in Hong Kong in 2006. Perhaps not a good choice, though, for the UK. I have only worn it a couple of times, once on a very hot and sunny day in 2023 when I had to attend Southampton “Mags” on a preliminary appearance to do with my free speech trial: see

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The (all black) security staff loved my white suit as I walked in, which must say something! In fact, a rather nice black girl (security guard) was particularly complimentary.

[“Did you know that after the Macron “Rothschild” Olympics’ blasphemous re-enactment of the Last Supper, the first country to defend Christianity and condemn it was Iran? It was not the USA, Britain, Italy, or Israel. In Tehran a billboard went up, with these words: “Indeed, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Son of Mary, is a messenger of God.”]

The Muslims, at least the educated ones, revere Jesus Christ as a prophet (though not, of course, as divine).

As to Macron, his links to Jew-Zionism were explored several years ago on the blog:

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In the midst of life, we are in death“…

Media vita in morte sumus.

Whether death comes to us via natural causes, by an accident or other violent event limited in scale, or via a gigantic human conflict, we are all on the same journey.

And rival storms abroad are surging
From sea to land, from land to sea.
A chain of deepest action forging
Round all, in wrathful energy.
There flames a desolation, blazing
Before the Thunder’s crashing way:
Yet, Lord, Thy messengers are praising
The gentle movement of Thy Day.

[Goethe, Faust; Archangel Michael, from the Prologue in Heaven]

[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14591/pg14591.txt]

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Russia or, rather, the Russian people, will eventually, in about 1,500 years, become the leading edge of the world, just as the Germanic/Anglo-American element now is. That may be why Russia cannot be successfully invaded from west or east (as in the cases of Napoleon and Hitler). The double-headed eagle looks both east and west at the same time.

Russia is not really either European or Asian, but sui generis.

There you are. That is the face of the UK armed forces in 2025. “Equality”, “diversity”, “best practice” in admin etc. Useless, in short.

Also, someone cannot spell (it’s “practices” in this case, not “practises“, unless, as a kind of American colony, we should all be writing in American English).

Still, when many “journalists” cannot spell, or write decently, why should some M.O.D. bod be any better?

I cannot know, but do suspect, that similar situations exist in the Army and Navy, and also in SIS/MI6 and MI5 (and, of course, in the police and CPS).

I cannot get too worked up about the Brize Norton attack, because for me the invasion of the UK is happening in small boats across the Channel, via “legal” immigration, and via births. I do not take “Britain’s defensive capability” against the (non-existent) “Russian threat” seriously, not in the slightest. Russia is only bristling because the UK is taking pointless and self-harming measures against Russia in the first place. We should be in loose alliance with Russia.

Having said that, it is clear that serious attackers, such as Spetsnaz commandos, would have no difficulty causing absolute havoc on such bases, should they ever be tasked with doing so.

The RAF Regiment usually defends RAF bases. What went wrong?

Britain’s dying rivers, and the need for new reservoirs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels

Our rivers are under threat,” said Nick Measham, the chief executive of the conservation charity WildFish. “We are putting extra demands on water resources when the rivers are running dry. When it does rain after persistent dry periods, we often return our water polluted, which means that river habitats for animals and plants are in serious trouble.”

[Guardian]

Of course, the increase in population by reason of mass immigration is largely the cause. 56M when I was born (1956), and perhaps (no-one really knows) 70M today.

Moscow in 2025

As I said the other day on the blog, on my own visits to Moscow (1993 and 2007) I really did miss out!

More seriously, I can see that Moscow has changed radically in the past 18 years, let alone the past 32…

As for Petersburg, I have never been there, and it is one of a handful of cities which I have both never visited and which I might like to visit.

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Outsourced to SERCO“? Well, that might explain a lot…

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Powerful.

[“Russian President Putin: – We do not want to mediate between Iran and “Israel”, but we propose ideas for resolving the conflict. – I am concerned that the world is heading towards World War III. – We support Iran in the fight for its legitimate interests, including peaceful nuclear energy. – Trump promised us that he would support our demands regarding the safety of Russian personnel at the Iranian facility “Bushehr”.”]

My own preference would be to deprive both Jews and Muslims of having nuclear weapons, but the Jews already have them, and with no international oversight at all.

God. Look at that thug…

During the hot dry months of summer, Russian forces will continue to advance, and may well make major breakthroughs.

If so, Tel Aviv will before very long be a hole in the sand, just like Gaza.

Jew interferes with German TV crew in Israel.

A dustbin, like much of the UK now.

“Manifestos”— just part of the System conjuring show.

[“What you are currently witnessing in the UK is the end destination of “radical progressivism” —a political ideology that wants to tear down all guardrails in society It wants to breakdown our national borders through state subsidised illegal immigration It wants to breakdown our right to life and family by decriminalising abortion until birth and launching state-backed euthanasia It wants to breakdown our sense of community and belonging through a deliberate state policy of mass immigration and multiculturalism It wants to breakdown our national identity by convincing you that Britishness and Englishness are merely “celebrating diversity” so you have no identity of your own It wants to breakdown our sense of history and collective memory by launching a war on the past, reframing our history as a source of racism, colonialism, and shame And it wants to enforce this agenda by expanding hate laws, speech codes, and taboos like “far right”, “Islamophobia”, “racism”, and “hate” so that any viable political opposition is shut down and stigmatised as beyond the pale This is what is happening in the UK right now —a radical “progressive” project that is being imposed on you from above by a distant managerial class which likes to think of itself as “liberal”, “open”, and “enlightened” but is dogmatic, authoritarian and deeply intolerant of alternative perspectives. All this project has to offer you is hyper-individualism, endless choice, and sexual narcissism, as symbolised by the rise of Only Fans, while all the guardrails that once gave us structure, meaning, security and a genuine sense of belonging collapse all around us. This is what is happening in the UK right now. It’s why you can sense that unavoidable vacuum, that hole, that sense of emptiness when you look at what has become of our once great nation and community.“]

Goodwin, however, and very typically, refuses to “notice” which “element” (((element))) is behind most of that, if you dig deep enough.

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Diary Blog, 30 October 2024

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[El Escorial, Spain]

A la recherche du temps perdu

I am old enough to remember those little shops. One in particular, in Caversham Heights, near Reading, early 1960s. The sweets were dispensed by the owner, I think an otherwise-retired old fellow, who sold them in small white-paper bags. A wide range, but I either bought small boiled sweets (very small balls of hard candy), or a kind of chewing gum that came with collectable cards depicting (and explaining) battles of the American Civil War of the 1860s. I wanted the cards, not the gum.

Very gory, those cards (as I discovered only when I belatedly read law, 20 years later) were the subject of a legal case (as to whether they counted as “obscene” because of their bloodsoaked content), which case went as high as the House of Lords (House of Lords Judicial Committee, the forerunner of the present UK Supreme Court). That was around 1965, only a couple of years after I used to buy the cards.

I remember that all my friends (who also bought the cards) favoured the Confederate side, but I (alone, I think) favoured the Union. Not sure now, over 60 years later, whether that was because the Union side was more efficient, or more advanced in weaponry, or just because I wanted to go contrary to the views of the mob.

The sweetshop in question was actually made out of the front part of an ordinary late-19thC house, which (I see from Google maps and streetview) has now reverted to being just a house again.

I also remember the little sweetshop because, aged about 7, I sheltered in that tiny shop after I (God knows why, now, but it would have been in self-defence) hit another boy, and then was sought out by the much older, and rather fearsome, brother of the same. In the end, the older boy caught me outside but, after I explained that I had hit his brother in self-defence, he was very reasonable, and let me off. Maybe I had dormant barristerial skills even then (or at least the ability to get out of scrapes)…

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Thangam “Debbonaire”, an ex-MP who uses a fake name (her real or original name was “Singh”, but she changed it by deed poll, presumably wanting to sound less “ethnic”), and who was kicked out by the voters at GE 2024, is invited onto TV to opine about immigration and public order etc. Why? She has no real locus standi any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thangam_Debbonaire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

The people instinctively know that the System parties are rubbish, but also feel that, equally, there are no credible non-System parties for which to vote, only the very underwhelming Reform UK. Certainly, there are no credible social-national alternatives.

Look at what “they” are doing in Gaza, in the West Bank, and elsewhere. “They” always do such things when they have power. That is why “they” must never have power and, whenever they do have power, must be removed from having power.

Superficially impressive, but then exercises like that always are. “Qatari Army”? Really?

I have no time for the Gulf Arabs, none at all.

Terrible, but good to see that the lady’s companion animal was also rescued.

(in thousands; in other words about 1.4M in all).

The state of Britain is so frustrating that it is tempting to shout “Full Communism Now!“, but that, of course, is not the answer. I recall that the Dowager Lady Birdwood opined that I was a “national bolshevik” (when I was aged about 18, around 1975)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Birdwood,_Baroness_Birdwood

True, but the “welfare” bill would be very low were it not for the existence of literally millions of non-white parasites in the UK, both the migrants and the children and grandchildren of migrants and former migrants.

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

At this point, only idiots or those with no choice are really fighting for the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 10 February 2024, with material about Putin, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Palestine, Carmen Smith, Charlotte Owen, and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

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[El Escorial, Spain]

Saturday quiz

Well, a convincing win over political journalist John Rentoul this week: he scored an embarrassing 1/10 (though all credit to him for having admitted it). I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 9, and 10, and guessed (out of two) the answer to question 8.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13066777/Joe-Biden-DOJ-elderly-man-report-dangerous-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

It’s no longer up for debate: Joe Biden has got to go.

In a hastily called press conference Thursday night, President Biden was, for the first time, questioned relentlessly by the White House press pool about his age, cognition, and fitness to serve.

The latest national poll by NBC News found that a whopping 76 percent of voters are concerned about Biden’s mental and physical ability to serve.

[Daily Mail]

Is there any other Democratic Party candidate likely to go the distance? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_candidates.

Looks as though only one likely alternative presently exists, a Jew called Dean Phillips, a member of the House of Representatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips.

Phillips is married and has two daughters from a previous marriage. He is Jewish[43] and was acknowledged by the Minnesota publication The American Jewish World for serving on the board of Temple Israel in Minneapolis.

In 2023, he announced his intent to challenge Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election.[10]

 …Phillips would…be the first Jewish President of the United States.”

[Wikipedia].

So far, however, Phillips’ campaign has run into the sand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips#2024_presidential_campaign.

In the primaries held so far, Biden got 100% of the delegates and 83.4% of the popular vote (Phillips got 7% of the popular vote). Phillips is not even on the ballot of several state primaries.

If Biden were to be, as seems almost inevitable, the Democratic candidate, and if he were to be re-elected and then die in office, that would put Kamala Harris into the White House. A black/brown (Indian Tamil/Jamaican) woman married to a Jewish lawyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Personal_life; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Emhoff.

Incidentally, I see that Emhoff was largely brought up in areas of New Jersey (Matawan and Old Bridge) somewhat known to me from when I lived in New Jersey (near Cheesequake State Park) on and off during the years 1990-1993.

[Garden State Parkway by Old Bridge, New Jersey]
[Washington Road, Sayreville, New Jersey, a few miles from where I sometimes lived in the early 1990s]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13066065/Pendlebury-guns-equipment-men-Dispatch-Kupiansk-frontline-Ukraine.html

We need more guns, more equipment, but, most of all, more men.’ Dispatch from the Kupiansk frontline in Ukraine.”

[Daily Mail]

The msm in the UK, USA etc can no longer conceal the military crisis overwhelming the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev. The military chief, Zaluzhny, has been replaced, and the ranks of the Kiev-regime forces are being thinned by both battlefield casualties and the unwillingness of both Ukrainian men and foreign volunteers and mercenaries to serve.

The foreigners have mostly been killed, captured, or have returned home, while Ukrainian men in very large numbers are avoiding the draft, either by remaining in foreign countries or by keeping their heads down in Ukraine itself. The Kiev regime employs brutal press-gangs to capture draft-evaders. One has to ask, though, whether people forced to join up under violent duress are going to be of much use in the field.

Strategically, as noted on the blog for 2 years now, Russia cannot lose this conflict, and will not. Tactically, both sides have encountered problems, but in terms of both manpower and arms, Russia now has the edge, very obviously.

I would not rule out a large-scale Russian offensive in 2024, though it may be that Putin will prefer to see what happens politically in the USA first. The US Presidential Election is in November 2024.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13067535/Mother-died-collapsed-coat-E.html

A mother-of-two died after she was found unconscious under a coat in A&E while she was waiting to see a doctor about a headache.

The 39-year-old went to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham on January 19, and was observed by nurses three times.

Yet when her name was called after seven hours, she didn’t respond and hospital staff thought she had left because of the long wait.”

[Daily Mail]

Seven hours“? Good grief…

Our NHS“… Still clapping?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13066181/How-junior-doctors-earn-Salary-earnings-pay-scales-explained.html

Useful basic information.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/avdiivka-attack-latest-ukraine-russia-b2492747.html

Russian troops are attacking a town in east Ukraine from all directions, and the situation is increasingly difficult for Ukrainian troops defending the town, its mayor said on Thursday.

Russian forces have taken the initiative on the eastern front in the industrial Donbas region of Ukraine and have been trying to cut supply lines and encircle Ukrainian forces dug in at Avdiivka since October.

“The enemy is pressuring from all directions. They are storming with very numerous forces,” Avdiivka mayor Vitaliy Barabash said in televised comments, describing the situation as “very difficult and hot”.

[The Independent]

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Ethnic cleansing by the Jewish state.

The simple truth. Without EU, UK, and US arms and ammo, the Kiev regime will fall back, not only from the Donbass front, but fall back to Kiev, and quite likely further, to somewhere between Kiev and Lvov.

Likewise, Ukraine’s economy is on (Western) life-support.

Demographically, the population numbers are in freefall. 500,000 dead on or around the battlefields, huge numbers in foreign countries, and few children being born.

In short, as an independent state (failed state, fake state), Ukraine has no future.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]

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Either Charlotte Owen is related to “Boris” Johnson (the most likely possibility), or he was having some kind of affair with her; there is a third possibility, i.e. that she somehow knows something very seriously discreditable about Johnson.

The last possibility seems unlikely. After all, Johnson is so discredited anyway that it would be hard to think of a concealed fact that would make blackmail or implied blackmail sufficiently threatening.

Still, there it is— an office gopher in her twenties now “elevated” to the House of Lords. Our whole system of government is rotten to the core.

Incidentally, the madness continues…

This is her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Smith_(politician).

Politician“? Of course, we are talking about the Plaid Cymru fake “nationalist” joke-party, but even so…

Carmen Ria Smith (born c. 1996/97) is a Plaid Cymru political assistant. In February 2024, it was announced Smith would be appointed to the House of Lords.

Smith has a law degree from Bangor University, graduating in 2016.[2] She served as deputy president of NUS Wales.

Smith is the former Chief of Staff of the Plaid Cymru Senedd group. She was later a lobbyist for energy company Bute Energy[2]

In 2019, Smith stood in the European Parliament election in Wales. She was unsuccessful.

Smith was nominated to the peerage by Plaid Cymru after Dafydd Wigley announced he planned to retire in 2024.[2] This will keep the number of Plaid Cymru life peers as one.”

[Wikipedia]

A member of the Lords at 27, having been an office gopher for 1-2 years, and a lobbyist for a wind-turbine company for another 1-2 years. “Chief of Staff“? The Plaid group in the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) consists of only 12 people!

Carmen Smith was evidently born under a lucky star, and really should buy some lottery tickets. £350+ per day, plus extra monies etc, at age 27. For life, in effect. Incredible.

Ah…

No wonder she is smiling…

Actually, and at the risk of seeming ungentlemanly, the young lady could pass for 40+ instead of 27. More on the story, though: https://nation.cymru/news/plaid-cymru-row-over-house-of-lords-nominations/:

“A row has broken out in Plaid Cymru after an internal election for nominees to the House of Lords saw a lobbyist for a controversial wind power company elevated to first place on the list – even though she was decisively beaten in a members’ vote by former MP Elfyn Llwyd.

Although the voting figures haven’t been disclosed, Nation.Cymru understands that Carmen Smith, 27, who works for Bute Energy, received around 70 votes while Mr Llwyd got about 180 votes. A third candidate – longstanding party member Ann Griffith – secured around 40 votes.

A longstanding Plaid Cymru member contacted Nation.Cymru and said: “This is disgraceful. I don’t know the actual result of the vote but I would have thought that Elfyn was way out in front. The fact that the National Exec has imposed a woman on top of the list was not explained at any time in the introduction to the virtual hustings that I attended last week.”

A senior party source told us: “This all stems from a decision by the NEC to make sure that a woman was given top position, regardless of how many votes were cast. It’s quite farcical that Elfyn Llwyd was way in the lead, yet came second. It’s surely a travesty of democracy. He has a wealth of Parliamentary experience, while Carmen hasn’t even been elected as a councillor.

[from Nation.Cymru online]

I wonder whether that might not be judicially reviewable. Seems (on the facts as presented) very lacking in transparency, at the very least.

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[retweeted today by political academic Matt Goodwin]. “Liberal” in the American use of the term, of course.

Were there a pro-Israel or Zionist category, it would be closer to 90%…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.

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Tell me about it! I am due to be sentenced next month…

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One of the great American symphonies.

Diary Blog, 26 January 2024

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[El Escorial, Spain]

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However rough, and in places savage, was the Hamas attack in October, the Israelis have now killed tens of thousands in what amounts to a quasi-genocidal retaliation. The wounded, many badly wounded (amputations, mutilations etc), must be approaching a hundred thousand in number. Half have been under-18, and a quarter, more or less, small children and babies.

The Jews, not only in Israel, but in the UK, USA, France etc have tried to justify such terrible retaliation as “self-defence” but, certainly after the first few days, that really does not wash.

There is also the point that, if some of the Palestinian Arabs sometimes behave monstrously, it is mainly because they have been made monstrous, over 70-80 years, by the Israelis.

War has, of course, a human cost. Sometimes there is no alternative to war, but often there is.

One sometimes wonders what drives System political drones such as Angela Rayner. Political tribalism, aka Labour right or wrong? Personal (inc. financial) selfishness, or acquisitiveness? Egoism and/or egotism?

Hard for me to understand, because I have always been described by others (not always favourably, though) as an idealist. I suppose that I could have joined, in youth, one of the two main System parties, which might have led eventually to a Parliamentary seat and —who knows?— to a ministerial portfolio, perhaps even to the Cabinet.

I am, however, not a careerist. In the end, ideology, belief, truth matters to me; policy matters to me; results matter to me; beyond that, the well-being of people and animals matters to me.

The Minister of Defense of Germany announced the delivery of the following weapons to Ukraine in 2024:

– air defense system IRIS-T SLM; –

Memory card “Gepard”;

– additional artillery systems with more than 230,000 ammunition;

– more than 80 Leopard 1 A5 tanks;

– additional BMP;

– additional engineering machines and bridge-layers;

– 450 armored vehicles;

– demining systems;

– drones;

– radar systems and intelligence systems.

This year, Germany also plans to train 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

What incredible impudence! The German Government is going to gift the Kiev regime 80 more tanks, and 450 other armoured vehicles. This is almost direct involvement in the war.

Russia has not, as yet, deployed more than a small fraction of its mighty military-destructive power. The West must back-pedal on the present headlong rush to regional and even world war.

I can only hope that the prevailing winds across the UK continue to blow from west to east…

The inhabitants of Gaza are now worse off than were the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s. History can certainly take some surprising turns.

Gaza was, after all, the location for the fight between David and Goliath.

One of the most interesting pieces of news I have read recently is that 14% of Israelis with dual nationality have fled the country in the past 3 months. Israel is doomed.

Use his correct name— David Cameron-Levita…

What we, those of us interested in the future of the European peoples, must do is to prepare as best we can for what might well be the situation after the next great war. Preservation of a core of European humanity, and the foundation of a society to provide a basis for a superculture, indeed for successive supercultures of the far future. We shall be there too, via reincarnation.

14 words.

See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

So to Thule, mystic eagles sped, adepts within, the abyss squared…

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