"They are still some way away from having an operational nuclear weapon"
Former UK National Security Adviser @LordRickettsP plays down suggestions that Iran are on the verge of having a nuclear weapon, adding that they do not yet have a delivery mechanism#Pestonpic.twitter.com/oBNYbDUa2J
Madness. The governments of the EU states and UK do not care at all about the welfare of their own citizens.
The Russian Armed Forces have a strategic advantage in all areas of the special military operation in Ukraine and keep advancing along the whole frontline, Russian President Vladimir Putin said:https://t.co/41gpZmGFbdpic.twitter.com/bgxsTynpOR
World War III would destroy civilization and must be prevented at all costs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told a session at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum:https://t.co/BY7QDLw1KZpic.twitter.com/7FKvDRH5lK
Ha ha! Jews are quite funny (without meaning to be) a lot of the time. It’s always “all about them”, in any and all circumstances. For example, Israeli Jews destroying every single hospital in Gaza is simply war damage, and really the fault of those being bombed, but if a hospital in Israel as much as has its windows broken, it’s some kind of evil “holocaust” (and so on…).
A few hundred cowardly Jews with dual nationality leaving their own (supposed) beloved country because they wish to avoid all risk is apparently the same as the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (my own maternal grandfather having been one of those taken off the beaches then) facing possible annihilation; and with the 1940-41 London Blitz thrown in as well! No wonder so many Jews are comedians…
Having said that, I believe that the lady tweeter is herself at least partly Jewish, but not (not completely, anyway) pro-Israel.
There used to be a saying, something about (I forget which creatures) leaving the sinking ship…
Iran Targets $475 Billion Israeli Stock Market
Tel Aviv's financial sector was rocked Thursday morning by Iran's missile strike on the Ramat Gan area, one of Israel's key economic hubs.
As news of the attack spread, financial markets reacted sharply, with traders rushing to… pic.twitter.com/SDAeLsKAL7
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Oh, dear…what a pity… and only yesterday or the day before, I read that the shares on that stock exchange were rising fast, after Israel’s sneak attack on Iran. Life is so unexpected…
Devastating blow to the Israel regime's economy by Iranian missiles; catastrophic damage to Ramat Gan in footage from Al-Arabi TV channel. pic.twitter.com/CiHkxjC39c
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
The images are not from Gaza, which was hit by the Israeli army. They are from Tel Aviv, which was hit by the Iranian army. pic.twitter.com/hCrPVevIM8
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
…and once the Israelis run out of ground-to-air missiles, Tel Aviv and other target areas will be almost undefended, and will be ground down (as Gaza has been), assuming that the Iranian missile barrages continue. According to the US/UK msm, that might be as early as one week from now.
Israel is running out of interceptor missiles under Iranian pressure According to the Washington Post pic.twitter.com/2mnUw4c4MI
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
So much for “Tel Aviv, the high-tech city with the booming economy“…It might soon be little more than a hole in the ground.
Israeli journalist admits destruction of weapons and ammunition at Soroka hospital. pic.twitter.com/BdBbFAudkH
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
The Israelis hide weapons in hospitals, it seems, just as (they claim) Hamas did in Gaza.
According to media reports, Iran used the Shahab-3 missile, which was introduced in 2003, in the latest operation. pic.twitter.com/5Se9OLqI5z
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Israeli army spokesman: 'We are launching attacks in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in parallel with our large-scale operation in Iran.' pic.twitter.com/dEPaMFuAih
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
“They” are a force for destruction, wherever they are.
Applause and shouts of "Iran, Iran" from Jordanian children when they see Iranian missiles! pic.twitter.com/ZCWUlyNFIC
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 19, 2025
🇮🇷 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The command center and intelligence of the Israel army were hit by a targeted strike. pic.twitter.com/99hiZxCi2X
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
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Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in a direct interview with Al Jazeera: "I asked every Israeli to report to the police anyone who watches Al Jazeera. It should be banned from Israel because it represents a danger to our National Security." pic.twitter.com/x0yQ4ZadfO
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Ecce the supposed “free democratic country” we hear so much about from our (UK, US etc) System politicians and msm…
So much for Israel being a “free and democratic” society…
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If you want a symbol of how utterly broken Britain really is then read this:
Labour's Attorney General, Lord Hermer –who signed off on sending Lucy Connolly to jail for nearly three years, helped give away Chagos and has consistently chosen to represent people who hate Britain… pic.twitter.com/6mlLEOrNLl
Strange. My red lines for Stephen Fry were him joining in with the fake antisemitism shit which ultimately gave us Starmer, the cheerleading for Israel committing genocide, and the crawling visit to Zelensky. Interesting what triggers some people. https://t.co/v9K7LXwdjI
— Mannie Quinn & The Mighty Hornets🐝 (@MannieMighty1) June 19, 2025
People are always saying how wonderfully talented Fry is. I cannot see it, for all his fame, acting career etc. In Jeeves and Wooster, that wonderful adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse, Fry was admittedly very good as Jeeves, but Hugh Laurie was the star, really. In Gosford Park, Fry’s police inspector ruined, in my view, the atmosphere, by importing a kind of cheap comedy into the film. As for his film about Oscar Wilde, it was nowhere as good (or as historically accurate) as the 1960 film starring Peter Finch, The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Fry’s version (if I recall it aright— I have seen it, though long ago) almost completely expunged Wilde’s heterosexual side [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde#London_life_and_marriage], and said little about Wilde’s life or views outside of Wilde’s obsession with Lord Alfred Douglas and various disreputable youths.
I knew a barrister who met Fry at a wedding, and said that he, the barrister, had been quite shocked at how “left-wing” (a term I myself rarely if ever use) Fry was. Said barrister was himself Labour, though of the John Smith “centrist” (?) tendency. Where Fry’s true sympathies lie is disputed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry. I am unsure whether he really has what might be called an ideology. He is, of course, half-Jewish.
🚨 Here is the strongest compilation of direct ballistic missile strikes by Iran on Tel Aviv over the past two nights.
Yet more idiotic government legislation – supporting milk 🥛 supplied in plastic rather than glass bottles. pic.twitter.com/iv0LMM6Sg6
— No Farmers, No Food (@NoFarmsNoFoods) June 19, 2025
Moscow warns Washington against interfering in military actions against Iran, as this is fraught with uncontrollable consequences, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on the sidelines of the SPIEF:https://t.co/Ka0SvCOL3Zpic.twitter.com/7iL45FfKf3
Russian troops liberated the community of Novonikolayevka in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday:https://t.co/zRHXpjgc44pic.twitter.com/I6qMRhE2U0
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Iran’s most deadly missiles may not be capable of interception.
It may be (speculating wildly, so be it) that the Iranians, often though not always noted for their subtlety, have been using their “pawns” (drones and slower missiles) as sacrificial pawns (as in chess), with the idea of exhausting the Israeli supply of ground-to-air defensive missiles. Then, when the Israelis run out of countermeasures such as Iron Dome and Arrow missiles, the Iranians will launch the real stuff…
That occurs to me as I recall the arguably most famous game of the Soviet chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal (a Jew, incidentally), who sacrificed almost every piece he had on the board, even his queen, in order to deliver the final brilliant and inescapable line of moves that led to checkmate (via a minor piece, at that). I think that that game was in 1968 or thereabouts.
Ah. Got it: “Tal vs. Vasily Smyslov, Yugoslavia Candidates’ Tournament 1959, Caro–Kann Defence (B10), 1–0.[33] A daring piece sacrifice to win a brilliancy prize“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tal. As I thought, it was against Smyslov.
Looks like my memory is still OK (though I got the date wrong)…
Chess is a rather comforting game. If I have leisure and time, and am not too occupied elsewhere, I should take it up again.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard warns Israelis of a possible strike on the Dimona nuclear reactor and demands they evacuate the facility immediately. pic.twitter.com/DXXqVHWqrB
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
At last…
(of course, the Israelis may have secret back-up facilities elsewhere).
I get the bus home from work at around the time school finishes, 30 min ride.
There's 1 or 2 white kids at most and it passes multiple high schools on the way…and these buses get packed.
Translates into a Reform UK government with a Commons majority of at least 50 (Reform 377, Lab 141, LibDem 52, SNP 37, Cons 13). For the Conservative Party, this may be the end of the line.
Why would any government particularly a Labour one go after both winter fuel and disability components. Totally self-inflicted mess. What did they think would happen. 🤦🏽♀️
I suppose she thought she had been elected (selected) as a real (old-style) Labour MP, not as lobby fodder for the Labour Friends of Israel cabal of Starmer-stein and company…
'Get 'em gone. Sorry.' @TomSwarbrick1 responds to the news that Pakistan has refused to take back two ringleaders of the Rochdale grooming scandal. pic.twitter.com/bebluUUseD
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 19, 2025
The whole world is waking up (again) to “them”…
Retired US Army Colonel: "Israel's situation is critical: the Iron Dome has turned into a sieve !"
Douglas McGregor:
"The situation in Israel is extremely grave. About a third of Tel Aviv is either destroyed or seriously damaged, and I am sure this trend will continue. I am… pic.twitter.com/mFFs32V58I
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
[“Retired US Army Colonel: “Israel’s situation is critical: the Iron Dome has turned into a sieve !” Douglas McGregor: “The situation in Israel is extremely grave. About a third of Tel Aviv is either destroyed or seriously damaged, and I am sure this trend will continue. I am told that a significant part of their aircraft has been evacuated from the country – many planes have been transferred to Cyprus to protect against attacks. Frankly speaking, Israel is in an extremely vulnerable and critical situation. Figuratively speaking, it is “hanging by a thread”. The missile defense and air defense systems will last only a few days. Those who are now in Israel describe to me that the Iron Dome has effectively become a “sieve” – it no longer provides protection.”]
As I wrote, in effect, previously today.
🇮🇱 Israel tightens control over information: up to 15 years in prison for photos of Iranian missile strikes. pic.twitter.com/R4IYRM7IzE
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Here are a few:
Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf in just one day – June 13: imagine what will happen when Iran cuts off the oxygen in the Strait if the Americans make contact against Tehran. pic.twitter.com/Qt2kQlFzAM
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
Russia is ready to start gas deliveries via the undamaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Europe shows interest , said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. pic.twitter.com/cFvgjU5LAx
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 19, 2025
The UK could have Russian gas at cost to heat homes and to power industry, if only this country’s pathetic governments were willing to stop joining in with the basically American NWO/ZOG anti-Russia strategy.
This week, 7/10, easily beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10.
I had no idea about question 9 and, though I should have got the answers to questions 2 and 8 (and would have got them, had I given a moment’s thought to either), did not.
Question 1 might have been challenging for me had I not been a passenger on that airline quite a few times, 20-30 years ago.
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JUST IN: The Financial Times editorial board says Israel-Iran conflict is 'the war that should have been avoided' and that the 'world is rightly fearful'
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) June 13, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 13, 2025
The Israelis are claiming interception of about 95% of the Iranian missiles. If it is true that Iran has or had about 3,000 such missiles, that means that only 150 might actually hit their targets, assuming that the Israelis can maintain such a rate of interception.
Israel has already destroyed a large portion of the Iranian army's ballistic missile stockpile during the operation against Iran that began on the night of June 13, Netanyahu said in a video address to the Iranian people:https://t.co/NcWaR6MPkEpic.twitter.com/ywSpGHjaiy
…after which, after Reform UK fails, the British people will roll the dice, fatefully, one last time— and then we, the social-national revolution, can come to power, and save European race and culture.
[“Honour your father and your mother”…]
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Important signal. “A senior Israeli security official tells Channel 12 that Israel has warned Iran that if it targets Israeli population centers with ballistic missiles, Israel will target…regime leaders and state infrastructure such as oil refineries.” https://t.co/910pjFcOkY
Only “Israelis” are allowed to target civilian population centres using bombs and missiles, or so “they” think.
Saberin News Iran: A video titled "The seizure of a vehicle carrying Israeli quadcopters" has been released. Those who collaborated with the Zionist regime will be arrested and executed. ▪️ Saberin_ir pic.twitter.com/LM0Sfkee32
The United States will not stand in the way of an Israeli attack on Iran, but it will not assist in offensive operations against Tehran, US President Donald Trump said in a conversation with Netanyahu pic.twitter.com/BrkYVqqDD5
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
I suppose it is too much to ask that both extreme Islamism and Zionism destroy each other…
Mayor of Rishon LeZion: “I have never seen such destruction – it’s like I’m standing in Gaza!” pic.twitter.com/uyspiXQTus
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
In the American phrase, “what goes around comes around“…
After additional geolocation analysis, it was established that the building that was hit in Tel Aviv, which was previously described as “civilian,” is in fact located on the territory of the Hakirya military complex.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
Journalist from the Israeli publication Haaretz: "I have seen many places where rockets have hit, but I have never seen such destruction in my entire life." pic.twitter.com/Tkl7S1eTeR
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
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For some reason, maybe the less-humid weather, I feel unaccountably happy today…
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Why are British taxpayers having to pay £30 million for “gay porn studies” and “music therapy for pregnant Africans?”
Slash foreign aid until Britain’s public services work for hardworking British people pic.twitter.com/1R56x5w4Z6
We know what must be done but we cannot express it in the conditions of repression of free speech that now exist in the UK.
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Cheerful marching music.
Those women certainly know how to put on a show…
Katie Hopkins, and her “Batshit Bonkers Britain”
I do not agree with everything Katie Hopkins says, and certainly not her support for the Israel/Jewish lobby, but she is, mainly, a truth-teller.
As she says, Romanians on the one hand, and Roma Gypsies on the other, are completely different types of people. Racially, ethnically and, therefore, culturally. They just live, or used to live, many of them, in the same country (Romania). Wake up, people…
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"What Keir Starmer and his allies have failed to recognise is that millions of people in this country are now proactively choosing an alternative to the elite consensus that has governed this country for much of the last thirty years."https://t.co/XGbEjT3NJm
As said previously, those migrant invaders are coming, as invaders always have throughout history, for the lives, homes, and women of the invaded population. The only difference is that the invasion of Europe, and perhaps especially the UK, at the present time, is being co-ordinated by the “British” Government itself. System MPs. System civil servants. System lawyers and judges. System msm scribblers and TV talking heads.
Instead of defending the British people and their borders, the whole System is conspiring against us. Those traitors should be detained, and then warehoused far away from our society.
Let’s also not forget that 7/10 was Netanyahu’s fault. Horrendous security failures and he blocked an investigation. He’s the problem, they need to get rid. And then tackle external threats without bombing other countries and getting badly bombed back.
Jenrick is a total and corrupt puppet of Israel, and of the Jew-Zionist lobby. Arguably the worst such in this country. Even worse than Starmer-stein and his cronies.
The Israel Defense Forces has suppressed air defense systems in western Iran and in Tehran, achieving "aerial freedom of action" over the Iranian capital, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin has claimed: https://t.co/FcVekwt7Yjpic.twitter.com/OUl5wE77vl
Bad news. Why was Iran not better prepared? Not that I support the Iranian regime, as such, but I would, needless to say, never support the Jew-Zionists either.
Iran has no other choice but to continue until the end, whatever the end brings.
Netanyahu on behalf of Israel: "Very soon you will see Israeli Air Force planes in the skies over Tehran. We will strike every facility and every target of the Ayatollah regime."
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
Had I been in the responsible position in Iran, I should have prepared well in advance (as the Israelis did). Not only in the obvious ways. For example, the Iranians, via their Hezbollah proxies, and with better technical and financial resources, could have dug very deep tunnels from pro-Iran areas of Lebanon, much deeper than those uncovered in Gaza, and penetrated Northern Israel using those. Via such tunnels, mobile flying columns on jeeps, and also using armoured vehicles including armoured cars and even tanks, could then have emerged as a viable fighting force somewhere in Northern and maybe even Central Israel itself, perhaps as special forces used only to attack targets of the highest strategic importance on the ground.
Obviously, those proxy forces would then have waited before launching their attacks, not (as they did) attacking prematurely a couple of years ago. Co-ordination. Strategy. Logic. Remember Clausewitz— concentration of forces; Schwerpunkte.
Netanyahu: What we have done so far in Iran is nothing compared to what we will do in the coming days pic.twitter.com/ySX7qoiCy6
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
Typical. “They” are always bullies, but cringe when they themselves are attacked, and then present themselves as “victims”.
Netanyahu claims that Iran has or had 20,000 missiles, not the 3,000 figure bandied about. That means that, even if the Israelis are destroying 95% of those incoming, there might yet be up to 1,000 able to reach their targets.
As previously blogged, for me the three main strategic targets in Israel must be the city of Tel Aviv (particularly targets of military or economic importance), the Ben-Gurion Airport 12 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, and the Dimona nuclear research/weapons complex in the Negev Desert in southern Israel.
There may be other worthy targets of strategic importance unknown to me (and/or completely secret) of course, but concentration of forces doctrine dictates choice of target; not everything can be hit by an attacking force anyway.
Channel 13 (Israel): "Military Cabinet to Meet in Underground Complex This Evening"
The meeting will take place in the new fortified Israeli army headquarters, located below the Ichilov hospital, which is protected from Iranian missiles. pic.twitter.com/Bbnj0ebEL3
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
Interesting. So the Israelis hide command centres under civilian hospitals…is that why they destroyed the hospitals in Gaza, because they knew or assumed that Hamas was doing the same?
According to Israel's own logic, Israel is using human shields; they set the Mossad Headquarters, IDF Headquarters, Iron Dome units and other legitimate targets in the densely populated area of Tell Aviv.
Well, I myself would not have “supported” the Jewish state no matter how restrained were its attacks on Gaza, but it is true that the brutal quasi-genocidal flattening of Gaza has opened many eyes to the nature of the Israeli Jews and their semi-ethnostate.
What Piers Morgan misses is the hidden agenda of the Jew-Zionists— to deport the surviving population of Gaza to concentration camps in the region, then repopulate the Gaza Strip with Jews either from Israel or from the USA and other parts of the world where Jewish populations exist.
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Walk down almost any high street in England. There’s a vape shop, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English. There’s a Turkish barber, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English. There’s an ‘asian’ grocery store, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English.…
[“Walk down almost any high street in England. There’s a vape shop, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English. There’s a Turkish barber, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English. There’s an ‘asian’ grocery store, run by a foreign man who can barely speak English. Character, gone. Community, gone. Independent British shops, mostly wiped away. It just doesn’t feel like England anymore. Does all of this make our country richer? It certainly doesn’t feel like it, walking through the decaying heart of almost every town in the country. The quiet, relentless erosion of community by the sheer scale and pace of change imposed from above – the sense that we were one nation, one people. It all just feels gone. When gangs of foreign men loiter on street corners, shouting in their own language, drinking and spitting. Are we supposed to just accept that as normal? Is that now what our country is? Women feeling intimidated in their own towns? Because I don’t like it. It did not used to be like this. It’s not England. And it doesn’t have to be like this. The change that has been imposed on us? It is not permanent. It is not irreversible. It is not inevitable. Before any of that can happen, we need to get our politicians to even begin to discuss these issues – honestly, openly and without fear. Labour, Reform, Conservative. All scared of their own shadows, terrified of being called racist by an establishment media based in leafy Surrey towns that are yet to be enriched by all of this wonderful immigration. I am so past caring about what these people think. We deserve to feel at home in the towns that our ancestors built. Not unsafe, not intimidated, not unwelcome. I’ve had enough of it. The British people have had enough of it. It’s time the rest of Westminster caught up.“]
Is Rupert Lowe wrong? I think not.
In the end, we really only need about 10% of the present population anyway in order to be able to build a foundation for an ethnostate, which itself will be the basis, or one basis (i.e. the one in the British Isles) for a future super-race.
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Starmer can't cope with the fact that he's not needed, that he's not being kept in the loop. He's insignificant on the world stage. Britain, once a mighty empire in its own right. Today a slab of impoverished rock run by morons for morons, currently being invaded, heading for a…
[“Starmer can’t cope with the fact that he’s not needed, that he’s not being kept in the loop. He’s insignificant on the world stage. Britain, once a mighty empire in its own right. Today a slab of impoverished rock run by morons for morons, currently being invaded, heading for a civil war. In the near future, there won’t be a Britain. It will have balkanised similar to Yugoslavia.“]
I agree, at least up to a point, with that last tweeter.
As for Starmer-stein, not only a puppet of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK, but a complete idiot. As that last tweeter says, he searches vainly for relevance, like Sadak seeking the waters of oblivion…
Sky News and ABC correspondent Alastair Bruce, a former TA/Reserves major-general, educated at Milton Abbey School and Sandhurst, does not know when or not to put an apostrophe (“field marshals”, not “Field Marshal’s“) “…; also wrongly uses upper case “B” for “batons”, and upper case “F” and “M” for “field marshals”. Standards are falling through the floor.
I see no rush, on the part of the fanatical Jew-Zionists in the UK, to fly to Israel’s aid (admittedly they could not anyway, when the only international civil airport is closed). They prefer to sit in front of their computers in this country, maliciously “reporting” so-called “antisemitism” online, and urging mass slaughter in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Iran.
Donald Trump has said that he discussed the situation around Iran in detail with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, adding that much less time was spent on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis:https://t.co/Neqt2ioVqjpic.twitter.com/opyFl9XkRI
Truly gripping footage of the confrontation between the Israeli regime's air defenses and Iranian missiles, and in the finale, the collision of two missiles and a fire. pic.twitter.com/Dd8bqncGZ1
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 14, 2025
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Is 'lawyer' Sir Keir Starmer – in effect telling Parliament that a crime – an illegal & unprovoked attack – when committed by his friend (Israel) – resulting in death – is not illegal murder – as the dead victim was not very nice?
Israel has the world’s largest per capita nuclear stockpile, has never signed a non-proliferation treaty, has never been inspected by the IAEA — and their nukes are controlled by a man wanted for war crimes by the ICC.
But sure, tell us more about “good guys” vs “bad guys”.
[Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles. I visited the Rock on a small boat once, aged 9 or maybe just 10, in September 1966. The sea-state was a dead calm that day, though. The lighthouse is now automated, like all others in the UK; in 1966, there were still three lighthouse-keepers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Rock]
That idiot, Brian Coleman, says in another tweet (by his co-pannelist, Tessa Dunlop), that he “used to be important” and is now “a has-been“. The second point may be so, the first only if you think that having been, long ago, a councillor in the Borough of Barnet (North London) and/or a member of the London Assembly, is “important“.
Wikipedia does mention Coleman’s membership of Conservative Friends of Israel, and his numerous instances of intemperate and violent behaviour, for at least one of which he was convicted of assault (though given a remarkably lenient sentence, on the facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Coleman#Conviction_for_assault).
Coleman was also a pretty bad expenses-blodger.
One wonders why the Jeremy Vine Show is interested in the comments of such people. His claim that Farage is and Reform UK is a “sideshow” shows Coleman’s complete lack of political nous. He says that he is old enough to remember the SDP, and how, after riding high in opinion polls, it imploded after less than a year in 1981.
He seems to think that the voters will somehow go back to the “Conservatives”. Really? I doubt it.
Yes, I too recall the SDP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)], I being nearly 5 years older than Coleman. The reasons for its failure were several, but to my mind the main one was that its policies were pretty much the same as those (much of) the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, and even the non-Thatcherite part of the Conservative Party.
Another point is that the SDP (rumps of which struggled on until 1988) was led by people who were the opposite of charismatic.
Leaving aside policy, the key difference between the SDP in 1981 and Reform UK in 2025, 44 years later, is the surrounding socio-political background. While the UK in 1981 was suffering from mass immigration, and on a large scale, the scale of that immigration was still minor compared to that of the past 25 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom.
In fact, even that alarming graph does not tell the true or full story. For one thing, the pre-1945 figures would include those white/English/British people born in parts of the British Empire; also those born in various parts of mainland Europe.
Again, the later parts of that graph, showing a steep rise, are yet not entirely showing the true racial/ethnic picture, because huge numbers of blacks, browns, Chinese etc (or half so) are now being born here in the UK to parents either recent immigrants or themselves born here, and those millions are not “foreign born” in that sense.
Not even just migration-invasion; also migration-occupation.
Another point is that living standards, though suffering a blip in the early 1980s recession, were not steadily declining, as is now the case for most people. Also, society had not collapsed in other ways in 1981, or the later 1980s, contrary to what is now the case. The monarchy, armed forces, educational standards, police, courts etc were still broadly as they had been for decades, indeed to a fairly large extent as they had been since late-Victorian times. Look now!
As to Parliament itself, it may have been flawed in 1981, but still worked more or less as it had done for the preceding century. MPs had not become total “grifters” and expenses-blodgers, because that system was not yet in place to the extent it later was.
Also, MPs were mostly either from trade union or teaching/academic backgrounds (Labour) or armed forces/landowning/business backgrounds (Conservative). A different ethos. For most of them, politics was a field they had come into from somewhere else. The present-day MPs are, many of them along the lines of: Oxford/Cambridge PPE or similar degree, political adviser, a bit of fake charity work maybe, maybe a bit of local councillor activity, then MP. Result— rubbish.
In a word, the voters are very angry with the state of everything in this country. They know Farage is a bit of a snake-oil salesman, they know Reform UK MPs are unpolished, inexperienced etc (and have not had the training of many System MPs). The voters, however, are voting in anger against the System parties rather than for Reform as such. They know that Reform is merely the best of a bad bunch. They are voting for change, too, not for specific Reform policies. Indeed, in supporting remigration/repatriation etc, the voters are well ahead of Reform UK, well ahead of Farage, well ahead of Matt Goodwin.
In other words, that Coleman character has completely misread the situation.
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Off to Westminster to do an interview with the always reliable @simonharrisitv on the 25th Anniversary of the first election of the London Assembly . Londoners are aware of the Mayor but would anyone notice if the Assembly was abolished ? What has it achieved in 25years?
We are living at a fascinating time. "It says something", notes Novara Media, "when Nigel Farage is outflanking Labour from the economic left" (on child benefit cap).
Here, I part company with Goodwin. After all, M&S has just posted a pre-tax profit of over £300M for the past financial year, and the other big supermarkets are in a similarly-fortunate position. Fewer staff, more self-service etc. Am I really supposed to get upset over those huge organizations losing out on even higher profits?
When it comes to small shopkeepers, it is different. The shoplifting upsurge really is hurting them.
The problem with making “minor” thefts punishable by harsh penalties is that it blurs the distinction between minor and major crimes, as in early 19thC England: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom#Background. The adage was “hanged for a penny, hanged for a pound” (not completely accurate— the threshold triggering the death penalty was in fact, until 1832, not one penny but 12 pence, i.e. one shilling).
Incidentally, shoplifting did attract the death penalty 200 years ago, if the value of the goods stolen was high enough.
NEW POST. Nigel Farage has grasped the new winning formula in politics. He is appealing to the Alarm Clock Class in this country, the workers who keep Britain moving, by speaking to their populist left positions on the economy and their strong right-wing views on culture. This is…
Goodwin and Reform seem to be drifting, in recent statements, into a kind of George Osborne, Dunce Duncan Smith dead-end, a position not far from that of the Con Party. Probably a mistake. If Reform starts to look like a copy of the Con Party, it will falter and fail.
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Sumy Region and the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/a1TATh2xWbpic.twitter.com/R1gosQyyfP
Germany plans to allocate funding to support Ukraine's defense industry in the independent development and serial production of cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers
Bild reports this on the eve of today's meeting between German Chancellor Merz and Zelensky in… pic.twitter.com/PxP5uFWdge
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 28, 2025
That would place, inter alia, both Moscow and Petersburg within range of heavy missiles fired from Kiev-regime territory. Germany is asking to be devastated yet again. Why? Is the NWO/ZOG infliuence in German politics that strong? Must be…
There comes a time when you need to stop “poking the Bear”, because the Bear will not tolerate it, or you.
The world is not without kind people…
More about Macron
Many readers will have seen my 2019 assessment of Macron, contained within the following now six-years-old blog post:
In that blog post, I go into Macron’s background etc. Now, I have been referred to recent tweets about him:
I used to have a flat in Paris and a chateau near Albi, and my children went to school in France after Hill House in London, so I know the French scene from a native perspective. I am also blessed with friends in Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and it has to be said, Brigitte…
[“I used to have a flat in Paris and a chateau near Albi, and my children went to school in France after Hill House in London, so I know the French scene from a native perspective. I am also blessed with friends in Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and it has to be said, Brigitte Macron’s frustrations, which have recently been on display as a result of the camera capturing her pushing her husband in his face in Vietnam, have been a source of understanding amongst the political classes for some time. This is neither the time nor the place to delve deeply into the Gay Paree scene, to which only Noel Coward could do justice. My YouTube channel, on the other hand, allows me to penetrate more deeply into the hard partying of Emmanuel Macron and his circle of elite and very handsome gays, including Gabriel Attal, whom he appointed as Prime Minister and who now heads up his (political) party in the National Assembly, and the renowned counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky. If anyone cares to pick up this thread, I’d suggest tuning in to my YouTube channel at 4pm this afternoon.”]
Allies of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have reacted sharply to his words about lifting restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine, writes Politico.
" The chancellor has come under fire from within her own ranks for vague statements about whether Germany is ready to… pic.twitter.com/s2ugFQrkBi
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 28, 2025
[“Allies of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have reacted sharply to his words about lifting restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine, writes Politico. ” The chancellor has come under fire from within [his] own ranks for vague statements about whether Germany is ready to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles that can strike deep into Russian territory ,” the publication said.“]
I should think so. For Germany to supply the Kiev regime with ever-more-powerful weapons might eventually result in Germany again becoming a battlefield, or even a charred and irradiated ruin.
Well, this week a clear victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He claims 5.5/10, whereas I scored 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 10.
“Benjamin Netanyahu was accused of slander and pursuing a war without end after he claimed the leaders of France, Canada and the UK were stoking antisemitism and siding with Hamas by demanding he end the two-month blockade of food and aid into Gaza.“
“In a post on X on Thursday evening, the Israeli prime minister said Hamas wanted to “destroy the Jewish state” and “annihilate the Jewish people”.
“I could never understand how this simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada and others,” Netanyahu said.
“I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice.”
[Guardian]
So now even Starmer-stein and Macron, both egregious puppets of the worldwide Jew-Zionist lobby and Israel, arecalled “antisemitic“! Carney, too, a former Goldman Sachs and central banker who is himself believed to be part-Jew (though his background is mainly Irish).
Is this the peak of such “gaslighting”? We in the UK have seen, for years now, the raucous Jew-Zionist lobby saying that almost anything not slavishly pro-Israel is “antisemitic”. The malicious and dishonest so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] has been in the forefront of it all, making false accusations about people to police and professional regulators, and spreading its poisonous propaganda on Sky News, GB News, the “does anyone actually watch?” Talk TV online outlet, and even the BBC.
Apart from that, imagine the lack of self-knowledge it takes for Netanyahu to accuse the admittedly unpleasant Hamas organization of being “mass murderers“, “baby killers” etc when the Hamas attack on Israel in late 2023 killed some thousand or so Jews and others (though many were in fact killed by the brutal Israeli forces themselves when the latter were killing Hamas operatives, and the Israeli victims seem to have “got in the way”) but when the Israeli retaliation in Gaza has killed anywhere between 150,000 and 200,000, mostly civilians rather than Hamas personnel.
In other words, in terms of numbers, the Israeli forces have killed between 150 and 200 Gazans for every one Israeli Jew killed during the 2023 incursion by Hamas personnel into southern Israel.
The Gazan population has been bombed, firebombed, attacked with white phosphorus, attacked with flamethrowers, shot at from the air and ground, rolled over by Israeli tanks, and killed also by an embargo on medical supplies and even food and water.
About half, more than half, of the victims of the Israeli forces in Gaza have been women and children, a huge proportion of the latter having been under the age of 12 (so not teenage fighters, of which Hamas seems to have few anyway); many of the victims have been babies, indeed. Netanyahu should look in the mirror, if he can bear it.
Incidentally, most of the original Israeli victims of the 2023 incursion were adults, and most were members of the Israeli armed forces, police, or other security orgs.
As previously blogged, if the Hamas operatives of 2023 were in part monstrous, indeed if the Palestinian Arabs generally are sometimes monstrous, then they have been made monstrous, and made so mainly by the actions and behaviour of Israel, and its supporters and facilitators elsewhere. Jews across the world raise money for Israel, including money specifically raised for the Israeli armed forces.
Are we coming to the point at which the “Western” world will (start to) throw off the shroud of (((control))) over Western economies, legal professions, politicians, newspapers, TV, radio etc, which (((control))) has become ever-heavier over the last 150 years, and particularly since the disastrous end of the Second World War in 1945?
Israel itself was founded on a foundation of mass murder and ethnic cleansing. The karma taken on by Israel and its population (and its supporters in the West) is very heavy, and gets heavier daily.
“Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
Providing every new home with at least one “swift brick” to help endangered cavity-nesting birds has been rejected by Labour at the committee stage of its increasingly controversial planning bill.
The amendment to the bill to ask every developer to provide a £35 hollow brick for swifts, house martins, sparrows and starlings, which was tabled by Labour MP Barry Gardiner, has been rejected by the Labour-dominated committee.
Despite the Labour party having supported the swift brick amendment when it was tabled on Conservative government legislation in 2023, housing minister, Matthew Pennycook, told the House of Commons committee: “We are not convinced that legislating to mandate the use of specific wildlife features is the right approach, whether that is done through building regulations or a freestanding legal requirement.“
A new petition calling for swift bricks to be made mandatory for new homes has rapidly reached 80,000 signatures in recent days, two years after activist Hannah Bourne-Taylor won a parliamentary debate to help the rapidly declining migratory birds after 109,896 voters signed a government petition.
Bourne-Taylor said there appeared to be “no logic” to the government’s opposition to swift bricks when they precisely meet its ambition of creating win-wins for the economy and nature.
“They are going to be building millions of bricks into walls. I don’t understand why there’s such a problem with a brick with a hole in it. It seems ludicrous,” she said. “Why say your new legislation is a win-win for new homes and the environment and exclude the only measure that is a true win-win?
“They are tone-deaf. This is such a tiny thing they could do, but it’s brewing such a distrust and sense of betrayal among the people who voted for them.”
[Guardian]
Such an easy way in which to help those birds and the environment generally, and now fake Labour has ruined it.
The Labour Party is now fake, evil, and deserving of being stamped into the ground.
As for that Pennycook bastard, he seems to be a typical Labour MP of 2025, a “beggar on horseback”, i.e. a careerist from a very modest background, determined to climb the greasy pole, with neither ideas nor ideals, and completely unprincipled.
By reason of the repression of free speech in this country, I cannot say what I might hope will happen to most System MPs.
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"Only 15 per cent of Brits, according to Opinium, last week, think the number of immigrants in Britain is ‘about right’, while close to 70 per cent say it’s ‘too high’."https://t.co/9Ab0mUOqge
Ironic. The System politicians and msm recently lined up to mention the possibility that Britain might have been invaded in 1940, yet pretended not to notice a real invasion that is happening right under their noses, and literally under the noses of the spectators of that Dunkirk tribute show.
As to why Britain was never actually under real threat of invasion in 1940, there were numerous reasons. First of all, Hitler wanted to rule much of the world in alliance with the British Empire; he did not want war with Britain; Britain, i.e. Neville Chamberlain’s Cabinet, declared war on Germany in 1939 and, after mid-1940, his successor, Churchill, was unwilling to consider an armistice.
Hitler was weighing what became the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He did not wan t a two-front war.
Hitler allowed most of the British Army soldiers in the Dunkirk area to escape (my own maternal grandfather one of them). Hitler refused to allow the Luftwaffe and tank columns to destroy that army, the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force or BEF. German ground forces were halted outside Dunkirk by Hitler’s own order (Fuhrerbefehl).
Secondly, the Germans never had enough barge and ship capacity to ferry an army of sufficient size across the Channel.
Thirdly, the Luftwaffe could not guarantee air superiority; neither could the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine much defend any forces ferried across.
Reverting to today’s real invasion, it continues, day after day, and nothing of importance is being done to stop, or even slow, the flow.
If only Britain had been in loose alliance with the Reich. We would have been, today, the rulers of much of the world, and that world would have been a better and happier place by reason of it. The usual evil (((influence))) prevented it from happening. Instead, we sit on our small and beleaguered island, invaded daily by trash from all over the world, we are individually poorer with every passing day and, with every passing day, our society falls apart, more and more.
I wonder how long it will be before there is little that is worthwhile left. At the age of 68, I may not see the ultimate depths of the degradation of Britain, thank God, and I am doing what little I presently can, in my present situation, to avoid the catastrophe, but see around me a society running around like a headless chicken, scarcely aware that it is already, in effect, dead, or at least mortally wounded.
I may, by Grace of God, be able to do more. We shall see. That is a matter of Fate. If the existing society cannot be saved, it may be that seeds can be planted in the rotting corruption, seeds which may germinate at a later time in history.
More tweets
Russian forces have entered Yunakovka in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, from where Kiev used to move troops to the bordering Russian region of Kursk, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/XtrJBxY21zpic.twitter.com/c1qk7hI8Vh
Now deleted as far as I can see.@Dr_BellaR can, I’m sure, explain why she posted racist material publicly, & why she didn’t apologise for doing so. Meanwhile, unless she ensures her Jewish patients know she’s done so, the can’t give informed consent & she’s a walking claim risk. pic.twitter.com/cgzOKpmnJF
I noted Myerson’s recent and defamatory attack on Dr. Rachel Clarke on the blog, yesterday, and mused on whether she could or, rather, will take a civil action in defamation against him, as well as reporting Myerson to the Bar Standards Board. The same must be true of this doctor, assuming that she is a medical doctor, as it seems she must be. Myerson is plainly saying that she will not treat Jew patients professionally.
Perhaps the two lady doctors will co-operate in both suing Myerson and reporting him to the Bar Standards Board.
Thanks for the tip. Is it my turn to be targeted? You should ask Simon Myerson about his involvement in my case.
Anonymous Jew-Zionist stalker attacks James Wilson, the victorious defendant in the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor.
Myerson and other notorious Jew-Zionist pro-Israel fanatics testified for the defendants, but the trial judge gave no weight to (i.e. plainly disbelieved) what they said on oath; Myerson included.
Thank God Myerson was at least sacked as a recorder (p/t judge) last year. The sacking was presented as if a “resignation”, of course. He had already been given an official warning about his online trolling.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 24, 2025
"We must not forget that over the last 48 hours – perhaps even longer – the Ukrainians have been actively attacking Russian territory with drones. For the Russians, this has been extremely painful and problematic: significant economic damage has been caused, the operation of… pic.twitter.com/HPBZxsP9co
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 24, 2025
From selling out our fishing industry and giving tax breaks to Indian workers to refusing to stop the small boats, Keir Starmer is single-handedly putting Nigel Reform and the Reform party on steroids https://t.co/iNoPmlLqws
Police who are doing this should have their names, ranks, and numbers recorded.
Anyone still claiming Lucy Connolly is a racist – here is a GP, one of many immigrant parents who paid loving tribute to the childminder who took wonderful care of their babies. More sense from this doctor than 3 judges! 👇 https://t.co/5M7WaFAP7W
As one might expect from scribbler Allison Pearson, she has missed at least one point. It is actually irrelevant whether someone’s views are considered “racist” (an almost-meaningless term).
My views now, and when I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred by reason of a conspiracy by two connected packs of Jews (“UK Lawyers for Israel” and the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) in 2016 ( 8 years after I ceased to practise at the Bar), are little if at all different from when I was in ordinary Bar practice in England (1992-1996 and 2002-2008), I being overseas most of the intervening time and for several years thereafter.
When I was in Bar practice before the courts and tribunals of England (mostly the County Courts and the High Court, though at first also in the magistrates’ courts, various tribunals and —occasionally— the Crown Courts), I had lay clients (and instructing solicitors) who were from many parts of the world, most living in the UK. Many species of blacks and browns, inter alia. I always did my best for all of them. That is or was the ethos of the Bar.
It is also irrelevant whether or not Lucy Connolly is or is not labelled as “racist” by this idiot or that. The fact is that her sentence was harsh, and the circumstances of her original plea and the facts of her case amount, overall, to a miscarriage of justice, notwithstanding her (frankly, mistaken) original guilty plea.
Lucy Connolly is quite evidently being used, politically, by the Starmer-stein regime, as something akin to the dead crows etc that gamekeepers used to impale on spikes as some kind of supposed warning-off to others. Katie Hopkins has vlogged to the same effect, and I had already blogged to that same effect.
The same thing happened to Tony Martin, the farmer who was at first convicted, quite wrongly, of having murdered a “gypsy” (Irish tinker/”traveller”) after a group of those predators and scavengers attacked Martin’s isolated farmhouse: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer).
Even after his murder conviction was quashed, being replaced by a manslaughter conviction and a 5-year term (his 10-year sentence for shooting and wounding another nuisance in the same incident was also reduced, the 10 years being replaced by a —concurrent— 3-year term), Martin was refused early release, and served 3 years. The woke-idiot probation and parole swine were judging him for his views, at root.
Had I been Prime Minister, I should have made sure that Martin was never charged (and don’t think that that is not possible). Indeed, he should have been commended for his brave actions, and given money from public funds.
Late thought
There is, shall we say, a certain group or bloc in this world that the world would be better without…
There may be several, in fact, but I am thinking of one in particular.
Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10.
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Talked on @BBCNewsnight last night about people's grim views of the economy and the sense of hopelessness it'll ever get better. The very real possibility is having voted for change 3 times (Brexit, 2019, 2024) and not got it, people start looking elsewhere for 'real change' pic.twitter.com/uAFqu7j6Ro
We know in our hearts what we have to do. We may have to steel ourselves, and take on karmic guilt, in order to do what has to be done, as Krishna counselled Arjuna, before the battle at Kurukshetra, and as recounted in the Bhagavad-gita.
"Last year, in 2024, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who trained abroad."https://t.co/RcfOA7Bl7P
And here’s the insanity taking place on UK campuses where I worked for 20 years and helped bring in a new law to uphold free speechhttps://t.co/f2He9wyBxR
[“I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of individual liberty; now it’s morphing before our very eyes into an Orwellian nightmare. We need a political revolution to restore common sense. And we need it now.“]
Incidentally, Matt Goodwin, who seems to support the Jew-Zionist lobby, has never said a word in support of my free speech rights. Neither has Goodwin said anything to support persecuted satirical singer Alison Chabloz, imprisoned for posting songs and cartoons online; Goodwin never said a word on her behalf. Same goes for Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a brief speech in Whitehall (calling for the deportation of Jews from the UK).
It is suspicious that the Sun comic gives Goodwin (and Farage) a mass platform; TV shows do, as well. Would I ever be given such platforms? No.
As you can see, not one mention by Goodwin on his blog of the Jew-Zionist lobby that is the main driver of censorship and repression of free speech in the UK; notably the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, whose so-called (self-titled) “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” was once exposed in open court, and by the CAA’s own bungling solicitor, as a vicious and perverse social media troll, targeting mainly women, and doing so pseudonymously.
That unpleasant nuisance still holds that (I presume, paid) role, and appears on joke TV stations such as GB News, Talk TV etc, as well as, occasionally, on Sky News. He even turned up to gloat at my free speech trial (which his own persistent backstairs manipulation of the stupid/ignorant police and CPS Wessex had procured), as well as at the later sentencing hearing. He quickly scuttled off, however, after my sentence (which he later described online as “absurdly lenient“) was pronounced. See my blog posts of 16 March 2024 and 17 March 2024 for more detail.
Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was imprisoned for distributing stickers, the content of which even the prosecution at his trial conceded was lawful.
Support for Melia, Turner, Alison Chabloz —or me— from Goodwin, Toby Young, Katie Hopkins etc? Nil.
The long-term Jew-Zionist attempts to criminalize “holocaust” “denial” (examination of the ever-less-credible stories around the repression of Jews in the mainland Europe of the early 1940s) have become a general strategy to criminalize any and all criticism of Jewish behaviour, or Israeli war crimes etc.
Likewise, we have seen how the plodding UK police, while failing at their proper job most of the time, enthusiastically tried to reinvent themselves as a poundshop KGB or Stasi during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022. Those dissidents pointing out the absurdity of shutting down the economy and society because of a virus that was actually killing hardly anybody were hounded and, in some cases, even arrested. They were labelled “Covidiots” and/or “Covid deniers“
Some fanatics even wanted those sceptical of “climate change” orthodoxy to be criminalized. They too are called “climate change deniers“…
Starmer-stein’s fake Labour-label regime seems to be going even further.
That evil fraud should have been put up against a wall years ago.
Executive Board of the IMF has completed the Seventh Review of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for Ukraine, which provides Ukraine with another tranche worth $400 mln, the IMF press service said in a statement:https://t.co/gBbRTbcbJqpic.twitter.com/QsBfLemJTK
The Russian armed forces have liberated Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jfYYFndJwzpic.twitter.com/h5XxzB8ZOx
The Kiev regime no longer tries to invent victories, advances etc. Russian forces are advancing steadily on all fronts.
🚨 This week’s Spring Statement was a “massive missed opportunity” to implement a wealth tax, economists and campaigners have warned.
Economists told Big Issue that a wealth tax could generate as much as £24 billion a year – five times the £4.8bn Rachel Reeves expects to save… pic.twitter.com/XnOrhL9W8I
Our social fabric is fine – despite Jenrick’s best efforts to stir the pot. I don’t think he’s the right person to lead anything – his recent trajectory frankly crackers. And I backed him so imagine he’s received pretty unfavourably by A N Other Average Voter too. pic.twitter.com/qH4vV9FwGr
If that lady (ex-wife of an ex-MP) thinks that the UK’s social fabric is “fine“, I really think that she should get out more…
I agree with her about Jenrick though (albeit for other reasons). He is a horrible little pissant, completely in hock (probably literally) to the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.
Despite statements by Vladimir Zelensky about the purported cessation of attacks on Russian energy facilities, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army continued strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/TgzXhSueZDpic.twitter.com/stykns9IOH
🇬🇧 Great Britain and France cannot accept defeat in Ukraine
▪️ France and Britain's efforts to escalate the Ukrainian conflict stem from their "concern for their relevance" and refusal to accept that the conflict is lost, former British MP Matthew Gordon-Banks said. pic.twitter.com/VCo8djsYrb
In 2004, Gordon-Banks switched party allegiance to the Liberal Democrats, joining the party’s Executive Committee in Moray, Scotland.[6][7]
Gordon-Banks was suspended from the Liberal Democrats in 2016 after an antisemiticTwitter tweet: “Farron’s leadership campaign was organised and funded by London Jews” and “I am glad I never had to represent a constituency with a significant Jewish community because [they] are all bloody hard work“. Marie van der Zyl, Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said, “The comments by Matthew Gordon Banks on Twitter are of very deep concern. He talks about Jews and money and hints at the age-old canard of the ‘Jewish conspiracy’. He must urgently clarify and apologise for his comments, otherwise, we would expect the Liberal Democrat Party to invoke disciplinary procedures.[1][8]“
[Wikipedia]
This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today:
“I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things… https://t.co/KppX5zzmva
[“This is how absolutely INSANE this case this. This is what the local Member of Parliament said today: “I have constituents getting in contact with me saying their house has been burgled and the police have not turned up, or they have watched shoplifters come in and take things off the shelf, and police will not come. Now it appears Hertfordshire police were able to send six officers for parents’ comments on a WhatsApp group and emails to the school”. And now, we also learn today that the local police who staged this arrest warned off DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED local councillors from getting involved in the case. Outrageous. What has happened to our country? As I say here, this is not simply a freak case, an unusual outlier. No, it is merely the latest symbol of our country’s major and growing free speech crisis. This is, at its core, about freedom. Whether you believe we are a free nation with free speech, free expression and the right to question authorities, or you don’t.“]
Toytown police state becoming a real police state…
I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country…
[“I am 43 years old. I cannot recall a time in my life when I have been as depressed about the state of Britain and England —a country I love—as I am today.
Here are 5 things that happened in the last week alone that point to the terrible future that awaits our once great country unless we urgently and radically change course.
1. In the political system, a group of MPs, many of whom preside over disadvantaged neighbourhoods here in Britain, decided to lobby instead for an airport in … Pakistan … to please their Muslim constituents, thereby continuing to usher in a dark and dangerous sectarianism into our politics that was further reflected this week in the election of “independent” local candidates campaigning not on issues central to Britain but … Palestine. We are heading, slowly but surely, toward a model of sectarian politics that looks more like Lebanon than Britain.
2. In the legal system, a remote, unelected, unaccountable and self-righteous ‘Sentencing Council’ refused a request from elected government ministers to change guidelines that will entrench a two-tier legal system, whereby people from racial, sexual and gender minorities will be treated more favourably than others when handing out prison sentences, thereby violating the principle that everybody in this country should be treated equally before the law
3. In the judicial system, police decided to arrest two parents whose only ‘offence’ was to complain about their local school in a WhatsApp group, with the Orwellian school and police authorities both prioritising the ‘emotional safety’ of a few fragile teachers over the need to uphold free speech and individual liberty in this country.
4. In the immigration system, meanwhile, we learned that 6,000 illegal migrants have now arrived on our shores on small boats in the first three months of this year, 40% up on last year, with crossings happening every day this past week, taking the total since 2018 to 157,000 illegal migrants who are costing struggling British taxpayers upwards of £7 BILLION a year. This isn’t only breaking our laws but is throwing full light on the total incompetence and inability of our politicians and the UK state to control our own borders, keep our own people safe, and maintain our status as a sovereign nation.
5. And in the economy, lastly, this week we learned that our hapless rulers in Westminster are now more interested in helping foreign nationals and illegal migrants than their own people, with a Spring Statement from the Chancellor confirming they are more focused on slashing welfare and support for British pensioners, workers, and farmers, who come from these islands and whose ancestors have contributed to these islands for centuries, than they are on slashing the BILLIONS these same British taxpayers are now being forced to spend subsidising foreigners, illegal migrants, foreign criminals, our broken asylum system, and foreign aid which is still being used to support the likes of eco-farms in Nepal, obese children in China, and LGBT campaigns overseas.
Sorry, but enough is enough. The people in power, the people who are presiding over these disastrous decisions, really need to start thinking about where all this is going, where all this is pushing us as a people and a nation.
Because it’s increasingly clear, to me at least, that the eventual destination will be a very dangerous, dark and divided place indeed. There is a total lack of strong leadership in this country. We need to change course, now. We need to start putting the British people first, now. And we need to start radically reforming the entire political, legal, judicial and economic system, now. Because unless we do then we are all heading into very serious trouble.“]
[Matt Goodwin]
Well, I am now 68, and I say the same, or similar.
Only social nationalism can save Britain and all Europe.
Exterminate evil, then build a state which can be a foundation for a better society and ethnostate and, developing over long periods of time, an eventual super-race.
A moneygrubbing member of Labour Friends of Israel, as well.
The UK media also gave much more coverage to the death of one African American man in Minneapolis than to the murder, rape and abuse of hundreds of thousands of white working class girls here in Britain https://t.co/QVoY0mzBkz
A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, escorted by a Su-35S multirole fighter, hit a stronghold and manpower of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk border area, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/IGBDLAoUSDpic.twitter.com/glhKd6mqOx
Eighteen Ukrainian servicemen have been taken prisoner west of the Kurakhovo settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/Lm1XXLtcwepic.twitter.com/yOhZbgDv5I
It would be interesting to know the true rate or figures of desertions from the Kiev-regime forces, say in the past three months. Enormous, probably. Thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.
Zelensky’s Jew-Zionist dictatorship combines shambolic inability, corruption, and brutality. It is doomed.
“A pensioner was visited by armed police at his house after ‘jokingly’ asking a Barclays bank agent whether he needed to walk into a branch with ‘a bomb strapped to my shirt to get some attention’.
Eric Trim, 75, from Royston, Hertfordshire, was mystified after discovering that his £14,000 bank account was closed due to inactivity just weeks before Christmas.
The pensioner was forced to take out a loan to buy Christmas presents for his children and grandchildren before spending more than four hours on the phone to various different Barclays agents to resolve the issue.
After feeling as though he was getting ‘nowhere’ with each representative, he snapped in frustration and in a ‘tongue-in-cheek way’ said he will ‘walk into your bank in Cambridge’ and ‘tell them I’ve got a bomb strapped to my shirt to get your attention.’
Just two weeks later, two armed police officers arrived at his house to arrest him and suspended his firearms licence due to him being listed as a ‘threat’.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, the 75-year-old slammed Barclays bank for showing ‘no care’ towards him and questioned whether Britain has become a ‘police state’ after the officers arrived at his door.“
[Daily Mail]
That report just typifies so much about how Britain now operates.
Someone’s bank account closed down for no good reason.
The inability of a huge and profitable company (in this case, Barclay’s Bank) to deal with a simple enquiry and matter.
The afraid-of-their-own-shadows Barclay’s employees, who obviously ticked some kind of box as an excuse for their own incompetence and the bank’s inability to operate in a customer-friendly way.
Or maybe, the bank drones were the kind of idiots who, during the 2020-2022 “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, reported people for not wearing a facemask muzzle etc.
Finally, the equally-boxticking behaviour of the police plods, who obviously did not really believe that the bank customer was “a threat“, looking at how they took two weeks after complaint was made to go to his house and arrest him (and then justified their unnecessary arrest by ticking another box and suspending his shotgun licence; thus they can now close the case with “appropriate action” having been, supposedly, taken…).
The fact that the police arrived and rang the doorbell, when they supposedly viewed the poor chap as “a threat” who had a shotgun as well as, in the Barclays/police fantasy, a bomb, says it all.
Pathetic.
As to whether Britain has become a “police state”, yes it has, though (so far) mainly a pathetic velvet-glove one, and one which attacks mainly decent citizens, not the rabble who should be dealt with.
Vladimir Zelensky could face a reduction in financial support from the European Union due to the negative consequences that Europe began to face after the suspension of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, Forbes writes.
The situation in the international arena and in Ukraine has become more favorable for Russia "Today, circumstances are much more favorable for Russia – both in Ukraine and on the international arena," the Atlantic reports. pic.twitter.com/Yu2M7beQ9s
One of my favourite TV shows when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
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No more celebratory dunks in the river for winning boat race crews, due to e-coli. “Instead the Oxford and Cambridge crews will be encouraged to wash themselves down at a dedicated cleansing station at the finish.” Festive. #sewagecrisishttps://t.co/fAFIa6gusm
Seems to sum up everything about Britain in 2024: the environmental calamity, the nanny-state-ism, but also the historical ignorance. The lower Thames (in my meaning, the Thames below Reading, and especially below Kingston) was actually far dirtier in the past, in the 1950s, and back to the 1850s, perhaps even the 1750s.
Still, it is true that the rivers of England and Wales have been almost abandoned by this Government. Effluent and agricultural (farmers’) vandalistic fertilizer and other runoff going into the waters; and water itself being abstracted to service the needs of a UK population growing by 500,000-1,000,000 each year (by reason of mass migration and/or migration invasion).
“The most important and urgent task is to expand wild populations, encourage natural recolonisation and cushion the expected impacts of climate change,” says Seth Jackson @nationaltrust News today of work to save microhabitats on the Lizard. https://t.co/ThqP6ME8gZ
Another sentimental memory, this time from when I was about 6 years old.
Brilliantly-presented music and colour film from the 1930s.
Looking at the crowds, how sincerely and genuinely happy they look, as compared to (for example) the enforced jollity of the parades in the Soviet Union of the 1930s.
I do not agree with all of that article by ex-MP Emma Dent Coad in the rump Morning Star, above, but I do agree with some. Worth reading, though she fails to point out at least one possible reason why faux-radical Paul Mason got so angry when Labour’s Israel lobby was mentioned: Mason himself is partly Jewish, and also seems to be very pro-Israel, certainly opposing those he considers “antisemitic”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Early_life_and_education.
Looking ahead
It is all too easy to get distracted by the noise of the world, by short-term politics, by the daily news agenda, by personalities etc. We must try to look ahead, beyond the present year, the present decade; even beyond the present century and the present millennium.
My thesis, though complex in total, is simple in essence: humanity needs to make a quantum leap in evolution. In order for that to happen, there has to be a suitable demographic, ethnic basis. For me, that has to be the European peoples as a whole, particularly the Northern Europeans.
However, the European people(s) are not the end result, or the highest possible stage, but merely a base, also a transitional stage to higher evolution of consciousness.
It is a matter of concern that births and birth-rates to Europeans (including Russians and some other Slavs, the peoples of the far future) are falling quite fast now.
The above factor may be a sign of an impending civilizational catastrophe, but may also be more than merely a “crisis”; it may also be an opportunity for the European peoples to seize the world-historic initiative in terms of demographics. In other words, to start creating the basis of a basis for a future super-race, to put it that way; an advance on —and by— present-day humanity.
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A genocidal and dehumanising rant from an extremist far-right politician. Israel must cast out these types of politicians, from the cabinet, from the Knesset, from its political landscape. Just hideous pic.twitter.com/Fvhz9mbXPO
As seen in that tweet, even some Jews, indeed even some Zionist pro-Israel Jews, find many of the members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) beyond the pale, so to speak. All the same, that ranting Jew politician was elected by Israeli voters. He is only expressing, in an extreme form, what is, at least arguably, the mainstream Israeli view in substance, though usually couched in a less extreme, less obviously violent way.
So far, the Israeli revenge attack on Gaza has killed 30,000-40,000 of the inhabitants, mostly women and children. The number grievously wounded must now be as many as 100,000.
Yet one sees Jews in the UK and elsewhere defend the Israeli actions (use of white phosphorus, use of famine as a weapon, flattening of huge areas of residential housing etc, use of drones and snipers killing families or lone unarmed civilians) as “defensive”, “justified“, “not genocide“, “not war crimes” etc. In effect, those (Jews and non-Jews) who support Israel, and who are tweeting support for Israel, are supporting those actions.
They are often the same ones whining and screaming that some child in London or wherever has chalked a swastika on a garage door or the side of a bus, and that that is a kind of “terrorism”, and that they feel “afraid” to go out of their houses. Pathetic.
Two-fifths of Starmer's cabinet have received funds from pro-Israel groups, Declassified UK findshttps://t.co/3kWHNYrCqL
Trevor Chinn donated £50,000 to @Keir_Starmer’s leadership campaign.
As have many “Conservative” MPs. Britain’s immediate political problem in a nutshell— a special-interest group influences, and as good as controls, both main System parties.
So you haven’t been libelled, Paul? Just caught out?
Of course, I have no idea whether Paul Mason is or is not actually an agent of one or another secret government service, as many claim, but he has always struck me as being inherently unreliable, and not very trustworthy in any respect. That’s my honest opinion, anyway. Also, Mason is a little too enthusiastic about the idea of locking people up for their views…
Police in Nashville, USA, detained a journalist on the grounds that he had interviewed people demonstrating support for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/2o1SwNNeJ5
Well, one of the comments on the blog (made allegedly by me) that “got me into trouble” over the past year or three referenced Jewish/Zionist/Israeli influence in the USA, and/or the mindset of many Americans who (influenced by TV, radio, and Press) blindly support the Israel lobby, so I had better not say too much here about “freedom” in the supposed “land of freedom”…
It’s strange…as recently as the 1970s, Britain had almost complete free speech on political, social, historical and other topics. What a contrast to today’s “iron fist in velvet glove” repression, abused by —mainly— the groups associated with the Jewish lobby and Israel; the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] etc.
I think that, eventually, the huge defensive works undertaken by the Kiev-regime forces will lie abandoned by their former defenders. Already, the regime is using press-gangs to “recruit” soldiers, and is slowly running out of arms, ammunition, and other supplies.
[above, the “suspect”, a denizen of Britain’s wonderfully “diverse” multikulti society. Does anyone seriously think that a better society can ever develop when untermenschen of that sort inhabit the UK, or Europe generally? Indeed, can even our existing society be maintained?].
Even now, if I say or write something about how British society is steadily collapsing into chaotic dystopia, many will smugly smirk, “knowing better”. What will it take before those people start to listen, properly hear, then combine to do something about it all?
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"Under the next Labour gvt illegal & legal migration will soar. Labour has no serious plan on illegal migration while the party, like the Tories, is instinctively comfortable with mass legal immigration –even if most voters are not"https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
Our society is going either to collapse or to explode; maybe both. That situation, either way, will see the best chance ever for social nationalism in the UK, and the best chance in Europe generally since Germany awoke in 1933, then plunged into defeat in 1945.
"Keir Starmer will not be a popular PM. You can already see it in the data. There is no enthusiasm for the Labour leader. His approval ratings are weak. YouGov might call him our "most popular politician" but his net favourability rating is MINUS 18!"https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
Starmer will be an unpopular PM, indeed an unpopular, if “elected”, quasi-dictator. I could say more but regular readers will know that I am restricted at present.
"Labour is not as strong as some suggest. Only 1 in 4 voters think it's “in touch”. Only 18% think it's “strong”. Only 22% think it's “trustworthy”. Only 26% it's “competent”. Only 1 in 3 think it's “united”. Only 24% say “it's got a clear purpose”https://t.co/MjgtGWyllj
True but, as far as GE 2024 is concerned, the electorate will not be voting for Labour, they will be voting against the Conservative Party which has ruined so much over the past 14 years.
Both System parties are enemies of the people.
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What is disturbing about Therese Coffey being a Cabinet minister is not the mere fact that she is an idiot —she is not alone— but precisely that the present system leads to people quite as ill-suited as her becoming Government ministers.
Seems that the Jews of Israel want “Lebensraum“, and Gaza to be “Araberfrei“…. Who would have thought it?
I've said it before and I'll happily say it again, if you're on the same page as Rachel Riley then you are on the wrong page of history. . pic.twitter.com/aKPIZrc9Ig
I want to see a similar map of the UK, but about economic power and showing exactly “which groups” have it. Same about ownership, control, and influence over the “British” mass media.
Why do they interview a Countdown presenter on a major news programme?
As soon as the Israelis started the present round of their repeated slaughter of the population of Gaza, up popped Rachel Riley (and a few other Jews and Jewish organizations, such as the tiny but well-funded “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) to threaten, on Twitter/X, anyone opposing Israeli actions by reason of, or connected to, so-called “antisemitism”.
She strikes me as a very unpleasant woman.
We are feeling this: @RachelRileyRR tells me how she’s been left shaking with fear at what feels like an avalanche of hatred. https://t.co/GyG06QwBrp
Unlike Rachel Riley, I always support freedom of expression. #MoralHighGround.
“But she said the positive support in contrast had been ‘heartening’ – including the 50,000 British people who signed their name to an ‘October Declaration’ speaking out against antisemitism and the need to call out Hamas as ‘terrorists’.”
[Daily Mail]
“50,000“. So about 1 in 1,000 people in the UK (and elsewhere?)…or, to put it another way, only 1 out of every 5 or 6 Jews in the UK. Not very impressive.
Laurence Fox really should stop posing as a political leader. He is a political bad joke. He is, or thinks that he is, pro-free speech, and I approve of that (though, like Toby Young, Delingpole, and the whole “Free Speech Union” mob, his support is limited and biased), but he is basically a disconnected Conservative Party person who (understandably) wants less censorship, and fewer migrant-invaders coming to the UK.
Fox is currently parroting Israeli/Jewish lobby propaganda. He should stop pretending that “Reclaim Party” is anything other than a political joke (and far less amusing than the Monster Raving Loonies) and either return to acting, or join a real social-national party (when one exists).
I notice that Jews are actually reporting pro-Palestinian people who have been removed pro-Israel posters in London (and maybe elsewhere) to the police. In fact, tearing down such posters is not a crime. Putting up such posters is a crime (all flyposting is a crime in London).
The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposal to vote on Sweden's application to join NATO
While Turkey swallows the burning of the Koran and the refusal to extradite Kurds in Sweden, representatives of the ruling Fidesz party considered the “blatant lies” that Swedish… pic.twitter.com/U2ULZGW7s0
The Swedes should feel grateful. Stockholm would not look very nice after having been hit by a nuclear missile.
The White House is losing the information war around Ukraine and changing messages, – Politico
The publication reports that the Biden administration is privately asking congressmen from both political parties to justify the need for new aid to Ukraine on the grounds that it will… pic.twitter.com/Vg2LWHlhTQ
What is the point in strengthening the law around cruelty to animals, when the courts continue to hand down such toothless sentences? Also, is the CPS charging correctly?
Animal welfare has to be given more emphasis in this country, even if the UK is better than most other countries in this respect.
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The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting pic.twitter.com/6XkD56HbJc
Ferrari: "This is a rum state of affairs. So the PM won't go to COP27 for the environment, but the Foreign Secretary will go to Qatar for the World Cup?
"Clearly football is more important than the environment to this government."
If Rishi Sunak thinks Therese Coffey represents "Professional Government" then he's a bigger prat than I thought already. She's utterly clueless,and frankly it's insulting that someone so useless keeps getting high level appointments.
100% Lucy. The farce of politics. Get elected. Bung yer mates in post, with little or zero experience and we as the electorate, swallow the lot. Coffey embodies the worst of all worlds, in every position she's been in. A talentless lump of denial…
Ha ha! The bitch must have seen my assessment about her! Actually, that is quite likely: thousands have, since it was published over three years ago. Many MPs, ministers, members of overseas governments, read my work.
[Therese Coffey, Secretary of State for the Environment; former Secretary of State for Health; former Deputy Prime Minister]
Seriously, though, the fact that a useless and dishonest creature such as Therese Coffey can reach the level, politically, that she has, surely proves that the whole system is sick.
Twitter
If there is any truth in the news, or rumour, that Elon Musk will reverse the millions (?) of “lifetime suspensions” of Twitter tweeters (one of which was me, after a pack of Zionist Jews conspired to have me expelled in 2018), I may decide to return to Twitter, but only to promote this blog.
In reality, the “aid” being given to “Ukraine” (to the Jew Zelensky’s Zionist and dictatorial regime in Kiev) is not aid to the Ukrainian people, and is given with the intent of pressuring and eventually collapsing Russia as an independent state.
The New World Order [NWO] cabals want Russia to return to a completely supine, powerless state, as it was in the 1990s under Yeltsin, a state in which Jewish and (other) foreign exploiters can profit hugely off the suffering of the Russian people. The same, mutatis mutandis, as happened in Germany in the 1920s.
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But according to the National Institutes of Health, there’s no link between sugar and hyperactivity — and study after study has demonstrated that sugar rushes are a myth. https://t.co/zkAs5Qgi4t
The evidence was so compelling that the statistician who reviewed the paper told its authors that he had never seen such consistently negative results in statistical analysis. pic.twitter.com/OWmUxFxS8k
You’re not alone. In '94, researchers examined about 50 children whose parents claimed they were sensitive to sugar. Each child was assigned a diet high in sugar, aspartame, or saccharin (a sweetener that contains no calories). pic.twitter.com/pvi6wgzp4X
Interesting comment both on the specific question and also, impliedly, on how popular perception of what “The Science” says (or is believed to say) can lead to a kind of mass conditioning (cf. the “Covid” “panicdemic” and several other issues).
“In 1915 Feinberg traveled to Egypt and made contact with the British Department of Naval Intelligence. In 1917, he again went to Egypt, on foot. He was apparently killed on his way back by a group of Bedouins near the British front in Sinai, close to Rafah.[3] His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War, when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.” [Wikipedia].
How about that?! “…his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket.“
Well, now that the said Feinberg is apparently an Israeli hero-figure (they even have a stamp with his head on it), the suspicion must be that the bit about the palm tree and the date seeds is some kind of fairy tale. Still, it may well be true. These things happen.
I have not included the above in my blog to make any political or other point; it just struck me as interesting. Still, one could reflect on how one never knows how one’s actions may, long after one’s own death, bear unexpected fruit (in the case of Feinberg, literally, of course).
Israeli elections
Readers of my blog will know that I am usually cautious about commenting about the political situation in countries with which I am not directly familiar (even Scotland), but idly browsing Wikipedia while listening to BBC World Service, I heard about the electoral impasse in Israel. I looked up the state of play on Wikipedia:
It seems that there 120 elected members. What is extraordinary is that Israeli politics is so fragmented that the party presently ruling, Likud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud], has only 30 members out of that 120. Indeed, the whole minority government coalition headed by Likud only has 54 members.
The second-largest party in the Knesset, Yesh Atid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesh_Atid] has only 17 Knesset members. The next-largest party has 9. In fact, there are no less than 23 parties and Independent members represented, grouped into 13 factions.
[Update, 31 August 2024: state of play as of date of update—
…Likud now has 32 seats].
Compare that to the much larger UK House of Commons, where there are 16 parties and Independents but where, out of 650 MPs, 562 belong to only two of those parties.
Why is the Israeli parliament so fragmented? It may be that there is something in the Jewish psychology that tends to dissension, dissidence etc. That was certainly true of the various Marxist factions that used to exist in the Western world, especially in the realms of Trotskyism.
There again, the Israeli proportional representation system has a low threshold for representation: 3.25% (it was 1% at one time). In fact, there has never been a one-party-majority government in Israel.
Another aspect yet is that most of those parties were started not long ago. The main Opposition party, Yesh Atid, was only formed in 2012. Several others were formed even more recently, in the past two or three years. Likud, the presently largest party, was founded in 1973.
Well, there it is. A peculiar country. Interesting though. I am interested generally in countries which are contrived or artificial, as Israel surely is. Singapore would be another example. They tend to be small geographically; Israel is almost exactly the size of Wales (or New Jersey), while Singapore is not even twice the size of the Isle of Wight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore.
Farm subsidies
Listening to some typical farm-owner whining on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Farmers in the UK always want it both ways, to be treated as independent businessmen and women, but given State subsidy or support at the same time. For me, it just does not wash.
One farmer had the right sort of ideas about small-scale farming, biodiversity, organics etc, yet wanted public money, in effect for not being an environmental vandal. Why should the public subsidize farmers at all? Better to impose environmental and animal welfare regulations, restrict imports, and let the farms be real private “businesses”. Alternatively, to put them largely into State ownership but give environment-friendly farmers or collectives long-term (even lifetime) leases.
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Daily Mail tiptoes to the very edge of #antisemitic tropeland, but manages to find one rare example of a church-going vulture capitalist. Close run thing though. "And if you could see them through my eyes…." https://t.co/UAfkxgfxA0
Stop the so-called 'trials' of e-scooters. Anybody with any sense can see that there's no good case for them (they're not green, they stop people taking badly-needed exercise, they're a dangerous nuisance) , and that they will increase the sum of human misery. Write to your MP. https://t.co/ZWjWNrsUev
"It’s time to rename 'Call The Midwife'. It would be a good way of marking its transformation from engaging historical drama to relentless politically correct propaganda vehicle. May I suggest 'Call The Abortionist'?" https://t.co/kH1TzZMoQT
Yes @michaelrosenyes. But I loathe their habit of referring to institutions by the names of their very different modern successors. I went to the Oxford College of Further Education, known to all as the Cowley Road Tech. https://t.co/wBp8RnBJJW
Soon, there will be the Batley and Spen by-election. I shall be blogging about it in a week or so. The Labour Party vote has suffered a gradual decline in that constituency since the rigged by-election in 2016. After the assassination of Jo Cox, the System parties conspired to get another Labour Party MP elected, so an ex-soap actress was parachuted in, and the Conservative and LibDem parties did not stand. Pathetically, “controlled opposition” UKIP also failed to put up a candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batley_and_Spen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.
Now Labour is relying, in the Batley by-election, on a kind of “sympathy vote” by putting up the sister of that assassinated MP. Pretty desperate…
Lisa Shaw, a healthy 44 year old woman, had zero chance of dying from covid.
It is therefore ironic that a vaccine deployed against a virus with a 99.97% survival rate killed her.
Believing in UK government covid propaganda has its consequences.
The gradually-emerging UK police state in operation. Quite normal things criminalized, but real criminal acts ignored. Read The Protocols of Zion and you will be on the right track…
I agree with The Guardian : 'This is the biggest data grab in the history of the health service.'The Guardian view on medical records: NHS data grab needs explaining: https://t.co/Sr1KggToE5