[swimming pool “Moskva”, pictured in the late 1970s. At the time, it was the largest swimming pool in the world. I myself swam there later, in the early summer of 1993. In or about 1994, it was closed, and a replica of the 19thC Russian Orthodox cathedral that had once stood on the site was then built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour]
I was glad when Trump was first elected, and then later re-elected, and for one reason only, i.e. that he would probably not trigger or launch a nuclear war with Russia. To that extent, my “choice” (notional only, because I am not, nor ever have been, a U.S. citizen, though I was once a “resident alien” issued with a Green Card) has been validated by events. However, much of what is happening in the USA now is somewhere between tragedy and farce.
In fact, it is said that that particular video, above, is yet another AI production. Not unlikely, but my point still stands.
On a related topic, how long before a “long-lost piece of AGFA film” is “found”, and will appear to “prove” that German labour prison/labour camps in Poland in the early 1940s “really did” have “gas chambers”?
I wonder…
[many many years ago, a supposed blueprint plan of the Auschwitz camp was supposedly “found” in a Berlin attic. It had “GAS CHAMBER” marked in big capital letters, in case the point was missed by anyone (nothing else on the supposed plan was so marked). It was a one-day-wonder as a news story, and I have heard nothing of it since, I presume because the fakery was a little too obvious]
So 16,500 (in the civil war in Iran) is “genocide“, but 50,000-100,000 (in the Israeli-Jew “war” on mainly unarmed Arab civilians in Gaza) is supposedly not “genocide”. What a world.
This week, an 11 year old girl was raped in Hale, Altrincham, by an illegal migrant staying at the ‘Ashley Hotel’. Yesterday, the attacker was remanded in prison. Today, Britain First protested outside the hotel OCS #BritainFirstpic.twitter.com/1hJxOCilG6
Air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 63 Ukrainian UAVs overnight over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/INpLF1MUrupic.twitter.com/vTgGE6x9sw
The European Union may resort to economic sanctions, the introduction of trade tariffs, or the threat of eliminating US military bases on its territory to pressure the US over the future of Greenland, The Economist wrote:https://t.co/3D1EVETWLopic.twitter.com/EXteNBf18k
Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s president special Representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, said that the European Union should not anger US President Donald Trump and return the military personnel sent to Greenland:https://t.co/nKOTRDGasKpic.twitter.com/vBacasKDX8
This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party.
Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles… pic.twitter.com/hbOSPRezCw
— Andrew Rosindell MP 🇬🇧🏴 (@AndrewRosindell) January 18, 2026
[“This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party. Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher that have always underpinned my own political beliefs. However, the time has come to put country before party. The failure of the Conservative Party both when in government and more recently in opposition to actively hold the government to account on the issue of Chagossian self-determination and the defence of British sovereignty, represents a clear red line for me. Since entering Parliament in 2001, I have consistently argued, both from the backbenches and the frontbench, that the right of self-determination of the Chagossian people is sacrosanct, and that they alone should decide the future sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Regrettably, these concerns have fallen on deaf ears. Both the government and the opposition have been complicit in the surrender of this sovereign British territory to a foreign power. This was made abundantly clear by the failure of Conservative peers to vote down the British Indian Ocean Territory Bill at third reading earlier this month, following direction from the top of the party. Sadly, I now believe that the Conservative Party is irreparably bound to the mistakes of previous governments and unwilling to take meaningful accountability for the poor decisions made over so many issues. Moreover, the views and concerns of constituents such as mine in Romford have been consistently ignored for far too long. Following a conversation earlier this evening with Nigel Farage M.P., I have therefore agreed to join Reform U.K. as its seventh Member of Parliament. It is clear to me that Reform U.K. is now the only political movement that is genuinely willing to fight for the best interests of the United Kingdom. The views and concerns of the majority of the British people must no longer be sidelined. Our country has endured a generation of managed decline. Radical action is now required to reverse the damaging decisions of the past and to forge a new course for Britain – one that firmly places the interests of the British people first.”]
Another not-very-impressive Con Party MP defects to Reform UK. An expenses cheat, who has accepted freebie trips to Israel with Conservative Friends of Israel.
I agree with some of Rosindell’s views, but not with most.
Good to see that the stupid “police and crime commissioners” experiment, another still-born idea from the misgovernment of David Cameron-Levita, is going to be binned in 2028. Were it my decision, I would sack them all immediately, without compensation. Mostly either superannuated cops or failed System politicians.
One problem with them (apart from their utter uselessness, and cost) is that they are open to being suborned by outside pressure groups, particularly by the Israel lobby, as happened with the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, which has tried to worm its way into a number of police forces, both via these ridiculous “commissioners” and also directly.
For once, the Starmer government has done something of which I approve.
Another good aspect of this is that there will be 49 job vacancies fewer for Con and Lab MPs who lose their seats in 2028 or 2029. Let them suffer.
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Why is Keir Starmer and his friend, Lord Falconer, pushing forward with Assisted Suicide on the NHS free at the point of use while hospices – who care for the dying brilliantly- have to raise funds through sponsored walks and cake sales? Starmer has his priorities all wrong.
Hospices for the terminally-unwell, of ancient origin though in the modern era largely pioneered in the UK, must be further supported, not let down by government.
As a mother, Southport will never leave my mind. An African man stabbed these little girls to death at their dance class; one was stabbed 122 times, and one 85 times.
I can’t tolerate people who still aren’t critical of immigration, as it means enabling crimes like this. pic.twitter.com/Aprsuc9TWG
I will continue speaking up about our corrupt uniparty government who has been destroying the natives and their culture for decades until I’m either dead or things change. pic.twitter.com/LLjx5lpVG6
Wait a second. Lobbying registrar says that Allan's firm's clients include British Horseracing Authority – which, I recently revealed, was involved in a completely opaque – in fact, illicit – lobbying campaign paid for by billionaire track-track owners to exempt the industry from… https://t.co/RqM5EeBxGK
I refuse to accept that the “British” men who murdered and beheaded Lee Rigby are just as British as soldiers, like him, who serve our countryhttps://t.co/jGzoJ4iVlh
UK economic growth is down Business confidence is down Productivity is down Hiring is down Unemployment is up Borrowing is up Regulation is up And taxes are up (& going up again)
The Labour Party is giving the world a textbook example of how to wreck an economy
Same across most European countries. Way below the 2.1 birth rate we need just to maintain current population size. People living longer will mask the impact for a short period but then the population could drop by 50%.
It is more than possible that at first, in the UK and in the wider world, the white European population will ebb away, become a minority, with the less capable black-brown population being the majority. That is of course the situation already in much of the world.
Under those circumstances, the white minority of the near future (in the UK, and Europe generally) need not accept the political preferences of the inferior majority as valid, either for the white population or for the overall population. “One-man-one-vote” “democracy” will and must come to an end, as “democracy” is presently understood. See below (written some years ago):
However, the “supremacy via births” of the non-Europeans in the UK, even if and/or when it happens (later in the 21stC) will not be the end, because even the black and brown populations are not increasing in size, except in a few parts of the world (Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, mainly).
Eventually, the world’s whole population will crash. That will save the world, save the environment etc, but leave humanity on a level not far from extinction. It is then that a core of post-Aryan white Europeans or Eurasians will be able to procreate sufficiently to repopulate that future world, and at the same time create a foundation for an even later super-race.
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Ukraine may run short of money to fund its budget as early as February unless the European Union agrees on a reparations loan to Kiev using Russia’s frozen assets, Politico reported:https://t.co/70HRqNnQCYpic.twitter.com/PJ9A34XwXw
Calling people racist is all he has. Nobody cares any more. Violent uncivilised people with whom we cannot coexist are being forced on us against our will. We have every right to object to that and to want them all deported. Calling us racist isn’t going to change that. pic.twitter.com/I5wRopbQaj
The appointment of some kind of pseudo-priestess as Archbishop of Canterbury is the final nail in the coffin of the C of E.
The Church of England long ago went the way of all other major UK institutions. It has become useless, a waste of space.
England once roared with the power of progress the hum of engines, the clatter of steel, the fire of invention.
It built the modern world from the ground up. But today, in that same land, some of its own sleep in car parks while hotel rooms fill with men from elsewhere, all…
The assertion that all social-national or conservative-populist people are “knuckledraggers”, “thick”, “stupid” etc is ingrained in the “antifa” —and also, often, in the Jew-Zionist— outlook. They find it hard (because implausible) to say such about me (though some have), because it is not easy to cast such stones at someone with an IQ measured at (very long-ago, admittedly) 156, who has a law degree, professional legal qualifications in two jurisdictions etc, and who has lived and worked across the world, but some others on the national or nationalist side are thought fair game, and are unfairly misdescribed.
In reality, the shoe is often on the other foot.
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk Regions over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday:https://t.co/2nkKxFV0rbpic.twitter.com/hUzzrkIsVb
One of the (merely five…) tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 referred to Sarkozy in some such terms as “corrupt little part-Jew“. Well, was I right, or not?
Probably, yes; but let's face it the PCCs have been a waste of money. Police behaviour has got worse.
So it continues; as a matter of fact, I imagine that there are “conspiracy theorists” who think that the former main System parties, Labour and Conservative (both now misnamed, of course) are somehow deliberately trying to look as incompetent as possible for some arcane reason.
I doubt it. They just are incompetent, ridiculous, people. Starmer-stein. “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves. Yvette “put up an asylum-seeker in your own home” Cooper. Stupid, uneducated moneygrubber David Lammy, who seems to hate white European people (except, I presume, his white —partly English, partly Jewish— “trophy wife”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Green).
On the “Conservative” side, the same, mutatis mutandis.
Actually, Lab and Con are but two sides of the same coin.
As for that opinion poll, it would translate to a Commons with about 445 Reform MPs (so a huge majority), 52 Greens (making the Green Party, incredibly, the official Opposition), 42 SNP, 40 LibDems, 23 Lab, and 13 Con.
If that poll is anywhere near accurate, it changes the landscape completely. An unstoppable Reform majority in the Commons (but with no members at all in the Lords), the Green Party as nominal official Opposition, SNP as the third-largest Commons bloc, and the “main parties” of the past and up to the present, Lab and Con, all but exterminated.
People are very very tired and angry at the “same old”, and also angry and frustrated at a country gradually sinking into the swamp and where, increasingly, nothing works as it should.
As a matter of fact, I can see the once-great Conservative Party declining, at a 2028 or 2029 General Election, to as low as 12% of the vote (as hard-core very elderly Conservative Party voters cease to live); that would mean only 3-5 Con MPs surviving. End of the line.
Even Liz Truss, like a stopped clock, is not always wrong.
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Benjamin May is Patron Law’s compliance office for legal practice (COLP). May says he monitored my case for 5 years and spent hours discussing it with Mark Lewis.
My questions to May are:
1. Were you monitoring the case when Lewis secretly encouraged the defendants (despite… pic.twitter.com/n8ns7BzOnN
[“Benjamin May is Patron Law’s compliance office for legal practice (COLP). May says he monitored my case for 5 years and spent hours discussing it with Mark Lewis. My questions to May are: 1. Were you monitoring the case when Lewis secretly encouraged the defendants (despite the conflict between your firm and them) to make untrue, unprofessional and unhinged claims to the High Court, including that I am “a weirdo and freak racist”? 2. Are you going to apologise to the High Court and me on behalf of your firm and Lewis? 3. Are you going to confirm that Lewis is suspended until the outcome of the SRA investigation? @MLewisLawyer@LawPatron@sra_solicitors@MillsandReeve“]
They are all, or almost all, Jews in that firm, of course.
As more evidence comes to light in my case, I suspect that Mark Lewis’ conduct (non-disclosure of evidence, untrue evidence/submissions, false report to the police, etc) might amount to an attempt to pervert the course of justice. Any response Mark?@MLewisLawyer@LawPatron… https://t.co/MRMTIRrETA
For those that don’t know There’s a BBC Documentary getting made about the protests in Scotland I’ve just finished watching through the nearly 90minute sit down interview I had with them on Tuesday at the Aberdeen Music Hall
Here’s my biggest takeaways from it: It still throws me when people are shocked by my reply when I’m asked, “can a black person born in Britain be British” – my reply was “no” What makes somebody Scottish – ancestral ties No I do not believe we should take even a single asylum seeker from anywhere across the world while our people are struggling or while 1 in 5 of Aberdeen’s children live in poverty Muslims are 2% of Scotland’s population yet they’ve held some of the most powerful positions in Scotland eg Humza, Anas.
Being asked if I would vote for a Fascist Dictator if they could give Remigration is like asking if I’d vote for a trans communist if they could give us Remigration…why would I not YES, I truly believe Remigrating millions is possible
THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY THOUGH… Has to be the final question, “what do you think about the holocaust” I paused to think and then my answer seemed to be horrifying, “Up until not that long ago I would have gone along with the status quo of what we are told at school but now I’ve done my own research and been on my own journey I don’t agree with the 6million, there’s only proof of 271k, there’s no proof that gas chambers existed – stating that no expert in gas chambers has ever found any proof they ever existed. They were Work Camps not Death Camps. Followed with it wasn’t just Jews in the camps and we also had Camps. Finished off with me asking why we should care about “6million” when 60million were killed by the Bolsheviks.” – to summarise the points I made
We can question anything from history apart from this one subject. You question anything to do with the holocaust and “can’t you see how this could ruin your credibility” Look at the Nazi Book Burning… We are told that Hitler was evil for ordering this but really he was burning all the subversive and degenerate books like those of the Jewish Marxist Doctors from the Frankfurt School. The sort of books we don’t want them poisoning kids minds with today Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs are all the same – NOT OUR PEOPLE Call me a White Supremacist Call me racist and fascist Call me antisemitic and a holocaust denier Call me islamophobic and xenophobic I honestly couldn’t care, I love my people and my nation far too much to care Be willing to question everything that we have been taught from history, have the courage to make up your own mind Remigration is inevitable“]
I think a lot just don’t care and just want to get on with their lives which is the saddest thing. It’s not hard to do research these days with the internet and alternative platforms. Unfortunately, we’re the ones having to take the fall and do the heavy lifting in the meantime…
After years of tireless work done by charities like @animalsasia , bear bile farming has now been banned in Vietnam. But around 150 bears remain trapped in tiny metal cages.@AnimalsAsia is working closely with the Vietnamese government to rescue every one of these bears and… pic.twitter.com/L445c9JtD2
And in the most predictable development ever, Britain’s Armed Forces are now unable to play a serious role in protecting Israel from Iranian ballistic missile attacks https://t.co/9lBKvkbHRS
Fanatical Jew-Zionist extremist (ex-Daily Mail, now editor of the Jewish Chronicle) seems to believe that Britain should “defend” Israel! The sheer gall of “them”! Why should the UK “defend” Israel? This country would be better off were Israel to disappear into history.
The Daily Telegraph is just another mouthpiece or megaphone for Jewish Zionism.
The Palestine-resident (and other) Jews were committing acts of terrorism against British soldiers and civilians even when the Second World War was still ongoing, and later continued and intensified their terroristic activities, kidnapping and hanging British soldiers, blowing up the British HQ in Jerusalem, and attempting to poison the water supply in London, among other acts of terrorism and barbarity.
During the Falklands campaign of 1982, the Israeli state sold French Exocet missiles to Argentina, missiles which killed British soldiers and sailors.
“Newly declassified files from the National Archives in Kew reveal that Israel supplied significant weaponry including strike aircraft to the Argentine Junta in the run-up to, and during, the 1982 conflict.”
Israel, both directly and via Jews with nominal British citizenship, and living in the UK, has suborned the two main System political parties of the UK, promoting Jewish and Israeli interests above those of real English/British people.
The above is no more than the tip of the iceberg.
In short, Israel is not an ally of the UK but its enemy, an enemy all the more dangerous for having a “fifth column” inside UK society.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 6, 2024
“Never complain, never explain” (in an ideal world, at least).
While places like India open more plants and thrive, we are becoming the third world. BY DESIGN.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 6, 2024
While I do not accept or agree with everything tweeted by David Morgan, his account is still one of the most worthy on political/social Twitter/X, and worth following by those with a Twitter/X account (I myself was expelled in 2018 after a long concerted campaign by a pack of malicious Jews, and I am disinclined to revive my Twitter/X account).
MPs must vote against assisted dying. Wherever it has been legalised, the ‘safeguards’ soon melt away. Now people are accessing euthanasia because they are disabled, mentally ill, or poor. We cannot repeat these horrors, says Lauren Smith https://t.co/vofjoAY4GI
Civil servants should be neither seen (publicly) nor heard.
David Irving
For those who have not seen it, a 2-hour reminiscence by acclaimed historian David Irving:
Irving’s reminiscences are very interesting, not least on the scientific evidence establishing that the “gas chambers” of Auschwitz never were that; also about the selling to the world audience of the word “holocaust” as relating to the repression of Jewry in the years 1942-1944 (the word was rarely or never used in that connection until the early 1970s). Also, about how the supposed “gas chamber” at Auschwitz, visited with fake reverence by millions of (mostly American and Western European) tourists, was only built in 1948, 3 years after WW2 ended, and about how it is, in Irving’s words, “as genuine as the castle at Disneyland“… (there was belatedly placed a plaque on that Auschwitz building, stating that it is indeed a postwar “reconstruction”).
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A new record of 973 illegal migrants entered Britain on 17 small boats yesterday
As I said, zero sign Labour’s plan is working —because it won’t work https://t.co/a00z750KaA
Useless would-be dictator Yvette Cooper continues to drone on about “smashing the gangs” when the problem is not “the gangs”, as such, but the migration invasion itself, i.e. the migrant-invaders themselves. They are the ones who must be deterred or eliminated.
Yvette Cooper is a member of Labour Friends of Israel and has always favoured importing as many non-whites as possible.
Remembering last week Yvette crowing about her reducing the numbers and everyone said it’s due to the weather! They aren’t smashing any gangs.
Own your power. No one has the right to take that from you. Life’s going to throw challenges your way, but your strength, your resilience, and your drive is yours to control 🦾 pic.twitter.com/7BeOWX0oKY
That applies also to political leadership at all levels.
Salus populi suprema lex esto
[Cicero: “the welfare of the people is the supreme law“].
Tel Aviv: The scene of Operation True Promise-2 on the night of October 1, in which Iranian Fateh hypersonic ballistic missiles are raining down on the Israel's air bases, while the Israeli soldiers are lying upside down to save their lives. pic.twitter.com/eSw2nNp01z
The Generals' Plan" which was created by Maj. Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland. This video was released in September and it explains exactly what they started doing yesterday in North Gaza. pic.twitter.com/exvdjE8wdg
What the (Israeli) Jews are doing in Gaza is far more harsh than what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s. The (Israeli) Jews are going to cut off all food and even water to Northern Gaza.
However, according to Jewish “human rights” lawyers in the UK, what is happening in Gaza is “not a genocide“…
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Iron Dome responds to Hezbollah's rocket attacks on the Israeli city of Karmiel. pic.twitter.com/fj5sPTQFUl
During the upcoming summit in Ramstein on October 12, Vladimir Zelensky will present to his allies the "victory plan", which the United States has already called a "wish list". pic.twitter.com/TfuopahZ5r
The USA and the West generally are rowing back now on support for the Kiev regime. They are still funnelling money and arms to Zelensky’s cabal, but the aim is now not even to expel Russian forces from Eastern Ukraine and Crimea; the most that might be realistic is for the war to stop —or not stop— but on the present front-lines.
There never was, of course, any possibility that the shambolic Kiev-regime forces might seize and retain large areas of Russia, let alone advance on Moscow. That’s for the birds.
Russian forces are poised to advance, either in the winter, or next year, in the summer of 2025. In the meantime, the electrical supply infrastructure, and the transport infrastructure, of Ukraine will be further degraded. The whole of Eastern Ukraine might finally fall to Russia before very long.
The NWO/ZOG states of the West want to keep “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) fighting, but without any hope of military victory.
Few, if any, seem to be getting past the Israeli anti-rocket defences, but the aim may be to deplete the number of anti-missile missiles the Israelis have. I have no idea whether the Israelis have almost unlimited defensive rockets or not.
“Rwanda has admitted it cannot guarantee how many people it will take from the UK under Rishi Sunak’s deportation scheme.
The east African country did not give assurances that the estimated 52,000 asylum seekers in the UK who are eligible to be sent to Kigali would be accepted, instead saying it would be “thousands”.”
[The Guardian]
As I predicted on the blog recently. Not only are even the maximum numbers, as planned, pathetic compared to the numbers actually entering the UK (even “illegally”) but there is no guarantee that Rwanda government policy will not change, or the government be replaced by one unwilling to continue the agreement.
In any case, once Labour replaces the Conservative Party as UK Government, sometime within the next 8 months, the Rwanda idea will end up where it always was going to end up— in the dustbin.
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"A record number of more than 7,500 migrants crossed the Channel in the first four months of the year, 27% higher than the same period in 2023 and 13% higher than 2022". On the latest numbers 👇👇👇https://t.co/R0ciMBTXGh
Where Goodwin goes wrong is in assuming that the Rwanda “plan” is workable, whereas, even if, on its premises, it were to work perfectly, and so be the means of deporting all “illegal” migrant-invaders, it would not touch those “processed” and then allowed to stay, and they are the vast majority of the illegals processed at present.
Neither would the Rwanda plan touch the “legal” immigrants (and they are 20x the number of the “illegals”), meaning that the net result of the Rwanda “plan”, even if it were to work perfectly, would be that about 1% of all immigrants arriving at present might be deported.
The puzzle is, not so much that the Rwanda “plan” is being pushed by the present doomed government party, but that Matt Goodwin is also pushing it, and Farage, and Reform UK. Some kind of “controlled opposition” scam, yet again, as seen with both UKIP and Brexit Party, the idea being to forestall any real potential social-national upsurge.
This is the best piece of self awareness I've ever seen from a Conservative source. It's also rather beautifully written. Shame Sunak can't see the obvious though.https://t.co/Nw99mFioh7
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
So “Mr. T” (or should that be “Uncle T”?) is willing to risk nuclear war so that the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev does not suffer a crushing defeat?
I am beginning to think that the “safety margin” is being eroded to such an extent that a real superpower war might be triggered in the near or foreseeable future; such a war would go nuclear, almost certainly. We would then be in a situation which might lead to a devastation few of us want.
Israeli Channel 14: After the sirens sounded in the southern Golan, dozens of explosions were heard in the area.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
Israeli media: In recent minutes, about 70 rockets were fired at the area south of the Golan Heights in the north of the country, several of which were intercepted.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
Davis: The Russians entered territories where Ukraine has no defensive fortifications
"NOW THE RUSSIANS WILL PROGRESS EASIER – THE UKRAINIANS WILL NOT SUCCEED IN STOPPING THEM"
RETIRED US Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis said Russian troops have entered territories where the… pic.twitter.com/j0TXyEkwyl
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
☦️ I extend my most heartfelt greetings to all Orthodox believers on this glorious holiday of the Resurrection of Christ!
🙏 May this Easter Sunday be filled with joy of reuniting with loved ones, the comforting warmth of home & family, the light of new hope.
Anthony Robbins had a maxim to the effect that most people over-estimate what can be accomplished (in any field) in a year, but also under-estimate what can be accomplished in 10 years.
Two years ago CNN released a photo taken by the photographer Anil Prabhakar in the forest in Indonesia. The image shows an orangutan, currently under threat of extinction, while stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool during his search. When the… pic.twitter.com/9eVG8HTmL2
“Two years ago CNN released a photo taken by the photographer Anil Prabhakar in the forest in Indonesia. The image shows an orangutan, currently under threat of extinction, while stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool during his search. When the photographer uploaded the photo, he wrote this as a caption: “In a time when the concept of humanity dies, animals lead us to the principles of humanity.“
After stopping a mugger and protecting his girlfriend, a Marine reflected on his actions and decided the criminal deserved an apology. To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2010-09-27, 1:43 am. E.S.T. I was the guy wearing the black Burberry… pic.twitter.com/SXBpCJUXHz
“After stopping a mugger and protecting his girlfriend, a Marine reflected on his actions and decided the criminal deserved an apology.
To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2010-09-27, 1:43 am. E.S.T.
I was the guy wearing the black Burberry jacket that you demanded that I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend, threatening our lives. You also asked for my girlfriend’s purse and earrings. I can only hope that you somehow come across this rather important message.
First, I’d like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn’t expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket.. The evening was not that cold, and I was wearing the jacket for a reason.. my girlfriend was happy that I just returned safely from my 2nd tour as a Combat Marine in Afghanistan ..
She had just bought me that Kimber Custom Model 1911 .45 ACP pistol for my birthday, and we had picked up a shoulder holster for it that very evening. Obviously you agree that it is a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head … isn’t it?!
I know it probably wasn’t fun walking back to wherever you’d come from with crap in your pants. I’m sure it was even worse walking bare-footed since I made you leave your shoes, cell phone, and wallet with me. [That prevented you from calling or running to your buddies to come help mug us again].
After I called your mother or “Momma” as you had her listed in your cell, I explained the entire episode of what you’d done. Then I went and filled up my gas tank as well as those of four other people in the gas station, — on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 153 gallons and was extremely grateful!
I gave your shoes to a homeless guy outside Vinnie Van Go Go’s, along with all the cash in your wallet. [That made his day!] I then threw your wallet into the big pink “pimp mobile” that was parked at the curb ….. after I broke the windshield and side window and keyed the entire driver’s side of the car.
Earlier, I managed to get in two threatening phone calls to the DA’s office and one to the FBI, while mentioning President Obama as my possible target. The FBI guy seemed really intense and we had a nice long chat (I guess while he traced your number etc.).
In a way, perhaps I should apologize for not killing you … but I feel this type of retribution is a far more appropriate punishment for your threatened crime. I wish you well as you try to sort through some of these rather immediate pressing issues, and can only hope that you have the opportunity to reflect upon, and perhaps reconsider, the career path you’ve chosen to pursue in life.. Remember, next time you might not be so lucky. Have a good day!
Thoughtfully yours, Semper Fi...”
Made me laugh, true or not.
First speech about the Kalergi Plan in ANY Parliament. My speech in Brussels more than ten years ago! Now perhaps the most watched speech ever made in English in the belly of the EuroBeast.#greatreplacementpic.twitter.com/cEJtaErHYg
I'm working on a book of heroes of the English-speaking world. I want to include #Rhodesian Selous Scout Chris Schulenburg. If anyone can provide me with enough info for a 2,000 word summary of his amazing military feats against the terrs, I would be very grateful. RT please! pic.twitter.com/ocHCLUn5rF
There is an account of this officer’s heroic exploits in Colonel Ron Reid Daly’s book about the regiment he, Colonel Daly, commanded— Selous Scouts: Top Secret War
I expect that Griffin is already aware of the above, but if any readers of the blog are in contact with him, feel free to suggest the book. Unfortunately, it is not cheap, at about £55 a used copy. I think I have a copy somewhere; I always did have.
Under International Humanitarian Law Egypt has a DUTY to provide temporary housing for Gazans so stop blaming Israel. Blame Hamas, your warlords. Why did U remain in a terror state? I would have left when u voted Hamas in. https://t.co/dPPwFbzCS4
Smug Jewish woman living in South-East England blames the victim of Israeli-Jewish state terrorism for the said Palestinian civilian victim having been made homeless.
According to the Jewish woman, Israel cannot be blamed. After all, all it has done is use advanced weaponry such as missiles to destroy the homes of about a million people, and kill tens of thousands, mostly women and children.
Why should Jews in Israel (or those in the UK who support the Gaza “operation”) be blamed for that? Puzzling, nicht wahr?
Naturally, the Palestinian Arab civilians are themselves to blame if Israeli forces have killed or wounded them, and/or destroyed their homes…to say anything else would probably be called “antisemitic“…
MiningWatch Canada is estimating that “[Three] billion tons of mined metals and minerals will be needed to power the energy transition” – a “massive” increase especially for six critical minerals: lithium, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel and rare earth minerals
Mining requires the extraction of solid ores, often after removing vast amounts of overlying rock. Then the ore must be processed, creating an enormous quantity of waste – about 100 billion tonnes a year, more than any other human-made waste stream.
18,740 pounds of purified rock to produce 2.2 pounds of vanadium 35,275 pounds of ore for 2.2 pounds of cerium 110,230 pounds of rock for 2.2 pounds of gallium 2,645,550 pounds of ore to get 2.2 pounds of lutecium Also staggering amounts of ore are needed for other metals.
The potential demand for rare metals is exponential. We are already consuming over two billion tonnes of metals every year — the equivalent of more than 500 Eiffel Towers a day.
As rare metals have become ubiquitous in green and digital technologies, the exceedingly toxic sludge they produce has been contaminating water, soil, the atmosphere, and the flames of blast furnaces.
I have seen the destruction of mountains, lakes and pristine waterways all in the name of #GreenEnergy. A recent report by the Blacksmith Institute identifies the mining industry as the second-most-polluting industry in the world. Soon to be Number # 1 Why? Green energy.
Wind turbines guzzle more raw materials than previous technologies: ‘For an equivalent installed capacity, solar and wind facilities require up to 15 times more concrete, 90 times more aluminum, and 50 times more iron, copper, and glass than fossil fuels or nuclear energy.
If you’ve gotten this far still believing that renewables are clean and green, well, I have a bridge to sell you. We thought we could free ourselves from the shortages, tensions, and crises created by our appetite for oil and coal.
"There's little mass public enthusiasm for Starmer’s Labour which is often enjoying an upsurge of support because many Brits are staying at home, turning away from politics & hunkering down, no longer believing anybody has the answer to Britain’s problems"https://t.co/SpatdyMnN4
Labour is not yet as strong as its supporters think. Still only 28% of Brits think the party’s competent. Only 31% think it's united. Only 19% think it's strong. Yes, Brits will reject the Tories. But they remain wary about Labour"https://t.co/SpatdyMnN4
People are totally sick and tired of the “Conservative” Party, and cannot wait to stamp on it. Labour has very little real support, but is preferred by default. The expected near wipeout of the Conservative Party will happen (I believe), but once it has happened, the same problems will confront this country, and Labour, under Jewish/Israel puppet Starmer, has no answers.
At present it looks as though Starmer-Labour will continue to give unbridled support to the Israeli state and the UK Jewish lobby, continue to support the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, and fail to stop the migration-invasion (but will simply rubberstamp “applications” so the invasion does not continue to make the news broadcasts or the front pages of the popular Press).
The expected Labour “elected” dictatorship will also crack down even more on free speech in the UK.
IDF begins ground invasion of Rafah, armored vehicles approach the city
Netanyahu's office: " The War Cabinet has unanimously decided that Israel will continue the operation in Rafah to put military pressure on Hamas to speed up the release of our hostages and other war goals."… pic.twitter.com/bDRC1WPozp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
Israeli tanks, cars and armored vehicles slowly advance towards the fence separating the city of Rafah from the eastern side. pic.twitter.com/3rTukfrdOv
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
Israeli warplanes are carrying out brutal strikes on several neighborhoods in the eastern part of Rafah pic.twitter.com/2uypBRBJHP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 6, 2024
Kyiv's indifference to dead soldiers undermines the morale of Ukrainians
The number of dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers is so great that their remains cannot be identified. In February, Zelensky announced Ukrainian Armed Forces losses of 31,000 people, but US estimates put… pic.twitter.com/Vw9h1kRyw8
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 6, 2024
“Kyiv’s indifference to dead soldiers undermines the morale of Ukrainians The number of dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers is so great that their remains cannot be identified.
n February, Zelensky announced Ukrainian Armed Forces losses of 31,000 people, but US estimates put the number much higher, with about 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed by August last year.
Many of those listed as missing were captured by Russian troops. However, most died and have not yet been identified. This hits the already undermined morale of Ukraine, according to the West.
Discontent among the civilian population is growing. Last October, a major protest took place in Kyiv. Relatives of soldiers demand answers from the authorities. Confirming a death is especially problematic when Ukrainian officials do not have a body, but even when they do, it can be a long and arduous process. DNA testing is patchy. Relatives are trying to get around the bureaucracy. They go from morgue to morgue, sometimes with the help of volunteers, examining bodies and trying to identify them first from photographs and then asking relevant family members for genetic samples. And even if they have proof of death, they face a trial and wait for a decision of two to six months. The authorities are delaying the process. After all, if the fact of death is established, they have to pay the family of the deceased 15 million hryvnia, or about $386,000 in installments, writes the New York Times.“
“Perl says that he didn’t know people were being gassed, their bodies being turned into smoke and ash, even when he was inside Auschwitz – that he only fully understood that after the war. As a prisoner, he had seen the huge chimneys of the crematoriums, but when he asked a fellow inmate what they were, he was told the building was a bakery. Call it a coping mechanism, or a survival strategy, but the repression of that knowledge – and the knowledge that most of his family had been murdered – may have helped him live from one day to the next.”
[The Guardian].
Very odd. Comment perhaps superfluous. Still, that interviewee was apparently inside the Auschwitz camp briefly, before he was deployed to work hundreds of miles to the west, in Bavaria. Like others, he saw no “gas chambers”, heard of no “gas chambers”, even when actually staying inside the Auschwitz camp, and when he asked another prisoner what were some chimneys seen, he was told “a bakery“. Why would that other prisoner lie?
It is that kind of oddity or implausibility that fuels the unstoppable wave of “holocaust” revisionism. A certain narrative, pushed for about 75 years (but particularly since the 1960s) is being questioned by more and more people, because much of the story put before the public just does not add up.
“Regionally, only 14% of people in southern Europe, 15% in northern Europe and 17% in the English-speaking world (Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US) believed they were in sync with their government. In the UK just 12% of people firmly believe that their government shares their values.“
[The Guardian]
“The shark can smell blood in the water a mile off when it’s hungry.” [John le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold].
.@Tucker demolishes Corporate media’s lies about Russia blowing up a dam that supplies water to their own nuclear plant.
This is dangerous, they won’t allow him to tell this kind of truth about the Ukraine war for very long. I wonder how they’ll try and stop him this time since… https://t.co/o8wPv7qXco
The balance of benefit/detriment is surely showing that Ukrainian (Kiev regime) forces destroyed that dam; maybe not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but surely “on the balance of probabilities”.
⚠️Mel Gibson is about to rattle the cages of some of the most powerful people in America. This is extremely dangerous work, and it’s going to raise a lot of eyebrows.⚠️
Russian analysts believe that the introduction of the main UAF forces into the fight can be expected in the next 72 hours , and that the main direction of the attack will be Orehovo – Tokmak – Melitopol
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of attacks on the attacking units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction. pic.twitter.com/1OEIUr9Arh
Tony Gosling says that from a military strategic point of view, the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam could be an effective Ukrainian move to cause massive flooding and halt the advance of Russian troops. Press pic.twitter.com/OvvdT30jow
The destruction of the dam is unusual, in that such attacks usually clearly benefit one side or the other. Here, the weight of detriment seems to fall on both sides, making it hard to confirm who blew the dam.
The British military is too weak to fight Russia in a European war and cannot rely on the US in a European conflict, British MPs say pic.twitter.com/FtcTJ0JXyn
The premise is absurd. Why would Russia attack the UK? To take over decaying cities filled with non-whites? There is no reason for Russia and the UK to fight (once the UK Government stops funding the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev). In any case, the British Army numbers fewer than 70,000 in reality, and the hard-nosed bit of that is probably no more than 30,000, maybe far fewer.
“The director of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix docuseries claims Buckingham Palace tried to ‘discredit’ the couple’s bombshell allegations by claiming the filmmakers did not contact the royals for comment.
Liz Garbus, in an interview with Vanity Fair, claims the Palace was contacted about the series, but denied being asked for comment so they could ‘discredit the content of the show’.
The director also revealed it was her idea to use the series as a platform to discuss racism and colonialism.
Ms Garbus, in her Vanity Fair interview published today, revealed exploring issues of racism, colonialism and alleged white supremacy in the British Monarchy was her idea.
‘For me, what was really important was to connect the dots to these larger historical issues,’ she told the magazine, adding that the couple was, ‘to their credit, very open and willing to journey down some of the paths that they might not have originally considered.‘
“A man who broke a security guard’s arm in a drunken pub brawl after verbally abusing and throwing cigarettes at a group of women has avoided jail.
Karl McDonald, 35, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court today on one count of affray and one count of assault following the fight on July 17, 2021.“
Sometimes I wonder exactly what do you have to do now in England to be imprisoned (except murder, or making remarks about Jews, as in the cases of Alison Chabloz and Jez Turner).
I mean, here is someone (and not a silly teenager either, 35 years of age) with several previous convictions for violence, and who started the fight, then continued with it, even breaking the arm of a security guard, and all he has to do is pick up some litter and pay modest compensation (no doubt at a few pounds a week). Not good enough.
Tweets seen
A Day Late And $113 Billion Short, New York Times Acknowledges Ukraine As A Broken And Corrupt Nation https://t.co/kDgCqbX2op
More fuel to the fire in an effort to put out the fire ?? 🤡 Russia-Ukraine war: Germany approves sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine https://t.co/HHVDDXGjQ0
Dreams are rarely prophetic; I hope that a dream I had recently will not prove to be the exception that proves the rule.
A large paper calendar mounted on a wall, with the leaves turning fast, as in some of those old Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s (was Spellbound like that? I do not recall).
Written in Russian, it stopped at 1 July, the Russian word for “July” above the number “1”.
I had the sense that that was the date of the start of the next great war (though I do not know whether it was a war confined to Europe or not).
It may be nothing, but if not, nothing I can do will change it.
The Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight today, Jan. 24, the closest it's ever been.
The Doomsday Clock is a decades-long project of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featuring a clock face where midnight represents Armageddon. https://t.co/uG9vmchRXKpic.twitter.com/IFM1gmIjjT
A pretty good assessment from a few months ago, not seen by me until today. In fact, it echoes my own feeling from long before, that the “Harry and Meghan Show” was even then becoming a big bore for most people on both sides of the Atlantic.
As I blogged recently, “the Harry formerly known as Prince” and Meghan Mulatta are one-trick ponies. Once they have exhausted their fund of royal stories and whining, they have literally nothing of interest left to offer the public, either in the UK or USA. Of course, by that time, they will have several hundred million dollars or pounds, but as far as I can see, Harry has burned his boats with his birth family, and particularly with his brother. As for the Mulatta, she cold-shouldered her own birth family long ago, and has nothing to lose.
I've just been listening to this. The contractions and glaring inaccuracies are something else. How has nobody ever looked into these claims before? Why was her story never verified? She's dangerous.
It has occurred to me previously that “Bootstrap Cook” may be made of the same material as some infamous murderesses. Just my impression.
Approximately 1 hour of Jack Monroe tales. Full time job to destitute in days. Survived taking 2 boxes of paracetamol, sleeping pills, heart meds, & a full bottle of vodka (who paid for the vodka when you were feeding your child cereal & water?) Shocking. https://t.co/yx9IPVTjnI
If you can get through the song, I kid you not, she actually sings, the questions at the end highlight how easily her audience falls for the abject poverty imagery. It's fascinating to see and hear how her retelling of her *supposed* experience affects people. Absolutely blinded.
Interesting how, despite following each other for years, calling out the fraudulent behaviour of @BootstrapCook to @TheGrocer after their misjudged award of “Hero of the Year” to her, she’s now blocked me…
So the concerns of local people, heritage groups, environmental groups, and a huge number of individual British people (and even some Jews, indeed some Zionist Jews) will be overridden so that Jew-Zionist supremacists and triumphalists can wallow in it all. Look where this horrible “memorial” (propaganda centre) will be— right next to the Palace of Westminster. It says “we own you“.
Actually, look at those promoting it in Parliament. Apart from Jewish MPs and “peers” (such as the fraudster and expenses cheat, “Lord” Dubs), the scheme is promoted by such as Robert Jenrick, that corrupt little bastard who is entirely in the pocket of Jewish property developers, and married —like Keir Starmer— to a Jewish woman, their children being brought up as if fully-Jewish.
As for Sunak, he is just a globalist Indian puppet, who worked for the Goldman Sachs vulture-capitalist finance organization. Take away the Winchester and Oxford education, and there is nothing really “British” about him, even if he was born in the UK.
Incidentally, the architecture of the proposed “memorial” is pretty much as bad as (or indeed worse than) that seen in 1970s Brutalism: multistorey car parks, bus stations, and other excrescences. The architect is some African or other, apparently.
Andy Burnham tours Jewish News inspired exhibition, Generations: Portraits of Survivors at Imperial War Museum North, ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2023https://t.co/9GdkYUV4Uf
Andy Burnham is the “their” pocket too, a fact that I noticed years ago.
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Any mention of tramadol? I think that was brand new bollocks just for January.
Every interview and article there's some piece of brand new bollocks that contradiction old bollocks.
Jack Monroe, her writing, her recipes, her life story, it's all just utter bollocks
— ThruppenyBit (Eric B. Johns) (@BoredTillSleep) January 25, 2023
Ecce the self-describing “Left” in the UK. Forget social change, radical structural reform of society and the economy, let alone socio-political “revolution”. No, what matters to those idiots is “racism”, “sexism”, “trans” nonsense, facemask nonsense, and “deplatforming”, from Twitter etc, those with whom they disagree or who see through their silliness.
Rather than take real action for a better society, they prefer to support “grifters” such as “Jack Monroe”, Julia Grace Patterson (the non-practising doctor who sells facemasks etc), Owen Jones, “Femi” (the UK-based Nigerian who has found online “activism” a lot less tiring than getting a job or profession) and others of the same sort.
Those idiots do not demand that the structure of society be changed much; they prefer to applaud a “grifter” who says that a dinner can be created for 11p a head, or a family fed well on £20 a week, or that “our NHS” is the envy of Europe, or that everyone should wear facemasks and/or get down on one knee in sign of fealty to the blacks, or that “refugees” (migrant-invaders) are “welcome” and should be paid for by British families. Not forgetting Greta Nut and her deluded fans.
That way, the self-describing “Left” poseurs can continue to virtue-signal from their comfortable homes in leafy suburbs, or the Cotswolds, or the outside-London Green Belt, and continue to make a good living from well-paid professions, or inherited capital, without having to change their own lifestyles at all.
Jack Monroe hasn’t been vegan for some time. She seems to have gone in a completely opposite direction, with recipes using the cheapest meat possible, and no regard for animal welfare. There are so many great vegans out there to quote from. This is too important to get wrong.
In my opinion, tweeter “@Eastenders2004” is almost certainly “Jack Monroe” under one of her many Twitter aliases. Looks like she really has hit the bottle, the cocaine, or the non-prescription painkillers hard today.
“@Eastenders2004” was set up this month, has 0 followers, is following 4 accounts and has tweeted once (and replied 5 times), all about “Jack Monroe”.
At Balshaw’s we want our students to read widely and to be exposed to as many authors as possible. Our current 'Author in Focus' is @tompalmerauthor. Tom is representing Holocaust Memorial Day this year on 27th January. You can read more here: https://t.co/pj88X2saeg
Then expose them to David Irving, Savitri Devi, and Henry Williamson, among others.
Do not expose them to co-ordinated and ahistorical propaganda.
Historian and former Commons clerk Dorian Gerhold charted the course by which planning procedures have been upended to get permission for the #UKHMLC in @SaveVTG, a UNESCO world heritage site (and Royal Park). https://t.co/6KskdbTEM7
They are the go to publication for grifter extraordinaire Jack Monroe and Rachel Oxford the labour activist who hangs around hospitals. It’s expensive toilet paper.
Because Jack Monroe serves a role as a middle class guilt assuager to bourgeois liberals in the media and their readers / viewers without being too scary. They're not bothered about the details, they just want to show people that they're 'doing their bit' for the poverty thing.
Because most people are disinclined to find the moral courage to challenge, even in their own minds, a narrative that comes approved by the mob, or the System, or the msm (cf. WW2 “gas chambers”).
Sie glauben, der Täter erhält einen Prozess, schwere Strafe und eine schnellstmögliche Abschiebung in sein Heimatland?
"Do you think the perpetrator will face a trial, a severe sentence and be deported to his home country as quickly as possible?Unfortunately I have to disappoint you. This is again psychiatry at taxpayer expense"
Turns out that the “racists” and “bigots” were right all along…
That’s Labour’s answer to Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) or James Cleverly. and they are quite bad enough.
See also:
Yes, I know he has “degrees” etc. Meaningless. One of the most stupid blacks I ever met was a former Sierra Leone diplomat (who had been High Commissioner in London), and who had “degrees” (including a “doctorate”) from, if I recall aright, Oxford, the Sorbonne, and either Yale or Harvard (I forget which).
The elites are convincing people to willingly destroy their whole family line and quit reproducing. All in the name of personal comfort and pleasure. Incredible.
You are serious too!!! did you study history at school? do you know the crimes of the masters of your rulers? the orders come from #Washington so don't come and preach Genocide here. good evening Slave until you die from the USA. pic.twitter.com/kRgHI9WVGF
💬Anatoly #Antonov: If a decision to transfer to Kiev M1 Abrams is made, 🇺🇸 tanks without any doubt will be destroyed as all other samples of NATO military equipment.
Ukraine war live updates: U.S. and Germany to send tanks to Ukraine; Russia says heavy weaponry for Kyiv is a 'blatant provocation' https://t.co/VsN87zqe3S
Terrible though it may be, Russia’s choice in 2023 and 2024 will quite possibly resolve into that of either losing tactically in the south and southeast of Ukraine or of completely destroying the main cities of Ukraine, meaning Kiev, Odessa, and Kharkov, and prioritizing that over the destruction of the Kiev-regime forces in the field.
Whether that will be the opening of a wider war between Russia and NATO is an open question. If so, the UK may be finished in almost every way.
The (((usual suspects))) are baying for blood, as always.
Don’t expect any mercy from “them”. They are not European and have a very different historical and genetic background to us.
As to the case itself, in 1945 the present defendant was 23 or 24. His duty was, apparently, to stand in a watch-tower for a certain number of hours per day. Now the Jew-Zionist-dominated “German” state is putting him on trial at the age of 100.
Should the American sentries at the gates of Los Alamos in 1944 or 1945 be put on trial because they “facilitated” the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, and so “helped” to kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians? No? Why not, on this basis?
“I em goin’ to bee a loww…yer. At de Bar“…I have seen some specimens not much better than that! The Bar, like much of England, is a dustbin now. [Update, 1 February 2022: the tweet to which my above comment referred no longer exists].
I cited this tweet, which quotes the great G.K. Chesterton:
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
Basically true, though the exact figure for casualties in Dresden is still disputed, and may have been “only” 200,000, possibly as “low” as 25,000. WW2 statistics are frequently open to question (though the Dresden bombing and firestorm did at least take place, unlike the gassings in the mythical “gas chambers” etc).
[Dresden 1945, after Allied bombing caused a huge firestorm]
Sounds typical @zoepolitics. The police in this country still live on a reputation obtained decades ago. In most cases, one direct contact with them, after being a victim of crime, explodes this reputation. https://t.co/UsdFvtTwxK
…but just wait until some lady talks about Jews on an Internet “radio” podcast, or posts a cartoon or two about “them”. Then the police are on the case at once! The lady in question might well be prosecuted…
Another and longer film about American rustbelt city, Gary (Indiana).
Interesting. In the Soviet Union, there were many (State-owned, of course) “company towns”, mostly founded under Stalin. Such industrial areas were part of a huge organized system, the [economic] Plan for a country 92x the size of the UK, and encompassing 11 time zones. A machine where each component was dependent on all other parts working.
When the Soviet system fell apart, many such cities all but collapsed, dependent as they were one one single plant or factory which found itself unable to sell products or to buy raw materials.
The industrial plant usually provided everything: transport, medical services, schools, and more. When the plant closed, the “social infrastructure” lost all funding. The result has been, over the past 30 years, population loss and, not infrequently, cities becoming abandoned areas.
⚠️Government figures reveal fuel deliveries to petrol stations remained steady over the summer despite warnings of a lack of HGV drivers.
Yet the amount of spare fuel stored fell sharply by up to 12% after Sept 1, when the Government introduced greener E10 fuel as the standard pic.twitter.com/L6sw7K3L05
Ian Robert Millard 