Well, just managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul this week; he has claimed a score of 7 and a half out of 10, but I trumped that with 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1 and 6.
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As pointed out by @paulbristow79 there were no Labour backbenchers at the immigration debate.
They claim that they’re going stop the boats and they can’t even be arsed to turn up to the Debate. pic.twitter.com/AZvo8JTI0t
'We have to draw a line somewhere. We cannot just keep taking people from war torn countries.'@GoodwinMJ argues why Britain should not take in refugees from Gaza.
Jewish woman, one Zoe Grunewald, wants the UK (not herself personally, of course; she probably lives in a leafy suburb or other area far from the terrible society that is already developing by reason of migration-invasion) to take millions of “refugees”.
I also disagree with her view that “we” (British people) feel “proud” that “we” accepted Jewish “refugees” in the 1930s. Many of us actually think that that was a catastrophic error.
In principle, there are maybe 800 million people worldwide who, under the present framework, might have a “legitimate” claim to be granted asylum. Add to that the hundreds of millions who might make claim to asylum illegitimately, and you see the point— the UK cannot, could never take a billion or more persons, a number about 15x the present UK population.
It is often said that that would never happen, that the number who might come here is far lower. Perhaps, but then what is that number? 150 million (which would triple the existing UK population)? Even that would completely collapse our present society. Lower yet, say 75 million? That would still double the existing UK population, and would also shatter our society, irrevocably.
At present, about a million migrant-invaders are coming to the UK each year. Most are not “asylum-seekers”, but that is irrelevant; all that matters is the total number.
Matt Goodwin should have made those points, not his poor point about how a couple of foreign girls in the UK put paraglider motifs on their clothing after the October 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas operatives.
Excellent by @mrianleslie on less obvious forms of diversity: • cognitive • class • agreeableness • age • ideological • optimism • senstivity https://t.co/15FbVWddBk
Spanish authorities did not allow a ship carrying weapons for Israel into the port of Cartagena The ship was transporting explosive materials from India to Israel. The Spanish foreign minister said his country will no longer allow ships transporting weapons to Israel to enter… pic.twitter.com/sA0Qje4vhB
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
🇺🇦 "Guardian": Soldiers are furious with Zelenskiy
"Since the end of the hostilities is not in sight, the Ukrainian army has difficulties in recruiting personnel, and the fighters are increasingly exhausted and dissatisfied due to the lack of rotation" , writes "The Guardian".… pic.twitter.com/IgukjmNYwS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
“Soldiers are furious with Zelenskiy.
“Since the end of the hostilities is not in sight, the Ukrainian army has difficulties in recruiting personnel, and the fighters are increasingly exhausted and dissatisfied due to the lack of rotation” , writes “The Guardian”.
Many soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been at the front for more than two years without the possibility of demobilization.“
At long last, the truth is coming out about the corrupt, brutal and shambolic dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky and his cabal.
Soon, the Kiev regime’s front lines will crumble, and the Russian forces will be able to roll across the eastern part of Ukraine, i.e. the lands east of the Dnieper. Once Kharkov falls, or is bypassed, there will be nothing to stop Russian forces from occupying those huge areas indefinitely.
Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
Pentagon : “ Sanctions do not prevent Russia from continuing the war and do not lead to a change in its policy on Ukraine. The Russian military-industrial complex is working, and banks have found ways to maintain access to the international financial system. Russian tourists made pic.twitter.com/VY8BmCTl5P
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
Israeli operation in Rafah forced 800 thousand people to flee
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, says that all predictions about the catastrophic consequences of the Israeli regime's ground invasion of Rafah will come true.
There is almost no food left and humanitarian efforts have stopped. The world… pic.twitter.com/gDroZSz37V
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
One side-effect of the continuing Israeli crimes (whether they be officially labelled “war crimes” or not) is that the —in any case, steadily weakening— effect of the Jewish/Israeli “holocaust” propaganda re. the early 1940s is yet further diluted, if you like.
The peoples of the world are already bored to tears by that mainly post-1950s barrage in films, TV series, books, msm references.
People now say or think, in effect, “whatever happened in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, or the Pribaltika, happened 80+ years ago. Soon, it will be a century ago. We are more interested in what is happening now, not what happened or did not happen, or partly happened, 80 or 100 years ago“…
Sergei LAVROV: The West has started to promote the blatantly false thesis that Putin will not stop in Ukraine and will go further. Now the rhetoric is: Putin will defeat Ukraine and then attack us. The West is using the myth of an imaginary Russian threat to intensify the arms… pic.twitter.com/gkkitJqPGd
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 18, 2024
“Sergei LAVROV: The West has started to promote the blatantly false thesis that Putin will not stop in Ukraine and will go further.
Now the rhetoric is: Putin will defeat Ukraine and then attack us.
The West is using the myth of an imaginary Russian threat to intensify the arms race.
The contours of a new European military alliance with a nuclear component are even being formed Regarding Xi Jinping’s initiative on global security: “There are every reason to promote the idea that global security starts with the creation of the foundations of Eurasian security without Euro-Atlantic admixtures… The relations between Russia and China go beyond the classic alliances.”
That “Putin will invade Western Europe” nonsense was being broadcast or printed in the UK/USA (etc) msm right from the start, in 2022.
The EU does not tolerate freedom of speech – Moscow
The President of the Russian State Duma accused the EU of censoring alternative opinions and restricting freedom of speech, with the aim of deceiving citizens.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 18, 2024
Iran increases arms production by 50% to meet demand from foreign customers – Iranian Ministry of Defense pic.twitter.com/upTOINWrv8
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
WP : Russia has proven to be more resilient militarily and economically than the West expected
Russia is building a “resilient war economy,” while “Ukraine is struggling to recover from a grueling six-month pause in U.S. arms sales,” The Washington Post writes.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 18, 2024
Meanwhile, in the background, almost obscured by the daily “war” news from Gaza and Lebanon, the enemies of Israel, and the Iranians in particular, are creating more and more powerful and accurate missiles, some of which will eventually carry nuclear warheads. Israel is living on borrowed time.
[Soviet war memorial, Panfilov Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan; I lived at one time, in 1996-1997, about 10-15 minutes’ walk from there, on Prospekt Lenina]
“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.“
[black and white still from 1959-1963 American TV series The Untouchables, one of my childhood favourites (seen by me in Australia in the years 1967/1968). Robert Stack seen in the photo in the role of Elliot Ness, toting a Thompson submachinegun with unusually-small drum magazine, probably the 20-round version]
For my views about LBC, a radio station (ultimately) owned by a very pro-Israel Jew, see previous days’ blog posts, or use the search box on the blog.
Ashley Daniel Tabor-King, the British Jewish President of Global which owns LBC. Vanessa Feltz is her replacement. I expect to see Gideon Falter in the line-up shortly #BoycottLBC
— Sorrentina 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🇮🇳 #FBPE #RejoinEU (@Sangita123000) May 1, 2024
Netanyahu has had some success in "achieving" something that would have unimaginable a few months.
Netanyahu has used his toxic slur machine to turn the hostages and their families into "enemies of people"
He's unleashed on them both his cult, and Ben Gvir & his militia.
“Police beat Palestinian passersby after the terror attacker at Flowers Gate”.
I’d say, “beat up the usual suspects”, but they weren’t even suspects. They’re Palestinian, and in the eyes of Ben Gvir’s militia, that’s a punishable offence. https://t.co/pmUOvCnyiI
Apparently, there are about 155,000 Ethiopian “Jews” in Israel today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel. Half of them were born and brought up there. Their historical origins are rather obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel#Origins. Some people believe that the African “Jews” were slaves or servants of Jews resident in ancient Egypt, and took up their customs, but that theory has as little evidence, or less, than numerous other theories.
Those Israeli police are even more free with their swinging batons than are the traffic cops in Moscow, the GAI (as was). The Israeli police truncheons seem to be longer than the Russian ones (or the old British type, now replaced by extendable metal ones). The Russian traffic cops usually swing their batons menacingly as they stand in the street, as if just waiting for a chance to use them; the Israeli batons seem more like the NYPD “nightsticks”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_for_Traffic_Safety.
Try referencing “their” behaviour, and see how quickly the censorship kicks in, whether on LBC, Sky News, BBC, in Parliament, or in an ordinary court of law.
James O'Brien "There was no censorship, we all live and die on our ratings."
He would like you to believe that one day Sangita Myska's ratings got so bad that all her future appearances were cancelled and she had to be laid off in secret.pic.twitter.com/Orh1EHBCCP
Here’s a bet. Radio loudmouth James O’Brien will never once say that LBC, his employer, is owned by companies owned by a Jewish heir to a fortune. He will never say that simple truth. What odds will you take?
What was that James O’Brien said about Sangita getting the sack because of her audience numbers and not her grilling of a Zionist propagandist? pic.twitter.com/TOhChYAWzZ
Never be fooled by msm talking heads such as James O’Brien; they are bought and paid for. House-serfs. When the “You Know Who” cracks the whip, they jump…
I can't wait for the next James O'Brien best seller. "How not to be sacked" where he explains that principles should be discarded and honesty avoided if you want a career in UK media.
Jews often say or talk, or write, or tweet about how Palestinian Arabs should draw a line under the fact that the Jews stole most of “Israel”, particularly during the 1948 “Nakba”, in the following years, and engaged in ethnic cleansing; whole villages killed by Jewish execution squads; men, women, and children shot after having been restrained by having their hands and/or feet tied.
The Palestinian Arabs, say the Jews, should “move on”, forget about the Jews’ ethnic cleansing, the massacres of civilians, the theft of land, houses, apartments etc, and make another life for themselves in Jordan, or Lebanon, and not keep talking about the catastrophe visited upon them.
Strangely enough, the very same Jews who say that never shut up about the events of the 1930s and especially early 1940s, when they say Jews were massacred etc by Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Baltic people etc. In fact, a whole industry of books, films, often “faction” (fiction disguised as “fact”, or “near-fact”) has grown up with those events (true or not) as its subject-matter.
What a fucking disgrace that this ID is not seen as accepted for voting. What the hell does Mercer actually do ? https://t.co/BVHbWSziyM
— Farmerjoefred 12345 (@farmerjoefred) May 2, 2024
When he was first elected, I thought that Johnny Mercer would be a breath of fresh air in the Westminster monkeyhouse— ex-officer, served in a war zone (Afghanistan) and, I think, saw combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician).
I thought that Mercer would bring both integrity and commonsense thinking to the Westminster Bubble. Sadly, not so. His expenses have been questioned at times, and he seems to engage in private business activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician)#Expenses. There is at least an impression of venality.
"We're afraid they've changed the system & you need a photo." "Oh, come on, I am who I say I am! It's been 65 years." "Very sorry but they changed it." "Right… well then… I'll just have to miss out. Bye." "Sorry. See you next time with ID!" "I'll probably be dead next time!"
— David Ziggy Greene (Illustrator?) (@SaHreports) May 2, 2024
Americans favor Israel in its war against Hamas by a margin of four-to-one and nearly three-quarters support a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the @nypost reports. Four out of five voters (80%) back the Jewish state in its nearly seven-month-old war against…
Half of them cannot find their own country on a map of the world. I lived there. I know them as well as most Brits do. You are talking about a country (USA) where a tiny minority are incredibly well-informed (maybe 1%, being diplomatic about it), where about 5% are reasonably well-informed, and where maybe 94% know very little about anything beyond their everyday lives and situations. The 94% are easily manipulated by the American msm which is mostly owned, staffed, and influenced by “the usual suspects”.
In other words, opinion polling of the American people reveals, to an even greater extent than polling of British people, what the people have been spoonfed by the (((msm))).
Incredible. When I told Boris Johnson three years ago that his Voter ID law would stop people from being able to vote he told me I was talking "total nonsense"
Now Sky News reports he was turned away from voting for "failing to bring acceptable voter ID" pic.twitter.com/gjvsp7xyEV
Drag and transgenderism was NOT a big part of the Third Reich. The woke successors who flood school libraries with such ideology resent the Germans for putting an end to their research. pic.twitter.com/KrEVhuZ5bf
National Socialism in Germany promoted health: physical health, moral and ethical health, spiritual health, cultural health, and the healthy evolution of the whole people or Volk in a Volksgemeinschaft or folk-community. They cut away unhealthy cancerous growths in the body politic, and in society as a whole.
[BDM girls ride through a sun-dappled forest, National Socialist Germany, 1930s]
"Labour will admit thousands of illegal migrants on small boats into the asylum system" (The Times) providing a HUGE incentive for more to risk their lives. As I wrote months ago, Labour's immigration plans won't workhttps://t.co/qWU7PpbuYv
Big day in British politics with local elections and more taking place. We've been tracking the decline of the Conservatives for a long while now. Here are a few pieces
Anyone’s guess, as far as the 2024 Westminster election is concerned (GE 2024), but my take is that tens of millions of British people are just sick of experiencing how nothing works any more in this country, from local right up to national level. They just want all this utter shite to stop. Labour will probably be unable to do much better, but what people want now, first of all, is to put the Conservative Party on a pyre, and then set light to it.
As to “how low” will the Con vote go at GE 2024, my view, formed over the past year or two, stands at present somewhere below 20%. The latest YouGov poll puts the Cons at about 18%.
Tory vote share now lower than under Liz Truss in our latest VI (30 Apr – 1 May)
My use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] on those figures puts the Con MP cadre after GE 2024 at 31 MPs (Labour 519, LibDem 58). On that basis, the Conservative Party will not even be the official Opposition.
Even if those figures are wildly out, it looks as if 2024 may be the swansong for the Con Party as both “the natural party of government” and even as the natural main opposition party.
The Conservatives are now behind Labour among 2016 Leave voters
So the younger generation(s) prefer white bread? Very unhealthy.
Saved: Britain can no longer protect itself from missiles and drones
The UK is “increasingly vulnerable” to the threat of missile and drone attacks. Decades of savings have undermined its air defenses, experts warn. London has highly effective means, but they are no longer… pic.twitter.com/lMjyRoqI1J
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“Britain can no longer protect itself from missiles and drones.
The UK is “increasingly vulnerable” to the threat of missile and drone attacks. Decades of savings have undermined its air defenses, experts warn. London has highly effective means, but they are no longer enough to protect the vast amount of critical infrastructure across the country, as well as troops abroad, Sky News reports.
The situation is exacerbated by the increasing quality and quantity of missiles and drones developed by hostile states such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
The Royal Air Force currently has just nine squadrons of fast jets, down from 30 at the end of the Cold War. The Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers are equipped with the country’s only missile defense systems. But only three of those ships are “available for operations,” including one in the Middle East, according to a Navy spokesman.
On land, the military has about six Sky Saber ground-based air defense systems, each capable of shooting down multiple missiles. But at least two of them – and perhaps more – are deployed overseas, and those in the UK have a very limited range.
Britain benefits from its geographical location, with many European NATO countries located between its shores and Russia. However, the air defense of many European countries was also reduced in order to save money after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sky News notes.“
Putin's propaganda victory: Russians are returning to their homeland en masse – Bloomberg
Thousands of Russians who went abroad after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine are returning to their homeland, Bloomberg writes. The news agency calls this a “propaganda… pic.twitter.com/X5rFaeMEbs
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[Unity Mitford, at home in England after having shot herself in grief after Britain declared war on the German Reich in 1939]
“The toddler’s frail, malnourished body scarcely twitched as she lay helplessly in an incubator chamber in the already-decimated Gaza hospital.
Leila Jeneid, one of countless children who have passed through the doors of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has suffered as a result of starvation and dehydration.
In a video clip, Leila can be seen quickly breathing in and out, desperate for a breath of fresh air in one of the 12 remaining hospitals in the besieged enclave.
The outline of her ribs, along with all her other bones, are visible through her pallid, paper-thin skin, which sits in stark contrast to the blue blanket underneath her that provides little comfort to the toddler, who is not old enough to comprehend the hellish suffering she is undergoing.
Her jaw is slack as she lies on her back inside the plastic cage of the incubator, barely able to move her arms and legs.
She can’t keep her eyes open as medics at the hospital, which UN official Andrea De Domenico this week said was receiving ‘about 15 malnourished children a day and is struggling to maintain services,’ run tests to understand how to help her.
But it’s food, water and proper rest she needs, all things that the whole enclave is desperately in need of, and all things that Israel has been accused of deliberately withholding from civilians in its bitter war against Hamas, which – according to a top UN human rights official – could amount to a war crime.”
[Daily Mail]
Israel, and the Jewish lobby outside Israel, can now shut up about various matters that they claim occurred during the Second World War.
The “usual suspects” constantly promote books, films etc about events and/or invented events that are said to have happened, in any event, over 80 years ago.
“A father-of-five who was jailed and handed a £475,000 court bill after a dispute with his neighbours has been ordered to sell his home to pay for the huge sum.
Mark Coates, 56, and wife Louise, 52, have been involved in a ‘bitter, aggressive and violent’ dispute with their neighbours Brian Greenwood, 69, and Janice Turner, 65, after moving in next door in the countryside near Hastings in 2015.
The row arose out of a disagreement over a fence between their homes on a quiet road in Robertsbridge, a court heard. The Coates family wanted to replace the structure with a brick wall but Mrs Taylor argued this would encroach on her land.”
[Daily Mail]
When I was at the Bar, I advised and appeared on several such cases in the County Court, both in London and the provinces. Almost all, in fact all, should have settled long before they got to court, long before any barristers were instructed.
I think that I can say that I, and other counsel in the cases known to me, did our best to achieve reasonable closure, but these are cases (often involving trivial amounts of land) where reason always seems to fly out out of the window.
In many cases, all Counsel, solicitors, and the judge in the matter, understand that the matters in question should settle before enormous costs are racked up but, often, the litigants are effectively willing to risk bringing down ruin on themselves for a chance of gaining a victory over their neighbours (with whom they will have to live —nearby— afterwards, after the case ends, whichever way it goes), unless one party sells up and moves (in which event…well, you get my point).
If you told someone to remortgage his house, take out equity of £50,000, £100,000 or more, then go to Las Vegas, and stake the entire amount, maybe in one spin, on red or black at the roulette table, the houseowner would call you crazy, but that is, often, exactly what he or she —often a couple— are willing to do in taking to the County Court (in some cases to the High Court) such cases.
I remember one case I had that was about a wedge-shaped piece of land running the length of a North London suburban garden; at one end it was only about an inch or so wide and, at the other, about a foot.
What can one say? Territorial feeling can be very powerful.
Private enterprise —properly regulated for honesty, health and safety, employee rights etc— should run most commerce and industry, but there are exceptions, among which are the main structures of the economy providing services to the whole people: water supply, large-scale energy, electricity generation and supply, roads, railways.
I love talking to old people, people who don't have smart phones, and aren't on Twitter.
It's a window into a different world, the 1950s, 1940s, 1930s that is rapidly fading from memory.
Talk to these people any opportunity you get, learn about their world, you won't regret it.
Very true. As for me [b.1956], my memories of even the late 1950s are few, but those of the 1960s, and up to the present year, are many. Speaking very broadly, I should say that the dividing line between the UK of 2024 and an earlier and different UK lies, arguably, somewhen between the Thatcher election victory of 1979 and the fall of socialism in or about 1989. Maybe 1979 as far as the UK is concerned, domestically. Too much to cover here in a few paragraphs, though.
American urban planning history
When you think of American cities you think of places built for maximum efficiency and commerce – not necessarily for beauty and harmony. This photo often does the rounds… pic.twitter.com/REkPBUZTbe
It wasn't only public buildings. Take the Erie County Savings Bank in Buffalo (since demolished in an attempt at "urban renewal"): pic.twitter.com/0LKmMcLmCO
The public pushed back. The “Design Excellence Program” was established in 1994 to ensure higher quality public buildings. But the results weren't great:
San Francisco's Federal Building is so bizarre that it almost defies analysis… pic.twitter.com/huMW8VtzUQ
But something eroded American beauty more than this misguided artistry: efficiency.
The US once had dense, more European-style cities, and workers commuted via public streetcars. These were soon to be sacrificed for the great highways… pic.twitter.com/ti7vMxiVXp
Amidst a frenzy of industrialization in the 1940s, the US launched a decades-long project of freeway construction. Huge swathes of existing cities were demolished in the process, like in Kansas City: pic.twitter.com/BJhetxzhQh
Ironically, this breakneck pursuit of efficiency sacrificed what would today be some of the city's most profitable real estate. Those downtown buildings would be worth around $655 million today. pic.twitter.com/TBxcmKLrQ4
The dream of European-style cities in America was all but eradicated. Suburban sprawl meant cities lost significant chunks of their tax bases, and inner cities fell into spirals of decline.
"Reform party is now ahead of Tories among the working-class and northerners" (The Times). If you belong to the Substack (https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY) you already knew this –and where Reform will do best at 2024 GE https://t.co/ADIm6HRXer
“Reform UK” is just more “controlled opposition”, of course, and pro-Israel controlled opposition at that; still, its existence moves the “Overton window”, and that may be significant.
Israeli drones attacked a car in the village of Bazurieh in southern Lebanon. It is reported that at least one person died pic.twitter.com/kOy9XcnE5Q
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To call that a zoo would be unkind to zoos, and to the inherent grace and charm of most animals.
I told you – with money!" Ukraine is dissatisfied with Western gifts
It seems that Zelensky is not happy that billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine are coming in ammunition and not dollars. pic.twitter.com/CPLQTCees9
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
Naturally, Zelensky wants cash, not arms and ammunition. You can’t transfer arms and ammunition into an offshore account…
Saudi Arabia will take part in the Miss Universe beauty pageant for the first time, which will be held in Mexico in September. She sends 27-year-old model and social media star Rumi al-Qatani to the competition. pic.twitter.com/LFR1N2QpZD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
[Rumi al-Qatani]
Not bad…
Israel is preparing to invade Rafah, home to about 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.
Al Jazeera and Israel's Channel 12 reported that Israel had launched an operation to relocate refugees ahead of an invasion due in a few days. pic.twitter.com/pwYFzG5PY7
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 28, 2024
The “most moral” army in the world poses with toys of Palestinian children – Gaza 💔 pic.twitter.com/oNBmFDpq2J
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Group psychopathy.
It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue to embark on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.
— Socially Recruited (@socialrecruited) March 6, 2024
Seems that H.M. Land Registry (or its ad agency) does not know the difference between “principle” and “principal“. On that basis, I am sceptical about anything they say they will do; it is not trivial, but a matter of both basic education and checking what is put before the public.
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So much for the “military experts”, many of which (as in the case of the reporter David Axe) turn out to be not very expert at all: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axe.
People of that sort write their rubbish for (in his case) Forbes magazine, the Daily Telegraph etc, and people believe it implicitly because it is in (albeit wrongfully) “trusted” publications, yet much of the content is unreliable. Read Axe’s Wikipedia entry. Not an ex-officer, not a military historian as such, but a writer of fiction primarily, at least until recently. His reporting on military matters has been patchy; refer to the Wikipedia entry.
There are many scribblers of that sort. He is far from being the only defaulter.
Of course, in relation to the Ukraine war, a significant factor in reportage is that most Western msm outlets are openly biased to an extent not seen since the 1940s. Anything seen in the msm relating to Ukraine, Russia, Putin etc has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Forbes" columnist David Ax criticized the "Challenger 2" tanks which Great Britain sent to Ukraine and called them useless. He pointed out that Ukraine received tanks without a set of additional armor, while the additional three tons of weight would make this tank even less… pic.twitter.com/7Idf0GZUyQ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Future archaeologists may find such tanks buried under a hundred feet of chernozem, and wonder what they were.
Late tweets
This is the problem with Shadi’s new identitarianism when it comes to Hamas.
Mainstream news sources have no idea nor any way to check the numbers coming from Hamas. But here he argues that not to trust those Hamas numbers is genocide.
Jew-Zionist argues that the numbers of civilian and other dead and wounded in Gaza are not accurate and may be, at least in part, invented.
I dare say, though, that the same Jew-Zionist (and many another) thinks that any attempt to critically examine the numbers involved, or the nature and extent, of the so-called “holocaust” of WW2, is not only “antisemitic” but evil…
💣 The first episode of Bombshells with guest @GoodwinMJ is out!
FREE SAM MELIA!!! Please support Laura Towler’s business. The baby is almost due, and her husband is one of our most important political prisoners. Every little bit helps. https://t.co/FyrJPKKDlfpic.twitter.com/9UlLOobWSP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Green. Some look about 14 or 15. Obviously untrained, looking at their posture, body language etc. God help them if they are not taught how to stay alive in the field.
Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot win this war, or even keep the front stable. Russia cannot lose, and will not lose.
The Biden administration has secretly approved the transfer of significant military aid to Israel in recent days – Washington Post
▪️25 F-35 fighters ▪️1800 MK-84 bombs weighing almost a ton each. ▪️500 MK-82 bombs weighing about a quarter of a ton each. pic.twitter.com/pLxYPQ3oEj
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 29, 2024
Tail wags dog…again.
No one in their right mind should vote Tory at the general election. Yes, we have a lack of viable alternatives and we should work to find good independent candidates. But anyone who votes Tory has a form of Stockholm syndrome. The Tory government destroyed the country.
The servants of the State, or the creatures of the “you know whos”?
To those who smear me as a conspiracy theorist…
The way I see it, I’m not here to tell you WHAT to think, I’m here to tell you TO THINK.
I CAN tell you that the media is lying to your face about everything. I have my theories and I speculate, but it’s on YOU to find the truth.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 28, 2024
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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]
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Border situation rapidly worsening under Biden’s watch. Who benefits from this chaos? Not the border towns, our cities, or our workers. Not even the migrants themselves. Only the cartels. Right now the first step toward resolving this humanitarian crisis is to SEAL THE BORDER. https://t.co/lTArrrljus
Even in a country such as the USA, with a population of over 340M, figures like that naturally give rise to concern (as does the fact that the tweeter Ali Bradley seems to be ignorant of what the word “majority” means…American education…).
“To Israel: You can’t say “never again” while committing a literal genocide. You can’t bring up the Holocaust while detaining Palestinians, including children, in concentration camps. You can’t say you’re the victim while you’re bombing every hospital, bakery, journalist, and child in sight. You can’t say “self defense” while your kids are writing their names on rockets being blasted towards other kids whom you turned into orphans. You can’t say you’re protecting anyone while killing them.“
I notice that more and more people are waking up to “their” fake victimhood “cosplay”.
Israeli forces killed Sham, Maria, Shams, and Mona Moataz Wadih Salem with their mother Nidaa and grandmother Bahija, their aunt Sanaa and her husband Muhammad, and their children Sama, Ghazal, Abdullah, and Yazan. 100 member of the Salem family… pic.twitter.com/Pc26QG1STj
“A serious government would have looked at Brexit and recognised the necessity for economic and social reform. The first lesson should have been that mass immigration cannot be a substitute for skills training, and that open borders is not a sustainable answer to labour shortages.
Subsequently, it should have examined the reasons business relies on immigrant labour and modified policy accordingly – up to and including far reaching welfare reform. It should have also taken steps to reform the ponzi scheme that is higher education, ideally dismantling second rate universities in favour of vocational training with a view to improving labour market fluidity.
It should have initiated an immediate energy policy review, dismantling the EU regulatory systems that push up the price of energy.
It should have prioritised nuclear over renewable energy. It should have looked at streamlining energy planning and procurement regulation.
It should have initiated a complete review of food and agriculture policy with a view to improving food security and reducing food miles, cultivating local supply chains, and revising trade policy accordingly.
It should have initiated a complete review of foreign aid, trade and foreign policy in line with clearly defined national priorities.
But our politicians didn’t want any of that. They liked having their thinking done for them. They didn’t see any reason for change and everything they’ve done since has been to prevent meaningful change. Sclerotic mediocrity is how they like it and it’s the best we can hope for.
That is why the Tory party is dying. They were handed a massive majority and a mandate for change and they did precisely nothing with it. They wasted our votes and our time. They squandered every opportunity and walked away from every fight. Instead of taking the cue for radical change, they doubled down on all the worst aspects of centrist consensus politics on everything from immigration to energy, in lockstep with the EU as though we never voted to leave.
Immigration is now out of control, rents have skyrocketed, energy prices are insane, university degrees are next to worthless, and now they’re inflicting heat pumps and EVs on us when nobody can afford either, nobody even wants them, and we don’t have the electricity to power them.
Now we find ourselves with nobody worth voting for, and a decrepit opposition party set to inherit power by accident of numbers, and virtually nobody thinks it will be an improvement.
There is no means by which we can arrest the decline – while the media gaslights us by telling us this is the most right wing government in history.
Not only does the Tory party deserve to die, it is a necessary precursor to any kind of British renaissance. The conservative party only wishes to conserve a stagnant status quo even if it drags us into the dark ages.
We are condemned to drab, anti-patriotic technocratic managerialism and a zombie establishment that has long since abdicated from its obligation to govern. They are rotten, debased, corrupt and ineffectual in everything they do.
Every iteration of it is like a bad Hollywood sequel – a jaded repeat bereft of ideas and energy, oblivious to its own creative death spiral.
The cancer has now spread to all of the state’s vital organs, and the patient is now on life support. Nothing short of a medical miracle can revive it from its persistant vegetative state. The only merciful thing to do is to let it die.”
I agree with pretty much all of that analysis.
The Tories need wiping out, they deserve to be obliterated for their betrayal of their voters. The future looks very bleak
Quite. I hate and despise the misnamed Conservative Party, but also despise and hate the equally-misnamed Labour Party. Other misnamed parties? The “Scottish National Party” (currently run by a Pakistani) and the “Liberal Democrats”.
Look what the small hats are doing to a country like the U.S. that has been nothing but supportive to them (mass migration, transgenderism, race division, seed oils, etc), what do you think they will do to the rest ?
…and if you say anything about all that, at least in the UK, some malicious Jew-Zionist volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy and Government (eg the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) will suborn or corrupt the police and the prosecution service in order to bring down upon you the weight of the criminal law (while, in the real world, real crime explodes).
Our political class simply does not have the will, ability or courage to govern the country effectively. It is has failed and will continue to do so. More time is spent on anachronistic formalities and internal party processes than is ever devoted to enlightened governance.
Labour are setting up an immigration trap. The idea of processing illegals overseas is a scam that will allow millions to come to the UK by applying from centres in their own country, we will be swamped. Labour are plotting for even more immigration https://t.co/KTy4i2JabL
Obviously. Even at present, 75%+ of the invaders are given leave to remain. That’s 75% or 80% of the actual small boat invaders; the “legal” ones are all allowed to stay for the period of their visa, but many who stay beyond that are also, one way or another, allowed to stay in the end.
Overall, something like 95% of the various types of migrant invader are —eventually— allowed to stay indefinitely. As a nation and possibly, later, as a state, the UK faces ruin.
In Africa and Asia live hundreds of millions who would like to come here. Yes, in time that will reduce the UK to a “third world” level, but they cannot see that. All they see is a country still hugely better than their own. They want what we have, or they think we have. Even if our living standards continue to slide, for the black/brown invaders that is irrelevant. They are used to much worse conditions.
Therefore, the migration invasion will continue until our society collapses into chaos and/or civil war. When? Maybe as early as 2030, maybe a little later. By 2050, for sure, as things are going. Thank God I shall probably not be here to see it face to face.
Late tweets
Red sea story in short cartoon… Yemen against Israel & US/UK/EU failed coalition pic.twitter.com/Axig9BrZZL
"The US will give 250 million dollars in military aid to Ukraine," said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and added that this is the last package in 2023. pic.twitter.com/xACZ9RcRYL
Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown.
According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical… pic.twitter.com/x6semWZIA0
“Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown. According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical victories in the Gaza Strip.“
It would be a mistake to assume that all Jews, even all Israelis, are behind the continuing devastation in Gaza. My own guess is that most would have been satisfied by a week or so of targeted, albeit bloody, attacks in retaliation for the stunning surprise attack by Hamas forces in southern Israel in October.
There was a film, several years ago, interviewing former chiefs of Israeli intelligence and security; they were far less gung-ho than Netanyahu and his clique, or the malicious and unpleasant Jew-Zionists one sees or hears of in places such as London, Leeds, New York etc.
By the by, I keep wondering whether the Israeli Government, like F.D. Roosevelt before Pearl Harbor, knew of the October attack by Hamas before it happened, but let it go ahead in order to have to popular support —initially— for what is now happening in —in the Israeli case— Gaza, which amounts to an attempt to occupy Gaza and drive out its 2M inhabitants.
That may read like “conspiracy theory”, but so many of such theories turn out to be just true in the end. Why did it take Israeli forces several hours, in some cases 12 hours, to deploy to the site of the October attack? Israel is small. Tel Aviv is only 44 miles from the border of Gaza, and maybe 60 miles from the site of the Hamas attack in October.
When I was a practising barrister based in Exeter, in SW England (2002-2008), I lived in a country house about 4 miles north of Launceston (Cornwall) and almost exactly 45 miles west from my Exeter chambers. Same distance as Tel Aviv to Gaza. One day, I made the journey, door to door, in only 35 mins. I am sure that the supposedly elite Israeli forces can deploy in at least similar time (by road or helicopter), if they are so ordered. So why did they apparently take many hours in October?
Late thought
A day or two ago, I caught a few minutes of a political quiz on Sky News. Radio politico Nick Ferrari, some black woman (I think Dawn Butler), useless half-Jew former MP and now (absurdly) member of the House of Lords, Ed Vaizey, and “British” Indian pseudo-Communist, Ash Sarkar. All wearing silly Christmas hats for the occasion.
What struck me (again) is that the System TV would never have a social-national person on such a show, but there is political bad joke, Ash Sarkar, sitting there happily alongside Ed Vaizey, despite having commended not only socialism but Communism on air many times. She was obviously loving being part of the System mass media in-club…
Only social-national people and policies can now save Europe. The System easily suborns and buys the Ash Sarkar type. Paid TV appearances, even alongside the so-called “class enemy”, articles in newspapers, social media profile (and income). Pseudo-radical careerists and profiteers.
Owen Jones similarly. These are play-“revolutionaries”, play-radicals, and almost ludicrously-easily manipulated by the System.
“Former defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned Israel that it risks undermining the legal basis for its action in the Gaza Strip, adding to growing international pressure over the escalating conflict.
Writing in the Telegraph, the senior Tory warned against a ‘killing rage’ and said Israel’s ‘original legal authority of self-defence is being undermined by its own actions’.
The intervention by Mr Wallace, who left office earlier this year, is the latest warning to Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration amid deepening concern over the scale of civilian casualties.”
[Daily Mail]
Even pro-Israel drones such as Wallace are now trying to distance themselves from Israel’s “massacre of (mainly) the innocents” in Gaza.
The Israelis and other Jews may not be (mainly) descended from the original Israelites of thousands of years ago (the Jews of today being descended mainly from Black Sea or other Khazars), but the former model their actions on the Israelites’ genocidal wars as recounted in the Old Testament.
“Jack Monroe”
Certainly overdue for a reckoning on this one. She seems to have gone silent which is a good thing in terms of her dangerously misguided "campaigning" but can't help wondering why none of the celebrities that defended her have nothing to say now. #JackMonroe
I do think she wrongly perpetuated the idea that one could feed a family healthily for £20/week. Which was a lie. And contributed to some terrible stereotyping of pple in poverty. Aided austerity, rather than challenging it.
You're right. The lack of due diligence in fact-checking #JackMonroe backstory or whether any of her claims actually held any weight is a shocking indictment on the press.
Rufus Hound blocked me for suggesting that Jack Monroe was not as squeaky clean as people believed. @RalfLittle was also quick to defend the patreon. @Nigella_Lawson was taken in by the lies and, in turn, earned Monroe over £10.000 in a single month. Where are they now? pic.twitter.com/pLyp48i2EU
The above details only “Jack Monroe’s” Patreon “grift”. In addition, the “grifting” fraud also got money from stray donations direct to her, from newspaper interviews, radio, and TV shows and interviews, from “consultancy” “work” for major supermarkets, from well-paid appearances at various festivals and other events, and from book royalties, as well as from fake appeals for money based on non-existent legal actions against Lee Anderson MP and others (monies which “Jack Monroe” then pocketed for her own use). A total of tens of thousands of pounds a month at peak.
Other tweets seen
🇮🇱Zionist infiltration of our government and institutions is the ONE thing we’re NOT allowed to talk about.
If you do, you risk (in the UK) being prosecuted at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby, eg the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. They have corrupted or otherwise suborned the police and CPS. I myself was recently convicted in the magistrates’ courts by reason of such a prosecution, as regular readers of the blog will know (I may appeal; we shall see).
Incredibly, there are millions of poor saps who believe loonies and/or liars of that sort. If you are told constantly, for example, from age 5 or 7 or 10, or 14, and from all manner of “authoritative” msm and other sources, that millions of Jews were killed during 1941-1944 in “gas chambers” by German SS personnel in Poland, then that idea becomes embedded in your psyche, and stays there until you are, so to speak, “cured” in —usually— later life, whether that be at age 21, 28, 35, 42 or whenever.
They sit there in their armchairs, calling for genocide, while fellow-Jews smile and laugh in the TV studio or elsewhere, yet if anyone in the West posts a comment about them, or a satirical cartoon, they are —or pretend to be— horrified, and equate that to “terrorism”…
Will Esther McVey investigate the Tory MP who claimed £8,750 in expenses for her own personal photographer, while sanctioning 1,000's of disabled people for being a few minutes late for their benefit appointments? Esther?
Esther McVey is merely one of hundreds of “deadhead MPs”. The fact that so many clowns can become MPs and even Cabinet ministers proves, in my judgment, that the whole system is rotten.
Wanting to lower immigration, stop the boats, defend free speech, and defend kids from woke ideology is not "extremist". It's what must people in this country supporthttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/A2xyXtQcVs
Goodwin is right on those points, but goes very far wrong in persisting in his support for the Israel lobby, aka Jew-Zionist lobby, the very pack that is closing down free speech in the UK, not to mention supporting the migration invasion.
Adam Fleming: Is Rishi Sunak right to say that illegal migration is a risk to the country & we could be overwhelmed?
Stupid “Conservative” drone thinks that about 50,000 migrant-invaders crossing the Channel every year is “not a huge amount“. 1,000 each week. Where does the Government intend to park 1,000 new arrivals each and every week until the year dot (or until the UK explodes)?
While Zelensky is buying luxury yachts and foreign mansions with laundered US taxpayer funds, his people are going without food. pic.twitter.com/am0IxjD9pO
In 2013, The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed that the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality. pic.twitter.com/9cCZo82NJs
“It is not in US interests to see German, European let’s say, European industrialism & technology united with Russian natural resources. This is not what US grand strategy really wants to see happen.”
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now @CNN’s @clarissaward, @scottycnn and @BrentSwailsCNN managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report. pic.twitter.com/JLioOfXf12
Yet another breakthrough for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), this time winning a mayoralty on outskirts of Dresden ahead of crunch state elections next year. None of this will surprise our regular subscribers who were again ahead of the curve https://t.co/1BOBz9pmiz
Just caught the last bit of Channel 5 news.Stephen Fry will give alternative christmas message,talking about the rise of anti semitism. I think,I'll give it a miss this year as long as he is happy in supporting Netanyahu and the genocide of the Palestinians.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Metropolitan Kirill's speech in Kiev in 2008, it's only been 14 years since this video, but watching Kiev today, someone could thing a century have past.
Ukraine along with Russia were then celebrating the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 18, 2023
“Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk addressed the crowd of thousands in Kiev: “What was Russia baptised for? For us to be happy. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus – this is Holy Russia! Holy Russia is not an empire, it is not a union: former or some future one. Holy Russia is an ideal of love, goodness and truth. We are all with you, one Holy Russia! Remain who you are and nothing will shake our unity.“”
I myself once met a Metropolitan of Kiev (the second-ranking dignity in the Russian Orthodox Church). At breakfast. My then girlfriend was looking after him that day (he spoke no English).
I think that that was at the de Vere Hotel by Kensington High Street, and in the early/mid-1980s. Maybe 1983 or 1984. He gave me some of his kefir (the first time I had tried it) and, at the same time, deftly fielded a question from me about his view of Tolstoy. Later that morning, at the empty Russian Orthodox Cathedral (also in Kensington), he gave me a bottle of Moskovskaya vodka.
“Afarmer who was filmed dragging his white husky along the road while it was tied to the back of his car before she died has avoided jail.
Kim Norman Rendall, 65, was filmed callously dragging his pet pooch Daisy by a rope for around 200 metres, along Timsbury Road in High Littleton, near Bath.
Bristol Crown Court heard numerous motorists witnessed the horror and tried to stop Rendall by beeping and flashing their lights at his red Nissan Micra. But he refused to get help for Daisy and later left her to die in a cow barn.
Daisy was eventually found by police but was left severely injured in the incident on the afternoon of April 17 this year and had to be put to sleep nine days later.
Rendall was sentenced today to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work alongside a 20 year disqualification from having or keeping animals with the exception of cattle, and fish.
[Daily Mail]
Inadequate. The retired policemen recently convicted for a few trivial jokes and remarks on WhatsApp got about the same.
Animals are still not adequately protected, including protection by deterrence.
If ever an animal cruelty case demanded at least a token few —or several, or more— weeks in the clink, this was it.
The matter is now in the hands of higher powers, and also, perhaps, those of local residents.
“Sir Keir Starmer‘s immigration policy is based on a lie. A well-intentioned lie, a lie designed to make us feel better about ourselves; but a lie nonetheless, a lie that will eventually bring down any Government he gets to lead.
He trotted out his falsehood again and again in interviews yesterday. Labour‘s solution to illegal immigration was to ‘break the gangs’.
Ah, what a delightful idea. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could blame the Channel crossings on a few evil people traffickers?
We could then regard every illegal entrant as a victim — the highest accolade our debased age bestows. We could imagine them all as desperate families who have been exploited by callous mafiosi. We could divert resentment of illegal immigration away from the illegals themselves.
The trouble is, it’s piffle. The idea that demand would dry up if there were no middlemen is a fantasy. Blaming people-traffickers is sheer deflection.
We are, in other words, just starting a new age of mass migration, a völkerwanderung. How we deal with it will define the politics of every wealthy country. I have no doubt that much of the legal infrastructure we put in place after World War II, including the UN Refugee Convention (1951) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1953) will end up being dismantled.“
[Daily Mail]
[migration-invasion]
As Hannan says, the post-1945 legal architecture was never designed to allow potentially —and quite literally— hundreds of millions of migrant-invaders the “right” to invade Europe. That is the scale of the danger facing us.
“A third of both Gen Z and Millennials admit they get so nervous when they eat out they are afraid to order their own food – and have to ask someone to do it for them.
A new study found ‘menu anxiety’ is most felt by those aged between 18 and 24 as 34 per cent confess they ask others to choose and speak to the waiter for them.
And when they do finally order, a third (33 per cent) of 25-34 year old’s will choose what to eat based on what will look best on social media.“
[Daily Mail]
Is this a sign that evolution is telling us that the present society does not deserve to survive in its present form?
“Britain’s Net Zero minister flies 7,000 miles from the Cop28 climate summit and back again just to vote on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill.”
[Daily Mail]
I saw about 10 mins of Sky News coverage of that ludicrous COP28 jamboree. Some woman, a total clown, was talking about how vital it all was (just like it was last time, and in Copenhagen in 2009, when it turned out that the idiots could not even organize their own conference without creating chaos).
This is akin to the Covid “panicdemic”— those preaching from on high, from their massively-polluting private jets, do not really believe the bs they want the masses to believe (and so be compliant with all manner of “official” demands and restrictions).
“One in five young Americans believe the Holocaust did not happen, a shock poll has found.
The survey, by The Economist and YouGov., included 1,500 people ranging in age from 18 to over 65 years old who were asked a series of questions about the massacre of six million Jews.
Approximately 20 percent of people aged 18 to 29 agreed with the statement ‘the Holocaust is a myth’ and even more believed the death toll has been exaggerated.
“Another survey asked 1,500 Americans if they agreed or disagreed with the statement, ‘The Holocaust has been exaggerated.’
For the 18 to 29 group, 23 percent agreed, and 26 percent neither agreed or disagreed.“
So at least 49%…
People are waking up to the fraud and fakery.
The msm bias and absurdity is plain: the Daily Mail scribbler thinks that “the holocaust” is an “event“…
“A British advertising firm has allegedly pulled a billboard campaign that pictured Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 following ‘an unusual volume of complaints from the public’.
The campaign was organised by the Israeli Embassy…
London Lites terminated what was meant to be a two-week ad campaign on boards throughout the capital after just six days, Jewish News reports.
The company reportedly said that it had received thousands of complaints in response to the posters, which picture Israeli hostages and feature the now-famous hashtag ‘Bring Them Home Now’.
The Israeli Embassy in London said in response to the adverts being taken down: ‘We regret that the “London Lites” company caved to the threats of an extreme minority in the UK, which forcefully tries to limit freedom of expression.
‘The Embassy is considering further steps against the company.“
[Daily Mail]
So the Israeli Embassy deprecates “the threats of an extreme minority in the UK, which forcefully tries to limit freedom of expression.“
Ha. They should talk to their collaborators in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] in that case. That malicious cabal is engaged in a persistent campaign to do just that— to limit and kill off the freedom of expression of British people, as witness my own persecution over the past decade, culminating recently in actual prosecution, a prosecution procured by political pressure exerted by the “CAA”, and the Jew-Zionist lobby generally, on the CPS, right up to the level of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Indeed, it is the “CAA” that has recently had vans driving around London carrying large illuminated posters of the Gaza hostages. The “CAA” is a major collaborator of the Israeli Embassy in this and other activities.
[Adolf Hitler, surrounded by well-wishers, at the 1936 Olympiad]
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An immigrant dies on the Bibby Stockholm and it is announced all the other inmates are to receive counselling. In other news, a homeless man has water thrown over him for 'being in the way' of security guards cleaning a footpath outside McDonalds. This country is beyond help.
I was once a completely tolerant, easy-going person, had nothing against transsexuals, vaccinations, or illegal immigrants. I even secretly admired environmentalists.
Then came the Covid PsyOp. Now, each of these topics instantly triggers a stomach ulcer in me.
It took the richest man in the world to begin dismantling the censorship-industrial complex — whose goal is to censor, control, and bankrupt free speech platforms under the guise of battling ‘hate speech’ and ‘misinformation’ that run counter to prevailing establishment… pic.twitter.com/zccfEUaePK
I think one of the dumbest arguments I've heard in a long time is that the Tories are wrongly raising the salience of immigration. Wrong. What's raising the salience of immigration is actual record levels of legal & illegal immigration. People want to talk about it.
If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, that blog post has held up rather well over the intervening 5-6 years. I hope that more people see it (there were a couple of hits today) before the (((usual suspects))) manage to use the suborned legal system to censor or even temporarily remove the blog.
If interested in why national populism is persisting and has proved to be far more durable than people thought in 2016 see thishttps://t.co/P78Hh3naxV
“Why” is easy to understand. Pseudo-liberal “democracy” has not been providing the people with what they need. However, “populism” without social nationalism becomes merely a fake, a front for those who are under the thumb of Israel and the Jewish lobby. Think Farage, Tice, “Reform UK”. What think you, Monsieur Goodwin? Oh…
'The Tories are on course for a historic and very heavy defeat.'
Professor of Politics and International Relations @GoodwinMJ says Rishi Sunak can't win the next election 'by appealing to Remainers and Labour voters'.
It is even possible that the Conservative Party will get a nationwide vote-share of well below 25%, or even below 20%, as even formerly die-hard Con voters are turned off by the sheer ineptitude of the bunch of clowns pretending to be a Cabinet and Government.
Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] puts the Con Party result for 2024, on the above premises (based on a 16% Con vote), as a total of 39 MPs (even a 20% vote might give the Con Party only 59 MPs).
Much, of course, depends on whether the Labour vote holds up or not. If it falls below 40% nationwide, the result might be very different.
Still, Goodwin must be right as far as “historic defeat” is concerned. In 1945, the Con Party was left with 197 MPs; in 1997 only 165. At present, it seems as if the 2024 result might be even more striking: somewhere between 25 and 125 MPs.
In 1997, in Russia, a poacher shot and wounded a tiger and stole part of its recent kill. The tiger later found the cabin that the poacher was living in and then waited at least 12 entire hours for the poacher to come home. The tiger then killed and ate the man upon his return. pic.twitter.com/4MLctI5O9R
The Scottish police, prosecutors and courts seem to be every bit as (((infested))) as one would have expected. The malign influence of (((the usual suspects))), of course.
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They lie a lot to find justification for their crimes committed against the Palestinian people
Stray thought about Gaza, Israeli “military action”, and social media
What strikes me most about the UK Jew-Zionist outpourings on Twitter/”X” is the sheer sadism and hatred many of the Jew-Zionists are putting out. Many of them are gloating about how the civilians of Gaza are about to be crushed, subjected to pain and devastation etc.
Many Jew-Zionists are effectively or actually saying that the Gazan population (half of whom are under 18, and at least a quarter of whom are young or very young children) deserve to be wiped out or, more euphemistically, “taught a lesson they will never forget“.
What makes their comments even more contemptible is that the said Jew-Zionists are sitting in comfort in places such as North-West London, or in other suburban enclaves. They cannot wait for the poor, repressed, and helpless population of Gaza to be killed or injured; they themselves are in no danger, yet they are now already pretending to be “victims” and/or “fearful” that they will somehow be subjected to a pogrom in the UK!
It seems to be an ingrained psychological disorder.
Needless to say, the “holocaust” narrative is wheeled out in support….
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[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children!”]
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The most comprehensive polling to date shows large numbers of British Muslims, about a third, endorse anti-Semitic tropes like "Jews have too much power". A large majority say they'd sacrifice free speech to defend Islam. Only a minority think the Holocaust happened. A quarter… https://t.co/XpKwzxmKP0
You only have to look at entitled Blairite hogs such as Emily Thornberry…
Under other circumstances, at other times, I should discount Labour’s 2024 General Election chances as overblown, but in 2023 it is just palpable how utterly incompetent is the present Conservative Party government. “Clueless” scarcely covers it. In those circumstances, can Labour “lose”? I cannot see how right now.
Britain is increasingly in the hands of a Luxury Belief Class – a new elite who push ideas like mass migration, open borders & gender ideology which bring them status from other elites and few costs but impose high costs on everybody else My latest in today's Mail… pic.twitter.com/oBNOAXyyI2
Israel's military issued an evacuation order to Palestinians in Gaza, in its strongest hint yet that it prepares to launch a ground offensive almost a week after Hamas's surprise assault.
– ‘We have nowhere to go’: Gaza reacts to 24-hour warning to evacuate – US defence secretary arrives in Israel – Israel has right to ‘go after’ Hamas, says Shapps
Israel ordered the evacuation of more than a million civilians from the entire northern half of Gaza. The UN said the order would lead to “devastating humanitarian consequences,” and Gazan officials told Palestinians not to comply.
Russian and Ukrainian forces were locked in fierce fighting around the eastern frontline town of Avdiivka for a fourth straight day on Friday, in one of Moscow’s biggest military offensives in months.https://t.co/PplfWOFbAw
Last year, that would have been 24/7 news, but this year Israel is the priority; everything else, everywhere else, is secondary. That shows the core of the post-1945 (arguably, post-1956) “Western” world order.
The University of Exeter in England will offer a postgraduate degree in magic and the occult. Coursework will include the study of Western dragons in lore, literature and art; the depiction of women in the Middle Ages; and the philosophy of psychedelics.https://t.co/naz0k1auSy
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict distracts the West from Ukraine – expert
It was no coincidence that the Hamas attack on Israel occurred on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, German expert Thomas Jaeger said in an interview with N-TV. According to him, Russia is benefiting greatly from… pic.twitter.com/hgQXVtWhuq
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict distracts the West from Ukraine – expert It was no coincidence that the Hamas attack on Israel occurred on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, German expert Thomas Jaeger said in an interview with N-TV.
According to him, Russia is benefiting greatly from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moscow hopes that Western attention and, accordingly, military forces will now be redirected from Ukraine to the Middle East. As a result, support for Kyiv will weaken, and this, in turn, will open the way to victory for the Kremlin.
At the same time, the main events are now unfolding in the United States, where Congress cannot agree on a budget containing financial assistance for Ukraine. The results of this political chaos will predetermine the further development of events.”
YouGov Scottish Westminster Voting Intention:
SNP 33% (-5) Lab 32% (+5) C 20% (+4) LD 5% (-2) Green 5% (-1) Reform 2% (-2)
Fed into Electoral Calculus, the result of such a general election would be: Labour on 504 seats, Conservatives on 64 seats, LibDems on 27, SNP 32, Green 1 (plus a few Welsh and Northern Irish). Overall Labour majority of 358.
That would be a complete elected dictatorship, and one brought about not because voters really like Labour, but because the new multicoloured fake “Conservative” Party is not so much hated as despised (as useless). A Labour Party elected dictatorship by default.
The Conservative Party reduced to 64 seats. Existential peril?
This woman and her children were released by Hamas. Her experience runs counter to everything mainstream media are saying. How odd. https://t.co/hiTYPoCWIU
The Jew-Zionists making up atrocity stories, while themselves carrying out real atrocities. Makes one muse anew about all those fake “holocaust” stories and hoaxes. There are thousands of them.
The Met Police says there has been a 650% increase in reports of anti-Semitism over the last two weeks compared to the same period last year.
Imagine the level of entitlement it takes for Jew-Zionists to sit in the UK, cheerleading the Gaza devastation and slaughter, and at the same time imagining themselves to be somehow “victims”, and demanding the sympathy of the population, police, and courts.
israel is boming the 1 million people in gaza they told to evacuate. the whole evacuation message was only a play to appear humane to media outlets!!! fight this evil propaganda #TheRealImage#Gazagenocidepic.twitter.com/l7hFfVF5IS
🚨BREAKING: Palestinian Paramedics “We were transporting people from the North to the South of Gaza, the Israeli air strike hit the truck and cars transporting the people evacuating! They struck us while evacuating and fleeing!” #GazaGenocide#StopGazaNakbapic.twitter.com/cq3X7EfZsK
At midnight, the Internet will be cut off in the Gaza Strip, following the electricity, so that the number of videos from the region will be reduced to a minimum.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive is over; the Russian Armed Forces have already switched to active combat operations on almost the entire front several days ago. This was stated by Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya.
“The Ukrainian counteroffensive is over; the Russian Armed Forces have already switched to active combat operations on almost the entire front several days ago.
This was stated by Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. “For several days now, Russian troops have switched to active combat operations along almost the entire front line. Thus, the so-called Ukrainian counter-offensive can already be formally considered completed,” the permanent representative said at the Security Council meeting.
According to Nebenzi, this cost Kyiv tens of thousands of mobilized recruits, most of whom did not want to take part in the fighting.“
I would be very glad to see Gove “scrapped” (that’s putting it politely); one of the merely five tweets which resulted in my 2016 disbarment (at the instigation of a pack of Jews calling themselves “UK Lawyers for Israel”) was that referring to Gove, entirely accurately, as a Jewish-lobby puppet and expenses cheat.
Truth is no defence, it seems, in such a case. Gove has always been in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist lobby, and as for his being an expenses cheat, the only reason he was not prosecuted in 2009 was that the rules on MP expenses were too-loosely drafted and executed. Parliament cannot even run its own affairs properly, yet purports to be able to run the country effectively.
Gove is, of course, also a drunk and a cocaine abuser, facts of which both I and the public were unaware in 2016.
Look at that photo: careerist Gove, the Jew Miliband, and mentally-unstable part-Palestinian atheist, “pansexual” and LibDem MP, Layla Moran [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Moran#Personal_life], all pretending to applaud Greta Thunberg, the mentally-afflicted Swedish autistic, who has nothing to say that can help anyone or anything . Of course, that was years ago, and Greta Nut is of little interest to the public now (thankfully).
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David Bellamy cancelled for questioning. Truth doesn't mind being questioned. https://t.co/2jdUpZMJmg
“Truth doesn’t mind being questioned“? Very true, but tell that to the Jew-Zionist lobby re. the “holocaust” farrago…
The Russian army released a video of the destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Zaporozhye pic.twitter.com/iBqeCn4mbR
As a result of the catastrophic failure to repel the hypersonic missiles, the Russian defense announced the destruction of mercenary gatherings and drone manufacturing sites in Odessa.
I saw an assessment by some British ex-officer that, were the Russian forces to use nuclear weapons (I presume he means tactical ones) in Ukraine, US and UK forces would respond, directly, by wiping out the Russian forces in Ukraine in 2-3 days! Really? What if Putin decided to raze all major Ukrainian cities, especially Kiev, to the ground, using larger, strategic, nuclear missiles? Would US/UK forces still enter Ukraine (presumably only by air power)?
What if the Russians were to take the “Devil’s alternative” and decided to destroy London and a few key airfields, strategic telecoms centres, and ports? At that point, there is no British Army, navy, or air force to speak of, the UK Government would no longer exist, there would be social chaos in Britain, and it would be all but irrelevant that Russian cities and military facilities would also be eliminated.
If the above were to happen, we would be in world war, “Dr. Strangelove” territory, and the USA would be involved both as target and as nuclear attacker.
This is becoming truly dangerous for avoidance of a real nuclear war, both in Europe and beyond. Are the British ruling circles, for example, really willing to risk a nuclear attack on the UK itself just because they want to deny victory to the Russian forces in eastern Ukraine?
Madness.
The Razor’s Edge
I just wasted 2 hours watching the 1984 remake of the fine 1946 film, The Razor’s Edge, which was based on a novel by Somerset Maugham.
The remake expunged entirely the character of Somerset Maugham himself, who in the 1946 version was both the unseen narrator and also seen in several scenes throughout the film (Somerset Maugham was played by Herbert Marshall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marshall).
Several changes were made, I think not very successfully, in the 1984 version: the film starts at a kind of charity fete, rather than a country club by one of the Great Lakes. The main character, Larry Darrell (played by Bill Murray in the 1984 film, but —far better— by Tyrone Power in the 1946 one) is, in the 1984 version, a former ambulance orderly home from American involvement in WW1 (in the 1946 film, he is a former WW1 American pilot).
The 1984 film leaves out, entirely, the 1946 version’s final parts set on the Cote d’Azur, and resets those scenes in Paris.
The Himalayan scenes, where Larry Darrell seeks and finds enlightenment after consulting with an Indian holy man and “abbot” of an ashram, were much more powerful in the 1946 version; the 1984 film makes the ashram a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and the scene in which Larry Darrell is enlightened on a mountain is just not at all convincing.
I have never read the novel, but I see now from Wikipedia that Darrell’s enlightenment in the book came after encounter with a Hindu spiritual master. The 1946 film leaves it vague as to the religion of the “abbot”, but the “abbey” is described as an ashram.
Even the drink which causes the character, Sophie, to fall back into alcohol abuse, is changed from Pertsovka (pepper-and-honey vodka, called —in the French way— “persovka”, in the film) to Zubrovka (bison-grass vodka). I can only assume that that that is because Zubrovka had become well-known, whereas few people in the USA had or have heard of Pertsovka.
Personally, I would give the 1946 version 8/10 as a film, but the 1984 version 2/10.
Incidentally, the 1984 film was both a critical and commercial flop, making back only half of its production budget, whereas the original 1946 version was nominated for four Academy Awards, and won one (Anne Baxter, playing Sophie); it also won two Golden Globes. The 1946 film was not a huge success commercially, but still made back 4-5 times its production cost.
Sometimes, remakes surpass earlier versions, but rarely. In this case, the 1946 version outdoes the 1984 remake in every way: storyline, acting, music, cinematography (despite the 38-year gap). The script in particular is very crisp in the 1946 film.
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Departure of Tu-22M3 strategic bombers from Mozdok airfield
The UAF member tells how he sees what is happening inside Ukraine, how the Kyiv authorities spit on the lives of soldiers and how corruption eats up the budget from the inside.He comes to the conclusion that he does not feel any patriotism for this country. pic.twitter.com/3MUtlNVT2G
Every 100 meters cost us 4-5 people”: the Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted huge losses in manpower
Medics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain to The Kiev Post that the Ukrainian command advertised its counteroffensive so much that the Russian army foresaw all the steps of… pic.twitter.com/0oloVHxZOy
According to the night strike in Odessa and Nikolaev, you need to understand the following. 1. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have long placed and stored weapons and ammunition in ports and, most likely, were confident that these stocks were safe due to the grain deal. 2. Night…
French company Pazzi has opened its second fully robotic pizzeria in Paris.
A pizzeria where there is not a single living soul in the kitchen has opened in the Beaubourg district of Paris. Each robot is responsible for its part of the work – the first prepares the dough, the… pic.twitter.com/LEF7BX9EqW
Ancient civilizations may be gone, but some of them are still all around us – if you know where to look. These artifacts open a window to worlds that no longer exist.
“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.