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Battles past
From the newspapers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181993/Father-jailed-fraud-drugs-deported-Jamaica.html
The UK as world dustbin.
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The use of press-gangs by the Kiev regime show that it is running out of soldiers willing to become sacrificial chess pieces.
Even discounting the obvious propagandistic element (in which all the main parties of WW2 indulged), the film is interesting. I was always struck by how healthy most of those released from German camps looked, as seen in Allied, not in German, films. For example, there are photographs of women released from concentration camps into the custody of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945. They all look healthy, not starved, and in fact quite normal physically.
He had a point, looking at the symbiotic relationship between technical innovation, industrial change, and social change in, say, the 19th Century. Not for nothing did Engels go to the rapidly expanding industries of Manchester and other parts of the North of England in order to study both the new industrial working classes and the parallel socio-political ferment of the early Victorian period.
Migration invasion.
There is another way…
She must have been fun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Owen.
A student until 2015/2016. An unpaid “gopher” “intern” for a year or two after that. Finally, a “Special Adviser” from 2017 or 2018. Five years of political gophering and toadying now crowned by elevation to the House of Lords. The beginning of the end for our fake “democracy”, in a single appointment.
My take? That the appointment is one of “Boris” Johnson’s fingers stuck up to his party, his critics, his now-former constituents, and to the country as a whole. Several of the others on the “honours” list may also have been “Boris”-idiot’s way of saying to the world, “F…U.”.
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Greta Nut is yesterday’s news, of course; the System has other puppets, other fake “causes” now.
Remember “the men behind the wire”.
As of today, a hard core of 411 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon. For (literally) jack s**t.
Even at the lowest level of “patronage”, that comes to £1438.50 a month, in cash. If all the mugs are giving £5 a month, the total would be £2,055 a month; at £10 each, £4,110 a month. In the admittedly unlikely case that all the mugs are giving £44 each, that would add up to over £18,000 a month. My guess? She is getting about £5,000 a month in cash from her mug-base.
I blogged years ago about how, when I was at the old Warsaw airport in December 1988 (quite nice— white marble floors and oriental-style carpets in the cafe), waiting for a late flight to London, I got talking to the only other person there, a youngish American (I suspect, Jew) wearing an overcoat and hat (there was snow on the ground outside the terminal). It turned out that he was the Newsweek correspondent for Eastern Europe, which meant everywhere from the West German frontier to the Soviet one, and south/southeast as far as the Black Sea and Adriatic.
That young or youngish person, maybe late twenties, covered the waterfront of Central and Eastern Europe from Bonn, of all places. I quickly established that I, myself only an occasional visitor to places such as Poland, nonetheless knew far more about the situation there than he did, yet his magazine (and so all its readers) relied on him for accurate reportage. Enlightening.
American news magazines are pretty poor; the best was probably the one to which I used to subscribe when in the USA in the early 1990s, U.S. News and World Report. That magazine ceased print publication long ago.
More from the newspapers
“The engineer battalions of the 33rd Mechanized and 47th Assault Brigades, the lead formations in Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, suffered heavy equipment losses in their assault just south of Mala Tokmachka last week.
The losses include at least five of the battalions’ specialized engineering vehicles. Fitted with mineplows and minerollers, these vehicles lead tanks and infantry fighting vehicles through minefields, plowing and rolling a path so the tanks and IFVs can break through enemy defenses.
The Russian air force moreover has control of the air over the southern front line and has been able to fly back-to-back sorties with attack helicopters and fighter-bombers—a critical advantage that Ukraine’s ground-based air-defenses haven’t been able to blunt.“
[Forbes magazine].
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No-one, of course, suggests that Johnson simply be shot. Everyone these days is running too scared of the UK’s emerging toytown police state dystopia, its poundland-KGB police, and its risible “anti-terror” snoopers and prosecutors. I cannot, however, think of a suitable punishment for Johnson. In any case, while he is far less honest, honourable and worthy even than his former colleagues in the Westminster monkeyhouse, from the straight political point of view he is no worse than many of them.
Looks as if Carol Vorderman has come to the same conclusion as me, i.e. that the elevation is a giant “F.U.” to Parliament and public alike.
Ha ha! Cruel gibe…(“I’m lovin’ it“…)
At first, I thought, “no, Charlotte Owen must be just another “Boris”-idiot roll in the hay“, but I am now wondering whether she really might be one of the idiot’s illegitimate offspring.
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