[Wanda Landowska at the keyboard, as Tolstoy looks on; probably at Yasnaya Polyana, though possibly at Tolstoy’s house in the Kropotkinskaya district of Moscow. I myself have been in that latter house, long ago, and the parquet floor was similar]
“Cost of living catastrophe“, but that was written (and tweeted) by Sky News in December 2021, about 3 months before the Russian incursion into Ukraine that (we are now told) is the cause of all our woes…
Mainstream media lies.
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[🔴China’s 64th launch in 2022] At UTC 04:43 Dec 29, Shiyan-10-02 space environment detection, new tech testing satellite was successfully launched by CZ3B rocket at Xichang, Sichuan. It’s also the 458th launch of Long March rocket family. HD: https://t.co/oySxQl6WeEpic.twitter.com/zMAMUFkpaY
…and in the middle of the alien crowd, I see the philosopher Roger Scruton, now deceased. “And then there were none“.
A couple of friends of mine in South London were friendly with Scruton, back in the mid/late 1970s. He would arrive by bicycle, in the manner of Cambridge University.
Then a fairly obscure university college lecturer at Birkbeck College (part of the University of London), though already becoming known and communing with the famous and well-connected (including Margaret Thatcher), Scruton later dropped the couple I knew for fear of being associated with them after the popular Press ran a story about how Scruton of the Salisbury Review etc was associating with “fascists” and “neo-Nazis” etc.
In other words, Scruton put career before friendship.
Having said that, Scruton was a considerable figure, sometimes honoured more in the recently ex-socialist states such as the Czech Republic —where I myself once saw a whole bookshop window of Scruton’s works in Czech— than in the UK.
That display was seen by me in Central Prague in 1999; it could not have happened when I had previously been in that city (1988); very few Western visitors were there then, and the works of Scruton (and many others) were banned.
Scruton was born into modest circumstances and, when later both famous and wealthy (as some might say, “box office“, with his high-selling books in multiple translation, and with several income-streams), he took on some of the traditional habits of the English “upper classes”, such as foxhunting, and living in country houses. He also started to take money from tobacco-lobby interests.
[Scruton’s house —2004-2009— near Sperryville, Virginia, USA]
Scruton (whom I myself never met) strikes me as having been, like many, perhaps most people, a blend of the highminded and tawdry, of the original and the very derivative, of the highly ethical and the morally-suspect.
A hugely-talented man, in any event. One could say, without it being too much of a cliché, “a Renaissance man“.
Perhaps better remembered in his works than in himself.
“Blame and praise alike befall, when a dauntless man’s spirit is black and white mixed, like the magpie’s plumage…”
[Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival]
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Just remembering there is literally a button @BootstrapCook can press on Patreon to make the amount they earn from their patrons public….
Perhaps the (at time of writing) 643 utter “mugs”, each presently donating between £3.50 and £44, and every month, might start to wake up if they saw the total income (from that source alone) of “Jack Monroe”, the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”. Somewhere between a few thousand pounds and tens of thousands, monthly.
I'd love to know which part of "questioning an unlikely story and asking for transparency on fundraising & donations, plus promised refunds to be processed in a timely manner" is criminal as Jack Monroe alleges? https://t.co/9A3zUtZnLS
“Criminal?” My idea of “criminal” is pleading poverty or (when, e.g., Tiffany earrings are noticed by alert readers) near-poverty, in order to induce people to donate thousands of pounds monthly to a private bank account, while never or rarely providing the goods and services offered, and (it is said by many) never having intended to perform; or crowdfunding in order to fund a defamation case, with no real intent to launch such a case, and later (it is alleged by many, at any rate) keeping the donated monies for private purposes.
This will only be clarified if, or when, police and/or trading standards officers and/or various regulators properly investigate the activities of “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”.
No decent meal can be made for either 30p or 11p. This is reaching Monty Python levels of nonsense.
Hi @panmacmillan, can I ask why you have published and are promoting a book containing dangerous advice? Previews of Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen include using a knife & hammer to open a tin can and draining boiling liquid through cloth. Positively harmful suggestions. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/ILWq8Esi5Z
And here goes Catharine herself. Just like most things coming from Russia she belongs into a museum.
Anyway, the remnants of Russian chapter of Odesa are herewith closed for good, as it has been already the case since 1991. #Odesa#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/uo3wdt9BmJ
Without the Russian connection (there since Kievan Rus in the 9thC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27], there would be really nothing of note in Ukraine, and that is exactly what its present Jew-Zionist dictatorship wants; in other words, for there to be nothing in Ukraine that existed before 1991, when this shambolic, corrupt and Jew-Zionist-ruled and exploited republic emerged from the collapse of Sovietism.
A semi-final alumni teams match: Balliol, Oxford v. Exeter, Oxford.
At last, two teams which at least scored about the same as me, not far below as over the past two weeks. Balliol seemed rather better than on their previous appearance (admittedly not hard). Some incredible howlers all the same.
It cannot be denied that this conflict started in 2014, not in 2022.
This wasn't a mistake. This is the same as the Poland incident. The Ukrainians are losing badly and they are desperately trying to drag NATO into the conflict. They want Belarus to go to Ukraine so that NATO can have an excuse to go to Ukraine as well. pic.twitter.com/q0u8UJHWnR
The Zelensky regime in Kiev wants NATO to weigh in on the Kiev-regime side. If that were to happen even more blatantly than is presently the case, a nuclear exchange between NATO (NWO/ZOG) and Russia will be only a matter of time.
Gas in Germany 🇩🇪 has increased from 80 Euro a month to 860 euro a month. Straight from horses mouth. Every one cheering Ukraine hang yr head. Germany once a great country… ruined by leftist socialist green government 🤬 TAKE NOTE AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
We have a new addition today. There are as many as 7 new kittens. They were just thrown out into the cold and frost. The electricity is off. But they are warm and will receive food and treatment. Kindly support us Paypal- https://t.co/rzrJz12GsS#Ukraine#animalrescuepic.twitter.com/ifXlGstekD
I cannot say whether the above is a genuine cause or not; probably it is. In any case, the true cost of war is the suffering of both human beings and their companion animals.
It is bad that Ukraine, whatever the reasons, is a theatre of war. Let us make sure that the rest of Europe is not dragged into a worse, and greater, war.
The “hypocrite of the year” award must go to U.S. President Biden, on behalf of the American military and intelligence hierarchy, after Biden’s comment that Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure were “brutal“: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63208897.
It seems that semi-demented Biden has forgotten the US bombings of, inter alia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Serbia, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and North Korea, not to mention the annihilation of whole cities in the Second World War, mainly but not only in Japan and Germany.
[Unter den Linden, Berlin, 1945]
The American governments of the past 80 years have killed untold millions.
Tweets about the Ukraine situation, seen overnight:
🔴 Fears of new invasion as Putin and Lukashenko to form joint task force on Ukraine border
Comments by Russia’s staunchest ally is closest indication yet that Belarus will deploy troops against their neighbour
Alexander Lukashenko told a security meeting he and the Russian president last weekend agreed to bring their troops together “due to tensions on the western border" of Belarushttps://t.co/pDQXZMEcsIpic.twitter.com/NkPrQEjbHs
My view has been that the Russians fluffed what could and should have been a swift and unstoppable coup de main in February 2022. The Russian General Staff, GRU, and large parts of the Russian Army were shown to be incompetent, while their allies (Chechens mainly) were again proven to be brutal and out of control.
Also, the Russian side was unable to win or even seriously compete in the information and propaganda war. The “Ukrainian” (Jew-Zionist, mainly) side have had 8 months of uncritical support from the “Western” msm, even down to the extent that Kiev is no longer referred to as “Kiev” on “Western” TV or radio, but (e.g. on the BBC) as “Keev” (written version being “Kyiv“).
I had assumed that the Russian plan, once their absurdly half-hearted initial “invasion” stalled, would be to seize the Black Sea and Sea of Azov littoral as far inland as possible (which they have largely done, though stopping far short of the Odessa region), and to press up the eastern side of the Dnieper to some point southeast of Kiev, while also expanding west from Kharkov and advancing north from the Donbass, all three advances meeting southeast of Kiev, and so not only occupying most of eastern Ukraine but also laying the ground for a serious advance on Kiev from south, east and north.
If the above was the Russian plan, it now lies in tatters. The Kiev regime side, pumped up with Western weaponry and money, has advanced, and the Russian side withdrawn. The forces of the Kiev regime, having taken towns occupied previously by Russian forces, have executed civilians known to be pro-Russia and/or anti-war.
The recent attacks on the Nordstream2 pipeline and the Kerch Bridge (and an airfield in Kaluga region) betoken a serious escalation by the Western/NATO/NWO/Kiev side.
In the contemporary phrase, though, “we are where we are”. So where now?
We have just now seen Russian attacks mainly directed at electrical-generation and heating plants. These mark a change in strategy.
It seems that the Russian strategy as it now stands is to weaken the morale of the —so far largely untouched— populations in the large Ukrainian cities under control of the Kiev regime— Lvov, Odessa, Kharkov, and Kiev itself, among others.
I think that Putin was holding back from a really large-scale targeting of the Ukrainian population in order to leave the door open for negotiation, but the Jew Zelensky has recently made it clear that no negotiation will happen while Putin remains in place; also, that sovereignty over the Donbass, Crimea etc is non-negotiable. An “ultra” position, if you like.
That leaves only continuing war as a likelihood.
Winter is coming. Without heating or electricity, the living conditions of the Ukrainian civilian population may become dire. War is cruel, especially this type of attritional war.
The Zelensky regime continues to exist only by reason of the tens or hundreds of billions of US dollars (and devalued UK pounds) being funnelled to Zelensky’s apparat, together with advanced weaponry.
The Russian strategy is not so much one of weakening Ukraine economically. The Ukrainian economy is dead or dormant anyway. It is a question of sapping the civilian (and so also the military) morale until the moment is ripe to launch a killer blow, meaning either a larger-scale invasion directed mainly at Kiev, or the use of tactical nuclear weapons to literally blow Zelensky off his perch.
Positionally, the Belarus situation is interesting. Kiev is little more than 60 miles from the border with Belarus.
If the Russian forces can take Kiev at some point, the war will have reached a tipping-point both strategically and in terms of morale etc. The Zelensky regime will have been decapitated in terms of geography, and the Kiev-regime forces in eastern Ukraine cut off.
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The actor and comedian John Cleese has announced his return to television as host of a new show on GB News focusing on free speech and cancel culture https://t.co/i05VcInMN3
Appearing on Today on BBC Radio 4, the 82-year-old actor said he would be cancelled or censored within “five minutes” on the BBC now https://t.co/R2RQ3BRDNo
Cleese, who has been a vocal critic of “woke culture”, admitted that he had not heard of GB News, a right-of-centre talk channel, when he received the invite to join its line-up https://t.co/2V35A7w5UQ
🗣️ “Then I met one or two of the people concerned and had dinner with them, and I liked them very much. And what they said was, ‘People say it’s the right-wing channel — it’s a free-speech channel’”
Cleese criticised the BBC after UKTV, which is owned by the corporation, temporarily removed an episode of his classic sitcom Fawlty Towers over apparent “racial slurs” and “outdated language”
Even for someone as cynical as I am about the UK’s totally broken pseudo-democratic system, the idea that the people of Britain can be put through such pain because a stupid woman who only became an MP in the first place on her back is “Prime Minister”, is unbelievable. Especially since said “ho” is only Prime Minister (in name) because 80,000 mostly elderly and comfortably-off Conservative Party members voted for her; even so, the vote was close. If Indian “clever boy” Sunak had not cheated the pensioners last year by suspending the “triple lock” on State Pensions, he would have clinched it.
As for Old Etonian woolly-head, Kwarteng, he takes the price of so-called “diversity” to a whole new level.
Short of a “grassy knoll” situation, how can this crazed dim woman and her cronies be removed?
I read that there are moves afoot to change the rules for removal of a Conservative Party leader, to shorten the 12-month time limit. That will take months, if it happens at all.
Alternatively, if Con Party MPs refuse to vote for Government measures, Truss might have to resign, but “have to” is not quite what it seems. She might simply dig in. I read her as the type of careerist, self-publicizing woman who will hang on as long as possible to the office, the pay, the perks, and the fact of being simply being the number one figure, even if powerless and widely despised.
One thing is for sure, the Conservative Party is toast from now on, unless it can find a semi-presentable leader by —at latest— Christmas 2023.
I think that abstention or protest voting will be more likely than a huge move by people to Labour. The huge opinion poll leads now being seen may persist, in our rigged binary system.
The UKIP debacle of 2015 (12% of votes but no seats) has put off many dissident conservative-“nationalist” voters, and the treachery of Farage in 2019 re. his Brexit Party has surely finished off that “Conservative Plus Plus” populism, at least in any significant way.
As we know, what matters, usually, is what happens in a few dozen very marginal seats. That is where the Conservative Party’s main weakness lies. Seats such as those former “Red Wall” constituencies “up North”.
I am sure that the old “Red Wall” can never be put back together, by reason of societal changes. Instead of the “proletariat”— miners, dockers, railway workers, steelworkers— you have call centre workers, retail workers etc, the “precariat”. Volatile voters, who might vote Labour one year, Conservative the next, and (?) UKIP, Brexit Party (or whatever) the year after that.
Still, the former “Red Wall”, which voted Con in 2019, will probably swing back to Labour, if only in the short term, meaning in 2023/2024. That alone is enough to cook the Conservative goose.
If the Conservative Party continues at 20%-25% in the polls, then it will not win any marginal seats, and will almost certainly lose seats not usually marginal.
Much depends on what happens to people’s lifestyles between now and the end of 2024, the last time when a general election can be held. If the Conservative MPs cannot hold the Truss feet to the fire in a major way, Conservative Party support may “trickle down” the drain even further…
Sadly, there is no social national party to engage with the people. The little joke-parties, such as For Britain and Britain First, have disappeared from view, and recent by-elections have been embarrassing for the few sort-of social-national candidates (eg Jayda Fransen) who have tried to put themselves forward. Indeed, the mere fact that I have even bothered to mention Jayda Fransen etc shows how empty the social-national space is in the UK.
That is my view too. If the Scottish people want to be nominally “independent” (if that means anything when Scotland would still be part of NATO, a reconnected EU, and the international banking system), then fine, just go (and with my genuine blessings), but in that event Scotland will almost certainly have to accept far lower living standards. Fact.
In fact, it seems to be that many Scots want, not “independence” but simply greater autonomy, meaning freedom from Westminster. See, below, the latest YouGov poll re. retaining the Monarchy:
Would Scots want to keep the monarchy in an independent Scotland?
Evenly divided. In a sense, that poll surprises me; I should have expected at least a small majority to be hostile to the idea of retaining the Monarchy.
Of course it is deliberate. That WEF video a couple of years back told us what they were going to do. The puppet show at Westminster is only a distraction for the ignorant masses.
The pharmaceutical deep state and their complicit medical operatives have lost the confidence of an entire population, Wittingly or not. Another win for the well poisoners.
I remember when I was waiting for a prescription in the chemist next to the hospital. There were 6 of us waiting. I was the only English speaking person. I was also the only person who paid for their prescription.
The destruction of the West by any means features heavily in their handbook. Usury, biological warfare, starvation all tried and tested within isolated scenarios. Now the cabal have gone global.
Piers Morgan might be called just an idiot (after all, he is an uneducated and uncultured man— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan), but at the same time he is a chosen —or should that be “chosen by the (((chosen)))”— System mouthpiece on the msm.
People such as Morgan are pushing the idea that “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) can “win” this war. How? By NATO etc giving Zelensky long-range weapons with which to hit Moscow and Petersburg? Does Morgan himself really believe that Russia will just sit still if Kiev-regime forces capture all of the Donbass (and also Crimea, where 95% of the population is Russian)? The slaughter and terror likely to be inflicted on the Russian and also pro-Russian Ukrainian populations by the Kiev regime would be terrible.
Strange, I did not see or hear Morgan oppose the large-scale bombings (and huge civilian casualties) in Afghanistan and Iraq by American and UK forces. Maybe not so strange— Morgan’s brother is or was an Army officer of field rank, who served in at least one of those theatres; possibly both.
Reverting to the idea that Ukraine can “win”, what would that look like?
Let us say that Russia withdraws all forces from Crimea (Russian territory since the time of Peter the Great —and before then Tatar/Turkic— with the exception of the decades since 1953);
Let us say that Russia withdraws from the Donbass etc. What then?
Then Ukraine (Kiev regime) would be built up by NATO with huge new weapons influxes, possibly even tactical nuclear. Russia would be forced to agree “reparations” with Kiev (with NATO standing behind) and, down the line, Russia would be forced into a position of subservience to (((Western))) interests even worse than happened under Yeltsin in the 1990s. Russia was on its knees then. I saw it myself.
The more I look at it, the more I think it quite likely that Russia and the Western powers (NWO) will eventually end up in a strategic nuclear exchange that will change all of our lives irretrievably. If so, a large part of the blame and guilt will rest with a warmongering Western msm; people such as Piers Morgan. He may eventually reflect on that, if it happens and if he survives.
I see from his Wikipedia entry that Morgan has his main base not in the UK but in Los Angeles, though he has properties in both London and Sussex as well; maybe elsewhere too.
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A tweet from 2020 worth reposting
Population replacement isn't simply about changing the skin colour of the West; it's about downgrading the intelligence, aspirations, values and morality of the people. It's about rewriting the entire history of a civilisation for the benefit of a tiny, hostile clique.#ProWhite
Still think that “lockdowns”, “furlough payments”, public “support” monies thrown at hotels and pubs, and other such nonsense (and paying for migrant-invaders) all come somehow free-of-charge to the British people? Think again…
Very true. Cleese once lived opposite a lady I knew in the Bayswater part of London. That lady knew everything about the people in her street, it seemed. Cleese later moved (1980s) to Malibu, near Los Angeles, and I believe he is still there.
[update, same day: I am told now that Cleese may have decamped from Malibu and be living on the island of Nevis, Eastern Caribbean].
Cleese’s old Monty Python people, such as Michael Palin, can be smugly “liberal”, living as they do in millionaire comfort in places such as Hampstead, but it’s all so fake.
Late tweets
Health boards in various parts of the UK are cancelling their 31st December #jab clinics because, despite intensive ring-arounds and text campaigns, so few people are booking. From this point on, the more the elite push their vaxx agenda, the more #Resistance they will create.
So I propose this deal: we hand over Andrew to the US for a third degree interrogation, in return for the US giving us that CIA bitch, Sacoolas.
The British Royal Family is largely an embarrassment. I was watching Charles being interviewed about Coronavirus and the environment yesterday. John Cleese without the forced humour. Painful. I am sure that he means well, but is that enough?
Tweets seen
No, I don't think so. I do think the radical left senses instinctively that its moment is here, though. https://t.co/hbfsvfgLP9
Look at the major msm newspapers; not the scribblings of the journalists, but the readers’ comments. In the Daily Mail, one of the most-read of the public prints, opinion is running about 99:1 against the “protesters”/rioters/rabble (in the UK).
My view? A rattle of police machinegun fire (as recommended after WW1 by Dietrich Eckart) in Whitehall would have cleared the “protests” pretty effectively. The same in Bristol.
The vast bulk of the population does not support this extreme black/brown discontent, but it is significant how many traitors lurk in places like newspapers, the BBC, Sky News etc, as well as in Parliament.
The same reasoning here as @metpoliceuk chief Cressida Dick used last week: frightened of the consequences, so don’t enforce the law. The police no longer believe in their function. And this guy has the sanctimonious air of somebody who’s been trained in ‘correct’ politics https://t.co/NIeRmGVFss
This (above) is the Common Purpose police drone I was blogging about yesterday. Typical of the police today. Don’t expect his type to defend the walls of our culture and civilization against the untermenschen. Disgrace.
Ah. This is the waste of space’s Twitter profile:
“Supt Andy Bennett @abennett_police I am Superintendent Andy Bennett Neighbourhood and Partnerships and the Bristol Police Commander. I am also the force lead for Hate Crime.“
Well, there it is. His tweets from 2018 and 2019 (no recent tweets) are enlightening, by the way…
A few (thousand) people have been tweeting about Superintendent Waste-of-Space:
Andy Bennett you bottled it. I'm sure the rank and file will get it when the have to justify your actions (or lack of) when facing the public of Bristol. #norespect
They should leave the statue of Edward Colston in the waters of Bristol harbour and in its place erect one of this brave lad, Superintendent Andy Bennett, for his tactical decision to stand by and do nothing. Perhaps they could get McDonalds or Burger King to sponsor it? 🍟 https://t.co/fttB529Ej7
— ITV News West Country (@itvwestcountry) June 8, 2020
Would he mind dropping a line to his London colleagues, in case I want to “make a point” by pulling down the statue of the terrorist, Mandela, and chucking it in the Thames?
The tweets supporting him come mainly from black/brown pressure groups, Jew sociologists and idiots like that overpaid porcine bore, James Corden.
Bristol Superintendent Andy Bennett giving his reasons why he let the Statue of Edward Colston be dragged by BLM protesters to the docks and thrown in. It sounds quite mind boggling to me🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/BNT5DXGJnA
— Lady Rebecca 💃🍸 🇬🇧 •#ConcernedUKCitizen• 🇬🇧 (@LadyRebecca_1) June 7, 2020
Andy Bennett is in the wrong job and should resign today or be sacked. @ASPolice should be ashamed at their weakness in standing aside and allowing criminal damage to take place. What sort of police force are you running?
— The Purple Palermo (@PalermoPurple) June 8, 2020
What sort of police force? One riddled with political correctness, Common Purpose infiltration and Zionist backstairs influence. It was Avon and Somerset police who, several years ago, failed to protect photographer Jo Stowell from malicious Jew-Zionist bullies and harassers, all members of the malicious and pro-Israel group called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [CAA]. The Bristol police even demanded that the victim, Jo Stowell, herself attend a police interview!
[above: photographer Jo Stowell]
Bonnie Greer and Nick Griffin
Saw this from “Auntie Tom”:
Let me tell you something about that #QT way back then.#NickGriffin lost when he accepted to be on. Didn't have the skill; the info; the general knowledge to be on that panel. A young white guy walked up to me on the street the day after and said: "Guess I'm not voting for him." https://t.co/oog2enwhzi
Bonnie Greer, an American black woman from Chicago, who has written a few radio plays etc (the sort unknown to most people) was appointed to the boards of the British Museum, the Royal Opera etc. Why? One wonders who decides such matters, and why…
I have no idea, of course, whether there really was a “young white guy” who decided not to vote BNP because of the 2009 Question Time ambush and who approached Bonnie Greer in the street. Maybe, maybe not. Still, someone influential must have liked her performance. She got an OBE in the 2010 honours farce.
Share the wrong tweet & police kick your door down. Hug your grandchildren & police fine you. Go to beach & police harass you.
But they run like frightened rabbits when chased by a few BLM thugs & hysterical students.
By the way, remember who appointed Cressida Dick as Met Commissioner? Amber Rudd. Getting a woman into the job, esp someone of a politically correct mindset, was clearly more important than appointing someone with a grip on the fundamentals of law and order.
The System repression and censorship intensifies. Place your hopes not on the Internet and not on the “democratic” Parliamentary road.
But, @amconmag he doesn't explain why I am wrong. Because he can't. I'm right. Britain is way beyond finished and is now just an exemplary spectacle, warning others of what follows when you let these things happen. https://t.co/5rpBv2wajH
This needs to be qualified (only slightly but it is important). Those listed *might*have had underlying pre-existing conditions, which were not detected. Therefore the numbers who died of the virus and nothing else might be even small than this. https://t.co/H030ZBaLUg
These figures are absolutely stunning. Only about 1,300 people (possibly fewer) in the UK have died purely from “Coronavirus”/”Covid-19“! Not today, not in the past month, but in total!
That is about 1 person out of every 50,000 in the UK population!
This is why it is so important for a coherent opposition to the whole policy to be articulated. Until the *basis* of it is challenged and shown to be mistaken, there is no sure hope of release. https://t.co/WXDPuP12iz
The problem is that the masses have been told that XYZ is so (re “the virus”), so that that nonsense is now embedded in the public mind: that the virus is deadly, hugely infectious, and can only be combatted by extreme “lockdown” or shutdown combined with Kafka-esque policies such as not allowing people even to drive in sealed cars or ride motorbikes through the countryside.
Much of what people think about this situation is nonsense backed by drivel, but it has gone way past the intellect, and is now embedded in feeling and will. You see it in the way people swerve around oncomers in supermarkets, trying to leave 5, 6, 7 feet distancing. You see it in the occasional poor rabbits wearing homemade face coverings (I laugh almost openly at them). You see it in the fixed belief that “lockdown” prevents “the virus” being transmitted etc.
Similar nonsense was given out in 1939 as part of the warmongering propaganda. Vast numbers of companion animals were put to death (taken to vets by the “owners” of the animals) in September 1939 for reasons that included “there would be no food for them” (there was: meat not quite OK and marked with dye) or that the Germans would invade and then (for some unknown reason) be cruel to people’s pets. I expect that a Jew was behind much of all that.
Another fixed idea put into the heads of the population by “experts” and “government scientific advisers” in 1939 was that, as soon as war came, the Germans would bomb London and other cities, killing at least 100,000 in the first week!
In reality, there were no civilian casualties in the UK from German bombing in the first week, and scarcely any in the first year. In fact, the usual estimate for British deaths by German bombing during the whole war (1939-1945) is about 60,000 (about a tenth of the German losses from Allied bombing). The main German bombing campaign against British targets was from September 1940 through 1941.
If you see British newsreel footage from the first year or so of WW2, you note that civilians as well as those in uniform all carry tins with shoulder straps: gasmasks, to protect the wearers from gas attacks that were never envisaged by German forces, and never happened. Yet millions in the UK were convinced that gas would soon attack them; the “experts” and government had told them…
In a sense, now that the Coronavirus has been and almost gone, the arguments about whether “lockdown” (the closure of most of our economy and society) helped to stop the virus spreading, made it worse, or had no effect either way, are almost without point. It happened, and we as a “nation” (supposed nation) are about to find that the result is that the UK is, in colloquial language, well and truly screwed…
Ian Robert Millard 