Well, this week I score 7/10, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 7.
Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor
The first instalment of what happened in Wilson v Mendelsohn, Newbon and Cantor is now live.
Includes a laboured joke about Mark Lewis of Patron Law being only the seventh best lawyer in the case.
As blogged previously, many times, I pity anyone who has Jewish fanatic Mark Lewis as his or her solicitor (and, yes, I do know that he has been on the winning side sometimes, though usually in open-and-shut cases).
Anyone interested in my views about Lewis (who was wont to tweet pathetic and men tally-disturbed insults about me, for years) can simply type his name into the search box on the blog.
Extract from James Wilson’s Substack blog:
“Mark Lewis and Patron Law – Patron Law’s website states that Mr Lewis is the “UK’s foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer”. This is a bold claim. In an email to me dated 1 March 2023 Mr Lewis stated “I do not think that you will succeed [at trial] given that [the person who published the Facebook post originally] has indicated that she honestly held the opinion that you were a weirdo. … However, that is the point of litigation and you might be able to persuade the Court that [she] did not hold an honest opinion that you are a weirdo.”
Mr Lewis’ statements make no sense at all and suggest a frightening lack of understanding about defamation law and the issues for trial. That Mr Lewis charges £600/hour for analysis such as this is mind-boggling. In reality: the opinion of the person who published the Facebook post that I was a weirdo, and whether I could persuade the court she did not hold that opinion, were irrelevant. What actually had to be proven – by the defendants – was that the defamatory statements in the screenshot were factually true, or their own honest and reasonable opinion. The defendants’ case here completely fell apart when the person who originally published the Facebook post gave evidence for them at trial. She was a truly awful witness whose evidence the judge found to be “wholly incredible” and “plainly untrue”.
There’s an old joke about Ringo Starr: “Ringo wasn’t the best drummer in the world… Let’s face it, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”. Given what is above, the equivalent joke here is: “Mr Lewis is not the UK’s foremost libel lawyer… Let’s face it, he may have been only the seventh best libel lawyer in the Wilson v Mendelsohn case, behind four other libel lawyers and Wilson and Mendelsohn themselves, and they were amateurs.”
The United States introduces sanctions against Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz, their subsidiaries and tankers, a high-ranking official said at a special briefing:https://t.co/1aSMP6caNSpic.twitter.com/AZNyzvFWTh
The EU believes that Trump, after taking office, could reverse a series of anti-Russian decrees and sanctions introduced under Biden, the FT reports, citing sources. pic.twitter.com/5DSAmiMKdd
Russian troops liberated three communities in the Donbass region over the week of January 4-10 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/TiMnqjwnXIpic.twitter.com/Vpy2UcFEK4
Former French EU Commissioner Thierry Breton admits that the European Union has cancelled elections in Romania and perhaps soon, if the plebs make the wrong choice, in Germany pic.twitter.com/eXKFXORb8m
One of the peculiarities of the modern mindset, seen since the 19thC, is the tendency to believe that those with enormous amounts of money are either giant villains or near-saints, and in both cases hugely intelligent. Not always the case. Many are average or somewhat above-average minds, and may or may not be correct on this issue or that.
“We all know the names George Floyd and Stephen Lawrence. But everybody in this country should also know the names Lucy Lowe, Charlene Downes and Victoria Agoglia —three white, working class girls who were murdered by the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs” https://t.co/eC8nxc5vwH
“Do Afrikaners think that the South African post-apartheid government ruined South Africa? It is not a matter of what Afrikaners think: the evidence is there for all to see.
There are 120 known murders per day in So Africa,
gender-based violence is horrific,
youth unemployment is around 50%,
sewage runs in the streets, water supplies are erratic,
the police participate in murders and kidnappings when not renting out their uniforms and weapons,
the education system has failed,
infrastructure is not maintained and is collapsing while money is siphoned off,
mafias are holding up construction work and kill for 30% of total cost of the projects,
cabinet ministers are implicated in crime,
pals of politicians (some illiterate), are being appointed as ambassadors,
corruption and nepotism are in every sphere of life,
mafias have been allowed to reduce commuter trains to rubble to benefit the taxi mafia.
There is no concern for the poor and the poorest of the poor, except when an election is approaching.“
[South Africa under black rule].
Yet thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela is still revered as some kind of secular saint and great mind in the UK. Pathetic. Largely the result of the propaganda put about in the 1970s and 1980s by biased idiots such as the BBC’s John Humphrys.
The old South Africa had its flaws, but what is now there is so much worse.
Interesting hearing that this guy pushed back against Musk this week for meddling in Great Britain’s affairs and it turns out the ex-Labour politician was meeting up with a teenager and arrested in a sting operation
How long before he claims to be the victim of “antisemitism”?
Russian Foreign Ministry vows response to new US sanctions. "Of course, Washington’s hostile actions will not be left without response and will be taken into consideration during the calculation of our external economic strategy," the ministry said:https://t.co/f0uVgIcYe9pic.twitter.com/iId9NESfAO
“Up to 60,000 people could die from the flu in England this winter in a worst-case scenario, medics warned today.
It is feared the nation will suffer one of the worst influenza outbreaks in decades due to Covid lockdowns causing a huge drop in immunity against other viruses.
Existing staff shortage crises will pile on further pressure, with 84,000 vacant roles throughout the health service, the report warned.
The international conspiracy will do almost anything to keep the populations of the Western world muzzled.
[prisoners at the American (NWO/ZOG) concentration camp, Guantanamo Bay, muzzled long before “Covid-19”; a measure taken for reasons of sadistic control]
Tweets seen
1/2 @astromikemerri. Have you ever actually *read* the Danmask report? https://t.co/jAcSvLncPW Despite all the stuff presumably inserted to get it published, it says that the difference in outcomes between maskers and non-maskers was 'not statistically significant' https://t.co/yeiL4RkV7C
2/2 @astromikemerri '4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point '. Direct quotes. Now *please* block me. I long for it. https://t.co/kRJFJfV2qc
Tweeter “@AstroMikeMerri” seems to be one of the many idiots who say, in effect, “wearing facemasks must help [so let’s make everyone wear them indefinitely]”…
Neil Ferguson himself admitted this in an interview given to The Times. I think it's still Peter Hitchens' pinned tweet.
There are, but there are important similarities. We are highly urbanised societies, with similar population densities in our capital cities. I don't see any obvious reason why we couldn't take a similar approach, though obviously tailored to our own circumstances.
Once, South Africa led the TV news every night for months on end. Now, as it turns out to be a bit more complicated than the BBC then thought, we see little of it. This is an interesting corrective: https://t.co/WBBYF3ahmc
Uneducated or semi-educated idiot-journalists, particularly the BBC’s John Humphrys, were a large part of the problem around basically anti-white, subversive msm reporting on Southern Africa in the 1970s and (when NWO/msm lies intensified) 1980s.
People in the UK were consistently given a false picture of Southern Africa, and Africa generally. The New World Order could not tolerate African states ruled by Europeans (now, we are told that white Northern Europeans should not rule even in Europe itself!).
Those African states had to be notionally “black-ruled”, though actually thereafter ruled by transnational money-power.
For example, I recall seeing in the 1980s a small paragraph on some inside page of the Daily Telegraph, about (if I recall aright) 80 Ugandan protestors being shut into a container truck by Ugandan police. They all died in the airless hot conditions. The same day, the newspapers in the UK all carried big stories about 2 black rioters or demonstrators shot by police in South Africa. The BBC and ITN did not even mention the poor old Ugandans. After all, they lived under “black African” rule (supposedly), not under awful white/European rule…
Hardly surprising that many of the less aware, more naive people in the UK were “anti-apartheid”. They had few sources of msm or other information, in a pre-Internet age, to challenge the msm lies and bias, and very very few of them had been to Southern Africa to see for themselves.
South Africa, whose white/European population has gone from a proportion of 20% of the whole to about 7% in the past 40 years, is sliding inexorably to the chaotic corruption, maladministration, and slaughter that characterize almost all black countries, now not under white/European rule.
More tweets
@balfourbill. This is such a gormless country now. People are so gullible that PR men can make almost *any*claim for their product and people will actually believe it. https://t.co/G66BonvpKj
➡️91.1% out of 1,797 recovered Covid-19 patients produced detectable levels of antibodies ➡️These levels hadn’t declined four months after diagnosis ➡️The immune response was higher among older people and those who had the worst symptoms https://t.co/x7TubWd5gRpic.twitter.com/zrcqYgpVof
For now, there are very few cases of confirmed reinfections, suggesting they may be rare. Some doctors also believe that most relapses will be milder than the first infection https://t.co/x7TubWd5gRpic.twitter.com/y4GN3YPqDi
The Protocols of Zion are not (as Jews always assert) “a forgery” or “Tsarist forgery” but literary fantasy clothing reality and a real agenda pursued by real cabals. One has to ask why the Jewish lobby, in particular, is always so keen to dismiss the Protocols, and ban their sale etc, if they are just a silly forgery which no sensible person could believe…
#OtD 3 Sep 1934 65,000 textile workers in North Carolina joined the strike of workers in Alabama against pay cuts. The strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike. Learn more in this history of the dispute: https://t.co/4lTuXls1MOpic.twitter.com/zBt8hl7qSk
No doubt the cause was just, but I had to laugh too: “the strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike.” Imagine, say, similarly and indeed far more downtrodden workers in that year in, say, the Soviet Union. No cars for the workers, and any workers brave or foolish enough to attempt a strike certainly arrested by the NKVD and probably shot (some might be “lucky” enough to get 10-20 years in the brutal labour camps run by the GULAG administration).
Slightly off-topic, not many people in the West know that, as late as the 1980s, a black in South Africa had a statistically higher chance of owning a car than a citizen of the Soviet Union. Somehow, the BBC never did explain that to its audience.
Even more off-topic, I was listening to BBC World Service last night, and some on-message drone was referring to “the racist apartheid regime” of South Africa under white rule. In the 1980s that became the invariable BBC way of referring to South Africa. Biased journalists such as John Humphrys.
The idiot on the radio last night then went on to describe the South Africa of those days as “totalitarian“, which is just silly and inaccurate.
“Totalitarian” has always proven a difficult word. Orwell himself got slightly muddled using it in one or two essays and, in the film version of John le Carre’s book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Claire Bloom’s character refers to Dão as “a totalitarian wine” (because Portugal was at the time a semi-“fascist” dictatorship, akin to that of Spain under Franco). Dictatorial yes, “totalitarian”, no.
Brexit
Govt just changed law to grant emergency planning permission for it to build “temporary” [up to 5 years] no trade deal Brexit lorry parks in 29 council areas citing no space for infrastructure needed by year end, & pandemic “may have affected ability of port operators“ to build pic.twitter.com/RsfoKpq6Bx
I favoured Leave, and still favour Brexit, in principle, but it has been criminally mishandled by at least two Prime Ministers now, and shows every sign of being what Johnny Mercer MP called “a shitshow“. If he thought that of Theresa May’s term of office and her handling of Brexit, what can he think, secretly (?), of Boris-idiot?
Jessica Krug
Weird story of the day: Jessica Krug, a white woman from Kansas, has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career, and now she’s apologizing for it:
The only reason Jessica Krug finally admitted to this lie is bec on Aug 26th one very brave very BLACK Latina junior scholar approached two senior Black Latina scholars & trusted them enough to do the research & back her up. Those two scholars made phone calls & reached out to…
A professor whose work focuses on Africa and the African diaspora has said she lied about being black. Jessica Krug admitted she is a white Jewish woman: “I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie” https://t.co/zDMaS2nJEJ
Well, “white” had better be put to one side. Let’s just say that Jessica Krug (of whom I had never heard until yesterday) is just another Jewish fraud. Not old enough to be a “holocaust” fraud or hoaxer (though plenty get sympathy and/or make money by claiming to be the offspring of “holocaust” “victims” or “survivors”). Google “holocaust frauds” or “holocaust hoaxes”.
Some people just want to be part of something of which they are, in reality, not part. “My father/grandfather/uncle/friend/man I met in a pub/someone or other… liberated Belsen“… There are hundreds on Twitter alone that claim that.
Another example, more niche perhaps, is mentioned by ex-SAS personnel in their memoirs, to the effect that hundreds of people, even ex-soldiers, claim to have taken part in the Iranian Embassy siege assault in 1980. In fact, about 30-35 SAS personnel were there, either assaulting the building or in other roles.
Memory can be faulty over time, even where no fraud or dishonesty is involved. Some of the SAS soldiers who were at that incident have fallen out over who did what. I was thinking back to where I was on that day. It was a warm sunny day, and I was in a pub in Whitehall. I remember (quite mistakenly) being in that pub in the late afternoon when the assault took place. In fact, my memory (often described as far better that that of others) is faulty here, because the SAS assault actually started later, in early evening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege#SAS_assault. I also “recall” it being a Sunday (it was a Monday).
This latest hoax or fraud, by Jessica Krug, may not be quite on the “Anne Frank diary” scale, but she was doing OK out of it until exposed. Now she hopes to make more by recounting her (compelled) “confession” on TV etc. She will probably even write a book about it.
Every single time…(you know what I mean…).
In fact, the whole black/white question in the USA is a mass of contradictions. One of the absurd aspects is how a “half-caste” or mixed-race person is always “black”; and so Barack Obama, whose mother is or was a white Northern European by origin (Scottish, German etc) was “America’s first black President”.
Obama made a big thing of it, writing a pretty dull short book about having gone to Kenya in search of his “roots”, but he never did that in respect of his (Scottish or German etc) European roots…Yet, when you think of it, from where came Obama’s cultural landscape, Europe or Africa? It’s not really even a question.
Everything that Obama had came to him from European ideas, jurisprudence, ethics, but through an American prism. Africa contributed nothing, really. What could it contribute?
Trump
Interesting opinion piece. The author is anti-Trump, whereas I myself am both anti-Trump and equally (if not more so) anti-“antifa” and the anti-Trumpers…
I can see the potential for some kind of civil war in the USA, but for a war you need two (or more) organized sides. I say “or more” because sometimes a war even in one region or one country involves several different sides.
One reason why the war in and around Bosnia was so poorly reported on (not only in the USA but the UK) was because there were a number of warring parties even within Bosnia, and reporters and their organizations were unable or unwilling to explain the complexities to perceivedly dim and/or ignorant readers, viewers and listeners in the USA and UK.
So far, the USA has not reached the “civil war” threshold. If it ever did, the stance of the US military machine would not only be important but in every way determinative.
More tweets seen
Below: when a TV or radio presenter thinks he knows who is being “stupid” (etc…)
I was in London today and amazed at the amount of people going onto buses without face masks on. I can’t understand how stupid some people are being, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, it’s so unfair putting us all in danger.
I warned this day was coming. They once compared us to Holocaust deniers for suggesting covid was like the flu. Now they are using the fact that we were right against us. Flu is now the new threshold for masks and social control https://t.co/tq4jsn9u5F
It is no good saying @huwharries that their 'purpose' is x, when you cannot show that they achieve x. You may say tht you *think* so. But you cannot say (as you did) that it *is* so. Why do victims of mosern education find it so hard to tell their opinions from facts? . https://t.co/MTW6ypRUVr
To be 'incontrovertible' @HuwHarries, you'd have to have a proposition, based on hard objective experiment, testable and falsifiable, which I was then unable to falsify. In fact, you have nothing. HM Govt admits it :The evidence of the benefit weak, the effect likely to be small https://t.co/MTW6ypRUVr
The original 1999 cover of ‘The Abolition of Britain’ , derided then, rejected by modish agents and major publishers but still in print more than 20 years later. Signed copies of the latest edition available from Blackwell’s in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/7XxsC771bX
It is not often understood that, in the world of publishing, there was, until the advent of the Internet, a stranglehold over what was published, exercized by publishers, agents etc. Many if not most were (and are) Jews. Now, self-publishing is easier, but the Jewish influence is still pervasive and has been worsening. For example, many well-known works, as well as obscure ones, are now “not available” from Amazon and other outlets (e.g. Abe Books). Why? I think that you can guess (((the reason)))…
I recall giving my (as yet unpublished) work, The End of the Millennium and the New Age of Alexander to a reader at, in American terminology, a very “preppy” literary agency with an office in Fifth Avenue, New York. I recall the personable Ivy League fellow who saw me; Brooks Brothers clothing, and expensive-looking spectacles. I am not sure, though, whether I still have his eventual letter which said, in part (and in rather Anglophile language), “Thank you for letting me have a crack at it. It is the most extraordinary work I have ever read…[but]…it will never be published in New York.” Again, I think that one can guess (((why))).
That was nearly 30 years ago. Were I less lazy, I should have put my book on the Internet, or self-published, but so far have not done either. Perhaps I should. Still, it exists in the Akashic Record, and for me that is the most important thing.
More than 80 years since we began the Phoney War that would lead to a Phoney Victory, dare we look at these events with clear eyes? Signed copies of ‘The Phoney Victory’ available from Blackwell’s in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/8qbnvr866i
Next time anyone tells you there’s a ‘War on Drugs’, here’s proof that there is no such war. A history of our national surrender to the legalisation lobby. Signed copies available from Blackwell’s in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/By9KEYBGPC
Hardly surprising when you look at the present Cabinet, full of drug abusers such as Boris-idiot and that little expenses cheat, cocaine abuser, drunk and Jews’ doormat, Michael Gove.
More relevant than ever in these times. Signed copies can be ordered from Blackwell’s Oxford bookshop 01865 792792 , overseas +44 1865 792 792 pic.twitter.com/YVDgcRXjjX
As ever, I suppose that I should point out again that I am neither follower nor fan of Peter Hitchens; he is however one of the few msm scribblers and talking heads to point out the “emperor’s new clothes” emptiness of contemporary politics and society. My assessment of him from a year or so ago: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/
Amusing snatch from Netflix's series 'The Crown', the episode about the Great London Smog. 'Masks are bloody useless. They're just for show. To make it look like the government is doing something.' Perhaps they'll cut it out in re-runshttps://t.co/AgzzLG4S3Y
The difference being that, in the 1950s, no government would have dared to make facemasks or muzzles compulsory, even in those more “authoritarian” days.
What is it about these American politicians?! Biden thinks that a black invented the light bulb (I suppose that blacks have invented some things…or maybe not). Dan Quayle could not spell “potatoes”, Hillary Clinton said that she had been fired at in Bosnia, while Al Gore “invented the World Wide Web”, which must have surprised Tim Berners-Lee.
Is it because they are American, or because they are what Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians“?
Incidentally, an Englishman, Joseph Swan, invented the light bulb parallel to Thomas Edison. The pair set up a company together in England: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan
Mad respect for Hans Buhr, who built a working model Antonov An-225 *and* a glide-functioning model Buran Soviet space shuttle, then strapped them together and launched one from the other pic.twitter.com/VVEcqKIFoL
I was listening to the news on BBC Radio 4 in the early evening. A litany of the absurd. First of all, the news that air travellers from Portugal and parts (!) of Greece who arrive in Scotland and Wales will (suddenly) now have to “self-isolate” for two weeks on arrival, but not if they arrive at an airport in England or Northern Ireland!
So…if an aircraft is going to, say, Manchester, but gets diverted to, say, Glasgow, the passengers, instead of going home, will have to go into quarantine? Or will they just be allowed to go home, but have to “self-isolate” there for two weeks? If that latter is the case, the passengers would go to their homes whether the plane lands at Glasgow or Manchester, but in the one case, they will be prisoners in their own homes for 14 days, but in the other case they will be free to roam!
Johnny Mercer was right to call Theresa May’s administration a “shitshow”, but he says nothing about this ******* circus! Of course, he has a Government job now (junior minister, Defence): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician). At one time I thought that he must be a rare honest MP, but then all his moneygrubbing came to light. Shameful…
In that same news broadcast, we were told that “local lockdowns” were being lifted in some parts of the Manchester area, but not in Bolton!
Political Kafka.
Also, how does anyone in “authority” (if that term now has any meaning) know that the hapless “self-isolaters” are actually complying? Do police check? Once? Twice?
Ian Robert Millard 