Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10, whereas I managed 8/10. I did not know the answer to question 2, and I could not think of the answer to question 3 even though I “really” knew it.
Some woman called Charlotte Owen, apparently once “assistant” to Boris Johnson, is to be likewise elevated, at the early age of 29. Does that reward merit, or supine mediocrity (or worse)? I wonder.
I notice that Ben Houchen, once seen as a potential political star, has likewise been elevated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Houchen. A consolation prize, I suppose, for losing out on a Parliamentary seat now that the fortunes of the Conservative Party are diving in the opinion polls. The same would have been true of Alok Sharma and, possibly, Nadine Dorries, had their peerages not been blocked. Sharma and Houchen would certainly not have been re-elected or elected, respectively.
Cartoon of the day?
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It’s a sad day for Britain when Boris Johnson’s hairdresser is one of the most competent people on the honours list.
— Kate O’Pfehilighbh (@kmontaguekate) June 9, 2023
It is significant that despite the flood of the Dnieper, there are many more fires on the Russian coast, which refutes the version of the Ukrainian side about Russian shelling of the Kherson region pic.twitter.com/IJVsprMoiK
Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Orehov sector of the Zaporizhzhya Front: 4th day in short – failed, destructive pic.twitter.com/ED3aNFM8S7
One cannot expect loyalty or even basic decency from most people. When I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) in 2016, some 8 years after I had ceased Bar practice, and by reason of a malicious and contrived complaint by a pack of Jews, not one member of the Bar spoke up either to support me or to defend the principles of free speech and freedom of expression. The days of the free and fearless independent Bar of England have long gone. All that remains is a mass of craven careerists, fearful that “the authorities” (suborned by the Jew/Israel lobby) will look unfavourably upon them, and/or that Jewish solicitors will blackball them in terms of giving them work.
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
This war is testing the artefacts of 21stC warfare, and reshaping what warfare is. The use of drones is only one example.
In 1953 Britain looked to a young woman, for a new age. In 2023 Britain was renewed in the face and body of an old man. Both, perhaps, felt quite fitting, for the moment.
The 1953 Coronation still had something somehow sacred about it, even if perhaps not 100% genuine. Compare that to the Coronation of the new Charles III. He looked uncertain, like someone —to use the current phrase— “cosplaying” the role; an actor in a poor production, an actor slightly miscast.
The bizarre thing about this is that all it can do is wound Sunak and the party overall. Resigning reduces the prospect of Sunak’s removal. There are fewer MPs to write letters. There’s no alternative candidate. No clear alternative strategy. Apparently, just bloodlust.
“No clear alternative strategy“? That has been the leitmotif of “Conservative” governments for at least 8 years now, arguably longer, so why not of “Boris”-idiot and his cohorts not in government?
The West's accusations of aggressiveness against Russia are an attempt to cover up an unwillingness to listen to Moscow's concerns," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on statements by Biden and other Western leaders that "if Putin is allowed to win, then after… pic.twitter.com/L0HKLkIVm4
The Kakhovka reservoir has become shallow. The water has almost completely left the territory of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which was flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the city authorities said. pic.twitter.com/cS6LlFClx2
“Remember how Ursula von der Leyen announced to the whole world that due to Western sanctions, Russia would have to produce weapons from refrigerator parts? Watch how these refrigerator parts destroy the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia is making the entire NATO alliance… pic.twitter.com/mTj6TlwEX9
NEWS UPDATE INFOWAR SWEDEN EVENING JUNE 10 Another example of how MSM in the West distorts the truth are from Sweden's largest liberal tabloid Expressen. What do they say about the offensive? First of all they confirmed that there is an offensiv, but not until Zelensky also…
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 10, 2023
We must get rid of the migrant-invaders. We must stop them crossing the Channel, sinking their boats if necessary, to deter others.
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IRAN PRESENTED NEW BALLISTIC MISSILE Iran presented its new long-range hypersonic ballistic missile "Khybar". The rocket has the following characteristics: ▪️Length 13 meters ▪️Range up to 2,000 kilometers ▪️ Warhead up to 1.5 tons ▪️Deviation from the target at the end range up… pic.twitter.com/QGhuGvzyf3
The range may just be sufficient to reach Israeli territory, depending on the location of launch.
According to Western experts, the formation of two new armies and two military districts in Russia, the production of the necessary new equipment and the training of personnel are almost completed.
Under the leadership of the new Headquarters, the Russian Army is returning to…
(2/3)… not to spread hatred. Their words were “it needs to stop”, and I was threatened with arrest if it doesn’t. There will always be someone who gets offended. Our police forces have abandoned fighting crime and turned into the Gestapo. The UK no longer has free speech.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 1, 2023
(3/3) Should this progress further, I will be more than happy to fight my corner because there is an abundance of legal precedent demonstrating the police do not have the right to persecute peaceful citizens for expressing their opinions. @lozzafox@BadLawTeam
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 1, 2023
I have now made a formal complaint against South Wales Police, but this is not the end of the matter. If South Wales Police thought they could intimidate me into silence today, they've picked on the wrong person. I'll have more to share soon.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 1, 2023
Bravo!
They are collecting trillions of terrabytes of personal data on every single one of us, with the hope of building an all-knowing Artificial Intellegence that can merge with humans to form immortal life forms. Their intention is to become Gods. Satanic on every level.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 3, 2023
This is a friendly note to South Wales Police. If you show up at my address again, every word will be recorded on video and that video will be posted in full for the world to see. You can arrest me, take me to jail, but you will be exposed, and the public will hold you to account
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 3, 2023
Following my special visit from South Wales Police on Friday, I've received an outpouring of support from thousands of people. Some of those don't agree with my views but they support my right to express them. The public overwhemingly oppose this ridculous assault on free speech.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 3, 2023
Kamikaze 138 brigades fly right into the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region pic.twitter.com/9nHR2ZHlE4
China remains the most serious threat to the world order, and there is no evidence that Russia’s uncertain invasion of Ukraine has changed the plans, schedule and method of a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan,” the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies…
“Unsuspecting people are being accosted, threatened and ‘reverse robbed’ on Britain’s high streets as part of a sinister new ‘prank’ trend being nurtured by algorithms on websites like YouTube and TikTok across the world.“
— Untouchable Comediess (@untouchablecmdy) June 1, 2023
The chaotic shambles of post-colonial Africa…(in this case Nigeria, 63 years after “independence”).
Incidentally, 200,000 naira is worth just under £350.
Kiev has firmly closed the door to negotiations with Moscow and has no plans to open them, the Secretary of the Council for National Security and Defense of Ukraine, Alexei Danilov, told Rada television.
The Kiev regime is not going to negotiate a peace.
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BBC should either have done better due diligence or taken these issues more seriously before giving her a platform. There are credible and serious unanswered questions about her dealings with money she has solicited from the public for more than one unfulfilled purpose
QT famously screens their audience heavily. So, one assumes, producers know who they’re booking as talking heads. Which begs the question — who does it serve to bring on someone as discredited & ill-informed as Jack Monroe?
Jack Monroe is a habitual liar, abusive narcissist and shameless grifter who has taken thousands in cash from donors then laughed about blowing it on drink drugs and sideboards.
For “Jack Monroe” to be invited onto BBC Question Time just reinforces how irrelevant and sleazily corrupt the BBC (and much of the msm bubble) now is.
You can report Jack Monroe to Patreon for maliciously doxxing a subscriber which is a breach of their T&C https://t.co/aXMWZiB5eM
Much of the pro-“Jack Monroe” stuff on Twitter (apart from that posted by her, under pseudonyms) consists of “the Tory Government is evil and corrupt and gave billions in contracts to cronies, so why single out poor “Jack Monroe”, who only picks a pocket or two, only trolls her critics, who has only defrauded donors, and who only begs money from genuinely poor and vulnerable people, money that she spends or has spent on booze, drugs, and online purchases of all sorts?“.
Ukraine does not have enough weapons for a counteroffensive,” said Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office.
"If you want to launch a successful counteroffensive, you need everything you have at your disposal, including artillery, armored vehicles and tanks,… pic.twitter.com/Fd8wMFXqqy
Part of the destroyed RDK militants who tried to break into the Belgorod region. In addition to personnel, several infantry fighting vehicles and Grad MLRS were destroyed. pic.twitter.com/SHyXcLBl2v
A poor week for me, in that I was beaten by political journalist John Rentoul, who only scores higher than me in about one in twenty such quizzes; he scored 7/10, whereas I scored only 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 8, 9, and 10 (and I admit that I guessed no.5, though it was sort-of an educated guess).
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I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
8/ As latest ONS data showed net migration to the UK reached 606,000 last year, we asked people if there should there be more or less migration to the UK?
⬇️ 49% less migration ⬆️ 10% more migration 🔄 27% the same amount 🤷 13% don’t know
Re. that second poll, for me it means that 10% of the UK population are direct enemies of our country and people, that 27% are non-Brits and/or enemies and/or completely stupid, that 13% are stupid or totally unaware or blind to what is happening all around them, but that about 49% or 50%, half of the entire population, are aware and perhaps angry. What matters, though, is just how angry.
3/ The battle for “Best Prime Minister” is tighter than a pair of ill-fitting Speedos, as Sir Keir Starmer maintains a narrow four-point lead over Rishi according to our latest poll:
…or to put it another way, a near-plurality of voters think that both Sunak and Starmer are both incompetent and dishonest. I wonder why they might think that?
Brexit didn't even happen. It's just a political football to kick around when the fault is lockdowns and sanctions
…and the present Waitrose situation is by reason of “a massive IT failure” at their head office in Bracknell (i.e. nothing to do with Brexit), or so I overheard this morning when getting a few “necessary” items (lottery tickets, kefir, pineapple juice, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean antipasti, Charentes croissants etc). Waitrose gave me a £5 voucher for next time.
I have noticed, in the past couple of years especially, a general lessening of choice, though, but not only at Waitrose. To my mind, UK supermarkets actually had a better selection of goods in 1988…
The System was pushing hard for David Miliband in 2010. A complete System drone, who failed to take over the Labour Party, and then went to the USA thereafter to make a very large salary (now over USD $1M a year) to head “International Rescue”, an NGO with assets of hundreds of millions of dollars: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee#Finances.
A million pounds or more per year, maybe even two million, if his speaking fees and other “earners” are included.
He belongs to the Trilateral Commission as well:
“Membership in the Trilateral Commission is highly selective and by invitation only; as of 2021, there were roughly 400 members, including leading figures in politics, business, media, and academia. Each country within the three regions is assigned a quota of members reflecting its relative political and economic strength. The organization represents influential commercial and political interests that share a commitment to private enterprise and trade, multilateralism, and global governance; this has subjected it to criticism for elitism.”
— raymond delauney (@raymonddelauney) May 27, 2023
People sometimes claim that I focus too much on Jewish or Jew-Zionist influence in international and national politics. Well, just look at the facts.
In almost every instance.
Still, even a stopped clock is right sometimes…
Ukraine should not try to return Crimea and Sevastopol, as this could lead to negative consequences for the whole world. This was announced on May 26 by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
He pointed out that the peninsula had never been Ukrainian in history.
Russia stated the conditions for a peace agreement with Ukraine Kyiv should rule out joining NATO and the EU and respect the rights of minorities, said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. pic.twitter.com/FxyJbq0YSJ
It’s “Kiev”, and always has been, not “Kyiv“, and certainly not the BBC/Sky invention, “Keeev“…
MI6 intelligence has passed on intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that the Russian military is not transferring equipment and military personnel to the Belgorod region from Ukraine. The Kremlin decided to reinforce the borders with regular troops
Cryptic. Does that mean that the Czechs think that the long-talked-about Kiev-regime counter-offensive may start but then stall or even be obliterated?
This man is sick and he is as just as bad as his cadres. I thought he had brains but I was so wrong. Cannot run a bath never mind a country. Ian Smith Warned everybody and so did FW de Klerk. Give the country to the black people and see what happens. https://t.co/6s9Gjvf6tX
[Girls from the Bund Deutscher Maedel —similar to the Girl Guides in Britain— riding out]
“Thought for the day”
Looking at Twitter today in relation to mass immigration and the migration-invasion, it struck me just how many outright traitors and enemies there are in this country. Twitter is of course perverse, and is far worse than the country as a whole. Still, down the road, harsh measures will be inevitable.
— JAMES – ONTHERIGHT (@Jim_OnTheRight) May 27, 2023
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Russia does not need standards, crudely imposed from the outside, which suppress any identity, the time has come for the country to self-determination, the struggle for the right to be themselves – Putin.
Last night in Lyon, France, anti-pension reform protesters set fire to barricades, broke into and smashed the police station and attempted to take over the city hall. pic.twitter.com/u7nTmVTrWP
After Artemovsk, the next Russian target is Chazov Yar. Military Watch analysts believe that after Wagner units take control of Bakhmut, Ukraine may lose control of Chazov Yar. pic.twitter.com/MmHjTZnuBZ
In the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, the authorities seized about 390,000 books in Russian from libraries. Among the authors whose books were decided to be completely removed were Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Yesenin and other Russian writers. pic.twitter.com/VLvVeTAb78
Former Pentagon adviser: Artyomovsk was the biggest trap in the history of warfare Bakhmut became the biggest trap in the history of warfare in which Russian commander-in-chief Vladimir Putin buried the Ukrainian army, former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor said in his blog on… pic.twitter.com/wG247qkqXR
Well, this week I again managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 6/10 as against his self-awarded five and a half. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, and 10. I just missed the last one, thinking that it might be the cassowary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary] (which can reach well over 6 feet in height). Apparently, though, that is only the third or fourth tallest bird.
— Ramesh Patel – They Would Rather You Ignore This (@Imalright_Jack) May 19, 2023
Very true. So many people are misled by that kind of “Mrs Thatcher housewife’s shopping basket” economics. One would have thought that John Rentoul would know better, or is he just (as in days of Blair) parrotting the “centrist” Labour Party line?
As a former barrister (wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and not in actual Bar practice since 2008), I have applied a little thought to such questions.
My view is that sentencing has become absurd in the UK. While many defendants are certainly not given sufficient —or any— time in incarceration, despite having been convicted of very unpleasant offences, including crimes of very considerable violence, there is at the same time routine over-sentencing.
Many defendants are sentenced to, say, 5 years (for whatever), when 4 or 3 would be more than adequate (and, in terms of actual punishment, about the same).
At the same time, there are quite a few people incarcerated for no good reason at all, as in the recent free speech case of “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), sentenced to 2.5 years for supposedly “inciting racial hatred” (he was convicted on 10 out of 15 charges). He will be in prison, probably, until 2024. Political “crime” in our “free country” (as was).
I am not going to do an entire study of this one, but take a look at the Wikipedia entry: mixed Indian heritage; failed, at an early stage, to continue with a law degree, despite having been, in part, privately educated; seems to be a lesbian or something similar; “elected” (selected) as MP at age 23; took “several months” off from her MP duties in 2021; “celebrated” the attacks on statues of English historical figures.
Another deadhead MP.
An example of her views:
Troubling to hear Esther McVey at #PMQs refer to Travellers as a “blight on the local community” just a day after #RomaniResistanceDay.
GRT people face a huge amount of discrimination. Such hateful language, and Tory laws criminalising their way of life, only contribute to it.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) May 17, 2023
Mirabile dictu! Seems that Esther McVey has actually said something with which I can agree.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will take into account, among its plans, the West's intention to supply Ukraine with F-16 aircraft
If it turns out that the Russian air force or ground forces cannot deal with the increasing influx of sophisticated weapons systems being supplied to the Kiev regime, the end result may be that the Russian leadership will decide to destroy both the bases of those aircraft and also any nearby urban areas.
As previously blogged, it should never have come to this. The invasion should have and could have been essentially over within a week, with Kiev taken, and Zelensky’s cabal eliminated or driven into exile.
While the G7 countries in Hiroshima are introducing anti-Russian sanctions and discussing support for Ukraine, China is deepening its cooperation with Moscow, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".
In Bakhmut, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed The so-called "Nest" is located on the outskirts – now completely destroyed, military correspondents report. pic.twitter.com/u7vVvqW12H
The small area still defended by Kiev-regime forces in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is now 100 acres or so, about the same acreage as Kensington Gardens in London.
What always strikes me about the Israeli police response to any incident is how swift it is. Not one, but several, and often many, police, security agents, soldiers etc are on the scene quickly, usually in seconds, at least in the Old City of Jerusalem or in the central parts of Tel Aviv. Reminiscent of the quick reaction of the militia in Moscow in Soviet times, if there were any sort of public disorder. The Israelis must have huge numbers of police personnel.
A Syrian migrant receives his UK passport courtesy of our soft, liberal Tory government. According to the Left, he is now fully British 😤😡 pic.twitter.com/0TxtvZaYCB
In a well-known and probably (?) apocryphal saying, Lenin is supposed to have opined that “in order to destroy a nation, first destroy its currency“. I suppose that he could not have foreseen the possibility that a nation’s integrity, credibility, and soul could be destroyed by migration-invasion, an invasion not through feat of arms, but through the moral weakness and/or self-hate of the people of the invaded country itself (whipped up, as usual, by “them”, the “you know who” element). He would not have believed it possible.
I have blogged briefly about that silly “ho”, Clare Moseley, in the past. Like so many English people, perhaps especially women, who attach themselves to “anti-racist”-type causes (“refugees welcome”, anti-apartheid etc), intellect is limited, emotionalism uncontrolled, hypocrisy common, and both knowledge and experience of the subject-matter usually absent.
They usually have mental health “issues” as well. See also:
We compiled all of the evidence showing who funds @Bellingcat, what the stated agenda of their government and private-sector funders are, and what those funders get in return.
Find out what the National Endowment for Democracy is. Decide for yourself.https://t.co/8WIxP90E5d
There is nothing wrong with being “antisemitic” anyway, and in the UK it is not a crime, despite what many ignorant Twitter types often tweet.
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that there is a special symbolism in the fact that today we are talking about the complete liberation of Artemovsk, a year ago on this day the last Ukrainian militants surrendered in Mariupol.
Since the beginning of February, 80,000 refugees have returned from Turkey to Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
"We are engaged in the normalization of life in the areas of Syria under our control. People are returning to Syria on a voluntary basis," Akar said. pic.twitter.com/8t6T0hqPIk
The bases of the Bakhmut Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk were struck The explosions went off near the Kramatorsk airport, which has been turned into a supply hub and headquarters of the UAF pic.twitter.com/SFvAb16vD8
Looks as if “the musicians” are about to complete their performance in that area. музыканты хорошо играют…
Reportedly, Flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. The desire to protect the "aircraft" is over. pic.twitter.com/pyPIqW4BMK
Lavrov: “Hopes for integration with the West did not come true. The Western track that has developed in our foreign policy has completely exhausted itself. We have entered into a full-scale confrontation with the West.”
What Russia lacks is a real ideology that goes beyond mere Great-Russian nationalism.
the release of Bakhmut means that two larger cities in the Donetsk region – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk – will be within the range of Russian artillery. With their release, the People's Republic of Donetsk will also be released. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in…
As a result of the offensive actions of Wagner's assault detachments, with the support of the artillery and aviation of the troop group "South", the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut was completed
Inexorably, the war moves towards total war. The Russian side cannot tolerate forever the continual escalation.
Footage of hits with thermobaric projectiles "Solntsepeka" on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the special operation zone pic.twitter.com/P6Ds8dQpZQ
Hard for the Jews (in Israel) to continue to present themselves as perennial “victims” when advanced jet aircraft supplied by or paid for by the American taxpayer mercilessly attack Arab real victims, who have no means of self-defence at all.
Since 1992, the United States has had plans to include Ukraine in NATO
This was stated by the American economist Jeffrey Sachs, relying on his sources. “I will tell you a secret. The US lied because already since 1992 there were plans to expand NATO, including, by the way,… pic.twitter.com/7IMFldIcSe
Comment about Starmer’s latest speech. I agree with the extract quoted by Rentoul but, having said that, one could say that “Labour” is no longer “socialist” or even broadly “social” (politically) and is (just like the “Conservatives”) also completely out of touch.
Both System parties, and both entirely in the pocket of the Jewish-supremacist lobby.
As a Londoner, I can testify that if you travel regularly on London public transport, every week or two you are likely to experience or witness verbal harassment or threatening behaviour from some damaged individual or street thug. It's disgusting.
Import the uncivilized non-white world (and allow the non-whites to breed prolifically, and also fail to control them) and you import these sorts of social problems.
Not that all such problems are caused by non-whites, but most are. About 90%, even though the non-whites are “only” about 20% of the UK population, and about 40%-50% (?) of the London population.
Paris, France
Why do strive so much for the EU when the countries that are in it strive to leave? pic.twitter.com/EWyYVq5o9m
The Eastern European states, and the poorer EU states generally, love the EU for its financial largesse, the redistribution of wealth from the “old EU” to the “new EU”. Ireland, the Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc. For the larger, longer-membership, western and central European states, the wealthier ones, the EU is disastrous. UK (until recently), France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands; also Sweden, Denmark etc.
There is also the problem of non-white migration-invasion.
The original EEC/EC was not so bad — relaxed trade and travel, even relatively easy residence and work—. It worked because the original EEC populations were closely-related northern European nations, and because it was primarily a trading bloc, not an ever-expanding political project.
There was no non-white migration-invasion, because Libya under Gaddafi, Morocco, and Algeria all stopped Africans from coming across the Mediterranean; also, the NWO had not yet destabilized the Middle East and Afghanistan. Even the Roma Gypsies were “imprisoned” behind the so-called “Iron Curtain” until 1989, and so unable to travel to the UK and other parts of Western Europe.
Press TV also claimed that the first batch of Sukhoi 35s will arrive in Iran next week. pic.twitter.com/KS39rJgWKq
In the long-term, perhaps even medium-term, Israel is doomed.
Battle for Bahmut, 13/05/2023 PMC Wagner troops advanced in the city districts of Zabolnica, 18th school (Constructor) and Cherema (nest) pic.twitter.com/XeHEbmzgw4
Prigozhin reported on new captured buildings in Bakhmut. During the night, Wagner PMC units continued to advance in Bakhmut's nest. Three more buildings were taken over. pic.twitter.com/CFXEFtK1Vi
The Palestinians Saraya al-Quds battalions have received Baraq-85 missiles, which will be used in the battle with the Israeli regime. According to the Sama information site, the range of these missiles is 85 km, the diameter is 220 mm, and the weight of the warhead is 40 kg pic.twitter.com/hgqHmLyst0
Walla Hebrew news site announced that up to this moment 10 thousand Israeli locals have fled from the settlements near the Gaza Strip due to the fear of resistance rocket attacks
“Britain’s compensation bill for victims killed or maimed by AstraZeneca‘s Covid jab could theoretically exceed £1billion, MailOnline can reveal.
Around 90 families are currently pursuing legal action against the pharmaceutical titan, claiming the jab was essentially a defective product.
Lawyers representing the claimants believe that some of the cases could be worth up to £20m in compensation, which is roughly 160 times more than the £120,000 Government support available. They hope to be able to prove that the vaccine was to blame in court.“
[Daily Mail]
The woman who developed that “vaccine” was not only applauded by the stupid rabbits at Wimbledon but also got some kind of official “honour”, I seem to remember.
The Daily Mail refers to the individual as “her” and “she“, and also makes spelling mistakes (but then, the “journalist” scribbling it is one “Vivek Chaudhary”…).
I think that many people, even today, will be honest if they find a purse or wallet. In the past few years, I myself have found two or three. One was a kind of wallet I happened to see in a clifftop parking place. I was there, unusually, early one morning, not long after dawn. I saw the item in the half-light, was curious, so went to pick it up.
The wallet contained about £50 in cash, I think also a debit card, a couple of other bits and pieces, and a student railcard in the name of some girl.
I went home, thinking that the girl must be fairly local, in view of the station which had issued the railcard, only about 8 miles from that car park. Her surname was unusual, so I called the few telephone numbers (landlines) with the same name. Only one answered. An old lady, so no-go.
In the end, I drove to the local police station (its desk manned by an old fellow, a civilian support person) and gave in the wallet. I made the point that there was a large college near the rail station which issued the card, so the girl was almost certainly one of the students there.
I hope that the girl got back her money and the rest. As for what a young girl aged 16-18 was doing in a clifftop car park and (presumably) after dark, and how she managed to lose her wallet, maybe it is better not to speculate…
The second wallet was larger, newer, and packed with both money and cards (an incredible number, literally dozens, neatly and individually carefully tucked into pockets), and had been left in a shopping trolley at Waitrose. I took it in to the help desk, and a member of staff took it from me. Probably the woman who lost it got it back soon afterwards. I imagine that she must have called the store in a panic.
Not that I promise to be a good citizen if someone leaves an attache case containing a million pounds somewhere, which amount of cash could not, in my view, be the property of any honest person. No, the (so far, hypothetical) million pounds stays with me, in that event.
The Conservative Democratic conference. Hall almost empty. Rows and rows of empty seats. The photos show no more than 100 in the audience. In fact, I think that I addressed a larger audience than this one when I spoke at the London Forum in 2017.
Hard to judge the age demographic accurately from the photos, but apart from a few younger persons under 30 (possibly students), and a few youngish blonde women (possibly journalists), the audience seems to have been predominantly grey-haired or bald. I should say, at a guess, that there were more people over 70 than there were people under 50.
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Secret talks between the heads of the special services of Syria and Turkey took place in Moscow.
This makes me sick. So many Britons have died to defend our homeland, yet the Tories have flung open the borders and we face catastrophe as a result 😫 pic.twitter.com/JNGdnBUi3U
Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
See also:
The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
Well, a modest 5/10 this week, but I still managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8.
“…he thinks schools, universities and employers should actively discriminate against white applicants, purely because of their skin colour and their inherited guilt. Never mind that, say, a little girl born in the 21st century can hardly be blamed for the history of slavery. For Kendi, the mere fact of her genetic heritage is enough to damn her.
The second example is even more shocking. This is a chart produced in 2020 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture — part of the Smithsonian Institution, probably the most prestigious U.S. educational body of all.
The chart gives examples of ‘whiteness’ and ‘white culture’, which it clearly regards with disapproval. Sinister aspects of ‘white culture’ apparently include ‘hard work’, ‘self-reliance’, ‘the nuclear family’, ‘competition’, ‘delayed gratification’ and even ‘rigid time schedules’.
In just the first three weeks of this year, the NHS advertised for 19 ‘diversity and sustainability’ posts, with a combined salary of a cool £1 million. Indeed, in total the NHS in England alone employs an estimated 800 diversity and inclusion officers, costing a staggering £40 million a year.“
[Daily Mail]
Is there any peaceful way to stop this slide to complete chaos or dystopian tyranny? Frankly, I think not.
Africa is no good for the white man any more. All African countries are now (i.e. now that they are African-ruled) shambolic, corrupt, and suffused with crime and extreme violence, though some more than others.
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UK police no longer deal with burglaries. However, the fight against "offensive stickers" does not subside pic.twitter.com/cdgvNuj9cr
Another UK policeman playing the poundland KGB operative in uniform instead of doing his proper job. It has become pervasive. The police are now almost useless in terms of protecting the British public, while waging the culture war against the British people, and at the instigation of both “woke” activists and (of course) the endlessly, relentlessly, whining and demanding Jew-Zionist lobby.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced that the decision of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria regarding restrictions on the import of Ukrainian grain is a heavy blow to the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Harley Schlanger says the the war in Ukraine and the Green Revolution of energy reduction are driving factors behind the economic collapse that European countries are facing pic.twitter.com/GlUhrGpO7V
As I have blogged previously, for me there are two main issues that stand out: firstly, at some point (and as Elon Musk has mentioned), AI gets to the point whereby it takes over the reins of its own evolution, no longer requiring, or even permitting, human decision-making to control that; secondly, AI may become so pervasive that it becomes almost impossible for any individual human being, or for humanity as a group, to live without it.
That is already to a large extent so in relation to, inter alia, mobile telephones, online access, debit/credit cards etc. Yes, you can live without internet access, without a mobile telephone (I have not had one for many years), without debit or credit cards etc, but it gets harder every month to live “off-grid” in that way.
Once cash becomes a medium of exchange used only by the marginalized, and not used much in supermarkets, larger shops etc, the System/matrix will have almost power of life and death over citizens. Say or do something anti-System, or anti the System agenda, and your banking services will be cut off, and you will find it hard to continue your political life, hard to conduct any business or profession, hard even to buy food, in the end.
“Conspiracy theory”? No. A number of people, such as Laura Towler, Mark Collett, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative) have had exactly that happen to them in the past couple of years.
The possibility now exists for one, two, or more encirclements.
Press TV's correspondent,@johnnyjamesmiller, says that Russia's primary goal is to defeat the Ukrainian army rather than gain territory. pic.twitter.com/0ZvvIiUefk
Britain: Ukraine will lose control of its skies in a month The shortage of anti-aircraft missiles will lead to Ukraine losing control of the sky as early as next month. This is reported by the British newspaper The Times. pic.twitter.com/YMx1LBjFTd
According to Chinese experts, Ukraine is weakening every day due to a shortage of ammunition. This is due to the fact that the pace of industrial production in Western countries cannot meet the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
It was largely an invention of the western media but then grew a life of its own to the extent that people such as Adam Kinzinger believed it to be true.
I wonder whether “the Ghost of Kiev” will become, over time, a figure thought by many to have been a real person, in the manner of Wilhelm Tell (or William Tell): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell.
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Zakharova: Statements about Ukraine joining NATO "short-sighted and dangerous pic.twitter.com/K2UpQlO22V
and then aired a CNN report stating that the aforementioned ministry sent a "warning letter" to the Russian company "Rosatom ", which currently manages the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, not to touch the plant since it contains sensitive American nuclear technology
I have already blogged a few times about my visit to the UK’s Porton Down “biolab” campus in Wiltshire in or about 1995, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK; incidentally or co-incidentally, he was a trained scientist in the field(s) of biochemistry, microbiology etc: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down.
Ukrainian General Krivonos: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing a shortage of shells and will soon be counted individually, if mass deliveries from Western countries do not begin.
The sooner the Kiev regime runs out of arms, ammunition, and personnel, the better. Russia can take over Kiev and eastern Ukraine (east of the Dnieper) and start the work of rebuilding the damaged areas. Ukrainians (and Russians in Ukraine) live, in general, with lower living standards than Russians, certainly Russians from central or Baltic Russia (Moscow, Petersburg etc), and (as Putin has recently said) should be helped to a better standard of living.
Ukrainian police act as a press-gang, trying to force random and unwilling young men to become soldiers in Zelensky’s war.
The founder of the PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin turned to the commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky. The reason was the information that Zelensky demanded that Syrsky hold Artyomovsk until May 9.
London and the other large UK cities have gone the same way.
The former commander of the US Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges , claims that the main goal of the UAF counteroffensive is to isolate the Crimean peninsula. pic.twitter.com/OByiv9kMpw
The cretins of what passes for the Kiev regime “high command”, and the similar idiots in Washington, cannot or will not see that, were Crimea actually to be isolated by a Kiev-regime fantasy “counter-offensive”, the Russian response might well be a tactical nuclear strike on the Kiev-regime forces, or even on central Kiev itself, obliterating Zelensky and his cabal (if that is where they really are).
a fuel depot continues to burn in Kharkiv. The Russian AirForces delivered pinpoint strikes on the places of concentration of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparing for the notorious counteroffensive. pic.twitter.com/T7HPWa9sdQ
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, said that fighter jets would not be given to Ukraine. Only air defense pic.twitter.com/t08sz6IhIf
🇺🇦 Protests by relatives of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin in Ukraine. In Krivo Rog, people protested because, as they say, soldiers thrown to the front without training, without equipment, many died, and they are missing, and payments are not paid. pic.twitter.com/1eDLd7dNZn
The Ukrainians themselves are now starting to push back against the Zelensky regime.
Ukraine had hoped to launch an offensive in April, but postponed it indefinitely due to a shortage of weapons, writes Foreign Policy, citing a Ukrainian lawmaker.
The Government’s “emergency alert test” tomorrow isn’t a technical test, the purpose is a lot more sinister. It’s a test to see how many people will comply, with an added touch of predictive programming thrown in, to get the population prepared for what’s coming. Turn them off!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 22, 2023
Daughter's school is doing a "Stephen Lawrence Day", which is all about "systematic and institutional racism".
This is your pitiful "conservative" government in action. They should all be beaten up by their own rent boys.
Tired trope but imagine for a second the r*ces were reversed. This would be talked forever, with anniversaries from its happening, and it would be denounced by every celebrity and politician https://t.co/KpGfOYEwLW
Neil Oliver: ALL manners of freedom are being eroded | Neil Oliver Live https://t.co/59ojOyUInX via @YouTube@JoeBiden@VP Hey, whatcha y’all doin? Simple peasant, just askin!?!?
Well, this week brings me another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 7, and 9, and thought at first that I had got question 1 right, only to discover shortly afterwards that I had selected the wrong group of 17thC activists, dissenters or dissidents. So 6/10 it is this week.
Now imagine the disaster that will happen when the remaining UKR soldiers in Western Bakhmut try to retreat, clogging the road due to all the destroyed/stuck vehiclec. Becoming easy prey for the Musicians https://t.co/57CoS6j9oc
Since you've hitched your wagon to the Ukraine flag, when are you picking up arms & going over to help them? Haven't you heard the latest? Russia forces have reached the centre of key city, Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/POFzmoGyg7
In the well-known words of Marx, “first time— tragedy, second time— farce” and, while it seems wrong to call an event as bloody and terrible as Bakhmut/Artyomovsk “farcical”, one has to compare it to Stalingrad, which at least was genuinely strategic. War is hell, and is often not even logical.
Ukraine's key supply route in Bakhmut the 0506 road west of the city, is likely severely threatened, according to the UK intelligence.https://t.co/FQij4KpFVT
Looking beyond the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk situation, we see that the Kiev regime has a problem of recruitment to its armed forces, made worse by the fact that about 20% of the Ukraine population has fled beyond the borders, and that includes many families with teenage children who will now not be conscripted.
If (I do not know) Russia is recruiting and training new “levies”, then it may be that, after the losses suffered by the Kiev-regime forces recently, the Russian armed forces may be able to advance steadily for the first time in quite a while.
As to arms and ammunition, the NWO/ZOG supplies to the Kiev regime are enormous but possibly (I do not know) inadequate as compared to the usage and/or attritional rate. We shall see.
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One frontbencher says a current online video of Starmer’s flip-flops is a taste of things to come.
"The general election campaign is going to be full of videos of Keir, ‘he said this, now he’s says that’.”pic.twitter.com/BK0IO7DkRC
Other notable elections due in 2024 include presidential elections in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Indonesia, general election in India and the European Parliament election
— Tomorrows Papers Today (@TmorrowsPapers) April 7, 2023
Not sure what Labour thinks that it is achieving by these attacks on Indian money-juggler Sunak. After all, Labour has for some time been far far ahead in the opinion polls, the present Sunak government seems headless at times (as did its predecessors), and people generally know that Sunak is, firstly, very very wealthy and, secondly, non-white (both of which tend to make him an unpopular PM). So why make these absurd “sex crime” attacks on him?
What makes the absurd attacks even more absurd is that there is no shred of evidence that Sunak himself is sympathetic to any form of child abuse or other sex offence(s), let alone any evidence that he himself is some kind of sex criminal. So why do it?
It may be that Starmer has tripped over his own shoelaces here.
GM. Remember to be kind to animals today. God gave YOU dominion, which means to be a good lord and protector of your charges. pic.twitter.com/Cw2B90nNBt
I never listened to Radio Albion and cannot comment in detail about it but what I can say is this man has been persecuted not prosecuted. Non-whites incite racist attacks on white people frequently, not one prosecution. White man speaks out, prison it is!https://t.co/nTYe7QYG6G
After my wrongful (and indeed actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016 (see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/), I was invited not only to speak to several members of the msm Press (a Daily Mail slug even came to my door) but also to talk on, or be interviewed on, various online “radio stations”. I declined all, mainly because I doubted that my contribution would have much effect on the “big scheme of things”. I believe that Radio Albion was one of those.
The present repression, driven entirely by the fanatical Jew-Zionist element, is destroying what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in this country.
If you get burgled or robbed, be sure to mention Golliwogs and / or pronouns for a swift response https://t.co/KSThDIepw9
“This is the bizarre moment police stormed a couple’s pub and seized their golliwog dolls – saying the toys were a suspected ‘hate crime‘.
Benice Ryley, 61, was quizzed by six officers after police received an anonymous complaint about The White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex.
She and husband Chris, 64, who is currently abroad, had displayed their collection of 15 dolls after receiving them as gifts from customers over the years.
On Tuesday, Essex Police raided the pub and confiscated the dolls, saying they were investigating a ‘hate crime’. They also took a book about the history of golliwogs.
Branding the incident a ‘waste of taxpayers’ money’, she continued: ‘When the police officers came, I pointed to the dolls and said they haven’t done anything.
‘The gollies all went quietly – none of them resisted arrest at all. I think the racist people are the ones who complain – it’s their problem, not us.
Mrs Ryley is demanding the dolls are immediately returned and has vowed to put them back behind the bar.
She fumed: ‘It is unreal – we haven’t broken the law and there is no legal stuff that says I can’t display them. It’s just silly.’
A spokesman for Essex Police said: ‘We are investigating an allegation of hate crime in Grays reported to us on 24 February.“
[Daily Mail].
So who made the anonymous and timewasting complaint? A spiteful golliwog? Or one of “the usual suspects”, as in my case of 2017? We do not know.
Incidentally, look at the comments of the Daily Mail online readers. Others have voted about 12,000 against the police action for every half-dozen in favour.
Migrant boys raped in 'Calais Jungle' camp so violently they needed surgery https://t.co/wEzgcMp4MP@Care4Calais Can you understand why the people of the UK do not want the perpetrators any where near our shores?
I looked up that weird young or young-ish woman. A failed journalist or, rather, online scribbler, from Canada (what is wrong with Canada?), and who cannot keep her tendentious and ignorant views out of even her Linked-In profile. Sacked a month ago from her most recent job (at “Global News”, which I think is linked loosely to the BBC’s commercial arm).
Probably unemployable as a journalist, looking at her near-hysteria.
One of her other tweets said “You’re supposed to have the right to freedom of opinion. But what if misinformation and disinformation is making that right hard to actually enjoy?” She simply misses the point. “Freedom of opinion” is self-standing. It does not exist simply so that she can “enjoy” it…
I urge anyone with a Twitter account (I do not have one— a pack of Jews conspired to have me expelled in 2018 and I now see little point in returning) to follow tweeter “@Nature_and_Race”.
Russian Lancet hitting three Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers and a tank in the area of the city of Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/MCwt4DCSLd
The compassionate face of elite soldiering— I like that. The bearded man, though, introduced himself to the remarkably resilient old lady not as a soldier but as “a correspondent…from Russia.”
Scott Ritter:“Bakhmut has fallen. Ukraine has lost the war.“
This is the quintessential turning point of the war. Yes, the fighting will continue and it will be bloody and messy but this was the case for 2 horrible years after Gettysburg & Kursk as well.pic.twitter.com/pl2LEF99ab
The head of the IMF issued an alarming warning about the global economy
The world economic system is in a vulnerable situation due to the attempts of the world's central banks to fight inflation, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
First, the whole crazy finance-capitalist system of speculation going haywire, then the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, then the economic sanctions against Russia, and now the unwarranted and almost unlimited support for the Jewish-Zionist regime in Kiev. The whole house of cards of the Western world is quite likely not far from collapse.
The Kremlin responds to the leak of NATO's "secret" war plan
Russia was aware of the West's involvement in Ukraine even before the documents were leaked on the Internet, Dmitry Peskov repeated pic.twitter.com/sLAKwyTPlJ
Maybe the SVR is not as incompetent as I had surmised. On the other hand, the NWO/ZOG gameplan re. Russian and its “near-abroad” has been obvious for years. I have been blogging and, before 2018, tweeting about it for a decade or so. In fact, I was aware of the overall strategy as long ago as 1990, when the Soviet Union was still officially still in existence.
French demonstrators attacked banks during the protests.
The unrest in France is gaining wider proportions every day. Bank attacks are a new dimension to the protests because they see it as a symbol of ruthless capitalism. pic.twitter.com/mfTFGe6nkS
Well, I only scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul this week— 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 7, 8, and 9; in the back of my mind, I knew the answer to question 1, but could not bring it to mind, so counted that as a “did not know”.
and she screenshot part of our pm messages and shared them, calling on her “Flying Monkeys” to attack. I published the entire conversation to show what had really happened and she got angry, blocking me.
@DevilsAdvo1971 has gone a bit quiet. It's amazing what you can learn when you stop and listen rather than yelling "Troll" and running away. This isn't a pile-on. It's a genuine concern over missing funds and inappropriate begging from somebody who claims to be a campaigner.
Jack Monroe still has a devoted following that believes her cries of *abuse*. It's her only defence now that the truth is out. A huge number of people have been hoodwinked by her. Even with the evidence laid bare, people don't want to admit that they might be wrong about her.
Yes, tweeter “@DevilsAdvo1971” certainly did shut up when confronted by not only facts but also evidence directly from one of the many people scammed by “Jack Monroe”. So many people are desperate to believe in something, or someone.
Interesting point here: a lot more people rent. Why? Well, at 18% of your salary that's affordable. Secondly, if you're retiring on 70% of your wages, you can afford to keep renting. Also tenant rights are superb compared to the UK.
If its sounding socialist (which it isn't) rest assured there's plenty of rich people. There's still more than 100 billionaires. There's still heaps of millionaires.
Things are just organised to ensure the average person has good wages, heslthcare, affordable housing etc.
In the UK we have low wages, which are then topped up with in-work benefits. Which means taxpayers are subsidising employers. Which means taxpayers money isn't used on things taxpayers need. This system is a direct transfer of public money to private hands.
Britain is definitely, and has been for a long time, failing to deliver on this. The economic system doesn't work for most people. And while its obviously gone nuclear in the last 13 years of Tory rule, it didn't begin there.
The centre of the British system since I can remember has been profit. Squeezing the profit out of anything and everything- from selling off council houses to buy to let mortgages to privatisation and the way we do everything.
Interestingly: in the UK, despite a much smaller population, more than 700,000 earn over that amount. So roughly speaking it looks like the UK has 9-10x more people earning super big pay packets. Which presumably they can afford after paying terrible wages 🙂
Yes. I recall talking about similar issues in 1976 with a couple with whom I was then friendly, a (supposedly ex-) getaway driver-turned-limousine service-owner, and his wife, both in their thirties (I was 19 at the time). The discussion was about the relative merits of the Western way of life as compared with the Soviet socialist system.
That fellow’s comment has stayed with me: “what matters to me is not the detail about how it works but what way of life comes out the other end.” Like many —more-or-less— “villains”, he was basically quite “Thatcherite” in his views (though this was three years before Margaret Thatcher actually became Prime Minister).
They sold everything didn't they. Even our welfare services are outsourced so someone's making maximum profit!
Agree entirely. I get she boosted industry but I feel like she set us off down a path of profit over people and its become ridiculous now. I just called up to get a new national insurance card and bits of HMRC are private now. I think they'd privatise the moon if they could.
Indeed. In the late 1970s, the inefficiencies of the subsidized industries, and the (neo-Luddite) power of the trade unions, were the stuff of legend, but the “Thatcher Revolution” went far too far in various ways. All the same, people realized that some change was needed.
I have blogged previously about how the ~33-year cycle works. In 1989, old-style socialism died, but that did not happen overnight. In the UK, the change had been in preparation for many years, starting notionally with the Thatcher governments.
Telecoms policy illustrates the point. The State-owned British Telecom was privatized in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group. Even in the mid-1980s, it could take a long time for the average customer/consumer to be supplied with a telephone. It sounds ludicrous now, of course.
I knew someone from my schooldays who owned a couple of houses in South London, rented out by the room. He wanted the tenants to have a coin-operated telephone, and arranged with British Telecom to have one installed. After several months, he was getting angry that the telephone had not been installed. He was fobbed off with various reasons (excuses) until, finally so exasperated at the lack of action, about a year after he had asked for the installation, he called British Telecom to say that he was cancelling the order, only to be informed that the telephone was going to be installed a couple of days later. Which it was. Still, a whole year just to get a telephone!
That kind of rationing did not affect people equally. I remember being told, in the late 1980s, at dinner in Lincoln’s Inn, and by (now-deceased) Lord Justice Parker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Parker_(judge)], that when he was first appointed a judge in, I think, 1969, that appointment had co-incided with his moving to a country house in a rather out-of-the-way part of Essex. There was no telephone.
Parker had then contacted the manager of the (then) GPO for the area to request installation of a telephone. He was told that it might take several months, if not longer. He then said that he needed a telephone for his work. The telephone manager had asked what work. “I have just been appointed a judge“. The manager then apologized, and said that a telephone would be installed that week. It was.
I imagine that the later Lord Justice of Appeal put his case quite forcefully. I certainly found him a rather unpleasant person, that one time that I spoke with him.
It sounds antediluvian now, when anyone can buy a basic mobile telephone for a small amount of money, and get it from a supermarket or other outlet in a matter of minutes.
The point is that the heavily-subsidized nationalized industries of 1945-1980s had become sluggish and a drag on economic efficiency. However, the privatization trend went too far in the late 1980s and 1990s. Now, the taxpayers fork out huge sums to notionally private enterprises, from railways and offshoots of the DWP and NHS, to the farming industry and others. We are getting neither proper service nor value for money.
The same is true of the “tax credits” payments put in place by Blair and Brown, and also the current “Universal Credit” low pay boondoggle. It subsidizes poor-paying employers out of public funds. That cannot be right.
Todays thread, colours! I’ll start with this European Bee Eater taken in Cyprus, hopefully I’ll get to see another this week on my Cyprus adventure pic.twitter.com/NncJIZAByI
— Jeff’s Wildlife Photography (@sykesjeff) March 25, 2023
The West and, in particular, the United States are "pushing" Kiev to launch a counteroffensive, Denis Pushilin.
The reason for this, according to the politician, is the need to explain the colossal injection of funds into Ukraine against the backdrop of demonstrating results.
To my mind, the loss is $30 cash plus the cost price of the goods minus the profit margin on the goods. I admit that I am no economist (or mathematician)…
Back in October 2014 #Ukrainian President Poroshenko made it clear what fate awaited the Ethnic #Russian population of #Ukraine
His Army had already begun to assault its own people. Their Crime? Resisting the illegal Coup that ousted the democratically elected government. pic.twitter.com/SLA4x39Gqq
“The number of hotels being used to house asylum seekers in the UK is about to reach 400 as migrants continue to cross the Channel in small boats, MailOnline can reveal.
Currently 395 hotels in the UK are understood to be being used to accommodate more than 51,000 people at a reported cost of £6.8million a day – but the number is constantly increasing as the Government battles to start moving some asylum seekers to Rwanda while their applications to stay in the UK are processed.“
[Daily Mail]
The continuing cross-Channel migration-invasion will put the final nail in the Conservative Party coffin, even though Labour will be no better re. the problem.
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President @JoeBiden and I drove from Rideau Cottage to Parliament to discuss climate change and reducing emissions.
That's why we used 75 vehicles including several ambulances and military style armoured personnel carriers for a five minute trip.
The “democratic” pseudo-statesmen who feel the need to be heavily protected from those they claim to represent. Adolf Hitler never needed such measures, certainly not in the six years of peace 1933-1939.
There is basically no public place in America where you opt out of hearing of black voices.
Rap, r&b, pop with black characteristics, even when it’s a white woman singing, this incessant negroid warbling on every speaker system in every mall, shop, bar, restaurant, enough!
Just as one cannot see a single TV ad now in the UK, nor any drama series, even one set in 1950, and even one set in 1590 (!), that does not have numerous blacks in it.
This is psychologically very important. Forcing them to sleep in a barracks and eat in a mess helps them to understand they're not a privileged class of elites, but unwelcome and unwanted guests in a country growing weary of their relentless arrivals and scandalous misbehaviors.
Situation south of Bakhmut city: VSRF took full control over Budenivka district and made new advances in Samolet district taking control over Donelektrosetstroy adjacent to Avangard Stadium; and new positions within the market area Avtosvit pic.twitter.com/tSbWixxYGS
Whatever happens in and around Bakhmut/Artyomovsk, the war in Ukraine has all but solidified. We see ever more detailed maps and reports about ever-smaller areas. Russia needs a massive gamechanger in order to retake the initiative on the large scale.
FM #Lavrov: Our relations with West are at lowest since end of bipolar confrontation. West declared total #hybridwar against #Russia, aims to defeat 🇷🇺 on the battlefield, destroy our economy, undermine our internal political stability. There will be no “business as usual” again. pic.twitter.com/kuRZVaipGO
Only just beat political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored “5 and a half“, he says, while I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 7, and 10. In fact, I had read about no.7 a while ago but forgot about it, and also should really have guessed no.10.
The destruction of beauty, and the creeping growth of housing
Earlier this week, I blogged about the horrible destruction of trees in Armada Way, Plymouth by a corrupt local council. Now, while reading a report about the recent suicide of a headmistress of a school attended by me 60 years ago, I saw something equally unpleasant about Emmer Green, just north of Reading.
Northwest and north of Reading, across the Thames, there are two basically suburban areas abutting the open woods and fields of Oxfordshire: Caversham Heights (where I lived at times as a child) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Heights], and Emmer Green [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer_Green]. About two or three miles of more or less open country separates the two. Within that couple of miles there was, inter alia, a golf course, Reading Golf Club, which in the 1960s and 1970s was the only golf course on that side of the Thames and that close to Reading.
I myself was a junior member of Reading Golf Club for a year or so around 1972, when I was 15-16. My golfing equipment was old and rudimentary, given to me by family friends, I think: one or two woods (drivers), an oddly-short no.3 iron, an ancient and wood-shafted mashie niblick (no.7 iron)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_golf_clubs#20th_century_wood-shafted_irons], and a putter (also wood-shafted). Out of date even then.
That golf course was rather beautiful, I thought, with plenty of majestic trees framing the fairways of the 18 holes, and even a very small valley, from which one drove from the tee on one side to the hole on the other. A very unusual par as well— 2 par, if I recall aright.
That hole must have been some kind of anomaly, because 3-par is the lowest par usually designated: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score). Maybe I just remembered wrongly, and it was 3-par; no matter.
I managed (by luck, really) to get a hole-in-one on that, though it hardly counts, arguably, not being a more typical sort of hole.
Be that as it may, I was discomfited to read yesterday that not only has that golf course now closed (and been subsumed, as a club, into a new golf club with a course a few miles away) but the area of the old course has been designated for housing— 223 new houses. There is strong local opposition from nearby residents calling their protest group Keep Emmer Green: https://www.keepemmergreen.org/.
[the old Reading Golf Club, Emmer Green, more or less as I remember it]
We see this all the time now, especially in southern England: “infilling” of green areas around or in towns and cities, usually so that housing can be built for profit. Mass immigration, births to existing UK residents, the collapse of the traditional family. Overall result— pressure to build more housing.
In the end, will there actually be an England worth saving or defending? A question members of the armed forces, and the intelligence and security services, might pose to themselves in a lucid moment.
Incidentally, since the early 1970s, I have rarely played golf, and own no golf clubs (both my younger brothers are keen players, though).
“Covid” “panicdemic” nonsense, migration-invasion nonsense (fake “refugees” put up in hotels etc), general “Ukraine” nonsense (arms, ammunition, medical supplies, and hard cash, all being funnelled to the corrupt and dictatorial regime of the Jew Zelensky). Etc.
NEW Pre-Budget Westminster Voting Intention.
LAB 48% (+3) CON 32% (+3) LD 8% (-2) GRE 2% (-1) SNP 3% (nc) REF 3% (-1) Others 5% (-1)
Prediction of the result of a general election not due to be held for possibly 20 months is a fool’s game, of course, but at present it certainly looks like a shoo-in for Labour, and most policy announced by the “Conservatives” seems to play into Labour’s hands despite Labour itself being so lacklustre.
Seems to be useful public health advice. I myself have no liver problem, but am posting those tweets as a general warning to anyone who, or who knows someone who, is in that situation.
Wow! What a nice little earner. £71,410 per annum to sit at home tweeting (playing) whilst publishing the odd blog. Money for nothing really?! Kudos to Craig for publishing the amount his grift garners, though. Unlike Jack Monroe. https://t.co/WObazrfOuO
Better pay than being “His Excellency” the Ambassador to [somewhere]. While a few British ambassadors get nearly £150,000, most are below £100,000, and some receive as little as £60,000, though they do get reasonably-nice, sometimes very nice, ambassadorial residences, and there are a number of perks. Also, diplomatic immunity. I should have appreciated that a few times myself, when working overseas. Very convenient.
I believe that Murray was appointed to Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 2002.
Murray seems to be someone highly principled (according to his own lights), and a bit awkward, like one or two Quakers I encountered several decades ago. The Diplomatic Service was almost certainly the wrong career for him.
Labour never polled in local elections as high as its GE opinion polls even in the Blair era (if it gets 40%+ in May I will be impressed), but the year's seat gain trends are pretty clear https://t.co/xOBPSEavEB
Your going back to 2022 try looking at the last few weeks . It looks like the greens or independents are taking the majority . If this continues labours lead isn't 20 points
We survived one of the most sophisticated psyops in the history of the world. pic.twitter.com/4LWbbbSUWB
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 18, 2023
From where I sit, it appears Vladimir Putin is the one man standing between what’s left of a “free” world, and a totalitarian, tyrannical, murderous one-world government body.
Social security benefits in the US are on track to be reduced by 20%, which will hit the elderly and the vulnerable the hardest.
But there's always money for war. And there's always money for Zelensky.
Hopefully, by now, you can see that the people in power hate you.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
God… and most of those people have so little anyway, and amid such wealth. The USA in some ways is “the Great Satan“, as the Islamic crazies sometimes claim. Not in every way, but in some. I myself have experienced a little of both the more comfortable and less comfortable sides of American life. The USA needs radical reform.
So much for “Biden the great humanitarian”. Not that he has invented such hypocrisy— Clinton was there first.
Incidentally, the (typically labyrinthine) American bureaucracy pays out to people in need (those that can get it at all), a very modest amount, in many cases just a few hundred dollars a month: see https://en.as.com/en/2022/01/22/latest_news/1642820139_262174.html.
(that’s cash; other programmes exist in parallel, such as Medicare, Medicaid etc).
I get messages from young people daily thanking me for speaking out. No matter how much I get attacked, insulted, defamed, I will never be intimidated. Because this isn't about me – It's about the truth. They fear a great awakening, especially among the young. We won't back down.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 17, 2023
Of course, tweeting (or blogging, or vlogging, or writing articles, or even launching doomed public law claims) does not frighten MPs. What does? Well, I am not going to say anything, but think back over the past decade…
This was the House of Commons today during a debate about the harms caused by the mRNA gene therapies. I counted less than 20 MPs present out of a total of 650.
$128 billion in military aid to Ukraine (more than double the entire Russian budget) & their soldiers are using 19th Century gatling guns in the defence of Bakhmut. Astonishingly, or perhaps not, no western journalist has asked the obvious question…https://t.co/ebwY8oGbY9
Ukrainian troops using M113 and YPR-765. Footage allegedly from the Bakhmut region. Imagine that as a Russian cannon fodder soldier you have to run against this.
True. Brutal. However, it seems that some fighters on both sides might be termed “cannon-fodder“. In fact, we in the West, subjected to the usual msm lies and spin, are not getting the true measure of the Ukrainian/Kiev-regime losses. Massive.
#Ukranian soldiers asked Zelensky and Zaluzhny to return him. The Armed Forces also confirm Dome's statements in an interview with the Washington Post about sending untrained replacements to the army and about heavy losses in the brigade. Slavyangrad
In the interview with WP, he complained about lack of ammo on the front, fresh recruits being sent to the front without proper training, some even don't know how to shoot a weapon. After a year of war, the unit had roughly 100 KIA and 400 WIA.https://t.co/5jevIm2XSf
A maverick officer, too honest for his notional superiors. Every army has a few. General Lebed, a Soviet and, later, Russian Army commander, was like that. He would have made a good President of the Russian Federation but, like others before him and since, he died in an apparent “accident” (in his case, a helicopter crash). Maybe it was an accident. Maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed#Political_views.
Volunteer Mykhailo Storoznuk evacuates animals from the most dangerous frontline regions, including Bakhmut.
Volunteer Anastasia Tykha cares for them, treats their injuries and makes them feel safe.
There must be room for compassion and active help for the animals in war zones. None of them volunteered for this.
Late tweets seen
⚡️Ukrainian reinforcements reportedly in the Bakhmut direction.
Why?
The only military reason for it would be that the defensive lines after Bakhmut are not capable of holding back Z forces and thus are at risk of getting captured easier. pic.twitter.com/UI6YOLdp6o
I knew there was a strong correlation between attitudes/policies on Covid and Ukraine. Anybody can sense it even in intraparty debates within the libertarian and right-wing bubbles. But this is remarkable. https://t.co/Jfsmb6dCTe
A black man was arrested for allegedly spraying neo-Nazi, lynching & anti-gay graffiti on a black Atlanta church. James McIntyre was quickly released without bail. Some people online blamed white supremacy & white people for the hateful messages. #HateHoaxhttps://t.co/C1kufoP3Om
Of course, over the years quite a few Jews have actually been exposed and/or arrested for attacking Jewish graveyards, with the aim of inciting other Jews (via newspaper reports) to get excited about “antisemitism”, as well as the aim of goading the authorities to crack down on so-called “far right” (social-national) people or parties and groups, as well as repressing freedom of expression.
I have never understood why any social-national people would attack Jewish or any other graveyards. What is the aim? To kill dead Jews? Very strange.
What's even more Clown World is that Hitler never intended to harm UK
Germany only ever attacked as we declared war on them, attacked them & refused all peace offers
Ian Robert Millard 