Well, I managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul again, despite scoring only 5/10 (had 2 near-misses as well). Rentoul awarded himself 2/10, plus two half-points, this week. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8.
“Hundreds of thousands of dementia patients in England face being denied access to revolutionary new drugs because the diagnostic capacity of the NHS lags behind every other G7 country, according to a damning report.
After decades of research to find a cure for the condition projected to affect 153 million people worldwide by 2050, scientists have successfully developed the first treatments to tackle the underlying causes rather than only relieve the symptoms. Two new drugs could get the green light for use on the NHS within weeks.
However, their effectiveness depends on prompt and early diagnosis of patients. The report, obtained by the Guardian, says the NHS lacks the diagnostic capacity to accurately identify those eligible in time.
The analysis reveals England is unprepared for the rollout of new treatments, with “large gaps in diagnostic capacity” for dementia. It also warns of a £14bn funding black hole that must be plugged if England is to diagnose dementia as quickly as the other G7 countries, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.“
I have to say that the few Palestinians I have met (mostly in Qatar and around) have impressed me in that way, and far more favourably than the arrogant and stupid Gulf Arabs (Qataris and Kuwaitis) also met.
Sometime in the 1970s, I think probably in late 1977, I met the PLO representative in London, Said Hammami, who was based at the Arab League offices in Mayfair, and he was rather dismissive, but in retrospect I suppose that he had things on his mind, and probably little time in which to speak to a young person (21-y-o) with his head in the clouds in some ways…
I do not remember much about the discussion; mostly that the PLO man wore a rather filthy sheepskin coat in his little office, and that a young and rather stylish Arab woman in the outer office smoked a kind of long brown cigarette called More; I remember asking her what they were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(cigarette)].
Unfortunately, that PLO fellow was shot dead in the same office only (as far as I can recall) a few weeks later. The matter was never solved by the police. Either MOSSAD, or a different Palestinian faction to his own (he belonged to Fatah, I think). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hammami. Apparently he was in favour of talking to the Israelis; that may have been the reason behind the assassination.
A senior #Tory MP sends intimate images to a total stranger and the numbers of 12 of his colleagues, two of them also then send images. These types of scandal used to bring down Governments but in a post Boris Johnson era it doesn't even become the lead news story #WilliamWraggpic.twitter.com/kak51SjSMB
— The Man of Hidden Shallows (@Richiemuso) April 5, 2024
Voters of Britain: whatever your ideology, whatever you support or dislike, when GE 2024 arrives vote any way you like except “Conservative”, or do not vote at all. Crush and exterminate this useless party. Equally-bad “Labour” can fall later, but first things first.
I don't see why this chap is attracting so much sympathy from the journalism trade. I don't have an issue with him being duped into sending pictures, it's that he then betrayed his colleagues – leaving them open to blackmail attempts too.
The whole Westminster monkeyhouse should be done away with.
Latest from @PeoplePolling, which tends to give biggest Lab leads, 4 Apr Lab 45% -1 Con 19% +1 Reform 14% +1 Lib Dem 9% -1 Green 8% +1 (Changes since 7 Mar)
How would flooding the country with foreigners and bulldozing down the last of the forests and meadows for low-cost housing be better for the environment? Does the British losing their homeland excite you or something? pic.twitter.com/7XuwGnAb1K
A senior US CIA official stated: If Iran attacks Israeli territory, it will target military or intelligence installations inside Israel. pic.twitter.com/Oiyi5SAL6a
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
The Israelis await events— will they be attacked soon or not? Just as the people in Gaza have awaited attacks from Israel for decades. “What goes around comes around“…
A police robot in Nanjing, China, stops at a police station and politely asks, “Please open the door. I need to recharge. Thank you". pic.twitter.com/fwUUyE71uJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Not so much a sign of the times as the shape of things to come.
Weasel words from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar who voted for Scotland’s new Hate Crime Law, won’t repeal it and says the problem has been the manner of its implementation. Not good enough.
An example of how Labour, after GE 2024, intends to be an “elected” (by default) tyranny.
Meanwhile, thick “diversity hire”, David Lammy, has been on TV saying that Churchill replaced Chamberlain “a few days before” the outbreak of war with Germany. In fact, it was 8 months after the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France.
🇮🇱 Protest in Tel Aviv on the eve of half a year after the war in Gaza
▪️Demonstrators are demanding early elections, the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and an urgent agreement on the release of hostages.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Near-hysteria. Imagine what would happen if Israel were to be invaded.
A war with Russia can only lead to the complete destruction of France , said the leader of the French left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He also called to find a way to talk about peace. pic.twitter.com/bCMeHwIBSF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
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Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored, he says, “4.5/10”. I managed 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.
“A dispute over a 97-year-old woman feeding birds in her back garden has escalated with the ‘bullying’ council now threatening a £2,500 fine or even court action to force her and her son out of their privately-owned home.
Retired music teacher Anne Seago enjoys the simple pleasure of watching from her conservatory as sparrows and robins feed off seeds on her bird table.
A complaint from a neighbour that she was attracting pigeons and seagulls prompted the council to issue a ‘written warning’ last November and threaten a £100 fine if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t cease.
Now, amid claims the birds are still being fed, Fylde Council has issued her son Alan, 77, who lives with her, with another written warning. This time he is being threatened with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) and a potential fine of £2,500 for ‘non-compliance’ if the ‘anti-social behaviour’ doesn’t stop immediately.
And in a further threat the council’s environmental health department has warned it could take legal action for a ‘Civil Injunction and/or a Premises Closure Order’, that if granted by magistrates could ultimately force them out of their house in Staining, near Blackpool, for up to three months.
The officers even instructed the Seagos to take down the ‘I love’ birds notice on their window (above) in case it upset the neighbour.“
“Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk said: ‘I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past. It’s real and it started over two years ago. We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War‘.”
[Daily Mail]
Tusk is a brainless drone, a complete puppet of NWO/ZOG. A year ago, he was predicting that Ukraine (the Kiev regime) would “defeat Russia“, and then go on to join both NATO and the EU. How is that going?…
As for war with Russia, certain powerful groups or cabals in the West are really pushing for it; the drift to war is almost entirely being driven by those groups, not by Putin, not by Russia.
An almighty war would be disastrous for Europe and the European peoples. Maybe that is why the “usual suspects” and their puppets keep pushing for one…
Tweets seen
Britons increasingly believe Russia has the advantage in Ukraine
Despite 2 years of false reporting by the UK/US msm, the truth is slowly dawning: Russia must and will win this war. Ukraine (the Kiev regime) is a fake state and a failed state, and is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, most of all, soldiers.
— Biker Gary, Far Right Gammon Thug 🇬🇧 (@BikerGary17) March 28, 2024
Another System-party clown…
First Matthew Parris wants to crack down on disability benefits. Now he addresses assisted dying saying old & frail people are a burden on society. Until social care & palliative care are available to everybody at a certain level, insensitive talk like this is really frightening. pic.twitter.com/GeqA5FuJe5
People say that it does not matter what a person’s private life, sexuality, even beliefs etc may be. Only their specific ideas matter. Easy to agree with that, superficially, but it is facile in more ways than one.
Matthew Parris is typical, in a way, of the faux-“caring sharing” “Cameroon” fake “Conservatism” of the past few decades; post-Thatcherite, espousing a neo-Spartanism for the poorer part of society, and a freedom-from-responsibility ethos for the affluent and wealthy, all disguised by the said fake “caring”.
Often, though certainly not always, publicized in newspapers, and in magazines such as the Spectator, and often by affluent metropolitan gays such as Parris himself.
That kind of “Conservatism” is the polar opposite of the paternalism which characterized at least part of the old and now long-gone Conservatism.
Mrs Thatcher may now be thought of as the standard-bearer of the new pseudo-libertarian “Conservatism”, but she herself, in office, was more a product of the old order, and vacillated between the two camps, for all her expressed adherence to Hayek etc.
The tweeter cited above is right. Parris is shown, not for the first time, as someone who basically knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. His notorious column about “left-behind” areas, such as Clacton, set the tone.
Not that I disagree with all that Parris has written, such as when his column opined thus: “In May 2021, Parris called for the removal of ethnic minority status from Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, describing them “not a race, but a doomed mindset” and called for “a gradual but relentless squeeze on anyone who tries without permission to park their home on public property or the property of others” [Wikipedia].
I agree with those words, though the Irish “travellers” are not the same actual group as the various kinds of ethnic “gypsies” in the UK and mainland Europe (etc). “Travellers” of Irish origin are not an ethnic minority; the Roma, Sinta etc are.
I also agree with his view of sinister clown “Boris” Johnson: “In June 2020 Parris wrote an excoriating article on Boris Johnson saying, “He never had any judgment or strategic vision. Mr Johnson was only ever a shallow opportunist with a minor talent to amuse” [Wikipedia].
What I find disturbing about, not only Parris but also that whole strain of post-Thatcherite “Conservatism”, discounting its pseudo-“caring” camouflage, is its un-Christian, un-spiritual “throwing under a bus” of those (the old, sick, and poor) who cannot keep pace with his preferred metro-affluent new order. It reminds me, more than anything, of Stalinism, in terms of its arrogant brutality. There is something dystopian about it all. Parris himself is an atheist.
In 1984 Matthew Parris said £26 a week in benefits was ample. He tried it, the wimp ended up crying on his bed in his Newcastle bedsit unable to cope. Why doesn't "£100,000 pa. Isn't a huge salary" HUNT try the same thing. Odious twat. pic.twitter.com/cjR8EJQQnR
— Martin Docherty #FBPE🇪🇺 (@MartinDochert12) March 24, 2024
If you don't believe in a God who sanctifies human life, writes Matthew Parris, there are no good arguments against pressuring sick people into assisted suicide. A hell of a piece for Good Friday. NB—he's an atheist, and thinks pressuring sick people to kill themselves is good. pic.twitter.com/xjdXeRfdjU
“This is the ‘racially aggravated’ banner they are trying to lock me away for, potentially for up to 7 years for holding it up outside RAF SCAMPTON The officer in charge has rebailed us while we await a CPS decision listen to her she HASN’T got a clue EVERY FACE on that banner came here as a refugee and went on to commit the most serious sexual offences against women and children You may try lock me up but you will NEVER STOP ME telling the public REFUGEE’S ARE RAPING HERE.”
If a multicultural and diverse liberal society requires an authoritarian police state to function then it isn’t worth having to begin with.
Deportions and repatriation aren't enough, there's a substantial white population that should be permanently exiled to Africa to benefit from diversity there.
Historical facts not much noted by the general public include the largely Jewish character of the second, Marxist-Leninist, “Russian” Revolution (coup d’etat) of 1917, the largely Jewish nature of the Soviet security apparat from 1917 through to the late 1940s, but also the pushback against that in the Soviet Union itself, starting in the Second World War but particularly from time of the postwar purge of 1948-49 and on to 1953-1956, after the death of Stalin.
More music
[“Favourite Town“]
[Gorky Street, now again Tverskaya, Moscow, 1950s]
[“Huge Sky“]
[“I Work Like a Wizard” from album “I Smile at You“]
[Victor Ostrovsky, The Stroll]
[“Ladies of Warsaw“]
[painting by Leonid Afremov]
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The rating of the German far right has risen again to 20%. In January-February, a series of thousands of demonstrations against right-wing radicalism swept across Germany. Against this background, the ratings of the far-right Alternative for Germany fell below 20% for the first… pic.twitter.com/z3s1vdTPeZ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
“The rating of the German far right has risen again to 20%.
In January-February, a series of thousands of demonstrations against right-wing radicalism swept across Germany. Against this background, the ratings of the far-right Alternative for Germany fell below 20% for the first time in eight months.
Now it has begun to grow again and for the first time in a month and a half has returned to the 20% mark. These are the results of a survey by the sociological institute INSA.”
Germans, particularly modern Germans, most of them, are conformist. The hostile demonstrations, backed by Germany’s NWO/ZOG state apparat, were enough to dent AfD support, but only temporarily.
Ian Millard's recent sentence for blogging has highlighted political persecution and political prosecution by the 'Israel lobby' in the UK.https://t.co/Br9DeSSuKq
If you would like to help towards Ian's court costs you can donate below.https://t.co/wPyeEnRZaQ
I have no idea as to the identity of tweeter “Wren Cobb”, but all donations are gratefully received, as are any shares of the link to my crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
Late tweets
Footage showing the extent of destruction in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli bombing. pic.twitter.com/WYxrme0vt4
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
What goes around comes around, as they say.
Gaza 2024, Tel Aviv 2034, or earlier, possibly/probably.
At least 6 TU-95MS missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces are heading to the launch zone
Previously, one and a half dozen Geran-2 UAVs worked on targets in Ukraine.
One of the strikes in the Odessa area led to a large-scale power outage in the city (on video). pic.twitter.com/pOEUhJ0i5y
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 30, 2024
— 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 آدھا انجینئر (@Halfenginear) March 23, 2024
The U.S, Embassy in Moscow was warning American expats about a possible terror attack for several days. From where did that come? From general “chatter” monitored or intercepted?
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia.
In 2016, Donald Trump said former US President Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS and Hillary Clinton is the co-founder.
Tenuous. Many people, including famous political figures, move around the world all the time, “like billiard balls“, as a Russian peasant on a river steamer once remarked to Gorky about the “gentry” [see: Literary Portraits, by Gorky, 1935, trs. Ivy Litvinov].
I cannot see the Kiev regime being behind this, except as the most dangerous game move (provoking Putin into doing something so harsh that it might then bring NATO into the Ukraine war directly). Surely even the Kiev regime would not do something so crazy?
How Russia will escalate has become more important than if Ukraine was actually behind this, which we may never know. https://t.co/wGLPm4GEkV
Trump, if re-elected, will cut off funding, arms and ammunition supplies, and intelligence aid to the Zelensky dictatorship; the war in Ukraine will then grind to a halt within weeks.
Crowdfunders
My own crowdfunder, set up to help me pay the court-imposed costs of my recent free-speech trial: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
The MP who tweeted or retweeted that BBC report did not address the fact that the pro-Israel bloc in the UK and other states, the core of which is the Jewish Zionist population in each state, seems to be fairly solidly behind the Israeli military and air attack “operation” in Gaza.
I'm Jewish. This post is for anyone who opposes the GENOCIDE under way in Gaza, supported by @RishiSunak@Keir_Starmer & most UK media
IT IS NOT antisemitic to 1 Criticise the actions of Israel 2 Condemn the occupations 3 Condemn apartheid 4 Criticise the Israel Lobby in UK
In relation to no.4 above, it is unfortunate that the learned district judge at my free speech trial (in November 2023) seemed unaware of or (much more likely) not in agreement with, the point(s) made (which have been made many many times previously).
In fact, and in any case, “antisemitism”, as such, is not illegal in this country; neither is so-called “holocaust” “denial”. That much has been made clear in numerous court cases though, as far as I am aware, not yet at appeal level in the higher courts (Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of the UK).
Actually, the trial judge was fair in his actual conduct of the trial, overall, but Britain these days has come under a kind of low cloud of repression in respect of —shall we say?— “them“…
I feel that a few issues were slightly fudged in the delivered judgment of the learned District Judge at my trial. It is long since I was a barrister in court (2007) but I feel that there was at least one good appeal point in that judgment.
However, I am disinclined to appeal, and then have to go through, at the Crown Court, what would amount to a retrial, rehashing all the nonsense of the “CAA” and CPS already heard, particularly as the sentence eventually handed down by the sentencing judge was relatively light; and also in view of the fact that the sentencing District Judge refused the Prosecution application for a Criminal Behaviour Order to restrict (though not much, really, the Order and Application having been so poorly-drafted) my publication of the blog.
Incidentally, my trial was at the end of last November, so only a week short of 4 months ago. Tempus fugit. Even my sentencing hearing was 9 days ago, but I have already done one day out of the ordered 15 “probation” days (nominally a day, in terms of the sentence format, but actually about an hour in real time).
The blog continues. The blog will continue. Inshallah, as the Arabs say.
"On the street you see children, you see the gauntness in their face… I saw children yesterday in a hospital, their level of malnutrition is so severe that I simply don't know if they will be alive today. This is absolutely man made"
…and here is another thieving leech, Stephen Byers, another freeloading and/or fraudulent expenses cheat, and another Labour Friends of Israel member: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Byers.
2015: Jeremy Corbyn elected Labour leader. 2016: 172 Right Wing Labour MPs stage coup to get rid of him. 2016: same MPs back Owen Smith leadership bid. 2017 12.8 million vote for Corbyn in GE. 2024: these same RW MPs, including Starmer, running the Labour Party. #DontVoteLabourpic.twitter.com/E5EOHICI5o
“Right Wing Labour MPs“, says he, meaning “members of Labour Friends of Israel“: at least three out of the ten Jewish (some of the rest possibly part- or “crypto”). Several of that group of ten wealthy or very wealthy; the rest freeloading, and/or fraudulent, leeches and snakes.
The Starmer led Labour Party in many ways are worse then the Tories, they are using Labour’s history of being a voice for the working class to further the agenda of the elites.
It is now not impossible that, at the upcoming 2024 General Election, the Reform UK party, despite its flaws (from my ideological direction) will run about level with the Con Party; somewhere around 15%-20%. If so, and if Labour can get about 45%, the Con Party might be left with about 25-50 MPs (Labour 500-525; LibDems 25-50; Reform UK 0-5; Green 1-2; SNP 15-30; Plaid Cymru 2-3; others, about 18).
If the Conservative Party declines to somewhere below 50 MPs, it is an open question (bearing in mind the age of its core voters) as to whether it can survive at all in the medium term (2030-2050).
While I agree with Nick Griffin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin] that there is, for social-national people, “no Parliamentary road” in a totally rigged game, it is not impossible for a political party as yet not in existence to play at least some role in a general social-national upsurge. “All roads lead to Rome“, as they say.
There’s only one reason why this YouGov poll doesn’t have all bars 100% Red.
This 14 year long @Conservatives government is responsible for the desecration of the 🏴 flag on the football shirt. They've relentlessly pushed woke, and now every institution, including the FA, has been captured. What have they conserved 🤔
— National conservative ✝️ 🏴 (@yorkspride) March 23, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 23, 2024
The Kiev-regime forces can still fire missiles at cities, but they do not have the soldiers, arms, and ammunition to defeat or even hold the Russian forces on the battlefield.
The Russian Armed Forces are repelling a massive attack on Sevastopol. More than 10 missiles have already been shot down, and air defense fire against cruise missiles can be heard. The air raid alarm has been sounding for over an hour.
Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
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The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
Well, this week brings a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he only managed 1/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 7, and 9.
Laura Towler and Sam Melia
I included material on the blog yesterday about Laura Towler and her husband Sam Melia. I am not personally acquainted with them, and am not, as such, a supporter of their organization, Patriotic Alternative, but obviously am, as they are, supportive of European race and culture, and want Europe to have a future worth living. I also support free speech and freedom of expression.
Yesterday, Sam Melia was sentenced to 2 years in prison, a result of his having been convicted of what amounts to political offences. He will therefore probably be in prison for a year (possibly/hopefully a few months less).
I also happened to see this crowdfunder for the couple, who have a young child, with another expected soon.
Suspended sentence for rape on the same day Sam Melia is imprisoned for two years for thoughtcrime. Raped a girl in the castle keep and in her own home. They came as refugees.https://t.co/QVIAjAppIj
No one cared when college professors were teaching about the benefits of “destroying Whiteness” https://t.co/7bax4sPXXS
— Imperator Philippus Arabus (@PhilippusArabus) March 1, 2024
It's insane that counter terrorism investigated in the first place. They are now passing comment on the dangers of lawful stickers…
He did neglect to mention that they abused counter terror laws to conduct a raid of Sam's home, then immediately dropped those charges at the… https://t.co/LrS2SOBIKz
Sam Melia. Wrong race, wrong nationality, wrong “crime”…
The Sam Melia case draws a pretty unambiguous line in the sand, on one side of which is freedom and the other “diversity”. To think, an “English” jury could enforce such a vile disgusting criminal abuse of the law…
No doubt Sam Melia’s solicitors and Counsel will be considering whether to appeal, at least on sentence. A tough choice, though, when there is the danger of an increase in sentence in the appellate forum.
This is exactly why I don’t think Russia or anyone else banning the LGBT movement counts as “bigotry” or intolerance. LGBT is an organisational structure for a criminal political agenda. You have a right to defend yourself against it. https://t.co/Dzi9lWey6L
Appalling, but I should have more (or some) respect for Toby Young and the “Free Speech Union” had he and they said a word in defence of those dissident voices criminalized because of their (perceived) political views. Alison Chabloz, Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), Sam Melia, me…and many many others,
— Oddball 🍷🍺🪴🎸🥁🏎️🏍️🎫⚽️🥘🍷🍻FAOC (@CaptDrimmie) March 1, 2024
The little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, is going down politically. This time next year, he will probably have relocated to California or Bombay, and/or be another fake “lord” in the now-ludicrous House of “Lords”.
While it is true that a huge “Labour” majority would merely increase the repression on social-nationalism, at least there would be no nonsense about social national people having to play the “electoral” (rigged) game.
The faked pseudo-democratic “two main parties” game has to be brought down. If the Conservative Party can be almost wiped out at GE 2024, that party, half of the “two party” scam, may never recover. That in turn will lead to a vacuum which may then be filled by something new.
It was also a load of old bollocks from a guy who was never voted in and grifting off Israeli backed company funds via his father in laws Infosys. pic.twitter.com/iQ1MK2D5DQ
As for Sajid Javid, his brief political career is now at an end, unless he becomes yet another “plastic peer”. A near-loonie, who once praised the “antifa” thugs; also an acolyte of the Jewish “philosopher of selfishness”, “Ayn Rand” (Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), and so pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby that he even spent his honeymoon in Israel. An ex-Muslim apostate, who thinks that the UK’s multikulti society is a “success” only because he happens to have made plenty of money here.
The tragic death of Jo Cox was perpetrated by a seriously disturbed individual who was angry at his MP as she appeared to be more interested in helping foreigners than her own constituents. Extreme reaction, yes, but trying to frame that as ‘far right’ is clutching at straws
🇵🇸 The Washington Post, according to officials: The Netanyahu administration is approaching a point after which its challenge to its American partners can no longer be tolerated.
If Israel can be weakened, its support and aid given to the worldwide Jewish lobby web may falter, enabling that worldwide web to be taken down.
London's Oxford Street has been decorated for the start of the holy month of Ramadan. The festive illumination was personally lit by the mayor of the city, Sadiq Khan, pic.twitter.com/WQ2svkwkFt
🎖 The Belgian shepherd Gixer was awarded the title of "Best Service Dog" by Rosvgardia.
In 10 years of service, he has inspected more than 3,000 objects and found tens of thousands of different weapons, and now he has gone to a well-deserved retirement. pic.twitter.com/XO8NsC7cAf
Egypt has warned Israel that it will airdrop humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip regardless of Tel Aviv's approval, as the region faces a dire humanitarian crisis. pic.twitter.com/VlO39E2lS3
“While Rishi Sunak is whining about the peasants voting wrongly, WW3 just came a step closer!
Military experts told RIA Novosti how they assess proposals by top German officers to strike the Crimean Bridge: In response to the supply of Taurus missiles to Kiev, Moscow may consider the possibility of “Dagger” attacks on the manufacturing plant of these missiles in Germany, says Igor Korotchenko. ##NoConscription ##notourwar.”
Germany is presently ruled by traitors to the future of the German people. Those traitors are also pretty stupid. Do they think that Russia will sit still while its vital strategic infrastructure is targeted?
A year in prison for stickers that told simple truths is as disgusting as it was expected.
Sam Melia was foolish to run with an obvious honeytrap group, and to be caught flirting with deeply demonised ideas, but that doesn't alter the gross injustice of locking up a young… pic.twitter.com/jE8EZjGm6u
“A year in prison for stickers that told simple truths is as disgusting as it was expected.
Sam Melia was foolish to run with an obvious honeytrap group, and to be caught flirting with deeply demonised ideas, but that doesn’t alter the gross injustice of locking up a young father for purely peaceful dissidence, in order to intimidate other indigenous Brits into silence about our ongoing marginalisation and dispossession.
By refusing to allow peaceful and constructive expression of these issues, the UK state is pushing angry individuals towards a much less benign way of expressing their fears and frustration.
They were meant to learn from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, not repeat on the mainland the sort of injustice and repression that helped create them. #freespeech.”
The scale of Galloway’s win indicates he may well have taken the seat even without Azhar Ali’s suspension. In addition Reform are currently struggling to leverage their national poll lead into hard votes. Both of them will harden the view of many Tory MPs Sunak needs to go early.
George Galloway received 39.7% of the vote at Rochdale. The combined vote of the next three candidates (Independent David Tully, Labour Party, and Conservative Party) totalled only 41%: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Rochdale_by-election#Results.
The combined vote of the Labour and Conservative candidates was a mere 19.7%.
When Dan Hodges talks about Sunak “going early“, he is not referring to resignation but to Sunak calling an early General Election 2024. I had thought September or October, but it now looks as if June or July are possible months.
I just looked on the Electoral Calculus website [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html]. On present opinion polling, the Conservative Party might end up with as few as 43 MPs. Happy day, though equally I hate the idea of the Labour Party “elected dictatorship” that would inevitably result, and which might make Blair’s regime seem mild.
A fresh reminder of the appalling suffering going on in Gaza on a daily basis. https://t.co/ArXOO4xKg2
If those idiots attack Russia, there will be a direct response. That would presumably trigger Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, and from there it would be a very short step to a regional war, then a continental war, then an intercontinental war involving Russia and the USA. In other words, a Third World War. Terrible. Disastrous. Unnecessary.
North Korea is sending Russia 6,700 containers containing more than 3 million artillery shells. pic.twitter.com/9b9FYiqbfB
That is enough for almost an entire year at present rates of use.
Former American official: Iran will become nuclear by the end of 2024
The former senior director of the American National Security Council has claimed that Iran is a hair's breadth away from nuclear weapons, and if it does not become nuclear by the end of 2024, the only reason… pic.twitter.com/9yB8KqFa9B
Seems speculative. If Iran does become a nuclear power, Israel will go ballistic, possibly literally.
The US is in deep decline, and Trump is making it worse, says Francis Fukuyama
American institutions of government have been steadily declining for some time and are now at the point of a serious crisis, writes American philosopher, political scientist and economist Francis… pic.twitter.com/N8j9mIbN1b
Well, an unusual week, in that I was outscored by political journalist John Rentoul, who managed 6/10; I only got 5/10. I nearly guessed the answer to question 1, but could not be sure, and also came close on question 7. As it was, I only knew for sure the answers to questions 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9.
Tweets seen
Zionists fake cry in an attempt to get a peaceful, law-abiding protest shut down.
Exactly so. Labour actually offers nothing (except, possibly, arguably, tighter administration) that is not offered or done by the present “Conservative” misgovernment. Having said that, the voters plainly wish to punish the Government for being so weak and, indeed, hopeless.
It was surprising to see that just over a third of the Kingswood voters who voted, still voted Con, albeit that the turnout was well under 40% (so only about 10% or so of all eligible voters voted Con), but that may indicate that in a general election, the Con vote in that constituency (were it not being abolished) would be nearer to 20% or 25%, on a putative turnout of about 70%. However, that would still be not enough to win (were the seat to still exist at GE 2024).
According to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] cabal (on its website), “lord” Ian Austin, the notorious Israel-lobby and Jewish-lobby puppet who was once an MP, and who is one of the “Patrons” of the “CAA”, actually wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2022 demanding that I be prosecuted for expressing my views on this blog.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I was tried last November, found guilty on all 5 counts, and will be sentenced next month. Freedom of expression is almost dead, and a large part of the reason for that is the existence of the Jew-Zionist lobby.
Austin is very odd. He once tweeted that pornography involving bestiality should be decriminalized, a view echoed by the Jewish girl at the centre of the campaign against Dr. David Miller of Bristol University. Those tweets were later deleted. At the same time, Austin thinks that “holocaust” “denial” should be criminalized!
Austin’s quite long Wikipedia entry says nothing at all about his personal life.
You can bet that Austin makes sure to “sign on” at the House of Lords every sitting day, in order to get his c.£350 a day taxfree cash “allowance” and other freebies.
I wonder how many other lucrative part-time jobs (in the argot of today, “side-hustles”) Austin has. That housing chairmanship was almost certainly only one of several.
Austin almost personifies the corrupt pro-Israel political system of the UK today, as well as Starmer-Labour.
Tories said they'd lower migration Then put it on steroids Tories said control borders Then lost control Tories say we are sovereign But won't leave ECHR Tories blame Labour But won't change New Labour law Tories promised new economy Then gave us more of the same
And here we have it, unconsciously laid bare. It is the perfect summation of the Tory mindset; Parliament is for people who know how to make money; wasted on those who allegedly don’t. What bleak vision. It must be driven out. pic.twitter.com/XGgOHdhfeo
— The Neglectful Gardener: @RebootGB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@SimonPease1) February 17, 2024
When I was a GP 10 years ago, these were the wait times for a medical specialty referral:
Lack of funding is part of that, but I doubt that the tweeter (obviously Indian) would agree that another large part of the problem is the half-million to a million immigrants of various kinds every single year.
Yes, a tiny percentage of the migration influx consists of doctors and nurses, but the other 99.9% are those who will not work in the NHS but will use its services.
Then factor in the disastrous “lockdowns” and/or restricted service throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Then factor in the other recent developments: the strikes in the NHS, and the explosion of part-time working by GPs and the better-paid clinical staff generally, and also the phenomenon of medical students getting trained here in the UK, mainly at UK taxpayers’ expense (despite student loans), then emigrating to countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc for more money and a better lifestyle. They should have to work in the NHS for 5-10 years after qualification and training.
“Here’s a chart I tweeted this week which went viral on social media. It shows rates of home ownership in Britain by age, from 1960 through to today. Take a look…“
[Home ownership rates by age. Source: Sunday Times]
“Highlighting the fact mass immigration is directly fuelling our housing crisis clashes with the elite’s “luxury beliefs”. Routinely, they demand more and more immigrants, looser and looser borders, to project their liberal beliefs to other elites all the while knowing they and their families will never be the ones to have to compete with immigrants and newcomers for a roof above their heads.”
“As Andrew Neil said in response: “And the Tories wonder why young folks won’t vote for them”. Indeed. At the looming general election just 8% of Zoomers from Generation-Z plan to vote Conservative.
This is why, last weekend, housing secretary Michael Gove went further, touring media in Westminster to warn if young British people and families remain unable to get on the housing ladder ‘they will abandon democracy’.“
Our day in the sun may be nearer than we ourselves, as social nationalists, realize.
Look at recent by-elections. Only a third of voters are even bothering to vote. They despise the System parties and refuse to validate those “elected”, who have no real legitimacy.
By that date (2036), UK society will have either collapsed into civil war or chaos, or be very close to that point.
Only social nationalism can save Britain; and, frankly, even that will be a struggle. Things are very bad and, equally important, getting worse, and rapidly.
Scholz blocked the candidacy of Ursula von der Leyen for the post of NATO Secretary General, – Welt.
According to the publication, there were two reasons for this:
🔺Scholz considers the position of NATO Secretary General too important to give it to a Christian Democrat from… pic.twitter.com/QYshAQPTdp
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
“Scholz blocked the candidacy of Ursula von der Leyen for the post of NATO Secretary General, – Welt. According to the publication, there were two reasons for this:
Scholz considers the position of NATO Secretary General too important to give it to a Christian Democrat from Germany (opposition to Scholz’s party).
Scholz considers Ursula von der Leyen’s attitude towards Russia too critical.“
Die Welt is a heavyweight German conservative newspaper. Its business-oriented attitudes make it interesting that, recently, its coverage has mellowed towards Russia. The sanctions on Russia, and the general hostility to Russia from such as Ursula von der Leyen harm, not Russia, but Germany itself (and the rest of the EU).
Ursula von der Leyen always strikes me as —in the American phrase— “nutty”— excessively driven, and even mentally-ill. Another similar specimen is Christine Lagarde. NWO insiders.
It looks like Scholz and other major political players in Germany are waking up to the fact of the inevitable Russian victory in Ukraine, certainly in Eastern Ukraine. Realpolitik.
Due to the lack of people willing to enlist in the American army, the Pentagon decided to pay attention to older candidates pic.twitter.com/STeEoFyC7P
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is expected to visit the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) next week to demonstrate British sovereignty over them, after Argentine President Javier Millay called for "taking back control of them"
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
Unsurprising, given that Milei is a populist. However, this may be shadow boxing.
The UK now has not the power and global reach to defend the islands, certainly not to retake them after an invasion, as happened in 1982.
However, by the same token it may well be that the Argentine government does not today have the ability to launch such an invasion in the first place; I am unsure.
According to Bloomberg, the UK is working with the US and other allies to supply Ukraine with thousands of UAVs equipped with artificial intelligence technologies.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
In the unlikely event that Russia starts to be pushed back significantly on the battlefield because of such weapons given to the Kiev regime, the escalation might result in Russia using ever-heavier missiles and bombs, even tactical nuclear weapons. Kiev could be completely flattened
There must be a peace process that leaves Russia with, at minimum, Crimea, the Donetsk region, and the Lugansk region, and at least much of the Azov Sea and Black Sea littoral.
That relates to the Russian victory in the devastated city of Avdeevka (“Avdiivka” in Ukrainian). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avdiivka. Victory was declared by the Russian side only today. The Kiev-regime forces not killed or captured have withdrawn in disarray.
[Avdeevka/Avdiivka before the present war]
War is hell. Avdeevka in that photo looks (i.e. looked, before the war) reasonably decent for a once-Soviet industrial town.
Commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Mordvichev. Commanded the assault on Mariupol. Now his troops took Avdeevka.
Both times he outmaneuvered ukrainian command, forcing them to withdraw-be encircled. pic.twitter.com/Mrph3kJaPT
Some Essential background on Navalny and his "Operation" and why he found himself in prison.
Heres Navalny's right-hand man Vladimir Ashurkov directly asking an MI6 officer for Tens of Millions of Dollars to deliver a "Color Revolution" in Russia. pic.twitter.com/cuaVrxL8t0
Interesting, if true. A few thoughts come to my mind. Firstly, what conceivable British interest was being served here? None, in my view. As to the alleged MI6/SIS officer, he seems to be a good listener (which must be part of his job) and is evidently trying to be non-committal yet friendly (also part of his job, I presume). Other than that, hard to say much about him. Maybe privately-educated but trying to flatten the accent (like the present Prince of Wales and his brother)? Maybe, maybe not. A suitably “grey” person…
Navalny and his group were playing for high stakes. They lost.
There's no restrictions. No objection by police to placing flowers. Nothing. They are entirely polite and helpful.
The msm in the EU, UK, USA etc all show the masses a series of pictures (on TV, in the Press) etc; metaphorical pictures; shadows on the wall of the cave, if you like. “Ukraine”, “Navalny”, “Black Lives Matter”, “Covid”, “far right extremism”, “Russia about to attack Western Europe”. Mostly lies, or the truth bent so far out of shape that it becomes a lie.
The People of Europe and the United States are waking up.
They don't trust the Client Media routinely infiltrated by the intelligence services to peddle fear.
The elites know it, and they're desperate to prolong the failed Ukrainain project. Their entire empire depends on it. pic.twitter.com/MLS2aB2xj4
The order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky to abandon Avdeevka came only a day after the uncontrolled flight of Ukrainian troops began, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
If that is so, the withdrawal order was just a figleaf to cover what was really an uncontrolled flight by the Ukrainian front-line forces.
🇪🇺 In 2023, bypassing its own sanctions, the EU bought Russian oil and gas for a total amount of 30 billion euros. At the same time, the Russian economy is growing, and a recession has begun in Europe.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 17, 2024
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[River Ob at Barnaul, Western Siberia. At that point, the Ob is still 1,200 miles from where it flows into the Arctic Ocean]
Well, a convincing win over political journalist John Rentoul this week: he scored an embarrassing 1/10 (though all credit to him for having admitted it). I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 9, and 10, and guessed (out of two) the answer to question 8.
“It’s no longer up for debate: Joe Biden has got to go.
In a hastily called press conference Thursday night, President Biden was, for the first time, questioned relentlessly by the White House press pool about his age, cognition, and fitness to serve.
The latest national poll by NBC News found that a whopping 76 percent of voters are concerned about Biden’s mental and physical ability to serve.“
Looks as though only one likely alternative presently exists, a Jew called Dean Phillips, a member of the House of Representatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips.
“Phillips is married and has two daughters from a previous marriage. He is Jewish[43] and was acknowledged by the Minnesota publication The American Jewish World for serving on the board of Temple Israel in Minneapolis.
In the primaries held so far, Biden got 100% of the delegates and 83.4% of the popular vote (Phillips got 7% of the popular vote). Phillips is not even on the ballot of several state primaries.
Incidentally, I see that Emhoff was largely brought up in areas of New Jersey (Matawan and Old Bridge) somewhat known to me from when I lived in New Jersey (near Cheesequake State Park) on and off during the years 1990-1993.
[Garden State Parkway by Old Bridge, New Jersey]
[Washington Road, Sayreville, New Jersey, a few miles from where I sometimes lived in the early 1990s]
‘We need more guns, more equipment, but, most of all, more men.’ Dispatch from the Kupiansk frontline in Ukraine.”
[Daily Mail]
The msm in the UK, USA etc can no longer conceal the military crisis overwhelming the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev. The military chief, Zaluzhny, has been replaced, and the ranks of the Kiev-regime forces are being thinned by both battlefield casualties and the unwillingness of both Ukrainian men and foreign volunteers and mercenaries to serve.
The foreigners have mostly been killed, captured, or have returned home, while Ukrainian men in very large numbers are avoiding the draft, either by remaining in foreign countries or by keeping their heads down in Ukraine itself. The Kiev regime employs brutal press-gangs to capture draft-evaders. One has to ask, though, whether people forced to join up under violent duress are going to be of much use in the field.
Strategically, as noted on the blog for 2 years now, Russia cannot lose this conflict, and will not. Tactically, both sides have encountered problems, but in terms of both manpower and arms, Russia now has the edge, very obviously.
I would not rule out a large-scale Russian offensive in 2024, though it may be that Putin will prefer to see what happens politically in the USA first. The US Presidential Election is in November 2024.
“Russian troops are attacking a town in east Ukraine from all directions, and the situation is increasingly difficult for Ukrainian troops defending the town, its mayor said on Thursday.
“The enemy is pressuring from all directions. They are storming with very numerous forces,” Avdiivka mayor Vitaliy Barabash said in televised comments, describing the situation as “very difficult and hot”.“
The simple truth. Without EU, UK, and US arms and ammo, the Kiev regime will fall back, not only from the Donbass front, but fall back to Kiev, and quite likely further, to somewhere between Kiev and Lvov.
Likewise, Ukraine’s economy is on (Western) life-support.
Demographically, the population numbers are in freefall. 500,000 dead on or around the battlefields, huge numbers in foreign countries, and few children being born.
In short, as an independent state (failed state, fake state), Ukraine has no future.
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This is someone who’s been given a role as one of the people who decides the laws & policies of this country.
Nobody knows who Charlotte Owen is, what she’s done, and WHY she’s been elevated to the Lords.
— EAT FLAG 🏳️🌈🏴🏴☠️🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏁 (@AsenathMagic) February 10, 2024
Either Charlotte Owen is related to “Boris” Johnson (the most likely possibility), or he was having some kind of affair with her; there is a third possibility, i.e. that she somehow knows something very seriously discreditable about Johnson.
The last possibility seems unlikely. After all, Johnson is so discredited anyway that it would be hard to think of a concealed fact that would make blackmail or implied blackmail sufficiently threatening.
Still, there it is— an office gopher in her twenties now “elevated” to the House of Lords. Our whole system of government is rotten to the core.
“Politician“? Of course, we are talking about the Plaid Cymru fake “nationalist” joke-party, but even so…
“Carmen Ria Smith (born c. 1996/97) is a Plaid Cymru political assistant. In February 2024, it was announced Smith would be appointed to the House of Lords.
Smith was nominated to the peerage by Plaid Cymru after Dafydd Wigley announced he planned to retire in 2024.[2] This will keep the number of Plaid Cymru life peers as one.”
[Wikipedia]
A member of the Lords at 27, having been an office gopher for 1-2 years, and a lobbyist for a wind-turbine company for another 1-2 years. “Chief of Staff“? The Plaid group in the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) consists of only 12 people!
Carmen Smith was evidently born under a lucky star, and really should buy some lottery tickets. £350+ per day, plus extra monies etc, at age 27. For life, in effect. Incredible.
Ah…
On the day Carmen Smith takes her seat in the lords, a timely reminder of how she got there without consent of party members. Are @Plaid_Cymru now a party run by a few that runs roughshod over their members wishes? Shocking duplicity if so! https://t.co/romBSnEfKA
“A row has broken out in Plaid Cymru after an internal election for nominees to the House of Lords saw a lobbyist for a controversial wind power company elevated to first place on the list – even though she was decisively beaten in a members’ vote by former MP Elfyn Llwyd.
Although the voting figures haven’t been disclosed, Nation.Cymru understands that Carmen Smith, 27, who works for Bute Energy, received around 70 votes while Mr Llwyd got about 180 votes. A third candidate – longstanding party member Ann Griffith – secured around 40 votes.
A longstanding Plaid Cymru member contacted Nation.Cymru and said: “This is disgraceful. I don’t know the actual result of the vote but I would have thought that Elfyn was way out in front. The fact that the National Exec has imposed a woman on top of the list was not explained at any time in the introduction to the virtual hustings that I attended last week.”
A senior party source told us: “This all stems from a decision by the NEC to make sure that a woman was given top position, regardless of how many votes were cast. It’s quite farcical that Elfyn Llwyd was way in the lead, yet came second. It’s surely a travesty of democracy. He has a wealth of Parliamentary experience, while Carmen hasn’t even been elected as a councillor.“
[from Nation.Cymru online]
I wonder whether that might not be judicially reviewable. Seems (on the facts as presented) very lacking in transparency, at the very least.
International and Middle Eastern media are examining video from the Gaza Strip and discussing the plan and location for the evacuation of more than one million people from the southern city of Rafah pic.twitter.com/3f6Wx4vCEw
French farmers flooded the Ukrainian Embassy with shit.
They called on the protesters to disperse. The official message of the diplomatic mission says: “The people of Ukraine regret that French farmers, having just encountered the first difficulties, turned their anger on the… pic.twitter.com/E9Icvef5ub
MOST READ last week. Them Vs. Us – A compelling new study reveals just how out of touch Elites really are, from Net Zero to individual freedom https://t.co/IgUbH1omZg
The WHO pandemic treaty risks handing over domestic health policies to unelected technocrats. Once passed (final draft by May 2024), it becomes binding to all 194 WHO Member States. This must be stopped.#StopTheTreatypic.twitter.com/a3NexjOHG3
'The EU are frightened… they're beginning to realise that people will no longer let them get away with it… people are beginning to realise that [climate change] is a gigantic lie'
Christine Anderson MEP reacts to the EU 'climb down' over farming laws following mass protests. pic.twitter.com/AZDtsePs2P
'Truth is the kryptonite of the parasite class'@thecoastguy Neil Oliver says 'the act of speaking the truth has been criminalised right before our eyes'. pic.twitter.com/UZSd8oaNDn
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 3/10, which I trumped with 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 6, 8, 9, and 10.
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Deep State, ‘Powerful Israeli Lobby’ Blocking US Withdrawal From Iraq and Syria: Fmr State Senatorhttps://t.co/80AenmQhWc
🗣 US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria will accomplish nothing
"The Americans will strike Iraq and Syria, and they will claim some sort of 'victory over terrorists' and that sort of nonsense which they usually say. But it will be like in Yemen, they will have very little impact… pic.twitter.com/J3LQLKqVAi
God help the world were that crazed menopausal woman to become U.S. President: things would get out of hand, WW3 would soon be triggered and, in the well-known phrase, we would be lucky to live through it.
We are bombing Iraq and Syria because our troops were attacked in Iraq and Syria.
But why do we even have troops in Syria and Iraq? Seriously, why do we have ANY troops there.
The US military response "will continue at times and places of our choosing," President Biden said in a statement following US retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/t5k148ZU2H
Clapham chemical attack latest: Suspect last seen on Victoria Tube line, say police’s And how many more are we going to let in this country before WE say enough enough before we do something that politicians will not do https://t.co/N8ox83hd3d
Most Britons continue not to take a side or to sympathise with one side more than another in the Israel-Palestine conflict, overall 61% say they sympathise with both sides, neither side or aren’t sure. Meanwhile 17% sympathise more with Israel, 22% with Palestine. pic.twitter.com/jwBkAwSiYz
While some foolish people say that I only see one side, i.e. am anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian, in fact that is not so. I am certainly not pro-Israel in this conflict, that much is true.
Colossal destruction of buildings on the outskirts of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
It can be noted that in just two months, artillery, aviation and IDF engineers literally razed most of the buildings captured by the satellite to the ground pic.twitter.com/MVLy0n5XU3
Nothing significant was hit," Scott Ritter, a former US military intelligence officer, said of US airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria. pic.twitter.com/mrputP95cs
— Dr Ted, CPA, MBA, ASPCA, LGBTQ, Esq (@Ted04536250) February 2, 2024
A great piece from a thoroughly good man. The House of Commons would have been enriched if Paul had become an MP and who knows what the future holds… https://t.co/7peAtAszm0
Well, if my memory serves, that Waugh individual attacked me on Twitter when I still had a Twitter account (before a pack of Jews, the usual pack in fact, had me expelled in 2018). Before then. That being so, “Nein danke!“.
As Churchill once said, belief in “democracy” lasts no longer than a 5-minute conversation with the average voter…
I note that, of the four names mentioned, two are Jewish, and all four could be regarded as mass media “celebrities” (and at least one could also be called a poundshop Trump).
I was slightly proud of that blog post, yet it has been (with a couple of others I thought quite good) one of my least-read over the years.
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The bodies of 15 victims were pulled from the ruins in Lisichansk , the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced. The search and rescue operation continues after the attack on the bakery by the Ukrainian armed forces. pic.twitter.com/eWMJLLLJaq
The strategy of the Kiev regime is fairly obvious: to goad Russia by ever more egregious attacks, until Russia responds with an all-out and devastating missile attack on Kiev itself, at which point Zelensky will appeal for NATO intervention.
Were that to take place, WW3 would be but a step away.
CNN, according to American officials : The United States and Britain bombed at least 30 Houthi targets in 10 locations. Note- US -Uk bombed empty locations. pic.twitter.com/LoTI0AYuXJ
Imagine what resources they might have in 2034 or 2044.
The big problem is that the law-abiding, tax-paying Britons believe key institutions – police, courts, Home Office, even churches – are on their side. They are not. They are not on your side. Excellent by @GoodwinMJhttps://t.co/r9ye1UOZtn
A convincing drubbing of political journalist John Rentoul this week. He scored a modest 4/10, which I trumped with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 8, and 9 (and admit that my correct answer to question 5 was an educated guess).
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England's beauty is organic. It is not as titanic as the Alps or as brooding as the Germanic forests but it is gentle, crafted and sublime. It is not hammer forged by the gods, it was grown from the soil by the Englishmen who have loved it. pic.twitter.com/xBuDzOuvbq
This is the result of decades of open borders and left-wing anti-American indoctrination. The future of America doesn’t look good, if there even is one.
Ha ha! Many of them actually think like that. The 2,000-3,000 years (or more) of European history and culture are, for most of them, a closed book; they know almost literally nothing about it, and so about us.
The ski slopes are no longer safe. It’s unfortunate that wherever they go, that place turns into a violent spot. pic.twitter.com/OR9s6RVftt
Meanwhile, in London, the zoo is no longer that place in Regent’s Park.
They remove Thomas Jefferson statues because it’s “offensive” but will happily erect statues of George Floyd who was a career criminal and drug addict.
Alex Kotlowitz…99% of that sort of propaganda comes from “them” (((them))).
Britain doesn’t look very British anymore. The native population has been replaced in every major city. Is it too late to turn things around? If nothing happens the entire country will soon look like this. pic.twitter.com/laD4AHOt3K
…but say so, and (((someone))) will make a contrived complaint to the otherwise all but inactive police, and you may find yourself in court as a defendant…
Gee, I wonder why the numbers are so low… Why would you want to fight for a regime that hates you with every fiber of their being and is turning your country into a third world shithole? pic.twitter.com/BfqiRyMPQx
…and that is what it would be like in France under Marine le Pen, in Germany under the AfD, and in the UK under Farage or Reform UK. Controlled opposition. The touchstone is what any political group says about Israel, the Jew-Zionist lobby, and generally the “JQ”. If they are ideologically unsound on that, you can chuck them in the bin.
It is, apparently, “antisemitic” for non-Jews to play Jewish roles such as Robert Oppenheimer (the nuclear physicist) in a recent TV series, but Jews play white European roles all the time. Apparently, that’s OK (and, no doubt, to prevent that or even complain about it would be —you guessed it— “antisemitic“).
Blacks too, can play any European role (however absurdly), but I have yet to see a European actor playing Nelson Mandela or Muhammad Ali… That will never happen; if it did, our cities would burn to the ground (be burned to the ground).
As noted many times on this blog, the propaganda is not aimed at the adult audience, primarily; the main target is the under-18 demographic, especially children, and the aim is to normalize the existence, and prominence, of non-whites in every part of our society, even when (as in almost any European historical setting) there were no blacks at all. Also, to normalize mixed-race breeding.
Why would you want to die for a country that literally hates you? Let your immigrants fight your wars. pic.twitter.com/yMHKuD4o6P
It’s almost funny…just as the Soviet Union and the whole “East bloc” (and almost all Western observers) pretended, during the 1980s, that its system, way of life etc would go on pretty much forever (only to find that all that collapsed almost, not quite, overnight in various socialist states in 1989, 1990, 1991), the UK ruling groups are themselves pretty much stuck in a bubble of belief not unalike that Soviet/socialist mindset.
I saw the “East bloc” a few times in the late 1980s, and had a lot of contact with Soviet and ex-Soviet people all through that decade. I get a similar feeling looking at our UK society. The facade is still there, but it is held together with string and glue…
Look at this latest “conscript the British public to fight Russia” nonsense. To some extent, it may be an attempt to prevent the wipe-out of the Conservative Party at GE 2024, but it goes much wider than that. Similar nonsense has come out of Washington, Brussels, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in the past 2 weeks.
In the UK, there seem to be Army top brass, as well as many members of the public, who believe that not only should the UK “fight Russia” but that “we” can (also, note the illusion that the UK is still a “nation”…). Also, that the projected (promoted?) Third World War (against Russia) will be somewhat like a conflation of WW1 and WW2. The usual mistake— “fighting the last war”.
I have as yet seen no colourful graphics from the Daily Mail, Express etc describing vividly what the blasted and irradiated remnant of the UK might be like after a nuclear war…
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John Rentoul listing a decade of improvements to British life is fucking insane. pic.twitter.com/BNu2RgtRfH
Sounds desperate. Maybe, though, that is how John Rentoul and the other Westminster Bubble people really think— that the past 10-20 years in the UK has been really great… maybe life has been, for them and, overall, about 5% of the population…
US President Joe Biden assures Netanyahu that he will not support a year-long war in the Gaza Strip.https://t.co/BIREVVfEZK
The United States does not rule out the possibility of an armed conflict between South Korea and North Korea in the coming months, writes the "New York Times", citing American officials. pic.twitter.com/UQTm3Jd0On
So a general heating of the political/military atmosphere of the world this year.
#BillyBraggIsAWanker… I'm more interested in why the Battle of the Bulge is trending. I met some Waffen SS veterans in the early 80s. A couple of them fought in it with Kampfgruppe Peiper
Hitler Jugend division, mostly 17 year olds, but officered by Liebestandarte veterans and commanded by Fritz Witt, Kurt "Panzer" Meyer (also captured at Falaise) and Wilhelm Mohnke. Fearsome soldiers. Your dad was lucky
Always interesting to see the areas where such events took place. En route back across Europe by car (Turkey to UK) in the summer 2001, my wife and I stumbled upon a small family-run hotel in the Ardennes.
On its own, with no houses nearby, and on a minor road. All around, the country was heavily-wooded, and the hotel (a large 19thC house with a pleasant garden) had had a small restaurant extension added circa 1960 (I think), looking like —and furnished in— the style of some of the scenes in the film North by Northwest.
As we dined, initially alone in the restaurant (later, one other couple appeared, but I think that we were the only other hotel guests), we were told by the waitress (a young woman, one of the owning family) that during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, that house had been the headquarters (or one such) for the American commander, Patton, and that we were occupying the room that Patton himself had used as a bedroom during part of those times (either during or after the actual battle; the exact details were not specified).
🚨 EXC: Rishi Sunak’s own pollster Will Dry has resigned as a SpAd at No10 amid rows over direction of government
🚨 @TheSun can reveal he is now doing polling on behalf of this Conservative Britain Alliance who were behind that YouGov mega poll
The norm in the past has been for the opinion polls to narrow as a general election approaches. This time, with only 10 months to go, and possibly only 8 months, the polls are widening. Why?
For me it is clear that the widening is not because the voters love fake (and Zionist-ruled) “Labour”, and/or wishy-washy bureaucrat-dictator Starmer, but because they —including many former Con voters— actually now hate —and I do mean hate— this incompetent and hopeless “Conservative” government, and want to stamp on it until it dies. They want to kill off (politically) as many Con Party MPs as possible.
No point in going again through all the reasons, but part of, or added to, that long list would obviously be the endless pseudo-“tough” talk on immigration combined with no action whatsoever. Also, now, the craven “support” given to the evil Israeli regime and the UK Jewish lobby; also now the billions (more) being wasted on “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime), together with the suggestion that the UK should be placed on a war footing (notionally against Russia), with whatever civil rights still existing removed (eg the fast-disappearing free speech rights). Even the reintroduction of conscription or “National Service”. Madness.
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5-month-old baby Jamal Al Kafarna died of starvation in the Gaza Strip.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the number of famine victims in Gaza is rising, particularly among infants, children and the elderly.
Rain, sleet, and no shelter or any food for many. Meanwhile, the Jews (both in and out of Israel) claim that their ancestors had it worse in early/mid 1940s Poland, and that their actions in Gaza are legitimate “self-defence”…
That should be the stance taken by all European political leaders.
🇩🇪 Pistorius: I currently see no threat from a Russian "attack" on NATO territory
▪️However, the "principle of containment" of Russia, modeled on the one that operated during the Cold War, is necessary, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. pic.twitter.com/tfFp0X8dBn
“Containment” is not at all necessary, because Russia in 2024 has no ideology that would make expansion in any way its national goal, as contrasted with pre-1990s Soviet Marxism-Leninism.
After the unsuccessful counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the US administration is developing a new strategy for them that does not foresee the return of lost territories , writes the "Washington Post". pic.twitter.com/jjspOGLUuB
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 5/10 as against his 3/10, though I admit that my correct answer to question 1 was either a pure guess or something subliminal; I have never seen the show The Traitors. As well as question 1, I also got right the answers to questions 2, 6, 7, and 8.
It seems more and more that @elonmusk is a Ziomarionette and a Globalist puppet. His @X is demonetizing large pro-Palestinian, pro-Russian and anti-MSM accounts, without any explanation and removing the monetization tabs. I single out a personal example and the example of the…
75% of the settlers who fled northern Israel after the Hezbollah attacks have now started a new life elsewhere.
🔴 According to official data, about 80 thousand settlers have left the north, according to unofficial data – about 250 thousand, and their number is constantly… pic.twitter.com/9eeOG7m5na
Two brothers who mutilated and abused animals in the New Forest for their own entertainment have been jailed for more than eight years combined. https://t.co/E71088AFEx
“Tinker” types. Reading all those reports, it seems that most of the incarceration imposed was for offences other than the animal cruelty crimes.
Sentences for cruelty to animals are still ludicrously light in this country.
A sentence of 5 years or so really means release in about 2-3 years. Another defendant in the above case even got off with only a light “community penalty” despite having, inter alia, rammed a police car (read the reports, though not all of the reports agree exactly on the facts).
The penalties for offences of that sort (cruelty to animals) have to be revisited by Parliament, increased markedly, and the courts need to be firm in applying them.
All the same, most people in this country are kind to animals:
Amazing footage of deer being rescued after getting trapped in fencing.https://t.co/jFiPcL3EMK
“Ukraine – Here are the bodies of working class conscripted Ukrainian soldiers frozen to death. Last year, Zelenskyy’s wife spent close to 1 million euros in one shopping trip to Paris.”
The Ukraine-Russia war is closer to a civil war than to a normal inter-state war.
📣📣 LOOK PEOPLE!! 📣📣
Poor People Are Sent To War To Die For A Fight They Don't Even Want To Fight In Ukraine!!!
ALL WHILE
Rich Ukrainian’s party all while average and poor Ukrainians DIE on the frontlines 😕😮💨 pic.twitter.com/y73LuBu76G
— 🇺🇲Patriots🇺🇲Against🇺🇲Predators!!🇺🇲 (@PredatorHunterz) January 20, 2024
For those revellers, snow is fun. It is different for the press-ganged soldiers of the Kiev regime, dying in the snow and ice of the front-lines.
Russia will and must prevail in Ukraine.
Russia is advancing, and Ukraine is on the defensive – Austrian colonel
Despite the military successes that Kiev constantly reports, Ukraine is now on the defensive, while Russia is actively advancing, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner said in an interview with ZDF.
“Russia is advancing, and Ukraine is on the defensive – Austrian colonel.
Despite the military successes that Kiev constantly reports, Ukraine is now on the defensive, while Russia is actively advancing, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner said in an interview with ZDF.
In his opinion, Moscow’s military successes are mainly due to the fact that it was able to significantly increase the production of ammunition. Now on the battlefield, the Russian side fires 10 thousand shells every day versus 2 thousand from the Ukrainian side.
Russia is trying to advance along the entire front, depleting Kiev’s already small reserves. “It could lead to a major breakthrough,” Reisner emphasized.
The colonel also expressed concerns about the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. He recalled that Russia is a nuclear power: “And it is unknown what could happen if it is driven into a corner.” Only “historians in retrospect” will be able to assess whether sending new types of weapons to Kiev would be correct or not.“
Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on January 18-19
▪️Ukrainian forces have once again attempted to attack Russia's rear regions. In Saint Petersburg, three enemy drones were intercepted while attempting to attack the seaport.
The Zelensky regime is living dangerously. If any significant damage is done to the major historical buildings of Petersburg or Moscow, Kiev will be flattened.
The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you run out of other people's houses. https://t.co/912XLavLXC
Selling-off public assets such as council houses was and remains a disastrous policy.
"If the Tories are dying, if we really are witnessing the strange death of the Conservative Party, then what might emerge to replace them?"https://t.co/noOZhsbtr3
Anything other than real social nationalism is a waste of time (and probably a fraud).
Watch David Lammy run away like a coward when he is presented with facts about a genocide that he and the Labour Party endorsed. #FreePalestinepic.twitter.com/zsIOBdrMuO
Lammy is really ridiculous! Imagine running away from a (loud but harmless) young woman like that, instead of either standing still until the guards removed her or, more impressively, engaging with her and showing yourself to be a leader…
Pathetic, nicht wahr? Lammy poses as a legal expert because (and how many similar examples have I seen in or from the “black community”?) he took his degree in the UK and then took a “Master’s degree” (a one-year course that hardly anyone fails) at Harvard (after having become a barrister in England). He did about two years as a gopher in American law firms before returning to the UK. He was then elected to the London Assembly and, later (2000), at age 27, to the House of Commons, as MP for Tottenham, a seat where only blacks need apply (in reality)— “bandit country”.
Lammy has now been an MP for nearly 24 years, and has made the most of it (financially) for himself, while accomplishing precisely nothing for the UK or his own constituents.
Now Lammy is set fair to be appointed Secretary of State for Justice in a Starmer-led fake “Labour” Government after GE 2024. He is also a Privy Councillor.
Lammy knows that he has to kow-tow to Starmer and the Israel/Jewish lobby in order to keep his career going.
So there we have it— Britain 2024 in a nutshell: the triumph of ignorance, stupidity, and tick-box careerism.
Incidentally, looking at that Labour Party audience, most of the people there are almost all as old as those attending Conservative Party events. Mostly in their sixties and seventies. Both major System parties are dying. Most people want a real alternative, not this rigged pseudo-democratic false choice.
“David Lammy doesn’t speak for me, he’s a rotten MP”
Clear and justifiable anger from a protestor at Fabian’s event today.
David Lammy has failed Tottenham just as Lyn Brown has failed West Ham 💛#NoCeasefireNoVote 🇵🇸
Lammy tying himself in knots on BBCR4 Today. I think the penny has finally dropped that supporting a genocide is not a good look for so alleged progressives and he's desperately trying a partial reverse ferrit without upsetting the Israel lobby. He's such is disingenuous prick.
British newspaper The Times, quoting an Israeli security official: Israel's wartime government is on the verge of collapse, and Netanyahu is hesitating and wasting time. pic.twitter.com/Xj7XwEkDct
Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army: We are releasing part of the reserve forces due to the tension of the battlefield and the necessities of life. pic.twitter.com/sy9T5YTUZg
Prime Minister of Slovakia: Ukraine is under the total control of the United States
"Since 2014, the year after the Maidan, Kyiv has been under the total control and influence of Washington." "Ukraine is not an independent and independent country," Slovak Prime Minister Robert… pic.twitter.com/XPjcyaDr1p
Ian Robert Millard 