— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) May 18, 2024
The savagery of a bygone age, come to life again in our times. Europe must create a civilization without savagery, and without savages (from either side).
This world IBD day 🌍 we want to breakdown the myths surrounding Crohn's and Colitis, the two main forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
— Crohn's & Colitis UK (@CrohnsColitisUK) May 18, 2024
Not something from which I myself suffer, thank God, but such conditions are more widespread than often thought. The social security system as at present constituted is designed (especially since 2010 and the influence of Dunce Duncan Smith, aka “IDS”) to attack the sick and disabled, and to make them jump through hoops, rather than to help them.
NATO politicians say it out loud; Ukraine War is about Russia's defeat and subsequent disintegration. Their WEF courses do not include discretion and discipline, for the one message "we are saving poor little Ukraine's freedom and democracy".
God. That stupid woman talking rubbish is actually the Prime Minister of Estonia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaja_Kallas. Her father was also Prime Minister of Estonia.
Personally, I think that the Baltic states, or pribaltika as the Russians call them, have every right to self-determination, but their leaders have now gone well beyond that, in becoming puppets of NATO, or really of NWO/ZOG.
Zahawi and many like him (not only Kurds like him, but also Pakistanis, Indians, Jews, Arabs etc) have brought the ethos of the Middle Eastern and South Asian bazaars to Westminster. Many English MPs are no better now. Just unclean.
Interesting, though the headline is a little misleading. Arnhem was, after all, at a time when the main action was not on the admittedly very active Western Front but the ever-rolling-westward Red Army on the Eastern Front.
The amusing aspect is that anyone should be surprised about it all. Give tens of millions or more to a load of black “activists”, and then wonder “where the money went“? Ha ha.
Israeli Settlers attack Palestinian vehicles and chase trucks near the Sinjil town junction, north of Ramallah. pic.twitter.com/TPyLcr2lfp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 19, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 19, 2024
Images published by an Occupation Militant is testimony to the methodical demolition of entire neighborhoods in Khan Yunis city. Palestinians who returned after the Occupation withdrawal last month discovered hundreds of Palestinians buried in mass graves. pic.twitter.com/WhTO7FhmRF
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 19, 2024
Interesting way of looking at it…
Extradition or continuation of legal battles – Assange faces a decisive trial on May 20
The “court saga” of journalist Julian Assange, which has been dragging on for more than ten years, could end in the UK as early as Monday. Assange faces a May 20 hearing in London's High… pic.twitter.com/6ao8tgsscy
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 19, 2024
“Extradition or continuation of legal battles – Assange faces a decisive trial on May 20.
The “court saga” of journalist Julian Assange, which has been dragging on for more than ten years, could end in the UK as early as Monday. Assange faces a May 20 hearing in London’s High Court that could result in him being sent to the United States to face espionage charges or give him another chance to appeal his extradition, ABC News reports.
The outcome of the case will depend on how much weight the judges place on assurances from US officials that Assange’s rights will not be harmed if he stands trial in the US. As the publication explains, London judges must rule on whether the court has satisfied Washington’s guarantee that Assange will not face the death penalty and that he can rely on the right and freedom of speech provided for by the First Amendment of the US Constitution if he is tried for espionage in United States.
Assange’s lawyers say the journalist could be on a plane across the Atlantic within 24 hours of the decision, or his case could again drag on for months of legal battles.“
If Assange is extradited, he may not face the death penalty (for telling the truths the System did not want told) but may face 10, 20, 50, 100 years (sentence) in some American “Supermax” giant tomb.
What a disgrace, that the UK is so craven in respect of the USA these days. Long ago, America was our colony; now we are America’s colony.
Zelensky's five-year term ends tomorrow, May 20, but he has no plans to resign or call an election during the war, even though Ukraine's love affair with the former comedian appears to be ending.
No, this is not Russia's psychological war, writes the Economist, which notes that… pic.twitter.com/OyNsVDc0W6
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 19, 2024
“The Razumkov Center survey shows that trust in the presidency has fallen from a rating of 71% in 2023 to a rating of 26%,” the article states.“
#Panorama skewering the government on #immigration numbers, showing that the govt encouraged care workers & students to come to the U.K. with their dependents. The numbers are absurd. Add that to small boats, Afghans & Syrians & you have a disaster. pic.twitter.com/oT2qQvANEQ
Trump, today, now leads Biden by an average 1.7 in national polls & 4.7 in the key battleground states. Reboot my piece: why Trump is stronger than in 2016 https://t.co/yfG6h66bgr
Budanov is a legitimate target for Russian troops , said FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. pic.twitter.com/NCczVykMnK
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
All high-ranking members of the Kiev regime are legitimate targets, most of all Zelensky himself, and Danilov.
Jordanian attempt to attack the Israeli embassy
Last night, hundreds of Jordanians once again gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman and, according to the media, they were planning to attack the embassy, but the security forces dispersed them with tear gas. pic.twitter.com/rMiQCGTJKp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
Israeli embassies worldwide are not normal diplomatic buildings but centres for every kind of subversion and snooping, even compared to some others which mix diplomacy with an illegitimate amount of espionage and other activity.
London court postpones Assange's extradition to the US
Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America. London's Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain… pic.twitter.com/axITft07dc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
“London court postpones Assange’s extradition to the US Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America.
London’s Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain conditions, The Guardian writes.
The court demands that the United States allow Assange to invoke the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. They must also ensure that his Australian citizenship will not affect the proceedings, and that the death penalty will not be taken against the whistleblower, the publication explains.
If the court does not receive such guarantees by April 16, the defense will be able to appeal. However, even if assurances are provided, the parties will be able to file a motion before a final decision is made to file an appeal, the article emphasizes. If Assange is denied permission to appeal, he could be sent to the United States within days to face espionage charges.
His lawyers insist that the charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of secret and diplomatic documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are politically motivated and the extradition request is illegal.“
A purely political and malicious attempt to silence a truthteller. On a smaller stage, the same happened to me, most recently in 2023-2014.
This now seriously ill man is being tortured before our eyes by a system both sides of the Atlantic that is deeply sick and satanically evil. pic.twitter.com/J7jjwvUMz9
The Tories have pledged to keep the state pension triple lock in place if they win the next election – 72% of Britons think the triple lock should remain in place (including a majority across all generations)https://t.co/Cy60U7qpqgpic.twitter.com/g4WuDEXnLg
NEW. A judge granted asylum to chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi despite concluding he had told a "litany of lies" about his life (The Times). As I wrote at the time, we are being led by foolshttps://t.co/Jbqi7cF4cd
At what point does that sort of thing stop being foolishness (or idiocy) and start to become a form of deliberate treason?
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl made an interesting statement:
“The entire political system in large European countries like France and Germany has collapsed. The one who destroyed the political landscape was French President Emmanuel Macron.” pic.twitter.com/oPtimDlSjH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
McGregor believes that the Ukrainian president, because he has no solution on the battlefield, is ready to take desperately dangerous steps in order to confront Russia in some way. pic.twitter.com/PM0vaNYuvW
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
That seems to be a reference to American ex-officer Macgregor: see
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I remember that song. 1967; I was a 10-y-o child living in Mosman, a North Shore suburb of Sydney. Different times (look at the comments appended to that YouTube video).
“Major French magazine L’Express has revealed that its prominent former editor, Philippe Grumbach, was a KGB spy for 35 years.
He counted presidents, actors and literary giants as close friends. He was a legendary figure in journalism who shaped the editorial direction of one of France’s most successful publications. When he died in 2003, Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon said Grumbach had been “one of the most memorable and respected figures in French media”.
But he was also “Brok”, the KGB spy.
Extensive proof of Grumbach’s duplicitous life can be found in the so-called Mitrokhin archive.
Born in Paris in 1924 into a Jewish family, Grumbach fled France with his mother and siblings in 1940 – the year Nazi Germany invaded and Marshal Philippe Pétain took power in Vichy with a collaborationist regime.“
[BBC]
The Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections
At Wellingborough, a convincing win for Labour. I thought that it might go closer than it did. Labour 45.9%, Conservatives 24.6%, Reform UK 13%. All 8 other candidates lost their deposits; the LibDems came closest with 4.7%. A local Independent, Marion Turner-Hawes, scored 3.7% and probably would have beaten the LibDems had she been the only Independent standing. The Greens, as usual, were nowhere (6th) on 3.4%, and Britain First was even more “nowhere” on 1.6%.
The Conservatives were let down partly by the choice of candidate, the girlfriend of unpleasant former MP, Peter Bone. Having said that, the main reason for the electoral upset was that people want a change, even if it is really not much of a change, or the wrong change. They wanted, also, to stamp on the Conservative Party.
The Conservative candidate tried to make “stopping the boats“, i.e. the continuing cross-Channel migration-invasion, the issue. Of course, the fact is that the cross-Channel invasion is only a tenth, if that, of the main invasion— the enormous influx of “students”, “family-members”, “highly-skilled workers” (Indians that can work a computer) as well as supposed “asylum-seekers” etc.
Also, the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024 have not even seriously tried to “stop the boats”, let alone the main migration-invasion. Not far short of a million a year now.
A better candidate, and one not tied up with Peter Bone, might have scored higher, maybe well over 30%, and so lost less embarrassingly.
A real social-national party, if one existed, might have won. Turnout was only 38%; a huge 62% of those eligible to vote did not bother, or showed their contempt for the whole system via abstention.
No need to “analyze” the Britain First vote— pathetic. As for Reform UK, it is going to have to do a lot better than that if it is going to start winning seats. Another pro-Israel scam-party by Nigel Farage.
Overall, the result is another nail in the coffin of the Rishi Sunak government, and the Conservative Party (and Sunak himself, of course).
I should be ready to bet that, if voters aged 65+ (many of whom would have voted early by post) were taken away, the remaining Con Party vote would have been no more than 10%.
Kingswood, north of Bristol and in effect an outer suburb of Bristol, also returned a Labour MP yesterday. Pointlessly, of course, because not only will there be a general election this year but, also, the constituency is being abolished.
The result was Labour 44.9%, Conservatives 34.9%, Reform UK 10.4%, Green 5.8%, LibDems 3.5%, UKIP 0.5%.
Turnout was 37.1%, even lower than at Wellingborough. Almost two-thirds of those eligible could not be bothered to vote, and/or despise the whole circus.
The Labour candidate had the advantage of being of local origin, more or less, combined with not being a Conservative. His unusual personal life (gay, and having converted from Roman Catholicism to Judaism to fit in with his Jewish “civil partner”) seems to have been disregarded by the voters (meaning the 11,176 who voted for him, out of about 80,000; the other ~68,000 were eligible to vote but either did not vote or voted for other candidates).
The Conservative Party candidate came closer than I had expected. His own local origins can probably be thanked for that. The Farage vehicle, Reform UK, came third, but again seems to be —time after time— the “also ran” party…
The Greens saved their deposit and beat the LibDems into 5th place. The rump of UKIP came last, and one has to wonder why candidates for no-hope parties like that even bother.
Yet another nail in Sunak’s political coffin, of course.
Taking away the local aspects of both by-elections, for me the “takeaways” are that this “Conservative” government is toast, that Sunak is toast, and that the Conservative Party is toast. Also, that the LibDems are seen as dull and, except where they have a good tactical chance against a Conservative candidate, unappealing to voters.
More? Well, that Reform UK is not exciting enough people, not yet anyway, to start being a major player. Also, that the Greens only appeal to around 5% of the electorate, if that.
Finally, for me the point is that, in both of these by-elections, only just over a third of people even bothered to vote; without postal voting, that 37%/38% would probably have been nearer to 20%. The voters most interesting to me are those not presently energized to vote.
What do these results say about GE 2024? That Labour must be en route to victory, though a victory not welcomed by all, or even a majority, of the voters. A feeling of dull meaninglessness, perhaps. A hollow victory?
For the Conservative Party, these results must mean that the bulk of their MPs are on the way out. 50 may survive, maybe 100.
Tweets seen
The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City.
A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/vn0oL0bnU5
Putin: NATO has lost its purpose of existence – it is only an instrument of US foreign policy
EMPHASIZED THAT FOR MOSCOW, BIDEN IS PREFERABLE TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE THAN TRUMP
He stated: "When I met with Biden in Switzerland – it was three years ago – and then some were… pic.twitter.com/kOtrUY1HTG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
A picture of the Shahid-191 flying drone assembly line that has been published on social networks. pic.twitter.com/qlROQXZkfD
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The time may come when Israel faces thousands of such drones.
"When you ignore the wishes of your core voters, when you treat them with contempt, when you promise them one thing only to do something else entirely, they will soon find another home. And that’s what they’re doing by switching to Reform"https://t.co/58R0TO4UNh
I agree with the first bit, but only partly with the second. Many 2019 Con Party voters seem to be switching, in despair, to Reform UK, but that would be only a small minority of the overall electorate. Look at the turnout figures from yesterday. Only a third (just over) of eligible voters even voted. Reform UK, with its limited “conservative nationalism” “cosplay”, its pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby attitude, and its semi-“libertarian” economics, will never inspire even a half of the voters. Maybe 10%, maybe 20%. I doubt that it will go higher.
The fact is that, even at Kingswood, where the result scarcely mattered in itself (a general election this year, and the seat then ceasing to exist), Reform UK only gathered in 13% of the votes, i.e. about 5% of all possible votes. The Wellingborough result was similar: 9.4% of votes cast, i.e. about 3% of all possible votes.
Only a fully-credible social-national party might be able to energise and inspire the British people. That party does not exist.
NEW POST. Sunak's Sinking — By-elections, recession, and a party in decline https://t.co/UkQl6UYyjf
“Today, the Tories are only holding half the people who voted for them at the last general election, in 2019, and only a little more than one in three of the people who voted for Brexit, in 2016. These are supposed to be the party’s core supporters. But many of them are now abandoning Sunak in droves, running for the hills.
And do you blame them? Seriously? Given some of the other events this week it’s not hard to see why. For a start, Sunak’s failure to control Britain’s borders was reflected in the remarkable finding that just 1.3% of the illegal migrants who entered Britain on the small boats since 2018 have been removed from the country.
And then came the latest data on the dire state of the economy, which confirms Britain is in recession and suffering the longest hit to living standards since records began, in 1955. Contrary to Sunak’s pledge to deliver economic growth, this week we learned that throughout his first year in office Britain’s economy grew by just 0.1%, while GDP per capita —which adjusts for population growth — fell by 0.7%.
This, too, will prompt many voters to ask Sunak some tough questions. Where is the growth you promised? Where is the strong economy? And where is the growth the Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and countless other experts told us would surely arrive if Britain opened its doors to unprecedented immigration?
The answer is it’s nowhere to be seen, partly because rather than deliver the high-skill, high-wage, highly-selective, and highly productive immigration the Tories have been promising since Brexit they’ve instead delivered low-skill, low-wage, non-selective, and unproductive immigration from outside Europe, which has been shown to be a net fiscal cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies.
...more and more [voters] are turning off and tuning out. Just look at the rates of turnout at the latest by-elections. Labour and Keir Starmer are not setting Britain on fire, far from it; the Tories are staying home.
These voters aren’t idiots. They know they’ve been led down the garden path by a Conservative government and a Conservative prime minister which have routinely overpromised and underdelivered.
These voters want decent economic growth and an economic model which prioritises British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have given them more of the same.
These voters want much lower and manageable rates of immigration. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories keep putting mass migration on steroids. And these voters want strong and secure borders and a government which prioritises the security of the British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have lost control of our borders, largely because they refuse to reform laws and leave conventions which make it impossible to remove illegal migrants and foreign nationals who commit crime, as we saw with the shocking case of Abdul Ezedi.“
[Matt Goodwin, on his Substack blog]
In any case, the UK needs no immigration at all. It needs to educate and train real British people to a far higher level, and then provide suitable employment for them. British people, real British people.
Suitable employment, appropriate and decent pay; decent housing; decent transport; decent medical care; decent social care; also, decent architecture and town planning.
Labour has two more MPs after by-elections this week – but this is by default, because Tory voters didn't bother to turn out. Labour also is less popular.
Tories lose two more by-elections – but don't believe Labour's propaganda https://t.co/NITSBTJKwt
BREAKING: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said https://t.co/L0YtgkcjKMpic.twitter.com/x7xFV3UERB
The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said that Navalny 'felt unwell' after a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp, about 1,200 miles north east of Moscow. Navalny, the prison service said, had lost consciousness almost immediately pic.twitter.com/xtHflzjNC7
Defying the Kremlin can be dangerous. The story that Navalny “felt unwell after he went for a walk” is obviously unlikely.
The daytime temperature in that region today is about -20C. Cold weather for a stroll, even for a Russian.
As to Navalny himself, I knew nothing of him beyond what was occasionally on TV news or in the newspapers. I was unable to understand why he returned to Russia after he had recovered from having been poisoned in Russia and flown to Germany for treatment.
My conclusion (beyond the apparent fact that Navalny was a braver man than me— and a more foolish one, arguably) is that he had a huge amount of egotism. He probably wildly over-estimated his popularity in Russia (in fact only about 5% supported him), and may have thought that arriving in Moscow on a private jet with a horde of Western reporters on board would probably protect him, especially as thousands of his supporters (mostly Moscow-based) would be awaiting his arrival at Vnukovo (one of the four main airports in the Moscow region: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_International_Airport).
I may be wrong, but I think that Navalny may have thought that his return to Russia would be akin to that of Lenin in 1917. However, Lenin was never in any danger of arrest and detention in 1917, and had not only supporters but an armed guard force at his historic speech at the Finlandsky Station in Petrograd. Also, the Tsarist Government had already effectively fallen. There was no-one to arrest him.
Navalny has, by reason of his imprisonment and probable murder, achieved the status of martyr, but had he ever become leader of Russia, might have been as harsh, and probably less effective, than Putin.
I am old enough to remember how the usually-wrong Western msm thought, in the 1980s, that Andropov would be “liberal” (mainly because he was said to like jazz). The same or similar was said in the late 1970s of the African tyrant Robert Mugabe (“well-educated” by Jesuits, and a “democrat” by African standards. So they said…). Indeed, look at how the globalist msm lauded thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela…
Well, there it is.
One interesting aspect to the news coverage in the UK today is that it has been so extensive. In a way, surprising, when Navalny had no real support base in Russia, and never had a real chance of deposing Putin.
Were I more of a conspiracy theorist than people think I am, I should suspect that the UK TV people are using the Navalny matter to talk less about yesterday’s by-election results.
Also, the Kiev-regime forces are crumbling on the Ukrainian front-line.
Many, even perhaps I myself, might think that a retaliatory strike by Israel on Gaza, immediately after the October 2023 incursion, meaning in the following few days, would probably fall into the “self-defence” and “proportionate” area (leaving aside the behaviour of the Israeli Jews since 1948), but what has happened since then is a cruel slaughter and devastation worse than the much-criticized Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943. The Germans did evacuate most of the non-combatant Jews before killing or capturing the rest (saboteurs, terrorists, and rebels) and then levelling the area.
Which of the following do you think would make the best prime minister?
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that would still leave the Con Party with 117 MPs. Maybe. One or two points can make a big difference. For example, if the Con/Lab numbers were 23% and 45% respectively, the Cons would have only 97 MPs.
Also, these polls always over-estimate the Green vote. When and where (except at Brighton Pavilion) did the Greens get anywhere close to 8%? 5% is more usual; or lower.
Gee, I thought of Julian Assange who was put in the worst prison in the UK on April 11, 2019 for the crime of reporting true information about our government crimes. But we don't do what the Russians do, right?
After Guantanamo, Bagram, Kabul, Abu Ghraib etc, the U.S. Government can say nothing about human rights abuses.
Israel admits 200 of the burned bodies that Israel used as an excuse to commit the genocide in Gaza were for Palestinian fighters. This means the IDF is responsible for the Israelis that were burned alive not Hamas #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/45GsdKUHbL
Well, anyone can make a “mathematical error”, as when a number of, say, six million becomes one of four million and then, later, one and a half million…anyone could make such a mistake, I suppose…
Why was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered the directorship of the company that stores the data of the British Foreign Office, the Home Office, Ministry of Defence, and even the NHS? pic.twitter.com/b7srH1Ums8
— Euen Herbert #Windrush #HostileEnvironment #FBPE (@LaserMike) December 15, 2023
…and here is Emily Thornberry living the high life with a pack of Zionists in London, including the former Israeli Ambassador, Regev (centre of photo):
Labour, “the party for working people”??
Yes & the far right ( today's tory party) broke it I'm not a great lover of Starmer's Labour but it has to be better that the last 14 years of corruption
Why exactly does it have to be better? History tells us that it will be considerably worse. And I (& I suspect you too) remember when the Labour Party actually contained some really clever & gifted politicians. Smith, Foot etc. Now it’s a refuse dump for morons.
— Jules de Barsham- I Stand With Israel🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@DeBarsham) February 16, 2024
For me, the main thing is to break the rigged “two main parties” system (scam). So if the Conservative Party is trampled upon and left almost powerless at GE 2024, good, even though that would be at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship” for up to 5 years. With one large party reduced to almost nothing, the System’s rhythm will be disrupted. No more the idea that “the other lot” will be better. With the Cons deflated, and the LibDems already on the floor, other ideas, social-national ideas, will come through, one way or the other.
NEW. The % of Brits who think "immigration has been too high" hits a new record of 64%, while the % of Brits who think "immigration has been mostly good for Britain" slumps to a new low of 21% (YouGov).
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
My thoughts are with him. He may not be quite my sort of person, but he is a martyr for truth. The UK should ditch the one-sided UK/US extradition law.
France will allocate an additional 3 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2024.
▪️Macron added that the "security" agreement was signed for a period of ten years and will be valid until Ukraine joins NATO. pic.twitter.com/SBHYIjkDFg
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The Kiev regime may collect money, but on the front-line its soldiers are being gradually defeated, and the UKR ranks are thinning daily.
Gandalfian wisdom: “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” pic.twitter.com/kxYq4fWwK8
“A party of seven who tucked into an enormous Sunday lunch including oysters and lobster thermidors that cost an eyewatering £489 before allegedly ‘doing a runner’ fled the restaurant in an untaxed £40,000 Audi, MailOnline can reveal.
One of the people caught on CCTV is believed to be a man named Edward O’Reilly, 23, who is known as Ned, MailOnline revealed previously.
He is the managing director of a company called Kings Landscaping and he lives in a static caravan on a traveller site next to the A38 in Plympton, Devon.
A number of people came forward to identify Mr O’Reilly in the footage, although the businessman is believed to deny that he was at the pub on Sunday and insists it is not him on CCTV.“
[Daily Mail]
Irish tinkers (again). So-called “travellers” (again). The police useless (again).
This country needs a radical social-national reboot.
“This is the sick moment a farmer dragged his white husky down the road before she later died due to her injuries.
Kim Norman Rendall, 65, drove for approximately 200 metres, around 55 seconds, along a road in Timsbury, near Bath with his dog Daisy tied to the back of his car on April 17 this year.
Motorists attempted to stop him and, when he did finally pull over, he refused to take Daisy to the vet, telling one distressed driver: ‘I’ll do what I want, it’s my dog.’
Rendall later hid Daisy in a cow barn where she was found by police following a two and a half hour hunt in the Somerset countryside. Daisy was immediately rushed to a vet hospital in Bath but was sadly put down nine days later due to her injuries.
Rendall pleaded guilty to two counts of causing the unnecessary suffering of an animal contrary to the Animal Welfare Act at North Somerset Magistrates’ Court. He will appear at Bristol Crown Court for sentencing on 21 November.
At a previous hearing, Rendall pleaded guilty to two counts of causing the unnecessary suffering of an animal contrary to the Animal Welfare Act.
Suggesting the starting point was two years in prison for his crimes, the magistrates agreed that their powers were likely to be insufficient, and [remitted] Rendall [to] Bristol Crown Court for sentencing.
He was released on unconditional bail to appear on 21 November.“
“A trans police officer who trolled a free speech campaigner online branding him a women beater and a Nazi has been sacked.
Lynsay Watson, 56, sent former police officer Harry Miller more than 1,200 messages over an 18-month period in which she also described him as a Fascist and a bigot and labelled his campaign group Fair Cop ‘domestic terrorists’.
PC Watson targeted Mr Miller because his views about gender identity were ‘in direct contradiction to her own’ a police misconduct panel was told on Friday.
In the messages she made ‘factual assertions that Mr Miller was violent towards women’.
She also described broadcaster Sonia Poulton as Terf (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) – intended to be a derogatory term.
The panel heard she initially sent messages from an account in which she identified herself as a police officer – prompting Mr Miller to complain about her conduct to Leicestershire police.
But when she was spoken to by a senior officer – he simply advised her to post anonymously instead using a pseudonym, the panel was told.
She went on to set up at least four different accounts with fake names, including one in which she claimed to be a retired officer from another force as well as a Home Office adviser on policing and transgender issues with a masters in legal studies.“
[Daily Mail]
There should be no “transgender police officers” in the first place.
As to that “senior officer“, I hope (but doubt) that he has been disciplined.
The police seem to be recruiting and often retaining the mad and dangerous.
Britain 2023, itself at least halfway-mad.
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Apparently 60 Labour MPs have been on freebies to Israel, more are members of Labour Friends of Israel (including Starmer) and almost all of these will be receiving ‘sponsorship’ from the murderous Israeli State. Anyone with a Labour MP should ask them if they’re on the payroll.
Chris Bryant lied to the HoC, at least twice. He is a proven LIAR. Don't know a) why he is still in the position he is, or b) why anyone gives him airtime. https://t.co/VQ1eBL9R32
To answer those questions: (a) Chris Bryant is a major puppet of the Israel lobby in the Commons (and is tied up with the evil Common Purpose cult, as well as the LGBTQXYZ stuff); (b) see answer to (a).
Bryant was also one of the worst expenses cheats, really a fraudster.
I, unlike Chris Bryant, am a lawyer with an MA in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding. Collective punishment is a war crime. https://t.co/iMSHB6kYIP
— CrémantCommunarde #HumanitarianParadigm🕊️ (@0Calamity) October 31, 2023
The UK political class is almost entirely Jew-Zionist contaminated.
The Israeli army publishes footage that it says is of an incursion by its forces into the northern Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/9idyyAJrGb
Detained under UK terrorism law, whistleblower @CraigMurrayOrg says police at Scotland's Glasgow Airport questioned him over his support for Julian Assange https://t.co/MGn12YqSU8 from @MElmaazi
Some people are genuinely bemused why Starmer consistently refers to Israel as "her".
The reason is very simple: he's been given his orders by Israeli embassy front group @_LFI and is following them down to the letter.@Keir_Starmer is bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.… pic.twitter.com/E7iguNfzCu
Starmer’s own wife is a Jewish lawyer; their children are being brought up as if full-Jew. They celebrate Jewish-supremacist festivals etc. I suppose that that means that Starmer wears one of those little skullcaps (I believe called a yarmulka). I have not seen any photo of Starmer wearing one, though. He has been very careful.
Absolutely horrific videos are coming out of the West Bank. Palestinian men blindfolded, their hands & feet bound, stripped naked, dragged across rugged terrain, their faces stomped on by Israeli soldiers. It is stomach churning. This is what @POTUS is funding & supporting.
Meanwhile, Jews in Israel and elsewhere mock, on social media, the children dying from lack of water in Gaza, posting pictures of gushing taps etc. “Their” mentality, exactly.
🚨Urgent: The official spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree: Our armed forces launched a large batch of ballistic and winged missiles and a large number of drones at various targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories. The Yemeni… pic.twitter.com/g7yA3N3TLW
“A London gang abducted, imprisoned, tortured and blackmailed a man, using techniques reminiscent of horror films to torment the victim. They held him for a £100,000 ransom in cash for the return of the man’s life, a court has heard.”
[My London]
[main defendant]
[all defendants]
What future has London, has Britain, with a population similar to the above? No (decent) future.
If no social-national government emerges to reboot the UK, reboot its society, the country will quite soon not be worth saving.
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I actually hate him. I can't bear to look at his, insincere, smarmy face. He and his cronies have destroyed any semblance of socialism in the Labour Party. It's the first time ever I do not know who to vote for in the next GE.
People, across the usual political spectrum, are waking up to the reality— Parliamentary “democracy” in the UK is now just a public relations facade, a scam, really.
What interests me about the Israeli nuclear base at Dimona is that it is within range of missiles from Gaza, as well as within range of missiles from some of the states surrounding Israel.
Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky explains how Israel controls American diplomats, politicians, writers and journalists. Get the troublemakers labelled as anti-Semitic… and it’s a stain that can’t be removed. pic.twitter.com/QUCEtEnW5g
Ah, “Ostrovsky”…yes, I read his book (By Way of Deception) when it first appeared, about 33-34 years ago, around 1989, I think. I have to say that the years have not been too unkind to him, if that is a recent clip. He must be (?) about 65 or even 70.
[addendum, a few hours later: just noticed the date on the video—1995! Just as well that I was never in the spy business…]
What mostly stuck in my mind from his (first) book was how he had been taught (by MOSSAD) that Israeli agents maintain well-hidden caches of arms and explosives in all countries of the world except the USA. I presume(d) that the exception is because arms and ammo are so easily available in the USA anyway, and ownership of weapons so widespread.
Despite the above, the UK government colludes with the sending to Israel, every year, by the Jew-Zionist set-up in the UK, hundreds if not thousands of young “British” Jews, who then return to the UK after weeks, months, or even years, many of the Jews having become well-versed in weapons-handling, how to attack and kill using streetfighting techniques etc. It is a kind of preparatory Jewish terrorism, and the “British” government, police etc turn a blind eye to it.
Should there be a danger that Jews en masse might be expelled from the UK, those weapons, those individuals, in effect “sleeper” cells, would be activated and deployed in the UK, causing mayhem.
I have translated and added English subtitles to this speech by General Yaron Finkelman to the soldiers that now begin the ground offense
The pre-battle speech by the Israeli military commander on the ground. Quite powerful, a little sub-Churchillian at one point, but not one which will go down in history, I think.
When you consider that, in reality, his forces face a mostly civilian population, half of which is under-18, a quarter of which consists of very young children and babies, that takes any gloss off, of course.
All the same, the defending forces must (?) have expected something of the sort even before they launched their attack on southern Israel three weeks ago. That implies that they are well-prepared.
This is Israel’s “Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto”, in effect. Not only the Israeli soldiers and bombers and missile-targeters take on the karmic burden of what is happening and what is about to happen. So do all Israelis, and indeed all Jewish and other supporters of Jew-Zionism and Israel, wherever they live in this world.
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The director of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York resigned in protest against the UN's inaction regarding Gaza.
Israeli recognition of huge losses in the ground war.
The Israeli's Minister of War stated: In recent days, Israeli forces have suffered heavy losses as a result of the clashes that have occurred, and we have suffered numerous casualties in the clashes that took place in the… pic.twitter.com/TUA34PdJDp
Trump about conversations with Europeans about his new election:
-… I won’t protect you anymore. And the leaders of these countries say: “So, if Russia attacks us, you won’t help?” And I told them: Yes! That's it! I won't help! pic.twitter.com/zKNAO83J0C
Food shortages, moldy apartments, a lack of medical workers: The UK is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are sliding into poverty.https://t.co/mY085BwLgM
Jack Monroe, Foodie? I think not. Perhaps you could ask her why she's so reluctant to be transparent about money she asks for on the basis that she is doing worthwhile work, and what actual results she produces too. Please don't let her repeat her poverty porn story again.
Jack Monroe is no 'foodie' + should NOT be given a platform to yet again churn out her fake poverty backstory. Do something good with this conversation+ ask her where ALL the cash donated to sue Lee Anderson went + why she STILL hasn't provided promised content on her Patreon
One sees how, after the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when dissenting thinkers such as Galileo were accused of heresy, free thinking was thought of as part and parcel of Western civilization— until now.
The attack on free thought, in the contemporary West, started with the Jew-Zionists, and their plan to make examination of modern history, particularly the “holocaust” farrago and mythus and, within that, especially, the whole “gas chambers” fable, something to be treated as if criminal. That repression is now in place in about 20 European states.
Now we see the knock-on consequences: people dissenting from “mainstream” (propaganda) opinion about aspects of “climate change”, or the “Covid” “panicdemic” should be (some say) treated as criminal. The same goes for those who do not agree with mass immigration and the consequent destruction of European life and culture.
Why do I think this? Because I believe we should on a war footing against climate breakdown.
At first, I thought that tweeter Professor Cowern might be a parody account, but no! See https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nickcowern. Someone who apparently worked mainly in “modelling”, employed at Harwell and by Philips electronics, his main field(s) being in materials science and semiconductors (i.e. nothing to do with climate), but who now focusses upon and, it seems, obsesses about climate change by reason of human agency.
He was a professor at Newcastle University for only 6 years; now “emeritus”, i.e. retired from academia (aged 70), though was until 2021 running his own (one-man-band) show engaged in modelling climate change etc.
The sort of scientist who flourished under Stalin, denouncing those with contrary opinions.
A lot of folk (and bots) replying to this tweet rather obviously have an interest in this not happening. https://t.co/P6y8CJCxum
Yes, thankfully, many people are still willing to stand up for academic and personal freedom of thought and expression.
They are not people with what Professor Cowern calls an (impliedly, improper) “interest” in the same, whereas Professor Cowern was Director of a private “climate change modelling” company set up by himself; NC Tech Insight Ltd.
In fact, it seems that Professor Cowern’s Linked-In profile is not entirely accurate, because, according to Companies House, NC Tech Insight Ltd, having been incorporated in 2014 (with a share capital of £100 and actual capital/assets — in 2018— of £83,000), was dissolved in early 2021. It seems that, as far as can be seen on cursory examination, Professor Cowern’s self-promoted expertise is not much in demand: see https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08897617.
More of the “professor’s” words of “wisdom”:
This makes you a good authoritarian, borderline criminal, on par with the worst torturers in history, because to undertake such drastic measures you'd have to be God. The reality is society should put in jail people who have the thought of jailing others because they believe…
For a supposed scientist who has (as far as I can see) developed nothing new or at least very interesting in the scientific field, the “professor” is extremely dogmatic and scathing. A Lysenko for our times?
“In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR‘s Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.[4]
Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were imprisoned. Several were sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov.[5] Lysenko’s ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions of Soviet people;[5] the adoption of his methods from 1958 in the People’s Republic of China had similarly calamitous results, culminating in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.”[5]
Professor Emeritus Cowern strikes me as a crank, overall, and an unpleasant crank at that. Also, someone with very poor logical skills, looking at his attempts to debate with critics.
This isn't banning free speech, it's recognising its proper limits. Nobody can have absolute freedom, because that enables them to harm the freedom of others – in this case, the freedom to live in safety. Hate speech is a closely analogous problem.
“Hate speech“? Is “Professor” Cowern (you know who)?
One of the features of Britain over the past few decades has been the over-supply of supposed “professors”. The proliferation of institutions calling themselves “universities” has resulted in an explosion in the numbers of those designated as “professors”. Many are rather poor.
[Update, 7 February 2025: the blog page for 12 August 2023 having had a few hits today, I looked to see what the “Professor” is saying these days. Nothing much. He has performatively left Twitter/X and is now on its new “woke”/joke rival, “Blue Sky Social”. Same obsession, though: https://bsky.app/profile/nickcowern.bsky.social].
Hysterical FT science editor @clivecookson thinks Antarctica faces a "catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events" because the winter sea ice is a bit low this year. Someone tell the poor chap it is at the same level as 1966.
West Yorkshire: where police turn up mob-handed to arrest a girl who allegedly told an officer she looked like a lesbian, but prostrate themselves before religious fundamentalists who threaten a schoolboy because a book was scuffed. Our police have lost their moral compass. pic.twitter.com/pHTLXgobFp
You can see the way things are going, eg in the car production arena. Firstly, the “Great Reset” demands electric cars because (it is falsely claimed) they are more “green” than existing internal combustion cars. Then existing petrol/diesel cars will be gradually phased out (made more expensive or even illegal). Then, after that, most people will simply be unable to afford to buy or drive electric cars. Car transport will thenceforth largely be available only to the self-styled elites: the wealthy, politicians, bankers etc…
[The Banksters, a now-destroyed public mural in East London]
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What a beautiful photograph! The contestants in "Miss Poland" are all Polish and all women. https://t.co/P3iWGxuQ0o
One can see that the transnational conspiracy tries relentlessly to twist or pervert everything in society, and thus it is that, in much of the world, “trans” “women” are given equal designation (or better than) real women, the primitive black cultures and backward “brown” cultures are given equal respect (or better) compared to European/European-derived cultures (which are almost always far more advanced), and disabled athletes, “paralympians”, are (with the best of intentions on the part of many adherents) given equal status with real Olympic athletes, and so on.
The more reports that come out about the fires on Maui, the more strange, and even unnatural, they seem. https://t.co/JK5EB0VXPk
Is this terrible fire the result of sabotage? Is it another attempt to “prove” that “global warming” “climate change” via human agency is not a globalist scam?
Abortion is a horror. Our nation needs to repent, cease and desist from killing 230,000 children in the womb every year.#ProLifepic.twitter.com/aHz8NMOwBy
The only councillor in my county who openly supported my right to freedom of speech, was arrested Tuesday at 8am. He was held in a cell for 9 hours and questioned about his tweets, one including the support of my petition for reinstatement.
No wonder you never hear the 1960s, 1950s (and earlier) expostulation “it’s a free country!” any more…
Hey @Ryanair, my parents who are in their 70s and 80s, had accidentally downloaded the return flight boarding card instead of the outgoing ones and you charged them £110 to print them at the airport. £110 for 2 pieces of paper which took 1 minute. Shame on you
— Old School House Venosc 💙 (@old_school_alps) August 13, 2023
I have never travelled on Ryanair, and I doubt that I ever shall.
One of our leveretts who has been reared has now graduated to an outdoor enclosure! Very grateful to our fosterer who has done an amazing job. Look at him go 😁 #hares#rabbit#wildlifepic.twitter.com/EN9gsiAitv
— RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Centre (@RSPCAEastWinch) August 12, 2023
We are glad to announce the opening of the Faith's Place Bar at Vauxhall City Farm from 10th August 2023.
Evacuation in Kupyansk turned out to be mobilization
Local residents report that children are being seized in the city. Parents can leave with the child, but when the head of the family approaches for documents, he automatically receives a summons and a referral for a medical… pic.twitter.com/9k9kqykNL6
Well, this week, victory for me over political journalist John Rentoul; he got 5/10, but I trumped that with 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 9.
A group of 8 pilots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been identified for retraining on the F-16. These are the only 8 people who are fluent in English. A group of 20 military personnel requires additional language training before starting training pic.twitter.com/QPSnp5i7Cv
The Russian army received 231,000 soldiers under contract in seven months of 2023
ALL WHO FIGHT IN UKRAINE WILL HAVE THEIR JOBS PRESERVED
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that in the first seven months of 2023, the country will receive more than… pic.twitter.com/1Z1Msu7ohG
Production of nuclear weapons due to technological complexity is an unrealistic task for Ukraine – Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov pic.twitter.com/P3uU7nNocQ
The Ukrainian company Naftogaz is offering a discount (!) on housing and communal services if consumers hand over to the authorities a dissident neighbor or evader. pic.twitter.com/hyV5rEpzWs
Few are now volunteering for the Kiev-regime army. A death sentence if the recruit is sent (often with little training) to the front. The regime is using press-gangs to force men into the army. Maybe 350,000 have been killed or wounded in the past 17 months, mostly in the past year. Something like 750 a day, on average.
As for dissidents, arrested, mistreated, some even shot. “Ukraine” (Kiev-regime Ukraine) is not the free, principled place the propaganda portrays, but a corrupt, shambolic police-state where dissent is treason.
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He doesn’t get it does he. My friend – a brilliant professor at Oxford checked out because the work environment was so toxic and he had significant savings. 1/2
I bet Matthew Parris doesn’t do a 60 hour week and have people shouting at you or trying to undermine your work. I bet he works at home in a cosy cottage in a village somewhere in the English countryside (grade 2 minimum cottage obs)
That latter tweeter is right. Parris, when not in London, does live in such a cottage (in Derbyshire). I see now from Wikipedia that he also has a place in Spain.
Parris himself has really never had a job as such, unless you include his unsuccessful two years as trainee diplomat and his likewise disastrous stint as correspondence secretary to Mrs. Thatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Parris.
Having said that, Parris often writes uncomfortable truths, but I think not in this case, perhaps because he has never had the experience of doing a “real” job in the real world.
Likewise, as the tweeter below points out, PIP (the successor-benefit to the now-disappearing Disability Living Allowance or DLA) , is not an out-of-work benefit, and is thus disregarded from income for benefit purposes.
Parris thus follows in the footsteps of many scribblers, TV talking heads, and radio presenters, as well as MPs, who talk about State benefits and/or pensions out of ignorance, not knowing the most basic facts.
In 1983 Matthew Parris came to Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne to see if he could beat the dole system by living on unemployment benefit for 7 days – he failed and he apologised for believing he could. Maybe he should think about this before he types.
Teesside mayor Ben Houchen stands accused of "hiding behind a cloak of secrecy" over a deal that saw 90% of shares in a major redevelopment scheme handed to firms with Tory links. https://t.co/TrLKboZnbO#bbcaq
— John Dalton – Professor of Wokenomics (@JohnDalton6011) August 5, 2023
A one-time, and briefly, “rising star” of the Conservative Party.
Some people are just incredibly fortunate in life. I mean, look at Houchen: born 1986, was a student until about 2008 or 2009, when he became (I think, not sure) a solicitor. He may have worked as a solicitor for a couple of years (again, not sure about that), and his political career to date has consisted of being a local councillor for 5-6 years (2011-2017), then Mayor of Tees Valley (2017-2023 and continuing), and now (thanks to “Boris” Johnson) a member of the House of Lords.
Incidentally, when Houchen was elected in 2017, I tipped him on this blog as someone to watch, having heard him on the radio. I was right, but in more than one way…
So now, in personal financial terms, Houchen is riding high— £65,000+ as Mayor of Tees Valley, plus expenses —not a fortune but better than poke in eye with sharp stick— and £350 a day plus extra expenses whenever he turns up (even for half a hour) at the Lords, on any sitting day. So well over £100,000 a year, perhaps, plus generous expenses. Not bad for someone still only 36, and who has only just about (for ~2 years) done any real/non-political job (as a local solicitor in his native region).
Whether there was actual corruption involved in the Redcar Steelworks affair (scandal), I do not know. Questions have certainly been raised. £45M has gone missing.
— John Dalton – Professor of Wokenomics (@JohnDalton6011) August 5, 2023
#bbcaq Rishi Sunak thinks awarding 100 new licences to drill in the North Sea is the "right thing to do" because it means a nice pay day for his wife and father-in-law. Typical Tory corruption. https://t.co/S1BesHWPq2
Import into the UK (or the rest of Europe) the various races and groups of Asia, Africa etc, and you import with them their political ethics (or lack of), their moneygrubbing, and the rest of it. Don’t be so surprised, and do not imagine that a few years at Winchester or Eton, or Oxford University, will make much difference.
Massive amount of house building in Oxfordshire. Just joining up the villages. But, this is the point, not one has solar panels on the roof!! Why not. It should be law of the land for all new build houses and factories to have solar panels. Politicians, please catch up! #bbcaq
I also think that new houses ought to have some kind of built in rainwater storage, to be used for gardens or, in extremis, washing and cooking. When I was working and living on a small Caribbean island about 24 years ago, my villa (like most of any size there) was built around a water tank. No mains water where I lived.
All water for bathroom and kitchen came from the tank, and it never ran out (despite rain being rare outside the hurricane season). Drinking water one had to buy. I usually bought filtered and cleaned (via ultraviolet light) Miami tapwater, costing (1999 prices) USD $5 or $6 per U.S. gallon. Sounds expensive (maybe $9 or $10 in 2023 money) but it would last me several days.
The counteroffensive gave poor results: Kyiv changes tactics
A clear signal to NATO that the dreams of a great advance of the Ukrainian forces in the counter-offensive suffered a crash, is a drastic change in the plans of the command of the Ukrainian army, writes the analyst…
New satellite photos of Ukrainian cemeteries have appeared on the web⚠️ The conflict there has been going on for more than 1.5 years and Ukrainians are suffering heavy losses… pic.twitter.com/5zUpg0gArP
🇺🇦 In Dnepropetrovsk, the military commissars organize raids in broad daylight
There are still no volunteers to participate in the meat counteroffensive in Ukraine, so the staff of the military registration and enlistment offices continue to terrify the population pic.twitter.com/SOZVniuyQc
Lostprophets paedo Ian Watkins in critical condition after three inmates take him hostage & stab him ‘in neck’https://t.co/9ed7GjibxM
— Suffering with P.T.S.D (@Wayne57072607) August 5, 2023
While of course prisoners have to be restrained from carrying out vigilante justice, equally naturally they are often disgusted at being forced to live around persons as evil as that. His crimes and, even more so, planned crimes, were appalling.
Justice is, as St. Thomas Aquinas noted, “immanent”— ingrained in human beings; inherent. Even the “lawless” have their own code of laws or rules, usually.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to break through on two BMPs and were destroyed. pic.twitter.com/bZgtpKKbpw
Footage of the capture of Novoselovsky in the Kupyansk direction.
During the hostilities, the military personnel of the group of troops "West" captured 11 strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/t4lWWsbmCJ
Russia doubled its defense spending to nearly 10 trillion rubles in 2023, Reuters claims, citing a government document in its possession.
It follows from it that in the first half of 2023, Russia allegedly spent 5.59 trillion rubles on defense. with the originally planned 4.98… pic.twitter.com/idPoMihmrK
The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force launched a strike, as a result of which the headquarters of the An-Nusra terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation) was destroyed near the city of Idlib, according to the Russian center for reconciliation of the… pic.twitter.com/FpEMozo3F6
The blue areas are 50% of the areas that, according to US Secretary of State Anthony Blenkin, the "Ukrainian Army" has liberated!! The most advanced military equipment that was available to the member countries of the alliance was destroyed and lost in this blue area. The… pic.twitter.com/26lTGgshBO
“The blue areas are 50% of the areas that, according to US Secretary of State Anthony Blenkin, the “Ukrainian Army” has liberated!! The most advanced military equipment that was available to the member countries of the alliance was destroyed and lost in this blue area. The equipment that some inside western country claimed that when it reaches the battlefield, not only Crimea but also Moscow and Saint Petersburg will be captured.”
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
[so-called “travellers” causing chaos in Bournemouth]
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
[HS2 ground preparation scars the landscape near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 2021]
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
“Lionesses”
Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
[Wikipedia].
If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
"The main thing is that Russia does not participate." Zelensky announced the terms of the discussion of the peace plan in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/IVDqnFdbGL
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Wagner PMC fighters may attempt to invade NATO territory
According to the Polish vice-marshal Kaminsky, the "musicians" will carry out a military operation to attack the territory of Poland in order to "test NATO" for a response.
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
The Wagnerians are entering Poland as migrants – claims Polsat News
A new wave of panic gripped Poland. Namely, the local population believes that illegal migrants who are essentially members of PVK Wagner are penetrating the territory of Poland from Belarus, this was said by… pic.twitter.com/rbi7giOqvE
PMC "Wagner" and military personnel of the Belarusian mechanized brigade held a joint training , – the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/9w1owa0hyK
Well, this week I scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 5, and 7 (just missed on no. 4).
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1/ Nothing warms the cockles more than a voter intention poll, we think. Hardly a blizzard of change this week, but Labour has hit the 50% mark yet again:
— Lowry Devils 🇾🇪 Glazers Out (@FinnlayLowry) March 11, 2023
Strange that Gary Lineker looks rather “non-Aryan”, but I have looked at his Wikipedia entry. No clue there. Still, I wonder whether there is not some —perhaps undocumented— alien element.
Didn’t Katie Hopkins lose her job at LBC for saying words deemed wrong by her employer? If so, surely the application of social media policy should apply to all that earn well with a position of high influence.
“Earn well“? The bastard is paid nearly £2,000,000 a year to shoot the breeze about football, a ridiculous emolument possible only because the leech-like BBC makes people pay —on pain, ultimately, of imprisonment— for a so-called “Television Licence” the monies of which go exclusively to the BBC out of hundreds of broadcasters. A completely monstrous, unjust, boondoggle which is a left-over from the 1930s in origin (1950s in general practice). Completely out of date.
Beyond that, real “free speech”, and real “democracy” too, is subverted because there is an “in-group” in broadcasting. If you are part of it, you get paid, annually, £200,000, £500,000, a million pounds, or even more. If, though, you are chucked out of that charmed circle because you and/or your views are dissident in any real sense (as with all social-national or even conservative-nationalist people), you go outside and are then (as Nietzsche put it) “facing the wintry wind“.
That is why, on any really controversial issue, the broadcasting drones (whether news, commentary, sports, comedy, drama, whatever) all spout System propaganda, whether on immigration, migration-invasion, race, Jews, the contrived “holocaust” farrago, “Covid”, the “Covid “vaccines”, their vaccine dangers, “Ukraine”, the “blacks with everything” campaign. You name it.
In short, all the denizens of the System broadcasting milieu know that those big salaries and fees, the expensive houses and cars and holidays, their whole way of life, and popular status, are all dependent on either saying the “right” thing, or at least not saying the “wrong” (not acceptable to System) thing.
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'Small boats prompted a withering attack from the BBC’s Gary Lineker who suggested the language was similar to that used in Germany in the 1930s.'
Alastair Stewart details the 'impartial' comments that led to Gary Lineker being asked to step back as BBC sports presenter. pic.twitter.com/uZsZaGF6m2
The wider questions around all of that, though, include the true level of migration-invasion, which goes even beyond the relentless and infuriating small-boat invasion making landfall on the coasts of Kent and Sussex.
The larger migration-invasion contingents do not arrive on small boats but “legally” (superficially), such as via marriage visas, fiance/fiancee visas, work visas, student visas (many, perhaps most, never return home), tourist visas etc.
Indeed, the largest contingent of “invaders” are those arriving simply by being born to non-white or other non-British mothers already in the UK.
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'It still a very cruel implement, it's time the whip should be banned, jockeys don't stick to the rules!'
Horse Consultant Dean Stansall responds to the Cheltenham Festival being overshadowed by controversial new rules over the use of the whip. pic.twitter.com/6AineCQy0V
I was brought up going to race meetings: mainly Ascot, Newbury, and Windsor, but also Sandown, Kempton and, more rarely, other courses— Brighton, Goodwood, Cheltenham and Hereford; also, point-to-points in Berkshire, Hampshire, and Buckinghamshire.
There have been improvements in horse welfare, particularly in the actual running of races; more needs to be done. In particular, and as that clip showed, racehorses, after their race careers, must be shown proper loyalty and respect, and put out to grass for their remaining days.
'Taxpayers are paying for childcare, but where is it going?'
'It's estimated somewhere between half a million and 1.7 million women are locked out of the workforce.'
Sharon Peake and Sarah Campus on why it is critical the Chancellor delivers a childcare boost in his budget. pic.twitter.com/AkUsaKGkow
How about society stopping the rat-race of mothers having to go out to work from financial necessity, those mothers then being able to spend at least the first, say, 7 years with their children at home? Or 14 years, for that matter (with opportunity to then return to work and/or to new careers, if they want).
'I don't see why this bill had teeth where previous bills didn't.'
Columnist Madeline Grant says 'we are yet to see' how the Government's new legislation will have a 'different outcome' to previous attempts to solve the migrant crisis. pic.twitter.com/7AQp40GIP2
Thinking “outside the box”, how about giving the invaders (both sexes) a choice between leaving the UK within a certain number of days (maybe 30 days) with financial help, or facing compulsory sterilization? That at least would safeguard the race-stock.
“At the end of 2013 four plants, with a total capacity of almost 500 million m3/year per year, were operational. All plants use reverse osmosis, utilizing self-generated power.” [Wikipedia].
In the UK, there are a number of issues around water supply and use. First of all, the unnecessary and deliberate increase in population (from immigration and births to immigrants) since the 1980s, and especially from the 1990s.
Secondly, the sheer incompetence of the water companies in various ways, especially in the failure to repair leaking pipes.
Fourthly, design issues. In some parts of the world, such as southern Spain, new multi-story buildings have to have rainwater catchment and storage. When I lived for a while in the Caribbean, I saw that most villas (including mine) had large inbuilt water tanks. The water was unsuitable for drinking unless boiled (I had to buy imported mineral water, or UV-filtered Miami tap water, the latter USD $5 per U.S. gallon, for that), but the tank water was OK, from a health viewpoint, for coffee and tea. The tank water never ran out, despite being used for showers etc.
Incidentally, while looking at Wikipedia, I also saw this:
“In March 2017, a national survey was published that concluded that there is an extremely high rate of serious iodine deficiency among the Israeli population, and in particular among pregnant women (85%) and school-age children (62%).[59] The researchers mentioned the lack of a national salt iodisation program and the heavy dependence on iodine-depleted desalinated seawater as reasons for this major public health problem.[59] The concerns include a “high risk of maternal and fetal hypothyroidism and impaired neurological development of the fetus”, and the professor leading the study stated that iodine deficiency has lowered the IQ level of Israeli children by four to five points over the past 50 years.[59]“
[Wikipedia]
Interesting. Has that had political effects? Also, what is our British excuse (or reason)? I am convinced that the IQ levels of the UK population have also dropped greatly in the past half-century. Even discounting the effect of the vast numbers of blacks and browns, there has surely been a very obvious lowering of intelligence among the native white population.
I noticed that the above had a hit or two today. It has, I think, held up well, re-reading it, despite having been left with gaps by Twitter and YouTube censorship.
More thoughts about Lineker, BBC, migration-invasion etc
The “rebellion” by BBC-paid “celebrity” drones wanting to virtue-signal about Lineker gives a clue as to the number of (in lay terms) “traitors” who are pumping out stuff in the msm. They all want or pretend to want more blacks and browns in the UK. If a handful have come out in public on that basis, a thousand times that number are working away undetected in the BBC, Sky, ITV etc.
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Free speech is for all or for no one. That’s what free speech is about.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 10, 2023
We are witnessing two things, both deeply disturbing.
1. A shift to totalitarianism.
2. The collapse of the classical liberal order in the West.
Buckle up, and prepare. What happens in the UK and Canada usually gets here soon after.
— Michael W. Towns, Sr. (@MichaelWTownsSr) March 11, 2023
This U.S. Marine more than 6 years ago exposes the Economic Slavery driven by the Rothschild. He is absolutely 💯 on 🎯! This War in Ukraine/Russia is no different than what this Government has done in previous Wars.
Want to know why Julian Assange is still in jail? He would have exposed the truth about the US proxy war in Ukraine and the reasons why the US provokes war with Russia and China. He would have exposed the US Govt role in the creation of Covid-19 and terrorism against Nordstream.
In the UK, the ridiculous Gary Lineker/BBC Twitterstorm, or storm in a teacup, has completely displaced Ukraine from the top of msm news broadcasts. Just as the Kiev regime seems to be losing Bakhmut/Artyomovsk to Russian forces. Is that a co-incidence?
When you think that the “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) side alone has apparently lost 20,000 or 25,000 men there in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk (and the Russians possibly far more), it seems incredible. Or is it?
Want to know why Julian Assange is still in jail? He would have exposed the truth about the US proxy war in Ukraine and the reasons why the US provokes war with Russia and China. He would have exposed the US Govt role in the creation of Covid-19 and terrorism against Nordstream.
Richard Medhurst Independent Journalist giving us a great history lesson on why NATO is NOT a force for good, how sanctions don’t work, the double standards in bombing nations, etc. You will understand that Putin didn’t just wake up one day and decide to invade Ukraine! The… pic.twitter.com/69m4RmpEe5
As I have blogged previously, a year or so ago, during the period roughly 1949-1989, i.e. the ~40 years of the Cold War, into which I was born (b.1956), I never, as child or adult, believed that there would be a nuclear war between East and West, though we now know that, quite apart from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963, one nearly started by ridiculous accident in 1983: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident.
After the death of Sovietism, officially 1991 but in reality about 1989, and during both the Yeltsin and Putin rulerships 1991-2012, there was effective detente between the West and Russia. Storm clouds gathered after that.
Only now, in the past year or so, have I been seriously concerned that there might be a real and almost inevitably nuclear war between NATO (i.e. the USA and its hangers-on) and Russia.
The regional conflict in the Ukraine area, which is now a regional war, sees ever-more escalation by NATO and the West generally. More advanced, and heavier, weapons being shipped to the Kiev regime, along with enormous amounts of non-military aid, and equally-huge amounts of actual money, some of which has certainly been stolen by Kiev-regime officials.
The situation is uncertain, but a full war between NATO and Russia is now by no means unlikely, and all because NATO wants to pressure Russia and then have Putin removed by internal coup, possibly to be followed by the breaking up of the Russian Federation into a number of constituent parts, something that has not been the case since the time of Ivan the Terrible (16thC). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible.
#Ukrainian military becoming more aware of reality. This fighter sitting around #Bakhmut said: "this all seems very sad, why did this rooster (Zelensky) needs to do all of this? Vova! (Nick name for Vladimir Zelensky) You are scum!" pic.twitter.com/v1s2flsTEg
Is this what a "genocide" looks like in Ukraine? Is there even a war going on? Women clubbing in Kharkov while their men are dying in Bakhmut ! Wtf is this country
Ah, yes…Paris, the capital of that nice liberal Monsieur Macron…
The American strategic bomber B-52N of the US Air Force is currently flying past the Kaliningrad region, before making a circle through the Baltic. pic.twitter.com/Ju5HaOFhHQ
The newly built palace of culture in Volnovakha named after hero of Russia, Vladimir Zhoga, commander of the Sparta battalion until he was killed in action on 5 March evacuating civilians from the battle zone. pic.twitter.com/ySJ3CL0ZH0
“Jack Monroe” was going to sue, said the (((occupied))) Press, not only Lee Anderson but also the political commentator Martin Daubney, at least one of whom (Lee Anderson) had implied (indeed expressed) on TV that “Jack Monroe” is a fraud: he actually said “living off the backs of the poor“. I could not have put it better myself.
Well, here we are, nearly 7 months later, and there has been no action launched; nor even any pre-action correspondence sent.
Lee Anderson has already said that he has heard nothing from the woman or her lawyers (if any), despite the Press claims from May 2022, which seem to have been uncritically supportive of the egregious “Bootstrap Cook”.
While, technically, that leaves “Bootstrap Cook” with another 5 months to bring an action, I think that it is reasonable now to opine that there will be no defamation suit by “Jack Monroe” against Lee Anderson.
However, that is not the whole story: “Jack Monroe” asked people in general and her “supporters” in particular to send money to fund the (so far, non-existent) legal action. She implied also that her solicitor would be fanatical Jew-Zionist solicitor (based in Israel) Mark Lewis, about whom I blogged extensively some years ago: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/. He himself has not tweeted anything about having been instructed or consulted on the Lee Anderson matter.
Now people are asking about where went the crowdfunded monies raised (assuming that there were some). “Jack Monroe” has not explained. The reasonable assumption, surely, is that she has had at least some monies from that source, but has either retained the monies or simply spent them.
It is a moot point, on those premises, whether “Jack Monroe” has committed a fairly serious criminal offence.
A black woman in Bristol is presently awaiting trial on what seem to be similar facts, involving a crowdfunding appeal for projected lawsuit(s).
The police and/or State regulators should be investigating all of this.
Likewise, as of today, 641 total mugs are sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via the Patreon website, supposedly in return for goods and services never provided.
That’s anything between £2,300 a month and £30,000 a month (gross). “Not a bad little earner“…
“Jack Monroe” has taken money from, inter alia, the “poor” and vulnerable and, when asked to refund monies for non-performance, has refused, or has ignored the requests; on occasion, she has even insulted some of the poor and suffering people concerned.
Has she added to the thread? I can’t see the excuses?
Why are quite a few other msm types, though —even after the recent intensified storm around her— still promoting this person?
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AJD were you a Patron? Was it your money? Because I am, it is, and frankly I don’t care what Jack does with it, because I choose to support her. I also have the agency to withdraw my patreonage if I wished to (I don’t). What Jack DOES do is worth so much more than we give her.
— Charlee Brown (Xe/They/She) (@friendofsnoopy) December 5, 2022
All completely irrelevant bollocks of course, as Jack explicitly promises that “it’s not a donation service”. pic.twitter.com/JqREzbQHBl
The strange thing is that mugs such as tweeter “@friendofsnoopy” seem to imagine that they are actually accomplishing something positive in socio-political terms by subsidizing the lifestyle of “Jack Monroe”. Very odd indeed. A psychologist might find the pathology of such pointless virtue-signalling interesting.
I note, also, that “@friendofsnoopy” still has a Twitter profile photo of herself wearing a facemask! The facemask nonsense is so yesterday…
“@friendofsnoopy” says that what “Jack” “does” is key for her. What she means is more like “what ‘Jack’ says she does”… It now turns out that her interaction with the Office of National Statistics and others amounted to nothing but one brief meeting with the ONS, not even noted because entirely unimportant; the same with other organizations. “Jack’s” aim was obviously to have such 5-minute “meetings” in order to be able then to tweet about them for years: the so-called “meetings” were obviously (in my opinion) merely and planned props in what others have called her “grift”.
Anyone can tweet or write “you can save money by buying cheapest pasta from ASDA or ALDI“, let alone something akin to “here’s a way to make a cheap dinner: a tin of chickpeas, a tin of peaches, and some curry powder. Mix, and heat.” Mahashma Gandhi?
Also, this constant “you too can live off a few pence a day” nonsense just reinforces the false idea that State benefits (and private pay) are sufficiently generous, if not too generous.
Meanwhile “Jack Monroe” laughs at the mugs who subsidize her, buys Tiffany ear-rings (£1,000+), by her own admission drank, in recent years, a bottle of whisky a day (she now monetizes even that, by virtue-signalling her supposed year or so of “sobriety”), and is alleged to be, or to have been, a considerable abuser of cocaine (admittedly, I have no evidence as to whether or not that is or was so).
All the same, look at the facts: several thousand pounds, possibly several tens of thousands, via Patreon each and every month, £24,000 (plus legal costs) from her Katie Hopkins libel action award, somewhere around £100,000 from book royalties in the past decade, other donations, paid Press and TV interviews and appearances, deals with ASDA etc to promote their stuff. Large amounts of money, and it has been claimed that “Jack Monroe” now has as much as £200,000 stashed away, yet she still “cosplays” the poverty thing, as if she is living on a few pounds a day.
At root, rent is the fruit of parasitism. People work to pay rent, but the rentier lives parasitically from that rent, i.e. from the work of the rent-payer.
Russ getting it in the rear foo-foo from the realities of vanity publishing is all the chefs' kisses. pic.twitter.com/GPCgMzUeiT
I was once, in the early 1980s, somewhat acquainted with a wealthy property-developer who lived in West Sussex. His wife was a novelist of sorts, and had been published (by a real publisher, not via Amazon self-publishing or the like) several times. This in fact was well before Amazon; her first novel had been published around 1980 or slightly earlier.
Apparently, when her first book was accepted, that lady was asked to the publisher’s office. He congratulated her, and then counted out £600 in cash on his desk as an advance; she never earned any more from it. Not a fortune even 40+ years ago. Her later novels earned her even less. Fortunately, with a wealthy husband, that did not matter so much.
Out early in the car today. Listening for a while to Radio 4 Today, I was amused to hear the presenter, in a piece about the ridiculous Michelle Mone, talk about the “Covid panic“. Is the truth at least partly getting through, even to the minds of BBC drones?
If, as American “gun nuts” claim, “the right to bear arms” is the last line of defence for American white people, then why (with tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of Americans legally and/or illegally possessing weapons), is that anti-white hate-broadcaster still not minus a head?
I myself am not, as I have blogged in the past, “anti-gun”, but the fact is that possessing a weapon, whether a firearm or a cold weapon, is not, without more, going to achieve victory for social nationalism.
If anyone is interested, I myself was a member of a “gun club” in the days before Major and Blair used one of only two “spree shooting” massacres in English history (Dunblane; before that, there had been Hungerford) as an excuse to close down most private ownership of firearms. There has been one other such “spree shooting” since then, in Cumbria in 2010.
I belonged until the mid-1980s to the now more or less defunct Kensington Rifle and Pistol Club in West London , which was off the Cromwell Road, and not too far from the Earl’s Court Underground station. I believe that a rump of it still shoots at Bisley in Surrey, where I have not been since I was at school in the early 1970s.
I have had, also, and in the 1970s and 1980s, some limited experience of various firearms (shotguns, pistols, automatic weapons too) in other parts of the world: Central Southern Africa, Ireland, the USA etc, but have never been fascinated by weapons, and have never made the mistake of imagining that Mao’s dictum that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” is 100% right (though it is not 100% wrong either).
Ideology, organization, and discipline must come first in any serious social-national party or movement.
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Anne Sacoolas has been advised by the US govt not to attend her death by careless driving sentencing in person
No getting around the fact that Anne Sacoolas is a coward and the US Gov is disgusting for how it has treated the family of Harry Dunn. Thr extradition agreement with the US should be torn up. If they don't respect our justice system, we shouldn't show respect to theirs.
Strange, nicht wahr? Jews and their “antifa” “useful idiots” can conspire to threaten both a London business and people wishing to hold a discussion and entertainment event, and the police do nothing. I wonder what the police reaction would be if Jews were to whine that they were being threatened. I think that we know the answer.
That is where we are now in the UK. “Occupied”. (((Occupied))).
Kennedy was right in principle but what threw his prediction off-course was something that he perhaps did not fully comprehend when young— meaning the Jew-Zionist control over the mass media in the USA and the rest of the “Western” world. TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, publishing (including academic and historical publishing).
Congratulations.
Jack Monroe is a campaigner now is she? When did she last campaign for anything which didn’t involve lining her own pockets?
Of course, such nominations would have been finalized some months ago, before the avalanche of accusation and evidence re. the “Bootstrap Cook”. I doubt that she will be nominated for any awards in the future.
Jack Monroe Conspiracy Debunk latest: Now @bootstrapcook has changed her story twice in one evening. First she was going to prove all the allegations about her are false. Then she was distracted by her son being ill. Now that was bollocks and actually her battery died. pic.twitter.com/KHX06DuUke
My sons entire hockey team is off sick. Two boys in and out of hospital with pneumonia. The rest are lethargic, coughing, fevered. In my 50 years I’ve never seen an entire team of physically fit athletic kids hit this hard. Not until OMHA forced the vaccines on them.
This is what cult mentality looks like. She has ZERO evidence the N95 does anything. I bet you $ she's fully "vaxed". Masked and vaxed. For WHAT EXACTLY?? https://t.co/wSBT9IUrps
When I was a kid, the propaganda was that Hitler was a homosexual. But now that homosexuality is promoted, the Hitler was gay thing was quietly dropped.
— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) August 20, 2022
Deborah Key. Imogen Harvey-Key. I can only speak for myself and my daughter but any right thinking individual, who believes in true democracy and freedom of speech, should add their name.
— Deborah Key 💙💙 #DeathByBrexit #NoComradesUnder1K (@princesdeb) August 27, 2022
I am 55. I do not remember the U.K. being in a more desperate state that it is today – and I lived right through Thatcher.
I, aged 23-34 at the time, do not recall the Thatcher years as horribly or exceptionally bad, though many do. I agree with the rest of the tweet, though.
How about removing standing charge, de-linking electric from gas prices, removing VAT, ofgem protecting the consumer rather than the energy companies and the govt strictly regulating these companies as they originally promised. No monopoly should be allowed to fleece the public.
Read that newspaper report and tell me that the 12-month (in reality 5-6 month) sentences on both defendants constitute justice. I am by no means a “hanger and flogger”, and disparage unduly lengthy sentences but, were I the sentencing judge, I should have been thinking in terms of years, not months. Maybe 5 years. Also, if available (I am not up to date on the law) a confiscation order to compensate the abuse victim who (also) had £57,000 stolen from him. I wonder how it was that that theft could even have been allowed to happen. Seems that there might be a systemic problem if that can occur.
I accept that one cannot get a full picture from a newspaper report but surely, on any reading, 12 months, meaning a maximum of 6 months in custody, must be seen as unduly lenient, to say the least.
Some truth in that, but many women who are mothers are neurotic, often highly so, while some childless women are not. Grey area.
‘Why does she want top protect excess profits of oil and gas giants and why is she doing that by borrowing extra and not by taxing oil and has companies more?’
Peymana Assad says Labour are ‘struggling to understand’ PM Liz Truss' approach to solving the energy crisis. pic.twitter.com/4psDAUHait
'There's lots of [wheelchair] users with medical equipment they've got to run. They're looking at seriously increased costs.'
GB News viewer and wheelchair user Jack Milnes discusses how the cost-of-living crisis impacts people living with disabilities. pic.twitter.com/nS7MNPXJ6D
'These are grim figures. 6.8 million…that's the highest number since records began.'
GB News' Katherine Forster reports after new NHS waiting figures reveal that a record 6.8 million people were waiting for treatment at the end of July.
I have never actually watched GB News, except on clips seen on Twitter. The presenters are less —if you prefer, even less— smooth than those seen on BBC, ITV, Sky etc.
I have no idea how many people do watch that channel, but I am quite surprised that it is still going.
🔵 NEW: UK Charity @TrussellTrust is urging new Prime Minister Liz Truss to address the #CostOfLiving as their research found a worrying number of people on benefits are struggling to feed themselves.https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
🚗 34% said they have fallen into debt as they couldn’t keep up with essential bills and 23% said they couldn’t afford to use public transport or the cost of fuel to travel to work or travel to essential appointments, or do the school run.#CostOfLivingCrisispic.twitter.com/MkW5rvVjmu
📦 @TrussellTrust revealed #FoodBanks in its network provided 50% more parcels to help people across the UK in recent months, compared to before the pandemic and says the UK Government’s £15 billion support package is no longer enough.https://t.co/KldbbvAicb
🌿 Emma Revie, chief executive at @TrussellTrust, said “The Government must act now to protect people from harm. This means at least doubling the additional support offered to people on the lowest incomes.”https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
The death of a longstanding head of state, particularly one viewed for decades as “iconic”, marks a milestone in the history of that state, whatever one’s socio-political views.
Tomorrow, I may offer some more directed thoughts about the near-future direction of the UK. In the meantime, I wish only to say “Vale!“
Ian Robert Millard 