In #Moscow, on Leningradsky Prospekt, noticed an art installation ice cube with a frozen red button inside. Next to the ice cube is a sign with the inscription "Patience of Russia". Food for thought 🤔 pic.twitter.com/BWBoRBT4PS
God knows what it would look like if one or more nuclear missiles were to land. When I was living intermittently in the New York/New Jersey area in the early 1990s, much of New York City already looked in a bad way, to say the least, but a nuclear attack would take everything to a level no-one wants to see.
The water level in the tanks of the #Zaporozhye NPP is decreasing by 5-7 cm per hour, said Grossi. The water has been used to cool off #Nuclear reactors. Opinions divide if the Ground water would be enough to keep the nuclear reactors functional or this will cause damage.
#Kherson region #Russian side drowning as #Ukraine has expected. If the dam gives out completely under the pressure of the pouring water that is currently being discharged higher upstream by #Ukranian g-ment these cities will go under for years. pic.twitter.com/YM4Hhes0rC
It was always more likely that the Kiev regime blew the dam, rather than the Russian forces.
One step away from the Catastrophe: Undermining the #Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station that is barely holding. What will be the consequences? What is the purpose?
How some Ukrainians trying to avoid mobilization: 22yo man did it by marrying an elderly relative ▪️A guy from Vinnitsa received a deferment from the army, having registered marriage and guardianship of his 79 yo great-aunt , a disabled person pic.twitter.com/UUN755om3T
Embarrassing, but the avoider cannot be entirely blamed. Serving on the front lines of the Ukrainian Army seems to be tantamount to a death sentence. The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, and having to use press-gangs.
A bit of #GoodNews:During the night, the water level in #NovayaKakhovka dropped significantly. The water has receded from the city by about 100-150 meters and continues to recede- Izvestia. Is it possible that the worst scenario can be avoided? pic.twitter.com/dmbCnDp3DR
In the Bakhmut direction, in the area of the Berkhovsky reservoir, the enemy was unsuccessful and had heavy losses. Now our artillery is hitting the retreating groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The reports coming out are horrific. Apparently minefields are just being driven through without prep or caution. I think tomorrows footage will be terrible, remember it’s 03:00 local time.
A reminder about the fund set up to enable “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch) to resettle when he is eventually released from prison sometime in 2024.
We have had decades of immigration from India and Pakistan
In your view which country has delivered better for the citizens of the U.K.
When will the UK (particularly England) be majority non-white? Some say 2066, others 2050. Maybe even 2040. The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Eventually, the sliding standards in all areas (NHS, policing, education) will be scarcely noticed, because the non-whites accept rubbish administration, potholed roads, creaking railway infrastructure etc as normal.
What a horrible thing to advise, no it’s the job of the police to reduce crime and disorder to ensure residents feel happy and safe. That’s a despicable answer to give you.
Of course, get accused of saying something about the bad behaviour of some ethnic group (especially Jews) and the police will spend endless hours “investigating” your speech, tweets, blog posts etc…
Mad.
'Far right', increasingly is code for 'anyone with eyeballs, who isn't retarded enough to work for the mainstream media liars'.
In the UK, you will be guilty of an offence under the Communications Act S127 if you post something on social media that someone deems offensive. Under this BS law, intent is overlooked. If anyone finds something you say offensive, you can go to jail.
Free speech is dead.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 8, 2023
Watch this space. The “bad law” of Communications Act 2003, s.127 and its “grossly offensive” meaningless nonsense definition (frequently abused by Jewish “lawfare” groups such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) is being replaced by the concept of whether actual harm has been done (once the Online Safety Bill currently going through Parliament becomes law).
Take a look back at the last three years.
Almost everything your Government, in lockstep with the mainstream media told you, turned out to be a lie.
Almost everything the “conspiracy theorists” told you from the beginning turned out to be true, whether it be the efficacy of…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) June 8, 2023
Greta, where were you when the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up?
That was an atrocity which hasn't been addressed since it was reluctantly admitted that Russia didn't do it…
So the transnational conspiracy found another use for Greta Nut now that her one-trick-pony “I’m an autistic little girl speaking up against climate change” act started to bore people.
In Uman, for about an hour, explosions of secondary detonation after a grandiose explosion of the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, following the missile attack of the Russian Aerospace Forces pic.twitter.com/cXNN9Fq9hp
The Israeli newspaper "Maariv" reported on the preparation at the highest level in the ranks of the Israeli army for a war on several fronts. Commander of the 51st Golani Brigade of the Israeli Army: Artillery and tanks are ready for war. Israel is preparing for war.
Macron says it’s too early to know what the motive was for the Syrian asylum seeker scum cowardly stabbing those innocent toddlers!💔 Who cares if there was any motive? Pure evil! Should be put down like a rabid dog!
It is not a stabbing incident. It is an illegal unvetted Syrian Refugee that has decided to start killing French Children. The stupid Swedish let him in the EU and stupid Macron let him in France https://t.co/FeRjdziMfg
The audacity of Macron and other European leaders to even comment on the French playground attacks, when they are facilitating these criminal men and accommodating them en masse. Blood on all their hands.
— Molly B 🐝 Unhackable Human (@OldNormality) June 8, 2023
Watch out, Ukraine, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is near – Politico
The American publication believes that it is from these countries that the collapse of the pro-Ukrainian coalition of the West will begin pic.twitter.com/BTi9B4ggF0
Orbán wrote on Facebook that he convened a session of the Defense Council in the morning "because of the intensified fighting last night in Ukraine". On that occasion, he pointed out that for Budapest, "Hungary's security comes first" and added that now "the most important thing… pic.twitter.com/NsJY97s8UV
Well, this week I again managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 6/10 as against his self-awarded five and a half. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, and 10. I just missed the last one, thinking that it might be the cassowary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary] (which can reach well over 6 feet in height). Apparently, though, that is only the third or fourth tallest bird.
— Ramesh Patel – They Would Rather You Ignore This (@Imalright_Jack) May 19, 2023
Very true. So many people are misled by that kind of “Mrs Thatcher housewife’s shopping basket” economics. One would have thought that John Rentoul would know better, or is he just (as in days of Blair) parrotting the “centrist” Labour Party line?
As a former barrister (wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 and not in actual Bar practice since 2008), I have applied a little thought to such questions.
My view is that sentencing has become absurd in the UK. While many defendants are certainly not given sufficient —or any— time in incarceration, despite having been convicted of very unpleasant offences, including crimes of very considerable violence, there is at the same time routine over-sentencing.
Many defendants are sentenced to, say, 5 years (for whatever), when 4 or 3 would be more than adequate (and, in terms of actual punishment, about the same).
At the same time, there are quite a few people incarcerated for no good reason at all, as in the recent free speech case of “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch), sentenced to 2.5 years for supposedly “inciting racial hatred” (he was convicted on 10 out of 15 charges). He will be in prison, probably, until 2024. Political “crime” in our “free country” (as was).
I am not going to do an entire study of this one, but take a look at the Wikipedia entry: mixed Indian heritage; failed, at an early stage, to continue with a law degree, despite having been, in part, privately educated; seems to be a lesbian or something similar; “elected” (selected) as MP at age 23; took “several months” off from her MP duties in 2021; “celebrated” the attacks on statues of English historical figures.
Another deadhead MP.
An example of her views:
Troubling to hear Esther McVey at #PMQs refer to Travellers as a “blight on the local community” just a day after #RomaniResistanceDay.
GRT people face a huge amount of discrimination. Such hateful language, and Tory laws criminalising their way of life, only contribute to it.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) May 17, 2023
Mirabile dictu! Seems that Esther McVey has actually said something with which I can agree.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will take into account, among its plans, the West's intention to supply Ukraine with F-16 aircraft
If it turns out that the Russian air force or ground forces cannot deal with the increasing influx of sophisticated weapons systems being supplied to the Kiev regime, the end result may be that the Russian leadership will decide to destroy both the bases of those aircraft and also any nearby urban areas.
As previously blogged, it should never have come to this. The invasion should have and could have been essentially over within a week, with Kiev taken, and Zelensky’s cabal eliminated or driven into exile.
While the G7 countries in Hiroshima are introducing anti-Russian sanctions and discussing support for Ukraine, China is deepening its cooperation with Moscow, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".
In Bakhmut, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed The so-called "Nest" is located on the outskirts – now completely destroyed, military correspondents report. pic.twitter.com/u7vVvqW12H
The small area still defended by Kiev-regime forces in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is now 100 acres or so, about the same acreage as Kensington Gardens in London.
What always strikes me about the Israeli police response to any incident is how swift it is. Not one, but several, and often many, police, security agents, soldiers etc are on the scene quickly, usually in seconds, at least in the Old City of Jerusalem or in the central parts of Tel Aviv. Reminiscent of the quick reaction of the militia in Moscow in Soviet times, if there were any sort of public disorder. The Israelis must have huge numbers of police personnel.
A Syrian migrant receives his UK passport courtesy of our soft, liberal Tory government. According to the Left, he is now fully British 😤😡 pic.twitter.com/0TxtvZaYCB
In a well-known and probably (?) apocryphal saying, Lenin is supposed to have opined that “in order to destroy a nation, first destroy its currency“. I suppose that he could not have foreseen the possibility that a nation’s integrity, credibility, and soul could be destroyed by migration-invasion, an invasion not through feat of arms, but through the moral weakness and/or self-hate of the people of the invaded country itself (whipped up, as usual, by “them”, the “you know who” element). He would not have believed it possible.
I have blogged briefly about that silly “ho”, Clare Moseley, in the past. Like so many English people, perhaps especially women, who attach themselves to “anti-racist”-type causes (“refugees welcome”, anti-apartheid etc), intellect is limited, emotionalism uncontrolled, hypocrisy common, and both knowledge and experience of the subject-matter usually absent.
They usually have mental health “issues” as well. See also:
We compiled all of the evidence showing who funds @Bellingcat, what the stated agenda of their government and private-sector funders are, and what those funders get in return.
Find out what the National Endowment for Democracy is. Decide for yourself.https://t.co/8WIxP90E5d
There is nothing wrong with being “antisemitic” anyway, and in the UK it is not a crime, despite what many ignorant Twitter types often tweet.
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that there is a special symbolism in the fact that today we are talking about the complete liberation of Artemovsk, a year ago on this day the last Ukrainian militants surrendered in Mariupol.
Since the beginning of February, 80,000 refugees have returned from Turkey to Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
"We are engaged in the normalization of life in the areas of Syria under our control. People are returning to Syria on a voluntary basis," Akar said. pic.twitter.com/8t6T0hqPIk
The bases of the Bakhmut Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk were struck The explosions went off near the Kramatorsk airport, which has been turned into a supply hub and headquarters of the UAF pic.twitter.com/SFvAb16vD8
Looks as if “the musicians” are about to complete their performance in that area. музыканты хорошо играют…
Reportedly, Flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. The desire to protect the "aircraft" is over. pic.twitter.com/pyPIqW4BMK
Lavrov: “Hopes for integration with the West did not come true. The Western track that has developed in our foreign policy has completely exhausted itself. We have entered into a full-scale confrontation with the West.”
What Russia lacks is a real ideology that goes beyond mere Great-Russian nationalism.
the release of Bakhmut means that two larger cities in the Donetsk region – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk – will be within the range of Russian artillery. With their release, the People's Republic of Donetsk will also be released. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in…
As a result of the offensive actions of Wagner's assault detachments, with the support of the artillery and aviation of the troop group "South", the liberation of the city of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut was completed
In France, a pension no longer allows you to live with dignity.
Frenchman Jacques had to return to work at the age of 80 due to high inflation in the country, he took a job in a supermarket after 15 years of retirement.
The newspaper "Maariv" reports that since yesterday morning, more than 70 rockets have been fired at the settlements around Gaza. pic.twitter.com/wzaSAYa4zd
I think that everyone is missing the point- meat grinder. After Bakhmut, there will be Krematorks, Nykolaiv, and Slovyansk, same setup, grinding the Ukraine manpower and NAOO resources to the point where collapse will be a realistic scenario. Ukraine cannot do a thing about it.
Il video di un veicolo che si avvicina verso Bakhmut passando da Ivanoskoe in un paesaggio apocalittico all’orizzonte tra veicoli distrutti e con il sottofondo di “Fortezza Bakhmut”. pic.twitter.com/izYmSEWUu7
Reports of Drone attack on Kremlin could be false flag operation by Putin designed to justify even more brutal Russian imperialist aggression by his murderous regime. Or it could be a welcome sign of Ukraine increasing capability to hit back against Russia state #SlavaUkraini.
Yet another Zionist (ex-MP, expenses cheat etc) “supporting” “Ukraine” (the Zelensky regime in Kiev) from a London armchair. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gapes].
Will Putin respond by launching a tactical nuclear strike on Kiev? An open question.
Idiotic anti-Russia drones are applauding the attack. They seem to have missed the fact that nothing could be better calculated to result in a firming of Russian public sentiment around Putin. Maybe that is why there are already claims that the attack was a Russian “false flag”. Perhaps, but to Russians the Kremlin is almost “sacred” in a sense. Not sure that even the most ruthless Russian politician or military leader would do it.
“A Bulgarian ‘professional pickpocket’ was deported from the UK but returned using a passport in her maiden name and stole £4,000 from a pensioner, a court heard.
Serial thief Keranka Nicolova, 27, was deported for street stealing in 2018 and banned from Britain.
But the Bulgarian national returned in March this year ‘to commit crime‘, a judge said. And now she has been jailed for two years after admitting theft.“
[Daily Mail]
In fact, not “Bulgarian” except in terms of one of her passports. A Gypsy. Look at the photo…
That is not a “Bulgarian”, in fact not any kind of European.
A video of a burning Tamanneftegaz terminal in Krasnodar region – it was allegedly attacked by a drone. Five fire trains are working to extinguish the fire.
Weakening the enemy's logistics is an important part of preparations for counteroffensive operations – military theory.… pic.twitter.com/LaYhtVItII
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023
You can see the way this is going— escalation. I would say that is is no better than 50-50 as to whether Kiev and other large cities in Ukraine will still be standing in 5 years’ time.
Late tweets
Immediately after the Kremlin's statements about the attempted using a drone, Finnish television reported that Zelensky "will stay in Finland longer than planned." The original schedule called for a one-day visit. pic.twitter.com/yylmxH04lx
He lit the blue touch-paper, and is now standing well back…
Our spirit is stronger than their weapons, we won, we did it and we move on. There is very little left, so we will work, win" – Wagner PMC fighter in Bakhmut ㅤ pic.twitter.com/PxmT5yloge
US does not encourage Ukraine to strike on the territory of the Russian Federation – the White House on the question of involvement in the attack of drones
Perhaps the American leadership is now a little worried that World War Three might be triggered by the nonsense regime in Kiev and that, if it is, America’s 50 largest cities might cease to exist.
Meanwhile, Zelensky is flying to the Netherlands aboard the Dutch government business jet pic.twitter.com/NlIqaWxW0g
Looking at Gates gesturing and gesticulating, I cannot but wonder what might lurk in his ancestry…
Beyond that, human beings have an unfortunate propensity to over-value the views of those who happen to have huge amounts of money and/or social position (eg the case of the UK royals).
France 🇫🇷
Welcome to Macron’s ‘progressive’ politics. A police state where any dissent or protest is accompanied by the bludgeoning baton of authoritarianism. The diametric opposite of liberté, égalité, fraternité.pic.twitter.com/eEVJUzd1MM
Ukrainian resources confirm the today's advance of PMC Wagner across Tchaikovsky street in Bakhmut. Approximate control of AFU is about 5% of the city, namely the last high-rise buildings in the western districts of the city. The epic of Bakhmut operation is coming to an end. pic.twitter.com/JWxAQhnO5E
Population of Ukraine over the years. It's from an Ukrainian source from 2019. By 2019 the population almost halved compared to 1991 (peak number). pic.twitter.com/o2Bq2GBJUe
Satellite images confirm the fears of Western journalists. The footage shows "thousands of defensive positions on a vast territory" in the southeastern part of the Zaporozhye region.
corruption in the army, low morale of the mobilized masses, the ideological and religious split of society, and many other things that prevented and prevent Ukraine from becoming a "healthy" state.
🚨🚨🚨Looks like Russia decided to stop the Ukrainian counterattack in its tracks with what may prove to be the largest air raid and missile barrage since the war started. 8 earlier, now 10 more TU-95 bombers. Black Sea fleet cruise missiles. Retribution for Sevastopol at a… https://t.co/uXuVJGlw5L
The sign (in Russian) on her back says “I love to steal“, i.e. this is some sort of equivalent of putting a relatively minor malefactor in the stocks or at the pillory, as happened in Western Europe hundreds of years ago.
She may have done something as minor as shoplifting. The major thieves in the Ukrainian failed state are those in the Kiev “government”.
CNN : According to CNN, Ukraine successfully destroyed 100 Russian missiles in a single day.
BBC : Russia is losing, they now has zero missiles left.
NYT : Russia has suffered a major setback as all of their missiles, including the S-300 in the Black Sea, have been destroyed. https://t.co/uMuc5MyPx2
British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons called the nighttime missile attack on Ukraine "Russia's May Day alarm clock" “Now it’s noisy outside, judging by the sound, it looks like Ukrainian air defense has to answer Russia’s May Day alarm,” she wrote on Twitter pic.twitter.com/8LTJAlX3il
The UK Ambassador to the Kiev regime is a scruffy Jewish woman. Is that a co-incidence, or not?
The West has been secretly preparing anti-Russian sanctions since the end of 2021 – Politico President Joe Biden and European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen agreed in November 2021 to prepare anti-Russian sanctions before the start of a special operation in Ukraine. Then the… pic.twitter.com/SD99dWgTWk
Alina Lipp: Today, if you want a career in journalism in the West then you have to serve the ruling elite, which means slamming Russia and China at every chance and promoting conflict with those countries.
Just looked, for the first time in a few weeks, at the Patreon website. Turns out that “grifting” fraud “Jack Monroe” has yet again seen a fall in the number of utter mugs each sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month. At one time last year (mainly thanks to promotion by Jewish TV talking heads and cuisine experts Nigella Lawson and Jay Rayner) she had nearly 900 mugs regularly transferring cash to her; as of today, only 428. A few weeks ago it was still about 460. Still, “not a bad little earner” even now…
Israeli aggression was reported on Syrian international airport of Aleppo and Al- Saffirah city According to some reports 17 out of 22 missiles were intercepted, and 5 hit the targets The targets in Al-Saffirah city are potentially facilities belonging to the ministry of defence…
Over 100 policemen and gendarmes were injured during demonstrations across France , the French Ministry of the Interior announced. As many as 291 people were detained, 90 of them in Paris alone, said the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
US may run out of emergency measures as debt ceiling hits June 1st This is stated in a letter from US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to the leadership of Congress. “After reviewing recent federal tax returns, we will not be able to continue meeting government commitments by June… pic.twitter.com/5QaWoPtMhW
So much for African “independence”, “decolonization” etc. In reality, European, American etc financial and commercial organizations control almost everything, and the weak and corrupt African misgovernments do nothing but take bribes and mess up life for the ordinary African. The truth is that, in almost all cases, white colonial rule was better for Africa, for its human and animal inhabitants, in almost every way, if not every way.
footage of yesterday's most powerful explosion in Pavlograd was filmed by a surveillance camera pic.twitter.com/qMfVmpAnES
Protests in France are extremely violent, and a large number of police officers and demonstrators have been seriously injured pic.twitter.com/FDqB2StofA
We are to the point in this conflict when it's impossible to control the Western narrative of "helping "democratic" Ukraine maintain its sovereignty". It's a classic case of 🇺🇲 proxy war against 🇷🇺 using 🇺🇦 as the battlefield and 🇺🇦 lives as the means to weaken or destroy 🇷🇺. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/X5bwmo8asM
…while the soldiers of the Kiev regime die and suffer in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk. Ukraine is two worlds, and the wealthy few are as remote from the war as people in London or New York.
Incidentally, why do such revellers enjoy horrible noise, disruptive lighting, and jumping up and down? I was not like that even at 21 years of age (or 18, or 16).
Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
See also:
The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
“A father who murdered a burglar outside his house had previously posted a photo of the vigilante played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies on a neighbourhood group with the comment: ‘This is who we need.’
David King put the photo of Deathwish anti-hero Paul Kersey on the WhatsApp group in June 2019 after the wheels of his wife’s BMW M3 were stolen.
The career criminal [burglar/car thief] was left with a 5in-deep wound to his chest and the injury to his knee. He was so distressed as he hammered at a nearby door for help that he smashed the glass.
” Car thief/burglar] Neil Charles, 47, who had 66 previous convictions, turned up at the estate shortly before 1am on June 20, 2021, and was spotted on CCTV trying the doors of the Kings’ cars.”
[Daily Mail]
66 previous convictions…
Frankly, I think that those citizens are heroes, albeit that they arguably went too far in the heat of the moment. The sentences of “life, with minimum 21 years” (the father) and 19 years (the son) were very very harsh in all the circumstances. I should have thought that a minimum term served of, say, 5 years, would have been enough to mark any judicial disapproval (judicial, not societal— most British people would back the father and son, at least in principle).
The police too often show themselves completely unfit for purpose, useless, and the same is often true of the courts. People like singer and satirist Alison Chabloz actually get imprisoned in the UK for (in her case) lampooning some Jewish behaviour in song or in cartoons, while real criminals, who stab or slash people, or steal cars etc, are effectively let off.
Finally, I see that the Daily Mail has shown no photograph of the killed individual. I wonder why not…
David Irving was the academic hero of the above story. The report in the Guardian downplays his role.
I once heard a taped speech by Irving (given to the then-active discussion forum, the Clarendon Club, in the 1980s) which went into his role in some detail. Incidentally, Irving showed himself to be a confident, assured, and amusing speaker.
The Guardian report notes that System historian Hugh Trevor-Roper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper] was damaged by his failure to see through the Hitler Diaries fakery, but downplays that too, in my view.
Trevor-Roper (a freemason who was very pro-Jew-Zionist) is still regarded by many as worth reading, while the Jewish lobby has demonized Irving and trashed his reputation, despite his books being far more interesting and accurate in relation to 1933-45 (Trevor-Roper covered a far wider historical time-scale in his works, from the early Enlightenment to the contemporary era).
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“We need to stop violence against women.“ – Emmanuel Macron
All it will do is create more separate car use for under 25s. Crass logic.
The mass banning of groups of folk from civil core liberties under the auspice of health and safety is a slippery slope. We should have learnt that from Covid.
PM Rishi Sunak enjoying VIP protocol of motorcade of cars, bikes, close protection and police running along North Korea style – no other UK PM ever seen doing this pic.twitter.com/m03tFbgokH
Sixty-nine percent of French people believe that the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as head of state was a mistake, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Elaba Institute for the Study of Public Opinion. pic.twitter.com/ceFuxJm0Gy
The Russian Armed Forces began to use the latest main tanks T-14 "Armata" for firing at Ukrainian positions, – the source of RIA Novosti. pic.twitter.com/cfW3h3nMTI
Andrew Neil used to be, maybe still is, the best political interviewer around, but a few years ago started to come off the rails a bit, ranting about “Nazis” and “neo-Nazis” etc on his now-binned late-night BBC 2 TV show. Then he became part of the System “Covid” propaganda campaign.
— Geoff' The Frenchy Fella – War News 🇺🇦 (@Geoff_WarNews) April 25, 2023
Russia has become the largest supplier of oil to India. Daily deliveries reach amounts of almost 280 million liters of "black gold" and have a trend of further growth . 🇷🇺 Russia has taken the first place among oil suppliers to India, displacing 🇮🇶Iraq and 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia in,…
Reacting to Biden's re-candidacy for the US presidential election, the former American president warned that the dollar and American banks are collapsing and soon the dollar will no longer be the world standard currency. pic.twitter.com/SB7MiKlmSr
Dmitriy Kuleba, the head of diplomacy of Ukraine and a newly minted Ukrainian, admitted today that Ukraine does not have enough stockpiles of weapons and that the aid coming from the West is not enough. pic.twitter.com/rtigvWsmeH
Macron has become the first “unpopulist” President of France for a long long time.
Journalists are gently wondering if Biden will last another four years: “Does the president plan to serve all 8 years? – I'm not going to speak for the president. It's up to him" pic.twitter.com/KGEEy7Ry85
Important because, should Biden retain the US Presidency after 2024, and then retire or die, Kamala Harris will automatically be sworn-in as President!
Well, a modest 5/10 this week, but I still managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8.
“…he thinks schools, universities and employers should actively discriminate against white applicants, purely because of their skin colour and their inherited guilt. Never mind that, say, a little girl born in the 21st century can hardly be blamed for the history of slavery. For Kendi, the mere fact of her genetic heritage is enough to damn her.
The second example is even more shocking. This is a chart produced in 2020 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture — part of the Smithsonian Institution, probably the most prestigious U.S. educational body of all.
The chart gives examples of ‘whiteness’ and ‘white culture’, which it clearly regards with disapproval. Sinister aspects of ‘white culture’ apparently include ‘hard work’, ‘self-reliance’, ‘the nuclear family’, ‘competition’, ‘delayed gratification’ and even ‘rigid time schedules’.
In just the first three weeks of this year, the NHS advertised for 19 ‘diversity and sustainability’ posts, with a combined salary of a cool £1 million. Indeed, in total the NHS in England alone employs an estimated 800 diversity and inclusion officers, costing a staggering £40 million a year.“
[Daily Mail]
Is there any peaceful way to stop this slide to complete chaos or dystopian tyranny? Frankly, I think not.
Africa is no good for the white man any more. All African countries are now (i.e. now that they are African-ruled) shambolic, corrupt, and suffused with crime and extreme violence, though some more than others.
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UK police no longer deal with burglaries. However, the fight against "offensive stickers" does not subside pic.twitter.com/cdgvNuj9cr
Another UK policeman playing the poundland KGB operative in uniform instead of doing his proper job. It has become pervasive. The police are now almost useless in terms of protecting the British public, while waging the culture war against the British people, and at the instigation of both “woke” activists and (of course) the endlessly, relentlessly, whining and demanding Jew-Zionist lobby.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced that the decision of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria regarding restrictions on the import of Ukrainian grain is a heavy blow to the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Harley Schlanger says the the war in Ukraine and the Green Revolution of energy reduction are driving factors behind the economic collapse that European countries are facing pic.twitter.com/GlUhrGpO7V
As I have blogged previously, for me there are two main issues that stand out: firstly, at some point (and as Elon Musk has mentioned), AI gets to the point whereby it takes over the reins of its own evolution, no longer requiring, or even permitting, human decision-making to control that; secondly, AI may become so pervasive that it becomes almost impossible for any individual human being, or for humanity as a group, to live without it.
That is already to a large extent so in relation to, inter alia, mobile telephones, online access, debit/credit cards etc. Yes, you can live without internet access, without a mobile telephone (I have not had one for many years), without debit or credit cards etc, but it gets harder every month to live “off-grid” in that way.
Once cash becomes a medium of exchange used only by the marginalized, and not used much in supermarkets, larger shops etc, the System/matrix will have almost power of life and death over citizens. Say or do something anti-System, or anti the System agenda, and your banking services will be cut off, and you will find it hard to continue your political life, hard to conduct any business or profession, hard even to buy food, in the end.
“Conspiracy theory”? No. A number of people, such as Laura Towler, Mark Collett, Sam Melia (all of Patriotic Alternative) have had exactly that happen to them in the past couple of years.
The possibility now exists for one, two, or more encirclements.
Press TV's correspondent,@johnnyjamesmiller, says that Russia's primary goal is to defeat the Ukrainian army rather than gain territory. pic.twitter.com/0ZvvIiUefk
Britain: Ukraine will lose control of its skies in a month The shortage of anti-aircraft missiles will lead to Ukraine losing control of the sky as early as next month. This is reported by the British newspaper The Times. pic.twitter.com/YMx1LBjFTd
According to Chinese experts, Ukraine is weakening every day due to a shortage of ammunition. This is due to the fact that the pace of industrial production in Western countries cannot meet the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
It was largely an invention of the western media but then grew a life of its own to the extent that people such as Adam Kinzinger believed it to be true.
I wonder whether “the Ghost of Kiev” will become, over time, a figure thought by many to have been a real person, in the manner of Wilhelm Tell (or William Tell): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell.
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Zakharova: Statements about Ukraine joining NATO "short-sighted and dangerous pic.twitter.com/K2UpQlO22V
and then aired a CNN report stating that the aforementioned ministry sent a "warning letter" to the Russian company "Rosatom ", which currently manages the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, not to touch the plant since it contains sensitive American nuclear technology
I have already blogged a few times about my visit to the UK’s Porton Down “biolab” campus in Wiltshire in or about 1995, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK; incidentally or co-incidentally, he was a trained scientist in the field(s) of biochemistry, microbiology etc: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down.
Ukrainian General Krivonos: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing a shortage of shells and will soon be counted individually, if mass deliveries from Western countries do not begin.
The sooner the Kiev regime runs out of arms, ammunition, and personnel, the better. Russia can take over Kiev and eastern Ukraine (east of the Dnieper) and start the work of rebuilding the damaged areas. Ukrainians (and Russians in Ukraine) live, in general, with lower living standards than Russians, certainly Russians from central or Baltic Russia (Moscow, Petersburg etc), and (as Putin has recently said) should be helped to a better standard of living.
Ukrainian police act as a press-gang, trying to force random and unwilling young men to become soldiers in Zelensky’s war.
The founder of the PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin turned to the commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky. The reason was the information that Zelensky demanded that Syrsky hold Artyomovsk until May 9.
London and the other large UK cities have gone the same way.
The former commander of the US Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges , claims that the main goal of the UAF counteroffensive is to isolate the Crimean peninsula. pic.twitter.com/OByiv9kMpw
The cretins of what passes for the Kiev regime “high command”, and the similar idiots in Washington, cannot or will not see that, were Crimea actually to be isolated by a Kiev-regime fantasy “counter-offensive”, the Russian response might well be a tactical nuclear strike on the Kiev-regime forces, or even on central Kiev itself, obliterating Zelensky and his cabal (if that is where they really are).
a fuel depot continues to burn in Kharkiv. The Russian AirForces delivered pinpoint strikes on the places of concentration of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparing for the notorious counteroffensive. pic.twitter.com/T7HPWa9sdQ
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, said that fighter jets would not be given to Ukraine. Only air defense pic.twitter.com/t08sz6IhIf
🇺🇦 Protests by relatives of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin in Ukraine. In Krivo Rog, people protested because, as they say, soldiers thrown to the front without training, without equipment, many died, and they are missing, and payments are not paid. pic.twitter.com/1eDLd7dNZn
The Ukrainians themselves are now starting to push back against the Zelensky regime.
Ukraine had hoped to launch an offensive in April, but postponed it indefinitely due to a shortage of weapons, writes Foreign Policy, citing a Ukrainian lawmaker.
The Government’s “emergency alert test” tomorrow isn’t a technical test, the purpose is a lot more sinister. It’s a test to see how many people will comply, with an added touch of predictive programming thrown in, to get the population prepared for what’s coming. Turn them off!
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 22, 2023
Daughter's school is doing a "Stephen Lawrence Day", which is all about "systematic and institutional racism".
This is your pitiful "conservative" government in action. They should all be beaten up by their own rent boys.
Tired trope but imagine for a second the r*ces were reversed. This would be talked forever, with anniversaries from its happening, and it would be denounced by every celebrity and politician https://t.co/KpGfOYEwLW
Neil Oliver: ALL manners of freedom are being eroded | Neil Oliver Live https://t.co/59ojOyUInX via @YouTube@JoeBiden@VP Hey, whatcha y’all doin? Simple peasant, just askin!?!?
“Labour ministers in Wales have announced plans that could see young asylum seekers in the country receive £1,600 a month and taxpayers’ cash for legal aid to fight deportation.
Three Welsh Labour ministers – Jane Hutt, Julie Morgan and Mick Antoniw – are signatories of the letter, which demands that all migrants aged 18 and over should get universal basic income without being deprived of legal aid.
The UK Government spends around £6 million a day accommodating migrants across the country in hotels, former military bases and barges.
Under the Welsh plan, the Government would provide migrants with both a wage and their lawyers’ fees to stop them being deported.”
[Daily Mail]
In the current conditions of repression of free speech in the UK, we are effectively “not allowed” to print what we think should happen to any persons who encourage or facilitate the non-white migration-invasion of this country…
Vladimir #Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. | [Reuters] pic.twitter.com/M26tclA0NY
French President Emmanuel Macron intends to address Chinese officials with a plan that could lead to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine . According to that plan, negotiations could begin this summer, Bloomberg reports. pic.twitter.com/FqSCvqjl7I
Across France, people took to the streets to express dissatisfaction with Macron's announcement that the pension reform will come into force this fall.
🇸🇾 The Syrian flag was displayed on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in honor of the 77th anniversary of Syrian statehood. The return of Damascus to the Arab League is in full swing pic.twitter.com/aSkUQxv2Bk
Well, thank you so much angel my dear driver for your kindness that let the mum deer and her baby deer to across the road patiently ❤️👼 God bless you and the creatures in the world 🌹✨✨🇨🇦🇺🇸 https://t.co/UIrNsLdINK
Russian forces have taken control of almost 90% of the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) leader, told TASS on Tuesday.
"The Wagner private military company controls about 90% of Artyomovsk and its…
"Russian artillery and aerial attacks against Bakhmut are growing fiercer, Ukraine says." by BY MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG via NYT New York Times https://t.co/2sC5XTTNLy
[Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
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Dutch political activist, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, on why politicians are pushing people to eat insects, "to save the planet".
"The push for insect eating is just a compliance test, because our politicians know that when they control the food, they control the people".… pic.twitter.com/Fan1XZ5BxH
Where I part with what Griffin is saying (on the video clip, not perhaps overall) is that I see the conflict (which has already started) as being not a “race war” but a “race/culture/ideology war”. A complex and slow-burn conflict, in other words.
the embarrassingly dire performance this ego maniac gave on BBC Question Time did an incredible amount of damage
As the National Socialists of the 1930s put it, “National Socialism— the expression of our biological knowledge“.
#SS #Ahnenerbe.
The dollar's dominance as a reserve currency eroded last year at 10 times the pace seen in the past 2 decades April 17, 2023 by Phil Rosenhttps://t.co/aX7UgjV3JG
Bahmut : In today's fighting, units of the "Wagner" managed to reduce the territory controlled by units of the Ukrainian army to 10% of the city's territory.
According to him, the Bakhmut direction remains the epicenter of hostilities. He added that the Russians are increasing the activity of artillery and air strikes in the Bakhmut direction
“The pub at the centre of an online furore over controversial golliwog dolls was graffitied with offensive slogans in an act of vandalism that left five windows smashed.
The White Hart Inn in Gray’s, Essex, was vandalised at about 12.40am on Sunday and Essex police say they are conducting extra patrols in the area.“
[Daily Mail]
Essex Police deployed five or six police personnel to raid the pub and to seize the “offending” golliwogs. Will they deploy as many to protect the pub and its residents?
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Times: "Rishi Sunak – economy suffering from failure of numeracy"
No mate, I'd say it's suffering more from multi-millionaire treasonous CUNTS who blew £500bn on a fake virus in service of their globalist masters. pic.twitter.com/8ynB6fA7If
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the mercenary group is short of manpower as it faced high losses in the battle for Bakhmut. https://t.co/KJ1145gJMQ
In fact, it seems clear that, whatever manpower shortages are being suffered by Wagner Group or by the overall Russian forces, those of the Kiev regime are worse. As for arms and ammunition, Russia is in a better position than the Kiev regime.
The United States will transfer military equipment through Estonia to exercises in Finland – embassy in Tallinn
The "defensive" alliance continues under the guise of exercises to increase the presence of a military contingent in Finland after its admission to NATO
Toxins and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were found in several batches of corn imported from Ukraine to Hungary, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy said in an interview with Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
Sergey Lavrov: The goals of the special operation in Ukraine are to protect against the extermination of Russians and people who speak the Russian language, as well as to eliminate military threats to the security of Russia on our western borders pic.twitter.com/4lHKJwchXl
Political will and ability to provide assistance to Kiev is declining in 10 European countries, writes Newsweek referring to confidential documents that have reached the network.
Russian and Turkish military personnel conducted the 134th joint patrol of the outskirts of the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) in the north of Aleppo province, northern Syria pic.twitter.com/FV8v6Tp32x
"Bild" in the hell of Bakhmut: Ukrainian soldiers wonder what they are fighting for "It seems that it is only a matter of time before Bakhmut falls completely into Russian hands", this is how "Bild" journalist Jan Humin describes the situation in Bakhmut, who visited the city pic.twitter.com/qH7xhKcYMl
– The Russian military has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world and is closely allied with the Chinese military – Only the West suffers from the sanctions imposed on Russia.
The extravagantly smug Ed Balls. His maths ability was certainly found wanting when he & his wife @YvetteCooperMP fiddled their second home allowance. In 2007-08 alone their joint expenses fiddling brought them almost £310,000. They have benefited immensely from a rigged system.
Unfunded spending: Kwarteng flushed £60 billion down the toilet in one day by publishing a budget based on unfunded spend. Higher debt: £850bn in 2010. £3 trillion now. Uncontrolled immigration: 5,000 asylum cases awaiting initial decision in 2010. 155,000 now.
The vast majority still think that there is a “democratic choice” between “the two main parties”, plus the add-ons. In reality, there is no choice. All the System parties (Lib, Lab, Con, and the Farage vehicles for mugs, and in reality the Greens too, at the higher level) are controlled or strongly influenced by the same connected groups and cabals: NWO groups, Bilderbergers etc, freemasonic groups and, of course, the pervasive Jewish/Zionist lobby.
When will this nonsense stop? Not until we stop it, and I mean STOP it…
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Deputy head of the Pentagon Colin Kall: We do not want a direct conflict with Russia in Ukraine, we do not want a third world war pic.twitter.com/l9Hf5W314e
Spontaneous protests erupt across France following Emmanuel Macron's speech announcing that the pension reform will take effect this fall.Demonstrators burn barricades and rubbish, block police cars. pic.twitter.com/OgLW34EtVv
🇫🇷 A peaceful gathering of citizens in front of the City Assembly in Paris turned into riots and conflicts. The police used tear gas against the demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/hQZdR0uh8k
I don't care what the motivation may or may not be. All I care about is it being a significant step in the cancellation and destruction of Jack Monroe's scamming, and helping bring about her downfall.
And despite being harassed and bullied off social media by the Jack Monroe flying monkey mob, there is an archive of the AwfullyMolly investigation.https://t.co/TzAXw2v9SP
Back in the day, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper before our enrichment had even picked up any momentum and before 'diversity built Britain', stabbings in London were around three times a year.
It's a White country built by and for White people . Why are you antiWhite? Why do you want to dispossess native British people of their land? https://t.co/FvFlov4cPp
multiculturalism is not about making societies better. It's about bringing the story of the white man to a close. In one form or another, this realisation will be the defining idea of this century.
The sad thing is that, at some point, it might even seem that something as devastating as a nuclear attack on our major cities might not be, ultimately, as entirely negative as we usually think (taking the argument to absurdity, admittedly).
Britain took a very wrong path after about 1975 or so.
I saw a French activist using the term "immigrationists". I like it. It neatly lumps Tories, bankers, socialists, celebrities and oligarchs into the same heaving pile – where they belong.
I have to admit that I agree with most of that, even if it is from Polly Toynbee.
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A few months ago I made the suggestion to @elonmusk on Spaces to add state-affiliation not just to foreign media but also to US state-affiliated media. He liked the idea and today Twitter has started to implement it. Thanks Elon. pic.twitter.com/qNCX4CSrEI
Exactly. The self-describing “Left”, mostly unthinking individuals, tend to believe that they are somehow “against the System”, while gagging to be controlled and ordered by that very matrix. Look at how they all complied, to the letter, with the “Covid” police state “measures”— the facemask nonsense, the movement restrictions, even the ludicrous “Rule of Six” thought up by “Boris”-idiot (though tweeter “ihearthockey29” seems to be American).
It's still amazing to me that the media will run headlines like this while also insisting that immigration has no effect on housing shortages, and people actually accept that. pic.twitter.com/HA1rDcZugd
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
It has been a long time since I was in the Kremlin (I paid my rouble or two); 1993. On my last visit to Moscow, in 2007, I was too busy talking with boring people to sightsee, though I did walk up to GUM, off Red Square, but GUM, like much of Moscow, had changed out of all recognition.
Lunch time in Moscow as I continue my quest to find signs of economic doom courtesy of Western sanctions.. I guess I'll have to travel to UK or Germany to accomplish that goal! pic.twitter.com/07TqEAEGJV
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
Lots of traffic in downtown Moscow.. Where is the economic collapse msm continues to rant about? pic.twitter.com/7K3vQEAAMQ
— Randy Credico Live On The Fly (@CredicoRandy) April 5, 2023
There has always been a big difference between Moscow and the provinces. Indeed, I was told in the 1980s that if you went even 5 or 10 miles outside Leningrad, as it then was, you could find villages where the houses, or some of the houses, were without running water. They all had electricity, though. After all, Lenin himself had defined socialism as “Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“.
As to who or what groups are affected by Western sanctions against Russia, I would think (I concede that I have not studied it, and I now have no contacts in Russia) that the effect of the sanctions has been to deprive the most wealthy Russians of opportunities to enjoy themselves in Western capitals and large cities, and resorts. The Russian post-Soviet middle class may have been affected in terms of holidays and career opportunities. I have always been sceptical as to whether the vast mass of Russians is affected at all. They buy domestic food, which is plentiful, domestic vodka and beer (and wine, including Crimean), and do not travel overseas anyway.
“Benefit sanctions slow down claimants’ progress into work and are likely to force them into taking lower-paying jobs that leave them hundreds of pounds a year worse off, according to an internal report that the government tried to suppress.
The findings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report echo a series of independent studies showing sanctions – in effect fines amounting to hundreds of pounds imposed on claimants for supposed infringements of benefit rules – are ineffective as a way of getting people into jobs or to work more hours.
The report is embarrassing for the government, which has aggressively promoted sanctions as part of its plans to force claimants to take a job or work more hours. Completed in August 2020, its release was blocked by the then work and pensions secretary, Thérèse Coffey, on the grounds it was “not in the public interest”.
Experts said it was shocking that the government had clear evidence of the negative effects of sanctions for more than two years and had actively sought to keep the findings under wraps while overseeing a huge rise in the numbers of sanctions on universal credit claimants.“
It seems clear to me that the State benefit sanctions regime has nothing to do with incentivizing the unemployed, but is basically political, a way of chucking some red meat to the pleb-Cons, the Mail and Sun readers, whether retired or working for small pay. A contemporary equivalent of the Roman games, with all thumbs pointing down.
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Interesting documentary, that I recall seeing in the past; I picked up a VHS video from somewhere:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦“Wagner” is storming Bakhmut from all sides, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking, trying to throw PMCs off the “road of life” https://t.co/6kNbLepN1b
While Macron is in China … protesters stormed the theater of Bordeaux and sing … he really should take care of France first maybe? -> “Emmanuel Macron, if you continue it will be dark at your home” pic.twitter.com/zp7rgvrotl
When I was 28, I belonged to the university Taekwando Group. I was not very good, though I managed to get one level up from the bottom before I was injured by a careless kick, and so cracked, or maybe even fractured, a rib or ribs.
No medical attention was required but for the next 3 months I woke up in pain. Once one rose and started to move, it was OK, though it hurt anew if you laughed, just as in the old saying.
We support freedom of speech and the unhindered transmission of information, we serve to report on global current events without exception in a decent manner. Maximum commitment to reporting. @Spriter99880 North Korea special forces 👇 pic.twitter.com/sYRrDPMHZu
A complete puppet of Israel, like most U.S. Presidents.
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Due to nationwide strikes by various professions, including city hall workers, the image of Paris is becoming more interesting day by day. pic.twitter.com/9xRpZeItqs
🇫🇷 New poll: Le Pen would convincingly beat Macron if the elections in France took place today The leader of the National Alliance, Marine Le Pen, with 55 percent of the votes won, would convincingly defeat the current president, Emmanuel Macron, if the presidential elections… pic.twitter.com/74CbPY8QCf
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