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Diary Blog, 5 August 2026

[coat of arms of Pope Pius XII]

Morning thought

I saw a few minutes of one of those boring TV shows about buying, renovating, and selling/renting unaesthetic little houses. In this one, the buyers were two African women, I think sisters. In the brief segment I saw, they were buying the house “as an investment“, with the idea of renting it out and also getting a capital gain. The younger sister had just graduated from somewhere calling itself a university, and hoped to make a living out of property, i.e. renting houses out to people (who would therefore have to use much of their modest pay to rent it). The “British” msm thus commends buy-to-let parasitism: someone will have to work to get money so that those Africans can live, parasitically, upon the labour of the tenants. It’s just wrong.

On the blog a year ago

Tweets seen

[“The Ministry of Defense reported on the targets hit during last night’s attack:

  • A logistics center called “MLP-Chayka” in Kyiv, used for storing and distributing components for drones.
  • An automated warehouse called “Epicenter” for processing orders and storing dual-use goods.
  • A logistics center belonging to “Nova Poshta,” where dual-use goods, including those for drone production, were stored and distributed.
  • A logistics center in Brovary, Kyiv region, where drones were stored.
  • A major hub for distributing and storing components for drones of various types.
  • A “Novus” logistics center, where drones and their components were stored.
  • Warehouses belonging to companies such as “Silpo FOOD,” “Ice Logistics,” Raben, and others, which were used for storing weapons.
  • A fuel and lubricants warehouse and a “Nova Poshta” logistics center in the Chernihiv region, as well as a gas compressor station in the Poltava region.
  • In addition, Russian forces struck three naval vessels south of Odesa, which were delivering weapons and military equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces acknowledged that they were unable to intercept any of the missiles during last night’s attack“].

That would seem to imply that Russian Intelligence, whether SVR, GRU, or other, is now very active within the areas controlled by the Kiev regime.

Incidentally, BBC TV News this morning had on some Ukrainian woman from RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute. Unable to maintain even a superficially “impartial” facade; very biased; tendentious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_United_Services_Institute

Very foolish.

Enemies of Europe’s future.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

Everyday life in Shiraz, Iran

Not every Iranian is a military officer, Islamist fanatic or, indeed, dissident.

More tweets

The same happens to non-journalists (such as me). Especially via malicious Jews who “monitor” (snoop upon) online posts.

I do not recall pro-Israel, pro-Jewish-lobby careerist Wallace defending my rights to write or speak over the years; neither did Israel puppet Toby Young, or his fake “free speech” org. In fact, Wallace used to tweet against me a decade or so ago.

Still, even a stopped clock sometimes tells the right time…

For readers unaware of who Jason Arday is, he is the semi-literate black who is now, ludicrously, a professor of sociology at Cambridge; he plagiarized the work that led to his degrees and to his present position.

See also: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16031425/Professor-Plagiarism-falsely-claimed-written-book-emerges-aide-Lucy-Powell-appointed-fire-Professor-patron-charity-year.html

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom.

It might be a good idea for all those with more than a half-acre of land to set aside a quarter of an acre for growing food. That sounds like a small area, and is, but it is possible to grow quite a lot of food, in season, on such an area, even in the open rather than under glass; especially in southern England. For example, ~2-5 tons of tomato (~5,000-20,000 pounds weight). Or 2,500-4,000 pounds of broccoli. Or 5,000-8,000 pounds weight of potato.

It can be seen that a quarter-acre, or even an eighth of an acre, can produce rather a lot of food, especially vegetable food.

Not a complete answer, of course, and many people have no open space at all, but certainly an idea to consider for those with the possibility.

I was unaware until this week that private households can apply to water companies for a free water butt for their gardens. I remember seeing wooden ones in childhood, but those given out free of charge now are plastic.

Elimination of tinker/”traveller” predators and scavengers would make the UK a safer place overnight, make the (real) British people happier, and reduce the prison population accordingly.

Our animal friends.

Who is “we“, though? Goodwin often sounds as though he thinks that the UK is somehow in a position of supreme power in this world. No longer, if it ever was. Goodwin has a point on AI technology but, in the end, whatever happens in the UK is only of secondary —some might say “peripheral”— importance.

cf. “net zero”, “emissions causing global warming” etc…

Translates to a Commons with about 284 Labour MPs (42 short of a majority), 130 Reform UK (official Opposition), 127 Cons, 62 LibDems, 20 SNP [etc].

Would seem to imply a Labour-LibDem pact.

I have fought all my life against this meaningless “left/right” stuff. Impossible to define adequately. Just ignore such labels, and focus on policy.

Were Europe to face nuclear devastation, I doubt that the USA would get involved. Russia has 6,000+ nuclear weapons, many of them placed on unstoppable strategic missiles. Would the American ruling circles really put their cities, towns, military and naval bases in the hazard if Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin, even London were destroyed? I think not.

As for the USA, imagine if, say, its most important or populous ~200 cities were to be destroyed. At the bottom end, that means places such as Miramar, Florida, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa; places of which most people (even most Americans) have never heard. The USA would take about a century, maybe several centuries, to recover.

I think that the USA will keep the Mutually Assured Destruction threat for its own protection, but only for itself; not extended to the “NATO allies”.

Ideally, Europeans should take over Africa again, this time fully (far easier than many imagine), rule the continent benevolently for the benefit of Europeans, animals, birds, and Africans, put untermenschen such as Julius Malema up against a wall and, as for those (((others)))…well, my regular readers can probably guess what I think.

British Army news

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16029931/war-games-expert-warns-NATO-Russia-battlefield.html

“A top military official has claimed that Nato is more than a decade behind Russia’s military capabilities, months after a British brigade was wiped out by a Ukrainian unit in war games.

Last year, the UK took part in a war simulation in Estonia involving more than 16,000 troops from 12 Nato countries but were ‘destroyed’ by Ukrainian troops in a ‘horrible’ defeat.

The embarrassing loss came only months before Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief warned that it will take more than a decade for Nato to catch up to half of Russia’s military capabilities.

Valerii Zaluzhny, considered to be one of the most trusted public figures in Ukraine, has said Nato was still behaving as if future conflicts would be similar to the Second World War.

Kyiv‘s ambassador to Britain reportedly said: ‘Most likely, Nato will remain in the same form as it is, and will spend 12 years, like Ukraine, transitioning to standards that need to be achieved in order to reach at least half of the level of the Russian Federation.’

The former general added that Ukrainian forces were superior to armies in Nato, who were still working to ‘doctrines’ set up in the 1940s, according to The Times.”

[Daily Mail]

Ha.

Late tweets

More Kiev-regime terrorism.

Yet more Kiev-regime terrorism.

Before very long, the Kiev regime will be unable to intercept most Russian drones and missiles.

Amazing. I once, long ago, crossed the Danube by raft-ferry (between Bulgaria and Romania); midsummer, but the water level was quite high.

[“Former head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, confirmed rumors that he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie are hoping to create a new political movement or a third party, based on opposition to U.S. wars, the Israeli organization AIPAC, and corporate funding, with the initial goal of nominating a candidate for the 2028 presidential election.

In an interview with Chenk Uygur from The Young Turks, Kent said that the group met at Carlson’s home in Maine after concluding that both major parties repeatedly lead to “another war in the Middle East,” regardless of how Americans vote.

Kent also said that after participating in the 2028 presidential election, they may run for other offices, and acknowledged that difficulties in registering candidates may force them to nominate a candidate through an existing party. Here is a quote from Kent about the main goals of the group:

We don’t want Israel dictating our foreign policy. We don’t want any more wars abroad. We don’t want to run a huge empire.”

Kent noted that the group has urged Carlson to run, but he has repeatedly declined. They plan to fund this activity through donations from ordinary citizens, rather than from corporate political action committees:

“As soon as you start taking money from corporate political action committees… you’re really not in control.”

Regarding J.D. Vance, Kent said that he still has a personal good relationship with him, but called him a “captive of the two-party system” who will have difficulty convincing voters to trust him in 2028 after he “defended Trump’s war.“]

Late music

Diary Blog, 8 March 2022, with latest thoughts involving Ukraine and nuclear war

Afternoon music

On this day a year ago

Mutually Assured Destruction…for Ukraine?

One sometimes sees the saying “military intelligence is a contradiction in terms“, or as Americans prefer, “oxymoron“. Probably unfair, in most cases. However, what to think when a recently-retired British general, General Sir Chris Deverell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Deverell], thinks that:

I have been against the imposition of a no fly zone by NATO in Ukraine, believing that it would surely escalate the conflict. But Putin seems hell bent on escalation,’ Deverall [sic] tweeted.

‘So the question is becoming: does NATO fight him now or fight him later? He will likely respond with nuclear threats. But there is no fundamental reason why these are more useful to Putin than they are to NATO. 

‘Our logic has to be that his threats are meaningless. Whatever he can do to us, we can do to him.’” [Daily Mail].

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10588295/Its-no-longer-Nato-fight-Putin-says-retired-UK-general.html.

Such logic might be borderline acceptable from the American point of view, but not from the British.

The old Soviet Union was about 92 times the size of the UK. Even the present Russian lands are 72 times the area of the UK. The USA (including Alaska, Hawaii etc) is 41 times the size of the UK. Russia and the USA are, famously, both enormous. However badly damaged they would be by nuclear attack, they would probably have some areas, even urban areas, that would survive nuclear war. Britain is different.

Were the UK to be hit by nuclear attack, it is quite likely that only remote parts of Northern Ireland and (perhaps) the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as well as, possibly, West Wales and Cornwall, would survive more or less unscathed, depending on various factors.

Britain’s small size, and the multiplicity of targets offered, would mean that nuclear attack might mean the end of Britain as we now know it.

How irresponsible and indeed asinine it is for a British senior officer, albeit retired, even to think about war with Russia over a country, Ukraine, with which Britain has no alliance, few significant political or economic connections, almost no historical connection, and no legitimate strategic interest. A country, moreover, which has only existed, as an independent state, for 30 years. Madness.

There is another factor here. I am not at all sure that the General has quite factored-in the difference in mentality.

The Second World War involved, of course, enormous devastation, but that damage and harm was by no means spread equally. The United States suffered no direct war damage at all, unless you include the initial attack on Pearl Harbor. The same was true of other combatant states, such as Canada.

Britain, of course, did suffer from German bombing, and as many as 60,000 civilians were killed (mostly in the “Blitz“, which ran for about 8 months in 1940 and 1941). Germany’s losses, during 1941-45, were about ten times greater. The same was true of property damage.

While London was badly damaged by German bombing, the extent of it is usually exaggerated. Most of the bombing was in and around the dock areas of the Thames. Thus areas of East London and the City of London were very badly damaged, while most of West London, North London, South London went untouched.

Certain other UK cities were attacked, and some (Plymouth, Southampton, Exeter etc) also badly damaged.

Having said that, if you visit London today, most of it dates from before 1939, and much of that which postdates 1945 is a result of postwar redevelopment, not Luftwaffe bombing, or the strikes of V1 and V2 missiles and flying bombs.

An interesting book on the changes wrought in London since the 19thC is Lost London. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-London-1870-1945-Philip-Davies/dp/0955794986. That book, though, stops at 1945, so does not cover the huge vandalism since, one example being the demolition of the Euston Arch, demolished in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_Arch.

[Euston Arch, London, built 1838, demolished 1961-62; picture from 1890s]

German cities were, many of them, damaged to a far greater extent during 1941-45, some almost flattened. Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Dresden, and many many others. A few pictures tell the story.

[Dresden 1945]
[Dresden 1945]
[Hamburg 1943]
[Hamburg, 1945]
[Marshal Zhukov on the steps of the Reichstag, Berlin 1945]
[Reichskanzlei —Reich Chancellery— Berlin 1945]

Parts of Eastern Europe and Western Russia suffered as badly as Germany:

[Warsaw, early 1940s]
[a haunting image from Stalingrad in 1943]

Kharkov, now being battled for in 2022, was the location of no less than four battles in the early 1940s. Other Soviet towns were equally badly damaged.

Reverting to the question of Russian mentality, I am not at all convinced that, faced with the likelihood of NATO (basically US) nuclear retaliation, the Russians would back down.

I do not know how many moving parts there are between any decision of Putin to launch nuclear attack, and the actual launch of missiles. In “the old days”, the KGB kept the launch and arm codes separate from the military control of the actual weapons. Now? Maybe there is a similar system, maybe not.

One thing is for sure. Any nuclear exchange will change the world forever. The American military-destructive power may be several times greater than that of Russia, but Russia has more actual missiles, we read.

Let us say that the top 50 cities of the USA are hit by nuclear missiles (and Russia does have about 6,200, apparently), what then? Yes, Russian cities would be hit too, but could the USA function if those top 50 cities were wiped out? That’s every city from New York (most-populated) to Arlington, Texas (50th most-populated). What about the top 100 cities? That takes you down to Richmond, Virginia (100th most-populated).

Of course, military and infrastructure targets, outside urban areas, would be hit as well.

In Britain, pretty much the entire country would be rendered uninhabitable.

This has to be avoided. It is madness to contemplate a nuclear war involving hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of people, however sorry we may be that Ukrainian civilians are suffering.

I think that my view is a commonsense one and, au fond, at least as “compassionate” as that of the war hawks.

Already, we see idiots like Boris Johnson and other so-called “world leaders” taking steps that can only result in poverty and deprivation in the UK and elsewhere: economic sanctions. They will hit the West every bit as hard as the Russian masses (the plutocrats of Russia will not suffer as much as the poor, of course).

Russia is not going to step back in Ukraine unless faced with complete military defeat. The West, NATO, must step back from its present escalation, or World War Three might really happen, as unexpectedly (yet, paradoxically, expectedly) as previous wars— 1914 and 1939.

Tweets seen

Late tweets

The past two years proved that the peoples of Western Europe, USA, Australasia, have become compliant sheep, most of them.

Mediocre old freeloader calls for a pseudo-democratic “elected” dictatorship.

Unimpressive. Mediocre.

NWO/ZOG drone Liz Truss, who built a political career by very dubious methods, and who has for years wanted to reduce the British people to the status of economic serfs, wants others, but not herself, to “make sacrifices” in order to attack Russia on behalf of Ukraine, a country with which the UK has and has had few if any historical, economic, or political ties, a country that has only been an independent state for 30 years, and which in that time has been a corrupt and shambolic mess, exploited and now ruled by Jewish cabals.

Late music

[Pushkin Boulevard, Donetsk]