I was just thinking about the “level”, culturally, of Russia and Ukraine.
When you think of Russia in terms of historical culture, a host of names come to mind at once. In the world of literature, you could cite —to name but a few of the most famous— Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Lermontov, Sholokhov, Leskov, Yevtushenko, Solzhenitsyn etc.
Some of those writers, eg Gogol and Bulgakov, were in fact born in Ukraine; Gogol was ethnically and culturally Russian as well as Ukrainian. After all, Ukraine and Russia were together for a thousand years.
In music, one thinks of, inter alia, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Borodin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovitch, Myaskovsky, Khrennikov, Popov, Shchedrin, Sviridov and many others.
The same can be said of painters.
As to Ukrainian writers, composers etc, there are quite a number (e.g. Lyatoshinsky), but few who would be known to people in the UK, USA etc.
It is true that, until about 30 years ago, there was a broadly Russifying policy in the Ukraine and, in both the 19thC and under Stalin, a general repression of Ukrainian language, but that is not the whole picture.
Ukraine is a country the same size as France, and which has today a population of over 40 million (minus 5-10 million now living beyond its borders).
There can surely be no doubt that, historically, Russia has produced a great deal more, culturally, than Ukraine, whatever reasons can be adduced, yet when we look at Western propaganda, whether in the msm or on Twitter etc, all we see is that Russians are “savages“, or “orcs” (a reference to the brutal and stupid evil soldier-creatures of The Lord of the Rings) and so on.
By contrast, the Ukrainian (Kiev regime) people and soldiers are represented as being far far better than Russians.
Well, of course, “in war, truth is the first casualty” but, even so, it is “disappointing” to see how easily bamboozled many people are in, say, the UK, and how enthusiastically the basically Jewish-pervaded msm has embraced its faux-war propaganda role.
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Indian refiners may buy Russian fuel, export own https://t.co/7RQqNuYf59 Modi govt is smartly using the war between Russia and Ukraine/West in India's favour
The funniest part about this was how quickly all the MSM punditry and Warhawks jumped to conclusions, with alien invasion on one hand, and baying for WWIII with #China on the other. And no shame from either side.
In the absence of credible intelligence (available to me), I cannot comment on the “UFO” reports.
Ukraine would have a peace agreement, China would not be flying over the USA, strategic reserves would be full, gas would be at record lows, Wall Street would be humming, 5,000,000 foreign nationals would not be bankrupting the safety net, WWIII would not be on the horizon…… pic.twitter.com/cDxRojhUaK
— Erin Brophy – don't forget to laugh.. (@ERINBROPHY18) February 13, 2023
I am hardly a fan of Trump, that squawking parrot in a cage guarded by Zionist Jews, but it is probably true to say that the Ukraine war would be over now without US leaders stoking the conflict by supplying weapons and money to Zelensky and the Kiev regime.
The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Will it make the world safer? https://t.co/7dz0QT7Fw5
As blogged previously, China is now, broadly, in a similar position to that of the USA in the 1930s— an economic superpower but not yet a world military superpower. The USA, by contrast, is now in the position that the Western and Central European powers and empires were in at that same time, prior to the Second World War that toppled Europe from its rightful place.
"Fire phoenix" flies in the sky: a man made a phoenix kite controlled by a drone, and flew it in the sky in Shangqiu, central China's Henan Province
Very interesting development @josiahmortimer. Would be worth checking whether @BootstrapCook ever followed up on her intention to sue #30pLee for libel too. Her’s is also newsworthy cos she crowdfunded for the case but has never disclosed what happened to that money.
🤡Alleged meteor lights up the sky over France, spotted from Paris 🤡Well what's it going to be in the coming weeks.. A Ufo(Alien invasion) or a big meteorite? They haven't quite figured it out yet I guess pic.twitter.com/CASNinG5YM
“Russia’s feared new offensive has already begun says NATO chief, as he warns Ukraine is using more munitions than military alliance is producing.
The former Prime Minister of Norway called on NATO to ‘ramp up production’ of ammunition, as he said Ukraine’s rate of usage is far outstripping current capacities and draining stockpiles.
‘The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defence industries under strain,’ he said.
Stoltenberg admitted that NATO was facing a ‘problem’ as current waiting times for large-calibre ammunition have grown from 12 to 28 months.“
[Daily Mail]
[Ukraine: state of play as of 12-13 February 2023]
Looks as though, before too long, the troops of the Kiev regime will run out of ammunition. If that were to happen, those forces would have to fall back, perhaps hundreds of miles back.
“The Defence Secretary has demanded up to £10billion extra for the Armed Forces, it has been claimed, amid concerns the military is severely overstretched.”
[Daily Mail].
Ben Wallace never made it beyond the rank of captain in the real army, but in the Westminster monkeyhouse he plays the armchair field-marshal.
Those idiots will not be satisfied until we have actual war with Russia, and until London is a smoking radioactive ruin.
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She doesn't do any campaigning, she just lies about her backstory, her finances, begs for money, then spends it on luxury goods for herself. I'm left wing and working class, I criticise Jack Monroe because I saw through her 🐂💩 from day 1. Do your own due diligence, or don't…
Well, 6/10 this week, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 4, 5, and 8; I also could not recall the surname of the playwright at question 9 (though I got the first name), so disallowed myself that point too.
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Gallup polls in 1950s reveal a country beset by strikes, divided by royal scandal & pessimistic about the world @indypremiumhttps://t.co/6cWucyLrQH
It is hard enough to beat a human grandmaster. In 1971 (I think), I took part in the Marlow International Chess Tournament, held in a school at Marlow, Buckinghamshire on a weekend in July. I camped in the grounds.
I took part in a “simultaneous exhibition”, in which a famous and very strong player takes on a number of others; in this case me and 19 others against Jana Hartston, a women’s grandmaster, former Czech women’s champion, and also (being then married to William Hartston, himself a grandmaster) British Women’s Champion.
I decided that I had no chance against her, so rather than trying to play seriously, started with a few conventional moves followed by an outrageously oblique one (not thought through at all). The result was mildly comical: the serious and youngish woman (she was herself only ~24 at the time; I was, I think, still 14) came swiftly around the rectangle of desks, each housing a chessboard. When she came for the third or fourth time to me, I made my move.
Madame Hartston paused, evidently puzzled for a moment, then made a swift move before moving on. I tried the same tactic again the next time round, but she barely paused.
I was checkmated after about 20 moves, if that, and was the second player to be beaten by her.
In the main tournament, I also fared badly, not lasting very long before being knocked out.
The view from Woollyhead Trussbanger
Liz Truss, right all along. “The strategic goal was right. Her insight and diagnosis of the problem was right,” Kwarteng said. “Where we fell woefully short was to have a tactical plan.” https://t.co/2tWRjBgYsvpic.twitter.com/jrOXtA415u
Well, “a week is a long time [etc]”…and the betting market is often wrong on political events and predictions.
One factor in former Conservative Party voters refusing to vote Con (or at all) is the continuing migration-invasion, about which the present hopeless Government is either doing nothing, or actually encouraging.
Here's how the top three parties have been looking head-to-head since 10th October according to our weekly tracking.
Given global chagrin about the environmental impact of fossil fuels, we asked what you thought about the Gov’s decision to approve the UK’s first new coal mine for 30 years:
👍 34% approved of the decision 👎 26% disapproved of the decision 😐 29% neutral
Regardless of necessity, most people agreed that, given the state of the nation at the moment, they are a good idea:
81% agreed warm banks are a good idea 3% said warm banks are not a good idea 86% said food banks are a good idea 2% said food banks are not a good idea
Oy vey this is very antisemitic, you’re suggesting Jews have some kind of institutional power and can spin things for their narrative. I’m calling the FBI, DHS, CIA, SPLC, ADL, every major news station, my friends in Hollywood, and the politicians that attend Temple with me.
There are some interesting Eastern based thinkers who write very persuasively about how the wests patterning of everything on the mathematics of binary 1s and 0s is gradually destroying society. The language and maths of eastern societies patterns brains differently…
Preview my Mail on Sunday column today: Arrogance and folly that could yet send us hurtling towards nuclear catastrophe https://t.co/OCHeyxPjrC via @mailplus
On the contrary .@doonhamer60 , they left their country of origin because they were refugees. They choose to leave their country of refuge to come here (through several other countries) because they are migrants who wish to live in this particular country. https://t.co/Zbtv2XiGEQ
.@shsaesvshav. The purpose of the Convention is to ensure that the would-be refugee can escape the place where he is in peril. Once he has done so, it has done its work. Refugees can seldom choose where they flee to. https://t.co/PUIU4fhSMP
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Yes , @davidtbtaylor Christopher Booker noted the creation of these diesel generator parks some years ago. He also noted the need to use gas to keep powerplants spinning, ready to cut in when the wind failed. The supposed triumph of wind power is propaganda. https://t.co/ks3VgYfqh2
.@janinethechef1 Yet, encouragingly, in France the law requires traders to accept cash. They cannot lawfully refuse it. If the French can do it, we can do it. I am sick of people saying 'we can't accept cash' when they mean that they won't. https://t.co/HEM2eWgmT4
The dystopian dictatorship is already starting to happen: Laura Towler, Sam Melia, Mark Collett and others (most but not all from the Patriotic Alternative group) were told a year or more ago that their banks (major “high street” banks) were unwilling to continue to offer them (as individuals, not merely as “Patriotic Alternative”) any banking services. The (Jewish) fix was in, in short. The banks had been pressured by Jew-Zionist orgs to close them down, not only as a group but quite specifically as individuals.
.@chimewhistle. It is pure dogma. The Net Zero objective and the Green preoccupaton in general, have replaced the old class war (now outmoded) as the main engine of thought and action on the revolutionary left. Sexual revolution has much the same purpose. https://t.co/x8Ef4n9qa7
Indeed. Look at the big picture. As recently as 20 years or so ago, Britain was still 90% white. Even a decade ago, it was about 85% white. The latest figures show 80%.
Now add to that the destruction of potentially very useful infrastructure such as power stations, military camps and airfields (over the past 30 years), railways and rail track (for about 70 years).
Add to the above the dumbing-down of education generally (primary, secondary, tertiary), and where do we see our society going? Straight down.
The callous or cruel destruction of the Welfare State
02/12/2022: When two young women arrive at the foodbank because their mum is recovering in hospital from trying to take her life when mounting rent arrears resulted in a letter from her private landlord telling her to vacate their home by Christmas Eve #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
04/12/22: When a young mum calls the Department of Work and Pensions to ask if she can reschedule a later appointment to sign on so she can attend her son's Christmas school play and is told if she misses the existing one she will be sanctioned #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
06/12/22: When a Ukrainian lady is referred to the foodbank by a homeless unit because the host family, who received £350 per month for accommodating her, said she needed to leave three weeks before Christmas because their "minimum time period was up"#WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
08/12/22: When a young man who has worked since leaving school arrives at the foodbank, recently made redundant. Having just applied for Universal Credit and turned down an advance, he was informed his first payment will be in the first week of January #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
10/12/22: When a terminally ill man gives up his job as a taxi driver after being diagnosed with a brain tumour and is refused Universal Credit because he cannot commit to 35 hours of work search each week due to daily radiotherapy #WhenChristmasEqualsCrisis
…and those responsible in the past (eg Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Esther McVey etc) and in the present, at all levels, remain unpunished.
There is so much wrong with the country now that only social-national revolution can save what is worth saving, help those in need of help, reform that which requires reform, and punish the wrongdoers.
Fantastic work as ever Molly ❤️ these detailed, structured accounts really do lay out a horrific decade of lies & manipulation fm Jack Monroe. Slightly off topic, did she ever do any more than make a veiled threat of legal action or is it all silence now? Happy to help if needed
Current thingism is an insane curse that has taken hold of our civilisation. This person would doubtless balk at tattooing their own country's flag on their leg, but have no problem pledging undying support for America's latest proxy-war and vassal state. Madness. pic.twitter.com/E9I3w0gw8M
I happened to see this menu from the House of Commons:
The MPs almost literally have their snouts in the trough, and at heavily-subsidized prices— at the same time as so many people are going hungry and (once the weather cools, from this coming weekend) cold as well.
The House of Lords offers its members similar if not better fare, also at rock-bottom prices. A friend of mine often dined there, though many years ago, and told me all about it. In those days, roast salmon, with all trimmings, was about £2 or £3, I think.
In fact, it is reminiscent of the old “Kremlyovsky Payok” (“Kremlin ration”), a system of both free and heavily-subsidized food rations originating in the 1920s, and which expanded under Stalin to become a whole system of (some) free food, and special shops with either subsidized or generally unobtainable food and other items, sourced both from within the Soviet Union and from outside. Ground coffee, for example.
The Kremlyovsky payok was the highest level, awarded to members of the Politburo and other very high-ranking persons, but there were more modest yet still worthwhile “rations” (and other items) available to anyone who was a member of the “nomenklatura“, such as GRU officers down to the rank of major.
In Kazakhstan, where I lived in 1996-1997, Army personnel still got a payok of that sort at that time; I recall that my “landlord”, a Russian colonel in the Kazakhstan Army (ex-Soviet Army; I became very friendly with him, his wife, and their youngest child, who all lived not far from me) received a large sack of grain and a lot of tinned goods regularly.
That system extended (in Soviet days) to —in effect— private hospitals, vacation “sanatoria” (hotels with a health and fitness aspect), and access to foreign (and usually better) domestic equipment such as refrigerators, ovens, washing machines etc.
A few extremely valued people (such as Mikhail Sholokhov, the writer of The Quiet Don, aka Quiet Flows the Don— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov), and the holder of numerous awards, including 6 awards of the Order of Lenin and 2 awards of Hero of Socialist Labour, were even allowed “open bank accounts”, which meant that they could go to a bank and be given effectively any amount of money they wanted (Soviet roubles only, of course), whenever they liked.
Continuing facemask nonsense
Four Covid mRNA doses, recently recovered from Covid, walking outdoors away from people. For the love of science and humanity, please remove the mask.pic.twitter.com/9vNqE57Iir
Biden has at least the excuse that he is, or is said to be, somewhat demented.
I went to Waitrose yesterday evening (it being the only actual supermarket for miles), and noticed a woman walking to her car in the car park— alone, in the sun and a slight breeze, yet masked.
For some people, wearing one of those stupid masks or muzzles has become a kind of “I can prove that I really exist” virtue-signal, or a flag of allegiance to some sort of fake communitarian “clap for the NHS” club.
Those cranks must have hated it when shops were allowed to reopen without subjecting their customers (that’s customers, not prisoners) to the whole soulless and pointless rigmarole of “social distancing”, the facemask nonsense —“would you pull up your mask please!“— and the rest of it all, monitored by shop staff suddenly given petty power (but who now have to return to stacking shelves and helping the shoppers rather than corralling them).
The loonies or semi-loonies still wearing their (completely useless) facemasks remind me of the Japanese soldiers on Pacific islands, still fighting the war in 1980, not having understood that it finished in 1945, and then realizing (?) that they had just been wasting their time doing something rather stupid.
The result of a number of factors, among which are mass immigration, births to non-whites (causing an increase of maybe 10 millions in the past two decades), and the politically-driven sell-off of local authority homes (from the mid-1980s onward).
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The USA backed a violent putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawfully elected ( and non-aligned) government, and replaced it with an unconstitutional pro-NATO regime. Call me old-fashioned, but I regard that as an act of aggression. So would you, if Russia did the same. https://t.co/IklugSqJFF
As for the USA, whatever one might say in mitigation, it has attacked, or bombed, or engaged in warfare in, a huge number of countries even since 1945, including Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, various other countries of Latin America, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Lebanon etc.
I have no idols, sweetie. I am a Protestant Christian and worship only God. Do you know any real history? https://t.co/CrjtIQ2Zee
The tweeter “@ThePFofJudea”, as Hitchens implies (I think) has apparently confused William Joyce, aka “Lord Haw Haw” [shown above, when young, in the 1920s or early 1930s], with Adolf Hitler, merely because Joyce also sports a small moustache. Note the slashed face, a result of a politically-motivated attack on Joyce in 1924.
Actually when FDR and Churchill appeased the murderous and authoritarian Stalin in 1945, none of this happened. Appeasement secured 50 years of prosperity and peace in Western Europe, and Stalin’s regime eventually fell, mainly because it could not match that prosperity. https://t.co/Z7t0LgT2wm
We even gave him Poland, supposedly the reason we went into the war in the first place.
— Global Village Counterinsurgent (@handles78892211) August 30, 2022
“No-one can rule guiltlessly” [Saint-Just].
1/2 @amb8819 You need to go back to the Wolfowitz Doctrine and to Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard. Wolfowitz believed that any resurgence by Russia must be smashed, Brzezinski that if Ukraine was seduced from neutrality to NATO membership , Russia would effectively be destroyed. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
2/3 You also need to read Kagan here https://t.co/ykDvkKDMLJ , in which he admits Russia was provoked. Probably the cranking up the Ukraine crisis after 2014 was a response to Russia blocking US policy in Syria. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
3/.3 @amb8819 It may make you *happy* to assume I am a defender of the invasion, but it won't help you understand anything, as I not only despise the invasion as an act, but regard it as a stupid mistake. He had a choice. I wonder who was happiest when he took it. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
Putin had no real choice, but his decision must have assumed, evidently mistakenly, that Russian military intelligence (the GRU) and the Russian Army (both on the ground and in the General Staff or, to use an old term, the Stavka) was up to the job, competent. Not so, it seems to have been proven.
This is a potentially existential crisis for Russia as anything purporting to be an independent state, let alone a regional power (the “superpower” label having been lost except in terms of nuclear weapons).
Russia cannot lose this war. By that, I mean that Putin cannot afford to lose this war.
The Russian side is now proposing peace talks. The Ukrainian or Kiev-regime side has refused, saying that only the “return” of Crimea (historically, usually part of Russia rather than Ukraine) and the Donbass etc can be the precondition for talks.
Russia will never accept that Crimea, especially, and its almost entirely Russian population, be given , or “returned”, to the Kiev government.
The present situation is worrying even for those who live far from Ukraine. There is a mob, of the malicious and/or idiotic, baying for Russian blood, and for war with Russia, in effect. I wonder what a Venn diagram would look like if it contained that Twit-mob and also the similar mobs who wanted war with Iraq and then Afghanistan?
If the present limited “Ukrainian” counter-offensive in the south succeeds, and the Kherson pocket or bulge is eliminated, Russia may start to attack, more heavily than heretofore, Odessa, other cities, and Kiev itself.
There is a danger of huge escalation here. The Kiev regime is being supplied with more and more and better, more powerful, arms. Not only arms but money, food, medicines etc. Supplied by the West, but mainly from the USA and UK.
Without those arms, without that money, the failed state of Ukraine could not exist at all. It has almost no exports, its industrial areas are inoperative, or ablaze, or under Russian control. Millions of its wealthier and/or better-educated citizens are in exile. Within Ukraine, the Zelensky regime has shot or imprisoned opponents without trial, or after neo-Stalinist quick “trials”; it has banned trade unions and all opposition parties, and there is no freedom of speech.
In short, Zelensky, like his shambolic and corrupt “government”, is a “monkey on a stick”. This is a Punch and Judy show.
Having said that, if it is true that Russia’s forces are faltering, if it is true that Russia’s supply of heavy weapons to the war is slowing, then that may leave Putin and his top people with an incentive to escalate the war beyond anything yet seen. That in turn might provoke a NATO response. If that were to happen, European civilization, in Europe, itself might be in peril.
Pubs, fish and chip shops and the rest are being driven to the wall on purpose. The destruction is intentional. However hard to accept – it's the simplest explanation.
Look at the UK. Ten years ago, even five years ago, look on, eg, Rightmove, and you saw numerous English or Scottish country estates for sale, some with thousands of acres. Now? Nothing, pretty much. I blogged about this previously, even a few years ago.
Cash is being phased out. It’s a control mechanism. Once cash goes, the citizen is reduced to complete and utter dependence on his little plastic cards. If they are restricted or taken away, by whoever controls the system, the individual is immediately an outcast, without money, without any way (short of theft, robbery, or begging) even to access food.
When I last visited Hong Kong, in 2006, there was a regional technical problem with credit and debit cards. None worked for several days. Fortunately, I was already in hotel accommodation (the Sheraton, Kowloon) and had several thousand US dollars in cash as well, but what if a similar situation occurs, and you have no cash (because cash does not exist), and what if you are not in accommodation for whatever reason? You sleep on a park bench, and forage for whatever food you can find.
Do not imagine that the banks are some kind of unbiased arbiter or supplier of services. They may be, most of the time, but even now we see examples of people with “the wrong views” being cut off from banking services. It happened a while ago to Sam Melia, Laura Towler and Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative. I am not talking even about the PA official bank accounts. No, I refer to the individual, personal bank accounts of those people.
You can see the way UK television drama has gone, even detective stories such as Endeavour, Grantchester etc. A kind of “we must have half the characters black, brown, other non-white, or at least gay” ethos.
Masking likely represents the most ambitious public health intervention in history.
An intervention we wanted all people: 1) to do multiple times per day 2) every single day 3) across a wide range of environments 3) with no clear end in sight
Mikhail Gorbachev, who rose to power in the Soviet Union and set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, has died in Moscow. He was 91. https://t.co/hYeovyISVapic.twitter.com/ExXIlukRl6
Gorbachev's foreign policy vision in his final years was not pro-Western
Gorbachev condemned NATO expansion, U.S. imperialism and Germany's hegemonic ambitions in Europe. He backed the Crimea annexation but warned against a spiral of tensions that would lead to nuclear war
Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims @thetimeshttps://t.co/ewmSuvlk0a
Interesting that this alleged fact should emerge now, just as her family and friends, with other supporters, are trying to get her back to the UK. Is someone trying to provoke her assassination?
Not that I want her back in the UK. I do not want any of them here in the first place.
@rhhasdall. My main concern is to begin discussion in this country as to whether we have a national interest in prolonging and sustaining a Russian-American war in Ukraine. My own view is that we do not, but we do have strong reasons to support a peace initiative. https://t.co/bP7Oeijyai
I once lived in a house from where parts of both Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor could be seen. In the cooler months, a wild part of the country.
As I said @ret_ward , @natashaloder is prematurely grand. No doubt she *thinks* she has bigger fish to fry, but that is not quite the same thing. She made contact with me (abusively) in the first place, and found she disliked it when I defended myself. This is often the case. https://t.co/678PG3UriN
I suspect so @rosie89656258 . Many in what I call the SPAD class, tribally liberal members of the new interchangeable establishment of pro-state toady journalists, special advisers, MPs etc, have very little experience of real life and are startlingly immature. https://t.co/sFbcrCILCH
Nick Griffin, Mark Collett, and Patriotic Alternative
I have never met either of the above individuals. Moreover, I do not “support” either, as such, and I do not oppose either, as such. Nick Griffin did well to turn the BNP into a machine capable of at least winning a few EU and local election seats prior to 2010. As for Mark Collett, I like what little I see online about Patriotic Alternative, inasmuch as they are at least doing things on the ground, even if those activities are only going on hikes and putting up banners at various places.
It is hard for an outsider like me to come to any firm view as to whether one or the other is more or less worthy or meritorious. I cannot think that either of those sides or groups is “what Britain needs”, as such, but “all roads lead to Rome” is, I suppose, my basic attitude.
It will take more than opposition to the “panicdemic” to make me like Alex Jones, but his main point is worthwhile.
Interesting to note that Jones’s type of free speech would not be permitted in the UK: OFCOM would “unperson” him at once. In fact, Jones would probably end up getting prosecuted on some bs Mickey Mouse charge or other.
People generally tend to think of Sovietism as having come into being purely under conditions of political violence. Much of its consolidation in the early years, however, took place under what were basically conditions of near-chaos. Rudolf Steiner referred, in 1918 or 1919, to the “impossible social conditions” in Russia (it did not become the Soviet Union until 1923 —officially, 22 December 1922—; the 33-year cycle of world politics and society, again).
What conditions were “impossible?” Shortages caused by official policy, weird laws, “rules”, “advice” etc. People getting sacked, quarantined, arrested for crazy small things, or because their faces did not fit in the New Order, or because they were “former people” who remembered that things had once been mainly better. Also, gradually more severe restrictions on movement, particularly travel outside the country.
Does any of this seem familiar? Yes, the old “socialism”, Marxism-Leninism, even social democracy, started to disappear rather fast after 1989 (again, that 33-year cycle), but the essentials are there, meaning especially the lunacy that becomes dogma, with harsh enforcement of crazy “rules”, supposed “laws” etc. Look at what has happened in the UK and in many other countries in 2020-2021.
The facemask nonsense, the arbitrary “rule of six”, “2 metres social distancing”, the absurd enforcement of those and other crazy “rules” and the “advice” (whims) of idiotic ministers etc, enforced by dim and/or brainwashed police. Arrests of people doing perfectly ordinary things such as walking in the country, sitting on park benches, sunbathing on beaches, going for a recreational car or bike ride outside the local area. Oh, and don’t forget the socially-mandated “clapathon”, idiots clapping on command outside their houses, notionally “for the NHS”, which NHS was pared back to a kind of skeleton service in reality.
All underpinned by a huge propaganda “fear campaign” in the msm.
It is hard to people now to understand how the Russian Revolution gradually became a total police state. Why did more people not resist? Why did many people comply, and even support the embedded nonsense? These things are not easy to spot whe they are happening. Look around you.
I am not just talking about the “Covid-19” situation. The pushing of the “Black LIves Matter” nonsense too: every ad with blacks in it, or with the multikulti “family” (often a white woman, often blonde, and a black man as husband figure). The same in dramas, “soaps” etc. Even historical dramas, like the recent one showing Ann Boleyn as a black woman!
None of this is a kind of “accident”. People, and not only in the UK, are being played like balalaikas, and most have no idea about it.
If so, ineffectual @stephengrove19. I used it to to interview poor Zviad Gamsakhurdia,then Georgian leader, who came to a very sad end -and ended the day(after a trip to S.Ossetia) eating a marvellous dinner in a hilltop farmhouse, while swallows flew in and out of the windows. https://t.co/JiThTWu5YK
Reminds me of when I lived in Almaty [Alma-Ata] Kazakhstan, in 1996-1997. I was slightly acquainted with the American pilots of the [Kazakhstan] Presidential flight. They (I only met two, but there were a couple of others) were all superannuated pilots from the insolvent and defunct Eastern Airlines [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines] cheated out of their pensions.
They all knew how to fly the Boeing jetliners used by the KZ President Nazarbaev. Local pilots were only familiar, then, with Soviet aircraft such as Tupolev jets and Ilyushins.
None of the Americans knew a word of Russian. They were very American, and insisted on driving around themselves rather than be chauffered like most foreigners were (including me; I had a driver called Valery, ex-MVD and shared with another client, a German diplomat; at that time, the British, French and German embassies were in the same building, and the capital had not yet been moved to Astana, now called Nursultan).
Those Americans found themselves in difficulty if randomly stopped and checked by the Kazakh police, a frequent occurrence (they only checked the driver, rarely if ever the passengers), because they could not explain themselves.
They were thus issued with a laminated card about the size of a hardback book, If stopped, they pulled that out. It was like the Rosetta Stone, and said the same thing in three languages, English, Russian, and Kazakh: “The bearer of this card is the pilot of the aircraft of the President” [etc].
The card was signed by the President himself, and bore his official seal. The Kazakhs loved rubber stamps; when I wanted one for my own use, I discovered that one could not simply get one’s secretary to have one made; it was necessary to supply a proposed design and various verifying documents —properly stamped, of course— about yourself and your organization to the delightfully-named “Bureau of Rubber Stamps”, which might then approve the design. Kafka would have loved it.
It is no doubt different now, but 25 years ago, you could not even get Vitamin C capsules in Almaty without a prescription! Or at least could only get them by rather covert means.
One of the Americans told me that, the first time he used his laissez-passer card, the policeman almost kow-towed. The policeman even invited the American to visit him, his wife and children some time.
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 16, 2021
Britain's beautiful countryside walks. Thames path from Oxford to Pangbourne. pic.twitter.com/u1otyXggjf
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 16, 2021
I have walked those banks, in part, from near Pangbourne to Goring, and also, when at school, rowed the river from Dorchester-on-Thames down to Moulsford (upriver of Goring).
The post-2008 Greek experience is instructive. The social-national party, Golden Dawn, was the only party with integrity opposed to the EU enforcement of usury-dictatorship “austerity”. However, the System made sure that the faux-“socialist” “antifascist” party, Syriza, seemed more “credible”.
The result was that Syriza took over the Greek government, then signed up to yet more “austerity”. The people, many of whom died of starvation, while other rummaged through bins trying to find food, had been well and truly fooled. Golden Dawn was then repressed.
Usually-reliable sources report that, though Alison Chabloz was scheduled to be released from Bronzefield Prison today, and (how absurd, though) on electronic tag, bureaucratic delays to do with probation have pushed back the likely day of release to next Tuesday or Wednesday. Another example of how everything is sliding and becoming less efficient in the UK.
Books sent should be *new, *paperback and preferably (though not necessarily) sent via online vendors [important update: Bronzefield Prison now does not accept Amazon deliveries but will accept books from elsewhere]
Looking on the brighter side, even a release next week will mean that Alison will have been imprisoned for only 5 weeks out of the headline 18 to which she was sentenced (in reality, about 7-8 weeks).
If Alison had not been scheduled for early release, she would be released anyway about halfway through May, so about 3 weeks from today.
Looking at the wider picture, Alison’s appeal against both conviction and sentence is set down for 2 days, on 3-4 June 2021, and is likely to be heard at Southwark Crown Court (it will be a complete rehearing of the matter).
Should Alison’s present appeal fail in whole or in part, the Crown Court will be able to substitute a greater or lesser sentence, up to a maximum of 6 months’ imprisonment. However, the time Alison has spent incarcerated will be taken off any time actually to be served, so if she were to receive the maximum 6 months (about 26 weeks), she would do half of that (3 months or about 13 weeks) but also minus the ~5 weeks served from day of sentence to (likely) day of release (next week), and also minus other days in custody, such as the 4 days served before her successful appeal of 2020. She would therefore only serve an extra ~7 weeks at maximum.
It may be, though, that the Crown Court would not, or not much, interfere with the sentence duration passed by the lower court if the appeal fails, in which case Alison would only serve a few days extra, if that.
More optimistically, should Alison’s present appeal succeed, then she would be credited with the time she has now spent in prison (in 2020 and 2021) and in other custody, and also the time which she will have spent on electronic tag (at half a day for every day spent on tag). That is relevant because Alison now faces yet another trial in the magistrates’ court, set down for 1 day, on 1 September 2021.
Were Alison to be convicted on 1 September 2021, and were she then to be sentenced to imprisonment, not only would she serve only half of any such sentence, but would have about 6-7 weeks more taken off that reduced sentence. So a 6 month sentence would mean, in reality, about 5-6 weeks in prison, and a sentence of 3 months would mean no time at all in prison.
[Alison Chabloz]
Patriotic Alternative
A statement from Patriotic Alternative has been released:
“Last Wednesday (21.04.2021) Laura Towler’s husband Sam was arrested and taken into police custody. The police then let themselves into Laura and Sam’s home, burst into her bedroom without knocking whilst she was still undressed, and then demanded to search the property.
The officer in charge did not arrest Laura, and instead presented her with a warrant, and despite the warrant not mentioning Laura at all, the police took all of her devices – including her phone and laptop.
What’s more, many of the police officers conducting the search refused to hand over the badge numbers or their real names.
LIVE STREAM
On Friday evening (30.04.2021) we were planning to do our regular Patriotic Alternative monthly update. However instead, we are now planning a special stream about this arrest where Mark Collett and Laura Towler will discuss the police’s behaviour and relay advice given to them from legal professionals on the legality of the police action.
Last week Mark Collett’s YouTube channel was terminated – despite the fact that it was completely clean and didn’t have a single active copyright or community guidelines strike. As such, the livestream will not be found on YouTube, but instead it will appear on DLive and Odysee:
The stream will begin at 7pm UK time (2pm EST) and last around 2 hours.
FUNDRAISER
All donations made during the stream will be given to Sam and Laura to help them cover the cost of replacing the items the police seized. The stream will also allow Patriotic Alternative supporters to ask Sam and Laura questions about the police raid.
Needless to say, neither Laura or Mark are deterred by this abuse of police power. Put simply; this is a desperate attempt by the police to silence those who speak out on behalf of the indigenous people of these islands and further restrict our freedom of speech.
We can assure you; we will not be silenced!“
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CIA wasn’t formed till after WW2 it’s forerunner was the OSS which was created during the war.
— Les chevaliers radieux ✡️ אמה לף 🕎 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@catwoman1966) April 29, 2021
Ha ha! The unpleasant Jew-Zionist know-all does not know even the most basic history, yet pontificates on world affairs! Are prescription drugs affecting him again? That was one of his excuses when he was found guilty on several charges by a Solicitors’ Disciplinary Panel a couple of years ago. Search via the search panel on the blog for full details. I expect, though, that he is just displaying ignorance.
[Update, 12 May 2022: the above paragraph (and the tweet above from “Knight Radiant/Catwoman”) referred to a tweet by Jew-Zionist solicitor “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, but he has obviously been tipped off since I commented; his ill-informed tweet about the CIA has been deleted since I commented].
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared. What a gross #Miscarriage of Justice – incredibly sad for those who died without clearing their name. https://t.co/OTbOfCyCYP
For once, I do agree with the egregious Lewis, on the above matter. There again, who could disagree? A long-running and appalling miscarriage of justice affecting people who are all but powerless, and who are often very good citizens as well.
When I spent a number of months in Turkey in 2001 (I drove from the UK), I found that the best beer there (to my taste) was called Tekel beer, made by a State-owned brewery. Sadly, no longer. Privatized, apparently, and changed out of all recognition.
Astonishing what happened to folks critical thinking skills.
The first movie with sound was not until 1926, yet here we have a movie with sound dated 30 years sooner.
This is why we are where we are as a species. people just accept what they're told and don't question it.
I think that Hitchens was referring to the film; he would obviously assume that the background “street noise” was added more recently…
All-cause deaths in India per year are approx 9.7 million, meaning daily all-cause death total approx is 26,500 daily. Personally, I think the @BBC should mention this and other contextual facts and figures, in its reports from India.
The key thing to note about this https://t.co/IqWFsU2Rfv and similar episodes: The Chinese police state simply *does not care* what we think. I suspect it expects us to become more like China in the years to come.
Was listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, specifically to some Italian woman, an EU drone from the (Italian) Democratic Party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Italy)], in respect of Italy/EU having blocked a vaccine export to Australia.
This was apparently an EU action, rather than a simply Italian one, but it reminded me that, over the years, I have heard from several people foolish enough to contract with Italians and Italian companies, including very large ones. Keywords? Dishonesty, unreliability.
Better news
“A pesticide believed to harm bees won’t be used in England, after it had been approved for temporary use in January.
The government had authorised the emergency use of a product containing the chemical thiamethoxam, because of a virus which affected sugar beet seeds.
But that protection won’t be needed now, as the colder weather means there’s less risk to the crop.”
Lone wolves, and wolf packs… lone wolves are feared, but wolves do better as a pack. Wolves are remarkable creatures, loyal and resilient. They never let their injured or wounded comrades fall into the hands of enemies, but kill them themselves in order to save them from that fate.
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[Это площадка в Лужниках.Здесь раньше много лет проходили репетиции сводного оркестра и роты барабанщиков МВМШ перед парадами]
— Owl! at the Library 😴🧙♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) March 3, 2021
"That looked like a bird!" Watch the amazing moment a murmuration of starlings took on the shape of a giant bird over Lough Ennell in Co Westmeath. pic.twitter.com/OcmkHIbvBa
Can you imagine what would happen to already-declining Labour if Dawn Butler became leader?! Still, few are without any good qualities at all; she seems to be a target of the Jew-Zionist lobby, so she cannot be all bad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Butler#Political_controversies.
Aylett does have a point, though. The justification for dumping Corbyn was that another leader (as it turned out, Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer) would be more popular with the public, more “electable”. Seems not…
For the residents of this remote village in Russia, one train driver and his ramshackle carriage are the only link to the outside world. pic.twitter.com/1pSK399WaT
It is not clear where the train in the above film is located. Possibly in the north of Russia, or the Urals region, though the use of the word taiga for “forest” seems to indicate a Siberian location.
That German news documentary reminds me of a film I saw over 20 years ago, Bread Day [on British TV possibly shown as Bread Train]: “True to its title, Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Bread Day spans the course of 24 hours, specifically in “Township #3” in Zhikharevo, located 80 km from St. Petersburg. As revealed by the opening title card, this former worker’s settlement is now all but abandoned, save for a handful of pensioners and some rambunctious goats. This fateful day starts with a small group of these aforementioned elderly (primarily women) convening in the middle of nowhere during winter, in order to take delivery of a train carriage that they then proceed to push along the tracks through the blistering cold and thick snow.” https://eefb.org/retrospectives/sergey-dvortsevoys-bread-day-khlebnyy-den-1998/
The settlement or small village in Bread Day was only 50 miles from St. Petersburg; the settlement in the German news film shown above is more remote, somewhere hundreds of miles from Arkhangelsk, which is a city of nearly 350,000 inhabitants, and which has airports, and a seaport, as well as a train to Moscow, 700 miles to the south.
[Arkhangelsk]
A Soviet person once told me (c.1980) that you only had to go about 15 miles from the then Leningrad to find yourself in villages without running water, though almost everywhere had electricity: “Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country” [Lenin].
Since the collapse of socialism (1989, though the Soviet Union limped on until 1991), the rail system in Russia and other republics declined in most respects. While some express and other trains are now more efficient, branch lines to “unimportant” places have been more or less left to rot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_the_Soviet_Union. A less organized version of what happened in the UK during the Beeching era of the 1960s, but on a vast scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts.
Of course, the train branch lines in Russia are also symptomatic of the decline of the Russian countryside, which was not always very prosperous even in Tsarist days, but was hit and mortally wounded by the socialist policy of Collectivization from 1928 onward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union.
Since the fall of socialism, since people in the rural areas have been free to relocate to cities (including Moscow), the rural areas have fallen even further into the swamp. Population loss (especially of the young), ageing population, services of all kinds declining or abandoned.
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4/5 @mark_ajohnson. The measures I opposed now have large public support. The country has been transformed into a place less free, less accountable and (wait and see) much poorer than it was. What I opposed and tried to stop has *happened*. https://t.co/msFMluXjqM
Good of you @janinethechef1, but I had hoped for a lot mpore, and there were a couple of moments when it seemed as if there was a resistance forming. But the vast propaganda resources of the other side, and their cynical use of fear, overwhelmed us. https://t.co/i9Cp4foffE
Peter Hitchens has fallen victim, not to “the virus”, nor to the vaccine, but to the Twitter curse of getting caught up in pointless arguments on a personal basis. There is a lot going on in the world; focus on that.
Of course, he is right that, not the virus but the government measures shutting down society and economy for over a year, are already impoverishing the UK. Look at the fuss over the modest 1% NHS pay rise proposal. It could have more a great deal more had the government not wasted enormous amounts on almost if not actually pointless “virus” measures, in particular the ludicrous “lockdowns”.
It will be recalled that, a week ago, I notified my blog readers that a certain NHS consultant from Essex (I have blogged about his abuse previously, but let’s just call him “Dr. Dim” for now) had tweeted, falsely accusing me, as well as persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz, and also a professional photographer, Jo Stowell, of threatening to release details of his home address publicly, something which not only was not so, but also would be impossible for me in view of the fact that I do not actually know that address (nor even in which town or village he lives)!
“Dr. Dim” (NHS consultant psychiatrist) then received numerous tweets from persons who had obviously seen and believed his false, libellous and harassing tweets (at least one other, though mentioning no names, is still up on Twitter, or was, as of yesterday).
I made official complaint to Dr. Dim’s NHS employers last Monday. As a result, “Dr. Dim” has removed that particular offending tweet (the one naming me, Alison Chabloz and Jo Stowell), no doubt forced to do so by his employers. He had already been forced to remove an earlier tweet about Alison Chabloz; his employers relayed to her, I believe, his “sincere apologies”.
We shall see now where this goes. “Dr. Dim” (who himself has mental problems) has been tweeting, unpleasantly, about me for several years (together with a little Zionist group on Twitter). I now have a number of different possibilities in terms of official and/or regulatory complaint, and also the possibility of taking direct civil legal action. We shall see.
I write on the 79th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, or as F.D. Roosevelt had it, “a day which will live in infamy“. An interesting topic, but not one about which I have anything to say today at least.
Social-national communities
I have written previously about the need for social-national communities, and in particular about the need to concentrate forces in as few areas as possible, in order to create “critical mass”, or as Clausewitz and his successors put it, a Schwerpunkt, today in the Western world more commonly called a “centre of gravity”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_gravity_(military). Other translations have included “focal point”.
The intensifying censorship across the Western world, including Internet censorship and (((control))), makes such communities even more essential. It has been seen that even relatively mainstream commentators and publicists are now often “deplatformed” either by State action or (more commonly) by the biased staff of major online platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. The Jewish or Jew-Zionist element is behind much of it, but the “antifa” type of “useful idiot” is often involved as well.
The time may come when open dissidence online is all but banned. Even now, particularly known individuals are barred from exercizing their civil right to dissent and comment online, via Jewish-instigated “lawfare”. Alison Chabloz, the satirical singer-songwriter (whose latest trial is set down for 17 December 2020) has been subject (whether lawfully or not— an open question) to police and court-ordered bail conditions for nearly a year now, which conditions have included a general ban on Internet posting!
The need for real, offline, social-national community has never been more pressing.
Thus it was with pleasure that I have noticed, in recent months, a growing understanding of the above from various people who post on Twitter. Some need little introduction, such as Nick Griffin. Others were unknown to me until recently, and seem to be clustering around the Patriotic Alternative group, whose leader, Mark Collett, was himself expelled from Twitter not long ago and his bank account frozen or withdrawn (!), though he seems to be still on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf14z6V0MWNeVcbAz0r8wQ
It does not matter if German, French, English, or whoever else in Europe, their spaces are distinct from each other, yet congruent within their own and in a broader context.
England's beauty is organic. It is not as titanic as the Alps or as brooding as the Germanic forests but it is gentle, crafted and sublime. It is not hammer forged by the gods, it was grown from the soil by the Englishmen who have loved it. pic.twitter.com/xBuDzOuvbq
Feminism has given Western women the freedom to have everything that's not worth having, and told them everything they already had was worthless. pic.twitter.com/j37968bae6
We have to stop instilling resentment in girls then teaching them to be motivated by that instilled resentment and calling it “empowerment”. Who’s with me? 🙋♀️
We hear much about the supposedly terrible German “Nuremberg Laws” of the mid-1930s, but in fact they were defensive in nature, aiming at protection of the German people from exploitation, and also aiming at the protection of the future of the German people.
One sees nonsense constantly from those who believe that the Nuremberg Laws meant that Jews were all rounded up, arrested, sent to labour camps etc.
As a matter of fact, the legal definition of “Jewish” was, if anything, rather moderate:
Classification
Translation
Heritage
Definition
Deutschblütiger
German-blooded
German
Belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Deutschblütiger
German-blooded
1⁄8 Jewish
Considered as belonging to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Mischling zweiten Grades
Mixed race (second degree)
1⁄4 Jewish
Only partly belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Mischling ersten Grades
Mixed race (first degree)
3⁄8 or 1⁄2 Jewish
Only partly belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Jude
Jew
3⁄4 Jewish
Belongs to the Jewish race and community; not approved to have Reich citizenship
Jude
Jew
Jewish
Belongs to the Jewish race and community; not approved to have Reich citizenship
As can be seen from that table, even persons who were half-Jewish, i.e. with one Jewish parent, were usually permitted full citizenship rights.
Jews were eventually prohibited from becoming members of certain occupations, such as politicians, journalists, lawyers, judges. That reversed what had been the position under the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic (and what is or is fast-becoming the situation in the UK of 2020), when Jews almost monopolized some occupations.
Few people today know that the more extreme manifestations of “antisemitic” law, such as forcing Jews to wear identifying yellow stars (surely unnecessary in most cases?), only came into force under the pressure of war, and (surely correctly) noting the Jewish population as a large hostile bloc within Germany during wartime.
The Americans interned all Japanese-Americans (most of whom lived in California and Hawaii) a short time after Pearl Harbor; most lost their homes and valuable possessions.
There were still 900 registered Jews in Berlin itself in early 1945.
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Snow was set to vanish by 2010 according to a similar piece in the Independent in 2000 (now Memory Holed). The useless Met Office should be replaced by a seaweed frond hung on the knob of the paedo statue at BBC Bush House. Weather forecasts would improvehttps://t.co/ndYlSPZyZr
There is climatic change in parts of the world (eg Australia, now far hotter than it was when I was there for three years as a child, in the late 1960s) but the causation is not really proven, certainly not completely. As for the remedy, if any, that is even less certain.
Strange to see maybe two (presumably) intelligent people actually discussing the above as if “left wing” and “right wing” actually mean anything…
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Gov’t Minister James Cleverly tells #kayburley that anyone saying Boris Johnson has not already delivered his promised “oven ready deal” is either “ignorant or dishonest”
Incredible that a melonhead like James Cleverly (complete with “degree” in Hospitality Management) is actually a Minister of State! I must do a “Deadhead MPs” piece about him before too long.
A nice idea, but the sun has finally set on our Empire. We must look for our future elsewhere…
The pseudo-religious cult of Covid, and the Blairite Cultural revolution – topics in my conversation today with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio : https://t.co/RA2B6yojR8
A metallic monolith has popped up in the Isle of Wight, an island off the coast of the U.K., more than a week after other similar ones have appeared in the U.S. and Romania https://t.co/BFjxl7w5capic.twitter.com/hBRZWzZHa3
If our people are diluted or blended into an international mass then we are extinct. What will remain will be only a shadow, a ruined statue to long dead beauty. pic.twitter.com/traC5c4UUv
The key moment came when the Germans introduced compulsory labour service in Germany for young men. When people were personally, directly affected, they were far readier to resist. @barry36883927https://t.co/eFF0RSgrDK
People talk about the French Resistance, which is and was largely a myth, at least until, as Hitchens says above, compulsory labour service was introduced in late 1942. The young labour evaders started to hide out with the small existing Maquis bands (some of which, if not most, were little more than bandits) in remote countryside.
The only active “French Resistance” prior to 1943 were the networks of spies and saboteurs run by either Gaullists or Communists, both of which were controlled by and/or dependent upon (for money and weapons) foreign states, notably Britain and the Soviet Union. The British also ran independent networks. These connected with but were separate from the “escape and evasion” networks run by, mostly, the British MI9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9
Peter Hitchens says coronavirus attitudes have “taken on the shape of a semi-religious cult”.
“People no longer see individuals as individuals but on the basis of how readily they conform to the dogma.”
More propaganda twaddle,based on a belief that normal life is now dangerous.If it weren’t for the green ectoplasm drifting about (probably the stale remnant of an old Gove speech), would this lady *really* welcome the blast of freezing air inflicted on her by the grinning bloke? pic.twitter.com/wjrJNsoZID
Bob Moran’s Sunday cartoon contains an absolute first, a sinister, bureaucratic Father Christmas. The paradox in the dialogue is brilliant too. pic.twitter.com/AZvMKlNQKn
Again, can we try to be a bit sensible. The issue isn't the pandemic's "over". Or "false positives". We haven't been getting daily "false deaths". The issue is lockdowns that repress transmission meaningfully aren't sustainable economically, socially or for other medical reasons.
For once, I agree with Hodges. “Lockdown” or semi-lockdowns and shutdowns are killing Britain economically, socially and in terms of people suffering and dying completely unnecessarily from other, non-“Covid, conditions.
These shutdowns and restrictions are just not sustainable and should never have been implemented, certainly not for longer than a month. Economy trashed, retail sector especially trashed, civil liberties trashed, society as a whole trashed. For what? Because there exists a public health problem which has killed 1 in 1,400 people in the UK? Disproportionate panic measures.
As I watch the tragic farce of UK politics and society playing out, I realize anew that it is vital for the best people to create loose communities, preferably centred on one or two regions, as a basis for a later ethnostate. Perhaps one in the North and one in the South. As a Southerner, I have focussed on the Devon/Cornwall peninsula for a number of reasons (see earlier blog posts).
In the North? I leave that, at present, to those who are apparently (and independently) working along similar lines “up there”. God grant them success!
— National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) (@PoliceChiefs) November 20, 2020
“A trusted source“? The Government of Clowns? As for the NHS, that is but the monkey to the Government’s organ-grinder.
Further to that, the above tweet from the NPCC is another example of how the police have become politicized or, if you prefer, socio-politicized. It is not the job of the police to broadcast propaganda of that sort, or any sort.
I cannot say what should happen to these despicable, fear-mongering, nation-wrecking, corrupt, lying, murdering scum, and their MSM partners in crime.
You'll have to use your imagination. Even if words didn't fail me, twitter restrictions would pronably forbid you to see them. pic.twitter.com/yNluR8xKvI
Finance-capitalist groups in the West were behind the Bolshevik takeover of the (initially non-Bolshevik) Russian Revolution of 1917. Almost all the top 200 top Bolsheviks were Jews, bankrolled by Jews in New York.
That is not to say that there were not social conditions in Russia creating the crucible into which the spark of revolution fell. The inequitable and terrible social conditions of Russia, combined with the lost war against Germany (1914-1917) created a flammable situation. The first Revolution happened because of that; the Bolsheviks then seized power in a coup d-etat, several months later.
Far too much @AJUK29 Millions vote without serious thought at general elections, for pre-selected goons provided by party claques, carefully weeded to exclude any with independent minds. What sort of people would you expect would be produced by this method? https://t.co/WzKsHoTS8y
The UK public is ruled by consent. How many Government lies, non-Covid deaths and economic destruction will it take before the UK public say 'enough is enough' and withdraw their consent? Please write to your MP and ask them to do their job and hold the Government to account.
— The UK is being destroyed by Parliament and MSM. (@AntiWokeBritain) November 27, 2020
Sadly, “writing to ‘your’ MP” is likely to have only peripheral effect. I am not allowed to say what I would wish to say here, but let’s just say that MPs have been affected strongly only by a few incidents in recent years. None of those incidents were reading a letter from a constituent.
I agree with Mr Hitchens – no point in expecting a reasoned response. The response to my first email was copied and pasted. I have sent a further email with no expectation of a response, the point is, I did my bit and it was truly empowering!
— Time for Change, Out the Main Parties &Vote Reform (@di_conservative) November 27, 2020
In fact, I would take issue with tweeter “@antiwokeBritain”. Britain is not so much “ruled by consent” as ruled by apathy.
When phone companies are developing packages for the jobless, you know that the government really has screwed up the economy. https://t.co/uXOKJld7Ls
Yes. Money is a fascinating study, even if you have none! While it is true that money is not a finite amount kept in coin in the Treasury, or the Bank of England, or (pace Mrs Thatcher) in the “housewife’s shopping basket”, there is a limit to both “Government borrowing” and its “printing of money”.
The UK Government was hugely overborrowed after WW2, about 2-3 times worse than even after Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak’s recent and temporary largesse.
You hear, or see on Twitter etc, the view “look at what the UK accomplished after WW2. Created a National Health Service and got the country back on its feet.”
You have to unpack that. Yes, the NHS was created, but it was rudimentary compared to today. Also, as that excellent but sidelined historian Correlli Barnett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlli_Barnett] has shown in his books, after WW2 the almost “broke” UK had the choice to maintain a global empire (or post-imperial presence), to create a Welfare State, or to revitalize the economy. It tried to do all three at once, when only one or at most two were possible. The result was only partial success in all three main areas.
People who look back at the post-WW2 era and say, in effect, “look what they did despite Britain being broke“, neglect to notice the terrible socio-economic conditions of the mid/late 1940s and even early 1950s. Rationing continued after WW2 (a fact unknown to many, especially the “young”), only disappearing in the mid-1950s. It was severe. My own parents would recall that, in 1953 (I think), they could not have confetti at their wedding because of paper rationing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Post-Second_World_War_1945-1954
However, the UK economy was expanding fast then, certainly from 1956 (the year of my own birth). That enabled the UK government of the day to pay down the “National Debt” as well as try to hit those three targets mentioned above.
The truth about monies available to government lies somewhere between the Mrs Thatcher handbag idea (a fixed amount) beloved of simpletons and the open-ended “money can be created or borrowed ad infinitum” idea of the Twitter “experts”.
At present, interest rates are very low. Money can be borrowed by the UK government at very low, almost zero, rates. That can ground an investment strategy in the economy, education, infrastructure— and should do. Throwing away money on “lockdowns” etc is quite different, however.
This is not the place in which to examine the ultimate source of money “borrowed” by goverments. Another time.
Allister Heath in the Telegraph explains the terrible economic danger we are now facing. Sunak knows. But Johnson dare not let him admit it. pic.twitter.com/JtS6lriwDI
No. I think advanced societies require what you call 'big government'. But I also believe that the safeguards we used to rely on now need strengthening. The nreak-uup and replacement of the BBC is especially urgent, plus a reformed second chamber. https://t.co/r3MJVplHFS
What matters is that those who are responsible for strangling this country's livelihood and liberty are punished for it and know *now* that they will be. Let us worry nearer the time about who will replace them. @ukcloudprohttps://t.co/QZUdKtjHofhttps://t.co/w56OQeQg5G
All MP Alec Shelbrooke cares about is his own moneygrubbing, and whether he retains the support of the Israel lobby.
It is numbers and immediacy that count @basef41. The vote is on Tuesday. Get friends, neighbours, colleagues, family, to join in. Do not be worried about repeating your own message. https://t.co/QZUdKtjHofhttps://t.co/6Y2NNGDvnY
Do not be discouraged by stuff about 'safe seats' . Scottish Labour MPs used to think their seats were safe. Then they were not. In the reckoning to come, of lost jobs, destroyed businesses, smashed education, strangled liberty, *no* seat is safe, especially not Pfeffel's own.
It's a completely different issue. I've written at length about it on the Peter Hitchens blog. @robintheforest. Ask me about it the next time we have a chance to vote, or not. Abstention might be the best way of getting them out. Or it might not. https://t.co/WSoBKEHgG6
Hard to believe that anyone could believe that abstention from voting affects anything. Even now, there are Westminster constituencies where votes, especially in by-elections, are as low as 20% or 30% of those eligible. Voting may not change anything; abstention even less so.
Nadine Dorrries, who is she? Does she sit in the Belarus Parliament? Doesn't sound like someone from a free country, for sure. https://t.co/P58jTT6DEc
At what point, if any, will people decide that the UK is becoming a tyranny and that measures against the tyranny, its ministers and its MPs are justifiable? A question that I cannot answer, that no-one can answer. It may be that such a moment will not come, will never come. At that point, we should be living in a dystopian serf-state.
Looking at this programme 13 years later I am amazed at how hard Johnson tried to shut me up by heckling and sledging, whenever I was pointing out that the Tories had embraced Blairism. https://t.co/QnqxquxOIu
It is already well established that Covid-19 is a disease that is most dangerous to those over the age of 65 and who have preexisting conditions. In the United States, there has been an observed 2.1% mortality rate, with elderly individuals making up over half that number.
UPDATED: Boris Johnson is trying to fight off a growing backlash among Tory MPs about the COVID-19 tiers.
According to a @SkyNewsPolitics tally, at least 54 have voiced their unhappiness over tiering or have said they are unlikely to support the measures: https://t.co/zeCoHyu4OM
I'm very sorry for the staff. They'll be unemployed whilst Green will be sunning himself on his massive private yacht counting the money he got from BHS pension. He shouldn't have been allowed to hold onto to his Knighthood or be allowed to run a business again
Go into Circuit Break lockdown. Drop Circuit Break lockdown. Go into tougher Tiers. Exit Tougher Tiers for a week. Go into New Year lockdown. Again, this is madness.
At least six Tory MPs have said they are (currently) planning to vote against new tiers system on Tuesday: Tobias Ellwood Tim Loughton Julian Sturdy Robert Syms Craig Tracey William Wragg
Others are holding fire until they see impact assessments to be published before the vote.
As I blogged almost a year ago, in circumstances of (in this case, “elected”) dictatorship, opposition comes not from a weak and government-supporting official Opposition, but from within the ruling party itself.
I see the present situation in the UK, and in the world generally, as akin to those filmed images of the South Asian tsunami of years ago: people sunbathing or paddling in the ocean, many unaware of the enormous wave forming not far out to sea; a few starting to become aware of the danger but unable to do anything about it in the time available, even to the extent of fleeing.
We are approaching 2022, the most significant year since 1989. The international consensus/conspiracy has had to step up some aspects of its propaganda to frenetic levels: the whole “blacks in every television ad” stuff, the attack on every positive aspect of European history and culture, the “Covid-19” fear propaganda, the sharply-increasing censorship of Internet expression. It’s all connected on some level.
For me, the most significant fact in the UK itself is the absence of any social-national party or movement of any size or credibility. Anything that shows vitality and possibility is being repressed, whether the organization is a radical action-oriented one of young people, or one emphasizing community activity; the same would be true of a political party, if one with any credibility were to exist.
What is remarkable is that we are not seeing State repression alone, meaning police, prosecutions, prison sentences. A new aspect has come ito play— repression of political organizations (and also of individuals) by private enterprises such as banks, wire-pay companies, Internet service providers and platforms.
Thus we see that individuals, whether unconnected with organizations, or who are connected, are expelled from Twitter etc. David Icke, Katie Hopkins, many others (including me).
Those who are the “useful idiots” of the System, of ZOG/NWO, are not expelled… the pseudo-socialists, the “anti-fascists”, the “alt-Right” weasellers such as “Prison Planet” Watson.
Look at “Patriotic Alternative”: Mark Collett not only expelled from Twitter, but refused service by his bank! Collett’s colleague, Laura Towler, is so far still on Twitter, but she too has had her personal bank account withdrawn!
As we have seen across the board, private enterprises now collaborate with State agencies to repress dissent.
Boris Johnson’s distraction techniques are not working – we can see the chaos in his government. My Sunday article for @Independenthttps://t.co/II7mFMHz4S
Well, I did better, yet again, than John Rentoul, if I may be so immodest. 7/10 as against his 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 6 and 9.
Once again, people are jumping into their bunkers. It doesn’t matter whether you back Priti Patel or don’t back her. If Boris did attempt to influence an independent investigation into her conduct that’s a very serious matter. Much more serious than the bullying allegations.
The words of those with true perception never age. Living more in the wise moment, they adapt creatively, uniquely to each life situation as it unfolds. #LondonRealArmy#DaidIcke
Why do the BBC refuse to say what the audience figures for 'Question Time' are, or used to be? They refused to answer my question on this. https://t.co/XDUnrNWYxS
The idea that the BBC puts out, that the nation (if there is still a “nation”) sits waiting agog for Question Time, is ludicrous. The old 1940s radio Brains Trust, reimagined for TV. It lost any reputation for impartiality when it participated in the ambush of Nick Griffin and the BNP in 2009.
Now that David Dimbleby has gone, and his seat taken by smug and hugely overpaid Fiona Bruce, it is unwatchable. The panel members are usually dull and predictable, the audience “selected”…
I admit that what I have said is based on having seen QT last quite a while ago, but from what I hear it just gets worse. It’s a 1950s or 1960s show in the 21stC Internet age.
Below: re.the facemask nonsense:
Many doctors do not wear masks in surgery @matt2342342 . But where they do, it is not even remotely an argument for making the public wear them in shops and on buses . Please see https://t.co/P6XmwixrxWhttps://t.co/W85tRCSkEv
I would have. @simsy1977 . The direction – lower living standards, strong state, imposed conformism, limits on free speech – has been clear for decades, it was only the form it would take that was in doubt. https://t.co/z43ubKTlhV
Quite. Both Hitchens and tweeter “@simsy1977” are right. The twist today, though, is that the dictatorships of the fairly recent past were more obvious: lots of uniforms, often inhumanly efficient, the State with a monopoly on repression. As I noted above in today’s blog, there are new additions to that mix: the collaboration of large finance-capitalist enterprises, actively involved in suppressing free speech etc. Something else too: the miasma of “political correctness”, a sub-Stalinism operating in schools, universities, local councils, the police force(s), everywhere.
And here *is* the Danish mask study which most newspapers and broadcasters have somehow failed to cover, and which you'll struggle to find on Google : https://t.co/7YzhxuJF08. Here's Carl Heneghan's commentary on it, censored by Facebook https://t.co/OZjMIhbQFt
“What does Green mean anyway? It doesn’t mean you love the planet. It means you love a slogan.
I have always been a defender of our natural heritage. I feel almost physical pain at the sight and sound of a tree being cut down. I mourned the destruction of the railways and the tyranny of the motor car which resulted. I have for 40 years endured the mockery of colleagues and the spite of drivers for riding a bicycle, alas for me in a Right-wing way. I paid over the odds to travel abroad by train rather than plane, long before Greta Thunberg was even born.
But none of this counts in my favour. Because the new Green Frenzy is a faith-based dogma, not a set of considered opinions.
As Labour leader Keir Starmer discovered in his Trotskyist 20s, a moralising, self-righteous alleged concern for the planet is the new Marxism.
It’s not a moral system. It is organised hypocrisy in which you show you are good by saying the right thing. Actions don’t matter. It’s your mind they care about.
If you’re a Hollywood star, you can fly first class and ride in a petrol-gulping car just so long as you swear allegiance to the Cult of Greta. But you may be sure that others will suffer for it, whether they like it or not.
The wild plans embraced by Johnson last week will cost billions in subsidies, and so in taxes. They will endanger the power supply. They will also mean more children slaving for small change in the hellish mines of the Congo, to find the raw materials for the batteries on which this noble project relies.
Life, you may be sure, will be poorer, darker, colder and generally glummer, again, quite a bit like East Germany.” [Peter Hitchens, in The Mail on Sunday].
“Proof that the mask zealots can’t have it both ways
Can a Covid virus move only one way through a mask? Or can it go both in and out? Because if it can go both ways, we now know that all this mask-wearing is an almost complete waste of time.
Barely noticed in any major media, a serious Danish trial of the effectiveness of masks finally reported its findings on Wednesday. Three major scientific journals (shame on them) had refused to publish it – one can only guess why.
The Danes did it properly. They recruited almost 5,000 people. Half wore masks, of rather better quality than the sort mainly worn in Britain. Half didn’t. All lived normal lives. They kept it up for a month. At the end, 1.8 per cent of mask wearers tested positive, and 2.1 per cent of the unmasked tested positive for Covid. In other words, there was almost no difference.
Below, someone who needs “a guide for the perplexed”…
The sad thing is that many of us made a genuine effort when it came to antisemitism. We talked to Jewish friends. We read. We listened. Despite this, we're singled out as racists and cranks.
I know what I tried to do. I know what Corbyn tried to do. And I will stand with him.
Tweeter “Socialist Chris” might like to consider the following: maybe the “racists” and “cranks” (i.e. those aware of the “JQ”) have been proven right…
It would not matter what “they”, the Zionists, are given, or how much “they” are pandered to, nothing but complete Zionist tyranny is acceptable to “them”.
I've lived in both socialism and capitalism. Socialism is much better. Pass it on.
“Dear Amazon, please send, by expedited delivery, a copy of GULAG Archipelago to tweeter “@shumeigore”.”
Actually, that tweeter’s Twitter timeline is like a perusal of Collet’s London Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, circa 1976! She even publicizes a talk given by Peter Taaffe! I thought (assumed) that he had died long ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taaffe
No @vanishingpoin_t . Correlation is not necessarily causation and post hoc does not mean propter hoc. Globally, there is no congruence between the intensity of mad zeal with which governments have strangled their own economies, and the level of deaths in those countries. https://t.co/OF1OttIImD
Applebaum’s “mitigation” or attempted justification for Jewish (Zionist) terrorism is exactly the same as that the IRA used to deploy in the UK of the 1970s, 1980s etc: “we gave a warning…”
How does #Israel train it's soldiers to treat the #palestinians so badly? How can any Human Being treat other Human Beings like that? How can the #EU and the MEP's in the Parliament watch this and say nothing? How…? https://t.co/a67IFKE0o8
When Jews have full power, such brutality is to be expected. Look at what the Bolsheviks (the leaders of which were almost all Jews, in the 1920s and early 1930s) did in Russia and Ukraine (etc).
Theresa May sacked her. She met foreign government officials in illegally occupied Golan to discuss using UK aid budget to fund IDF hospital for Al Qaida terrorists fighting in Syria. Then lied about it, saying that she was on holiday.https://t.co/dMxtmJp9wV
“ZOG”. It is not a “conspiracy theory”. It is right in front of your eyes.
“I try to argue against the closure of the country, and a few listen, but in general I might as well be reading Russian verse to an audience of koalas (though they are not all as nice about it as koalas would be).”
Ian Robert Millard 