In 1997, during a pre-election conversation with A.Blair, I discovered that he did not even know that they speak Portuguese in Brazil. I doubt if anyone so ignorant of politics, geography, history etc has ever held such high office. https://t.co/bFVTSjm9ug
That tweet is from a year ago, but it bears repetition, especially as Blair now goes around the world touting himself as the great retired statesman, pronouncing on grand strategy and high policy…
Queen Elizabeth II’s first Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was born in 1874.
Her final Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was born in 1975.
What a contrast. In fact I wondered, a day or so ago, what the late Queen had thought of the Prime Ministers she had known— Churchill, that flawed titan; then the others, varying in ability and sincerity but mostly, though not all, at least able to play the part and not look totally out of place: Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Wilson again, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron (-Levita), May, Johnson, and now Truss.
One sees the general decline in stature, though, over those decades.
Hard to bracket Liz Truss in the same sentence, let alone the same office, as Churchill, much as I think that his policy toward the German Reich was completely wrongheaded.
Churchill got Britain and the Empire involved in that disastrous war which killed off not only the German Reich but also the British Empire and indeed, not far down the line, all the European imperia (French, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Dutch), and much else besides.
Liz Truss seems intent on creating conflict, or making worse the relations between Russia and the West, or even fomenting a state of war between Russia and the UK. If that were to happen, we should all be joining the late Queen and Churchill sooner than most of us anticipated. Britain could scarcely survive if there were war on the strategic scale.
Biden’s mother sounds as if she was both quite mad and extremely unpleasant. You get that kind of silliness with some Irish-Americans though. I recall being introduced about 31 years ago to some fat woman in New Jersey, an acquaintance of an American friend. Her first words to me were “well, I’m Irish, so I shouldn’t like you!“. A kind of joke, but with a definite edge.
Of course, Irish-Americans are a lot more American than they are Irish. Many of the more ignorant ones seemed (when I was living in the USA in the early 1990s) to think that “England” (always England, not UK or Britain) was in a kind of war with Ireland.
They had no idea that the “war” between not Ireland but the IRA, and the UK authorities, was confined mainly not only to the six counties of Northern Ireland (Ulster, to use the name of the ancient province) but to a few small areas, mostly urban, within that province, and also confined to quite small numbers of the population.
There were exceptions to the prevailing ignorance. The owner of McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, which I occasionally visited if nearby, was an intelligent man who visited Ireland (the Republic) a couple of times a year (for river fishing). He understood the real situation, but few other Irish-Americans (most of whom had never left American shores, and got their ideas of the world from appallingly-poor American TV news reports) knew any more about it than they did about, say, Iraq.
In origo, so are “council” and “counsel“. The Monarch’s “counsel” was provided by his or her “council”. In Russian, there is still only one word for both “council” (as in a group of advisers and/or a local or other governmental or political body) and “counsel” (as in “advice“)— “soviet” [совет].
Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania 🇷🇴 Built for King Carol I (1839–1914), under whose reign the country gained its independence. pic.twitter.com/Y11J0hngIP
⚡️Donetsk proxy confirms Russian retreat from Izium, Kharkiv Oblast.
Daniil Bezsonov, a Russian proxy leader in Donetsk Oblast, wrote on his personal Telegram channel that Russian troops had withdrawn from Izyum and a few other settlements in Kharkiv Oblast.
– DNR/DPR "leader" Denis Pushilin has left Donetsk few hours ago. Possible reason is panic rumors in russian TG channels about AFU paratroopers landed in.. Donetsk airport. Not yet confirmed. But, this night will bring more news than anyone expected.#Donetsk#UkraineWillWin 2/2 pic.twitter.com/IipgnPl4rP
If these reports (from sources supportive of the Kiev regime) are accurate, the Russian leadership will have to escalate the armament used, and soon, or accept bitter, if relatively localized —and possibly temporary— defeat in large parts of the region.
“...for the welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
A brief conversation with @TimesKennedy, Investigations Editor at @thetimes, about why he's not investigating vaccine injuries and deaths.
Remember, it's THEM who are the investigative journalists, and I'm just a troll/conspiracy theorist who needs to be deplatformed. pic.twitter.com/S8gpw3RHJq
@tubewaysrmy. No, I did not. This is what I said: ‘PETER HITCHENS: A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It's time for peace’ https://t.co/ZVtsCksNrB
I would expect this has been done before in private MPs have been able to affirm for ages. But @kulambq, the fascinating thing is that Starmer chooses to make a public stand of his religious opinions. I keep trying to tell people that he’s an actual revolutionary not a ‘moderate’ https://t.co/6d3fn4LKk8
So is Starmer a (?) secret atheist, or possibly even a crypto-Jew? He is, after all, married to a Jewess, and their children are being brought up as if full-Jew. I never was able to discover as to whether, when they hold those ritual Jewish dinners chez Starmer, he wears one of those little round skullcaps (yarmulki).
I really don’t see what China has to do with it. If anything China would benefit from the disintegration of Russia which US policy aims are https://t.co/cvcw7Rmr12
If Russia becomes again as weak as it was in the 1990s, the Chinese will be able to heavily infiltrate, and perhaps in effect take over, the whole of the one-time Soviet Far East, and possibly all of Eastern Siberia. Maybe in time even all of Siberia.
You are such a buffoon. I was the one saying for years before this that Russia’s armed forces were greatly overrated. This has always been my position. Now this is demonstrated, the last 30 years of fear-driven NATO expansion look pretty overdone. https://t.co/Uz2QeSlynE
1/2 @evolutionplants Can’t see why. The origin of the war is the Wolfowitz doctrine, followed by Senate approval of NATO expansion, followed by George W. Bush’s proposal of Ukrainian NATO membership at Bucharest, and then the US-sponsored overthrow of Yanukovych… https://t.co/64HIugohFN
2/2 @evolutionplants Russia is plainly the target, and saying the US didn’t create it is like saying Bismarck had nothing to do with starting the 1870 war. Ukraine’s just a battering ram, and a boxing ring, for outside powers. https://t.co/64HIugnJQf
@andyrob4327914 This is nothing to do with being smart or dumb. It is to do with the death of the sort of general knowledge which used to sustain civil society. https://t.co/4eRd8ytylT
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) October 2, 2021
Starmer’s wife is Jewish and, though I have no idea what, if any, political influence she exercises, if people can ask questions about the influence exercized by the wife of the person presently posing as Prime Minister, then they can certainly do the same about the wife of the person presently heading the official (if ineffective) Opposition.
Zionist Jews and their agents were behind the removal of Corbyn as Labour leader, and his replacement by [doormat for the Jewish lobby] Starmer:
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Glasman is styled “Head of Political Investigations” at the very small but well-funded and also very malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, which is also, inter alia, involved in multiple attacks, and types of attack, upon free speech in the UK.
Exclusive: Quangos Unchained
A Times investigation has found that spending on government agencies reached £29 billion last year, with staff paid six-figure salaries for as little as two days’ work a week https://t.co/l5Vq0d6xnJ
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) October 3, 2021
The National Audit Office has raised concerns about how arms-length government bodies, which spend £270bn and employ 320,000 people, are managed by the Cabinet Office
The report found that it “does not have the right data to support proportionate risk-based oversight” of quangos
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) October 3, 2021
The NAO found that for 40% of proposals for newly established quangos, no serious effort had gone into considering alternative ways of providing the service pic.twitter.com/xVN7iVrQ4r
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) October 3, 2021
Isn’t it ironic that too many British Zionists have more in common with Israeli settler supremacists than these marching Israelis? #DavidMillerhttps://t.co/KRmUe1bHTJ
“British“? It takes more than UK residence for a couple of generations, and a professed interest in cricket, or football, or rugby, to make an alien individual British…
As on previous similar occasions (involving either “Insulate Britain” or the Extinction Rebellion crazies), I marvel at the forbearance of the British man in the street. In other countries, these smug and malicious loonies would get well and truly stomped on.
I hope (both for their sake and for my own) that those smug bastards never try it with me. I am unhampered by much of such forbearance, and my old car is large and heavy. What’s that sound? Maybe skeletons and exoskeletons cracking…
Ridley Road
I have not seen the new BBC TV drama series Ridley Road. It was first shown yesterday. I may watch the whole thing eventually. Needless to say, my provisional view is that the BBC should not be showing glorification of Jewish thugs, gangsters and, in effect, terrorists (the “62 Group”).
The Jewish Chronicle does not disguise the fact that Ridley Road is a Jewish product; au contraire, it is proud of the fact:
“The series is something of a passion project cooked up between [Jewish TV producer Nicola] Shindler and Jewish actress and writer Sarah Solemani.”
“Not only is Ridley Road Shindler’s first Jewish story but it is, she believes, the first to put a Jewish family, and a Jewish heroine, and a Jewish story at the front and centre on British television.”
“But while the four-part series stars Tracy Ann Oberman and Samantha Spiro, it has been criticised by David Baddiel for not making its leads Jewish actors. He pointed out: “It wouldn’t be fine for the BBC to cast like this with any other minority.”” [Jewish Chronicle]
Strange, I did not see the Jew comedian Baddiel complain when a recent TV production had Ann Boleyn, of all people, played by a black actress, and indeed one who is even American! I also never see any complaints from him —or others of his type— when Jewish actors and actresses play the roles of non-Jews… the arguably most egregious example of the latter situation was when the film Nicholas and Alexandra had Janet Suzman as the Tsaritsa Alexandra! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_and_Alexandra; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Suzman.
For me, that miscasting ruined what was otherwise quite a good film.
🌟 This Sunday a new @BBCOne drama, Ridley Road, brings to life the story of the 62 Group: a Jewish street-fighting movement in the 1960s that was a forerunner of CST and remains a proud part of the Jewish community’s history of fighting antisemitism 👉 https://t.co/Rky08Hhiazpic.twitter.com/gxgvDqTcSU
Incredibly, the UK police actually co-operate with the Jewish snooping and strong-arm organization called “CST”! The organization here seen praising “a Jewish streetfighting movement“… They even get UK government (taxpayers’) money!
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As Insulate Britain blocked the South Bound entry road to the Blackwall Tunnel, one van driver just drove at the group and tried to force them back. pic.twitter.com/vHE2AAe52U
At least one stout fellow was willing to try to power past those idiots. I suppose he did not want to be arrested for hurting or killing them.
'How can you be so selfish?!'
This desperate motorist pleads with eco protesters blocking the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel asking them to move so she can get to her sick mother in hospital.
If that poor woman were to crush a couple of the bastards with her car, she would, I believe, be acquitted (of anything) by almost any jury in the land. As for that smug white-haired bastard, who seems to be a ringleader, I should imagine that the woman stopped from getting to hospital thinks that he deserves to be hit over the head (at the very least).
I am all in favour of English politeness (I myself am often too polite to nuisances and even enemies) but there has to come a time when action must be taken.
Those clips from LBC show a society which is starting to break down. If the authorities, the police, the courts, will not keep the peace, then either the people themselves will take action (eventually), or they will call for those willing to do so to seize all power and authority.
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Asked whether he was “blaming” businesses for the supply chain issues currently being experienced in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters: “I think what we’re seeing is the recovery of the economy." pic.twitter.com/dKWYYXNxfD
Is “delusion” really strong enough a word to characterize the outpouring of trash from the part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer currently posing as Prime Minister?
When will the heavy hand of the law descend on irresponsible and selfish protestors blocking traffic on essential arterial routes?
1980 Highways Act, section 137: Obstructing a public highway is an offence in the UK.
Retweet if you want the Police to arrest these protestors.
LBC reporter Rachel Venables says to the crazed woman interviewee that “protests work, but...”— Hello?! How do those para-terroristic “protests” “work”? They will result in not one more building being insulated. They just interfere with ordinary citizens.
That “protestor” bitch could not plausibly complain if she got a slap, or more, from the people she is impeding. To her, the woman trying to get to her aged mother in hospital is just collateral damage in a war against civilized Western society.
As for the view of that “protester” that she is fighting for the UK’s children— in fact she is doing the opposite, wanting society to start travelling back to the Stone Age. I wonder what that “protester” thinks about mass immigration (migration-invasion)? I would bet good money that she favours it… Evil creature, posing as “good”.
Considering that a recent study of 700,000 people showed that those who were previously infected with Covid are 27 x less likely to be infected than those who have had the jab, if someone who has previously had Covid decides not to take the jab, how is that selfish? pic.twitter.com/xvZfpRqfuN
Whatever one may think of the Queen, few would consider her to be more than average in terms of intellect. Anyway, for all her wealth, pomp and circumstance, she is ultimately just a pawn of the transnational System.
Denmark, Norway & Sweden have lifted Covid restrictions and have no vaccine passports, but in Australia, there’s no jab, no job, quarantine camps and rubber bullets used on protesters, yet, there’s hardly any coverage of this on the media. Sometimes silence tells us much more.
As I have frequently blogged (while I still can), this is all part of the “Great Reset” coming from 2022, the next pivotal year in the 33-year cycle.
Remember 1989? In the years before 1989, next to no-one thought that huge changes were going to happen any time soon; in and after 1989, we saw what happened, starting in 1989 itself and rolling on afterwards: the collapse of socialism worldwide, the collapse of Arab oil power (and so strategic military power), the collapse under pressure of the anti-Israel states (notably Iraq and Syria, but also Egypt, Libya etc), the globalization of the finance-capitalist economies, including services.
Words fail me, SHAME on all https://t.co/j121xrAY7i was this allowed to happen, where were the Wonderful Councils – Why wasn’t Doreen put up in a 4/5 Star Hotel and looked after. Our Pensioners deserve better than this.
That is what should be happening to the smug nuisances of “Insulate Britain”.
Where are the police, anyway, in clearing the UK’s roads? Surely they cannot all be busy pandering to Jewish nuisances complaining about online criticism?
🛑Thousands of army veterans are ready to help tackle the HGV crisis but are being ignored by the Government, a logistic expert has said.
Service leavers and veterans are being hampered as they try to move into the road haulage sector
'He's doing the right thing… This started when Theresa May gave into the Irish'
Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Lord Frost is right to warn the EU that Britain is prepared to take matters into their own hands over the Northern Ireland protocol. #cpc21pic.twitter.com/7Eo5QjpiQZ
I have never understood (or rather, only understood in more recent years) why the UK Government pandered to Sinn Fein/IRA in so many ways for so long.
For one thing, from Washington, or Langley, the UK is but part of the European space, with Northern Ireland a far smaller and less important piece of the jigsaw. The USA was facing the Warsaw Pact and Comecon in the 1970s, 1980s, and its priority was to keep Western and part of Central Europe onside, and in NATO. The UK government had to humour the USA “ally”.
Then you had the Irish lobby in the USA, not so influential at the State Department or in the CIA, but very influential in Congress.
The ignorance-level among many American “Irish” was huge. I myself recall that, in early 1990s New Jersey and New York City. The only sensible fellow was the owner of the old and famous McSorley’s Old Ale House, where I occasionally drank a few afternoon beers c.1990. The owner once or twice chatted with me. He fished in Ireland every year, and was not the kind of “Irish” American who thought that the UK was at war with the Republic of Ireland (many others did!).
[McSorley’s: painting of 1912 by Sloan; in 1992 it was much the same]
Reverting to Northern Ireland, there was also the point that the UK government policy was to keep the Catholic/Republican population quiet. So government jobs were created in Belfast and Londonderry/Derry, social security was paid out almost no questions asked (even Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein/IRA chief in Belfast, got the dole!), and public housing was improved greatly.
There was never a serious attempt to suppress rebellion, in the Soviet way.
At the same time, many UK mainstream journalists were sympathetic to the IRA in the early 1970s.
All of the above (except my digression re. McSorley’s pub), eventually led to the peace accords of 1998. A further aspect was the growing demographic strength of the Catholic/Republican community, which comprised about 30% of the population in 1970, but greater in 1998 (and about 40% now).
Afternoon music
[painting by Levitan]
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I just interviewed Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
Discussing the incident of the Insulate Britain protesters blocking a woman in tears trying to get to a hospital – he says he’d do the same.
My dying mum spent 12 hours being cared for in the back of an ambulance outside the hospital she’d been taken to because they were so understaffed & under resourced there were no empty beds available & this lot are chucking money away on a “rainbow badge model”. Wtf!!! https://t.co/xiwft7nijO
There may be a head of political steam building up in England. Not yet enough, but in 2022/2023, maybe. That will give us our chance. If we seize it, then…
Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor feeds an orphaned kitten. (Korean War) Male qualities, men can fight to kill and they can nurture to save. pic.twitter.com/vhvB4bKejD
Ian Robert Millard 