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Is that why, or partly why, we see constant “prepare for emergencies, prepare for black-outs, prepare for food and water-supply disruption” propaganda in the msm, and from government now?

This is all being driven by the Israeli Jews… so, if the USA launches another massive attack on Iran, the Iranian forces should concentrate most of their response on Israel, particularly on central Tel Aviv, the Dimona nuclear complex, and the Ben-Gurion international airport. After that, on the fake mini-states— Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait etc. Collapse them. They are a waste of space.

“Them”. Again. It is (almost) always them…

When “Boris”-idiot and others used to talk about importing “skilled workers”, I assumed —I thought maybe too cynically at the time— that what was meant was “Indians that can work a computer” (as I put it on the blog).

Even I, though, was not cynical enough to think that the “skilled worker” visa designation would or could be perverted to the extent that blacks and browns etc whose only skill is flipping burgers or delivering takeaway curries would be called “skilled workers”, and allowed into the UK on that basis. Mad.

Probably planned, though. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

This country is so ****** now, that only methods consisting partly of a mixture of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Dzerzhinsky are likely to be able to save it, or to salvage a future from the wreckage.

[“Having spent two years attending marches around central London during 2020-22, I can assure you they achieve absolutely nothing.

Nobody will hear about them, if they’re reported at all it will be inaccurate, nothing will change.

Focus on building parallel systems outside of centralised control. New systems of culture, economy and even governance are the way forward.

And don’t expect anyone to do anything for you. Especially not the state.”]

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I happened to see online a recent 7-minute Sky News clip about a place on the front-line between Russian and Kiev-regime military formations. 2,000 out of the original 100,000+ population were still living in the partly-ruined city.

One man stuck there was describing life as lived in that place and said that people were (in the translated words) “eating grass“. That was used in the headline as well.

Well, I could understand some of what he was saying, and the word used was not (in Russian anyway) the word for “grass”, but something called “portulak“. I looked it up. Turns out that the English word is “purslane“:

“Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley)^[3] is a succulent plant in the family Portulacaceae. All parts of the plant are edible raw or cooked... All parts of purslane are edible raw or cooked. The seeds can be eaten raw or used to make flour.^[30]

The plant may be eaten as a leaf vegetable.^[31] William Cobbett noted that it was “eaten by Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing else. Both use it in salad, that is to say, raw”.^[32] It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Mexico.^[5][33] The stems, leaves, and flower buds are all edible raw or cooked.^[34] Purslane may be used fresh as a salad,^[35] stir-fried, or cooked as spinach is, and because of its mucilaginous quality it also is suitable for soups and stews.” [Wikipedia]

Still a terrible situation for those unfortunate civilians, of course, but is it really so hard for Sky News, with all their resources, to get it right?

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Warn them off. If they ignore the warning, sink them.

[“Putin: Western companies were leaving Russia crying.
When some companies were leaving under pressure from Western European governments, our friends from those countries were almost crying. Russia provided Western companies with a large market, and Moscow has many friends in Europe, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.“]

I saw, when I was last in Moscow (2007) that some Russians, working for large Western companies and firms, had hitched their wagons firmly to the Anglo-American horse. When sanctions were applied, those Russians were left out in the cold.

[“Grushko: The EU’s stance on the parameters for resolving the conflict in Ukraine excludes Europe from the negotiation process.

“If you want peace, you must first stop supporting the regime. In fact, the position they have expressed regarding the final parameters for resolving the conflict essentially excludes Europeans from that negotiation process,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.“]

Ah…that rings a bell. Grushko…

Just checked. Yes, and as I was just surmising, that Grushko is the son of Viktor Grushko (1930-2001), the one-time colleague and boss of Oleg Gordievsky, the intelligence officer, spy, and then famous defector of the 1980s. They both served at the same time in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB (now the SVR), and Grushko senior became its Deputy Head, right up to the official disbandment of the KGB in 1991, and transition of the First Chief Directorate into the SVR (External Intelligence Service).

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

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

Ironically, in view of his risky espionage against the KGB, and his famously perilous interrogation and later escape, Gordievsky (1938-2025) outlived Grushko by many years, dying at age 86 as against Grushko’s 71 years. Seems that being a “double agent” is sometimes not as risky as vodka, smoking, and Soviet careerism (presuming —I do not, in fact, know— that Grushko senior indulged in all three).

Incidentally, I was just looking at that “Stalin skyscraper”, the Russian Foreign Ministry building, shown in the tweet; a building now dwarfed by the “capitalist” skyscrapers behind it in the Moscow International Business Center, aka Moscow-City, hardly any of which existed when I was first in Moscow in 1993, or even when I was again in the city in 2007.

I think that, of the cities I have visited, Moscow has changed the most over the years, with the single exception of Doha (Qatar), which in 2026 is a completely different city to the one(s) I visited in both 2001 and 2008.

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