Well, 6/10 this week, and so once again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 7, and 9.
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Within the last 15 minutes, from two sources, I have received information that Boris Johnson is allegedly close to bankruptcy.
An unverified assertion from an unknown and doubtful source who quotes two other supposed and unknown/unverified sources. Conclusion: probably bs, but it would be nice if it were to turn out to be accurate.
Russian planes shoot down Ukrainian ones from a safe distance
ARMED forces of Ukraine cannot match the Russians in the air because the planes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launch their air-to-air missiles without entering the enemy's air defense zone.
Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) has received royal assent, having passed in the Canadian Senate. Trudeau now has absolute governmental control of online censorship. He’s not a liberal. He’s an authoritarian. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.#BillC11pic.twitter.com/Zpw73BiCnd
I have been waiting for several years for just one Canadian to step up (’nuff said…). So far, seems that that one hero does not exist…
The Skyhook retrieval system was used in the 1940s and early 1950s by American and British military to enable an airplane to pick up personnel from the ground without landing. An absolutely hardcore military rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/IX6NHQXkTQ
Important questions. While I myself am totally in favour of the NHS idea of health service (“free at point of use”), in principle, I am even more in favour of a health service that works. Increasingly over the past decade or two, I have been forced to conclude that the NHS does not work, or at least does not work properly.
Reuters reported that the United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil at sea in recent days.
The agency added that Iran seized another oil tanker in response to this US action. pic.twitter.com/BSSfMLAEtK
British intelligence reports that the latest Russian missile attacks were aimed at destroying Ukrainian reserves amassing for a counteroffensive pic.twitter.com/XX7SD3XRYv
Kyiv is moving the date of the counter-offensive to May because the weather conditions are expected to be better then, said the representative of the local government of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov . "Their counteroffensive could also be the last order that Ukrainian…
Translation: “we have a crumbling army that has to use press-gangs to enforce enlistment, we have no suitable people for deployment as officers, we have insufficient armament, and we are running out of ammunition.”
Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to undermine high-rise buildings in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/0QZoPgL8Bh
Prigozhin spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk PMC fighters advanced 100-150 meters. The enemy holds 2.98 km of territory. Wagner stormtroopers lost 94 people today. According to the founder of the PMC, large losses were caused by shell shortage . “Losses should have been… pic.twitter.com/yGqV804Xru
In case of aggression, Belarus will be protected by 1.5 million military men , – State Secretary of the Security Council of the country Minsk did not waste time and was well prepared for possible provocations of the West pic.twitter.com/1wsC7cTYCM
In Kiev, it was proposed to hold early elections for the Ukrainian president The reason for this was the inadequate leadership of the country by the current President Zelensky. “Zelensky cannot solve the tasks of protecting Ukraine, its people, which means that martial law… pic.twitter.com/eevnbx7TLf
In the Western msm, we hear much about the possibility of a palace coup in Russia, but nothing about the arguably greater possibility of an internal putsch in Ukraine, against Zelensky and his cabal.
"Russia is on the brink of catastrophe." Prigozhin issued an ultimatum to Shoigu and threatened Putin with military mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the PMC "Wagner", wrote a letter to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, demanding to provide ammunition. Prigozhin gave an ultimatum… pic.twitter.com/QDdtj5wVNy
The Wagner Group has done most of the heavy fighting so far. How can it be left without ammunition?
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue. pic.twitter.com/1QHfjGW6Ok
Anti-Semitic cartoon by @guardian showing Richard Sharp (who is Jewish) leaving the BBC. Absolutely vile and wouldn’t be out of place in 1930s Germany. Why do you keep doing this? pic.twitter.com/AqhyPCXeEE
— Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 (@BellaWallerstei) April 29, 2023
Ha ha” “They” are all screaming now…the (((usual))) “claque” in operation, yet again.
The disingenuous "41p a portion" recipes, so enjoyed by privileged Guardian readers, need to stop. Reality is *much more expensive* both in terms of ingredients & cooking costs. This is no different to "30p Lee" but is presented as helpful & even as anti poverty. #TheBigHelpOutpic.twitter.com/QxcAmWAMT5
The voting system is rigged, designed to produce seemingly “fair” or “balanced” results overall (between 2-3 approved parties), but in fact not reflecting the true views of the electorate:
See also:
The biggest single voter movement was from Labour to non-voting.
I still don't understand why someone whose only previous experience is money-making – and not arts, or culture, or broadcasting – would think he was in any way suitable to head up the UK's most significant cultural institution.
“A fascinating chart highlights how the world is in the midst of a reproduction crisis — as developed countries fall out of love with having children.
In 2020, the global average fertility rate – the average number of children born to each woman – was 2.3, compared to 4.7 in 1970 — a staggering 51 percent drop over a half-century. Swathes of Europe and North America are recording fewer than a two births per woman average.
Meanwhile, as fertility rates shrink in much of the world, they continues to grow in Africa. Thirty-one of the top 32 countries with the highest fertility rates are on the continent, with Niger in the first spot with a rate of 6.9 children per woman.“
[Daily Mail]
“...some commentators – including Elon Musk – fear declining fertility rates could lead to a stagnant population, destroying many nations’ economies and overwhelming public support systems.”
“Their research found little correlation across the world, and in the US, between available childcare subsidies from the government and changes in fertility.
Income has not proven to be a factor either – with the decline noticeable in women across socioeconomic and educational brackets.“
[Daily Mail]
Would be interesting to see whether, in the USA (as in the world as a whole), the non-white and especially the “African” or Negroid population of the USA is breeding faster than the white European-origined population. My guess, or educated guess, would be that that is so.
A serious problem. The proportion of white ethnic Europeans (inc. those of European origin outside Europe) is steadily declining; even now it is only a couple of percent of the world’s population, yet only that small proportion can provide the basis for further human evolution.
Having said that, and in the old saying, “if voting changed anything, it would not be available“. Which is usually true, but not always, thinking of the 1932 and 1933 votes in Weimar Germany that brought the NSDAP to power.
The power of Fate can do anything. “With God, all things are possible“.
If you're currently in hospital, please be aware that junior doctors are on strike again today. There will however be an NHS Equality & Diversity manager on hand, if you want to have an open but respectful conversation about colonial reparations.
Britain, where most things no longer work properly, or at all.
This really does sum up the psychopathy. "Act like you've got it"?? I don't even know where to start to break this down. One would have to subscribe to severe Munchausen syndrome in order to buy into this. Why not, in lieu of this, act like you have an immune system instead? https://t.co/7dAMiHY41z
…and while you are about it, “believe” —or pretend to believe— that a male person can become a sort-of female person via some enterprising surgery and a change of costume; oh… and —of course— “believe” that the all races and national groups are basically the same, none more intelligent, more compassionate, or more capable than any other.
It is that very willingness to bend the truth, even in matters which are all but unarguable, that convinces me that Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer would make a terrible Prime Minister, even when compared to the other clowns of the past two decades.
‘As biology enters a golden age…the social sciences have taken a vastly different direction. Many are now openly hostile to findings outside their narrow field, walling off their respective disciplines from biological knowledge.”https://t.co/bKHDDJ3tEN
Not for nothing did the German National Socialist government publish a poster with the caption saying “National Socialism, the expression of our biological knowledge“. National Socialism was a movement founded primarily upon historical and scientific truth, which was one reason why the NSDAP government of the 1930s founded and funded SS-Ahnenerbe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe].
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Mikhail Choknadiy, an activist from Transcarpathia, who is currently fighting in the Bakhmut area, posted a video on his Facebook page in which he stated that they had been sent unprepared reinforcements who were not even trained in shooting. Ukrainians who fell under Bakhmut… pic.twitter.com/ke0LYlveam
Ukraine is a shambolic, corrupt mess of a “failed state”, scarcely a state at all, and ruled by what amounts to a Jew-Zionist dictatorship.
Ukraine denies its troops are surrounded in Bakhmut after Russia claimed it had cut off last supply route – as terrifying video shows thermite bombs raining down over city https://t.co/eZqxARmqbJ
Ukrainian troops have been forced to withdraw from some parts of Bakhmut in the face of a renewed Russian assault on the ruined battlefield city, Britain said on Friday, with Moscow pressing to achieve a victory before Ukraine's expected counteroffensive. https://t.co/xku2vvsT1V
The Zelensky cabal in Kiev will rely on their embedded fortification of the capital, and their strategy (such as it is) will be to hunker down there, while calling on NATO to get involved even more directly. I would not rule out the use of “false flag” attacks on Poland, aimed at bringing Poland into the war. If that were to happen and if, then, the Russian side were to respond, both Zelensky and the Polish government would claim that Clause 5 of the NATO Treaty had been thereby triggered, “obliging” all NATO member-states (most importantly the USA, but also UK, Germany, France etc) to enter the war on the Polish (and therefore Kiev-regime) side.
That might trigger a full-scale nuclear war in Europe, and probably beyond.
Russia has said it was pushing to take the western districts of the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut, as sources said Ukraine was still sending in fresh troopshttps://t.co/1U6sa6omCM
Now that Russia is winning, or at least not losing, the EU calls for peace…(of a sort).
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Ukrainian forces were forced to withdraw from some parts of the city of Bakhmut as Russia launched a 're-energized' assault, according to the British military https://t.co/w4GdQrgFe9pic.twitter.com/XwPpyHV2lJ
French President Emmanuel Macron's flagship pension reform, which raises the retirement age to 64, received the Constitutional Council's green light, prompting outcry from people outside Paris' City Hall https://t.co/ItTioUSSANpic.twitter.com/79Z5VLVqJm
Scientists in New Mexico are giving dead birds a new life with an unconventional approach to wildlife research — converting them into drones pic.twitter.com/msHbFYF2W7
One Ukrainian fox escaped the Kiev-regime press-gang hounds.
During the retreat to the western quarters from the center of Artemovsk, the Ukrainian security forces blew up a number of multi-storey buildings and capital buildings, set some on fire to slow down the advance of the Wagner group pic.twitter.com/P4zNvi7Yzo
I saw yesterday a tweet or other comment claiming that, sometime recently, a Russian fighter jet pilot was given clearance to fire a missile at a British plane. He did fire, but his system failed to work. Just as well.
I have heard of a few other not unalike occurrences, incidents that make me wonder whether beings of a higher evolutionary state than humans are intervening to prevent nuclear conflict. Let us hope so.
“Now, a leaked trove of US intelligence documents has given us the clearest answer to date. It is not good news for Kyiv, and it could be about to get a whole lot worse.
Overall, Russia has lost more men and more firepower than the Ukrainians, the documents show, but its losses are nowhere near as devastating as many in the West had been led to believe – with less than two Russian casualties for every one Ukrainian.
…ammunition for Ukraine’s Soviet-era air defences, which make up 90 per cent of its anti-air defences when you take low-altitude weapons like Stingers out of the equation, is perilously low.
Rockets for its BUK launchers were due to run out on March 31, while its S-300 systems only had enough to last until early May.
If those rockets do run out, the documents warn Ukraine will not only struggle to protect its cities but also its troops as it masses them for the expected counter-attack.
With Western stocks of ammunition and armour all-but exhausted, it is unlikely Ukraine’s allies will be able to build another army any time soon – added to which, the death toll may mean President Zelensky is running low on troops.“
[Daily Mail].
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Footage from Bakhmut/Artyomovsk from Russian paratroopers supporting Wagner's assault units with artillery fire. A group of APU officers wanted to hide in the entrance of a high-rise building. But after them, a large caliber began to enter the entrance. pic.twitter.com/g3F2CGCULe
From what I can see (on the msm but also online, social media etc), the Kiev regime is running out of troops, recruits, and maybe —despite frenzied NWO resupply— arms and ammunition.
The gender woo-woo cult is like a medieval religion. They'd put Galileo on trial if he dared to say there are biological differences between males and females. https://t.co/Atg2wbj6FC
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) April 13, 2023
Interesting and well worth reading. I myself am, however, more concerned about the still-increasing Jew-Zionist power and influence in the UK, which includes the corruption and suborning of officials of the police and Crown Prosecution Service [CPS], of MPs and ministers etc, as well as their takeover of the mass media.
Two Israeli soldiers vandalized a car used by a Palestinian couple to transport their disabled daughterhttps://t.co/fkcwes25Vq
Lord Bethel is very unlucky. No one can find the notes of his meeting about the £600 million contract given to Randox and he lost his phone so all his WhatsApp messages got lost. So unlucky. pic.twitter.com/Ty6IwiLDJw
“Police investigating an alleged hate crime over the display of golliwogs in an Essex pub are to examine online messages by the pub’s landlord in which he apparently joked about Mississippi lynchings alongside an image of the racist dolls.
Essex police confiscated the golliwogs last week after receiving a complaint about an alleged crime.
The force has now confirmed that detectives conducting the investigation are aware of Ryley’s Facebook posts. It is understood the posts are being reviewed as part of the investigation.
Earlier this week, a source close to Suella Braverman suggested Essex police had been reprimanded by the home secretary. The police force denied this.
Sunder Katwala, the director of the integration thinktank British Future, said: “It is important that police can do their job. These Facebook posts are important…”
[Guardian]
Are there actually any British people in or around this absurd misgovernment of Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak?
Apart from that aspect, it must be comforting to the people of Essex that the Essex Police have time to waste on “investigations” about golliwogs, arising from complaints by troublemaking organizations. After all, it is not as if Essex has any real crime occurring within its boundaries…
Homeschooling is the only way in modern Britain, and the USA (etc). So far, contrary to what many think, it is perfectly lawful in the UK: see https://www.gov.uk/home-education.
Great article by a teacher who behaved exactly how all teachers should have behaved and so was inevitably attacked.
Hi @Schwarzenegger countless lives ruined by government tyranny and coerced injections because “screw your freedom.” An apology won’t exactly cut it. Action is required. Let me know when you want to donate to @React19org and help those injured by the shot you pushed on the public pic.twitter.com/fGLqR7FGUl
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) April 8, 2023
Well, if you will give political or scientific credibility to a careerist bodybuilder/actor…
2. Zelensky wanted to bomb Rostov, but Zaluzhny was against it…. on attacking an unspecified Russian base in Rostov in late February. 3. The Russian army is taking steps to combat Ukrainian-made Western-made main battle tanks that will appear on the battlefield in April
They are protecting the flanks of our assault squads advancing towards the western outskirts of the city. At the same time, the VDV are blocking, i.e. – preventing the transfer of Ukrainian reserves to the city, as well as the possibility of withdrawing enemy units from Bakhmut."
“A pub landlady today defied authorities and put more of her golliwog collection back on display just days after 20 of them were seized by police as part of an investigation that she and her husband had committed a hate crime.
Benice Ryley proudly placed five of the controversial dolls behind the bar of The White Hart pub in Grays, Essex, which she has run for the past 17 years with her husband Chris.
Read that article. The Essex Police clowns are still claiming that the golliwogs they seized are “part of an investigation” into a so-called “hate crime“, which is complete nonsense. It is not unlawful to own or display a golliwog.
One of the alarming aspects of contemporary Britain is the degree to which the police are (wilfully?) unaware of the limits to their power and, indeed, jurisdiction.
“Today’s revelation that suspected terrorists have entered Britain posing as small boat migrants brings a whole new context to the Channel crisis.
It was already known that hundreds of criminals had been identified among arrivals from France – raising huge questions about Britain’s porous border and the Government’s ability to protect its citizens.
Now we know that the problem is far, far worse.
The 19 terror suspects who camouflaged themselves as would-be refugees to enter the UK are known to be affiliated with some of the most murderous groups in the world, including Islamic State and the Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab.
The security services were already under pressure keeping tabs on thousands of individuals who pose an active threat in the UK.”
“Ukraine’s air defence could crumble ‘within weeks’, according to leaked US intelligence documents.
The New York Times reported that newly leaked Pentagon documents and US officials suggest that a huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war.
According to one leaked document, missile stocks for Soviet-era S-300 and Buk air defence systems, which constitute 89 per cent of Ukraine’s protection against most fighter aircraft and some bombers, could be fully depleted by May 3 and mid-April.
One leaked document reportedly assessed that Ukrainian air defences designed to protect troops on the front line will be “completely reduced” by May 23.”
[Daily Telegraph]
There it is. The air defences of the Kiev regime may have “crumbled” and will be “fully depleted” and “completely reduced” within 1-5 weeks from now.
At the same time, the Kiev-regime infantry still living is suffering poor morale and huge losses.
The conclusion must be that Russia can press its advantage in the warmer weather expected soon.
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Russian troops are simply razing to the ground the fortified area in the west of Bakhmut, created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in high-rise buildings, heavy casualties pic.twitter.com/65Zc9KbDEH
A brief conclusive summary of the Ukraine war by Scot Ritter: "Russia has broken the back of the Ukrainian military.. the battle of Bakhmut is over, so too is the chance of Ukraine coming out of this war with any semblance of victory." pic.twitter.com/KT5u4jYm1X
Zelensky will have to stop pretending to be a great (or any) statesman and/or great (or any) military leader, and go back to clowning on TV comedy shows. Either that, or retreat to his USD $40M villa in Florida.
Putting up the Russian flag east of Bakhmut, now that the Ukrainians aren't just going to try to shell it out of spite.
Though I wouldn't mind seeing them try. Its a waste of their dwindling shell supplies. pic.twitter.com/yhCY6xrEhd
“I don’t know if Ukraine will even exist as a nation state by the end of 2023,” McGregor said. Douglas McGregor, a retired US Army colonel and former White House adviser, expressed uncertainty about the existence of a country called Ukraine on Stephen Gardner's YouTube channel.… pic.twitter.com/w3pvsLBxc9
Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" continue fighting for quarters in the central part of Artemovsk, pushing the enemy to the western outskirts – Russian Defense Ministry
Western-made armored vehicles supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to be successfully disposed of by Wagners in Bakhmut pic.twitter.com/JbaqDfDp1g
NYT: Leaked US Documents Reveal Ukraine's Plans to Move Elite Troops to Bakhmut According to US intelligence, the situation in Bakhmut is "catastrophic" for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qeMdBrDTHE
We invaded Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and each time we survived the consequences of the war because we had the global monetary reserve currency. Today's war with Russia and China is not like those wars" … Details about the future of the dollar in the video pic.twitter.com/VvEcXqsKuW
The above analysis is very weak re. Weimar hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic did not collapse because of hyperinflation.
The Weimar hyperinflation period was 1921-1923, but mainly summer 1922 to November 1923. In other words, hyperinflation really only existed for about 18 months.
The hyperinflation did not “collapse” the Weimar Republic, though it did destroy the savings of those who had savings, thus making the whole political situation in Germany, already unstable, more unstable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic. It did rob the Weimar Republic of authority, to be sure. People distrusted it.
The final collapse of the Weimar Republic, which stabilized to some extent in the mid/late 1920s, came about more because of the Depression, which was born outside Germany, in the USA.
Hitler and the NSDAP did not attain full State power until 1933, a decade after the end of the hyperinflationary period.
I was just looking at the memoirs written (actually, ghost-written) by some “senior” (so-called) politicians. Liz Truss’s Out of the Blue, which came out too late, after she had already been deposed, is at present selling about 200 new copies monthly on Amazon. Not very impressive, but better than Andrea Leadsom’s effort, Snakes and Ladders, which is managing a mere 20 per month.
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Heard about this on the radio this morning. Apparently one of those involved is a Ukrainian refugee, who is back there over the Easter break, for a holiday. Who leaves a war zone as a refugee and goes back as a holiday maker while the war is ongoing?
“A newly-leaked top-secret Pentagon document reveals American planners doubt Ukraine’s ability to launch an effective counteroffensive against Russian invaders this spring.
Outlining the developments of the war since February, the document picks up on ‘force generation and sustainment shortfalls’, predicting Ukrainian forces will fail…“
Morris dancers perform with blacked faces despite bans from ancient tradition's governing body https://t.co/zDhfhOCpNP England is a Free Country, so well done to all the Morris Dancers with Blacked Faces for standing up to all the Woke Madness🏴
We are not just facing opposing “ideas” or “policies”, and are not just speaking up for what is right, and/or as a contrary social or political bloc. We are facing new forms of Evil in much of the world, especially the advanced “Western” world. Evil must, eventually, be vanquished directly. That time will come. A titanic battle for race, culture, and civilization.
Looks like San Francisco is even more of a jungle now than was portrayed in The Streets of San Francisco.
I have never been there, though I knew a few people who did visit, and who liked it, but that was then… 1970s and 1980s.
[Russian Hill, San Francisco]
“So far this year there have been 39 murders in the city. The San Francisco Police Department is currently experiencing a shortage of 541 officers.
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was among a host of tech leaders hitting out at the lawlessness in the wake of Lee’s slaying, writing on Twitter: ‘Many people I know have been severely assaulted.
‘Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.’
Locals told DailyMail.com they blamed the ‘soft-on-crime’ progressive policies brought in by the likes of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was tossed from office in a recall election last year.
‘It’s too liberal. Too much. And we’re paying for it,’ said one. ‘Repeat offenders are back out on the streets in a heartbeat and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re scared.’
After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, had been members of the Weather Underground.[13] Boudin reports that he did not learn to read until age nine.[14] Kathy Boudin was released under parole supervision in 2003.[15][16] Gilbert was released in 2021.[17]
Incidentally, “Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernardine Ohrnstein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, and grew up in Whitefish Bay, an upper-middle-class suburb of Milwaukee.[1] Her father, Bernard D. Ohrnstein, changed the family surname to Dohrn (his middle initial plus the first letters of his last name) when Bernardine was in high school.[2]
Her father was Jewish, although the name change was intended to obscure that.”
[Wikipedia].
Is London not going the same way as San Francisco?
For example, my beautiful Bertie badly needs to see a Cardiologist about his severe heart murmur, and at least one operation to help him breathe because of his genetic condition.
He and the other last-chance cats here have no one else to turn to, and I'm desperate to help them pic.twitter.com/o8oJaqomf0
I was worried this would happen. Take in all the pets you can. Donate what you can. Give pet food to food banks. Pets literally save lives, mine keep me grounded in ways I can’t describe. In the dark, I think “I can’t leave them”. We need pets & they need us. https://t.co/9Qmnl1fKcB
Nah, this is required by the West's commitment to total equality of the sexes
Why are there MMA fights with women, anyway?
Look at the reasons for/justifications of women's professional combat sports being celebrated, let alone legal, and you'll see the basis of transgenderism https://t.co/xL2xfEVZ5l
— MikeOfTheSouthWest (@MikeOfTheSouthW) April 4, 2023
It's barbaric on the level of cockfighting, but worse because they're humans. The female fights are usually drawn out, bloody affairs as neither party has the strength to KO the other. Can't believe people watch it. https://t.co/jLtqIKEyYC
Zelensky, the Jew dictator in Kiev, is blowing out hot air rather than a realistic possibility. There is no prospect of Ukrainian/Kiev regime forces reaching the borders of the Crimean Peninsula.
Russia seizes west bank of Bakhmutka River, endangering key Ukraine supply route, in its push to regain control of devastated eastern city of Bakhmut – British defence ministry
Yet no less than 458 utter mugs, as of today, are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of several thousand pounds every single month via Patreon. Why that should be, I have no idea, though quite a few people tweeting in her favour (the ones who are not “Jack Monroe” herself using “sock accounts”) seem either not terribly intelligent, or seem to be mentally…er…odd.
Without the White Race beautiful astonishing Architecture wouldn't exist! To be honest nothing like in this picture would exist if Our White Race didn't exist. 🤍❄️ pic.twitter.com/j8UF1JQvV0
— MAKE EUROPA SNOW 🤍❄️ (@makeeuropasnow) April 6, 2023
Looking beyond the exact pictures shown, certainly largely true of the past couple of thousand years; however, equally obviously, looking at the central caption, there are exceptions in various parts of the world, mainly in east and south Asia.
All the same, true overall, as well as re. the pictures shown.
“Just before my father died he told me a story of his time in france serving with A squadren 1st sas. The same story was told to me after his death by one of his old mates who was with him at the time. Their job in france was to sabotage transport, communications, weapons. etc. in the day time they would live in the forests. Making their way back from a hard night blowing things up, they came across a group of french resistance soldiers who had captured a young German soldier. The German was very frightened, he begged the sas to take him with them as he said the french were going to make him dig his own grave and shoot him. One of the sas men said joking, lucky they don’t shoot you then make you dig your grave. The French weren’t very happy when the sas took him but they did. They told him that if he tried to escape the French would kill him. Every night the sas would go out and do their job and when they got back the German would have a brew waiting,as he was happy to be alive. When they flew back home they took the German with them. They had done their job and saved the life of a young German soldier. My dad’s friend also told me that the German soldier had attended an sas reunion many years later. This breed of soldier is fast dying out. I hope these stories will live on lest we forget them.”
[BBC website; republished here as originally written].
Stopping the invaders from invading would require firm political leadership, powerful armed forces and the willingness to use them, and both political and naval/military leaders who really love England and are going to fight to stop it being trashed further. None of that exists at present.
In fact, looking at this country now, it is almost a hollow space, without real content. Look at any major aspect— police, MPs and fake “peers”, legal system, msm, NHS.
LOL so the Ukies just lost Bakhmut and don’t have much of an economy left. Infrastructure and power are seriously compromised while credit ratings have them on the brink of default. And WEF puppet Zelenskyy refuses to talk about peace with Russia without Crimea. Comedian indeed. https://t.co/s7U1zoxLlG
In 1989, when the Soviet crew of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race contender, Fazisi, were in the yachting hub of Hamble (Hampshire), I was also there for a couple of days. I was, with my then girlfriend, an Anglo-Russian (the Russian part being from pre-revolutionary White Russian origins), visiting my parents, who lived in Hamble at that time. In fact, they lived in a small private road, Crowsport, built upon in the 1920s, and only a stone’s throw from the marina where the Soviet yacht was being made ready. You could see the tops of the masts of the yachts in the marina from their house.
Having heard about the Soviet yacht (this was about 2 years before the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991), we decided to walk down to see the yacht and maybe say hello to its crew.
The yacht was there, crew aboard, and we started talking to one of the sailors, a handsome blond giant who was very taken with my girlfriend and, in a polite way, said at the end that we (it sounded more like she —not sure that I was included!) would be welcome to visit any time (she didn’t, though).
The crew spoke Russian language only, apparently.
I remember that the blond sailor said that he was from “Novgorod by Moscow“, more or less a suburb, to distinguish it from the large and historic town halfway between Moscow and the then Leningrad.
We were briefly introduced to the captain, who was carrying a rope, and who seemed stressed. He was going ashore, presumably to the marina office or repair sheds. He nodded to us, maybe shook hands (I do not recall), and trudged away.
The article above, written in 2008, mentions “tragedy” during the race, but does not mention the fact that the captain of the Fazisi committed suicide on the journey round the world, hanging himself in a wood in Uruguay: see https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-sp-245-story.html.
In the end, the Fazisi, which had been delivered to Heathrow in one main piece (minus masts) in an Aeroflot cargo plane, the largest in the world, then on a road transporter, did not win the ocean race but still put in a creditable performance, including a one-day run of 386 miles which may have been a world record for a monohull.
That was a more hopeful time for Russia and the world. Sovietism had collapsed in all but name, all the chatter was about Russia becoming partner to the West, rather than enemy, and no-one was thinking about nuclear war any more.
This was before the horde of Western carpetbaggers hit Russia in the 1990s, and before the pack of Jew “oligarchs” got their claws into Russia’s money and natural resources during the Yeltsin years.
It was also before it became publicly known, in the 1990s, that the USA had a “secret” game plan to keep Russia down, and the USA as “world’s only superpower”.
Another, and even less-likely, scenario in 1989 was that Ukraine would break away from Russia, and then much later be at war with it. The captain of the Fazisi was himself of Ukrainian origin, judging by his name (Gryshenko).
Russia has advanced further inside Bakhmut in recent days, capturing areas along the west bank of the river with Ukrainian troops perhaps pulling back as far as west of the railway pic.twitter.com/Ioj5dMM40s
The paved T-506 Highway Ground Line of Communication into Bakhmut via Khromove remains open and clear – there is one new van that is disabled from the last video
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦According to sources, Russian forces have joined Wagner in Bakhmut street fighting. Not just VDV Paratroopers but also SOF units.
No clear visual proof of this has come out. The Russian troops don't carry their phones with them to the front.
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Soledar fell because the VDV and Russian SOF was able to keep Ukrainian forces from regrouping and captured and held the high ground. Wagner is not working alone contrary to popular belief.
@antinatocoalition
— Тоби айоделе -Tboy🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@TobiAyodele) April 5, 2023
Map of situation in Bakhmut City from MiltaryMaps….yellow line is the extent of Russian advance according to latest field reports pic.twitter.com/PnTiTChUdy
For once, I can agree with at least some of what Owen Jones has written. Not his pro-“diversity”, pro-immigration stuff, though. Those and other factors have to be included in the reasons why western societies are decaying, declining, and not unlikely to collapse.
“Musicians” seems to be the self-designation of Wagner Group contract soldiers, as I noted recently on the blog. Presumably a reference to Richard Wagner.
How shallow. Immigration is a key factor in dragging down wages, and overwhelming the NHS and other services. It is not a discrete or a side issue unconnected to the others.
The Tories are also heavily distrusted on immigration among key target voting groups (between -53 and -76)
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time“… [Abraham Lincoln].
As a voter, you can vote for the misnamed “Conservative” Party, which at times has talked a semi-good game on immigration but done little or nothing to fulfil the big talk talked, or you can vote equally-misnamed “Labour”, which does not even bother to pretend that it would slow (let alone stop, or reverse) mass immigration, but weasels about “managing” it better, meaning automatically allowing most applicants for asylum or visas of various kinds to enter the UK.
A very shocking case, and unusual in the ethnic background of the defendants. Still, it would not be right to turn a blind eye just because most of the defendants appear to have been white.
Not quite the usual fact matrix as in the Asian/Pakistani cases, in fact. As bad, though.
Same reason the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, and everywhere else haven't. You have a large enough brainwashed leftist domestic population who holds power and will use it to terrorize anyone who doesn't tow the line – those who change their minds is too gradual/too late.
"a substantial section of whites have become Black, a particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture. along with the wholly false Jamaican patois that has been intruded in England. This is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country" pic.twitter.com/yb7PsNJepc
Canada's Envoy to the UN @BobRae48's justification of terrorist act killing Russian war reporter Vladen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) is both disgusting & shocking.
Does this mean Canada supports terrorism? If Amb Bob keeps his job, then apparently that is exactly the case.#cdnpolipic.twitter.com/313V12935h
Well, another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5, 9, and 10, and could not remember the answer to question 2.
Of course, the Brighton bombing was a terrible action. Having said that, merely one of thousands of British or American bombing raids over Germany in the 1941-1945 period would have caused a hundred or a thousand times the amount of hurt, death, and damage. The same would be true of more recent bombings, in Iraq etc.
Readers of this blog will be aware that I am no admirer of Trump, who when President was basically a squawking parrot guarded by a troop of Jews.
Likewise, I despise the fact that, when in his last weeks in office, Trump sat back and did nothing about the fact that thousands of social-national Americans are in Federal prisons. They could all have been pardoned by Trump. They were just left to rot.
As to Trump’s present situation, and speaking, of course, hypothetically, were I in his position I would rally my supporters with a call to arms. Then follow through. I doubt whether Trump will do anything like that, though. He is all hot air.
It is clear that the American political system is at least as broken as that of the UK, and that sinister forces have taken over the academic/educational sector, as well as the msm. Why play by the rules any more? Face reality. There is a need for a second American revolution, on several levels.
So speaketh Margaret Jay, only herself in the House of Lords because of her connections, and because her father was once Prime Minister. I suppose most people who remember her do so because of the way in which she embarrassed the country by having an affair with a Jew journalist while her nepotistically-appointed husband, Peter Jay, was H.M. Ambassador to Washington c.1979. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jay,_Baroness_Jay_of_Paddington#Personal_life.
The ingratitude of these repulsive little zealots for the NW European settlers who founded this country shows what an utter failure civic nationalism is. https://t.co/aBD2cWdQty
— 𝙻𝚊 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚎 🇺🇸 (@la_chatte_verte) April 1, 2023
I pray to God the right wing backlash to current events is extreme and unreasonable
— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) April 1, 2023
As matters stand, there is no “Parliamentary road”.
Technically, Concorde was a great achievement, but I always had a problem with it ideologically: the mass of taxpayers taxed so that a tiny number of very wealthy persons could cross the Atlantic in a few hours. Concorde was subsidized twice over— in its research and development costs, and in its operational costs (losses). The mass of the British people could not dream of ever availing themselves of Concorde’s luxury —if cramped— travel.
Because Jack Monroe earnt so much and became so famous from grifting, her downfall must be so complete, permanent and discouraging that nobody must be willing to emulate or enable her ever again and she must be unwilling to start up again. #CancelJackMonroe
REAL LIFE: Grifted or Gifted? Don’t let Yourself get Taken in by Serial Scammers (like #jackmonroe, those grifting #tate brothers and most people discussed on TL)– It's More Fun In Your 30s https://t.co/RZBoxzRYQa
— Kelly Jackson | It’s More Fun In Your 30s (@Kelly_Jackson88) April 1, 2023
Reminder: Today is the day when Scammers like Jack Monroe get their monthly Patreon thousands despite never providing promised rewards and continuing to lie about it and the other BS work it claims it supports like the non-existent VBI. She is a liar and thief.
I notice, though, that the number of utter mugs sending “Jack Monroe” money via Patreon has now again started to decline, having plateaued for a couple of months.
Last year, after Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson commended the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”, the Patreon mug-donors numbered nearly 900 (each sending the “grifter”/fraudster between £3.50 and £44 a month, incredibly). That declined to below 500 from August-September 2022, but seemed stuck at around 480. It has now declined further to 460, as of today’s date. That’s still between £1,610 and £20,240 per month, though.
So many great ones — Russ in Cheshire probably the funniest. Supertanskiii up there too. Jolyon! Rachael from Swindon the most irritating. Jack Monroe the most how have you hoodwinked all the GOOD PEOPLE. https://t.co/QaxRzi9kWJ
Will any bookies give me good odds on Jack Monroe bootstrapcook reluctantly paying the ever escalating CCJ costs before she's forced to reveal her finances under oath? 🤣🤣
It's another CCJ that'll further hamper her abilities & make life harder, plus the person in question has applied to the court to force Jack Monroe to make finances public, which should kill off her faux poverty pleas once & for all & hopefully lead to full cancellation.
The unholy collaboration between the UN and the World Economic Forum is moving to control the production of food globally and – of far more concern – regulate practices which are set to create a severe artificial shortage also known as a famine.https://t.co/Ysb3hFy50c
Society has been profoundly undermined by the muppets in command. It begs some big questions about what, if anything, any of us owes this universal shit show.
Prolonged heavy casualties in skirmishes in places like Bakhmut are one of the reasons why the Ukrainian army is in need of more manpower. Another reason is that the Ukrainian military needs more troops to operate the flow of weapons provided by Western countries. pic.twitter.com/kPkEJtKkj0
Jacob Rees-Mogg: 'Britain has seen an unprecedented level of un-skilled and low-skilled migration over the last few decades. Net migration was at half a million last year. Yet, on our current trajectory, our country is set to be poorer than Poland per person by the year 2030!' pic.twitter.com/lz6PFgMvSX
Other European countries have their own problems, but the UK is just sick now; very sick, in fact. Nothing works properly, there is not merely “immigration” but “migration invasion”, there is no real law and order at the lower levels, and services are collapsing: police, NHS, elderly social care, planning, housing, education, you name it.
🚨 On Dan Wootton Tonight from 9pm, we're asking…
With migrants reportedly paying people smugglers an eye watering £7,000 for a cross-Channel trip in their own speedboat, are economic migrants gaming our lenient asylum system?
Kiev is increasing its troop presence near the city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine) in the Donetsk People’s Republic, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Lugansk People’s Republic’s People’s Militia Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/WiJi5u19Grpic.twitter.com/hXWVN8biwx
Small boats: France to get more money, says James Cleverly. France has had £250mil so far? For what? The french still won’t take back any of the illegals.. and I think they never will… https://t.co/kLfFkODnwD
For me, the problem with Gary Lineker is not merely that he is an ignorant individual who (thanks to his money, his BBC job, and his army of pig-ignorant Twitter “followers”) can pose as someone knowledgeable, or even wise, and of course “faux-“caring” (his money, of course, insulates him from having to live with the consequences of the importation of millions of backward hostiles and millstones-round-neck), but equally that the BBC pays this idiot as much as £2 million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Why? Why? The whole thing is just ridiculous.
Take away the BBC’s ricebowl.
70% of Met police officers have not arrested anybody in twelve months. #ToughOnCrime
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 10, 2023
The vaccines weren't brought in for Covid. Covid was brought in for the vaccines.
When people FINALLY realize this, we might just get somewhere.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 10, 2023
For two years you cowered in fear, wearing your mask every time you left the house, you lost out on precious time with loved ones, your children lost out on years of education, you took 3 poison jabs, and for what?
I did none of those things, yet here I am.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 10, 2023
Exactly. I stand on exactly the same ground— the evolution of consciousness, and eventual creation of a “super-race”, a race above all present races, including our own white Northern European race group or sub-group.
You only have to look on Twitter to see that most of the obsessive and malicious “reporting” and complaining, and whining, and demanding, is done by Jews (Zionists), aided in a minor way by a few so-called “antifascists”, who are merely “useful idiots” of the said Jew-Zionists.
'Are we living in North Korea now, where people can't open their mouths?' asks this @TomSwarbrick1 caller, after Gary Lineker was asked to 'step back' following his tweet. pic.twitter.com/nwjh0F8YV5
Where were those “free speech” people when Jez Turner of London Forum was imprisoned for making a speech in Whitehall urging the removal of Jews from the UK? (I had better not add a further comment, in our “free country”!)…
Where were those people, who apparently want (more) free speech for ignorant loudmouth Gary Lineker, when Alison Chabloz was repeatedly arrested, prosecuted and eventually imprisoned for the “crime” of merely having posted some humorously “antisemitic” cartoons and songs on the Internet?
Where were the same people when I myself was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 for having tweeted five (the Jews had complained about hundreds!) entirely correct and true tweets about (mainly) Jews, and about Michael Gove etc?
The Jewish lobby also had my Twitter account taken down in 2018, and have, on several occasions, tried to have me arrested and prosecuted via entirely malicious complaints to the police (who may usually be useless at their proper job but are only too keen to play the “poundland KGB”).
⚡️Nuland: US supports Ukraine striking targets in Crimea.
"Russia has turned Crimea into a massive military installation…those are legitimate targets, Ukraine is hitting them, and we are supporting that," said U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
The latest outburst of the Jewess Nuland. I can only assume that (((certain))) elements in the American established order are OK with gambling that New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, Miami, Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Seattle etc may be wiped out by nuclear attack.
The European peoples of today —as a collective— though far more advanced than the collective of blacks, browns etc, are only the foundation for a later super-race. It is that future for which we strive, and we seek to protect our present white Northern Europeans from admixture not for themselves alone but also, and primarily, for that future when a far more advanced “post-European” race will come into being.
I wish that something would be done about disgraceful “controlled opposition” puppets such as Tom Harwood. They do more harm to the British people than any ridiculous pseudo-socialist “antifa” or similar types.
They pay their executives a fortune they do not invest any money in infrastructure whatsoever and they flush raw sewage into rivers and seas. Yet they have the nerve to lecture us on the dangers of burst pipes and the importance of the environment while increasing prices.
I have been predicting the overall situation in this country for year. Not just water companies. Trains. Roads. Political sleaze. Local government corruption and maladministration. NHS maladministration. Continuing mass immigration and migration-invasion. Energy crises and huge retail consumer rip-offs. Sliding educational standards. A legal and justice system that scarcely functions any more. More…
If all of the above (and more) were to happen overnight, the somnolent British public might react angrily, but because the slide to chaos and evil is happening gradually, and has been for years, the public still half-believe in the rigged binary political system (or binary, plus joke “protest”-vote LibDems system).
How is yoghurt mould? Please enlighten me? Are you confusing fungi, with bacteria? Cos if you are, please stop writing ANYTHING about food.
— The turtles are fallen and the rain stands still▼ (@fritzdrybeam) February 13, 2023
This is REALLY dangerous advice, if you see ANY mold in a yoghurt it should be thrown away not eaten. Please do not follow Jacks advice on this particular issue bin the yoghurt.
I do not know much about him (and the Wikipedia entry is bitty) but I recall the name and his face (both seen in newspaper bylines etc).
Millar was only 18 months older than me, and died a few weeks before his 68th birthday. A reminder that I must do what I can for the world in the years left to me.
Just Stop Oil protesters told by judge they should feel PROUD as he refuses to send convicts to prison – 'It has been a pleasure dealing with you'. Who the hell is this?? https://t.co/1LWwilCsAY
The “judge” (a District Judge, i.e. what used to be called a Stipendiary Magistrate in criminal cases) has obviously never heard of the old saying, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions” (cf. the idiots who respond to the cross-Channel migration-invasion by posting online the braindead “refugees welcome” slogan…).
To be fair to the district judge in question, his full remarks were as follows:
All the same, the sentences were lenient, remarkably so.
Saw the BBC 1 news headlines for the first time in quite a while. Top story? That somewhere in the USA, some policemen have pleaded not guilty to the murder of some black man. Why is this the BBC’s top news story? It has little if anything to do with the UK, and most people in the UK (even the blacks, at a guess) have no interest in it.
The BBC must be defunded. The whole thing is a dull, tendentious, waste of space now.
Late tweets
China stands ready to work with Russia to further advance our comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. pic.twitter.com/X3wl9pFPHr
💬#Zakharova: We regard the EU’s plans to use frozen Russian assets to settle their political and economic problems as infringement on sovereign property.
💬#Zakharova: The United States has launched a real manhunt for Russians they have a grudge against, even in third countries.
⚠️ Our recommendation to avoid the United States as a dangerous country for residence, life and health has become more topical than ever. pic.twitter.com/p5TJCkURMg
💬#Zakharova: #NATO countries do not care about the future of Ukraine and its people. What they want is to continue the conflict against Russia, sending others to die on the battlefield.
❗️ By pumping more weapons into Ukraine, they have long become instigators of Kiev’s crimes. pic.twitter.com/zeZEHBsIx8
'We cannot be told what to do by Government. That truth is final and can only be denied by those who either don’t know it … or who do know it and are lying.'
That idiot is such a hypocrite that he probably does not know that he is a hypocrite.
Incidentally, reading Clooney’s entry in Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney], I realized that I have seen not one film or TV series featuring him. That must be why I was puzzled, many years ago, when I kept hearing things about him on the TV; I was thinking “George Clooney? Who’s that?“.
He has good taste in domestic property, though. His house on a river island at Sonning, Berkshire, is very classic (Georgian), and in a beautiful location across the Thames from some of the grounds of the school I unwillingly attended in the nearly 4 years 1970-1973; and his house on Lake Como, in the Italian Lakes region, is also beautiful and in a beautiful place.
Trust in science is plummeting. While major disagreements lead to major discoveries, science is degenerating into dogma by calling any disagreement as "misinformation." A revolution of sorts by courageous citizens can revive the science: https://t.co/vW3aIRTvao
— Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist (@amitavb1) February 5, 2023
The evil and yet idiotic “SAGE” “scientists”, msm “me too” groupthinkers, and UK “health” bureaucrats would have been right at home in early Renaissance Italy, insisting that the Sun goes around the Earth and describing the truth as “heresy”.
'They invited us in to watch our mum die. We didn't even know she was ill.'
Tony Stowell shares his story of losing his mother after she was put in end-of-life care in a care home 'without his family's consent' during the Covid pandemic. pic.twitter.com/hRBSmOfoMh
State “quiet killing” of hundreds of thousands of elderly people thought of, by the State, by ministers and by most MPs, as simply “surplus to requirements”.
'There's been some fun and games going on behind the scenes. It is not good for a political power to have a citizenry that is properly aware of its constitutional powers.'
The Brits are fighting back. No to LTN,s. We don't want to live in controlled Zones with fines for those who dare to leave watched by CCTV cameras. Its time for free people to fight back and say No More. We also demand #FreedomOfSpeech#Resist No to this Dystopian Nightmare. pic.twitter.com/Oq2xM9iEzn
This is beyond the pale. And all because this woman had the temerity to criticise Jack Monroe, and share alternative cost-saving methods that she had found effective. https://t.co/Lbmuju6W21
— con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) (@racheledini1) February 5, 2023
“Jack Monroe” attracts the very worst supporters on Twitter, perhaps even worse than the “FBPE” loonies. Her core “constituency” is not “the poor”, but the unpleasant and/or mentally-disturbed.
Snap, is it a sock? Is it a sock showing how absolutely vile Jack Monroe can truly be under the guise of anonymity? @frugally_minded please take no heed of this twat. It says more about their mindset than anything else.
I think that there are at least half a dozen regular “Jack Monroe” Twitter “sock accounts” regularly posting while she pretends to be “taking (another) rest from Twitter”.
She has over half a million followers, her compulsive spending is funded by the public,and she is someone who made her name by giving advice to others about managing their budgets. Yet it turns out she cannot manage her own finances, let alone 'big Maths' or 'forensic detail'.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) February 5, 2023
It took me a while to realize the extent of it, but my opinion now is that “Jack Monroe” is, or has become, an outright fraud.
Incidentally, the new book by “Jack Monroe”, Thrifty Kitchen (which seems to consist, judging from what one reads in the msm and on Twitter, of recipes from the BBC and other sources already available for free online), is not selling.
At present, according to the Amazon Book Sales Calculator, only a few dozen copies a day, if that (about 600 per month) are being sold on Amazon (which must be the major outlet). In fact, nearly new copies (the book was only released a few weeks ago) are available on Amazon for as little as £7.
I was interested to see the reviews on Amazon. The 5* ones (about 70%), may or may not be genuine, and have only a handful of up-votes each, suspiciously, whereas the 20% of reviews awarding only 1* (with some wishing that they could award zero stars) have hundreds of up-votes: 400, 500, or more. Telling.
All the same, 498 utter mugs are still signed up on Patreon to send her a total of between £1,743 and £21,912 per month (probably in the region of about £5,000, realistically). The very silly, or outright loonies, I should imagine.
That composer, of whom I had never heard until today, seems to have been one of the millions displaced by the large-scale disruptions and dislocations of the 20th Century.
Stray thought about the NHS
I suppose that, as usual, I have to preface my remarks by repeating that I do favour the core principle of the NHS, i.e. that it should be free at point of use.
Beyond that, I was just trying to think of any other service or product which is defended mainly on the ground that it is free or cheap. Air travel using “low-cost” rubbish airlines, such as Ryanair? I suppose that that is one.
I understand that what people do is pay a ludicrously-small amount (eg £50, £20, or even £10) each way for the flight, but then have to accept that everything usually provided gratis is charged for, and that the flight will land a long way from where you really want to go, such as “Paris Beauvais” airport (Beauvais is 55 miles from Paris) or, I think in the past, even “Paris Amiens” airport (Amiens is 160 miles from Paris by road or rail).
Still, I see the point. Hard to complain about £10 each way London (Stansted) to/from La Rochelle, even if the service etc is near rock-bottom (though I concede that I myself have never used Ryanair). Incidentally, La Rochelle Airport is right by the city.
What else do people accept almost purely on the basis that it costs little? Not much, I think. State primary and secondary education? Possibly.
Still, Ryanair flights do arrive as promised, much of the time. Can the same be said of the NHS? I fear not, or often not, these days.
No-one (except perhaps the ultra-wealthy) wants to swap the NHS for an American-style system, but there are alternative systems that might be examined. What is not helpful is for people to shout out meaningless slogans about “our NHS” etc, to refuse to see what a poor service it is often —not always— offering now, and to refuse to think about how (beyond simply funding it better) the NHS might be improved.
Interesting. Is that a ploy to get “Boris”-idiot back? Or maybe some of them want sinister “let’s bomb Russia” candidate Tobias Ellwood as PM. That would solve all our problems— permanently…
Fascinating watching the Tories destroy themselves with no outside help. It is not as if the opposition are particularly popular with the general public.
While it is true that Labour are only popular by default, in a basically unfree and binary system, they are still well ahead at present.
I am not so sure that the Conservative Party might not be electorally better-off ditching the Indian money-juggler, and even going back to “Boris”-idiot, but better not that latter; they really need someone relatively untainted, and someone British/English, i.e. not non-white. That might not save them completely re. the next general election, but it might be enough to produce a hung Parliament.
I sense that Labour is, even in these conditions of shambolic incompetence in government, not truly “popular”, but many people are becoming desperate for something. If only there were a proper social-national party, credible and organized, but there is none.
A new Conservative Party leader would mean yet another unmandated or unvalidated PM, the fourth since 2015 (or fifth, if you include the first two years of “Boris”-idiot). What price “democracy”?
Not going to lie, am fascinated by the @bootstrapcook thing. I noticed her because of the @AsdaServiceTeam PR lies, but its actually staggering the level of batshit and fraudulent she got away with. Her sock puppet use is mental. Utterly batshit.
Ian Robert Millard 