The United States has warned several Persian Gulf countries of a possible "short, intense military campaign" against Iran following the November 3 midterm congressional elections, WSJ reported, citing sources:https://t.co/ybvSPw2DTHpic.twitter.com/kDAxOeMOp8
Russian oil refineries increased oil processing volumes by 25% in the second half of October.
According to Reuters, oil processing volumes reached approximately 5 million barrels per day in the second half of the month, which is 25% higher than at the beginning of October. At… pic.twitter.com/UQPIa8KkX9
Russian troops liberated two communities over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. Battlegroup North units liberated the settlements of Alisovka in the Kharkov Region and Barilovka in the Sumy Region:… pic.twitter.com/8lI8U3qLkf
The Budget announcements were mostly minor, if not very minor, and of course the money set to be spent on Defence (especially that wasted on support for the Kiev-regime dictatorship) is money thrown away, but I do think that getting rid of standing charges on gas bills is a good move, though something that should have been done decades ago. In fact, it should apply to all utility bills. Those charges are as outdated and unjust as the only-recently-junked “ground rent” scam profiteering.
[the poster shows a market more like an Arabian than a Persian one, as some critics noted at the time]
Ketelbey [1875-1959] was Britain’s first millionaire composer; producing light music, he was enormously popular in his day (broadly, 1896-1945). His peak popularity was probably in the 1920s; by the time of his death in 1959, he was completely obscure, his demise scarcely noticed.
Incidentally, when competing for a scholarship to Trinity College of Music, London, in 1889, at the age of 13-14, he scored the highest marks of all applicants (second place went to Gustav Holst).
Talking point (thinking about the UK migration invasion)
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” [Matthew 7:6, King James Authorized Version]
Stands up at least reasonably well, I think. I see now that that blog post has had more hits in 2026 than it has had in all previous years put together. Interesting.
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The European Union has lost 90 bln euro due to the conflict around Iran and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said:https://t.co/zWVTrezSI0pic.twitter.com/9s6V4nf2dA
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,225 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry:https://t.co/5r57To25Yupic.twitter.com/Q8vAM9xtjw
In this post Alexander Dugin claims that a global catastrophe is inevitable and presents it as a psychoanalytical fact. Dugin, a Russian philosopher and founder of the Eurasian movement, often analyzes civilizational conflicts and the crisis of the liberal order through a… https://t.co/kTOud2cpDZ
The Saudi narrative that 'Shia are targeting Mecca' serves as a test of intelligence for Sunnis around the world.
Ballistic missiles do not fall 80 km away from their intended target. This is not a crude missile; a less precise missile has a CEP (Circular Error Probable) of… pic.twitter.com/WhPtwgRSSK
New footage of the extensive damage to U.S. bases as a result of Iranian attacks.
One U.S. service member, who wished to remain anonymous, told CBS News that U.S. bases sustained significant damage, about which the American public was not informed. pic.twitter.com/mg674fIGI2
The rapid proliferation of Russian advanced, motorized drones poses an increasing challenge to Ukraine's air defense system, forcing Kyiv to adapt to a faster and more demanding threat. – Reuters. According to Reuters, the number of launches of Russian motorized drones has… pic.twitter.com/Mgyds57LC6
[“The rapid proliferation of Russian advanced, motorized drones poses an increasing challenge to Ukraine’s air defense system, forcing Kyiv to adapt to a faster and more demanding threat. – Reuters. According to Reuters, the number of launches of Russian motorized drones has increased from approximately 450 in June to 2,850 in August, while Ukrainian intelligence estimates production at around 3,000 per month. With speeds reaching 500 km/h, these drones are much more difficult to intercept with cheaper Ukrainian interceptor drones, compared to slower systems like the “Shahed.” This shift appears to give Russia an advantage in terms of cost and speed. Ukraine is under pressure to develop faster interceptors, guided missiles, electronic warfare systems, and AI-supported defense systems, while some Ukrainian pilots are increasingly relying on fighter jets and, in some cases, artillery fire, as missile supplies dwindle. From a Russian military perspective, the value of these drones lies not only in the damage they can inflict, but also in their ability to force Ukraine to expend more expensive and limited defensive resources, while continuously adapting its air defense network. Reuters reports suggest that Moscow is increasingly leveraging differences in speed, production volume, and cost to create sustained pressure on Ukrainian defenses.“]
Alternative for Germany" wants to strengthen relations with Russia The German tabloid Bild, citing sources, reports that "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) intends to achieve a complete normalization of relations with Russia, resume trade, purchase oil and gas, and halt military aid… pic.twitter.com/dOVfmrgMvQ
BREAKING: The village of Piddington has "voted to leave the UK" in a symbolic referendum held in protest against a planned asylum seeker accommodation site nearby.@NickMartinSKY reports from Oxfordshirehttps://t.co/vkERi7Y9ro
Millions of other people are also checking out of the UK; not only by emigrating but also by checking out mentally, hating the System parties and politicians and their treachery.
Give the invaders (not just the “Piddington” ones) a choice: return to your countries of origin, or go to a third country outside Europe, or face incarceration, sterilization and, ultimately, execution.
This is the liberal worldview in one clip. Grooming gangs don’t matter. It was a distant scandal. It’s been blown out of proportion. I would rather talk about AI & economics.
Aside from conveniently ignoring the fact, as even Louise Casey reports, that grooming gangs are still…
[“This is the liberal worldview in one clip. Grooming gangs don’t matter. It was a distant scandal. It’s been blown out of proportion. I would rather talk about AI & economics.
Aside from conveniently ignoring the fact, as even Louise Casey reports, that grooming gangs are still rife TODAY, like most liberals Rory’s brain cannot compute what the scandal is really about.
As Jon Haidt showed in his work, unlike conservatives liberals literally cannot process in-group loyalty, belonging, tradition, or the sanctity of a community.
The grooming gang scandal matters and should be front and centre in our national debate because it ran roughshod over all of that.
It involved the violation of our people and children. It saw out-groups prey on the in-group. And it directly clashed with our values.
Most ordinary people can see that. They can sense that while this is about Pakistani gangs it’s also about a fundamental clash of values and an intense anger about how fellow members of the in-group were treated by outsiders.
But liberals like Rory cannot. They will only ever talk about harm when it is done to minorities or outsiders. And they will only ever talk about empathy when it involves migrants, outsiders, newcomers — they literally have no serious interest in white British working class kids, never-mind showing them more loyalty than migrant communities.
Liberals have an enormous blind spot which you see right here in this clip. They are just incapable of talking about group identity, loyalty, and culture which is also why they are losing politically. They do not even think it’s worth talking about. Unfortunately for them, millions of people think otherwise.“]
Just another opinions-approved monkey-on-a-stick.
I assessed Rory Stewart on the blog as long ago as 2019, in a blog post which —with a very large number of appended updates— has been one of the most popular over the years, read by thousands of people:
Incidentally, Stewart says that much of the Pakistani sex crime in the UK happened “long ago…10-12 years ago“. In fact, it continues, but apart from that, Stewart does not mention the tribal Jew-Zionist whining about “the holocaust” which, to the extent that it happened in the fashion often believed (and most of it did not), happened 82-87 years ago… soon it will be a century ago.
Needless to say, puppet of the Jewish-Israel lobby, Gove, that little drunk, and drug-abusing bastard (and, when MP, expenses fraud), did not raise the question.
Stewart mentions several —yes, important— other problems that face the UK, but nothing good can happen when this country is, as it soon may be, non-European and, moreover, when the majority of the population soon will have racial-cultural origins in the least developed, least cultured, indeed least-intelligent parts of the world.
By "many Swedes" you mean liberal white women who are fast becoming one of the most destructive groups this planet has ever seen.
Not just women, but probably more women than men. The kind of women that, in the UK in the 1980s, 1990s (and even a decade or so ago) used to worship that African dimwit Mandela and his ANC rabble. Brainwashed by multikulti msm propaganda that few had the knowledge or intellect to critique.
Yes, and mainly because of the System parties and politicians that msm scribblers and talking-heads such as Hodges support, or give credence to via their newspaper columns and social media output.
Treacherous criminal politicians and scribblers. In lay language, traitors.
Talking point
MPs who are not really British, who are not white Northern European, and/or who were elected wholly or partly via the votes of non-Europeans (whether holding British passports or not) are not legitimate MPs. Any government dependent on the votes of such MPs is not a legitimate government; neither is a government legitimate when its policies are ruining the lives and futures of the British people.
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עינב צנגאוקר: "המלחמה לא נגמרה מכיוון שיש לנו ראש ממשלה שמאמין במלחמת נצח. הצבא קורס, הכל קורס. נתניהו ממש מתאמץ לברוח מאחריות. הגיע הזמן לענות על שאלות במלאת שלוש שנים למלחמה ורגע לפני הבחירות"
Einav Tsangauker: “The war hasn’t ended because we have a prime minister who believes in eternal war. The army is collapsing, everything is collapsing. Netanyahu is really trying to escape responsibility. It’s time to answer questions as three years of war are completed and just before the elections” Kan News on Reshet Bet.”]
Looks as if the Gaza/West Bank/Lebanon war is not quite the easy ride the Israeli Jewish leadership hoped it might be…
[cartoon from 2022, the time of the 2020-2022 “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic]
It remains incredibly sinister to me how many of the British, as well as other, people were willing to be corralled and controlled by the System-broadcast fear of a virus that actually killed only a tiny fraction (a tiny fraction of 1%) of the population.
Officially, in 2022, only about 50 out of every 100,000 people died either “of” or “with” Covid (almost all “with”, not “of”, i.e. it was not Covid that killed them at all). The real figure for deaths actually from Covid itself was probably about 5 out of every 100,000 people in 2022, maybe even fewer, maybe none at all.
The British people were tested by that whole conspiratorial and giant mass-psychological experiment. The majority failed (from my point of view) and proved that they were willing to be compliant slaves, so long as they were a.bought off with some money and more leisure time; and b.brainwashed by “expert” (fake expert) advice and enough pseudo-communitarian propaganda.
🇰🇵 The North Korean Ministry of Defense has warned the United States and South Korea about the possible use of nuclear weapons in response to their policies, according to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CTAK). The United States and South Korea are preparing for the… pic.twitter.com/psEVeXjwiP
How time flies— there is my blog post from 3 years ago today, and that dates from three months before my free speech trial of November 2023. Nearly three years ago. Hard to believe. Still, nice to reflect on the fact that the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] failed to shut down the blog, even during the trial itself. It has been published almost daily since the trial and sentencing (of March 2024), and is still being published at least 25 days per month.
I was blogging about that months ago. Action causes reaction. Many effectively Russian ships fly flags of convenience. So do many effectively British ships, and the same applies across the world. This is the 21st Century, yet we are now seeing state piracy on behalf of the Kiev regime. Do not think that Russia cannot respond.
The madness should be stopped but, with the ruling circles in the West set on conflict with Russia, the situation may well escalate.
Ukraine’s military has "hit a brick wall" against the defensive line of the Russian army on the Zaporozhye direction, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/OdXO8BIDDdpic.twitter.com/wAVcMWSMIL
True, but —as with the Ukraine situation— this is also partly an excuse to make people forget that the disastrous and utterly stupid (but on one level, planned) “Covid” “lockdown” immediately placed the UK economy on a permanently lower level, and quite deliberately.
The sheep (you know, the voters…) almost all complied with the ludicrous farrago of fake laws, “rules” etc put out by “Boris”-idiot, little Matt Hancock, and others.
Now those sheep are suffering, or starting to suffer, and the villain is supposed to be Russia, or Iran, or anything but the Western cabals who imposed those fake laws and closed down the UK and other economies for months and years.
I was shocked to see how easily the sheep were led by those with control of the levers of mass propaganda.
“Lockdown”, “social distancing”, “the Rule of Six”, the facemask nonsense etc. All entirely unnecessary (in reality, only a handful of people in the UK actually died of Covid).
As I blogged at the time, on one level the whole “Covid” thing was a massive psychological experiment; sadly, millions of people went along with it and probably even today believe it. Even years later, I occasionally see poor loonies wearing a facemask. Probably the same contaminated piece of cloth they have been breathing through for 6 years. Complete idiots, and victims of a “psy-op” which actually was not hugely sophisticated, though plainly co-ordinated at the start.
A kind of comfort blanket for the weak-minded.
I should love to hear the real views of people such as Sir Richard Dearlove [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dearlove], though I am not convinced that such people know a great deal more, overall, than me. They just know more detail (arguably).
Today the UK Prime Minister will chair a COBRA meeting about summer…
Meanwhile, our island continues to be invaded by fighting aged men who have travelled across Europe to get free housing, healthcare, education and welfare payments. https://t.co/hqYnDBTWLt
Burnham continues to underwhelm. The weather this year is fairly brutal, but political leadership cannot change it one little bit.
As for “climate change”, the evidence for its existence is patchy, and its causation via “emissions” not proven, as far as I am concerned.
Further, even if there is climate change and even if it is caused by the said emissions, only what is done by the largest industrial powers, notably China, India, and the USA, would make a real difference. Britain is only sending out 1% of the said emissions, if that. In other words, even if Britain disappeared completely, or achieved “Net Zero”, the difference in emission-output would be somewhere between 1% and zero.
What political leadership in the UK can do is to plan ahead and to take strategic decisions that have practical outcomes.
The most important action that should be taken is to stop mass immigration. All the millions of migrant invaders (“small boat” invaders, “legal immigrants”, and those born to immigrant mothers or to stupid British women impregnated by non-Europeans) use water, for one thing. 55 million people lived in the UK when I was born (1956); now, 65-70 million.
The next thing that government can do is to ameliorate the effects of continued hot weather. Build more reservoirs. Not one public reservoir has been constructed in 34 years in the UK. I now read that some are being planned and that a few have even been started. However, it takes years to construct a large reservoir, and months or —more usually— years for such reservoirs to fill, especially in periods of low rainfall.
A further action that would help is to give some financial help to planters and growers who want private reservoirs (which can cost up to £2M). That helps because the water for irrigation would then come from the private reservoir, not from public reservoirs, rivers, and aquifers.
Of course, none of the above can change the weather, but those and other measures might help to mitigate the effects.
I once lived for a while on a Caribbean island without reservoirs or (when I was there) any desalination plant (one was being built while I was there). In fact, there was no mains water on the island at that time. However, all large or medium-size houses were built around a large tank, so that when it did rain (torrentially, in hurricane season), water was retained. Certainly, the villa in which I lived never ran out of water for showers etc (you had to buy drinking water, imported from the USA, mostly).
UK governments should make new buildings include such tanks, and also potential air-conditioning. Yes, there is a cost penalty; well, boo-hoo. It is necessary.
Reverting to Burnham, my initial view of him as someone who just wants to do what appears popular (except for stopping the migration invasion, of course) is daily reinforced.
Look at the “P.C. Harper” case, re. the tinker/”traveller” criminals who killed a policeman a few years ago. The big picture strategy would be to remove or eliminate such “traveller” criminals, if necessary as a whole “community”, rather than horse around, as Burnham is, trying to prevent a few individual ones from getting early release from prison. In fact, he is only doing that because he does not want the mass media to report that he is doing nothing.
A typically-interesting blog post by that Substack writer.
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FSB has prevented a terrorist attack against an employee of the military enlistment office in Krasnodar. The suspect who was going to blow up his car on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services was detained.
The Russian Armed Forces continue striking port infrastructure and sea vessels used in the Ukrainian army’s supplies, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
I’m in North Devon and the eclipse was a disappointment, hardly went dark, nothing like the last one which was special, mind you the news channels still going on about how great it was. Not in the UK it wasn’t.
Underwhelming. I saw the last one, in 1999, which on the Dorset/Hampshire coast where I saw it was about 99% and very memorable. Around midday, the skies quite suddenly darkened, and stayed dark for several minutes.
For some reason, the BBC has gone crazy about this not terribly interesting partial eclipse (in UK) of 2026. It leads the news broadcasts. Senseless.
Party politics is a form of escapism for the masses. Most political activism is ineffectual, except as an outlet for this escapism & a way to advance political careers.
The masses are ruled from above: people adopt views that are prescribed to them by their governments/media.
He’s right though. Israel did do it to get us all to fight wars for them in the Middle East. The only time Article 5 has been invoked under NATO…. https://t.co/Ofw37MzsDXpic.twitter.com/8flGlOnFuL
Ah, I must have missed the fact that that Heath individual is now the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph. That explains much. I had been wondering why both the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph, pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel for many years anyway, had apparently become manically so more recently.
Putin promised the West a tit-for-tat response in case of the seizure of Russian ships.
The Russian leader made this statement during a meeting with the command of the Pacific Fleet in South Sakhalin.
The cost of chartering oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz has increased 20-fold.
The cost of chartering the largest oil tankers on the route from the Middle East to China has reached approximately $500,000 per day. At the beginning of the year, this amount was around… pic.twitter.com/ZKeKpRQElN
[“The cost of chartering the largest oil tankers on the route from the Middle East to China has reached approximately $500,000 per day. At the beginning of the year, this amount was around $25,000-$30,000.
A German news agency reported that due to the increased risks of transiting the Strait of Hormuz, many shipping companies are refusing to pass through the strait. This has led to a reduction in the number of available oil tankers and a sharp increase in prices.
The largest oil tanker carries 2 million barrels of oil, worth $200 million. A 30-day voyage from the Persian Gulf to China costs an amount equal to 7.5% of the cargo’s value. That is, one barrel out of every 13 goes towards the cost of transportation.“]
Final thought of the day
Saw “Engels” trending on Twitter/X. Was intrigued briefly, until I understood that the Engels in question was not Friedrich Engels [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels] but some footballer with the same surname…
Never assume…
Late music
[public statuary, The Freedom of the Human Spirit, Birmingham, Michigan, USA]
