Most of which are either women or persons aged under-18.
Since the beginning of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 4,000 schoolchildren and students in Gaza, the Palestinian Government Information Office reported.
Everyone in Gaza is hungry! Every day is a desperate search for food. People often go all day and night without eating. Adults starve so children can eat. pic.twitter.com/mBgOmXmvUt
The US national debt has exceeded 34 billion dollars for the first time in history, according to updated data from the US Ministry of Finance, as reported by "RIA Novosti". According to experts, the US government will have to spend up to a third of budget revenues just to service… pic.twitter.com/S2v0d0nJZ9
It is always hard to assess what is the reality behind figures of that sort.
US national debt reaches $34 trillion for first time in history – The Washington Post
“Washington spent money as if it had endless resources. But there will be no more free lunch, and the prospects are pretty bleak,” said economist Son Won-sung, interviewed by the publication pic.twitter.com/Aptp3A76Cv
Israeli officials have been conducting secret negotiations with the African state of Congo and several other countries on the potential acceptance of refugees from the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported today.
"Congo is willing to accept refugees, but we are in negotiations…
So there it is. Israeli Jews are planning to deport non-Jews to Africa. Ironically, Hitler and the SS had a similar plan in the 1930s, to deport Jews to Madagascar. That might have really worked, and would not have created this “Israel”, which now (via its worldwide web) menaces the whole world.
Avigdor Lieberman, the former minister of war of the Israeli regime, said that the regime may have to re-occupy southern Lebanon for 50 years. pic.twitter.com/hYfyt6FP6g
The long-term plan seems to be “Greater Israel”, which some dismiss as a “conspiracy theory”…
The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse… pic.twitter.com/tof57nmgAZ
“The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska.
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse with missiles for the Patriot air defense system were destroyed (in fact, this is why the Americans, headlong, announced the supply of shells for these same systems).“
🇵🇱The head of the Polish Foreign Ministry , proposed giving Ukraine long-range missiles to attack command centers on Russian territory pic.twitter.com/mh2EueeLob
That, if it were to happen, might trigger a Russian response of such a kind, and on such a scale, that a major regional war, or even a world war, might in turn then be triggered; so not a very intelligent suggestion. Or is that what the System wants to happen?
“The conflict between Zelensky and Zaluzhny is growing in Kiev: no one wants to take responsibility for the new law on mobilization.
The Financial Times again writes about the conflict between the political and military elites in Ukraine.
It is connected with the upcoming draft law on mobilization, within the framework of which it is planned to conscript at least 500 thousand people into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Neither side appears willing to take full responsibility for conscripting hundreds of thousands of possibly reluctant Ukrainians to serve in a grim, grueling war,” writes FT columnist Ben Hall.”
The Kiev regime has run out of soldiers after the huge number killed, badly wounded, or captured. Zelensky’s cabal is trying to call up people over 40, over 50, even over 60. Also, some disabled people and those who care for them. The conscription or draft offices are riddled with corruption (bribery to avoid being drafted), and the main reason many have escaped Ukraine to Western and Central Europe is to avoid military service.
In the longer term, Ukraine as a “state” (failed state) has no future in terms of demographics. Young men are either fighting, or have been killed, or are hors de combat by reason of injury or capture. Others are overseas, as are huge numbers of Ukrainian women (and children).
The result is a rapidly-ageing population, and so also a declining population.
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” – Kierkegaard
A New Forest farm owner is offering a novel and alternative solution to people looking to dispose of their Christmas trees – by feeding them to her alpacas https://t.co/TAbCdUe99F
What I know about alpacas would probably fill only a very small postcard. I was surprised to read that they can eat fir or pine trees and the like. According to Wikipedia, their usual diet is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca#Diet.
I've got my Union Jack flying high in North West London. Surrounded by non British but don't give a f*ck pic.twitter.com/YrWAMW5ZWR
Police vs rioters in lawless London on New Year’s Eve. Once upon a time, London was not a Third World shithole. Politicians and mass immigration changed that. pic.twitter.com/9bdRNWMXso
You still see tweets etc demanding that “the authorities” or “the Government” should “do something”. Such tweets (etc) miss the point. The “authorities”, “Government”, “Opposition”, mainstream media drones and scribblers, and the craven legal and judicial system, are those, or some of those, responsible, pushing mass immigration, pushing the lie that it is a good thing, and pushing the multikulti society which is in the process of destroying what is left of our own society.
Israeli media publishes an opinion poll showing Netanyahu in last place, with 15% wanting him to become prime minister after the war. pic.twitter.com/bkteLkQPSE
Lost wars are never popular and, while the Israeli war machine is slowly grinding the life out of Gaza, there is no easy victory for the (Israeli) Jews in that theatre, and casualties are mounting (though a small fraction of those suffered by both Gazan combatants and non-combatants).
Meanwhile, it seems to me that the strategic position of Israel has never been so precarious, even in the 1950s. Hezbollah threatens the northern border, Iran is developing longer-range missiles, and the Israeli economy is battered by the Gaza conflict, the evacuation of the northern border areas, by the situation in the Red Sea, and by a worldwide consumer boycott. Also, Israeli society itself seems fragmented, disunited.
To my mind, and for the first time in my lifetime [b. 1956] one can see a possibility, even a probability, that the State of Israel may not survive for very long into the future. Ironically, the nuclear and other advanced weapons of Israel may prove to be irrelevant, in that what seems most likely is a mass “invasion” or insurrection by lightly-armed militants (as in the recent Hamas incursions into southern Israel). Israel cannot use its most powerful weapons on its own territory.
A word about junior doctors striking
I have little time for the selfish yet virtue-signalling junior doctors. Many of them are useless anyway, and now we see that, when push comes to shove, they are willing to abandon their patients in order to demand better pay.
Yes, there remains a “skeleton service”, but that is a conscience-salve equivalent to the blank round given secretly to a randomly-selected member of a firing squad.
What about that pay? In the first year of work, they get a basic salary around £33,000, but that can greatly increase for overtime work of various kinds. Many are making over £45,000.
Admittedly, £33,000 is no fortune, but that is, after all, for persons recently-qualified. There are huge numbers of people in the UK making less, even after 20 or 30 years of work, and that is even disregarding the unemployed, sick, disabled, pensioners etc.
A second year doctor in a hospital gets £37,000+ (up to about £50,000).
Salaried GPs get between £70,000 and £105,000. Partner-GPs get far more.
Hospital doctors get increments annually; a complicated series of payments for various training programmes and placements raises the salary of many far beyond the minima.
NHS consultants start (in their first year of consultancy) on basic pay of just under £100,000, and make far more with seniority etc.
I say nothing about whether doctors (at any level) “should” get more pay, simply that it is disgusting that the junior ones seem willing to abandon sick and helpless people, often very vulnerable people, often people in pain (and in need of strong painkillers which can only be prescribed by doctors, meaning the “men —and women— in white coats”).
If junior doctors and, beyond that, what is so often —and cringingly— called “our NHS” callously abandon the British people, it may be that the British people will eventually abandon the doctors and demand a health service that works for its patients and not mainly for the benefit of those that work in it.
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Remember in 2019 when ABC News Anchor Amy Robach was allegedly stopped from airing her Jeffrey Epstein expose implicating Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton at Epstein Island? Did Hillary Clinton ask ABC to stop? pic.twitter.com/O3KQ62n5FH
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein’s court documents with the list of over 200 names is getting released in a few hours. Nothing will ever be the same again. pic.twitter.com/WFVvZYWJor
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) January 2, 2024
Actually, I do have one observation to make, which is that, obviously, in this conflict, truth has been the first casualty, but that, after truth, the next casualty has been the supposedly “elite” reputation of the Israeli Army.
I see that opinion polls are now indicating that Trump is gaining ground among the “young”, Hispanic, and black voters. That could be a gamechanger, if Trump can survive to be voted in and his second term inaugurated.
How much is it costing us to protect a genocidal state? "… British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea." Grant Shapps "said the UK was 'willing to take direct action' to protect the key shipping lane."https://t.co/zhJWxAEKnI
🇺🇦 In Kyiv, they announced the destruction of more than half of the city’s energy infrastructure in a year
The Kyiv authorities decided to take stock of the outgoing year 2023 and announced the destruction of 63% of energy infrastructure facilities by the Russian army.
I remember visiting the UN Centre in Vienna sometime in the mid-1980s; cannot recall exact year now. I knew someone who was doing some temporary work there. I spent a couple of hours in the Centre. Various impressions, but my overall impression (of what — admittedly little— I saw) was that the place was a huge waste of space (and money). What is it for?
There is a daily tour for visitors but I did not experience it (because I was not a “tourist” visitor officially, though really I was).
“They” have control of the strategic or key areas of public life in the USA— the politicians, the mass media (especially TV), the film industry, the legal milieu (in the states that matter most: California, New York etc), publishing.
I believe I read somewhere, years ago, that Israelis are often cruel to donkeys, which are such gentle animals, so ready to be friendly with humans. It is true that donkeys are over-worked and abused in other countries too, including Arab countries, Pakistan etc.
The Jew settlers in Israel/Palestine (often from the USA) are horrible, though, fully displaying the malice for which “they” have always been well-known.
In the village of Al-Jab'ah, Hebron District. A Palestinian oldman in tears after Israeli settlers cut down his 300 olive trees and order him to vacate from his own farm. Why do Israelis hate Palestinians this much? Why do they do such inhumane, indescribable and unthinkable… pic.twitter.com/vaFQWPlkQy
The moment the Yaara barracks in the Western Galilee was targeted, which led to 5 casualties among the ranks of the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/e1OU8i4jEU
Ukraine is just a tool in the hands of the collective West, which is using it to fight against Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. He stated this at the military hospital in Moscow where he met with Russian soldiers wounded… pic.twitter.com/eKFO3asiup
Hard to believe, but there it is: “normal” life, or a semblance of it, despite the fact that that area, 2-3 miles north of Gaza City, has been attacked heavily from the air for two months, and despite the fact that heavy ground fighting has occurred recently at Beit Hanoun, only a mile or so away.
Reuters:
A US official said: Israel's decision to withdraw some of its forces from the Gaza Strip is the beginning of a gradual shift, indicating a slowdown in the pace of operations in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/FODK46dwmP
[Paris under German occupation, c.1942. Note that the young soldier has no need to be armed as he fraternizes with a Parisienne in the Jardins du Trocadero]
As Enoch Powell once said, “we must be mad, literally mad [to allow this]”. The sheer sense of entitlement is stunning. Even the liberalistic Netherlands turned down the invader’s application, so he comes to the UK, where flourishes a combination of political and administrative inability to organize anything, and a miasma of “woke” craziness, meaning that the invader is still here at Government (taxpayers’) expense and may never be removed.
As Enoch Powell said, “literally mad“.
Now multiply the above case by the thousand, by the million…
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I see the RNLI are heavily advertising at the moment 🤔 ‘Just £3 a month’ ‘We can’t do our work without your donations’
So they want us to contribute to assist their efforts ,mostly collecting illegal spongers , which we then pay to house and keep in hotels here
It looks more and more to me that there must come a time when, in the words of Nietzsche, there will have to be “a revaluation of all values“…whatever it takes.
We, eg in the UK, are now living in a largely alien and hostile culture.
Every time the question feels redundant but how can this country's senior leadership be this stupid. https://t.co/GeYnyV5ijI
"While Europe shifts right and Donald Trump continues to poll strongly in America, 2023 saw the continued implosion of the British Tories — a conservatism that is electorally, ideologically, philosophically lost" https://t.co/XMZzynXtk3
The Conservative Party— a completely useless and clueless party, whose MPs are almost all just incredibly self-serving, and almost all incredibly stupid. On top of that, 80% of them belong to Conservative Friends of Israel.
Not that the Labour Party is hugely better. The only thing to do, for voters at the 2024 General Election, is to try to destabilize the fake binary system by making sure that at least one major party (i.e. the Con Party) crashes and burns, even at the expense of having to endure, for a while, a kind of elected dictatorship under Labour idiots.
I think that most voters, even former Con Party voters, have now written off the Conservative Party, and will not vote for it. Many, though, will never vote Labour either. It is an open question how many will simply abstain. Somehow I think, at the GE, not so many. They may seek out protest votes. Reform UK is plainly controlled opposition and pro-Israel etc, but will probably get a much higher vote than many are predicting; certainly 10%, possibly 15%, and I would not completely rule out 20%, depending on events.
Only a social-national movement can save our society, but at present it does not exist in any serious or hard-hitting way.
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Jeffery Sachs confirms that it’s the US that’s isolated not Russia.
The USA should ditch Israel, but “their” influence is too embedded in Congress, the American economy, the American legal system, the “American” mass media etc. The tail truly wags the dog, despite Israel being entirely dependent, in big-picture terms, on the American defence umbrella.
Mainstream Yale economist Bob Shiller predicts "Cataclysm" for USD as Biden and EU move to seize Russia's sovereign assets.
There was a time when the adults were in charge of the dollar's reserve status. Those days are gone. pic.twitter.com/cFAyhOyZKR
“In 1947, in the aftermath of the Exodus incident, and the” dismay of many in the nationalist camp that the British government was prohibiting large-scale Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine, Korff led a Lehi (Stern Gang) plot to firebomb the Foreign Office in London in protest.[4]
He traveled to Paris and offered money to a decorated member of the United States Army Air Forces, Reginald Gilbert, to fly the plane that would first drop leaflets, then drop the bombs.“
[Wikipedia].
Another Jew terrorist, in other words.
According to Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky], MOSSAD has secret arms dumps in every country where there are Jews (except the USA, arms presumably being widely available there). Hundreds of young Jews go to Israel from the UK every year on special courses. Most are trained in the use of weapons; some are trained with explosives. So when they return to the UK, what are they? Sleeper agents? Future terrorists?
If someone leaves Europe to go fight in the Middle East because of their religion, you would certainly describe them as religious extremists.
"Israel" is a colony of religious extremists. They have come from Ukraine, Morocco, France, the US, to steal land and kill for Zionism.
⚡️ Great Britain is urgently sending hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine for British air defense systems – the Ministry of Defense of the country.
This decision was made against the background of today's morning attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mZfSJIyKGn
That’s right, waste millions of taxpayer pounds on aid to the corrupt, shambolic, and brutal Zelensky dictatorship. Meanwhile Britain’s own shores are being invaded by migrant-invaders who are not being resisted in the slightest. Indeed, the British forces are actually aiding the bastards to contaminate our country.
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Patrick Christys and his panel react to exclusive GB News polling on the public's priorities and political leanings ahead of the next general election.
'Most people in Britain want the boats to stop, they want the borders to be strengthened and they want less immigration.'@GoodwinMJ reacts to files which detail the tough measures Tony Blair considered for dealing with illegal migration when he was Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/BrTx5dA4Zq
Mere numbers are only the starting-point. The vital point is, if there is a massive nuclear exchange between, mainly, the USA and Russia, what happens? One of today’s warheads probably does almost as much damage as two, or ten, or more, if all hit more or less the same place.
Obviously, were there to be such an exchange, the USA, as a functioning state, would more or less cease to exist. The same is true of Russia. As for the UK, it might be wiped out not only as a state, but as a nation (taking it still to be a nation), because of the small geographic size of the UK as compared to the two major nuclear powers.
Border situation rapidly worsening under Biden’s watch. Who benefits from this chaos? Not the border towns, our cities, or our workers. Not even the migrants themselves. Only the cartels. Right now the first step toward resolving this humanitarian crisis is to SEAL THE BORDER. https://t.co/lTArrrljus
Even in a country such as the USA, with a population of over 340M, figures like that naturally give rise to concern (as does the fact that the tweeter Ali Bradley seems to be ignorant of what the word “majority” means…American education…).
“To Israel: You can’t say “never again” while committing a literal genocide. You can’t bring up the Holocaust while detaining Palestinians, including children, in concentration camps. You can’t say you’re the victim while you’re bombing every hospital, bakery, journalist, and child in sight. You can’t say “self defense” while your kids are writing their names on rockets being blasted towards other kids whom you turned into orphans. You can’t say you’re protecting anyone while killing them.“
I notice that more and more people are waking up to “their” fake victimhood “cosplay”.
Israeli forces killed Sham, Maria, Shams, and Mona Moataz Wadih Salem with their mother Nidaa and grandmother Bahija, their aunt Sanaa and her husband Muhammad, and their children Sama, Ghazal, Abdullah, and Yazan. 100 member of the Salem family… pic.twitter.com/Pc26QG1STj
“A serious government would have looked at Brexit and recognised the necessity for economic and social reform. The first lesson should have been that mass immigration cannot be a substitute for skills training, and that open borders is not a sustainable answer to labour shortages.
Subsequently, it should have examined the reasons business relies on immigrant labour and modified policy accordingly – up to and including far reaching welfare reform. It should have also taken steps to reform the ponzi scheme that is higher education, ideally dismantling second rate universities in favour of vocational training with a view to improving labour market fluidity.
It should have initiated an immediate energy policy review, dismantling the EU regulatory systems that push up the price of energy.
It should have prioritised nuclear over renewable energy. It should have looked at streamlining energy planning and procurement regulation.
It should have initiated a complete review of food and agriculture policy with a view to improving food security and reducing food miles, cultivating local supply chains, and revising trade policy accordingly.
It should have initiated a complete review of foreign aid, trade and foreign policy in line with clearly defined national priorities.
But our politicians didn’t want any of that. They liked having their thinking done for them. They didn’t see any reason for change and everything they’ve done since has been to prevent meaningful change. Sclerotic mediocrity is how they like it and it’s the best we can hope for.
That is why the Tory party is dying. They were handed a massive majority and a mandate for change and they did precisely nothing with it. They wasted our votes and our time. They squandered every opportunity and walked away from every fight. Instead of taking the cue for radical change, they doubled down on all the worst aspects of centrist consensus politics on everything from immigration to energy, in lockstep with the EU as though we never voted to leave.
Immigration is now out of control, rents have skyrocketed, energy prices are insane, university degrees are next to worthless, and now they’re inflicting heat pumps and EVs on us when nobody can afford either, nobody even wants them, and we don’t have the electricity to power them.
Now we find ourselves with nobody worth voting for, and a decrepit opposition party set to inherit power by accident of numbers, and virtually nobody thinks it will be an improvement.
There is no means by which we can arrest the decline – while the media gaslights us by telling us this is the most right wing government in history.
Not only does the Tory party deserve to die, it is a necessary precursor to any kind of British renaissance. The conservative party only wishes to conserve a stagnant status quo even if it drags us into the dark ages.
We are condemned to drab, anti-patriotic technocratic managerialism and a zombie establishment that has long since abdicated from its obligation to govern. They are rotten, debased, corrupt and ineffectual in everything they do.
Every iteration of it is like a bad Hollywood sequel – a jaded repeat bereft of ideas and energy, oblivious to its own creative death spiral.
The cancer has now spread to all of the state’s vital organs, and the patient is now on life support. Nothing short of a medical miracle can revive it from its persistant vegetative state. The only merciful thing to do is to let it die.”
I agree with pretty much all of that analysis.
The Tories need wiping out, they deserve to be obliterated for their betrayal of their voters. The future looks very bleak
Quite. I hate and despise the misnamed Conservative Party, but also despise and hate the equally-misnamed Labour Party. Other misnamed parties? The “Scottish National Party” (currently run by a Pakistani) and the “Liberal Democrats”.
Look what the small hats are doing to a country like the U.S. that has been nothing but supportive to them (mass migration, transgenderism, race division, seed oils, etc), what do you think they will do to the rest ?
…and if you say anything about all that, at least in the UK, some malicious Jew-Zionist volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy and Government (eg the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) will suborn or corrupt the police and the prosecution service in order to bring down upon you the weight of the criminal law (while, in the real world, real crime explodes).
Our political class simply does not have the will, ability or courage to govern the country effectively. It is has failed and will continue to do so. More time is spent on anachronistic formalities and internal party processes than is ever devoted to enlightened governance.
Labour are setting up an immigration trap. The idea of processing illegals overseas is a scam that will allow millions to come to the UK by applying from centres in their own country, we will be swamped. Labour are plotting for even more immigration https://t.co/KTy4i2JabL
Obviously. Even at present, 75%+ of the invaders are given leave to remain. That’s 75% or 80% of the actual small boat invaders; the “legal” ones are all allowed to stay for the period of their visa, but many who stay beyond that are also, one way or another, allowed to stay in the end.
Overall, something like 95% of the various types of migrant invader are —eventually— allowed to stay indefinitely. As a nation and possibly, later, as a state, the UK faces ruin.
In Africa and Asia live hundreds of millions who would like to come here. Yes, in time that will reduce the UK to a “third world” level, but they cannot see that. All they see is a country still hugely better than their own. They want what we have, or they think we have. Even if our living standards continue to slide, for the black/brown invaders that is irrelevant. They are used to much worse conditions.
Therefore, the migration invasion will continue until our society collapses into chaos and/or civil war. When? Maybe as early as 2030, maybe a little later. By 2050, for sure, as things are going. Thank God I shall probably not be here to see it face to face.
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Red sea story in short cartoon… Yemen against Israel & US/UK/EU failed coalition pic.twitter.com/Axig9BrZZL
"The US will give 250 million dollars in military aid to Ukraine," said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and added that this is the last package in 2023. pic.twitter.com/xACZ9RcRYL
Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown.
According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical… pic.twitter.com/x6semWZIA0
“Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Netanyahu must be overthrown. According to him, the real losses of the army are hidden, and for almost two months of ground operations there are virtually no strategic or even tactical victories in the Gaza Strip.“
It would be a mistake to assume that all Jews, even all Israelis, are behind the continuing devastation in Gaza. My own guess is that most would have been satisfied by a week or so of targeted, albeit bloody, attacks in retaliation for the stunning surprise attack by Hamas forces in southern Israel in October.
There was a film, several years ago, interviewing former chiefs of Israeli intelligence and security; they were far less gung-ho than Netanyahu and his clique, or the malicious and unpleasant Jew-Zionists one sees or hears of in places such as London, Leeds, New York etc.
By the by, I keep wondering whether the Israeli Government, like F.D. Roosevelt before Pearl Harbor, knew of the October attack by Hamas before it happened, but let it go ahead in order to have to popular support —initially— for what is now happening in —in the Israeli case— Gaza, which amounts to an attempt to occupy Gaza and drive out its 2M inhabitants.
That may read like “conspiracy theory”, but so many of such theories turn out to be just true in the end. Why did it take Israeli forces several hours, in some cases 12 hours, to deploy to the site of the October attack? Israel is small. Tel Aviv is only 44 miles from the border of Gaza, and maybe 60 miles from the site of the Hamas attack in October.
When I was a practising barrister based in Exeter, in SW England (2002-2008), I lived in a country house about 4 miles north of Launceston (Cornwall) and almost exactly 45 miles west from my Exeter chambers. Same distance as Tel Aviv to Gaza. One day, I made the journey, door to door, in only 35 mins. I am sure that the supposedly elite Israeli forces can deploy in at least similar time (by road or helicopter), if they are so ordered. So why did they apparently take many hours in October?
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A day or two ago, I caught a few minutes of a political quiz on Sky News. Radio politico Nick Ferrari, some black woman (I think Dawn Butler), useless half-Jew former MP and now (absurdly) member of the House of Lords, Ed Vaizey, and “British” Indian pseudo-Communist, Ash Sarkar. All wearing silly Christmas hats for the occasion.
What struck me (again) is that the System TV would never have a social-national person on such a show, but there is political bad joke, Ash Sarkar, sitting there happily alongside Ed Vaizey, despite having commended not only socialism but Communism on air many times. She was obviously loving being part of the System mass media in-club…
Only social-national people and policies can now save Europe. The System easily suborns and buys the Ash Sarkar type. Paid TV appearances, even alongside the so-called “class enemy”, articles in newspapers, social media profile (and income). Pseudo-radical careerists and profiteers.
Owen Jones similarly. These are play-“revolutionaries”, play-radicals, and almost ludicrously-easily manipulated by the System.
The forces of the Kiev regime may be able to launch missile attacks such as that on a Crimean port overnight, but the bigger picture is that the Kiev regime’s summer counter-offensive got nowhere and achieved nothing, that the Kiev-regime forces are rapidly running out of ammunition despite huge shipments from USA, UK etc, and that the Kiev regime is now very short of recruits, having to employ ever-more persistent press-gangs; Kiev is now asking EU states to repatriate Ukrainians living in the EU, so that the repatriated people can be put straight into uniform.
Russia is upgrading its heavy weaponry, building ever-more tanks, planes, and missiles. The summer of 2024 may see a general Russian advance which will overwhelm the ragged and exhausted Kiev-regime defences in Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
Even if that does not happen, the Kiev-regime forces cannot themselves advance. They have not the arms, ammunition, or men with which to do that. Their best possibility is to hold the line where it is.
The transnational conspiracy has had its support for the Zelensky regime sidetracked by the Gaza conflict; that is especially true of the USA. Zelensky and his cabal may be able to ban opposition parties, to arrest those opposed to war with Russia, to ban trade unions, and to refuse to hold elections, but what the Zelensky group cannot to is magic into existence more soldiers, more arms, and more ammunition.
The foreign mercenaries and other volunteers have mostly gone home now, those not captured or killed. The Kiev regime now seems to be paying mercenaries from countries with low living standards, such as Peru. Their pay is low. Still, you get what you pay for, quite often.
I doubt that many “contract soldiers”, even from regions such as South America, will now be applying to become casualty statistics in the Kiev regime’s failing war.
My assessment is that Russia is biding its time. That may mean no 2024 offensive (though, to the contrary, one may be launched in order to demoralize the all-important backers and “generous” suppliers of the Kiev regime in the EU and North America).
In the USA, the Presidential election may bring to power a President hostile to more support for the Zelensky regime. Trump is only the main possibility; there are others. Likewise in the EU. “Populist” parties are in the ascendant. Most do not want to funnel endless taxpayer funding to the ungrateful and failing Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
The conflict in the Palestine/Israel region, which has now spread southward to the Red Sea, is already impacting EU trade lines.
Economically, Russia is thriving, overall. While the West generally, and especially the EU, is faltering economically, Russia is doing fairly well. As I predicted 18+ months ago, the sanctions imposed have forced Russia to both diversify and to find other suppliers of food and raw materials. Sanctions rarely have huge, certainly not decisive effect anyway. I myself saw that when, aged 20, I was in Rhodesia (in 1977).
Ukraine (Kiev regime) is, by contrast, not thriving; it only keeps going by reason of the money and other support and aid supplied from outside. Its agriculture is finding export difficult, and some markets closed or restricted. The industrial sector is running at a low level. Electricity supplies are interrupted, and gas supplies more so.
In the long run, what will sink Ukraine as a state (failed state) is the very low birth-rate, combined with the huge numbers of Ukrainians now living in a number of EU states and elsewhere. In the short-term, the ranks of the army are not being replaced.
Russia will win (in Eastern Ukraine), and the NWO will retreat.
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🚨🇺🇦 @NYTimes Revelation: #Ukraine employing 'people snatchers' to forcibly recruit untrained men for frontline combat against #Russia. Harsh tactics exposed in a grim #wartime reality. Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson remarks on the Times' late arrival to the truth. pic.twitter.com/Mc6tyUaQyn
SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars because Biden is blocking mining in America. h/t @JamesMelvillepic.twitter.com/V4eR349y1c
Looking at the bigger picture, this is but one of the terrible consequences of decolonization in Africa (etc) from the 1950s through to the 1970s. That process was itself a consequence of the disaster of WW2 and the even more disastrous defeat of the German Reich.
Who now —save for the ignorant and/or brainwashed— can doubt that the post-WW2 ending of European rule over Africa has resulted in war, civil wars, degradation of the environment, and misery for the Africans themselves, as well as irreparable loss of wildlife and tree cover?
The most heartwarming of threads. The fortitude of a dog called Shaq. 👇♥️ https://t.co/iQywJpuOuv
It’s been amazing to see him heal up fully in the last 2 weeks especially. The whole weight of the world has been lifted from him. So today I wanted to give him a big big treat (3/5) pic.twitter.com/MpcYcTAcV1
9 weeks between these 2 sets of photos. You truly are a miracle Mr Shaq.
Have a wonderful day everybody and if you feel a little down or low maybe Shaq can show you comebacks are always possible 🥰🙏 (5/5) pic.twitter.com/PO7oUSFdAg
Not a particularly original or surprising thought (or two), but never mind…
I happened to see, a day or two ago, a Celebrity Chase quiz show, I think first shown several years ago. Nadine Dorries.
Hard to understand why Nadine Dorries was on a quiz show, except for the fact that, though any money won goes to a chosen charity, the contestants are paid (how much, I do not know; I presume somewhere around £1,000).
I cannot now recall the exact questions asked of Nadine Dorries, but she knew very few of the answers, and was quickly knocked out. Her ignorance was, even for a cynic such as myself, almost beyond belief.
The above experience once more led to thoughts of how MPs now really are the bottom of the barrel. Compare them to the better type of MP from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. Jo Grimond, the one-time Liberal leader, for example. A very erudite man who had also served in WW2 as an officer, and been a barrister. His memoirs are well worth reading, incidentally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond.
Not that I agree with all of his views, and the same would be even more true of Denis Healey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Healey], but these people had character, depth, real erudition, and were not simply self-serving careerists.
Compare them to (ex-MP) Nadine Dorries, to “Boris” Johnson, to Corbyn, to Keir Starmer, to Jo Swinson (a later LibDem leader of sorts), to Liz Truss, to Sunak, Matt Hancock etc… Among many many others.
Whatever method is chosen for selecting or electing MPs, Cabinet and other ministers etc, is of secondary importance. Prime importance must be given to the quality of those selected. In darker moments, I tend to think that the fall in overall quality of MPs just reflects the decline and/or degeneration of the society from which they have emerged.
Incidentally, on that Celebrity Chase show, Nadine Dorries claimed that she was the only MP not claiming expenses (in fact, she just meant certain “personal” expenses). Also, that she was campaigning to end MP expenses! The presenter was too polite (or short of time) to retort that she had already been caught actually cheating on her expenses several times, and had only just escaped prosecution: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Expenses_claims.
Zionism and Jews in the UK
Look at the tweet below, from the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]:
To those gentilesplaining that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”, our representative polling of British Jews has found that only 6% are not Zionists, and 97% feel personally connected to events unfolding in Israel.
Yet we constantly see or hear, from Jew-Zionist “activists” (troublemakers), that Jews in the UK have nothing to do with Israel or what Israel is now doing to the people of Gaza…
We also see or hear that “criticism of Israel is legitimate, but any criticism of Jews is ‘antisemitic’ and (they claim) not legitimate“.
The “CAA’s” own survey indicates that at least 80% of Jews in the UK are content to accept the label “Zionist”, and that no less than 88% of them feel “personally connected” to whatever is happening in Israel.
Also, note the derogatory term “gentilesplaining“: in other words, non-Jews cannot say anything about Jews (but Jews can —and do— say the most insulting things about British and other European cultures and peoples).
Late tweets
Donald Trump leads Biden by four points in Daily Mail national poll despite battling lawsuits pic.twitter.com/QpfnGzKYbF
🇮🇷Iran reversed months-long slowdown in uranium enrichment to 60% weapons-grade purity
Iran already has quite a lot of uranium enriched to 60%. If it continues to enrich, it will be possible to create three nuclear bombs (one requires 42 kg), the IAEA says.
"China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder. India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and…
“China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder.
India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and soon will start attacking Germany’s position, which is currently sixth,” said Maxim Oreshkin, assistant to the Russian president, in an interview with “Expert” magazine.
In his words, the United States of America is killing the European economy, adding that “as soon as they finish cannibalizing their European partners, they will focus on the Asian market.”
Retired US Army officer:
We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
🔺Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be… pic.twitter.com/7BtXMa8iWQ
“Retired US Army officer: We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be afraid of so many American warplanes?
If Iran starts this war, the world economy, especially the economy of Western countries, will suffer. Biden needs to wake up from his sleep, this problem is bigger than the US.
Iran has many missiles and could bring death and destruction to Americans like they haven’t seen since World War II.”
Late thought about Ukraine
UK television news full of the Kiev-regime attack on the Russian ship, and saying that Russia is losing the battle in the Black Sea. Well, the Kiev regime no longer has a navy at all.
Naturally, the loss of a large ship, even a supply ship, is very bad but, the very same day, Russian forces took what is left of the city of Mariinka in the Donbass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67820916.
That is where the war is happening, on the ground in Eastern Ukraine. Russia is slowly winning there.
As for the attack on the ship, already the biased commentators on Sky News etc are heralding the dawn of a Kiev-regime strategic advantage in the Black Sea which does not exist.
In the final analysis, and if push came to shove, Russia could totally flatten Kiev and all other cities of Ukraine, if the leadership were so to decide. What is stopping that is firstly, that Moscow and Kiev were the centrepieces of Russian life for many centuries and, secondly, the fact that Russia is slowly winning this war.
Russia, though, is still one of the two main nuclear powers, and also has awesome conventional destructive capability. In extremis, that power could be unleashed. Kiev should be talking to Moscow about redrawing borders.
Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.
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December 25, 1991 AD
On this day, 32 years ago, the flag of the Soviet Union was lowered, the Russian flag was raised over the Kremlin, and the last president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, resigned. The next day, on December 26, the Soviet Union officially fell. pic.twitter.com/niyt5X3pnh
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in the escalation of the conflict with the Palestinian movement Hamas since October 7 has reached 485, the Israeli army announced.
The Israeli regime's warplanes bombarded al-Maghazi camp in the center of Gaza . So far, 80 Palestinians have been martyred. pic.twitter.com/0GvlB9WnD4
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has expressed deep concern about worsening food security in the Gaza Strip, where some 2.2 million Palestinians face hunger.
Joseph Borrell: Putin has decided to continue the war until the complete victory in Ukraine, we must prepare for a high-intensity conflict. pic.twitter.com/6wcblE10Uh
The United States expanded its territory by a million square kilometers.
Potentially resource-rich new lands include areas of the continental shelf in the Arctic, Atlantic, Bering Sea, Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mariana Islands. pic.twitter.com/ol5vEEraq0
The United States, against the backdrop of growing confrontation with Russia in the Arctic, declares claims to part of the region
Yesterday, Washington announced plans to claim a significant portion of the seabed in the Bering and Beaufort Seas as “its own.” The United States… pic.twitter.com/2ruiQ56sFB
The Palestinian news agency Sama published a video and reported that IDF units had completely abandoned Beit Hanoun along with all their equipment. pic.twitter.com/pcPZ8VPNSp
Hezbullah attacked Israeli forces in the vicinity of the Mitat barracks Also, the Israeli “army” announced today the closure of several settlements in the Eastern Galilee.
Hundreds of homes were destroyed and billions in damage were caused to more than 20 (Israeli) towns on the Lebanese border as a result of Hezbollah attacks.
The entire border area with Lebanon is deserted, and taxes paid compensation amounting to about 21…
“The enemy celebrates when we are divided, I demand that the leadership restrain the campaigns”
🔴 Political and social instability is observed in Israel after heavy losses in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced hundreds of dead officers, but…
“The enemy celebrates when we are divided, I demand that the leadership restrain the campaigns.”
“Political and social instability is observed in Israel after heavy losses in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced hundreds of dead officers, but the number of ordinary soldiers killed has not yet been disclosed.
Yesterday at the cabinet meeting there were also great disagreements and criticism of Netanyahu.
Protests from the families of the hostages are intensifying, knowing that without a ceasefire their loved ones will not survive the war in Gaza.
The economy is knocked down, there is a huge decline, large numbers of Israeli settlers in the border areas of Gaza and Lebanon have been displaced and are unlikely to return anytime soon.”
Map of military operations in Ukraine at the end of 2023 from ISW
The American Institute for the Study of War indicated in red on the map the territory that is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and in blue – what the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to occupy during… pic.twitter.com/jQ89yPDY5o
“Map of military operations in Ukraine at the end of 2023 from ISW The American Institute for the Study of War indicated in red on the map the territory that is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and in blue – what the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to occupy during its counter-offensive.
For the sake of such “success,” the Kiev regime destroyed almost 160 thousand military personnel, hundreds of tanks and aircraft, and never overcame the tactical defense of the Russian Armed Forces.”
2024 will see, by grace of God, a general Russian advance across Eastern Ukraine; an advance to, and northward along, the Dnieper, and then towards the Kiev area. If so, that may precipitate a collapse of the Zelensky dictatorship.
We can’t unmute to listen to her crying We’re all guilty of this ALL OF US ! This is one of thousands of children that there limbs were amputated
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Jew-Zionist supporters of Israel pretend to be “afraid” (of mild or non-existent “antisemitism”). They constantly whine (or, more often, demand) that people such as myself be dragged into court for having the temerity to criticize both Israel and “their” behaviour. In a month or so, I myself am to be sentenced, having been convicted of publishing [the truth] on this blog.
It has been revealed that the order for Israeli tanks to fire on houses containing 12 Israeli captives in Kibbutz Be'eri came from this man, Brigadier General Barak Hiram.
Farage’s betrayal of his own Brexit Party in 2019 will not, I think, be repeated next year at the 2024 General Election.
Of course, Reform UK is “controlled opposition”, but if it can contribute to the trashing and binning of the “Conservative” Party, and so to the destabilization of the rigged two-party system in the UK, then good. I hope that it does well, on that basis.
Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem are canceling Christmas celebrations and holding mass events in solidarity with the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/zxDqlcccwa
I just saw a TV news report showing an Israeli drone attack on Gazans at a street food market. People just trying to buy whatever little food is around.
Not a “mistake” or “error” by a bomber pilot. A targeted attack, by a drone operator sitting in a chair somewhere in Israel.
“They” are really going too far, but then “they” always do, historically. They then whine about the backlash, and cast themselves as “victims”. Wait until Israel falls, and “they” pour out as “refugees” to the USA, Canada, Europe etc, portraying themselves as victims yet again.
Russia will win in Ukraine if the EU does not mobilize all possibilities – Josep Borrell
Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine if the European Union does not mobilize all its capabilities, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in an interview with The Guardian.
🚨🇵🇸🇮🇱 A relative of the two Christian women killed by an ISRAELI sniper in a church in Gaza says the world needs to know the truth, it was not a mistake they were MURDERED! pic.twitter.com/3Lq8yQgix0
An Israeli military source told the Israel Broadcasting Agency: Establishing control over the town of Han Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip may take months.
Commandeering another nation's border is a brazen intrusion on sovereignty. And a provocation of strife. Why is Netanyahu doing this? pic.twitter.com/5VhInIK57c
Interesting. I recall living in Sydney, Australia, aged 10, when the 1967 Six Day War happened. I also recall that (as far as I can remember) the TV news was entirely biased towards the Israeli side. Of course, I was unaware that there even existed another side to the story.
The Jews (in Israel) eventually occupied large territories formerly under Palestinian Arab control. “They” (in Australia, USA, UK etc) had already occupied much of the Western mass media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War.
Netanyahu announced the expansion of military operations in the Gaza Strip: this is the only way to free the hostages and destroy Hamas.
In addition, Netanyahu said that all the goals of Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip will be achieved and cannot be stopped. pic.twitter.com/W4ZDe4K5BT
Well, this week one of my poorest scores ever, a miserable 3/10. Political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (with 6/10), a rare occurrence indeed. I only knew the answers to questions 5, 7, and 10.
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A Labour MP reported Mumsnet to the police for "extremism" after some mums said men shouldn't be in women's spaces. If you thought counter-terror rules would be used to actually tackle terrorism – sorry, Labour need them to enforce their weird gender ideology. https://t.co/Pfw769fgjt
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) December 23, 2023
Much of the “counter-terror” stuff in the UK is a fake, and a cover for repression of opinion unwanted by and disapproved by the System, or by special-interest groups such as —and mainly— the Jew-Zionist cabals (malicious nuisances such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a kind of volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in the UK).
A mother on Mumsnet has revealed her 14 year old daughter is upset and concerned that she is in trouble because her new substitute teacher snapped "It's miss to you" at her when she called him "sir" pic.twitter.com/zlPm7LbFjA
More “trans” nonsense. Why are so few people, even now, pointing out the sheer oddness of the fact that an absolute tidal wave of this stuff has crashed over the UK in, mainly, the past few years? What is happening? What is being encouraged to happen? What is behind it all?
Consequences of the destruction in the Gaza Strip: The residential area of Sheikh Zayed in the north of the enclave was completely destroyed during the aggression of the Israeli army pic.twitter.com/S9BMNRJlGQ
In 1877, The Times leader column tackled the issue of "oral telegraphy". We declared, authoritatively, that people who hope to send "audible sounds across the Atlantic", were frankly very silly. Telephones had uses in the home, perhaps – to summon servants. But that was it. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DUpG8ZIUBI
I do not say “never believe the experts“, but the fact is that they (and, more so yet, scribblers pretending to be expert) are usually wrong, especially when they try to predict the future, or when unexpected events happen.
The recent “Covid” “panicdemic” showed up ignorance of the supposed experts of the so-called SAGE committee (I called it “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris).
There are, actually hundreds of similar examples, especially if you move from scientific-milieu examples to those of politics and economics. Lenin thought that the Bolsheviks would come to power when the 1905 “Revolution” (uprising) was taking place. Wrong… and Lenin did not think that the Tsarist state of Russia would fall as a result of the first (Spring) Revolution of 1917. Wrong again…
Scenes of destruction caused by Israeli forces in the Jabaliya camp, north of Gaza pic.twitter.com/PeYdhofYnn
Probably a poor-looking place even before the destruction, but these were people’s homes, now blasted by some of the war crimes of the Israeli military machine.
The destruction caused by the Israeli misdeeds in the Awni Al-Harsani school in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/I40O27m6Fw
Zakharova: The refusal of the OSCE to provide us with a list of those killed in Buca – proof that everything was staged " The refusal to provide the Russian side and the media with the list of those killed in Bucha indicates that it was a staging carried out by Ukraine with the… pic.twitter.com/cDWe6lxEWH
At first, I myself believed that the 2022 devastation in Bucha (a small township or suburb very close to, or effectively part of, Kiev) was a real event, albeit one committed by poorly-disciplined allies of Russia (Chechens etc). It is claimed that hundreds of civilians were killed and/or tortured.
Now, I wonder whether it ever happened at all (as reported). The much-photographed devastation seems to have been mainly in one small section of a single street; burnt-out Russian vehicles, destroyed single-storey houses etc. Hard to get to the truth. It may lie somewhere in the middle.
Dozens of adults and children were killed today in the Israeli bombardment of the refugee camp in Jabalia, "Al Jazeera" reported. As stated, members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are trying to advance towards the city from the west and east, disrupting all lines of…
Footage of a mass raid of Ukrainian military commissars in Dnepropetrovsk
Dozens of armed military registration and enlistment office employees and police began a roundup of “volunteers” in Dnepropetrovsk. pic.twitter.com/wi3SjtcQjg
The Russian army is seizing the initiative at the front, Germany is worried
The Russian offensive picked up pace, while the Ukrainian army began to move into a defensive position. This opinion was expressed by German political scientist and chief of staff of the German Defense… pic.twitter.com/hHkQtcRHWp
Lack of ammunition and allied aid forces Kyiv to curtail operations
The Ukrainian army lacks artillery shells on the front line, forcing the command to cancel planned operations, writes The Washington Post. This exacerbates Kyiv’s already palpable anxiety amid delayed financial… pic.twitter.com/m2VT1nTIGt
She seems to be mentally disturbed, and/or perhaps a drug-abuser. God help the USA (and Europe) if that crazed woman becomes U.S. President.
Her Wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley] contains a couple of interesting facts. Turns out that she is an Indian (Sikh), and that her personal wealth, estimated at USD $1M in 2018, had jumped to USD $8M only 2-3 years later, in 2021. How?
London will continue to ignore the reality unfolding in #Ukraine. Acknowledging a failed strategy by the #UK would require further explanations and admitting a huge strategic miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/uJZzXABFXv
Saw a tweet from a tweeter claiming that “Hitler was a great failure“. So tweeted a professed fortune-teller [“I read tarot cards with numerology, & zodiac signs“] with exactly two Twitter/X followers and who is following 91 others…
Laugh of the day? Maybe; maybe just unconscious irony of the day…
In fact, I think I see what that tweeter was getting at with his comment, but think also that I shall not comment further on it today…
“A restaurant that drowned three hundred cats a month to fuel Vietnam’s cruel meat trade has been closed for good.
The Gia Bảo restaurant in Thai Nguyen city, in the country’s northeast, ran a lucrative trade selling cats, likely including stolen pets, drowned in a bucket one after another.
For five years, Pham Quoc Doanh, 37, ran the establishment after struggling to feed his family selling ‘other normal food and drinks’.
‘It was then I tried selling cat meat since there was no other available restaurant serving this in the area,’ he told Metro.
Doanh reached out to the Humane Society International, campaigning to ban the trade in Vietnam, who offered him a one-time grant to set up a grocery store instead.
On December 6, he symbolically tore down the banners outside his slaughterhouse and restaurant and began a new life.
‘For a while now I have felt a genuine desire to leave the cruel cat meat business and switch to something else as soon as possible. When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,’ he said.
‘Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.’
An estimated one million cats are killed each year for their meat in Vietnam, according to the charity – despite 71 per cent of the population favouring a ban.“
[Daily Mail]
Well, my opinion of Vietnam has never been very high (I admit that I have never actually been there), but at least 71% of the population apparently want this trade banned, and they do seem (from what I read today) to be taking steps in the right direction.
Zelensky's Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty… pic.twitter.com/LPFArRrtRu
“Zelensky’s Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization received too favorable conditions to remain in the West forever.
He admitted that Kyiv is interested in bringing them back and giving them the opportunity to “repay their debt to the state.“
The British Guardian newspaper writes that Israel lost the war, but Netanyahu and his radical cabinet do not want to admit it. pic.twitter.com/G4F9WIwrZz
The Israeli military released a video showing the destroyed of an entire neighborhood in the Al-Rimal area in the western Gaza Strip.
The destruction area includes a rehabilitation hospital as well as other institutions, including the Gaza Civil Registry Office. pic.twitter.com/OPsDV7bVZw
The IDF's elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have demolished the major Hamas tunnel network hidden under Gaza City’s Palestine Square, where the terror group's top officials hid on October 7. pic.twitter.com/USy0jwzhn8
I have to admit that I have always found the idea of secret tunnels quite compelling. The KGB had a specific directorate specializing in tunnelling, though one finds little printed about it.
In the case of the Gaza tunnels, we are told that they extend for more miles overall than the London Underground, which has 250 miles of track, much of which, however, is overground. About 110 miles of the London Underground is actually below ground-level.
On that basis, only a small part, maybe 5-10 miles, or <10%, of the Gaza tunnels have been explored or destroyed by the invading Israeli forces so far. Information is obviously being restricted at present.
It makes me wonder whether similar tunnels do not also penetrate Israeli state territory from Lebanon or elsewhere, tunnels perhaps so far underground that they are undetectable.
Germany will not return fugitive Ukrainians to Kiev for mobilization
This was stated by German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann to the Tagesspiegel.
“We are trying to ensure that more people from Ukraine find employment, go to work and do not live on benefits,” he explained. pic.twitter.com/2UEyXKu6hD
In the south of the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, where the border crossing of the same name is located, Israel launched a series of airstrikes in the area of the Kuwait hospital and the Awad Shabana Ali mosque pic.twitter.com/q9yqQsUEau
Let them laugh. “They” will not be laughing in a few years’ time, and not only in Israel/Palestine…
The volume of road transport within the framework of the One Belt and One Road project has increased significantly More products are sent through Russia or Iran by trains and trucks. 🇾🇪 This happened after the actual closure of the Red Sea to shipping due to Houthi attacks. And… pic.twitter.com/LvkmW9d5YZ
Events are constantly putting Russia in a better position strategically.
Kyiv may be left without sufficient military assistance from both the United States and the European Union. A similar opinion was expressed by Swedish expert Bjorn Fegersten. 🇺🇦 He believes that the military potential of modern Europe may be insufficient for the supplies Ukraine…
This is an Egyptian teenager who delivers bread to Gazans through a small hole in the border wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, working harder than any Arab ruler.
When I was several months in Egypt in 1998, I used to really enjoy the flat bread fresh from local bakeries, usually bought from a hole in the wall about a foot or so wide. Still very warm, and with a unique taste not experienced anywhere else in the world. The (Egyptian) Arabic word for it is aysh, implying its importance to life.
🇷🇺 🤝 🇵🇸 Russia is sending another 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza pic.twitter.com/iZwjxXoCa2
“Labour MP Dawn Butler has vowed to report online message board Mumsnet to the Metropolitan Police after users on the site and other social media slammed her reaction to the Brianna Ghey murder trial verdict.“
[Daily Mail]
This is where we are now in the UK. Anything online that some idiot like Dawn Butler dislikes is now “reported”, either to the police or other bodies. If a prosecution under Communications Act 2003, s.127, occurs —and despite the Law Commission having recommended repeal of that as “bad law”— anything highly critical or satirical is now deemed “offensive”, and in practice as “grossly offensive” (and so unlawful).
It is a Kafka-esque farce which I saw at first-hand as defendant in such a case only last month.
The law in this area gives carte blanche to, especially, the usual malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionist whiners, such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, with the police and CPS as dupes.
Still, we must always remember that “the stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].
Dawn Butler’s actions give indication of what the likely “elected dictatorship” under Starmer may look like. Repressive.
Still, the only way at present to destabilize the mainly binary Lab/Con system is to knock out one or other main party. That will be the misnamed Conservative Party, which may be largely wiped out next year at the 2024 General Election, but the price for getting rid of the Conservative MPs will be a near-dictatorship under Starmer-Labour.
The developing “social dictatorship” trialled (in various respects) during the contrived panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022.
If the authorities really wanted to address persistent (real) crime, they might start by banning anyone not on bona fide holiday, or bona fide recreational travel, from using a caravan or motorhome on the roads etc. You know what I mean…
“Britain’s rapidly shrinking military has prompted defence chiefs to shift hundreds of troops from the front line and into recruitment offices.
More than 400 soldiers from across the British Army have been ordered by top brass to join the effort to try and get more people to enlist.
It comes as figures from the Labour party revealed the Army has shrunk by more than 3,000 troops in the past 12 months, with 9,438 personnel leaving while only 6,308 joined.
Britain’s part-time reservist force is also shrinking despite recent efforts to grow it. Between October last year and September 2023, 5,580 reservists left and only 3,780 joined.
The latest recruitment statistics from the Ministry of Defence reveal the total Army strength plummeted from 79,139 to 75,983 during the same period, as recruiters failed to hire fresh new personnel to plug the gaps, leaving key roles unfilled.“
[Daily Mail]
So the first move in getting more troops on the front-line is to…take 400 soldiers out of the spearhead forces and sit them in offices?
“Lions led by donkeys“, as someone once said.
Why do we actually bother with an Army and Navy now? They seem incapable of stopping the only invasion happening, or likely to happen these days— the migration-invasion.
Empty bluster from political nonentities just makes Britain look even weaker than it is, and that is pretty weak.
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Had a bit of luck in Waitrose’s car park this morning. I found a £50 note by my car. As it’s Christmas I thought “what would Jesus do”. So I turned it into wine !! 😂.
Ha ha! I liked that. It made me laugh. It may even be true.
I’m not sure where this took place, but I’m sure this gentleman is merely putting into eloquent words what many, many people in this country are thinking – I’ll probably be shot down for reposting this – but the conversation needs answers… https://t.co/hU1DemzUU9
I think —not quite sure— that that was somewhere in Mid-Bedfordshire constituency during the 2023 by-election.
[Note: the post mentioned, about a young man talking to a by-election crowd about the migration-invasion, has been deleted for some reason].
Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
Doggerland was a mix of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys and hills, and most likely inhabited by humans during the… pic.twitter.com/RkAURmYH6X
Ian Robert Millard 