Igor Girkin- Arrested Sergei Surovikin-Dismissed Andrei Yudin- Dismissed/Detained? Vladimir Alexey- Dismissed/Detained? Zakhar Prilepin- Car Bombed Darya Dugina- Dead Vladen Tatarsky- Dead Yevgeny Prigozhin- Dead Dmitry Utkin- Dead
True, but that does not, or need not, imply that Putin, or any one individual or force (e.g. Kiev-regime intelligence service) is behind all of those events, though of course those thought to have been dismissed could only have been dismissed by Putin.
Not “claims“; it is simply a fact. In fact, the same happened with Gordon Brown (who went on to lose the 2010 General Election), Theresa May (who went on to win the 2017 General Election), “Boris” Johnson (who went on to win the 2019 General Election), and Liz Truss. Now Rishi Sunak. If a Prime Minister resigns, there should have to be an “immediate” (arguende, within 3 months) general election.
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” [Shakespeare, Julius Caesar].
I part company with the Bard at this point; I think that both the good and evil live on.
As for Wagner Group, without Prigozhin and Utkin there is no top leadership so, as an independent “band of brothers”, Wagner Group, the so-called “musicians” or musikanty, has effectively passed into history.
The Guardian: Kavoli and Radakin with Zaluzhny for five hours on saving the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the army
THEY MEETED ON THE UKRAINIAN-POLISH BORDER AND ORDERED HIM TO ATTACK FOCUSED ON ONE PART OF THE FRONT
“Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson is convinced that it is already too late for the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “Because of the failure on the fronts, the troops may rise up against the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky.
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor: The current situation of the Ukrainian army can be compared to the situation in which the Wehrmacht found itself in 1944. Then the German army lost its air support. Therefore, although it had good weapons, even tanks that had just come off the assembly line, it could not fight effectively. The same is happening now in Ukraine.“
I watched about 15 minutes in total of BBC News and Sky News. Just hard-to-believe propaganda about how Ukraine is supposedly “winning”. Just rubbish.
More music
[Kennet and Avon]
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Ukraine wants a new president – a rally in support of him in the center of Kyiv pic.twitter.com/tIsQcZfXz9
“Olaf Scholz said that Germany is currently experiencing “unsatisfactory” economic growth. According to Bloomberg, the German Chancellor believes that the problems are related to the country’s dependence on exports.
The agency notes that Scholz refused to allocate funds to fight the crisis due to lack of money and the growing debt of Germany. At the same time, Scholz added that the country has “good prospects” in terms of the economy.
Earlier, the German media noted that in Germany there is a deep economic crisis and this country, as a “locomotive”, is pulling the entire EU to the bottom. Germany’s GDP declined, among other things, due to higher energy prices and spending on Ukraine.“
Late tweets
Ukraine will be forced to sit down at the negotiating table because Biden wants to end the war before the end of 2023 – Feigin pic.twitter.com/cwjlDdSbiw
🇨🇳 Chinese military experts announced that the tactics of the Ukrainian army are similar to those of the First World War, where significant manpower resources are used during attacks. However, experiences from this war have shown that victories in such battles were mostly pyrrhic…
Why he keeps wearing this kind of same clothes all the time is to make people think he is busy with the war and not looting what is left of Ukraine, whereas he is busy buying property all over the world.
The Chinese language is now becoming one of the main world languages in science, and therefore it will gradually be included in the programs of Russian universities that train researchers, but it is important to keep Russian as one of the main languages of communication…
I knew the (now-deceased) painter (and leading psychiatrist) Dominic Beer when we were both 5-6 years old. I have previously briefly blogged about him.
Order your copy of the seminal book 'The Lightning and the Sun' by Savitri Devi. This tome laid the groundwork for what became known as Esoteric Hitlerism. Unabridged version. Available at Patriotic Dissent Books. pic.twitter.com/Vrze8UqmHM
— Politically Incorrect Book Collector (@Polincbooks) August 18, 2023
Savitri Devi said that a house cat was more a part of nature than a mixed person. If you look at the genetic distance between races and the the gap between them and mixed people you'll see mixed people aren't even their parents. They are a separate species.
That is very true. I have known several mixed-race persons in my life; most if not all were not only very different from their parents (where I also knew them) in both looks and temperament, but had considerable psychological problems.
You turned off the comments because Leo Frank was convicted of raping and killing a 13 year old girl
Looks as though Putin is reasserting control after what I called at the time a modern-day “revolt of the Streltsy” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising] a few months ago. Not exactly a coup or putsch, but something more akin to a demand for privileges and participation in policy-making.
All the same, Putin may regret the apparent passing into history of the Wagner Group. It fought well, despite having been composed, in part, of persons with little conventional military experience.
The brunt of the fighting in Ukraine (and possibly beyond) will now fall upon armoured units, artillery, and air power, not mass infantry formations such as Wagner Group.
Russia cannot “lose” the Ukraine war, unless there is upheaval and/or revolt in Russia itself. Putin seems to have taken the view that Wagner Group had to be dispersed in power and its leaders removed.
Of course, it may be that the air incident was simply an accident, or an assassination by others, eg Kiev-regime services, but those possibilities seem less likely.
An interesting delegate from North Korea at the exhibition of achievements of the defense industry of Iran. pic.twitter.com/rt7m9P9NnB
Acting Governor of the Zaporizhia Region Yevgeny Balitsky, after a conversation with Putin, expects "a lot of interesting things" during the special operation in the fall.
“What can I say after a conversation with the president: <…> I received confirmation of the words when… pic.twitter.com/0ShNIOIsYU
Well, they look cheerful enough, not obviously “defeated”, but that group is surely little more than a rabble.
In Guatemala, tourists have witnessed a unique natural phenomenon that weather forecasters call a dirty thunderstorm. Lightning was formed in a cloud of ash rising during the eruption of the Agua volcano, writes Vanguard.
No matter which candidates win the Republican and Democratic nominations, and no matter who ends up as the next U.S. President, the victor will have to stop the present slide to nuclear war. Take away the Jew Zelensky’s ricebowl. Stop giving money and arms to “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). Stop supporting Israel, too.
Exactly.
X will be filing legal action to stop this. Can’t wait for discovery to start! https://t.co/ROxXEuO8it
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) August 24, 2023
Late tweets
New composition of BRICS will control 80% of world oil production
With the addition of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran to the BRICS, the Union will be able to control the lion's share of the world's oil production.
There were reports of the destruction of a large cargo of NATO ammunition and equipment in Zaporizhzhia using an X-50 missile pic.twitter.com/hdcIeHNE56
What happens if Trump now receives the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 election? What happens if he then wins?
Japan has begun dumping radioactive contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean – Asahi pic.twitter.com/qNGLRfDmPg
"Politico": Soros is leaving at the worst possible moment for the European project
The decision of the Open Society Foundation (OSF) to end most of its European projects surprised many, including numerous enemies of the fund's founder, George Soros, writes "Politico". pic.twitter.com/h8wSiBxHf8
Is he expecting a nuclear war in Europe? Is the rat leaving the sinking ship?
Western countries are ready to wage a hybrid war with Russia until the last Ukrainian, because "American soldiers are not dying," said Vasiliy Nebenzya.
The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN added that Ukraine is ruled by the "criminal Kiev regime,… pic.twitter.com/bFz4CBtZNx
Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" have already begun to massively sign contracts with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation after reports of the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Deputy of the State Duma from the United Russia Alexander Boroday. Wagnerites "en masse" go to volunteer…
“THE LOSS of the last elite reserve units, which the military leadership of Ukraine has inserted into the fighting on the Zaporizhzhya front, will lead to its collapse, said former UN weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter.
“Now we are witnessing – emphasized Ritter – the last phase of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, which has not achieved any goal. It alone led to the death of more than 45 thousand Ukrainian soldiers. There are only 15 thousand of them left.
‘I’m talking about elite reserve units armed with British Challenger tanks, Marder and Stryker combat vehicles.”
Ritter pointed out that Kiev’s fresh forces “also got stuck in minefields in front of Russian defense lines.” According to him, as soon as the last elite units of Kiev are destroyed, the Ukrainian front will begin to collapse, like an old dam unable to hold back a powerful river flow.”
[Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector and military intelligence officer]
Military observer Yuriy Podolyaka: yesterday the enemy carried out a very powerful attack in the South. Obviously, he wanted to “present victory” by the Independence Day of Ukraine, but apart from another large batch of killed soldiers, he failed to achieve anything serious. pic.twitter.com/rfX3FfN99y
Russian troops continue their offensive in the Kupyansk direction, improved their tactical position, repelled 4 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian losses – up to 170 people, the Ministry of Defense reported.
In the Zaporozhye direction, 4 attacks were repelled in…
1. Former CIA agent Larry Johnson: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny for the failure of the counter-offensive, and they have already started pointing fingers.
Exactly 3 years ago, CIA and Mossad tried to overthrow the president of Belarus.. That same president came out with a rifle in his hands and defended the integrity of Belarus!! pic.twitter.com/AaA8PyrEjO
The economic situation in Ukraine is deteriorating, Ukrainians are increasingly taking microcredits – more than 650 thousand monthly. Over the past six months, the amount of loans taken is UAH 18.4 billion. For comparison, for the whole of 2022, microloans for UAH 23.9 billion… pic.twitter.com/DoKnCo7NGx
You can already see the NWO/ZOG-ruled powers reconsidering— various EU states are modifying the military and other aid going to the Kiev regime, and the US Government has been increasingly making public, in a guarded way, its concern that the Ukraine war might become a general European conflict and even an intercontinental nuclear one.
Can you imagine? Lammy might become a Cabinet minister if/when Labour forms a government…
Lammy, a thick “diversity hire”, who (like Diane Abbott) basically hates white (eg British) people, history, and culture (but has a wife who is not black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Green).
The Conservatives are spending your money on luxury hotels like this for illegal migrants during a cost of living crisis. Let that sink in.
The bigger scandal is that any bank executive gets that kind of pay. The same applies to lawyers, business executives, entertainers, TV talking heads etc.
BREAKING NEWS🚨
Grant Shapps visits Kiev and announces yet ANOTHER £192 MILLION loan guarantee to supply Ukraine with uranium enrichment services for nuclear fuel.
Meanwhile channel migrant farce continues, veterans on streets, people can't afford to live.
Searing and hard to read by @AllisonPearson. Omitted from her list of NHS scandals is the mass killing at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, where an estimated 650 patients had their lives ended by clinicians. 1/3https://t.co/0oP44RD99k
“Labour plans for tougher hate crime laws if they enter power could lead to criminal charges for misgendering trans people, a think tank warns today.
‘Maintaining free speech… is essential if we are to defend a liberal society based on rationality rather than coercion.’
[the] study was backed by Labour backbencher Graham Stringer, who likened gender ideology to the claim made by Humpty Dumpty in Alice In Wonderland that words mean whatever he chooses them to mean.
He said: ‘There are many in the transgender debate who follow in the Humpty Dumpty tradition.
‘Men become women and women become men via a simple declaration. If words can have any meaning debate becomes meaningless.
‘You end up with authoritarianism, which is what transgender ideologues desire, with them in authority.’“
If true, not entirely unexpected. Aircraft (and tall buildings) can be hazardous for those eyeing Putin’s purple, or that of any ruler of “all the Russias”. General Lebed would have made an excellent ruler of Russia, had his helicopter not crashed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebed. Others have gone the same way under Putin, Yeltsin and, of course, Stalin, among others carrying the status of Vozhd.
I see that the “BBC presenter” story is still rolling. A couple of things strike me about the story and also about the reaction to it.
Firstly, the sheer hysteria. It seems that the girl involved was 17 at the time, assuming that there is any substance to the story. It is one of the oddities of the English law at present (as I understand it— I admit to being not very au fait with it now, having not practised at the Bar since 2008) that the unnamed BBC presenter could actually have had full sexual relations with the girl (or any girl of 17, or indeed 16) without being in peril of the law, yet if he paid for nude photographs of her (even though she may have taken them herself, and willingly) he might actually be at risk of imprisonment: see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-photos-could-face-jail-term-if-guilty.
To my mind, this makes a mockery of the law. The “photographs” law should surely be in line with the law on sexual relations, and so the age reduced to 16 years.
I am unsure about whether a “photographs” law of that kind was or is necessary at all, or if it is, whether the relevant age should be 16 or lower, as with some provisions of, eg, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
The Protection of Children Act 1978, the present “photographs” law, does not (as far as I know) specify an age, but refers only to “children“.
This was never the kind of law I did when at the Bar, so I may be out of my depth on the detail here but, to my mind, that 1978 “photographs” law (which I have never read in full) seems to be on the face of it yet another badly-drafted law of the past half-century. There are several others, including the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Communications Act 2003, s. 127. Both of those have been superseded or are about to be superseded by newer laws.
I find it strange that the 1978 “photographs” law was thought to be necessary at all. It was brought in 20 years before the Internet was widely available for public use and, after all, photography itself has been around for about 200 years if you include its earlier modern manifestations such as the daguerrotype. Photographs as such have certainly existed since the 1860s, yet only in 1978 did Parliament consider that such a penal law was desirable, or at all necessary. Very odd.
Leaving all that aside, there seems to be a strange dissonance now— UK and general Western society almost eliminating real childhood and/or childhood “innocence”, and yet going mad if someone, especially anyone famous (such as George Osborne), has sexual relations, even if completely lawfully (in Osborne’s case, that is disputed), with a teenage girl of 16 or 17, or if such a person (as alleged of the unnamed BBC presenter) pays a girl of 16 or 17 for some risque photographs.
Well, there it is. To my mind, this “BBC presenter” story is a bit of a storm in a teacup anyway, looking at the challenges our country and society face at present. There are bigger issues.
The other aspect which I find striking about the “BBC presenter” story is that the unnamed defaulter has such a high level of income that he can, and apparently is willing to, pay out £35,000 for photographs of some girl.
The BBC gets almost all of its money from the outdated tax misleadingly called a “licence fee”. Radio licences, dog licences etc have passed into history, but the BBC licence fee marches on. Not only that, but enforced by criminal sanction. There are many people (mostly women) actually in prison because of having not had a TV licence, and then unable or unwilling to comply with the order of a court: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-fee-women-convictions-b1763192.html.
Out of the huge revenues thus raised, the BBC pays its staff well, often very well, and in some cases far too well. Gary Lineker, that loudmouth ignoramus, is paid a million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Alan Shearer, another ex-footballer, gets about half a million. Zoe Ball apparently gets about a million. A number are getting around £400,000. Looking at them, most are, frankly, overpaid.
Why should the public subsidize what is increasingly, “Soviet” TV and radio output, largely unwatchable and unlistenable?
My final thought about this nonsense is that George Osborne must be loving it. The notorious email about his own peccadilloes is now already all but forgotten. I suppose, though, that despite his former, though fairly brief, political prominence, Osborne is now yesterday’s news…just not very interesting to most people.
“It’s deeply worrying that many older people are ending up in hospital due to lack of the right sort of services in the community. No one wants to be in hospital but for older people all too often it can lead to an avoidable deterioration in their health,” said Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director.
Prof Adam Gordon, the president of the British Geriatrics Society, said the report “makes grim reading [and] rightly identifies that older people are currently being let down by NHS and social care services”.”
[The Guardian]
This has been a scandal (and a massive waste of money) for years, certainly since 2010 and probably long before. No care at home means more demand at hospitals. District nurses were once ubiquitous; now they seem hardly to exist at all. I was told by one, a decade ago, that she was fed up with NHS mismanagement, and so was emigrating to Australia, where she would also be paid far more.
As with so many areas of life in England, Government and Opposition talk a good game, but fail to deliver for the people.
“Nearly 10,000 small-boat migrants who reached Britain in the past four months were last night handed an ‘amnesty’ from the Government’s tough new immigration measures.“
[Daily Mail]
More treachery.
10,000 more deadbeats, criminals, potential terrorists, and/or useless millstones round the neck of the British people.
However bad and (at best) useless Starmer-Labour will be, this “Conservative” Party misgovernment really has failed on every metric. It has to go, and I hope that almost all of its MPs will be dumped by the voters. Then a new fight will begin, against the “Labour” version of the System…
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"We have to have a buffer somewhere because if we don’t we know what happens," says Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft, alluding to dangerous overcrowding, disorder and diphtheria at Manston last year
For context, the current "buffer" in prisons is just 1,000 cells
Imports of goods from Russia to the United States in May increased compared to April from $215.6 million to $504 million, according to the monthly report on trade turnover of the main US statistical agency Bureau of the Census,… pic.twitter.com/HTwEKfeEiR
Most of the inhabitants of Poland are against the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO , according to a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the country and published by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Well, there it is. The Poles are sensible after all…
Biden admitted: The US Army is running out of artillery shells
In an attempt to justify his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US President Joseph Biden said in an interview with "CNN" that it is necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because there… pic.twitter.com/N697vRVGzl
Stocks of artillery provided by the West to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out.
US national security adviser Sullivan said that without the supply of cluster munitions, Ukraine will not have enough artillery not only for the offensive, but also for defense. pic.twitter.com/cH1zvh6sJg
and “Labour”, under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, will be saying, in effect, “vote for us…we can make workhouses run more efficiently, and more fairly, and with full implementation of any anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQXYZ measures you can imagine“…
Jeremy Hunt …Yet another multi millionaire politician who knows whatever chaos he brings will have zero impact on him personally …Crooks in Suits… #MartinLewispic.twitter.com/w1lZyIVyf2
2%, though? Surely that (((group))) is more like 0.5% of the population?
Theresa May led a revolt against Rishi Sunak’s small boats bill on Tuesday as she accused the Govt of consigning more people to slavery. The arch-Remainer tried to derail Brexit, and now she’s trying to support the dinghy armada! https://t.co/DWdhCZG5WR
A horrible woman, and completely out of her depth when Prime Minister. I suspect part-Jewish. She strengthened the bad law of Communications Act 2003, s.127 by introducing a 3-year longstop limitation period in place of the formerly-existing 6-month one, which change has emboldened evil little cabals such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which use “lawfare” (abuse of our legal and justice systems) to repress British people.
China, India, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE have increased their imports of Russian oil by 140%, while exports of oil refining have suddenly increased by 26% – The Economist
Against the background of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine, and in order to cover up the catastrophic losses of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime has increased recruitment in the countries of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in…
The number of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war approached 350,000. It is impossible to even think about Ukraine's victory over Russia. There are many Ukrainians who did not want to enter the war. They surrender and go over… pic.twitter.com/7Z9jvnWsr5
Unless NATO forces join in the war (as the Zelensky cabal wants), the Kiev regime has no prospect even of recovering Donetsk and Lugansk regions, let alone Crimea.
If NATO forces were to join in the war, directly, a major conflagration would start across Central and Eastern Europe, maybe even into Western Europe. It might then go nuclear.
Zelensky has failed in his last desperate bid to win an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO – The Guardian pic.twitter.com/x3K5f5D632
This is why I wrote "How Shrinks Think" in 2014. Sometimes, our patients' stories are our stories, and when told respectfully and anonymously, they can do a great deal to reduce stigma.
There is a deeply-embedded sickness in the Western world now. The “trans” nonsense is just part of it. The sickness is actually being promoted by the power-concentrations of our society— Government, the msm, big business etc.
“A transgender activist who served 30 years in jail for attempted murder has told the crowd at a Trans Pride march if they saw a ‘TERF’, they should punch them in the face.
Sarah Jane Baker was one of the speakers at the Trans+ Pride event in London yesterday and used her speech to call for violence against those critical of trans ideology.
She told the cheering crowd: ‘I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay… Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.‘”
[Daily Mail]
The whole madness of this sort of thing has to be exterminated.
Incidentally, even the Daily Mail calls that individual “she” etc… Words are important. Designations are important.
These events, often during the working day, focused on transgender issues, sexuality and racism. They included a ‘tea and rainbow cake’ picnic and a special session on pronouns.“
Knives are not a problem. Those who carry and use them are a problem. Most of the latter, these days, are black or brown. I should prefer to see it lawful to carry a knife, but unlawful and heavily punished to threaten to use one, and very heavily punished to actually stab or slash anyone.
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US President Joe Biden has arrived in the UK, where he will meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. pic.twitter.com/A9AuYTPuIJ
The head of the French company TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanne: Europe may face gas shortages this winter
He noted that the European Union plans to completely fill the gas storage by October. “ But if the winter is cold, these reserves will not be enough to meet the needs of… pic.twitter.com/Xdxyl64mkW
What is really behind all this Chinese railway-building in Africa? Just influence-building? Just economic enterprise? Is there some long-term Chinese plan to colonize all or most of Africa, or maybe all or most of sub-Saharan Africa, “Black Africa”?
Elon Musk: Ukraine will lose even more territory in the event of a counteroffensive failure
The failure of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could lead to Kyiv losing a significant part of its territory , Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.
I’ve been on the front lines of the conflict of Ukraine to see for myself what is happening. The world is revolving around this small plot of land. It is important to come and see. The reality is far different than we are told it is . . . pic.twitter.com/oJP7hsO7p0
This is Nikoli, a life-long resident of Gorlovka, a city in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. While he still considers himself Ukrainian, he says that Donetsk can never be part of Ukraine again because the Ukrainian government has “acted against God” since 2014 in brutally… pic.twitter.com/GWpTN5nJDR
I went to the front lines of Donetsk today to see an Orthodox Church destroyed in 2014 when Ukrainian troops took it over and used it as a military base. They have continued to shell it since then. Ukraine continues to intentionally destroy churches throughout the country. pic.twitter.com/MzlLP2w6jW
This building in Gorlovka, now under repair, was shelled by Ukrainian forces in 2014. At the time, it was an orphanage. Today, it is a children’s social service center. pic.twitter.com/XIJylDmi9x
Treated myself to a nice dinner tonight in Donetsk City. The guy in the photo kept having the poor waitress send notes to a woman in the restaurant that he fancied. Life, love and lust go on in war time, and that is a comforting thought. pic.twitter.com/88mVNVg4nS
This is Dimitri. He, along with his mother and father, have been in the Donetsk people’s militia since 2014, defending themselves against Ukrainian aggression. His flat was shelled by Ukraine 3 days ago just as it had been in 2016. pic.twitter.com/ULg84xgnLs
This is a photo of Sasha, my translator in Donbas, in 2014 when she was 12 years old. The war has been going on for 9 years now. We’re being lied to when they say it started last year. pic.twitter.com/UfnrxJ4qCQ
Look at this Dublin street full of angry white men, probably angry white heterosexual men, demanding access to womens changing rooms. Owen Jones et al are fighting with women demanding that men getting off on being with women in vulnerable situations be allowed in all our spaces. pic.twitter.com/2lwV7TYyy4
That sort of nonsense scarcely existed even a decade ago, not as an aggressive and demanding movement, and was neither heard of nor tolerated in 2000, let alone 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960. I think that we must ask what are the powerful and wealthy forces promoting all this stuff., and why they are promoting it. #Great Reset…
The answer, as of today— 396. No less than 396 utter mugs, each sending pseudo-activist and grifter/fraudster “Jack Monroe” anything from £3.50 to £44 a month via the Patreon website.
Most of the msm are now avoiding “Jack Monroe”, but it seems that a few dozy scribblers and talking heads have still not got the message (see below):
Jack Monroe @bootstrapcook hates food, and doesn't campaign on anything. Maybe you can ask her what she's done with all her grifted cash.
Ah yes a foodie whose recipes don’t work and her latest book came was recalled with a health and safety warning. Perhaps you could ask her why she hasn’t refunded the legal fees she fraudulently crowd funded for or why she hasn’t fulfilled her patreon in years & hasn’t paused it
More narcissistic self-promotion. Other women (mainly) have tried the same “I am a victim” attention-seeking, including Jess Phillips MP and “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe”, the latter of whom most recently claimed to have reporters and stray peasants peering in her windows and ringing her doorbell. “Jack Monroe” also claimed that “celebrities” like her (ha…) were protected by a special Essex Police “celebrity and VIP” squad, which in fact does not exist. Neither did the “reporters” and stray peasants supposedly peering in at her windows and ringing doorbells etc.
One good piece of news is that another online self-promoter, part-Jew “activist” “Russ in Cheshire” (another supposedly “anti-Tory” “fighter”, like “Supertanskiii” and “Man Behaving Dadly”), has “left Twitter”. If so, very good news, but “Jack Monroe” has “left Twitter” many times and always returns with tales further stretching credulity (mental health emergencies, fake cancer diagnoses, terror threats, stalkers etc) and begging for more “donations”.
In fact, “Russ in Cheshire” has apparently merely moved his, er, operation over to the new Threads social media site; so he lives on to “grift” another day, so to speak.
What really happened when Boris Johnson "nearly died" of Covid-19, in 2020?
We've found out.
After an immense effort over 3 years, following a unique investigation, we have discovered the truth. We're exposing it all in the full detail it deserves in a long format, explosive,… pic.twitter.com/DrwkougsF9
— Marcus J Ball (Investigative Private Prosecutor) (@MarcusJBall) July 9, 2023
73% of surveyed Russians support SVO – poll by Levada Center*
For the entire period of the special operation, the level of trust in the government did not fall below 68% (in the very first month). Today the level of opposition does not exceed 19%. pic.twitter.com/Sqze3O62BD
If there does erupt a “revolution” in Russia, it will not be because of the war against the Kiev regime, unless perhaps the war is “lost” completely, which seems very unlikely.
If the difference in the production of artillery shells is so significant, then this may cause concern regarding the territorial acquisitions of Russia [in Ukraine] – Musk on the shell hunger of the West
The Ministry of Defense of Russia published a video of the destruction of an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian army in the direction of Zaporozhye.
The crew of the Russian reconnaissance-attack helicopter Ka-52 destroyed the armored vehicle with a precise hit of a guided missile pic.twitter.com/MQjJhu7ALd
The highbrow German weekly "Die Zeit" is asking its readers which "essential" restrictions&bans the government should impose on citizens (or, if they get their way, subjects).
The desire of left-wing German intellectuals to create totalitarian systems is seemingly unbreakable. pic.twitter.com/xlHhdOaaGN
The Russian Aerospace Forces strike at the command post and underground terrorist shelter "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" near Sarja in the province of Idlib, Syria. pic.twitter.com/LMvHUSoX11
South China Morning Post: Chinese military analysts for the first time began to simulate full-scale conflicts with the US-led North Atlantic Alliance at sea
The names of any specific countries were not mentioned in the study, however, the nomenclature of weapons, which included… pic.twitter.com/r0VVwMejc7
Business in Ukraine urged Zelensky to stop the wave of corruption and hostile takeovers
“Ukraine was covered by a wave of corruption and raider attacks. The lawlessness of werewolves in epaulettes and judicial robes has crossed all boundaries, ”says the appeal published on the…
Theft of 200 billion dollars in the United States.
More than $200 billion has been stolen from two major COVID-19 relief plans, according to a new estimate from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs pic.twitter.com/KoqZnIsgBc
Such frauds have become the biggest rip-offs since the old “reparations” scam taking money from Germany (etc) and giving it to Israel and/or the Jewish diaspora.
Switzerland rejected the application of the Swiss company for the sale of 96 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine – statement
Permission to supply tanks to Kiev was previously requested by the Swiss defense concern Ruag
The footage is published by the Ministry of Defense. In the South-Donetsk direction, the crews of reconnaissance and attack helicopters of the RF Armed Forces discovered the advancement of a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and destroyed it with guided… pic.twitter.com/8tZWavYnjS
Universal Credit is a broken system. I've used it myself in the past. By their own admission, the people who work for UC aren't fully trained. You speak to 10 people, you'll get 10 different answers, because the goalposts for who qualifies are constantly shifting.
All that…
— James P. Sumner | International Bestselling Author (@JPSumner) June 28, 2023
“Asylum seeker, 33, charged with raping a woman in a Skegness park late at night was staying at taxpayer-funded hotel housing migrants on the seafront after ‘arriving in the UK by dinghy just 40 days ago.”
“Debt-laden utility giant Thames Water is in a desperate race to secure £1billion and fend off its collapse, amid reports it might have to be taken over by the taxpayer.
The firm, which serves 15 million people and is Britain’s biggest water supplier, is a staggering £14 billion in debt and is reportedly on the ‘brink of collapse’.
On Tuesday, the firm’s chief executive Sarah Bentley dramatically stepped down from her top job.
…during her stint in charge, Thames Water has lurched from one disaster to the next – which saw the firm also being criticised for how much its top team are paid.
In May, the University of Kent-educated mother-of-five joined other water firm bosses in promising to give up her 2022-23 bonus amid fierce criticism of the sector. “
[Daily Mail]
£2M a year, to head a water company? To quote “Madame Hatchet”, “No No No!”…
In fact, no salaried person, whether in public or private employment, should be getting more than about £400,000 p.a.
“Pressure grows on Tory London mayoral hopeful Daniel Korski after groping allegation: Three women contact TV writer accuser with claims of sexual assault and inappropriate behaviour.”
[Daily Mail]
“Daniel Korski CBE (born April 1977[2]) is a “Danish” political adviser and businessperson. He worked as deputy head of the Number 10 Policy Unit for David Cameronand currently serves as a vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council. He founded the business PUBLIC, which aims to support technology companies to secure public sector contracts…On 28 June 2023, Daisy Goodwin filed an official complaint to the cabinet office about Korski’s alleged behaviour.”
[Wikipedia]
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I’m reliable told he does read these and hates them but all the front bench have been told not to block these tweeters.
— My dad was a toolmaker #Ready4Bollard (@HumanBollard) June 28, 2023
So Jewish-lobby puppet Wes Streeting wants to shove people under trains, shoot them, kill them etc? If someone not part of the Westminster bubble (or monkeyhouse) tweeted that, the police would be at the door. Equal treatment under the law? That will be the day…
Hahha Chris Bryant unblocked me the other day to threaten me with libel! So I sent him the evidence….. not a peep back 👍 So I muted him.
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) June 26, 2023
I first visited Moscow in the early summer, I think May or June, of 1993. The country and even Moscow was just about functioning. On its knees. I was (nominally) “invited” (you had to be “invited” officially in Soviet days to be granted an individual visa, a practice still notionally followed in 1993) by the Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt. I stayed in the Hotel Ukraina on or by Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
[Hotel Ukraina, Moscow. Incidentally, my own room, quite large, but gloomy and with a huge 1950s-style fridge empty except for green mould, was towards the left of the photo here, in the main block, and only a few floors above ground level]
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💥 Ukrainian armored vehicles destroyed this morning in the battle on the outskirts of Zherebyanki by the fire of the Vladikavkaz infantry and artillery. pic.twitter.com/hRfOevWLxQ
NATO will change the status of the air force mission for the protection of the skies of the Baltic states to combat, Stoltenberg said. Previously, there was the status of the air police.
The so-called air police control the space above the Baltic states and are not considered a… pic.twitter.com/nWy4nddYVn
Europe is approaching disaster – unfortunately in every sense. Now it is possible to prevent an even bigger disaster and save thousands of lives, but for that it is necessary to stop the psychosis of war. I have no more illusions that this could happen today at the meeting of EU…
The crew of the operational-tactical missile system "Iskander-M" of the Western Military District carried out an attack on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of special military operations , the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced. pic.twitter.com/rEmNkCmIYr
And the Italian Corriere della Sera, next to the portrait of Prigogine, quotes Machiavelli's classic quote: “Mercenary troops are useless and dangerous; the power that rests on a mercenary army will never be either strong or durable, for mercenaries are ambitious, dissolute,… pic.twitter.com/zryQH1RltC
Journalists to be monitored in the West in the name of "national security" – The Daily Mail
EU countries are going to approve the use of spyware to reveal secret sources of journalists in the name of national security. pic.twitter.com/tajOqiz5Lc
The Russian army advanced in the LPR and in the Kharkiv region There are reports of the liberation of the village of Sinkovka and access to the operational space in the north of the LPR. Here, Russian servicemen allegedly create a foothold across the Oskol River. The information… pic.twitter.com/EqrJ39Pd1h
4) when the time is up and people ask where their money is. DARVO them and say it's been sent to a charity. Make something up about why you can't name the charity. 5) close your twitter so you have an echo chamber of love It's called the Jack Monroe charity begins at home method
While crossing a bridge, a calf fell into a channel. Rescuers place an excavator further to run a rescue. The operator saves the animal with a single gentle move. A masterful skill is best when used for a kind act. pic.twitter.com/Ri9PqkzlR6
Same old, same old. Corbyn wanted to stop the likes of Murdoch dominating British politics. Starmer is following Blair and begging Murdoch for his support. This means nothing will change. The establishment is safe in Starmer's hands.#SocialistSundaypic.twitter.com/w2dK0OENqJ
Starmer is merely the monkey; the organ-grinders are NWO/ZOG.
Irresponsible and reckless," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said about Russia's deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus.
Stoltenberg noted that NATO sees "no sign that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons," adding that the alliance "remains… pic.twitter.com/MxXeEknOZ5
Confessions of American officers who were present at the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq on the night of the attack on that base by Iranian tactical ballistic missiles:
Concrete barriers shattered and crumbled like in a movie, everything around was destroyed.
Now imagine the damage strategic nuclear missiles cause, or would cause if they were to land in Oslo, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, London etc. Avoid that. Scale back support for the Jew-Zionist Zelensky and his corrupt and thoroughly brutal regime in Kiev. Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
As for Kiev itself, it may be doomed.
American analysts and officials expected a different outcome from Prigozhin's rebellion, reports CNN.
US military analysts predicted serious resistance from the troops of the Russian Ministry of Defense to the columns of the Wagner PMC.
James Rickards: Russia is preparing to release news that will shock the world
Russia and its BRICS partners will soon announce news that will shock global markets. These results were shared by an American financial expert, former CIA consultant James Rickards. pic.twitter.com/uTAjclErOS
In Europe, Zelensky was accused of selling land to foreigners
Irish MEP Wallace accuses Ukrainian President Zelensky of selling land to foreign buyers. He claims that local oligarchs, having colluded with international financial capital, “stole” Ukrainian cities and adjacent… pic.twitter.com/lAjvx5tt9j
I wonder what (((kind))) of (((foreign buyers))) they might be?
At the front near Avdiivka, a new Russian kamikaze drone called "Gadfly" has begun to be used. In the footage, this drone strikes the dugout of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/oJX0xAla3g
A city I have never visited, and which I am now even less likely to visit. The few people I have known who have visited Marseilles were not favourably impressed, and that was before the present migration-invasion even started.
Putin called on the soldiers of the Wagner group to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense, return home or go to Belarus pic.twitter.com/1ZW6gShBVN
Germany and France want to end veto rights in the EU this year.
In what could be the beginning of the end for European nations, Germany and France are determined to reform national rights, including the EU's right to veto. The debate has caused a stir in recent months, and in…
We didn’t want to overthrow Putin’s government, Wagner chief says
The head of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group says its recent aborted mutiny was not an attempt to overthrow the government of President Vladimir Putin.https://t.co/N6lFtt6ccf
As I surmised, a “revolt of the Streltsy“, rather than a new revolution or civil war, though either or both may occur somewhere down the line.
Neil Oliver: Any government – one that has set aside any notion of accountability to the people, any credible pretence of caring about the people in favour of serving the markets, banks and unelected, unaccountable transnational interests can and surely will tell the people lies. pic.twitter.com/6DFi6G87Gu
As for Sunak, he does not really care that his “green tax” load on the taxpayer may cost the Conservative Party some votes. Those controlling both Sunak and Starmer will win, whichever of the two main System parties “wins” a rigged election.
There's still an archipelago called the British Isles, but there's no such place as Britain, not any more. https://t.co/s2xErqHe0W
(but what is now happening in Rostov and elsewhere right now strikes me as more like the rebellion of the Streltsy in the 17thC than the opening of a second Russian Civil War; we shall see). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journal John Rentoul. I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10. I did not know the answers to question 5 (actually, I “hit the post” with the name), or questions 6 and 9, and I pretty much guessed numbers 3 and 7, if truth be known.
“The Home Office is planning to house hundreds of migrants in marquees across the country.
The government’s plans come as today it was revealed that the number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is now higher than the number for June last year.
According to official figures, 312 asylum seekers were intercepted in eight boats by UK officials yesterday.
[“Intercepted“? You mean “ferried to the UK”].
This brings the official number of migrant crossings this month to 3,303 in 68 boats – an average of 49 people crammed into each inflatable dinghy or other small craft.
More people thought to be migrants arrived in Dover earlier today as people smugglers took advantage of the weather of low winds and no rainfall.
Border Force vessel Ranger was spotted this afternoon patrolling the 21-mile Dover Straits after dropping a group of migrants at the port.“
[Daily Mail]
Get that— the “Border Farce” vessel (taxi service for migrant invaders) dropped off a group of invaders at Dover, then went out looking for more “customers”…
“Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice.
Decision comes after a government report found the hunt does not comply with Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act.
Iceland’s government has said it is suspending this year’s whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, a move that is likely to bring the controversial practice to an end.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists hailed the decision, with the Humane Society International calling it “a major milestone in compassionate whale conservation”.
Shocking video clips broadcast by the veterinary authority showed a whale’s agony as it was hunted for five hours.
The country has only one remaining whaling company, Hvalur, and its licence to hunt fin whales expires in 2023. Another company stopped for good in 2020, saying it was no longer profitable.
Iceland’s whaling season runs from mid-June to mid-September, and it is doubtful Hvalur would head out to sea that late in the season.
Annual quotas authorise the killing of 209 fin whales – the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale – and 217 minke whales, one of the smallest species. But catches have fallen drastically in recent years due to a dwindling market for whale meat.
…but why call her (“Jack Monroe”, alias Melissa Hadjicostas) “they“? It’s not “their silence” but “her silence”. Proper English.
Jack Monroe is an out and out fraud.
Russian insurgent forces are spreading in all directions. Volgograd, Krasnodar, Moscow, you name it. No serious resistance is reported.#Russia#Couppic.twitter.com/5lCy7HA6Rt
Is that so? Truth or speculation? I do not know at present.
Thinking ahead, what happens if the present Russian Government is toppled? What replaces it? Would that be one willing to (in effect) surrender to the NWO/ZOG cabals, or one willing to really take the fight to Zelensky in Kiev?
Nothing firm is known as yet.
🚨 Russian aviation is conducting strikes on Wagner PMC columns moving toward Moscow on the M4 highway. pic.twitter.com/JNGK5Uu2uC
Truth is, of course, the first casualty. Speculation abounds, and of course the “usual suspects” are stirring everything, as are other pro-Zelensky tweeters.
I imagine that even the Russian overseas diplomatic missions do not know what is going on, not even the SVR and GRU.
🚨LATEST COUP UPDATES: PUTIN SPEAKS, PRIGOZHIN RESPONDS, HEAVY CLASHES BEGIN NEAR MOSCOW
– Putin FINALLY made a speech in which he mentioned “treason” and “mutiny” twice, talked about Russia “fighting hard for its future”, labelled the events as an “internal mutiny” and a “stab… pic.twitter.com/dXVeG72cw6
"We will only move towards Moscow. We ask the Armed Forces not to resist us" – Wagner PMC pic.twitter.com/2ZodCwkdMY
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
Again, who he? I have no idea. Is he a Wagner operator, or merely someone pretending to be one? If it is true (as claimed by many on Twitter) that official checkpoints are merely waving Wagner units through without check or opposition, then that mirrors what happened in previous Russian upheavals, from the Yeltsin and Gorbachev eras right back to the two Russian revolutions of 1917.
A huge Wagner / renegade Russian army convoy is in Voronezh oblast and on the way Moscow. I counted no less than 72 vehicles and the camera was several times not pointing at the road. Could be 100 or more.#Coup#Russia#Voronezh#Moscowpic.twitter.com/rbjHg9H5TE
Reportedly, Medvedev was evacuated from Moscow region together with his family and assistants.
Previously there was information that a helicopter allegedly with Putin on board left for Valday. pic.twitter.com/hixuuqtXfn
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
What now? Is there time (and the requisite high-level military support) for Putin to order a massive and unrestrained strategic missile attack (a last-ditch and bitter action to achieve battlefield victory) on Kiev, regardless of the Wagner Group situation? We have to just sit and wait to see.
Navigation on the Moskva river, which runs through the Russian 🇷🇺 capital Moscow, was temporarily suspended on Saturday amid a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, the state TASS news agency TASS reported, citing the authoritieshttps://t.co/Qg18KzpHCohttps://t.co/tcL4MsKyqF
Well, if Prigozhin actually topples Putin, then he follows in the tradition of Russian revolutionary leaders (and others) having (in the Russian word) “sat” in prison. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky etc. They were there mainly for political crimes, though, whereas Prigozhin was imprisoned for crimes of acquisition: fraud, theft, robbery, burglary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#Early_life. He did 9 years altogether.
Also, the conditions of confinement for the Bolshevik leaders were comfortable, once they arrived in Siberian exile. Houses in remote villages, not much restraint on their liberty, and Lenin was even allowed a hunting rifle with ammunition, as was, I think, Stalin!
Prigozhin’s 9 years of Soviet-era prison must have been far less easy. He’s a tough ex-con, among other things.
At any rate, it looks at present as if PMC Wagner is the Praetorian Guard of Russia now. Tomorrow? Maybe, maybe not— “tomorrow is another day“…
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Sadly not as she has a Patreon and gigs about once a month and a tipjar still rattling and royalties truckling in. She relies on passive income. Time was when we had to work through the night battling FMs. Now crickets. She can't come on here even to talk about ice cream flavours
(the “FMs” refers to “flying monkeys“, the term used by “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” for her fanatical supporters, many of which have mental problems).
Average £11pcm per rage nan so still £4,500pcm for lying in bed stoned.
https://t.co/1OlfSsQwzn She survived the siege in part cause her family were theater set designers and always had plenty of carpenter’s glue lying around. During the worst times they smeared it on bread and ate it like jelly. Someone tell #JackMonroe.
Ha. If “Jack Monroe” were to eat glue, at least she might be unable to utter more lies. Well, it’s a thought…
All & any of which would equally testify as to my legitimacy & my intentions in the ongoing quest to expose Jack Monroe for the thief, liar & fraud that she is. I am sure that i can count on @frugally_minded to confirm that she knows my real name 4/.
“Jack Monroe” is still, as of today, being sent between £3.50 and £44 a month by each of 414 utter mugs. Thousands of pounds being sent to her monthly, in cash, and for absolutely nothing.
I cannot see Reeves successfully running a bath or even a corner shop, given the depth of financial competence & judgment needed to plan, run & rescue the sliding post-Tory Bexshit UK capitalist economy so it works sustainably again for the many as well as the few. So. GIGO.🇵🇸🇺🇦
If the opinion polls are correct, Labour may form the next government, but when people vote “Labour”, they are actually getting pro-Israel careerists and money-grubbers such as Rachel Reeves, who is little different, though possibly better-educated, than the likes of Iain Duncan Dunce Smith.
Labour is now just a label; some of its own MPs have said as much.
Early this morning, #Trantifa clashed with protesters of a children’s drag event at the Honor Oak Pub in south London. One of the #Antifa hit a woman on the head with a stick. Antifa are furious police weren’t there to protect them at around 6 am. pic.twitter.com/3z5DfOV09d
Seldom have I seen anything this surreal. Tanks on streets, snipers kneeling waiting for the imminent arrival of the Chechen units in what may be one hell of a battle.
And the people of #Rostov seem to be blissfully unaware or determined not to move from their front row seats! pic.twitter.com/GQKJMx9EAi
Slightly reminiscent of the staged “popular uprising” against Ceausescu in 1989. Not that it was not popular in the sense of many, probably most, Romanians liking it, but it was not popular in the sense that the “plebs” took an active part. It was a stage-managed thing, and many of those on the streets were aware of that. They knew that they were just “spear-carriers” in a show put on for the overseas and domestic TV audience.
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Don't think I've ever seen Jack as "positive". All I see from her are snark, bullying and threats.
Poor people know more about cooking on a budget than a scrounging middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe. Poor people don't need condescending advice, they need money. Jack is called out for missing charity money, unfulfilled patreon subscriptions, and missing legal funds
It really is incredible how many people (at least on Twitter) think that saying “effing Tories” and making the right noises about the cost of living under them (with the assumption that fake “Labour” would be much much better, of course) constitutes something massive. As for those “recipes”, have you seen them? I should prefer bread and cheese, or just bread…
“Jack Monroe” is not the only one making a fairly good living out of Twitter “activism” of that sort. There are a number of others, e.g. “@supertanskiii”. Completely useless pseudo-activists who are basically “grifters” (at best).
That useless NIgerian parasite, “@FemiSorry”, is another one.
Her recipes are frequently debunked as inedible, unworkable or nutritionally devoid.
Its all an act from Jack Monroe, her entire back story falls apart at the lightest scrutiny, and she's been caught lying and grifting too many times to be credible.https://t.co/zM5NRDPC8P
The lack of real ideology (going beyond vague nationalism and fawning over replicas of pre-1917 Russianism such as the Orthodox Church) in Putin’s Russia worked only so long as there was relative peace and prosperity. Now, the peace and much of the prosperity has gone or is going, and hope with it, and that leaves a vacuum. Russians need more than bread alone.
As regular readers of the blog will know, yesterday afternoon I was at the Magistrates’ Court at Southampton for a while, at a case management hearing in relation to the prosecution of me instigated by the evil and malicious pack known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (any trial will not be until November or December 2023, or possibly even on a date in 2024).
Later, in mid-afternoon, I was driving out through the nearby suburbs of Southampton. I happened to pass a pharmacy or, as people used to say, a chemist’s shop, on a mini-roundabout: the Bassett Pharmacy.
The Bassett Pharmacy, which I recognized from having seen a picture in the newspapers a couple of years ago, was called the Sunak Pharmacy at one time, and was owned until 2014 by the mother of Rishi Sunak, the Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister.
The Bassett Pharmacy sits on the corner of the road, next to a dentist’s surgery; there are a couple of other shops, one called, amusingly, “Talons— hair and nails”. Round the corner, a scruffy small area with cars parked, then, around another, similar, corner, an Indian-Bangladeshi restaurant, a cafe, and several more shops.
What struck me was not that a prime minister might have come from such humble circumstances —that is not so unusual, thinking of Mrs. Thatcher, John Major and others— but that Sunak should have originated there (I think that his family lived in a house not far away) and yet now is almost suffused with great wealth by reason of his own finance-business activities and also marriage into one of India’s richest families. What a contrast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak.
I wonder whether the money-juggler will still be Prime Minister this time next year. The opinion polls say no, but these things rarely work out as expected. I have no completely fixed view, despite the evident incompetence of the present government.
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This shows what kind of person LG is and how different he is to Jack Monroe.
Thank you for all you did, I hope you get your money and some peace now x https://t.co/8dUvF0ALCg
ANALYSIS UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE JUNE 22 How is the Ukrainian counteroffensive faring, after 19 days? It's stuck, like the Ukrainian T-64 in the video below. The least surprised are probably Russian military leadership and planners. Most disappointed are probably Ukraine's… pic.twitter.com/1TDBKDDpcA
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 22, 2023
Warning: The Ukrainian counter-offensive failed miserably. The US needs a massive false flag to keep the war going. Something that affects NATO countries directly, like a cloud of nuclear radiation. They will blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and blame it on Russia ☢️
Acc the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky, the Challenger 2 tanks provided by the UK were used in the exercises, but are in reserve. pic.twitter.com/7P02tQkWOL
Forbes reports on several brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that were worn out during the offensive, in particular, the 117th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 37th Marine Brigade of the new formationhttps://t.co/79uEzafYtj
In the event of an armed conflict with the Russian Federation, Poland will become a lifeless desert
The Polish army is frantically transferring weapons to the borders with Belarus in order to ensure a quick rotation with the participation of NATO troops in Poland and the Baltic… pic.twitter.com/eXbXYUiFTg
Traffic on the Chongarsky bridge between the Kherson region and Crimea will not be opened for 15-20 days, the damage was serious, said Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo pic.twitter.com/Si6WiBfZid
The Alternative for Germany party continued its rating growth and overtook all parties of the ruling coalition, taking second place, behind the opposition CDU/CSU, in the regular monthly "Deutschland Trend" survey. According to this survey, if elections were held in Germany now,…
A WIN for #WHALES! 🐳The Icelandic Minister suspended fin whaling due to animal welfare violations. IFAW hopes this will be the final curtain call for commercial whaling in Iceland and applauds the bold action of the Icelandic government. 👏👏https://t.co/qRZ1UttWEw
"Wagner PMC commanders remain loyal to the most promising politician and will follow any order he gives them. Neither the Federal Security Service nor Surovikin will be able to stop what has begun." pic.twitter.com/JoRHC6wVOM
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 23, 2023
Will there be some kind of second Civil War in Russia somewhere down the line? Maybe.
Russian General Sergey Surovikin appealed to the commanders of Wagner PMC and urged them to obey the orders of the President of the Russian Federation.
"I urge you to stop, the enemy is just waiting for the internal political situation to worsen in our country – you can’t give… pic.twitter.com/dUuIPNanP7
Russian channel DONTSTOPWAR reports that a 50km long Wagner-column has crossed the Novoshakhtinskaya border checkpoint into Russia reportedly heading for Novocherkassk (towards Rostov-on-Don).
BREAKING: Prigozhi and the private military company, Wagner group are apparently declaring war on the Russian Ministry of Defence. They say that there was a Russian rocket strike on Wagner's mercenaries.
🚨OMON Riot police have surrounded Wagner PMC headquarters in Molkino. Wagner troops have taken defensive positions. Helicopter armed with gatling guns dispatched to the area. This base is shared with GRU 10th Separate Special Purpose Brigade. Guess which side they're on. pic.twitter.com/sG4BBURJox
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10, whereas I managed 8/10. I did not know the answer to question 2, and I could not think of the answer to question 3 even though I “really” knew it.
Some woman called Charlotte Owen, apparently once “assistant” to Boris Johnson, is to be likewise elevated, at the early age of 29. Does that reward merit, or supine mediocrity (or worse)? I wonder.
I notice that Ben Houchen, once seen as a potential political star, has likewise been elevated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Houchen. A consolation prize, I suppose, for losing out on a Parliamentary seat now that the fortunes of the Conservative Party are diving in the opinion polls. The same would have been true of Alok Sharma and, possibly, Nadine Dorries, had their peerages not been blocked. Sharma and Houchen would certainly not have been re-elected or elected, respectively.
Cartoon of the day?
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It’s a sad day for Britain when Boris Johnson’s hairdresser is one of the most competent people on the honours list.
— Kate O’Pfehilighbh (@kmontaguekate) June 9, 2023
It is significant that despite the flood of the Dnieper, there are many more fires on the Russian coast, which refutes the version of the Ukrainian side about Russian shelling of the Kherson region pic.twitter.com/IJVsprMoiK
Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Orehov sector of the Zaporizhzhya Front: 4th day in short – failed, destructive pic.twitter.com/ED3aNFM8S7
One cannot expect loyalty or even basic decency from most people. When I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) in 2016, some 8 years after I had ceased Bar practice, and by reason of a malicious and contrived complaint by a pack of Jews, not one member of the Bar spoke up either to support me or to defend the principles of free speech and freedom of expression. The days of the free and fearless independent Bar of England have long gone. All that remains is a mass of craven careerists, fearful that “the authorities” (suborned by the Jew/Israel lobby) will look unfavourably upon them, and/or that Jewish solicitors will blackball them in terms of giving them work.
I just donated 20 British pounds to support Sven Longshanks. Chip in if you can!
This war is testing the artefacts of 21stC warfare, and reshaping what warfare is. The use of drones is only one example.
In 1953 Britain looked to a young woman, for a new age. In 2023 Britain was renewed in the face and body of an old man. Both, perhaps, felt quite fitting, for the moment.
The 1953 Coronation still had something somehow sacred about it, even if perhaps not 100% genuine. Compare that to the Coronation of the new Charles III. He looked uncertain, like someone —to use the current phrase— “cosplaying” the role; an actor in a poor production, an actor slightly miscast.
The bizarre thing about this is that all it can do is wound Sunak and the party overall. Resigning reduces the prospect of Sunak’s removal. There are fewer MPs to write letters. There’s no alternative candidate. No clear alternative strategy. Apparently, just bloodlust.
“No clear alternative strategy“? That has been the leitmotif of “Conservative” governments for at least 8 years now, arguably longer, so why not of “Boris”-idiot and his cohorts not in government?
The West's accusations of aggressiveness against Russia are an attempt to cover up an unwillingness to listen to Moscow's concerns," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on statements by Biden and other Western leaders that "if Putin is allowed to win, then after… pic.twitter.com/L0HKLkIVm4
The Kakhovka reservoir has become shallow. The water has almost completely left the territory of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which was flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the city authorities said. pic.twitter.com/cS6LlFClx2
“Remember how Ursula von der Leyen announced to the whole world that due to Western sanctions, Russia would have to produce weapons from refrigerator parts? Watch how these refrigerator parts destroy the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia is making the entire NATO alliance… pic.twitter.com/mTj6TlwEX9
NEWS UPDATE INFOWAR SWEDEN EVENING JUNE 10 Another example of how MSM in the West distorts the truth are from Sweden's largest liberal tabloid Expressen. What do they say about the offensive? First of all they confirmed that there is an offensiv, but not until Zelensky also…
— Mikael Valtersson (@MikaelValterss1) June 10, 2023
Ian Robert Millard 