I am that age, consume almost no mainstream media and have no interest in supporting foreign wars. Learned my shameful lesson with Iraq. I try to encourage everyone to use X. Even MY mother (in her eighties) gave up on Fox over its coverage.
There is a definite gulf between the older and younger generations (without defining the exact age boundaries too precisely). The older someone is, the more likely that that person will both watch and trust the TV news (in the UK, BBC, ITV, Sky, in that order), and will also take seriously the print newspapers, either in their original form or in their online offshoots.
I doubt whether anyone under 30, perhaps anyone under 40, actually buys print newspapers any more. I am 67, and have not bought a real newspaper for at least 20 years. Looking in the local Waitrose, I notice that the only people buying newspapers are those in their eighties, at a guess.
There's no money to invest. The US Govt is broke. No surplus in decades. $34 trillion in debt. $214 trillion in unfunded liabilities (without surplus that's debt). You run a bankrupt nation surviving with money printing. For that reason the world stops trading in USD. It's over.
“Almost unnoticed amid the drama and crisis that hit Latin America every week, in the last days of February the Cuban government asked the United Nations for aid to address a growing food shortage.
The unprecedented cry for help from a communist regime that has always prided itself on its social welfare model captures Cuba’s dire economic straits. Hurt by tightened US restrictions, decaying domestic production, a weak post-Covid tourism industry and indifference from its allies, the island is living through its worst economic days since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. A string of blackouts brought people into the streets last weekend, shouting for “food and power” — a rare display of social unrest since the turmoil that shook the island in July 2021, which the regime contained with crushing force.
Once you get past the finger-pointing, what we’re witnessing is the collapse of Cuba’s socialist regime. This transition could take decades. Or it could happen in much the same way as that great Cuba aficionado Ernest Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy: “Gradually, then suddenly.”
[Bloomberg]
While I would not regard myself as “expert” on Cuba, I think that I probably know a bit more than the Average Joe. I once passed an exam in Cuban History 1940-1970, and have read the main histories, albeit long long ago (early 1980s).
I have never actually been there, though I have seen it from the air (overflying from Tampa, Florida to Grand Cayman) and sea (en route from Panama to the Bahamas); pace Sarah Palin, claiming to be informed about Russia because she had seen the extremity of Russian Federation territory from Alaska…
I wonder why? 🤔 The only time ever I didn't have to block hundreds of Z scum in the comments, they suddenly disappeared after seeing this video! https://t.co/HqyQecWdsD
— Knights Templar International (@KnightsTempOrg) March 25, 2024
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to all Russian people. We stand together with our brothers and sisters in this difficult moment. God help and protect Russia.
"Swedish Social Democrats are turning into Blue Labour". Interesting piece on how even the left in Sweden now accepts mass immigration has been a total failure | @unherdhttps://t.co/53HERXWCCU
Disingenuous. Only 15% migrants come to Britain for high skill jobs
We could dramatically slash numbers outside NHS to lower migration
We cd reform medical places + social care, increase pay + improve conditions so less reliant on immigration Ponzi scheme + avoid looming… https://t.co/BmUHBGARir
"Remarkably, Reform is now polling ahead of the Tories among men, Brexit voters, northerners, the working-class, and is just two points behind in England"https://t.co/YuCB28cxic
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 25, 2024
Utter lunacy. The bottom line from all of the Russian sanctions is that the UK is poorer, with a tanking economic trajectory. Meanwhile the Russians are coining it in, selling energy to the UK through 3rd and 4th parties.
China, Russia and the BRICS Alliance nations are doing a…
— Herd Immunity News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) March 24, 2024
“Utter lunacy. The bottom line from all of the Russian sanctions is that the UK is poorer, with a tanking economic trajectory.
Meanwhile the Russians are coining it in, selling energy to the UK through 3rd and 4th parties. China, Russia and the BRICS Alliance nations are doing a roaring trade, fuelled by the sanctions and fossil fuels at record low prices for themselves.
These traitors need to be ousted.“
All true, but the little Indian money-juggler posing as Prime Minister either cannot see it or is following another agenda, one in which the interests of the British people are of little or no importance.
The Iron Dome missile defense intercepts missiles launched from the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/ysoqPgCoLX
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Zelensky’s statements that Ukraine has never used terrorism as a means of struggle are a lie.
Journalist Vincent Hervouet said on TV channel Europe 1. He recalled two high-profile murders behind which Kyiv was – Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky. pic.twitter.com/qndaisrCmy
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Member of the British Parliament George Galloway named 4 probable reasons according to which the USA, Great Britain and Ukraine were involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.
“When the US, UK and others quickly tried to convince me that it was only ISIS that carried… pic.twitter.com/z8k9pZ6Z0D
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Putin said that it is necessary to answer the question of why the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine after committing a crime in Crocus, and who was waiting for them there pic.twitter.com/mFfsH9vC9A
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
Residents of the Russian Far East noticed an unidentified luminous object in the night sky. pic.twitter.com/k67rxjfbJz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 25, 2024
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An interesting tweet by one Ed West, but why am I still surprised that a “deputy editor” and published author is apparently unaware that “motherlode” (also “mother lode”) is not spelled “motherload”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode
I suppose that I should now be used to the ever-sliding standards in this country…
True, I have been writing off the LibDems since the betrayals of 2010, but the trajectory remains downward.
Humpty-Dumpty LibDem was broken in 2010. Votes and seats slid in 2015 and then 2017 (though number of seats increased from 8 to 12 in 2017), though there was an upturn in 2019: over 3.5 million votes (an upturn of over 50%) but a decline in number of seats (from 12 to 11) thanks to the way the FPTP system and the boundaries of seats work in Britain (cf. 2017).
Looking into it a little more, it can be seen that the LibDems benefited a little from being the only 100% Remain party. Next time? I still think that the LibDems will be wiped out. Few of their MPs have a strong local following to set against the party-label vote swings. Also, what is the standout profile of the LibDems now? They have no real identity, it seems to me.
Surprisingly, the LibDem membership numbers are not unhealthy: over 120,000, it seems, which is in the same ballpark as the Conservative Party. However, that alone does not bring electoral success (cf. Labour, with perhaps 600,000 members).
I should expect the LibDems to decline further and perhaps to disappear, at least as an independent party.
Well, there it is. The print newspapers are mortally ill and maybe on their last legs. These screeds of rubbish have been declining in quality as long as I can remember. In the 1970s, the quality level was better by far. The old Daily Telegraph magazine, published on Fridays, contained serious reportage and interesting feature journalism: see
Look at the Telegraph itself now! Uncritical Boris Johnson “Conservative” propaganda, and at an excruciatingly low intellectual level. Ironically, though, it was the Telegraph, in the 2005-2010 Parliament, that broke the MP expenses scandal, one of the most serious stories of the past half-century. It does say something about the UK’s “free Press”, though, that MP expenses were an open secret for years, certainly since 1997 and the corruption Blair brought into UK politics, yet were not investigated until the Telegraph decided to take it all seriously and to print.
In the 1970s, even some of the less-serious or less intellectual newspapers, such as the Sunday Express, sometimes contained interesting first-person accounts and so on.
Look at, say, The Times now! Pathetic and shallow “Conservative” and Zionist propaganda. As for the Sunday Times magazine, more or less what used to be called a “woman’s magazine“, full of ads and with little substance in its content.
I welcome the demise of the print newspapers and their fundamentally Zionist-contaminated agenda.
Completely infested.
They even decided to print one-sided stories about me back in late 2016! (Google “Ian Millard barrister” to see some).
True, those newspapers all have an online presence now, but the Times and most of the Telegraph are behind a paywall and, like the others, have to compete for public attention with other sources of news, some of which are, mirabile dictu, not so (((infested and contaminated))).
Why not @newpaulhearn? The point about Sweden was what it did *not* do – house arrest and economic self-strangulation. One week's mortality figures, taken in isolation, don't make a case for these futile measures. Think rather about this : https://t.co/lBf0wM3xLrhttps://t.co/jV9pazJaMJ
Where I deviate from Hitchens in respect of the above is that the number of “lives blighted” should be at least 36,000, maybe as high as 90,000. Why? Most employees laid off have wives (or husbands), children too. Then there is the knock-on effect on the local retail sector as local purchasing power diminishes. Also, redundancies in the supply chain.
— The Jewish Chronicle (@JewishChron) May 21, 2020
Not exactly surprising. There has been a Jewish coup in Labour, one over 4-5 years. Starmer is its figurehead. He is not a Jew, but is married to a Jewish woman (a lawyer) and their children are being brought up as Jewish…
I thought that the Jewish Chronicle had gone up the chimney. Seems not.
Despite being in the august pages of the Criminal Law Journal, the report, penned by one Laura Bliss of Edge Hill University in Lancashire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Hill_University] misdescribes (?) Alison Chabloz as “a holocaust revolutionist“! Well, if the cap fits, though “revisionist” was probably the term used in court. Ms. Bliss also mispells Elie Wiesel’s name as “Wiezel”. How about “weasel”?
Sadly, most of the report is behind a paywall.
More tweets seen
Below: looks as though someone has woken up, at least…
— Susan Shepherd #FBPE @midgecat.bsky.social💙💙💙 (@Midgecat) May 21, 2020
My feelings exactly: Boris Johnson, Boris-idiot, completely out of his depth as Prime Minister, a part-Jew public entertainer, is turning the UK into a banana republic. It was already on the way there, but that idiot has made it official
Still, so what if he bunged one of his not-very-interesting-looking girlfriends a hundred grand or so out of public funds? Worse things happen in black Africa…oh, wait…
Nobody is the slightest bit surprised that Boris is not going to be investigated in the Jennifer Arcuri scandal. I am sure all Bullingdon club members pretty much get automatic membership of the same Masonic lodges as senior police & other powerful types get into.
Seems that only 12% of people have really thought this through, while 47% are a panic-stricken mob.
Look at the graph below. Look at “actual impact”…
Nigel Farage
A complete busted flush. The man has the gall to continue whining about illegal migration (migration-invasion) to the UK, while having stabbed in the back his own party (parties, really, meaning both UKIP and Brexit Party) because he wanted to enable the victory of the misnamed “Conservative” Party, and (of as much importance for someone who is plainly another doormat for the Jewish lobby) the defeat of Corbyn’s Labour Party.
I just witnessed the French Navy escorting illegal migrants into British waters, despite the money we are paying them.
They even tried to prevent us from filming the handover, as you can see in the video.
Of course, what he says about the invasion is true, but he carries no weight. It is partly because of his electoral manipulation that the present government has a large majority; thus a thick-as-two-short planks Ugandan Indian, Priti Patel, now sits, uselessly, as Home Secretary, doing nothing to stem the invasion (of which she herself and her parents were part, albeit in the wider sense).
This is what happened when Nigel Farage travelled offshore and witnessed an illegal migrants boat being handed to the British Border Force. @Nigel_Faragehttps://t.co/6TJXwRLUuf
and see here (below) a metropolis-based newspaper drone (columnist, deputy editor), one Sarah Baxter, laughing at concerns around the migration-invasion. Well, why should she worry? £500,000 a year (at a guess)? Large house or penthouse? Good neighbourhood(s)? Second home in the country?
The Sunday Times' @SarahbaxterSTM mocked: “The old @Nigel_Farage immigrant song sounds way off key”. 2 million have watched #Farage's video in 24 hrs. Who is “way off key” now, Sarah? Your paper sells barely a fifth of the audience the film has reached. https://t.co/M3Q0ZwX2xy
This is an organized and/or facilitated invasion of this country, an invasion by persons who have no connection with Britain, and who will be millstones round the neck of the people.
Govt adviser prof Robert Dingwall says the Government's coronavirus warnings have "effectively terrorised" Britons "into believing that this is a disease that is going to kill you" even though most those infected will not be hospitalised.https://t.co/lGVEa7nY3x
Extraordinary. Can YouTube confirm and explain this extraordinary action? Internet appears to be a policed despotism rather than the free republic people used to think it was. https://t.co/DeSOEFEDjx
The Expert the Government Ignored : Oxford Epidemiology Professor Sunetra Gupta gives a view very different from Prof Ferguson : https://t.co/gYhlKnsDg9
Professor Sunetra Gupta of Oxford ' Different countries have had different lockdown policies, and yet what we’ve observed is almost a uniform pattern of behaviour.' https://t.co/gYhlKnsDg9
55,000 surplus deaths – many of them the result of #lockdown – in Britain this year. Compare this with the 1968 flu epidemic, which directly killed 80,000 people in the UK.
Had to emerge from my cave to complete my appointed rounds. On the return journey, my less than contented mood was made worse as I went through a more or less suburban area, only to see some rabbits waiting at the end of their short drives or standing in gardens, about to participate in the State-promoted and socially-mandated “clapathon”. Not many, about one house out of about 20, I would say. Mostly very elderly, though there were a few odd children too. The sight of all the rabbits standing waiting, like robots, or serfs populating Potemkin villages, irritated me even more than it usually would.
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Note to govt: It's no use praising yourself for rescuing someone from drowning when you have yourself just pushed them into the sea. Rishi Sunak's magic money furlough payments would not be needed, if he hadn't shut down the economy. https://t.co/bDTaVfPmXH
Do you @john01162565 have *any * evidence that mass house arrest and throttling the economy have saved a single life? If so, tell the government because they don’t have any. https://t.co/BbUqTrxyzp
There are signs that serious size businesses are starting to realise that a #covidcoup by power hungry states & anti-human Deep Green ideologues is not such a good idea after all.
Ian Robert Millard 