“A Utah mother whose harsh parenting advice made her a YouTube influencer has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for child abuse.
The two women were arrested in August 2023 after Franke’s malnourished 12-year-old son climbed out of a window at Hildebrandt’s house in Ivins, Utah. Police said the child then ran to a neighbour’s house and asked for food and water. He had lacerations from being tied up with rope, according to police records.
“[YouTube] fans started to become suspicious in 2020, when one of her sons mentioned that he had been forced to sleep on a bean bag for seven months.
YouTube viewers combed through her archives and pointed out other disturbing and controversial methods used by Franke – such as withholding food, threatening to chop the head off a toy stuffed animal and “cancelling” Christmas as a punishment.
Franke then began appearing in YouTube videos posted by Ms Hildebrandt – a counsellor and life coach – on her site, ConneXions Classroom.
Away from the camera, however, Franke’s children were being subjected to even harsher abuse.
This included tying them up, beating and kicking them, neglecting to feed them and forcing them to work outdoors in the summer without sunscreen, resulting in serious sunburn, according to police records.
In a plea agreement, Hildebrandt stated that she either tortured the children or was aware of the abuse and that she forced one of Franke’s daughters to “jump into a cactus multiple times”.
[BBC]
Terrible, and comes against a background of too-strict American parenting, though plenty of too-indulgent parenting exists there too. I concede that, as someone without offspring, I write as a mere observer. I do think, though, that many Americans are too strict with their children, but I admit that I have also seen much of the opposite tendency (children allowed to behave and speak rather rudely).
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Shapps should not be our defence secretary. He is a venal and corrupt politician. pic.twitter.com/iXOtZswHYm
From its proposed Racial Equality Act to exposing British children to critical race theory, the next Labour gvt plans to import the very same divisive ideologies that are tearing America apart https://t.co/NiXqpUIdeMpic.twitter.com/tT6JPf3Qba
Some type of civil war is coming. It may be in 2025, it may be in 2035 or later, but it is coming…
As to Matt Goodwin, I am wondering why he appears to be bolstering the electoral case for not only Reform UK but also the Conservative Party.
Having said that, I doubt whether anything can now save the Conservative Party, let alone the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
'Humphrey Burke was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of a prison van attendant & grandmother who he kicked to death while on his way to court.' Two years later, he is free https://t.co/QEkBWfnNzy Official who made this decision should have their signature…
As Powell said, “we must be mad, literally mad“, but it is not the British people themselves but a small minority —at Westminster, in the newspapers, on TV and radio, in the legal professions and the universities etc— who are the guilty parties.
In fact, the British people as a whole do bear at least some of the guilt, for being so apathetic as to allow themselves to be repressed and then, as is now happening, replaced.
"Over the next twelve years, 92% of all of Britain’s population growth will be driven by immigration"https://t.co/fvp6Iunciv
Nearly 100%, in fact, because almost all of the remaining 8% will be births to first, or second, or third-generation non-white women, and a relative few to white women but first/second/third-generation immigrant fathers. Hardly any to white couples.
“My daughter is two years-old. She’s already lived through three prime ministers, four chancellors, two monarchs, a global pandemic, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. What will she live through in the years ahead, I often wonder?
It’s a question most parents ask themselves. And it’s one I asked myself again yesterday while reading a new forecast on how Britain’s population will change over the next twelve years —which is not a very long time at all.
The forecast, from the independent Office for National Statistics, is striking to say the least. And I suspect many people out there in the country, many of the people who are perhaps reading this Substack, will find it deeply worrying.
By the year 2036, by the time my daughter turns fifteen, Britain’s population will have grown by another 6.6 million people. In just fifteen years, in just three election cycles, the population will surge by 10 per cent, rising from 67 million people to nearly 74 million. And of the additional 6.6 million people in the country —another 6.6 million people using the NHS, the GPs, the schools, the roads, and looking for a house to buy or rent— some 6.1 million will be here because of immigration.“
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The Gaza slaughter is only continuing because the Jewish lobby in the USA now effectively controls, as it has done since at least the 1960s, both U.S. policy in Washington and, also, the American mass media, thus cheerleading the largely-ignorant and easily-led American masses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Helping the people of Gaza is our sacred duty. It is our duty as humanity, and this is the requirement of our convictions.” pic.twitter.com/JP86WtJiGo
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Russia and China have announced that they will stop using the US dollar in their commercial transactions. pic.twitter.com/JJuebgSzRz
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said
The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who… pic.twitter.com/zf2CNeqTvY
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
“Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said.The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who called him a “tool of the Kremlin” because of the interview with Putin. But he asked him for a meeting for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins”:
“I’m not defending Putin, but Putin didn’t ask me for a million dollars. So Boris Johnson is a much more slippery and nasty guy than Vladimir Putin.”“
NATO Secretary General said that the best way to honor the memory of Navalny* is to ensure victory for Ukraine
“ I deeply believe that the best way to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny is to ensure that President Putin does not win on the battlefield, but that Ukraine wins , ”… pic.twitter.com/SdwhGzfUsq
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Does that idiot even believe what he is saying? Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot “win”. It cannot regain the oblasti of Donetsk, Lugansk (and/or Crimea etc). It cannot attack, in any serious way, Russia itself.
It could only achieve those objectives by drawing NATO directly into the war (leading, probably, to a world war), or by somehow contriving a palace revolution in Moscow. Neither of those possibilities is likely to take place.
I have been wondering why the Western msm obsession with Navalny. Was it because, after the death of Boris Nemtsov, Navalny was the only high-profile opposition figure in Russia? Like Nemtsov, his support was only about 5% of the population, and could never have reached even 20%.
As blogged previously, I think that Navalny was almost certainly a braver man than me (going back from exile in Germany to almost-certain arrest in Russia), and certainly a more reckless one, inter alia.
The pandemic was never “Covid”. The pandemic was cowardice.
People sat back and watched as they took a sledgehammer to small businesses.
People let them deprive their kids of 2 years of education.
People wore face nappies that did nothing except make them sick.
Cowardice.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 21, 2024
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We pay more Council Tax than ever only for the bins to be collected less often than ever.
We pay more road tax than ever, when the roads are crumbing and vehicles are being damaged because of the number of potholes.
Why are we being robbed blind in the UK for nothing in return?
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 20, 2024
Various “reasons”, from the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic fallout to “Ukraine” (support for Zelensky’s corrupt, chaotic, and brutal dictatorship, and Israel), to the importation of millions of parasites. Overall, the shorthand terms “NWO”, “ZOG”, “WEF” and “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan ” pretty much cover it.
Baby is born. Allocated a slave number and given over 20 vaccines before they’ve even spoken their first word.
Child goes to school, gets indoctrinated.
They grow up, get a job just to pay tax all their life.
A few years retirement and it’s over.
We are pawns in their game.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 19, 2024
Under Elon Musk’s new “free speech” platform, you can freely criticise the Left, you can criticise woke culture, you can criticise BLM, the LGBT cult, but you CANNOT criticise Zionism.
So many Anti-Zionist accounts vanishing it’s hard to keep track.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 13, 2024
Elon Musk, though he strikes me as an interesting person, is at the same time rather disappointing. Take away his untold millions and billions, and what would be left? Not much, really.
Today's Washington Post acknowledged the death in Spain of Russian defector Kuzminov pic.twitter.com/zl7YbnXLpP
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The “whys and wherefores” are not yet known, as far as I can see, but the news brought to mind the old Chekist saying, “the legs of the traitor are not as long as the arms of the Cheka” [ЧК].
One of the vilest things I’ve heard on Gaza. From a public speaker outside of the Israeli government.
Andrew Roberts, from the UK House of Lords believes that there is a 2:1 ratio of Hamas fighters killed to Gazan civilians.
Roberts is, in my view, a largely ahistorical scribbler, who has posed as a kind of pseudo-aristocratic historian all his life, always having had plenty of money thanks to his father having owned both the well-known Job’s Dairy and also the UK franchise rights for Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC).
He is and always was pro-NWO etc. An “Atlanticist”, if you like. Now he seems to be regurgitating lying Israeli government propaganda instead of pro-Churchill ahistory.
A video circulating online shows an Israeli soldier mocking and riding a bicycle, as well as a scooter, reportedly inside a house in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4Ew3C5h9Js
Because Russia has a big army, and production and military potential. A little jewish Caligula from Kiyev is just Biden's lackey paid to weaken Russia. What do you not understand?
Not as surprising as it seems at first blush. After all, the Gurkhas were and to some extent are mercenaries or contract soldiers in British service. They have now switched, in part, to another employer. “Simples”…
Why the fuck is anyone still voting for either of these globalist shills ? THEY ARE NOT ON YOUR SIDE 🤷🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/Dg90Ake5sB
— jontheshepherd 🇬🇧 politically homeless (@jontheshepherd) February 17, 2024
Is it any wonder the British people distrust the experts on immigration? Karl Williams of @CPSThinkTank just crunched the official forecasts on net migration going back to 2010 and found they were wrong –underestimating immigration– 93% of the time!!
Rachel Reeves— careerist and member (and Vice-Chair) of Labour Friends of Israel…
“Rachel, why won’t you talk to us?“…answer: because your name is not (((you-know-who)))…
Russia counted on the honesty of its partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said when asked why the special military operation did not start earlier.
We learned the true state of affairs only later, when the former chancellor of Germany and the former president of France… pic.twitter.com/RYIkdQBYr0
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Russia counted on the honesty of its partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said when asked why the special military operation did not start earlier.
We learned the true state of affairs only later, when the former chancellor of Germany and the former president of France said that they did not even intend to fulfill the Minsk agreements, Putin said in an interview with Russia on the 24th.
Speaking about the negotiations, he pointed out that the fighting in Ukraine would have stopped a year and a half ago had it not been for the West’s position, the Russian leader said.“
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it is possible to start the undamaged branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in a week, but Germany shows no interest in that. Can Nord Stream 2 (launch)? Can! Turn on the valve, say: We want (gas). He will get it tomorrow. It takes… pic.twitter.com/EDHAADlW8R
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it is possible to start the undamaged branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in a week, but Germany shows no interest in that.
Can Nord Stream 2 (launch)? Can! Turn on the valve, say: We want (gas). He will get it tomorrow. It takes a week. But they don’t want to, said the Russian leader.“
Sometimes, I think that the “dirty democratic politicians” (in Hitler’s phrase) of Germany are even more stupid than those of the UK, but that would scarcely be possible.
For the West, the situation around Ukraine is only a matter of tactical position, while for Russia it is a matter of life and death , Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russia 24 television, commenting on the "historical part" of the interview with Tucker Carlson.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Russia must and will win in the Ukrainian war situation, at the very least to the extent of maintaining its present position (control of Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea regions, and some other —mainly coastal— areas). Indeed, there is every chance that Russia will be able to take over (or regain, if you like) control of the entirety of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper).
The shambolic, brutal, and corrupt Kiev regime headed by the Jew Zelensky is fast running out of arms, ammunition and, above all, soldiers.
“Kiev. As the brutal reality of the war sets in on the #Ukranian people. The sadness and needless death imposed up on by Zionists and Anglo-Saxon elites on to the Ukrainian peoples. Ukrainian people and the world is slowly coming to the realisation; they have been taken for a ride.“
Official data shows that annual inflation in Argentina has reached 254%, but the president of this country claims that if it were not for his "shock therapy" policies, the situation would have been much worse . pic.twitter.com/NDv78uwtdI
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
A lunatic enjoying his “15 minutes of fame”.
The bulldozers of the IDF are destroying the infrastructure in Tulkarm IDP camp pic.twitter.com/KQBDvhH8Re
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
There is a kind of ingrained, hypocritical sadism in “them”.
Putin: Ukraine regularly receives money for the transit of Russian gas
“ So they say in Ukraine – aggressor, aggressor. But they regularly receive money for gas transit. They don’t smell ,” said President Vladimir Putin.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Putin: Ukraine regularly receives money for the transit of Russian gas.
So they say in Ukraine – aggressor, aggressor. But they regularly receive money for gas transit. They don’t smell ,” said President Vladimir Putin.
Putin said that a week is needed to launch the remaining Nord Stream line, but Germany does not want to.“
Interesting. So Ukraine (Kiev regime) is still getting money from Russia on a regular basis as transit fees for passage of Russian gas to the EU?! Very convoluted.
I wonder where those millions of US dollars end up?
Residents of Avdeevka felt free
After the liberation of Avdiivka and the end of the active phase of fighting, the Russian army was met by the few civilians remaining in the city. pic.twitter.com/dxkNjNIXCv
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
One of the worst aspects of the collapse of the Soviet Union 35 years ago (the formal termination was in 1991) has been the proliferation of that strange semi-Americanized Russian-language rock and rap music. Ghastly.
Footage of soldiers of the “Veteran” assault brigade planting the Russian flag over one of the buildings in Avdeevka pic.twitter.com/Llo1aO2OGT
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The head of Zelensky's office called for an early invitation to Ukraine to join NATO
The head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Ermak, chaired a meeting of the International Working Group on Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. During the meeting, he emphasized that the… pic.twitter.com/2L0ElQ1lkX
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The Kiev regime has only two chances: one, to join NATO, and then be able to call upon NATO forces under the Treaty obligations. That is why NATO states will not allow Ukraine to join, because it would lead to a world war before very long.
The second Kiev regime opportunity to avoid defeat would be a revolution or palace revolution in Moscow, and the end of the Putin administration. That is not going to happen.
The Kiev regime should cede to Russia all of Eastern Ukraine, and should then agree to make Kiev and Odessa “open cities” or, failing that, condominia. The present members of the Kiev regime can then fall back on Lvov (or disappear to Israel or the USA).
Israel is behind the bombing of Iran's largest gas pipelines – The New York Times
Within a week, two of the country's largest gas pipelines were blown up in Iran. The TNYT publication, citing sources associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports that on February… pic.twitter.com/H18JgHiaVH
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Nancy Pelosi on Russia's treachery: Russia has more people in the army than at the beginning, and they will replenish their human resources. They buy these people. They go around the villages, around the outskirts, and they pay them money so that people go to fight.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“Nancy Pelosi on Russia’s treachery: Russia has more people in the army than at the beginning, and they will replenish their human resources. They buy these people. They go around the villages, around the outskirts, and they pay them money so that people go to fight.” Instead of honestly grabbing people on the streets and catching them in transport and apartments, as is done in democratic free Ukraine.
Can you imagine a political system so screwed that someone such as Nancy Pelosi can attain to high office? As bad as that in the UK…
⚠️ It's not on TikTok anymore, it's now presented on national Israeli TV – the public humiliation of Palestinians abductees , kidnapped from Khan Younis while they were fleeing out of town trying to find safety
Not sure that I agree with that, though fraud (especially one person using another’s postal vote) is obviously a problem, particularly in areas with high non-white and especially Muslim populations.
Sophie Corcoran is a pro-Conservative Party, maybe pro-Reform UK —I don’t know enough about her exact views— talking head. She does not seem to have considered that both Reform UK and (maybe even more) the Conservative Party are those mostly voted for via postal voting, which affects the mostly middle-aged and elderly people most likely to have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Ms. Corcoran’s proposed postal vote ban would therefore probably be the final straw breaking the back of the Conservative Party.
Rochdale is a rather different situation. I shall blog about the upcoming by-election (29 February 2024) before the day.
When I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a year (1996-1997) I had, in the course of my work, some limited contact with an Israeli businessman in his sixties or seventies who headed a large energy company with interests in Kazakhstan. The company was based in or near Tel Aviv, maybe at Herzliya.
The Israeli was (I was told by others) a former general in the Israeli Army. I accompanied him to a meeting with the UK Ambassador, at the British Embassy (which I visited fairly often). The Embassy was then in Furmanov Street, Almaty (the capital of Kazakhstan was then still at Almaty).
That Israeli (who from his accent originated in the UK, maybe in London) told me that (unlike the British Ambassador, whom he found insufficiently interested in his problems) every Israeli ambassador is given, by his superiors in Israel, a list of duties including how many contacts, including business contacts, to make in a year, how many business opportunities for Israelis to make or facilitate etc.
“They” are relentless.
Incidentally, I have no idea why he did not use the Israeli Ambassador for what he wanted. Maybe he did that as well. Probably.
Oddly, he did not have (at least with him) a UK passport as well as his Israeli one (I know that); so, despite the semi-“British” accent (and knowledge of London) he was probably not a dual-passport-holder. Not a hugely pleasant person, and (as I believe is common in Israel) rather abrasive in manner.
Well, that Israeli general and international business leech must have gone up the chimney many years ago now. This was in late 1996, over 27 years ago; so, in itself, it is just another of life’s memories.
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"The rise of Reform is not just about the Tories. It's appealing to voters who feel unhappy with how our entire national life is shaped around the new elite's priorities -mass immigration, net zero, putting illegal migrants before the British people"https://t.co/J727eFX3HT
This is what Egypt's concern for its Palestinian brothers looks like. A new image of Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, which has concrete and steel walls built by the Egyptian authorities. pic.twitter.com/kgguV1aOgF
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
A French Air Force plane arrives in Rzeszow from France to pick up French military personnel and intelligence officers killed and wounded in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3aFpvxF8T1
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
Donald Trump:
“2024 is our last war. We will destroy the deep state with you.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
In Germany, they began information preparation of the population for the idea of obtaining a nuclear bomb under the pretext of Trump’s statements pic.twitter.com/i7yPryAlRL
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
79 years too late.
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of the defeat of Ukrainian formations leaving Avdiivka. pic.twitter.com/4FGvpA91fh
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
When I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s, my first wife (an American) and I drove a couple of times to a small shop outside the centre of Newark, which shop had been left, as if washed up on the shore, after the race riots of the late 1960s, mainly 1967, which had trashed the (then) better parts of the city. That shop sold maybe 50, maybe 100 types of ground coffee. Guatemalan, Zimbabwean, you name it.
At one time, pre-1967, Newark had been fairly decent, but after 1967, 100,000 white people left the city, leaving it a drug-ridden, crime-ridden remnant. Having said that, I sometimes walked in the main streets there, or caught the PATH Line to Manhattan, and I never had any trouble. Maybe I looked too poor or too angry to mug.
[intersection of Broad and Market streets, Newark, NJ, 2005]
My first wife’s office was by the Federal building in central Newark, though we lived at least half an hour’s drive south, in Middlesex County, and close to the Monmouth County line.
Actually, even the “Federal” enclave in Newark was not completely safe. Two FBI agents were held up and robbed at gunpoint in the same supposedly guarded car park that my wife and her small group of colleagues used. Strange; I believe that the FBI are supposed to be armed at all times when in public. Maybe they were caught napping. After the mugging, the local police had a patrol car parked by that car park every late afternoon and evening.
Cities can of course fall into desolation via social factors alone, without war. Drugs, poverty, cultural decadence, breakdown of social trust, breakdown of social order generally. It worries me what I see in the UK whenever I have to go to heavily-urban areas (thankfully now not often). What will Britain be like by, say, 2030, or 2040? God knows.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
This is not Gaza. This is South Lebanon. Israel is also bombing Syria. Israel is the only country in the world that can simultaneously bomb other countries and still claim to be the victim. pic.twitter.com/9IgJYeYOsD
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
An Israeli soldier proudly posted on social media a photo of himself arresting a Palestinian child pic.twitter.com/6TFV77UHEG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
The flight of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Avdiivka threatens to turn into a serious problem, since the city is of strategic importance, retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said on CNN.
Due to the transfer of the city to Russian control, it will be much more difficult… pic.twitter.com/Om1CXVQLsU
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 18, 2024
“The flight of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Avdiivka threatens to turn into a serious problem, since the city is of strategic importance, retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Layton said on CNN.
Due to the transfer of the city to Russian control, it will be much more difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to organize attempts at a counter-offensive on Donbass – not to mention the fact that the Russian Armed Forces may move further west after Avdievka.“
I remember that song. 1967; I was a 10-y-o child living in Mosman, a North Shore suburb of Sydney. Different times (look at the comments appended to that YouTube video).
“Major French magazine L’Express has revealed that its prominent former editor, Philippe Grumbach, was a KGB spy for 35 years.
He counted presidents, actors and literary giants as close friends. He was a legendary figure in journalism who shaped the editorial direction of one of France’s most successful publications. When he died in 2003, Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon said Grumbach had been “one of the most memorable and respected figures in French media”.
But he was also “Brok”, the KGB spy.
Extensive proof of Grumbach’s duplicitous life can be found in the so-called Mitrokhin archive.
Born in Paris in 1924 into a Jewish family, Grumbach fled France with his mother and siblings in 1940 – the year Nazi Germany invaded and Marshal Philippe Pétain took power in Vichy with a collaborationist regime.“
[BBC]
The Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections
At Wellingborough, a convincing win for Labour. I thought that it might go closer than it did. Labour 45.9%, Conservatives 24.6%, Reform UK 13%. All 8 other candidates lost their deposits; the LibDems came closest with 4.7%. A local Independent, Marion Turner-Hawes, scored 3.7% and probably would have beaten the LibDems had she been the only Independent standing. The Greens, as usual, were nowhere (6th) on 3.4%, and Britain First was even more “nowhere” on 1.6%.
The Conservatives were let down partly by the choice of candidate, the girlfriend of unpleasant former MP, Peter Bone. Having said that, the main reason for the electoral upset was that people want a change, even if it is really not much of a change, or the wrong change. They wanted, also, to stamp on the Conservative Party.
The Conservative candidate tried to make “stopping the boats“, i.e. the continuing cross-Channel migration-invasion, the issue. Of course, the fact is that the cross-Channel invasion is only a tenth, if that, of the main invasion— the enormous influx of “students”, “family-members”, “highly-skilled workers” (Indians that can work a computer) as well as supposed “asylum-seekers” etc.
Also, the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024 have not even seriously tried to “stop the boats”, let alone the main migration-invasion. Not far short of a million a year now.
A better candidate, and one not tied up with Peter Bone, might have scored higher, maybe well over 30%, and so lost less embarrassingly.
A real social-national party, if one existed, might have won. Turnout was only 38%; a huge 62% of those eligible to vote did not bother, or showed their contempt for the whole system via abstention.
No need to “analyze” the Britain First vote— pathetic. As for Reform UK, it is going to have to do a lot better than that if it is going to start winning seats. Another pro-Israel scam-party by Nigel Farage.
Overall, the result is another nail in the coffin of the Rishi Sunak government, and the Conservative Party (and Sunak himself, of course).
I should be ready to bet that, if voters aged 65+ (many of whom would have voted early by post) were taken away, the remaining Con Party vote would have been no more than 10%.
Kingswood, north of Bristol and in effect an outer suburb of Bristol, also returned a Labour MP yesterday. Pointlessly, of course, because not only will there be a general election this year but, also, the constituency is being abolished.
The result was Labour 44.9%, Conservatives 34.9%, Reform UK 10.4%, Green 5.8%, LibDems 3.5%, UKIP 0.5%.
Turnout was 37.1%, even lower than at Wellingborough. Almost two-thirds of those eligible could not be bothered to vote, and/or despise the whole circus.
The Labour candidate had the advantage of being of local origin, more or less, combined with not being a Conservative. His unusual personal life (gay, and having converted from Roman Catholicism to Judaism to fit in with his Jewish “civil partner”) seems to have been disregarded by the voters (meaning the 11,176 who voted for him, out of about 80,000; the other ~68,000 were eligible to vote but either did not vote or voted for other candidates).
The Conservative Party candidate came closer than I had expected. His own local origins can probably be thanked for that. The Farage vehicle, Reform UK, came third, but again seems to be —time after time— the “also ran” party…
The Greens saved their deposit and beat the LibDems into 5th place. The rump of UKIP came last, and one has to wonder why candidates for no-hope parties like that even bother.
Yet another nail in Sunak’s political coffin, of course.
Taking away the local aspects of both by-elections, for me the “takeaways” are that this “Conservative” government is toast, that Sunak is toast, and that the Conservative Party is toast. Also, that the LibDems are seen as dull and, except where they have a good tactical chance against a Conservative candidate, unappealing to voters.
More? Well, that Reform UK is not exciting enough people, not yet anyway, to start being a major player. Also, that the Greens only appeal to around 5% of the electorate, if that.
Finally, for me the point is that, in both of these by-elections, only just over a third of people even bothered to vote; without postal voting, that 37%/38% would probably have been nearer to 20%. The voters most interesting to me are those not presently energized to vote.
What do these results say about GE 2024? That Labour must be en route to victory, though a victory not welcomed by all, or even a majority, of the voters. A feeling of dull meaninglessness, perhaps. A hollow victory?
For the Conservative Party, these results must mean that the bulk of their MPs are on the way out. 50 may survive, maybe 100.
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The body of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab has been found decomposing in the car where her family were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City.
A few metres away, the ambulance sent to rescue Hind was burnt out with the remains of two medics inside ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/vn0oL0bnU5
Putin: NATO has lost its purpose of existence – it is only an instrument of US foreign policy
EMPHASIZED THAT FOR MOSCOW, BIDEN IS PREFERABLE TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE THAN TRUMP
He stated: "When I met with Biden in Switzerland – it was three years ago – and then some were… pic.twitter.com/kOtrUY1HTG
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
A picture of the Shahid-191 flying drone assembly line that has been published on social networks. pic.twitter.com/qlROQXZkfD
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The time may come when Israel faces thousands of such drones.
"When you ignore the wishes of your core voters, when you treat them with contempt, when you promise them one thing only to do something else entirely, they will soon find another home. And that’s what they’re doing by switching to Reform"https://t.co/58R0TO4UNh
I agree with the first bit, but only partly with the second. Many 2019 Con Party voters seem to be switching, in despair, to Reform UK, but that would be only a small minority of the overall electorate. Look at the turnout figures from yesterday. Only a third (just over) of eligible voters even voted. Reform UK, with its limited “conservative nationalism” “cosplay”, its pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby attitude, and its semi-“libertarian” economics, will never inspire even a half of the voters. Maybe 10%, maybe 20%. I doubt that it will go higher.
The fact is that, even at Kingswood, where the result scarcely mattered in itself (a general election this year, and the seat then ceasing to exist), Reform UK only gathered in 13% of the votes, i.e. about 5% of all possible votes. The Wellingborough result was similar: 9.4% of votes cast, i.e. about 3% of all possible votes.
Only a fully-credible social-national party might be able to energise and inspire the British people. That party does not exist.
NEW POST. Sunak's Sinking — By-elections, recession, and a party in decline https://t.co/UkQl6UYyjf
“Today, the Tories are only holding half the people who voted for them at the last general election, in 2019, and only a little more than one in three of the people who voted for Brexit, in 2016. These are supposed to be the party’s core supporters. But many of them are now abandoning Sunak in droves, running for the hills.
And do you blame them? Seriously? Given some of the other events this week it’s not hard to see why. For a start, Sunak’s failure to control Britain’s borders was reflected in the remarkable finding that just 1.3% of the illegal migrants who entered Britain on the small boats since 2018 have been removed from the country.
And then came the latest data on the dire state of the economy, which confirms Britain is in recession and suffering the longest hit to living standards since records began, in 1955. Contrary to Sunak’s pledge to deliver economic growth, this week we learned that throughout his first year in office Britain’s economy grew by just 0.1%, while GDP per capita —which adjusts for population growth — fell by 0.7%.
This, too, will prompt many voters to ask Sunak some tough questions. Where is the growth you promised? Where is the strong economy? And where is the growth the Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and countless other experts told us would surely arrive if Britain opened its doors to unprecedented immigration?
The answer is it’s nowhere to be seen, partly because rather than deliver the high-skill, high-wage, highly-selective, and highly productive immigration the Tories have been promising since Brexit they’ve instead delivered low-skill, low-wage, non-selective, and unproductive immigration from outside Europe, which has been shown to be a net fiscal cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies.
...more and more [voters] are turning off and tuning out. Just look at the rates of turnout at the latest by-elections. Labour and Keir Starmer are not setting Britain on fire, far from it; the Tories are staying home.
These voters aren’t idiots. They know they’ve been led down the garden path by a Conservative government and a Conservative prime minister which have routinely overpromised and underdelivered.
These voters want decent economic growth and an economic model which prioritises British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have given them more of the same.
These voters want much lower and manageable rates of immigration. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories keep putting mass migration on steroids. And these voters want strong and secure borders and a government which prioritises the security of the British people. But Rishi Sunak and the Tories have lost control of our borders, largely because they refuse to reform laws and leave conventions which make it impossible to remove illegal migrants and foreign nationals who commit crime, as we saw with the shocking case of Abdul Ezedi.“
[Matt Goodwin, on his Substack blog]
In any case, the UK needs no immigration at all. It needs to educate and train real British people to a far higher level, and then provide suitable employment for them. British people, real British people.
Suitable employment, appropriate and decent pay; decent housing; decent transport; decent medical care; decent social care; also, decent architecture and town planning.
Labour has two more MPs after by-elections this week – but this is by default, because Tory voters didn't bother to turn out. Labour also is less popular.
Tories lose two more by-elections – but don't believe Labour's propaganda https://t.co/NITSBTJKwt
BREAKING: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said https://t.co/L0YtgkcjKMpic.twitter.com/x7xFV3UERB
The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said that Navalny 'felt unwell' after a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp, about 1,200 miles north east of Moscow. Navalny, the prison service said, had lost consciousness almost immediately pic.twitter.com/xtHflzjNC7
Defying the Kremlin can be dangerous. The story that Navalny “felt unwell after he went for a walk” is obviously unlikely.
The daytime temperature in that region today is about -20C. Cold weather for a stroll, even for a Russian.
As to Navalny himself, I knew nothing of him beyond what was occasionally on TV news or in the newspapers. I was unable to understand why he returned to Russia after he had recovered from having been poisoned in Russia and flown to Germany for treatment.
My conclusion (beyond the apparent fact that Navalny was a braver man than me— and a more foolish one, arguably) is that he had a huge amount of egotism. He probably wildly over-estimated his popularity in Russia (in fact only about 5% supported him), and may have thought that arriving in Moscow on a private jet with a horde of Western reporters on board would probably protect him, especially as thousands of his supporters (mostly Moscow-based) would be awaiting his arrival at Vnukovo (one of the four main airports in the Moscow region: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_International_Airport).
I may be wrong, but I think that Navalny may have thought that his return to Russia would be akin to that of Lenin in 1917. However, Lenin was never in any danger of arrest and detention in 1917, and had not only supporters but an armed guard force at his historic speech at the Finlandsky Station in Petrograd. Also, the Tsarist Government had already effectively fallen. There was no-one to arrest him.
Navalny has, by reason of his imprisonment and probable murder, achieved the status of martyr, but had he ever become leader of Russia, might have been as harsh, and probably less effective, than Putin.
I am old enough to remember how the usually-wrong Western msm thought, in the 1980s, that Andropov would be “liberal” (mainly because he was said to like jazz). The same or similar was said in the late 1970s of the African tyrant Robert Mugabe (“well-educated” by Jesuits, and a “democrat” by African standards. So they said…). Indeed, look at how the globalist msm lauded thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela…
Well, there it is.
One interesting aspect to the news coverage in the UK today is that it has been so extensive. In a way, surprising, when Navalny had no real support base in Russia, and never had a real chance of deposing Putin.
Were I more of a conspiracy theorist than people think I am, I should suspect that the UK TV people are using the Navalny matter to talk less about yesterday’s by-election results.
Also, the Kiev-regime forces are crumbling on the Ukrainian front-line.
Many, even perhaps I myself, might think that a retaliatory strike by Israel on Gaza, immediately after the October 2023 incursion, meaning in the following few days, would probably fall into the “self-defence” and “proportionate” area (leaving aside the behaviour of the Israeli Jews since 1948), but what has happened since then is a cruel slaughter and devastation worse than the much-criticized Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943. The Germans did evacuate most of the non-combatant Jews before killing or capturing the rest (saboteurs, terrorists, and rebels) and then levelling the area.
Which of the following do you think would make the best prime minister?
According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that would still leave the Con Party with 117 MPs. Maybe. One or two points can make a big difference. For example, if the Con/Lab numbers were 23% and 45% respectively, the Cons would have only 97 MPs.
Also, these polls always over-estimate the Green vote. When and where (except at Brighton Pavilion) did the Greens get anywhere close to 8%? 5% is more usual; or lower.
Gee, I thought of Julian Assange who was put in the worst prison in the UK on April 11, 2019 for the crime of reporting true information about our government crimes. But we don't do what the Russians do, right?
After Guantanamo, Bagram, Kabul, Abu Ghraib etc, the U.S. Government can say nothing about human rights abuses.
Israel admits 200 of the burned bodies that Israel used as an excuse to commit the genocide in Gaza were for Palestinian fighters. This means the IDF is responsible for the Israelis that were burned alive not Hamas #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/45GsdKUHbL
Well, anyone can make a “mathematical error”, as when a number of, say, six million becomes one of four million and then, later, one and a half million…anyone could make such a mistake, I suppose…
Why was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered the directorship of the company that stores the data of the British Foreign Office, the Home Office, Ministry of Defence, and even the NHS? pic.twitter.com/b7srH1Ums8
— Euen Herbert #Windrush #HostileEnvironment #FBPE (@LaserMike) December 15, 2023
…and here is Emily Thornberry living the high life with a pack of Zionists in London, including the former Israeli Ambassador, Regev (centre of photo):
Labour, “the party for working people”??
Yes & the far right ( today's tory party) broke it I'm not a great lover of Starmer's Labour but it has to be better that the last 14 years of corruption
Why exactly does it have to be better? History tells us that it will be considerably worse. And I (& I suspect you too) remember when the Labour Party actually contained some really clever & gifted politicians. Smith, Foot etc. Now it’s a refuse dump for morons.
— Jules de Barsham- I Stand With Israel🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@DeBarsham) February 16, 2024
For me, the main thing is to break the rigged “two main parties” system (scam). So if the Conservative Party is trampled upon and left almost powerless at GE 2024, good, even though that would be at the cost of a Labour Party “elected dictatorship” for up to 5 years. With one large party reduced to almost nothing, the System’s rhythm will be disrupted. No more the idea that “the other lot” will be better. With the Cons deflated, and the LibDems already on the floor, other ideas, social-national ideas, will come through, one way or the other.
NEW. The % of Brits who think "immigration has been too high" hits a new record of 64%, while the % of Brits who think "immigration has been mostly good for Britain" slumps to a new low of 21% (YouGov).
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
My thoughts are with him. He may not be quite my sort of person, but he is a martyr for truth. The UK should ditch the one-sided UK/US extradition law.
France will allocate an additional 3 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2024.
▪️Macron added that the "security" agreement was signed for a period of ten years and will be valid until Ukraine joins NATO. pic.twitter.com/SBHYIjkDFg
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 16, 2024
The Kiev regime may collect money, but on the front-line its soldiers are being gradually defeated, and the UKR ranks are thinning daily.
Gandalfian wisdom: “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” pic.twitter.com/kxYq4fWwK8
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 10, 2024
🚨 Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls Tucker Carlson a “traitor” and says people should “disregard” everything Putin said.
No, this blonde dishevelled mess is the REAL traitor who forced Zelensky to tear up the peace treaty prolonging a war that should never have been. pic.twitter.com/WCPXHFKzAs
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 10, 2024
“Boris” Johnson, part-Jew (great-grandfather was a Jewish ‘rabbi’ in Lithuania), part-Levantine, of very cosmopolitan origins and upbringing, and who proved incapable of holding any public office competently or decently. Up for hire; will do or say anything for money.
UNRWA spokesman in Jerusalem told Al Jazeera: More than half of the population of the Gaza Strip is in Rafah and they have no place to seek refuge
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Palestinians risked life & limb to reach Rafah, the last designated safe zone in Gaza.
Now they are being told to leave. Where are they supposed to go?
This is not an “evacuation.” This is ethnic cleansing — and our government is complicit by letting Israel act with impunity.
MOST READ last week. Them Vs. Us – A compelling new study reveals just how out of touch Elites really are, from Net Zero to individual freedom https://t.co/IgUbH1omZg
Labour would be a disaster for race relations. Its Race Equality Act would not be a leap forward for equality. It would turn Brits against one another and kill off class politics. Starmer is beholden to woke extremists, says Tom Slaterhttps://t.co/MXVMrdhnQN
Even I myself, born in 1956, often realize from things seen, or read, or otherwise experienced, that those born, say, after about 1980, live in a different world to me, and that particularly applies to that part of the population which might be described as less-educated (in the real sense, I mean, not in the sense of having been through the mill of 13-18 years of what presently passes for “education”).
The above of course applies even more to most of those born in the last 30 years.
Gove etc
I saw 10 mins of that horrible little bastard Gove on Sky News this morning. Gove’s very prominence highlights so much that is wrong with the UK political system: a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby doormat, a cocaine abuser, a drunk, an expenses cheat/fraudster. Maybe more. Yet there he sit in Cabinet, today weaselling in favour of the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak. He also praised Nigerian “British” MP, Kemi Badenoch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch].
Born in London, but of Nigerian parentage, and only resident in the UK from age 16, Kemi Badenoch is seen as a possible Conservative Party leader. Maybe. The latest “great non-white hope”, if you like. That might just finish off the Conservative Party, especially if that party starts its post-GE 2024 life with only 50 or so MPs.
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“Russians and Serbs are brothers forever”: fans of the Serbian football club and the champion of Serbia “Crvena Zvezda” came to the match with Russian flags. pic.twitter.com/HT2EVvk3qi
It will be recalled that, at the conclusion of Anna Karenina, Vronsky decides to redeem himself by going to fight for the Serbs in the Balkans.
Estonia and its allies held annual winter combat exercises. It is noted that about 1,100 military personnel from France, Great Britain and the United States took part in the exercises at the training ground of the Estonian Defense Forces near the city of Tapa. pic.twitter.com/jtieTO1lny
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
The paratroopers of the 65th Nohed Brigade of the Army during the parade ceremony on 22 Bahman in Tehran pic.twitter.com/8F6xCg8JwT
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Egyptian journalist and politician, Hamden al-Sabahi: All settlements in the north of occupied Palestine were abandoned due to intense attacks carried out by Hizbullah. pic.twitter.com/Gz0XQEdnLg
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Orban's adviser confirmed: the EU threatened the Hungarian economy because of Ukraine
▪️Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's adviser, Balazs Orbán, confirmed the "Fine Times" writing that the European Union threatened to undermine the Hungarian economy, if it does not lift… pic.twitter.com/kQY3qSUrfu
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
“Orban’s adviser confirmed: the EU threatened the Hungarian economy because of Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s adviser, Balazs Orbán, confirmed the “Fine Times” writing that the European Union threatened to undermine the Hungarian economy, if it does not lift the veto on European aid to Ukraine.
The American newspaper previously wrote that Brussels will collapse the exchange rate of the Hungarian forint and worsen the situation with jobs, however the EU later denied this, but Balazs Orbán noted that the situation is “serious” and that the heads of state and government of the EU have threatened to do just that. to the Hungarian Prime Minister over the phone.
[Wikipedia]
If Ukraine disintegrates, Germany could be flooded with another 10 million refugees, warns "Welt am Sonntag", referring to anonymous security officials and stating that the German government still hopes that this "worst case scenario" will not happen this year.
"If we don't…
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
“If Ukraine disintegrates, Germany could be flooded with another 10 million refugees, warns “Welt am Sonntag”, referring to anonymous security officials and stating that the German government still hopes that this “worst case scenario” will not happen this year.
“If we don’t change our strategy of supporting Ukraine, the worst-case scenario of a mass exodus from Ukraine and the spread of the war to NATO countries will be much more likely. In this case, ten million refugees is a pretty bad assumption,” says the MP of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, Roderick Kiesewetter.
Since the conflict between Kiev and Moscow broke out almost two years ago, 1.1 million Ukrainians have fled to Germany, according to data from the German Ministry of the Interior. The influx of newcomers from other countries, including Syria, Afghanistan and African nations, is not abating.”
[Sprinter/Welt am Sonntag].
At least Ukrainians are European.
If that were to happen, Russia will be able to take Ukraine east of the Dnieper very easily. It might even be able to take all of Ukraine, though it would, arguende, be both kinder and more statesmanlike to take only Eastern Ukraine, the Kiev area, the Black Sea coastal zone (including Odessa), also of course retaining the areas already controlled by Russia and which are inhabited by Russian-speakers (Crimea, Donbass etc). Leave a rump Ukraine centred on Lvov as a Ukrainian state, or at least autonomous territory.
Ukraine, demographically, is already in collapse. 500,000 dead on the battlefield, millions fled to other states, and a birthrate insufficient to maintain the population numbers.
“British Transport police have issued a picture of a man they want to trace after a driver was attacked on a moving train.“
“Detectives have launched an appeal after a tube driver was attacked by a man who broke into his cab at an east London station.
The train was moving when a thug smashed through the driver’s door near Bromley-by-Bow station.
He went on to repeatedly assault the driver in an attack police called “shocking”. The driver managed to stop the train safely despite being assaulted.“
[Evening Standard].
More “diversity”?
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Israeli soldiers were filmed shooting and destroying houses in the Gaza Strip for fun. pic.twitter.com/Wl9gByqxpC
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Welt: If Ukraine loses the war, another ten million inhabitants will leave
UKRAINE will last until the end of 2024, and if it is defeated, up to 10 million more people will leave it, the German newspaper Welt reported.
Referring to representatives of law enforcement agencies…
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Die Welt is a heavyweight conservative German newspaper, broadly comparable to the Daily Telegraph in the UK. It is not at all “pro-Russian”, so the fact that it foresees a Russian victory by early 2025 is significant.
In the area of hospitals, Israeli snipers shoot at everyone indiscriminately! Despite this, risking their lives, a doctor and displaced Palestinians save a Palestinian guy who was wounded by an Israeli sniper at the entrance to Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis. How… pic.twitter.com/GZECot66Ku
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
How Iranian paratroopers performed their stunts in an air show today over Azadi Square in Tehran. pic.twitter.com/DNkafLPcMI
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Farmers from Poland protest again on the border with Ukraine.
Farmers have been demanding the introduction of tariffs on agricultural goods from Ukraine for months. pic.twitter.com/5UqTvmlMth
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Once Ukraine (Kiev regime) collapses, Zelensky and his cabal will leave for Florida or Israel. They will not stay to face the consequences of their misrule. They all have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed offshore.
Israel Hayom, according to a former military intelligence officer:
– Israel has been subjected to deep espionage by Hamas
– Elite Hamas forces had information about sensitive and secret sites.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Battle for Avdeyevka: Russian armed forces are closing in on encircling the city status as of February 10, 2024. pic.twitter.com/TouNCkrsXr
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
The gradual death of Western culture continues. I am restricted, in effect, in what I can say but let’s just take it that I think that that decadence should not exist. Look at the audience of cretins, though. They all applaud. That means that they should not exist, either.
Gas supplies (LNG) from Russia to France over the first 9 months of last year increased by 41% in annual terms, – RIA Novosti
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
🇺🇸🇷🇺 When the Western media tells you that Russia is crumbling, they are projecting 100%
Israeli media reported that among the killed Israeli in the south of the Gaza Strip were officers
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Barek said that Israel today faces a very big problem with Egypt, and that one decision by Cairo will make it a country hostile to Tel Aviv, with the strongest and best army in the Middle East pic.twitter.com/eWDQ3Ic0cl
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Perhaps the days when the Egyptian Army only won battles in Aida have gone.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad :
“Syria is completely ready for a new war with Israel, and it depends on Syria when and where such a war will take place.” pic.twitter.com/JKBImBnCFo
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 11, 2024
Well, a convincing win over political journalist John Rentoul this week: he scored an embarrassing 1/10 (though all credit to him for having admitted it). I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 7, 9, and 10, and guessed (out of two) the answer to question 8.
“It’s no longer up for debate: Joe Biden has got to go.
In a hastily called press conference Thursday night, President Biden was, for the first time, questioned relentlessly by the White House press pool about his age, cognition, and fitness to serve.
The latest national poll by NBC News found that a whopping 76 percent of voters are concerned about Biden’s mental and physical ability to serve.“
Looks as though only one likely alternative presently exists, a Jew called Dean Phillips, a member of the House of Representatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips.
“Phillips is married and has two daughters from a previous marriage. He is Jewish[43] and was acknowledged by the Minnesota publication The American Jewish World for serving on the board of Temple Israel in Minneapolis.
In the primaries held so far, Biden got 100% of the delegates and 83.4% of the popular vote (Phillips got 7% of the popular vote). Phillips is not even on the ballot of several state primaries.
Incidentally, I see that Emhoff was largely brought up in areas of New Jersey (Matawan and Old Bridge) somewhat known to me from when I lived in New Jersey (near Cheesequake State Park) on and off during the years 1990-1993.
[Garden State Parkway by Old Bridge, New Jersey]
[Washington Road, Sayreville, New Jersey, a few miles from where I sometimes lived in the early 1990s]
‘We need more guns, more equipment, but, most of all, more men.’ Dispatch from the Kupiansk frontline in Ukraine.”
[Daily Mail]
The msm in the UK, USA etc can no longer conceal the military crisis overwhelming the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev. The military chief, Zaluzhny, has been replaced, and the ranks of the Kiev-regime forces are being thinned by both battlefield casualties and the unwillingness of both Ukrainian men and foreign volunteers and mercenaries to serve.
The foreigners have mostly been killed, captured, or have returned home, while Ukrainian men in very large numbers are avoiding the draft, either by remaining in foreign countries or by keeping their heads down in Ukraine itself. The Kiev regime employs brutal press-gangs to capture draft-evaders. One has to ask, though, whether people forced to join up under violent duress are going to be of much use in the field.
Strategically, as noted on the blog for 2 years now, Russia cannot lose this conflict, and will not. Tactically, both sides have encountered problems, but in terms of both manpower and arms, Russia now has the edge, very obviously.
I would not rule out a large-scale Russian offensive in 2024, though it may be that Putin will prefer to see what happens politically in the USA first. The US Presidential Election is in November 2024.
“Russian troops are attacking a town in east Ukraine from all directions, and the situation is increasingly difficult for Ukrainian troops defending the town, its mayor said on Thursday.
“The enemy is pressuring from all directions. They are storming with very numerous forces,” Avdiivka mayor Vitaliy Barabash said in televised comments, describing the situation as “very difficult and hot”.“
The simple truth. Without EU, UK, and US arms and ammo, the Kiev regime will fall back, not only from the Donbass front, but fall back to Kiev, and quite likely further, to somewhere between Kiev and Lvov.
Likewise, Ukraine’s economy is on (Western) life-support.
Demographically, the population numbers are in freefall. 500,000 dead on or around the battlefields, huge numbers in foreign countries, and few children being born.
In short, as an independent state (failed state, fake state), Ukraine has no future.
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[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]
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This is someone who’s been given a role as one of the people who decides the laws & policies of this country.
Nobody knows who Charlotte Owen is, what she’s done, and WHY she’s been elevated to the Lords.
— EAT FLAG 🏳️🌈🏴🏴☠️🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏁 (@AsenathMagic) February 10, 2024
Either Charlotte Owen is related to “Boris” Johnson (the most likely possibility), or he was having some kind of affair with her; there is a third possibility, i.e. that she somehow knows something very seriously discreditable about Johnson.
The last possibility seems unlikely. After all, Johnson is so discredited anyway that it would be hard to think of a concealed fact that would make blackmail or implied blackmail sufficiently threatening.
Still, there it is— an office gopher in her twenties now “elevated” to the House of Lords. Our whole system of government is rotten to the core.
“Politician“? Of course, we are talking about the Plaid Cymru fake “nationalist” joke-party, but even so…
“Carmen Ria Smith (born c. 1996/97) is a Plaid Cymru political assistant. In February 2024, it was announced Smith would be appointed to the House of Lords.
Smith was nominated to the peerage by Plaid Cymru after Dafydd Wigley announced he planned to retire in 2024.[2] This will keep the number of Plaid Cymru life peers as one.”
[Wikipedia]
A member of the Lords at 27, having been an office gopher for 1-2 years, and a lobbyist for a wind-turbine company for another 1-2 years. “Chief of Staff“? The Plaid group in the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) consists of only 12 people!
Carmen Smith was evidently born under a lucky star, and really should buy some lottery tickets. £350+ per day, plus extra monies etc, at age 27. For life, in effect. Incredible.
Ah…
On the day Carmen Smith takes her seat in the lords, a timely reminder of how she got there without consent of party members. Are @Plaid_Cymru now a party run by a few that runs roughshod over their members wishes? Shocking duplicity if so! https://t.co/romBSnEfKA
“A row has broken out in Plaid Cymru after an internal election for nominees to the House of Lords saw a lobbyist for a controversial wind power company elevated to first place on the list – even though she was decisively beaten in a members’ vote by former MP Elfyn Llwyd.
Although the voting figures haven’t been disclosed, Nation.Cymru understands that Carmen Smith, 27, who works for Bute Energy, received around 70 votes while Mr Llwyd got about 180 votes. A third candidate – longstanding party member Ann Griffith – secured around 40 votes.
A longstanding Plaid Cymru member contacted Nation.Cymru and said: “This is disgraceful. I don’t know the actual result of the vote but I would have thought that Elfyn was way out in front. The fact that the National Exec has imposed a woman on top of the list was not explained at any time in the introduction to the virtual hustings that I attended last week.”
A senior party source told us: “This all stems from a decision by the NEC to make sure that a woman was given top position, regardless of how many votes were cast. It’s quite farcical that Elfyn Llwyd was way in the lead, yet came second. It’s surely a travesty of democracy. He has a wealth of Parliamentary experience, while Carmen hasn’t even been elected as a councillor.“
[from Nation.Cymru online]
I wonder whether that might not be judicially reviewable. Seems (on the facts as presented) very lacking in transparency, at the very least.
International and Middle Eastern media are examining video from the Gaza Strip and discussing the plan and location for the evacuation of more than one million people from the southern city of Rafah pic.twitter.com/3f6Wx4vCEw
French farmers flooded the Ukrainian Embassy with shit.
They called on the protesters to disperse. The official message of the diplomatic mission says: “The people of Ukraine regret that French farmers, having just encountered the first difficulties, turned their anger on the… pic.twitter.com/E9Icvef5ub
MOST READ last week. Them Vs. Us – A compelling new study reveals just how out of touch Elites really are, from Net Zero to individual freedom https://t.co/IgUbH1omZg
The WHO pandemic treaty risks handing over domestic health policies to unelected technocrats. Once passed (final draft by May 2024), it becomes binding to all 194 WHO Member States. This must be stopped.#StopTheTreatypic.twitter.com/a3NexjOHG3
'The EU are frightened… they're beginning to realise that people will no longer let them get away with it… people are beginning to realise that [climate change] is a gigantic lie'
Christine Anderson MEP reacts to the EU 'climb down' over farming laws following mass protests. pic.twitter.com/AZDtsePs2P
'Truth is the kryptonite of the parasite class'@thecoastguy Neil Oliver says 'the act of speaking the truth has been criminalised right before our eyes'. pic.twitter.com/UZSd8oaNDn
The absolute depravity of the #Israeli forces – last night there was a video of them killing sheep by sniper fire – now it's shelling horses. Ah well, they couldn't find any children to massacre for a few minutes in #Gaza obviously…😡 https://t.co/RgGEJsrbir
I once heard Ben Houchen on the radio. Quite impressive. In fact, more so than most “dirty democratic politicians“, as Hitler termed them. However, I have found in my life that, usually, the most impressive-seeming people are “all hat and no cattle“, in the Texan phrase.
I think that I must pen, sometime, a little monograph, in the manner of Sherlock Holmes, but not about types of cigar ash; about impressive-seeming people and how few of them achieve greatness or even adequacy.
The most significant revelation of the whole interview?
[“Boris” Johnson with other Jews and part-Jews, including the notorious —now deceased— paedophile MP, Greville Janner (at right), distributing chocolate coins to Jewish children after dark]
"We have an epidemic of cowardice in the world today, but especially in the West. People would rather be socially accepted, be cool, get into the right places, the right colleges, be in the right crowds, than do the right thing" — @bariweiss
◼️ Russian President Vladimir Putin, during an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson , the recording of which was published on the TCN (Tucker Carlson Network) website on February 9, said that Ukraine is an artificially created republic that appeared in 1922 during… pic.twitter.com/ssqrGwfYxP
“Russian President Vladimir Putin, during an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson , the recording of which was published on the TCN (Tucker Carlson Network) website on February 9, said that Ukraine is an artificially created republic that appeared in 1922 during the formation of the USSR.
“When forming the Soviet Union – this is already 1922 – the Bolsheviks began to form the USSR and created a Soviet Ukraine, which did not exist until now. At the same time, [Joseph] Stalin insisted that these republics that were being formed should be included as autonomous entities,” Putin said.
Russia wants to achieve a settlement in Ukraine through negotiations, the Russian leader said in an interview. He expressed confidence that both countries “sooner or later” will be able to reach an agreement. Putin said Ukraine refused to negotiate with Russia “on instructions from Washington,” adding that the decision was wrong and must now be corrected.
Putin said that Russia has not yet achieved its goals in Ukraine.
The West has already come to an understanding that it is impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia; it will fight for its interests to the end. Vladimir Putin told American journalist Tucker Carlson about this.
Putin: The West fears a strong China more than a strong Russia because there are 150 million people in Russia, and one and a half billion in China, and the Chinese economy is developing by leaps and bounds – more than five percent a year, it was even more. But this is enough for China. Bismarck once said: the main thing is potentials. China’s potential is colossal; it is the first economy in the world today in terms of purchasing power parity and economic volume. They have already overtaken the United States for quite some time, and the pace is growing.
Russia is not interested in a war with Poland, Latvia or another country ; Moscow may consider sending troops in the event of an attack, Putin said. He emphasized that getting involved in a “global war” does not meet common sense.“
All of those points can be found on this blog, in posts published over the past 2+ years.
Report from Lebanese networks: The French Foreign Ministry informed the Lebanese authorities that Israel intends to start a war not only against Hezbollah territories, but also against all of Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/eLk74byVXk
There has not been such devastation, and deliberate devastation, since the Second World War.
Editorials from today's leading American newspapers. Not a single one (!) reported on them about the interview between Putin and Carlson pic.twitter.com/YaEz3I3SOq
I can think of a suitable cartoon to accompany that, but according to the police and CPS, and (after my recent magistrates’ court conviction) the Bench, that particular cartoon is both “antisemitic” and “grossly offensive” (because it is said to imply that Jews control the Press in the USA, UK etc), so I had better not publish it again…
Ukraine under the Jew Zelensky is a failed state, a fake state, and a gangster state, a brutal, shambolic and corrupt dictatorship.
Clinton criticizes Carlson for his interview with Putin
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attacked journalist Tucker Carlson for going to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin. She warned that there is a "fifth column" in the US that is allegedly doing Moscow's… pic.twitter.com/ubgH4BqNrK
What about the Jewish lobby fifth column embedded at the heart of government in the USA (and UK)?
"Putin spent 30 minutes talking about the history of Russia and Ukraine going into detail and all without a reminder. Biden can't remember when his son died." 🔻 pic.twitter.com/FgM0tTIkjQ
I might find it hilarious that the USA is now at least notionally ruled by a demented old fellow who can scarcely remember his ownname or what day of the week it is, were it not for the danger that his actions might trigger a nuclear war.
By now over 100 million people have watched the #TuckerCarlson's interview with #Putin and the number keeps growing. it's an avalanche and is destroying and burying the lies that Western governments and mainstream media have painstakingly manufactured.
-Putin knows way too much history -Putin is operating on an intellectual plane far above all US politicians -Putin appears to want cooperation but the West have isolated Russia -Putin does not want to invade Poland or take over the world… pic.twitter.com/VGiLYu74pD
Saw a Twitter/X account from a young woman (I think) whose profile starts with “Inspiring writer” (presumably she means “Aspiring writer“). She (?) has a steep hill to climb, I think…
“It is literally a prison planet.” Former Blackrock portfolio manager, Ed Dowd, explains why every last remnant of human freedom depends on widespread rejection of CBDC. “Once the central bank digital currency is linked to all your credit cards and bank accounts, then social controls can be implemented. If you’re a dissenter like me, talking about truth, they shut you down.“
What exactly were the ''lies'', Guy?
Give us examples. Substantiate your arguments.
Explain it to Europeans calmly and in detail – instead of relying on fear mongering, arrogantly claiming the moral high ground, spending OUR tax money and dragging us into WW III.
It was yesterday, but I thought it worthwhile to repost that.
An estimated 500 million people fell into poverty during the pandemic, but the wealth of the world’s billionaires rose by $3.78 trillion since 2020 – the biggest wealth transfer in the history of the planet. pic.twitter.com/DIszuFAFFG
They're afraid because they've painted a good man as evil and they have sided with evil, and they should be ashamed & marched out https://t.co/0tReuxpolO
“Good man” is debatable. After all, “no-one can rule guiltlessly” [Saint-Just], but Putin is certainly at least as good a man as those opposing him, both here and in Russia itself.
People usually want things to be black-and-white, simple. Not everything is black-and-white. Look at modern history. There were people, some people, in the SS and even, rather later, in the KGB and GRU, who meant well, were relatively honourable, and who might be described in the superficial sense as “good” people, and there were those in the USA and UK, and also in the internal opposition(s) to both National Socialist and Soviet socialist rule, who were rather “bad” people.
If life is a chess game, it is often “three-dimensional chess”.
It seems to me —as far as I have read etc— that Israel is now quite centralized on Tel Aviv and its region, though the Jerusalem area has as many or more inhabitants. The economy is centred on that region. The Israeli state can absorb a certain amount of conflict in border areas (Gaza, the Golan Heights and Northern Israel, even the West Bank), so long as the central belt around Tel Aviv is still functioning.
The increasing capabilities of Hezbollah, especially what seems to be their fast-upgraded missile programme, threaten Tel Aviv and the surrounding region. The Israeli ruling circles are therefore probably contemplating a massive attack on southern Lebanon to destroy the Hezbollah infrastructure before missiles of real power rain down on Tel Aviv.
The Israelis are willing to take a hit in terms of international perception of Israel, a public relations hit, and also an economic hit, so long as that Hezbollah infrastructure can be at least badly damaged.
Were Hezbollah or other powers able to heavily damage Tel Aviv itself, the Israeli economy would tank, and the exodus (?) of dual-passport Jews from Israel —30,000+ since October 2023— would become a flood.
[a major interchange in Tel Aviv]
[general view of Tel Aviv]
[Diamond Exchange District, Ramat Gan, a few miles east of Tel Aviv]
Paul Gambaccini & Nick Robinson @BBCr4today whinging about Foxes. Foxes have been living in London for over a 100 years. Yes they make a noise, dig, pee & poop but they play a vital role in keeping the rodent population at bay. You could always try ear plugs at night!… pic.twitter.com/F1OFmMBWDv
Rafah, the very place to where the Gazan civilian population was “ordered” (by the Israeli Jews’ army) to flee to as a sanctuary.
Putin to Oliver Stone after the end of the interview: Have you never been beaten in your life? Stone: Beaten? Oh yes, it was. Putin: Then you won’t get used to it, because for this film you will get Stone: Yeah, but it's worth it. pic.twitter.com/4cKXI2jALQ
Well, I have to say that, for someone the Western msm has been writing off with (invented?) terminal illnesses for at least 3 years, Putin looks remarkably well. Has “our” (((their))) media been lying to us again?
There are more and more opponents of aid to Kiev in the United States
On Tuesday, the Senate abandoned the border and immigration package and moved to approve a separate deal on Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, The Hill writes.
“God mote it be“, not because I think particularly highly of Trump as an individual, or as statesman of sorts, but because he will ensure, as far as possible, that the USA and Russia (etc) do not get into a Third World War that might set back civilization for hundreds or even thousands of years.
At the end of the day, the choice will be a poor one, because the US political system is sclerotic and almost incapable of substantial change. That will be so even were Biden and Trump not to be the candidates in the end.
As it is, it looks like being Trump on the one side, a very flawed individual but one with real strengths, as against Biden, a corrupt and possibly perverse individual who —most importantly— is plainly at least semi-demented.
People may say “so what if Biden has dementia? He has support etc“. Well, if that is so, why even elect a President? Just let the Deep State conclaves, and secretive Bohemian Grove circles, and Jew-Zionist cabals, rule the USA without the figurehead…
I think that the American public are looking at the two, and are seeing that (to put it that way) one of them is as good as “off his head”…so game over (?).
…and it now turns out that the untermensch even strolled past (the new) New Scotland Yard a while ago! The police must be hoping that he will just throw himself into the river, and thus save them further embarrassment. Where’s Waldo?
"More than two-thirds of Ivy League graduate Elites support BANNING gas stoves, gas-powered cars, air-conditioning, SUVs & 'non-essential air travel' to tackle climate change. But only one quarter of ordinary voters or less support these policies" https://t.co/nvXCm83M3t
If this trend continues, there will eventually have to be, not only in the USA etc, but in the UK too, a purge that will make the Cultural Revolution, the Yezhovshchina, and others, seem mild.
Firing Tucker Carson was the best decision Fox News ever made.
He’s been off corporate media less than a year, and he’s already woken up millions of people.
No wonder the media are grasping at straws to slander him.
He is one of the few true journalists left in this world.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 8, 2024
Hillary Clinton, someone who only became prominent because she was married to Bill Clinton. Thank God she never became U.S. President. We would have had WW3 by now. A semi-educated idiot who is presented as some kind of great mind.
"Once we get to true Net Zero, the temperatures will stop going up almost immediately."
Climate doomsday preacher, Al Gore—who has amassed a net worth of $300m through climate fearmongering—speaking from the WEF's recent Davos summit.
NET ZERO -Wind will be cheaper and better for the planet! they said!
▪️weight 1688 tons (= 23 houses) ▪️1300 tons of concrete ▪️295 tons of steel ▪️48 tons of Iron ▪️24 tons of fibreglass ▪️neodymium ▪️praseodymium ▪️dysprosium
The SNP is always good for a laugh. As for Scotland’s “Independence” pretensions, what kind of “Scottish nation” has Pakistanis (yes, I know that they must have British passports…) leading two of its three largest political parties (SNP and Scottish Labour)?
Javier Milei at the Western Wall, overcome with emotion.
He is not only turning Argentina around from its previous leftist catastrophic state – he's also abandoning the third world embarrassment known as BRICS.
Does anyone go there, do that, and be (or pretend to be) “overcome with emotion” unless he is at least “part-“? I am thinking of “Boris” Johnson, whose great-grandfather was a rabbi in Lithuania.
Whichever way you look at him, Milei seems to be some kind of lunatic.
You're absolutely right, Ricky. And the lack of government funding, long-term training plans for doctors and nurses, and failing to properly pay and take care of the staff that they actually have… well, that's nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Immigrants tend to be healthy so not a strain on the NHS. How does Ricky know who in the video is British?
— Michael Moss #FBPE #readytorejoin #3.5% #FBPPR (@MintyTeaboy) February 7, 2024
So you’re just stupid then
— Ricky 😎 🎵Made in England, Born & Bred🎵 (@Ricky_K67) February 7, 2024
You know any of those people could have been born here right? You know any of those people could be working and paying NI Contributions right? You know many immigrants work in the NHS saving lives every day right? Am sure you had some point though
— Ricky 😎 🎵Made in England, Born & Bred🎵 (@Ricky_K67) February 7, 2024
Amazing how many —indeed, brainwashed— people really want to believe either that the UK actually benefits from mass immigration (which is such nonsense) or at least can comfortably absorb the present (net) inflow of about 750,000 a year (more in fact, bearing in mind that the incomers are almost all non-white, while emigrants are often British people —real British people— going to Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere).
“While Labour is favourite to snatch the Northamptonshire seat from the Tories, Sunak’s party faces a battle even to take second place, if local opinion is anything to go by.”
[The Guardian]
Less an ordinary by-election, more a possible template for GE 2024. As I have blogged previously, there is a mood somewhere between anger and apathy, a mood which has become palpable in recent years, recent months.
The electorate now hates and despises the Conservative Party, whose governments now seem totally incompetent and ineffective. However, fake Labour is not much liked or respected either. “Least worst”, if you like.
As the Guardian report about Wellingborough indicates, that electoral mood leads people either to vote Labour as least-worst option, or to protest via Reform UK.
Sadly, no real social-national party is available.
The electorate’s present main emotion is wanting to stamp on the Government, on the misnamed Conservative Party, and on its MPs.
“A BBC editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation – including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.
Now an investigation by this newspaper can reveal Ms Harper has givenexpert witness evidence in a string of other controversial deportation appeals by Somali offenders – including for another three sex attackers, three drug dealers and a career criminal who spent a decade in British jails.
In one of the most shocking cases, Ms Harper warned that a Somali man who committed a horrific sexual assault on a profoundly deaf 17-year-old girl would be at ‘severely heightened risk’ if he was sent back to Somalia because he had committed a sex crime.
A judge disagreed and threw out his appeal against deportation. Astonishingly, this newspaper has discovered that, 16 months later, the 29-year-old attacker, who the MoS is banned from naming by a court order, has still not been kicked out of Britain and is living with relatives in a council flat.”
[Daily Mail].
Get rid of the invaders. Get rid of any who connive at the migration-invasion of this country.
Talking point: a medical episode
I do not usually blog about any medical conditions that may impact me, but in this case something wider, about the NHS, is illustrated.
When I lived for a year in Kazakhstan (1996-1997), I suddenly became almost deaf at one point. Ear wax. The wife of a Russian colonel with whom I was friendly took me to a local hospital not far from where I lived; I think that it was about a mile up the same long boulevard, Prospekt Lenina.
The treatment was basic but effective. A giant “watering can” was filled with water. I was enjoined to kneel down with my head sideways over a large receptacle. A metal cone about 2 feet deep was then positioned over one of my ears. One nurse held the cone as the other poured the water quickly but steadily into the cone.
The feeling —not pain exactly, but pressure— was almost unbearable for a second. It reminded me of a couple of experiences during scuba dive training. Then it was over, and a plug of ear wax the size of a little finger was floating in the water. Blessed relief. Hearing was restored.
I think —cannot now recall— that either the treatment was free or involved a small fee. I wanted to give the nurses themselves some money, but Ludmilla, the colonel’s wife, told me that that would not be necessary. She was always saving me from “wasting” money (and/or from the odd blonde), as when we were at the “Zilyony Bazaar” (“Green Market”), the Central Market in Almaty, and she would not hear of me having my fortune told by an ancient Kazakh woman sitting on the ground, and who used small animal bones to do her divinations. Ludmilla was a strong character, a contrast to her very easy-going husband.
The next time I had a similar problem, about 2015, the local GP surgery made me an appointment to see a nurse. I did attend, but in fact felt OK by the time I attended, and the nurse said that she could not see any wax anyway. So nothing had to be done.
Well, here we are in 2024. I was informed by the same GP surgery that they “no longer offer” any ear wax removal. A private clinic was recommended. It operates out of a small and quiet NHS hospital in a coastal village about 5 miles from my home. I made the appointment. £15 non-refundable deposit and £65 for the treatment. I could have had it done earlier, but am in fact going next week.
So there it is. Something that used to be free on the NHS now has to be paid for, or no treatment. I am not exactly affluent these days, and even a sum as small as £80 is not nothing (as the Russians say), but one can well imagine that there are many who would struggle to find the fee demanded.
The NHS is less and less useful. Here we are, with GPs earning, in most cases, £100,000-£200,000 a year, monies coming out of all our taxes (even if, like me, you are not employed, you still pay out via VAT etc), and they no longer offer what was a minor but still very useful service. A sign of the way things are going.
The NHS lost its way many years ago. It now seems, often, to be run mainly for the benefit of those employed in it.
It is not just a question of supplying the NHS with more money, or higher staff salaries, bonuses etc. It is a question of making sure that the people are offered services, and that the outcomes are good. Also, that the people needing medical (and dental) help, and their families, are not messed around and ripped-off (eg by having to pay exorbitant parking fees).
At least I myself shall not have to pay for parking next week; having been to that small hospital once before, I know that parking is free, just as in the Good Old Days (or today in the USA, France and I think almost everywhere else).
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There is no community spirit anymore. It’s nearly impossible to see a doctor. The police are too busy checking for hurty words on Facebook to respond to crimes. The roads are crumbling. We are being taxed into oblivion. Nothing works in this country anymore.
The UK has fallen.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 3, 2024
Rishi Sunak on TV the last few days, saying there's no more money for doctors and nurses because "we don't have a magic money tree".
That's funny, because we just printed over £1 trillion out of nowhere to fund a pandemic hoax and wars that nobody asked for.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 1, 2024
At just 18, I looked around me during the Covid lockdowns, and I saw a world gone mad. I thought I was alone.
I turned to Twitter in the hope of finding just ONE person who could see through it too.
A few years, and too many Tweets later, there are 100,000 of us.
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.
Uncensored on X. The US deep state and the Biden administration must be in panic mode because Putin (the most censored man in the West) will expose their propaganda and lies. pic.twitter.com/OXq9j8O3GX
Hebrew media: Today was one of the most difficult days that the North experienced during the war. In the Upper Galilee, the 21st siren was activated in just two hours.
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF: Our estimates say that 17,000 children in Gaza were left without parents or separated from their families during the war, and it is believed that almost every child in the Strip needs mental health support. pic.twitter.com/A0tB6ZwfBP
Demographics. The traditionally Roman Catholic —and Republican— minority [now not a minority, arguably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Northern_Ireland], was about 33% in the early 1970s, but is now well over 40% (42% in 2021 Census).
The Israeli forces opened fire on people again while they were waiting for help to arrive at the "Kuwait" roundabout in the middle of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/XhfG79elsx
Stupid smug woman MP doing what the drone-MPs always do, i.e. spout a load of nothing. Fake democracy. As for Gillian Keegan herself— totally useless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Keegan
Britain now needs to build 515,000 homes every year –73% higher than the target & nearly 3 times as many as the 178,000 homes built last year– just to keep up with our immigration-fuelled population growth (Source: Centre for Policy Studies)https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
Just like Oliver Twist, our not-so-clever Home Secretary wants more. Only another £2.6bn. And ALL to pay for illegal immigrants. He should have thought about that before he let them in. It is time to send them all back. Our own homeless should come first. #VoteUKIPpic.twitter.com/JeNfO4iOur
Not that I disagree with the view shown in the tweet, but Reform UK is only useful to the extent that it can further and deeper push the Conservative Party into the mire.
And how will they prove that silent prayer took place?
Sign of the times. People to be arrested for what they might be thinking…
The very concept of “free speech” is heavily under threat already in the UK (mainly from Jew-Zionists and the Israel lobby, and from unthinking police, CPS, and other “official” drones), but now we see that people are being criminalized simply for having it assumed that they are thinking something!
Sturgeon and her SNP crew deserve to be kicked into the political gutter.
How cheaply people are bought, though! The Scottish electorate was offered and given a few cheap trinkets for its votes: no hospital car park charges, no prescription charges etc. That, and the the promise of a wonderful affluent Independence (which will never happen).
Nothing wrong with free parking and free prescriptions, as such, but look at the wider cost to the Scottish people under Sturgeon’s poundland dictatorship.
Quite similar to, though I think slightly less pretty than, the stylish Edwardian conservatory at our (leased) house in Cornwall over 20 years ago. We also had a wisteria tree growing up a wall inside.
[Polapit Tamar House, North Cornwall]
[Polapit Tamar House (and part of grounds), North Cornwall]
Late tweets
United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Health: The situation in Gaza is an example of violations of international humanitarian law, and the siege of medical personnel and emergency teams in the Strip is a major problem. pic.twitter.com/KQ8lgyV2Wz
Did you know that plants love CO2 so much, farmers pump it into greenhouses?
Higher atmospheric CO2 levels would also benefit reforestation by enhancing plant growth and creating more resilient microclimates. It's time to rethink the narrative that CO2 is bad for our planet. https://t.co/UModHIKZ8spic.twitter.com/NNTvD2EtDX
That occurred to me many years ago. Climate change (if occurring, and whether man-made or otherwise) may have as many upsides as downsides. We do not yet know.
'Covid changed everything – the green light for the roll out of all the absurdity in the world. Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches and handbags out the backs of lorries. Healthy people shut in their homes. Gyms closed but fast-food outlets open.'@Thecoastguypic.twitter.com/sqzTYDcAXy
Yes. I blogged about it at the time. Obedient rabbits lined up outside Waitrose, masked, and six feet apart (as decided upon by know-nothings “Boris” Johnson and Little Matt Hancock, and enforced by dim, black-clad, Handmaid’s Tale militia), only to rub shoulders once inside. Meanwhile, the pub across the road was open and without any restriction. Etc.
Farmers across Europe have mobilised huge protests against governments. Like the Canadian truckers, they are being smeared as “far-right extremists”. It’s grim manipulation. But this is the sort of blue-collar protest that the left-wing used to support.pic.twitter.com/QYs0If2OA1
I am not a Champagne-drinker, but I might open a bottle of Krug when Gates goes up the chimney…
Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop…
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 4, 2024
“Last year, I woke up to a police officer banging on my door accusing me of posting “hate speech” on Twitter. I asked her what law I’d allegedly broken and she couldn’t name a single one. She had no idea what she was talking about, but told me I’d be arrested if I didn’t stop doing the things she couldn’t even tell me I’d done. Helpful! Needless to say, free speech is nothing more than a relic of the past here in the UK.”
[David Morgan].
Tell me about it! (I am now going to be sentenced “in the mags” (in March, probably)— for having blogged nothing but the truth).
How absolutely horrible. Just so that Elon Musk can make more money, someone with money already beyond any dreams of avarice. Humanity owes the animal kingdom a huge karmic debt.
“Civil servants are being told that looking at their phones or rolling their eyes could be signs of sexual or racial discrimination as part of training that has cost more than £160,000.
Government employees have been taught by private sector consultantsto spot ‘microaggressions’ at specially run workshops since 2021.
Officials have been told to nod their heads as a way to improve inclusion. Feedback from civil servants that have undergone the training was said to be highly critical.“
[Daily Mail]
More of the “politically correct”/”woke” nonsense that is drowning or choking this country.
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But not as surprised as those who thought sanctions would bring Russia to its knees. 😆 pic.twitter.com/SIgdSzjNiY
It's funny how for weeks 🇺🇦stans and NAFO have been buzzing non-stop about an alleged egg shortage in Russia but all of the sudden 🦗 about an actual food crisis in Paris due to farmer protests. pic.twitter.com/OSwFiX36QQ
A decade later, the midwife of Maidan, a humiliated and defeated Nuland, speaks from Kiev.
Her accomplishments:
* Russia is stronger than ever since the breakup of the USSR, globally and nationally. Putin enjoys high approval ratings and Russia is more unified than ever.
“A decade later [after the 2014 NWO/ZOG coup in Kiev], the midwife of Maidan, a humiliated and defeated Nuland, speaks from Kiev.
Her accomplishments:
* Russia is stronger than ever since the breakup of the USSR, globally and nationally. Putin enjoys high approval ratings and Russia is more unified than ever.
* Crimea is still Russia and Sevastopol is not a triumphant new addition to the U.S. global military empire.
* Nuland literally f**ked the EU.
[not “literally“, surely, except maybe in one or two cases].
* Europe was forced to replace cheap Russian energy with expensive Russian energy, laundered through various middlemen. Entire industrial sectors have been gutted.
* 440,000 dead Ukrainians.“
Add to that list the implosion of Ukraine not only as a state (failed state, fake state) but also as a nation and people.
Hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged men killed on the battlefield; as many or more, possibly millions, have fled to EU and other states. Millions of women and under-18 offspring have also relocated outside Ukraine. The population is not reproducing itself, and in fact its numbers are falling rapidly.
The industrial sector is almost flat. The agricultural sector is finding it hard to export. Electrical power supply is unreliable.
Meanwhile, despite various problems, Russia is flourishing.
Strategically, Russia’s overall position cannot be compared to that of Kiev-regime Ukraine, which only stays in existence by reason of aid from the EU and North America.
They left me alone, but I pray for them.”
Little Palestinian Muhammad Shaheen lost his entire family and was left completely alone … The child received a serious skull injury after being left under the rubble of his house after the Zionist attacks. pic.twitter.com/rgTseNNosc
Feminists need to stop talking about microaggressions and start talking about border control. The government granting asylum to convicted sex offenders is a betrayal of women and girls. https://t.co/2pwFbC2Nd6
The fake “debate” continues in the msm, but above that facade of fakery the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan also continues unabated, flooding western and central Europe with non-whites.
What’s the answer, Matt. I love your work but we are getting to the stage where we’re just highlighting the problems. We now need solutions. We now need actions.
If Matt Goodwin actually put forward solutions to the migration invasion etc, he would probably end up in court, as did I, in my case the victim of malicious complaint by an “entitled” tribe. Having said that, Goodwin is very pro-Israel, so maybe (like Douglas Murray) he can “offend” (non-Jews, anyway) without facing judicial sanction.
Afghan migrant enters UK illegally in 2016 Applies for asylum twice Doesn't get it Is not removed from the UK THEN commits sexual assault & exposure Gets suspended sentence THEN granted asylum Because he "is now a Christian" THEN attacks two children + mother with acid
Yes. Everybody who thinks mass immigration is the dumbest policy decision ever, who think we should deport foreign nationals like Abdul Ezedi, is a racist and equivalent to the 1970s National Front. Nobody falls for this stick anymore, David. You've run out of ideas. Move along. https://t.co/UCB49FV9GV
The 1970s NF had its rough edges, but most of what it predicted would happen in the UK has since come to pass. In terms of street violence, incidentally, the NF was far more sinned against than sinning, in my view.
"British people commit crimes too therefore we should be cool with asylum seekers & illegal migrants trying to kill us in the name of Allah & pouring acid over women and girls"
You see the Aaronovitch type of argument all the time from the “politically correct”/”woke” rabble: “British people commit crimes, so any riff-raff off the boat who commit crimes should not be deported.” Or…”some British people are sex offenders, so we must not characterize the “British” Pakistani community as harbouring a large number of rape gangs targeting young (real British) girls, because that harms ‘diversity’.”
Israeli soldiers celebrate the burning of a building west of Gaza City that houses the headquarters of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights. pic.twitter.com/kIDVfHEpJa
Well, in the American phrase, “what goes around comes around”. By 2029, or 2034, Iran, other states around Israel, even Hezbollah, maybe even Hamas, will have far more sophisticated missiles and drones. I wonder what will happen then?
Those Israeli soldiers and their families may, in 5 or 10 years, be themselves “victims”, and will no doubt be able anyway to pose as such.
Footage of Israelis blocking the Nitzana checkpoint on the Egypt – Israel border has reappeared in order to prevent trucks carrying humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip . Attempts by the Israeli authorities to disperse the demonstrations end in nothing. pic.twitter.com/2J1QYUTrF9
Israel presents an image of national unity, usually. The deep rifts within its society are hidden from view much of the time. Having said that, the only Israeli prime minister to have been assassinated (Rabin) was killed not by an Arab but by a Jew, and one supposedly connected with the Shin Beth security org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin#Assassination_and_aftermath.
UNICEF: Estimates that 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have lost their parents or are separated from their families. pic.twitter.com/b6VAYAtHBQ
The suffering of children in northern Gaza as a result of the destruction of infrastructure by the occupation army and the ongoing siege pic.twitter.com/hhrY5wyNTf
The Jewish “human rights” lawyers in the UK have been remarkably quiet since Israeli forces started to kill or horribly wound tens of thousands of Gazan women and children; not to mention terrorizing the survivors, who are living in hunger and squalor.
The Israel Broadcasting Corporation reveals: "3,000 soldiers have undergone treatment at the army's psychiatric ward since the start of the Gaza war."
Still, I suppose that someone (of any race or nation) who is involved in the mass slaughter of women and children is quite likely to face psychological disturbance.
“Two farm workers have been sacked after a film revealed pigs apparently being beaten to death on a free-range farm supplying Morrisons and Tesco supermarkets. Other animals were sick or paralysed, but left untreated, footage appeared to show.
The RSPCA suspended the farm from its Assured scheme after The Independent notified it of the scenes of cruelty.“
[The Independent]
When are the penalties for cruelty to animals going to be commensurate with the suffering caused?
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7 in 8 of nearly 40,000 people would prefer Putin as UK Prime Minister over Sunak or Starmer. pic.twitter.com/0sSFFbQvYU
Unscientific, of course, but I think that it still says something, even if popular support for Putin in the UK is half or a quarter of the figure above.
Putin may not be a “nice person” (are Sunak, Starmer, and Schwab?) but he is effective, most of the time. Sunak and Starmer are dull nobodies, really, for all their career “success” and/or money. As for Schwab, just evil; sinister.
I saw Moscow in 1993. Russia was on its knees. It was until about 2000. Russians over the age of, say, thirty years of age, remember those days. I returned in 2007. Amazing difference (though the rough edges were still there).
Because (((the usual suspects))) own or influence the Western msm…
Another talking point
“South Africa – 1st for deaths by knife globally – 8th highest murder rate globally – a woman is more likely to be raped than learn to read – 32% unemployment rate – [only] 46% of children in secondary education.”
[from a tweet seen]
…and yet the whole System mass media, all the fake “celebrities”, all the “antifa” dimwits, pretty much all the Labour Party membership etc still think that South Africa is better than it was in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. They still think that thick-as-two-short planks Nelson Mandela was both saintly and incredibly intelligent (in fact, he was a would-be terrorist leader who turned to African revolution at the age of 42, and after having failed his law degree several times, and the only reason he was not an active terrorist leader is because he was so inept at conspiracy, and was arrested before he could start a race war against South African whites).
Few people in the West are aware of the true facts, or that those behind Mandela and his botched race-war terror strategy were Jews, including at least one formerly involved in the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing.
South Africa may have needed reform in the 1960-1990 period, but African “majority rule” was always going to be disastrous. It has been.
Not long ago British progressives were gushing over Joe Biden's immigration policy, saying we should replicate it in Britain. Now? Even the Economist admits it's a total disaster https://t.co/pvN2UoRskN
What the Israeli Jews are doing in Gaza is not, under any reasonable or fair assessment, or view, “self-defence”. The killing of tens of thousands, almost all civilians, half of them under 18, a quarter (approximately) under 12 years of age. The wounding of several times that number.
The Jew/Zionist lobby in the UK and elsewhere is, on the whole, supportive of the actions of the Israeli state. Their cries of “nothing to do with us, guv!” ring very hollow.
Possibly interesting, but without detailed knowledge of the Israeli order of battle in the Gaza operation, meaningless. I have no such knowledge, so the intelligence noted is not useful to me.
The news broadcast is in Arabic and (judging by the device at bottom right) is from Al Jazeera.
🚨🇮🇱 ISRAEL bombed families on a beach in Gaza! Why are they bombing beaches if they told us Hamas is in “underground tunnels?” https://t.co/jvaF4GMgxC
American actor and director Oliver Stone Netanyahu is deranged and so is Biden These deranged people are abusing innocent people in Gaza🇵🇸👇 pic.twitter.com/0wijoVBS6w
Anything taken to an excess, to an absurd excess, is just out of concordance with the Universe and reality in the macro sense.
When I look at Elon Musk, or that odd little man Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates, or (before he went up the chimney) Steve Jobs, or the myriad “Russian” (mostly Jew) “oligarchs”, my primary thought is “they have too much money“.
I do not mean that they have “too much money” relative to me (that is very easy!) or even in relation to most people, or most wealthy people (“wealthy” in a more ordinary sense); no, what I mean is that people on the Musk, Bezos, Gates level of wealth literally have too much money.
The ultra-wealthy have so much money that they do not know what to do with it, except get a team of people working on how to further increase the hoard of wealth that the ultra-wealthy have already.
In the end, all it becomes is a kind of Masque of the Red Death game or competition; whoever has the most beans, the highest figures on a computer screen, is the winner. A winner, someone who has won something and nothing. Ask Steve Jobs. Oh…you can’t…
Some of the ultra-wealthy are themselves casting around, trying to find something worthy to do with at least some of their vast wealth. Merely being rich is not enough, not when you are that rich. Several of such people (eg Musk) are in control of assets worth around USD $220 BILLION, i.e. two hundred and twenty thousand million! When you consider that a massive mega-yacht might cost USD $500 million or, at most (?), USD $1 billion (thus costing the buyer maybe less than half of one percent of his asset-value), you see both the problem and the consequent frustration.
As for smaller toys (houses, estates, cars etc) they are as nothing in comparison to the wealth some hold. Even hugely “overpriced” artworks the same.
Look at the competition among a handful of the ultra-wealthy to build their own rockets. An exercise in showing off toys, really, the aim being what? To send groups of tourists into orbit? How pointless.
To have “too much” wealth (without putting any particular figure on it) is like eating 100 pizzas a day, drinking 10 bottles of Chateau Margaux each day, or even drinking 10 gallons of water, and is dangerous for a person’s health; in the case of wealth, also dangerous for society.
Late tweets
Imagine if Russia and China decided to fund a "Freedom Movement" in Texas.
Then, overturn the democraticly elected Govenor, install a puppet regime,
Then, create a vast army to attack anyone disagreeing or pro US, Ban elections, opposition, dissenting media.
Ben Gvir and ministers from the Likud Party dance at a huge conference in occupied Jerusalem to encourage settlement in the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/JMiHw2NOKX
The Kiev regime is a mainly Jewish/Zionist-ruled, shambolic, corrupt, and brutal dictatorship, in which most political parties and trade unions are banned, and where exercizing “free speech” can get you arrested and criminalized.
Thank God the UK is not like that! Oh, no, wait…(I am being sentenced in a few days’ time for a few comments, analyses, and cartoons allegedly published on this blog over the past few years…).
Ian Robert Millard 