The crew of an 2A65 Msta-B towed howitzer of the battlegroup Center destroyed a Ukrainian command post in the Krasnoarmeisk area of the special military operation using a Krasnopol-M2 high-precision munition, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/TJTNegOoeMpic.twitter.com/3DnqNGRwR9
The figures for age groups under 40 are problematic, because a fairly substantial minority are non-white so, in any real sense, non-Brit to start with.
Drones such as Barry Gardiner represent another world, another parallel thought-world, and one that has little to do with the British people. Completely out of touch.
A simple DNA test comparison on “Boris”-idiot and Charlotte Owen would put at least one out of the two most likely theories to bed, so to speak.
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POLITICO:
"Denmark lost its entire army, artillery and equipment in Ukraine, and won't be able to defend Greenland if the US decides to annex it militarily." pic.twitter.com/S7c99QqmyX
“…a new study reveals evidence for ‘a lost world’ beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the Pacific waters that ‘shouldn’t exist’.“
“The UK is trapped in a cycle of political, social and financial turmoil. But there is a way out.
If there is any consensus in our otherwise fractured, toxic national debate it is that we cannot go on like this. Our economy is in crisis, exemplified by an annual £100bn shortfall in public and private investment, which must be lifted decisively for Britain to break out of today’s triple whammy of stagnant growth, productivity and living standards.
Society reels from alarming gaps in the provision of crucial public services and the yawning unfairness in the distribution of income, wealth and opportunity.
Our democracy and state seem incapable of acknowledging the full extent of these deformities, let alone adequately responding to them.
Our international standing has plummeted at a time of geopolitical peril. A transformative response is an imperative.
My new book, This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, tries to address the origins of this interlinked crisis – and offer a feasible way out. Nothing is immutable. We are agents of our own destiny.
The heart of the problem is a misconception about how capitalism and society work. Capitalism must be managed and regulated to work for the common good, just as society has to be curated to provide fairness and opportunity for all. Crucially, the vitality of the two are interdependent. Capitalism must be organised so it provides economic ladders that every individual can climb while a social contract must offer a floor below which they cannot fall. Britain’s problem is that the Conservative party, in power for all but 13 of the last 45 years, does not accept these truths or interdependencies. Worse, even if it did, neither the dominant culture and practise of our capitalism, nor the structure of our democracy, state and media would have made it easy to fashion the necessary responses.
Conservative ideology has been in thrall to the contrary proposition that markets will self-organise to produce the best economic and social outcomes propelled by individual energy and ambition alone. The British state confers near-continual unfettered power to the Conservatives, and so in their view needs no reform. Yet the reality is that capitalism’s unchecked rollercoaster rhythms create instability, inequity and monopoly and so must be managed and counteracted. Nor can capitalism be relied upon to best organise how firms are governed and ownership responsibilities discharged; how workers are properly trained and paid; or to ensure that fair dealing is the norm between firms and their customers. Of necessity enter the state, much better designed than at present.
The UK has its back against the wall to a degree unparalleled in its peacetime history, facing economic problems more acute than the successive sterling crises of the 20th century or the trade union militancy that prompted the general strike of 1926 or winter of discontent in 1979. The level of our national debt has climbed alarmingly over the past quarter of a century, with no compensating increase in public assets, so that the net worth of the public sector – assets less liabilities – is more dangerously in the red than any other country bar Portugal. Similarly, more than 20 years of imports of goods and services exceeding exports has meant our international debts have climbed by £1.5tn, so that our balance sheet – positive for centuries as a result of empire and as pioneer of the Industrial Revolution – is now dangerously negative. Fifty companies that could have been in the FTSE 100 were sold abroad between 1997 and 2017; we are running out of assets to sell. At the same time almost every metric on the economic and social dashboard – whether social mobility or the number of new companies launching on the London stock market – is flashing amber or red.
Rightwing ideological maxims, initiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and continued by her imitators, have led to a sequence of policy disasters – monetarism, wholesale financial deregulation, austerity and then Brexit. Far from launching a renaissance, Thatcher was the author of pernicious decline. The doctrine is that the private “I” is morally superior to anything public, that the state’s “coercive” proclivities must be reined in to promote a “free” market, that regulation and taxation stifle enterprise, that unless ferociously means-tested and minimalist, welfare creates a huge underclass of undeserving “shirkers”, and that good public services follow from a successful economy rather than being integral to it.
Little of the policy that flows from this jumble of ideology and prejudice has any evidence base. As the totality of the failure has unfolded, so the Conservative party’s unity has fragmented into the blind alleys of libertarianism and the debacle of the Truss government, ongoing phobia about all things European and the temptations of anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, anti-woke populism. It has become an ungovernable federation of cults.
In the 1980s, monetarism did not contain inflation as billed, but rather prompted mass unemployment, hollowed out much of our productive economy – manufacturing employment nearly halved in a decade – and eviscerated public investment. The areas so scarred by the experience would, 30 years later, vote for Brexit. Financial deregulation led to the fastest rise in private indebtedness in our history, propelling illusory economic growth buoyed not by investment and innovation but a flood of credit. It could only end in tears. Writing The State We’re In in the mid-1990s, to warn of an impending tragedy without a change of course, I did not anticipate the great financial crisis of 2007/8, felt most acutely in Britain, although it was obvious the whole rickety structure could only fail in some way. Nor did I imagine that Britain would repeat the failures with the economically illiterate budgetary tightening of austerity and then torch the one successful economic policy asset it had remaining, EU membership, which had boosted GDP by 10%. Yet such was the grip of the right on the Tory party that their bad ideas, once unthinkable, became our lived reality.
And Britain’s liberal left cannot absolve itself of blame. If Conservatism has over-emphasised the “I”, the left has not yet found an electorally attractive way of making the case for “We” – or, better still, blending it with the “I” to create a political philosophy, and attractive policies that flow from it, that would appeal to the majority. My proposition is that the “We” should be built on fusing an ethic of socialism grounded in profound human attachment to fellowship, mutuality and co-operation with the ethic of progressive or new liberalism that emerged 150 years ago as a challenge to classic liberalism. Essentially, liberal thinkers such as Thomas Hill Green and Leonard Hobhouse (forerunners of progressive liberals Keynes and Beveridge) argued that individuals and society were in a constant iterative relationship. Individuals shape society, society shapes individuals, and each and everyone has an obligation to make the social whole as strong as possible, which they are obliged to recognise even while they pursue their own ambitions and interests. Green called this the politics of obligation, which not only the great reforming 1905-15 Liberal government would follow, but later the Keynesian economic revolution and Beveridge’s welfare state.
Labour, as Tony Crosland diagnosed in the 1950s in The Future of Socialism, was founded on being all things leftist to everyone to encourage as big a membership as possible. It was a coalition of Marxists to gradualist Fabians – so laying the foundation for more than 100 years of feuding. Only the ethic of socialism, which has deep roots in western philosophy, the great religions and the Enlightenment, stands the test of time. It was Aristotle who declared that those who deny the primacy of a healthy society to their individual wellbeing are either “a beast or a gods”, while the father of British empiricism, Francis Bacon, would write “wealth is like muck. It is not much good but if it be spread.”
Progressive liberalism and an ethic of socialism are not incompatible value systems: they are complementary. Progressive liberalism leans into the individualism that propels capitalism while accepting social obligations; an ethic of socialism leans into the foundation of a social contract and infrastructure of justice that underpin the sinews of a good society. Ideological socialism’s hostility to capital and liberalism’s association with the upper class and upper middle class initially made a rapprochement between the two impossible. Today those obstacles have faded. It was Tony Blair who saw the opportunity that could be grasped, and perhaps his best contribution to progressive politics was his rewriting of Labour’s infamous high socialist clause IV to articulate the fusion. New Labour may have shrunk from the full implications; it will fall to successors to make it live.
The vision is of a “we society” – a high investment economy populated by companies that take their social responsibilities seriously, underpinned by a rejuvenated social contract in which health, housing, education, justice, welfare and the labour market all combine to offer every individual the chance fully to participate in work, social and civic life. No more lost Einsteins and Marie Curies.
The starting point must be to raise public investment decisively and so “crowd in” private investment radically to lift productivity and real wages (wages adjusted for inflation). Three targets select themselves – the vital need to close the disgraceful gap in productivity, infrastructure and economic performance between London and the regions; the commitment to achieve net zero by 2050 given the alarming rise in global temperatures; and the need to lift research and development spending dramatically. To move the dial in all these areas will require public borrowing for such investment to rise by at least 1% of GDP, or between £25bn– £30bn, with fiscal rules organised around real-world, rather than accounting, goals. The financial markets will be reassured if they know that the investment they are supporting is strategic and thought through. Britain can break out of its low growth trap without financial mishap.
Shibboleths about taxation need to be put to one side. Taxation represents the “we”, and as long as the demands on all sections of society are reasonable – involving at present a greater contribution by the wealthy, whose assets in relation to GDP have doubled since 1980 – there is no evidence that tax receipts at today’s level or even marginally higher will damage growth. What matters is that Britain does what it must to lift its growth rate. A “growth commission” should establish rolling targets for public investment and be held to account to achieving them – the means to vitally needed change.
Importantly, the savings and investment system must be reshaped to drive credit and equity investment to support the financial needs of the companies big and small that we need to feed off the surge in public investment. Two young institutions – the UK Infrastructure Bank and British Business Bank – must be turbocharged so they can operate at the multibillion-pound scale necessary. Banks must be incentivised to supply business loans on much less onerous and flexible terms, and the pension system must be boosted and organised to invest in fast-growing companies based on frontier new technologies. A big multibillion private sector wealth fund – already mooted by some in the City – must work in concert with a public sector wealth fund to invest in what will be the great companies of tomorrow, ensuring they stay British-owned to anchor our economy.
The law needs to ensure that companies make their prime objective the achievement of great social purposes rather than short-term self-enrichment. This should especially apply to all our regulated utilities. The best in British business and our utilities have already begun to move in this direction, putting achievement of great purpose at their heart: it needs to become the general rule. Competition policy must be stepped up so that there is much less incentive and capacity to rig prices in monopoly or quasi monopoly positions. This is particularly important for those businesses and sectors whose business models depend on strength in “intangibles” – intellectual property, human skills, data and digital advantages, research – whose growth has been cramped by so many financial and regulatory biases that favour incumbents. British capitalism, in short, needs to be repurposed both to grow and to work for the common good.
No less essential is to repair the threadbare social contract. The new risks and inequalities that every citizen will confront in an ever faster moving environment, along with new centres of prosperity, need to be mitigated and managed to ensure the new economic world is underwritten by great education, health and housing – and income support when for any reason people find it impossible to work. The workplace needs to be reconfigured so employees are conferred dignity and voice, with trade unions as active partners of purposeful companies. There must be a proper system of social care. We cannot have children going hungry in their millions, with schools, training institutions and further education colleges allowed to decay. And lastly, housing must be restored as a central pillar of the good society. Council tax, the mortgage market, social housing and the system of tenure all require a major overhaul. It would all be integral to a British-style New Deal.
The British state that perforce must catalyse and lead all this must be reformed and recast. It needs the capacity to act strategically, but with far stronger mechanisms for being held accountable for what it does. Parliament must recover its capacity to deliberate and scrutinise along with making law. The reduction of MPs to mere lobby-fodder ciphers to service the transient whims of an unprecedented churn of ministers is surely one reason why nearly 100 this parliament – a record – have been sanctioned for gross lapses in their behaviour. Our second chamber, the Lords, must be democratised. Ethical standards, from conduct in office to political donations, need to be respected and enforced. Boris Johnson’s abuses cannot be allowed again. The independence of the judiciary must be better entrenched. The tone and content of our national conversation, framed by a dominant and frequently hysterically biased rightwing media magnified by social media, needs to be hosed down – a revival in public service broadcasting and regulation of content is a necessity.
Britain has the potential to become an envied European economic and social model. Indeed to re-engage with the European Union is another indispensable part of recovery. The case is not only economic, recovering lost markets, increasing trade intensity, and stimulating falling inward investment that are costing a lost 5% of GDP every year (and growing) but geopolitical. Britain must be “in the room” where the great decisions on Ukraine, defence, security, energy, climate emergency, and the regulatory standards are taken that will configure our continent. Empire and Commonwealth have gone; the 21st century will be shaped by three great blocs – the US, China and the EU. To be alone to assert a meaningless “sovereignty” to assuage the fantasies of rightwing populists is madness.
The emerging rightwing nexus of libertarian tax-cutters and immigration-phobes, so ready to put achieving those aims above the rule of law and respect for human rights, is unfit to govern. At the next election Britain needs a government that will sure-footedly reshape our capitalism and society to promote growth, enfranchisement and a country at ease with itself – respecting rather than deifying its past better to build the future. We can act to shape our destiny. This time no mistakes.“
[Will Hutton, in The Guardian]
I disagree with some of that; agree with more.
The most glaring near-omission is that Hutton scarcely mentions the fact that a million non-whites a year are entering the UK. Most of them are —at best— useless, and most of them are staying, and breeding. That alone would destroy any hope of his carefully-constructed “better-society” blueprint.
Hutton prefers just to look down his nose at what he terms “immigration-phobes“. That may cut it with dinner-party attendees wherever Hutton lives (Hampstead? Richmond? Blackheath? Muswell Hill?), but not with the British people. Things are too serious for that, and impact them directly as well as indirectly.
Hutton seems to think that the importation into the UK of a million persons per year, mostly from backward areas of the world, mostly unskilled, often not even speaking English, is either unimportant or actually desirable. He ignores the fact that few are really useful, many (most) parasitic, and not a few actively hostile and/or criminal.
Hutton also uses the term “rightwing“, which is both anachronistic and imprecise; almost meaningless. Disappointing in a former Master of Hertford College, Oxford.
Hutton is a dyed-in-the-wool EU-remainer. He cannot see any alternative to the UK being just a province of an EU bloc. There is at least one alternative which might fly, but he has obviously not considered it (joining with Russia in loose alliance, while keeping amiable relations with the European Union states and even with the USA etc).
The third problem I have with Hutton’s view is that he lays out broadly what he thinks should happen, but without saying how it might happen. How do we get from here to there?
People crying and seething in London because they've seen a few Swastika symbols.
Best stay away from Vivianne Westwood. Upminster Train Station, St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry and Essex County Council building, then.#Culture#Easterpic.twitter.com/ZQhrgWaQEj
two foreign jewish women berating a British policeman and calling for censorship & the enforcement of hate speech laws – and it's conservatives cheering them on https://t.co/WZTYS0TK2b
— White Lives Matter California (@WLMCalifornia) October 2, 2023
An interesting Twitter/X account not seen previously by me.
Washington Post: We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It.
The Post reports on how in Europe, the secret police are putting under surveillance political parties that are growing by advocating policies popular with voters.
The tweeter’s reference is to Germany (inter alia). Nearly 80 years after the disastrous end of the Second World War, Germany is still, to some extent, an occupied country.
Around 5,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far this year – which represents an increase of almost a third on the first quarter last year. pic.twitter.com/twc9IJvBpe
5,000 in the three months of the year which have the roughest seas in the Channel. That probably means anything up to 50,000, maybe even more, by the end of 2024.
That figure is, however, dwarfed by the total of so-called “legal” migration: “high-skilled workers” (Indians who can work a computer), “fiances/fiancees”, “family members”, “students”, and the rest.
The two figures together will almost certainly top a million in 2024 alone. Totally unsustainable. British society will come apart by reason of the continuing migration invasion.
The most terrifying thing about Scotland’s hate speech laws are that they appear to have been written by a 5 year old
Or perhaps suggesting they use the word “incitement” would be deemed hate speech pic.twitter.com/iBBBHTE1PZ
The SNP’s cartoon brand of Scottish “nationalism” has no problem with the leaders of two of the three main parties “up there” being of Pakistani origin, has no problem with a future “independent” Scotland (which will probably never exist anyway) being part of the EU and so largely ruled and regulated by that supranational body, no problem (in reality) with Scotland continuing to be a part of NATO (and so not “independent” in terms of military or naval strategy), and no problem with the Scots being slowly or not so slowly replaced in their own land by hordes of “blacks and browns”.
In short, the SNP is both a fake and a political bad joke. Its two previous leaders have faced, or are facing, criminal charges, and its brief time in the sun (from 2015 to 2024) looks set to descend into night.
We have just got new vicar, we haven’t had permanent vicar for two years. Church is giving away our money on slavery repatriation when it won’t give one penny to fix our church buildings, while our congregations struggle to raise 10s of thousands to fix grade 2 listed buildings
She's more of a Conservative than you & your one nation mates sadly. Never has a party been so disconnected & out of touch with its electorate & never has a govt failed its voters so miserably.
I am angry about what you and other MPs have done to our country. You let us down. You did not listen to us. All you care about is yourself. You left us, not the other way around. Be ashamed
Nobody cares, Esther. So greatly have the arrogant Tories betrayed their base that vengeance, which is imminent, will be sweet. https://t.co/peYGruuup8
#R4today ask why we keep trying to get both parents into work when there is a shortage of jobs AND why is it so difficult to live on one wage while rearing the kids when it used to be easy?#NurseryPlaces#CostOfLivingCrisis#BrokenBritain
Nobody cares anymore after social media screened Israel genocide on Palestinian people! Maybe talk about that!!! You can’t go and murder 12 thousand children and then cry that someone offended you by displaying swastika and cop is right it depends on context!
— Paulina Zielinska (@PaulinaZielins9) April 1, 2024
Just imagine— after GE 2024, that thick Israel-puppet, Lammy, is set to be the new Foreign Secretary. Unglaublich…
Transgenderism gains additional protections because it is a male sexual rights movement campaigning for epistemological abolitionism and cultural nihilism – but “hate speech” laws are illiberal, censorious and designed to chill any discourse and must be repealed in full.
Mirabile dictu…I find myself in agreement with both J.K. Rowling and once-well-known tweeter Robbie Travers… and on the same day.
This is best rebuttal I've read yet to the absurd bien-pensant notion that because Scotland’s new hate crime law is vague and the guidance around it is contradictory, it probably won't do much. No: this vagueness is the biggest problem https://t.co/chOgWvPBWQ
Vagueness is the enemy of a “society under law”. I myself was convicted in November 2023 of breaching the Communications Act 2003, s.127, a law so unjust and poorly-drafted that the Law Commission has formally recommended its repeal.
I was supposed to have published, on this blog, a number of remarks, comments, and cartoons that were “grossly offensive“, and mostly, it was said, about Jewish behaviour.
Truth was irrelevant. Harm was also irrelevant (the Prosecution and the trial judge both accepted from the start that there was no “victim” in the case, and that no actual “harm” had been done to anyone at all).
The prosecution was procured (God knows how…) by the malicious cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a very small but very well-funded Jewish-Zionist group that has admitted, both on Twitter/X and its own website, that it has been trying to have me prosecuted on various bases for 7+ years; I think closer to 10 years.
In fact, the “CAA” has had only a notional victory.
Yes, the “CAA” managed to apply political pressure sufficient to make compliant police box-tickers annoy me with pointless and supposedly “voluntary” interviews in 2017 and 2021 (after the “CAA” made completely false accusations against me); yes, the “CAA” also managed to have political pressure applied to the Crown Prosecution Service so that I was eventually prosecuted (in 2023); yes, I have been inconvenienced by the whole process (though never arrested) and, yes, I was later convicted in the magistrates’ court, having defended myself alone and unaided from all those manifestations of Britain’s new poundland police state.
Having said that, the “CAA” has obviously been disappointed at the ultimate result. My sentence (15 days or part-days of so-called “rehabilitation” under the Probation Service, and a costs order amounting to £734) was clearly less severe than they wanted. It is a nuisance, and one that inconveniences me, yes, but no more.
The “CAA” has been so miffed at the sentence passed upon me that it and its Jewish supporters have not even tweeted about how I have been sentenced (they did tweet when I was convicted last year). Not one tweet from the “CAA” itself about me since the sentence was handed down, and only a couple (I saw 2 or 3 tweets) from stray frustrated “CAA” supporters saying how “derisory” was my sentence. I myself would not say that: the sentence was and is a nuisance, and has caused minor inconvenience, but not excessive inconvenience.
I suppose that the “CAA” will continue to push the police and CPS (when will the office bods of those two organizations realize that they are being “played”?), but I doubt that the “CAA” will get very far; we shall see.
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I have already had a few meetings with the rather charming ladies of the Probation Service.
As for the supposedly “grossly offensive” blog posts which founded the November 2023 conviction, they are still extant and capable of being seen. I think that I shall not provide a link to them, in the circumstances, but they are all (all 5 of them) still on the blog, and will remain there indefinitely.
The blog continues to be published daily or near-daily and, while the conviction will, in effect, require me to be more cautious in terms of tone, the material covered will remain much the same, except that I hope to present more from the world of ideas and policy, and perhaps slightly less in terms of mere comment.
The sentencing district judge (on 14 March 2024) refused the Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me (which might have restricted my free speech on the blog even further), because it would have been pointless, and because it was so badly-drafted; pathetically poorly, in fact.
I am now under no greater onus, from the strictly legal point of view, than I was when this whole legal and juridical circus started in early 2023.
So there it is…
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These fucking lunatic israelis just bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus
Unbelievable violation of the Vienna convention and Syria and Iran's sovereignty.
Laurence Fox is ideologically incorrect all the same. We have a right to be Europeans in a European ethnostate. Don’t use the language (e.g. “racist scum“) of the enemy.
Laurence Fox is also pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. Sadly misguided.
Laurence Fox has nothing of interest to say; he should retire from politics (insofar as he is in politics in the first place) as gracefully as possible and as soon as possible.
🔶 The Israeli Parliament passes new law that will ban the Qatari Wahhabist state TV channel Al Jazeera from broadcasting in Israel.
The White House in Washington D.C. has voiced its concern regarding the impact the new Israeli law proposal will have on freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/PpsoahKLkT
The speech of the Easter white bunny at the White House in Washington seemed to many Republicans more meaningful than press conferences and speeches by representatives of the Joe Biden administration and the American president himself pic.twitter.com/5qQvWe3PZz
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
The situation in one of the deserts of Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of abnormal hail and rains that have continued in the region since the beginning of winter pic.twitter.com/8CC5iebpGO
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
"Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia:
“Israel's attack on the Iranian embassy could lead to war.”"
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 1, 2024
Israel wants to provoke a situation in which the USA will back up Israel and maybe destroy Iran for the Israelis. Tail wags dog…
From today, in Scotland, it is a crime to use what others perceive to be “threatening or abusive” behaviour which stirs up hatred on the basis of "protected characteristics", incl. what's said in your own home & which will go on your criminal record. This is not an April Fools.
I hope that there are Scottish people who will not only oppose these police-state measures but who will also identify the most guilty behind the new repression.
"Labour should give British citizenship to millions of EU migrants", says pro-Labour think tank. This is just one of several plans to upend Britain's democracy in Labour's favour, as I wrote about last month …https://t.co/UA2ukmAaby
Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
More tweets seen
The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
Late music
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
The Chinese army presented an animation of a joint high-precision strike on Taiwan by aircraft, ships, missile forces and multiple launch rocket systems of the ground forces. pic.twitter.com/D1awtTRasb
The CIA believes that Beijing can increase support for Moscow in case of Ukraine's strikes deep into the Russian Federation. In general, the leak led to a panic in the Pentagon and the defense department limited the process of transferring intelligence, according to WP. pic.twitter.com/ekxTbXzzlJ
"Global Times" published a cartoon under the title "Declining Dollar" to speculate about the possibility of the end of the hegemony of the US dollar. pic.twitter.com/2n3JpOGAVe
“If you wish to destroy capitalism, first destroy its currency” [Lenin (?)—possibly apocryphal, though quoted in altered form by Keynes].
Actually, Lenin was not always mistaken. His words, “Capitalism is commodity production at its highest stage of development, when labor-power itself becomes a commodity“, reflect a form of reality.
Rudolf Steiner said that, in the 4th Post-Atlantean Age and culture, the predominant form of work or labour was slavery; in the 5th Post-Atlantean Age (which includes the present time), the predominant form is labour or work as commodity, something to be bought and sold, but in the 6th Post-Atlantean Age, work will be, predominantly, “free gift“.
Kyiv will disclose data on losses after the armed conflict with Russia, it will be a "terrible number" – Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko in an interview with Daily Express
— Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении (@russembkenya) April 8, 2023
The Western leaders have brought their nations to the brink of disaster. First the banking crisis, then another, as well as the “Covid” nonsense, and now “support for Ukraine” (meaning arms and ammunition and money for the dictatorship of the cabal of Zionist Jews in Kiev, of which Zelensky is the figurehead).
The peoples of Europe are suffering because of the crazed obsessions of the NWO/ZOG leadership of the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany etc.
The single Iranian-Saudi handshake buried trillions of dollars of western divide-and-rule investments across West Asia. By @RealPepeEscobarhttps://t.co/hpD6gVoMAm
Special groups have been created in the Russian Armed Forces to fight tanks that were supplied to Kyiv by Western countries – Head of the Combat Training Center of the RF Armed Forces Yevgeny Arifulin
If the involvement of the United States of America and Norway in the bombing of the Nord Stream lines is proven, then we must remove the United States from the list of allies because it seeks to achieve its goals at the expense of… pic.twitter.com/ZqlH2Fz4oA
In fact, the above ages relate to the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Washington was 44 at the time, though lived until the age of 67.
Aaron Burr was 20 in 1776, but 45 by the time he became vice-President (1805).
The 18thC was a time of young men rising suddenly to high position, as was the case with Napoleon, who became First Consul at the age of 30 (1799) and Emperor at the age of 35 (1804), having already achieved high rank (Lt.Col at 23, and Brigadier-general at 24).
In the Second World War, young men were able, if they had luck, Fate, and maybe a good start, to rise rapidly, even if they were not always the brightest: Colonel Stirling, the SAS founder, for a start. He was commissioned in 1940, yet left the Army in 1945 as Lt.Col.
Enoch Powell, later famous as politician, enlisted voluntarily as a private soldier in 1939, was commissioned in 1940, and ended the war in 1945 as a brigadier.
Those were exceptional times and exceptional people too— Enoch Powell in terms of intellect and willpower, Stirling in terms of daring, courage, and unconventionality. Stirling in particular would not have gone beyond major, if that, in more peaceful years, certainly not in 5 years of service.
Now, we see that, except for pop singers, hardly anyone comes to real prominence below the age of 30, or even 50. One can think of the catspaws of the transnational System, perhaps, the likes of Greta Nut, or Malala Yousafzai. There are occasional unexpectedly young MPs here and there, such as the fairly idiotic young woman who was 20 when elected in 2015 to Parliament in the SNP interest.
They, however, are not truly prominent. A couple of media freaks, arguably; a minor MP from a minor political party.
The very structure of society and its occupations now militates against early prominence. The pace of promotion for almost everyone is incremental rather than sudden.
The population of society is becoming older. That is to say, the main population, the white population. The UK non-white population grows steadily younger (and larger).
There is also to be taken into account the increasing repression of freedom of expression in the UK and some other countries. Enoch Powell, as a captain in the Intelligence Corps, was arrested briefly (as suspected spy) when singing the Horst Wessel Lied. In wartime England! Nothing untoward happened, and he was promoted to major not long afterwards.
Imagine that today! Impossible. The young officer (Powell was about 29) would probably, at very least, kiss goodbye to his Army career.
That “chilling effect” on freedom is everywhere now, the product of a general fear of sticking the neck out. Behind it? Partly the “political correctness” and/or “woke” element, partly the Jew-Zionist lobby and its constant conspiracy to repress the free speech that used to be one of England’s most treasured possessions.
Out of the loop
I was once,a decade ago, accused by a C. of E. vicar on Twitter of being “a bit out of the cultural loop“. Maybe. I was certainly puzzled to see today on Twitter that “Martial” was trending.
I thought, certainly not the ancient Roman poet [Marcus Valerius Martialis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial], but what else? Something military?
Maybe the vicar had a point. On the other hand, maybe it is not worth being in “the cultural loop“, if that is the content.
More tweets seen
This is, relevantly, true.
The Government holds the BBC's purse strings, with all that implies for control of the BBC. And there is little practical difference between a state backed consumption tax and money from general public funds. pic.twitter.com/uEYfEn7MEv
For once, I agree with Maugham. Yes, the “licence fee” is not called a tax, but it is a tax by any other name, and people can and do go to prison for non-payment (which is a disgrace). The BBC knows that if it annoys the prevailing government too much, the “licence fee” will not be increased, or may be binned altogether, thus taking away the BBC’s rice bowl, and those of its overpaid and mostly pretty poor presenters, “comedians”, and other talking heads.
Ukrainians have never been an intelligent nation. What good will it do to fight till the last men, and then what ?
I think that the only intelligent Ukrainian I ever met was the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Sergei Komissarenko, with whom I travelled in the ambassadorial limousine from the London embassy to the Porton Down scientific complex (biolab campus) in Wiltshire, about 28 years ago. I have blogged about that previously.
They know they can’t win, their only hope is for nato troops to join and zelenskiy is doing everything he can for that to happen. How can anyone with at least one active brain cell think you can win against a nuclear power?
A playful beluga whale returned an iPhone after a woman accidentally dropped it into the water in Hammerfest Harbor, Norway. pic.twitter.com/fiTOnTxFH5
The deindustrialization of Germany is in full swing.
Eisenwerk Erla GmbH has filed a claim to declare itself bankrupt. The reason for bankruptcy is standard for our time – energy resources have risen in price.
Think about it, this Saxon metallurgical enterprise traces its…
“The deindustrialization of Germany is in full swing. Eisenwerk Erla GmbH has filed a claim to declare itself bankrupt. The reason for bankruptcy is standard for our time – energy resources have risen in price. Think about it, this Saxon metallurgical enterprise traces its history back to 1380. For 600 years it has survived the Hanseatic League, two orders of knighthood – the Teutonic and Livonian, the Reformation, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the Global Economic Crisis,but didn’t survive Olaf Scholz...”
[from above tweet]
The National Security and Defense Council denies The Washington Post's report that the quality of the Ukrainian army is deteriorating due to the loss of qualified soldiers, which jeopardizes the spring counteroffensive.
Statements by Trump and DeSantis about the need to cut aid to Ukraine and stop the war will receive even more support after the US drone incident in the Black Sea, writes CNN.
The apparent downing of a U.S. drone by a Russian fighter over the Black Sea is one step closer to the… pic.twitter.com/7IqaHkBRMM
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to transport the wounded along the rivers, over which they themselves previously blew up the bridges. pic.twitter.com/ofcYULS3E2
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is in Moscow on a working visit, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden. pic.twitter.com/bkL0qcQaYj
That said, this from before she revealed herself to be a habitual liar and shameless grifter, when she laughed about how much donors cash she had wasted on drink, drugs and sideboards pic.twitter.com/ENx7YKrqwj
Extraordinary that someone, one Julia Mark, who works in the “well-being” field, i.e. social aspects of food and drink, more or less, should be unaware that “Bootstrap Cook”, “Jack Monroe”, has been comprehensively exposed and debunked.
Actually, the thing about Twitter is how unrepresentative it is. The majority of the Twitterati over the past decade or so have been saying that Labour would win every UK election (2010, 2015, 2017, 2019), that the British electorate would certainly vote to stay in the EU (Brexit Referendum, 2016), that Trump had no chance in 2016, and that most British people favour mass immigration. Not to mention all the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic” nonsense (including the face mask nonsense).
Ukraine
Now we see the same unthinking Twitter reaction re. “Ukraine” (support for the Kiev regime of the Jew Zelensky and his cabal).
I would dare opine that, if Biden can be consigned to history, oblivion, or a care home by 2024/25, the incoming US President, if Republican, will take away Zelensky’s ricebowl. Without US arms, ammunition, and money, the Kiev regime will have to surrender or make peace on Russia’s terms, or fight on briefly with little ammunition and arms resupply.
In short, without U.S. aid, the war will probably almost stop within weeks of the non-resupply, not least because the EU states and others will follow the lead of the USA. Russian forces will then advance almost unopposed to Kiev and across all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
The threat of East-West nuclear war will then recede and become again unlikely, as after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 (and the near-accidents of 1983 and —once— in the early 1990s).
I imagine that, if the war finishes, Zelensky will retire to his stolen offshore riches and his USD $40M house in Florida.
I have no idea whether the Republicans will actually win in 2024. I do not know enough about it all, though the demographics seem to be gradually going against the Republicans as the non-white vote increases in proportion. Still, it must be possible for Trump or another to win, and I note many “experts” in polling etc saying that it is now likely. Biden is obviously intermittently demented, and (as I understand it) has not been doing well in the domestic sphere either.
Not that I think that System or semi-System politicians such as Trump and DeSantis are talking about pulling back from support for the Zelensky regime out of pure principle; they just do not want the USA, i.e. the country they and their backers live in and own, to be the subject of a massive Russian nuclear attack. Which might happen, if things keep escalating.
Unfortunately, the people who have their grip on big pharma, the media, the zogernment and all the other public institutions – also have their grip on the justice system.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 14, 2023
Far more true than untrue, anyway.
Your gender is what’s in your pants, not what’s in your head. You don’t get to pick and choose. You are what you are, and while I respect everybody as human beings, I won’t participate in a delusion by using pronouns that don’t accurately reflect who you are.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 14, 2023
This man authorized 563 drone strikes, leading to the deaths of hundreds of civilians (that we know of) including children.
This same man was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 9th 2009, for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy".
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
…and Obama was awarded that prize in his first months in office. Pure propaganda.
Previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients included Woodrow Wilson (brought USA into the First World War in 1917); Edvard Benes (Czech nationalist, and later a Soviet agent of influence); Gandhi (who often spoke about peace, but whose actual legacy was tumult against the British Raj, followed by mass slaughter when Partition went wrong, and the present India-Pakistan hostility); Alexandra Kollontai (Ukrainian-Finnish revolutionary, crazed Marxist feminist, and later a Soviet diplomat); Raoul Wallenberg (interfered in matters beyond his diplomatic or other competence; spied for Jewish interests and for OSS (pre-CIA); Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (sinister international conspirator and prime mover of the “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan” to flood Europe and other white European-race areas of the world with non-whites).
During the Presidency of “Peace Prize” winner Obama…
The sanctions on Russia did more far more harm to ordinary working people in the West than it did to Russia. And that was by design.
This isn't about Russia, and it's not about Ukraine.
It's about crippling you, destroying your life, and stripping away your freedoms, one by one
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
I doubt that sanctions hurt the ground-level Russian people much. They may cramp the international travelling lifestyles of the Russian jet-set a little, but even so not much (they can holiday in other places than London and LA).
The existing financial system has served them well for over 100 years, but it's unsustainable, and they know it. The next phase is a controlled demolition of the existing system, which created extraordinary wealth among the 0.001%, to make way for CBDCs and a Digital ID dystopia.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
In the end, I'm not sure how things will turn out.
But I can promise you this. I will be fighting this evil with everything I've got until my last breath.
And you Twitter friends remind me I'm far from alone in this fight.
Light will overcome darkness.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
I urge everyone with a Twitter account to follow that tweeter. One of the best tweeters at present.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
Even at my ripe age of 21, I've watched society descend into degeneracy as we've normalized this LGBT nonsense. I don't hate anybody for how they choose to live their life, but abandoning traditional family values was a huge tragedy that has decimated the bedrock of society.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
Absolutely right. What I have noticed, over not even the past half-century (I am now 66) but especially the last 10 years, has been how many pseudo-“conservative” TV talking heads etc have signed up to this. Quite a few years ago, the now-defunct BBC TV Daily Politics show had a bearded Austrian “shemale” or drag artiste (not sure which) on the show (I believe it was the Austrian entry for Eurovision that year) and, for days afterwards, all the presenters and guests, led by (of all people) Andrew Neil, were fulsomely praising that person and (by implication) their own, and society’s “tolerant” attitude etc.
Rudolf Steiner never explained in detail what he meant when he said, near the end of his life (d.1925), that the time would come when society would congratulate itself on its goodness and tolerance, but would not see the evil right in front of it. Or words to that effect. I think that we are seeing that now. It goes beyond obvious sex issues of various kinds to matters such as “Covid” restrictions (the fake “caring sharing” stuff disguising a bio-security police state), and other matters as well. The “trans” nonsense is the leader of the pack, though.
I've been saying for some time they are in the process of carrying out a 'controlled demolition' of society. With every passing day this is becoming more and more clear.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 13, 2023
It becomes more obvious daily. “Trans” nonsense, faked biosecurity threats, “15-minute cities” and other (supposedly) “green” policies (designed to restrain free movement and travel by the mass of the population), the whole anti-Russia policy matrix and propaganda (many uneducated people now believe that Ukraine is actually a better and/or more cultured country than Russia!). Etc.
Russia is not a threat to democracy,
Russia is a threat to the New World Order.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) March 12, 2023
Late tweets seen
Mobilization madness in Odessa as males are pinned against a van like criminals before being enrolled to head to the meat grinder. pic.twitter.com/idrxmrowXL
— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) March 15, 2023
Like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, especially with that sinister black-clad and black-masked militia operative (or whatever) standing guard over the unfortunates.
Frankly, that was my thought too…It applies also to some other rather entitled young-ish professionals as well (stand up, twenty-something barristers).
San Francisco City Council just accepted the insane proposal to pay Black people reparations of $5,000,000 each.
It has not been “enacted” yet.
This also includes reparations for the “war on drugs”.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul: I scored 8/10 as against his 4/10 (he says “4 and a half“). I did not know the answers to questions 1 and 7.
Sweden is now full of useless and/or hostile trash, just like the UK. Jews such as Barbara Lerner Spectre were behind much of it in Sweden, and Jews and Jewish groups are behind much of the “refugees welcome” propaganda in the UK too.
Those Swedes (and British) who still support mass immigration and a mixed-race society can mostly be dismissed as total “shitheads”.
Mostly maternity services, i.e. blacks (mostly) who come to the UK to have babies at NHS expense, and so that their offspring will be able to get UK passports later. What a ******* disgrace that the System allows this to happen— and indeed encourages it.
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And in one fell swoop, Asda just made faux poverty conwoman Jack Monroe redundant, irrelevant and of zero use to anyone. Well done Asda. She tried to ride your coat tails with her lies, you've just kicked that scumbag to the kerb like she deserves 😘👌🤣 https://t.co/ULDq54b2au
🤣🤣🤣🤣 very true! Imagine being shot down by the supermarket you tried to snag a deal with, and the messenger that you're surplus to requirements is the MP you're never going to sue. Scrapheap's over there ➡️ Jack Monroe, time to take your rightful place on it 🖕🖕🖕
I still doubt that anyone can feed a family of 4 adequately (for a whole week) for £20, but who knows—maybe I am mistaken…
Damn, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum must have a real doozy of a move coming soon to be dropping news like:
-US shoots down UFO.. over Cumtown, Alaska -Jeffrey Epstein associates and names to be released -Biden blew up the pipeline -Chinese Spy balloon traverses US pic.twitter.com/OiY9kAc8un
The next great war is in the pipeline, being pushed by, mainly, secretive Western cabals and ruling circles. The Jewish element, though only part of that, is unmistakably there; you only have to look at Twitter. The “Ukrainian” regime in Kiev is predominantly (and even confessedly) Jew-Zionist, and is headed by the Jew Zelensky, a quasi-dictator as well as figurehead.
Those cabals want to not only hit Russia but to control its development into the future. We are still in the first third of the 5th Post-Atlantean Age. Russia will lead the better or more advanced part of the world in the 6th Post-Atlantean Age, from about 3500 AD. The evil powers behind those secretive cabals want to stunt Russian development of soul so as to control whatever emerges in the next Age.
"Law after law, they reduce the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine."
~ Hungarian Foreign Minister raised the issue of concentrated and serious attacks against the Hungarian community in Ukraine at the EU Foreign Affairs Council. pic.twitter.com/S3s8ea2IGU
[Professor Sir John Curtice, in the Daily Telegraph]
“...in an immediate general election“. “Immediate“…aye, there’s the rub, because there is not going to be an immediate general election.
True, it is hard to see what rabbit can be pulled out of the hat in the next 20 months, but anything is at least possible. As the Professor concedes. “In truth, we are in unchartered waters. Given the unprecedented scale of the fall in Tory support, nobody can be sure what the outcome in seats would be if the current polls were reflected in the ballot boxes.”
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She isn't going to sue anyone. She hasn't a leg to stand on with either case. She is just laughing at how much money it got her. Reality, she should be scared as that is what has fucked her "career" up. That and actually never doing anything with regards to campaigning
As I noted yesterday, “Jack Monroe” really is the “grift” that keeps on giving or, rather, taking…
Oddly, “Jack Monroe”, who is now back on Twitter after her latest “exhausted” “mental breakdown” (or cosplay thereof), the third or fourth one in a year, I think, is now tweeting that her non-existent “libel case” against Conservative MP Lee Anderson is “a very clear-cut case, according to my lawyer” (who may or may not be self-promoting Jew, Mark Lewis, who acted for her years ago in the child’s-play Katie Hopkins matter).
The remarks Lee Anderson made about “Jack Monroe” may have been libellous on their face, but not only would Lee Anderson have the defence of those remarks having been true, and other defences perhaps, but also there is the time limitation. The remarks were made on or before mid-May 2022, so any action brought has to be started (proceedings issued) by the same date in 2023.
So far, according to what I have seen on Twitter, not only have no proceedings been brought, but no pre-action correspondence has been received by either of the two suggested defendants, Lee Anderson and (political commentator) Martin Daubney.
Practice notes suggest that any libel action begun very late in the day will result, even if successful, in costs consequences against the claimant (“plaintiff”, as was).
There now stand 3 months only before mid-May 2023.
My opinion? As blogged previously— that “Jack Monroe” will not be suing Lee Anderson or Martin Daubney. Which raises the question of how much money “Jack Monroe” raised from mugs on the promise of her suing Lee Anderson et al, and where that money went.
I think you should do some research into Jack Monroe and her litany of lies – false claims of being working class, homeless, autistic, poor, a single mum, a food bank user, missing charity money, misspent donations etc before you start offering her writing work.
Unfortunately, “Jack Monroe” is pretty ignorant about almost everything, including what is or is not libellous, and what is or is not actionable libel.
Patreon customer: "Where are my Patreon rewards, Jack?"
Incredibly, as of today, two more utter mugs have signed up to send “Jack Monroe” money via Patreon; so that’s 500 mugs, all sending her between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month. As “earners” (or scams) go, not bad…
…and tweeter “@AngeinParis” is not only “in Paris” but also, despite saying that she is “still poor“, lives in fact in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, one of the most affluent suburbs of Paris. Typical “Jack Monroe” fan, in fact. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Why would “Jack Monroe” give up the “cosplay” that is “earning” her (via Patreon alone) between £1,750 and £22,000 a month? Probably around £6,000, each and every month. Plus any writing for newspapers and magazines. Plus interviews. Plus stray donations. Plus royalties on her 7 or 8 books (though the latest one has bombed, now that her credibility is shot).
As already noted, as of today, the number of Patreon “patrons” (utter mugs) sending money to the “Bootstrap Cook” is exactly 500.
While I am amused that Jack Monroe is back, I can assure you the position of novelty poor person is not open to actual poor people. Never was. She's nowt to do with us guv…
[quotation from the recent interview “Jack Monroe” gave to the Guardian]
Which makes the offer to her of (presumably, paid) writing work, made by the ipaper (the short version of the Independent) even less comprehensible. “Jack Monroe” has no credibility left (there again, though, neither has the ipaper!)…
Snake-oil salesman Farage is of course correct here, though it does not say much for his alma mater, Dulwich College (he did not attend university), that he uses the verb “portend” wrongly (using it as a noun)— the correct word would have been “portent“.
Still, Farage is quite right about the System importation into the UK of completely useless and often dangerous and/or hostile blacks, browns, and others.
From the reporter who won the Pulitzer for uncovering the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, broke stories on Watergate and Abu Ghraib: https://t.co/BlUosppfA6
Incidentally, I notice that the above tweet was retweeted by a tweeter calling himself “Ian Millard” and “@IanMillard100”.
In case anyone is wondering, that “Ian Millard” is not me. I presume that it is just someone with the same, or a similar, name. When I was on Twitter (until the Jew element had me expelled in 2018), there was yet another “Ian Millard” also on Twitter, who worked, I believe, in a small Tesco store in Bedfordshire, and who (no doubt to his great irritation) often received some of the flak put up on Twitter by Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other mindless nuisances, and intended for me.
“A Christian nurse was left with ‘crippling anxiety’ after she was ‘bullied’ by ‘woke‘ NHS chiefs for saying that being white doesn’t make you racist.
Amy Gallagher, 34, a mental health nurse from Orpington, Kent, was on a forensic psychology course training to be a psychotherapist at the Portman clinic, which is part of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline Amy has revealed how NHS bosses caused her ‘crippling anxiety’ after she challenged their ‘racist’ and ‘offensive’ views in lectures she was forced to attend.
Lecturers at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust told her ‘whites don’t understand the world’ and ‘Christianity is responsible for racism because it’s European’ in a series of ‘politically biased’ talks.
One of the Tavistock’s seminars was even called ‘Whiteness — a problem for our time’ and included a description on the Trust’s website that ‘the problem of racism is a problem of whiteness’.
When Amy challenged these controversial views she was ‘bullied’ by staff and suspended from the course, pending an investigation into whether she is safe to work with patients.
Almost a year later, no investigation has taken place.
It means her dream of becoming a psychotherapist is hanging by a thread.
As if that wasn’t enough, a course lecturer also tried to get her banned from her day job as a practising mental health nurse.“
[Daily Mail].
“Whites don’t understand the world“? Do they mean the world we, the white Europeans, largely created, certainly in the past 2,000 years?
Who exactly were the guilty? What race-groups were they from? They shouldc be named and more than merely shamed.
We need a revolution, a social-national revolution in this country. I think that it could happen. People have been pushed and pushed, pushed against the wall. Look at that report (and hundreds of similar cases); look at Knowsley and the whole continuing migration-invasion; look at what happened at the Tate (now “Tate Britain”). People are sick of it all, and before long will be saying “...and I’m not going to take it any more!“. We need to deal with all of the **** at once.
Also, look at the state of the police, the judicial bench, and the Westminster monkeyhouse.
Imagine if almost all 5-y-o children had such talents. That is what we aim for in the creation of a “super-race”— not political or military power, primarily, but a quantum leap in the overall level of advanced humanity.
Well, only 5/10 this week, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10 (and, as always, I commend his honesty in admitting it).
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10.
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Just watching a man being interviewed by Kay Burley saying that St Paul's is a working cathedral – open for everyone. Last time I went it cost £12 to get in !!!
I recall being shocked, when aged about 22, and when I visited St. Paul’s for the first (and I think only) time, and found it had a revolving door like a busy hotel, and —inside— stalls selling souvenirs etc.
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” [Matthew 21:12-13]
[El Greco, Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple]
Here we are, 2000 years later, and Mammon still infects the house of Spirit…
Kay Burley pisses people off because she tends to scupper their enjoyment of bending their knee & doffing their caps to that lazy, lying, law-breaking oaf. I mean, ffs. Imagine claiming to be patriotic & still thinking that useless git is good enough to be British Prime Minister.
As far as Boris-idiot is concerned, one can only agree.
Asked by Kay Burley how many ounces were in a pound, he replied 14 – though the correct answer is 16.
He was also asked how many grams of sausage he would get if he ordered a pound and replied 250g. But the minister remained some way off, as the correct answer is 450g. pic.twitter.com/CKoLDfze6b
'[…] a number of reasons why Denisova was removed, including "the numerous details of 'unnatural sexual offenses' and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence and only harmed Ukraine."https://t.co/yV9MlTnJdk
The Ukrainian side has “played a blinder” on propaganda. The Jewish regime in Kiev has managed to convince much of the Western world that Zelensky’s regime is a democratic government, with civil rights, despite the facts that all opposition parties are now banned, all opposition leaders in the country are under arrest and badly-treated, and any criticism of Zelensky or the war is met with arrest or worse.
Even the fact that a Ukrainian government negotiator was shot in the head in Kiev by Zelensky’s security people for being “pro-Russian” or “a Russian agent” has not damaged much the propaganda picture shown on Western television, because that incident was scarcely reported.
Despite the above, the propaganda picture effort is faltering now. More and more incidents or events have been shown up as completely fake: the “Ghost of Kiev” (non-existent), the Snake Island retort (never happened) and, more importantly, the whole narrative that Ukrainian forces are winning this war.
Ukrainian forces are losing at least as many men as the Russian Army, about 100 per day. Ukrainian forces may be (in the east of Ukraine) running out of fuel, ammunition, and food. The whole of Ukraine east of the Dnieper river and south of Kiev may soon be under Russian control.
A personal reminiscence
As noted yesterday, I happened to see the following YouTube video:
[Robert Powell, astrosophist, talking about, inter alia, the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations, and about astronomy, astrology, and astrosophy]
That is someone whom I met about 43 years ago, in or about 1979, at the Goetheanum, in Switzerland.
I was at the time a frequent visitor to the Library of the Anthroposophical Society in Park Road, London (near Regent’s Park). The librarian there, on discovering that I was intending to fly to Basel and to visit the Goetheanum, said that Robert Powell was living there, and he would write to him to the effect that I might be arriving, and perhaps he could show me around.
Tomberg had settled, after WW2, in the mid-1940s, in the village (now a suburb) of Emmer Green, near Reading, Berkshire.
I myself was born, in 1956, at Reading. Now I discover (only yesterday) that Robert Powell was also born at Reading, at about the time that Tomberg settled in the area, in 1947.
As to my trip to Switzerland, I did go to the Goetheanum, arriving at Dornach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornach] late in the day. I checked into the little inn by the railway station and then set off at once to see the famous Goetheanum.
In fact, I had not been able to arrange anything specific by way of meeting Robert Powell.
On approaching the main doors of the Goetheanum (huge, like those at the Lubyanka in Moscow), I saw that the building had closed for the day, but an attendant appeared and, hearing that I had just come from London, offered to show me the building.
My impression? A feeling that it was halfway between a museum (such as the British Museum) and what I supposed an ancient Egyptian temple might have felt like (rather than looked like).
After that tour, I was shown out and, near the doors of the building, out of the near-darkness, a young man appeared and (having never met me, nor seen a photo of me) asked whether I was Ian Millard! This was Robert Powell, someone with a slight air of mystery, but worn lightly.
Powell lived somewhere in the vicinity (I do not believe that I ever saw where), and was apparently friendly with a German girl who also lived locally, whom I met, and who kindly took time to show me a couple of places.
Despite his having things to do, over the next few days, Powell met me several times, and showed me a few of the local sights seen by few: some ruined small mediaeval castles; the small lake where, supposedly, Parsifal first saw the Fisher King, another site by that lake where a small rivulet ran through stone blocks which formed a floor: this was, I heard, the place where Siegmund and Sieglinde lived, and where, in legend, “a river ran through their kitchen“.
Powell also showed me a place in the hills (Dornach is in the foothills of the Jura Mountains) where there was a kind of natural platform, in the stone of the hill itself, where there was a kind of oblong chamber in the rock, about the size of a human being plus about 6 inches all round. There was also a seat cut into the stone by the oblong chamber. This, I was told, was where a priest-initiate of the ancient (Central European) Celtic Mysteries would sit, guarding the pupil of those Mysteries who would be for three days in a comatose state in the oblong chamber, experiencing occult initiation. Geothermal warmth heated the oblong, almost magically so.
The German girl mentioned took me to see a pleasant if slightly eccentric old lady who lived in a house close to the Goetheanum. She was of Russian extraction, I think, and had been there since the time of the building of the present Goetheanum in the 1920s (the first, wooden, one having burned down). In fact, she had herself known, or at least met, Rudolf Steiner, who started it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner.
I spent the last few days of my week in the district mostly alone. I had transferred from the railway inn to an almost deserted anthropop guesthouse (this was Autumn-time) to save money, Switzerland being rather expensive. I attended a eurythmy performance at nearby Arlesheim, returned to the Goetheanum for a longer look around, and had a look around the nearby city of Basel and saw the turbulent river Rhine—10 miles away—as well.
Interesting to see that Robert Powell is still around. The young man I encountered in Switzerland, and who is now author of many books on spirituality, astrosophy etc is still recognizable at the age of 74 or 75.
Wes Streeting, a non-Jew member of Labour Friends of Israel (I believe that all or almost all of Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet are LFI members). Streeting is a complete puppet. In fact he only became head of the National Union of Students in 2008, aged 25, because the Union of Jewish Students supported his candidature: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Streeting.
Tory leadership manoeuvres latest: leadership candidates and their teams have been asking Tory staffers to “remain on standby” over the next few weeks and months. Told not to book holidays etc
One of the consequences of preventing almost anyone with ideas or independence from being selected as a System party candidate for Parliament is that only mediocrities, puppets, and complete idiots are selected. The pool of MPs is therefore composed largely of persons of those types.
Unwittingly satirical is the outfit, looking at the numbers of blacks who are trying to blag getting into Western Europe as “Ukrainian” “refugees”; Ireland has been stupid enough to allow in a number; maybe the UK as well.
I wonder what Rees-Mogg is thinking, as he stares down at that African woman, whom I presume (?) is some kind of diplomat.
I thought the sanctions are working and Ukraine are winning and that Ukraine will fight until they got everything back …!what happened to all the propaganda which destroyed our European economy?
More accurately, both NATO and the EU are distinct but connected components of the Western power matrix as it now is. The New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government [“NWO/ZOG”] matrix.
What could possibly be weakening children's livers & immune systems? No connection with the young athletes' heart attacks, because there's no common denominator one can think of – without getting purged from Twitter. "Look over there, a war".https://t.co/v5caD8dTau
[Daily Mail map showing the state of play in the east/southeast of Ukraine as of 9 April 2022]
It seems that Russian forces have withdrawn not only from the Kiev area but from the area north of Kiev generally. Without taking Kiev, there is no real victory, no matter what else happens.
It seems now that the Russian strategic aims in the short term are to secure and hold the Donbass area, encircle and capture or destroy the Ukrainian forces there, then to push from the north (Kharkov area), the south, and the east, creating a line broadly Kharkov-Dnipro [former Dnepropetrovsk] and down to, or linking with, Russian forces already occupying the Sea of Azov littoral.
If the Russians can do all that, then (once Dnipro and Zaporozhye are taken or besieged) they will have about a fifth of Ukraine (half of Ukraine east of the Dnieper) under their control.
In other news, it seems that the UK is sending anti-ship missiles to Odessa. If Russian ships start to be sunk from Odessa, then it is not unlikely that the response will be swift and brutal. The city of Odessa may be completely destroyed by missiles and artillery if the Russian Black Sea Fleet comes under serious attack. Very sad from the historical and aesthetic point of view (and, of course, the humanitarian one).
It looks as though the Russians are degrading the Ukrainian fuel reserves and supply lines. Without fuel, the Kiev regime forces will become little more mobile than the armies of Napoleon and Wellington.
Ammunition continues to run out for the Ukrainian forces.
Despite msm reports etc, this still looks like a winnable military situation for Russia, in the short to medium term. I read today that (as predicted in this blog) Russia is now calling up recently-active reserves, i.e. former soldiers who are still reasonably “current”.
Politically, of course, and in terms of public relations, this Ukraine adventure has been disastrous for Russia, not because of the invasion as such, but because of how it was so badly planned and executed. Also, because of how unsuccessful it has been, overall. Pathetic, and terrible in all ways.
I have often thought how Russia needs a degree of isolation in order for the seed of that future age not to be poisoned by whatever now exists in the world, centred on “the West”, meaning on North America, Britain, and then western and central continental Europe.
Ironically, it now appears that it is the West itself which is sending Russia into that isolation, via economic and cultural sanctions.
Russia is one of the few countries in the world which can, if necessary, do without the rest of the world, in economic terms. 72 times the size of the UK, and 2-3 times the size of the USA (depending on whether Alaska is included), Russia has the land, the climatic zones, the varied natural and human resources, to make autarky work.
Russia could create an entirely different form of human society. It tried and failed already, with Marxism-Leninism, but that was building houses of straw. On another basis, such an attempt can succeed.
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A quiet revolution is taking place north of the river Tweed: Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years 🌳 https://t.co/yYvWG3Or2x
The country now has nearly as much forest as it did 1,000 years ago, according to data from researchers at Our World in Data. pic.twitter.com/lz2g0FuoUy
The rewilding and climate movements mean that reforestation is now wildly popular: some 80% of Scottish people supported the reforestation of the Highlands in a 2021 survey. 👇https://t.co/yYvWG3Or2x
France, presidential election: Centre-left candidate Anne Hidalgo (PS-S&D) endorses incumbent Emmanuel Macron (EC-RE) for the second round of the Presidential election.
Hidalgo received 2.1% of the vote in the first round (Ipsos-Sopra Steria exit poll). #presidentielles2022
The once-mighty French Socialist Party…2.1%. UK Labour should take a look at that. That is what happens when you do not really have opposing policies behind the surface rhetoric.
All of the Zemmour vote will go to Marine le Pen in the second round, putting her around 31%, with another 19-20 points to make up from somewhere. It is possible.
The Conservative Party suffered a major defeat in the #Presidentielle2022 with only 5% of the votes 🇫🇷🗳️
FRANCE 24's Ellen Gainsford at Valerie Pecresse's headquarters said it was a "catastrophic result" ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Tox6MxDnHg
Look at the big picture: Marine le Pen around 24%, Melenchon around 20%, Zemmour around 6% The three most radical candidates scoring together over 50% of the vote.
Late tweets
Huge explosion reported in Nikolaev, powerful strike on the Ukrainian armed forces. pic.twitter.com/iK83kMRpAl
“Boris”-idiot must love the Ukraine (war). He can now once again play the Poundland Churchill, and pretend that the ever-greater problems at home do not exist— inflation, cost of living, cost of housing, lack of housing, mass immigration, migration-invasion, finance-capitalist exploitation, violent crime etc.
Looking at that blog post, it is almost incredible to see quite how many tweets used in it have been expunged by Twitter in the past months, mostly I think recently. The censorship now is heavily oppressive, not far from amounting to tyranny.
Where does Russia go from here?
I want to look beyond the immediate military situation in Ukraine, to where Russia is placed culturally and geopolitically in big-picture terms.
The present situation of Russia vis-a-vis the Western world is that, with some exceptions (notably export of gas), Russia can neither import nor export.
The CoCom regime was focussed mainly on military applications, whereas the new sanctions affect almost everything.
There has always been, certainly since the time of Peter the Great (17thC) a tension between Russia and the West. That was for a long time more evident in Russia itself than in the West. Peter was a Westernizer, who wanted to drag old Russia into the modern age. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great. To that end, Peter visited the upcoming mercantile and military powers of his time, particularly England and Holland.
Catherine the Great [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great], a German, was another modernizer and Westernizer (up to a point) but, in an interesting parallel to Stalin’s later rule, also intensified the harshness of serfdom.
The Westernizing tendency in Russia continued to exist in tandem with its opposite, the Slavophile tendency, which held that the Slavs, led by Russia, had their own unique future mission, and should not be too affected, contaminated by, or corrupted by Western habits and values. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavophilia, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westernizer.
Tsars Nikolai I and Alexander III were quite Slavophile, others (notably Alexander II, who liberated the serfs) more influenced by the West.
Slavophiles tended to distrust, inter alia, Western notions of democracy, reliance on technology, and the influence of Jews and Jewish notions: “The characteristics of the Jewish race are parasitic; for their sustenance they require the presence of another race as “host” although they remain aloof and self-contained” [Pobedonostsev]. Again, though, a line cannot be strictly drawn.
There was always a ying/yang aspect to the Slavophile/Westernizer dichotomy; a little bit of each in the other.
The Soviet regime likewise had Slavophile elements, more obviously so after 1945, though it was fundamentally a Westernizing movement: “Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country” [Lenin].
There was a paradox, though. The dictatorial Westernizing movement of Bolshevism, that became Sovietism, could only maintain its power via a degree of enforced isolation from the West, which might be called, arguably, a Slavophile policy, at least in effect..
The Soviet Union from the death of Stalin in 1953, and especially since Khrushchev’s Secret Speech of 1956, was fundamentally Westernizing, trying to copy the West in many respects, if only to try to outdo the West. The West had Concorde, so the Soviet Union had to have “Concordski” (the bungled TU-144). One example.
Since 1989, when Socialism fell (though the Soviet Union walked on, mortally wounded, until 1991), Russia has pursued an almost insane Westernist policy, even under Putin. That may now be reversed, or a different path pursued.
Having said that, Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, will not want to be cut out of Western technological progress. That would seem to suggest both an increase in Russian research and development, and an uptick in intelligence activity, including outright espionage.
The atom bomb secrets of the West were uncovered and captured in the 1940s and 1950s by a combination of huge scientific effort and huge espionage effort. In latter days (1960s through 1980s) the KGB’s “Line X” was the main organization involved in scientific and technical intelligence-gathering, together with, on the military side, the GRU.
We cannot talk about Western influence on Russia (and indeed Europe proper) without considering the often baleful effect of Anglo-American, mainly American, cultural exports. Film, TV, contemporary music. Whether Putin’s Russia has the spirit to stand against that is doubtful. Even the German Reich had to compromise to some extent on popular culture.
I have blogged before about how Russia, of all countries in the world, could subsist under a system of autarky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky]. It now seems that it may have little choice.
Whether Putin himself, with Russia’s transitional, post-Soviet, and post-Yeltsin form of society, will survive long is an open question. After Putin, the Russian leadership will have to thoroughly reform and reset Russian society, without Western help and without Western interference and exploitation.
A good start, culturally, would be for Russia to eliminate, as far as possible, pop/rock (etc) music. Also, most contemporary American films, and certainly most “sit-coms” and TV dramas.
System politicians in the UK now have to admit one of two possibilities: either they were stupid idiots about “Covid”, or they were the conscious dupes of the transnational “Great Reset” conspiracy.
Former BBC journalist John Sweeney [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sweeney_(journalist)] thinks that TV presenter Neil Oliver “should be in the Tower” [of London] as (implied) a traitor, merely for questioning the Western narrative and whipped-up NWO/ZOG msm hysteria about Ukraine.
Oliver, tweets Sweeney, supports “Russian fascism” (as against, presumably, the “fascism” of those such as Sweeney, who would label anyone with a differing view “traitors”, and lock them up as such).
We have seen recently a whole tide of such hysterical nonsense, most egregiously from part-Jew MP Tom Tugendhat, who actually said, in the House of Commons at that, that those MPs not wanting to get the UK involved in the Ukraine conflict were guilty of “treason“.
Tugendhat is not only completely wrong in the legal sense, but in the more general sense as well. The UK is not at war with Russia, and indeed is not at all allied to the corrupt and shambolic Ukraine regime based in Kiev.
In fact, as shown below, that Sweeney character does seem rather keen on censorship, certainly for a journalist:
Putin's war is in the balance. The Ukrainians have done brilliantly so far – but can they stand up to the bully for ever?#KyivDiary, Putin's war, Day 5. I'm making a podcast, Taking On Putin. He won't like it. If you can, bung me a bob or two… https://t.co/r6lSjA7zVypic.twitter.com/xabOlEIlUX
Sweeney has a point about the morale of the two sides. It is clear that the Russian troops are reluctant invaders. That reluctance may go right to the top of the Russian Army. None dare call it sabotage?
As for the quiet streets of Kiev just reported upon, it is said that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have fled overseas, which may mean that literally millions have fled from Kiev and other near-frontline areas of the country to Western Ukraine, and some then to neighbouring states. Kiev’s 3 million population may now already be closer to 2 million, or even 1 million. Hard to say.
I have seen the main points made yesterday by the Ukrainian envoy to the UN in New York. I may be wrong, but the supposed texts or conversation he read out, messages between a young Russian soldier (later killed, said the diplomat) and his mother, seemed to me to be contrived, at least in part.
I may be wrong, but there was something in those supposed messages that reminded me of the lying testimony of the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat in 1990. She claimed that Iraqi soldiers had killed small children in a hospital. I was in New York at the time, and recall the effect that that pack of lies had on many people (the falsity of the testimony was not exposed immediately, by which time the lies had done their job, of course).
A years-old photo of two children saluting Ukrainian soldiers is circulating on social media, with some users falsely suggesting that it is from Russia's ongoing invasion. But the picture was shared by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense in 2016. https://t.co/wrLgTT1B5c
“The 13 Ukrainian border guards who were feared dead after they told the Russian military to ‘go f*** yourself’ over the radio as they defended a small island in the Black Sea are actually alive and being held as prisoners of war, the Ukrainian Navy has since confirmed.” [Daily Mail]
More lies exposed.
“In war, truth is the first casualty“…
Interesting graphic
The effect of the Ukraine situation has been to push up oil and gas prices. Already, in the UK, the retail price of petrol (gasoline) is about 50% higher than it was a year ago. I have seen figures suggesting that domestic gas prices in 2023 may be double from where they are now.
This is not mainly the “fault” of Putin, and in fact may be in part the result of misapplied “green” policies in the UK and elsewhere.
On the wider front, it is clear that NWO/ZOG is getting the population(s) of Europe gradually accustomed to lower living standards. Causation can be blamed on Russia, “Covid”, “climate change” etc, as required.
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Oil prices jumped today as Western allies imposed sanctions blocked some Russian banks SWIFT, the global payments messaging system. https://t.co/wfSocf4MxB
The American public, in particular, will always be gung-ho at the prospect of war until they themselves suffer its full consequences. That has never happened to them, certainly not in the past 150 years. Look, though, at how scalded they were when the 2001 New York attack occurred.
Russian economy
The Russian consumer economy has been hit hard by the economic warfare now waged by the West. Having said that, at one time Russia, or at least the Soviet Union, had no consumer economy to speak of, yet not only trampled half of Europe underfoot but built atomic weapons and a space programme. I speak of the times of Stalin and Khrushchev.
Russia is still, I read, receiving USD $1 billion a day from hydrocarbon sales. In hard currency, not roubles. It is said that the war in Ukraine is costing USD $15 billion a day, but I wonder how true that is, bearing in mind that the armed forces would still be costing money even in their home bases; and the weapons used are in existence already.
Russia is 72x the size of the UK, has many different climates, has a large but not densely-packed population of ~145 millions, and the ability to live indefinitely, if necessary, entirely closed-off from the outside world.
Joke of the day
Part-Jew would-be hard man, Dominic Raab, “warning” Russian commanders that they may face war crimes trials. You mean after the UK’s tiny LGBTXYZ army captures Moscow? Get back in your box, idiot.
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I'm from Poland where many cities, towns and historic buildings were flattened in WW2, we reconstructed all of them in the space of a few years. Look at Gdańsk in Poland or the old town in Warsaw. Hang in there they won't get away with this!
The second tweeter is correct in saying that the Old Square and Cathedral area of Warsaw was reconstructed meticulously after the Second World War (I was there on a number of occasions in 1988 and 1989), but of course quite wrong in mentioning Gdansk (former Danzig), which was never a Polish city before 1945. It was a German city from at least the Middle Ages through to 1945.
The Teutonic Knights founded the city around 1300, though there was a small settlement or town there previously, occupied at times by Germans, Danes, and Polish tribespeople.
Subsequently, it was a Germanic city, though at times under the rule or patronage (before the 18thC) of the then Kingdom of Poland.
After 1945, almost all Germans were expelled, and the name changed to Gdansk. The postwar “reconstruction” deliberately diluted the Germanic history of the city (even Wikipedia admits that much).
Well, if the British Government was willing to declare world war in 1939 over a worthless “guarantee” to Poland, why not declare another in 2022 because Russia has “invaded” Ukraine (which two countries were under joint rule from earliest times until 1991, except for very brief periods such as 1942-44)?
The only personal benefit I would get were the UK to be burnt to a crisp by nuclear war would be that most of (((those))) who hate me would be annihilated. Only thing is, I would probably follow them a few minutes later.
On balance…I should prefer if the misgovernment of these islands managed to avoid a nuclear war with Russia, especially one in support of the Ukraine’s useless, corrupt, shambolic and Jewish-led regime.
Hard to accept, even in our decadent and increasingly-stupid country, that the agenda is being driven by idiots such as Piers Morgan, and that such ridiculous pseudo-macho posturing and opining might influence the UK government onto a path which could destroy the British people, what’s left of them.
I believe that a woman once asked that great genius, Rudolf Steiner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner] whether she might reincarnate with him at the end of the 20th century (Steiner died in 1925). Steiner is said to have replied that that might be possible, if the woman would be willing to walk across Europe with him over broken glass…
Presumably that (?) prediction meant 2000 or so plus (?) 20+ years. So…about 2022? Worrying…
I never believed that the Cold War would become a hot one, meaning a nuclear one. It would be more than ironic if NATO (NWO/ZOG), having gone through the Cold War and out the other side, sparked a nuclear war with a post-Soviet Russia that poses no threat at all to Western Europe or North America.
Our Home Secretary is "Their" Home Secretary like every other government, legal, judicial, academc, media and entertainment position in dear old ZOGland.
When Sadiq Khan says London is well prepared for a nuclear attack but wets the bed over everyone with enough gumption not to wear a mask on the tube because of the ‘danger’, you know we have fallen to a level of unparalleled idiocy.
Ian Robert Millard 