Trump is promulgating tariffs on imports from a range of countries and blocs presently major trading partners with the USA. Canada and the EU, to name but two. China, too.
As many are pointing out, tariffs reduce trade, because they make imported goods (and/or services) more expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff.
Looked at from a different point of view, there are reasons why Trump’s tariff barriers might be positive for the USA, mainly because they might allow American industry, in decline for half a century, to revive.
“The tariff has been used as a political tool to establish an independent nation; for example, the United States Tariff Act of 1789, signed specifically on July 4, was called the “Second Declaration of Independence” by newspapers because it was intended to be the economic means to achieve the political goal of a sovereign and independent United States.[93]“
[Wikipedia].
In the short-term, Trump’s tariff’s may well cause domestic prices (within the USA) to inflate. In the longer-term, however, those tariffs may also create American jobs, and also increase America’s long-term security.
The USA is one of the few economies capable of being an autarky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky]. Others would be Russia and mainland Europe (the EU, presently).
There is little doubt, though, that in those countries that produce items exported to the USA, the Trump tariffs will cause economic damage, possibly severe damage. That in turn will cause political fallout.
The USA is a huge and vibrant economy. If turned inward, that may be able to create the prosperity and job security so lacking at present in many American communities. The USA should have been isolationist in the 1940s and afterwards, as it had been in the 1930s. It seems to me that that would be a good policy now for the USA. Economic isolationism allied to political isolationism.
The USA should build up purely defensive military and naval power, but avoid doing what it has done, particularly, since 1941, i.e. interfere all over the world. If that is done, American security will thereby be increased.
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This has been going viral on other platforms. Sadly, there’s a lot of truth to it. We need to turn our country around and make it work for hardworking Brits. pic.twitter.com/gozdMLkm0G
Yvette Cooper, the Labour Friends of Israel expenses cheat, has been wanting to be a dictator for many years. May she suffer the fate of so many dictators.
Is Starmer working for Beijing? First the Chagos Islands, then the Chinese Embassy, now this. It’s not ok. https://t.co/VOXrHVktcS
The Russian army’s units have destroyed the infrastructure of military aerodromes and fuel storage facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/mBPKQOQ2gHpic.twitter.com/gRS3br6t3Q
Finally, there are very real differences between nationalities in how visas are used and abused. For example, for the 4,000 EU citizens on health & care visas, there were 0.23 dependants per worker; for 1,800 Australians, 0.39. This is much more likely to be fiscally sustainable. pic.twitter.com/GbJcrIidR0
Apparently Labour is setting up an “anti-Reform unit”. They’re right to worry. Of the Top 100 seats for Reform in 2029 64 are Labour held. Of the Top 50, 33 are.
That really is alarming. I have commented previously on the blog about Chinese and other androids and also other types of robot etc.
Israeli troops carry out massive explosions in the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank, destroying an entire residential area pic.twitter.com/zUOksT2hPu
Keywords might be “genocide”, Lebensraum, and Greater Israel. They plan to settle the Gaza Strip with Jews. The same is true of the West Bank, southern Lebanon, parts of Syria etc.
Entrance to the office of the Governor of Montana, USA
Zelensky is amazed – he doesn't know where American billions have disappeared. Volodymyr Zelensky does not know what the $200 billion in military aid that Washington provided to Kiev was spent on. Ukraine received only more than $75 billion from the United States, claims the… pic.twitter.com/HUmxJjW1bx
A modest 5/10 this week, not much better than the 4/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and (just) 8.
Contemporary Britain— a country where the least able have been put into positions of high responsibility which they are totally unable to properly fulfil.
“I can’t get my head around this… Labour promised to clean up politics—then took loads of dodgy freebies, handed jobs to their mates, and approved contracts for major donors. They said their top priority was growth—now they’re tanking the economy. They vowed not to raise taxes—then hit us with £40bn in tax hikes, and there’s more to come. They said they would freeze energy bills—now energy bills are rising. They said they’d stop the boats—then scrapped our only deterrent and introduced more pull factors. They said they’d look after farmers—then tax them out of existence. They claimed they’d keep us safe and be tough on crime—then released dangerous criminals from our prisons instead of deporting foreign offenders. They claimed there was a £22bn black hole and ‘difficult decisions’ were needed—then increased spending by £70bn, spent billions on foreign aid, and billions more on illegal immigrants. They said they would respect Brexit—now they want to align us closer to the EU. They said, ‘honesty is the cornerstone of the Labour Party’—then lied about Southport and everything else on this list… and more. I could go on… This Labour gov’t is the most incompetent, heartless, anti-British, hypocritical, and dishonest in history. We need a general election. NOW!“
Russian forces have made major gains in the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People’s Republic in the past few days, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/SYbCKdH6g5pic.twitter.com/RuxH0eIoTw
The reason I disagree with that (leaving aside the extra point that I never use the old and outdated “right/left” stuff) is because the original tweet fixates on the fact that FPTP voting “punishes division“. What is important is what is happening beyond the crumbling walls of the Westminster monkeyhouse.
At the 2024 General Election, over 40% of the eligible voters did not vote, many no doubt out of disgust with the whole system and the System parties.
Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote. Only 4 out of every 20 voted for fake Labour, and probably half of those did so because a “Conservative” candidate was the only apparent alternative.
Labour’s incompetent and freeloading ministers, and its Labour Friends of Israel leading cabal, may think they are sitting pretty on their very large Commons majority but, outside the walls of Parliament itself today, 100,000 protesters were demanding the release of “Tommy Robinson”.
Robinson is “controlled opposition”, of course. So be it.
The rise of Reform UK (despite Farage’s unreliable history etc) shows anger at the way Britain is going. For Labour, and Westminster Bubble drones, to look only at numbers of seats and at the way FPTP voting distorts public opinion, is very short-sighted.
At present, it seems that, yes, Labour may be the largest party in the Commons after the next general election, but even if Reform UK fails to dislodge Labour from that position, it may well come second and thus become the Opposition. That would in itself destroy the basic structure that has been in place for over a century.
The likelihood at present (with the Con Party still embedded in some parts of the country, as are the LibDems, and both likely to get 50-100 seats next time) is a hung Parliament and thus a weak Labour minority government, though if Reform does really well, the outcome could be a fairly weak Reform government, backed up by the surviving Con MPs.
Outside the supposedly-hallowed walls of the Palace of Westminster, though, the English/British people are murmuring. The Tommy Robinson protest, the summer 2024 protests, the now-constant stream of trials of social-national people who have said or done the (politically) “wrong” things (and then been entrapped by System police, MI5, the “Clown” Prosecution Service, and the System judges) speak to underlying discontent.
Reform UK, Tommy Robinson etc, are merely part of the journey, not the destination.
There may come a time, not so far down the line, when what happens in and around Parliament becomes only the outcome of what happens outside Parliament.
As to Goodwin’s comment above, I agree, but I also tend to agree (sort-of) with Lenin: “A revolution without firing squads is not worth much.”
“The Queen would never have allowed this to happen“…What universe does that tweeter, “@Lotus 17”, live in? The late Queen died only 3 years ago…Does that tweeter really think that the decline of the UK has only happened since 2022? Try (at least) 1989.
Woodrow Wyatt, in his diaries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt#The_Journals], expressed the view that, inter alia, the Royal Family did not care whether Britain descended into poverty and general decline, because they, the “royals” would still be sitting pretty atop of it all, and insulated from the badness with which almost everyone else would be contending.
When I read Wyatt’s diaries, 25+ years ago, I thought that his point about the “royals” was arguable but maybe too harsh. Now I agree completely. Look at Charles, desperately trying —and failing— to fill his late mother’s boots. Look at tame thick princeling William, no doubt at least, or somewhat, well-meaning, so be it. Look at even thicker princeling, Harry, “the Harry formerly known as Prince”, not forgetting Meghan Mulatta. All of them signed up to the crazed “multikulti society”, all willing to pay lip-service to “holocaust” propaganda etc.
As I said they would, Labour is now loosening not strengthening Britain's borders by removing barriers to illegal migrants becoming citizens and no longer requiring scientific age checks
You might as well put a big neon sign on the White Cliffs of Dover that reads "come on in!"
If the already-rigged “democratic” process becomes even less honest, even less responsive to the needs of the British people, then the whole Parliamentary system will have to be bypassed. Action directe…
It may be, though, that the Reform UK upsurge will lead, before too long, maybe by 2030, and against the will of Reform’s leaders, to a further movement of the “Overton Window”…to a huge revolution of social nationalism.
Talking point
The BBC is one example of that.
Late music
“We need only one victory“. Нам Нужна Одна Победа…
“Charles Edward Coughlin (/ˈkɒɡlɪn/KOG-lin; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian–American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed “The Radio Priest ” and considered a leading demagogue,[1] he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.[2]
Coughlin was born in Ontario to working-class Irish Catholic parents. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1916, and in 1923 he was assigned to the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Coughlin began broadcasting his sermons during a time of increasing anti-Catholic sentiment across the globe. As his broadcasts became more political, he became increasingly popular.[3]
Initially, Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal; he later fell out with Roosevelt, accusing him of being too friendly to bankers. In 1934, he established a political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. Its platform called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of labour rights. The membership ran into the millions but was not well organized locally.[4]
After making attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program Golden Hour to broadcast antisemitic commentary. In the late 1930s, he supported some of the policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The broadcasts have been described as “a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture”.[5] His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, using the slogan “Social Justice”.
After the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters forced the cancellation of Golden Hour. In 1942, the Archdiocese of Detroit forced Coughlin to close his newspaper Social Justice and forbade its distribution by mail. Coughlin vanished from the public arena, working as a parish pastor until retiring in 1966. He died in 1979 at age 88.[6][7][8]“
[Wikipedia]
It seems that Father Coughlin’s views were a more politicized, and more American (though he was born and brought up in Ontario), equivalent of those espoused by those of the great G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and others of a Roman Catholic or an Anglo-Catholic ideological background prior to the Second World War.
Leaving aside the rights and wrongs, “IQ” can only take you so far. My own IQ was once measured (40 years ago) at 156, easily within the top 1% of the population, yet I have not taken over leadership of the world and, at age 68, time is running out, at least in my present incarnation.
Looking at most politicians, commentators, business leaders etc in our society, intellectual mediocrity is more likely to lead to “success” than a stellar IQ.
Interestingly, it is claimed that Marilyn Monroe had an IQ equivalent to that of Einstein, which must make one question the basis for IQ’s societal prominence. We are only at the early stages of understanding what makes the brain, the human personality, and society, work.
“When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Viktor* was ready to die for his country. He volunteered to defend Kyiv as enemy tanks appeared and joined Ukraine’s armed forces. In the spring of 2023 he was fighting in the village of Tonenke, near the eastern city of Avdiivka. “When I arrived I was super-motivated. If necessary I would give my life,” he recalled.
Gradually, however, he became disillusioned. The battle was furious. “The Russians would smash our positions to the ground,” he said. Senior Ukrainian commanders gave unrealistic orders. Then, while he was defending a ruined building, a panel fell on his shoulder. After receiving injections to reduce the pain, he was told to return to the front. “I realised I’m nobody. Just a number,” he said.
In May that same year, Viktor left his position to seek further medical treatment. He did not come back. His commander marked him down as awol. Viktor is one of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who have abandoned their units. The exact figure is a military secret, but officials concede the number is large.
The issue of desertion has made headlines in Ukraine. Last week the government launched an investigation into the 155th Mechanised Brigade. Fifty-six soldiers disappeared while training in France. Hundreds of others are said to be missing.
After three years of war, Ukraine is desperately short of soldiers, especially infantry. This has made it easier for Russia’s army to advance in the east. There are structural issues too. New brigades have been built from scratch. They performed poorly.”
[Guardian]
As noted on this blog for the past couple of years.
Russia is winning, slowly. The Kiev regime may collapse later this year. There may be a general advance of Russian forces later in 2025.
'The economic case for mass immigration is falling apart!'@GoodwinMJ cites stats that demosntrate how 'insane' Britain's immigration policy has become. pic.twitter.com/ZW0p6mlZPn
Discussion on GB News TV about why both “Labour” and “Boris”-idiot’s “Conservative” government have encouraged migration-invasion. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is the reason. It is a conspiracy, not a mere conspiracy theory...
UK demographics
“White British births have fallen to a record low! New figures have revealed that White British births now make-up just 55.6 per cent of all live births in England and Wales. But at the same time, the British population is skyrocketing, with the latest reports published in the press predicting that our population will surpass 72.5 million by 2032!
The meteoric rise in population is largely being driven by mass immigration. Both legal and illegal migration into Britain are now at an all-time high and the last up-to-date figures we released show that net migration has reached over 900,000 per year. This is shocking in itself, as that is more people than live in the city of Manchester!“
[statement released today by the group Patriotic Alternative]
“The UK government is taking winter fuel payments from British pensioners while spending more than £3,000 a day on new clothes and shoes for illegal migrants including puffer coats, hats and gloves for winter”
[Daily Telegraph]
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”…
'The real reason immigration isn’t coming down in any serious way is because our leaders want it. And they don’t care that you don’t!'@GoodwinMJ discusses the UK's population explosion as by 2047 it's projected to increase by nine million people – equivalent to another London. pic.twitter.com/yDGyvTdop9
“The real reason immigration isn’t coming down in any serious way is because our leaders want it. And they don’t care that you don’t!’ @GoodwinMJ discusses the UK’s population explosion as by 2047 it’s projected to increase by nine million people – equivalent to another London.“
Exactly. This is part of a transnational conspiracy, much of which is controlled by “the usual suspects”…
So…I am supposed to feel sorry for the likes of Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, who sack as many employees as they can (replaced by machines, self-service etc) and make annual profits in the hundreds of millions? Small shopkeepers are a different matter, though.
The issue is complex, but a good deal of it is the near-destruction of the working-age State benefit system since 2010, or maybe even 1997.
Heavy losses, declining recruitment, and lower draft age: Ukraine's mobilization crisis. According to official information, about 100,000 Ukrainian servicemen have deserted their military units and fled, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/DdTQ8P0xJcpic.twitter.com/sQaXqC6noZ
“Diversity is our strength” (say idiots such as Starmer)
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🇺🇦 British analyst: Zelensky is an amateur, he only knows about fighting to the last man The head of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, subconsciously cannot accept the topic of withdrawing Ukrainian forces from the combat zone, said British military analyst Alexander Mercuris . pic.twitter.com/WSc5rIJj33
“British analyst: Zelensky is an amateur, he only knows about fighting to the last man.
The head of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, subconsciously cannot accept the topic of withdrawing Ukrainian forces from the combat zone, said British military analyst Alexander Mercuris.“
Electoral Calculus suggests that that, at a general election, might produce a Commons with 212 Reform UK seats, 196 Labour, 106 Conservative, 72 LibDem, and 7 Green (etc). So a Reform minority government.
Reform UK is part of the journey, not the final destination, of course. A useful bridge, if you like.
200+ Reform UK MPs would change the whole atmosphere at Westminster. For example, they could demand proportional representation and then, if the System parties block that, appeal over their heads to the British people via a second general election that might see Con and Lab even further diminished.
I feel, listening to what many people I hear in the course of everyday activity, that the British people have pretty much had enough of migration invasion, attacks on free speech, and enough of the still-encroaching police-state dystopia under the present Labour Friends of Israel cabal (and its “Conservative” predecessors).
Another big factor is the “nothing works properly any more” feeling, which is based on fact— things don’t work properly any more (a situation which, with the increasingly racially-mixed population, can only worsen).
Newspaper will merge with MailOnline counterpart in scramble to adapt to digital age.”
[Daily Telegraph]
In the immortal words of the Sergeant-Major in It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, “Oh dear, what a pity, never mind!“.
The Mail, under strong Jew-Zionist influence, carried a full-page report about me in late 2016, after my wrongful and unlawful disbarment. They even sent some little bastard to my door the day after the tribunal hearing. He very nearly had his round skull cracked.
Perhaps the scribblers sacked will find employment stacking shelves at supermarkets. Oh, well, maybe not. The supermarkets are sacking thousands too…
Anyone who has looked at the online version of the Daily Mail will know what to expect— illiterate “journalism” by 20-something scribblers with no real education or background.
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Cruelty to animals, inherent in both kosher (kashrut) and halal slaughter, should have no place in society, civilized society.
Late tweets
Russia may lift quantitative restrictions on its nuclear arsenal, if the US pushes ahead with the development of the missile defense system, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special ambassador said in an article in the International Affairs Journal:https://t.co/NJQjAVbcgspic.twitter.com/1YhiuY9iqx
“Traumatised villagers have accused police of abandoning them after scores of suspected travellers drove cars through fields, set fire to vehicles and even attacked two fire engines while hare coursing.
Up to 70 masked people in abour 25 4x4s brought terror to Fenland communities in Cambridgeshire as they took part in the illegal sport.
Locals left cowering in their homes felt powerless as police failed to respond to dozens of 999 calls.“
[Daily Mail]
The “traveller” situation is one of the biggest public order challenges in the UK. The police are not only unwilling (at senior, “woke”, level) to deal with it; in some cases they seem to be pandering to these unpleasant criminal nuisances.
Look at that Daily Mail report. The police unwilling or even unable to help the real people of this country. Also, note what the “woke”-contaminated Fire Service says; they call that huge disorder “a minor incident“.
There is a solution to the nuisance but, in our “free” country, I am not allowed to publish it…
What Goodwin fails to add is that the “one in three” figure does not include those whose parents, though non-European (i.e. non-white), were born here. The real figure for 2050 will therefore be nearer to one in two.
The true situation is and will be far worse even that that.
Anyone, whether Prime Minister, Cabinet minister, MP, newspaper scribbler, TV talking head, or “woke” nobody, who encourages mass migration invasion of these islands must be called traitor.
New research shared exclusively with @GBNEWS finds that the “Boriswave” of immigrant families who came to Britain since 2021 will cost British taxpayers … £35 billion https://t.co/cP82Ktq2ZG
“Boris” should have been put up against a wall years ago.
We can’t find NHS beds and appointments for British people but we can find money for 35 “diversity” jobs, 29 of which allow “working from home” and many of which pay £80,000+
Say what you want about RFK Jr—but when was the last time you saw average constituents show up to *support* a high-level nominee during confirmation hearings? https://t.co/riswPiH2EQ
I would love to be there the moment the US Navy Captain-turned Banderist supporter @TabachGary realizes that Donald Trump, whom Tabach supported in the lead up to the election in November, is going to pull the plug on the shit show that is Ukraine.
‼️Very long post ‼️ Many ask why I am so convinced about the emergence of a Cold War 2 between America and what I call the #DragonBear—a geopolitical scenario, to my knowledge, nobody else has articulated or foreseen so far. The modus operandi of strategic coordination between…
There are only two technological frontrunners amid 4IR in the context of Bifurcation of the Global System and Cold War 2.0 – America and China. Either you pick a side and adapt accordingly, or you perish. Russia has sided with China (the DragonBear). It‘s your turn, Europe! https://t.co/XaLcr7NAnr
Since Goodwin tweeted that, Yvette Cooper, the Labour Friends of Israel member and expenses fraudster presently posing as Home Secretary, has said that she intends to keep the focus on both Islamists and the “far right”, i.e. blogs such as this.
The Home Office, like much of the existing administrative system, indeed much of society in the UK, is riddled with traitors, enemies of the people.
I once predicted this to a friend who had been offered a safe seat under Blair (but had refused, having thought that being an MP would diminish his income— he had no idea how much the MPs were ripping off via expenses etc).
He answered me by agreeing that it would have been better had mass immigration never happened, but “we are where we are” (i.e. we could do nothing now about it).
That conversation took place about 25 years ago, in fact longer yet, about 28 years ago!
Think how many millions of invaders have arrived (legally, illegally, and via both actual immigration and via births to non-Europeans) since then…
What's most disturbing about this Home Office report is the suggestion that discussing the rape gangs is "anti-Muslim sentiment" and "far right extremism" was written only a few months ago after countless independent reports on the rape gangshttps://t.co/LNpL9lyLMphttps://t.co/ALmpnwX9mx
Russian troops liberated the community of Dvurechnaya in the Kharkov Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/O1F7dzUN6Mpic.twitter.com/96t51oitIc
If the West is guided by common sense, economic pressure on Russia will ease , said Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service pic.twitter.com/scw765rArI
The evil little cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], of which Lewis is part, has made a habit of making false and vexatious complaints to the police. They have done it concerning me, several times.
Indeed. It is now Mark Lewis’ clients that are going bankrupt. Maybe Lewis should have been more focussed on protecting them and less fixated on getting me?
[“Wenn die SS und die SA aufmarschiert“— “When the SS and the SA march away“]
Historical compilation
[Women sort gifts and create parcels for troops on the Eastern Front or Ostfront in 1942]
[Zeppelinfeld, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“, 1930s]
[Girls welcome Adolf Hitler into Vienna after the Austria-Germany Anschluss of 1938]
[1930s conversation]
[Hitler as Chancellor, early 1930s]
[Hitler with some young people]
[A young supporter greets Hitler]
[Obersalzberg, 1930s— Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth, boys hunt for autographs]
[Berlin Olympiad, 1936; acclamation]
[Hitler and Professor Troost plan the reconstruction of Berlin]
[House of German Art, Munich, opened 1938 (arch. Professor Troost)]
[autobahn, Germany, late 1930s]
[building, Nuremberg, 1930s]
[Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne, Berlin, now renamed Waldbuhne (“forest stage”), one of hundreds of new cultural venues constructed in Germany during the six years of peace 1933-1939; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldb%C3%BChne]
[Reichskanzlei or Reich Chancellery, Berlin, remodelled 1940]
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[“From Finland to the Black Sea“]
Tweets seen
Russia is still ready to hold negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict settlement, including with the United States, but the Kiev authorities are against it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said:https://t.co/WrlzQ7WK35pic.twitter.com/zgRVCE8YmF
EU sanctions against Russia can be prolonged only if Ukraine restores Russian gas transit to Central Europe, stops attacks on the TurkStream pipeline, and provides guarantees for continued oil transit, Viktor Orban said in an interview with Kossuth radio:https://t.co/lqZatUhjyipic.twitter.com/qHEWDkOk63
About 450,000 Russian citizens signed contracts for military service with Russia’s Defense Ministry in 2024 and another over 40,000 individuals volunteered to the special military operation area, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev:https://t.co/SuL3RkwuJTpic.twitter.com/5rMTaAxjS7
With the support of the West Kiev launched an organ trading scheme in Ukraine, human organs taken from the battlefield were sold on the Internet, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary for REN TV:https://t.co/oQ5jXg01cOpic.twitter.com/Jxcs2bt4lU
According to Electoral Calculus, the result of that, replicated in a general election, would be Labour— 179 Commons seats; Reform UK— 170 seats; Conservatives— 165 seats; LibDems 72; Greens, 7.
So a hung Parliament. Any of the top three could try to rule as a very weak minority government. Alternatively, Reform could ally itself in some form with the Conservatives, and get over the line that way. Maybe even a “grand coalition” of the System parties (LibLabCon). In that event, Reform would be the official Opposition, with every chance of later, after a further election, becoming the governing party.
Reform UK is morphing into a System party anyway, but the Overton Window is moving. Reform UK is part of the journey, not the ultimate destination.
Incidentally, were Reform to go from 26% to 27% (and all other parties stay where they are), the result would be Reform UK— 202; Labour 165; Conservatives 147; LibDems 72; Greens 7.
Stagflation fears stalked Britain at the start of 2025 with a closely watched survey showing jobs being slashed at a pace seen in the aftermath of the financial crisis https://t.co/XoLy7PXWlR
Why are we sending £15 billion to other countries around the world while taking winter fuel payments from British pensioners & treating British people in hospital corridors and car parks? Can anybody in power answer me that?
If Reform UK can become largest party in the Commons, they would have no need to “merge” with the Con-servative Party. They could govern as a minority government. If the System parties refuse to play ball, Reform could simply blame those other parties for the inability to govern, then call another general election, with every chance of getting a majority.
If the weakness of governments continues, that might be the opening a social-national movement needs in order to rise up.
Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin:
"Russia remains an extremely influential player in the Middle East. The countries of the Arab world and Turkey understand this, there is no loss of Moscow's position in that region." pic.twitter.com/uTZSIuP8GF
I recall Dr. Fields as having been dressed in a white or cream suit (and possibly hat as well, I do not remember; I think so), and with a large flag on a stick sticking out of his lapel pocket. I cannot now quite remember whether the flag was the Stars and Stripes or the Confederate flag.
Remarkably, Fields is still around, according to Wikipedia, and aged 92; he looked at least in late middle-age when I met him in the mid-1970s, but must in fact have been only about 45.
Russian troops liberated the community of Solyonoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/MvGw2t8lxxpic.twitter.com/J9pFNbrYk7
Ukrainian troops used civilians as a human shield when they were holding the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, a Russian motorized riffle unit commander with the call sign Tatar said:https://t.co/l90CJ603zWpic.twitter.com/YaR2oGcB4z
As many as 212 bodies have been retrieved from under the debris of ruined houses in the Gaza Strips after the ceasefire came into effect, the Al Jazeera television channel reported:https://t.co/tsVMqXM6dcpic.twitter.com/5RFjCoZEDw
The exact statistics may differ slightly from that; more or less right, though. My view is that it makes little difference whether the migrant-invader millions are labelled “legal” or “illegal”.
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Putin apologized at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and warned that he would step aside for an international telephone conversation pic.twitter.com/OwqMIZSJcI
There are reports that France is ready to soon freeze Elon Musk's financial assets and even jail him for foreign interference in the elections… https://t.co/XKaSULZ8Gr
Southport will consume everyone today but 12 yo Leo, murdered 2 days ago in cold blood returning from school – only a short walk home – adored by all and described by his Head as funny & sweet will fall back. I took my son to school and back without fail at that age, I could not…
“Southport will consume everyone today but 12 yo Leo, murdered 2 days ago in cold blood returning from school – only a short walk home – adored by all and described by his Head as funny & sweet will fall back. I took my son to school and back without fail at that age, I could not let go of him.“
While understandable anxiety from a mother, and in a London which is now somewhere between a jungle and a zoo (I believe that she lives in West Kensington), 12-year-old boys surely do not need their mothers to escort them everywhere.
I was 12 in September 1968. My family was then living in Sydney, N.S.W. I would occasionally travel into the city centre (now, but not then, called the “CBD” or Central Business District), taking the ferry across Sydney Harbour from Cremorne Point to Circular Quay, a 3-mile trip. I even did it when aged only 11. I would then wander around Sydney’s central area, going wherever the mood took me.
I can remember going into a bookshop (I bought a book on Arabic, for no good reason), the offices of the Swiss Bank Corporation, and the very lively Stock Exchange (mining stocks were booming at the time, and the part of the trading floor dealing with them was frenetic, seen by me though the glass window of the public gallery).
[1966 photo of the ferry in Mosman Bay near Cremorne Point. My family lived in Mosman in 1967, then moved about a quarter-mile to the next suburb, Cremorne]
Cremorne Point wharf before the First World War, a view which was still somewhat recognizable (at least the general situation and the ferry pontoon) when I used it a few times in 1967-69. You could see little sharks swimming in the water, and the pontoon swayed as the ferry came in]
[in some more recent year; in 1967, the pontoon wharf was not covered or glassed-in]
Reverting to my main point, when I was only just 13 (by about 2 weeks), and on my family’s return trip by sea to the UK (we had arrived by air), my parents let me walk around alone on the various stops the liner Oriana made en voyage, including Acapulco (at that time not the large and crime-ridden city it now is, admittedly) and Miami (which involved my taking, entirely alone, both a local bus in Port Everglades and then a Greyhound bus to central Miami, and the same in reverse; the ship was scheduled to depart that same evening!).
I have to admit that, if I had a boy of 12-13, I would probably not give him quite that amount of latitude. I think that my main point is still valid. At some point, children (especially boys) have to be given the chance to look after themselves by wandering around etc.
Stray reminiscence
The above recollections sparked another reminiscence of my few years of Australian childhood (aged 10-13).
My parents always had a range of friends, and in Sydney one of those (met via my Anglo-Australian uncle, a business executive) was a barrister called Johnny Szabo, of Hungarian origin. I believe that he and his brother had taken the opportunity to leave socialist Hungary in or following the Uprising of 1956. Before that, Szabo had fought as a tank commander in the Second World War, alongside German forces.
As I understand, the Szabo brothers at first operated a repair garage or body shop in Sydney but, by the mid-1960s, Johnny Szabo was a prominent barrister who, I think I was told, took silk (was appointed QC). I do not really remember him except by name and story, though. I vaguely recall having met him once or twice. I imagine that he must have been born around 1920, so would now be long gone.
Some say “what about black/brown immigrants in the UK or mainland Europe? Are they not similar?” Answer—“NO…” They are, many of them, perhaps most, heavy millstones round the collective neck of the European people(s).
London. Zoo.
Yet there was a mass stabbing literally the same day in Croydon outside Asda this morning 5 taken to hospital
“Youths“? No mention of the racial background, not even by the tweeters themselves. #Brainwashed…
Talking point
“They” are still pumping out propaganda (writing books, making films etc) about the defaults, whether real or imagined, of the Third Reich, yet look at their own behaviour…
More tweets seen
How can we have a £22 Billion black hole, but at the same time promise £3 Billion a year to the Ukraine for the next 100 years???
Let us say, for the sake of argument, that the aforesaid untermensch had not killed anyone. Would there, even then, be any reason for the British people to tolerate his presence, that of his family and clan or, for that matter, others, being in the UK, or in any part of Europe? I say not.
The only reasonable agreement will be for the Kiev regime to withdraw its capital to Lvov, though with authority over all Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper except for the cities of Kiev and Odessa, which should be declared free cities, or having condominium status. Russia to rule all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and also a corridor of land along the Black Sea coast, both east and west of Odessa.
That will turn South Africa, at long last, into the usual African-ruled “basket case”, of course. The dwindling white minority has kept South Africa at least semi-civilized since that idiot Mandela took over in the early 1990s, but whites have been emigrating in very large numbers since then. Eventually, perhaps not long in the future, the chaos and misrule, in some cases amounting to savagery, seen in most of black Africa will engulf South Africa. Once European/white rule ended, that was always going to be the endgame.
[once again, the very irritating failure to embed tweets problem has occurred. I do not know why and, so far, have been unable to fix it. Please click on links to read the tweets]
In my own mind, knowing two or three people, previously healthy, who (having been multiply-“vaccinated” by the anti-“Covid” poison) have had to endure heart bypasses etc, I have no doubt that the sane thing to do is to avoid being dosed with this pharmaceutical effluent. I avoided the supposed “vaccines” and am very glad I did.
Doubt that I now count as anything other than one of the “newly-poor”, really; I used to use Waitrose often, about 4x a week, but over the past 15 years, especially the last 5 years, the quality of produce has worsened (much worse than Tesco, or even Lidl) and the once-stellar service from always-pleasant staff of all ages has deteriorated to the point of no return. I therefore rarely use Waitrose now.
My local area has a Marks & Spencer food store, and there is a Tesco 5 miles away, a Lidl and Aldi about the same distance. I like Lidl for its foreign products’ weeks, mainly, when they sell such as Polish sour-cherry juice, Greek feta etc.
As for free coffee, when you have to take your own cup in, the offer becomes much less attractive.
Ha ha! Ridiculous System talking head blames online retailer for selling a knife used by a non-white crazie to attack a child. That is so typical of Britain today.
In the past, if a shop sold a knife, or even a firearm, later used by some criminal or lunatic to hurt or kill some one else, the criminal or lunatic was blamed, not the retailer!
The James O’Brien type (a type found not only in the msm, but also among the more self-deluding part of the public) is desperate not to blame the influx of backward populations, aka “the diversity”, for crimes of that type. Oh, no, it must be the fault of those selling knives!
I wanted to buy a knife (for more usual purposes) recently, in Tesco (I think it was). Sorry, we no longer sell knives…
When will this madness end? When “the diversity” are chucked out, I suppose, and not until then.
Actually, I do not blame only the criminal or lunatic— I blame also those responsible for importing backward populations into Europe, including the UK.
US President Donald Trump has handed his special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg the job of ending the Ukraine conflict in 100 days, the Wall Street Journal reports:https://t.co/mHFLWL9n1lpic.twitter.com/f1s1CYIW0l
A period of uncertainty may await the relationship between Russia and the United States after the coming into power of US President Donald Trump, Ryabkov warned: https://t.co/lDxSSyDqlTpic.twitter.com/UXaOHRN4nY
Amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Panama City, Panamanians took to the streets to protest new US President Donald Trump's recent statements regarding the seizure of the Panama Canal, burning the US flag. pic.twitter.com/B9u98Yj0oy
Trump did not directly answer reporters' questions about whether he would continue to supply weapons to Ukraine or "soon turn off the tap." "We'll look at it, we're talking to Zelensky, we'll talk to President Putin very soon, and we'll see how it all plays out… I think the EU… pic.twitter.com/ZK3sTAcv4V
Pseudo-historian, rear-echelon “antifa” cheerleader and online “grifter”, Mike Stuchbery, has abandoned Twitter/X:
Ok. Finally pulled the plug over there. Difficult, as it gave me a voice when I struggled in real life. It took me some wild places. It’s a dark place now, and I can’t be a part of it any longer. Can’t give the worst people in the world that much access to me. Deeply bittersweet, but also relief.— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@mikestuchbery.bsky.social) 22 January 2025 at 11:55
[“Retribution— Get down there where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]
Shamefully, leaked shipping documents reveal that British factories have been exporting munitions to the israelis for the whole 15-month genocide https://t.co/juMkosWLsL
The “most immediate” threats to the British people are internal, not external— the migration invasion, the degeneracy of the mainstream media, the Jew-Zionist lobby, the Islamist/Muslim lobby, and the increasingly feral British population itself.
Russia is no threat to the UK. More specifically, Russia will only be a threat to the UK if NWO/ZOG/NATO keeps pushing for war.
The committee appointed by MP Kim Leadbeater to scrutinise her #assistedsuicide bill, and to consider changes, has voted 14-8 AGAINST allowing the Royal College of Psychiatrists to give expert evidence on issues including coercion & capacity. pic.twitter.com/RAHIVtMMeA
BBC News – Benefit cheats could be stripped of driving licences
This is so stupid. Fraud or not, how does limiting their travel options help the person rehabilitate themselves by getting a job?@leicesterliz needs to rethink her war on benefit claimants.https://t.co/cSBigTnTG9
It is hard to see how imposing tariffs on imported items such as food will lessen the cost impact on American consumers, unless domestic producers take up the slack.
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Afternoon music
[painting by Volegov]
A few thoughts about Trump’s first days as President of the USA
My random thoughts start with the fact that Trump is unlikely to start a nuclear war with Russia. For me, that is number one, the question of primary importance. For a while, it looked as though the NWO/ZOG cabals were about to succeed in causing a third major war in Europe but, as far as I can see, that danger, though still present, may now be receding.
In fact, looking at Trump’s recent tweets about North Korea and other areas of the world, they read more like those of the businessman he is, rather than those of a warlord, statesman, or even ordinary politician. Trump is a businessman; he does not see the mileage in war or conflict— it interferes with the making of profits.
That businessman mentality is arguably out of place in the head of state of the most powerful state on Earth, but it has its positive aspect, i.e. the avoidance of war in Eastern and Central Europe, in the Middle East, and in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Presidential pardons for the rebels and/or protestors of 6 January 2020 are a very good thing, but I see that a number of social-national people convicted have been left unrescued. Trump should extend his courtesy and clemency to them as well.
Trump’s apparent hostility to a few countries not at all hostile to the USA —Mexico, Denmark (re. Greenland), Panama, and Canada— strikes me as entirely unnecessary.
I can only assume that Trump looks at the map, sees North America as a coherent whole, and then concludes that that whole continent should be under one rulership, US rulership. I seem to recall seeing a film (maybe starring Gary Cooper, not sure) in which an oligarchic cabal has a plan to take over not only the USA but also all of both North America and South America (and the bit in the middle, Central America). Did Trump once, in his own childhood long ago, see that same film? We shall never know. He himself may not even consciously recall seeing it, if indeed he ever did.
I note that Trump now says that the Israel-Gaza war is “not our war“, which is interesting. To me that says that he, now serving his second and final term as US President, no longer needs the Jewish lobby (though he has more in common with them, arguably, than he does with the Arabs and other Muslims).
Trump is not only a businessman; he is also one who thinks that he can negotiate successfully with anyone, and on any issue. He even wrote a book about it, The Art of the Deal. Thus he believes that he can strike a deal with anyone or any group or nation, based on mutual self-interest. That is likely to be successful, much of the time, but will fall down and fail when the adversary or opposing party is not motivated by self-interest as such, but by some fanatical or uncompromising belief.
Anyway, there it is. The next 4 years has begun.
Elon Musk
Much kefuffle about Musk’s odd “salute” gesture at the Inauguration.
In fact, Stuchbery has never had so many views on Twitter/X— 11M at time of writing. I believe that so many views might result in Twitter/X (and so, ultimately, and ironically, Musk) paying Stuchbery about USD $95. More than the bastard has earned in years! Still, I think that he will have to continue to rely on the largesse of the German social security/welfare system for the time being…
Actually, though he poses as “historian”, Stuchbery is not really one, not in the accepted sense.
My popular 2019 (inc. later updates) blog post about Stuchbery (who used to tweet about me from time to time) has just spiked again, by reason of his having tweeted about Musk in the past day or so. Hundreds of people today alone.
I was once on a ship, the Oriana, going west to east through the Canal. In 1969. I was just (by about 2 weeks) 13 years old. The Canal was then in the Canal Zone, ruled by the USA. To go into Panama itself, tourists or visitors had to pass through a kind of US Customs and Immigration, in effect, though it was all done by special Canal Zone police. At age 13, I was fascinated by the sidearms worn by the said police. Real “Wild West” pistols, huge and heavy-looking, sticking out of leather holsters. The uniforms were khaki, I recall, with wide-brimmed “cowboy” hats, rather as in the photo below that I have just found online today:
The ones I saw had “Wild West” holsters, though, and bigger sidearms than those in the photo. The weapons were the other way around, too.
I had asked my parents to go on the short escorted tour of Panama City. Out of the nearly 2,000 passengers on the ship, only about a dozen or so had asked to go into Panama, possibly in part because the tour started in the very late evening.
I recall that the First Officer of the liner (who used to say hello to me as I swam endlessly up and down the swimming pool late at night— I was an odd boy, arguably) saw me waiting to disembark, as the ship was secured to the dock, and remarked to me that “every thief, murderer and rascal (I think it was) comes to Panama.” Obviously Panama was not his favourite place for shore leave…
The “run ashore”, in the Royal Navy phrase, was not without incident. The dark and quiet city was patrolled by submachinegun-carrying soldiers in groups. Nothing seemed to be open (perhaps unsurprisingly, at nearly midnight), and there was an air of menace. In fact, 1969 was a year of coups d’etat in Panama.
The evening ended with an unexpected diversion, literally. Our little single-decker bus, carrying the dozen intrepid passengers off the ship, was just about to fire up and drive back to the Canal Zone when a long-haired blond and youngish (30-ish) American man, in one of those leather jackets with tassels, and carrying a large knife, told the bus driver to drive to where he, a rather unfunny Crocodile Dundee lookalike (though this was 17 years before that film was released) wanted to go. I was seated right at the front, near the driver. The driver put up no more than token resistance. We drove to wherever it was that our hijacker (who stood up throughout the fairly short journey, brandishing his weapon) wanted to go; he then disembarked, to general relief. The driver drove back to the Canal Zone, fast.
My family did manage to take a more normal afternoon walk around, I think within the Zone itself, when the ship docked at the other end of the Canal, at or near Colon. I especially remember a shop where they sold all sorts of odd stuff, such as stuffed baby alligators about 6 inches long.
Incidentally, part of the trip through the Canal, the bit that is or seems natural, was like being in the film The Naked Jungle: small waterfalls falling from the jungle-clad shores, parrots etc. Incredible humidity.
Panama is of course very different today. I had some legal connection with it when I was a barrister doing offshore work. It changed out of all recognition after the American invasion and restructuring of, and after, 1989.
Trump’s idea of seizing the Canal seems to me misconceived. For one thing, there seems to be no need. For another, there is a plan to dig another Pacific-Atlantic canal, in Nicaragua, thus lessening, in theory, the risk of the Panama Canal being blocked. In any case, the USA has many large ports both on the Pacific and Atlantic, so why worry?
Another point would be that any seizure of the Canal would stir up huge anti-American sentiment across Latin America. So why…?
“UK power prices jump to their highest in more than two years as the country imports electricity from Europe at record levels https://trib.al/isTt7hy.“
Well, goodness gracious me. Who could possibly have foreseen that, after the UK closed down its coal-fired power stations and imposed sanctions on Russia?… Oh…
Wait until the Jew Miliband and the other “net zero” fanatics really get the bit between their teeth.
Incidentally, I happened to see a brief TV report yesterday about how the “net zero” nonsense will mean 5x or 6x the number of giant electricity pylons in the country. Some pathetic pseudo-environmentalists, including one from the RSPB, were there, bleating about how they support “net zero” and were “working” to mitigate the negative consequences of covering the country with giant pylons. Pathetic.
Just four years after the elite class lost its mind over Black Lives Matter President Trump just signed an executive order abolishing the entire “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy in the federal government
Actually, “Black Lives Matter” did help a few blacks…the ones who ripped off the monies gifted by government, fake charities, the National Lottery Fund, and millions of utter mugs.
What unites the UK rape gangs scandal & the Southport atrocity?
The total failure of state authorities and state officials to do their job
This is the first-order problem
It’s what lies upstream of mass immigration, open borders, woke & Islamism
It is now clear that Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper would have known a LOT about Axel Rudakubana —his referrals to Prevent, his history of violence, the ricin, the Islamist manual—while deciding to brand people as “far right” and treat us like children.
I stopped donating (very modest donations, so be it) to Wikipedia when I realized that anything to do with UK social nationalism, WW2, and the old/tired “holocaust” farrago etc was being systematically vandalized by Zionist Jews.
In fact, a few years ago the malicious, indeed poisonous, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” advertised on its website and, I think, Twitter/X account for Jew volunteers with their own Wikipedia accounts (i.e. so that their activities would not be seen to be a concerted CAA campaign or conspiracy) to “edit” (i.e. vandalize) Wikipedia.
Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda! https://t.co/lwQlM51FRX
All involved with “Ukraine” (the brutal, corrupt, shambolic regime of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev)…
The amount of nuts a squirrel can hold in its mouth depends upon the species of squirrel. Smaller species hold only one nut. Larger species can sometimes hold two nuts. Depending on the size of the nuts.#SquirrelAppreciationDaypic.twitter.com/p61xj3xJwE
Though painfully slow, the Russian advance in the southeast of former Ukraine continues.
If and when Trump cuts off military materiel going to the forces of the Kiev regime, the Stavka can order a general advance with little prospect of serious opposition.
Ha. As I said, Trump thinks like a businessman, a property developer. Having said that, it may be that many actual Gazans might welcome heavy American investment, if it did not come with obvious Jewish control attached to it. At present, the enclave is pretty much uninhabitable. Massive investment would be needed to remedy the damage Israeli war crimes have done.
Translation: “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) wants hundreds of thousands of NATO troops, so that Russian forces can be pushed back, or so that NATO can in some other way be dragged into the war, or the next war.
Ian Robert Millard 