LibDems are just wastes of space. There may be exceptions, but I have not seen any. Ed Davey is only marginally better than was Jo Swinson, and she was rock-bottom in every respect.
Even the old Liberal Party was mostly ludicrous in the post-WW1 (let alone post-WW2) era, though Jo Grimond was an exception: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond.
As to the LibDem chances in the upcoming 2024 General Election, I may be wrong but think them overestimated by commentators. Admittedly, many voters who despise the present Government and who see nothing in Starmer-Labour for which to vote may be looking for a protest vote, and some (those who do not favour Reform UK, the Green Party, or simple abstention may choose the LibDems, but I think not very many.
There are presently-Con seats where Labour has no chance, but where the LibDems often roll in second. Those seats may go LibDem, especially if Labour voters vote tactically. I cannot see the LibDems getting more than 10% overall (2019— 11.6%).
In both 2017 and 2015, the LibDems got below 8% after the years of Con Coalition. There is no possibility for the LibDems to revisit the 23% they achieved in 2010. “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time” [Abraham Lincoln].
However, what matters in UK Parliamentary politics is not the overall percentage, but the percentage concentrated in particular seats, which is why, in 2015, UKIP received 12.6% of the vote but only the one seat it already had, whereas the LibDems received a mere 7.9%, yet retained 8 MPs.
So it may yet be that, in the end, even on an overall 10%, the LibDems, who currently have only 15 MPs, will able to double or even treble their Commons strength.
Meanwhile, if Reform UK gets, nationwide, the same, or even 15%, it will probably end up still without any MPs.
The present pseudo-democratic system is a bad joke.
Kiev 's air defense forces are exhausted, and the West is in no hurry to help – Financial Times
In the absence of new tranches of military assistance from the United States and the European Union, Ukraine is increasingly concerned that Ukrainian military personnel and military… pic.twitter.com/Uo70ulrewT
“Kiev’s air defense forces are exhausted, and the West is in no hurry to help – Financial Times.
In the absence of new tranches of military assistance from the United States and the European Union, Ukraine is increasingly concerned that Ukrainian military personnel and military and industrial facilities may be vulnerable to Russian airstrikes, writes the Financial Times.
As Russia intensifies its campaign to strike energy infrastructure and other targets in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky called on Western allies to approve new military aid packages to bolster Kyiv’s depleted air defense capabilities.
According to Zelensky, there are not enough air defense systems both on the battlefield and for the defense of targets in Ukrainian cities. Kiev admits that Russia “controls the sky.”
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hope that Ukraine’s receipt of American-made F-16 fighters will put an end to the dominance of the Russian air force and help resume the counteroffensive, which has so far failed to achieve any significant successes.“
Not so many people want to be bothered by real problems, let alone real solutions. The masses want to be distracted by winning or losing sports games on the other side of the world, the latest soap trash on TV, the latest “reality” (unreality) TV show, or whatever.
Also, there are huge numbers of idiots virtue-signalling online or otherwise about how it is “kind” or “decent” to allow a million, or ten million migrant-invaders into the UK, or a hundred million if it comes to that. We have already had ten million, over 20+ years.
Those “virtue-signallers”, the “refugees welcome” dimwits etc are lacking the intellectual honesty to admit that that means the end of our basically decent European society, and the end of opportunities for most British people. It also means a housing crisis, a transport and roads crisis, a gradually-worsening NHS, gradually-sinking (in real terms) pay, State benefits, pensions etc, as well as educational standards falling through the floor.
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“A mouse has been filmed secretly tidying up a man’s shed almost every night for two months.
Wildlife photographer Rodney Holbrook noticed that objects he left out of place were being mysteriously put back where they belonged overnight.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw that the mouse was tidying up,” Holbrook said.
“He moved all sorts of things into the box, bits of plastic, nuts and bolts. I don’t bother to tidy up now, as I know he will see to it. I leave things out of the box and they put it back in its place by the morning. Ninety-nine times out of 100 the mouse will tidy up throughout the night.”
[Guardian]
Remarkable. Like something from a fairy tale or one of the Brothers Grimm stories.
I hope that the man leaves the mouse a little bit of cheese or some nuts occasionally.
“The study, by the thinktank British Future, projects that the number of ethnic minority MPs is most likely to rise from 65 to as many as 83, with much of this rise expected whatever the actual outcome of the election.
If the number of ethnic minority MPs does reach 75 or more, it will have increased fivefold in a decade and a half, having been just 15 out of 650 in the 2005 to 2010 parliament.“
[Guardian]
White people (the people formerly termed “British”) are being removed from Parliament too now. What will be the proportion, both in the population and/or in the House of Commons (and the Lords) by 2030, 2040, 2050? Over-representation in Parliament will be plainly obvious, I think.
In any case, this is the British Parliament, and should only have fully British —in every sense— MPs and (so long as the upper house exists) peers.
Worth reading. I have been writing the same, or similar, about the “Atlas Network” (or “Group”) on the blog for years. As always, others are late to the party.
Monbiot somehow leaves out the fact that the sinister Antony Fisher was a fervent Zionist…
What do you expect? Import this or that national or ethnic group, and you import with them their customary behaviours, and it matters not a jot that they or their offspring were born in, say, Southampton rather than Bombay, or that they attended Winchester, or Eton, or Oxford University.
American M1 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine will not participate in combat operations for the foreseeable future. After one vehicle broke down near Avdejevka in November 2023 – the tank broke down before reaching the front line – the remaining vehicles were evacuated. pic.twitter.com/i1UmsqQhVd
US Treasury Secretary Jeannette Yellen, who is on a visit to China, is criticized for her excessive friendliness, which was expressed in numerous bows at a meeting with her Chinese counterpart.
Diplomatic etiquette experts at The New York Post note that American officials do not… pic.twitter.com/PoQrLbUMJr
“US Treasury Secretary Jeannette Yellen, who is on a visit to China, is criticized for her excessive friendliness, which was expressed in numerous bows at a meeting with her Chinese counterpart.
Diplomatic etiquette experts at The New York Post note that American officials do not bow at all and point out that Chinese Vice Premier He Lifen, to whom Yellen bows glibly, does not respond with a mutual movement. A protocol error that critics will call a sign of America’s weakness.”
How embarrassing for the USA, to be represented by a peculiar and aged Jewish woman who has no idea how to behave. In fact, she looks like a giant chicken. She also looks like she would like to pull off the Chinaman’s hand and keep it as a souvenir.
In 1873 the US government killed 1.5 million buffalo to starve natives so they’d be more dependent on the US government. Now governments all over the world are killing livestock to "meet climate goals".
Valentin Tomberg was right. The “mask of Evil” did “start to come off” from the late 20thC onwards. Even more so in the first quarter of the 21st. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Tomberg.
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, we will not be able to recruit intelligence, we will not be able to bribe people, with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence" – Israeli Knesset MK Tally Gotliv pic.twitter.com/s2O6L5gbPg
Oh, look, one of (((those))) lovely (((you-know-who)))…
People like Vince Cable propped up an obscene Austerity driven Tory regime. He also botched up Royal Mail privatisation. And now he says it's not right to play "blame game",when so many innocent people lost their livelihoods. Another useless Yellow Tory like Nick Clegg!
I was tweeting (when I still had a Twitter account) and blogging for years about this scandal, long before most others. Incredible injustice. Cable seems incapable of seeing it, just as he did not want to see the miseries inflicted by the Con Coalition during 2010-2015. Like almost all LibDems, he is a useless waste of space.
I have, though years ago now, also criticized Paula Vennells, that dishonest careerist woman who also posed, at one time, as one of those Church of England “priestesses” of recent decades: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells.
Chris Skidmark resigned over his objections to the oil licensing in the North Sea which conflicted with his 2nd, 3rd and 4th incomes amounting to many hundreds of thousands of pounds from the green energy companies. https://t.co/rLbjPckVMb
I blogged recently about the fact that useless Skidmore had stepped down as MP before he got binned (his constituency disappears at the 2024 General Election, and no other constituency’s Conservative Party committee wanted him).
Skidmore is thus, as blogged previously, positioning himself to get a job heading some “green” quango or company.
A citizen walked more than 12 kilometers to transport his weak and sick mother to a safe place in the southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/wsVaruUMav
The Rwanda idea will only, even if implemented, deal with only a small fraction of migrant-invaders (on small boats), and none of the hugely-bigger number entering superficially “legally”.
This week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 10. I really should have got numbers 4 and 10, but there it is.
“Two amphibious warships are set to be ‘mothballed’ in a move critics have said could spell ‘the beginning of the end’ for the Royal Marines, as the Navy tries to tackle a sailor shortage crisis.
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be retired from active service under plans put forward by Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, according to The Times.
The plans would be designed to help deal with the manpower crisis in the Royal Navy, freeing up more than 200 sailors for other ships – most likely the force’s new fleet of Type 26 frigates when they come into service.
But the move has been slammed by critics who say the ships are crucial to the functioning of the elite commando force, with experts saying their retirement would weaken the Marines by diminishing their ability to storm beaches from the sea.”
[Daily Mail]
Ha ha! In what world does Britain presently need the “ability to storm beaches“? Not the world where the only “storming” of beaches is by migrant-invaders invading the UK.
As far as I am concerned, the armed forces have virtually no useful role in a Britain becoming totally alien, and which soon will have nothing its inhabitants will wish to defend anyway.
Come to think of it, I was just watching an episode of Spooks, a TV series I did not see when it was first broadcast. That led me to thoughts around what use is MI5. The damage (possibly mortal) being done to the UK is not by spies infiltrating government offices, and not by anarchists or others wanting to assassinate MPs etc, but by a tsunami of immigration, and by the cultural trashing of our mass media, publishing, schools etc. About all that, MI5 has nothing to say, and even less to do.
“A man and a teenager have been convicted of murder after detectives used CCTV footage to track down their escape routes home.
[defendant]
Nah’shun Thomas, 20, of Bournemouth Road in Peckham, and a 17-year-old who cannot be identified because of his age were convicted on Friday January 5 of murdering Kalabe Legesse in Peckham Rye.“
[Evening Standard]
More “diversity”.
How on Earth can we create a more advanced society without —without creating— a more advanced population? Instead, the UK is nosediving to demographic disaster. The overall IQ of the population is sliding, and has been for some time. Not surprising when you look at specimens such as that in the above photograph.
complete Israeli withdrawal from the areas of the Gaza and North governorates to the cover areas, with the exception of Al-Tawam and Al-Maqousi Towers.
Israeli Channel 12: A state of fear prevails among the residents of the North and the Golan, especially after today's targeting that shook the region. There are several injuries that have been transported to Safed hospitals.
Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That's not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly. It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our… pic.twitter.com/Kgx2LgOuKQ
“Douglas McGregor: The United States and NATO will not admit defeat in Ukraine. That’s not how it works in Washington. And do they admit it secretly? Undoubtedly.
It even became a proof of our weakness for the whole world. Our equipment, our technologies, our advice, even our assistance on the ground and in the air – all of it failed against the Russians.
The only thing we have achieved is that we have increased Russia’s prestige, power and influence in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what we said we wanted to achieve.”
Massive destruction caused by the Israeli bombing of the Palestine Mosque area in Gaza pic.twitter.com/EoN8cUSsOM
There will be no aid to Ukraine without congressional approval – Biden administration
“Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, emphasized that there is no other way to help Ukraine except for Congress to approve additional funding,” the Associated Press… pic.twitter.com/OwUGixWTYA
It's also now beyond doubt mass immigration is worsening Britain's wider housing crisis. You can pretend it's not happening & put your head in the sand. Or like our community you can get real about the problems facing Britain and talk about them openly https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
The facts would be even more striking if the msm etc stopped calling people “British” just because they have a UK passport.
The worst thing for our soul is to go through life not knowing who we are.
If our identity is taken from us then all we have left is to flail around in darkness, satisfying ourselves with even the most vacuous and superficial of identities that we can relate ourselves to; all in… pic.twitter.com/dtbb7kCmTd
A picture of Mike Pence, the former vice president of the United States, visiting and signing an artillery shell to be fired by the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/j6zI9l05Xt
After an absence of decades, pine martens are now present across the New Forest and successfully breeding here according to the results of a three-year study. https://t.co/ViMyKo7zkz
Pipe down love. Hes an unelected WEF stooge driving this country into oblivion. Starmer will continue on the same path if he gets in, as it’s the same hand that controls these clowns. But you already knew that
I wonder how many are embedded in the UK political parties at Westminster.
In one of the desert regions of China, a full-size replica of the newest American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford for target practice. pic.twitter.com/uxzWyRcZhY
…and the Kiev-regime navy is nowhere to be seen (because the Kiev regime no longer has a navy…).
🇮🇱 Israel's Defense Ministry says 12,500 of its soldiers may be classified as disabled after the war, meaning they have varying degrees of disability pic.twitter.com/o6hnZYEoj0
As Enoch Powell said about 55 years ago, “we must be mad, literally mad” [to allow this flood of uselessness].
One reason so many doctors in Britain are from abroad (& often less qualified than British ones) is because for years both Left & Right FAILED to expand medical school places for British kids. We reject thousands each year. Once again, short-term sticking plaster rather than… https://t.co/NxyRCo9L1r
The very parts of the economy that should be in public ownership. Railways. Water supply. Energy (on the large scale). Royal Mail and post office services.
Rachel Reeves can find money to cut income tax or national insurance, but can't find the money to end the two child benefit cap. https://t.co/OdZxCNQAZU
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel member. Expenses and perks freeloader. Failed to pay back her interest-free House of Commons credit card debt for years…
Anyone who thinks that the likely Starmer-Labour government from 2024-25 will be better than the bunch of clowns currently in office is being very very silly.
Having said that, the only way to (“peacefully”) destabilize the failed two-party rigged system in the UK is to destroy at least one major party. The “Conservatives” have volunteered, by their corrupt ineptitude, to be that party. At the upcoming General Election, all that is required is for people to punish the Con Party by not voting for it. Either abstain, or vote anywhere but Con.
Tice, of Reform UK, is scarcely my kind of politician, but he has caught the mood. In a recent interview (a few days ago), Tice made the necessary point: punish (his word) the Con Party, no matter whether voting for Reform UK means more Labour MPs. Labour will almost certainly “win” anyway, and almost certainly with a large majority. Think strategically. Wipe out the Con Party by either abstaining or by voting anywhere but Con.
Good. Another total waste of space gone. I never liked what I saw about or from him.
“He is also a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs, founded by Liz Truss, and along with Truss, Priti Patel, Kwasi Kwarteng and Dominic Raab, he co-authored After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012). The authors of Britannia Unchained claimed that “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” [Wikipedia].
So wrote a man who has never done a day’s actual or non-political work in his life. He was even useless as an MP and junior minister, getting sacked at least three times from various portfolios (despite having been one of the least rebellious and most toadying of the Conservative MP-cadre).
Skidmore tries to present an “intellectual” front, but not convincingly. He does not have the horsepower, when all is said and done.
Skidmore, though now claiming to have resigned on a matter of principle, had himself earlier said (in 2022) why he would not be continuing as MP:
“On 26 November 2022, Skidmore announced that he would be standing down at the next general election, later stating in Parliament that ‘my constituency of Kingswood is being formally abolished in the boundary changes and there is nowhere for me to go.’[37][38][39]” [Wikipedia].
Translation: he has been both useless and disliked as MP and junior minister, and no other constituency would want him once his present one is abolished. In any case, there may well be few Conservative Party seats left after 2024.
Skidmore has spun getting kicked out of Parliament (by the time of the 2024 General Election) as a principled resignation, no doubt hoping to be given some lucrative and maybe environment-oriented quango appointment later. He might have been better to wait to see whether he would be in line for a peerage. No chance of that now.
…and the Zionist Jews in the UK, at least those making public statements on Twitter/X and/or on msm, are following that line; as are political doormats such as Starmer and that little Indian money-juggler currently posing as Prime Minister.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: 4% of Gaza population killed, missing or wounded, 70% of buildings destroyed, as war enters fourth month pic.twitter.com/GZu8LaAejc
'Fundamentally, British people need to be housed first.'@GoodwinMJ says 'close to half of all social housing in London goes to households who are headed by somebody who is not born in Britain'.
“The Tories have been lying —they’ve been gaslighting the British people, promising them one thing while delivering something else altogether.
They promised “lower overall numbers” only to then send net migration soaring to levels that have simply never been seen before in British history.
They promised to “take back control” and restore Britain’s status as a self-governing nation only to then completely lose control of Britain’s borders.
And now –as the latest data shows– we can see that while they promised a high-skill, high-wage, and highly-selective immigration policy that would attract “the best and the brightest” global talent they have instead delivered the very opposite.
They’ve further pushed open the floodgates to a new era of low-skill, low-wage immigration from outside Europe —the very kind of immigration which, as the latest studies show, is a net cost rather than a net benefit to Western economies and welfare states.
They need to stop lying to the British people. They need to level with the British people and admit that what they have delivered since the vote for Brexit is the total opposite of what they promised.
The British people deserve better than this. And it’s high time somebody speaks up and gives it to them. They deserve the truth. And they deserve leaders who will give them nothing but the truth.”
…and they deserve political leaders and parties not in hock to the international Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby.
Most of which are either women or persons aged under-18.
Since the beginning of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 4,000 schoolchildren and students in Gaza, the Palestinian Government Information Office reported.
Everyone in Gaza is hungry! Every day is a desperate search for food. People often go all day and night without eating. Adults starve so children can eat. pic.twitter.com/mBgOmXmvUt
The US national debt has exceeded 34 billion dollars for the first time in history, according to updated data from the US Ministry of Finance, as reported by "RIA Novosti". According to experts, the US government will have to spend up to a third of budget revenues just to service… pic.twitter.com/S2v0d0nJZ9
It is always hard to assess what is the reality behind figures of that sort.
US national debt reaches $34 trillion for first time in history – The Washington Post
“Washington spent money as if it had endless resources. But there will be no more free lunch, and the prospects are pretty bleak,” said economist Son Won-sung, interviewed by the publication pic.twitter.com/Aptp3A76Cv
Israeli officials have been conducting secret negotiations with the African state of Congo and several other countries on the potential acceptance of refugees from the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported today.
"Congo is willing to accept refugees, but we are in negotiations…
So there it is. Israeli Jews are planning to deport non-Jews to Africa. Ironically, Hitler and the SS had a similar plan in the 1930s, to deport Jews to Madagascar. That might have really worked, and would not have created this “Israel”, which now (via its worldwide web) menaces the whole world.
Avigdor Lieberman, the former minister of war of the Israeli regime, said that the regime may have to re-occupy southern Lebanon for 50 years. pic.twitter.com/hYfyt6FP6g
The long-term plan seems to be “Greater Israel”, which some dismiss as a “conspiracy theory”…
The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse… pic.twitter.com/tof57nmgAZ
“The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully hit advanced military infrastructure in Kiev – Polish media Myśl Polska.
According to the publication, during the missile attack at least two American NASAMS installations on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and a large warehouse with missiles for the Patriot air defense system were destroyed (in fact, this is why the Americans, headlong, announced the supply of shells for these same systems).“
🇵🇱The head of the Polish Foreign Ministry , proposed giving Ukraine long-range missiles to attack command centers on Russian territory pic.twitter.com/mh2EueeLob
That, if it were to happen, might trigger a Russian response of such a kind, and on such a scale, that a major regional war, or even a world war, might in turn then be triggered; so not a very intelligent suggestion. Or is that what the System wants to happen?
“The conflict between Zelensky and Zaluzhny is growing in Kiev: no one wants to take responsibility for the new law on mobilization.
The Financial Times again writes about the conflict between the political and military elites in Ukraine.
It is connected with the upcoming draft law on mobilization, within the framework of which it is planned to conscript at least 500 thousand people into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Neither side appears willing to take full responsibility for conscripting hundreds of thousands of possibly reluctant Ukrainians to serve in a grim, grueling war,” writes FT columnist Ben Hall.”
The Kiev regime has run out of soldiers after the huge number killed, badly wounded, or captured. Zelensky’s cabal is trying to call up people over 40, over 50, even over 60. Also, some disabled people and those who care for them. The conscription or draft offices are riddled with corruption (bribery to avoid being drafted), and the main reason many have escaped Ukraine to Western and Central Europe is to avoid military service.
In the longer term, Ukraine as a “state” (failed state) has no future in terms of demographics. Young men are either fighting, or have been killed, or are hors de combat by reason of injury or capture. Others are overseas, as are huge numbers of Ukrainian women (and children).
The result is a rapidly-ageing population, and so also a declining population.
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” – Kierkegaard
How much is it costing us to protect a genocidal state? "… British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea." Grant Shapps "said the UK was 'willing to take direct action' to protect the key shipping lane."https://t.co/zhJWxAEKnI
🇺🇦 In Kyiv, they announced the destruction of more than half of the city’s energy infrastructure in a year
The Kyiv authorities decided to take stock of the outgoing year 2023 and announced the destruction of 63% of energy infrastructure facilities by the Russian army.
I remember visiting the UN Centre in Vienna sometime in the mid-1980s; cannot recall exact year now. I knew someone who was doing some temporary work there. I spent a couple of hours in the Centre. Various impressions, but my overall impression (of what — admittedly little— I saw) was that the place was a huge waste of space (and money). What is it for?
There is a daily tour for visitors but I did not experience it (because I was not a “tourist” visitor officially, though really I was).
“They” have control of the strategic or key areas of public life in the USA— the politicians, the mass media (especially TV), the film industry, the legal milieu (in the states that matter most: California, New York etc), publishing.
I believe I read somewhere, years ago, that Israelis are often cruel to donkeys, which are such gentle animals, so ready to be friendly with humans. It is true that donkeys are over-worked and abused in other countries too, including Arab countries, Pakistan etc.
The Jew settlers in Israel/Palestine (often from the USA) are horrible, though, fully displaying the malice for which “they” have always been well-known.
In the village of Al-Jab'ah, Hebron District. A Palestinian oldman in tears after Israeli settlers cut down his 300 olive trees and order him to vacate from his own farm. Why do Israelis hate Palestinians this much? Why do they do such inhumane, indescribable and unthinkable… pic.twitter.com/vaFQWPlkQy
The moment the Yaara barracks in the Western Galilee was targeted, which led to 5 casualties among the ranks of the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/e1OU8i4jEU
Ukraine is just a tool in the hands of the collective West, which is using it to fight against Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. He stated this at the military hospital in Moscow where he met with Russian soldiers wounded… pic.twitter.com/eKFO3asiup
Hard to believe, but there it is: “normal” life, or a semblance of it, despite the fact that that area, 2-3 miles north of Gaza City, has been attacked heavily from the air for two months, and despite the fact that heavy ground fighting has occurred recently at Beit Hanoun, only a mile or so away.
Reuters:
A US official said: Israel's decision to withdraw some of its forces from the Gaza Strip is the beginning of a gradual shift, indicating a slowdown in the pace of operations in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/FODK46dwmP
The forces of the Kiev regime may be able to launch missile attacks such as that on a Crimean port overnight, but the bigger picture is that the Kiev regime’s summer counter-offensive got nowhere and achieved nothing, that the Kiev-regime forces are rapidly running out of ammunition despite huge shipments from USA, UK etc, and that the Kiev regime is now very short of recruits, having to employ ever-more persistent press-gangs; Kiev is now asking EU states to repatriate Ukrainians living in the EU, so that the repatriated people can be put straight into uniform.
Russia is upgrading its heavy weaponry, building ever-more tanks, planes, and missiles. The summer of 2024 may see a general Russian advance which will overwhelm the ragged and exhausted Kiev-regime defences in Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
Even if that does not happen, the Kiev-regime forces cannot themselves advance. They have not the arms, ammunition, or men with which to do that. Their best possibility is to hold the line where it is.
The transnational conspiracy has had its support for the Zelensky regime sidetracked by the Gaza conflict; that is especially true of the USA. Zelensky and his cabal may be able to ban opposition parties, to arrest those opposed to war with Russia, to ban trade unions, and to refuse to hold elections, but what the Zelensky group cannot to is magic into existence more soldiers, more arms, and more ammunition.
The foreign mercenaries and other volunteers have mostly gone home now, those not captured or killed. The Kiev regime now seems to be paying mercenaries from countries with low living standards, such as Peru. Their pay is low. Still, you get what you pay for, quite often.
I doubt that many “contract soldiers”, even from regions such as South America, will now be applying to become casualty statistics in the Kiev regime’s failing war.
My assessment is that Russia is biding its time. That may mean no 2024 offensive (though, to the contrary, one may be launched in order to demoralize the all-important backers and “generous” suppliers of the Kiev regime in the EU and North America).
In the USA, the Presidential election may bring to power a President hostile to more support for the Zelensky regime. Trump is only the main possibility; there are others. Likewise in the EU. “Populist” parties are in the ascendant. Most do not want to funnel endless taxpayer funding to the ungrateful and failing Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
The conflict in the Palestine/Israel region, which has now spread southward to the Red Sea, is already impacting EU trade lines.
Economically, Russia is thriving, overall. While the West generally, and especially the EU, is faltering economically, Russia is doing fairly well. As I predicted 18+ months ago, the sanctions imposed have forced Russia to both diversify and to find other suppliers of food and raw materials. Sanctions rarely have huge, certainly not decisive effect anyway. I myself saw that when, aged 20, I was in Rhodesia (in 1977).
Ukraine (Kiev regime) is, by contrast, not thriving; it only keeps going by reason of the money and other support and aid supplied from outside. Its agriculture is finding export difficult, and some markets closed or restricted. The industrial sector is running at a low level. Electricity supplies are interrupted, and gas supplies more so.
In the long run, what will sink Ukraine as a state (failed state) is the very low birth-rate, combined with the huge numbers of Ukrainians now living in a number of EU states and elsewhere. In the short-term, the ranks of the army are not being replaced.
Russia will win (in Eastern Ukraine), and the NWO will retreat.
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🚨🇺🇦 @NYTimes Revelation: #Ukraine employing 'people snatchers' to forcibly recruit untrained men for frontline combat against #Russia. Harsh tactics exposed in a grim #wartime reality. Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson remarks on the Times' late arrival to the truth. pic.twitter.com/Mc6tyUaQyn
SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars because Biden is blocking mining in America. h/t @JamesMelvillepic.twitter.com/V4eR349y1c
Looking at the bigger picture, this is but one of the terrible consequences of decolonization in Africa (etc) from the 1950s through to the 1970s. That process was itself a consequence of the disaster of WW2 and the even more disastrous defeat of the German Reich.
Who now —save for the ignorant and/or brainwashed— can doubt that the post-WW2 ending of European rule over Africa has resulted in war, civil wars, degradation of the environment, and misery for the Africans themselves, as well as irreparable loss of wildlife and tree cover?
The most heartwarming of threads. The fortitude of a dog called Shaq. 👇♥️ https://t.co/iQywJpuOuv
It’s been amazing to see him heal up fully in the last 2 weeks especially. The whole weight of the world has been lifted from him. So today I wanted to give him a big big treat (3/5) pic.twitter.com/MpcYcTAcV1
9 weeks between these 2 sets of photos. You truly are a miracle Mr Shaq.
Have a wonderful day everybody and if you feel a little down or low maybe Shaq can show you comebacks are always possible 🥰🙏 (5/5) pic.twitter.com/PO7oUSFdAg
Not a particularly original or surprising thought (or two), but never mind…
I happened to see, a day or two ago, a Celebrity Chase quiz show, I think first shown several years ago. Nadine Dorries.
Hard to understand why Nadine Dorries was on a quiz show, except for the fact that, though any money won goes to a chosen charity, the contestants are paid (how much, I do not know; I presume somewhere around £1,000).
I cannot now recall the exact questions asked of Nadine Dorries, but she knew very few of the answers, and was quickly knocked out. Her ignorance was, even for a cynic such as myself, almost beyond belief.
The above experience once more led to thoughts of how MPs now really are the bottom of the barrel. Compare them to the better type of MP from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. Jo Grimond, the one-time Liberal leader, for example. A very erudite man who had also served in WW2 as an officer, and been a barrister. His memoirs are well worth reading, incidentally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grimond.
Not that I agree with all of his views, and the same would be even more true of Denis Healey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Healey], but these people had character, depth, real erudition, and were not simply self-serving careerists.
Compare them to (ex-MP) Nadine Dorries, to “Boris” Johnson, to Corbyn, to Keir Starmer, to Jo Swinson (a later LibDem leader of sorts), to Liz Truss, to Sunak, Matt Hancock etc… Among many many others.
Whatever method is chosen for selecting or electing MPs, Cabinet and other ministers etc, is of secondary importance. Prime importance must be given to the quality of those selected. In darker moments, I tend to think that the fall in overall quality of MPs just reflects the decline and/or degeneration of the society from which they have emerged.
Incidentally, on that Celebrity Chase show, Nadine Dorries claimed that she was the only MP not claiming expenses (in fact, she just meant certain “personal” expenses). Also, that she was campaigning to end MP expenses! The presenter was too polite (or short of time) to retort that she had already been caught actually cheating on her expenses several times, and had only just escaped prosecution: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries#Expenses_claims.
Zionism and Jews in the UK
Look at the tweet below, from the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]:
To those gentilesplaining that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”, our representative polling of British Jews has found that only 6% are not Zionists, and 97% feel personally connected to events unfolding in Israel.
Yet we constantly see or hear, from Jew-Zionist “activists” (troublemakers), that Jews in the UK have nothing to do with Israel or what Israel is now doing to the people of Gaza…
We also see or hear that “criticism of Israel is legitimate, but any criticism of Jews is ‘antisemitic’ and (they claim) not legitimate“.
The “CAA’s” own survey indicates that at least 80% of Jews in the UK are content to accept the label “Zionist”, and that no less than 88% of them feel “personally connected” to whatever is happening in Israel.
Also, note the derogatory term “gentilesplaining“: in other words, non-Jews cannot say anything about Jews (but Jews can —and do— say the most insulting things about British and other European cultures and peoples).
Late tweets
Donald Trump leads Biden by four points in Daily Mail national poll despite battling lawsuits pic.twitter.com/QpfnGzKYbF
🇮🇷Iran reversed months-long slowdown in uranium enrichment to 60% weapons-grade purity
Iran already has quite a lot of uranium enriched to 60%. If it continues to enrich, it will be possible to create three nuclear bombs (one requires 42 kg), the IAEA says.
"China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder. India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and…
“China has become the leading economy, Russia has become the largest economy in Europe, already breathing behind Japan in the race for fourth place. And Asian economies have seriously moved up the ladder.
India has taken third place, Indonesia has climbed to seventh place and soon will start attacking Germany’s position, which is currently sixth,” said Maxim Oreshkin, assistant to the Russian president, in an interview with “Expert” magazine.
In his words, the United States of America is killing the European economy, adding that “as soon as they finish cannibalizing their European partners, they will focus on the Asian market.”
Retired US Army officer:
We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
🔺Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be… pic.twitter.com/7BtXMa8iWQ
“Retired US Army officer: We cannot say no to Israel because Israel is our master. At the peak of helplessness, the United States is looking for a solution to the Yemen problem.
Yemen has been bombed by military aircraft since 2014. Did you think that the Yemenis would be afraid of so many American warplanes?
If Iran starts this war, the world economy, especially the economy of Western countries, will suffer. Biden needs to wake up from his sleep, this problem is bigger than the US.
Iran has many missiles and could bring death and destruction to Americans like they haven’t seen since World War II.”
Late thought about Ukraine
UK television news full of the Kiev-regime attack on the Russian ship, and saying that Russia is losing the battle in the Black Sea. Well, the Kiev regime no longer has a navy at all.
Naturally, the loss of a large ship, even a supply ship, is very bad but, the very same day, Russian forces took what is left of the city of Mariinka in the Donbass. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67820916.
That is where the war is happening, on the ground in Eastern Ukraine. Russia is slowly winning there.
As for the attack on the ship, already the biased commentators on Sky News etc are heralding the dawn of a Kiev-regime strategic advantage in the Black Sea which does not exist.
In the final analysis, and if push came to shove, Russia could totally flatten Kiev and all other cities of Ukraine, if the leadership were so to decide. What is stopping that is firstly, that Moscow and Kiev were the centrepieces of Russian life for many centuries and, secondly, the fact that Russia is slowly winning this war.
Russia, though, is still one of the two main nuclear powers, and also has awesome conventional destructive capability. In extremis, that power could be unleashed. Kiev should be talking to Moscow about redrawing borders.
Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.
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December 25, 1991 AD
On this day, 32 years ago, the flag of the Soviet Union was lowered, the Russian flag was raised over the Kremlin, and the last president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, resigned. The next day, on December 26, the Soviet Union officially fell. pic.twitter.com/niyt5X3pnh
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in the escalation of the conflict with the Palestinian movement Hamas since October 7 has reached 485, the Israeli army announced.
The Israeli regime's warplanes bombarded al-Maghazi camp in the center of Gaza . So far, 80 Palestinians have been martyred. pic.twitter.com/0GvlB9WnD4
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has expressed deep concern about worsening food security in the Gaza Strip, where some 2.2 million Palestinians face hunger.
Joseph Borrell: Putin has decided to continue the war until the complete victory in Ukraine, we must prepare for a high-intensity conflict. pic.twitter.com/6wcblE10Uh
The United States expanded its territory by a million square kilometers.
Potentially resource-rich new lands include areas of the continental shelf in the Arctic, Atlantic, Bering Sea, Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mariana Islands. pic.twitter.com/ol5vEEraq0
The United States, against the backdrop of growing confrontation with Russia in the Arctic, declares claims to part of the region
Yesterday, Washington announced plans to claim a significant portion of the seabed in the Bering and Beaufort Seas as “its own.” The United States… pic.twitter.com/2ruiQ56sFB
The Palestinian news agency Sama published a video and reported that IDF units had completely abandoned Beit Hanoun along with all their equipment. pic.twitter.com/pcPZ8VPNSp
Hezbullah attacked Israeli forces in the vicinity of the Mitat barracks Also, the Israeli “army” announced today the closure of several settlements in the Eastern Galilee.
Hundreds of homes were destroyed and billions in damage were caused to more than 20 (Israeli) towns on the Lebanese border as a result of Hezbollah attacks.
The entire border area with Lebanon is deserted, and taxes paid compensation amounting to about 21…
“The enemy celebrates when we are divided, I demand that the leadership restrain the campaigns”
🔴 Political and social instability is observed in Israel after heavy losses in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced hundreds of dead officers, but…
“The enemy celebrates when we are divided, I demand that the leadership restrain the campaigns.”
“Political and social instability is observed in Israel after heavy losses in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced hundreds of dead officers, but the number of ordinary soldiers killed has not yet been disclosed.
Yesterday at the cabinet meeting there were also great disagreements and criticism of Netanyahu.
Protests from the families of the hostages are intensifying, knowing that without a ceasefire their loved ones will not survive the war in Gaza.
The economy is knocked down, there is a huge decline, large numbers of Israeli settlers in the border areas of Gaza and Lebanon have been displaced and are unlikely to return anytime soon.”
Map of military operations in Ukraine at the end of 2023 from ISW
The American Institute for the Study of War indicated in red on the map the territory that is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and in blue – what the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to occupy during… pic.twitter.com/jQ89yPDY5o
“Map of military operations in Ukraine at the end of 2023 from ISW The American Institute for the Study of War indicated in red on the map the territory that is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and in blue – what the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to occupy during its counter-offensive.
For the sake of such “success,” the Kiev regime destroyed almost 160 thousand military personnel, hundreds of tanks and aircraft, and never overcame the tactical defense of the Russian Armed Forces.”
2024 will see, by grace of God, a general Russian advance across Eastern Ukraine; an advance to, and northward along, the Dnieper, and then towards the Kiev area. If so, that may precipitate a collapse of the Zelensky dictatorship.
We can’t unmute to listen to her crying We’re all guilty of this ALL OF US ! This is one of thousands of children that there limbs were amputated
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Jew-Zionist supporters of Israel pretend to be “afraid” (of mild or non-existent “antisemitism”). They constantly whine (or, more often, demand) that people such as myself be dragged into court for having the temerity to criticize both Israel and “their” behaviour. In a month or so, I myself am to be sentenced, having been convicted of publishing [the truth] on this blog.
It has been revealed that the order for Israeli tanks to fire on houses containing 12 Israeli captives in Kibbutz Be'eri came from this man, Brigadier General Barak Hiram.
Well, this week one of my poorest scores ever, a miserable 3/10. Political journalist John Rentoul beat my score (with 6/10), a rare occurrence indeed. I only knew the answers to questions 5, 7, and 10.
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A Labour MP reported Mumsnet to the police for "extremism" after some mums said men shouldn't be in women's spaces. If you thought counter-terror rules would be used to actually tackle terrorism – sorry, Labour need them to enforce their weird gender ideology. https://t.co/Pfw769fgjt
— Leo Kearse – see me on YouTube & Headliners (@LeoKearse) December 23, 2023
Much of the “counter-terror” stuff in the UK is a fake, and a cover for repression of opinion unwanted by and disapproved by the System, or by special-interest groups such as —and mainly— the Jew-Zionist cabals (malicious nuisances such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a kind of volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in the UK).
A mother on Mumsnet has revealed her 14 year old daughter is upset and concerned that she is in trouble because her new substitute teacher snapped "It's miss to you" at her when she called him "sir" pic.twitter.com/zlPm7LbFjA
More “trans” nonsense. Why are so few people, even now, pointing out the sheer oddness of the fact that an absolute tidal wave of this stuff has crashed over the UK in, mainly, the past few years? What is happening? What is being encouraged to happen? What is behind it all?
Consequences of the destruction in the Gaza Strip: The residential area of Sheikh Zayed in the north of the enclave was completely destroyed during the aggression of the Israeli army pic.twitter.com/S9BMNRJlGQ
In 1877, The Times leader column tackled the issue of "oral telegraphy". We declared, authoritatively, that people who hope to send "audible sounds across the Atlantic", were frankly very silly. Telephones had uses in the home, perhaps – to summon servants. But that was it. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DUpG8ZIUBI
I do not say “never believe the experts“, but the fact is that they (and, more so yet, scribblers pretending to be expert) are usually wrong, especially when they try to predict the future, or when unexpected events happen.
The recent “Covid” “panicdemic” showed up ignorance of the supposed experts of the so-called SAGE committee (I called it “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris).
There are, actually hundreds of similar examples, especially if you move from scientific-milieu examples to those of politics and economics. Lenin thought that the Bolsheviks would come to power when the 1905 “Revolution” (uprising) was taking place. Wrong… and Lenin did not think that the Tsarist state of Russia would fall as a result of the first (Spring) Revolution of 1917. Wrong again…
Scenes of destruction caused by Israeli forces in the Jabaliya camp, north of Gaza pic.twitter.com/PeYdhofYnn
Probably a poor-looking place even before the destruction, but these were people’s homes, now blasted by some of the war crimes of the Israeli military machine.
The destruction caused by the Israeli misdeeds in the Awni Al-Harsani school in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/I40O27m6Fw
Zakharova: The refusal of the OSCE to provide us with a list of those killed in Buca – proof that everything was staged " The refusal to provide the Russian side and the media with the list of those killed in Bucha indicates that it was a staging carried out by Ukraine with the… pic.twitter.com/cDWe6lxEWH
At first, I myself believed that the 2022 devastation in Bucha (a small township or suburb very close to, or effectively part of, Kiev) was a real event, albeit one committed by poorly-disciplined allies of Russia (Chechens etc). It is claimed that hundreds of civilians were killed and/or tortured.
Now, I wonder whether it ever happened at all (as reported). The much-photographed devastation seems to have been mainly in one small section of a single street; burnt-out Russian vehicles, destroyed single-storey houses etc. Hard to get to the truth. It may lie somewhere in the middle.
Dozens of adults and children were killed today in the Israeli bombardment of the refugee camp in Jabalia, "Al Jazeera" reported. As stated, members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are trying to advance towards the city from the west and east, disrupting all lines of…
Footage of a mass raid of Ukrainian military commissars in Dnepropetrovsk
Dozens of armed military registration and enlistment office employees and police began a roundup of “volunteers” in Dnepropetrovsk. pic.twitter.com/wi3SjtcQjg
The Russian army is seizing the initiative at the front, Germany is worried
The Russian offensive picked up pace, while the Ukrainian army began to move into a defensive position. This opinion was expressed by German political scientist and chief of staff of the German Defense… pic.twitter.com/hHkQtcRHWp
Lack of ammunition and allied aid forces Kyiv to curtail operations
The Ukrainian army lacks artillery shells on the front line, forcing the command to cancel planned operations, writes The Washington Post. This exacerbates Kyiv’s already palpable anxiety amid delayed financial… pic.twitter.com/m2VT1nTIGt
She seems to be mentally disturbed, and/or perhaps a drug-abuser. God help the USA (and Europe) if that crazed woman becomes U.S. President.
Her Wikipedia entry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley] contains a couple of interesting facts. Turns out that she is an Indian (Sikh), and that her personal wealth, estimated at USD $1M in 2018, had jumped to USD $8M only 2-3 years later, in 2021. How?
London will continue to ignore the reality unfolding in #Ukraine. Acknowledging a failed strategy by the #UK would require further explanations and admitting a huge strategic miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/uJZzXABFXv
Saw a tweet from a tweeter claiming that “Hitler was a great failure“. So tweeted a professed fortune-teller [“I read tarot cards with numerology, & zodiac signs“] with exactly two Twitter/X followers and who is following 91 others…
Laugh of the day? Maybe; maybe just unconscious irony of the day…
In fact, I think I see what that tweeter was getting at with his comment, but think also that I shall not comment further on it today…
“A restaurant that drowned three hundred cats a month to fuel Vietnam’s cruel meat trade has been closed for good.
The Gia Bảo restaurant in Thai Nguyen city, in the country’s northeast, ran a lucrative trade selling cats, likely including stolen pets, drowned in a bucket one after another.
For five years, Pham Quoc Doanh, 37, ran the establishment after struggling to feed his family selling ‘other normal food and drinks’.
‘It was then I tried selling cat meat since there was no other available restaurant serving this in the area,’ he told Metro.
Doanh reached out to the Humane Society International, campaigning to ban the trade in Vietnam, who offered him a one-time grant to set up a grocery store instead.
On December 6, he symbolically tore down the banners outside his slaughterhouse and restaurant and began a new life.
‘For a while now I have felt a genuine desire to leave the cruel cat meat business and switch to something else as soon as possible. When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,’ he said.
‘Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.’
An estimated one million cats are killed each year for their meat in Vietnam, according to the charity – despite 71 per cent of the population favouring a ban.“
[Daily Mail]
Well, my opinion of Vietnam has never been very high (I admit that I have never actually been there), but at least 71% of the population apparently want this trade banned, and they do seem (from what I read today) to be taking steps in the right direction.
Zelensky's Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty… pic.twitter.com/LPFArRrtRu
“Zelensky’s Office called for making it more difficult to legalize Ukrainians abroad in order to return them to Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Office, Mikhail Podolyak, believes that the 5 million Ukrainians who fled the country with the beginning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization received too favorable conditions to remain in the West forever.
He admitted that Kyiv is interested in bringing them back and giving them the opportunity to “repay their debt to the state.“
The British Guardian newspaper writes that Israel lost the war, but Netanyahu and his radical cabinet do not want to admit it. pic.twitter.com/G4F9WIwrZz
The Israeli military released a video showing the destroyed of an entire neighborhood in the Al-Rimal area in the western Gaza Strip.
The destruction area includes a rehabilitation hospital as well as other institutions, including the Gaza Civil Registry Office. pic.twitter.com/OPsDV7bVZw
The IDF's elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have demolished the major Hamas tunnel network hidden under Gaza City’s Palestine Square, where the terror group's top officials hid on October 7. pic.twitter.com/USy0jwzhn8
I have to admit that I have always found the idea of secret tunnels quite compelling. The KGB had a specific directorate specializing in tunnelling, though one finds little printed about it.
In the case of the Gaza tunnels, we are told that they extend for more miles overall than the London Underground, which has 250 miles of track, much of which, however, is overground. About 110 miles of the London Underground is actually below ground-level.
On that basis, only a small part, maybe 5-10 miles, or <10%, of the Gaza tunnels have been explored or destroyed by the invading Israeli forces so far. Information is obviously being restricted at present.
It makes me wonder whether similar tunnels do not also penetrate Israeli state territory from Lebanon or elsewhere, tunnels perhaps so far underground that they are undetectable.
Germany will not return fugitive Ukrainians to Kiev for mobilization
This was stated by German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann to the Tagesspiegel.
“We are trying to ensure that more people from Ukraine find employment, go to work and do not live on benefits,” he explained. pic.twitter.com/2UEyXKu6hD
In the south of the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, where the border crossing of the same name is located, Israel launched a series of airstrikes in the area of the Kuwait hospital and the Awad Shabana Ali mosque pic.twitter.com/q9yqQsUEau
Let them laugh. “They” will not be laughing in a few years’ time, and not only in Israel/Palestine…
The volume of road transport within the framework of the One Belt and One Road project has increased significantly More products are sent through Russia or Iran by trains and trucks. 🇾🇪 This happened after the actual closure of the Red Sea to shipping due to Houthi attacks. And… pic.twitter.com/LvkmW9d5YZ
Events are constantly putting Russia in a better position strategically.
Kyiv may be left without sufficient military assistance from both the United States and the European Union. A similar opinion was expressed by Swedish expert Bjorn Fegersten. 🇺🇦 He believes that the military potential of modern Europe may be insufficient for the supplies Ukraine…
This is an Egyptian teenager who delivers bread to Gazans through a small hole in the border wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, working harder than any Arab ruler.
When I was several months in Egypt in 1998, I used to really enjoy the flat bread fresh from local bakeries, usually bought from a hole in the wall about a foot or so wide. Still very warm, and with a unique taste not experienced anywhere else in the world. The (Egyptian) Arabic word for it is aysh, implying its importance to life.
🇷🇺 🤝 🇵🇸 Russia is sending another 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza pic.twitter.com/iZwjxXoCa2
“Labour MP Dawn Butler has vowed to report online message board Mumsnet to the Metropolitan Police after users on the site and other social media slammed her reaction to the Brianna Ghey murder trial verdict.“
[Daily Mail]
This is where we are now in the UK. Anything online that some idiot like Dawn Butler dislikes is now “reported”, either to the police or other bodies. If a prosecution under Communications Act 2003, s.127, occurs —and despite the Law Commission having recommended repeal of that as “bad law”— anything highly critical or satirical is now deemed “offensive”, and in practice as “grossly offensive” (and so unlawful).
It is a Kafka-esque farce which I saw at first-hand as defendant in such a case only last month.
The law in this area gives carte blanche to, especially, the usual malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionist whiners, such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, with the police and CPS as dupes.
Still, we must always remember that “the stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].
Dawn Butler’s actions give indication of what the likely “elected dictatorship” under Starmer may look like. Repressive.
Still, the only way at present to destabilize the mainly binary Lab/Con system is to knock out one or other main party. That will be the misnamed Conservative Party, which may be largely wiped out next year at the 2024 General Election, but the price for getting rid of the Conservative MPs will be a near-dictatorship under Starmer-Labour.
The developing “social dictatorship” trialled (in various respects) during the contrived panicdemic/scamdemic of 2020-2022.
If the authorities really wanted to address persistent (real) crime, they might start by banning anyone not on bona fide holiday, or bona fide recreational travel, from using a caravan or motorhome on the roads etc. You know what I mean…
“Britain’s rapidly shrinking military has prompted defence chiefs to shift hundreds of troops from the front line and into recruitment offices.
More than 400 soldiers from across the British Army have been ordered by top brass to join the effort to try and get more people to enlist.
It comes as figures from the Labour party revealed the Army has shrunk by more than 3,000 troops in the past 12 months, with 9,438 personnel leaving while only 6,308 joined.
Britain’s part-time reservist force is also shrinking despite recent efforts to grow it. Between October last year and September 2023, 5,580 reservists left and only 3,780 joined.
The latest recruitment statistics from the Ministry of Defence reveal the total Army strength plummeted from 79,139 to 75,983 during the same period, as recruiters failed to hire fresh new personnel to plug the gaps, leaving key roles unfilled.“
[Daily Mail]
So the first move in getting more troops on the front-line is to…take 400 soldiers out of the spearhead forces and sit them in offices?
“Lions led by donkeys“, as someone once said.
Why do we actually bother with an Army and Navy now? They seem incapable of stopping the only invasion happening, or likely to happen these days— the migration-invasion.
Empty bluster from political nonentities just makes Britain look even weaker than it is, and that is pretty weak.
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Had a bit of luck in Waitrose’s car park this morning. I found a £50 note by my car. As it’s Christmas I thought “what would Jesus do”. So I turned it into wine !! 😂.
Ha ha! I liked that. It made me laugh. It may even be true.
I’m not sure where this took place, but I’m sure this gentleman is merely putting into eloquent words what many, many people in this country are thinking – I’ll probably be shot down for reposting this – but the conversation needs answers… https://t.co/hU1DemzUU9
I think —not quite sure— that that was somewhere in Mid-Bedfordshire constituency during the 2023 by-election.
[Note: the post mentioned, about a young man talking to a by-election crowd about the migration-invasion, has been deleted for some reason].
Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
Doggerland was a mix of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys and hills, and most likely inhabited by humans during the… pic.twitter.com/RkAURmYH6X
