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Diary Blog, 13 September 2026

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[Volga tatarka in traditional dress]

On the blog 3 years ago

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After the fall of the Kiev regime, Zelensky must be brought to Russia for trial. If that should prove impossible, he should be eliminated in the field.

Our animal friends.

I examined Macron’s very peculiar background on the blog 7 years ago, in 2019: see

[“Lavrov: Ukraine no longer exists – it has abandoned all the principles for which we recognized it as a state.

“THE KYIV REGIME HAS ERASED THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS ON WHICH MOSCOW RECOGNIZED UKRAINE.”

Sergey LAVROV: “Russia will not pause its special operation during the peace process in Ukraine. If Vladimir Zelensky wants a meeting, let him come to Moscow. That is already a significant gesture of goodwill on our part. Because he has not yet canceled his decree banning negotiations.”

Russia recognized Ukraine at the time of the collapse of the USSR based on its Declaration of Independence from 1990. In that document, the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) pledged that the country would be non-nuclear, neutral, and non-aligned. The Kyiv regime is currently ignoring all three of these fundamental commitments, effectively nullifying the old agreements between the countries.“]

Ukraine has never really been a state. In its past 35 years of nominal statehood, it has always been a fake state and/or failed state. Now, it exists purely by reason of Western resupply of arms, ammunition, and money. Take those away, and it falls within a month, possibly within a week.

Israeli Jew war criminal. It would be wonderful if a missile landed on him and his evil tribe.

Britain should be cultivating better relations with Russia and, as one result, getting cheap gas and maybe also oil from Russia, as well as a huge market for British goods and services.

Stop poking the Bear…

Interesting and possibly significant.

That bastard Sikorski again. Married to the Jewish writer Anne Applebaum. A dyed-in-the-wool ZOG/NWO puppet.

I think that his character is shown in his features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rados%C5%82aw_Sikorski

Reform’s biggest and best point has nothing to do with Reform itself but with the hatred and contempt felt nationwide against LibLabCon.

Britische Freikorps.

Get the bastard up against a wall. Wall. Squad. End.

To me, that shows mainly that “Who-He?” Burnham has no very interesting ideas or policies, is seen as boring (even if less offensive than Starmer-stein) and is also seen as merely a “continuity Labour-label” and (in real political terms) unmandated Prime Minister, a Prime Minister in name only.

As to Owen Jones, the now-affluent “licensed Bolshevik” pseudo-revolutionary, I assessed him on the blog many years ago: see

Fairly interesting vlog post about North Korea (mainly Pyongyang)

A near-autarky in a fairly small country (smaller than England, one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland) is hard to implement successfully. Then of course there is the lack of personal freedom aspect.

I was struck by the depth of the Pyongyang metro system, at over 300 ft deep about 3 or 4 times, or more, the depth of most of the London Underground (the deepest London station is Hampstead, just under 200 ft deep).

Presumably, the Pyongyang metro is also meant to be a mass bomb shelter.

…and one about Japan

A different perspective than the usual.

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Not something I myself support as such but, on the other hand, such a result would weaken the grip of “the usual suspects” (((them))), and also make Britain’s membership of NATO untenable. Swings and roundabouts.

Those smaller units (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) are not really economically viable as states (once what amounts to English subsidy is withdrawn), but could nonetheless become states politically; their populations would, however, have to accept radically lower living standards forever as a result.

England would become far better off economically, especially once the population becomes fully or almost-fully European.

It is absurd to the point of ludicrousness that that uncultured, uneducated, really rather dim “chavscum” woman, with her “vapes”, tattoos etc, should be a member of a British Cabinet. I myself find it almost unbelievable, even taking into account how decadent and washed-up this country now is.

Critcizes Farage and Reform etc, yet her own party, fake “Labour”, has taken money from every kind of sleazy moneybags, not to mention having been tied up, via Mandelson, with Epstein and other criminal Jews.

Angela Rayner herself was, not very long ago, shovelling into her handbag bribe-monies for clothes, trips here and there, even entry to louche vulgar nightclubs in Ibiza.

Another idiot, someone who wants to lead (from the rear?) as the tiny army, navy, and air force of the UK take on the might —and it is still might— of Russia (and China?), Russia alone having anything up to 7,000 nuclear weapons, including some that cannot be intercepted, and which could reduce London and indeed South Shropshire (his own constituency) to a charred irradiated ruin within something like half an hour.

Anderson at least has military experience (for 9 years aged 16-25, i.e. 1992- 2001), but only at private-soldier level (apparently, he also has a diploma, more recently earned, in Defence Studies, from some institute or other).

I notice that he is a (former) alcoholic, has struggled with mental health in the past, and is a member of some cranky evangelical sect, more or less a cult: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Church.

Also noticed, that Anderson has been both a failed businessman and a bit of an expenses blodger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Anderson_(politician).

Anderson will probably not be an MP after the next general election. Last time, in 2024, his vote-share was 34.1%, the LibDem received 31%, and the Reform candidate 17.8%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shropshire_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Not entirely seriously, perhaps he should form his own volunteer regiment, with himself as colonel of that regiment, Kemi Badenoch as honorary colonel-in-chief, and a rank-and-file consisting of South Shropshire pensioners (Conservative Party voters). The cap badge could be a (charred and irradiated) golly on a stick.

Excellent. Excellent.

If both USA and EU stop funding that terrible war —and the rest of the EU would have to follow suit if Germany pulls back— then the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev will collapse for sure, and rather rapidly.

Shove Ursula von der Leyen onto her broomstick and kick her into orbit (or obit).

Devil’s alternative: if Burnham goes to the people this year, Labour will lose, probably, 100-150 MPs, maybe more, but if he waits until 2029, barring some very unlikely uptick, Labour might lose 200, or even more.

[“Look at Dan Hodges and former columnist David Aaronovitch. They want you to think that even discussing demographic change in Britain’s schools is “racist”. They are completely out of touch. Imagine going to Japan and saying the native Japanese will soon be a minority but if you talk about it you’re racist. We are allowed to discuss what is happening in our own country, in our home. And I for one will never stop speaking up for the silent majority. That might be why so many people read our newsletter. Because they want the truth. They can see much of the commentariat is a joke.”]

For me, it is, as already said, ludicrous that some uneducated, uncultured, dishonest, freeloading “chavscum” woman should even be an MP, let alone in Cabinet. Still, that’s where we are now, ruled over by absolute trash.

The woman is basically a brainless bimbo.

Similar in uselessness. A Nigerian woman who is only here because her parents deliberately had her born here so that, under the law as it was in 1981, she would later have the “right” to have a British passport.

Both Lab and Con are treacherous and pointless, as well as both being puppets of (((the usual suspects))).

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[painting by Volegov]

Diary Blog, 12 September 2026

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On the blog 3 years ago

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week I scored 7/10, thus trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who claims 3.5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4 (could not bring it to mind), 5, and 10. I admit that my correct answer to question 7 was an educated guess.

More “diversity”

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/thug-botched-london-underground-robbery-34605300

A 19-year-old who followed a man off a London Underground and violently robbed his gold necklace has been jailed. Mamadou Bah, of no fixed address, was sentenced to three years in prison at Warwick Crown Court following the incident which took place during the early hours of December 20.”

[My London]

[defendant (feral untermensch)]

The UK must be socially-cleansed.

Israeli war crimes

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/naza-directors-film-israeli-intelligence-rachel-szor-yuval-abraham-

“‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence

The film uncovers a system that is fiendishly efficient. Its series of disconnects appears designed to distance the perpetrators from the crime. Many of these men work remotely from Tel Aviv. AI selects the target and a drone drops the bomb. Even the language feels purposely euphemistic and obfuscatory. NAZA translates as collateral damage, which in turn translates to human beings.”

“Sure, it’s easier to kill people when you’re doing it on a screen,” Abraham says. “There is some truth in that, I guess. But equally it should be said that intelligence officers know the most. They listen to the cellphones. They know the house they are bombing is full of children. They can hear babies crying. They still order another strike.”

Rooftops at night are a good location, says Szor. They lend themselves to contemplation and help people speak more freely. One soldier recalls the “insane fun” of planning airstrikes. Another remembers visiting Holocaust sites as a boy and wondering how the German people could have acted as they did. “I still see the Nazis as evil,” he says. “But what does that mean I am?

[Guardian]

In reality, “the Nazis“, i.e. National Socialists, or just Germans 1933-1945 (simpletons on the msm often refer to WW2 German troops as “the Nazis“, of course), were, most of them, far from evil. Jews in particular, Israeli or otherwise, tend to have been indoctrinated since early childhood to think so, however.

What —again— struck me, reading the interview, was the realization that Tel Aviv, where the Jews (mainly Jews, also some others, non-Jew tourists etc) sit eating falafel or Danish pastries, drinking coffee outside cafes etc, and most of the time undisturbed by war or war crimes, is a mere 44 miles from the border with Gaza, where Jewish snipers deliberately kill or maim Gazan children, where the population is almost constantly bombed and shot at, and starved, and deprived of medical attention and shelter. Little more than the distance from London to Southend (42 miles), and 8 miles more than the distance from London to Reading (36 miles).

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/secret-systems-used-by-israel-in-mass-killings-of-gaza-civilians-revealed-in-new-film

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At last.

First, Sachsen-Anhalt; then the rest of Germany. After that, the rest of Europe, including the UK.

Well, who would have thought that such an event might occur…

I disagree with Hodges. While I am not a “supporter” of Reform UK (how could I be, when Reform is pro finance-capitalism, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and will not even try to create an ethnostate in the UK?), the £36M donation says to me “Reform is now politically powerful despite its flaws, and has a serious war chest.

I think that the electorate, or at least a quarter or so of it, maybe even a third, will think that the huge donation strengthens Reform, and makes Reform appear more credible.

The problem with attacking Farage and Reform over “sleaze” is that Lab and Con are riddled with sleaze themselves, and all but the most blind voters are aware of that fact.

[“All 3 cllrs in their local district council ward are Lib Dem, as is the local MP. In fact Piddington is currently represented by Lib Dems at all the main levels above the (non- party political) parish council.
The local Lib Dem cllrs voted for their area to become a ‘Council of Sanctuary’ (their motion also called for repeal of the Illegal Migration Act & Nationality and Borders Act, and stated that asylum seekers should be housed “as our neighbours.”
What did local voters expect would happen?
“]

He has a point.

The LibDems are a joke party.

In the end, only real social nationalism can save this country.

Britische Freikorps?

The same sort of virtue-signalling “well-meaning” women (and men, but especially women; I met plenty in years past) who, in the 1980s, were very anti-South Africa and pro the halfwit Mandela.

So he taught them a lesson in manners.

Ha ha! Killing with kindness…

[“Love for animals— the Fuhrer has that before all else!”]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

[“The party AfD is not only gaining popularity but is also starting to dictate the political agenda of Germany — The Economist

After achieving a record 44% of the vote in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the party has definitively solidified its position at the very center of German politics.

At the federal level, according to the report, AfD is already leading ahead of the CDU/CSU by approximately 8 percentage points.

The biggest loser is Chancellor Friedrich Merz: his approval rating has fallen to 13%, and within the CDU, there is already discussion about the possibility of his premature replacement.

Riding the wave of AfD’s success, the ruling coalition has even begun to disagree about its own package of economic reforms.

The Economist points out that the divisions among centrist parties and the constant focus of political debate on AfD continue to benefit this party.“]

The professor looking unusually animated there. For a minute, I thought that the clip was an AI hoax. Was he interviewed after a liquid lunch? He is usually worth listening to, but his points there are not exactly world-shaking.

“Who-He?” Burnham has a choice: hold an election soon, and lose 100-150 Labour MPs, or drag on for 2 or 3 years without confirming, via an election, his mandate to be Prime Minister, and then be forced to call an election which may result in the loss of 150-200 Labour MPs.

[“Third position ideologies that started up over a century ago obviously didn’t have social media platforms where ‘vibes’ and ‘ratios’ influenced people’s opinions.

Do you really think people took the likes of Mussolini and Hitler seriously from the off?

This is why we’re failing because the cattle would rather stay bound to the kosher-approved system to ‘fit in’.

Break the chains of our corrupt systems and join/support ANY anti-Zionist party or movement.“]

Quite right. As late as 1928, the NSDAP only had 2.6% of the national vote in Germany.

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Diary Blog, 7 September 2026

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[Wiens Gruss an den Führer nach der geschichtlichen Grosstat.
Als erste Stadt des Grossdeutschen Reiches war es der Haupstadt der Ostmark, Wien, beschieden, den Führer in ihren Mauern nach seiner geschichtlichen Grosstat zu sehen und ihn in einem unbeschreiblichen Begrüssungsjubel des Dankes der Ostmark zu versichern.
Unser Bild zeigt die Wagenkolonne des Führers bei der Einfahrt in die Wiener Innenstadt. Im Hintergrund links das Tegetthoff-Denkmal]

3 years ago on the blog

2 years ago on the blog

Afternoon thought

Having seen what has been happening in Dover and elsewhere, and noted the lame response both of the old System parties and the new quasi-System parties (Reform UK and Restore Britain), it strikes me that all of those parties are vainly struggling to catch up with what has been happening on the ground.

The pace is being set, not by Farage, Lowe, Jenrick etc, and certainly not by Andy “Who-He?” and multikulti Labour (nor by the ridiculous Nigerian woman and her pseudo-Conservative idiots).

The pace is being set by what might be called the militia (albeit an unarmed militia).

A very good birthday present for me (I turned 70 last week).

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So much for “we shall fight them on the beaches“… This invasion is far worse than any National Socialist German one would have been, 86 years ago, had it ever happened (it was in fact never more than a contingency plan), and imports backward hordes from the worst parts of the world.

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[Girls of the Bund Deutscher Madel ride through a German forest in the 1930s]

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[The “pinned tweet” on my one-time Twitter account, posted over a decade ago. A pack of malicious Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018. At the time of my expulsion, I had over 3,000 followers, and was myself following only about 50 accounts, mostly official or institutional]

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Things are getting to the stage where more and more people are waking up to the slide of this country into a dystopian multikulti hell. Those awakening are becoming aware that merely voting a quasi-System Farage or even Lowe into “power” (political prominence, Westminster Bubble nonsense, but not real power) will not save them, because the System is a rigged system.

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Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

People such as Andy “Who-He?”, Starmer-stein, “Boris”-idiot and the rest are just the monkeys who are there to entertain or distract the public; they are not the organ-grinders.

[“We want peaceful relations with all peoples of the world, but above all with Russia,” said Kristina Baum, a politician from the AfD, the winning party in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, explaining why German voters voted for the party.

People just want change… they want peace with Russia, not war...

Voters of the party echoed her sentiments:

“Germany is ruled by idiots. Complete idiots who are incapable of clear thinking and can only promote war,” said a man who came to support the AfD, stating that, in his opinion, the German authorities launched drones at the airport in Leipzig to blame Russia.

Having received 44% of the votes, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) now has the right to form a government in Saxony-Anhalt.“]

The Jew Zelensky will eventually (if not either killed or captured) retire to enjoy his stolen billions in either Israel or Florida.

The land of freedom…

Like Reform itself, and all the “approved” political parties, Goodwin is not keeping pace with feeling on the ground. Imagine what 2036 or even 2029 might be like…

As is the entire political system…

“Ukraine”, as presently set up, is not really a state at all, though it has managed to pose as one for 35 years.

Meanwhile, the clique of the Jew Zelensky continues to steal billions of dollars.

[“The co-chairman of the “Alternative for Germany” party, Tino Chrupalla, has criticized the volume of financial and military aid that Germany is providing to Ukraine.

He stated that over the past 4 years, Germany has provided Kyiv with more than 100 billion euros in the form of weapons and financial assistance, as well as an additional 50 billion euros through the European Union. The politician also criticized Germany’s energy and migration policies.

“We need a chancellor who finally chooses the diplomatic path towards Moscow. That’s what Germany needs – a chancellor!”

“It’s horrifying to imagine how much money has been thrown away in Ukraine. With that money, we could have done so much good for ourselves and our country. However, the government has chosen a different path. They have decided to spend all our taxes in another country, which increases the risk of war for us and our country. They are choosing the path of war, which none of us can survive. We don’t need this government!“]

I saw a tweet from some German scribbler (ex-Bild) saying that the AfD should not have been “allowed” to stand candidates in elections such as the recent Sachsen-Anhalt ones. That is System “democracy” in Germany. A facade.

Bealtaine Cottage— latest vlog post

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Diary Blog, 6 September 2026

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On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Talking point

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So which group or “community” has always promoted “diversity” (in reality, the invasion of Sweden and much of the rest of Europe, including the UK, by non-Europeans)?

That’s right— “them” (((them)))

See, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lerner_Spectre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Schueftan

Every. Single. Time.

Inside Tehran” (travel vlog)

Interesting. Once again, those travel vloggers show different, and unexpected, aspects to life in Iran.

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[“A paramilitary-style group descends on Dover to protect Britain’s borders. They’re doing what the government should be doing, and this will greatly worry the government.

The most basic mandate of government is to protect the population.

Our government only protects itself. Parliament gets security and barriers to stop Islamists. British people get Islamists dumped in their neighbourhoods, with no barriers or guards around their schools and homes.

Our government, the civil service, the BBC, our entire state apparatus – THE BLOB – has been taken over by leftists. They have no interest in protecting the population. They would rather replace it with one that will help “abolish whiteness”, destroy capitalism, break down the nation state and support communism.

The establishment doesn’t fear the political right. It can be subsumed into the blob, as the Conservatives were, and left indistinguishable from Labour.

Any changes a political party wants to make to the country will have to be enacted by the Blob, which will refuse to do it. Remember when Rishi tried to implement the Rwanda plan?

Any insurgent political party can be hobbled with smears and investigations (look at Reform right now).

And the blobs’ foot soldiers will commit political assassinations (Ann Widdecombe) pour encourager les autres.

Not that they need to. The UK’s political right bicker themselves into oblivion.

So, many Brits will be relieved to see organised nationalist groups take undeniable concrete action on the ground. I’m sure that these men will be hunted by the state, and legacy media will smear them as horrible bigots. But numbers such as this, organised like this, can’t be ignored.

After the riots in Ballymena and Dublin (and their success in achieving their aims), I warned that the government was creating a blueprint for British nationalists to follow and paramilitary groups would spring up on the mainland. Here we are.

This is a turning point for Britain.“]

[“Say whatever you want, you are wrong!
Well done to those at the protest. Government does not listen to the people, they do whatever they are pleased, therefore it’s all caused by the politicians actions. It looks like people decided to do the same – whatver they want. Then subsequently do not be surprised what will coming upon the whole UK! I am afraid to say, but very likely we are about to witness more and more unannounced uprisings, protest or even worse if the political elite doesn’t wake up and act of its citizens interest!
“]

Tice once again revealing the fact that he and Reform are, in themselves, little more than “controlled opposition” (though they have their uses). Then add to that the fact that Tice and Farage (especially Tice) are pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby, and it’s “Goodnight Vienna”…

That silly little guy looks pitiful not only compared to Hitler but also even when compared to, say, Adenauer, Kiesinger, Brandt, Kohl etc.

Talking point

The distinction between Soros’s left Zionism and Kushner’s unapologetic Zionism obscures their shared purpose—to maintain Jewish control over Western institutions, whether through demographic replacement or economic subjugation, under the guise of liberal democracy. Soros’ role is to ensure that the left-liberal side of the lane is not only advancing the Jewish racial strategy of demographically replacing individuals of European extraction but it is also in kosher hands and never mounts any credible resistance to the Jewish supremacist power structure firmly ensconced in the West.”

[José Alberto Niño, on Substack; https://substack.com/@eternalhorus]

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Talking point

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The MOSSAD defector (and, later, well-known artist), Victor Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky], noted in his book By Way of Deception [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Way_of_Deception], or his second book, The Other Side of Deception [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Deception] (I cannot recall which, having read both in the early/mid 1990s) that MOSSAD analysts had come to the conclusion that the Kennedy assassination (obviously, not instigated by MOSSAD…) had not been aimed at President Kennedy at all, but at John Connally, the Governor of Texas, who was riding in the same car [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connally#Kennedy_assassination].

A convenient explanation, one might think. Who knows?

Unarguable, surely?

Fine, but what about superficially lawful immigration, which is about 95% of the whole?

His unspoken thought— “oy! I might not be able to go to family dinners any more!…

Stray thought

I wish that the brainless, meaningless description “national treasure”, as applied to theatricals and others, would be binned, whether applied to horrible Maureen Lipman, to Emma Thompson, to Stephen Fry, or any of the other usual suspects.

Stonehenge, the paintings of Constable and Turner, Dr. Dee’s Magic Mirror etc…i.e. the real “national treasures”— are all OK.

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[seen on Twitter/X]

If the treacherous “British” (NWO/ZOG) governments were to stop “poking the Bear” by, inter alia, supplying arms, ammunition, and hard cash to the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev, there would be no “Russian threat” to the UK.

Diary Blog, 4 September 2026

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[David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

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So it begins…

[“The New York Times: The U.S. Navy is facing a logistical nightmare in the region.

The attacks by Iran have effectively disrupted the U.S. Navy’s logistical network in the region.

U.S. military ships require vast amounts of food and fuel to continue operations. The fleet stationed in the region needs food to prepare over 420,000 meals each week, and approximately 8 million gallons of fuel.

The Iranian attacks have also taken out one of the U.S. Navy’s key logistical bases in Bahrain. At the same time, the threat of missiles and drones has made access to some other ports and regional bases difficult or impossible.“]

Good grief.

[“Ann Widdecombe schools a roomful of woke students on the importance of free speech.

“Only two sorts of people oppose free speech… snowflakes and totalitarians.”

“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings.”

“It is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can’t take it, become a hermit.”

“No matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it.”

“You succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away. You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said.”

“You may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear, but tomorrow somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say.”

“Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few.”

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING“]

Unlike Ann Widdecombe, Toby Young and his Free Speech Union (etc) are fakes. They pretend to favour free speech, but support the liars and perjurers of the Jewish/Israel lobby, particularly the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

In fact, the biggest enemy of free speech in the UK, by far, is the Jewish/Israel lobby (and the “CAA” in particular).

See also:

Deutschland erwache!

The AfD is, of course, not social-national, but is a stepping-stone on the way.

Historical film

https://altcensored.com/watch?v=WaQUG2KOtMg

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What age a person has to be to do this or that is a matter for discussion, hopefully evidence-based.

The age at which a person can drive a car varies from 14 (supervised) in some states of the USA (I think mainly in the South) and 15 (full licence) in some countries (eg El Salvador), to as high as 23 (in Niger), with the majority of countries deciding on 18. It is 17 in the UK.

The age at which someone can buy an alcoholic drink legally also varies, from no age set at all (in a few countries, mostly African), through 16, 17, or 18 (18 being standard) and on to 21, or even 25 (in one or two countries) and of course, in strictly Islamic societies, total prohibition. In the UK, the age at which someone can buy a drink alone is set at 18, but it is 16 if only wine, beer, cider, perry etc is bought, and if that is both with an adult and as part of a purchase of food.

To intrude a personal note, I recall that, as a child of perhaps 9, and at which time (about 1965) children were not even allowed into pubs, I would sit outside country inns at trestle tables, drinking (weak) lemonade-and-bitter beer shandy bought by my father…I also regularly put on bets in the UK in the early 1970s when I was aged 14+, both at point-to-points and at racecourses (usually Ascot, Windsor, and Newbury; also, occasionally, Cheltenham).

The age of consent to sex varies even more, from (dependent on various conditions) 11 (Nigeria), 12 (Angola, Philippines, Canada, Hungary), 13 (Japan, South Korea, Italy, a number of American —USA— states), 14 (Israel), to the —by far the most common— age of 18, and up to 21 in a few American — USA— states, though I imagine that that latter is honoured more in the breach than the observance (the UK has the relevant age at 16 in most cases).

As to voting in elections, most countries now put the age rubric at 18, the UK having been the first to lower the age from 18 (in 1969; first in actual use in 1970).

I think that there is a valid argument to make the voting age 28, but I doubt that many people will agree with me.

As noted previously on the blog, that Weale character (a supposed Conservative supporter), is hopelessly out of touch, and apparently would rather make millions of sick and disabled people suffer and live in poverty rather than restrict funding for his beloved armed forces (he was a regular officer in the Intelligence Corps for 7 years, until 1992, and was later deployed overseas as a Reserves officer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Weale).

If the suspension of training only applies to “non-essential” exercises, one has to wonder why money was wasted on them in the first place.

Go fight Russia on your own (or, as at present, only online…).

Britain should be cultivating better relations with Russia, leaving NATO, certainly not giving arms, ammunition and money to the thug-regime in Kiev, and so acquiring for the British people not only cheap gas and oil from Russia but also a vast market for British goods and services in Russia and the other Russophone countries.

If the Army, Navy, and Air Force were of any real use today, they would be deployed to stop the only real invasion that is happening, or is likely to happen— the migration invasion.

Bravo!

When I was living in Almaty (1996-1997), it had no metro. A Soviet project of the 1980s, it had been abandoned after the Soviet Union fell apart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty_Metro.

Looks quite impressive, and I see that there is a station, called Abay (named after a classical-era Kazakh poet), not too far (just about walking distance) from where I once lived on Prospekt Lenina (now called “Dostyk”, meaning “Friendship” in Kazakh); my building was near the junction with Shevchenko Street:

As for safety, well… I only once had a potentially serious problem (I was able to deal with it), but an American living across the street from me (I did not know him, though) was tortured and murdered in his apartment (the supposed killers were arrested the following day), and when an odd character gave a brief talk on “personal security” at the British Embassy to a small audience of expats, including me, he said that, while all the expats (there were only a few dozen Brits living in the city at the time) assured him how safe the city was, he himself had attended a nightclub or bar the first evening after having arrived from London and, upon exiting, had tripped over a dead body…

I could have told him that I myself always kept a low profile, as far as possible, when living in a foreign city, and always avoided all nightclubs, casinos etc, and most if not all bars unless meeting people known to me. That way, I do not have to trip over dead bodies or, indeed, become one.

I hate noisy nightclubs and bars anyway, and tend to distrust most casinos outside Europe. Also, such places attract criminal elements (and police/security snoopers).

That British Embassy character, who was supposedly a security expert with a background in British military intelligence and security, looked just like one of the German characters, “von Smallhausen”, from the TV comedy series ‘Allo ‘Allo! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!]— short, and wearing both black leather coat and black leather hat!

[John Louis Mansi as von Smallhausen in ‘Allo, ‘Allo!; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Louis_Mansi]

Late tweets seen

Late music

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