🇷🇺🇺🇦Our artillery is dismantling the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Artemovsk. The Ukrainian side continues to receive reports of heavy losses from overwhelming artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/MMuXUwvQWc
⚡️The Pentagon will provide the American firm Raytheon Technologies with a $1.2 billion contract for six advanced NASAMS air defense missile systems that will be delivered to Ukraine.
I highly recommend that you invest 1 hour to understand where the US proxy war in Ukraine is heading. Prof. John Mearsheimer explains what the likely outcome is: Escalation upon escalation until nuclear war. The west is playing Russian roulette in Ukraine. https://t.co/rDgf7qFPzC
That must be right. The USA is supplying the Jewish-Zionist Kiev regime with missiles, the UK is supplying tanks and other advanced armour. Training too. At what point does Russia, or the leadership of Russia, say “****-it!” and start to press buttons?
Ursula von der Leyen: "Russia and its oligarchs have to compensate Ukraine for the damage and cover the costs for rebuilding the country."
Who's covering the costs of rebuilding Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc?https://t.co/nF7T8oAse4
Why you got a Ukraine flag up there next to your name? You think sending billions of taxpayer dollars to keep a proxy war alive isn’t somehow supporting weapons and killing? Get your priorities straight and come back and see us.
Albanians make up the largest foreign national group in UK jails, with more than 1,500 behind bars in England and Wales making up around 10 per cent of total inmates from overseas.https://t.co/EjayKyejpS
— Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) November 29, 2022
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Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen. Available free at all good food banks.
I'm thinking we need to retire the word "grifter" and just go straight to synonymous word "scammer". There's something about grifter that doesn't sit right, a bit of "charming, harmless, victimless rogue nudge nudge". Whereas scammer hits the spot. E.g. "Jack Monroe is a scammer"
No. Don’t do this. This is exactly how they get away with it. Pretending that they were just ‘trying to be edgy’. As if they didn’t really know what the symbolism meant. These people aren’t simply interested in the concept of dystopia, they’re building it and taking us all there. https://t.co/UQzpc0AnXy
I wrote this about the closure of the Wellcome exhibit and the extraordinary power of small groups of intolerant people with unpopular views to make things worse for everyone elsehttps://t.co/7grK6Z9MHW
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future. My article in today’s Daily Mail about the incessant correction of museums:, pic.twitter.com/RVlbDYznfT
Is the ground shifting at last? Is the battle to free Julian Assange becoming respectable? Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of Julian Assange https://t.co/A0crFQSvXt
Peter Hitchens, 2008'de #NATO tarafından şiddetlenen Rusya'nın karıştığı savaşla ilgili sağlam bir tahminle.
Eğer o bunun böyle olduğunu açıkça gördüyse, o zaman diğer tüm dünya liderleri de görebilirdi; hiçbir şey yapmadılar. Bu, bunun olmasını istediklerini gösteriyor. pic.twitter.com/QeV8FE70Eb
Think about that if you shiver in an unheated home, or if your lights go out, this winter (and whether because the supply has been cut off or because you cannot afford the bills).
Jeremy Vine is a typical UK msm (in his case, both BBC and other) drone. There are hundreds of them. They get paid very large amounts for really not very much, and are part of a whole corpus whose tendency is to run down anything white, European and positive in the UK and the wider world.
And yet the fat piss stained drunkard who greatly helped acheive that is called "The Greatest Briton"…even though his slapper of a mother was American
Well, another victory this week over political journalist John Rentoul: I scored 8/10, beating his 6/10. I admit that a couple were lucky guesses, notably the answer to question 6.
I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9, the latter particularly galling because my blog post about the following by-election has proven very popular with readers. I could picture the errant MP, knew which constituency he represented, and almost got the name, but not quite.
So you believe the actual grifter JM over this account who has collated her tweets to prove she’s a liar? One of my close friends knows JM, JM has never lived in poverty in her life… she started off slightly bending the truth to just complete outright lies
The last tweet is close to my opinion, having observed, but not closely, the “Bootstrap Cook” phenomenon over the past decade. I think —obviously my own opinion— that “Jack Monroe” was at least basically sincere before she realized that there was real money to be made “in them thar hills“. Since then, her claims have become less plausible, and in some cases extraordinary. To what extent her admitted heavy drinking (she now claims to have become a non-drinker) and alleged drug-taking played a part must be a subject for conjecture.
@bookshop_org_UK @TrussellTrust This is misleading – what you mean is you’ve teamed up to sell a book at £8.99 more than it’s priced on Amazon so that “The Public” can donate a copy to foodbanks.
Jack Monroe will retain her royalties and sell twice as many copies. https://t.co/xKiwtf0QoO
There are still many people around who continue to take “Jack Monroe” at face value. As of today, there are still 667 mugs paying money to her for absolutely nothing in return (it is alleged), via the Patreon website. Between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month. Do the maths, as people say.
Its actually quite astonishing that Jack Monroe pled poverty by saying she gave her work away for 7 years when she sells books. The whole narrative is completely Alice in Wonderland stuff. She says something and the absolute opposite is true.
German universities offered over 1,800 courses entirely in English this year.
For foreign students, Germany is an attractive place to study due to low or no tuition fees and average monthly living costs of under €900. pic.twitter.com/hiTala4CHe
OK, but one has to ask what Germany gets out of this. Not even cultural influence, if the courses are being taught in English, though that is, I concede, arguable.
Also, if the students are black or brown, i.e. from less-developed parts of the world, they may eventually decide to find some way to stay on, such as marrying German women and so further diluting the gene-pool. Ah…maybe that is why the System in Germany is promoting this— it must be part of the working out of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
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Love it when real life people confirm everything about what's been uncovered about Jack Monroe & her bullshit backstory 👍👍 https://t.co/D7MNwQ1PD4
It seems to me that, probably, the “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” career as a mass media sort-of “celebrity” is at or near its finish, though this country is now so screwed that one can never be sure.
Having said that, the 667 mugs on Patreon show no sign of ceasing to subsidize her lifestyle, so she is still getting between £2,334.50 and £29,348 each and every month from that source alone, in cash, and possibly/probably taxfree.
I find it quite likely that “Bootstrap Cook” will carry on at a lower-profile level, in the pseudo-socialist, affluent semi-“celebrity” niche, along with numerous others, such as Owen Jones, Billy Bragg, and the like.
Nearly £29m was transferred to Keristal Trust, whose beneficiaries were Mone and her children. More than £700,000 was also transferred to the account of Mone’s eldest daughter Rebecca and £3m to an account Mone had with @CouttsandCo.https://t.co/7GLd0FJyRm
I have no idea whether any of the “pedo” aspect is true, but I have just noticed that “@DaveAFAF”, a pseudonymous Twitter account which has been pointlessly trolling me for almost a decade (under that name and also under its former name of “@slatfascists”), seems to have suddenly disappeared. If gone for good, good riddance. That tweeter is mentally-unstable, and particularly so when it forgets to take its prescribed medication (as it once admitted on Twitter).
Several of those mentioned in the 2019 blog post above are now suffering more seriously, and from not only mental but also physical ailments; some are even living out their last days. When will they learn?
I have already blogged to the effect that many of the recipes of “Jack Monroe”, as photographed and then published on Twitter, make me feel unwell just looking at them.
Jack Monroe is now in a position where she can't promote thrifty kitchen on her own twitter due to the backlash she would get and she's caused all of this herself.
Fucking hell. This is the worst cooking show ever. Why did Jack Monroe humiliate herself by going on live TV pretending to be a chef? https://t.co/AJJVQbuuxI
I have just watched that clip, which was broadcast about two years ago. Not something I would normally waste time watching. Strange idea of a show about cuisine, though— a presenter chef (?) who is cooking strips of fish coated in crushed cornflakes, another (I presume genuine) chef but who had apparently lost his sense(s) of taste and smell; then, as a final bad joke, “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook”, who seems to be unable to contribute anything at all (from the brief clip shown, about 10 mins in all) to the discussion.
I wonder how much that kind of nonsense pays? I mean to the guests. At a guess, maybe £500 or so. Maybe even £1,000. If so, “a nice little earner” to add to the rest.
Having said that, I have seen people online claiming that most guests on Saturday Kitchen and similar shows do not get paid at all but do it for the publicity, which makes sense. After all, if the TV people were offering even £500 for a short appearance, presumably they could get better, more interesting, guests. From the point of view of the guests, too, it makes sense, if some viewers thereby are persuaded that you are a person worth reading online and/or donating money to…
She is apparently talking about the Government. She does not want to “hand over the details of 1000s of vulnerable people, explicit info about their benefit claims...[etc]” to the Government which…has all that information anyway (on DWP and/or HMRC computer —and other— files). In other words, she is once again talking nonsense.
I have come to the conclusion that “Jack Monroe” is not a very nice person…(except that she may or may not be an animal-lover; if she is, then good, as far as that goes).
By the way, though I am not a dentist, I am told by someone who saw the Saturday Kitchen clip that “Jack Monroe” has at least 6 “very expensive” dental implants. Maybe £15,000. Why she has them (assuming that the opinion I heard is accurate), I have no idea. Eating mineral and/or vitamin-deficient food? Or is there, er, another explanation?
I should be blogging about larger issues, but I could not ignore what seems to have been sheer brazen “taking-advantage” of people, including very vulnerable people.
For me, the point is not so much that “Jack Monroe” has constructed what Soviet Intelligence used to call a “legend”, i.e. an embellished or untrue “backstory”, or whether she ever was really “poor”, but the fact that she is taking somewhere between £2,300 a month and as much as, at max, £30,000 a month from people via Patreon, has plainly not supplied the goods and services offered (at least to most donors) and, equally plainly (even after 4 months of public criticism), has no intention whatever of refunding those donors, many of whom seem to have been genuinely poor (unlike “Jack Monroe”, who might have been described, arguably, as “poor” for a few months, maybe a year, years ago).
I might add that I myself have seen, over the past two months, when I have been looking, not even one tweet saying that that tweeter had donated to “Jack Monroe” via Patreon and then received whatever was promised for that level of financial support, and/or was happy with it.
I and 800 other people signed up to Jack Monroe's Patreon, got none of the promised rewards then were blocked and abused on Twitter for asking for refunds. I'l send an email.
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) November 25, 2022
“Happy Holidays” was invented by Jewish retailers in New York City, who did not want to have to recognize Christmas. They justified “Happy Holidays” by lumping Christmas in with the Jewish festival of Hanukkah [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah], which is a Jewish-supermacist festival, totally different in ethos to Christmas (read the Wikipedia article above), and then adding to that the ludicrous and contrived “African-American” festival of “Kwanza” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa] invented in 1966 by a half-caste criminal who now calls himself “Maulana Karenga” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga].
There it is. An ethnic and political revolt, leading to a military victory. Totally different, in fact arguably the polar opposite, to Christmas, with the latter’s message of peace on Earth.
1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 13: Russian forces continue to concentrate around Kyiv. Substantial foreign / mercenary forces have been brought in to bolster Russian forces. Ukrainian attacks on Russian supply routes remain effective. #UkraineRussianWar#UkraineWar#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/Oxoz4rUhho
Please God tell me this Evil is not true 🙏🙏👇👇👇👇Proposed law in Maryland would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 28 days AFTER birth https://t.co/wB6RVXjNqd
I recently blogged about my trip to Porton Down in 1994 or 1995 with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to London, Mr. Komissarenko, a trained biochemist, who later headed a laboratory institute in Ukraine.
Nicola Sturgeon, the fake “nationalist”, and would-be dictator, who pretends to be a sort-of “prime minister” of a sort-of almost-independent country.
Oh please 🤦 He didn't walk 750 miles. It's been less than two weeks since this started. That'd be 70 miles a day pic.twitter.com/MKnRpMqYqg
— Tess Summers 🏴🇮🇪 (@tesssummers98) March 9, 2022
They might at least keep their emotional propaganda a little bit plausible…
Trees should not be cut down, they should be incorporated into the building design. This tree is over 300 years old. Turkey 🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/GCoHa8JDrS
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) March 9, 2022
If only the “virus” propaganda were true, and all those MPs suddenly died from lack of facemask nonsense and “social distancing” nonsense. Fantasy politics?
🔺 Update: The United States has rejected Poland’s surprise announcement that it would hand over its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to President Zelensky’s government https://t.co/C7fElc1WJW
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) March 9, 2022
The U.S. Government has blinked…
Thank God for that.
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Here are the latest developments in Russia's war in #Ukraine️ ▶️ Moscow and Kyiv agree a 12-hour ceasefire ▶️ US bans Russian oil, rejects jet offer ▶️ EU targets oligarchs, cryptocurrencieshttps://t.co/c7xQUkMupGpic.twitter.com/HVkfYR9N5O
#UPDATE The Kremlin says a Polish offer to deliver Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine via a US airbase could lead to a "dangerous scenario", as Russian troops continued their advance into Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9QTEQhvXLX
Certainly no-one is suggesting that the UK declare war on Israel. Oh…wait a minute, though…
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If, staggering through the post-nuclear #holocaust rubble, you happen to meet #BenWallace, I hope you'll know exactly what to do. "Keep Britain out of other people's wars". Take a look at #Threads on YouTube.https://t.co/H8duPqq8OP
In a way, though, it is rather funny… this silly woman, and would-be dictator, pretending to be some kind of world leader, when in fact her opinion counts for precisely nothing internationally. She heads what is little more than a glorified multi-county council.
Apparently, some orchestras, including one in Cardiff, are now refusing to play Russian music, even that of Tchaikovsky, who died long before Putin was around, and long before the establishment of Soviet power.
I am, therefore, playing some Tchaikovsky tonight.
Ian Robert Millard 