“Multiple casualties have been reported after Ukrainian officials alleged that a group of bat and pipe-wielding civilians attacked a draft officer.
Officials said the incident took place at 2pm local time in the small village of Buzke in Mykolaiv Oblast.
They said that the civilians, who have not yet been identified, were ‘armed with bats and metal pipes’ and ‘damaged a vehicle and inflicted bodily injuries on a soldier.
Cops are now investigating the incident, and warned dissidents that insulting the ‘honour and dignity’ of soldiers, as well as threatening violence against them, was punishable by up to five years in prison.
It added that bringing harm to soldiers could result in up to 12 years imprisonment.
From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky faced an uphill battle with his countrymen, who resisted the enforced conscription into the country’s military.
Just two days ago protesters in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia broke into a stadium where roughly 100 men were being held by military enlistment officers.
Cops arrested several demonstrators.“
[Daily Mail]
“Recruitment” (by press-gang) into the Kiev-regime army is a death sentence. They are losing a thousand or more per day on the front-line. Naturally, people try to avoid or evade.
Incidentally, “Mikolaiv” is the Ukrainian version of the original Russian name, Nikolayev. The name is from St. Nicholas.
“As of 2017, 63% of the population spoke Russian at home, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.[50]
According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April-May 2023, 30% of the city’s population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 61% spoke Russian.[52]“
[aerial view of Nikolayev/”Mikolaiv” before hostilities broke out]
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Russian forces have taken control of the highway connecting the cities of Konstantinovka and Krasnoarmeisk, Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said:https://t.co/gKvOS1jtYMpic.twitter.com/CJVPk3eczv
Every American should watch this clip which shows what Israeli soldiers did to a church in Lebanon following their recent incursion to the territory.
This isn’t about routing out terrorists, this is about destroying the foundations of village life for the civilian population.… pic.twitter.com/jxoLRQ0hiG
[“You know Ange, I’ll be a bit concerned how life will be for you and all Labour MP’s once you’re out of office. I would envisage a rather bumpy road considering you’re a major player in the destruction of this once beautiful land.“]
I like almost all the responses on Twitter/X to thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner and her ostensible espousal of some of the worst untermenschen in this country. I especially like that last tweeter’s response.
Angela Rayner gives the green light for local councils to sell off allotments.
The Labour government are misanthropic, vindictive, petty and suck the joy out people’s lives whilst being hell-bent on destroying green spaces and the countryside. pic.twitter.com/x4nP6i7JgC
I wonder whether any lone hero… well, let’s leave it there.
Destruction of Britain’s allotments is more than just a retrograde step, it is state-instigated vandalism and violence against something beautiful and worthwhile, and against a cherished part of our history.
We often see, mostly online, statements such as “the System parties, especially Labour, are traitors” etc. Hyperbole, maybe, but when you look at what this government is doing, treason really is the only word that fits, alongside evil, treacherous, enemies, criminals and the like.
The Angela Rayner type think that they can do anything to trash our country, and that they will get away with it, and then make personal money or career opportunities out of it etc.
First, Farage, Reform UK etc. Then, after that, real social nationalism.
"On Saturday evening, the country learned that a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire —a 12-year-old girl—was “allegedly” kidnapped and raped by two asylum-seekers, named Ahmad Mulakhil and Mohammad Kabir, staying in taxpayer-funded homes."https://t.co/Ec3VFsW6TN
"On Saturday evening, the country learned that a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire —a 12-year-old girl—was “allegedly” kidnapped and raped by two asylum-seekers, named Ahmad Mulakhil and Mohammad Kabir, staying in taxpayer-funded homes."https://t.co/Ec3VFsW6TN
Total infiltration": Russia changes the situation on the front, Pokrovsk in danger – Syrsky
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrsky, after visiting the front, reported that the "most difficult situation" is currently in the directions of… pic.twitter.com/SoCq7lvGJ5
EU losses from termination of energy cooperation and trade with Russia exceed 1 trillion euros, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said:https://t.co/9q5HCEOXQVpic.twitter.com/lCvPKTia96
Why would Putin take anything the West say seriously? The West has only been lying to buy time (Merkel admitted) and wanted to solve it on the battleground.
Brazil has become the first country in the world to abandon the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Blaming financial and legal constraints, Brazil’s Government is reportedly withdrawing from the organisation in a move that is really more about sending a signal about… pic.twitter.com/lhhLoGKAYD
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) August 4, 2025
[“Brazil has become the first country in the world to abandon the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Blaming financial and legal constraints, Brazil’s Government is reportedly withdrawing from the organisation in a move that is really more about sending a signal about where the current Government stands on Jews and the Jewish state. The move will undoubtedly be welcomed by antisemites the world over.“]
For once, that pack of malicious, perjuring Jew-Zionists, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London (though several are paid) is in agreement with me. I do indeed welcome the Brazilian announcement.
In fact, the so-called “international definition” is not legally binding, and has only been adopted by about a fifth, if that, of the states in the world.
Well done, Brazil. May many others follow in your footsteps.
Bravo!
Old or new Israeli's won't change the fact they all are citizens of a state that was build on Palestinian blood. The world is waking up, in 10 or 20 years or less my family will be able to go back in claim their in land in West Jerusalem. It's not just the goverment its the…
[“Old or new Israeli’s won’t change the fact they all are citizens of a state that was build on Palestinian blood. The world is waking up, in 10 or 20 years or less my family will be able to go back in claim their in land in West Jerusalem. It’s not just the government its the society, it’s not just the people in that region that see’s the truth, the world now is starting to wake up. Everything in the west that was thought to the people for over a 100 years was a lie and now people are finding out the truth about history.”]
The video is remarkable. On the one hand, and on the video, the chiefs or former chiefs of major Israeli security and intelligence organizations. On the other hand, Netanyahu, his Cabinet of lunatics and/or zealots, a minority (probably) of the Israeli civilians, and those outside Israel who are pushing for even more bloodshed, destruction, starvation, sadistic treatment of Palestinian Arabs, and genocide.
Who are those outside Israel who are pushing for the war to continue? Major Jew-Zionist orgs in the USA, UK etc (such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” in the UK), and connected small groups of individuals here and there. Ugly, dead-eyed Jew-Zionists in places such as Brighton, North London, and New York, as well as wealthy and fanatical Jewish business types with American, British, French and other politicians in their pocket.
As noted in the video, the power not represented clearly is the Israeli Army or IDF. This is the foremost power in Israel, not least because it permeates the society: most Israelis are compelled to serve in it for a while and are also liable for reserve service later. So far, the Israeli Army has not refused to continue the war.
Only pro-immigration zealots like Jon Portes, Rob Ford and Zoe Gardner deny the empirical reality now staring everybody in the face
Translation: Labour will approve the vast majority of asylum-seeker claims while hiding the people they move out of the asylum hotels in private housing and welfare.
Exactly as I have been predicting for 2+ years on the blog. Labour will secretly approve most asylum claims, secretly move the migrant-invaders from hotels to social or other housing (pushing aside British people) , and approve from outside the UK in France etc most new claims, then be able to claim that Labour has “solved” the problem, or the main problem, while in fact making it even worse. Millions more yet of non-whites flooding in. Oh, and of course a tiny number of migrant-runners will be arrested, imprisoned etc, thus allowing Starmer-stein, Angela Rayner, and Yvette Cooper to claim that they have “smashed the gangs”, surely one of the least honest “policies” (slogans) ever pushed by any UK government.
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Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the Labour government are pushing the United Kingdom into civil unrest
They are pushing us into a dark and dangerous place where the social contract between the people and the politicians who are supposed to represent them, and keep…
The UK's secret services are planning to enlist NATO allies in a large-scale operation targeting the "shadow fleet," which could lead to an environmental disaster in international waters, the press bureau of the SVR said in a statement obtained by TASS:https://t.co/wzg8f4wvQepic.twitter.com/rDIj42PwtM
If this is happening now, in 2025, imagine the huge wave of discontent that will be around in 2029. Reform UK will probably benefit, but my feeling is that many by then will want to take direct action against “the overall situation”, including against MPs of the main System parties. We shall see.
NATO RQ-4D Phoenix — a modern ISR unmanned aerial vehicle designed to collect intelligence on Russia (in the interests of Ukraine), as well as on Syria and Lebanon (in the interests of Israel). pic.twitter.com/kIxGTkWn5N
I have only ever met one person who has been to Vorkuta, and his was an involuntary visit that lasted for many years; a Pole sent there as a young man, I think in or about 1940, along with many others. I believe that he somehow survived a decade there, and was eventually repatriated to his family in Bielsko-Biala, south-west Poland. Maybe about 65 when I met him and his family in 1988, he was a bit of a tough guy, and he must indeed have been tough, in more youthful days, to survive for 10 years as a prisoner and slave-labourer in Vorkuta.
Looking at that film (above), I am again struck by the harshness and brutality that humans can inflict on each other, but also by the incredible resilience and ability to create that humans have.
Vorkuta, like other cities in inhospitable areas and harsh climates (Magadan, Norilsk etc) which were wholly a product of the Stalinist period of the Soviet system (Vorkuta did not exist even as a hamlet until the 1930s), had at one time (1960s, 1970s, 1980s) a real city life, with a railway station, buses, an airport, a city theatre, hospitals, cinemas, sports centres, even a symphony orchestra; also, some fairly impressive-looking official buildings.
[Mining College, Vorkuta, northern Russia, built in the late 1940s or early 1950s); date of photo uncertain, possibly 1990s]
[street in central Vorkuta (date uncertain: possibly 1980s, possibly 1990s)]
[Vorkuta: the now-seemingly-abandoned and ruined Palace of Culture at Severny, an offshoot of Vorkuta. A local arts and culture centre, complete with dilapidated statue of Lenin in front; building probably dating from the 1950s, but photograph dating from 2020]
Vorkuta had, at one time, 115,000 inhabitants. The real population is now thought to be well below 50,000, perhaps as low as 30,000.
My point is that civilization is not a simple continuum. Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg etc have described human evolution as a staggered spiral. There can be breaks in the spiral. Civilizations or cultures arise, but also decay and disappear. Amazing places can be created and built out of “nothing”, but those same places can fall to pieces and disappear even from memory and/or from recorded history.
The beautiful city of St. Petersburg was created from swamp and forest by the vision, in origo, of one man, Peter the Great, and still exists, now with millions of inhabitants (it is commonly said to be the 4th or even 3rd-largest city in Europe, depending on whether Istanbul is accepted as European). On the other hand, famous Sparta left almost nothing behind it but memories become history. Troy was, for many centuries until its site was rediscovered in the 19thC, thought to be not even legendary but mythical. New York City was created from “nothing”, from the 17thC onward, and still exists, yet the huge cities which once existed in Mexico and Central America and elsewhere have either disappeared or been supplanted (as at Mexico City) by very different successors.
Vorkuta was built on brutality and suffering, but then so was Petersburg…
The world, particularly Europe but also the Middle East, North America, Russia, stands in peril from massive and probably nuclear war. The cities of the West and Centre of Europe also stand in peril from internal strife caused mainly by migration invasion by backward hordes from other parts of the world. Our present overall culture and civilization may not survive the 21st Century, not in their current forms.
We should all be thinking about these matters and about how to salvage as much as possible of our present advanced culture and civilization, should that become necessary.
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Two-tier justice?
No, no, it’s much worse than that.
It’s actually quite efficient: one tier for approved demographics, and a guillotine for the rest of us.
The Bar is riddled with traitors. I should know; until a pack of Jews procured my (wrongful and actually unlawful) disbarment in 2016, I myself was a barrister, and saw how corrupt and also stupid the whole system is.
The Bar of England and Wales is now, more or less, a dustbin.
-the future of the UK population -the failure of mass immigration -what I think of the Tories -would I serve Reform if asked -what’s happening in universities https://t.co/mvEYCd4g5e
Hebrew reports: ‘Israel’ announces the arrest of three ‘Israelis’ on charges of communicating with Iranian elements and spying for them. pic.twitter.com/BI5chMxb5K
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 30, 2025
Rare but not unprecedented. Israeli orgs, usually Shin Beth, have arrested Jews and others in the past on espionage charges; people accused of being agents of the Soviet Union, then Russia; also for Arab states.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 30, 2025
The moment Israeli warplanes bombed the Yaffa School, which was sheltering displaced people in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/Lkyb34xIFD
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 30, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 29, 2025
Why do we say that Israel was crushed by Iran's strikes? A prominent American analyst answers!
"The United States was forced to intervene to prevent Iran from destroying Israel."
◾️Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst: "Many people don't realize that Israel was perhaps one or two… pic.twitter.com/ng19AJV9MI
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 30, 2025
[“Why do we say that Israel was crushed by Iran’s strikes? A prominent American analyst answers! “The United States was forced to intervene to prevent Iran from destroying Israel.”
Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst: “Many people don’t realize that Israel was perhaps one or two weeks away from total defeat. Some say, ‘Oh, you’re just repeating Iranian propaganda.’ Well, then listen to me…”
“Israel has two seaports, and Iran closed them, so there was no sea traffic. Iran also destroyed two oil refineries — in Haifa and Ashdod — or disrupted their ability to produce fuel. Iran closed Israel’s only international airport.“]
So why the ceasefire? Israel will use it to regroup, resupply etc.
The Ukrainian command continues to senselessly destroy servicemen and equipment in battles in the special military operation zone in an attempt to contain the advance of the Russian army, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/5TiM4sqmSypic.twitter.com/tLg0RXF28h
Officers of the FSB have detained two residents of Crimea who were transferring data about critical infrastructure and military equipment on the peninsula to the Security Service of Ukraine via the Telegram messenger, the FSB reported:https://t.co/mwemGUz10kpic.twitter.com/32Cxoas0lT
Looks like I missed out in a big way on my two visits (1993 and 2007) to Moscow! In some ways, at least… Still, they were business trips (mainly).
Having said that, there were huge changes visible in 2007 as compared to 1993, and it seems clear that the changes since 2007 have been at least as great.
Good to see how quickly Nature, the forest, is recolonizing the land, though.
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These latest plans for disabled benefits cuts are divisive and sinister. Creating a two-tier system where younger disabled people and those who become disabled in the future will be disadvantaged and denied access to work and education, is morally wrong. https://t.co/3NcCvJR0qI
Letting existing sick and disabled people continue to receive help, but cutting off help (income) from similar people in the near future, is “morally wrong“, in my view. That is almost unarguable, surely?
The govt hasn't convinced the country about its cruel welfare Cuts.
It failed to publish its analysis of the impact on disabled people.
It pretends it will get people into work but there are already 2 people chasing every vacancy
Trickett cannot be bullied by Labour whips. He is already 74, so unlikely to contest another general election in 4+ years’ time. Also, he got over 47% of the vote in 2024, with Reform UK second on 29%. If deselected, he could, should he so choose, stand as Independent Labour, and so either win or let in Reform, which may have a good chance anyway.
Hi @Keir_Starmer —A reporter from The Sun newspaper pretended to be an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan and was able to rent a @JustEatUK courier account and make a delivery within minutes.
Our borders are open. Our system is a joke. How do you explain this?👇
Starmer-stein is too busy complying with whatever Israel and the UK Jewish lobby want done to actually do anything positive for this country or its (real) inhabitants.
The CIA'a 'Syrian' death squads are carrying out orders to genocide indigenous people only slightly north of where 'Israeli' death squads are genociding indigenous people. https://t.co/n2nZUdeP7b
As the “live-streamed genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza unfolds before the world, this is how Israeli soldiers describe their time in the besieged Palestinian enclave
So much of the msm/entertainment industry/music industry etc is in the hands of Jewish persons, and (as the Jew-Zionist orgs constantly remind us) about 95% of Jews in the UK support Israel, support the war in Gaza, the attacks against Iran (etc).
Even the Jewish anti-Zionist jazz musician, Gilad Atzmon, was targeted and persecuted by Zionist Jews, and his shows attacked or cancelled, to the extent that he eventually had to relocate out of the UK, to Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon.
'How can anyone be more offended by a rapper than by a call for genocide from an Israeli minister?'
James O'Brien condemns Bob Vylan's 'death to IDF' chant, but asks why some are more outraged by 'a bloke saying stupid things at Glastonbury' than by the carnage in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/rgDl8ri3x7
For once, I have to agree with O’Brien. The fact is that the Jew-Zionist element in Israel, in Palestine generally, and also in countries such as the UK and USA, France, Germany etc, is out of control. “They” have grabbed both influence and direct power, and are abusing that influence and power.
The Ukrainian army lost more than 1,350 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry:https://t.co/Q2ArXBRxgdpic.twitter.com/e2nk3zEeBY
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 30, 2025
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Deadly attack by the Kiev regime on the city of Donetsk.
The Ukrainian army launched British supplied "Storm shadow" missiles onto the Russian population. Multiple wounded and reports of dеаth. pic.twitter.com/r55z6gXpI6
The underlying discontent among rebellious and even loyal Labour MPs stems from what many would say is a pathetically late discovery: that what’s driving so much government policy is Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and the absolute power of the Office for Budget Responsibility in…
[“The underlying discontent among rebellious and even loyal Labour MPs stems from what many would say is a pathetically late discovery: that what’s driving so much government policy is Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and the absolute power of the Office for Budget Responsibility in determining whether she is breaching those rules or not. Any illusion that this isn’t the single most important driver of government decision-making was shattered today by the revealed contradiction between its establishment of a supposedly fundamental review led by disabilities minister Stephen Timms to shape new criteria for awarding Personal Independence Payments, while nonetheless sticking with the contradictory stipulation that from November next year no one will be eligible for PIP if they don’t score four points on one of PIP’s existing criteria. It is absurd and illogical to characterise Timms’s review as the face of humane reform while simultaneously saying that this new four-point rule based on existing criteria will willy-nilly come into effect next year. So what’s really going on? The work and pensions secretary’s unspoken reason for sticking to the four-point reform is that without it, and under the OBR-assessed fiscal rules, Reeves would have to fill a £5bn hole in her finances in the autumn’s budget, and not the £2.5bn hole created by Kendall’s partial welfare-reform climb down. That is a big difference when it comes to any taxes Reeves may have to raise or any spending she may have to cut. So a growing number of Labour MPs see this subservience to the OBR and the fiscal rules as just the stupidest motivation for making today’s decisions that affect the lives of the most fragile of UK citizens – decisions that will, on the government’s own calculations, shift 150,000 vulnerable people into poverty. These MPs were bitten once by the OBR dog when Reeves chose to means-test the winter fuel allowance as proof of her fealty to the OBR’s jurisdiction over her own fiscal rules. With the disability reforms, many of them now feel twice shy. They don’t ask why a Labour government respects the OBR, especially after the Truss/Kwarteng fiscal debacle caused by their disrespect for the OBR. But they do question why the Chancellor and Treasury endow the OBR with an almost mystical ability to determine which policies are sensible and why Reeves has seemingly abdicated responsibility for trying to sell the government’s initiatives to the country’s creditors independently of the OBR and fiscal rules straitjacket. So whatever the outcome of the vote tomorrow on the welfare reforms, Reeves and Starmer are now under enormous pressure – probably irresistible pressure – to lose their OBR religion.“]
That bastard Timms again…
I think that people are generally awakening to the fact(s) that this is only a Labour government in terms of label. Labour-label. In reality, a Labour Friends of Israel government (misgovernment).
As Kemi Badenoch is elected as Conservative Party leader, a reminder of the time she boasted about committing the serious criminal offence of hacking and vandalising a Labour MP's website pic.twitter.com/QrElHL0ibj
So there it is. The “party formerly known as Conservative” now has a Nigerian woman, married to a banker, as its anointed leader. What a farce.
That contest was between a black (Nigerian) woman, a woman who is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, on the one side, and a rather unpleasant and corrupt person, member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and married to an American Jewish woman, on the other.
Who really won that contest? Think about it.
Kemi Badenoch is even less (even notionally) “British” than is the egregious “Boris”-idiot. She was born in London, taken within days back to Nigeria, then brought up there and in the USA before returning to the UK at the age of 16.
Has Britain finally gone mad? The Con Party certainly has. “Goodnight Vienna” to it.
Rachel Reeves
“Revealed: Rachel Reeves’s £74k rental income.
Rachel Reeves and her husband are making £74,000 a year in rental income alone, The Telegraph understands.
The Chancellor, who this week hit second home buyers and landlords with a surge in stamp duty costs, is thought to be receiving rent from two properties that adds up to more than £6,000 a month.
It comes after Ms Reeves delivered her first Budget on Wednesday, in which she condemned millions of workers to be poorer by raising National Insurance for their employers.
Landlords and second home owners reacted angrily to Ms Reeves’s maiden Budget, claiming she had put the “final nail in the coffin” for the struggling buy-to-let sector.
The Chancellor, who now lives in Downing Street with her family, lets her former family home – a four-bedroom property in south London – for around £3,200 a month.
While her husband Nicholas Joicey, a senior civil servant, is believed to have let his central London two-bed flat since 2011. It now has a market rental value of nearly £3,000 a month, according to property website Bricks&Logic.
It means the pair, who both have six-figure salaries, make more than four times the average landlord income of £16,500. Their rental income is also twice the average salary of nearly £37,000.
Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty said: “Having just announced a deeply unpopular Budget that has caused mortgages to rise, how does the Chancellor justify the £74,000 rental income of her and her husband’s London properties whilst living rent-free in Downing Street as their mortgages are paid for? It’s no wonder she abstained from the most recent vote on the Renters’ Rights Bill.
Ms Reeves earns around £160,000 for her roles as Chancellor and an MP. It means her household income, combined with her husband’s salary of up to £174,999, is more than £400,000.
Earlier this year, as shadow chancellor, Ms Reeves told GB News that checking her bank statement made her “wince” after she found “the money coming in” was “increasingly short of the money going out”.
The Chancellor bought her family home in 2012 with her husband for £599,950. The two co-own the property, according to the Land Registry. The couple’s detached property – which was bought with a mortgage – consists of four bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to Rightmove.
Since Ms Reeves bought it, property listing websites estimate it has gained around £349,000 in value – putting its value today at nearly £950,000.
Nine years ago, Ms Reeves had her parliamentary credit card suspended because she owed more than £4,000 in unauthorised payments. The bill was eventually recouped by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
Between 2014 and 2022, she also claimed £1,225 on the taxpayer to pay someone else to help file her tax return.“
[Daily Telegraph]
Rachel Reeves also has other investments. She is a Grade A moneygrasper; also a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a trustee of the Jew-Zionist Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
Rachel Reeves and her husband have a joint salary/investment income (including capital growth) of well over a half-million pounds a year, possibly even a million.
Inefficient commanders and former ministers must be sent to the front line, and women must be mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army , said the head of the Air Reconnaissance Support Center of the… pic.twitter.com/SaqYdClewI
“Inefficient commanders and former ministers must be sent to the front line, and women must be mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army , said the head of the Air Reconnaissance Support Center of the Ukrainian Army Maria Berlinskaya. The mobilization of women is an unpopular but necessary decision, she pointed out and stressed that Ukraine “will have to give up” if the mobilization of women does not take place.”
The Kiev regime will have been toppled, or driven over, by this time next year.
— Mad Dogs & Englishmen.MBE. 🏴🇬🇧 (@strum_joe) January 18, 2024
Well worth reposting, even 5+ years on.
Of course the rescue of hostages is good news. However, the calculated slaughter of civilians (who don’t choose to be human shields), by the IDF is an utter disgrace and a war crime.
— Fr Ian Maher SCP🇺🇦🏴🇪🇺🐝#RejoinEU (@IanMaher7) June 8, 2024
On 16 January 2016, Fraser announced his engagement to Lynn Tandler, an Israeli Jew,[23] who is a weaver and academic researcher.[24] They were married on 13 February 2016.[2][non-primary source needed] Their son was born in November of the same year.[25]“
“Both my Jewish children have been circumcised. They are being brought up in a bilingual family – where Hebrew is spoken at home, despite my struggling with it. My two year old chats with his grandmother on the phone most days in broken Hebrew. Both are being regularly taken to Israel. The Rabbi of the schul in Golders Green – where my father’s family (all Jewish) were seat-holders – has been extremely welcoming...”
I recall seeing the Australian TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo a few times after my family moved to Sydney in 1967 (I was 10 at the time). The show was on TV from early 1968.
TV shows and films such as Skippy may seem like sentimental rubbish to some people, and to some extent they may be, but there are innumerable examples of the intelligence and capabilities of our animal friends. Some such stories become famous, others are either unknown or are known only to the few people directly involved.
Interesting. I have been to Famagusta (now in Turkish-ruled Northern Cyprus), but some years ago, in fact many years ago— January 2000. I did not see the ruins of the Varosha resort, though. That is a mile south of the main town, I think.
When I drove to Famagusta (from Kyrenia), the ruins of its ancient heritage were deserted. My then girlfriend and I were alone there. There were not even any people selling postcards or the like. Even the more modern parts of the town were far from busy. That was 24 years ago, though. Things change, of course. I think that there has been quite a lot of development in some areas.
I rather liked Northern Cyprus. Relaxed and, in 2000 at least, with relatively few tourists, and really none once you left Kyrenia (officially, now, Girne). A little cold at night (in January) but warm-ish during the day, usually, and with numerous interesting ancient sites (which one shared with no other people at all) set amid orange groves. I even had a rather bracing swim off a deserted beach, but it was no colder in the water than it is in the UK in summer, and the sun was shining.
I drove one day from Kyrenia right the way down the Karpas Peninsula [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpas_Peninsula] to the eastern end. At that point, you are only 60 miles across the Eastern Mediterranean from Latakia in Syria.
“In a straw poll of veterans, Farage’s campaign message seemed to be getting through.
Jason Stewart was in a green beret and a biker jacket studded with medals; after a long career in the Royal Marines, he “thought it was time to get out after I was blown up twice in one day in Afghanistan”.
He offers a version of an argument heard all day. “The two main parties look both the same to me,” he says. “The Tories don’t care about us. And Labour say they will reopen prosecutions of soldiers who served [in the Troubles] so that’s a no-no. Farage and Reform seem like the only option.”
Up the road, meanwhile, opposite McDonald’s, there was an alternative display of army jeeps and vehicles alongside veterans in fatigues. The display was organised by David Bye and his partner, Linda Hazelton, who run a charity delivering homemade pie and mash to needy veterans around the town. Bye had a one-to-one chat with Farage when he visited and claims he was given certain commitments, which will remain between them.
He grew up here; he remembers earning pocket money as a kid running tourist luggage down busy streets to Butlin’s. It’s been a long decline, he says, since the holiday camp went. “I thought I’d seen it all,” he says. “But the other morning I saw a long queue of blokes on bikes waiting for McDonald’s to open. They were collecting takeaways for people who couldn’t be bothered to make breakfast for their kids.
“I don’t know where you start with some of that,” he suggests. “But I think Nigel gets it.
The place holds symbolic relevance to Farage. Exactly a decade ago, under his Ukip brand, a meeting here paved the way for that party’s only Westminster election success, for Douglas Carswell. If you were to define the moment that Brexit became a possibility, and then a reality, you might begin there. Nine hundred people showed up, many of whom had not previously taken any interest in national politics. In the course of their populist pitch, Carswell and Farage quoted liberally from a Times newspaper column the previous week written by Matthew Parris.
Looking back at that column a decade on, you can see in it all the faultlines that were exposed and exploited so cynically by Farage and Brexit, the roots of the crisis that threatens to destroy the Conservative party in this election (a humiliation from which Farage, inevitably, hopes to benefit).
Parris, in his waspish style, on a visit to Clacton in 2014, had declared its irrelevance to modern Conservatism: “This is tracksuit-and-trainers Britain, tattoo-parlour Britain, all-our-yesterdays Britain,” he wrote. He asked his party a question which would now get a very different answer: “Is this where the Conservative party wants to be? [Or] do we need to be with the Britain that can admire immigrants and want them with us, that doesn’t want to spend its days buying scratchcards?”
Parris insisted that he was not “arguing that we should be careless of the needs of struggling people and places such as Clacton. But I am arguing – if I am honest – that we should be careless of their opinions.
Farage could not have scripted a better scene for himself than the spectacle of a Tory prime minister leaving the D-day celebrations early. Tragically, as this week is proving, the forces that made his bleak and divisive message relevant in 2014 have not gone away, and in the weeks to come you suspect that Westminster political parties will still ignore Clacton at their peril.”
[The Guardian].
Not once does the full article mention the fact that the person presently posing as PM is “unelected” (at least, unvalidated by a General Election) and a little Indian money-juggler; but there you are…”The Guardian”…
Interesting, though, all the same. I think that Farage has every chance of being elected at Clacton. The only reason that the Conservative Party candidate Giles Watling (MP since 2017, a long-retired actor, and a member of the Garrick Club, who lives at Frinton, the more expensive part of the constituency) got over 70% of the vote in 2019 is because his political stance is akin to that of UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform UK anyway.
Watling came second, behind ex-Conservative Douglas Carswell (for UKIP) both at the 2014 by-election and the 2015 General Election, and only won in 2017 because Carswell stood down. Having said that, Watling did get 36.7% in 2015, only about 8 points behind Carswell.
While the election at Clacton might yet be close, Farage has every chance now. Labour and other parties are spectators at Clacton. Labour’s best was 25.4% (in 2017, when the Cons got over 60%).
Interestingly, that 2017 Labour candidate, Natasha Osben, is now, in 2024, the Green Party candidate. Starmer is really not very popular even within the Labour —or recently Labour— ranks.
Will Labour voters vote tactically? If so, for Reform UK or for the Conservative Party? My money is on Reform UK.
“Alarmingly for Conservative HQ, many polling experts believe the conditions are ripe for a repeat of 1997, when tactical voting benefited Labour and the Lib Dems and cost the Tories dozens of seats, most notably the toppling of Michael Portillo in Enfield Southgate. This time, Shapps is among the big beasts who could suffer their own polling night infamy.
Tactical efforts came to little at the last election. Hopes among pro-Remain campaigners of an anti-Brexit tactical vote were dashed as Boris Johnson won an 80-strong majority. But conditions have changed. Peter Kellner, the veteran pollster, wrote in the Observer before the 1997 election that while he detected little “positive enthusiasm” for Labour, an electorate with “a burning desire to end 18 years of Tory rule” made for receptive tactical voting conditions. He believes similar ingredients are present today.
While the net effects of tactical voting are hard to calculate, the Liberal Democrats could gain 10-20 extra seats through anti-Conservative tactical voting, according to an analysis by the Electoral Calculus consultancy. Meanwhile, with the added help of Nigel Farage and Reform UK, the tactical dynamic could push Labour closer in another swathe of previously safe Tory seats.“
“Writing in the Observer, Rob Ford, a leading expert on voting intention and trends, says the evidence from polls shows that “an electoral asteroid is streaking through the atmosphere” and is heading for the Tory heartlands. Ford no longer thinks it impossible that the Conservatives could end up with less than 100 seats, so badly is their campaign misfiring and so much trust have they lost over 14 years and the tenures of five prime ministers.
Other polling experts say that such is the geographical spread of the Tory vote, and the brutal nature of the first past the post system, that once their vote drops into the low 20% region, the number of seats could fall into double digits – and could go as low as 20.“
[Observer/Guardian]
I have speculated for quite a while that the Con vote might go low enough nationwide to leave the Cons with as few as 50 MPs. Perhaps I was right (I sometimes am…).
More tweets
Amber Rudd has some front when she says @Nigel_Farage could not deliver. The Uniparty are experts at not delivering on their promises. Remember immigration down to the 10s of thousands, Brexit means Brexit etc? Labour will just manage the decline even worse #bbclaurak
Entitled self-seeking political hog Emily Thornberry, who only became “Labour” in the first place after her highly-paid UN-working father deserted her and her mother, abandoning his wife and daughter, and resulting in their having to relocate to a council house. She is motivated by malice and early spite and/or envy.
Emily Thornberry and her husband (a retired High Court judge) are buy-to-let parasites, incidentally; I believe that I read that they own, or used to own, at least 8 buy-to-let properties. Pro-Israel, too.
[Emily Thornberry and husband with the then Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, at a Zionist banquet in London]
The Conservative Party now deserves to be not only removed from government, and preferably entirely wiped out, but do not imagine that fake “Labour” will be much if at all better. Look at its leaders and major influencers: Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall. All members of Labour Friends of Israel. All self-seeking moneygrubbers too.
David Lammy, that ignorant creature, as well.
That thick creature might be Foreign Secretary soon. Poor Britain…
Another Labour Friends of Israel member.
Lady Nugee aka Emily Thornberry with a property portfolio in excess of £4million who sent her children to a partially selective school and who is a former human rights lawyer speaks for the people.
I can’t stand Emily Thornberry. She’s Champagne Socialist delusional. She got own four properties how wealthy she is. She lives in an Islington townhouse worth roughly £2.9million and owns a £600,000 flat in Guildford. She also bought a property in Clerkenwell for £572,000.
Emily Thornberry slightly reminds me of Mrs Mossberg, a fat, short and jolly Jewish primary school teacher, usually —in my memory— dressed in a long dark-brown mink coat; I knew her circa 1962, when about 5 or 6 years old and a pupil at Caversham Primary School near Reading. Mrs Mossberg, though, was far more pleasant than Emily Thornberry seems to be.
In retrospect, I wonder why Mrs Mossberg ever bothered to be a teacher, which I doubt paid much. She lived not far from my family, a few roads away, in a large detached house. The main reception room, which I saw at least once, seemed enormous to the 5-y-o me, and it had a large grand piano in it. Maybe she just enjoyed teaching.
The last tweeter says that Emily Thornberry owns 4 properties; I thought I read 8 somewhere.
NEW POST. The Tory elite class is completely lost. What the reaction to Nigel Farage and the rise of Reform tells us about our out-of-touch eliteshttps://t.co/pnbLrAmJvy
“Elite“, though, seems the wrong word to describe that bunch of clowns.
This is a superb piece of analysis – the truth is Tory liberalism both social and economic has failed and failed utterly – what none of the Tory pundit class have confronted is the abject failure of their economic model – from Osborne to Hunt it has been a calamity https://t.co/GE7v1VSbNk
This is what this Israeli soldier wrote in a video of himself breaking plates received from the house he occupied in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/DmnZKK6z28
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 9, 2024
Well, I cannot read Hebrew, and there is no translation, so I have no idea what the untermensch may have written in relation to his vandalism of that family’s house.
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 9, 2024
From what little one hears or reads, some of the chiefs or former chiefs of Israeli Intelligence (MOSSAD, Shin Beth, Aman etc) are also not optimistic about Israel’s long-term or even medium-term survival.
The Tory elite class should spend less time attacking Nigel Farage and more time reflecting on how they created him by wrecking the country. Now open to all 👇👇 https://t.co/NYMHLINPeW
“Conservatives face election wipeout with Labour set to gain a 416 majority that could see Rishi Sunak LOSING his seat and the Tories being left with just 39 MPs, shock Mail on Sunday poll reveals.”
[Daily Mail]
If that turns out to be correct on 4 July 2024, I will have been proven correct, and the “experts” and “specialists” (who have been saying 100-200 Con MPs left post-GE 2024) would be wrong (again)…
Also true, arguably. About the same, I should say.
Clacton is currently polling Reform at 33%, tories on 30% ans labour 25%. Everywhere else, reform are averaging about 17% with either labour or tories on over 30%
The first tweet confirms what I have been blogging re. Clacton. It is between Reform UK (Farage) and the Cons (Giles Watling). Labour has no chance at all, but Labour voters in Clacton can be the kingmakers. Their votes can swing it, either for Reform or for the Cons.
Even if the second tweet is accurate, and it may not be, voters can still give the Cons a mighty and historic kick by voting Reform UK and thus preventing the Conservative Party from thriving, or even surviving.
The very fact that such a grassroots campaign is even necessary shows how sick society has become.
He was so in denial, so dismissive and unprepared for being challenged on the most basic questions on his behaviour the past 4/5 years. Really depressing , and I feel quite sad for him.
Refers to Robert Largan, the Israel-puppet and Jewish-lobby puppet who is desperately trying to keep his Commons seat at High Peak (Derbyshire), with its good pay and better expenses and perks, but he really has no chance. Make him get a real job.
High Peak voters should vote either Reform UK or Labour to get rid of Largan.
Talking point
Late tweets
Nigel Farage's Reform Party SURGES — Tories in CRISIS. 75K clicks in 8 hours. Subscribe to our YouTube for content throughout election https://t.co/MBJSyft5fl
Richard Holden, who strikes me as a rather unpleasant little opportunist, even by the standards of the Westminster monkeyhouse. Conservative Party candidate at Basildon and Billericay. I hope that the voters there vote Reform or Labour. Keep him out.
[“Billericay Dickie”]
I see Aditya has been unlucky and has come across X’s favourite wing-nut Zionist judge Simon Myerson.
He’s the one who got bollocked by the Lord Chancellor for his tweets and was found by a judge to have shared Nazi-style abuse on twitter.
God. Myerson again. When is the Judicial Standards Investigations Office at least going to stop this obsessive from sitting in judgment over others? The Bar Standards Board might like to take a look too.
As data on public understanding of WWII reveal, large parts of UK public live in an imaginary historical world. Check out Chartbook Top Links for provocative takes on our weird world! https://t.co/HTLH1tGmOcpic.twitter.com/BhDdA6M4wr
…and few indeed of the British public are aware of the fact that the declaration of war by Britain on the German Reich in 1939 was not only totally unnecessary but led to immense unnecessary bloodshed and misery, and to negative consequences from which the world is still suffering.
2.) War with Russia on the Horizon
President Macron has been the most vocal person in Europe about sending NATO troops to Ukraine
He is actively sending weapons to Ukraine, and there are unverified reports of French Foreign Legion troops inside of Ukraine currently
Iran threatens Israel if war starts with Hezbollah
🔻 Iranian Foreign Minister Bagheri Qani, in an interview with CNN Turk, warned Israel against war against Lebanon and said what support Iran would provide in the event of a war in the north.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
…and if you cannot believe what (supposedly; they say; they claim) happened only last year, then how can you believe “them” when they claim that this, that, or the other happened in 1942, 1943, or 1944?
Footage shows a former Israeli soldier harassing a Muslim woman in the US, along with other pro-Israeli members. pic.twitter.com/b15EIq8hYr
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“They” are very brave when in a group, harassing a lone woman but, if confronted, run away and then claim to be “victims”.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
A horrible tribe.
Most of Israel's oil is supplied by post-Soviet countries such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan , all of which to this day passes along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan route, and from Turkey to Israel . pic.twitter.com/D0T9OzsJ79
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
Turkey should turn off the tap.
Let them squirm as their tanks and trucks and cars grind to a halt.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Al-Qassam Brigades showed another video of the destruction of the Merkava-3/4 tank pic.twitter.com/4hBvxamR1U
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt – Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel. … Let us remember that the capture of… pic.twitter.com/Ipxh0uoNDM
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt –
Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel.
Let us remember that the capture of Rafah by the IDF is precisely the “absolutely red” line that all Middle Eastern players have drawn – from Iran and Qatar to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Well, let’s see if the Arab and other Muslim states take any action against Israel. Frankly, I doubt their resolve.
Marine Le Pen on Macron's decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three… pic.twitter.com/fXGZf2UR4D
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“Marine Le Pen on Macron’s decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three o’clock in the morning, they say: “I’ll have to send the guys to Odessa.”
Yes, I’m talking about ease, because we are talking about the lives of our soldiers. He wants to send troops for the sake of his own ego, personal image.”
I knew it had to be something like that. Pearl Harbor Mark 2.
I attempted an analysis of those events a few days or so after they happened, 7 months ago now.
'I want them to suspend him, pending an investigation.' 'Free speech demands accountability after you've used it.'
After a Green Party councillor shouted 'Allahu Akbar' following his election, the Jewish Representative Council's Simon Myerson gives @NickFerrariLBC his thoughts. pic.twitter.com/PVm2Wxckdi
Lying Zionist and obsessed online social media troll, Myerson, comes up with a repackaging of the brainless old chestnut“you have free speech but not freedom from the consequences of your free speech“. Under such formulae, Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia had “free speech”…
Why has Myerson himself not yet been suspended, both as Recorder and barrister? He brings both the Bench and the Bar into disrepute. Looks like his thinking skills are also pretty poor.
[Update, 23 September 2024: Myerson was kicked off the Bench and sacked as Recorder —p/t judge— in June or July 2024, but was allowed to present his sacking as a “resignation”. Now the Bar Standards Board is (or so I read) examining, not for the first time, Myerson and his vituperative social media activity in relation to his status as barrister].
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has suggested Britain's illegal migration crisis is costing the country approx. £14 billion a year. I've written previously about the spiralling costs and numbers here 👇👇👇https://t.co/HSpmwDfhfa
We will conduct nuclear strike exercises to verify tactical nuclear weapons carriers. pic.twitter.com/9rr5LBQRNG
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip
This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords.
Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,”… pic.twitter.com/KfGbX5nHo3
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords. Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,” which is a narrow land corridor along the border with Egypt.“
They can never be trusted, any more than can most of their regional enemies.
Deputy Mayor of Be'er Sheva and Deputy Chairman of the International Branch of the ruling Likud Party, Shimon Boker, calls on IDF soldiers not to separate civilians from Hammas pic.twitter.com/nk5VrkI4Np
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Simon Myerson KC is one of those making the loudest complaints about a Green Party councillor’s use of social media. It is inexplicable given his own recent history of social media use. https://t.co/jXU5SrMnHU
“Yesterday, 98 illegal immigrants on 2 dinghies were smuggled into our country by our so-called Border Force. The video shows the illegals being collected mid-Channel where Border Force were waiting to take them onboard & whisk them to our shores. The Home Office alleges that the French prevented 3 ‘events’ involving 71 illegals. The total for 2024 is 8,685 illegals on 178 dinghies. All undocumented. They could be anyone & they’re free to roam amongst us.”
By the end of 2024, it will be about 50,000, maybe more; the calm sea season has not even begun.
Several powerful explosions were heard in Lugansk
they report that there is a fire in the area of the oil depot
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Fox News: Biden Loses in Every Poll
Biden is losing in all major polls, which is not surprising given that life for Americans is getting worse, Fox News reports. The country is experiencing one of the most painful inflationary periods in history, so the people have lost faith in… pic.twitter.com/aAhklzhKvg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Report in Politico: The release of the US State Department report, which was supposed to determine whether Israel violated international law in the Gaza war, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed indefinitely
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The (((fix))) is in…
CIA Director Burns is expected to arrive in Israel today and meet with senior Israeli officials pic.twitter.com/1dMZa3Uw83
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Actually, looking at that film, I was struck again by how much better-planned or built the Israeli villages and towns are compared to the Arab ones (anywhere). That will not lessen my overall hostility to Zionism and its Western lobby, but one must be objective.
Russia has ramped up its arms production and the US now expects it will produce more artillery this year than all 32 NATO members combined, reports Reuters pic.twitter.com/9l4NBnTsXV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Their true nature, some might say. Others might claim only a minority are that bad.
As the report notes, Israeli security and police were investigating the matter, if only because it showed the Israeli Jews and state in an even worse light.
I suppose that, also, the dangers facing the Israeli state are only partly from outside its borders. A civil/racial/ideological war inside its borders is by no means unthinkable. Such a civil war might be triggered by such atrocities.
I do not know whether anything happened afterward, or whether any of the Jews were punished; I doubt any were, at least not much.
The post-Mao transformation of China crept up on me; I was not fully aware of it (though I started to sense it in the early 1980s) even after I made my last visit to Hong Kong (I also went to Macau) in 2006. Since then, I have tried to see and learn more.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a couple of friends took on the “opportunity” of delivering telephone directories in SE London, using their private car. I think only Yellow Pages. I recall visiting their house not long afterwards, and seeing the whole place packed with the thick directories. Floor to ceiling. Thousands of them. Feeling sorry for them, I foolishly offered to help them for a day. Good grief! Katorga (hard hard work, like being a galley slave).
I especially recall visiting Greenwich with them. In those days, very mixed. The elegant 18thC house of a Lady or Countess Somebody or other (I noticed a grand piano in her drawing room; glimpsed through a window) but, only one street away, 1930s council flats, very dilapidated-looking.
Out of one such flat emerged a fat black woman without shoes, barefooted on the dirty concrete floor of a communal balcony, and she demanded two directories (God knows why; maybe to use as doorstops?).
BREAKING:
🇮🇷 Iranian MP says if Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities then we will strike Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in 400 seconds@IranObserver0pic.twitter.com/CkI7xlJagj
Really dismal numbers for the Tories and Rishi Sunak. 2.3 million Brits were on hospital waiting lists in 2010. Now 7.5 million! pic.twitter.com/Q6PzjOsjDI
Terrible. I recall (as repeated observer) from maybe 2011/2012 how bad much of the NHS hospital service was then (not all, though). God knows how much worse it is in 2024. I pity anyone having to endure one of the maladministered, dirty hospitals run by the NHS, even though I support the “free at point of use” principle, and recognize that some of the doctors and nurses are stellar.
Unless something (but what?) changes very soon, the Conservative Party is going to be pretty much wiped out at the upcoming General Election.
Angara A5 rocket launched for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome
The "Angara A5" launch vehicle with the "Orion" upper stage and a test payload was launched from platform 1A of the "Vostochny" cosmodrome exactly at noon Russian time. pic.twitter.com/nnncRkajQH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“I think we should prepare for a possible Russian attack on Europe, but I think it’s unlikely,” Finnish President
"I'm a little worried about this rather bellicose talk that Russia is going to test Article 5(?) and that Europe is next in line…
European states must become more…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“European states must become more Finnish. In other words, more prepared. You have to prepare for the worst to avoid it,” Stubb said. Alexander Stubb also said Kyiv’s support in the coming months is paramount as Putin “feels very confident and is targeting a window of opportunity to break through Ukraine’s defenses between now and September.””
Finns are not known for their brainpower, speaking generally, but this takes the biscuit, notwithstanding Stubb’s paper qualifications. Does this Stubb really think that there would be anything left of Finland were a major war to occur?
I see now that Stubb is from the Swedish minority in Finland (traditionally more affluent and better-educated than the majority Finnish population): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stubb. Obviously plugged-in to the transnational NWO agenda.
Journalistic standards (fall ever-lower)
The standards of literacy in both online and “real” newspapers slide ever-lower. Look at this, from the online platform of a long-established local newspaper chain:
“Police hunt after men try to rob teen’s expensive coat, police say” [headline]
How do you “rob a coat“? Did the coat fight back at all?
“Police have launched an appeal after masked men with knives are said to have tried to get robbed a teen’s expensive coat” [first line of the report].
Where does one even start? Jesus H. Christ! To think that that “journalist” (semi-literate scribbler) probably has a degree, maybe/probably a degree in journalism. What can one say?
More tweets
New polling from YouGov:
The majority of Americans think Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
No matter how much Lloyd Austin wishes to lie before committee hearings, along with Israel’s failed PR, the truth is clear for all to see. pic.twitter.com/1NpQZHUqJ6
Unless I have missed out some part of the graphic, that is a plurality, not a “majority“; still, significant, bearing in mind the “usual” (((usual))) bias of the American mainstream media.
That means that at least 32% of the people of the UK have no idea at all how unutterably terrible and nasty would be life in the UK after even a limited nuclear attack (if that were the cause of the collapse).
That terrible and nasty existence might (for the survivors) continue for decades; maybe even longer, depending on the level of destruction, how widespread it were, and the level of radiation.
Other causes of a civilizational collapse might lead to quicker recovery (eg were the poles to shift), but a decent level of living might not be resumed (or created), for many decades, all the same.
A useless fag-end of a government, most of whose MPs will be looking for other employment by early 2025, if not earlier.
Even in the darkest of times, fragments of happiness can be found. It is not always easy to see, but it is there, quietly waiting to be discovered amidst the shadows & rubble. We have so much to learn from the Children of Palestine ♥️🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/MnRNytgW56
Macron: We continue to work on missiles that will allow us to strike Russian forces and capabilities that are causing such serious damage to Ukraine
"We cannot give up on Ukraine because it is 1,500 kilometers away from us. In other words, this is our own security. This is a… pic.twitter.com/j2eGQiPw5w
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Macron— a complete idiot, and a puppet of the NWO/ZOG transnational conspiracy.
United States Embassy in the Israeli asked its employees and American citizens not to leave the central areas and absolutely not to move towards the northern areas, especially Haifa.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Spokesperson of the Israeli army: An attack by Iran will prove Iran's intention to escalate the situation in the Middle East. We have a proven defensive ability, but the defense is never unbearable. pic.twitter.com/yy6h8yxYLw
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Does that mean “unbeatable“? As for “escalation“, what was the destruction of Iran’s embassy in Damascus? An attack on not one but two sovereign neighbouring states, simultaneously.
Retired Israeli general:
The attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was a bad gamble that opened the doors of hell for us 🔥 pic.twitter.com/FD3CMRGhPh
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
If all the Arab states, plus Iran, and plus the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, turned on Israel at the same time, the Israeli state would be finished. The Arabs, and also non-Arab Muslims in the region, however, have always been disunited.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“The Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, stated that the size of the Russian army has increased during the conflict with Ukraine, and that Russia will soon be able to fire ten times more artillery shells than the Kiev forces.
“The [Russian] military is actually 15 percent larger now than when Special Military Operations began”, Cavoli said during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. – “All in all, Russia is on its way to commanding the largest army on the continent,” Cavoli said and added that, “regardless of the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia will be bigger, deadlier and angrier at the West than before the escalation of the conflict.”
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West – Indian analyst
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the… pic.twitter.com/FEggRbEAmF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 11, 2024
“Russia is winning and growing stronger despite the efforts of the West— Indian analyst.
Many countries receive information about the Ukrainian conflict through the prism of Western propaganda. It contains many myths that need to be debunked, writes former UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs official Arjun Katoch in an article for The Print.
In particular, according to the analyst, contrary to the claims of Western media, Moscow is winning the confrontation with Kiev and its overseas sponsors.
After the “impressive failure” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer campaign and the liberation of Avdievka, the Russians are advancing along the entire front line, even in the current mud season.
“The Ukrainian army is being destroyed, and no amount of help can save it,” the author of the article emphasizes. “Russia will win this war; the only question now is how far west its troops will advance,” he adds.
The journalist also debunks the idea that the conflict is weakening Russia. Sanctions forced the country to focus on developing its own industry and reorient itself to the east. But as a result, its economy has outpaced the EU’s in growth, and defense production has grown exponentially, allowing Moscow to supply its troops with modern weapons and ammunition much faster than the West can supply the Ukrainians.
“Russia will emerge from this war with a battle-tested, most well-equipped and combat-ready army in Europe. So it’s certainly not getting weaker,” Katoch notes.“
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[Victor Ostrovsky, The House]
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“Three in ten troops from across the Armed Forces are not fully fit for combat, official figures have revealed.“
[Daily Mail]
The MOD still claims that up to 50,000 Army people are fit for actual combat. Others say that 30,000 is a more realistic figure; some say as few as 20,000. Are they seriously suggesting taking on Russia, China and others simultaneously with that puny and probably ineffective force?
“A former leader of the Shin Bet domestic security force has said Israel will not have security until Palestinians have their own state, and Israeli authorities should release Marwan Barghouti, jailed leader of the second intifada, to direct negotiations to create one.
Ami Ayalon, a retired admiral who also commanded Israel’s navy and was wounded in battle and decorated for his service, also said destroying Hamas was not a realistic military goal, and the current operation in Gaza risked entrenching support for the group.
He came relatively late to his current views, after leaving the military where the enemy is just a target to be killed, he said. His position at Shin Bet required him to regularly meet Palestinians, including visiting PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
He made Palestinian friends, among them PA security chief Jibril Rajoub and Sari Nusseibeh, a philosophy professor from Jerusalem who can trace his family’s presence there back to the 7th century. “So can I tell him, OK, this land is mine and you are a visitor here? It is nonsense.”
[Guardian]
Interesting but, as the report says, he is in a minority. As for the historical, and nuanced social, views, he may think like that, but he would be wasting his time trying to make some ignorant American-Jew settler from the slums of Brooklyn, who got off the boat yesterday, understand.
“World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer.
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase.
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money.”
[Guardian]
It may be that, in a century or so, historians will look back on the early 21st Century and say “that was the time just before the last great wave of revolution and war, when everything changed forever“…
Tweets seen
This is a lie. I have never been investigated by the police for anything, yet alone 'racist hate crime'. I will be taking legal action if this lie is not retracted.
The Lib Dems are trying to silence me – it's no wonder sub-postmasters couldn't get justice from Ed. https://t.co/oOYwwoC4Ze
As previously noted on the blog from time to time, the LibDems are a total waste of space.
Russian RIA Novosti Agency:
Russia has become the largest exporter of uranium fuel to the United States, with the Americans paying $96 million to Russia in just several months. pic.twitter.com/AT6vCVqlDs
AfD is of course not social-national, but its existence and growing strength moves the “Overton Window”, just as (to some extent) does Reform UK in Britain, despite RF being also “controlled opposition”. These matters are not straightforward.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Andrzej Scheina said that the Poles need to be prepared for the front in Ukraine to shift to the west and for an even greater influx of Ukrainian refugees.
Eventually, Russia will rule all Ukraine to the east of the Dnieper, and that is how it should be.
According to an ABC News poll, only 28% of US citizens believe that Biden is still sane enough to be re-elected president for a second term, and 69% believe that his grandfather is no longer sane.
Trump should “double and triple the guard”…the Deep State may try to kill him.
Same story in UK. Wrote a counter cultural book (Values, Voice, Virtue) which was No.2 national bestseller. How many literary festival invites? Zero. I genuinely don't mind missing a weekend in Chipping Norton but it does tell you something about how insular the publishing world… https://t.co/OqaXJhNweW
The above idiot-tweeter either has not considered the fact that literally hundreds of millions might have (under the present outdated rules) a “well-founded” or “valid” claim to remain in the UK once here… or does not care.
Not hyperbole. Fact. Hundreds of millions. All they have to do is set foot on UK shores.
Surely even tweeters such as the above (who probably thinks himself very clever) might think twice once a hundred million, or more, invade the UK? Or maybe such bien-pensants prefer not to think what kind of UK is already being created by migration-invasion? Or are such people out-and-out traitors, doing —or wanting to have done— more damage than old-style terrorists or spies could ever do?
Incidentally, and ironically, the above-noted tweeter reposted the tweet below, but seems unable to connect the housing crisis with the mass immigration of the past 20+ years. Not the only factor, I concede, but probably the main one.
NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.
The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in … 1876. pic.twitter.com/M6WbXKE1SL
[washed-up political loony Sajid Javid was another one unable to join the dots…]
The israelis aren’t just mass murdering an entire population, they are committing genocide with intent, enjoyment, glee & pride @palinfoenpic.twitter.com/Brx7cxaEfq
Satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz tried to make some of those points in a humorous manner (mostly via songs and cartoons) on Twitter several years ago, but “the usual suspects” managed to have her prosecuted and actually convicted for doing so. Just as “Brexit” is more than Brexit, so “Israel” is more than Israel…
Man behaving Dadly has done a runner 😂 oh the irony of the melt!!! Bet your kids are well proud of you Harris??? pic.twitter.com/SRx8rfhG6m
— Paul Harding 🏴 Enough Is Enough (@Paul_Patriot12) January 11, 2024
The latest “grifter” to have been exposed more widely (he has been mentioned occasionally over the last few years on this blog— “read it here first”…). He thus joins other frauds and thieves such as “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas), “Supertanskiii” (surely the least interesting of the lot, socio-politically— entirely derivative and unoriginal), and others who have found a happy hunting ground or grift-mine on Twitter/X and other online sites.
Don’t you remember? He was as cringe as that Russ in Cheshire. Always fundraising and went by the name as man behaving dadly. Cringe account that’s now been outted as a grifter too.
I had forgotten about “Russ in Cheshire” (who seems in fact to be yet another one actually in or from Essex, unless I am mistaken). Russ-in-Cheshire is on a similar page to the others, but poses mainly as social or political commentator on the fringe of humour, and has written a book about politics or society. He even appeared on at least one TV quiz show (The Chase? Not sure; maybe it was Eggheads, now that I think about it). I think that his team even won some money.
The key to successful UK online “grifting” seems to be to avoid simply begging for money. The more cunning “grifter” pretends to be a kind of charity worker or philanthropic type, raising money for others and giving —what at least is presented as— good advice.
Thus “Bootstrap Cook” and her dog’s dinner “recipes”, “Man Behaving Dadly” and his charity stuff (with rather a lot of the proceeds shaven off for his own shekel-store) and so on. Not forgetting Julia Grace Patterson, with her “NHS champion” grifting, while taking in donations and selling facemasks etc. In her case, the USP is that she is actually a medical doctor (though she only worked as such for a couple of years).
I presume that that other prominent “grifter”, “Supertanskiii”, lacks the ability to produce any tangible output or activity, so restricts herself to swearing at “the Tories”. Amazingly, some people are satisfied with that alone, and are willing to send her money just for that! Utter mugs.
Going through the YouGov MRP data to add some tactical squeezing. If just one third of Lab-LD-Grn voters in England and Wales vote tactically for the strongest party, the result changes to: Con 69 (-100 on MRP) Lab 463 (+78) LD 70 (+22) Nat 28 Grn 1
I predict that tactical voting will play a big part in the 2024 General Election. What will weaken it, though, is that it is clear to more and more people that none of those Lib-Lab-Con System parties is worth a plugged nickel.
Also, there are those who will always vote for one System party rather than another, even when, in that particular constituency, the loyal voter’s own party has never come first, or even second.
Still, I think that, now that even former Conservative Party voters want rid of the Con Party in government, tactical voting for the least-objectionable alternative will be widespread.
That may mean, as the tweet implies, that the utterly unmeritorious LibDems may be able to gather in a pretty considerable number of MPs. I was thinking 30, maybe at peak 45, but the tweet above says 70 (they have 15 at present). If so, remarkable, looking at the untrustworthy rabble that the LibDems are.
You are going to be in for a very big surprise when Labour hardly shifts from the current policies being undertaken.
Again, quite so. The faces will change but not (much) the policies. Like Soviet chocolate boxes (the chocolates in the box usually having had a range of shapes, but the filling identical in all of them).
Her name for this country is right…and becomes more accurate with every passing day.
Late tweets seen
Yet another report (-> https://t.co/TKux7xkKK4) finds hundreds of mainly white working-class girls were sexually abused by mainly Muslim men while police + authorities did next to nothing. I've summarised evidence from all reports here:https://t.co/2XFSjqnEnW
A “democracy” in which the population is so badly-informed becomes merely a volatile mess and, in the end, a dictatorship. Oh, wait…
In fact, the level of immigration is even higher than Goodwin says, because those leaving the UK are mainly white (i.e. real) British people desperately seeking a haven in, usually, what used to be the White Dominions: Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
'The largest number of them have not gone to Labour or Reform, they've gone into apathy.'@GoodwinMJ says the Government needs to return to core Conservative values to win back 2019 Boris Johnson voters.
What many many people want, often unconsciously, is social-nationalism, but even if aware of their true wish, they are usually too embarrassed to say so.
A North Korean copy of the US RK-4 Global Hawk drone. The Americans suspect that the Koreans were able to assemble their copy using technical information from the Iranians, who gained access to the wreckage of the Global Hawk they shot down. pic.twitter.com/htI4gDs1tf
Currently, the following targets are known to have been hit by IRGC missiles:
— American base at Erbil airport; — US Consulate in Erbil; — Local headquarters of the Kurdish security service; — Private residence of a local businessman associated with the Mossad pic.twitter.com/CBYJTH5dkm
A Jew who stalked me online for years lives in that place. One can but hope…
Iranian intelligence sources: The Revolutionary Guard targeted a fortified room belonging to the Israeli "Mossad" in Erbil with Fateh-110 missiles. pic.twitter.com/E4mroeuqau
A random tweet seen just reminded me of when I met a group of Jews in a desert oasis. It happened like this: I was in Egypt for several months in the winter of 1997-98. I started off in charming Aswan, spent a week or two under canvas in a then-remote part of the Red Sea coast, and then a month or so in Alexandria (an experience recounted, in part, here: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/).
I left Alexandria to visit the remote oasis of Siwa, in the Western Desert not very far from Libya, southwest of the Qattara Depression and only a mile or two from the first great dunes of the Great Sea of Sand:
I lived for a month, maybe longer, in a kind of small concrete chalet in the garden of the very small hotel I used. The hotel garden was sand but planted with closely-situated date palms. I discovered that dry date palm fronds, fallen from the trees, burn easily. Thus I inadvertently started a “tradition” of having a fire around which people gathered and talked in the cool of the evening.
Most visitors to the oasis would arrive on the one bus (a luxury Mercedes coach) in early evening, stay only one or two nights, then return to Alexandria (an 8-hour journey via Marsa Matruh on the coast). By the time I left, I had spent at least a month there and was the longest-resident foreigner save for a Finnish person who did Tai Chi on the flat roof of the hotel (well, maybe you have to be a little unusual to stay long at Siwa!) and an Anglican nun who wanted to set up a Christian centre there (not a very good idea even if the authorities approved it, which was almost inconceivable). Turned out that she knew a man who had tried (unsuccessfully) to teach me Physics when I was at school in the early 1970s. Small world.
I met a number of mostly young people there. I myself was an arguably youthful 41. Apart from the Finn and the English nun, I recall quite a few others who stayed at the oasis for longer than average. Some were more eccentric than others.
There was an odd young man from somewhere near Lancaster. When in the UK, he lived in a caravan on a red squirrel conservancy and had inherited a small legacy (£12,000, I think) from his grandmother. He had lived for eight years on that, in India. He said that India was both cheaper and dirtier than Egypt. I found both statements hard to believe.
Another oddity, also English, was someone about 28, whom I at first took to be some sort of evangelical Christian, but who in fact was a militant atheist. Very militant. He had bicycled across vast expanses (including the Kazakh steppe), using a specially-built bicycle which had water storage inside its frame. He had cycled from Alexandria and was planning to cycle from Siwa to the next oasis, Bahariya, a journey of some 250 miles to the East, on a desert road used only by occasional Egyptian Army patrols, perhaps once weekly. Not a good place to get a flat or run out of water. I wonder whether he made it.
One young lady, a very attractive French girl from Rennes, the capital of Brittany, was rather interested in me, but had a boyfriend with her, a pleasant young fellow from Montpellier, so our animated conversations did not lead anywhere, or any further…
We temporary “local expats” would eat such as molokhiya, a rather slimy but oddly tasty soup made mainly from green vegetables (jute leaves); more often we might have falafel, and maybe drink helba, a kind of yellow-green herbal tea made from fenugreek (Siwa was dry in both senses).
So what about those Jews? They were tourists from Israel, travelling in a group. Students. There seemed to be about 8 of them. None of them seemed to be overtly attached. The girls were quiet, pleasant, modest; the boys slightly less quiet. Only one was extremely unpleasant, a transplanted New York Jew aged about 25, with beard and carrying at all times a thick and obviously unread paperback about “the holocaust”. I cannot recall the exact title, something about the SS and “holocaust” anyway. This particular Jew was studying at some university at Jerusalem and within minutes had marked me as a probable enemy! My copy of Alan Clark’s Barbarossa probably triggered his interest.
The others in that Israeli group, in discussion with other tourists (including my French “girlfriend” who never became a girlfriend), seemed to be reasonable in that they were not looking for war with the Arab world, but of course the unspoken elephant in the room was the historical basis: the migration of millions of Jews to British Mandate Palestine and later Israel, which displaced the previous occupants.
Still, in that milieu, by the “camp-fire”, one could briefly believe in an Arab-Israeli concordat. Only the occasional presence of the American Jew Zionist fanatic disturbed that pacific fantasy. He personified the Zionist fanatics who never quite get around to moving permanently from New York, Los Angeles or London to “Eretz Israel”, yet they are the ones who, as much or more than the “native” Israelis, push the hardline Zionist agenda. Look at the recent film featuring the former heads of MOSSAD, Shin Beth etc. They seem, in principle, less warlike than both the American (etc) “diasporic” Jew fanatics and Israel’s own political leaders.
Ian Robert Millard 