[painting of Grenzpolizei (border guards) patrolling the DDR border zone pre-1990; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Grenzpolizei. I once or twice crossed such a zone, but with permission and in a car, not on foot and not with Alsatian dog “Fido” chasing me…]
Memory Lane
I happened to see that someone with whom I was slightly acquainted at school in the early 1970s died a couple of years ago. Not someone I really knew, or knew well, because he, Matthew Perry by name, was in the “B” or “C” stream of my year, whereas I was in the “A” stream.
In fact, I really only became acquainted with Perry —and he was never a friend as such; I never visited his home or went anywhere with him— because, if I remember aright, we were both in the Bridge Club. An amusing fellow, with several stories to tell, often about (horse-) racing or gambling generally. The sort of person one might, in an older person, call “clubbable”.
I noticed from the piece I saw (from the online mag of my old school —incidentally, I should never have recognized him from the appended photo, perhaps taken in an unwell later year) that, after his school years were over, he had done well in pharmaceuticals, but had also flown aid to Africa (Uganda, I think it said).
Quite a few people of the same or similar age to myself, and whom I knew as a small child, older child, or generally in youth, are now no longer on this Earth. In fact, the same goes for several people I knew in later life. A reminder that we have to do what we can, accomplish our mission (of whatever kind) while still here.
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This is not Mark Lewis of Patron Law, but – assuming the SRA can complete a competent investigation – it will discover Lewis was out of his depth in my litigation and made several ‘mistakes’ which should end his career.@MLewisLawyer@sra_solicitors@LawPatronpic.twitter.com/N1LyYI2e6q
Unmanned weapons systems tests were conducted in the DPRK under the leadership of the country's leader Kim Jong Un
According to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CTAK), the leader of the DPRK expressed great satisfaction with the test results and called the development of… pic.twitter.com/jCstOVVc66
French police have detained over 300 people during nationwide rallies against the government’s plans to cut social spending, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said:https://t.co/lLtIisboTUpic.twitter.com/DYjfdPzFa6
Reform on 30% while Labour & Tories scrape the teens – that’s not a protest vote anymore, that’s a political realignment. Britain’s had enough of the old parties. ⚡🇬🇧 #ReformUK
There is a distinction to be made between housing migrant-invaders in old military or naval bases prior to swift deportation, and housing them there (especially with few restrictions on their movements) on an open-ended or indefinite basis.
Many Jews are actively helping the migration-invasion of this country. Look at Simon Myerson, the unpleasant barrister abusive on social media. He, with a few minions, set up a “charity” expressly designed to bring more Afghans to this country.
Incidentally…
WHAT THE …
A major investigation into Afghans imported into the UK by our politicians finds:
➡️many “under threat” went back to Afghanistan for holiday
➡️many faked claims of Taliban threat & staged torture videos
Russian air defense systems shot down 1,667 fixed-wing drones, four guided bombs, and four HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems over the past week, the Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/mwecyXJ4czpic.twitter.com/6BHprf9MBr
The Hamas political leadership in Gaza launched a noisy gambit on the chessboard nearly two years ago. Had I been in their position, I should have played that deadly game differently, in a far more oblique way…quietly extending a very very deep tunnel system under Israel, perhaps digging for years, until that network extended as far as Central Israel, then branching out.
“Measure seven times, then cut” [Russian proverb].
That made me smile. Based, of course, on the famous or infamous photos showing Stalin with Molotov, Voroshilov, and Yezhov. After Yezhov had been dismissed (and shot), the photo was doctored, as shown below:
“Just like that!”, in the words of Tommy Cooper.
“What would they do if they held a (socialist) party, and no-one came?”…
EXCLUSIVE: A group of around two dozen grassroots organisers has launched a surprise bid to lead the new leftwing party, provisionally called Your Party, after a public spat broke out between co-founders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn.
Political splits happen in almost all parties, and Marxist-oriented parties are notoriously prone to them, but I do not think that I have heard of a party of any kind splitting into two —or is it three?— factions before the party has even been officially formed! Comedy gold…
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🇪🇪🇷🇺 BREAKING: Swedish Air Force, part of NATO in Estonia, releases photos of Russian MiG-31 jets violating Estonian airspace.
Taking the news as an accurate picture of what happened, this seems to be a counter-productive move by Russia. Putin needs to get the Western public opinion on his side, or at least neutral.
Only in broken Britain could people claim asylum from a country, then jet back there on “holiday” while taxpayers foot the bill.
It proves the system is a farce and our leaders are either too weak or too complicit to put a stop to it.
…and what is to stop the few actually being sent back to France from then returning to the UK on another rubber boat? Nothing, albeit that their fingerprints etc will be on file.
Russia has increased the production of some types of weapons exponentially, and for some products, almost 30-fold, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced while speaking with workers at the Motovilikha Plants:https://t.co/EHB6JVBrurpic.twitter.com/53PAyK9BD4
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 9.
I really should have got no. 6 (having lived in Brittany) and also no. 7 (as someone who likes to think that he keeps up with political events), but there it is…
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… adds to the difficulty of the situation The terror attacks on his and his wife’s property add to the awful situation … my friend said fine – I get all of that and one of the qualities I look for in any politician is that they understand and experience real stuff… I nodded
— Tim (totally unremarkable) (@forwardnotback) June 28, 2025
… it out of my head I think I need to look at this more closely – I don’t believe it is a deliberate distraction technique but if very tribal @UKLabour loyalist thinks it is, maybe it is a problem
— Tim (totally unremarkable) (@forwardnotback) June 28, 2025
… … the fandom that went with it and then the seamless drift for many to Starmerism ( “Starmtroopers”) Tbf some of that was driven by the desperate desire for a Labour government but personality fandom played a huge part From a selfish, internal politics position
— Tim (totally unremarkable) (@forwardnotback) June 28, 2025
The rest of that thread is unintentionally funny: some Labourite cretin fantasizing about how much better this fake-Labour government would have been had either Liz Kendall (WHAT?!) or (Jesus H. Christ!) Gloria de Piero had become Labour leader! The latter, incidentally, was the useless and brainless TV presenter who became a “Labour-lite” MP in 2010, stepped down as MP in 2019 (knowing she would not be re-elected) and is now, thankfully, all but forgotten.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_De_Piero].
The same person who told everyone to give Starmer a chance!
I do not know much about Rod Stewart, but I get the impression that he is someone who does like to give someone a chance. Starmer-stein has had his chance, and continues to do things that make him and Labour either hated or held in contempt, or both.
Needless to say, for me, Reform UK is underwhelming, not really “national”, and is pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel, pro-finance-capitalism etc, BUT also the only game in town to crush the existing System party set-up that has been around for so long, certainly since the 1930s, and effectively since about 1900 if not prior to that date.
For me, it scarcely matters that Reform UK is itself basically a germinal System party, because its role is to chuck Labour and Conservative parties into the dustbin of history. After that, we shall see…
Nazi descendants promoted to leading posts in West purposefully — Russian Foreign Ministry. "The trend is obviously neo-Nazi," Maria Zakharova noted:https://t.co/LZOEOsr4S9pic.twitter.com/vwk3A9JAZs
Ha. If only! The Russians have rather painted themselves into a corner with the “Nazi” stuff. The fact is that the Kiev regime is basically Jew-Zionist, and allied to Israel. As for “Nazi descendants“, that presumably refers to the new British SIS Chief, Blaise Metreweli, who has both Georgian and Ukrainian antecedents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Metreweli.
There has been a trend in Russian propaganda in recent years of being rather silly, especially around the “neo-Nazi Ukraine” stuff, and so on. Also, the pro-Stalin and “Great Patriotic War” nostalgia stuff.
Maria Zakharova might educate herself a little were she to read more widely about the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. e.g. The World I left Behind (published in Russian as Niece of the General Secretary, Племянница Генсека) by Lyubov Brezhneva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Brezhneva.
I need Russia to win the war with the Kiev regime, Russia has to win this war, appalling though it is, but it must drop the silliness of some of its propaganda (and also appoint better military and intelligence strategists).
Russian troops liberated eight communities in the Kharkov Region and the Donetsk People’s Republic over the week of June 21-27 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://t.co/IgmprW9gLUpic.twitter.com/u2WmMd86Mh
Ukraine can not be admitted to either the European Union or NATO because the country is in a state of armed conflict and accession to these blocs would inevitably drag them into a war with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:https://t.co/cuPmqhzfPfpic.twitter.com/7q36JjuUGz
“That’s not how humans should behave. Humans should look after each other.”
Starmer’s welfare cut concessions “create a two tier system” and show Labour don’t know what they’re doing, says Coronation Street star @CheryleeHouston.
It does not surprise me that Starmer-stein is morally corrupt, and the same goes for quite a few of his MPs (and the “Conservative” ones). What has slightly surprised me over several recent years (since about 2009, when I returned to live full-time in the UK) is how utterly clueless, totally ignorant, so many MPs are, including Cabinet ministers and, indeed, Prime Ministers (Starmer-stein, Liz Truss, Boris-idiot, Theresa May, Cameron-Levita, Sunak, even Gordon Brown).
[“I am never voting fake Labour again, you bastards!“]
Exc: Tory MPs increasingly concerned at council by-election results
In Essex, party lost a safe ward to Reform last night + failed to stand in Mid Devon
One asks: "What’s more embarrassing: not fielding a candidate – or losing supposedly safe wards"https://t.co/5FGsmxgMt1
Unsurprising. A party led by a Nigerian woman who is only here because her parents came to London for her birth (at that time, 1980, anyone born in the UK could later apply for a British passport). Kemi Badenoch is not really British at all. Until she was about 16-17, she had only been here for a day or two after her birth. She was brought up in Nigeria and then the USA. She is alien.
Apart from that, though, imagine a party (“Conservative” by name) which apparently intends to help Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Liz Kendall pass their social security/”welfare” cuts package, so cruel and unfeeling, and so unnecessary.
Huge amounts of money are wasted on all sorts of nonsense, such as the nuclear-weapons-carrying fighter-bombers the UK is apparently going to waste money buying from the USA. Do the cretins pretending to run this country really believe that Russia, as it now is, wants to invade Western Europe, even invade the UK? The idea is ludicrous.
Meanwhile, the only invasion that matters is continuing: 500-1,000 across the Channel most days now, with a further ~5,000 coming in “legally” as (supposedly) “high-skilled” workers (who never leave), spouses, fiancees, tourists (who never go back), “students” (who never go back) etc. Also, births to non-Europeans already here (about 1,600 births a day occur in the UK, of which the majority now are non-white). Call it a total of about 7,000. Every day…
It's hard to see what @Conservatives offer. They blew an 80 seat majority with a narcissistic roman orgy of back stabbing, Kemi failed to deliver the brexit red tape bonfire, they banned real cars, blew up power stations for PR stunts and had the highest taxes for decades.
People spend 13, often 16, sometimes as many as 20 years, in full-time education in this country, and most know FA. Truly radical change needed.
Talking point
Still, as Hitler said, it is not the gun, it is the man behind it [that matters]…
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U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman in a statement to Congress:
“We did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of the largest underground nuclear facilities in Isfahan because the site is so deep that the munitions may not have been effective pic.twitter.com/kfZ6BHt7zL
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 28, 2025
Dig for victory…
Israel’s plot to attack Iran hatched up to 15 years ago
Israel had seeded target locations with “boots on the ground” long before June 13, an intelligence source told The Times.
🔴The collected intel assisted Israel’s targeting of three nuclear sites in Tehran and Isfahan,… pic.twitter.com/ZKw9SYa0Lh
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 28, 2025
[“Israel’s plot to attack Iran hatched up to 15 years ago Israel had seeded target locations with “boots on the ground” long before June 13, an intelligence source told The Times.
The collected intel assisted Israel’s targeting of three nuclear sites in Tehran and Isfahan, including seven separate elements of the Natanz enrichment facility, and scores of other sites.
Israeli agents allegedly visited missile factories and workshops which Israel later targeted, including “the entire industry that supported” production of the conventional armaments.
Mossad possibly recruited “Iranian insiders,” the report hinted. Besides missile launches at Israel, a big component of Iran’s response to Israeli aggression has included hunting down Mossad agents, scores of whom have now been caught carrying improvised explosive devices, military-grade explosives, drones and even anti-tank missiles. Some agents have attempted suicide, while others engaged in dramatic, high-speed shootouts with police while attempting to get away.“]
As a John le Carre character reflected, intelligence work rests on patience and a kind of gentleness. Learn from the enemy and the potential enemy. Learn from history. MOSSAD, the KGB and GRU in their heyday, Chinese Intelligence, people such as Maurice Oldfield and Markus Wolf etc.
As for Israeli intelligence, remember what famous former MOSSAD operative Ostrovsky wrote, 36 years ago, i.e. that, in all countries where Jews exist, military and terror plans are in place, weapons and explosives secreted, to be used by selected Jews when the time comes. Look at the UK. Hundreds of young Jews go to Israel every year to be trained by the Israeli armed forces. They then return, most of them, to the UK, become journalists, editors, business parasites, City traders, whatever…but are also, some of them, agents or secret co-workers of MOSSAD, AMAN etc.
Haaretz Israeli newspaper cites IDF soldiers and officers confessing to have shot unarmed Gazans waiting for aid at the US aid distribution centers. pic.twitter.com/YHeivC91Hs
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 28, 2025
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 28, 2025
Iranian news analyst Mohammad Mahdi Babaei:
"The United States has paid 70% of Israel's total military spending as of October 7, 2023.
$17.9 billion in direct aid, nearly $5 billion in regional operations, $20 billion in pending arms contracts, and billions more in general… pic.twitter.com/p0tlXnwVWB
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 28, 2025
There it is. The American taxpayer is funding the Israeli war machine.
In turn, Israel and the American Jewish lobby fund US Senators and Congressmen…
Late tweets
Home ownership, since the early 1990s, has crashed by 20 per cent. London rents over the last fifteen years have surged 83 per cent, while earnings increased by only 21 per cent —a housing crisis undoubtedly exacerbated by mass migration.https://t.co/oLfXeaJvMs
Keir Starmer is so out of touch with Britain that the only thing he regrets is saying the very thing that a majority of British people agree with him on. Mass uncontrolled immigration is out of control and not working for the British people. pic.twitter.com/2vMICIL1bm
[Soviet painting of the Socialist Realism school, depicting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin]
Talking point
“Arabic might be considered the richest language in words based on its complexity. According to The National – the United Arab Emirates’ leading English-speaking news outlet – on average, a single written word in Arabic has three meanings, seven pronunciations and 12 interpretations.“
Not merely a philological curiosity; it means that the meaning and/or intent of the Arab is not necessarily clear-cut.
True, the same word in English can have several meanings (some words can, that is), but I do not think that that is quite the same, mainly because, in English, the meaning is usually obvious from the context. Also, it applies to a relatively few words, not “the average“.
Something for the Arabists in the Foreign Office to consider, if they have not all been purged, and replaced by Zionists (which may well be the case, looking at UK representation in Ukraine and Israel in recent years).
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“Ukraine has…uh…Biological Research Facilities…we’re concerned that some of this research…could fall into the wrong hands…” -Victoria Nuland
A few years ago, I posted on the blog my experience, sometime around 1994 or 1995, of having visited the UK’s biological research laboratories at Porton Down, Wiltshire, in company with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, who later became both an unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency of Ukraine and the director of a biological facility in Ukraine (he was a biochemist/microbiologist by training):
“ELON: YOU COULD EASILY POWER THE ENTIRE US WITH SOLAR Elon: “You could actually power the entire United States with a 100 miles by 100 miles of solar.” Joe Rogan: “So you could just pick some dead spot that you fly over, cover that sucker up with solar panels, and charge the whole country, 24/7?” Elon: “Absolutely. We need batteries, but yes. It’s not hard, meaning it’s very feasible. The sun is converting over 4 million tons of mass to energy every second, and it’s no maintenance. That thing just works.” Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, October 2023, @joerogan.“
Very interesting from the point of view of American autarky and isolationism.
“Reform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says study.
Analysis of a mega poll shows Keir Starmer would lose more seats than Tories amid voter discontent with main parties.
Labour faces losing scores of seats to Reform UK across England and Wales as a widening section of voters lose faith in the mainstream parties, according to a new analysis seen by the Observer.
With senior figures in the Labour party now privately talking about a “change of era” in which more moderate voters are turning to Nigel Farage’s party, new research on Reform’s influence suggests it will take far more seats from Labour than from the Conservatives on current trends.
Reform would win 76 seats if an election were held now, according to a constituency-by-constituency model. Of those, 60 would be won from Labour, including seats across the “red wall”, as well as in Wales and across the south of England.
However, the analysis also reveals that even a relatively small further swing towards Reform from Labour could see the party pick up another 76 Labour-held seats.
The narrow Labour lead in many seats means it is susceptible in the event of a high turnout among Reform voters, a surge in Reform’s support, or a drop in Labour turnout.
The huge study, commissioned by the Hope Not Hate campaign group, has been carried out by the Focaldata polling company using a mega-poll, or MRP, made up of almost 18,000 voters.
Its analysis of almost 4,000 voters currently minded to back Reform found that one in five were “moderate, interventionist” voters who were unlike those who had backed Farage at the last election or supported Ukip or the Brexit party in the past.“
[The Observer/Guardian]
So there it is. Reform could end up with 152 seats even on present polling and trending.
As frequently noted, Reform is part of the journey, not the ultimate destination, but this news, overall, is very good.
Pretty universal reaction from European markets this morning, as traders react to tariffs across North America pic.twitter.com/aVcbNFBjyH
I only believe stock exchange speculators when they start jumping out of windows.
The Bank of England is expected to deal Rachel Reeves a blow this week by downgrading its growth outlook and warning that her October budget will drive up inflation https://t.co/zsBPKUI5e5
You may as well ban cars because a few lunatics deliberately or carelessly misuse them to hurt others. There must be literally billions of knives, even of the type(s) mentioned, in the UK.
Most knife crime is done by “the blacks and browns”, followed by other ethnic minorities, yet contemporary msm scribblers, talking heads, Westminster Bubble drones want to get rid of knives (or certain types of knife)?! Get rid of those doing the crimes. Get rid of them.
That Tom Calver person is, apparently, a Times columnist. No wonder people do not want to pay, for content of that sort.
NEW: What is the most common murder weapon?
It isn’t the gun, the machete or the zombie knife – but your hands.
Over the past few decades, the newspapers have gradually filled with idiots of the Tom Calver type, all trying to present themselves as “serious” commentators. Some, such as pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel expenses cheat, Michael Gove, even made it into government.
I cook all the time and the sharp end is very useful.
It's also used to open and pierce things. It's also very useful to make holes with.
You do realise anyone can make a bladed instrument that's not a knife. Ask any prisoner.
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“, and Britain certainly has gone mad. Not so much the “broad masses” of the population, but mainly the Westminster Bubble, the msm scribblers and talking heads, the ivory tower fake academics etc.
In the words of Katie Hopkins, “Batshit Bonkers Britain“…
“There is a growing consensus across Europe that the 1951 Refugee Convention, drafted after the Second World War and added to by rulings in the European and EU courts, is no longer fit for purpose”
The world has changed out of all recognition since 1951.
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An explosion occurred in the lobby of the Alye Parusa high-rise residential complex in northwestern Moscow, an emergency official told TASS. TASS has compiled the key details about the incident: https://t.co/nAUfBWGJpcpic.twitter.com/65gwpHikzR
Air defenses downed 70 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has compiled the main information about the incidents:https://t.co/HTIqLMgqOHpic.twitter.com/G8VZXOhSzd
49% of Britons support introducing proportional representation, with just 26% backing first past the post
PR: 49% FPTP: 26%
By party voted for in 2024 Green: 72% PR vs 15% FPTP Reform UK: 67% vs 20% Lib Dem: 61% vs 20% Labour: 53% vs 27% Conservative: 39% vs 42%… pic.twitter.com/a2YDgwKbx1
Look at the odd man out— the “Conservatives”. I think that they are in a death spiral.
Of course, the System MPs (rather than voters) will fight to keep FPTP, but proportional representation is an idea the time for which has finally arrived.
Looking at it another way, it is certainly the aged who still support FPTP, because they have grown up with it, are used to it and many of them are too stupid to see that its time has gone.
I wonder how many of those in charge are Jewish? In the USA, psychiatry and psychology are heavily-Jewish areas, but I do not know whether that is also the case in the UK.
A penguin jumped on a boat to escape a Seal… so they took him to the iceberg where his friends were waiting.. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/lu36CJPFso
“I spent the weekend in an act of ‘wild service’ helping to restore nature & maybe helping to heal some if the urban/rural divide.
In an event organised by @StEthelburgas &@letterstoearth_, a group of urbanites came together in the glorious welsh countryside to plant hedges & trees.
The method of planting 100’s of metres of hedges to connect up existing habitats (copses, ponds, areas of scrub etc) cleverly balanced allowing the land to be used for farming whilst giving more connected space for Nature.
The thing I wasn’t expecting though was crossing cultural divides. Witnessing some of the farmers on twitter & in the media who repeat culture war bait about hating both Nature & urbanites in the countryside had coloured my impression of farmers more generally. However, our host Dave was so kind & welcoming to his land & seemed genuinely touched that we had come out to help plant & restore; the jar of homemade honey he gave to each of us was a wonderful reward for a weekend well spent.“
I travelled to a Wivenhoe today to represent the King George Oak in a crunch meeting with the town council to save it from being destroyed at the behest of @avivaplc.
Trees add so much to a cityscape or suburb, not only to the countryside.
The Environment Agency: “sorry we don’t have any money to monitor water quality, prosecute illegal sewage dumping or investigate waste crime & flytipping.”
Also the Environment Agency: “let’s spend thousands on contractors to hack back trees, the wildlife around here is having… https://t.co/vFaecG6nMI
Just had a look at that Brooker person. Supports the malicious and mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” cabal, U.S. Democrats, Jess Phillips etc. Oh, and “anti-racism”. Retweets likely State asset and faux-socialist Paul Mason. Seems unclear what, if anything, he knows about the environment (etc).
Carrot cake was introduced in the UK (or reintroduced, having been known from at least the 16thC, probably much earlier) on a large scale in the early 1940s days of food rationing, to use vast stocks of carrots (unrationed) in lieu of sugar. It then became popular, and has remained so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_cake.
“Carpetbagger Kemi” steering the “Conservatives” straight into a crash landing, or just a crash.
LibDems, as usual, the “dustbin” or “cockroach” party, surviving and even thriving by reason of not being Con or Lab label…
Electoral Calculus suggests that those figures might mean Labour largest party (237 MPs), Reform UK second (148 MPs), Conservatives 125, LibDems 78, Greens 6. So Labour could form a weak minority government with LibDem and SNP (etc) support.
On those figures, the Con Party would not even be the official Opposition, thus weakening their shattered credibility further.
I disagree with Lucas’s analysis which says that the fall of the Syrian government weakens Russia. It weakens Russia in the Middle East, yes— but in the big scheme of things, that makes no difference.
Back to basics. When Stalin was Soviet leader, the Soviet Union had a very small navy, and one which was mainly confined to seas around the Soviet coastline. For Stalin, the geopolitical reality was that the Soviet Union’s power rested on its huge land-based armed forces, and on its huge geographical size, as well as a large population.
With the coming of the atomic age, Stalin’s scientists and spies ensured that the Soviet Union acquired the weapons at first possessed by only the USA and then the UK. At that time, all Soviet atomic and nuclear weapons were land-based, i.e. launched from aircraft themselves based in the Soviet Union and, in a few cases, satellite states.
Khrushchev, in his memoirs, disparages the senior naval officers pushing for a global Soviet naval presence. After Khrushchev’s fall from power, his successors did the opposite, creating a massive navy, which included ships and submarines capable of launching missiles including, eventually, nuclear ones.
That post-1960s global-profile strategy included supporting various factions in Africa, Asia, Latin America; that included the Middle East. Superpower rivalry.
A clear cost-benefit analysis, however, shows that, in the present, post-Soviet era, Russia actually does not need bases in Syria or elsewhere. Its strength lies, as before, in its geographic size, its still-large population and, crucially, its strategic rocket forces. All of those still exist. Moreover, the Russian strategic rocket forces are, it seems, at least as powerful, and as awesome, as those of NATO (i.e. USA); perhaps more so.
If Russia is forced by events to take a smaller part in the events of the Middle East, then all to the good. It can concentrate its forces and attention on the key areas of Russia itself, Ukraine and other areas of the “near-abroad”, and on advancing its most important forces, the strategic rocket and other nuclear forces.
The main thing now is to defeat the Kiev regime, and to install in Ukraine, at least in Eastern Ukraine, along the Black Sea coast, and in Kiev, either direct Russian rule or a pro-Russia Ukrainian government. It may be thought expedient, and historically consonant, to allow an independent Ukrainian government in Western Ukraine, and based on Lvov.
In respect of Central and Western Europe, Russia merely needs to obtain a modus vivendi with those states by encouraging the election or other installation of governments not hostile to Russia. Such governments need not be “pro-Russian”, or under the control of Russia; they need only be independent of the USA and, of course, free from the Jew-Zionist influence now so pervasive throughout the West.
Putin and his supporters and/or successors should be focussing on their nuclear arsenal, together with active measures aimed at helping political parties and individuals in Western and Central Europe that want a civilized rapprochement with the Russian state and people.
Starmer appoints another Israel Lobby implant into his cabinet. Margaret Hodge appointed as Corruption Czar. What a joke appointing someone who had to apologise publicly in the high court for failing for years to stop child abuse on her watch, incl Saville https://t.co/9i5Lc4p46V
— Lord Doran of Westwinds @domhnalld.bskyb.social (@donsue45) December 10, 2024
Naturally, I expected the Labour Friends of Israel government led by “Tel Aviv Keith” to be hopeless and rubbish, but not so obviously so and so quickly.
Talking point
“Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer, former bureaucrat-lawyer; Rachel Reeves, fake “economist” and one-time bank office bod; David Lammy, thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire”; Yvette Cooper, expenses cheat fraudster and “refugees welcome” hypocrite. The rest as well…
Do you really expect that lot to be anything other than rubbish?
Now it seems that Rachel Reeves, who could not even control her own personal (and interest-free) House of Commons credit card, is apparently going to “scrutinize every penny” of public spending. i.e. do spending cuts.
Ecce “democracy”— 14 years of misguided “austerity”, so the “Conservatives” are eventually voted out, and in are voted (at least by 4 out of every 20 eligible voters) fake “Labour”. First thing they do (apart from arrest protesters and online commentators)? Impose more spending cuts…
Oh well, “worse is better“, as Lenin said. Maybe there will be a “straw breaks camel’s back” moment. Starmer, Reeves etc will then, I hope, get what’s coming to them.
Well, political parties need funding. That Nick Candy person certainly has money, and knows others with money. Still, his interest in UK politics has been anything but narrow, to date:
“...The Times in March 2021…named Nick as the leader of fundraising for Shaun Bailey’s London mayoral campaign.[78] In June 2020, The Guardian also reported that Candy had donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party in March 2020.[79] In February 2024, Nick was reported by the The Independent to have expressed support for Keir Starmer‘s Labour Party.[80]“
Controlled opposition, of course. Both main System parties are fading (finally) in public estimation, so to prevent something social-national emerging, up pops Reform UK— pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, anti-Welfare State, not (very) “racist” etc…
Still, the Overton Window is moving.
You can send £11 million to Syria or give winter fuel allowances to 36,000 British pensioners. I know which one I’d choose.
Same goes for “Ukraine” (the brutal and shambolic Kiev regime).
[“but I voted Labour to keep the British welfare state functioning, to improve the NHS, and to get this country running properly again, not to waste money on militant Arabs, or to throw money and arms at the Jewish regime in Ukraine!“]
Just provide someone to say this on oath in a court. Perhaps the Ambassador. Then, if we don’t believe him, he can be locked up. https://t.co/6FeYS5ytHH
Jew-Zionist barrister (a “KC”, no less) who, apparently, has never heard of diplomatic immunity. Unless it is some kind of joke the humour of which escapes me.
“My case grinds on. Here’s a thing though: this is Mark Lewis, he’s a solicitor at Patron Law.
One of the most important rules about the conduct of solicitors is that they must not mislead or attempt to mislead the court. I now have clear evidence that suggests Lewis attempted to mislead the court. It is a serious allegation. The sort of allegation that, if true, should end Lewis’ career. The big question is: how are Lewis and his firm going to respond? @MLewisLawyer@Patron_Law.”
[James Wilson].
Actually Wilson is wrong in one respect. That is not “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, as his Twitter account used to be called; that is Lewis as he was about 12 years ago. He is now physically and mentally in a very poor condition, can scarcely walk, and his faculties are not what they may have been a decade or more ago.
Lewis and his fellow Zionist Jews in at least two pro-Israel organizations have been making false and malicious accusations against me for a decade now. I have responded with the truth, on Twitter (until “they” had me expelled in 2018), and on the blog (since late 2016).
The above video clip shows Lewis and his wife, Mandy Blumenthal, after their attempted political stunt (and scam) at the Edinburgh Fringe, in August 2024, failed risibly.
As for the latest information said to be in the hands of James Wilson ending Lewis’s career, that career is already effectively at an end. Many would say that (such as it was) it ended a long time ago.
When Lewis was fined and censured by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018, his own Counsel asked the panel to be lenient in terms of fining him because his sole assets were his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a mobility scooter! Even his car, at the time (before his domicile changed from the UK to Israel), was provided to him free of charge by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), under its Motability scheme.
Actually, Lewis’s Counsel may have (I presume, inadvertently) misled that Tribunal, inasmuch as Lewis had, or so he once claimed, a flat in Eilat, Israel.
Lewis and the pack of Zionist Jews connected with him (eg those in the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”) have never sued me for anything I have written about them. They have preferred to make malicious and false complaints about me to the police etc.
Having said that, it is true that my present impecuniosity would make me a pretty poor target for any civil suit; I have even fewer assets than Lewis, if you include his flat in Israel which he seems to have concealed from the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Even if they were to sue me and even if they were to succeed at trial (and they have not done so at any time in the past 12 years), their victory would be very very expensive for them. Hundreds of thousands of pounds expensive.
“My allegation is not that Lewis’ clients are vexatious, but that the evidence I have suggests he cannot be trusted not to attempt to mislead the court. If I am right, what does this mean for all the other cases in which Lewis has acted? What if there have been other attempts to mislead the court?“
Lewis has misled the Court and his own clients several, perhaps numerous, times, but so far has got away with it, at least to the extent of not having been struck off the solicitors’ roll. Part of his immunity from punishment has been the protective shield around him, consisting of other Jews, in the Press and other msm, not reporting negative things about Lewis, and indeed puffing him to a ridiculous extent, especially years ago.
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Congratulations @narindertweets ! This is quite possibly the funniest and most humiliating display of your complete absence of intellectually acuity.
To be fair you make a great poster child for the mouth breathers on the left though 👏🏼
Idiots like that Narinder Kaur woman (of whom I think I had not previously heard) are actually paid to spout garbage on “British” TV. Know-nothings, emoting and gushing anti-white and/or racemixing propaganda.
In the past two days, Israel has occupied more than the area of Lebanon in Syria after completely destroying its military capabilities on land and in the air, and has reached the outskirts of the capital, while the conqueror Netanyahu declared his dominance over the region from… pic.twitter.com/Tw6rgHD8iR
The tactics of a police state, which is exactly what the dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky is.
Needless to say (again), few if any in Ukraine “volunteer” to be killed on the Kiev regime’s crumbling front lines. Few even comply with the draft. They have to be abducted, and intimidated by threats of prison or death.
“The German government was left on the brink of collapse after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, unexpectedly sacked his finance minister, plunging Europe’s largest economy into political disarray.
“The situation is serious,” Scholz added. “There is war in Europe, tensions are increasing in the Middle East. At the same time, our economy is stagnating.”
I could suggest something about certain parts of London (mostly North and North-West), but in view of the fact that free speech in the UK is all but dead (by reason of the activities of “a certain tribe”), I think that, today at least, I prefer to keep my views to myself.
Russia only wants Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper river) and the coastline across to and including Odessa.
Historically, what is now Western Ukraine (based on Lvov) has made several different rulerships, including both Russia and Austria-Hungary.
While Putin would probably prefer to take all of Ukraine, I think that he would accept a peace agreement with a Lvov-based rump Ukraine willing to be neutral in future. That used to be called, from 1945 to 2023, “Finlandization”, and worked quite well for everyone until, quite recently, the Finnish government went mad and joined NATO.
That is a good thing. America is at its best when it is isolationist.
October Revolution
7 November (in the Gregorian calendar) is the day on which, in the Soviet Union, was set aside to commemorate the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 (old-style, Julian calendar).
There were always parades in Moscow. I recall watching Soviet TV news in the old Channel 4 newsroom (then in the old ITN building in Wells Street, near Oxford Street) as a kind of guest, in 1984.
40 years ago, almost half a lifetime.
I recall it mainly because of the excellent picture quality on the satellite link; also because I had come directly from a tough afternoon taekwando session taught by a candidate-competitor black-belt destined for the 1988 Seoul Olympics (I don’t know whether he eventually went, though).
It was interesting to see people normally seen by me only on TV broadcasts. Peter Sissons, for one [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sissons]. I remember how surprised I was that he seemed rather fat when encountered in person.
When the Bolsheviks seized power from the Kerensky government in 1917, a tide of anger and unrest poured across, first Russia, then the rest of the world.
The history of the 20th Century was, to a large extent, the outcome of the fight against, or for Sovietism. The rise of National Socialism was also, to a large extent, the result of Bolshevism and the struggle to resist it. An Abwehr or “parrying”.
Even after the events of the Second World War, the subsequent “peace” revolved around the need in the West to “parry” Sovietism— the Yalta and other agreements, the Cold War, the “Finlandization” not only of Finland itself but also of Austria and Yugoslavia. The taking out of Central Europe, and the reduction of Europe into East and West.
Of course, Sovietism itself changed too, internally: Bolshevism and Leninism became Stalinism (with Trotskyist offshoots overseas), then post-Stalinist Sovietism under Khrushchev and his successors.
International revolution against finance-capitalist reaction became big-power and then superpower rivalry.
By the time I watched that 1984 TV news broadcast, the Cold War was still going strong, superficially, but the Soviet Union had only 5 years left. (Officially, the Soviet Union lasted until 1991, but it was dead by late 1989). It did not necessarily seem so at the time. The Dzerzhinsky Regiment (MVD troops) led that parade (the bit I saw), and the Soviet power still gave the impression of being fearsome. However, as a character notes in one of my favourite films, The Russia House, adaptation of a John le Carre novel, the Soviet knight was dying inside his armour.
Now we are in a rather different world. Still, after a 1989-2022 gap, the superpower rivalry is again there (if it ever went away), but this time as a conflation of a rump-Sovietism with a Great-Russian nationalism, bumping horns against an expansionist NATO led and ruled over by a USA which is, in effect, NWO/ZOG (New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government).
Where now? The front-lines of the conflict are in Ukraine (which the Western power wants to subsume into its sphere of influence) and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East.
Europe needs a new direction. So does Russia. The answer must be a Eurasian ethno-state, Europe joining loosely with Russia against the areas of the world which are comprised of peoples, in very broad terms, now the enemies of positive evolution.
[F.B.I. special agent, 1930s, practising at the range, probably at Quantico, Virginia, and using the famous Thompson sub-machine gun, probably the 50-round drum magazine version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Academy#History]
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Watched The Cranes Are Flying (1957) for the first time last night and still thinking about the astonishing cinematography. How did they do this shot? pic.twitter.com/RZfdJpqXIw
Dan Hodges seems to have forgotten (assuming that he ever knew) that, in the Soviet Union, in Stalin’s day and even afterward, ordinary criminals were often treated better than “politicals”.
In any case, the “police state” aspect in question is not Hodges’ “early release” red herring but the incarceration of people for minor disorder, or for tweeting comments etc.
The present UK situation is similar (don’t forget Starmer’s extreme pseudo-socialist ideological background): the real criminals are being released after having served only 40% —with other measures in place, as little as 20%— of their headline sentences, but —by any other name— political, or treated as political, prisoners are being swiftly incarcerated, and are being more harshly sentenced as well.
Incidentally, not only those convicted following the recent protests and/or “riots” (nb. I myself do not consider saying “boo!” to a police riot squad operative, pushing at his plastic shield, looting a sausage-roll shop, or even overturning the odd police car, a “riot” nor indeed a “political protest” as such).
A while ago, I read that a young man had served his entire headline sentence (6 years, I think), having been convicted on one of those trumped-up bs pseudo-“terrorism” charges the UK police and Clown Prosecution Service seem to love today (they often involve an accusation that the accused shared some or another “terrorist” material online, and at the same time owned completely lawful objects such as copies of Mein Kampf or a picture of Hitler; random pieces of circumstantial “evidence” put in to bamboozle a typical low-IQ rubber-stamp “British” jury).
More broadly, the lack of real knowledge of history is widespread now. As G.K. Chesterton said, he feared the uneducated less than he feared the badly-educated.
The “Chaser”, Jenny Ryan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Ryan], fluffed the question “which of these three was first to be named as Time magazine Man of the Year in 1923?“, the three being Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.
I thought Mussolini (because of the October 1922 March on Rome, after which Mussolini became Prime Minister), and that turned out to be the correct answer. However, it occurred to me that there was at least a possibility that the correct answer would be Hitler (because of the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923).
However, Jenny Ryan, “the Vixen”, thought that Stalin was the right answer, afterwards commenting that she had “thought that Stalin was a much bigger figure back then“, thus showing ignorance of the history of all three countries concerned (Stalin’s more or less supreme power in the Soviet Union only dated from about 1928, though it increased from 1924; in 1923, Lenin was still alive, and the leadership still somewhat collegial). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#1924%E2%80%931927:_Succeeding_Lenin.
“The Vixen” later made another mistake on the same show, in failing to choose Offa as the answer to a question on Anglo-Saxon history; she chose “Cnut” (Canute), but he was not even an Anglo-Saxon king (though admittedly a king during the Anglo-Saxon period). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa_of_Mercia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut.
That’s the problem with such quiz shows, esp. The Chase. The “Chasers” and others have memorized lists, and (some) facts, but generally have no real in-depth background. I have noticed that with other Chasers, such as “The Beast”, Mark Labett.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing“, especially in political journalism.
Au contraire. Starmer and his pack (Yvette Cooper etc) do care about free speech— about shutting it down, that is.
This government response to a letter from over 500 academics concerned about the repeal of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is disappointingly partisan and ill-informed. https://t.co/ingyVTTbaWpic.twitter.com/9GqW8udVrO
In the end, though, the Starmer-Labour government, for all its “massive majority” triumphalism, only got the votes of 4 people out of every 20 (eligible), 4 out of every 12 people (that voted). Quite a number of even the voters that voted Labour only did so to make sure that the Conservative Party lost the election.
The real support for Labour is about 10% of the population. The real support for the attack on free speech etc is even smaller, only a few percent of the whole population.
Starmer and Labour have no legitimate mandate.
Israeli media is scrambling to remove the “Hamas beat me” references 💨 Screenshots and the internet archive are forever 🥲 pic.twitter.com/u0Cx5LKzlK
The “British” mass media is utterly infested, of course. The UK msm routinely parrots Israeli and UK Jewish/Zionist lobby propaganda.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law. pic.twitter.com/GmqupXlJms
Being one of these pretend Deputy Mayors has to be the best jobs in Britain.
A total doddle, spending your time going on jollies, taking home six figure. Truly the modern aristocracy. Don’t pretend you aren’t jealous. https://t.co/C3lrODx1mB
“Storming a plane, arresting someone, & sentencing them to prison for 20months…For being ‘among a group of people’ & ‘throwing a single item’… Then Police making a social media boast video, complete with music, about it (while turning comments off). http://What.On.Earth ?! Did I fall asleep & wake up in China or something.
Meanwhile… A) You can literally be filmed (allegedly) battering police officers in an airport & be released on bail to do press conferences etc, whilst still weeks later remaining uncharged. B) You can sexually assault children in the sea and go without even being described in the press. Tho people are supposed to be ‘helping look for you’. C) You can be a convicted child rapist and avoid jail if you break your license terms ‘because there is no space’.
This country is becoming a complete basket case. Shame on anyone who celebrates this situation.”
I agree.
The police and Clown Prosecution Service love the “performative” stuff such as “storming” a plane to arrest someone (rather than waiting until the passengers disembark and go through immigration in the normal way, then quietly detaining the suspect).
It’s all part of the Starmer-Labour poundland police state and TV/Press show for the masses. Pretending that throwing a plastic bollard or a wheelie bin is “terrorism” etc.
A Muslim guy hit a waitress in the face with a plate in Nando's in front of his wife and child. What a wonderful example of an integrated community. The police have done nothing because they couldn't find evidence of right-wing opinions. https://t.co/lp20EubGjr
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) August 23, 2024
Import them, and you also import their behavioural patterns.
Didn’t have this on my 2024 bingo card, but here we go…
Chris Cuomo actually speaks the truth, exposes Democrats/Republican Uniparty swamp. 👏 pic.twitter.com/deE7HhrhnE
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 23, 2024
If you are struggling to put food on the table, take comfort in knowing over the last two years we’ve given Ukraine $2.3 trillion.
— Kamala Harris Press Release (Parody) (@joebldenpress) August 18, 2024
If ever you needed confirmation that Lily Allen is a truly awful human being it’s her getting rid of her dog because her own stupidity meant she left passports in a place that the dog could get to them https://t.co/97M5QPM5iM
I know (and want to know) little about Lily Allen, but everything that I have heard or read about her makes me despise her.
*MUST LISTEN* Lily Allen adopts puppy from a shelter. Creates an insta for the puppy to get likes. Leaves passports within puppies reach, when puppy chews the passports she returns puppy to the shelter, then laughs about it on a podcast whilst discussing getting a new puppy. pic.twitter.com/wa3Kkg9FTp
Let us hope that something unpleasant happens to Lily Allen.
I shall be hoping that bad luck strikes her.
cosplay council estate accent ✅ blamed her kids for cancelling a tour ✅ evicted a family in time for Xmas ✅ not-so-secret-anymore Tory doner ✅ and now she mistreats animals too ✅
is there a worse female celebrity anywhere on earth?
That whole area of complex-sounding but meaningless bs is its own “industry” of nothingness now. It has ballooned over the past half-century, mostly in quiet corners of academia and the civil service. People may call me “biased”, but I should like to bet that much of it (if not all) started with “the usual suspects” (((them))). (cf. Freudian psychoanalysis).
Talking point
“Them”…
Condemned out of their own mouths.
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Keir Starmer’s failure to protect public safety while targeting social media critics is disgraceful, especially given his long tenure as a prosecutor. His problem is he’s a prosecutor trying to play PM with a lock-'em-up attitude, betraying public trust.
Who would have thought it? Still, no doubt (in the tiny little minds of Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and ludicrous “lord chancellor” Shabana Mahmood) that real criminals doing real crime is the better option, as compared to middle-aged housewives and others being released and then making socio-political remarks on Facebook or Twitter.
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‼️ Brian May documentary shows Government and its agencies are letting everyone down on bTB
Government departments are not fit for purpose and need a complete overhaul to end misinformation and confusion about bovine TB crisis for farmers
Basically, 1,000+ people have now been arrested following the recent protests and connected minor “riots” (or violent outbreaks) here and there.
Many of those people have been charged, and many of those have been remanded in custody, meaning put into prison until trial (which might be as long as a year or more later, unless fast-tracked). Those who have pleaded guilty so far mostly seem to have been imprisoned anyway.
The fact is that many (probably almost all) of those imprisoned, either pending trial or after having pleaded guilty, are not in any way, even in the lay sense, “dangerous”. Many have no previous convictions, and even those who do (and the sentences of which have been reported after guilty pleas) have convictions mainly for non-violent offences (shoplifting, drugs etc).
What Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and (absurdly) Shabana Mahmood, have done is to release known and active criminals early (many non-white, and after they have completed only 40% of their sentences), in order to free up space which is now being used to incarcerate English people who are, almost all, not active criminals.
Those released early under that scheme will, many of them, re-offend within a fairly short space of time, whereas relatively few of those arrested in the aftermath of the recent protests will re-offend at all, ever, and certainly not in terms of violent disorder. That of course applies even more to those arrested/charged/imprisoned because they merely made comments, justified or otherwise, on social media.
It is beginning to look very much as though Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and the ridiculous Shabana Mahmood (currently posing as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice) have no idea what they are doing. To me, their over-reaction to the recent minor disorders that took place (by English people— those done by Roma Gypsies in Leeds, and Pakistanis in Birmingham etc, have gone largely unpunished) seems much like that of the Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Off with their heads!“
[“Off with their heads!“]
Incidentally, was there ever a “Lord Chancellor” and Justice Secretary less qualified? A moot point after some in recent years, I concede. However, Shabana Mahmood is an absurd choice for the role. She was only at the practising Bar for a few months, if that (after a year of pupillage), and then worked as a salaried gopher in a firm of solicitors, and only for a couple of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabana_Mahmood#Early_life_and_career.
Shabana Mahmood’s entire legal career only lasted about 3-4 years.
She was probably appointed to placate the Pakistani Muslim element in the UK.
Pakistanis as such are now about 3% of the population; Muslims as a whole (many of which are also Pakistani but born in the UK) comprise 6% of the UK population now. Both anyway are significant voting blocs, and important in general political terms.
“Nearly early two weeks after its surprise incursion into Russia, Ukraine finds itself struggling to find a balance between seizing territory across the border in Kursk and losing it at the heart of the eastern front in central Donetsk.
On Friday, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed advances were being made of up to two miles a day inside Russia, but Moscow’s forces have gained about three miles this month as the Kremlin bets heavily on capturing the hub of Pokrovsk.
In Pokrovsk, meanwhile, officials have stepped up civilian evacuations. Serhiy Dobryak, head of the city military administration, warned that Russian forces had “almost approached” the city and that alarm about its future was growing.
Until a year ago, Pokrovsk was considered safe enough to act as a regional base where journalists and aid workers could stay overnight. Its road and rail connections link the central city of Dnipro with Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Capturing it would in effect cut the part of Donetsk oblast still in Ukrainian hands in two.
There are persistent rumours that Col Emil Ishkulov, the popular commander of Ukraine’s 80th brigade, now among those involved in the incursion into Kursk, was removed from his position at the end of July because he was opposed to the incursion into Russia – unsure his unit had the strength for the task. At the time, soldiers from the unit issued an unsuccessful public appeal for him to be reinstated.
Sumy, which has a population of about 250,000, has remained busy and lively in the summer heat, though the noise of explosions from Russian glide bombs in the distance stepped up over last week. Its hospitals, though, have been filling up with frontline casualties, and an appeals for blood donations went out to help treat wounded soldiers a week ago. It took an hour for the need to be met.
The city has also received about 4,000 people fleeing the agricultural villages in the area towards the border in the north, many of whom plan to rent apartments.
In the border zone, six miles from the boundary, meanwhile, only a tiny handful of civilians and little functioning infrastructure remain. One shop with smashed windows was still selling groceries, but most places were boarded up. An aid agency, Global Empowerment Mission, supplies nearly 26,000 food rations every month because market supplies are absent, visiting frontline villages every week to distribute to the remaining population.“
[Guardian]
I recently examined this situation on the blog. My thoughts were that either Putin might push the incursion forces back using conventional military means, or blast the entire area from the air, destroying the Kiev-regime forces (as well as any unfortunate Russian and Ukrainian villagers still trying to live there).
Another possibility, less likely, would be a massive bombardment of either Kharkov or Kiev, using bombers and missiles.
Now, I have come to think that there is a fourth possibility, one which has roots in Russian and Soviet history.
When, as Tolstoy put it, in War and Peace, “the forces of Western Europe invaded Russia” in 1812 (the forces commanded by Napoleon were not all French, though about two-thirds were), the strategy adopted by the Russian leadership under Kutuzov, once he was appointed, was to withdraw and withdraw out of reach, while carrying out some limited flanking attacks and what we might now term “special operations”.
According to the preferred strategy, St. Petersburg, the capital, was protected both by troops and by distance, and so was never threatened by the Grande Armee. Moscow, however, was abandoned and set on fire.
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was famously disastrous, his armies all but destroyed by attritional flank attacks, cold, lack of food, and by disease.
Of the initial half million men, only about 100,000 made it back to France or other countries.
“On 24 June 1812 and subsequent days, the initial wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the Niemen River, marking the entry from the Duchy of Warsaw into Russia.
Employing extensive forced marches, Napoleon rapidly advanced his army of nearly half a million individuals through Western Russia, encompassing present-day Belarus, in a bid to dismantle the disparate Russian forces led by Barclay de Tolly and Pyotr Bagration totaling approximately 180,000–220,000 soldiers at that juncture.[21][22]
Despite losing half of his men within six weeks due to extreme weather conditions, diseases and scarcity of provisions, Napoleon emerged victorious in the Battle of Smolensk. However, the Russian Army, now commanded by Mikhail Kutuzov, opted for a strategic retreat, employing attrition warfare against Napoleon compelling the invaders to rely on an inadequate supply system, incapable of sustaining their vast army in the field.“
[Wikipedia]
In the German invasion and war of 1941-1945, the Wehrmacht advanced to within sight of central Moscow, but were then held and pushed back. Stalin was unwilling to abandon Moscow, the capital, for reasons of morale and administration.
However, elsewhere in European Russia, the Stavka (high command) allowed the Germans to advance and advance into the apparently limitless space (prostor, in the Russian word), as the German supply lines became elongated and eventually unable to supply enough food and ammunition; this came to a head particularly during the battle for Stalingrad.
Reverting to the Kursk situation in 2024, it can be seen that the operation was designed by Zelensky, against the advice of some of his commanders, as a public relations exercise. The suppliers of arms and vast amounts of Western taxpayers’ money had to be shown that the Kiev-regime forces were not beaten. Those forces achieved surprise, and, at first, considerable success.
The Kiev-regime forces were advancing several miles a day in that Kursk border region, but have probably now almost stopped.
Russian forces far to the south, in the Donbass, are advancing 1-3 miles a day, apparently. The Kiev-regime forces are outmannned and outgunned there, a situation made worse by the use of some experienced Ukrainian troops for the Kursk incursion.
What Putin could do (though it might be politically difficult) would be to do little but just about hold the line in the Kursk region, or even fall back on Kursk city (about 30-40 miles from the present front-line), while pounding the Kiev-regime supply lines and rear echelon areas. The Kiev regime forces do not have the manpower or ammunition etc to advance endlessly. Their tide may already have reached its fullest extent.
In other words, Putin could almost let those Kiev-regime forces in the Kursk region “die on the vine”, in MacArthur’s memorable phrase.
Once those Kiev regime forces are stuck in the Kursk region, or have retreated, or are destroyed, those forces will not be able to be deployed, or re-deployed, on the Donbass front. Even now, it looks as though Russian forces will soon split the Kiev-regime forces there into two. Once that results in further crumbling of the front, startling Russian advances may be seen, either in the next few months or next summer. All of Eastern Ukraine may fall to Russian forces in 2025.
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🇬🇧 UK : Liverpool – Mohammed Arazul, illegal immigrant from Iran, attempted to rape a 13-year-old British girl, caught and arrested. Mohammed says, "Respect me. I am new here; I don’t know it’s illegal." pic.twitter.com/LDE9o28MTA
The British people are becoming more sceptical of immigration at exactly the same time as Starmer’s Labour is doubling down on an extreme policy of mass immigration https://t.co/bt5seb8wMzhttps://t.co/B69OP48ooL
“A source told the newspaper [defendant’s immigration] appeal was ongoing when he pushed Mr Potoczek on the tracks and added: ‘It makes you wonder what exactly you have to do to be deported from the UK.‘
Shorsh had 12 convictions for 21 offences including assault, anti-social behaviour and outraging public decency.“
[Daily Mail]
Put him up against a wall.
Notting Hill Carnival starts in seven days. I hope it’s peaceful and have enjoyed it in the past. But last year the disorder was terrible. 71 knives were recovered and 'one or two firearms'. Labour have set the bar high – or rather, the threshold low – for arrests. Let’s see. https://t.co/HbM9XS9Q0Rpic.twitter.com/Unjvl7iYoL
The Notting Hill Carnival should never have been allowed in the first place, and should be terminated now but will not be, because the Government is afraid of weeks of rioting and looting by blacks if such a step were to be taken.
I attended that carnival once, out of curiosity. In the early or mid 1980s. Absolutely ghastly. Intolerable noise, mostly from horrible amplified “music”. Intolerable crowds. Also, no way of getting out without walking miles. In the end, I walked all the way back to Little Venice.
492 illegal migrants entered Britain on small boats yesterday, taking the total since Labour's election to 5,492, & the total this year to 19,066. As I've said, with no serious plan it's only going to get worse … https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
He did however remember this woman and her partner, because these were the very people who disrupted his humorous stories. He ALWAYS remembers people who disrupt his humourous stories. He loves telling humourous stories. pic.twitter.com/DptzEKs1xN
So it seems that the “poor and victimized” Jewish couple, supposedly targeted by an American black comedian, then booed out of an Edinburgh Fringe comedy show by the irritated audience, were none other than Mark Lewis, the egregious self-promoting solicitor, and his wife/partner/carer Mandy Blumenthal. They made a big fuss about emigrating to Israel six years ago. They said that Britain was too “antisemitic” for them to remain here, and so were, in effect, getting out while they could.
A pack of lies. They spend quite a bit of time here, and do not seem to feel any obligation to stay and help Israel in its hour of need.
If those tweets by Reginald D. Hunter are true (accurate), that puts another complexion on the “victimized Jewish couple” story as first published and broadcast recently.
First of all, one has to ask why Lewis and his companion went to such a show in the first place, if the comedian, one Reginald D. Hunter, is known for being “antisemitic” (I have to admit that I had never heard of him at all).
What was their motive even for going there if they were aware of the comedian’s expressed views?
It will be remembered by some that Mandy Blumenthal deliberately tried to book passage, quite many years ago, on a Middle Eastern airline operating out of Heathrow, and made it known that she was Jewish (perhaps using her Israeli passport rather than her UK one). Once refused by the airline, a “typical” fuss was made, both at the airport and in the (((Press))), and the airline quickly stumped up, apparently, quite a few thousand pounds by way of “compensation” (to shut her up).
Is this yet another cynical way to get money, this time out of the comedian, the promoter or the theatre? Was the whole thing contrived in advance, like that airline scam, or not? We do not know, and can only try to draw logical conclusions from what we know.
Reading about what the comedian said on stage, it seems that he recognized the “anonymous” Jewish couple of the Press stories, and that that is why he said that he had been “waiting” for Lewis, assuming that it was Lewis, to turn up:
That’s even before one considers the way in which he treated his ex-wife, one-time low-level TV face, and radio voice (now washed-up and over the hill), Caroline Feraday. I have little time for her anyway, so let’s leave that aside for now (she joined with Lewis in abusing me very unpleasantly on Twitter, about 12 years ago, so she deserved to suffer once she married him, in my view).
Sabrina Miller, when a vociferous Jewish girl student at Bristol, found time to defend Jewish-lobby-puppet and then-MP, Ian Austin, who had tweeted that bestiality pornography and other similar material should be decriminalized. Now she is a “journalist” with the Daily Mail.
The Mail might not have the best reputation, but it really should draw the line at contrived “stories” such as this Edinburgh Fringe scam.
Looks to me as though the audience recognized Lewis specifically, and were loudly disapproving for that reason.
As for the comedian, the promoter (if any), and the theatre, they should resist any contrived legal claim that “any” ambulance-chaser might make…
This all makes me feel that “a certain person” was right (about “them”)…
And as you probably know, Sabrina Miller has form: see her role in trying to smear @Tracking_Power (David Miller – no relation) as an antisemite when he was working at Bristol University (claims which were destroyed in court).
There’s an air of unreality to prosecutions designed to nip unrest in the bud by handing down disproportionate sentences. English law, honed over centuries to match punishment to evidence, is misfiring. Many defendants have pled guilty without trial. Cases need testing by juries. https://t.co/ykuP6ExHuX
What does Starmer think those imprisoned protesters, tweeters, Facebook posters feel about the UK government of traitors now? Happy? Angry? Determined?
"More than 1,000 people have been arrested, with almost 600 charged so far. Some of those charged have been children, including two 12-year-old boys, a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy."
God help John Betjeman, were he still alive. “Come, friendly German bombers, and drop your bombs on Slough“… he would probably be arrested by the “Anti-Terror Command” or other poundshop UK Stasi police, and/or imprisoned for years.
Misleading headline. She’s talking about the dangers of deifying the NHS.
Also look at this nuts analysis from Sky’s Health correspondent. “The health service is our most cherished institution. Very few people would dare to attack it.”
Almost anything now published or spoken by msm scribblers and talking heads can be discounted. If they ever cross the line into uncomfortable and “unapproved” reality, they soon lose those lucrative jobs— and they know it.
Quote: ‘A report two years ago by Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, revealed that Muslim terrorists had been able to seize control of prison wings and set up sharia courts behind bars because prison staff were so concerned about being accused of…
The Ukraine calls on the residents of Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian: Pokrovsk), Dimitrov (Mirnograd) and Selidov to evacuate because the front line is approaching them pic.twitter.com/PfEZtK9NIU
All in the Donbass, where Russian forces are now steadily advancing at a rate of up to 3 miles per day.
Bundeswehr: The attack on Kursk did not stop the Russian offensive on the central front in Donbass RUSSIANS SUCCESSFULLY BYPASS UKRAINIAN POSITIONS FROM THE FLANKS, SO THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEM General Christian FREUDING, who in the Bundeswehr is responsible for the coordination of… pic.twitter.com/R2eKodQw7m
🇺🇦 Ukraine is threatened with disaster – the Kiev regime welcomes winter in fear. The energy system of Ukraine is in a critical state, and the current production represents only half of the amount that will be necessary for the winter, announced the European Commissioner for… pic.twitter.com/HJNCkFkI2X
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 18, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.
I heard that idiot on the car radio this morning, on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Dishonest deflecting but which was not even intelligent deflection. A characterless drone. Just looked him up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Hands. Background suspiciously cosmopolitan.
This happened also in the First World War— Russian generals and others all conspiring against, and fighting, each other. In the Second World War it did not happen, because Stalin kept a very firm control over the Stavka, the armed forces generally, and the intelligence services, and everyone, from high to low, was —with reason— afraid of his wrath.
He also includes a written statement with a timeline of all events happening since the start of the full scale war. Mostly blaming the Russian MoD for the problems that have arisen due to the lack of supplies and support. pic.twitter.com/tshCSpJ0e3
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on the drone strike on the Kremlin:
“Putin has not yet said a word. I think both he and the Russian military will continue to remain calm and collected and will not allow themselves emotional responses. But this moment will definitely be… pic.twitter.com/tuA6DopGyc
Zelensky may be as much of a figurehead or even puppet than he is a leader as such, but he now is the face of the Kiev regime. If Russia can eliminate him, take him off the board, that is as good, or would be, as destroying a whole army. Zelensky is the lynch-pin of this situation. He is the one arranging for shipments of free armament, ammunition, other supplies and, crucially, actual money from the West, in huge amounts.
Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: If Ukraine falls, the current world order will collapse pic.twitter.com/Y6sAvpbxJa
Orban believes that only in a fairy tale can there be a situation in which Russia will be defeated and she will come to terms with this “I don’t have enough imagination to imagine that someone can defeat a nuclear power. To think that the Russians will idly watch as they are… pic.twitter.com/Xy0m7UoeWn
Millions of people in this country are about to spend their weekend celebrating the coronation of a man that they’ve never met, who’s never done anything for this country except steal our money, all while ordinary people are struggling just to afford basic necessities. Backwards.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) May 4, 2023
Polemical and a little one-sided, but he has a point…
Despite the fact that Western countries are constantly training Ukrainian soldiers to use new weapons, the armed forces of Ukraine still find themselves in embarrassing situations. pic.twitter.com/RHDV74gZGQ
Interesting thread; worth reading. I seem to remember seeing that photo as a child, in a Life magazine book about Italy, published sometime in the late 1950s.
As so often, the camera does not tell the whole truth.
#Nebenzia: An indirect confrontation between #NATO and #Russia objectively increases the risk of a direct clash between Russia and the Alliance, regardless of how much NATO claims to be doing everything it can to prevent such a scenario.
Looking at the replies to the above tweet by unthinking and/or brainwashed persons supporting the Kiev-regime, one realizes how the two world wars started, meaning from the standpoint of public opinion.
The anti-Russia tweeters, many cheerleading for actual war with Russia, seem to be oblivious to what nuclear war would mean for them, for their families and companion animals, for their homes, their neighbourhoods, for their whole way of life (assuming that they themselves even survive).
Reading those stupid tweets, for me the clock or countdown to the destruction of our whole society in Europe (in Russia and the USA as well) just ticked on by a couple of minutes and is not far from striking the hour.
Leaked video shows researchers shared data w/ Israeli Ministry of Health showing serious + long-term side effects with Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, but Israeli health officials told public in an August report that serious side effects were “rare” + short-term.https://t.co/6v5aT1M4Ld
We’re on the verge of major economic collapse, created entirely by the policies of our WEF-infested governments & unelected Eurocrats. People will suffer, but the question remains: are they going to beg the very people who did this for help? Or are they going to wake up & resist?
Having seen the supine populations of Europe, North America, Australasia comply with the perhaps-deliberately absurd demands of 2020-2021 —facemask nonsense, “rule of six” in the UK, “lockdown” (shutdown) etc—, and seeing how only a minority seem to understand that the present downturn is mainly because of the shutdown of economic activity 2020-2021, I am not optimistic. However, hunger and desperation may sharpen perceptions and lead to real upsurges.
1/2 @bernardgray4. And sometimes it is not. If there had been no 1914 war, there'd have been no Hitler, no Lenin and no Stalin. All the horrors of the last 100 years stem from the idiotic war fever of that period. Now neocon morons seek *more* avoidable wars. https://t.co/QpTErcSKWe
2/2 @bernardgray and if you really think wars are fought because we don't like tyranny, I assume you and yours will be signing up for the huge legions necessary to challenge tyranny in China and Saudi Arabia and Egypt etc etc , forever and ever. Naivety survives everything, eh? https://t.co/QpTErcSKWe
Every blasted war enthusiast should be taken to see this picture. The joyous man in the middle of it with a flower in his rifle is the son of the artist, who died in the war. The sad grey-haired woman on the left is his mother. https://t.co/auSyzUq6LQ
This person @jimmysecuk has been challenged again and again to justify his abusive false allegations. He has failed. Yet he persists. What will happen to our free society if people think that repeatedly defaming others is a form of debate? https://t.co/4Dddtg97jw
That “@jimmysecuk” tweeter used to gossip with (other?) malicious Jews about me, when I still had a Twitter “account”, that is until a pack of Zionist Jews conspired to have me “suspended” (expelled) in 2018. Formerly connected (a student?) with Exeter University.
If I recall aright, “jimmysecuk” used to be quite plainly very pro-Israel on Twitter.
“@jimmysecuk” claimed, in recent years, to be a journalist, though there seems to be no evidence of that (always uses the pseudonym, and I have seen no published matter with that byline), and now claims to be “Kyiv [Kiev] -based independent foreign policy/security analyst“. What organization, newspaper etc actually uses whatever he may produce? Or is that a kind of hobby, funded by a private income? I have no idea.
In that event, further escalation will be almost inevitable. This is not 1942. Russia has weapons that it has not yet used and which, at peak, could actually reduce the entire Ukraine to an irradiated wasteland, which would, obviously, be a terrible thing for Europe and for the whole world as well as for Ukraine and, indeed, Russia itself.
Had the Russian General Staff and GRU not been criminally negligent, the invasion of Ukraine (certainly Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also including both Kiev and Odessa) could have been accomplished swiftly, and with minimal loss of life.
The whole campaign has been both “bitty” and sluggish. The lack of a firm directing hand has been evident throughout.
Compare that to the Red Army and Stavka, under Stalin’s dictatorship, during the 1942-1945 period.
This could rapidly become an existential crisis not only for Putin and his regime but for the Russian state itself. Russia has to regain the initiative, or be defeated in the field.
Russian upheavals and revolutions have usually followed military defeat, as seen in, inter alia, 1905 and 1917.
Late thought
My feeling is that sometimes monarchy is the best system (for a particular country, at a particular time in history), whether “constitutional” or “absolute”.
At other times, monarchy is not the best system, but the alternative is not simply “a republic” because that designation covers everything from utter despotism to a system such as that pertaining in Switzerland.
As to the new King Charles III himself, and as readers of this blog may have read, I met him once, briefly, at a reception overseas, and we exchanged a few polite words.
My view, based on that but also and mainly on what I have heard and read over half a century or so: well-meaning, somewhat but not highly educated, self-absorbed and possibly peevish at times, someone with firm but not always nuanced views.
Example of that last, his views on architecture, which tend to the pastiche and simplistic, as seen both in his Poundbury development and in his support for slightly eclectic neo-classicism (as with Quinlan Terry). Not “wrong”, but just slightly trivial and derivative, in my view.
Monarchy in the UK has changed out of all recognition over the last few centuries. While the late Queen was alive, I was willing to accept constitutional monarchy. Less so now, and not at all once the present King is succeeded by one of his children or any other.
This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state since 1960. It has been watered just once in that time. pic.twitter.com/VvupErLIqn
"What most failed nations need, and can't work out how to get, is trust & the rule of law. Without these things (which Britain has, but foolishly does not treasure), Russia turned fr one kind of slum into another kind of slum. And..,it turned fr one kind of tyranny into another."
Thank you @Hussain73281269 The whole understanding of the rule of law in our society is fading . If people don't *show* mercy and insist on justice for others, how can they expect to get these things themselves when they need them? https://t.co/UQdW40YuuM
I sympathize with Hitchens as to the rule of law, but I want to keep the numbers of non-Europeans in the UK generally to a minimum. The exact case is just a tiny part of a whole problem.
Weird things are happening…
▪️Over 10 000 non-covid related excess deaths in Europe in just 1 week.
▪️Birthrate has mysteriously collapsed all over the world at the same time.
▪️Young healthy people suddenly dying of "sudden adult death syndrome".
The part-Jew/Levantine poseur, chancer, liar, and fantasist really has run out of road. Wants people facing extra costs running into thousands of pounds to “save £10 a year” by buying a new or better kettle (itself costing £20+).
Johnson has proven time and again his total unfitness for any office. His schoolboy “plans” (fantasies) for garden bridges, bridges over the Irish Sea, artificial islands with Metropolis airports or spaceports on them, “levelling-up” (with not a single policy to do that), have all disappeared in puffs of smoke.
Johnson has proven his sheer inability to do the job of a Prime Minister in terms of actual intellectual capability; he has also proven his craven inability to at least appear to be courageous, refusing to be interviewed by the heavyweights such as Andrew Neil and Jeremy Paxman, hiding in a refrigerator during the 2019 General Election and, more recently, hiding in Kiev and Rwanda as his premiership crashed and burned.
What will be his “legacy”? Either nothing, or the memory of a time when complete fantasy and fabrication ruled at Downing Street, or the prospect of economy and society destroyed by the “panicdemic” “measures”.
That is if we are lucky. If we are unlucky, nuclear war with a country, Russia, that has 100x our nuclear-destructive ability; a war for which there is no reason at all, and which, if it were to happen, would come about for no reason at all other than Idiot’s wish to have supportive headlines after throwing arms and money at the Jew dictator Zelensky.
Late tweets
This idiot talks about their 'very limited' toolbox:
Field hospitals. Army. Nightingales. Civilian volunteers. Retired clinical volunteers. Cheap, safe, effective treatments. Responsible triage for symptomatic patients. Limited testing. Maintaining public calm.
Fraser Nelson is a slimy pseudo-“Conservative” greaseball, who deserves a good kicking.
I've given up on @FraserNelson ..Judging by the contents of the #Spekkie of late , he's given up on truth and reason and gone full out in pursuit of a #Knighthood… 🤣❤️🇬🇧🙉🙊🙈🖕🥓🍻🦎™️
Ian Robert Millard 