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Diary Blog, 12 July 2025

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[painting by Aldo Balding]
[painting by Volegov]

Saturday quiz

The questions this week seemed harder than usual. Political journalist John Rentoul scored only 3/10, and I did little better— 4/10 (questions 2, 5, 8, and 9).

Tweets seen

Justice done, on both sides.

Very true, but why leave out Cameron-Levita? Think facilitation of the fall of Gaddafi in Libya (which has been a major cause of the migration-invasion of Europe, certainly from Africa), and the demonization of the sick, disabled, unemployed etc (which admittedly started under Blair and Brown but was 10x worse under Cameron-Levita).

In fact, Brown was not much better, for all his fake “great brain” grandstanding.

As for Blair, he may have thought he knew what do do with power, but most, maybe 80%, of what he did was wrongheaded: PFI contracts, the deliberate importation of non-Europeans in large numbers, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the explosion in prices in the residential property sector etc.

Ha ha. Very true.

I must have missed the bit where fake Labour and fake Conservative parties and their clueless ministers showed us the benefit of such “skills and experience“…

I mean, we are talking about (in the present government) such as David Lammy, Angela Rayner, Liz Kendall, Rachel “from Accounts” Reeves etc— complete deadheads; and about (in previous governments over the past decade) Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng —aka Woollyhead Trussbanger, Ian Dunce Duncan Smith, and others too numerous to list. A cavalcade of cretins.

Not that tweeter Victoria Freeman is completely wrong. A Reform UK government would/will be disastrous, true, but so are or have been, and would be, all the others. Only a credible social-national government can save this country and the rest of Europe.

I have noted several times on the blog the ever-more-voluminous reservoir of non-voters and their potential power. More than 40% of eligible voters did not vote in 2024. That may or may not increase to 50%. If any movement could capture that 40%-50%, it would very likely also capture another 30%, and so 70%-80% of the national vote. Our time will then have come.

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Trump gave Zelensky a warning to negotiate with Russia, a warning not only verbal but given in real-life terms, by temporarily cutting off arms and ammunition. If Zelensky ignores the warning, shipments will again be interrupted, and may never restart.

Zelensky’s unwillingness to give Russia most of what it wants means that the war will continue until Russia prevails over all eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper), and that will eventually happen even if American armaments continue to be gifted to the Kiev regime.

This blog has always said that peace must be, and really can only be, on the basis below:

  1. Russia to rule Ukraine east of the Dnieper;
  2. Russia to rule Crimea;
  3. Russia to rule the littoral of the Sea of Azov, and the littoral of the Black Sea as far west as Odessa;
  4. Kiev and Odessa to be either “open cities”, i.e. neutral and ruled by their own inhabitants, or with co-dominium status, ruled jointly by Russia and a Ukrainian government based in Lvov.

[“Mike Tapp – Labour MP for Dover and Deal. Before winning his seat at the 2024 election, Mike was in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mike has gained star status at Westminister. He is now a Parliamentary Officer and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. Mike had some heavy hitters supporting his election campaign: Wealthy pro-Israel lobbyist Gary Lubner – £10,000 The Trevor Chinn funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium @LabourTogether £10,000. Since becoming an MP, Mike has made several visits to the USA. These were funded by the Progressive Policy Institute. Before becoming an MP, Mike visited Israel on a trip funded by Labour Friends of Israel. Mike has enjoyed lavish hospitality and freebies. He voted to stop the #WinterFuelPayment. With his £93,904 salary, expenses, international jet-setting, freebies and generous donations, Mike is doing very well for himself financially as an MP. On Wednesday, Mike voted for the Universal Credit and PIP Bill that will result in sick and disabled people experiencing further hardship in their lives. @UKLabour @MikeTappTweets #WelfareReformBill.”]

Similar to freeloading and/or corrupt NWO/ZOG politicians on the American side of the Atlantic:

Were the UK to get closer to Russia, leave NATO, get rid of US air bases (inc. those falsely designated “RAF”), stop being “America’s poodle”, and drop the stupid anti-Russia sanctions, the UK could probably get oil and gas at cost from Russia, maybe even at a subsidy. All that, and a guaranteed market for British goods and services.

Britain could keep and even expand its nuclear weapons submarine fleet, but now under full British control, nothing to do with the Americans.

The ridiculous woman on the video was, apparently, the Editor of the Daily Mirror. No wonder few still read that shite anymore. The circulation, once in the millions, is now 190,000, and dropping fast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror#2004%E2%80%93present.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Phillips.

Incidentally, under her editorship (2018-2024), that comic went from having a circulation of about half a million to its present poor state. I do not “blame” her alone; her kind of System scribbling is just dead and gone, really.

Once “they” control any country, or area, or field of activity, they start to monopolize it. Fact. Historical fact.

Interesting. As a barrister in London, I used to get briefed by the PKK “back in the day” (early/mid 1990s), though there was nothing ideological in it; one brief just led to another after a couple of early and unexpected successes.

Britain’s battle-ready troops consist of maybe 10,000 personnel, it seems. The Kiev regime is losing 500-1,500 every day. So if the UK sends troops to Ukraine (which might trigger direct full-scale war with Russia if the story is true, which I doubt, what happens after a couple of weeks or so, when most of those Brit troops are dead, badly-injured, or captured?

Even in the world of the “British” Lugenpresse, which is mostly owned by the “you-know-who”s and prints rubbish most of the time, the degraded Daily Express stands out as truly ridiculous.

Well, don’t come here!

From the horse’s mouth.

A state founded on terror, and populated mainly by the sweepings of the ghettos of pre-1945 Europe. Now attracting psychotics, sub nom “settlers”, from places such as Brooklyn.

Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

[“Britain is a tinderbox right now. You can literally feel it. People are a lot angrier, a lot more frustrated, a lot more disillusioned than Westminster thinks. Years of lying to –and gaslighting– the British public about our borders and mass immigration have eroded public trust and undermined the social contract. And now Keir Starmer’s farcical small boats “deal” is just going to make all this so much worse. As I explain below, this is not a serious plan for fixing our borders. It is an exchange programme for illegal migrants. It is an insult to the hardworking, law-abiding British majority. We don’t want “one in, one out” We want “none in, all out” If you break our laws, you should never be allowed to remain in the country. It really s that simple We want an end to broken borders We want an end to mass uncontrolled immigration We want an end to British families being forced to pay billions each year for an immigration crisis our elected politicians refuse to fix And we want all of that. Now.”]

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[river Ob at Barnaul, Western Siberia]

Diary Blog, 21 January 2025, including a few thoughts about Trump’s first days as President of the USA

[irritatingly, once again tweets are not embedding properly. Please click on the links to see the tweets]

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[painting by Volegov]

A few thoughts about Trump’s first days as President of the USA

My random thoughts start with the fact that Trump is unlikely to start a nuclear war with Russia. For me, that is number one, the question of primary importance. For a while, it looked as though the NWO/ZOG cabals were about to succeed in causing a third major war in Europe but, as far as I can see, that danger, though still present, may now be receding.

In fact, looking at Trump’s recent tweets about North Korea and other areas of the world, they read more like those of the businessman he is, rather than those of a warlord, statesman, or even ordinary politician. Trump is a businessman; he does not see the mileage in war or conflict— it interferes with the making of profits.

That businessman mentality is arguably out of place in the head of state of the most powerful state on Earth, but it has its positive aspect, i.e. the avoidance of war in Eastern and Central Europe, in the Middle East, and in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Presidential pardons for the rebels and/or protestors of 6 January 2020 are a very good thing, but I see that a number of social-national people convicted have been left unrescued. Trump should extend his courtesy and clemency to them as well.

Trump’s apparent hostility to a few countries not at all hostile to the USA —Mexico, Denmark (re. Greenland), Panama, and Canada— strikes me as entirely unnecessary.

I can only assume that Trump looks at the map, sees North America as a coherent whole, and then concludes that that whole continent should be under one rulership, US rulership. I seem to recall seeing a film (maybe starring Gary Cooper, not sure) in which an oligarchic cabal has a plan to take over not only the USA but also all of both North America and South America (and the bit in the middle, Central America). Did Trump once, in his own childhood long ago, see that same film? We shall never know. He himself may not even consciously recall seeing it, if indeed he ever did.

I note that Trump now says that the Israel-Gaza war is “not our war“, which is interesting. To me that says that he, now serving his second and final term as US President, no longer needs the Jewish lobby (though he has more in common with them, arguably, than he does with the Arabs and other Muslims).

Trump is not only a businessman; he is also one who thinks that he can negotiate successfully with anyone, and on any issue. He even wrote a book about it, The Art of the Deal. Thus he believes that he can strike a deal with anyone or any group or nation, based on mutual self-interest. That is likely to be successful, much of the time, but will fall down and fail when the adversary or opposing party is not motivated by self-interest as such, but by some fanatical or uncompromising belief.

Anyway, there it is. The next 4 years has begun.

Elon Musk

Much kefuffle about Musk’s odd “salute” gesture at the Inauguration.

I honestly do not know what to make of it.

I noticed that online “grifter” and pseudo-historian tweeter, Mike Stuchbery, tweeted about it:

In fact, Stuchbery has never had so many views on Twitter/X— 11M at time of writing. I believe that so many views might result in Twitter/X (and so, ultimately, and ironically, Musk) paying Stuchbery about USD $95. More than the bastard has earned in years! Still, I think that he will have to continue to rely on the largesse of the German social security/welfare system for the time being…

Actually, though he poses as “historian”, Stuchbery is not really one, not in the accepted sense.

My popular 2019 (inc. later updates) blog post about Stuchbery (who used to tweet about me from time to time) has just spiked again, by reason of his having tweeted about Musk in the past day or so. Hundreds of people today alone.

https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/

Panama Canal

I was once on a ship, the Oriana, going west to east through the Canal. In 1969. I was just (by about 2 weeks) 13 years old. The Canal was then in the Canal Zone, ruled by the USA. To go into Panama itself, tourists or visitors had to pass through a kind of US Customs and Immigration, in effect, though it was all done by special Canal Zone police. At age 13, I was fascinated by the sidearms worn by the said police. Real “Wild West” pistols, huge and heavy-looking, sticking out of leather holsters. The uniforms were khaki, I recall, with wide-brimmed “cowboy” hats, rather as in the photo below that I have just found online today:

The ones I saw had “Wild West” holsters, though, and bigger sidearms than those in the photo. The weapons were the other way around, too.

I had asked my parents to go on the short escorted tour of Panama City. Out of the nearly 2,000 passengers on the ship, only about a dozen or so had asked to go into Panama, possibly in part because the tour started in the very late evening.

I recall that the First Officer of the liner (who used to say hello to me as I swam endlessly up and down the swimming pool late at night— I was an odd boy, arguably) saw me waiting to disembark, as the ship was secured to the dock, and remarked to me that “every thief, murderer and rascal (I think it was) comes to Panama.” Obviously Panama was not his favourite place for shore leave…

The “run ashore”, in the Royal Navy phrase, was not without incident. The dark and quiet city was patrolled by submachinegun-carrying soldiers in groups. Nothing seemed to be open (perhaps unsurprisingly, at nearly midnight), and there was an air of menace. In fact, 1969 was a year of coups d’etat in Panama.

The evening ended with an unexpected diversion, literally. Our little single-decker bus, carrying the dozen intrepid passengers off the ship, was just about to fire up and drive back to the Canal Zone when a long-haired blond and youngish (30-ish) American man, in one of those leather jackets with tassels, and carrying a large knife, told the bus driver to drive to where he, a rather unfunny Crocodile Dundee lookalike (though this was 17 years before that film was released) wanted to go. I was seated right at the front, near the driver. The driver put up no more than token resistance. We drove to wherever it was that our hijacker (who stood up throughout the fairly short journey, brandishing his weapon) wanted to go; he then disembarked, to general relief. The driver drove back to the Canal Zone, fast.

My family did manage to take a more normal afternoon walk around, I think within the Zone itself, when the ship docked at the other end of the Canal, at or near Colon. I especially remember a shop where they sold all sorts of odd stuff, such as stuffed baby alligators about 6 inches long.

Incidentally, part of the trip through the Canal, the bit that is or seems natural, was like being in the film The Naked Jungle: small waterfalls falling from the jungle-clad shores, parrots etc. Incredible humidity.

Panama is of course very different today. I had some legal connection with it when I was a barrister doing offshore work. It changed out of all recognition after the American invasion and restructuring of, and after, 1989.

Trump’s idea of seizing the Canal seems to me misconceived. For one thing, there seems to be no need. For another, there is a plan to dig another Pacific-Atlantic canal, in Nicaragua, thus lessening, in theory, the risk of the Panama Canal being blocked. In any case, the USA has many large ports both on the Pacific and Atlantic, so why worry?

Another point would be that any seizure of the Canal would stir up huge anti-American sentiment across Latin America. So why…?

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UK power prices jump to their highest in more than two years as the country imports electricity from Europe at record levels https://trib.al/isTt7hy.

Well, goodness gracious me. Who could possibly have foreseen that, after the UK closed down its coal-fired power stations and imposed sanctions on Russia?… Oh…

Wait until the Jew Miliband and the other “net zero” fanatics really get the bit between their teeth.

Incidentally, I happened to see a brief TV report yesterday about how the “net zero” nonsense will mean 5x or 6x the number of giant electricity pylons in the country. Some pathetic pseudo-environmentalists, including one from the RSPB, were there, bleating about how they support “net zero” and were “working” to mitigate the negative consequences of covering the country with giant pylons. Pathetic.

Starmer, aka “Tel Aviv Keith”.

Actually, “Black Lives Matter” did help a few blacks…the ones who ripped off the monies gifted by government, fake charities, the National Lottery Fund, and millions of utter mugs.

I stopped donating (very modest donations, so be it) to Wikipedia when I realized that anything to do with UK social nationalism, WW2, and the old/tired “holocaust” farrago etc was being systematically vandalized by Zionist Jews.

In fact, a few years ago the malicious, indeed poisonous, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” advertised on its website and, I think, Twitter/X account for Jew volunteers with their own Wikipedia accounts (i.e. so that their activities would not be seen to be a concerted CAA campaign or conspiracy) to “edit” (i.e. vandalize) Wikipedia.

All involved with “Ukraine” (the brutal, corrupt, shambolic regime of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev)…

Though painfully slow, the Russian advance in the southeast of former Ukraine continues.

If and when Trump cuts off military materiel going to the forces of the Kiev regime, the Stavka can order a general advance with little prospect of serious opposition.

#TenGreenBottles

Ha. As I said, Trump thinks like a businessman, a property developer. Having said that, it may be that many actual Gazans might welcome heavy American investment, if it did not come with obvious Jewish control attached to it. At present, the enclave is pretty much uninhabitable. Massive investment would be needed to remedy the damage Israeli war crimes have done.

Translation: “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) wants hundreds of thousands of NATO troops, so that Russian forces can be pushed back, or so that NATO can in some other way be dragged into the war, or the next war.

Lunatic.

Correct, though very obvious…

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Diary Blog, 27 February 2023

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABcija_Gar%C5%ABta]

On this day a year ago

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795757/Energy-Department-concludes-Covid-likely-leaked-Wuhan-virus-lab.html.

Quelle surprise. Still, were the Americans to have concluded that the release had been deliberate, that would have left the USA (and UK etc) with two questions: “why?“, and “how to respond?“. China is too large, too populous, and too powerful to be impacted by either economic or military sanctions, so it is more diplomatic to conclude, officially, that any “Covid” release was “a terrible accident“…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11788309/Putin-knows-trouble-year-long-conflict-Ukraine-says-former-FSB-chief.html?dicbo=v2-nuqfz6t.

Vladimir Putin is ‘terribly scared’ as he marks the first anniversary of his invasion of Ukraine, says an ex-Russian secret services general.

The Russian dictator has badly misread the West’s resolve to stand up to him, and did not realise his army’s incompetence, according to the former chief of the Moscow division of the FSB.

The time will come, and [in Russia] we will see empty shelves, goods shortages, people impoverishment, and technological backwardness in all areas.

Savostyanov predicts that Russia now faces a bleak future. If Putin somehow succeeds in Ukraine he would enact a repressive crackdown.

His angry inner circle ‘which has lost everything accumulated over 20 years’ would need to be eliminated.

Despite Putin’s desperation, Savostyanov rated the chances of Putin using his nuclear arsenal as slight. ‘I can say no more than one per cent that Putin will decide to carry out the nuclear threat,’ he said.

This could lead to breakaway attempts by some regions, he said.

‘As the federal budget is reduced, subsidies will be reduced, respectively, in the regions…., and they will say: ‘Why do we need Moscow?’

He forecast an attempt to bring to power a figure who ‘will be able to keep the situation under control and, on the other, start reforms’.

[Daily Mail]

I suppose that Savostyanov assesses the use of the nuclear arsenal as “one percent” mainly because there is no “big red button” to be pushed by Putin; the missiles can only be launched by a series of protocols involving Putin, the Strategic Rocket Forces (in Russia, separate from other arms: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Rocket_Forces) and both the navy and aerospace commands as well as the relevant directorate(s) of the FSB (security service) which last (if the protocols are the same as in Soviet days) control parts of the launch codes.

As I blogged a year ago, it should never have been like this— the invasion should have been swift, overwhelming, and near-bloodless, a Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy, minimizing harm to the Ukrainian civilians and their homes (and infrastructure).

All the same, the war in Ukraine is one which Russia now has to win, bitter though any victory will be— for both sides in the conflict.

Factors which may help Russia to victory include its much larger population, and so its larger potential recruit pool; its unused weapons of enormous destructiveness, both conventional and nuclear; the fact that Russia’s size and dispersed large population mean that Russia itself cannot be successfully invaded and occupied (unless, arguably, by future Chinese forces); the fact that Russia is still a functioning economy (unlike Ukraine) and with enormous reserves of valuable hydrocarbons; finally, the fact that the forces of the Kiev regime may now be running out of arms and ammunition, as well as manpower.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795299/Serial-sex-attacker-assaulted-three-female-commuters-two-weeks-jailed-five-years.html.

Mohammad Yahia Alloush“…What a surprise…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795307/NHS-consultant-downloaded-100-abhorrent-child-abuse-images-phone-avoids-jail.html

Mansoor Khan“…yet another “surprise”…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11796011/Putin-claims-West-wants-destroy-Russia-warns-Natos-nuclear-capabilities.html

If that were to happen, and the Russian Federation split into a number of pieces (perhaps as many as a dozen), the Chinese would find it easy to pick up the pieces, not by war but by —mainly— slow osmosis. The former Soviet Far East, Eastern Siberia, maybe as far west as the Urals.

It may be that a terrible choice lies before Putin.

Intellectual-historical figures of interest

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

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

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[painting on a Palekh box]

UK journalism and the death of basic literacy

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/twisted-killer-millionaire-mistress-murdered-29310955

Take a look at that crime report. Not untypical of many seen these days, especially in the Daily Mail and, as here, Daily Mirror.

The narrative confused generally, and in its details; the second defendant sentenced to, in one paragraph, “four-and-a-half years” but, in another, “four years“; unnecessary adjectives and adverbs put in almost randomly (“twisted“, “sick“, “bizarrely” etc); ages of the defendants at some of the relevant times not printed, making the report less informative than it could have been; also, “Unbelievably, her and Jarvis told officers that she was in fact Carol“.

Her and Jarvis“?!

Enough. That report was, according to the byline, written by not one but two Daily Mirror “journalists”, named as Lauren Davidson and Joe Smith.

The best newspaper now, from the point of view of literacy, seems to be the Guardian.

Strange that, now that so many newspaper scribblers have degrees or diplomas in journalism, their product has become so unprofessional. In my opinion, the same, mutatis mutandis, can be said of barristers now (and in fact since the 1980s/1990s). As late as the mid-1970s, barristers did not even need a degree to be Called, though in fact most had attended university. Is the Bar better now? I think not.

Just a few “thoughts out of season”…

Tweets seen

There is no “benefit“. None. Fact.

The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb]. Kind people of all kinds.

The USA increasingly has a population which might be described as “ignorant, raceless, cultureless rubbish“. Not all, not everywhere, of course.

I suppose that is why the Jews find it so easy, via their control and/or influence over TV, radio, Press and other publishing, to control the American mass mind.

A young girl literally pilloried, probably for minor theft, though possibly for expressing dissident thought.

Meanwhile, the Jew Zelensky and his Zionist cabal have been ripping off —also literally— billions of pounds and U.S. dollars. Zelensky himself, with his wife, owns multimillion-value properties in Florida, Italy, and several other places.

You do not have to be pro-Putin or even pro-Russian to think that inviting the nuclear destruction of your own families, neighbourhoods, and cities, is a very bad idea. Or to think that risking that for the benefit of a Jew-ruled Zionist kleptocracy and tyranny is actually absurd.

The Ukrainians working with the CIA, and with the Americans in general, should reflect on what happened to others who relied on the American “ally” (Viets, Kurds, Afghans, Iraqis etc). They were abandoned to their fate…

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49 people must lose their homes; Canton Aargau is establishing new asylum-accommodation.” To which the tweeter replying (as far as I know, no relation to Alison Chabloz) tweets that it is “an absolute outrage“. As it is.

Native residents losing their homes so that hutches for black/brown invaders can be created (living-space for 100 invaders).

Even peaceful Switzerland now affected badly by migration-invasion.

Why has at least one Canadian not dealt with Trudeau (yet)?

So much for the “end-user certificate” regime…

One has to wonder how long it will be before human soldiers will be a rare sight on battlefields, the heavy fighting being done between forces consisting mainly of automatic machines: drones, driverless tanks, long-range missiles, and masybe robot armies too.

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