I happened to see a few pages written by Savitri Devi in the 1950s:
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Prophetic.
Interesting to note that Savitri Devi [Maximiani Devi Portas] was born 2.5 months prematurely. Premature birth is known to result, in some cases, in the person who has [re]incarnated having psychic powers (cf. St. Paul); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi#Early_years.
Ukraine
Though the “British” and other msm cannot be taken, without more, to be reliable, there have been numerous reports in the past 24 hours of a collapse of the Russian lines in parts of Ukraine east of the Dnieper; perhaps even betokening a general collapse.
‘Russia's northern front line in Ukraine appears to have collapsed, with military chiefs in Kyiv saying the army has recaptured at least 3,000sq km’ pic.twitter.com/opp81ry4m1
'Without Izyum and Kupyansk, Russia cannot effectively supply its forces in the north-east or the east of the country, and so further collapses, withdrawals and surrenders of Russian forces are to be expected’ pic.twitter.com/mWnP34DGKL
‘They may be able to stabilise their lines temporarily, but we have crossed a point of no return. Russia's forces were previously poorly equipped, supplied and of low morale. To that list you can now add terrified of encirclement' pic.twitter.com/vKzIBsYL1X
If Russia is not to be utterly defeated in this war (which would quite likely then see something akin to at least a palace revolution in Moscow), it needs to escalate both numbers and force generally, and to think outside the box, as the leaders of the Reich often did, particularly from 1936 (recovery of the Rhineland) to 1944 (Battle of the Bulge).
If Russia fails to crush the Kiev regime, NATO forces, or NATO-equipped and NWO-controlled Ukrainian forces, will be within 280 miles range of Moscow.
This could be an existential danger not only for Putin but also for the Russian Federation.
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Ukraine suffering from blackouts as troops press counteroffensive against Russia https://t.co/nXU3zldbo2
My maternal great-grandparents were Ukrainian Jews who emigrated to the United States a century ago — fleeing violence and death inflicted by Russians. It’s awesome to see Putin’s ass being whipped now by President Zelenskyy, another Ukrainian Jew. 🇺🇦✡️
🧵🚨#RUSSIA: TVs in #SaintPetersburg have been hacked – all digital channels show a montage starting from 9/11 terror attacks in New York then subtly shift to footage of Putin's terror attacks all over #Ukraine. Very impactful. Key excerpts translated to English below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NexGnSSkQC
Who do you think might be behind that? I doubt whether the Kiev regime would be able to do it.
Im not even anti-Ukraine. Im anti-Western influenced Ukraine that leads us to endless war. I can’t control Russia or their politics so there’s no sense in saying anything to them, but I like to think I may be able to sway my reps in DC.
Are they winning suddenly? They make one small gain and you War Shills act as of that haven’t lost thousands of lives and thousands of acres. I stand firm. Ukraine should have negotiated from the beginning rather than fight back. And btw, no one else is fighting back for them.
BREAKING: The Biden administration has announced a $3 billion package to Jackson, Mississippi to fund massive repairs and updates to water infrastructure.
Just kidding. That money is going to weapons for Ukraine.
After all these years of the same msm and governmental bs, we still see tweets or newspaper columns implying that impoverishing the British people supposedly to help backward countries is somehow a “mistake” or “wrong policy”, when it is a quite deliberate part of a plan, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
#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.
I have seen a few comments on Twitter, mostly from the sort of people who are now quite often in evidence in England, for example from one well-known pro-Labour (Corbyn-Labour, lesbian, and half-caste) activist, to the effect that the death of Queen Elizabeth is of no importance, and that people should focus on energy prices, low pay, inadequate State benefits etc. I disagree.
The death of even one person has meaning, and when the death is that of a truly global figure such as Queen Elizabeth, the State and the society of —in this case— England and Britain is shaken to the core, no matter what else, even of great importance, is happening at or around the same time.
It is not a matter of whether one is a monarchist or not. I myself am not —as such— a monarchist or royalist, and believe that different socio-political arrangements fit national requirements at different times. Neither of my parents was royalist and, in the early 1960s, the royals (mainly the Queen herself, and the Queen Mother), were only glimpsed (by my own family) from afar, both on the TV and at the racecourse (Ascot, Newbury and, occasionally but later, in the early 1970s, Windsor).
All the same, for an Englishman such as myself, born in 1956, only a few years after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, her presence, even though experienced mainly on television or in the Press, has been part of the backdrop for my own life, and the lives of others of my generation, whether we like it or not.
As a person usually described as “social nationalist”, though others say some variety of “national socialist”, and even (per the Dowager Lady Birdwood, circa 1975), “national bolshevik“, I cannot but wonder whether all the inhabitants of these islands are affected similarly by this momentous and very recent event.
While I have met blacks (West Indians and a few others) who were both royalist and also had quasi-patriotic feelings about the UK, my impression is that the bulk of the “blacks and browns” (and other such as Chinese) now in the UK have no such feeling or sentiment.
The young Jamaicans, or other West Indies-origined, of the inner cities, the hordes of more recent Chinese immigrants who have flooded the UK (especially though not exclusively in London and the south of England), the Pakistanis and other Muslims, the fake or other “refugees” of various kinds (eg the recent though smallish Ukrainian or supposedly Ukrainian influx) have no sentiment toward either this country or the Monarchy. To them, even those born here, Britain is a place to live in, benefit from, in some cases work in or make money in. A mere geographic space. Most of them have no patriotic feeling, no knowledge of our history, no real connection at all. They are just…here.
I am talking not about politics, or policy, or power, but of
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England“
There is also an age-demographical point here. The younger English too (and Welsh and Scottish) people around, particularly those aged maybe up to 35, are often emotionally distant not only from the Monarchy, but also from the race and nation.
You see msm vox pop, or Twitter, comments, or appearances on TV quiz shows, from those broadly “young”, let us say 18-30, which are so lacking in basic knowledge of England’s (and the world’s) history etc that those talking might as well have just arrived from Mars.
For many of the “young”, the members of the Royal Family are, as I have blogged in the past, basically denizens of the empty and stupid milieu of supposed “celebrity”, not essentially different from the casts of The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea, or whatever else of a similar nature.
Indeed, with the marriage of “The Harry formerly known as Prince” and “the Royal Mulatta” (Harry and Meghan of that ilk), the two previously acquainted but once very different worlds of British Monarchy and “celebrity culture” have collided, with disastrous results, even so far.
As I have blogged on one or two previous occasions, it is not only the British population that has changed; so have “the royals”.
Whatever one may have thought of the late Queen and Prince Philip, they were traditionally and unmistakeably royal. They could never have been mistaken for “the common people”, not even the most ultra-wealthy “commoners”. They would certainly never have been mistaken for members of the suburban middle classes, or the working class or classes.
It can be seen that that unmistakeable “royality” slid somewhat in the generation of Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. The younger two, Andrew and Edward (born 1960 and 1964), in particular, might be considered similar, at least in some respects, to their neighbours in suburban or semi-rural Surrey or Berkshire. Think of Andrew and “Fergie”, living in their sprawling villa, the so-called “South York”; Edward wanting to run a theatre company; Edward’s wife carrying on (until it became an embarrassment) with her public relations enterprise.
Of course, there have been many other scandals and, most recently, the scurrilous rumours about the next generation, mostly about Prince William.
While the Andrew/Edward generation could be said to be not far, in terms of lifestyle, from the very wealthy of the Home Counties, the William and Harry generation are not so far in attitude and lifestyle from quite ordinary, albeit very wealthy, commoners of their own age. If “Fergie’s” parents were an Army major and a mother, as “Fergie” has said, “from country gentry with a bit of old money“, Kate Middleton’s parents’ origins are that the father, though from a wealthy background (and later wealthy in his own right, via business), worked as a flight dispatcher, while Kate’s mother had been an air hostess.
Subtle differences but, over three generations making, overall, a big difference.
So now we have King Charles III, whom I regard as a basically well-meaning but also incredibly self-absorbed person who is more “at sea” ideologically and/or intellectually than most people think; perhaps more than he himself thinks.
Regular readers of the blog may recall that I blogged once or twice about how I met with and very briefly (a few minutes) talked with the then Prince Charles in late 1996, when I was invited to a royal reception (about 25-30 people) held at the official Residence (not the Embassy) of the British Ambassador in Almaty, then the capital of Kazakhstan.
The new King is 73, and will be 74 in November.
As for the next generation, I once described Princes William and Harry as “tame thick princelings“, signed up to what people now call a “woke” agenda, and I see no reason, several years on, to change that view.
The late Queen was an anchoring presence, not only in what she did but in what she was.
Without necessarily endorsing the following view, it can be said that Queen Elizabeth personified the idea that a monarch, at best, holds a nation together. Britain’s problem now is that it is rapidly ceasing to actually be a nation. It is more like a geographical space within which reside a number of interpenetrating racial, national, social and economic, and ideological, tribes, many of which dislike, or even despise and hate, each other.
“Sweet Thames”
I saw this very worthy historical blog and travelogue about the Thames, “that silver thread that runs through England’s history” as someone may have called it (Churchill called it “the golden thread through our nation’s tapestry“): https://thames.me.uk/Thames1891.htm.
Interesting, I think, not only for those who, like me, spent some of their young teenage years rowing on it.
Tweets seen
Twitter has removed a post from a CMU professor that called the British monarchy a “thieving raping genocidal empire” on the day Queen Elizabeth II died. The removed post from professor Uju Anya said of the queen, “may her pain be excruciating." https://t.co/TTDTDMkJyu
An African woman is being threatened and harrassed today for not showing respect on the death of an English monarch. Even in 2022, colonial supremacy finds a way. Stay strong @UjuAnya, this tribulation is the burden of freedom fighters. https://t.co/b0DxTFO5pE
I believe in free speech, but I do not believe that such a person as this Uju Anya idiot should anyway be taken seriously enough to hold an academic post at a well-known American university.
American academia is very sick, largely because of this sort of nonsense. The usual suspects (((them))) are behind much of it, pulling the strings. The black “academics” (usually retailing pseudo-academic nonsense) are, to a great extent, just the puppets.
Unless America can recover its ethnic white European identity, it is doomed. There needs to be a reset of the white/non-white population-proportion in the USA, getting back to the ~90% white America of the 1920s.
Apart from which, there are times when a decent reserve is the right persona, and when nasty and tasteless jeering is not the right persona.
Sad thing is there will be people in this country celebrating this
For me, the main point is that the tasteless minority pretending to celebrate the death of the late Queen (and a few even hoping, on Twitter etc, that that death was painful) are not only celebrating the death of Elizabeth II, but are also —and in fact primarily— making a truly evil attack on the British people, on our history, on our now-disappeared Empire, on our culture, on our (and all European) culture, and on the overall European way of life. That is why they should all be deported, exiled, or eliminated.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis: When public health experts said you can't protest against lockdowns, but George Floyd riots are OK, “that's when I knew these people are a bunch of frauds.”👇pic.twitter.com/HN0St9jNEj
A nation that erects statues of career criminals like George Floyd while tearing down statues of the patriots and trailblazers who built that nation, won't be a nation much longer.
…and despite that, Jew-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and his deputy, thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner went down on their knees in fealty to the “BLM” “Black Lives Matter” idiocy, as did many others, including members of this country’s police, while on duty at that.
That, of course, was before the transnational conspiracy put up other idols for the unthinking to worship: first the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic”, and now the present nonsense about Britain’s (non-existent) “need” to “support” the Jew dictator Zelensky and his corrupt and antidemocratic cabal in Ukraine.
The tweets and retweets of the tweeter @DwayneDavidPaul (click below) are instructive. Monkeys like that can only just about live, parasitically, in a civilized society or culture; they could never create one, not in a million years:
The limited Kiev-regime counter-offensive in the south of Ukraine (Kherson area) was joined by another limited counter-offensive in the north-east, in the Kharkov area. Now, however, Russian missile strikes have hit a number of cities.
As for the tweet immediately below here, its judgment would be more convincing had the Kiev regime not been shelling and rocketing the population of parts of the Donbass for about 8 years…
Here is some of the shelling of #Kharkiv by Russia in real time targeting civilians. There is truly no safety for the people when they are not seen as people but targets.
If Russian forces are seriously pushed back on a consistent basis, and if the outcome of this war is in the balance, we can expect to see a massive escalation of force from the Russian side.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah has written quite extensively about how soap operas are powerful tools for influencing society (in whatever way the writers might see fit). Soap operas shouldn't be dismissed as bad tripe.
Fresh off his appearance at Wall Street, where he pitched corporations on the plunder of his country's assets, Zelensky will appear at a conference of arms makers in Texas to present his country's war as a fantastic business opportunity. #SlavaRaytheonhttps://t.co/zSNTT6Kcp3
As blogged many times, Ukraine is a new-ish state (1990s), a failed state, and a shambolic kleptocracy run by a pack of Jew billionaires (like Zelensky, who owns several luxury homes including one in Florida worth USD $40 million).
The Zelensky regime shoots its opponents both in secret and in the street, has banned opposition parties, banned trade unions, and arrested prominent opposition politicians.
Liz Truss wants to waste many billions more of UK taxpayers’ money on the criminal Kiev regime, as did “Boris”-idiot.
Two things that seem to need restating. A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. And the first casualty of war is truth. Everyone used to know these maxims. The modern web generation appears not to know or understand them.
@alexisbrassey Someone has been getting at you. I don't think Britain has any interest in this Russo-American war and I think the peoples of the region, and the world, would benefit from a negotiated peace. I've never got involved in speculation about the military balance. https://t.co/fKqr9ADhDe
My very normie ex said something similar yesterday, out of the blue. "Something bad is brewing and coming soon. I can feel it". Been noticing when I'm at Costco or the grocery store etc there's no energy. People seem to be just going through the motions.
It's the realisation that things will never "go back to normal." You don't have to be a political, economic, or historical student to see collapse coming. It's also the helpless to prevent whatever bad is coming is horrendous something no alive in the west has experienced
— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) August 20, 2022
Deborah Key. Imogen Harvey-Key. I can only speak for myself and my daughter but any right thinking individual, who believes in true democracy and freedom of speech, should add their name.
— Deborah Key 💙💙 #DeathByBrexit #NoComradesUnder1K (@princesdeb) August 27, 2022
I am 55. I do not remember the U.K. being in a more desperate state that it is today – and I lived right through Thatcher.
I, aged 23-34 at the time, do not recall the Thatcher years as horribly or exceptionally bad, though many do. I agree with the rest of the tweet, though.
How about removing standing charge, de-linking electric from gas prices, removing VAT, ofgem protecting the consumer rather than the energy companies and the govt strictly regulating these companies as they originally promised. No monopoly should be allowed to fleece the public.
Read that newspaper report and tell me that the 12-month (in reality 5-6 month) sentences on both defendants constitute justice. I am by no means a “hanger and flogger”, and disparage unduly lengthy sentences but, were I the sentencing judge, I should have been thinking in terms of years, not months. Maybe 5 years. Also, if available (I am not up to date on the law) a confiscation order to compensate the abuse victim who (also) had £57,000 stolen from him. I wonder how it was that that theft could even have been allowed to happen. Seems that there might be a systemic problem if that can occur.
I accept that one cannot get a full picture from a newspaper report but surely, on any reading, 12 months, meaning a maximum of 6 months in custody, must be seen as unduly lenient, to say the least.
Some truth in that, but many women who are mothers are neurotic, often highly so, while some childless women are not. Grey area.
‘Why does she want top protect excess profits of oil and gas giants and why is she doing that by borrowing extra and not by taxing oil and has companies more?’
Peymana Assad says Labour are ‘struggling to understand’ PM Liz Truss' approach to solving the energy crisis. pic.twitter.com/4psDAUHait
'There's lots of [wheelchair] users with medical equipment they've got to run. They're looking at seriously increased costs.'
GB News viewer and wheelchair user Jack Milnes discusses how the cost-of-living crisis impacts people living with disabilities. pic.twitter.com/nS7MNPXJ6D
'These are grim figures. 6.8 million…that's the highest number since records began.'
GB News' Katherine Forster reports after new NHS waiting figures reveal that a record 6.8 million people were waiting for treatment at the end of July.
I have never actually watched GB News, except on clips seen on Twitter. The presenters are less —if you prefer, even less— smooth than those seen on BBC, ITV, Sky etc.
I have no idea how many people do watch that channel, but I am quite surprised that it is still going.
🔵 NEW: UK Charity @TrussellTrust is urging new Prime Minister Liz Truss to address the #CostOfLiving as their research found a worrying number of people on benefits are struggling to feed themselves.https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
🚗 34% said they have fallen into debt as they couldn’t keep up with essential bills and 23% said they couldn’t afford to use public transport or the cost of fuel to travel to work or travel to essential appointments, or do the school run.#CostOfLivingCrisispic.twitter.com/MkW5rvVjmu
📦 @TrussellTrust revealed #FoodBanks in its network provided 50% more parcels to help people across the UK in recent months, compared to before the pandemic and says the UK Government’s £15 billion support package is no longer enough.https://t.co/KldbbvAicb
🌿 Emma Revie, chief executive at @TrussellTrust, said “The Government must act now to protect people from harm. This means at least doubling the additional support offered to people on the lowest incomes.”https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
The death of a longstanding head of state, particularly one viewed for decades as “iconic”, marks a milestone in the history of that state, whatever one’s socio-political views.
Tomorrow, I may offer some more directed thoughts about the near-future direction of the UK. In the meantime, I wish only to say “Vale!“
I remember Bill Bradley from when I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s. One of those “best President (or Prime Minister)who never made it” figures, like (in the UK) Rab Butler, Enoch Powell etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley.
On the main question here, the Russia-Ukraine situation, we see above a number of figures from, inter alia, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the British Foreign Office, not to mention the American, Australian and other political establishments, all warning against NATO expansionism and against stoking Ukrainian political and military aggressiveness.
Few of those political and diplomatic figures can be, plausibly, written off as “Russian shills” and the like, as we see all too often written on Twitter and elsewhere, as the unthinking “I stand with Ukraine” mob bay for anything up to and even including nuclear war with Russia.
The disastrous policy of actively supporting the Jew-Zionist kleptocracy in Kiev headed (or figureheaded) by Zelensky is bad enough in itself (and is soon going to result in recession and/or stagflation in the UK and the EU) but, worse than that, may develop into a military situation between NATO and Russia which may then slip or slide into a nuclear conflict which would devastate the UK, much of Europe, the industrialized parts of Russia, and the cities of the USA.
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Andrew Pierce shredded by Ed Balls. Nothing more than a pathetic Tory apologist and hypocrite. Pierce now wants more government borrowing after years of supporting austerity. £2.5trillion national debt. Twelve years of total economic failure.@GMB@toryboypierce@edballs
I may not like moneygrubbing expenses cheat and Bilderberger, Ed Balls, and the same goes (double) for his venal, hypocritical, “refugees welcome” (but not in her own several homes) wife, Yvette Cooper, but it has to be said that Balls is a trained economist, and did criticize at the time the ludicrously wrongheaded “austerity” nonsense put forward by the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne from 2010-2015, a policy which has run Britain threadbare.
#GMB Andrew Pierce ‘Kwasi Kwarteng has a brain the size of a planet’
Says the man who spent nearly three years bullying and blackmailing the Bri oh what’s the point it’s the same shit every single time. https://t.co/dgSjYRkRHh
A salutary tale, and one which I have just reread, this time also reading many of the readers’ comments. Some had had similar experiences.
I was reminded, reading all that, of an experience of my own.
Over twenty years ago (how time flies in this world when one is no longer young), I was invited, with my wife, to the wedding of a friend, and former teacher at a language school where I had been a part-time student in the early 1980s.
I had become very friendly in the late 1980s and early 1990s with Ig, a noted translator of Dostoyevsky; Ig was divorced (from decades before) and lived in a semi-detached house with a large garden, in North Finchley (London outskirts).
Ig worked at a language school near Warren Street, in Central London, an institute where most of the Russian-language faculty were exiles of one sort or another. He himself had been born in Latvia between the world wars; when he was 14, his family fled to Germany, at the end of WW2, and as the Red Army advanced from the East. They had then settled in the UK.
I sometimes enjoyed a drink, and occasionally a curry in Drummond Street (also near Warren Street), with Ig and one or other of his friends, such as “Uncle John”, a divorced fellow whose wife, Alla from Leningrad, was another language teacher of mine at one time, or with Guy Churchill, a pleasant retiree and one-time SAS soldier (during the Malayan Emergency of the 1950s), who had the odd habit (never seen before or since) of breaking the filter tips off his cigarettes before smoking them.
Ig was rather eccentric, and sometimes did things which were very surreal, as when he took me, for no obvious reason, to have tea with the writer, Doris Lessing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing], at a cafe-bar near the language school. A strange, awkward, rather Kafkaesque experience.
It never occurred to me that Ig, not far off retirement age, might remarry and so compromise his bachelor life of Russo-Soviet culture, beer, and collecting railway clocks (several were in the main room of his house). I was therefore surprised to be invited to his wedding, at a Register Office somewhere on the extension of Edgware Road, far up that road, maybe near Brent Cross (I cannot now exactly recall).
My wife and I attended the short ceremony, and met the bride. She was Russian but had been resident in Latvia, where Ig had met her (not sure where or how; possibly at a bus stop or the like). She was supposedly mid-twenties (my wife thought older), and looked a bit lost amid Ig’s rather grey-haired friends, who included a couple of occasional teachers of mine at that language school, one being a one-time Army linguist (and keeper of goats), another being Gerald Brooke, who had spent 4 years in prison near Moscow before being swapped for the Krogers: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brooke; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lona_Cohen.
That was the wedding. Some time later, Ig asked me to take his new wife to lunch at Lincoln’s Inn. She was friendly, pleasant, and told me that she had a law degree from Latvia, maybe Riga.
Scroll forward. My wife and I took on the lease of a large country house, one of the largest in North Cornwall.
We invited Ig and his wife to stay for the weekend. They arrived, but right from the start there was something wrong. For one thing, in a cold autumn, Ig’s wife came in a short dress, no coat, no gloves, perhaps unaware of how cold a large English country house can be, despite large fuel bills (one January, I spent nearly £700 on oil alone; plus coal and firewood. £700, in one month, 20 years ago).
Ig’s wife was actually quite rude from the start, not at all friendly to my wife, treated her like a serf, did not offer any help or whatever (we had the big house, but not any domestic staff as such), and just seemed to be sulking constantly. We assumed that the ill-matched couple had had a spat on the way down.
Anyway, after a weekend which —without going into great detail— tested my wife’s patience to the hilt, and when the pair were almost ready to go home, my wife thought to take some extra towels to their room (the house had originally had 26 bedrooms). She saw that Ig’s new wife’s suitcase was open on the bed; on top of the contents, a silk scarf belong to my wife, from Hermes. Ig’s wife had actually stolen the silk scarf (and other items, including bottles of scent) and placed them in her suitcase. The item were retrieved, and a diplomatic way found to raise the matter with the guest/thief.
Not an entirely successful weekend.
After that, I received calls from Ig’s Russian friends, begging me to think of a way to “save him from that stupid girl, who knows nothing but films and fashion“.
In fact, Ig did try to divorce her, after he overheard her talking to her mother in Riga, and the pair plotting to divorce him and so get half of his quite valuable house. In the end, the divorce never happened, despite preliminary court hearings.
Ig was prevailed upon to change his mind and, looking at that Guardian obit, they seem to have remained married until his death some 11 years later. I hope that the woman was not unkind to Ig in his last years, because he was a good fellow, but I never saw him after the disastrous weekend, and only spoke to him a couple of times when (maybe at her instigation) he wanted to bring her down again to Cornwall. I could not put my wife through that sort of nonsense again, though.
I presume that that woman got his house, I believe worth (in 2013) about £800,000 (and I suppose worth twice that much now), and other financial benefits.
However, not all Russians, Ukrainians etc can be tarred with the same brush. For example, I knew one girl (from Kiev) who was offered marriage by a British diplomat (who became an ambassador only about 2 years later) but refused him.
Many Russians (and, no doubt, Ukrainians too) are very fine people, but they come from a very different cultural and social background than English people. History has been harsh in those regions, and attitudes are fashioned out of such history.
Truss’ Cabinet picks are genuinely terrifying. We must brace for the utter turmoil which is no doubt ahead of us all. It’s going to be a long, dark winter.
The last Cabinet contained only sycophants prepared to ignore Johnson's epic unsuitability for high office. The new one will contain only sycophants prepared to ignore Johnson's epic unsuitability for high office who haven't criticised or upset Liz Truss. It's a narrowing field!
The main surprise is that Nadine Dorries is not there, it being rumoured that she is about to be elevated to the Lords. Well, why not? After all, a woman (Michelle Mone) who faked a “success story” about her insolvent bra company is there, as are several absurd black women, one of whom is only there because her son was killed in a scuffle with white yobs at a bus stop. Just a few examples of the deadheads in the House of Lords (Oona King is another one).
If Truss freezes energy prices but makes working people pay for it rather than the big oil and gas companies, she’s going to be out of office pretty quickly.
In principle, correct, but there is no mechanism, as we have seen in recent years, for the public to be able to dispense with even the most ridiculous Prime Minister, until given an opportunity at a general election.
New Foreign Secretary James Cleverly voted to reduce Corporation Tax 9 times, yet he has voted to cut benefits 23 times.
Not many people know Cleverly advocated scrapping the minimum wage in 2013.
Another humiliation for Britain, having this ridiculous creature as Foreign Secretary, complete with his “degree” in Hospitality Management from West London Poly.
In fact, apart from a couple of years as a sales manager, Cleverly seems not to have had a job for much of his life, unless you include his Territorial Army officer activity. He was never commissioned into the Regular Army, by reason of a supposed leg injury (unspecified); nor is it known whether he dropped out of Sandhurst or other training institution.
A couple more bits of news about the new Cabinet
That little pissant Robert Jenrick, a total puppet of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, has been appointed a Minister of State despite his very “questionable” links to Jew property speculators.
Jewish wife; children brought up as if full-Jew. Completely in the Zionist pocket.
The other news is that ex-officer Johnny Mercer, who seemed like a rare breath of fresh air in the Commons at first (but who, disappointingly, turned out to be a moneygrubber, at least from what I have read), has been kicked out of Government, and his wife, seeing the extra salary etc disappearing up the chimney, is livid.
Prime Minister Liz Truss has been branded an "imbecile" by the wife of sacked minister Johnny Mercer.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer said the cabinet system “stinks” and “treats people appallingly” after her husband was removed as veterans affairs minister.https://t.co/ghjIelYWOG
I suppose that Mercer was hoping against hope to be appointed at some later stage as Defence Secretary, though his “bring it on!” rhetoric about nuclear war with Russia hardly inspired confidence in his judgment.
As for Mercer’s wife, Felicity, of whom I knew nothing until today, I award her 9 out of 10 for honesty, 1 out of 10 for diplomacy, and another 9 out of 10 for making my day more amusing.
You see that sort of thing all the time on Twitter— a cavalcade of talking heads, supposed “comedians”, sports talking heads etc, all paying lip-service to the BBC which, in most cases, pays them. Sickening homage to patronage.
Look at that Sweet bastard (whoever he is). Begging for state censorship.
It was this @bobscartoons cartoon which the complainant took offence to. This is, from my perspective, a valid representation of school curricular overemphasis these days. But the point is that @WHSmith should be selling the FULL spectrum of opinion for us. Not choosing for us. pic.twitter.com/nKGeVI6ZLH
@kerr649, @louisemensch has never forgiven me for a long-ago column item in which I laughed at the way she wandered in and out of New Labour back in the 1990s, when she was still writing chick-lit. I actually agreed to meet her to discuss it. https://t.co/eXpofp8ZWw
Louise Mensch. A blast from the past, now just a washed-up, divorced Twitter twit who, after I was —both wrongfully and unlawfully— disbarred in 2016, actually tweeted directly to me, threatening (ignorantly) to have me disbarred in New York as well. Never heard anything more about it.
Louise Mensch was, inter alia, a drug abuser, and admitted that her drug abuse “messed up her head“. A rock “music” “groupie” at one time long ago (when at University), who became, at least metaphorically, an Israel- lobby “groupie” later.
So only 22% of people are at all pleased that Liz Truss is or is about to be Prime Minister (once rubberstamped by the Queen). Not such a surprise, in view of the fact that the voters have not been asked to vote on this. At least, only those voters who are Conservative Party members, i.e. about 1 in every 500 people, of which only just over half voted for Liz Truss.
Liz Truss has therefore been voted for by about one person out of every 900 people. Not much of a mandate.
Even most of those who normally vote for Conservative Party candidates are not pleased about this— a mere 41% of those voters.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in operation
“For the first time in Britain’s history, there will not be a white man in one of the four great offices of state.” [The Guardian]
LEAST WE FORGET what the Tories have done, this being amongst the worse – & after public outcry they gave water companies until 2050 to reduce sewage dumping thro infrastructure & the right to increase our bills to pay for the work.https://t.co/yUJIju123v via @MetroUK
Tory false populism and failed energy policies: shelved the nuclear strategy of the last Labour govt, sold off gas storage facilities, failed to push renewables adequately, abandoned the home insulation programme.#newsnightpic.twitter.com/S8R5xdEGqL
— Alan M – Square One is underrated💙 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 (@am1874northwich) September 5, 2022
More on Ukrainian “refugees” in the UK—
“Why I’m glad to see the back of my Ukrainian refugee“
“As Olena’s luggage once again filled half of my downstairs corridor, ready to be loaded into the car that would ferry her to her new accommodation, I could hardly wait to see the back of her.”
I suggest that all well-meaning and/or virtue-signalling mugs thinking of hosting such guests read that Daily Mail article before buying into a pack of trouble.
Another point is that most of Ukraine is not a war zone in reality, not yet anyway. With the exception of part of the Black Sea coastal belt, and the odd military base, almost anywhere west of the Dnieper is not under attack, and that is well over half of the country. The same is true (so far) of the majority of territory east of the Dnieper.
In all, about three quarters of Ukraine is pretty safe and life is continuing in a relatively normal fashion, bearing in mind the overall situation of conflict, and the fact that Ukraine is not a real state at all but a failed, shambolic, corrupt, crime-ridden kleptocracy, run by a Jew cabal.
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Yes @jonboyjon1976 I am supporting his freedom of speech and opposing the government’s lawless use of arbitrary punishment against him. I regard this as my civic duty. Do you * oppose* freedom of speech or support arbitrary punishment? https://t.co/iPbTPYyhb0
@robertchallis. As I’ve written in The Mail on Sunday, I regard it as wrong. I don’t know which law might make it illegal,but in that case punishment should follow arrest, charge, trial and conviction.We call this due process. What I am protesting against is arbitrary punishment. https://t.co/ulFkvyydGz
Tweeter “Gerard” must be a complete idiot. Look at a. the population numbers for Russia and Ukraine, then b. at the full military and/or destructive power available to both; then c. at the economic strength of both.
I certainly do not advocate this, but what does tweeter “Gerard” think would happen if Putin landed a nuclear bomb on Kiev?
Political ambition is a dangerous thing. Those in its grip are often deluded by beliefs which bear little relation to reality. Nobody should go into politics until they have raised children to adulthood, or fought in a war, or run their own business. Or something of that sort. https://t.co/59Zdf6s2x0
The free market is a liberal obsession, and has been ripping through Communist China fur decades . There is nothing conservative about such crude money-worship. Conservatism values the family, the little platoons, tradition and permanence, not unending waves of greed. https://t.co/d5qvwrLbwE
The obese Therese Coffey, the new Health Secretary.
This is how u know NOTHING is going to change.
The NHS is a repair & accident service, it is not a healthy lifestyle service. A Health secretary shd have a handle on what a constitutes a healthy life.https://t.co/DSMilJORP8
I have not listened to LBC joke radio since about 1976, but I see that irascible radio loudmouth Nick Ferrari (pro-Jewish lobby drone) has today referred to “Boris”-idiot as “a supremely successful leader“. Just one example of the unreality that pervades the UK’s msm.
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[Panoramic view of Moskva river and Kremlin at sunrise]
Eddie Izzard
Intentionally or not, Eddie Izzard shows how supposedly intelligent people will go along with anything if they think that’s the approved opinion. pic.twitter.com/FMcqVImrvR
A not-very-funny (because it could just happen) piece of political satire.
In the circumstances mooted, only a [self-censored…] of the evil in society would cleanse this country.
Eddie Izzard is a man who enjoys wearing make up & feminine clothes. That’s entirely his choice. However it doesn’t mean he is a woman, any more than my cropped hair, jeans & lack of lipstick make me a man. Please don’t reinforce regressive stereotypes with incorrect pronoun use
I applaud Eddie Izzard's courage in becoming the Screaming Lord Sutch of our generation. We've long needed a hilarious spoof candidate to remind us our politics is broken. pic.twitter.com/bSRn2TMEzs
Proof that this society, at least in large parts (which means overall, really) is broken. Many people are so confused about reality that they cannot distinguish male from female, good from bad, decent behaviour from mere virtue-signalling, and social cohesion from fake communitarian nonsense (such as the brainwashed plebs of 2020, “clapping for the NHS” on order, or under social pressure, outside their dwellings).
The Labour Party is especially infected with socio-political disease.
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Therese Coffey who hid 9 reports that apparently detailed wrong doings and cruelty in her last department is Health Secretary, Deputy PM – She is also best friends with Truss. https://t.co/XOoGOZRljv
There is no real democracy in the UK, just a rigged electoral system designed expressly to maintain a mere facade of democracy while, in reality, providing the voters with a fake and basically binary Con/Lab “choice” leading to an ultimately-similar result no matter which party “wins”.
Ken Clarke on BBCr4today said that the UK is heading into a deep long lasting recession even worse than the one Ted Heath's govt created. National Debt is 100% the equivalent of GDP – only ever happens when the Tories are the govt. Some party of FISCAL RESPONSIBILTY.
Free money for “Covid” “panicdemic” nonsense, free money for the regime of the Jew dictator Zelensky, free money for migrant-invaders and hoteliers, free money for MPs, free money and tax cuts for speculators, but poverty and suffering for most of the British people.
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
She voted for 70 million people to be placed under potentially fatal house arrest, for no reason, multiple times.
What the fucking hell do you think she's going to do to defend the 'principles of liberty'? https://t.co/pR4sBvl8qF
…and the “BLM” “useful idiots” talk about “cultural appropriation” by white Europeans! Of course, the blacks are just being used by the “you know whos” (((you know whos))). “They” are those who infest the world of TV, film and radio (and the Press), not the blacks.
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I saw a minute or so of the public valete of “Boris”-idiot in Downing Street. Pathetic. Entirely expected. Pitiful, really.
There was the usual back-of-postcard “classical” reference (to Cincinnatus— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus), in order to remind the public that Johnson was at Eton and Oxford, and the usual pathetic jokes, this time mainly about how Johnson saw himself as a “booster” (rocket) to get Liz Truss into orbit. To my mind, more like a “booster” (injection) that poisons and kills the recipient. Anyway, as far as I know, only former MP Mark Field has been able to get Liz Truss into orbit, and she very quickly fell to Earth in the muddy fields of South West Norfolk.
2/ Declining water levels on the Rhine River due to a drought in Europe have left German power producers warning of lower output amid coal supply snags, according to a Bloomberg report.🚢📉
4/ German utility companies EnBW AG and Trianel GmbH each reported supply issues, with the former warning of a cut in power generation, according to Bloomberg.📊⚡️
8/ According to a Reuters report, the German government warned last week that logistics problems on the river could mean coal storage sites in southern Germany will probably not be filled by winter.📊📉
There was no need for sanctions against Russia, which hit Germany and the rest of Europe harder than they do Russia. Russia still stands ready to supply gas to Europe, but we cannot expect Russia to sit still while it is literally under attack by Western arms and ammunition supplied to the Kiev regime.
As to the water levels in the Rhine, let’s see what happens over the cooler months.
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Albanians control most of the cocaine trade in the UK, a significant proportion of the heroine and vice trades and around 80% of the firearms trafficking. The amount of harm being done by Albanian organised criminality cannot be overestimated. It’s massive. @GBNEWS@markwhiteTVhttps://t.co/4zfrvJ01cb
Just get rid of them, either out of the UK, or generally and permanently. The present System parties are not going to do either, of course.
I happened to be watching one of those police “reality” shows recently. They raided a house turned into a cannabis farm, and caught an Albanian who was apparently minding the crop for others higher up the food chain. He was charged, prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to “possession with intent to supply” the drug. His sentence? One year. Meaning out in 6 months. The police, CPS, and judiciary might as well not bother, and so save the State the money for [play-] acting in this farce. Alternatively, eliminate the criminal and anyone associated with him. In fact, the lot.
People have had their rights removed, children have been tortured, forced medical experiments carried out, people have been othered, persecuted, rounded up and put into camps. Millions have been intentionally killed.
But if you’re concerned about any of this, you’re antisemitic.
Fullfact was founded by Michael Samuel of the banking family. His wife is a godparent to Prince George and her sister was married to Amschel Rothschild.
👇Johnson didn’t want Ukraine & Russia to agree on a peace deal framework in April. He wanted hostilities to continue so he could carry on posing as Churchill, ward off a leadership challenge & use the war as an excuse for sky high prices rises which were already in the pipeline. https://t.co/ebsPN45wPb
Yes. The attack on white Britain and its way of life is relentless.
We need to ditch the old, outdated ‘left’ ‘right’ divisions & terminology & realise that the most important division today is globalist/non-globalist. All our major parties today are globalist. They follow global agendas, not national ones. They only pretend to be ‘patriotic’.
I have been saying that for years, indeed for decades.
As part of the elite's Great Reset "Build Back Worse" agenda, the war on motorists is entering a much nastier, totalitarian phase. Drivers will need to get a permit to enter certain areas at certain times, with permits only available to selected groups. https://t.co/AfCxkkeV7c
Not sure I agree with the second sentence of tweeter “Jim Smith”. Even 22 years ago, Oxford seemed to have a bad traffic (and parking) problem. I picked up an American lady at the railway station (where there was effectively no parking beyond extremely short-term), in order to take her to Herefordshire. Very fraught and congested, and the traffic in and around the central part of the town was pretty bad, certainly compared to what it was like in the 1980s.
Died of an unexpected sudden illness. 32 years old. Excess death is up. More people are dying now than during 2020 when coronavirus was the biggest concern. What in the heck is happening? https://t.co/aEVnfA5iUu
🔴Despite Ukraine having recaptured a number of villages previously under Russian control, their well-equipped enemies are not fleeing without a fight, Ukrainian soldiers said pic.twitter.com/91s6dHniI0
Western analysts monitoring the conflict say Ukraine is achieving its tactical objectives of improving their long-term positions on the southern frontline.
Holden graduated from the LSE in 2007, at age 22, with a degree in Government and History. Unlike most Conservative (and Labour) MPs, he had spent some time in “the real world”, having worked part-time during his LSE years as a waiter and barman.
After graduation, Holden worked in a number of Conservative Party and SpAd jobs, before being elected at North West Durham in 2019.
North West Durham was a Labour seat from 1950, when the seat was reconstituted, to 2019.
Despite the above, and bearing in mind the cost of living crisis, and the economic catastrophe left after the “panicdemic” etc, it will take a Herculean effort for Holden to retain the seat, despite Labour’s general slide in the area in the past several years, especially if labour select someone other than Laura Pidcock.
1/2 Can't we @zoepaulanet? I thought all that stuff had been discredited. Hillary just lost because she was a bad candidate. Whereas Jack Matlock, former US amassador to Moscow, agrees that USA backed the putsch which overthrew Ukraine's legit government in 2014. https://t.co/0c8H4pQuW5
2/2 @zoepaulanet. Russia could break up into several pieces if the Moscow state grows too weak to hold it together. Ukrainian allegiance to a hostile power could do that. This was a German foreign policy aim in the early 20th century, I think. https://t.co/0c8H4pQuW5
.@agurulyov. People with independent minds decide for themselves what English transliteration they use for the names of foreign cities, and decline to be pressured by lobbyists, or insulted by verbal thugs, into changing their behaviour. https://t.co/ixhglM13Ge
In fact, only brainwashed “morons” (meaning here, “stupid people”), and/or equally mindless fans of the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, use “Kyiv” or, indeed, “Keev” (the BBC’s absurd new version).
As far as I am concerned, “Peking” and “Bombay” are also still places, as are “Calcutta” and “Florence”.
I am content to stick with the version used for a thousand years— Kiev.
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.
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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… 🤣❤️🇬🇧🙉🙊🙈🖕🥓🍻🦎™️
I happened to see this menu from the House of Commons:
The MPs almost literally have their snouts in the trough, and at heavily-subsidized prices— at the same time as so many people are going hungry and (once the weather cools, from this coming weekend) cold as well.
The House of Lords offers its members similar if not better fare, also at rock-bottom prices. A friend of mine often dined there, though many years ago, and told me all about it. In those days, roast salmon, with all trimmings, was about £2 or £3, I think.
In fact, it is reminiscent of the old “Kremlyovsky Payok” (“Kremlin ration”), a system of both free and heavily-subsidized food rations originating in the 1920s, and which expanded under Stalin to become a whole system of (some) free food, and special shops with either subsidized or generally unobtainable food and other items, sourced both from within the Soviet Union and from outside. Ground coffee, for example.
The Kremlyovsky payok was the highest level, awarded to members of the Politburo and other very high-ranking persons, but there were more modest yet still worthwhile “rations” (and other items) available to anyone who was a member of the “nomenklatura“, such as GRU officers down to the rank of major.
In Kazakhstan, where I lived in 1996-1997, Army personnel still got a payok of that sort at that time; I recall that my “landlord”, a Russian colonel in the Kazakhstan Army (ex-Soviet Army; I became very friendly with him, his wife, and their youngest child, who all lived not far from me) received a large sack of grain and a lot of tinned goods regularly.
That system extended (in Soviet days) to —in effect— private hospitals, vacation “sanatoria” (hotels with a health and fitness aspect), and access to foreign (and usually better) domestic equipment such as refrigerators, ovens, washing machines etc.
A few extremely valued people (such as Mikhail Sholokhov, the writer of The Quiet Don, aka Quiet Flows the Don— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov), and the holder of numerous awards, including 6 awards of the Order of Lenin and 2 awards of Hero of Socialist Labour, were even allowed “open bank accounts”, which meant that they could go to a bank and be given effectively any amount of money they wanted (Soviet roubles only, of course), whenever they liked.
Continuing facemask nonsense
Four Covid mRNA doses, recently recovered from Covid, walking outdoors away from people. For the love of science and humanity, please remove the mask.pic.twitter.com/9vNqE57Iir
Biden has at least the excuse that he is, or is said to be, somewhat demented.
I went to Waitrose yesterday evening (it being the only actual supermarket for miles), and noticed a woman walking to her car in the car park— alone, in the sun and a slight breeze, yet masked.
For some people, wearing one of those stupid masks or muzzles has become a kind of “I can prove that I really exist” virtue-signal, or a flag of allegiance to some sort of fake communitarian “clap for the NHS” club.
Those cranks must have hated it when shops were allowed to reopen without subjecting their customers (that’s customers, not prisoners) to the whole soulless and pointless rigmarole of “social distancing”, the facemask nonsense —“would you pull up your mask please!“— and the rest of it all, monitored by shop staff suddenly given petty power (but who now have to return to stacking shelves and helping the shoppers rather than corralling them).
The loonies or semi-loonies still wearing their (completely useless) facemasks remind me of the Japanese soldiers on Pacific islands, still fighting the war in 1980, not having understood that it finished in 1945, and then realizing (?) that they had just been wasting their time doing something rather stupid.
The result of a number of factors, among which are mass immigration, births to non-whites (causing an increase of maybe 10 millions in the past two decades), and the politically-driven sell-off of local authority homes (from the mid-1980s onward).
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The USA backed a violent putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawfully elected ( and non-aligned) government, and replaced it with an unconstitutional pro-NATO regime. Call me old-fashioned, but I regard that as an act of aggression. So would you, if Russia did the same. https://t.co/IklugSqJFF
As for the USA, whatever one might say in mitigation, it has attacked, or bombed, or engaged in warfare in, a huge number of countries even since 1945, including Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, various other countries of Latin America, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Lebanon etc.
I have no idols, sweetie. I am a Protestant Christian and worship only God. Do you know any real history? https://t.co/CrjtIQ2Zee
The tweeter “@ThePFofJudea”, as Hitchens implies (I think) has apparently confused William Joyce, aka “Lord Haw Haw” [shown above, when young, in the 1920s or early 1930s], with Adolf Hitler, merely because Joyce also sports a small moustache. Note the slashed face, a result of a politically-motivated attack on Joyce in 1924.
Actually when FDR and Churchill appeased the murderous and authoritarian Stalin in 1945, none of this happened. Appeasement secured 50 years of prosperity and peace in Western Europe, and Stalin’s regime eventually fell, mainly because it could not match that prosperity. https://t.co/Z7t0LgT2wm
We even gave him Poland, supposedly the reason we went into the war in the first place.
— Global Village Counterinsurgent (@handles78892211) August 30, 2022
“No-one can rule guiltlessly” [Saint-Just].
1/2 @amb8819 You need to go back to the Wolfowitz Doctrine and to Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard. Wolfowitz believed that any resurgence by Russia must be smashed, Brzezinski that if Ukraine was seduced from neutrality to NATO membership , Russia would effectively be destroyed. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
2/3 You also need to read Kagan here https://t.co/ykDvkKDMLJ , in which he admits Russia was provoked. Probably the cranking up the Ukraine crisis after 2014 was a response to Russia blocking US policy in Syria. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
3/.3 @amb8819 It may make you *happy* to assume I am a defender of the invasion, but it won't help you understand anything, as I not only despise the invasion as an act, but regard it as a stupid mistake. He had a choice. I wonder who was happiest when he took it. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
Putin had no real choice, but his decision must have assumed, evidently mistakenly, that Russian military intelligence (the GRU) and the Russian Army (both on the ground and in the General Staff or, to use an old term, the Stavka) was up to the job, competent. Not so, it seems to have been proven.
This is a potentially existential crisis for Russia as anything purporting to be an independent state, let alone a regional power (the “superpower” label having been lost except in terms of nuclear weapons).
Russia cannot lose this war. By that, I mean that Putin cannot afford to lose this war.
The Russian side is now proposing peace talks. The Ukrainian or Kiev-regime side has refused, saying that only the “return” of Crimea (historically, usually part of Russia rather than Ukraine) and the Donbass etc can be the precondition for talks.
Russia will never accept that Crimea, especially, and its almost entirely Russian population, be given , or “returned”, to the Kiev government.
The present situation is worrying even for those who live far from Ukraine. There is a mob, of the malicious and/or idiotic, baying for Russian blood, and for war with Russia, in effect. I wonder what a Venn diagram would look like if it contained that Twit-mob and also the similar mobs who wanted war with Iraq and then Afghanistan?
If the present limited “Ukrainian” counter-offensive in the south succeeds, and the Kherson pocket or bulge is eliminated, Russia may start to attack, more heavily than heretofore, Odessa, other cities, and Kiev itself.
There is a danger of huge escalation here. The Kiev regime is being supplied with more and more and better, more powerful, arms. Not only arms but money, food, medicines etc. Supplied by the West, but mainly from the USA and UK.
Without those arms, without that money, the failed state of Ukraine could not exist at all. It has almost no exports, its industrial areas are inoperative, or ablaze, or under Russian control. Millions of its wealthier and/or better-educated citizens are in exile. Within Ukraine, the Zelensky regime has shot or imprisoned opponents without trial, or after neo-Stalinist quick “trials”; it has banned trade unions and all opposition parties, and there is no freedom of speech.
In short, Zelensky, like his shambolic and corrupt “government”, is a “monkey on a stick”. This is a Punch and Judy show.
Having said that, if it is true that Russia’s forces are faltering, if it is true that Russia’s supply of heavy weapons to the war is slowing, then that may leave Putin and his top people with an incentive to escalate the war beyond anything yet seen. That in turn might provoke a NATO response. If that were to happen, European civilization, in Europe, itself might be in peril.
Pubs, fish and chip shops and the rest are being driven to the wall on purpose. The destruction is intentional. However hard to accept – it's the simplest explanation.
Look at the UK. Ten years ago, even five years ago, look on, eg, Rightmove, and you saw numerous English or Scottish country estates for sale, some with thousands of acres. Now? Nothing, pretty much. I blogged about this previously, even a few years ago.
Cash is being phased out. It’s a control mechanism. Once cash goes, the citizen is reduced to complete and utter dependence on his little plastic cards. If they are restricted or taken away, by whoever controls the system, the individual is immediately an outcast, without money, without any way (short of theft, robbery, or begging) even to access food.
When I last visited Hong Kong, in 2006, there was a regional technical problem with credit and debit cards. None worked for several days. Fortunately, I was already in hotel accommodation (the Sheraton, Kowloon) and had several thousand US dollars in cash as well, but what if a similar situation occurs, and you have no cash (because cash does not exist), and what if you are not in accommodation for whatever reason? You sleep on a park bench, and forage for whatever food you can find.
Do not imagine that the banks are some kind of unbiased arbiter or supplier of services. They may be, most of the time, but even now we see examples of people with “the wrong views” being cut off from banking services. It happened a while ago to Sam Melia, Laura Towler and Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative. I am not talking even about the PA official bank accounts. No, I refer to the individual, personal bank accounts of those people.
You can see the way UK television drama has gone, even detective stories such as Endeavour, Grantchester etc. A kind of “we must have half the characters black, brown, other non-white, or at least gay” ethos.
Masking likely represents the most ambitious public health intervention in history.
An intervention we wanted all people: 1) to do multiple times per day 2) every single day 3) across a wide range of environments 3) with no clear end in sight
Mikhail Gorbachev, who rose to power in the Soviet Union and set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, has died in Moscow. He was 91. https://t.co/hYeovyISVapic.twitter.com/ExXIlukRl6
Gorbachev's foreign policy vision in his final years was not pro-Western
Gorbachev condemned NATO expansion, U.S. imperialism and Germany's hegemonic ambitions in Europe. He backed the Crimea annexation but warned against a spiral of tensions that would lead to nuclear war
Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims @thetimeshttps://t.co/ewmSuvlk0a
Interesting that this alleged fact should emerge now, just as her family and friends, with other supporters, are trying to get her back to the UK. Is someone trying to provoke her assassination?
Not that I want her back in the UK. I do not want any of them here in the first place.
@rhhasdall. My main concern is to begin discussion in this country as to whether we have a national interest in prolonging and sustaining a Russian-American war in Ukraine. My own view is that we do not, but we do have strong reasons to support a peace initiative. https://t.co/bP7Oeijyai
Ian Robert Millard 