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Diary Blog, 28-29 December 2020

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Peaceful music

28 December 2020

Tweets seen today

I myself am not on Facebook, but that reminds me of the attitude of the Bar Standards Board [BSB] when a pack of Jews called “UK Lawyers for Israel” complained about me to the BSB in 2014, a malicious complaint that led to my disbarment nearly two years later, in 2016: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/

Out of 150,000+ tweets and retweets posted over a number of years, and about 100 complained of by those Jews, a mere 7 (SEVEN!) were thought to be “grossly offensive” by the BSB and so formed the basis for the quasi-trial (Bar Disciplinary Tribunal hearing) in October 2016.

In fact, the allegedly offensive tweets were reduced in number at hearing to only 5 (FIVE). Out of 150,000+…Over 6 years of Twitter membership.

My point here is other, to wit that my tweets, all general comments about society and politics, were true in all particulars. One, at which the Tribunal took particular offence, was that Michael Gove [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove] was “a pro-Israel, pro-Jew expenses cheat“. That was deemed “grossly offensive” despite the fact that the facts alleged by me were, in fact, facts.

In other words, I was condemned for having tweeted the truth. Where is the greater offence, the crimes or defaults of a politician, or the tweets posted and which commented on those defaults?

I might add that, in 2016, the general public was not aware (neither was I) that snivelling Jewish-lobby puppet Gove was (is?) also a regular cocaine abuser.

The other four tweets which sank me at Tribunal were also all true…

Truth is often no defence in the public-private politically correct and Zionist-dominated police state of 2020 Britain.

What should be done with Professor Ferguson and others?

Bicycle riders are a nuisance, especially in the semi-rural English coastal area where I live; dark clothing, often no lights, usually no street lighting. Having said that, car drivers are often very negligent too.

My own niece, an Australian citizen working temporarily in West London, was knocked off her pushbike early in the year, and was lucky not to have been badly injured. The “accident” happened at an intersection where she had the right of way. The driver briefly stopped , then sped off. The police (who could have seized cctv evidence from nearby businesses, but did not), were useless. The hit-and-run driver, probably a non-European, has never been traced, identified, or punished.

I agree with Hitchens on the liberty point (not to have to wear helmets) but it is true that many have lost their lives by reason of not having been wearing helmets.

Around 1988 or 1989, I was asked by a friend and former Russian-language teacher of mine, the now-deceased Dostoyevsky translator, Ig Avsey, a good-hearted if eccentric fellow [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/09/ignat-avsey-obituary], to investigate the death of his 30-something nephew, an employee at the BBC radio monitoring facility (now closed) at Caversham Park, close to Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Park

Ig told me that his nephew had suddenly fallen down at home (in the Caversham Park suburb close to the monitoring station; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Park_Village); he later died. Ig was (unwarrantedly) suspicious of the nephew’s girlfriend, with whom the deceased had recently had a child; mother and baby also lived in the house.

Ig seemed to think that the young woman, a Ukrainian in her twenties, might have had a drunken argument with the nephew, and hit him with something. There had been a head injury, but the police were not treating it as suspicious.

Having heard of the deceased nephew (and having once briefly met him in London, several years before these events), I was aware that he was a fairly heavy drinker. On the night of the death he had apparently taken a fairly considerable amount of drink at the bar within the monitoring centre.

Anyway, I attended the inquest held in Reading, though only as observer (I was at the time not yet Called to the Bar). Ig had instructed Counsel, a fairly confident young woman whose name escapes me but who made a career at the Bar (I used to see her around the Inns in later years).

The inquest was a rather sad waste of time, as many are. The trail seemed to have gone cold.

However, some weeks after that, the report of the inquest, printed in the local newspaper, brought forth a bus driver who declared that he had been driving his bus one evening when a cyclist, not stopping where a cycle path met the road, and the man not wearing a helmet, had shot across in front of the bus, which had stopped short; the cyclist had, despite not having been struck, fallen off onto the road. He had been helped up, and had continued on his way, obviously somewhat the worse for drink.

So there it was. No espionage connection, no drunken domestic argument and assault, just a somewhat intoxicated man who fell off a pushbike and was not wearing a safety helmet. His choice, his accident, his death.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to read more about Ig Avsey, I have mentioned him in blog posts occasionally: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/09/24/diary-blog-24-september-2020/comment-page-1/ (scroll down until you find the relevant bit).

Late tweets seen

https://twitter.com/CarlaSpade/status/1343562622747213825?s=20

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1343650336301572098?s=20

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1343515436734947328?s=20

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1343455277098688512?s=20

Image

https://twitter.com/jennybethm/status/1343276619780255744?s=20

Rare pleasures

Had two relatively rare pleasures, one being traditional fish and chips, the other being a glass or so of Royal Tokay. The fish and chips was the first I had had for months, the Tokay (5 putts.) the first for at least 10 years. Both very pleasant.

At the same time, I saw University Challenge, another alumni match (Durham and Downing College, Cambridge). As on previous occasions, I did better than both teams. In a sense, that pleases me, but in another sense it displeases me (that highly-paid and respected broadcasters, scribblers and others are so damned ignorant in this country!).

Late music

29 December 2020

BBC World Service

Woke up to some interminable BBC World Service Outlook programme, based around a black girl with sickle cell anaemia. Next up was something called Witness History, which might have been better entitled Witless History. Basically, more anti-white, anti-European propaganda, this time based around the history of UNESCO, and featuring an angry, shouting UN career “diplomat” from Senegal.

The World Service continues to be very poor.

Morning music

Humanity is still at the beginning of its evolution.

This blog

Blogging, like tweeting, is mainly a waste of time and effort. Maybe 99% a waste (the blog; tweeting, 99.9%!)). I blog and will continue to do so, not because of that 99%, but because of the 1%.

“In your nothing I hope to find my everything” [Goethe, Faust; Faust to Mephistopheles]

Ukraine

As Peter Hitchens has written, Ukraine has been at the centre of many of the conflicts of the past century. Bolshevism, the White Guard, the Russian Civil War, Collectivization, Lebensraum, the war of 1941-45 etc.

During the Second World War, many Ukrainians supported the German invasion, as they had the German anti-Bolshevik occupation after the First World War.

Now we have a situation which has developed from that where the old Soviet Union collapsed and, understandably, after 70 years of Sovietism and/or war, many Ukrainians felt that they would be better off independent of Russia, an aim of many since the 19th Century.

Ukrainian-Americans were an important factor in the Ukranian nationalist revival, which however was before long taken over by Jewish-Zionist elements. One must never forget that the Khazars were from regions now partly in Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars#Judaism.

Sadly, many of the hopes of the Ukrainians were dashed in the 1990s and thereafter. Corruption, poverty, gangsterism, and a wave of Jewish carpetbaggers arriving from the USA and elsewhere. I even saw that some Jewess from Maida Vale (the area of London where I spent most time over the years) had bought a confectionery factory there!

The “Orange Revolution” of 2004-2005 was basically a Jewish-funded NWO/ZOG plot, though you will look in vain for any hint on Wikipedia…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution.

Now, Ukraine’s President, Prime Minister, and other top figures are Jews! One is even a Israeli citizen!

Ukraine was the germ of Russia itself. The Vikings, or “Varangians” as they are known in Russia, sailed down the great rivers of that part of the world (Don, Dniepr, Volga etc) and founded Kievan Rus, which is where Russia began, along with Novgorod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27.

Varangians | Familypedia | Fandom
[Nikolai Roerich: Guests from Overseas]

Ukraine and Russia have always developed together. Not always in great harmony, but always together. That partnership is now fragile and under attack.

The Crimea was placed administratively under the control of the Soviet republic of Ukraine in 1954: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea. The population, though, is mainly Russian (65%; Ukrainians 15%; Crimean Tartars 10%; others 10%).

The Russian reassertion of sovereignty in 2014 was opposed by “the West” (NWO), which since then has completely taken over “independent” Ukraine and is building a great naval base on territory controlled by the Kiev government.

As Peter Hitchens says, these “NATO” (NWO) incursions are a direct threat to Russia, to its integrity and future. As Hitchens notes, imagine what would happen if the Russians did something similar in the Gulf of Mexico…

We may be looking here at the genesis of World War Three. At the same time, “NATO” forces are engaged in military exercises both in Ukraine and in the Baltic states.

Without Ukraine at least as neutral, Russia, as a near-superpower, is no longer in existence. Indeed, it would be not very viable, long-term, as a state at all, especially looking at the slow infiltration of Chinese influence in the Eastern part of Siberia (the former Soviet Far East).

[“Russia does not have borders; it is wherever there are Russian people”]

Russia may be relatively poor compared to the USA and the EU, but it has both nuclear and non-nuclear forces which can match the “West”. Yes, the USA can destroy Russian cities and bases ten times over, and it is not known for sure whether the Russians can destroy the similar American targets ten times over, five times, or only once! Is there any difference?

In fact, were, say, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Boston to be destroyed, would the USA even be able to function? Would it take 10 years to recover? 50? 100?

This is a road better not travelled down.

Tweets seen today

I do not often agree with Maajid Nawaz, but…

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1341422732488175619?s=20

https://twitter.com/Nature_and_Race/status/1339580374897336322?s=20

One of the best Twitter accounts.

https://twitter.com/ShereeJasmine1/status/1343896752299126784?s=20

https://twitter.com/twatterbaas/status/1342945482520338432?s=20

https://twitter.com/ShereeJasmine1/status/1343790936057389058?s=20

Exactly. The US Constitution is largely anachronistic and ineffective. Also, this is not a debate; it is a war. So far, mostly a cold war. So far.

https://twitter.com/womenofeuropa_/status/1343856482803208192?s=20

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1343844835283914753?s=20

A very important tweet. Had I the money, I would buy a country estate. I notice, incidentally, that the supply of such estates in the UK has lessened in the past couple of years. The wealthy are trying to buy lifeboats…

https://twitter.com/_Matt_Hammond_/status/1343758285921517569?s=20

https://twitter.com/izrik_/status/1343715019150798849?s=20

https://twitter.com/AfterSalamis/status/1343862960675033090?s=20

The Bealtaine Cottage Twitter account and website is also worth looking at: https://bealtainecottage.com/

Quite. I thought, earlier in 2020, that to create new hospitals was a great achievement even bearing in mind their limited aims and equipment etc, but now I wonder whether those “Nightingale Hospitals” were just part of a propaganda “big lie”…

Just as the most enthusiastic supporters of mass media and social media censorship now are those who, in the past, would have fought for liberty: journalists, MPs, published authors etc.

The Jewish influence in society (and especially in the mass media and the legal profession) is a large part of all this.

Late tweets seen

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1343985916340277250?s=20

https://twitter.com/Jack76399855/status/1344055512149721088?s=20

Late music

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Diary Blog, 25-26 January 2020

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“ChristiJunior
@ChristiJunior @ArdanianRight I think the Israeli government on some level has accepted the inevitability of a non-Jewish majority and the likelihood that its borders will be overrun. And that was quite possibly the motivation behind destabilizing Ukraine and cleaving it from the Russian sphere of influence — it is being prepped to be the next Jewish Homeland, using the ‘Khazar Hypothesis’ as justification.”
……….
Could the above idea be correct? On the face of it, it seems absurd, but maybe not. After all, most present-day “Jews” are not even descended from ancient “Israelites” or New Testament-era “Jews”:
The Israeli government has put out a big effort trying to rubbish various research studies indicating that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from ancient Biblical Jews. After all, the main justification for present-day “Jews” even being in Palestine/Israel has been that the present day “Jews” are descended from the ancient ones. Without that link, the present-day “Israelis” are either tourists or occupying invaders.
I suppose that the justification for the very existence of “Israel” as a state is
  • the claim that Israelis are the descendants of ancient Jews and/or Israelites; and
  • the claim that Jews have, since 1933 or thereabouts, needed a refuge under their own control, by reason of repression and particularly the so-called “holocaust” etc.

Both of the above reasons are central to Israel’s validity as a state. They are cultural and psychological pillars holding up the Israeli state. If both fall, Israel ceases to have validity at all beyond that conferred by invasion, conquest and occupation.

It can be seen why, on the one hand, a huge effort has been put up to rubbish the “Khazar” hypothesis, and also why Israel and its Jewish and other agents worldwide try to criminalize any historical examination of the farrago of nonsense presented to the masses in the West, especially, as “the” “holocaust”.

Both of the above are impliedly contained within the idea that states and organizations in the UK and elsewhere should sign up to (“adopt”) the so-called “International Definition of Antisemitism”, a tendentious nonsense which so far has been adopted fully by only about a dozen or so states out of nearly 200.

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

The Royal Mulatta

I saw newspaper speculation that Meghan Markle might try to become U.S. President! I suppose anything is possible. After all, Trump was such a joke that The Simpsons did a story, in the early 1990s, about him becoming President. Ho ho…as if that could ever happen!

“holocaust”

The tweet, below, by one Titus Flavius (!) made me laugh!

Late Saturday night, so some music:

 

Prince Charles and Greta Thunberg

I see that Charles met Greta Thunberg, who has “interrupted” her non-existent studies to attend the World Economic Forum. The photograph is interesting: Charles looking rather sheepish, Greta Nut looking mightily pleased with herself.

One has to think: what is behind this? The now-famous Swedish autistic has met the British Crown Prince, presidents, religious leaders (including the Pope) etc. Why? She is not educated even to a “high school” level, knows of scientific matters only the fragments that she has learned by heart from tracts etc. Above all, she has no solutions to the problems of “climate change”other than the complete shutdown of our present society and economy. Were she not in the news so often as a “world-famous activist”, one would, not unfairly, just dismiss her as an idiot or as a silly and irrelevant crank.

One has to ask what powerful forces are behind this unpleasant stunted creature. What powerful bloc finds Greta Thunberg a useful instrument? Why do people with far more education, knowledge, background, experience etc line up to worship at the “shrine” of Greta Thunberg?

Leaving aside the question of what forces are pushing the autistic to the fore, I find myself wondering what the future will hold for Greta Thunberg. She appears not only mentally but physically stunted, a 17 year old who looks about 12, if that. One cannot easily imagine her married, let alone a mother. As for some kind of career or profession, her attitude of “my way or the highway” would seem to render the idea almost impossible even if one leaves aside her lack of formal educational qualification.

Will Greta Thunberg carry on as she is at present, “demanding” that world leaders do as she wants (or else…), saying that “we children” (she recently changed that to “the youth”) “are watching” etc? Will she sink into obscurity? I would not be surprised were she to be hospitalized at some point. She sometimes strikes me as something out of the Tales of Grimm or Nordic folklore, a malicious and almost frightening creature not quite human.

The “ho” madam Ghislaine “Maxwell”

Prince Andrew is a disgusting bastard, really…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-had-visits-ghislaine-21360358

More news from France

When Jews have the power…

https://twitter.com/Lenin2Lennon/status/1221200059703988224?s=20

I agree with the social media post below, in essence. The same is true, mutatis mutandis, of the UK forces:

Reply to

judgedread

@judgedread @ArdanianRight @ChristiJunior The Israelis know they can’t depend on America to be their regional bludgeoning instrument forever. As the racial and gender composition of America’s expeditionary forces becomes less white and less male, its fighting capability becomes dramatically less. And while drones and the eventuality of combat robots and other technological advances will make up some of the difference, there will never be a substitute for a white fighting man as an occupying force. The once-inexhaustible well of rural white boys for America’s war machine is about to run dry forever. Hence the panicked urgency for Trump to destroy Iran on Israel’s behalf.”
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Castro and Cuba

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I had no intention of writing about Cuba or Castro following the recent death of “Fidel”. However, the public and mass media reaction, much of it an outpouring of adulation and “me-too” faux-liberal compromise, has impelled me to write.

There is no doubt that Cuba before Castro was corrupt and, for many, poor. Before Castro there was Batista and before Batista, Prio (Carlos Prio Socarras), of whom the British historian Hugh Thomas wrote, memorably, in his mammoth history of the country, that he “fell like a rotten fruit, full of its own corruption.” Prío himself later said of his presidency: “They say that I was a terrible president of Cuba. That may be true. But I was the best president Cuba ever had.”[see Arthur M. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. New York: Houghton Mifflin (2002) p 216].

Prio was in fact someone who tried to keep to constitutional proprieties and it was his decision not to act extra-judicially which allowed the harsher figure of Batista to seize power in 1952, Prio himself having been elected (by free and contested election) in 1948.

Cuba in the 1950s was sometimes described as somewhere between a Latin American country and a detached, poorer, part of the United States, the latter for long its effective suzerain.

It would be easier to make a quick judgment of Castro’s rule had the United States not (and typically) engaged in ham-fisted great-power and quasi-colonialist geopolitics over the island. Those American interventions continue to muddy the waters: attempts to assassinate Castro, the Bay of Pigs “invasion” of 1961; above all, the partial embargo (which Cuba called a “blockade”) imposed initially in 1960.

No-one can say for sure whether Cuba would be much different had it had the chance to trade freely with the USA, its neighbour and natural main trading partner. Probably not much. Venezuela is another and more recent example of the inability of a Latin American socialist economy to perform adequately for long.

The  bien-pensant “usual suspects” in the UK (the absurd Tariq Ali, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn etc) are now saying that the Castro dictatorship was sort-of acceptable because Cuba had good education and good medical services. On that basis, they should be very kind indeed to German National Socialism, which provided the same and in fact far more (and with far less repression, in reality).

In fact, long before the Soviet subsidy disappeared, Havana was falling to pieces, as were the Cuban roads and railways. I myself had fleeting and peripheral contact with Cuba, otherwise seen by me only from the sea (between Cuba and the Bahamas) and the air (flying over Cuba between Tampa, Florida and Grand Cayman).

I was asked, when a practising barrister in London circa 1995, to help a scientific start-up based at Porton Down, Wiltshire, the high-security  biological warfare facility, then recently partly-privatized. A small company of scientists had a bacterium which turned biomass into fuel (unscientific me calling it the turning of straw into gold). I thought of Cuba with its sugar-cane detritus, lack of fuel and high technical-education levels. Unfortunately, the Cuban Embassy in London did not respond, unlike the Ukrainian: I visited Porton Down with the then Ukrainian Ambassador, Mr. Komisarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko]. Nothing came of that in the end, but it seems that, in more recent years, a company called Havana Energy, headed by ex-Labour Party MP Brian Wilson, has been producing energy that way in Cuba. The Cuban Embassy’s unresponsiveness told me all I needed to know about the Cuban bureaucracy: unalert, lethargic, useless, bearing in mind the country’s crying need for fuel.

Since the early 1990s, Cuba has gradually been moving towards a capitalist economy. No doubt that process will continue. Eventually, some kind of greater rapprochement with the USA will happen.

In this blog post, I am more interested in the puerile reaction of the kind of people in the UK who are letting off Castro on human rights and economic efficiency because Cubans have a health service and a school system. Jeremy Corbyn has excelled himself in ignorant misunderstanding. He just digs himself deeper with every statement.

The mass media and in particular the BBC is, as one might expect, doing its bit to eulogize about Castro, saying that he “turned a small island into a major force in world affairs.” Where does one start in unpacking such nonsense?

The reaction to Castro’s death tells me something else: those in the UK who think themselves “socialist” are willing to turn a blind eye to historical, political and economic realities so long as the label is right.

Update, 5 January 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6558991/Rich-kids-COMMUNISM-Fidel-Castros-model-grandson-flashes-wealth-European-vacations.html