More madness. Make no mistake, though— there are politically-motivated persons deliberately promoting, and funding, the madness.
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🇷🇺 Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin stated that today's European man who holds to traditional values is uncomfortable and even frightening to live in an environment where various forms of depravity thrive. pic.twitter.com/tGH0wXZuf8
The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that it is unpleasant, and sometimes even scary, for a spiritually and physically healthy person to come to Europe – so many different kinds of perversions have bred there.
"We will continue to work with the Russian side," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said of a "comprehensive strategic partnership." pic.twitter.com/sl6hvFAuw5
With Scholz as chancellor, Germany does not need enemies
HIS GOVERNMENT FAILED TO FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO RUSSIAN GAS FOR A YEAR AND A HALF
Germany is collapsing economically due to the termination of trade relations with Russia and the loss of the Russian market. And… pic.twitter.com/qv6aBDPp3Y
Watched a pretty good episode of Endeavour. The only silly thing about it, as with other drama series of recent years set in the 1960s (Inspector George Gently etc) , 1950s and 1940s (Grantchester etc) is the number of blacks and other non-whites shown. People today under the age of about 50 will of course have little notion that what they are being shown is a false picture. Cambridge in 1950, Oxford in 1968, had few black or other non-white individuals, except a few foreign students.
The TV series Vera, very entertaining, and set in contemporary Newcastle on Tyne, yet has the same false narrative running through it. Even today, the North East is a fairly white British region, yet in Vera every second major character is non-white.
Of course, this is no accident. Again, all part of the propaganda barrage around the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Older people see the falsity, but those much under 50, and especially the under-30s, probably have little idea exactly how false is the picture of Britain shown, particularly the Britain of the 1960s etc.
The aim? To normalize a UK society largely non-white.
Incidentally, Endeavour, made 2012-2021 and set in the 1960s and early 1970s, is a prequel to Inspector Morse, made 1987-2000 and set in the 1980s and 1990s.
Tellingly, however, the Oxford of Inspector Morse contains far fewer blacks and browns than that of Endeavour, made later but set 20-30 years before!
I read that the “Jack Monroe” event at the Edinburgh Fringe had to be moved from the original 400-seat hall to a smaller hall because so few tickets were sold. 100? As many as 200?
The only thing Jack Monroe has been doing for years is pushing her fake poverty story, shilling for the Tories, taking money under false pretences and producing, unworkable, inedible slop under the guise of 'recipes'
Bog off Theo. Only crock of shit being spouted round here is Jack Monroe's last recipe for hedgehog and opal fruit curry or whatever atrocious concoction it was – can't actually remember as it's been an age since she's posted any recipes at all.
How will Jack Monroe talk her way out of being cancelled at EdFest? Pretend she's got cancer again? That cancer cap must be minging by now, wonder if she ever gave it a wash in that tumble dryer water of hers. pic.twitter.com/rBo7277goe
That refers to just one of “Jack Monroe’s” fraudulent claims, years ago in this case, i.e. that she had been diagnosed with cancer. Well-meaning but silly people sent her money on the back of that. Where are the police? Are they too busy snooping on “antisemitic” social media posts, or seizing politically-incorrect teddy bears?
This is another grift by Jack Monroe. If the team doesn't exist and she's pocketing the cash she rattles out of her tipjar then it's fraud. https://t.co/NVWIhRHUHr
That one refers to yet another “Jack Monroe” lie, that she was “working on” something called the “Vimes Boots Index” to measure the higher inflation rate pertaining to basic or staple items in supermarkets. In reality, that “Index” has never existed except as something she said as part of the overall “Jack Monroe” “poverty” and food “expert” scam.
Jack Monroe once again failing to realise lies like this can be shot down by FOI request, just like the Essex Celebrity Police Squad lies and previous ONS lies. https://t.co/fT8x9M5hpn
Why Jack Monroe for health? Not sure an ex alcoholic and suspected drug user is a good call. Also she says her meals cost £20 a week and wouldn't feed a church mouse efficiently. So many glorious people you could choose.
I have never been sure why quite a few very silly people, in this case one “Kerry Fisher”, like to make up “fantasy Cabinets”, then post their half-baked (“half-baked” being rather appropriate if “Jack Monroe” is involved) musing on Twitter. It must be one of the least interesting or useful ways to use Twitter.
If we introduced fair taxation we could afford everything they say we can't afford we've got to stop the Tory tax dodgers and swindlers bleeding our country dry with a wealth tax and banning tax avoidance loopholes #JeremyVinepic.twitter.com/QuyMKdkG7h
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) August 15, 2023
Very true, but both/all System parties are full of wealthy servants of the “Money Power”, so radical solutions are out, at least from them.
The head of the NATO Secretary General's office does not rule out that Ukraine can get membership in the alliance in exchange for ceding part of the territory to the Russian Federation, writes VG. pic.twitter.com/873agCESnr
Ukrainian air defense cannot withstand Russian Ks-22 missiles This was admitted by the representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat. According to him, not a single Russian cruise missile was destroyed during the entire SVO period.… pic.twitter.com/dpXVSTu11g
Sick of mass immigration? Sick of woke political correctness? Sick of an economy that doesn't work for ordinary people? Sick of a new elite that's out of touch? Sick of gender ideology degrading women & children? Then join 20,000 others here https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
Interesting. Unexpected people are now, at least on the face of it, moving slowly towards a social-national direction.
Late tweets
Wonder what Captain Tom’s other daughter thinks of all this? Hannah Ingram-Moore and her hubby definitely sound like wrong’uns. Always felt there was something off with her when she was foisting her father on TV, and then there was the Caribbean holiday..! Grifters! #newsnighthttps://t.co/R9g5QHN18S
That woman, Hannah Ingram-Moore, is just an outright embezzler and “grifter”, along with her husband. As for “Captain Tom”, he was, in my view, a well-meaning but probably none-too-intelligent dupe of the System. I have no doubt that he meant well but, in the big scheme of things, his fundraising result was tiny when compared to the huge amounts wasted on the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic” by the Government and NHS. He was used by the System for propaganda purposes. People loved the human story, of course. That is why he was so “useful” to the System.
Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram Moore is a money grabbing, lying cheat.
Hannah Ingram is the very definition of greed and moral bankruptcy. It was clear all along what her motivations were. Money, money and Moore money https://t.co/zGPenV1teo
I have blogged in the past about my day out at the UK’s Porton Down biolab complex in Wiltshire, about 28 years ago, escorting the then Ukrainian Ambassador (who is, by the way, now director of a biolab in Ukraine itself).
Ukrainian authorities warn that a large group of drones is entering the mouth of the Danube and moving towards Izmail pic.twitter.com/72RZEki6Bx
Scott Ritter: Russian Lancet drones destroyed a significant part of the Ukrainian artillery on the front line
"If you look at what kills Ukrainian artillery systems, then it is most often not counter-battery combat, but Lancet drones that find targets and eliminate them"
At night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out combined strikes on Ukrainian military facilities throughout Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mbM5ydd1l8
Untrained or scarcely-trained Ukrainian recent civilians being sent to the front line and ordered to perform unnecessary and stupid actions by incompetent superiors.
I have to admit that I find modern China fascinating —from a distance— though I have never been there (I have been to Hong Kong and Macau, but never to mainland China).
[Chinese pastiche of a town with “Tudor” buildings; looks a bit like the centre of Hereford]
2/2 The president also visited the building of the restored Mariupol Philharmonic — he examined the situation inside the building and assessed the quality of the work performed: “Comfortable, beautiful”https://t.co/uYfVai6mQO
#Putin meets with ppl of #Mariupol They were taken aback bc this was very unexpected. He is asking them if they like the new buildings that have been built for them. pic.twitter.com/wyKGT2zhNI
Interesting. I have blogged a few times about the day in 1994 or 1995 (I think 1995) when I visited the partly-privatized but still heavily-guarded Porton Down biolab campus in Wiltshire, UK, with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, a trained scientist who was later both a Presidential candidate and director of a biochemistry and biosecurity institute in Ukraine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko].
Many Russians know what’s happening. This 92yo woman says TV has brainwashed Russians to hate the West, support Putin & act like animals in Ukraine. Asked why she’s not brainwashed, she says, “I’ve lived thru 4 wars. I can think critically & analyze.”pic.twitter.com/rtdUCts3sp
Well, OK, but that old woman can express her views freely on the streets of (?) Moscow, and have them broadcast without repercussions. If she had been in Kiev, and had opposed the regime of the corrupt Jew Zelensky, she would probably, almost certainly, have been arrested; the interview would certainly not be broadcast or allowed to be put on social media. Everyone involved would be arrested.
So who is “brainwashed“? The Western msm is more or less brainwashing people in the UK, USA etc, though many are “thinking for themselves” and not supporting the war or the Kiev regime.
Watching a few academics on here lose their marbles over a book they've not even read is a sight to behold! Do look around and note what happens when you appear to challenge the orthodoxy. And grab the book to explore for yourself!
Bolloxs…..you think the govt going to pay for illegal immigrants, no it'll be pushed onto everyone and struggling hard working families to pay. Lineker won't be paying he'll use loophole to get out of it, while others lose their homes
Not on small boats. Lineker represents 16% of Britain at best. Most people support the gvt. But progressives like Lineker also tend to dominate Twitter so what you are seeing on here every day is a sort of progressive worldview on steroids https://t.co/rzJ8dfbg4J
The Twitterati were all so shocked to find that there was a majority in favour of Brexit (meaning,mainly, in favour of stopping immigration), and that America voted Trump in 2016.
Lineker is a good example of the luxury belief class. High paid elites (often dodging tax, indulging in selective outrage e.g. Qatar ok but not Con gvt) who preach luxury beliefs to garner status among other elites but do not have to live with the effects themselves https://t.co/iJvCHhEYwz
The fantastic BBC Singers, Britain’s only professional chamber choir, to be disbanded in July to save about £1.5m, only a tad above Gary Lineker’s annual BBC salary. Strange priority for a supposedly public-service broadcaster.
I obviously have skin in the game here but I'd gently point out there's a whole chapter on the negative economic effects of Thatcherism. The new elite let down the country economically, culturally and politically, it's not either/orhttps://t.co/G3C3UtcvJuhttps://t.co/YnjmIqirjv
Britain has always had an elite. The difference between the old & the new elite, however, is that whereas the former broadly shared the cultural values of the masses the latter, who are increasingly embracing radically progressive values, do not. https://t.co/2X0J8vP2gP
I do think Jeremy Hunt is sounding dangerously out of touch with much of the country. Families are not experiencing a "pinch" – it's the sharpest decline in living standards since the 1950s.
As I blogged yesterday, Jeremy Hunt seems to have a political cloth ear.
Goodwin’s tweet about “1950s” is not quite right though. “1940s” would be better. It is a linguistic point. The 1950s were when Britain began to exit from the terrible privation of the unnecessary war against the German Reich. The poverty of Britain was actually worse in the decade (and especially the 5 years) after the end of the war than it had been during that misconceived war. The decline in living standards during the war itself lurched lower in 1946, 1947 and did not improve, substantially, until about 1954 or 1955. The last remnants of WW2 rationing ended in 1955.
Incidentally, it is interesting to note that many poorer Brits actually had a better diet during WW2 rationing than they had had in the prewar 1930s.
Some of the (pro-immigration) replies to Goodwin’s tweet are unintentionally hilarious: idiots saying that the UK “needs” immigrants, that the UK is not “full” (despite housing covering more of our green fields daily), and one pro-invasion tweeter (one of the most vituperative) who lives on the Costa Tropical in Spain!
I think there a is a very strong consensus that this and the reduction of BBC World Service output is a serious mistake. I wonder who made the call.
According to some tweets I saw, the decision was made by some black woman, by name Lorna Clarke: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lorna-clarke-3a19b415. She, it seems, is actually the “BBC Director, Music” and formerly “Head of Rock and Pop“.
“How has this been allowed to happen? Early last year, the BBC’s music review recommended an extraordinary restructure. Alan Davey, the recently departed controller of BBC Radio 3 and the Proms, ceased to have direct responsibility for the classical ensembles that are now under the control of former head of rock and pop Lorna Clarke, while [Simon] Webb, the former director of the BBC Philharmonic, is the new head of orchestras and choirs in England.
The BBC’s timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling to recover from the pandemic, exhausted from keeping the show on the road throughout, three of the ensembles without a permanent director and all contractually gagged. There is not one single champion for classical music left at the BBC in any position of power or influence. Herod has been left minding the creche.
I no longer know if the BBC is a public service broadcaster; I don’t recognise it any more, or its values. If it no longer exists to do that which others cannot or will not, then what is it for? After 23 years of constant change, the ensembles of the BBC have never been more agile, flexible or willing to adapt, and they represent tremendous value for money in the grand scheme of the BBC’s budget and our licence-fee payment.
The role of cultural patron is not optional, and the responsibilities as custodian of music ensembles do not give the BBC permission to dispose of and dismantle them without serious public discussion, not to mention honest, transparent internal debate. The values and behaviour of what we are told repeatedly is “our BBC” must matter to all of us as much as the content.”
[Paul Hughes, in the Guardian]
Apart from the actual absurdity of having blacks and merely business-trained persons in positions of power in the cultural sphere, this damage goes right back to the 1990s, to John Birt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birt,_Baron_Birt] and Greg Dyke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Dyke]. Those two, who knew and worked with each other, both had poor educational and —initial— work backgrounds, yet were allowed to take leading positions in British television and radio.
“Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (pre-1918: Илья Ефимовичъ Рѣпинъ) Илья Ефимович Репин, pronounced [ˈrʲepʲɪn];[a] 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter.[1][3][4][5][b] He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century.
PMC "Wagner" is attacking, trying to take the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut into the cauldron This is reported by the officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: ▪️“In the Sobachovka area, the Wagners are trying to close the ring and are advancing along… pic.twitter.com/yKlfUS0Jsg
Polish Ambassador to France Jan Emeryk Rościszewski: "Either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will be forced to enter into this conflict." pic.twitter.com/1noohyDhjy
If Poland fights against Russia in 2023, that would trigger a Russian response which might mean that there will be no Poland, and certainly no Warsaw, by 2024. In fact, Poland being now a member of NATO, it might just trigger WW3.
The SNP may have had its day in the sun, but it could reinvent itself if it became more social-national, opposed mass immigration and migration-invasion, binned non-whites/non-Brits such as Humza Yousaf as candidates and office-holders, and announced a policy of leaving NATO and closing down all RAF/USAF bases, as well as submarine bases, while asking Russia for closer relations. None of that will happen, of course.
A gentle reminder that @NicolaSturgeon invited this cretin into power to protect herself in Holyrood. Another one of her many many failures as first minister. Slater shouldn’t be allowed on a PTA never mind be a government minister. https://t.co/U9MlhXH8M2
The idiotic woman even wears a rainbow scarf. Like a red flag, a warning signal. Just looked her up on Wikipedia; she is actually Canadian! How mad is that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna_Slater.
Oh yes. I recall once running late at Gatwick, only to be told by some simpleton in uniform to remove my shoes! I only caught my plane because it was delayed by engine trouble.
Even worse are the self-important armed police, strutting around with their Heckler & Koch MP5s or other weapons. So, if there are suspected terrorists, will they just open up with automatic weapons in a crowded terminal? I hope not. They are basically there “for show”.
Ian Robert Millard 