1/ Ukrainian Theater of War, Day 13: Russian forces continue to concentrate around Kyiv. Substantial foreign / mercenary forces have been brought in to bolster Russian forces. Ukrainian attacks on Russian supply routes remain effective. #UkraineRussianWar#UkraineWar#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/Oxoz4rUhho
Please God tell me this Evil is not true 🙏🙏👇👇👇👇Proposed law in Maryland would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 28 days AFTER birth https://t.co/wB6RVXjNqd
I recently blogged about my trip to Porton Down in 1994 or 1995 with the then Ukrainian Ambassador to London, Mr. Komissarenko, a trained biochemist, who later headed a laboratory institute in Ukraine.
Nicola Sturgeon, the fake “nationalist”, and would-be dictator, who pretends to be a sort-of “prime minister” of a sort-of almost-independent country.
Oh please 🤦 He didn't walk 750 miles. It's been less than two weeks since this started. That'd be 70 miles a day pic.twitter.com/MKnRpMqYqg
— Tess Summers 🏴🇮🇪 (@tesssummers98) March 9, 2022
They might at least keep their emotional propaganda a little bit plausible…
Trees should not be cut down, they should be incorporated into the building design. This tree is over 300 years old. Turkey 🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/GCoHa8JDrS
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) March 9, 2022
If only the “virus” propaganda were true, and all those MPs suddenly died from lack of facemask nonsense and “social distancing” nonsense. Fantasy politics?
🔺 Update: The United States has rejected Poland’s surprise announcement that it would hand over its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to President Zelensky’s government https://t.co/C7fElc1WJW
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) March 9, 2022
The U.S. Government has blinked…
Thank God for that.
More tweets
Here are the latest developments in Russia's war in #Ukraine️ ▶️ Moscow and Kyiv agree a 12-hour ceasefire ▶️ US bans Russian oil, rejects jet offer ▶️ EU targets oligarchs, cryptocurrencieshttps://t.co/c7xQUkMupGpic.twitter.com/HVkfYR9N5O
#UPDATE The Kremlin says a Polish offer to deliver Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine via a US airbase could lead to a "dangerous scenario", as Russian troops continued their advance into Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9QTEQhvXLX
Certainly no-one is suggesting that the UK declare war on Israel. Oh…wait a minute, though…
Late afternoon music
Late tweets
If, staggering through the post-nuclear #holocaust rubble, you happen to meet #BenWallace, I hope you'll know exactly what to do. "Keep Britain out of other people's wars". Take a look at #Threads on YouTube.https://t.co/H8duPqq8OP
In a way, though, it is rather funny… this silly woman, and would-be dictator, pretending to be some kind of world leader, when in fact her opinion counts for precisely nothing internationally. She heads what is little more than a glorified multi-county council.
Apparently, some orchestras, including one in Cardiff, are now refusing to play Russian music, even that of Tchaikovsky, who died long before Putin was around, and long before the establishment of Soviet power.
I am, therefore, playing some Tchaikovsky tonight.
A small price for young men to pay for protection against a virus so deadly to them that they might have to spend a day in bed if they get it.https://t.co/qPGtKXoprS
Because both Government and Opposition are pro-“The Great Reset” and “the Great Replacement”, both are riddled with agents of the Jewish lobby, both are pro-ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government], pro-NWO [New World Order] and in favour of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and therefore both following exactly the same agenda. Understand now??
Every day I try my best to report objectively but when the country is run by a bunch of slippery, self serving law breakers with absolutely no respect for the truth & no obvious comprehension of right & wrong it’s not always easy
BBC news now becoming a government mouthpiece for number of covid jabs given out. Ten minutes every night. Barely any coverage of protests and emphasis on pice injuries. Wonder if they are real this time unlike Bristol.#bbcnews
And this year hymns are still forbidden, most wear masks and proper Holy Communion is banned. Still far from satisfactory @alex_komnenos . https://t.co/oX6rcD1bsh
That, @guffynicola, depends on which icons are being clasted. Michael Wharton, writing as 'Peter Simple' in the Daily Telegraph of the early 1960s, was a hugely funny satirist of the emerging age of self-regarding liberalism. Colin Welch did a reasonable job of following him. https://t.co/s2yrUK3vZV
Not sure that I can agree with Hitchens. “Peter Simple”, whose stuff I occasionally saw in the early 1970s, always seemed to me to be a rather unfunny propagandist of a kind of faux-English suburban pseudo-reactionary mindset. Fake. At least, that was my occasional impression, a long time ago.
Gosh, @barbatosalv. Leaving aside the fact that the Christian 'explanation' of the origin of the universe is a parable, not a literal account, Einstein was not an atheist . Why not? Please read : https://t.co/XbQF3HtZYrhttps://t.co/a07Rb3u4qy
'We have made a religion out of politics, have ascribed to government power and state power things which ought to be ascribed elsewhere, and that we are now reaping the reward of that mistake.' https://t.co/2xNPVNmKys
There's now an effort to rewrite history on the Covid frenzy. The government does not want to admit that it once told the inconvenient truth (they're not much use) about masks: https://t.co/j2OyGYNOT7
There are plenty of examples of socio-political madness at present in the Western world, not least the near-worship of the blacks (as in the “BLM” nonsense), and in respect of “the virus”. The former is nonsense partly because much of our present world has been created over the past few thousand years, and especially the past 600 years, by white European people(s). The blacks were and are mere adjuncts, bystanders, spectators, sometimes nuisances and, yes (and as the “BLM” proponents themselves say) sometimes “victims”.
As to the latter of my two examples, i.e. “the virus”, in some respects that seems to be a deeper-embedded sort of madness, perhaps because based on a deeper emotion— fear.
The Coronavirus or Covid-19 virus has (supposedly) so far killed somewhere around 2 million people in the world. That is about one person in every 4,000 people. In the UK, the death toll per unit of population has been far higher (taking the statistics as given, though they are obviously faked or wrong to a great degree). In the UK, there have been well over 60,000 people who have died at least “with” Coronavirus. That is somewhere around one person in every 1,000 people in the UK.
Conclusion as to seriousness: serious but not existentially so.
Conclusion as to measures taken: absolutely mad. Society has been crippled, normal life largely put on hold, civil rights abrogated, and the UK economy facing a very serious hit. A cowed and frightened population have been walking around (even on solitary country walks etc!) in facemasks (despite such masks being of doubtful use), and every kind of busybody and self-appointed guardian of public behaviour given loose rein. That applies also to the police.
Meanwhile, millions of people are all but abandoned by the NHS because their ailments (including the most serious) are priotitized as secondary in importance to the supposed battle against “the virus”.
The public debate, such as there is, is futile, because a huge propaganda campaign has frightened the unthinking mass of the people into imagining that their lives are in danger from this virus, whereas for 999 out of 1,000 people that is simply not so. Reasoned arguments from such as Lord Sumption, the former Law Lord (Supreme Court justice), cut little ice, because emotion almost always trumps reason.
Oh, well. In the phrase of the day, which so well sums up the present apathy and complacency, which applies in almost everything now (apart from the “panicdemic”), “we are where we are”…
Alison Chabloz
On this Easter Sunday, let us not forget brave and persecuted satirist, singer and songwriter, Alison Chabloz, presently sitting in prison because a malicious Jew-Zionist cabal instigated a prosecution under the notoriously flawed Communications Act 2003, s.127.
It is to be hoped that Counsel for Alison Chabloz will soon be able to secure her release on bail pending appeal (to Crown Court) against an egregiously poor verdict and sentence by a magistrate. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen (if it does happen) before Tuesday [6 April 2021], at earliest.
Bored by 'University Challenge', I wrote my own quiz, with questions which are interesting even if you don't know the answers. Guaranteed free of African flags, Pacific island statelets, obscure mathematicians or quantum physics: https://t.co/mwMA4HCOs3
That last is interesting as a metaphor. The same view, pretty much, that John Buchan, or Zuleika Dobson, might have seen before the First World War, or that others might have seen between the wars. Oxford now is hugely different (not just in terms of buildings but socially too) from both 1911 and the 1930s world of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, from that of C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings, but that view remains essentially the same.
When I was a (rather belated) law student, in the 1980s, there was being discussed the question of whether barristers would continue to wear wigs and gowns. The wisest answer came from a lecturer who said that the Bar would cast aside everything except the wigs and gowns. The outward forms would remain.
In fact, while the above has proven to be mainly the case (in Crown Courts especially), in County Court the judge has discretion to dispense with the old form of dress, and in High Court and other fora (particularly in commercial cases) the old form of dress is often not in use now (neither is it in family law cases).
Nonetheless, most people do encounter the practising Bar in Crown Courts, and there the old forms remain in force. The substance of the Bar has, however, changed out of all recognition even since I was finally (having spent time in the USA) Called to the Bar in 1991.
Looking at the UK, the same is true in many other ways. Look at, for example, the Monarchy. It looks, at least largely, similar to what it was in, say 1956, the year of my birth. In reality, it has changed to something rather different. As I have blogged on previous occasions, whatever one may think of the Queen and Consort, no-one could mistake them or their lifestyle for that of “ordinary people”.
When you look at Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward, there is less of the “royal”. You could just about (certainly in the case of the last three) imagine them living in some expensive part of suburbia, as part of (if the term now has any meaning) the rich “middle classes”, or indeed the “nouveaux riches”; or (as indeed is the case) living in Gloucestershire or Surrey, racing around in Range-Rovers, like characters in an “Aga saga”.
What about William and Kate, Harry and the Royal Mulatta? Notionally “royal” (in the case of William and Kate), but only in a “holding on by the fingertips” sense. Certainly there is nothing royal about Harry the “Royal Cuck” and Meghan the “Royal Mulatta” (who, not so many years ago, was actually married to someone else, a Jew businessman in Southern California!).
I do not want to be too hard on Harry. He obviously has emotional or mental problems, and was bagged by the Mulatta easier than the Duke of Edinburgh used to bag grouse, but he is basically now a peripheral nobody, albeit with plenty of money and still holding (so far) a couple of English titles.
William and Kate? At present still lined up to be King and Queen at some point, but I rather doubt that they will reach the finishing post.
Happened to hear on radio the plummy voice of a “Conservative” MP, and for the past months the Minister for International Trade, which turned out to be that of a Sri Lankan/Indian, albeit born in London, called Ranil Jayawardena [Con, North East Hampshire]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Jayawardena. The constituency is one of the safest Conservative Party seats in the UK.
From where the plummy voice, though? Not from his local comprehensive school, which he attended before attending a nearby sixth-form college. The London School of Economics? Doubtful. He was then at Lloyds Banking Group, where he worked for several years until elected as MP in 2015.
Looking at the way things are going, wih Rishi Sunak talked about (puffed in the msm) as the next Prime Minister, it may be that, in the Commons as elsewhere, the real British people are being completely sidelined; marginalized. Outbred by the non-whites, as well. White Genocide.
“The Great Replacement”. No mere “conspiracy theory”. It’s happening. Just look around you.
Rishi Sunak is making it up as he goes along – and is therefore likely to become PM. My Sunday article for @Independenthttps://t.co/dBcI70Ses6
“There was more support (29%) for the claim that there is “a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together” regardless of who is in government. This was believed by 42% of 25- to 34-year-olds.” [The Guardian]
[an elderly couple in Knighton, in the Welsh Marches]
A rainswept Welsh hill town, in the open air, few if any others around, and a poor old couple who have evidently been scared out of their skins by the “virus” fear propaganda.
My wife has the gift of premonition. Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”. Becca awoke crying. What happened to our freedom? She asked. What indeed.
I recall an interview, on British TV in the mid 1970s, with Lindsay, the Mayor of New York in the 1960s and early 1970s, and conducted by either Michael Parkinson or David Frost. Lindsay said that he had been able to walk around in Manhattan, alone and unmolested (at first), until the atmosphere changed in the early 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay#Mayoralty; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay.
Operation Dark Winter is also the basis of the storyline in Tom Clancy's The Division. A political and military coup by the Deep State following the outbreak of a deadly pandemic that ravages the United States.
Professor Ferguson again! He has not even the grace to shut up, not even now! A serial fantasist. Stalin would have had him shot, and rightly so. So where will the professor spend Christmas? Breaking “the rules” again with his married “ho”?
Will no-one rid us of these turbulent “experts”?
Also, why does BBC Radio 4 Today Programme give this Ferguson charlatan airtime, and thus spurious credibility?
1/2 @starrider8008. There are different kinds of law. Generally they punish recognised crimes (evasion of taxes imposed by legitimate government in accrdance with manifetso, theft, violent assualt etc) or torts (failure to fulfil contracts, slander etc) . https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
2/3 @starrider8008. But they are proportionate to the offence (there's no death penalty for illegal parking, for example) and they tend to punish *actions*. The law on clothes is the law on decency. There are private parts of the body whose exposure is widely judged offensive. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
3/4 @starrider8008 But laws passed by decree, without debate or electoral mandate, which compel the wearing of garments over parts of the body not generally deemed obscene, are a new developemnt in free societies. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
4/4 @starrider8008You say 'you ain't free to not risk infection and die'. But you are. Till now states have recognised that the effort needed to prevent transmission of respiratory diseases(which can in rare cases be fatal) is unlikely to work & disproportionate to the risk. https://t.co/sCUE4wjvzq
I can't help your gullibility @timwilde16. The BBC is a propaganda channel, not a news service. 'Infections' are questionable positive tests,often of healthy people. Respiratory disease always increases at this time of year. Look at death rates in April/March and look at them now https://t.co/eIxCOAjrgL
Are you *sure* about that @tours732hammer? Positive mass abstention from these insulting contests between unacceptable candidates is increasingly a political as well as a moral duty. The political parties of the UK and USA need to be de-legitimised and replaced. https://t.co/am4CMHiRmj
Quite so @kazstirling . If you knew where to look you could read or listen to Sucharit Bhakdi(virtually a prophet), John Ioannidis and Sunetra Gupta, and others. But the BBC and others disgracefully unpersoned them, and the BBC still largely do. https://t.co/j21Znq1pkM
I suspect that 10 years hence the extradition(failed or successful)of Julian Assange will be seen as a key moment in our liberty and in US-UK relations. If you think Britain should be an independent state, or believe in a free press, there is only one side to be on. So be on it.
The “virus” hysteria is instructive for those who wonder how it was that the Inquisition could hunt down heretics, or the NKVD hunt down anti-Soviet dissidents (often imagined).
Poem of the night(1) 'To think that two and two are four and neither five nor three, the heart of man has long been sore and long 'tis like to be' A.E.Housman. 'When first this way to fair I took'.
Poem of the night (2). 'The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever. But if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather'. Louis MacNeice 'Bagpipe Music'.
There goes the al fresco revolution? Westminster Council set to charge thousands of pounds in fees to allow hospitality businesses to continue using pavements for seating. https://t.co/4ujnB9uuw2
Oh, that’s clever: just when the pubs, cafes and restaurants are on their knees by reason of the stupid “lockdown”/shutdown and social distancing policies, hit them hard in the one thing they can do to make any money, i.e. serve customersin the open air! Is this more government and local government incompetence, or some kind of sinister plan to deliberately smash everything?