#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.
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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.
As usual in the UK these days, we see a lack of strategic thought and plan.
I think that small children should be with their mothers, not carted off to nurseries, creches etc, but in a socio-economic milieu where women are almost forced to work for family-economic reasons, that is rather a counsel of perfection.
There is also the point that so many mothers now are “single mothers”, thus intensifying the financial pressures.
“Pay…at the next election“? Hardy ha ha. When there is a fake binary choice between two “main parties” that are at root similar, with a few “controlled” (((controlled))) fake protest-vote parties to reinforce the illusion of choice?
There is only one form of “payment” worth anything, and only one form that degenerate MPs etc really take seriously.
‘Nuff said…
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1995 to 2020, the population grew 9.1 million, at least 70% due to immigration. Policing, local government and welfare budgets cut,housing supply broken. Why do some people still not get it that ever increasing population without increasing expenditure and space is unsustainable?
Ash Sarkar is, of course, non-white, thus carrying a certain baggage into such a debate. Apart from that, she is basically one of the huge number of “useful idiots” supporting (wittingly or not) an agenda set by secretive transnational cabals. In summary, by those who wish to implement the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [http://adam.curry.com/art/1543753587_mkXBrvrY.html].
The necessary future quantum leap in human evolution can only be made on a foundation of evolving European humanity. The rest of the world’s population is either static or degenerating, speaking in broad terms.
That is why European humanity has to be kept, as far as possible, European in racial —and also cultural— terms.
Ash Sarkar and her colleagues are every bit as much “controlled opposition” as are the likes of Nigel Farage, that Tice fellow etc.
To him that hath shall be given
I found buried treasure of a sort today.
I was in a large Sainsbury supermarket about 10 miles from home. I happened to notice two things: that it had a currency-exchange kiosk, and that I, in my wallet, had a US $10 bill, which I had more or less forgotten about; I must have had it for a decade or more.
It turned out that I could exchange the $10 without some bs minimum commission. I did. £7.21. Better than a poke in the eye, anyway. The kiosk, though, was unable to exchange a second note in the wallet, a Cuban 5-peso bill. Probably worthless anyway.
The lady in the kiosk was curious to see the Cuban note, and told me that she was from Ukraine. I wonder how many are here, and whether she came recently (I presume not).
I would say “every little helps“, but I think that that is the slogan of some other supermarket.
As a pensioner, I think we should have a pension rise that will prevent us becoming peasants, bearing in mind we can afford to give illegal immigrants free board and lodgings and of course a free mobile phon. please retweet if you agree.
…and I must have missed Priti Patel’s defence of my rights of free expression. I have been targeted by packs of Jews for the past decade. Not one of those System “free speech” types (Toby Young, James Delingpole etc) has ever defended my right.
You want to get a reaction out of the native people of the UK, you regard our people with contempt just like the rest of the globalists, then you wonder why you get negative reactions.#WeWereNeverAsked#PatrioticAlternativehttps://t.co/WDnWZHrhEg
While I do not belong to, or even converse with, Patriotic Alternative, they seem to be, at least partly, on the right path. The fact that the evil —and misnamed— “Hope not Hate” crowd are stridently opposing them is a good sign, arguably.
As for System-connected invaders (including those born in the UK), of course they will be given money, jobs, gongs etc, just as the mouthpieces of the East German (DDR) regime were…until that regime collapsed in 1989. Something for said mouthpieces (in the UK today) to reflect upon, perhaps.
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August 9, 2020, Cannon Blake Hinnant was riding a bike near his house when he was killed. His family had just come home from church when Cannon went to play outside with his sisters. pic.twitter.com/fTDtYkbSdi
Cannon's father said that upon hearing the gunshot, "I flew out of my front door and the first thing I see is my son laying on the ground. I had to scoop my son up and hold him in my arms as his blood ran down my arm."
The people who champion "integration" and "fair housing," and continue to chip away at the last remnants of segregation in America today, have the blood of countless children on their hands.
Hard to believe that anyone would think that stupid, cruel, and clueless Dunce (Duncan Smith) would know “what to do”, care about the problem, or have any idea how to run anything.
£15BN is not much in governmental terms; to take one example, £38BN was completely wasted on the “test and trace” nonsense, not even including the other “panicdemic” “measures”.
Iain Duncan Smith is on @bbcpm peddling the line that tax breaks for rich people mean their money will go back into the economy and trickle down to the poorest. I’m on Farringdon Rd shouting “bollocks”
I was reading that Godfather of Universal Credit Iain Duncan Smith tipped for cabinet comeback if Liz Truss wins. Might as well bring in Dr Crippen or Dr Death, for amount of fatalities and heartache his UC has caused. He offers nothing!
Dunce Duncan Smith has never been punished for his evil actions. The same goes for his part-Jew bosses, George Osborne and David Cameron-Levita, and their many satraps.
Dunce was also an outright and literal fraudster, who got several tens of thousands of pounds annually, on his expenses, to pay his wife for work she never did. A flagrant fraud.
— Sir, Dominic Goings of Outter Siberia (@wheresdomgone) August 10, 2022
MPs in a corrupt Parliament of this sort understand only one thing, but I am “not allowed” (under the present repressive laws on free speech) to specify it.
When you see Iain Duncan Smith trending and suffer, once again, the gut-churning premonition that he isn't dead this time either
The Rhine — the continent’s most important river and a pillar of the German, Dutch and Swiss economies for centuries — has dried up to the point of becoming all but impassable at a key bottleneck, stymieing vast flows of diesel and coal https://t.co/X1lJkJzd22pic.twitter.com/57gmgrJLkA
A 122-page dossier of serious concerns about her conduct was sent to the charity regulator in February, along with the finances and governance of the northeast region of the Scottish Episcopal Churchhttps://t.co/3RqVZb7wKK
— The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland (@timesscotland) August 10, 2022
One wonders why, in this age of superficial iconoclasm, these antiquated figures (bishops) and organizations (churches) still command at least pro forma respect in the msm. I suppose because they always endorse every mad or evil trend the conspiracy wants, from “Black Lives Matter” and climate change via CO2 emissions, to “anti-racism” and all the other nonsense around, including the “holocaust” farrago and the “Covid” panicdemic propaganda and, of course, the “right” of women to become “priestesses” and crazed woman bishops.
A few thoughts about the hot weather
I have lived and worked in, as well as merely visited, various countries, both those which are usually hot and those which are hot only in summer: USA, Australia (where I was at school for three years), a few parts of Africa and North Africa, Turkey, the Caribbean, Kazakhstan, Russia, and of course European countries.
It is hard to come to a firm conclusion about climate from personal experience alone. That is especially true when other factors than temperature come into play: humidity, air flow, the difference (if any) between temperature in the day and after dark.
Age is certainly a factor. Children are often more accepting of hot weather, though many old people enjoy at least sunshine, if not fierce blazing heat.
For myself, I find that age makes hot weather less tolerable, especially when combined with high humidity.
Is the British weather less tolerable now, as compared to, say 1976 or other noted years? As a matter of fact, I would say that it is, possibly because the very hot weather at least seems to continue longer, indeed almost endlessly. In 1976, I was 19, so more resilient to heat than I now am, but I lived in London throughout that famous summer, and did not find it too difficult, despite its duration (longer than the present heatwaves).
I have not examined in detail the statistics of temperature etc, but we do seem to be having more hot and very hot days, days when the temperature is above not even 20C, but 25C and even 30C.
As to “climate change”, my own view is that there has been a change: Australia today, meaning Sydney and other Eastern seaboard regions with which I and my wider family are familiar, is far hotter more often than was the case in the late 1960s when I was a child there. What is driving the change is (in my view) uncertain. If it is said that CO2 emissions are the cause, then the UK or even all Europe making changes will be of only limited effect anyway. China and India are the big emitters as well as the big polluters, and they are not going to change what they do any time soon.
For me personally, I just look forward to next week, when the forecasters predict cooler weather, with rain, in southern England.
Update: hour 32 and after waiting 5 hours for an urgent ambulance to transfer her for specialist treatment 30 mins away we decided to take her ourselves, despite the risk. She now at least has a bed, and I have a chair. Living the dream ✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/dBqQCdPaGD
— Clàr Ní Mhurchú 💚 (@claire_murphy88) July 18, 2022
I can’t thank everyone enough for their kind words. Mum has had cancer for two years, terminal prognosis in April of this year. Sunday’s A&E admission was the result of aggressive infection. ALL staff that we have encountered have been phenomenal, they cannot magic up resources.
— Clàr Ní Mhurchú 💚 (@claire_murphy88) July 19, 2022
Mum is finally on a ward, in a bed & being looked after by another fantastic team of Dr’s and nurses. Every single Dr & nurse has been so kind to us. They can’t magic free bed space or extra staff, they are doing the best with the resources they have. Thanks 4 all the support
— Clàr Ní Mhurchú 💚 (@claire_murphy88) July 18, 2022
People should not be treated in such a shabby manner (by the NHS system, not staff), yet the story above is almost commonplace in some parts of the UK.
The NHS has some wonderful people in it, a minority also not so good, but what really lets it down is maladministration. Money is a large part of the problem, but is not the whole story by any means.
There is also the point that the UK population has increased from about 55 million half a century ago to maybe as many as 70 million today, mainly (in fact almost entirely) because of mass immigration, and also births to immigrant mothers. Yes, quite a few non-Brits work in the NHS, but that hardly outweighs the pressure from FIFTEEN MILLION more potential patients (who should not even be in this country).
Pressure from immigration etc would not have been a factor in the above story (which comes from Northern Ireland), but it is a factor in much of the UK.
I recall camping only about 20-30 feet from Arthur’s Stone sometime in the early 1980s. My then girlfriend and I just happened upon it one dark late evening; in fact we had never heard of it. A convenient place to stop the car and pitch a small tent. Very quiet. Zero traffic (except us).
Sounds as if it is a bit of a tourist destination now, but then I think not. I do not think we heard a single car pass in the night until, at about 0200 hrs, a torch was shone into my face. A policeman. He asked whether we had heard a car pass in the past hour; we said no, we were sleeping. He said OK and left. I expect that he made that story up as an excuse for disturbing us.
Arthur’s Stone is about 15 miles west of Hereford, and is on a very narrow and little-used (even now, I expect) lane. I have trekked, at various times, across much of the countryside between Hereford and Hay-on-Wye and around (but many many years ago, in much younger and far fitter days).
Looking at Google Earth, I see that it now has a low wooden fence, about 2 ft high, around it. Don’t recall that, but (as we know) memory, even my memory, can be faulty.
So the virtue-signalling Guardian’s editor has a salary of £510,000 a year! No wonder the Guardian‘s one-time “socialism” is rather muted these days…
Incidentally, I believe that Ms. Viner’s personal “partner” makes even more than she does.
“GMG also paid its former chief executive Annette Thomas £795,000 after she left following a clash with Ms Viner over the direction of the business. Ms Thomas received a “one-off” payment on top of her £630,000 base salary, meaning she made £1.5m in 15 months on the job.“
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“Annual revenues at GMG climbed 13pc to £255.8m and profits rose nearly four-fold to £11.7m.
The Guardian does not have a paywall but instead relies on donations made by readers.
Over one million people made monthly contributions of at least £1 a month, while another 500,000 readers made one-off payments.“
[Daily Telegraph]
Incredible, really: a million mugs give £1+ each monthly to the Guardian, meaning £12 million a year, while another half-million mugs make one-off payments each year, meaning £500,000+, probably £1M or more.
So… the profits of nearly £12M are because those million or so mugs are donating about the same amount, and maybe several million pounds more. Those donations make the difference between insolvency and significant profitability.
Meanwhile, the editor gets paid half a million pounds —and more— annually.
Those invaders will be, in the best scenario, effectively useless, and a millstone round the collective neck of the British people. At worst, criminals and/or terrorists.
The problem, of course, is that whichever way the masses vote (I myself never vote), they vote (in reality) for globalism and open borders, because all System “democratic” parties are signed up to that agenda.
"These are the people that were on Epstein Island confirmed by multiple sources." pic.twitter.com/J2j5lmn47E
— Paul James O'Brien (@PaulJamesOBrie1) July 24, 2022
Ehud Barak…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak]. Now there’s a name not quite in sync with the others. I wonder what he was up to, bearing in mind the Israeli Intelligence connection with both the Jew Epstein and the half-Jew Ghislaine “Maxwell”.
The perennial NHS crisis. Pretty much every year for 20-30 years. As said, something gamechanging has to be done both about the NHS and about the mass immigration that puts intolerable strain upon it. A national health service such as the NHS should not be run like a massive version of M*A*S*H [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAS*H_(TV_series)].
There is a serious sickness in American life, two symptoms of which include pro-abortion fanaticism and the callousness towards animals seen in, for example, the incredibly evil “declawing” of cats (banned in the UK). Not all Americans, maybe a minority, are involved, but the tendency is there, prominently. Manifestations of practical materialism.
One of the directors for George Soros' Open Society Foundations who specializes in public health, Sebastian Köhn, shares in the Guardian how he had sex with multiple men in a weekend for NYC Pride & contracted both #monkeypox & gonorrhea. He blames the system for failing him. pic.twitter.com/De1KQBDRUl
“To win without war— this is the supreme excellence” [Sun Tzu].
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I am so sorry. I know I was sooo stupid. I have learnt a lot from this big trouble. I should have taken my responsibility to take care of it. I love london. Since I moved here, Almost everyone I met was nice.I work hard for 2 years finally purchased my devices. Crying and crying pic.twitter.com/vDXL3kqjyR
Thanks. I have been Charing Cross Police Station this morning. Enquiried if they could go to boots and ask for security footage. They did nothing. The police didn't even bother to look at the CCTV footage I was trying to show them.
Tweeters already covered what would be my main suggestion, i.e. to check cctv at the two or three nearest Boots branches.
You do have to be very careful in London now. When I lived in London, and later in Almaty (Kazakhstan), in the mid/late 1990s, I always wore one of my Rolex Seadweller watches (in today’s value, over £10,000).
I doubt that I would do that today, if I had such a watch (in fact, I sold my watches long long ago from necessity…needs must), especially if I used the London Underground (as I often did when in London).
When I lived in Almaty, where (at the time, i.e. 1996-97), credit cards were almost useless, I always carried USD $5,000-$10,000 in a special moneybelt made to look exactly like an ordinary belt. I never had any serious trouble, though there was once a scuffle with a “wild” (unofficial) taxi driver (no real harm done— my sunglasses broken, a good shirt torn, but his face improved after connection with my elbow…).
As a visitor or tourist in a foreign city, you do have to be careful. I was once, 40 years ago, doing some petty nonsense at the now-closed Paddington Green police station [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_Green_Police_Station]. In the reception area. Two Egyptian girls, tourists, came in, wailing. The police desk person could scarcely have been less helpful to them, almost contemptuous, when he heard that one of the girls had had her handbag snatched, along with £800 in it (a great deal higher value then than now, of course; you could probably call it as much as £10,000 in today’s money).
Sadly, the police now are usually useless unless the crime is something they have been told is top-priority, such as cases of murder, “terrorism”, saying rude things online about Jews etc.
I hope that the lady in that Twitter thread gets her stuff back, but it is a long-shot, of course. Her best bet is probably to set up a gofundme appeal, but that will of course not help with the identity documents she lost.
At least the lady’s case has now been taken up by police CID (see below):
People are often careless with bags etc. I found a woman’s strapless bag, a bit like a large wallet, in a shopping trolley in one of the trolley bays in the car park of the Waitrose in the local small town, about a year ago. Opened it out of curiosity before I gave it in to the Waitrose reception desk. Full of cards, dozens of them; quite a bit of cash as well.
A few years ago, not long after sunup, I happened to see a purse on the ground, in a clifftop car park. Inside, nearly £50 in notes, a debit card, and a student rail pass in the name of some girl. I brought it home thinking that it must be fairly local (the rail pass having been issued about 5 miles away), and that the unusual surname might be in the telephone book. No luck, so I gave it to the police at the local police station.
I hope that the girl student got back her cards and money. As to what she might have been doing late at night (presumably) in that clifftop car park, well, that is none of my business…
Incidentally, lest readers of the blog think that I am unnaturally virtuous, I have to admit that, were it a million pounds in a suitcase, my actions might be quite different.
I think that most police forces do not even bother now with mere lost property. After all, their valuable time is taken up by policing the Internet etc…
“Our students’ fragile minds are not here to be challenged. Please reaffirm what they already believe and further tighten the heavy blinkers strapped to their faces – preferably by parroting BBC rhetoric.” https://t.co/DmHKsu3Swb
I had not previously heard of “Oxford Royale Academy”, which sounds like some kind of bullshit scam. In fact, it is a summer school which uses some of the buildings of one or two Oxford colleges. Seems to be a genuine set-up, but what a poor attitude to free speech.
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I have posed the question previously, but is there no-one in Canada able to remove this “elected” tyrant?
A society is supposed to protect its females for they are extremely valuable. Allowing young women to mutilate themselves will not end well. It may start with blue hair, lip fillers and tattoos, but ends with breast removal. Thank you feminism. pic.twitter.com/C41ksIlhWc
— Nick Buckley 4 Mayor (@NickBuckleyMBE) July 24, 2022
Still, if they are that sick in soul, they cannot produce suitable replacement humans to form the basis for a super-race further down the line, so why bother with them?
“Boris”-idiot wants to visit Kiev again soon (presumably while he is still PM, so that all his expenses, flights, security etc will be paid for by the British taxpayers).
Apologies to John Betjeman, but. ..”Come, friendly Russian bombers, and drop your bombs on…”
Could that happen? “Boris”-idiot totalled by a chance strike?
— RedFight 🏴 🇵🇸 (@RedRunner_SAA) May 29, 2022
David Icke used to follow my Twitter account. In fact, leaving aside organizational and corporate accounts, mine was one of a very small handful that Icke followed.
I was expelled from Twitter in 2018 after a campaign by the usual whining and/or demanding Jews, connected to the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
Icke was also expelled from Twitter, a couple of years later. Same situation. Same pack of Jews.
Such expulsions are the main reason why Twitter is now relatively dull in every way. I use it as a convenient way of filling gaps in my blog with news and comment but, as a real tool of influence in itself, it has been killed, and killed by “them”. It’s always “them”…
Quite a few of the vandalistic sort of “anti-Semitic” actions seen over the years in the USA, UK etc, actions such as drawing swastikas, damaging bits and pieces in Jewish cemeteries etc, have actually been found to have been perpetrated by Jews, often with the motive of Jews being then able to whine about how oppressed they are by —mainly invented— “antisemitism” etc (which then leads to money —many millions of pounds in the UK alone— being given by government to Jew-Zionist “security” (snooping and strongarm) orgs to pay for, supposedly, an increase in security at Jewish religious and educational centres; also leading to pressure for laws being passed to restrict “anti-Semitic” comment online and offline.
Far be it from me to defend a Polish Jew, but truth demands exposure. As a film director, Polanski is pretty good. It is ironic that one of his least-interesting films, arguably, is (again arguably) his best-known— Chinatown [1974]. I saw it very long ago, and found it confused. Perhaps I should see it again before being too critical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)
What has always struck me about the films of Polanski is the element of surprise and, indeed, shock, that they all seem to have. Most if not all have some scenes where the unexpected slaps you in the face.
As to the sex crime with which Polanski was charged in 1977, perhaps I am being too kind, but it strikes me as a bit of a storm in a teacup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski.
Yes, Polanski having a sexual encounter with a young girl (13-y-o), was a crime under Californian law. She seems to have been not unwilling, which though irrelevant legally, has at least some relevance in background terms. She has made public, as an adult, the fact that she does not want Polanski to be further penalized. Anyway, it is long ago now, 45 years in fact.
There is a kind of neo-Puritanism about, which demands that artists (even ones long-dead) must be very straitlaced, which not all are. I suppose that the fuss about Eric Gill is another fairly recent example. So must we destroy or remove from public view the works of, say, Caravaggio?
The nonsense about Polanski and others is akin to the demand of the “Black Lives Matter” idiots that statues and other memorabilia associated with persons themselves even obliquely associated with slavery be removed or destroyed. If that were carried into effect, almost all famous people from 15th to 19th centuries (in the UK and many other countries) would have to have their statues torn down. And what of the surviving statues of ancient rulers and others? Or does the present pursed-lipped disapproval apply only to black slaves?
2 years on from being hand reared and released then visiting covid the founding has got hurt and waited in my garden! Totally amazing pic.twitter.com/JKkX55Afq9
“Foundling”, not “founding“, but no matter. What a very nice confirmation of the view expressed by C.S. Lewis (and cited in the Foreword to the beautiful book, Sold for a Farthing, by Clare Kipps) that the “tame” state (not afraid of, or hostile to, humans) is the truly natural state of being for the animal kingdom, though as yet largely unfulfilled.
[Clare Kipps with Clarence, “a common house sparrow“]
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Renters are being physically attacked, verbally abused and having their belongings thrown into the street in a growing trend of illegal evictions across the UK
Saw an episode of Midsomer Murders, the first seen by me, as far as I can recall, for two or three years. Basic format much as in the past, but “the Great Replacement” agenda has really taken over.
In the small Berkshire/Oxfordshire-type village(s) in question, in the past all-white, the white English are now scarcely a majority. The first scene, at the village green, had some English people, but also blacks, browns, and Chinese, in numbers.
The demographic change was so marked that it made me laugh. It was as if (?) some “woke” idiot had gone round with a clipboard, ticking off “types”, as in “now let me see…three Chinese, several blacks, a few Indians and Pakistanis, a few white English.…” etc. The final scene was absurd: the two (white English) detectives, the last planned (but saved) victim (Indo-Pakistani), and three perpetrators— a black woman, another Indian, and one white English. In a tiny English village in the country…
Several years ago, “activists” complained that the show was too English. It “needed” more blacks and browns, they said…
Transparent, of course, to someone of my age etc, but that kind of propaganda is aimed at those of much greener years. Normalization of a basically non-English, non-European, society.
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 29, 2022
If you properly understand history, it has to be that other fat drunken, war-mongering maniac, Churchill. https://t.co/7Zjx4mu8PA
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 29, 2022
Not sure that I entirely agree, despite “Boris” himself, repeatedly over the years, trying to present himself as a kind of am-dram Churchill.
Whatever the many flaws of Churchill, he was certainly a great historical figure, with real talents. To compare Churchill to Boris-idiot is to insult the former and flatter hugely the latter. I say that despite being implacably opposed to most of Churchill’s policies.
As I have blogged before, if comparing Churchill to “Boris” at all, the verdict must be, in the famous words of Marx, “first time— tragedy; second time— farce“… (from Marx’s 18th Brumaire, if I am not mistaken; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte).
With a couple of exceptions, the New Zealand women I have encountered have all been aggressively politically-correct (and frighteningly-ignorant) wastes of space. I wonder why.
Helen Clark thinks that cannabis use should be de-criminalized but that “the wrong sort” of opinions on social media should be criminalized. That tells you all you need to know about her.
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And by the way, I’m not necessarily saying it will work, or that the same numbers of people will comply. But don’t think they aren’t planning on making these disgusting policies a regular feature of our lives.
Lockdowns are catastrophic Lockdowns are unscientific Lockdowns cost human lives Lockdowns cause suffering Lockdowns cause suicides Lockdowns harm children Lockdowns cause mass global poverty, starvation & deaths
It is ironic that those of us often accused of wanting to institute dictatorship are in the forefront of the battle for free speech, freedom of expression, reasonable civil rights.
It is the pseudo-liberal supporters of the System, such as the Jew-Zionist element, the supposed supporters of (System) “democracy”, mainstream politicians etc (including most TV “celebrities” and talking heads, most “journalists” and other scribblers, most “human rights”-squawking barristers) who are on the other side, wanting strict “lockdowns”, shutdowns, forced vaccination, control of social media, and prosecution for anything “anti-Semitic” and/or “racist” etc.
Rory Stewart
Meanwhile, winning this week’s prize for stating the very obvious— Rory Stewart:
Rory Stewart says that Boris Johnson’s scandals make the UK feel like ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’ https://t.co/l3drsBnbbQ
Rory Stewart says, though slightly more diplomatically, that Boris-idiot is a narcissistic waste of space, unfit for office. True, and many of us were tweeting and blogging the same, years ago. Still, “those who live in glass houses should not throw stones“…
“Ukraine’s armed forces and regional officials say Russia is launching attacks on all fronts in eastern Ukraine in what seems to be new offensive.” [The Guardian].
I think that the Russian forces are now doing what I thought they were trying to do about a month ago, i.e. drawing a line from the coastal regions of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea up the eastern bank of the river Dnieper through Zaporozhye and Dnipro [former Dnepropetrovsk], then towards Kharkov, with the aim of eliminating all Ukrainian forces to the east of that line, then occupying all territory to the east of that line.
Once the above has been accomplished, the strategy may well be to strike north from Dnipro and west from the Kharkov area (once Kharkov is either taken or isolated), thus controlling and/or occupying almost all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper and south of Kiev itself.
Ha ha! I could not ignore that prize example of socio-political idiocy. Seems that there are still “useful idiots” around who idolize the Jew Marx. Not that everything he wrote was wrong; even Hitler said that (see Hitler’s Table Talk). However, what was, in its heyday, a serious political movement, meaning Marxism, or Marxism-Leninism, has become (gradually, since the 1950s) a farrago of nonsense play-politics, on the periphery of both events and political thought.
In the famous words of Marx himself: “…first time as tragedy, second time as farce“…
Being British has nothing to do with nativism or skin colour. It's about a set of values and a cultural identity which joins each of us together. Thats why the 🇬🇧 flag has places us all somewhere and the 🏳️🌈 places us all nowhere. https://t.co/P4RRb7OA0B
Thus actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox displays ignorance of history, ethnology, and politics, all in two short tweets. As I have written previously, you can dump Fox in the same bin as Toby Young, James Delingpole, Breitbart, GB News, the fake “Free Speech Union”, UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform Party, Nigel Farage, “Tommy Robinson”, and Katie Hopkins (etc):
Grifting wastes of space, as well as controlled opposition.
Not that all that they say is wrong…see below:
"What you can legally type, you won't be able to say online. This concept of 'legal but harmful' content is extremely worrying."
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 27, 2022
The increase in non-European migration in the post-Brexit UK has been breath-taking. The number of visas issued to Pakistani nationals has surged by 255%. In a similar token, the number of visas issued to Nigerians grew by 415% and to Indians by 164%.https://t.co/9OKh0UPMlk
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) May 27, 2022
Late music
[Bishop’s Rock lighthouse, Isles of Scilly. Hard to believe that I visited it, long long ago, in an open boat (in high summer, and with the sea almost flat calm, though). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Rock]
Even the map shown in that article does not tell the whole story, as where we see that fertility in Sweden, France, and Denmark is higher than one might expect; of course, because the map reflects births in those countries, no matter the race or nation of the parents. Many are themselves non-white.
Exactly. The conspirators in and around the UK Government knew perfectly well that “Covid” was not a plague, and carried little risk for almost everyone, but the plebs outside that magic circle were told by Government and msm to fear everything from breathing to pub-going and travelling by train, and were fined and harassed by the new UK toytown police state for engaging in such harmless activities as walking in the Peak District, camping on Welsh hillsides, having a few friends round for drinks, or even visiting girlfriends etc.
Even now, neurotic Jews and others are still wearing their useless silly facemasks.
I had not heard of the “University of West London”. Seems that it was formed out of the former Polytechnic of West London, which itself was, earlier, the Ealing College of Further Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_West_London.
Battlecruiser HMS Hood, seen here in Malta in 1939, was destroyed 81 years ago today during the second World War. Of the 1,418 crew just three survived.
Our political leaders allegedly want to engage with Russia in the Black sea off Odessa. pic.twitter.com/58yw8TuruK
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 24, 2022
The "Militias of Novorossia" painting series on the war in Donbass by Aleksei Kriukov (2015-16): Mozgovoi, Zakharchenko, Motorola, and Givi. pic.twitter.com/9tNaOHezDM
May 23rd is the anniversary of the assassination of the Lugansk commander Alexei Mozgovoi (1975-2015). He was one of the more enigmatic personalities in Donbass and even a poet who predicted his own death, “It’s not so bad to die in May…” pic.twitter.com/IKd33h5Oza
“Britain is co-ordinating with its allies on a potential plan to send warships to the Black Sea port of Odesa to offer a protective escort to ships exporting Ukrainian grain.
Britain, NATO and other nations could create a ‘protective’ corridor to Odesa
It would allow Ukraine to export large amounts of grain needed worldwide
Denmark meanwhile announced it will send US-made missiles to Ukraine
The Boeing Harpoon missiles could help Ukraine to deliver long-distance strikes
The Russian war in Ukraine has exacerbated a global food crisis
The plan would see allied navies clear the area around the southern port of Russian mines before protecting freight ships carrying the vital produce from Putin’s warships according to The Times.
Long-range missiles will also be deployed to deter any Russian attempts to sabotage the corridor.“
[Daily Mail].
This is mad, and carries with it obvious dangers, both of direct conflict between forces of NATO and Russia, and also that the Russians will increase attacks on Odessa itself, to destroy the port area and perhaps the whole city. Odessa is the third-largest city of Ukraine.
It would be tragic were Odessa, a beautiful city in large parts (look on Google Earth or elsewhere), as well as one with a history going back 2,000 years, to be destroyed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa.
[Odessa, c.1900]
[Odessa, 2020]
[part of the harbour area of Odessa in 1960, when it was the largest port of the Soviet Union]
[Chaika —“Seagull”— Beach, Odessa]
[Passage Galleries, Odessa, akin to Leadenhall Market or Burlington Arcade in London, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, or GUM in Moscow]
[Odessa Archaeological Museum]
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The Chinese delegation at Davos refused to participate in the Zelensky dog and pony show and walked out. Media coverage called this incident a clear signal of China’s position on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CxbIWQGyM1
This worldwide situation is not straightforward but, in part, is the New World Order [NWO] and ZOG [Zionist Occupation Governments] in opposition to states not part, or so much part, of that (notably, Russia).
It is a lie that sanctions against Russia will stop the war, they will only impoverish the citizens of the EU. If the EU really wanted to prevent the financing of wars, it would impose the same sanctions on the United States and Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/Aiy1gpzLao
— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) May 20, 2022
Quite @witty_original. In fact no modern civilised country treats minority language speakers as badly as Ukraine treats Russian speakers. Last time I looked, French had a higher status than Russian in Ukraine. That's just silly. @cobgreathttps://t.co/P4M52f6get
Evgenii Poddubnyi reported on the ground from Afghanistan, Syria (Aleppo, Palmyra), North Caucasus, Donbass, among others. Produced films that participated in the Cannes Festival. Received multiple awards for reporting + for courage.
That Shaun Walker (Guardian drone) seems to have missed the way British TV reporters are often seen dressed and accoutred these days.
Journalists for major msm orgs are often pretty ignorant. I recall encountering an American in 1988, the only other customer in the rather nice marble-floored cafe at the old Warsaw Airport (the terminal I knew was remodelled in the 1990s, then demolished and rebuilt a number of years ago, the new one being finished in 2015).
Not many people were travelling from Warsaw —or to it— on that dark and snowy evening in mid-December 1988.
The American (I strongly suspect Jew) turned out to be the Newsweek correspondent for not only Poland but the whole of Eastern Europe, though based in Bonn, then capital of West Germany.
Conversation revealed that said American knew little about Poland, even as compared to me, and I myself was little more than a casual visitor who had been there a few times.
Also, imagine the idea— the whole of Eastern Europe covered by one unimpressive “journalist” who did not even live in the region!
The readers of the American news magazines, UK/US newspapers, and the audience for TV reports, give the reporters more credence than they usually deserve.
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Donbass-themed paintings by Svetlana Shchibleva: Zakharchenko and a typical rural house labeled “people live here” shot up by Ukraine’s armed forces. Photos with the same text for comparison. pic.twitter.com/Y44twhp8bI
The 18th-century former coaching inn nestled by the clear waters of the River Coln in the village of Bibury, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. Englishness. 🏴 pic.twitter.com/pKQ9Z6BKog
— A Beautiful Culture (@ABeautifulCult1) May 24, 2022
I have driven past there a few times, though quite a few years ago. Picturesque.
Yesterday's #conspiracytheory becomes just another confirmed fact. All those cancelled off social media for questioning the #Covid Plague hysteria deserve reinstatement & apologies. But we'll all get the #WHOTreaty instead.https://t.co/qdezLyKbiE
I didn't agree with him when he was in his provocative NS phase, I don't agree with everything he says now, but #AndrewAnglin has much to say that deserves to be heard. Perhaps the most censored man in history is now back on the clear Web, pass it on!https://t.co/vnmQ9pBIPd
Very annoying (understatement) to see other cartoonists, who did nothing to oppose the mad tyranny of lockdowns, and many of whom attacked me for doing so, now drawing cartoons highlighting the awful 'cost of living crisis' they helped to create.
All my cartoons are hand drawn and painted in watercolour. Original artworks can be purchased on my website along with high quality prints, framed or unframed.https://t.co/0GnYs3wDLapic.twitter.com/S2iKzfdTTD
[Ukraina Hotel, Moscow, where I myself stayed in 1993]
“Ostalgie”
I am at present about halfway through reading The Stasi Files: East Germany’s Secret Operations Against Britain, by Anthony Glees, which was published in 2003.
Just saw this hearsay comment (somewhere else):
“The nostalgia referred to is called Ostalgie in German. Ost means East and Nostalgie means Nostalgia. Well, East Germany is still behind the Western part of the country, sadly. And the Ostalgie is there for a reason. I once talked to a man, an Ossie, a former East Berliner. In 2010 he told me: “I used to have one job. I couldn’t go where I wanted, for example Paris or London. But I could go on vacation to Prague, Budapest and the East-German and Polish coasts. We always went on summer holidays. Now, I have two jobs, and I barely make enough money to sustain myself. I can’t go anywhere these days. I haven’t been on a holiday for over 20 years now.”
Again, every story has at least two sides. The repression noted by the author of the book I am presently reading was real, but that was not the whole story, just as a picture of happy, perhaps wealthy, Americans enjoying the surf in Southern California is not the whole story about the USA.
I myself only saw the DDR/East Germany for a couple of days (in the summer of 1988). Not a terribly good impression (I have blogged on or around it in the past) but I have seen worse.
I sometimes wonder whether the East German rulers would not have been better to allow more travel to the West, and to allow their citizens to stay and work there at will. They might have found that quite a few returned, in the end, if given more freedom to come and go.
Of course, the drain of population East-West from 1945-1961 (1961 being when the Wall went up) was part of the reason, to stop that drain, but the Wall was a propaganda coup for the West. How could it not be? What kind of state needs to imprison its citizens? Etc.
The same factors might have been true of the Soviet Union.
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I am trying to work out how many of the prophecies of doom have come true over my 75 years. I think it is a nice round number.
The 50 year old woman counting her pennies to see if she can get the bus to Bournemouth to go shopping will be mighty pleased at Hampshire's effort. pic.twitter.com/d5Dcm8GZWx
— Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine (@militaryhistori) May 1, 2022
This loss of a CBE should be the least of her worries. The scandal of so many lives ruined is utterly terrible. We wonder if so many weren’t of Asian heritage whether this would ever have happened. The UK is becoming a 3rd world state in its crass admin incompetence. https://t.co/HD9qpKNeFU
— Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social (@AnthonyGlees) May 1, 2022
Apart from anything else, the scandal, which has been going on for over 20 years, is a salutary reminder that merely appointing a woman to head something is not a panacea against administrative incompetence and misfeasance. Often the contrary.
254 migrants in seven boats reached the UK yesterday, with the return of calm weather in the Channel. pic.twitter.com/ORNc4WkAxu
Why is the ordinary msm not covering this invasion? Because the msm is part of a System which is importing non-whites as part of a massive transnational conspiracy.
Immigration is not the only factor in play, but it is one of the most important.
Alison Chabloz
Latest news from reliable sources is that Alison has been moved into a new cell, and she now has a “lovely view” out of her window onto a well-kept garden with a lawn, a gardener, a picnic table and a duck pond complete with mallards and 15 ducklings.
Alison has by now already served about a quarter of her 11-week (headline, 22-week) sentence. To date, 18 days out of 77.
I have recently been watching a few “Nordic noirs” on TV. Most recently, a Danish thriller. The absurd thing was the number of blacks and other non-whites, not only in the street but also, and in particular, playing politicians, senior officials etc.
Either pure propaganda, or an alarming reflection of reality. I have never been to Denmark, so do not know.
In the UK, TV ads have now become completely taken over by the multikulti propaganda, the mixed couples, with (usually) the black man as “husband”-figure, and the white woman (often blonde) as “wife”-character.
🕳️ Noticing the mother duck was not willing to join her ducklings in the pond, and hearing the remote calls of distressed little ones, he soon realised two of her ducklings had fallen into the drain. pic.twitter.com/nRDq5qCy1y
After several minutes of holding up cars, his mum, turning to her local Facebook group, notified local residents about the reason for the traffic pile-up.
On checking it later she would receive hundreds of positive responses 🥰
💬 "Granny shows up in her car. At this point there's a horse on the side of the road, a child in high vis, and two people lying on their bellies, it's now looking like a road traffic accident!"
BREAKING: Just days after winning the federal election, President Emmanuel Macron authorized the creation of a digital ID for France. https://t.co/e6iPleawLf
Neolithic Western European men were replaced because they had inferior military technology. Their modern counterparts have simply allowed a bunch of #antiwhite racist psychopaths to control the mass media and dominate cultural discourse. #noexcusehttps://t.co/Fjj14BVeJg
Ian Robert Millard 