In case of a conflict with Russia, Germany would become the main operational theater and cease to exist, said Sara Wagenknecht, the leader of the German party Sara Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice:https://t.co/kxp5Efx0FLpic.twitter.com/2NpOyhkkc9
She is right, but how many Germans in positions of power and influence are listening?
[Berlin 1945— Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]
The armed forces of Ukraine have practically withdrawn from the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkov Region, with only small groups staying in well-fortified positions in the city, said Vitaly Ganchev, head of the Kharkov Military-Civil Administration:https://t.co/ie00R1oIEppic.twitter.com/ukSrfiAwJ9
Lebanese General: The Attack on Doha is a Message to Turkey
🔹 “Israel no longer recognizes the borders of neighboring countries. 🔹 If the Arabs continue to remain silent, Israel will expand on all sides. 🔹 The biggest opponents of the division of Syria are Turkey and Qatar –… pic.twitter.com/ffr2kpdd7e
Qatar (which I visited twice, in 2001 and 2008) is more or less a “fake state”. Huge natural gas reserves, unlimited money, but its population is composed of 80% or even 90% temporary expats, and its financial power is not matched by any military power to speak of. Turkey is different, a major regional power and potential or near-world power, with huge and powerful armed forces.
A systems engineer at "israel" Aerospace Industries to Channel 12:
“We are engaged in a war of ideas with Iranian engineers, who are constantly striving to improve and develop to make intercepting missiles more difficult, and therefore there is no 100% success rate. We have seen… pic.twitter.com/jySOqaLqwp
Smotrich changed the method of calculating electricity consumption in the Palestinian Authority areas, which increases its cost by millions of shekels. pic.twitter.com/nKUWgtgQdX
An old saying says, ironically or satirically, “Jews must live [somehow]…”
Keir Starmer promised change. But his decision to place his Government in the hands of Peter Mandelson and the Blairites is destroying him > Mail on Sunday > https://t.co/Ak8tdFKfh4
This disabled parrot cannot fly. This woman takes her out daily so the bird feels the freedom of flying. Empathy makes our world beautiful, & every being deserves this feeling.pic.twitter.com/O20Pii4NvQ
Incidentally, Morgan McSweeney, though Irish and without any obvious Jewish connection, went to Israel when aged about 21 or so:
“[McSweeney] immigrated to London in 1994 aged 17, initially working on building sites and later attempting university, though he dropped out within 12 months.[9][7] He spent several months living in the Saridkibbutz in Israel in the late 1990s.[10]“
There it is again. The Jewish/Israeli/Labour Friends of Israel connection that runs through Starmer-Labour like Brighton Rock. MOSSAD, Aman, Epstein, the “Maxwells”, Mandelson, Peter Kyle, McSweeney (etc).
McSweeney’s wife is also Labour, MP for some place in Scotland.
Senior Labour figures baffled by the decision to put someone so close to Peter Mandelson out on the morning round for the government this morning.https://t.co/L2YtLMLdUf
Oh, that’s right. I had forgotten that Peter Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade, and friendly with both Peter Mandelson and Ivor Caplin, is now Secretary of State for Business and Industry.
I could suggest how to deal with the untermenschen, but then I would have to endure —yet again— the boredom and nuisance of Britain’s toytown police woodentops at my door (how many times would that make?)…
"The man who promised, in his 2019 manifesto, to “lower the overall number” of immigrants and “take back control” of the borders, did the exact opposite."https://t.co/Dg8Fe6wpEp
"The House of Lords, the unelected Quangocracy, the civil service, parts of legacy media, and other parts of the State will all go to war with a Reform government."https://t.co/ZOIgg0hKor
Two thoughts: firstly, that that is what happens when legislatures and/or executive bodies and/or judicial establishments ignore the will of the people; secondly, that it is easier to destroy than to build or rebuild.
🇮🇱 Updated list of territories attacked/bombed by Israel since October 7, 2023:
Hypersonic missile "Zircon" tested during the West-2025 military exercises
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missile was launched from a frigate at a target in the Barents Sea and directly hit the target. pic.twitter.com/cZgelpw6Qo
We are beginning to see a change in the world order. Right now we are living in a moment like 1918, 1945, or 1989 in world history. We simply do not know where the world is going. President of Finland Alexander Stubb pic.twitter.com/7nuWXAz2KW
Catching up on the Sunday politics shows. Sorry, is this Labour MP named Peter Kyle, who is trying to explain Labour’s links to a known paedophile, the same Peter Kyle who casually and outrageously linked Nigel Farage to Jimmy Savile?
“On 12 August 1944 Wildermuth became “Fortress Commandant” of Le Havre in France. This came as a disappointment; he had hoped for a corps. Before taking his new command, however, he swore the ‘customary oath’ to Hitler: to defend the fortress to the last man, and only to surrender with the authorisation of his superiors.[3] This oath to Hitler was, broadly speaking, respected by Wildermuth. At his interrogation by the British in January 1945, he stated that his aim had been to deny the Allies the use of the port, and to tie down as many Allied troops as possible, and that this had been achieved to his own satisfaction, since two British infantry divisions and about 150 tanks were assigned to the siege of Le Havre for almost fourteen days. Furthermore, while Wildermuth personally surrendered to British troops on 12 September, after being wounded in the thigh, he refused to order the surrender of the garrison on the ground that as a prisoner of war he no longer had any authority to do so.[4]
Prior to the early September launch of the British-led Operation Astonia to take the port city Wildermuth had requested that French citizens be evacuated before heavy pre-assault naval and air bombardment commenced. His offer was rebuffed by Lt-General John Crocker, in command of the 1st British Corps which had laid siege to the city. Crocker would later argue that if Wildermuth cared about the civilian population, he could have surrendered the garrison before the bombing began, and that acceding to Wildermuth’s request would have served only the German interest, by gaining time and removing potentially disruptive French civilians from the defended fortress.[5]“
[Wikipedia]
Another, but far more junior officer, Lieutenant William Douglas-Home (whose elder brother later became a Conservative Party prime minister), was also at Le Havre at the material time:
“Despite his opposition to the policy of requiring the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany he was conscripted into the Army in July 1940 and joined the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).[7] He went to 161 Officer Cadet Training Unit (161 OCTU) in the buildings of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where one of his colleagues was David Fraser. At Sandhurst, he was critical of the war, which he said had been unnecessary.[8] Douglas-Home was commissioned in the Buffs in March 1941.[9] While an officer he stood in the three parliamentary by-elections.
Douglas-Home was assigned to the 7th Battalion of the Buffs, which was converted to tanks as the 141 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (141 RAC). In the Normandy campaign, 141 RAC was assigned to I Corps, a British formation within the First Canadian Army. In August, First Canadian Army was directed to mop up the German forces cut off in various sea ports in Normandy and Pas de Calais. In the first week of September 1944, the Allies moved against the port of Le Havre. A German garrison under Colonel Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth was dug in on the hill overlooking the city. Wildermuth had been ordered by Hitler to defend Fortress Le Havre to the last man, and not to surrender.
When the Allied forces invested the city in advance of the planned aerial bombardment and subsequent assault, Wildermuth asked the British commander if the French civilians could be evacuated from the city, but that request was refused. Lieutenant (acting Captain) Douglas-Home was near Le Havre, awaiting the completion of the aerial bombardment. He was to serve as a liaison officer in Operation Astonia, the Allied attack on Le Havre. On the second day after the aerial bombardment had started, he learned of the German request to evacuate the civilians and the Allied refusal. The consequences of the bombardment were apparent to the waiting Allied forces and Douglas-Home refused to participate in the attack. He gave two reasons:[citation needed]
The unconditional surrender policy, which he thought compelled the enemy to fight to the end.
The refusal of civilian evacuation was morally unacceptable to him.
which created a moral obligation for Douglas-Home and he declined to participate.
The aerial bombardment of Le Havre lasted four nights, killed over 2,000 French civilians, 19 German soldiers and levelled the city. The Germans surrendered after two-days’ fighting and I Corps moved on to Boulogne, which was also subjected to a heavy aerial bombardment. At that time Douglas-Home, who had been placed under supervision (he did not consider himself at that time to have been “arrested”) wrote to the Maidenhead Advertiser and the publication of his letter in the newspaper prompted his formal arrest and detention.
Because of the article in the Maidenhead Advertiser, the Allied forces besieging Calais allowed the civilians to be evacuated from the town before it was subjected to a heavy aerial bombardment and final assault. Dunkirk was allowed to remain in German hands, with the besieged force bottled up, until Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. In the wake of the publication, the British became sensitive to indiscriminate bombing of occupied cities and towns, although that consideration was not extended to towns and cities in Germany.
Captain Andrew Wilson, M.C. also served in 141 RAC. In his autobiography Flame Thrower, published in 1956, he recounts this incident and its consequences. Wilson wrote his story deliberately in the third person:
Even when he sailed with the regiment to Normandy, William had continued his private war-against-war. While headquarters were near Bayeux, he had written to the newspapers about some German ambulances shot up by British fighters. And what he had written was true. Wilson had seen the ambulances, riddled with bullets on the Tilly road.”
Well, not so good this week: 3/10 (or 3 “and a third” out of 10 if using the same calculation as political journalist John Rentoul, who claims 2 “and a third”). I knew the answers only to questions 4, 8, and 10 and (like Rentoul) also guessed one word of no. 1. On a few other questions, I came close “but no cigar”…
Bloke who only backed Brexit to get in to No.10 has an opinion. And if you’re spouting Israeli government propaganda, denying the levels of starvation and that multiple people have been shot daily queuing for what little food there is, you are a fucking disgrace. Always was,… pic.twitter.com/R4ZvwdNGnx
The policy even fails on its own terms, because of problems of definition and determination.
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague @Heidiphotos. pic.twitter.com/pYfX6WE8EK
Good God. Even worse than I had thought. Equivalent to Hiroshima, Dresden etc in WW2. The (Israeli) Jews, as well as (((those))) in the UK, USA etc supporting the devastation/genocide/ethnic cleansing, surely stand guilty of war crimes by any reasonable definition.
A migrant from Eritrea, who entered Britain illegally on a small boat and was put up in a taxpayer-funded hotel, went on to sexually assault a girl with special needs in broad daylight but was sent to prison for … 14 months?https://t.co/8d8lbc7CA8
[“NEW PIECE In my latest essay in @TheSun I ask –what holds a civilisation together? In Ancient Greece, Pericles warned they only survive if leaders maintain the trust of the people In Ancient Rome, Cicero warned states will soon collapse if they don’t put their own people first In Britain today? We are witnessing the very opposite of all this. An out-of-touch ruling class that’s imposing an extreme policy of mass uncontrolled immigration and broken borders on everybody else, prioritising foreigners and pushing its own citizens to openly revolt.”]
The US FBI has erased the names of Trump and a number of other prominent individuals from documents related to the case of financier Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing minors, Bloomberg reported, citing sources:https://t.co/WcIs4I5snapic.twitter.com/xgsHv04SXa
…and the half-Jewess and Israeli agent Ghislaine “Maxwell” has apparently been moved from a high-security prison to a “Club Fed” in Texas. Is that the prelude to a Presidential pardon? Looks as if the (((usual))) fix is in.
One of the things that’s weird about my case is the number of barristers who *may have* been involved.
So, for example, in relation to William Bennett KC, Lewis told Cantor that he had advised about something, but it seems Lewis might have just made that up! Mind-boggling stuff. https://t.co/H9zCvxzmoHpic.twitter.com/1tRjNIPVwH
Lewis is both incompetent and dishonest. Anyone who employs him as a solicitor (if anyone still does) is an idiot.
Indeed. And the material Beth Grossman is refusing to disclose should include her response to Mark Lewis’ concerns about “distracting” the judge with crucial evidence.
Incidentally, and for those unaware of the matter, the above tweets refer mostly to the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor. Wilson, an academic from the North of England, won his case despite a whole battery of Jews giving, in effect, perjured or tainted testimony. The witnesses (all Jews, all Israel fanatics) disbelieved by the trial judge included vituperative barrister Simon Myerson (dismissed, in effect, as part-time judge in 2024, because he was unable or unwilling to stop harassing people online), Daily Star scribbler Adam Cailler, one Joanne Bell (prolific on Twitter/X as “@jobellerina”), and Nathan Comiskey (another keyboard “warrior” for Israel) as well as the defendants.
Pete Newbon, one of the defendants, a sadistic and crazed Israel fanatic who trolled people mercilessly online, as well as committing various (other) crimes (his employer, a university, had already disciplined him for his appalling behaviour), committed suicide during the trial because he had not told his wife that their house was on the line. It appears that Mark Lewis and/or other Jewish lawyers had misled one or more of the defendants as to their downside risk. Dishonest, or simply incompetent? The Solicitors’ Regulation Authority is going to pronounce upon that soon.
Now, it seems that “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (solicitor) and Beth Grossman (Counsel, of Doughty Street Chambers in London) are refusing to disclose evidence about their behaviour during the course of the proceedings. It could lead to serious consequences for them, though Lewis is so washed-up now that it might not make much difference to him. Well, time will tell.
Newcastle, today. It is now hard to keep up with the spontaneous public protests that are taking place across the UK, against broken borders and mass immigration pic.twitter.com/R59wXPJEzz
In case you’re not from the UK, this weekend there are yet more public protests against broken borders and mass immigration —in Islington, Manchester, Newcastle, Cannock, Portsmouth, Southampton. The mainstream media barely report on them. Politicians ignore them. But such is the…
[“In case you’re not from the UK, this weekend there are yet more public protests against broken borders and mass immigration —in Islington, Manchester, Newcastle, Cannock, Portsmouth, Southampton. The mainstream media barely report on them. Politicians ignore them. But such is the level of public disillusionment with what is happening to our country that these protests are now becoming a persistent feature of our national life, which in itself shows both how out-of-touch the political system, and how febrile our once unified and stable society, have become.“]
Bookmark this tweet. And trust me. What Labour are about to do is approve ALL asylum claims so they can make it look like they are dealing with the backlog, while taking illegal migrants out of hotels and putting them in private housing to try and hide the costs. This is not…
[“Bookmark this tweet. And trust me. What Labour are about to do is approve ALL asylum claims so they can make it look like they are dealing with the backlog, while taking illegal migrants out of hotels and putting them in private housing to try and hide the costs. This is not dealing with the backlog. It will only incentivise many more to come. It will end up being a total disaster, much like their hapless “smash the gangs” strategy which I said in May 2024 would also be a total disaster.“]
As I have been predicting for a couple of years now on the blog…
Wanted posters for the UK Prime Minister Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Westminster Station pic.twitter.com/DFaZ7PRNFl
As if that ridiculous monkey knows anything. Still, for once he is right, probably. The war may continue for another year. The Kiev-regime frontlines may last out that long, but in the end will crumble and collapse. Russia can take and should take all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper.
[Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag in 1945 Berlin— don’t allow the Zelensky Jewish cabal, or American adventurists, to drag you into a similar situation]
Russia repatriates bodies of 1,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers — presidential aide. In return, Russia received the remains of 19 of Russian fallen fighters: https://t.co/E3ypuEnqGEpic.twitter.com/xQln6exPDd
Press review: Trump’s Ukraine stance raises doubts as EU states opt out of US arms funding. Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, July 17th: https://t.co/5PQa4PucSIpic.twitter.com/WI2OjFoTle
The silver lining to the present atrocities being committed by Israeli Jews is that even fewer people will now want to listen to the endless anti-German (and anti-European) Jew-Zionist propaganda re. the 1920s, 1930s and early/mid 1940s, which has as its real agenda the bolstering of Jewish and Zionist power in the present-day.
I disagree that 16-y-o people should vote. I should prefer a voting age of 28.
As to Starmer-stein’s desperate ploy to increase the Labour vote in 2028 or 2029, I doubt that it will have the huge effect for which he and his cronies may be hoping. The 16-17 year-olds may, most of them, prefer Labour to other parties (at present), but most will not vote, and many may not vote for Labour, especially after the spending cuts etc.
Not a single piece of good economic news. No growth and businesses letting people go. 😡 https://t.co/IlkDTIJeeZ
Perhaps that lady would like to move over to drinking Vichy water. It’s better for you than Coca-Cola, and has an interesting history. Vichy Celestins is the source I prefer.
Russian troops liberated three communities in the Kharkov and Zaporozhye Regions and the DPR over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday:https://t.co/UgG0g0J2a2pic.twitter.com/pfrMOQPJAS
Imagine if that were to happen in reverse. Whole streets in North and North-West London would be devastated.
Nothing is safe in Gaza. Israel bombed a Catholic church — the third church targeted since the war began. Even houses of worship are not spared: both mosques and churches have come under Israeli fire. In this war, no sanctuary is respected, and no place is truly safe. pic.twitter.com/swrAmGpxZZ
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 17, 2025
The Israeli army announces that two soldiers from the 202nd Battalion, the Parachute Brigade, were seriously wounded last night in battles in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/NGDYu18q4I
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 17, 2025
Despite the overwhelming military power of the Israeli forces, their “reduction of the Gaza ghetto” has still not been completed.
Wolf in sheep's clothing: Israeli forces enter Quneitra, and the Druze welcome them
In southern Syria, in Quneitra, the advance of military columns of the Israel occupation army has been observed. The Druze greet the arriving soldiers. pic.twitter.com/WwOtSWJ4VE
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 17, 2025
🇬🇧 Do you agree that the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, should be regarded as an enemy of the British people 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/8tt9jnBc5T
I do. He is also as thick as two short planks and incredibly ignorant.
Liz Truss @trussliz must be one of the most politically incompetent people to have ever held office in the UK. You were Foreign Secretary at the time #dumbasspic.twitter.com/NfZzytZkqj
[“A textbook example proving our so-called leaders haven’t got a damn clue. Asked about the UK supplying F-35 parts to Israel, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy spits out utter bullshit about how stopping the supply would affect conflicts like Ukraine,where, news flash, the F-35 isn’t even in use….These are the very same people who want to fight Russia. Clueless and dangerous.“]
Lammy, a “leader“, though?… Hardy ha ha. Just an egregious example of a “diversity hire”…
I'm a Muslim but seem to remember something in the Bible about selling someone for a plate of lentils. Lammy, the fat zionist bastard, would sell the entire fucking nation for a box of fried chicken and chips.
— Everything, Everywhere, All at once (@m_lepac) July 16, 2025
Bringing this up to date and using our recent MRP our rough assumption is ~10 seats would change hands in an election tomorrow as a result of votes at 16. Labour would gain a couple, but Reform would gain ~6 from the Tories. https://t.co/s6hQPSru7J
I agree with that. They have an obligation, even now.
Talking point
I noted years ago on the blog that Starmer-stein seemed to be politically clueless.
Denis Shmygal says there would be ‘no need for such a forceful mobilization’ if people trusted the military pic.twitter.com/IxEuDKvcTu
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 17, 2025
The “Ukrainian Army” is a collection of sacrificial cannon-fodder, commanded (ineptly) by a bunch of thugs posing as military officers, right up to the rank of general. It is losing (by death, serious injury, and capture) about 1,000 a day, which is probably 2,000 a day if you take into account desertions. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that there are no volunteers any more, and that the regime has to use press-gangs to kidnap people off the street.
What happens if Russia doesn’t honor Trump’s 50-day Ukraine ceasefire deadline?' pic.twitter.com/Lw0ruvtUzF
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 17, 2025
This could end with the USA on one side, and virtually every other country in the world on the other side.
The 20th Century was “the American Century” but we are now in a successor-situation.
A NATO attack on Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will trigger an adequate response from Russia, including measures stipulated by its nuclear doctrine, said Leonid Slutsky: https://t.co/5tsHzU7nlwpic.twitter.com/qBmdq1gidS
Kiev will soon receive long-range systems, including through joint manufacturing initiatives, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer:https://t.co/C57Sy0ZiSppic.twitter.com/3DK4BmSGL3
If Moscow or Petersburg are hit by serious missile attacks, Kiev might find itself flattened by nuclear attack, and if the Germans continue to assist the Kiev regime to that extent, Germany makes itself a target.
Has that ship not already sailed? Interesting, though. Were Turkey to use its massive army against Israel, that might be the end of Israel, notwithstanding Israel’s nuclear weapons.
It is only just over a century since Ottoman Turkey ruled what are now called Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and many more current regional states beside.
Is this the capital city of a civilized nation, or a city collapsing under the weight of non-European untermenschen, and which is rapidly moving towards a situation of civil/social war?
🚨NEW: A large crowd, numbering several hundred, is currently gathered outside the Bell Hotel in Epping this evening, which is housing undocumented immigrants pic.twitter.com/oOAvmGUbC0
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) May 17, 2025
…and now the Israeli Jews, apparently backed by most Zionist Jews from other parts of the world, are, literally, deliberately starving to death the Arab Palestinians of Gaza, including the children. The same Jew-Zionists who are always whining about the alleged treatment of their ancestors by Germans (and Poles, and Ukrainians, and French etc) during WW2, a conflict which ended 80 years ago.
…thus proving that 64% of the UK population in 2020 were unthinking, panicked, deliberately-stampeded idiots.
The public are 3x more likely to say they’d think better than worse about the government if they u-turn on winter fuel & twice as likely to say govt would look strong rather than weak. Voters don’t mind occasional u-turn & the cost of a v.unpopular policy which this is, is worse https://t.co/GM2KbR5BnHpic.twitter.com/ZoneMOzXdh
Incidentally, only people whose great-grandparents were born in the UK (or in northern Europe, and to properly-European parents) should be entitled to vote in elections here.
US announces troop withdrawal from Europe after NATO summit
The United States will begin formal consultations with NATO allies on withdrawing its forces from Europe after the NATO summit in The Hague in June, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker confirmed at a security… pic.twitter.com/aZA0zZIDBz
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 17, 2025
Ostalgie
[East Berlin, 1970s]
As blogged in the past, I found my couple of days in the southern part of the DDR (in 1988) quite interesting.
More music
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Yesterday, we said goodbye to our beloved girl Michelle. Unconditional love is the greatest gift one being can give to another. The pain of losing her is overwhelming, but every moment we shared – was truly worthy. pic.twitter.com/ejzP0tfJ6E
Some things go beyond politics. The bond between human and cat passeth all understanding…
"Were these (YouGov) numbers replicated at a general election they would give Nigel Farage and Reform close to 350 seats and a majority of 40"https://t.co/8zKHpQgReX
This is the largest power plant in Russia and the 12th-largest hydroelectric plant in the world! 📍 Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam pic.twitter.com/dt7Kx56W8l
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 17, 2025
It’s true, my social media channels were never about politics. That’s until I got censored on all of them. Then it became personal, and political. https://t.co/axPVoR8xiz
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 17, 2025
I share a birthday with the Moscow metro, which turns 90 today! Here’s a video from when @TuckerCarlson saw it firsthand. I’m lucky to live in a city with the best metro in the world! pic.twitter.com/IasJjEV3mw
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 15, 2025
Trump: Zelensky has no trump cards against Russia – I will speak with Putin on May 19th
REITERATED THAT THE "PRESIDENT" OF UKRAINE IS CONSIDERED THE "BIGEST TRADER IN THE WORLD"
Fox News said: "I had a very difficult meeting with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. He… pic.twitter.com/stWi3mzwip
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 17, 2025
“A 14-year-old boy has been knifed to death after a Syrian refugee randomly stabbed passersby in the Austrian city of Villach today, leaving four others injured.”
[Daily Mail]
Get rid of them. Get rid of them out of Austria. Get rid of them out of the UK. Get rid of them out of Europe.
“In 1943, amid the devastating final years of World War II, the Berlin Zoo was heavily bombed, leaving much of the zoo in ruins and many of its animals in grave danger. Among the survivors was a Shoe-billed stork, an unusual and majestic bird recognized for its unique, shoe-shaped bill and stately demeanor. With the zoo’s facilities destroyed, the stork found an unlikely refuge in a nurse’s bathroom, a small but safe haven where it was cared for during the chaos of war. The nurse’s bathroom became a sanctuary for the bird, symbolizing the compassion and determination of those who worked to protect the zoo’s animals despite the dire circumstances. The stork’s survival depended on the care it received in this improvised setting, where it was fed and tended to with limited resources. This poignant scene of a wild, exotic bird in a domestic, human space emphasized the extraordinary lengths people went to preserve life during a time when destruction seemed all-encompassing. The survival of the Shoe-billed stork and its temporary shelter in the nurse’s bathroom became a powerful symbol of resilience and hope amidst the horrors of war. While much of the zoo was destroyed and many animals were lost, stories like this highlight the small acts of care and humanity that endured even in the darkest hours. The stork’s journey is a testament to the enduring bond between humans and animals and serves as a reminder of the fragments of hope that can emerge even in times of overwhelming devastation.“
Throughout history the story of humans and the Honeybee have been intertwined. Long sought after for their honey, honeybees have been depicted in ancient cultures and modern religions as a symbol of fertility, industriousness, and cooperation. From prehistoric cave drawings… pic.twitter.com/h8snse0DKm
Thus proving, yet again, that “Boris”-idiot never does his homework…(and always talks rubbish)…
China's high-speed maglev vehicle successfully completed its 2km demonstration test in August of 2024. While the speed achieved speed was 600km/hr during the test, the "high-speed f fling train" is designed to reach a maximum speed of 1000km per hour.
Though I cannot claim huge numbers of readers on any one day, or most days, the blog does have hits from almost all of the states and territories of the world, even places such as Antarctica, Greenland, Burkina Faso etc.
Today, so far, UK, USA (those two by far the bulk of hits), but also Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and New Zealand.
Are they all supporters? Probably not. Enemies also snoop on the blog, but no matter— “one human soul is a big audience“.
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The subterranean city of Derinkuyu, located in Cappadocia region of Türkiye 🇹🇷, an extraordinary historical site with the capacity to house an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 people, including their livestock and supplies. Its discovery occurred unexpectedly in 1963 when a homeowner… pic.twitter.com/T1Amh9vLm5
“The subterranean city of Derinkuyu, located in Cappadocia region of Türkiye, an extraordinary historical site with the capacity to house an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 people, including their livestock and supplies. Its discovery occurred unexpectedly in 1963 when a homeowner accidentally broke through a wall in his basement, unveiling an ancient and intricate underground structure hidden for centuries. Derinkuyu is an impressive multi-level complex, descending over 200 feet below the surface and consisting of at least 18 levels, though only a portion of it has been fully excavated. The city features an array of functional spaces, including living quarters, kitchens, storage areas, wine and oil presses, stables, and even chapels and schools. Ventilation shafts and a sophisticated water system ensured the city’s inhabitants could survive underground for extended periods. Defensive mechanisms, such as heavy stone doors that could be rolled into place, protected the city from invaders. Historians and archaeologists believe Derinkuyu was initially constructed by the Phrygians or Hittites in the early centuries BCE, though it was later expanded and used by various groups, including early Christians, as a refuge from persecution or attacks. Its design reflects the ingenuity and resilience of the civilizations that relied on such cities for survival during times of conflict or environmental challenges. The discovery of Derinkuyu has spurred interest in Cappadocia’s extensive network of underground cities, many of which remain unexplored. These ancient marvels continue to captivate researchers and visitors alike, shedding light on the innovative ways humans adapted to their environment and safeguarded their communities.“
Recruits to the castle-convents scattered across Teutonic territory primarily hailed from Germanic regions such as Franconia, Thuringia, the Rhine, and other German territories. These knights, often aristocrats but also comprising lower-ranking members, were stationed in… pic.twitter.com/fJMYHTv4pe
“Recruits to the castle-convents scattered across Teutonic territory primarily hailed from Germanic regions such as Franconia, Thuringia, the Rhine, and other German territories. These knights, often aristocrats but also comprising lower-ranking members, were stationed in commanderies housing anywhere from 10 to 80 individuals. Similar to other military orders, recruits pledged monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Joining offered prospects of spiritual rewards, adventure, career advancement, and even basic amenities like regular meals and shelter. While German settlers were permitted entry, they typically served as priests or half-brethren. Each castle-convent also accommodated local crossbowmen, as well as non-combatants like servants and craftsmen. Although officially international, the order predominantly drew recruits from German lands. Membership numbers varied, influenced by battles and territorial shifts. For instance, Prussia counted 700 members in 1379 AD, 400 in 1450 AD, 160 in 1513 AD, and 55 in 1525 AD. The total knightly roster likely never exceeded around 1,300. The order’s revenue stemmed from wartime spoils, captured territories, trade, land rents, and donations in cash, goods, or land. Some brethren paid an entry fee, while taxes on local populations were imposed in Teutonic territories by the 15th century AD. As recruitment challenges grew, the order increasingly relied on mercenaries, necessitating financial support. Commanderies not only offered training, residences, and retirement options but also extended aid to local communities through hospices, hospitals, schools, and cemeteries. Additionally, the order constructed churches, providing ongoing maintenance and fostering artistic endeavors for embellishment.“
I once knew a German lady from East Prussia, one of whose several historically-distinguished ancestors was a Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages.
The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000 year-old image is 31cm tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps… pic.twitter.com/3lKDxgMRls
“The Lion Man – An Ice Age Masterpiece : The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000 year-old image is 31cm tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps on tiptoes, legs apart and arms to the sides of a slender, cat-like body with strong shoulders like the hips and thighs of a lion. His gaze, like his stance, is powerful and directed at the viewer. The details of his face show he is attentive, he is watching and he is listening. He is powerful, mysterious and from a world beyond ordinary nature. He is the oldest known representation of a being that does not exist in physical form but symbolises ideas about the supernatural.
Found in a cave in what is now southern Germany in 1939, the Lion Man makes sense as part of a story that might now be called a myth. The wear on his body caused by handling suggests that he was passed around and rubbed as part of a narrative or ritual that would explain his appearance and meaning. It is impossible to know what that story was about or whether he was deity, an avatar to the spirit world, part of a creation story or a human whose experiences on a journey through the cosmos to communicate with spirits caused this transformation. Obviously, the story involved humans and animals. Lion Man is made from a mammoth tusk, the largest animal in the environment of that time and depicts the fiercest predator, a lion, now extinct, that was about 30 centimetres taller than a modern African lion and had no mane. Distinct from other animals through their use of tools and fire, humans were nonetheless dependent on some animals for food while needing to protect themselves from predators. Perhaps this hybrid helped people to come to terms with their place in nature on a deeper, religious level or in some way to transcend or reshape it.
Archaeological discoveries in other caves in this region include small sculptures as shown in the British Museum’s 2013 exhibition Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind. They were found in caves with large quantities of stone tools and animal bones that indicate people lived in the shelter of the daylight areas of these sites for repeated periods of time.
Stadel Cave, where the Lion Man was found, is different. It faces north and does not get the sun. It is cold and the density of debris accumulated by human activities is much less than at other sites. This was not a good place to live. Lion Man was found in a dark inner chamber, carefully put away in the darkness with only a few perforated arctic fox teeth and a cache of reindeer antlers nearby. These characteristics suggest that Stadel Cave was only used occasionally as a place where people would come together around a fire to share a particular understanding of the world articulated through beliefs, symbolised in sculpture and acted out in rituals.
Lion Man is the oldest known evidence for religious beliefs and Stadel Cave suggests that believing and belonging have a deep history crucial to human societies and originating long before writing. In 2017, UNESCO acknowledged Stadel Cave and other Swabian localities as World Heritage Sites of importance to all humanity and now Ulm Museum has loaned this important sculpture to the British Museum for the exhibition.”
“The candidate for Chancellor of Germany Alice Weidel has called for the restoration of relations and economic ties with Russia The election program of Alternative for Germany includes points about the need to lift sanctions on Russia to allow free trade. Additionally, according to members of the AfD, it is necessary to repair the Nord Stream pipeline, which supplied Russian gas to Europe. “We want to end the sanctions policy, which primarily harms our country,” Weidel said. She reminded that just two years ago, Germany was buying cheap natural gas from Russia through Nord Stream, but now the country has “the highest energy prices in the world.”
The AfD is not fully social-national but is still clearly the best choice for German voters at present. Deutschland erwache!
Boris Johnson put mass uncontrolled immigration on steroids and should never be allowed anywhere near frontline politics again.
I thought, when he was not nominated (plainly at his own request) for a fake peerage that Johnson, aka “Boris”-idiot, had it in mind to stand for leader again.
Were Johnson to get some sympathetic Con MP to stand down in his favour, Johnson might well win a safe-seat by-election.
Why would any MP do that? In return for a promise of getting a peerage later. That would not require Johnson to be Prime Minister, because the Leader of the Opposition also has peerage-nomination rights.
Johnson would then have to wait (probably) until November 2025 before at least 15% of Con MPs send in letters of no-confidence in “Carpetbagger Kemi” Badenoch. That means 18 MPs, as matters stand. That would happen. Con MPs know that Kemi Badenoch is a total turn-off for most voters, sure to lose the next general election and, thus, a number of seats.
Then, all Johnson would need would be a small number of MPs (in the 2024 leadership election, the number was 10 MPs) to nominate him as a candidate (quite likely possible).
Opinion polls of 2024 Con-voting people show that Johnson is far more popular (despite his evident unfitness to hold office, despite his total incompetence) than Kemi Badenoch.
I may even place a bet on “Boris” to be next Con Party leader. The odds, though, are not too generous, below 5/1. Maybe I shall lose my money elsewhere…
As Matt Goodwin says, though, Johnson was disastrous as PM (and, before that, as Foreign Secretary), and at present the Con Party is hovering around or below 20% in the opinion polls.
“Healthcare”. So Orwellian. If defenders of abortion were really sure of their position they would admit that terminating a pregnancy means the ending of a human life but instead hide behind weasal words. And they are so afraid of any scrutiny that they even try to criminalise… https://t.co/FUUQPmvjN2
“Nearly every other day I learn that someone I know in Wiltshire, in Westminster or in my wider Conservatiive network has left the party – and about half the time they join Reform too. Today two have jumped. Give it time, say Tory diehards but even under new leadership the Conservative Party simply isn’t healing or recovering. Its decline is continuing. I am not finding Reform membership easy but don’t regret my move nor leaving a party that is now so divided and adrift. It’s sad to watch.“
“I don’t know one lifetime Tory that still supports them personally, i wont ever vote for them again. They’re bad coalition where no meaningful policy happens, migration we had since Cameron was mostly low skill we are paying 70 yr high tax to subside that migration . Waste is massive, they were funding most of the things they said they didn’t support. to be honest Tim looking at the state of this country I’m wondering did they do anything in 14 years, everything in England is broken, GPS, dentists, NHS, councils, police, judiciary, child services, mental health services, prisons, social care, we have gone backward and it’s frightening to watch.“
Semi-literate, but surely accurate.
It has been forecast in the past and not quite happened, but I truly feel that the once-great Conservative Party is now finally going the same way as the old 19thC/20thC Liberal Party. Terminal decline.
The Con vote in (?) 2029 (and assuming that a nuclear war has not happened by then anyway) may be as low as 15%.
It would also mean Reform UK getting 330 Commons seats, an overall majority, and thus being able to form the next Government of the UK. If that then ended badly, social nationalism could finally arise. God mote it be.
“Lord Walney has called for more action to protect the public from “the menace of extreme protestors”, after his role as the government’s independent adviser on political violence was scrapped.“
[BBC]
Ha ha. Good news.
Translation: “useless sex pest, depressive case, and puppet of the Israel lobby “Lord” Walney (aka John Woodcock) has been sacked.”
The bastard is also an egregious moneygrubber, taking money from lobby groups and oil, gas, and armaments interests. Evil little bastard.
Other Israel-lobby puppets and useless types, including notorious ex-MP “Lord” Ian Austin, and notably cultureless and useless ex-MP and one-time Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey (now “Lord” Vaizey), have been tweeting in support of said bastard. Many others feel differently, though.
Seems to be a virtual news blackout on the dismissal by Starmer of John Woodcock/Lord Walney. How rotten must a person be to fall foul of Keir Starmer? https://t.co/Gi8U43s8dA
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) February 15, 2025
Why can’t you also say that Woodcock/@LordWalney was the Parliamentary Chair of the undemocratic, unaccountable and powerful lobby organisation within the Labour Party at Westminister – Labour Friends of Israel – with its close ties to the Israeli embassy – #TheLobby LFI led the… pic.twitter.com/FyFxxmb4Lv
I nearly missed Woodcock/Walney’s sacking. That would have been a pity. I now feel quite cheered-up (after the pathos of having watched the film of Doctor Zhivago).
Ukrainian forces lost up to 50 servicemen and an equipment deport from operations by the battlegroups North and Dnepr over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/P27MqGUJ6qpic.twitter.com/6NueLl8GqI
Earlier today, I caught literally the last 30-60 seconds of an interview (I think on Sky News) with, I also think, a junior Labour minister whose name I did not get. What a typically smug, pleased-with-himself bastard! A System political drone with, in the short piece I saw, nothing to say beyond the sort of bland propaganda soundbites all too common over the past 25 years.
No wonder the British people are turning off from System parties and politicians. Reform UK is but the next step on the road, not the ultimate destination. Anger and frustration is growing.
As a matter of fact, most WW2 atrocity narratives in Europe can be traced back to WW1 British “black propaganda”. A few used in the First World War were not recycled for Second World War use, though, because obviously invented and very hard to believe (e.g. the German Army of 1914 allegedly having used Belgian nuns as bell-clappers in cathedrals).
More recently, many will recall the lying 15-y-o Kuwaiti girl who, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, claimed that Iraqi troops had taken hospital incubators, leaving hundreds of babies to die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony.
“In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah’s last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, the erstwhile Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of a wider public relations campaign conducted by the Kuwaiti government-in-exile’s Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which sought to encourage American military involvement against Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait through coordination with the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Nayirah testimony came to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.[1][2]
Nayirah’s story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, which published a report about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from Kuwaiti evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, international media crews were given access to the country. A report by ABC News found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Later, Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the H. W. Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.”[5]
[Wikipedia]
In other words, the guilty parties were Kuwaiti doctors and nurses.
Incidentally, I have myself met only a small number of Kuwaitis in my life, about a dozen, but I have to say that every single one I have met in the past was a useless, unpleasant, and completely untrustworthy waste of space.
I myself was in the USA in 1990, and remember the barrage of TV propaganda pushing that untruthful testimony, as well as other stories designed to get the clueless American masses behind Desert Shield and, later, Desert Storm.
Apropos of nothing much, I think that the American names for military and other operations are much more evocative than the British equivalent, which are deliberately disconnected from the operations concerned, so that some espionage plot might be designated “Operation Morris Minor” or some such.
Hard to believe that that happened 33 years ago. The Second World War officially ended on 2 September 1945 (I was born on the same day and month but 11 years later, in 1956).
33 years after the end of that terrible war brings us to 1978. By that time, a new generation, my generation, born after 1945, thought of “the War” as mere long-ago history. I presume that that is how young people today think of the Gulf War or, even more so, the Falklands campaign of 1982 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War].
Atrocity propaganda is now an inevitable part of almost all human conflict, as was seen in the fairly recent (October 2023) attack by the Gazan organization, Hamas, on Southern Israel. At time of writing, people are still arguing over whether Hamas operatives “beheaded babies”, but it seems that they did not. The story that they had done so, though, was much used by Israel and the worldwide Jewish lobby to deflect criticism of the initial Israeli attacks, which happened (on a huge scale, though similar attacks had happened for years) from October 2023, killing, wounding, and making homeless the civilian population of Gaza (including babies).
The ultimate “atrocity propaganda”, of course, remains the WW2 “holocaust” narrative, and particularly the “gas chambers” part of that. Other parts of that narrative (armchairs upholstered in Jewish skin, lampshades made of the same material etc) have joined yet other “holocaust” atrocity stories in what Marx called “the dustbin of history“, abandoned even by the Zionists, but the “gas chambers” remain. Not as actual relics— there are none, unless you count those constructed after 1945 at Auschwitz in order to show the credulous masses of West and East what German SS personnel were alleged to have done. The “relics” that remain are psychological, in the minds of millions, particularly in the Anglophone countries.
One can see why the Zionists persist in trying to maintain the “gas chambers” narrative. Without it, the whole Jewish “holocaust” narrative (as something above and beyond what was suffered by other races or peoples in the 20th Century) falls. What would remain, were the world to accept that the “gas chambers” never existed, would be the actual truth— that quite large numbers of Jews in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, were treated badly, with many of them actually shot, but none actually gassed (as per the “official” historical narrative).
That more truthful version of 20thC history, however, would put Jewish suffering on —at most— the same level as the sufferings of others: in WW2, the sufferings of Russians and others brutalized and/or shot by the Soviet government, and the sufferings of Germans brutalized and/or killed by Soviet forces and or by other forces, including the Allied bombing of Germany 1941-1945 (which killed somewhere between 350,000 and 800,000 Germans), as well as the various groups treated badly by some German forces.
The “gas chambers” narrative is really the only claim that, if accepted, would tend to put the experience of Jews in the early/mid 1940s into a box above and beyond what other peoples suffered during the 20thC (and before, and after). That is why the Zionists keep pushing it.
Tweets seen
Jews label Americans as White supremacists for not wanting to be flooded with immigrants, while at the same time, they have ANTI-INFILTRATION laws in Israel.
In the last few days I’ve been unfollowed by a sitting Member of Parliament here in the UK, funnily enough a member of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Just goes to show no matter what pretence they hide behind, they all ultimately work for the same team.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) September 6, 2024
Very true.
God trying to help the working clsss by throwing up a storm which is the only thing that will prevent those terrorists invading our country on a daily basis #thunderstorms
Many seem to regard Divine intervention as the only thing that might stop or delay the migration invasion of the UK. Whatever one thinks of that, the System parties will not stop it; indeed, they encourage it.
In the heart of Glasgow’s ancient lore, the waters of the Clyde once carried more than ships—they whispered the voice of the gods. Thor's storms stirred the skies while Freyr blessed the land with life. The old ways are alive here. #Glasgow#thunderstorms#Wicca#legendspic.twitter.com/rMjLKYHQ1z
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
Something for Richard Moore to think about before he broadcasts more pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev-regime) propaganda bs.
🇧🇷 Video of crowded streets of Rio de Janeiro from a rally in support of freedom of speech and against the closure of the social platform X pic.twitter.com/cSkKpu9ZfN
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
Nadav Argaman, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for misleading the country about the importance of controlling the Philadelphi Corridor, the border area between Gaza and Egypt. pic.twitter.com/h2RTq16spk
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
Hungary will take illegal migrants directly to those who invited them. Budapest has stated that if the EU authorities oblige them to accept illegals who have accumulated on the southern border, they will do so, but will offer the new arrivals free bus tours to Brussels. One way. pic.twitter.com/Ws6hTfAuJi
Well, as a pensioner now myself, I support that on a personal as well as general policy level, especially as I get a very reduced State Pension (by reason of having been overseas much of the time).
Police vehicle set on fire in Kyiv amid tensions over mobilization – local media
Ukrainian channels report that vehicles belonging to conscription officers have been set on fire in Kyiv, allegedly to prevent the capture of draft evaders. pic.twitter.com/GjCT56FeIw
Wait a minute… Only yesterday, Sir Richard Moore, the Chief of SIS/MI6, told the UK television audience that “Ukraine” has “the will to fight“. In reality, Ukrainians are desperate to avoid or evade the draft. The Kiev regime will collapse before long. Russia will ultimately prevail.
NEW: Taxpayers charged £825,417 for a research project led by professor who claimed last year that Britain’s monarchy “sustains white inherited privilege” and "owes its wealth and power to colonial violence":https://t.co/8VWzHdgC23
If only I had the power to do something about all of that, especially that last item.
Starmer's found Schrodingers NHS where it is simultaneously the envy of the world and broken beyond repair. Simultaneously underfunded and employing 1 in 20 adults. Simultaneously staffed by angels who also need huge numbers of people to tell them how to avoid being racist.
I'm speaking for my friend who was told 4 times she had IBS and died three months later of Ovarian cancer. That nearly killed my wife and our baby by diagnosing preclampsia as kidney stones. Clap that.
Exactly. The NHS is very much a “hit or miss” service now.
FFS x 1,000,000
There is no 'Far Right' on the rise
There are millions of European citizens seriously worried about infinity immigration forced upon them and being totally ignored by their feckless governments
What is “on the rise” is a growing anger that nothing works properly or easily in the UK, and a growing anger about the migration-invasion (a million or more each year), and also a growing realization that “two-tier” Keir is incapable of improving this country and indeed is determined to (further) ruin it (as well as being an unmandated petty dictator).
Only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour at the 2024 General Election. About 3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green. 8 refused to vote.
Labour has no real mandate.
Be ashamed @Keir_Starmer Be ashamed @RachelReevesMP Be ashamed all of you @UKLabour MPs who vote to make pensioners poorer, colder and hungrier Be ashamed when you use the NHS, schools, roads and infrastructure that for decades those pensioners' taxes paid to build#StarmerOuthttps://t.co/0GIMmY8Vsl
— Paul Friend🌹Pray God saves us from liberals (@PFr1end) September 8, 2024
The election race in the USA will be extremely close, since two months before the election, neither Donald Trump nor his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris has a significant advantage, according to the results of the "New York Times" and "Siena College" research. According to that… pic.twitter.com/7xzrLLinjn
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
"As an American, a Jew and a filmmaker, I must clarify that I accept this award on the occasion of the 336th day of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip and the 76th year of occupation. […] I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation."… pic.twitter.com/pinDpYYY2w
The moment a bridge in the Kursk region was damaged by HIMARS missiles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/k3sGzrcSca
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami: Iran's revenge on Israel will be different this time. "The nightmare of the Iranian reaction is shaking the Zionists day and night. pic.twitter.com/8FBFW0Fwe9
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) September 8, 2024
So far, mainly threats. In a sense, a clever tactic, in that Israeli government, society, and economy seem paralyzed by the fear or expectation.
Well, 7/10 this week, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 7, and 10, though I was at least in the right area re. question 7.
That idea, that the online pseudo-political “grifters” (“Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly”, Julia Grace Patterson etc) will have to nuance their begging appeals now that the hated “Tories” have switched places with the supposedly better but actually quite similar (in policy terms) Starmer-Labour, had occurred to me.
I doubt that the online fraudsters need to worry too much, though. Their target audience is almost begging to be cheated, and will accept as true almost any variation in the “facts” put forward. You only have to look at the lies of “Jack Monroe” over the years. Stunningly unbelievable. Like something from a book of fairy stories. Yet the “useful idiots” believe…and continue to send money to her.
NEW POST: The Tory Elite Class is in CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. They need to wake up and smell the coffeehttps://t.co/tnTPO0GwyI
There is a belief around that “mainstream” political parties must aim to be in the non-existent or notional “centre”.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I effectively never use the descriptors “right”, “left”, “centre” etc in that way.
What matters is policy, and what matters to the people is the overall effect of policy on their lives. The Conservative Party failed the people in terms of how their confused policy offering actually affected or changed, or failed to change, the lives and lifestyles of the people. Labour is about to follow suit, in my opinion.
Not that Churchill himself wanted to finish off the British Empire. He wanted, in an ideal world, to destroy National Socialist Germany and, at the same time, the Soviet Union.
Churchill’s strategic ineptitude (seen in numerous examples throughout his career) led not only to the destruction of the German Reich, followed by the division of mainland Europe into a Stalinist sector in the East, and a basically American, or notionally Anglo-American, sector in the West, but also to the destruction of all the European empires, and thus their generally civilizing influence over Asia, Africa (including North Africa) etc
The same basic division in Europe (though into 4 national sectors) was carried out in much of Germany and Austria for several years after WW2, with the capital cities (Berlin and Vienna) likewise divided.
Vienna was divided until 1955, Berlin until 1989, and France was, as a notional Western ally, given one sector despite having been defeated in 1940, partly occupied the same year, and fully-occupied in November 1942 (and having not participated in the defeat of the German Reich).
The end of WW2 led directly to the collapse of European rule across the world. The colonies of Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands etc were decolonized, some almost immediately, some much later. Thus began the environmental degradation and loss of wildlife across Asia, Africa, the Pacific etc, which situation continues even today, as do the wars, civil wars, corruptions and tyrannies of the formerly colonial territories.
Churchill, an educated and erudite man who was also completely wrong in his political judgment(s) was, so to speak, “the wrong man at the wrong time”, though the accepted System/msm narrative says the opposite, of course.
As Barnett points out in one or two of those books, after WW2 Britain would have been able to do one of three things well, possibly even two of those things: maintain its status as a great power; regenerate its economy; create a Welfare State. Britain tried to accomplish all three, but was unable to do so satisfactorily. Britain had been beggared by its war against the German Reich.
These three aims or tasks (or problems) are still with us, in some or another form, today.
Britain today is the “also ran” in respect of its military power, its society (Welfare State, NHS, State education etc), and economy.
As far as Barnett is concerned, I should say that he was right far more often than he was wrong.
Incidentally, Barnett was probably denied a knighthood, a life peerage, and other official honours (he did get a CBE) by reason of his having spoken, or strongly implied, the unsayable— that Britain should never have declared war on the German Reich or, having declared war in September 1939, should have concluded an armistice sometime after Dunkirk, in mid to late 1940, before too much hurt and damage had been done in western and central Europe.
Reform UK
"The blunt reality is that more 2019 Conservatives switched to Reform than the number who switched to Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined. Nigel Farage is the primary threat to the Conservative Party"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"the Tory elite class have never understood where the real centre in British politics lies, or if they have known then they’ve considered it too grubby, too parochial, too insular, too working-class, too low-status for high-status elites like them"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
"Farage is very quickly building a serious & sustainable electorate —socially distinctive, geographically efficient, culturally coherent, conservative in outlook, and very hacked off with the Tory elite class"https://t.co/OVSRT4eNro
Reform UK’s vote suffers from being wide, indeed nationwide (though not so strong in Scotland), but shallow. 14.29% across the board could easily have meant zero seats anywhere, rather than the 5 Reform actually captured.
The LibDem vote, only 12.22% nationally, was nonetheless concentrated here and there. Result— 72 MPs.
In the East of England, Reform UK scored 17.5% of the vote; in the East Midlands, 18.9%.
Indeed, though Reform won no GE 2024 seats in the West Midlands or North-East England, its vote was still high— 18.1% in the former, and 19.9% in the latter (less than half a point behind the Conservative Party). Reform was also not very far behind the Conservative Party in the West Midlands.
Reform UK came second in 98 constituencies, of which 89 were won or held by Labour.
It is not impossible to surmise that, if the Conservative Party vote were to collapse further in those 98 seats, Reform UK might capture some, many, or even all of them.
That would be even more likely, arguende, if Starmer-Labour in government disappoints the mass of the people, as I believe it will.
Late tweets seen
“They’re carrying on like a cross between Pravda and Smash Hits.”
I am glad that I am not alone in having noticed the sickening sycophancy of the “occupied” UK msm towards Starmer-Labour (though would anyway be unconcerned were I the only one).
Today, on Sky News, I caught literally seconds of the end of a piece by some sports journalist woman. Her take was that, with “England” in the final game of some football contest, and a new Labour (New Labour?) government in power, it feels (she claimed) like the dawning of a new era. I believe that was the brainless and derivative way in which she put it.
Of course, Starmer-Labour will probably be in power until 2029, so the msm drones naturally want to curry favour, but I think that the said sycophancy goes beyond even that. I think that many in the msm seriously believe that Starmer-Labour is wonderful and will bring about some minor “golden age”.
I see no real connected thinking in the msm about what happens when the UK is importing literally a million invaders every single year, about what happens when a Labour government is harder on workers, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled than has been the past 14 years of “Conservative” government (etc).
What happens when the lights go out? What happens when lawlessness finally overwhelms a fairly civilized court and legal system which evolved over long periods but which is now already swamped?
Also, with a deadhead like Lammy as Foreign Secretary, what happens to Britain’s already-tattered international standing?
What interests me is what will be happening 2025-2029 under the surface of the Labour Party pseudo-landslide Commons majority.
“Labourites have exposed their arrogance by declaring an ‘end’ to the culture war. What they really mean is that they’re in the driving seat now. That they will accelerate woke, whether we like it or not.”
Ed Miliband lives in an eco-fantasy land. He really thinks that banning North Sea drilling will be good for the UK, creating jobs and boosting energy security. With just one week in power, Labour has already lost its grip on reality:https://t.co/A0Mf7aVnng
Who can forget Ed Miliband at Copenhagen in 2005, bleating outside the UN conference (so badly-organized that he was not allowed in at first) about the fake “3/5/7/whatever years to save the world” narrative? I also recall that little monkey, who was the President of the Maldives, jumping up and down and clapping once he realized that his country might receive millions in “climate aid” in case the Maldives sank below the waves (nearly 20 years later, though, it is still there).
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the warped priorities of the new Labour government, Joe Biden’s leadership crisis, the madness of the French left and the truth about Lucy Letby.
Keir Starmer says Labour will "end the culture war". This is not true. Labour will mainstream a divisive identity politics, gender ideology, critical race theory, & maintain mass migration. Subscribers already have the detailhttps://t.co/ohKIsJJDk9
Stand by for Starmer’s fake Labour “elected” dictatorship…
Housing now entering the election debate. Here's the key fact. We build 189,000 homes a year, below 300,000 target. But guess what. We need to build 515,000 just to keep up with the demand from mass immigration. I doubt you'll hear that today.https://t.co/pWTmH3Gnnm
Quite right. All sorts of people (often “you know who”…), such as Jonathan Portes, all terribly clever (in their own minds) will be saying, and have for years been saying, that the importation of a million (more or less) unwanted immigrants every year has little or no effect on housing demand. Hardy ha ha…
That useless and half-crazed ex-MP and Cabinet minister (incredibly), Sajid Javid, said something similar years ago, I think.
The “4 million” there should now be replaced by at least 10 million; soon 15 million and 20 million.
Ha. So the little Indian money-juggler “promises” to halve net migration? (“net” includes the 200,000-300,000, mainly real Brits, who leave every year for Australasia etc).
So “only” half a million blacks and browns etc (or more) will be coming in every year?
Oh…that’s not too bad…oh, no, wait a minute…
Sunak and Starmer get police protection – Nigel Farage has to pay for his own. Increasingly obvious that situation needs to change for the leader of the UK's 3rd most popular political party. @reformparty_uk
I have blogged previously about how, to my mind, Farage’s close protection squad seems not very effective. So far, it has been milkshakes and the like, but that may escalate to serious weapons such as knives. He needs to revamp his security to prevent that. The way the UK is going, nothing can be ruled out.
🚨 NEW: Reform UK candidate Ian Gribbin has now apologised
"I apologise for these old comments and withdraw them unreservedly and the upset that they have caused"
"I myself are upset at the way these comments were taken out of context especially when my mother was the… https://t.co/DSH07tAXPk
That Reform UK candidate was right in his original comments. Britain should never have declared war on the German Reich, and was not under attack at the time. In fact, the first British soldier was killed on 9 December 1939, over 3 months after war was declared, having stepped on a French landmine: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Priday.
In 1940, Germany made a number of peace proposals, both before and after Dunkirk, all of which were ignored. Hitler even ordered a halt to the German infantry and armour advance on Dunkirk, which allowed that very large large evacuation to occur.
Hitler wanted peace and, if possible, collaboration, with the British Empire. He wanted the two empires to rule most of the world together, or in parallel, opposing both Sovietism and Americanism.
Had peace or at least armistice been declared in 1940 or at the time of the flight of Rudolf Hess in 1941, most of the devastation of Western and Central Europe, including in the UK and Germany, would never have happened.
That peace would also have meant no Cold War, no Korean War, probably no Vietnam War (etc), no “Israel” and therefore no Middle East wars (because the Middle East would have been mainly under British and French control). It would have meant far less environmental degradation in Africa and Asia, and far less civil conflict on those continents.
Had such peace “broken out”, Sovietism would not have encroached upon Eastern and Central Europe, as it did after 1945. The whole of Europe and the world would have been in a better place.
Wow an actual patriot who understands history, how awful!
The British Empire might still exist and our race wouldn't be getting institutionally genocided, horrifying!
At least one tweeter who has seen through the propaganda (((lies))).
The mainstream historical consensus is that Hitler did in fact want an alliance with Britain, and viewed German attempts at naval competition with Britain prior to WWI as a key strategic error which he tried to avoid repeating.https://t.co/Co2ZSn7Mxa
That candidate would be correct, Adolf Hitler wanted nothing but peace with the British and the French. His aim was always to go East and destroy Judeo-Bolshevism, once and for all. Without Hitler beating the Soviets to the punch, all of Europe would have been speaking Russian
The above shows opinion polling re. the safe (?) Con seat of Tatton, presently occupied (or rather, formerly occupied, until 2024 Dissolution) by ridiculous deadhead Esther McVey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_McVey.
It can be seen from the graphic that Esther McVey is pressed closely by the Labour candidate, who is within a point or so of catching her. Also, that the LibDem is on about 12%, and has no chance of actual election.
Were the LibDem-intending voters to vote for Labour, Esther McVey would be turfed out; but will enough of them be sufficiently motivated to do that? Open question.
How does someone with so little intelligence become a Cabinet Minister? Still, look at his predecessors at the DWP, among them Esther McVey and Iain Dunce Duncan Smith…
So the self employed are going to get their state pension for free. That won’t go down very well. Absolutely crackers. https://t.co/3dNS5zrKHi
“Labour”, as I have repeatedly blogged, will indeed “stop the small boats”, and will do it by having some kind of mainland Europe “processing”, i.e. rubberstamping the applications of 90%+ of those wanting to come here. Maybe even 99%.
— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) June 11, 2024
Crazy. The link between Jew-Zionism and mental instability is very obvious, and that also applies, very often, to non-Jewish “antifascist” types. See my (I think interesting, and also rather groundbreaking) study about all that: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/ [constantly updated].
🇮🇱 Israel states that “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza.”
🇺🇳 A UN report last month said that of the 24,686 identified deaths in Gaza, 52% were women and children, 40% were men and 8% were “elderly.” pic.twitter.com/EdIUqUlcqn
— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 11, 2024
Difficult questions this week. I scored 4/10, but even that very modest score was enough to trump that of political journalist John Rentoul, who managed only 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 5, 6, and 7. I came close (in my opinion, anyway) to getting no. 2 as well.
Talking point
Interesting. Well worth an hour of anyone’s time.
I liked the comment from a 90-something ex-soldier who said that, looking at Britain in the 21stC, he wishes that Hitler had successfully invaded in 1940 (in fact, there never was a serious plan to invade the UK: Hitler wanted alliance with the British Empire, not to conquer it. “Operation Sealion” [Fall Seelowe] was never more than a contingency plan and/or a smokescreen with which to lull Stalin into a false sense of security prior to Barbarossa).
I also liked the several comments by old soldiers now wishing that they had fought for Hitler.
Tweets seen
Listen to the first question Starmer is asked in this clip.
And listen to his answer.
That is not the response of someone who gives a shit about victims of sexual assault. That's the response of someone with no principles or integrity reciting a script.pic.twitter.com/Ph57WTjRFC
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) May 10, 2024
I didn’t think he could get any worse, I really thought the bottom of the barrel had been scraped, but here, draped in flags, with a rictus grin, Starmer, robotically answers from a script, spitting in faces of sexual assault victims. pic.twitter.com/7GjNbNordQ
Starmer’s priorities are: 1. Whatever Israel and the Jewish lobby want; 2. To eliminate any remaining free speech (and refer to previous priority); 3. To destroy what is left of Britain as a real nation, rather than a geographic space filled with globalized economic entities, including humanoid entities (and refer to no.1 above); 4. The self-interest of “Labour” politicians and hangers-on [e.g., most recently, Ayesha Hazarika].
Shocking moment elderly climate change activists use a HAMMER and chisel to smash glass protecting the priceless Magna Carta- the royal charter of rights signed by King John in 1215.
The two women in their 80’s tried to destroy the protective glass at the British Library. pic.twitter.com/5dG5FuwTgI
They should have been kicked into the gutter and stamped on. They are nothing but sub-terrorists, using their age and sex as a shield.
Just Stop Oil is a pathetic excuse for a cause or ideology; worthless.
Those ridiculous old “entitleds”, crowing about their “Christian” faith, will try to destroy a (genuine) “national treasure”, but probably welcome the migration-invasion which will destroy this country and its society long before any “climate change” (however caused).
Housing Sec Michael Gove says he cannot look at official figures showing sharp rise in number of homeless children – a record 145,800 – with "anything other than regret" and blames not enough homes being built. But it is poverty that causes homelessness. And govt can solve that.
Typical msm scribbler thinks that “govt” can “solve poverty”. That depends on various other factors. In the case of the UK, you have importation of around a million unwanted immigrants every single year now, a fact which scribbler Paul Lewis ignores. Simply ignores. As if to say “million immigrants a year? Irrelevant. Just build more houses for them” (for these mostly useless parasites). Oh, and give them cash, and medical services, and schools for their offspring (etc).
4 million? Try 12…(and, by 2034, 25M, or more).
I doubt whether scribbler (posing as an economist) Paul Lewis has much real expertise in the economics of a state or a society (about your electricity or gas bill, maybe; I do not know).
😾😾😾😾😾 When i was committing this ‘extremist’ act outside the Cabinet Office, some years ago who should pass by but #Gove. Sweaty faced and grey skinned. ‘The slithy Gove.’ Everything it touches dies. Slowly. pic.twitter.com/8CvUSos1PB
— ☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) (@riotgrandma72) May 11, 2024
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 11, 2024
Both lots of demonstrators are deluded in their own ways.
I used to go to Brighton Beach (New York) occasionally. Early 1990s. It was a largely Russian-speaking neighbourhood then. There was a large shop selling good bread, and pickled herrings and cucumbers etc.
It is unlikely that Kyiv will be able to regain control of the lost territories in the foreseeable future, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with the newspaper Die Presse. pic.twitter.com/f0hOJlgqzP
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 11, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
Macron “hopes with all his heart” that France will not have to go to war over Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron published a 16-minute video on his X page, in which he answered pressing questions from the French. As Le Parisien reports, the head of state dwelled on the Ukrainian conflict,… pic.twitter.com/ODvBBEX4ny
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 11, 2024
Macron is an idiot. France would not survive war (totally pointless and unnecessary war) with Russia. One Sarmat-2 missile might take out, i.e. destroy, about 90% of the whole of France. I value France, where I lived for 3-4 years; I do not want to see that beautiful country destroyed.
“Mr Justice Nicklin said this in another case: “It is likely that this error occurred because he [Mr Lewis] had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.“
[per James Wilson]
Dishonest and incompetent…
Both Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke are fanatical Jew-Zionists. Lewis even lives, some or most of the time, in Eilat, Israel.
People have asked how all this started.
The answer is that Joanne Bell @jobellerina accused me of being an anti-Semite. She’s well-known for making random accusations of anti-Semitism (and also for calling people c*nts or queyntes). It is obviously not normal online behaviour… pic.twitter.com/Rxu5wV2zAK
When Mr Mendelsohn gave evidence at trial, it became clear he was unaware of some of the conduct of, or positions adopted by, his solicitor Daniel Berke.
He honestly thought Berke had complied with the pre-action protocol. In reality, there was almost no compliance!…
As said, both dishonest and incompetent, in the case of Lewis. As to Daniel Berke, I have no idea of how competent or incompetent he is in the civil law field (I read that he is a criminal solicitor), but on the face of the above, he seems as incompetent as Lewis.
Perhaps MentalZone and Cantor could sue Berke and Lewis for their court fees?
As a breach of SRA Principle 4 which requires solicitors to act in the best interests of each client… pic.twitter.com/7o6ATmkJ5u
— Team Phoenix 🔥 #followthephoenix (@LeftPhoenix) May 11, 2024
As I opined some time ago, there seems to have been professional negligence on the part of Lewis, and that may now apply to Berke as well.
Incidentally, Berke also opines about “antisemitism” being connected to “mental illness”:
Seems that Berke’s knowledge of both “antisemitism” and mental illness is as sketchy as his knowledge of civil procedure seems to be. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/ [updated consistently], in which I examined the incontrovertible links between Jew-Zionism, Jewish “antifascism”, and mental illness.
It’s been reported that pubs showing Eurovision have been issued threats by activists.
Thugs who support totalitarian regimes will not accept ideological impurity.https://t.co/ZvTACZABgO
Yet anywhere hosting anti-Zionists, whether political (London Forum, Patriotic Alternative, Keep Talking etc), entertainers (Alison Chabloz, Gilad Atzmon), metaphysical speakers (eg David Icke) or whatever, will be “hounded” by packs of Jews such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], “Hope not Hate” (“HnH”] and others.
When will the Daily Mail (etc) cover that story? Never…
Fair enough, but Neil is completely at one with Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby, and the Jewish element has been the driving force behind the attack on freedom of expression throughout the Western world: so-called “race relations” and “anti-hate” laws (designed to shut down socio-political debate), “holocaust” “denial” laws (designed to make aspects of modern history off-limits to both non-Jewish historians and members of the public) etc.
Incidentally, should anyone wish to help defray the costs of my own recent free speech trial, the crowdfunder is still open: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.
I’ve never watched nor voted in Eurovision Song Contest. Always regarded it as something of a European musical embarrassment. But that changes tonight when I will tune in to vote for the young Israeli. I hope she wins. https://t.co/POk74C1ZCU
Could Andrew Neil be more craven? All his money, yet no real independence, in my opinion.
Like Andrew Neil (pre-2024), I have never watched Eurovision and (unlike Neil) do not intend to change my habit today. I have no interest at all in the Israeli contestant, positive or negative, or in any of the other howling freaks and noisemakers taking part.
I did notice that Denmark’s entry is an African! Not even a beautiful one. “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“…
The number of foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased by two thirds compared to March 2022 , writes "Business Insider".
"Half of the mercenaries come from Latin American countries hoping to make money. They are… pic.twitter.com/XycpYuLGhS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 11, 2024
“The number of foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased by two thirds compared to March 2022 , writes “Business Insider”.
“Half of the mercenaries come from Latin American countries hoping to make money. They are there for money,” said Carl Larson, a former American soldier who fought in Ukraine.
He also admitted that, while he was in Ukraine, he realized that foreign mercenaries would not be able to stop the Russian forces and that they could only delay their advance “perhaps for an hour“.
Late music
[V.B. Tautiev, Launch of Kalibr Missile, Caspian Sea]
GUR of Ukraine stated that the bomber that fell in the Russian Federation today was a Ukrainian special operation 300 km from the Ukrainian border
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation considers – tentatively – a technical malfunction as the cause of the fall. pic.twitter.com/EfpBHRkC8W
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
– Are you ready to choose freedom instead of democracy? Because this is America!
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Heartless monsters. Degenerates.
Not all the blame lies on one side, admittedly, but the historical blame, arising from the Jewish occupation of Palestine from, mainly, after the end of the Second World War, overshadows the whole situation.
The status of Isfahan airport a few minutes ago after all flights returned to normal pic.twitter.com/t1R4OhqDqn
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Talking point
I have known a few, not many, Persians/Iranians in my life. One group was a family the head of which was a member of the Parliament in Iran under the Shah. When the Islamic Revolution happened, that man was hanged but his two sons were in London as students at Imperial College, living in a mansion flat in Little Venice bought for that purpose. Their mother was later allowed to join them. Exiles. I got to know them via a mutual friend when living in the same district of the capital.
I also became briefly acquainted, in 1976, before the Revolution, with two of the children of a wealthy Iranian/Persian family; I believe that, as with the first family, the family were large landowners. I saw a picture of their palatial house in some province or other, maybe Shiraz.
The children of that family were a young man whom I had met while travelling from London to Penzance by train one night (a First Class compartment but not a sleeper). He was a student (Architecture, I think, if memory serves), aged about the same as me (I was 19, I think).
Not long after, I was invited for an informal supper with the student and his sister, a charming young woman in her early twenties, who was working in Brighton as a nurse, I think. The family had bought two or maybe three bungalows in the same small close on the edge of that town so that various young family members could be together while in England. A young female cousin who lived across the way also attended.
I remember the evening partly because I arrived from London, and departed, on my motorbike, a Suzuki 250, and was able to use, for the first time, the then quite new M23, and which had almost no traffic at all in the mid/late evening. Hard to believe, today.
I lost touch with the student and his sister, and wonder what happened to them after the Revolution. I suppose that they too stayed on in the UK as exiles.
Over the years, I met the odd Iranian, and at one time (early 1980s) I was acquainted with an old fellow (as it then seemed), Edward Sykes (now long-deceased), who at one time, during WW2, had been sent to Teheran under diplomatic cover, but whose real job was to prepare to blow up and/or scout out the land for the sabotage of, numerous bridges, should German forces invade the country. Unlikely perhaps, but with the Wehrmacht already in the Caucasus and, on the other hand, in North Africa (menacing British-controlled Egypt and Palestine, and French-controlled Syria), not impossible.
A common-enough surname, but the Middle and Near East (and especially Persian) linkages are telling. cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sykes_(writer), another Sykes with Persian, Arab, SAS and SOE links and experiences.
Anyway, Edward had a group of people from Surrey (I was in the first year of my law degree, and had moved for a while back to living with my parents at Reigate); those old people went trekking on public footpaths through woods and fields once a week, starting and finishing at a rural pub somewhere, the route meticulously planned out in advance. I think that most of those people had some kind of WW2 intelligence or connected background.
Those old people were tough! After the fairly long trek and lunchtime pub food (ploughman’s lunch, pint of beer), they were all still alert, but I always fell asleep in Edward’s car (he and his wife were neighbours of my parents) on the way back! A tough generation.
Edward told me that he had been tasked, during the War, with the kidnap of a high-ranking Iranian, General Zahedi, thought to be pro-German. This Edward accomplished by using the services of the then quite new SAS. The general was sent to Palestine in a plane.
The story has a twist: later, that general’s son became, inter alia, Ambassador of the Shah in London, and invited Edward to a reception at the embassy, where he told Edward that his father had always said that he had not been badly treated in captivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Zahedi.
What strikes me, looking at some of the high-ranking military and naval people under the present regime in Iran, is that quite a few have strongly Aryan/European looks. Unsurprising in a way, in that the Aryan migration from Atlantis to ancient India then gradually ebbed back in influence from east to west: ancient India, ancient Persia, the Middle Eastern cultures, to Greece and Rome, and then to our Northern European culture, both during classical times and then, more particularly, since the 15thC and Renaissance.
There is also the point that some of the Persian aristocracy married German women in the 20thC. I know that another sister of that student I met on a train was a natural blonde.
My own direct connection to Iran has been less than slight— a 2-hour refuelling stopover in 1967, in the early hours at the then Teheran Airport, at the time a deserted and gloomy building with nothing much happening.
So, instead of improving the Green Belt, and making it greener, Starmer’s pathetic “plan” is to build on it, creating inevitably-poor-quality housing developments, which will be occupied mainly by immigrants of various kinds. How do I know this? Because there are over a million arriving in the UK every single year now, and even if a couple of hundred thousand people leave (mostly Brits, fleeing to Australia, New Zealand etc), that still means that the population of the UK is increasing by half a million to a million every single year (almost entirely noin-European), despite the (white British) birthrate having fallen to an unprecedented low.
Immigration on the mass scale has to be stopped. If you like, make an exception for the odd brain surgeon or nuclear scientist, but that would be in the hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands.
The mass immigration to which the UK is now subject is unsustainable for several reasons. First, the very numbers; secondly, the fact that most of those coming in, not just the 5% or 10% on the “small boats”, are actually useless to the people of this country. There are further reasons as well.
‘We don’t have a housing problem, we have a population explosion problem’
‘We wouldn't need these new houses if we stopped all this immigration. Population increase is the problem, it’s so obvious’@MartinDaubney reads out your views on Labour's plan to build more new homes. pic.twitter.com/gCSgQPHAS7
“Four ‘highly dangerous’ Hackney gang members including three brothers and a fourth man have been jailed for a total of 75 years after firing machine guns and pistols and possessing crack cocaine and heroin. Three brothers, Ryan Gordon, 31, Ramela Gordon, 28, both of Lynmouth Road, and Jameal Gordon, 32, of no fixed abode, were jailed at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, April 17.
On March 14, 2020, the Gordon brothers discharged a number of rounds from the Uzi sub machine gun into a block of flats targeting an opposing gang. One of the bullets injured a member of the public passing by on their way home from work.
Officers used CCTV footage to connect the brothers to another incident where a self-loading pistol was fired in a heavily pedestrianised area of Homerton on May 21, 2020. A few days later, officers examined a block of flats in Lynmouth Road after a warrant was issued.“
[My London]
Imagine what London will be like in 2034 or 2044. Escape from New York? Something like that. Unless a real (social-national) government can seize power in the meantime.
Late tweets seen
Imagine calling yourself a political magazine/journalist and after a major conference with prime ministers, presidents & scholars debating the EU, identity, migration, democracy you write & publish this utter drivel … pic.twitter.com/PNinyctIy6
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
The Telegraph newspaper quoted sources in the British government and wrote that the foreign minister of this country did not accept Israel's pressure to call the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist and stood against it. pic.twitter.com/hJ5NBIsfav
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Ukraine will soon receive new air defense systems , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes. Ministers at the Alliance-Ukraine meeting agreed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv, he added.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated that Western weapons can still be… pic.twitter.com/kkTCw5sMlm
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
“Ukraine will soon receive new air defense systems , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes. Ministers at the Alliance-Ukraine meeting agreed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv, he added.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated that Western weapons can still be supplied to Kiev and used in the fighting, but this will only prolong the conflict.“
The first headline of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
📃 Israel's silent attack on Isfahan showed that Netanyahu has no strategy regarding Iran and the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/91AN5svBwV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 19, 2024
Ian Robert Millard 