This is the Coffee House Wall for this month. I won’t say that it is your chance to communicate with us, as we are all in this together. It is, nevertheless, the Conservative Blog post that has no particular theme, and where everything is on topic. Let’s just remember that we want to avoid ad hominem attacks on others. We don’t want to engage with trolls. We want to moderate our language ourselves as responsible and mature adults, choosing to use fruity language only where it is necessary. This is our opportunity to show what the Spectator Coffee House Wall could have been like.
Dear all, I will try to spend a bit of time tidying things up and slimming things down to keep this active as a place for you to post. I might even start posting here again. Bless you all.
That’s brilliant, Peter. Thank you.
I’m certain that in these challenging, precarious, and what the Chinese call ‘interesting,” times that we could benefit from your perspectives. Look forward to seeing you.
Nice to hear your voice again, Peter, even nicer it is that you’re going to grace your own blog with the occasional posting, perhaps you will tell us what you’ve been up to, we may learn something.
Happy Easter to you and all you care about.
PS: This is Green Thursday, in the neck of the woods Baron comes from it’s customary to eat something green today, something like a nettle soup, also to wear something and sit on a chair (or a cushion) of the same colour, have you?
Happy Easter also to the two visitors to the CHW, EC and Noa, pity the great Frank is no longer with us, how very much missed he is, does anyone have any of his posting that could cheer us up?
Baron,
I was thinking of the Guv’ only last night when this popped up on my YouTube list. Physically fearless he had one Achilles heel. He wouldn’t have enjoyed this. Vertigo is something we all have to a greater or lesser extent. I know I do Stepladders get me to freeze, mountain paths were never problem
https://youtu.be/k-U8nDmmhdo
This is a good summary why Putin’s so disliked by the Western Governing Elites, he is the antithesis of the Woke progressivism of the West, and what’s more, his views resonate with a large if not the majority of the Western unwashed.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-culture-war-in-ukraine/
EC @ April 7, 2023 at 8:41 am
Unbelievable, also frightening, EC, Baron was leaning towards the left, the guy was too close to the rocks on the right, but he made it all right.
Frank was once telling us that he suffered but not from vertigo but from acrophobia? Is this correct?
Larry’s good, but this is better than that:
https://sonar21.com/nato-intel-leak-or-disinformation/
On the leaks:
The purpose of a fake is to mislead, to convince the adversary of something that is advantageous to the fake creator, the fake must therefore contain stuff that’s genuine and true and that the adversary is in possession of, or at least may be thought to possess, but it must also contain an information that’s totally new to the adversary, information that intends to fool him, to make him change the take on whatever the deceit was put together for.
The released documents have no such totally new information, the whole of the 100 or so documents is what was guessed, deduced or suspected, the leak must be true.
A society hoping to have a future wouldn’t indulge in the frenzy of worshipping the trans obsession only tolerate it, would avoid presenting it as an entertainment, something to be enjoyed, broadcast to the masses, it would treat it as a serious malady, more injurious than (say) covid, the virus infection attacks the body, the madness harms the mind.
https://politikus.info/video/150973-evrovidenie-2023.html
(The heading above the girl at the bottom of the postings with the basket of apples says : Beauty will save the world).
Happy Easter everybody.
Spring returns in the nick of time, although the spring in my step my take a few weeks longer… Here’s hopping! lol lol lol
Baron says: April 9, 2023 at 8:48 am
Things didn’t end well for the “in your face” abberants of Rome, or for that matter the Weimar Republic. Civilised tolerance of lifestyle choices is one thing, but tolerance of militant proselytisation is another. History repeats itself, historians repeat each other. Things might not end well for these people. There again, things might not end well for humans as a whole. If it takes off, then the rise of Artificial Intelligence will be exponential and “IT” might decide that humans are superfluous to its requirements. We’re in “Terminator” territory here… as I’m certain that Peter as a former(?) SciFi aficionado will recognise. btw What was your take on “Blade Runner 2049,” Peter?
Bank Holiday Monday: Traditionally cold and wet, but there’s always a James Bond movie on ITV to watch. It’s lamentable that some things today are a pale imitations of those of yesteryear. James Bond supervillains, for example. Reportedly, over the mosses, yesterday the Jockstabulary seized a £110K campervan from outside the home of Peter Stavro McBlofeld’s 92 year old mother’s house. As an emergency escape vehicle a campervan is just downright plain embarrassing as it shows a lack of imagination and ambition. In the past Peter’s cousin Ernst has used jet powered yachts, submarines and even rockets to escape the Feds. I’m pretty sure that underneath his hollowed out mountain in Davos even the WEF teutonic megalomaniac has got something a bit zippier than a campervan with which to make good his escape when the SHTF.
Baron, April 6, 2023 at 7:53 am
Your misgivings about the treatment of M.Micron in Beijing turn out to be unjustified. He by all accounts given top notch hospitality by Xi.
Not so for Ursula vonder Lying who got no VIP treatment and had to mix with the great unwashed as she went through passport control and customs as she returned home alone on a scheduled public passenger flight. 🙂
EC says: @ April 10, 2023 at 1:29 pm
True, EC, but the beginning of the visit was rather lukewarm, no top honchoes to greet him, later on it got better, the comparison with the Brussels female is startling, it would be even better if one were told she had to pay for the return ticket herself.
Professor John Mearsheimer, amongst others, has figured the Ukrainian conflict well, no ifs for his take on it but one but where he may have failed to think it through enough, he says ‘Russia could never defeat NATO, look at them, they cannot defeat even Ukraine’.
Russia has been fighting not Ukraine but NATO from the very start, the elite Ukrainian units that have been by now almost completely wiped out had been trained, equipped by NATO, what’s more, some NATO countries, Britain amongst them, have been providing training continuously, also supplying heavy pieces of NATO weaponry, Britain alone has already trained 10,000 fighters.
A large number of the Ukrainian soldiers have been highly motivated, likely more than the average NATO non-Ukrainian combatant could ever be, the hatred of all things Russian by the likes of Azov is legendary, one of the Azov prisoners snd a message on the Telegram platform saying ‘when I get exchanged I will keep on killing the Russians, it’s highly enjoyable’.
The Russian regular army has been only marginally involved in the conflict till now, the fighting has been carried out predominately by the Wagner musicians, the Chechens, some international volunteers and the troops supplied by the two Republics, Lugansk and Donetsk.
If it came to a direct conflict between Russia and NATO, there could be no winners if either protagonist were to reach for nukes, we will all perish, there may be a winner if both protagonists were to deploy missiles with conventional warheads but behaved rationally.
Here’s why:
Mostly a trenched warfare, artillery fire and the occasional charges of the horse cavalry characterised the WW1 on both the western and eastern fronts, virtually no tanks or planes.
A timespan shorter than one generation saw a big change, the WW2 was anything but stationary with some horses galloping here and there, tanks together with fighter jets and bombers were the new weaponry, artillery improved, got more mobile, the blitzkrieg was the way to attack (the Poles got it wrong sending six squadrons of horse cavalry against some Panzers at Krojanty, not one single horse or rider survived).
More than three generations have elapsed since the end of the 1939-45 global slaughter, the WW2 tools of killing – the tanks, planes and artillery – have got perfected massively but are unlikely to be the military hardware to secure victory in a potential global conflict, a new breed of both defensive and offensive military hardware has taken over and, if it were to come to it, will furnish a victory for one or the other adversary, but only if both adversaries were to behave rationally, if not, it will be an end for us all.
The new 21st century breed (the equivalent of the WW2tanks&planes) consists of the missile ranges capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads with worldwide reach.
It’s in the missile department where Russia, and also increasingly China excel, the Russian S-range of defensive surface-to-air missile system is believed by military experts, including those from the US, to be the best in the world, the latest S-500 features an 800km detection range against aircraft, has the ability to intercept satellites and ICBMs, can network with older air defence systems such as the S-400 to maximise situational awareness.
The range of the Russian offensive missiles is equally impressive – hypersonic, travelling at a non-fixed trajectory, capable of skimming the earth surface, amongst the range is the Kinzhal, a nuclear-capable hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 km (1,900 mi) and a speed of Mach 12, as far as it’s known the American Armed Forces do not yet possess an equivalent.
In the top category of missiles, the ICBM range, the Russian offering equals anything the Americans can field, may even have an edge in that most of the latter missiles were designed much earlier than those of Russia.
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-top-10-intercontinental-ballistic-missiles-2022-1671455148-1
For either of the two adversarial camps to claim ‘victory’ all that needs to happen is for one of the camps to demonstrate the ability to get all or most of its attacking missiles through the other camp’s defence systems simultaneously preventing all or most of the other camp’s missiles penetrating its own defence system – using missiles with conventional warheads only, lobbying missiles with nuclear warheads won’t be necessary, the opponent that comes second in the conventional missiles exchange cannot rationally carry on, continuing to launch more missiles would mean a total annihilation for it, but also for the world at large.
Any objection, critique or just questioning of this Easter scribbling will be appreciated.
And the happiest Easter ever for all of you and more.
Baron 4:29 pm
The scenarios you outlined above are predicated on the the parties to the current dispute(s) all behaving rationally. You use the word “rationally” three times. Unfortunately the prime mover behind the current dispute is not, imo, behaving rationally, it is bankrupt and its NATO proxies aren’t in great fiscal shape either. The petrodollar is on life support.
at the minute. Can one expect rational behaviour from a paranoid bully?
The Pentagon, and the cabal in DC [Necon & Neolibs] are currently freaking out about Macron’s recent comments about Taiwan.
Obama’s third term is going the same way as the first two. Incompetent boot lickers rewarded, conomic decline and foreign policy disasters being the order of the day. As supporting evidence I give you Biden’s new US ambassador to Moscow:
https://armenianweekly.com/2020/12/01/ambassador-lynne-tracy-gets-f-rating-as-us-ambassador-to-armenia/
I’ve been trying to find a recent quote from her where she said that being in the same room as Putin made her uncomfortable, as she felt that she wasn’t in control. Says it all really doesn’t it. M’lud? Let me know if you can find it, it’s pure gold!
EC says: @April 10, 2023 at 7:21 pm
Hard to disagree with you, EC, when push shove comes and its existential there may be no bars to anything, but something tells Baron that a new player or players may emerge stopping the insanity, the Macron’s epiphany came as a surprise, he may regret it, but the hint of a policy divorced from the American Governing elite implies that even the leading layers of the warmongering progressives may have a limit to their coupling with the Washington lot.
I made the mistake of peeking at the BBC website this morning to see if they are covering all the latest SNP shenanigans. Some hope! They actually do grow bananas in Scotland you know, or they used to, at the Achiltibuie Hydroponicum, just north of Ullapool.
Talking of shenanigans, the BBC website was obsessed with the visit of Mr Zombie celebrating all his Irish “cousins.” The last time somebody looked at his geneaology he was even less Irish than Elizabeth “Pocohontas” \Warren was an American Indian. There really is no hope for the world.
A take on the Biden’s visit to Ireland, pity you cannot read the postings:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-bidens-hostility-to-britain-only-harms-the-united-states/
EC says @ April 12, 2023 at 9:40 am
One is told, EC, the fishmonger female has resigned her seat, it’s getting more serious with every hour, a curse of Alex, Baron reckons.
Is he wrong, or rather was he wrong as it’s dated much earlier than 2023?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGIY5Vyj4YM
Rod’s latest:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-police-are-a-law-unto-themselves/
Baron – 08:49 am
That was the Anglo-Aussie actor Peter Finch in the 1976 film “Network.”
He died in January 1977 but deservedly won the “Best Actor” Oscar for his performance, conferred posthumously, few weeks after his death.
Once upon a time when the award of an Oscar meant something other than ticking a box, eh…
You read this and ponder what’s going on in the world we know nothing about (provided the story’s true).
https://archive.ph/fNYfu
PS: Thanks, EC, for the 10:10, an amazing performance by him.
Baron – 9:48 am
They investigate themselves, and award their own punishments. They appear to be beyond parliamentary or local government scrutiny or sanction. Apart from the small fry when was the last time that any of them got sacked, ended up in the court system got fined and/or got sent down? Reach a senior enough level, have enough “goods” on others, and they get retired on a full index-linked pension, and maybe even a seat on the red benches in the HoL.
Much as the Spectatesman offer of a £4 per month e-subscription is tempting, in May I’m having the distressing experience of the BBC dipping into our bank account for another £172-ish (£159 + inflation) I would cancel the damn thing if I could as we can do without live TV or the poxy BBC iPlayer, but Mrs EC doesn’t want the constant harassment and threats that will come from the BBC’s licence enforcement goons. (Crapita)
The BBC operate on the same business model as the Krays.
Where’s Noa to enlighten us on the change in the wind? Is it real or will the Master use the whip to silence the kids discovering something called recalcitrance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyiS0sZh9Mo
EC says @ April 13, 2023 at 10:41 am
Well said, EC.
One takes it you are recovering well, keep the low gears on for the time being, take your time, it may be we shall see a turnaround even in this sceptered isle.
Baron – 10:15 pm
“Where’s Noa to enlighten us on the change in the wind?”
I suspect that Noa might be on his “spring break.” Whereas formerly, especially in his younger years, he may have been spear fishing somewhere in the W. Indies, this year, due to challenging economic times, I suspect he might be in Blackpool, Baron. I’m sure you know that this is a holiday destination where it is absolutely vital to know the direction of wind before setting foot on the beach or, indeed, out on a promenade along the sea front. It is Venue also favoured by cash strapped “wegies” (Glaswegians) so he may well get to have a chat with Peter & Nicola over a pint or two Heavy with Bells chasers.
Any urgent communications should be addressed to:
Mr. N. Arkwright
c/o Gladys Verbissener’s Tower View Guest House, East Parade, Blackpool.
Northern power house; signs of the times etc.
I was reading in the Stretford and Wythenshaw Bugle yesterday, that Milkmen had started to leave note on doorsteps of favoured regulars, to the effect that. “I need to be paid in cash this week, thank you.”
Good one by Tucker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzpCKjl8OxQ
EC says @ April 14, 2023 at 9:27 am
You’re made Baron chuckle, EC, he needed it, he suffers from either kidney stones or it’s a slipped disk, bloody painful, hard to sleep from Tuesday, no painkiller helps, fugg the old age.
Baron – 1:17pm
A visitation from Mr. Kidney Stone / renal colic is the absolute worst.
Plenty of water and Naproxen twice daily. I hope it goes away very soon, Baron.
Baron,
If you have the need something to distract you today then here is “Bald and Bankrupt’s” latest YouTube travelogue in Venezuela. It’s a fascinating 55 mins
Nobody Visits This Country Anymore ( Find Out Why )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ijIo8X2_h4
It did actually change my perception of the place. The people are getting by despite the lack of imagination of their current leaders who still appear to more popular than their former overseers controlled by the special friends to the world. Reportedly, Caracas is now a lot safer than it used to be as all the criminals have gone north to the USA through the Democrats’ open borders to their ‘sanctuary cities.’ The locals are very happy about this!
Longish but fascinating, it explains the near sinking of Moskva, a boat not the city, how even clever faking cannot beat someone who knows his trade:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/moskva-sinking-anniversary-the-mystery?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
EC says @ April 14, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Many thanks, EC, doing exactly what you suggest.
Yes, entertaining as ever, the B&B story, the guy has a knack for telling one the stuff that says about the country more than any official guide ever can.
Over on the Spectator site Baron asked one eager contributor to the comments section why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine before 2014 when there were no Americans, No NATO training and equipping the Ukrainian Army, no plans to retake Donbas (Donbas and Crimea were still parts of Ukraine), the Ukrainian unwashed not yet poisoned with virulent anti-Russian PR. This is his answer:
“1. Moscow treated the new state of Ukraine as a satrap from its initiation in 1991 until the second Ukrainian popular revolution in 2014. The chosen path was not military but that of Belarus under the State Union Law, which preceded Putin’s prime ministership: political absorption. The problem was the people, too many of whom were too proud to be satisfied with that.
Between 2014 and 2022, Putin ran a local war inside the country; this being the the well-trodden Russian geopolitical path of “frozen conflict”. Obviously, it was intended to bring an exhausted population to accept that peace meant the “geopolitical realism and inevitability” of effective control from Moscow.
2. However, eight years is a long time, and other matters can weigh on political calculation even in a frozen scenario. I do think that the sheer pace of globalism’s development, along with the window of opportunity for BRICS, especially in the southern hemisphere, had emerged as the primary interest of Putin and his circle. We know from Sergey Lavrov’s latest remarks about Russian interests and the “new world order”, uttered I believe on 7th November, that Moscow simply cannot accommodate the West’s G20-based geo-economic dispensation – no doubt because Russia is economically weak, and the Russian elites will count for very little in the G20-based system. So Moscow cannot afford to give up on its centuries-long expectation of being a great military power and a natural ruler over an extensive empire.
Hence (a) modern eurasianism and (b) the imperial bloc model of “great spaces”, and hence the constant bad-mouthing of American unipolarity notwithstanding the fact that the American elites are trying to move away from it themselves (on their geo-economic terms, of course). The joke is that Moscow presents itself as the great champion of multipolarity and global “justice” while daily murdering Ukrainian civilians and striving after a system which would deliver its appallingly criminal and corrupt elites a share in what would rapidly become a Chinese unipolarity.”
The mesomorph penning not goes under the moniker of ‘guessedworker” believes he’s a genius, he said so himself.
Baron at 11:20 pm
Well at least it was a polite response, not at all the norm for the internet these days. The reply, however, was symptomatic of the polarised world we now live in.
from a closed mind. No real substance in that reply. Mainly opinion, any attempt at a conclusion drawn from an incomplete set of data and thus irrevocably flawed. Not worth spending your time on this one, Baron. To do so would take a complete review and comparison of Russia’s and USA’s behaviours since the end of WW2. A comparison in which would not show “our” “special friends” in a very good light. It was a question of “mote & beam” as far as the Soviet Union and the USA is concerned. Since after 1989, Gorbachev’s version of Glasnost and Perestroika, the CIA’s meddling in Russian affairs and the former Soviet republics went into overdrive. Their meddling in South and Central America, installation of despotic regimes, had to take second place. The post Soviet Russian recovery, imperfect though it was, was an anathema to them. As yet they’ve failed to buggrit up. Arrrgh, the thought of all those fossil fuels and precious metals being not within the control of the US elite!
I find it ironic that “The Republic” has now turned into the very thing that they sought to replace. The great unwashed having little or no education save indoctrination, a sham democracy with no meaningful representation ensured by a corrupt electoral system which would have been the envy of “Uncle Bob” Mugabe. Does the USA have the right to sit on that lofty perch of unearned moral superiority?
Good guys versus Bad Guys? Gimme a break!
Re: “guessedworker”
I’ve given up with the TCW Newsletter articles. There’s only one bloke on TCW worth reading and he writes about farming matters.
Too much lofty perch sitting. Too many self-satisfied, insufferably smug, middle aged, middle class, upper income contributors. The contributors spouting often divisive opinions invalidated, as usual, by straw man arguments, and if your lucky presentations of cherry picked, thus incomplete, data. Anything to do with covid vaccines seems to bring out the real nut jobs in the comments section. I swear that some commenters have insisted that people should be divided into “pure bloods” and “others.” Insisting that if they need a blood transfusion then only unvaccinated blood will do! Crazy people!
As one of the vaccine contaminated vermin, all I have to say to these people is “Fcuk You!” and “Untermenschen Uber Alles!”
e&oe
“Speaking about the truth can literally get you killed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob1be-QoYsI
“The Decline of the Dollar” and some other other matters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K4L9sq2FAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K4L9sq2FAQ
I had never heard of Gerald Celente before. He tells it like it is.
Food for thought…
George certainly has some interesting guests on his show.
Like the anodyne GB News and the highly censored and increasinly tedious TCW the CHW has stern competition. Bubble and squeak anyone?
https://youtu.be/cao-UjS_PoY
Noa – 10:30
That presenter in the lumberjack shirt with the disturbing facial fungus looks he should be on a “register” of offenders of one sort or another, but hopefully he’s just a good old fashioned serial killer come cannibal.
File under: pogonophobia
If the 1st Amendment goes in the Republic then it’s the end of free speech altogether:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5T1pVKfJ9M
Baron – 11:59am
The Republic has already fallen.
Noa at 10:20 am
I read somewhere that very few murders are committed after dinner, or post prandial as it were. Far easier to get one’s dander up on an empty stomach.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that one can be poisoned whilst at dinner, or by some involuntary overindulgence. I raise you one chicken pie, or is it poodle…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-AEmNLkbk
EC @ 3.09pm
I was struck by the resemblance of the Bubble and Squeak ‘perp’, as our yet speech unfettered US friends refer to their murderously inclined criminal community, to the retired “Furst minustaar”, ‘Angela’ Nikola Sturgeon, whose worries about poisoning must be the least of her concerns at the moment. Still, keeping food fresh in a caravan has always been a problem.
The bubble&squeek will never taste the same again, Noa, what an extraordinary real life story, Baron had to leave after the began watching it, a duty called, watched it again from the middle on after he got back, thought ‘how many other couples are facing an identical predicament, hopefully with a different ending’.
EC says @ April 21, 2023 at 9:59 am
Superb links, EC, thanks, the four girls tops them, the beauty and the brain combined, a rare combination, Baron had to subscribe.
This video is posted only because Baron would like you to see a minute of it starting @ 1.22min, it’s an Ukrainian map showing the Russian progress at Bachmut in the last six months, that’s it, you need no explanation od what the map is showing.
The whole video is about Zelensky’s mistake insisting the Ukrainian forces fight to the last men in the town, not a smart decision, a heavy losses of assets and mainly the manpower that could have been utilised in other places, nothing else is new in the video, perhaps only that NATO and the Americans have been advising him to tactically withdraw already in September, apparently he kept the advice of the Americans secret even from the commanders in Bachmut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06VPIRhLFk
Baron,
“Down Your Way” in Essex, M’lud.
This episode, not with Brian Johnstone but this time with actor Bill Murray. Relating an incident that happened involving his actress daughter, Jaime, and her children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=napI6z0w9Bw
So much wickedness in the world. The Plod “have nothing to go on”(*) so as far as they are concerned, it never happened, case closed. Presumably the migrants have stolen all the porcelain from their local nick.
Which phylum of recently arrived (?) migrants favours abduction of children, I wonder?
@10:09 am
Correction: “Billy” Murray, and not “Bill Murray” who is ‘merikan and not a cockney.
One of the latest in the Spectator, the postings are close to 100% against the female, Baron’s own musing is below:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/london-marathon-cancer-danielle-epstein/
She should have suffocated him before departing for Thailand, that would have made her feel the same as leaving him, but unarguably he would not have suffered any more pain, dead people don’t.
This case exemplifies what’s becoming of us, it’s the extreme of nihilistic narcissism of every one of us, separate from every other one, everything in pursuit of happiness regardless of anyone else. It may well be so written in the unknown laws of the universe’s organic matter, of which we are one, that when a species diverts too much from its prescribed behaviour a disaster of biblical proportions puts in its correcting hand, things return to normality, the same may occur to us and soon.
EC says April 22, 2023 at 10:09 am
Awful, EC, would the police’s response be the same had the couple be Muslims and the van’s occupants white?
The government should be taken to task for letting the criminals in, but unfortunately under the FPTP it will never happen because the same people that opened the borders will still be there.
The police’s behaviour also shocks, they do nothing until an actual case happens then hundreds of them gather, cannot do much without the help of the public, the top layer of its management bleats about ‘learning’ from it, awful.
“Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’’
Henry V
Baron at 9:19 am
Well said.
I really try not to give them the time of day [i.e. unscrupulous Grub St scribblers] but the article’s author belongs to that ghastly coven of “wimmin” who followed in the wake of Dr G. Greer. They are, imo, third very pale imitations of the Aussie original who was at least intellectual brainbox even if she didn’t always get it right.
I don’t understand why the female featured in the Spectoid article wants her private life publicised in such a way. An unconscious desire to be “tarred and feathered” in public. A form of redemptive cleansing, seeking the approval of the herd charging toward the cliff edge, maybe…
Ironic that Dr. Greer eventually fell foul of the Trans-fascist mob for defending womanhood, and women’s rights.
R.I.P. Barry Humphries.
Another Aussie original. Thanks for all the entertainment and laughs.
This year delivers the 40th anniversary of the pound coin which has devalued by 70% since 1983, or so one’s told, one could buy a pack of cigarettes for over a pound then, Baron’s Peter Stuyvesant were costing marginally more, today the average pack is some £14.
In one of the jobs Baron had gone through in his working life the company chief economist came with an idea to buy cigarettes to beat inflation, he kept telling everyone ‘fill up the boot of your car with cigarettes, you won’t regret it, you will sell them at high profit next century’. Everyone laughed at the eccentricity of the suggestion, but he was right except that the tobacco forty years since would have been good for anything but smoking.
Another useless fact amongst the gamut of such things is that on average each person in Britain drinks two cups of tea a day, each costing 5p to make in a 3kW kettle that we all have, should one switch to a 1.7kW kettle the savings would be annually £14.45, roughly a third of the lower powered kettle’s price, one would therefore be better off financially only from the fourth year of the acquiring of the new brewing contraption.
Considering that Baron cannot be certain he will still be around in 2026, he decided against the purchase of a new kettle of the planet saving variety, hopes nobody reports him to the authorities charged with looking after the environment.
EC says @ April 23, 2023 at 9:54 am
Not much about Saint George in the MSM, EC, one wonders why?
And a Happy St Stephen Lawrence day to all supporters of “If at first you don’t succeed try and try again.”
Coincidence, do ye think, that it’s ‘celebrated’ on St George’s Day, or just another example of enemy action?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/22/the-exploitation-of-stephen-lawrence/?utm_source=spiked+long-reads&utm_campaign=93b819da41-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_23_10_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-93b819da41-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Noa says April 23, 2023 at 12:26 pm
A superbly well written piece, Noa, the one omission is he doesn’t even mention the BLM movement, hopefully the pinnacle of the ‘we’re the victims’ industry.
It may be cruel and immoral and totally out of vogue perhaps even chargeable as an offence to say it, but if anyone believes this society is institutionally racist he or she should relocate to one that isn’t. It has always puzzled the blue veined barbarian why people are so eager to come and live in a society they reckon is racially biased against them.
Baron
Re the tumour dumper female. From what I can gather this was, like many others, a relationship, (dreadful term)without commitment. With ‘no for better or worse in sickness and in health, till death do us part.” Does he know? Does he have any family who do? No commitment, entitlement or moral responsibility here, but interestingly, seemingly a lingering ethical one. Is it ’cause she’s Jewish and hence has some near archaeological sense of Judeo-Christian guilt? There but for the grace of Jaweh go I. Reading between the lines it seemed a mutually terminable ‘friends with benefits’ affair, anyway. The reasons for such termination to be unilaterally declared by either party, though the idea of a marathon run may be fairly innovative.
Has she been writing to Bel Mooney for advice on her feelings?
As to the substance abusing tripehound Burchill, any feller on whom she walked out could and should count himself a very lucky man…
Baron
The re-writers of bleck hisstory, David Olusoga and the Bridgerton scriptwriters clearly prove that Black people of various hues have been in Britain as long,as the Whites, And very probably much longer.
Interestingly I suspect that the likes of Mr Olusoga, of mixed race, would have emphasised his white parentage and antecedents 40 years ago. Nowadays, like many others, the greater advantages are to be gained by emphasising his African ‘heritage’. Whatever that might be.
I am left with lingering suspicion that such people, between tribes, actually feel they are part of neither and that their ersatz claims for membership of a community of blackness are ultimately based on a sense of and fear of White rejection.
Initially I thought this was a resurrected piece from 1st April.
Apparantly not, but least one Socialist Town Council in the North will be delighting the little Gove cove by taking its “leveling up”, equality and diversity responsibilities seriously.
Blackpool Zoo recruits human ‘seagull deterrents’ to wear bird outfits https://mol.im/a/12004005 via https://dailym.ai/android
Noa,
Re ” a relationship, (dreadful term)without commitment.”
Isn’t that what they call “just friends but with benefits” these days?
Baron
In the early 90s I used to indulge a 60 to 100 a day habit, smoking Benson abd Hedges, before switching to Marlboro Lights, for the princely sum of 20 Saudi Riyals (about £.30p) for 200.
In a curious, counter intuitive inversion of common sense and logic ten litres of water cost 20 riyals
Filling my car with 50 plus litres of petrol cost between 10 and 15 Riyals.
‘Arise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number,
Shake off the chains like dew,
Which in sleep had fallen upon you,
Ye are many, they are few’.
Written by Shelley to commemorate the Peterloo Massacre.
HT to Blazeaway.
Noa at 12:26 pm
Ok, I’ve had time to read the Spiked article now. It was, as Baron said, superb.
Not only were the “masses” demonised, the Met Police were effectively castrated and replaced by people who now turn tail and flee before any demonstrators except indigenous Brits protesting against immigration, grooming gangs, rapefugee hostels etc. Be in the latter category and you are liable to get brutalised.
The MSM never point out the the vast majority of murders committed by scrotes with guns and knives are BAME on BAME. Of course it’s Ra-a-a-a-cist to point that out.
@2pm. Sorry, I didn’t notice the FWB reference in your earlier comment.
Noa at 4.18pm.
Apologies, the 20 Riyal price of 200 B&H equalled @£3.30, not 0.30p. So, ten 20 packs of B&H cost about £10 then and about £140 now! Outrageous!
EC @ 6.38pm
The same intolerant international elite seeks to impose a multicultural autocracy across the Western world. Let us hope they are defeated.
You don’t like the guy, but he says what Baron was saying well before the invasion of Ukraine, cut yourself off from the cheap and reliable Russian gas, and you, Germany or the EU, are a toast, and a toast they are together with France, the Americans are now in control of Europe’s energy supply, if the EU continues to displease them, they will squeeze the balls and Europe will fall into the fold again, just wait and see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI6FAD-I8pg
Noa:
you should stop it, all those prices feel the past was the bright future of aplenty everyone could afford, that we are going to be denied now, arghhh
Whatever you do, try not to mis reading this:
https://unherd.com/2023/04/americas-empire-is-bankrupt/
Baron at 10:25 pm
That’s nowt, lad! In the late 60s I can distinctly remember buying 4 gallons of five star petrol to put in my father’s car, all for for a ‘Ten Bob’ note. That’s 12½ ‘new pence’ per gallon, or 2sh6d (Half a Crown) in old money. We lived in rural area at that time , too.
It was a two litre Triumph saloon. It was very decent of him to let me, still a teenager, drive it. It gave me a form of personal freedom that the eco-mentalists want to deny us all now.
Baron says at 10:23 pm
Cyrus Jansen is one of the better, more based, China vloggers. True, I did have concerns about psychological state of mind and the motives of follically challenged “Nathan Rich.” As for the other two I used to listen to, since “escaping” from China I suspect that they are less independent and funded by a well known US agency… because it’s virtually impossible to make an ongoing living, support a wife and family, in the US on YouTube earnings alone.
Well, that went well…
Yesterday’s government “emergency alert” exercise turned out to be a monumental clusterfuck. More supporting evidence that the clowns in our government and civil service couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.
EC at 9.47am
We now have a prim political class of neo puritanical busybodies who occupy themselves by telling the neuvou peasant classes they are creating how to adjust to the (our) poverty they are busily creating for us.
At bottom, if we do no create anything, we have nothing else the world wants, so why should they continue to give us their oil and cheap plastic tat for nothing whilst our elite makes it mpossibke and unaffordable for us to produce our own? This is, in essence, what the guy in Barons article at 9.19am is saying, and what we’ve been writing here for years.
Josep Borrell: “Taiwan is already part of the EU”
Eva Wanda Lying: “Das stimmt!”
Baron at 9:19 am, Noa.
That article was a great summary, with stunning clarity, of how we arrived where we are today. The USA may collapse more rapidly than the author expects because the mushrooming tax burden is unsustainable. There are too few taxpayers! Result could either be Sovietisation, Civll War or both.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for those with wealth in the US to relocate even to a different state, let alone anywhere abroad. California has introduced retroactive taxes, and laws to pursue those that have fled to Texas or wherever they may be. Those that relocate abroad can still be subject to US federal taxes on ALL earnings, have to fill in an annual IRS return, unless they renounce their citizenship. The State Department is charging ever greater fees, making it ever more difficult and bureaucratic to renounce.
Baron at 9:19 am, Noa.
What the guy wrote about AI and the diminishing prospects for employment in office and IT related fields is true! A former work colleague of mine has been trying out this AI software called “Chatbot GPT” or something like that.
In plain English he defined and asked it to code a small subroutine in the fairly arcane (these days) programming language that we used way back when. The results it produced, syntax and function, were perfect. Spooky, eh!
Lies, half-truths and deceptions as the basis for policymaking in the A American Republic, also to influence the out come of the last Presidential election – why doesn’t the DoJ take these culprits to court?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXy-yKHD4Ys
EC @ 11.22am
We’re all redundant now, EC, I no longer need to dip my quill pen in the squids ink pen in order to churnvout drivel, even the Albanian gangsta with literary pretentious on whom I rest my slippered feet whilst dictating my more bellicose diatribes will shortly be shipping back to the Ganja plantations of old Tirana.
Despite all this “good news” about robots replacing humans it won’t affect the biblical flood of channel rodents in the slightest, other than to increase it as they seek to secure a lifetime benefits income for all relatives, past, present and future. So Mr Thomas and I must agree to disagree on the benefits of Chatbox 999 or whatever its called.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ai-immigration-employment-jobs/
How many German, or British, Grenadiers is Taiwan, or Australia, worth?
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9222
It’s not that long ago that Taiwan was a one party state.
Shouldn’t the Taiwanese decide what’s best for themselves, not the Americans.
Looking at the ruination of Ukraine, reminiscent of what was left of German cities in 1945, isn’t it about time the EU stopped meddling in international affairs. Someone please hand Ursula the ceremonial Walther.
The policies of individual Australian States Governments seem to be at odds with the Australian Federal Government with regard to China. Many of the former wanting peaceful trading relations with China creating investment and much needed employment opportunities.
Duodenal Ulster & Demongraphics:
Do any CHWsters know what the current headcount of Prods vs Cats is in the province? Also, what their respective breeding rates are? Assuming the latter are still outbreeding the former, would it ever come to the point where a referendum would see the majority want reunification with the Irish republic? I wonder if what a similar referendum held in the current Irish republic would reveal?
Many a true word said in jest:
https://babylonbee.com/news/fox-news-fires-the-only-reason-people-watch-fox-news
Tucker, speaking from “the other side” of cancellation.
Two minutes, in which he said some very interesting things.
I don’t think that “they” will get rid of him that easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQskaaYEfQ
I do enjoy George Galloway’s acerbic “openers” to his Wednesday and Sunday talk shows.
This one with some hilarious footage of Rashid “Kim Jong” Sunook’s motorcade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At51c6ZsG0Q
I wonder not what the Blogfather would’ve made of this!
EC @ 9.43am
Ah Northern Ireland! Having experienced ethnic cleansing at first hand it is now a land breathlessly awaiting further diversity and cultural enrichment under the benign socialsm of Seinn Fein and the IRA!
https://populationdata.org.uk/northern-ireland-population/#:~:text=The%20population%20of%20Northern%20Ireland,since%20the%20previous%202011%20census.
How long will it be before our own Simon Webb, the Tucker Carlson of Old Essex, goes the way of Richard Vobes?
Here’s one of his more impish critiques, in this case of dat dem BBC.
https://youtu.be/OBlWTCXk_ro
Lego Men at work:
Was the New Hacketts Hotel some sort of hostel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XLZ36Vulrg
This is supposed to be a “conservation” area?
Conservation of WHAT, exactly?
Noa at 9:21 am
Thanks for the info.
Pake stale white males try to correct lies.
https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/?mc_cid=21d675646e&mc_eid=e575828454
“A horse and a Tesla car in a lockup in Rutherglen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEw-yw8RSrA
Mmm, Nicola’s quiche recipe sounds quite delightful!
The Dimple dissects pwetention in the Arts with a scalpel.
https://www.takimag.com/article/oh-the-humanities/
Noa at 12:52 pm
Many thanks! A superb piece by Theodora citing the sort of weapons grade BS symptomatic of the civilisational slide. It sounds like art historians are keep their heads in the same place as the French postmodernist philosophers and their disciples kept theirs.
I remember upon first hearing the word “humanities” back in 1970 thinking how pretentious that word sounded – coming as it did out of the mouth of my Physics tutor. I also remember some wag had written “BAs, Please take one” above the bog roll holder in the Students Union building at the redbrick that I attended.
I noted that during the last century, and much of this one before I gave up caring, all the BBC & Newspaper “science correspondents” were all arts graduates. Explains why the global warming cult took off amongst the credulous.
It was just a few years later that I discovered a handy little phrase to stop people spouting pretentious bollocks at dinner parties, “Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!”
29–04-2019: To absent friends…
Sadly a growing army year upon year, but at least they are spared from witnessing the further cratering implosion of the country we were brought up in.
We used to joke, bitter humour, about the diminishing stature (height & IQ) and expanding waistlines of the Met’s finest, but who would have thought that it would have come to this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_c2P1J4wQ
Clown world: Both Sunak and Khan are “nipple height” (© Katie Hopkins) Toytown politicians who demand “big boy” motorcades. Who TF do they think they are?
Is the ‘Peoples oath of allegiance’ to the neo malthusian KC3, (cue the sound if a million panlids banging), really an oath of allegiance to the WEF, the WHO, the NHS, SAGE and the mates rates HoL and HOC?
And why did KC not choose to reconquer St Mary’s Day from the Socialists for the Coronation, rather than adding an additional unnecessary ‘holiday’ to a bankrupt country?
EC
Excellent!
I enjoyed the Mets idiotic procession of cyclists. Many thanks for reminding me why I don’t watch tge diminished status of Britain through the lense of the media!
I see that a Vinnie Jones lookalike and his goblin are practicing sodomy at the rough end of the trench in preparation for the Eurovision song contest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-65418618
On Mary’s Day let us consider the alternatives offered to civilisation by Islam.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/04/pakistan-parents-padlock-graves-of-deceased-daughters-to-prevent-necrophilia
Noa, April 30, 2023 at 9:11 pm
Upon reading that my first thought was that I didn’t realise that Mr Vincent Jones and Mr Graham Norton were an “item.” It was but a moment later I saw when I saw the word “lookalike.”
File under: SpecSavers (strikes again);
Patrick Fitzwilliam, William Fitzpatrick etc.
Now then, chaps. I hope you’ve all got your Justina Welby crib cards ready for Saturday…
“I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.’
Noa says @ April 30, 2023 at 9:11 pm
A very powerful message from the four of the gay phylum, Noa, if anything this must put the frighteners into the Russian forces.
Noa says @ May 1, 2023 at 4:14 pm
The narrative put Baron off his lunch, Noa, you should warn us before posting such morsels from the religion of peace.
EC says @ April 29, 2023 at 9:31 am
What was it all about, EC, the cycling, the running, the motorcade of expensive vehicles? As James remarks it was redolent of the days of the Bolshevik empire of the East sans the cycling, has Britain finally adopted what the Red Menace regimes displayed to the amazement of the old free West?
Noa says @ April 28, 2023 at 12:52 pm
Superb, Noa, the guy should be getting a wider exposure.
Many many years ago Craig Brown published in the Diary section of the Spectator a piece on Sir Nicholas Serota ‘As told to Craig Brown’, in Baron’s humble view the best slicing of what modern art is all about, here is abit of it:
“Frankly, I welcome the bravura debate engendered by so many of our most exciting artists. It is by turns shocking, amusing, wry and deeply disturbing. And this is just one of the reasons I am looking to next year’s My Turd exhibition by Tracey Emin.
Emin laid her Turd in the mid-morning – 10.45am to be exact – of November 22 this year. I count myself privileged to have been there when the work – rich, earthly dark browns and beiges, soft and yielding yet somehow strangely visceral and concentrated – emerged from the artist. The whole experience was, for me – perhaps even more so for Tracey – intensely moving.
The moment I saw it I knew that this was something that had come from the very depth of her being, something raw and pungent, juxtaposing the old and the new, the roughage with the smooth, bold and real yet with infinite layers.
My Turd has a lot to say about birth and death, a lot to say about the nature of self, a lot to say about the whole process of defecation and renewal in contemporary society, and it has a hell of a lot to say about art itself. It is almost as if, in some extraordinary way, the artist were asking us to confront the very nature of what we call “shit”.
What is it? Where is it? And who will buy it? For, studied closely, the gentle almost classical contours of My Turd seem to echo the the gentle curves of Poussin and Boucher, its deep dark browns and blacks gaining strength from comparison to the rich earthly colours of Rembrandt and Goya. While firmly perched on the cutting edge of contemporary art, My Turd has its roots firmly buried in the past.”
EC says: May 2, 2023 at 11:30 am
You know what EC?
This oath to KC and the Sunshine band causes me genuine inner conflict. The Fenian part of me cries out to say “Never to a Protestant German whose government will appoint a Hindoo as dict..PM but constitutionally is unable to appoint Catholic.
On the other hand my patriotic English half says “What? Swear allegiance to a collection of immoral, greedy, treacherous, congenital woke idiots? I’d rather attend a party at the Banqueting House!”
EC says @ April 28, 2023 at 8:47 am
it’s not taking the mickey, EC, it must be for real, very clever that.
Baron
Thank you for sharing Craig Brown’s satirical (I think) piece on the artist known as Tracey Emin, so redolent of the “Flatulence and Formaldehyde Period” of creative art in the Blair era.
Laugh? I nearly made an Arts Council Grant application for my Diane Abbott “Burn Whitey Burn!” Dance Collective!
Baron 1:12 pm
The image that Craig Brown conjured up of Ms Emin “throttling one” in a public place was priceless. Nobody would bat and eyelid today, however, as such works of art are now as commonplace in our diverse towns and cities as they are in amongst the homeless camps in USA cities run by the “Democraps.”
Noa, if you do make an application then also citing Bonnie Greer OBE might double your chances of success!
https://letterboxd.com/gdw/film/white-men-are-cracking-up/
Noa says @ May 2, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Good luck with the Dance Collective, Noa.
EC says @ May 2, 2023 at 4:27 pm
Amazing creation the film, EC, Baron watched it twice, totally mesmerised, the only fault with it was the girl was most of the time almost fully dressed.
From the Spectator on the May 6 jamboree penned by Melanie McDonagh:
“There’s been an interesting discussion about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s addition to the coronation service, but has anyone actually tried to parse it?
It goes as follows: ‘Your Majesty, the Church established by law, whose settlement you will swear to maintain, is committed to the true profession of the Gospel, and, in so doing, will seek to foster an environment in which people of all faiths and beliefs may live freely. The coronation oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law. Are you willing to take the oath?’ The King: ‘I am willing.’
And Baron’s ha’penny posting (not original, one must admit)
A 21st century hullabaloo about a schismatic mutation concocted on the scrotum of a deranged monarch four centuries ago? Please, do get real.
Baron at 1:05 pm
Aye well, women and men have been have been the downfall of each since Adam and Eve, irrespective of skin colour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith
I am sure we all applaud John Collier’s efforts here, fetishising two things in a single painting.
Baron at 1:11 pm
Was that on or in a nutshell?
Less would be more from the watery Welby…
“Gandalf The White” (ahem) did a much better job crowning Aragorn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4Q_aA4QiQ
A nice touch of humility by Aragorn at the end there, that probably wouldn’t enter the head of Saturday’s celebrant.
I’ve just installed the latest software update on my iPhone. [ IOS 16.4.1 plus (a) ]
Upon logging back in with my Pin, as is usual after an update, the gadget asked me, “Do you want to install Face Id with a Mask?” (as an addition to my normally gruesome visage)
I thought that masks had been totally discredited, and had been consigned to the dustbin of history? This leads me to wonder what the buggers have got planned after all the “Gawd Bless ‘im / ’em” celebrations this weekend.
Watch this space…
Dat Bish Welby, he dem gett some thinks from de trad cultures elsewhere for crowning de Chief.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cgrgyd3p78ko
Before you go to bed tonight spare a thought for the poor buggers who will have to get up at 4am in order to administer enemas to the coronation procession horses at 6am to ensure that they don’t poop on their majesties’ parade.
EC says @ May 5, 2023 at 12:04 pm
Are you certain, EC, it will be only the horses that will get the pleasant treatment?
EC says @ May 3, 2023 at 5:49 pm
It may be just Baron, EC, by the newly crowned King has the charisma of a box of sardine, if someone like Sean Connery said the same words, blood would freeze in the veins of those listening to him, they don’t breed them like that anymore.
Noa says @ May 4, 2023 at 5:43 pm
It cannot be long before we all have to speak like dis, Noa, Baron’s already half way to such an efficient way of expressing his shallow thoughts, here’s one.
On the two drones over Kremlin: Baron reckons it was for real, it wasn’t a false flag op because if it were the latter they would have destroyed the two contraptions just before they got to the target, but well before to show the 3-5 line of defences around Moscow work, destroying them just before the drones hit is quite embarrassing, humiliating, suggesting the defences are porous, nobody would design a false flag op to result in humiliation of the designing party.
Can you put forward a counterargument? Baron’s ready to buy it.
EC
As the vetinary surgeon said to the coach driver:
“…This is no day to be making new enemas…”.
Baron @11.33pm
Your hypothesis is logical milud. We know that drone attacks are extremely difficult to defend against and expensive.
The days of submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles turning left or right above Baghdad’s main streets, before attacking their targets in pursuit of Fukiyama’s ‘End of History’ now seems dantastical and quaint, when you average soldier is as likely to attach a grenade to a toy drone acquired (looted?) from the local equivalent of ‘Toys are’us’.
Baron @10.58pm
We may surmise dat de Chief’s Master of de Royal stool, he be biden his tiny before he applies de horse medicines to de Royal bowels.
Greetings from Lancasterstan where the amplified wail of the muezzin echoes five times daily down the Lune and across the mudflats.
I trust that the royal horses performed (or rather didn’t) faultlessly today.
Reportedly there’s been a new brother installed in Buck House today. He’s just ordered a dome and a couple of minarets for it, and a full set of minarets for Westminster Abbey which will now be renamed The Grand Central Mosque.
Baron,
WTF is going on with Wagner and Bakhmut? I was wondering why it was taking a neverendingly long time to overrun it.
Yesterday a very angry Wagner boss appeared on my Interocitor(TM) screen complaining about the lack of ammunition, calling the Russian military and Putin all sorts of bad names, and saying he’s going to pull his men out on “Victory Day.” That might be a PR disaster that Vlad might well not recover from!
Was I imagining it? Was it all smoke and mirrors? Whaddya reckon!
EC says @ May 6, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Hard to say whether Prihgozhin’s tantrum was a maskirovka or a genuine cry for more ammo, EC, the opinion on the blogging circuit both in the West and in Russia is divided, more lean towards the former. Baron towards the latter.
The musicians are well liked in Russia, have no trouble recruiting, the officer class of the Russian regular army is obviously envious of it, as Baron pointed out before there aren’t many regulars doing the fighting in Ukraine, they are being kept back for the real performance, Ukraine is just a matinee, the same may apply to the shortage of ammo for the Wagnerians, all stocked up safely for the main performance, either the expected contra offensive by the Ukrainians only, or the big one Putin hopes to get, facing NATO’s might in its full glory.
He doesn’t have to win the confrontation, neither adversary can win it, all he has to show is that NATO, or rather the Americans, cannot break Russia up or even subjugate her.
Today, Progozhin sent a letter, a polite one, to Shogun asking him for the permission to transfer the fighting duties in Bachmut to the Kadyrov’s Chechens on the 10th of May, Shoigu hasn’t replied yet.
Do you recall the hullabaloo few days ago engendered by the diplomat of China saying Ukraine has no defined borders? the ruckus has died out now, but here’s something that may explain why he said it (no need to read the piece, listen to the clip):
https://politikus.info/video/151558-v-angloyazychnom-telegrame-rashoditsya-video-s-obyasneniyami-poslednih-sobytiy.html
What do you make of it?
Is there any other tribe that can stage something if not identical then at least similar to the spectacle of today? Baron doubts it, Britain ranks no1 in this market, the number 2 would be (what) 15 miles down the list?
Yes, yes, yes, Baron knows it’s not your cup of Tetley, but you cannot but admit the ceremony was splendidly performed, the actors behaved, as did the horses, one could drown in the pomp and glitter easily, even though the logistics must have been a nightmare.
Baron at 12:10am
Sadly, that’s all we do seem to be capable of these days.
This one is for Noa, too.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-65508187
Baron @ 11:52pm
I think it was a real display too. Unlike Z and his commanders, he seems to take personally the casualties that his men are taking. Probably because it’s a small close knit orchestra and he has known many of them for a while.
Btw. “Maskirovka” Thanks for the new word, newly coined or not.
EC says @ May 7, 2023 at 10:46 am
Rolling down below the first piece, EC, the variety of pictures delights mostly for the bizarreness of some of the guests (say) the mass of a man cladded in the Scottish attire, arghhh
Btw, you may know the details of the story (if it’s true), but allegedly after the Queen’s bash in 1953 in one of the coaches leaving the Abbey was a 6.4 tall female well over 200 lbs paired with a very short undernourished male, both from the African neck of the woods, someone asked ‘who’s he?’ to which Noel Coward passing the coach said “her lunch’, the Queen (again allegedly) burst into a hearty laugh.
Baron @ 11:28
I can almost hear the clipped delivery of NC saying that. 🙂 You will also, no doubt, remember the apocryphal tale of QE2 riding in an open carriage with the president of some African nation on a state visit? One of the horses had a very audible episode of flatulence. The Queen apologised for the noise and the chap replied, “To tell you de truth, your majesty I thought it was de horse.”
And now back to the real world, where Taki laughs because he doesn’t want to cry.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-240/
EC the story is told of Queen Salote Taupou 111 of Tonga.
Sic Transit Gloria Swanton as dem wags say.
Noa says @ May 7, 2023 at 2:43 pm
“He (Joshua Kelley, stage name “Harpy Daniel) will now be the public face of the Navy in posters, TV ads, and online spots intended to let gender-benders know that if you like a mess deck covered in seamen, if you want all hands on your aft end, if “bulkhead” describes your perfect Friday night, if you dream of getting scuttlebutt from a sideboy, the U.S. Navy’s for you!”
Priceless, Noa.
Of passing interest…
https://constitution-unit.com/2023/05/04/church-and-state-in-european-monarchies/
Noa says @ May 8, 2023 at 11:24 am
Short but informative summing up of the dying breed of rulers, Noa, that’s the sort of stuff Baron devours, it furnishes the foundation of one’s argument, one can check one’s take on the issue against it, thanks for posting it.
The one omission in the write-up is Russia and the other mid European countries e.g Bulgaria, but then it’s penned by an Anglo-Saxon for whom these tribes are, unofficially of course in the proclaimed environment of equality, untermensch.
Noa at 11:24 am
“Comments are closed”
LOL
Baron at 11:55 am
To assuage your disappointment, and personal slight that you might have felt, in the sins of omission in Cranmer’s article then here’s Mark Steyn with a photograph of a gathering of the clans, so to speak, in 1910. NB. with added Bulgar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7RulEJ3tQ
EC says @ May 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Kind of you to dig it out, EC, how things change in just few generations, amazing.
Here’s something different, Bill Maher chatting with Russell, both indulging in cigars, how decadent can one still be today, during the chat Bill says on NATO ‘the alliance should have been disbanded, it’s arch enemy was no longer there, no reason for it anymore’, or words to that effect then he adds ‘it was a mistake to keep it going’.
Que?
It was as much a mistake as was Adolf’s Barbarossa, or the dropping of the two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the organising of the Kiev’s 2014 putsch then cultivating Ukraine as the ramming tool to balkanise Russia once and for all.
You reckon he’s genuinely that dim, or is he careful, does know it wasn’t a mistake but will not cross the red line admitting it?
https://youtu.be/kKg7vzl32KY
Happy “Victory Day” anybody?
Baron,
Has Vladimir Vladimirovich lost control of his military? Did he ever have any control of it?
The fat Generals in Moscow eating Belugar Caviar, sipping Dom Perignon and calling out the Musicians, who have done all their heavy lifting recently, as traitors?
Has he been too weak? Will he survive?
Noa,
icymi, George (like me) is not fan of Calvin Robertson(sic) either! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5q0JGWcp0
As a child I used have a collection of the Robinson badges, but I don’t recall the “smug, vain, up himself, vapid Vicar one?”
Ye Gods!
I’ve just seen Richard Tice introducing Reform UK’s London Mayoral Candidate.
I don’t know what other bypasses he’s had, but Mr Mogadon has certainly had the charisma one. More life in a deceased tramp’s vest!
EC
Perhaps we need to seek Mogadon party candidates for future elections from the more reliable sources, which released onto the streets by Enoch “Dark Towers” Powell and Heath now provide our most adhesive road stickers m, royals and the majority of our Parliamentarians.
https://www.takimag.com/article/gaslighting-ourselves/
Whoever wins their ‘election’ we should not expect any change in the resurgent Ottoman empire’s foreign policy.
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9234
EC
Even a partial convergence of political views with rabid iconoclasts like Geoge and Russell Brand makes me wonder whether I should be reaching for my revolver (Goring), or for the lithium (Enoch).
On balance though I’d prefer a clergyman holding the views of Calvin to the ex roughneck and God huckster Welby as the head of the aethiestic Church of England, though I freely admit, being of recusant extraction, to having no dog in this particular hunt.
Baron
I for one am rather grateful that victory over Japan resulted from the atomic weapons deployed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Japanese had planned to murder all Allied PoWs in the event of what would undoubtedly have been the very bloody invasion of its mainland.
As my father, then hauling coal in Keiko (now Seoul) would have been one of them I owe my grumbling, curmudgeonly existence directly to the success of the Atomic project.
Noa at 2:07 pm
I cannot abide the BS artist turned hair brained clergyman.
Recusant? I thought that the priests never give up on you?
The Lithium would hurt less, but myself…
I’d go for the opioids, finishing off with a Dr. Shipman’s
NB. The fabled firearm wasn’t a pistol but a Browning 1911, a semi automatic pistol designed by the eponymous John Moses Browning (no relation to Elizabeth Barrett B)
Interesting chap: A yankee that found life better in Belgium! [better cuisine anyway] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning
Aaargh! “fable firearm wasn’t a revolver”
Nurse, N-U-R-S-E ! The curtains…
PS. Thanks for the Taki Enoch Towers article.
I can think of two such former establishments. One actually called “The Towers” in Leicester, the other is Mapperley Lunatic Asylum in Nottingham.
EC
Here’s a new variant to add to the various misattributions.
“When I hear the word religion I reach for a dog collar”.
That should cover both of them.
On asylumss, I remember the asylum outside Lincoln, now a bijou housing conversion, had retained its water tower.
Noa at 8:10 pm
Well, I’ll be Doggone, as will Weebly and the giant hairball eventually.
In Westminster we have the oldest asylum in the world, full of the insane and criminally minded.
I will away on missionary work in darkest Yorkshire for a few days.
Accordingly communications may cease temporarily due to the loss of electrical power, as Trudeau embargoes the supply of wood pellets to Drax, or the perennial shortage of cleft sticks in the place.
‘merrukan exceptionalism:
Don’t worry chaps, the world is in safe hands…
1964 Vale, S.D. Minuteman Missile Accident & other “Broken Arrows”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0EPilC9Bv8
Terrifying
AND There’s more…
“The best of Broken Arrows”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJyf_M611cw
Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” was no exaggeration!
Noa says @ May 10, 2023 at 2:19 pm
And so you should be, Noa, it was cruel but less cruel than what the Japanese did to other countries, China in particular.
It was a courageous decision by Harry Truman, he never regretted it, in Baron’s view the best President after WW2, a great man.
EC says @ May 12, 2023 at 10:56 am
The soiled underwear sticks in one’s mind, EC, a nice story, but too late to be worried about.
EC says @ May 12, 2023 at 11:22 am
It will be hard for Baron to sleep well tonight, EC, he’s certain that incidents like the one described in the link happen today as well, but only the child of a child of a grandson of Baron will be told about it, it’s not only a waste of money it’s also a bloody dangerous stuff that should be scrapped, Baron knows of a number of potholes need urgent repairing.
Noa: May 12, 2023 at 8:05 am
“I will away on missionary work in darkest Yorkshire for a few days.”
If it is really an intelligence gathering mission then you might be away for a while.
One hopes that you took the precaution of growing a full beard and donning the correct attire before you ventured across the Khyber Pass into the dales.
Be mindful of what befell Terry “Runcible” Waite, Brother Noa…
Baron : May 14, 2023 at 12:15 am
It’s difficult to take anything seriously ever again after seeing/reading about stuff like that.
Earlier, I was trawling the vaults on another matter and happened upon this quote from 1997:
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption… Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush — sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes… It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their ‘betters’ were derelict.”
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, 1997
Thanks to another 25 years of societal rot I fear that his assertion about the “ordinary citizens” no longer pertains, neither over here nor over there.
Another:
“In modern times, the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”
Francis Schaeffer
Toodle Pip!
Are you now, or have you ever been, tetri-sexual?
It seemed a valid question as I wondered the streets of Sheffield in search of a safe space, without green and blue haired people, in the sort of expesive clothing once sentvto Africa rather than imporred from it, whilst embracing political views of breathtaking inanity. https://www.takimag.com/article/another-brick-in-the-hole-tetris-sexuals/
Baron @ 08.54pm
I (mis?) recollect that the real ‘Fat Boy’, Curtis le May, managed to kill half a million in the bombing raid and subsequent firestorm on old wooden Tokyo. Other conurbations got similar treatment.
Fortunately they kept back a couple of cities for the culmination of the Manhatten programme, in order to ensure the safe return of my Dad.
EC
I’m afraid wearing a thobe and gutterah is considered a bit lower caste by the newly politicised moslem wokerati that now increasingly dominate our institutions. These boys like their suiting from Saville Row rather than the camel souk, even as their cars come from BMW and Mercedes, at our cost of course.
The “Critical Drinker’s” review of the new “Queen Cleopatra: docudrama-fillum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nie_LASiZJ0
It sounds like yet another humungous Netflix/Amazon/Hollywood sphincter buster to me
This is why I only watch old fillums, preferably in black and white.
“Britain today; a Punjabi-speaking woman is arrested for racially abusing a Polish police officer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIJk2kyVRI
Simon makes a good point, perhaps PC Kojak should retrain as an aromatherapist.. [LOL]
… as did the fragrant Ms Sahi, imo.
Dear Simon seems to be as clueless as was the clown that runs the Labour party, in a long interview on the BBC Radio4 at 17: hours when asked about immigration he said, amongst other perils of the bleeding obvious that ‘companies are screaming for the people with the right qualifications and skills, the country needs to import them before our bog standard comprehensives furnish the new generation of the well educated locals’, this is not gold plated bollocks, it’s 24-carat bollocks, the companies scream for immigrants because they can pay them a fraction of what a British born man would rightly ask for and need.
Simon’s in a similar pickle, he cannot fathom why the five unfortunate labourers had to come from Africa when over hundred thousands people in the area are claiming unemployment benefits, he cannot fathom it or he does know but doesn’t say, it’s money of course, the five were probably paid what would be the wage for one British born bloke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzVPHQamwU
EC says @ May 17, 2023 at 9:38 am
The spat between the Punjabi girl and the Polish PC on the British streets is indeed an item that would fir a comedy sketch nicely, EC, that’s what rainbow societies are about.
The laughter stops however when one talks to a doctor over a phone and cannot figure what the doctor says because of his or her accent, it happened to Baron not that long ago, he’s still waiting whether there will be a knock on the door even though he was exceedingly polite saying ‘I am so sorry but I cannot understand what you’re saying’ over and over again, until the medical experts ended the call, tragically funny or funnily tragic or what?
EC says @ May 16, 2023 at 10:02 am
Good man, the critical drinker, EC, gets it spot on, it’s amazing that skin colour should matter when we live in a world of absolute equality, or so we’re told.
Quite interesting, even intriguing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipOqq431Gw
Baron at 12:02 am
Plead deafness, M’lud. That’s what I always do.
Ask them to speak s-l-o-w-l-y and CLEARLY.
You can always get them under the provisions of the Equalities/Disability Discrimination Act.
Turn Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” back on the the bastards!
Baron,
Ennio Morricone wrote some fabulously haunting film music.
Here’s some more Theramin therapy for you. This time it’s the lovely Carolina recreating “The Ecstasy of Gold.” She lays down layers of vocals on a repeater box before switching on the Theramin. You can see her using her foot to use the repeater. She is a very clever lady, and it is, imo, a beautiful sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQiovnOdNUw
PS. I still love Katica too. 🙂
An excellent slicing of the recent bangs in Ukraine, the guy seems to know what he’s talking about:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-mim-104-patriot-destruction?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
EC says @ May 18, 2023 at 10:34 am
If Baron heard of the instrument he’s forgotten it, EC, thanks, it’s indeed a haunting sound, a compilation on u-tube furnished a wider choice, Goran Bregović’s Ederlezi and Lacrimosa the best of the lot (for Baron anyway), but just like organ music not for the blue veined barbarian, for some reason it unsettles him.
EC says @ May 18, 2023 at 10:11 am
As it happens, EC, Baron doesn’t have to plead deafness, he’s half way there, it runs in the family on the mother’s side, both she and her mother were fully without hearing, Baron’s not there yet, but give him some more time …..
Does anybody know what is happening with the Turkish election?
Did the CIA manage to get their man, Joe Bidenopolous II, the more elderly of the candidates, elected? If the BBC’s cartoon villain/bogey man had been ousted then I would’ve expected a lot more noise from them.
Rasheed announces additional punitive sanctions on the
{{{the Ruskies}}}er… UK businesses.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65632568
Pardon me for being so cynical but I wonder which relations have recently bought shares in alternate diamond and other mining interests. The same goes for US Congress members.
EC
I was amused by the recent strutting and bottom sniffing of the UKs and Ukraine’s poopa-doodles. Notwithstanding, their increasingly abherrent and abhorrent public behaviours are damaging to the nation’s if not their own financial interests.
“…On Sunday, he will meet the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is attending the G7 summit as a guest.
Mr Modi has remained neutral on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for peaceful dialogue to end the conflict.
Mr Sunak told reporters travelling with him in Japan that he had seen “positive” steps from India in its stance on the war…”
India, I’m sure will be delighted to continue the international realignment of Western suppied Russian materials, together with the transfer of allied intellectual property, manufacturing skills and logistic facilities and services to Rashids multitudinous family and friends.
Of course it’s obvious why the chaiwallah needs India when you see how many Brits (7.5 million!) have taken to their beds, only to rise from them in the event of direct need. Obviously we need young, fit Rasheeds to fill thise labour force gaps.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65625529
Someone calling himself Iggy says in the first posting under the video of the blast: “If a shovel did this, imagine what could Russia do if it had real weapons”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcjzcErMdwQ
Apparantly 4 Shahed drones costing €10k to €50K each caused that damage, about one tenth to one fortieth of comparable Western munitions.
https://youtu.be/opTLeiRcLmg
Claims, such as that of the former MI5 chief, that Russia is losing this war, appear increasingly hollow.
‘…Of the cost…’
https://youtu.be/QrYkTRnTlQU
Lies, distortions and the problems of being an irrelevant second rate power.
With the fall of Bahkmut, Ukraine’s own Verdun, my prediction of a negotiated settlement by September comes one step nearer.
I see also that the gore of Boris’ war has sent priapice spasms through those incorrigible loins and that Carrie is set to litter again. Its definitely time that the Goat of Westminster was gelded!
History repeating itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, as Britain’s involvement in Ukraine descends into the politixal lies and obfuscations that imbroiled us in World War 1.
https://youtu.be/BqO5CnnKLtA
Noa – 9:28 pm
Are you sure it isn’t a “grudge baby?”
OTOH if it really was Boris then perhaps his cock & bollocks, or model thereof, should be mounted on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Your observations regarding the lies propagated in furtherance of the (n)Ukraine proxy war are spot on.
Noa – 9:42pm
Weren’t we told in early 2022 that in the absence of grain supplies from Ukraine meant that there would be shortages? Prices in the UK would sky rocket? The 2022 harvest prices were indeed a fillip for some UK farmers enabling some of them to break even. However the prices being quoted for the 2023 harvest have plummeted whilst the prices for fertilisers and insect/funghicides have remained high. This will lead many farmers to cease the unequal struggle with the capricious UK weather altogether.
Are the prices being manipulated? If so, is this part of a globally engineered famine?
Also every interest rate rise by “The Fed” is slavishly followed by the BoE, and this will lead to more mortgage defaults and a collapse in the housing market.
Central Bank digital currencies?
Control the food, control the housing, control the money, control the fuel…
What could possibly go wrong for humanity, eh?
Pakistan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDvdLq8PFU
The US has been meddling in Thailand, too.
If you like counterfactual history and historical parallels with the present this discussion on whether Britain should have stayed out of World War 1 is for you.
https://youtu.be/BqO5CnnKLtA
EC
What to do with Boris and Carrie eh?
That’s one broody woman, perhaps she needs a part time job as a cleaner, to pay for the ‘snip’.
EC
I see the EU has approved the compulsory purchase of Dutch farms and the de facto closure of the food industry in order to meet net zero and build housing for illegals.
Truly the world has gone mad.
The old lefties Jon Pilger has some observations on seeing through the media’s lies. Well, he should know.
https://youtu.be/dvF3d8hhoJo
I was saddened to read of the death from prostate cancer, of Jeremy Clarke, who wrote the Lowlife column in the Spectator, his dignified documentation of his own painful and unedifiying end has been an example of moral courage and dignity that I, for one, could only hope to aspire to in such circumstances.
Rest in peace.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-best-of-low-life-jeremy-clarke-remembered/
History Reclaimed and the campaign to defend its theft and re-write by the Left.
https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/?mc_cid=52ffe40a64&mc_eid=e575828454
Noa – 10:11pm
I’m a bit pushed for time this morning as I’m on a mission east of Eden and thence down thru the Tyne Gap, and awa into t’ promised land, bonny lad.
History: Heirs of Gramsci ensured that history is no longer what is was in our schools. The problem arises if “they” start burning all the previous history books.
Tangentially, a synapse fired and I remembered Ambrose Bierce’s other famous history quote:
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
Remarkably prescient of him! That certainly sums up what the USA subsequently became.
EC
I’ve fond memories of student days in Newcastle. I lived in Sydney Grove, Fenham, where the older neighbours remembered the German bombing. (Yes, they really had bombed our chip shop,canny lad!). Shipyards still made ships, Malcoln Mcdonald was scoring for fun as over 50,000 of us regularly watched him from the Leazes End, whilst half cut from the fumes from the Scottish and Newcastle brewery at the bottom of the hill. I tried to teach them Lancastrian English, but it ‘wor a waste of time’.
Of course even then the old Newcastle was being swept away in the massive graft and corruption of its redevelopment, alluded to in Michael Caine’s hip, brilliant gangster movie, ‘Get Carter”.
Baron,
This popped up on my YouTube feed in the “wee small hours” this morning…
“Learning Languages Ruined My Life” [4mins 30sec]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_4gzoDDAE
Interesting…
@8:07 cont’d…
BUT, his thoughts in parts a bit superficial, and on the dodgy wicket of cultural moral equivalence, imo.
Noa: May 23, 2023 at 1:52 pm
Great film.
In terms of NE location spotting then, Spender, Crocodile Shoes, George Gently and Vera are also good. Personally I found “Vera” exceeded my limits of preposterousness, and I cannot stand the actress, but Mrs EC addicted… she watches alone!
If you had stayed put in your student digs then you could have moved abroad without ever leaving the country. About a year ago I decided to go into the city down Westgate Road… like the old days. Unrecognisable, like a suburb of Karachi or Bombay. Looking it up on google maps just now I was amused to see Chaiiwalah cafe and takeaway at No. 581.
Do you think this is Rasheed diversifying away from Chemist shops?
“Tent Hunters: California Couple Searches For Their Dream Home”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMunV4y39I
The polyglot above averred that the search for truth will send you mad. It might also send you to the Gulag, real or cyber! The truth is redundant, must be suppressed at all costs, when the ideology “current thing” is imperilled!
‘Truth is a Right Wing Concept’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CeQ6qQlJ8
Peter,
The CHW Tontine: How many days have to pass before I can claim my payout?
Mrs Noa has hidden my machete and craft knife collection as the sun is out today, given Mayor Khan’s timely warning that climate change is responsible for soaring knife crime.
https://t.co/kUSyshxTOT
EC says @ May 25, 2023 at 8:07 am
Indeed interesting, full of wisdom, Baron would say that learning a language is not unlike opening a door to another household, it may seem silly, who wants to invade another family, but it felt like it for Baron when he learnt English or the other languages before.
Apologies for the long absence, it may continue, the Baron’s family has a health problem, not Baron’s though.
Who? Won’t get fooled again?
https://youtu.be/5_2OR7fWXew
Baron,
Age, sadly, is moving not necessarily in our favour.
It’s terrible that a chap can’t even visit a house of entertainment to preach essential moral values to the young ladies there, without having to call one’s manager to rescue us from abuse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12131511/Tory-MP-naked-brothel-4am-feared-victim-foreign-honeytrap.html
Noa, May 27, 2023 at 2:55 pm
The correct response should’ve been, “Unhand my Kukri, woman! Get in the kitchen and make me a sammich.”
The poison dwarf of City Hall should command the Met to form a squads of Gurkhas to patrol the streets. They’d sort out the scourges such as knife wielding punks (gang bangers?) and the likes of “just stop oil” protestors, in very short order!
In the battle for Port Stanley many an Argie squaddie crapped their pants at the sight, or even the thought, of a Gurkha with an unsheathed Kukri.
“…On arriving at the Falkland Islands, the Battalion was landed at San Carlos Bay on the north of the island, on June 1st. ‘D’ Company of the Battalion was left to defend the landing site, while the remainder of the Battalion was flown forward in a series of helicopter lifts, south to Goose Green, relieving 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment and taking over the guarding of some 500 Argentinian prisoners. Once their prisoners were moved on, the Battalion turned to a series of aggressive patrols across Lafonia (the southern half of East Falkland). One of these patrols is recorded as having taken prisoner a group of Argentinian soldiers, commanded by an officer and armed with anti-aircraft weapons, simply by brandishing a kukri in a threatening manner. ‘D’ Company re-joined the rest of the Battalion at this time, having moved on foot from their positions near San Carlos to Goose Green. The Company completed the move in less than 36 hours, despite some of the men carrying loads in excess of 140lb…”
https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/blog/gurkhas-and-the-falklands-war/
Police chiefs decided several years ago not to recruit ex-servicemen as they did not represent the DIE (diversity, inclusion and equality) values of the new Britain.
This has resulted in eg trainee police girls calling their dad’s to collect them after having gone to attend a scene of death.
Be consoled though that sufficient armed uniformed hard men will always be found to protect ginger princelets, top cops, politicos, Muslim mayors and MPs desirous of displaying their meat and two veg to discerning gourmets.
https://youtu.be/60CFkHl2_AM
Noa,
EC@09:58 am I must apologise for my Bowdlerisation of the American insurrectionists’ endearing way of admonishing their spouses. The correct wording of which should have been, “Get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me a sammich/pie etc.”
Noa at 10:05 am
I read an interview with a Gurkha who said that when he got his Kukri out the Argy prisoners all thought they were going to be killed, whereas all he wanted to do was cut their bootlaces to use to tie their hands.
Amazing people, and by way of thanks, their soldiers subsequently shamefully treated by the government… as were many other servicemen since Wellesley’s “scum of the earth.”
EC at 2.23pm
I can assure you that such a response to Mrs Noa would be deemed injurious and involve a nocturnal but highly physical response, based upon her own use of the Gelding teaspoons passed through her own maternal line.
I’m of the view that very few, if any of the variegated Britons of military age would respond to any siren call to arms by HMG.
‘It’s “Tommy this” and “Tommy that” is unlikely to change to “Mr Khan” or “Mr Olusaga” when a minority of Mr or Ms Atkins respond to the bugles’ call.
The most useful emissions to dispense with are those emanating from the Westminster Bubble.
https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/a-short-route-to-deindustrialisation/
Noa at 1:48 pm
Agreed.
One of the UK’s, and Europe’s, strategic economic activities being rendered uneconomic by the wrecking ball of eco-mentalist inspired government policy is Farming & Food Production. It was incubated in the EU and it’s got FA to do with BRexit.
Thirty years ago you would’ve never have heard me express any concern for farmers or farming. How times change! But we are where we are…
Noa at 1:48 pm
I do not watch daytime TV, but reportedly the nation is all of a quiver about the Sffincter (sic) busting activities of a major “male” daytime TV presenter with a young teenager, a member of his show’s production staff. How’s are the nation’s populace expected to concentrate on Barry & Heghan’s reported marital difficulties with all this going on?
It never ceases to amaze me that people in the public eye think that they can keep their darker secrets hidden from the public. Still, as Jeremy Thorpe once observed to his young male muse back in the 60s, “There’s going be a terrible stink when this gets out.”
Rinka the dog was unavailable for comment.
Plus ça change (plus c’est la même chose…
EC
The public transformation from Hobbit to Orc or Goblin never ceases to amaze and amuse. Of course we have to bear in mind that it’s needed to feed the fat dullards, who are nowadays permanently hardwired to their screens, their need for any kind of movement beyond the triangular route of Easy Boy, Deliveroo door answering and the bathroom is obviated by the electronic benefits transfer.
That said, I recommend the fascinating documentary series “Traumazone”, on BBC iplayer, covering life in the Soviet Union/Russia between 1989 and 2005.
A rather enjoyable rant, boys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaSV24fHmDA
This is where we’re at…
“U.K. police DETAIN Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg at Luton airport over his JOURNALISM”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWLUSo-kqQ
Where’s all the outrage in the UK media?
Rowan Atkinson speaking eloquently and genteelly once again, about “free speech” with regard to Section 57 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
Given time mighty oaks from little acorns grow but will the “healthy core of Englishness” have been extinguished then?
@5:57pm Interesting that Kit alleges that the ghastly lefty Paul Mason is now collaborating for KGB-UK.
If you only watch one sketch on the Schofield affair it should be Katie Hopkins’.skit.
https://youtu.be/7aKesrv-5pk
Let’s celebrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMcIe0kK_g
EC says @ June 1, 2023 at 6:16 pm
The guy should be gold plated, EC, if not made with gold, 100% right, but will they do it?
EC says @ June 1, 2023 at 5:57 pm
If that can happen to a known public figure, EC, what can someone unknown to anyone expect?
Noa says @ June 2, 2023 at 9:56 pm
One feels, Noa, not everything has yet come out, more will be revealed probably soon, the other party is allegedly engaged in a biding war, when happy with the payout will talk.
There was something in the guy Baron disliked intensely even before he came out, he always looked rather creepy, unnaturally normal and openly narcissistic, a ghastly creature of the Jimmy Savile’s mould.
We may be in for another escalation step in Ukraine, the biggest NATO exercise both north and south of Russia will be on soon, there is nothing to stop the massive number of NATO fighter jets launching missiles into Russia whilst flying over the Baltic or down over Rumania, then claiming it’s the Ukrainian fighters that are doing it.
General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has asked to be received urgently by the Chinese, they said ‘no, thank you’, what is it he was going to tell them that links to the forthcoming NATO manoeuvres?
Another sleepless night, the barbarian from the East has never been as worried as he’s now, he fears the military manoeuvring by NATO could get out of hand, the MSM silence about it, the biggest have-a-go by the alliance since its creation, is another sign that more than a mischief is on the drawing board, it could also be that Baron’s age makes him jumpier more than before, he’s searching for some good news every day, nothing of any import seems to be available, he is resigned to watching clips of Fawlty Towers, Monty Python ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrcbCW4y9Dw
Baron, June 3, 2023 at 10:13 am
Insomnia is a bugger, innit.
This catchy little song was penned when the world pop’ was only just over 3 billion. Makes you think, dunt it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Baron, June 3, 2023 at 10:13 am
The federal government of ‘merica has been in the grip of malignant and/or batshit crazy neocons for decades. These people operate across party boundaries. A prime example is the fragrant specimen below. At the heart Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
Railway Carriage Sketch
Marty Feldman & John Cleese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcntOrHTeBA
EC says @ June 4, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Awful when one cannot sleep, EC, only gets there in the early hours in the morning.
Whatever happened to the guy, he seems to have disappeared, but was excellent just as a talented human being always is.
With all this good weather I’ve been cheering myself following sentencing at the morning floggings of rebellious field workers by listening to Boom Radio, Cherie Frenchy and checking the AfD and Dutch farmers election results via Michael Heavers little site on YouTube. Good for them, as ever change and revolution will come from the continent, not from the antiquated political fossil that is the British constitutional settlement.
For anyone missing the death of honest truthful no holds barred reporting (and the excellent Floozie collection) on GB News here’s the link to Mark Steyns shows.
https://watch.adh.tv/the-mark-steyn-show/season:1/videos/the-rewiring-of-our-children-wednesday-31-may-2023-1
Baron: June 3, 2023 at 12:43 am
General Milley: Is he the one that likes wearing a woman’s uniform in public, is that one of their Admirals, presumably Rear? Or is Milley that rotund guy with more medals on his chest than a PRNK general? (and when Kim’s men run out of chest space they pin ’em on their trouser legs!)
I thought that Milley had been replaced?
Noa at 2:24 pm
That’s interesting, I have never come across ADH TV before.
Are you signed up? Is it free?
Mark’s new book, “The Prisoner of Windsor” looks a bit of fun.
NB. It should also be noted that Mark’s Top Totty will also be present on his cruises 🙂 Given the prices one hopes that they will there in the flesh, so to speak.
Baron: June 4, 2023 at 11:14 pm
How goes it in the “wee small hours,” as FP used to call them? Not good at this end.
You got me thinking about the fading, and becoming rather quaint, notion of “Englishness” again the other night. I had recently been perusing my eclectic music collection that I’d uploaded to the iMac. listening to Mozart’s Requiem Mass (K626), Holst’s “Mars The Bringer of War” – both remarkably apposite in these “interesting times” as was Tom Lehrer’s Bomb song. After this, and to cheer myself up a bit, I listened to The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” They really tapped into something from their childhood there.
There is/was something quinticentially English about Mystery Coach Trips. Noa will correct if I’m wrong , but I’m sure that they were/are a Northern thing, before the days of mass car ownership. They enabled people to get out of their grim mill towns and pit villages to see what the other mill towns and pit villages were like across t’moors. These could be evening escapades after work, day trips, or sometimes overnighters.
Now, the Annual Works’ Outings were a completely different thing. Once a year, in the summer, an employer would lay on a coach to the nearest seaside resort where upon everyone would get pissed, eat fish and chips, get pissed again, sunburnt and return at night either sick, pregnant and possibly in need of a course of penicillin – in some cases all three!
I would like to think that Noa still upholds the tradition of the Annual Works Outing to Blackpool for his estate workers so they can marvel at the bright lights, public sanitation and brown sands.
Ah, proper Fish & Chips deep fried in lard, served in yesterday’s newspapers. The fat, salt and real malt vinegar forming a subtle blend with the printers ink on one’s fingers. Can’t beat that!
The cultural question that remains is, despite the rapid strides in social mobility made in the last 50 years, and his elevation to the Mill owning classes, then “Does Noa still keep at least one Whippet?”
EC
My doghsndler no longer races the whippet pack, re purposing them for tracking escaped Albanian plantation workers, who certainly don’t merit coach trips to the seaside!
Excellence, nothing but excellence:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
A lovely tale, EC, the paragraph that has in it ‘once a year, in the summer, an employer would lay on a coach to the nearest seaside resort where upon everyone would get pissed, eat fish ….’ made Baron more than smile, he was once, only once on such an outing, what happened to him was exactly as you said except getting pregnant, these were the days of uncontrolled ebullience without the fear someone would sue for an inapproproate touch upon whatever …
Noa says @ June 7, 2023 at 10:17 am
What a useful pack of whippets, Noa, give them a biscuit each.
Noa says @ June 5, 2023 at 2:24 pm
All in all, yes, China is a bugger but whipping the Mandarin speakers for taking over Western manufacturing is hitting below waist, Noa, it’s money that did it again, the wage rate the Chinese workers were paid was about a tenth of what the counterparts in the West were demanding, it’s about a quarter now still, what could the companies do but relocate, we, the plebeians lost jobs as producers but benefitted handsomely as consumers, no inflation, cheapness galore.
Mark’s getting better and better, he ought to find a rich benefactor, a Chinese billionaire would do, set up the equivalent off Fox, only more watchable.
For those sceptics who enjoy their paranoia too much to accept Sunooks sushi, here’s John Wards latest crystalline meth concoction from the Slog.
https://therealslog.com/2023/06/09/even-the-best-informed-of-us-havent-got-the-foggiest-idea-whats-coming-next/
Baron
I’ve no argument with your argument milud. In the 1980s if it hadn’t been the PRC Western politicians had exported their trade union militancy, resulting industrial decline and financial investment problems to, it would have been someone else.
They tried to put lipstick on their defenestrated pig by prattling about moving up to ‘the knowledge economy’. In other words, proposing to live off the intellectual property of existing technology and assets. However the difficulties with this are twofold: firstly you rapidly loose your expertise if you arent receiving and directly addressing operational feedback. You are simply addressing your subcontractors (and future competitors) production process flaws. Secondly, you are loosing technological innovation and design capability by persisting in unequal laissez faire policies.
More later perhaps on this. I am competing with a bumpy coach journey as I compose and meld thoughts and words.
And a good call, dog biscuits are on order.
Annecy, simply an atrocity on the defenceless people of Europe.
Sadly we will see many more unless the Sprouts can ship their refugees to Britain more effectively.
EC says:
June 6, 2023 at 11:16 am
I enjoyed your post, EC. It brought back teenage memories of going by train to Blackpool on Wakes week during the Glaswegian invasions and sidestepping three or four drunken, incomprehensible brawls in as many yards, between kilted pioneers of the bare breasted tattooed look.
‘Where theres muck there’s brass’ of course and Blackpool’s financial and vomitary loss has long since been Spain’s gain, though I’ve seen they’re proposing to clamp down on such British ‘glamping’.
Annecy 2 The Webb take.
Logic, analogy and deductive reasoning =racism?
https://youtu.be/pUhjR713wCM
What Russia got wrong and the liberals got right….
https://youtu.be/zYV-qYeWPkk
Annecy 3
The stabbiness of the long distance loner and the shooting of the 78 year OAP.
https://youtu.be/zhXcRibmgUU
Noa says @ June 9, 2023 at 11:38 am
You, Noa, and Simon are right, there will be more of it, nobody will get kicked out, certainly not in numbers needed to stop the slaughter.
Noa says @ June 9, 2023 at 12:04 pm
The very likely missed again, they were drunk, Noa.
I see tge Barcley Bugle and Specstateszie are in receivership, owing a £billion to Lloyds(?).
No doubt remnants of the SS Wulfshead and Galacian Divisions will be entrenched in the Castle rose gardens and in pill boxes overlooking the jetty at Sark, ready to resist the onslaught of Charlie’s revenue collectors.
Now that the hapless leader and relentlessly priapic Mr Johnson is securely launched on the lucrative lecture circuit and no doubt awaiting a few directorship offers, what need has he to retain his rotten borough seat whilst awaiting his own pay off peerage?
Noa says @ June 10, 2023 at 11:18 am
Good one, Noa, it made the blue veined barbarian chuckle.
Noa – 10th June at 12:01 pm
Ah, ” the lecture circuit.” A method of dispensing vast sums to ex politicos for a 45 minute anodyne talk, interspersed with an occasional crap joke if one is lucky. A payoff for previous services rendered. Quid pro quo post laboris, so to speak.
Noa , June 10, 2023 at 11:18 am
Fiscally bankrupt too? Does this mean that we are going to see “Brillo” back in a string vest and faded baseball cap, cadging fags or the price of a cup of tea from tourists on the Cote d’Azur ? ‘alf Nelson and the rest of the Scotia Nostra (© Frank P) camped out in shop doorways on Sauchiehall Street, or downing bottles of meths in Necropolis?
The Mail on Sunday has published a rumour that “Fragrant Phil” Hammond may seek to re-build his broadcasting career on Talk TV, raising the possibility that the shrill Harpey-Brewer is on the skids…
Breakfast time would be too early for Bojo but the Mr Toad lookalike Mike Graham might, just possibly, be “invited” to make room for the recently defenestrated Covid Dictator and Eastern Warlord…that would lead to
an interesting Hitchens Half Hour on a Monday morning…
Another story covers the resignation of half the English Women’s Angling Team a month before the World Championships next month carping about the inclusion of a transgender former rugby player into the team. Was the disagreement over whether (s)he would have to provide their own tackle? We should be told.
Correction
I was of course referring to the magnetic personality Mr Schoolfiend, not the concupiscent Baron Hammond of Runnynose of the disgraced (ed: which one?) former Tory PMs cabinet…
Any facial resemblance between the two is merely extraordinary….
EC
Aye, it must be a sad sight indeed to see the mighty brought so low and crowding together for warmth underneath the arches of the Clyde bridge, sipping from and passing around the last bottle of meths from Boots, whilst their fleas hop from one Guardian-lined bivvy to another.
Does Bojo visit them from time to time I wonder? Dispensing Harrods hampers, Durex and the occasional peerage to his old comrades? I like to think so
We must all contribute generously to the “Westward Ho” collection, seeking to fund their emigration to the welcoming boulevards of Montecino.
Dr Daniels and the idiocy of the young Western mind.
https://youtu.be/ah26moIjUmo
Noa, June 11, 2023 at 10:48 am
“The Mail on Sunday has published a rumour that “Fragrant Phil” Hammond may seek to re-build his broadcasting career on Talk TV, raising the possibility that the shrill Harpey-Brewer is on the skids…”
She is definitely in the top five competent hard nosed professional, no nonsense, chews nails spits rust, queen bitch female journos out there. Another one that comes to mind is the equally challenging and dreaded Ann Robinson. Although no longer MSM Katie Hopkins must also get a special mention!
I saw a snippet of JHB interviewing the endomorphic Lisa Numpty the other day. It was an intensely depressing spectacle, the latter being at least 40 IQ points down on the former.
It’s depressing to think that the HoC is populated with such dim people on both sides of the aisle who have never had a proper job. One of Harold Wilson’s more amusing catchphrases was, “A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” Based on that most of the fuckers in the HoC, County & Town Halls, would have starved to death ages ago.
EC
The trouble with the Harpy and others of her ilk are that, no one else, whether stupid or clever, can ever get a word in edgeways.
They?/she? Are all opinion and no consideration. At least she doesn’t have a boring accent or tone of voice. But if I’m going to be lectured for my own good, as the female of the species does, I’d rather it was by some attractive young trollop than someone who looks as though they’ve just kicked the farmer out of the henhouse!
Baron says: June 9, 2023 at 8:05 pm
Perhaps the Annecy police were drunk too, milud.
Noa @ 1.02pm
Of course I was thinking that if Fragrant Phil is to be suitably accommodated at Talk TV then the most commodious slot for him would be that of the Harpy.
And we all now know that FP likes his commodious…..
Would she wear that? My God, why am I even wasting any of my declining brain cells even thinking about this rubbish….
Noa at 1:46 pm
“[…] the most commodious slot for him (Phil] would be that of the Harpy. […] ”
Care to rephrase that, Guv? Are you saying that Harpy has a commodious slot? That might be an open goal for Messrs Farter-Cuck
[…] My God, why am I even wasting any of my declining brain cells even thinking about this rubbish…”
It must be the H E A T… aka the Climate Emergency!
eg. At first I thought that you meant Philip Hammond aka “Spreadshit Phil.”
@1:02pm Quite so! For the avoidance of doubt, if the ginger toupée wearer would give her a day off, then I’d be very happy to be lectured in person by Eva Lotte Louise Joan Vlaardingerbroek,
Not unexpected news… top bloke.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/silvio-berlusconi-former-italian-prime-minister-dies
Of course, as he said himself, his main crime was to be heterosexual. Had his interest been in young men or boys then the Grauniad et al would have praised him to high heaven.
Berlusconi was well dodgy but thoroughly entertaining. At least he did no lasting harm, which is probably Al you can hope of any pollytician, conservative or Liberal.
Now there’s a chap who would have persued the fair Eva, to the shagrin of the toupee canuck…
Berlusconi was well dodgy but thoroughly entertaining. At least he did no lasting harm, which is probably all you can hope of any pollytician, conservative or Liberal.
Now there’s a chap who would have pursued the fair Eva, to the shagrin of the toupeed canuck…
Shuffling off?
I read somewhere recently that George Soros had handed over the reins of his empire to his son. Can the apple be as rotten as the tree?
This is quite interesting:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12181171/The-super-rich-socialists-bankrolling-Labour-Sir-Keir-charms-posse-wealthy-backers.html
What’s in it for them, though?
Inset in the article above is a photo of Eco-warrior, and Ecotricity founder, Dale Vince who once claimed his sky mining firm could turn carbon in the air into diamonds. Looks a trustworthy chap, one could say he’s a diamond geezer. I for one would invest all my life savings (if I had any) in his sky diamond mining business.
On the One O’clock news on the BBC4 Radio today during the leading item, the killing spree in Nottingham, the word ‘vibrant’ or its derivatives as the description of the city got mentioned six times, one cannot imagine what would the city be described as if the killer, a West African guy with prior record of violence, were to slaughter (say) twelve students and a half a dozen of old age pensioners, a hyper-vibrant?
EC says @ June 13, 2023 at 9:06 am
There’s little substantial difference between the policies of the two stale political parties, EC, except that one may be advocating to pursue a certain Woke idea faster than the other one which may be pushing for a speedier implementation of another Woke policy, both detrimental to our freedoms or anything else coupled with the country’s ‘barbaric’ past, so why should there be any difference when it comes to funding the two past sell-by date outfits?
Noa says @ June 11, 2023 at 2:52 pm
The good doctor is priceless, Noa, so many memorable quote such as ‘the police are ready to protect our feelings, but not our property’.
Can you recall Baron yapping about the importance of energy for nature, the economy, life in general for some time, and also that if Germany cuts off the supply of cheap and reliable fossil fuels from Russia it had been getting since 1966, no hitch, the country’s industry will move closer to collapse?
Here’s the confirmation delivered few days ago by Robert Habeck, the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rJYEs1PaBM
The Webb Diatribe turns his irony on the solar panels and turdbines (H/T EC).
https://youtu.be/wstDrsk4Kw4
NILO?
No, I’d never heard of it before either.
Any relationship to the SS perhaps?
https://youtu.be/22l_-v-47zw
Baron June 14, 2023 at 12:28 am
They’ve brought it on themselves Milud. Let’s hope their electric cars, solar panels and turbines pick up the gaps left by dirty omd coal and gas.
And that the unwashed Green activists enjoy washing if they do, in cold water…
Of course jt will be as bad or worse in Britain. Be very very afraid.
Its not working out too well down in South America either for Germany’s own Belt und Road initiatives. Don’t they want electric BMWs in Rio for God’s sake?
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9267
Noa @09:10
Katie Hopkins covered essentially the same points in an entertaining manner this morning – with added nipples!
Katie Hopkins: “Best Go Glue Your Nipples to the Pavement’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ph8r98D1W0
He’s right, she’s right, and CHWallsters are right – have been for at least the last 15 years 🙂
Noa @ 09:20
He should be called “Mystic Webb.” When the Nottingham Perp’s face wasn’t immediately plastered all over the MSM it was a fair bet that he wasn’t white.
I’ve never heard of NILO either. It doesn’t sound as if Hugo Boss got the contract for the uniforms though – probably an uncle of the Chaiwallah’s or Hunt’s wife.
Noa @ 09:29
“Be very very afraid.”
It was good while it lasted – i.e. women without hairy legs or armpits
Baron,
Do do, or any of your sources, know how NATO Air “Defender” 2023 is going? Command and control of the multi-national air forces taking part must be like herding cats. The danger is that someone somewhere will fuck up big time and leave Russia no option but to retaliate.
Of course it could all be a smokescreen for a dastardly CIA/Special Forces Black Ops operation in Ukraine in order to pin the blame on Russia?
Enjoy the hollow laughter as you enjoy RUSI’s ‘group think’ outpourings.
War to the death as practcised by the military/industrial/ political complex.
How many of them have actually experienced war, one wonders?
https://rusi.org/
EC
The Wallsters have always known the direction of travel. Some of us thought we might even be able to alter it.
Now we just comment on the various stops along the road.
This is posted only because Baron got this from someone who’s in love with the girl, don’t ask why, he has never met her, he just loves her everything from the complexion to the way she talks, he watches her videos, his favourite pastime, he thinks she’s also very clever, he has never heard of the peaches versus coconuts explanation of the division of the people even though he’s close to Baron’s age, and totally impotent, or so he says ….:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjL-vRNmt8
Noa says @ June 14, 2023 at 9:10 am
The drop in the conversion ratio of the solar panel as temperature rises is almost never mentioned, but it’s important if we are to see global temperatures to rise, the contraptions are close to useless also because nobody knows what to do with them when their useful life ends, bloody criminal, the whole exercise.
EC says @ June 14, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Not a word about the biggest air show on earth ever bar the WW2, EC, why?
EC says @ June 14, 2023 at 6:00 pm
What makes you think, EC, that being right matters in the enlightened and woke Britain, heh?
EC
“It was good while it lasted – i.e. women without hairy legs or armpits”
It’s the two day stubble and subsequent shaving rash that puts me off.
Poland and the Baltic states v the rest?
As the current Ukr Somme-like offensive appears to have been bloodily repulsed the questiion of whether NATO will survive the July Conference in Vilnius in its present form clearly arises.
Does anyone really see the demented loon in DC, or his Dementer Obama, as the ‘Defender and Shield of Europe’ in this geo-strategic struggle to retain American hegemony?
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9269
More 24 carat Tucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7lO_m5nHXI
Thank you for tge TC link EC, deep sardonic truth spesking until lies.
It’s interesting to see the old common law commercial arguments for and against ‘Restraint of Trade’ being played out against the totalitarian political background of Fox’s ‘Cease and Desist’ order against Tucker Carlson.
Free speech against Big business and the Pants Crapper.
Who will win?
https://youtu.be/TPwBLXxoGBw
Well, there’s a surprise…
Senior police officer from Durham C*nstabulary that cleared Keir Starmer in ‘Beergate’ probe is appointed Chief Constable of Polis Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65904285
When is a party not a party but a work related function, eh?
Duh! When it involves Labour politicians, stoopid.
“…So as per usual following the atrocious Nottingham murders this week we had the organised deflection campaign from the real issue – immigration and why yet again people died as a result
The families of the two university kids urged us not to hate and there were vigils, candles, songs and embraces
Against this background it was refreshing to see that the brother of the the 65 year old caretaker also killed tweeted yesterday
“My Brother is laid out in the mortuary at QMC covered in stab wounds, murdered by a xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx who tossed Ian on to the street to die alone and people like this spout their xxxx, pray our paths never cross.” – see photos below for full text
Of course it is doubtful the media will pursue this story and there are no tweets to Phil asking for more details or interviews
And in our upside down world where what used to be right is now wrong and vice versa I suppose it’s even possible that Phil might feel the force of the law and get a visit from the police for threatening behaviour or hate speech
Among all the confected response to Nottingham isn’t Phil’s the more honest?”
H/T Major Tom @Readers Forum TCW 17th June,2023
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d72d7be24f811881987b32b9e1e08ee8d701621b451d644c74c07474fc3a3345.jpg
The BBC’s “Disinformation Service” in action…
Carl Benjamin and Andrew Lawrence reviewing whilst eating Lotuses…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Yt0qsfBL0
He should sue for defamation.
Instead of yapping whether this or the other is conspiracy or not, EC, the BBC should tell people about the enrichment of the British streets, that would be useful, people will be ready when confronted with the new addition to the local mores when shopping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhr4jS4Iv8&t=0s
Noa says @ June 18, 2023 at 9:56 am
Give it another day or say, Noa, and it will vanish from the legacy media just as the Woolwich murder did.
What do you make of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfeWyiGqb7E
Baron says:
June 19, 2023 at 8:52 am
It would fall into the category of amusing tosh, Milud, if there werent actually gullible people who took this stuff seriously.
Watching England atm, which is rather like watching the People Popular frint of Judea commiting a mass suicide attack.
Noa at 4:03 pm
I had no idea that the klicket was on.
If the antipodean crims do manage to win/retain The Ashes, then this year I think it’s only fair that they also take Rolf’s home with them.
This wouldn’t be allowed on TV these days, obvs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2SJS6B1wQ
It was the cabbages that got me 🙂
2020: “You vill eat zee bugs!” Schwab, Gates, Thunberg et al.
1969: How prescient this was…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
“Adopt a Clint!” Have I got that right?
https://www.takimag.com/article/in-africa-shirtlifters-will-be-prosecuted/
Noa @ 11:25 am
🙂
It is great a pity that our absent friend isn’t here to savour that one, especially the startling revelation regarding the Ugandan wheelchair arse-bandits!
EC
Watching him at Edgbaston yesterday I fear a great tragedy to the civilsed world resulted from Stephen Fry’s failure to competently commit suicide.
“…The world is splitting into two major blocs – the West and the Rest. The Russia/China/India/Brazil bloc has a purchasing power parity GDP of $48trillion and the USA/UK/Germany/France/Japan bloc a PPP GDP of $43trillion. Almost every day a country reports that China has replaced the US as its main trading partner…”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/usa-collapse-aggression-abroad-decadence-at-home/
Noa says @ June 21, 2023 at 11:25 am
There seems to be a strong competition, Noa, for the most bizarre woke idea ever, will the clits arrive frozen or marinated?
Noa says @ June 22, 2023 at 8:44 am
As you well know, Noa, It’s at such times that the dying hegemon is at its most dangerous, one fears the American GEs may go loopy, unleash an Armageddon we will all regret.
Why no news about the largest NATO air exercise since the creation of the alliance? What’s preventing the MSM scribblers telling us how powerful and united the members are?
Baron at 6:24 pm
Reportedly, Rasheed Sunook’s pick to replace Stoltenberg as NATO chief, Ben Wallace, was blackballed by the Biden Admin’. Obviously he’s not unhinged enough to replace the current lunatic. Never mind Ben, the job is going to be pretty much a poisoned chalice before the summer is out.
I was bumbling away thru my YouTube feed, more or less emotionally undisturbed, when this Magyar Tootsie chap reminded me the the official Conservative Party candidate for London Mayor 2024 was the one and only Daniel Korski… Arggh! God, this country can be so utterly depressing at times.
I felt obliged to inform those born yesterday, and remind with others with dodgy memories, who he was…
Daniel Korski aka Krapski, formerly of The Spectatoir. Europhile, and wrong on every other issue he wrote about. A sidekick of the never elected “Barroness” Upholland (Catherin Ashton – Gordon Brown’s chum) who was High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – laying the foundations for Ukraine 2014 !
I cheered myself up a bit when I located this interchange on the Spectatoir CHW blogs.
Vintage Frank! 🙂
Noa, June 21, 2023 at 12:46 pm
The Wurst is yet to come for Mr Fry.
Jawohl. Only two sausages a month, nach Reienfolge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=645mCo-GZYI
Tucker sums it up before the lights go out.
https://youtu.be/mDLxTVmy_-o
EC says @ June 22, 2023 at 7:05 pm
Good point, EC, they are allegedly pressuring the current guy to stay, he’s easy to control, each of them has to have that quality, Ben Wallace must be made of a stronger stuff hence the unsuitability.
Btw, Baron responded to your earlier posting, it refused to go in, possibly because of the mention of the Barbarossa anniversary today, weird isn’t it?
EC says @ June 22, 2023 at 7:23 pm
How Baron misses the guy, EC, he was the top whichever way one would slice any issue going, one hopes he’s having an enjoyable time watching the Woke crowd down here thinking ‘what a bunch of wan*ers’.
EC says @ June 22, 2023 at 8:16 pm
It’s not funny, EC, it’s likely to happen, they can tax meat so much it will because a luxury similar to the Beluga caviar, hopefully the AfD will use it, get more votes, overturn the Green fuggwits.
Noa says @ June 22, 2023 at 10:05 pm
The guy’s unbelievable, Noa, he should be careful, the dark forces work slowly never give up, hopefully Musk will give him some backing, also the audience, the millions that are watching him every day.
Surprise, surprise, and once more surprise, a Maidan in Moscow?
The TASS reports that Prigozhin decided to march on Moscow, intends to take over the governance of the country, claims the missiles of the Russian Armed Services killed 2,000 of his men, that the war in Ukraine is to please and reward the Russian oligarchs that lost assets in the West, that the generals fly towards Ukraine, never reach the country, turn back, award themselves the Hero of the Russian Federation trinket ….
The man must be mad, the FSB issued a warrant for his arrest, nobody knows where he is, two of the top Russian military men, one is Surovikin who’s apparently close to Prigozhin, have done videos asking the Wagner musicians not to fight the Russian Army.
Interesting times we live in, the West’s Governing Elites must be salivating.
Baron at 12:19 am
Interesting times! Vlad is not a happy bunny by the sound of it.
I saw a couple of snippets of YP’s latest video outburst on the Judge’s programs yesterday. Col. Douglas Macgregor looked as bewildered as anyone else, put YP’s latest video down to “frustration.”
I think that what many people fail to grasp is that The Musicians and their Conductor are mercenaries first and foremost. Only a fool would expect or appeal to their patriotism. They will work for anyone if the price is right, even including the fragrant Victoria!
EC says @ June 24, 2023 at 10:18 am
The guy’s either mental or he has secured some backing either within Russia or from the outside, the might of the NATO’s Air power hasn’t yet moved back to the their bases, the fact that no MSM said anything about the biggest exercise ever which lasted ten days ended two days ago could be a hint of things to come, Prigozhin can hardly afford making a deal directly with the West, the Russian unwashed wouldn’t like it, it would be his undoing if it were to leak out, but he may camouflage it doing a deal with Kiev arguing ‘why should a brother kill a brother’, of course, the deal will be run by the Americans.
On balance, the man’s a fruitcake, he has 25,000 fighters, there’s no sign of the regular Russian troops joining him, he cannot but lose unless he secures some real backing.
It would be of interest to know China’s take on the attempted coup, she can hardly afford to be surrounded on the north with a power even sympathetic to the West.
Nothing much new in it, but a good read, the ending puzzles, are we all to perish?
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-world-is-yours/
Baron at 10:48 am, further to my @10:18
“On balance, the man’s a fruitcake”
I think that YP got his “card marked” so to speak after his first outburst a few weeks ago.
Double crosses are not unknown in the murky world that VVP and YP inhabit.
YP’s claim that the Russian army tried to wipe him out is actually quite plausible. After the Musicians had done their job in the Bakhmut meat grinder then their usefulness was diminished. So the in the amoral world of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu et al, then why not save money and eliminate a potential threat at the same time, eh? The trouble is that one cannot afford to botch the “pay off.”. So YP is very probably extremely “mad” in every sense of the word now.
Baron,
Here is something to hopefully lighten your mood a bit this afternoon/evening.
Paris Summit: Here is the president of Kenya, William Ruto, giving Pres. M. Macron a good lecture about international banking and taxation. This Ruto chap is tens of IQ points above that other famous, rather louche, Kenyan, whose name escapes me now. It wasn’t O’ Bama was it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-kVD4lPjM
M. Micron is uncomfortable to say the least, pinned to his seat, squirming and with some other nervous ticks on display. I hope that you enjoy it.
The Ride of the Vallkyries on Moscow is a fascinating development! With clear echoes of the 16th Century wars between the Italian city states abd the habit of their mercenary troops tge Condottierri, The predecessors of the Papal Swiss Guard, to renege to the highest bidder before or during battles and sieges.
Is this what’s happened here? Has Biden bought the orchestra and its conductor?
Regardless, I would xpect a swift abd brutal response from the Nomenklatura to avert regime change.
I think Baron’s earlier assessment of YP was correct. He has gone one stop beyond Dagenham. i.e. Barking!
Despite the “deal” that caused the Musicians to do a 180 back to their barracks in Rostov, I think that the Lubyanka Hilton might be fully booked this summer. Following the debacle, in order not to be seen as weak VVP has to “be seen to be doing something.” So is an all out attack now imminent?
Good points, boys.
Nobody knows for certain what the deal the Belarus guy negotiated contains, rumour has it P will end up either in Belarus on the border with Ukraine (unlikely), or in Africa, plenty of jobs there.
It turns out Wagner’s officers were not privy to the putsch, it was P and the lower ranks only, strange but apparently true, some of the Wagner troops decided to lay down arms, a sizeable crowd, almost all young, applauded the musicians as they were leaving Rostov shouting ‘Wagner, Wagner’, one hopes Putin will make changes.
The coup must have been planned well before yesterday, it wasn’t a spontaneous response to the alleged shelling of the Wagner’s camp, P also lied castigating the Russian regular army for not supplying the musicians with enough ammo, they got more than enough, stored it for the coup ….. both Uganda and Iran offered to send troops to defend Putin.
Has there ever been a coup d’état, in which the CIA didn’t have a finger in the pie?
In one of the postings on the Spectator’s site someone says that Russia suffers from sufficient division in the society, hence the putsch.
If there were a ‘sufficient division’ the putsch wouldn’t have collapsed so quickly, of course division exists in Russia as it does in any Western country, but not deep enough otherwise either the military units or the troops of the security services would have joined in.
One cannot but ponder the timing of P’s call to arms to dislodge Putin, so close to the end of the largest NATO air exercise ever, the assets are still around Russia, more fighter jets are on a stand-by than one could count on the fingers of ten hands or more.
It’s also known publicly that P made deals with the Ukrainians, he bought some FGM-148 Javelin gear and other stuff from them, that couldn’t have happened without the Americans nodding to it, they run the op.
There also is the puzzling removal from the Wagner’s internet site of a number of sites the group does business with, all registered in the US, most of them funded by Soros’s NGOs, all that vanished when P announced his ‘justice ‘drive to Moscow.
It will take time but it may turn out the one that blinked were the Americans, they may have been P’s backers but chickened out, didn’t make use of the F-16s stationed around Russia to fire missiles at the Kremlin as the P’s musicians were surrounding the place whilst telling everyone the firing was done by the able Ukrainian pilots trained so well in the West, perfectly kosher since the Russians are doing the same in Ukraine.
Baron at 6:43 am & 7:55
Very interesting, especially the bit about Wagner’s senior commanders being kept in the dark about the putsch. It could be that they decide that their conductor is a liability and they “retire” him themselves, no?
As to your presumably rhetorical question”
“Has there ever been a coup d’état, in which the CIA didn’t have a finger in the pie?”
Probably not since 1947.
btw. Who “retired” General Sikorski? MI6, NKVD or the OSS?
Noa: June 24, 2023 at 6:32 pm
Your allusion to Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Flight of the
ValkyrBumblebees in open top jeeps racing up the M4 from Rostov to Moscow made me smile. A bewigged Prigozhin clad as Brünhilde complete with a viking helmet trailing blonde locks in the wind.I expect the mental image of the ‘orrible Yevgeny bearing down on them must have been the cause of a lot of clenched buttocks in the Generals staff of the Kremlin. The net result being much the same as that as the bowel loosening effect of eating too much fresh fruit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-IU-NQ8c14
Cue: “Something in the air tonight.” Phil Collins
EC and Baron
It would be easy to confuse the Ride to Mokba with one of the myriad Juneteenth LQBTQIA…..zzzz Pride comes before the Fall parades that are happening across the West (but not Afrika). The Conductor needed to deploy a combat ready team of elite idealists like the 1st Btn Pedo Guards below, rather than the motley hoi polloi from the rough end of the Chorus that fell out of the bars in Rostov at closing time-and arrived back for early opening!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f9928392495f6eff10ee757c9e3999c7f7fe1b51b9cfd7fde327ae5ed8876e6a.png
EC
“btw. Who “retired” General Sikorski? MI6, NKVD or the OSS?”
Have flown in and out of GIB the shrewd money would be on Ferrovial. After all they own nearly all the other British airports. Of course he might not have paid his car park fee so the Peshawar mafia may have put a 5000 zloty contract out on him.
The Slog’s sardonic take on the mad mad world of Opera….
https://therealslog.com/2023/06/25/killing-putin-will-be-just-as-hard-as-killing-rasputin/
That’s what Baron calls timing:
https://politikus.info/video/153052-singapur-gramotno-pridumano.html
Noa says @ June 25, 2023 at 3:20 pm
A common sense man, Noa, and a common sense piece, very little to disagree with except that Prigozhin may have been little known in the West (and when he was talked about it was always as a baddie, Putin’s stooge bla, bla..), but in Russia he had a very positive reputation, was admired, known more than any other regular general except Shoigu.
EC says @ June 25, 2023 at 10:08 am
Good question, EC, has anyone the answer though, Baron would guess the Georgian thug may have been the butler, if one were to use the guidance of ‘cui bono’, no?
How did he manage it is the more difficult question, what you and Noa think?
What sort of a war is it, killing but also making money flogging the stuff that should be used for the former to the other side, if Baron were in charge he would castrate those selling the gear to the enemy, it’s as bad as betrayal, how on earth is it done?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qZoiO5qnI
There’s another problem, the doctor may be kosher (or may not, hard to judge, one has to accept the decision of those hiring him or her), but he or she speaks with an accent that Baron cannot understand, it’s true, absolutely nothing to do with racism, you must trust Baron on it, he doesn’t make it up, it was she, a mask on, Baron couldn’t figure one single word, it was more than embarrassing, what could one do, asking for something to be repeated over and over again, with no success, the female doctor was visibly upset, Baron also, the appointment came to an end, one worries what happens next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4BD90GS-84
Just to let you know Baron has signed the petition linked below:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/629895
A very enjoyable read from the editor at the Grayzone, about the casualties of the Prigozhin’s coup, but no cadavers.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/26/russias-civil-war-beltway-expert/
“Maskirovka” Definitely a candidate for word of the wall… thus far.
“The Russians don’t think like we do.”
That Col.Douglas Macgregor is an astute fellow.
The trouble with the current western [ironically dubbed] “liberal” left hegemony is that they assume that everybody thinks like them, or must be forced to do so. Their blinkered mindset will be their undoing, and if they push it to the limit then probably catastrophically.
I remember, years ago, when Melanie Phillips used to bang on about “militant atheists.” I always found that term illogical. Can one be militant about nothing? [Also, can “theoretical physicists” really exist? – blame it on Russell]. The people she complained about all believed quite vehemently in some ideology or another ranging from veganism, eco-mentalism and now with have transgenderism!
What G.K. Chesterton never said all at once, but did in stages!
https://www.faithandculture.com/home/2019/5/29-believing-in-anything
Krapski in the crapper, and is he now feeling a right tit?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/27/tory-hopeful-for-london-mayor-accused-of-groping-tv-producer
Ah, the Labour Party smear machine firing up for a GE?
Regardless of other metrics, Krapski, scruffy bugger, would never been allowed through the door of No 10 whilst Maggie was in residence. She was pogonophobic!
@ 12:37 pm
Would “militant anti-religionists” would have been a better term?
From my brief excursion on Twitter, quite a long time ago now, I always thought it a supreme irony that although the famous atheist and anti-religionist Richard Dawkins maintained that God didn’t exist, most of his followers/acolytes/clergy treated him as if he was a God. The slightest perceived heresy in a response to any of Dawkin’s musings would result in a massive “Twitter pile-on” from the Clergy of The 1st Church of Dawkins.
George Galloway (or his team) was/were another touchy bunch. I got “blocked” for saying that he blocking too many people! 🙂 Even though Twitter is now run by the South African wunderkind, saviour of free speech, I’ve not been tempted to go back
This is from a guy Intelligent Dasein from another blog, interesting take backed by the Russian history, what do you make of it?
“:Prigozhin is Acting Within Russia’s Historical Tradition.
Thus far, no one has understood the significance of Prigozhin’s Rebellion nor hit upon the true and accurate interpretation of these events. Prigozhin has been pilloried as egotist screaming for attention or a traitor in the pay of Western intelligence agencies. Both of these claims partake of a highly occidental worldview which does not comprehend the cultural antecedents of Prigozhin’s actions. On the contrary, I say that Prigozhin is a Russian and that he is acting within the Russian historical tradition.
The analogues of Prigozhin’s Rebellion are not to be found in 1917 or 1905, but much further back, in the uprising of Stenka Razin (1670) and in Pugachev’s Rebellion (1773).
That curious mixture of brigandry with populist politics (so misunderstood by people in the West); those ill-fated and quixotic marches upon Moscow, chanting death to Tsars and bureaucrats; the gathering and then exile of mercenary forces sympathetic to the reform but equally and patriotically in love with the motherland—it has all happened before. This seems to be the way in which the Russian soul expresses itself in tense moments, just as surely as no American can get angry at his government without the echoes of the Tea Party and Declaration of Independence ringing in his ears.
Prigozhin gave voice to broad undercurrent in Russian society that, while very loyal to the government, wants to see the war prosecuted harder and burns with indignation at every brother Russian who dies in battle while the government plays it safe. Not wanting to appear contentious, they keep their thoughts to themselves until they explode in a great swing in the opposite direction, bringing vengeance and chastisement upon Moscow whom they view as a prodigal son. It is the style of the sudden catharsis, the style of the pogrom, the Russian style.
In each of these explosions a local hero steps forth onto the stage of history, moved towards an end that cannot hep but result in his personal destruction, he impels, focuses, and clarifies all the hidden needs of the Russian heart. We don’t excuse their misdeeds, but we redeem somewhat of their memory in museums and songs, for we are sympathetic to their passion. The same fever burns within us. Razin, Pugachev, Prigozhin—their names belong together forever.
While the West propagandizes itself with tales of Prigozhin’s ego or with utterly baseless calumnies about his subversion by Western intelligence (because that is according to its nature), Russia has been fortified by Prigozhin’s fever, even if he was fated to play the role of the evil humor.
Half hero, half criminal, all Russian—Prigozhin. Remember him with mercy.
One more good thing to come out of Prigozhin’s Rebellion (with echoes of Pugachev and Razin) is that it seems to have completely disrupted the prior news narrative concerning the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Similar to how Russia’s initial invasion in February ’22 finally dispelled the nonstop Covid-19 reporting, which by that point was nothing but a media meme which ordinary people had long since moved on from, so did it take a Progozhin’s Rebellion to finally put an end to all the MSM reporting about Ukrainian “progress,” even though it was always clear to everyone paying attention that Ukraine’s counteroffensive was doomed, pointless, and hopeless.
You’ll notice that things feel different now. Nobody even talks about Ukraine anymore as if Ukraine really had any agency in this matter. All eyes are on Russia now and what NATO is going to do. Ukraine has finally been exposed to all and sundry as the pathetic proxy it is, and now nobody even cares about it anymore. Public perception now perceives the war in its true form, as a battle between Russia and NATO.
Unlike some other commenters here, I don’t regard this outcome as being the intended effect of Prigozhin’s Rebellion, nor that it was “maskirovka” designed to bring out this result (and may I just say in passing that Larry Johnson is a complete idiot). Prigozhin no more intended to alter that narrative by rebelling than Putin intended to remove Covid from the headlines by invading Ukraine. In each case, what happened was simply that a stupid, fake, effeminate narrative was shoved out of the way by real, live, masculine events.
What the rebellion really was I have made clear elsewhere in the thread. It was a characteristically Russian response to the growing sentiment that the war is taking too long and the government is playing it too safe. The ball is now in Putin’s court. If he doesn’t make a major move to destroy Ukraine quickly (which he is quite capable of doing), then not only will the Putin government begin to loose legitimacy, but it may actually give NATO its one and only chance to somehow snatch victory, which would be a catastrophe for Russia and for the world.
The only “narrative” that matters now is, “What is Putin’s next move?” Does he finish it, or does he allow the silliness to continue?
Larry Johnson’s theory is absolutely idiotic, as is Scott Ritter’s theory that Prigozhin mounted an honest-to-God, Western-backed coup attempt. The Duran boys, along with Big Serge, have glommed onto the position that Prigozhin had let his ego get to him and was throwing a fit about his Wagner organization (and therefore his business interests) being sidelined. This idea is also absurd.
The truth of the matter is that Prigozhin, like Razin and Pugachev before him, was giving voice to the repressed concerns within Russian society by assuming the role of the brigand-hero which is a deep rooted archetype within Russian cultural memory. This does not mean Prigozhin’s actions are excusable, it just means that some of the concerns he expressed in his characteristically bombastic manner were indeed rooted in the truth.
Russia and the MoD need to stop the slow roll through Ukraine and wrap this thing up already. I understand the logic behind playing it cautious. I understand the need to preserve Russia’s regular forces in case of NATO escalation, and I understand that Putin is playing a long game with his global partners, getting the BRICS and the Global South to see Russia as a reliable party.
However, there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to playing it safe. If you play it too safe, you are simply giving the enemy time to play the odds. Even a weak enemy like Ukraine might get in a lucky strike if you give him enough chances, so it makes sense to finish him off when you can. Furthermore, there is a legitimate desire on the part of many Russians to to see their people protected and their fallen revenged. They want to see and feel a decisive victory between their legs, and those desires should not simply be dismissed. Emotion plays a role in human life, and Russians have put up with a lot already”.
EC says @ June 27, 2023 at 12:37 pm
The guy may have a point when he says; It is common sense that is lost when belief in God is lost’, but if he’s right we have little hope of regaining common sense unless something big happens that turns us to God again, but what? WW3? God forbid.
Baron, June 28, 2023 at 12:28 am
FWIW, I agree with whoever that was criticisms of the various war pundits he mentions. However, whilst flawed analysis and speculation is bad, the outright lies of the MSM are even worse!
I think that the authors assessment about the passage of time and “the diminishing returns of playing it safe” are correct. If I may emphasise his point bluntly, its time for VVP and the Russians to either shit or get off the pot. [please excuse my phraseology, it’s derives from my “healthy core of Englishness, dontcha know]
The chap with the most objective commentary I’ve seen so far is that of Col Douglas Macgregor.
Baron,
Have you seen Tucker’s latest? It’s good, really good!
“Tucker Carlson Talks Zelensky And Biden’s Successor After He ‘Drops Out'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWDXOLXM3b4
Col Douglas Macgregor also taking about the imminent power vacuum in the US, the demise of the US Dollar, and a comparison with the collapse of Rome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Pl9HxNHMU
As they say at Glasto-this one’s for EC.
The Krapski saga continues! Is he too hands-on even for the tories?
https://youtu.be/6ec7UX9EG3k
EC says @ June 28, 2023 at 8:24 am
Thanks, EC, it was missed by Baron, the guy’s courage has no limits, but then he lives in the US, is a superstar. On Ukraine he’s spot on, if the country is democracy Baron’s the Pope.
Here is the Nuland’s appointed PM of Ukraine Yatsenuk, his epiphany may shock you, but he’s right, Ukraine would be on the list on banned countries were it not for her bordering with Russia, which furnishes the best chance to destroy the largest Slavonic tribe.
https://wwwdotbitchutedotcom/video/8YRQXb0TRlBF/
Sorry for the two ‘dot’ in the URL, Baron cannot get it posted.
Noa says @ June 28, 2023 at 9:47 am
Krapski is cancelled, Noa, he gave up.
Baron & Noa
Krapski: He had no choice but to give up, he was sensible to get out ASAP, damage limitation. Once the accusation had been made then he was totally fucked, regardless of whether he’d “sampled the goods,” or whether they were freely available to others or not. Very difficult to disprove an accusation like that. What is the accuser’s motivation after all this time?
I consider this to be election interference and the allegation should be investigated by Inspector Knacker of NSY, but it won’t be. Knacker of the Yard would visit the scene of the crime to determine in the accuser was making a mountain out of a molehill, or if the accused was cup-able.
I’d have much rather seem him get skewered for his policy proposals or his time spent as sidekick to Baroness (my arse!) Ashton at the EU, meddling, prepping for the Maidan coup.
File under: Cameron’s soirées
Wots going on at Lloyd’s Why the Barclay Hunt by the Beasts of Frauds Past for Torygraph Sanctuary at a 50% + debt writedown?
A good read at the Slog, even if there’s no real answer forthcoming. Is Jon Ward an aging paranoid? Not if they’re really out to get us….
https://therealslog.com/2023/06/29/hypocrisy-and-hyperbole-whos-got-a-hold-on-who-at-the-daily-telegraph/
EC and His Holiness.
My link to the Krapski gropy thing was overtaken by the almost inevitable withdrawal of this SWMTM, stale white tory male. He’d have had a far better chance of survival if he’d reverted tocmaintaining an Izzard Defence, defending his in principle right to explore his own sexuality by touching the bodies of others.
If the Conservative Party wants to exist in the future it really will need to exploit the Serf and Terf culture that now pervades society and dominates what risibly passes for the Culture in Westminster.
Argh! Whilst watching the long slow death of the Convict tail this morning the camera picked up the Gray man himself, the Ashen faced John Major, complete with Lords members tie.
This comfortably seated arse and well renumerated new race grifter was enjoying a vantage point view of English cricket whilst complacently and complicitly presiding over its imminent destruction in the ICEC Report accusing it of racism, a lack of equality, diversity and alt-right terrorism (just joking on the last one Gents, though lefty Just Stop Oil terrorists are already active.
Here’s a link to the report if you need a break from neo con non news….
https://theicec.com/
Noa says @ June 29, 2023 at 1:27 pm
Nothing that new, Noa, what the cricket report tells us, these old maladies are ubiquitous throughout the contemporary society, in a freshly released report entitled “On Public Conveniences located sparingly upon the Cities Towns often Villages throughout the Isles of Britain for the use by the Public in Times of Needful Instances to Piss and More” has also found the conveniences to be reeking of “racism, suffering from “a lack of equality, diversity and alt-right terrorism and such” including paying scant attention to the needs of the minority of domesticated rabbits.
Lessons will have to be learnt.
They got rid of the great Mark Steyn, now they are kicking Farage out, his bank closed his account told him to eff off, he tried to open a new account with other banks, they all refused.
Should we not be told who issued the order to the banks to de-bank Farage, apparently also others.
You reckon Baron’s next for the chop?
Baron : June 29, 2023 at 11:09 pm
“You reckon Baron’s next for the chop?”
There’ll be no more chops for you, you carnivorous climate terrorist you!
Why not try one of Uncle Bill’s succulent burgers made from the finest cockroaches ground with ginger and garlic, or maybe his Lincolnshire Locust ‘n herb sausages.
This is what’s actually coming…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UPDUpjkHg0
Baron 11.05 pm and 11.09pm
Excellent! A joyful plea to extend the delights of the British pissoir to all our communities! It should be done forthwith and without further delay.
Banks? What makes Nigel think he’ll get an account with an overseas bank? How will it work for him in practice? Will he be summoned to the branch and given two carrier bags full of notes? Its been bad ever since Brown bailed the crooked bustards out in 2008. Now they’re being used to enforce the weltenschuang.
Baron: June 29, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Seriously though, Debit cards are essential. One cannot buy anything online without one. What’s left of businesses on the High Street… many of them will not accept cash. Supermarkets still will, for the time being
Also imagine, in addition, if the Corporatocracy decided to take away your access to their mobile phone networks and broadband services? The majority of people have become reliant on the damn things. Life would go from very difficult to impossible.
What’s wrong with Rwanda? Are all these judges, and the protestors waving “stop racism” banners actually racist, ya think?
I was going to suggest that Nigel get a Bank of Rwanda account, and go a set up shop there – do a “Hari Seldon” and organise his next electoral insurrection from there.
I’d gladly join him there as I’m sick of the cost of living, lousy debilitating 6 month winters, snd tattooed bovine populace here… Is Sue-Ella Braveperson doing free flights for people born here who want to emigrate?
What’s wrong with Rwanda?
A mad scheme cooked up by the lunatics who are bringing you uncooked caterpillar steak.
It does anything but solve the problem, which of course is Tone’s ‘uman right act. Anything happening to abolish or change that has now been binned by the Chaiwallah.
Suicde drones over the channel would work wonders, as would a total cessation on all immigration, but it wont happen.
The party rats, like Wallace, recognise that the guillotine awaits them next year and are queuing to set up their new jobs to augment their index linked pensions. In his case Biden has quashed his hopes of being the boss at NATO, no doubt to satisfy the blood lust of his Oirish voters, who wouldnt want a Brit officer who possibly served in NI during the Troubles. Wallace is coy about that. Still, I wouldnt want this useless placeman to lose even the chance of a job stacking the shelves in Sainsbury, still less be unable to pay his minimum wage salary into a bank account.
In hs case I’d have thought his consummate arselicking of Zel Boy and Boris would have secured him at least a BAE Directorship for UKr sales, but a Plan B in the form of the NATO quislingship would have suited him like a remaindered ready made from M and Co.
EC
God damn, let me read you your rights!
1.You have to be silent, this will be rigidly enforced.
2.You have the right to vote, for whatever you think is the lesser of two indistinguishable mating weevils.
3.You have the right to think, see 1 above.
4. You have the right to meet and assemble in public, subject to approval of you making the necessary applications correctly.
5. You have the right to travel, subject ot the approval of the ecovirenmentalists who may try to stop you.
6. You have the right to have taxes taken from your earnings and savings in order to fund the interest payments for the state largesses we all enjoy, but see 7.
7. You have the right to earn and keep your own money safely if you follow rules 1 to 6 inclusive.
8. You have the right to a bank account, subject to rule 7.
But you do not have the right to move to the murderous genocidal regime of Rwanda, where your Hutus machete their rival Tutses (or is it the other way round?), because of the implications on Rule 6.
Noa @ 11:27 & 11:42
🙂
All true, I’m afraid
The Rwanda scheme is everything you said, but I actually meant was the country. I’d hazard a guess that you would be a lot safer walking the streets of Kigali than London or the streets in any of the other “diverse and vibrant” communities that we have in our Septic Isle.
PS. I thought that the Hutus and Tutses had buried the hatchets?
Noa
I suspect that the recent events in Paris were the spark that ignited the Trouble t’Mill that you had yesterday? I trust that you and the AK47 toting Lady Nelly have now regained control and have punished the culprits in the time honoured fashion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmqn9JIuzc
Have a good weekend, cricket permitting…
Here’s the true Britishness for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvk2wNWmB20
EC says @ June 30, 2023 at 9:39 am
Not a bad idea of yours, EC, Nigel opening a bank account in Rwanda, better still in Botswana, that’s Baron’s favourite African country, one never hear anything bad about it, they seem to avoid having the same problems other African countries, the bigger one in particular, have aplenty. If Baron had to he would emigrate to Botswana, a lot of the natives speak English, it’s their official language, the climate’s OK, the nature still largely unspoiled. What’s not to like?
Noa says @ June 30, 2023 at 11:27 am
Totally with you on Wallace, Noa, not someone Baron would like to share a pint with, but he would be a top class NATO Secretary if it were not for his being a man of his own, a strong minded, difficult to control man, which is what the Americans want not.
EC says @ June 30, 2023 at 3:29 pm
The French police are fired at with rifles smuggled in from Ukraine, EC, one couldn’t make it up, could one?
Noa says @ June 30, 2023 at 11:43 am
To paraphrase Mackay from Porridge, Noa : There are only two rules in this country. One, you do not go over the walls. Two, you obey all the rules.
One wonders what happened to this policeman, would the guy pushing on his neck be prosecuted for murder if the law and order officer dies?
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1675197946797907968/photo/1Baron 10.48pm
Tee hee! 😉
But, does not going over the wall include digging your way out under them, or leaving by subterfuge through the numerous apartures already cut in them, or even simply flying out over them?
The devil’s in the detail…
It’s interesting to see heavily weaponised rioters taking to the streets in France. Does the same religiously persecuted community have similar access to such armaments and munitions in Britain? Would they use it in a similar manufactured situation?
If the answer to these questions is ‘Yes’ by both a self-disarmed HMG and the rest of the disarmed population the political policy of tmappeasement to the point of total acquiescence and submission to the threat of mass violence becomes clearly comprehensible and logical.
No doubt the riots in France’s cities have sucked in police from everywhere else, not least Dunkirk, Calais and the illegal migrant collection and invasion regions, giving free licence to migrants, the dingy sellers and smugglers.
So we may confidently expect the accompanying Border Farce, Royal National Lifeboats for Immigrants and Home Office Hotel budgets and incomes to increase accordingly.
EC
From the BBC Sport (snarl, expectorate etc) readers match comments:
“Can we please just collapse and get this over with, the hope is absolutely killing me.”
Mark in London
That’s the spirit.
Baron: July 1, 2023 at 10:46 pm
The fiction “HMP Slade” in Porridge was supposed to be in the God forsaken bogs and wastes of somewhere like Westmorland or Cumberland. There was nowhere to go even if one were to scale the walls or tunnel beneath them. In one of the episodes, “Fletch” did manage to escape but after wandering around in circles, cold wet and hungry, he eventually gave himself up.
It was for this reason the MOD commandeered the “Shap Wells Hotel” to accommodate PoW Nazi officers in WW2. Very few (1?) of the meistermenschs finest succeeded in escaping from there!
EC
I don’t believe we gave the PoWs spending money for fags and fentenyl, benefits, extended family import licences and sexual predation permits over our children in addition to their bus passes to Carlisle.
Noa: July 2, 2023 at 12:07 pm
I have some sympathy for “Mark in London” He’s sounds very depressed, and who’d want to live in London these days?
The commentators often don’t help matters. Remember “Dismal Jim?” A brilliant cricketer but a radio voice that kept the Samaritans’ phone ringing whenever he was on.
After Botham, I gave up watching cricket. Pre-Botham I can remember “Fiery Fred” and also the stationary Geoffrey Boycott. I also remember the frequent appearances of Peter West on the TV screen following the latest England “sh*t dragging” by the Convicts or the WIndies suggesting that England could only be saved by “recalling Peter May.”
Those were the days.
Noa at 10:05 am
Carlisle hotels are booked out for the forseeable future.
Thanks EC at 10.17am
I’ll try Air BNB for availability in Gujurat…
Not a bad slicing of the Europe’s future, but for three things:
Europe has been vasalised years ago, can anyone think of a single important decision on which Europe wouldn’t have followed the American Republic?
The Americans can afford to spend any amount of money on the military because the dollar is the reserve currency, that allows them to print as much of it as they like.
The American desire to re-industrialise cannot succeed because the cost of labour in the Republic still exceeds that in China by 1 to 4.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/06/the-art-of-vassalization-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-has-transformed-transatlantic-relations/
Baron,
My chum Pavlin Zehlev from Varna, Bulgaria, is currently on a trip on his motorcycle from his home town to Magadan in the far east of Russia. Travelling by a circuitous route, via Germany and the Baltic states, here he has just entered Russia from Estonia. Petrol in Russia is only €0.50cents per litre. Those sanctions are really kicking in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UUlfMg5wLs
Pavlin is an experienced global motorcycle traveller and doesn’t do politics, but he does give us a window on life and other cultures along the road. He is currently spending 3 days in St. Petersburg and is off to Moscow next. You can see short updates from his trip here, but he only publishes the full documentary upon his return,
https://www.youtube.com/@motorcycleadventureslive/videos
The boisterous youth of France, they should ask the Wagner musicians to help, they have plenty of time on their hands now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLKmwuuo5h0
This is Japanese technology, the drone carries a PR screen that can display whatever any client may desire:
https://politikus.info/video/153322-tehnologii-prodolzhayut-vyvodit-reklamnyy-rynok-na-novyy-uroven.html
A superb piece not just on Haas, but on the Council and by implication the American foreign policy since the implosion of the USSR:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-sun-sets-on-richard-n-haasss?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
EC says @ July 3, 2023 at 8:08 pm
You, sir, are a superstar, many thanks for the friend of yours, he sounds a solid guy, the short clips tell more than many longer ones that have an agenda to follow, he doesn’t, he talks about life as it is, he’s already on Baron’s list of blogs he subscribes to, what’s more Baron will look at more of his videos before he entered Russia from Estonia.
The Jawa contraption looks more dated than a pre WW1 bicycle.
This is London few days ago, nobody is talking about it, the bus 139 that appears in the video goes from Golders Green and Waterloo station, it must have been somewhere between the two, one can only feel for the police, could anyone blame them for overstepping the reaction on occasions?
https://politikus.info/events/153367-britaniya-prinyala-estafetu-ot-francii.html
Baron: July 6, 2023 at 10:28 am
WTF was all that about? Those cops not equipped to deal with a riot!
All part and parcel of Kahn’s cultural enrichment, I suppose. We all have so much to be grateful to St Tony Blair for.
Noa,
What your absconding estate workers did next…
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23640535.men-injured-fleeing-4-5m-carlisle-cannabis-deported/
Baron,
A couple more books for your delectation…
The photos of his travels in the galleries of his website are absolutely wonderful!
Anatoly Chernyavskiy
https://www.bikeandphoto.ru/
h/t Pavlin: “Finally, I met Anatoly Chernyavskiy. Motorcycle traveler, author and photographer.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uDX0f7dn7Y
EC says July 7, 2023 at 12:32 pm
Something that the young couldn’t do when the Bolsheviks ruled, EC, a lucky guy, well, both are lucky guys, Baron envies their freedom to explore, sadly he’s too old to even look at the pictures.
https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/future-us-foreign-policy-richard-haass
The above is well worth your listening to.
Richard Haas until very recently the President of the Council of Foreign Relations, the body that has been running the US foreign policy since WW2, has had his walk to Damascus says now ‘the most serious threat to global security is the United States’.
The question is ‘has he resigned or was he resigned by the new neocon of the Blinken&Nulan phylum? They are holding views different from what he expresses in the chat.
Don’t we live in interesting times?
Baron @ 08:38
“Don’t we live in interesting times?”
Indubitably!
I was very depressed this morning to learn that Robo-Joe and his entourage are stopping off at No. 10 tomorrow en route to the Nato summit. The purpose of the visit is reported to be to give Mr Sunook from accounts a lecture about Brexit and to give him a “hurry up” on rejoining the EU.
It has often been asked, “Is Paris Burning?” Well it is now!
EC
Joe will be looking to re-establish the ‘Special relationship’ by ruffling the chaiwallah’s hair, or gripping it fixedly, depending on the quality of the oral pleasuring he receives.
Neither is fit to be trusted with less serious issues like foreign policy, finance or the establishment of a negotiated settlement in Ukraine.
Will Rashid marvel at Joe’s Oirish Tricolour shorts? Will Joe worship at Sunnook’s shrine to Vishnu?
Will just Stop oilbedamned throw themselves en masse into the intakes of Joe Force 1?
All will be revealed, and as swiftly forgotten in due course…
For contemporary Britain, boys, these are the times of Dishonourable Tenebrocity, or DT in short, it includes a large dose of obsequiousness, regretfully.
Get off my TERF!
Transexual propaganda and lies will always remain intact until they are called out.
The writer of the following piece makes a good fist of attacking the insanity of the Woke folk. Unfortunately his audience is likely to be restricted, unlike theirs.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/07/08/this-is-psychosis-plain-and-simple/
Hello Joe
You ain’t that slow.
But on the uptake
You have a lot at stake.
Will Oprah sort me out if I ask her nicely?
https://www.takimag.com/article/from-bad-to-verse/
Noa, July 10, 2023 at 4:53 pm
It’s an injustice that the CHW’s very own poet, Fergus Pickering, never got a million Pund book deal despite his manifest ability and “white privilege.” Too late now as the AI program “Chatbox GPT+” has made the aforesaid Vogon Poetry enthusiast, and all the gormless leftist Doggerel Bankers redundant.
Farage didn’t press enough, for understandable reasons, but even so the Ukrainian clown saying ‘we are fighting for democracy’ takes the biscuit, eleven political parties banned, only one remains, his, no opposition media allowed, the next presidential election cancelled ….. that’s democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5OcnI7M5c
Noa says @ July 10, 2023 at 4:53 pm
It doesn’t rhyme, Noa, it’s not poetry it’s words typing.
Baron 11.35pm
That was really the point, milud. I put my iambic pentameters deliberately to one side.
The insane asylums are full of verse spouting loons like Charlie and Joe. At least they would be if we hadn’t closed the loony bins and put the patients into palaces and English departments.
Noa says @ July 10, 2023 at 1:24 pm
“This is insanity, plain and simple’, says the guy, Baron’s not so sure, it’s not fungus in bread either, it’s a well thought attack on the time tested habitual truthfulness of life, the woke school of thought converts everything that’s dear to us into the opposite, a negation of the truths is making us ashamed of our past, of what we are, what we stand for, the great doctor Dalrymple says it best:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself”.
Heres an excellent example of how to publicly destroy your own integrity. How could you not agree with the sentiment the tee shirt espouses? It is simoly the undeniable truth.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-does-not-agree-with-straight-pride-message-in-photo-at-stampede
Good stuff:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-blob-begins-to-quiver/
Noa says @ July 12, 2023 at 8:47 am
How could one disagree with something that’s patently true, Noa, the man’s a nutcase.
Noa says @ July 11, 2023 at 11:47 pm
Of course Baron had got the point, Noa, but he was eager to say the alleged poetry was ‘words typing’, why? He cannot remember now.
I posted my thoughts on here yesterday about the latest BBC nonce scandal. Mysteriously they disappeared into Orwell’s memory hole. Maybe it was my Parthian shot of, “BBC DELENDA EST!” that caused the problem.
Today I received WhatsApp message with a photo of the “toothist” Clare Balding. Could this be a hint, I wondered. When I expanded the photo, the text of the meme read, “Clare Balding was presenting Wimbledon today, so it’s not him.”
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small…”
Well, It’s classical cultural subversion along the lines detailed decades ago by Yuri Bezmenov. The “trans” lobby lunatics are now demanding that the word “vagina” is replaced by the term “bonus hole.” I joke not. GB News’ Nana Akua explains…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaKCNGi5tO4
Also yesterday it was reported that the Met were conducting a “scoping inquiry” not an “investigation” into the allegations against the innominate Beeboid. The person is undoubtedly a rabid lefty (doh, BBC) or his name would’ve been leaked within a nanosecond by the Beeb themselves as the “right to privacy” does not extended to conservatives.
Which end of the scope are the Met looking through?
Would this “Met scoping exercise ” be looking into how much damaging info (aka “the goods”) this bloke has on other members of the establishment?
There could be two possible outcomes from this:
1. total exoneration.
2. S.I.D.S. à la Jeffrey Epstein
Baron,
Ukraine: What does the proposed “one stage” Nato application consist of?
Apart from nutjobs running US, UK and Poland do the rest of the Nato members really want the all out war that voting in Ukraine would mean? It’d be curtains for them and the rest of us. On the upside we would no longer have to worry about global warming.
EC says @ July 12, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Your upside, EC, made Baron chuckle.
One has to see the assistance given to the poor Ukrainians as a part of a one of the steps in the never ending desire of the American Governing Elite to finish Russia off, and it’s by far the best opportunity the Elite has had what with Ukraine bordering with Russia, still populated with some 25m plus burghers of differing ages, run by a clique of ultra-nationalists for whom the DA of Kiev is but a figurehead, and eager to battle the Russians just as they are going to be eager battling the West. If the Americans think the ultra will swallow the Woke of the West they have a thing coming, as an example, the alphabet people are hated in Ukraine more than in Russia
@July 12, 2023 at 3:01 pm
The luvvies played the mental health trump card. Silence will ensue, but will it close down all discussion of other BBC problems? One wonders how many other people in the BBC/media are also currently suffering from mental health problems…
A courageous girl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzXZOICjWA
The EU steamrollers on, seeking to impose its globalist view on the rest of the world. And is sternly rebuffed.
I support the South Americans myself. We want Reparations too, for the slavery inflicted in Britons, sadly we don’t a government with the courage to demand and enforce them.
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9297
Baron 13/07 @ 10.56pm
Barr highlights the mad world of American Jewry, the Marxists hating the Nepcons and vice versa.
We kuffirs stand bemused before this reprise of Life of Brian’s War between the Judean Popular Front and the People’s Popular Front of Judea.
Baron, July 13, 2023 at 10:56 pm
A handy reminder of what a loathsome individual Pee-rs Morgan is.
Roseanne is ok.
Poor Huw is in the Priory where we may respect his right to privacy, but does he have access to wifi?
Noa: July 15, 2023 at 10:11 am
A good place to lie low, beyond the reach of the long lenses of the paparrazi.
Isn’t the Priory a self-referral rehab establishment for rich people? Like Champneys without the carrot juice and more clothes on?
“… Like Champneys without the carrot juice and more clothes on?”
Oh dear, EC. Does that count as going ‘cold turkey’ for the affluent sexual deviant these days?
Noa,
Deprivation of chilled Bernard Matthews products aside, a cultural reeducation program might help. So any access to PlayBoyo™ magazine should be removed in favour of more wholesome publications such as Sheepwrangler Weekly and Herdwick News.
I hope that he makes a full recovery and is back on our screens soon. The BBC news won’t be the same without him reading the lies on the autocue through the corner of his mouth.
Noa,
So will you be propping up the bar at Old Trafford later this week?
Will the current spell foul weather last long enough to save England?
From the vaults: Here’s Fred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwqVQoBWl6M
The BBC’s peak of culinary cuisine reportage was reached by the genius of Keith Floyd and has never been surpassed, not even by the cinnamon and star anise sprinkled décollagé of Nigella or the expletive peppered Manglish of Gordon Ramsey.
EC
I see your Fred and raise you one black lesbian Guinevere.
https://youtu.be/ND2XS_l0dOQ
No, regretfully I don’t plan to visit Old Trafford this week, the hassles of getting there sitting in the marching sheets of northern rain and watching half an hour of live cricket can’t compete with the uxurious benefits of my Virgin subscription.
EC says:
July 16, 2023 at 10:13 am
Argaaaglh! Laugh? I nearly dropped my ball of wool, “knit one purl two” I muttered as an invocation against the manifesting twin demons of Saville and Freud as the ectoplasm began to form in the dark corner of the room…
On the current topics of deviance and cricket, (perhaps they are even one, seamless and irrevocably jointed subject, like the madness of the Windsors) you might enjoy this piece, benign but essentially baa-rmy
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/notes-from-the-sticks-a-tree-and-six-stumps/
Noa at 10:32 am
Keith Floyd was definitely “the man.” Great food, fond memories of his anarchic shows. He knew his stuff on wine too. I was also fond of Nigella’s Knödels, lightly oiled and steamed.
With the exception of Mad Gordon, and maybe the Hirsute Bikers*, what followed in the world of TV Chef-ery was anaemic by comparison.
(*the Bikers were really funny in the early days, but too much PC blather followed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6wV0bjuss
On old Broilers and Boilers.
1There were the 2 fat ladies of course, Clarissa and Jennifer,smoking and drinking over their disgusting meals, like the SS Galacia Division on tour in Buchenwald.
The blokes generally pale in comparison. Nigel Slater? Too much mince. Hugh Fearnleaf-Whitteringstuff? Too many hyphens in his wabbit. Celebrity MasterChef? Who cares?Those who watch it are nowadays vegan voyeurs perving on the sight of tiny pieces of cooked steak whilst dutifully eating their Gates Roachburger.
If you havent already seen it this is an interesting take on the Ukr Joker by Scott Ritter.
https://expose-news.com/2023/07/17/agent-zelensky-how-the-president-of-ukraine-rose/
Sushi might, Benny has, but would YOU buy a used joke from this man?
“If I go in search of the epicentre of Bollocks, written by the high priests of shite, I go to The Guardian.” Neil Oliver
https://www.frontpages.com/the-guardian/
Perhaps we should all jet off to Rwanda to cool down a bit?
Back to Blair again…
“Muslims in Britain do not have to pay Stamp Duty like everybody else when they buy a house”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBMkDP7Umw
EC
It’s not just Stamp duty that is evaded in this way. As lessees rather than house owners the bulk of assets subject to high UK Inheritance tax rates are reduced, just as Muslims are encouraged to pool and acquire more properties, in turn encouraging a vicious circle of chain migration.
Whatever you may think of th guy, he cannot be more correct if he tried an infinite number of tries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-olfLz6AgE
Noa and EC:
The only TV chef worth watching, Keith Floyd, he had one quality all the others missed on, he was natural, no pretending anything, pity he liked the bottle too much.
EC says @ July 17, 2023 at 5:19 pm
So much for equality under the law, EC, it’s truly disgraceful, one wonder what would be the outcome if people were made aware of it.
The western meta-narrative “from Plato to NATO, is one of superior ideas and practices whose origins lie in ancient Greece, and have since been refined, extended, and transmitted down the ages (through the Renaissance, the scientific revolution and other supposedly uniquely western developments), so that we in the west today are the lucky inheritors of a superior cultural DNA”.
This is what the narrators of the Daily Telegraph video (the first link) probably had at the back of their minds when they insist that ‘Our narrative wins wars’. Their hubris resides in the implicit presumption: that the West somehow always wins – is destined to prevail – because it is the recipient of this privileged genealogy.
The other link contains the above two paragraphs, it’s a rebuttal of the Telegraph video which makes little sense, how could a Russian trooper in the trenches of southern Ukraine even know about the Bogdanov’s stare, of the DA of Kiev shopping at the petrol station?
https://youtu.be/ts4JS2NVtqs
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/17/a-bonfire-of-the-vanities/
Baron says:
July 17, 2023 at 11:49 pm
Excellent links both mi’lud, how long must loons such as they, and we, bawl into the wind before being heard? Still, the worst thing to happen would be that no one is shouting into the gale…
An inciteful, non comparison between East Germany and Sunook Britain.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-lesson-from-behind-the-iron-curtain/
Baron, July 17, 2023 at 11:49 pm
Great links.
That Telegraph video was a great puff piece for the imploding “counter offensive.” Operation Mockingbird on steroids! The Telegraph and the rest of the British media has been replete with such unbelievable propaganda fairy tales for at least the last year. It a wonder that Ukrainian are not already parked up in Red Square.
Whether or not Mr Nicholls is an Op. Mock. place-man he deserves the Joseph Goebbels Medal with Oak Leaves and Swords for his efforts here.
@10:19
Ukrainian tanks in Red Square!
as ever
e&oe
Noa, July 18, 2023 at 9:29 am
That also was a great article.
Laurence Hodge’s article, “Night of the Tory Living Dead” was also good.
The film buff within me also appreciated that photo-shopped picture of Count Rasheed Sunook. This was an unmissable (h)omage to the famous B&W photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula.
“An off beat newspaper article about Step Ladders caught my eye yesterday. Apparently over the last 70 years, or so, manufacturers have had to increase the distance between the rungs because people have been getting taller. The Guardian have ascribed this to “climb it change.”
h/t “Geoff Buys Cars”
EC @ 10.51am
:-)))
Americana: Jason Aldean makes me want to buy a Harley Davidson and join the “Pissed Off Bastards (POBOB) Motorcycle Club.
“Jason Aldean – Try That In A Small Town”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY
Howls of protests from the usual suspects after footage real life events set to music with lyrics summarises by “Make My Day, Punk!” (aka “Fabricati Diem PVNC”. T. Pratchett)
apropos @10:42
A source informs me that there is a crime wave happening throughout suburban America. Inflation, recession (Ssh! it’s officially denied) is biting. People have exhausted their savings and max-ed out their credit cards trying to survive.
Americana 2: 2014, Some tragic statistics set to music
“Wrong Side Of Heaven”. Five Finger Death Punch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab5FRwM
In 2016 El hombre Naranja was the peace candidate.
Which is why he had to go in 2020.
Back to “Business as usual” under President Zombie
File under: Never ending wars, MIC profits.
From Phil Tufnell-Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
“Wood said this morning he only needs six balls…”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V2JjIARaqPw
What’s in a name?
Phonetically, Ursula von der Leyen = Ursula fond-of Lying.
Here’s one for Simon Webb, if he’s listening…
“When your Pilot is an Affirmative Action Hire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7rT6BZLP5M
Noa says: July 22, 2023 at 2:54 pm
That’s quite a cluster.
Dropped into the visitors’ changing room they could make a difference.
Rain results in England losing the Ashes series, so it’s time to burn the witches again.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/22/the-climate-witch-trials/?utm_source=spiked+long-reads&utm_campaign=c72ef5a3cc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_23_08_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c72ef5a3cc-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
EC says @ July 23, 2023 at 11:58 am
Amazing it still runs, EC, shome mistake shomwhere.
It’s the guy’s commentary that’s interesting, Baron’s recollection, too.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Owbzg_Rgv4?feature=share
EC says @ July 23, 2023 at 10:41 am
The Irish are clever, EC, but bricklaying in gems studded boots? Hmmm
EC says @ July 21, 2023 at 11:20 am
A powerful video, EC, applies to every country, amazingly we shout a lot about how we care about everyone, have plenty of state agencies that should take care of those fallen on hard times, also charities but when one needs help one doesn’t find it, it’s a cruel society when one thinks about it, the plight of the American vets is truly sickening.
One hopes that the ‘senior and trusted source’ gets the sack, how could the source get hold of Farage’s account, discuss it with the BBC Economic Editor, allow the Editor to publish a lie?
Isn’t that something for which everyone else but the NatWest female would have to either resign or be dismissed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm3j4ThCTzw
This is good, the guy is smart:
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/bidens-war-wwiii
This is short, it shows the workings of the newest Russian tank T-90M, the guy says they leave the hideout, find the target, shoot without getting noticed, turn back and hide, but it’s the inside of the contraption that’s of interest, a plastic loader, also the screen must be linked with an over the horizon radar, clever stuff, but how will it do under fire?:
https://www.vesti.ru/article/3468107
Thoughts for the day…
“Every time a friend succeeds, a little part of me dies…”
Gore Vidal.
“Of course I believe in luck. How else can I explain the success of those I despise?”
Maurice Chevalier.
“A friend in need is a pest. Get rid of him.”
Tommy Cooper.
H/T TCW
The decline tovthe third world is accelerating. Now 10% of UK tax revenue will be going on debt service.
https://www.ft.com/content/b25903fd-2ebe-4f65-aa20-c21d873946f3?sharetype=blocked
UK to run up highest debt interest bill in developed world
http://www.ft.com
The UK is on track to incur the highest debt interest costs in the developed world this year as persistently high inflation and an unusually large proportion of government bonds linked to price rises damage the public finances.
The Treasury will spend £110bn on debt interest in 2023, according to a forecast by Fitch. At 10.4 per cent of total government revenue, that would be the highest level of any high-income country — the first time the UK has topped the data set that goes back to 1995 — after an improvement by the prior leader Iceland.
Roughly a quarter of UK government debt is in the form of so-called index-linked bonds, whose payouts fluctuate in line with inflation, making the country a huge outlier internationally. Italy has the next highest share with 12 per cent of its bonds tied to inflation, while most countries have less than 10 per cent.
“We’ve had a very large inflation shock which is adversely affecting the public finances and that is obviously a key driver of the sovereign credit rating,” said Ed Parker, global head of research for sovereigns and supranationals at Fitch.
The agency reiterated in June its negative outlook on the UK’s double A minus credit rating, citing “the UK’s rising government debt and uncertain prospects for fiscal consolidation”.
Parker said a negative outlook signals that a downgrade is “more likely than not if current trends continue” and that the agency would normally hope to clarify a negative outlook within two years.
Debt interest costs as a proportion of revenue are a key measure of debt affordability and have jumped in the UK in the past couple of years while coming down elsewhere.
The UK will sit at the top of the Fitch debt interest costs table after its ratio increased dramatically in the past two years from an average of 6.2 per cent between 2017 and 2021.
In contrast, the average among western Europe and North American countries is set to fall from 4 per cent in the five years to 2021, to 3.7 per cent this year, as inflation has boosted government revenues and in some countries the debt expiring had higher interest rates than new debt issued.
Rising debt costs in the UK come as inflation proves harder to tame than in other developed economies, despite recent signs of improving data. The UK’s retail price index, which guides index-linked gilt interest payments, rose 10.7 per cent in the year to June, while wage inflation has yet to show signs of easing.
Fitch forecasts the UK’s debt interest-to-revenue ratio should start to fall next year as inflation continues to ease, with the interest burden of both the US and Italy set to overtake the UK in 2024.
However, rating agencies expect the UK’s interest costs to stabilise at historically high levels. “We expect the debt affordability of the UK to remain relatively weak” said Evan Wohlmann, a senior credit officer at rival rating agency Moody’s.
“Debt affordability is at risk from more persistent inflation as well as from a potential sustained erosion of the UK’s policy credibility,” he added.
Moody’s, which has an Aa3 negative rating on the UK — its fourth highest level — also has a negative outlook, a position it has held since October and expects to clarify within 12 months.
Concern among rating agencies on the UK’s credit outlook comes after the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK’s fiscal watchdog, warned that public finances were in a “very risky” position, with government debt on course to hit 310 per cent of gross domestic product in 50 years.
The OBR said that the UK was “more vulnerable” than other advanced economies when it came to public debt, which in May surpassed 100 per cent of gross domestic product for the first time since 1961.
The government plans to sell £241bn of gilts in the current financial year, a sharp increase from £139.2bn issued in the previous 12 months, with issuance net of Bank of England bond purchases and sales expected to be about three times more than the average over the past decade.
This article has been amended to correct Moody’s UK rating
Noa says @ July 25, 2023 at 11:32 am
That’s more than worrying, Noa, it’s not that far from the money we spend on the NHS (around £145bn) and twice the budget for the military.
How could it all end?
The consequences of the Ukraine war will continue to be experienced long after it ends. Germany, aka the EU, will look to retain and grow the people assets it has obtained, as usual the lumpenproles who don’t wish return to its broken, corrupt polity will be encouraged to go to the festering EU dumping ground, the EUs equivalent of the Reich’s ‘General Government’ area established in Poland that is the UK.
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9309
Baron says:
July 25, 2023 at 9:00 pm
How can it end well; Baron?
There is no and can be no intention to pay down the unrepayable debt created, except by the continuing sale of any remaining assets, whilst the wealthy protect what they have by off- shoring it.
Increasing direct and indirect taxation will continue to be used to prop up the crumbling UK bureaucratic edifice until the ever nearing point at which it collapses into continuing internecine conflict and autocracy.
Whatever happened to Kilroy?
He no longer peers at me from the lavatory walls…
Col Big Mac telling it like it is.
He may be talking about the US, but his analysis applies just as much to the UK and Europe..
https://youtu.be/mdUPYNGB-PU
A disaster, and a massive one, Baron’s car insurance doubled, fugging doubled, what’s going on, could it be an error?
Does anyone know, boys?
This must be another step to the end Noa foresees @ 9:32.
Baron
Not good.
Farage covered the problem on Wednesday. Heres the link, 40 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ymaCDd6-KGM?feature=share
Baron 12:44 pm
You won’t get a good deal unless you are prepared to swap insurers every year.
I always use price comparison websites. eg “Compare the Market”, “Go Compare” etc.
You usually can obtain a significant reduction from your renewal quote by ringing the ‘tards up and telling them that you’ve had a significantly cheaper quote elsewhere.
Noa 2:06 pm
Insurers in general, snakes, always try to wriggle out of their obligations to pay out on a claim. That’s why the invented a class of slimy people called “loss adjusters.”
What NF didn’t mention was car insurance premiums going up for everybody because of EVs. Even a minor accident will seen an EV written off. This is because they can not be deemed to be safe after a bump, and have the propensity to burst into flames, sink ships etc. EVs have to be transported and stored separately. This adds more costs!
File under: Lithium Batteries, Thermal Runaway Fires etc.
Noa: July 27, 2023 at 12:33 pm
Douglas M is one of the very few people in the USA who has been providing rational war commentary and analysis for the last 18 months.
George Galloway interviewed a retired CIA dude who explains why and how necrosis has set at top of that organisation, and not just in the US ruling class. Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0r1c0uleN0
It wasn’t 25 EV cars IT WAS FIVE HUNDRED! North Sea Fire REVELATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfeCsAfEIG0
EC says:
July 28, 2023 at 7:51 pm
That’s one hack of a lot of volts sizzling in the North Sea EC.
So I hope you’re not in Whitby at the moment, and leaping off your sunbed, just about to dip your toes in the water to combat climate change.
EC says @ July 28, 2023 at 7:51 pm
The timing’s wrong, EC, they should have waited for the end of the year, better display than the usual fireworks.
This also explains a lot about the huge rise in the insurance premiums, thanks to you and Noa for the explanation and advice, the EV ‘s safety concerns must be the main reason for the unprecedented increase, what Baron didn’t realise that after even a minor incident these contraptions have to be written off, what a fugging stupid idea to make them clog our roads when the ICE cars have been perfected so well one could hardly hear Baron’s seven year old diesel ticking.
The grisly war criminal to return Govt. as puppet master off the hapless/hopeless Starmer?
Plausible, as none of Labour’s front bench are as clueless as the Chaiwallah’s front bench.
It was reported yesterday that Blair had stated that ordinary people should not have to be impoverished by UK Net Zero targets as the UK’s contribution would make SQRT(FA) to global warming. Genius!
His statement was both true and false. When(if) Labour get in they will impoverish everybody but the ruling elite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS2n8T-n6I0
Mahyar Tousi is a bit of a clickbait merchant but he occasionally comes up with the goods.
@10:31. edits !
“off” – “of”
remove “none of”
e&oe
On a completely different frequency, here are some statistics for the Year 1915:
The average life expectancy for British men was 47 years.
Fuel for cars was sold in chemists only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bath.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average British wage in 1915 was £15 per year!
A competent accountant could expect to earn £800 per year.
A dentist £900 per year.
A vet between £600 and £900 per year.
But, a mechanical engineer about £2000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at home
Ninety percent of all doctors had no university education!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as “substandard.”
Sugar cost two pence a pound.
Eggs were 10 pence a dozen.
Coffee was five pence a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and, used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
The Five leading causes of death in the UK were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhoea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
But can the dog bite?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/japanese-man-who-identifies-as-dog-takes-first/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-07-30
Baron: July 29, 2023 at 9:21 pm
Interesting stats,
I’m not sure if Laudanum(tincture of opium) could still be purchased at chemists shoppes in 1914. Nothing like a swig of that with brandy chasers for a good sing song around the harmonium at Christmas. Superseded by Aspirin which was no bloody fun at all. I think that in those days, used responsibly, Laudanum did more good than harm.
https://oddfeed.net/laudanum-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-victorian-super-drug/
In 1914 it was still legal to purchase and own firearms with a licence which could be bought from any Post Office.
@10:42
The size of government is directly proportional to population size.
Personal freedom is inversely proportional to both of the above.
I cannot remember who said it but…
Government overreach is when they pass laws that remove/restrict personal freedoms and rights in order to sell them back to us in the form of licences.
Baron,
There’s a lot of Russian being spoken here. (from about 1min 30 to end at 4min 30 )
It’s all Greek to me. Give us a clue please, old bean.
“There is no easy way to reach Magadan – Trip Update”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFH0lgn8w30
EC says @ July 30, 2023 at 11:09 am
Apologies, EC, your friend’s Russian sounds strange, when he meets the Russian motorcyclist he tells him the road gets better 50 meters ahead, also not to touch the ground as he moves, the longer conversation is about a fault the Russian believes he has, Baron didn’t understand what the fault is supposed to be, but your friend again warns against not using the foot pegs when riding.
EC says @ July 30, 2023 at 10:42 am
An excellent find, EC, enjoyable, it’s amazing how different life was barely over 100 years ago.
Baron at 12:09 am
“your friend’s Russian sounds strange”
🙂 That’s probably because he’s a Bulgarian, from Varna.
He doesn’t do a bad job at English, and he gets by in German too.
Baron at 12:09 am
Thanks for the translation, btw.
My two year fixed price electricity and gas deal is about to expire. The upshot is that I will be paying 58% more for the next 12 months!
I suppose that I shouldn’t complain too much as I dodged the worst of the great energy company rip offs, and in addition the chaiwallah gave me £400 last winter.
Simple but clever:
https://politikus.info/video/154331-zabytye-tehnologii.html
EC says @ August 3, 2023 at 9:31 am
You should be glad, EC, you are not using heating oil, at one point last year one couldn’t get it (close to three Winter months with no central heating ) even though the price more than doubled.
From another blog by Allan Mountain:
“Boeing supplies Pentagon trash cans for (drum roll) USD$51,606 per can.
Senate Votes to Throw $886 Billion at Defense. How Much Money is Wasted?
01 August 2023
Refer: https://mishtalk.com/economics/senate-votes-to-throw-886-billion-at-defense-how-much-money-is-wasted/
from the article:
In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts.
But it gets better – how about Boeing selling a four cent ($0.04) pin to Pentagon for $70. Now that’s not a bad markup.
Also from the article:
There are endless examples of contractors overcharging the Pentagon and fleecing the taxpayer. Sen. Warren mentioned just a few in this week’s hearing: paying $1,500 for a medical device that could be purchased at Walmart for $192; giving Boeing $70 for a pin that was worth four cents; and paying $1,800 for vaccines that normally cost $125. And as 60 Minutes noted after interviewing former Pentagon procurement official Shay Assad, “[t]he Pentagon, he told us, overpays for almost everything – for radar and missiles … helicopters … planes … submarines… down to the nuts and bolts.”
In the longer term, absent a near-term sudden all-out war erupting between the West and Russia / China, all the Russians and Chinese have to do is hold off the globalist fast-failing power grab and the oligarch parasites inside Rome – Oops I mean America – will simply bleed and plunder America and its allied puppet states to ruin.
The world has fast accelerating conflict zones flashing red hot, that could fast mimic WW1 events with one hot spot flashing way of control and drawing all other hot spots into a conflagration beyond worst imaginations.
Sadly as they go down the same rotten Anglo-American oligarchs are going to take down the entire Five Eyes group whose all-seeing eyes are now tight shut against reality. They have effectively blindfolded the people beyond any senseful sight.
They have successfully immersed us in a transgender wonderland kaleidoscope 3D Disney fantasies.
You have to hand it to them – it is certainly a masterfully crafted great show”.
And they point a finger at Russia as the most corrupt country in the world as if other countries were not equally or even more deeply corrupt.
Baron: August 3, 2023 at 7:59 pm
A situation that arises when a cabal can spend other people’s money, (*) with zero prospect of ever being held personally financially liable for it.
* borrowed money, colossal debts burdening the living and not yet born.
Noa, you know things…
How “independent” is t’ Bank of England’s MPC?
Their decisions give the appearance of deliberately driving the UK into a recession that is far worse than the USA or any other EU country.
Collusion with Ursula Fond-of-Lying? Punishment for BRexit?
File under: Mortgage-geddon.
The never ending SNP corruption, fraud and embezzlement investigation:
How long do Police Scotland actually need before bringing some interim charges? Is the current PS head-honcho stalling until his replacement (*) takes charge?
* The Durham exonerator-ess of Sir Beer Starmer
Baron,
Requiem for the spirit you used to talk about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=635JXpvVFhc
“Ford have just announced the release of their new van. The Ford Trans can be switched from left hand drive to right hand drive depending on how the driver feels on the day, or the controls can be moved to any position within the cab to make it driver fluid – the built-in sat nav can offer the driver counselling and encouragement to change driving position. It can identify as anything from a limousine to an articulated petrol tanker. It won’t be available in wh1te, only green. It’s electric, obviously, and can be AC or DC.”
H/T Chris @ TCW
Noa is ‘on tour’ atm in the South Aegean. Reports say he is looking desperately for fires to fight whilst drinking copious quantities of cold beer and preaching anti Wimmins’ World Cup Climate change and LQBTQIA + sedition to WFH UK NHS and Civil Service nomklatura in any local bar where he is not yet banned.
EC
The MPC? It’s in Melbourne isn’t it? Aussie rules footie and scheming how to keep the Ashes, which we keep anyway for them at Lords, where the drunks in the MC both nominate and provide the members of the MPC, which takes its instructions from the Fed, Frankfurt an the Paris Bourse, thus completing the virtuous circle… That is until Vlad, Modi and Zing get their new gold based world currency up and running in September…
Unfortunately I cannot say more, as the World Banking cartel’s secret police are in close pursuit and Miranda, my Aphrodite-like barmaid, named as I have told her by the Bard in The Tempest after Prospero’s daughter, will have pulled my pre-dinner pint of Mythos…
Chin chin!
I read that Eddie Lizzard want to be the MP for Brighton Mince or something country.
This is a man who’s a political legend. And so butch he wears high heel hobnail boots to complement his black sheer socks.
Why shouldn’t one enjoy the Summer of the highest temperatures ever recorded when the winds are blowing hard, the skies are dark, the rain heavy and persistent and the thermometer points at 12deg C, arghhh
Yes, Noa, Eddie is at it again, perhaps fourth time lucky, who knows, yet one cannot but wonder what would the past leaders of the once quite reputable political movement called Labour say about it, (say) Harold as not to go further back in history when the ‘barbaric’ Britain was about, would he consent to having him in the fold? We should be told, someone may like to dig him up, his cadaver couldn’t do much worse than the soporific guy in charge today.
EC says @ August 5, 2023 at 10:54 am
Ain’t over yet, EC, the barbarian of the eastern origin continues to cling to his belief the healthy core of Britishness is still alive, hibernating, maligned often spat at but surviving waiting for the right time to make a move, it may not be a move to everyone’s liking, the smart ones will not want to be around, but the outcome may surprise even the members of the healthy core of Britishness.
The postings are good, pity you cannot read them, but the narrative is more balanced that is the usual for the Spectator:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wolves-and-the-greens-why-germans-are-flocking-to-the-afd/
It’s mostly the postings Baron enjoys, but the critique of the Kagan’s dream isn’t bad either:
https://sonar21.com/if-you-are-looking-for-a-belly-laugh-read-fred-kagans-latest/
On the German AfD march forward @ 09:25 Baron forgot to say it was for Noa to comment, he’s the expert on the European troublemakers in the past (possibly future as well?).
EC says @ August 5, 2023 at 10:50 am
Perhaps everyone up in the land of the haggis, midges and no a bad booze called whisky hopes that the passing of time will make everyone to forget about it, EC, let’s face it the business of the SNP under the leadership of the fishmonger’s women paints the whole Scotland in rather unfavourable colours, how could they allow it to last so long?
The last piece for you to read or scan, if true it’s truly sickening, but true it may be, Baron has come across an article that bases the number of casualties on the cancellations of SIM cards, not temporarily not working, suspended because of the holder’s fighting but genuine ‘cancels’ for three leading Ukrainian mobile operators (Vodafone is one of them), unfortunately Baron didn’t copy the address, cannot find it now, but the figures were also pointing to the half a million mark.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/08/04/us-led-nato-drowns-ukraine-in-bloodbath/
Baron: August 5, 2023 at 9:40 pm
I was patrolling the western marches on the other side of the Solway yesterday. Things are not going well. The upcoming SNP cuts to the Polis Scotland budget will reportedly leave them with only TWO patrol cars for the entire country… and only ONE of those during the night. This is not the usual “silly season” story as …
1) it has been running since March 2022; 2) The “summer” hols are over.
In other news the Hotel Mecure in Dumfries is reportedly about to accommodate 400 Albanian males until they can be found employment in the Lothian cannabis plantations.
Noa: August 5, 2023 at 3:57 pm
Steady on the Metaxa 5star & Piriton™ tabs, old bean lest Miranda turns out to be more than meets the eye. “There’s a lot of it about” (© Spike Milligna)
File under: Tempting bar snacks, Nut Clusters etc.
EC says:
August 6, 2023 at 11:08 am
No doubt the SNP will, in a genius moment of lateral thought, realise the benefits of recruiting the Albanians as a People’s Militia, so enabling them to both to control crime and provide it in one virtuous circle, with the additional benefit of removing their unemployment costs.
Baron
If the soldiers are KIA who cancels their accounts. It can’t be the Ukr Army Command, who are as interested in the welfare of their troops as Napoleon Bounaparte and Field Marshal Haig combined.
Perhaps it’s the ÐIE Department at NatWest, who we know have experience in such things.
I’m out of touch with political matters in Germany atm Mi’lud.
Hopefully the AfD will give the Green government the same treatment GB News gave to Greenpeace HQ yesterday by parking their Mercedes in the heart of government.
EC says:
August 6, 2023 at 11:26 am
Mrs N’s ever watchful spies, like the Nuland Gang, would not tolerate any misreading of the Prospero doctrines ans accords.
Baron,
Some analysis for you to chew over. The Colonel penned this a week ago. Unfortunately the Neocon psychosis that prevails in the Diaper House and Hexagon means that nobody will take heed. Cue: Irving Berlin, “There may be trouble ahead…”
Make Peace, You Fools!
America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard.
Douglas Macgregor
Aug 1, 2023
Incrementalism the tendency to inch forward rather than to take bold steps—is usually preferred by political and military leaders in warfare, because the introduction of a few forces into action puts fewer personnel at risk, and, in theory, promises a series of improvements over time, often through attrition.
In 1950, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by the then-chairman General J. Lawton Collins, recommended short envelopments along the Korean coastline that were designed to gradually increase the size of the U.S. and Allied enclave known as the Pusan Perimeter. The idea was to buy time to assemble enough forces to launch a breakout on the Normandy model. But General of the Army Douglas MacArthur disagreed. He argued for a daring, deep envelopment that promised to cut off the North Korean Forces south of the 38th Parallel that were encircling Pusan.
As it turned out, MacArthur was right. Today, we know that the short envelopments were exactly what the North Korean command was prepared to defeat. In retrospect, it is certain that along with their Chinese allies, the North Koreans were familiar with the operational employment of U.S. and Allied forces during WWII. Eisenhower’s insistence on a broad front strategy that moved millions of troops in multiple armies in parallel across France and Germany to Central Europe conformed to the low-risk formula.
In light of this history, it was reasonable for the North Koreans to believe that MacArthur would never split his forces and launch an amphibious assault far behind North Korean lines. It was simply too risky. And the operational concept for Inchon was also inconsistent with the way U.S. forces were employed during the Civil War and World War I—wars won through attrition, not maneuver.
In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin opted for incrementalism in his approach to the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. Putin committed fewer than 100,000 Russian troops to a shallow penetration attack on a broad front into a country the size of Texas. Having failed over a period of nearly 15 years to persuade Washington and the collective West of Moscow’s opposition to NATO’s advance to the east, Putin seems to have concluded that Washington and its NATO allies would prefer immediate negotiations to a destructive regional war with unknowable potential for escalation to the nuclear level.
Putin was wrong. He made a false assumption based on rational choice theory. Rational choice theory attempts to predict human behavior based on the assumption that individuals habitually make choices in economics, politics, and daily life that align with their personal best interest.
The problem with the theory is that human beings are not rational. In fact, the human mind is like a black box. It is possible to observe what goes into the black box and the decisions that come out of it, but the actual decision-making process that unfolds inside the black box is opaque.
In international relations and war, the defining features of human identity—history, geography, culture, religion, language, race, or ethnicity—must also figure prominently in any strategic assessment. For reasons of culture, experience, and innate character, MacArthur was a risk-taker. As Peter Drucker reminds his readers, culture is the foundation for human capital. These realities routinely defeat the unrealistic expectations that rational choice theory creates.
Instead of approaching the negotiating table, Washington discarded the caution, given Russia’s nuclear arsenal, that had guided previous American dealings with Moscow. Washington’s political class, with no real understanding of Russia or Eastern Europe, subscribed to the late Senator John McCain’s notion that Russia was a “gas station with nuclear weapons.”
Putin is not a risk-taker. But he abandoned incrementalism, and rapidly reoriented Russian forces to the strategic defense, an economy of force measure designed to minimize Russian losses while maximizing Ukrainian losses until Russian Forces could return to offensive operations. The Russian change in strategy has worked. Despite the unprecedented infusion of modern weaponry, cash, foreign fighters, and critical intelligence to Ukrainian forces, Washington’s proxy is shattered. Ukraine’s hospitals are brimming with broken human beings and Ukrainian dead litter the battlefield. Kiev is a heart patient on life support.
Russia’s attrition strategy has achieved remarkable success, but the success is making the conflict currently more dangerous than at any point since it began in February 2022. Why? Defensive operations do not win wars, and Washington continues to believe Ukraine can win.
Washington discounts Ukrainian losses and exaggerates Russian losses. Officers present at meetings in the Pentagon tell me that minor Ukrainian battlefield successes (that are almost instantly reversed) loom large in the discussions held in four-star headquarters, the White House, and Foggy Bottom. These reports are treated as incontrovertible evidence of inevitable Ukrainian victory. In this climate, staff officers are reluctant to highlight effective Russian military performance or the impact of Russia’s expanding military power.
The Western media reinforce these attitudes, arguing that the Russian generals and their forces are dysfunctional, mired in corruption and sloth, and that Ukraine can win if it gets more support. As a result, it is a good bet that Washington and its allies will continue to provide equipment and ammunition, though probably not in the quantities and of the quality they did in the recent past.
Warsaw, whose leadership of NATO’s anti-Russian crusade is prized in Washington, finds comfort in the Beltway’s belief in Russian military weakness. So much so, that Warsaw seems willing to risk direct confrontation with Moscow. According to French sources in Warsaw, if Ukrainian forces are driven back, “the Poles may introduce the first division this year, which will include the Poles, the Balts, and a certain number of Ukrainians.”
Now, Washington is misjudging Moscow. The Russian national command authorities may well think that Warsaw’s actions align with Washington’s intentions. President Biden’s executive order to extend hazard pay to American soldiers currently serving in Ukraine (who are not supposed to be there) no doubt reinforces this opinion.
But it is far more likely that the Polish tail wants to wag the American dog. The Poles know their military intervention in historic Galician Ukraine will provoke a military response from both Belarus and Russia, but Warsaw also reasons that Washington’s air and ground forces in Europe are unlikely to sit quietly in Ukraine, Romania, and the Baltic littoral while Polish forces fight a losing battle.
America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard. Indulging Poland’s passion for war with Russia encourages Poland to follow the Ukrainian example. The very idea must leave Moscow no choice but to bring all of Russia’s military power to bear simultaneously against Ukraine, before the collective West stumbles into regional war. Make peace, you fools, before it’s too late.
Noa,
https://snipboard.io/8yQarP.jpg
Baron
Information on the ‘fsr right’ (of courses) AfDs progress is unsurprisingly scarce in the MSM, however I did find this useful update on Politico..
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-alternative-fur-deutschland-european-parliament-election-maximilian-krah-migration/
They seem sane and reasonable to me. Hardly worth investing in Serco-lite concentration camp construction and service providers yet.
I winder if the bankrupted and criminalised Tommy Robinson still goes on their demonstrations?
Baron
Information on the ‘fsr right’ (of courses) AfDs progress is unsurprisingly scarce in the MSM, however I did find this useful update on Politico..
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-alternative-fur-deutschland-european-parliament-election-maximilian-krah-migration/
They seem sane and reasonable to me. Hardly worth investing in Serco-lite concentration camp construction and service providers yet.
I wonder if the bankrupted and criminalised Tommy Robinson still goes on their demonstrations?
EC
Ahhh, he fills a mean bra does our Eddie!
Reminds me of Ena Sharples. All he’s missing is a hairnet and a milk stout. (Or is that a mink stoat?).
Leo Kearse’s novel plan for stopping illegal (as opposed to (far-greater) mass legal migration into Britain.
https://youtu.be/n8e3_49qc3g
Who knows? It might work.
Could AfD win? Will they be banned? Would they be able to govern by the Brussels elite abd nomenklatura?
https://youtu.be/vC6789CYAvA
Jackson Lamb, spook-master, giving a motivational speech to his team.
Something a modern day Cromwell might well say, perhaps, when dissolving Parliament, sacking civil servants?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xFMdkasL94
“You’re fucking useless, the lot of you. Working with you has been the lowest point in a disappointing career.”
Brilliant. Too late now, but I could have used that a few times. 🙂
Noa
@01:35 They couldn’t do any worse than the civil servants
@12:24 In his old age Elton has become another Ena lookalike.
When Marxist-Leninist communism mutated into Stalinist totalitarianism, its mainly Jewish followers in academia, the Frankfurt and subsequently Chicago schools updated its Victorian rationale from proletarian control of the means of production to taking control of the apparatus of society and government and the replacement of a Western Judeo-Christian society with a secular International
methodology.
Critical theory, of which ‘que er’ theory is simply one facet, seeks to reconstruct traditional society through a kaleidoscope of competing minorities, non strong enough to dominate the others but all contributing to destroy tradionalal society. They combine, separate , burn out, revive and splinter endlessly; like a forest or an exploding grenade.
Whether Israel, the West and indeed the World can reassert the successful values of family and civilisation and ultimately survival remains an open question.
You may have seen it, it’s the Russian tank T-72 hitting eight pieces of the Ukrainian contraptions, it looks like two a tanks, the rest are Bradleys, the guys commenting are describing what’s going on, but mostly swear.
The thing to notice is how the Ukrainians bunch up, this shouldn’t happen, but it does mostly because the vehicles either lose communication with each other or the racket is such one cannot hear, the bunching up borders on the suicidal as this video demonstrates, at one point the Russian tank hits three of the Bradley that stand next to each other simultaneously.
One may guess is also because the Ukrainian boys didn’t get sufficient training, but the golden rule was, when Baron was at it, never get close to anyone, keep a distance as big as possible, but not so that the cohesion of the attacking line gets distorted.
The video in question is the one that lasts 4:17min.
https://ura.news/news/1052673211
EC says @ August 6, 2023 at 11:08 am
The lawyers for the illegals have rejected the accommodation on the barge, only hotels will do, the Hotel Mecure in Dumfries may be amongst them, they need room service.
The irony is placing the immigrants on the floating monster saves only £10 per head per day.
EC says @ August 7, 2023 at 10:55 am
Good stuff, EC, but Baron reckon the colonel errs in one respect, the Americans will not be drawn into a direct confrontation with the Russians because they still don’t have the same capability either on the offensive or the defensive missile weaponry, Baron may be wrong, of course, but so far events have been confirming this presumption.
Rather good, EC, only a couple of sentences, but raw and to the point.
Noa says @ August 7, 2023 at 1:57 pm
However much one would like to see the AfD to have a say, Noa, the Brussels apparatchiks can’t allow it, it would unsettle the monstrosity, possibly even break it, the event would be akin to the breaking up of the bastion of the communist doctrine the USSR.
Noa says @ August 7, 2023 at 1:35 pm
Getting out of the ECHR would be a simpler and neater way to stop the illegals, Noa, we would be able to turn them around push them back where they came from legally.
Indeed it would Milud.
But it isn’t going to happen. Half the Tory and all the Lib/Labour Traitors oppose leaving the EHCR, their backdoor reentry point to the EU, who now treat the UK as their chamber pot.
Odd that the Chaiwallah’s 5 point plan to ‘Stop the Boats’ makes no mention of erm stopping the boats.
Baron 11.18pm
US, UK and European forces have been taking the ‘peace dividend’ since 1991. They are now heavily staffed by diversity quotas of LGBTQ cadres. The white men having been rejected. As Col Mac says ‘good luck with that’.
Arms and munitions are out of date, out of production and scarce. It takes 1-3 years to increase production of a Typhoon and its ECW and Elint systems will be out of date by the time it rolls off the line.
If you want peace speak softly and carry a big stick. The blustering fools, Biden, Johnson and Co, have behaved in precisely the opposite manner and will reap the consequences.
Unfortunately, as oil and grain prices rise, crop productions fall due to the lack of fertiliser and the war widens as Poles and others become involved, so will we.
Meanwhile tied and chained as we are to the US, like Captain Ahab to Moby Dick, expect and prepare for a very bad winter indeed, as 30+ other nations, including Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil states, join the BRICS and their alternative gold backed currency is launched abd becomes reality.
Baron 11.03pm
The Ukr troops are clearly trapped, in a valley or low ground, in a pre-prepared killing ground. In addition to the reasons you advocate for bunching’ I’d surmise they are reluctant to move off the narrow road for fear of mines and becoming bogged down in soft ground/mud. Unable to turn around on the road they hope to do so in the wider space behind the copse of trees.
Notably there seems extreme accuracy, to be no waste of munitions or artillery fire.
Noa says @ August 8, 2023 at 7:33 am
Well said, young sir, very well said.
Sachs couldn’t;t be more right, the slaughter should end, they have to start talking to each other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1D8iLMFppw
Sachs is interesting but contradicts himself. An American Anglophobe, he wants to blame Britain in particular but recognises that US hegemonistic Neo Conservatives have been driving NATO expansion for 30 years.
Baron
@11:03 pm Cannon fodder. Poor buggers didn’t stand a chance.
@10:34 pm Sachs’ peace solution is risible. The Russians are not going to go home and let the “collective West” take them for a ride in “negotiations” again.
Noa
@07:33am “Sī vīs pācem, parā bellum!”
@11:05 am Sachs? Serpentine. No use him complaining about the UK being emasculated when it was the USA that bankrupted it. He was right about the Necons though.
So its two thumbs down on Sachs and schedule a re-run of John Wicks 2 para bellum for the evening film!
Laugh? I nearly cancelled my licence.
Steve Sailor’s grim sardonic take on Aunty.
https://www.takimag.com/article/bbc-the-boring-bastards-club/
Stephen Tucker was the writer. Not Stwve Sailor. Apologies.
Niger:
It must’ve been a crushing blow to Manny Macrawn when he discovered that not everybody loves him…
“Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Goes Viral Again After Niger Coup”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzfrvfoM2Cs
Whatta Gal, eh! Of course since she said all that she has probably recanted and knelt before, and kissed the rings of, Fond-of-Lying and Nuke ’em Nooland.
Speaking of
that disgusting war pigthe fragrant Viktoria, she jetted off on Luftwaffe 1 to Niger in order to whip ’em back into line Reportedly, it didn’t go to well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S159VlXfGXA
Noa says @ August 8, 2023 at 8:01 am
You’re right, Noa, the armoured vehicles and the tanks are sticking to the road for fear of getting stuck in, this is the main reason the German Leopard II tanks have been withdrawn, their weight is 55tons plus, it’s too heavy for the fields of Ukraine, the Leopard I is around 40 tons but apparently isn;t that well protected and one cannot hang the armoured plates on it for these would increase weight.
If one were to believe the Telegram reports the biggest headache for the Ukrainians is the servicing and repair of the gear they got from the West, only Poland is genuinely helping, the others are rather reluctant.
One would also guess that the poor performance of the German tanks isn’t welcome news for the maker of the contraption, the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann was hoping to capitalise on the Ukrainian war, is not pleased with what’s going on, orders are not coming in as expected.
EC says @ August 8, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Sad for the Ukrainian boys, EC, good news for the Russian tank crew, all recommended for the top military reward.
One would have thought that no breakthrough after more than two months would be enough for the Americans to call a halt to it, it’s almost impossible to watch the Telegram videos of both the hardware and the humans getting blown to pieces on both sides, madness.
Finally it happened, Baron got banned by the Spectator, so much for the free speech chest bagging by the chicken Scot that edits the rag, they can eff off, Baron will cancel his subscription be done with them.
It’s supposed to show how the Ukrainian offensive’s going:
https://politikus.info/video/154556-korotko-o-hode-kontrnastupa-vsu.html
Baron @12:09 am
Blackballed by the Scotia Nostra (©Frank P), eh?
LOL What unspeakable heresy did you utter?
Baron @12:41
That’s very funny. Tragic but very funny.
Humour cuts right through all the MSM propaganda like a hot knife thru butter.
I’m not adjusting my forecast of a September Armistice yet.
Despite the fact that Uncle Joe hasn’t yet fired the last shell, rocket or missile in NATO’s armoury and Vlod the Press ganger hasn’t yet re-joined his cache of bullion and $ in Zurich.
My betting is that channels have been maintained, a replacement junta waits in the wings and that via an intermediary like Saudi or India secret ranks are already in progress; even a conditional agreement in place and ready for ratification upon the departure of Vlod and demise of the last Ukr conscript, whichever comes first.
Baron @12:09 am
I’m surprised you lasted so long mi’lud.
The Telegraph Publishing Group being debtors to Lloyd’s, with a sale to Bezos or the Qataris being mooted, you be also be in line for account closure or havong your personal data published on the PSNI website.
EC says @ August 11, 2023 at 8:18 am
Totally unaware what may have caused the ban, EC, it may have been the cumulative endeavours of Baron to put the world right that did it.
Amazingly, he has tried few times since, one posting went in, two or three didn’t. Funny that.
Noa says @ August 11, 2023 at 9:53
Yes, true, Noa, why has he lasted so long? Baron reckons they, the ones that make the decisions, must know what happened in the other regime years and years ago, the one that imploded around 1990, are reluctant to go that way, although that may attach too much importance to what the barbarian has been yapping about, the boss says ‘who would pay any attention to the display of your innate stupidity’, and she is seldom wrong.
Baron @11:29
Dunno who said it, but…
“The female of the species is deadlier than the male.”
Baron,
One for your little quote book, miLud?
“The biggest problem with modern comedians is that they take applause and not the laughs.” (*)
Mark Steyn Show 12/08/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8ZC1xNpPI
* My Fawlty memory informs me that the totally unfunny and humourless Marcus Brigstocke [personal opinion] pioneered this technique in the 80s when he used to come on stage, hold out his hands and say “Margaret Thatcher, eh?) to the rapturous applause from his BBC audiences.
Shirley the biggest problem with modern comedian is that they aren’t funny, so there are no laughs from their audiences.
The atmosphere is like that of a CCP Conference inaugurated by Comrade Stalin to unending thunderous applause. The first to stop and sit down being quietly arrested and shot at the interval.
Ah Brigstock… I thought he’d been purged years ago, but I never watch Aunty or its minions.
Noa at 12:27 pm
You make the exact point that St. Mark of Steyn made.
I meant to say that Brigstocke is a talentless twat, as are the rest of them.
BBC Delenda Est!
EC
Yep, we’re in violent agreement with Mark, (whatever happened to Eva?)l
The English assassin, with stiletto, always to the point…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9q6cCXzgeU
Are the the wheels finally coming off Blair’s plan for sending 50% of school leavers into higher education for indoctrination, infantiilisation, and burdening them with a lifetime of debt?
It beggars belief that the Labour front bench, the government in waiting, are SO BAD that some political pundits are talking about the grisly old war criminal making a comeback.
apropos the above…
The King of Scotland on the gaslighting and the ongoing demise of “the healthy core.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COPif3HnMg
Neil’s verdict (above) on Starmer: “Empty as a cast off snakeskin”
🙂
Under the circ’s it”s the kindest thing that he could have said about him.
btw amongst his other allegiances Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Goodbye AfD? The German Government is planning to save ‘democracy’.
1933 reprised by tge EU.
https://youtu.be/Rv3vJlesEm0
“Well said, Graham, the female interviewer is biased, uninformed, and quite frankly useless, if was her that began to be aggressive, Morgan’s bad, she’s worse”, that’s what Baron posted under the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGlT-TsVjyI
Noa says @ August 14, 2023 at 6:14 pm
The first posting under the video says it all: ‘Banning your political rivals out of existence is what threatens democracy”.
EC says @ August 14, 2023 at 9:48 am
Sounds nice and right, the “empty as a cast off snakeskin”, EC, Baron is tempted to make use of it somewhere soon.
A 24-carat talent, unbelievable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyokBXgEJY
Why does the Wimmins World Cup trophy look like an iron?
Still the good news is that at least the Ingerland resm can catch up with the cleaning now.
resm?? team!
Time to have a laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglX_mlZgEU&t=48s
This was penned a year ago, is still relevant for scanning anyway:
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/11/hedges-the-pimps-of-war/
EC
Mark and Eva. Are they an item? Has he scanned her barcode?
https://youtu.be/7kSN85ET-dY
By all accounts, Lucy Letty was a very good nurse, the internal investigations found in her favour in large part because of the quality of her work, on occasions even the doctors sought her opinion, a rational explanation of what she did must exist.
It may well be that she took it on herself to decide which of the babies she attended to would live and which wouldn’t, those whose lives would be, in her opinion, close to normal or normal would be spared, those who would live not full lives, or many of them, wouldn’t, there would no no burden either on the parents who could still try have another baby and on the society.
That could be the rational motive for what she did, she may have felt she was doing everyone a favour, she may still feel he same, it’s surprising that the deepest anger of the bereaved parents is her refusal to attend the court hearing, if Baron was one of such parents this would be the last of her acts worrying him, making him ‘furious’.
The above was banned by the Spectator, this is what free speech is all about in today’s Britain, arghhh
Baron,
“The above was banned by the Spectator, this is what free speech is all about in today’s Britain, arghhh”
Your comment wasn’t suitably uninformed, emotive and condemnatory, judging by the newspaper headlines that I’ve seen in the last day or so.
Russia has already won the Ukraine war and has been presented with the unexpected opportunity to expose NATO and the West as both toothless and bloodily incompetent. NATO’s de facto second largest army, Ukraine has been defeated with over a third of a million dead and it and the government is on the verge of collapse.
NATO itself has run out of weapons and munitions and cannot make more.
Should we be concerned that the West’s increasingly undemocratic democracies may in turn collapse when the Kiev junta is deposed? Possibly not, though I suspect that the unwilling and unrepresented subjects of the US, EU and UK will respond to such collapse in both Ukraibe with at worst indifference and probably tacit support for an anti-nationalist, anti globalist Russia.
Washington Delenda est!
The Letby case seems to challenge the once demanding rules of criminal evidence, resulting in her conviction on hearsay and speculation.
Was she found guilty ‘beyond reasonable doubt’? On the evidence I have seen reported I do not think so. The conviction is unsafe and should led to judicialreview and its being overruled.
Will this happen? Perhaps, sometime in the next 17 years…
I suspect Simon Webb, would like me have voted ‘Not Guilty’. However with a majority verdict we would be insufficient to maintain a just verdict.
https://youtu.be/cZeTng1fpzo
Mi’lud,
You can’t say you haven’t been warned about the Speculator.
After all that was why the CHW was founded. Sadly the eternal seekees after truth, or at least a degree if honest objectivity, have declined to just three and the occasional bit.
Noa at 6:48 pm
I saw a barrister being interviewed who said that the evidence in the case was circumstantial and over a decade old. There was a procession of consultants wheeled in by the prosecution, some to give their ‘opinion’ maybe others to shift the blame? I don’t know how the defence didn’t present a stronger case.
Noa at 6:34 pm
If the war ends before the 2024 election run it’ll be catastrophic for Team
Obamaer.. Biden. The longer it goes on the more conditions Russia will exact for being put to all the expense and trouble.The USA needs to cleanse their “Augean Stables” starting with all the Neocons in the DEM/GOP Unaparty, the Pentagon, CIA, DoD, DoJ and the FBI.
The prognosis for the USA is not encouraging, for the UK and EU even worse.
Well said on both counts EC.
Regime change in Washington may well be a bloody affair though. I just don’t see it happening quietly, if at all.
The vested interests have too much to lose.
The dream team. Tucker and Col Mac, speaking Truth to Power, but will Power listen?
https://youtu.be/iMUAaWK79Vc
Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses” MI5 spook novels are full of gallows humour concerning the ongoing farce of incompetence in UK security and government arenas.
His latest book, #7, “Bad Actors.” contains the following pithy quote…
” All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot.”
When I read that I instantly thought of “Call me Dave” but CHWallsters may have their own instant reactions. There’s a long list to choose from!
Here’s a position g from another blog by someone called Mac, good stuff that:
“I have learned in life to never try to anticipate where stupidity will go next. What we are seeing, whether in Ukraine, or in the broader picture including the economy, is just plain stupid. Stupid can’t be fixed, because it is too stupid to know it’s stupid. Even worse, whether NATO or the WEF types, they all think of themselves a geniuses, the smartest guys in the room.
Some seem to want an exit before their impotence is out in the open, not knowing it’s too late for that. Generally, whatever a stupid person does next is stupid too. We can count on that, and are seeing it with more money we don’t have pumped into that black hole.
It won’t end until NATO gets whipped thoroughly into submission. Putin seems to know that. The powers that be over here don’t see it, at least not yet. We are seeing fear showing here from some corners as they know they are being exposed as paper tigers, and that the MIC doesn’t supply much in the way of useful arms, just expensive ones. If our nukes aren’t any better as compared to Russia’s, we better not even think of trying that avenue.
They say you become what you hate, and we have become the Soviets, destroying freedom, the economy, and it building a military with sketchy arms. Meanwhile they have become more like what we claimed to be, but weren’t.”
EC says @ August 22, 2023 at 9:18 am
The enjoyable quote, EC, is rather unfair to the real idiots of this world.
Noa at 9:32 pm & 9:14am
The awful truth, innit.
Noa says @ August 22, 2023 at 9:14 am
Tucker’s excellent and the general not bad either, Noa, God forbid it comes to the two protagonists facing each other.
Noa says @ August 21, 2023 at 6:48 pm
Simon is the conscience of the healthy core of Britishness, Noa, and is right about the verdict in the Lucy Letby case, it’s unsafe.
Baron: at 11:11 am
I don’t know anything about the case, but the unanimity of the press headlines was the cause of a raised eyebrow. Historic case? Circumstantial evidence? The woman must’ve had a useless defence brief.
In recent years the press/msm have lost any last shred of credibility that they once had. The trouble is that people have short memories and will believe in absolutely anything. eg Ukraine is a democracy etc. Most recently it’s been extra-terrestrials piloting UFOs I suppose one of them might be delivering Frasier Nelson’s “Neathergate” article that got flushed down Orwell’s memory hole into the interstellar the ether.
If you never heard Robert Barns talking here’s your chance. no need to listen to the whole session although you can learn alot from it, go to 30min he talks about who voted in Georgia in 2020, amazing guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfseib5n3Ww&t=2301s
Sorry the name’s Barnes, the f predictive software stepped in, Baron failed to check.
EC says @ August 22, 2023 at 1:32 pm
How could a court convict on the basis of pure circumstantial backing of a case beggars belief, EC, not once was she caught red handed, what’s also significant the deathly pandemic ended not only when she left the post but the top guy did also.
It’s not totally unconceivable that he and another member of the outfit may have wanted to destroy Lucy’s standing and career, frame her. This may be not true, of course, it may also be hard to prove, but it questions the verdict which doesn’t satisfy the legal guidance of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
You are right, she should get a better legal team and appeal.
The end is tasty when he says the parents have to give permission if their kid wants to go on a school trip to visit the Statue of Liberty, but not if he wants to become lady Liberty, priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js_s0kJ6Sbo
Baron: at 8:51 pm
Barnes is solid. He does an occasional chat show with retired Canadian lawyer David Frei (Viva Frei).
It wasn’t just “Jawjar” where the Dems stole the 2020 election.
Biden wasn’t joking when he said this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8a2g6tTp0
Baron,
The Bulgarian two wheeler, keen not to overstay his 3 month visa, is currently racing back to the Russian border after visiting Magadan and points beyond!
Here’s his latest overnight stop. Those of us without any land [like Noa] may soon be forced to adopt a simpler life, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUL_iyTDk0
[3mins 30sec]
A diet of squirrels isn’t sustainable, and we’ll run out of pets soon enough!
@10:56 corrrection
“Those of us without any land [unlike Noa] may soon…” etc.
also…: ##Health Warning## Squirrels will almost certainly contain nuts!
e&oe
EC says @ August 23, 2023 at 4:00 pm
A nice post with a deep message about the ‘civilisation’ coming to destroy this close to nature life, also a fantastic guy, your friend, the surroundings including the animals remind Baron of his own childhood, the house and the animals may have been different but the mess around, a practical mess, was not unlike the one in the video.
Coincidence or enemy action?
“I told you so”, says Wondering hands Joe of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in an aircraft crash.
https://youtu.be/k56lFfJ5PLs?si=lGH34QTvyaKQy5_8
Thanks to Joe there’s an awful lot of Stingers in Belarus now.
Noa at 12:29 pm
“Video unavailable”
Anyhoo…
It is inadvisable for mad dogs stray into areas from which they have been banished, especially where there are packs of wolves salivating at the prospect of tearing them apart. Offended Russian military?
It happened at an inconvenient time for VVP as his was just about to give a speech to the BRICS conference.
The execute-tive jet (if this was it) appears to go from flying level into a series dives and flat spins before plunging vertically into the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQAUj914h0
Very difficult to blame this on, “lack of maintenance” as one pundit recently pundit-ted.
Noa at 12:29 pm
Nah, I saw Yevgeny down my local chip shop last night.
EC
Hearing of the imminent closure of La Gavroch and the retirement of Michael Roux Jr, my own hypothesis is that the “Prig”, having amicably agreed to renounce his Rommelesque and Napoleonic career options, was considering a return to the high end restaurant business in Old Moscow.
In consequence, having asked Vlad for permission to cook his “Presidente Royale” Hot Dog Surprise for a few friends, and receiving a message saying “you’ll be in the Borscht if you do”, he misheard and assumed that Vlad grant of necessary approval. Tragically he accidentally spilt the hot soup over his lap whist demonstrating an Immelmann turn to his friends with catestrophic results.
Noa says @ August 25, 2023 at 3:21 pm
Good one, Noa, but who can tell, Putin needs another chef, heh, heh heh.
EC says @ August 25, 2023 at 11:05 am
What a coincidence, EC, Baron has spotted few times in a near-by town centre, always eating ice-cream to ensure his life doesn’t get interrupted.
And to add to the above, here’s Baron’s guess:
One can almost feel sorry for Putin, if he didn’t give the order, he’s an evil loosing his grip, if he did, he’s just an evil bla, bla ….
Only those that planned it, carried it out, thought through the consequences know, the rest of us could only guess.
Two things are undeniably true even if not mentioned or mentioned only in passing, the abrupt cancelling of the ‘alleged’ coup, the march on Moscow, and the Prigozhin’s dog-like loyalty to Putin, the former chef had been biting, biting almost implausibly severely everyone but Putin, neither in public nor in private was he disloyal to the man that made him, furnished him with protection, stood by him even if pretending not to, for Prigozhin it was the bastards surrounding the vozhd, Putin was never to blame.
The coup, ably put together by Prigozhin without the whole of the musicians’ orchestra involved, was to find out the rebellious elements in the armed services before they were to do stupid things like taking over the command of the special op in Ukraine, and it did, it lasted as long as the genuine coup leaders revealed their cards, it’s not just Surovikin, there were others that got moved either to the musicians, other duties, or got dismissed, people like Michail Mizintsev.
Could Putin withdrew the krysha for his former chef as he did for Navalny? Yes, unquestionably he could, but his calling Prigozhin ‘a traitor’ was a ruse, a cover to imply the coup was for real, Putin’s meeting the Wagner boys later proves it, it’s as close to impossible as it gets for Prigozhin to betray Putin, he would do everything for him, in the end he may have lost his life for the vozhd, or he may have not, we shall see …
You get the hint whose’s most likely to be behind the explosion of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet?
Noa at 3:21 pm
LOL, lots LOLs.
Thanks for that.
🙂
@6:09pm cont.d
It’s still Obama 2 vs Putin 1 in the chef steaks, though 😉
Baron at 4:11pm
“You get the hint whose’s most likely to be behind the explosion of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet?”
Vlad really needs to get of his military, but my default position is the porcine fragrant neocon.
It’s official !
US CDC: ” The latest Covid variant is more likely to infect those people who have been vaccinated…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwYsbj9qxAk
Call me an old old cynic but… Stand by for the “2024 US GE Season variant” necessitating another massive “mail-in” ballot fraud.
EC says @ August 25, 2023 at 6:11 pm
Brilliant, EC, could Baron steal it, he will acknowledge it’s not his, but it will be down nicely.
EC says @ August 25, 2023 at 6:37 pm
True, he has a big problema, if he mishandles it he may be toast, the siloviki have guns, as things stand he will find it hard to get the votes next year, Prigozhin may have been a thug, but he read the mood of the unwashed well, people will die in their thousands for the glory of Mother Russia, but abandon anyone who, in order to save lives, makes them crawl rather than fight upright.
.., “it will go down” rather, sorry.
So many fugging errors, like Baron spotted who? HIM of course (FFS), that’s Alzheimer, an advanced version of, sorry, plus others not yet spotted.
Have a good look at the Ukrainian landing at Crimea, awesome, how could anyone ever beat guys like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punTY1qEkzo
Listening to the chat one cannot help thinking that we’ve truly lost if the two are considered by the fruitcakes in the wrong, the deluded like Levine as someone one should look up to, madness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPPBKboXz4
Baron 8:50 pm
Those guys are unbeatable! 🙂
Btw, I eye Emil’s nice tidy office, clear desk, uplighters and proper shelves, with envy.
My kennel is a complete mess. (Jordan Peterson would have a field day!)
Over the years I’ve known a couple of guys (*) whose filing system, consisted of a large table in the middle of unused dining room. (their office) Each had table piled high with years worth of important papers, folders and other stuff. To the casual observer it looked a complete jumbled mess, but they could lay their hands on anything they wanted to consult very quickly.
* one a ww2 era engineer, the other an 80’s era eccentric IT guy.
Musing of the Day
As legally obtaining arms and munitions by the general public in Britain is now virtually impossible, it is time to declare war on the United Stasi’s of America.
In return the United States will conduct sustained bombing; missile and drone attacks on the government institutions of power and despatch an occupying army to enforce liberal values.
When the general population coordinates an effective guerrilla campaign the US occupying forces will depart without warning, leaving $100 Billion worth of arms and munitions and so creating an effective “Armed Militia” that will enable the People to keep its government in its proper place for fifty years.
EC says:
August 26, 2023 at 7:42 am
Luxury!
I dream of a cluttered dining table in an unused dining room.
Madame Noa long ago converted my study into a silver room, where the Albanian kitchen maids could happily polish the household silver all day. A task reminiscent of the perpetual repainting of the Forth Bridge.
Long ago, to confinement kdours of tobacco, courviosier and old slippers I was exiled to the converted Box Room, where the CCTV monitors scan the endless vistas of barbed wire and the Eccles cake production lines, whilst screens silently monitor Defence and Pharmaceutical stock returns…
The guy is fantastic, but he should be careful, the nasties will try to get him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkcJ132alU
Noa: August 26, 2023 at 9:08 am
Aye! When I were a lad we had to live in a cardboard box, under t’ Thelwall Viaduct.
Russell blows the lid on the chaiwallah’s Hedge Fund and JVT’s long, as yet unfinished, career maximising your Pharma investment dividends!
“So… They F*cking Planned This All Along”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J2pJtgmnQ
22 mins but actually very entertainingly put.
The Walls of Jericho…
An old joke, but Bernard’s is the funniest version,imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbypeRU3IEs
[Move the slider to 7:44]
one to cheer up the parishioners next Sunday, Peter? You may need to choose a different location though 😉
@12:04
Back in the 1950s we could all answer that one, but fifty years on from when that joke was told (1970s) I doubt whether any school-kid today could answer the question.
Not only do “they” not “do” the Bible in schools anymore, they don’t do Shakespeare, and Snow White er… isn’t anymore
All the ever want to know about “fugitive emmisions” down under!
“EVs are a climate action fraud: Here’s why”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiRzpKWshwU
London 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQQr8mC1dnQ
Ah de Carnival!
It renamed Stab Fest 23, where de Polis come to be sexually assaulted and the Black man uses his machete to show Whitey how his ancestors cut cane in the plantations…
Here’s some news about an old and former favourite on the Wall, Great Wilders, before his cause was drowned in the tsunami of cultural, moral and intellectual degradation which overtook Britain and Europe under the Johnson dictatorship.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/
Baron : August 29, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Shocking scenes from the third world, miLud
Adipose Emergency Acton (shurely ‘Action?’ Ed.)
These people might not look malnourished but we need your money, now.
A coordinated charitable effort is needed to save these people starving to death in front of our eyes. Dickensian state cash handouts of only £2250 per week are barely enough to keep body and soul together. #costoflivingcrisis
Who would have thought that we would ever see ‘Les Burgers San Frontieres’, Oxfam etc would need to distribute free hot dogs, kebabs etc. on the streets of the Bohemian Grove. (er.. Thats’s ‘Ladbroke.’ Ed.)
Please give generously.
Cue” Richard Littlejohn “YCMIU !” etc.
I always thought that Ali Bongo was a magician who designed and performed cunning stunts for himself and other prestidigitators such as Paul Daniels…
Meanwhile in “Bongo Bongo”* land (© Godfrey Bloom) & yes, there are two Bongos..
“France Ally President Ali Bongo of Gabon Arrested in Coup for Rigged Elections”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYzHnHqzpQ
No doubt the corpulent, porcine featured, Wiktoria is already in the air aboard Luftwaffe Eins bound for Libreville to issue the ultimatums that are swirling ’round and around in the windmills of her head. My-my she’s having a busy summer.
There are “Winds of Change” (© Harold Macmillan) in Arrfrikarr, chaps. This time resulting in a crescendo of fibrillating sffincters (sic) in the Élysée Palace.
Noa says @ August 30, 2023 at 9:23 am
The cane cutting made Baron chuckle for a while, Noa, how apt.
EC says @ August 30, 2023 at 10:28 am
If one were to dig up some of the British young that fell in WW2, EC, ask them ‘where was this filmed? How many would have said ‘in London’?
EC says @ August 30, 2023 at 7:32 pm
It was in the middle of the BBC Radio4 news bulletin, EC, when Baron switched the car and hence the radio on, heard the word ‘bongo’ in connection with Gabon, thought it was a bad joke only the BBC could tell, others would be thought of as racists right wingers, but it turned out it was the real name of the deposed guy, it must be the Alzheimer for the barbarian from the east, an advance stage of, he didn’t get it straight away.
The world is crazier than it was this time last week. The Canadian national women’s cricket team is reported to have selected its first transgender bats-person. Hopefully the wicket keeper will stump him/her and whip his/her bails off if s/he oversteps the crease.
We’re going to need more piano wire, Noa, Lots of it!
Q. How come women “transgendering” or identifying as men never seem to want to compete in male sports?
Longish, but excellent because it’s objective, leans neither towards Russia or Ukraine:
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/escaping-attrition-ukraine-rolls
What a rap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=U6AMDEMXlco
Tune to engage with Vlad and contract for the services of the surplus Wagner group to prevent beach landings and fill the ferries with surplus holidaying third world criminals.
Time to engage with Vlad and contract for the services of the surplus Wagner group to prevent beach landings and fill the ferries with surplus holidaying third world criminals.
Noa says @ September 2, 2023 at 8:55 am
The best idea this century, Noa, so far anyway, perhaps the new Defence chap may be interested, he sounds macho but doesn’t look it.
If only it would happen Milud. In the meantime Rashid keeps spinning the plates, turning snakes into hemp and hen schimmying up the rope, preparatory to vanishing when the bailiffs arrive.
Grant Schnapps is a rotating door pollytician; one day ganging out hundreds of millions to local councils for psychlepaths, the next encouraging your local muggers to adapt escooters for a speedier service.
“Capt” Ben Wallace has presumably lined himself up with a Directorship at BAE, Raytheon or the Ukrainian Weapons Procurement team prior to his Westminster defenestration.
When Grant Schapps first impinged on my consciousness back in 2008 (I was semi conscious back then) my first impression of him, the first two words that came to mind were “spiv” and “chancer.” Since then he’s done nothing to alter that first impression.
Not very nice of me, but there you are…
EC
“spiv” and “chancer.”
Always destined to advance in a toree gubmint that’s full of them.
Hitchens sniffed the hypocrisy out 16 years ago
https://youtu.be/lI1KCnEWZs4?si=R-f67KfpS-J9V6u9
Here’s Bro, Baron hasn’t told you about him yet although he’s on Baron’s viewing cycle but only occasionally, he’s fully predictable, one knows what he’s going to say, totally anti-Russian, the video here is more interesting because of the postings, almost all say ‘Slava Ukraine’, which would suggest these are computer generated responses, in normal videos one doesn’t find that many ‘Slavas’ and not that many ‘thank yous’ for the guy running the site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngig7SzAiGQ
Baron: September 2, 2023 at 7:01 pm
Desperate stuff. Here’s some more. A Grauniad/Observer article written by their fearless correspondent Jacinta Fuck-Flaps from er… well behind the lines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/everything-is-ahead-of-us-ukraine-breaks-russias-first-line-of-defence-in-stronghold
Why are the “ultra left high priests of shite” acting as copy typists, disseminating bollocks on behalf of Nazis, I wonder? Strange times!
File under: Les pisseur de copie
EC
LOL
Jacunta would be better off reporting fearlessly from Donbass by the Thames, covering Vizier Khan’s fearless if unsurprisingly unsuccessful campaign to eradicate the ULEZ camera destroying blade runners and implement the progressive, phased subjugation of the white Helot population.
On other matters, having recently completed my PhD thesis on “The relative merits of stoning recalcitrant women using Sandstone, Granite and Basalt”, I am currently awaiting Council approval of my application for a £5 million grant increase the height of and install safety rails on Sodomite Tower, the new multi faith centre which has been converted from the old servants quarters at Noa Al Sharif estates on the Burnley moors.
Napoleon’s soldiers used to say that nothing lied like an army bulletin.
They obviously hadnt heard of the Office of National Statistics.
Heres a whimsical take on their fiddling the Nation’s books by the FT.
https://www.ft.com/content/7b95e3d9-c5a1-42d5-84a8-921c9088ca1c
Well, he got 9 out of 10 right…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHyxnNAF8To
There are problems with employing more stupid people to doing intelligence required jobs.
https://youtu.be/l0cOWRpIuzo?si=JdmU7NwE77hOPBaJ
I enjoy a good bitch about the Prancess Royale of Montecito as much as anyone and Steve Tucker does a excellent scalping in this piece.
https://www.takimag.com/article/meghan-the-black-princess/
Noa,
“the Prancess Royale of Montecito”
Very good! 🙂
The article was good too.
Noa 2:45pm
Demonstrating the interconnectedness of all things, this “popped up” shortly after reading your article:
https://babylonbee.com/news/covid-desperately-searching-for-vaccine-against-whoopi-goldberg
Transitioning to sporting success!
This 2 year old “mockumentary” was ahead of the curve…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvesqJP1e4
(5 min)
George was on very good form last night
From Liz Truss to Ukraine via beach body Biden, “bath-house Barry,” assassination of Trump, and a Chieftain on fire in the night “flickering its souls to the wind.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl11C3UvbZE
EC says @ September 7, 2023 at 9:58 am
George is quite entertaining, EC, it’s puzzling he hasn’t got more views, the first of the postings makes a good point also, it says “In 1980, I turned 18 and voted for the first time. As a result of that election, the U.S. ended up with a president who said that “ ketchup is a vegetablr”. It’s now four decades on and the president IS a vegetable?.
Rather courageous of Tucker to do the interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly4ogBA2Bnc
Baron: September 8, 2023 at 12:52 am
I clicked the link and got a knitting video !
Is this a new hobby of yours, to while away the wee small hours, Baron?
Tucker interviewing Putin is what I had hoped for.
Baron,
Here’s an interesting one for you. Fascinating.
Pavlin’s last 3 1/2 min update from Russia before crossing into Finland.
“Ladoga Lake & Road of Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NsIW0wSWKY
News to me. How come they don’t let us great unwashed know about this stuff in the West?
EC
A good clip of the nostalgia that grips patriotic Russians over the heroic actions of the forebears.
And all credit to them. It would take a brave man to drive a truck over Lake Lagoda whilst being shelled by the Whermacht and bombed by the Luftwaffe, with the ice melting.
I remember the re-supply of Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad being covered, (along with the cannibalism) in the magisterial “The World at War”.
Joe was grateful for the US supplied and British delivered trucks, many of which were used in the relief operations, but only children were evacuated, the elderly and infirm were left to ‘encourage the resolution’ of the rest of citizens.
Here’s a stirring and different tune to encourage the brave ‘Blade Runners’ of London and the future Neo-Gunpowder plotters of Britain.
https://youtu.be/ifLqzLEB3E0?si=Kp4em0wPGWP8PWCQ
This evening, watching England’s excellent victory in the captured in the captured Magrebuan city of Marsailles over an Argentine team that were made to look ordinary by their determination, the solution for our rugby renaissance became clear.
Engkand must, in future, start every match with only 14 men.
Even if a 15th man appears undetected by the England’s manager on to the pitch it must be the responsibility of the senior players oin the team to push the lightsxon of his opposite number, or even the referee if they can’t catch the opposition. The more original the foul the better, I personally would like to seen the widespread use of the Cat o’nine tails whip, using the compulsory LGBTWT+++ stamdard ussue bootlaces.
That would teach the mutant mincing poofters of English and World Rugby what Real men are really capable of..
EC says @ September 8, 2023 at 9:00 am
Apologies, EC, knitting is something Tucker will have to learn when the Left leaning hyenas get to him, here’s the right thing, Byron hopes but cannot be fully sure, the gremlins may be working overtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWaPz9KVN4c
PS The Pagoda clip was revealing, the guy’s turning into another bald&bankrupt.
Noa says @ September 9, 2023 at 10:54 pm
Whatever one may say about the North-Korean nutter, Noa, he has ways to make many appear as one, the marching precision of the soldiery beats anything anyone else can do anywhere in the world, someone should nominate those fortunate enough to take part in it for nice glittering trinkets similar to those hanging on the top brass of the military.
Noa says @ September 9, 2023 at 11:48 pm
It was Ford that won it, Noa, they should gold plate his kicking leg.
He didn’t trip:
https://twitter.com/NautPoso/status/1700601243134005578
Not something he should have done, don’t you think?
https://twitter.com/VasylKrutchak
Baron,
Strange, that !
I could view the first Twitter / X link, but the second link wanted me to sign in and I don’t/won’t have an account.
Noa,
Hopefully this won’t be coming out of your monthly company pension cheque?
https://cumbriacrack.com/2023/09/11/ambitious-plans-to-revamp-barrow-town-centre-by-bae-systems/
Shirley it is the job of BAE Systems to make profits, pay dividends to shareholders, and not to be wasting money in a futile attempt to make complete shite-hole look marginally better.
A few decades ago the joke was, “If you want to know what Britain would’ve looked like under communism, then visit Barrow.” GRIM, even on a rare sunny day.
EC @6:26pm
I’ve just realised that this is a regurgitated story (*) from several months ago. Perhaps the matrix masters think that we’re “too far gone” to notice, or that the Burgers of Barrow need cheering up a bit.
I was reading a Daily Telegraph article this morning about how a bar manageress had doubled her income by getting a £38K pa office job at BAE Systems. Good on her, I say. There seems to be no end to the good works performed by BAE Systems.
* “Cumbria Crack” stories.are mostly cut and pasted directly from the Carlisle News and Star, but not necessarily that old. “Regurgitum Ad Infinitum” is their business model.
EC
The re-development of Barrow in Furness and the establishment of a specialised University campus, is a mere bagatelle compared to the purchase of US company Ball Aerospace for $5.4B and the establishment of BAE Systems Ukraine in Kiev to initially make 155mm howitzer spares (no price but out of petty cash). All three deals will no doubt be the result of pork barrel quid pro quos with the US, UK abd Ukr gubmints. In the meantime the share price is around £10.45. TGFT Military Industrial Complex.
Civil servant? WFH? Blackpool? Lagos? Karachi? Delhi?
As the Walrus laments, truly we are doomed.
https://youtu.be/0IGqzKqr6zs?si=ZfZbxGFsa0eIbRaV
Is Europe coming to its senses? Is it too little, too late?
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/dutch-court-sentences-former-pakistani-cricketer-to-12-years-in-prison/
A country shaking itself apart. The destructive nonsense of ESG and a government of cowards, fools and rogues is disarming and destroying us.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/12/government-slams-woke-defunding-of-defence-industry/
“Goodluck Noa”: September 12, 2023 at 3:53 pm
What’s the weather like in Lagos, Boss? 🙂
And then there’s de Welsh “gubmint”, Boss.
Due to lack of indigenes literate in its antique language it has to outsource translation of its gubmint documents (English to Gobbledygook and vice-versa) services to Patagonia. And then there’s the Examination Boards of England who outsource marking exam to the far east.
To avoid any alimentary unpleasantness Walrus should avoid oysters when there’s no “r” in the month, or all times in the vicinity of of a United Utilities sewage outlet.
File under: “I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the Ealrus, goo-goo g’joob”
Ealrus? Walrus!
EC
Go West to Patagonia Bach!
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/firms-getting-welsh-translations-done-2902142?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target
The previous posting should have been entitled
“Homage to Patagonia”.
Boom boom.
Noa says @ September 12, 2023 at 3:53 pm
This is hard to believe, Noa, how could a foreign national get a civil service job in the first instance?
Noa: September 13, 2023 at 12:54 pm
Why is it that men are encouraged to “go West” whereas with women everything ends up heading south? At what age do
Autumn approaches but in Patagonia it’ll almost be Spring, and young men will be dreaming of waltzing their favourite girlfriend with a fresh rainbow coiffure down Calle Principal on Pride Day.
Meanwhile at the World Cup in France, aromas abound in the scrummage as they play “Quel fromage est-ce?”
File under: Pencil test; Dai Bach and Gone West.
A courageous women that:
https://sonar21.com/youtube-censoring-evidence-of-ukrainian-troops-embracing-nazi-symbols/
Putin’s meeting with Mr Kim was a brilliant Psy-ops move. The paranoia levels will be red-lining amongst the neocon overlords in the US.
Mind you, Elton “Rocket Man” Jong could really do with a decent launcher.
Baron at 9:54 am
Excellent. Thank you.
The Clonel writes far too much of that rare commodity, common sense, to be taken seriously.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-money-and-americas-future/
An interesting link from Baron’s Post to an interesting Russian propaganda.
https://youtu.be/J_rRTxOBcYQ?si=vRv_HMPt6yaQFcsx
And a contrast to ‘Butcher’ Johnson’s blood thirsty warmongering piece in the Spectator, which is rightly and
mercilessly savaged in the comments.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-arent-we-giving-ukraine-what-it-needs/
I suspect the cartoonist who drew the cover, of Fatso Bojo echoing Major ‘King’ Kong’s ICBM death ride in Dr Strangelove, was told not to give to much credence to a piece which would have been more plausibly written by Goebbels than the would be Winston.
Green Greater Germany has given up its Russian oil and gas! Or has it?
How they must yearn in Berlin for a Ribbontrop to negotiate with a latter day Molotov….
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9346
EC
In awe your robust command of French, Mon Brave!
Keep practicing your drop-kicking, it may be required before too long, as England plan to conquer one of the fiercest cannibal islands on earth they know that; sooner or later they will face such real opposition as Ireland’s geriatrics and South Africa’s bone crushing Zulu’s eager for revenge over Michael Caine’s blowing the bloody Boers….
Noa @ 10:05pm
Excellent Spectoid cover.
The double irony being His Rotundity being cast in the role Maj. ‘King’ Kong played by Slim Pickens! 🙂
I could read the article without the usual £wall, which must means it has been cleared by de gubmint for propaganda purposes. Sadly I cannot read the comments.
Boris’s scribblings are that of a jingoistic idiot.
Noa at 10:42 pm
Is Samoa the team that employs a forward that identifies as a steamroller, about 3x the size and weight of the regular bruisers?
Many a true word said in jest. England team should do this…
https://snipboard.io/QYJHnX.jpg
EC @ September 16, 2023 at 10:45 am
Aren’t they all like that?
Mind you I mistakenly switched in the ITV news this evening. Both the news reader and the weather witch, once required to be of normal weight and appearance, were of similar size to the average Challenger 2. Is this now the fashion on terrestrial TV? The result I suppose, of a multi generational diet of Big Macs and the institutionalisation, even the normalisation and veneration of grossness, greed and the self abuse of self inflicted bunterism and obesity.
Noa says @ September 14, 2023 at 10:05 pm
You may like to know, Noa, that over 90% off the postings which are getting close to a thousand (a record that) are against the Blond Inseminator, mostly saying why didn’t he give this country what it needs, or accusing him of warmongering, telling him to get a gun and fight leave Britain forever, some very rudely indeed.
The thing is nobody in power will listen to the postings and certainly will do FA about our stance on Ukraine, in the US there are now voices suggesting NATO will get in if Ukraine folds up, madness.
It pleases Baron though, he a few other bloggers but lately also a growing band of new bloggers have been opposing our stance on Ukraine, the ‘healthy core of Britishness’ has woken up and is beginning to be heard, it seems.