- “Lords approve law that would block UAE Telegraph takeover” – Foreign state influence over British newspapers will be outlawed after the House of Lords voted to effectively block the UAE bid for the Telegraph, reports the Telegraph.
- “Robert Halfon quits as minister and MP in fresh blow to Sunak” – Rishi Sunak has suffered a fresh blow after Robert Halfon, the Skills Minister, quit his post and announced he will stand down as an MP at the next election, according to ITV News.
- “Can it get worse for the Tories? Oh yes it can” – Rebels will surely come gunning for Rishi Sunak in May, but they will only succeed in damaging the party further, predicts Daniel Finkelstein in the Times.
- “Israeli hostage reveals she was sexually assaulted while held by Hamas” –An Israeli hostage has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a guard while she was held captive by Hamas, according to the Mail.
- “Britain is letting Hamas weaponise international law” – The U.K.’s most recent posturing over the Israel-Hamas conflict encourages the terrorists and is ultimately costing more lives, says Natasha Hausdorff in the Telegraph.
- “Trump urges Israel to ‘finish up’ its Gaza offensive and warns about global support fading” – Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the October 7th attack but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive, warning about international support fading, according to AP.
- “This dishonest denial of a Covid jab link to cancer” – Shadowy forces preventing open discussion of Covid jab dangers are continuing to put countless lives at risk, says Neville Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “Policy watch: NHS waiting lists” – An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; in the case of waiting, it’s worth five million less on the list, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson.
- “Satisfaction with the NHS falls to record low” – Satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to a historic low, with only a quarter of the British public believing that the health service is working, reports the Times.
- “Warning for men in cities: pollution might be ruining your sex life” – Research suggests that men living in heavily polluted cities find it harder to get erections, says the Mail.
- “Population decline will destroy the West as we know it” – The reality of a declining population is something we need to think about urgently, warns Dr. Stephen Davies in the Telegraph.
- “Churches risk undermining asylum system after Clapham attacker’s conversion, says Home Office” – Churches are jeopardising the asylum system, according to Home Office officials, following revelations that the Clapham chemical attacker was permitted to stay in the U.K. despite lying and failing a Christianity test, reports the Telegraph.
- “How can we avoid another Batley Grammar school blasphemy row?” – Dame Sara Khan, the Government’s adviser on social cohesion, has produced a powerful and brave report into incidents such as Batley Grammar, remarks Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “Welcome to Starmer’s Britain, where class hatred will ruin our private schools” – There’s no suggestion of adding VAT to university fees as well, but then that wouldn’t give Labour the satisfaction of smiting the rich, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer ‘snubbing special needs schools’ by ploughing ahead with VAT raid” – Keir Starmer has been accused of snubbing special needs schools amid fears that children with learning difficulties will have “no place to go” after Labour’s VAT raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Braverman to headline NatCon with Orban” – In the Spectator, Steerpike casts his eyes over the line-up for the upcoming National Conservatism conference in Brussels.
- “Scotland’s pound shop Stasi” – The Scottish Government’s illiberal Hate Crime and Public Order Act isn’t even being enforced yet and already Police Scotland are being accused of behaving like a pound shop Stasi, writes Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “All Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act will achieve is to stir up more hatred” – Whatever the intention behind Humza Yousaf’s new legislation, it is already looking completely unworkable and, quite honestly, mad, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf doesn’t understand his own Hate Crime Act” – Humza Yousaf cannot, or will not, accept that the incoming hate crime laws will have any adverse effects, writes Eliot Wilson in CapX.
- “Calls to restrict powers of Scottish police officers accused of inventing trans-hating parody of J.K. Rowling” – In an open letter, 200 gender-critical women demand that police officers who invented a trans-hating ‘parody’ of J.K. Rowling must be stripped of any role in enforcing new hate crime laws, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rugby legend calls for ‘Flower of Scotland’ to be ditched as sporting anthem” – Scottish rugby legend Jim Telfer has called on ‘Flower of Scotland’ to be ditched as the nation’s sporting anthem because of its anti-English “chippiness”, says the Scottish Express.
- “The suicide of Wales” – Dejection and despair now hang over the Valleys, writes Prof. Brad Evans in UnHerd.
- “‘It’s all much worse than I thought’” – The corporate media are all-in on government censorship, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Julian Assange extradition appeal: U.K. seeks assurances from the U.S.” – The High Court has ruled that the U.S. must give assurances that the Wikileaks founder will not face the death penalty, reports the BBC.
- “British farmers are treated with contempt by an ignorant elite” – Westminster has waged an all-out war on agriculture for years. It is no surprise that protests are now starting, says Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “Customers left with shock bills as four million smart meters ‘go dumb’” – Households are being hit with shock energy bills as four million smart meters are not working properly, reports the Telegraph.
- “You’re not being paranoid: smart meters are out to get you” – The constant changing of electricity tariffs – which Ofgem says could vary by the half-hour – threatens to upset budgets for millions of households, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Green investment trusts face vote on future as shares slide” – Green energy investment trusts are undergoing investor scrutiny due to declining share prices, reports the FT.
- “Fantasy policy in Whitehall” – Civil servants are inventing wind farm output numbers to make Net Zero look cheaper, says Andrew Montford in Net Zero Watch.
- “Unusual cold plagues both Northern, Southern hemispheres… Arctic sea ice strengthens” – Despite the “devastating effects of climate change”, Saudi Arabia is looking to open its first ski resort by 2026, writes P. Gosselin in WUWT.
- “Climate change is coming for your wine, study warns” – A new study warns that 90% of wine-growing regions in Spain, Italy, Greece and southern California could lose their ability to grow grapes by 2100 due to climate change, reports the Mail.
- “Climate, the Movie: a review” – Martin Durkin’s important new film touches on questions about democracy and free speech as well as climate science, writes Dr. David Whitehouse in Net Zero Watch.
- “Inside the disturbing world of ‘femcels’” – In the Mail, Ellen Coughlan highlights an upcoming Channel Four documentary on the disturbing online community of ‘femcels’ – where women share fears about being alone forever and post shocking videos of themselves eating their own flesh.
- “Sarina Wiegman labels England kit ‘beautiful’ after Nike controversy” – Lionesses’ manager Sarina Wiegman has described the new England kit as “very beautiful” despite controversy over the altered version of the St. George’s cross on the collar, reports the Mail.
- “Cadbury accused of erasing Easter after selling ‘gesture eggs’” – A Cadbury shop has sparked a backlash from Christians who have accused it of “erasing” Easter by selling “gesture eggs”, according to the Mail.
- “Tribunal of gender-critical teacher collapses over panel member’s political and religious slurs” – A tribunal hearing for a teacher who says she was wrongly sacked for “misgendering” a pupil has collapsed after a member was accused of making anti-Christian comments and posting Tory slurs on social media, reports the Telegraph.
- “Spain’s ‘trans equality’ law is a predator’s charter” – Barely a year after Spain passed its ‘trans equality’ law, gender self-identification is wreaking havoc across the country, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “The Left’s sense of humour bypass” – The likes of Diane Abbott, who can weaponise identity politics based on their colour, sexual proclivities or gender of the day, are incapable or brushing off anything, remarks Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Nick Ferrari sparks furious debate with obesity claims” – Nick Ferrari has sparked a furious row after claiming it is “always”’ someone’s own fault if they’re overweight, according to the Mail.
- “Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better” – Researchers say they have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to make beer taste even better, reports the Guardian.
- “Smartphones rewired childhood. Here’s how to fix it” – Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious and depressed. But, says Jonathan Haidt in the Free Press, we can reverse the damage.
- “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces Google founder’s ex-wife Nicole Shanahan as his running mate” – RFK Jr. has announced Nicole Shanahan, the rags-to-riches Silicon Valley lawyer, as his running mate for his 2024 presidential bid, according to the Hill.
- “Al Gore, please pick up the red emergency phone” – Shocking aerial footage has emerged, revealing the devastating effect of a hailstorm in Texas on thousands of acres of solar farms.
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Elon Musk is bang on right about Humza Yusaf…
He is , you would like to think HY is risking his 52k a year for life pension by poking EM who must have evidence of his inflammatory character ,
I do hope so… to set the hare running without absolutely incontrovertible evidence would be letting the side down, rather.
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Tragic , is there a breakdown of the ethnicity of these poor souls , it would be interesting to see the percentages for each country .
Curious that most Muslims in the West refused the jab. Perhaps they were forewarned by their Muslim doctors.
But, but… Covid!
Fashions come, fashions go. Attempts at bureaucratic power don’t.
But, but …niqab!
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/10/a-roll-of-the-dice
The Ukrainian invasion of Russia is going alarmingly well.
Russian military bloggers say fighting is taking place as deep as 20 km inside the Kursk region, prompting some of them to question why Ukraine was able to pierce the Kursk region so easily.
Russian soldiers, including fighters from Chechnya, who were captured in Kursk were shown in a video posted by “I want to live,”
Alexei Smirnov, Kursk’s acting governor, ordered local authorities to speed up the evacuation of civilians in areas at risk. On Saturday, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported that more than 76,000 people had been evacuated.
‘The pause in the offensive appears to be due less to increased resistance from Russian reserves and more to the advancing troops becoming separated from their rear lines, which are still on Ukrainian territory. The artillery and drones used by Ukrainian forces have an effective range of about 10 to 15 kilometers (about six to nine miles), which is exactly how far they’ve advanced from the border to the northwest and north.’
What’s really going on?
On the Russian side, it is a complete shambles, as everyone might have predicted (even planned) that it would be.
The disorganized nature of regular Russian battalions, combined with the Russian decision to assign the defense of Kursk Oblast to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) rather than to the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) as well as the integration of conscripts, FSB personnel, and Rosgvardia elements in combat, will hinder the Russian effort to establish effective C2. Mashovets assessed that Russian forces are likely attempting to buy time for further, more comprehensive force redeployments to defend in Kursk Oblast and focusing on minimizing the Ukrainian offensive effort rather than establishing a joint C2 structure.
A prominent, Kremlin-awarded, Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces in Kursk Oblast are struggling to communicate with each other and often do not know the units operating on their flanks due to rapid redeployments of Russian units from different force groupings, ultimately undermining the integrity of the Russian defensive lines.
The Russian military’s continued inability to prevent rapid Ukrainian maneuver following the operational surprise that Ukrainian forces achieved at the outset of the operation in Kursk Oblast indicates that there are enduring exploitable Russian vulnerabilities along the international border with Ukraine.
The Kremlin and the Russian military command currently appear to be concentrating redeployments to stabilize the immediate frontline near Korenevo and Sudzha, and reinforcing positions in other border areas in Kursk Oblast and elsewhere along the international border appears to be a lower priority.
Poorly manned Russian positions along the border in part facilitated Ukraine’s initial rapid gains in Kursk Oblast, and significant sectors of the border in Bryansk and Kursk oblasts and parts of Belgorod Oblast are likely sparsely manned.
The persisting issues with Russian C2 in Kursk Oblast will also further complicate Russia’s ability to prevent rapid Ukrainian maneuver and quickly respond to any other possible Ukrainian cross-border incursions.
Poor Russian communication, unclear delineation of responsibilities, and subpar coordination for reconnaissance and fire between Russian units along the border will likely create gaps that highly maneuverable Ukrainian groups can exploit.’
Oops!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c984l87l2w6o
Meanwhile, in Moscow:
‘He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames’
George Orwell, ‘Inside the whale and other essays’
‘On Sunday, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia, said a fire had broken out at the cooling towers of the power plant.’
‘In the early hours of Monday, Vladimir Rogov, another Kremlin-installed official, said the fire had been “completely extinguished” in a Telegram post.
The nuclear power plant has been under the control of Russian troops and officials since 2022. It has not produced power in more than two years and all six reactors have been in cold shutdown since April.
In a statement posted on X, UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its experts had witnessed “strong dark smoke” coming from the plant following “multiple explosions”
I think from now on Monro, you can simply provide a link to Meduza et al which will allow other subscribers to view if they feel the need.
And in regards to this repeated mantra of “what’s really going on”, it’s folly to think this publication provides a non biased view point.
The discerning readership here will make up their own minds.
You pompously assume that anyone has the slightest interest in your superficial and entirely unsupported assertions.
That is unlikely.
Your comment makes no contribution to any debate; a pointless and complete waste of time, space.
What’s a waste of space, is you filling these pages with content that you simply don’t need to, by simply providing a link to the content….
Is this something you don’t understand…
Repeating the comments of others is, I suppose, a form of flattery.
But it rather sums you up; an empty vessel.
I get it now… You don’t understand
Because he’s a robot, programmed to bore everyone to tears with endless, irrelevant, off-topic posts about Russia.
There are a great number of robots, empty vessels, about.
I stand against socialist fascism.
Socialist fascism that manifests itself so:
‘The equipment used by Roskomnadzor comprises server infrastructure (“customs checkpoints”) at various segments of the internet across Russia and a software package (“customs rules”). Until recently, the regulatory authority did not possess the technical capability to filter traffic based on protocols. Following the mass blocking of VPNs this summer, we learned that this capability is now available to the regulator. Moreover, the leak of data from the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRChTs, from Russian «Главный радиочастотный центр»), revealed that the specific equipment used by Roskomnadzor. We’ve discovered the capabilities it provides for internet blocking in Russia, how many “customs checkpoints” have been established by Roskomnadzor on the networks of Russian telecommunications operators, and who manufactures and imports this equipment into Russia.’
If you do not stand against socialist fascism, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
I don’t bother with anything posted by the Ukraine correspondent.
Empty vessels of which there are far too many on this site.
Just to bring some balance to the posts he chose not to include this summary from Telegram related to Ukrainian “investment” in their Kursk incursion.
As of the end of June, approximately 140,000 Russian servicemen have died in the war since 2022, but the real number could be even higher.
That indicates a total Russian casualty figure of well over half a million.
Russia has lost more than 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles in the past year alone and circa 9,000 since February 2022.
Source?
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Well said.
BBC..
…. Really..
I mean, this is exactly my point…..
Are you actually aware of the concept of Propaganda..
It is presumed that US spy satellites revealed that the Kursk border region was only scantily defended by local police and US informed its Ukrainian friends. It is not easy to defend a 2,000km border. But the Russians are reacting in their usual careful manner and have reportedly already halted and turned back the advance.
Can you confirm that Mrs. Zelensky is now the proud owner of a Bugatti and Mr. Zelensky (the illegitimate president of Ukraine) is now the proud owner of a “Magnificent winery in Tuscany”? That will be alongside his luxury properties in Miami, Switzerland (was it Geneva?), Crimea (confiscated, I believe, by the local government), and the one in Egypt he gave his mother-in-law. Or were there more? But then there appear to be many sources ‘debunking’ such outrageous claims, whereby Tuscany is new.
Zelensky is a nasty, corrupt tyrant who’s happy to oversee the slaughter of his countymen for his own benefits.
Yet again, this whole conflict is a construct where tax payers money is shifted in to private hands.. The Military Industrial Complex ensures of that.
The Oliver Twist of the western world. Please sir, I want some more weapons, ammunition, aircraft, tanks, money, rockets. drones, money, attention, and did I mention money?
Yes…..I mean, obviously the reports from previous raids would not have provided all the information that the Ukrainians could have possibly required…..or not really.
The excited responses on here indicate a degree of hypocrisy.
This site was set up to point out the errors in fact of the lockdown/mask/vaccine fascists who now simply refuse to acknowledge that they were completely wrong; because that would mean admitting that they were too idle or too stupid to research the facts of the matter for themselves.
Russia has been given a good stuffing since its incompetent invasion of Ukraine; 800,000 casualties, 8,000 vehicles lost and for what? Russia now occupies less of Ukraine than it did immediately after its invasion.
Long since time for you all to take a long hard look in the mirror and come on here with properly researched and supported arguments instead of making fools of yourselves making unevidenced, glib and superficial assertions unsupported by anything at all to be found in the world outside your silly little echo chamber; an echo chamber of which, I may say, the vast majority are heartily sick.
That is why so few of any worth now visit this site.
Oh dear, is this a bit of coping before you withdraw (as is the Ukrainian style) completely when the total defeat of the illegitimate Zelensky and his long suffering
serfsarmy is obvious for all to see.Russia’s rail operator has put on emergency trains from Kursk to Moscow, around 450km away, for those looking to flee.
“It’s scary to have helicopters flying over your head all the time,” said Marina, refusing to give her surname, who arrived by train in the Russian capital on Sunday. “When it was possible to leave, I left.”
Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov conceded on Sunday that the situation was “difficult”.
Across the border in Ukraine’s Sumy region, from where Ukraine launched the incursion, dozens of armoured vehicles daubed with a white triangle – the insignia apparently being used to identify Ukrainian military hardware deployed.
At an evacuation centre in the regional capital of Sumy, 70-year-old retired metal worker Mykola, who had fled his village of Khotyn some 10km from the Russian border, nevertheless welcomed Ukraine’s push into Russia.
“Let’s let them find out what it’s like,” he said. “They don’t understand what war is. Let them have a taste of it.”
I thought they were constantly reminded through the fairly continuous attacks by drone, artillery and rocket on civilaians in Belgorod region over the last 2 years, and the cross border incursion there some months back allegedly carried out by Russian dissidents (fully armed with Ukrainian weaponry). Remind us of how that one went.
And only 2 hours ago according to him
“As of the end of June, approximately 140,000 Russian servicemen have died in the war since 2022, but the real number could be even higher.
That indicates a total Russian casualty figure of well over half a million.
Russia has lost more than 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles in the past year alone and circa 9,000 since February 2022.”
What is really going on?
One lives in hope.
Yesterday’s report from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the fighting in the Kursk region lists the following Ukrainian losses:
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to up to 1,350 Ukrainian troops, 29 tanks, 23 armoured personnel carriers, nine infantry fighting vehicles, 116 armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, three self-propelled guns of the Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system, three launchers and one AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, one Grad multiple-launch rocket system launcher and 10 field artillery guns.
Today’s report lists the total Ukrainian losses since the beginning of the ‘Special Military Operation’ as follows:
In total, 637 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 29,771 unmanned aerial vehicles, 566 air defence missile systems, 17,042 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,400 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 13,135 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,668 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
I must say I was shocked when Putin recently announced that Ukrainian losses were five times the number of Russian losses: commentators have said they were ten times higher. War is definitely something to avoid. Close to the beginning of the SMO, Putin did meet with mothers of killed Russian soldiers at the Kremlin, which I thought was both courageous and admirable. It is no wonder that Putin never wanted this conflict.
https://youtu.be/VSvrNTfQPQY
‘It wasn’t just the Kremlin and Russia’s military that was taken by surprise by Kyiv’s cross-border move last Tuesday – Moscow’s propaganda machine was also unprepared.
The Kremlin has instructed its TV, print and internet mouthpieces to play down the situation, to avoid reporting the incursion as the opening of a “new front,” to avoid comparisons with the 1943 Battle of Kursk, and any reports about the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant or any reference to the Ukrainian military gradually advancing towards it are totally prohibited.
The message has to be that everything is under control.
In fact Ukraine has captured over 1,000 square kilometres of Russian territory, 20 settlements, over one hundred and thirty three thousand Russian citizens evacuated so far. Hundreds of Russian armoured vehicles have been destroyed with thousands of Russian conscript casualties.
And Russian propagandists have been rumbled:
Ukrainian social media published video captured by the Khorne Group, part of Ukraine’s 116th Separate Mechanized Brigade, on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 8 and 9. It showed how a possible HIMARS missile strike destroyed a Russian army column near the village of Oktyabrskoye in the Rylsky district of the Kursk region.
The veracity of the images was confirmed when geolocated Images and video posted on Telegram early on Friday morning showed the burnt-out wreckage of at least 14 vehicles and numerous bodies, some say as many as 500, lying at the side of the road.
Russian media tried to counter this with videos of successes of their own forces against the advancing Ukrainian formations – only they were caught out by analysis of the images they chose to post, as reported by the independent news site The Insider.
On Aug. 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a video that purported to show a Su-34 fighter bomber releasing a FAB 3,000-kilogram (6,600-pound) glide bomb against a Ukrainian troop assembly area in the Sumy region.
It went on to say: “Having received confirmation from intelligence that the targets had been destroyed, the crew returned safely to the departure airfield.”
In fact, the video had been filmed sometime previously and had previously been published by the state news site TASS on July 14, almost a month earlier.
On Aug. 10, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, published a video, provided by its Ministry of Defense, showing Russian helicopters striking Ukrainian personnel and armored vehicles using S-13 air-to-ground missiles.
Analysis of the video showed the attack actually taken place some time earlier n the area around Kreminna and Chasiv Yar in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.’
Steve Brown
A video of approximately 30 people in military uniforms has been published, their eyes blindfolded with paper and tape. When asked where they were from, three of the men responded “From Grozny,” the capital of Chechnya. These are “Kadyrovites” — members of the Akhmat special forces unit — captured during Ukraine’s ongoing incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region.
“The raid teams caught up with these Kadyrovites deep in the rear of the border. According to them, they said they were attempting to escape to avoid being captured, since Ramzan Kadyrov once said that Akhmat’s fighters would not surrender. Well, usually they do, since they sit in the rear, but the situation in Kursk was developing rapidly, and these Akhmat fighters did not even try to resist,” reads the accompanying text to the video.
The Ukrainian authors also write that the Kadyrovites are of particular value in any potential prisoner exchange, as Russian negotiators “take them first.”
The post also claims that Akhmat is responsible for the fact that the Ukrainian army’s breakthrough across the border succeeded in the first place:
‘In fact, if they had been defending the border instead of hiding behind the backs of conscripts […] near Kursk, such a quick breakthrough would have been impossible.’
https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/57999
https://smotrim.ru/video/2848794
What’s really going on?
Smirnov added that the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Kursk Region have left 12 civilians dead and 121 wounded, 10 of them children. According to the governor, 180,000 people are slated for evacuation from the Kursk Region, with approximately 121,000 having already left the area.
As of August 12, the Russian government’s “military department” — Russia’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) — has not not disclosed any details regarding the extent of the Ukrainian forces’ advance. Instead, the ministry continues to release statistics on purportedly destroyed Ukrainian equipment.
On August 11, the MoD wrote that it had managed to “foil attempts by enemy mobile groups with armored vehicles to break through deep into Russian territory” in the areas of Tolpino, Zhuravli and Obshchii Kolodez, and allegedly struck Ukrainian troops in the areas of Staraya Sorochina, Korenevo, Sudzha, and Borki.
The ministry also claims that it was able to destroy a self-propelled launch vehicle of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Lyubimovka. This means that Russia’s MoD has actually recognized the fact of Ukrainian advances towards these settlements.
As noted by military expert Ian Matveev, the Defense Ministry’s report speaks of an advance of 35 kilometers from the point of the Ukrainian breakthrough:
What’s really going on- is that you have clearly lost the plot.
Question for Nigel Farage:
Who defines what is “hate” and incitement to violence?
Why just Farage?
My understanding is that the US Constitution’s First Amendment protects hateful speech but not incitement to violence. I personally don’t think we should lump the two together – incitement to violence, if proven (and acted upon?) should be a criminal offence, whereas hate speech (however defined) should not.
Sceptic in Surrey or nearby? You are welcome to join us tomorrow Tuesday 13th
The main story for me today is the steady creep of the Vaccine ( that’s not a Fu-king vaccine ) passport scheme now in 9 countries , up from 5 . Given that mega vaccine producing Factories have still been built in the face of all the evidence of the harms these Jabs do shows the utter contempt TPTB have for us proles !
The obvious religious connotation notwithstanding, in what practical way does a balaclava differ from a burka? Good luck imposing those rules without going even further down the two tier road.
I like your logic but they have anticipated this already. It would be cultural appropriation and therefore islamaphobic. So you’d still be arrested.
One is Irish traditional dress.
The comments section is an insight into what people are really thinking, and the consensus is the opposite to what we’re told it must be. A recent experience highlighted the power of the propaganda though…
I was sat outside a bar with my wife on Friday – a nice place, but with slightly overpriced drinks and lots of suits. My wife had popped to the loo and I became aware of the chap on the table behind me bemoaning the propaganda spouted by Gov/MSM about the ‘far-right’ rioting. I turned around and said “I’m far-right. We’re all far-right now aren’t we? Doesn’t it just mean anyone that at some point disagrees with the government?”. One of the people at the table was an elderly lady who, upon having that I was a self-proclaimed ‘far-right’ racist thug, almost fell off her chair. “Well, I’M not far-right” she scolded. “My point is that it’s a meaningless term” I explained and turned back around, quitting before my wife returned with the inevitable rolling of eyes. The mood seemed to have suddenly changed though, and I was also getting daggers from other tables, some of whom left shortly after staring at me as they went. It was a real life experience of how the propaganda works… and another reminder of just how utterly brain-dead many people are.
I had a similar experience with friends I have known for well over 30 years.
The ‘current narrative’ is repeated, with utmost certainty and not a doubt in their mind. I tried debate, but end up feeling quite alone as no real debate is possible.
So I just let them spout their truth whilst wondering if it is worth keeping these friendships going.
it is very hard though.
I share your frustration; anger even. Most of the people I work with are “intelligent stupids,” degree holders all and even a GP. Bloody know it all know nouts. There is a degree of satisfaction to be gained from winding them up though.
That image from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/11/elon-musk-describes-jail-for-far-right-rioters-messed-up/
The young lady certainly seems more relaxed about whatever is about to happen next than the policeman.
Mind, you: she’s being paid to be screwed by those men… Oh, hold on…
Although that top image is very close to the mark, I don’t like it for a couple of reasons: 1) indigenous British are not comfortable with their culture being destroyed 2) I think society has become desensitised to very aggressive porn which is often extremely demeaning to women – I have two daughters and I think what’s being normalised is a huge problem.
I think it is only the juxtaposition of the two images which makes the point. The top image does not represent civilised behaviour in my opinion – if it is what I think it is. I have grandchildren (13 and 11). I worry what they will be told is ‘normal’ – including that ‘he’ could be a ‘she’ if he wanted or vice versa. Fortunately, their parents seem sensible.
Yeah, I get the point being made, I just wish a different image had been used to make it.
If you’re on here then you’ve got the ability to think independently (rare it seems) and will have given your kids a fighting chance of being ‘normal’ and raising your grandchildren ‘normally’ – I succeeded with 2/3 and hope the youngest (the one most exposed to their propaganda) will see sense at some point.
Could someone please explain what point is being made here by Elon? The bottom pic looks like the policeman is being held hostage and saying what the captors tell him to say. The top pic has Dylan Mulvaney (trans-woman) sitting on a sofa with 4 black men around her. I don’t understand the top pic or the juxtaposition aspect.
I didn’t recognise Dylan Mulvaney.
I took the top picture to represent prostitutes (female and male – though you point out that was wrong) willing (forced) to go to extremes to obey the people that control them. I took the bottom picture to mean similar.
Ahhh, I didn’t notice that was Dylan Mulvaney either. Possibly worrying! Ok, that makes some more sense now – the acceptance of whites (in this case supposedly female) being exploited by an aggressive system which favours non-whites (except the girls aren’t even girls anymore) Vs. the acceptance of the system (in this case the police) to seemingly bow down and take orders from Muslim authority.
Thank you both.
Is that Sergeant Constable Detective Officer Peter Pisspot of Twat Valley Police in the middle, courtesy of Andrew Lawrence.
https://youtu.be/-wCGfBzzLxI?feature=shared
The copper is John Hutchinson, (?) Superintendent with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) based in the shit hole that is Oldham Town Centre. He is looking after “our communities” ie the Third World barbarians and hopes to keep them “safe” because Oldham is a hot bed of “faar rightists” although the last riots, in 2011 if memory serves, were kicked off by the muzzies.
Meetings every fortnight apparently.
Having worked in Moston for a couple of years, I did get to visit Oldham town centre on occasions. I think you are being generous.
I note that a large proportion of the kids that are being dobbed into the Prevent scheme are referred by their teachers for being ‘far-Right’ or in danger of becoming so. This despite the list of far-Right atrocities in this country fading into near insignificance compared with other terrorism.
I suggest this says more about the teachers than about the kids.
For example teachers tell the kids that men can be women and vice versa and other such claptrap and are ‘surprised’ if kids disagree with that and seek opinions elsewhere. Then the kids are dobbed into ‘Prevent’ for holding ‘extreme’ views.
The teachers seem have a monopoly on deciding what is dangerous opinion. It is they that need reining in.
Of course, if you control the narrative, all you need to do is label all ‘Islamic’ or other sectarian terrorism as far-Right and the job’s a good ‘un.
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Teaching five-year old critical thinking ignores the whole body of developmental psychology.
“The Morlocks come out in London”
What do you bet that the latest stabbing of a girl, 11, and her mother, 34, in London’s Leicester Square turns out to be a deliberate reverse of the Southport Mass Stabbing, with the London victims turning out to be Ethnic African, and the stabber an Ethnic European?
The media and police have already lauded an Islamic “hero” staff member of a nearby shop who intervened and helped capture the stabber, and has already been photo-featured describing his heroic actions. The media also mentioned that the stabber was a “homeless man” wandering about muttering to himself, and that the wounded woman screamed and screamed. When victims are badly wounded, they do not have the energy to scream and scream. Even when fending off an attacker, the victim doesn’t usually have the time or energy to waste on screaming, but focuses on the life-or-death struggle against the attacker. And when someone is stabbed in the back or chest and bleeding out, is it really wise to start CPR pumping the victim’s chest? Doesn’t that do more harm than good?
Are we being set up to jump to conclusions, so the Stalinist Socialist Workers Party can leap into action, denouncing “misinformation” and “far right racists”, blaming “innocent, harmless Muslims” yet again?