- “Diane Abbott will not be a Labour candidate until endorsed by NEC” – Diane Abbott has insisted that she will not run as a Labour candidate until she is endorsed by the National Executive Committee, says the Mail.
- “Unemployed Britons to do migrant jobs under Labour plans” – The Shadow Home Secretary says that unemployed Britons will be trained to do jobs normally taken by overseas workers to cut net migration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer must introduce wealth tax after Labour wins election, top Blair aide says” – A former advisor to Tony Blair says there is an “overwhelming economic and ethical case” for Labour to impose higher taxes on wealth if it wins the General Election, according to the Guardian.
- “The triumph of Labour’s centrists” – Barring an extraordinary electoral turnaround, Keir Starmer is about to join an elite club, which is even more pale, male and stale than the Garrick, says Niall Gooch in the Spectator – Labour leaders who’ve won majorities in general elections.
- “Justin Trudeau’s woke tyranny offers a warning of Britain under Starmer” – Monstrous elements in once moderate Left-wing parties now run the show, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak suffers poll blow as levelling-up cash-for-votes row erupts” – Rishi Sunak is facing accusations of using levelling up funds to win votes, says the Guardian, as a new poll shows a 20-point gap between Labour and the Conservatives.
- “Who will survive to lead the Tories?” – If Liz Truss can get herself on the shortlist of two candidates chosen by the remaining rump of MPs, could she be in with a chance? wonders Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- ‘Sunak and Starmer are second-grade politicians’” – In the Times, Andrew Neil tells Rosamund Urwin why the PM was “barmy” to go now and why, if he loses, his Labour opponent will “make a horlicks of things”.
- “What price justice?” – Increasingly, English courts seem to be taking the view that to dispense justice in small disputes involving ordinary people is a waste of their time, says Yuan Yi Zhu in the Critic. It isn’t.
- “Second private school blames Labour’s tax raid for closure” – Labour’s tax raid on private education has claimed another casaulty, this time a school where almost a third of pupils have special needs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scrap VAT plan if OBR says it will not raise money, Starmer told” – An education chief has told Labour to abandon its plans to charge VAT on private school fees if it ends up costing the taxpayer money, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour risks union revolt over private school tax raid job losses” – Starmer’s VAT plans risk triggering a wave of industrial action from teachers, reveals the Telegraph, since private school teachers, some of whom will lose their jobs, are trade union members too.
- “D:Ream will not allow Starmer to use song that Tony Blair played” – The band behind New Labour anthem ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ says it will not allow Keir Starmer to use it in his election campaign, according to the Mail.
- “Double-breasted Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg takes to the campaign trail” – The Mail reports that Jacob Rees-Mogg has taken to the campaign trail, revealing what he wears when it’s too hot for his double-breasted suit.
- “Tommy Robinson supporters shout out ‘hate chant’ at London demo” – Supporters of Tommy Robinson shouted “Who the f— is Allah?” as thousands of Met officers policed the march he organised with Laurence Fox in London, reports the Telegraph. Hate chant?
- “George Galloway backed by pro-Palestinian fake bots” – One in five Facebook accounts using a hashtag to promote George Galloway and engaging with his official account are fake, according to the Telegraph.
- “Arson attack on synagogue is latest in a string of antisemitic incidents that have rocked Canada” – An arsonist set fire to the entrance of a synagogue in Vancouver in the third antisemitic attack in Canada in a matter of days, reports the Canadian Press.
- “How pro-Palestine activists are using AI to evade social media censorship” – Pro-Palestine supporters are using AI to bypass moderation on social media platforms, says Jim Norton in the Telegraph.
- “The World Health Assembly meeting has failed to achieve a package of amendments to the IHR” – There is no agreement on the IHR amendments because nations have seen the pandemic preparedness agenda as the Trojan horse it is, says Dr. Meryl Nass on her Substack.
- “New FDA study reports elevated post-vaccination seizure risk in toddlers” – On Substack, Rev Arora asks the U.S. Food and Drug Administration how it can still recommend Covid vaccination in children despite the newly emerging risks. Their response is all-too-revealing.
- “FOIA, lies and subpoenas” – A top deputy to Dr. Fauci hid his discussions with Peter Daszak, the conduit for the federal money that went to the Chinese lab that’s Covid’s likely source. Will anyone be held accountable? asks Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “The TTE week in numbers” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present a numerical breakdown of the week’s standout healthcare-related stories.
- “‘Our future depends on us having plenty of children’” – In the Times, James Beale reports on the concerns of ‘pronatalists’ about the declining birthrate and its potential impact on the West.
- “Branson’s plan to relaunch Virgin Trains ‘could consume millions in public funds’” – Sir Richard Branson’s bid to relaunch Virgin Trains could cost the taxpayer millions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Military recruitment” – The RAF is short of pilots in part because they are short of trainers, in part because they don’t pay them enough and in part because they discriminate against white men, says A.N. Other in the New Conservative.
- “Gary Lineker gives reason why he is supporting Real Madrid” – Gary Lineker has declared his support for Real Madrid in the Champions League final in response to Borussia Dortmund’s sponsorship deal with arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, according to Metro.
- “‘We’ve launched our YouTube channel’” – Steve Chilcott and Richard Palmer stammer through their first video podcast: managing workplace conflict in our polarised and divided age.
- “German press denounce activist after an Afghan terrorist violently stabs him and five others with a 30cm combat knife” – The response of the MSM to the brutal stabbing of a journalist by a 25 year-old Afghan man in Mannheim is the latest failure in political discourse, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Russia ‘could disable British nuclear deterrent in one day’ in war” – A Moscow military expert claims Russia could disable Britain and France’s nuclear arsenal “within one day” if World War Three broke out, reports the Mail.
- “From lockdown to Net Zero, Sir Patrick Vallance seems wedded to fearmongering” – Fear appears to be the key factor driving Sir Patrick’s judgement, now pushing him to support Labour’s fanatical green energy proposals, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s plan for publicly-owned GB Energy firm is slammed” – The Mail reports that experts have branded Labour’s green energy plan “a con”, warning that it is “not plausible” and would send bills soaring.
- “National grid propaganda piece withdrawn” – It is becoming clear that renewables are an expensive source of power and false claims should no longer be made in the press, writes David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Biden is now being surrounded by a huge posse of aides during walks” – Joe Biden is surrounded by a huge posse of aides during public strolls to try and distract from the 81 year-old’s shuffling walk, reports the Mail.
- “Mandela’s ANC loses majority for first time since end of apartheid” – The African National Congress has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid, with voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages, according to AP.
- “World’s largerst floating solar farm trashed by bad weather” – The world’s largest floating solar farm at Omkareshwar Dam in India has been devastated by bad weather. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
India: The world's largest floating solar farm is laid to waste by a bout of bad weather.
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I wonder if this is something to do with the difficulty of counting people in the occupied parts of Ukraine? I don’t understand why but it is almost bound to make it a problem even defining if someone is part of the Ukrainian population or not.
We’ve just had a census yet, as Prof Norman Fenton keeps illustrating, we haven’t a clue how many people there are in the UK.
I suspect the authorities have got a pretty good idea of how many people there are in the UK, but they pretend not to because it suits them. I expect whatever figures there are have been kept vague enough to allow for plausible deniability.
And Russia has lost at least a million citizens to emigration.
‘This exodus is a terrible blow for Russia,” said Tamara Eidelman, a Russian historian who moved to Portugal after the invasion. “The layer that could have changed something in the country has now been washed away.”
Some say many more have emigrated. More than 3.8 million Russians left the country in the first three months of 2022, according to data from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
https://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/38480
So now some state institutions are now asking even medium-level figures to refrain from foreign travel and banned from travelling more than two hours’ drive from Moscow without official permission.
The FSB have asked former officials who previously had access to state secrets to surrender their passports, and even some who never had access.
“Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,”
Alexandra Prokopenko, former Russian central bank official
I followed that link but couldn’t make much sense of it. Any tips? It’s not clear whether these are permanent departures.
Where would 3.8 millions Russians be able to go and live, legally?
I’m not questioning the statistics particularly, but Fedstat isn’t Russian, it’s a division in the US Department of Commerce… and I suppose were Russia quoting figures for America we would be expected to treat them with some scepticism?
….the Russian comparison would be Rosstat….
Not only have Ukraine lost 8 million legally, there have been thousands of men leaving illegally, numbers vary from 12,000-15,000 depending on who you read…as this is what they are willing to admit, it could be many more?
As the population is @ 43 million V 146 million, in Russia’s favour …. Russia probably have a long way to go before they are depleted!
The Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS) was developed as part of the implementation of the federal target program “Development of State Statistics of Russia in 2007-2011”.
The purpose of creating the System is to provide access via the Internet to state bodies, local governments, legal entities and individuals to official statistical information, including metadata, generated in accordance with the federal plan of statistical work.
EMISS is a state information resource that combines official state information statistical resources formed by the subjects of official statistical accounting as part of the implementation of the federal plan for statistical work.
Access to official statistical information included in the statistical resources included in the interdepartmental system is carried out on a free and non-discriminatory basis.
The system was put into operation by a joint order of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia and Rosstat dated November 16, 2011
No. 318/461 .
The EMISS coordinator is the Federal State Statistics Service.
The EMISS operator is the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation”.
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…as usual I have no idea what this is about..
So Rosstat use a computing system called EMISS…?
You can bet your life they won’t be going anywhere near Ukraine, which actively discriminates against Russian speakers.
Those who did run away to escape the anticipated conscription were clearly listening to Western misinformation, since it was clear that the process would only involve reservists, not raw recruits. And they claim these people were the “elite”. Clearly not very bright and a little yellow.
The FSB reported a slight uptick in Russians traveling to war-torn Ukraine — 328,435 (Jan-Mar 22), up from 316,286 in January-March 2021.
That sounds suspiciously like the number of Russian troops in the liberated regions.
Or maybe something else?
‘RVC reports that it “again visited” Bryansk Oblast, where the fighters managed to perform “combat tasks”, communicate with residents, hand them their postcards and “ask them to hide during the hostilities”.
As proof, the corps released a video in which its fighters really communicate with the residents of the village of Sluchovsk and conduct combat operations there.’
06 Apr 23
Oops……!
In case of problems while working with the system, please contact us:
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or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/russia-diaspora-war-ukraine/
Take your pick
What she says she said to the FT was “Russia’s security services have almost total leeway to interpret the rules under revisions to laws on state secrets, espionage and treason. Basically any information can be deemed secret, so the embedded FSB officers start telling you that you have sensitive information. What is it? Why is it secret and who decides that? Nobody knows,”
Not quite the same thing.
It is highly likely that Ukraine have lost hundreds of thousands of troops.
Former Pentagon adviser Colonel Douglas McGregor shared secret data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“When Zaluzhny was in the US, he met with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Milley. He secretly told them that Ukraine had lost 257,000 people since the beginning of the conflict,” the retired officer shared.
A Turkish publication, citing Israeli intelligence agency MOSSAD, claims to show the real number of casualties for both parties in the conflict as Ukrainians killed in action reaches staggering 157,000 with 2,458 NATO soldiers dead and 234,000 injured.
Russia 18,480 dead with 44,500 injured.
US Military analyst William Schryner wrote in January 2023 that “Ukraine has now suffered approximately 500,000 irretrievable (military) casualties and virtually the entirety of their original inventories of military hardware – the equivalent of ALL the personnel and equipment (both active and reserves) with which they commenced this conflict.”
Telegram channels from the frontline show Nato heavy weapons being destroyed on a regular basis and Ukrainian troops and Nato country mercenaries being destroyed by the hundreds every day which confirm the above figures may be accurate with very little Russian losses.
In February 2022 Ukraine passed a law where they would compensate the families of servicemen killed in action.
Ukraine are so corrupt that they would rather designate those killed as “missing” instead so they don’t have to pay out the compensation.
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/ok-doomer?publication_id=1085164&post_id=95312586&isFreemail=true
This was posted by geo-political analyst Pepe Escobar.
Ukraine have lost 387,000 conscripted soldiers killed in action.
Plus 31,240 mercenaries have been killed.
Ukrainian Telegram channel “Observer”: Open Source INTelligence (Intelligence from open sources), based on reports from funeral agencies, extracts from morgues, as well as the results of an analysis of radio, cellular and satellite exchange of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reports that as of October 20, irretrievable losses of The Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 402,000 people, of which 387,000 were killed. At the same time, to date, the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine has allegedly prepared more than 320,000 appeals “about the fate of the missing soldiers,” but the SBU has forbidden filing applications with the prosecutor’s office for national security purposes.
https://vk.com/wall578617852_26297
Even the pro-Nato propaganda merchants the BBC stated that only 16,071 named Russian troops had died in total up to March 2023.
They daren’t tell the world the Ukrainian losses which are in the hundreds of thousands.
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-64840229?ocid=wsrussian.social.in-app-messaging.telegram..russiantelegram_.edit
The BBC have revised this figure to just 17,375 named Russian troops.
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-64984414
..a whole generation of young men…a whole generation who won’t be father’s…it’s a fuc***g tragedy……
Peace talks NOW….….
but no the USA has just authorised (yesterday) a new $2.6 billion package of U.S. military aid to Ukraine which includes $500 million for immediate supplies…
They weren’t kidding when they said…’to the last Ukrainian’…..that’s what literally will be left……
It is a sad situation. I speak to Ukranians and Russians frequently and they seem remarkably bright and many of them have a wonderful facility for language and really enjoy learning more about English. I think people’s names sound much more beautiful in Russian and they have the patronymic and the diminutive which we seem to have lost so long ago that nobody could possibly notice anymore.
You should always be mindful of the western neurotic fear of death. Terrorist organisations and intelligence agencies all over the world know and have perceived this reality. If you are in that state, the state they want you to be in, then you have to grasp it and snap out of it. Because very shortly there aren’t going to be any comfortable options. You either apply yourself to working with others in order to survive or you don’t.
None of us really appreciate how much we need the next man, whether its taking out bins or whatever, We need to be mindful of just how fragile life is for most of the people in this country, who live in cities. We are moving into a different phase now. I don’t care what happens I know where my loyalty lies. At least in the horror to come we will find out about true character.
There is an assumption that it being encouraged here – that if you knew the reality you could control it. Believe me by the end of this year you are going to see governments showing their people some rather unpleasant tactics. Of course in the volatile times we live in, I would say that the average life expectancy of any government is about two weeks.
Look at the current trajectory in terms of econmics. The dollar based system has a couple of weeks left and the pound is totally subservient. This is a major disruption but people pretend it isn’t going to happen. I can tell you that it is going to happen very soon.
I know how hysterical people are at the moment and really worried and looking for guidance, When this situation g ets seriois you are going to have millions of people who haven’t got the faintest idea about it. A lot of people are simply going to crack up. You have to accept this reality.
It isn;t easy trying to make people understand about the reality to come. We can obviate that if we comne together. If I have one desire it is to keep our people together.