“Having watched a few hours of MEMRI content over the years, I should not have been surprised when Muslim neighbours – the Mohammeds and Ahmeds who routinely deliver me and my goods or serve me in their shops in West London – took to the streets to celebrate the October 7 pogrom in Israel. Half a mile from where I live, they danced for joy and called for the destruction of Israel. This, before the Jewish state had responded in any way – making a nonsense of the line taken by most Palestinian apologists that they don’t support Hamas’s actions (to the extent they don’t actually deny them) but are merely protesting the alleged ferocity of Israel’s response.”
All right, I like his voice, accent, manner … at the start … but but but … the bleedin’ intrusive music started, blighting the presentation … plus it’s so TV/journo bollox … why not just give the facts, rather than make a meal of it? Just as with podcasts and vlodcasts. Maybe it’s the times we’re in, maybe it’s just me at fault.
(0621) Morning all … billowing Gates cloud, as in Sun 1 today. (0733)
4. Steve at 1038
Trump Renames Veteran’s Day to Victory Day for WW1, Will Name May 8…..
Zelensky Rejects Victory Day Truce, Doubles Down on Threats
CNN Forced to Cover Trump’s Massive April Jobs Boost
Department of Transportation Terminating $54M in ‘Woke University Grants’
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 3, 2025
EU’s Game Plan For [The] Ukraine
The Mineral Deal Pulls Trump Back In
Covid Fraud – The Beginning (Part Two)
Musk’s Secret DOGE – Team Sits Down For Wide-Ranging Interview
Much more
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JH: Earlier, Steve had the origins of the Uke thing, Maidan, in 2014 and it’s very much chicken and egg. Pro-Uke death squads such as Asov point to 1618 Polish-Russian war as the start, others point to 1917 and Lenin.
One of the catalysts for Russia was the Odessa Trades Hall building massacre on Maidan Day in 2014 … the sheer atrocities by Azov etc. against unarmed protesters, gunmen shooting, burning, torturing both sides in order to get conflagration restarted.
Poryshenko had not been exactly subtle in Kiev leading up to it. Remember Tymoschenko as well? Everyone in the region knew what the US and UK were pulling, through NATO/CIA … the MSM/Wiki mention none of that. And thus, views become skewed. Plus the constant shelling, by Kiev, of the Donbass from then onwards. Hamas stuff.
What do NATO/CIA want? Globo access, US access, to Russ area minerals of course. Perma aggression on the doorstep, e.g. drones to the Crimea. Would Russia act to stop it? Well would the US if Cuba tried that trick? I’m defending the US in its backyard, Russia in its, us in ours.
3. DAD at 1038
a) The legislative process for introducing euthanasia in France was put on hold by the government’s collapse in December 2024. Discussions have resumed…..
b) ‘We can’t explain it to our citizens’ – von der Leyen laments EU’s abysmal deportation rate…..
c) Hiding the truth. A code of ethics for journalistic coverage of migration, a particularly sensitive topic in public debate, was presented Tuesday at the Mediterranean Journalism Conference in Marseille…..
d) Rennes again. Around 7:25 p.m., around fifteen firefighters* were dispatched to the scene […] two youths were injured by gunfire. The first, aged 17, was in critical condition…..
2. This one’s better buried
… and those who can find their way around can track it down … not saying who sent it.
Someone in comments recalls seeing it at Treehouse. Essentially, she’s American black, bought the Demrat oppression entitlement thing from birth, felt so oppressed and unwanted, decided to return to “Africa”, even though that’s around 54 nations over a vast continent, misses “snacks” most, wants back in the USA.
Says she’s a dentist, has run companies. Uh huh. Says it’s bad back there … mugged, even by police, power goes off unless prepaid, wants back “home”. Uh huh.
Hodge Twins … someone writes they don’t look black, seem mixed race … that’s another topic.
My conclusion? Thomas Sowell’s most like. Also, the way you look, way you act, weird eccentricity from the norm, way you speak … those decide me … in other words, if I sense trouble, I avoid, go the other way.
Prejudice? I’d walked up the towpath towards Bradford once, saw a narrowboat owner, got talking, asked how it was further along. He replied, quietly (and we’d talked no politics till then): “It’s all right till here but it gets pretty bad the closer you go to the centre … you really need to go there?”
That was all, I thanked him, wished him well, turned and went back to the ancestral home three miles away.
*Hell is an appropriate description of where that land’s going:
She pinpointed it on Apr 30. Today, the horror of a landslide labour victory, the Lib (Tory) leader losing his seat, not unlike Poiviere, has eventuated. I did not follow the Oz election closely so don’t know why Dutton the CINO was so ineffectual, almost as if ordered to be. Why was Poiviere so bad too?
In the UK, Badenough was useless but there was a charmer with a good TV manner and a moneyed campaign. Never mind his behaviour, people were hoping against hope. NZ … why on earth did they put Ardern in? Why Macaroon?
The power of the media, TV, over normies is complete it seems.
20. Steve at 1038 … war room
Nathan Simington: America Needs A Smart Reindustrialization To Compete With China
What We Saw From Previous Administration Was An Effort To Influence Communication And Social Media
James Rickards: Either The US And Russia Stand Up To China Or We’re The Sucker
“The US Wanted This War.” Jim Rickards On How NATO And Victoria Nuland Are Behind Ukraine War
“It Speaks To The Capture Of Legacy Media By The CCP” Natalie Winters On Destruction Of Channel 4
Liz Yore: “We’re Calling It The Vatican Suicide Pact With The CCP” |
19. DAD runs this by MTG
I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy. I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran. I don’t think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength.
And on top of that, now we are told that we have signed a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine, in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine and they used for money laundering, sold the weapons we gave them to our enemies, and their leader is a dictator who canceled elections, was involved in the first impeachment of Trump, and campaigned for Biden.
Didn’t we learn our lesson when we went to war in Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein because of “weapons of mass destruction?” Did we ever find any? And did any of that oil over in the Middle East make us rich? The answer is no, we are $36 trillion in debt today.
So why on earth would we go over and occupy Ukraine and spend an untold amount of future American taxpayer dollars defending and mining their minerals as well as potentially putting American lives at risk and future war? Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?
I also campaigned on accountability for the communist and tyrannical acts made by the government during Covid. Yet the Covid vaccine still has FDA approval even though there are millions reported injuries and deaths, and this mRNA vaccine is known to have horrific side effects and DOES NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM CATCHING COVID. And to this day, it’s still on the childhood vaccine schedule, why on earth is this happening? Hasn’t big pharma made enough billions and billions and billions of dollars on this lie?
I also campaigned on accountability for all the lawfare that was waged against the American people in the past four years. What about all the people that were locked up in jail and the abuse that they went through? And when are those vicious attorneys and judges ever going to be held accountable for the lives they ruined?
And I campaigned for an end to waste fraud and abuse of the American people’s harder tax dollars. I believe the DOGE mission is one of the most important things happening today in our government, and yet where are the rescissions that we should be voting on in Congress?
And one of the biggest issues in the nation that I have fought for, and early on I was one of the only ones that took a loud screaming stand against, is the evil transgender assault against our children. Most normal people in this country can’t even comprehend how it’s allowed to happen to kids who by law can’t even get a tattoo, drive, or vote.
And how did so many of our teachers turn into the predators themselves that groom children with gender lies? This should be an all out effort by Republicans to end this insanity. And look at the extreme nature of our rogue judicial system that is so defiant that there are judges that defy our nation’s laws and block the deportation of literal enemies of the United States of America. Where is the outrage and moral courage to dispose of this treason? Sadly not in Congress.
And what about election integrity? This should be the most important issue that the Republicans aggressively fight to protect because without secure elections protected from illegals voting and protections from stealing our votes, the American people have lost their power. When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base. And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.
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JH: Steve’s Natalie interview at 1038 also touches on Iran.
Speaking to the Financial Times on Thursday, Kallas, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, claimed that “Crimea is Ukraine,” adding that “no EU country would accept recognition of Crimea as Russia.”
There’s the easy out. A European nation just has to recognize Crimea as Russian, which it obviously is, and thereby render itself a non-EU country. I assume the Russians would be more than happy to defend the rights of any such sovereign ex-EU state.
(1023) In the curious position just now of a surfeit of feature vids exceeding straight politika, though that continues of course. (1114)
11. Just a bit of housekeeping – time sensitivity
Either the material has vastly increased or I’m ageing faster but it’s taking far longer now, plus the eyesight is showing not good signs.
Summer almost certainly will disrupt the blog(ging) due to govt action and I’ve been warning about that … it starts in June, through to late August … it’s an unknown-unknown which may well mean the end of this blog, at least for some time.
Another reason it’s taking longer to compose posts includes the WP/ipadair composing set up being iffy in some ways and playing up on me behind the scenes … even this post has unnecessary issues. Plus the ageing etc. already mentioned, inc. eyesight more at a premium now.
Things being laid on me externally … those within our camp are fine, such as our patrons’ drops, our readers … they keep us running, they’re our lifeline (more more more please). Some though I just can’t currently take on … for example, a good friend for decades is shaping to lay a proofreading job on me which I’m not sure I can take on right now … proofing non English native speaking books can double or triple the time required and this is not the time … summer might be better, shall see. Spirit is willing but the flesh …
Related to that … I’ve started proofing my own “semi-fiction” as I have a feeling I’m not going to be able to after August … I can go at a fair pace with that … and I’d need to.
RL house/abode issues are also crowding in, which lil ole me needeth not … govt yet again! Nor do any of us here need such things.
Why lay all this on those dropping in here to read these rantings? Forewarning really … I daresay you’ll also have added commitments … health related, vacances etc.
One thing it’s confirming, underscoring, is that the linear blog format is best, rather than a complex page layout … WYSIWYG, then it drops off the page, no archiving except that it’s its own archive … NOWP as well.
Fwiw, I’m a one man band. Not in the pay or thrall to any ooman. 😉
9. Airline safety
Years back, after some crashes, tails falling off etc., I ran a few posts at N.O. on Airbus being unsafe … camel designed by a committee etc. … which caused a few readers, e.g. Ivan, to be incensed.
I can’t recall if it was the A-380 or some other, plus the stories seem to have died away … maybe it was not the A-380 after all, so don’t go quoting me. Anyway, then the Boeing issues started, seen at the end of this blurb:
It’s worth noting that the DC-10 was the first airliner produced after the McDonnell and Douglas aircraft corporations merged. The management from McDonnell directed that the plane be produced on a tight budget. This saw technology being recycled from the DC-8 and various aspects of production of the DC-10 being contracted to other companies.
This included the production of the fuselage that was contracted to Convair, who was forbidden from directly contacting the FAA even over safety concerns.
Hold on, two aerospace companies merging and then facing controversy over building their planes for cheap? Where have we heard that before…
