In my wanderings through the byways of the internet I often come across interesting new people and youtube channels. Today I’ll introduce you to one such which has very quickly become indispensable to me. More on that below. First, a quick glance at our beloved MSM and their print edition headlines (link) which mostly scream about La Truss going to ‘rip up’ the NI protocol which the HoL will try to prevent.
Let’s leave it at that but let’s mention that President Biden doesn’t like it. Therefore, “A delegation of influential US congress representatives will fly to London within days amid growing concern in the White House about spiralling tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol” (link). A bit like the diplomatic ‘charm offensive’ the US bombarded India with in their attempt to get India to support the ‘sanctions’. We’ll see if our government will turn out to be as resilient as the Indian one.
Let’s now take a quick look at a few other bobs and bits regarding ‘our response’ to the war in Ukraine. The DT has an interview with Brigadier Nick Cowley, Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team:
“British troops are “ready to go and fight” Russia in a “lethal” way if called upon, the head of an elite unit has said. “It’s very present and I think it’s something we need to keep reminding ourselves about,” he said. In an interview with The Telegraph from North Macedonia, where Brig Cowley’s troops are leading the Nato Exercise Swift Response, he warned that the war in Ukraine represented the absence of “freedom”, which he said the West had “taken for granted” in recent years.” (paywalled link)
Well, I dunno where that Brigadier was in the last couple of years. The ’freedom we have taken for granted’ of which he speaks was conspicuously absent, if I remember correctly. That ‘freedom’ is also conspicuously absent in the Ukraine, where even before the war democratic parties were ‘forbidden’, with the last one now having been ‘liquidated’ on Thursday (link). Is that the ‘freedom’ our soldiers are happy to defend? Is that the ‘freedom’ we can expect to happen here in our country?
And so to the latest piece of propaganda news and to the youtube channel I mentioned above. The gentleman who runs it is very clever. Like many others he’s been clobbered by youtube censorship where ’community moderators’ remove anything which runs counter to the official russophobe party line. Unlike others who moved over to other video channel providers like Bitchute, Odysee or Rumble, he is fighting back. Being English, he does it with irony, mentioning that Russian sources are of course all propaganda while his voice and body language suggest the opposite.
He has published two hugely important videos in the last couple of days. The first one relates to the ‘shock-horror’ report which the DT and The Times have on their front pages. The headlines of both papers are that ‘Russian soldiers shoot Ukrainian civilians, the DT being a bit more lurid than that in the times:
“Russian soldiers seen shooting Ukrainian civilians dead in chilling CCTV footage – Two soldiers shown exchanging words, lifting rifles to their shoulders and firing at victims at bicycle shop outside Kyiv” (paywalled link)
Both papers acknowledge that they copied this report from the BBC which copied it from a video report by CNN. Well, here is the meticulous analysis by that youtuber, ‘iEarlGrey’ who only asks questions … have a look at the comments as well:
Two days ago he produced another video about the biolabs in the Ukraine. This video is based on the meticulous analysis of all the documents which fell into Russian hands. Mr ‘iEarlGrey’ simply gives chapter and verse and quotes from the official Russian report. One might have thought that our covid-obsessed government and our MSM might have taken notice – but no. And why should they – these documents have been presented to the UN where only ‘non-western’ countries took note. No worries, aye! See for yourselves:
I leave you with a rather upsetting essay in regard to the entry of Finland into NATO. Read it in full, even though it is upsetting. Obviously, the ‘diplomats’ populating the foreign ministries in ‘Teh West’ have become of such low educational standards that they are unaware of treaties and consequences. The same goes for governments such as Latvia where they now ‘fight Russia’ by removing war memorials for WWII Soviet soldiers (link).
And finally, one tiny sliver of silver lining: Sen Rand Paul has single-handedly denied the passage of that $40bn aid bill for the Ukraine, demanding that
”the legislation be altered to require an inspector general to oversee spending on Ukraine. Without his agreement, the Senate must follow a lengthy process stipulated by the chamber’s arcane rules.” (link).
Seems reasonable to me! I wish we had similar ‘inspector generals’ overseeing the spending of our money, be it for ‘help the Ukraine’, be it for ‘funding refugees’, be it for the behemoth, sorry: the Sacred Cow, and that they ‘inspect’ or audit how our money is being spent while it is flowing out, not years later.
Didn’t a Tory MP complain that people don’t know how to budget and need to be taught? I suggest our Westminster swamp dwellers need such lessons in how to budget properly with great urgency. After all, if we can do it, if we can budget for tightening our belts because of inflation – why should they be let off the hook?
Glad you found iEarlGrey, Viv. He’s my kind of Englishmen, and not that old either; I thought we had all but gone extinct. Cheers me up despite the subject matter.
A day or so ago he showed Pentagon press sec John Kirby on Fox News, in some kind of ecstatic peroration: “…the training and effort that went into getting the Ukranians ready for this kind of war; over the last eight years the United States, Canada, Britain, other allies really helped train the Ukranians in small unit leadership, command and control, operational manoeuvres, the kinds of things you are seeing them do now, it’s not just about the weapons, it’s about the skills and the capabilities that er leadership they are exerting on the battlefield and that wasn’t by accident.”
Cat out of bag somewhat: “getting the Ukranians ready for this kind of war; over the last eight years.” We really knew already, but good to have it publicly confirmed.
Just before the local elections (last Thursday) I downloaded the odds of the next cons leader and the odds of our Fabulous Prime Minister leaving date. I did the same today.
British Politics – Next Conservative Leader Betting Odds
5 May 2022
Lis Truzz …. ….23/5
Jeremy Hunt …. ….11/2
Tom Tugendhat ….6/1
Ben Wallace …. ….7/1
Penny Mordent ….8/1
Ritchie Soonak ….9/1
13 May 2022
Lis Truzz ……..24/5
Jeremy Hunt ……..5/1
Tom Tugendhat ….11/2
Ben Wallace …. ….7/1
Penny Mordent ….8/1
Ritchie Soonak ….9/1
Boris Johnson Exit Date Betting Odds
5 May 2022
2022 ….11/10; ….2023 ….5/1; ….2024 or later ….5/4
13 May 2022
2022 ….7/4; ….2023 ….7/2; ….2024 or later 10/9
So much for the landslide for the extreme left.
So much for the letters going in to the 1922 committee.
So much for the penalty fine for our exceptional and wonderful PM for giving out prizes at a lockdown booze-up.
None of the above thanks. All have two things in common, 1. they like the sound of their own voice and 2. they are out and out losers. Tugendhat is my local MP and is a confirmed ‘Remainer’ representing a Leave constituency, so he is a definite no no.
Definitely the latter.
Intended as reply to Phil O’Sophical. Internet issues today…
Liz Truss IS GOING TO rip up the N.I. Protocol.
How wonderful (not).
Just get on and bl**dywell do it!
AND do something to prevent the Lords delaying it. Should have been done yonks ago.
Thank you Viv your links are excellent.
Pauline…….like everything with this government its all talk and no action. I have read somewhere today that even though Truss has been talking tough over this (and not before time) she has admitted that it may be delayed for a year. Why why why is she talking in terms of delay? My guess is that it will be tied in with the next general election. Its taken them two and a half years so far to sort this cobblers out and they’ve done bugger all. After all the fake promises of the December 2019 Conservative manifesto and how everything was going to be marvellous for us as a result of Brexit, I will not be taken in by the clown and his chums again.
The Russia / Ukraine war will spread, what gives it away is that the arms manufacturers are already gearing up production to supply the west.
WW3 is being planned and not by Putin or Russia.
Perhaps Viv will allow me to write a more detailed article on this subject?
Yes, flyer – have a go! I look forward to it.
The whole pack of cards is about to collapse financially. Of course the Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine gets the rap from the MSM. Neil McCoy Ward has his usual cut to the chase analysis of what is happening.
As you noted the other day Viv the DT has really cranked up its Russophobia. But the whole MSM is in bed with the deep state as they were with Covid I fear. What is to be done? What can be done? Refuse to buy their products is our only way to express our disgust at their failure to engage in proper objective journalism.
Jake. Dominic Cummings spills the beans about the crisis in journalism.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/11/bungs-to-billionaires-cummings-exposes-johnsons-cash-for-content-scandal/
Thanks Ceri. D.C. has done a good job there.
I can’t forgive him though, for being a fanatical lock down supporter.
Cummings a lockdown fanatic? A case of do as I say, not as I do! TBF, I didn’t see what he did was so bad (apart from the argument used in partygate – you made the ruddy rules so stick by them). I have been managing the risks, to myself and my vulnerable husband, since early 2020, yes, lockdown made it easier to cope but there was always a way to manage without it – I was about to introduce shifts in March 2020 to match staff according to their risk of exposure (school children, partner using public transport) & their or their partner’s vulnerability.
As far as I can see Cummings & wife would only have risked spreading their lurgi if they had broken down or had an accident. Unlike that SNP MP who actually went on a train when she knew she had covid.
Agree. The DT has got so bad it literally makes me laugh. The propaganda picture stories are priceless. And yet another ineffectual nonentity of yore rolled out today. Michael Fallon claiming “Putin has made his biggest blunder yet,” ‘forcing’ Sweden and Finland to join NATO, when it is the exact opposite. It is certainly one of the biggest blunders, but on behalf of the West. NATO’s incessant eastward creep was one of Putin’s red lines; they know this and still they do it; what does this tell us?; they are trying to provoke WWIII.
Worth watching agin just as reminder.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pY7Q4qDTcPvq/
Zelensky once justified his and other oligarchs’ use of offshore banks by saying that corruption was rife in Ukraine. In effect, I am corrupt because others are. Now that Ukraine is a one party state, corruption has simply been monopolised into a kleptocracy. Rand Paul at least understands. Inspectors General are real-time auditors (the proposal by Eric Kauffman for more than just specific projects and for more than just finance). Fraud in the NHS is estimated at around £7 billion a year, and many, many times that in the EU. Fraud during the pandemic ran into tens of billions. In Iraq and Afghanistan it was known to be phenomenal and never fully measured. Yet, auditors faithful to the rule of law in defiance of government may no longer be possible. The FBI’s role in undermining Trump was political, for example, so that I doubt a corruption free Inspectorate could exist in the US (under Biden certainly) anymore than it could or does in the EU. It might be possible in a country where civil servants are genuinely politically neutral, but there does not appear to be such a country anymore.
The US senators coming to the UK is theatre for the Irish-American vote. While Biden appears sentimental about a united Ireland I doubt whoever tells the demented fool what to say, are quite so ideologically commited as to override American interests in another NATO member and alienating the UK at a time when the EU’s anti-Americanism is in the ascendant. In any case, Sinn Fein/IRA in northern Ireland are a problem for Eire’s Martin and Varadka (that Fianna Fail and Fina Gail are in colation is solely to keep SF out in the republic), and it is no longer in their interests to obstruct altering the NI protocol though they may find they are not as influential in the EU as they imagine. If the Irish goverment signals to Biden that they believe the NI Protocol is inconsistent now with the Good Friday Agreement then the UK will survive a tut-tut from the US. It is Macron who will be the problem along with shopping trolley Boris Johnson. Lord Frost is ramping up the pressure with interviews and articles. The Visegrad countries, and now the Baltic states perhaps, are more sympathetc to the UK, or can be persuaded to be, so that significant EU retailation is far from certain, but I doubt Johnson has the cojones to actually act unilaterally as a re-energised Macron will intimidate him. Will Macron be denied a majority and constrained or will he get the majoiry he needs in the June eelctions to carry on with his Jupiter project? Much depends on France’s assembly elections in June – for Northern Ireland and the fate of NATO if the EU army goes ahead. What looks like a parochial matter for the French is anything but that.
Western politicans are waxing lyrical about a new unity. The US thinks it is the origin of centrifugal forces, the EU thinks it is, seemingly oblivious to the centripetal forces actually at work exacerbated by shopping trolley Johnson oscillating betwen the two. Pretty sure Xi Jinping goes to bed with a smile on his face.
Excellent synopsis Stout.
Biden needs to be told in no uncertain terms to keep his nose out of UK business. Hopefully the good citizens of the US will rid themselves of him soon…
Some hope of globalist BoJo doing right by us.
Not sure how to read your last sentence, JT. Is it optimistic “Some hope…” or an eye-rolling “No hope…”? I think the latter.
John O’Sullivan said, on Steyn, roughly that Bojo is good at marching his men to the top of the hill and then, er, faffing around a bit and getting nowhere. Like being a cheerleader for Brexit, getting 90% over the line then letting it languish and all the benefits wither. Andrei Martyanov was a little more pithy, as you would expect. In another context he said, “This is a very British thing, to put it mildly, to try to pursue lofty objectives while not having required resources.” And this is doubly catastrophic when, as with Ukraine, we are pursuing the opposite of lofty objectives, failing even at that, in a hole practically and politically (and a financial black hole) and still digging deeper.
Another somewhat OT but interesting.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1609689/eu-news-defeat-orban-hungary-forces-putin-russia-oil-ban-sanction-ursula-von-der-leyen
HarryAgain- Cannot be true. Otherwise it would be a wikipedia reference – hence easily verifiable (chokes laughing!).
Just give it a rest. Wake up a smell what you are shovelling.
Totally OT.
The BBC news last night was broadcast from Singapore.
Apparently they now have a fully fledged studio there complete with local staff.
How that for a waste of licence payers money?
https://sbr.com.sg/leisure-entertainment/news/bbc-reveals-new-singapore-location
How on Earth do they manage; it’s way more than 1.5deg. hotter there.
We need a licence fee strike but I wonder how many would support one?
Harryagain………….get rid of your TV and don’t sign up to anything that enables you to look at any BBC/ITV programmes and you wont need a TV licence. Think about all the spare time you will have to do something more productive like reading a book, playing a musical instrument, embroidery and reciting poetry or whatever else you may like to do into the wee small hours.
It’s hardly surprising that political parties supporting Russia have been suspended in a war situation.
In the UK war (WW2) with Germany, we rounded up and imprisoned on the Isle of Man the entire German population of the UK amounting to many thousands. You can’t have potential spies and saboteur wandering about the place.
IRA members too were locked up without trial in more recent times.
The problem is that, in common with many previous Russian leaders, Putin is a madman and Russians are indeed savages.
Also several times in the past, the population of Ukraine has been deported to Siberia and substituted with Russians. (Exactly what Hitler did in Poland) thus providing a pro-Russian population. This was done everywhere that the Russians conquered.
I expect if Ukraine wins this war, these people will be ejected to Russia. As happened post WW2 to ethnic Germans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
https://www.imuseum.im/hutchinson-onchan-peveril-camps-second-world-war-internment-on-the-isle-of-man/
Harold A.
Once again you have demonstrated your inability to read and understand plain English. Zelenski’s Ukraine banned opposition Parties long before the Russian invasion.
Why would I believe a word of what you write?
Pauline…..Harryagain obtained that fascinating insight from Wikipedia. Of course its all factual and they never make any mistakes he will say, haha.
But not before they invaded Crimea.
Wikipedia is NOT the Encyclopedia Britannica that’s for sure. Wikipedia entries are not written by University professors, but people like you, me (although I haven’t) and everyone between here and the ruddy gatepost.
“The problem is that, in common with many previous Russian leaders, Putin is a madman and Russians are indeed savages.”
After regurgitating the bottom line of the narrative verbatim, as serious comment, you surely cannot expect us to take to you seriously again.