Clutching Vipers To Our Bosom

The latest case involves a 16-year-old from Nottingham, who is originally from Poland, and cannot be named due to his age. The Old Bailey heard last week that the police received a report on September 10 of a person who had provided an online link to a number of terrorist documents. In one of the documents he is said to have made clear how much he hated the British people, referred to his hatred of society and made reference to having joined a true crime community, known as a 'com network'.

Then why is he still here? Deport him!

In a second document, he said that he was 'unlike other mass murders who discriminate against race, skin, colour or gender identity'. 'Each and every one of you piece of s*** humans are disgusting to me,' he allegedly wrote. 'If it is not clear already I am doing this mainly due to suicidal ideation and misanthropy.'

’Suicidal ideation’ yet has failed to successfully kill himself, I note. A liar or just incompetent?

Julia Faure-Walker told a hearing that the prosecution alleges that misanthropy – the hatred of humankind – 'is the ideological cause for the terrorist acts'. It means that the CPS has been able to charge the teenager with preparation of terrorist acts, which carries a potential life sentence.

Great, so we spend more taxpayer money on prosecuting him and if successful keeping him in jail, when a taxi to Heathrow and a one way plane ticket would suffice. 

'If humanity is the reason I am not able to live how I want, I might as well make them hurt as much as I do.'

Not able to live ‘how he wants’? That sounds like a clue to his major malfunction to me! 

It is more than a year since Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, recommended a new offence of preparing a mass killing without an ideology.

Just in time. How fortuitous. 

The October 7th, 2023 massacre in Israel

Two opposing views on the massacre ...

But Ben Swann in Florida says:

Each reader will have his/her own view on it, his/her own intel. My slant is that of a Restore oriented Brit and ✝️ian within these isles. I believe that the gangs in control of nations are the enemies of their peoples … I’ve blogged on that since 2006.

I believe that a state enabled pro-Hamas march in London on this specific day is an offence against God and nature, especially given the state sponsoring of the invasion here, e.g. at Gosport, where the state, under Mahmoud, turned on local people.

The inversion of society

... with the dumbos in positions of influence.

Two-thirds of the day looking for something new to post for “my day” … drew a blank, so let’s re-run some of the old:

Or to put it a simpler way:

A major error is to allow this to be called “suicidal empathy” … this pundit gets close:

I still don’t think we’re quite there … homicidal “empathy”? Us going along with it all? I’d suggest maybe over half do not, no way known but a very vocal third do, like that girl on X today saying that free speech impedes socialism … which of course brings in Orwell:

Which women? The ones in higher education, to the financial ruination of either them or a parent and don’t forget the Ardays in higher education. Who is controlling it? The professors, lecturers, tutors. My own last role was professor, so I know these people.

But they are appointed, are they not? Voted in? By whom? The word self-perpetuating raises its ugly head.

An even better question is why. Why do all these people wish to destroy civilised, functioning society? If academics and higher students are asked … it’s supposedly for the good of society, for fairness, for love … always framed that way with them as the goodies.

But the third who can see … the real intellectuals … can look around and know the hell for leather destruction for what it is … we can see it all around.

So we have three societal groups among western natives:

• The intellectuals who can see … in Britain mainly Restore
• The normies into anything but thinking … bread and circuses
• The dumbo and/or evil supposed “Intellectuals” in “higher” education … the agents of destruction

The last lot poison the kids … esp. aspirational females today. Who controls the Intellectuals? Their ideological idols and sources of their funds. Simple. Evil muvvas.

Or even the devil himself, unbeknowns?

We're Still 'Special', Even Though We're Old!

As a 75-year-old lesbian, Mindy Meleyal has lived through every major milestone in the modern LGBT rights movement, from the start of decriminalisation in 1967 to the first same-sex marriages in 2014. But now she says this important part of her identity is frequently overlooked due to her age. She's part of England's older LGBTQ+ community, which a new report suggests often experiences poorer health, more limited finances and greater social isolation than the wider older population.

Being different from the majority of people brings…difference in old age. Who could have predicted that?

The report, from the Centre for Ageing Better, says without specialist support, this growing demographic could be forced "back into the closet" when accessing care, warning they may even delay getting the care they need because of concerns about homophobia.

Such as? 

Adam Preston, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation. "It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

He says he has been "horrified" by some of the stories he has heard meeting older LGBTQ+ people, including some who have had carers offer to "pray for them" regarding their sexuality.

That says more about the people employed as carers than anything else, doesn’t it? And I suppose a ‘No, thank you!’ won’t suffice? 

On one occasion, while Mindy was in hospital after a stroke, a nurse referred to Linda as Mindy's husband. She said it was not only "insulting", but made her consider what sort of training the staff might have had.

When your loved one is in hospital, do you really have the time to wonder that? Shouldn’t you be more concerned about their medical competence given the current state of the NHS, than about how well they are schooled in political correctness, which anyway changes with the wind? 

The report, external says older LGBTQ+ people are less likely to have children - someone born in 1950 would have been in their 50s by the time same-sex couples could legally adopt - and that they are more likely to be estranged from their families when compared to their heterosexual counterparts.

Again, difference from regular societal norms means just that. 

What is it to be English?

... or Scots, Irish or Welsh?  Manx?

Steve in a comment at Unherdables:

Reform can’t be trusted with our identity. Tice completely swerved an ethnicity question put to him on GB News this morning. Long story but it’s to do with a reply made by Reform’s Suella Braverman MP on the BBC’s Question Time last Thursday. Was she British or English?

Though she was born in Harrow, London, she (dis)averred that she was a British national because her origins were elsewhere. In her case India. In other words she is not ethnically English. Her answer prompted the white Labour MP on the panel to accuse her of racism.

Decades of mass uncontrolled immigration we didn’t vote for and now, for good measure, they want to cancel our origins. You were right about Reform UK, James.

Tyler on X:

The argument is reinforced by the fact that James Goddard lives in Thailand, but describing him as ethnically Thai would be absurd.

James Goddard:

Amir Khan is NOT English Sadiq Khan is NOT English John Barnes is NOT English Bukayo Saka is NOT English Frank Bruno is NOT English Priti Patel is NOT English Rishi Sunak is NOT English

Carl Wilkinson:

The English are the historic people formed in England through a particular ethnogenesis: the interaction and consolidation of Anglo-Saxon, Brittonic, Norse, Norman and other elements into a distinct population, with its own inherited language, institutions, customs, historical memory and continuity across generations. No other people on earth have that exact history of formation. The French do not. The Japanese do not. The Nigerians do not. The Scots do not. Each has its own ethnogenesis. That particular history is what makes English ethnicity English. So saying “everyone is mixed” proves nothing. Mixture is universal in the abstract; ethnogenesis is particular in reality. What matters is which peoples mixed, where, when, through what historical processes, and what continuing people emerged from them. Only the English descend from the specifically English ethnogenesis. That is precisely why “mixed” cannot be used as a magic word to dissolve the English into humanity in general.

Culpability

The point of this post now is not to analyse the deathjab any further … there is much med lit out there, esp. on X … the purpose is to look at three sshots and see what can be concluded about culpability.

That last one … admittedly you’d need to go into X, to that account, find and expand the chart. But you still get the idea, unexpanded. The one I’m looking at closely, on the grounds that being male, prostate is an issue and having a stent in … ditto … before even looking at the other poisons in sky, land, water now ... is the folic acid.

in short, these bstds are most certainly trying to kill us. And the political class? Acolytes, believing the guff about being the “useful eaters” saved, safe in their leafy suburbs, knowing that the genocide of the masses was well worth it for their own healthy longevity. In Britain, we’re talking “good areas” of the leafy south-east … the post war, aspirational, NIMBY middle class.

Now, from my style of writing, it must be obvious that I too had “an education”, so why should I be concerned with dead plebs? Simple … I don’t think like the political class or above them, the Rothschild-Sabbatean or European Old Families, pitiless and sicko, psycho. Our people are our people.

And that lot in power are trying to kill us. The supermarkets did not wait for December, nor gladly accept the the exceptions … jope, they got in as quickly as they could to add health-averse substances. Who made those decisions? The boards, the CEOs, warrnt it. That managerial class, low on ability, high on ego, lacking moral compasses.

Do you see your own progeny as “below you” in intellect, no class, fit only for abuse or for sending to the war front, as the Ukrainian monsters are currently doing to their orphanages? Silly question when applied to you and me … by no means a silly question for those with no state, no loyalty to any cultural maxims … people such as Peter Sutherland. Gates. Fauci. Blair.

If They Ever Invent A Time Machine...

...they should go back in time and run this survey again, during the Blitz.

Accusations that the young are a snowflake generation are wrong, the head of an independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism has told the BBC. Prof Peter Fonagy said in an exclusive interview that there had been a real rise in mental distress among children and young people, with anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders the most common.

Because it’s been accepted and tolerated for too long, too many people have heard sob stories about how hard the millennials have it, and haven’t challenged that! 

He said it was "harder to be young" now given the economic and employment uncertainty young people face, coupled with the challenges presented by social media.

His review was ordered nine months ago by Wes Streeting after the then-health secretary claimed in an interview that young people were over-diagnosed and "written off".

And so all those who owe their very positions to the ‘need’ for cosseting professions to suckle at the taxpayer teat immediately scrambled to try to disprove it.

It is likely to feed into government policies on everything from NHS services and benefits to support for young people who are not in education, employment or training. Fonagy said he chose to speak to the BBC ahead of the publication, which is expected later this week, because he was concerned the debate around ADHD and autism would "obscure" the wider issue of mental health.

He said it will conclude that the rise in mental health problems since the 1990s was real, with about one in four 16 to 24-year-olds now struggling.

'Struggling' with what exactly, compared to other generations? How is this 'data' gathered? It sounds dodgy to me...

The data on this is contested as some sources rely on self-reporting, while sceptics argue greater awareness and reduced stigma around mental health mean more people are coming forward.

Aha!  

Last year, the BBC found that many GPs had concerns about over-diagnosis and felt normal life stresses were being over-medicalised.

They are, and they are often the one's doing it! 

"Adults have let them down. We're the first generation that probably collectively feels we had a better life than our children will have. 

"So, to the person who says it's a snowflake generation, just try living 24 hours as a 16-year-old."

If I could take the tech that we have now back with me I'd happily go back in time to my teenage years. Never has the phrase 'You've never had it so good' be more appropriate. 

Conscripted boots in the Ukraine

First three screenshots:

Many times at the old blog and new, the whole question of natural resources in the Donbass, plus oil/gas, plus biolabs, child trafficking … article after after article went up. But the one which sticks in every Russian craw is the Trades Hall events in Odessa.

I don’t expect any reader to be interested in this above but throw in the factors of Nuland and Johnson a few years back … and now the spectre of conscription of British males and Uke females … and it takes on a whole different look. And yes, of course Russia and China are backing the baddies in Iran … what is … is.

Plus we have to throw The Falklands into the mix as well when we’re talking conscription … plus the age verification idiocy so that we can no longer report on any of it.

Think on’t.

If You Just Did What We Wanted, There'd Be No Problems

Nesrine Malik decides to give her take on the Ed Sheeren concert affair and once again, says the quiet bit out loud:

A form of disciplining is dispensed. Please, Mr or Miss Moneybags, with your preening notions that you have anything intelligent or informed to say about immigration policy or Palestine. Stick to football. Stick to pop music. Stick to acting. Stick to children’s shows.

Yes, please just do what you’re paid to do - act, sing, write, paint. Indulge your obsession in private. 

The horror of Gaza has broken the art world, roiled Hollywood, fractured literary institutions. And still, as Ed Sheeran stands alone on stage following the withdrawal of all his support acts (in solidarity with Macklemore, who was removed from the tour due to a pro-Palestinian speech), he told his audience that he wants his music to be “about unity, not division”.

The speed at which his tour unravelled is not evidence of the incompatibility of music and politics, necessitating that they remain separate to avoid that “division”. It is a study in how it is becoming increasingly unnatural to separate them.

His tour hasn’t ’unravelled’ at all of course, no one was buying a ticket to see some unknown support artists…

The enmeshment of entertainment and politics is organic and part of many conflicts and political outrages in recent memory. Vietnam, South Africa, Darfur – all had a cohort of celebrities involved in objecting, lobbying and raising awareness. Figures such as Macklemore or Gary Lineker or Mark Ruffalo or Ms Rachel (who? Wll,  she's an Amerucan educator on YouTube you wouldn't want anywhere near your kids in real life ) are not breaking with convention and plunging industries into turmoil and controversy, but partaking in a long legacy of activism that includes, to name a few, Nina Simone, Donald Sutherland, Kurt Vonnegut, Marlon Brando, Mia Farrow, George Michael and George Clooney.

You can disagree with the stances they have taken. But the belief that they are somehow not qualified to take and express them, and that art and entertainment are sacrosanct, is ignorant at best, disingenuous at worst.

No it isn’t, if I buy a ticket for a pop concert that’s what I expect to get, not a jumped up fluffer hectoring me about a non-existent genocide. 

Public figures are people who have the same passions that everybody else has, and they have politics that they wish to advance with the tools at their disposal.

They can do it on their own time, not when someone's paying them to do something else. 

And I suspect the reason they are met with such belittlement and outrage by their opponents is that there is an understanding that once politics spills over into entertainment, an uncontainable sort of trouble starts.

Once politics enters that relationship, it becomes ungovernable. It can move the parameters of public opinion and discourse in ways that are hard to mediate, so direct is the relationship between the artists and their audience.

Only fools and children treat the words of 'celebrities' protected by their wealth from the consequences of the cause they champion as gospel.

But when artists’ politics clashes with powerful sponsors, as it did when Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft removed Macklemore from the Sheeran lineup, it all becomes less straightforward, so complicated, so bedevilled by nuance that could not possibly be litigated adequately by dilettantes.

These collisions are an automatic feature of societies in which politics is failing. The outrage in Palestine is roiling culture because it has been so smothered in politics, because the pain and fury resulting from what the world is witnessing has not been appropriately channelled or responded to by a representative leadership – in fact, it has been policed and criminalised.

Yes, she really said it: 'Celebrities will shut up about this when politicians do what we tell them regardless of the voters' wishes!' 

A healthy political culture should view these spillovers not as crude transgressions into private spaces of consumption, but democracy by other means, because electoral democracy has not squared up to the task.

The problem is not the outspoken artists and entertainers; the problem is what they are speaking about. I wish that the enduring agony of Palestinians were not litigated by the sound and fury and discursive froth of high entertainment, but this is where the politics has brought us. If you want to leave politics out of it, then demand that the politics do the work.

I demand my politician focus on my country, not one inhabited by whinging Muslims, Nesrine!  

Just a bit more on the weird events at Fairford

Steve at Unherdables:

Fairford – apparently on the village noticeboard in Whelford there’s a telephone number for RAF Fairford, which you can use if you see anything suspicious. Unfortunately the lady farmer who called it didn’t get an answer, so she called the police. The base had been on high alert for months as it hosts the ongoing B-1B Lancer operations in the Middle East – not answering the phone is a massive security fail. The three white medium-sized panel vans she observed near Whelford were being driven by men of ‘middle eastern’ appearance. They were EV’s and each of them were filled with barrels of..

ANFO, also written as AN/FO (an acronym for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil; is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive. It consists of 94% porous prilled ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) (AN), which acts as the oxidizing agent and absorbent for the fuel, and 6% number 2 fuel oil (FO) road diesel.

The use of ANFO originated in the 1950s. It is highly insensitive as an explosive, requiring a quantity of secondary explosive, known as a primer or a booster (larger than a standard blasting cap), in order to be detonated. One or two sticks of dynamite were historically used; current practice is to use Tovex or cast boosters of pentolite (TNT/PETN or similar compositions). That is all.

Update 2: Unbeknownst to her in calling the police the lady farmer triggered an active counter-terrorism operation. To avoid exposure they went from observation to capture in a matter of minutes. If this had been a base in the USA they’d all be dead.

Update 3: Newspapers are saying the villagers were told of an ‘imminent threat’ to the base the day before it all kicked off? This afternoon Trump revealed they knew all about them (the five arrested) and he was surprised they were released [bailed]. He said: “I wouldn’t have done that”. SNAFU if you ask me.

Right. Rubio is getting into it:

Mor Edge on X (254.7K following):

I spent over two decades in counterterrorism and I’m still involved in many ways, so here are my views on what I see has happened over the past 24-36 hours in the UK:

Five British men in their twenties were arrested on Sunday near RAF Fairford on suspicion of explosives offences and the preparation of a terrorist act. On Monday they were released on police bail. That’s not what the terrorism clock looks like when the investigators are still in charge of it.

Under ordinary UK criminal law a suspect can be held for 24 hours, stretched to 36 by a superintendent, and to 96 hours by a magistrate. But under section 41 of the Terrorism Act the first hold is 48 hours, not 24 hours. A judge can then extend it, in stages, up to 14 days without a charge. If the case merits it, it can even be pushed to 28 days. That 14-day cap exists for exactly this kind of file of vans, an airbase the United States uses, a possible foreign hand, explosives (if there were any) and interviews that are not finished on the first night.

Counter-terrorism police said the inquiry isn’t over. They said conditions apply. They said a state link has not been ruled out. Those sentences he said only make sense if the evidence trail was still live. A live trail is why Parliament built the two-week window. But watching the guy read out the statement showed me in his body language, tone and eye movements that releasing those five men was NOT his or his department’s decision.

Walking five men after roughly a day is what you do with a pub fight, not with a suspected terrorist attack on a bomber base. I’ve sat in enough interrogation rooms to know the difference between a custody clock and a political ceiling. Nobody had to shout an order down a phone. Someone in the political building above the investigators decided that charging British nationals on Monday, with Iran already denying it, Washington watching the runway, and a Labour conference where the main topics of discussion were prioritizing Palestinian and other refugees settling in the UK, was uglier than bail and a holding statement.

The law allowed them to keep the door shut. Yet the door opened anyway in half of the most minimum time. That’s the story. That for me is the only story here. Not “they were innocent.” Not “the case collapsed.” The statute was not exhausted, but the appetite was. The real question is who, and most importantly, why?