News Round-Up
- “Thousands of police braced for far-Right riots” – Officers are on standby as far-Right groups prepare to target 30 immigration centres across Britain, reports the Times.
- “‘Nowhere to hide’ for influencers behind disorder – top prosecutor” – The Director of Public Prosecutions says his teams will consider seeking the extradition of social media influencers playing a role in the violent disorder gripping the U.K. from abroad, says the BBC.
- “Pubgoer attacked by masked men ‘left with lacerated liver’” – The man attacked by a mob of masked men outside a pub in Birmingham says he was taken to hospital with a torn liver, according to the Telegraph.
- “Wife of Tory councilor is arrested for racial hatred” – The wife of a Tory councillor has been arrested for stirring up racial hatred after saying rioters should set fire to migrant hotels, reports the Mail.
- “Parents fury as pro-Palestinian mob interrupt children’s science show” – A theatre descended into chaos when a group of protestors calling themselves ‘Parents for Palestine’ stormed the venue and began chanting in front of an audience of terrified children, some as young as seven, says the Mail.
- “Armchair thug is first to be convicted for riot Facebook posts” – A 28 year-old sign installer is the first man to be charged over Facebook posts relating to the violent disorder across the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Politicians must not rush to call riots acts of terrorism, Government warned” – Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said on the Today programme it would be unwise to charge any of the people arrested in the riots with terrorism offences, says the Telegraph.
- “Far-Right riots have spread through the U.K. – here’s how” – The Telegraph takes a look at how the violence has escalated since the stabbings on July 29th.
- “Almost half of public believe Starmer is handling riots badly” – A YouGov poll found that 49% of adults surveyed felt the Prime Minister was handling the riots poorly, says the Telegraph.
- “Jess Phillips under fire for ‘excusing masked thugs’” – Jess Phillips has come under fire after a post of hers on X appeared to justify masked mobs of Muslim young men roaming the streets of Birmingham looking for ‘racists’ to attack, reports the Express.
- “Why can’t Jess Phillips condemn the Birmingham mob?” – The reluctance of Starmer and Jess Phillips to call out Islamic-sectarian thuggery says more about them than anything else, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Britain’s multicultural disaster” – Thugs and agitators are piggybacking on a crisis caused by liberals, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
- “Keir Starmer: fanning the flames” – The political class who have been waving the matches of identity politics around the petrol can of mass immigration are now ‘shocked’ that it’s suddenly burst into flames, writes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
- “Keir Starmer is already horribly out of his depth” – Bringing the country together after these disgraceful riots is of utmost importance. The Prime Minister isn’t up to the job, says Mark Dolan in the Telegraph.
- “How to stop the riots” – On YouTube, Nigel Farage gives his take on the civil unrest sweeping the country.
- “Civil war comes to the West” – Severe social instability, economic decline and cultural decay are driving us towards civil war, warns Prof. David Betz in Military Strategy Magazine.
- “What can we say about the ‘far-Right’ riots?” – There’s an obvious reason the authorities won’t reduce immigration, says Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “When the elites loved rioting” – From the London riots to BLM, liberals and leftists have spent far too long celebrating street violence as virtuous, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “There is no cope” – The Right-wing cope for what’s happening in Britain is to go on about Keir Starmer. The Left-wing cope is to blame the “far-Right”. The reality is much, much worse, says Konstantin Kisin on his Substack.
- “Minister slams Elon Musk’s ‘deplorable’ civil war claims” – The owner of X is at the centre of a war of words with the U.K. Government after using his platform to make a series of claims about the riots, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk targets Keir Starmer again in another barrage of tweets” – Elon Musk has goaded Keir Starmer again by accusing him of presiding over ‘one-sided’ policing of the riots – even using #TwoTierKeir in a tweet to 196 million people, says the Mail.
- “Rioter steals tray of sausage rolls from Greggs” – From the ‘sausage roll burglar’ to the Frijj milkshake thieves and the Croc raiders, the Mail reports on looters who are risking years behind bars by ransacking high street shops.
- “Harris officially names Tim Walz as Vice Presidential running mate” – Vice President Kamala Harris has officially named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential running mate to help her challenge Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in November, reports ABC News.
- “Republicans attack Kamala’s VP pick over his record on trans rights and George Floyd riots” – Kamala Harris’s VP pick Tim Walz has been attacked by Republicans for his pro-trans policies and handling of riots following the killing of George Floyd, says the Telegraph.
- “Harris’s VP pick who made ‘weird’ Trump go viral” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Buncombe profiles Kamala Harris’s pick for Vice President.
- “Kamala Harris has caved in to the Left with Tim Walz running mate pick” – By selecting Tim Walz as VP – who supports a ceasefire in Gaza – Ms. Harris appears to have prioritised young and minority voters, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “Does Tim Walz really moderate the Kamala Harris ticket?” – Tim Walz makes the contrast between the Democratic and Republican ticket this autumn even more stark, says Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “German court due to rule on ‘From the River to the Sea’ case in test of free speech” – A Berlin court has convicted a pro-Palestinian activist for leading a chant of “From the River to the Sea” four days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, reports the Guardian.
- “Neonatal nurses ‘resigning amid Lucy Letby fallout’” – According to the Telegraph, a new Channel 5 documentary has revealed that neonatal nurses are quitting Britain’s baby units out of fear of being accused of harming infants.
- “GP industrial action ‘could push one million extra patients to A&E’” – Health service modelling reveals that industrial action by GPs could push more than a million extra cases to A&E departments, according to the Telegraph.
- “U.K. COVID-19 Inquiry – Module 1: the resilience and preparedness of the United Kingdom” – The U.K.’s 2011 pandemic preparedness plan was flawed by its narrow focus on influenza, overreliance on ineffective antivirals and groupthink, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack, summarising the first report of Baroness Hallett.
- “Paper showing Covid and flu vaccines do not reduce hospitalisation was published today” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch talks about his new paper showing that Covid and flu vaccines don’t reduce hospitalisation or death rates, while Medicare data reveals differing mortality risks by vaccine brand.
- “The WHO is no longer fit for purpose” – The WHO is engaged in a silent coup against the governments of the world, warns Ramesh Thakur for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Law restricting right to strike will be repealed” – The Government has confirmed it will ditch Tory legislation designed to curb disruption from walkouts, reports the Times.
- “Surge in super-wealthy preparing to leave U.K. over Labour tax fears” – Financial advisers have seen a surge in wealthy clients preparing to leave the U.K. after Labour won the General Election, says the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Qualifications Authority chief apologises for blank results emails as pass rate falls” – Thousands of pupils were sent blank emails instead of their exam results in a “shambolic” blunder by Scotland’s exam body, reports the Mail.
- “Stock market crash ‘only half complete’, warns JP Morgan” – According to a JPMorgan strategist, the “carry trade” unwind that helped spark the recent bloodbath in U.S. stocks likely isn’t close to over, says Business Insider.
- “Why is Britain so ugly?” – It does not need economic miracles to make Britain beautiful; it needs determination, hard work, good design and the spine to tell whining architects to take a running jump, writes Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “‘Don’t use us as an experiment’: the villagers at the centre of Miliband’s bet on solar” – Labour’s green revolution threatens to harm livelihoods as well as landscapes, says Ruby Hinchliffe in the Telegraph.
- “The physics of Net Zero” – You can’t boil an egg in a swimming pool. Or run Britain on breezes, writes Richard Lyon on Substack.
- “Amateur, unreliable IBA poured kerosene on bonfire of boxing’s failed sex tests” – The Telegraph’s Oliver Brown reports on a chaotic IBA press conference that spiralled out of control as it attempted to address the disqualification of Olympic boxers for having male chromosomes.
- “Turning violence against women into a spectator sport” – Letting biological males box women at Paris 2024 is a new low for our irrational elites, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Musk says ‘no choice’ but to shut X San Francisco HQ” – Elon Musk says that recent laws passed by California leave him with “no choice” but to move the flagship offices of X and his rocket firm SpaceX to Texas, according to the BBC.
- “Elon Musk sues brands and trade group over ‘illegal boycott’” – Elon Musk has declared “war” against the World Federation of Advertisers and its member companies by launching a lawsuit over an alleged “illegal boycott” of his social media platform X, reports the Mail.
- “Let’s get ready to Rumble!” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. reacts to news that Elon Musk and Rumble have filed a lawsuit against the ‘Massive Censorship Cartel’.
- “Digital Editor” – Looking to join a marketing agency fighting the woke? Believe that hard work pays off? Uncommon Sense is looking for a Digital Editor to join its busy team.
- “Christopher Hitchens 2009 vs Keir Starmer 2004” – A video on X shows Keir Starmer in 2024 confirming the worst fears of Christopher Hitchens about shutting down criticism of Islam in 2009.
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I see #TwoTierKeir is trending, shortened to 2TK.
Prediction: Within 6 months, 2TKQ+ or 2TKTQ+ will be in use as a moniker.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pact-future-planetary-technocracy-global-crises-global-corporatocracy/5864483
Note for all – I was timed out before I could finish editing this piece so I had to start again.
To the downticker – go and take your medication.
The bit just below the DT headline…
“amid speculation of a far-right rally”. These f*ckn people have to give an excuse for Muslim attacks on whites, but no mention ever of the three little girls slaughtered by an immigrant animal to defend the actions of white rioters. I could not hate MSM and the government more.
Quite clearly, Rudakubana is not an immigrant, whatever else he may be.
I don’t give a flying f*ck what the state-approved official definition of an immigrant is. If a child of immigrants refuses to integrate into a society, and then slaughters 3 children, they’re an immigrant. They’re certainly not part of the indigenous population. Call them whatever you want, your silly little semantics completely miss the point, so you need to update your database. I can’t believe I’ve been successfully goaded, and actually reacted to, AI.
Nobody gives a ‘flying f*ck’ what some random punter on the interweb, most particularly not you, thinks of much at all.
The fact remains that someone born in this country and educated in this country is most certainly not an immigrant.
So, out of morbid curiosity – and to test the bounds of your Google-gathered robotic intelligence – what definition does your algorithm give to describe the child of immigrants that rejects their adopted culture and slaughters three little girls as they pretend to be Taylor Swift? This one will test your machine learning capabilities because it throws emotion into the mix.
Drop the silliness. You are making yourself look ridiculous.
Rudakubana is a first generation British citizen and child murderer.
He will receive his just deserts.
“He will receive his just deserts” …..oh no he will not..
Kept warm and fed for the rest of his miserable life
He should have been shot dead at the scene
What he will receive will, no doubt, be a great deal worse than that.
👍 👍 👍
Ok I wouldn’t normally interact but if pedantry is at play here technically he is classed as a first generation immigrant, as they like to class themselves.
I know I’m opening myself to rants here but
“Nobody gives a ‘flying f*ck’ what some random punter on the interweb, most particularly not you, thinks of much at all.”
I certainly do as that’s why I support DS so that I can give a FF to what others say, even you.
Well done 👏
If you wish to ‘interact’ it would be more useful, someone might actually give a FF, if you stuck to the facts:
You are a British citizen if you were both:
Here we go. Yes indeed to be accurate they are classed as British by us. I did clarify though that, as many I have spoken to, they also class themselves as ‘first gen immigrant’ as I stated in my response.
Gosh you’re angry today!
All concerned please note: the case will turn up in a Crown Court in due course, and we should find out more about it then. However, the last time I came across a case of stabbing to death of someone locally was when the culprit turned out to be a local English guy who happened to be a paranoid schizophrenic, who owned his own house. Charged with murder, but ended up being guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and detained indefinitely in Broadmoor.
There was a fair bit of media reaction etc, and an element of “something must be done” – like ideas of closing footpaths etc (where the attack occurred), but all that noticeably happened was that the local council installed loads more cameras to spy on the general public, or at least to improve security.
What we can observe is that whatever the underlying cause of the Southport crime was, it has been hijacked to justify all sorts of other problems.
”What we can observe is that whatever the underlying cause of the Southport crime was, it has been hijacked to justify all sorts of other problems.“
Exactly, well put.
Given the magnitude of this, and there have been no leaks to quell the disturbance, I see two possible explanations. 1) there is an anti-english element to the attack 2) the elites are using it to deliberately sow division. The lack of any kind of leaked information will give us the answer in due course.
There is a great deal to be angry about, particularly those who try and label British perpetrators as ‘immigrants’; not useful and likely to exacerbate rather unsavoury sentiments.
Whatever caused this murderer to commit his unspeakably barbaric slaughter had nothing to do with his parents country of origin.
Perhaps some British citizens may label themselves as ‘first generation immigrants’. I have never heard that, myself. But this is, in any case, not relevant. As far as the British Crown is concerned, they are British citizens. The vast majority of them are proud to call themselves British citizens and not a few are descended from family members who fought for this country. The British Armed Forces still have many outstanding members whose parents, families, were born overseas.
I don’t very often agree with your perspective but in this case I cannot fault your logic.
Many well known and accepted British people are “first generation immigrants”. For example, immediately after the war there was an influx of Jews formerly from Germany who have settled here and produced children who have become a respected part of the British establishment.
During the 1970s there was an influx of East African Asians, the children of whom have become well known establishment figures, Priti Patel is perhaps the highest profile one.
Are people trying to claim that these are not really British because they are only first generation immigrants?
Probably some people claim they’re not British, the same as some people look at the race or colour of the skin to claim someone is not British. Utterly ridiculous. Those you have stated above are useful contributing members of society, who whilst holding on to their religious beliefs to which I have no problem, usually integrate into our society. No one seeking refuge here from legitimate danger should be turned away if we are their last recourse. Unfortunately there are many who wish to turn this country into a replica of the place they purportedly ‘flee’ from whilst contributing nothing but live of the government’s freely given generosity with our tax money. It is a crime to enter a country illegally, something successive governments choose to overlook. Sure the government has been lax with legal immigration but not to clamp down on illegal immigration is a catastrophic failure.
You, with your unreasonable common sense!
There we go. Thanks state-approved Google search algorithm. Rolls off the tongue. Now define ‘settled’ – you know, just for some robotic fun. Like I’ve said before, I’m either communicating directly with a bot, or with a teenager using AI. Last post – pointless talking to silicon.
Look it up.
Just because some idiot let the rats into the chicken coop, and they start breeding as rats are wont to do, that doesn’t mean that their offspring are chickens. They’re still rats, and they’re still likely to steal the grain and attack your flock.
Have you ever worked with Africans?
Not a Chakrabarti fan, but at least she has got this in the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/big-tech-disorder-riots-surveillance-live-facial-recognition
The argument frequently offered by the left concerns the issue of some POC faces and false positives. It seems to me that a more fundamental problem with its blanket usage for the left is that it is incompatible with the wearing of niqabs etc.
Christopher Hitchens vs Keir Starmer already gone.
I can still see it?
Good ! I heard a while back that Khant will soon be PM 😳
Has it gone ! I saw it & my eyes & ears are still bleeding 🤯
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pact-future-planetary-technocracy-global-crises-global-corporatocracy/5864483 “There are barely two months left until the big UN meeting Summit of the Future (September 22-23) where the “Pact for the Future” is to be signed by world leaders (heads of government and state). The pact, which essentially constitutes a blueprint for a global technocracy to manage global risks on behalf of the global corporatocracy, is now being finalised for completion by early August.” A long and uncomfortable read which outlines where the world is heading. Topics covered include the likelihood of another Scamdemic before Christmas, the theft of the commons, a potential financial crash, World War and the push for One World Government. With all the above as background it is easy to see why Kneel is acting as he is. As nothing more than a lowly District Manager in the One World Government hierarchy it is essential that he provides at least a run-through of how control can be asserted and maintained. The civil disobedience playing out in our towns and cities is manna from heaven for him and no doubt his agents will be behind much of it. Lockdowns in some form look inevitable. This will be a re-run of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.… Read more »
‘Global research’ is run by a ‘nutty Canadian Professor’.
It is potentially a bit more sinister than that (follow the money).
Research from Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, a program examining abuse in information technologies, found links tying Global Research to Russian military intelligence agency operations. The 2019 study, commissioned by a U.S. Senate intelligence committee, analyzed online content that Facebook attributed to the spy agency commonly known as the GRU.
Some of Globalresearch’s greatest hits:
Footnotes
[1] Globalresearch – RationalWiki
[2] http:// http://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-us-used-nukes-on-iraq-afghanistan-atomic-bomb-dropped-on-tora-bora-expert/27972
[3] http://www.globalresearch.ca/genocide-denial-in-rwanda-questioning-the-official-view-of-history/5410169
[4] http://www.globalresearch.ca/was-srebrenica-a-hoax-eye-witness-account-of-a-former-united-nations-military-observer-in-bosnia/731
[5] http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-a-land-of-human-achievement-love-and-joy/5344960
[6] http://www.globalresearch.ca/depopulation-vaccine-in-kenya-and-beyond/5413445
[7] http://www.globalresearch.ca/fluoride-killing-us-softly/5360397
[8] http://www.globalresearch.ca/poison-is-treatment-the-campaign-to-fluoridate-america/31568
Oh yes….and ‘chemtrails’ are being used for ‘geoengineering…….
😉
Referencing ‘Global Research’ is just plain dotty, very much like the retired Canadian Academic who runs it..
‘Research from Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, a program examining abuse in information technologies, found links tying Global Research to Russian military intelligence agency operations. The 2019 study, commissioned by a U.S. Senate intelligence committee, analyzed online content that Facebook attributed to the spy agency commonly known as the GRU.
Based on the research, the State Department said Global Research published or reposted articles by at least seven authors using aliases — or “sock puppet personas,” according to the Stanford report — to hide their ties to the GRU. The content remains accessible on the website.’
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/06/the-peoples-court-of-new-normal-germany-part-two/
C J Hopkins outlining his up coming trial in Germany on charges of thought crime.
“If you’re an American (or a Brit, or Australian, or whatever), and you’re thinking this is just a story about Germany, or the EU … well, I’m sorry, but it isn’t. My case is just one of countless examples of the criminalization of dissent that is happening throughout the West. A lot of Americans don’t realize it, but freedom of speech is protected in the German constitution.”
The “criminalisation of dissent.”
What exactly is Kneel up to? Ah yes, “the “criminalisation of dissent.” The parallels are obvious.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75nn9dr0rvo
And presumably the CPS have lots of evidence of social media influencers instigating “far right” riots from abroad.
Is that not code for Tommy Robinson? He’s a social media influencer, he’s abroad, he’s an active member of the defunct EDL, and if he says “Don’t riot” it’s a secret signal to riot. That’s worth an international arrest warrant before his holiday finishes and he flies home, in any prosecutor’s book.
I assume sceptics will recognise the irony in my comment – this is how everyone from Starmer to Farage is reacting… but not Elon Musk or Glenn Beck.
Your two downticks may show otherwise
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714153/Standing-army-6-000-police-officers-ready-deployed-trouble-hotspots-far-right-thugs-warned-face-10-years-jail-riots-ministers-plan-courts-sitting-night-500-extra-prison-pla
Is this “standing army” of police made up of Calais Yatch Club members by any chance?
Where is this “standing army” located given that it must be able to react at a moments notice?
Full on Nazi then.
It’s a good point. It’s either a bluff or something deeply more sinister. I was pondering yesterday about how the Muslim hordes coordinated and amassed so quickly; there’s obviously the fact they gather in quite tightly knit, self-isolated, communities, but then another, all too obvious, thought came to me – mosques. We’ve got a thousand+ buildings which can act as terrorist/radical Islam offices sat in plain sight throughout the UK. An acceptable home for a different culture to plot against the inhabitants of their adopted country/culture. Now you import a few million more Muslims, shoehorn a few agent provocateurs at senior levels within the mosques and… voila! You have an Army. An Army that is so motivated by religious beliefs that they think a murderous death is entry to heaven, and whose radicalisation and organisation makes them twice the size they actually are. Just a thought.
More than a thought ! however if they are being used as a weapon how will they be quelled if they get the upper hand , 🤔
Is TTK / 2TK also advocating a ‘standing army’ to protect our beaches / lands from the usurpers who daily invade our shores? Thought not.
Where are they amassed – easy, in the
barracksnumerous hotels and HMO’s, paid for by the ever-suffering taxpayers.Wasn’t TTK planning on releasing 20,000 inmates from prison soon? That’ll create space – and more beside – for the wrongly labelled terrorists AKA ‘Enough is Enough’ anguished people to be accommodated.
Yes
It’s very possible
“The physics of Net Zero”
This article assumes we are trying to make the UK both Net-Zero and self sufficient but as far as I can see that is not what is happening. We seem intent on making the UK net-zero and totally dependent on Chinese and Asian technology.
With electric cars (EVs) the policy seems destined to destroy the UK and European motor industry and open the door to cheap Chinese EVs only suitable for local utility travel.
With windmills and solar panels, where are they made? and do the people making them having any great aim of going net-zero?
At which point one has to ask if the UK’s Net-Zero policy is not simply a nihilistic, dismal, destructive policy of despair, decline and immiseration? And if the answer to that question is yes, then who is behind this policy? why are they doing it? and why are so few people trying to stop it?
I largely agree with your comment.
The answer to your last para is to be found in the Global Research article which I have posted.
The Chinese have insufficient Oil/Gas, so EVs, powered by coal-fired power stations, is a sensible solution, for them.
But if they could persuade the West to adopt the same technology, even though we have the fuel, it would be a security bonus, for them, of course. And JSO activity would be another.
Not sure about the Chinese EVs but I heard recently of a farmer who phoned John Deere to complain about his new tractor packing up and demand a technician turn out immediately to sort it out… only to discover that his last direct debit had failed, for some reason, so they’d simply turned it off from the factory until he paid up.
Years ago I saw maps showing us as a district of Europe !
We are also dependant on other countries for fertilisers and only 40% sufficient in food.
We soon won’t produce our own cement ,steel or oil.
All the media and politicians and police are “stoking” the riots. Whilst no one is forgetting the lunatic who went on a mass stabbing that culminated in three little girls dying horrifically, the media and politicians and police constantly covering up for wrongdoers, regardless of their religion, race, actual sex, is adding fuel to the flames. By qualifying each time there is a crime that it’s ’mental illness’ ‘the assailant is unknown’ (unless they’re white or English) ‘a woman raped the girl’ or in this case, ‘in response to far right’ it lets the perpetrators off the hook for their crimes and allows retaliation by supporters of the wrongdoing, of which there are many. There are many good and decent people that live in this country who feel they are ignored, derided and scorned, if we’re going to calm everyone honest discussions need to be had, sadly I don’t see that happening in the near future.
On this, it seems to me that established power in this country likes to present itself as moderate and centrist but in reality it has now become the main promoter of extreme ideology, namely radical liberalism.
They now shove extreme LGBT ideology down our throats, mass immigration which brings in people who ironically are the least tolerant of liberalism, extreme climate policies.
There is literally nothing moderate about what the establishment promotes these days. They think that speaking calmly and with a solemn admonishing tone makes them sensible. But their words and policies are very extreme.
The result is what we have now. A few angry people ready to take to the streets and the vast majority sitting quietly at home feeling confused and hectored.
War has been declared on the UK,s indigenous peoples , they want us whimpering in the corner sucking our thumbs !
https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/
An excellent and learned article which sets the case that Civil War is now inevitable.
This is a very interesting reference. Thank you.
This seems to make a great deal of sense right now:
‘Over the last thirty years the West has preoccupied itself thanklessly in an expeditionary capacity in the invertebrate civil wars of others—generally counterproductively but sometimes just fruitlessly. During that time, it has developed not just in the military but also in the quasi-NGO sector a certain capacity for thinking about ‘root causes’ of conflict as well some fluency with operations in seriously divided societies that have been deranged by endemic internal war. It is past time to turn the mirror on ourselves.’
The Future of War is Civil War, David Betz
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/12/646
Performing my usual daily 20 sec scan of the above headlines shows most (with a couple of honorable exceptions) of our media journos are hopelessly out of their depth in reading the signs of the times, cause and effect.
Out of date, out of touch.
Be very picky choosing your morning media dashboard.
I am in complete agreement.
Has anyone seen any figures for the numbers of “rioters” in each incident?
Usually with public disorders we are regaled by estimates of the numbers, however I don’t recall figures for rioters, except when it comes to total arrests from all separate incidents.
I suspect these are comparatively small occurrences, not on the scale of other recent “non far right” ones, but are being conflated to make a political point and to make them look more menacing than they really are.
In terms of active participants, most reports I have seen involve groups of young men hanging round apparently aimlessly, with one or two activists at the front goading the police rather than encouraging others to make massed advances.
In the case of the attack on the migrant hotel, it seemed that the police were standing against a wall, dressed in full riot gear, watching the break-in rather than attempting to stop it.
In today’s DT, behind a paywall, we have the news, expected ever since 2007, that the Laws of Physics cannot be repealed:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/07/power-chiefs-fear-net-zero-blackouts-in-london
I’m relieved, as people in my village thought I was upsetting the status quo, when we had a professor stating the opposite!
“Pubgoer attacked by masked men ‘left with lacerated liver’”
“A man attacked by a masked mob outside a pub in Birmingham has revealed that he has suffered a torn liver and is ‘not interested’ in any apologies.
Sean McDonagh, 51, was punched and kicked in front of The Clumsy Swan pub after hundreds of men – many waving Palestinian flags – had gathered on Monday night to keep the Muslim community safe from a rumoured far-Right rally.
When the anticipated protest in Bordesley Green failed to materialise, a large group – some armed and many with their faces covered – started attacking the pub in nearby Yardley, believing that EDL members were drinking in there.”
NONE OF THE ARMED MUSLIM GANG WERE ARRESTED.
“When the elites loved rioting” – From the London riots to BLM, liberals and leftists have spent far too long celebrating street violence as virtuous, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
Well done to Tim Black for telling the truth.
Almighty God has finally awakened the Righteous Wrath of the British People.
A good news underground cable report: https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/08/05/national-grid-turns-south-londons-ps1bn-electricity-superhighway
“Christopher Hitchens 2009 vs Keir Starmer 2004”
Thanks to Richard Eldred for including this powerful video.
“Armchair thug is first to be convicted for riot Facebook posts”
Leeds working man faces prison term for Facebook posts.
In contrast, here is a photo of the grinning Jordanian let off scot-free after harassing female joggers and assaulting a female police officer:
Jordanian asylum seeker, 27, who assaulted a police officer after drunkenly pestering female joggers is spared community service due to ‘health and safety issues’ | Daily Mail Online