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Aug 12, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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The drought is bad but sloppy journos are taking licence with dramatic photos. Example 1: Daily Mail - "The river Rhine is pictured with low water ... threatening German industry."
Its a small tributary leading into the Dutch Waal. NB the barge in background on the main river🧵
Yes you could stretch the point, the Waal IS a Rhine feeder river but the dramatic bike is not in the dried up Rhine. Here's the river in winter flood (Dec 18) and an aerial view of the backwater the Mail photo implies is the Rhine. It isn't.
For WWII history buffs - this was one of the two bridges fought over and captured in the Battle of Nijmegen in Sept 1944 as part of Operation #MarketGarden. Here are British troops crossing it.
But back to my subject - drought pictures.
They've done it with the Loire too...
This photo has been shocking everyone - purportedly the Loire dried up. It had 14k likes and really created waves (sorry...)
What they don't say is that actually this is where the river splits into two. This is the lesser branch which normally rejoins the river further down.
Google earth shows there are normally extensive sandbars on that part. It doesn't mean the Loire as a whole has dried up. Here's a view in the other direction - the one that doesn't get so many retweets. That's the main river at the end.
It IS bad, no denying. But...
Here are the two branches in Aug 2018. Lots of sand on the N branch, S branch clearly deeper. Just check everything before jumping to conclusions. Google lens took me straight to Waalbrug - the bridge. Anyone posting or writing articles can easily do that if they want to. IF...
And then this. Apparently unconnected but it isn't.
Check everything that has to to be true because I believe it already".
We all do it. This FT guy blocked the person who showed him his data was wrong. Didn't fit his preconceptions.
And here's the next one. This is crazy.
Armageddon fantasy vs reality
Its bad enough without this deception, why do they need to do it?
h/t
@Werner_A_Kuhn
And the next one. The drought reveals a Roman camp which says @BBCweather "is usually underwater". Well... no. The *lesser part* of it is.
Which is why the tourist photos often show so much grass. Google Earth summer 2020 for comparison

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Mar 29
"This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace (which has) one object and one only: the forcible destruction, at first by secret methods and then by open methods, of our liberty, our Constitution, our laws, our religion, and our heritage.”

Those words were written by the Deputy Director of MI5 in 1933 on the threat posed then by British 'useful idiots' - Britain's Stalin enthusiasts.

Today, 90 years on, the same might be said about their political heirs and those they cynically ally themselves. Here is the full text 🧵
"This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace. Not all our enemies work in the light of day. Those most dangerous to our public security and peace today are doing evil work in the dark.

They evade our laws, while working secretly to destroy those laws by force. At the same time they appeal to those laws for their personal protection.
"In this free land of ours in recent years we have been permitting the growth of the most sinister organisation for evil the world has yet seen - an organisation with one object and one only: the forcible destruction, at first by secret methods and then by open methods, of our liberty, our Constitution, our laws, our religion, and our heritage.

"These men intend that we shall be subjected to the tyranny of a powerful alien body which has never enjoyed our freedom or any freedom; which hates all who have enjoyed this freedom, and is determined that we shall enjoy no longer.
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Mar 2
The Church of England wants to appoint a 'Deconstructing Whiteness' officer as part of its new 11 person £440k pa plus West Midlands Racial Justice team.

What is the 'whiteness' they feel they so urgently need to deconstruct? In the words of academics and church activists...

It is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition [which] renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”

It is “a powerful fiction enforced by power and violence"

"It is a psychosis, hallmarked by a distorted view of reality."

Really? Yes, this is what they believe and the CofE is appointing someone who believes this malign fiction about white people and white/British culture so that it can be eradicated in British church.

Read on for the detail of these and other quotes, beginning with the secular academics and then the liberal activists who have now infiltrated the western church🧵Image
In June 2021 an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness "a malignant, parasitic-like condition."

In the article, the author wrote that "white people have a particular susceptibility" to the "parasitic" condition, which he claims "renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse."

He explained he believed whiteness establishes "entitled dominion" that enables the "host" to have "power without limit, force without restriction, violence without mercy," and increases one's drive to "terrorize." newsweek.com/research-artic…Image
Britain's most notorious subscriber to the concept of Whiteness is Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University.

Andrews has even written a book entitled The Psychosis of Whiteness. In another article he writes

'Whiteness cannot be reasoned with through rational teachings and debate. It is a psychosis, hallmarked by a distorted view of reality that is in part reinforced by producing self-affirming hallucinations ... it is hallmarked by irrationality and a distinct inability to see reality in any other way than the distorted view it creates.'

(Kehinde Andrews, ‘The Psychosis of Whiteness: the celluloid hallucinations of Amazing Graze and Belle’, Journal of Black Studies, 2016, vol. 47, 5: pp. 435-453.)Image
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Jan 19
What is astonishing about all these nutters is the degree to which they have all swallowed the conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to take over the world and already control America and the world financial system.

It's ludicrous but yet thousands on the streets in these protests believe it. How did it begin?

It was largely started and then massively weaponised by the foreign intelligence services of the Soviet Bloc, working in concert to throughout the Arabic world, sending in both hundreds of agents working as doctors, engineers, etc and hundreds of thousands of copies of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', translated into Arabic for this specific purpose.

The evidence for this comes for the highest level intelligence officer ever to defect from a Bloc nation - Romanian General Ion Paceba 🧵
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the most notorious and widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times.

Its lies about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to circulate today, especially on the internet. The individuals and groups who have used the Protocols are all linked by a common purpose: to spread hatred of Jews. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
When asked in 1994 what proof he had that Jews were planning to take over the world Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas produced his own Arabic-language copy of The Protocols of the the Elders of Zion. It was one of the thousands printed by Soviet intelligence services with the sole purpose of stirring up hatred for Israel in the Arab word.

It has been remarkably successful. On the streets of London and many other cities, thousands on pro-Palestine marches now spout the antisemitic lies that were first birthed in the 1990s by those books.

The toxic legacy of Soviet communism still blights thousands of lives today, spreading hate and death throughout the Middle East.Image
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Jul 31, 2023
The Great Terror began in August 1937, 86 years ago this week. The start was signalled by the infamous order No. 00447, signed 30th July by NKVD boss Nikolai Yezhov. It set quotas for executions and arrests for each region of the USSR. In 18 months almost 700k would be dead. 🧵 Image
This is a page from Order 00447, with a translation. Region by region, the 1st column lists the number to be shot, the 2nd to be send to the Gulag & the total in the 3rd. An extract from a later page gives the number for the Leningrad and Moscow regions.
Mass murder by quota. Image
According to their own figures in 18 months between 1937 and 1938, Stalin's secret police, the NKVD, shot 681,692 of their own people - men, women, and even children. That's 10k for than the flags shown here in the Washington memorial to those who died in Covid. Image
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Jul 24, 2023
“You shall have no other gods…”
Punch Feb 1930 on Stalin’s mass arrests of priests & rabbis, destruction of churches/mosques & persecution right down to icon painters and Jewish butchers. As the yr advanced the news became even worse… 🧵 Image
The Soviets, deciding to ‘liquidate’ a whole class of (mostly 🇺🇦) peasant smallholders, deported 1.8m incl intellectuals and believers to gulag camps in Siberia and the Far North.
The parallels are impossible to overlook. A different political regime but the same utter disregard for individual suffering; lives disposable to build the great Empire, be it Marxist or Putinist.
Nazism died but 🇷🇺 imperialist ambitions never did.
Will they ever?
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Jun 26, 2023
EU regulations now require every customer with an EU bank account to declare their
Total annual income after tax
Total taxes paid
All mortgages & loans paid p.a.
Value of all property, shares, deposit accounts.
Sources of all income.

If not supplied, your cards are cancelled
Here it is chapter and verse.
Extraordinary how pro-Remain accounts now call this fake, say the legislation the bank quoted at me isn’t proof, or that it’s no problem.
What my house is worth is NO business of a bank unless I use it as collateral for a loan. Neither the £ I hold in rival banks or shares.
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