AllyP retweeted
I never get tired of watching this clip of Frank Zappa on Crossfire. Like most great artists he's insightful & prescient. He's running rings around them while they smirk & condescend to him. Their smug confidence in their own superiority is repugnant but he remains perfectly calm
AllyP retweeted
🚨Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov🇷🇺:
‼️“Over the past 500 years, all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies: colonisation, the Crusades, the Crimean War, Napoleon, WW1, Hitler…’
After 300 years of slaughtering the peoples of the world and plundering the wealth of the global south to build the cities of Europe…
Their empires crumbled in 1945. Since then, all they have had to offer the world is neocolonialism, uncritical vassalage to the United States, and now face being an afterthought and an irrelevance.
Instead of recognising a new world exists where neocolonialism will not be tolerated, and prioritising economic rejuvenation via engagement with the rising powers of the 21st Century…
Europe instead decides to invest its remaining and dwindling fortunes into the military-industrial complex to fight a war against Russia which none of their populations are remotely interested in…while the rest of the civilised world invests in trade and development.
Europe had a last chance to look to the future, and instead violently jerked their heads 180 degrees back to the past.”
Harsh but not untrue.
AllyP retweeted
RIP Máire Drumm🙏 assassinated by loyalist paramilitaries from the Red Hand Commando and UDA/UVF, who were disguised as doctors when they entered her hospital room where she was recovering from surgery.
AllyP retweeted
🚨BREAKING NEWS
Vladimir Putin:
Many people are talking about the need to prepare for war by 2030.
First of all, we are prepared, but we do not want any war with Europe.
If they want to prepare, let them prepare.
However, if things go too far, there will be no winners. Let no one forget that.
AllyP retweeted
We can’t help our elderly, we can’t afford police stations in our towns, we can’t afford to allow our armed forces to practice war game scenarios, we can’t afford new prisons or hospitals… and our taxes are at 85 year highs.
BUT £10 BILLION FOR UKRAINE -
F**K OFF
AllyP retweeted
Putting an already grievously bereaved family through these ridiculous legal hoops, just to get to the truth, is callous in the extreme. But if that's what it takes, the Brown family and their community are ready for them.
declassifieduk.org/the-murde…
AllyP retweeted
Jamie, without Twitter you'd be standing on an upturned milk crate outside Belfast City Hall, delivering your latest revolutionary proclamation to three Saturday shoppers and a pigeon. Yet somehow you've convinced yourself you're the commander-in-chief of unionism, given Unionism is all over the show, you found a gap- well done, you. Ffs, the delusions of grandeur are extraordinary, amusing as feck, but still delusional
You keep insisting this isn't a political rally, yet you've spent multiple posts promoting it like you're personally organising the Second Coming, putting yourself front and centre .
At this stage, it sounds less like an Orange Order event and more like a political slumber party for yourself, Carla Lockhart and Jim Allister. All that's missing is a flatbed truck, three microphones and a competition to see who can mention Sinn Féin, human rights, nationalists and Ireland most often before bedtime; my money is on Jim 'I walked away from Ulster resistance before it got scary," Allister.
And where exactly is the Orange Order in all this? It's supposedly their event, yet we hear considerably more from you than from the people you're claiming to support. The 35 Orangemen must be wondering when they'll actually get a word in, although given you keep telling us they are "old men", they really should be able to remember how divisive their presence at Drumcree was and how it cost both sides of the community
At this stage, Jamie, your political allegiances are another spectacle altogether. Who will it be next week? I see you are now running Robinson into the ground. FFS, one minute you're championing one unionist politician, the next you're practically hanging off the arm of another. Whoever gives you a passing glance or a few minutes of attention suddenly becomes your latest political soulmate. It's like watching political speed dating, except you're the only one who thinks it's a serious relationship. Embarrassing doesn't begin to cover it.
You've spent the last few weeks behaving like a child who got Twitter for Christmas and hasn't put the bloody thing down. Another proclamation, another dramatic warning, another Paisley "LITE" impression from the comfort of your armchair. Even Paisley occasionally stopped talking
Strip away the flags, the theatrical speeches and the enormous self-importance, and you're still a loyalist blogger with a background in picking up criminal convictions and despatching the odd taxi, not the commander-in-chief of unionism.
The irony is delicious. You're telling everyone this isn't political while treating Portadown like your own personal party conference.
And when the microphones are packed away, Twitter goes quiet, and the crowd goes home, you'll still be Jamie Bryson. The milk crate will be waiting outside City Hall, big fella
AllyP retweeted
When the head of the British Army, General Roly Walker, says the population must be "readied" for war, it's been taken to mean conscription — that Britain's finest will be marched off to take on the Russians in Ukraine.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
As I have pointed out many times, the British armed forces are not only incapable of taking on the Russians in terms of actual military capability — they're incapable of even getting there, should the Russians be so impolite as to fire on them as they approached the battle zone.
This is not about marching off to war with Russia. Be clear about that.
But states contain many factions, each with their own reasons. The Chief of the General Staff may calculate that this kind of talk does him no harm in the next round of budget discussions, that it raises his prestige, that it might reverse the long decline in the size and quality of the British Army. Perhaps that's his motivation.
What of the cynical media operators who put this message out? The politicians who allowed a blatantly political intervention from Britain's leading general two weeks before the Budget? Their motivation is more structural, and it reflects the reality of Britain's position as a very weak, late-stage parasitic imperial power.
Britain's strength is not derived from war-fighting as such. It derives from the extraction of rents from transactions across the world, funnelled through the City of London. The strength of this country is not in fighting — it is in getting other people to fight for it.
So what is the message actually for? Perpetual justification. The messaging exists to excuse perpetual failure on the social and economic development the population actually wants to see.
Can't get a road fixed? The money's needed for the great crusade against Russia.
Health service falling apart? Nothing can be done until we win the war against the Russians.
Wages frozen? That's the fault of the Iranians.
It's a standing justification for every act of class war waged on the working class. Blame the chosen opponent — Russia, China, Iran; insert the name as required.
The British ruling class cannot and will not fight a real hot war. What they will do is keep the Ukraine war going as long as possible — and line up other countries to be turned into what Ukraine has become: a giant outsourced military encampment, funded by the US imperial bloc, so that they never have to take the risk of fighting themselves.
AllyP retweeted
Gordon Strachan says Tommy Gravesen once nearly sent a referee over the edge during a Champions League night when he was at Celtic.
Celtic were 1–0 up against Benfica at half-time when the fourth official came across: “Mr Strachan, could you go and see the referee?”
Strachan expected a red card, a moan about the bench, something serious. Instead the referee told him: “Mr Strachan, I’m not enjoying the game.”
Strachan's answer was pure Strachan: “We’ve all had s*** games pal, don’t worry about it, you will get better.”
The referee said that wasn't the problem: “Mr Gravesen keeps talking to me. I cannot concentrate… I’m making bad decisions because he keeps speaking to me.”
And it wasn't even abuse. Gravesen was jogging alongside him trying to sort him a night out: “Are you staying here tonight lad? Is your family here? If you want to go out tonight, I’ll take you to places.”
Strachan says they assumed the ref was making it up, until they watched the game back the next day and there was Gravesen, pointing and chatting away, with the referee eventually trying to push him off.
Offering the ref a tour of the town mid-match is a new one.
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Could Desmond Soon be Defeated by a Derailed Train? sonofceltic.com/2026/10/13/c…
