The Burgundy Blog

I have lots to say about this, because it’s all tied into what’s been happening over the last 3 years. In the meantime here’s a recent Jason Liosatis programme about Five Minute Cities…

if you look at last Sunday’s No-Nato protest, it was banned by ‘the authorities’ on two previous occasions. On the third occasion, on Sunday, they had to hold it in a hall that was part of the Venezuelan Embassy in London.

When it comes to free speech, it’s all very similar to East Berlin in the old days.

The following is a 30 minute recap of the protest. If you go to the Not the Andrew Marr Show channel on YouTube you can find full clips of all the speeches, plus other content you might find interesting.

George Galloway took part in a debate last week at the Oxford Union. Galloway was supposed to be debating against Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, and also to debate the head of the British Army. Both of them chickened out at the last moment, and instead Tobias Ellwood (dim but nice, and head of the 77th Brigade) was put in their place. If interested here’s Galloway’s closing speech of the debate…

This speech is from way back in 2006. It’s at an NUJ meeting in Bristol (Benn was an MP in Bristol).

Whatever your political stripe, and whatever you think about Tony Benn, this guy really knew how the world works.

By comparison, nowadays most politicians are like five-year-olds on LSD.

This is a recent Mint Press News podcast, featuring Max Blumenthal. As usual I don’t agree with everything said here. I post it because most of what’s said is true, and it’s an important counter to the tidal wave of pro-Ukraine war propaganda. There hasn’t been propaganda like this since the Vietnam war. The psychos are pumping out this relentless stuff because they are trying to sell the Ukraine War to people in the West, at a time when many people in the West can’t afford to feed and heat themselves…

The original Mint Press programme page can be found here.

Those in the UK will know that there’s been much in the news recently about Albanian immigrants flooding into the country. Albania was one of a few countries in the old communist eastern Europe that I never traveled to. Hence I don’t know much about it. So I thought I’d do a bit of research and came up with the following presentation. The guy giving the presentation is Albanian and quite soft spoken. It’s from 2018. I knew much of the stuff about former Yugoslavia, yet was surprised when it came to neighbouring Albania (the role that former UK PM Tony Blair took in this is quite astounding)…

I put this here as a counter to the tidal wave of war propaganda coming from the West. Earlier this week President Putin took part in the annual Valdai International Discussion Club. Putin spoke for an hour, and then afterwards did more than 4 hours of Q & A with journalists from all over the world (you can find the full transcript of his speech here).