Some people really do have too much time on their hands. This is probably a symptom of mass unemployment…who knows? They say recycling is a good thing, but it also depends on how far one is going to go. Alternatively, this could just be an anarchistic ‘fuck you’ to the banality of the capitalist consumer culture the globe seems to be trapped in.
Holy fucksticks! This is not satire. ALERT! THIS IS NOT SATIRE! The former Prince Andrew (8th in line to the throne), who allegedly gave state secrets away as well as dabbled in a bit of extracurricular activity with 17-year-old girls, has been arrested and imprisoned.
The Daily Squib wrote a satirical scenario about this very event in 2015…now it has all come true.
High treason hundreds of years ago in England would have required a head lopped orf; Andrew can consider himself lucky. Naturally, the Labour government and Meghan Markle are giggling with glee at this setback for the British monarchy. It’s a good thing the late Queen Elizabeth is not around to see this; she’d have a fucking fit.
STORY DEVELOPING
Think about this: all those air fryers, headphones, speakers, laptops, phones – all that cheap shit you buy from Temu, from eBay or Amazon — it’s all made in China. Everything that you buy in the shops or online is cheap, badly made crud which usually breaks in less than a week, but nearly every single penny of your hard-earned money is going to fund the People’s Liberation Army so they can make weapons to kill you in the future. N.B. The second segment of the video with the killer robot platoons is most certainly AI-generated propaganda from the PLA, but it proves intention and future capability.
Training kung fu robots to use weapons pic.twitter.com/lcv2QWBcfT
— China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) February 19, 2026
✨🇨🇳A China-manufactured amphibious biomimetic robot. pic.twitter.com/B6CcBOGLJP
— 🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 (@XueJia24682) February 20, 2026
The CCP and PLA could easily release another virus to cause yet another pandemic. The first Covid pandemic did not kill enough people in the West to please the CCP; therefore, it is a certainty they are working on releasing an additional virus that is more effective and possibly targeting only specific DNA types. Once the pandemic has completed its objective, they would send in the robots to clean up any survivors.
🇨🇳 Northeastern University of China has developed a wheeled infantry robot
The robot is designed for combat, capable of assuming any position, moving on steep slopes, jumping over obstacles, and rotating 360 degrees. Targeting is automatic.
War is getting scarier pic.twitter.com/O69mtQsUbx
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 29, 2025
AUTONOMOUS AI KILLING ROBOTS – PLA – CHINA
China has developed a “Close-Loop Autonomous Weapon System”
Where the AI onboard of drones can decide whether to pull the trigger, completely free from human intervention
A thread on the autonomous killing machines of the PLA…🧵 pic.twitter.com/1JZe7CNtt1
— Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 (@zhao_dashuai) November 27, 2022
After many years of war and an economy strained by the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, it seems the bloodletting is not only in the muddy meat grinder fields of Ukraine but also in the everyday lives of Russians. The middle class is disappearing, as they are absorbed into the lower classes. The uber-rich, of course, are shielded by the economic downturn, but even they are feeling some of the effects of the prolonged war on Russia.
General prices in supermarkets, for example, are now reaching the levels of Europe but are still not as high as in the UK, which has the worst cost of living and food inflation anywhere. The difference from Russia is that the average wages are lower than in the UK or Europe.
Life in rural Russia is forgotten by the Russian state, and people are left to survive with little or no resources.
The Ukraine war seems to be grinding down Russia, not only on the battlefield but also their entire nation economically. Between 400,000 and 1.5 million estimated casualties (killed and wounded) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to November 2025.
The ongoing war is slowly wearing down Russia so that it may eventually collapse completely if it continues its aggression against Ukraine or any other nation.
Drip-feeding death upon a regime that revels in brutality and savagery is a cold hard medicine it will be forced to swallow.
The Russian Wartime Squeeze
Nearly four years into the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy presents a picture of resilience on the surface but mounting strain underneath.
Official forecasts from the Central Bank of Russia project that gross domestic product will expand by only around 0.5 to 1.5 per cent in 2026, a marked slowdown from earlier wartime performance and well below what would be required to boost living standards meaningfully.
The central bank’s key interest rate remains elevated; in February 2026 it was cut to 15.5 per cent from a higher level but still reflects persistent inflationary pressure.
Military expenditure continues to absorb an unusually large share of federal revenue. Intelligence assessments suggest that hundreds of billions of US dollars have been channelled into the conflict in Ukraine, with a substantial portion of this spending hidden in classified budget lines. To sustain military commitments, the Russian government has raised value-added tax from 20 per cent to 22 per cent, increasing the tax burden on consumers and businesses alike.
The video below mirrors the current sentiment amongst ordinary Russians — one of hopelessness and delusion. Millions of Russians are living under delusion after years of state propaganda, gaslighting and blatant lies.
Now, they are slowly waking up to the reality of the situation, especially after they have effectively been priced out of basic foodstuffs in supermarkets.
“By the end of the year, we’re going to be completely f*cked – we’ll crash hard.”
Russian “Z-blogger” Golman said Russians are unwilling to help participants in the so-called “special military operation,” businesses are shutting down, and volunteers can’t even raise money for… pic.twitter.com/6WAYaDRSLI
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 17, 2026
Inflation remains a significant concern for ordinary Russians. Official figures show annual inflation in the mid-single digits, around five to six per cent, but many residents feel price increases far more acutely in everyday purchases.
Basic food prices have jumped sharply in recent months, with the cost of some vegetables more than doubling in parts of the country, turning humble items such as cucumbers into symbols of rising living costs.
Utility bills and fuel prices have also climbed, and for many households real wages have failed to keep pace with these increases, eroding purchasing power.
Labour Market
The labour market appears superficially robust, with unemployment remaining low compared with Western economies, but this masks deeper distortions.
Forced mobilisation and demographic decline have reduced the available workforce, creating labour shortages in many civilian industries.
Young and skilled workers have emigrated in significant numbers, and firms outside the defence sector report difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified staff.
High borrowing costs and limited access to Western financing and technology, a direct result of sustained economic sanctions, have constrained corporate investment and productivity growth.
Oil and Gas
Russia’s reliance on energy exports continues to underpin state revenue, particularly through redirected trade with Asian partners. However, dependency on oil and gas leaves the economy exposed to fluctuations in global commodity prices and uneven demand.
🛳️🛢️ Around 150 million barrels of Russian oil are already sitting on tankers at sea, unable to find a buyer. The collapse was caused by a dramatic decline in exports.
Also, oil reserves currently stored in Russia have reached approximately 16 million barrels. These 160-170… pic.twitter.com/JuWQxQsCAm
— Dzis Maksym (@DzisMaksym) February 17, 2026
Sanctions
At the same time, sanctions have cut off major Western markets and technology transfers, slowing modernisation in key industrial sectors.
For ordinary Russians, the economic impact of the war is felt not as a dramatic collapse but as a persistent squeeze on living standards.
Households are contending with higher taxes, elevated inflation, and the rising cost of essentials, while opportunities for advancement in the private sector remain limited.
Although the state has so far averted systemic economic instability, it has done so by prioritising military expenditure and accepting slower growth in civilian sectors.
Russia’s wartime economy has proved more durable than many predicted at the outset of the conflict in 2022…yet durability is not the same as prosperity.
With GDP growth barely above one percent, inflation running at five to six percent, interest rates at 15.5 percent, and the fiscal weight of the war continuing to rise, the trade-off between sustaining the conflict and maintaining economic well-being for the broader population becomes increasingly pronounced.
We leave you with the words of the Russian Z-blogger who usually touts the Russian situation in a falsely positive manner, mirroring the lies from the Kremlin. This time he seems to be speaking the truth: “By the end of the year, we’re going to be completely fucked.”
Kata are the backbone of Shotokan karate. They are not merely sequences of techniques but compressed systems of movement, timing, distancing, balance, breathing, and intent. To learn a karate kata properly requires more than memorisation. It demands method, repetition, correction, and understanding.
Every kata has an embusen, the performance line or floor pattern. Before worrying about speed, power, or expression, understand the geometry. Know where each turn happens, which direction each technique travels, and where the kata begins and ends.
Practise walking the pattern slowly without techniques. Then add the movements. If the embusen is wrong, the entire structure collapses.
Do not attempt to learn a full kata in one session. Divide it into natural phrases of two to five movements. Drill each segment until it can be performed smoothly without hesitation. Then connect the segments.
Shotokan kata such as Heian Shodan or Tekki Shodan are structured deliberately. The repetition of themes is there to help learning. Use it.
In Shotokan, stance is the foundation. Zenkutsu dachi, kokutsu dachi and kiba dachi must be stable, aligned, and rooted. If your stance is weak, every block and strike is compromised.
Check:
Practice stances in isolation. Hold them statically. Then move between them repeatedly. Power comes from the floor, not the arms.
Most students rush. That is a mistake.
Practice kata in exaggerated slow motion. This exposes imbalance, poor transitions, and technical shortcuts. Slow training builds neuromuscular control and correct motor patterns. Speed comes naturally once efficiency is embedded.
A useful structure is
Never sacrifice form for speed.
Shotokan is characterised by decisive focus at the end of techniques. Kime is not tension throughout the movement. It is relaxation during transition and sharp contraction at the moment of impact.
If you remain tense from start to finish, you will fatigue quickly and lose fluidity. Train explosive contraction followed by immediate relaxation.
Kata without bunkai becomes choreography. Bunkai gives meaning.
Even at beginner level, ask what each movement represents. Is it a block, a strike, a throw, a joint lock, a limb control? When you understand application, movements become purposeful and your body mechanics improve automatically.
Work bunkai with a partner slowly and safely. This transforms kata from abstract form into combative study.
Mindless repetition engrains mistakes. Intelligent repetition refines skill.
After each repetition ask:
Short, focused sessions outperform long, unfocused ones.
Self-study has limits. Shotokan relies on precise angles, hip engagement and timing. A qualified instructor will correct subtle errors you cannot see yourself.
If possible, record your kata and compare it to high-level practitioners from reputable Shotokan organisations such as the Japan Karate Association. Objective feedback accelerates progress.
Strong legs, flexible hips and core stability are essential. Supplement kata training with:
A weak body cannot express strong kata.
Kata is also psychological training. Each performance should include:
Perform every repetition as if it matters. Mechanical movement produces mechanical results.
Learning Shotokan kata properly is a long process. Memorisation may take weeks. Understanding takes years. Mastery is never complete.
Approach each kata as a technical manual hidden in plain sight. Study it patiently, refine it relentlessly, and revisit it repeatedly. Over time, the kata will reveal depth far beyond the surface sequence.
Comrades of the People’s Republic of Soviet Britain, not only have our efforts to cancel democratic elections been thwarted, as well as our efforts to cancel trials with juries, but now one of our Labour Stasi Disinfo operations has been uncovered by democracy-loving journalist scum who we tried to condemn with planted false evidence claiming they were Russian agents.
This is truly a bad day for communism and Labour’s attempt to transition our country from socialism to communism.
Comrade Starmer is now under pressure to discipline and liquidate the influential Stasi Labour group caught concocting a fake smear campaign against journalists.
The Stasi disinfo mission, ordered by Comrade Starmer and other high-party Stasi operatives, was codenamed Operation Cannon. Its modus operandi was to thwart any form of free speech and free press in the PRSB. A free press is a fundamental threat to our bid for communism.
The Stasi team was called “Labour Together”, and we write of them in the past tense because they have all been hunted down and liquidated for their fundamental error in being discovered.
This is a message to all Stasi operatives: if you fail your missions — you will be liquidated; if you are discovered — you will be liquidated. The Big State and Comrade Starmer do not tolerate any form of failure by Stasi agents.
This is a message to all comrades in the People’s Republic of Soviet Britain. We sadly announce that there has been a small instance of democracy during our transition from hard tyrannical socialism to full-blown communism. The cancelled elections have been cancelled, thus allowing democracy to occur. This is an affront to the political ideology of the Labour Party and our political principles of brutal totalitarian communism.
Vladimir Lenin: “The goal of socialism is communism.”
Comrade Starmer was taking his daily banya when he heard the terrible news.
“Comrades, apparatchiks, Bolsheviks, Stasi agents, train drivers, Marxist union representatives, high party members, NHS bosses, council fat cats, and the ordinary prole scum. Our transition to full communism to completely thwart any semblance of democracy in the country has sadly been spiked.
“We attempted to halt local elections, to halt jury trials, to destroy the last vestiges of freedom in Britain. To stop the Reform brigands led by the partisan Nigel Farage. He will now have a foothold in destroying our transition to communism.
“The Labour government is now regrouping, and we will find a way to thwart democracy once and for all.
“The Marxist Big State cannot be stopped; we will find a way, we will stop democracy because if we do not, Reform will come forth and destroy the important transitory process towards full communism!”
People’s Bulletin 39288
Janice Bucktrimble, 28, of Stasi Avenue, Dover, has been awarded a pint of chaptalised cat’s urine and 4 boxes of triple-used condoms. She reported her two young children, her husband, and her next-door neighbour for cheering when the democratic elections were reinstated. The criminals even shouted for “democracy.” They were taken away in the early hours of Monday morning and liquidated into Net Zero Juice. Remember – Look, Listen and Report!
During a recent interview, the former president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, revealed that aliens are real.
“There are aliens out there and all over here as well. I lied about Area 51, of course; that’s something that’s off limits. We’re back-engineering their stuff there.
“Ha, hah! I just pipped Trump to revealing the truth about aliens…plus I got the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn’t…take that, you stinking chump Trump!
“They’re called Obaminoid aliens. These aliens are everywhere and can shapeshift and use telepathy, plus they like spreading all sorts of shit amongst the human populations.
“Spreading transgenderism, mass homosexuality and that wonderful BLM/MeToo shit. They’re mischievous and love to create division and discord amongst Middle American white Christians especially.
“Big Mikey also told me these Obaminoids are here for a very good reason. Ahh, I’ve said too much. I, I, gotta go now!”
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Supreme President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has spoken candidly about his pet frog.
“I call her Kroshka. Come here my sweet tiny Kroshka, how many have you killed today? (Putin kisses the frog delicately.) I am immune to her charming toxins and to polonium-210 as well.
“She is from Ecuador, from the jungles. We have them shipped here by the crate and even have our own breeding habitats. This one I chose myself as a pet.
“We had some delegates from Estonia here yesterday pleading for something or other. I cannot honestly remember from these assholes. During the dinner I brought out Kroshka from my pocket and told her to have some fun.
“She jumped on the tallest one, maybe 6’5”; he did not realise as she rubbed on his cheek until it was too late.
“He fell like a tree. Just like that. Beautiful. Спать без задних ног.
“Afterwards, little Kroshka came back to Daddy, and we continued the official dinner as if nothing had happened.”
Sometimes lunatics are given the wheel. “Mad” Ed Miliband is no exception. Apart from being a useless cunt, he is also a raving lunatic of the most dangerous kind that has been let loose on these hallowed isles.
You may wonder why energy prices are the highest in the world in the UK. Well, it’s that little thing called Net Zero, and as Miliband is a Marxist, he is using the cover of this nefarious energy policy to fuck people over, not only with the cost of living crisis but also with the so-called growth of the economy. Simple economics: it is impossible to have “economic growth” when it costs £23 just to put on the fucking kitchen light and £38 to boil the fucking kettle to make a stinking fucking cup of tea.
Speaking at the Fabian Society the other day, Mad Ed was…er…well…mad.
“Turnips. We are going to put turnips on poles and then point them somewhere in the sky, maybe 39 degrees north, 43 degrees south, or something like that. We have to have big turnips, and they need to be organic and not older than three days. You see this turnip (holds up turnip), it’s a Net Zero energy powerhouse, and look at this one with the maggot coming out of it; it’s okay too. I can get as much power out of 500,000 of these turnips as a 9-volt battery, and each turnip will cost £759,000, and it will make electricity really cheap…er…maybe in 40 years’ time from now.”
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