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Great Continental Rail Journeys
Was just watching one of those Michael Portillo rail journeys on TV, Vienna to Trieste. Interesting. Vienna railway station looks better now than the old one that I saw a couple of times in the 1980s.
More interesting to me was when Portillo mentioned that, in the several decades before the First World War, the population of Vienna had increased by 5x, but that the Jewish population of Vienna had increased by no less than 35x! That explains much.
The six cities of Europe with the greatest (absolute) numbers of Jews today (as of a couple of years ago) are Paris, Moscow, London, Kiev, Budapest, and Marseilles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_city.
From the newspapers
“TWO thugs left a man unconscious after they kicked, punched and stamped on him as he lay helpless on the floor during a brutal city centre assault.“
[South Wales Argus]
“Diversity”; our wonderful multikulti society…
Well, there’s a surprise (not).
Apart from anything else, older British people do not want to work for rubbish pay or, if on better pay, to be taxed through the nose so that money in huge amounts can be wasted on the sort of rubbish we saw during the “panicdemic” of 2020-2021, or on migrant-invaders posing as “refugees”, or on any other rubbish.
I agree with them (though I am now 66 anyway): I say— live on a lower spend-level, re-evaluate, live (as far as you can) off-grid (or at least cut off from the HMRC, DWP, professional and other leeches such as lawyers, accountants, estate agents etc), and plot the end of this society while seeding a new one.
“The city [Bakhmut] sits on an important confluence of supply routes and, when fighting started at least, was seen as a vital staging point for assaults further into Donbas – particularly the nearby cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.
Now, though, the battle is more symbolic than practical. Most analysts agree the blood price that Russia has paid trying to take Bakhmut – thought to be more than 100 troops per day – is not worth the value of capturing it.“
[Daily Mail]
Perhaps but, if that city is so unimportant, why are the Kiev-regime forces also trying so hard to win there —at the cost of a similar number of casualties, probably— ?
Kiev remains the jewel in the crown. If Russia can take Kiev and Kharkov, the war will be almost over. Maybe later this year.
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As I predicted, “Jack Monroe” will soon be supported only by loonies and the terminally naive.
Assuming that tweeter “@DaveMayhem” is not, er, “Jack Monroe” herself (she uses dozens of fake Twitter accounts).
In a way, the whole “Jack Monroe” thing has become a quite clever near-fraud, which has extracted rather large amounts of money overall.
Incidentally, that “DaveMayhem” tweeter (“Jack”?) uses the irritating Americanism “hate on“, rather than simple “hate“. Another black mark.
I have no idea whether “@ChrissieClarky” is another “Jack Monroe “sock account” or just another pro-“Jack Monroe oddity. Birds of a feather flock together, after all.
Actually, the “mental health” defence is quite clever because, first of all, it enables “Jack Monroe” to do more or less as she pleases— take money from the naive and well-meaning, drink herself silly, take drugs, spend money (mostly donated) like a drunken sailor etc; secondly, it gives a “reason” for the above defaults and, thirdly, makes any critics (or even those just trying to get their money back) seem like “bullies” and “trolls”.
When “Jack Monroe” closes down her Twitter account (as she has done at least three times even in the last few months) her supporters blame “trolls“, “bullies” etc, rather than noticing that, that way, she can avoid answering embarrassing questions about her extraction and misuse of money…
I see plenty of the well-meaning saying that “Jack Monroe” should stay off Twitter, and/or get “help”. Why would she do that? It has been Twitter, and her whole social media facade, that (together with msm promotion) has built her “career” as a supposed champion of the food-poor, and has given her (via Patreon etc) an income of —at least— several thousand pounds a month and possibly as much as £40,000 a month, but probably around £6,000 a month.
There were at one time 800 “mugs” paying “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 a month via Patreon alone! Partly due to Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson’s promotion of her; Jay Rayner, the Jewish restaurant critic, was also applauding her at one time, but seems to have belatedly seen the light in recent months.
Even at time of writing today, 497 utter mugs are still signed up to her Patreon “grift”. That is actually a couple more than yesterday! Average (?) £10 a month = about £5,000 a month. A “nice little earner”…
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Expect (even more) pervasive shambolic maladministration, uncontrolled embezzlement, and rampant corruption.
“The chief of demons, he casts out demons“…
#Zelensky.
Discuss…
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Back in May 2022, “Bootstrap Cook” was threatening all and sundry (including MP Lee Anderson) with her Jewish lawyer, but since then the lawyer in question (Mark Lewis), who may or may not be retained at present, has not emerged from his kennel to bark at anyone, at least not publicly, and it is now pretty obvious that, despite more “Jack Monroe” Twitter lies from time to time, Lee Anderson and Martin Daubney are not going to be sued by her.
See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/
Peel away the lies from “Jack Monroe” and there is nothing left, it seems.
More fake “refugees” (migrant-invaders)
So the biggest groups are Albanians and Indians now? Are any of the bastards arriving in rubber boats even arguably “refugees”? I doubt it.
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Partly true, though not the full picture. There is too much housebuilding, especially in the south of England; there is too much pesticide/herbicide use; the water companies are a disgrace; there is still a push for ever-more-intensive farming.
That stupid bastard, Tobias Ellwood, will not be happy until the UK is a stinking radioactive ruin.
I begin to think, looking at him now, that he is possibly part-Jew; not sure.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello! Here is a long but very interesting article, I have only read a 1/4 of it, but it seems reasonable and serious.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-01-too-late-for-nato-to-win-the-war-against-russia.html#
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Claudius:
I have skimmed the article. I do not have enough reliably-sourced information to agree or disagree with it, at least on the details. If any country can scale up production of anything quickly, it is the USA, historically. Look at WW2. At one point, a basic so-called “Liberty ship” was being launched every 4 or 5 *days*.
All in all, the argument advanced has too many “moving parts” for me to think it accurate, without more.
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The UK has become a banana republic. £ 7.000.000 for two doors is an obscene joke. On the other hand, why not? After all the British people/sheeple does not react…
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Claudius:
£7M for a door is absurd, of course.
You may be surprised to find that some of the ultra-wealthy do spend that sort of sum on doors for their private homes. I recall reading in one of the books of Anthony Robbins (the American self-help coach) about someone he knew called Chris Hemmeter (not very famous; an American property developer, now deceased) who had spent (if I recall) tens of millions of US dollars on his new house in Hawaii, and of that USD $1M was for his front door! That was about 35 years ago, so not so much less than the £7M door.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hemmeter
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How you made me laugh when you picked on that moron who defends “Bootstrap Cook” for his use of “irritating Americanisms”. My wife feels the same, she cannot stand them (as a typical Brit) and I enjoy teasing her using a North American accent or North American expressions (LOL).
Speaking of American and British accents here is a very interesting video about the kind of “neutral” English championed by Hollywood between 1930-1960. I realise now that what they say in the video is true, most American film stars of that era sound rather British and some of them very much so.
What do you think?
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Claudius:
Many of the Hollywood stars of the golden period *were* British, e.g. Cary Grant.
Gregory Peck, though born in California, had two British parents.
Merle Oberon (British/Anglo-Indian).
Errol Flynn: Australian but educated from age 14 in the UK.
Peter O’Toole (Irish/Scots but born/brought up in UK).
Etc.
Another example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Colman
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Thank you for the clip about Ronald Colman, it looks very interesting, in a general sense I love classical films 1930-1960; having said that the 1960s saw the making of many wonderful masterpieces like “The Bridge on the river Kwai”, “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Zulu”, “Seance on a wet afternoon”, “The Ipcress file” etc.
Speaking about Cary Grant there is a funny anecdote that shows how witty he was. I was watching an interview made in the late 1950s and the journalist said to Cary Grant “lots of men would like to be Cary Grant” and he replied “Me too!”
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Claudius:
Cary Grant was smooth indeed…if he could have bottled it, he would have made a fortune all over again.
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Claudius:
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You really left me speechless with the story of the money spent by that American millionaire on his doors (???) Unbelievable! My dad used to say “Some people have so much money that they don’t know what to do with it” and I would add “That is why you see so many people squandering money on ridiculous things that they do not need”
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Claudius:
Very true. Still, you cannot take it with you (eg that developer died at 64, and had apparently been unwell for many years before that), but it is very nice when a very wealthy person does truly philanthropic things with his money (e.g. Andrew Carnegie).
BTW, the son of that American developer (same name) is now rather active in business himself:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhemmeter
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