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From the newspapers
“Labour was last night accused of declaring ‘class war on Middle Britain’ over shock plans to slash public services in affluent areas.
The radical plans, included among draft proposals for Labour‘s Election manifesto, would extend equality laws covering race, age, gender, disability and sexuality to include ‘the inequality of social class’.
…given very low growth in public spending, the Harman plans ‘would certainly require real cuts to the services provided in more affluent parts of a council’s area’.
And that, he warned, could lead to a collapse in the middle classes’ faith in the state, raising the prospect of a new class of ‘tax refuseniks’.”
[Daily Mail]
An opportunity for social nationalism in the affected areas.
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Cambridge University is a nest of anti-Europeanism.
Ireland has far more migrant-invaders than cows by now, at a guess.
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If that is true (surely not?), then we really are in the antechamber of the Third World War.
Leni Riefenstahl— Olympia
Germany, despite having been mired in depression, poverty, and decadence in the early 1930s, was able to stage that magnificent spectacle in 1936, after only three years of National Socialism.
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Nature/nurture? You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear…
Tweeter “Suzie Wong” manages, in typical Twitter fashion, to make herself look absolutely ignorant.
Interesting. I rather like Turkey, and have been there several times, both to the mainland and (once) to Turkish North Cyprus. On my last visit, in 2001, everything was pleasantly inexpensive for someone with hard currency. Even cheaper now, it seems. I drove to Turkey from the UK, and back again. Hazardous at times, but a good trip overall. I was there three months, mostly spent in and around Fethiye (Mediterranean coast).
Only one thing now matters— that a core of white Northern Europeans can create a basis or foundation for a later culture and civilization which can itself in turn be a foundation for a quantum leap in human evolution.
Reminiscent of the early 1970s BBC Play for Today called The Year of the Sex Olympics. It must be true— all fact is preceded by fiction…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Sex_Olympics
In fact, I see now that Wikipedia says that The Year of the Sex Olympics was made in 1968, then re-broadcast in 1970 in The Wednesday Play slot, and not the quite similar Play for Today format. That must have been when I saw it.
As for the latest Swedish craziness, I predicted it or similar on the blog a few times, referencing the latest UK TV pleb-fests such as Love Island (I admit that I have never actually seen that).
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Ian Robert Millard 
Good morning! The title “Parlami di me” reminded me of a beautiful Italian song that was a favourite of my father’s. “Parlami d’amore, Mariú”. This is a fine recording by the great Italian tenor Giuseppe di Stefano (1921-2008)
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Claudius:
Thank you.
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Here is another song, a wonderful Neapolitan classic: “Core ingrato” (Ungrateful Heart) Giuseppe di Stefano in Germany, 1963. I had never heard of this man, perhaps because I am not an opera lover. He was Arturo Toscanini’s favourite tenor; when you listen to him is easy to understand why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Di_Stefano
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Claudius:
Thank you. I remember hearing this when I was a child:
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Are we supposed to feel sorry for the Vancouver homeless? Why they do not get together and organise themselves? I despise people who expect to be given handouts. I would be shovelling dirt just for food instead of laying on a filthy street waiting for someone to give me a piece of bread.
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Claudius:
I hear what you say, but most people need leadership in order to achieve much. There were parts of Germany similar to that in the immediately pre-NSDAP days; Hitler took power and created an organizational matrix which allowed the constructive and creative talents of the German people to coalesce and thus to create a Volksgemeinschaft, and a state which, at the time, led the world in most respects.
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I understand what you say and you are right. Sometimes I cannot help being rather brutal, although I later may regret that. That is what happens when you are a hothead like me! 😁 😁 😁
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Claudius:
Ha.
“A cool head, a warm heart, and clean hands”…
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Wise words, incidentally the old von Moltke said almost the same: “For a soldier a cool head is as important as a warm heart”
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Actually Claudius, you don’t need to feel sorry for destitute Canadians, because Trudeau has offered the homeless, those in debt and the mentally ill, a painless and permanent way out, with his MAID program (Medical Assistance in Dying).
Homeless/dead Canadians are easily replaced with immigrants for whom he is building new houses.
“All together, 31,653 MAiD deaths have occurred in Canada since it was legally inaugurated in 2016. Despite this dramatic increase from year to year, the Trudeau government is planning to make euthanasia via MAiD available to a larger segment of society. On March 17, 2023, MAiD will be available to those whose only medical condition is mental illness. The Quebec College of Physicians is urging the government to allow infant euthanasia”.
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Thank you very much for that shocking and terrifying information. I believe that; in fact, everything about Trudeau is despicable and disgusting.
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How funny was the stupid comment of Suzie Wong! Is very funny the way some people show themselves up. We have a saying that can be translated as “Some people can talk for hours without saying anything”. Suzie Wong belongs to this category
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Did you know that the madman known as Ludwig II of Baviera (Bayern) built a replica of Versailles on a little island called Herrenchiemsee and spent only a week there? Sadly, the interior was never finished because of his death/murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenchiemsee
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Claudius:
Magnificent.
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This is just a glimpse of Herrenchiemsee. Out of 70 rooms only 20 were finished.
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