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Quotation of the day
“Human problems aren’t economic. They’re moral and they can’t be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.”
[Frank Buchman, in a 1936 interview]
I suppose that the devil is in the detail. What is “immoral”, in the sense of state policy or implementation? Also, state or political measures or “steps taken” are, arguably, too crudely “clunky” to very easily encompass matters of morality or spirituality. As Saint-Just said, “no-one can rule guiltlessly“.
From the newspapers
“Schools are being taken over by organisations teaching controversial ‘anti-racism’ theories, a report warned yesterday.“
[Daily Mail]
Brainwashing.
https://www.gov.uk/home-education
Raus!
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/east-london-man-gets-5-27301269
“An East London man who used his family to hire children as drug runners from his prison cell has been jailed for five more years.“
[My London]
Perhaps they mean the other “East London”, the one in South Africa.
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Ukraine has been a corrupt mess since at least 1991.
Ukraine needs a new start. Ideally, the Russians should take all of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper), as well as Crimea, and also a 50-mile-deep strip along the Black Sea littoral. Odessa and Kiev should have some kind of special status, either condominium status or as autonomous cities. A Ukrainian state, presumably based on Lvov, can then exist in the two-thirds of Ukraine west of the Dnieper and north of that coastal strip.
The only two of those cities on the map shown that I would ever choose would be Almaty (where I actually did live in 1996-1997), and which is probably still not too unpleasant, though I liked it in its recently-ex-Soviet quieter days, and Buenos Aires, which is at least a basically civilized city (though I have never been there).
I read once that Bangalore is not bad by Indian standards, and I know that it was a prized posting for officers and civil servants during the days of the British Raj, probably because it is in hills, and so cooler than the plains. No doubt it is very much larger and busier these days. It is now the 27th-largest city in the world, and the 3rd/5th biggest (depending on boundary definition) city in India, in fact.
Little cocaine-abusing drunk and Jewish-lobby puppet Gove must have been snorting again. He is said to support this absurd policy idea. As for Policy Exchange pseudo-think tank, it should be crammed into the nosecone of an interplanetary rocket and fired into space.
Madness.
I saw that report. Pretty hair-raising. No wonder that the Irishman (so they said, though he does not look Irish, particularly) and his immediate group decided to go home. It was not explained why they were allowed to leave Ukraine. Maybe they had fulfilled their contract.
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Well, there it is. I have blogged several times in the past (over several years) about the part-Jew pseudo-revolutionary scribbler and talking head, Paul Mason, and have blogged, inter alia, that he was possibly aiming to become a Labour MP, perhaps ultimately aiming at becoming Chancellor or even Prime Minister.
If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, the blog has been proven right once again.
I have frequently noted Zelensky’s ghetto style of negotiation.
Do I sense that even the major puppets of NWO/ZOG are tiring of Zelensky and his corrupt cabal? Not least because there is no real prospect of the Kiev regime being able to “recover” the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk.
350,000 Kiev-regime soldiers have been fed into the hell of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk and other areas of the front, and have fallen. Several times that number have been rendered hors de combat by reason of injury. Foreign contract soldiers are now going home, and there are rather few coming to replace them. The Kiev regime is increasingly using press-gangs to force unwilling Ukrainian men into uniform, and has toughened the exemption regulations in order to be able to “lawfully” conscript a wider range of non-volunteers.
Ukraine is by most definitions a “failed state”. It exists, both militarily and in general, only by reason of the Western subsidies. It could well be argued that, as it now is, “Ukraine” is scarcely a state at all.
That Ukrainian MP asking the questions must be a complete idiot. He wants NATO to station nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, which would mean that Ukraine would become a prime target for Russian strategic weapons. It would be like painting a huge bullseye on Ukraine.
“Independent” Ukraine has never been blessed with very intelligent politicians (or honest ones), but what can one say?…
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…and the hardcore of 396 utter mugs is still there on Patreon, each sending “Jack Monroe” £3.50 to £44 monthly. Thousands of pounds monthly, for precisely nothing. Not a bad little racket, really.
“@BartBirdy” is probably, and in my opinion almost certainly, “Jack Monroe” herself.
[Update, 13 July 2023: the @BartBirdy Twitter account is already gone. “Jack Monroe” must be using a new “sock account” today].
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Zelensky’s failing “kingdom”.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Very wellsaid, Victor Orban. Nice to see at least one head of a nation has some brains in Europe.
Victor is undoubtedly one of the most sane, intelligent and patriotic PMs in Europe. Infact, many rate him as the best. He has a fan in me as well.
Can we borrow him? He has been doing good things for Hungary.
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Oh do just shut-up, you vile, anti-British, globalist, evil libertarian extremist wankers at Policy Exchange.
People in high places have been listening and acting upon your extremist libertarian, crackpot theories since 1979 with disastrous results so if you would be so kind just keep silent as sane people no longer wish to hear your extremist rants.
Dedent, patriotic people in this country ie those who, unlike you, are not libertarian extremist, profoundly immoral scumbags have no wish to see our country further flooded with constant, unending tidal waves of fake asylum seekers, illegal immigrants etc.
We have HAD ENOUGH and nice Tory areas like mine in Brentwood, Essex certainly don’t wish to house them and become Labour-voting, crime infested, awful, dumps like Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney to name just a few.
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Well, you would either have to be an anti-British, globalist Zionist, fanatically pro Israel puppet, and degenerate cocaine abuser like Michael Gove is or just plain mad to support such a stupid plan which doesn’t address the REAL issue- AGAIN.
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John:
The idea that the UK needs to STOP THE INFLUX (by any expedient means) seems not to have occurred to the “thinkers” at Policy Exchange fake “think tank”.
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Sadly, the blindingly obvious almost never occurs to libertarians.
With few exceptions, libertarianism is a degenerate political philosophy that appeals to the most fundamentally immoral and selfish elements of society.
Jews in European countries and in the world epicentre of it namely the USA are often in support of it.
In Israel though, it isn’t widely regarded. Evidently, Zionist Jews in the Zionist state can see its all too prevalent destructive effects hence they don’t want it there.
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The UN estimates there are about 80 MILLION people in the world who could have a genuine claim to be asylum seekers. How many is a tiny, severely overcrowded, crime infested island which is consequently becoming seriously unpleasant to live in are we supposed to accommodate and WHO PAYS?
It is high time these globalist, libertarian extremist, anti-British wankers like Policy Exchange were, finally, at long last, told firmly to sling their hook.
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Asylum is SUPPOSED to be about TEMPORARY admission to a country for people at serious risk of persecution NOT yet another means of mass immigration which is what British governments for many decades have used it for.
Neville Chamberlain’s TRUE Tory government allowed some Jews to gain asylum here in 1938 from Nazi Germany but even so his administration still put clear limits on their numbers.
Nazi Germany incorporating Nazi Austria ended in 1945. Why did British governments not then require those Jews admitted in 1938 to return home?
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John:
If only the British Government of 1945-50 *had* managed to send back, or “home”, or somewhere/anywhere, the Jews who had arrived in the preceding decades.
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Indeed. Too many of those Jews showed their so-called ‘gratitude’ to this country by campaigning for mass immigration and opposing those gentile Britons who warned about the consequences. Sometimes, they used violent tactics to do this.
The politics of national suicide really must end someday.
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You can see why Britain has such a big problem with drug dealing like in your example above and drug abuse can’t you when those who are supposed to deal with it ie those in power like Michael Gove are drug abusers themselves and hence part of the overall problem.
No wonder then that most drug dealers in this country too often receive pathetic, derisory sentences of less than ten years imprisonment and in all too many cases as few as five.
How, on God’s Earth, are those sort of imprisonment terms going to act as any kind of real deterrent to a crime which, for many, has a powerful incentive to do ie making money and sometimes considerable amounts as well?
Some may say Singapore is too tough on drug dealers but we are too lenient in the opposite direction.
There should be a guaranteed minimum prison sentence of twenty years plus for anyone found guilty of any form of drug dealing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://www.cnb.gov.sg
https://www.mha.gov.sg
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
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John:
Of course, when sentences are given, you have to halve them to get the real time to be served. 5 years = 2.5 years, in most cases. The newspapers love to ignore that fact, and frequently deliberately mislead further by headlining such as “gang sentenced to 42 years”…which you then read further and see that there were perhaps 6 members of said gang, meaning that they really got an average of 7 years each, which basically means 3.5 years, and quite possibly 3 years (early release etc).
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Indeed. The latter point you make is one of their favourites. Drug dealers are one of the most fundamentally immoral types of criminal. Making a quick buck out of hooking people on dangerous drugs with the result they suffer both emotionally and physically often to the point of dying from it is truly despicable.
The drug abuse situation in Britain is bad pretty much anywhere but is particularly so in Scotland. Scotland apparently has one of the worst drug abuse rates in Europe which is utterly tragic and causes much heartbreak for individuals, their families etc.
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Drug dealers need to be given much longer sentences by the courts not just because drug dealing by itself is a serious crime but also due to drug dealers getting people hooked on dangerous drugs which is so often an underlying, contributing factor towards drug abusers committing crimes themselves.
Rampant rates of drug abuse in society are not ideal in anyway and are not conducive towards having low crime rates in general and a low violent crime rate in particular which is undoubtedly the reason well-governed Singapore treats this crime so seriously.
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So let us have a new Drug Dealing (Enhanced Punishments) Act 2023 setting a minimum of twenty years imprisonment plus for this severe crime. I commend this bill to the House.😃😀🤣
Shame, we can’t have a Criminal Justice (Restoration of Capital and Judicial Corporal Punishment) Act 2023 to go into force alongside it until we leave the Council of Europe and its often absurd European Convention on Human Rights.😢😢😢
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A degenerate drug abuser like Michael Gove would be locked-up in the great nation of Singapore. Under very recent amendments to their notoriously tough Misuse of Drugs Act which is the main piece of legislation dealing with drug abuse and drug dealers those who help to provide a ready market for drug dealers ie drug consumers/abusers can now, depending upon the quantities consumed and the type of drug, receive imprisonment terms of up to 30 years and up to 15 strokes of their infamous rattan cane.
Before, the maximum prison term was ten years regardless of the type of drug or how much was consumed and caning with the rattan cane was not a sentence available to the courts.
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No, it was for possession.
Yes, their existing law which was already quite tough has recently been made much harsher with the introduction of judicial corporal punishment via the rattan cane and significantly extended prison terms:
https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/press-releases/commencement-of-the-misuse-of-drugs-act-2023
https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom
Ha, ha, this is an interesting press release replying to Mr Richard Branson’s very critical remarks about a recent drug dealing case there:
https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/press-releases/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-mr-richard-branson-blog-post-on-24th-april-2023
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https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/press-releases/commencement-of-the-misuse-of-drugs-act-2023
https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/press-releases/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-mr-richard-branson-blog-post-of-24-april-2023
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Yes, East London, South Africa! Present day South Africa has an appaling crime rate with a rampant rate of murder which is, apparently, one of the world’s highest and other violent offences more generally.
The old, white ruled, Apartheid South Africa had its faults like all countries do but the crime situation was better and not just whites but the blacks also had greater protection from crime and felt safer than they now do.
That is no doubt the reason why younger South Africans, particularly blacks, wish to see capital punishment restored:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_South_Africa
Hanging was extensively used in Apartheid South Africa with the result it had one of the world’s highest per capital rates but it was used to clamp down on crime and the blacks felt safer than they do now in death penalty free, ANC ruled SA.
Evidently, modern day black South Africans are well aware of the criminal inclinations of many of their fellow blacks hence their strong support for the restoration of the ultimate punishment.
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Do they still poop excrement on the street or in rivers in Bangalore nowadays? I know this is a famous Indian speciality. You can find videos on YouTube demonstrating this.
People make me laugh when they say India will be a world economic superpower soon. You need more to become one than just a vast population.
Having a big population is not enough on its own. Having a people who have a high average IQ level like China obviously does is more important.
And to to think treasonous British politicians have allowed the descendents of people who still think it is civilised behaviour to intentionally poop in rivers, beaches and in the streets to take over entire boroughs like Slough, Southall ect and what is supposed to be a BRITISH government is a disgrace.
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India’s average IQ score is supposed to be around 80 odd which is quite high and far higher than many African scores but it is still significantly below that of European nations which is around 100 and East Asian lands such as China, South Korea and Japan who score an average of 105.
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I love the sarcasm of J.P.Sears. This is particularly good! I hope you will like it. Regards
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Claudius:
Thank you. Very good. Pity it is not on the BBC.
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If Lee Anderson would just learn to be quiet about poor people and people who need to need to use food banks then he might well make for a pretty good Home Secretary or even party leader and PM.
He really gets on the nerves of lefty, open borders supporting, globalist, anti-British, Daily Mirror ‘readers’ which is nearly always a plus point.
If I were him though he might find it useful to stop being on GB News in order to spend more time in his constituency which isn’t safe and is one of Labour’s prime target seats.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg should do likewise. Jacob only received about 50% of the vote last time. North East Somerset isn’t a rock solid safe Tory seat.
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Ha, ha, on the website reporting upon that criminal from East London there is a funny sarcastic comment about ‘diversity’.
Yes, mate, that criminal represents all the ‘cultural enrichment’ blah, blah, blah the loony-left Labour Party, Lib Dems, Greens and the increasingly absurd, lunatic fringe, globalist, anti-British libertarian and NON Conservative party ask us to celebrate along with them.
Leave me out of this weird fetish for celebrating our demise. I can see great dangers certainly in regards to law and order in turning everywhere in Britain into a replica of Soweto or East London, South Africa.
I wonder if a relative of that East London criminal will be in the ‘Tory’ cabinet soon? Well, they do have a strong tendency nowadays to fill it up with any old strays they find on the streets, don’t they?🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Hello Ian: You comment about Buenos Aires prompted me to look for a good video that may give you, and the readers of your blog, an idea of the grandeur of Buenos Aires; by that I mean from the architectural point of view, since the city, like the country, has decayed terribly over the last 30 years.
Still, the city has many, large suburbs which are very pretty and safe (particularly if we compare them with the crime infested large cities of Western Europe) Forget about the first two minutes because they are just snapshots. I shall point out some of them:
0.57: “La Torre de los Ingleses” (The Englishmen’s Tower) a present from GB to Argentina celebrating the 100th anniversary of Argentina’s Independence (9th July 1916)
1.36: The magnificent General Post Office building. Begun in 1890 and inaugurated in 1928
2.00 = 2.30: The magnificent National Congress. Begun in 1896 and inagurated in 1906
Later on, the video shows some panoramic views of some suburbs; these are:
3.10 = 3.40: Downtown, 9th of July Ave.
3.40 = 4.10: Recoleta (most elegant suburb of old Buenos Aires; sadly, the majority of the huge mansions of the neighbourhood were demolished between 1940 and 1970)
5.00 = 5.30: Retiro. Headquarters of Buenos Aires’s great train stations (built by the British between 1910-1914)
5.30 = 5.50: San Telmo, Buenos Aires’ oldest suburb. I do not like it, a bit of a tourist trap.
5.50 = 6.15: La Boca, the same as San Telmo but worse.
6.15 = 6.50: Belgrano, one of the largest and prettiest suburbs of Buenos Aires.
6.50: Puerto Madero. A crappy, awfully expensive new suburb created by recycling very old buildings, it is home to tasteless and brainless new-rich.
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Claudius:
Thank you. Will watch it with interest.
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I am sure you will like it. Today I also discovered an excellent YT channel created by a fellow Argentinian who makes beautiful videos, no music, no voice-over, occasionally with English subtitles. He has covered many suburbs unknown to the tourists and also some nice little towns in the countryside.
I will select a couple and send them to you; they are about 15-20 minutes long. Have a nice day.
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Claudius:
Thank you.
I did watch the first video. A large and impressive city. Seems to have a traffic problem, though.
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Good morning, Ian! Yes, BA has a traffic problem but it is not as bad as it seems; however, is going to become worse very soon as the idiotic and corrupt mayor of BA is building some useless “bus lanes” which are going to choke the wide avenues leading to the CBD.
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Claudius:
Overall, what is the best neighbourhood in which to live in BA?
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Hello Ian: A very difficult question. I do not believe there is a “best neighbourhood/suburb” in Buenos Aires because there are several beautiful/excellent ones. Let’s put it this way; there are two kinds of suburbs:
A) Those who consist mostly of high-rise buildings where most apartments/flats can be rather dark
B) Those leafy ones where the houses are large and semi or fully detached.
Of the nicest suburbs of Buenos Aires, two of them belong to the first category: Recoleta and Belgrano. Recoleta is the most elegant one, full of beautiful buildings in the French style, that is why BA was known as “the Paris of South America”
If you prefer leafy suburbs and houses you have four beautiful suburbs to choose from: A section of Belgrano known as “Belgrano R”, Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque and Caballito
I will send you some videos about them.
Regards
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Claudius:
Thank you, though I am not exactly in the market for them right now! Just curious.
I think I prefer leafy areas.
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Regarding the leafy suburbs that I recommend here are the average prices for 2- or 3-bedroom houses in excellent condition in those very nice suburbs:
Villa Devoto: U$S 370.000
Villa del Parque: U$S 300.000
Caballito: U$S 370.000
Belgrano “R”: U$S 450.000
I think they are a bargain compared with the UK; my wife used to live in a very nice suburb called Petts Wood in Orpington, she lived in a large 3-bedroom, fully detached house. Today I found that the average price of a house of that kind in that area is £700.000
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Hitler’s famed film director, Leni Riefenstahl, who was most famous for The Triumph of The Will, died in 2002 and lived to the grand old age of 101.
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Supposedly, a poll indicates all three forthcoming by-elections will be lost. Whilst a Lib Dem win in Somerton and Frome wouldn’t be surprising since they held the seat from 1997 to 2015 and a Labour win in Boris Idiot’s former constituency wouldn’t either the Tories really shouldn’t lose Selby and Ainsty because it is a rural seat with a vast Tory majority.
Labour need a huge swing to win there. If they do, it is basically Goodnight Vienna for this lot.
When, oh WHEN, are the Conservatives going to realise that libertarian globalism IS NOT popular and if they continue to pursue that philosophy they will lose election after election.
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Of course, if the Tories lose all three by-elections a major cause will be the ‘cost of living crisis’.
However, despite Labour wittering on and on and on about it and saying it is all the Tories fault a not inconsiderable element of it is due to energy price rises caused by the war in Ukraine that Labour are just as fervent advocates of helping Ukraine fight even though the conflict is looking like a lengthy quagmire akin to WW1 and its trenches.
What are Labour’s real plans to deal with the cost of living crisis that don’t involve prolonging it such as their support of Ukraine?
Also, some food inflation is being caused by trade frictions due to Brexit. I seem to remember Labour fully endorsing Boris’s rubbish deal!
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John:
Labour-label has no real strategy, just soundbites, though Starmer, Rachel Reeves etc are already “managing expectations” by making it obvious that they will be more “Tory” than the “Tories” in various ways.
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Yes, just bland soundbites and basically saying they are in favour of motherhood and apple pie. Well, duh, aren’t we all?🙄🙄🙄
All the people who think Labour, in government, are going to build a new Jerusalem and ‘things are only going to get better’ as that ever tiresome pop song in 1997 announcing the beginning of New Anti-British Labour’s reign had it are going to be rudely awakened within weeks.
We done that in 1997 so let us not replay that tired, old record. It didn’t work for anyone really then apart from the millions of immigrants vile so-called New Labour let in.
New Labour Tribute Act circa 1997 won’t work either.
Why don’t more people realise it is NOT illegal to vote? Don’t like the Tories? Fine! That doesn’t mean you have to vote Labour or at all!
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But NOT ‘more Tory than the Tories’ where it WOULD be of use ie getting seriously tough on criminals if not following the example of Singapore then, at least, similar to Japan or South Korea and tightening our very lax borders.
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