Afternoon music
From the newspapers
“Two supercar bandits who kidnapped a rich Lamborghini driver at gunpoint in Cheltenham and handcuffed a Ferrari owner’s lover in front of his terrified little son have been jailed for 27 years.
Esther Harrison, for Juwara, said her client had come to the UK via Africa and Europe. She added that he was living with his older brothers in Leeds and that his father lives in Spain.”
[Daily Mail]
Yet another example of the new “diversity” in our poor broken land…
We can expect even more of this sort of thing as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan takes greater hold: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
“A bank manager who was unfairly sacked for seeking advice on what to do if he heard a black person using the N-word at work has won a £490,000 payout.
Father-of-two Carl Borg-Neal, 59, from Andover, Hampshire, raised the question during a Lloyds Bank race education training session on July 16, 2021, but in doing so inadvertently used the word in full himself. He apologised immediately.
It left the woman leading the exercise apparently so ‘badly distressed’ that she had to take a week off – a ‘key reason’ for the decision to dismiss Mr Borg-Neal for gross misconduct.
This week, he was awarded almost £500,000 in damages. Added to Lloyds’s legal costs and tax, the bank has a bill of nearly £1million.
The payout is the culmination of a two-year battle to clear his name after working for the bank and its affiliates for 30 years.
He told The Telegraph: ‘I often wonder if I wasn’t a white middle-aged male would I have had to go through everything I went through. There is no way of telling. You are bottom of everything.’“
[Daily Mail]
Another example of the brainwashing that has accompanied the immigration-invasion of the past half-century or so.
Reading between the lines, it is pretty clear that the so called “diversity trainer” in the case was a black, probably West Indian.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/barbaric-abandoned-school-patients-teeth-31814954
“The Belchertown State School in Western Massachusetts, once described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘a hell hole,’ was a place of horror for its patients.
The school, which opened in 1922, housed around 700 students with mental health disorders and developmental disabilities…
…children naked, covered in urine, faeces, and food, with “maggots wriggling inside or crawling out of the infected ears of several helpless, profoundly r******d persons while they lay in their crib-beds.“
Reports suggest that many patients had their teeth removed by staff to make feeding easier.
In 1972, Judge Joseph Tauro of the Massachusetts District Court, unannounced, visited the school to verify Ricci’s accusations. He confirmed the awful conditions, even witnessing “a little girl drinking from a faeces-filled commode.” Tauro dubbed the facility “a hell hole”.”
[Daily Mirror]
Had that place been situated somewhere in Germany in the 1930s, we should still be hearing about it (and, of course, about the supposedly terrible “Nazis”) endlessly. In fact, situations such as Belcherwood were not uncommon in the West in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc; Belcherwood was as described at least until 1972, and closed only in 1992, albeit apparently after improvements had been made.
That place was not even in some poor state such as Mississippi, but in Massachusetts, the state so very proud of its liberal progressivist agendas.
History is rarely black-and-white, but many find that an uncomfortable idea.
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The Israeli state has a large and well-equipped army and air force, but for how long could it fight on two or three, or four, fronts, as well as combat armed insurrection within its own borders?
The Jew Shapps is of course a bad joke politically, though I concede that he has some way to go before he reaches the levels of lunacy displayed by former Defence Secretaries Ben Wallace and Gavin Williamson: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/02/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-gavin-williamson-story/.
To what extent is the deliberate erasure of a people’s history “cultural genocide” or similar? Admittedly, an awkward phrase.
“The New York Times writes: “The Ukrainian Patriot air defense systems are working: there are chilling explosions and rays of light. America’s air defense systems have allowed Ukraine to defend itself against Russian attacks, but Washington has warned that it will not be able to support Ukraine in this way for long.”
Powerful “protection” of the Patriot air defense system and “blazing explosions” can be achieved by destroying its launchers. The United States can produce several hundred missiles a year, and the number used and destroyed in Ukraine is many times greater.
The United States is overwhelmed by the destruction of valuable missiles and systems in Ukraine and is trying as much as possible to keep new Patriots from being delivered to Ukraine, but sooner or later they will have to make a choice.“
[New York Times]
As noted previously on this blog, the demographic aspect is the most important. Ukraine’s population is not reproducing itself. Millions of women and children have fled across the borders, hundreds of thousands of men have been killed, badly wounded, or captured on the front-lines. Many men have also fled from Ukraine in order to avoid military service. Relatively few Ukrainian babies are being born. All of that leaves Ukraine a (failed) state without much of a future.
While I can understand that many do not wish to vote for no-ideas, Israel-lobby, “Labour” under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc, it does surprise me that even 23% of the voters are apparently planning on voting for the surely totally discredited Conservative Party.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello! I found this little and rare pearl when I was looking for rare songs from the Third Reich. I am sure you will guess its origin (because it is NOT German) from the very first bars. I did not know that there was a German version of this very famous and popular song. BTW, the coloured images are also rare and very nice.
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Claudius:
Hello!
Thanks for that. Good film. I liked that slogan: “Mit dem Fuhrer zum Sieg!”…
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Good morning: A weird and rather comical story from London in the 1820s. The concept of a gentleman or respectable thief is fairly ridiculous but it existed in those days; at least for those thieves who considered themselves “respectable” or “gentlemen” (LOL)
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Claudius:
Thank you. As one of the comments mentions, slightly reminiscent of the E.W. Hornung character, Raffles, one of my favourite reads as a young teenager…
Raffles, though, was of later vintage, the late 1890s when active as “the gentleman cracksman”..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Raffles_(character)
Just as Raffles was elusive, so he has never, in my view, been portrayed successfully on film, despite many attempts.
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I agree with you about “Raffles” in the cinema. I remember you criticizing David Niven´s performance in the 1939 version. I have to say I agree with you but for me it was not Niven´s fault but the director´s.
I was amazed by the quantity of films based on this “gentleman thief”. The latest was a 2001 TV film with Nigel Havers in the role of Raffles. I shall try to watch it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Raffles_(character)
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Claudius:
What makes it hard to film convincingly is to capture the essence of that late-Victorian atmosphere. Raffles is, in a sense a fake, in that he sometimes steals from people he knows, or from people whose friends he knows, but he is not just a thief masquerading as a gentleman, he is a gentleman masquerading as a *completely honest* gentleman. There is an ambiguity.
Another literary character hard to film is Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton). I think that the problem there is to combine the fumbling, superficially unworldly but actually very observant and intelligent English Roman Catholic priest (relatively easy to act and film) with the deep Catholic Christianity of the character as written (hard to film convincingly). Likewise his mental landscape of “Christian archaeology” (cf. M.R. James), and his almost esoteric philosophy and hagiology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Brown
Also, the fact that detection of crime is secondary for Father Brown. He fishes for men not to have them arrested (primarily) but to “save their souls” from their own sins.
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