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Wait a minute.
After that first day in October 2023, which side has been doing the “murdering, mutilating, and burning”? (maybe not raping, I do not know).
As always, “they” see only their own hurt (whether actual or imagined). As someone once said, “they” can feel themselves to be the “victim” even as they beat you…
As for that specimen being interviewed— ghastly.
For me, and surely objectively, the idea that, after an admittedly egregious attack (by Hamas) lasting some hours, or one 24-hour period, the Israeli response has been “proportionate” or “self-defence” (killing or wounding, so far, about 100,000, mostly women and children, and young persons under-18), is almost mad. Completely disproportionate, and way beyond anything reasonably describable as “self-defence”.
The Hamas/Gazan side does not have planes, tanks, armoured personnel carriers, really powerful missiles, bombs etc.
After the initial one-day attack from Gaza in October 2023, and arguably a day or so later, nothing the Israeli side has done can possibly be called “proportionate” or “in self-defence“.
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Griffin is right, not least in saying that the clock is ticking in respect of the weapons being developed in, especially, Iran.
Actually, that is rather out of date. Today, closer to USD $6 BILLION.
UK academia is yet another Augean Stables situation…
Interesting. Whatever one may say about China in terms of human rights, animal welfare etc, its advancement since the 1980s, in technological and other areas, has been phenomenal. As a matter of fact, one could make a case that even in the animal welfare and human rights areas, there has been an improvement, overall, since the days of Mao.
The Chinese people, though alarming in a sense, being so numerous etc, are certainly one of the great peoples of the world.
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Good to see that some people put principles before money (or bribes).
Yes, he is…
Murray has backed the wrong horse, in the long term.
The Kiev regime is toast, or soon will be.
“NATO is preparing society for the Ukrainian conflict to escalate into a world war This is indicated by the fact that NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg is trying to link Ukraine with the Taiwan issue, writes the Global Times.
Moreover, the definition of the Ukrainian conflict is no longer limited to Europe. It is now seen as an indicator of a “wider global geopolitical conflict.”
Now the alliance is making it clear that its main goal is Russia, and China is a potential adversary. Against this background, Stoltenberg continues to promote the need to expand NATO, for which war is an external necessity.“
I hope not, but we of European or post-Aryan social nationalism must think beyond the present day to the future, and far future.
The present House of Lords is even more of a bad joke than the House of Commons. When it was mainly hereditary, it may have been pretty pathetic, as well as unjust and constituted in an entirely unfair manner, but it was at least mainly (real) British in membership.
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Pity there is no English translation, but the film does speak for itself, to a large extent.
Israel has done this. Israeli Jews have done this. Notwithstanding the arguably unwarranted attack by Hamas operatives on Israelis in October 2024, the behaviour of the Israeli Jews in Gaza —over 4 months now— once again goes far beyond what is acceptable.
Ukraine is a failed state, and pretty much a fake state. The part east of the Dnieper should be ceded now to Russia, together with Kiev and Odessa (unless they become “free cities”); also the Black Sea and Sea of Azov coastal regions. A rump Ukrainian state (not in the EU, and not in NATO) can be centred on Lvov.
There is no prospect of Putin and Russia advancing into Central, let alone Western Europe. Russia has no wish to rule all of Europe; it is no longer the old Soviet Union, and has no expansionist Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Britain would be mad to consider involvement in any war, let alone one against Russia, a power which possesses as many as 7,000 nuclear bombs and missiles.
The British Government, and its depleted and demoralized Army, Navy, and Air Force, cannot even protect the UK borders from migration-invasion— as many as 2,000 a day coming across the Channel, and several times that number coming in superficially legally.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello: I have to say I did not get the point of what that Indian was trying to make on “X” when comparing the Chinese and Indian train systems. What is very clear to me is that India (like Argentina) is a crappy country, hopelessly corrupt and condemned to chronic poverty. The liberal capitalistic system developed by Great Britain and the USA in the 19th century has become more cruel and ruthless within the last 40 years.
Does anyone remember the famous words pronounced by Michael Douglas/Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street”? He said: “Greed is good”.
The character of Gordon Gekko was not based on any one person, but rather on a composite of real-life financiers. Stanley Weiser, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oliver Stone, claimed that Gekko was partially based on corporate raider Carl Icahn, disgraced stock trader Ivan Boesky, and investor Michael Ovitz.
Does anyone notice the connection between the names of the three bastards mentioned above?
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Claudius:
I think that that tweeter was comparing China’s phenomenal programme of high-speed rail line construction with the Indian rail system, which is huge, but old (mostly built by the British in the 19th/20th centuries) and crowded.
India is not a country I know from personal experience, and I have only set foot there once— a few hours at New Delhi airport, when aged 10, in 1967. In those days you had to stop several times between London and Sydney. I think that our plane (Boeing-727) stopped at Athens, Teheran, New Delhi, Hong Kong, and Manila.
Having said that, I have read and seen on TV much about India, which after all was one of our colonies (until 1947). British train buffs love the Indian railways, but that nostalgia looks to the past; China’s rail programme looks to the future.
As to Gordon Gekko, yes, I saw that film. It did show the very great difference between the partly (not entirely, even today) Jewish-financial Wall Street area and associated Manhattan milieux, and the “real” or “other” New York which exists in the other boroughs. Something I well remember from 1989-93 when I was in New Jersey and New York City.
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I remember reading about something terrible and very odd that happened to Kutusov when he was fighting the Turks in the Crimea. He was shot through the head and miraculously survived, the bullet exited behind his right eye. Strangely enough, he is represented in some portraits as having a glass eye, but apparently, this was not true.
I believe he was a great leader and a better general than most people thought; in fact, many considered him an incompetent, particularly Alexander I who was a fool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kutuzov
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Hello again: Here is a very nice song (like most Russian songs) Of course I do not understand a word, but a Russian commentator (No. 6 in descending order) said that it has some cheeky sexual overtones (typical of most soldiers everywhere) Can you tell me if you noticed something like that. BTW, there are some wonderful scenes from “War & Peace” directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
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Claudius:
No, only parts; much of it is too idiomatic (and, of course, old) for me.
I have heard the song before. As the film clip shows, the song long predates the 20thC. I thought (may be wrong) that it is of Ukrainian origin. I see that the film clip shows both “Napoleon” and “Kutuzov” (in the carriage or sleigh).
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One of the main reasons, of course, why our young men and women have no desire to join the British armed forces is because they don’t wish to die or become severely injured for a country whose rulers obviously deem them worthless and surplus to requirements.
If your rulers are composed of anti-British Zionist fanatics like Rishi, the constantly lying about his real name Defence Secretary ( a member of a sinister Zionist group in his youth) or the potential misruler of totally dishonest, excretable, Zionist fanatic puppet Keir Starmer then why show any patriotic inclinations when they assuredly don’t?
Our misrulers hate us and only care about the quasi-fascist and genocidal state of Israel so no half-thinking young person wants to be put in harm’s way by joining the forces.
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Yes, one can respect the Chinese for their impressive development as a country particularly in an economic sense whilst still exercising a certain caution about them.
I don’t generally-speaking trust them and think they are quite devious and not trustworthy compared to Koreans and Japanese people.
India has the population to be an economic superpower like China does but Indians are not as high-up on world average IQ tables like the Chinese are.
As a result I can’t see India developing into an economic superpower.
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No, Simon Schama, people are NOT saying nasty things about ALL Jews ONLY those so devoid of common humanity and basic human decency they back the Zionist state regardless of its oppression of Palestinians and denial of their human rights.
Decent anti-Zionist Jews who oppose Israel’s vile behaviour are not being made victims of ‘anti-semitism’ apart from those who can’t understand the difference between being anti-Jewish and being anti-Zionist and whose fault is that? ZIONIST organisations like the so-called Campaign Against Anti-Semitism are constantly promoting the view that every Jew is required to support Israel 100% and intentionally castigate anyone with even the most mild criticism of Israel as an ‘anti-semite’.
They are playing a dangerous and irresponsible game.
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What about this ZIONIST hatred, Mr Schama?
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