Morning music
Tweets seen
https://twitter.com/arkansawbrah/status/1772152854729445573
There is a definite gulf between the older and younger generations (without defining the exact age boundaries too precisely). The older someone is, the more likely that that person will both watch and trust the TV news (in the UK, BBC, ITV, Sky, in that order), and will also take seriously the print newspapers, either in their original form or in their online offshoots.
I doubt whether anyone under 30, perhaps anyone under 40, actually buys print newspapers any more. I am 67, and have not bought a real newspaper for at least 20 years. Looking in the local Waitrose, I notice that the only people buying newspapers are those in their eighties, at a guess.
From over a month ago, but just noticed today.
Cuba
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-19/communist-cuba-is-on-the-brink-of-collapse
“Almost unnoticed amid the drama and crisis that hit Latin America every week, in the last days of February the Cuban government asked the United Nations for aid to address a growing food shortage.
The unprecedented cry for help from a communist regime that has always prided itself on its social welfare model captures Cuba’s dire economic straits. Hurt by tightened US restrictions, decaying domestic production, a weak post-Covid tourism industry and indifference from its allies, the island is living through its worst economic days since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. A string of blackouts brought people into the streets last weekend, shouting for “food and power” — a rare display of social unrest since the turmoil that shook the island in July 2021, which the regime contained with crushing force.
Once you get past the finger-pointing, what we’re witnessing is the collapse of Cuba’s socialist regime. This transition could take decades. Or it could happen in much the same way as that great Cuba aficionado Ernest Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy: “Gradually, then suddenly.”
[Bloomberg]
While I would not regard myself as “expert” on Cuba, I think that I probably know a bit more than the Average Joe. I once passed an exam in Cuban History 1940-1970, and have read the main histories, albeit long long ago (early 1980s).
I have never actually been there, though I have seen it from the air (overflying from Tampa, Florida to Grand Cayman) and sea (en route from Panama to the Bahamas); pace Sarah Palin, claiming to be informed about Russia because she had seen the extremity of Russian Federation territory from Alaska…
https://twitter.com/KufiyyaPS/status/1772003858027270346
Israeli war crimes continue.
“Character is destiny” [Heraclitus]
Or to put it in the language of a 1930s poster: “National Socialism, the political expression of our biological knowledge“…
However, Farage is not social-national; neither is Reform UK.
“Utter lunacy. The bottom line from all of the Russian sanctions is that the UK is poorer, with a tanking economic trajectory.
Meanwhile the Russians are coining it in, selling energy to the UK through 3rd and 4th parties. China, Russia and the BRICS Alliance nations are doing a roaring trade, fuelled by the sanctions and fossil fuels at record low prices for themselves.
These traitors need to be ousted.“
All true, but the little Indian money-juggler posing as Prime Minister either cannot see it or is following another agenda, one in which the interests of the British people are of little or no importance.
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Crowdfunder
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Ian Robert Millard 
More London Zoo:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13235921/two-men-guilty-murder-cody-fisher-boxing-day.html
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Utterly repulsive actions by total animals. Life is very cheap in the views of criminal scum like that. I wonder if there was a racial motive at work? That is what the PC Stazi ‘police’ would assume if the victim was black or asian and the assailant or assailants were white.
Time to reintroduce real deterrents and real punishments for scum who so casually think snuffing out the lives of others for so petty ‘reasons’ is in anyway acceptable behavior like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Belarus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_South_Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences_served
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Louisiana
The state of Louisiana has a new Republican governor who has made moves to add new methods for carrying out the ‘ultimate punishment’.
‘Gruesome Gertie’ might soon be in operation again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruesome_Gertie
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
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John:
Reading that newspaper report, what (as on previous similar occasions) is the almost subhuman cultural and educational level(s). The defendants were born and brought up in the UK, underwent 11 or 13 years of State education, and look at the result…
As to the racial aspect, many crimes committed in the UK by non-whites (esp. West Indians), and where the victims are English, i.e. white, people, are in part activated by a racial hostility, but the police/CPS rarely charge or can prove that. The same is true in the horrible new South Africa.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_South_Korea
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Large parts of ‘Britain’ already have crime rates approaching those of misgoverned ANC ruled South Africa. We will further descend down that road.
The old, National Party ruled Apartheid South Africa had its faults but the white government was a little bit successful in keeping crime rates under a semblance of control. They were harsh but that was needed. Now, the violent crime rate has exploded so much many black youths want hanging restored:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Capital_punishment_in_South_Africa
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John:
South Africans, at least the Afrikaaners, are or were a tough people, who emerged from a tough history. Some were too harsh on the blacks at times, but “apartheid South Africa” as it is now always called by the BBC, was basically a far better country than what now exists.
The “pass laws”, restricting black freedom of movement in certain areas, *were* harsh, but at the same time controlled what would have become (and now has become) uncontrolled crime by the black population.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_South_Africa
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https://www.corpun.com
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HennyPenny:
Thank you.
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Oops. I meant Birmingham Zoo.
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HennyPenny:
UK Urban Zoo?
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Yes, a ‘London Zoo’ that has spread to Birmingham and will engulf even ‘nice Tory areas’ eventually thanks to not just Labour but the posher and more undemocratic version of the Liberal Democrats otherwise called Britain’s ‘modern'(urgh!) Conservative Party.
14 wasted years of lefty PC globalist misgovernance!
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I do not believe anything connected with the “terrorist attack” in Russia. I even doubt it happened. If it happened it was orchestrated by Putin to have an excuse to eliminate figures of the opposition (real nationalists who, BTW have been persecuted for a long time) or to sell the people the idea that “Russia is under attack”.
As you know, I never neither believed the hypocritical rubbish promoted by the disgusting American and European press about the “evil, bloodthirsty tyrant” from the Kremlin. Putin is a far lesser evil, full stop. The great enemy of mankind is the Western world controlled by, among others, the WEF, George Soros, Bill, Gates, etc…
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Claudius:
I certainly agree with the second paragraph, though there are many grey areas, as always…
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It is a shame that the pro-hanging and anti-abortion Independent and former Tory MP for Blackpool South, Scott Benton, has resigned today and there will be a by-election there.
Labour are very likely to win such a marginal seat by default again. I wonder how far the Tory vote will collapse this time? More than a 50% decline? More than 60%?
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John:
Really? He always struck me as a nitwit, and was caught openly selling his services for cash.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool_South_(UK_Parliament_Constituency)
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That he sold services for cash should be condemned. That wasn’t right at all. What I am commending him for was his socially conservative pro-death penalty and anti-abortion stances. I wish there were more Tory MPs who held those views. Sadly, there is now one fewer.
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The unelected diminutive despot, budding Indian dictator and all round tosser with all the popular electoral appeal of Der Fuhrer turning-up at your average Bar Mitzvah party or someone letting off wind in a crowded lift is now planning to reduce our economic ties with a rising economic power ie China.
He was one of the prime cheerleaders for what most people now think was a disaster ie Brexshit, a big advocate of Russian sanctions and now this inane idea.
Just WHO are British companies meant to trade easily with and earn money for this country?
China may well be America’s prime enemy but they are not ours. Britain should not interfere in Chinese internal affairs. Our only criticisms of them should be about how they use repressive policies in our former colony of Hong Kong and to warn them against invading Taiwan but that is where it should end.
It is high time we stopped being the US colony we have been since Winston Churchill became PM in May 1940 and had our own foreign policies. America’s perceived deadly competitors and enemies are not necessarily ours.
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John:
The one thing that could now save the UK from the appallingly mismanaged Brexit situation would be to forge closer links with Russia, which would supply us with cheap, possibly even free energy, and which would be a tremendous market for British manufacture and produce.
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Yes. Russia has the largest population in Europe at around 140 million plus people. They are a large potential market for our goods and services. The alleged ‘party of business’ have put-up trade barriers for our companies in the EU, Russia with sanctions against them and now want to damage economic ties with China.
And all for what? Because the USA has always had a problem with Russia even before Putin and they are wary of China’s growing economic strength.
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