Afternoon music
One of my favourite TV shows when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
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Seems to sum up everything about Britain in 2024: the environmental calamity, the nanny-state-ism, but also the historical ignorance. The lower Thames (in my meaning, the Thames below Reading, and especially below Kingston) was actually far dirtier in the past, in the 1950s, and back to the 1850s, perhaps even the 1750s.
Still, it is true that the rivers of England and Wales have been almost abandoned by this Government. Effluent and agricultural (farmers’) vandalistic fertilizer and other runoff going into the waters; and water itself being abstracted to service the needs of a UK population growing by 500,000-1,000,000 each year (by reason of mass migration and/or migration invasion).
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Another sentimental memory, this time from when I was about 6 years old.
Brilliantly-presented music and colour film from the 1930s.
Looking at the crowds, how sincerely and genuinely happy they look, as compared to (for example) the enforced jollity of the parades in the Soviet Union of the 1930s.
From the newspapers
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/it-worth-voting-labour
I do not agree with all of that article by ex-MP Emma Dent Coad in the rump Morning Star, above, but I do agree with some. Worth reading, though she fails to point out at least one possible reason why faux-radical Paul Mason got so angry when Labour’s Israel lobby was mentioned: Mason himself is partly Jewish, and also seems to be very pro-Israel, certainly opposing those he considers “antisemitic”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Early_life_and_education.
Looking ahead
It is all too easy to get distracted by the noise of the world, by short-term politics, by the daily news agenda, by personalities etc. We must try to look ahead, beyond the present year, the present decade; even beyond the present century and the present millennium.
I made such an attempt a few years ago, in 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.
My thesis, though complex in total, is simple in essence: humanity needs to make a quantum leap in evolution. In order for that to happen, there has to be a suitable demographic, ethnic basis. For me, that has to be the European peoples as a whole, particularly the Northern Europeans.
However, the European people(s) are not the end result, or the highest possible stage, but merely a base, also a transitional stage to higher evolution of consciousness.
It is a matter of concern that births and birth-rates to Europeans (including Russians and some other Slavs, the peoples of the far future) are falling quite fast now.
The above factor may be a sign of an impending civilizational catastrophe, but may also be more than merely a “crisis”; it may also be an opportunity for the European peoples to seize the world-historic initiative in terms of demographics. In other words, to start creating the basis of a basis for a future super-race, to put it that way; an advance on —and by— present-day humanity.
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As seen in that tweet, even some Jews, indeed even some Zionist pro-Israel Jews, find many of the members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) beyond the pale, so to speak. All the same, that ranting Jew politician was elected by Israeli voters. He is only expressing, in an extreme form, what is, at least arguably, the mainstream Israeli view in substance, though usually couched in a less extreme, less obviously violent way.
So far, the Israeli revenge attack on Gaza has killed 30,000-40,000 of the inhabitants, mostly women and children. The number grievously wounded must now be as many as 100,000.
Yet one sees Jews in the UK and elsewhere defend the Israeli actions (use of white phosphorus, use of famine as a weapon, flattening of huge areas of residential housing etc, use of drones and snipers killing families or lone unarmed civilians) as “defensive”, “justified“, “not genocide“, “not war crimes” etc. In effect, those (Jews and non-Jews) who support Israel, and who are tweeting support for Israel, are supporting those actions.
They are often the same ones whining and screaming that some child in London or wherever has chalked a swastika on a garage door or the side of a bus, and that that is a kind of “terrorism”, and that they feel “afraid” to go out of their houses. Pathetic.
As have many “Conservative” MPs. Britain’s immediate political problem in a nutshell— a special-interest group influences, and as good as controls, both main System parties.
Of course, I have no idea whether Paul Mason is or is not actually an agent of one or another secret government service, as many claim, but he has always struck me as being inherently unreliable, and not very trustworthy in any respect. That’s my honest opinion, anyway. Also, Mason is a little too enthusiastic about the idea of locking people up for their views…
Well, one of the comments on the blog (made allegedly by me) that “got me into trouble” over the past year or three referenced Jewish/Zionist/Israeli influence in the USA, and/or the mindset of many Americans who (influenced by TV, radio, and Press) blindly support the Israel lobby, so I had better not say too much here about “freedom” in the supposed “land of freedom”…
It’s strange…as recently as the 1970s, Britain had almost complete free speech on political, social, historical and other topics. What a contrast to today’s “iron fist in velvet glove” repression, abused by —mainly— the groups associated with the Jewish lobby and Israel; the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] etc.
https://twitter.com/Sprinterfactory/status/1773029417150750770
I think that, eventually, the huge defensive works undertaken by the Kiev-regime forces will lie abandoned by their former defenders. Already, the regime is using press-gangs to “recruit” soldiers, and is slowly running out of arms, ammunition, and other supplies.
[above, the “suspect”, a denizen of Britain’s wonderfully “diverse” multikulti society. Does anyone seriously think that a better society can ever develop when untermenschen of that sort inhabit the UK, or Europe generally? Indeed, can even our existing society be maintained?].
Even now, if I say or write something about how British society is steadily collapsing into chaotic dystopia, many will smugly smirk, “knowing better”. What will it take before those people start to listen, properly hear, then combine to do something about it all?
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Because the leaderships of both System parties follow the Coudenhove-Kalergi agenda: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Idealism-Kalergi-destroy-European/dp/1913057097.
Our society is going either to collapse or to explode; maybe both. That situation, either way, will see the best chance ever for social nationalism in the UK, and the best chance in Europe generally since Germany awoke in 1933, then plunged into defeat in 1945.
Starmer will be an unpopular PM, indeed an unpopular, if “elected”, quasi-dictator. I could say more but regular readers will know that I am restricted at present.
True but, as far as GE 2024 is concerned, the electorate will not be voting for Labour, they will be voting against the Conservative Party which has ruined so much over the past 14 years.
Both System parties are enemies of the people.
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What is ‘nanny statism’ exactly? How does one define it? It seems to be a perpetual Tory whinge for the most part. It shouldn’t be though since the Conservative Party is supposed to be a party not afraid of using the power of the state in certain circumstances.
Of course, the state can misuse its power and authority such as severely curtailing free speech and this present generation of so-called ‘Tories’ are fond of doing that in order to protect PC globalist values etc.
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John:
When the state, instead of providing necessary safeties and securities, goes beyond that to officiously regulate almost everything. Example: stopping healthy young men (and women), at the peak of their health and physical prowess, from taking a very quick (seconds not minutes) dip in the Thames after the Boat Race because of an admittedly potentially dangerous pathogen in small amounts (probably) in the river water.
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Well, Celia Richardson, all you have written in your tweet are laudable aims but they are very hard to achieve in practice in a country as overcrowded as this is and becoming ever more ludicrously so thanks to no effective immigration control since 1997.
This country could do with a ‘Right-wing’ Green Conservative Party to replace the leftist, PC globalist ‘Watermelon’ ie ‘Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside’ Green Party.
There is such a party in Germany called the Ecological Democratic Party (ODP) but they are very small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_Democratic_Party
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Anti-semitism is NOT automatically the same as Anti-Zionism. The Zionist entity and its leaders constantly use the Holocaust and this accusation of someone being ‘anti-semitic’ in order to deflect the world’s attention from the Zionist state’s repression of and brutality towards Palestinians. It has been a very successful tactic for Zionists but I think that now it is wearing thin with most of the globe’s inhabitants.
You can be a faithful adherent of Judaism and NOT be a Zionist.
https://torahjews.org
https://www.facebook.com/NetureiKarta2021
http://www.israelversusjudaism.org
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It really is about time that utterly gormless and idiotic Tory rags like the Daily Diana (Express), Daily Moron (Mail), Daily ‘There is no such thing as human caused climate change and electric cars are horrid inventions of pure evil and I want to dive under a duvet cover and hope they just go away’ Telegraph told their readers that TO BE A JEW DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT PERSON IS A ZIONIST AND A SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL and therefore someone who is critical of the Zionist state IS NOT NECESSARILY AGAINST JUDAISM AS A RELIGION OR JEWS AS PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW A 3,000 YEAR OLD FAITH.
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To automatically conflate Zionism with Judaism as they do constantly is not just inaccurate but highly irresponsible and dangerous.
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John:
The malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal claims that something like 95% of Jews in the UK support Israel.
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They would say that. The so-called ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’ is really a Zionist, pro-Israel extremist organisation that, in common with the Zionist state’s government and Zionists everywhere has an interest in calling everyone who is critical of the Zionist entity or against Zionism ‘anti-semitic’. That helps to create REAL ‘anti-semitism’ thus scaring Jews into moving to the Zionist entity and bolstering its claim to be ‘the Jewish state’ and helping it to survive and to becone stronger.
Zionists don’t really have a problem with what they call ‘anti-semitism’. It all helps their cause.
And if ordinary, non-Zionist or anti-Zionist Jews get hurt in the process then they don’t care.
https://torahjews.org/2023/03/14/the-business-of-anti-semitism
https://torahjews.org/updates
No doubt the ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’ adheres to the Zionist maxim of ‘There Is No Business Like [REDACTED] Business’.
Without often manipulated to come into existence ‘anti-semitism’ by Zionist groups like the ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’ would have little to exist for.
YES, REAL anti-semitism does exist in Britain but it is at very low levels compared to some countries and more or less died out in the 1950’s. Zionist groups should not cry wolf too often lest there should be a real explosion of genuine anti-semitism.
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What too many Jews seem to want is to be put onto a pedestal by society and be immune to being criticised. That is wrong and unjust. If we Gentiles do wrong towards them in their eyes they are entitled to be critical of us. It goes both ways.
NO group in society should be immune to criticism whether that is the less than 1% Jewish minority, we Gentiles, the unemployed/benefit claimants (and how many times are they singled out for attack much of it unfairly?), transexuals, bisexuals/homosexuals/lesbians, the wealthy/ultra-wealthy, the poor, trade unionists, the old/pensioners, the young.
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Britain is nearly entirely lawless under the self-proclaimed so-called ‘party of law and order’.
I am an advocate of tougher sentencing policies including the restoration of capital punishment, longer prison sentences in more austere jails and the building of more prison capacity, recruitment of more police officers, building more police stations etc.
We should consider the reintroduction of judicial corporal punishment as well. Yes, corporal punishment as in Singapore using the rattan cane is undoubtedly a harsh measure but at least those sentences don’t involve exactly the same human rights issues as executions obviously do. Flogging with a rattan cane or other instrument is a stern and painful punishment as it is designed to be but the criminal can still be rehabilitated whereas a dead executed prisoner can’t be! It isn’t an irreversible punishment like an execution is as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://www.corpun.com
https://www.corpun.com/rules2.htm#singapore
https://www.corpun.com/singfeat.htm
The old, Apartheid South Africa used to do a nice line in judicial corporal punishment as well and had their now spiralling crime rate under some form of control. Whites AND Blacks had some lived reality of public safety due to its use.
https://www.corpun.com./jcpza1.htm
Birching was used quite successfully in the British Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man until fairly recently:
https://www.corpun.com/manx.htm
Now, I am normally in favour of more lengthy prison sentences for criminals and if more prison capacity is needed to house increased prisoner numbers then so be it. However, it is true to say that incarcerating more and more people is expensive for the taxpayer and sometimes imprisoning people can do more harm than good (prisons are often called with some justification ‘universities of crime’) so using judicial corporal punishment without sending someone to prison may be better in some cases and cost less money for the taxpayer:
https://www.corpun.com/hawksley.htm
Ha, ha, even a Guardian reader has some good points to make about reintroducing judicial corporal punishment:
https://www.corpun.com/ukju9803.htm
https://www.corpun.com/wiki/counukj.htm
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
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One of the undoubted and best advantages of judicial corporal punishment as opposed to the death penalty is that not only does it offer the chance of rehabilitation to the criminal but that it is not an absolutist punishment ie a judge can vary the number of strokes according to the severity of the offence committed.
In the ‘law and order state’ of Singapore, the maximum number of strokes with the rattan cane is 24. You could increase that humanely by having a maximum of 48 strokes divided into two sessions with a couple of months rest in-between sessions so the criminal is afforded the opportunity to recover from the first session.
Now, I can’t say more fairly than that! Yours truely is a reasonable and humane chap!
https://en.wikipedia.org/Caning_in_Malaysia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Malaysia
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John:
48 strokes of a cane, wielded by some burly policeman or prison guard? “Humane” is not the first word that comes to my mind!
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Well, I will concede the point that the punishment is painful and is designed to be. If it was not then the deterrent and retributive value would be close to zero. 48 strokes would not be done all at once. There would be two separate sessions of 24 strokes divided by a few months thereby giving the criminal an opportunity to recover from the first session.
Still, one must look on the bright side here. Caning/flogging with the rattan cane IS painful BUT it is over with relatively quickly AND the criminal has a chance to be rehabilitated as he isn’t being killed as with the death penalty. His very existence on this planet is not being systematically ended!😃😃😃😃👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃
In comparison with capital punishment, judicial corporal punishment even of 48 strokes via the rattan cane is quite liberal!🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅👍👍👍👍
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John:
I think that *2* sessions would be more cruel, because the flogged would have weeks or months to fear the second session.
I am not naturally a cruel person, or usually even harsh. I prefer any necessary measures to be done swiftly and cleanly and, if possible, painlessly.
I am not convinced that corporal punishment is necessary or right. As for capital punishment, I still generally oppose it, though as you know, I allow myself wriggle room by distinguishing it from “executive action”…
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Caning/flogging doesn’t kill unlike capital punishment. The criminal is still being given the opportunity to live. What more do you want, man?🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍😅😅😅
Reintroducing judicial corporal punishment could be a good ‘half-way house’ for those members of the public who want to see tougher treatment of the criminal fraternity but are a bit squimish of killing them! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃😀😀😀😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
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It is strange how the British government allows an overseas territory of ours to have democracy yet they don’t trust the British people in the homeland itself to have it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bermundian_death_penalty_referendum
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The British government allowed Hong Kong to retain both hanging and judicial corporal punishment before it reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997:
https://www.corpun.com/hkju8901.htm
https://www.corpun.com/hkjur2.htm
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https://www.corpun.com/counukj.htm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_drug_trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_cannabis_trafficking
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/capital_punishment_for_drug_trafficking_essential_for_saving_more_lives_shanmugam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment
https://dynomight.net/death-penalty
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
A new Home Secretary for Britain is in order instead of PC globalist liberal, James Cleverly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayes(British_politician)
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Hello! I have just discovered this Portuguese composer who died very young (1897-1918). Very nice music (IMHO)
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Claudius:
Thank you. I had never heard of that composer.
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Interesting article about this weird “accident”. As the author says, things do not add up. Looking at the video you will notice how the bridge practically desintegrates as soon as the ship hits the pillar. It looks like a remake of Septenber 11, 2001
https://www.realnewsandhistory.com/anyt-03-27-24//
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Claudius:
What would be the motive?
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I do not know, but the whole thing does not make sense. I was told this morning that the ship´s steering broke (?) Still, why the hell did the captain not put the engines in reverse and drop anchor? Why the shipping company has not made a statement? Why we do not know the name of the company or the captain´s name?
Anyway, we are heading for Easter here. I do not know if you like Easter eggs (I don´t) but they are ridiculously expensive here. BTW, my wife told me that in the UK it has been decided to call them “gesture eggs” to avoid “offending” the Muslims. It does not surprise me at all. Sadly, your country has become a Neo-Marxist dystopia.
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Claudius:
As far as Easter eggs are concerned, naturally I liked them when I was maybe 10, or 5, years old. I am now indifferent, but like the fact that the tradition exists.
As to “gesture eggs”, I had not heard that. Easter eggs are currently being advertized as such, but I have just found this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68673505
Seems that it was something done by one outlet, a small chain, not Cadbury’s. Whether that small chain of shops is owned by Jews who disapprove of Easter, I have no idea; seems unlikely if based in Lincolnshire, a rural part of the UK. I just cannot say.
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The Tories will be crushed at the forthcoming inherently rigged ‘election’ not because the anti-British, globalist Labour Party represents any real alternative, has a coherent policy platform and is inspiring but because the Conservatives have disillusioned too many people naturally inclined to vote for them. Mass abstention by your normal supporters is deadly under any electoral system but is especially so under our very crude, unsophisticated First Past The Post one.
PC globalist libertarianism is NOT and NEVER will be a winning electoral formula for the Tories. They should have learnt that after their last disaster in 1997 but never did. This coming calamity might well be an existential defeat.
http://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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