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I remain unsure as to whether Biden is making a philosophical point, or whether he is just confused. Hard to say. He really ought to retire.
Heartless monsters. Degenerates.
Not all the blame lies on one side, admittedly, but the historical blame, arising from the Jewish occupation of Palestine from, mainly, after the end of the Second World War, overshadows the whole situation.
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I have known a few, not many, Persians/Iranians in my life. One group was a family the head of which was a member of the Parliament in Iran under the Shah. When the Islamic Revolution happened, that man was hanged but his two sons were in London as students at Imperial College, living in a mansion flat in Little Venice bought for that purpose. Their mother was later allowed to join them. Exiles. I got to know them via a mutual friend when living in the same district of the capital.
I also became briefly acquainted, in 1976, before the Revolution, with two of the children of a wealthy Iranian/Persian family; I believe that, as with the first family, the family were large landowners. I saw a picture of their palatial house in some province or other, maybe Shiraz.
The children of that family were a young man whom I had met while travelling from London to Penzance by train one night (a First Class compartment but not a sleeper). He was a student (Architecture, I think, if memory serves), aged about the same as me (I was 19, I think).
Not long after, I was invited for an informal supper with the student and his sister, a charming young woman in her early twenties, who was working in Brighton as a nurse, I think. The family had bought two or maybe three bungalows in the same small close on the edge of that town so that various young family members could be together while in England. A young female cousin who lived across the way also attended.
I remember the evening partly because I arrived from London, and departed, on my motorbike, a Suzuki 250, and was able to use, for the first time, the then quite new M23, and which had almost no traffic at all in the mid/late evening. Hard to believe, today.
I lost touch with the student and his sister, and wonder what happened to them after the Revolution. I suppose that they too stayed on in the UK as exiles.
Over the years, I met the odd Iranian, and at one time (early 1980s) I was acquainted with an old fellow (as it then seemed), Edward Sykes (now long-deceased), who at one time, during WW2, had been sent to Teheran under diplomatic cover, but whose real job was to prepare to blow up and/or scout out the land for the sabotage of, numerous bridges, should German forces invade the country. Unlikely perhaps, but with the Wehrmacht already in the Caucasus and, on the other hand, in North Africa (menacing British-controlled Egypt and Palestine, and French-controlled Syria), not impossible.
Edward’s family was entangled with the Middle East. He lent me a massive two-volume large hardback copy of A History of Persia [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088418466] written by (I think) his father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sykes.
I have no idea whether it was another member of that family who formulated the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, which essentially carved up the Ottoman Empire, and thus the Middle and Near East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement. That Sykes was one Mark Sykes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes.
A common-enough surname, but the Middle and Near East (and especially Persian) linkages are telling. cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sykes_(writer), another Sykes with Persian, Arab, SAS and SOE links and experiences.
Edward Sykes met his wife (whose name, I regret, I cannot recall; maybe Judith…cannot remember for sure) when training at the military intelligence school set up in a former “hydro” (spa hotel) at Matlock, Derbyshire: https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/arts-and-culture/derbyshires-top-secret-story-of-military-intelligence-revealed-4396084.
See also https://www.paradata.org.uk/media/13643; and https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D6890&pos=730.
Edward’s wife was also there at Matlock, I think in the FANY [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Aid_Nursing_Yeomanry#Second_World_War]. She claimed that “he was a Captain, and I was washing the floors!” but in reality their backgrounds were, I apprehend, not dissimilar.
Anyway, Edward had a group of people from Surrey (I was in the first year of my law degree, and had moved for a while back to living with my parents at Reigate); those old people went trekking on public footpaths through woods and fields once a week, starting and finishing at a rural pub somewhere, the route meticulously planned out in advance. I think that most of those people had some kind of WW2 intelligence or connected background.
Those old people were tough! After the fairly long trek and lunchtime pub food (ploughman’s lunch, pint of beer), they were all still alert, but I always fell asleep in Edward’s car (he and his wife were neighbours of my parents) on the way back! A tough generation.
Edward told me that he had been tasked, during the War, with the kidnap of a high-ranking Iranian, General Zahedi, thought to be pro-German. This Edward accomplished by using the services of the then quite new SAS. The general was sent to Palestine in a plane.
The story is told on Wikipedia and in the memoirs of the egregious Fitzroy Maclean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlollah_Zahedi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlollah_Zahedi#Arrest_and_internment.
The story has a twist: later, that general’s son became, inter alia, Ambassador of the Shah in London, and invited Edward to a reception at the embassy, where he told Edward that his father had always said that he had not been badly treated in captivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Zahedi.
What strikes me, looking at some of the high-ranking military and naval people under the present regime in Iran, is that quite a few have strongly Aryan/European looks. Unsurprising in a way, in that the Aryan migration from Atlantis to ancient India then gradually ebbed back in influence from east to west: ancient India, ancient Persia, the Middle Eastern cultures, to Greece and Rome, and then to our Northern European culture, both during classical times and then, more particularly, since the 15thC and Renaissance.
There is also the point that some of the Persian aristocracy married German women in the 20thC. I know that another sister of that student I met on a train was a natural blonde.
My own direct connection to Iran has been less than slight— a 2-hour refuelling stopover in 1967, in the early hours at the then Teheran Airport, at the time a deserted and gloomy building with nothing much happening.
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So, instead of improving the Green Belt, and making it greener, Starmer’s pathetic “plan” is to build on it, creating inevitably-poor-quality housing developments, which will be occupied mainly by immigrants of various kinds. How do I know this? Because there are over a million arriving in the UK every single year now, and even if a couple of hundred thousand people leave (mostly Brits, fleeing to Australia, New Zealand etc), that still means that the population of the UK is increasing by half a million to a million every single year (almost entirely noin-European), despite the (white British) birthrate having fallen to an unprecedented low.
Immigration on the mass scale has to be stopped. If you like, make an exception for the odd brain surgeon or nuclear scientist, but that would be in the hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands.
The mass immigration to which the UK is now subject is unsustainable for several reasons. First, the very numbers; secondly, the fact that most of those coming in, not just the 5% or 10% on the “small boats”, are actually useless to the people of this country. There are further reasons as well.
True. The fact is that most MPs are either incompetent, or are corrupt, or are traitors to the future of the British people. Or all three.
London. Zoo.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/highly-dangerous-hackney-gang-brothers-29025155
“Four ‘highly dangerous’ Hackney gang members including three brothers and a fourth man have been jailed for a total of 75 years after firing machine guns and pistols and possessing crack cocaine and heroin. Three brothers, Ryan Gordon, 31, Ramela Gordon, 28, both of Lynmouth Road, and Jameal Gordon, 32, of no fixed abode, were jailed at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, April 17.
On March 14, 2020, the Gordon brothers discharged a number of rounds from the Uzi sub machine gun into a block of flats targeting an opposing gang. One of the bullets injured a member of the public passing by on their way home from work.
Officers used CCTV footage to connect the brothers to another incident where a self-loading pistol was fired in a heavily pedestrianised area of Homerton on May 21, 2020. A few days later, officers examined a block of flats in Lynmouth Road after a warrant was issued.“
[My London]
Imagine what London will be like in 2034 or 2044. Escape from New York? Something like that. Unless a real (social-national) government can seize power in the meantime.
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NWO/ZOG rubbish. There may be CIA funding somewhere (and so the pro-mass-immigration, Coudenhove-Kalergi bias): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico.
As for the scribbler, a know-nothing 20-something.
Well said. Few jobs are worth compromising for, even fewer worth the selling of the soul.
“Ukraine will soon receive new air defense systems , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes. Ministers at the Alliance-Ukraine meeting agreed to speed up aid deliveries to Kyiv, he added.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stated that Western weapons can still be supplied to Kiev and used in the fighting, but this will only prolong the conflict.“
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Ian Robert Millard 
Nice still mainly Tory areas like mine in Brentwood in Essex are obviously in the evil, globalist Labour Party’s sights to be ruined with our Green Belt built upon to house legions of new immigrants just so they can rig future elections even more in their favour as they did from 1997 to 2010 with their previous extremist open door immigration policies. The Green Belt for this part of the country is not a luxury we can do without it is a NECESSITY.
Mind you, saying that, it is the present fake Conservative Party that has given Labour credibility as an ‘alternative’ government when they should have none.
If only the Conservatives had been led by more traditional Conservatives like Sir John Hayes rather than the liberal globalist jokers like Cameron, Boris and the present incumbent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hayes_(British_politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentwood_and_Ongar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
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Posessing presumably quite large amounts of Class A drugs crack cocaine and heroin whilst also using a sub machine gun to fire upon others.
They should be thankful they live in a country where criminal activities aren’t taken all that seriously. If they lived in Singapore they could be executed via the hangman’s noose for not just dealing in drugs but even for using a gun and firing it in public.
Singapore’s ultra-tough drug laws are quite well known in other countries including here but very few are aware their gun laws are extremely strict as well and probably the world’s harshest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/topic/court
The criminal justice system there is very harsh and the country is noted for its authoritarianism. They use not just the death penalty but also caning (flogging) via the rattan cane and even fairly minor misdemeanours are subjected to fines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law_of_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Offences_Act
It is no wonder you can buy T Shirts as a tourist bearing the words ‘Singapore – It’s A Fine City’ when you see court reports like this:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dog-owner-fined-walking-without-a-leash-4260676
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John:
Yes. That news report says that tens of thousands of pounds worth of illegally-held drugs were found, concealed in the building.
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Having such an amount is not just for personal use but is used instead to deal and hook often vulnerable people on dangerous drugs where a few if not many will die of an overdose whilst others may well turn to committing crime often violent offences.
If Singapore’s capital punishment threshold amounts are arguably too low then the sort of quantities these miscreants were dealing in would be an appropriate threshold for capital punishment or, at least, a severe prison sentence of thirty years plus.
Reading online news stories of drug dealers in Britain it is clear that many have a marked and brazen contempt for the law considering the significant amounts of drugs they are dealing in so much more severe sentencing is in order with these huge quantities requiring many more years spent behind bars. A tiered sentencing regime is needed with larger amounts meaning the drug dealer being incarcerated for longer.
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John:
If someone has drugs “merely” for his own use, he does not need to possess (let alone open fire with) an Uzi submachinegun. Of course, the Uzi is a relatively compact weapon, and of sufficient weight to be a steady platform, though those idiots seem to have been reckless in using theirs.
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Many of the news stories I read online featuring drug dealers in the UK illustrate the results of the often overly lenient sentences these people get of less than ten years and often five or less. Not surprisingly, a lot of dealers sell in tens of kilos or more and why not? They have every right to take the micky and show their brazen contempt for the law when even if they deal in very significant quantities they are unlikely to get decently long prison sentences.
If Singapore is too harsh on drug dealers we are overly soft. Our drug dealing sentencing laws need to be considerably toughened-up.
The ‘Lone Star State’ of Texas, USA would be a good model to follow:
https://greenhousetreatment.com/texas-treatment/prison-sentencing/
Up to 99 years of imprisonment can be given to those who deal in sufficient quantities of the hardest drugs there.
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John:
I notice that that gang got about 10/11 years each, so out in about 5, maybe before, the judge having decided against giving an extended sentence (I think; I read it quickly).
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Simply not good enough. They should have received a sentence of at least twenty years plus. We need mandatory minimum sentencing for drug dealers and remove some discretion from judges in this way. Singapore has the death penalty for drug dealers. Many would say that is far too harsh but the government of Singapore’s reasoning for sentencing drug dealers to hang is that because drug dealers have a powerful incentive to deal in drugs ie making some quick and pretty easy money there needs to be a very strong deterrent to counteract that and that is execution.
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Be like Texas, USA! As a popular saying in the ‘Lone Star State’ goes, you ‘don’t mess with Texas’:
https://messenger-news.com/2018/02/17/palestine-man-sentenced-to-99-years-tdcj/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas
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https://messenger-news.com/2018/02/17/palestine-man-sentenced-99-years-tdcj
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Narcotics_Bureau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore)
https://www.cnb.gov.sg
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London has become an African city. I bet there are lots of criminal gangs like that one from Hackney.
Regarding your comment about the British MPs, I would say: ALL THREE!
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Sadly, London is becoming more like the worst inner city hellholes of the USA ie some parts of New York, Detroit, South Central Los Angeles with every passing day and with the crime rates to match.
London was once a centre of European civilisation and noted for its civility and law abiding nature. Not now! Tories and Labour have done more damage to the city than Hitler and the Kaiser ever managed to achieve and for that they must pay the ‘ultimate price’ ie death by long-drop hangings!
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