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Saturday quiz
A poor week. I scored only the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 3/10. I knew only the answers to questions 1, 2, and 5; had I thought a bit more, I should also have recalled no. 9 and no. 10.
Talking point
As David Starkey says, Starmer is (along with others and, particularly but not exclusively, in “the party formerly known as Labour”) attempting to institute a kind of “woke” and multikulti police state.
Where I differ from Starkey is in having no faith in the idea that a different ethos of national identity can suddenly emerge or be fostered, not without a homogenous population. The UK population is going the other way, becoming ever-more heterogenous, and spinning out of control.
I also differ from Starkey in that he thinks, or hopes, that, if he or someone else puts forward a reasoned and reasonable argument, eventually people will accept the propositions put forward. The credo of the traditional or classical academic.
All very well, as far as it goes, but Mao put forward the credo of Realpolitik, that is “political power comes out of the barrel of a gun“.
Not that that I agree wholeheartedly with that Maoist quotation either. The —by any other name— “revolution” in the DDR/East Germany in 1989 was not violent. There were vast, though peaceful, demonstrations in several major DDR cities (Dresden, Leipzig etc). The Lutheran Church was part of all that.
The East German state was still arresting some dissidents even in 1989, but the heart had gone. I recall the strange feeling I had when spending a couple of days in the DDR in 1988. Like a stage set of a state rather than a real one, an impression made stronger by the seemingly almost-depopulated southern parts of East Germany through which I travelled by car. I have blogged once or twice previously about my impressions of the place(s).
As a matter of fact, the slightly contrived “revolutions” of the late 1980s in Romania, Czechoslovakia etc were mainly non-violent, as they were in the pribaltika (Baltic states). I myself saw Czechoslovakia briefly in 1988, just before it all happened, and was in Poland several times in 1988 and 1989.
In Poland, even in 1988, one got the impression that the state there was going through the motions of being a “socialist” state but that, just under the surface, the whole population, pretty much, was “dissident” in one way or another; a kind of vast, non-violent anti-socialist conspiracy of a whole people.
Even in the Soviet Union, a huge “revolution” happened over several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly though not entirely peaceful, and including (as in Romania and elsewhere) many elements of the socialist-state structure.
Starkey is or was a Conservative, politically. He seems at least slightly taken with Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick. Why? The first is a Nigerian (though born in London) and so, in my opinion, unfitted by that fact alone to be a British political leader, let alone Prime Minister. I have, also, never heard anything worthwhile from her.
As to Jenrick, I have several problems with him too. He appears to be at least partly English, but his full provenance is not in the public domain; at least, I myself have never seen it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick#Early_life_and_non-political_career.
Born 1982, qualified late as solicitor, aged 26, but was in legal practice for only about 4 years (with two of the leading American law firms, sequentially; presumably quite junior), and was then (somehow; how?) a director of Christie’s auctioneers (though only until he became an MP a few months later).
Jenrick’s provenance interests me. It also disquiets.
Jenrick, yet another member of Conservative Friends of Israel, is tied up with Jewish businessmen and property-developer sharks, and pushed for the ruination of the small park by the Palace of Westminster by the proposed construction of a hugely-ugly “holocaust” “memorial” and propaganda centre.
In addition, Jenrick ordered, as minister for immigration, murals for children of migrant-invaders to be painted over because the colourful murals might give them pleasure and comfort.
No-one, I think, could accuse me of being either pro-immigration or in favour of granting privileges to migrant-invaders, but that mean-spirited targeting of any small children of such invaders by Jenrick felt morally wrong to me.
Like Starmer, Jenrick is married to a Jewish woman and has had children with her.
Jenrick just feels wrong to me. He’s a bad apple.
As to the Starkey interview, while I can agree with much of what he says there, he is too much in the ivory tower in the end.
Ironically, for someone “cancelled” by the System for making “racist” remarks, he seems to me insufficiently so. How does he imagine this country will recover in the way that he hopes when 20% of the population is already non-European, and with another ~million coming in every year at present? Make that, conservatively, about a 2% increase annually.
It seems to me that Starkey knows in his heart that I am right (even if, as is quite likely, he has never heard of me), but fears to say so; don’t forget that he “apologized” and tried to retract after he was “cancelled”. Never pretend to apologize to either the mob or to “them” (((them))).
The video is worth watching, though.
Further talking points
Good grief.
Listen to that “muppet” (on the second video clip), one Benjamin Butterworth. Complete idiot. Complete traitor to this country’s people and their future, too. Former (?) Chairman of Young Labour (in London). Scribbled a few times for the Guardian some years ago, apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-butterworth.
Poor thinking skills. Very poor, in fact. A fanatic, but one with nothing of interest to say. Claims that “legal immigrants” (the vast majority of all immigrants) all “come into the country with a job“. A straight lie. Huge numbers enter as supposed “fiances”, “fiancees”, “spouses”, “students”, “family members”, “asylum seekers” etc; and even those supposedly entering “with a job” (on work visas) are often not bona fide at all.
I fear that much of Starmer’s strongest support comes from semi-educated and anti-British fanatics of that sort.
I rather think that GB News had that Butterworth on because they knew that he would create a kind of petty storm among the discussion panel.
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Labour’s master-strategy for industrial peace: throw money at the (unionized) groups in society that shout the most (train drivers, junior doctors etc).
Tell me all about it…
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Interesting to note that the msm always applauds “resistance” (including violent “resistance”) in, for example, historically, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, and in various other parts of the world; in South America, even in contemporary North America and Europe, so long as Jews, non-whites, or sometimes Communist partisans, are doing the various forms of “protest”, but as soon as contemporary white people do the same, they must, apparently, be shut down, “cancelled”, even prosecuted and, indeed, even imprisoned. Not even because they have been violent, in fact. Look at Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a speech, Alison Chabloz, for singing satirical songs and posting cartoons; more recently, Sam Melia, for having published stickers the subject-matter of which was not even unlawful.
Remember “two-tier Keir” and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner being photographed literally “taking the knee” (bowing down before) the fraudulent “Black Lives Matter” nonsense?
Carol Vorderman thinks that Nigel Farage is a snake-oil salesman. Well, not much argument from me on that, but wait until La Vorderman discovers the truth about Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves etc…
Of course, the main reason that Farage recently distanced himself from the English protests, and especially their riotous offshoots, was because he does not want OFCOM to pressure GB News to cut off his work (and money).
Well, I certainly hear what tweeter Paul Embery is saying there, but look at the alternative— Kamala Harris, a hugely-ignorant non-white who will be but a figurehead while the “Deep State” around her, and really running the show, foments war with Russia, a war they think they can “win” but which —if it happens— will leave Europe, as well as North America and European Russia, in irradiated ruins.
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Dead men walking looting.
The only question is whether Putin will simply utilize conventional military methods to push the Kiev-regime forces out of that part of the Kursk region which they have recently invaded, or whether he will do something entirely unexpected by the Western msm, such as use very powerful bombs and missiles (even tactical nuclear ones) to blast clear the whole of the occupied area. There is an outside chance that he might even launch a massive air bombardment on Kharkov or even Kiev.
Whatever the Russian response is, the Kiev-regime forces will be unable to hold the recently-invaded territory. Zelensky himself has admitted as much, though saying that Kiev “is not interested” in doing so. If that is so, why invade that territory in the first place? Clearly, as a public relations exercise to keep Western arms and money flowing in.
Meanwhile, in the Donbass region to the south, Russian forces are steadily advancing at present. About a mile per day. Not spectacular, but the Kiev-regime forces, short of —most of all— soldiers, will have no chance of regaining those areas, or of stopping the Russian advance, all the more so now that some of the better Ukrainian detachments have been re-deployed to assist with the Kursk incursion.
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Life in remote Western Siberia
A simple and, in many respects, hard life. Not completely isolated, though. I see that they seem to have electricity (“Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“— Lenin) , and that their milk comes from a carton rather than from their one cow.
The old lady is cooking (I think) manti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(food)] or pelmeni [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmeni], foods quite similar inter se, and not dissimilar to ravioli. Cuisine is not really my forte, so I had better say no more. As for what she is frying, maybe cubes of bacon, maybe pork fat.
The old man is seen mending his fishing traps (there is a nearby small river).
Retired people in Russia now get a pension of about £200 a month. Not much (under Yeltsin, it was only about £25, and not always paid), but it must go quite far in a Siberian village. Milk, tea, bread, flour etc.
It occurs to me that, were the world to be hit by nuclear war, and depending on how severe that would be, people of that type might survive better than those who live, as most of us do, in Western (or Russian) cities, towns, suburbs, or partly-suburbanized countryside.
As someone once said of the Louisiana Cajuns living in and around the Mississippi Delta, “when the rest of the world is starving, these people will still be eating.”
Late tweets
Starmer-Labour is clueless. The time for a National Wealth Fund would have been in the 1970s and onward, using North Sea Oil revenues, but the System parties gave most of the benefit to oil companies and foreign speculators.
Again, clueless. Mad. Crazed. Would-be dictator Yvette Cooper, who is closer to her evil dream than ever before, is even more of a police-statist than Starmer. She must be stopped. Starmer must be stopped.
Where is real journalism in this country?
I mean by that, journalism that points out loudly and often that the Starmer-Labour regime was “elected” on the votes of only 33.7% of those who voted, i.e. a third of the actual voters, and only 20% (if that) of all eligible voters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results.
This government has no real popular mandate.
Already, people who have nothing to do with “terrorism” (even taking the term at face value) are being snooped upon and sometimes raided by the police, under (some of them) their new-ish Stasi-lite grand title of “the Anti-Terror Command”. I think that even the satirical singer and entertainer Alison Chabloz was arrested by them one day, several years ago.
“Wow. The tide is turning.
Is immigration good for UK economy? Good 31% Bad 40%
Is it positive/negative for public services? Positive 40% Negative 49%
Is it enriching/undermining UK’s cultural life? Enriching 30% Undermining 44%
Is it too high, too low, about right? Too high 66% Too low 4% About right 18%
Source: Opinium, tonight.
Starmer Labour’s extreme immigration policy is going to be REALLY unpopular. among the British people.”
https://mattgoodwin.org/p/why-labours-extreme-immigration-plan
The fake “Conservatives” had to be binned, and were not binned enough. Fake “Labour’s” turn now. Get rid of the System as a whole.
Terrible. I drove through, or very close to, that area in 2001 (having driven from the UK).
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Ian Robert Millard 
Here’s a lovely story, time out from all of the political misery and a reminder that most people are good people.
“Abandoned pony who followed the postman rescued from children’s playground”
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/abandoned-pony-who-followed-the-postman-rescued-from-childrens-playground-868376?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
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Thank you so much for posting that beautiful story! What an adorable horse! He will now have a loving forever home! We need more news like that!
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Regarding the man imprisoned. He “admitted publishing written material online to stir up racial hatred” during the recent protests. Not much of a case then if he admitted it.
The most interesting aspects of that case are
1/ O’Rourke is not an English name
2/ He was earning £1,400 per month from twitter
3/ Ian Miles Cheong lives in Singapore I believe, so not even in Europe. He seems to have been able to make a career out of being racist on Twitter, he is also very pro zionist.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/lincoln-keyboard-warrior-who-stirred-9489922
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Thank you very much for the information about that weird/unsavourt character who calls himself Ian Miles Cheong (I do not believe that is his real name, he looks a full-blooded Asian, Malaysian to be precise) I suppose you know quite a lot about him, however, this article from The Times of India may be of interest to you. I believe the fellow is just a cynical oportunist or a troll at the service of Isarel.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/who-is-ian-miles-cheong-meet-twitters-favourite-right-wing-commentator/articleshow/111606114.cms
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I just spent about an hour catching up on the last few days’ blog posts (I was away on a business trip).
It’s extremely disturbing how the “British” (((government))) is arresting and imprisoning British patriots for expressing even mild criticism of immigration.
Starmer’s (((intention))) is clearly to intimidate White people into silence long enough for the (((demographic replacement))) to be completed by Starmer’s (((evil masters))).
In my view, the best response is mass non-compliance with Starmer’s attempt to suppress free speech.
The (((government))) can’t arrest everyone.
Regarding a few other topics from previous days’ posts that I just caught up on:
-Trump: I waver back and forth on hoping that he will lose. If he loses, the Republican base will probably become even more angry, radicalized, and extreme. That of course is good since it will likely lead to MAGA supporters embracing social-nationalism.
On the other hand, if Trump loses, the Republican establishment will use that to discredit even the mild civic populism that Trump promotes.
The Republican establishment will use a Trump loss as their opportunity to re-take control over the Republican Party, and return the party to the Bush-era policies of (((globalism))) and (((open borders))) and (((liberal internationalism))).
A Trump defeat could lead to the Republican Party moving to the left, just as the Tory establishment in the UK used the 1997/2001/2005 defeats to install (((Cameron))) and turn the Tory Party into an aggressively cultural-marxist liberal party.
Something similar might happen to the Republican Party if Trump loses in November, although it will be harder for the (((elites))) to completely change the policies of the Republican Party, since Republican candidates are selected by voters in primary elections, unlike the UK Tory Party where candidates are selected by Tory Party (((insiders))).
As you can see from the above reasoning, there are potential opportunities for social-nationalism to grow after another Trump defeat, but there is also the danger of the liberals re-taking control of the Republican Party and returning the Party to Bush-style liberalism.
-Regarding a comment made by Claudius about Christianity, I think that it is unfair to say that Christianity is against nationalism.
The modern mainstream “woke” version of “Christianity” is a heavily twisted and corrupted ideology, which Christians from a century ago or even 50 years ago, would not even recognize as Christianity.
As a Christian and a believer in Jesus Christ, I realize that modern mainstream “Christianity” is basically cultural marxism with a “Christian” facade.
Christianity used to stand for and defend order and tradition and the existence of separate nation-states and nationalities.
The modern mainstream, corrupted version of “Christianity” is basically anarchist and bolshevik, and seeks to destroy the very things that traditional Christianity used to defend.
In the Bible, Jesus Christ WARNED that charlatans would take over “Christianity” and even deceive many “Christians.”
That is why Jesus told people to put their trust in Him ALONE, rather than in earthly “Christian” leaders.
Because I realize how corrupted and twisted mainstream modern “Christianity” has become, I put my faith ONLY in Jesus Christ ALONE, and NOT in earthly “Christian” leaders or institutions.
In the past, there have been many Christians who have been instrumental in nationalist movements.
Hitler of course frequently said that he was a believing Christian, and there are plenty of other examples too, such as Mussolini.
There have also been plenty of Christian clergy who have been instrumental in nationalist movements.
For example, the Catholic priest Jozef Tiso, who was the leader of fascist Slovakia during World War 2.
Another example is Father Charles Coughlin, who warned Americans about the evil plans of the (((REDACTEDS))), and was persecuted and his radio show was cancelled.
Another example, from the Lutheran Church, is Elias Simojoki, who was one of the most prominent people in Finland’s social-national movement during the 1920s and 1930s. Simojoki was killed in action during World War 2 while serving as a chaplain in the Finnish Army.
Claudius, as an Argentine, you might be interested in the Argentine priest Julio Meinvielle, who had a substantial role in the Argentine far-right and was an intellectual influence on various Argentine nationalist groups.
These are just a few examples of Christians who had important roles in nationalist movements/organizations.
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Friend of Britain:
Greetings. I trust that your “kommandirovka” (business trip) went well.
Thank you for the historical details, some of which were new to me.
I agree with you about Starmer’s upcoming police state (attempt).
As for Christianity, it covers a spectrum as wide as “socialism” or, indeed, “democracy”
I attempted a brief overview of the concept of “democracy” some years ago on the blog:
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Hello! Welcome back!
I am familiar with the figure of Father Julio Menvielle, who was a mentor of a very dear friend of mine. He was a very good man. The main problem is that all Christian churches became infiltrated by (((the usual suspects))) and concentrated their efforts on preaching the new gospel of the XXI century: Neo-Bolshevism (a.k.a. “Wokeism”). I
The undeniable fact that there were hundreds of thousands of fervent Christians who fought for Hitler or Mussolini was because all of them considered themselves first anti-Communist fighters and second Christians. Many members of the Catholic church were very aware of the mortal danger represented by the Soviet Union. I wish we had that kind of Christians today! Sadly 90% of Christians are now pro-LGBT, pro-immigration, etc, etc, etc…
Anyway, this is part of a long process of decadence that Oswald Spengler saw coming a long time ago. Having said that, in his incredible (and inexcusable) short-sightedness Spengler did not recognise the colossal role played by (((the usual suspects))) and that is a big mark against him.
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A friend of mine reminded me that 37 years ago, on this day (17th August) Rudol Hess was murdered by (((MI6))). Here is a transcript of his magnificent last words to the judges at Nüremberg:
“For many years of my life I was able to work for the greatest son my people have ever produced in their thousand-year history. Even if I wanted to, I could not erase this period of my existence. I am happy to know that I have fulfilled my duty to my people; my duty as a German; as a National Socialist; as a loyal follower of my Führer. I regret nothing. If I had to start over, I would act as I have acted, even if I knew that a fiery death at the stake awaited me in the end. No matter what men do to me, one day I will stand before the throne of the Eternal Judge. I will bear responsibility before him and I know that he will declare me innocent.”
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Claudius:
If only all NS-oriented and NS-allied people had both the eloquence and the courage to make such a statement when hauled before the courts of the System.
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Indeed… The moment those people cowardly apologise for their supposed “crimes” they destroyed everything good that they might have done. I know it is not easy but once you have crossed the line and chosen a side you must be ready to fight till the end without giving or expecting quarter.
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