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Saturday quiz
Well, a poor week. I scored only 3/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. I only knew, for sure, the answers to questions 3, 8, and 9. I also came close (was unsure) on questions 2, 6, and 7.
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Where is “Israel” though? Is it in the Middle East (only), or is it based as much in the USA, UK, France and around the world, but under cover?
The possible/probable all-out war, if and when it happens, will be very negative for all the people of the region.
One silver lining, though, is that, while US attention is focussed on the Middle East, Russian forces can continue to degrade the infrastructure of the Kiev regime, and press forward in Donetsk and elsewhere within the Ukrainian/Russian theatre.
“In 1947 Israel tried to kill President Truman.
In 1954 Israel bombed American interests in Egypt and tried framing the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 1965 Israel started stealing American nuclear materials.
In 1967 Israel bombed the USS Liberty killing 34 US servicemen .
In 2012 the Snowden documents showed that Israel was America’s top spy threat.
In 2017 an Israeli spy ring was uncovered in Washington DC.
Does this sound like our greatest ally to you?”
All that, and economic exploitation of the American people, destruction of European culture in the USA, control of the American mass media, and the suborning of almost all Congressmen and Senators.
Goodwin using the long-outdated “left”/”right” shorthand.
Goodwin, though worth reading, is yet part of the “controlled opposition”, like Farage, Reform UK etc. The “JQ” is key. Anyone who supports Israel and/or the Israel lobby (“Zionist lobby”, Jewish lobby) is suspect, automatically.
“I am a socialist, but a white man first” [Jack London]…
“14.88“…
ha ha!
Synchronicity?
That is like something out of the famous book The Morning of the Magicians [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians].
The infamous quotation of the once-notorious though now-forgotten Jewish fraud Bernie Cornfeld [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornfeld] comes to mind:
“If you sincerely want to be rich, don’t horse around with steel or light globes— work directly with money.” So typical…
Few now remember Cornfeld, or his vehicle, Investors’ Overseas Services, but it had a high profile in the late 1960s and very early 1970s. I myself recall seeing ads for it in the Daily Telegraph colour magazine in, I think, 1970.
Incidentally, those British newspapers’ colour magazines of the early 1970s were on a different level of quality vis a vis the weekend supplements seen today; that applied especially to the Daily Telegraph one, which I think came out on Fridays. Real reportage on matters of importance and/or interest, not recipes, makeup, gossip, chick-lit and similar rubbish.
While I do not agree with everything posted by that tweeter, David R. Morgan, his Twitter/X account is well worth a look and, for those with Twitter/X accounts (I myself was expelled in 2018 after a Jew-Zionist contrived mass-complaint, and I cannot be bothered to retrieve my lost account), well worth following.
Argentina
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/poverty-rate-argentina-milei
“Argentina’s poverty rate has soared to almost 53% in the first six months of Javier Milei’s presidency, offering the first hard evidence of how the far-right libertarian’s tough austerity measures are hitting the population.
Since taking office in December, the self-described “anarcho-capitalist” – who campaigned with a chainsaw in hand to symbolise the cuts he would make – has slashed public spending in an effort to tame chronic inflation and eliminate the budget deficit.
His administration has frozen pensions, reduced aid to soup kitchens, cut welfare programmes and stopped all public works projects. Tens of thousands of public employees have been fired, reduced energy and transportation subsidies have pushed costs up, and purchasing power has eroded.
Kirsten Sehnbruch, an expert on Latin America at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said she had never seen such a large jump in poverty rates. “This new economic programme is not protecting the poor,” she said. “The jump is absolutely horrendous.”
Milei’s cuts, however, have been cheered by markets, investors and the International Monetary Fund, to which Argentina owes $43bn. Monthly inflation has also decreased from about 26% in December to about 4% in June, where it has remained, although annual inflation still remains one of the highest in the world, exceeding 230%.
María Claudia Albornoz, a community worker from Santa Fe, said the government had “provoked a situation of desperation”. “We are feeling it in the fridge, empty and unplugged. Money is really worth absolutely nothing. We have three jobs and it is not enough,” she said.
While Milei’s popularity ratings have remained high, public support now appears to be waning. A survey published on Monday found a drop of almost 15% in September, the steepest fall during his nine-month administration. Recent polls have found that worries about inflation have been overtaken by fears of job loss and poverty.
Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, said that economic decline was inevitable when controlling inflation, and pointed to similar historic crises in Brazil and Bolivia, but questioned whether Milei’s changes will work.
“For a county that has historically prided itself on being a middle-class nation, this poverty rate is terribly painful,” Sabatini said.“
[The Guardian]
A political leader who loves, or pretends to love, Israel and Jews generally. Nein danke…
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The fact is that the “elected” (by 4 voters out of every 20 eligible and out of every 12 that voted) semi-dictatorship of freeloading Starmer and his cabal has absolutely nothing to offer the British people.
“...Hezbollah launched heavy rocket attacks on Israel The target is Jerusalem, and according to the testimony of residents of this city, strikes were recorded in several parts of the city, as well as in the suburbs. After a barrage of rockets, there was a power outage in almost all of Jerusalem.”
“Zelensky is delaying the conclusion of peace in a conflict he has already lost”.
“Now it is obvious that Ukraine is losing the conflict, and these diplomatic maneuvers in the UN are prolonging a war that has already been lost.
The Kiev regime is bleeding, while the Russian army is achieving success on all sectors of the front.
Nevertheless, Zelensky, with his militant rhetoric in the United States, guaranteed the Ukrainians the continuation of combat operations. actions ,” said Alexander Mercuris, a British expert.“
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Ian Robert Millard 
Milei is really deranged, in a visit to Europe in June he said that, if his reforms work out, he will probably receive the Nobel Prize for Economy (???) When he met Elon Musk in april he looked at him like a child meeting his favourite football player and said: “Thank you for all what you are doing for the world”. It is not a joke is on video. Pathetic!
Hundreds of thousands of Argentinians are using their savings to pay the bills and put food on the table because the salaries and pensions of most people are not enough to cover the monthly expenses; and those are the lucky ones who managed to save some thousands of dollars out of the sale of a small property or a settlement following a legal dispute.
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Claudius:
I do not know enough about Argentinian politics (in fact I admit that my knowledge about that is very limited) to say what might be the result of 50% or 60% of the population slipping below the official poverty level, but surely some kind of massive upheaval in the end (?).
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Your observation is quite logical; however:
A) We have a thoroughly corrupt political system where nobody cares for the welfare of the people or the country.
B) The politicians feel confident that no one will ever question them, therefore they carry on filling their pockets with impunity.
C) We do not even have a patriotic movement or party like REFORM, people are sceptical and very bitter about political parties.
That is why I do not believe there will be a popular uprising. Having said that it is not impossible and more than necessary…
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Claudius:
Perhaps a “man of Destiny” will arise in Argentina, as one did in Germany a century ago.
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Funny you mentioned a “man of Destiny”. In Argentina we had a weirdo named Benjamin Parravicini (1898-1974) who was an artist. He claimed he had visions which he later depicted in drawings together with strange, obscure comments. He called them “psychicgraphics”. One of his most famous “prophecies” was about “a grey man”, who would become a great leader, but he did not say if he would be good or bad. Some fools believe “the grey man” is Milei (LOL) I do not believe in any of those things, but many fools do.
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Claudius:
Milei may be many things but, from what I have seen, “grey” is not one of them!
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Rosie Duffield became an MP by her constituents voting for Labour, surely she should stand down now and allow the people to choose what they want.
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Her excuse will be that people voted for HER not her party and that would be a reasonable point to make as our archaic crap rubbish of First past the post voting is indeed a CANDIDATE-CENTERED electoral system in that you only get to cast one vote for a single candidate in one constituency.
Of course, in practice, people vote 90% plus of the time for the rosette colour of the candidate of the PARTY they favour and thus ignore who that person is which is why incompetent and moronically thick cretins like Patel in Witham get elected and gobby Nigerian loons on the make in North West Essex get into Parliament.
In modern and genuinely democratic counties like Germany and New Zealand you can ‘split ticket’ your TWO votes ie cast a vote as here in a FPTP constituency for the candidate you like the best and think would represent your geographical constituency in the most able way AND cast an explicit vote for your favourite PARTY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-Member_proportional_representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealand
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bundestag_constituencies
Ha, ha, that article above gives the LIE to Tory and Labour intentionally disingenuous MPs who say you can’t have Proportional Representation and still have local MPs.
Germany has single-member geographical FPTP constituencies just like we do but as that is only a part of their overall electoral system they also get FAIR votes ie Proportional Representation for their favourite parties as well.
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