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“The rise of ‘woke‘ thought and digital currencies are among the warning signs that Western civilization could be about to collapse, said investor and expert Doug Casey.
Casey’s book ‘Crisis Investing’ topped the New York Times nonfiction chart, focusing on the looming crisis facing Western civilization.
In subsequent books and podcast interviews, the veteran speculator has focused on signs that he sees as warnings, based on his study of historical events such as the fall of Ancient Rome.
The rise of ‘woke‘ thought and digital currencies are among the warning signs that Western civilization could be about to collapse, said investor and expert Doug Casey.
He told DailyMail.com that there are now seven clear signs that he believes show that Western civilization is facing an end.“
[Daily Mail]
Worth looking at.
There is one factor which dominates in the UK, which is the fact that “nothing works properly any more“. I started noting it on the blog years ago, and noticed (after a couple of years) some msm outlets saying the same.
Part of the decline in services and standards is, of course, caused by the migration invasion, meaning both the strain put on all services and facilities by the extra numbers and the nature (i.e. poor quality) of those entering the UK.
Then there is the decline in real education (not meaningless “degree” diplomas handed out like confetti).
The repression on free speech is another major factor.
The box-ticking culture in administration as well, combined with the “Common Purpose” and allied cancers.
When Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP took power, they were initially voted for, in 1932, by 33% of the people, which grew to 44% in 1933, yet the NSDAP vote had been only 2.6% in 1928. Quite an upsurge in only 4-5 years.
The reasons given for the upsurge in support for the NSDAP have been examined by many. The Great Depression in the USA, which spread around the world, was of course key.
The Jewish influence too, but that, after all, had existed for a long time in Germany, and had been especially prevalent after the defeat of 1918. The NSDAP had spoken against it for over a decade without, at first, having gained much traction.
There were other factors as well, but I think that what clinched Hitler’s triumph was the perception that things generally, in all areas, were not working properly.
The same was obviously true in the Russian Empire in 1917, after at least two lost wars, and with the ruling cliques of the Empire mired in corruption and scandal. Russia as a state was not working for the people in any way whatsoever.
Reverting to the UK in 2024, not so dramatic, true, but there has been a slow-motion train crash going on for the past ~25 years. It becomes hard to ignore the fact that the UK, in many ways, is now ceasing to work properly.
Government must, above all else, function.
Deadhead MPs and ministers, repression on free speech, official policies seemingly designed not to work (mass immigration, migration invasion, energy, foreign policy, NHS, social security etc), and the fact that ordinary everyday life becomes a tangled mess by reason of the pointless hoops that have to be jumped through: you name it— NHS appointments, and medical care in general; parking a car; getting through to anyone who can help with any given problem, whether at commercial enterprises, in local government, central government, or wherever.
The UK’s voters are tiring of the existing mess, and may be inclined to clutch at the Reform UK straw, in the short-to-medium term, but later, after 2029, may support a truly radical social-national alternative, which may exist by then.
If not, then “le deluge“… It will then be a matter of taking to the lifeboats.
There emerges an uneasy feeling that our present world system is not going to be around for much longer, the way things are internationally.
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“Daria Platonova Dugina — A Theory of Europe: A View of the New Right.
In a world increasingly levelled by homogenisation, Daria Platonova Dugina retrieves the vibrancy of European culture by delving into the intellectual renaissance of the French New Right.
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Through a “Gramscianism from the Right” approach, she analyses how the New Right’s critique of universalist ideologies and its visions of civilisational revival present a cultural counter-hegemony that values rootedness and organic community over the globalist paradigm.
In this unique collection of lectures, essays, and interviews, Dugina highlights the complex intersections of New Right thought with currents like National Bolshevism and Eurasianism, investigating the philosophical and geopolitical frontlines of the fracturing world order.
Dugina takes readers on a far-reaching journey beyond the standard ideological spectrum, inviting a deeper understanding of identity politics in the contemporary age.
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Daria ‘Platonova’ Dugina (1992–2022) was a Russian philosopher, political analyst, journalist, and artist. Dugina studied philosophy at Moscow State University and Bordeaux Montaigne University, specialising in Plato and Neoplatonism. The daughter of Alexander Dugin, she was an active member of the International Eurasian Movement and collaborated with the French New Right. Her life was tragically cut short by a car bomb on the night of 20 August 2022.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darya_Dugina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
Not that I think highly of everything Dugin himself says or writes. His views are sometimes risibly simplistic, even puerile. Certainly not always, but sometimes, especially when it comes down to concrete realities and facts.
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I rarely if ever repost anything by the above tweeter (the ex-wife of a former Conservative-Party MP), but (with the exception of “stable inheritance“) this has to be right. “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” is a joke, a bad joke, a very unpleasant Labour Friends of Israel joke.
“That AIPAC purchased the seats of about 90% or more of our current congress.
JFK famously wanted them registered as a foreign agent right before he was shot and thus they changed their name and never registered.
Why are we letting a foreign lobby buy off our congress?
That Israel was obviously the state sponsor of Jefrey Epstein, whose handler was Ehud Barak, ex head of Israeli military intelligence, his funding was Les Wexner one of the worlds richest Zionist ‘philanthropists’ and he was accused by ex Mossad assets of being Mossad.
Not to mention the Maxwell connection. (They had blackmail on Clinton, and many, many more.) He who holds the blackmail holds the leash- just ask J. Edgar Hoover.
That Israel is the only nation who has a defacto sanctioned, yet actually secret and unsanctioned nuclear program. A program that they stole from the United States- look into the Apollo affair, NUMEC, the Dimona nuclear facility.
That jews, muslims, and christians lived side by side in peace in Palestine before the Rothschilds purchased the country from Britain during WW1 (see the Balfour declaration) and began their colonial program.
That the groups that founded Israel, Lehi, Irgun, and Hagannah, were declared terrorist organizations by Israel itself because their tactics were so deplorable (bombing British and Palestinian civilians) yet these three ‘paramilitary’ groups rebranded to form the IDF and their leadership became the leadership of Israel for the following thirty plus years.
That Israel is a foreign nation halfway across the world that has no business receiving my tax dollars. Why are we sending them billions of dollars of our tax money while our country burns, is overrun by illegal immigration, etc?
We are told Israel is our ‘greatest ally’ so why would they have had a massive spy network targeting US government agencies leading up to sep 11, 2001 – see the Israeli art students DEA report for copious evidence of Israeli surveillance all across the continental US.
This is an official government report that cites hundreds of incidents of observed Israeli surveillance teams documented by US government agents all across the continental US. And we still have received 0 answers why there were numerous fake Israeli moving companies positioned all across the eastern seaboard leading into September 11, 2001 and we have multiple eye witness reports, as well as hard photographic evidence that they knew the attacks were coming at least a day before they did and that they were positioned at a vantage point to photograph the attack up to a half hour before the first plane hit. Never got any answers- but you can read the official FBI reports about the incident. I’ve broken them down live on X before.
That’s just a small list of some of the best documented reasons why I, as an American, dont want Israel receiving any of my tax dollars. And I didn’t even mention my obvious objections to the collective punishment, mass surveillance, forced starvation, bombing of refugee camps, brutal murdering of women and children that’s been going on in Gaza and the West Bank for years, decades- which you can watch in graphic detail right here on X.
And that’s not to mention that somehow we let congress pass laws outlawing ‘antisemitic’ speech, despite our own first amendment. And we have anti-boycott legislation in multiple states, despite the fact that it’s perfectly legal to boycott American companies… just not Israeli ones.
Every content creator knows the fastest way to get demonetized, banned, and slandered is to be critical of Israel. I figured you would have realized this too after what they did to you and tried to do to X last year.”
[Ian Carroll, replying to a tweet by Elon Musk]
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Disappearing England
“Fuming locals have raged at a council planning to build thousands of homes on green belt surrounding one of England’s oldest market towns.
St Albans Council sent its proposal to use land including 800 hectares of green belt to build 15,000 homes by 2041 to Labour’s Planning Inspectorate at the end of 2024.
Homeowners in the area slammed the ‘diabolical’ plan by developers who ‘don’t give a s***’ to destroy the countryside and said the extra homes would put local services under unbearable strain.”
[Daily Mail]
Very sad. Mainly caused by mass immigration. That, and profiteering by both farmers (selling land— look at the report; ONE FIELD sold for £38M!) and housebuilding companies.
As for housebuilders building tracts of housing and then refusing to adhere to agreements guaranteeing services (roads, parks, shops etc), if they do that, their precious “developments” should be blown up by the State, then rewilded; the companies should also be fined, very heavily. The directors should then be put to hard labour.
I used to spend occasional weekends at Sopwell House, which is walking distance from St. Albans. That was back in the early/mid 1990s, 30 years ago (incredible, to me).
Britain is slowly (?) becoming a multikulti slum where nothing works, and from where every English/white person wants to escape, either to the relatively few areas of the country unaffected by the spreading floods of ghastly ugly new housing —and immigration—, or overseas. Somewhere. Anywhere.
There are even TV shows called Escape to...
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Africa should be under European rule.
Birmingham. Zoo.
If Britain had a real government, the police would shoot them down in the street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Davies_(politician).
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello. It seems we are in rather somber mood today. Yes, I know, “somber” is American, but it makes more sense than “sombre”! When are you Brits going to learn to speak/spell properly? LOL
Funny enough here are a couple of videos made by an Englishman living in the USA that debunks commonly held myths about things most of us believe are American or British but they are not. I have to say I did not get ANY of them right! What an ignoramus! LOL
I hope you and some readers will let me know which ones did you know.
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Claudius:
Thank you.
Did not know that Bounty bars were, albeit under other names, American by origin. I also thought, it seems mistakenly, that the teabag was invented by the Jewish caterer, Lyons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co.
Amazing what one often does *not* know about everyday items, eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_coffee
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Hello Ian: I agree, I was very much surprised to discover (thanks to you) that instant coffee was invented in 1890 by a New Zealander. I thought it was invented around 1930-35. Having said that instant coffee, even the expensive ones (Nescafé Gold Blend), is a mediocre product that has nothing to do with the real thing. No wonder Italy is the country with the lowest figures for instant coffee consumption!
BTW, I have just discovered I have been robbed! I paid the equivalent of £ 13.60 for 100grs. of Nescafe Gold Blend, the same product in the UK costs £ 4.00 What a f… country! 🤬🤬🤬
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Claudius:
I am surprised. After all, “there’s an awful lot of coffee in Brazil” (though that is far from you, of course). I suppose the level of the Argentine currency is to blame for those high prices on imported goods.
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So even a Jew or Jewish sympathiser who might be a pro-Israel Zionist fanatic agrees that Rachel Reeves is no good and appears to have little understanding of economics. I, like you, do disagree with the notion of ‘stable inheritance’. The Tories left a right old mess not that this would be surprising when they had gormless, bigoted cretins like George Gideon Oliver Osbourne as Chancellor in the Treasury during their misrule.
In contrast, Bliar inherited a fairly decent economy in 1997. The economy had been growing quite well under Chancellor Kenneth Clarke.
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John:
The tweeter in question was the wife, now divorced, of the former MP for Poole, who lost his seat last year. Long before that, Cameron-Levita sacked him as a Whip, resulting in a torrent of outrage from her:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/07/reshuffle-tory-whip-twitter-fury
She herself was her husband’s assistant (paid for via his expenses, of course) for many years.
She recently tweeted:
“I was a Tory “to my boots” until I suddenly just wasn’t and couldn’t do it any more after years of nonsense and a totally avoidable rout. And members are very much to blame for Badenoch, as are the grey-beards who talked up a patently crap product and insulted those who’ve never liked her politics or frankly very weird vibes. Many of those MPs who survived – and they didn’t deserve to having made every wrong call for years – remain why the party is hated but the membership backed Johnson, Truss and Badenoch and they routed us. 1/3 of the membership remains vaguely sane and thoroughly depressed.”
She was an independent Parliamentary candidate for the seat of Richmond Park at the 2016 by-election, but came 5th out of 8 candidates, just behind the Monster Raving Loony, and with 0.4% of the vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s
Pro-immigration, and says that she is “a moderate”…
I believe that she enjoys a drink.
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Pro immigration! Well, is that not the crux of the problem with the fake Conservative Party and heavily explains their crushing defeat in July last year. Also, WHAT ON EARTH were their members thinking of endorsing Kemi Badenoch for the leadership? She is symbolic of everything that is wrong with the party. At least the tweeter aknowledges that huge error. The other contender in the recent leadership election, Robert Jenrick, was not ideal but I think he would have made a better leader not least for the fact he is a more experienced parliamentarian having been in the House of Commons for a little while longer.
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Will Starmer be getting to the bottom of this?
Why were Reeves and Rayner amongst others following the newly arrested Ivor Caplin, when his timeline regularly featured posts like this below?
Not only are the pics disgusting but Caplin’s comments are scandalous.
It was the JLM conference today, Caplin used to be chair. I wonder what the mood was like?
https://x.com/ivorcaplin/status/1873722476569809158
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Yes, building over the Green Belt mainly due to mass immigration although there are some other factors at work as well such as more people living alone. The anti-family and pro mass immigration policies of successive misgovernments have a lot to answer for. Cameron LIED when he said he would lower immigration numbers in 2010. Being an Old Etonian, snobby, globalist liberal he had no intention of doing that along with his similar snobby liberal globalist Chancellor of The Exchequer, George Gideon Oliver Osbourne. It was just another political ruse aimed at stopping people from voting BNP and UKIP.
It is an utter disgrace that we are losing our Green Belts. They are NOT a luxury we can do without but a vital means of protecting the historic settings of various towns, preventing towns from merging into one another ect and as the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) rightly says providing ‘our countryside next door’.
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John:
Criminal damage to a shopfront or, in olden days, to a telephone box, might result in the criminal getting a fine, slave labour for a week or two or, in extreme cases, imprisonment. What then should be the penalty for those politicians, local authority nitwits or bribed councillors, and greedy builders and farmers, who destroy vast swathes of green England?
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Very lengthy prison sentences of 30 years plus. Destroying the much needed Green Belt is a horrific crime in itself but is made more so by the fact developers are allowed to build ugly monstrosities with little to no architectural merit. There are some houses near me in Basildon which look as though they were designed by a particularly exuberant and boisterous five year old kid let loose with a crayon. It appears there is a real dearth of quality architects in Britain and this is yet another thing we can’t get right nowadays.
https://www.cpre.org.uk
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John:
There is a real problem with architects in the UK. You see quite interesting small new buildings in France but in the UK almost all horribly ugly ones. Applies especially to mass housing. Either very unpleasant-looking developments of a modern type or, more frequently and often worse, “traditional” designs with not the slightest suggestion of any creativity, popped out by the thousand.
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Green Belts preventing endless urban sprawl eg that of London being just one example and providing leisure opportunities for people to get out into the fresh air and walk their dogs etc have been this country’s most successful spatial planning policy. They are still very much needed today. People need some countryside near by them instead of travelling as they would have to do otherwise to a National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Green Belts can also help us to reduce our extreme reliance upon foreign food imports thereby increasing food security and tackle climate change.
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The Labour Party’s profound ignorance on the subject of Green Belts no doubt at least partially is due to the fact their MPs are few and far between representing these areas in parliament. This is yet another problem that can be laid at the door of the crazy, irrational, lottery like, unrepresentative, decades out of date, unfit for purpose, stand alone First Past The Post electoral system.
Labour still gets plenty of votes in these parts of the country but very few MPs to show for it because our electoral system is based ENTIRELY upon single-member ie one MP per seat relatively small geographical constituencies.
The Conservative Party is also pretty ignorant about the problems various ex industrial seats in the North of England have for much the same reason.
Using a fairer electoral system of Proportional Representation/fair votes will ensure that there are Tory MPs representing these areas and Labour MPs representing Green Belt areas.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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The complicity of the authorities (police, MPs, government ministers, social workers, council officials, journalists, etc) in ignoring and covering up the mass rapes is nothing less than genocide and high treason.
British White patriots should be making lists of the traitors, in anticipation of the day when the Pro-White movement wins power, and EVERYONE who turned a blind eye to the rapes, covered up the rapes, blocked inquiries into the rapes, accused truth-tellers of being “racist”, ignored the rapes, etc, should be arrested for genocide and high treason, and put on trial.
Furthermore, the existing British elite should be replaced by a new Pro-White elite.
As I have mentioned before, the existing British elite is totally treasonous and cowardly.
As Claudius concisely put it: to the existing British elite, race means nothing and money/status means everything to them.
The existing British elite class (and their underlings in the government, police, media, etc) should be dismantled, sent to do manual labor, and have all of their assets confiscated.
These decisions should be made by Pro-White tribunals.
The Pro-White movement can have our own version of Stalin’s “troikas”, staffed by members of the BNP, Patriotic Alternative, National Support Detachment, etc.
I imagine it working something like this:
Tribunal: “Mr. Whatever, you’re a millionaire with lots of wealth, power, and influence. Throughout your entire life, you haven’t said a word about the foreign immigrant invasion of Britain, the mass rapes of little White girls, or the genocide and replacement of the White British people. Instead of standing up for your own people, you enriched yourself and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle without a care in the world. What do you have to say for yourself????”
Duke of Whatever: “Umm, I was afraid of being called racist.”
Tribunal: “Well, congrats, all of your titles and honors are rescinded, all of your money and assets are confiscated, and you have 24 hours to vacate all of your castles, mansions, and estates, which (along with the contents) are hereby confiscated by the Pro-White movement. Enjoy!”
After the Pro-White movement wins power, there will need to be a full-scale, thorough, top-to-bottom purge of British society to identify and deal with the traitors and cowards.
Basically like what the (((Allies))) did to Germany after WW2, but in reverse.
Every person holding a position in government, the police, the media, parliament, local councils, etc should be required to appear before a Pro-White tribunal and be judged for their actions.
A scale of offenders can even be created, just like the (((Allies))) did to the Germans.
The Pro-White movement can create our own scale, with Category 1 being ultra-traitors, Category 2 being evil traitors but not quite to the extent of the first category, Category 3 being underlings who did the treasonous bidding of the traitor-politicians, etc.
Furthermore, the wealthy/powerful who may not have actively engaged in treason, but who selfishly said and did nothing to defend their own race, should be classified as “cowards” and have all of their assets and property confiscated, and be only allowed to do manual labor.
When all the diversity is deported and sent home, there will be plenty of job openings for manual labor. It will be a excellent opportunity for all of the self-centered dukes, lords, knights, greedy business elites, etc to do something useful for the first time in their lives.
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Friend of Britain:
I rather like that. After all, in the Middle Ages, the Crown confiscated and then redistributed lands and honours as it saw fit…
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“I rather like that. After all, in the Middle Ages, the Crown confiscated and then redistributed lands and honours as it saw fit…”
That is what the Pro-White movement should do.
In addition to the necessity of creating a fanatically Pro-White societal elite to replace the current traitorous elite, the re-distribution of the traitor elites’ assets is the morally right thing to do.
For decades, countless loyal, brave, courageous Pro-White activists have sacrificed everything for the White race.
Many of them could have had highly lucrative careers if they were cowards and traitors who were willing to betray their race.
But because they AREN’T cowards or traitors, because they are LOYAL and FAITHFUL to their race, the Pro-White activists have sacrificed everything.
The Pro-White activists have been smeared as “hateful” by the (((system))), and been ostracized from society by the (((system))).
Many Pro-White activists live in poverty because they sacrificed career opportunities and/or lost their jobs, because they bravely stood up and defended the White race.
Many Pro-White activists have even been imprisoned, attacked, assaulted, or worse.
It is only fair, right, and just that when the Pro-White movement takes power, we reward our brave Pro-White activists for their years of courageous sacrifice and racial loyalty.
It is also right that the existing traitorous elites be deprived of their wealth, status, assets, and property, as justified punishment for being cowardly and saying nothing while the White race is being genocided.
Thus, in order to punish the existing cowardly traitorous elite, while rewarding our own brave Pro-White heroes, the Pro-White movement should re-distribute the assets of the existing elite when the Pro-White movement wins power.
I look forward to Sam Melia moving in to Blenheim Palace as his new home.
It is also necessary to transfer the shares in all major companies to either the Pro-White government (nationalization), or to Pro-White individuals, in order to ensure that the corporate sector serves the interests of the White race.
For example, social media companies such as Facebook, YouTube, etc must either be controlled and owned by the Pro-White government, or ownership must be in the hands of Pro-White activists who will ensure that only Pro-White content is allowed on these platforms.
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“A serving Labour MP —@ShaunDaviesMP—initially rejected calls for an inquiry into the rape gangs which later found that more than 1,000 children had been abused while local authorities turned a blind eye”
Shaun Davies should be arrested and put on trial for high treason, complicity in genocide, and being an accomplice to mass rapes.
“Whole thing stinks, from MPs down. In Bradford, ‘when a child “married” her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding, her social worker attended the ceremony’. Elsewhere, after a young girl was found naked and drugged with seven men, the girl was arrested, for being drunk.”
The police officers who arrested the girl should themselves be arrested for treason and complicity in rape and genocide. The same goes for the social worker.
And all of the diversity should be deported to their ancestral homelands (or any other third world country that will take them), along with the (((REDACTEDS))) who imported them.
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“Britain is slowly (?) becoming a multikulti slum where nothing works, and from where every English/white person wants to escape, either to the relatively few areas of the country unaffected”
Eventually there won’t be anywhere in Britain left to escape to. Even the most remote areas of the Scottish Highlands, the English West Country, central Wales, etc will be (((flooded))) with the violent diversity.
In a recent thread, we discussed the cowardly British upper-class army officer type, who lives in a rural area in Dorset or Somerset or wherever, and thus doesn’t care that his country is being invaded by immigrants.
The problem with that cowardly “if it doesn’t personally affect me, I don’t care” mentality, is that eventually the diversity affects EVERYONE.
Thus, the cowardly retired majors and colonels and generals, who comfortably enjoyed life in the countryside and couldn’t be bothered to speak up for the survival of their own race, have (through their own cowardice and apathy) ruined the future of their own children and grandchildren.
On a related note, when reading the biographies of these British officers, I have noticed that a surprising number of the World War 2 generation of officers didn’t even want to live in their own country after they retired.
Many of the retired British officers moved to the south of France, or Ireland, or Australia, or even more exotic places.
For example, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck moved to Morocco.
I find it ironic that these officers fought a world war supposedly “to defend England” or whatever, and then couldn’t even be bothered to live in their own country afterward.
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Friend of Britain:
As a British officer (anonymous), and stationed in the then BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) said to a reporter as long ago as the mid-1980s, “I would still fight for my country— I just don’t want to live there any more”. I wonder what that officer, if still alive, thinks of Britain in 2025…
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Yes, Africa should be under European rule particularly ours as we were the most benevolent ruler. Some left-liberal globalist loonies and American Democratic Party nutters may consider it a bit ‘racist’ but the fact is these Africans can not govern themseves well and probably never will and that presents problems not just for them but for us since the local Africans’ misery is so bad they seek to escape from their dire situations by claiming ‘asylum’ here in Europe.
The US under people like Roosevelt was very wrong to think Africans were like Europeans and were capable of competent self-governence. US ideals of ‘democracy’, ‘independence’ and ‘freedom’ do not translate well in some parts of the world.
I used to think the ex British colony of Kenya was reasonably well-governed by its own people but it seems this is not the case as there have been recent news reports that its government wants to get rid of some of their young people by encouraging them to move to Germany.
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I think the Realm of Denmark would want considerably more for Greenland than 100 million Dollars. That sum is not even as high as some lottery wins on the US Powerball or Megamillions. Trump should offer about 2 billion at least. However, I do not think Denmark is willing to sell the island.
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John:
As you may know, the Law of the Sea (which I took as part of my law degree about 40 years ago) provides for various zones of activity based on the land occupied by this or that country. An “Exclusive Economic Zone” can stretch as far as 200 miles from the land, which means that an EEZ based on Greenland can stretch quite far into the Arctic Ocean. Russia and the USA (as well as lesser powers such as Canada and Norway) are now racing to exploit the Arctic. Greenland might be key.
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Hello. For some reason there was no “Reply” option on your comment about coffee and Sinatra´s famous song (which I love). Well, I found that 76% of the coffee imported by us comes from Brazil, literally our “next door neighbour”. The problem here is twofold: A) The Argentinain currency (peso) is rubbish: 1 U$S = 1200 pesos / 1 £ = 1465 pesos B) The government taxes companies in a brutal fashion forcing them to pass those charges to us plebs (sorry, consumers)
I shall give you an example. A friend of mine who is a lover of HiFi equipment found some excellent British speakers of the highest quality manufactured by a company called KEF, a pair of them costs £ 1200 (VAT included) that is U$S 1465. Here in Argentina they cost U$S 2900!!!
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Claudius:
I found a coffee recipe which you, with your sweet tooth, may like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalgona_coffee
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Thank you very much! What an excellent friend you are! I have to say, that this coffee seems a bit too sweet for me. I shall return the courtesy with a delicious Italian hot drink. You can make it as strong or sweet as you like. It consists of a large cup of coffee (I think you Brits call it “long black”) to which you add a dash of sambuca (an aniseed-flavoured liqueur). It is known as “caffé corretto”. There are several kinds of sambuca, the most popular is the called “white sambuca”
https://www.365drinks.co.uk/collections/sambuca
My personal contribution is to add a large spoonful of thick Chantilly cream. The cream and the liqueur give a nice touch of sweetness without being overpowering. It is a wonderful drink for winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambuca
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Claudius:
Thank you. Not so sure about the aniseed flavour, though.
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