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Range said to be around 1,000 miles. If that increases, with another missile type, to 6,000 miles, the Americans can start to worry.
I think that Israel decided some time ago to clear the Gaza enclave of its population, in order to plant Jewish towns there. Pure genocide, surely, whatever legal quibbles Jew-Zionist lawyers may make. Lebensraum…
When will the American dog stop allowing the Israeli tail to wag that American dog?
If the Chinese decide that the American market is closed to them, the consequences might go well beyond economics, and might well be unexpected.
Even GE 2024 Labour voters do not trust Labour. Only 45% think that Labour can be trusted to fulfil whatever it has promised!
I am thinking that a goodly proportion of Labour voters at GE 2024 were only Labour voters because that seemed the best way of kicking out the Conservative Party at the time.
As to the GE 2024 Reform UK voters, 76% of them think that Reform can be trusted. That, of course, has never been put to the test, because Reform has never had any political power.
Digging slightly deeper, 76% of GE 2024 Conservative voters think that the Con Party can be trusted (to my mind, remarkable, looking at the 14 years of lies, incompetence, mass migration invasion etc that preceded GE 2024). Well, in any event, of those who voted, only <24% voted Conservative, and only three-quarters of those now trust the party for which they voted. I imagine that most of those still on board are elderly or very elderly.
Labour is in a worse position yet. Of those who voted at GE 2024, only 33% voted Labour, and less than half of those voters now trust Labour (very understandably).
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Ian Robert Millard 
I see that Zionist pro Israel extremists from the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem have seen fit to criticise Elon Musk for appearing on a video link at an AfD (Alternative Fur Deutschland) rally yesterday. Apparently, this is dishonouring the dead of Auschwitz, Treblinka, etc but who is REALLY dishonouring the dead of the Holocaust? Surely, it is the government of the Zionist entity and Zionist fanatics around the world cheering on the repellent actions of that government and its persecution and oppression of Palestinians. God, do these people really have some ‘Chutzpah’🙄🙄🙄🙄
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John:
Yes, “their” attitude” is incredible.
I saw a very brief TV news tickertape piece today about something-“holocaust” and how the Jews are saying that *Europe* is “in danger of” forgetting the “lessons” of “holocaust”.
*At the very same time* as that tickertape headline was being shown, the news “picture* being shown was the utter devastation the (Israeli) Jews have visited upon Gaza and its population, where they have slaughtered hundreds of thousands, maybe 150,000+ (plus badly wounded, mutilated etc) in retaliation for the Hamas attack 15-16 months ago, which killed about 1,000 (many of which were actually killed by the Israeli killing machine itself).
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The blatant hypocrisy and ‘chutzpah’ of Zionist fanatics/mentally unwell nutters is beyond all reasonable limits.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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‘Never again’ Zionist zealots cry yet this wish obviously doesn’t extend to Palestinians.
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Let´s have a break from the political doom and gloom. Here is an interesting video about why some people prefer cats to dogs. I generally agree with the theories exposed but I do not believe in “scientific” explanations. Anyway, FELINE POWER! 😂😂😂
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Claudius:
Well, that was interesting. Not sure about its conclusions, though. I am certainly a “cat person”, and it is true that I am not much interested in “the acclamation of the crowd”.
Then we have Lenin, a cat person, who was also basically introverted, and who only made speeches etc out of necessity. Photographed on several occasions with cats. Lenin, of course had no fear of being judged adversely, because he ruled Russia without any democratic input— public opinion was near-irrelevant to him.
What about Hitler, whom I think (obviously only a lay opinion), despite the huge spectacles of which he was the focus, was basically very introverted, yet famously a “dog person”, though he loved animals generally.
It seems to me that Hitler was keenly aware of the *public image* consequences of being seen and especially *photographed* with a cat, as opposed to the more macho image (?) of a dog, particularly his own Alsatian dog, Blondie. He *was* photographed with wild animals (large and small) but that is a bit different to being photographed in a domestic setting with a cat.
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Yes, I agree with you; it is strange that Hitler, who was a very introvert and reserved individual (particularly as a youngster, as the excellent book of August Kubizek “Adolf Hitler, mein Jugendfreund” (1953) clearly demonstrates) preferred dogs to cats, but there you are, we must not generalise.
Have you read Kubizek´s book? It is very good and honest. Apparently there have been two English editions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kubizek
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Claudius:
I once owned a copy, but it was lost, having had to be abandoned, along with 95% of my one-time 2,000-book library, when I returned to the UK from France in 2009.
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I am very sorry to hear that. The loss of such a library must have been a terrible blow.
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Claudius:
Catastrophic loss, of which the library was only part. Still, “what does not kill me makes me stronger” (they say…).
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America should just concentrate on making better cars, electronics, etc than China does. China still hasn’t yet learnt the art of quality control though it does appear to be learning. Japan got there very quickly. Get Elon Musk to start manufacturing electric flying cars as the very advanced technologies for that are starting to come together and China is investing heavily in that with an obvious aim of being the world leader. There is no doubt that electric flying cars/personal mobility vehicles is going to be a big industry in the decades ahead.
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Are you suggesting that if Trump closed down the American market that the Chinese would resort to military means in some way eg invading Tawain to show their displeasure? Roosevelt placed an oil embargo on Japan and then Pearl Harbour happened.
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John:
It could be bigger than just Taiwan. An attempt to dominate the Pacific region overall.
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I find it shocking that 76% of Tory voters (and Reform voters!) still trust the Tory Party, after 14 years of the Tory government being even more aggressively liberal and cultural marxist than Labor, immigration soaring to record heights during the past 14 years, and millions of Britons in poverty and relying on food banks, while the (((banksters))) are richer than ever.
These voters who still trust the Tories must be either 1) extremely stupid, or 2) self-centered toffs who only care about tax cuts.
I suppose there is a third option, namely that the poll is rigged. Maybe the Tories polled are (((REDACTEDS))) in North London who are glad that the Tories are complicit in genociding the indigenous White British people.
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Friend of Britain:
I think that that poll reflects the fact that virtually all Conservative Party voters are now elderly people who have always voted Con and are set in their ways.
The poll may give a clue as to the likely Con vote at the next GE. Three-quarters of what it was at GE 2024. That comes out at about 17% to 18% of those who actually voted at the election.
Feeding in 18% Con, 24% Lab, 15% LibDem, 28% Reform, and 10% Green to Electoral Calculus comes out as Reform 257 seats, Lab 204, LibDem 79, Con 49, Green 6 (SNP 23; N. Irish seats 18). Some kind of minority Reform UK govt. Also, the end, probably, of the Conservative Party as a major force.
Early days, though.
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You would have to be either extremely wealthy, an old person totally detached from reality and thinking Neville Chamberlain or Stanley Baldwin was still the Conservative Party’s leader instead of an anoymous nobody *they just picked off the streets of crime ridden hellholes like Brixton or Peckham, or senile to vote Tory.
WHAT on earth does that party offer to normal people?
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The non Conservative Party put us into what is now the EU in 1973 without asking the British people for our agreement in a referendum BEFORE entry as Norway, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland did, spent the next few decades giving away more sovereignty without gaining our agreement in referendums, refused to change our profoundly undemocratic electoral system to PR which undoubtedly helped to undermine our membership, then embroiled itself in internecine squabbles about the membership of an organisation they had put us into. David Cameron then called an in/out referendum decades later purely in order to prevent his party from splitting and to shut-up the party’s Eurosceptics, lost the referendum but did not order civil servants to prepare for an exit vote before the referendum he arrogantly thought he would win and many of his own party’s figures engaged in total lies during the referendum saying immigration would be lower if we left.
Yet, after all that, we are expected to take the Conservative Party as a serious organisation to govern the country.
If Starmer made a formal bid to rejoin the EU and called a referendum on the issue I think I would abstain. So far, I can’t see any real benefits from our leaving and I doubt they will ever come due to being misgoverned by a globalist political Establishment of which the fake Conservative Party is a major part.
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John:
I supported Brexit for two main reasons, being firstly to get out of the disguised dictatorship of the EU,(which morphed into that sometime after 1989, the most obvious manifestations being the relabelling (EEC, EC, EU) and the Maastricht process; secondly, because it was necessary to stop free movement of vast (and in many cases non-European) populations, particularly into the UK.
Brexit was a potential opportunity to reset Britain’s trajectory. It was never properly fired-up. Weasels such as Angus Maude deliberately sabotaged it. Britain, ideally, should have tried to link with Russia. An ideal trading relationship; complementary. Britain supplying expertise and consumer goods; Russia supplying cheap energy.
Brexit *has” completely failed because many of the EU or quasi-EU straitjackets are still in place, and also because, far from engaging with Russia for mutual benefit, Britain is now in a stance of silly and potentially fatal opposition to Russia, applying anti-Russian sanctions (which mainly hurt Britain itself), not importing Russian gas (so having to pay more elsewhere), and supporting the dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky in Ukraine (with money stolen from British people, including pensioners).
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Britain is an effective electoral dictatorship of just two parties thanks to its undemocratic electoral system. In the EU parliament elections, from 1999 onwards (it should have been far sooner but was not due to Tory and Labour undemocratic scumbags opposing it), we were able to vote by PR. Something no British government has been willing to give us for our own supposed national parliament. The Eurosceptics from Tory and Labour ranted about the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ but what about OURS? How many of them are prepared to change that? Not many, if any, I suspect.
Mass immigration started well before we became EU members. It has continued ever since and indeed has become WORSE since we left the EU. Many Tory politicians during the campaign lied to us saying immigration would be reduced. They and the party should not be forgiven for lying to us using that underhand tactic to get us out of the EU. They should aplogise for these lies.
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John:
Unlike the Jew-Zionists (who constantly demand “apologies”…it seems to be ingrained in them), I do not need or want “apologies”. I just want an end to all the ills of this country (and mainland Europe etc) and a start made on creating a better society and a higher race-type.
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I hope that despite supporting the idea in principle you were intelligent enough to know that it could never work in practice under the profoundly undemocratic, globalist, anti-British scum of fake Conservative and useless Labour alike so you sat in your garden at home drinking a nice, cold drink on that hot day in June 2016 and boycotted the farcical referendum that shouldn’t have been called in the first place.
All that trouble the country went through and for what? The referendum was only called to try and prevent the Conservative Party from splitting. If it did, SO BLOODY WHAT! Oh, I forgot, Cameron did not want that because he knew that under our archaic, decades out of date, unfit for purpose, undemocratic electoral system having two Conservative Parties instead of one would be fatal to the electoral prospects of HIS pro-EU wing of the party.
This 4 decade long saga of Tory splits on Europe could have been easily solved by just allowing us to have a Proportional Representation/fair votes voting system at Westminster.
The Conservative Party truly is an incredibily selfish and self-serving, undemocratic organisation and should be ashamed of itself.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk
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John:
I never vote in “democratic” elections, referenda etc.
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Some of your straightjackets though are not just EU imposed ones but also due to wholly undemocratic British governments signing us up to things like the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which they should have no right to do without asking us first.
If we, for instance, wanted to bring hanging back we would have to leave that convention. It is not enough to be not an EU member now which bans the use of capital punishment for all its members.
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org.uk
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https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
Because undemocratic British governments sign us up to international conventions like the ECHR without asking for our consent first we are still not fully sovereign despite Brexshit.
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Would you vote if we had a decent system of Proportional Representation/fair votes and with it an undoubted small increase in the number of parties standing with much more chance of your vote actually counting? Britain has an appalling turnout at general elections nowadays of under 70%.
Denmark with an extremely fair system of PR ie it having a threashold of just 2% for a party to get into the parliament regularly has turnouts of 80% and even some of over 85%.
Whilst turnouts of 90% plus are probably unachievable without compulsion and also because some people simply have no faith/trust in democracy or no interest in politics better turnouts in the 75%- 85% plus range should be aimed for and represent a good argument for changing the system to PR.
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John:
My unwillingness to vote is not merely that, under FPTP, any vote by me would be ineffective, but also because I am simply unwilling to participate in a process where my single vote is worth the same as anyone else’s. Call it arrogance if you will…
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Certainly where you live in the Tory stronghold of New Forest West your vote would be worth very little. Our electoral system has the effect in a safe seat of rendering a person’s vote to mean hardly anything. You may as well in such a constituency only have a quarter of a vote whereas in a ‘marginal’ someone has vote equivalent to two votes and in an ultra-marginal four votes.
Put simply, where you live determines the value of your vote within the system across the country.
I think many do not understand how the system works. As you only have a single vote to cast in your own constituency for ONE CANDIDATE only if you do not cast it for the winning candidate/MP you have immediately ‘wasted’ your vote in the sense that you played no part in getting that person elected as an MP. Now, repeat that scenario in 600 plus seats and it is then easy to see how MILLIONS of votes are ‘wasted’ by the system and why there is such a mismatch between votes for a party and its seat numbers.
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No doubt fanatical defenders of stand alone ‘pure’ First Past The Post/single-member plurality will say in reply to me the system IS fair because you are voting for a candidate NOT a party but how many people use the system in that way? Hardly anybody. 90% plus of the time people use their SINGLE vote because a candidate is wearing a certain party’s colour of rosette.
Having no explicit vote for our favourite party as Germans and New Zealanders do indicates how utterly simplistic, out of date and crude the system is. To be frank, modern politics IS party politics so our electoral system should reflect that fact.
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So you have the Hitlerite belief in democracy then? Hitler thought democracy was not a good idea because it was simply a headcount whereby one person with a high IQ had a vote with the same value as that of someone who was thick/had a low IQ.
There is something to be said for that dismissive attitude especially in a REAL democracy (arguably TOO MUCH of one) as Weimar Germany was.
On the other hand, you could take Churchill’s view that democracy is a bad system especially after you have had a conversation with the average voter but it is still better than any other form of organising how a country should be run.
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John:
For me, it all depends on the overall national situation. In principle, I could countenance a genuine form of democracy (which we now do not have in the UK); at other times, less democracy or even outright dictatorship would be right, as in “necessary”. The same goes for monarchy. At some times, forms of monarchy are the best way to head a state, but at other times a republic is better.
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I think the best form of Monarchy is a semi-constitutional one with reserve powers like Liechtenstein has:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Liechtenstein
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Some of them will be selfish, self-centered, snobby arseholes who only think about the size of their bank accounts rather than the fact that Britain is becoming a Third World shithole with all the rampant crime rates that come with it. This attitude is not just wrong but short sighted due to the fact ‘their’ areas will also succumb to this process and not just ones filled with working-class ‘oiks’ like Rotherham eg some foreigners from undesirable countries with violent cultures have mugged rich people and even murdered them for their expensive watches outside of stores like Harrods in the ultra-rich and posh area of Knightsbridge.
Some may vote Tory still because they think that the Conservatives will better protect the Green Belt. I will give them some credit for thinking this because it is probably the case that the Conservative Party is more committed to the Green Belt’s preservation though this is because Tory MPs overwhemingly represent these areas. This might be one reason the Conservative Party was still able to win over 100 seats last year.
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Here is a copy of “Adolf Hitler: The Story of Our Friendship” the book cannot be downloaded but it can be borrowed and read online, it renovates automatically with continued use (that is what they say…)
https://archive.org/details/younghitlerstory0000augu/page/n5/mode/2up
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Claudius, I am a book hunter and gatherer … For you:
https://oceanofpdf.com/category/authors/august-kubizek/
https://odysee.com/@WaltherMauser:b/AugustKubizek-TheYoungHitlerIKnew-1955:1
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Thank you SO much! Since I “have” you here, I have tried to contact you via your blog and had a lot of trouble. I managed to send you (I believe over 3 months ago) a new email address of mine so we could be in touch more easily but I never heard from you.
I hope you are OK and we can communicate more often.
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Claudius, I just resent an email to you from last September – you may have missed it. Would be delighted to establish more frequent contact.
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Claudius, you can make initial contact at JuliusSkoolafish@proton.me
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Hello Ian: I discovered that it was thanks to an Irish MP called Richard Martin (1754-1834) that the first laws against cruelty to animals were passed in the UK. The creation of the SPCA (later RSPCA) was due to Arthur Broome (1779-1837) Two admirable men who deserve to be remembered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Martin_(Irish_politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Broome
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Claudius:
Thank you. I was unaware of any of that.
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And his legislation passed after the whole of Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom in 1801 thereby expanding the Kingdom of Great Britain to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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