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It seems clear that Labour Party members are, yet again, the foot-soldiers of a political army the heads of which ignore their views and preferences.
Once again, we see the influence of the Jewish and/or pro-Israel lobby, which is pervasive in our corrupt political system. In the Labour Party Deputy Leader contest, “they” made sure that they won. How? By backing both contenders. That is their usual method.
After what the Israeli Jews have done in Gaza (70,000+ mostly civilian dead, hundreds of thousands injured, tens of thousands of homes, shops, hospitals, schools, universities, and roads destroyed, embargo on food, water, and medical supplies, and military behaviour that can only be termed perversely sadistic), the priority is, apparently, recovering the remains of a small number of deceased Jewish hostages…
The hostages should never have been taken, or should have been released at an earlier stage, but when one looks at the behaviour of the [Israeli] Jews in Gaza etc, one can see why the hostages were kept as a bargaining counter and collective human shield (that idea did not much work, though, because the Netanyahu government and its armed forces carried on bombing Gaza anyway, heedless of the safety of the hostages).
[“Colombian mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain about long delays in payments and even their complete absence after receiving an advance, and ask the Colombian authorities to take them out of Ukraine Among other things, in the report, the mercenaries talk about the lack of rotation when debt accumulates — meaning there will be no debt after the mercenary’s death.“]
Interesting, but my own fairly youthful taekwando training (I was 28) ended with a cracked rib and waking up in pain for about 2 months. The pain mostly disappeared after a short time each day, but the old joke is true— it does hurt when you laugh…
Martial arts were never my thing, but the real exponents are fascinating. I did a short self-defence course about 30 years ago (1995 I think, when I was about 38) and with a small group of others, was taught by a renowned Japanese master called (as far as I can remember) Dr. Honda, who held black belts in various Oriental martial arts disciplines, including a rare honorary Dan rating which I believe was held by few if any others, or so we were told; told also that Honda was in the Guinness Book of Records, but I do not know whether that was so.
Dr. Honda was 84-y-o, but looked more like 50-something. He was only in the UK for a brief teaching tour. A dryly humorous person in an appropriately inscrutable way, he was like something out of a film. He could move, especially his arms and hands, quicker than the eye could follow.
Dr. Honda could put large and —at the time— fairly fit people like me (I swam half a mile to a mile nonstop, several times per week, then) on the floor in a split second, keep that person down using only a thumb or a couple of fingers, and if you struggled, could cause immense pain just by very slight pressure of a digit; I presume that he was expert in locating pressure points of the nervous system. Amazing person.
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Starmer-stein making much of the “fact” (if it is a fact) that ONE untermensch is (supposedly) now going to be deported. How many more came in today, or yesterday? A hundred? A thousand? More yet?
I once had a chat with a scientist who was working on nuclear fusion at Harwell (I think it was). I asked him how long it would be before electricity from fusion reaction was a practical reality. He said that he could not hazard a guess. That chat was in 1978…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chronicle_of_Ancient_Sunlight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarka_the_Otter
Henry Williamson, by any other name an English National Socialist:
“Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history, ruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter.
He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after the Second World War and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon.”
[Wikipedia— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson#Politics
All the System parties now have small memberships. The fake “Conservatives” have officially somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000, but probably well below 100,000. Active members are very few now.
To a large extent, the whole “democratic” political system in the UK is a kind of mirage, a view completely unreal. The supposed “credibility” of the “main parties” is founded on a mere projection of “credibility” and “importance”, which is totally fake. Look at the last half dozen Prime Ministers of the UK.
“Monied elites“? Largely (((you-know-who))), of course.
https://www.fightingfund.org/stopthecaa
A good point by Jayda Fransen, and one about which I have wondered in the past.
We can point the finger, and with some justice, at Sweden and the Swedes (for behaving as total “cucks”), but we have to say that other countries and societies, not least the UK and the British, are or have been little better.
A metaphor for white European, or European-derived, societies trashed and ruined by the untermenschen…
Salus populi suprema lex esto. “The welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].
Looking at her background, Katie Lam will inevitably be conflicted, as Shakespeare alluded to in The Merchant of Venice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam#Early_life.
Inevitably, she will partly be in favour of European values, but also partly inclined to trash them.
[“People who are not-British, who are not from these islands, do not have a moral right to stay here. If they break our laws, if they do not contribute to our economy, if they impose enormous financial costs on British taxpayers, they should go. And by “go”, I mean back to their countries of origin. This means we should leave any international convention or court that prevents us from doing that. This is either a functioning nation-state or it is not. This will be a major fault line at the next general election. Whether you believe in the principle of national preference (putting our own people first), or whether, like much of the Establishment, you believe anybody and everybody has a moral right to move here, live here, and remain here forever, while imposing billions in costs on the British people and our children. This debate, one way or other, will settle the future of our country. Do not sit it out. Do not support fringe parties or figures that will go nowhere and merely help those in power. Focus your energy in a place that matters, in a place that will make a real difference. The future of your country now depends on it. This debate is coming one way or other. And the Common Sense majority have to win it or our country will simply be ruined.“]
Raise the banners!
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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” [Yeats]
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Ian Robert Millard 
Good morning Ian: I have re-read your post “Les Eminences Grises of Dystopia” and it confirmed what I thought of Cummings, a person whom the media seems interested in turning into something he is not: a clever/capable political operator or strategist. The man is a nobody who believes himself to be somebody.
Let´s face it, had I been “Chief adviser to Boris Johnson”, I would have kept quiet about it. Previously, he was “Special Adviser to Michel Gove”, something that no one could be proud of. The fellow´s career, if you can call it that, has been a disaster.
Dominic Cummings – Wikipedia
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Claudius:
Just part of the huge amount of rubbish that has overwhelmed this country. Also, a function of the slide of the once-great Conservative Party over past decades and particularly the past decade.
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Good evening Ian,
How could Dr Aladwan be put under house arrest when it was not a criminal court?
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Ross:
Dr. Aladwan seems to have two matters going on at the same time. The first is her General Medical Council tribunal matter, but the second is a (so far) unspecified criminal matter. By reason of typically malicious complaint(s) by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, Dr. Aladwan was arrested on suspicion of having committed offences (the details of which do not seem to have been made public as yet, as far as I know).
Dr. Aladwan has been released under conditions:
She is not under “house arrest”, but (as the picture shows) has to live and sleep at a certain place, and has to notify the police if away for more than 48 hours (which would seem to contradict the other condition, but there it is, anyway). She also has to avoid Palestine-oriented marches, demonstrations etc.
As the picture shows, these are conditions in force during the police investigation and laid down by the police, not by any court; she has not so far been charged with anything, and may never be.
The “CAA” goblins are presently making complaints to police about a large number of people. They are also, if rebuffed by police or CPS,privately prosecuting people: Dr. Aladwan, Dr. David Miller, Nick Griffin and others. They have, as you know, been doing that to me for the past decade (and may well try to do so again). If so, they will be rebuffed (again).
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Thanks for the explanation Ian.
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Hi Ian,
Concerning martial arts , or more specifically asian martial arts, you can become more powerful with better movement the longer you practice.
When beginning the practitioner tends to use external muscles. But as they mature (mature in practice and not age) the practitioner should begin to understand how to use their body internally; breathing and what the Japanese call the hara, or, internal energy.
I should know because I have been practicing Shotokan Karate for 40 years now. And why I spent some time living in London, so I could train with the Japanese master who is based in Shepherds Bush.
Also, I’m not sure about self defence classes. My thought is that it could lead to someone being over confident and walking into bad situations rather than avoiding them. I’ve reluctantly helped friends give self defence lessons but, I always stress that distance is the most important factor. If you are outwith the opponents distance, they cannot hit you. I joke they should take running lessons instead of self defense.
Another thing I’ve noted about self defence lessons, especially online, is that there are a lot of narcissistic instructors who are there to show off and give out very complicated techniques which will not work when tried by beginners and would cause confusion and possible harm.
All this is debatable and I have had some quite long debates about it with fellow instructors.
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Ross:
Thank you. As mentioned, martial arts and combat are very much not my thing. In fact, when I was a slightly superannuated recruit member of the University taekwando club (aged 28), the instructors were always shouting out “more aggression, Ian!” at me…
Thanks for the information.
ps. I believe that there is a (spurious) “ancient Chinese saying” to the effect that “of the 101 ways of dealing with danger, running away is usually the best“.
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Ian,
I like that Cinese saying and may very well use it in future.
Combat and martial arts could be concieved to be of different attitudes.
I was coaxed into trying boxing before karate , my grandfather ran the boxing club. I quickly realised I did not like getting hit and didn’t want a boxers nose or eyes; you can always tell an ex boxer, especially a bad one. But, karate is the art of not getting hit. I liked the training and the aesthetics of karate.
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Oh, and by the way, you are a fighter. You don’t need to use your fists to fight. You fought with courage and integrity against the ‘usual suspects’
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Ross:
Thank you. Much appreciated. That is one fight still ongoing.
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Martial arts may be very useful, but I prefer the American approach to self-defence, the “Smith & Wesson” system. 😁😁😁
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