Afternoon music
Tweets seen
As I had presumed.
Possibly a clever “oblique” move by Putin on the world chessboard.
https://tass.com/politics/2108777
Perhaps enough, probably enough, to seize Kharg Island, but little more. If American troops seize that island, it becomes a giant bullseye for Iran, and the occupying troops will face constant attack. They would die so that Jews in Israel might live. Does the brainwashed American public understand that?
Thoughts about the potential restructuring of society in the UK
Unsophisticated, of course, but broadly right (leaving aside the personalities). As Jack London said, “I am a socialist, but a white man first.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
Britain needs a synthesis of old-style socialism in some areas of activity, and dynamic private enterprise in others, together with other elements (such as genuine volunteering), and all under the umbrella of, not just a state but a society, one founded on an ethos of European race and culture. The Rudolf Steiner concept of the Threefold Social Order is more or less the right template, in principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding
https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA023/English/AP1972/GA023_index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner [be aware that that Wikipedia entry is one of those that has suffered from vandalistic and/or tendentious “editing”].
Lenin saw that pure socialism or “War Communism” could not, literally could not, produce the goods, certainly not with people and circumstances as they were in the 1920s; Lenin therefore implemented the New Economic Policy even before the Soviet Union itself was formally established.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
Likewise, Hitler understood that post-WW1 Germany required both a shot in the arm and a restructuring on the basis of European —in that specific case, German— race and culture, and also the excising of certain poisonous and parasitic elements, as well as the State helping to facilitate the success of the “economic element” (private enterprise and enterprises), with the State also regulating that sector for the benefit of workers and arranging for some of the benefits —profits— to be shared by both employees and (via taxation etc) the State, and so the people, the Volk, as a whole.
Late tweets seen
[“Paula White, appointed by Trump as president of the White House Faith Office, conducts an exorcism session to drive evil spirits out of the audience by blowing into the microphone.“]
Of course, that crazy nonsense does not represent all of the USA or all Americans, but one wonders whether such a society has any real resilience. Maybe not.
Ian Robert Millard 
Hello, I was watching a video about London, and I discovered that there is a Rudolf Steiner House, which I believe you must have visited. The video is very interesting, particularly for somebody who was here only twice (1999 and 2005). The first time we stayed for 2 weeks, and the last time for only one week. I think you will like it.
Sherlock, Beatles & London Secrets: Baker Street to Marble Arch walk
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Claudius:
Thank you. Will watch later.
Yes, I have been to Rudolf Steiner House (25 Park Road, London, the continuation of famous Baker Street). In fact, I must have been there hundreds of times, particularly in the very late 1970s, from about 1978, and also early 1980s, when I was often in the Steiner Library (at the time, that was in a basement, under the bookshop).
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I believe that the ridiculous affair of “the British spy” who supposedly was operating from the British embassy in Moscow is a storm in a teacup. Besides, what did the British expect to find out? For the little I have read, it seems to me that the Russians were ALWAYS one step (if not two) ahead of the British and the Americans in espionage. You are far better qualified than me on this subject. What is your opinion?
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Claudius:
I have no idea about this recent keffufle beyond what has been in the Press. I think that the Golden Age for Western spies in Russia would have been the 1990s, when so many Russians, at all levels, were struggling and scrabbling, and many saw no other way to live than to sell whatever they had (or emigrate). Many girls sold what they had to offer, and so did many ex-Soviet officials.
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