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Tweets seen
Seems that eccentricity is not confined to the English.
[“In the eyes of some Israelis… In the eyes of a significant number of Israelis, Christian symbolism is offensive. Extremely offensive. So offensive that in some educational institutions, the plus sign “+” is not used in mathematics. What? Yes. The plus sign, which represents addition. Why? Because it resembles a cross. It is considered too offensive for students, so instead, an inverted “t” is used. I’m not joking, you can Google it.“]
The enemies of the world.
Now that I think of it, I believe I read that the same is true of some Jewish schools in the UK, that the plus sign is banned.
RAUS!
…and never forget what (((element))) is behind and always has been behind much of the invasion.
Everyone in Europe should see that brief summary.
Even at my free speech trial in late 2023, the rather pitiful outside Counsel instructed by the “Clown” Prosecution Service made mention of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan as a “conspiracy theory”. I had to put him straight on the spot, and I recall remarking that all he had to do was look around him (e.g. in Southampton, where the trial took place). He said no more on the subject.
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A popular blog post
I notice that a blog post from 2019, which has had hits frequently ever since, had a number of hits today. Nice that people value one’s otherwise unapplauded and certainly unremunerated efforts…
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Whisky wow wow!
The volcano of “woke” and pro-multikulti hate that has erupted is because that black con-man who killed himself represented a whole current in the UK at present— the appointment and promotion of blacks (mainly) to roles not on any kind of merit but simply because boxes are ticked. Also, because such appointments are a dot in the eye to everything British and European. As in “let’s appoint a ridiculous, jungle-haired black as a professor at the University of Cambridge…what a defeat for the whites (i.e. the English), trashing their history and culture.”
Well, boo-hoo— he’s gone. One dishonest enemy of this country less.
The “woke” have seen their nonsense blown up…again. That is why they are furious. They are even all, and very stupidly, buying the £21 fake “memoirs” of the said con-man, despite the fact that the “memoirs” are a farrago of proven nonsense; they buy them as some kind of truly crazed virtue-signal.
Another example of the present times: I today, and very unusually, happened to see a few minutes of one of those apparently endless home and garden shows churned out by the BBC and others. Not my usual viewing, and I only saw 5-10 minutes. It was called Garden Rescue, and what interested me is how the BBC had managed to tick almost every box on their usual agenda. The couple shown, who owned the said house and garden in (I think) Liverpool, were an Englishman with a black wife or “partner” and (not shown) half-caste children, while the garden designer and crew (about 6 or 7 of them) consisted of an obvious gay (the designer), complete with tattoos and bleached hair, a couple of black men, a pretty-obviously lesbian woman, another woman, and some middleaged English fellow etc.
Incidentally, it seems, though uncertain, that that “Issyvine” woman creating hit-lists of those who criticized the black con-man Arday, and requesting personal and other information about them, may be a former, obsessed (and sacked) member of the Metropolitan Police.
Quite right.
Late thoughts about Reform UK etc
Reform UK has never had real support for its programme, such as it is. It has always been a party (much like the contemporary LibDems) which is voted for as a way of hitting at the main System parties, Lab and Con.
Reform was riding high until it became very obvious that Farage and Tice were almost begging the Jews and Israel to support their party. Reform Friends of Israel was set up, and you will never hear Reform leaders criticize the Jews or Israel. Farage. Tice. Matt Goodwin. Others.
Now, the unpleasant Robert Jenrick, very morally-flawed, has come out with Reform’s “welfare” (social security) plans. My reaction is both aversion to some of it, and surprise at how out of touch politically it is.
I fully support the idea that non-Europeans and other non-Brits should not be accessing social security; I favour even more the removal of non-Europeans from social housing. Indeed, I favour removing them from the country.
Yes. To that extent, I am in favour. However, Reform UK now goes a long way past that, saying that the unemployed must do “community service” or face losing benefits, meaning their food and shelter, in most cases. That is quite wrong, and wrongheaded.
“Community Service” is a punishment available to the courts after conviction. How can it be right to impose it on those whose only crime is to have no money?
The Reform plan would, in effect, institute serf labour on the unemployed, making them work for what amounts to peanuts (basic unemployment money is far less than £100 per week). What it says is “slave all week for ~£90 and a roof over your head”.
To my mind, that kind of directed labour would only be acceptable if those doing it were paid at least £200 per week (plus housing benefit where applicable).
Reform also intend to hit the disabled (apparently the mentally-disabled and those with “minor” conditions). Again quite wrongheaded. The dishonest assessments carried out by the ATOS carpetbaggers for the past 20 years prove that many are wrongly assessed (often by unqualified or semi-qualified box-tickers).
That is the moral argument. What about the political argument?
Reform is not going to be voted for by (99% of) the non-whites. Only about 80% of the UK population is echt-Brit (white Northern European) now, and that reduces to about 75% in England. Reform has to win the votes of that 75%.
Reform has now attacked the State benefits which, if you include State pensions (legally, they are benefits), are received by a huge proportion, over 50%, of the population. Reform may claim not to target pensions, but many on State Pension also get Pension Guarantee Credit (which tops up income to a minimum level). Can pensioners be sure that Reform will not hit that? I think not.
As to the young, not so many vote Reform. Reform is basically the party of the middleaged and elderly
It may be that Reform will lose many potential votes because of the above. Farage and Tice obviously think the contrary. Their quasi-Conservative bubble will isolate them from the majority of voters.
Reform was at one point, a couple of years ago, at 35% in the opinion polls. Then came the flagrant Israel-worship (or Jewish-lobby worship) of Farage and Tice, the sleaze allegations, and now this anti-“welfare” assault which will surely alienate at least half of the electorate.
Reform now struggles around 24%-25%.
Lab and Con are both still generally despised and hated by many, true, and that has been Reform’s trump card, but if Reform keeps weakening itself by these policy gaffes, it may be that it will be seen as a kind of slightly stronger-message, or “double-shot”, Conservative Party, and that will prevent it getting anywhere near a Commons majority.
Late tweets
[“New report from the World Gold Council: Central banks are selling dollars and buying gold at a faster rate than ever before.
Record figures:
· 74% of central banks predict that the share of the dollar in global reserves will decrease over the next 5 years.
· 89% expect an increase in their own gold reserves within the next 12 months.
· 45% intend to buy gold, which is the highest figure in history.
· Annual gold purchases over the past 4 years have reached approximately 1,000 tons, which is twice the average for the previous decade.“]
The international situation has not been so insecure and confused for well over 80 years; 1930s, 1920s.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Most American servicemen and servicewomen belong to a generation of wimps who are encouraged by a decadent society to persist in their cowardly behaviour; hence the “nervous breakdowns” they experience. More likely, these are due to a lack of ice cream or a faulty Internet connection that does not allow them to play their favourite video games.
These despicable weaklings have not taken part in ANY combat operations, and yet, they claim to suffer from “mental issues”. Veterans who experienced REAL combat (infantrymen or Marines in Vietnam) must be disgusted when reading about the “sufferings” of these wimps.
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Claudius:
I have met American military people, though mostly long in the past. Some had fought in Vietnam in “elite” formations such as the Rangers and U.S. Marines. They were very solid. I am talking long ago, though— 1970s.
I think that the bulk of the American forces are probably of very low quality, and then there is the fact that women make up about 22% of the USAF, and 16% of the U.S. Army.
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I agree with you. The Americans of those days (the 1960s and 1970s) were made of better, stronger stuff. Also, and that is very important, at that time, their armed forces had not been corrupted by the sickening ultra-liberal, neo-marxist ideology of today.
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I have been looking at stats provided by AI. According to them, between 1980 and 2024, wages in the UK went up approx. 150%. On the other hand, during the same period, the cost of living went up 340-350%. The stats indicate that the inflation has got far worse since 2020. Do you think that these figures are accurate, or, as I suspect, perhaps they have been “massaged”?
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Claudius:
Hard to say, exactly, but there is no doubt that pay has not generally kept pace with the cost of living, particularly housing.
When I was first in London, in 1976, I worked for 2-3 months as a security guard. I think that the pay was about £80 a week (plus overtime, if required). Rental of a room in London was maybe £20 a week. In 2026, I suppose that pay of that sort is probably around £600 a week (at an educated guess), whereas the rental of even a single room would be £200+ to £400+ (depending on district etc). You see the contrast. In 1976, rental of that sort would have been about a quarter of pay, whereas now it is at least a third and quite possibly two thirds.
I think that there must be legions of people in London now working mostly to pay their rent, council tax (maybe £50 a week) and bills on top of rent, in many cases.
As an old BUF pamphlet had it, “Tomorrow We Live” (because we cannot live as things are).
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Your reply motivated me to look at the salary of a security guard in Buenos Aires and the cost of renting a tiny unit/flat (in Australia, it is called “a studio”), 1 bedroom/living room, 1 kitchenette and 1 bathroom.
The salary is 1.800.000 pesos a month (this is before tax)
The rent is about 400.000 a month plus the so-called “expensas” (a monthly fee that goes towards a fund to cover any expenses for repairs to the building. Its amount is based on the surface area of the apartment.) The “expensas” are about 70.000. Therefore, the cost of lodging is about 470.000, almost a quarter of the income, which, compared to London, is not bad at all. To this, we have to add water, electricity, gas and Internet.
BTW, security guards here are exploited shamefully, working 12 hours a day.
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Claudius:
I did it as a stop-gap when I was aged 19. Most of the time was at evening and night in an advertising agency, but I did work some off-nights elsewhere (to get more money), once in a massive Co-op warehouse in NE London, where the lights were off; I patrolled with a torch, the beam of which caught the gaze of innumerable little black cats all looking at me.
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The contract awarded by the US government to Raytheon confirms what the pathetic, senile liar in the White House has repeatedly denied. That is: The US military is running out of missiles and cannot afford to mount a large offensive against Iran; hence the “diplomatic conversations”, which are just a smokescreen. Once missile stocks are fairly high, a new series of strikes will be launched.
Anyway, Trump cannot, and will not, win this war.
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Claudius:
Not if by “win” is meant military victory followed by installation of a puppet regime. Iran is too large, too populous, and too organized for that.
I have noticed a few announcements very recently about other new contracts for military hardware, but to produce more weapons, even of existing models, takes time. Months certainly, years maybe (to manufacture in large quantity).
The USA has, or will have, the power to destroy much of Iran in terms of known bases, cities etc.
So far, the Iranians have played a clever game, using carrot and stick with the Gulf mini-states who have been allied with the U.S. They have not much attacked the American large ships, mainly American bases in the region. However, I would not rule out attacks in the USA itself, though that might enrage not only Trump but ordinary Americans (so far not very supportive of this war).
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I forgot to mention that, using official figures from the US Social Security Dept., the figures in the USA are very much the same, if not higher, than those in the UK
From 1980 to 2020, wages went up 150%
From 1980 to 2020, the cost of living went up 371%
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Claudius:
Yes, and at the same time you have the top 1% of Americans with not even millions but thousands of millions of dollars.
Nick Griffin made an interesting point recently: most civilizations last no more than 250 years. Of course, the devil is in the detail, and in how you define the beginning and end, but our modern civilization might be framed within the box “Industrial Revolution-2026”, so maybe 1750-present, about 276 years…
I cannot see that a society where most people cannot easily live on their everyday work is sustainable. Not for long.
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