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More “holocaust” fakery exposed
“When Zack Polanski told the heart-rending tale of his ancestors fleeing the Nazis, it earned him applause at last year’s Green Party conference.
But the Holocaust story has raised questions after family history research found his grandparents were all born in Britain long before the Second World War.
On Thursday, Mr Polanski did nothing to clear up the mystery when the Greens declined to answer a request to explain the powerful yet puzzling line in his keynote speech.“
[Daily Mail]
Just another (((liar))).
Ingrained…
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1,000 hryvnia (Kiev-regime funny-money) = about £17 pounds sterling.
Sounds almost reasonable compared to London these days.
Merkel’s legacy.
Probably.
Talking point
“English” (or Japanese, or Chinese, or whatever) is not a mere label, which an individual can stick on themselves and claim to be properly descriptive.
I was born in England of two English parents (and am believed —plausibly but not definitely— to have one German great-grandfather). I am, and have every right to call myself, English.
My wife is English, born of two English parents (one Norwegian grandparent). She was, however, born in the 1950s in the then Tanganyika (now Tanzania), which at the time was a British colony. She came to the UK (to live) aged 14. That does not make her “Tanzanian”, or African!
If someone black or brown is born in the UK, in England, that person is not English or even (passport notwithstanding) British. The person concerned is not English/British but something else, even if born/brought up etc in the UK. Someone such as Kemi Badenoch, who was born in London of 1981 of two Nigerian parents (while they were on a flying visit to make sure that she was born in the UK, which fact —at the time— gave her, under English law, the right to a British passport later in life).
Kemi Badenoch is not English and, in real terms (despite having that “scammed” passport), is not British either.
Kemi Badenoch in fact only came to (or came back to) the UK aged 16-17. She was not even brought up here, and her attitudes are foreign, not that that in itself is determinative.
It would be absurd for me to say “I am Chinese“, even if living in China and having lived there my whole life, even if born there; indeed, even had I a Chinese passport.
Logic alone makes the case, but many of our treacherous scribblers, TV/radio talking heads, and MPs, wilfully refuse to see it.
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In a different Europe, the whole mob could just be submachinegunned.
They were born in France. Their parents and even grandparents were born in France. They are not, however, French.
As far as I am concerned, the BBC, if it is to be allowed to survive, must go back to its original Reithian principles: “Inform, Educate, Entertain“, and in that order. In fact, and in view of the multiplicity of other platforms now in existence, the entertainment part might as well be dropped, leaving the BBC with a mission to both inform and entertain. The devil is in the detail, though; at present, the BBC often misinforms, and ill-educates…
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I really hate those Russian plans to “freeze” Ukraine. Thanks to the colossal and criminal incompetence of the Russian Army leadership, this horrible war that was supposed to be finished in a month has been going on for nearly 5 years! (4 years and 9 months to be precise)
Thousands of innocent civilians and animals will die due to exposure and hunger.
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Claudius:
I too am concerned about the effect on civilians and their companion animals (on both sides).
As to the attacks on energy infrastructure, they will of course cause hardship for people and animals, though at the same time it has to be said that the Kiev regime is attacking similar targets inside Russia and in now-Russian Donetsk Oblast, and would do more of that, had it the means to do so.
War is hell, and this is war now. Russia needs a gamechanger. The painfully slow attritional advances are just not doing the job.
In American language, both sides have “upped the ante”. Kiev-regime missiles have been destroying oil refineries in Russia, so the Russian response has been to destroy electrical power plants, and now to focus on making life in Kiev, especially, harder. I predicted that on the blog a year or two ago.
I agree with you about the military leadership in Russia. Stalin would have been shooting senior officers since 2022.
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A wonderful initiative from a group of noble souls in the USA. Talk about 5-star accommodation!
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Claudius:
Once or twice, I have lived in worse quarters.
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I am sorry to hear that. Was it in the UK?
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Claudius:
Was what in the UK?
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I was referring to what you said when you wrote: “Once or twice, I have lived in worse quarters.”
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Claudius:
Ah…well, mostly short-term and mostly outside the UK: a concrete hut in the Egyptian desert (one month); a birdwatcher’s hut on a tiny island in a lake (hut with leaking wooden roof in heavy rain) on the East/West German border (only 24 hours…); a bench on Lubeck (West Germany) Railway Station platform (one night); a ramshackle attic in London (intermittently over many years up to the 1990s). Various others.
Having said that, I have also lived for months and sometimes years in such habitations as a 12th-floor Soviet-era multi-roomed penthouse with a wide wraparound balcony; a Caribbean villa with a private beach, a country house in England with (originally) 26 bedrooms, 4 acres of gardens and grottoes (and use of another 80 acres of woods etc, and a private river frontage).
Swings and roundabouts, in the English phrase…
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I had to look up the meaning of “swings & roundabouts” because I forgot it. Yes, now I understand what you mean. Compared with my life, yours was quite a roller coaster. Not as much as “from rags to riches”, but quite dramatic.
It seems to me that the worst situation was at the railway station in Lübeck. I hope it did not happen in winter…
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Claudius:
As a matter of fact, it was in cold weather, early Spring.
I had been travelling (hitch-hiking) through West Germany en route (as I thought) to Helsinki via Sweden. I arrived in Hamburg quite late in the evening and got a train which was going to Copenhagen, but I was going to change trains at Lubeck, in order to get a train to Travemunde Skandinavienkai, the station (actually just a halt) for the small ferry terminal at Travemunde, which at the time sat just on the Western side of the border between the Bundesrepublik and the DDR.
Unfortunately, the last train had gone, leaving me stuck in Lubeck with not much money. The next train was at about 6 or 7 in the morning. A cold night on a railway platform, but at least the platform was covered and I had a bench as a bed. Young people are resilient (I was 25, I think).
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