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Diary Blog, 18 April 2026, including a few thoughts about Starmer, Labour, Muslim voters, the Jewish/Israel lobby, and the Mandelson scandal

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10, should have got questions 4 and 10 but did not, and my answer to question 2 was a wild guess but, to my surprise, correct. I may have dredged it up from my subconscious mind, maybe a submerged childhood memory.

Question 4 is not correct, in part of its premises anyway.

Tweets seen

[“The claim that nobody at the heart of government — ie close to Starmer — knew Mandelson had flunked his security vetting is unravelling at a rate of knots.
Starmer’s head of comms was alerted by the media last September.
Sources tell me multiple folks in the Cabinet Office (where the UK Security Vetting unit is based) had known for quite some time.
Cat Little, Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, even had a copy of the UK Sec Vet January 2025 document concluding Mandelson was unfit to be US ambassador.
She informed the new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo.
Soon there were about a dozen lawyers and officials crawling all over it.
Such matters don’t stay secret for long in the upper echelons of Whitehall.
But it seems the PM was still in the dark … until last Tuesday.
Mmmmmm.”
]

In a sense, a political-nerd/Westminster Bubble story and scandal. I cannot believe that, in public bars and golf clubs, people talk of little else, but it does tend to support the now-embedded narrative that Starmer-stein is either dishonest or incompetent, or both, which I myself have believed for several years.

As frequently blogged previously, as far as the Pakistani/Muslim rape gangs are concerned, Starmer and Labour cannot afford to “offend” the voting bloc consisting of Muslims, especially, because they are now at least 6% or 8%, and moving towards 10%, of the population. By the time of the next general election (probably 2029 if elections are not “suspended” by reason of a contrived war against Russia), that ~10% bloc will be about half, maybe even two-thirds, of the Labour vote; Muslims are already at least a third of Labour voters nationwide. At present, Labour is polling at around 20%; without the Muslim voters, that would sink to 15% or lower, certainly by 2029.

At the same time, Starmer-stein himself is of course heavily pro-Jew, pro-Israel, is married to a Jewish woman, and has children being brought up as if full-Jew. He belongs to Labour Friends of Israel, and much of Starmer’s —and Labour’s— recent funding has come via Jewish links.

Starmer and his government are, therefore, being pulled in opposing directions, and are in any case incompetent and rudderless.

Well, that translates to a Commons with about 293 Reform UK MPs (about 33 short of an overall majority), 84 Cons (very weak official Opposition), 78 Greens, 69 LibDems, 53 Lab, and 45 SNP [etc].

Once again, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat, a potential fact indicated by all recent (for several months) opinion polling.

One joker in the GE 2029 pack might be Restore Britain. If it stood enough candidates, it would split the “conservative-nationalist” vote, hitting Reform worst; maybe the Cons a little as well.

Restore at present does not look like it can supplant underwhelming Reform, so they might end up competing for more or less the same bloc of votes. I have little time for Reform, but it really is, at present, the only game in town if you want to wipe out Lab and Con (leaving aside the loonie new Greens, with their pro-drug and pro-mass immigration policies).

The above result, a hung Parliament, might be the best result for social nationalism: the System parties gravely and perhaps mortally wounded, and Reform unable to govern effectively without Con MP-votes. That might in turn lead to a demand for real social nationalism. As Lenin may have said, “the worse, the better“.

That opinion poll again underlines the main or central fact: people are voting against the System parties, not for either the Greens or Reform.

The UK— a country sliding to disorder and some sort of civil/social war.

If so, and as I expect, the central fact, or “big story” will be the collapse of both main System parties.

The local elections, many of which Labour tried to “postpone”, are about more than just local council seat numbers. Council seats are often training grounds for future MPs and, though mostly unpaid, do provide “expenses” of various kinds, and there is actual remuneration for those in charge of local “cabinet” briefs at the various councils. At large councils, that can add up to quite a good quasi-salary.

If Lab and Con are massively culled on 7 May 2026, that cripples their local organizations, and that has knock-on effects at the later general election (currently expected to be in 2029).

In fact, I think that only three local election leaflets have been put though my own door (New Forest area) so far: Reform UK, LibDems, and an Independent lady (the most impressive-looking candidate, arguably).

The main System parties have not put their tawdry wares on display here, so far.

…and if that proves to be “impossible”, then we have other and permanently-effective solutions.

Ecce American “democracy”…

Certainly, women often tend to vote based on emotional responses, or superficialities. Difficult question.

I do think that voting in national elections in the UK should be restricted to persons of 28+ years. Having said that, only about 40% or so of those under 28 vote anyway: see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cley905dg20o.

Very true…

Tweeter “6070y80aqui” has obviously never heard of Paula Vennels, Dido Harding etc (or Liz Truss, Antonia Romeo etc)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Harding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Romeo

In fact, I should say that that tweeter “6070y80aqui” has almost certainly had little experience of capitalism or capitalist enterprises in practice.

[“One of women’s best talents, is dodging responsibility.

I say this as a woman.

I notice myself doing it a lot.

We have this thing built into us, that makes it okay in our minds, when we mess up.

Like little white lies.

It’s okay you cheated because he…

It’s okay you were late, because…

We excuse ourselves more than men do.. and then act like it was not our fault.

Imagine making us as judges in a court system??“]

Interesting and rather true, quite often.

That last sentence, about female judges, is very true. Usually unwilling to take a really independent stand against the accepted sentiment or expected result.

Talking point

More tweets seen

[“Women are the backbone of any society.

But they are also the backbone of the problems of a society.

Men are the leaders, the builders.

When the women rule over the men, then the society fails.

People do not say women should not vote because they hate women.

They just understand what a woman is, and what we can do when given too much power in society.“]

Karoline Gosling. An interesting Twitter/X account.

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A horrible tribe, and their State of Israel is now a diseased and cancerous blot on the world.

Whether Starmer-stein goes or stays, there will not be any general election called, because both Labour and Conservative MPs know that, should they vote, or vote in effect, for that, they will be turkeys voting for Christmas. Current polling suggests that, out of 513 Con and Lab MPs currently in place, only about 130-150 would survive a general election; only a third, maybe only a quarter of the present Lab/Con MPs would survive.

Of course, alcohol abuse has always been a problem in Russia, for many many centuries, but (arguably) became far worse under Soviet rule, despite periodic attempts to deal with the problem. I think that, had Andropov survived, and been in good health, he might have managed to cut alcoholism and alcohol misuse tremendously. Andropov might also have managed to salvage the Soviet system as a whole. Gorbachev never really tried to do either, not harshly enough anyway.

Late tweets

If they knew that they would be sunk at sea or shot down on the beaches immediately after arrival, the deterrence would work very quickly. Game over.

They all have to be removed, or otherwise eliminated. In the short-term, prevented from having offspring.

Many think that there is a “debate” going on, when in reality it is a war, but so far a relatively cold one.

[“Neighbours have finally broken their silence on the horror house in Banks, Lancashire, and the truth about Axel Rudakubana is as ugly as expected.

This Rwandan import, the 17-year-old son of Alphonse and Laetitia Rudakubana, was raised in a cauldron of screams, grunts, and objects hurled against walls.

He hadn’t stepped out alone in over two years. On the morning of 29 July 2024 his parents and brother simply watched him leave anyway.

Empty knife boxes littered the place. He glared through English neighbours like they were already corpses.

The signs were everywhere; the imported family ignored them, obstructed authorities, and let the monster walk free into a Taylor Swift dance class, which begs the question, they should be held accountable at the very least.

Three native English girls, Bebe, Alice, Elsie butchered. Ten more slashed and scarred for life. All because Britain imported this family from Rwanda’s chaos and pretended they could be turned into civilised locals.

The public inquiry mutters about “moral failure” by the parents and systemic breakdowns. Fine. But the root failure is national: a deliberate policy of flooding English villages with Third World imports whose cultural DNA carries violence, dysfunction, and zero loyalty to our people.

Axel Rudakubana did not spring from English soil. He arrived with it, was sheltered by it, and unleashed it on our daughters.

The family has scarpered into hiding, no doubt on the taxpayer’s dime. The neighbours endure a living nightmare.

The house is for sale like tainted goods. And still the elite refuses to say the obvious: mass immigration from incompatible corners of the globe imports incompatible savagery.

Native English children are not collateral damage in some enrichment experiment.

England belongs to the English.

Our streets, our villages, our daughters’ safety come first, before any foreign import, any asylum sob story, any diversity quota.

Hold them to account and then Deport the remnants of this family. End the importation. Reclaim our country before the next Rudakubana strikes. Nothing less will suffice.“]

[“He did not believe in God.
He did not speak Hebrew.
Two of his three sons took their own lives.
He considered Palestinian native Jews an inferior class to Jews of European descent.
He was weighing between Argentina and Palestine as the place for establishing his “Jewish State,” but chose Palestine to deceive more people by linking the new state of Israel to the ancient Israelite people.

Here is the father of Zionism: Theodor Herzl. There are more than 50 streets named after him in the modern state of Israel, more than any other national figure.

From beginning to end, this has been a grand farce: this is not the biblical Israel, this is not the nation of the prophets and patriarchs of old, this is not God’s chosen people nor the restoration of the House of David: that is not their star nor their banner!

They are false Jews, with a stolen land, pretending to be the “chosen ones” of a God in whom they do not believe and whom they serve even less.“]

See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Research led by Dr. Eran Elhaik suggests that Ashkenazi Jews have significant, historically overlooked roots in Turkey, challenging the traditional “Rhineland hypothesis”. Findings indicate that 90% of Ashkenazi Jews may descend from Greco-Turko-Iranian converts, with roots linked to primeval villages in northeastern Turkey, such as Iskenaz, Eskenaz, and Ashanaz

[Independent]

The Jewish Kiev regime now openly exposing its part in the overall Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan conspiracy (to import vast black/brown/Chinese (etc) populations into white Europe.

If the police see us as the enemy, that inevitably means that they are no longer a necessary evil, but have become our enemy, have made themselves our enemy, which is sad, because many rank-and-file police are relatively well-meaning, want to keep decent order in society etc, but the fact is that they obey the orders of those who have been brainwashed by the Common Purpose cancer and Jew-Zionist “anti-racist” “training” courses.

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[VDNKh, Moscow, early morning after a rainy night]

Diary Blog, 13 February 2026

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Tweets seen

Another —possibly historic— defeat, not only for the Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment, but also for the “fifth column” Jewish/Zionist lobby itself. One of a string of defeats for them recently.

As I blogged at the time, it was and is ridiculous to label anyone holding up a placard or shouting a slogan as, in effect, a “terrorist”. It devalues the whole concept of what a “terrorist” is, or is perceived to be. Bad law. Bad policy. Bad political judgment.

Apparently, the Government will be appealing, however.

People are getting sick of Jewish/Zionist “lawfare”, the abuse of UK law and process to impose political repression on people. Two of the most notorious cabals (in effect, in practice, volunteer arms of the Israeli Embassy in London) are the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [UKLFI]. They suborn politicians, woodentopped police, CPS “fat ladies” etc, and try to have those opposed to Israel and/or Jewish supremacy prosecuted by police/CPS; failing that, they engage in private prosecutions, as with several recent failed cases, such as the Reginald D. Hunter case.

Interesting.

Ha ha! Jew-Zionists and/or pro-Zionists complaining about a “complaint culture” when I, among many others, have been subjected to many many complaints by Jews, in my case wanting to shut down my then Twitter account (they actually succeeded in doing that, in 2018, despite my thousands of Twitter “followers”), and my blog (no, that is still published on a near-daily basis, and has been for over 8 years).

I was also disbarred (both wrongfully and in fact unlawfully, as the Bar Standards Board later admitted to me in writing), by reason of a complaint by the Jews of “UK Lawyers for Israel”.

Stephen Silverman [@ssilvuk on Twitter/x], the self-styled “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (a tiny but well-funded cabal) has himself, over the past decade and more, made (himself and/or using Jewish proxies sympathetic to the “CAA”) many complaints against me to police etc, including a completely invented claim, in 2021, that I had “racially harassed” him.

Silverman should have been charged with attempted perversion of the course of justice, and still could be, in theory; also “wasting police time” (though, in relation to me in 2021, the time limitation for the latter is now past that limit). The police, though, have often been easily bamboozled and used by the “CAA”.

The police and Crown Prosecution Service need to find, like the characters in The Wizard of Oz, both courage and a brain.

Silverman actually turned up at my free speech trial to gloat, and was so disappointed at the (four months later) sentencing hearing (disappointed that the court’s relative leniency (I should never have been convicted, or indeed prosecuted at all) that he scuttled away very quickly.

Though Silverman gave no evidence at my trial (no doubt afraid of what I should have put to him directly in cross-examination (I defended myself), I saw him, while the court was in recess) actually go into the conference room where the CPS and their outside prosecution Counsel were conferring; it looked like he invited himself in. The police and CPS were, in my free speech trial, acting as puppets for the Jewish lobby. It was there, in plain sight.

I think that, had the quite fair district judge been able to find a technical reason to stop the trial at “half-time”, he (sitting alone) would have acquitted me, but was loath simply to acquit me at the end, and on the basis that the half-dozen cartoons and remarks allegedly posted by me, and which formed the basis of the prosecution case, were notgrossly offensive“. To that extent, the Jewish-lobby/political fix was in, I believe.

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Britain 2026

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-man-who-researched-lee-36715796

Man who researched Lee Rigby before trying to decapitate army officer jailed for life.

Anthony Esan, 25, searched online about the murder of soldier Lee Rigby and bought a set of knives from Argos before the savage assault on uniformed soldier Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton.

Esan was born in Nigeria and moved to the UK in 2009. He lived in the Southwark area of London, the court heard.

[Daily Mirror]

[defendant untermensch]

Why was that untermensch ever allowed to enter the UK? Why was it then allowed to stay?

Wall. Squad. End.

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Interesting point. I have wondered (including on the blog) whether many of the “never vote” unengaged electors might suddenly emerge, not only at the Gorton and Denton by-election, but at the next general election, both in that constituency and others. At GE 2024, only 46.8% of the total eligible electorate bothered to vote, and about half of those voted Labour, which means that Labour won on about 24% of the total eligible vote: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorton_and_Denton#Elections_in_the_2020s.

I have just read a piece on a website called Politics Home which managed to cover the by-election (in some detail about Muslims, the Greens, and Labour) while scarcely mentioning Reform UK, not covering its campaign at all, and not mentioning Matt Goodwin, the Reform candidate, by name even once: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/muslim-vote-swing-by-election-gorton-denton.

Reminded me of the way in which the mainstream media once ignored British nationalist parties in the past (unless something discreditable emerged).

As blogged before, while I disagree with Goodwin on several issues, notably Israel/Jews etc, he is the standout candidate at that by-election, and would quite plainly be of far more use to the inhabitants of Gorton and Denton than either the pseudo-Green plumber lady or, a fortiori, the quangocrat/public relations woman from Greece that Labour has selected. He is also about as intelligent as the other two put together.

Would translate to a Commons with about 378 Reform MPs (very solid majority), 66 LibDems (very weak official Opposition), 61 Labour, 45 SNP, 32 Cons, and 30 Greens [etc].

Incidentally, on those figures, both Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer would retain their seats, but (on the Labour side) all the obvious rivals of Starmer would lose theirs— Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves, West Streeting, Angela Rayner, and (new entry) Alistair “Al” Carns.

The Kiev regime knows that it is losing the war, in essence has already lost it, and is living on borrowed time (and “borrowed” money…).

Don’t forget the others who are not truly indigenous. Not just the obvious. There are several groups.

Hardy ha ha…Former wife of a former (Con) MP feels safe walking down Holland Park Avenue. Try it in parts of East London (etc)…

I have noted that on the blog a few times recently: Greens odds-on, despite the apparent local support for Reform UK. As for Labour, over 8/1 on Betfair.

Just looked on Betfair (which uses a decimal system, not the traditional odds-format). Greens are quite heavily odds-on, about 1/3, Reform around 9/2, which seems ridiculous and a pretty good bet at that price. Labour 10/1. I doubt that Labour will win, but 10/1 is also a value bet in what seems to be a 3-horse race in which all three do have at least a plausible chance.

Just checked Coral bookmakers. They have the Greens on 4/11, so a very heavy favourite; Reform UK at 7/2, Labour at 8/1.

The Conservatives, LibDems, and Advance UK are all at 200/1, and all others (Monster Raving Loony, Libertarian Party, SDP, Rejoin EU, and the Communist League) are at 500/1.

I suppose that some mugs believe “Tommy Robinson”. The truth must lie elsewhere, especially since Israel, which “Tommy” vociferously supports, seems to have backed, albeit covertly, the ISIS barbarians.

If, however, that is a genuine police telephone call, it may relate to a comment by one individual ISIS barbarian, maybe a UK supporter, rather than ISIS as such. Hard to say. “Robinson” has, however, recently been even more vocal in support of Israel etc.

Late tweets

Everything has its time. Reform needs to knock out Con and Lab. Once it has done that and replaced them, and then failed in government (because in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, and also unwilling to “do de business” generally, then and only then will open the window of opportunity for social nationalism. Sometime between 2027 and 2035.

Appalling, and totally unnecessary, but the ruling circles in the West, mainly, have been preparing this for quite a while.

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Diary Blog, 7 February 2026

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[Bruch memorial, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week another narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul— 4/10, as against Rentoul’s 3/10.

I knew the answers to questions 1, 4, 7, and 9. I could not remember the answer to question 6, did not think long enough to get question 3, and had no idea about the most of the others; question 5 has several possible answers (though one stands out, I now know); the instrument I guessed was one of the (4 or 5) musical instruments Marie Antoinette played, though not the one wanted by the quizmaster, it seems, so I have not awarded myself that one.

A few extra thoughts about Mandelson, Epstein, and the whole Jew-lobby scandal at and around Starmer-stein’s government

First thought: saw Gordon Brown on TV news lamenting about it all, and excoriating Mandelson. Well, OK, but you, Brown, you loony and hypocrite, knew all about his general sleaziness, his sexual proclivities, his activities in London youth clubs etc, going back as far as the 1970s, and his willingness to cheat and scheme to make money, as with his mortgage and loan and property activities in the late 1990s, which activities in fact attracted the attention of the police at the time, until their investigation was interfered with, and they were warned off.

Second thought: how useless is MI5, that they seem either to have been unaware of the Mandelson and Epstein connection or, far more likely, were unwilling to rock the political boat? Same goes for SIS, incidentally.

Third thought: so Jews conspired to make money illicitly? Quelle surprise… oh, no, wait…

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Amazing. It took humanity unknown ages, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years to come up with that. Now it is known, it must not be forgotten.

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As I blogged years ago, about 5 years ago, Starmer (to my then slight surprise) turned out to be utterly clueless.

Not many lawyers in the modern era are much good as politicians, though I suppose one could reference Lenin. Or Castro [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#Career_in_law_and_politics:_1950%E2%80%931952]. A few others too, maybe.

Some might include Mandela, but he was never really a lawyer, just a “gopher” in a law firm for a while, until awarded a law degree on the nod while a celebrity prisoner in the 1980s, and aged about 70. He had failed his law degree three times in the late 1940s, when about 30 years old.

As for Starmer-stein, Matt Goodwin and Reform UK must be loving this heady mixture of cluelessness and corruption in the present fake “Labour” government. Only 17 days until the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Many will later turn to social national politics.

I blogged previously that all three leading contenders might score around 30%, leading to a very close result. Were Labour to win by a small margin, that would still be a negative sign, because Labour scored 50.8% there only last year.

Anti-Reform tactical voters will have to decide which party is more likely to be able to defeat Reform. Either Labour or the Greens. Polls presently put Labour ahead of the Greens, but that may not reflect feeling among those actually going to vote.

Reform is still slightly ahead in the opinion polling at Gorton and Denton, but it is hard to say where the voters will be by 26 February, the polling day. I begin to think that the Labour vote might collapse, by reason of abstention as much as via defection. That might or not boost the Green vote, but would probably lead to a Reform triumph.

I blogged about Carns yesterday. Someone who would go down well with the public, on first showing, and because of his background, but who is an unknown quantity ideologically.

Ex-officers usually disappoint as MPs. Examples from recent years would include Dan Jarvis and Johnny Mercer.

Well, we shall see.

Trump is all over the place, from one day to the next.

The very slow but inexorable advance continues along much of the overall front. There are no Kiev-regime advances, and have not been for at least a year or so.

[“I was born in Woking, Surrey, less than a mile from the site of the Shah Jahan mosque, the first built in Britain. Growing up in Woking my friends and I soon learnt that the Pakistani community acted differently to us. They operated like a clan, like a gang. If you crossed one, you would find a dozen brothers and cousins waiting for you outside the school gates. As English people who had small, quite independent families, this clan loyalty and mindset was nearly impossible to contend with. ‘Turn the other cheek’ my mother used to say. Never easy though when you’ve seen your friend have his teeth kicked in by a mob for a minor instance of perceived disrespect. We used to play pool at the Planets in Woking town centre after school, however it wasn’t long before this was taken over by the Pakistani clans from Maybury. They’d pelt us with pool balls and intimidate us to leave. It was their territory now. So spare me your victimhood @sajidjavid.”]

I blogged, years ago, about the attack in New Zealand carried out by Brenton Tarrant in 2019. In that blog post, I mentioned, in passing, that mosque in Woking (which you can see from the train):

Ah. Just what I wondered about earlier in the day.

Starmer-stein is a real office-politics tiger, isn’t he? Useless at anything else.

I see many tweets and other online comments about the supposed “Ukrainian rent boys”, their alleged connection with Starmer-stein, and their delayed trials. I wonder what might be the truth about all that…

…and the same [kind of] police pretend to be terribly shocked when tasked with bothering social-national bloggers such as myself, or satirical singers such as Alison Chabloz, or public speakers such as Jez Turner (etc).

One begins to wonder whether there is much point in even having a police force of the kind the UK now has. Like so many long-established UK institutions (Monarchy, the Bar, the Church of England, the ancient universities, SIS, MI5, Parliament, the NHS etc), the police need “a revaluation of all values“.

Late tweets

It’s almost as if Adolf Hitler and others were right after all…

As for sleazy Alastair Campbell, what his tweet tells me is that he, and all the other Labourite drones, are getting very desperate. As if it really matters that Reform in Gorton and Denton may have sent out a few leaflets without the correct labelling.

The Jew Mandelson “very greedy” and “always looking for money“? Well, who would have thought it?

Maybe I should relocate to Hungary, which at least will not be directly targeted in any nuclear exchange. I rather liked the lakeside suite I had in 2001, with its direct access to the gardens and lake (Balaton). I swam in the lake, and enjoyed an evening palinka (or two).

[“Iran has prepared a large-scale plan to counter the US armed forces and pressure on the global economy. According to the Tasnim agency affiliated with the IRGC, within a few hours after a possible US attack, Iran will launch massive strikes with ballistic missiles and drones on US military facilities throughout the region, expanding the conflict zone beyond its borders.

Tehran also relies on its cyberwar capabilities – attacks on US logistics, disruptions in the command and control system, and creating chaos among countries hosting American forces. The IRGC’s naval forces have been practicing the “swarm” tactic – attacks by small boats equipped with missiles and torpedoes to overload and suppress large warships. Blocking the Strait of Hormuz could lead to an increase in oil prices above $200 per barrel, which would cause serious damage to the global economy and increase pressure on Washington.

Hossein Shariatmadari stated that Iran could block the passage of American, French, British, and German ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s strategic goal is to create an unstable multi-front confrontation for the US, forcing American forces to simultaneously face pressure in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and potentially in Syria, while protecting its allies in the Persian Gulf and ensuring the safety of sea routes.“]

Were I the Iranian leadership, I should think that all Iran’s missiles should be targeted on Israel, focussing on a few main targets— Dimona, Ben-Gurion Airport, central Tel Aviv and affluent areas in that region, such as Ra’anana and Herzliya.

Still, it’s their party…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hanson]

A great American symphony by a composer much underrated.