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Travelogue— St. Petersburg
Quite interesting, despite the occasionally (unintentionally-) amusing commentary. The title or subtitle is a bit silly (though arguably borne out by the content).
Worth seeing. The lady at 12:54, dressed in mauve, is particularly stylish.
Petersburg is one of the few cities in the world which I both want to see and have not already visited.
The video has certainly not discouraged me.
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Same situation exists in the UK in respect of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, a pack of malicious, lying, perjuring Jew-Zionists. Effectively a volunteer offshoot of the Israeli Embassy in London (albeit that some of them are paid out of large funds donated from wealthy Jews in the UK, and from Israel), they make unfounded and untrue allegations to police, professional regulators, and others (eg the Crown Prosecution Service), and try to close down venues hosting anyone supposedly “antisemitic”. Glastonbury is their latest large target.
Latest example? Published by the malicious “CAA” cabal only this morning:
A new day, and a new attempt to (as “they” themselves put it) “ruin” someone they call “antisemitic”…
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Does that mean that malicious liar Falter, and others, will be leaving the UK, and going to Israel (or the USA or elsewhere)? We have seen many such “threats” before from others, but they rarely seem to actually go…
[“Israeli Newspaper, regarding impact of Iranian missiles:
The shortage of Arrow missiles poses an increasing threat to the home front, as the fall of an iranian missile in a populated area could cause economic damage estimated at no less than 300 million shekels, according to Ministry of Defense estimates. The mayor of Bat Yam stated that a missile falling in his city left “the largest destruction site in Israel since its establishment,” noting that the explosion destroyed approximately 160 dunams and damaged about 120 buildings, including 20 buildings that were completely destroyed, killing nine people. He added: “And all this from just one missile.”
The cost of producing the most advanced generation Arrow missile is 12 million shekels, which is a huge amount, but the problem is not the price. What matters is filling the stockpile, because you do not press a button to get an interceptor missile.
At the heart of the current dispute lie interceptor missiles, particularly “Arrow 3 and 4.” These missiles are an extremely important means of countering missile attacks. International media reported concerns about a shortage of them, after the Iranians posed a major challenge to the Israeli defense system. According to security sources, all relevant parties in the Ministry of Finance have been informed of this, but the required budget has not yet been transferred.“]
Opinion polls supposedly ask questions of a representative sample of the population. Only about 80% of the UK population is now white/European. That suggests that pretty near 100% of real Brits want those predators, scavengers, and parasites, expelled or otherwise eliminated.
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Of course, standards of education in the United States have always been poor. In the Second World War, German Military Intelligence officers were dumbfounded to discover, after the Normandy Landings of 1944, that many American military units were regularly supplied with comic books for the troops’ reading matter.
Anyone who has lived in the United States will be aware at what a rock-bottom level is the education and general knowledge even of many of those at university graduate or professional levels.
Unfortunately, that is also slowly becoming more true of the UK than it was in the past.
[“More evidence that the NHS and ambulance service is unfit for purpose. This afternoon, I was walking through Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire) on my way to the station when I heard a thud and a scream behind me. I turned round to see that a woman had fallen on the broken paving stones and was writhing in pain. I and the owner of a nearby tattoo parlour went to assist. The woman was complaining of pain in her arms, legs, and left hip. She was in shock and very distressed. She said she didn’t feel she could get up, even with assistance. Her breathing was laboured. Fearful that she may have fractured her hip or limbs, and fearful of trying to move her, we agreed to call 999. Tattoo man made the call while I cleaned blood from her hands, comforted and reassured her. The call handler informed him that “a clinician will review the case and may call you back in the next four hours” (!) I take the phone, explain the woman is flat out on the pavement, can’t move, may have broken something, is in shock, and crying out in pain. I insist that we can’t just leave her on the hard pavement for 4 hours in the hope of a clinician deciding if an ambulance is needed, and that she needs to be checked out at the hospital asap. Any delay might exacerbate her injuries. Call handler says she is following protocol and that this ” is the most appropriate action”. I disagree, explain again that the woman has fallen on a concrete surface and can’t move, and her breathing is laboured, but it’s clear call handler won’t budge. The call ends with call handler telling me to shield the woman from the sun! Er… how? “Put a coat over her.” It’s 34C, and she’s telling me to procure a coat… I hang up, and after 5 mins, redial. A more switched on call handler responds this time. Ambulance arrives in about 8 mins. Had I not made that second call, the woman would have remained on the pavement for hours. The lady is now back at home.“]
Shocking, and a similar incident happened near me, at the local Waitrose, I think 2 years ago. By the time I passed by, the victim was already being attended to by Waitrose staff and some others, either her family or stray customers. I naturally assumed that an ambulance would be there before too long. In fact, Waitrose people told me the next day that an ambulance only arrived after 4 hours.
Having said that, I have also seen some sterling work both by ambulance paramedics and other NHS staff, but that is what happens in gradual societal collapse— it is indeed gradual, not the same everywhere, rather hit and miss.
Britain is not collapsing overnight, or in one year, or even in one decade. This is characteristic. When the Soviet Union eventually collapsed, and that took several years (some would argue, decades), the momentum of habit kept things running normally in places, even as near-chaos happened elsewhere.
I recall seeing a TV news piece from the BBC (I think) in the early 1990s about Yeltsin’s post-Soviet Russian society. I myself had already been there, in 1993, though not for long and only in and around Moscow.
In that news report, we saw a uniformed lady in some small place outside Moscow. She was the station-mistress of a very small railway station, just a halt really. Despite not having been paid at all for four years (!) she still kept the station clean, planted and weeded the flower troughs, and was there for most of the arrivals and departures during the day.
Was it Aristotle who said that civilization was immanent, something inherent, or inborn? Maybe it was St. Thomas Aquinas. Ah…looking now at Wikipedia, it seems not; quite the reverse, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence.
Never mind. My point here is that people often go on doing their duty even as society decays and collapses. Some people, anyway.
The NHS is a bit of a touchstone in the UK. For some, it is unique, envied worldwide, the greatest development of Britain, ever, and staffed by wise medics, angelic nurses, and public-spirited support staff. For others, it is a giant waste of money, badly-organized, and run largely for the benefit of its own employees. Examples of all of the above can be found, even in the same hospital or relating to the same patient’s care, and easily enough.
The same with society generally. Parts of UK society can be seen, even today, as advanced, optimistic, worthy of admiration. Other parts of our society can, equally objectively, be seen as horrible, toxic, and worthy of being eradicated, exterminated.
A process such as the development, or decline, of a society cannot easily be seen fairly or accurately by people who themselves are within that process. cf. the “Fall of the Roman Empire”, a complex process that took place over hundreds of years.
Nevil Shute, quoting T.S. Eliot, put it well at the end of his once-famous novel On the Beach (as a child of 10-13 in 1960s Australia, I noticed that almost every house had a copy): “...this is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper“. Gradual mortality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel).
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At what point do British people say that the present “one man one vote” supposedly representative “democracy” has become invalid (for several reasons, one being that only real English/Welsh/Scots/British people should be allowed to vote)? An open question.
See also (from over six years ago):
I live only 15-20 miles from Southampton (depending on route etc). Alien, in several ways. As for Reading, I was born there (in 1956), but when I last saw it, some 18 years ago, 2007 I think, both the central parts and some of the outlying parts to the east had changed out of all recognition, though the area where I spent part of my childhood and part of my teenage years, Caversham Heights (on higher ground on the other side of the river from the main town) had not changed very much.
The Kiev regime is losing 1,000-2,000 soldiers daily, perhaps more (especially if you include medivac cases and desertions) . That is a rate of attrition that must lead to the collapse of the front-line before very long.
Rachel Reeves. Hateful woman. Member of Labour Friends of Israel. Thought she was so tough as she hit those she thought unable to defend themselves— pensioners, the sick, the disabled etc.
That horrible woman even contributed to a Jew-Israeli propaganda book about Auschwitz.
I am very glad she is being stamped on. I hope that that both continues and intensifies.
Ha ha…
As a confirmed “supporter” (near-agent) of Israel and the Jewish lobby, Rachel Reeves has no interest in the dead of Gaza (or the poor of the UK, come to that).
Labour is just a label now. In fact, one of its least impressive MPs, Jess Phillips (an expenses cheat, freeloader, and moneygrubber) admitted as much several years ago.
Rachel Reeves and her husband, combined, are dragging down a total of about half a million pounds a year.
I should love to see her lose her Commons seat too. 2029?
(i.e. the Israelis, and Jewish-Zionist interests generally).
My advice to her is to get on your broomstick and fly far away, until you are forgotten (should take a few weeks).
I love it when one of those smug, moneygrubbing, freeloading, careerist, pro-Jewish-lobby (even better) System MP drones is toppled, and crashes to oblivion (as Rachel Reeves surely will).
Had I a button that would send Reeves (and the entire Starmer-stein misgovernment, and the fake “Conservatives”, and some others) into orbit, I would not just press it, but make a fist and bang on it like Khrushchev did at the UN.
It follows that I have not one atom of sympathy, fake or other, for her. Au contraire.
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Just the thing for a typically unpleasant British summer heatwave (hot, humid, sticky, no aircon).
Shoot all invaders. That might work…
Also, listen to that former Labour-label SpAd. Deluded. No real ideas, just tick-box nonsense.
Reform UK is merely somewhat better than the other LibLabCon (etc) System rubbish, but its triumph, if it happens, will break the whole rigged political/msm scam asunder. Overton Window etc…
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