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Diary Blog, 19 July 2025

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Historical note

On 20 July 1944, military and civilian backstabbers, with varying motives, attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, and to take up the reins of state in the German Reich.

The plotters varied both in their motives and behaviour, some principled and, at least in their own minds, patriots of a sort, others unprincipled and/or out-and-out traitors. Some exhibited courage, others cowardice.

History is not black and white; it must be open to discussion, dissent, and revision, which is one reason why the quasi-mediaeval laws banning such revision in several EU and other countries (sub nom “holocaust” “denial” laws) are so wrong.

Today is only the 19th of July, but I may not publish a blog post tomorrow; we shall see.

Saturday quiz

Well, this week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10; I scored 6/10, and did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, and 10. Annoying that I got no. 5 wrong, having been there myself a couple of times.

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Reform UK people are, inevitably, inexperienced in the procedures of central and local government. Is Rentoul then saying that the fake Labour and fake Conservative parties are so wonderfully efficient etc because of their long experience in government? If so, Rentoul should think again.

A year on, and Sue Gray is entirely forgotten by the public. She has been put back in her box, the lid of the box has been firmly shut, the box has been put on the shelf, and the cupboard door locked. Sic transit gloria mundihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gray,_Baroness_Gray_of_Tottenham.

A useless box-ticker and “cover-ass” bureaucrat. Never give power to people of that sort (SIS/MI6 and MI5 please note).

They wanted a “conservative” “diversity hire”, and they got one…

I was just listening to that podcast:

Pathetic, listening to Michael Gove, the former MP and Cabinet minister (Israel puppet, Jewish-lobby puppet, expenses cheat etc) trying to bolster “Carpetbagger Kemi”. Gove is now Editor of the Spectator.

The contribution of Tim Shipman, political journalist, is more interesting, as is that of Luke Tryl, a pollster.

Incidentally, Gove’s choice as Con Party “rising star” is one Katie Lam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam], a Jewish or half-Jewish woman aged 33, who, prior to election as MP in 2024, had been both a Goldman Sachs banker and a public relations person.

Invasion. Migration invasion.

https://twitter.com/SprinterObserve/status/1946509530449207379

https://twitter.com/SprinterObserve/status/1946509530449207379

Of course, in Tel Aviv “they” will be laughing. For now…

It must have taught the Iranian authorities a lesson, but not, I think, the lesson that the Americans thought that they were teaching…

One of the biggest problems Australia has always had, especially since the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Menzies] has been the very poor quality of its senior (and other) politicians.

Menzies, above all, supported suitable European immigration to Australia after WW2, but opposed non-European immigration, a wise dual-aspect policy that was changed by and after Gough Whitlam’s government of the 1970s. Disastrous.

Not that, in retrospect, Menzies himself always made the right decisions. Even Menzies made very bad strategic errors, really.

Seems that “the reduction of the Gaza ghetto” is not going so well for the “Israelis”.

Gaza today; Tel Aviv, Ra’anana, and Eilat tomorrow.

So…will the man who was (from what one sees on Twitter/X) run over by a police van, deliberately, be charged with criminal damage to a police van by having been run over?

I recall a prison escape by bank robbers in the 1970s, in Leicestershire. When recaptured, one of the robbers was seen to have had the s**t kicked out of him, his face black and blue. Believe it or not, he was then charged with “criminal damage to a police boot” (using his face or head)! Talk about adding insult to injury.

I have no idea whether that ludicrous charge was later dropped. Maybe. Things like that happened sometimes in the days when the police were the charging authorities, i.e. before the Crown Prosecution Service was invented (1986).

Incidentally, my own (and only) contact with the underwhelming Essex Police was in 2017, when the usual malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” Jew-Zionist(s) made a typically false/malicious complaint against me. It went nowhere, of course (though was inconvenient…so the bastards owe me one…not the only one, though).

Talking about the “CAA” swine…

Ha ha! Mark Lewis is basically a fraudster, in lay terms. Negligent. Dishonest. Hopeless.

I had not previously heard of that idiot/lunatic. This is him: “Roca is openly gay, and his parliamentary candidacy was supported by the LGBT+ Labour Chris Smith List.[12]” [Wikipedia].

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

Seems to be half(?)-Argentinian.

May turn out to be a one-term MP; open question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Iain Dale, another complete puppet of the Israel lobby/Jewish lobby. Quelle surprise— he is one of the System “conservatives” (he was selected as a Con Party candidate in 2024, but chickened-out) who think it OK that the UK is swamped by backward people(s) from all over the world.

Another “conservative” in hock to the Jewish lobby (LBC itself is owned by Jewish interests), who (in his case) lives in a luxury farmhouse in East Anglia, has a comfortable home in London as well, and makes hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. Yes, his own life will not be impacted by the migration invasion. He therefore prefers to be a traitor to the British people and their future.

Dale’s discussion there reminded me of the “Mrs Duffy moment” that sank Gordon Brown at the 2010 General Election. Both Brown and Dale refuse to see what is right in front of all our noses. Who, in that radio discussion, is the “dinosaur“? Dale, I think. Either dinosaur or cliche ostrich, head in the sand.

Does Dale have any idea about what is happening in the country, the UK, on which he purports to comment?

Incidentally, the appalling behaviour of many Afghan men (especially) is not confined to the Taliban; indeed, some of the Taliban are better than some of the others.

Oh…

That last tweet might be a bit challenging for Dale…

Broken Britain

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25326157.carer-rachel-goodman-sentenced-weymouth-court-theft/

“THE heartbroken family of a man with Alzheimer’s say they feel ‘betrayed’ after a woman they employed to care for him stole ‘treasured’ and ‘irreplaceable’ items from the family home.

Rachel Goodman, who has a similar previous conviction, was said to have ‘exploited the family’s vulnerability in the most callous way possible’ after she admitted stealing sentimental items.

The defendant avoided immediate jail time when she was sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates Court.

Goodman, 54, was employed by Louise Woollam to care for her husband Richard, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, at their home in Shillingstone, near Blandford.

A court heard how the incident had such an impact on the family that Mr Woollam, a former RAF pilot, had to be placed in a care home.

The court heard Goodman stole items such as a diamond engagement ring which belonged to Mrs Woollam’s mother, earrings brought for Mrs Woollam by her husband, sunglasses, a watch, a snorkel, bedding, a throw, money – and a 250-year-old family heirloom.

Goodman, of Eastland Road, Yeovil, has 13 previous convictions, which includes conning an elderly woman out of £3,500 and for which she received a suspended sentence.

A victim impact statement read out in court by prosecutor, Christina Norgan, on behalf of Mrs Woollam, said: “My trust and security has been completely shattered by Rachel Goodman. Alzheimer’s is a cruel disease which has already taken so much from us.

“She exploited our vulnerability in the most callous way possible. I could not go to work as I could not trust another carer in my home. I feel betrayed and broken-hearted.”

Kenny Sharp, mitigating, said: “Maximum credit for an early guilty plea. This is a person who is struggling to come to terms with the reality of what she did. Immediate custody would have a significant impact on her two children.

The defendant was handed a 12-month custodial sentence suspended for two years. She must also complete 12 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days and 200 hours of unpaid work.

[Bournemouth Echo]

Was that “justice”?

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Israeli-Jew psychopath cowards. Still, “what goes around comes around“. Seems that some never learn.

Even the better section of the Israeli msm admits it.

Those Israeli soldiers are members of the same group that whine constantly about alleged atrocities supposedly committed against their ancestors in the 1930s and 1940s, nearly a century ago (and “they” often make up all sorts of tales to embellish the same).

Literary note

There is a mediaeval legend, called “the legend of Ahasuerus (or Ahasverus)”, about a king who is unable to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, as a result of which he is condemned to reincarnate always in the same race-type, unable to progress.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahasuerus#In_legends.

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I noted those disgraceful scenes on the blog yesterday. Ecce the capital of our country. ..

See also:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14921513/Truth-Tube-station-brawl-revealed-Man-dumped-toddler-floor-pile-massive-fight.html

Soviet propaganda contained many lies, but not all Soviet propaganda lied…

Yet more Israeli war crimes.

The Kiev regime knows that it is losing. Its entire eastern front may crumble this year.

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Diary Blog, 20 July 2024

Morning music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week I scored the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 6, 7, and 8 (in fact I had read about the last, but had forgotten it).

Historical note

On this day, 80 years ago, backstabbers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and then to seize power in Berlin and over the Third Reich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot.

Classical Hochverrat [“high treason”].

I am willing to accept that some of the conspirators acted out of a sense of higher duty, and with the idea of bringing a halt to the war on the Western Front, and so also bringing a halt to the devastating aerial bombing of Germany (which eventually killed as many as 800,000 people). However, to attempt the assassination of the head of both state and government at such a time of crisis can only be seen as treason, if the term has any meaning [see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/01/08/treason-is-a-matter-of-timing/].

The conspirators wanted to call a halt, via armistice or truce, on the Western Front but continue to fight Stalin’s Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. They seem to have believed that the Americans and British would have accepted that. Not impossible, but very unlikely. Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference] had jointly called for the war against the German Reich to be fought until the latter declared unconditional surrender.

I cannot but feel some understanding of the motives of the 20 July 1944 conspirators, despite their treason, and despite their attempt to kill Hitler. They wanted to keep Germany, and all Central Europe, from being completely obliterated. They were unaware at the time of the progress being made by Jewish scientists in the USA towards the development of an atomic bomb (originally planned to be used against Germany, not —primarily— Japan); had they known of it, they would perhaps have felt doubly justified.

The 20 July plotters gambled for the highest stakes, and lost.

I do not “condone” the actions of the plotters; neither do I “condemn” them (and my views make no difference either way). Let history judge. Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht [“the history of the world is the judgment of the world”— Schiller].

[Dresden 1945, after Allied, mainly British, bombing]
[Hamburg, probably in 1945, showing some of the damage done by the British and American bombers in July 1943, 81 years ago, but after rubble had been cleared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II]
[“We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
[Reichskanzlei —Reich Chancellery— Berlin, 1945, after the devastating defeat of the Reich]
[Berlin 1945: Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]

Let us hope that creatures of evil such as Ursula von der Leyen do not succeed in provoking or instigating another such regional or world war, which would be, this time, even more devastating for Germany, all of Europe, and the world as a whole.

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

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Is that wrong?

Britain 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13652631/Roma-police-Leeds-riots-locals.html

Inside the Roma community ‘persecuted’ by police: How violent Leeds riots were the latest act of lawlessness to hit a deprived suburb where ‘a problem for one is a problem for all‘.

Many have large families, and around 5,000 Roma are now believed to live in the deprived neighbourhood, attracted by its spacious three-story terraces and low house prices.

Harehills has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of Leeds.

[Daily Mail]

Even that Daily Mail report, if you read it in full, bends over backwards to be “nice” and “liberal” towards the Roma Gypsy “community”.

If I comment here about the bastards, no doubt the “usual suspects” will make yet another malicious complaint to the police (our new poundland Stasi) about me, which would be (again) a bore and a nuisance, so I shall allow the readers of the blog to read between the lines, as in other police states.

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I have been blogging about that, and in greater detail, since 4 July 2024, and indeed even before then.

Diary Blog, 20 July 2022

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On this day a year ago

20 July 1944

It has become traditional on this blog, on this day, to say a few words about the attempted coup of 20 July 1944. I refer readers to the blog posts for previous years: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/07/20/diary-blog-20-july-2021/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/07/20/diary-blog-20-july-2020/; https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/the-20th-of-july-2019-thoughts/; https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/.

Apart from that, all that I want to say today is to commend to my readers, as we traverse this very significant and world-historic year of 2022, the virtues (which are not solely soldierly ones) of loyalty and honour.

Meine Ehre heisst Treue!

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A textbook example of how to confirm the view, by spouting nonsense, that you are a fool. The only surprising thing, though, is that this scarcely brilliant —and literally “entitled”— person was actually invited to speak at the UN in the first place.

Ha. A not-uncommon experience. Many people in this world seem to find it possible to live without books. I recall going into what was said to be the best (perhaps the only) large bookshop in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), in 1977, only to find that most of the books seemed to be How to Look After your Dog [Cat, Goldfish etc], or the works of Wilbur Smith [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Smith].

Perhaps I was too hard on the locals, who were at the time subject to international sanctions, which meant that few items could be imported; in any case, Rhodesia was short of foreign currency, and what they had could not be used for books, but rather for weapons, ammunition, and fuel.

Having said that, I have found in other parts of the world that some people just do not need books in their life, or maybe just a few paperbacks by Dick Francis or other popular writers.

The same people, in my view, are often those who do not need or love trees.

I am different: I need trees, and I need books, though it will be a long time, if ever, before I replace the 2,000-book library I had to abandon on leaving France in 2009.

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We all know how this will end, I mean the whole situation, not that specific instance. Somewhere down the line. We cannot even write or speak about it, because the System police have been told to prioritize “community cohesion” (the multikulti society) before all else, which is why people get 2-3 years in prison for putting up stickers, while serious real crimes are either not investigated at all, or result in very lenient penalties.

In the words of Jesus Christ, “you have said it“…

Ha. “Campaign Against AntiSemitism” [“CAA”] troublemakers fail again.

Not that I support rowdy behaviour (as alleged in the instant case) but those CAA goblins are malicious and politically-motivated. Look at my own most recent experience of their continuing campaign of false and malicious conspiracy to repress free speech: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/.

Incidentally, I wonder why, in the tweet shown, that tribal cabal uses the Union Jack, rather than their own flag.

Talking about the Jew-Zionist lobby, I imagine that they will be sorry, not so much that Suella Braverman failed to become Conservative Party leader (she never had a chance, even among that bunch of nitwits), but rather that she is unlikely to retain her position as Attorney-General. Married to (it seems) a Jew, and completely in the Jewish/Israeli pocket, her trumpeted support for free speech never included support for free speech where the Jewish lobby objected to said speech.

Actually, Suella Braverman has done better (for herself), career-wise, than anyone could have predicted. By the irony of Fate, she not only became an MP, but also Attorney-General, albeit to the most stupid and dishonest Cabinet ever. She also was able to request appointment as QC by reason of the above. Not bad for a pretty humdrum barrister of Indian origins.

Another story of “holocaust” fakery

What can one say? So much of the much-publicized “holocaust” saga is a farrago of fables.

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Britain is about to undergo another steep decline, and that will be so whether Indian moneygrubber Sunak or mediocre Liz Truss pose as Prime Minister for a while.

Under Salazar, those untermenschen would have been dragged away and then quietly eliminated.

The IRA and Sinn Fein spent a hundred years either fighting the British (and the Irish government) or opposing any British influence over the Republic, but now stay silent (or even support) the migration invasion which has taken over Ireland— even the Irish Prime Minister is a half-Indian (and a gay one at that)! Where are the IRA/Sinn Fein wastes of space now?

Someone could do a “Solomon Grundy” rejig about that.

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Diary Blog, 20 July 2021

On 20 July 1944, misguided and/or treasonous officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler. They failed, though the German Reich then lasted for only another 9 months.

The defeat of the Reich in 1945, though disastrous on several levels (as was the war in general), did prevent Central Europe being devastated by atom bombs. The Jewish scientists, from various origins, who created the atom bomb in the USA, wanted it to be used against Germany. The defeat and unconditional surrender of the Reich at least prevented that, which would have even-further crippled Europe’s future.

My previous blogs about 20th July: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/07/20/diary-blog-20-july-2020/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/20/the-20th-of-july-2019-thoughts/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/.

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The Jewish lobby is behind much of the migration invasion. Monies have actually been raised in London synagogues in past years, and possibly —I do not know— this year in order to encourage this. The expenses cheat fraudster, “lord” Dubs, himself a migrant in the 1930s, has been prominent in all that. Then you have the sort of “antiracist” and “refugees welcome” traitors and idiots, who think that Britain must have both a huge and generous Welfare State and unlimited numbers of migrant invaders! Complete idiots.

It is all part of a plan, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/.

Yesterday alone, nearly 500 illegal migrant-invaders crossed the calm English Channel from France, and have now been, as BBC Radio 4 Today Programme weaselled, “intercepted“, meaning brought to English ports, then given accommodation, food and about £40 a week spending money. Few will ever give anything to this country; the rest will just be useless eaters, if you like. Many will be criminal. Some will also have mixed-race children with English women, thus further degrading the race-stock.

Of course, the hundreds of invaders crossing the Channel every day now are the minority; most invaders are “legal” ones: “family members”, “spouses”, “fiancees”, “students” etc. Indeed the biggest contingent of all are, legally-speaking but not in reality, “British”, meaning those born here to immigrant mothers and/or fathers.

Tyranny is bad enough, but tyranny with a clown as figurehead is just shabby…

As for the clown himself, I do not think that he will last as long as many think, either as Prime Minister, or on this Earth. He looks unwell.

That is, in part, how I feel.

Truth in posters

Designed with American society in mind, but true all the same, and when adapted to UK society.

Waitrose foray

Having had a few things to do today, I called into Waitrose in early evening. Still quite a few rabbits walking around muzzled, even in the car park. I had, earlier, even seen a couple of idiots driving around in facemasks!

I noticed that the black-clad Handmaid’s Tale militiaman was no longer deployed outside (or inside). Only a notice urged the rabbits to “take care of others” or some such.

In the store itself, the shoppers seemed to be split: 95% stupid rabbits still complying with the now-defunct facemask nonsense “law”, and a very few like me, happily maskless. Almost all those wearing masks were wearing the cloth ones, which are not even marginally effective.

As to the staff, about half wearing masks, even more than before. In fact I noticed one staff member who had had a few conversations with me (and was very anti-mask), now wearing one, which makes me wonder whether Waitrose has suddenly more or less ordered staff to wear them.

Late tweets

News from the emergent ZOG/NWO police state of the UK…

…because Laura Kuenssberg is a total transmitter of government propaganda. I occasionally defended her from fierce critics on Twitter when I still had a Twitter account (the Jew lobby removed me in 2018), but I fear that I was too kind. Since then, I have both noted her lack of professionalism and discovered that she is part-Jew (I thought part-German, but in fact she is both part-German and part-Jew). What is it they say? “Every. Single. Time…”

I drove past similar sights today, in another part of Southern England.

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Regular readers will have noticed that I have posted this version of this symphony by Howard Hanson a few times recently. No apologies, though. It fits my mood tonight. An American classic.

Diary Blog, 20 July 2020

Today is 20 July. On the same date, 76 years ago, there was an attempt to assassinate the Chancellor of the German Reich, Adolf Hitler. It failed, but Hitler was wounded, and the remaining months of his life were affected by the physical and psychological effects of that treasonous act and the conspiracy behind it.

I have blogged about these matters in previous years. https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/the-20th-of-july-2019-thoughts/ and https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/

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This tweet, below, is very true:

Those who planned the atrocity at the top level were rewarded by the System not by death but preferment: Martin McGuinness “Deputy First Minister” in Northern Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_McGuinness); Gerry Adams fairly similarly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Adams

These terrorists were more welcome at, say, 10 Downing Street, or London television studios, than I would ever be. We really need a (real) purge of the political and, even more important, cultural sectors of our society.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8538465/Hundreds-anti-mask-activists-march-Londons-Hyde-Park-wearing-plague-doctor-costumes.html

“The WHO changed its view on facemasks because it came under political pressure”… [from the broadcast above]

Some good points there. Many employers, in office-based trades, do not actually want their employees to “return”, because they get at least basic output from people working from home. True, and as many have commented, people often work at a lower intensity when they work from home, but in a period of economic slide anyway, that may not be determinative.

Hitchens also makes the good point that, as with the collapse of the Soviet Union, eventually a different future emerges, but only (as he implied) after much pain. He might have added that that future may be, for many, worse than was the past.

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They tweet my name in vain

The following is so typical of the nonsense that is, often, Twitter!

Some people are tweeting about “antifa” cheerleader Mike Stuchbery. One, of whom I had never heard, and called @HaydenHewitt, tweets this:

His approbation (of my blog article) brings however this tweet, attacking me, from a “Mr. Nobody”, one Sean Reilly aka @SeanJamesReilly, of (it seems) Melbourne, Australia.

Seems that that silly little man has heard of me, anyway! Ha ha! I notice that, despite the fact that he has only 1,481 Twitter followers, he follows 5,000!

Then soi-disant “film critic”and house-husband Stephen Applebaum, posing as “@Rattus2384”, jumps in.

Applebaum, or “@Rattus2384”, whose other main Twitter account is @grubstreetsteve, was exposed during the Alison Chabloz court hearings as having been one of several sadistic Jew-Zionist trolls from the Jew/Israel lobby “Campaign Against Antisemitism” on Twitter, trolling mainly women opposed to Zionism.

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Applebaum has been stalking me and others on Twitter and elsewhere for years (I was expelled from Twitter in 2018 by reason of a concerted attempt by a pack of Jews).

After all, Applebaum has no job or profession (and a working wife), so has time on his hands. (He does very occasionally write about film for the Jewish Chronicle).

It made me laugh to see how even the original tweeter had to agree (not knowing a thing about me) with stalker/obsessive Applebaum and “Mr. Nobody of Melbourne” that I must be a terrible person if I, as they apprehend, dislike Jews, those benefactors of humanity!

Still, I give the above tweeter, Hewitt, a few credits for at least being intellectually honest enough to stick with his original assessment of my article about Stuchbery. Many people like that article: thousands have seen it, including about 100-200 in the past few days.

Musical interlude

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Oh, dear…

https://medium.com/@melforbes1994/paul-joseph-watson-is-a-sexual-predator-f0916199ece1

It does not surprise me that “Prison Planet” Watson, the best-known of the “Alt-right” wastes of space, is as described in that blog post, assuming it to be a true account.

Effectively free of real ideology, interested in money, a drug abuser, as well as a drunk and (a lesser fault, arguably, but added to the rest…) cynical in his relations with fairly young girls. In addition to which, Watson is unshaven, like a Jew, or an Iranian rabble-rouser.

Of course, to me Watson’s biggest fault is that he cynically kow-tows to the Jews and the Israel lobby, in the hope, perhaps, that they will not gang up on him and take away his rice bowl (his remaining online platforms, which provide his income). He is surely old enough to know that one cannot make a fair or lasting pact with the forces of Evil.

My overarching problem with Watson (and all of the “alt-Right” wastes of space) is that they offer no way forward for the British people, the other European peoples, or the world. All they can do is decry (justly, so be it) mass immigration (aka migration invasion), the Islamists, and cultural decadence (that last, hypocritically, in his and other cases).

The “Alt-Right” is or was a complete dead-end, politically, ideologically. “Prison Planet” Watson personifies the uselessness of that cul-de-sac of politics.

To my mind, someone like “Prison Planet” Watson has a great deal more in common with someone like Tommy Robinson (minus the beer-bottle-throwing followers, perhaps) than with me. At best a distraction; at worst, an enemy of social nationalism.

At least he has one saving grace: he seems to be a cat lover.

Last words for today

The 20th of July 2019: thoughts

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Today is the 75th anniversary of the attempt made to assassinate Adolf Hitler at his headquarters in East Prussia, the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), now situated within the borders of post-1945 Poland.

I blogged last year about matters around the event and around those times more generally:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/

What is there to add? Perhaps a reminder that human manifestations on this Earth do not last forever. The film, below, shows what the sprawling headquarters of 1944 is like today: as abandoned and lost as the cities of the Aztecs or the Mayans.

On the other hand, the devastated cities of the Germany of 1944 and 1945 are today thriving governmental, commercial, cultural and residential centres, with populations again in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.

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[above, Dresden in 1945]

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[above, Berlin in 1945; area shown is the Unter den Linden boulevard in central Berlin]

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[above, Berlin in 1945; area shown is the Reichskanzlei or Reich Chancellery]

The above photographs show the devastation resulting from war. Today, those same areas are prosperous, busy, thronged with inhabitants. Some of the old has been replaced, some kept, adapted to contemporary usage.

The same is true of ideas. Both the practical and the spiritual-cultural achievements of National Socialism were huge, enormous, particularly when it is considered that they were achieved within only 6 years of peace, the years 1933-1939. SIX YEARS!

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We do not need to copy or indeed defend everything that was done by, or in the name of, the Reich. Indeed, many of the flaws of the Reich, or supposed flaws, existed and in fact were even more glaring in both the West and the Soviet Union of the 1930s. The Zeitgeist streamed over the world as a whole, like the jetstream.

In 2019, we honour what was good in the Reich, what worked for the German people and the peoples of all Europe. The rest, we do not need. Times move on. Some challenges remain; others, newly emerged, have to be faced for the first time.

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We honour the past and stand ready to create the future.

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%27s_Lair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gier%C5%82o%C5%BC,_K%C4%99trzyn_County

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%99trzyn

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/