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Diary Blog, 21 July 2026, with material about free speech, freedom of expression, and the pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

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[Temple of Philae and Trajan’s Kiosk on Agilkia Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt]

The pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/20/germany-europe-free-speech-crisis-rainer-zitelmann-afd

Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown

Berlin threatens thousands of Germans with jail for criticising their leaders

Dr Zitelmann is one of thousands of Germans who have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts that fall foul of the country’s political speech laws, which are unusually stringent for an EU member state.

Some of the cases are sinister and farcical in equal measure.

One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a “lying Fritz” under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians.

The furore bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online.

To its supporters, the AfD is only the party that speaks for Germans who are sick of mass migration, political correctness, economic stagnation and the creep of so-called wokeism.

But to its opponents, including many in the government, civil service and intelligence services, the party is a far-Right menace that was recently classified as an extremist group by the country’s equivalent of MI5.

The BfV has been monitoring senior AfD figures through methods such as wiretapping and informants for at least five years.

[Daily Telegraph]

…and guess which “element” is behind most of the anti-free-speech activity, in both Germany and the UK? Yes, “them” (((them))), as usual…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miatta_Fahnbulleh_(politician)

Were I to go to Liberia, or Sierra Leone, would I be able to become an MP and/or Cabinet minister? No. So why do we allow Africans to come here and do so? It is a symptom of a terminal sickness in the body politic.

As Hitler said of the 1920s Weimar Germany equivalents, “...dirty democratic politicians“, and I do not think that this lot are even “democratic”.

Good grief. Look at that lot. I hardly like to have them on the blog.

Apparently, protests against military draft.

The tyrant Ortega should have been eliminated 40+ years ago.

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

Men are kidnapped off the streets to serve unwillingly on the crumbling front-lines of the Kiev regime, so unsurprising that few want to hang around pavement cafes; others have fled overseas to avoid the draft.

Perhaps. The problem is that one cannot believe a word “they” say, especially now that they want the USA to escalate the war against Iran.

Zelensky’s regime is a dictatorship composed of Jews, Ukrainian thugs and, below that level, persons of doubtful provenance such as that terrorist woman.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c141lymnl2yo

Ha. Made me laugh, mainly because it comes close to my own attitude…

(((Typical))) of the decadence which “they” import into both the cultural and political areas of national life (in this case, in Ukraine, but one could point to similar decadence in the UK, USA, France etc).

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This is the kind of madness that has swept across the Western world in, mainly, the past 30 years.

See also:

Our animal friends.

As Valentin Tomberg predicted, the mask of evil has started to come off since the late 20th century.

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

The System and its mouthpieces are now preparing the masses for a pointless and unnecessary war with Russia that might leave this country as a charred and radioactive wasteland. Any MPs or scribblers/talking-heads that are promoting war with Russia are enemies of the people.

The first opinion poll for about 2 years to put Labour clearly into government, albeit in a hung Parliament. Translates to a Commons with about 255 Labour MPs (71 short of a majority), 239 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 67 LibDems, 39 Cons, 21 SNP, 6 Greens [etc].

On those figures, Labour could only rule with the help of the LibDems and others (SNP, Greens etc). A very weak Labour government. In principle, good for social nationalism.

Every single thing that Burnham has announced so far —leaving the merits aside— has been announced or is being done purely to shore up the Labour vote, nothing else.

Another small settlement taken, but Russia needs a real gamechanger now. Time is running out. Trump may be replaced in 2028/early 2029 with a very pro-war new president, willing to again bankroll and heavily arm the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 16 July 2026

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[painting by Aldo Balding]

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Surely the basic things of life and social life should be made available by society to all citizens (not any interloper straight off the boat)? Meaning clean air, clean water, green spaces and a green environment (meaning trees, bushes, parks, not a pseudo-“green” agenda). Basic local transport. Enough money or other wherewithal to buy food. Decent housing. Medical and dental care. Educational services.

In my view, basic income will have to come. There is no point in making the unemployed (still less the genuinely physically disabled) jump through hoops to get a small amount of necessary money against a background of relatively few jobs paying enough on which to live.

AI and robotics are loosening the bonds between work and production, and the links between work and pay.

The basic State Pension is paid to all citizens over the rubric age regardless of real contribution or even real need. The same is true of Child Benefit. It may be that the time has come to supply all citizens with Basic Income, even if on a low level, regardless of contribution or even need. There are economic arguments in favour of providing it, regardless of provable need, just as people over a certain age get a pension from the State regardless of their need.

Tweets seen

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

[“Important statements by Vance:

“I know that representatives of the Israeli government are trying to manipulate public opinion in the United States and change it so that the war continues indefinitely.”

The U.S. Vice President stated that a well-funded campaign is trying to sabotage negotiations and destroy any possible agreement.

According to him, certain individuals are receiving money from a former Trump advisor, and that person, in turn, is receiving compensation from representatives of the Israeli government.

“These people are attacking me and claiming that we should not negotiate with Iran, but must continue the military campaign.

You can’t just say: ‘We’ll bomb until something good happens.’ That approach never works.

I’m annoyed by Americans who say that it’s impossible to negotiate with Iranians. Then what’s your solution?

Some influencers are being paid to attack the agreement.

We are not going to send 150,000 ground troops to change the regime. We will not be involved in such operations.

The era of military interventions and sending thousands of soldiers to change regimes is over. Our army will not replace the people in determining their own destiny.“]

Sounds as though Vance has identified (((the problem))).

There is a cancer in the world. It must be cut out.

[“18 MUSLIMS WIN THE RIGHT TO MOVE TO BRITAIN THANKS TO IMMIGRATION JUDGE GEMMA LOUGHRAN

The case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three – who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen – was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.

Her relatives – both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children – won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.

The Palestinians argued they had a ‘right to family life’ under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is ‘unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right’.

The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.

The whole family was granted anonymity by the courts. This is the same Judge that ruled a hairy asylum
seeker with a beard is a child.”
]

So that’s another ~10 houses or flats (whether council, other social, or private) that will now be unavailable to British people…

In essence, Enoch Powell was right. However, even he could scarcely have foreseen the manic migration invasion now happening.

She gets £181,000 p.a.

“Not a bad little earner” for filling this country with useless parasites.

Every. Single. Time.

Incidentally, in the UK, homeschooling is (contrary to what many think) perfectly OK legally: “In the UK, homeschooling—officially known as Elective Home Education (EHE)—is entirely legal. You do not need formal teaching qualifications or government permission, nor are you required to follow the National Curriculum. You must simply ensure your child receives an efficient, full-time education suitable to their age, ability, and aptitude” [The Good Schools Guide].

https://www.gov.uk/home-education

[“The Windrush generation has been one of the most effective propaganda tools used against the native British population to justify mass immigration.

The reality? It’s all a lie. They were never formally invited, the locals did not welcome them, and even the government of the day actively opposed granting them citizenship.

Before The Empire Windrush left port in 1948, Prime Minister Clement Attlee tried to divert the ship to what is now Tanzania. He viewed coloured immigration as a threat to “White Britain.” The British government at the time was so nativist that several ministers publicly declared they would prefer White prisoners of war as domestic workers over Black immigrants.

When the ship docked at Tilbury, passengers were met by angry crowds holding signs reading “Keep Britain White.” Local residents continued to protest the colonisation of their communities by the Windrush arrivals and their descendants for decades afterwards.

The British Nationality Act 1948 proved to be our undoing. It was intended to allow White Commonwealth, Anglosphere, and European citizens to come and work in post-war Britain, but the legislation failed to anticipate the enormous numbers of non-White migrants who would later exploit it.

In 1952, Winston Churchill attempted to introduce legislation to restrict Caribbean migrants from gaining permanent residency and citizenship. His efforts failed, blocked by the very Act of 1948. Britain, unravelled by a single piece of legislation.

The so called ‘British values’ of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ endlessly promoted today are myths. We conquered the world and then attempted to keep our colonial subjects out of Britain itself. Our history was one of strength, achievement and glory, not tolerance and diversity.

No one voted for mass immigration or demographic transformation. These modern ‘values’ were created by internationalist scoundrels who use them to justify flooding Europe with the third world, so they can profit off cheap labour.

Never let them tell you that Britain invited these people here. Don’t let them gaslight you.“]

Overall, including the later waves of immigration, the most catastrophic thing that happened to the UK in the last hundred years, even more than the Second World War.

Guess what (((element))) has always promoted mass immigration into this country? Yes, that’s right— “them” (((them))).

[“Starmer: “I’ve left Britain in a better place”:

Wide open borders
Record taxes
String of scandals
Record energy bills
Two-tier justice
Disastrous energy policy
A joke on the world stage
Islamism unchecked
Enemies emboldened
Territory sold off
Ordinary people maligned
Failed on grooming gangs
Free speech eroded
No idea what he’s doing
Widely loathed
Most unpopular PM in history

Good riddance.”]

…and soon we shall have Burnham, who will be every bit as useless.

A cast-iron NWO/ZOG puppet to the end. Horrible little bastard.

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That crazy-looking old bird will be selecting the judges…good grief.

Started her “march through the institutions” as a social worker in Wandsworth and Camden, and has said that she wants more blacks on the judicial bench…

Well, of course, Lammy himself is the prime example of selection not on merit but because of “a focus on diversity“…

Nicola Sturgeon has now abandoned Scotland to live in London, to make money from her memoirs and other books and, she no doubt hopes, from appearing as a TV talking-head eventually.

Once considered, at least by herself but also by many in the mass media, as some kind of “national leader” and even “world leader”, she is now totally washed-up politically, seems to be drinking fairly heavily, and has jettisoned the provincial SNP cronies of the past. Also, with her husband now imprisoned for the next few years (over 5 years sentence, so maybe out in 2 or so), she can consign him to the wastepaper basket and live as a lesbianka in London.

Davis goes a little too far when talking about Alex Salmond. After all, he did not die via murder or suicide but “heroically” trying to open a bottle of sauce for a lady at a picnic in the former Yugoslavia.

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As I guessed before 2024 would happen with Starmer-stein, Burnham has failed before he has even started.

I suppose that Burnham can see that the Labour MP cadre is going to be severely culled whenever the next general election is held, so has decided to 1. try to keep the non-white/Muslim/Pakistani vote as far as possible, and 2. try to win back the white English/British etc 2024 Green Party voters.

Burnham’s problem is that both of those groups together add up to no more than 25%, at most, of the potential electorate.

Meanwhile, all the signs are that the whole society is slowly collapsing, leading to frustration, and then rage…and, down the line, a demand for proper social-national government.

Translates to a Commons with about 258 Reform UK MPs (68 short of a majority), 100 Cons (weak official Opposition), 97 Lab, 69 LibDems, 60 Greens, 42 SNP [etc].

Either Reform minority govt. with Con support, or some kind of unlikely “grand coalition” of non-Reform parties.

The uncertainty and weakness will be good for social nationalism to grow.

[“This photo taken around 1900 shows a Palestinian Christian girl in her hometown of Nazareth. Before the Nakba, approximately 8% of the population of Palestine were Christians. Thousands of people were driven from their homes in 1948, and today the majority of Palestinian Christians live in the diaspora.”]

The white South Africans, especially the English-speaking ones, were weak. They compromised, gave up their power (which included tanks, jet fighters and bombers, even germinal nuclear and biological weapons) for a promise of some faked “rainbow nation” bs. In the final analysis, they gave up their supremacy for the chance keeping their swimming pools and wealth, and to drive around in jeeps wearing stupid rugby shirts. They failed.

Now South Africa is only about 5% white, and is descending into savagery. What a surprise.

Wall. Squad. End. (or send him back to the Taliban…).

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[Havana, Malecon]

Diary Blog, 25 March 2026, including some thoughts about NHS dentistry, prescription medicines etc

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[“My toothache got so bad to the point it hurts to even swallow water, the left side of my face has ballooned to the point where I look like I’m morbidly obese and I was up all night with a temperature that I have needed to get medical intervention.

Rang the emergency dentist many times and couldn’t even get through

called 111 and was met with “I’m not medically trained enough other than to give you a text message of what you COULD do”

called the doctors and had to say that I have a learning disability in order to even be able to speak with someone. Then was met with “we don’t deal with teeth” despite explaining that I only needed some antibiotics currently as a dentist wouldn’t touch my teeth anyway until the infection cleared and I can’t get help from them.

pharmacy won’t touch me given it’s not classed as a minor infection

ended up going to A&E to then be told I’m better off at another building on site

they have said they MAY be able
to prescribe me antibiotics given the severity of the situation but they don’t generally do it due to the same rules as the doctors and now I have to wait to see if I can get them

All of these steps could have been avoided if I was already registered under an NHS dentist.

Neglecting dentistry services is damaging the entire NHS ecosystem and partly causing wait times to soar.

The government seriously needs to address this.

There are also people who are not as pushy as myself who would have just given up and likely developed a very serious infection if not treated.

The thought that people could be potentially dying of a tooth infection in a first world country is absolutely appalling.“]

[Sophie Meaden]

A similar problem occurred a couple of years ago, when the only NHS dentist in our wider area (about a 10-mile radius) let down my wife over a Friday afternoon appointment without notice, its reception staff then giving us completely incorrect information about NHS A&E, and also lying about having sent a cancellation in advance.

Fortunately, there was one (only one) private dentist open the next day, a Saturday; about 10 miles away. My wife therefore spent a night in great pain, but was dealt with the following day by the private dentist, and very satisfactorily. We then both de-registered with the NHS place, and registered at separate private dentists, both of which are very good.

All well and good, but what if we had not had the option of going private? The cost was not enormous (I think that my wife’s immediate treatment was about £250 or £300) but I have certainly had times in my own life when I might not have been able to raise that sort of sum (which to many people may seem a trivial amount; but that is, of course, only so if you are not short of money).

On the wider point, I have always questioned why one needs a rubber-stamp from “a man in a white coat” to access medicines at all. Yes, there is a risk when members of the public self-prescribe, so advice should certainly be available, but it is almost ludicrous that one needs a “prescription” from an authority-figure (doctor, dentist etc) in order to get things. State dictatorship (supposedly for people’s own good).

British people (and other people) often tend to assume that the way things are done in the UK (or wherever) is the only way they can be done.

When I lived for a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I needed a few things which, in principle, required a doctor’s certificate or similar. Believe it or not, vitamin C was one! I had run out of multivitamins (bought in London), and found that (at that time, 1996, maybe now it is different) you actually needed a prescription to get some!

I don’t usually put up with bureaucratic nonsense like that if I can avoid or evade it, so I pulled a couple of strings, and managed to have provided some very inadequate Soviet-style capsules, red fluid, which contained about a tenth of the vitamin C of ones easily bought in any supermarket in the UK.

The same happened when I had a sudden and very inconvenient ear-wax problem. In theory, I should have gone through a whole rigmarole to get treatment, but the wife of a Russian colonel I knew took me to an almost deserted large hospital, and had me seen at once, no questions asked.

The third such incident was not really medical at all. I wanted to swim in one of the public pools, and that apparently required a medical examination first! Again, though, a little light influence got me in, though in the event the pool was rather crowded, so I only swam there once.

Actually, the Kazakhs, heir to Soviet rule, loved their rubber stamps. They even had a government office called the Bureau of Rubber Stamps. I had to deal with it once when I needed a rubber stamp for my work. You first had to verify your existence by means of official letters, visas, and certificates, after which you submitted a (suitably verified and stamped) design, after which (if approved), you were directed to places considered suitable to produce the stamp.

On that occasion, I did go through the “proper channels” (in case some later bureaucrat checked), but a colleague with a similar problem just said “**** it!” and had one sent from London.

As I said, though, that was 30 years ago (incredibly); I doubt whether any of that would apply in 2026.

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If there is a massive nuclear war, the proportion of European/white people will be even smaller, because Europe, Russia, North America will be the areas hit worst.

Is that why “they” (((the usual suspects))) are pushing for war with Russia?

A 5-min interview, in all. Worth seeing, especially the naive English idiot at the end, who “only sees the good in people” but wants to emigrate.

I blogged about all that the day before yesterday.

As with many topics in the UK (Muslim takeover by numbers, Jewish exploitation and takeover by other means, and what should be done with most MPs and journalists etc), we are “not allowed” to express our uncensored thoughts these days.

I am surprised that Kemi Badenoch is still the leader of the now all-but-irrelevant “Conservative” Party; thought they would have dumped her by the end of 2025. Seems that the Con Party has lost its once-famous killer instinct.

For me, leaving aside the Israel lobby cover-up, what is astonishing is that (on the facts as claimed) someone walking down Whitehall, the very centre of UK government power (such as it now is) can have his telephone snatched without, it seems, the police even being aware at the time, let alone actually apprehending the culprit. Yet we hear all the time that “London is OK, London is safe“…

Trump is over, anyway. In June, he will be 80-y-o and, by the time of the 2028 Presidential election, 82 but, more importantly, he shows signs of mental deterioration. Biden’s dementia was concealed (though not very well), but Trump is filmed saying things, constantly, and many of those things are the reverse of what he said the day before, or will say the next day.

Kemi Badenoch is a Conservative Friends of Israel member, and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Is she going to re-ignite public interest in what was plainly an Israeli Intelligence operation (the Epstein/Lolita Express/Lolita Island matter)? I think not.

Translates to a Commons with about 320 Reform UK MPs (6 short of overall majority), 83 Cons (weak official Opposition), 66 LibDems, 57 Lab, 50 Greens, 45 SNP [etc].

As with other recent polls, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Quite. “They” are always the “victims”, in their own warped minds, even when killing children or harvesting the organs of real victims.

A perennial whine…

[“They had me fired. Arrested 4 times. Suspended my medical licence. Smeared me in every paper.

Now the British zionist jewish lobby is attacking my fundraiser!

It cost me £90,000 to defend my licence. I live on what remains of my life savings.

I set up a Chuffed fundraiser to tackle police harassment and keep me on my feet. Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is now threatening Chuffed with police action.

They want to destroy me.

I am a Palestinian and a British citizen. I have never had a patient complaint. Never broken the law. Worked for 7 years in the NHS. Cared for my fellow British citizens. Paid my taxes.

My crime?
I opposed genocide and jewish supremacy. Exposed their grip on Britain.

That’s it.

My response:
{فَٱقْضِ مَآ أَنتَ قَاضٍ ۖ إِنَّمَا تَقْضِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَآ}So do whatever you want! Your authority only covers the ˹fleeting˺ life of this world. Qur’an 20:72

I would do it all over again. Everything I did was to save the lives of the Palestinian people being murdered by the jewish occupation. And to stop the British government from using my taxes to arm them.

May justice and truth prevail.
We fear God only.

Free Palestine and Britain from jewish supremacy.”]

[Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan]

The Daily Telegraph is totally (((occupied))).

https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

[“What is happening to this bloody country!!! My daughter has been informed by school that her TWELVE year old daughter (my granddaughter) has been found on a ‘stab list’.

So the son of recent African immigrants, who has only been here maybe a year and has been caught at least twice with a knife at school, has now created a list of girls he intends to stab for shunning his advances.

He is STILL in school. This madness has to end. Either the establishment are on the side of good people or good people will take things into their own hands.

She’s 12yo for gods sake and has to now walk around school with the threat of being stabbed at any moment.“]

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[“Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in case of a land invasion of its territories, including the islands, writes the Iranian agency Tasnim citing a military source.

“The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is considered one of the strategically important straits in the world, and Iran has both the will and the capability to pose a real threat to it; therefore, if the Americans want to solve the Strait of Hormuz problem with foolish measures, they should be careful not to add another strait to their problems and difficult situation,” he said.
Bab el-Mandeb is located between Yemen and Eritrea, connecting the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea. Many ships passing through the Suez Canal go through this strait.”
]

If that were to happen, and it is not unlikely, the economy of much of the world will plummet.

Doubtful as a real deal; more likely is an American withdrawal packaged as a “peace deal” for the American domestic TV audience.

[“Incredible discoveries by Alexander del Valle, geopolitical expert on the current situation in the Middle East:

Israel is running out of time: Israel does not have much time left; supplies of defensive missiles and equipment are running low. Trump must come up with a solution to end the war as soon as possible!

Iran has the capability to disable the defense systems of Israel and countries in the region. Due to the exhausting war and the huge number of drones, their weapon supplies are nearing depletion.

Every day we become aware that Iran, surprisingly, possesses many more drones and missiles than previously reported. These factors are key reasons why a way to end the conflict must be found, which is also Mr. Trump’s goal.“]

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

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[painting by Serge Marshennikov]