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Diary Blog, 6 December 2023

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[in fact, pygmy goats, in this case]

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I’ve watched this video over and over and over. They way it affects me is indescribable. From the way she looks at him and rests her head on his shoulder to the way her little hand clutches his vest.

These are the little angels that we’re seeing in video after video being pulled from underneath the rubble as dusty corpses.

How could you? HOW COULD YOU!?

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/shoplifter-40-kicked-co-op-28169106

[the defendant]

A shoplifter kicked a Co-op worker with her high-heel, threatened a man with a syringe, and then did a poo on a hospital floor. Nyziah Shiloh was jailed for one year at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, November 24, after admitting theft, assault, possessing an offensive weapon, two counts of criminal damage, attempted theft, and failing to surrender to the court at an earlier hearing.

[My London]

Is there any point in having such creatures in our European society? How can higher forms of society ever be fostered or brought into being when the UK is replete with creatures of that sort?

What is even more incredible is the attitude of the judge:

Judge Canavan lamented Shiloh’s lack of housing as she sent her to prison for a year, telling her: “If there was anything else I could do today because short prison sentences are not ideal… Unfortunately you qualify for none of the necessary programmes because you are homeless.”

[My London]

Any public housing available should go first to English/British families and people, of course.

Why are creatures like that even in this country?

I am far from a “hanger and flogger”, but what that judge is saying is that, had that drug addict had a home, he would not have sent her to prison. Read the full report, read what she did, factor in her previous convictions, and see whether you agree.

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In recent yrs, international students have been able to stay in UK for up to 2 yrs after completing their studies without any conditions or needing a job. To what extent, if at all, do you support this policy?”

Strongly agree 8% Tend to agree 17% Tend to disagree 23% Strongly disagree 25% Don’t know 26% AGREE 25% DISAGREE 48%.”

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This is a massive disgrace now. The banks proved, about 15 years ago, that they were hugely incompetent and hugely greedy. They would all have failed, their far-too-well remunerated directors and senior staff made redundant, had the British people, via the State, not bailed them out. Now they refuse to honour the social contract by keeping branches open.

Most local bank branches in my local town have either already closed, or will close in 2024. Any problems will have to be sorted out on the telephone, and apparently even that (often impossible because of endless questions and passwords etc) is going to be withdrawn for most people.

This is not a purely commercial matter. The banks have a responsibility which they are unwilling to honour.

It is, also, part of the ongoing alienation of people in this country from the society in which they live.

A couple of caveats: firstly, I oppose any non-European/non-white being an MP, still less Cabinet Minister. Secondly, I cannot see that Suella Braverman accomplished any more than similar (?) Israel-lobby puppet Priti Patel in her time as Home Secretary. Third, I cannot endorse most of her views on purely domestic policy areas.

Having said that, she is of course undoubtedly correct in her view of the migration invasion, though she seems less clear about “legal” migration, which after all brought both her parents and those of Priti Patel to this country. “Legal” migration is 10x or even 20x as high as “illegal”.

I think that she is right about the political tsunami about to hit the Conservative Party, though immigration is only one of many policy areas where this absurd government of clowns has failed.

I wonder what will happen if/when the Conservative Party is left with 100 MPs, or even 50? At present, she seems to appear as the standout candidate to be elected Leader of the potential rump party that might be left, following the 2024 General Election. Her own seat must be one of the safest, partly by reason of speeches such as that made today.

Suella Braverman seems to be positioning herself as a latter-day Margaret Thatcher, who was called “the only man in the Cabinet“.

Of course, Suella Braverman was dismissed, so this speech is only nominally a “resignation” speech.

Christmas cards for political prisoners

As some readers will know, I do not belong to any political party or group. I therefore republish the appeal below in the spirit of looking at the big picture.

https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/a_christmas_card_for_a_political_prisoner.

Even more than most public inquiries, this current one is a total waste of time and money.

Any faction which (like Sunak’s, or that of Jenrick and Suella Braverman), doormats for Israel and the UK/US Jewish/Zionist lobby, gets a thumbs down from me. Same goes for Matt Goodwin, though he makes some cogent points elsewhere.

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[Mina Fonda Ochtman, The Evening Lamp]

Diary Blog, 3 July 2023— riots in France, climate change propaganda, and banks censoring and repressing their customers

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12256949/Banks-warned-protect-free-speech-Jeremy-Hunt-said-deeply-concerned.html

Banks are to be warned by ministers that they must protect free speech as increasing numbers of customers are having their accounts closed for holding allegedly controversial views.

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reportedly ‘deeply concerned’ that lenders are blacklisting customers they are deemed to hold contrary political beliefs and social values.

The controversy flared up last week after Nigel Farage revealed his long-standing account had been closed by his bank, while a vicar was dropped by another lender for questioning why their branches were displaying Pride flags.

[Daily Mail]

I have blogged about this previously. Farage is, as the report notes, not alone. Repression on freedom of expression by banks (bank staff) has been a fact for a few years now. Laura Towler, Sam Melia, and Mark Collett, all of Patriotic Alternative, had their personal bank accounts closed. Straight political bias.

The only thing that will stop the trend to censorship and repression is if bank directors, managers etc are held accountable directly. The same goes for MPs, msm talking heads etc.

Incidentally, maybe 99% of the repression of freedom of expression in the UK comes from the malicious and manipulative Jew-Zionist element; certainly 90%+. See, for example, my own experiences, published at the top of this blog post. “They” are almost always the troublemakers, if you investigate the matter.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/sicilian-farmer-oranges-bananas-mangoes-italy-tropical-2417532.

Rosolino Palazzolo, a 44-year-old Sicilian farmer, has just finished picking the first pitanga (Surinam cherry) and acerola (Barbados cherry) on his farm in a tiny village called Terrasini, close to Palermo. He looks at the bright cherries in his hand, smiling proudly.

These fruits would normally be found growing along the equator but, in the past few years, climate change and year-round warm temperatures have led to a produce revolution in Italy’s deep south.

Italy is turning into a tropical country. That’s why I also grow papayas, mangoes, passion fruit, baby bananas dubbed ‘bananito’, black sapote [a soft, orange-fleshed fruit], annona [custard apple] and even coffee and chocolate plants,” Mr Palazzolo [says].

Tropical fruit is the future of Italy’s agriculture; it will save the country from the negative effects of rising temperatures and crazy, wild rainfalls.”

The farmer still grows traditional fruits such as pears, citrus fruits and peaches, and vegetables such as tomatoes and courgettes, but in smaller quantities due to the tropical-like climate that has taken hold in Italy, particularly in the south.”

[i newspaper]

Interesting. Adaptation to a warmer climate.

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La France— réveillez-vous!

The only way to stop the epidemic of drug abuse in the West is to eliminate the users. Poppy cultivation cannot simply be banned everywhere, because opium derivatives are used for essential products such as morphine. India and Australia (Tasmania) are among the larger producers of legally-farmed opium poppies. Afghanistan accounts for about 80% of the illegal trade.

Eliminate all rioters in the field.

Typically misleading Sky News. In fact, it was not “the hottest June ever in UK” (as seen in that tweet) but the hottest June since records began, which was only in 1884. As the report does say, previous hot-June records were reached in both 1940 and 1976. Even the headline, “hottest June on record“, though technically correct, is misleading, because many will assume that records go back to maybe 1700 or so, which is not the case on a reliable or consistent basis.

In historical terms, 139 years (1884-2023) is almost nothing.

We know that there were relatively warm periods previously in recorded European history, notably in the “Mediaeval Warm Period”, often estimated as having happened from about 950 AD to about 1250 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period.

Before that, there had been a “Roman Warm Period” running from about 250 BC to about 400 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period.

There was no measurement of temperature then, but warmer climatic conditions can be inferred from forms of agriculture known to have been current, and from animal and plant remains, tree rings etc.

There are various theories as to why those historical periods were warmer than other times before and after, but one thing is for sure— it had little or nothing to do with “carbon emissions”. These were societies without very large populations (the Roman Empire at height may have had 60 million inhabitants), without the internal combustion engine, without industry except on a very small scale, and without the widespread use of coal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#History.

Those two warm periods hosted higher levels of civilization and culture than the cooler periods on either side of each. Be careful what you wish for.

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Again the technically-correct but very misleading “on record” assertion.

I agree with that tweeter about the sheer audacity, as I think I would term it, of the online fraud and “grifter” “Jack Monroe”.

That sheer gall is what really sets her apart from the numerous other online “grifters” around— her sheer criminal audacity, as well as her relentless use of about half a dozen tactics: pretending to be an “activist” for “the poor”; various mental and physical problems (useful to be able to blame critics for making them worse, though most if not all of them are non-existent); pretending to be short of money and/or living in poverty (rather than a house, possibly with a sea view, in a rather expensive Essex suburb); attaching herself to this or that group as expedient— LGBTQXYZ, disabled, “poor”, struggling single mother (despite her affluent family living in the same area), “socialist” (despite her false “feed a family for £20 a week” claims, “cosmopolitan” (despite rarely having been outside Essex), and displaying little or no obvious knowledge or education), etc.

Then there are the fake biographical details, such as having taken a leading role after or even during the Grenfell fire incident.

What is truly amazing is how many people, even some journalists, still believe all of her rubbish.

I still fail to understand why a black woman in Bristol is (I think) still facing Crown Court trial for allegedly having crowdfunded for legal costs to make a civil claim that (allegedly or apparently) never happened, and then having (allegedly) kept the monies raised for her personal use, but “Jack Monroe” raised monies similarly, supposedly to sue Lee Anderson MP, then did not even send preliminary formal complaint to Lee Anderson, and quite plainly ripped-off the said monies for her own uses, yet (so far) is not charged with anything. Why not?

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Well, wonders will never cease. I agree with all of that.

The directors of the banks should be held accountable, directly.

Please refer to previous comment.

Eliminate all rioters in the field, then deport their base populations to somewhere outside Europe (maybe to French Guiana).

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Diary Blog, 1 July 2023

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[Aivazovsky, Among the Waves]

Battles past

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Only 5/10 this week, though that still trumps political journalist John Rentoul, who awards himself 3.5/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12250187/Bad-news-Britain-Scientists-rank-173-countries-function-UK-isnt-10.html.


“Bad news for Britain: Scientists rank how 173 countries around the world function – and the UK isn’t even in the top 10!”

[Daily Mail]

Interesting. At least the worst 37, if not more, are all states with mainly, indeed almost entirely, non-white populations. Apart from Singapore, the top 20 supposedly best states are all white northern European, ethnically. In fact, even Singapore has a strong European element, both in terms of population (if expat workers are included) and, of course, history.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12250855/Moment-furious-mother-confronts-scumbag-thieves-stole-bike-claims-them.html

A furious mother took the fight against crime into her own hands and confronted ‘scumbag’ thieves this week, taking back a bike they had allegedly stolen after claiming that police officers ‘didn’t want to help.’

It comes as police forces are blasted for increasingly failing to tackle the crime that matters to ordinary people: petty thefts, mobile phone snatches and break-ins.

The emergency services are facing extraordinary pressures, and are taking as long as 18 hours to respond to 999 callouts such as burglaries and domestic incidents, data has shown.

The time taken to respond to ‘Grade Two’ incidents, in which there is no threat to life but the call is a ‘priority’ situation rose to four hours and 20 minutes on average in 2021, up from three hours just two years previously.

Most forces have targets of one hour for these types of calls, but worst offenders Gloucestershire Constabulary took an average of 18.5 hours in 2021. It was followed by Derbyshire Constabulary at 15.1 hours and Avon and Somerset Police at 12.9 hours. 

Britain’s police were warned to get back to basics earlier this month after a damning report found that public confidence in the service is ‘hanging by a thread’ due to their failures to tackle crime.

His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke urged officers to stay out of political matters and stop intervening in Twitter spats, and instead focus on deterring and solving crime and disorder.

[Daily Mail]

Ah, so the worst performing force was Gloucestershire, the very same police force I now know to have been responsible for my having had to attend a “voluntary” (so-called) interview in Hampshire in 2021: see “Diary Blog, 15 January 2022“, above. Any policeman (whether from Gloucestershire or Hampshire) should have seen, before I said a word, that there was no shred of evidence against me. Still, when a Hampshire policeman spells “Gloucestershire” as “gloustishire“, in an official report, what can one expect?

I note also that the second-worst is apparently Derbyshire Police, the force which put out so much time and effort and “resources” (e.g. 3 policemen delivering one summons) in the persecution/prosecution of satirical singer Alison Chabloz.

Is there a lesson in there for the police of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, and Hampshire?

Police! Do what H.M. Chief Inspector of Constabulary says— stop “monitoring” (snooping) on Twitter and socio-political blogs such as mine, and get back to where you once belonged, deterring and investigating (real) crime.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12237683/I-locked-Britains-dangerous-crooks-heres-gangs-taking-over.html

I locked up some of Britain’s most dangerous crooks – but desktop cops and woke policing are making our streets a haven for gangs.”

DS Speight said: ‘Most of the criminals don’t realise the police levels are low. They don’t realise that all the coppers will be on the Pride march.

The former detective said there is a lessening focus on real police work, while woke issues, including accusing Twitter users of hate crimes, takes more and more manpower.”

[Daily Mail].

Such articles never mention, though, the “lawfare” carried on by malicious Jewish orgs such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and others, which waste police time and resources, as well as destroying freedom of expression, and corrupting policing itself.

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Trash “journalist” Kay Burley thinks it normal and even funny that politically-motivated persons within the banking industry can deprive a British citizen of essential banking services. She herself has evidently not considered why it is that people who are political dissidents are now being deprived of such services. Farage is far from being the only one.

Another manifestation of Britain’s gradual decline into a kind of fake “communitarian” police state, an unusual one where real crime is allowed to run unchecked, but political “crime” (e.g. noting Jewish behaviour online) is penalized.

Eventually, when enough people have had enough done to them because of their standing up for European culture and civilization, the time will come when the pendulum swings back— and God help the treacherous politicians, bankers, and “journalist” drones (among others) then.

Marine le Pen needs to move to her father’s ideological position, win power by the ballot box if possible, then launch a war, a war within France.

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[BDM girls riding in the woods, 1930s]

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Let us hope so.

No wonder the Israelis are afraid.

It is a cause for sorrow, and also frustration and anger, that so many “useful idiots” in the UK cannot see, will not see, the catastrophe that is coming down the tracks because of this. They also fail to see what will happen to them, whichever side wins in the end.

[“How they are gathering-in potato in Kherson region”]

Young people” in this case meaning those who, most of them, are only notionally “French”. Non-Europeans. Invaders. Unwanted.

Biden will not be sufficiently healthy or compos mentis to be U.S. President after the 2024 election. If he is the Democratic Party candidate in 2024, he will be beaten for sure, no matter who opposes him. Any successful Republican Party candidate, whether Trump or another, will surely take away Zelensky’s ricebowl. However, even a Democratic Party victor will probably do the same.

Bravo! Clear the streets!

Now vote accordingly.

[Paris, early 1940s]

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12252423/Will-woke-obsession-diversity-sink-RNLI-SUE-REID-investigates-lifeboat-charitY.html

Sad that so many of our treasured institutions have been taken over by enemies of the British people. RNLI, National Trust, Oxfam (decades ago) etc.

I now read that the person who is the CEO of the RNLI gets £181,000 a year. In itself arguably OK, but people pay their donated pennies for real rescue work, not so that migrant-invader parasites can get a taxi service to the UK; also, most of the volunteers are not paid much and, sitting atop the chaos, a layer of “woke” swine are both spreading propaganda and facilitating migration-invasion, while receiving large unmerited salaries. Nein danke.

Late thoughts about the situation in France

I watched a few minutes of Sky TV coverage. The reporter persisted in calling the (mainly non-white) rioters “protesters“, which became actually ludicrous when she pointed out a sporting goods shop that had been looted of its weapons and ammunition, and said that the situation was now more difficult for the authorities because “the protesters” were now well-armed!

Then there is the usual msm propaganda covering up the fact that the rioters are overwhelmingly non-white. That happened over a decade ago in the UK, too, during the “shopping riots” sparked off by the death of yet another useless non-white criminal, that time in London.

What would I do, had I state power in France?

First, I should order the French police and Army to open fire on the rioters. Then again. Then again, repeated until the streets are cleared and all opposition crushed.

Secondly, I should put in place a programme to deport the unwanted inhabitants of the urban banlieues to French Guiana, the French part of South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana.

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