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On the blog 3 years ago
On the blog 1 year ago
Saturday quiz
Well, this week I scored 7/10, thus trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who claims 3.5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 4 (could not bring it to mind), 5, and 10. I admit that my correct answer to question 7 was an educated guess.
More “diversity”
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/thug-botched-london-underground-robbery-34605300
“A 19-year-old who followed a man off a London Underground and violently robbed his gold necklace has been jailed. Mamadou Bah, of no fixed address, was sentenced to three years in prison at Warwick Crown Court following the incident which took place during the early hours of December 20.”
[My London]
The UK must be socially-cleansed.
Israeli war crimes
“‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence“
“The film uncovers a system that is fiendishly efficient. Its series of disconnects appears designed to distance the perpetrators from the crime. Many of these men work remotely from Tel Aviv. AI selects the target and a drone drops the bomb. Even the language feels purposely euphemistic and obfuscatory. NAZA translates as collateral damage, which in turn translates to human beings.”
“Sure, it’s easier to kill people when you’re doing it on a screen,” Abraham says. “There is some truth in that, I guess. But equally it should be said that intelligence officers know the most. They listen to the cellphones. They know the house they are bombing is full of children. They can hear babies crying. They still order another strike.”
“Rooftops at night are a good location, says Szor. They lend themselves to contemplation and help people speak more freely. One soldier recalls the “insane fun” of planning airstrikes. Another remembers visiting Holocaust sites as a boy and wondering how the German people could have acted as they did. “I still see the Nazis as evil,” he says. “But what does that mean I am?“
[Guardian]
In reality, “the Nazis“, i.e. National Socialists, or just Germans 1933-1945 (simpletons on the msm often refer to WW2 German troops as “the Nazis“, of course), were, most of them, far from evil. Jews in particular, Israeli or otherwise, tend to have been indoctrinated since early childhood to think so, however.
What —again— struck me, reading the interview, was the realization that Tel Aviv, where the Jews (mainly Jews, also some others, non-Jew tourists etc) sit eating falafel or Danish pastries, drinking coffee outside cafes etc, and most of the time undisturbed by war or war crimes, is a mere 44 miles from the border with Gaza, where Jewish snipers deliberately kill or maim Gazan children, where the population is almost constantly bombed and shot at, and starved, and deprived of medical attention and shelter. Little more than the distance from London to Southend (42 miles), and 8 miles more than the distance from London to Reading (36 miles).
Tweets seen
At last.
First, Sachsen-Anhalt; then the rest of Germany. After that, the rest of Europe, including the UK.
Well, who would have thought that such an event might occur…
I disagree with Hodges. While I am not a “supporter” of Reform UK (how could I be, when Reform is pro finance-capitalism, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and will not even try to create an ethnostate in the UK?), the £36M donation says to me “Reform is now politically powerful despite its flaws, and has a serious war chest.“
I think that the electorate, or at least a quarter or so of it, maybe even a third, will think that the huge donation strengthens Reform, and makes Reform appear more credible.
The problem with attacking Farage and Reform over “sleaze” is that Lab and Con are riddled with sleaze themselves, and all but the most blind voters are aware of that fact.
[“All 3 cllrs in their local district council ward are Lib Dem, as is the local MP. In fact Piddington is currently represented by Lib Dems at all the main levels above the (non- party political) parish council.
The local Lib Dem cllrs voted for their area to become a ‘Council of Sanctuary’ (their motion also called for repeal of the Illegal Migration Act & Nationality and Borders Act, and stated that asylum seekers should be housed “as our neighbours.”
What did local voters expect would happen?“]
He has a point.
The LibDems are a joke party.
In the end, only real social nationalism can save this country.
Britische Freikorps?
The same sort of virtue-signalling “well-meaning” women (and men, but especially women; I met plenty in years past) who, in the 1980s, were very anti-South Africa and pro the halfwit Mandela.
So he taught them a lesson in manners.
Ha ha! Killing with kindness…
[“The party AfD is not only gaining popularity but is also starting to dictate the political agenda of Germany — The Economist
After achieving a record 44% of the vote in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the party has definitively solidified its position at the very center of German politics.
At the federal level, according to the report, AfD is already leading ahead of the CDU/CSU by approximately 8 percentage points.
The biggest loser is Chancellor Friedrich Merz: his approval rating has fallen to 13%, and within the CDU, there is already discussion about the possibility of his premature replacement.
Riding the wave of AfD’s success, the ruling coalition has even begun to disagree about its own package of economic reforms.
The Economist points out that the divisions among centrist parties and the constant focus of political debate on AfD continue to benefit this party.“]
The professor looking unusually animated there. For a minute, I thought that the clip was an AI hoax. Was he interviewed after a liquid lunch? He is usually worth listening to, but his points there are not exactly world-shaking.
“Who-He?” Burnham has a choice: hold an election soon, and lose 100-150 Labour MPs, or drag on for 2 or 3 years without confirming, via an election, his mandate to be Prime Minister, and then be forced to call an election which may result in the loss of 150-200 Labour MPs.
[“Third position ideologies that started up over a century ago obviously didn’t have social media platforms where ‘vibes’ and ‘ratios’ influenced people’s opinions.
Do you really think people took the likes of Mussolini and Hitler seriously from the off?
This is why we’re failing because the cattle would rather stay bound to the kosher-approved system to ‘fit in’.
Break the chains of our corrupt systems and join/support ANY anti-Zionist party or movement.“]
Quite right. As late as 1928, the NSDAP only had 2.6% of the national vote in Germany.
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 