Afternoon music
Saturday quiz
Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 21/. My score was 6/10. I did not know that answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.
Talking point
I happened to see again the following, a blog post I published nearly 2 years ago in 2024:
“Basic Income
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California#Experiment_in_Guaranteed_Basic_Income
“As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached.“[51] “
[Wikipedia]
“SEED was a Randomized Control Trial that distributed $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients. The cash was unconditional, with no strings attached and no work requirements, and recipients were selected randomly from neighborhoods at or below Stockton’s median household income.
Results gathered from the first year, which spanned February of 2019 to February of 2020, found recipients obtained full-time employment at more than twice the rate of non-recipients. Recipients were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control group. They also saw statistically significant improvements in emotional health, fatigue levels and overall well being. Recipients had a greater ability to pay for unexpected expenses.
People spent the SEED money on basic needs, including food (nearly 37%), sales/merchandise (22%, on home goods, clothes/shoes and discount/dollar stores), utilities (11%) and auto costs (10%). Less than 1% was spent on alcohol and/or tobacco.”
In my view, Basic Income must be the way to go, with AI and robotics impacting employment and set to do so more. The alternative to Basic Income is to have a tiny sliver of the population ultra-wealthy, a wider layer wealthy, and about 80% of the population near-destitute.“
I think that that is even more obvious in 2026.
Another talking point
“A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]
That is where the UK now is; or very close to it.
Another talking point
“Give white men a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilization. Give blacks a civilization and they will leave you with a pile of bricks” [Anon.].
Simplistic, of course, but true none the less. The white inhabitants of London, and many other European and North American cities, can vouch for the veracity of that.
Tweets seen
Starmer-stein…
Perhaps, after Reform UK gets into government but then fails to satisfy the needs of the British people, real social-national politics will come to the fore. We do not need universal support, nor even a majority, just a large enough minority (disciplined and equipped etc) to take over regardless of rigged System elections.
[“The IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) officially made Argentina the head country member of the alliance last month. This is why they want Argentina to become a safe haven for Israelis.
If you look at every other country who is a member of the IHRA, or observing the IHRA, you’ll see most have been seriously impacted with mass immigration from the third world in recent years.“]
The “fifth column” in most advanced and/or wealthy states…
Incidentally, depending on definition(s), there are between 193 and 330 states, countries, territories etc in the world. The so-called “international definition of antisemitism” has only been adopted by between 38 and 47 (again, dependent on the details) of those states, territories etc.
[“Around 700 years ago, there was a bottleneck phenomenon with Ashkenazi jews.
About 40% of Ashkenazi jews’ maternal DNA traces back to only four women from this time period.
Genetics are destiny with behaviour.
Ashkenazi jews are far more prone to schizophrenia, and just general paranoia, than White populations because of this.
Also, with such a small gene pool to work from, if their ancestors had strong dark triad traits, it’s certain that most living descendants today also have them which explains this awful behaviour below.“]
See also:
Our animal friends. (yes, they attack chickens etc, so protect your chickens more effectively; “good fences make good neighbours”…).
I remember it well. I called that area home for many years.
Israeli Jews did that, and much more besides, and even the Jewish-lobby organizations in the UK and other parts of the world admit (indeed, claim) that most Jews living in the UK and other countries support what the Israeli Jews are (once again) doing. Mass slaughter of civilians.
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Ian Robert Millard 