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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim: putting it shortly, this is a quasi-religious festival which, like most Jewish religious festivals, can be regarded as a celebration of ethno-cultural supremacism and/or military victory. A Jewish woman, a kind of secret agent, is infiltrated into the highest rank of society in what is now Iran. She conceals her origins, becomes queen, and then initiates, via her suborned king, the massacre of all those who oppose the Jews taking over the kingdom.
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Iran is a big country. Presumably, such stocks are well-guarded and behind defences, perhaps in mountain caves or fortresses.
14 words.
Well worth reading in full.
The unexpurgated Mein Kampf online: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
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“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” That is the main problem with the [UK] Assisted Dying bill. Slippery slope.
I love that the Labour Party (and the “Conservative”) looks like it is sliding to oblivion. I love the fact that hundreds of MPs will be losing their generous pay and expenses (and pensions) packages. I love the fact that there will be tears on Election Day.
True, Reform, the likely beneficiary, is also fast-transforming into a rather similar System party, but at least the present System MPs who lose their rotten careers and monies will be facing loss on a large scale. They deserve that, at the very least.
Translates to a Commons with about 368 Reform MPs (very solid majority), 72 Lab (very weak official Opposition), 53 LibDems, 45 Cons, 44 SNP, and 41 Greens [etc].
Not too dissimilar from most other recent polls: Reform landslide, the rest disputing over who will be in second, third, or fourth place.
Akin to the much-written-about “D-Day deception” tactics of 1944. Maskirovka.
Not sure whether that is in Oman or some other state of the region. Maybe Qatar.
People are often “on a journey”, ideologically, philosophically.
Matt Goodwin of Reform UK started out as a “bog-standard” post-Marxist “antifascist” idiot-academic. Not so long ago, either. Around 2010, and he was still somewhere around there as late as 2020.
Over the years Goodwin moved to where he is now, to what some might term a “kosher-nationalist”, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby position, but anti the UK’s devastating migration-invasion. Reform UK territory. He may stay where he is, ideologically (and from which he has made a very large income, hundreds of thousands of pounds per year), he may move to a better, more honest, position. We shall see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Goodwin
In the Weimar period, there was a certain amount of movement not only between the Communist Party (KPD) and the National Socialists (NSDAP) but also among a number of other groups and those two “extremes”— the social democrats, the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) “conservative nationalists” and others. That was particularly so at the rank-and-file level and, a fortiori, the electoral level; ordinary voters.
One of the favoured younger members of the international conspiracy.
One-time Blair/Brown gopher, massive propagandist for the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, equally-huge propagandist for “multiculturalism” (migration-invasion) in previously almost entirely (leaving aside Maoris) Anglo/Brit New Zealand, and someone well-rewarded for all that.
I speculated on the blog long ago about where Jacinda Ardern’s tens of millions of dollars came from, given that she came from a poor-ish family and has never made a huge legitimate/transparent income.
It seems that Jacinda Ardern wants to move, or already has moved, to the prestigious Northern Beaches area of Sydney, places I knew as a child in the 1967-1970 era. The houses there now cost millions, some tens of millions.
What is the figure for Israel? High, anyway.
The Americans do not have the resources to do so, not unless the incursion mooted were to be very limited in time and scale. Iran has 92M inhabitants (twice the population of Iraq), and is the 17th-largest country in the world by area (Iraq is the 58th). Also, the USA has no suitable nearby bases from which to launch an invasion.
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Were the UK to leave anachronistic NATO, stop being America’s poodle, and cultivate better relations with Russia, Russia would supply to the UK all the gas the UK needs, at cost price or nearly so.
Two ugly, uncultured, moneygrubbing parasites. If they were not labelled “princesses”, no-one would take the slightest notice of them.
Looks like any cheap resort anywhere. Nothing of interest.
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