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Always remember “the men behind the wire”.
From the newspapers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12098975/Calls-boycott-Adidas-womens-swimwear-advert.html
All over the world, we see huge enterprises (or their advertising agencies) hitting one “woke” button after another. In this case, two— “trans” nonsense and the “blacks with everything” campaign of fake “diversity”.
One sees calls to boycott the companies involved, or to “hit them in the wallet“. However, those calls miss the point, because the individuals and cabals behind the brainwashing do not care whether the companies concerned lose money or customers over these outrages.
Think of the finance-capitalist companies involved as merely shells, to be used as convenient for the long-term purposes of the real powers behind the System. “Black Lives Matter”, “refugees welcome” “Covid”, “climate change”, “Ukraine” etc are just some of the “causes” used to further wider objectives connected with the world-history 33-year cycle (in this case, 2022-2055).
New World Order, Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan etc.
Time to defend European culture and civilization.
Tweets seen
“The world is not without kind people” (Russian saying).
The “presidents” of the Central Asian joke-states —I myself lived in Kazakhstan 1996-1997— may feel themselves big fish in their small ponds (small in most ways except geographically), but a large shark is about to invite them to lunch, and they will be the lunch.
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Politics overheard
I happened to be in the local Waitrose not long after it opened. Heard a brief conversation between a cashier (about 60 y o) and a customer (about the same, or older— the area is demographically weighted heavily in favour of middleaged and elderly people).
The first topic (that I heard), after agreeing that “nothing works any more“, was the recent local elections. Both agreed that they had received no literature from “any of the three parties” (the area is almost exclusively Conservative in terms of local and central government; Labour usually comes third or, not infrequently, fourth). Both also complained that no-one had knocked on their doors (for me, that is a very good thing—F.O.!), and that, in any case, “all three parties” were saying the same thing, and none could be trusted to carry out whatever they said anyway.
You would think that all of that boded well for any new social-national party, but the “three main parties” scam is deeply deeply entrenched, ingrained like brainwashing in the minds of the people. Despite the crying need for a new movement, the mental leap required of the mass of the people to vote for one, let alone join one, is enormous. There is the additional fact that no credible social-national party or movement exists in the UK.
Political success and failure
Real political leaders have usually “failed” at more than they have “succeeded”, and of course the biggest cliche about that is that “all political careers end in failure“.
Hitler failed at secondary school, failed to get into art school, failed to get into architecture school, failed to become an independent artist, was not promoted in the WW1 German Army beyond corporal, joined a tiny group of “extremists” in 1919, failed to become much more than a political joke for the 10 years 1919-1929, but then burst onto the national and international stage as destined leader of Germany, achieving huge successes for 6 years of that peaceful rebirth of a nation. After a few more years of success in war, the tragic failures of 1943-45, and a tragic death.
Churchill too. Born with a “silver spoon”, yet a failure at school (Harrow, where his application was nearly rejected). Churchill only gained admittance to Sandhurst at the third attempt, then was allocated a place in one of the least cerebral parts of the Army, the cavalry.
Churchill’s 4-5 years as an officer (mostly spent as journalist rather than soldier, though he saw action in the Sudan and South Africa and, much later, in WW1 Belgium) were crowned with a single promotion, to lieutenant in his younger years, though much later to —temporary— Lt. Col. in 1916, reduced to major when he withdrew from active service after only 4 months.
Churchill’s political life was likewise chequered. He defected, re-defected, lost and won seats. Famously, the lost election of 1945, then a muted victory in 1951.
As strategist, Churchill was a disaster in both world wars: Gallipoli, Singapore, Norway, Greece, North Africa (at first), the Italian campaign etc. His “success” in WW2 was of course by reason of the participation of the USA and Soviet Union. That had its price(s): the slow dismantling of the British Empire, the gradual subservience of the UK to the USA both in WW2 and after 1945, the condemnation of much of Central and Eastern Europe to live under Soviet or Soviet-influenced socialism for 40-45 years.
Abraham Lincoln too. A litany of failed attempts to be elected to a number of offices, but crowned ultimately with election to the highest office, President of the United States. His assassination while still in office followed on the heels of his victory in the American Civil War.
Those three examples show the difficulty of assessing political success and failure. In the end, all three have gone “beyond success and failure” by becoming world-historic figures who will be remembered as such for as long as, say, Julius Caesar or others will be remembered.
As for Indian money-juggler Sunak, he is not and never will be in the same league as Hitler, Churchill, or Lincoln. Eminently forgettable. In fact, he will leave scarcely more of a ripple on the surface than Liz Truss or Theresa May.
Beth Rigby is easily impressed. So what if Sunak was Head Boy at his bloody school (Winchester)? As for his having made a gigantic amount of money by having worked for the Goldman Sachs vultures, and then having married into a mega-wealthy Indian family, well, such things happen. “Success”?
Meanwhile, Britain is visibly falling to pieces.
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The cabal ruling Britain behind Indian money-juggler Sunak and his crew have no loyalty to the people of the UK, only to the Money Power and its NWO agenda. The British people are expendable, in their eyes. We slide towards a third world war with people little better than “erudite cretins” (so to speak) pretending to be in charge (Sunak, Ben Wallace, James Cleverly etc). Most are not even particularly erudite, come to that…
…and the same idiots will call 1930s Germany (which never thought of doing anything of that sort) “evil”…
Of course, once Germany had a decent and efficient government under Hitler and the NSDAP, there was no homelessness anyway. New houses for German people. Britain in 2023 could learn a lot from 1933 Germany…
Zelensky, waiting for his money…
There it is— USD $4M of US taxpayers’ money, now worth about 50 cents as scrap metal, lying in a Ukrainian gutter…
The police already had powers to clear nuisances off the roads. Try lying down outside fortified Downing Street, and see. Or wherever.
The System is (as the tweeter says) allowing the connected Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion idiocies for its own purposes. Not necessarily, though, (only) the ones claimed in that tweet.
New York City was a zoo (in part, or parts) when I was there (1989-1993, on and off); God knows what it is like now. As a matter of fact, the first time I ever heard it called a “zoo” was in 1989, by an American. Not, incidentally, a rednecked crazie with a rifle-rack in his pick-up truck, but a well-travelled and late-middleaged nuclear scientist.
Not sure why anyone (even anyone wealthy) would really want to live in New York City.
“The map shows the countries with the largest projected growth (green) and decline (red) in population by 2100.
According to UN forecasts, by 2100 the population of African countries will grow the most: Niger will add 761% compared to 2020, Zambia – 455%, Tanzania – 380%.
In total, in 25 countries the population will more than triple, and almost all of them (except Iraq – 16th place, + 291% of the current population) – in Africa.
Eastern Europe will be the leader in population decline: the population of Moldova and Bulgaria will decrease by more than half, Bosnia and Herzegovina – by almost half (by 48.9%).
Outside Eastern Europe, significant population declines are expected in China, Japan and South Korea.”
The original thread is well worth reading.
More from the newspapers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis
Sinking into the mire.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/mps-london-elites-parliament-building-nation
Also sinking into the mire.
I was unaware until I read that report that about 60 MPs are currently being investigated on a variety of sex charges. Then there are the financial cheats, freeloaders, and outright fraudsters.
Late tweets seen
“Religion FOOTBALL (and other televised sport) is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” [Marx, as amended for the UK in 2023]…
That is less than half the size of Hyde Park in London.
Despite all the intended and executed actions (by a number of European powers, not just Germany, as the simpleminded like to believe) just before the start of both the First and Second world wars, in the end those wars started almost “by accident” at the same time. The states of Europe blundered into them. Will the Third World War be the same?
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