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It’s a mad mad mad mad world.
Only the most radical measures can save this country now.
From the newspapers
“A homeless man who pushed an innocent stranger onto the tracks at Oxford Circus underground station has been jailed for life.
Brwa Shorsh pushed Tadeusz Potoczek off the platform in central London on February 3 this year, seconds before a train was due to arrive at the station.
The Kurdish migrant had claimed he’d targeted the 60-year-old in ‘revenge’ after thinking Mr Potoczek had given him a ‘dirty look’.“
[Daily Mail]
“Diversity” [trs. “Britain becoming a dustbin“]
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Even more “diversity”…
Wall. Squad. End.
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“The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children has described a “catastrophic situation” as Israeli forces launched new ground assaults and airstrikes in the north and centre of the territory.
Dr Husam Abu Safiyeh, the director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, said it had not been possible to comply with an Israeli army order to evacuate all patients within 24 hours.“
[Guardian]
The Israelis and their worldwide web are a global menace.
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“A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Germany.
Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.
Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled, but more than 100 years later, it has now been staged in the city for the first time – with the shock factor amped up to dizzying new heights in what its creators call a ‘radical vision of the Holy Mass’.
The ‘feminist mass’ sees the central character, a young nun called Susanna discover her sexuality, eventually pulling down Christ’s loincloth on the crucifix in the scandalous climax. At one point, the nude nun has sex with the icon.
The performance has an age restriction of 18, and incorporates sex acts, painful stunts, real and fake blood, piercings and the infliction of a wound on stage.”
[Daily Mail]
Incidentally, the poor literacy of the Daily Mail and similar comics is again apparent in that report, “suppressed” used when the scribbler obviously meant “repressed“.
“The Nazis‘ relationship to Hindemith’s music was complicated. Some condemned his music as “degenerate” (largely based on his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna).
“In December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an “atonal noisemaker”.[9]
The Nazis banned his music in October 1936, and he was subsequently included in the 1938 Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) exhibition in Düsseldorf.[10]
Other officials working in Nazi Germany, though, thought that he might provide Germany with an example of a modern German composer, as, by this time, he was writing music based in tonality, with frequent references to folk music. The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler‘s defence of Hindemith, published in 1934, takes this line.[11]
The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with Hindemith falling in and out of favour with the Nazis.“
[Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith
Few people today realize quite how decadent the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic was. That was one reason why, from the spiritual-cultural point of view, National Socialism had to come to power, to rescue the future of Germany and the German people from the basest decadence.
Now, we see the same cultural sickness and death, in sometimes even worse manifestations, spreading across Europe, and across much of the world, particularly what is regarded as the civilized world.
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Washington D.C. is largely “occupied”, in the more important areas of policy. This time, one of “them” just went too far in public.
I happened to be staying for a month or so at the oasis of Siwa (Western Egypt) in 1998 when it rained (actually just a very light drizzle) for the first time in about 2 years. The drizzle lasted for several hours, during which time the locals (mostly Berbers) were literally dancing in the sandy streets.
Not that they needed the water, as such; Siwa has about 350 springs (Wikipedia says 200) fed from an aquifer deep under the Sahara. They even export bottled Siwa water to the rest of Egypt.
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“By the year 2036, only twelve years away, the government’s own forecast suggests another 6.6 million people will arrive in the country, equivalent to about five cities the size of Birmingham, taking the population to 74 million people. By the late 2040s, on current numbers, the population will expand by around 20 million people, equivalent to 18 cities the size of Birmingham.”
[Matt Goodwin]
Also:
“Well, what we also learned this week is that more people are now dying than being born among the British population —which is the first time this has happened for half a century.
In fact, the native population declined by 16,300 people in the year ending June 2023, reflecting the ongoing fertility crisis that will now become a constant in our national life unless, again, we rapidly change course.
The ‘replacement rate’ for a country whereby it is reproducing itself over time is 2.1 but in Britain this rate has slumped from 3.0 in the 1960s, to 1.5 in 2022, is forecast to crash to 1.38 by the year 2050 and then 1.3 by 2100, making it impossible to keep the population stable.
In other words, what demographers call “natural negative change” among the native population, alongside the other key changes below, will now only accelerate in the years ahead.”
[Matt Goodwin]
Exactly what I have been saying on the blog for years.
These are facts which the System political drones actively seek not to talk about. A disaster starting to happen all around us.
Population replacement.
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Goodwin is right on most issues, and only completely wrong on Israel.
Looks as though the Germans are getting very tired of the post-1945 (mostly post-1989) brainwashing narratives.
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Ian Robert Millard 