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Diary Blog, 21 October 2025

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Cartoon of the day

Seen in that photo, thick and unpleasant “Prince” Andrew Windsor, the unfortunate Victoria Giuffre, and the half-Jew Israeli Intelligence asset, Ghislaine “Maxwell”, she currently languishing in Federal prison, and likely to be there until she reaches the age of 80 (she is currently 63) unless it suits Trump to pardon her.

See also: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-21/virginia-giuffre-epstein-prince-andrew-nobodys-girl-memoir/105911280

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A metaphor for Trump’s peacemaking efforts in Palestine and the Ukraine?

We should be getting reparations from Jamaica etc for putting up with the descendants of the so-called “Windrush Generation”.

Untermenschen— RAUS!

Fact is, the best of the real English/British people want this country to be European (“white”, Aryan or post-Aryan) and to have a decent future. The latter cannot happen without the former.

The rest, both the unsatisfactory white Europeans and the non-white non-Europeans, are not required.

Our animal friends.

Trump may be accused of many things, but having good taste is not one of them (with arguable exception of Melania). To destroy the East Wing of the White House, and also the famous Rose Garden, is aesthetic vandalism.

A lovely little cat. (the lady in the high heels is not bad either…).

Translates to about 316 Reform MPs, 136 Lab, 71 LibDem, 49 Con, 36 SNP, 12 Green, Plaid 6 (etc).

Not so overwhelmingly Reform as other recent polls, but still putting Reform on cusp-of-majority, with Lab cut back to 136 (from 412) and Cons reduced to only 49 (from 121). Cleverly, Suella Braverman, Malthouse, Jesse Norman, Jenrick, Nick Timothy, Priti Patel among the losers.

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True, but if Starmer-stein chooses to behave live a pathetic “cuck”, then of course the [Israeli, but not only Israeli] Jews and Trump will take advantage of Starmer and Britain.

What more can be expected of the army of a nation created not long ago from the sweepings of the prisons and ghettos of old Europe?

[“Germany’s Industrial Collapse under Merz” The Financial Times reviews the initial results of Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship in Germany, and these results are dismal. Friedrich Merz took office promising the revival of Germany’s “economic miracle.” Instead, he faces a rebellion from his own industrial base. At a recent meeting in Berlin, leading manufacturers accused him of mass layoffs, unaffordable energy costs, and endless bureaucracy — a direct result of years of excessive EU regulation and Berlin’s self-destructive sanctions against Russia. Merz’s loudly promoted “Agenda 2030” — modeled after Schröder’s early 2000s reforms — has turned into Keynesian spending and coalition paralysis, notes the Financial Times. His alliance with the SPD and the Greens secured an additional 500 billion euros in borrowing, promising rapid growth and new jobs. Six months later, nothing has improved: growth is negative or close to zero, steel production has fallen by double digits, and the automotive industry — once a symbol of German strength — is rapidly shrinking. Instead of saving the economy, Merz spends time traveling to Kyiv and Washington, obediently shaping EU policy in line with NATO demands and US trade interests. Meanwhile, German workers and small producers pay the price. Public discontent is growing; the AfD party is gaining popularity in the industrial heartland, and Merz’s own ratings have plummeted to record lows. Even the long-standing strongholds of the CDU are beginning to weaken as citizens blame Berlin for submitting to Brussels and Washington, leading to the destruction of German industry.“]

Merkel’s legacy…

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[“At the end stands Victory“]

Diary Blog, 7 October 2025, with thoughts about Gaza, the proscription of Palestine Action, and the Jewish/Israeli influence on the Starmer misgovernment

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Carwithen]
[Basingstoke Canal, southern England, in Autumn; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke_Canal]

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Not much different in the UK, except in terms of scale.

Starmer-stein is far from being the only UK politician more or less under (((control))), but he is, after all, the person currently posing as Prime Minister.

Incidentally, that U.S. Congressman featured above, Jake Auchincloss, is a half-Jew anyway: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Early_life_and_education; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Auchincloss#Israel

Take a look at this, about David Cameron-Levita, too:

Once again, Cameron (Cameron-Levita) is himself both a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and a part-Jew.

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I hope so, if only because it will show that “their” money and consequent political influence will be resisted.

Would translate to a Commons with about 438 Reform MPs, 74 Lab, 54 LibDem, 36 SNP, and 20 Cons (etc).

Reinforces the previous ~125 opinion polls over the past year.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Deliberately insane.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

And which group do you think is behind most of that?…

“Them”.

…and the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.

[“NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action. Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real terrorist threat – and should never have happened. The source has been verified.“]

The proscription of Palestine action was and is absurd. They are mostly totally harmless people; the few who are not commit acts of politically-motivated vandalism, aided by the apparent fact that the RAF and others seem incapable of guarding their sites properly. There are already laws in place to deter or punish criminal damage, conspiracy to commit criminal damage, burglary etc.

The only reason that the Palestine Action group was proscribed was because Israel, via its publicity and “lawfare” fronts in the UK (eg the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” cabal), pressured weak Starmer and other Labour Friends of Israel members presently in Cabinet to do it.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Metreweli; also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Ramsay,_Baroness_Ramsay_of_Cartvale. “[Meta Ramsay] is the chair of Labour Friends of Israel in the House of Lords.[9][10]” [Wikipedia].

The absurd thing is, of course, that the tiny number of people actively involved in “direct action” against Israeli targets, or targets involved with helping Israel, in the UK, will not be in the slightest deterred from their actions by the proscription of, in effect, a name.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed or badly injured, not to mention driven out of their modest homes which have now been flattened, and the neighbourhoods simply erased.

Every day, hundreds more killed, yet the newspapers in the UK prioritized the death by shooting of two Jewish guards at a synagogue in the UK, one of whom seems in fact to have been shot by the police.

The Gaza flattening goes beyond even most of the similar destruction in WW2. It is Biblical in its genocidal extent. The Roman destruction of Carthage also comes to mind— the symbolic sowing of salt in the ground, and then plowing of the ground where Carthage had stood.

As to the USA, for me it lost any right it still retained to call itself “home of freedom” etc when it embarked on its post-2001 programmes of secret abductions, concentration camps, and torture. All done in collaboration with the Jewish state, *Israel, and with the connivance of Jews and pro-Zionists across the U.S. Federal Government.

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Hardy-ha-ha. Cameron-Levita was always ready, as Prime Minister, to throw money at bureaucratic “aid” projects, yet his government was the one that really weaponized hatred of the sick, disabled, and unemployed, and indeed the elderly (“bedroom tax” etc)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_tax

The lady tweeter, once “employed” by her MP husband (now ex-MP and ex-husband) via his bloated expenses, likes to pretend that she represents a political faction she calls, or miscalls, the “Moderates”. I have previously speculated as to whether the membership of the “Moderates” exists (beyond the lines of empty bottles in her kitchen). I doubt it.

“Compassionate Conservatism” was always a lie. Now it is a bad joke.

Typical black, though. Thinks that, so long as she keeps talking, or talking over the interviewer, and even if talking nonsense, people will think her both intelligent and plausible. Lammy is no different.

Looking at that Conservative Conference audience, once you take away the journalists and lobbyists, those sitting there are mostly about 80 years old, for one thing, and completely unresponsive to the speaker (unsurprising, since it was Mel Stride).

Both Dan Hodges and Owen Jones in the realms of fantasy. In reality, “neo-Nazis” are not “beating people up“. Most of the UK political violence you see is from the “antifa” dupes of Jew-Zionism, or from Islamist crazies, and the former at least is something that Owen Jones supports, as does Dan Hodges, in my opinion.

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I predicted that on the blog months ago, in January or February.

The top issue which impacts every other important issue.

[“Dizen: The European Union has no future – it is finished, a gradual disintegration also awaits NATO The EU has exhausted both its economic potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. The appropriate question is: aren’t the USA interested in a united Europe? They are, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. PROFESSOR Glen Dizen of the University of South-Eastern Norway assessed that the European Union has exhausted its own future, and that the prospects for the NATO pact are not at all rosy. Asked whether the European Union has a future or whether internal contradictions will prevail over the idea of a united and strong Europe and lead to the bloc’s disintegration, he said: – The EU has no future; it is finished. Not this year or next, but certainly in our lifetime. The European Union was born in the unique circumstances of the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union. Now, in the context of the transition to multipolarity, Europeans are losing unity because member states have gained more freedom. In this context, the gap between the interests of individual players becomes more obvious: for example, the security interests of Latvia have very little in common with those of Greece. Dizen further points out: “As for the economy, the EU has also exhausted its potential and has long ceased to bring any dividends to its members. Now those who lead it are trying to replace the language of mutual benefit with ideology and Russophobia. They propose increasing military spending, militarizing European societies, and the prospect of a great war instead of friendship with neighbors and shared prosperity. The people in the EU did not vote for this. – Even Germany, one of the key EU countries, has already begun to protest and seek a more important role in determining European policy. Essentially, this is a protest against the attempts of Brussels bureaucrats led by von der Leyen to tie all decisions to themselves. East, West, North, South — most EU countries are not ready to give up their sovereignty to some supranational body. They understand that this would result in discrimination against their interests. Therefore, fragmentation within the EU is growing. – Of course, the appropriate question is whether the USA are not interested in a united Europe? They are interested, but Washington sees a united Europe as a competitor. Of course, it does not wish it harm, because it wants allies in European countries. However, the USA encourages internal conflicts because it benefits from a divided Europe. Therefore, I do not think the EU will last much longer. Dizen answers the question of what awaits NATO as follows: — Paradoxically, the alliance also faces gradual disintegration. The USA have realized that they have lost the ability to “dominate” the world. Therefore, they are forced to choose: either to deal with European quarrels or to focus all their forces on a dangerous rival, China, which is becoming more and more confident. In this, of course, the Old World is less important. That is, the alliance leader, who held everything together, is slowly leaving them. And without the Americans, European countries will remember their mutual grievances and drown in mutual conflicts.“]

It is clear that the USA no longer, in the American phrase, “has Europe’s back“.

What goes around comes around”

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Diary Blog, 24 February 2025

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News from the migration invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14416593/Irish-migrant-powder-keg-Far-right-militias-rise-asylum-seekers-violence-machete-attacks-drug-brawls-Dublin.html

Ireland has exploded into a wave of violence as anti-migrant anger is at an all time high – after the number of people applying to come into the country rocketed by nearly 300 per cent five years.

Once sleepy towns are now homes to hundreds of asylum seekers while tent cities have been set up along Dublin’s Grand Canal. 

And with far-right sentiment at fever pitch the country is on a knife edge – with even Ireland’s left-wing politicians admitting that the influx of migrants was driving a spike in homelessness.

The government has previously spoken favourably about migration. Jamie Drummond, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NGO ONE and a friend of U2 star Bono, told the International Development Committee in 2015 that young immigrants were needed to help with Ireland’s ‘senile’ aging population.

“Just as this country and this continent will be at its most senile demographically speaking, Africa will be the world’s youth and the supply of the world’s energy, creativity and dynamism.”

[Daily Mail]

The final comment, apparently by a friend of grasping hypocrite “Bono” shows that he (Daily Mail says “she“, for some reason) has little of use to contribute: anyone who imagines that Africa can give white Europe “energy, creativity and dynamism” is either deluded or working to an agenda.

Very sad that Ireland has become so contaminated. I saw it in the 1970s, and again in the mid-1980s. From what I have seen on TV and newspapers, it has become busier and, in recent decades, more affluent in parts than when I was there but also, now, far less pleasant by reason of the migration invasion.

At least the Irish, unlike most of the English, are not going down without a fight.

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You can see that process happening in the UK. In fact, it has been a factor for decades, but the huge migration-invasion since, arguably, 1989, is now completely destroying the “democratic rights” of the (real) British people.

Somewhere around 15%-20% of the UK population is now non-white; in England, the proportion is far higher, around 25%, and in the major cities such as London even higher, somewhere around 30% if not more. Some cities in the Midlands and North are already majority non-white.

Even in the UK as a whole, the average non-white presence in primary schools is now somewhere around 40%. As shown, that means that in cities such as London, the primary schools are already about 50% or more non-white.

[In 1951, there were effectively no non-whites in the UK; the few that did exist were in the major ports, including London (graphic from Wikipedia)]

Incidentally, you can see from that graphic what a lie are those TV dramas (eg, Grantchester) which show even small villages in the 1940s or 1950s with racially-mixed populations.

People of my age [b.1956] know the truth, but younger people, especially children, are being brainwashed via the TV, cinema, streaming services, and at school, to believe what amounts to a lying narrative.

By 2050, at latest, the UK population will be majority non-white. Yes, some non-whites will not support later waves of immigration; however, most will, and do.

If Britain does not have, by 2030 or so, a genuinely social-national government, or at very least a Reform UK-type conservative semi-nationalist one, you can forget the “Parliamentary road”.

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Fake Labour has no “plan”, except to allow profiteering bodge-housebuilders to make money destroying what is left of our countryside by building hutches for migrant-invaders and their offspring.

Now, the msm has awoken to what dissidents were saying on Twitter/X 6 months or more ago— there is no sufficient workforce to build said hutches.

You see the agenda, though, in that “i paper” bullet-point list: the UK “needs” more migrants to (supposedly) build more houses because…Britain has so many migrants (who are breeding). Brilliant…

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Nick Robinson is, of course, half-Jewish, his maternal grandparents having emigrated from Germany after the advent of Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Robinson_(journalist).

Sounds hopeful.

Migration invasion…

I wrote at some length about this on the blog yesterday.

“Mark Lewis Lawyer”— latest

[“Episode 4 is published. The one in which Eddy Cantor refuses my offer of a nominal settlement after Mark Lewis of Patron Law tells him he can’t lose any money. Cantor will now lose his home. https://open.substack.com/pub/perincuriam2/p/post-4-mr-cantors-refusal-of-a-nominal]

Mark Lewis, the notorious Jew-Zionist solicitor, is both dishonest and professionally negligent.

Incidentally, that photo of Lewis is about 13-15 years old. He can now scarcely walk, inter alia, by reason of a chronic medical condition.

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James Wilson was the victorious claimant in the recent libel action Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased) and Cantor.

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True, but we have seen this before, and not so long ago— in 2019, with Farage’s previous vehicle, Brexit Party, whose members he let down, shamelessly.

Still, I agree with Goodwin that there is now building up a head of steam which might yet blow up British politics forever.

Ukraine’s army suffering huge losses in Kursk Region.

The Sumy Region is now becoming a theater of military operations, a source in Russian defense circles told TASS: https://vk.cc/cIT9MP.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumy

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Diary Blog, 22 June 2024

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week brought only 5/10, same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10; was a few years out on question 7, could not bring to mind the answer to question 4, and had no idea about questions 5, 6, and 9.

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Alpine Switzerland. A rather wet day.

I am a market researcher. I spoke to Sunak about Polls at the leadership hustings. I don’t think he believes them and to some extent he is right to do so. But we’ve been out campaigning in Bexhill and Battle and have yet to meet anyone whose said they’ll vote Tory in a 26k majority seat.”

We read newspapers, watch TV commentary, see opinion polls, look at (often biased) Twitter/X comment. All contribute to our belief as to what might happen on Election Day. Beyond that, there is mere personal experience of one’s own local area; anecdotal, subjective.

I myself live in an area of coastal Hampshire known for being traditionally “safe” Conservative. The local MP is someone with some of whose views (eg on the Covid scamdemic/panicdemic) I can agree, but with whom I would not agree on other topics. He is also a very poor constituency MP— lazy, uncaring, and totally useless in fact, as a few people have told me after not having received help or even a polite acknowledgment from him.

In previous general elections, I have seen almost exclusively Conservative Party posters around, and one huge banner on a house in the nearby small town. This time, I think only one Conservative poster, and three or four LibDem ones. Unscientific, but is that a straw in the wind? Hard to say, but interesting all the same.

The incumbent MP has been there since the constituency was created in 1997. He has never scored below 50%, and received well over 60% in both 2017 and 2019. Labour usually come third (second in 2017) here, and the LibDems (usually second-placed, though fourth behind Con, UKIP and Labour in 2015) had their best result in 1997 (27.8%).

In other words, it would take a political earthquake, maybe a political meteorite strike, to displace the Conservative here…and yet…and yet…

I may be reading too much into the presence or otherwise of political posters put up locally, but it occurred to me that the Conservative Party in the constituency has (perhaps) few volunteers now. The average age of Con Party members in this constituency must be around 80 if not 90. Does the presence of a few LibDem posters indicate a local upsurge, or just a single diligent volunteer?

I cannot see the LibDem candidate displacing the Con candidate this time, even if Reform UK do well, but who knows? Con, Lab and LibDem are all standing for election, but so also is a double-barrelled (in both senses, probably) Reform UK fellow, a Green, an Animal Welfare candidate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Welfare_Party], and one for the SDP, which I am surprised to see claims 2,000 members nationally [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1990%E2%80%93present)].

How big the Reform UK vote here will be on 4 July 2024 is uncertain. UKIP scored 16.9% in 2015, though far less prior to that. Since 2015, there has been no broadly “national” party standing, and no social-national party has ever stood here.

If the staff had been Palestinian Arabs, they would have stood no chance. Having said that, Arabs would probably not have been employed anyway, for reasons of security.

Farage and Reform UK to merge with the Cons within 14 days? That sounds ludicrous. If it were to happen, in the 12 days left, it would just be a replay of 2019, when Farage stabbed his own party in the back; with one big difference, though— in 2019, Farage’s back-stab meant that instead of a likely hung Parliament, “Boris”-idiot was able to get an 80-seat Commons majority. In this General Election, the surrounding situation is very different.

Were the predicted merger to occur, and if Farage then urged voters to vote Con in many constituencies, all that would happen would be that Labour would still win overall, but with a majority of maybe 100+ instead of maybe 300. Of course, that would save perhaps 100 or 150 Con Party seats. It would also destroy whatever credibility Farage still seems to have with many people.

After any such merger, I suppose that the idea would be that Sunak would lose the election, resign, disappear from view, and that a leadership election would then anoint Farage as leader of the Con/Reform party.

Not totally impossible, arguably, but very unlikely. Reform UK is on a roll. Brexit Party had all wind taken out of its sails by Farage’s treachery in 2019. The same would happen today. It might even help Labour more than Reform UK fighting on as at present. After all, all the Reform UK candidates are now on the ballot papers.

The only way the predicted merger would work would be if Sunak and Farage were to announce a list of which seats would be “gifted” to Reform UK, but the candidates would still have to remain nominally in place.

That prediction to me sounds like nonsense. After the election might be a different story, were Reform UK to have 5-10 MPs in the Commons, and the Cons 50-100. However, once Reform UK merged with the Cons, and after (if it were to happen) Farage were elected to lead the merged parties, then what? The surviving Con MPs would be not a good match with the new Reform UK MPs; apple and orange. What could they offer the public? Con Party policies but with more emphasis on immigration? Sounds underwhelming.

Never say never, but I cannot see it as likely. If, however, it were to happen, it might yet open the door, on the flank, to real social-national people. “Always look on the bright side of life“.

As to that Gewolb individual’s views on UK interest rates, I do not have the economic background to assess them.

Incidentally, this is Gewolb: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/my-biggest-mistake-i-was-slow-to-start-a-success-1110542.html;

https://www.gewolb.tv/?page_id=30

American merchant banker, UK resident since 1999, now aged 80.

The Conservative Party is dying on its feet right in front of us. I really cannot see Farage wanting to ally himself with a party that, in another metaphor, is sinking below the waves. Not even after the election.

I notice that the Sky News “Chief Political Correspondent”, one Jon Craig, has been wheeled out to write a piece on the Sky News website about how “vile” Farage was to speak the truth about the Ukraine situation, i.e. that NATO has steadily advanced across Eastern Europe since the 1990s, thus destabilizing the NATO-Russia status quo.

Interesting language…”vile“— reminiscent of the language used by “the usual suspects” (((them)))…

The System may be getting or feeling seriously threatened by Reform UK, and is trying to use attack propaganda to weaken Farage’s appeal.

Craig claims that most “Britons” support “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime). I doubt it. Look at the comments section of the Daily Mail.

There is something going on here, with System scribblers, talking heads, and both “Labour” and “Conservative” Friends of Israel MPs all attacking Farage.

I have just heard the news on my car radio. Farage’s comments about the Ukraine situation were prominently displayed. I wonder, though, whether the Kiev regime is as popular with the people as it is with pseudo-“elite” deadheads such as Ben Wallace (former Con MP) and the Labour Friends of Israel drones. I think not.

In any case, few if any will now decide not to vote for Reform UK just because of a few comments about NATO.

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/22/election-loss-rout-or-wipeout-three-tory-outcomes-predicted-by-the-polls

Interesting Guardian analysis.

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Using, as always, Electoral Calculus, I make that a House of Commons with 468 Labour MPs —overall majority of 286, Con 67, LibDem 63, SNP 20, Reform UK 6, Plaid 4, Greens 2 (etc). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

I agree, in principle, with the vast majority of that, about 90%. Only social nationalism will actually “do de job”, though. Reform UK is too finance-capitalistic, too pro-Israel, not quite what I would ever support as a destination (rather than as a means to an end).

Today is the UK msm “hit Farage” day, it seems. “Ukraine”, NHS etc etc. Anything to get the Reform UK vote down. I doubt that it will work.

Our cat friends…

I have blogged once or twice in the past about how, in the mid-1990s, I visited the biological research base at Porton Down, accompanying the then Ukrainian Ambassador. Those posts can be found via the search box on the blog. Here is one, anyway: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/03/06/diary-blog-6-march-2022/

Clacton

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/21/nigel-farage-populist-pitch-gains-traction-clacton

Worth reading.

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Good grief. He is only 5 years older than me; looks like an extra from Lord of the Rings, perhaps (first picture) someone with an incurable affliction or someone cursed by a wizard, or (second picture) a dishonest peasant or itinerant tinker. Still moneygrasping at age 72. Part-Jew. I never liked what I saw of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof.

Left to itself, the world’s only Jewish state would collapse into a kind of civil war, but the money and armament provided by the Jewish “communities” both directly and indirectly (via governments) in the USA, UK, France etc keep the whole project going, so far.

Zelensky is a Jewish tyrant, who has suspended elections, banned most political parties, banned trade unions, and arrested or killed political opponents.

Perhaps a general Russian advance.

Germany is no longer the same” – Orban chastised Berlin for the failure of migration policy.

Before his visit to Berlin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized modern Germany. He said that the country had even lost its former smell, clearly making fun of its problem with migration, writes The Daily Telegraph. “Germany no longer has the taste it used to have. She doesn’t smell like she used to anymore. This whole Germany is no longer the Germany that our grandparents and parents set as an example for us,” the politician said in an interview before a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Orbán also said that Germany was once a country of “order,” “well-organized work” and “hard-working people.” But now, he noted, citing the German newspaper Die Welt, Germany is a “colorful, changed, multicultural world” where migrants are “no longer guests.” “This is a very big change,” summed up the head of the Hungarian government.

Late thoughts about GE 2024

If reports are to be believed, 20% of voters have either not made up their minds as to how they will vote, or have not decided whether they will vote at all.

The 20% equates to thousands of eligible voters in every constituency.

It is also reported that as many as 175 seats are in very close contest now, more than a quarter of all seats.

I have speculated previously whether there is, or is not, a bloc of “secret Reform UK voters”, people who may not admit to leaning towards Reform UK if asked. I do not know the answer to that, and neither do I know its size if it exists, but if that bloc does exist, and if it mostly votes Reform UK on the day, then all bets are off, because there just might be a political meteorite strike on the 4th of July…

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[painting by Michael and Inessa Garmash]

Diary Blog, 10 April 2024

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Typical. Already moving into “victim” mode now that the odds lengthen against them.

Exactly the same as the outskirts of Sofia (Bulgaria) seen, en passant, by me in 2001.

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The Pentagon chief announced a threat to global energy due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian oil refineries.

Lloyd Austin announced this at a hearing in the US Senate. “ Certainly these attacks could have a knock-on effect on the global energy situation ,” he said.

At the same time, the head of the American defense department spoke in favor of Kiev stopping such actions. According to him, Ukraine “is better off pursuing tactical and operational goals that can directly affect current battles.”

Ukrainian drones have attacked several Russian oil refineries since the beginning of March. Among them are factories in the Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ryazan regions, and Krasnodar Territory.

The West, particularly the USA, is shooting itself in the foot. It gives money, arms, and ammunition to the Kiev regime, which uses part of that to attack oil refineries in Russia. Result— the world price of oil increases, Russia makes even more surplus from the many refineries still operating normally, and the West, including the USA, pays through the nose even more for oil, making its citizens poorer and its industries less competitive.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13289043/Trans-woman-44-threatened-kill-blind-break-backs-womens-rights-campaigners-Kellie-Jay-Keen-Helen-Joyce-given-suspended-jail-sentence-court-hears-happened-mental-health-struggle.html

trans woman who threatened to kill, blind and break the backs of woman’s rights campaigners Kellie-Jay Keen – known as Posie Parker – and Helen Joyce has been spared jail.

Layla Le Fey, 44, was handed a suspended jail sentence after the court heard she had been struggling with her mental health when she made the treats of extreme violence and arson towards the activists.

One post from Le Fey said: ‘I’m a trans woman and I’m not ashamed to admit I’d be happy to physically kick the s*** out of you and pull your eyes out and break your spine’.

In another post, Le Fey wrote: ‘If you want to prove your point that some trans people are extremely violent, I’m game’, while a third she said she wanted to burn Mrs Keen – founder of the group Standing for Women.

In a victim statement, Mrs Keen said she wanted to make clear the threats against her were made by a man.

A violent man committed a crime,’ she said. The violent threats had far greater impact on my husband and children than me. They are very worried for my safety. 

‘Terrorising women into silence was the intent of this man. I want to make it clear, this crime was committed by a man.’

“She added: ‘This is what happens when women speak up. I didn’t want to elevate this person’s comments, so I did not respond. These tweets disturbed me and I’ve no doubt given the opportunity this person would have carried out these threats.”She added: ‘This is what happens when women speak up. I didn’t want to elevate this person’s comments, so I did not respond. These tweets disturbed me and I’ve no doubt given the opportunity this person would have carried out these threats.”

[Daily Mail]

It really is about time that “we” or, more accurately, the msm, stopped referring to these individuals as “trans women“. If they need be referred to at all, “trans persons” would be more accurate and so more suitable.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

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Import the population, import also that population’s behavioural patterns, and its political attitudes as well.

Nicht kaufen bei [REDACTED]”…

…and that applies double or treble to the UK’s relationship with the Israeli state.

It would be interesting to know what proportion of the Jewish population in the UK has another passport and/or another nationality; particularly, what proportion carries an Israeli passport.

Stella Creasy is a horrible woman in every way.

Creasy’s partner is Dan Fox, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel” [Wikipedia]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Creasy.

In fact, Tim Montgomerie is too mild. Abortion at a late stage is closer to murder than infanticide. Infanticide is usually done by a mother not long after birth; there are usually compelling extenuations of psychology and physiology. Abortion as we know it today is a planned and organized process, coldly executed, and often involving considerable profit.

A point made by me on the blog in the past, several times. Idiotic Gordon Brown, who thought himself so very clever was, I believe, the “brains” behind “working tax credits”, i.e. a system whereby employers could pay scheiss wages to their employees, who then had their pay topped-up by the State. “Welfare” for poor-paying employers. Madness.

Terrible. I am glad to say that I have never been on “Universal Credit”, but were I not exempt by reason of age I just might have been, especially since the Jewish lobby (sub nom “UK Lawyers for Israel”) had the Bar Standards Board contrive a case to have me disbarred in 2016.

We hear much about the “epidemic of shoplifting” and other crime, but I am wondering how much of that is driven by the fact that the social security/”welfare” system now does not really provide a sufficient safety net for those without paid work or private means. Not all crime is driven by real need, of course, but much is.

Basic income is probably the way forward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income.

[Vauxhall City Farm]

Vauxhall City Farm, a very worthy charity, and a very good cause: https://www.vauxhallcityfarm.org/

War with Russia would be mad, both in the ordinary sense and in the sense of mutually assured destruction, though not equally assured: Russia has 6,000+ nuclear weapons, and a handful of those would be enough to finish a small country such as ours.

Crowdfunder

My crowdfunder, set up to help defray the imposed costs of my recent free speech trial (and sentence), continues. All donations gratefully received. If you cannot donate, wish me well and share the link: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J. Thank you.

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At an educated guess, a substantial minority, if not a high majority, of the electorate think the same, in my opinion.

Imagine what urban America would look like after a huge catastrophe such as a nuclear war. Escape from New York? Soylent Green?

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Diary Blog, 8 July 2023

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[El Greco, Purification of the Temple]

Battles past

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory, though narrow, over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, and 5.

From the newspapers

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/5/prominent-neo-nazi-propagandist-arrested-in-canada-police;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12275811/Neo-Nazi-podcasters-targeted-Harry-Meghans-son-Archie-guilty-terror-crimes.html.

Freedom of expression is under attack as never before (in the modern era) in the West.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12275771/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-Im-horrified-Bidens-health-chiefs-say-men-breastfeed-risk-infants.html

Higher powers may have to step in to put and end to all this crazy nonsense.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12273635/Investigative-journalist-broke-Pentagon-UFO-story-reveals-whistleblowers-come-forward.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12276651/Archbishop-York-Rev-Stephen-Cottrell-says-Father-problematic.html

The Church of England— the home of the lunatic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12275389/Bear-faced-cheek-Adorable-cubs-mom-run-riot-annual-visit-home-Connecticut.html

A more pleasant story.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12275639/Horrifying-moment-subway-rider-repeatedly-stabbed-train-Toronto.html

Toronto, London, Paris. See the connection? (look at the photos).

“Thought for the Day”

I was just looking at tweets mentioning me, going back years. Good to see that many of those who attacked me on Twitter for years are now missing, presumed dead. That is, missing from Twitter, with timelines either ended some time ago, or just posting automated follow/unfollow tweets. I know that several are no longer on this Earth.

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Charmant

Could it be because many MPs are not too different from Osborne in being soulless? As to the general public, I do not think that Osborne (a part-Jew whose brother and father are both sexually deviant) ever was popular with most British people when he was Chancellor.

Don’t forget those who should be deported to Israel.

It is now clear that the “British” Government (which contains few real Brits) is working, and quite deliberately, against the interests of the British people.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

That will probably trigger a frenzied effort to destabilize Russia, an effort mounted by NWO/ZOG.

At this point it becomes a race as to what happens first, the collapse of the entire post-1945 Western order, or a Third World War…

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The madness of Queen Merkel…

Equally true in the Netherlands, France, UK etc…

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For a brief moment, I thought that the girl in the photo was his (alleged) girlfriend. (only my little joke).

Ah, Jeremy Vine, the “Covid” “vaccine” partisan and sometime pro-police-state drone (during the “Covid” craziness), who is also pro-EU, pro-mass immigration, and a fanatical pro-cycling and anti-car troublemaker.

Still, I shall be sorry to see him go from (was BBC, now Channel 5) Eggheads (if reports are accurate). He presents that rather well.

Makes a million a year. Not bad for someone who, after an expensive private education, left Durham University with only a 2:2 in English.

I once had a girlfriend who opined that Durham University was where people study if they are from wealthy families but cannot get into Oxford or Cambridge. That was in relation to a barrister who was a friend of a couple she knew, someone with a very unusual name— something like “Mauleverer”.

In fact, I met said barrister when we attended a dinner party (not my favourite activity) in Blackheath in, I think, 1987 or thereabouts, at which that barrister was also a guest. I was a belated Bar School student at the time (though about 31). The barrister in question must have been 40-something, but in my opinion looked 50+.

The hostess was a charming blonde lady of Polish origins (but I think born in the UK), whose familiar name I forget and was something like Dushka (but not that). Her husband was a friendly chap who seemed amused by that barrister’s seemingly dog-like devotion to the hostess.

If truth be known, the barrister in question struck me as a bit of a nitwit, and I was told that the hostess later said to my girlfriend that I had given more of an impression of being a senior barrister than the said real senior barrister, despite my being ten years younger and a mere Bar student.

Well, perhaps my view was wrong, or at least superficial, because I believe that I read that the barrister in question was then or not long afterwards a silk (QC, now of course KC) and later became a commercial arbitrator and judge (I think in Hong Kong), as well as a trustee of one or two well-known institutions. So maybe he was not a nitwit, at least not entirely. Or maybe our social system rewards people from privileged backgrounds who make the right noises. Take your choice.

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Tweeter “Mido” needs to know that, without the almost endless arms, ammunition, money, medical supplies, and other aid (eg food) being channeled to the Kiev regime from the West, the war would stop in a matter of weeks, perhaps even days, and what is left of the Ukrainian state and society would simply cease to function, also in weeks or days. Even state benefits and pensions in Ukraine are now being underwritten by the NWO/ZOG states.

As for troops, the Kiev regime is already pressing into service all sorts of people hitherto exempt. Kiev is running out of cannon-fodder.

Just imagine— were Biden to drop dead, that would be the new U.S. President…

Never assume that progress, or civilization, or culture, cannot just stop, or be destroyed, or that society cannot fall into decadence, backwardness, and evil. In the UK, a gradual slide is happening right now, all around us, but most people are still blind to it.

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[painting by Volegov]

Diary Blog, 20 February 2022, with comment about the World Economic Forum

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On this day a year ago

A good cause

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-peter-to-rescue-more-cats-like-george?qid=4892e5cdfff7e1e7eb015b1f731291c4

The above GoFundMe fundraiser emerged from this story: https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/police-order-cat-snatchers-to-write-letter-of-apology-to-own-9240883/.

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They were just about tolerable under white European control. Now? Intolerable, or becoming so.

When will (((those))) who were responsible for the “vaccines” be suitably punished for their evil deeds?

Comment seen about the World Economic Forum [WEF]

What do Macron, Johnson, Putin, Merkel, and Trudeau all have in common? They all attended WEF’s Youth Leadership program. One should be asking to what extent has Schwab infiltrated our government and all other governments around the world?” [newspaper reader’s comment]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum.

According to the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Forum is hence planning to replace a recognised democratic model with a model where a self-selected group of “stakeholders” make decisions on behalf of the people.[24] The think tank summarises that we are increasingly entering a world where gatherings such as Davos are “a silent global coup d’état” to capture governance.” [Wikipedia].

What does it take before the mass of people wake up to the NWO/ZOG transnational conspiracy?

This amused me:

While Schwab declared that excessively high management salaries were “no longer socially acceptable”,[19] his own annual salary of about one million Swiss Francs has been repeatedly questioned by the media.” [Wikipedia].

Incidentally, at present time of writing, a million Swiss francs equates to about £800,000 in British money.

[World Economic Forum HQ, near Geneva]
[satirical cartoon about Klaus Schwab and his intended “Great Reset” of the world]

An integral part of the transnational conspiracy.

“Lawfare”— quasi-terroristic abuse of the legal system

I happened to see this Mail on Sunday piece by Dan Hodges: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530917/DAN-HODGES-fox-killing-lawyer-bombastic-claims-clogging-courts.html. It examines, polemically, the Good Law Project pressure group, headed by the part-Jew barrister, Jo Maugham, a tax lawyer prolific on Twitter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham].

“Lawfare”, meaning the abuse of the legal system (both criminal and civil) to achieve socio-political ends, has been in frequent play in the UK for about a decade. Behind it, mostly the Jew-Zionist, pro-Israel, element.

My own experiences: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/.

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“Mild, cold-like symptoms”. Quite… Just as she (or anyone else) might well have had 20 or 50 years ago.

Triple-vaccinated“…

Quite. The only answer seems to be, let all athletes or other sports persons compete in the same races or games. Then let’s see…

I am quite serious. All this “trans” nonsense has exploded the traditional demarcation between male and female competition in sport, so let’s get rid of the demarcation (and while we are about it, let’s let the “paralympians” compete against the main Olympians…). Then “Citius, altius, fortius” (“Faster, stronger, higher”), which was the “original” (modern era) motto, might then have renewed meaning.

[Olympic salute, Netherlands, 1928]

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That lady sounds very decent. By Grace of God, she, her cats, and husband, will all survive the coming weeks unscathed. May the Russian victory be swift, overwhelming, and cause as little death, injury and destruction as possible.

This should never have developed. Ukraine, especially Kiev and Eastern Ukraine, should never have been separated from Russia. It’s tragic.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil_Popov_(composer)]

Diary Blog, 26 September 2021

Reading for a lazy Sunday

An old favourite— Raffles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Raffles(character); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Cracksman], now available free of charge online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/706/706-h/706-h.htm.

Raffles : The Amateur Cracksman (Paperback) - Walmart.com - Walmart.com

There have been many attempts to adapt the Raffles stories for film and TV; few, if any, have been wholly successful. Perhaps another attempt should be made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_stories_and_adaptations#Adaptations

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While —for once— I agree with Blairite talking head and scribbler, Dan Hodges, a crisis is usually, in the end, provoked by people and their actions, not by some underlying reality. If 30 million people engage in any behaviour, it changes the whole situation. Regardless of how many millions of gallons of fuel are being shipped, refined, distributed.

Look at 1914. There actually was no “need” for war. There was not even, before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, much desire for it, not even by most of the militaristic German staff officers, nor by any but the most revanchiste politicians and generals in the French capital. However, once that fatal shot had been fired, once the tightly geared mass mobilization machines had started across Europe, the non-crisis was at once a real crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization#Mobilization_in_World_War_I

Having said that, and as Hodges tweets, there is not much that the Cabinet of clowns can do to resolve, immediately, the crisis (whether there need be a “crisis” or not). In the longer term, training British drivers, and giving them decent terms and conditions, would seem to be the way forward, at least until automation and AI mean that human drivers are superfluous.

Unexpected

Who knows? It may be true…

The last comment reminds me of the story of the Neapolitan who visited London in the 1950s, and saw how newspaper sellers would go for a snack or a beer, leaving their wooden box and newspapers, their chair, and even their tin for coins, in the street. Operating on the honour system, they fully expected purchasers to leave the correct change. The Neapolitan tried it back in Naples, but when he returned, 10 minutes later, he discovered the newspapers, coins, chair and wooden box all gone.

Having said that, London would probably be little more honest than Naples these days.

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Good to see.

I once wondered why the Palestinians of Gaza had never adapted the (no longer secret, and easily found) technology of the German V-1 rockets of the Second World War (an early “cruise missile”) to attack Israel, but probably their lack of interest was because the V-1, though very fast by 1944 standards, was a rather slow rocket by the standards of the late 20th, and 21st, centuries.

Even in 1944-45, the V-1’s speed (max. 400 mph) was insufficient to outpace the fastest British fighter planes, especially the Spitfire sometimes flying at, and even beyond, 600 mph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire#Speed_and_altitude_records.

The Spitfire pilots became proficient in shooting down V-1 flying bombs.

In other words, a modern Israeli jet would easily be able to destroy such ground-to-ground air weapons.

The other tactic used by Hamas in or from Gaza is the tunnel. The Israelis, and the Hamas operatives, play a deadly cat and mouse game in which the former try to find such tunnels (using high technology) and destroy them.

I imagine that the response of Hamas will be to dig deeper and deeper, far below the surface, where even high explosive and bunker-busting bombs and missiles will have little effect. The moment of maximum danger for such tunnellers would be when they excavate to the surface again (presumably in less-habited parts of Israel).

So far, the Hamas tunnels have not penetrated very far from the Gaza enclave itself, but one could imagine a tunnel going from Gaza, very deep underground, to central Israel, with the idea of infiltrating fighters deep into Israeli territory and then striking a strategic blow or series of blows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_tunnel_warfare_in_the_Gaza_Strip.

The cost of building such tunnels must be enormous. Even the present type of tunnel, limited in range, must be very expensive to create.

I believe that a very obscure directorate of the pre-1991 KGB specialized in tunnelling, but I myself know next to nothing about its work.

Other noted tunnelling groups included the 1960s-1970s Uruguayan urban guerrilla group, the Tupamaros [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaros].

Merkel’s legacy

Merkel’s legacy? Germany as a dustbin. Words are superfluous; pictures tell the story better.

Germany is now not Germany at all, just as the UK is now scarcely Britain at all. I recall visiting both the Bundesrepublik (West Germany) and, though only once and briefly, the DDR (East Germany) in the 1980s. The western part of Germany had visibly declined when seen again in 2001. Now? Probably far worse.

Google the “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”. That is the basis for much of what has been happening in Germany and across Europe, and even in places such as Australia and New Zealand.

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The Jewish lobby…yet again. It has been exposed, even just looking at the Labour Party, again and again…

and who can forget the Labour MPs who were (many still are) in the pocket of Israeli Intelligence? Here is moneygrubbing expenses blodger, Joan Ryan (now removed from Parliament), meeting Israeli official Shai Masot, and discussing a one million pound slush fund:

Ha ha!

We know what is necessary, or what will be necessary, but by reason of repression on free speech in the UK, cannot say so publicly…

That idiot wants the police to be “representative” of “everyone” in Birmingham. Well, about (?) 5% of Birmingham residents are probably criminals of one sort or another. Should they be in the police? Should they march with pride? Never say never…

Alison Chabloz

Latest word from usually-reliable sources is that the persecuted singer-songwriter and socio-political satirist, Alison Chabloz, should be released from prison this coming Thursday, 30 September 2021, having been incarcerated for mocking or simply criticizing “the Chosen”.

[Alison Chabloz]

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Or vice-versa. The fact is that, and leaving rhetoric aside (if stupid Angela Rayner’s yelling can be termed “rhetoric”), both main System parties are, in policy terms, almost indistinguishable in practice.

Most British people are, however, still more interested, sadly, in whatever is happening in the latest braindead “soap”, or Strictly Come Dancing, or whatever the “British” (ha) team are doing in some sport or other.

Charmant

Interesting film

https://odysee.com/@MariaOrsic:2/Beneath-Antarctica:a

Seems doubtful, but worth seeing. About 14 mins.

I recall an old lady I knew telling me that, with some friends from Switzerland, she visited (sometime in the 1990s) another friend, a former Waffen SS sergeant in Bavaria, who talked constantly about Hitler in Antarctica, submarines in 1945 going there, hollow Earth etc. They regarded him as having become very eccentric, though, and certainly did not believe any of it.

Would be good if there really were National Socialist legions in Antarctica ready to go into battle against the evils of the contemporary scene, but I have to doubt their existence.

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Diary Blog, 2 September 2021

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On and on to the sands of Coney...” [TV ad for Poems on the Subway, New York City, early 1990s]

Is there no-one at all in Canada who can deal with this…problem?

Merkel. A good example of the interface between evil and deluded.

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The UK police are ever-more politicized. You can guess (((what))) influence is behind most of that…

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I agree.

Ten thousand angels shall precede me into battle” [the “Mad Mahdi”– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad]

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Diary Blog, 30 December 2020

University Challenge

Watched a recording of University Challenge, an alumni match between Reading and New College, Oxford: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qsjx.

Pretty poor, as with previous alumni matches this Christmas. I did far better than either team. Amazing how ignorant many of these “respected commentators”, TV journalists, novelists etc, are.

Tweets seen today

It is very strange that all or virtually all the Twitter accounts of Jews, that I have seen, are very much pro-“lockdown”, the facemask nonsense etc, just as they are for censorship, and the prohibition of “unapproved” opinion. I do not know why that should be, unless it is something ingrained…

Cyprus was better under British rule. Having said that, the lack of freedom is becoming widespread in the UK too, now.

Quite typical Jewish attitude [see “Kate Morgan”, above]…

Many will empathize with “@Amy_amorie”; there is a pervasive brainwashed society all around us.

The present UK Government is a Jewish-lobby, finance-capitalist cabal. On that premise, the importation of millions more unwanted migrant-invaders is almost guaranteed…

Ah, Cohen…I wonder what kind of “person” that is?…

Britain, 2020…

Along the same lines, I was watching the TV game show Only Connect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Connect] yesterday. At one point, a clue involved the Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the accompanying picture showed two blacks!

And nowhere has her misrule been more damaging than in Germany itself.

In a nutshell…(see below):

“The virus”

The head of the WHO emergencies program, Dr Mike Ryan, said: “The likely scenario is the virus will become another endemic virus that will remain somewhat of a threat, but a very low-level threat in the context of an effective global vaccination program.

Ryan warned that the next pandemic may be more severe. “This pandemic has been very severe … it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one,” he said.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/who-warns-covid-19-pandemic-is-not-necessarily-the-big-one.

If a really lethal “pandemic” were to strike, killing most people, our civilization might have to rebuild. However, it could rebuild better. To that extent, I agree with the World Economic Forum. https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

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Went to Waitrose. Slightly busier than usual in the evenings. Still a black-clad and mask-wearing Handmaid’s Tale militiaman stationed by the entrance, presumably to deter non-wearers of facemasks.

Later, watched this evening’s alumni match of University Challenge, this time the Courtauld Institute against St. John’s, Oxford. Once again, both teams not much good, in fact downright poor. I certainly did better than both. An Indian woman called, I think, Ghoswami, was notably poor (she thought that Baku might be the most northerly major city of China, among other hopeless answers!); as for the other team, a Jewish woman called Klein knew almost nothing, though admittedly she did correctly identify a painting by Veronese which I thought was probably by Raphael.

Just realized that I used the last of the Kirsch watching that show, and will not be shopping again for a few days: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/kirsch/063037-32017-32018

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While I myself am not a member or, as such, “supporter” of “Patriotic Alternative”, I feel that these mostly young people are basically on the right lines. A political party is one route, setting up community or communities is another; there are other ways too. Those routes are not opposed to each other but complementary, like the fronts in a major military campaign or war.

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