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So it begins…
[“The New York Times: The U.S. Navy is facing a logistical nightmare in the region.
The attacks by Iran have effectively disrupted the U.S. Navy’s logistical network in the region.
U.S. military ships require vast amounts of food and fuel to continue operations. The fleet stationed in the region needs food to prepare over 420,000 meals each week, and approximately 8 million gallons of fuel.
The Iranian attacks have also taken out one of the U.S. Navy’s key logistical bases in Bahrain. At the same time, the threat of missiles and drones has made access to some other ports and regional bases difficult or impossible.“]
Good grief.
[“Ann Widdecombe schools a roomful of woke students on the importance of free speech.
“Only two sorts of people oppose free speech… snowflakes and totalitarians.”
“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings.”
“It is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can’t take it, become a hermit.”
“No matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it.”
“You succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away. You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said.”
“You may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear, but tomorrow somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say.”
“Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few.”
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING“]
Unlike Ann Widdecombe, Toby Young and his Free Speech Union (etc) are fakes. They pretend to favour free speech, but support the liars and perjurers of the Jewish/Israel lobby, particularly the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
In fact, the biggest enemy of free speech in the UK, by far, is the Jewish/Israel lobby (and the “CAA” in particular).
See also:
Deutschland erwache!
The AfD is, of course, not social-national, but is a stepping-stone on the way.
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https://altcensored.com/watch?v=WaQUG2KOtMg
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What age a person has to be to do this or that is a matter for discussion, hopefully evidence-based.
The age at which a person can drive a car varies from 14 (supervised) in some states of the USA (I think mainly in the South) and 15 (full licence) in some countries (eg El Salvador), to as high as 23 (in Niger), with the majority of countries deciding on 18. It is 17 in the UK.
The age at which someone can buy an alcoholic drink legally also varies, from no age set at all (in a few countries, mostly African), through 16, 17, or 18 (18 being standard) and on to 21, or even 25 (in one or two countries) and of course, in strictly Islamic societies, total prohibition. In the UK, the age at which someone can buy a drink alone is set at 18, but it is 16 if only wine, beer, cider, perry etc is bought, and if that is both with an adult and as part of a purchase of food.
To intrude a personal note, I recall that, as a child of perhaps 9, and at which time (about 1965) children were not even allowed into pubs, I would sit outside country inns at trestle tables, drinking (weak) lemonade-and-bitter beer shandy bought by my father…I also regularly put on bets in the UK in the early 1970s when I was aged 14+, both at point-to-points and at racecourses (usually Ascot, Windsor, and Newbury; also, occasionally, Cheltenham).
The age of consent to sex varies even more, from (dependent on various conditions) 11 (Nigeria), 12 (Angola, Philippines, Canada, Hungary), 13 (Japan, South Korea, Italy, a number of American —USA— states), 14 (Israel), to the —by far the most common— age of 18, and up to 21 in a few American — USA— states, though I imagine that that latter is honoured more in the breach than the observance (the UK has the relevant age at 16 in most cases).
As to voting in elections, most countries now put the age rubric at 18, the UK having been the first to lower the age from 18 (in 1969; first in actual use in 1970).
I think that there is a valid argument to make the voting age 28, but I doubt that many people will agree with me.
As noted previously on the blog, that Weale character (a supposed Conservative supporter), is hopelessly out of touch, and apparently would rather make millions of sick and disabled people suffer and live in poverty rather than restrict funding for his beloved armed forces (he was a regular officer in the Intelligence Corps for 7 years, until 1992, and was later deployed overseas as a Reserves officer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Weale).
If the suspension of training only applies to “non-essential” exercises, one has to wonder why money was wasted on them in the first place.
Go fight Russia on your own (or, as at present, only online…).
Britain should be cultivating better relations with Russia, leaving NATO, certainly not giving arms, ammunition and money to the thug-regime in Kiev, and so acquiring for the British people not only cheap gas and oil from Russia but also a vast market for British goods and services in Russia and the other Russophone countries.
If the Army, Navy, and Air Force were of any real use today, they would be deployed to stop the only real invasion that is happening, or is likely to happen— the migration invasion.
Bravo!
When I was living in Almaty (1996-1997), it had no metro. A Soviet project of the 1980s, it had been abandoned after the Soviet Union fell apart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty_Metro.
Looks quite impressive, and I see that there is a station, called Abay (named after a classical-era Kazakh poet), not too far (just about walking distance) from where I once lived on Prospekt Lenina (now called “Dostyk”, meaning “Friendship” in Kazakh); my building was near the junction with Shevchenko Street:
As for safety, well… I only once had a potentially serious problem (I was able to deal with it), but an American living across the street from me (I did not know him, though) was tortured and murdered in his apartment (the supposed killers were arrested the following day), and when an odd character gave a brief talk on “personal security” at the British Embassy to a small audience of expats, including me, he said that, while all the expats (there were only a few dozen Brits living in the city at the time) assured him how safe the city was, he himself had attended a nightclub or bar the first evening after having arrived from London and, upon exiting, had tripped over a dead body…
I could have told him that I myself always kept a low profile, as far as possible, when living in a foreign city, and always avoided all nightclubs, casinos etc, and most if not all bars unless meeting people known to me. That way, I do not have to trip over dead bodies or, indeed, become one.
I hate noisy nightclubs and bars anyway, and tend to distrust most casinos outside Europe. Also, such places attract criminal elements (and police/security snoopers).
That British Embassy character, who was supposedly a security expert with a background in British military intelligence and security, looked just like one of the German characters, “von Smallhausen”, from the TV comedy series ‘Allo ‘Allo! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!]— short, and wearing both black leather coat and black leather hat!
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