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Crime of Passion
The British TV series Crime of Passion, which ran from 1971-1973, is now almost forgotten. In fact, the main character who always appeared was the judge, played by Anthony Newlands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Newlands#Filmography], and his Wikipedia entry does not even mention Newlands’ role in Crime of Passion; neither is there a Wikipedia entry for the series itself [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_passion_(disambiguation)].
In late 1971, I was just 15, and had returned from a 3-week stay with a French couple who lived in the Rue de l’Arbalete in the 5th arrondisement of Paris, a Paris which, I think, does not exist any more.
I loved Crime of Passion, which I thought at the time might be an Anglo-French production. In fact, not. It was the kind of literate, not-boring, well-made drama never seen today, and of course had no performative blacks/gays/lesbians (etc), nor any virtue-signalling nonsense in the script.
Crime of Passion was an ATV production, and was based on actual cases in the French courts, in which, until 1976, a plea of crime passionel was an excuse legale in relation to a prosecution for homicide in circumstances where a husband had caught his wife in flagrante with a lover. A successful plea of crime passionel reduced the sentence very considerably (from death or life imprisonment in most cases, to a couple of years in prison or even complete acquittal, though the latter was rare.
The change of law in 1976 was part of a general updating of laws previously based on the Code Napoleon.
Hard to believe that the surviving 29 episodes (3 others having been wiped) of that series have never been put on VHS or DVD, or revived on one of the “nostalgia” TV channels.
I found this episode on YouTube:
Who knows? Maybe Crime of Passion, along with another TV series of those times, Crown Court, subliminally led me, if only by a meandering or crooked path, to the Bar.
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Odessa.
[“Two barges, each 80 meters long, were deliberately sunk in the Danube River in Hungary, near the “Paks” nuclear power plant, in order to temporarily raise the water level and ensure the operation of the remaining two working turbines amid an unprecedented drought.
Currently, the power plant is operating at only 25% of its capacity, while a permanent dam is being constructed in the riverbed, according to Reuters.
Romania has already shut down its last operating reactor due to low water levels in the Danube.”]
I wish I had the power to order them executed in the field.
Like a plague of rats.
Exactly what happened in the early 1920s in Germany. The Weimar Republic regime stood by as hyperinflation destroyed the integrity of the German currency. Jews from outside Germany then conspired with Jews inside Germany to exploit the terrible situation by buying assets for a fraction of the true value (the international, historic value). Industrial assets, great works of art, jewels, gold etc.
In fact, though the hyperinflation was over by 1924-1925, the events destroyed also the trust of German people in System government, and partly laid the ground for the 1933 triumph of National Socialism.
Milei has to be removed. All assets bought by Jews and Israeli organizations in Argentina should be confiscated as, in effect, the proceeds of crime.
Somewhere between a lunatic and an enemy of his own people and all people (except billionaires and/orJews, it seems).
I find myself hoping that the next “attempt” on him will succeed. The only problem would be that his present vice-President might be worse, and then succeeded by another yet worse (and Democratic Party) puppet of Israel.
This is why Basic Income must come. Marx —impliedly— foresaw it.
[“You are 59% Fascist, which makes you a Crypto-Fascist.
It would appear that there is a significant degree of agreement between your preferred political doctrines and those of fascism. Since fascism is really a mix of communism, socialism, conservatism, and liberalism, with a few innovations of its own thrown in, it is scarcely surprising that most people’s political outlook will have quite a few similarities with the doctrines of fascism. However, even after taking these thresholds into account, the most likely interpretation of your answers on the test is that you are someone who is right on the verge of being a fascist proper. Now, maybe you don’t think of yourself in that way, but nevertheless research in the social sciences has repeatedly shown that a significant percentage of the population is naturally attracted to authoritarian political doctrines (of which fascism is but one example). In fact, one study even found that in the case of people who are drawn to order and control, these values are more important to them than more mainstream political parameters, such as the traditional left and right. In all likelihood, those values are among the most important ones to you as well.
For another approach to testing for fascist beliefs, see the classical F Scale Test.“]
Ha. Amusing. 59%.
I wonder how many of both my supporters and enemies would think of me as “crypto”? I should have thought, not many. I suppose I am basically a person of reason, though.
https://www.idrlabs.com/fascism/test.php
Well, I tried that other test suggested:
[“This makes you 19.6% more authoritarian than the average person.“]
Seems that I am anyway less harsh than my enemies suppose.
https://www.idrlabs.com/f-scale/test.php
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He has a point. After all, look at Medvedev. He is far harsher. As for others, there are many Russians far far more extreme than Putin.
She is right, but the point is that Labour is as good as finished either way. Even in 2024, Starmer-stein’s Labour only managed to get 4 votes out of every 20 eligible voters; 4 votes out of every 12 votes actually cast.
Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 did not vote, 4 voted Lab, 3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem (though in fact the LibDems were far below Reform in numbers), and 1 (just about) voted Green.
Well, since then, Labour has slid in the opinion polls, and the Con Party under its Nigerian woman leader has also slid. The latest poll has Labour on only 25%, Reform on 24%, and the Cons below 20%, compared to 34% (Lab), 24% (Con), and 14% (Reform) in 2024.
Andy Burnham may have paper constitutional legitimacy, but will not have even notional real legitimacy until he holds and wins a general election. Of course, as the lady tweeter says, to hold one now would be almost suicidal. At least 100, maybe 200, Labour MPs would be culled.
That tweeter, Fiona-Natasha Syms, is an odd woman. Ex-wife of an ex-MP (Conservative).
I sometimes enjoy her tweets, but she is utterly loonie. Says she is a former “liberal Conservative”, that that she has her own (fantasy) party, “the Moderates”, which seems not very moderate to me.
Wants to take off the State Pension “Triple Lock” (thus making pensioners poorer), be more generous to young and (supposedly) mentally-impaired benefits claimants. Strange in a woman who supported and still praises the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and “George” (Gideon) Osborne, who intensified Gordon Brown-Labour’s attack on the disabled and/or unemployed to an unprecedented extent, allowing the dishonest, dim and nasty part-Jap expenses fraudster, Dunce Duncan Smith, free rein.
Oh, and she does not want to stop the migration invasion, yet thinks that the UK needs more “defence” against the non-existent “Russian threat”.
She seems to think that a black/brown Britain would be fine, and calls anyone against that future “fash” (“fascist”), a term I only ever see, otherwise, from “antifa” and/or Jew “antifascist” tweeters.
Even today, she was tweeting in defence of that black “academic” con-man, Jason Arday, who killed himself the other day when his fakery was publicized.
Well, there it is. One cannot expect rationality from the irrational, and I suspect and have suspected that the members of her “Moderates” fantasy party are about as numerous as the empty bottles in her kitchen. If that.
I doubt that the lady’s “Moderates”, even if they existed in the real world, would do better than the smallest fringe parties. Pensioners would not vote for her, anyone sceptical of the “need” for money to be wasted on defence against fantasy “threats” would not vote for her, and neither would anyone wanting to stop the migration invasion.
In fact, she did try to become an MP at one point, at the 2016 by-election at Richmond Park, but ended up in 5th place (out of 8) with 173 votes (11 votes behind the Monster Raving Loony Party); 0.4% of the votes cast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s
Incidentally, that black “academic” faker’s contrived and proven-to-be untrue memoirs are now selling well on a wave of buying by virtue-signalling idiots. At £20+ a copy, apparently.
Ha ha. She’s an idiot. (they both are).
That Arday con-man was nearly as inventive and dishonest as the fraudulent one-time/supposed “activist” and dog’s dinner cook, “Jack Monroe”.
“Jack Monroe”— now there’s a blast from the past. I wonder whether any of the (at one time) 400+ utter mugs who were, years ago, sending her money every month (from £3 to £44) are still sending her any? Some people are such total imbeciles that it might well be so…
Looking at the mugs buying that Arday faked “memoir” book, it does tend to show that the pro-multikulti and “antifascist” types are so mired in delusion that they will do almost anything to shore up their delusionary worldview.
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I had missed that (it happened a couple of months ago).
Another Israeli war crime.
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[“British drones have, for the first time, attacked targets deep inside Russia – The Times
Ukraine has reportedly used British-made drones to strike Russian industrial and military facilities.
The publication claims that the Nyan drone, a jet-powered drone from BAE Systems that was previously undergoing trials with the Royal Navy, along with a drone from another manufacturer, were used to target oil refineries in the Moscow, Yaroslavl, and Volgograd regions“]
British-made armaments should not be sold, nor given, to the Kiev regime. Stupid. Mad.
Loosely translated, “The enemy is not in Moscow but in Westminster“.
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