Well, this week 5/10, same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10. In the back of my mind, I think I might have scored on question 1, too, but did not.
I have written about Cuba previously (use search box if interested), but this report by a (formerly?) pro-Cuba and maybe pro-Castro Scotsman who has lived there for years is well worth reading.
Of course, it is almost trite to say that Cuba is on the point of collapse, because that has been said for the past 35 years, but it now seems inevitable, either from implosion or via American intervention.
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Very sad that Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat who’d been enjoying his retirement in Bermuda at the Governor’s mansion, has died at the age of 12.
Such an amazing cat, full of purrsonality and he brought so much joy to so many people. He was such fun to write about in my book. pic.twitter.com/AaLzgdWRpy
They rescued 15 dogs from the euthanasia list. Thank you to everyone involved in this rescue mission, you are appreciated. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/i5qK6yBi0D
[“Everyone was lied to about Hitler. Our education system pushing it all for many decades has done so with Jewish history books and lies about the war. Nationalism Socialism isn’t “far right”. It’s the third position which is very centrist in a political sense. Yes, Hitler went a bit full throttle towards the end, but his initial ideology of the NSDAP is what we need to fix Britain and Europe.“]
Labour Party activists including @LucyMPowell have been referred to police over by-election gala dinner and attempts to “bribe voters”
Meanwhile, Starmer-stein is again, as he fondly imagines, on the world stage. He wants British and EU taxpayers to stump up even more money for “defence” (anti-Russia build-up) and “Ukraine” (the sliding Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev).
Meanwhile the migration-invasion of the UK continues unabated…
Don’t let Mad Zack hypnotise you into legalised drugs and open border chaos
Jews talking about killing all Palestinian Arabs in Gaza (etc) and then settling the cleared areas with Jew settlers or colonizers. A fully-Jewish “final solution”…
Genocide and then settlement by Jews, in plain language. Jew lawyers in the UK, USA etc may argue, in their Talmudic way, about whether Jews have or have not engaged in “genocide” in Gaza, but just look at the place now! Does it matter what label Jews or others place on what has been done?
Actually, from the Israeli point of view, the “crime” of the Palestinian Arab operatives on 7 October 2023 was not the killing of hundreds of Jewish revellers and military personnel (many of which were actually killed by Israeli forces, implementing free-fire protocols, anyway), but to have successfully invaded “Israeli” territory. That pierced the Israeli feeling of invulnerability.
I admit that I myself was taken by surprise; I would previously have doubted that the Arabs could pull off an operation like that (and keep the plans secret).
In fact, I think that Netanyahu and his cabal may have known of the 2023 attack on Israel in advance, and let it go ahead (in the manner of Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor), because it provided a good excuse to ethnically cleanse Gaza (just as Pearl Harbor provided the excuse to get the USA into war with Germany, via its Japanese ally).
Footage from the liberated Mirnograd, where Russian army soldiers provide assistance to the local population, including delivery of water, food, medicine, and hygiene products. pic.twitter.com/V6PKh4XLal
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemns the neoliberal delusion of the "End of History" and its prophet Francis Fukuyama, which emerged after the Western victory over communism following the end of the Cold War:
I heavily criticized that “End of History” nonsense in my unpublished book The End of the Millennium and the New Age of Alexander (written in the United States in 1990-1991). Nice to have been proven right (again).
Europe warns about peace: "after an agreement, Russia will become more dangerous"
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has effectively indicated that a quick end to the war in Ukraine would not be favorable for Europe.
The European Parliament approved a new loan package from the European Commission for Ukraine amounting to 90 billion euros
Official statements emphasize that "Ukraine's fight is Europe's fight," which in practice means that the financial burden is shifted to European taxpayers.… pic.twitter.com/pBvdl2oMWF
Ha ha! “…once war reparations are received from Russia“…That will be never, then. “Reparations” are paid by the losing side in a war. Russia is quite obviously winning (though slowly) the war against the Kiev regime. The EU “leaders” are living in a world of wilful delusion.
The British and EU taxpayers are going to be losing out. Money desperately needed here is going to be sent “over there”…
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All connected…
Yedioth Ahronoth:
If Tehran feels that the regime is on the verge of collapse, it may launch its entire missile arsenal at Israel. pic.twitter.com/ePwiK7SSQe
If you must, please recommend the jewish autonomous oblast in Russia. It is one and a half times the size of Palestine, has a small population and is far away from West Asia.
Russians, too, do not want more Jews. It is a conundrum; a problem, in fact…
There *was* a *secret* sweetheart deal, as my colleague @RaniaKhalek explained 11 years ago. He served only a year of his 18-month prison sentence in the private wing of a Palm Beach Jail and was permitted to leave the prison grounds for up to sixteen hours a day.
Keir Starmer promised change. But the past week has shown his premiership to be as duplicitous, hypocritical, mendacious and self-serving as any of his predecessors > Mail Plus > https://t.co/IYPq6JRjaB
Vladimir Zelensky's statements have long been ravings of a sick person and an indicator he is not in his right mind, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told the media:https://t.co/bXoxrz1bG3pic.twitter.com/5B9riUjnQG
Hungary will not abandon its independent stance in the European Union and will not allow its right of veto to be removed, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said:https://t.co/cQuRiIiwtjpic.twitter.com/kjNqyObZIm
[Roman Bozhkov, Bridge . Reminds me of the wooden, narrow, and very dilapidated bridge —but without any handrail!— which I used in early 1982 to get from the shore of a lake on the border of West and East Germany to a tiny island, where there was a birdwatchers’ hut (no glass in the window, and a leaky roof), and in which I had to sleep one night]
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 8.
Historical note
83 years ago.
Surely one of the best films of its type.
Talking point
“But you can give it up, stop Shirriffing, if it has stopped being a respectable job,” said Sam.
“We’re not allowed to,” said Robin.
“If I hear not allowed much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.”
“Can’t say as I’d be sorry to see it,” said Robin, lowering his voice. “If we allgot angry together something might be done.”
. . . This was Frodo and Sam’s own country, and they found out now that they cared about it more than any other place in the world. Many of the houses that they had known were missing. Some seemed to have been burned down. The pleasant row of old hobbit-holes in the bank on the north side of the Pool were deserted, and their little gardens that used to run down bright to the water’s edge were rank with weeds. Worse, there was a whole line of the ugly new houses all along Pool Side, where the Hobbiton Road ran close to the bank. An avenue of trees had stood there. They were all gone. And looking with dismay up the road towards Bag End they saw a tall chimney of brick in the distance. It was pouring out black smoke into the evening air.
. . . “This is worse than Mordor!” said Sam. “Much worse in a way. It comes home to you, as they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was all ruined.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Book VI, ch. 8.
Unfortunately, basically “System” historians and academics such as Ferguson are easily held to ransom by the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby. Their own careerist interests tend to get in the way of truth-telling.
The Lord of the Rings quotation there, though, resonates with me. That is more or less how I feel about England. There is, almost daily, less and less left of the England I remember from childhood (early-mid 1960s) and my teenage years (early to mid 1970s) (I was in Australia 1967, 1968, 1969).
Now we are told that, even “net”, the migration invasion will be around a million a year, indefinitely. That means continual degradation of housing availability, healthcare availability, law and order, availability of decent education, ever-lowering real pay; it also means the destruction of the welfare state.
It makes no difference at all whether those entering the UK do so with various visas, and on scheduled flights, or do so in rubber boats, invading the beaches of southern England.
The questions raised are:
how many years before this society collapses, together with its corrupt and decadent political system?
how many years before a real social-national government can take power and exterminate the societal evils that are being visited upon us (not all of which, however, are by reason of mass immigration)?
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Sweden has taken immigration below net zero – eg, more are now leaving than arriving.
It tightened rules, upped deportation and agreed to offer up to £25k to those who “re-emigrate” (aka voluntary repatriation).
Each immigrant to the UK, at present, is costing the UK about a million pounds over a lifetime, taking everything into account. It therefore makes sense to say “go out and stay out of the UK and we shall give you a gratuity of £50,000 [or more].” There would have to be a second, firmer statement, i.e. “return to the UK without permission, and you will be shot.”
Of course, such an offer might attract others. That posits the need for firm measures to prevent that.
We could even go further, inviting non-whites born in the UK to emigrate, and providing a similar and larger gratuity to them on that basis, maybe £200,000 in cash. Same (not some) conditions apply…
Expensive, but not so expensive as having them here.
Note: “other solutions are available”.
According to U.S. federal law, Americans are required to cover all Israeli debt.
Americans are also legally required to pay the moving expenses for any jew worldwide that decides to move to Israel.
Had this story appeared on the 1st of April, I should have assumed that it was a hoax. This country is now so screwed that it is hard at times to believe the extent of it.
In case you missed:
Britain's fertility crisis -we need to get serious before it's too latehttps://t.co/6IGXVftqjJ
The British Council is both useless and expensive. As Martin Bell pointed out many years ago, the (old) BBC World Service did “soft power” diplomacy many times better on a fraction of the budget.
The Labour Party succeeded at GE 2024 (albeit to the extent that 33.7% of voters that voted, voted Labour) not on its own merits, but because “almost everyone” (at least 9 out of every 12) wanted rid of the Conservative Party.
Now we see a similar phenomenon— the people want rid of both of the main System parties. So far, Reform is the only game in town.
Well, this week I beat political journalist John Rentoul again. He scored 4 and two-thirds out of 10; I scored 6 and two-thirds. I suspect we both knew only (the same) two out of the three jazzmen in question 5. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 6, and 8 (though I came close on question 8).
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Within a 50 second clip we see gaslighting, projection & unhinged totalitarianism. The trifecta! https://t.co/cFcXnOWuTr
At first, the rockets sent by the Palestinian resistance were little more than fireworks, but over the years and decades the technology has improved. It seems that now at least some of those rockets are quite powerful.
Israel, for all its military might, and for all its money, and its control/influence in other countries, is doomed in the long run. Demographics alone, in the region as a whole, would seem to indicate that.
Israel may have powerful weapons, including nuclear ones, but those weapons may not be enough to save it, in the end.
These are Hamas militants entering an Israeli neighbourhood. Unprecedented images from Israel right now. The attack is ongoing. pic.twitter.com/yoh0pFLL5Y
Perhaps a foretaste of what will eventually happen on a far bigger scale.
This is guerrilla warfare on the streets of southern Israel. The images are chilling. Many dead, and many hostages taken. Israel seems to have been taken completely off guard. It is a full fledge war. #Israel#Gazapic.twitter.com/FP3tw9tld5
Salah al-Arouri, one of the leaders of Hamas in Lebanon: we are holding a large number of hostages, among them high-ranking Israeli officers. International intermediaries have already contacted us.
Cleverly, with all the erudition and wisdom of his “McDegree” in Hospitality Management, explains that firing rockets etc at civilian habitations is “terrorism”. Unless, of course, the shooters are British or American (or Israeli), and the civilians Palestinian Arabs, Iraqis, Afghans, Serbs or (in WW2) Germans etc…
There is a high probability that the invasion from the Gaza Strip is just a diversionary maneuver, and a much more powerful invasion will follow from the north, by Hezbollah forces – Senior Lieutenant of the Israeli Defense Forces Yigal Levin.
I have to admit that I would never have guessed that the Arabs would be able both to co-ordinate such attacks and also keep the date and time of them secret. Presumably, the Israelis were also not expecting this.
Israel's military leadership unanimously agreed that the only proportionate response was a full-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip – Israeli media
Again, quelle surprise— Israel almost always hits civilian targets.
Hamas commander Al-Arouri: We had information that Israel was planning a military operation against the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the Jewish holidays.
Possible/plausible “conspiracy theory”: the Israeli ruling circles knew of the Hamas plan, but allowed it to happen, “throwing under a bus” their own Jewish inhabitants, in order to be able invade Gaza as a form of “self-defence”. That is what, mutatis mutandis, Roosevelt did before and after Pearl Harbor.
Lebanese Hezbollah has gone into “standby mode” and UNIFIL forces (the UN peacekeeping contingent in South Lebanon) have moved to its bases, Israeli Channel 12 reported, citing sources.
If the term “war criminal” means anything, here it is. Untermensch.
Look at the Old Testament. They started ethnic cleansing that long ago.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are being drafted into the army. Israel is preparing for the possibility of conflict on several fronts at once, reports a Fox News special correspondent in Jerusalem.
The Israeli media is spreading criticism of the authorities for the situation with the unexpected Hamas invasion.
The Haaretz newspaper, citing sources, writes that Israeli intelligence services concluded on the eve of the war that the Palestinians do not want it. pic.twitter.com/Q6vrJakcak
What is important about the events of the past 24 hours is not the statistical rate of attrition, not the damage done, and not even which side eventually “wins” in the short term (bearing in mind Israel’s huge military superiority, that can hardly be in doubt), but the fact that an incursion like that seen has happened at all.
Hamas has broken something now— the sense of effortless Israeli military might, and the idea that any invasions or incursions into Israeli territory will be slight, only in one area, and easily repulsed.
In the longer term (i.e. after 2023), that may prove to be the most significant fact about these events. The Palestinian Arabs now know what is or might be possible, no matter what Israeli/Jewish repression follows the current events.
This may just be the beginning of the end for Israel.
I write on the 79th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, or as F.D. Roosevelt had it, “a day which will live in infamy“. An interesting topic, but not one about which I have anything to say today at least.
Social-national communities
I have written previously about the need for social-national communities, and in particular about the need to concentrate forces in as few areas as possible, in order to create “critical mass”, or as Clausewitz and his successors put it, a Schwerpunkt, today in the Western world more commonly called a “centre of gravity”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_gravity_(military). Other translations have included “focal point”.
The intensifying censorship across the Western world, including Internet censorship and (((control))), makes such communities even more essential. It has been seen that even relatively mainstream commentators and publicists are now often “deplatformed” either by State action or (more commonly) by the biased staff of major online platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. The Jewish or Jew-Zionist element is behind much of it, but the “antifa” type of “useful idiot” is often involved as well.
The time may come when open dissidence online is all but banned. Even now, particularly known individuals are barred from exercizing their civil right to dissent and comment online, via Jewish-instigated “lawfare”. Alison Chabloz, the satirical singer-songwriter (whose latest trial is set down for 17 December 2020) has been subject (whether lawfully or not— an open question) to police and court-ordered bail conditions for nearly a year now, which conditions have included a general ban on Internet posting!
The need for real, offline, social-national community has never been more pressing.
Thus it was with pleasure that I have noticed, in recent months, a growing understanding of the above from various people who post on Twitter. Some need little introduction, such as Nick Griffin. Others were unknown to me until recently, and seem to be clustering around the Patriotic Alternative group, whose leader, Mark Collett, was himself expelled from Twitter not long ago and his bank account frozen or withdrawn (!), though he seems to be still on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf14z6V0MWNeVcbAz0r8wQ
It does not matter if German, French, English, or whoever else in Europe, their spaces are distinct from each other, yet congruent within their own and in a broader context.
England's beauty is organic. It is not as titanic as the Alps or as brooding as the Germanic forests but it is gentle, crafted and sublime. It is not hammer forged by the gods, it was grown from the soil by the Englishmen who have loved it. pic.twitter.com/xBuDzOuvbq
Feminism has given Western women the freedom to have everything that's not worth having, and told them everything they already had was worthless. pic.twitter.com/j37968bae6
We have to stop instilling resentment in girls then teaching them to be motivated by that instilled resentment and calling it “empowerment”. Who’s with me? 🙋♀️
We hear much about the supposedly terrible German “Nuremberg Laws” of the mid-1930s, but in fact they were defensive in nature, aiming at protection of the German people from exploitation, and also aiming at the protection of the future of the German people.
One sees nonsense constantly from those who believe that the Nuremberg Laws meant that Jews were all rounded up, arrested, sent to labour camps etc.
As a matter of fact, the legal definition of “Jewish” was, if anything, rather moderate:
Classification
Translation
Heritage
Definition
Deutschblütiger
German-blooded
German
Belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Deutschblütiger
German-blooded
1⁄8 Jewish
Considered as belonging to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Mischling zweiten Grades
Mixed race (second degree)
1⁄4 Jewish
Only partly belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Mischling ersten Grades
Mixed race (first degree)
3⁄8 or 1⁄2 Jewish
Only partly belongs to the German race and nation; approved to have Reich citizenship
Jude
Jew
3⁄4 Jewish
Belongs to the Jewish race and community; not approved to have Reich citizenship
Jude
Jew
Jewish
Belongs to the Jewish race and community; not approved to have Reich citizenship
As can be seen from that table, even persons who were half-Jewish, i.e. with one Jewish parent, were usually permitted full citizenship rights.
Jews were eventually prohibited from becoming members of certain occupations, such as politicians, journalists, lawyers, judges. That reversed what had been the position under the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic (and what is or is fast-becoming the situation in the UK of 2020), when Jews almost monopolized some occupations.
Few people today know that the more extreme manifestations of “antisemitic” law, such as forcing Jews to wear identifying yellow stars (surely unnecessary in most cases?), only came into force under the pressure of war, and (surely correctly) noting the Jewish population as a large hostile bloc within Germany during wartime.
The Americans interned all Japanese-Americans (most of whom lived in California and Hawaii) a short time after Pearl Harbor; most lost their homes and valuable possessions.
There were still 900 registered Jews in Berlin itself in early 1945.
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Snow was set to vanish by 2010 according to a similar piece in the Independent in 2000 (now Memory Holed). The useless Met Office should be replaced by a seaweed frond hung on the knob of the paedo statue at BBC Bush House. Weather forecasts would improvehttps://t.co/ndYlSPZyZr
There is climatic change in parts of the world (eg Australia, now far hotter than it was when I was there for three years as a child, in the late 1960s) but the causation is not really proven, certainly not completely. As for the remedy, if any, that is even less certain.
Strange to see maybe two (presumably) intelligent people actually discussing the above as if “left wing” and “right wing” actually mean anything…
Sit down for this one
Gov’t Minister James Cleverly tells #kayburley that anyone saying Boris Johnson has not already delivered his promised “oven ready deal” is either “ignorant or dishonest”
Incredible that a melonhead like James Cleverly (complete with “degree” in Hospitality Management) is actually a Minister of State! I must do a “Deadhead MPs” piece about him before too long.
A nice idea, but the sun has finally set on our Empire. We must look for our future elsewhere…
The pseudo-religious cult of Covid, and the Blairite Cultural revolution – topics in my conversation today with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio : https://t.co/RA2B6yojR8
A metallic monolith has popped up in the Isle of Wight, an island off the coast of the U.K., more than a week after other similar ones have appeared in the U.S. and Romania https://t.co/BFjxl7w5capic.twitter.com/hBRZWzZHa3
If our people are diluted or blended into an international mass then we are extinct. What will remain will be only a shadow, a ruined statue to long dead beauty. pic.twitter.com/traC5c4UUv
The key moment came when the Germans introduced compulsory labour service in Germany for young men. When people were personally, directly affected, they were far readier to resist. @barry36883927https://t.co/eFF0RSgrDK
People talk about the French Resistance, which is and was largely a myth, at least until, as Hitchens says above, compulsory labour service was introduced in late 1942. The young labour evaders started to hide out with the small existing Maquis bands (some of which, if not most, were little more than bandits) in remote countryside.
The only active “French Resistance” prior to 1943 were the networks of spies and saboteurs run by either Gaullists or Communists, both of which were controlled by and/or dependent upon (for money and weapons) foreign states, notably Britain and the Soviet Union. The British also ran independent networks. These connected with but were separate from the “escape and evasion” networks run by, mostly, the British MI9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9
Peter Hitchens says coronavirus attitudes have “taken on the shape of a semi-religious cult”.
“People no longer see individuals as individuals but on the basis of how readily they conform to the dogma.”
More propaganda twaddle,based on a belief that normal life is now dangerous.If it weren’t for the green ectoplasm drifting about (probably the stale remnant of an old Gove speech), would this lady *really* welcome the blast of freezing air inflicted on her by the grinning bloke? pic.twitter.com/wjrJNsoZID
Bob Moran’s Sunday cartoon contains an absolute first, a sinister, bureaucratic Father Christmas. The paradox in the dialogue is brilliant too. pic.twitter.com/AZvMKlNQKn
Again, can we try to be a bit sensible. The issue isn't the pandemic's "over". Or "false positives". We haven't been getting daily "false deaths". The issue is lockdowns that repress transmission meaningfully aren't sustainable economically, socially or for other medical reasons.
For once, I agree with Hodges. “Lockdown” or semi-lockdowns and shutdowns are killing Britain economically, socially and in terms of people suffering and dying completely unnecessarily from other, non-“Covid, conditions.
These shutdowns and restrictions are just not sustainable and should never have been implemented, certainly not for longer than a month. Economy trashed, retail sector especially trashed, civil liberties trashed, society as a whole trashed. For what? Because there exists a public health problem which has killed 1 in 1,400 people in the UK? Disproportionate panic measures.
Ian Robert Millard 