Afternoon music
Saturday thought
Earlier, drove several miles to the nearest Tesco supermarket. While there, I noticed a fat white English woman with an African, and two (and presumably their) mixed-race children.
I have no idea who those people were, and I have no reason to suppose anything specifically negative about them as people, but this is just wrong in ideological principle.
What sort of society can be created with such a population, down the line? Not one as good as might, on best results, be created with the basis of having a purely European population. In fact, with the kind of mixed “Coudenhove-Kalergi” population which is emerging in the UK, not even the present society will be able to be maintained.
The aim must be to have a European society, not as an end-result but as a transitional state from which can be produced a foundation for a later and more-evolved society from which, in turn and even later, a super-race or super-society can emerge. A very long-term project.
More music
The incredible Sadie Marquardt.
Saturday quiz
Well, this week 5/10, same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 5, 9, and 10, and should also have got both question 3 and question 7, but did not.
Tweets seen
668 drones. In a single day! Legion.
Glad I am not in his shoes.
[“A number of Israeli media outlets have called for the annexation and colonization of southern Lebanon along the Litani River, as the only way to “prevent the return of Hezbollah“
Many observers note that the colonization of Southern Lebanon was predictable and represented what Israel had been working on since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip. For example, just in February of this year, Israel again sprayed glyphosate herbicide on agricultural lands in Southern Lebanon, which is a clear and blatant attempt to destroy the crops and livelihoods of local residents, forcing them to leave their homes and lands to make way for new Jewish settlements.
Also, on social media, there is discussion about the preparation of similar plans for the recently annexed Syrian territory, the return of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, and the legalization of more settlements in the West Bank.“]
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel
[“The Minister of Energy of Qatar
and the CEO of “QatarEnergy” Saad al-Kaabi stated that he has repeatedly warned US officials
and industry partners about the risks of provoking Iran, saying:
“I have always warned that this could harm us.”
The main vulnerability of the Gulf countries lies in their astonishing geographical
and infrastructural concentration.
Their entire economy is a collection of incredibly dense, critically important “bottlenecks.”
Giant desalination plants supplying water to entire megacities in the desert. Power plants that feed air conditioners, without which life in those glass towers in summer is physically impossible.
The colossal gas hub in Qatar. Oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. Global transit hubs such as Dubai airport or Jebel Ali port.
This infrastructure was built for maximum commercial efficiency,
not for survival under bombardment.
The tragedy is that one precise strike by a cheap drone on a transformer station of a desalination plant triggers a cascading systemic failure. No electricity – no water. No water – the glass megacity in the desert becomes uninhabitable like an oven within a few days.
A particular problem is that the monarchies’ economies rely on two things: security and stability.
80-90% of the population of Dubai or Qatar,
for example, are migrants.
From Indian workers on construction sites to American top managers and Russian crypto brokers.
These people will not shed blood for the sand of Qatar or Arabia.
In the event of critical strikes on the Emirates, this multi-million army of hired workers will simply pack their bags and flee into the sunset.
International capital is, generally speaking, the most timid beast on the planet. Investors have put trillions into real estate in the Emirates and the Saudi crown prince’s megaprojects only because it was a safe harbor. If that refuge is targeted by drones, capital can disappear with a mouse click.”]
People laughed when I quoted, on the blog, long ago, someone (involved in building infrastructure such as airports) whom I met around 1977, and who told me that, in answer to my question about where places in the Gulf would be, socially, economically, in 100 years’ time, that the Arab would be, in 2077 or so, “back on their camels in the desert“.
Does not seem so unlikely now, does it? Not now that war has crippled the Gulf states. Also, if hydrocarbons were no longer necessary for fuel or electricity-production, the same would apply.
More tweets seen
“A former Barnet Labour councillor who sent a nude video of himself to someone he thought was a 13-year-old schoolgirl has been spared a jail term.
Liron Velleman, 31, sent messages on an online chatroom and Snapchat to the girl, talking about sex acts and urging her to send pictures of herself wearing a dressing gown, pyjamas, and a bra and crop top.
At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, he was handed an eight-month prison sentence which Judge James Lofthouse agreed to suspend for the next 15 months.
Velleman, who was previously an officer in the Jewish Labour Movement and part of anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, used the alias “Tim Graham 95” to send the messages, which culminated in him stripping down to his underwear for a picture and then sending a video of his penis.
Scott Brady KC, for Velleman, said his life is “in tatters” in the wake of his arrest and charge, ending his political career and his marriage.“
[Jewish News]
An officer of the basically Jewish “Hope not Hate” snoop and propaganda cabal, with which a number of MPs and fake “peers” are involved. Ruth Smeeth (now posing as “Baroness Anderson”, and married to Labour MP, Gareth Snell) is or was one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Anderson,_Baroness_Anderson_of_Stoke-on-Trent.
That is Sam Melia, imprisoned for producing stickers even the prosecution Counsel at trial conceded were “entirely lawful“. Melia was the victim of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby and an emergent UK police state. Both he and his wife, Laura Towler (mother of his two young children), are heroic.
Incidentally, over 90% of the “Readers’ Comments” to that Daily Mail report are pro-Melia, despite the laughably-biased content of the scribbler’s report (presumably a typical 20-something know-nothing calling himself a “journalist”).
Ian Robert Millard 