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Saturday quiz
Only 4/10 this week, narrowly beating the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. The ones I answered correctly were numbers 3, 4, 6, and 7 (I have never seen the TV show in question 3, so my answer was a guess, maybe based on something seen subliminally in a newspaper). I really should have also scored on numbers 1 and 2, but did not recall them.
Rightful ownership?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0zxjp50j6o
“A painting which was stolen by the Nazis and only recovered in Argentina last year must now be returned to the heir of its rightful owner, a court has ruled.
The late-baroque Portrait of a Lady was lost for 80 years until it was spotted in photographs of a house for sale near Buenos Aires.
The house belonged to Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of a Nazi fugitive who had fled there after the Second World War, and she has now agreed to return the painting in exchange for not being prosecuted for concealing it from the authorities.
Portrait of a Lady was among over 1,000 artworks looted from the collection of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.”
[BBC]
Is this rightful restitution, or wrongful enrichment of quasi-fraudsters and tricksters?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Goudstikker
Of course, Argentina is very much in the Jewish/Israeli pocket these days, particularly so since the accession to power of that lunatic, Milei.
Talking point
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Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose this war.
It’s all very well for people to say, “it was ever thus“, that there were always loonies etc, but even if that be so, that does not explain the quantity. The same with stabbings in the UK; yes, there were always a few, but now they happen all over the country, several times daily, often many times daily, and often fatal. Most are done by the blacks, browns, and other non-Brits.
Ian Robert Millard 