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Diary Blog, 3 November 2025

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Morning music

[Kharkov, Ukraine, 1943; tank commander of 3rd SS-panzerdivision Totenkopf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_SS_Panzer_Division_Totenkopf]

Stray thought

I happened to be watching a recorded episode of Celebrity Chase quiz show. I only recognized two of the four “celebrities”, one of which was the unpleasant, and at one time more famous, Janet Street-Porter. She, like so many “celebrities” on such shows, displayed an almost total lack of knowledge. My problem with that is that such people are put before the public on TV and radio etc as if sage, or at least sensible. They are usually neither.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Street-Porter

Incidentally, the “Chaser” was Shaun Wallace, a West Indian who is or was also a low-level criminal barrister, and who, in 2016, was up before the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal in the same week as me. My own supposed default was telling the truth on Twitter (5 officially-determined “offensive” but in reality true and not at all offensive tweets); Wallace’s default was being in breach of his duties as a barrister, i.e. Bar professional standards.

On that Celebrity Chase I saw Wallace (a former Mastermind winner, no less) say that Bedfordshire was “near” Gloucestershire (“…all that sort of area“), thus conflating the Chilterns with the Cotswolds in relation to the source of the Thames (usually taken to be near Cricklade, Gloucestershire, and nowhere near either the Chilterns or Bedfordshire).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wallace

As for my own Bar Disciplinary Tribunal hearing of 2016 (procured by a pack of Jews called “UK Lawyers for Israel” or “UKLFI”), see:

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates

Another stray thought

Well, the fallout of the Huntingdon train attack continues.

I presume that the attacker (now said to be one, not a pair) thought that the train would not stop until the next scheduled stop (I believe, Stevenage), and so his rampage would be able to run for much longer).

Now we see a large number of MPs, msm scribblers and talking heads etc desperate to say that the attacker was “British”, i.e. had a British passport and/or was born here, despite being a black. The said msm and political drones are also keen to say that, if there was a mental health issue involved, in theory it could as easily have been a white man who attacked.

Well, I was born in England in 1956 and, for my whole life up to quite recent years, never heard of rampages (not isolated criminal stabbings) with knives, machetes etc until this country became a dustbin for backward blacks and browns (etc) from all over the world. Not on trains. Not in the streets of London or other cities.

Mass immigration into the UK has been disastrous, actually reducing by a significant amount the average IQ of this country, apart from everything else.

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National Socialist Germany had such an institute: SS-Ahnenerbe; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe.

(Caveat: be aware that there is an organized Jew-Zionist campaign to vandalize Wikipedia on topics such as this).

The Ahnenerbe focussed on the past and present, rather than the present and into the future. That latter is what we need— an institute with the stated aim of discovering how to create a race-stock not merely to preserve Aryan/European race, culture and civilization but also, and even more importantly, to create at least the foundation, the social/racial/cultural foundation, for a new race-type; not a super-race as such, immediately (which is not possible) but the physical foundation for a much later super-race.

Kamm is a Jew-Zionist liar. He has tweeted against me in the past; I have written a little about him, too: see

They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

[“He was born here, as were the 7/7 bombers and Axel Rudakubana, for example. Yet he is still classed as British because of that. Do you really want people like this lumped in with you both with identity and crime statistics of British people? Because that’s what’s happening. All because of birth right or a piece of paper, apparently anyone can identify as British these days. This needs to stop. #notourcrimes“]

Wall. Squad. End.

It makes no difference whether the untermensch is a “migrant”, as such, or not. The fact is that, if you import enough backwardness, enough people of backward type (and thus import their offspring or descendants), you import backwardness and evil, you make this country backward and evil, or more backward, more evil.

Incidentally, it makes no odds whether the blacks and browns are Muslims, “Christians” or anything else, though the “Christian” ones are possibly/arguably slightly better, usually.

Does Rupert Lowe think that petitions do anything (except create very slightly more political noise)?

Much of the evil arrives via the (((usual suspects))) too.

What tweeter Sophie Meaden refers to as “civnats” covers a wide range, from Reform UK or UKIP-style politicos right through to “Tommy Robinson” supporters or other EDL-style football-shirt wearers, bottle-throwers, and flag-wavers.

The “minorities“, combined, will very soon be the majority, and we, the white Europeans who have built almost everything of value in the world in the past 1,000-2,000 years at least, will be the minority, unless we take action soon. In the UK. In France. In Germany. Everywhere.

(108 years ago yesterday).

Dead-eyed Jew-Zionist extremists of the “CAA” type often make appalling comments which highlight their inhumanity. Not showing themselves as merely inhumane but as actually inhuman.

Never let “them” sneak in. Anywhere.

They are going to wait? What for? Maybe they do not want to be blamed for the almost inevitable May 2026 elections debacle. This way, they can blame Kemi Carpetbagger, and then ritually chop her. Will not save the dead “Conservative” Party, though…

[“Let’s be clear.. We’re not saying whites don’t commit crime. We’re not saying every migrant is bad. We’re saying that; – The country seems to be in decline. – It seems to correlate with the scale and speed of mass migration. – That’s why we keep voting against it. We are quite obviously becoming less like Britain and more like the countries from which people are arriving. Because a country is its people. This is not a complicated point.. it’s highly intuative.. and yet almost everyone on the left pretends to misunderstand it.”]

Simple fact.

[“At least 175 Afghans were placed in the village of Watchfield overnight and secretly by the government under the ARAP programme. The local donkey jennet was shortly after gang raped in her paddock. She now lives under 24/7 cctv protection. Elon got some details wrong but, you know, well, the general picture… it’s not good.“]

In 1998, when I spent a month at the oasis of Siwa in the Western Desert of Egypt, about 20 miles from the Libyan border, I was told by a Brit who had been there for longer about some of the habits of the locals. One of those related to the fact that female donkeys were kept in a guarded compound in a less-populated part of the oasis. Why? The local man apparently replied to that query, “to prevent donkey lust” (locals indulging in sex with the animals).

Britain has been importing savages and/or semi-savages for well over half a century. The initial trickle, then rivulet, became a river, then a flood, and is now a deluge.

The migration-invasion poses an existential threat to, not only our way of life, but our whole culture, civilization, society. This is a situation where normal moral or legal rules do not apply. Beyond “good” and “evil”, if you like.

[Siwa town]
[Siwa]
[Siwa from the fortress of Shali]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis

Wall. Squad. End.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

Israel is doomed.

Israel is the hub of a worldwide web. Once the hub is destroyed, the rest of the web can be dismantled or torn apart.

War is war, of course, but “they” are a horrible tribe…

A horrible tribe…

Maybe.

Another stray thought

This morning, I saw on Sky News or BBC News the release of that silly British girl from prison in Georgia. She looked nothing like the sexy little thing she was. Not only, apparently, pregnant, but looking about 40 years old.

I assumed, when I heard that the prosecution/defence deal had had its terms altered suddenly, that money had changed hands. The msm now says that it did. £145,000, apparently. Where from? Don’t know.

I thought I saw Craig Murray there [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray] but it turned out to be a Georgian lawyer; lookalike.

Money talks in the Caucasus.

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Diary Blog, 20 August 2025

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More needs to be known about that tendentious hypocrite.

Still no detail about her parentage, background, education, affiliations, work history (if any) outside pro-invasion “activism” etc.

She will have no future in a social-national UK.

I think that, on some level, the System wants a limited uprising, which can then be suppressed but also used to bring in yet more anti-free-speech, anti-protest measures. It may backfire, though, and then trigger a national revolution, the way things are going…

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Translates to: Reform about 360 MPs and a comfortable Commons majority, Labour 113, LibDems 59, Cons 54 [etc].

One thought: is a fifth of the electorate really intending to vote “Conservative”? Seems very doubtful to me.

What the Israeli Jews (with help and money from Jews across the world) have done to Palestine generally, not just Gaza, over the past 77+ years, is not only appalling, but is a warning to non-Jews in the rest of the world.

In the well-known phrase, “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance“…

[“The Hebrew newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” reports from a foreign report: Data from Pentagon documents clarify the American difficulty in replenishing the stockpile. During the “12-day war,” the United States used more than 100 THAAD missiles – that is a quarter of the system’s operational stock. However, the production pace does not keep up with the required support for “Israel”: last year, only 11 THAAD missiles were produced, and this year only 12 are expected to be produced. According to American experts, this is a very rare resource and constitutes a critical part of the American deterrence system even against other adversaries like China.”]

Israel is doomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

Life is always surprising

Talking point

Long-term and regular readers of the blog will know that I have blogged a few times about the month I spent at the oasis of Siwa in the Western Desert of Egypt in 1998 (part of three straight months I spent in Egypt that year). Siwa had slave caravans coming through from Central Africa to the Nile and Nile Delta right up until the 1940s, I think the late 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis

One of several unusual features about Siwa is that, at least until the late 20thC, men were not allowed to marry until aged 40, but girls were always married by their early teens. I was told that the girls now finish their schooling first (whether that means 16 or 18, probably 16).

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Very different to the Moscow(s) that I saw in 1993 and 2007. Almost disorienting.

Lawless London

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/thug-turns-white-vomits-dances-32298262

“Both men had their sentences suspended after Judge Vanessa Baraitser considered the bursting prison population and an assessment by the Probation Service that found both defendants were unlikely to reoffend if they took up the opportunity to do self-help workshops. Both must pay compensation to their victims and attend rehabilitation days instead.

Williams-Gillett reached through the window and took his car keys. When his pregnant partner asked for the keys back, Williams-Gillett tried to punch her. By now the dad 50, had come back down the stairs and tried to pull Williams-Gillett away from the partner, triggering a brutal assault.

“Your response to that was to launch a violent attack on him. To stab him repeatedly to his face, so hard the keys were bent out of shape from the impact,” said Judge Baraitser.

Unable to start the car, the man phoned his cousin for help, while Williams-Gillett’s brother Fabian Bennett also arrived carrying a metal baseball bat. Bennett immediately set to work on the dad with the baseball bat, hitting his legs, ribs, and body. Williams-Gillett also joined in the beating, kicking the dad and using the baseball bat.

Bennett then turned to the pregnant woman, grabbed her by the throat, and bent her backwards over a fence while goading her partner ‘using her as bait’. When the cousin arrived in his Citroen, the man and his partner got in the car while Williams-Gillett used the bat to smash the windows, including where a child was sitting.

The cousin was punched in the face, but the first male victim managed to drive everyone away leaving his Hyundai behind. When he came back to get the car, the doors had been broken and his partner’s purse containing £350 in cash and her Monzo card was stolen.

Williams-Gillett was sentenced to 18 months suspended for 20 months with 25 days rehabilitation activity requirement. He must also pay £1,700 in compensation. Bennett got 12 months suspended for 18 months with 25 days rehabilitation activity requirement. He must pay £500 compensation.”

[My London]

Plainly inadequate.

Regular readers of the blog will know that I am very much not a “hanger and flogger”, but that sentence for those crimes makes a mockery of “law and order” or “a society under law”.

Late tweets seen

The Hebrew caption reads: “Anyone who throws a water bottle can also throw a grenade. Mobilize everyone.” That refers to the exemption of the “black hat” Jews from military service in Israel/Occupied Palestine. Those “black hats” are a cowardly bunch, though. Look at how that young woman is able to chase one who threw water at her, and kick another in the rear!

As repeatedly predicted on the blog…

Late music

[Victor Ostrovsky, Rumours]

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Diary Blog, 9 July 2025

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Afternoon music

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Ha. Still, sometimes “jaw jaw is better than war war“, as Churchill (when it suited him) opined: see also

The Jews I Met At An Oasis

Corrupt, kleptocratic, brutal, shambolic, not really a state at all; that is Ukraine since 1991.

[“I’m being privately prosecuted by the ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ under the Communications Act 2003. They say some of my posts on this platform (X) were ‘menacing’ against Jews and Zionists. I had my first hearing today and I’m currently on unconditional bail until a trial that has been given a provisional start date of 15th December. We must fight against this attempted censorship. But we need a strong legal team to do it, which unfortunately has significant costs. If you can support me, please donate here: https://fightingfund.org/stopthecaa.“]

Regular readers will know that I too have been persecuted by the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” in recent years, indeed over the past decade and more.

When I was a victim of a malicious Zionist complaint…
Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me

They persisted, as “they” notoriously do, and finally managed to persuade a few dim police woodentops and, also, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS Wessex), to contrive a case against me. The CPS claimed to to have spent a huge amount of time looking at thousands of pages from this blog (an incredible though predictable waste of resources, of course).

Out of all that effort, the CPS, with police support, managed to cobble together an “information” (magistrates’ court case) consisting of a mere five allegedly “grossly offensive” blog posts. Five, out of somewhere around fifteen hundred at the time! Of course, only brief bits even from those five blog posts formed the basis of the case against me.

That was in early 2023.

In fact, even if the number were restricted to those blog posts published in the preceding 3 years (under the “long-stop” provisions of the notorious Blair-era “bad law” Communications Act 2003, s.127 as later amended by the government of Jewish-lobby puppet Theresa May), the pool of possibility would have been somewhere around 1,000 posts, yet the police, CPS, and malicious/cowardly “CAA” could only find five blog posts which contained any (supposedly) “grossly offensive” material. A few cartoons, a few remarks. Pitiful.

I should have been acquitted by the district judge (magistrate), and I think that he would have thrown out the case at “half-time” had he been able to find a technical legal reason to do so. It was touch and go on that, but in the end the case continued (one full day) and ended with my (absurd and wrongful) conviction on all counts, thus giving the “CAA”, the “fat lady” at CPS Wessex, and the underwhelming outside Counsel instructed by the CPS, all the chance to crow a great deal at my expense.

That was in November 2023.

Sentencing was held in March 2024. The net result was that I was sentenced to a “community order” of 15 “rehabilitation days” and a financial penalty amounting to £735. Well, I am pretty poor these days, but a third of the financial penalty was crowdfunded by a small number of generous donors (on GiveSendGo), and the rest paid off over several months.

As to the “community order”, the “15 days” turned out to be about half a dozen meetings, ranging in duration from a few hours to about 20 minutes (most being 30-40 mins), with a rather pleasant and charming young lady in Southampton. I could have had the meetings transferred to an office only a mile from my home (New Forest area), but rather liked my “probation officer”, so decided not to change the meeting place.

In the end, as said, the “15 days” were reduced to 6 or 7 meetings, about one every two weeks, before the whole nonsense was abandoned in August/September 2024, about 4 or 5 months after the sentencing hearing.

Incidentally, the CPS, probably under pressure from the “CAA” Jews, made a doomed and very silly attempt to restrict me from publishing the blog. That crashed and burned, inevitably. The sentencing judge (the trial judge was not the one that sentenced me, the trial judge having been, in the interim, gazetted as a Circuit Judge) agreed with me, and dismissed the application of the CPS with scarcely-concealed contempt.

I should add that both judges/magistrates were as fair to me as they could have been in the circumstances (i.e. circumstances of political and bureaucratic pressure).

The blog continued to be published throughout. During the pre-trial period, during the trial, between trial and sentence, after sentencing, and right up to the present day. The “CAA” Jews were so shocked by what they described as the “leniency” of my sentence that it took them about two weeks to publish their predictable whining about it on their website.

And here we are. It has been nearly 2.5 years years since I was prosecuted, and well over a year since I was sentenced. Still, it may be that I remain on the CAA’s “little list” of people to be privately prosecuted (last time, the bastards got the dim/suborned police and CPS to prosecute me, so the public purse took the strain).

I doubt that the CPS will want to launch another silly and wrongheaded public prosecution, but we do not know “until the fat lady sings” at CPS Wessex. There has, so far, been no indication of a return match.

I am not quite on the same page, ideologically etc, as Professor/Dr. Miller, or that black comedian, Reginald D. Hunter, but wish them victory in the politically-motivated cases brought by the “CAA” Jew-Zionists.

Clear “abuse of process”— privately-prosecuted criminal cases brought by malicious Jew-Zionists acting in concert with Israeli state organizations, in particular the Embassy of Israel in London.

For those wanting to read more about my own matter of 2023-2024, see:

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

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I have always opposed the death penalty as such (while accepting that it may at times be necessary to fire upon mobs, authorize executive action etc). My perhaps idealistic point of view was informed by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (the idea of repentance, and then reinvention of the self), as well as the fact that most murderers, after release from prison, do not re-offend (and few murder again). However, the migration invasion and consequent waves of violent crime (whether socio-political or not), mainly by non-Europeans, have made me confront the possibility that at least some murderers should be judicially eliminated.

Late tweets seen

Orban may be the only prominent European politician with any sense.

Look at the US Army. Much of it could be described as “black girls who had never been out of the Bronx until they joined up“.

As mentioned before on the blog, Woody Allen will have to make a film about it.

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Diary Blog, 29 November 2024

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Afternoon music

[painting by Konstantin Korovin]

“Our wonderful police”

https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/voyeuristic-met-police-officer-climbed-30368482?int_source=nba

“A Metropolitan Police officer who told his colleague ‘What are you good at, other than shagging people on the team?’ has been found not guilty of misconduct after a tribunal. PC Muhammed Miah was cleared of grabbing his colleague’s bottom during a night out in North London, however the panel heard evidence he climbed a toilet to spy on his colleagues getting off in the cubicle.

The complainant, known as Officer A, experienced pressure on her bum at a Ping Pong bar in January 2020, but the misconduct panel found she had not complained at the time and that witnesses evidence was unreliable because they had been drinking since 3:30pm at Joker Bar in Chapel Market in Angel. A complaint was only made on the woman’s behalf two years later, the panel heard.“

[My London]

A couple of points. Firstly, note that all three police “officers” involved are still in the police, incredibly. Secondly, note the appallingly-poor colloquial English (“bum“; “getting off“) used by the My London reporter, one Callum Cuddeford. In fact, I have noticed previously his poor English, and his habit of intruding personal bias (in other stories). He is not alone. “Journalists” scarcely exist now. What you get are 20-something scribblers and (on TV) talking heads, most of whom know nothing.

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/croydon-men-forced-way-victims-30470510?int_source=nba

“Two Croydon men have been jailed for forcing their way into a woman’s home to sexually assault and rape her. Adhamon Mebrahtu, 23, of Norbury and Jamie Osman, 23, followed their victim home after meeting her on a tram.

On arrival, they barged their way into her building in Croydon. They proceeded to sexually assault and rape her in her own home. Mebrahtu also admitted to stealing the victim’s phone.“

[My London]

[“Croydon man“…]
[“Croydon man“…]

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“Rory Stewart, “We’re in an unbelievable hole.. 9.2 million economically inactive people.. That’s 1 in 7 aged under 65 who aren’t children” “We’re complete European outliers.. The rest of Europe sorted itself after covid, we didn’t” “Nobody has a clue of why it’s happening, it’s really wierd” “1 in 20 on disability benefits in Windsor.. 1 in 6 are on disability benefits in Blackpool.. So it has some connection to poverty and region” “Part of the problem might be that we’ve created a really rubbish working environment.. Jobs are poorly paid.. Stressful.. People in the UK work longer hours than they do in Europe, for less money” “So its not surprising that 9.2 million people are not keen to re enter the workforce”

My 2019 assessment of Rory Stewart (with updates): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/03/will-rory-stewart-mp-be-prime-minister/.

https://twitter.com/SprinterFamily/status/1862441953922572565
https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1862167812061425855
https://twitter.com/WEschenbach/status/1862388964101169598

“Cool. People should learn about how virtually every slave sent to UK colonies or the US was SOLD TO WHITE PEOPLE BY BLACK SLAVERS. They should also learn about Britain’s role in ending the international slave trade, so the BLACK SLAVERS had to sell their slaves to Arabs. And of course, they should find out that more white people were sent as slaves to Africa than black people taken out of Africa. Finally, they should learn about modern slavery, where the slavers are almost exclusively black and brown people. Libyan slave trade below. But of course, Jovan doesn’t want any of that. He just wants to tell one side of the story.“

Also, there were “indentured servants” in Virginia and elsewhere, white British people sent to the Americas as —in effect— slaves for a fixed period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude.

Another aspect the “Good Law Project” fails to note is the very considerable Jewish involvement in the trade in black African slaves.

Incidentally, that African shown in the first tweet was the failed Labour candidate for the Clacton constituency at the 2024 General Election, and was soundly beaten by Nigel Farage of Reform UK; he ended up with a mere 16.2% of the vote, and in a poor third place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

I spent a month in 1998 (during several months I spent in Egypt) living in the oasis of Siwa, near the Libyan border. Until about 1945, slave caravans, bringing black slaves from Central Africa to Egypt, would pass through Siwa.

[part of the oasis of Siwa (Sahara), seen from the fortress of Shali]

Looks as though that African is going the same way as Femi Oluwole (a total waste of space, prominent online but not of the slightest use to Britain or its people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Oluwole.

As for the “Good Law Project”, it is the vehicle of half-Jew barrister Jolyon Maugham, arguably best-known for having brutally killed, at his country home (a windmill), and using a baseball bat, a fox. Another waste of space, in my opinion.

The “Good Law Project” has become notorious for failed and/or doomed legal actions. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Maugham.

Incidentally, anyone who thinks that Maugham, a tax barrister (I do not know whether he is still in active practice) must, ipso facto (or otherwise), be some kind of great mind, should take a look at his efforts when on the team of Birkbeck (London University) playing “celebrity”/alumni Christmas University Challenge a few years ago: https://order-order.com/2022/01/11/jolyon-wins-university-challenge-after-getting-almost-every-question-wrong/. Maugham managed to combine self-importance, massive over-confidence, and ignorance, in a manner truly stellar.

Somewhere down the line, yes.

“Spending on ‘asylum seekers’ has increased by 36% to £5.38bn from £3.95bn. At the same time as they lavish billions on mainly single undocumented males, they took away the winter fuel payment from our most vulnerable. The Labour government’s own research showed that removing the fuel allowance will kill up to 4,000 pensioners – state sanctioned murder. £5.38bn would be more than enough to fund & operate a functioning & effective Remigration Unit.“

“Our NHS”…

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24758424.elderly-woman-forced-wait-five-hours-ambulance/

“FURIOUS residents said they felt ‘helpless’ after a 95-year-old woman was forced to wait on the pavement for more than five hours for an ambulance.

On Monday, November 25, Winifred Soanes was left on the cold pavement after falling and breaking her hip in Christchurch High Street.

Accompanied by her husband of 61 years, Andrew, 92, who ‘wouldn’t leave her side,’ several people stayed to help, with nearby businesses pulling together, offering essentials to keep Winifred as comfortable as possible in the ‘freezing’ weather.

David Lovell, who saw the fall, was the first to call for an ambulance, staying with Winifred and Andrew for the five and a half hours.

He said: “I can’t describe how cold it was, and as it got dark, the temperature dropped really quickly.

“She was lying on the cold pavement, and we couldn’t move her because she was in huge amounts of pain.”

Because of the way she fell, David and the others had to find a way to prop her head up, getting some shoe boxes from stall holders and a pillow from a pub.

Staff at Mountain Warehouse provided sleeping bags, and the charity shops gave blankets and hot water bottles.

Jennifer Baylis, who works at the Prama charity shop, helped throughout the day.

She said: “I can’t tell you how upsetting it was, she actually said, ‘I’m going to die here tonight’.”

Jennifer said a number of people attempted to call an ambulance and explained that she was a vulnerable elderly person. However, they were given no time frame and were told she was not a priority.

Winifred’s husband, Andrew, is diabetic and a veteran, but despite needing to care for his own health, he stayed by her side in the cold.

He said: “The situation was dire, but it’s great to know that when they need to, the community all pull together to help.“

Andrew, who called his wife his ‘soul mate’, said she was taken to Poole Hospital for treatment and is waiting for specialist operation for her injuries.

People who witnessed Winifred’s distress criticised the ‘broken system’, many of whom have called for a reform of how the service is operated.“

[Bournemouth Echo]

Still clapping?

News from the migration invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14140803/Asylum-seeker-sex-pest-targeted-two-women-train-terrifying-ordeal-sexually-assaulting-one-SPARED-jail-judge-told-no-friends-UK.html

“A sex pest who sexually assaulted a 20-year-old female passenger during a train journey has been spared jail. 

Hamada Salah, 28, who is seeking asylum in the UK, targeted two lone women in separate incidents on a TransPennine Express journey from Leeds to Middlesbrough in February.

The victims were left feeling ‘objectified’ and ‘unnerved’ after the Egyptian national began showing them pornography, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Salah targeted a woman aged 20, which he said was ‘the perfect age for sex’, and started touching her legs, before moving to another part of the train before rubbing his groin in front of a 67-year-old passenger. 

Judge Carolyn Scott said it must have been a ‘terrible ordeal for a woman of 20’ and added: ‘She was on public transport and had no opportunity to escape the situation.’ 

She sentenced Salah to a suspended jail term and also gave him a sexual harm prevention order which prohibits him from communicating with any unknown female on public transport unless it is a member of staff in relation to her duties.

He has also been banned from deliberately touching any unknown female on public transport under the same order.

Judge Scott sentenced Salah to 44 weeks, suspended for two years, with rehabilitation requirements and 200 hours unpaid work.

Salah was ordered to sign the sex offenders register and abide by the sexual harm prevention order for ten years.

[Daily Mail]

[defendant]

The German Reich would have sent it to a concentration camp, or even executed it. The Soviet state under Stalin would have sent it to a labour camp. Is our society better for being weaker in its response, and posing as “tolerant”?

Other news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14138279/Florida-Ghislaine-Maxwell-vegan-Thanksgiving-Tallahassee-prison.html

“Ghislaine Maxwell has been left ‘starving’ this Thanksgiving after the jail where she is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking ‘ran out of money’.

Sources say convicted madam Maxwell, 62, and other inmates at FCI Tallahassee in Florida are ‘going hungry’ because of the lack of food.

One source said: ‘This has been going on since last week. The inmates have been told the Bureau of Prisons has run out of money and Ghislaine and the others have been left starving.”

[Daily Mail]

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

Late tweets

Why should Putin agree to that, at a time when Russian forces are advancing on most if not all fronts? The Kiev-regime frontline is in peril of shambolic collapse. 2025 may bring overall victory in Eastern Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1862087173211640183
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1862173802345472420

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Diary Blog, 11 October 2024

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[painting by Konstantin Korovin]

Cats with jobs

Tweets seen

It’s a mad mad mad mad world.

Only the most radical measures can save this country now.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13945859/Homeless-Tube-pusher-oxford-circus-jailed-life.html

“A homeless man who pushed an innocent stranger onto the tracks at Oxford Circus underground station has been jailed for life.

Brwa Shorsh pushed Tadeusz Potoczek off the platform in central London on February 3 this year, seconds before a train was due to arrive at the station.

The Kurdish migrant had claimed he’d targeted the 60-year-old in ‘revenge’ after thinking Mr Potoczek had given him a ‘dirty look’.“

[Daily Mail]

“Diversity” [trs. “Britain becoming a dustbin“]

More tweets seen

Even more “diversity”…

Wall. Squad. End.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/catastrophic-situation-childrens-hospital-israel-renews-gaza-attacks

“The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children has described a “catastrophic situation” as Israeli forces launched new ground assaults and airstrikes in the north and centre of the territory.

Dr Husam Abu Safiyeh, the director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, said it had not been possible to comply with an Israeli army order to evacuate all patients within 24 hours.“

[Guardian]

The Israelis and their worldwide web are a global menace.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13944981/Explicit-lesbian-sex-scenes-OPERA-leave-18-audience-members-requiring-medical-treatment-Graphic-features-naked-nuns-roller-skates-Christ-having-loincloth-whipped-off.html

“A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Germany.

Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.

Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled, but more than 100 years later, it has now been staged in the city for the first time – with the shock factor amped up to dizzying new heights in what its creators call a ‘radical vision of the Holy Mass’.

The ‘feminist mass’ sees the central character, a young nun called Susanna discover her sexuality, eventually pulling down Christ’s loincloth on the crucifix in the scandalous climax. At one point, the nude nun has sex with the icon.

The performance has an age restriction of 18, and incorporates sex acts, painful stunts, real and fake blood, piercings and the infliction of a wound on stage.”

[Daily Mail]

Incidentally, the poor literacy of the Daily Mail and similar comics is again apparent in that report, “suppressed” used when the scribbler obviously meant “repressed“.

“The Nazis‘ relationship to Hindemith’s music was complicated. Some condemned his music as “degenerate” (largely based on his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna).

“In December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an “atonal noisemaker”.[9]

The Nazis banned his music in October 1936, and he was subsequently included in the 1938 Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) exhibition in Düsseldorf.[10]

Other officials working in Nazi Germany, though, thought that he might provide Germany with an example of a modern German composer, as, by this time, he was writing music based in tonality, with frequent references to folk music. The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler‘s defence of Hindemith, published in 1934, takes this line.[11]

The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with Hindemith falling in and out of favour with the Nazis.“

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith

Few people today realize quite how decadent the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic was. That was one reason why, from the spiritual-cultural point of view, National Socialism had to come to power, to rescue the future of Germany and the German people from the basest decadence.

Now, we see the same cultural sickness and death, in sometimes even worse manifestations, spreading across Europe, and across much of the world, particularly what is regarded as the civilized world.

More tweets

https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1844513638637347011

Washington D.C. is largely “occupied”, in the more important areas of policy. This time, one of “them” just went too far in public.

I happened to be staying for a month or so at the oasis of Siwa (Western Egypt) in 1998 when it rained (actually just a very light drizzle) for the first time in about 2 years. The drizzle lasted for several hours, during which time the locals (mostly Berbers) were literally dancing in the sandy streets.

Not that they needed the water, as such; Siwa has about 350 springs (Wikipedia says 200) fed from an aquifer deep under the Sahara. They even export bottled Siwa water to the rest of Egypt.

[Siwa Oasis, Western Egypt; Siwa Town centre]
[panorama of Siwa from Shali citadel]
[Siwa panorama]

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“By the year 2036, only twelve years away, the government’s own forecast suggests another 6.6 million people will arrive in the country, equivalent to about five cities the size of Birmingham, taking the population to 74 million people. By the late 2040s, on current numbers, the population will expand by around 20 million people, equivalent to 18 cities the size of Birmingham.”

[Matt Goodwin]

Also:

“Well, what we also learned this week is that more people are now dying than being born among the British population —which is the first time this has happened for half a century.

In fact, the native population declined by 16,300 people in the year ending June 2023, reflecting the ongoing fertility crisis that will now become a constant in our national life unless, again, we rapidly change course.

The ‘replacement rate’ for a country whereby it is reproducing itself over time is 2.1 but in Britain this rate has slumped from 3.0 in the 1960s, to 1.5 in 2022, is forecast to crash to 1.38 by the year 2050 and then 1.3 by 2100, making it impossible to keep the population stable.

In other words, what demographers call “natural negative change” among the native population, alongside the other key changes below, will now only accelerate in the years ahead.”

[Matt Goodwin]

Exactly what I have been saying on the blog for years.

These are facts which the System political drones actively seek not to talk about. A disaster starting to happen all around us.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844664568015933920
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844653600166801421

Population replacement.

Talking point

Late tweets

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844808972374618396

Goodwin is right on most issues, and only completely wrong on Israel.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844789526880715165
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1844742587787219110

Looks as though the Germans are getting very tired of the post-1945 (mostly post-1989) brainwashing narratives.

https://twitter.com/SprinterFamily/status/1844840947844321518

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Diary Blog, 30 April 2024

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[David D, Pearce, Bird Souk, Cairo. Pearce is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who was stationed, inter alia, in Cairo: https://www.daviddpearce.com/about; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Pearce]

Tweets seen

True in part, but incomplete. Slavery existed well before the 7thC in the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Middle_East.

Incidentally, slave caravans would pass through the oasis of Siwa in Western Egypt, having travelled from Central Africa en route to the Mediterranean coast or the Nile Delta, as recently as the 1940s.

I myself spent a month in Siwa in 1998 (out of 3 months in Egypt that year). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis.

[Siwa]
[Siwa]
[Siwa]
[I may have bought fruit there from time to time; a bit different to Waitrose…]

Yes. One frequently sees Jews on Twitter etc [pretending to be] upset that “their family” died, or were displaced, or inconvenienced, during the early 1940s; people that those descended from them and alive today never knew, of course.

British or German people just do not weaponize (or, indeed, monetize via books, films, “reparations”, and “restitution”) their family histories in that way.

My own maternal grandfather [b.1901] was at Dunkirk in 1940, and later in Burma. My maternal grandmother [b.1900] lost two brothers in the First World War (both, I believe, captains of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry).

British (and German) people accept such events as historical, and do not constantly try to use them as tags on which to hang contemporary socio-political issues.

The question is, “replaced by what“?

I wonder whether he was the one who (ultimately) ran agents Epstein and [Ghislaine] “Maxwell” when they were still in play? See also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

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These people should be on our side!

More tweets

Britain 2024

Strange minor incident. Taking a nap this afternoon, after having had a very early start today, I was awoken by a knock at the door of our tiny flat (the days of country houses and Caribbean villas being now long gone). I heard my wife agreeing to donate to the county’s air ambulance charity.

I was rather suspicious about the man at the door wanting bank details “to set up a direct debit“, so intervened and told the fellow that we would give another way. He left with superficial politeness; I could see that he was unhappy at being challenged (though I am not particularly aggressive).

I was concerned, so thought to call the police on their 101 non-emergency service. It then took something like 20 minutes to get beyond the recorded messages and just to get to talk to a human being (a pleasant-sounding lady) from the police and give her the details.

I also tried, twice, to telephone the air ambulance charity people themselves but, after an initial recorded message, was informed “your call cannot be transferred” and an unobtainable signal.

I looked up what the CEO of that charity gets paid: about £119,000 a year.

That small incident was typical of the way in which everything in this country is so screwed and just does not work. For a start, the air ambulance should be an official service, not a ragbag of private charities across the UK.

Secondly, it should be illegal for fundraisers to go around knocking on doors like itinerant gypsies. The public need to be protected.

Thirdly, how is it that the CEO of such a small charity (30 employees) gets a fairly generous salary? Yet their only public telephone number is non-operational. It’s poor.

There are too many boondoggles around, to use the American phrase. The “Major Tom” nonsense, with the quasi-fraudulent daughter and son-in-law, has surely brought that to public attention.

Fourthly, the police are almost absent when you need them. At the same time, the county police have apparently spent many many hours snooping upon and “monitoring” this blog, as they do the social media posts of others. The police need to get back to doing actual, real police work.

As a matter of fact, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the county will be elected this week. At present, it is some useless and enormous woman, a Conservative Party member.

Britain 2024— terminally sick.

Late tweets

Shut up and get on the train…

Bravo! End the war.

If the Kiev regime imagines that a new army of forced and unwilling recruits will save the day, it is very much mistaken.

When the weather is warmer, and the Stavka gives the order, it is likely that the Russian armies in the east will start to roll, covered by massive artillery barrages and air cover. Any new forces recruited by the Kiev regime will simply be rolled over.

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[Katyusha rockets, aka “Stalin’s organ pipes” on the Eastern Front, WW2]

Crowdfunder

My crowdfunder remains open: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.

Final word

[Adolf Hitler, 20 April 1889-30 April 1945]
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Diary Blog, 21 October 2023

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Battles past

When I was a victim of a malicious Zionist complaint…
The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates
Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another win over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, and 9.

Tweets seen

Human beings are so inventive; there are grounds for optimism.

https://twitter.com/PamPamalot/status/1715685364831035810

Take away the ricebowl of the Jew Zelensky and his corrupt and brutal cohorts.

“Speak the truth and shame the Devil” [old proverb].

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Currently unter Polnischer und Russischer Verwaltung…

History is chequered and/or grey, not black and white, usually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussia

More tweets

She is right, and about Elliot Colburn very right (except that his surname is “Colburn” not “Coldburn“). Here he is, the careerist little twit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Colburn. Never really had a job; no profession, either.

Well, his MP-odyssey will soon be at an end. Looking at the election results for his constituency, he will be toast within a year; he will then have to get a real job, if anyone would give him one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carshalton_and_Wallington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s

Andrew Bridgen is considered very dangerous by the System, because he is an MP, not someone opining on Twitter/X or Facebook. The System will be doing everything possible to have him removed as MP and replaced in 2024 by a Con Party or Lab Party drone who will make the “expected” noises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bridgen.

Looking at Bridgen’s constituency, it was Labour from 1997 until Bridgen was elected in 2010. His vote-share has increased steadily since then, and in 2019 was 62.8%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_Leicestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

Looking also at the present political climate, and the great unpopularity of the present government, it may be that Bridgen has as much chance as a “Reclaim Party” candidate as he would have had as a “Conservative” Party one.

Reclaim Party is a dead duck, in my opinion, but Bridgen has a high public profile, and it is just about possible that, if the Conservative Party vote in the constituency collapses, or reduces by 40%-50%, and if the Labour Party vote only increases slightly, that Bridgen might just manage to come through the middle and win by a short head. A long-shot, but just about possible.

All part of an overarching “agenda” (conspiracy).

I do not disagree on some of what Goodwin often expresses, but anyone who doormats for Israel and the Jewish lobby (as Goodwin does in that discussion, and in some of his tweets) cannot be respected by me…

Looks hopeful, as far as it goes…

I agree, in outline, with that tweet by Goodwin.

I would normally agree with that, but can think of a couple of advantages all the same. Hm, think that I shall lie doggo on that question.

About 25% (mostly over 70s).

“Brits asked: “Which side in the Israeli‑Palestinian conflict do you sympathize with more?”

All Brits: Israel 21% Palestine 17% Both equally 29% Dont know 33%

Labour voters: Israel 9% Palestine 27% Both 35%

Conservatives Israel 39% Palestine 6% Both 27%

18-24 yr olds Israel 11% Palestine 39% Both 16%

Pensioners Israel 37% Palestine 11% Both 36%.”

There should be an MPs’ section (result would be “Israel 90%, Palestine 10%“, looking at how many are either bribed or intimidated by the Jew-Zionist lobby).

The true face of Zionism?

Those American (mainly) Jew settlers or colonists are far worse even than the old-style or “Sabra” Israelis.

I blogged years ago about an experience I had when in Egypt in early 1998: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/02/02/the-jews-i-met-at-an-oasis/.

[part of Siwa oasis, Egypt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis]

Incidentally, and for those interested in slightly picaresque travel tales, another reminiscence about Egypt: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.

History corner…

(A little window on history)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Darnand

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https://twitter.com/DaughterOfEris_/status/1715687018972225539

Incredible that, in 2023, a large organization such as Currys is still unaware that “Jack Monroe” is a total fraud and “grifter”. Still, if you have ever been in any of their stores, you can see that Currys is badly-run, and only saved from being hopeless by the skills of some of their staff, who however, are rather poorly-paid (underpaid).

https://twitter.com/VesaliusRex/status/1715506244595675306

“Jack Monroe” runs dozens if not hundreds of Twitter/X “sock accounts”, most of which are very obvious.

Incredibly, “Jack Monroe ” now has 507 utter mugs sending her between £3.50 and £44 per month via Patreon. Each. At one time she had over 800, but that fell back to below 400 as she was exposed as a fraud. Seems that another 100+ idiots have signed up in the past few months. Truly it is said that… there’s a new mug born every minute…

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Diary Blog, 31 March 2023

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Morning music

[painting by Bruce Liston]

On this day a year ago

Diary Blog, 31 March 2022, with latest thoughts on Ukraine, and some personal reminiscence about a road trip to Turkey

On the blog 5 years ago

Use and Abuse of the UK Welfare State

BBC Question Time, and Twitter

The tweets below show how far removed from both ordinary reality and political reality are both Question Time and Twitter:

A tendentious, probably brainless (and also —probably— atheistic) Church of England clergyman, and a plainly uneducated and also unintelligent fellow (or possibly someone with a mental health problem), both of whom favour migration-invasion by backward hordes into what is left of our country.

Truly, both stupidity and (in the lay sense) treason come in a variety of guises.

Beyond that, it is remarkable how little Question Time and Twitter reflect the popular mood. In fact, you could say that the popular mood in the UK is usually the precise opposite to whatever the Question Time audience and the main UK Twitter mob are saying.

My own approach would be rather different, certainly harsher, certainly more effective in destroying the migration-invasion, “but that’s just me“…

London. Zoo.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/adrian-satchwell-sentence-acton-park-rape-london-metropolitan-police-b1071159.html.

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Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee) and her half-Jew husband, however, have about 7 or 8 buy-to-let and other properties. It might be said that they are profiting from the squeeze on housing.

Emily Thornberry never seems to wonder what the effect on housing availability might be of importing many millions of immigrants (mainly non-white, at that) over several decades, immigrants who have been breeding prolifically.

Yes, I am sure that Labour will, indeed, “clear the backlog” of migrant-invaders of all sorts. How? By approving almost all applications, and prioritizing the invaders above British people for housing (and all other services), then by setting up some kind of quick rubberstamp process in France, and even in the countries of origin of the invaders. That way, Britain will actually get swamped even more, but the bad public relations of the invading cross-Channel boats shown on TV and social media will be mostly avoided.

https://twitter.com/CraiginWales/status/1641566283589120005?s=20

Ah, yes, those great idealists and humanitarians, Meghan Mulatta and “the Harry formerly known as Prince”…

The USA is not working for most of its people. There again, who are we in the UK to talk?…

…but only if they have the wealth, property, money etc as well…

The “trans” nonsense is everywhere now, but we must be clear: it has not emerged by accident. It is one of several attacks upon white Western civilization and culture, planned and incubated by forces of Evil embedded in our society, often in leading positions.

See also my comments from 4-5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

Better late than never?

In the end, this can only end one way…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeTS1d9_qcU

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11920249/Look-away-vegans-Scientists-plants-produce-ALARM-SOUNDS-cut.html

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake; https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/wikipedia-under-threat; https://www.rudolfsteiner.org/.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923459/Finlands-rock-star-PM-Sanna-Marin-looks-set-LOSE-Sundays-general-election.html.

“Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party.

The ‘rock star’ prime minister, who took office in 2019 as the world’s youngest PM at 34, is Finland’s most popular leader this century, polls show.

However, latest figures put the mother-of-one’s centre-Left SDP in third place behind the anti-immigration and nationalist Finns Party and the centre-Right National Coalition Party, which held on to a thin lead.“

[Daily Mail].

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Marin#Early_life_and_education; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Marin#Spending;

I have nothing, as such, against silly, ignorant, and/or badly-behaved, creatures of that sort; I just prefer them to stay out of politics.

Still, looking at quite a few MPs in the UK, from both main System parties, who are we to laugh at the Finns?

More tweets

https://twitter.com/sam_autistic/status/1641838174627348482?s=20

I had actually not heard of Kathy Burke until today. Yesterday was better in that regard…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Burke].

Once more, a naive “Jack Monroe” supporter who, looking at her other tweets, is obviously entirely unaware that many “recipes” of “Jack Monroe” make food containing only a few hundred calories per person (some are around 200). So not “nutritious“. As for “thrifty“, anyone can buy cheapest pasta, mix in some fish paste and/or some tinned tomato pulp, then heat it in the microwave.

Not too far removed from the Berber/Arab oasis of Siwa, where I spent a month (out of a 3-month visit to Egypt) in late 1997 and early 1998.

[the citadel of Shali, Siwa oasis, Egypt]

That should wake up at least a few of the somnolent “woke”…

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environment, historical, Reminiscences and Musings, Uncategorized, wildlife

Lost Doggerland, Some Historical Changes and Some Large-Scale Projects

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In January of 2019, I wrote the following speculative piece:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/

16 months later, I believe that the article is even more relevant, now that Coronavirus/Covid-19 has concentrated minds (and leaving aside the fact that the Chinese virus is overblown and also being used by the System to bluff people into becoming members of police states across Europe and beyond).

I was just reading again about “Doggerland”, which is not a gonzo-literature novel about some of the leisure activities of a sub-set of the English pleb-dom, but a large territory that once existed between the area now designated as “UK”, and those of present-day “Denmark”, “Germany”, “Netherlands” etc.

At the end of the last ice age, Britain formed the northwest corner of an icy continent. Warming climate exposed a vast continental shelf for humans to inhabit. Further warming and rising seas gradually flooded low-lying lands. Some 8,200 years ago, a catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake and a tsunami from a submarine landslide off Norway inundated whatever remained of Doggerland.https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

and see the very interesting series of maps below

[By Francis Lima – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49850020] It can be seen that, at its greatest extent, what is now called “Doggerland” (a term invented only in the 1990s), together with similar areas in the Atlantic off (mainly) the present-day coasts of the UK and Ireland (the ancient land of Lyonesse, of Arthurian legend), was larger in extent than the present-day UK.

Consideration of these matters gives perspective.

Videos about the above matters:

 

and while looking at those Doggerland videos, I also saw this one (below)

Fascinating, though possibly not a good idea even if do-able.. How about starting with something smaller, such as the Irish Sea? (only, sort-of, joking…).

In fact, large-scale projects are not always a poor idea. One which has interested many is that of creating a canal from the Mediterranean to the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, then using gravity to move seawater the 40 miles to the Depression.

The Qattara Depression is on average 200 ft (60m) below sea level, though the lowest part is 440 ft (134m) below sea level. No-one lives there, though the very isolated oasis of Qara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qara_Oasis lies near the Western edge of the Depression, some 47 miles (75km) North-East of the nearest larger oasis, Siwa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis

I myself stayed in Siwa for a month, in early 1998, out of three months spent in Egypt (on that trip).

SiwaPanorama

 

275682-Siwa_Oasis_Egypt

Siwa is 189 miles (305km) from the Mediterranean Sea coast. British or American people tend to think of an oasis as being a small lake with a fringe of palm trees, but Siwa is, at greatest extent, 50 miles long and 12 miles wide, and has a total population of some 30,000 (though when you are there —admittedly I was there over 20 years ago— the place does not seem in any way heavily populated, rather the reverse). It has about 350 freshwater springs (the water of which is exported to Alexandria and Cairo in plastic bottles), 300,000 date palms, 70,000 olive trees (and some fruit trees, too).

Reverting to Qattara, the Depression is 190 miles (300km) long by 84 miles (135km) wide. Area: 7,570 square miles, about the same as mainland Wales.

A project to flood the Depression would be hugely beneficial. Fish would flood in with the water, it would change the regional climate for the better, and it would enable hydropower as well.

It may be that, by using hydropower and solar power, new eco-cities or towns, even horticultural areas, could be created and maintained, supplied with fresh water via desalination.

By AlwaysUnite – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17865159]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

Fact follows fiction (again): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Sea

Anwar Sadat was said to have been seriously interested in the Qattara idea, but when he was assassinated, the project was again mothballed.

Other projects I have seen or read about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-05-15/port-augusta-sundrop-farms-sold-to-investment-fund-morrison-co/11108046

In Iran, not long before the Islamic Revolution unseated the Shah , there was a government programme to replace sand dunes and semi-desert with forest. Of course, the backward mullahs did not continue with it. I read about the project in the National Geographic. Brilliant.

First, the sand dunes were coated with a very thin layer of crude oil, sprayed from tanked vehicles. Secondly, seeds of the tamarisk tree (salt-resistant and heat-resistant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarix were spread over the oil layer.

Tamarix aphylla.jpg[above: tamarisk tree in the Negev Desert, Israel. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=293521]

The thin oil layer prevented the seeds from being blown away by wind, and anchored the tiny shoots when germinated. The climate had enough moisture for their survival. The tiny growing shoots and trees (within a few years about 4 feet high) were protected from goats and their owners, if any, by fences and a ranger force.

Once the trees were mature (some of the 60 types of tamarisk grow as high as 60ft/18m), the idea was that the climate and ecology would be markedly improved.

Under the Shah, there was to have been a roll-out across Iran. It never happened. Sad.

There have been and still are many large-scale projects of great value, both engineering projects and more obviously “environmental” ones. Most founder on the rocks of politics and/or finance.

[Note: the above first appeared in my daily blog]

Update, 1 December 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/evidence-life-on-doggerland-after-devastating-tsunamis-study

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Diary Blog, 18 May 2020

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A thought out of season

Israel is a country with many interesting aspects in terms of water supply, agriculture and horticulture, urban planning, afforestation etc.

I should certainly find it interesting to visit Israel, because I find artificially-contrived societies interesting in general (Singapore and North Korea being two others which do not seem natural), but I doubt that it would be long before I became the victim of a traffic accident, a scuba accident, or whatever. You get the idea…

Strange. He looked quite healthy quite recently…

More musing

In January of 2019, I wrote the following speculative piece:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/

16 months later, I believe that the article is even more relevant, now that Coronavirus/Covid-19 has concentrated minds (and leaving aside the fact that the Chinese virus is overblown and also being used by the System to bluff people into becoming members of police states across Europe and beyond).

I was just reading again about “Doggerland”, which is not a gonzo-literature novel about some of the leisure activities of a sub-set of the English pleb-dom, but a large territory that once existed between the area now designated as “UK”, and those of present-day “Denmark”, “Germany”, “Netherlands” etc.

At the end of the last ice age, Britain formed the northwest corner of an icy continent. Warming climate exposed a vast continental shelf for humans to inhabit. Further warming and rising seas gradually flooded low-lying lands. Some 8,200 years ago, a catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake and a tsunami from a submarine landslide off Norway inundated whatever remained of Doggerland.https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

and see the very interesting series of maps below

[By Francis Lima – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49850020] It can be seen that, at its greatest extent, what is now called “Doggerland” (a term invented only in the 1990s), together with similar areas in the Atlantic off (mainly) the present-day coasts of the UK and Ireland (the ancient land of Lyonesse, of Arthurian legend), was larger in extent than the present-day UK.

Consideration of these matters gives perspective.

Videos about the above matters:

 

and while looking at those Doggerland videos, I also saw this one (below)

Fascinating, though possibly not a good idea even if do-able.. How about starting with something smaller, such as the Irish Sea? (only, sort-of, joking…).

In fact, large-scale projects are not always a poor idea. One which has interested many is that of creating a canal from the Mediterranean to the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, then using gravity to move seawater the 40 miles to the Depression.

The Qattara Depression is on average 200 ft (60m) below sea level, though the lowest part is 440 ft (134m) below sea level. No-one lives there, though the very isolated oasis of Qara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qara_Oasis lies near the Western edge of the Depression, some 47 miles (75km) North-East of the nearest larger oasis, Siwa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis

I myself stayed in Siwa for a month, in early 1998, out of three months spent in Egypt (on that trip).

SiwaPanorama

 

275682-Siwa_Oasis_Egypt

Siwa is 189 miles (305km) from the Mediterranean Sea coast. British or American people tend to think of an oasis as being a small lake with a fringe of palm trees, but Siwa is, at greatest extent, 50 miles long and 12 miles wide, and has a total population of some 30,000 (though when you are there —admittedly I was there over 20 years ago— the place does not seem in any way heavily populated, rather the reverse). It has about 350 freshwater springs (the water of which is exported to Alexandria and Cairo in plastic bottles), 300,000 date palms, 70,000 olive trees (and some fruit trees, too).

Reverting to Qattara, the Depression is 190 miles (300km) long by 84 miles (135km) wide. Area: 7,570 square miles, about the same as mainland Wales.

A project to flood the Depression would be hugely beneficial. Fish would flood in with the water, it would change the regional climate for the better, and it would enable hydropower as well.

It may be that, by using hydropower and solar power, new eco-cities or towns, even horticultural areas, could be created and maintained, supplied with fresh water via desalination.

By AlwaysUnite – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17865159]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

Fact follows fiction (again): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Sea

Anwar Sadat was said to have been seriously interested in the Qattara idea, but when he was assassinated, the project was again mothballed.

Other projects I have seen or read about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-05-15/port-augusta-sundrop-farms-sold-to-investment-fund-morrison-co/11108046

In Iran, not long before the Islamic Revolution unseated the Shah , there was a government programme to replace sand dunes and semi-desert with forest. Of course, the backward mullahs did not continue with it. I read about the project in the National Geographic. Brilliant.

First, the sand dunes were coated with a very thin layer of crude oil, sprayed from tanked vehicles. Secondly, seeds of the tamarisk tree (salt-resistant and heat-resistant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarix were spread over the oil layer.

Tamarix aphylla.jpg[above: tamarisk tree in the Negev Desert, Israel. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=293521]

The thin oil layer prevented the seeds from being blown away by wind, and anchored the tiny shoots when germinated. The climate had enough moisture for their survival. The tiny growing shoots and trees (within a few years about 4 feet high) were protected from goats and their owners, if any, by fences and a ranger force.

Once the trees were mature (some of the 60 types of tamarisk grow as high as 60ft/18m), the idea was that the climate and ecology would be markedly improved.

Under the Shah, there was to have been a roll-out across Iran. It never happened. Sad.

There have been and still are many large-scale projects of great value, both engineering projects and more obviously “environmental” ones. Most founder on the rocks of politics and/or finance.

UK politics

The latest opinion poll:

I suppose that what passes for a strategy in Labour is to wait until Boris-idiot messes things up even more than he has already done, then hope that, in Britain’s absurd and unfair (and basically binary) First Past The Post political-electoral system, the voters will simply cool towards the Conservative Party and thus elect Labour by default. Not much of a strategy, really…

Tweets seen

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/02/stupid-arguments-for-drug-legalisation-examined-and-refuted.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8327641/Coronavirus-modelling-Professor-Neil-Ferguson-branded-mess-experts.html

and I like this…

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Night music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5Nbp_gmgQ