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Diary Blog, 29 August 2025, including a few thoughts about Paul Mason

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[Red Square, 1945]

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“The resistible rise of the chavscum MP”…

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A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]

[Lenin with cat, near Moscow, early 1920s]

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I agree with that position. Russia should rule all of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper); also Crimea, and the littoral of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev and Odessa should either be standalone “free cities”, or run as condominia (between Russia and an independent and neutral Ukrainian state centred on Lvov).

More Israeli war crimes. An accursed tribe.

Israel does not stand alone, but has agents, co-opted supporters (not all Jews) and lobby groups all over the Western world. All guilty of facilitating what has been happening and continues to happen. The Jewish lobby and/or Israel lobby is also the primary lobby trying to shut down free speech in the UK, France etc.

Paris, London, Berlin (etc). Migration invasion. Clear the streets!

Well, I cannot speak as to any of those details, but right from the start I felt that there was something not quite right about Paul Mason. I have blogged about him previously, two or three years ago.

First of all, despite having trained as a musician, and worked as such, and also having lectured in musical studies at Loughborough (Leicestershire), Mason (a quarter-Jew, one of his grandparents having immigrated from Lithuania), never having had any formal financial or economics training, suddenly appears as a freelance financial journalist in London in 1991 at age 31 (after a “missing” three years). Then, from 2001, he is seen on shows such as Newsnight (as Business Editor), and his political persona at that time is a kind of semi-Marxist and semi-anarcho-syndicalist mixture, hard to pin down.

Look at what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)#Politics.

You can see from that piece how, over the years, Mason has veered from so-called “left-wing Communism” and Trotskyism to (he himself claims) “social democracy” and both Marxism and post-Marxism. At one point, he was writing in support of Jeremy Corbyn. More recently, Mason declared himself a supporter of Keir Starmer.

You see the point. Politically, for all his worn-on-the sleeve pseudo-radicalism, Mason is the political grey man, superficially at home here, there, and everywhere. He sort-of fits in almost anywhere in the (generally anti-British type of) political milieu, almost like a secret agent of some sort…

In one matter, Mason has always been consistent: he has always supported dictatorship and repression of opposing views and dissenting opinions:

In the New Statesman magazine in June 2018, Mason argued the case for state suppression of “fascists”, saying that he favoured a policy of using “the full panoply of security measures to deter and monitor” those he described as “racists” and added: “For clarity, unlike many on the left, that means I am in favour of state suppression of fascist groups.” He finished his article by saying that “The progressive half of Britain needs a narrative to overcome this threat: a narrative based on shared, historic values of democracy and tolerance”, and also “[to] stop pandering to right-wing nationalism and xenophobia and start fighting it.

[Wikipedia]

Martin Wolf characterised Mason’s views in the Financial Times as justifying a planned economy, quoting Mason saying in support of the UK A Green New Deal report “Labour wants to combat climate change through three mechanisms: state spending, state lending and the state direction of private finance.”[46]

[Wikipedia]

[“Mason confirmed his intention to apply for selection as the Labour candidate for [Islington North] in May 2024. Despite having previously supported him as Labour leader, Mason has been critical of Corbyn’s record on antisemitism, defence, and Brexit.

[Wikipedia]


On 8 March 2018, The Jewish Chronicle reported that Mason had been a member of the Facebook group ‘Palestine Live’, in which antisemitic material was posted. He said that while he was a member of the group, he was added to it in 2014 without his knowledge by someone else, and that he does not read or endorse the content of all Facebook groups of which he is part. Mason suggested that the group should be closed and investigated if it contained antisemitism.[57]

[Wikipedia]

Again, hard to pin down.

Someone without any real anchored beliefs. He is also an atheist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)

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The composer Rodion Shchedrin (R.K. Shchedrin) died yesterday, at the age of 92: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodion_Shchedrin.

I like some of his music, not all, but he has been unjustly neglected in the UK and other Anglophone parts of the world. Most people have never heard of him.

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Not only men, thinking of a couple of women in Brighton…

Raise the banners!

The diplomatic hypocrisy of nations…

All the same, a good thing that even a gesture is being made, and this does go well beyond a gesture. The gradual ghetto-ization of Zionism, it might be said.

Putin negotiates with the EU, with the cat as Putin.

Alternatively, playing cards:

(with another ace in a hole, or silo, somewhere…).

So why does “military and strategy expert” and former Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace (highest active military rank— captain in the Guards), not put on his steel or Kevlar helmet, shoulder his weapon, and join the ranks of the condemned on the front-line? His age is no bar; there are plenty of unfortunate Ukrainians aged 55+ serving on the crumbling front-lines of the Kiev regime.

In fact, Jewish dictator Zelensky would love to have even one overweight middle-aged drunk volunteer; hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have deserted (apparently, about 200,000 in the past year or so), and about 800,000 Ukrainians are currently hiding from the draft (and the press-gangs) inside Ukraine. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, dodging the draft by staying outside Ukraine’s borders.

Go on, Wallace. Make the Scots Guards proud!

Already, many of those actually fighting for the Zelensky cabal are mercenaries from Asia, Africa, South America, and other poverty-stricken parts of the world.

Maximum range 280 miles (some only 120 miles), so not quite far enough to reach Moscow (or Petersburg) from the Ukrainian border. Moscow is about 300 miles north/northeast, Petersburg far further (about 530 miles due north of the nearest Ukrainian border). However, those missiles could reach smaller cities to the north, northeast, and east of Ukrainian territory.

Is that a brush-off for Zelensky? A warning to Putin? Hard to say.

Wall. Squad. End.

Wall. Squad. End.

(or parachute him into a large game park in Africa).

Clear the streets!

Part of the reason may be because so many British students are reading for Mickey Mouse “degrees” at “McUniversities”…

More research should be done about the whole issue. What are “degrees” (a mediaeval concept) for? What are universities for? What if anything should be the linkage between academic degrees and vocations (and jobs)?

…and I do not recall the same Marlon Solomon (or any other Jew entertainers) defending satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz when organized Jew-Zionists, led by the malicious and evil “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (or “CAA”), had her “cancelled” from the Edinburgh Fringe quite a few years ago. The same cabal have also repeatedly harassed anti-Zionist Jew and jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, metaphysical speaker David Icke, and many others.

What goes around comes around…

[satirical singer Alison Chabloz]

The Kiev regime is being run into the ground. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Rendezvous at Dawn]

Diary Blog, 7 August 2022, with thoughts about drought and water supply

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On this day a year ago

Drought, and water supply

Where is the strategic direction from government? It is hard to think of a more basic function of government in the modern era than the supply of plentiful and clean water. Of all necessities, water supply is the most basic.

Measures that should be taken in the UK (southern England, really) include water-retention projects in upland areas, new dams and reservoirs, and construction of desalination plants for emergency use (Israel has some of the best technology for that; worth looking at).

Other measures would include those to minimize leaks. London may be losing a quarter of the water available and piped by reason of leaks.

Also, the UK population has increased by many millions in the past half-century. Stop importing unwanted people.

Cape Town nearly ran out of water 2015-2018, partly by reason of low rainfall, but also because (quelle surprise) African government has proven incapable of planning ahead: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_water_crisis.

Cape Town was saved partly by severe restrictions on use, but mainly because the rains started to arrive again from 2018. Los Angeles was in difficulties too over the past decade, but again was saved mainly by renewed rainfall.

In principle, I think that water, at least for domestic users, should be free or very inexpensive, but the reality is that there is a cost attached to the storage and supply of water (and also to the disposal of waste water). There is a debate to be had as to how to manage those costs.

In Ireland, until fairly recently, water was supplied free of charge to domestic users, and the cost covered out of taxation, mainly rates (taxation) on domestic and commercial property: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Tariffs.

Factors: abundant surface water, and a relatively small population, which until recent decades was mostly poor. Incidentally, it was not so long ago that most of the Irish population did not pay income tax.

I oppose meters for water, and I oppose the profiteering by the present privatized water companies in the UK. There should be a national water authority and, if water is to be charged for at all, a set amount —the same amount— paid for water (either per person or per household) over a determined period.

Water pressure can be reduced to save water in times of drought, though that is easier in some countries than in others. I recall a friend in New Jersey telling me in about 1991 that he had seen a special episode of This Old House [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Old_House] from London, which included the information that water pressure was 18 pounds per square inch.

My friend said that “to us, that’s a trickle!“. I think that water pressure in the NY/NJ region is nearer to 80 pounds per square inch, so 4x higher than in London, thinking back to that conversation.

Incidentally, water pressure in the UK is now expressed in “bars”, a metric measurement: see https://www.plumbnation.co.uk/blog/the-complete-guide-to-water-pressure/.

Large-scale users of water are commercial enterprises, including farms. These may have to be squeezed further on cost.

Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Israel; https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/06/britain-drought-measures-hosepipe-bans-beavers-warer-butts.

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Mostly right, though not mentioning the huge —and possibly irreparable— damage done to the UK economy by the ridiculous “panicdemic” measures of 2020-2022, particularly the “lockdown” shutdown(s).

How low has the UK sunk, that it could even contemplate having a Indian as its Prime Minister?

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This is the sort of thing, or one type of thing, that happens when you mix up capitalist enterprise (economic zone or sphere) with the zone or sphere of social rights, politics etc. In the Threefold Social Order proposed by Rudolf Steiner, those zones or spheres (and the spiritual/cultural/etc zone or sphere) should not be confused. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.

Bulb Energy was originally a mixture of economic enterprise and social do-gooding to do with “reducing emissions” and similar nonsense.

Other examples of “social entrepreneurship” have abounded in the Britain of the past 20 years. A swamp of fraud, chicanery and chaotic mismanagement. One of the worst types of the phenomenon has been the “social entrepreneur” company that presents itself as quasi-charitable but makes millions for its major shareholders out of public funds.

The maladministration and incompetence of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith at the DWP from 2010-2015 allowed dozens if not hundreds of such organizations to flourish. There were and maybe still are many examples, funded by not only the DWP but also other parts of government. I am not even sure that “Kids’ Company” was the worst: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Company.

 [Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and Chief Executive of Kids’ Company]

Another one, the name of which escapes me for the moment, made millions for its controllers out of DWP funds; one of those ridiculous outsourcing companies finding “make-work” non-jobs for the unemployed and disabled.

The fat young woman who owned it with her husband (fortunately for them, their names also escape me right now) was on BBC Daily Politics and other TV shows between 2010-2015, talking about how good it all was. Only Andrew Neil was sharp enough to (obliquely) question the amount said woman was making (out of the taxpayers). She and her husband bought a large country house in Derbyshire before that particular house of cards collapsed. They made millions upon millions, were never prosecuted for what I consider an outright fraud, not to mention exploitation of desperate people, and still live in luxury today, I believe.

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Solutions are several…

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