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Diary Blog, 13 April 2026, with thoughts about Hungary, the EU, and UK relations with Russia

Morning music

[El Escorial]

Talking point

I happened to see that a blog post first published nearly 8 years ago, in 2018, had a few hits. Looking at it again, I think that it is worth republishing:

Brief thought about Hungary

Obviously, I could not agree with Orban’s support for Israel, but now that he is gone, the EU satrap taking his place will be opening the borders of Hungary to blacks and browns, thus —like other EU and UK NWO/ZOG puppets, facilitating the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

The Kiev regime will also be glad of a probable change of policy re. Ukraine.

Tweets seen

NWO/ZOG.

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

This is what we have now in the UK. Look at that idiot. A typical “New Labour”-style nobody, with no principles, no beliefs, nothing… All that and an activist lesbian as well. Completely out of touch, completely dishonest, completely careerist. Labour is a kind of political mummification, if not fossil, these days.

Do such people somehow believe that the public find such obfuscation at all credible?

Oh, well, no matter. It would take a political miracle for her to retain her seat at the next GE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_West_and_Mid_Berkshire#Elections_in_the_2020s.

The tendency, though, is the problem.

Starmer-stein has just committed the UK to becoming even more of a vassal-state than it was before the poorly-handled Brexit happened. What price “democracy” now?

Does Starmer-stein really imagine that people, voters, will applaud this? They will either oppose it or be indifferent (because it will be “caviar to the general” and will pass over their heads).

Britain should leave NATO, cultivate friendly relations with Russia, and thus get energy at cost-price, and no need to waste vast new sums on defence. Russia will provide the UK with huge new markets for our goods and services. The USA can get lost, and the EU will knuckle down once it has Russia to its east and a Russia-aligned UK to its west.

“Boris” Johnson should be put up against a wall. Along with many others.

So will Starmer-stein’s toothless “coalition of the willing” be demanding the re-opening of the Strait from the Iranian government, or from the Trump misgovernment?

If I required any further proof that Jewish lobby/Israel-lobby puppet Tice is unfit for any position or office in government, it would be this— that Tice has retained, apparently, dishonest and incompetent “Mark Lewis Lawyer” as his solicitor. What does that say about Tice, about his judgment?

For more about the egregious Lewis, use the search box on the blog.

Well, the importation of literally millions of unwanted immigrants over the past 50 years or so has not exactly helped, which (with breeding of said migrants) has added about 15M to the UK population since I (b.1956) was a child, but many of those complaining about a housing crisis also favour near-open borders policies…

Mass immigration is the primary major cause of the housing crisis, and another 500,000-1M are coming in every single year.

Basic Income must come eventually.

Trump is the monkey but Netanyahu is the organ-grinder.

Are “they” going to foment a world war (again)?

Translates to a Commons with about 326 Reform UK MPs (bare majority), 71 Greens (very weak official Opposition), 67 Cons, 65 LibDems, 49 Lab, and 45 SNP [etc].

As with all other recent polling, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat, along with 353 other Labour MPs.

Iran is twice the size of Iraq, and has twice the population (about 93M). It is a fifth of the size of the whole of the contiguous USA, so about 4x the size of California, or about twice the size of Texas. The idea that the USA might invade Iran as a whole, or to any extent beyond a coastal zone, or the offshore islands, is just ludicrous.

As for Trump’s threat to destroy the drinking water supply of the Iranians, that would not only be a recognized war crime by Trump and his cohorts, and also by any senior officers, pilots etc who might take part, but also would trigger an Iranian response.

Were the desalination plants of the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to be badly hit by Iranian attack, most of the inhabitants would have to flee or die of thirst, because 90% or more of the water used in those countries comes from desalination.

Trump, played by Netanyahu and a Jewish cabal in the USA, has created a terrible situation.

Late tweets

To be frank, a high-minded American officer with a pistol and sufficient access should deal with the situation before that idiot triggers a world war of some kind.

Even Lammy cannot be so thick that the fact that the USA is blockading the Strait, in effect, has escaped his notice.

Translates to a Commons with about 344 Reform UK MPs (solid-enough majority), 72 Lab (very weak official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 54 Greens, 50 Cons, 43 SNP [etc].

Once again, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat.

Ursula von der Leyen is an evil little sprite.

Historical talking point

Gunther Plüschow

Quite an adventurer! A real adventurer, not the kind you usually see today, that have back-up crews, TV cameras rolling, and their three-book contracts already signed.

Gunther Plüschow (February 8, 1886 – January 28, 1931) was a German aviator, aerial explorer, and author from MunichBavaria. His feats include the only escape by a German prisoner of war in either world war from Britain back to Germany;[1] he was the first man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air.[2] He was killed on a second aerial expedition to Patagonia in 1931. As an aviator and explorer, he is honoured as a hero by the Argentine Air Force to this day.”

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Pl%C3%BCschow

Another real adventurer

[William Willis aboard one of his oceangoing rafts]

William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans.

Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg, Germany, to sail around Cape Horn.[1]

A few days after the New Year in 1938, Willis rented a room in New York City from a French immigrant named Madame Carnot. Her son, Bernard Carnot, had been sent to Devil’s Island in 1922 for a murder that he did not commit. Out of compassion and a sense of adventure, Willis set out to the penal colony to effect Bernard Carnot’s escape, which he eventually accomplished.

During his first solo expedition in 1954 from South America to American Samoa, he sailed 6,700 miles – 2,200 miles farther than did Thor Heyerdahl on Kon-Tiki. His raft was named “Seven Little Sisters” and was crewed by himself, his parrot, and cat. Willis was age 61 at the time of this voyage. He selected the seven great balsa tree trunks which were used in the raft (hence the name Seven Little Sisters) himself at a balsa forest on a great inland estate. His wife saw him off at the dockside in CallaoPeru. In an incident with the raft in the docks the day before sailing, Willis suffered a hernia,[2] but nonetheless set sail as planned.

In a second great voyage ten years later, at the age of 71, he sailed 10,000 miles from South America to Australia single-handing a 34-foot (10.4 m) raft named Age Unlimited. He left Callao on 5 July 1963, made a lengthy stop in Apia, and after a total of 204 days at sea, arrived near Tully Heads, Queensland, completing his voyage on 9 September 1964.[3][4]

At age 74, Willis made his third attempt at a solo crossing of the North Atlantic in a small sailboat. Willis left Montauk Point, Long Island on May 2, 1968, in his boat Little One. On September 24, 1968, the crew of the Soviet Latvian trawler Yantarny sighted his half-submerged boat nearly four hundred miles west of the Irish coast. No one was found on board. Willis’ log was found on the boat, with its last entry dated July 21, 1968.

[Wikipedia]

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Diary Blog, 10 October 2025

Afternoon music

[Lazienki Park, Warsaw]

Thought

There is a certain element, embedded within the UK, which is engaged is a relentless campaign to shut down what freedom of speech still exists. That element has suborned many in the mass media, politics, the law, the police, and the Crown (or “clown”) Prosecution Service. That element seeks to make economic serfs of British people.

Tweets seen

…but we do know that almost all, maybe 99%, will be long-term parasites, that a significant number will indulge in various forms of criminal activity, and that a small, but not vanishingly-small, number will be active terrorist sympathisers or operatives.

…and the “full-time work” in question is, in 9 cases out of 10, driving a taxi.

Attempted revival of the 2010-2015 anti-disabled-people and anti-sick-people campaign waged for propaganda purposes by David Cameron-Levita and Gideon George Osborne, and implemented by Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and the Jew “lord” Freud.

Helen Whately is a disgusting woman. Born into affluent circumstances (parents both doctors, one a surgeon), she has never known poverty, ill-health, or even modest shortage of funds. She is married to a businessman of some sort, and they own several homes.

Like so many Con Party “senior” people since 2010, Helen Whately display a mixture of ignorance and overconfidence.

There is every reason to suppose that Helen Whately will lose her seat to Reform UK in or before 2029.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Whately; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham_and_Mid_Kent_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

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Starmer’s clownworld.

What is the point in deporting 1, 10, or a million migrant-invaders, if the price is accepting the same number in their place? Utter “clownworld”.

More clownworld nonsense from Starmer.

Scribblers such as Dan Hodges are, at least by some, actually taken seriously by some. Yet look at that tweet.

Hamas, says Hodges “bears sole responsibility for the horrors of the past two years“, years in which the [Israeli] Jews have killed, grievously wounded, or abducted something like a quarter of a million Gazans, mostly civilians, mostly women and children. The vast majority of buildings in Gaza are now either destroyed entirely, or damaged so badly that they are uninhabitable.

The [Israeli] Jews have cut off most medicine food etc.

Huge numbers of children have been mutilated, or had limbs amputated, by reason of Israeli bombing.

None of which has been directly done by Hamas. Indirectly, yes, Hamas attacked southern Israel in October 2023, and may have killed or captured about 1,500 Israelis and others, but it now seems that many of the Israeli dead were killed by Israeli forces, operating a pre-planned free-fire zone protocol.

Hamas should probably never have attacked Israeli territory in that way at that time, but the Israeli response has been beyond disproportionate in both time and severity. The Hamas attack was only one day, or just over a day, in duration!

Then there have been sadistic games played by Israeli Jew snipers and drone operators.

So, no, the past two years of horrors are far from being the sole responsibility of Hamas; au contraire.

As for why Hamas is being forced to disarm, and Israel is not, that is an even worse point by Hodges. Israel is not being forced to disarm simply because no party is able to force that, not even Israel’s bankroller and arms supplier, the USA.

Hodges even says:

Would anyone at all take seriously such rubbish? I find it curious that Hodges is so totally pro-Jew, pro-Israel. He himself is not a Jew, certainly not “full-” and probably (?) not even “part-“. His craven allegiance is therefore hard to understand, unless it is just for careerist or money reasons. Pathological.

Untermensch. There are millions of others here now.

https://news.sky.com/story/migrant-with-ak-47-face-tattoo-found-guilty-of-threatening-to-kill-nigel-farage-13447937

Wall. Squad. End.

Talking point

Give Europeans a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilisation.
Give Africans a civilisation and they will leave you with a pile of bricks.”

[tweeted comment seen a couple of years ago]

Simplistic, of course, but still largely true.

Talking point

Late tweets seen

“Dead Cat Theory”. May be right, all the same…

I woke up to the germinal phase of that even in the 1970s, but since then the trade unions have become something basically fighting against the interests of their own members, as in the promotion of migration invasion, the “anti-racist” (etc) nonsense, and much else.

She has.

Were I in their position, the first thing I would do would be to dig tunnels 5 or 10 times deeper than any found so far…

Kiev-regime “Ukraine” is a fake state,

…and what group or “community”, in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, France etc, owns most of the mass media?

Yes.

“Them”…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Svetlanov]

Diary Blog, 25 July 2025

Morning music

[красавица]

Talking point

Ecce how the System msm types look upon the protests against England (and Wales, and Scotland, and Ireland etc) being swamped by literally millions of untermenschen, almost all of which are useless parasites, many and perhaps most of which are actively criminal (crimes of acquisition, sexual crimes, crimes of violence, other crimes), and some of which are actually or potentially terroristic.

Look at that cartoon. No attempt to examine the legitimate reasons people have for protesting as their own neighbourhoods are slowly (?) filled with alien interlopers with whom they have really nothing in common, and who may pose a direct danger to them, their communities, to their children. No attempt to see the protesters’ point of view. Just a demonization of the protests via a deliberately unsubtle caricature view of the so-called “far right” (i.e. national or social-national) tendency seen lurking below the surface.

Needless to add, the deliberately-inaccurate caricature of a social-national person as a kind of Norse troll and/or “knuckledragger” is one which has been a mainstay of the “antifascist” (mainly Jewish) tendency for a century, ever since the foundation of the SA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung; incidentally, be careful with Wikipedia on this and allied topics— the Jew-Zionist element has infiltrated Wikipedia extensively].

In my own lifetime [b.1956], I have seen such caricatures time and again. At the same time, most people, most voters, preferred to stick their heads in the sand about mass immigration, probably because it affected mostly, at first, a few urban and indeed “inner city” areas, or towns in the industrial (and now post-industrial) North of England. That was then. Now it affects almost every part of the country, every town. Finally, the people are awakening, though not the msm, and not the “political class” (the System political careerists and tricksters).

I wonder whether the msm scribbler and talking-heads, and the System political careerists, have any real idea what might happen if the concerns and demands of the British people continue to be ignored or trampled upon?

Tweets seen

[“Mention trade unions and that’s your ceiling right there. Many who held their nose to vote Labour last time to kick out the Tories cannot be doing with trade unionism. We’re getting widespread NHS industrial action today few support but most of us are fond of doctors and think they’re heroes. You can very much believe in social justice as I do without thinking it needs trade unions. Not in 2025. It just looks outdated & belligerent.

*I’ve never been Corbyn’s target voter obv but if your appeal is niche you’re not gonna go anywhere. I respect his achievements as Labour leader – he beat May, he did better than Sunak. But that was with the might of a huge & established party machine behind him. I even predicted he’d hold his seat. If we’re back to anti-war (now at a time war might possibly find us) and knitting, I’m not seeing it. They’ll dent Labour but not win seats. Is Zarah even going to hold on in Coventry? Highly unlikely. She won as Labour, she doesn’t have Corbyn’s local fan-base.“]

I think that most of that is right. Trade-unionism was a product of the Industrial Revolution, a defence against unrestricted capitalism. The trade unions since, say, 1989, have become a pointless propaganda caucus obsessed with pro-immigration, “anti-racism”, feminism etc, often directly against the interests of their own members.

Corbyn is, of course, an anachronism. His is the world of the Durham Miners’ Gala (which persists despite there no longer being any Durham miners), the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ event in Dorset, steam engine rallies, Latino “community” fests in inner London etc.

As the lady tweeter says, Corbyn, without the Labour Party, has a niche political “market”— some disaffected real Labour people, some of the ethnic minorities, some anti-Israel people of various sorts, some NHS or other public-sector employees. Perhaps 10% of the electorate; more probably 5%.

You could argue something similar about Jewish behaviour and religion, but the Jews are a smallish minority (250,000+) and their influence and power comes not from sheer numbers but from control over msm journalism, radio, TV, commerce, finance, real property, political life etc. The Muslims have, and increasingly have, the raw numbers to exercise direct political influence.

In 2001, there were 1.6M Muslims in the UK. According to the 2011 Census, that year there were already 2.87M Muslims in the UK. By 2021, that contingent had increased to 3.87M. Today? Certainly well over 4M, maybe even 5M.

It might be argued that all major world religions have come to a dead end. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, to name just three. The behaviour of their adherents does not create confidence.

More tweets seen

See also:

…because both Starmer-stein and Trump are totally in the pocket of the global Jewish lobby, Jew-Zionist lobby, Israel lobby…call it what you will…

Late tweets

At some point, “action directe” becomes the only option left.

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[https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/guests/conductors/dimitris_botinis/]

Diary Blog, 6 April 2025

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Tweets seen

Labour Friends of Israel member. A Starmer-stein favourite.

…and the Runcorn and Helsby by-election only 24 days away…

[“You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months? 6! 4 of which are paedophiles. Labour MPs: 1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sexual offences, child abduction, and misconduct in public office. The allegations pertain to incidents from the 2000s and a rape allegation from the 2020s. Norris has been released on conditional bail while the investigation continues, and the Labour Party has suspended him, removing the party whip. 2.Mike Amesbury: In February 2025, Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to assault by beating. The incident occurred in October 2024, and Amesbury was suspended by the Labour Party following his arrest. Labour Councillors: 1.Lee Laudat-Scott: In July 2024, Lee Laudat-Scott, a councillor in Hackney, resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a child under 13. His arrest marked the second paedophile scandal in Hackney Council within a year. 2.Ricky Jones: In August 2024, Ricky Jones, a councillor in Dartford, was arrested and subsequently charged with encouraging violent disorder. This followed a speech he made at a counter-protest in Walthamstow, where he allegedly called for violence against far-right protesters. The Labour Party suspended him pending the outcome of legal proceedings. 3.David Graham: In early 2024, David Graham, a senior Labour councillor in Fife, Scotland, was arrested and charged with alleged child grooming offences. Following his arrest, the Labour Party suspended him, and he was due to appear in court at a later date. 4.Desmond Gibbons: In late 2024, Desmond Gibbons, a former Labour councillor on Gedling Borough Council, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after being found with over 600 indecent images of children, some as young as three years old. Gibbons had resigned from the Labour Party and his council position prior to his sentencing.“]

Goodwin omits to say which (((element))) has been profiting from it all, though. Not only (((the usual element))) but 90%, anyway.

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[Hakenkreuz/Swastika; the sacred symbol of positive evolution]

London. Zoo. (London jungle)

Walls. Squads. End.

Can it be that ridiculous and unpleasant little pissant Darren Jones thinks that the NHS is somehow an economic contributor to the UK economy, when it is really something (albeit necessary, so be it) taking out resources overall? Worrying that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury seems to have no grasp of basic economics.

(Israeli) Jews lying? Surely not…

Interesting, but I am more interested in both the present main culture, i.e. our own, the “Germanic-Anglo-Saxon-American” (as Rudolf Steiner put it), and the next main culture (which still lies fifteen hundred years in the future), the Russian/Slavonic.

At present, the Russian culture is almost entirely a borrowing from older cultures, mainly the Graeco-Roman culture and our present “Western” culture, just as Northern Europe only had “borrowed” Graeco-Roman culture until around 1400 AD (or “CE”) and the eruption of the Renaissance, which was essentially a brief recapitulation of the Graeco-Roman age.

There are, as yet, only indications, seen here and there, of that future Russian culture.

Were there more limited foreign aid being sent, were vast sums not being wasted on the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, were there no migration invasion, were there few non-whites living here, and were the UK a fundamentally white European ethnostate, this country would be hugely better off in every way; not only economically but also socially and culturally.

Talking point

Late tweets

The trade unions stopped standing up for British workers about 50 years ago, certainly 35 years ago. The unions moved to being just another load of “anti-racism” “anti-sexism” pro-immigration and pro-LGBTXYZ drones. As for supporting higher pay and better working conditions, forget it. The unions long ago stopped seriously pushing for those, and had no power to do so anyway. A waste of space.

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[a painting by someone I knew as a small child, who was the same age as me, who was also a neighbour and, much later, an eminent psychiatrist, but who died in his fifties]

Diary Blog, 6 March 2024, including some thoughts about inventions and the human mind

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[El Greco, The Assumption of the Virgin]

Tweets seen

Not much later— next week!

Even some Jews, the ones less contaminated by ancient tribalism, oppose the mass “slaughter of the innocent(s)” in Gaza.

Givati Brigade: Israeli Jews known for brutality and ethnic cleansing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givati_Brigade.

A horrible tribe.

Apocalyptic. Contrast the complacent American reaction to this with the scalded American reaction to the destruction, by Islamist militants, of two large buildings in New York City in 2001.

According to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] pressure group in the UK, something like 96% of Jews in the UK identify with Israel and Zionism. That may or may not be exactly accurate, but gives a general picture, anyway.

Even New York is slowly turning anti-Zionist.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

Katie Hopkins about OFCOM censorship, Talk TV and GB News

Also:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” [John F. Kennedy].

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13161655/super-tuesday-virginia-vermont-polls-close-voting-results-trump-haley.html

Donald Trump surged closer to a rematch with Joe Biden in November as he trounced Nikki Haley, his final rival for the Republican nomination, on Super Tuesday.

The former president, 77, dominated the biggest day of the primaries, winning eleven states by 9.30pm, and leaving the ex-South Carolina governor’s White House dreams hanging by a thread.”

[Daily Mail]

Trump is very flawed, but at least he is not suffering from increasingly-obvious dementia. He will take away Zelensky’s ricebowl, and that will end the war in Ukraine within weeks, as the already-crumbling frontlines of the Kiev regime break, allowing Russian to fulfil its “manifest destiny” and take over all Ukraine east of the Dnieper, and also the Black Sea littoral as far west as Transdniestria.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13160725/Bankrupt-Labour-run-Birmingham-City-Council-signs-wave-devastating-cuts-21-rise-council-tax.html

Birmingham City Council has signed off on a wave of ‘devastating’ cuts to services and a 21% rise in council tax. 

The Labour-run local authority has declared itself effectively bankrupt and says it needs to make £300million in savings, after after identifying equal pay liabilities estimated at £760million. 

Councillors were seen leaving Tuesday’s crunch vote in tears after more than 50 of them voted in favour of the financial measures needed to secure a £1.255billion bail-out loan from the Government.

[Daily Mail]

That is what happens when the Common Purpose cancer takes hold— administrative chaos.

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Yes…but a good part of the overall problem is caused, or made far worse, by the migration invasion, meaning the importation into the UK, every single year now, of a million backward persons, almost all non-European, i.e. non-white, and most of whom are little more than parasites, a substantial minority actively criminal and/or terroristic.

Unfortunately, the trade unions are no longer very useful to the workers of the UK. They have been captured by “woke” fanatics, pro-immigration lunatics, and/or the Zionist lobby. The Labour Party is similar.

[“...and then there were none...”]

Sam Melia and Laura Towler

As most readers will probably know, Sam Melia was sentenced last Friday to 2 years imprisonment (which may in practice mean 6-12 months —more likely 12 than 6) for distributing stickers which themselves contained nothing illegal, as the trial and sentencing judge recognized.

The judge is said also to have recognized, in his summation, that Sam Melia is a good fellow (or some such), a good family man, a good citizen and community member etc. Despite that, Melia has been imprisoned, for what amount to purely political reasons.

Melia’s wife, the brave Laura Towler, has been left to struggle with her home and small business, with one small child, as well as being about to give birth to a second child.

The crowdfunder set up to help Melia and Laura Towler has now reached, as at time of writing, £55,641.

This is the link to that crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia. Donate as little as £4, and so not only help that family but also stick it to the System, to “the lobby”, and to all enemies of this country’s future.

[A hero with a Valkyrie— Sam Melia and Laura Towler]

I am personally unacquainted with that couple; neither do I belong to Patriotic Alternative.

The couple and their children are exactly the kind of people who could, if existing in sufficiently-great numbers, form the basis for a new civilization once the present one collapses, which will probably happen within the next decade.

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

Habib is half-English, half-Pakistani.

He talks about only the past 5 years. Look at, also, the past 50 years.

Undeniable, but it would be a mistake to imagine that Labour, under Jewish-lobby puppets Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc will be much different, or any better. Still, stamp on the Conservative Party anyway— extinguish it.

Ha ha.

I must have missed all that.

I have my own (non-“conspiracy”) theory, which is that anything the human mind can imagine, even if only as a vague concept, can and will eventually become reality.

The idea of human flight by artificial means was first thought of in ancient times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus. In mediaeval and then Renaissance times, a few of the more-educated people conceived the idea of flight using either harnessed birds (Bishop Godwin) or mechanical contrivances (Leonardo da Vinci): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Moone

[Frontispiece of Der Fliegende Wandersmann nach dem Mond, 1659]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#Engineering_and_inventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_aerial_screw

[Leonardo— “aerial screw”]

Neither Godwin’s nor Leonardo’s ideas were immediately practicable, but the important thing was that those people, and Leonardo in particular, had the idea that flight was possible, in Leonardo’s case by mechanical means. That was key.

Later, of course, in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were hot-air and lighter-than-air balloons, then Zeppelins (late-19th/early 20th centuries), and then the several people in the early 20thC who developed heavier-than-air machines; the Wright brothers are of course most famous.

[World War One: German Zeppelin over the palace of Westminster, probably 1916]

The fast jets, passenger airliners, spacecraft etc which we now know came, originally, from that one spark in a human mind.

The same is true in all spheres of activity. The human mind need only be able to think that something can exist for it to exist, though the working out may take, sometimes, hundreds or even thousands of years.

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Typical of the “Conservative” drone-MPs of the past 15-20 years.

Jesus, she is so thick“, the lady says…well, the only thing that can now save the Conservative Party is that many of the voters are also very stupid…

Harsh? Look at how many voters at the recent by-elections still voted Con. Yes, a minority, but thousands each time…a third of the voters who voted at Kingswood, and a quarter at Wellingborough. At Rochdale only 12%, but of course English voters who voted were a small minority there.

I have no problem with the examples shown; some may, but not me.

Ireland is pretty sad these days. Sinn Fein/IRA too. They seem to have surrendered completely to NWO/ZOG. Their “Irish Republican resistance” stance has become a kind of joke “cosplay” that evokes little but derision, and rightly so.

[Irish Republican Army volunteers, 1920]
[Black and Tans search a suspect, Ireland, 1920. Note the officer using his left hand to search the suspect’s pockets, while probably covering him with a pistol or revolver held in his right hand (unseen). Note also the body of a woman lying in the roadway behind]

In that event, Britain will be something akin to a dictatorship. In that event, anything will be justifiable by way of resistance to what may amount to a disguised tyranny.

In that event, will Zelensky and his wife go to his USD $40M villa in Florida, to another of his luxury houses (in Italy and elsewhere), or will he drop all pretence and go “home” to Israel?

Ha ha…

There are many basically negative influences in our world, but there is one particular “influence” that is just poisoning the Western world.

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Fake News, Fake History and Fake Memories: the UK in the 1970s etc

The Story

I went to school on the train endless strikes waiting on cold platforms for hours. Then returned home to a house with power cuts no heating hot food it was a nightmare for at least 10 years“— who can guess on what the lady I quote was, in a semi-literate fashion, commenting? The Second World War? Surely not: that only lasted for 6 years. The Siege of Leningrad? No, that lasted for a shorter period yet— 2 years, 4 months. What, then? In fact the lady in question was commenting, in the online Daily Mail, on the UK railways and, in the wider sense, on the UK generally in the 1970s.

Well, it certainly sounds like it was awful. The problem with that, though, is that it is in fact not true. The trains in England (where I lived; Wales and Scotland were similar) were not subject to “endless” strikes (though there were certainly far more than is now the case) and the station platforms were no colder than they are now. What about “power cuts”, “no heating [or] hot food”?

The Reality

The “Three Day Week” only lasted for 3 months (January-March 1974) and only commercial users of electricity were cut off or required to cease using electrical power. Most domestic users were unaffected. Newspaper printing, supermarkets and hospitals were also exempt. In other words, if the lady quoted at top is not simply making up her story of hardship (or failing to remember accurately), the reasons must lie elsewhere. Maybe her parents failed to pay their electricity bill! Only joking…In fact, two years before that, there had been announced (on 16 February 1972) a rolling programme of area outages (including domestic users) but peace broke out 2-3 days later (midday on 19 February 1972) so, again, few domestic users were affected, though a minority had seen limited outages earlier, in early February.

There was, also, the “Winter of Discontent”, which occurred in the winter of 1978-79, but in fact (in its acute phase) was only effective in January and early February 1979. In reality, we are talking about weeks rather than months. Neither domestic nor commercial users of electricity lost power; gas and coal users were likewise unaffected.

So there we have it: the lady commenting on these matters at top seems to be a victim of selective amnesia when she regards a decade of her childhood as having been an awful ten years without rail travel, heating, lighting etc. The “decade” in question turns out to have been affected for about 2-4 months out of 120…

In fact, the amnesiac lady is not alone. Time and again we read about how the UK spent much of the 1970s in the dark, in the cold, without public transport, without food, rubbish uncollected and dead bodies unburied. It’s nonsense, but many really believe it, even those who were there, which is worrying…I should add that I myself was there, having been born in 1956; by the way, those “dead bodies unburied” did exist briefly (for a few days) in the winter of 1978-79, but only in two or three small areas of Liverpool and Manchester. Less noxious rubbish did pile up, but not for very long and not everywhere.

This fake history, that the 1970s were a decade of “socialist” chaos and dislocation, is quite entrenched now. This canard has wings! The various “Conservative” newspapers in the UK repeat it as an article of faith.

Other Fake Memories

No, I am not going to blog, here anyway, about the “holocaust” scammers and delusionals. I want to focus on a few other things. One persistent idea (which I have even seen said and written by journalists and TV talking heads older than me) is that Britain had no decent food until about 20 years ago! It’s just nonsense! Another is that life was harder for people in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s than it now is. More nonsense. In, say, the 1970s, people mostly had secure jobs, which paid enough to live on; there were no such things as foodbanks; social security was far better overall, the disabled and unemployed were not bullied by DWP jobsworths; the mass immigration which is making the UK (especially parts of England) into a human zoo had not really begun to snowball; workers had fixed hours, which included decent lunch breaks of 1 hour (often interpreted generously); there was no such thing (for most employees) as being on call after hours, in the evenings or on weekends and holidays. In addition, it was far easier (for anyone qualified) to access higher education.

Conclusion

There is a wave of unreality around. I have a –perhaps idiosyncratic– theory that the various kinds of lies or lying fake “facts” that people are often now expected to believe (“holocaust” fakery, the idea that races and peoples are all somehow “equal”, the idea that National Socialism was “evil” etc) have affected the general sense of truth in society, so that many cannot detect lies, and indeed often lie to themselves as well as others about recent history and even about their own experiences.

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/16/newsid_2757000/2757099.stm

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