(1013) Have to head off for a short while … main blog task finding IYE’s posts. (1016) Found em in trash … warrnt me, guv, dindo nuffink. More when I get back. (1243)
10. Moo corner
9. Just not the full spreadsheet
8. More of the same
7. An op ed of sorts
a. Walkies:
Didn’t note the departure time, I’d say 1021, a definite 1036 return, abode to abode. Distance I’d say about 1 km, slowed only by the seagulls. Wore autumn jacket, too hot to wear. Further notes:
Not sure if it’s that I smell but chaps tend to avoid, cross road, or look straight ahead and scoot by … their loss. Two sweet ladies out for a stroll were quite different … morning, ladies … morning, morning. Now, not knocking the chaps, maybe we’re more situationally aware today. The gulls? Hungry, only flew upwards when I was within a yard of them, clearly avoiding them.
Sight for sore eyes on the water … gulls, swans, all sorts, hundreds of the varm- er lovely wildlife. No lizards sunning themselves. Warmish today. Verdict … limited walkies good, too often possibly not great for hips and ankles.
b. Cyber woes:
First thought is algorithm catches certain key words and dumps them but it does not put spam to spam. This is a war between WP HQ and any of us not willing to enter Didge ID and all that. Standoff for now. What is less forgivable is … fine, let me do my own spam (a hundred or so a day) but let me do my own trash too.
The upside is that I never permanently delete unless I skim through first, seeing if any of us have been caught up. What I cannot control though is you pre-comment-click. I don’t know how you approach it, no monitoring facility for me. IYE or the doggy I’m thinking needs to stay creative to get through. After all … look at the nature of the fayre.
Some news from the land down under..
Will One Nation reverse Australia’s ‘mortmain migration’ system? | https://www.noticer.news/one-nation-immigration-mortmain-migration/
A link from the article goes to this fascinating piece:
Mortmain Migration | https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/mortmain-migration
From it is the following on post-war industrial history, which I studied as a university degree module:
British mill towns
Britain had its largest sustained economic boom in history in the decades after WWII (though it was smaller than elsewhere in the Western bloc thanks to the democratic socialism of the Attlee government and its successors). A consequence of this boom was the decline of Britain’s labor-intensive textile industry, which lost out to cheaper imports from lower wage and/or more technologically sophisticated countries.
The textile industry could have invested in new machinery or come up with new organizational models to boost productivity. This is how the British textile industry was built in the first place, with historically positive consequences for Britain and the world at large. Alternatively, the government could have used some combination of subsidies and trade barriers to keep out foreign competition, or simply allowed the industry to decline in favor of imports, which is what happened eventually anyway. Instead, the textile industry lobbied for, and acquired, the ability to hire from the newly-independent Indian subcontinent, especially the Mirpur province of Pakistan – to lower wages.
This labor migration allowed Britain’s textile industry to preserve its organizational and technological status quo for a few years. But only for a few years. Temporarily suppressing wages did not stop the industry from contracting by two thirds between 1950 and 1970, and it was practically gone by 1980.
Britain paid, and continues to pay, a steep price for a few more years of keeping obsolete factories in business through migration rather than direct subsidies or more ordinary protectionism. The Pakistani diaspora created by this instance of mortmain migration is the source of Britain’s euphemistically-termed “grooming gangs,” really ethnic- and clan-based rape gangs, responsible for a very large though unknown number of rapes going back to the 1950s (roughly 1400 victims, most of whom had been raped many times, in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2023). Some of the rapists are explicitly motivated by racial revenge on the English – not that equal-opportunity rape would be excusable – and their crimes were concealed and aided by British institutions such as social workers, police, local governments and the media out of anti-racist ideology.
(The Yugoslav War-like atrocities committed by Pakistani rape gangs in Britain, perhaps the worst in any Western country since World War II, are far from the only problem caused by this particular migration wave. The standard issues of welfare use, clannish ethnic networks taking over local institutions, forging alliances with the political left, and general ethnic conflict turning all issues into a cold race war, are present as well. Even without the rape gangs, creating the Pakistani diaspora would still have been a huge mistake for Britain)
My great aunt living in Walsall told me in the eighties that when the “darkies(her term” )aka west indians moved into the council estate they were lovely, helpful, considerate, polite, people. Nothing was too much trouble for them. However that all changed when the council began deliberately shipping in the “troublesomepakis(her term)”. They regarded the “darkies(her term)”less than human and made their life so miserable they moved out one family at a time until the streets population was pure Pakistani.
A serious contender for the next POTUS. From the 32:25 mark..
Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece – 11:30 AM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgedhDRZjDw