I write about power, decay, and the modern imperium. If you believe history doesn’t repeat—but it certainly rhymes—this may interest you
Horti Sallustiani
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A Bridge Too Far, and the Men Who Are Gone
Eighty-two years after Operation Market Garden, some thoughts on Arnhem, Richard Attenborough’s remarkable film, the men who fought there, the actors who recreated them, and seeing it as a boy with my brother and father.
Nearly fifty years later, I can still hear John Addison’s march.
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Imagine how much of this is going on
All it took was the will to act
There are thousands of wins just lying on the ground in front of us
Obama ran the country for almost a decade based on lies nobody in a position of power had the courage or will to seriously confront
This is the hill we should be prepared to die on, politically speaking. We owe it to our ancestors who built this country, and to our descendants who will inherit it. A nation is not merely a piece of real estate to be endlessly repopulated at the whim of its political class. It is an inheritance, and we have a duty to defend it.
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The grand irony of the whole mass migration phenomenon is that if all of the Europeans chose to abandon Europe and move to a completely uninhabited region in Africa, Asia, or South America, within 100 years, Europe would be abandoned and everyone would mass migrate there, too.
As most readers know, owning a firearm in France is rather more difficult than in America, although hunting remains popular. Might I suggest the French consider a Rhodesian Ridgeback? An aunt in Saint Kitts had one and never suffered a break-in. Anyone familiar with the breed will understand why.
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Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.
She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.
The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
🚨 ALERTE - Des élèves ONT BLOQUÉ le lycée François Villon, à Beaugency (45), en écoutant MRH, un titre faisant référence à des TERRORISTES ISLAMISTES.
« À la Mohamed Merah, v-esqui' les caméras. Bataclan, je l'ai shooter à l'œil, chasse à l'homme, Salah Abdeslam »
« J’ai pas peur, j’ai pas peur de l’enfer, le pacte est intact, à part Allah qui peut m’arrêter. Bataclan, faisaient les morts, allongez-vous, je vais en shooter à l’œil ».
A beautifully tailored suit, a razor-sharp mind. That was Enoch Powell.
The sheer brass neck of the man. Apparently one founding people's cultural survival is a national priority, while the other's is an embarrassing anachronism. Rather a curious conception of a country.
What Carney tells reporters in French "We want to arrive at sustainable immigration levels. Well, we'll see"
"Quebec is distinct, it's unique because of its culture, its language and other aspects of its nature. So it's appropriate in the case of Quebec." @MarkJCarney
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What makes this even more obscene is that Canada must borrow the money to finance Ottawa’s international benevolence. We haven’t run a federal surplus since 2014-15, yet somehow we can afford housing in the Dominican Republic while Canadians struggle to house themselves. Charity begins abroad.
While Canadians continue struggling with soaring housing costs, the federal Liberal government has committed $100 million in taxpayer funding to the International Finance Corporation’s GROW Initiative.
According to Global Affairs Canada, approximately $7.8 million of that commitment is allocated to an affordable housing development in the Dominican Republic.
The project is intended to support housing construction and economic opportunities abroad, while millions of Canadians continue facing affordability pressures here at home.
At what point does Ottawa start putting the housing needs of Canadians ahead of funding housing projects in other countries?
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A rather depressing result. Marxism was a monstrous tyranny, yet after generations of its rule, Russians remained Russian, Poles Polish, Czechs Czech, Romanians Romanian, and Chinese Chinese. Their civilisations survived the wrecking ball.
Hardline Islamism offers something altogether different: a society organised around the distinction between believers and unbelievers, with the latter permanently relegated to second-class status. The Bolsheviks sought to destroy the old order. The Islamists seek to replace it with one in which the infidel must forever know his place.
A grim choice, certainly. But hardly a difficult one.
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It's high time Quebec nationalists woke up to this double standard. Although, to their credit, they've never been quite as credulous as Anglo-Canadians about immigration and demographic change. Apparently, nationalism is a noble struggle for self-determination in Palestine, but a deplorable manifestation of bigotry in Quebec. Rather curious how a people's right to preserve its identity depends entirely on which people we're talking about.
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The French Left has shown its hand rather prematurely. The looting, the riots, the violence, all excused as the inevitable birth pangs of revolution. Apparently, it's easy to romanticise anarchy when someone else is getting their skull cracked.
But here's the uncomfortable question: What do you do when the people cheering on the destruction of your country are your neighbours, your colleagues, the people sitting beside you on the morning train? How do you maintain a functioning society with people who regard your suffering as an acceptable price for their political fantasies?
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This takes me back to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, when Korean businesses were among the targets of the looting and arson. The same combustible mix of envy and resentment, the belief that another man’s prosperity is somehow an injustice to you. It gave us the rooftop Koreans, shopkeepers forced to defend what they had built. Now we’re watching a version of the same phenomenon in France. Different continent, familiar grievance.
North African migrant explains why Muslims are also targeting Chinese businesses in the riots in France:
“The Chinese in France have become too wealthy and are now part of the ruling class. They wear nice clothes and drive big cars. It's unfair.”
Their entire movement is driven by jealousy and resentment.
I trust Haiti's gang bosses are paying attention. If Bukele makes good on his warning, they may discover that the Salvadoran army is rather less inclined to use kid gloves than Erik Prince's men have been thus far.
And should Bukele ever tire of the expense of housing El Salvador's criminal fraternity in his enormous supermax, Haiti might make a splendid location for a penal colony. Plenty of room, and no shortage of prospective tenants.
Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti:
Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè.
Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan.
Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal.
Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan.
Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou.
Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa.
Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan.
Desizyon an nan men nou.
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Fahnbulleh is the daughter of a former Liberian Cabinet Minister. When Liberia descended into civil war her family fled to Sierra Leone and for some reason the British government granted them asylum.
At university she studied African economic development and now advocates for millions of migrants to be given ILR at a potential cost of hundreds of billions to British taxpayers.
She epitomises why immigrants should not be allowed to become politicians. She clearly feels no duty to the British people. On the contrary, she seems to see us as cash cows for the benefit of other migrants.
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Alright maybe Quebec isn’t that based because this is embarrassing
Yay. Other places. Woo!!!!
This takes me back to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, when Korean businesses were among the targets of the looting and arson. The same combustible mix of envy and resentment, the belief that another man’s prosperity is somehow an injustice to you. It gave us the rooftop Koreans, shopkeepers forced to defend what they had built. Now we’re watching a version of the same phenomenon in France. Different continent, familiar grievance.
North African migrant explains why Muslims are also targeting Chinese businesses in the riots in France:
“The Chinese in France have become too wealthy and are now part of the ruling class. They wear nice clothes and drive big cars. It's unfair.”
Their entire movement is driven by jealousy and resentment.