quarta-feira, 2 de julho de 2025

For those who voted Mamdani

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell is an allegorical novella about a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where all animals are equal, free, and happy. Inspired by the teachings of an old boar, Old Major, they successfully overthrow Mr. Jones, rename the farm "Animal Farm," and establish "Animalism" based on Seven Commandments.

However, the revolution is gradually corrupted by the pigs, particularly the cunning and power-hungry Napoleon. Through manipulation, propaganda (Squealer), and brute force (a pack of dogs), Napoleon expels his rival, Snowball, and seizes absolute control. The pigs slowly adopt human vices and privileges, rewriting history and twisting the original ideals to serve their own interests. The other animals, naive and uneducated, are increasingly exploited and oppressed, exemplified by the tragic fate of the loyal workhorse, Boxer.

Ultimately, the Seven Commandments are reduced to a single, chilling maxim: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The pigs become indistinguishable from the humans they initially rebelled against, demonstrating how idealistic revolutions can devolve into totalitarian dictatorships, where power corrupts absolutely and the oppressed become the new oppressors. The novel is a sharp satire of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism, warning against the dangers of unchecked power and the manipulation of truth.

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The Great Boat Replacement

 


As of the end of June 2025, nearly 20,000 people have arrived in the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats this year. Specifically, the latest Home Office figures indicate that 19,982 people arrived in the first half of 2025 (January to June). This is a record high for the first six months of the year, up 48% on the same period in 2024 and 75% higher than in 2023.

Líder da oposição, no Reino Unido, quer medidas mais fortes contra a imigração


 

A curious detail, from The Camp of The Saints

 

"(...) 

Raspail has said his inspiration came while at the French Riviera in 1971, as he was looking out at the Mediterranean.

"What if they were to come? I did not know who "they" were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country's wide-gaping frontier."

The name of the book comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation (20:7–9) depicting the apocalypse. Satan influences most of the nations of the Earth to gather for one final battle against "the camp of the saints," before being defeated for eternity:

"And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them."

(...) 

Muslims pray in the middle of streets, replacing the cars...


 

The Camp of The Saints, The Rivers of Blood and The Great Replacement

 

The Camp of the Saints 

(French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. Almost 40 years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.

In 2024, muslims were 13% of the population in France 

 The Rivers of Blood 

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'.

The "Rivers of Blood" speech was made by the British politician Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968 to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham. In it Powell, who was then Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in the Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath, strongly criticised the rates of immigration from the Commonwealth of Nations (mostly former colonies of the British Empire) to the United Kingdom since the Second World War

 More than 40 % of children born in UK, in 2024, had a foreing parent

 The Great Replacement

The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory espoused by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans

More than 33% of all babies born in Portugal, in 2024, were children of foreign mothers

 

 

 

The Great Replacement

 


European countries with ban on burcas

 

Several European countries have enacted full or partial bans on the burqa and other face-covering veils. 
List of European countries with a full or partial ban:

Countries with National Full or Partial Bans:

Austria: Full ban on face-covering clothing in public places (since 2017). 
Belgium: Full ban on face-covering clothing in public places (since 2011).
Bulgaria: Ban on wearing face-covering clothing in public places (since 2016).
Denmark: Ban on face-covering clothing in public places (since 2018).
France: Full ban on face-covering veils in all public places (since 2010), being the first European country to do so.
Luxembourg: Ban on face-covering clothing in public places (since 2018).
Netherlands: Partial ban on face-covering clothing in specific public places like schools, hospitals, and public transport (since 2019).
Switzerland: Nationwide ban on face coverings in public (approved by referendum in 2021, came into effect January 1, 2025).

Countries with Local or Specific Bans/Restrictions:

Germany: Partial bans in some states (e.g., for civil servants, drivers).
Italy: Bans in some localities, based on existing public order laws.
Spain: Bans in some localities of Catalonia, though some have been revoked by courts.
Norway: Ban on the burqa in schools and universities (since 2018).
Sweden: Some municipalities have banned Islamic veils in educational institutions.

So, counting the countries with national full or partial bans, that's 8 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Switzerland. If countries with local or specific bans are included, the number is higher: 13 countries

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