The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1538

00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1538, for Thursday, the 29th of October, 2026.

00:00:08.860 I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Firas and Carl.

00:00:11.660 Hello.

00:00:12.120 And today we're going to be talking to you all about Israel's recent elections and the crisis that is brewing there because of them.

00:00:19.760 We're then going to be talking about how Japan is committing seppuku.

00:00:25.340 Old habits die hard, I suppose.

00:00:26.940 Actually, the Japanese have been one of the most firm against this problem.

00:00:30.000 Oh, I know, yeah.

00:00:30.720 They've decided, and we've been covering them a lot over the years

00:00:33.260 because we were quite impressed, but now they've decided,

00:00:35.360 no, no, it goes into the belly, right the way in.

00:00:39.040 Damned unfortunate.

00:00:40.180 Yeah.

00:00:40.680 And then we're going to be talking about the menace

00:00:43.480 that is the United Nations,

00:00:45.220 because they seem very, very good at diagnosing problems

00:00:48.320 and then doing everything that they can to exacerbate them.

00:00:51.380 So we're going to be taking a look at that in the third segment.

00:00:55.400 Before we get into the first one, though, friends,

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00:01:43.580 theorists about Israel? So the Israeli elections were held on Tuesday the 27th. This was a bit of

00:01:51.480 a rough campaign even by Israeli standards. A bunch of incidents of just small-scale attacks

00:01:57.980 between the various contenders for the election. But it went rather peacefully in the end. And

00:02:08.640 And now with 90% of the votes counted, we can say that there has been no clear winner,

00:02:15.480 but that contrary to expectations, Netanyahu's bloc got more seats than the opposition.

00:02:22.260 It's just that it's a bit of a hung parliament right now because the Arabs got 19 seats,

00:02:28.520 which is for the Arabs a huge increase in the number of seats that they normally get.

00:02:35.400 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:02:38.600 the Arab turnout was extremely high by historic standards, and this led to them having the

00:02:46.860 largest number of seats in the Knesset that they've ever had. And if it weren't for the Arab

00:02:52.940 vote, if you, like I did some math excluding the Arab vote with Grok, if you excluded that,

00:03:01.140 Netanyahu's coalition would have scored a resounding victory. And they would have had

00:03:06.100 a clear majority, they would be continuing to rule the country, which very much goes against

00:03:11.220 all of the narratives that we've been hearing about, you know, he's unpopular, he's unwanted.

00:03:17.260 No, no, no. Among Jewish voters, his coalition would have been the one that won.

00:03:24.320 This is, I mean, the issue now is what kind of government should be formed.

00:03:31.440 And it seems that Trump has been putting pressure on the Israelis, saying...

00:03:36.860 So before we get to that, I actually don't follow Israeli politics very closely.

00:03:42.220 Everything I see coming out of it, I'm like, wow, I'm glad that's not my problem.

00:03:45.300 So do me a favor, give me a quick rundown on what Netanyahu's party is and the main opposition,

00:03:50.860 and what the Arab party wants.

00:03:52.540 Sure.

00:03:53.180 I don't know.

00:03:54.520 So let's look at this results sheet side by side.

00:03:57.760 You've got two coalitions.

00:04:01.440 You've got the coalition led by Netanyahu, and you've got the coalition led by former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot.

00:04:09.840 He's the guy who designed the Dahi Doctrine, which is the carpet bombing of civilian areas in retaliation terrorist attacks

00:04:16.540 when he was the chief of operations in the Israeli military.

00:04:21.880 The Netanyahu coalition includes two kinds of parties.

00:04:26.720 One is the Hasidic parties, or the Haredi parties.

00:04:30.420 these are the guys with the big hats and all of that

00:04:33.900 and that is split along ethnic lines

00:04:36.680 so there is an Ashkenazi coalition

00:04:38.940 that is the United Torah Judaism

00:04:40.940 and there is a Sephardi Mizrahi coalition

00:04:43.820 which is Shas

00:04:44.960 so that's the Arabs and the Easterners

00:04:47.220 versus the Europeans kind of

00:04:48.540 and then there is the religious Zionist guys

00:04:51.440 the religious Zionist guys

00:04:53.420 these are the ones that are mostly

00:04:55.140 in settlements deep in the West Bank

00:04:59.520 with their objective being a shared objective really with a lot of the other israelis to

00:05:06.500 completely control all the west bank and kick out the arabs and they are also split along ethnic

00:05:12.520 lines so religious zionism is the ashkenazi party and otzma yahudit a jewish power is the

00:05:20.660 Sephardi. There's an article Jewish power. Yes. Yes. Yes. It really does. It really does.

00:05:33.260 So that's the Netanyahu coalition. Okay. The other coalition is a lot more incoherent.

00:05:38.840 There's Eisenkot's party, Yashar, which would have won 25 out of the 120 seats without the

00:05:45.700 Arab votes. This is a right-wing on identity, somewhat center-left on social policy, trying

00:05:55.940 to differentiate themselves from Netanyahu, who's personally a bit of an economic libertarian

00:06:00.840 and promising all kinds of reform. Now, there are two other parties, Together and Israel

00:06:08.220 Beit Anu, Israel our homeland, together and Israel Beit Anu, these are two, these are led

00:06:15.500 by three individuals who have all been thrown under the bus by Netanyahu at different points

00:06:19.960 in time. And their big grievance is anybody but Netanyahu, we will work with the Likud,

00:06:25.760 but we won't work with Netanyahu. This is their whole objection. Israel Beit Anu tends

00:06:31.500 to be quite strong among the Russian immigrants because the leader is a former Moldovan bouncer,

00:06:37.220 I believe. And the Together Party, Biashad, these guys are, one of them is the architect

00:06:47.240 of a huge push of expansion into the West Bank. The other one is a media figure who's

00:06:52.520 just very annoying, but he has some popularity. And then there's the far left, which is the

00:06:57.380 Democrats. They used to be called the Labour Party when this was popular. And then they

00:07:03.640 figured actually hold on it's an american empire now so they rebranded as the democrats and they

00:07:09.060 went much further to the left just so that's briefly and then there are the two arab parties

00:07:14.460 there's the joint list which is um jewish and arab a bunch of communist jews and a bunch of

00:07:22.140 arabs who are definitely they're literally the islamo-communists like these are zach polanski's

00:07:27.800 guys zach polanski has an audience in israel so therefore but without the arab votes they would

00:07:32.160 have won absolutely nothing right right so the the like just like the green party okay they keep

00:07:38.440 polanski there as window dressing yeah yeah but really it's the islamist party okay uh although

00:07:43.320 not quite because there's another one which is raam which is as opposed to the joint list it's

00:07:48.560 the united arab list which is actually much more islamist and uh so on right so there is this

00:07:55.940 mess do they have a proportional representation that's the problem right right and so the

00:08:01.460 threshold is 3.25 percent right so that's why and so there are all of these parties there and it's

00:08:06.840 one electoral district the whole country is one electoral district you cast your vote and it's

00:08:12.120 dumped in and so if it was just jewish votes yeah if it was first past the post with just you yeah

00:08:18.740 well if it was first past the post with the arab votes it probably still would have been yes it

00:08:23.560 would have been if we went first past the post or if it had been uh only jewish voters complete

00:08:28.860 victory for uh the israeli right uh and remember like together yashar and israel beitanu who are

00:08:38.420 the core of the counter netanyahu coalition along with the far left democrats for some reason they're

00:08:43.460 sort of building their numbers it's weird that these guys are indistinguishable from the likud

00:08:48.180 it's just that they're a lot more secular individually that kind of thing okay okay

00:08:53.540 understood uh and you know the big issue in the israeli elections or the two big issues were the

00:08:59.620 judicial reform because in israeli law there is a reasonable test that's adopted from british

00:09:06.820 legal thinking if the judges believe that this is unreasonable the law doesn't pass which acts as a

00:09:14.100 ashkenazi check right a secular ashkenazi check on the growing power of the eastern jews see

00:09:21.460 And the other issue is the conscription of the Haridim, the United Torah Judaism and the Shaskais, who refuse to be conscripted and instead insist on getting government aid.

00:09:32.900 So according to the New York Times, 93 percent of Israeli taxes fall on 20 percent of the Israeli population and 50 percent of the Israeli population pay no tax.

00:09:44.500 So very much like in Britain.

00:09:46.220 So they have the same kinds of structural problems as Britain.

00:09:50.940 And for Netanyahu, and the objection of the secular parties is, no, no, no, these Haredi guys, we can't keep giving them money and they can't be exempted from military service.

00:09:59.740 But if you piss off the rabbis, you end up in a massive problem.

00:10:04.700 So that's briefly the outlook for Israeli politics.

00:10:08.820 um now having gone through all of this nonsense there is now a full-on crisis

00:10:16.420 and then yeah he seems a bit upset by this let me know who is upset and he's saying that the

00:10:23.100 elections in israel were stolen by the arab parties you even see some commentators saying

00:10:28.920 the arab bastards pulled off a political october 7 on 27 october by voting by voting yes yes by

00:10:38.200 voting and so because they've taken effectively the entirety of Netanyahu's campaign has been

00:10:45.240 the opposition is going to work with the Arabs that automatically discredits them because how

00:10:51.920 dare they have a coalition government with the Arabs even though in the earliest days of the

00:10:58.120 of the Israeli state pretty much until Begin took power in 1977 it's kind of standard to have a tiny

00:11:03.620 Arab party lying around there and giving them some kind of representation which I imagine was

00:11:10.500 just pragmatic in terms of containment and making them feel included and represented in the system

00:11:15.380 yep yep yep so but in recent years this became a big no-no even though in 2021

00:11:22.020 Netanyahu himself promised to include the Arabs in his future government so Netanyahu is not

00:11:28.180 exactly a man of principle wow let's just put this I can't believe you'd say that yeah I mean

00:11:33.460 Yeah. So having seen the big Arab turnout, now Netanyahu is going ballistic because he's afraid

00:11:43.720 that the other coalition will use the Arab votes in the Knesset to keep him out of power.

00:11:49.540 And if he's out of power, a lot of the court cases that are going against him will continue

00:11:54.920 much faster. Sure. He's been able to delay them with all kinds of tactics. Although to be fair

00:11:59.600 to netanyahu like the worst allegation is a couple of favors for billionaires and taking like 200,000

00:12:06.240 in gifts over 10 years really it's not war crimes or anything like that that's yeah i know i know i

00:12:11.200 know remarkable but by middle eastern standards by middle eastern corruption standards it take

00:12:18.640 it from me i'm lebanese it's not that bad it's trivial okay it's it's it could be much much worse

00:12:23.840 boris johnson was in trouble over like 30 000 pounds to redecorate 10 downing street but yeah

00:12:28.320 which is you know i mean come on okay uh so they're reporting this to the police and they're

00:12:34.320 claiming that the arabs and there's some photographic evidence of this i don't think

00:12:37.580 i included a link there uh of arabs having a lot of one-time fuel cards oh yeah and apparently

00:12:44.640 some of the arab parties allegedly bribed some of their voters with fuel cars and things like

00:12:50.440 that and promised them money and this is properly kicked off so he started without anything being

00:12:57.560 said by without any evidence initially saying that no no we need a full investigation by the

00:13:04.520 police and the shin bet and the electoral uh central elections committee has to immediately

00:13:09.760 intervene because the election is being destroyed and israeli democracy is under attack and blah

00:13:15.200 blah blah sorry okay people vote against me democracy is under attack i've heard that before

00:13:21.460 yeah well also as well netting yahoo from what i remember doesn't have the most consistent record

00:13:27.260 of aiding foreign allies who also claim that elections were stolen from them.

00:13:32.120 We will not mention Donald Trump or discuss the 2020 election.

00:13:36.580 So after this, a judge on the Supreme Court came out and said that he has received information,

00:13:47.060 I think we have it in English somewhere, he has received information that there is indeed

00:13:51.960 foreign intervention and that there is money that has been given to the Arab

00:13:57.300 parties and that he the Shin Bet the internal security agency of Israel has

00:14:02.940 to investigate this immediately and report to him within one week he said

00:14:07.920 that these are suspicions he didn't say that there was any evidence and his

00:14:13.080 letter was quite mealy-mouthed if you ask me and this is a guy who happens to

00:14:18.840 be a supporter of Netanyahu. He's a settler. And he had previously tried to outright ban the Arab

00:14:27.580 parties before the rest of the Supreme Court overturned his decision. Right. So there is

00:14:33.140 context here that has to be highlighted, which is the judge in question, Solberg. He has forum for

00:14:40.080 wanting no political representation for the Palestinians. This isn't to say that he's

00:14:46.860 universally popular because the haridim actually attacked his house because of his views on their

00:14:55.020 conscription so just so just who are the haridim again these are the hats yeah the the ones that

00:15:01.600 are very clearly native to the middle east because they're wearing bear skin hats yeah yes

00:15:05.180 yes the russian hat guys um so this is properly kicking off now oh there it is and the i mean his

00:15:14.140 This phrasing here is fantastic.

00:15:16.140 Heavy serious suspicions have been brought before me regarding illicit influence through

00:15:19.680 foreign financing by foreign entities operating against the Israeli interest on the elections.

00:15:25.220 I do not have the tools to testify to the nature of the aforementioned suspicions, whether

00:15:29.680 imaginary or not.

00:15:31.680 I'm sorry, whether imaginary.

00:15:33.680 What an odd thing to say.

00:15:36.100 Okay.

00:15:37.100 However, there is an obligation to investigate them thoroughly to safeguard the purity of

00:15:41.520 the elections of the Knesset.

00:15:43.300 Okay.

00:15:44.140 Sure. Okay. And then the Likud has kicked off and escalated this considerably more and is pushing for, well, we don't know what exactly they're pushing for.

00:15:56.700 Some kind of investigation and redo of the election.

00:16:00.080 Quite possibly. Quite possibly. They might want to. And I just want to point out the irony here.

00:16:06.120 Yeah.

00:16:06.920 This is Israel's Arabic language channel. So let's just sort of wrap this around.

00:16:11.740 when the arabs voted heavily for the first time increasing their voter turnout by a dramatic

00:16:18.400 number they ended up with a lot more seats in the knesset the israeli arabic channel the

00:16:25.440 propaganda channel of is of the israeli government in arabic was bragging about the arabs voting

00:16:30.440 fair enough they're equal citizens they're entitled to vote however since they got too many

00:16:36.480 seats the entire political system is mobilizing to shut down the possibility of arab voting and

00:16:42.920 they are claiming that qatar and turkey transferred money to the arab parties via terroristic channels

00:16:48.800 the cope begins yep at that point when you get into all of that about oh well it's being funded

00:16:55.180 by our enemies the implication is that these arabs wouldn't have voted that way if money

00:17:00.480 hadn't have been exchanged which and i can only assume that a lot of this is single issue voting

00:17:05.940 that has risen from the Arabs

00:17:07.620 based on Netanyahu's personal attitude

00:17:10.080 and actions over Palestine.

00:17:12.200 Pretty much, pretty much.

00:17:13.880 I mean, part of...

00:17:14.580 It just doesn't...

00:17:15.900 I feel a lot of veils are being lifted, right?

00:17:19.600 Yes.

00:17:20.260 The second the Arabs are like,

00:17:21.340 actually, we could just vote for Arab causes

00:17:22.940 and get 20 or 19 seats or whatever

00:17:25.260 out of how many is it?

00:17:26.820 Like 120, right?

00:17:28.620 That's not an insignificant figure at all.

00:17:30.660 It's like a sixth of it, right?

00:17:31.700 So it's like, okay, that's, you know,

00:17:34.000 that's a significant proportion.

00:17:35.940 Suddenly the, oh, well, we're the only true democracy in the Middle East.

00:17:39.040 Well, like with democracies elsewhere, when you start getting ethnic blocs voting in substantial numbers on one particular issue,

00:17:48.720 it starts loading and weighting the political system away from the way everyone thought it was going to work.

00:17:54.420 Yes.

00:17:54.720 Showing that actually multi-ethnic democracies are not all they're cracked up to be.

00:18:00.260 No, they aren't.

00:18:01.360 They are a freaking terrible idea.

00:18:03.940 Yeah.

00:18:04.140 So if you must have a multi-ethnic society, you need an imperial system.

00:18:09.320 Otherwise, democracy is a disaster here.

00:18:12.680 Now, essentially, what Netanyahu is trying to do is to, sorry, just to sort of give some context on these allegations.

00:18:23.760 Initially, the police said that there was no evidence of any interference.

00:18:28.100 Now they're saying, no, no, no, we're going to investigate and see what evidence is there.

00:18:33.320 The opposition is saying Netanyahu is trying to exploit this election interference narrative

00:18:37.840 to delay the Knesset being sworn in.

00:18:41.220 I mean, I agree with your position here. It's so clear.

00:18:44.080 It is rather clear.

00:18:45.720 So transparent.

00:18:46.740 It is rather transparent, yes.

00:18:50.300 While also what he's revealing here is a couple of things.

00:18:54.480 First, he's afraid of Netanyahu trying to prolong this and stay in power for a lot longer

00:18:59.080 and delay the entire government formation process.

00:19:01.740 But the other thing is, he now cannot form a government that in any way relies on the Arab votes, even though it will still procedurally command the same majority in the Knesset, because, again, he will be accused of working with the Qataris and the Turks, which has been the repeated allegation from Netanyahu constantly.

00:19:24.040 Right.

00:19:25.160 Which, interestingly, is the same allegation that was made against Netanyahu himself

00:19:30.580 because he was encouraging the Qataris to send money to Hamas in order to keep things calm in Gaza.

00:19:37.220 I mean, you know.

00:19:38.500 So, just to make this all clear.

00:19:41.080 And now the Central Election Committee.

00:19:42.220 Called democracy for us.

00:19:45.920 Now the Central Election Committee in Israel is saying, actually, the elections were lawful.

00:19:50.400 Nothing bad happened.

00:19:51.680 Yeah.

00:19:51.800 but politically because the outcome favored the arabs so much in a way that upsets the balance

00:20:00.200 of power were allowed to vote and did exactly i mean it's genuinely a kind of brexit moment here

00:20:07.220 yes how dare these untermensch underclass express themselves to lawful and legal means

00:20:13.920 that have always been available to them but also as well to have pursued the policies that you have

00:20:19.140 for successive years now

00:20:21.000 and not expect this to be the outcome,

00:20:23.320 just to not expect this to be the natural conclusion.

00:20:27.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

00:20:31.440 Yair Golan, to be fair,

00:20:33.260 there is one guy in Israel,

00:20:34.540 one party in Israel, the far left,

00:20:36.780 who are saying, no, no, no,

00:20:38.160 we should form a coalition with the Arabs.

00:20:40.500 I'm not surprised.

00:20:41.060 Well, everybody else is saying absolutely not.

00:20:43.440 Yeah.

00:20:44.200 And with this attack,

00:20:46.460 claiming that the Arabs had rigged the election

00:20:48.880 in partnership with Qatar and Turkey,

00:20:51.200 the possibility of a coalition that excludes Netanyahu is now gone.

00:20:55.180 Yes.

00:20:56.100 Because they have to respect the fact that, first, he got the biggest party.

00:21:00.680 How many did he get in total again?

00:21:02.600 He got 27 out of 120, whereas the next best party, the Yashar, the opposition, got 21.

00:21:10.900 Right.

00:21:11.280 Okay.

00:21:11.780 So he got a considerably bigger parliamentary...

00:21:15.160 But he'll still have to form a coalition, and it could well include that party, right?

00:21:20.000 Just to keep the Arabs out.

00:21:21.560 Yes, exactly.

00:21:23.280 So now what Netanyahu is doing is basically pushing for a number of things that could suit him.

00:21:27.980 So this would be like Labour and the Conservatives forming an alliance to keep Restore out?

00:21:33.960 Yeah.

00:21:35.360 Something like that, right?

00:21:36.140 To keep the Greens out.

00:21:36.680 Not implausible.

00:21:37.340 Well, yeah, yeah, sure, to keep the Greens out, but like to keep a radical fringe.

00:21:40.980 Yes, exactly.

00:21:42.560 Exactly.

00:21:43.560 Okay.

00:21:43.740 And that would be very much a right-wing cabinet again, contrary to what people are presenting, Eisenkott.

00:21:52.280 It would just not include the religious right-wing.

00:21:56.300 Right.

00:21:56.800 That would be the difference.

00:21:57.720 It would just be the secular right as opposed to the religious right.

00:22:01.840 And the differences between them in terms of practical policy aren't that big.

00:22:07.360 Again, just like Labour and the Conservatives.

00:22:09.180 Exactly.

00:22:09.920 Exactly.

00:22:10.640 And exactly the same thing.

00:22:12.380 So there's one party saying, no, no, the election result is what it is,

00:22:15.320 and we need to work with the Arabs if we have to.

00:22:17.600 But, like, when I wrote about this, I said,

00:22:20.960 this guy is never going to be part of a government

00:22:22.940 because he's part of the fringe left.

00:22:26.000 And so this is where we are.

00:22:28.460 This is Israel's Zach Polanski.

00:22:30.060 No, that's another guy.

00:22:31.480 This is Israel's anti-Bernambool, you know.

00:22:35.040 He's the Prime Minister.

00:22:37.160 Maybe Jeremy Corbyn, I don't know.

00:22:38.700 Yeah, yeah, Jeremy Corbyn.

00:22:39.820 George Gamoway.

00:22:42.380 Something like that.

00:22:44.060 Something like that.

00:22:45.080 Something like that.

00:22:46.540 And Netanyahu is keeping on pushing this,

00:22:48.360 and he's going to continue to push this all the way.

00:22:50.940 Ben Gvir, obviously, is going rabid over this.

00:22:55.800 This is the insane right-winger, isn't it?

00:22:57.760 This is the insane right-winger who wants to send them to Europe.

00:23:01.760 Yeah.

00:23:03.100 This is the Sephardi one who wants to send them to Europe.

00:23:07.000 There's an Ashkenazi one who wanted to send them to Europe,

00:23:09.340 but then yoram has only had a word with him and got him to calm it down and he wants argentina to

00:23:14.380 take the falcons and he wants argentina to take the falcons yes yes uh and so he's just saying

00:23:20.940 arrest all of the arabs all of the arab political leaders because what could go wrong i mean you

00:23:26.940 know it is what it is oh i yes this is what they are saying the bribes were which is fuel cards

00:23:34.380 and these kinds of things uh they are saying that these these are basically that this is proof that

00:23:41.900 there were bright that there was bribery i i but again if if they weren't given that that they'd

00:23:48.220 vote differently which i'm just not yeah it's not persuaded exactly matt uh good winning gorton

00:23:55.180 and denton yeah yeah now the argument against including the arabs is that they don't believe

00:24:01.420 in a zionist jewish state yeah that's the fundamental argument uh smotherich here

00:24:08.860 who is uh the religious zionist party kicked them out uh changed his mind from europe to the arab

00:24:14.780 countries recently he goes a little bit further and says that his uh rivals in the election are

00:24:24.620 actually not exactly zionists so he accuses the head of the mainly russian-backed party

00:24:32.620 uh or the party representing the russian inflow from from the 90s onwards of wanting the british

00:24:38.540 to govern which is a plan that i support yeah but it's not happening take lebanon too just saying

00:24:49.020 uh but have you looked at our governance recently yeah i mean but there's degrees

00:24:55.720 and he's making the correct point that one of the leaders of the lithuanian hasids

00:25:02.980 uh rabbi landau wants the arabs to rule oh and weirdly enough dov landau who who was a very big

00:25:14.660 figure in the Degel HaTorah, which is part of the United Torah Judaism Coalition, he's

00:25:19.500 like, no, no, you've got to withdraw from all Zionist institutions because the state

00:25:24.140 of Israel is too corrupt and it's too secular, and that the religious soldiers are dying

00:25:31.440 because their rabbis teach them a bad Torah, and that it would be better to have UN rule

00:25:36.580 in Israel. So the whole thing that the Arab students rule because they don't believe

00:25:41.500 in the jewish state actually it's about identity not ideology oh really yes surprise yeah i just

00:25:49.820 wanted to clarify that point i believe it boils down to that again it's very surprising

00:25:55.040 it's very surprising as someone from lebanon no one is more surprised but but it turns out

00:26:02.400 it's about identity this time again i'm i'm shocked shocked i tell you and then you have

00:26:10.140 these pictures of anti-zionist jews sort of tearing down the israeli flag and uh because

00:26:17.100 they object to the state of israel these are hasidic anti-zionist jews and israel oppose

00:26:22.700 the state of israel that's interesting it's the what do they plan to replace it with

00:26:31.020 anything else oh okay uh because if it's going to be a jewish state it has to be a jewish state

00:26:38.380 founded by the messiah oh right whereas they rebuild the third temple right whereas the

00:26:44.780 religious zionists believe that they are in the messianic age right now and they are helping the

00:26:51.100 messiah arrive by kicking out the arabs and building the third temple and that's when the

00:26:56.620 messiah will come is that why they're after the red heifer that's why they're after that's why

00:27:01.100 they're after the red heifer interesting yes so very same people if you get into these disputes

00:27:06.860 you kind of go like no we need one church one dogma and everybody has to shut the fuck up

00:27:13.100 uh if you you have the same thing with the muslim groups yeah like you have the salafi groups that

00:27:20.460 say obey the rulers no matter what full-on salafi and you have salafi groups who say

00:27:25.080 kill the muslim rulers no matter what because they're all apostates right okay well i mean

00:27:29.380 so there is a sort of the muslims are a little more violent yeah nobody nobody contests that

00:27:34.560 but the mental framework is kind of similar um so now you know these are netanyahu's options

00:27:44.260 just to sort of summarize given that we're near the end of our time he's going to keep pushing

00:27:50.180 this to make sure that eisenkot and all of the others can't form a coalition without him

00:27:54.340 and this time the turnout from the hasidic jews was actually low whereas the arab turnout was high

00:28:06.040 so his other alternative is to push for an early election which means that he stays in power until

00:28:12.960 that election and maybe something happens with iran that forces a national unity cabinet maybe

00:28:18.100 not but if he can kick this down kick this can down the road he can do things to suppress the

00:28:25.140 arab voter turnout and to increase the turnout from his own coalition uh the religious guys

00:28:32.980 stayed steady the hasids went down his own people went down whereas the opposition turnout was quite

00:28:39.100 high so if he can bring down the opposition turnout and the arab turnout he can go for

00:28:44.160 another election and hope to win a full-on victory i mean you can see it in the they're going to

00:28:48.840 destroy the state of israel rhetoric that was basically his opening gambit exactly like come

00:28:52.540 on guys exactly exactly uh and again if he does that and it's a purely it's it's a lot more of a

00:29:01.940 jewish vote than an arab vote then he does win the election quite clearly that's the important thing

00:29:09.200 If it was just the Jewish people of Israel who were voting, Netanyahu would have won completely.

00:29:14.880 So he's going to use that to legitimize the idea that he won the election

00:29:19.760 and that all of the others are just a bunch of interlopers.

00:29:22.480 Right.

00:29:22.960 And he's going to keep pushing that until the end.

00:29:26.800 That's the Israeli election.

00:29:28.000 See how it plays out.

00:29:28.960 Yeah, that's not my problem.

00:29:32.400 Do you quickly go through?

00:29:33.520 Yeah, sure.

00:29:34.560 Oh, sure.

00:29:35.120 141 Paladin says

00:29:37.440 Can I get a Catholic welfare class

00:29:39.160 As a passive buff like the Heredes

00:29:40.860 No, no

00:29:43.140 He who shall not work shall not eat

00:29:45.140 As St. Paul said

00:29:46.600 Sigilstone, just like last

00:29:49.000 Say again?

00:29:50.300 Didn't Lenin say that?

00:29:51.920 He was quoting St. Paul

00:29:52.880 St. Paul was not quoting Lenin, just to be clear

00:29:54.900 Sigilstone 17

00:29:57.240 Just like last time Netanyahu was voted out

00:29:59.880 I'm sure he'll be back under very suspect circumstances

00:30:02.200 To cause more misery and bloodshed

00:30:03.980 Well, I should have mentioned that. This thing can keep going because from 2019 to 2022, the Israelis had five elections. It was a period of total chaos. So this could easily happen again.

00:30:17.080 Right. Just saying. Based ape, the Arab vote, you said, I thought it was an apartheid state. Well, so the people who live in the settlements, which are all in the West Bank, live amongst around three, four million Palestinians.

00:30:31.180 The Jews who live there get to vote.

00:30:34.620 The three, four million Palestinians who are governed effectively

00:30:37.640 by those Jews and the Israeli military do not.

00:30:41.060 So, and you know, when the Arabs vote,

00:30:43.520 it kicks off a long political crisis all over the state.

00:30:48.400 So, yeah, not quite apartheid, but not quite a liberal democracy either.

00:30:53.180 Let's be honest.

00:30:55.120 I suppose move on then, please, Samson.

00:30:56.620 um so you remember in 2025 when glorious nippon elected their insanely right-wing dictator

00:31:06.740 sane takechi and everyone was like okay great another insanely right-wing female leader who's

00:31:13.560 going to do terrible things to immigrants yes yeah i've got some bad news about that oh they

00:31:18.880 didn't get what they voted for did they no no just like with italy just like with a bunch of places

00:31:23.560 sounds unfortunate i'm reaching the conclusion that right-wing women aren't actually right-wing

00:31:27.960 and not as right-wing as they claim right no no yeah i'm reaching that conclusion too and and you

00:31:33.060 know i say this because you know i'm not i'm not a japanophile or whatever you know an orientalist

00:31:40.200 in that way um but i but i kind of recognize in the japanese that they have something very similar

00:31:45.660 to what we had you know so you've got this ancient island nation with a long settled understanding

00:31:51.600 of yourselves your own culture and you've managed to make something beautiful there right because i

00:31:56.180 mean like you know i said i'm not a fan of japanese culture but i i recognize that there is a deep

00:32:00.940 beauty in what they have done to their land right you're not an expert on it it's not that you're

00:32:05.560 not a fan of no no i'm actively not a fan of i don't like anime or anything like that so i'm

00:32:10.820 actively not a fan of it but it's it's not for me to say right you have to change this it's yes you

00:32:16.760 No, no, this is what you are, and I want you to remain what you are.

00:32:21.740 It's yours as long as you're happy.

00:32:23.620 What I think of it just doesn't matter.

00:32:25.260 Exactly.

00:32:25.740 There are lots of people who absolutely adore it.

00:32:27.480 I'm just not one of those people, but whatever.

00:32:30.140 There are lots of people who don't like British culture.

00:32:31.680 I don't care.

00:32:32.660 Not my problem.

00:32:34.640 So anyway, as CNN bigged her up, they said,

00:32:38.200 oh, staunch conservative Sune Takeuchi was elected as,

00:32:42.180 I'm not going to try and do a Japanese accent, by the way,

00:32:44.300 was elected as Japan's first female prime minister.

00:32:46.760 She focused heavily on economic issues, advancing Japanese interests.

00:32:50.820 We're going to be working tirelessly for the nation and the people.

00:32:54.960 She openly aspired to be like Margaret Thatcher.

00:32:57.800 That's a bad sign.

00:32:58.400 Well, I mean, I don't know.

00:33:02.360 Some good, some bad with Thatcher.

00:33:05.500 She did.

00:33:07.300 Her victory at the time, though, was very impressive

00:33:09.480 because her party was facing a really unusual slump

00:33:13.980 between the public trust,

00:33:15.540 She almost single-handedly, through her branding and rhetoric,

00:33:18.780 obviously brought people back onto the establishment.

00:33:22.480 But also, she was very proud to be British.

00:33:24.300 She was very proud of Britain.

00:33:26.160 And in an era of the Cold War, where you've got the Soviet Union at the height of its powers,

00:33:32.180 we could have done worse.

00:33:33.500 We could have done worse.

00:33:34.820 But of course, they point out, well, there's the ever-present headache of Japan's declining birth rate,

00:33:38.940 shrinking workforce, and swelling elderly population,

00:33:42.000 combined with a growing public backlash against mass immigration.

00:33:45.600 It's like, yeah, if it's mass immigration in the Japanese context,

00:33:49.700 which is 120 million people and only 4 million foreigners,

00:33:53.040 which we'll get to shortly, imagine how bad it is elsewhere.

00:33:56.780 Especially with the rise of the San Cito party that rose very, very rapidly

00:34:00.720 on that single issue.

00:34:02.460 Yes, exactly, and very based and cool for them.

00:34:06.060 Anyway, so she began by, yeah, I'm tightening measures against foreigners,

00:34:10.760 seeking permanent residency you know under the new rules foreigners wishing to stay in japan

00:34:16.760 will permanent will have to prove their annual income is above average they can carry casual

00:34:21.040 conversations in japanese so yeah that's not that hard line really you know don't be a peasant and

00:34:26.700 be able to have some japanese conversations yeah i mean to be fair it's very difficult i think it's

00:34:32.440 like grade five out of five on language difficulty yeah i'm sure but if you you know but it's learning

00:34:38.840 a language it's not like you know brain surgery like our immigrants have to learn

00:34:43.560 i understand that over accepting foreigners might dilute japan's unique culture but at the same time

00:34:51.120 given its low birth rate and aging population japan has to accept some foreigners says one

00:34:55.660 american-born japanese student uh who is actually japanese uh who is probably not japanese actually

00:35:02.820 but some other east asian uh place that was trying to get in so the the common narrative

00:35:08.200 is well the same as every other industrial country again actually it's very similar to

00:35:13.160 italy in this regard right well your birth rates are insanely low um

00:35:17.720 something's gonna have to give something's gonna have to be done and there's definitely no question

00:35:26.220 of encouraging women to like continue their own civilization for some reason that's just off the

00:35:31.600 table even in japan yeah it's not not a question that's going to be answered properly apparently

00:35:36.540 anyway so people people generally uh oppose immigration in japan i mean it was only 36

00:35:42.460 in 2024 which surprises me you'd have thought it had been higher uh in japan but uh in 2026

00:35:49.240 that got up to 56 so not bad not quite getting to british levels of we don't want immigrants

00:35:55.960 but it's it's it's close you know in britain it's something like 60 plus yes well the more

00:36:01.020 immigrants to take the more it'll go up well yeah and and and this has gone up a lot this has only

00:36:05.820 been two years right yes a 20 increase in two years um you know hopefully if you're watching

00:36:10.300 from japan please pay attention we have lived through this firsthand we've got several very

00:36:15.400 similar contexts culturally demographically uh take take our word for it this is not worth your

00:36:21.120 time whatever you think you're getting out of it the problems will be worse right um this apparently

00:36:27.340 this rise is especially pronounced in younger generations who feel there's no hope for japanese

00:36:32.900 society quote unquote uh which is really interesting because our young people are insanely

00:36:38.580 left-wing british youth like it's only only about 20 of the british youth will vote conservative

00:36:44.440 reform or restore only like one in five it's like guys have you looked around what are you what are

00:36:49.740 you i think i'm gonna vote for labor today okay i don't know don't know why you do that uh anyway

00:36:56.880 Okay, and so 66% of voters want tougher immigration policies just overall, right?

00:37:06.460 So it's very, very evident that the Japanese people, overwhelmingly at this point,

00:37:15.300 by literally, you know, two to one ratio,

00:37:18.240 and that's not necessarily saying that the other one is people are like,

00:37:21.580 yes, no, I love immigrants, I want more of them.

00:37:23.600 There'll be a large portion of them that are just like,

00:37:25.500 well I'm a bit indifferent to this right so by a huge huge margin the Japanese do not want their

00:37:33.320 country flooded with Middle Easterners yeah and also as well you know as the Japanese are very

00:37:39.260 technological people spending a lot of time on their phones and they look at what's happening

00:37:43.980 to us right they look at this is why when um Takaichi invokes such things as oh we understand

00:37:50.680 it can compromise cultural heritage oh well where did you learn that from yeah i'm looking at those

00:37:56.360 yeah but also you're a very technological people well okay shouldn't you develop some technology

00:38:00.840 to deal with whatever the problems we're facing are right but uh but instead it turns out that

00:38:05.840 the oldest answer is still the easiest and that's importing foreign slaves because japan has decided

00:38:13.100 yeah well okay well let's just pick a country shall we just pick a random country that happens

00:38:18.620 to of course be a muslim country and just import loads of people from there so yeah why why don't

00:38:23.520 we just start importing bangladeshis well i can i can explain why you shouldn't do that japan

00:38:29.140 but of all the people on earth can we do a video in japanese and tower hamlets

00:38:33.760 maybe i i mean i'm sure we can find someone we can do the whole big song

00:38:39.080 uh so as as you see that she's held wide-ranging talks with her banglades she counterpark

00:38:45.460 tarik raman and they've agreed to closer cooperation between the countries on economic

00:38:51.020 and security matters among others is there any issues what is the historic tie between

00:38:55.660 bangladesh and japan they're trying to get the chinese out of bangladesh but the bangladesh

00:39:00.000 will always choose the chinese against india rather than japanese sure but so it is they

00:39:06.540 they probably think that it's some kind of brilliant geopolitical move it's retarded i

00:39:10.540 I mean, maybe on the geopolitical level, maybe it is a good move, right?

00:39:16.860 But what are the Bangladeshis asking for?

00:39:21.400 Oh, to export some surplus?

00:39:23.840 Yeah, that's weird, isn't it?

00:39:24.880 What surplus do they have?

00:39:25.960 Isn't that weird?

00:39:26.880 Every single time.

00:39:28.300 What is the Bangladeshi surplus?

00:39:30.100 Oh.

00:39:31.220 So apparently, and I'm going to read extensively from this, because I love the contradictions in it.

00:39:35.680 so the japanese authorities and businesses have announced plans to recruit at least 100 000

00:39:41.420 workers from bangladesh over the next five years now that that i mean compared to british levels

00:39:45.800 of immigration sounds like a drop in the ocean right yes if only 20 000 a year yeah exactly

00:39:50.080 that would be incredible um but one you know like i think the workers will have family visas yeah

00:39:56.880 yeah exactly there's gonna be a snowball effect here yes so it begins as 100 000 and then it

00:40:02.380 balloons into the boris wave right and so you're looking at a potential boris wave uh over the

00:40:09.000 next five years and also as well once they're there they'll be using also you all of a sudden

00:40:13.160 you'll have immigration lawyers setting themselves up to just anchor and pull more and more people in

00:40:18.580 as we do now so you'll find that as time goes on the japanese state will find itself comes

00:40:24.180 constantly flummoxed yes by all of these other institutions that are working against them

00:40:28.620 in order to solve the problem i understand the japanese have got more a sort of atomic family

00:40:33.540 structure than the bangladeshs have so you won't understand why there are six generations packed

00:40:38.760 in one household yep and why half of them are claiming benefits right you won't understand all

00:40:43.840 of this but that's where this is going yes um and we know because this is what's happened to us by

00:40:48.760 the way uh and so um this is not going to be just a hundred thousand uh very diligent protestant

00:40:55.780 work ethic workers you know japanese work ethic workers this is not what it's going to be right

00:41:00.120 what it's going to be is a large number of people who have very different world view to you and who

00:41:07.020 will not view uh work itself as being validating in the way that you the japanese do right and we

00:41:16.440 know that actually bringing in lots of bangladeshies from bangladesh to wherever can cause

00:41:23.180 long-lasting tensions because we saw it happen in burma with the rohingya so the reason the

00:41:29.240 rohingya exist in burma is because the british were like we need laborers in burma and we

00:41:35.180 control burma and bangladesh so let's pop them there and of course now you've got decades of

00:41:42.220 trouble uh for this so it's it's not like there isn't actually a kind of comparable neighborhood

00:41:48.620 precedent exactly be learning something from exactly right and you know criticize the british

00:41:54.680 empire for doing that all you want and i will um but this is what has happened and we can learn

00:41:59.240 from this precedent right so speaking in a seminar entitled bangladesh seminar on human resources

00:42:05.000 chief advisor dr mohammed younis the uh said the interim government of bangladesh would do

00:42:10.720 everything in its capacity to create job opportunities for bangladeshs in japan i'm

00:42:14.520 sure they will i guess i'm sure they will i'm sure you'll frontier for them right yeah this is going

00:42:20.960 to be the most exciting day for me uh this will open the door for bangladesh she's not only to

00:42:25.400 work but to know japan come on is this a smart move you sure you want to be going down this road

00:42:31.500 right the gaff this gathering that speech is here is about opening the door uh to the country of

00:42:39.640 180 million people with half of them under the age of 27 right so you've got very big very young

00:42:46.800 country you've got a still relatively sized but much older country just like yeah why don't we

00:42:53.160 what could possibly go wrong right quote this government's job is to open the door for them

00:42:58.800 you know what right to the japanese

00:43:03.940 should you not be more suspicious of a government that is actively trying to export its own

00:43:11.180 population yes yes there's there's always the thing that like i find very peculiar when we're

00:43:16.780 given the narrative on they're all doctors and lawyers and brain searches don't you know it's

00:43:19.800 like wow aren't their countries like putting up some sort of iron curtain like like to prevent

00:43:25.080 them yeah why are we talented yeah exactly yeah why would you you'd be doing everything in your

00:43:29.820 power to stop such people from traveling abroad instead this government's job as he says in

00:43:35.140 bangladesh is to get rid of these people as quickly as well yeah we're going to get as many of them

00:43:39.820 exported to wherever as possible okay well that that kind of implies to me that this isn't this

00:43:47.600 is a one-sided trade deal like you know i'm trying you what is the benefit to japan of this well i

00:43:55.600 i suppose they have home workers societies yeah well you know what in fact they tell us right

00:44:00.700 so um mitsuru matatush i can't pronounce japanese names uh representative director of

00:44:07.140 supervising organization shizuka workplace environment improvement cooperative said many

00:44:14.140 japanese country uh companies are facing inquiries about bangladeshies and he believed this trend

00:44:18.880 would continue bangladeshi talents hold great potential it is our duty to nurture their talent

00:44:24.300 how did you come by a duty to nurture bangladeshi talent in japan i mean you could make an argument

00:44:30.480 that all the britons got a historic obligation because we were the imperial masters of bangladesh

00:44:36.060 or something right you can make some argument what's japan's obligation here where did japan

00:44:41.380 come by a duty to take in and nurture the bangladeshis but hang on a second i thought

00:44:46.120 it was just talent what are you talking about i thought why does it need to be nurtured if it's

00:44:51.200 all good also if it's so good why isn't bangladesh the superpower yeah why is why is bangladesh so

00:44:57.920 eager to offload them so in the coming five years they'll get 100 000 bangladesh workers but like

00:45:03.200 you said they're going to be bringing families and their families their extended families are a lot

00:45:07.380 larger than yours right so just to be aware you are you are getting way worse than you think and

00:45:12.860 and what's more as well if i may just say that by it as it always naturally occurs by bringing in

00:45:18.600 this huge raw number of extra people it's going to depreciate the wages for the actual Japanese

00:45:23.760 people and you are just going to find it even harder to have a good job to to afford a good

00:45:29.980 wage to afford the housing that you need in order to start a family so all this is going to do is

00:45:35.960 exacerbate all of the problems that you're currently having around birth rates because

00:45:40.620 you're competing against all of these other people and what's more as well if they're coming

00:45:44.880 here explicitly to fill these jobs they will be the people having the children of the future

00:45:50.320 and so the children of japan's future will be bangladeshi not japanese yes they might speak

00:45:56.340 japanese so that's something but also they'll form their ethnic enclaves and it'll become a

00:46:01.740 bangladeshi area of whatever city they've been put in they're already having that with the

00:46:05.520 pakistanis yeah and the kurds and and the kurds they're already having there's only something

00:46:09.340 like 20 000 of them in japan there's a tiny number yeah and yet japanese temples keep on

00:46:14.500 getting burnt isn't that isn't that such a coincidence uh and again the the burmese

00:46:20.320 experience with the rohingya has been well they just won't live in peace and i mean if if you

00:46:26.600 can get the buddhists to be quite militant against you you must be working very hard yes that's right

00:46:32.780 anyway so uh like i said they they plan uh to train 15 000 students annually and increase that

00:46:41.960 to 3 000 and with technical technical education in bangladesh they can enter the job market in japan

00:46:46.980 says the uh the president of uh president of watami group mickey watanabe but i thought they

00:46:54.980 were so talented what are you talking about you right so they've got no skills they've got nothing

00:47:00.480 to contribute you have to train these people so the japanese have to pay for schools in bangladesh

00:47:06.220 to train them to a sufficient standard

00:47:08.280 to be able to be the entry level

00:47:10.740 into the Japanese economy.

00:47:12.820 And then you're going to import them over.

00:47:14.920 And I'm sure that the remittances

00:47:16.740 will be very minimal.

00:47:19.620 What's the plan exactly?

00:47:20.680 Yeah, well, like this is a crazy short-sighted plan.

00:47:25.140 And it's not like Japan doesn't have

00:47:26.780 massive investments all over Asia.

00:47:29.500 They already have factories in different parts of Asia

00:47:33.040 that are producing things for the Japanese market.

00:47:35.120 yeah um they don't need to actually bring the people over that's not necessary well someone's

00:47:42.420 got to pay the pensions you see and if there's one thing we've learned it's that um third world

00:47:48.580 immigrants are just a net contributor to the state treasury this is everywhere they go them

00:47:53.400 the denmark chart yeah and the norway uh the netherlands chart yep and i mean our own i mean

00:47:58.520 yes government released the information we'd be able to see how it is here so right so we've got

00:48:03.620 the the japanese duty to nurture their talents and so takachi was like yeah i think this is a

00:48:10.320 great idea and i'm thrilled to be doing it today i held a summit meeting with the prime minister

00:48:15.420 of bangladesh who is currently visiting japan as a friend who shares values such as democracy and

00:48:20.860 the rule of law since when didn't they just overthrow one dictatorship and start burning

00:48:28.720 down a bunch of hindus and massacring everybody they could get their hands on yes that's that's

00:48:33.320 the rule of law for us that's democracy it's bangladeshi democracy democracy with bangladeshi

00:48:40.700 characteristics but even then in japan they've got one party yeah you've been in government

00:48:46.220 where have you got this from like this is western libtardism so yes i value democracy and the rule

00:48:54.120 of law oh yeah okay you're a libtard right because this is the these are really british

00:48:58.980 values as articulated by tony blair right this is what you've got okay my fingers up what about

00:49:05.820 tolerance is that in there it's like i just this is this is not japanese this is nonsense right i

00:49:13.880 mean in a few years time they're going to be teaching them about islam in japanese schools

00:49:17.620 yes they will and they're going to be teaching them about oh no tolerance and you know yep

00:49:22.440 castrating their own culture and uh they'll end up in the same position it's it is an insane

00:49:29.180 thing to try to do yes and we we know where this is going and it's especially insane when you will

00:49:37.240 be so when she will be so aware of the public's feeling about this yes then it becomes betrayal

00:49:43.260 yes so that hyper right-wing party uh prepare for that to grow i think uh anyway yeah so jim

00:49:49.280 Abraham will strongly support the nation building.

00:49:52.200 We commit to advancing the Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt Initiative.

00:49:57.420 It's going to be taken over, but China is building a dam

00:50:01.220 that will allow it to cut off the water to both India and Bangladesh

00:50:05.240 on the Brahmaputra River.

00:50:06.440 Yes.

00:50:06.960 It will always have much more influence over Bangladesh than Japan ever will.

00:50:11.840 So this whole idea, oh, the free Indo-Pacific region,

00:50:16.000 whatever the hell that she's talking about,

00:50:17.440 It is complete nonsense.

00:50:19.820 But remember, this does give them access to a massive market of 170 million people.

00:50:25.180 Have you thought about the money?

00:50:27.160 Because that's all this is.

00:50:28.180 This is just neoliberal nonsense.

00:50:29.600 Oh, people are interchangeable widgets.

00:50:31.160 So yeah, why don't we just train up some Bangladeshis, bring them over to Japan,

00:50:33.760 and everything will work out just great.

00:50:35.320 No, they're not like you.

00:50:37.000 You don't understand them.

00:50:38.400 Learn from our lesson.

00:50:40.140 Like, you are not like us, and I don't understand you.

00:50:42.240 But trust me, you don't understand them.

00:50:44.260 the odds of the japanese and the british understanding each other yeah are much higher

00:50:48.820 than the odds of the bangladesh japanese understanding each other trust me you don't

00:50:52.980 understand no right so anyway the replies this uh you know obviously um not brilliant you know

00:50:59.920 we don't really support this stop it you should retract again all these translated from japanese

00:51:03.880 uh the foreign works are necessary not not not been positive right not been positive

00:51:09.360 in fact i haven't seen yeah what are you doing have you lost your mind uh yeah basically yes

00:51:16.120 right and so an objection might be well i mean there are there are loads of foreigners in japan

00:51:21.760 already it's like yeah yeah there are there are four million nearly five yeah and more than half

00:51:26.540 the population already thinks it's too much yep that's true but also right what are these immigrants

00:51:33.960 in japan right well i mean a million of them are chinese okay so i'm not saying there's no bad

00:51:42.180 blood between the japanese and chinese i'm just saying i think you understand the chinese a bit

00:51:46.500 better than you understand these other places yes i mean you know you're both big pork eaters

00:51:51.120 right i guess all i'm saying right and it's one of the few things i appreciate about japan because

00:51:55.720 i love pork too but then you've got uh you know 700 000 vietnamese half a million south koreans

00:52:03.220 it's like right okay right right right so it's like us being like yeah we've got like a million

00:52:07.380 french and a million germans and half a million dutch it's like yeah okay they're foreign but

00:52:12.100 foreign to a narrow degree whereas the people you're taking in are foreign to a much greater

00:52:17.980 degree that you do not understand buddhist culture shared kind of shared moral framework

00:52:25.600 yeah etc etc entirely alien to the muslim framework of bangladesh yeah which fits

00:52:31.720 arabia but doesn't fit east asia exactly it's two different civilizational sort of trees yes right

00:52:38.000 and so it'll only be a matter of time before you've got some bangladeshi workers saying i'm

00:52:42.180 just as japanese as you are well yeah it's inevitable so yeah like i said the beginning

00:52:47.420 very much reflects uh maloney with the migrants and it's because of the pressures of the neoliberal

00:52:53.820 capitalist system because mass migration in all times and all places is essentially a neoliberal

00:52:59.120 economic project this is why the british empire did it this is why modern states are doing it

00:53:04.300 and if you're on the left and you support this then you are supporting liberalism that's what

00:53:08.120 immigration is for this is why they're doing it and this is why they're afraid to ever stop it

00:53:13.220 because the neoliberal system has made a series of promises it can't keep

00:53:16.880 uh one tall order says i fear by the time we seemingly escape the perpetual boomer truth

00:53:24.140 regime we mired knee deep in bi-leninist ethnic patronage hellscape with no other option yes

00:53:29.660 it's precisely what's happening uh tacky chi san fair to be light wing and open bodle

00:53:37.800 shame for us to spray and i can't i can't do a japanese i really wanted to but i've just got

00:53:43.580 no talent for accents at all card was a south park skit

00:53:47.440 right let's carry on all right then uh to my segment then thanks samson

00:53:54.560 all right then friends when i was uh last on the podcast we were covering the aftermath of the

00:54:01.420 riots across france and when i say the aftermath i don't mean to say that this will be the last

00:54:07.920 aftermath this will go on for many years to come it won't be the last time we ever cover something

00:54:13.360 like that. In fact, you know, we have every reason to believe that it'll become more and

00:54:17.240 more frequent as time goes on. But actually, as well, it was the three of us having that

00:54:22.720 exact discussion back then. And one of the things that we were talking about was the

00:54:26.780 fact that there were two different protests, quote unquote, or riots going on at the same

00:54:33.440 time. One was the slightly safer and more dignified student protest, generally characterised

00:54:41.520 by actual ethnic French, despite Melenchon's insistence that they're not real. And the

00:54:47.560 other one was by the new French, who had come in and decided that they were going to pillage

00:54:53.820 and plunder as many shops across French cities as they could, unless, of course, they happened

00:54:59.480 to serve Halal chicken. Now, at the same time as this...

00:55:04.060 In their defence, there were also libraries and the ham section of grocery stores that

00:55:08.140 weren't plundered either.

00:55:08.840 Well, that's quite right. Yeah. So they showed remarkable restraint. They really did. And so I was reading this this morning from the United Nation rights experts condemn French police tactics against student protesters as unjustifiable.

00:55:25.340 I'm like, ah, yes, the real victims in all of this, not the people who've built up livelihoods and have been small shopkeepers for 30 years who have seen it all cast down the drain, all those people who were just harmed or racially humiliated, as we saw in the case of that elderly French couple, or whoever it might have been that took a roof tile to the head after it was being chucked.

00:55:49.960 No, what it was, according to the UN rights experts, was it was the French state was being too harsh on the protesters and apparently disproportionate in what they were doing.

00:56:04.280 Even though, as I said, I think it was they only arrested about 2000 people out of riots that seem to have well over half a million about them by conservative estimates.

00:56:15.080 but nonetheless it goes on to say

00:56:17.260 UN rights experts

00:56:19.220 just Wednesday October 28th

00:56:21.180 condemned the unjustifiable tactics

00:56:23.200 used by French security forces

00:56:25.240 to clamp down on weeks of student

00:56:27.180 protests

00:56:27.900 the four rapporteurs

00:56:30.560 experts mandated by the

00:56:33.180 UN Human Rights Council

00:56:34.900 said the violence used was

00:56:36.800 unacceptable and the number of arrests

00:56:39.160 and detentions was disproportionate

00:56:41.140 I mean actually I kind of agree

00:56:43.160 with that in an Anakin Skywalker sort of way

00:56:45.000 yeah it was very disproportionate yes exactly what i was thinking the level of violence was

00:56:49.900 definitely unacceptable yes you're right we need more police officers definitely uh but nonetheless

00:56:56.460 it was just the latest the coldest worst possible take for the united nations representatives and

00:57:03.700 experts to come out with and so i just wanted to really dedicate a segment to the united nations

00:57:10.160 themselves and look at the poison that they are pumping into the international system now one

00:57:17.160 thing that we have to remember of course is that the united nations is one of the foundational

00:57:21.880 pillars of the post-war world of the libtard world order absolutely yes and this goes as far back of

00:57:29.200 course as when it was first uh first began in uh 1945 and then of course very quickly came out with

00:57:36.600 the 1951 convention for refugees and they describe these as being well they go on to say well a

00:57:45.440 refugee by their definition is owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race

00:57:51.640 religion nationality membership of a particular social group or political opinion is outside the

00:57:58.200 country of their nationality and unable to owing to such fear or is or is unwilling to avail

00:58:04.820 themselves of the protection of their country and so you get the point they're jumbling it up

00:58:10.040 they're basically saying if you have like some fear of anybody who's afraid gets to be any sort

00:58:14.660 of fear it's been the german nazis who flee germany can legitimately claim asylum in argentina

00:58:21.480 or i was thinking france oh right yeah yeah argentina too yeah um because of its social

00:58:28.280 group or political opinion like you know when i lived out in germany you'd occasionally see

00:58:33.340 some skinhead neonati right like one or two like in the town center right and they'd look like

00:58:37.860 deranged loons but like that person could legitimately call themselves a refugee by this

00:58:42.380 standard if they left Germany right but also as well it doesn't take into account within its

00:58:48.020 definition the fact that by bringing in people or granting refugees asylum from these countries

00:58:55.400 where they are suffering from such things as ethnic conflict racial divisions religious

00:59:01.420 divides that when they bring them over it's not going to engender such problems in the nation

00:59:07.340 that has taken them in i mean the point that i'm making is like this gives every terrorist an out

00:59:14.080 right yes yes bin laden is a refugee why because i have my political opinions are unacceptable in

00:59:18.640 saudi arabia yeah what's your political union that's death to america send it up in london

00:59:22.200 yeah so many of the islamists who came who the saudi government will say why haven't you shot

00:59:27.700 them idiots we were gonna shoot them but you gave them sucker you know exactly and we would have

00:59:33.280 solved your problem yeah instead he'd stick that piece of paper and wave it around and say oh no

00:59:39.420 no no this is a refugee he's got a political opinion and therefore we have to cuddle him to

00:59:43.180 our bosom and make sure he's safe it's like yeah but it's bin laden like okay do the public want it

00:59:49.080 no but we have these international obligations to uphold don't we pose those we did yes like

00:59:54.460 on ourselves straight jacketed ourselves with this but the thing is as well so in 1951

01:00:01.900 that was the convention but then you got to the 1967 protocol that was laced on top of it

01:00:07.840 and it was this that expanded and removed the geographical and time-based limitations

01:00:13.600 of it so that actually now it didn't just become a convention designed for relocating mass number

01:00:20.440 of peoples across europe yeah after the second world war it became an international affair

01:00:26.100 so where sorry just i i can see exactly where you're going with this yes because i bet they

01:00:30.660 were thinking yeah well i mean we took in 50 000 huguenots didn't we bring in a bunch of french

01:00:35.740 protestants into protestant england was okay took some polish refugees during world war ii exactly

01:00:41.340 yeah exactly you can see exactly what's been you know the very narrow frame it's like well all of

01:00:45.500 these european refugees seem to have been fine actually appreciative that we brought them in

01:00:49.520 helped us out and we helped them and everything was great it's like yeah yeah yeah yeah but they

01:00:53.860 did right and and the other thing as well is that uh look and i understand uh my analysis on this

01:01:00.260 point might not be the strongest but generally speaking uh ever since the treaty of vienna in

01:01:05.940 1815 with the exception of the franco-prussian war two world wars and then obviously yugoslavia

01:01:12.700 generally speaking the actual continent of europe itself has not seen as many conflicts on its

01:01:20.320 actual land mass as those around the rest of the world and just go along i think that's not true

01:01:26.000 no oh yeah no our conflicts are way more frequent and way bigger than most oh europe is one of the

01:01:32.160 biggest battlefields in the world actually i mean and it might as they're recorded i was gonna say

01:01:37.200 i was literally about to say it might be due to a kind of um uh i suppose like congo had its own

01:01:43.760 version of world war one which nobody has heard about sure sure um but like it's not you can't

01:01:51.980 just say europe is peaceful and i like yeah in recent times maybe yes well that that was more

01:01:58.340 what i was referring to in in the recent but anyway i take your point but the problem with

01:02:02.560 european wars is that they create a lot more refugees because they're all bigger yes so you

01:02:06.740 know the war in the congo how many combatants were on each side right you know whereas europe

01:02:10.760 was moving millions of men from all over the globe but also all over their continent yeah so

01:02:16.140 it yeah no no fair fair point um but as we go on then it's like well okay but who are the people

01:02:23.500 who are even in charge of the united nations right now it's like oh great it's former socialist

01:02:28.880 portuguese presidents who are now the general secretary of the united nations so because

01:02:33.700 what portugal back in the late 90s early 2000s elected a socialist government these people who

01:02:40.200 are in the globalist clique are able to just fail themselves upwards into these positions of power

01:02:46.080 where all of a sudden they have great sway over the entirety of global affairs and the way that

01:02:52.000 we interact with one another and i just say that southern europe should not have democracy

01:02:56.780 it's just a bad idea for southern europe um yeah well i'm sure you're actually being quite

01:03:03.000 conservative in who you'd expend democracy to but i take your point um and so you also get as well

01:03:10.280 like initiatives like this coming out in 2019 where it says in response to the alarming trend

01:03:15.660 of rising hate speech around the world secretary general antonio gutierrez launched the united

01:03:20.760 nations strategy and plan of action on hate speech on the 18th of june 2019 seeking to enhance the

01:03:27.600 united nations response to the global phenomenon of hate speech wow why would it have risen so

01:03:33.920 much by 2019 for a second in 2018 jeffrey epstein was emailing about policing hate speech and how

01:03:42.760 social media was out of control and all of that stuff this was an epstein talking point a year

01:03:48.500 earlier just just saying but what's also very very funny about this was it 2022 when elon musk

01:03:55.300 bought twitter yeah well that went didn't it yeah all it took was him to buy twitter and this

01:04:01.480 this entire plan up in smoke you thought you had it all figured out um and but you see all of these

01:04:07.720 um global like the full package yes of just globalist initiatives being used as a one-size-fits-all

01:04:15.340 applied to the entirety of the world and as i say maybe there's a correlation between the fact that

01:04:21.020 hate speech is rising as you would characterize it against the fact that European populations and

01:04:26.700 those across the West are being forced to take in hugely unassimilable populations from the rest of

01:04:32.560 the world that they have nothing in common with and invariably come from backgrounds that already

01:04:37.420 have ethnic resentment of European peoples based on historical actions and you wonder why these

01:04:43.600 people aren't gelling and the only thing that you can come to is just to say well if we just

01:04:48.620 I mean literally like the childish like sort of like adage of well if you don't have anything

01:04:53.780 nice to say don't say it that's really what hate speech laws are yeah and it's like I'm sorry this

01:04:59.760 is juvenile this is utterly juvenile and so ill-equipped to deal with the actual problems

01:05:05.460 that we're facing and you I mean you just saw this one I was flabbergasted it's like rights

01:05:10.960 experts urged the United Kingdom to curb hate speech what was this in what yeah what was this

01:05:16.800 in response to southport right because once again the real issue ends reaction to southport was to

01:05:24.860 police speech well they're certainly reporting on it as a good thing of course that these human

01:05:30.480 rights activists were interfering and saying that actually the problem with southport was a reaction

01:05:36.820 to southport and i want to stress as i go through this segment i'm not suggesting that if the united

01:05:43.640 nations didn't exist then all of our you know whether it's andy burnham or macron they'd

01:05:50.120 actually be like absolute right-wing chad traditionalists it's not what i'm saying

01:05:54.640 they're a part of the system they created the system it serves their interests and but that

01:05:59.560 is why they hold it up they agree with it and all it does is serve to great create an internationalist

01:06:06.040 umbrella that has a huge amount of power soft power all over the world because though the united

01:06:12.600 nations will constantly say well we're not legislating for the world for the world we

01:06:17.420 believe in sovereignty you don't actually have to take on board these initiatives it's like well

01:06:22.080 one they already agree with them and second of all of course you have a tremendous amount of soft

01:06:26.780 power throughout all of these governments not in the least part because we give you billions of

01:06:32.220 pounds a year but also there's it becomes this kind of annoying fiction where like the famously

01:06:38.120 the UN can't actually do anything and therefore

01:06:40.020 gets nothing done, right? So all it does

01:06:42.220 is kind of libtard propagandises

01:06:43.960 all of the countries who want to hear it.

01:06:46.640 Countries who don't care

01:06:47.720 are just like, I don't care, I'm not going to do anything.

01:06:50.260 I'm going to do whatever you want. You know, put

01:06:51.780 the Saudi Arabians on the women's rights

01:06:54.000 panels and councils and stuff like this.

01:06:56.440 You know, put Russia in charge of whatever.

01:06:57.780 China and North Korea on the rights panels.

01:07:00.340 Saudi on the women's rights panels.

01:07:02.480 All of that nonsense.

01:07:03.740 But what it does is reveal

01:07:05.720 this ridiculous fiction of liberal values.

01:07:08.120 Look, we can find a moral framework that unites the guy murdering and the guy being murdered.

01:07:16.600 We can unite those together in agreement on something.

01:07:19.200 It's like, no, you can't.

01:07:20.260 These two people completely disagree in every way on almost everything.

01:07:25.100 There is no legitimacy for the liberal universal moral order.

01:07:29.320 It is not correct that they have the one true morality, and this is what the UN reveals because it doesn't do it.

01:07:36.160 fundamental values are completely wrong yeah it's fundamental beliefs are completely wrong and the

01:07:39.980 only people it appeals to are libtards yes that's the thing but i just want to emphasize two things

01:07:43.780 here first they are saying they are saying approvingly that britain has arrested hundreds

01:07:51.480 of people because they said things online and hasn't gone far enough and that it hasn't gone

01:07:57.340 far enough and the second thing that they're saying is that no no stop at search is actually

01:08:02.960 bad because it has a disproportionate effect on i'm assuming black people and it is the it's

01:08:12.180 peak wokeism being laundered via the united nations and if you look at what the un is saying

01:08:19.060 it's going to be absolutely no different from what the world economic forum is saying and you

01:08:24.220 sort of see hold on if the un and the world economic forum are in agreement on all of this

01:08:28.600 then clearly they're part of the same vicious system stop deporting haitians no

01:08:36.060 i saw a report the other day that haiti's struggling to cope with all the deportees

01:08:42.620 that being sent back it's like what do you mean struggling to cope they're human capital yeah but

01:08:46.920 not even that that would imply there was some sort of government and infrastructure that was

01:08:51.640 managing the country yeah right they dirt cakes what are you talking about struggling to cope

01:08:56.440 yeah

01:08:57.460 absolutely but

01:09:00.540 the sheer hubris of it

01:09:02.900 to tell you after

01:09:04.340 sorry the Haitian warlords I just don't know what to do

01:09:06.840 in the human capital

01:09:08.860 it was literally a cannibal

01:09:10.860 in charge

01:09:11.540 it's so stupid

01:09:16.080 it really is the worst

01:09:18.120 but also as well the fact that

01:09:20.140 they just they're aligning themselves

01:09:22.420 with so many NGOs across the world

01:09:24.660 that are obviously in favour of mass immigration,

01:09:27.000 that are in favour of open borders.

01:09:28.560 It's the entire system.

01:09:30.240 And also as well, to go back to your segment, Carl, about Japan,

01:09:34.680 the fact that they just, NGOs, success stories,

01:09:37.700 just celebrating, running victory laps

01:09:40.060 around the fact that they're able to influence the Japanese government

01:09:44.440 and find that, well, when the Committee of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

01:09:48.740 issued its findings on Japan in 2014,

01:09:51.420 her colleagues in Japanese networking sprang into action.

01:09:55.180 We immediately organized a press conference

01:09:57.240 as the issue of racial discrimination against communities

01:10:00.040 is seldom covered by the media.

01:10:02.340 We also organized a meeting,

01:10:03.840 and so they're just celebrating all of these things

01:10:05.940 about foreign ambassadors,

01:10:07.220 all these international cliques just getting in.

01:10:09.820 But what they're really saying is...

01:10:11.380 The NGO industrial conference.

01:10:12.220 Right, is saying that, well, discrimination,

01:10:15.400 racial discrimination, what do they mean by that?

01:10:17.680 They just mean Japan being governed

01:10:20.240 in a way that is beneficial to the Japanese people

01:10:23.760 and is not being broken down and atomised

01:10:27.080 and turned into universal sludge for the rest of the world.

01:10:31.460 Sorry, can I just...

01:10:32.240 Oh, sure.

01:10:32.700 Hate speech in Japan is often aimed at the Korean community.

01:10:35.640 They face humiliating remarks like,

01:10:37.920 you're not human and go back to your country.

01:10:40.460 Yeah.

01:10:41.380 I don't know what to tell you.

01:10:42.440 I think the Bangladeshis are going to fit right in.

01:10:44.280 Yeah, right.

01:10:45.020 Right.

01:10:46.540 But they've got a long history.

01:10:48.520 I mean, to be fair, that's what the Bangladeshis are told in the Gulf.

01:10:51.600 So it's not going to be a big change.

01:10:54.360 But it's remarkable to me that they think with just enough money, with enough pressure,

01:10:59.360 they can diffuse the age-long tensions between Japanese and Koreans.

01:11:04.540 I'm sorry, where did you think you gained the ability to actually manage this?

01:11:09.140 Or between us and the French?

01:11:10.420 I'm sorry, these are just some things that you're never going to...

01:11:14.800 But, I mean, they just keep going down.

01:11:16.560 They talk about Norway.

01:11:17.360 They talk about the United States, of course.

01:11:20.060 But they're all working towards the same thing,

01:11:23.740 which is making sure that every country on Earth,

01:11:26.460 so far as it can get influenced,

01:11:28.160 is not for the people of that country,

01:11:31.780 but is something that just abolishes its own sense of preference

01:11:35.500 for everyone else on Earth.

01:11:37.500 This is what liberalism is.

01:11:38.700 It's to create a universal state

01:11:40.620 under which all human beings will have individual human rights

01:11:43.880 and will not belong to anywhere

01:11:45.620 because all of the substantive differences have been erased.

01:11:48.880 Yeah.

01:11:49.440 Yes.

01:11:49.740 It's genuinely what they're after.

01:11:51.260 And so you have just societies like these for undocumented migrants,

01:11:55.480 for social justice that they align themselves with.

01:11:58.100 I'm also for social justice for undocumented migrants,

01:12:01.020 which means deporting you.

01:12:02.620 Yes.

01:12:02.960 Back to hate you wherever you come from.

01:12:05.280 There it is.

01:12:06.080 That's what social justice means.

01:12:07.740 Undocumented migrants.

01:12:09.020 It's such a dirty term.

01:12:11.740 Oh, I know.

01:12:12.220 It's gross.

01:12:12.600 They're just undocumented migrants.

01:12:15.160 Illegal.

01:12:15.620 Yeah, you're illegals, get out of my country.

01:12:17.960 I mean, an argument could be made that many of the legals have come here

01:12:20.720 are also illegal, but I absolutely take the point.

01:12:25.420 And so you see them just constantly pushing all the time,

01:12:29.020 global compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

01:12:33.780 Can I ask a question?

01:12:34.560 Do we think regular migration has made Britain safer and more orderly?

01:12:39.340 What I love about this is this could have been a slogan used

01:12:42.000 at the height of the British Empire, right?

01:12:43.760 Yeah, what we want is safe, orderly, and regular migration to the Americas, to Australia, to Africa, or whatever.

01:12:48.940 It's a process of colonization.

01:12:50.940 That's what they're arguing.

01:12:52.140 Yeah, no, we want the process of colonization to be safe, orderly, and regular.

01:12:56.520 It is.

01:12:57.240 And they say, the Global Compact provides an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen migration governance,

01:13:03.340 address the challenges associated with migration in today's world,

01:13:06.900 and harness the contribution of migration to sustainable development.

01:13:11.280 That's not unprecedented at all.

01:13:12.640 is literally what the 19th century was

01:13:14.540 in the age of empires.

01:13:15.860 How the French got a million and a half French in Algeria.

01:13:18.480 It wasn't by accident.

01:13:19.780 They didn't wash up on small boats.

01:13:21.980 It was safe, orderly and regular migration.

01:13:23.840 That's all you're arguing for.

01:13:25.180 The difference with this one, of course,

01:13:26.780 is that it pretends that it's not innately racially supremacist

01:13:31.280 in the way it's an empire.

01:13:32.600 It pretends to be egalitarian.

01:13:34.420 Of course, it's not egalitarian at all.

01:13:37.140 It is third world first, racially third world first.

01:13:41.300 Going to the first world.

01:13:42.440 Yes, is what it actually is. But nonetheless, they push this in all cases, and they say, support international cooperation on the governance of international migration as well. Oh, gosh, the corporate language. I hate it so much. I hate it so much.

01:13:59.500 But as they go through as well, you've got Antonio Gutierrez giving speeches like this back in the start of this year saying, choose dignity over discrimination.

01:14:09.820 No.

01:14:11.180 Dignity for who?

01:14:14.040 Just a quick point.

01:14:16.000 The date of this is 27th February.

01:14:18.780 So at the time when the Iran war was about to break out,

01:14:22.200 when everybody knew that the Iran war was starting that night,

01:14:25.920 the head of the United Nations,

01:14:28.240 whose main mission is to maintain global peace,

01:14:31.560 was babbling on about dignity and discrimination

01:14:34.540 and free movement of people.

01:14:36.820 Just as a quick aside.

01:14:40.720 What's really annoying about this is the dichotomy it tries to set up.

01:14:45.820 Dignity is a product of discrimination.

01:14:47.980 You discriminate against something bad in favour of something good

01:14:51.800 and that gives you a sense of dignity

01:14:53.760 because you have determined that you've made an evaluative judgement

01:14:57.220 that one is better than the other and you've chosen the good.

01:15:00.220 And this is what provides you with dignity.

01:15:02.180 Dignity is not just some inherent characteristic of human beings.

01:15:05.600 It is actually destroyed by a lack of discrimination.

01:15:09.520 So I despise this framing. Despise it.

01:15:12.000 Yes. If you don't discriminate and you just open yourself,

01:15:15.680 whether it be a country or a person like bonnie blue or something to anything and everyone then

01:15:21.120 you are just a whore whether you are a woman or a nation you lose your dignity without

01:15:25.780 discrimination yes um but nonetheless that didn't stop him from moralizing at us and saying across

01:15:31.800 continents migrants are being instrumentalized to score political points with devastating human

01:15:38.380 consequences we're not doing that exactly exactly but my question is does that apply to melanchol

01:15:44.860 saying that actually he's going to make

01:15:46.640 all of France Creole.

01:15:49.040 Does that apply to Mélenchon?

01:15:51.080 Does it apply to Zach Polanski saying open borders?

01:15:54.120 Or is it only against anybody who says,

01:15:56.760 actually, my country is mine?

01:15:59.180 Yeah, and goes on to say,

01:16:00.500 they are being dehumanized in public discourse

01:16:03.020 and they are being denied the rights and dignity

01:16:05.440 that belong to every member of the human family.

01:16:10.660 I've seen too much of the world at this point.

01:16:14.260 to believe such idealistic nonsense.

01:16:16.920 A lot of people out there don't have dignity, okay?

01:16:19.160 No.

01:16:19.460 Because they don't discriminate.

01:16:21.280 Yeah.

01:16:22.760 Despite the enormous contributions

01:16:24.560 migrants make to economies and societies.

01:16:26.960 Again, it's like, guys, this is not even 2006.

01:16:32.020 Nobody believes this anymore.

01:16:34.140 We have the data.

01:16:35.260 We have the evidence of our own eyes

01:16:37.500 every time we walk out onto the streets.

01:16:39.940 GDPs walking past with the burqa and the pram.

01:16:43.760 me like that's just such an economic contribution bro shut up just shut up but and it goes on

01:16:49.400 again migration is this is a story as old as humanity a story of courage resilience and

01:16:56.460 mutual benefits you know what's also the mongols were courageous i was about to say that you know

01:17:01.020 what is also a story of courage and resilience mongol invasions resisting enormous floods of

01:17:08.620 people coming in and changing your societies that is whether it be all the way back to the

01:17:13.460 iliad and troy right and beyond and you know the the tales of mesopotamia actually some courage

01:17:20.740 and resilience is found in resisting demographic change whether it be migration or conquest as it

01:17:27.160 would be more traditionally called back in those days uh but nonetheless you know we do pay uh 2.5

01:17:33.940 billion a year to get moralized like this and contribute to the upkeep of the united nations

01:17:39.940 staff and uh you know our hand in all of their extra you know tendrils that's 27 minutes of nhs

01:17:48.140 funding yeah we could be spending that on the nhs god damn it filling up that black hole dear me

01:17:56.120 waste of money that is um and of course this doesn't even go into the fact that you've

01:18:00.560 obviously got unesco and you've got their education curriculum curriculums as they say

01:18:04.900 the global citizenship peace education what's the idea behind global citizenship

01:18:10.600 unlike go back to the israel segment can we please go back to the israel segment and discuss

01:18:17.620 global citizenship there yes yeah i mean what is this you know in in the schools your your

01:18:24.680 children will be taught they will they will have a global citizenship class yes where they're taught

01:18:29.800 about what it what it is to be a global citizen well this is because of the um um what's what i'm

01:18:36.200 looking for because of the devolution of the education systems throughout the united kingdom

01:18:41.080 i know that in particular scotland and wales have adopted this much more happening but it's still

01:18:47.160 the framework itself right and that's what this is it's a framework it's a way of teaching your

01:18:52.680 children how to see the world and what it is basically implying through this global citizenship

01:18:59.080 idea is that you as a young English child born in England should not weigh up what is best for

01:19:07.400 your country and your future and the heritage of your nation. You should consider yourself in the

01:19:14.800 global context of what can you do at your own sacrifice to benefit other nations and other

01:19:22.720 peoples of the world. And what we have seen time and time again by those foreign populations

01:19:27.980 arriving in britain is that when they come here they're not asking the same thing for you

01:19:33.420 at all and so you're being encouraged to see the world in this way and at the same time you're

01:19:39.540 having everything particular about you just totally abolished and it's really evil i don't

01:19:48.220 know how else to phrase it frankly and they go on to say that but it's also the fact that

01:19:53.580 What UNESCO does is global citizenship education and it works with countries around the world to improve and literally, their words, rewire their education system so that they can support innovation and commitment to peace, human rights and sustainable development.

01:20:11.160 And as I say, this is all being done whilst all we see around us, whilst they're moralising about France and the way that the French states meagerly, with kid gloves, dealt with the French rioters.

01:20:27.400 It's like, I'm sorry, there is an entire continent of consideration here that is just being left out.

01:20:34.140 and given that all of these other nations in the world like china and india don't seem to care a

01:20:40.460 great deal about the ideas that you're espousing then once again it all falls on us doesn't it to

01:20:46.200 uphold these ideals that are categoric failures i don't even hold no you know so they're not my

01:20:52.220 ideals no um absolutely and so when you're studying a culture of peace in the congo

01:20:57.780 yeah and so trump was absolutely right when he went to the united nations earlier on

01:21:03.540 this year and he went on to just say this quickly it is deeply ironic that the united nations has

01:21:09.040 an entire institution the u nesco group of people and countries devoted to protecting

01:21:16.720 cultural heritage yet with their ceaseless promotion of mass migration these globalists

01:21:22.940 are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history

01:21:28.980 there is no human right to illegal immigration but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation

01:21:36.140 and we want to remain a sovereign nation and so should you perfectly common sense nothing to

01:21:43.060 object to uh and so i will just conclude the segment by talking about the fact that

01:21:47.600 as bukele has shown us you can just say no yeah you really can you it is that simple because do

01:21:53.900 not forget when when el salvador was the pit of the earth the black pit of the earth in terms of

01:22:01.380 its crime and violence and just the worst barbarities on earth levels of violence you

01:22:05.780 couldn't even imagine yeah the un just was perfectly happy to let it all going running the

01:22:11.960 all the human rights of the worst scum on earth and against all of the international pushback

01:22:17.420 of these globalist scumbags

01:22:19.140 Bukele just went

01:22:20.460 no I'm actually going to do what's best for the people of El Salvador

01:22:23.560 and as Bukele put it

01:22:24.780 what about the rights of the victims

01:22:26.420 to become victims

01:22:28.060 and that's always the issue isn't it

01:22:29.660 it's like for some reason

01:22:30.440 the rights of the victims are never ever upheld

01:22:33.140 at all

01:22:34.180 not even in potential

01:22:35.220 not in actuality

01:22:36.100 well it's too late after they've been murdered

01:22:37.480 and before they've been murdered

01:22:38.720 we're concerned about the rights of the criminals

01:22:40.240 so sorry you just don't really have rights

01:22:43.600 at any point on this continuum

01:22:46.040 And the way that they speak about migrants, it's like it's the rights of the migrants, not the peoples that the migrants are migrating to ever.

01:22:54.840 And so, yeah, Bukaila said today, I come to tell you that the debate is over.

01:22:58.840 Decision we took, the decisions we took were correct.

01:23:02.220 We're no longer the worst death capital and we achieved it in record time.

01:23:05.960 Today, we are a model of security and no one can doubt it.

01:23:08.800 These are the results. They are irrefutable.

01:23:11.040 Yes, they are. And you can just do things.

01:23:13.720 And actually, these people who dress themselves up with the pomp of international politics, they don't know what's best for you.

01:23:20.720 You know what's best for you, because you're the one that has to live with the consequences of what they inflict on you.

01:23:28.120 Right, I'll quickly skim these.

01:23:31.460 I've got Oxydol says, sounds like these experts want the riots in their neighbourhoods.

01:23:35.920 Yeah, well, we'll see what happens.

01:23:38.420 The UN is an illegitimate power, says Baystate, that must be abolished.

01:23:42.780 they lack the consent of the governed they lack systems of accountability they lack the rule of

01:23:47.500 law over arbitrary personnel abolish it yeah if i could tell by their own standards if i could tell

01:23:53.020 you how much money gets stolen throughout the ngo complex and throughout the un system like

01:24:00.700 one of the reasons i left lebanon i worked with ngos in lebanon for two years and i thought i'm

01:24:05.180 out. Like, anywhere

01:24:07.080 I'm going. I don't want to do this.

01:24:10.540 They

01:24:11.060 steal like crazy.

01:24:16.060 Okay, hit play

01:24:17.080 something. So now they want

01:24:19.260 patriots. And on today's episode

01:24:21.380 of Crap That Grinds My Gears, the

01:24:23.160 treatment of veterans by the UK government.

01:24:26.240 In my travels,

01:24:27.080 I have an old friend,

01:24:28.900 English expat, who served

01:24:31.160 during the troubles with Tupara

01:24:32.620 in Northern Ireland.

01:24:33.880 Luckily for him

01:24:36.240 He's now an American citizen

01:24:38.080 And is pretty much untouchable by the UK government

01:24:40.620 But what bothers me is when people like

01:24:42.800 Streeting

01:24:43.360 And Jacob Rees-Mogg

01:24:46.000 Call upon patriots to serve

01:24:48.540 Again

01:24:49.280 After they try to stab members of the two para

01:24:52.400 In the back

01:24:53.420 Yeah I despise it

01:24:56.220 Come and get killed for our latest imperial boondoggle

01:24:58.940 And if you get back we're going to prosecute you

01:25:00.720 I don't think they know what they're unleashing

01:25:03.140 so a base movie i have is that it's basically about a special forces guy or someone returning

01:25:13.100 from the sandbox and basically realizing that his town is basically overrun with refugees

01:25:19.240 who all turn out to basically be the terrorists or their supporters they've been fighting overseas

01:25:25.100 all this time and basically finds out that they've basically leveraged their migrant background to

01:25:29.640 basically take control of all the

01:25:31.560 institutions of the town, and they're now just

01:25:33.500 ruling the roost over the people that

01:25:35.520 were their former enemies, while all

01:25:37.620 acting like they're victims. Could be a

01:25:39.640 comedy, could be a horror movie.

01:25:42.720 Hmm. I heard

01:25:43.480 Robert Jenner, it's got a cameo in it.

01:25:45.660 Who does he?

01:25:50.080 Good afternoon,

01:25:51.220 Lotus Eaters. Hopefully, I can send this

01:25:53.520 to you. This is Multnomah Falls

01:25:55.180 in Oregon.

01:25:57.940 Absolutely stunning.

01:25:59.100 500 foot high

01:26:01.220 waterfall so I hope

01:26:03.360 you will enjoy this

01:26:05.260 absolutely beautiful

01:26:06.440 this is in the Oregon Cascades

01:26:09.260 or actually in the Columbia Gorge

01:26:10.840 that's

01:26:13.040 truly sublime what a beautiful

01:26:15.200 planet gorgeous

01:26:16.500 that's all of them is it Samson

01:26:18.540 alright so

01:26:21.000 I'll go for them Jimbo says

01:26:23.060 I'm so election fraud

01:26:24.960 fatigued over the last few days

01:26:26.660 the yanks of the midterms next week

01:26:28.660 what happens when no one believes the legitimacy of elections anymore i presume whoever cheats

01:26:33.400 the most wins well you end up in a civil war circumstance don't you mr lebanese man

01:26:38.880 yeah essentially well yeah because i mean remember like the the the the best bit about

01:26:46.440 elections is is a proxy for combat right yes then you know how many headcount how many soldiers

01:26:52.560 can you muster yeah and if if everyone agrees that the election was done legitimately and

01:26:57.660 will concede yeah okay well these people won therefore we'll do what this party says uh then

01:27:02.280 it works great when it doesn't then it stops working at all uh derek power says uh bring

01:27:10.920 back strange women distributing swords from ponds based yeah yeah indeed um sophie says reminder

01:27:19.080 that bangladesh exists because the region is so bad that india didn't want it yeah good point

01:27:24.800 That's a good point.

01:27:26.940 Anne says,

01:27:27.920 The Bangladeshi invasion of Japan is very sad.

01:27:30.060 Sounds like they want to import very cheap labour to do things that unemployed Japanese won't do.

01:27:33.900 I hope the Japanese people sepulch this idea

01:27:35.760 and find politicians who are not in favour of invasion of foreigners

01:27:38.540 that will destroy their country like they have the West.

01:27:40.540 Yeah, just take our word for it.

01:27:42.440 Just don't bother doing it.

01:27:43.940 I know you think, but you don't know.

01:27:46.620 And vote for it as a single issue.

01:27:48.720 Yes.

01:27:49.520 Until your politicians acknowledge it.

01:27:51.720 Yeah, until the back is broken on any other politician.

01:27:54.780 Until it becomes politically untenable to support it.

01:27:57.720 Exactly.

01:27:58.660 And just to be clear, we've actually arrived at this point in Britain.

01:28:01.660 No party other than the Greens is pro-immigration at this point.

01:28:05.580 Labour against immigration, the Conservatives against immigration,

01:28:08.000 reformer against immigration, and so restore.

01:28:10.000 Now, none of those will do anything about it,

01:28:12.960 but at least the rhetoric they have to use,

01:28:15.800 they can't say immigrants are good for the economy, bro,

01:28:17.880 because everyone knows it's bollocks.

01:28:19.000 um rex in fact hexer rex says japan you do not understand these people and it's not because you

01:28:24.980 speak different languages yes um you sir that's a random name says the reason why feminism is on

01:28:29.920 the rise in japan and korea why the birth rates so low because two nations are basically cyberpunk

01:28:33.920 dystopias everyone is just a number on a spreadsheet corporate life is soul crushing

01:28:37.480 and nobody has time to even socialize normally they have a high suicide rate for a reason

01:28:41.260 um yeah i'm not saying you don't have problems you need to fix but uh bangladeshis will not

01:28:46.520 fix those problems uh like and they'll the thing as well they'll take away from you things you

01:28:52.060 didn't even realize you had right like you know the videos that everyone sees of like the three

01:28:56.400 year old getting on the train to go to the nursery or whatever yeah everyone's so my god well you

01:29:01.240 don't realize what has to exist for that to be possible right and that will disappear instantly

01:29:06.700 you'll you'll wonder how you can ever get it back um thanks scotty says the by the u.n definition

01:29:12.380 tommy robinson's illegitimate refugees as bolsonaro of course they'll publish mental

01:29:17.360 gymnastics to explain why that doesn't count which is why i no longer trust or believe in

01:29:20.780 the institutions when i was studying eu judicial review for my law course i learned that eu courts

01:29:25.280 did this exact same thing and that's what convinced me the eu was a club of which i never wanted to

01:29:29.640 be a part and it's so true um zesty says the powers that be conveniently via the free speech

01:29:34.680 is human right uh something they use to justify importing the most violent people in the world

01:29:38.720 to our country we don't get human rights but they do and that's what this all boils down to

01:29:42.780 it's actually the human rights of the least privileged the the people who are cooperating

01:29:48.320 with the system and therefore have the privilege theoretically of the system are people who

01:29:53.620 actually don't really get rights at all and the rights are only given consideration to the criminal

01:29:59.580 the the exile the outsider the person who is not actually working hard paying their taxes and doing

01:30:05.300 the right thing. The rights

01:30:07.140 only apply to those people who are

01:30:09.260 actually not following the rules.

01:30:11.320 Mermudon says, they want the universal state

01:30:13.260 but they'll implement it in such a way, there will always

01:30:15.220 be people who do not want it because of the issues

01:30:17.100 caused, ensuring they are never out of a job,

01:30:19.440 always raking in the cash and celebrating

01:30:21.180 from gated and guarded communities.

01:30:23.620 So totally true.

01:30:25.440 They live very well, the

01:30:27.180 UN guys, they live incredibly

01:30:29.540 well.

01:30:31.240 Shame. Anyway, well, that's

01:30:33.360 all we've got time for today, ladies and gentlemen. We hope you've enjoyed the podcast

01:30:36.740 and obviously tune in for the podcast tomorrow. Take care.

01:31:03.360 Thank you.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 29, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1538

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