CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE VIDEOS - Postman delivers mail to razed communities, man drives through flames, woman saves her dog - The looming dangers of apocalyptic catastrophes in the USA - See list of best PREPPER SITES

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Drone video captures USPS truck delivering mail to burned out communities in California.

Back in 1985 science fiction author David Brin published The Postman, a story of a post-apocalyptic United States where a survivor takes on the uniform and the role of a postman to bring back some hope for the restoration of social order in the country.  It was later made into a movie with Kevin Kostner. 

 

On this page watch surreal drone video of a postman delivering mail to California communities burnt to ashes  by wildfires.  It brings to mind that book, and also our silent fear of how close we are to natural and terror-caused disasters of continental proportions.  Here are some very likely scenarios:

• The eruption of the Yellowstone mega volcano would render much of the United States into a disaster zone.   Agriculture, transportation, and much more would disappear for years to come.  Experts say this eruption could happen any day now.
• A major solar flare hitting North America would cause an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would fry the power grid.  The USA would be unable to restore it for months, maybe years.  All electronics would be immediately inoperable.  Cars could not run since they have so many electronics.  No vehicles, no transportation, no food. 
• A nuclear bomb detonated in the atmosphere above the USA would have the same result as a major solar flare:  an EMP that would paralyze the country and result in total social chaos.   IMPORTANT:  Without electric power to run their machinery, nuclear power plants go into meltdown, compounding the disaster.

One fact that needs to be stressed is that California AUTHORITIES DECIDED NOT TO ALERT THE POPULATION AS WILDFIRES APPROACHED residential areas.  By the time many people saw the flames, it was too late to escape, thus the many casualties - Sonoma County officials made land-line phone calls but did not use the wireless emergency alert for cellphones, like the Amber Alerts for missing children.   Officials claim that they did not want to issue broad evacuation alerts that would panic residents and snarl traffic, preventing access for emergency vehicles.

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The following video is simple but powerful.  Don't miss it. 

 

DRONE VIDEO - USPS Postman Delivers Mail to Santa Rosa burned homes  - By Douglas Thron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wsegE01zUE

More videos by Douglas Thron

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIb9wtLg-LzJilMOf7DCphw

 

WATCH MORE VIDEOS of man driving through fire, of woman who cycles to safety carrying her 70 pound dog in a duffel bag on her back, and another drone video by Douglas Thron, and see links to 50 best SURVIVAL BLOGS

BOOK BITS - "AVENUE OF SPIES" by Alex Kershaw - A true story of a family heroic resistance in Nazi occupied Paris - Or, from a different perspective, how one selfish woman brought tragedy to her husband and son

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The carnage of World War Two was unleashed because of those who wanted peace at any cost.  They deliberately refused to believe Hitler's plans as detailed on his book Mein Kampf, or My Struggle.  These days liberals refuse to believe those who warn of Islam's expansionist, supremacist, and brutal nature, as clearly exposed in the Koran's own words.  By coincidence, the word Jihad translates as "struggle".

"Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris" by Alex Kershaw 

The author's narrative is presented as the story of a family's heroism and resistance.  As a reader I saw the drama of how one woman's selfishness brought suffering and tragedy to her husband and child. 

 

Imagine Toquette, almost thirty years old, a Swiss nurse living in Paris, not attractive at all, and at 28 years old already a spinster, who luckily meets a tall and ruggedly handsome American doctor, Sumner Jackson, a good man. 

There are four photographs of her on this book and in all of them she has her head lowered, frowning, looking up, her lips pursed in anger, as if furious about something.  She looks like that even in happy times while on the beach with her husband and a puppy, and in another photo with her husband and small child.    
 

But inexplicably he falls in love with her and marries her.  It was the late twenties and the thirties in Europe and things were rather unsettling, so he takes her to the United States to live a peaceful life as a doctor's wife.  But she hates it in America.  What was it in Paris that she missed so much in these tumultuous times?  Who knows.

 

Back in France the situation is extremely hard for Sumner, who must study medicine all over again to be allowed to work as a doctor in France.  Imagine the sacrifice, the wasted years of study.  All for Toquette, because he loves her, while she hates America.

They have a child, Phillip, a beautiful boy.  But that's still not a good enough reason for her to leave Paris for a safer life in the USA.  No.  She makes her husband and child stay even as the Nazis invade France. 

They stay even as the United States gets involved in the war and the family is liable to be rounded up and interned at any time.  They stay. Because she loves Paris or something in that city that she can't give up. 

 

They live right inside the maw of the enemy, in the elegant Avenue Foch, where the Gestapo and other Nazi agencies of persecution and torture were located just meters away from the Jacksons' home. 

They stayed, while Sumner worked as a surgeon at the American Hospital in Paris and the city starved.  They stayed even as Americans were rounded up and placed in concentration camps.  They stayed.  Because she wanted to.

 

In the meantime, not finding all that risk and wartime hardship enough for the family, in the summer of 1943 Toquette agrees to join the resistance and gets her husband embroiled in it too.  Agents come and go using the doctor's home as a center for exchanging messages.  Sometimes Sumner helps a ring that hides downed Allied airmen to be later on smuggled out across the border and into safety.   All that within meters of Nazi agencies of police, espionage and torture on Avenue Foch. 

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BRITISH BETRAYAL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - WHY did Britain fight so hard to prevent the rebirth of ISRAEL? - BOOK REVIEW "THE RAPE OF PALESTINE" - Britain continues to this day to fund and empower Palestinian Arabs determined to eventually exterminate Jews and dismantle Israel

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• Although historians and popular culture tend to lay most of the blame for the Holocaust on German Nazis, in fact the Nazis counted on the collaboration of many nations in Europe and elsewhere in the genocide of Jews.  
• The slaughter of six million Jews was a collaborative international effort.
• After 1945  the supposedly de-Nazified German government has led to this day an active movement to undermine Israel, and to support and fund the Palestinian Arabs.  And so have other EU governments. 
• Europeans have contracted out the Arabs for the completion of what Hitler left undone. 
• An empowered Palestinian Arab population with a state of their own, and a weakened and shrunk Israel is the insidious formula for Holocaust Part II - and they all know it.
• The British have always been intensely anti-Semitic and, although they've been lauded for playing such a key role in resisting and fighting the Nazis, they endeavored to keep Jews out of Britain AND Palestine during the war, thereby ensuring that they would be slaughtered by the Germans in the millions. 
• After the end of World War II the British even imprisoned Holocaust survivors for years in refugee camps behind barbed wire, to make sure they did not return to their ancestral land in Israel.  (See photo on the right.)
• To this day the British and the rest of Europe enthusiastically sympathize with the genocidal Palestinian Arabs who, by the way, were close allies of Hitler.   
• As Britain continues to be colonized by Muslims, its foreign policy is bound to get even more anti-Israel. 
• The British Labour Party is blatantly anti-Semitic.  It is headed by a self-hating Jew, and supported by the anti-Semitic left and the UK Muslim population.
• Whatever our personal views on the conflict, we should remember that it is NOT between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, but between Jews and Muslims, and between tiny Israel and 1.7 BILLION Muslims. 
• Jews have been persecuted and massacred by Muslims for 14 centuries, long before the reconstituted State of Israel.  
• Israel's three major defensive wars for survival (48, 67, 73) were between a few million Jews (six million at the last census) and a coalition of Arab countries representing hundreds of millions of genocidal Muslims. 

The British betrayal of the Jewish people

By Abu Yehuda (Vic Rosenthal)

Even after the war, when the evil consequences of its policies should have been clear, when Germany herself began to recognize her obligation to what was left of the Jewish people, Britain continued to fight against the establishment of a Jewish state, battling attempts to resettle Jewish refugees, even arming and providing military advisors to the Arab armies that in 1948 tried to finish the job Hitler started.

Today the “discovery” of Jew-hatred among British politicians, particularly in the Labour Party, is news. But the relationship of the Jews to Albion, since the citizens of York wiped out their Jewish community in 1190, hasn’t been smooth.

 

Recently, I read a review by Sheree Roth of a neglected 1938 book, William B. Ziff’s      The Rape of Palestine.  (Posted on this page further on.)

 

Although Roth is primarily concerned with the (very important and persuasive) evidence in Ziff’s book refuting the Arab claim to be the “original” or “indigenous” inhabitants of the Land of Israel, the book is primarily concerned with the history of the British Mandatory power over Palestine.  

 

The British betrayal of the Jewish people must be reckoned as one of the great crimes of the 20^th century. Entrusted with the Mandate to ultimately make possible a Jewish National Home, Britain instead fought its realization tooth and nail, ultimately becoming complicit in the Nazi Holocaust.

 

Even after the war, when the evil consequences of its policies should have been clear, when Germany herself began to recognize her obligation to what was left of the Jewish people, Britain continued to fight against the establishment of a Jewish state, battling attempts to resettle Jewish refugees, even arming and providing military advisors to the Arab armies that in 1948 tried to finish the job Hitler started.

 

Everyone knows about the series of White Papers issued by the Mandatory Government, which progressively limited Jewish immigration, culminating in the MacDonald White Paper of 1939 which – just as the furnaces of the Holocaust were about to be lit – effectively closed the doors of Palestine to Jews and doomed millions to destruction.

 

But Ziff explains how, long before 1939, British authorities used every bureaucratic device possible to reduce the number of Jews allowed into the country, while completely overlooking the uncontrolled immigration of Arabs who flocked in to take advantage of the jobs created by the Zionists. “Illegal” Jews were hunted down and punished.

 

Continue reading Abu Yehuda's article, the ME Quarterly article from where he quotes, as well as other related items.

FRENCH POLITICIAN ACCUSES PRESIDENT HOLLANDE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT LEADERS OF HAVING BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS - Philippe de Villiers says they have failed to protect French citizens from terror by keeping borders wide open, and by allowing the Muslim conquest and colonization of France

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• If you think that Donald Trump is too outspoken and politically incorrect, watch the video interview with Philippe de Villiers, a French author, historian, and politician.
• The France he is talking about is how America will be if globalists take power through Hillary Clinton.
• De Villiers says that president Hollande, former president Sarkozy, and other French politicians have allowed the conquest and colonization of France. 
• And by keeping France's borders open, even after repeated acts of Muslim violence and terror against French citizens, those same politicians have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. 
• There are now countless enclaves of conquered territory (No-Go Zones) where Muslims live according to Sharia Law, not the laws of the Republic.
• Several governments of the left and the right have disarmed the French borders and kept them open in disregard of the safety of the French people. 
• They have allowed the settlement of a "super-nation" into the heart of France, called the Umma, which believes itself to be superior to all other societies.  Thus there is no hope for Muslims to integrate into French society and culture.  Islam's goal is to eventually outnumber and subjugate the kuffar (non-Muslims).    
• Islam is incompatible with French civilization and society, deVilliers says.  Islam is incompatible with fundamental French values such as the equality of men and women, freedom of expression, and much more.  
• He notes that French politicians do not read the Koran and  Hadith.  He has, and so he explains how Islam is a religion, a political ideology of conquest, and as a system of law - all inseparable from each other. 
• Muslim law is that of their god Allah.  French law is made by legislators who represent the people of France.   That's a big and incompatible difference. 
• Muslim law tells the faithful that they have to kill the kuffar (non-Muslims) and that explains the latest firebombing attack on several police officers. 
• There are moderate Muslims, says de Villiers, but not moderate Islam. 

• We are now faced with a demographic conquest, he warns.  He denounces a nefarious program by the elites to import cheap labor, and at the same time to replace the indigenous European population with migrants from the Middle East and Africa.  The program is indeed called Migration and Replacement.  In the meantime the French people are being acclimatized to live with Islam (under the guise of multiculturalism).   
• Complete secularism that bans all expressions of Christianity would leave a void that would quickly fill with Islam, he says.  France needs to keep Christian traditions such as Christmas displays as part of its own national secularism.
• As part of his list of solutions de Villiers says that Muslims who do not love or respect France should be repatriated. 
• He has no hope of seeing a nationalist party win power in the future because both the left and the right form alliances during elections to keep them out of power.
• His latest book, Les cloches, sonneront-elles encore demain?  (Will the Bells still ring Tomorrow?) on the Islamization of France has sparked great interest and controversy, as he expounds on many politically-incorrect ideas, such as the ones outlined above. 

Philippe de Villiers: “We Are Faced With a Demographic Conquest.  President Hollande has blood on his hands”

 VIDEO INTERVIEW in French with subtitles

You can read the transcript further on this page

 

You can see this video on a larger screen here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdiiTd1Whk

The woman interviewer makes countless interruptions and appears to repeatedly want to stab de Villiers with a pen. 

Try to ignore her and concentrate on his words.  They are a warning for America, as Hillary Clinton prepares to eliminate all borders and welcome millions of Muslims into the USA.

 

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Islamophobe or Prophet?

France's Philippe de Villiers

 

By Leslie Shaw, The Clarion Project

 

 

Accusations against Villiers were made when he published his first book on the subject of Islam.  A decade later, he was totally vindicated. Now, he has come out with another book.  

When French entrepreneur, politician and novelist Philippe de Villiers published The Mosques of Roissy in 2006, he was vilified as an Islamophobe and right-wing extremist.   The book revealed how Islamic radicals had infiltrated Charles de Gaulle airport and its publication led to the immediate closure of six illegal prayer rooms. 

A decade later Villiers' accusations were totally vindicated following the November 2015 attacks, when the Paris Airport Authority withdrew 70 airside security badges from Muslim employees and 4,000 staff lockers were raided by police as the employees were considered a security risk. 

Villiers has turned out to be something of a prophet in a land that is now in the front line of the war against Islamic radicalism. "I am the only politician who is telling the truth about the Islamization of France," he declared in April 2006 while running in the French presidential election.

Continue reading and read transcript for the VIDEO posted above, plus watch three more VIDEOS with Philippe de Villiers (with transcripts)

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES and their intelligence - They can send signals to each other and to insect allies, care for other sick trees, engage in chemical warfare against attackers, and much more says author and forester Peter Wohlleben

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• We tend to think of intelligence and consciousness in terms of people and brains.  To this day there are scientists who scoff at the idea that monkeys, dogs and farm animals, just to name a few, have anything that could be defined as real intelligence.  They ascribe their smarts and clear acts of empathy to simply 'instincts'.   
• Scientists, industry, and governments have a vested interest for underestimating animal intelligence, and so they pretend to justify the horrible treatment animals receive in science labs, farms, abattoirs and in other places where they are tortured for our benefit.  In their view animal suffering does not count because they are of lower intelligence.   
• Some scientists have gone as far as to say that some animals, such as lobsters who are cooked alive, or fish who die of suffocation, feel no pain.  Research scientists says the same thing about a variety of animals they use in their experiments.   
• Doctors and advocates of abortion affirm that unborn babies feel no pain, so that it is perfectly ethical to tear them to pieces during abortion procedures.  They make a living that way.   
• There are degrees of consciousness and degrees of intelligence.  It does not all start and end with humans.  We are just one type of organism in nature's endless process of creating and transforming life.   
• We all started as star dust, as romantics like to remind us. In other words, as inanimate material.  And then something sparked what we call consciousness in some tiny microscopic creature, and complex life took off.  
• Academic Yuval Noah Harari warns that once we create an elite of artificially enhanced super-humans, then ordinary people (with a comparatively smaller degree of intelligence) will be placed on a lower rung, just as we do with animals today - vulnerable to exploitation and mistreatment.  
• If intelligence is what we use to judge other creatures' basic rights, then that's what's ahead for natural humans like you and me in only a few decades into the future. Click Here  to watch Video interview with Prof. Harari..
• We continue to be surprised by new revelations about the life of plants and trees.  Far from just being mindless life forms, they have extraordinary abilities to communicate with their environment, to form alliances with other plants and trees, and with animals as well, and to successfully fight off a variety of threats.  When you look at the overall picture, it is obvious that they have intelligence, although in a form that is adapted to their needs.

 
 The Daily Mail:   Trees are intelligent, express emotions, communicate with each other, and make friends, says author Peter Wohlleben

• They evidently can transmit, receive, and interpret information.
• Scientists are starting to ask whether trees possess intelligence and brains
• It sounds incredible, but when you discover how trees talk to each other, feel pain, nurture each other, even care for their close relatives and organise themselves into communities, it's hard to be sceptical.
• Forests are super-organisms, much like ant colonies.
• Research shows trees can distinguish the roots of their own species from other plants, and even pick out their own relations from other trees.
• Some are so tightly connected at the roots that they even die together, like a devoted married couple.
• Diseased or hungry individuals can be identified, supported and nourished until they recover.
• Trees can also send warnings using chemical signals and electrical impulses through the fungal networks that stretch under the soil between sets of roots — networks known as the 'wood wide web'.
•  Over centuries, if left undisturbed, a single fungus can cover many square miles and create a network throughout an entire forest. Through these links, trees can send signals about insects, drought and other dangers.

• Trees use displays of erotic perfume and dazzling adornment for sexual purposes just like many animals and birds.
• Some African acacias defend themselves from hungry giraffes by pumping foul-tasting toxins within minutes of being under attack!
• Some trees under insects attack send chemical summons for allied predatory insects who will eat the invaders. 
• For example, elms and pines call on parasitic wasps that lay their eggs inside leaf-eating caterpillars, condemning them to slow, painful deaths. Trees are prepared to wait for revenge.
• The main reason humans cannot perceive how clever and complex they are is because we exist in such short time scales by comparison.  Some trees live for thousands of years. 
• But the main reason is just plain human arrogance.  We can't conceive that other life forms are capable of thinking and of helping their friends.

 

By Peter Wohlleben For The Daily Mail

 

There's increasing evidence to show that trees are able to communicate with each other. More than that, trees can learn.

 

If that's true — and my experience as a forester convinces me it is — then they must be able to store and transmit information. 

 

And scientists are beginning to ask: is it possible that trees possess intelligence, and memories, and emotions? So, to cut to the quick, do trees have brains?

 

It sounds incredible, but when you discover how trees talk to each other, feel pain, nurture each other, even care for their close relatives and organise themselves into communities, it's hard to be sceptical.

 

Forester Peter Wohlleben believes trees must be able

to store and transmit information

 

I didn't always feel this way. In fact, when I began as a civil servant with the German forestry commission in the Eighties, I knew next to nothing about the hidden life of trees.

 

It was my job to look at hundreds of spruces, beeches, oaks and pines every day, to assess their readiness for the lumber mill and their market value.

 

About 20 years ago, while organising survival training and log cabin breaks for tourists, I began to rediscover the love of nature I'd had as a six-year-old.

 

Next, I noticed that visitors were enchanted by crooked, gnarled trees — ones that I would have dismissed because of their low commercial value.

 

I began to pay attention to more than just the quality of the trunks. I noticed bizarre roots, strangely intertwined branches, mossy cushions on bark . . . all kinds of wonders. Including, unbelievably, evidence of tree friendships.

 

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HOW VIRAL DNA IN OUR HUMAN GENOME PROTECTS US FROM INFECTION - HUMAN DNA IS 8% OF VIRAL ORIGIN

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VIRUSES ARE AWESOME.  Some are life-threatening, others help us get well.  If you want to study a truly mysterious life form you don't need to travel to distant planets.  Just focus on viruses.  They are ancient, they are incredibly varied and always rapidly evolving.  And they are part of us. 

I first became aware of the importance of the viral origin of some of our human DNA when reading the fascinating book VIROLUTION by Dr. Frank Ryan. 

 

The book is rich in information and will keep you riveted.  It's addressed to the non-scientific reader, and I highly recommend it. 

 

The author makes two key points about scientists' lack of knowledge regarding the positive role of viruses in human DNA: 

The perplexing beauty
 of viruses

(1)  The subject is never addressed in medical schools.  According to Dr. Ryan, physicians and scientists had never heard about viruses living in symbiosis with humans prior to attending his lectures.   

 

(2)  DNA specialists have DELIBERATELY disregarded this viral DNA in the human genome.  They ignore it because they can't explain it, thus distorting their DNA-related results. 

Page 217, Virolution:  All too many scientists fail to grasp the omnipresent nature of viral symbiosis (between viruses and vertebrates in our human DNA), and we witness the same lack of understanding in he design of the genetic chips and screening software, which all too often exclude viral elements and control sequences as part of a deliberate policy.  Inevitably this blinkers investigators working on oncology (cancer studies), and on other disease causation 

DR FRANK RYAN
 

Due to Dr Frank Ryan's work and that of other similarly-minded scientists, the truth about the positive role played by the symbiosis between virus and vertebrate DNA and their role in human evolution, is finally starting to become mainstream.

 

Further on this page see link to an article that explain how human life and that of other mammals would not be possible without a virus that is essential for the existence of the placenta, on which mammals depend to reproduce.  

 

There has been evidence for some time that some viral DNA living in symbiosis with vertebrate DNA in the human genome plays a protective role in our immune system.  The following article expands on one particular instance. 

HOW ANCIENT VIRUSES IN OUR DNA

HELP US FIGHT INFECTIONS

• EIGHT PERCENT of our DNA is of viral origin, the remnants of ancient infections. 
• They started out as aggressors, according to their viral nature. 
• Then they stayed as part of a mutual interest symbiotic relationship.
• They are an integral part of our DNA and immune system.
• They are on our team and help us fight other viral invaders 

Study by scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine show that evolution has repurposed some of these viral remains into weapons against its own kind.

 

The scientists found bits of viral DNA embedded in our genome are actually regulating genes that are integral components of our innate immune system - which is the first line of defense against pathogens, including viruses. 

 

When some of these bits of foreign code are removed experimentally, the defense system becomes crippled.
 

'We show that some of these endogenous viruses have shaped our biology,' says Cédric Feschotte, Ph.D., co-senior author and associate professor of human genetics. 

 

Within mammalian genomes are reservoirs of viral DNA that have fueled innovation of the innate immune system.'  The human innate immune system's ability to defeat foreign invaders depends on a well-coordinated response. 

 

Upon infection, cells dispatch a silent alarm by releasing interferons, a molecular signal that triggers nearby cells to activate an arsenal of hundreds of genes that fight off intruders. 

 

By analysing publicly available genomic datasets from human cells, the authors discovered thousands of endogenous retroviruses that appeared to be activated by interferons. 

 

However, because these retroviruses crash-landed into our genomes many millions of years ago, they have long lost the ability to produce infectious particles. 

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LEGENDARY RIVER OF BOILING WATER FOUND IN THE AMAZON FOREST - It boils because of fault-fed hot springs - Animals who fall into it are boiled alive

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A legendary river that BOILS its victims alive is discovered deep in the heart of the Amazon 

The river in Mayantuyacu was found by Andrés Ruzo after his granddad recalled a legendary tale

Academic experts told him that it couldn't exist because the Amazon basin is far from volcanic activity 

Ruzo has since published a book that reveals how fault-fed hot springs cause the river to boil

A mysterious, four-mile long river, deep in the heart of the Amazon, is so hot that it boils.

The river has long been a legend in Peru, but when geoscientist Andrés Ruzo's heard about it, he thought such a phenomenon couldn't possibly exist. 

 

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BOOK: LOOK AT COLONIZED LONDON AND SEE YOUR FUTURE, EUROPE - London now has a non-white majority - THE RACIAL CLEANSING OF EUROPEANS and widespread third world criminality - Poetic justice: England helped redraw the Mideast map after WW1 while stealing Jewish land to create the kingdom of Jordan, unleashing conflicts and wars that today reach Europe itself.

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In some countries, this might be called racial cleansing. In London, it is simply the result of the failed policy of multiculturalism.

How Labour has turned London into a foreign city: Fewer than half the capital's population are white British.  Gangsters from Somalia terrorise the suburbs and even the tramps are immigrants, reveals astonishing new book  

 

 "I emerged shaken. I had glimpsed a London I did not know existed — one of Third World poverty, exploitation and criminality."

The following article based on the new book This Is London: Life And Death In The World City by Ben Judah.  Its scope appears to be aspects of migrant crime, exploitation, and poverty. 

 

HOWEVER, the Labour Party policy of open migration into Britain from Muslim countries has brought terror, Muslim radicalization, the sexual exploitation of thousands of British girls by Muslim gangs - a huge scandal that authorities failed to keep secret anymore - and Muslim indoctrination in British secular schools.

 

So, what this article touches on is barely the tip of the iceberg.  England is lost.  The British who so valiantly fought Nazism, have completely surrendered to Islamo-Nazi supremacy in their own home, without firing a shot.

 

It is interesting to note that a few years ago a Labour Party insider turned whistleblower told The Telegraph how his party had deliberately set out to change Britain's demographics in order to destroy traditional values and at the same time create an expanding voting base for the party.  See summary and link to that article further on this page.

 

Today Angela Merkel is engaged in the same plan to replace the indigenous European population and European culture, with those imported from the most backwards places in the Muslim world.   And, like the Labour Party, she expresses no regret. 

 

Continue reading about the criminal underworld of London imported from the third world and now dominating the city, about other EU cities lost to Muslim dominance, statistics about NO-GO ZONES in Britain, and about Britain's betrayal of the League of Nations Mandate by redrawing of Mideast borders, which has sown perpetual conflict.

INTELLIGENCE GENES REALLY EXIST - Scientists discover genes that determine intelligence - There are plans to manipulate them - Nicholas Wade's book A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE was pilloried for presenting links between genes, race and human development

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Scientists identify clusters of genes directly linked to human intelligence

Called M1 and M3, these so-called 'gene networks' appear to determine how smart a person is by controlling their processing speed and reasoning

These networks are likely to be under the control of 'master switches'

Earlier this year a team at King’s College London discovered that up to 65 per cent of the difference in pupil’s GCSE grades was down to genetics, after analysing genetic data from, 12,500 twins.

In contrast, shared environmental factors such as home and school contributed between 14 and 21 per cent. The rest was made up by individual external influences such as diseases or friends.

When these genes are mutated or in the wrong order, it can lead to dullness of thinking, or even serious cognitive impairments.

Researchers are now keen to identify these switches and manipulate them

ON THIS PAGE

• Read more about the intelligence genes, and how the study was conducted.
• The recent book A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE, by Nicholas Wade, unleashed a storm of criticism from liberal academics for presenting facts that link race, genes and intelligence. 
• How the study of EPIGENETICS shows the influence of environment and emotions on a person's gene expression within his lifetime.  These genetic changes can then be passed on to his or her children. 

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