Politically Correct British Cops Make Asses of Themselves

With the continued Wuhan virus hysteria and lockdown rebellion stories dominating the media it is gratifying to know that normal life is continuing especially where the modernized British police ‘service’ is concerned.

Like all other public institutions, the police force of old has been politicized by the ‘progressive’ ruling class who have put the imposition of political correctness above protecting and serving the public.

Recent antics have brought ridicule down on their heads and turned the police force into a laughingstock which has sadly resulted in a loss of the respect it once enjoyed.

   

If we thought that spending valuable resources monitoring Twitter and other social media platforms for possible ‘hate speech’ was political correctness gone crazy, then launching a ‘sexual assault’ appeal after a lorry driver kissed a 70 year old woman on the cheek for helping him navigate under a low bridge is beyond ridicule.

With a complete lack of self-awareness this is exactly what the local constabulary in Derbyshire is doing.

It is worth repeating that the Derbyshire police 'service' have launched an appeal to track down a lorry driver who gave an elderly lady a peck on the cheek as thanks for helping him navigate under a low bridge. (Check it out here)

To give readers an idea of what a politically correct copper looks like, the Deputy Chief Constable of Derbyshire is pictured above.

In line with the rest of the woke ‘police services’ in Great Britain, their obsession with political correctness and all things sexual is all pervading; they have even classified the innocent, age old compliment of wolf whistling as sexual assault along with mis-gendering a person even if it’s done innocently or in error.

There is one area where all things sexual and the dedication to political correctness of the Derbyshire police has had life wrecking consequences for a group of vulnerable people they have sworn to protect.

These are the child victims of grooming gangs which are comprised of mainly Pakistani and other Muslim groups.

Along with the politicized police services across the country, the Derbyshire ‘police service’ ignored the desperate pleas of underage white girls and their parents/guardians for decades while they were being fed alcohol and drugs then gang raped, sexually abused and pimped out to other paedophile gangs across the country.

According to these uniformed enablers of child rape, it was cultural sensitivity and community cohesion that prevented them from protecting these under age girls from gangs of depraved predators; this turning a blind eye was accompanied by threats of prosecution and imprisonment for anyone who brought these heinous crimes to their attention or to the attention of the public at large.

The acceptance by the police, and other authorities, of child rape and sexual abuse by Muslim grooming gangs is a very dark episode indeed in the history of British law enforcement and one which is continuing to this day.      

At this moment in time while police officers are searching the country for a thankful lorry driver, scouring Twitter and social media for ‘hate speech’, prancing in gay pride parades and clamping down on wolf whistlers, under age white girls are being groomed, gang raped, sexually abused and pimped out by grooming gangs under their noses.

By their dedication to political correctness and their resultant imbecilic antics, these police officers are not only a laughingstock, they are bringing ridicule and shame on themselves, as well as the nation.

To conclude: Child abuse is as serious as it is unforgivable and on this industrial scale, even more so.

For justice to be done, those police and local authority officers who stood by and allowed these under age girls to be horrifically abused should be removed from office, with loss of accrued benefits, then prosecuted and punished accordingly. They should also be permanently banned from holding public office in any capacity.

Associated articles:

Huddersfield Grooming: Twenty guilty of campaign of rape and abuse.

Police chief apologises after children abused 'in plain sight'.

West Yorkshire police officer and 15 Halifax men appear in court charged with child sexual exploitation.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Looking at recent protests in America it appears that the spirit of Patrick Henry is alive and well. The desire for liberty is more contagious than the Chinese Wuhan Virus that is being used as an excuse to keep the American people locked down against their will.

Much to the chagrin of the politicians and the ruling establishment, it needs to be noted that the ending of the unjustified and disastrous COVID-19 lockdown of the Unites States and its economy is people driven.

Politicians, especially those dedicated to transforming America into a socialist state, have used the COVID-19 pandemic to award themselves draconian powers and imposed restrictions on the American people that are oppressive, unwarranted and unconstitutional.

They have been aided and abetted by the sycophants in their bureaucracies and some members of the law enforcement community who would not have been out of place in the old Soviet Union. Fortunately, these agents of the state are a minority and countered by law enforcement officers who take their oath to always uphold the Constitution and serve their communities very seriously.

Socialist state Governors, along with their like-minded political acolytes lower down the food chain, have never had it so good. Industries and businesses both large and small have been closed by diktat and may only re-open on the say so of the government and under strict conditions that are guided by political ideology and agenda as opposed to data and science.

These agenda driven political hacks have used the Chinese Wuhan virus to assume draconian powers to impose house arrest on the entire population.  The American people have been ordered to remain in their homes, make only ‘essential’ journeys, purchase only ‘essential’ items in the stores and isolate themselves from their families and their friends.

It must be noted that ‘essential’ in both cases is decided not by science but on a whim of the Governor or the local Gauleiter in line with their political aspirations and vision of a future society.  

Rebellion is in the air and these Governors and their Gauleiters are having a rude awakening which is bringing them crashing down to earth with a shuddering thump.

To the American people their beloved country is still that shining city on a hill where individual liberty reigns supreme and where the spirit of 1776 is alive and well.

This rebellion against government overreach started in Lansing, Michigan and spread rapidly across the United States faster than the Wuhan virus. The protesters in Lansing, some armed, descended on the State Capitol building to protest the Governor’s heavy-handed use of the draconian powers she awarded herself and her threats to destroy the livelihoods of anyone who disobeyed or expressed disapproval.

Their protest was instigated not to shoot the place up but to send a clear message to the tinpot dictators within who are attempting to usurp power and impose their ideology on a people whose God given rights are protected by that great American Constitution which also protects them from government overreach by malevolent politicians.

As much as the political ruling class hate it, the First Amendment to the Constitution gives the people the unalienable right to freedom of speech ‘and to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

What the political class fear the most and spend much of their efforts trying to destroy is the Second Amendment which guarantees that the unalienable ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’.

This amendment was included in the *Bill of Rights to ensure that all the other rights and liberties contained in the Constitution are protected from malevolent politicians who are hungry for power over the people and to ensure that government with the consent of the governed is always maintained.

The spirit and idea behind an armed populace are best summed up by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence who foresaw the likelihood of despotic governments in the future of the new republic:

‘But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security’.

In most cases, the state governments have heeded the message of the Lansing protestors, and other liberty protestors across America, and are backing off from their threats to punish dissenters. The smarter ones have spotted a political opportunity and are claiming credit for lifting the lockdown restrictions they were imposing with rigor the day before.

To conclude: Politicians should take note that history is littered with instances where tyrants who imposed their ideology on a people yearning for freedom came to a bad end. In the case of Nicholas Ceausescu of Romania that bad end came for him and his wife, Elena, in a hail of bullets on Christmas Day, 1989. (Read about it here)

When it comes to asserting authority over government and a power hungry, ideologically driven political class, the American people lead the way and their God given, unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a right that should be available to the rest of humanity.

*For students of American history the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

COVID-19 - The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Tyranny

This is a great time to be alive if you happen to be a globalist, communist, socialist, fascist, climate alarmist or eco-loon. The economic and social conditions they’ve spent their entire lives trying to impose has been brought about, not by their efforts, but by a virus.

Whether the virus was unleashed on the world accidentally by a bowl of under cooked bat soup in Wuhan, China or deliberately by a government operated bio-tech laboratory in the same location is yet to be ascertained.   

What is certain is that the world economy has been brought to a shuddering halt and the capitalist, free trade system that is so despised by the malignant groups mentioned above has ceased to exist.

Businesses and industries, both large and small, privately owned and public are closed. Some of these will never reopen leaving tens of millions of people unemployed surviving only by the public dole.

The traditional liberties and freedoms long associated with western democracies have been suspended by governments indefinitely.

What we thought was unthinkable only a few months ago, the western democracies of the developed world now resemble the old Soviet Union with entire populations in thrall to far-left political administrations who are holding them under virtual house arrest. The misnamed global pandemic has released the inner fascist in some political leaders and their nomenclatura, including some over-zealous police officers.

This inner fascist has either lain dormant or been deliberately suppressed until the right conditions presented themselves and they could no longer be contained. Using the cover of a virus and the hysteria whipped up by an agenda driven media, politicians have assumed draconian powers to suspend the long-established rights that were endowed upon the people by their Creator.

News reports abound of over-zealous police officers searching shopping bags for ‘non-essential’ items, citizens being stopped in their vehicles and issued tickets for ‘non-essential’ journeys. Closure of churches during one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar is being rigidly imposed while solitary citizens in parks and open spaces are being monitored by drone then ordered back indoors by police officers who appear to be relishing their new powers.

One of the most disturbing traits reminiscent of the Soviet Union is politicians encouraging citizens to report their friends and neighbors to the authorities if they break government regulations including the stay at home suggestions. Nobody likes a snitch, but it appears that some citizens are willing to break that unwritten rule especially for the financial rewards that are being offered by some shameless political leaders.   

 For those who believe in individual liberty, along with free enterprise and constitutionally limited government, the ease with which governments and the media have brought the world and the global economy to a standstill should be as concerning as the virus itself.

With the restoration of traditional freedoms in mind questions need to be asked: power corrupts and having got used to immense power over the citizenry, will these petty dictators surrender the powers they have assumed, and if so, when?

Will they surrender all these powers or hold some in abeyance ready for the next crisis which may be manufactured in order to progress their political agenda?

The disastrous consequences of this crisis to the capitalist system is a dream come true for the groups of misanthropes mentioned earlier. It would suit their agenda if industry and businesses remained closed for as long as possible leaving tens of millions of working people dependent on government handouts to survive while government control of the remainder of industry will be their only route to survival.

Many of the ruling elite who are currently using their draconian powers to shutdown economic activity and the lives of billions of people around the world will never let a crisis go to waste. They will always exploit a crisis to further their political agenda and if a crisis is not forthcoming, they will create one.

The next crisis is on standby ready and waiting for the Covid-19 to subside. Climate change due to human activity has been relentlessly touted as the biggest threat to the planet in all human history; certainly, bigger than any flu-like virus.

With the absolute certainty of a grant financed computer model it has been touted relentlessly for decades that the science is settled; we only have ten years left to avoid an apocalyptic extinction event that only drastic action similar to what we are witnessing today will suffice.

The global elite will have used this current crisis as a practice run, making observations and taking notes on how they succeeded shutting down the global trading system and capitalism so quickly and efficiently. 

They will have noted which parts of the shut down process need refining or replacing and where resistance to their shutdown agenda was most pronounced so they know where to position the water cannon and anti-riot paraphernalia first.

To conclude, one of the most successful parts of the shutdown process was the propaganda and fake news output of the mainstream media. They played their part perfectly and with ruthless efficiency.

Initially by creating unwarranted mass hysteria and secondly by supporting the politicians that advocated the suspension of capitalism and individual liberties. Thereafter they relentlessly questioned every action taken by incumbent Presidents and Prime Ministers they disapproved of smearing them in the process.

Defeating this particular virus will not be the end of a global crisis but the beginning of a new campaign to replace the capitalist, free trade system and nation state democracy with a centrally controlled global economy based on equality of nations and the transfer of power from the people to appointed technocrats who do not have traditional liberties in mind.

        

Turkish Crocodile Devours EU Appeasers in A Classic Shakedown

It was Great Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, who noted that “An appeaser is one that feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”.

This quote is proving to be true by the appeasement yet again of Turkey’s radical Islamist President, Tayyip Erdogan, by the leaders of the European Union.

Apropos the recent news that Erdogan is shaking down the EU leaders again by threatening to open the borders and flood Europe with refugees and migrants, the predictable conclusion has been reached.

Reminiscent of Barack Obama's appeasement of the Ayatollahs', the cowardly EU leaders have caved in and agreed to pay the radical Islamic autocrat another five hundred and sixty-seven million dollars, (that’s $567,000,000), on top of the six billion+ dollars they handed over in 2016, for the same scam.  

When one considers that the U.N. is pouring money into Turkey, along with individual nations and any number of refugee agencies, the Turkish tyrant is making a killing by hosting refugees and migrants.

European taxpayers can rest assured that the Turkish tyrant will be back for more when this current half a billion runs out and he needs more military hardware or money to oppress an increasingly restless domestic population. 

If the EU leaders put the well-being of their people before their nation building agenda the solution is simple and cost effective. Also, it would save hard pressed EU and global taxpayers a king’s ransom (pun intended)

Following their own precedent, the U.N, in conjunction with the EU, should build an impenetrable buffer zone along the Greece/Turkey border replicating the demilitarized buffer zones they have previously built across Cyprus and the Korean peninsula.   

They have the expertise, the money and most importantly they have the support of most of the European people who have had to suffer the horrific consequences of continued mass immigration into their already blighted countries.

The buffer zone would be accompanied by a naval blockade of the Aegean sea lanes between Turkey and Greece to protect the vulnerable and already devastated Greek islands.

Unfortunately, the globalist leaders of the U.N. and the EU are not in the habit of listening to or acting on the wishes of the people.

The Danegeld being paid to Erdogan is a fig leaf to give the impression they are listening to the people and actually doing something.

In line with their belief in a multi-cultural, borderless world they will carry on with their cultural replacement agenda by encouraging mass immigration into Europe from the Middle East and Africa using alternative Mediterranean routes through Malta, Italy, Spain etc. regardless of the damage and misery it causes. 

As an example, Great Britain is not even in the the EU Schengen zone but despite years of promises by successive governments to reduce it, the latest figures show immigration is at the highest levels ever.  

As for the refugees and economic migrants already encamped in Turkey; a solution is equally simple:

Begin with dispelling the notion that Europe and the USA are the only possible destinations for refugees and migrants especially those from the Islamic faith who are incompatible with the Judeo-Christian culture and way of life of their hosts.

Instead of transporting tens of thousands of people across the entire breadth of Turkey, Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, they should be transported south through Jordan to their spiritual home in oil rich Saudi Arabia and onward if necessary to the equally rich Islamic countries of Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

Alternatively, they can travel east to their co-religionists in Iran or though Nakhichevan and the Armenian corridor to the Muslim majority countries of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the other Muslim majority former Russian republics.

To conclude: Led by the fanatical German Europhile, Angela Merkel, EU leaders opened the borders and invited all and sundry to enter Europe with disastrous consequences for the people. This insanity led directly to Brexit and the rise of nationalist parties across the bloc.

Combined with the imminent collapse of the Eurozone economies, Brexit and the rise of nationalism has put the entire European nation building project in jeopardy and along with it the source of unlimited power for Chancellor Merkel and the EU leadership..

The Turkish tyrant, Tayyip Erdogan, has spotted this opportunity to blackmail the EU leaders by threatening to overwhelm the EU borders with hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants unless they pony up massive sums of money.

Unless the EU leaders take drastic action as suggested above, Churchill’s crocodile will keep returning time and again until there is no money left and they themselves are devoured.

“Appeasement. It’s a slippery slope” ……..”It means you want to work with the enemy. It means you’d rather join him than beat him”. – Patrick Ness.

Source material from the excellent Jihad Watch:

European Union to pay $567, 000,000 to Turkey to aid 'refugees'.       

COVID-19? It’s a Turkish Autocrat That’s Threatening Europe

While world leaders and the media are expending all their energy creating global hysteria about the consequences to global stability of the Corona virus, they are ignoring the consequences to global stability caused by Turkey’s warmongering in Syria and its infringements of the European Union's borders.

Despite being a NATO ally, Turkey is no friend of western Judeo-Christian civilization and less of a friend since the Islamist autocrat, Tayyip Erdogan, assumed power in Ankara.

Using membership of NATO as a shield, Erdogan is provoking the Russian bear in Syria hoping that NATO members will come to his aid should Putin tire of his provocation and attack. At the same time, he is deliberately destabilizing the European Union by transporting masses of economic migrants and Syrian refugees to the borders of Greece and Bulgaria and assisting them to destroy border defenses and cross into Europe illegally.

The migrants regard crossing these borders as the gateway to other EU member states and a plethora of welfare benefits which include free housing, healthcare, education and money. Unfortunately, some testosterone fueled young men among the migrants have an ingrained attitude toward western women who they believe are theirs for the taking with disastrous but predictable consequences.   

Bearing the brunt of this invasion is Turkey’s ancient enemy, Greece, especially its islands in the Aegean Sea whose peaceful existence and way of life is being destroyed by the mass influx of incompatible, mostly male migrants who have no respect for the host nation and no intention of integrating.

Incidentally, Turkey claims sovereignty over many of these Greek islands which is giving the inhabitants increasing cause for concern bearing in mind the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the colonisation of the northern half.

This transportation of migrants across Turkey to the EU borders should not be interpreted as a humanitarian gesture by Tayyip Erdogan. His Islamist zeal to conquer in line with Koranic demands renders him incapable of humanitarian behavior.

Erdogan has two malevolent objectives in mind:

Firstly, to blackmail the European Union using a promise to keep the refugees and migrants in Turkey if they pony up tens of millions of Euro’s in cash and allow access to their single market.

Erdogan is also demanding free movement across EU borders for 70 million Turks which despite a willingness of the EU leaders to agree they know it would be unacceptable to the people of Europe and would fuel the rise of nationalist parties who would agitate to leave the bloc.

(The United Nations are also giving billions to Turkey to house migrants so if they stay it’s a double win for Erdogan, but I digress.)

Flooding the EU border areas with migrants is a tried and tested extortion scam which Erdogan has employed previously with great success. Until the indecisive and cowardly EU leaders take effective action this demand for Danegeld will continue along with the misery of the Greek people and the destruction of the Aegean islands.

Secondly, Erdogan aims to achieve the long-term objective of Islamists down the ages to conquer Europe and subjugate the continent to Islam. Europe and the west must not harbor the illusion that Tayyip Erdogan is man they can do business with, he is not. He is a self-confessed radical Islamist who does not believe there is such a thing as moderate Islam. In fact, he is on record as saying he is offended by the term.

He is also on record telling Muslims that Europe belongs to them and they must migrate and out breed the host populations. This is the same sentiment that was expressed by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who proclaimed that the open border, mass immigration agenda of the EU will allow Muslims to conquer Europe without a shot being fired.

Bearing in mind that Greece is mired in debt and in no position to deal with this malevolent invasion of one of the EU’s external  borders one would think that they, and the UN, would come to the aid of the blighted Greek people.

True to form, and to the surprise of no one, both institutions are siding with the migrants. They are refusing to seal both the land border between Greece and Turkey and the Aegean Sea lanes to prevent a seabourne invasion by migrants of the Greek islands.

Both these globalist institutions have reminded the Greek government that they must admit asylum seekers knowing full well that the vast majority of those infringing the border are economic migrants that don’t qualify for asylum.

To conclude; by paying Danegeld to keep the migrants in Turkey, the duplicitous EU leaders are giving the impression that they are protecting the Greek people from the migrant invasion while at the same telling them they must admit the migrants to comply with so-called EU values and asylum laws.

This allows Erdogan to interfere in Syria to fight the Kurds and destabilize Europe by playing all sides against each other while meeting his two objectives of extortion and conquest at the same time.

Associated articles:

Europe must not fall victim to Erdogan's migrant blackmail

'You Are the Future of Europe', Erdogan Tells Turks

Greece warned by EU it must uphold the right to asylum

U.N. Says That Greece Has No Right to Stop Accepting Asylum Requests

Scaring the Kids - Ramping Up the Climate Hysteria for Future Votes

Globalists at the UN and their climate change shock troops on the ground led by the national political elites, Hollywood celebrities and autistic Swedish school kid Greta Thunberg are getting increasingly worried that more people are questioning the climate change orthodoxy that human activity is killing the planet.

Their reaction to this imminent threat to their power grab is to change the terminology and ramp up the hysteria.  This is their tried and tested strategy to keep the momentum going when interest begins to wane, and climate realists start to gain some traction.

In the 1970’s the science was settled, and the debate was over when the experts claimed that catastrophic cooling and an imminent ice age was going to end civilization. Alas this failed to impress a public that was more informed than the brainwashed snowflakes and celebrity obsessed minions of today.

With the national political elites enticed with promises of absolute power over their charges, the scientific community seduced with lucrative taxpayer funded grants and the mainstream media primed for an onslaught of propaganda, man-made global warming was born.

When the global temperature and sea levels failed to rise as the computer models indicated and the predictions of impending doom across the natural world failed to materialize the name of the scam was changed from man-made global warming to climate change.

This allowed the perpetrators of the scam to blame any weather event or unusual natural phenomenon on climate change caused by human activity.

As the scientists and their data are exposed as fake, the public has become more skeptical than ever, therefore climate change has become the more apocalyptic ‘climate emergency’.

Politicians for the currently out of power British Labour Party have gone one step further and renamed the power grab as ‘the climate catastrophe’.

This hysteria is manufactured with malice aforethought and it is proving successful at scaring the living daylights out of their target group which is impressionable schoolkids along with feeble-minded adults who have been indoctrinated by the agenda driven education system and academia.

There are reports of vulnerable and impressionable children suffering mental issues and depression because of the manufactured hysteria about our impending doom due to the activities of civilisation. 

This is a cynical calculation for the next general election which is due in 2024. Those terrified school kids who are skipping school to listen to Greta Thunberg, the Goebbelesque purveyor of climate catastrophe propaganda, will be eligible to vote by then so the hysteria needs to be maintained and ramped up for the next four years to secure their votes.

To conclude, if a week is a long time in politics then four years is a lifetime. Realists can only hope that in the coming four years more people, including the schoolkids, will become enlightened and the purveyors of the impending climate catastrophe be further exposed for the charlatans that they are.


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Meet Our Climate Extinction Saviors


Creating Climate Hysteria In Pursuit Of Global Power

Communism on The Menu as America Goes to the Polls

As an election year progresses in a revitalized America, it’s amazing to see the old communist curmudgeon, Bernie Sanders, take the lead in the Democratic primary contest to choose who will take on President Trump in the November general election.

The attempt by Sanders to hide his communist affiliation by labeling himself as a democratic socialist is fooling nobody except the brainwashed and the intellectually challenged who are seduced by the promise of ‘free stuff’ financed by money confiscated from the evil rich.

It seems like only yesterday that Bernie Sanders was leading in the 2016 Democratic Party race with the same message of replacing the wealth creating system of free enterprise with a communist system which he portrayed as benign and morally superior because it would supposedly abolish poverty and inequality.

Despite the ongoing coup attempt to remove him from office, President Trump has halted the managed decline of America into a third world country and reinvigorated the economy by returning to basic free enterprise principles of cutting regulations and lowering taxes.

Other notable achievements include renegotiating disastrous trade deals that disadvantaged the American worker and rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and deliberately downgraded military.

By contrast, in the three years since President Trump started to return America to its capitalist roots and subsequent prosperity resource rich Venezuela has descended into poverty, starvation and bloodshed as a result of the economic and political system Bernie Sanders wants to impose on the American people.

This is the same economic and political system that has caused poverty, starvation, hunger and tyranny not only in Venezuela but in Cuba, North Korea, China and elsewhere across the planet as well as costing the lives of tens of millions of ordinary citizens.

During the highly choreographed primary election debates the facilitators, along with the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media propagandists, never interrogated Bernie Sanders or the other candidates about the disastrous consequences their proposed socialist economic system has had on the people of those blighted countries.

There’s a long way to go before the Democrats choose who to put in the ring with President Trump and it is unlikely to be Bernie Sanders. He was rigged out of the nomination in 2016 by supporters of Hillary Clinton and will most likely be again despite his support among the young and the ideologues who share his hate for free enterprise and the United States of America.

To conclude: For the young, the intellectually challenged and those who were asleep during the 2016 election campaign it is worth re-issuing some of the articles from that time to remind them of what Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Party, Antifa, the United Nations, Hollywood celebrities and the enemies of free enterprise and liberty want America to become.


 They Felt The Bern In Venezuela Now They Can't Get Toilet Paper - Feb 2016


Noisy Socialist Cheerleaders Are Silent On Venezuela's Demise - May 2016


Celebrities For Socialism - Barbra Streisand To Join The Exodus - September 2016


There Has Never Been A Better Time To Be A Socialist - September 2016