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Part One – Local and National News Review
UK Prime Minister and Labour leader Andy Burnham is expected to soon approve a ban on goods linked to Israeli settlements after the Israeli government issued tenders to build more than 1,200 units for a settlement in the occupied West Bank called E1. “Sanctions on Israel’s illegal settlements would be a very welcome first step in helping to bring an end to Israel’s unlawful occupation,” Labour lawmaker Richard Burgon told Al Jazeera on Thursday. “The International Court of Justice has been clear that all states have obligations to bring that unlawful situation to an end.
Israel warns it will retaliate if UK imposes sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements Gideon Saar: ‘If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain’ Israel has cautioned that it will respond in kind should the UK impose sanctions over its plans to expand illegal West Bank settlements . Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the UK would “reset” its Israel policy in the coming weeks, while one of his ministers suggested that goods produced in Israeli settlements within the Palestinian West Bank could face targeted sanctions. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Andy Burnham warned that Israeli choices regarding a controversial settlement risk bringing an “end” to the prospect of a two-state solution with Palestine. Violence and land and water seizures by militant Jewish settlers in ?the West Bank have risen during the nearly three years since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel. Mr Miliband’s Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar said his country’s government was likely to act in response to UK sanctions. He said: “If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain.” “If they act, I think they will be making a big mistake,” the Israeli foreign minister told a Hebrew language news site.
The by-election could be make or break for Zack Polanski The bombshell by-election in Keir Starmer’s old seat could be “make or break” for the Green leader Zack Polanski, polling experts have claimed. The former PM announced he was standing down this week, just months after leaving Downing Street. Speaking to this newspaper, pollsters explained Labour were still the favourites for the Holborn and St Pancras seat, and that the “shine” had come off Mr Polanski with voters. Polling guru Sir John Curtice said: “Polanski obviously made quite a name for himself, but his personal popularity isn’t quite what it was, and hasn’t been since the Golders Green incident. This looks at least as tough a gig for Polanski, if he stands, as Makerfield looked for Burnham. “The difference is that Burnham could always hope to and did succeed in persuading people who might otherwise vote Green, Lib Dem or even Tory to vote Labour to keep Reform out. Those kind of dynamics are not really available to Polanski as he’s the extremist in this instance, rather than the person in the centre.
Four case studies first. Then the money, followed all the way into the boardroom itself. Keep reading. The shape underneath doesn’t finish revealing itself until the very end. Hole One: Goram Homes. Set up in 2018 to build housing and capture land value for the council instead of a private developer. That was the pitch. The company’s sole shareholder is Bristol Holding Limited, wholly owned by Bristol City Council. The accounts tell it straight: net worth down from -£820,000 in 2020 to more than -£4 million by 2024, on top of land loan notes exceeding £10 million. A councillor read the 2023 business plan and worked out, correctly, that there had been no completions at all. That same report was accidentally published in full before being redacted. Named after a Bristol giant who overheated, got drunk, and fell asleep mid-race. Somebody in branding read half the legend. Promised value capture. Delivered a widening deficit. Told nobody until a councillor did the sums. Hole Two: Bristol Energy. Goram wasn’t the first time this shape appeared. Bristol Energy got there first, launched in 2015 to turn a profit for the council and cut resident bills. Managed neither. Total losses reached as much as £43.8 million before the company was broken up and sold off in 2020. The council’s own Grant Thornton report later found the founding decision was never properly scrutinised. A genuine exit existed in 2017, at a cost of £19.8 million. The council chose not to take it — the Lost Pause. The final bill more than doubled instead. When opposition councillors demanded an independent inquiry afterwards, the ruling group voted it down. Ask yourself why a council votes against finding out what its own company cost. Promised profit and lower bills. Delivered a £43.8 million loss. Told nobody until the loss had already doubled. Hole Three: Bristol Waste. Literally! This one isn’t a financial modelling failure. It’s a live police investigation. Allegations dating to 2020, still under investigation, that staff took payments to misreport waste volumes at the Avonmouth depot. Alongside it: a director expenses scandal of four-figure hotel bills and premium spirits, and five managing directors gone in under four years. On top of that, a loan book that grew to a further £12.12 million facility approved in June 2026 — none of the loan term, interest rate, or repayment profile shown to the committee that approved it. Notice the timing. Bristol always seems to find it. Promised an efficient statutory service. Delivered a fraud investigation. Told nobody until the police got there first. Hole Four: Temple Island. Not a company this time. A 250-year lease with Legal & General, and the one the council never gets to call misjudged by accident.
Engineers for both Clarion House and Bristol City Council are checking out the situation on the south bank of the River Avon, in Bristol where the riverbank showed signs of collapsing. It is right next to the site of The Boat Yard – a huge and still not finished tower block development currently taking shape in the Totterdown area. Pictures by Bristol Live photographer Paul Gillis, taken on Wednesday morning, showed the landslip on the south bank of the River Avon. It took small trees and bushes down towards the river, and exposed cables that had been underground right next to The Boat Yard. The development includes a main tower block that’s 15 storeys high from road level and 17 storeys high from the level of the bank of the River Avon, but the images appeared to show the river bank eroded and is now beginning to erode under the building itself. Temporary fencing along that river bank has also fallen with the erosion, and in other parts of the river bank, a large crack has appeared around a bush that seems to indicate more of the river bank could erode soon. But a spokesperson for Clarion Housing Association, the London-based housing association which took over the site in 2020, said there was nothing to worry about. “We are aware of the issue at Totterdown Bridge and have taken prompt action to investigate further, with an engineer having already attended the site as a precaution. The building is not reliant on the river bank for any of its stability, and the engineer has confirmed that our site is not affected by the bank’s recent movement,” they added. Local residents reported the landslip to Bristol City Council, who confirmed they would be inspecting the site today, although a tweet response from the council appeared to suggest its only concern was the nearby Totterdown Bridge. “We are aware of the situation and are sending a bridge inspector to the site today to carry out an inspection and assess any risk to the highway,” the tweet said. The original developers, the Hadley Property Group, obtained planning permission and then sold the site as it was being constructed to London-based housing association Clarion, who will be turning it into a development that’s classified as 100 per cent ‘affordable housing’ in planning terms. Work building the tower block complex stopped last summer when the original construction company The Mid Group went bust last summer, and there were months with no activity until a new firm was found to finish the building. New construction firm the Hill Group took on the site in October 2022, but Clarion confirmed the flats would not be available to move into until at least the end of 2023, possibly into 2024 because, while the buildings themselves appear finished, the innovative construction method means there is still a lot of work to do inside.
Sky will inherit ITV’s Public Service Broadcasting (PBS) obligations that run until 2034, which require the broadcaster to provide ‘impartial’ national and regional news. Sky has promised that ITV News and Sky News will maintain “distinct editorial identities” until at least 2030. ITV’s current five-year contract with ITN, which produces national news bulletins at 1.30pm, 6.30pm and 10pm on ITV1, Good Morning Britain and London regional news, runs until the end of 2030 and contains no break clause, meaning Sky would inherit the agreement if the acquisition completes as planned in the second half of 2027. Other regional news ITV bulletins are produced by ITV itself. The transaction will see ITV’s existing 40% shareholding in ITN split equally between Sky and the newly independent ITV Studios. Existing shareholders Reuters, DMG and Informa will each retain their 20% stakes. ITN also produces news for Channel 4 and Channel 5. An ITN spokesperson said that the “unique model” of “four editorially independent national newsrooms under one roof” – also including Good Morning Britain – contributes to the “strength of the UK’s news ecosystem”. The takeover will result in the two businesses merging to become the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, with Sky group CEO Dana Strong saying this means a 6.5% combined share of the total UK advertising market, according to Deadline. Sky has also identified around £200m in annual cost savings that would be delivered by the end of the third year after the deal closed. The company said that most of the cost cuts would be made through efficiencies in marketing, technology platforms and non-UK content. Strong has noted a “minority” of the savings from job cuts will come from reducing duplication “primarily in corporate and commercial functions”. Sky employs around 20,000 staff in the UK, while ITV has about 2,400 workers in the media and entertainment division. The news also follows Sky owner Comcast saying last month it plans to spin off its media operation into a separate publicly listed company, according to NBC News, which includes Sky and US film studio NBCUniversal. On Sky becoming part of NBCUniversal, Strong said: “We have a shared cultural heritage, NBC and Sky. We’ve both been passionate about bringing sports and entertainment events to consumers. “We have a very strong partnership where we’ve already been working on key content together, so some of our biggest shows, like The Day of the Jackal and SNL UK, were all done in a co-production environment with NBC.”
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ITV News West Country – Bristol is now officially the country’s least affordable city to live in, with an average 45% of salary going on rent alone. People renting homes in the city have told ITV News they’re having to make drastic life-changing choices just to be able to keep a roof over their head. One told us starting a family is impossible because she has so little money left after paying her housing bills. #bristol #bristolhousing #bristolrent ‘It’s scary’: The reality of renting in Bristol as city named country’s priciest place to live in People renting homes in Bristol have said they’re having to make drastic life-changing choices just to be able to keep a roof over their head. One told ITV News starting a family is impossible because she has precious little money left after paying her housing bills. Another says he’s no better off after leaving London to return to his home city. Bristol is now officially the most expensive place in the country to live with an average 45% of salary going on rent alone. More than 120,000 people – around one quarter of the city’s population – rent their home which costs an average £1,885 a month, 6.5% more than a year ago. Emily, a 27-year-old key worker, stayed in Bristol after university and pays £850 a month in rent and bills for her share of a two-bed flat. She needs a car for her job and has little left for herself. More than 120,000 people – around one quarter of the city’s population – rent their home which costs an average £1,885 a month “It’s really scary,” she says. “It makes you feel hopeless. l won’t go out for a coffee because I know that’s £4. Every day I’m thinking about how I can stay in budget. If I can put £100 away a month, that’s good. “It’s impacting the plans I have for the future. I always thought I wanted kids but if I can’t have a financially stable life then I won’t have children and I know I’m not the only woman who feels that way.” Dave Pratt, a freelance stonemason, spends £500 a month on rent for ‘a box’ in the Easton area of Bristol, having recently returned to his home city from London where he paid a similar amount. “I only found a room because my friend couldn’t afford it and moved onto a boat to live. I thought I’d be able to get a bigger size room for the rent I’m paying. “I feel like people shouldn’t be forced out of the places they live and the places that they’ve grown up in surrounded by the people they love.” But landlords say the recently introduced Renters’ Rights Act is having the unintended consequence of forcing them to leave the industry due to their own rising costs. “There are rogue landlords who this bill was directed to but they’re the ones who aren’t going to comply anyway,” said Jo Hunt, who has rented property in Bristol for 30 years. “I think more and more will leave now. It’s all going to mean extra costs, some of which will be passed on to tenants which is going to make the problem worse for them.” Lettings agents say that will make their job of placing people in property even harder. Aaron Messenger of Greenwoods Property Centre says one in three renters he’s trying to place for is due to landlords taking back their homes to live in themselves or to sell up. “That stock level is probably the biggest issue,” he added. “When you’ve got the amount of people looking if I had 100 one-beds to rent out, they would all be rented out in a two-week period.” The Green Party-led Bristol City Council advocates for rent caps, limits on how much landlords can charge for rent or how much they can increase rent during a tenancy. But that needs central government approval and so far there seems little appetite. Cllr Barry Parsons, chair of the city council’s homes and housing delivery committee told us: “you have energy capped by the government and housing is just as essential. It’s really important that we can make a meaningful change there and prevent the spiral of rents that we’ve seen in the last few years.” The council has also committed to building more homes for social rent – half the market rent value – but demand far exceeds supply. Shared ownership – buying part of a home and renting the rest – and co-living developments are increasing in popularity but many believe it will take years to make a significant impact on the rental market.
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download Paul’s paper ] This video is part of an information pack of many papers, with a master paper that goes into detail on the whole subject. That master paper contains the links to many other sub papers.The whole is an information pack to expose the meetings being held throughout the UK. Meetings taking place and screenings of a secret ‘Climate Emergency’ film all over the country, but you have to be 16 years or older to attend. But don’t worry, a counselor is on hand to cope with distressed people. It’s a control meeting in every way. It’s pure scops. Recently, something was brought to my attention and it’s called the people’s emergency briefing. And I tried to find the video. It’s a 50-minute video that’s being shown in halls and village halls and meetings all over the country. And it’s actually um a video of climate alarmism in the most extreme manner. And so as as mentioned already um you have to be 16 and over to be there. Um it has to be a very controlled environment with uh the people showing it will have been briefed how to train the discussion afterwards um and so on and and it’s just ridiculous. It it’s so extreme and bad that I thought I can counter it but I couldn’t get hold of the video. So what I could get hold of was the previous videos from the different speakers and isolate their points so I know what this is being said in the video.
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Andy Burnham’s first PMQs: here’s what we learned from this bloodless affair For Andy Burnham, walking into the bear pit that is Prime Minister’s Questions, it must have been hard to stay calm. His audience was a room of closely packed MPs, some hostile, some friendly – all very loud – many wanting to make a mark. And the full audience for PMQs extends far beyond the MPs in the chamber. Prime ministers are thinking about the media, external groups, foreign governments, voters and financial markets. The reactions of any of these matter. The PM has the dual worry of dealing with opposition questions while also demonstrating his or her worth to the party members sitting behind them. Backbenchers can signal a lack of confidence through quietness or just not turning up. It is no wonder that preparing for PMQs is, in itself, demanding. Alastair Campbell, who advised Tony Blair when he was opposition leader and in the early days of the New Labour government, is clear about just what it took. Preparation can take hours. Nerves don’t disappear. And it doesn’t appear to have got any easier in recent years. Burnham is, of course, new to this. And unlike many in his position, he hasn’t had a chance to rehearse as opposition leader. He was wise to spend part of Tuesday’s return to parliament on a statement and a lengthy question-and-answer session. It gave him a warm-up for the main event. After Keir Starmer was ousted as prime minister, Labour MPs will be willing Burnham to show that he can succeed. So how did he do in his first PMQs, and what can we glean from it? This was not a “full-blooded” PMQs. Burham chose not to mount attacks where others might have. A question from Reform UK’s Danny Kruger, for example, could have led to a reply focusing on the party’s reported problems. That it did not, may mean Burnham wants to move away from such attacks – or that he considers Reform less significant than it has been in recent years. Burnham’s jibes at the Conservatives were not fierce either….
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Steve Keen – AI bubble and oil shortages from closure of strait of Hormuz. Top Economist Warns: You Have No Idea What’s Coming ProfSteveKeen The next financial crash is brewing, driven by production failures rather than just banking errors. Understand the risks. Most analysts focus on banking bubbles, but the real danger lies in the physical economy. Rising costs for necessities and disruptions to global logistics are creating a systemic fragility that traditional models fail to capture. We examine how external events like the Iran-USA war and climate patterns create a supply chain bottleneck that threatens modern stability. When we look at the broader global economy, the interaction between debt and material production becomes critical. As reserves run thin, the ability to service existing financial obligations weakens. This analysis explains how these physical constraints force an economic collapse that could reshape the financial landscape far differently than 2008. ? How the Iran war 2026 is already pushing oil price spike beyond what markets can handle ? Why a full-scale Iran nuclear war could crash global energy markets overnight triggering food supply collapse within 90 days ? The truth behind trump war Iran escalation and why ordinary people will pay the price at the grocery store ? How the global food crisis is being accelerated by dollar instability and unchecked military spending ? What the US, China & Russia are really fighting over and how it ends your access to affordable food ? Iran’s nuclear capability decoded and what it means for Middle East alliances and global supply chains ? The hidden link between energy market crashes and the fastest-moving famine the modern world has ever seen Questions this video answers: ? Is the Iran war already causing food shortages? ? How will rising oil prices lead to famine? ? What is Trump’s real agenda behind the Iran conflict? ? Will the dollar collapse because of the Iran war? ? How close are we to a global food supply crisis? ? What happens to food prices when energy markets collapse? ? Is a financial crash in 2025 now inevitable? This isn’t speculation, it’s geopolitical analysis backed by facts most channels are afraid to cover. Dr. Steve Keen is an influential economist who has dedicated over 50 years to challenging mainstream economic theories. Since his days as a university student, he has been engaged in a David vs. Goliath battle against conventional economic models. Holding a Ph.D. in economics, Dr. Keen is well-known for his critical analysis and advocacy for more realistic economic approaches. His work emphasizes the importance of accounting for financial instability and incorporates elements of complex systems theory. Curious Minds, Engineers, and Finance Professionals will appreciate his methodical breakdown of economic phenomena and his development of the Minsky software, which models financial crises. Dr. Keen’s contributions are crucial for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how economic systems can impact technological and financial environments. His teachings offer valuable insights into the economic forces shaping our world. By following his analysis, professionals can gain a better grasp of economic dynamics that influence their fields.
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0:00 — Cold open 0:54 — Welcome: Peter Hitchens joins the show 1:20 — ‘The revolution has already happened’ — Andy Burnham and the new PM 3:00 — How revolutionary socialism swept into the West after 1989 4:02 — Was voting Reform a mistake? 5:03 — Broken Britain: crime, decay and daily life 5:45 — Defeatism vs describing defeat 6:15 — The Cameron takeover and the closing of the ‘inch of difference’ 7:26 — The collapse of free speech since 2010 8:42 — Lockdown, censorship and being called a killer 10:25 — Cameron’s forgotten war: Libya 11:33 — Public anger over immigration 12:14 — ‘Rubbing the right’s nose in diversity’: Labour’s migration strategy 13:19 — Migration Watch’s warnings, ignored 14:36 — Why Hitchens rejects mass deportation 16:28 — Farage, Reform and the guarded right frontier 17:11 — Rupert Lowe and Restore 19:05 — ‘Toy politics’: is the right too divided? 20:17 — Trump, Meloni and the failing global right 21:23 — Kemi Badenoch: reform lite? 23:39 — Who are these politicians? 24:58 — ‘The obituarist of a dead country’ 27:16 — Vigilantism, disorder and the fear of chaos 29:01 — Is free speech a lost cause?
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
The SBU said the attempt was planned for August 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day, and was foiled. The SBU did not name the intended target, but sources cited by the Ukrainian outlets Suspilne (the country’s public broadcaster) and Babel identified him as Akhmed Zakayev, a former Chechen field commander. In a video released by the SBU, Kaplunov says: “I was approached by an individual from the territory of the Russian Federation who was acting in the interests of the Federal Security Service (FSB) with the goal of recruiting me to take active steps to eliminate fighters of Ukraine’s Defense Forces and other individuals.” The SBU also said it found messages between Kaplunov and an FSB representative on Kaplunov’s phone. Because Kaplunov admitted to the contacts and cooperated with the investigation, the agency said, he was not placed under any pretrial restrictions. The Russian Volunteer Corps, meanwhile, published its own video of an official statement by Kaplunov. In it, he says he was “abducted in gangster fashion” by SBU officers on August 23 and subjected to “physical and psychological pressure.” Kaplunov’s lawyer, Taras Borovsky, told the Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda that the confession video released by the SBU was filmed “in captivity, under pressure, through torture and death threats.” Borovsky said the agency released it now to “whitewash the SBU’s reputation” after its shootout the previous day with the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry (GUR). SBU officers and GUR personnel exchanged gunfire in Kyiv on September 2. The SBU said its officers were carrying out “urgent investigative measures” when “a group of people” attacked them during a search and tried to obstruct the investigation. The investigation was connected to Kaplunov.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities to condemn President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government over corruption allegations and the firing of former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Protesters accused the administration of ignoring public concerns and creating divisions in society. The unrest has intensified after Fedorov rejected a new government role and called for elections, while investigators continue examining an alleged money-laundering case linked to a senior official in Zelensky’s office. Ukrainian workers destroy army recruitment vehicle in expanding protests against “busification” Ukrainian workers intervened to interrupt a document check being carried out by two service members of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) responsible for the forced mobilization or “busification” of tens of thousands of Ukrainian men off the streets of Ukraine. According to Suspilne news, TRC officers stopped a vehicle at a checkpoint in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk and demanded to view the male driver’s documents. The man refused to provide any personal information and instead abandoned his vehicle and fled the scene to avoid ending up in the Ukrainian Armed Forces unwillingly. The TRC officers followed the man towards a residential building in their official vehicle at which point they were confronted by 30 Ukrainian workers opposed to another apparent case of government-sanctioned kidnapping. Daria Stelmaschuk, spokesperson for the Volyn Regional Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center, stated, “After that, 30 civilians approached the scene and began physically resisting the police officers and service members of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center, striking them with their hands and unidentified objects.” Both officers were injured in the protest, and their TRC vehicle was essentially destroyed by the crowd. According to the report: All the windows and headlights were smashed. All the tires were damaged. A radio was stolen. A body camera was taken. The vehicle keys were stolen. Just a day later, a 25-year-old man stabbed a TRC officer to death after being stopped and refusing to show his military registration documents. Both photos and summary of the case can be found on the website of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office and video of TRC officers beating the suspect appeared on social media.
Russia responded to the pattern on Sunday by announcing preparations for “massive strikes” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure before winter, escalating a conflict in which infrastructure has become the defining battleground on both sides of the front line. On the evening of August 28, a Russian Geran-4 jet-powered drone struck a warehouse in Myla, a village in the Bucha district approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles) west of central Kyiv along the Kyiv-Chop highway. The drone hit at approximately 8:10 p.m. local time, triggering a fire that set off a chain of secondary explosions lasting hours as stored ordnance cooked off — the physics of ammunition in an uncontrolled fire, in which heat ignites successive munitions in a chain reaction that no suppression equipment can easily stop. The death toll climbed to 38, with four people still missing and 20 injured — including two children — according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A care home for elderly residents and people living with disabilities was among the dozens of structures damaged. More than 300 emergency services personnel were dispatched to the site, and 381 residents were evacuated from the surrounding area. It was the war’s deadliest single attack of 2026, surpassing the 31 killed in a July 2 strike on Kyiv that had previously held that grim record. What Residents Were Never Told The warehouse, Ukrainian officials confirmed, stored shells, mines, other munitions, and drones — weapons that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General described as “explosive objects and materials.” Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed a different contents inventory — drone components and launch boosters for long-range aircraft — a claim that has not been independently verified. The residents of Myla knew none of this. One resident, Oleksandr, told reporters that villagers had no idea what was stored in the warehouse. “Nobody told us anything… People aren’t informed,” he said. Another resident, Borys Daniyluk, 61, asked why munitions had been placed in what had formerly been a food storage facility. “Why was this allowed at the depots, in a place where there used to be food? Why were ammunition and weapons stored there, next to a populated village?” Another villager, Liudmyla, offered a double answer when pressed on responsibility: “Putin! Who else? And those who set up the depot here.”
“This is a continuation of Russia’s escalatory actions throughout the region,” he continued. “Unfortunately, these are not the first cases and, even worse, they certainly won’t be the last.” On Sunday, a fire broke out at a production facility in the Polish city of Lublin belonging to JFG Composites, a company that produces components for the aerospace industry, including for military helicopters. Then, in the early hours of Monday morning, another fire occurred at a plant in Skarzysko-Kamienna, south-central Poland, belonging to WB Electronics, a Polish firm that is the largest producer of drones in the European Union. It supplies the armed forces of Ukraine and Poland, among others. By Monday afternoon, Polish prosecutors and the security services had confirmed that they were investigating the Skarzysko-Kamienna fire as a potential “crime of a terrorist nature” carried out with the involvement of “foreign intelligence”. On Tuesday, improvised explosive devices were found at one electricity substation in Germany near the border with Poland while another substation in the west of the country was attacked. That came on the same day that Germany announced it held Russia responsible for a drone attack on Leipzig airport last month. In his remarks on Wednesday, Tusk said that “there is no doubt” that the incident in Skarzysko-Kamienna “was deliberate arson, meaning an act of sabotage”. “In the case of Lublin, we do not have such evidence but, considering the nature of the production, it cannot be ruled out that deliberate arson occurred there as well,” he added. “I am in constant contact with the leaders of the countries in our region, and everyone realises that the coming weeks and months will be critical, not only in terms of events on the front and the entire Russian-Ukrainian war,” continued the prime minister. “These weeks and months will also pose a very, very significant challenge for all countries in this part of Europe, precisely because of Russia’s plans to escalate tensions and destabilise.” On Tuesday, a deputy interior minister, Czeslaw Mroczek, told broadcaster RMF that surveillance cameras had recorded a masked person entering the WB Electronics plant in Skarzysko-Kamienna. He said it was “obvious” that Russian involvement was suspected, pointing to previous similar cases in which agents working on behalf of Russia have carried out acts of sabotage in Poland. A report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism published earlier this year found that Poland is the “primary focus” of Russia’s growing campaign of sabotage in Europe. Last year, Poland confirmed that Russia was behind the fire that in 2024 destroyed Warsaw’s largest shopping centre. The Polish authorities are also seeking to detain two men believed to have sabotaged a rail line last year on Russian orders.
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Germany blames Russia for drone attack at Leipzig airport Government says ‘dangerous behaviour’ is part of effort by Moscow to cause damage with hybrid attacks The German government has blamed Russia for the drone attack on Leipzig airport last month, calling it “dangerous behaviour” and part of a systematic and concerted effort by Moscow to “cause great damage” through a large number of hybrid attacks.The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, and the foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, ended weeks of speculation and the government’s hesitancy to blame Russia, saying in a brisk 10-minute briefing in Berlin that all indications were the Russian state had provided the knowhow and equipment for the planned attack and “low-level agents” were recruited to carry it out. A drone loaded with explosives was discovered at Leipzig/Halle airport on 4 August near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane used to transport weapons to Ukraine. It failed to detonate but could have caused a catastrophe, authorities said. Russia will face a package of penalty measures, Wadephul said, adding that the German government saw “a need for appropriate and necessary action in this situation”. It would respond “to this hybrid attack in Leipzig with proportionate and measured, yet equally resolute, action”, he said. “We are not at war, but we are a daily target of hybrid warfare.” He added: “The dangerous behaviour of the Russian Federation is part of attempts at destabilisation, disinformation, threats, sabotage and aggression.” Berlin regretted the abysmal state of its relations with Moscow, he said. The EU expressed “full solidarity” with Germany over the attack, and Nato assured Berlin that it would defend its members. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, supported Germany’s move and the new round of European sanctions, saying: “These hybrid attacks are multiplying in Europe. They cannot go unanswered. “In the face of this escalation, we must be united, determined, and strengthen our support for Ukraine. France will continue to play its full part.” Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, said: “The security of our allies is the security of us all. Attempts to intimidate us or to drive a wedge between allies will not succeed: hybrid actions against any one of us are a matter of concern for all of us, and will be met with a united response.”
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This fiscal reversal has drawn sharp criticism across UK media, particularly on platforms like GB News, where military commentators such as retired Royal Navy Commander Steve Jermy and other analysts have flagged the move as a major policy contradiction.Context of the ControversyThe Resignation: In June 2026, Healey dramatically resigned as Defence Secretary under Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He stepped down on principle, publicly reprimanding the administration for failing to commit to the 3% target to counter rising international threats. The Promotion: Following a subsequent leadership collapse that saw Starmer replaced by Andy Burnham, Healey was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in July 2026. Defence advocates expected his Treasury takeover to guarantee robust military funding.The U-Turn: Instead, citing a £5 billion equipment funding shortfall inherited from the previous administration, Healey’s first budget will prioritize patching existing financial gaps rather than expanding the defense baseline. Decisions regarding the timeline for the 3% GDP target have been kicked down the road to next year’s Treasury spending review. Chancellor John Healey has insisted he is “100 per cent” committed to defence after delaying his own three per cent of GDP target. The former Defence Secretary, who dramatically resigned from Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet after the then-Prime Minister refused to commit to a three per cent target by 2030, has shot down allegations of hypocrisy as he visited the US for a meeting with foreign counterparts. Mr Healey’s first budget is set for October 28 – but the defence commitments will not be set until next year’s spending review. He has, however, warned that filling a £5billion funding hole would force the Government to make “difficult decisions” in next month’s budget. The Chancellor admitted that his new position on Andy Burnham’s frontbench was a “bigger job”, but insisted defence was central to next year’s spending review. “For the first time at the spending review, we will set out a clear path about how we will meet that Nato commitment in 2035: 3.5 per cent of GDP,” he told The Times. Britain has come under increased pressure from the US to spend more on defence amid global conflicts, namely the Iran war and Russian invasion of Ukraine. Washington has called for Europe and Canada to take increase spending and take further responsibility for defending the European continent in a plan dubbed “Nato 3.0” Donald Trump is now reviewing his position on the Falkland Islands as a way of “encouraging the sort of burden-sharing that we seek”.
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I think Warren Christopher was lukewarm. Uh but then you had Sandy Burgerer and Strobe Talbot, the deputy secretary of defense. And of course, General Clark was friends with all of these people and they were all of a similar ideological mindset that this was the beginning of something very big. And what I was going to tell you is that in December of uh 1998, it was made clear to me that this was the beginning of a revolution, what they call the democratic revolution that’s going to spread from Yugoslavia all the way to Moscow. And that was the first time that I heard openly the statement that this was this was the beginning of something that would go all the way to Moscow. And I was I was stunned because again, you know, I did know a little bit about the history of the region. And my immediate response when I was in the war plans division in 1995 as a war planner, I was asked to write a position paper on what should we do or not do in the Balkans. I said we should stay out. I said, “This is an area of traditional Russian influence, and if we were to in involve ourselves there, it would be viewed as potentially threatening to Russian interests.” And I talked about the special relationship between the Serbs and others and and the Russians really back to 1879 and earlier. Of course, you know, the chief of staff loved it. He sent it over to the White House. It died. That was 1995. There was never Shal Kashi. Are you friends of Charlie Kashili? the chief of the army was Gordon Sullivan. I see and he said, “Yeah, this makes sense. Everybody in the army side because the last thing we want to do is go over there.” Now, one thing I need to point out, there was one person in the Clinton administration who absolutely did not sign on for all of this. That was Secretary Perry, the Secretary of Defense. H and at one point he said to general clerk he was giving he asked he was giving guidance on what we should or shouldn’t do with the Dayton accords if they and he said remember a bad agreement is no agreement is better than a bad agreement that was the first thing so if we can’t get agree that’s all right we you know secondly we don’t want any u dunic corridors in other words we don’t want any unstable unmaintained a mainable territorial outcomes. They’re going to invite future violence and so forth. And then finally, he said, “We don’t want any agreement that involves a commitment of US ground forces on the ground in the Balkans.” Well, what did we get? Well, we got all that we didn’t want. We got this long strip of land out to Shreza. It’s made no sense.
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And he said, “Anybody who has been to the oil fields of Texas or the automobile factories of Ohio knows that we can never win a long-term war with the United States.” And he was right, of course. [snorts] But I think we’ve lost sight of that. The thing I add now to there’s a third element which we’re also lacking in which is the ability to think strategically and clearly and we’ve just lost that completely. But I think the the two other things that I’ve come to realize are also applying into this. The first is that I think um certainly for United States but also to a lesser extent for Britain we have sort of armies which are we have armed forces which are configured more for air se um rather than land. And of course, the primary um opponents at the moment that we’ve mistakenly chosen are configured the other way around, but they’re also configured in a way where they can deny us Siority and they can deny us C control. And that’s a very very fundamental change. Um there’s another thing that’s I think it’s also very interesting which is to pick up on your point Doug that um people say no we need to spend more money and I keep saying well surely we should work out why we want to spend the money and the second thing is we should work out if the money is being well spent. Now if you listen to professor Michael Hudson he’ll distinguish between on the one hand um industrial capitalism which he says is what happens in Russia and China and the other hand um sort of service um services capitalism uh financial capitalism I’m sorry is the word he used which what happens in the west you know so we’ve got most of our GDP is made up of services which is fine unless you want to fight a war and so I think we get particularly poor value for money in the west and the way we spend money. I’m on defense. I’m not 100% sure why, but I’m pretty sure I’m right because I look at the force structure that we’ve got at the moment. I just take my own service, the Royal Navy. Yeah, we’re spending probably a little bit less than we were, but we’ve got 12 hulls, I suppose, at Ferguson destroyers versus 70 when I was serving, you know, and that’s that matters because um you know, the numbers do actually matter if you want to to use forces at sea. There a whole range of range of reasons for that but they matter. So I think that the the idea that we can just spend more money and that the problem I mean forget it forget it. Think about really how we spend the money and what we’re going to spend the money for and also where are we investing. I won’t I’m just about to stop but of course one of the issues is NATO and I’m just doing an article which is about how we should be we should be retiring NATO uh because we don’t get good value for money investment we make in NATO and it doesn’t work.
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Trump says reporters traitors who say there’s shortages of missiles. Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information ‘leakers’ being ‘hunted down’
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Ayn Rand – Israelis more sophisticated than Arabs. 1950s-70s US Zio-Fascist Ayn Rand: I think the United States foreign policy has been disgraceful for years for decades I would say roughly since the New Deal and in part even before that but if you mean whose side should one be on Israel or the Arabs I would certainly say Israel because than because it’s the advanced technological civilized country amidst a group of almost totally primitive Savages who have not changed for years and who are racist and who resent Israel because it’s bringing industry and intelligence in modern technology into their stagnation your philosophy of objectivism that’s right I just have one point that I think should be made M random with time fleeting here I’m your characterization of uh the situation in the Middle East came down rather gratuitously and in a in a very uh Angry way on the Arabs and without discussing the merits of either side in a most complicated and painful Collision of cultures and peoples in our in our world why can’t why couldn’t the uh the men the millions of men women and children who are Arab and who find themselves in this desperate conflict and look around wondering when where peace will be why can’t they be angry with you for your characterization of them your your slap at them your roundhouse criticism of them when you don’t seem to be able to tolerate a questioner who suggests that she disagrees with you character is
The NDAA passed largely along party lines in a 216-212 vote. Seven Republicans voted against it, and two didn’t vote, meaning that the Democrats could have blocked the legislation, but six Democrats voted yes on the sweeping military spending bill despite President Trump’s continued war against Iran, which was launched without congressional authorization. The Democrats who voted for the bill include Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX), Donald G. Davis (NC), Jared F. Golden (ME), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Adam Gray (CA), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA). The Republicans who voted against the legislation include Reps. Thomas Massie (KY), Chip Roy (TX), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Harriet M. Hageman (WY), Elijah Crane (AZ), Tim Burchett (TN), and Josh Brecheen (OK). The vote came after the House Rules Committee didn’t allow a vote on an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip Section 219 from the NDAA. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who supported Massie’s effort, has said he would “fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate,” when the two chambers negotiate the final NDAA. The Senate’s version of the NDAA also includes a provision to integrate the two militaries, but the legislation was blocked by Senate Democrats last week over President Trump’s war with Iran, which hasn’t been authorized by Congress and has continued despite both chambers passing a concurrent War Powers Resolution directing the president to end the conflict.
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Look no further than the Goothard Tunnel opening ceremony on June 1st in Switzerland. The nearly $9 million dollar occult riddled ritual featured Baphomet copulating with human women, the bride of satan giving birth, all seeing eyes and an endless amount of other Satanic symbology. Meanwhile over at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider project in the same country we see Shiva the God of Destruction standing proudly in front of CERN’s headquarters. And the CERN movie ‘Symmetry’ makes their aims perfectly clear, they are actively trying to break the barrier between that which is seen and unseen. Again, the elite seem Hell bent on ushering in their NWO Beast system and at this point they have stopped hiding it. Would it really surprise any of you who understand this information if you were to find out the Darwin’s theories on the Origins of Species are also nothing more than lies based on deplorably bad “science” in order to get the world’s population to dismiss the notion of a Creator altogether? If the elite could get the whole world to believe this beautiful planet and all who inhabit are nothing more than a random accident, they could get humanity to lower its spiritual shields thereby making it far easier to usher in the global system they seek, helmed by the one they secretly serve, Satan. Spiritual warfare on planet earth is alive and well – and you have been lied to. Author James Perloff joins me to deconstruct Darwin. and share proof that God is real.. Some Christians and conservatives think Darwinism is irrelevant — a dry biological theory best confined to science classrooms. This is false. When youngsters from Christian homes read the Bible or go to church, they learn that God created the heavens and Earth, that God created all life forms, and that God created them, in his image, with purpose for their lives. In the public school science classroom, however, these youngsters begin hearing a different story. They are told the heavens and Earth were not created by God, but by a random event, “the Big Bang.” They learn that life was not created by God, but resulted from a random arrangement of chemicals forming the first living cell, in an ocean eons ago. And they learn that they themselves are not purposefully created in God’s image, but simply evolved from fish over millions of years through “natural selection and survival of the fittest.” Any thinking child will now begin to ask a question: “Who’s right? My science teacher or my pastor?” Many begin to say, “Hm, maybe that stuff I’m hearing in church is just baloney. Oh, the pastor, what does he know? He went to a seminary – big deal! These science guys find things out through the scientific method. And if science has proven that evolution is true, then what I’m hearing in church must be phony!” And many of these children begin to consider that church, the Bible, and God Himself are irrelevant. Julian Huxley, perhaps evolution’s foremost spokesman in the twentieth century, stated that “Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the Creator of organisms from the sphere of rational discussion.” In other words, according to Huxley, even your sanity is in question if you believe in God instead of Darwin. Now I realize a few people say something like this: “Hey, chill out, will you? I believe in evolution and the Bible. What’s wrong with that? Look, it’s simple. The Bible isn’t a science textbook. We’re not supposed to take it literally. Jesus himself spoke in parables — that’s symbolic language, right? So obviously, when the Bible talks about creation, that’s symbolic language for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Adam and Eve were probably just a parable for those ape-men we see in National Geographic.”
UK/Ukraine deal learning a lot about drones from Ukraine war. Britain Gets Access to Ukraine Battlefield Data to Train AI Defense Systems By Newsmax Wires | Monday, 24 August 2026 Britain is gaining access to a vast trove of Ukrainian battlefield data under a new defense partnership aimed at developing artificial intelligence systems capable of detecting threats and military targets more quickly. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the agreement Monday in Kyiv, making Britain the first international partner to gain access to Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs, according to the British government and Reuters. Avengers was built around an annotated database of about 5 million battlefield images, largely drawn from Ukraine’s DELTA combat system, which combines information from cameras and sensors to provide battlefield awareness, Reuters reported. The data includes imagery and information on Russian tanks, artillery, air-defense systems, troops, drones, and other battlefield targets collected during the war. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says AI models trained on the data are already being used in automated target-detection systems that analyze more than 100,000 drone video feeds each month and identify about 70% of enemy targets in real time, Reuters reported. British researchers and technology companies will now be able to work with the Ukrainian data to develop new defense and security applications. One of the first projects will combine Ukrainian battlefield data with British technology to turn buried fiber-optic cables into a giant AI-enabled sensor capable of detecting and classifying movement around sensitive sites, according to the British government. The technology is being tested at a British defense site and is intended to help identify protesters or hostile actors attempting to approach military facilities or gather intelligence, according to British officials. The government said the technology could eventually be used to protect airports, prisons, railways, and energy infrastructure. Britain is particularly interested in Ukraine’s experience detecting drones and other threats after more than four years of combat with Russia. The partnership also includes research into low-power AI chips that could be used in future drones, robotics, and autonomous systems, the British government said. Three British technology companies — Sintela, Mind Foundry, and Skyral — are participating in the initial pilot projects, according to the government. The agreement gives British researchers access to battlefield data generated under real combat conditions, potentially allowing them to train AI systems using examples of the drones, armored vehicles, artillery, and other threats Ukraine has encountered in its war with Russia. The British government said the partnership will initially focus on defense and national-security projects that bring together researchers, engineers, technology companies, and military experts from both countries. The deal represents a significant expansion of technology cooperation between Britain and Ukraine, combining Ukraine’s battlefield experience and data with British expertise in artificial intelligence, sensors, and autonomous systems.
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July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED from their PRSC studio in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by Chloe Slater of The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets, which we were not shown, had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly young man Jez and now self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait in the cold outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk and retrieve our remaining kit in December 2024. March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a long-time personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Pat Hart has a private property portfolio on the continent and also does Public Relations work for property speculators who are taking over community facilities such as Redfield Cinema . Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 20:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with a dumbed-down student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda . If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here .
i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account!
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25th Anniversary of 9/11. Ian Henshall, author of ‘9/11: The New Evidence’, joins Tony and Martin online. He explains the anomalies of the official story of 9/11. The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the ‘huge gaps’ it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and condemnation in a special web page set up by the US State Department. Since then the story has produced many sinister new twists, including: Pentagon whistleblowers have accused the ‘Independent 9/11 Commission’ of lying; long-suppressed eyewitness testimony has been released confirming multiple explosions in the Twin Towers before and during their collapses; the much vaunted video purporting to prove that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon showed nothing at all; and an analysis of terrorist trials and arrests since 2001 indicates that far from the ‘600 Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the US’ (CIA) there were none at all. In this sequel to 9/11 Revealed, Ian Henshall examines the precedents of black operations by the US/UK, from Northern Ireland to Italy, from Vietnam to Kosovo; he looks at the various 9/11 theories, including the latest twists in the official story, and tests them against the evidence. Finally, he asks what might happen when the storm of popular outrage collides with the regime in Washington and London and outlines the radical changes needed if Washington and London are ever again to function as genuine democracies. In this expanded version of ‘9/11 Revealed’ Ian Henshall examines the precedents of black operations by the US/UK, from Northern Ireland to Italy, from Vietnam to Kosovo; he looks at the various 9/11 theories, including the latest twists in the official story, and tests them against the evidence. An eminent analysis of the 9/11 attacks are the works of David Ray Griffin. However, this book contains excellent graphic material (contradicting the official version of the facts) and sketches a good overall framework (`the big picture’). On our planet, the top third of its inhabitants enjoy a relative prosperity often based on overwork, while the rest lives in traditional poverty or in a real living hell. Within the top third, a plutocracy, a Global Dominance Group of some 200 people (P. Phillips), pulls the strings in the ongoing fight for wealth and power in the western world, helped by governments, the media conglomerates and the military and intelligence communities controlled by it. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the oligarchy needed a new enemy for the consolidation and the expansion of its power base. Communism was replaced by terrorism. Ian Henshall sees the `war on terror’ as a tactical weapon in the fight for the extension of the wealth and power of the plutocrats. After the 9/11 attacks centuries-old democratic rights were hollowed out. The presidential power was enhanced by giving the president the right to override the Constitution in times of war (on terror). But, the author also sees a Washington oligarchy confronted with a crisis of unpopularity. Moreover, only 16 % of the US population believes the entire official version of the 9/11 massacre. He rightly calls for a major criminal investigation by an independent Criminal Commission of all aspects of the events.
Foreign Secretary, Ed Milliband, imposes sanctions on Israel in 6-9 months’ time. The legislation I have announced today will be in place within 6 to 9 months and we will also take more immediate steps. Today we are sanctioning a further set of extremist settlers who have supported or incited acts of violence against Palestinian communities. And I can also announce that we are extending the existing global human rights regime such that it will enable swifter action to deter settlement expansion, including crucially seeking to present the development of E1. I also want to address the question of arms sales. We have already suspended over 30 arms licences used by the IDF in Gaza. That suspension remains fully in place. We will now also refuse all licence applications for arms and other exports that materially contribute to the occupation, in effect a double lock against arms sales. This means the ban on such exports will now remain as long as the occupation persists. To advance the two state solution, we also need viable and effective Palestinian governance. On the question of genocide, the UK has always supported full, robust and fair judicial processes to consider allegations, with final determinations made by competent courts before the British government reaches a conclusion. This has been the case for all of the genocides since the 1948 Genocide Convention: Rwanda, Srebrenica, Cambodia, and acts against the Yazidi people. This will remain our policy. It is right that this issue has been brought before the ICJ and I want to make it clear that we support the Court in coming to its determination. So accountability for what has happened in Gaza matters. But even more urgent is action to address the ongoing crisis. Because today in Gaza, the death and suffering continue. Nearly a year ago, Madame Deputy Speaker, a ceasefire was declared. Yet over 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since. And the people of Gaza are experiencing a totally avoidable humanitarian catastrophe, I am afraid, driven by decisions of the Israeli government. Last week I talked to courageous doctors and humanitarian aid workers who have served in Gaza. It was a heartbreaking conversation. They recounted: Children dying waiting for medical treatment. People forced to live next to open sewage and without shelter. And food insecurity rampant. I’m sure the whole House agrees, this is unconscionable. So I pledge we will continue to do everything we can to provide all the humanitarian support possible to help the people of Gaza. UK-supported hospitals in Gaza will enable around 800,000 medical consultations this year and essential health services for patients. UK expertise will deliver care to over a thousand child amputees. And we recently welcomed another wave of students from Gaza coming to study in Britain and we will welcome more. But in truth, unless Israel changes course, the situation will remain dire. So we are taking further steps – both ourselves and with others. Our extension of the global human rights sanctions regime will enable us to target those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law, whether in Gaza or anywhere else in the world. And we will at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month shine the clearest and harshest spotlight on what is happening and what must change. And with Jordan, we will convene countries across the world to lead a call for action on health and humanitarian access. We will also lend the UK’s voice to the growing global alliance of countries – led by Arab partners in the region – calling for the full implementation of the US-led 20 point plan, the rejection of extremism, and for a lasting end to the cycles of violence. As we implement the policy measures I have announced today, we will continue to assess the government of Israel by its actions. We want to see a new approach – in both Gaza and the West Bank. Madame Deputy Speaker, today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two state solution. We call out what is unlawful. We act on the import of goods from illegal settlements. We ban advertising of illegal settlements We act on services to prevent new settlement expansion. We act on settler violence. We support accountability for what has happened in Gaza. And we pledge to galvanise the international community to confront the ongoing and urgent humanitarian crisis. Above all, we say: Britain is not silent in the face of deep injustice and nor is it powerless.
Joe Banks joins Tony and Martin. His article ‘How Bristol’s Tallest Building Will Be Linked To Israel’s Atrocities’. He explains how the sanctions will effect the companies involved in this building. Joe Banks @JoePBanks Yesterday’s announcement that the UK will ban goods from illegal Israeli settlements was only one part of a much wider new sanctions regime. The government says it will also target companies and individuals providing “construction, infrastructure, financing, or real estate” for settlement expansion. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband warned those who “finance or facilitate illegal settlements” that they will face UK sanctions. That has potentially significant implications for a story I investigated last month for @MiddleEastEye .What will become Bristol’s tallest tower is currently rising in the city centre. Behind it is Israeli pension and insurance giant Menora Mivtachim, which backs Cain’s UK student-housing platform – a partnership whose portfolio was valued at more than £800m after its expansion into Bristol, with developments across Russell Group university cities. According to Who Profits, Menora Mivtachim have: (1) – Directly financed settlement construction, including 80 homes in Ariel and 84 homes in Ma’ale Adumim – the major West Bank settlement adjoining the crucial E1 area, whose expansion the UK is specifically seeking to deter. (2) – Financed a 1,642-home development in Katzrin in the occupied Syrian Golan, alongside tourism, roads and infrastructure. (3) – Holds a 74% stake in a solar project in the occupied West Bank, jointly owned with the Israeli settlement of Na’ama. (4) – Built significant shareholdings in companies involved in settlement construction, infrastructure and services. (5) – Holds significant stakes in companies providing security, fuel and other services to settlements across the occupied territories. All this sits alongside the fact that they have helped finance major Israeli military projects, including the IDF’s huge new intelligence campus in the Negev, intended to house Unit 8200, the signals-intelligence unit behind AI targeting tools used in Gaza. None of this means Menora will be sanctioned. The legislation and designation criteria are still to come. But yesterday’s announcement puts my investigation in a new light: Menora has documented financial links to the kinds of settlement construction, infrastructure, financing and commercial activity the UK government now says its new sanctions regime will target.
Michael Hudson on the West’s financial corrupt system forcing us in to WW3. Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Fractionalisation & Collapse Glenn Diesen Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses his book on how economies financialise and die. The Destiny of Civilisation – Socialism uh was viewed as uh the next stage of industrial capitalism. Uh in the late 19th century, not only Marx was talking about socialism, there were all sorts of kinds of socialism. There was Christian socialism, there was anarchist socialism, there was social democracy. And what everybody was in agreement all of the vested interests was you needed uh an governments to play an added role in the economy to provide basic needs at subsidized prices and uh it was the America’s first economics professor at the first business school the Wharton school u that uh said Simon Patton said that Public infrastructure is a fourth factor of production besides labor, capital, and land, which really isn’t a factor of production, but uh rent extraction. Uh and but public infrastructure doesn’t aim at making a profit. It aims at minimizing the price of basic needs so that uh labor can doesn’t have to u cover these costs and employers can uh won’t have to pay for these costs because public investment is more productive and less highpriced than private investment because uh the aim of public uh infrastructure canals, railroads u public uh is not to make a profit, it’s to make the economy profitable. Well, it was the conservative prime minister Benjamin Draeli in Britain that said health, public health, that’s the center of things. And it was Draeli that promoted public health as opposed to the the United States under President Obama that says we’ve got to privatize public health. and uh the American medical associations as ever since the 1950s fighting we’re against socialized medicine. Well, uh it ends up that uh that uh instead of socialized medicine taking over the medical practice of doctors, the private health insurance companies have taken over what doctors can do uh here and pressed uh the uh cost of medical uh care to 20% of GDP. Well, this is far in excess of what other countries from Europe to uh China do. China offers public health and also free public education as England uh did for a long time and as many European countries did. But now it’s very expensive everywhere from uh over 50,000 a year at least in the United States to high prices for English uh Australian and other Western uh English-speaking universities and I guess in uh uh German universities. All of these functions that were supposed to create a competitive lowpriced economy are uh now being privatized, high-priced and uh countries such as China and Russia are uh keeping the price of basic needs low and they’re doing what is supposedly what democracies are supposed to do. The Americans say we’re democracy against autocracy. But that’s not what this fight is all about. It’s against Western oligarchy versus uh socialism uh state uh in in industrial capitalism with a strong public uh subsidy. uh and uh this subsidy prevents an uh a financial oligarchy from developing because what China has done and going further than the socialist movements have advocated in uh in the west is to say money is a public utility and we’re creating money and credit to the people’s bank of China to uh not to uh finance corporate takeovers and making money uh financially by financial engineering We’re using money and credit to finance actual construction. Well, they’ve over financed housing construction obviously, but they’ve also financed their industry. They financed their wind farms. Uh they’re financing their uh basic uh research or at least providing uh government uh subsidy and support for private enterprise. Uh doing all of these there’s a mixed economy. Every successful civilization in history has been a mixed economy.
July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED from their PRSC studio in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by Chloe Slater of The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets, which we were not shown, had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly young man Jez and now self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait in the cold outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk and retrieve our remaining kit in December 2024. 
[UPDATE channel restored by YT in July 2025] October 2022 – Tony’s Public Enquiry Channel opened in March 2008, with 13 million views, over 1,600 videos and 26,000 subscribers is removed under false pretences by YouTube – A video Tony recorded in New Zealand ‘Bill Gates, ID2020 & Revelation: Quaker Tony Gosling on Covid 19 & the Bible’ and uploaded on 8th April 2020 got a ‘third strike’ but YouTube’s ‘medical misinformation’ regime was introduced in September 2021 so should not have included as ‘strikes’ videos uploaded before that date. Documentary makers are just about the only public interest investigators left in the NATO zone. From the top down, our mainstream media, police, political parties & intelligence services are being compromised by feudal banksters, secret societies and the mafia. Key people intimidated by psychopathic black magic types and their pliable drones who will even kill to take over positions of power? Just search for “John Scarlett” and “Dodgy Dossier” and you’ll see what I mean. The Zionists are every bit as fundamentalist and twisted as the leaders and followers of ISIS. Register here and join us in the discussion as we wriggle free of the psychopaths, back to sanity http://www.911forum.org.uk
March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a long-time personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Pat Hart has a private property portfolio on the continent and also does Public Relations work for property speculators who are taking over community facilities such as Redfield Cinema. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 20:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with a dumbed-down student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda. If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here.
February 2019 – Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories – It could have resulted in BCfm radio station being shut down if the complaint was upheld Tony Gosling reported to Ofcom by UK Lawyers for Israel after being accused of anti-semitism A Bristol radio station, which had one of its programmes reported for anti-semitism and racism has been cleared by Ofcom. The radio regulatory body received a complaint from “UK Lawyers for Israel’ over a show on BCfm radio, hosted by investigative journalist Tony Gosling. The weekly politics show, on the popular community radio station based in Easton, was reported for several allegations on a show which aired on November 23. Tony Gosling, who was a former BBC journalist between 1989 and 1993, has been producing and presenting ‘The Tony Gosling Politics’ show every week on BCFM radio for 11 years. They have released a statement which reads: “Whilst we are supportive of all our volunteer presenters, The Tony Gosling Politics Show only represents approximately ten percent of our political output content wise, and less than two per cent of our entire weekly output.” Mr Gosling’s programme looks at local politics and he interviews a range of councillors and MPs in the city. The show is also perhaps more well known for its alternative look at international politics, and he has a cult following online from across the world. Mr Gosling has made regular appearances on national media including the politics show with Andrew Neil on BBC One, and international channels such as Russia Today, Channel1 Russia, NTV, and recently for both Turkish and Lebanon TV.
November 2012 – Tony gets death threats on the phone from the Jewish Defence League – ‘you’re a dead man walking’ – a man calls him and Tony records the call. Audio of UK Jewish Defence League (JDL) death threat against British journalist Tony Gosling (2012) – Avon and Somerset police Special Branch investigate, trace the caller, and after six months report to Tony that the individual has been served a caution that they will proceed with a prosecution for harassment under the 1861 offences against the person act. Seems pretty clear this death threat was issued alongside the lies, copied below, which were published on their blog by London based UK JDL in November 2012. Firstly Tony Gosling is not a ‘homophobe’. That accusation was first made in an article published by the ‘Harry’s Place’ blog, penned by Zionist David Toube and propelled by him anonymously into Private Eye in 2008. It refers to Gosling’s criticism of senior teachers at Bannerman Road Primary school in Bristol who used homosexual early learning picture books against the express wishes of the parent governors. His criticism was about the deception by teaching staff not because of the homosexual content of the books. Secondly, if you follow the JDL link you’ll find what Tony Gosling actually says about the ‘Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion’ says “…I don’t think there is much doubt that the Protocols are fake…” Thirdly he is not a member of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has never been to any of their meetings.
Autumn 2014 – Tony’s documentary production and distribution business shut down by its bank. Our thriving Co-op business bank account ordered closed for undisclosed reasons. Tony Gosling and Ben Edwards founded i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account! 
