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Part One – Local and National News Review
France and the U.K. recently advised people to have supplies for a period of 72 hours ready. “Don’t wait for the emergency: prepare now!” a government account for the French region of Normandy said in a social media statement on Tuesday. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said during an interview on BBC Radio: “I do like my beans, so I have plenty of those in the cupboard, and soup. I think those are the kind of things that I would recommend people to have.” Canada, Japan, Mexico and the Netherlands also advise an emergency kit for a 72-hour period. Other countries suggest a longer preparedness period, with Sweden and Norway advising having supplies for about one week, and Germany advising supplies for up to 10 days. ‘Have Your Own Food, Water and Supplies’ Some countries have less time specific guidelines. In the U.S., for example, advice published on Ready.gov, a website of the Department of Homeland Security, states: “Being prepared means having your own food, water and other supplies to last for several days.” India’s National Disaster Management Authority advises households to have a disaster emergency kit but doesn’t stipulate a time frame. In some cases, advice is given for general emergencies, while in others, it applies to specific hazards. Some countries have region-specific advice. For example, in Western Australia has advised that residents in cyclone-prone areas prepare an emergency kit with food, water and medication. Similarly, the city of Cape Town in South Africa tells households to maintain enough supplies to last for at least three days.Countries With Stockpile and Emergency Preparedness Advice: Europe: The United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and Croatia. North America: United States, Canada and Mexico. South America: Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil. Africa: South Africa. Asia: Japan, Taiwan, Israel, India, Philippines and Singapore. Oceania: New Zealand and Australia
The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the ‘Fat Man’ plutonium bomb device on August 9, 1945, caused terrible human devastation. A B-29 named Bock’s Car took off from Tinian at 3:47 that morning. In its belly was Fat Man, and the atomic bomb was already armed. Major Charles W. Sweeney flew the plane while its namesake, Captain Fredrick C. Bock, piloted Sweeney’s usual mount christened “The Great Artiste.” The two men had switched aircraft as “The Great Artiste” held the sensitive measuring equipment used to monitor the atomic event. The Enola Gay took part in the mission, flying weather reconnaissance. Over Kokura, clouds and smoke from nearby bombing raids obscured visibility. The Americans could see parts of the city, but they could not sight directly on the city arsenal that was their target. Sweeney flew overhead until Japanese antiaircraft fire and fighters made things “a little hairy,” and it was obvious that sighting would be impossible. He then headed for his secondary target: Nagasaki. In Kokura, meanwhile, civilians who had taken shelter after the air raid signal heard the all-clear, emerged, and breathed sighs of relief. None of them knew then, of course, how close they had come to dying. Clouds also obscured visibility over Nagasaki, and Maj. Sweeney, running out of fuel, prepared to turn back toward Okinawa. At the last second a hole opened in the clouds, however, and Bombardier Capt. Kermit K. Beahan announced that he could see his target. And so Fat Man began its journey, detonating over Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time. Fat Man detonated at an altitude of 1,650 feet over Nagasaki with a yield of 21 kilotons, about 40 percent more powerful than Little Boy had been. It did so almost directly above the Mitsubishi factories that were the city’s primary targets, rather than over the residential and business districts further south. Tens of thousands of civilians, especially children, had already been evacuated from the city. The series of hills bracing Nagasaki also somewhat confined the initial blast and restricted the damage.
But defenses against strategic ballistic missiles have a long history of disappointments. Over roughly seven decades, the United States has spent more than $500 billion (in 2025 dollars) on missile defenses, much of it to defend against intercontinental ballistic missiles. And yet, the ability of any of these systems to intercept even a single missile or warhead under the conditions expected during a nuclear attack has not been demonstrated. Most recently, the Trump administration has proposed “Golden Dome” — an ambitious proposal for a comprehensive, layered defense with ground, sea, and space-based elements. It is supposed to protect the United States and its allies and deployed forces not only against attacks by ballistic missiles, but also by cruise missiles, hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, aircraft, and drones launched at any time from anywhere by any adversary, including peer adversaries. There is no prospect of deploying a missile defense system capable of successfully defending against a major ballistic missile attack by Russia and China for the foreseeable future. Such a system would have to be able to destroy hundreds or thousands of nuclear-armed long-range ballistic missiles or their warheads in the face of sophisticated countermeasures, dozens of decoys, and salvo tactics, as well as new delivery systems specifically designed to defeat it….
Revolution Or Extinction. The Choice Is Ours. Humanity has the freedom to fail this test and go the way of the dinosaur. We’re allowed to take that path if that’s what we collectively choose to do. We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if we want to. We are completely free to do that. I don’t know about you, but I actually find this a comforting thought. When you take a close look at the existential hurdles that humanity is faced with, it can feel pretty bleak. Global capitalism is destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival. The western empire is getting increasingly comfortable engaging in reckless brinkmanship with nuclear-armed rivals. The AI arms race is shoving through wildly unpredictable technologies at a rapidly accelerating rate with alarmingly little institutional oversight or caution. But when you notice that all of these existential threats are entirely man-made, you realize that this means humanity has the ability to un-make them as well. We have the freedom to do either. It’s up to us. I find this a comforting insight because it puts the ball in our court. We can choose to rise up and use the power of our numbers to save ourselves from doom, or we can choose not to. The universe, apparently, is fine with either choice. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be holding the ball. And who am I to argue with the universe? If the universe wants humanity to have the freedom to either go extinct in the near term or survive deep into the distant future, then I can make space within myself to allow that freedom, too. Whether or not we make it is not up to me as an individual. I can control my own actions, but I cannot control the actions of my fellow homo sapiens as a whole. And if our species as a collective decides that revolutionary change is not desirable enough or too scary or too difficult to seize, then I can submit to the will of the collective. I can hold enough grace and compassion for my species to honor its sovereign decision. “We’ll either pass the test or we won’t.” That’s what I tell myself when things are looking dark. I give humanity the freedom to make its decision, and in so doing I free myself. I do what I can to move the needle in whatever way my limited means allow me to, and then beyond that I submit to the will of our better angels. I do my work, and then I let go. I let go and enjoy my time on this beautiful blue planet here. Because I don’t know how much longer it will last.
In April 2026, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Spain with “an immediate price” in retaliation for Spain’s strong condemnation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The CGT’s rail branch in Galicia has written to Renfe’s president demanding the immediate suspension of Israeli firm I-Sec’s contract to provide security and surveillance service on trains and in stations, workshops and other railway facilities. I-Sec Aviation Security SL is a subsidiary of ICTS, which was founded in 1982 “by members of two Israeli intelligence services of the Shin Bet”, the letter said. It went on: From the Railway Sector of CGT in Galicia we consider that the Renfe Group, as a public company that it is, must maintain a clear position against the genocide that the Israeli government is perpetrating against the Palestinian people, not financing Israeli companies with public money and even less companies whose creation has a history with people linked to Israeli security services that do not respect human rights. I-SEC’s contract in the Galician area covers Renfe’s security work on trains and in stations across all Galician rail lines. The firm also handles surveillance of parked trains and of facilities including train and carriage maintenance workshops. The workers are demanding that: From the CGT Galicia rail sector we demand suspension of the [Israeli] contract and for it to be tendered to another company not linked to Israel. The government’s official narrative so far attributes the crash to ‘human error’. But the CGT workers are not the only ones to have suspicions – including engineers:
Algorithms and search engines. Marginalia. What Marginalia is, and why the verdict is an own index Marginalia is a search engine built by one person in Sweden that crawls the web itself and ranks it more or less backwards from the way Google does. Heavy JavaScript, dense advertising, affiliate links, tracking scripts and modern optimized design push a page down. What rises instead is text: personal sites, old blogs, university department pages, hobbyist documentation — the parts of the web with no marketing budget and consequently no visibility in mainstream results. Marginalia runs its own crawler, stores its own index (the engine’s stored copy of the web), applies its own ranking, and involves no Google or Bing feed anywhere. Its FAQ states flatly that the engine does its own crawling — and unusually, that claim can be checked from outside rather than taken on trust. The project’s framing is more modest than the coverage around it. It is not seeking to replace Google and Bing, it says, but to complement them — to provide a minority report that keeps them honest. It is a discovery instrument, not a general-purpose answer engine, and has never pretended otherwise. The FAQ gives roughly 300 million documents as of 2024, occupying about a terabyte, and that page flags itself as outdated; the current about-site says only “hundreds of millions of documents.” No dated 2025 or 2026 figure exists, so none is asserted here. Against Google’s trillions this is four to five orders of magnitude smaller, and the project treats that as a design position rather than a shortfall. The FAQ’s own formulation is the clearest sentence about the whole project: an index with a million documents that are all of high quality is better than an index with a billion documents where only a fraction are interesting. Marginalia is principally developed and operated by Viktor Löfgren, a Swedish software engineer, working essentially alone. No company, no board, no investor. Wikipedia records maintenance at around an hour a week. The about page gives operating costs of approximately $200 a month and describes the project as running on donations, grants and commercial API deals, with no investor pressure — designed, in its own words, to scrape by. There is no advertising and none planned. The commercial leg is a keyed API: SearXNG’s Marginalia module, for instance, requires a key issued under Marginalia’s own license terms. There are also no AI features, deliberately — no AI answers, no chat, no LLM summarisation. The project positions against the trend, holding that traditional information-retrieval approaches still offer capabilities that have largely become lost. It is a keyword engine by conviction, for users who want to steer a query rather than ask a question. The inverse is quietly true: because it offers a clean keyed API over an index of non-commercial text, it has become attractive to people building AI and research tooling. Marginalia does not do AI; AI systems increasingly want Marginalia.
The political activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, sent photographers to their addresses and shared images of their homes with millions of social media followers, prosecutors said. Journalists Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber described how they ‘feared for their safety’ after Robinson, 43, sent a series of posts and direct messages on social media platform X. The court heard Robinson sent Mr Dirnhuber a message saying, ‘I’ll be knocking on your door,’ and when a photo was posted on X of Mr Dirnhuber outside his home, wrote: ‘Got ya.’ Jurors heard he also phoned Mr Young to tell him: ‘I’m coming to get you.’ Robinson denied two charges of harassment causing fear of violence and said the journalists would have known he was not ‘coming to beat them up’. But Robinson faces a possible jail term of up to ten years after he was convicted by jurors today at Southwark Crown Court. He showed little reaction as the verdicts were returned. Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime and counter terrorism division, said Robinson ‘weaponised social media and subjected two journalists to a campaign of harassment which caused them serious fear of violence’. Speaking following the guilty verdicts, he said: ‘The evidence in this case showed that he targeted the victims directly and indirectly through social media and by telephone. He also published images relating not only to them, but also their families. ‘The jury heard from the victims and witnesses in this case, ultimately deciding that this behaviour crossed the line into criminality. Prosecutor Ben Holt told jurors how Robinson targeted the journalists after the Mail published a front-page story about him in August 2024. ‘The jury heard from the victims and witnesses in this case, ultimately deciding that this behaviour crossed the line into criminality. The Met said anyone behaving as Robinson did ‘to intimidate, harass and threaten others either online or in the real world can expect to be investigated and brought before the courts’ ‘Nobody should be made to fear violence because of the work they do. Journalists play an important role in a democratic society and should be able to carry out their professional duties without being subjected to harassment. ‘We will always seek to work with the police to prosecute those who break the law and I hope these convictions provide reassurance that such behaviour will be treated seriously by the criminal justice system.’ The story had the headline ‘Stoking race riots from his sunbed’ and was based on unrest in the UK sparked by the murder of three girls in Southport. Mr Holt said Robinson could have complained to Ipso, the independent Press regulator, about the exclusive article. Instead, he ‘retaliated’, warning: ‘You have come for me, I am going to come for you.’ Mr Holt told jurors: ‘This defendant, using bully-boy, intimidatory tactics, threatened the journalists. ‘The journalists feared for their own personal safety and also for their own family, either being forced to leave home or employ security personnel to watch their home.’ Robinson told police the Daily Mail had identified his hotel in Cyprus and he was ‘overrun with news crews taking photos and filming my children’, who were ‘scared and upset’. Mr Holt said: ‘His case is that his family had been put in danger by the actions of the Daily Mail.’ However, no identifiable pictures of his children were published by the Daily Mail. Reporter Mr Dirnhuber was left ‘scared to go to my own house’ in the wake of Robinson’s social media messages, while freelance journalist Mr Young said he felt his family was under threat because of the harassment by Robinson. Mr Dirnhuber said he feared being ‘intercepted’ by a supporter of Robinson on his way to work, who may have been ‘hoping to cause me or my partner physical harm’. He said he and his partner decided to leave their home until security provisions had been put in place – including a doorbell camera and assessing the feasibility of a panic alarm.
BBC QT – Is Burnham playing with fire reigniting Brexit debate? Burnham reignites Britain’s divisive Brexit debate with his push for closer EU ties LONDON (AP) – For a decade, British governments have observed a cardinal rule: Don´t mention Brexit. In particular, don´t suggest that voters´ 2016 decision to leave the European Union should be reversed. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who marked his 100th day in office on Tuesday, has broken that code of silence and reignited a debate that bitterly divided the country. He says Brexit has been a failure and the U.K. should seek a much closer relationship with the EU, with options up to and including rejoining the 27-nation bloc. “I am positive about closer ties with Europe and I´m not hiding that,” Burnham told the Sunday Times. “I think it will add to British GDP. I think it will give us stronger control of migration. I want to make those arguments.” In recent interviews, Burnham has said the country should have an “evidence-based debate” about the consequences of Brexit. He gave the example of immigration. Supporters of Brexit argued that it would give the country control over its borders by ending the right of EU citizens to live and work in the U.K., and of British nationals to settle across the bloc. While Britain now sets its own immigration policy, Burnham said leaving the bloc had made it harder to control unauthorized migration because Britain has lost access to EU databases and agreements. “The truth of the matter is we´ve lost immigration control in the way that we once had,” Burnham told broadcaster ITV on Monday. Some economists think that Brexit has hurt the British economy, but few politicians have wanted to reopen the painful debate. The decision of British voters, by 52% to 48%, to leave the bloc after four decades of membership was followed by years of U.K.-EU wrangling over divorce terms. Britain finally left the EU in 2020 with a bare-bones trade deal that erected new barriers to doing business with the bloc of 450 million people on the U.K.´s doorstep. In seeking closer ties, Burnham remains bound by the pledge of Keir Starmer, whom he replaced as Labour Party leader and prime minister, not to rejoin the bloc´s tariff-free customs union or frictionless single market for goods, services and workers. Burnham says that could change after the next national election, which must be held by 2029. He told the Labour Party´s annual conference last month that “Brexit has done more harm than good” and he will seek political consensus on a new relationship, with future options including rejoining the bloc. A U.K.-EU summit in Brussels on Nov. 20 is set to discuss a more limited reset: a trade deal for food and drink, agreements on energy and emissions trading and a plan to let young people work for limited periods across Britain and the EU…
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Burnham pledges not to ‘re-run’ Brexit arguments 18 May 2026 Andy Burnham has promised not to “re-run” Brexit arguments, as he said he was not proposing the UK considers rejoining the European Union. The Greater Manchester mayor, who is expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership if he wins the Makerfield by-election, said Brexit had been “damaging” but “Britain will be stuck in a permanent rut if we’re just constantly arguing”.Burnham said last September that he would like to see the UK back in the EU within his lifetime. Streeting, who resigned from the government last week and has confirmed he would enter any future leadership race, told a conference that the “biggest economic opportunity we have is on our doorstep” as he called for a “new special relationship” with the EU. In order to stand to replace Sir Keir, Burnham would need to win a by-election in the Makerfield constituency, which voted strongly for Brexit in 2016. He has already been cleared to seek selection as Labour’s candidate, after the current MP Josh Simons stood down to make way for him, although he still needs to be chosen by the local party. In a speech at a conference in Leeds, Burnham said: “My view is that Brexit has been damaging, but I also believe the last thing we should do right now is re-run those arguments.” He added: “I am not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU. “I respect the decision that was made at the referendum and it is going to undermine everything I have said about strengthening democracy if we don’t respect that vote.” Sir Keir has already been seeking closer ties with the bloc, but has stuck to Labour’s election manifesto pledges to “stay outside the EU”, with “no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement”.
While the Office for Budget Responsibility warns this could reduce rental supply and drive up prices, some experts suggest the impact on rents may be limited by tenant affordability and landlord margins. Tenants have been warned to expect higher rents following Labour’s decision to hike property tax for landlords at the Autumn Budget. Chancellor John Healey confirmed that rental income will be subject to a further two percentage point tax increase from April, which will add to an identical announcement made by his predecessor Rachel Reeves last year. The tax surcharge on property income will be four points higher from April 2027 as a result, in a move the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) said had “made life harder for renters right across the country”. Under current forecasts, rents are already expected to rise by four per cent over the next year – adding £700 on to the average annual bill for tenants. This could now grow even higher as a result of Labour’s tax increase, with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warning that it risks “leading to a steady rise in rents”. Delivering its economic outlook alongside the Budget, the spending watchdog said that the increased tax burden – alongside other housing policies – will reduce rental supply and cause remaining landlords to push up their prices….
The motion, to be debated in ?the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt next week, will have no immediate impact on Germany’s foreign policy, which is exclusively the responsibility of the federal government in Berlin. But it underscores the AfD’s strong push for ‘an end to German support for Ukraine and a restoration of ties with Russia’, which have been largely severed since Russian forces launched a full-scale ?invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. “This motion symbolises the desire for change,” Ulrich Siegmund, ?the AfD leader in Saxony-Anhalt, said in a statement. Siegmund led the anti-immigration AfD to its ‘best-ever election result last month, topping the state election in Saxony-Anhalt but falling just short of the majority he would need to form the first-ever AfD government. He has since been exploring potential cooperation arrangements ?with the BSW, which like the AfD has long opposed German support for Ukraine. Siegmund said ?the party would use every opportunity to press the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz “to finally campaign for ‘an end’ to the war rather than its prolongation” and to use the money spent in Ukraine “for the people in our country”. In a message on the social media platform X, BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht said Germany needed “a federal government that finally makes an effort to resume ?dialogue with Moscow”….
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And can you tell us something about him and whether or not he think he really represents Serbian people? Well, he he definitely doesn’t represent them now because he was defeated in what appears to have been a relatively fair and square election. Um the the opposition uh which was uh running under the banner of the student list contains no students. Surprisingly enough to me as a former student radical and a four-term student union president here in Canada during my university years um I’ve been quite critical of the of what I call the tale of uh of a student uprising because yes the students definitely opposed it and yes the students definitely brought him down but the idea that this is a student list when there are no student candidates. Think about this. I’m 65 now. When I was 22, I ran for mayor of one of Canada’s 10 provincial capital cities. That was quite an unusual thing, and it still is unusual. Um, but I felt that if students want to have a voice in society, then they have to run for office just like anybody else. students have been claiming for years that as of the age of 18, the age of majority in Canada that they should have full citizens rights. That’s fine and I agree with that. When you have full citizens rights, you should be running for political office in the society to which you belong. In the Serbian case, the student protests start. They the marchers included mainly students, but the maximum participation in the marches across the country for two years that went to every major city in Serbia. The maximum participation in any one march was roughly about 50,000 people. That’s the max. The smaller turnouts could have been 2 or 3,000. But they marched and they marched for two years. And although they never exceeded 50,000 and the reason I give you that number is because relative to the total number of students in Serbia, 50,000 is not a big number. The total number of students in Serbia who are citizens and could vote is somewhere around a quarter of a million. So the total participation in the marches was roughly 20 to 30% of the total students in the country. So the students who marched were a minority. Well, you and I as activists know that activists are always in the minority and their objective is to convince the majority. So the students marched and marched and marched and in the end and and and Vhuch made many mistakes. First of all, he was a corrupt president. He was surrounded whether or not he personally was corrupt. He allowed the corruption.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss spoke on the latest episode of the Daily Expresso. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has launched a brutal attack on Britain’s political “establishment” claiming that elected MPs have far less power than the public believes and that “unelected bureaucrats” are pulling the strings behind the scenes. In the latest episode of the Daily Expresso, the former Prime Minister was asked by host JJ Anisiobi: “What is the biggest secret Westminster is hiding from the world?”Liz Truss answered: “I think the biggest secret Westminster is hiding is the fact that MPs don’t really have very much power and there’s a lot of pantomime politics going on. They are really beholden to the bureaucrats in terms of what they’re actually doing.” She added: “They’re lying about how powerful they are.” Her comments came during the Daily Expresso episode in which she slammed the Budget set out by Chancellor John Healey today, revisited the dramatic events surrounding her short-lived premiership, defended her controversial 2022 mini-budget and levelled fresh accusations against the Bank of England. Asked directly who really holds power in Britain, she also said: “The bureaucrats have the power.” She added: “I think people falsely think MPs have a lot of power.” The former PM said they have power collectively but not individually. “It’s the bureaucrats who have who have power individually,” she said. In the episode, the former PM blamed the Bank of England for the 2022 market turmoil. She also criticised what she described as decades of poor economic policy, pointing to high taxation, migration and energy costs as factors holding Britain back. One of her most explosive claims concerned the Bank of England’s role in the financial turmoil that followed her mini-budget in September 2022. Liz Truss insisted that the central bank, rather than her tax-cutting plans, was primarily responsible for the crisis that engulfed her government. She also criticised the Bank’s decision to begin quantitative tightening which involves reducing its holdings of government bonds, after years of quantitative easing. She claimed the Bank of England governor intervened over who should be appointed as the head of the Treasury and pressured her to reverse policies….
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You’ve spoken in the past about the cabinet secretary’s power being massively uh understated. You’ve spoken in the past about the um enormous power that the principal private secretary to the prime minister exercises. And I wonder whether you might be able to bring these thoughts together to give us a a short explanation of where you think power really lies and whether it rests in the right place and whether there are changes and you’ve begun just now to explain one or two of them that could be made to put power back where you think it should rest. So I guess um [clears throat] a few things um uh so in 2020 um I did not attend a single cabinet meeting. It’s normal for senior political people to attend cabinet but I didn’t go to any. The reason is because um other than very odd peculiar times now of political stress essentially cabinet is is is become an irrelevance and the actual important meetings that decide what’s going on are 50 meters away in the cabinet office. So if you look back say 2020 in COVID the media are all reporting cabinet meet cabinet meetings on PLA rouse between A and B on PLA all basically pumpkin theater nonsense. the co task force was the thing that was actually deciding things 50 meters away in the cabinet office not not the cabinet um it’s certainly true that the cabinet secretary’s role is very much underrated people don’t understand how much power there is there also I think people don’t understand how that changed from not sure exactly when but say roughly I guess the Haywood eraish Guss o Donald Haywood era after which another huge change there was that a lot of aspects of how things like the intelligence services work and coordination between the intelligence services the cabinet office number 10 mod a lot of that machinery basically got transferred inside the national security secretariat in the cabinet office and then that is now essentially became became a black talks um uh outside any ministerial political oversight or involvement of any description. So there are things like the NSCO NSC bracket O closed bracket meetings over officials where um all sorts of crucial things were decided. There are very obscure little cabinet office committees that decide things like how to task MI5 and MI6 with priorities. All these things essentially became completely separated from any any ministerial role. Now the defense of the system is well they’re in the cabinet office so they’re sort of under the prime minister. But of course, the prime minister doesn’t attend any of those meetings. And if the prime minister’s most senior political advisers asked to attend those meetings, they’ll be told, “Sorry, but that would be that would that would um be uh uh pet the uh the internal Gestapo for HR would not be happy with that sort of thing. So that’s another aspect. If a bomb goes off or if uh some secretary of state in a completely hypothetical situation, you understand, were to have a very very unsuitable girlfriend, which may or may not have happened in the last few years. Then the first thing that happens is that people in the intelligence services go to meet the cabinet secretary and they have a meeting and they decide, okay, the bomb’s gone off. What do we think about blah blah blah? And they decide then what information is given to the PM. And the PM sits in a little room and is told a few things but is very much not at the center of what’s going on. And a whole subterranean system operates between these other different power centers in Whiteall almost entirely out of the view of any minister um and also the prime minister. So that’s a huge change. Um, if you go back to Brexit as an example of the thing you’re talking about, people often say questions like, oh, what, you know, what did the foreign secretary or what did whoever say about this aspect of Brexit? And the answer is, I can’t remember and it wasn’t important. What was important was what did the private secretary in the prime minister’s office think about X? I dealt with them multiple times a day. They wrote the agenda for meetings. we would argue about what the action points were…
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
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David Hearst, editor of Middle East Eye, on Israeli elections – Netanyahu to lead coalition – large Palestinian vote.
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Judge Napolitano – Geoffrey Sachs on Netanyahu nuking Iran.
Thomas Suarez, Palestinian Jew on social media – history of Israeli terrorist groups. How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine’s fate Israel’s propaganda playbook attempts to reframe the Palestinian liberation struggle as a question of terror, not territory . Thanks to a dutiful media, this effort to portray Palestinians as terrorists has had significant traction among some demographics.But how did terrorism originate in Palestine and what was its outcome, both historically and today? Thomas Suárez sheds much new light on those questions in State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel. He does this largely by mining previously neglected declassified documents from the British National Archives, covering the period of the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948). Suárez’s principal thesis is that Zionist terrorism “ultimately dictated the course of events during the Mandate, and it is Israeli state terrorism that continues to dictate events today.” The author cautions that while he unequivocally condemns Palestinian terrorism against civilians, he recognizes that some were driven to extreme measures due to an asymmetry in power and in reaction to attempts to subjugate the Palestinian people and expropriate their resources, land and labor. Zionist terrorism aimed to prevent Palestinian Arabs from exercising their right to self-determination, Suárez argues, and when an aggressor encounters resistance, it can hardly use self-defense as a justification for its own acts of violence. “Otherwise,” Suárez writes, “all aggression would self-justify.” Suárez is not a professional historian. However, State of Terror has drawn praise from such figures as Israeli historian Ilan Pappe who – on the book cover – calls it a “tour de force” and “the first comprehensive and structured analysis” of the violence employed by the Zionist movement both before and after Israel’s creation. Indeed, Suárez’s scholarship is impressive and the book includes nearly 700 endnotes consisting mainly of original sources.
Miodrag Zarcovic, live from Serbia, on the recent elections – politics complicated with corruption one side but possible NATO influence the other.
Ex-Colonel Simon Diggins, Putin is a maniac and about to attack us.
Thousands of men getting ‘busified’ in Ukraine to war, with women screaming.
Vladimir Putin: what is the Russian attack threshold – examine document. Putin Comments on Call with Finnish and Norwegian Leaders | RU-EN Interpretation What happened during the conversation? Stubb described the discussion with Putin as “frank and substantive”. “We are neighbouring countries to Russia. The outcome of this war will have a direct impact on our and the broader European security. Ending the war requires direct discussions,” the Finnish president said. Stoere said he and Stubb had “stressed the importance of de-escalation” to Putin. In a post on X, Stubb said the call “was a follow-up to the meeting in Oslo on 20 October”, referring to talks between US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Zelenskyy, held amid deteriorating relations between Washington and Kyiv. Stubb said the conversation with Putin was prepared “in consultation with Ukraine and the United States . Stubb stressed that the joint call was held in individual capacities as leaders of Norway and Finland, not as representatives of Europe. “We emphasised that our support for Ukraine remains unwavering,” Stubb said. Stubb said all Western allies were consulted on the initiative, and that Ukraine had sought the opening of a new channel of communication, arguing that Europe could not contribute to peace efforts by giving Russia “the silent treatment”. Norway’s Prime Minister Stoere added: “Talking to the other side does in no way mean that we take off the pressure. So I believe that that is something Europe also should do with voices that can be understood on that side.” The conversation with Putin was followed up with a call to Zelenskyy. How did Putin respond to the call? The Kremlin’s summary of the conversation suggests the Russian president maintained a hard line. “It was emphasised that achieving a just and long-term peace is possible only if the legitimate interests of the Russian Federation are fully and unconditionally taken into account,” it said. The Kremlin also made reference to “the confrontational policies of EU and NATO countries, which are contributing to the prolongation of the hostilities”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the call was “constructive and substantive” adding that “Putin’s position is well known. It’s consistent, and he has spoken about the need to address the root causes.” But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the Nordic leaders’ call with Putin offered “nothing new” to end the Ukraine conflict, saying that European countries were simply seeking a role in negotiations.
Cryptocurrency outfits have a long and inglorious history of falling victim to cyberattacks, perhaps starting with the 2011 raid on Mt Gox, to incidents allegedly perpetrated by nation-states, and, just last week, another situation possibly involving an AI-powered attacker. Late on Thursday, US time, the company used its social media feeds to report “Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating.” The exchange insisted “User funds are completely safe” and warned its customers “should remain cautious of scams and should not trust unofficial links, messages, or requests for account information.” The company soon froze $2.5 billion worth of assets and warned that the figure could go higher “as our teams work closely with law enforcement, issuers, blockchain intelligence firms and industry partners to trace and freeze additional assets.” To prevent the matter worsening, Binance halted all trading, deposits, and withdrawals. It also promised to cover any losses. About an hour ago at the time of writing, Binance posted an update on the incident that explains what it thinks went wrong. “Binance’s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions,” the post states. The company also hiked the amount it thinks is at risk to $6.3 billion and repeated its promise to cover any customer losses. The update also says Binance found no evidence of any wallet private key leak, suggesting that customers’ holdings remain secure. Binance hasn’t explained how attackers gained access to the engineer’s laptop. The scant details provided make it hard to rule out a successful phishing attack, or perhaps a supply chain attack on a package the developer used.
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Sam Williams – Freemasonry in Police Stations. So, this isn’t the old courtroom, is it? It’s uh the courtroom. The old courtroom. This is the cell. If you want the courtroom, it’s there. I’ll show you. Okay. Okay. Yes. Ah, can I just have a quick look? Just one minute. Wow. Oh, it’s so nice and cold in here. Gra left me alone. Wow. Silk trade. Oh. Oh. Edward the Oh, George the fifth. This is on the ceiling. Wow, it’s nice and cold in here, though. Oh, look. Justice carpet. And justice just suspiciously looks like a pyramid. What’s with all of this synretatism, I guess. What’s the likelihood any of these doors are open? Oh my god, they are. That’s the back rooms for this one where I’m probably not going to get back out again because the handle is coming off. It’s just an airing cupboard. Okay, that’s fine. You never know unless you try the doors. And it seems that man has left us in here all alone. We can now access the back rooms of the building. Oh no, this is that other diary dining room. That lady did seem to be very keen that we didn’t escape into the building, didn’t she? It’s a challenge, basically. A challenge. Wow. It’s all in very good condition. There’s that uh that design. Oh, what’s this? Is this some kind of club? Oh, no. Is this like a cinema or something in here? Hello afternoon. Very nice. And then and then presumably there’s a door. Oh, me again. Yeah. A private event over here today. Oh, there’s nobody here. There’s nobody here. They’re just outside and they’re walking through this place. I was having such an exciting time until you shut me down. [laughter] I’m sorry for that. Is there any I mean there there are parts of the hotel you don’t want me to go into is what I’m getting. All the empty parts. It’s just a very It’s not often. Did you have a look at this?
Tony’s paperback Traitors Of Arnhem , Siege Of Heaven ; Siege Of Heaven Reader – all available for donation, or to buy, via www.bilderberg.org The Bristol Politics Show CANCELLED and attempts to intimidate us
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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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! 
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