Month: December 2024

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Government war on family farming via inheritance tax. Liz Webster, from Save British Farming, on inheritance tax and farmland used as a tax dodge, and her reasoning on why policy won’t work. Relieve pressure on farmers by raising threshold for farm inheritance tax, Bishop urges The shadow cabinet gather outside parliament on Tuesday to protest against the Government plan to increase by 20 per cent inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million THE threshold for inheritance tax levied on farms should be raised, in order to alleviate the pressure that the Government’s proposals are putting on farmers, the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, has said. In a debate in the House of Lords last week, Bishop Usher said that the Government’s proposals were bringing “huge stress and deep concern to the farming community”. New rules, due to come into force in April 2026, will mean that inheritance tax of 20 per cent is applied on farms worth more than £1 million. Previously, agricultural assets have been exempt from inheritance tax. Bishop Usher said that the proposals were, for many farmers, the “final straw after years of challenges.” He urged the Government to raise the threshold at which inheritance tax is levied, so that it applied only to the largest farming estates. He also argued for a “tweak” to the rules around tax-free gifts in the seven years before a person’s death, “so that farm owners who die in the next seven years have an opportunity to make tax-avoiding gifts in light of the Budget changes”. This, he said, would be an “eminently sensible and compassionate” way forward. The breakup or sale of smaller farms to pay tax bills was likely to affect biodiversity, he said. The Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley — whose diocese, like Bishop Usher’s, consists in large part of farming communities — also spoke against the Government’s proposals. “I urge the Government to truly consider the impact of these reforms and encourage them to have continued dialogue and an assessment of the impact on farming families and rural communities — the people to whom we owe the food on our tables,” she said. The debate was called by the Earl of Leicester, a hereditary peer who sits as a Conservative. He said that it was wrong to tax farmers as if agricultural property was personal wealth, “instead of what it really is — a business asset”. Baroness Mallalieu, who is a Labour peer as well as president of the Countryside Alliance and a small livestock farmer, also criticised the policy. “I believe the Government know that they have got this one wrong,” she said. She called for a change of plan. The only other Labour peer to speak in the debate was the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Livermore. He was also the only contributor to speak in defence of the proposals, suggesting that they were necessary in order to achieve economic stability. The inheritance tax, he said, was to be levied at half the usual rate on assets worth more than £1 million, and about three-quarters of estates were not expected to face any increase in their tax burden under the new rules.

Keir Starmer squirms as major error in farming tax exposed at Liaison Committee The Prime Minister sat down for his first grilling by the senior Commons Liaison Committee. Sir Keir Starmer was left squirming at the Liaison Committee this afternoon when he was asked simple questions about his planned changes to inheritance tax for farmers. After weeks of furious protests, the Prime Minister appeared unaware that his figure of only 500 estates being affected by the changes does not account for situations where farming land is passed down using business property relief. The PM said he believes the 500 figure to be robust, only for senior MP Alister Carmichael to shoot him down and point out: “I can assure you that it doesn’t”. Sir Keir appeared robotic when Mr Carmichael recounted a recent case of a farmer breaking down in tears in front of his committee over the tractor tax impact. Today’s 90-minute Liaison Committee session is focusing on growth and the economy; public services and plan for change; and global affairs and security. Starmer squirms over changes to inheritance tax for farmers and family businesses Starmer has insisted that his changes to APR and BPR get the balance right between raising revenue and protecting family farms. Asked if he is happy with the super rich getting away from the new taxes largely unscathed, while small family farms face the prospect of having to sell up, Sir Keir insisted that what the rich do with their money, provided it’s within the rules, is ‘up to them’. Asked how many family farms will be caught by the new tax, Sir Keir insists that the Treasury figure of 500 is a ‘robust’ estimation. However the PM stumbled when it was pointed out that the 500 figure doesn’t include farming estates where the land was passed on using BPR. Sir Keir replied “I think that it does”, however DEFRA committee chair Alistair Carmichael informed the PM: “I can assure you that it doesn’t”. Mr Carmichael accused Rachel Reeves of having refused to meet with farming unions since the Budget.

Rachel Reeves on inflation and Waspi women. Rachel Reeves: Bringing You the Financial Crash Revival Tour, 2024 Is Rachel Reeves About to Deliver the Sequel to Gordon Brown’s Pre-2008 Deregulation Disaster? Just as the dust finally settles from the 2008 financial apocalypse, Rachel Reeves has announced her brilliant idea to cut down on that pesky “red tape” choking our financial sector. But hang on—haven’t we heard this tune before? It sounds suspiciously like Gordon Brown’s late-90s anthem of “light-touch regulation,” which, if memory serves, wasn’t exactly the roaring success it seemed to be at the time. Brown’s pre-2008 masterpiece of deregulation let the financial wizards run wild with dodgy loans, mortgage-backed misadventures, and credit-default sorcery, all of which ultimately crashed with the grace of a cow on ice. So, is Reeves really suggesting we reenact this economic farce? Why Are We Reviving the Very Red Tape That Once Held the Economy Together? Reeves seems to think that “red tape” is little more than a nuisance, an annoying hindrance preventing bankers from unleashing their true creative potential. But let’s recall what this “tape” was actually holding together: the basic, sanity-saving boundaries that prevented financial firms from turning our economy into their personal casino. In the pre-2008 free-for-all, everyone from London to Las Vegas seemed to forget that risks are best enjoyed in moderation. Now, Reeves seems intent on reviving those carefree, heady days, leaving us to wonder if her real ambition is to bring back the financial crash revival tour, complete with a sold-out performance in the UK. Should We Really Be Giving the Green Light to Less Accountability? One of Reeves’ “innovative” ideas is to ease up on the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, which was put in place after 2008 to make sure financial executives couldn’t simply shrug their shoulders and bolt when their risky strategies blew up. In short, she’s suggesting we make it easier for these financial honchos to dodge accountability, as if it wasn’t already hard enough to pin down a banker who suddenly “can’t recall” who approved that toxic loan package. Remember, Gordon Brown’s “light-touch regulation” essentially meant “trust the bankers to keep it in check.” And we all know how well that worked out. Yet Reeves appears to be asking, what’s the worst that could happen if we loosen things up a little more? Oh, nothing much—just the collapse of several major banks, a taxpayer-funded bailout, and maybe a housing crisis for old time’s sake. Who Actually Thinks “More Risk” Is the Solution to Economic Stability? Reeves has declared that she’s had quite enough of all this “risk aversion” and is determined to bring a bit of edge back into the economy. Apparently, the idea is that if we just inject a bit of extra risk, bankers will finally have the freedom to innovate! But isn’t that exactly what got us into trouble before? Back in the days when Gordon Brown was too busy polishing the reputation of London as the “world’s financial capital” to worry about what might be lurking beneath, bankers took risks with gusto, building towers of debt that toppled faster than a reality star’s PR career. Reeves seems to think “risk” is a magic ingredient that will make our economy more dynamic. But let’s not forget, “risk” in financial jargon is often just a polite word for “gambling with other people’s money.” And when things go south, we know exactly who’s left footing the bill. Are We Really Going to Reopen the Subprime Mortgage Playbook? For those of us who remember the horror show of the last crash, the phrase “subprime mortgage” is about as welcome as an unsinkable Titanic replica. Yet Reeves’ deregulatory plans pave the way for precisely this sort of financial wizardry to make its grand return. With fewer regulations, we can practically expect the banks to jump right back into high-risk loans, collateralized debt obligations, and other Wall Street Frankenstein creations that nearly vaporized the global economy last time. Are we seriously going to relive the days when banks handed out mortgages to anyone with a pulse, or in some cases, a well-trained pet? Reeves might dress it up as a path to economic dynamism, but we all know where this road leads—and it isn’t toward prosperity. Will Reeves’ “Pro-Growth” Package Turn Out to Be a Pro-Banker Package? At its core, Reeves’ pro-growth agenda sounds like a greatest-hits album of financial deregulation, just like the one Gordon Brown once released with disastrous reviews. She wants to unshackle financial managers, reduce their “burdensome” accountability, and encourage banks to ramp up their risk-taking, all in the name of growth. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that this isn’t so much a pro-growth strategy as it is a pro-banker one, offering more freedom for a select few at the expense of everyone else. So, are we all just supposed to cross our fingers and hope that this time will be different? That the bankers who nearly imploded the global economy in 2008 have now become financial saints, somehow immune to the lure of reckless profits? What Will Be Left for the Taxpayer to Bail Out This Time? Let’s face it: Reeves’ deregulatory fever dream sounds like a direct line to a very familiar economic disaster. Gordon Brown’s deregulation left the nation scrambling to patch up a sinking financial ship, with the taxpayer picking up the tab. And now Reeves seems determined to steer us straight back to the same iceberg. So, if history is any guide, all we can do is sit back, prepare our wallets, and brace for another round of bank bailouts, economic “stimulus packages,” and mortgage meltdowns.

City of London and King Charles’ new UK ambassador to Washington. The brazen serpent: crimes of Peter Mandelson 1 Hinduja passports (1997 & 2001); 2 coup plotter Ely Calil (2004); 3 Rothschild/Deripaska in Corfu (2012); 4 Epstein (2019); Lord Mandelson, the Rothschild pal and Mossad-friendly ‘Prince of Darkness’, describes what he thinks of Trump: ‘racist’, ‘dangerous’… Who is Peter Mandelson? King Charles’ US ambassador pick? He’s an anti-Brexit advocate for closer China ties — but could Peter Mandelson charm Trumpworld? LONDON — Peter Mandelson looks set for a new life in the United States after a long and sometimes-controversial career in British public life. After much speculation, an announcement confirming him as the government’s choice for next U.K. ambassador to Washington came from No.10 Downing Street late Friday. It’s a remarkable next chapter for Mandelson, who is staunchly anti-Brexit and supports more cooperation with China. Those factors alone could make him a tough sell in Donald Trump’s Washington. Yet his political savvy, deep trade experience and outsize character are all being talked up as assets when it comes to dealing with the U.S. president-elect and his team. As rumors swirled about Mandelson’s potential appointment last month, POLITICO spoke to key figures on both sides of the Atlantic to find out how a Labour veteran might fare with the Make America Great Again crowd. Establishment operator A savvy political operator who helped return the center-left Labour Party to power in the 1990s, Mandelson is firmly part of the British political establishment, with a seat in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British parliament. After helping new Prime Minister Keir Starmer enter Downing Street last summer, ending another long stretch in in the cold for the party, the former Cabinet minister in Tony Blair’s government is now set to succeed Karen Pierce — current inhabitant of the lavish ambassador’s residence in the exclusive Embassy Row enclave in the north west of the city. A bête noire of the Labour left, the pro-business and well-connected Mandelson has had a storied career so far — and he’s no stranger to the headlines. Mandelson was forced to resign twice from government over scandals and has a reputation for saccharine politeness in public but ruthless political maneuvering behind the scenes, winning him the nickname “the Prince of Darkness.” Despite his media prowess — he is known in Westminster for taking acerbic tones with reporters who cross him. In 2023 Mandelson’s past links with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who referred to him as “Petie,” were revealed. And a similarly close relationship with the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska caused him headaches when it was revealed in 2008, as have other dealings with the global super rich. But it’s Mandelson’s views on Europe, China and trade that could make his anticipated new role courting the Trump administration in Washington a tricky one. For a start, Donald Trump enthusiastically backed Brexit. Peter Mandelson did not. The Labour peer sat on the board of the official Remain campaign during the EU referendum in 2016, then advocated for a second referendum to overturn the decision after Brexit won. He understands well how the political institutions in Brussels work, having served as a European Commissioner for trade between 2005 and 2008, and having covered the trade role in government beforehand.

UK water privatisation poison 1: Southern Water cut off, and they are going to raise prices. Southern Water outage: More than 58,000 homes could be without water until the weekend amid ‘technical issue’ at supply works Tens of thousands of homes could be without water until the weekend because of a ‘technical issue’ at a Southern Water supply works. Almost 60,000 homes across Hampshire – in Southampton, Romsey, Eastleigh, Totton, and parts of the New Forest – have low pressure or no water at all. Southern Water said it is ‘so sorry’ and said that problems at the Testwood water supply works are preventing water from leaving the site. Long queues of cars could be seen causing congestion in the streets near bottle stations, while some had walked for up to three miles to collect their allocation of water. The company said it is delivering water supplies to customers registered on its priority list, along with to Southampton General Hospital and Princess Anne Hospital. It said this morning that its teams have ‘fixed the problem’ and are filling up the reservoir – but it is a ‘gradual process’ meaning homes may not have access to water until the weekend. Yesterday the supplier said the problem is affecting a total of 10 postcodes – SO15, S016, SO40, SO42, SO43, SO45, SO50, SO51, SO52 and SO53. It comes as households were warned about massive bill hikes averaging £31 a year – with Southern Water customers are being hit hardest with bills going up 53 per cent.

UK water privatisation poison 2: Check how much YOUR water bill is going up by as bosses green light huge hikes of 36%- with some locations facing a 53% rise PLUS inflation Water bosses were today given the green light for huge bill hikes averaging 36 per cent over the next five years. An eye-watering round of increases has been announced by regulator Ofwat, despite fury at the performance of operators. Southern Water customers are being hit hardest with bills going up 53 per cent over the period – and inflation projected to add another 10 per cent. Severn Trent customers must brace for 47 per cent rises, two Welsh firms 42 per cent and Yorkshire Water 41 per cent. Thames Water, which has been paying bonuses to executives despite being in the grip of a funding crisis, has been allowed a 35 per cent increase. The bill rises for England and Wales – averaging £31 a year – would begin to take effect from April next year. The move comes at a time of public outrage over pollution in rivers, huge salaries paid to water company bosses and massive dividends taken by shareholders. Just this week the Office for Environmental Protection ruled that water companies should have had no excuse to tip sewage as the law has been clear that it is illegal since at least 1994 – but the Department for Environment, the Environment Agency and Ofwat failed to enforce the law. Between 2021 and 2023 alone water companies paid £2.5billion in dividends and added £8.2billion to their net debt. Ofwat has been engaged in intense negotiations with water companies over the scale of the rises. The watchdog originally knocked back demands for hikes of more than 21 per cent over five years. But extraordinarily companies responded by asking for even more. They wanted the average consumer bill in England and Wales rise by 40 per cent between now and 2030 – costing £615 per year. Those proposals would have seen Southern Water customers hammered with an 84 per cent increase over the period. Campaigners and politicians have slammed the companies for ‘greed’, saying they were ‘sucking the dregs’ out of customers. The Lib Dems called for Ofwat to be abolished.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s ‘Open AI’ whistleblower found dead  Mystery as Open AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is found dead in San Francisco home A former OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower was found dead in his San Francisco just months after making damning claims about the company. Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead on November 26, three months after he accused the company of violating copyright laws in their development of ChatGPT. Mercury News reported that there was no foul play determined in the circumstances of his death which has been ruled a suicide. San Francisco Police Officers were called to the home to conduct a wellness check when they found him. Balaji had been a researcher for the artificial intelligence research company for four years after joining in 2020.. After the AI system was released in 2022, Balaji began to question if the data that was gathered was an infringement on copyright. In August, he left OpenAI because he ‘no longer wanted to contribute to technologies that he believed would bring society more harm than benefit,’ reported the New York Times. ‘If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,’ he told the outlet. Over the past two years, companies like OpenAI have been sued by various individuals and businesses for claims on their copyrighted material. His role and knowledge in legal proceedings against the company was considered ‘crucial.’ The New York Times was involved in their own lawsuit against OpenAI and its primary partner, Microsoft, who both denied claims that they had used millions of published articles to inform the intelligence and began competing with the outlet as a result. On November 18, the outlet filed a letter in federal court that named Balaji as a person with ‘unique and relevant documents’ that would be used in their litigation against Open AI. Their suit said: ‘Microsoft and OpenAI simply take the work product of reporters, journalists, editorial writers, editors and others who contribute to the work of local newspapers – all without any regard for the efforts, much less the legal rights, of those who create and publish the news on which local communities rely. Whilst other researchers have warned of potential future risks of the technology, such as becoming a danger to humanity, Balaji told the Times that he believes the risk to be far more ‘immediate’ than feared.

He added: ‘I thought that AI was a thing that could be used to solve unsolvable problems, like curing diseases and stopping aging. I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them.’ Balaji said that he believed the threats posed by chatbots, such as ChatGPT, were destroying the commercial viability of the individuals, businesses and internet services that created the digital data used to train such systems. ‘This is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole,’ he said. While OpenAI, Microsoft and other companies have claimed their use of internet data to train the technology falls under ‘fair use’, Balaji does not believe the criteria has been met. He claimed that while the data is not being copied to an exact replica, it is also not different enough. In an October post to his X account, he said that he ‘came to the conclusion that fair use seems like a pretty implausible defense’ for AI products. X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacted to the news of his death on his platform, writing a cryptic post that said: ‘Hmmm’. Balaji further argued that it violates the law due to direct competition with the very information that it drew and learned from. The larger problem, he argued, is that the technology replaces already existing internet services and often generating false or completely made-up information. OpenAI said in a statement about his death: ‘We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time.’

Dominic Cummings on how rigidly controlled, robotic, ossified, UK civil service doesn’t work. Dominic Cummings joins Professor Shivaji Sondhi to discuss the age of AI, and how it affects the world around us. How is Labour dealing with the opportunities and challenges that arise from AI? And how have governments previous planned for the way in which it could affect our world? so this goes back but so in the case of Education you could say it’s human capital and its value right and now you could talk about you know this kind of uh intellectual Capital know that’s generated so there again how do you see the I mean how do you see the Leading Edge of it will there be uh and then I’ll turn to the question of ownership of these AI companies but let’s maybe just start with do you think this is a plausible worry and under this scenario and and and how might that play out? I mean if you if you read the stuff from people like Dario and Sam and Demis and those teams I mean they envisage this being patchy right it does seem to be um like not predicted 5 years ago but it seems possible that these things actually end up being um continue to make rapid progress in in areas like mathematics and physics MH whilst possibly stalling out in other in in other kind of areas so it it looks likely that it’s going to be um in the short term patchy where they suddenly shock and they do amazing things in in certain areas but then possibly don’t make progress in in other things but I think that once they once they get to the point if if they get to the point that Dario talks about in his paper well sorry I I’ll rewind already there is a situation in which um all of the three letter agencies in America people like the nro uh CIA NSA etc etc uh have already begun discussions with all of these companies that this is this has already been happening same thing is happening in Britain with gchq and MI6 and MI5 um the reasons are sort sort of uh quite a lot of them are fairly obvious right it’s to do with what’s going to happen with drones what’s going to happen with cyber offense and cyber defense um what’s going to happen with um the potential for creating new kind of like biological weapons chemical things etc etc so those conversations have already begun also there’s a there’s an obvious conversation which leopolds I say kind of refer to which is really until his essay came out was was not really a very discussed subject in public but it it was this question about security of the labs you you had a situation you’ve had a situation in which on the one hand some of the core entities of the intelligence services are starting to think incredibly hard about what the about how these companies and these products and these models are going to disrupt power and international relations and and War yet if you go to these companies they’re kind of like classic Silicon Valley companies right with basically like no security and everyone bean bags wandering in and out um very good cyber security in lots of ways obviously at places like Google because you don’t want um uh uh you know hackers trivially hacking into Google and they’re obviously extremely good at dealing with things like that

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 1: ‘Accelerate or Die’ documentary on Sky Arts. Jake Chapman’s – Accelerate or Die, Sky Arts Satanic artist Jake Chapman’s new film – Accelerate or Die – poses the question, “why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?” This dynamic film focuses on the meeting point of technology, Capitalism and the climate crisis, featuring the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Will Self. As he reimagines documentary, he invites us to buckle up and enjoy the ride in a thrilling visual assault of art, generative AI and thought-provoking perspectives. Jake Chapman explores a mind-bending vision of the world that few can see. Are we, capitalism and technology already one and the same – accelerating towards an inevitable climax? Accelerate Or Die! (part) 4th Reich Accelerationism LSD Trip, Perils Of Abandoning The Mixed Economy The 4th Reich’s Threat: ‘Accelerate or Die!’ Satanic Artist Jake Chapman explores whether capitalism and technology are already one and the same, accelerating towards an inevitable climax Accelerate or Die! airs on Sky Arts at 11:30 PM, Wednesday 24 July.2024 Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip This is a story about dangerous ideas, and words’ magical power to heal and to harm. It’s about AI, Charles Manson, dubstep, Neo-Nazis, occultism, and a lot of amphetamine, but it’s mainly about Nicholas Land. In 1993, techno-feminist Sadie Plant set up a research unit in the philosophy department at Warwick University called the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). It wasn’t a ‘real’ academic centre — it didn’t have a large grant or any institutional status, it was just a piece of paper on a door. But the name drew people into its vortex. The dominant influence in the CCRU became a 30-year-old mid-career researcher called Nick Land — a fan of continental critical theorists like Deleuze, Guattari and George Bataille. Land and the CCRU mixed together cyberpunk, science-fiction, cryptocurrency, drugs and post-humanism, drained it through the mesh of continental theory, and created Accelerationism. Guardian journalist Andy Beckett has a good definition: Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified — either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. Accelerationists favour automation. They favour the further merging of the digital and the human. They often favour the deregulation of business, and drastically scaled-back government. They believe that people should stop deluding themselves that economic and technological progress can be controlled. They often believe that social and political upheaval has a value in itself. Accelerationalism began life as the British cousin of the Californian philosophy of Extropianism, which also began in the early 1990s (as I wrote here). There’s a similar anarcho-libertarianism, hyper-capitalism, worship of new technology and expectation of a sudden leap beyond the human. But this wasn’t California, it was Coventry — and Accelerationism was much darker and more nihilistic than Californian transhumanism. After all, Land’s first book was called ‘Thirst for Annihilation’.

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 2: Jules Evans on offshore living of libertarians and Nick Land. BBC Radio 4 Escapism Arts & Ideas 28 June 2024 Travel, reading, cinema and psychedelic drugs are all means people have used to try to escape. But do they ever really lead us where we want them to? With the election looming, Glastonbury in full swing and lists of beach read suggestions starting to appear – Matthew Sweet discusses the difference between escape and escapism with Noreen Masud, Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Bristol and author of the memoir A Flat Place Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Lecturer in Film and Media at University College London, author of The Rainbow’s Gravity Jonathan White, Professor of Politics and Deputy Head of the European Institute at the London School of Economics and author of In The Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea Jules Evans, writer, historian of ideas and practical philosopher whose books include The Art of Losing Control, and Philosophy for Life and other dangerous situations. Plus, Maximillian de Gaynesford, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, on the philosophical significance of dreams and dreaming from Descartes and Freud to Norman Malcolm. Jules, Noreen and Kirsty are all New Generation Thinkers on a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to share academic research on radio. Producer: Luke Mulhall

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 3: Jules Evans a Philosophy for Life Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip This is a story about dangerous ideas, and words’ magical power to heal and to harm. It’s about AI, Charles Manson, dubstep, Neo-Nazis, occultism, and a lot of amphetamine, but it’s mainly about Nicholas Land. In 1993, techno-feminist Sadie Plant set up a research unit in the philosophy department at Warwick University called the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). It wasn’t a ‘real’ academic centre — it didn’t have a large grant or any institutional status, it was just a piece of paper on a door. But the name drew people into its vortex. The dominant influence in the CCRU became a 30-year-old mid-career researcher called Nick Land — a fan of continental critical theorists like Deleuze, Guattari and George Bataille. Land and the CCRU mixed together cyberpunk, science-fiction, cryptocurrency, drugs and post-humanism, drained it through the mesh of continental theory, and created Accelerationism. Guardian journalist Andy Beckett has a good definition: Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified — either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. Accelerationists favour automation. They favour the further merging of the digital and the human. They often favour the deregulation of business, and drastically scaled-back government. They believe that people should stop deluding themselves that economic and technological progress can be controlled. They often believe that social and political upheaval has a value in itself. Accelerationalism began life as the British cousin of the Californian philosophy of Extropianism, which also began in the early 1990s (as I wrote here). There’s a similar anarcho-libertarianism, hyper-capitalism, worship of new technology and expectation of a sudden leap beyond the human. But this wasn’t California, it was Coventry — and Accelerationism was much darker and more nihilistic than Californian transhumanism. After all, Land’s first book was called ‘Thirst for Annihilation’. Land has said: ‘I have no interest in human liberation, or liberation of the human species. I’m interested in liberation of the means of production’. In other words, Accelerationism had nothing to do with expanding human potential. This was not Californian self-help. This was about liberating the machine from the human. Accelerationism aimed to push capitalism further and faster, until it’s just machines whirring round in a lifeless universe. Pure Fordism. The CCRU grew out of cybernetics, and the sense that humans are agents in a world full of other agents — machines, ecosystems, DNA, perhaps demons as well. All these entities have desires. Machines have desires. Why foreground human desires and aspirations? The obvious answer is because we’re human. But that’s not enough for post-human philosophies. For Accelerationists, the aim is the liberation of What Technology Wants. Here’s a quote from a good write-up by Yuxi Lin at LessWrong:

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 4: Nietzsche and the Nazis A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2010. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that “God is dead” — and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed Nietzsche as one of their great inspirations. * Were the Nazis right to do so — or did they misappropriate Nietzsche’s philosophy? * What were the key elements of Hitler and the National Socialists’ political philosophy? * How did the Nazis come to power in a nation as educated and civilised as Germany? * What was Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy — the philosophy of “Live dangerously” and “That which does not kill us makes us stronger”? * And to what extent did Nietzsche’s philosophy provide a foundation for the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis? * Hardcover book version published August 2010. Table of Contents [PDF] Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [PDF] [MP3] [YouTube] 1. Fascinated by history 2. What is philosophy of history?. Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [PDF] [MP3] [YouTube] 3. How could Nazism happen? 4. Five weak explanations for National Socialism 5. Explaining Nazism philosophically Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy [MP3] [YouTube] 6. The Nazi Party Program 7. Collectivism, not individualism 8. Economic socialism, not capitalism 9. Nationalism, not internationalism or cosmopolitanism 10. Authoritarianism, not liberal democracy 11. Idealism, not politics as usual 12. Nazi democratic success Part 4. The Nazis in Power [MP3] [YouTube] 13. Political controls 14. Education [PDF] 15. Censorship 16. Eugenics 17. Economic controls 18. Militarisation 19. The Holocaust 20. The question of Nazism’s philosophical roots Part 5. Nietzsche’s Life and Influence [MP3] [YouTube] 21. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? [PDF] 22. God is dead 23. Nihilism’s symptoms 24. Masters and slaves 25. The origin of slave morality 26. The Overman Part 6. Nietzsche against the Nazis [MP3] [YouTube] 27. Five differences 28. On the “blond beast” and racism 29. On contemporary Germans 30. On anti-Semitism 31. On the Jews 32. On Judaism and Christianity 33. Summary of the five differences Part 7. Nietzsche as a Proto-Nazi [MP3] [YouTube] 34. Anti-individualism and collectivism 35. Conflict of groups 36. Instinct, passion, and anti-reason 37. Conquest and war 38. Authoritarianism 39. Summary of the five similarities Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [MP3] [YouTube] 40. Hindsight and future resolve 41. Principled anti-Nazism Part 9. Appendices 42. Appendix 1: NSDAP Party Program [PDF] 43. Appendix 2: Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism [PDF] 44. Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism [PDF] 45. Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism [PDF]

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 5: Ayn Rand, ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and objectivism. Rand’s role in rehabilitating Nietzsche post Adolf Hitler. Ayn Rand Plagiarized Adolf Hitler Ayn Rand is one of those great unforced errors in history, driven by her own greed for fame as a philosophic prophet who tried to steal Hitler’s dynamic work and make it her own. Lorenz Kraus December 4, 2021 This is the theme of Ayn Rand’s novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged: [1] “All inventions are the result of the creative faculty of the individual and all such individuals, whether they have willed it or not, are, in a greater or lesser degree, benefactors of mankind. Through their work millions, and indeed billions, of human beings have been provided with means which facilitate their struggle for existence.” Who wrote this theme? A Rand fan might mistake it as a description of Rand’s novels by one of her critics. This fabulous statement, however, one which every “free market capitalist,” such as (((Larry Kudlow))) swears by, actually, comes from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (501). How is it possible that we find in Hitler book the theme of Ayn Rand’s novels? Note the phrase, “benefactors of mankind,” in the context of, extolling man’s “creative faculty.” This is an intellectual fingerprint. Here is Ayn Rand: “The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.” (Atlas Shrugged: 988) “These twelve were great benefactors, that we are all fed by the overflow of the magnificent wealth of their spirit, and that we are glad to accept it in gratitude and brotherhood.” (Fountainhead: 206) Same phrase. Same context. No attribution. That’s plagiarism. [2] Note the point on a brotherhood of gratitude or admiration. Covenant is a synonym for brotherhood. Writes Hitler, “We must never forget that admiration for everything that is great, is not only a tribute to one creative personality, but that all those who feel such admiration become thereby united under one covenant. Nothing can take the place of the individual, [who embodies] cultural creative ability.” (Stalag: 395) Hitler sees admiration for creatives as a unifying force, a brotherhood of admiration; which Rand echoed without attribution. The Atlas Society promotes Ayn Rand’s philosophy of plagiarism. It openly presents Hitler’s exact phrase that creators are the benefactors of mankind. (link) Its current president admits to having entangled Jeffery Epstein. [3] Hitler uses the term benefactors again, in the same passage. “The blessings of mankind never came from the masses, but from the creative brains of individuals, who are the real benefactors of humanity.” His use of the term is not a fluke. Hitler notes that creativity is a feature of individuals. Benefactors were, usually, imagined to be the rich who gave out gifts to the poor, but Hitler tells us that the real benefactors are the creators and inventors who uplift mankind with their inventive genius. Hitler, not Rand, is the fountainhead of this idea. [4] The term fountainhead is rarely used. I’ve used the term fuel injector more than a few times in my life, but I never used the term fountainhead. Here is Hitler, the architect, using the term fountainhead in Mein Kampf. Hitler used the term fountainhead 18 years before Rand. Incredible. [5] What is the creative faculty (mind/reason) good for, anyways? “All human thought and all human inventions help man in his life-struggle,” writes Hitler. (Stalag: 501) Second-hand Rand echos Hitler. “Man’s mind is his basic means of survival.” (Rand.) If you want to survive, think. The pattern of a common idea in a common context repeats. However, Rand fails to give attribution. We have to call that plagiarism.

The Accelerationists’ War on God, Nietzschen Dark Enlightenment, infesting our universities 6: Nazis on Acid – David Livingstone article. Psychedelics and Fascism: From MK-Ultra, to Esalen and Silicon Valley It’s commonly assumed that the “mind-expanding” capabilities of psychedelics usually lead to progressive or liberal views. So, their proponents are surprised by their persistent association with the right. In “Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency,” Brian A. Pace and Nese Devenot observe that, “Recent media advocacy for the nascent psychedelic medicine industry has emphasized the potential for psychedelics to improve society, pointing to research studies that have linked psychedelics to increased environmental concern and liberal politics.” However, in “Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs?” for The Guardian, Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis report that “psychedelic therapies are receiving unprecedented financial and political support – and much of it comes from the right.” The history of psychedelics begins with Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963), a fascist who inspired the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. And ultimately, interest in psychedelics derives from occult interest in the ancient shamans of the Altai Mountains, which is believed to be the original religion of the Aryans. H.P. Blavatsky(1831 – 1891), who is considered the “godmother” of the New Age movement, despite the fact that she inspired the racial ideas of the Nazis, was inspired in her knowledge of Shambhala, a Tibetan Buddhist legend mentioned in the Kalachakra Tantra. Csoma de Körös (1784 – 1842), a Hungarian orientalist from Transylvania, was the first to report of the legend of Shambhala in the West, which he located in “the land of the Yugurs (Uighurs)” in Xinjiang, a province of Northwestern China. In an 1825 letter, Csoma de Körös wrote that Shambhala is like a Buddhist Jerusalem, and he believed it would probably be found in Kazakhstan, close to the Gobi desert, where it would later be situated by Blavatsky. Others later would also locate it more specifically either in Xinjiang, or the Altai Mountains. Thus the Altai Mountains are the reputed source of the early form of spirit or “divine” communication known as shamanism, regarded among occultists as the “Oriental Kabbalah,” a supposed remnant of the migrations of Aryan survivors of Atlantis. Interchangeable with Shambhalah is the legend of Agartha, promoted by Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842 – 1909), founder of synarchism, the second occult tradition, other than Blavatsky’s Theosophy, which influenced the Nazis. Saint-Yves was a key influence on René Guénon (1886 –1951), the founder of Traditionalism, which advanced the idea of a “perennial philosophy” as the single esoteric core shared by all the world’s major religions. The most important figure in Traditionalism after Guénon was Julius Evola (1898 – 1974), who would become the most important ideologue of late twentieth-century fascism. Evola was also a member of the Ur Group with Arturo Reghini, who was also a friend of Aleister Crowley, godfather of twentieth-century Satanism. These ideas found their way to another member of the Ur Group, Mircea Eliade (1907 – 1986), who inspired the more modern cult of neo-Shamanism, popularized at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, itself an emulation of the Eranos Conferences, another outgrowth of occult fascism. The phrase “Third Reich” was originally coined by the German thinker Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, who in 1923 published a book titled Das Dritte Reich. Van den Bruck, like Martin Heidegger, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger, Julius Evola and Carl Schmitt, was a leading figure of the Conservative Revolutionary movement, prominent in the years following the First World War. Rooted in the Counter-Enlightenment of the Romantic Era, the movement rejected liberalism and parliamentary democracy as the failed legacies of the Enlightenment. Inspired by the notion of the Volk, the movement advocated a new conservatism and nationalism that was specifically German, or Prussian in particular Ultimately, explained Kurt Sontheimer, Conservative Revolutionary anti-democratic thought in the Weimar Republic “succeeded in alienating Germans from the democracy of the Weimar constitution and making large groups receptive to National Socialism.”

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Jeff Wayne’s 1978 War of the Worlds ‘rock opera’. Science fiction pioneer, and Fabian, H.G. Wells was from Bromley, Kent (like Tony). Mural photo by Pete Marshall (1989) has now been removed by Bromley council and replaced with one of notorious atheist fraudster Charles Darwin who was not from Bromley. The Scientific Socialism of H. G. Wells – The poverty of industrial England was the backdrop of H. G Wells’s childhood. This experience instilled in him a clear-eyed realism with which he rejected both utopianism and progressive notions that socialism could be won without class struggle. H.G. Wells found the idea of socialism conceptualised by Marx, under-girded by comprehensive observation and scientific study, significantly more plausible than the idealistic notions of utopian socialism common at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Arguing in his university’s Debating Society, he asserted that “Marx Socialism” is a “new thing based on Darwinism, and therefore fundamentally different” from past conceptions of socialism. Two complementary convictions motivating Wells during university helped direct his writing throughout the rest of his career: an ardent commitment to a more just and prosperous future free from the ravages of a profit-centric society, and a belief that such a commitment requires scientifically rigorous and skeptical thinking to succeed. Beyond Utopianism When Wells published The Time Machine, he mesmerized the imagination of a nation hurtling toward the future but uncertain about what that future would be. Wells exists in the cultural consciousness as an uncritical proponent of futurism, who believed reason and progress would inevitably triumph. But he does not truly deserve the criticism of George Orwell, who called him “too sane to understand the modern world.” Wells imagined the potential of the future, but he also imagined its challenges, as The Time Machine demonstrates. The novel’s protagonist, known only as the Time Traveller, begins his journey to the future with idealistic notions about the wisdom and flourishing he will find. Only later does he realise that the passage of many thousands of years reduced the towering cities of the Victorian age to rubble. He finds humanity devolved into two different species: the upper class mutated into the effete, childlike Eloi, adorned with elegant clothing but unable to think intelligently, and the working class mutated into the goblin-like Morlocks, who live brutish lives underground. Instead of enjoying the manifold pleasures of a gleaming future unspoiled by class conflict, the Time Traveller struggles against the restrictions of a morose epoch where that conflict solidified into biology. The Time Traveller laments of how much more frightening the actual future is than the dreamlike utopia he imagined, contemplating how “all the activity, all the traditions, the carefully planned organisations” of the past had unceremoniously “been swept out of existence.” The Time Machine deflates idle fantasies about the future necessarily surpassing the past, undermining the common image of Wells as an indulgent optimist who viewed society as continually progressing. Like his mentor Huxley, Wells deeply respected Darwinian ideas about evolution but understood that society could not extract from these ideas any guarantee of linear progress. Similarly, technological progress without social progress was, for Wells, a nightmarish vision, perhaps best exemplified in The War of the Worlds, a tale of reverse colonisation wherein technologically advanced Martians invade Earth.

Orwell and Wells on human rights – It is clear, then, that the two writers had legitimate positions on how to counter tyranny and injustice and they were, as Partington puts it, ‘politically antithetical’ (ibid). But the question remains: why does Orwell seek to attack and ultimately destroy the older man’s political credibility? Partington concludes that he indulges in the ‘parricide’ because, after the Second World War, Wells’s political influence has been ‘negligible whereas Orwell emerged as the great prophet of the Cold War’. What is even more shocking is that there has been a general undervaluing of Wells’s Penguin Special in 1940, The Rights of Man: What are we fighting for? and his subsequent work on redrafting a human rights charter. Indeed, Wells’s text was a significant influence on US President Franklin Roosevelt in committing the world to protecting four key freedoms in 1941, and the formulation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights between 1946 and 1948. This is given detailed treatment and analysis by Partington in his 2007 book chapter ‘Human rights and public accountability in H. G. Wells’ functional world state’ and in Michael Sherborne’s biography H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life, first published in 2010. The ‘Rights of Man’ project sought to check absolute power wherever it was found in the world and give individuals protection against political oppression and the brutalities being meted out by totalitarian states. In 1999, the human rights jurist, Geoffrey Robertson QC, said Wells’s The Rights of Man ‘must be accounted one of the twentieth century’s most influential books’. The director of the UK Human Rights Act research project, Francesca Klug, acknowledged Wells’s place in human rights history and said his book was ‘one of the driving forces behind the Human Rights Act’ of 1998.

Chicksands (Beds) British psychological warfare officer(?) Hamish de Breton Gordon, prime suspect in the joys of illegal bio warfare lab investigator General Kirillov being assassinated this week and his role exposing NATO’s illegal use of WMD. Russia arrests suspect ‘recruited by Ukraine’ over killing of top general Russian authorities say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the assassination of top General Igor Kirillov, head of the country’s army’s chemical weapons division, adding that he was recruited by Ukraine. The suspect, a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, was detained in the village of Chernoye in the Balashikha district of Moscow on Wednesday, according to Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk. The arrested individual whose name was not released had allegedly been recruited by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to carry out the attack which killed the top Kremlin general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier, the country’s investigative committee said. Investigation revealed that the assailant had been promised $100,000 and travel to the European Union after successfully accomplishing his mission. The detainee travelled to Moscow and placed a homemade bomb under an electric scooter parked near the general’s home, investigators said. To monitor the area, he rented a car equipped with a surveillance camera, transmitting live footage back to the organizers in Dnepr, Ukraine. After receiving the video signal of the officers exiting the building, the explosive device was remotely activated. According to a spokeswoman for Russia’s prosecutor’s office, the detainee has confessed to planting the bomb. Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defense Forces (NBC), and his aide were killed early Tuesday morning in Moscow when an improvised explosive device, cleverly concealed within a parked scooter, detonated near a residential building on Ryazansky Prospekt, approximately 7 kilometers from the Kremlin. The Investigative Committee of Russia confirmed the devastating impact of the explosion, which took the lives of Kirillov and his assistant and shattered windows in a nearby building. The committee announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the incident and detailed the nature of the blast, which was equivalent in power to around 200 grams of TNT.

Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the criminal military biological activities of the United States of America on the territory of Ukraine Speech by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Head of the nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces, on the results of the analysis of documents concerning US military and biological activities in Ukraine. The United States has also worked collaboratively to improve Ukraine’s biological safety, security, and disease surveillance for both human and animal health, providing support to 46 peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites over the last two decades. The collaborative programs have focused on improving public health and agricultural safety measures at the nexus of nonproliferation.  The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of military biological programs of the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine. The information received from various sources confirms the leading role of the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency in financing and conducting military biological research on the territory of Ukraine. Details of the UP-4 project became known, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa and was designed for the period up to 2020. Briefing material by the Chief of the nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces Its purpose was to study the possibility of the spread of particularly dangerous infections through migrating birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, the mortality rate of which reaches 50 percent for humans, as well as Newcastle disease. Due to the fact that Ukraine has a unique geographical location where transcontinental migration routes intersect, 145 biological species were studied within the framework of this project. At the same time, at least two species of migratory birds were identified, whose routes pass mainly through the territory of Russia. At the same time, information about migration routes passing through the countries of Eastern Europe was summarized. Of all the methods developed in the United States to destabilize the epidemiological situation, this is one of the most reckless and irresponsible, since it does not allow to control the further development of the situation. This is confirmed by the course of the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, the occurrence and features of which raise many questions. In addition, the R-781 project is interesting, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents. Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses. It is noteworthy that the research is carried out in close proximity to the borders of Russia – in the areas of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus. The project is being implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian biological laboratories controlled by the Pentagon in cooperation with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the US Geological Survey. The analyzed materials on the UP-8 project, aimed at studying the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine, clearly refute the US public statement that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists. One of the documents confirms that all serious high-risk studies are conducted under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States. The payroll of Ukrainian contractors clearly demonstrates how they are financed. It has been confirmed that the US Department of Defence paid the money for research participation directly, without the involvement of intermediaries. The extremely modest pay, by US standards, is noteworthy. This indicates a low estimation of the professionalism of Ukrainian specialists and the neglect of their American colleagues. In addition, the studied materials contain proposals for the expansion of the US military-biological program in Ukraine. Thus, there was evidence of the continuation of completed biological projects UP-2, UP-9, UP-10, aimed at studying the pathogens of anthrax and African swine fever. The Pentagon is also interested in insect vectors capable of spreading dangerous infectious diseases. The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats – fleas and ticks from the biolab in Kharkov abroad. Significantly, similar research was carried out in the 1940s on the development of biological weapons components by the Japanese unit 731, whose members later fled to the US to escape prosecution for war crimes.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is PRIME SUSPECT in this WWIII provocation which was cynically carried out before Trump takes office and a potential Russia Ukraine peace – HdBG MI6 IOPS article: Putin’s chemical weapons henchman Kirillov was a truly evil man. He deserved to die Hamish de Bretton-Gordon The assassination of General Kirillov, head of Russia’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) forces, is yet another hammer blow to President Putin after his troops were unceremoniously kicked out of Syria last week. The killing is also an urgent wake-up call to the UK and Nato regarding the CBRN threat currently emanating from Russia and other rogue states – a threat we have done no more than pay lip service to since the end of the Cold War. Kirillov had commanded Russia’s CBRN forces since 2017. Rather than being defensive in nature, as were the CBRN forces I commanded in the British Army, Kirillov’s command was and is involved in a broad spectrum of CBRN attacks. The Novichok nerve agent used in the attempted assassination of double agent Sergei Skripal in March 2018 in Salisbury is likely to have been authorised and supplied by Kirillov’s forces. The Russian secret agents who made the attempt were also probably trained by them. Kirillov’s other role as one of Putin’s key mouthpieces and spreaders of propaganda also came to prominence after Salisbury with his frequent appearance on Russian media outlets trying to suggest the British secret services were responsible for the attack. More recently, he has accused the Ukrainian forces of making ‘dirty’ radiological bombs – an accusation with no foundation in fact. Kirillov was also a prominent figure in Syria and was no doubt aware if not directly involved in the extensive use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, which kept it in power for so long after it would otherwise have fallen. Kirillov saw how effective chemical weapons were in Syria, most especially against securely dug in forces, and no doubt also knew the effect that chlorine gas had in WWI. First used in April 1915 at the Second Battle of Ypres, it moved the front lines significantly. This knowledge most probably led Kirillov to make extensive use of chemical weapons on the frontlines in Ukraine. The Kyiv government, in fact, had just indicted him personally for around 5000 uses of Chloropicrin over the last 18 months, alongside other chemical attacks. From my own investigations into chemical weapons use, most especially in the Donbass, I believe this figure is close to the mark. This decisive action against Kirillov and the organisation he controlled, apparently by the Ukrainian SBU secret service, stands in stark contrast to the lacklustre response by many British politicians to Assad’s use of chemical weapons in August 2013. Parliament voted against any British military action in response: Ed Miliband, then Leader of the Opposition and now energy secretary, still refuses to apologise for this. As a result neither the UK nor the US did anything and the tottering Assad regime carried on for another 11 years waging its merciless war against its own people. I sympathise with the evident frustration of the Ukraine military and government that the war crime of chemical weapons use has been allowed to continue with barely a murmur from the international community. Most territorial gains, especially in the south and east, have been possible for the Russian forces because they use chemical weapons. Most urgently Ukrainian soldiers need good quality gas masks in order to mitigate this threat. As the UK is the largest and best quality manufacturer of gas masks on the planet, this challenge cannot be beyond us to solve, and gas masks are not expensive compared to other military equipment.

Kiev/MI6 assassination 2 this week to provoke WWIII? Michail Schatsky shot in a forest. Russian missile scientist ‘assassinated by Ukrainian special forces’ – A Russian scientist known for developing cruise missiles has been found shot dead in a snowy wooded area near Moscow. Ukraine’s intelligence service claimed that it had assassinated Mikhail Shatsky, the deputy director of a Moscow-based ballistics engineering unit. “Anyone who is involved in the development of the Russian military-industrial complex and support of Russian aggression in Ukraine one way or another is a legitimate target,” a Ukrainian defence source told the Kyiv Independent. The Russian authorities, propagandists and mainstream news channels have not commented. Photographs published by pro-Ukraine channels on the Telegram social messaging system showed a man wearing jeans and a black coat lying in blood-drenched snow. It was not possible to identify the body as that of Shatsky, although a close-up of the face showed the dead man had his trademark dark moustache. A second Ukrainian intelligence source confirmed to Ukrainskaya Pravda that Ukrainian intelligence agents had plotted and carried out the killing, saying: “Mikhail Shatsky was shot dead by an assassin in the Kuzminki Forest Park near Kotelniki, Moscow Oblast,” said the source. Important Stories, an exiled Russian anti-war Telegram channel, said it had geolocated the spot where Shatsky’s body was found to a remote section of wood to the south-east of Moscow, roughly a 10-minute walk from the scientist’s house. Shatsky was a lead scientist at the Kremlin’s Mars Design Bureau, which specialises in developing on-board automatic control and navigation systems for aircraft, spacecraft and missiles, according to local media. Since 2017, Mars has been under the control of Rosatom, the Kremlin’s prestige nuclear agency. He had been credited with working on secret Kremlin plans to incorporate AI technology into Russian drones, aircraft and spacecraft. He also oversaw the modernisation of the Kh-59 and Kh-69 cruise missiles, which the Kremlin has fired at Ukrainian cities. The killing of Shatsky was initially revealed by Alexander Nevzorov, an anti-Kremlin journalist with more than one million subscribers on Telegram. He accused the scientist of killing “thousands of innocent Ukrainians” and said: “It seems that none of those guilty of the genocide of Ukrainians will die a natural death.” Ukraine’s intelligence services have been linked to several assassinations inside Russia since the Kremlin’s invasion in February 2022. These have included a car bomb that killed the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin’s hard-Right philosopher-advisers, a booby-trapped bust that killed a pro-war propagandist and a handful of shootings of army, navy and air force officers. The former head of a notorious prison in Russian-occupied Donetsk was killed by a car bomb in Donetsk city this week. Sergei Yevsyukov commanded the Olenivka prison in 2022 when at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners were killed in a missile strike, believed to have been fired by Russian forces and framed as a Ukrainian attack. The prison was also known for torture. Vladimir Putin even denied using a body double after claims that he was fearful of being assassinated by a Ukrainian agent.

Russia is now considering assassination of NATO officials, after a series of what it believes to be NATO-aided assassinations of senior Russian military figures – says former Russian president – Medvedev takes The Times to task over story saying Kirillov murder ‘legitimate act’ According to the official, by this logic all NATO officials who decided to provide military aid to Ukraine can and should be considered a legitimate military target for the Russian state MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. It follows from the position of Britain’s daily The Times newspaper, which called the assassination of Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov a “legitimate act,” that Moscow can take a similar approach with NATO officials and their accomplices, including the journalists of this periodical themselves, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has said on his Telegram channel. “It is impossible to ignore the comment in The Times. Some bastards in the editorial called the terrorist attack against Kirillov and his aide a ‘legitimate act of defense.’ Very well. By this logic <…> all NATO officials who decided to provide military aid to the Banderite Ukraine are involved in hybrid or conventional warfare against Russia. Their name is legion. <…> All these individuals can and should be considered a legitimate military target for the Russian state. And simply for all patriots of Russia,” Medvedev wrote. He added that these officials “always have their own accomplices” who are also “henceforth legitimate military targets.” “This can be applied to the mangy jackals from The Times, who cowardly hid behind an editorial. That would become the entire management of the publication. Does that make sense? It most certainly does! Which means ‘Be careful!’ After all, many different things happen in London,” Medvedev concluded.

The killing of a Russian general is one of several carried out by NATO and Ukraine – Ukraine s Security Service has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a bombing in Moscow – Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Security Service, or SBU, has claimed responsibility for assassinating Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, who exposed Ukraine’s illegal Pentagon bio-labs, in a bombing Tuesday in Moscow Assassination of Russian General Kirillov who exposed bio-labs in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland 5bn take over of Ukraine government.. Kirillov, 54, was killed alongside his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, when a bomb planted on a scooter exploded outside an apartment block on Tuesday 17th December 2024. An official with the SBU said the agency was behind the attack. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, described Kirillov as a war criminal and an entirely legitimate target. On Monday, Kirillov was charged in absentia by the SBU for ordering the use of banned chemical weapons against Ukraines Defense Forces. Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out other high-profile attacks throughout the nearly 3-year-old war. Kyiv has hinted at its involvement but Ukrainian officials have stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility. – Other high-profile assassinations of Russians carried out by NATO and Ukraine: –
Mikhail Shatsky
Ukrainian media reported Dec. 12 2024 that Russian missile designer Mikhail Shatsky was gunned down in a suburban Moscow park. Shatsky worked at the Moscow Experimental Design Bureau Mars, where he reportedly oversaw the modernization of cruise missiles. Several Ukrainian media outlets reported that Shatsky had been shot while walking in the Kuzminsky forest, near his home. Russian news media reported on a disturbance in the same area on the day of Shatskys reported death, but did not elaborate.
Sergei Yevsyukov
Sergei Yevsyukov, the former head of a prison that housed Ukrainian POWs, was killed Dec. 9 2024 after a bomb exploded under a car in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, Ukrainian media reported. One other person was injured in the blast. Yevsyukov had run the Olenivka Prison, where dozens of POWs died in a missile strike in July 2022. He later was charged in absentia by Ukrainian authorities with mass torture. Russian authorities said Saturday they had detained a suspect in the attack.
Illia Kyva
Illia Kyva, a Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia shortly after the full-scale invasion, was found dead near Moscow in December 2023 with a gunshot wound to the head. A controversial political figure in Ukraine before the war, Kyva, 46, often appeared on pro-Kremlin TV talk shows and discussions. A month before his death, a Ukrainian court found him guilty in absentia of treason and sentenced him to 14 years in prison. Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraines military intelligence, said after Kyvas death that the same fate will befall other traitors of Ukraine. He did not say who was behind the killing. Russias state Investigative Committee opened a probe, but no charges have been made.
Stanislav Rzhitsky
Former submarine commander Stanislav Rzhitsky was gunned down in July 2023 while jogging in Krasnodar, Russia. Ukrainian media reported that Rzhitsky was one of six submarine commanders able to launch the long-range missiles that hit Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a year earlier, killing 23 people and wounding over 100. When he died, Rzhitsky was deputy head of a military mobilization office in Krasnodar. Russian media outlets reported that the 42-year-old regularly used a fitness app that could have been used to track his movements, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministrys main intelligence directorate, denied Kyivs involvement in the death. However, the agency also released details about the killing, including the time of the attack and the number of shots fired. A 64-year-old Ukrainian-born man, Sergei Denisenko, was later arrested.
Zakhar Prilepin
Nationalist Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin narrowly avoided death in a car bombing in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region in May 2023. His driver was killed, while Prilepin was hospitalised with broken bones, bruised lungs and other injuries. Prilepin, known for support of the war, was sanctioned by the European Union. A Ukrainian, Alexander Permyakov, was found guilty of the attack in a Russian court and sentenced to life imprisonment. Russias Investigative Committee accused him of working under orders from Kyiv.
Vladlen Tatarsky
Military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in April 2023 when a bomb tore through a cafe in central St Petersburg where he had been speaking. Tatarsky, 40, supported the war in Ukraine and filed regular reports from the front for his Telegram followers. Born in the Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, the former coal miner was convicted of bank robbery and escaped after a Russia-backed separatist rebellion engulfed the region in 2014. He joined the rebels and fought on the front line before turning to blogging. Darya Trepova , 26, was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to 27 years in prison after she was seen on camera presenting a small statue to Tatarsky that exploded shortly afterward. Trepova testified she didn’t know the gift contained a bomb.
Darya Dugina
TV commentator Darya Dugina, 29, was killed in August 2022 when a remote-controlled bomb planted in her SUV blew up as she drove on Moscows outskirts. Her father, Alexander Dugin, was widely believed to be the intended target. The philosopher, writer and political theorist is an ardent supporter of the war and a prominent proponent of the ideology that emphasises traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s power and the unity of all ethnic Russians. Ukraine denied responsibility for the attack, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying Dugina is not our responsibility. She is not a citizen of our country. We are not interested in her. Russia’s Federal Security Agency, the FSB, publicly identified two suspects, Ukrainian Neo-Nazis.

Newest member Finland finds out NATO is at war with neighbouring Russia from ex-MI6 DG and Bilderberger, Richard Dearlove, on Sky News! MI6’s Dearlove on ceasefire in Israel/Gaza, and Netanyahu arrest warrant, and war with Russia being now. Kier Starmer willingly does what MI6 tell him. UK in ‘actual war with Russia’ as Europe warns of ‘global conflict’ The former head of British intelligence agency MI6 has warned that Britain and its allies are already at war with Russia. The former head of MI6 has dismissed claims that Britain is in a “pre-war phase” with Russia insisting instead that we are in an “actual war.” Sir Richard Dearlove responded to comments made by the Polish Prime Minister early this week, who warned that Europe is in a “pre-war era” and at its most “dangerous point since 1945.” The European leader warned there was a “serious and real” threat of global war. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Dearlove said: “Donald Tusk has referred to it as a pre-war situation. I think he’s wrong. I think it’s an actual war. “I think we have to face up to the fact that the Russians think they’re in a state of war with us. “We’ve seen already quite clearly some very aggressive moves on the part of the Russians in various European countries.” The conflict in Ukraine has become a ‘global conflict’ according to the former intelligence chief (Image: Getty) Mr Dearlove claimed that Russia is engaging in hybrid warfare with Russian special services that have been linked to sabotage efforts across Europe, including cyberattacks, espionage, and election interference. NATO’s newest member, Finland, has reported an increased volume of hybrid attacks from Russia since its signing up to the collective defence treaty. The European coalition’s response to Russian aggression has drastically changed since Donald Trump’s re-election as US president. Throughout his campaign, he talked repeatedly about ending the war on day one and his personal relationship with Vladimir Putin. Many interpreted that as an indication that Trump could be willing to allow Russia to consolidate its gains in a bid to end the war. Yesterday, Trump announced on Truth social that he had appointed former General Keith Kellog to serve as the “Special Envoy for Ukraine Russia.” It is believed that Kellog presented the president-elect with a plan to end the war, including telling Ukraine they would only receive continued US support if they engaged in peace talks.

Putin’s press conference – QUOTES-Putin’s marathon press conference: what he said on Ukraine, Trump, Biden and Syria MOSCOW, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Following are some of the key quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual phone-in and press conference. ON HIS 25 YEARS IN POWER Yes, I think that I did more than just safeguard (Russia). I think that we have moved back from the edge of the abyss, because everything that happened to Russia before and after was leading us to a complete and total loss of our sovereignty. And without sovereignty, Russia cannot exist as an independent state... I have done everything to ensure that Russia is an independent and sovereign power that is able to make decisions in its own interests, and not in the interests of those countries that were dragging it towards themselves, patting it on the shoulder, in order to use it for their own purposes. ON SYRIA We maintain relations with all the groups that control the situation there, with all the countries in the region. The overwhelming majority of them tell us that they would be interested in our military bases remaining in Syria… You want to portray everything that is happening in Syria as some kind of failure, a defeat for Russia. I assure you, it is not… Whoever would like to portray Russia as weakened, you know – I would like to recall a famous person and writer who once said ‘Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated’… The main beneficiary of the events taking place in Syria is, in my opinion, Israel… We hope that Israel will at some point leave Syrian territory. But now it is bringing in additional troops there. I think there are already several thousand there. And I have the impression that not only are they not going to leave, but they are going to reinforce there. ON TRUMP Well, first of all, I don’t know when we will meet because he doesn’t say anything about it. I haven’t spoken to him at all for more than four years. And I am ready for this, of course, at any time. And I will be ready for a meeting if he wants it… And if a meeting takes place at some point with the newly elected president, Mr Trump, I am sure we will have plenty to talk about. ON BIDEN PARDONING HIS SON It is always important – are you more of a politician or more of a human being? It turned out that Biden is more of a human being. I would not blame him for that. ON HOW PUTIN HAS CHANGED SINCE THE WAR STARTED These three years … of course they were a serious test for all of us, for the whole country and for me… I began to joke less, and almost stopped laughing. ON WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE WITH UKRAINE We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises, it’s just that the other side, both literally and figuratively, refused to negotiate… Soon, those Ukrainians who want to fight will run out, in my opinion, soon there will be no one left who wants to fight. We are ready, but the other side needs to be ready for both negotiations and compromises… We do not need a truce, we need peace, long-term, secured by guarantees for the Russian Federation and its citizens ON ENDING OF DEAL WITH UKRAINE ON TRANSIT OF RUSSIAN GAS Ukraine refused to extend the transit contract, but it was not us who refused, it was Ukraine who refused, although it was receiving somewhere between $700-800 million per year… This contract will not exist, everything is clear now. Well okay, we will survive. Gazprom will survive this. ON RUSSIA’S NEW ORESHNIK HYPERSONIC MISSILE There is no chance of shooting down these missiles… Let Western experts propose to us, and let them propose to those in the West and the U.S. who pay them for their analysis, to conduct some kind of technological experiment, say, a high-tech duel of the 21st century. Let them determine some target for destruction, say in Kyiv, concentrate all their air defence and missile defence forces there, and we will strike there with Oreshnik and see what happens. We are ready for such an experiment, but is the other side ready? ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE I must say that the situation (at the front) is changing dramatically… There is movement along the entire front line. Every day… And we are moving, as you said, towards solving our primary tasks, which we outlined at the beginning of the special military operation… Everyone is fighting, literally heroically. And they are fighting right now. Let us wish them all, both those who are fighting in the Kursk region (of Russia) and those who are fighting along the entire front line, good luck, victory and to return home.

Trump on what he thinks of regime change in Syria, it’s ‘an operation by the Turks’. BBC article on new Syrian leader. From Syrian jihadist leader to rebel politician: How Abu Mohammed al-Jolani reinvented himself Forming a ‘government’ in Idlib Under Jolani, HTS became the dominant force in Idlib, north-west Syria’s largest rebel stronghold and home to about four million people, many of whom were displaced from other Syrian provinces. To address concerns about a militant group governing the area, HTS established a civilian front, the so-called “Syrian Salvation Government” (SG) in 2017 as its political and administrative arm. The SG functioned like a state, with a prime minister, ministries and local departments overseeing sectors such as education, health and reconstruction, while maintaining a religious council guided by Sharia, or Islamic law. Jolani was pictured looking at a painting of the Umayyad Mosque during a visit to a book, arts and culture fair in Idlib in 2022 To reshape his image, Jolani actively engaged with the public, visiting displacement camps, attending events, and overseeing aid efforts, particularly during crises like the 2023 earthquakes. HTS highlighted achievements in governance and infrastructure to legitimise its rule and demonstrate its ability to provide stability and services. It has previously praised the Taliban, upon their return to power in 2021, lauding them as an inspiration and a model for effectively balancing jihadist efforts with political aspirations, including making tactical compromises to achieve their goals. Jolani’s efforts in Idlib reflected his broader strategy to demonstrate HTS’s ability not only to wage jihad but also to govern effectively. By prioritising stability, public services and reconstruction, he aimed to showcase Idlib as a model of success under HTS rule, enhancing both his group’s legitimacy and his own political aspirations. But under his leadership, HTS has crushed and marginalised other militant factions, both jihadists and rebel ones, in its effort to consolidate its power and dominate the scene. Anti-HTS protests For over a year leading up to the HTS-led rebel offensive on 27 November, Jolani faced protests in Idlib from hardline Islamists as well as Syrian activists. Critics compared his rule to Assad’s, accusing HTS of authoritarianism, suppressing dissent and silencing critics. Protesters labelled HTS’s security forces as “Shabbiha”, a term used to describe Assad’s loyalist henchmen. They further alleged that HTS deliberately avoided meaningful combat against government forces and marginalised jihadists and foreign fighters in Idlib to prevent them from engaging in such actions, all to appease international actors. Even during the latest offensive, activists have persistently urged HTS to release individuals imprisoned in Idlib allegedly for expressing dissent. In response to these criticisms, HTS initiated several reforms over the past year. It disbanded or rebranded a controversial security force accused of human rights violations and established a “Department of Grievances” to allow citizens to lodge complaints against the group. Its critics said these measures were just a show to contain dissent. Earlier this year, protesters in Idlib demanded the release of detainees and an end to HTS’s rule To justify its consolidation of power in Idlib and the suppression of plurality among militant groups, HTS argued that unifying under a single leadership was crucial for making progress and ultimately overthrowing the Syrian government. HTS and its civilian arm, the SG, walked a tightrope, striving to project a modern, moderate image to win over both the local population and the international community, while simultaneously maintaining their Islamist identity to satisfy hardliners within rebel-held areas and HTS’s own ranks. For instance, in December 2023, HTS and the SG faced a backlash after a “festival” held at a glossy new shopping mall was criticised by hardliners as “immoral”. And this August, a Paralympic Games-inspired ceremony drew sharp criticism from hardliners, prompting the SG to review the organisation of such events. These incidents illustrate the challenges HTS faces in reconciling the expectations of its Islamist base with the broader demands of the Syrian population, who are seeking freedom and coexistence after years of authoritarian rule under Assad.

Alex Krainer, The Naked Hedgie, false flag by West as they lose wars? Alex Krainer: Russia’s Secret Trap in Syria? Dialogue Works Syria: A Battle Lost Amid a Wider War Cynthia Chung A little over a day has passed since the original posting and I would like to add the analysis of Brian Berletic to the discussion which offers a very grounded view of the failures that led to the takeover of Syria, but as he stresses this is a battle lost in a greater war and the sovereignty of Syria is not something we should view as lost forever or to make the mistake of equating this battle lost for Syria as having lost the broader war. I have just finished watching an insightful interview by Alex Krainer on his thoughts as to how Syria could have fallen in a matter of days without what appears to be any significant resistance. Alex makes some interesting points as to how things may not appear to be as they seem and that this could all very well have been a trap with the plan to attrition the enemy, a new Afghanistan scenario except this time it is the Zionist/Anglo-American forces who have walked into the sinking sand rather than the Russians et al. Only time will tell, but I think Alex’s points are important since, if he is correct, it shows that things are not as insane or incompetent as they seem to be right now, at least concerning the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and thus all of this strategizing to be free from the Zionist/Anglo-American stranglehold over decades has not been for nought.

Press TV at journalist event. UK abuses terrorism laws to suppress pro-Palestine movements As the Israeli genocide against the people of Palestine continues, several groups and individuals have taken direct action against the Israeli war machine in the UK. In August 2024, for example, dozens of activists from Palestine Action stormed the Bristol-based plant belonging to Elbit Systems, the largest weapons manufacturer in Israel, causing an estimated 1 million pounds worth of damage and reportedly resulting in major disruption to some of the most sensitive elements of the factory for months to come. In total, 21 people have since been arrested in relation to the factory raid, many of them under draconian UK anti-terrorism laws, sparking condemnation from human rights groups and observers across the world. As a result, the pro-Palestinian groups have held a meeting, under heavy security, in the western English city of Bristol to discuss the British government’s legal warfare strategy. Campaigners argue that the British government’s use of anti-terrorism legislation is not only intended to punish those disrupting the Israeli war machine, but also to discourage others from taking action against Israeli companies like Elbit Systems and others drenched in Palestinian and Lebanese blood. Professor David Miller is one of the foremost anti-Zionist academics in the UK. He’s been targeted by pro Israel lobby groups that led to his dismissal from the University of Bristol, an injustice, he successfully challenged in court. They’re trying to use any means that they can to attack the pro-Palestine movement. They’re using hate crime legislation, and they’re starting to use terrorism legislation. Yes, criminal damage, but they’re also using the terrorism legislation against journalists and saying that some journalists have been supporting proscribed organizations, which is plainly ridiculous, but they’re using the terrorism legislation, the Terrorism Act of 2000 and the Terrorism Act of 2006, in order to suppress the Palestine movement. They can’t find any other way of doing it, but they are using legislation which is plainly inappropriate. David Miller, Academic According to Professor Miller, the pro-Palestine movement is growing in the UK, and attempts to crush them will not be successful. It’s an intimidation tactic. What they’re hoping to do is to convict some people under the Terrorism Act and say, Look, this is what awaits you. If you take up a placard, a slogan, if you try and invade an arms factory, you will be put into jail. And they want to destroy the pro-Palestine movement, and of course, they’re not going to succeed. The outrage about the genocide is far too deeply entrenched in the UK, amongst public opinion. Most young people in this country now believe that Israel has no right to exist, and that’s a complete sea change from a year ago. David Miller, Academic Britain’s culpability in the historic and ongoing crimes of the Israeli regime means that many among the UK public feel duty bound to continue disrupting and struggling against the Israeli killing machines tentacles in Britain and beyond.

John Mc Donnell on Gaza. People attacking churches – John McDonald every every week of last year virtually we’ve had a debate in this chamber or in the main chamber and questions asked and then we go home and then we watch on television the bodies of children being dug out of rubble body parts in some instances those white wrappings around around their bodies and every debate we’ve had we seem to have got virtually nowhere because the arms are still being sold because the f335 the very vehicle that’s dropping the bombs and firing the weapons and killing those children we’re still supplying the essential parts to it thank you Mrs Harris would the honorable member or was The Honorable member as shocked as I was to learn that contrary to to the UK’s trade in F35 Parts being untraceable as we were previously told it is in fact not only is it traceable but the US government i tracking it and the reason we don’t have that information is that that we haven’t even asked them joh McDonald one one of the frustrations and I’m careful of my language here but one of the frustrations in this debate as well is to be told the truth about what’s happening and what’s contributing to the murders that are taking place I think we’re unless we can stop this unless we can prevent the UK participating I think we’ll all be implicated I think history will judge us all for not doing enough to stop this I’m pleased that the petition has taken place and I’m pleased at the numbers I congratulate those people who organized it but the petition is a sense of the frustration that’s felt out there and the real depth of anger the demonstr I’ve been on virtually every National demonstration now and actually they’ve been peaceful but there’s a level of frustration now I don’t think we can contain anymore and in our own communities we’re alienating old sections of our own Community not about labor party or other political parties but from democracy itself people are saying you’re an MP you go to Parliament why aren’t you stopping this it’s no good you just keep on shouting on demonstrations why isn’t democracy ex being exercised here to stop this and I want to make just one point uh which is because of the lack of action by government yes petitions are taking place but other people are taking direct action and they’re being imprisoned it’s sub Judy for me to mention any individual Case Case chair and I won’t but Palestine action took direct action to close down an arms Factory that was supplying the goods the materials for the F35 and also the drones those people were arrested under counterterrorism P powers and they were detained under those cter ter they’re young people a lot of them young women some of them just starting out at University they did to be honestly they exercising their influence and power because we failed to exercise ours and now a number of them some are being in court and they be when they’re in front of a jury they usually win in the case but now a number of them will be in prison from last March until next November when their trial is listed and they’ll be on remark I remind The Honorable me member that it is Subud toy and we should not be talking about I’m careful and I’m not mentioning any names I’m asking I’m raising the issue of the process itself chair which is the use of C counterterrorism Powers against direct action groups and the last government even came forward with proposals and discussions about prescribing Palestine action as a terrorist organization I’m hoping the government isn’t even going anywhere near that but I tell you these people that are in prison at the moment why are they in remand at the moment why can’t they be tagged before their their trial comes up next November a number of them most probably will be proved Innocent but they’ll have served nearly two years in prison for what for trying to do what we’re failing to do preventing this government supplying the arms to a regime that’s killing children so I say to the government it’s time to act now all arms licenses need to be closed down and if it’s a matter of The Honorable gentleman says well it’s about defending Israel well let’s have a conversation with Israel itself about how you supervise that defense internationally rather than using that as an excuse to kill children I’ve had enough of coming back here every week as you can tell chair we need now action from this government

Orthodox church in Ukraine is being Nazified – Orthodox Church in Ukraine is being completely taken apart, yet world turns blind eye – Putin Police issue subpoenas to Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monks to appear for questioning Several dozens of subpoenas have been served by the evening of April 10 2023 MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Law enforcement agents are conducting a sweeping operation to deliver subpoenas to monks and seminary students of the canonical Russian Orthodox Church on the premises of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra to appear for questioning as part of an investigation into the desecration and destruction of sacred objects, the Union of Orthodox Journalists said on Monday. It said several dozens of subpoenas have been served by the evening of April 10. According to the journalists’ group, the investigation was started based on a complaint from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Museum, which had unilaterally terminated a lease agreement with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Ukrainian law stipulates a fine, community service or imprisonment for up to three years for the crime of desecrating or destroying sacred objects. The Ukrainian news outlet Strana reported earlier on Monday that the Ukrainian Security Service had summoned for an interrogation a woman that had vigorously defended the Ukrainian Orthodox Church near the Lavra. The woman tried to talk to rabble rousers, answered their questions and explained the position of the church and the parishioners. Whenever approached by rabble rousers, she always made video recordings of the encounters, as is recommended by the church. Kiev-Pechersk Lavra rector, Metropolitan Pavel, was charged on April 1 with inciting religious discord and justifying Russia’s actions. The court ruled on the same day to place him under house arrest for 60 days. Kiev-Pechersk Lavra controversy The situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – one of the first Russian monasteries and the oldest monastery in modern-day Ukraine – came to a head at the end of March. The government tore up its agreement with the canonical church for the lease of the Lavra and demanded that monks leave the monastery. UOC monks refused to comply with the unlawful demand and both sides took the matter to court. The Ukrainian cabinet on March 30 rescinded the cabinet’s decree of 2013 that transferred the right to use the Lavra to the UOC. The church plans to appeal to the UN, other international organizations and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office and file lawsuits over the cabinet’s unlawful decision. The head of the UOC Information and Education Department, Metropolitan Kliment of Nezhin and Priluki, has said that the lease agreement between the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Museum and the canonical church can’t be terminated by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the cabinet or any government agency without an appropriate court ruling.

Complicit: senior figure in both Islam & Zionism, why isn’t King Charles’ govt ending this genocide? King Charles decides on war & peace, a Zionist/Islamic leader using genocide to gain power? Tim Cohen ‘Highly respected’ both in Islam and Judaism. Ingratiating himself to both while condemning ‘barbaric’ Hamas. Why has King Charles, who appoints army officers, civil servants, judges and all UK officials supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, been so silent on the horrors unfolding in the Holy Land? King Charles III: Five things the new British monarch said about Islam and Muslims – The king, who once studied Arabic to better understand the Quran, has long spoken about Islamic history and theology In 1996, the grand mufti of Cyprus, shockingly, accused Charles III – the new British king – of secretly being a Muslim. “Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can’t say more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right,” the late Nazim Al-Haqqani said. “When you get home check on how often he travels to Turkey. You’ll find that your future king is a Muslim.” Buckingham Palace simply replied: “Nonsense.” The 73-year-old, who is now the head of the Church of England, has made several speeches whilst king-in-waiting on theological and historical subjects related to Muslims and Islam. He even once revealed that he had been learning Arabic in order to understand the Quran better – a fact praised by Cambridge Central Mosque’s imam last week during a sermon. Middle East Eye takes a look at some of Charles III’s most significant references to Islam over the decades. In a 1996 speech entitled “A Sense of the Sacred: Building Bridges Between Islam and the West”, he suggested that an appreciation of Islamic views on natural order would “help us in the West to rethink, and for the better, our practical stewardship of man and his environment”. Charles elaborated on those views in a 2010 speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, which he has been a patron of since 1993. “From what I know of [Islam’s] core teachings and commentaries, the important principle we must keep in mind is that there are limits to the abundance of nature,” he said. “These are not arbitrary limits, they are the limits imposed by God and, as such, if my understanding of the Quran is correct, Muslims are commanded not to transgress them.” He later describes Islam as possessing “one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity” – a tradition he said was obscured by a drive towards “western materialism”. “Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with Creation.”

Antidepressants making mentally ill ‘patients’ suicidal and homicidal. Katinka Blackford-Newman is an award winning BBC trained documentary film-maker who lives in London. Her interest in antidepressants began in 2012 when she nearly lost her life because of an adverse reaction to an antidepressant. She was hospitalised and prescribed more drugs which made her extremely ill.  Our film, Medicating Normal, began as I witnessed what I believed was the psychiatric unravelling of a dear family member. A Harvard graduate and star athlete, she had been diagnosed in her early twenties with “mental illness”. Her subsequent treatment resulted in a steady stream of doctors dispensing different diagnoses and an ever-increasing regimen of medications. As time passed, she was told by some doctors she would need medication for the rest of her life. Twenty-plus years later, she was taking a staggering 10 pills daily. Today, with the support of our family, she has a house, a steady boyfriend, and has just self-published a meaningful book of essays. In this groundbreaking work, Whitaker examines the current mental health profession’s drug-centered approach to treatment, concluding that it is actually creating a public health crisis. Scrupulously researching data from drug trials and studies, Whitaker draws a disturbing parallel between rising disability rates and increased usage of psychotropic drugs. Alarmed that Whitaker’s cautionary narrative was conspicuously missing from today’s public discourse on mental health, Wendy and I set out to verify and define the extent of the problem. We read every book and article we could find, interviewing more than one hundred individuals treated with psychiatric drugs and numerous credentialed researchers, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and psychologists. What we learned became the basis for Medicating Normal. The film acknowledges that psychiatric drugs do help alleviate suffering for a segment of those who take them. However, it is estimated that of the 1 in 5 Americans taking such meds, 30% to 35% are gravely harmed by the very treatment meant to help them. Medicating Normal focuses on the predicament of this group – individuals facing trauma and stress who are drugged needlessly and made sicker as a result. Interviews with experts in the film reveal that significant numbers of these people will get better over time without medication. For over three years, we documented the journey of five individuals whose lives were profoundly impacted by the medication they were taking. Understanding the harm that has befallen them – especially in the context of the misleading science and marketing behind these drugs – compelled us to make this film. Our hope is that Medicating Normal will present one very important and predominantly untold story so that as a society we can begin a meaningful, informed nationwide discussion about what it means to be fully human and mentally well. Lynn Cunningham and Wendy Ractliffe

Little Imber on the down, seven miles from any town! Gordon Lewis’ great aunt was born in this Salisbury Plain Wiltshire village which was taken over ‘temporarily’ by the army, in 1941. [today’s opening times and dates] Gordon exposes a tragic WWII mistake and cover-up, where many training soldiers were killed. Also recounts a mass trespass in 1961 when, led by Amesbury councillor Austin Underwood, villagers tried to take their old homes back off the army.  Imber is currently an uninhabited village in part of the British Army’s training grounds on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, seven miles north east of the town of Warminster. The entire civilian population was evicted in 1943 to provide an exercise area for American troops preparing for the invasion of Europe during the Second World War. After the war villagers were not allowed to return to their homes and the village remains under the control of the Ministry of Defence. The first documentary evidence of Imber’s existence comes from Saxon times, with a mention of the village in 967. Imber is also recorded in the Domesday Book, at which time it is believed to have had a population of around fifty. The village’s church of St Giles dates back to the 12th century and has notable wall-paintings from the 15th century. By the 14th century the population of the village had risen to around 250, and eventually peaked at 440 as recorded in the census of 1851, declining to around 150 by the time of Imber’s abandonment. Imber was always an isolated community, Salisbury Plain being relatively sparsely populated, and most of its residents were employed in agriculture or work that directly depended on it. The village had an elongated form like a linear village, and its main street followed the course of a stream known as Imber Dock. The only building to survive in a reasonable condition is the church, with the rest becoming derelict or demolished by the Army. In 1943 there was also a Baptist chapel (built in 1839, demolished in late 1970s), a post office, and a pub called the Bell Inn, which still stands; as does the manor house, Imber Court. Also still standing are a farmhouse, farm cottages, schoolroom and four “council house” type blocks built in 1938. In the late 19th century the War Office began buying land on Salisbury Plain, primarily to the east of Imber, and using it for manoeuvres. Beginning in the late 1920s farms around Imber were purchased, as well as the land on which the village itself sat. The pressures of agricultural depression, combined with the good prices offered by the military, encouraged the sale of land, with few being put off by the new conditions of their tenancy. This allowed the War Office to assume control and evict the residents if necessary. By the time of the Second World War, almost all of the land in and around Imber, with the exception of the church, vicarage, chapel, schoolroom and Bell Inn, belonged to the War Office. On 1 November 1943, with preparations for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe underway, the people of Imber were called to a meeting in the village schoolroom and given 47 days’ notice to leave their homes. Imber was to be used by US forces to practice street fighting. Many of the buildings in Imber suffered shell and explosion damage after the war when UK military operations began, and, additionally eroded by the weather, quickly fell into disrepair. Although the villagers had been told they could return in six months, this was never allowed. At the end of the war, efforts were made to restore Imber to its pre-war condition – although there was very little damage – but the decision was taken not to relinquish control. A public inquiry also found in favour of Imber’s continued military use,but it was decided that the church would be maintained, and would be open for worship on the Saturday closest to St Giles’s day each year – a practice that continues to this day.

Rev. John Papworth, Anglican vicar  – Who was the Shoplifting Vicar? Rev. John Papworth made the national news in 1997 when he was ticked off by the Church of England for preaching, to his congregation, that it was okay to steal from supermarkets if you were poor and hungry. Though much of the press treated his comments as ‘beyond the pale’ he struck a chord with many who are fed up with the supermarket consumer culture. John edits an excellent quarterly pamphlet, the ‘Fourth World Review’. Here are some extracts. Confessions of a Shop-Lifting Vicar The saga of my clerical status within the Anglican Communion continues like a minor soap opera. The media furore featuring a ‘shop-lifting vicar’ made me world famous for five minutes and prompted the Archdeacon of Charing Cross to complain testily on the phone that I had ‘disrupted’ his entire weekend. You may well ask, as I did myself, ‘What is an archdeacon?’ And for that matter why have one attached to a railway station? Being very little acquainted with the niceties of clerical ranking in an ecclesiastical bureaucracy, unfortunately for me as it proved, I later gathered that the Venerable Dr W.M Jacob was effectively my ecclesiastical boss. I was also to discover in due course just why he is known as the archdeacon of arch-deviousness. After some deft, bureaucratic sleight-of-hand in declaring that since I was too late in applying for a licence to officiate, (an application which had never been required in my 14 years of unpaid service to the diocese), he would therefore not recommend me for one to the bishop, he has dallied me on a string. Letters of appeal tended to be sidetracked or to go unanswered until, just recently, a local press hack, scenting a story from the good man’s announcement that he would never, ever recommend me for a licence to officiate, enquired the reason for his ruling. This provoked a sudden volte-face. He denied making any such ruling but then proceeded to spell out the rule book in ways which would ensure, if he was around, that I would be kept out of action just as effectively. It would be a mistake to read overmuch personal animus in all this. In Trollope’s expansive, empire-building, and generally booming Victorian times a venerable archdeacon could have lived a fat, comfortable life and feel somehow he was a friend and ally of contemporary history. Today the chickens of that era have come home to roost with a vengeance. Some sort of moral lead is a yawning gulf in the world scene as the elements of the global crisis multiply and coagulate in ways suggesting that unless that lead in soon forthcoming the ship may well founder altogether. I am told that the musical needs of St Peter’s church in Rome were once served by a castrata choir; sometimes it seems to me the Anglican Church is now served by an ecclesiastical castrata. Absolutely nothing appears able to shake the moribund complacency of those who run it and the current leadership expresses all too clearly the price it is paying for generations of intellectual dishonesty. There is no open forthright debate on the challenge to its core beliefs mounted by modern astronomy, geology, biology and psychology; there is instead a rampant fever of spiritual cowardice running through its veins which leads it to pretend that the explosion of man’s understanding of his place in the universe has no relevance to its concerns and that the spiritual crisis generating the social and environmental disasters, now threatening to edge man off the page of history altogether, are things happening on another planet and of which it need have no more regard than for the craters on the moon. People of first-rate calibre have clearly abandoned it in droves and it appears now not to possess a single voice able or willing to speak with authority to challenge the diabolic forces which are wreaking the planet, our social structures and our prospects of progress. The third-raters who now infest it are not remotely members of a life-force which might give direction, inspiration, coherence or any kind of elevated moral sense to society at large; they are leeches in a sepulchre gorging on a corpse, ceasing to do so only to belch spite or to lapse into a coma of satiation.

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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, ‘rested due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane 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.

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Syria – Assad has gone and HTS has taken over – was it a ‘surprise’ or a deal brokered by ‘Art of the Deal’ Trump or others? Susan Lindauer, peace campaigner and ex CIA agent, how Assad’s father had a contract out on her, but she’s not pro the new government. Trump calls on ‘weakened’ Russia to enact ceasefire in Ukraine after Kremlin ally Assad is toppled in Syria President-elect Donald Trump urged Russia to negotiate a halt to the fighting in Ukraine following to fall of the Assad regime in Syria — saying the Kremlin was in a “weakened state” as a result of the war and the “bad economy.” “There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse,” Trump, 78, posted on Truth Social early Sunday. The incoming president met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Moscow has been skeptical about a ceasefire — at least in the public eye, contending that it would give Kyiv time to regroup and strengthen its defense. The Kremlin has demanded Ukraine pull out of Russian-annexed territory in the besieged country despite not having full control over it. The incoming president, who has long signaled a strong desire to end the war, huddled with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron during the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday. Trump, who has at times expressed a fascination with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, remarked about how feeble Moscow appeared in Syria after the shocking and swift fall of Bashar al-Assad, whom Russia backed with troops, aircraft and navy ships. “Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer,” Trump mused. “They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever. “Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success.” Some analysts have speculated that Russia is scrambling to strengthen its hand at a possible future negotiating table ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Moscow has made significant territorial gains in Ukraine over recent weeks. Trump has long made clear his intent to end the brutal war unfolding between Kyiv and Moscow, though he has been light on specifics about how he’d end it. “Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians,” he added on Truth Social. “Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse.” Following his meeting with Trump, Zelensky, 46, underscored his desire for “a just and enduring peace” and blasted Putin for being “addicted to war.”

Judge Neopolitano interviews Col. Douglas Mac Gregor – did Trump do a deal with Putin over Syria? Turkey’s interests in Syria. Dearlove, former UK Secret Services head, says WW3 has started. Syria – online videos of executions of Assad supporters. Col. Macgregor: US, Israel, and Turkey are fueling elimination of Christianity in the Middle East Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor has warned that Christianity faces extinction in the Middle East owing to Zionist expansion plans, supported in large part by the American Deep State. — In a startling appraisal of the regime change operation in Syria, former Trump adviser Colonel Douglas Macgregor returns with a shocking message: Christianity is being erased in its oldest homelands, as terrorists backed by the U.S. and Turkey help to realize the Zionist dream of a “Greater Israel.” Speaking of the likely extinction of first-century Christianity across the region, Macgregor warned, “I think that’ll be the end the Christian Community in Syria and probably inevitably what’s left of it in Iraq.” Macgregor said that the Western world has failed to recognize the significance of redrawing the map in the Middle East, which has seen U.S.-backed foreign terrorists overthrow the government of Bashar Al-Assad: People need to understand that we’re watching something that we have not seen yet in the 21st century, which is a formal partition of a third country by at least two other partners – and that’s Syria.

Israelis taking over parts of Syria. Will Islamists congregate in Syria to attack Israel? Richard Medhurst, who was arrested for being pro Hamas, says how Christians are now scared in Syria. Jihadists and CIA as drug dealers. Susan Lindauer – Jihadis may all now come to Syria to fight Israel. Independent journalist Richard Medhurst on the so-called ‘Syrian Revolution’ Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents served in United Nations Peacekeeping and Observer missions and were among the UN Peacekeepers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents served in United Nations Peacekeeping and Observer missions and were among the UN Peacekeepers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Owing to his parents’ professional mobility, he has lived in Syria, Pakistan, Switzerland, and Austria. He speaks four languages fluently: English, Arabic, French, and German. Medhurst’s journalism focuses on exposing US, British and Israeli war crimes in Gaza and across the Middle East. He is known for his coverage of the Julian Assange extradition case in London, and of the Iran nuclear deal talks in Vienna. In August this year, Medhurst was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under the draconian provisions of the 2000 Terrorism Act. He was held for almost 24 hours, questioned, and had all his electronic devices and journalistic equipment confiscated. Medhurst said on his X account, “I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.” At the time, independent journalists wrote that Medhurst’s arrest was part of a broader effort by the British Labour government to criminalise and intimidate opposition to the genocide in Gaza that has seen mass demonstrations in Britain and throughout the world.

Lavrov on why Russia couldn’t support Assad anymore. What happened to Syrian army? Lebanon weak and poor like Syria. Ed Davey – PMQs – will UK step up for Syria? Sergey Lavrov on Syria, Ukraine, and Russia’s global strategy Russian foreign minister discusses Syria’s crisis, Ukraine conflict and Moscow’s role in global diplomacy at Doha Forum. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joins Al Jazeera at the 2024 Doha Forum to address pressing global issues. In a wide-ranging interview, Lavrov discusses the rapidly evolving crisis in Syria, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and Russia’s broader diplomatic strategy amid shifting global alliances. Lavrov reflects on Moscow’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the implications of opposition gains in the Middle Eastern country, and Russia’s long-term presence in the region. He also offers insights into Russia’s stance on Palestine, NATO’s expansion, and the future of global diplomacy under the shadow of escalating tensions with the West. A must-watch conversation on pivotal world events. Russia, Turkiye, Iran want ‘immediate end’ to fighting in Syria: Lavrov Russian foreign minister says Moscow will do ‘everything not to allow terrorists to prevail’, as Syrian rebels advance. ‘We agreed today with Iran and Turkiye to issue a strong call,’ Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Doha Forum in Qatar Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has said he and his Iranian and Turkish counterparts are calling for “an end to hostile activities” in Syria, where opposition fighters have made a rapid advance in a major challenge to President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking to Al Jazeera at the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on Saturday, Lavrov said Russia, Iran and Turkiye expressed support for “dialogue between the government and legitimate opposition” in Syria. The three countries have been involved since 2017 in the so-called Astana Format talks seeking a political settlement in Syria, and their top diplomats – Lavrov, Iran’s Abbas Araghchi and Turkiye’s Hakan Fidan – met in a trilateral format on the sidelines of the Doha Forum. “We called for [an] immediate end to hostile activities. We stated, all of us, that we want the [United Nations] Resolution 2254 to be fully implemented, and for this purpose, called for the dialogue between the government and legitimate opposition,” Lavrov said. Advertisement Syria-led process Resolution 2254 (PDF) outlines a commitment to the “sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity” of Syria and says the only solution to the years-long conflict will be through “an inclusive and Syrian-led political process”. Asked whether Moscow – a key backer of al-Assad and the Syrian army – believes the Syrian president can hang onto power, Lavrov said he was “not in the business of guessing”.

Starmer visits Akrotiri Military base in Cyprus. What’s happening in Akrotiri base. Village in Syria wants to be in Israel as scared of Jihadis. How will Turkey deal with the Kurds? Starmer tells troops at base deploying Gaza spy planes ‘the whole world is relying on you’ UK prime minister visited a controversial British airbase in Cyprus from which the Royal Air Force flies spy planes over Gaza British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited a controversial British airbase in Cyprus from which the Royal Air Force (RAF) flies spy planes over Gaza, telling British troops there that the “whole world” relies on them. Starmer’s visit marks the first time a British prime minister has visited Cyprus in 53 years in an official capacity, and is considered important because the UK is a guarantor power for the island, which is divided between the Republic of Cyprus and the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). He visited RAF Akrotiri, one of two British bases on Cyprus, on Tuesday. Starmer was filmed telling troops: “The whole world and everyone back at home is relying on you.” He added: “Quite a bit of what goes on here can’t necessarily be talked about all of the time. We can’t necessarily tell the world what you’re doing.” Since early December 2023, the RAF has flown at least 450 flights over Gaza using Shadow R1 aircraft deployed at RAF Akrotiri. Britain’s defence ministry told Middle East Eye the flights gather intelligence, saying that information “relating to hostage rescue is passed to the Israeli authorities”. In October, the RAF said it would consider sharing potential war crimes evidence gathered by the spy planes with the International Criminal Court (ICC) if asked. But the surveillance flights have been a contentious issue in Britain. Last month in an interview with MEE, independent MP Ayoub Khan urged the government to stop sharing intelligence from the flights over Gaza, after international arrest warrants were issued for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. “We cannot assist a nation that has its leadership wanted by an international tribunal,” he said. Starmer met with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in the capital, Nicosia, on Tuesday. They discussed multiple issues, including “fostering conditions of stability and security in the region”. Spy planes controversy This comes after international concerns were raised over the RAF base earlier this year by the president of Northern Cyprus, Ersin Tatar. The island of Cyprus was divided 50 years ago following Turkey’s seizure of the north after moves to unite the island with Greece. Turkey remains the only country to recognise Northern Cyprus, which demands a two-state solution to the dispute. Tatar said in August: “When the UK withdrew from Cyprus, it took two sovereign bases through agreements. “Because these bases have ‘sovereign’ status, no one can interfere. If British planes taking off from these bases get involved in certain issues, this could make Cyprus a target,” he said. This was a response to Lebanon’s Hezbollah warning Cyprus against allowing Israel to use its military infrastructure for drills. The republic’s government denied at the time that its country allowed Israel to use its airports and bases for military exercises. Earlier, in June, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Ankara had received intelligence reports that indicated Cyprus had become a military base for operations in Gaza. “We constantly see in intelligence that the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus is a base for certain countries in operations targeting Gaza,” he said.

Douma and Goutha ‘chemical weapons’ attacks wrongly blamed on president Assad just Western ‘big lie’ propaganda. Syria’s Assad blamed for Chemical weapons attacks which NATO intelligence services carried out. Watchdog probe in Syria. Israelis bombed suspected chemical weapons in Golan Heights. Patrizia poem. Syrian forces discover UK, German-made chemical weapons depot in Douma Syria’s government forces have discovered a depot of German and UK-manufactured chemical weapons left by terrorists in the town of Douma, a Syrian official says. “In the depot with chemical weapons left by terrorists in Douma, we have found chemicals from Germany, the United Kingdom, from the Porton-Down laboratory in Salisbury,” Russia’s Sputnik news agency cited Syria’s Deputy Ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ghassan Obaid as saying after a briefing in The Hague on Thursday. Obaid called on OPCW inspectors to visit the site and expressed hope that the inspection will ultimately prove the allegations against Damascus to be wrong. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s had said earlier that containers with chlorine and smoke bombs made in the UK and Germany had been discovered in the territories freed from militants in Eastern Ghouta region in the suburb of the capital city of Damascus. The Fact-Finding Mission from the OPCW, which has been deployed to Syria since April 14 to probe the Douma incident, visited a second site in the town on Wednesday and collected samples from the location. The new samples, together with other samples, will be taken to the OPCW laboratory in The Netherlands for further examination. Also at the Thursday press conference in The Hague, the OPCW representatives of Syria and Russia presented witnesses who were used in staged videos of the recent suspected chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin described the recent suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma as a “provocation” that Moscow had warned about in advance. He said the only evidence for the alleged gas attack was a “sloppily staged” video shot by a pseudo-humanitarian organization in a bid to “touch hearts,” adding that the same strategy had been used in previous false flag attacks in Syria. Russia says the recent suspected chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Douma was a “provocation” that Moscow had warned about in advance. Western states blamed the Syrian government for the suspected chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb town of Douma on April 7. One week after the incident, the US, Britain and France launched a coordinated missile attack against sites and research facilities near Damascus and Homs with the purported goal of paralyzing the Syrian government’s capability to produce chemicals. Shulgin said the representatives of the three countries that launched the Syria strikes were absent at Thursday’s briefing because they were afraid to look into the eyes of the witnesses of the Douma incident. Syria has rejected the accusations of possessing chemicals. It surrendered its chemical stockpile in 2013 to a mission led by the OPCW and the UN. During the conference at The Hague, Syria’s deputy representative to the OPCW said the witnesses revealed “the false of allegations and lies of Western countries about the allegations of chemical use in Douma city.” Obaid also noted that all the chemical allegations against the Syrian government were leveled by Western countries to “distort” the Syrian army’s image that is conducting a counter-terrorism operation. He further said that Syria had sent more than 100 letters to the OPCW on terrorist groups’ plan to use chemical weapons in order to blame the Syrian army.

1982 Oded Yinon plan continuing? US citizens freed from Assad’s prisons. ISIS released. PRE-PLANNED ATTACKS Though the attack by the ISIS is sudden and intense, it did not come out of the blue. There were indeed reports warning against such an attack. The events unfolding also point out to the months of preparation and planning that might have gone into the attacks. It would be really a surprise, if the US – a country that spies and snoops on a majority of world citizens – claims that it too was caught unawares by the attack. Moreover, one should not forget that Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki went to the US and requested the administration to help the Iraqi government fight the growing threat of the ISIS. The Obama administration not only ignored his appeal, but has virtually snubbed him for not completely toeing their line in governing Iraq. While the US government had refused to help the Iraqi government to strike at one of the most dangerous terrorist organisations in the world, it is doing the same in eight other countries, overriding the concerns of the respective governments, all under the guise of fighting terrorism. Working closely with the US is its lackey Israel. Both of them are one in trying to break the sovereign States in the region on ethnic and sectarian lines. In fact, the idea that all the Arab states should be broken down into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking. Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha’aretz writes: “The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi’ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha’aretz February 6, 1982) as something best that can happen for Israeli interests. This is in consonance with an Israeli policy document, which states: “The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run…” Further, “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria…In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarisation”. Though sounding contemporary, this is, in fact, written some thirty years ago by Oded Yinon in A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties. This strategy was elaborated and put into practice by the US since the start of the new millennium. Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in New York Times (November 25, 2003) what the US should do in Iraq: “The only viable strategy, then, may be to correct the historical defect and move in stages toward a three-state solution: Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south”. This was further elaborated as a policy perspective by the then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who termed it as a project for ‘New Middle East’. This project consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and Afghanistan. This was introduced during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006. Introducing the project ‘New Middle East’, Rice had pointed out that “Lebanon would be the pressure point for realigning the whole Middle East and thereby unleashing the forces of ‘constructive chaos’”. Addressing a press conference she continued, “what we’re seeing here (the destruction of Lebanon and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon), in a sense, is the growing – the ‘birth pangs’ – of a ‘New Middle East’ and whatever we do, we (the US) have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the New Middle East and not going back to the old one”. It is according to this plan that they have unleashed ‘constructive chaos’ in the entire West Asian region, to subsequently divide the existing countries on sectarian lines and gain access to their rich natural resources. This project was supported by both the Republicans and the Democrats. The Washington Post, (September 26, 2007) approvingly reports about a debate in the US Senate: “Showing rare bipartisan consensus over war policy, the Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a political settlement for Iraq that would divide the country into three semi-autonomous regions. The plan, conceived by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joseph R. Biden…envisions a federal government system for Iraq, consisting of separate regions for Iraq’s Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish populations”. It is the same Biden who is now the vice president of the US. Peter Galbraith, senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, was more forthright in an interview (November 12, 2008): “Of course, it’s very encouraging to me that Joe Biden is the incoming vice president. He has been the prime proponent of a decentralised Iraq…it is in fact what the Bush administration has done in part.

Scott Bennett dies suddenly, age 54, from pancreatic cancer, after getting back from Ukraine where he had been collecting evidence of Ukrainian war crimes – was Scott bumped off? His book ‘Shell Game’ about funding for Jihadi networks from the 1980s through the Union Bank of Switzerland. Black Rock – disaster capitalism wars and then takes over. Steven Pigeon – saying goodbye to Scott Bennett. Scott Bennett on RT – strategic communications. June 24 final time he was on Tony’s show – Ukraine. Ex-US Army officer and Press TV analyst Scott Bennett dies at 53 Saturday, 23 November 2024 Scott Bennett, a former US Army officer and long-time analyst for Press TV, has died at the age of 53 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Bennett was known for his political commentary across various media outlets and travelled to Donbas in 2023 to gain firsthand insight into the situation on the ground. In 2014, he authored the book Shell Game: A Military Whistleblowing Report to Congress, which examined the role of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in facilitating an arms sale to Qatar. Weapons sold as part of that deal ended up in the hands of the terrorist cult Daesh, according to Bennett. In June 2024, Bennett visited the Russian border region of Belgorod, where he witnessed Ukrainian shelling in the village of Saltykovo. He condemned the attacks as assaults on civilians. The following month, he prepared a report for the US Congress, accusing Ukrainian forces and foreign fighters of “systematically” and “intentionally” targeting civilians in both Belgorod and Donbas. “Non-military targets are being attacked, irreparably damaged or destroyed, and civilians are being intentionally murdered as a result,” Bennett stated in his report, which criticized the Biden administration for making the US a “legally culpable party to international war crimes” through its support of Ukraine’s actions. Bennett also reported facing “death threats and threats of violence” from the Ukrainian government, military personnel, and media during his investigation. He also received similar threats from American and NATO “elements and agents” backing Kiev’s cause. He published his findings on Telegram, asserting that he was not “suicidal in any way.” “If anything happens to me, it will be in order to try and bury this report.”

EXCLUSIVE: Fatima gives a report from Gaza – food deliberately targeted by IDF. War on Gaza: Nearly one million Palestinians at risk during winter, Unrwa says UN agency warns that aid is urgently needed in the enclave amid a worsening crisis The UN agency for Palestinian refugee (Unrwa) has warned that 945,000 Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of exposure to harsh winter conditions, as the humanitarian crisis in the enclave deepens. Displaced families need protection from rain and cold, Unrwa said on X, adding that only 23 percent of this need has been met. “Unrwa continues to provide support, distributing plastic tarpaulins and installing tents to offer temporary shelter and protection from the harsh conditions. Aid is urgently required to address the overwhelming needs as the crisis deepens,” the agency added. According to the latest report published by Unrwa on Thursday, the Israeli war on Gaza has displaced at least 1.9 million people in the war-battered enclave, which makes up about 90 percent of the population. Some have been displaced 10 or more times. The agency indicated that there are several problems hindering humanitarian supplies from entering into Gaza, including “deteriorating law and order, war and insecurity, damaged infrastructure, fuel shortages and access restrictions”. Moreover, food security across Gaza is collapsing, leaving people in a “state of sheer desperation,” according to the report. In one case last month, two girls and a woman were tragically killed in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza due to overcrowding outisde one of the few bakeries still operational. Philippe Lazzarini, the general commissioner of Unrwa, raised concern over the worsening “humanitarian disaster” in the enclave. “We are running out of words. Hunger and disease are rampant,” he said in a post on X. “Humanitarians must be enabled to do their job. Hurdles to aid must be removed without further delay, otherwise more lives will be lost. This keeps testing our shared humanity”. ‘A crime against humanity’ Aid access to northern Gaza has been especially challenging, leaving between 65,000 and 75,000 people without access to necessities such as food, water, electricity or reliable healthcare, according to Unrwa’s report. “Intense military operations are ongoing amid a near total lack of humanitarian aid entering the area, in addition to severe communications and internet disruptions. Some parts of the North Gaza governorate have been under a tightened siege for 60 days,” the report says. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, a law professor at MIT and UN special rapporteur on the right to housing, told Middle East Eye that Israel bears responsibility as a state for “all of these grave breaches of international law”. “Imposing a siege, preventing all access to food, water, medicine and shelter, all with an intention to force a population to leave, is textbook ethnic cleansing and is a grave crime under international law. It is both a war crime and a crime against humanity,” Rajagopal said. “Forcible displacement in northern Gaza under conditions of siege with an intent to eliminate their presence is genocidal, as it aims at the destruction of a people,” he added. Israel has imposed a blackout on northern Gaza for over two months as part of a military plan that has severely hindered residents from contacting the outside world and sharing information about what they are enduring. Despite this, horrific reports of starvation, bombardment and displacement are still emerging. Israeli media, analysts and military officials – as well as Palestinians in Gaza – say that the current campaign corresponds to the so-called “Generals’ Plan”, also known as the Eiland Plan. The plan aims to effectively ethnically cleanse north Gaza of Palestinians before declaring the area a closed military zone.

The Queen wouldn’t let Israelis in the Palace as she thought they were all terrorists. The late Queen Elizabeth believed every Israeli was “either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist” and refused to allow Israeli officials into Buckingham Palace “apart from international occasions”, former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has said. “The relationship between us [Israel] and Queen Elizabeth was a little bit difficult,” Rivlin told a gala event celebrating Haifa’s Technion Institute of Technology in London on Sunday night. Rivlin served as the 10th president of Israel between 2014 and 2021, while the queen died in 2022. After her death, Stuart Polak, the honorary president of the influential Conservative Friends of Israel group (CFoI), claimed that “the royal family were prohibited by the Foreign Office from visiting Israel”. Queen Elizabeth ‘refused to allow Israeli officials inside Buckingham Palace’ Former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin says late British monarch thought every Israeli was ‘either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist’ The late Queen Elizabeth believed every Israeli was “either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist” and refused to allow Israeli officials into Buckingham Palace, former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has said. “The relationship between us [Israel] and Queen Elizabeth was a little bit difficult,” Rivlin told a gala event celebrating Haifa’s Technion Institute of Technology in London on Sunday night. Rivlin served as the 10th president of Israel between 2014 and 2021, while the queen died in 2022. The former president said the queen “believed that every one of us was either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist”. He added: “She refused to accept any Israeli official into [Buckingham] Palace, apart from international occasions”. Later asked about his comments, he doubled down on them: “These are my words, this is what I said.” History of strained relations The queen was often thought to have had a strained relationship with Israel. Despite her visiting more than 120 countries and travelling around a million miles during her 70 years on the throne, she never visited the country. In September 2022 after Elizabeth’s death, Stuart Polak, the honorary president of the influential Conservative Friends of Israel group (CFoI), claimed that “the royal family were prohibited by the Foreign Office from visiting Israel”. Others have given alternative interpretations. Writing in 2012 of the queen’s failure to visit Israel, the former Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau said: “This marvellous, dedicated, 86-year-old sovereign is nobody’s puppet. “If she wanted to visit the Jewish state or have one of her close family visit it, she could insist on it, and get her way.” Some have speculated that Elizabeth had a negative attitude to Israel due to the violent insurgency waged against the British mandate in Palestine by Zionist armed groups in the 1940s, before Israel’s declaration of independence. Visiting Jordan in 1984, she reportedly said “How frightening” when Israeli fighter jets flew past in the sky in view of the occupied West Bank. Queen Nour, King Hussein of Jordan’s wife, was said to have replied: “It’s terrible.” Later, Queen Elizabeth was reportedly shown a map depicting the locations of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and said: “What a depressing map.” Former Israeli president Rivlin’s comments have sparked a flurry of humorous social media posts online depicting the late monarch wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian scarf.

Israeli war criminals won’t be arrested in UK? American Indian genocide. Israeli army chief given special immunity to visit Britain Exclusive: IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi was given a “special mission” certificate for his trip to the UK last month, allowing him to visit without fear of arrest for war crimes. The UK government has confirmed that Israel’s top soldier, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, was given special diplomatic immunity to visit Britain last month. Halevi is the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and has been directing the Israeli military’s operations throughout the Gaza genocide. He arrived in Britain in late November to discuss “the ongoing conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza” with senior UK officials from the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office. A further meeting was held with Britain’s attorney general, Richard Hermer. The trip came just three days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for “crimes against humanity and war crimes”. Halevi was initially reported to have been included in the ICC’s arrest applications for the crime of having “deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza”. While Halevi was not ultimately named in those ICC warrants, it is possible to issue private arrest applications in Britain under universal jurisdiction legislation, which allows for the most serious crimes to be prosecuted regardless of where they are committed. However, the UK government blocked this avenue for redress by issuing Halevi with a “special mission certificate”, granting him temporary diplomatic immunity for the duration of the visit. In response to a parliamentary question from Labour MP Brian Leishman, the Foreign Office yesterday admitted it “gave consent for special mission status for the visit to the UK on 24-25 November of Lieutenant General Herzl Halevi… and [his] delegation”. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) told Declassified: “It seems beyond belief that the UK attorney general could meet with the head of the IDF, mere days after arrest warrants were issued for Netanyahu and Gallant. “Halevi may not yet have an arrest warrant himself, but regardless, the International Criminal Court Act 2001 obliges the UK to investigate, arrest and prosecute suspected war criminals.” ICJP spokesman Jonathan Purcell said it was “utterly reckless” for the attorney general to have met Halevi, “not least as it will undermine the UK’s global position by associating so closely with a pariah state”.

America’s Syrian Gulag To those who know about the United States’ continued presence in Syria supporting the Kurdish separatists and their military known as the Syrian Democratic Force [SDF], it is commonly said that the American motive is to steal Syrian oil and grain. One would also wonder how much nine hundred soldiers could accomplish, but of course as usual they are actually there as hostages, to ensure that in Syria cannot try to retake this area without killing Americans and thus unleashing the wrath of the U.S. government. This prison network provides another important angle to the occupation. While the prisons in Syrian Kurdistan are not secret, they are also not well known. However, CNN (of all places) recently featured an excellent investigation exposing that more than 50,000 humans are kept in a network of twenty-seven facilities in Syria. CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward was given rare access to the prisons and her reporting is illuminating. All of the inmates are denied access to any form of legal process and have no chance of release besides a vague hope that their home countries may repatriate them. Everything the United States has done in Syria, of course, it has been done in the name of human rights; but it seems to be the case that all of these individuals would have had a better chance of receiving some form of trial and definite sentencing under the government of the Syrian Arab Republic. At the very least, they could not be denied a legal process to a greater extent than they currently are. There are two primary categories of prisoners the U.S.-funded facilities are holding in Syria. The first are accused Islamic State terrorists—most of them probably are fighters captured by the SDF, but in the absence of a legal process it is impossible to know—and families of Islamic State militants. The largest prison is known as “Panorama” and holds 4,000 inmates. According to CNN, legal experts have called it, “A U.S.-funded legal black hole, worse than Guantanamo Bay.” Clarissa Ward was allowed to see two cells and speak to a handful of prisoners. The first thing one notices is that this is a “nice” facility. One would imagine the SDF would hold prisoners in some ancient Ottoman fortress, but this is clearly a modern and newly built prison for which the U.S. taxpayer has paid a fortune. It is overcrowded, but nothing like the images one commonly sees of third world prisons. Of course it was a managed tour, as Ward acknowledged in her report. The problem is that the inmates have been there for years and have no legal rights, though an SDF official claimed that they intend to reintegrate these people into society; it has just not been possible to make progress in that regard as no country will take them. While the men are mostly kept in conventional prisons, the women and children, who are not accused of any crime, are kept in what must be the world’s largest literal concentration camp, Al Hol. The camp holds 40,000 people. Five years after the fall of the caliphate there is no plan for what to do with the individuals stored at this desert camp. Many of the women remain ideologically committed, though Ward also spoke to one former American citizen who has fully turned against IS and even stopped covering in the camp, but she has had her U.S. citizenship stripped on grounds that there was an error in her naturalization process. At a certain age—supposedly eighteen, but according to inmates as early as fourteen—the boys are removed from the camp and sent to the prisons to stop the teens from marrying and producing a “new generation of Islamic extremists.” While the conditions appear to to be broadly humane, if bleak, it is indeed hard to imagine a better breeding ground for radical Islam than this desert city of IS wives denied human rights by a United States proxy. It is of course the case that IS arose from American managed prisons in Iraq in the first place. The biggest question is why CNN was given this access, with the SDF volunteering information about a prison system which has been criticized by basically every major human rights organization. Based on the interviews it seems to me that the SDF wants out of this obligation. The United States is functionally making them run a Gulag Archipelago and even if they are paid for it, running the prisons consumes an enormous amount of man hours by personnel who could be put to other uses. Further, there is the constant risk of breakouts (as happened in 2022) and of terrorist groups trying to liberate the camp. However, the United States clearly has no other plan for the ultimate fate of these humans, unless they intend to use them to unleash a new wave of terrorism. This is simply yet another policy where our ruling class has no exit strategy. It seems that the U.S. will occupy northeast Syria forever, if only to imprison some 50,000 people without trial. The irony, of course, is that they will continue to justify their presence by saying they need to bring human rights to Syria, just not for those trapped in this desert Guantanamo.

Corbyn character assassin Lyons new head of strategic communications for Starmer. Fatima’s report from Gaza. US military demoralised after many stupid wars. Starmer appoints ex-Murdoch hack as ‘strategic communications’ chief Plus a Conservative think-tanker for good measure Hot on the heels of promoting the hard-right saboteur of Jeremy Corbyn, Morgan McSweeney, to be his recycled chief of staff after the (induced?) resignation of the controversial Sue Gray, Keir Starmer has appointed former Murdoch hack James Lyons as his head of ‘strategic communications’. Lyons worked as political editor Murdoch’s Sunday Times and played a part in promulgating the ‘Labour antisemitism’ smear, which McSweeney was confirmed recently to have orchestrated, writing for the Sunday Times in 2016 that Jeremy Corbyn’s son Tommy was ‘at the centre of a row over anti-semitism at York University’ because he had organised a play about Israel’s bombing of Gaza. In early 2017, Lyons was also ‘caught plotting against Corbyn‘ in a conversation, on a crowded train, with one of the most notorious right-wing councillors (at that time) on Labour’s national executive. Starmer has been widely and rightly condemned for his cosiness with Rupert Murdoch, including allegedly killing part two of the Leveson Inquiry into press wrongdoing at his behest and writing repeatedly for the hated, anti-working-class S*n. For good measure in his back-office ‘reshuffle’, Starmer has also appointed Vidhya Alakeson as his deputy chief of staff. Alakeson previously worked on a project for Conservative think-tank ‘Onward’ with Claire Ainsley, briefly Starmer’s ‘executive director of policy’. The reshuffle seems to be an attempt to create an appearance of change and action, while ensuring that Starmer will continue on the same appalling, red-Tory policy route and complicity in genocide that have made him the least popular prime minister, after three months in office, in the last three decades. When Morgan McSweeney met special advisers on Tuesday evening, he is said to have made a “pitch perfect” speech that rallied the troops after a bruising few weeks. A source in a government department said the chatter after the meeting was all “about Morgan’s appearance”. “He acknowledged that being a spad has been more like a nightmare than a dream job. It seemed to go down well but of course they want action, not just words.” The unhappiness in Labour ranks among special advisers – political appointees who support ministers – over their pay was just one of the rows that culminated in the downfall of Sue Gray, the former partygate investigator whom Sir Keir invested so much personal stock in hiring. She now finds herself as Sir Keir’s special envoy for the nations and regions, where she is not only expected to lose the £170,000 pay packet she was on – and which was leaked to the media in a successful attempt to damage her politically – but the unparalleled access she enjoyed to the prime minister. For some, Mr McSweeney’s reappointment as chief of staff is the precise rescue remedy the party needed after its first 100 days in power were marred by the row over freebies and donations, sending Sir Keir’s personal ratings plummeting. “Morgan is a much more political person with a vision of where the country should go and what we should be doing,” said one government source. “It’s wrong when people say Keir isn’t like that – it just wasn’t being translated properly.” The source acknowledged that while not all the problems would be fixed “overnight”, with Mr McSweeney at the helm “there will be a lot more drive from the centre”. “Look at how he changed the Labour Party. Morgan is a total workaholic who will create a greater sense of direction.” Another supporter said simply: “He will undoubtedly be a force for good.” For other more sceptical observers, the public humiliation of Ms Gray has provided a convenient opportunity for Mr McSweeney to paint himself as the saviour of the Labour Party once more and fixer of all its problems – problems he allowed to fester in an apparent attempt to destroy a rival. “You could critique Sue’s management style, you could say she didn’t facilitate access to Keir, you could say she took on too many things which generated backlogs and you could say had enemies in the Civil Service – but all of those things you could have said about anyone in that job,” one senior Whitehall figure told Sky News. “Morgan would stoke things up subtly. He would let things go wrong so he could blame Sue and see her out.”

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Farmers protesting about chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new  inheritance tax in London. Tractors descend on London in Budget protest, as Bradshaw highlights farming pain to MPs An estimated 600 tractors, at least, descended on Westminster on Wednesday in a hugely impressive protest against the Autumn Budget’s impact on farming. The organisers, including Save British Farming (SBF) and Kent Fairness for Farmers, want the government to ditch reforms to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) that will impose 20% inheritance tax on farm businesses valued over £1m from April 2026. Many farmers feel they would be unable tio afford this, even with other allowances taking the threshold up to £3m in some cases, and it will force them to sell or break up the farm. Other grievances include planned tax hikes on double-cab pickups and fertiliser, the accelerated withdrawal of Basic Payments in England, and trade policies they say are undermining high UK standards. The London protest began with farmers assembling on Whitehall at 10.30am, followed by speeches at 12.45pm from prominent agricultural figures including North Wales hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones, Berkshire farmer Colin Rayner, SBF founder Liz Webster and Kent farmers Jeff Gibson and David Catt, Farmers Weekly reports. Choking back tears, Mrs Webster addressed the crowd, saying: “This government wants to destroy the countryside like they say Thatcher destroyed the coal mines. “I give you my absolute pledge that I will fight every step of the way to ensure that we’re still here when Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are gone.” Mr Gibson’s children laid a wreath outside No 10 Downing Street alongside a placard that read ‘RIP British farming’, while a two-minute silence was held to pay tribute to farmers who had taken their own lives over IHT worries. A Land Rover towing a coffin circled Parliament Square, representing the “death” of farming under current government plans, the Farmers Weekly report added. In contrast, some tractors adorned with Christmas lights, blared horns and music as they passed the Houses of Parliament in a bid to ‘wake up the government’. Yorkshire protest Farmers in Yorkshire and Wales organised their own protests, with more than 120 tractors filling the city centre in a rally headlined ‘Save Family Farms’. Pig farmer Anna Longthorp, who organised the tractor run for local supporters unable to travel to London, told the BBC the support for the protest has been ‘tremendous’. “It has made me quite emotional, seeing people waving and clapping at us as we go past. We’re asset rich, cash poor as we have big assets in land. It is very valuable in the tractors that we drive, the kit that we need in order to do food for the nation, so we’re quite alone in that we’re price takers instead of price makers. “We don’t receive a price for any of the products, so some years we make a profit and some years we make a loss. So we just don’t have the liquidity to pay this tax. “We won’t stop until there is a change, we are a resilient industry and we’re standing shoulder to shoulder, we’ve got a huge support and don’t want to do anything to jeopardise that, but we will keep going.”

Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser at Central Association for Agricultural Valuers, added that the tax changes would not discourage companies from snapping-up farmland, adding: “It is only individuals who die.” Over half of farmers who gain from tax loophole have ‘no involvement in farming in any way’  Alistair Carmichael, Chair of Rural Affairs Select Committee, on why can’t farms bought just for tax relief be taxed? Farms Not Factories – interviews with farmers at the protest in London. Hundreds of farmers in tractors descended on Westminster to protest, while MPs heard less than half of estates claiming agricultural relief made any income from farming in five years Farmers in tractors staged another protest over the government’s inheritance tax changes – despite fresh claims large landowners are the big winners from current rules. Hundreds descended on London, with go-slow demonstrations on dual carriageways in a number of other places. It marked a second day of action in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s Budget announcement that farms worth more than £1million will pay 20% inheritance tax from 2026. Farmers called the change “another kick in the teeth”, while some backed cutting off food supplies in the new year as “wake up call”. It came as MPs scrutinising the shake-up heard more than half those claiming a lucrative tax break to avoid death duties have “no involvement in farming in any way”. The 20% inheritance tax rate – half that for everyone else – replaces two types of relief worth up to 100%. Dr Arun Advani, director of Centre for the Analysis of Taxation, told the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: “Less than half of the estates who are claiming agricultural relief have any income from farming anywhere in the five years before death. “About 44% of the claims are from people you would think of as farmers.” The others, he said, are “a mix of people who own a house and some pony paddocks or who own land and let it out to a lot of people but are not involved in any farming in any way.” The Mirror revealed this month how a quarter of all England’s farmland belongs to just 2,500 owners. The highly respected Institute for Fiscal Studies says those paying more tax under the changes would be heavily concentrated among large wealthy landowners. But Dr Advani warned, at 20%, the inheritance tax rate still made it attractive for the wealthy to buy up agricultural land, pushing up prices for genuine smaller family farmers who want to work the land themselves. Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser at Central Association for Agricultural Valuers, added that the tax changes would not discourage companies from snapping-up farmland, adding: “It is only individuals who die.” Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers’ Union, claimed Ms Reeves had refused to meet. He told the committee: “We have written to the Prime Minister asking for a pause to consult.” Mr Bradshaw became emotional at one stage as he warned some ill or older farmers may take their own lives to avoid their estates being hit with inheritance tax. Country Land and Business Association claims 70,000 farms could be affected annually but the government puts it at just 500. Tractors hocking their horns drove around Westminster’s Parliament Square, many decorated with signs that read: “No farmers, no food” and “Save British Farming”. Will Elliott, 50, drove his tractor three hours from his farm near Grafham, near Guildford in Surrey, to attend the protest. He said: “The industry is already down on its knees and this is just another kick in the teeth.”

Supermarket equity owners controlling food prices Vertical integration from farm, to distribution, to supermarket shelf. Monopolising the food supply! Kier Starmer this week on farmers. PMQs farming. Food giants are strangling Britain’s farmers and consumers. What’s the solution? Break them up The UK has a huge problem with monopolies – yet taking conglomerates apart is not as hard as you might think When British farmers protested outside the Houses of Parliament earlier this year, they sent 49 scarecrows, after a survey had found that 49% of UK fruit and vegetable farmers said they expected to go bust within a year. The scarecrows stood in for real farmers, who are mostly too afraid to speak out. One farmer told campaigners they had grown 60 tonnes of salad potatoes for a large UK supermarket, only for the supermarket to suddenly cancel the order, leaving the farmer “financially screwed”. The arbitrary power that supermarkets wield instils fear, which the supermarkets leverage to impose take-it-or-leave-it fees and other unfair conditions on farmers. The problem is our monopolised food system. Think of it as a vast profit machine shaped like an hourglass, with many food producers at the top, millions of consumers at the bottom, and a few dominant firms – such as giant supermarkets or global food traders – clustered at its narrowing neck, siphoning a cut from the passing traffic. This power ripples through global supply chains. Between 70% and 90% of commercial grain trading, for example, is now controlled by five giants, known as ABCCD: ADM, Bunge, Cofco, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus Company. Together, they handle the bread, cereals, meat and other food that lands on our plates. Bunge now wants to merge with a rival firm, Viterra, to create a single company, giving farmers even less choice as to who they can sell their produce to, and giving the combined firm more power to pay farmers less. Research from the University of Saskatchewan estimates this merger would cut $770m from annual farm incomes in western Canada alone. These two firms, incorporated in the tax havens of Switzerland and Jersey respectively, each operate in about 40 countries. So the annual damage, including to British farmers, would probably be in the billions. This monopolistic power hurts consumers too. According to research by the economists Jan Eeckhout and Jan de Loecker, average global markups – the prices companies charge for goods above the cost of producing them – have risen from around 21% above costs in 1980, to 61% today. So a pizza that may have cost you £12 if markets had been as un-concentrated as they were 45 years ago, may now cost £16. Think of the £4 difference as a private monopoly tax that nobody voted for. Here, monopoly power is the connecting thread linking supersize corporate profits with consumer pain, in a phenomenon dubbed “greedflation”. The sums involved are vast. Forthcoming research by Somo, an NGO that studies multinationals, estimates that the top 1% of listed firms enjoyed total markups of nearly US$7tn last year: 15 times the estimated annual tax losses to tax havens. More than 60 new “food billionaires” were created in the pandemic years of 2020 to 2022, according to Oxfam. Beyond food, the scale of the monopoly problem becomes clear. Mergers and acquisitions now average $3.5tn annually, McKinsey reckons: so the market for mergers is worth three to four times the US defence budget. In market after market, the neck of the hourglass is narrowing.

Blackrock’s Varlay stated: “The senators…are f***ing cheap – you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator.” This unsettling remark paints a picture of possible manipulation of political figures, implying a level of control over political wallets, irrespective of the presiding power. Undercover reporter talking to Serge – war brings volatility to markets so more money can be made – Black Rock doesn’t want to be in the news. BlackRock ‘Recruiter’ Tells Undercover Reporter Big Finance Is Buying Politicians Varlay told the woman he believed he was on a date with, “I decide people’s fates. I literally decide how somebody’s life is going to be shaped….The whole thing, of like, domination, from a concept, it’s just…it’s so [expletive] interesting.” OMG caught Serge Varlay on camera saying BlackRock is buying off people and politicians. An apparent recruiter for asset management juggernaut BlackRock told an undercover journalist during a sting that components of Big Finance are in the business of buying off both people and politicians. The O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) published the video of a man reported to be named Serge Varlay, who says he works for BlackRock before telling a woman he believes he is on a date with at multiple locations sworn secrets of his business practices and operational ideology. “All of these financial institutions, they buy politicians,” Varlay said. “You can take this big [expletive] ton of money, and then you can start to buy people.” Varlay continued, “Let me tell you it’s not who the President is, it’s who is controlling the wallet of the President.” When the journalist asked Varlay who it is that would be controlling the wallet of a president, the recruiter responded, “The hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks, these guys run the world.” Varlay alleged that a U.S. Senator could be “bought” for as little as $10,000. He gave his date an example: “I could give you $500k right now, no questions asked.” “Are you going to do what needs to be done?” “It doesn’t matter who wins. They’re in my pocket at this point,” he added.

Open source software being targeted. Free Software Is Under Attack! (Will You Help Defend It?) Free software means that the users have the “FREEDOM” to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software…regardless of who they are or what their purpose for using the software might be. But their are those who want both “free software” and “open source software” to go away. But to do so, they must get rid of certain people, including Richard Stallman. China retires last Windows desktops for homegrown Linux distro To cut foreign dependencies, China pursues an open platform to accelerate the development of home-grown desktop computing. Google search ‘Microsoft in China’ and you will find news from as far back as 2003, revolving around the American giant’s endless tussle in the world’s most populous country. What started as piracy conundrum for Redmond eventually morphed into censorship debates and today, massive privacy concerns and international politics. Microsoft has never had it easy in the country – but frankly speaking, which foreign companies have? In February 2020, the Chinese government, in a major blow to Microsoft, announced that it will be replacing all PCs that run Windows by the end of this year alongside moves to replace Western hardware with Chinese native kit – Lenovo springs foremost to mind. For the OS, what alternatives is the government pursuing? A homegrown Linux distro has always been on the cards, primary candidates including Kylin Linux. The moves are part of the international trade games the country is playing with the West, but especially with the US, in moves that could be interpreted as retaliation for the country banning all China-made hardware imports. The phase out started with Chinese government services being ordered to replace 30% of Windows PCs by the end of 2020, a further 50% in 2021 and the final 20% by the end of this year. According to China Securities, as reported here [paywall], it will mean that around 20 to 30 million PCs will end up being replaced. Statistically speaking, even with some homegrown operating systems already available in the market, it appears that no Chinese OS is yet rivaling Microsoft Windows, which leads the market with an 85% share in mainland China.

Friday the 13th origin. Why that date is feared by Templar Masons. Knights Templar underground spawned the Freemasons. ‘The Brotherhood’ documentary by Martin Short about Freemasonry – P2 lodge in Italy and it’s power. Stephen Knight and Martin Short’s books about Freemasonry. ‘Jack the Ripper’ and ‘Inside the Brotherhood’. ‘Born in Blood’ good book about the Solomon’s Temple based medieval Knights Templar origins of Freemasonry. Important Freemason ritual is about rebuilding Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. King Solomon’s Temple and Freemasonry: A Framework for Self Improvement When we commit to a life of Freemasonry, we are dedicated to self-improvement. In our Brotherhood, we Use the Tools to seek out light and reflect deeply on our ability to improve the world around us. While the tenants of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth ground our fraternity, the architecture of King Solomon’s Temple represents the path of development we all journey through as Masons. Biblical narratives and historical documentation of Lodge meetings provides insight into the history and symbolism of King Solomon’s Temple and the ways it relates to Freemasonry today. Let us learn of our history and valuable symbolism as we move forward in our craft. Temple Architecture and Freemasonry Beyond any religious context, the building of this great structure provides a symbolic foundation for the process of self-development in Freemasonry. Masonic tradition and ritual refers to the physical architectural processes of the temple’s creation, but as a way to emulate the possibilities of self-growth and enlightenment. This structure depicts the capabilities of men when they work collaboratively, using the right tools to diligently develop themselves in order to be better for the world. For instance, the process of building the temple provides inspiration and emulates the three degrees of the symbolic Lodge; Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master Mason. Apprentices and craftsmen worked to prepare stone that would be used for building and assembly. Master Masons outlined plans and architectural direction to guide their Brethren, harmonious collaboration taking place. Throughout a Mason’s journey, candidates emulate different phases of the development of the Temple where they ultimately represent the structure as a whole upon completion of various degrees. The Masonic Legend of Hiram Abiff Related to the construction of the Temple, Masonic tradition records the legend of Hiram Abiff in the Third Degree. The allegory describes Hiram Abiff as Chief Architect working alongside King Solomon and Hiram of Tyre. Construction of the temple lasted years, and members of the craft were frustrated with the longevity of the building process and the time required to advance in their titles and expertise. Three demanded Hiram divulge the knowledge of a Master Mason in order to accelerate their advancement in Masonry without the required years of experience. Upon Hiram’s refusal, the men struck him dead. In the night, the murderers moved his body outside the city to be buried, marking the site with a sprig of acacia. The grave, however, was soon discovered and those at fault were brought to justice. Freemasons throughout the world find meaning in the legend of Hiram as an example of faith, fidelity, courage, and justice.

A secret P2 Masonic fascist government of Italy was exposed in 1982: In January 1982, the P2 lodge was definitively disbanded by the Law 25 January 1982, no. 17. In July 1982, new documents were found hidden in the false bottom of a suitcase belonging to Gelli’s daughter at Fiumicino airport in Rome. The documents were entitled Memorandum sulla situazione italiana (“Memorandum on the Italian Situation”) and Piano di rinascita democratica (“Plan of Democratic Rebirth”), and are seen as the political programme of P2. According to these documents, the main enemies of Italy were the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the trade unions, particularly the Communist Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL). These had to be isolated and cooperation with the PCI, the second biggest party in Italy and one of the largest in Europe, which was proposed in the Historic Compromise by Aldo Moro, needed to be disrupted. Gelli’s goal was to form a new political and economic elite to lead Italy away from the danger of Communist rule. More controversially, it sought to do this by means of an authoritarian form of democracy. P2 advocated a programme of extensive political corruption: “political parties, newspapers and trade unions can be the objects of possible solicitations which could take the form of economic-financial manoeuvres. The availability of sums not exceeding 30 to 40 billion lire would seem sufficient to allow carefully chosen men, acting in good faith, to conquer key positions necessary for overall control.” P2’s influence The P2 was implicated in numerous Italian scandals and mysteries. Opinions about the importance and reach of the P2 differ. Some see the P2 as a reactionary, shadow government ready to preempt a takeover of power in case of an electoral victory of the Italian Communist Party. Others think it was nothing more than a sordid association of people eager to improve their careers by making powerful and important connections. Corriere della Sera takeover In 1977, the P2 took control of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, a leading paper in Italy. At the time, the paper had encountered financial trouble and was unable to raise bank loans because its then editor, Piero Ottone, was considered hostile to the ruling Christian Democrats. Corriere’s owners, the publishing house Rizzoli, struck a deal with Gelli. He provided the money with funds from the Vatican Bank directed by archbishop Paul Marcinkus. Ottone was fired and the paper’s editorial line shifted to the right. The paper published a long interview with Gelli in 1980. The interview was carried out by the television talk show host Maurizio Costanzo, who would also be exposed as a member of P2. Gelli said he was in favour of rewriting the Italian constitution towards a Gaullist presidential system. When asked what he always wanted to be, he replied: “A puppet master”. Bologna massacre P2 members Gelli and the head of the secret service Pietro Musumeci were condemned for attempting to mislead the police investigation of the Bologna massacre on 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. Banco Ambrosiano scandal P2 became the target of considerable attention in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano (one of Milan’s principal banks, owned in part by the Vatican Bank), and the suspicious 1982 death of its president Roberto Calvi in London, initially ruled a suicide but later prosecuted as a murder. It was suspected by investigative journalists that some of the plundered funds went to P2 or to its members.[citation needed] Protezione account One of the documents found in 1981 was about a numbered bank account, the so-called “Protezione account”, at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Lugano (Switzerland). It detailed the payment of US$7 million by the president of ENI, Florio Fiorini, through Roberto Calvi to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) leader Claudio Martelli on behalf of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987. The full extent of the payment became clear only twelve years later, in 1993, during the mani pulite (Italian for “clean hands”) investigations into political corruption. The money was allegedly a kickback on a loan which the Socialist leaders had organised to help bail out the ailing Banco Ambrosiano. Rumours that the Minister of Justice, Martelli, was connected with the account had been circulating since investigations began into the P2 plot. He always flatly denied them. Learning that formal investigations were opened, he resigned as minister.

Masonic initiation rituals are a combination of an obsession with the building and re-building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and Witchcraft! Saul died in about 1010BC, David became the King of Judah and seven or eight years later he was anointed King over all Israel. After David had consolidated his power and built a permanent residence for himself, the lack of a shrine of Yahweh seemed invidious to him. He said: “I dwell in a house of cedar, but the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains”. Because his hands were stained with the blood of his enemies, David was precluded from building a temple to the Lord, but he collected materials, gathered treasure and purchased a site for the construction. The site chosen was the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, within the area now called Haram esh-Sherif on Mount Moriah on the east side of the “Old City” of Jerusalem. Whilst the precise location of the first temple is not known it is believed that the highest part of the rock, now covered by the mosque known as the “Dome of the Rock”, almost certainly was the position of the Holy of Holies. Jewish tradition relates that a secret vault was constructed beneath the temple, in which confidential meetings could be held and all sacred treasures and documents could be stored. Such a vault also features in masonic tradition and is a key element in several of its ceremonies. The construction of such a vault under ecclesiastical and other buildings of importance was common in ancient times and virtually became an essential element in medieval times. Recent seismological surveys indicate that there probably is a cavern beneath the mosque, but excavations to confirm the existence of the traditional vault are precluded at present. King Solomon commenced construction of the temple in the fourth year of his reign and completed it seven years later, in about 950BC. To facilitate the work he entered into a treaty with Hiram, King of Tyre, whereby Hiram would permit Solomon to obtain cedar and cypress wood and blocks of stone from Lebanon. Furthermore, Solomon’s workmen would be permitted to fell the timber and to quarry and hew the stones under the direction of Hiram’s skilled workmen. In addition, Solomon was provided with the services of a skilful Tyrian artisan named Hiram Abiff, to take charge of the castings and of the fabrication of the more valuable furniture and furnishings of the temple. In return for all of the services to be provided by Hiram, Solomon agreed to send to him every year 4,400,000 litres of crushed wheat and 4,400,000 litres of barley, as well as 440,000 litres of wine and 440,000 litres of oil. Solomon raised a levy of forced labour out of all Israel, totalling 30,000 men, which he sent to Lebanon in relays of 10,000 a month. Adoniram, who had been an officer of King David in charge of labour gangs, continued under King Solomon and was placed in charge of the levy working in Lebanon. King Solomon also employed 70,000 burden bearers and 80,000 hewers of stone in the hill country, as well as 3,300 officers in charge of the men carrying out the work. Some thirty years after the completion of the temple, when Rehoboam sent Adoniram to enforce the collection of taxes, the exasperated populace rebelled and stoned Adoniram to death.

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Inheritance tax on farms.  Farms Not Factories film of farmer’s march in London – farmers say why they’re protesting.  Andrew Bridgen at march supporting farmers.  Big multinationals taking over in West.  Farmers voices at the march. Farmers hit by 20% real terms cut to subsidies, figures show – New figures show that subsidies for farmers have fallen by 20% in real terms since 2015, as fears continue to grow over the future direction of the industry. The figures, from the House of Commons Library, show that between 2015 and 2023, farmers saw the equivalent of a £722m cut in real terms to their subsidies, with no increase since 2017. This equates to a 20% real terms cut in just eight years, with the total direct public payments to farmers now standing at less than £3 billion. As a result, each farm has suffered a real terms loss of £3,000 in funding from the government, the equivalent of a 17.5% cut per agricultural holding, the figures show. The Labour government also announced in the recent budget an acceleration of the end to the direct payments to farmers under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS). As part of this, farmers in England will see their direct payments reduced by a significant 76%. The research was commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, which said these losses were ‘only the beginning’ following the controversial autumn budget. Specifically, it has called on the government to scrap the ‘family farm tax’, as inherited agricultural assets worth over £1m will have to pay inheritance tax at 20% from 2026. The party said ditching this would save farms from “even greater financial pressures at a time when many are on the brink of collapse already”. Last year alone 8,100 UK farms closed their doors, equal to one in 25 of all farms in the country, it warned. Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson, Tim Farron MP said the chancellor’s budget “completely failed to understand how rural communities work”. He said: “Their family farm tax will be yet another hammer blow to farmers in this country and risk ringing the death knell for farming in the UK. “She must urgently rethink, scrap this disastrous family farm tax and finally get farmers the support they deserve, not place more burdens upon them.”

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Worshipping ‘Growth’ with which the City of London Corporation, Lord Mayor Alasdair King and the WEF, in collaboration with the King and all others on the establishment gravy train are killing democracy and the nation’s people. Toxic Positivity from Israeli genocide (war crime) supporting ‘human rights lawyer’ Prime Minister Starmer at annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet, City of London Guildhall – Lord Mayor’s Speech, Alastair King – Starmer wants growth.  Lord Mayor criticises ‘misalignment’ of tax in call to unleash the City – The Lord Mayor of London will rebuke the government for a “misalignment” in its fiscal policy tonight as he calls for ministers to “look again” at a tax on share trading and incentivise investors to back London Stock Exchange-listed companies. In his first major speech since becoming Lord Mayor in November, Alastair King will urge Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “accelerate” efforts to unleash investment into the UK’s markets and claim the government’s current plans are not going “far enough” or “fast enough”. “With the pipeline of institutionally-owned and founder-led companies needing to go public over the next few years growing, we should look again at stamp duty imposed on trading in UK shares,” King will say, referring to the stamp duty of 0.5 per cent tax levied on UK share trading. “It just cannot be logically correct that, as it stands, we do not pay tax on purchases of shares in international vehicle companies such as Tesla, but we are taxed for investing in a British brand like Aston Martin,” King said. Changing the “misalignment” would provide a “shot in the arm for homegrown companies looking to scale-up”, the Lord Mayor will claim. King’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, addressed directly to Starmer, who is attending the dinner, marks a direct criticism of the Labour government’s approach toward tax in the City. While the Square Mile has been calling for stamp duty on shares to be ditched for years, both this government and the previous Conservative administration have so far shrugged off the calls. Plans were drawn up to ditch the charge under former Conservative City minister Andrew Griffith but were later shelved, City AM understands. It is not clear why the plans were not taken forward. The charge brought in around £3.3bn in revenue to the Treasury in 2023, amounting to around 0.3 per cent of total tax take, according to ONS figures, analysed by City broking house Peel Hunt. The firm has claimed that any short term fall in revenue from ditching the plans “would be more than offset by increases in other taxes” like an uptick in corporation tax and capital gains tax. In an interview with City AM, Peel Hunt boss, Steven Fine, this week called for firmer measures to be taken to stem outflows from UK focused equity funds, adding that ministers should offer generous tax breaks to encourage a “home market bias”. The boss of the London Stock Exchange boss, Julia Hoggett, this year described the tax as “pernicious”, while fund management group Abrdn and trade body, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), also called for the charge to be retired for FTSE 250 and smaller companies in the run up to the Budget. “Scrapping stamp duty on share trading would send out a powerful signal that the UK and City of London are open for business,” QCA chief executive, James Ashton, told City AM today, adding that an equivalent tax does not exist in the US and Germany.

Private Equity firms can make a lot more profit per acre from land than family farmers – therefore government gets more in tax from them and is encouraging WEF institutions to take over and and farmers to sell up. Finance capitalism.  Livery companies, City of London, aggrandising wealth – Why institutional investors like BlackRock are ploughing cash into farmland Farming isn’t generally known as a lucrative profession. Yet farmland is sought after as a store of wealth in tough times. Investment surged after the financial crisis and when the pandemic hit. Asset managers view it as an inflation hedge that diversifies a portfolio and produces steady returns. But its reputation as a safe haven could be challenged by a changing climate. Farmland is still a niche asset class. In the US, institutional ownership accounts for at most 3 per cent of the total. But it has been growing fast, with the value of investment groups’ holdings of US farmland more than doubling to $16.6bn in the three years to 2023. Along with those of Australia and Brazil, US farmland values have outperformed recently, according to Savills. Over 20 years, global gains average about 10 per cent a year. Line chart of showing Farmland values have risen steeply The value of US farmland is largely linked to commodity prices, according to Knight Frank. In some other markets, different factors come into play. In the UK, for example, tax rules and the subsidy regime are important. Large parcels of land rarely come on the market. A £260mn joint venture transaction in March was a rarity. The deal, involving 21,000 acres, represented the first foray into agricultural land and “natural capital” for Royal London Asset Management. The fund manager says greater use of “regenerative” techniques can reduce farming’s environment impact. Some techniques both improve soil fertility and sequester carbon. But the carbon transition — think solar arrays or tree planting — often diverts land away from agricultural usage. That adds to the pressure on land which, on some estimates, will have to increase its output by 50 per cent by 2050.

BBC article on city of London ‘livery company’, a hiding place for secret societies, corruption – Have the City of London Lord Mayor’s secretive livery companies, which have lost almost all links to the trades they profess, become hiding places for covens of avaricious, Freemasons, and organised crime? Alistair King opens the Mansion House Speech with ancient Royal rigmarole. The City of London. Traditional Guilds and Freemasonry part of power base of ruling class in UK – Alistair King in both. London’s secret billion-pound guilds – Livery companies, once a combination of lobbying organisations, regulators and trade unions, are now quite different organisations, focused also on fellowship, education and charity. They represented the old industries that used to dominate the city. Many have names which are easy to recognise, such as the Butchers, who can trace their beginnings back to the year 975, and the Fishmongers. Others bear the names of lost trades, like the Mercers and Bowyers, who traded cloth and made longbows. All would set standards for their goods and often held exclusive rights over their trade in the city, thus wielding political power. Probably the most famous guild member, Sir Richard (Dick) Whittington, left his fortune for the Mercers to run, for the benefit of the city The other side of their work was welfare and charity: funerals for deceased members, hospitals, and homes for the poor. Today, they sit on billions of pounds of assets, donated by members over many centuries, including the fortune of Dick Whittington, the former lord mayor. They were ordered as long ago as 1884, after a Royal Commission’s investigation, to spend more on the public good or risk their existence, external. But did they? And are they now?

David Ferris is a member of the Vintners – or Worshipful Company of Vintners, to give it its full title – and very much a fan of the companies’ history and potential. But he thinks they are not. – ‘Gentlemen’s clubs’ – “What I like best about them is these are ancient institutions, well alive in our midst, with wonderful old traditions,” he says. “They are cultural gems.” However, he says, many of the most ancient have forgotten one of their prime reasons for existence from medieval times: the public good. “They became gentlemen’s clubs generally from about 1700,” he says, “and they have a great deal of wealth.” British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L, back, at podium) delivers the Canning lecture 2010, in which he spoke about UK and Latin American relations, at The companies do let out their halls, as the Goldsmith did for a speech by then-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague in 2010. But could they raise more? It’s the older institutions that Mr Ferris feels may not be pulling their weight. Many have investments in companies listed on the stock market. Some have large land holdings. Among the richest are the Mercers, which owns a number of blocks in Covent Garden. – No public accounts – In fact, the Mercers and Goldsmiths are the 55th and 73rd largest landlords in London respectively, according to Datscha, a commercial property data firm. Together, they are bigger landowners in the city than supermarket chain Sainsbury’s or the National Grid. But the companies do not have to offer accounts for public inspection, and many older ones do not. New Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London. From 1835 printImage source, Getty Images Still, public records partially covering eight companies and their charities showed £1.1bn of assets, BBC research found. Mr Ferris estimates the 110 livery companies in total might have assets worth at least £5bn. His own livery, the Vintners, spent £210,000 of its 2017 expenditure of £2.1m on charitable giving, according to its annual review. This is too low, says Mr Ferris.

Boycott of Arla milk products – food additive Bovaer that lessens methane from cows.  George Monbiot on dangers coming from climate change. One HAPPY farmer comments on Arla boycott. Full list of Arla Foods’ Bovaer ‘contaminated’ products boycotted by customers: from Lurpak to Cravendale and even Starbucks, as controversial cow feed additive sparks backlash Furious Brits have vowed to boycott more than a dozen of the UK’s best known brands over fears that certain dairy products are allegedly ‘contaminated’ with an additive linked to cancer. Shoppers say they will avoid milks and butters made by Danish firm Arla after the company announced a trial that would involve giving a feed supplement called Bovaer to its cows. In a list now circulating widely on social media, consumers are also instructed to avoid Lurpak and Anchor butters – which are both manufactured by the company. Others include those that have partnerships with Arla Foods as well as major supermarkets like Tesco and Asda who stock own-brand milk supplied by Arla. Bovaer, which will be introduced to cattle food, is designed to reduce the amount of methane they produce in digestion, a gas that contributes to climate change. But it has been declared a safe additive by both European and UK regulators as it doesn’t allegedly transfer into milk. However, social media is now awash with claims the additive can cause fertility issues and cancer. The viral list, shared on X and Facebook, warns customers against purchasing Arla and its sub-brands Arla Cravendale, Arla BOB, Arla Protein and Arla Lactofree. Artisanal cheese brand Castello, Apetina — which sells white cheese and paneer — and Arla Organic are others that make the blacklist. It also warns consumers against brands who have partnerships with Arla Foods including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Ecomilk. Arla, it claims, produces ready-made chilled coffee drinks for Starbucks, while it also supplies dairy products for McDonald’s. Virtually all major supermarkets have also come under attack by shoppers and are named on the list. They claim this is because Arla Foods produces products such as milk and cheese for some of their own-brand ranges like Asda. Other supermarkets stock Arla Foods products. Since the list began to circulate, scores of Brits have taken to TikTok to share clips of themselves pouring the dairy products down the toilet, and throwing them in the bin. In one video seen over 1.6million times, one man points to his bottle of Asda semi-skimmed milk which displays the label ‘sourced from Arla farms’. He adds: ‘This will be going straight down the drain and I won’t be buying Asda milk again.’ Bovaer is a compound made of silicon dioxide, propylene glycol and organic compound 3-nitrooxypropanol which is known as 3-nitrooxypropanol or shortened to 3-NOP. Concerns being spread online about the additive are mostly referencing documents from regulators about handling the substance at an industrial scale. One from the Federal Drug Administration in the US (FDA) reads the product is not for human use. It adds: ‘Caution should be exercised when handling this product. 3-nitrooxypropanol may damage male fertility and reproductive organs, is potentially harmful when inhaled, and is a skin and eye irritant.’ It goes on to advise that those handling it should wear protective gear such as that covering the eyes and mouth, and gloves. Claims it causes cancer centre on safety studies that were performed on rats and assessed by UK regulator the Food Standards Agency. Results suggested that giving the rodents a high dose of the product increased the risk of cancer in female rats. Bovaer manufacturer, Dsm-firmenich said the social media storm had led to ‘mistruths and misinformation’ about the feed. In a statement they assured the public that ‘provided it is used as recommended’, Bovaer ‘never enters into milk and therefore does not reach consumers’. The supplement is also ‘specifically designed to break down in the cow’s digestive system and quickly decomposes into naturally occurring compounds already present in the rumen of a cow’, the Dutch Swiss multinational added. Bovaer’s product safety sheet advises people to wear masks and gloves when handling the additive to avoid risks ‘from small dust particles’.

Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan at the UN speaking about what Gazans have been telling her – ‘we are human’. Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), shared a harrowing account of her experiences working in Gaza, where she bore witness to the devastating humanitarian crisis. She described the systematic targeting of civilians, healthcare workers, and infrastructure, emphasizing the unimaginable toll on Palestinian lives. Through poignant stories of patients and colleagues, she highlighted the loss of entire families, the suffering of children, and the resilience of healthcare workers who continue to serve despite constant threats and personal losses. Dr. Haj Hassan detailed how hospitals have become targets of military strikes and described the horrors of forced displacement, deprivation, and the relentless psychological and physical toll on Gaza’s population. She called for urgent global action, stating that silence in the face of such atrocities perpetuates impunity and signals the erosion of humanitarian law. Dr. Haj Hassan urged the international community to move beyond pity and praise, offering meaningful solidarity and tangible support for Palestinians. Citing the courage of healthcare workers in Gaza as an inspiring model, she asked the audience to reflect on their responsibility to act and to consider what they are willing to risk to prevent further atrocities. Or 5-year-old Mohammed with an in and out penetrating injury to the head, likely a gunshot, who died in the ER as there were no beds in the ICU. He had no known surviving family to retrieve his body and was taken to the morgue by the medical team. His hands and feet were so small, and the last expression on his face was one of pain. “I can’t find words to describe the stories.” Or the elderly woman whose age I did not learn, shot multiple times by the Israeli military while she was on the beach. She died while her elderly husband held her hand, tearfully telling me “we only have God.” Or 13-year-old Amer who sustained severe neck trauma after his home was bombed, and kept calling for his sister. He didn’t recognize that she was the girl in the bed next to him, because she had been burned beyond recognition. When she died Amer was left as the only surviving member of his family. I recall his vacant stare and his soft voice whispering into my ear “I wish I died with them. Everyone I love is in heaven. I don’t want to be here anymore.” How do you find the words to describe Amer’s story. Or toddler cousins Mohammad and Massa who we resuscitated on the same bed after their residential building was bombed. I recall undoing their diapers desperately looking for blood vessels to give them intravenous fluids. Mohammad bled to death. Massa suffered a severe brain injury. She was still in a coma when I left Gaza. Both her parents were injured in the same attack, and I don’t know if they survived.

Ben Trowell and Hassina Palestina from Bristol Palestine Alliance (BPA) join Tony and Martin.  Genocide in Gaza.  Tony Greenstein on being charged for supporting Hamas, the Al Nusra front taking over in Syria, freedom fighters or terrorists, Manchester Arena bombing.  Secret services connections with Manchester Arena bombing.  How mainstream media is covering Gaza.  For information on talks and actions on the 14/15 December and ‘Jesus Was A Palestinian’ march on 21st December 2024  www.bristolpalestinealliance.org.  Boycott Israeli goods – App ‘No Thanks’. Public Meeting: UK Abuse Of The Terrorism Act – December 15 @ 2:30 am – 5:30 pm Join us to delve in to why and how the UK government is using the terrorism act to silence voices speaking out for truth & justice against the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza and what we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Bristol Palestine Alliance was formed as an urgent and organic response to the horrific events that occurred in Gaza post October 7th 2023 Acting as an umbrella group, it brings members from organisations, groups and communities in Bristol together to respond collectively to organise marches and other events to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israels brutal and racist occupation of Palestine. Having worked together successfully for many years in the past, we are based on an existing network of solidarity, striving for peace in Palestine. We are growing and welcome any active group or organisation with similar goals who align with our approach to join our network so that we can work effectively to achieve a free Palestine. Who is currently part of Bristol Palestine Alliance and how can I join? Our members are actively working hard to do whatever we can to call for a ceasefire and to end the illegal occupation in Palestine. Below are current members dedicating time, effort and resources to the cause. Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign Bristol Muslim Community University of Bristol Friends of Palestine Voices from Palestine Naming the Dead Spinwatch NOT The BCfm Politics Show Queers for Palestine Madaniya Bristol ASLEF Dr. Lawrence Hoo Poet Matt Ó Branáin – Assange Action Bristol Bristol Apartheid Free Zone

Prominent anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein charged in Britain under Terrorism Act: Emir of Qatar banquet – what did Emir and King Charles talk about?  Tony Greenstein’s court case and demonstration outside.  Follow his story on The Canary, Squawk Box, The Network for Police Monitoring.  Emir of Qatar State Reception as covered on BBC.  British Imperialists created many Middle East countries.  Prominent anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein charged in Britain under Terrorism Act – The charging of prominent anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein under anti-terror laws is the latest move by the British state to intimidate and silence opposition to the war in Gaza. Greenstein, aged 70, has been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on one count of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, Hamas. He is bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on December 12. Tony Greenstein [Photo: skwawkbox] Greenstein is a co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which, along the Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has organised more than 20 national protests against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. A supporter of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Greenstein was expelled from the party in 2018—while Corbyn was still in charge—based on manufactured charges of antisemitism. His father was a Rabbi who marched against Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. On November 25, Greenstein received an e-mail “Case Update” from DC 5520 of Investigations Team 3, Counter-Terrorism Policing South East. This stated, “I have today received a response from the CPS in relation to the ongoing case against you. The CPS have authorised one charge, contrary to Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000, expressing support for a proscribed organisation”. Case update email sent to Tony Greenstein [Photo: Skwarkbox] The e-mail continued, “I appreciate that this has taken a long time to reach this decision and the result will be disappointing for you.” The letter instructed Greenstein to attend a police station on November 27, “where the charge will be read to you and you will be released under the same bail conditions as you are currently on.” The Skwawkbox website reported that Greenstein attended the police station on November 29 “because of hospital treatment”. The alleged offence could see him jailed for a maximum of 14 years. This was increased from 10 years when the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 came into force. It has been almost a year since police raided Greenstein’s home in the early hours of December 20, 2023 for a social media post defending the right of the Palestinians to resist Israel’s genocide in Gaza. During the raid police seized his phone and laptop and held him for nine hours. The World Socialist Web Site noted, “While Greenstein has not been charged with any offence, draconian bail conditions have been imposed. He is banned from posting statements on Twitter/X about Israel’s war on Gaza, he must inform police if he plans to sleep anywhere other than Brighton, and must give police the phone number, IMEI and SIM number for any new device within 24 hours.” Denouncing the police raid and the seizure of his electronic devices as an intelligence gathering exercise against the state’s “enemies on the Left and in the Palestine solidarity movement,” Greenstein told the World Socialist Web Site his arrest was “a fundamental attack on free speech and must be resisted on those grounds, amongst others”. Explaining what happened he said, “My arrest was for a tweet I made on 15 November 2023 by someone identifying himself only as James who demanded: “Just tweet I support Hamas!’ 3 words is all you have to tweet and then we know where you stand.” I refused to take the bait and responded, ‘I support the Palestinians that is enough’ before going on to say ‘I support Hamas against the Israeli army’. As I told my police interrogators after my arrest I would have supported the devil against Israel’s genocidal army.” Greenstein told Skwawkbox, “I’ve been charged under the notorious s.12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 with expressing an opinion or belief in support of a proscribed organisation. “It is clear that this is a clear attack on the right of people to express their opinions on the right of Palestinians to resist the genocidal Israeli military. It is perfectly fine to support Israel’s genocidal massacres but it is an offence to support any resistance. “This absurd situation is akin to criminalising the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of France. It is criminalising political opinion and has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. Suffice to say I shall be mounting a vigorous defence in support of Free Speech on Palestine.”

Amnesty International says it is genocide in Gaza this week.  How will Trump deal with the Middle East.  Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report published today. The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity. “Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International. “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now. “States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide. All states with influence over Israel, particularly key arms suppliers like the USA and Germany, but also other EU member states, the UK and others, must act now to bring Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza to an immediate end.” Over the past two months the crisis has grown particularly acute in the North Gaza governorate, where a besieged population is facing starvation, displacement and annihilation amid relentless bombardment and suffocating restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid. “Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza. It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard. “Israel has repeatedly argued that its actions in Gaza are lawful and can be justified by its military goal to eradicate Hamas. But genocidal intent can co-exist alongside military goals and does not need to be Israel’s sole intent.” Amnesty International examined Israel’s acts in Gaza closely and in their totality, taking into account their recurrence and simultaneous occurrence, and both their immediate impact and their cumulative and mutually reinforcing consequences. The organization considered the scale and severity of the casualties and destruction over time. It also analysed public statements by officials, finding that prohibited acts were often announced or called for in the first place by high-level officials in charge of the war efforts.

North Gaza Death Marches just like the 1838 Cherokee ‘Trail of Tears’ where 4,000 Native Americans died on Andrew Jackson’s forced march. Gaza Death March story. Israeli forces carry out death marches in north Gaza Israel is continuing to systematically destroy the northern Gaza Strip, carrying out ethnic extermination campaigns and forced mass expulsion. For nearly three weeks, Israel has blocked food, water, medicine and fuel from reaching the areas north of Gaza City, as the remaining reporters and health workers there describe scenes of catastrophic horror. On Saturday, images and video emerged of what journalists have described as a death march near the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya. Reporter Hossam Shabat stated that Israeli occupation forces dug a quote “deep hole in one of the squares surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, and placed male Palestinians in it with their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded.” Shabat had reported that in the days leading up to this death march, the hospital had been surrounded by tanks as Israeli soldiers cut the electricity, bombed the building and targeted the second and third floors with artillery shells. In the Jabaliya refugee camp, Israeli troops forced families to leave their homes and attacked a school turned into a shelter on Monday. Hossam Shabat reported that they “lined people up and shot anyone who dared to move. Any male over the age of 16 is being detained, tortured and investigated. Many people who are being lined up are sick individuals, such as amputees, cancer patients and young kids who are being asked to stand in line for hours. The situation is catastrophic.” Novelist Ahmed Masoud, who has been on this livestream before and has family in Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, tweeted on Tuesday that his relatives have been separated from each other by gender, with Israeli soldiers detaining the men. He added that he has had no contact with his family members since. On Tuesday, reporter Anas al-Sharif stated that Israeli drones with loudspeakers ordered more than 10,000 displaced Palestinians to leave a school shelter in Beit Lahiya. People in the school would be bombed or shot if they refused. These mass expulsions come on the heels of relentless massacres across northern Gaza. Along with the Indonesian Hospital, al-Awda Hospital was also directly hit in Israeli attacks on Friday. And on Tuesday, the acting director of al-Awda stated that Israeli forces were again besieging the hospital. Also on Tuesday, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya issued a distress call, saying that Israeli forces had bombed the gate of the hospital and that quadcopter drones were dropping bombs. The upper floors of the hospital were being shot at and that all services had collapsed, he said. “There are no blood units or tubes to drain bleeding from the chest, and most of the medical supplies are not available,” adding that people who evacuated were shot on the way out of the hospital. Abu Safia warned, “Kamal Adwan Hospital will turn into mass graves.” In a statement on Tuesday, Munir al-Bursh, the director of the health ministry in Gaza who is currently in the north, said that hospitals “have run out of coffins to prepare the dead, and we have asked people to donate any fabric they have at home.” Palestinian health officials and the civil emergency corps say that dozens of bodies of people killed by Israeli fire remain scattered on roads and under rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them. On 17 October, Israel bombed a UN school in Jabaliya refugee camp hosting displaced people, killing at least 28 Palestinians and wounding 160. On 19 October, Israel bombed several houses in Jabaliya, killing at least 33 and injuring dozens more. Later that day, dozens of people were killed in Beit Lahiya as Israeli warplanes razed entire residential blocks. The Gaza health ministry reported that at least 87 people were killed and people were trapped under the rubble. Journalist Hossam Shabat reported that Israel has “rigged residential zones” with explosives. Israeli soldiers, he says, “are setting explosive barrels at night and detonating them during the day, resulting in devastating destruction and death. They are moving closer to densely populated areas, where residents are unable to flee due to surveillance by quadcopters that target anyone who attempts to move. Israel’s goal is to destroy every building in the Jabaliya refugee camp and kill its residents in order to annex the land.” Starvation deepens Amid the total closure of northern Gaza to any food, medicine or water, Israeli forces killed six Palestinian men when they tried to access drinking water in Jabaliya camp on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. Israel also killed workers on their way to repair a water line in the south, in Khan Younis. The international aid group Oxfam stated on Monday that Israel bombed a clearly-marked vehicle belonging to engineers and workers from the Khuzaa municipality in coordination with Oxfam’s partners at the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility.

Manchester attack: The South Manchester / MI6 Libya rebel connection Salman Abedi has been named by police as the Manchester bomber As each hour passes we learn more about Salman Abedi. What we don’t know yet is his exact journey from Manchester-born boy to suicide bomber. The BBC has been told by a Muslim community worker that members of the public called the police anti-terrorism hotline about Abedi’s extreme and violent views several years ago. We don’t know how the police responded to these reported hotline calls – but we have also learnt that earlier this year, Abedi’s behaviour again raised concerns. According to our sources, he told local people about the value of dying for a cause. He also made hardline statements about suicide bombings and the conflict in Libya. The Libyan connection Abedi’s parents fled Libya as opponents of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime. Libya, alongside its North African neighbours, has been a centre for the rise of modern Islamist political movements. These movements were originally dedicated to overthrowing dictatorial regimes and, to varying extents, promoting the idea of Islamic government. Libya has a complicated array of Islamist militias, with many opposed to IS The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) wanted to overthrow Gaddafi and became the dominant revolutionary force in the country in the 1990s, until the dictator began turning the screw. Many of those with Islamist connections tried to flee – and many of them were granted refuge in the UK. Salman Abedi’s father, Ramadan, was part of the broad network of opponents who supported those Islamist anti-Gaddafi aims. He arrived in the UK in the early 1990s. We have been told by senior LIFG sources that he was not a member of the organisation. But he was known to be a dissident with some of the same political goals. That brings us to south Manchester. It has long been a centre of Libyan politics in the UK, if not Europe. It’s where the British government gave refuge to many of those Gaddafi opponents – Birmingham and London being the other locations. Some of the Libyans in the UK, and in particular from Manchester, were later suspected by the security services of being aligned to al-Qaeda. I have spoken to some of these men down the years. They say their jihad was against Gaddafi alone. They wanted him overthrown. And overthrow him they eventually did – with the help of the British and Americans.

The Lockerbie crash was not instigated by Libyans but by rogue CIA officers, to kill off DIA & CIA officers on plane returning to Washington who that knew that rogue officers had ‘gone rogue’ and were taking large amounts of money from drugs for their own purposes: Black Budget money; Islamic terrorists and hostages; CIA dealing drugs to pay for Black Ops; shadow government; Oliver North; Iran Contra; Ahmed Jibril, Abu Nidal and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia. His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S. Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking in Lebanon during the 1980s. As sources go, I was more than a casual observer. From May 1995 until March 2003, I performed as a back channel to Tripoli and Baghdad, supervised by my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed from day one to know the origins of the Lockerbie conspiracy and the identity of the terrorists. He swore that no Libyan participated in the attack. Armed with that assurance, our team started talks with Libya’s diplomats for the Lockerbie Trial, and I attended over 150 meetings at the Libyan Embassy in New York. After the hand over of Libya’s two accused men, our team engaged in a concerted fight to gain permission for Dr. Fuisz to give a deposition about his primary knowledge of the conspiracy, during the Lockerbie Trial. In a surprise twist, the U.S. Federal Judge in Alexandria, Virginia imposed a double seal on a crucial portion of Dr. Fuisz’s deposition. The double seal can only be opened by a Scottish Judge. In my opinion, that should be a priority, as testimony hidden by the double seal maps out the whole Lockerbie conspiracy. Most significantly, it identifies 11 terrorists involved in the attack. Dr. Fuisz’s testimony could put the whole matter to rest forever. There’s good reason for my confidence. Much to my surprise, during the Lockerbie talks, Dr. Fuisz’s allegations of CIA opium running in Lebanon received unusual corroboration. One day, as I left the office of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun on my lunch break, an older spook caught up with me in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. From out of nowhere, he stepped in my path and invited me to lunch. With extraordinary candor, he debriefed me as to what motivated the CIA’s actions. I remember it as one battle-hardened old spook sharing the perils of fieldwork with a gung ho young Asset, anxious to get started on great adventures. It was a morality tale for sure. According to him, the CIA infiltrated opium and heroin trafficking in Lebanon as part of a crisis operation to rescue AP reporter Terry Anderson and 11 other American and British hostages in Beirut, including CNN bureau chief Jeremy Levin and Anglican envoy Terry Waite. The hostage crisis was a legitimate CIA concern. The CIA Station Chief of Beirut, William Buckley, was also kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and brutally tortured to death, his body dumped in the street in front of CIA headquarters. The rescue was protracted and complicated by Lebanon’s Civil War–ultimately, Terry Anderson’s captivity lasted seven years. Many of the hostages suffered beatings, solitary confinement chained to the floor, and mock executions. The older spook who refused to identify himself swore that the CIA considered it urgently necessary to try every possibility for recovering the hostages. The concept of infiltration into criminal networks cuts to the murky nature of intelligence itself. Drug enforcement frequently rely on the same strategies. Where the CIA went far wrong was in pocketing some of those heroin profits for itself along the way. The dirty little secret is that the CIA continued to take a percentage cut of opium and heroin production out of Lebanon well into the 1990s.

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Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations

President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law in South Korea – then government votes against it – attempted coup. North Korea has 10,000 troops fighting for Russia in Ukraine war – no evidence for this. Sky News meets the South Koreans who stood up to the president’s martial law South Korean police have opened an investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol for alleged “insurrection” as polling shows more than seven out of 10 South Koreans are in favour of impeaching the president. ‘I knew the risks – that I could be shot’: The South Koreans who stood up to president’s martial law order Public sentiment seems stacked against the president. A poll on Wednesday revealed more than seven out of 10 South Koreans were in favour of impeachment. But the ruling People Power Party has already vowed to block it. Sky News’ Cordelia Lynch met those who stood against the country’s leader Kang Sun-Woo has hardly slept. The Democratic Party politician has been staying on the floor of the National Assembly in Seoul ever since the army stormed into it on Tuesday night. She and many others in the opposition party are terrified President Yoon Suk Yeol will try to impose martial law once again. “I haven’t been able to go home for like two days and I am expecting that I will not able to go home for the next two to three days,” she says. “Approximately 170 members are literally physically staying here. Sleeping, eating, washing here right now.” Ms Kang believes the unpopular president’s audacious move was motivated by a dangerous attempt to send a warning shot to his critics and she thinks he’s capable of another incendiary surprise soon. “President Yoon is a very unique person and it’s very hard to predict his political decisions or what’s going on in his mind,” she says. South Korean police have opened an investigation into the president for alleged “insurrection”. Ms Kang is in little doubt about it. “Personally, I do think he is guilty. But we will see how it goes,” she says. But first, there is an impeachment vote to tackle – due on Saturday evening.

Sergei Lavrov at G20 on ASEAN. US Deep State destabilising before Trump gets in to power – Syria, South Korea, France etc. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the G20 Summit, Rio de Janeiro, November 19, 2024 The Global South nations, with the backing of the Russian Federation, have long endeavoured to enhance their share in the allocation of quotas and votes in the IMF and the World Bank, to reflect their genuine influence in the global economy. Once again, we have encapsulated this principle within the G20 Declaration. All our previous efforts to endorse pertinent appeals have been fruitless, as the West, despite approving of this equitable notion, persistently ensures it remains on paper. I have addressed the reform of global institutions and food security on two occasions. I acquainted my colleagues with our nation’s initiatives in implementing President Vladimir Putin’s proposition to establish a Greater Eurasian Partnership, encompassing the EAEU, the SCO, ASEAN, and other regional alliances. We perceive this as a substantive foundation for constructing a novel Eurasian security framework, accessible to all countries on the continent. I highlighted our contributions towards resolving food and energy security challenges, where we stand, as corroborated by statistics, as dependable and leading suppliers. This is merely one facet of what Russia can extend to the countries of the Global South. In practice, we are forging strong collaborations with them across numerous other domains, including advanced, efficient information and communication technology products of Russian origin, which are garnering increasing interest from our partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I must acknowledge that the success of this year’s Brazilian “shift” builds upon the G20’s positive outcomes from prior summits in Indonesia in 2022 and India in 2023. South Africa is poised to assume the next chairmanship. This BRICS “shift” will extend for another year. Our South African counterparts have already delineated their priorities – they intend to advance the agenda of reforming global institutions, as previously mentioned, while bolstering capacities for sustainable development with an emphasis on combating poverty, hunger, and inequality. For evident reasons, South Africa will focus particularly on the challenges facing the African continent and our dialogue with Africa through the Partnership Forum, established by the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg in 2023, which we initiated a fortnight ago in Sochi at the inaugural Russia-Africa Ministerial Conference. We will duly consider the initiatives of our South African colleagues in this regard. This will constitute a working, informal yet beneficial coordination. Question: You began by speaking about support for Brazil’s initiative on establishing a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. Could you share the details? How do Russia and Brazil, including as BRICS nations, intend to increase their contribution to global food security, and, most importantly, how is the West trying to exploit this issue? Sergey Lavrov: The West is always trying to distort things. They have a habit of presenting things in a way to put the blame on others instead of Western countries. As for food security, President Putin has more than once provided the example of frantic and ill-considered emission during the pandemic, when the United States and the EU printed about 10 trillion dollars and euros and used them to buy up everything that was available on the market. They did that to prepare for the periods of isolation so that they have enough food and other goods. That is when prices hiked. For our part, we have always satisfied the developing countries’ requirements. We are doing this now as well, despite the obstacles hindering the use of Western ports for exporting our fertilisers, grain, wheat and other crops. Insurance companies have raised prices sky-high. Lloyd’s has added the territory and ports of the Russian Federation to its “listed areas” of war. They have sent official letters regarding this to all our partners, which has automatically doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled the insurance rate. They have also been erecting other obstacles for us, for example, arresting our fertilisers. In other words, they blocked the usual, effective and optimal routes for the export of our products which the Global South needs. They put the blame for this on us, saying that it was the Russians who began the war. It is obvious to everyone that this is irresponsible behaviour, especially when people look like adults but continue to promote their [erroneous] arguments unashamedly. This makes me wonder. The idea of the Alliance – over 80 countries have signed that document, and Russia was among the first to support it – is that all parties help as much as they can to promote the achievement of this task based on the Sustainable Development Goals, in this instance to end poverty and hunger by 2030. As I said, we have many years of experience, including at the bilateral level. We are promoting the system of school meals, primarily in the neighbouring Central Asian countries and also in other parts of the world, namely Africa and Latin America. We have programmes for supporting farms and supplying modern technologies to them. Farming is developing rapidly and effectively in Russia, which can be seen from the harvesting data. We are pleased with our harvests that allow us to export quite a lot. Every country has its strong points and experience in other areas. We can collaborate.

Iran and Trump article on The Conversation website – Will Trump renew ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran – or could there be an opening for dialogue? With Donald Trump returning to the White House, the relationship between the US and Iran could change significantly. Trump’s unconventional foreign policy led to a period of heightened confrontation with Iran during his first term in office. However, the regional dynamics have evolved over the past four years, and Trump’s approach to Iran may shift as a result. Tensions are running high between the two adversaries. Last Friday, the US Department of Justice unveiled federal charges in what it said was a thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the allegations as “fabricated”. In a report in the Wall Street Journal, Iranian officials also told the US government in a secret exchange last month that the country wouldn’t seek to kill Trump. Disinformation is dangerous. We fight it with facts and expertise So, will these tensions continue in a second Trump term? Or might there be an opportunity for Iran and the US to actually improve relations? Trump’s stance towards Iran In his campaign for a second term, Trump has consistently spoken out against prolonged US involvement in wars. He also signalled a more conciliatory approach to Iran. Rejecting the idea of US-driven regime change in Tehran, he remarked: I would like to see Iran be very successful. The only thing is, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. He further expressed a hope for improved relations: “I’m not looking to be bad to Iran, we’re going to be friendly, I hope.” Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with Trump, also met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations earlier this week in a bid to defuse tensions in the next administration, The New York Times reported. However, other reports indicate that Trump’s top advisers are planning to reinstate the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. It would include increasing sanctions again and choking off Iran’s oil income by “going after foreign ports and traders who handle Iranian oil”. Trump’s unpredictable policymaking style suggests it is too early to know what approach he might take. Iran’s stance toward a second Trump term Iran is now led by a reformist government (by Iranian standards), whose tenure would overlap with much of Trump’s second term. President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration has voiced its desire to improve relations with the West and resume nuclear talks. And contrary to previous reformist governments in Iran, it generally enjoys the support of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate power in the country. Despite its military strength, Iran faces deep economic challenges, with public dissatisfaction growing. Therefore, Iran may seek to prioritise diplomatic solutions with the new Trump administration, knowing any escalation could destabilise the region. In a sign of openness towards Trump, Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has urged him to reassess the policy of “maximum pressure”, saying: “Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past.”

Peter Ford, former UK Ambassador for Syria, on the situation in Syria now. US asks Assad to cut ties with Iran and he says no. Report: US Offered To Withdraw Troops From Syria in Exchange for Assad Cutting Ties With Iran Officials told The New York Times that Israeli airstrikes and offers from the US were part of a ‘two-pronged approach’ to pressure Assad The US had proposed the idea of withdrawing its troops from eastern Syria and possibly lifting sanctions in exchange for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cutting ties with Iran and Hezbollah, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The report said the offer to pull out troops and other proposals made by the US and Gulf Arab states were made in coordination with Israeli strikes on Syria as part of a “two-pronged approach” to pressure Assad to abandon his alliance with Iran and Hezbollah, which would impede weapons shipments from Iran to Lebanon. Since October 2023, Israel has dramatically stepped up airstrikes on Syria, bombing the country over 220 times. The Times report said that Israel, with support from the US, was eager to “take advantage” of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel to ramp up the pressure on Syria. Officials told the Times that the offensive launched last week by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham makes it less likely that Assad would be willing to cut ties with Iran or Hezbollah since he’ll need their help with the fighting. Reuters also reported this week that the US and the UAE had offered sanctions relief to Syria if it ended its alliance with Iran and cut off weapons shipments to Lebanon. That report said that the HTS offensive was “a signal of precisely the sort of weakness in Assad’s alliance with Iran that the Emirati and US initiative aims to exploit” but also acknowledged it could increase his reliance on Iran. The US claims it maintains troops in eastern Syria to fight ISIS, but the reports make clear the occupation and the US sanctions campaign, which have had a devastating impact on Syrian civilians, are about keeping pressure on Iran and its allies to benefit Israel. The Times report said another proposal floated to Assad was for Gulf Arab countries to provide aid to Syria. In recent years, many regional countries that previously supported the regime change effort against Assad have normalized relations with Damascus, and Syria has been brought back into the Arab League.

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Tucker Carlson interviews Sergei Lavrov on Syria. Will Russia lose Syria? The elephant in the room is … CentCom. We’re on the brink of global war. Why isn’t anyone talking about it? This interview changes that. Tucker Carlson returns to Moscow to interview the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. On December 6, an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to American journalist Tucker Carlson was published. The Russian Foreign Minister answered questions about relations between Russia and the United States, the conflict in Ukraine and the most important conditions for our country to end it. We publish the full transcript of Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tucker Carlson, translated into Russian. Question: Thank you for agreeing to the interview. Do you believe that the United States and Russia are currently at war? Sergey V. Lavrov: I wouldn’t say that. Anyway, that’s not what we want. Of course, we would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors. In general, with all countries, especially with such a great country as the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly expressed his respect for the American people, the history of the United States, and American achievements in the world. We see no reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe. Question: But the United States is financing a conflict in which Russia is involved. Now they allow strikes on the territory of Russia. Isn’t this a war? Sergey Lavrov: Officially, we are not at war. Some people call what is happening in Ukraine a hybrid war. That’s what I’d call it too. Obviously, the Ukrainians would not be able to do what they are doing with modern long-range weapons without the direct participation of American military personnel. It’s dangerous. There is no doubt about it. We don’t want to make the situation worse. But since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are used in Russia, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one (a couple of weeks ago) from the new “Hazel” system was taken seriously. We also know that some officials at the Pentagon and in other organizations, including NATO, in recent days have begun to say that the bloc is a defensive alliance, but sometimes, they say, you can strike first, because the best defense is an attack. The representative of the Strategic Command of the US Department of Defense, Rear Admiral T. Buchanan, said that he admits the possibility of exchanging limited nuclear strikes. Such threats are of concern. If they follow the logic that some Westerners have been voicing lately, that, they say, do not believe that Russia has “red lines”, yes they announced them, but these “red lines” are shifting again, then this is a very serious mistake. That’s what I would like to say in response to this question. We didn’t start the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that we have launched a special military operation to put an end to the war that the Kiev regime waged against its people in Donbas. In his last statement, President Vladimir Putin made it clear that we are ready for any development of events. We prefer a peaceful negotiated settlement based on respect for Russia’s legitimate security interests, respect for the Russian people living in Ukraine, their basic rights, linguistic and religious rights, destroyed by a number of laws passed by the Ukrainian parliament. It started long before the special military operation. Russian Russian-language education, the work of the Russian media in Ukraine, and then the Ukrainian media in Russian have been passed since 2017. Steps have also been taken to cancel any cultural events in Russian. Russian books are thrown out of libraries and destroyed. The last step was the adoption of a law banning the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church…

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Neil Oliver on Syria. Protests in Georgia – similar to Ukraine in 2014. Peter Ford on Qatar. Craig Murray on Skripals being sprayed with ‘novichok’ in Zizzis in Salisbury – Pablo Miller who was with them can’t be mentioned in media. Craig Murray on new Skripal saga developments – Former UK ambassador and whistleblower Craig Murray joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to address revealing new developments in the strange Skripal poisoning saga that helped send Britain into a new Cold War frenzy. The Skripals came back home, and both touched the door handle. Despite the novichok being instant-acting and extremely deadly, they then went out for lunch and ate a full meal and drank wine and had a high old time for three hours, being joined and photographed by their MI6 handler Pablo Miller (whose existence is D-noticed). After their meal, the novichok finally took effect and they both collapsed on a park bench. Despite the fact that they were different ages, sexes and weights and presumably contacted differing amounts of novichok, they both collapsed at just the same moment, about three hours after contact, so neither of them was able to call for help. But luckily the very first person to come across them on the park bench was, completely by coincidence, the Chief Nurse of the British Army, who just happened to be passing. They went to hospital and were saved and did not die after all. A policeman sent to their house touched the door handle and also got novichok poisoning, and he later got ill and was hospitalised, but did not die either. He had returned to his own home and later it was found that he had got novichok all over the light switches and door handles there, but by great fortune his family, who continued to live in this house, did not get ill from it. The official explanation of this is that it was “a miracle”. Meanwhile, the “perfume” sat in the charity bin. It sat there for months and months, despite the fact that it was emptied regularly and despite the fact that Charlie Rowley was one of a number of people who also regularly stole from that bin. Somehow both the bin’s official and unofficial emptiers continually missed the perfume bottle, again and again and again. Finally, several months later, the perfume bottle’s mysterious invisibility cloak failed and Charlie Rowley saw it. He gave it to his girlfriend Dawn Sturgess, who put some perfume on and died. Charlie Rowley got ill but did not die. He was later able to tell the press inconvenient facts, like the cellophane on the perfume was fully sealed and that he took stuff from that bin fairly often. When Rowley and Sturgess were taken to hospital, the police descended and sealed off the house and made a massive terrorism theatre of searching it, that went on for days. They were searching for a small container of liquid. Finally, after days and days of 24/7 painstaking combing through the house by England’s finest, somebody spotted a perfume bottle sitting in plain sight on the kitchen counter, and the novichok was found! Presumably the perfume’s invisibility cloak had spluttered into life again for a few days before fizzling out. That really is the official story. Yes, it really is. You are not supposed to notice the massive glaring holes in it. If you want to check up on all the sources and links, here is one I made earlier. I had intended to attend the inquiry in person. Even the most incompetent lawyer would be able to demolish this ridiculous official narrative with great ease. But then I realised that the entire Inquiry is structured to prevent that happening. Nobody is going to ask difficult questions. The one person who could is the lawyer representing the family of Dawn Sturgess, but her family have been propagandised into total adherence to the official line, presumably by a combination of mainstream media and official hand-holding.

Shooting dead in New York of Brian Thompson of United Healthcare health insurance company – spent cartridges inscribed with ‘Deny, Delay, Depose’ – phrase used by insurance companies to not pay out.  ‘Deny’, ‘delay’ and ‘depose’: Words found on shell casings after health insurance boss shot dead These words eerily echo the title of Jay M. Feinman’s book ‘Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It’, which takes a hard look at insurance companies’ practices of denying claims. The book offers numerous accounts involving major insurers and provides advice on purchasing insurance and disputing claims. When approached by The Sun regarding a possible connection to the murder, Feinman had only this to say: “No comment, sorry.” The book’s website claims, “Your insurer’s main objective is not to protect you; in fact, insurers often try to avoid paying justified claims. Today the name of the game is delay, deny, defend: to improve their profits, insurance companies delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend their actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation,” as reported by the Express US. Thompson leaves behind his widow, Paulette, and their two sons in Maple Grove, Minnesota. A manhunt is underway after Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot outside a New York hotel on Wednesday Police found the words “deny”, “defend” and “depose” on the shell casings of the bullets at the scene of the fatal shooting of the American insurance CEO in New York. Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was on the way to to the company’s annual investor conference when he was fatally shot outside the Hilton Midtown Hotel on Wednesday. The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were found written on the shell casings at the scene, ABC News reported, citing police sources. It is unclear how many shell casings there were. A mobile phone was also recovered by investigators from the alleyway where the suspect fled. Police used drones, helicopters and dogs in an intense search, but the suspects whereabouts continue to be unknown at the time of writing. The killing, and the shooter’s movements in the minutes before and afterward, was captured on CCTV. One video showed him approach Thompson from behind, level his pistol and fire several shots, shortly pausing to clear a brief gun jam. Other security cameras captured the initial stages of the suspect’s escape, who disappeared after cycling into Central Park on an e-bike. The masked gunman was “lying in wait” outside the hotel shortly before 7am, according to New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Police Commissioner Tisch said the incident did not seem to be a “random act of violence” but rather a “targeted shooting”. She said: “Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target.” Mr Thompson was shot at least once in the back and once in the calf, and was taken to hospital in a critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead. The police department offered a reward of up to $10,000 (£7,864) for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Mr Thompson was fatally shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan. Credit: AP Mr Thompson’s wife, Paulette Thompson, told NBC News that the executive told her “there were some people that had been threatening him.” She said she didn’t have details, but suggested they may have involved issues with insurance coverage.

Dominic Cummings explosive discussion on how UK government politics are just theatre, and MPs are now useless careerists. Fake cabinet government. How the Deepstate Fails Britain | Dominic Cummings: Start Ups and State Failure The Pharos Foundation. Listen to Dominic Cummings answer questions about the future of British politics, why the state is so dysfunctional, why it is corrupt, its historical successes, and how technology can change the warfare. — In conversation with Dr Patrick Nash. Dominic Cummings is a British political strategist known for directing the Vote Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum and working as a SPAD for the Department of Education during its radical reforms. He served as Chief Adviser to Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2020, overseeing the election campaign. Cummings is recognised for his technological methods and critiques of government inefficiencies. “Both sides are happy with the fake version of The Government” “They pose they smile, but it’s all nonsense” Wow Former Chief Advisor to The Prime Minister Dominic Cummings confirming what many are realising – that we don’t live in a Democracy – Westminster is all for show & the real decisions are made behind closed doors by the true powers that be – Cummings blows the whistle on the elected politician / civil service charade: “Fake meritocracy, fake responsibility and a fake government” “Cabinet is a stage theatre” “Both sides are happy with the fake version of government” After shutting down the UK’s sewage monitoring system, Whitehall said the team that built it originally, were ‘are not allowed to bid to do it again because it would be “unfair”. Interesting bit of financial background on the de-nuking of Britain from Dominic Cummings “The nuclear disaster … Successively each Prime Minister is given the actual budgets for the nuclear project. And they blink and they gasp, and they say, this can’t possibly be true … Boris said, Holy shit, this is unbelievable, but why am I going to be the one at the end of the pass the parcel? Theresa May just classified it and punted it to me. Dave classified it and punted it. Brown did the same and Blair … So Boris said, I’m going to do the same as everyone else. I’m going to classify it and punt. My prediction is that Keir Starmer will, either has already, or shortly, will do the same, because they’re now going through a Spending Review. He will have the same secret budget numbers on yellow paper, and he’ll read it and think this is just absolutely unbelievable. He will classify it further and punt it again, because the alternative would be publishing it all and having the most almighty public scandal, and all the MPs being faced with having to have actual public hearings and explain how on earth this could have happened”

Westminster honey trap emails – criminals stop leadership challenge to Rishi Sunak in run-up to 2024 general election. How its done. William Wragg was vice chair of the 1922 committee which manages Tory party leadership challenges and this psyop was to stop a leadership challenge to Sunak in the run up to the general election. It worked. When news broke of men at Westminster being targeted by flirtatious WhatsApp messages from mysterious figures calling themselves “Charlie” or “Abi” many assumed it was a classic honeytrap. Some MPs were quick to point the finger at Russia, China and other “hostile states” suspected of using nefarious tactics to obtain compromising material. But it now looks a lot less straightforward than that. Security sources are steering us away from the hostile state theory. So who was behind the scam (if that’s what it was)? And what did Charlie and Abi want? Here is what we know – and, almost as importantly, what we don’t know about one of the weirdest, and most troubling, stories to hit Westminster in a long time. It all began in Bournemouth Thought this was a story confined to the Conservative Party and William Wragg – the MP who ended his own career after admitting he had been “scared” into sharing colleagues’ numbers with someone he met on a dating app? Think again. The honeytrapper – as we shall call him, her or them – first popped up on Saturday, 23 September last year in Bournemouth, the opening day of the Liberal Democrats’ annual conference. We have spoken to two male conference attendees who received messages that day on the gay hook-up app Grindr from someone with the user name M-xl. M-xl said he was 28 and interested in “chat, friends, hookups”. He used a photo of a blonde man appearing in his 20s. Messages were exchanged on a gay hook-up app Falling into conversation with one of those he messaged, M-xl said he had heard about “orgy stories” from the conference. The conference attendee responded with what he said was a made up story. “Hot,” M-xl replied. By this point, he was in a bar with friends. “I said to the people I was with: ‘Hang on, have you had a message from this person?’ And we’d all had similar messages,” he said. “They were kind of hinting they wanted to sleep with MPs,” the second attendee told us. “They were asking for gossip, if I knew of anyone that would be interested in sleeping with them.” His name was Charlie Months later, people would suspect what became known as the Westminster honeytrap of being the act of anyone ranging from a lone individual seeking sexual gratification to being the actions of a hostile state. But those messaged in Bournemouth reached a different conclusion: they thought they were being targeted by a journalist seeking information. “Just as a heads up to gays,” another man wrote on a group chat for some male friends at the conference, “pretty sure there’s a Journo honeytrap on Grindr”. Others then disclosed that M-xl had asked them questions about what the worst thing they had ever heard an MP do was, and to share any compromising photos they had of others. Certainly there were plenty of journalists in Bournemouth to cover the Liberal Democrat conference. Yet despite Grindr being designed to show you men nearby, M-xl was not actually there. One of those messaging M-xl realised why he appeared keen on information but not that keen on meeting up: he was using a feature of the app where you can chat to profiles elsewhere. M-xl appeared in fact to be in north London. In one case we’re aware of, the conversation with M-xl progressed to WhatsApp. They asked what his real name was. M-xl said his name was Charlie.

Anna de Buisseret dies of cancer – she said Covid actions were illegal – on TNT Radio – she used to work for Pfizer. Remembering Anna de Buisseret: ‘Larger Than Life’ Health Freedom Advocate – Anna de Buisseret, an outspoken defender of human and medical freedom rights, died Nov. 30 of cancer. The retired army officer, senior employment lawyer in the U.K. and ex-Pfizer consultant was an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. Anna de Buisseret, an outspoken defender of human and medical freedom rights, died on Nov. 30 of cancer. The retired army officer, senior employment lawyer in the United Kingdom and ex-Pfizer consultant was an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. “Anna gave so much of herself, and was one of the only legal professionals to speak out,” said Anna Virginia, Children’s Health Defense European correspondent. “She never stopped her tireless legal research or speaking out.” According to IMBD.com, after her cancer diagnosis, Anna “remained a positive, powerful force for good” and continued to help people understand the psychological operation unleashed on the public from March 2020 onwards. “Despite the fact Anna has helped thousands of people, she will never be formally recognised for her contribution to the country due to the corrupt nature and suppressive policies imposed by those at the top of the political food chain.” During an interview in October 2021 at a medical freedom march in Europe, Anna said: “Under Common Law … over his or her own mind or body the individual is sovereign and nobody gets to derogate from that fundamental inalienable human right. We are all sovereign, we are all equal in the eyes of God. We are all equal under the rule of law. No one is above it. And the fundamental maxim of law is that you have sovereignty over your own mind and body. Nobody gets to break that. Not even in times of public emergencies.” During the Nov. 11, 2021, Remembrance Day freedom march in London, Anna spoke in detail at Parliament Square about the sheer magnitude of crimes against humanity that had been committed and were being investigated by teams of lawyers from around the world with many trials starting to take place. Speaking to reporters after the march, Anna said: “Hold the line, stand in your sovereignty and if you do not consent to having your bodily integrity breached, then you have to fight back. … You have the right to refuse treatment even if you’re going to die.” Anna’s Telegram page posted this memorial message: “I am writing on behalf of Anna De Buisseret’s family to share the deeply sad news that, despite all efforts, Anna has lost her battle with cancer. She passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 30, 2024. “In her final hours, Anna was surrounded by love and the people she cherished most — her children, her sisters, her brother, and her friends. Though she could not speak or move, the hospital staff assured us that she could hear us. We gathered around her bedside, prayed together, and shared heartfelt memories of her until she took her last breath. “Anna was a true warrior of our time — a woman with a heart full of love, compassion, and an unshakable sense of justice. She was a devoted mother and an incredible human being who gave everything for the betterment of humanity. “Her words continue to resonate with us: “‘What’s the point of saving a world without fighting for people? We must stop this genocide first, otherwise, there will be no one left to save the world for.’” Tributes poured in for her after her passing.

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Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no appeal, no notice eviction from People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explaining that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets had been left in the building by a recent guest making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. 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.

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, ‘rested due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane 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