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Part One – Local and National News Review

Farmers protests 1: Montgomery Toms on Budget day

Farmers protests 2: Balaclava farmer says there may be a food distribution blockades on Friday 19th December 2025 after Metropolitan Police banned farmers Budget protest at the last minute, arresting farmers for peaceful protest.

Farmers protests 3: The Great & The Good: Gareth Wyn Jones ‘Follow a farmer, let’s start a farming food revolution.’ Gareth Wyn Jones, Welsh hill farmer and campaigner for British, sustainable, seasonal produce says the problems farmers face are the weather, big corporations, supermarkets and government. He says that the introduction of an inheritance tax is devastating many family farms. There are already farmers who have committed suicide so that their families won’t have to sell their farms to pay the tax that starts in April next year. “My father’s 88, never had a passport, never went on holiday, never bought expensive cars. He invested all his money back into the land, hopefully for the next generation to have it.” “Any working farm that wasn’t sold to solar, that wasn’t sold to a wind farm, that wasn’t sold for building or construction, if that farm is producing food, that should be exempt from inheritance tax.” If you want to avoid starvation from the government’s destruction of our farmers, you must listen to Gareth and buy food directly from our farms. “Let’s start a farming food revolution right here, right now. It can never happen until the public gets behind the farming industry and starts to ask questions on our governments, on our supermarkets and on the elite in Davos. Because in my opinion, they’re the ones that are pushing the Net Zero agenda, which is absolutely ludicrous. If you’re blaming my cow farts for the problems we’ve got, you need to go and see a doctor.”

The Blackrock enclosure agenda behind the farmers’ protests: George Monbiot, Gareth Wyn Jones on farming. The Great The Good – Gareth Wyn Jones. 2018 Oxford farming conference. It’s a long video I do promise it’s worth it . Well done Gareth Wyn Jones, a brilliant speech well presented!

Jo Bartosch Pornocracy part 2 (2025) GB Newz – Pornocracy, the machinery of mass degradation by Jo Bartosch (2025) on GB News They say everybody uses porn. They’re wrong. People don’t use pornography: it uses us. And you don’t have to watch it to be one of its victims. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel expose how the multi-billion-dollar pornography industry has humanity gripped in a chokehold. From rewiring our brains and normalising sexual violence, to shaping new protest movements, the pornographic revolution has achieved a stunning and near-total victory. The triumph of the pornocrats is made more sinister by society’s widespread acceptance that ‘all men watch porn’, the denial of its devastating harms, and a lack of political will to curb the power of the global pornography business. The authors answer the questions that politicians and policymakers are too scared to ask. Why, despite over half a century of feminist gains and lessons in schools on ‘consent’, do today’s school children display more sexist attitudes than their parents and grandparents? Do women really want to be choked and humiliated in bed? How can we fight back and reclaim sex, love and relationships? Drawing on the latest research, Pornocracy charts how the neurological shifts caused by porn use reverberate through society. The book also warns of a dystopian future where AI-powered porn and sextech threaten to reduce us all to masturbating meat puppets on an algorithmic production line. Provocative and powerful, Pornocracy tells the story of how pornography fundamentally changed—perhaps forever—what it is to be human. Jo Bartosch is a journalist, women’s rights advocate and assistant editor at The Critic. Robert Jessel is a writer and campaigner with a particular focus on child exploitation, competing rights claims, freedom of speech, and the impact of new technology on humanity. Introduction – Considering the Lilies Chapter One — Not Your Granddad’s Porn Chapter Two — How Porn Changed Our Brains Chapter Three — Relationships with Porn Chapter Four — Generation Porn Chapter Five — Pulled Apart By Porn Chapter Six — Phone Screens and Crime Scenes Chapter Seven — Pornified Progress Chapter Eight — The Death of Love Chapter Nine — Resistance Pornocracy is a searing indictment of pornography’s pervasive influence on how we have sex, see each other, and live our daily lives. With clarity, evidence, and passion, it documents how pornography teaches sexism, harms relationships, and feeds sexual violence.” Professor Michael Flood, author of Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention

Leila Cunningham, Reform Councillor, destroys the Labour MP with home truths about this Government. How long can Starmer ignore the Palestine Action hunger strike? 

Unsolved murder of Croydon investigator means Met Police must now declare Freemasons membership – Metropolitan Police officers are now made to say if they currently or ever have held a Freemasons membership to ‘strengthen the trust among both staff and London’s communities’ – Officers working for the Met Police must now declare to their bosses if they belong to the Freemasons which has been a ‘source of recurring suspicion and mistrust’. The decision stems from recommendations in the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report – an investigation into the force’s handling of the unsolved 1987 murder of Croydon-based private investigator Daniel Morgan. Mr Morgan was brutally killed in the car park of a Sydenham pub after being struck with an axe to the back of his head. Shortly before his murder in 1987, the dad of two had been enjoying a drink at the Golden Lion with his business partner from Southern Investigations, Jonathan Rees. When the 37-year-old’s body was discovered next to his car, detectives noted that a watch had been stolen, but £1,000 in cash left untouched in his pocket suggested that robbery was not the motive. What were conspicuously missing from his pocket were notes he had been seen writing earlier. It emerged that Daniel had allegedly been investigating corruption within the Met Police and was on the verge of uncovering damning evidence. While a match was reportedly found to some DNA discovered on the victim’s trouser pocket, no further information has been released regarding this piece of evidence. Later in the year, a man named Detective Constable Alan ‘Taffy’ Holmes, who was purportedly working with Daniel to expose police corruption, was found to have committed suicide under unusual circumstances. Multiple investigations into his death spanning decades revealed claims of corruption. The 2021 Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report concluded that police officers’ involvement with the Freemasons had been “a source of recurring suspicion and mistrust in the investigations”. Members of the Freemasons pledge allegiance to the brotherhood’s values and commit to backing fellow members. Officers and personnel working for the Met are now obliged to declare membership “past or present” of any group that is “hierarchical, has confidential membership and requires members to support and protect each other”, the force stated. The Met’s policy change follows a staff survey revealing two thirds of respondents believed membership of such groups impacts perceptions of police neutrality and public confidence, the force announced. Metropolitan Police Federation general secretary Matt Cane has previously argued the measure could breach officers’ human rights and would be “unnecessary and wrong”. Met Commander Simon Messinger stated: “Successive leaders of the Met have considered for many years whether we need to amend our declarable association policy, particularly in relation to Freemasonry. “After such conclusive results from our consultation, we have decided now is the right time to address long-standing concerns and that public and staff confidence must take precedence over the secrecy of any membership organisation. Our decision does not mean any member of staff cannot join the Freemasons or another similar organisation. “But we have acted on feedback that involvement in these types of organisations could call impartiality into question or give rise to conflict of loyalties. Strengthening the trust both our own staff and London’s communities have in the Met is a core part of our New Met for London plan and ambitions.” The decision has been discussed with the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) – the headquarters of Freemasonry in England and Wales, according to the Met. However, UGLE responded to the decision stating there had not been a genuine dialogue. A spokesperson labelled the move as “unlawful, disproportionate, unfair and discriminatory”. Speaking on behalf of UGLE, the Order of Women Freemasons and the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons, Adrian Marsh said: “We are disappointed that a decision which potentially affects our members has been taken without open or effective consultation. “Our values of integrity, friendship, respect and service are paramount in Freemasonry and have never been of more importance. We see this action as unwarranted, and we are carefully considering an appropriate response. We will issue a further statement in due course.”

Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show? Starmer desperately needs the trial of six peace activists who targeted Israeli arms firm Elbit to go his way, and bolster his government’s claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation The current trial in London of six peace activists is proving just how determined the British state is to hollow out the public’s civil, political and legal rights to justify its continuing support for Israel’s slaughter of Gaza’s children. US President Donald Trump launched a narrative makeover, with his phoney “ceasefire” and “peace plan”, designed to obscure Israel’s continued genocidal destruction of Gaza. In parallel, Keir Starmer’s government has been working strenuously to impose a narrative in which efforts by Britons to stop that genocide – and to highlight his own government’s complicity in it – are branded “terrorism”. In the summer, the government outlawed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation – making it the first direct-action group in British history to be proscribed. It was the equivalent of a British government declaring the Suffragettes to be a terrorist organisation a century ago, so that it could avoid giving women the right to vote. Thousands have opposed the proscription of Palestine Action as an assault on the rights to speech, assembly and protest, and have been charged with terrorism offences for holding signs stating: “I oppose genocide. I stand with Palestine Action.” However, problematically for the government, which is bent on riding roughshod over our most foundational rights, the six activists on trial were charged before the group’s proscription. None are charged with terrorism offences. They are accused instead of causing criminal damage – to an Israeli weapons factory in Filton, Bristol, in August last year – as well as aggravated burglary and violent disorder. One faces an additional charge of causing grievous bodily harm. All six deny the charges. But after months of government narrative spin, you would hardly grasp what the trial at Woolwich Crown Court is really about from the misleading media coverage. Narrative battleground The government has been desperately trying to justify proscription by implying, through willing media outlets like the Times, that Palestine Action received funding from Iran. It has only ever implied as much because it has precisely zero evidence to back up such a claim. It is straightforward government disinformation, apparently cooked up by a public relations firm for Elbit. Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, with an annual turnover of $7 billion last year, is also ranked as the 25th largest weapons firm in the world. Now Starmer’s government is using the trial to bolster the idea that the defendants behaved in ways that prove Palestine Action was not just trying to prevent the Gaza genocide by attacking the property of a major weapons firm, as it claims, but was also directing its violence at individuals, and specifically at officials of the state. This, the government hopes, will convince the public that proscription was warranted – and draw attention away from its own sustained support for Israel’s genocide. The trial – referred to as the “Filton trial”, because of the factory’s location – has therefore turned into a narrative battleground. The key evidence is video footage from cameras inside the factory, and bodycams worn by the defendants, by Elbit’s security guards and by police officers who attended the scene later. There have been tight reporting restrictions on the trial – which has been especially helpful to the government, because it has used the lack of detail to build a misleading narrative that advances its cause.

Peter Oborne new book ‘Complicity’ – we will never be forgiven for our role in Gaza. Is UK government complicit in the destruction of Gaza? Channel 4 News Is the UK government complicit in the destruction of Gaza? That’s the assertion in the new book by journalist and polemicist Peter Oborne, with both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak under fire for backing what he calls Israel’s “criminal assault” following the Hamas attack of October 7. What’s more, he says, the British media played its part too: colluding with the government as well as misrepresenting or under-reporting those voices opposed.From one of Britain’s most celebrated political journalists, a fearless and forensic indictment of British complicity in the destruction of Gaza. In a gripping narrative informed by original reporting, Peter Oborne tells how Britain’s Conservative and Labour parties converged to back Israel’s criminal assault-in the process occupying disturbing common ground with the far right. Rather than challenge this political cartel, British media colluded in its misrepresentations. The shocking result was that, as British authorities helped Israel set Gaza as well as international law aflame, almost everything the public was told about this momentous conflagration was untrue. When citizens still turned out in their hundreds of thousands to demand a ceasefire, roiling the nation’s politics as they stayed faithful to the ancient British tradition of popular protest in defence of liberty, the political-media machine bared its fangs. The investigative reporting in this book exposes the methods by which peaceful demonstrations were smeared as “hate marches”. Formerly chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph and Spectator, Oborne knows the British establishment from within. In this book he names names and provides receipts. His demand is accountability-for atrocities, and their accomplices. Why such slavish support for Israel at Westminster? One familiar argument is to claim it’s all the fault of the Jewish lobby. Oborne devotes a chapter to describing the lobby here in Britain, but his conclusion is that they are pushing at an open door because British foreign policy has, since 1956, stuck as close as possible to the foreign policy of the USA. Support for Israel is another way of proving your loyalty to the White House. As Oborne states: ‘As prime minister Starmer displayed an entirely orthodox understanding of Britain’s foreign policy. First and foremost, that meant sticking to the US as closely as possible … rhetorical support for Palestinians’ right to self-determination was expressed without placing any pressure on Israel to realise it. Palestinian resistance of any kind was opposed, and Israel was lavished with diplomatic and practical support’ (p.163). Neither in the UK not the USA, can I see any change in Western support for Israel, despite the sea change in public opinion. But as a new generation of political leaders emerge, there must be some who see the way the wind is blowing and follow it from behind. As the former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph and a former journalist on the Evening Standard and Daily Express, it would be hard to write Oborne off as another loony lefty; after all, he proudly positions himself in the now deceased tradition of One Nation Toryism. But that will not stop the attacks from apologists for the state of Israel. That’s why I don’t think the establishment will try to smear him as they did Corbyn and the marches for Palestine; they will try to ignore Complicit and hope the charges against them go away; but they won’t. It’s important you read this book because in page after page, it builds up the case. We need to be able to repeat Oborne’s accusations wherever we work, study or socialise because these swine need to branded for what they are, accomplices of and participants in genocide.

DDN in Cyprus – will this documentary put Keir Starmer behind bars. Will this documentary put Keir Starmer behind bars? Declassified UK and Double Down News Declassified presents the first documentary about Britain’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer’s shady spy flight missions for Israel. What does a British base in Cyprus have to do with Israel’s genocide in Gaza? Declassified travelled to this Mediterranean island to investigate the hundreds of spy flights Keir Starmer has sent over Gaza, that coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers We go where the British media and military experts have refused to look and ask whether this scandal could put Keir Starmer in The Hague. An original Declassified UK documentary Hosted and produced by Phil Miller Filmed and edited by Alex Morris.  ‘Release Gaza footage,’ British victim demands in new spy flight documentary Father of former Royal Marine killed in Gaza says footage captured by opaque UK surveillance programme could clarify what happened to his son. The family of a British aid worker killed by Israel have made a fresh demand for the UK military to release its surveillance footage of Gaza from the day they died. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, a former Royal Marine commando, was killed in a drone strike on a humanitarian aid convoy in April 2024. His father Neil told Declassified he felt “quite angry” that footage from a Royal Air Force plane that loitered over Gaza earlier that day had not been shown to the family. “The reason for not supplying that footage from the Ministry of Defence is a bit of an insult,” he said. “I can’t understand how an RAF plane flying over Gaza on the pretext of looking for hostages, how that footage can affect British security.” Neil Henderson’s comments are contained in a new documentary by Declassified released on Thursday titled Britain’s Gaza spy flight scandal. Will this documentary put Keir Starmer behind bars? The documentary features the first footage of an outsourced spy plane taking off from an RAF base on Cyprus bound for Gaza this September, after a UN commission had declared there was a genocide taking place. Labour and Conservative governments sent hundreds of flights over the besieged coastal strip between December 2023 and October 2025 officially looking for hostages held by Hamas. The RAF has not confirmed if it found any hostages, and instead its trove of footage could have captured evidence of war crimes or even been used by Israel to facilitate them.  

Amos Goldberg, Israeli academic, holocaust genocide in Gaza. ‘Yes, it is genocide’ in Gaza says Israeli professor of Holocaust studies In a blistering essay on the mass killing and devastation in Gaza, Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the department of Jewish history and contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has argued that Israel is committing the crime of genocide. “Yes, it is genocide” wrote Goldberg in an important intervention dismissing many of the flawed arguments cited by Israeli advocates to deny the horrors being inflicted on Gaza. “It is so difficult and painful to admit it, but despite all that, and despite all our efforts to think otherwise, after six months of brutal war we can no longer avoid this conclusion.” Goldberg’s essay is the latest from a leading expert on the subject to reach such a devastating conclusion. After stating that Israelis are mistaken in their view that a genocide needs to look like the Holocaust before it can be classified as such, he explains why he believes Israel’s actions qualify as a genocide. Goldberg acknowledges that it will be several years before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) makes its final determination about the genocide case brought forward by South Africa. However, in the view of the Israeli professor there is sufficient evidence to conclude that Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza before the ICJ issues its judgement. “It will be several years before the court in The Hague will hand down its verdict, but we must not look at the catastrophic situation purely through legal lenses,” said Goldberg. “What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, the wiping out of cultural and religious institutions, the crushing of elites (including the killing of journalists), and the sweeping dehumanization of the Palestinians — create an overall picture of genocide, of a deliberate conscious crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza.” In one the more compelling arguments made by Goldberg, the Israeli professor states that “the common denominator” in most genocides is the perpetrators claim that the genocidal acts are motivated by self-defence. “Historically, self-defence is not incompatible with genocide, but is usually one of its main causes, if not the main one,” said Goldberg…

Ilan Pappe – Israel is collapsing from within and he explains why. Israel Is Collapsing From Within – Ilan Pappé Explains Why Is Israel beginning to collapse from within? In this in depth conversation, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes Zionism has entered its final phase, how Israeli society is disintegrating internally, and what a just future for Palestinians and Israelis could look like. Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic and Israel on the Brink, draws on decades of archival research to argue that Israel is a classic settler colonial project built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid and permanent military rule over Palestinians. He details the social implosion inside Israel, the growing split between secular and religious Jews, the role of the U.S. and European powers, and why he thinks decolonization is inevitable. We discuss 1948 and the Nakba, the Gaza war, accusations of genocide, the collapse of the two state solution, one democratic state between the river and the sea, Jewish-Palestinian coexistence, and what real decolonization might require in practice. For anyone trying to understand the future of Israel-Palestine, this is an unfiltered, long form analysis from one of the conflict’s most important dissident historians. 00:00 Intro / trailer 01:07 – Conversation begins – why Israel is in crisis 05:14 – Zionism as a settler-colonial project 11:48 – 1948, the Nakba and planned expulsion 17:05 – How occupation reshaped Israeli society 22:36 – “State of Israel” vs “State of Judea” 28:09 – Religious extremism and talk of civil war 33:41 – Gaza, genocide allegations and international law 39:27 – Is this the “last phase” of Zionism? 44:55 – One democratic state and decolonization 49:20 – Role of the US, Europe and Arab regimes 52:10 – Ilan Pappé’s warning and closing thoughts

CIAs Susan Miller – a CIA war criminal – Solemani killing philosophy. Israeli Influence, Al Qaeda, Assassination: Afshin Rattansi Challenges Ex-CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Miller, Former Chief of the CIA’s Station in Tel Aviv. Afshin Rattansi asks her about the close relationship between the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel’s level of influence over US foreign policy, Israel and the CIA’s involvement with ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, Syria’s Al-Sharaa/Al-Jolani being welcomed to the White House by Donald Trump, the CIA’s role in the assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, whether the CIA’s policy of assassinations are actually successful in furthering US foreign policy objectives, the Trump Administration’s bogus pretext of narco-trafficking for pushing regime change against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, the CIA’s own history of being involved in drug trafficking, and much more.

Videos of full shows – Essentials: Michael Hudson | Blackrock/Vanguard | Netanyahu at the 7/7 London Bombings | Why/how Israel Assassinated JFK & RFK | Operation Gladio | Tony on Brexit & (4th Reich) Traitors of Arnhem | Creation vs. Evolution | God vs. Lucifer | ‘Great Plan’ for 3 World Wars | Devil Worship: The Rise Of Satanism | Nuclear Armed IDF Doomsday Cult | Aanirfan | Armageddonists I have known: Nick Land (1976-8) | George Monbiot (1995-7) | Manna for the Revelation Generation: CONSPIRACY CLASSICS, longer interviews/lectures

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

Ukraine – Colonel Douglas Macgregor – why US is rowing back on war. You know,you and I watched President Trump when he ran for election the first time and the second time, and I don’t think his views have really changed personally. I mean, he may may have wandered sometimes off the track in in foolish directions, but you know, he’s president. Lots of presidents do that. But I think his basic position that I knew when I saw him in November December of 2020 on NATO and on foreign policy in general, I don’t think it’s changed at all. So the question you have to ask yourselves, who were the donors that imposed on President Trump this man Rubio and his contingent, Mrs. Adlesen, Dr. Aden, I believe she’s an MD. Sheldon Adlesen’s surviving wife, who according to Scott Ritter and others on this show, said to Donald Trump, “$und00 million legally into a political action committee for you. Make Margaret Rubio, Marco Rubio, your vice president.” Trump said, “I can’t stand the man. No way would he be my vice president.” Then she said, “Give him the next best. Make him secretary of state. He’s a expert. heard him doing air quotes in foreign affairs, particularly uh Latin America, and that apparently carried the day. Now, when Rubio says, “I’m going to Moscow to talk to Lavough.” The president says, “No, you’re not. Jared and Steve are going.” Okay, I’m going to Geneva to meet with the other foreign ministers of NATO. No, you’re not. The Secretary of the Army is going. So, what is Rubio doing? He’s worried about the font. I’m not making this up. the font sizes on the official documents that come out of State Department.

Ukraine – News wartime mindset. BBC Six O Clock News – Ukraine Russia UK war looming…?. WWIII NATO chief Rutte warns members to be ready for war with Russia. Nato must switch to a wartime mindset, warns secretary general NATO’s Rutte warns allies Russia could wage war on a scale ‘our grandparents endured’ NATO chief Mark Rutte has urged allies to step up their defense efforts to prevent a future conflict with Russia, which he warned could reach “the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.” In a speech in Berlin on Thursday, Rutte accused many members of the Western military alliance of being complacent, saying that they do not fully grasp the urgency of Russia’s threat in Europe and that they must rapidly increase defense spending and production to prevent a war comparable to that faced by earlier generations. The head of Nato has said it is time to “shift to a wartime mindset”, as he warned the military alliance’s members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia. Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was “preparing for long-term confrontation with UkrNATO’s Rutte warns allies Russia could wage war on a scale ‘our grandparents endured’ NATO chief Mark Rutte has urged allies to step up their defense efforts to prevent a future conflict with Russia, which he warned could reach “the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.” In a speech in Berlin on Thursday, Rutte accused many members of the Western military alliance of being complacent, saying that they do not fully grasp the urgency of Russia’s threat in Europe and that they must rapidly increase defense spending and production to prevent a war comparable to that faced by earlier generations. “We are Russia’s next target. I fear that too many are quietly complacent. Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now,” Rutte said. “Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured,” Rutte, who served as Dutch prime minister from 2010 to 2024, warned. ‘Wartime mindset’ Although he welcomed the decision by NATO members during a summit in June to increase annual military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, Rutte argued that more needed to be done, urging alliance members to shift to a “wartime mindset.” “This is not the time for self-congratulation,” Rutte said, warning that Moscow may be strong enough to attack NATO territory sooner than many assume. “NATO’s own defenses can hold for now, but with its economy dedicated to war, Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO within five years,” he said. The bill limits the Pentagon’s ability to draw down troops without congressional approval. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Rutte’s remarks come against the backdrop of rising tensions in Europe, fueled by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now nearing its fourth year, and growing uncertainty over the United States’ long-term commitment to the region under President Donald Trump. Last week, the White House published a new National Security Strategy that has unsettled European capitals due to its unusually critical tone toward the continent and the absence of any reference to Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.aine and with us”, describing the current security situation as the worst in his lifetime. “We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years,” he said in his first major speech since becoming secretary general in October, urging members to “turbocharge” their defence spending. His comments come weeks before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, having previously suggested the US would not protect Nato allies that were failing to spend enough on defence. What is Nato and which countries are members? Trump ‘encourages’ Russia to attack non-paying Nato allies Mark Rutte called the current security situation the “worst in my lifetime” Nato members have pledged to spend at least 2% of the value of their economies – measured by GDP – on defence per year by 2024. But speaking at an event in Brussels, the former Dutch prime minister said “a lot more” would be needed as danger “[moves] towards us at full speed”. He said European members had spent upwards of 3% of GDP on defence during the Cold War. “If we don’t spend more together now to prevent war, we will pay a much, much, much higher price later to fight it,” he said. He added that Russia’s economy was “on a war footing”, with its defence spend by 2025 set to be “a third of Russia’s state budget – and the highest level since the Cold War”. Russia has significantly increased its defence spending since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with record levels approved for 2025. Rutte spoke at a critical juncture in the war in Ukraine, with Russian forces grinding forward in the east of the country. By November, Moscow had seized six times as much Ukrainian territory in 2024 compared with the whole of 2023.

SUPERB: Brian Berletic, New Atlas – Ukraine rehearsal for US China WWIII. US beta-testing China blockade with attacks on Russian energy exports. US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports The New Atlas “The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term U.S. strategy aimed at weakening Russia and constraining China’s rise through an emerging, de facto energy blockade.References: NEO – US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports (Dec. 6, 2025): Newsweek – Russia-Linked Tanker Attacked Off African Coast: What We Know (Dec. 1, 2025): Guardian – Ukrainian naval drones strike two Russian oil tankers in Black Sea (Nov. 29, 2025): RAND Corporation – Extending Russia (2019): US Naval War College Review – A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China—Tactically Tempting but Strategically Flawed (2018): Naval News – Taiwan’s New Naval Drones Could Strike Any Chinese Invasion (Aug. 2025): Reuters – US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports (Oct. 12, 2025): NYT – The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (2024): NYT – The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (2025): Politico – European Parliament to urge Russia shadow fleet crackdown (Nov. 11, 2025): BBC – French troops board oil tanker linked to Russian ‘shadow fleet’ (Oct. 2, 2025): BBC – How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat (2023): DoD – Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 2025):

US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports Oct 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. has been helping Ukraine mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities for months in a joint effort to weaken the economy and force President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. U.S. intelligence has helped Kyiv strike important Russian energy assets, including oil refineries, far beyond the front line, the newspaper said, citing unnamed Ukrainian and U.S. officials familiar with the campaign. The White House, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office and Ukraine’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. There was no immediate comment from the Russian foreign ministry. Moscow said this month that Washington and its NATO alliance were regularly supplying intelligence to Kyiv in the war Putin launched in February 2022. “The supply and use of the entire infrastructure of NATO and the United States to collect and transfer intelligence to Ukrainians is obvious,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters then. The FT said U.S. intelligence helps Kyiv shape route planning, altitude, timing and mission decisions, enabling Ukraine’s long-range, one-way attack drones to evade Russian air defences. The United States is closely involved in all stages of planning, it said, citing three people familiar with the operation. A U.S. official was quoted as saying Ukraine selected the targets for long-range strikes and Washington then provided intelligence on the sites’ vulnerabilities. Early this month two U.S. officials told Reuters that Washington would provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets in Russia, as it weighs whether to send Kyiv missiles that could be used in such strikes. The U.S. also asked NATO allies to provide similar support, the U.S. officials said. Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had discussed Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy system in a “positive and productive” call with U.S. President Donald Trump. “We discussed opportunities to bolster our air defense, as well as concrete agreements that we are working on to ensure this. There are good options and solid ideas on how to truly strengthen us,” Zelenskiy posted on X.

From workers hero, to techno slave-master – the rise of Xi-Jinping (2024). The Rise of China’s President Xi Jinping: From Workers Hero, To Dystopian Techno-Slave Master (2024) PBS Frontline documentary China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping (November 2024) We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State Document Number Nine The most important of these diametric opposites concerns Western liberal values. In 2013, an amazing paper from the highest reaches of the CCP, catchily known as ‘Document Number Nine’, or ‘Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere’, came to light. (The journalist who leaked it, Gao Yu, was sentenced to seven years in prison and is currently under house arrest.) Document Number Nine warned of ‘the following false ideological trends, positions and activities’: ‘promoting Western constitutional democracy’; ‘promoting “universal values”’; ‘promoting civil society’; ‘promoting neoliberalism’; ‘promoting the West’s idea of journalism, challenging China’s principle that the media and publishing system should be subject to party discipline’; ‘promoting historical nihilism’ (which means contradicting the party’s view of history); ‘questioning Reform and Opening and the socialist nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics’. The paper, which is cogent and clear, takes direct aim at the core values of Western democracy, and explicitly identifies them as the enemies of the party.1 It sees the internet as a crucial forum for defeating these enemies. The conclusion speaks of the need to ‘conscientiously strengthen management of the ideological battlefield’, and especially to ‘strengthen guidance of public opinion on the internet’ and ‘purify the environment of public opinion on the internet’. Document Number Nine is thought to have been either directly written by, or under the auspices of, President Xi Jinping. It marked a new turn in the history of China, and quite possibly the history of the world: the moment at which a powerful nation-state looked at the entire internet’s direction of travel – towards openness, interconnection, globalisation, the free flow of information – and decided to reverse it. In effect, it was a decision to prove the Western boosters of the internet – holders of Friedman’s nutcracker view – wrong. The biggest internet companies in China can be seen as knock-offs of American originals, though because China is so big, the Chinese versions are now in many cases larger than their US templates, and as they have grown they have added many distinctive features of their own. Baidu is Google, Alibaba is Amazon (they’re the ones behind ‘Singles’ Day’), Tencent is sort of Facebook plus Netflix. These three giants together are known as BAT, analogous to Silicon Valley’s FAANG of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google. Sina Weibo, usually referred to just as Weibo, is Twitter, which has been blocked in China since 2009. The story of the Chinese internet pivots around Weibo, because it was that company that came closest to embodying the opening up of information that internet advocates see as the main transformational point of the technology….

Police ‘can’t decide’ if anti-abortion campaigner should be charged for praying Charity worker has been waiting 10 months to hear if she will be prosecuted for silent act near clinic –  Catholic charity worker says someone’s thoughts ‘cannot possibly be a crime’ and her ‘punishment has clearly been the process’ Police and prosecutors are “frozen with indecision” over whether to charge a woman for silently praying near an abortion clinic, campaigners have claimed. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Catholic charity worker, is being investigated by West Midlands Police for allegedly breaching a new buffer-zone law intended to prevent people protesting near abortion centres. The legislation does not stipulate whether silent prayer is outlawed, but an investigation into her actions was launched in January and is being seen as an important test case. In August the matter was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for consideration, but, more than 10 months after the initial investigation was launched, still no decision has been made. Ms Vaughan-Spruce and her supporters have said there is so much confusion around the new law that the authorities have been left “frozen with indecision”. They have argued that silent prayer and freedom of thought cannot possibly be a crime and have urged Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, to intervene and end her ordeal. Ms Vaughan-Spruce was first arrested in December 2022 for silently praying inside a “buffer zone” imposed by the local authority around a clinic in Kings Norton, a suburb of Birmingham. In February 2023 she was acquitted of all charges at Birmingham magistrates’ court when the prosecution failed to offer any evidence to support the charge. Weeks later she was arrested for a second time with officers telling her that engaging in silent prayer within the restricted zone was an offence. Following a six-month police investigation the charges were dropped and she subsequently received a £13,000 payout and an apology from West Midlands Police. A national “buffer zones” law was passed in October 2024, prohibiting “influence” within 150 metres of every abortion facility in England and Wales. While the law does not stipulate whether silent prayer should be prohibited, CPS guidance indicates that mere thoughts or presence do not meet the threshold and only “overt” action should be considered criminal. In March, Ms Vaughan-Spruce was informed that she was once again under investigation, but is still waiting to hear if she will be charged. ‘Silent prayer cannot possibly be a crime’ The average wait for a person will be charged in the West Midlands is two days, but it is understood the case – which concerns a relatively minor summary-only offence – is now being considered at the highest level of decision-making in the CPS, involving an executive team led by the DPP. Ms Vaughan-Spruce, who was now lodged a complaint with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), told The Telegraph: “Despite being fully vindicated multiple times after being wrongfully arrested for my thoughts, it’s unbelievable that I have been repeatedly interrogated and harassed by police for silently praying in that area, and yet again find myself under a lengthy investigation. “Silent prayer cannot possibly be a crime – everyone has the right to freedom of thought. The punishment in my case has clearly been the process. “This all began nearly three years ago, in December 2022, when I was arrested for the first time for my thoughts. The state should never punish citizens for holding Christian beliefs and simply standing peacefully. I hope the director for public prosecutions can put an end to this ordeal once and for all.” Jeremiah Igunnubole, legal counsel for ADF International, a Christian legal advocacy organisation which is supporting her, said: “The authorities are frozen in indecision about whether they’re really expected to prosecute somebody’s silent prayers. “The protracted delays and persistent legal uncertainty surrounding the enforcement of so-called “buffer zones” were entirely foreseeable. “Buffer-zone legislation is so broadly drafted that police officers, prone to ideological pressure, routinely misinterpret the Christian practice of prayer near abortion facilities as inherently criminal in nature. That premise is not supported by evidence and is incompatible with long-established principles of English law. “Isabel’s case exemplifies the serious constitutional difficulties these provisions create. No individual in a free society should face repeated investigation, arrest, prosecution, or the threat of imprisonment solely for the content of their thoughts or being known to hold to traditional Christian beliefs in a public place where they have every right to be.” “I would never criticise what must be for some women a heartbreaking decision, but how is standing in silent prayer harassment? This legislation is another example of this Government saying ‘you have freedom of speech just as long as you think the same way as us’”. “If they can do this for abortion clinics, then they should provide the same protection from protesters outside oil companies, art galleries, synagogues, mosques, Israeli embassies and all businesses that trade with Israel.” “How can you prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that someone is praying silently? And what about the content of the prayer? Is it illegal (say) to pray to win the lottery in an exclusion zone? Or is it only illegal to pray for unborn children?” “Let us call this out for what it is – harassment of females who are acting within the law, by people who do not want them to access a legal and available service. Any female using these services will likely be in distress, and they should be left in peace.” “If prayer worked, it would work whatever the location, so there’s no need for anyone to pray near an abortion clinic. The only purpose is to unsettle women who are going there.” He went on: “It is increasingly clear that measures ostensibly framed as narrow public-order safeguards are being used to suppress legitimate, peaceful expression on the basis of its viewpoint. “Once we permit the state to criminalise thought and prayer today, broader categories of unpopular but lawful speech become vulnerable tomorrow.” Earlier this month, Simon Foster, the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands, wrote to the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police to express concern about the length of time the decision is taking. The Telegraph previously revealed that Donald Trump, the US president, had sent US officials to meet with British pro-life activists, including Ms Vaughan-Spruce, over concerns about the erosion of free speech in the UK. A five-person team from the US state department travelled to London in March and interviewed campaigners to feed back to the White House.

Irish teacher Enoch Burke returns to prison after ‘fanatical campaign’ – Enoch Burke at the High Court, in Dublin, in October 2025 –  The Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been returned to prison by the High Court in Dublin. Mr Justice Cregan said that Mr Burke and members of his family had engaged in a “deliberate, sustained and concerted attack” on the authority of the civil courts and the rule of law. Irish teacher who refused to ‘call a boy a girl’ in trans row will remain in jail for Christmas, judge rules A teacher who refused to ‘call a boy a girl’ will remain in prison over Christmas after he was jailed last month for contempt of court, a judge has ordered. Enoch Burke has been detained in Mountjoy Prison since late November for breaches of a court order directing him not to trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath, where he worked as a teacher. He has been engaged in a legal dispute with the board of the school stemming from a request in 2022 from the then-principal that a student be addressed by a new name and pronoun. Since then, Burke has been found to have repeatedly trespassed on school property in breach of court orders. He was brought before the High Court in Dublin on Wednesday for a hearing on several matters relating to the dispute. At the outset of the hearing, Mr Justice Brian Cregan warned Burke, who was accompanied by his father and one of his brothers, that if there was any interruption from any member of his family, he was going to ask them all to leave the court room as he was ‘not going to tolerate any further interruption’. It came after gardai were directed to remove members of the Burke family from the court during previous sittings. Mr Justice Cregan also told Burke, who was representing himself, that he would be immediately returned to Mountjoy Prison if he strayed beyond the normal conduct of the court and that he could continue attending remotely. Burke contends that he is in prison for his religious beliefs relating to transgenderism. He said he had a ‘clear conscience’ and that he respected the ‘laws of the land’. The judge told Burke this was ‘nonsense’, adding that the court ‘does not engage in “Alice in Wonderland” language’. He said Burke had been in contempt for years and ‘no amount of you wishing it away’ would change that, telling him that he was in breach of a valid court order that had not been appealed. Mr Justice Cregan said Burke had a constitutional right to his religion and religious beliefs, but he had been dismissed for gross misconduct. He said the ‘irony of the situation’ was that if he had remained outside of the school gates, he would not have been in prison for a single day. Burke maintained that the reason for his suspension was his refusal to comply with the principal’s instruction. The judge said there was ‘no doubt’ that that was where the dispute started, but the contempt was an entirely separate issue relating to the order not to trespass.

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NOT The BCfm Politics Show CANCELLED and attempts to intimidate us

July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly Jez and self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk in December 2024. 

[UPDATE channel restored by YT in July 2025] October 2022 – Tony’s Public Enquiry Channel opened in March 2008, with 13 million views, over 1,600 videos and 26,000 subscribers is removed under false pretences by YouTube – A video Tony recorded in New Zealand ‘Bill Gates, ID2020 & Revelation: Quaker Tony Gosling on Covid 19 & the Bible’ and uploaded on 8th April 2020 got a ‘third strike’ but YouTube’s ‘medical misinformation’ regime was introduced in September 2021 so should not have included as ‘strikes’ videos uploaded before that date.  Documentary makers are just about the only public interest investigators left in the NATO zone. From the top down, our mainstream media, police, political parties & intelligence services are being compromised by feudal banksters, secret societies and the mafia. Key people intimidated by psychopathic black magic types and their pliable drones who will even kill to take over positions of power? Just search for “John Scarlett” and “Dodgy Dossier” and you’ll see what I mean. The Zionists are every bit as fundamentalist and twisted as the leaders and followers of ISIS. Register here and join us in the discussion as we wriggle free of the psychopaths, back to sanity http://www.911forum.org.uk

March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a 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 ministryBristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories – It could have resulted in BCfm radio station being shut down if the complaint was upheld Tony Gosling reported to Ofcom by UK Lawyers for Israel after being accused of anti-semitism A Bristol radio station, which had one of its programmes reported for anti-semitism and racism has been cleared by Ofcom. The radio regulatory body received a complaint from “UK Lawyers for Israel’ over a show on BCfm radio, hosted by investigative journalist Tony Gosling. The weekly politics show, on the popular community radio station based in Easton, was reported for several allegations on a show which aired on November 23. Tony Gosling, who was a former BBC journalist between 1989 and 1993, has been producing and presenting ‘The Tony Gosling Politics’ show every week on BCFM radio for 11 years. They have released a statement which reads: “Whilst we are supportive of all our volunteer presenters, The Tony Gosling Politics Show only represents approximately ten percent of our political output content wise, and less than two per cent of our entire weekly output.” Mr Gosling’s programme looks at local politics and he interviews a range of councillors and MPs in the city. The show is also perhaps more well known for its alternative look at international politics, and he has a cult following online from across the world. Mr Gosling has made regular appearances on national media including the politics show with Andrew Neil on BBC One, and international channels such as Russia Today, Channel1 Russia, NTV, and recently for both Turkish and Lebanon TV.

November 2012 – Tony gets death threats on the phone from the Jewish Defence League – ‘you’re a dead man walking’ – a man calls him and Tony records the call. Audio of UK Jewish Defence League (JDL) death threat against British journalist Tony Gosling (2012) – Avon and Somerset police Special Branch investigate, trace the caller, and after six months report to Tony that the individual has been served a caution that they will proceed with a prosecution for harassment under the 1861 offences against the person act. Seems pretty clear this death threat was issued alongside the lies, copied below, which were published on their blog by London based UK JDL in November 2012.  Firstly Tony Gosling is not a ‘homophobe’. That accusation was first made in an article published by the ‘Harry’s Place’ blog, penned by Zionist David Toube and propelled by him anonymously into Private Eye in 2008. It refers to Gosling’s criticism of senior teachers at Bannerman Road Primary school in Bristol who used homosexual early learning picture books against the express wishes of the parent governors. His criticism was about the deception by teaching staff not because of the homosexual content of the books. Secondly, if you follow the JDL link you’ll find what Tony Gosling actually says about the ‘Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion’ says “…I don’t think there is much doubt that the Protocols are fake…” Thirdly he is not a member of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has never been to any of their meetings.

Autumn 2014 – Tony’s documentary production and distribution business shut down by its bank. Our thriving Co-op business bank account ordered closed for undisclosed reasons. Tony Gosling and Ben Edwards founded i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account! 

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