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Kiwi activist Matt O’Branain joins Tony and Martin. Marianne Spring BBC Verify on health inaccuracies leading to deaths. 3. Down the cancer conspiracy rabbit hole Marianna in Conspiracyland 2 What are cancer patients seeing on social media? The BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring goes down the cancer conspiracy rabbit hole to find out. She returns to the days Paloma spent in hospital after her cancer diagnosis to analyse the advice Paloma was being given by medical staff versus the advice she was receiving from alternative practitioners and her Mum, Kate Shemirani. Marianna investigates Paloma’s mum’s platform as a conspiracy theory influencer and looks at the wider role some social media sites are playing in turbocharging accounts that promote health misinformation. Plus, she speaks to the Vice President of Royal College of Radiologists to understand how harmful content on social media is affecting patients. Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Anna Harris Sound Engineer: Tony Churnside Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning producer: Nathan Jones Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts This was a BBC collaboration with Panorama.
Kate Shemirani’s daughter Paloma, allegedly died of cancer. But was it really a misdiagnosis and medical negligence by paramedics that killed her? Richie Allen interviews Kate Shemirani as the BBC lays into her as an ‘antivaxxer’. Cambridge grad daughter of notorious anti-vaxxer died of cancer age 23 after refusing treatment when she ‘fell for mum’s conspiracy theories’, brothers claim A Cambridge graduate died of cancer after being indoctrinated by her mother into refusing conventional medical treatment, her siblings claim. Paloma Shemirani died in July last year aged 23 after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of blood cancer. Miss Brighton finalist Paloma was the daughter of Kate Shemirani, a notorious anti-vaxxer who was struck off the UK’s nursing register in 2021 for her extreme anti-medicine views, including discouraging the use of masks and vaccines. Her brothers, Gabriel and Sebastian, claim their sister ultimately ended up refusing conventional chemotherapy – despite doctors saying it would give her an 80 per cent chance of survival – because of pressure from their mother, with whom she had been trying to build a better relationship. They also allege that their mother sought to isolate her daughter from friends, her boyfriend and other members of her family, even as the cancer’s progression became distressingly clear. Paloma, a Cambridge graduate who was pictured beaming with her two A* and A results after finishing school, had aspired to embark on a career in publishing. But her life was cut tragically short due to, her brothers allege, undue influence from their mother, who rose to notoriety during the coronavirus pandemic. Kate, 60, continues to call herself a ‘natural nurse’ despite being banned from practising nursing in the UK. She made headlines during the pandemic when she used social media to claim Covid vaccines had ‘a tiny bit of Satan’ inside, the jabs caused cancer and contained material harvested from aborted foetuses. She also claimed the Covid virus was linked to the roll-out of 5G technology, and a political tool to gain access to and change people’s DNA. She likened lockdown to the Holocaust and insisted dancing NHS nurses would ‘stand trial for genocide’, while also branding vaccination teams ‘death squads’. She has not commented on her sons’ claims, instead claiming without evidence that the NHS is responsible for her daughter’s death. Speaking to the BBC ahead of a Panorama documentary that airs on Monday night, Gabriel and Sebastian said Paloma had died just seven months after being diagnosed with cancer because of her mother’s extreme views. Sebastian said: ‘My sister has passed away as a direct consequence of my mum’s actions and beliefs and I don’t want anyone else to go through the same pain or loss that I have.’ Kate – who was banned from Twitter but returned when it was rebranded as X under Elon Musk – is said to have briefly worked for the NHS in the 1980s before working as a British Airways air hostess and mode before administering Botox, fillers and peels while bringing up her children. Gabriel and Sebastian are estranged from their mother but Paloma stayed in touch – trying, they felt, to build upon her relationship. Like her mother, she refused to accept a coronavirus vaccination.
Housing crisis is EASILY solvable says RIBA – Kier Starmer ‘here to serve’. Chris Hills on ‘Mixed Tenure Project’ 2006 – flexible tenure for low income households. Reduce cost of delivering social housing by using public land and reinvesting profits, says RIBA report ‘Foundations for the Future: a new delivery model for social housing’ proposes building new homes on publicly-owned sites to help deliver new social housing. It sets out a model to create a pipeline of new social housing, reducing the need for continuous central government funding. It sets out a model to create a pipeline of new social housing, reducing the need for continuous central government funding. It proposes that local authorities in England receive a fixed initial investment from central government in order to: Build new homes on land which is free at the point of use, thereby eliminating or reducing land cost, leaving only construction costs Deliver mixed-tenure developments with both social and market homes Sell the market homes to create an income stream, and reinvest all proceeds to build more homes, making the model almost self-sustaining, according to RIBA analysis The model addresses the urgent need for more social housing, with almost 1.3 million households currently on waiting lists – the highest since 2014. Right to Buy led to the sale of 118,000 social homes between 2012/13 and 2022/23, but only funded 41,000 new social homes over the same period, resulting in a net reduction in social housing stock. Over 30 years, RIBA’s model delivers £2.23 worth of social value for every £1 invested. This accounts for the economic benefits of providing social housing, such as increased employment and improved health and education outcomes. We spend £1.24 billion every year on reducing homelessness in England, including temporary accommodation. The report shows that a one-off investment of the same amount could fund over 20,000 new homes (including over 13,000 social homes) over ten years. RIBA Chair of the Board of Trustees Jack Pringle said: “For most people experiencing housing insecurity, social housing is the only route to an affordable, secure home. The need for social housing is greater than ever, and public sector provision is the only way to build it at the scale required. This model shows how resources can be allocated to help to create a new generation of social homes while minimising other costs, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle. By demonstrating a different approach to housing delivery, we hope to encourage new ways of thinking, either by building on our model or through complementary initiatives. Of course, new homes must be accompanied by the necessary amenities and infrastructure such as schools and public transport to create well-designed places that stand the test of time. To meet the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes by 2029, we need to think differently – and act now. As architects, we stand ready to tackle this challenge head on; to design and build the next generation of quality homes surrounded by vibrant communities that stand the test of time.”
‘We control all press and politics’ Retiring Bank of England director Harry Pilkington, spills the beans to his nephew in 1972 on a train journey. ‘I’m going to give you two pieces of advice to take through life: Firstly never believe anything you read in the press because we control it. Never, ever believe a politician when they say they can do something because they can’t unless we say they can’. Harry was leaving the Bank of England just as the global banksters were taking it over. Perhaps he sensed as much? The late 1960s and early 1970s were a high-point for British culture and living standards and it was to be all downhill from 1972 on, with the decent into de-industrialisation, the Heath/Wilson battle for the coal mines, the so-called IMF financial crisis which some economists believe was really a form of US bullying. Britain was being sabotaged Justin Walker explains how he became interested in the money system having an uncle who was a governor of the Bank of England from the 1950s to the 1970s Sit Harry Pilkington. Harry explained to the young Justin, aged 16, that the bankers controlled the press and the politicians here in Britain so not to believe either. Justin goes on to explain what a propagandised Britain we live in with the rights of juries to reject bad laws and find people not guilty if they disagree with the law. At the heart of it all is the system of money creation and what is effectively a power cult which is heading for a corporate tyranny and Orwellian future. In 1930, Pilkington married Rosamond Margaret, daughter of Royal Army Medical Corps Colonel Henry Davis Rowan of Rathmore, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland. Pilkington was known for his ‘warm-hearted personality’; when a young couple moved in nearby, they decided to grow roses but lacked the experience in pruning. The wife was acquainted with Pilkington’s gardener at Windle Hall, and made a phone call; the then-Lady Pilkington answered, telling her ‘I’ll pass the message on, but Harry prunes all ours’- within the hour, Pilkington arrived at the couple’s house by bicycle, equipped with pruning shears. Even as a Governor of the Bank of England, Pilkington cycled around London, ‘to the delight and consternation of those who knew him.’
BBC report – Wellcome Trust research on how to build human DNA from scratch. CRISPR technology. Saving lives or money making? Glastonbury Super Spreader Event story. Kneecap playing. Scientists aim to create first artificial human DNA – the risks and benefits Experts share their insights with The i Paper as the UK becomes home to the first major project looking to write human DNA from scratch Britain has become home to the first major investment project looking to write human DNA completely from scratch, attracting both great excitement and grave concern from the scientific community. Scientists already have the ability to read DNA, the building blocks of human beings, and have begun editing genome code to help cure specific diseases. An ambitious new project, however, called SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome) has been given £10m of funding from the world’s largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, and will aim to completely synthesise DNA, paving the way for potentially groundbreaking medical therapies. Research in the field has, up until now, been taboo, with campaigners worried about designer babies and unforeseen ethical issues. As the lines between the biological and synthetic world become ever more blurred, The i Paper hears from multiple experts to identify the potential risks and benefits of building completely synthetic DNA. The potential risks Thomas, however, was concerned about the commercialisation of synthesised DNA in the UK. “If these cells are truly synthesised, then the idea would be that [companies] can put a patent on them. If I am given a synthesised heart, though, who owns the heart?” Thomas said. “Am I then giving permission to a company to monitor my heart and biology?” Altering DNA could potentially open the door to creating synthetic embryos – also known as designer babies – biological weapons, so-called “super humans” and “greater ill-health rather than a healthier society”, Thomas said. “AI will almost certainly be used in the design process [of synthetic DNA],” Thomas added. “If AI, which is also in its infancy, is trained on our incomplete understanding of the human genome, are we creating something that could be dangerous? Could it lead to unexpected mutations? Could they be inheritable?” To mitigate against these unknowns, Thomas argued for stronger regulation around DNA building before these possibilities become a reality. She also highlighted the risk of widening health inequalities between the rich and the poor if this new research is used to make more targeted medicines that only wealthier Britons can afford. “There has been a lot of fanfare around the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, but where is the demand coming from?” continued Thomas. “I wouldn’t think the demand is coming from the average citizen; they would probably prefer resources go towards a fully funded NHS, so they can see their doctor when they want.”
1 year anniversary of Julian Assange being released – campaign to change the guilty plea he had to make. ‘6 Billion Dollar Man’ film, about Assange, coming soon. ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Review: Eugene Jarecki’s Julian Assange Doc Is a Jam-Packed Chronicle of Legal Persecution Unless you followed the ups and downs — well, mostly the downs — of Julian Assange’s life over the past 15 years, you’ll have to wait until the last half-hour of Eugene Jarecki’s new documentary, The Six Billion Dollar Man, to understand what its title means. By that point, the WikiLeaks founder had been holed up for over six years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he faced imminent arrest by the UK authorities. It’s then that we learn how the first Trump administration offered, via the IMF, to loan Ecuador’s government $6.5 billion if they agreed to kick Assange out. The move is not exactly shocking, especially coming from a dealmaker like Trump, and it shows just how much the U.S. authorities were willing to pay so they could nab one of their most wanted men. Much of Jarecki’s jam-packed and informative two-hour feature, which premiered as a special screening in Cannes, focuses on the decade-plus legal rollercoaster ride that Assange and his team of committed lawyers were obliged to take. The film can get a bit repetitive during all those scenes at the embassy, which is not the most cinematic of locations. But we do grasp the sense of confinement and growing paranoia Assange experienced for years on end. Technically he wasn’t in jail, but his life was under house arrest. The first half of The Six Billion Dollar Man gives us some of the backstory leading up to that point, showing how Assange rose from unknown Australian hacker to worldwide hero of free journalism to public enemy number one, especially for the American government. Founded in 2006, his tiny startup WikiLeaks became a phenomenon the next year when Assange released a video called Collateral Murder, unveiling leaked footage of U.S. Marines massacring Iraqi civilians. (Jarecki includes a long excerpt, which is as disturbing now as it was back then.) In the years that followed, the site dumped thousands of redacted documents online, including military field logs, diplomatic communications, and lots of nasty emails between members of the Democratic National Committee. This was a promising time for the internet, when it seemed like online journalism could shake up the world order. “Would you rather not know?” a bearded Edward Snowden explains (presumably from Moscow), referring to all the information Assange was offering up free of charge. But that period would be short-lived, especially when the U.S. struck back against the many compromising documents WikiLeaks was putting out in public. “A fight with the Pentagon only ends one way,” is what one interviewee tells Jarecki, and the rest of the movie shows how our government desperately tried to land Assange behind bars, leaving him no option but to take political asylum in the only place he could get it. Jarecki is no stranger to the abuses of U.S. power, especially in early features like The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight that focused on disastrous American foreign policy, from the Vietnam War to the War in Iraq. In the opening sections of his new doc, he does a good job contextualizing the importance of Assange’s work, which aired lots of embarrassing — not to mention criminalizing — dirty laundry under the administrations of both Obama and Trump, neither of whom come off as good guys here.
Starmer warns of war on ‘UK homeland’. Does he mean a migrant fifth column? Chinese paratroops? Or russian beach landings? UK must prepare for war stance – government document. NATO Summit. Yvette Cooper – highest paid by Israel lobby. NATO Gladio false flag attacks. Kit Klarenberg on Ukraine gay rent boys attacking Starmer’s property. Keir Starmer gives dire verdict on threats UK faces as Brits urged to ‘prepare for war’ Keir Starmer has warned it is a “mistake” to think the only threats Britain faces are far off – saying the British homeland faces danger “on a daily basis”. Asked by The Mirror about an alarming dossier that said Brits must “actively prepare” for war, he voiced his alarm over “sophisticated” attacks on the UK mainland. The Prime Minister announced that security spending will be ramped up dramatically in a “decisive message to aggressors”. He stated: “It is a mistake to think that the only threat we face is external and far off. We do face threats at home all of the time on a daily basis. “There are cyber attacks that have to be dealt with and all being dealt with. They are ever more sophisticated. We need to have the capability to deal with them.” He said that security services have dealt with “many attempts to penetrate our systems”, and added: “The fact that they are very good shouldn’t detract from the fact that that is a real threat to our country.” The PM stated that Europe has made a “fundamental shift in its posture” by ramping up its focus on security in the face of new threats. He said NATO members have agreed to raise spending to 5% within a decade, and vowed that the UK will reach 4.1% by 2027. The Prime Minister said he will oversee the “biggest strengthening” of the UK’s nuclear deterrence in three decades after confirming RAF pilots will get nuke-capable jets. Mr Starmer, speaking at The Hague in the Netherlands, also shot down suggestions that US President Donald Trump is not committed to defending his allies. There has been growing alarm after Trump gave a less-than-convincing response when asked if he would honour Article 5 of the NATO pact – which sets out that an attack on one member is an attack on all. Speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Trump said it would “depend on” the definition of the clause. But Mr Starmer said the President is a reliable friend to the UK., claiming the relationship between the two nations is “as strong now as it’s ever been”. The PM was seen in deep conversation with the US President during the summit. He praised the US for launching missiles at Iranian nuclear cites. Mr Starmer said: “It has been UK policy for decades that Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. “Over the weekend, the US moved to alleviate that threat. Now we need to make sure that the ceasefire holds and seize this opportunity to stabilise the region and get Iran back around the negotiating table with the US…
The King’s Cocaine Dealer Exposed by Daily Mail: Norman Baker former policing minister and David Kelly author has another royal scandal upcoming book: ‘The Royal Mint National Debt’, and ‘And What Do You Do?’ on King Charles’s bad decisions. Cocaine playboy’s extraordinary friendship with the King: A posh banquet, a private meeting at Clarence House and a luxury watch from Harrods as a gift to Charles, the butler who saw it all reveals the jaw-dropping details He is a brash playboy who has admitted to a rampant cocaine addiction and whose godfather was a notorious ex-crime boss. But despite leading a life of hedonistic excess, James Stunt, the ex-husband of Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone, inveigled his way into the very highest of royal circles. Astonishingly, he was able to forge a close association with the King when he was still Prince of Wales. Perhaps predictably, however, it was a relationship that ended in acute embarrassment when Charles, whom Stunt had loaned a series of supposed masterpiece paintings, was embroiled in an audacious fake art scandal first exposed by this newspaper. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Stunt’s former butler John Gilmour has lifted the lid on how gold bullion dealer Stunt, who also donated £140,000 to the Prince’s charities, was repeatedly welcomed at royal palaces and won the unlikely friendship and affection of the future King. Mr Gilmour, a 54-year-old Canadian, claims: He listened in to a private conversation between his boss and the then-Prince of Wales after Stunt, without telling Charles, put him on speakerphone; Stunt attended a private audience with Charles at Clarence House and a banquet at Buckingham Palace; Michael Fawcett, Charles’s former key aide, was chauffeured around in Stunt’s Rolls-Royce Phantom and regularly visited the tycoon’s Belgravia mansion to view paintings; During one visit, Stunt handed Fawcett a luxury watch from Harrods as a present for Charles; Stunt spent thousands of pounds a week on cocaine and hired prostitutes costing several thousand pounds a night; The tycoon also regularly hosted his godfather Terry Adams, the notorious boss of Britain’s most feared crime family, at his home for Sunday lunch. James Stunt was repeatedly welcomed at royal palaces and won the unlikely friendship and affection of the future King, according to Stunt’s former butler John Gilmour. Pictured with the then-Prince of Wales in Clarence House James Stunt was repeatedly welcomed at royal palaces and won the unlikely friendship and affection of the future King, according to Stunt’s former butler John Gilmour. Pictured with the then-Prince of Wales in Clarence House…
While current masons are excluded from divulging details, ex-members have posted details of the ceremony online. It is based on the legend Hiram Abiff, the builder of the Biblical temple of Solomon, who is attacked by thugs wanting to know the secrets of building. Hiram refuses to tell them and is murdered. This scene is enacted by masons during the initiation. The blindfolded new member has to pledge never to give away the secrets despite being given the “third degree” by his attackers. Charles Mallet report via UK Column owner and editor Mike Robinson, UK Column, on the City of London and Freemasonry. BBC (2018): Secret society and funny handshakes or brotherhood of man? Newsroom City of London: City elects Sheriffs of London for 2025 – 2026 – City of London: The Sheriffs – “City of London Sheriffs play an important role both in supporting the Mayoralty as well as promoting and enhancing the rule of law and links between the City of London Corporation and the judiciary at the Old Bailey.” I keep the Rose and Crown, and Goose and Gridiron in St. Paul’s church-yard; I have known the prisoner from last Tuesday was a fortnight, and no longer; he had been at my house before, as I understood by some of my customers; he appeared decent and very genteel, and said he was private secretary to my Lord Shelburne; I had given him credit from time to time; the first time he came in a coach with a lodger of mine; yesterday fortnight he came, and called me up stairs, and said he would pay me my bill, and wanted me to propose him to be made a free mason, in the society at my house, which is held every first and third Thursday in the month; (he used to tell what passed in the house of Lords.) I went up stairs with him to the next room to the lodge-room, upon the same floor; he asked me to give him two half guineas for a guinea; (it is a general rule to deposit half a guinea when a mason is made) I pulled out my purse, there might be 30 or 40 guineas in it; I put it on the table; the master of the lodge immediately called; the prisoner had given me his guinea; I in a hurry took up part of my money, but I left some upon the table; I can safely say there were five guineas left; I went that moment into the mason’s room, I had not time to take it all up; (I had put it down in order to look out two half guineas for his guinea) I was not absent I believe a minute, nor two I am sure; and when I came back, the prisoner and money was gone; I went down stairs immediately; he was got into the bar, in order to take his great coat, as I apprehend since; (he went then by the name of Thompson) I said, Mr. Thompson, did you take any money off the table; he said, yes, I did take five guineas; I said, what did you take it off the table for; he said, I took it only to secure it, as you was gone; the bell rang again, and I ran up stairs; I don’t suppose I was absent three minutes, and when I came down again, he was gone with his great coat; that night I took some friends with me and pursued him; I understood he used the night houses about Covent-garden; I dare say I spent more than 10 l in looking for him; I had been there every night; I had mentioned him to a gentleman that knew him, and I found he was a person of very bad character; last Saturday night a person came and said, run out, Walker, he is just gone by; I ran out, and found him in an earthen-ware shop, cheapening some things; when he came out of the shop, I laid hold of him, and said, Mr. Thompson, I want to speak with you; said he, I am in a violent hurry now; I said, I must speak with you; I am in a violent hurry, said he again; I said, I take you up as a thief, you stole my money in my house; said he, what, for them few guineas; go with me into Queen-street, Cheapside, and I’ll give you security for your money; I said, no, you shall never be discharged till you come to the Old-Bailey
Coup attempt in Armenia by arrested Archbishop? – country between Iran and Russia. Armenia arrests prominent archbishop over alleged coup plot Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, a leader in protests against the PM, is accused of a plot to overthrow the government. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says security officials have thwarted a coup plot involving a leading cleric from Armenia’s national church. The arrest of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the opposition movement Holy Struggle, on Wednesday marks a sharp escalation in Pashinyan’s standoff with the leadership of the powerful Apostolic Church. The church’s leader, Catholicos Garegin II, has called for Pashinyan’s resignation after Armenia lost a war to Azerbaijan in 2020, while Galstanyan, the primate of the Diocese of Tavush, led mass protests last year, aiming to unseat the prime minister, channelling widespread public anger over military defeats and territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. “Law enforcement officers prevented a large and sinister plan by the ‘criminal-oligarchic clergy’ to destabilize the Republic of Armenia and seize power,” Pashinyan wrote on Facebook on Wednesday, sharing a statement by Armenia’s Investigative Committee. The committee said it had filed criminal charges against Galstanyan and 15 others, who they said had “acquired the means and tools necessary to commit a terrorist attack and seize power”. A total of 14 people had been arrested, investigators said, without naming them. The committee’s statement claimed that Galstanyan — who has previously expressed his desire to replace Pashinyan as prime minister, although he is unable to hold office due to being a dual Armenian-Canadian citizen — sought to overthrow the government with the help of his supporters. It said the group had recruited about 1,000 people, mainly former soldiers and police officers, and divided them into strike groups, assigning each a task to destabilise the country, by blocking roads, inciting violence or blocking the internet. It claimed that the group had acquired weapons, explosives, and other dangerous materials in preparation for the plot. It said searches were under way at the homes of Galstanyan and about 30 of his associates. The committee also published audio recordings purporting to reveal Galstanyan and others discussing plans for the alleged coup plot.
Dodgy Christian involved in US/Israeli GHF getting ‘AID’ into Gaza but genociding hundreds of Gazans who try to get it! – and then Gazans are shot. UN data on Gaza deaths ‘disinformation’, claims head of controversial aid group The UN said at least 410 Palestinians have been killed seeking food since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on 19 May, while the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 549 people have been killed. ‘Gaza disinformation campaign is deliberate’ The chief of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has called figures by the United Nations on people killed at aid hubs “disinformation”. The UN said at least 410 Palestinians have been killed seeking food since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on 19 May, while the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 549 people have been killed. Johnnie Moore, executive director of GHF, told Sky News there is a “disinformation campaign” that is “meant to shut down our efforts” in the Gaza Strip, fuelled by “some figures” coming out every day. Mr Moore, an evangelical preacher who served as a White House adviser in the first Trump administration, said his aid group has delivered more than 44 million meals to Gazans since it began operations in May. The controversial group, backed by Israel and the United States, has been rejected by the UN and other aid groups, which have refused to cooperate with the GHF. The aid agencies claim Israel is weaponising food, and the new distribution system using the GHF will be ineffective and lead to further displacement of Palestinians. They also argue the GHF will fail to meet local needs and violate humanitarian principles that prohibit a warring party from controlling humanitarian assistance. The GHF is distributing food packages, which they say can feed 5.5 people for 3.5 days, in four locations, with the majority in the far south of Gaza.
Trump in the past, saying he wants to end wars and prevent WW3. US bombing Iran and now ceasefire. In his own words: Trump’s Iran strike tests his rhetoric on ending wars U.S. President Donald Trump warned that he will not hesitate to strike other targets in Iran if peace does not come quickly in the Middle East. Trump said that while the nuclear facilities struck by the U.S. on Saturday were the most “lethal,” “there are many targets left.” During his campaigns for president, Donald Trump spoke of the need to stop engaging in “endless” or “forever wars,” and said removing “warmongers and America-last globalists” was among his second-term foreign policy priorities. Trump’s move to strike Iranian nuclear sites risks embroiling the United States in the sort of conflict he once derided. Like other recent American presidents, Trump said he would not permit Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. In recent months, he had held out hope that diplomacy could avoid the strike he announced Saturday. Trump’s consideration of military action had opened a schism among his “Make American Great Again” movement and drew criticism from some of its most high-profile members. Here’s a look at some of Trump’s rhetoric before his announcement Saturday about the strikes: Trump often drew lines of contrasts with his Republican primary opponents. In January 2024, at a New Hampshire rally, he referred to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was U.N. ambassador during Trump’s first term, as a “warmonger” whose mentality on foreign policy is, “Let’s kill people all over the place and let’s make a lot of money for those people that make the messes.” During a Jan. 6, 2024, rally before the Iowa caucuses, Trump told supporters that returning him to the White House would allow the country to “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending wars. They never ended.” Rolling out his foreign policy priorities during that campaign — something Trump’s orbit called “ Agenda 47 ” — he posted a video online in which he talked of how he was “the only president in generations who didn’t start a war.” In that video, Trump called himself “the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington’s Generals, bureaucrats, and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don’t know how to get us out.”
Pre-warning of Trump’s strikes on Iran nuclear facilities – theatre? Photos of trucks leaving Iran nuclear plants Satellite images show trucks lined up at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility before US airstrikes Satellite images appeared to show scores of trucks lined up at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility just days before the US carried out its large-scale airstrikes — as speculation swirled that Tehran may have been able to move its uranium stockpiles before the attacks. The images, released by US defense contractor Maxar Technologies, captured more than a dozen cargo-style trucks lined up outside the Fordow nuclear enrichment site’s tunnel entrance on Thursday and Friday. The vehicles, which came and went over a 24-hour stretch, appeared to move unidentified contents roughly half a mile away, the Free Press reported, citing US officials. US and Israeli intelligence officials were aware of the movement at the time but opted not to act so they could track where the trucks headed and await President Trump’s order to carry out the strikes, the officials added. Trump gave the green light to launch 75 precision-guided munitions, including bunker-buster bombs and more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles, against Fordow and two other Iranian nuclear sites early Sunday. Iranian state media outlets have since claimed that the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites were evacuated in the lead up to the strikes. Iran hasn’t officially disclosed how much damage was sustained in the attack but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Monday the Trump administration was “confident” that Tehran’s nuclear sites were “completely and totally obliterated.” “We have a high degree of confidence that where those strikes took place is where Iran’s enriched uranium was stored,” she told ABC News. “The president wouldn’t have launched the strikes if we weren’t confident in that.”
Sophie Bolt, CND, on Trump leaving the Iranian nuclear deal, and how US really want regime change in Iran. Israel has nuclear weapons but no inspections. The Samson Option – Israel will nuke Western cities. Why Iran is crucial to a nuclear free Middle East CND Vice-Chair Carol Turner outlines the current situation in regards to discussions on Iran’s nuclear programme. A nuclear weapons free zone across the Middle East will be foundational in ensuring a long-term, stable peace in the region – a goal which seems far away just now. Israel has expanded its military action into Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Houthi-held ports in Yemen, whilst continuing its war on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. As every CNDer knows, Israel does not admit to having nuclear weapons and has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In the last 18 months, few parliamentarians have even raised the prospect of Israel using them. In contrast, Iran signed the NPT in 1968, ratified it in 1970, and remains a signatory to this day despite ongoing upheavals across the region. Iran is the only other country in the Middle East with the potential to become a nuclear weapons state in the foreseeable future. Its cooperation is essential if any practical steps towards a nuclear weapons free Middle East are to be taken. That’s why the JCPOA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by Barak Obama during his presidency, was one of the most important – and successful – arms limitation agreements of recent times. It came into effect when UN Security Council Resolution 2231 was adopted on 18 October 2015, and remains in force until 18 October this year – formally speaking if not in reality. In return for some international sanctions being lifted, Iran agreed to: • restrict uranium enrichment; • limit the numbers and types of centrifuges in operation; • cut the size of its of enriched uranium stockpiles; and • permit inspection by the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Regular IAEA inspections confirmed the agreement was honoured. IAEA reports were accepted by all parties, including US government bodies. Trump was wrong and short sighted to pull out of the JCPOA during his first term. His approach to negotiating a new agreement in his second term shows signs of being just as wrong-headed and short sighted. When the US withdrew in 2018, the US reimposed unilateral sanctions. Britain, France, and Germany (the E3) remain parties to UNSC 2231, but followed the US in slapping national sanctions on Iran – effectively killing the JCPOA. Iran’s approach Throughout, Iran has sought to reopen a nuclear dialogue with the US. The Iranian leadership called for talks during Trump’s election campaign, after his victory, and again when he took office…
Richard Medhurst – sabotage of Iranian nuclear deal. Richard Thomas Medhurst (born 1992) is an independent journalist, political commentator, and analyst from the United Kingdom. His work focuses primarily on international relations, US politics, and the Middle East. Medhurst is known for his coverage of Julian Assange’s extradition case in London, as one of the only journalists to report on the trial of the WikiLeaks founder from inside the court. He has also covered the Iran nuclear deal talks, on the ground in Vienna. His reports and analysis on Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, Niger, Lebanon, Iran, the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the genocide in Gaza have gone viral countless times, racking up millions of views. Medhurst is the son of United Nations peacekeepers who served in various UN missions around the world. His parents were among those awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Owing to his parents’ professional mobility, he has lived around the globe and speaks four languages fluently: English, Arabic, French, and German. As an independent journalist, Medhurst regularly hosts live broadcasts and video reports on his popular YouTube program. Previous guests include the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, the Dep Foreign Minister of Iran; the Palestinian, Russian and Cuban ambassadors to the United Nations in Vienna; the former British Ambassador to Syria; and various UN officials, journalists, and more. Richard Medhurst has a combined following of roughly one million people online. He has appeared on various international news outlets and platforms such as FOX, Al Jazeera, The Times, Anadolua Agency, LBC, RT, Press TV, WikiLeaks, Black Agenda Report, and more.
Kevin Maguire, Editor of The Mirror, shared by Going Underground – US/UK terrible record of regime change. Operation Ajax – Iran coup 1950s. Iran says Israel was planning false flag attacks in US. 70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression – but now the people are fighting back The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, the anniversary of the coup, millions of Iranians ask themselves what would have happened if the US and UK had not conspired all those years ago to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leader. Iran, the Middle East and, arguably, the whole world may well have been profoundly different. Apart from rewriting the destiny of Iran and its neighbours, the coup paved the way for a series of imperialist interventions and the toppling of democratically elected governments across the global south. Perhaps Washington might have thought twice before plotting coups in Guatemala in 1954, Congo in 1961 or Chile in 1973, if they’d been unable to overthrow Iran’s prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, so easily and profitably. As the democratically elected leader of Iran from 1951 to 1953, Mosaddegh championed nationalisation of Iran’s oil industry. This had previously been in the hands of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company – a British company, founded in 1909 after the discovery of a large oil field in Iran, which would later become BP. Portrait of former Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh Iran’s prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown by an Anglo-US coup in 1953. In March 1951, Iran’s parliament voted to proceed with nationalisation. This caused consternation in the west – most notably in Britain, where the prospect of nationalisation was seen as potentially hugely damaging to the economy. Furthermore, it would have undermined Britain’s influence in the Middle East. Plotting to depose Mosaddegh began in earnest. In the event, the coup – named Operation Ajax – was a joint venture between the CIA and MI6. The shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had recently fled the country after an earlier plot to remove Mossadegh had failed, returned to Iran. Within a short period, he had tightened his grip on the country’s security services and imposed a dictatorial regime which ruled through brutality and fear. Pahlavi banned all opposition political parties, and many of the activists who participated in the movement for nationalisation of oil were arrested or fled the country. Government by fear In 1957, the shah established an internal security service, Sazman-e Ettel’at va Amniyat-e Keshvar (Savak), which essentially ran Iran at the shah’s bidding. From then until 1975, only two major political parties were allowed to operate, the People’s Party (?ezb-e Mardom) and the New Iran Party (?ezb-e Iran-e Novin), and all parliamentary candidates had to be approved by Savak. Both parties in reality were wholly under the shah’s control. The parliament only existed to rubber-stamp his decisions, as did the prime minister – who the shah appointed. In 1975, the shah took his domination of Iranian politics further, establishing a single party, the Party of Resurrection of the Iranian Nation (Hezb-e Rastakhiz), which all Iranians were obliged to join. By 1979, when Iran rose up in a popular revolution, it was a virtual absolute monarchy, with the shah’s will enforced by the dreaded Savak secret police.
Lots of damage to Iranian nuclear plants or not? Maybe not! Does Trump know or care? Trump – 12 Day War? Alistair Crooks, ex MI6, on information blackout on how much damage Iranian attacks did to Israel. Trump has gone all out in the Americans absolutely obliterated Fordow the whole program these three strikes have completely absolute success brilliant work by the air force the American air force I mean that’s the end of the program uh and he sort of he was even hinting now is the time for Iran to to surrender and write you know we’ll we’ll have a meeting and you can write your salon a surrender document and um this is a narrative which really actually is doesn’t seem to be working very well today trump has doubled down on it in the most bizarre way he says “Ah the Israelis tell me they’ve sent their people they’ve sent people to Fordo um and have been in Foro and have confirmed that um it is um completely destroyed i I just you know I can’t believe that he you know his team allows him to say such nonsense you know I I I know that I’ve been to K in fact is quite close to K it’s very adjacent i mean I know what that area is like you don’t have you know MOSAD agents wandering around just going into nuclear installations like Fordo which is remote and at you know in a mountain and the entrances to it you have to go down and down and down and down to get into to the um to the um enrichment chambers i I mean it’s just you know ridiculous i don’t know why they allow him to say such exaggerated things because it just you know it just undermines everything so what does this mean well what it means is something important for Iran i listened by the way to the Supreme Leader’s um address on I think it was a few days earlier that he did to a huge gathering of Iranians and it was translated by AI as I don’t understand it it was the most impressive address a a very clear statement of Iran where it is what it is um very articulate short to the point and the effect on people was was really dramatic but he was very clear no surrender he said “We will continue with enrichment.” What right has the United States to say anything to us about our proposal what right have they unprovoked illegally to attack uh the state and he said we will continue with enrichment we will continue with it because we need it for many things many different um projects that uh we we’re engaged it was a very powerful speech and if you haven’t seen it you should and it had a huge impact on the audience you you you could see it but where are we so therefore what we have at the end of this theater because quite clearly this was theater the Iranians were informed they let it happen they allowed it to bomb they’ve let they’ve said nothing um beyond um they’ve the United States and Israel say it was huge victory we’ve destroyed the nuclear enrichment program etc etc and the reality is rather different.
Netanyahu on US bombing Iran nuclear plants. Why did Israel fund Hamas up until October 7th? Why Israel’s Netanyahu encouraged suitcases of cash for Gaza – Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say he was trying to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu’s critics, citing his own words, say he was trying to buy — and thwart — peace. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “not only tolerated” years of monthly cash payments from Qatar to the Gaza Strip, up until Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, “he had encouraged them,” The New York Times reported Sunday. The payments, which Israel knew “helped prop up the Hamas government” in Gaza, continued even as the Israeli military obtained detailed battle plans for a Hamas invasion and observed “significant terrorism exercises” in the Palestinian enclave, the Times reported. For years, “Israeli intelligence officers even escorted a Qatari official into Gaza, where he doled out money from suitcases filled with millions of dollars.” The cash payments have been an open secret in Israel — as Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver discussed in the second half of a November look at the symbiosis between Hamas and Netanyahu. Through interviews with more than two dozen officials in Israel, the U.S., Qatar other Middle Eastern governments, the Times “unearthed new details” about the Gaza payments and the steps Netanyahu took to “keep the money flowing” despite the controversies it sparked in his governments. Allowing the billions of dollars in payments, the Times reported, was a “gamble” by Netanyahu that a “steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza” and “keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting.” Netanyahu’s critics say he wasn’t just trying to “buy quiet” from Hamas but also prop it up to weaken the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, which governs in the West Bank, as a means to thwart talks on Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu told Politico in late November that the payments were “to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse” in Gaza, and the idea he wanted to build up Hamas is “ridiculous” and “a big lie.” But he has been talking about keeping Hamas strong to weaken the Palestinian Authority and lessen pressure to negotiate a two-state peace since at least 2012, publicly and in private, the Times reported. At a 2019 Likud party conference, Politico noted, Netanyahu said, “Anyone who wants to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support strengthening Hamas.”
‘The Bibi Files’ documentary (2024) – IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO PAY: THREE WAYS (1) TO WATCH (2) FOR FREE (3) – Sara Netanyahu’s influence over her husband. THE BIBI FILES Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and his inner circle, provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. Petty vanity and a sense of entitlement leads to corruption, and the unwillingness of the Netanyahus to give up power. The extreme right senses opportunity in Bibi’s weakness, and the dominos fall. WHY CANT THE BB EFFING C SHOW IT?!?! ‘The Bibi Files’: Documentary reveals the police interrogations behind Netanyahu’s graft trial FRANCE 24 reviews “The Bibi Files”, a new documentary by filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney, which features never-before-seen footage of Israeli police interrogating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, his family and his inner circle on corruption allegations. The documentary was screened as a work-in-progress at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival on Monday, hours after a Jerusalem court rejected a petition by Netanyahu to block the screening. Binyamin Netanyahu reaches for a glass of water on the table. He looks relaxed, slouching slightly in his suit and tie, a large map of the Middle East on the wall behind him enhancing the power and prestige of his position as Israeli prime minister. “Did you ask for it?” questions an unseen police interrogator. Netanyahu sips the water. “For what?” The prime minister is so nonchalant, he has to be reminded of the topic of discussion during a police investigation. “A bag,” he’s patiently reminded. Another sip. “Perhaps. I don’t remember.” “And if we told you that you did?” “So I asked, so what?” The object of Netanyahu’s scorn is an opaque bag that the prime minister is alleged to have requested to conceal a box of Cohiba cigars, priced at around $1,100, that he received from an Israeli billionaire. It’s one of many cartons of cigars – code-named “green leaves” by Netanyahu’s staff – and champagne bottles – dubbed “pinks” – that the prime minister and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, are alleged to have received from their wealthy Israeli “friends”. The scene unfolds in a new documentary, “The Bibi Files”, featuring never-before-seen footage of the Israeli police interrogations that led to Netanyahu’s indictment in November 2019 on corruption charges. The film from Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney gets its first screenings, as a work-in-progress, on September 9 and 10 at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. It was shown at the festival on Monday just hours after a Jerusalem court rejected a petition by Netanyahu to block the screening. Over the course of two gripping hours, “The Bibi Files” unveils leaked footage of the police questioning Netanyahu and his family, friends and staff, as well as a former Israeli finance minister. A lineup of experts, including former top Israeli officials, weaves together scenes of human greed and moral compromise into a comprehensible chronicle. How has a steady drip of expensive cigars, champagne and diamond-encrusted bracelets contributed to the current state of the Middle East? Do the luxury objects, code-named and hidden in bags, have any bearing on Gazans, dying, displaced and desperate after nearly a year of Israeli bombardments? Can they be linked to the anguish of Israeli families still missing loved ones who were abducted during the October 7 Hamas attack and taken to Gaza? “The Bibi Files” connects the dots, offering up pieces of the puzzle, examining them and fitting them into the Middle East’s political jigsaw. The result is an almost Shakespearean tale of the corruption of one man and how it can infect the body politic of a nation at war, once again, against a people with no country.
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Jonathan Cook article – Western mainstream press may be accused of war crimes. Nosta protocol. Tik Tok deals. Follow Matt on X. Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel’s genocide – 20 June 2025 , In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel’s destruction of Gaza 1. THE BBC HAS NEVER MENTIONED THE HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE, invoked by Israel on 7 October 2023, that green-lit the murder of Israeli soldiers and civilians, often by Apache helicopter fire, to prevent them being taken captive by Hamas. The Israeli media has extensively reported on the role of the Hannibal directive in the Israeli military’s response on 7 October, but that coverage has been completely ignored by the BBC and most UK media outlets. 2. THE BBC HAS NEVER MENTIONED ISRAEL’S DAHIYA DOCTRINE, the basis of its “mowing the lawn” approach to Gaza over the past two decades, in which the Israeli military has intermittently destroyed large swaths of the tiny enclave. The official aim has been to push the population, in the words of Israeli generals, back to the “Stone Age”. The assumption is that, forced into survival mode, Palestinians will not have the energy or will to resist their brutal and illegal subjugation by Israel and that it will be easier for Israel to ethnically cleanse them from their homeland. 3. THE BBC HAS UTTERLY FAILED TO REPORT the many dozens of genocidal statements from Israeli officials since 7 October – again vital context for audiences to understand Israel’s goals in Gaza. Perhaps most egregiously, the BBC has not reported Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s biblically-inspired comparison of the Palestinians to “Amalek” – a people the Jews were instructed by God to wipe from the face of the earth. Netanyahu knew this clearly genocidal statement would have especial resonance with what now amounts to a majority of the combat soldiers in Gaza who belong to extreme religious communities that view the Bible as the literal truth. 4. By contrast, as Oborne notes, on more than 100 occasions when guests have tried to refer to what is happening in GAZA AS A GENOCIDE, BBC STAFF HAVE IMMEDIATELY SHUT THEM DOWN ON AIR. As other investigations have shown, the BBC has strictly enforced a policy not only of banning the use of the term “genocide” by its own journalists in reference to Gaza but of depriving others – from Palestinians to western medical volunteers and international law experts – of the right to use the term as well. Again, this is pure genocide denial. 5. OBORNE ALSO POINTS TO THE FACT that the BBC has largely ignored Israel’s campaign of murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza. A greater number have been killed by Israel in its war on the tiny enclave than the total number of journalists killed in all other major conflicts of the past 160 years combined.
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Palestine Action to be banned as a terrorist group – driving peaceful anti-genocide movement underground – then to civil war? people at protest. Craig Murray article – who owns UK fighter jets? Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund – If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. Through a chain of seven cutout companies, which I will take you through, the direct ownership is with Airtanker Ltd, which gives its address as RAF Brize Norton. It owns, maintains and operates the RAF’s Voyager refuelling aircraft, which have been providing mid-air refuelling to the Israeli Defence Forces as well as carrying, in their cargo role, munitions to the IDF…. Polygon is a hedge fund. It would appear likely from the register to be either Polygon or Griffith’s umbrella hedge fund Tetragon that owns these liveried RAF aircraft. We have therefore simply no idea who the investors are: it could be anyone from BlackRock to Kim Jong Un. The true ownership is deliberately shrouded in secrecy. This spaghetti tangle of ownership of RAF aircraft is rather surprising to those of us who naively believed that RAF military aircraft belonged to the RAF, and that the hundreds of billions of pounds the state lavishes on “defence” was used to do things like buy military jets, rather than make rich financiers still richer. The long tree of subsidiary companies is not only to disguise ownership. At every single stage it provides opportunity for tax avoidance and for other forms of corruption, like consultancy contracts or directorships handed out to the contacts or nominated go-betweens of the politicians and senior civil servants. If you saw a company called Pace Bidco Ltd were giving a remunerative consultancy to the son of an ex-government minister, or to a firm registered to his local landlord, why would that ring alarm bells or connect to the RAF? To be plain those are entirely hypothetical examples. I am not accusing Pace Bidco Ltd of anything. I merely explain the system. Defence spending is more prone to corruption than any other form of spending and that is why venal politicians are always extremely keen to boost it. No UK politician has ever proposed to increase defence spending by more than Keir Starmer, who wants to lift it by £120 billion a year. The RAF’s Voyager aircraft are effectively being provided under the Private Finance Initiative. Exactly how much money the hedge fund managers and this string of companies are taking out of the defence budget is hard to know. One particularly surprising fact is that it is plain that the private companies are also providing the RAF ground crew. Who employs the flight crews is not entirely clear. That such an obviously rotten and corrupt arrangement exists in the RAF I had no idea. Some British military personnel are in fact contracted mercenaries. It gives new context to the active RAF involvement in the Genocide in Gaza. Palestine Action’s excellent act of resistance in vandalising this Hedge Fund Air Force has brought all of this to our attention. Which is yet a further reason to be grateful to Palestine Action.
Ex-policing minister Norman Baker on Yvette Cooper’s Non-Violent Palestine Action ban. Angie Zelter on her group taking apart a fighter jet in 1996, and later her visiting Israel/Palestine. And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians. Baker also considers the wider role the royals play in society, including the link with House of Lords reform, and the constitutional position of the monarch, which is important given Prince Charles’s present and intended approach. What makes this book so unusual is that Baker is himself a member of the Privy Council, the body that officially advises the monarch. By turns irreverent and uncompromising, … And What Do You Do? asks important questions about the future of the world’s most famous royal family. So, why do the British Royal Family still exist? Norman Baker makes many persuasive and compelling arguments against their continuing occupation of Buckingham Palace and the fifteen other estates they occupy at the taxpayers’ expense but none to explain exactly why they still crowd onto the royal balcony for photo-shoots on occasions of manic hoopla and insane expense, again, paid for by the taxpayers. The increasingly thin argument that they’re good for tourism is fast being extinguished by the groaning expense of security occasioned every time Her Majesty wends her way through the streets in her golden carriage. A note of my own here is that when Coronavirus isn’t halting industry, the West End actually brings in more money per annum than any other industry in Britain, including the Royal Family. So why, when almost every other Monarchy in Europe has been levelled to “bicycle-riding” and day jobs do the “ribbon-cutting” British Royals still take private jets and live large on the public purse? Baker offers no explanation, but I posit that it’s the fairytale fantasy of their existence that continues to grip the imagination. The idea that somehow these people live in a world long swallowed up in the mists of time, a world that has been immortalised in literature and glamourized on film as a misty Avalon where Guinevere is torn between Lancelot and Arthur and knights rescue damsels and parry for the right. Of course, Avalon never worried too much about the hardworking, exhausted servants who kept the tables groaning and the fires lit and the bedsheets spotless and above recrimination. All of which brings me to my bête noire – why is the British Royal Family not using some of the insane wealth they have built up untaxed over centuries to house their own homeless and alleviate the struggles of the average person living under their supposed benevolence? Baker points to no such intervention or concern but rather much scheming and dodging of tax to acquire more and still more unvetted wealth from Duchies that have never been returned to the people. Cornwall, for example. But even Cornwall is on British soil, the Queen’s untaxed offshore investments all serve to fatten the exploding coffers of an unelected group of people who sit in the highest office in the land and enjoy a privilege usually reserved for Popes, saviors or Hollywood stars. Saviors they are not. Stars they undoubtedly are. But why? It will be interesting to see how this parasitic institution fares after the present Queen’s passing. I would like to think that in that brief window of time before the crown passes from one unelected head to another, the people of Britain reflect on whether or not they want to keep siphoning millions of dollars into this antiquated and largely pointless regime.
Margaret Jones on attacking fighter jets going to Iraq, and Starmer being her lawyer – Crime of Aggression law. Protesters at RAF base guilty of damaging US vehicles Richard Norton-Taylor Two anti-war protesters who broke into an RAF base in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq were found guilty yesterday of causing criminal damage to American vehicles there. Margaret Jones and Paul Milling used hammers and bolt cutters to disable fuel tankers and trailers used for carrying bombs at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, on March 13 2003. They said they were trying to stop the deaths of civilians by attempting to prevent American B-52s from taking off on bombing missions over Iraq. Dr Jones, 57, a university lecturer from Bristol, and Mr Milling, 61, from Ambleside in Cumbria, a former York magistrate and councillor, denied conspiring to cause criminal damage to property, saying their actions were an attempt to prevent the “murder of innocent civilians”. A jury at Bristol crown court unanimously found them guilty of the charge after three hours of deliberations. Mr Milling was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £250 costs, while Dr Jones’s sentencing was adjourned for reports until July 27. The pair argued that they were trying to delay the take-off of the bombers, which they said would kill thousands of Iraqi civilians and destroy the country’s infrastructure. They caused £10,000 of damage when they broke instrument panels on three tankers and cut the brake cables of 15 bomb-carrying trailers. They admitted causing the damage but argued that they had acted lawfully by trying to prevent more serious war crimes being committed by the US. The convictions were the first the Crown had secured against any of the “Fairford five” after six trials, including two with hung juries. Toby Olditch and Philip Pritchard, who also broke into the Fairford base to stop American B-52 bombers by clogging their engines with nuts and bolts, were acquitted by a Bristol jury in May after they argued that they were trying to prevent war crimes in Iraq. Josh Richards was cleared after the jury failed to reach a verdict for the second time in his case last month. Dr Jones and Mr Milling told the jury they had been forced to act after reading about the planned “shock and awe” air strikes on Baghdad, saying their actions were “undertaken in an attempt to hinder the murder of innocent civilians”. The prosecution accepted the pair acted on “honestly held beliefs” but said they were nevertheless guilty of breaking the law. Their trial followed a three-year legal battle by the anti-war protesters to be allowed to challenge the legality of the war in their defence. The appeal court said they could argue they acted to prevent war crimes, but could not contest the legality of the invasion.
By launching a publicity smear campaign this week, designed to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation’, Judge Hobson decided Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has prejudiced the case and committed the crime of contempt of court, caused the ‘Shenstone Six’ trial to be postponed yet again, this time for another fifteen months. Nick Georges, from Palestine Action, on his trial for destroying windows at Elbit factory. Six actionists will stand trial for “conspiracy to commit criminal damage” after five of them scaled the roof of Israel’s Elbit owned weapons factory UAV Engines Ltd. The five dismantled the factory and destroyed engines for Israeli drones. For what they did, they should be applauded, not on trial. Mobilise in support of them as they fight to prove #ElbitIsGuilty, they are not! Juries have the right to act according to their conscience In March 2021, police intercepted a team of Palestine Actionists on their way to Shenstone in Staffordshire where they intended to halt production at a factory owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest arms company. In May this year, after more than two years delay, they were found guilty of “intent to commit criminal damage”. Now they face possible jail terms. The Elbit 5 statement reproduced below explains the important ramifications of their case. It can also be viewed as a pdf here. In an atmosphere of general threat toward civil liberties and the right to protest, the handling by the courts of Palestine Action cases deserves careful study. Last month a judge found two activists not guilty of ‘obstruction of the highway’ after they were involved in blocking access to Elbit-owned UAV Engines Ltd. Both defendants gave evidence of crimes committed against the Palestinian people by the targeted arms factory. They were acquitted on the basis that their action was proportionate in comparison to the crimes against humanity which they were acting to stop. In the Shenstone case however, the defendants have been denied the right to explain their reasons for targeting Elbit or the background to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Jury members were not told that they have the right to reach a verdict according to their conscience.
So, who has convinced the home Secretary that Non Violence is Terrorism? Luke Akehurst M and his Zionist-funded group We Believe In Israel. Is this the Labour MP who’s spying for the Israeli secret service and implementing policy to ban Palestinge Action? ‘We Believe in Israel’ group. Fatima reports from Gaza. Who is behind ‘I Believe in Israel’ – Luke Akehurst MP. Luke Akehurst: Arch Israel lobbyist picked for Labour safe seat ‘One of the best in the inside’: Israel’s point man in Labour set to become an MP after selection stitch-up. Keir Starmer’s Labour party has parachuted a professional lobbyist for Israel into the safe seat of North Durham for the UK general election. Luke Akehurst, the director of We Believe in Israel, has spent over a decade working as a campaigner for that country’s interests and has close ties to the Israeli embassy in London. An Israeli diplomat was secretly recorded praising Akehurst as “a great campaigner” who was “one of the best in the inside” of the Labour party. On the same day his candidacy was announced, Faiza Shaheen was suddenly deselected as a Labour candidate for Chingford over liking posts on social media. Akehurst is the director of We Believe in Israel, a pro-Israel lobby organisation which aims to “provide a united front that brings together all the existing supporters of Israel in the UK”. He took up the directorship in 2011, after spending years working as a “defence” specialist at Weber Shandwick. The public relations giant has represented clients from some of the world’s most repressive regimes. Akehurst has particularly close ties with the Israeli embassy in London. He has spoken at conferences alongside Israeli officials, and travelled with embassy staff to campaign events across the country. In 2017, Al Jazeera’s ground-breaking documentary The Lobby showed Israeli embassy official and suspected intelligence officer Shai Masot discussing Akehurst in glowing terms. “He’s a great campaigner”, Masot said. “He’s one of the best in the inside… in all the party. Seriously, there is not a lot of people like him”. The documentary further revealed how Akehurst had planned to attend a Labour Friends of Palestine event to secretly “take notes” for BICOM’s “internal” usage. We Believe in Israel said that “while it was not controlled financially or otherwise by Israel, it worked with a range of stakeholders including the Israeli Embassy”. Akehurst has deleted over 1,000 potentially damning posts from his Twitter account in recent days. One of those posts, on 31 October 2022, shows Akehurst accusing the United Nations of antisemitism. In another tweet, from November 2023, he argued against international law and Britain’s official policy on Israel. Akehurst wrote: “I’m in favour of major West Bank settlement blocks becoming part of Israel, and a new Palestinian state getting compensatory land swaps from pre-1967 Israeli territory. I want the Golan Heights to remain part of Israel”. Israel has illegally occupied much of Syria’s Golan Heights region since 1967. We Believe in Israel We Believe in Israel grew out of a 2011 conference organised by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), described by the Guardian as “Britain’s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation”. BICOM owes its existence to Poju Zabludowicz, whose wealth stems from his father Shlomo – “an arms dealer who made a fortune out of his close relations with the Israeli state, and some of the world’s most repressive regimes”. The We Believe in Israel conference was supported by the Israeli embassy in London. Attendees heard speeches from Israeli diplomats and an education minister, as well as Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland and the now shadow health minister Wes Streeting. A plenary talk was delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp, a British army veteran who now runs a charity funded by Israel’s military.
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