Lord Sumption: UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel, UK PM Sunak is warned
UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel, Sunak warned
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https://news.sky.com/story/uk-is-breaching-international-law-by-continuing-to-arm-israel-sunak-warned-13107474
Three former Supreme Court justices are among the signatories of a 17-page letter that also urges ministers to work towards a ceasefire and resume funding to the UNRWA aid agency.
The UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel, Rishi Sunak has been warned.
Three former Supreme Court justices are among over 600 lawyers and academics who have signed a 17-page letter to warn the present situation in Gaza is "catastrophic".
The government has been facing growing calls to suspend arms exports to Israel after three British aid workers were killed in an airstrike.
John Chapman, Jim Henderson and James Kirby were among seven World Central Kitchen aid workers who died when a convoy they were travelling in was hit on Monday - in what the Israel Defence Forces has called a "grave mistake".
The letter warns that - given the International Court of Justice's opinion that there is a plausible risk of genocide - the UK government is legally obliged to act in preventing it.
The signatories said: "While we welcome the increasingly robust calls by your government for a cessation of fighting and the unobstructed entry to Gaza of humanitarian assistance, simultaneously to continue... the sale of weapons and weapons systems to Israel... falls significantly short of your government's obligations under international law."
Ministers are also urged to work towards a ceasefire and sanction "individuals and entities who have made statements inciting genocide against Palestinians".
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Their letter calls for funding to be restored to the aid agency UNRWA, which was withdrawn amid allegations staff had participated in the 7 October attack orchestrated by Hamas.
And it said that "serious action" is needed to "avoid UK complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violations of the Genocide Convention".
The signatories include the Supreme Court's former president Lady Hale as well as former justices Lord Sumption and Lord Wilson.
There has been pressure within the Conservative Party to end exports - with MPs Flick Drummond, David Jones and Paul Bristow urging the government to reconsider.
Lord Hugo Swire, a former MP turned Tory Peer, also wants to see the exports stop in the current context. He served as a minister in the Foreign Office under David Cameron's premiership.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the government should publish any legal advice it has regarding whether Israel had breached international law - and suspend arms sales if there was a risk weapons could be used in "a serious breach of international humanitarian law".
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How we beat Zero Carbon mania in Cambridge, Ian Black how CRG won campaign against congestion charge
Cambridge congestion charge plans 'are not going ahead'
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-185/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66731659
6 September 2023
The congestion charge proposals have divided Cambridge residents
By Ben Schofield Political Correspondent, BBC East
Plans to charge drivers to use roads in Cambridge will not go ahead, according to the leader of the city council.
The Labour group on the council voted to withdraw support for the proposals and said it was worried about the "impact on low income families".
Its move follows concerns raised by Liberal Democrats in Cambridgeshire.
Plans to charge motorists at least £5 to drive into or around the city in peak times were due to be discussed at a meeting on Thursday.
Under revised plans the charge would have raised around £26m a year and helped pay for an expansion of the bus network.
'Rug was pulled'
Councillor Mike Davey, Labour leader of Cambridge City Council, said there were parts of the proposals, known as Making Connections, his group supported but others it did not.
But, he added, the "rug was pulled" after the Liberal Democrats said they had "further concerns".
Asked how "dead" the plans were, Mr Davey said: "They are not going to go ahead.
"There were bits we liked and bits we remained concerned about.
"Sustainable travel has not gone away – something is going to have to happen.
"Something will have to go ahead because we have a problem with congestion in this city, which is only going to get worse."
'Fundamental conundrum'
Mike DaveyImage source, Ben Schofield/BBC
Image caption,
Mike Davey, Labour leader of Cambridge City Council, said "something" was still needed to help ease congestion and boost public transport
He said his group planned to work closely with the directly-elected Labour Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to improve public transport, especially buses.
The Greater Cambridge Partnership's Joint Assembly, which offers advice to its executive board, was due to meet on Thursday to discuss the plans. The executive board was due to meet on 28 September.
"We need to work with our colleagues – both officers and politicians – to see if we can find an alternative," Mr Davey added.
He accepted that the issue of "how do you afford buses if [congestion] charging goes" will "come back again".
"We all want to go shopping and nobody wants to pay for the things that we have bought," he said.
"It's how do you address that fundamental conundrum, bearing in mind we face a climate emergency and growth in this city."
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Cowardly, evil, desperate: Israel kills 3 sons 4 grandchildren of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza
Israeli attack kills three sons of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh
The Israeli military has confirmed it killed three sons of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an air attack in Gaza. Four of Haniyeh’s grandchildren are also reported to have been killed in the strike on the Shati refugee camp on the first day of Eid al-Fitr. Haniyeh has told Al Jazeera that Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families are targeted by the Israeli army, and that the killings will not affect Hamas’s demands in negotiations for a ceasefire.
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Oligarchs On Hiding To Nothing! Sit Rep 18months Into 4th Reich Tony Gosling & Scott Bennett 13Oct21
Oligarchs On Hiding To Nothing! Sit Rep 18 Months Into The 4th Reich Tony Gosling with Scott Bennett
YouTube took this video down in April 2024 - originalURL
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World Economy & Sanction Tools: Putin Says US Undermining Position as Global Reserve Currency
https://sputniknews.com/20211014/world-economy--sanction-tools-putin-says-us-undermining-position-as-global-reserve-currency-1089905388.html
9 hours ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a plenary session during Far Eastern Economic Forum, in Vladivostok, Russia. - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.10.2021
The Russian president earlier spoke to reporters and relayed that his government is by no means using energy as a weapon against Europe amid the growing crisis, underscoring that Russia solely stands ready to help the region ahead of the looming winter months.
Offering more color on his earlier remarks, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented late Wednesday that the US is effectively undermining its position as the world's reserve currency by using the US dollar as a sanctions tool.
The remarks were made during an exclusive interview with CNBC's Headley Gamble at the end of the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum. The discussion touched on a variety of topics, including Putin's presidential term, military blocs and cryptocurrency, among other subjects.
Asked whether the US dollar is moving away from being the world's reserve currency, the Russian president commented that the US is actually "undermining its position" as Washington continues to use the dollar as an instrument of sanctions abroad.
"It is undermining its position as the world's reserve currency," Putin told Gamble. "The volume of settlements in dollars is shrinking, and the volume of personal reserves of the world's countries in dollars is also reducing."
"But we are not interested in completely stopping payments in dollars, and so far we are satisfied with, say, payments for energy resources in dollars, primarily for oil. But if the policy of the American authorities continues, as I have already mentioned, then we will not have to do anything, the United States will itself undermine confidence in the dollar," he noted.
This April 3, 2019, file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. In these uncertain times, financial advisers are urging clients to not only have an emergency fund but also to consider expanding their rainy-day savings. - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.10.2021
This April 3, 2019, file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. In these uncertain times, financial advisers are urging clients to not only have an emergency fund but also to consider expanding their rainy-day savings.
"When other countries that use the dollar as a reserve currency or as an instrument of calculation see what is happening, they themselves have anxiety that the dollar can be used in relation to them in the same way," he explained, referring to the sanctions tool.
Just before changing gears, he emphasized that Moscow is closely watching unfolding events, and is analyzing and taking the necessary steps to ensure its long-term interests.
AUKUS 'Undoubtedly' Undercutting Regional Stability
The mid-September announcement that the US, UK and Australia would be engaging in a new trilateral defense partnership not too surprisingly ruffled some feathers - none more so than France, which already had its own defense deals with Canberra. Weighing in on the recent pact, Putin noted that its establishment and similar agreements are to a great extent the root of regional instability.
"The creation of blocs, including the mentioned one between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, is undoubtedly undermining the regional stability because from my point of view, it is good to be friends between each other but to be friends against someone is bad," he said. "This is undermining stability that we all talk about and care about."
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FULL SHOW Ex-Minister names UKCFI Govt War Criminals; ZAKA fake dead baby stories; The Cancer Racket
Ex-Minister names CFI Govt War Criminals;
ZAKA faked dead baby stories;
IDF's 'Lavender' gencide AI;
the cancer racket
NTBCFMPS-full-show-05Apr24
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Sir Alan Duncan Demands Resignations: Mossad War Criminals in the UK Cabinet Office?
IDF's 'Lavender' AI Heartless Genocide Computer Exposed
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– Sunak jokes about the deep state at select committee – I wouldn’t tell you if I were part of it would I? Flippant about democracy being undermined Rishi Sunak repeatedly refuses to condemn Liz Truss’s ‘deep state’ comments
– God In Number 10 Adam Bolton looks at PMs Blair particularly – Fr. Mark Vickers: God In Number Ten, Adam Bolton – Starmer to be UK’s first Atheist PM – Blair
– Jeremy Paxman interviews Tony Blair in February 2003 and asks him if he and George Bush pray together – Blair says ‘no’ then ‘perhaps’ and afterwards confesses
– When Starmer wins the general election will Mandelson, Blair AND Campbell return? Starmer in regular talks with Blair as he prepares Labour for power
– Sir Alan Duncan Demands Resignations: Mossad War Criminals in the UK Cabinet Office? –
– Former Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan accuses a whole host of government ministers of prioritising Israel ver the UK.
– Captured by the Israeli Mossad spy agency?
– Zionist agents in UK gvernment named: Lord Pollack, Lord Eric Pickles, Robert Jenrick, Michael Gove, liver Dowden, Priti Patel and Security minister Tom Tugenhat must be sacked, as all of them support Israeli settlements
– Lord Jonathan Sumption is one of 600 senior judges who have signed a letter condemning the Sunak governments support for Israel’s genocide.
– Scott Ritter says the US is now a terrorist nation trying to start a nuclear WWIII with Russia. The CIA is launching covert actions in Russia using Russian dissidents
– SCOTT RITTER: The CIA’s Secret War — Using Russian Fascists to Fight Russia – Scott Ritter explains how covert actins are deniable but ordered by the president through the CIA
– The Covert Operation to Back Ukrainian Independence that Haunts the CIA – After WWII, officials in Washington sent scores of agents to their deaths
– 75th anniversary of NATO al Jazeera report – NATO faces ‘catastrophic defeat’ in Ukraine – ex-Pentagon adviser Strategist Edward Luttwak
argued that members of the US-led bloc will have to deploy troops to prevent a Russian victory NATO nations can only forestall an inevitable loss to Russian forces in Ukraine
– NATO is an American tool for confrontation in Europe – Kremlin The bloc’s expansion and its involvement in the Ukraine conflict have put Europe’s security in jeopardy,
– NATO needs ‘Russian threat’ to justify its existence – deputy foreign minister The US-led alliance would not survive without an external adversary,
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Sci-Fi geopolitics, Deep State 4th Reich & Israeli attack on Baltiimore, Johnny_Vedmore Tony Gosling
Johnny Vedmore follows the tentacles of the new world beast. Especially during an election year, it’s vital we know who are the allies and associate of those who officially represent us.
The show will look at the associations of those in the news, from Palestine to Ukraine, from Westminster to the White House, marrying deep research with current affairs.
It will analyse the current news with deep context, informing the viewers of the little known allegiances of those who seek power and influence over our lives.
The guests will help define and explain the many tentacles of the Establishment Octopus.
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"850 babies a day murdered by abortion", Bristol press ignore Pastor Dia Moodley ASSAULTED, ARRESTED
"850 babies a day now murdered by abortion" Bristol press ignore Pastor Dia Moodley ASSAULTED BY FEMALE STUDENTS THEN ARRESTED preaching outside University
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'850 babies a day now murdered by abortion' Spirit of Life church Pastor Dia Moodley assaulted then arrested at/by Bristol university
Police admit attempt to 'silence' Christian street preacher for criticising other religions and atheism was 'disproportionate' as they back down in free speech row
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13127661/bristol-police-silenced-christian-preacher.html
A police force last night admitted its attempt to 'silence' a Christian street preacher for criticising Hindus, Muslims and atheists was 'disproportionate'.
Avon and Somerset Police tried to prevent Bristol-based pastor Dia Moodley from 'passing comments on any other religion or comparing them to Christianity'. It also sought to stop him displaying 'graphic material'.
The Evangelist fundamentalist had become known to the police after holding up signs saying 'abortion is murder' and mocking followers of other religions for failing to acknowledge 'God's truth'.
On other occasions the creationist held up signs that read 'all lives matter', 'evolution is a lie' and 'God created them man and woman' - leading to a hostile reaction from passers-by.
Mr Moodley, who belongs to the Spirit of Life church, had arranged a meeting with the local policing team after claiming officers had 'done nothing' when members of the public 'spat' at him and 'destroyed' his signs.
In turn, Bristol police issued the notice warning that the churchgoer's behaviour was having a detrimental effect on other Bristolians' quality of life.
Officers said the preacher had displayed 'graphic material', which included showing images purporting to be mutilated or aborted foetuses, and 'persistently' made 'abusive and insulting statements' in a public space.
Police said this had led to crowds becoming 'hostile and responding aggressively' to Mr Moodley and his congregation.
The force said the warning – which was issued in October 2021 and expired after six months - followed complaints about the preacher's conduct that had continued for a number of years.
In the warning, the force told the Evangelist, or anyone delivering sermons on his behalf, to refrain from using any amplifier or speaker system while preaching or playing recordings of sermons in Bristol.
Police also said he should not display graphics or images that are, or purport to be, mutilated or aborted foetuses.
Mr Moodley took legal action over the restrictions with the support of the Free Speech Union and ADF International.
This criticised the police's notice telling Mr Moodley he could only deliver one one-hour sermon a day that had already been approved by Avon and Somerset Police.
They also criticised the police's warning for the preacher not to use 'any words of language that could be considered to negatively affect public health or morals or have the effect of inciting crime and disorder'.
Their final complaints lay at the police's warning against the Evangelist passing on any comments on other religions 'or comparing them to Christianity while in a public area.
They also rejected the police's warning that Mr Moodley should not be able to comment on 'beliefs held by atheists or those who believe in evolution whilst addressing the public'.
Last night a lawyer working on behalf of the Chief of Avon and Somerset Constabulary Sarah Crew issued a settlement which said five of the terms of the warning notice were 'disproportionate'.
Reacting to the settlement yesterday he said: 'This creeping culture of censorship is detrimental to all of us in society, whatever we believe, and we must challenge it wherever we see it.'
Upon receiving confirmation of the settlement, Jeremiah Igunnubole, Legal Counsel for ADF UK, said, 'Dia Moodley's case exposes a clear double standard in British policing when the issue concerns the expression of core beliefs; particularly Christian beliefs.
'Bristol authorities unabashedly requested prior review of Dia's sermons and banned him from speaking about any other religion - including atheism.
'This blatantly restricted his freedom of religion and speech in an attempt to redefine established British values in accordance with their own ideals.'
He said that the organisation welcomed the admission that the force's actions were disproportionate.....
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Kees van der Pijl, West's return to Fascism: Gaza, Ukraine, States of Emergency, Pandemic of Angst
USING FEAR TO GREASE THE WHEELS OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-183/
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“Kees van der Pijl, an author of distinction, writes that the global ruling class or oligarchy used Covid-19 to seize power by declaring a state of global emergency. He explains that the Information Technology revolution, by creating a global information and communication system, was ushering in a social transformation inimical to the oligarchy’s hegemony over society. In order to stop this transformation, the global elite used lockdowns, mandates, censorship and controlled narratives to seize control over populations… Van der Pijl makes a cogent argument. He shows that the ‘pandemic’ is a political emergency, not a medical one. Its purpose was to suppress populations and transition to an authoritarian state and social structure…” PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
“This is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order, and to read it closely and with an open mind one can’t help but be convinced of its essential truth… This book should be read by anyone who cares about our world. It is brilliant and extremely timely.” EDWARD CURTIN, author of Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies
“In this urgent new study, veteran international relations scholar Kees van der Pijl shows how the ruling groups exploited the covid-19 virus to impose a worldwide state of emergency and a psychosis of fear that allowed them to extend their power and control at a time when global capitalism is beset by crisis. Brilliantly researched, impeccably sourced, the story is told in an engaging style and with great analytical acuity. Here is a dire warning against the slide into authoritarianism to contain the revolt of restive populations who can take no more deprivation. It must be read by the broadest possible public.” WILLIAM I. ROBINSON, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
““This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover.” PARADIGM EXPLORER
“The Covid-19 event is fast shaping up to be a deception of epic proportions, whereby a constellation of powerful actors exploit events in order to usher through profound political and economic changes. More than ever, people are waking up to the fact that this is not about a virus… Derailing these nefarious agendas is without doubt the most urgent task facing humanity today and States of Emergency provides a powerful, thought provoking and critical starting point on the road to awareness and resistance.” DR. PIERS ROBINSON, Organisation for Propaganda Studies
” Kees van der Pijl goes further than most in addressing our current concerns and circumstances, but perhaps even that isn’t far enough to capture the pure evil that confronts humanity today.”
CYNTHIA McKINNEY, former Congresswoman and Green Party Candidate for President, most recently editor ofWhen China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis
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From Balfour to Starmer: God In Number 10 The Personal Faith of British Prime Ministers Mark Vickers
Fr. Mark Vickers: God In Number Ten, Adam Bolton
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-184/
God In Number 10: The Personal Faith of the Prime Ministers, from Balfour to Blair (2022) by Fr Mark Vickers
'Mark Vickers has given us a wonderful new reference book of the beliefs (and non-beliefs) of 20th-century PMs - a meaty volume that can also be consumed as a social history of British religion.' THE TELEGRAPH
'This carefully researched and well-written study reveals the religious faith of our Prime Ministers, or lack of it, in vivid colours. Prepare to be shocked and surprised as the author lays bare their souls.' SIR ANTHONY SELDON
Mark Vickers' acclaimed volume on the faith of the twentieth-century Prime Ministers casts a new perspective on these holders of the highest political office in the realm. While there are biographies aplenty on the 18 men and 1 woman who took up residence behind the famous black door, it is notable that that many of these works fail to reflect an important - sometimes the most important - aspect of the life of their subject. God in Number 10 rectifies this omission, offering intriguing insights into Margaret Thatcher's legendary 'Sermon on the Mound', Tony Blair's perception of Jesus as a modernizer, Arthur Balfour's recourse to spiritualism, Stanley Baldwin's mystical experiences, and Winston Churchill's involvement with astrology. The book considers the role of religion generally in the political classes of the period, the reasons for the declining influence of faith in the public forum, and the relationship between Church and State.
The families of H. H. Asquith, Bonar Law, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Wilson have all expressed their support for God in Number 10 and, where able, helped in the research, while John Major has assisted fully.
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Discussing US Moscow warning 1wk before Crocus massacre killed 137 Scott Ritter, Warren Thornton
Oooooops! Discussing US Moscow warning 1wk before Crocus terror attack massacre killed 137 Scott Ritter, Warren Thornton
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Does 'Christian' Tony Blair pray with George Bush? BBC Newsnight 6th Feb 2003 Jeremy Paxman Iraq war
Rabina Ahmed: But so many Iraqis, so many British people, so many Americans are going to die. Innocent blood is going to flow.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/feb/07/foreignpolicy.iraq1
Tony Blair: If you get into war and conflict it is true -
Rabina Ahmed: Can it be avoided?
Tony Blair: Well it can be avoided if Saddam abides by the United Nations - if we do take military action, we have to do everything we possibly can to minimise the civilian casualties. Of course we've got to do that. But I simply do say to you, the people that have suffered most from Saddam are the Iraqi people themselves. I mean I spoke to ten Iraqi exiles the other day, who were women, who described to me, not just the deaths of members of their family, but the appalling human rights abuses, torture, the fact that they were still, some of them, under threat of death - living abroad - from this guy. I mean, you know, this, this is not a humane regime -
Rabina Ahmed: No coming back to my question.
Jeremy Paxman: No one denies the man's a monster.
Tony Blair: Yes, but that is of importance then in asking how do you deal with someone - okay let's accept ...
Jeremy Paxman: She's asked you about deaths of innocent people, I mean as a Christian how do you feel about innocent people dying? As they always die in war. [applause]
Tony Blair: That is why you avoid war if you possibly can, and that is why we went through the United Nations. Now there were innocent people, I'm afraid as well as guilty that died in Kosovo, and in Afghanistan. But in the end I felt on both occasions we had no option but to do this. And I remember at the time of Kosovo, I remember saying no let the peace negotiations go on several more weeks in order to try and get them sorted so that we didn't have to take on Milosevic. But when you say that Saddam is a monster that is irrelevance, I'm afraid, to how you deal with the situation because a monster is not somebody you want to allow to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Jeremy Paxman: The question is what freedom he has under the current inspection regime but we've discussed that already, I want to explore a little further about your personal feelings about this war. Does the fact that George Bush and you are both Christians make it easier for you to view these conflicts in terms of good and evil?
Tony Blair: I don't think so, no, I think that whether you're a Christian or you're not a Christian you can try perceive what is good and and what is, is evil.
Jeremy Paxman: You don't pray together for example?
Tony Blair: No, we don't pray together Jeremy, no.
Jeremy Paxman: Why do you smile?
Tony Blair: Because - why do you ask me the question?
Jeremy Paxman: Because I'm trying to find out how you feel about it.
Tony Blair: Possibly.
Jeremy Paxman: Right, would anyone else like to have a question?
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Katharine Gun China history Israel interfering in UK elections & Cyberwar role of GCHQ in Hybrid War
The stage is set for Hybrid World War III
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-183/
Pepe Escobar The Saker Mon, 27 Feb 2023
https://www.sott.net/article/477792-The-stage-is-set-for-Hybrid-World-War-III
A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you're immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by selected stops and enlightening conversations, crystallizing disparate vectors one year after the start of the accelerated phase of the proxy war between US/NATO and Russia.
That's how Moscow welcomes you: the undisputed capital of the 21st century multipolar world.
President Putin's address - rather, a civilizational speech - last week was a game-changer when it comes to the demarcation of the civilizational red lines we are all now facing. It acted like a powerful drill perforating the less than short, actually zero term memory of the Collective West. No wonder it exercised a somewhat sobering effect contrasting the non-stop Russophobia binge of the NATOstan space.
Alexey Dobrinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, has correctly described Putin's address as "a methodological basis for understanding, describing and constructing multipolarity."
For years some of us have been showing how the emerging multipolar world is defined - but goes way beyond - high speed interconnectivity, physical and geoeconomic. Now, as we reach the next stage, it's as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two key civilizational vectors of multipolarity. That's the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.
Metaphorically, it also speaks volumes that Russia's pivot to the East, towards the rising sun, now irreversible, was the only logical path to follow as, to quote Dylan, darkness dawns at the break of noon across the West.
As it stands, with the wobblin', ragin' Hegemon lost in its own pre-fabricated daze, the real runners of the show feeding burning flesh to irredeemably mediocre political "elites", China may have a little more latitude than Russia, as the Middle Kingdom is not - yet - under the same existential pressure Russia has been put under.
Whatever happens next geopolitically, Russia is at heart a - giant - obstacle on the warmongering path of the Hegemon: the ultimate target is top "threat" China.
Putin's ability to size up our extremely delicate geopolitical moment - via a dose of highly concentrated, undiluted realism - is something to behold. And then Foreign Minister Lavrov provided the sweet cherry on top, calling the hapless US ambassador for a hardcore dress down: oh yeah, this is war, hybrid and otherwise, and your NATO mercenaries as well as your junk hardware are legitimate targets.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council, now more than ever relishing his "unplugged" status, made it all very clear: "Russia risks being torn apart if it stops a special military operation (SMO) before victory is achieved."
And the message is even more acute because it represents the - public - cue to the Chinese leadership at the Zhongnahhai to understand: whatever happens next, this is the Kremlin's unmovable official position.
The Chinese restore the Mandate of Heaven
All these vectors are evolving as ramifications of the bombing of the Nord Streams, the only military attack - cum industrial terrorism - ever perpetrated against the EU, leave the Collective West paralyzed, dazed and confused.
Perfectly in tandem with Putin's address, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose the geopolitical/existential moment to finally take the gloves off, with a flourish: enter the US Hegemony and its Perils essay cum report, which became an instant massive hit across Chinese media, examined with relish all across East Asia.
This blistering enumeration of all the Hegemon's lethal follies, for decades, constitutes a point of no return for trademark Chinese diplomacy, so far characterized by passivity, ambivalence, actual restraint and extreme politeness. So such turnaround is yet another proud "achievement" of the outright Sinophobia and mendacious hostility exhibited by American neocons and neoliberal-cons.
Scholar Quan Le notes that this document may be regarded as the traditional form - but now filled with contemporary wording - the Chinese Sovereigns used in their millenary past before going to war.
It is in fact an axio-epistemo-political proclamation justifying a serious war, which in the Chinese universe means a war ordained by a Higher Power capable of restoring Justice & Harmony in a troubled Universe.
After the proclamation the warriors are equipped to strike mercilessly at the entity judged to be troubling the Harmony of the Universe: in our case, the psycho Straussian neo-cons and neoliberal-cons commanded as rabid dogs by the real American elites....
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FULL SHOW NATO Kills 137 In Moscow Theatre; Anglo Zionist Empires Fourth Reich Genocide in Gaza
Dr. Chris Hook, a junior doctor, joins Tony and Martin. He works in the emergency department at BRI, and also went out to Gaza recently as part of Medecin Sans Frontieres.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-183/
Why the junior doctors went on strike. Chris explains what it was like being a doctor in war torn Gaza, the situation on the ground, and how ordinary people are suffering the most, not the military leaders.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, on how it is genocide in Gaza. The kinds of injuries Chris was seeing in Gaza. Charities people can support to help Gazans. Bristol Transform - Apartheid Free Zone - covers Gaza too. Reverend John Angle on The Lighthouse School that he and The Hope Christian Trust started in Gaza - what is left of it now? Dia Moodley, Pastor at Spirit of Life Church, Lockleaze, on why he was arrested and charged. LINK**. Warren Thornton, ex British Army sniper and now journalist - www.the frontline.army - joins Tony and Martin. His ex army contacts wanted an outlet for their stories. Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation explained. Fact checkers. Stella Assange on why Julian should be freed now. Tory donor given a knighthood by Rishi. BBC documentary 'Document: A Date with Bevin' by Mike Thompson 2007 - Israeli attempt to assassinate Ernest Bevan. 'Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews' book by Alan Hart.
'The Hunt for Martin Bormann' documentary - skulls tampered with. 'OPJB' book by Christopher Creighton.
Bitchute video of complete show - Essentials: Michael Hudson | Blackrock/Vanguard | Tony on Brexit & The Traitors of Arnhem | Evolution | War between God & Lucifer | Plan for three World Wars| Armageddonists I have known: Nick Land (1975-8) | George Monbiot (1995-8)
Part Two- International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
135 killed in attack on Crocus Theatre in Moscow - what Warren Thornton's sources have let him know. Alistair Crooke detailing The West being behind Crocus Theatre attack. Victoria Nuland - influence and connections. Katharine Gun, former GCHQ whistleblower, on interference in UK elections by Israel. Bristol MPs that are part of Labour Friends of Israel - wine and dine trips taken to Israel. Katharine Gun on hybrid warfare. LINK**. Kees van der Pijl, author of 'States of Emergency', on how false flag terrorism is used for political change, and the documents which show this LINK**. Haiti - what's happening? Anti War.com - can't use bank cards in Haiti at present LINK**. Baltimore - ship destroys bridge - the ship seems to turn to go directly in to bridge - conspiracy? Patrizia Opulenza poem on Gaza/Israel war and Easter.
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Child Abuser PM, Royal firms Witch Queen, Davitt Parnell Irish Land League Tony Gosling Richie Allen
Richie is joined by broadcast journalist and author Tony Gosling. In a wide ranging conversation, the guys discuss how the Irish Land League movement of the late 19th century could inspire a huge change in Britain today, the UN Gaza resolutions and whether Israel will pay any attention to them, the trials and tribulations of the British royal family, the Nazi roots of the European Union and more.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2024-03-28T11_20_21-07_00
https://twitter.com/TonyGosling
www.thisweek.org.uk
Irish Land League
The Life of Michael Davitt
The hero and patriot Michael Davitt was born in Straide County Mayo on the 25th March 1846, during the Great Famine. He was the second of five children, four of whom were born in Straide; Mary in 1841, Anne in 1848, and Sabina in 1850. Michael’s only brother James was born in Haslingden on the 30th June 1853 and died two years later on the 12th of March 1855.
His father and mother, Martin Davitt and Catherine Kielty were tenants on the John Knox estate at Straide. Upon being evicted from their home in Straide, the family was forced to go to the workhouse in Swinford. After Catherine discovered the rules of the workhouse required Michael to be separated from her, the family immediately left the workhouse and like many other evicted families at this time, decided to emigrate in search of a better life.
Arriving in Liverpool by boat from Dublin, they set out on foot to Haslingden, almost 50 miles away. Haslingden was an area of England where locals from the Straide area had already found work.
Davitt’s father managed to find temporary lodging for his family. However, after only two days here, they were evicted for a second time, when it was discovered that Michael had the measles. Davitt’s father then set up a tent against a wall and James Bonner, a worker from County Armagh, took the sick child and family into his house, even though he had four small children of his own.
The census of March 1851 shows the Davitts as lodgers in Owen Egan’s house in Wilkinson St. At that time, there were a total of fifteen people living in the small house. Later the Davitts’ succeeded in renting at Rock Hall, where families from the west of Ireland lived. Michael’s father and mother found work as hawkers, and a year later Martin found work as a farm labourer. Martin Davitt was literate in English and wrote letters home for other families whilst also teaching them to read and write in English.
Michael’s Childhood and Early Work Experiences
At just nine years of age, Michael Davitt started working in a cotton mill at Ewood Bridge, on the outskirts of Haslingden. He passed himself off as being over thirteen years old and worked 60 hours a week. His pay was 2s.6d, a week.
He later moved on to Whittaker and then to Stellfoxe’s Victoria Mill near Baxenden, outside Haslingden. It was here that he got his right arm caught and badly injured in a machine on 8th May 1857, resulting in amputation.
After Michael Davitt recovered from his operation, John Dean a cotton manufacturer, became his benefactor and Davitt got a second chance at education in the local Wesleyan school run by George Poskett, which he attended for 4 years.
The Fenians
The Land Reform Movement
The Formation of the Irish Land League
Gladstone’s Land Act 1881
International Social Justice Campaigner
GAA & Glasgow Celtic Patron
https://www.michaeldavittmuseum.ie/history/
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Jewish terrorists 1946 plot to assassinate UK Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Mike Thomson BBC R4
Lehi, Irgun...
Zionist terrorists hatched plan to murder Churchill revealed almost 70 years on
Jack Malvern Monday April 04 2011, 1.01am, The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zionist-terrorists-hatched-plan-to-murder-churchill-revealed-almost-70-years-on-q9skt6b3s0t
A plan by Zionist terrorists to assassinate Winston Churchill and other politicians is detailed in MI5 files released today by the National Archives.
Churchill was one of the targets revealed by a member of the Stern Gang arrested after it murdered Lord Moyne, the British Resident Minister, in Cairo in 1944. According to a memo sent to MI5, Rafael Sawovsky told British interrogators that his fellow agents “proposed a plan for the assassination of highly placed British political personalities, including Mr Churchill, for which purpose emissaries should be sent to London”.
The memo warned: “The terrorists may consider the extension of their activities to the UK, and while we have no reliable evidence to suggest that they are doing this at the present moment, the
A Date with Bevin
BBC Document
In 1946, the British Secret Service was concerned about a plot by Jewish terrorists to assassinate the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Mike Thomson investigates.
The award-winning investigative series returns, in which Mike Thomson takes a document as a starting-point to shed new light on past events.
A Date with Bevin
Monday24 July 2006
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20060724.shtml
Mike Thomson investiagtes Jewish insurgency in Palestine after WWll and a plot to assasinate Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Earnest Bevin.Follow this link to view a gallery of images taken by Document during the making of this programme.
In 1946, not long after the Second World War was won, Britain was again under threat. Jewish insurgents, who had long been fighting a bloody insurgency campaign against British troops in Palestine, were about to take their war to London. Previously top secret documents reveal that assassination squads were being sent to the capital armed with a hit list. On it were the names of several top government figures. These included Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Earnest Bevin.
Extremist groups like The Stern Gang (or Lehi) and Irgun, were determined to end the British mandate in Palestine and replace it with a Jewish homeland. Hundreds of their fighters, along with many British soldiers, were killed or injured in a struggle that escalated after the end of the war. Desperate to achieve a breakthrough after the arrest or deaths of many of their members, the two groups set up underground cells in Britain. It wasn’t long before British security services got wind of what was happening and in early 1946 they issued this top secret internal warning:
“Members of the Stern group are now being organised and are under training. It is expected that they will be sent to the United Kingdom to assassinate important members of his majesty’s government, particularly, Mr Bevin.”
In the months that followed a number of bombs exploded in London and an attempt was made to drop on a bomb on the House of Commons from a hired plane. This last effort was only stopped after French Police discovered Stern Gang members preparing to cross the channel in a plane containing a large bomb.
Mike Thomson and the Document team track down the assassin sent to kill Earnest Bevin and the man who gave him the explosives to do it.
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Does Marvin Rees prefer slave trading Merchant Venturers to BLM and EDL to the Colston statue 4?
Does Bristol mayor Marvin Rees prefer slave trading Merchant Venturers to BLM & EDL to the Colston statue 4?
Havin' a LARF!
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UN Finally Calls Out Israeli Genocide in Gaza, Francesca Albanese, for Ramadan Passover Easter 2024
Fra Hughes in Belfast Tony Gosling in Bristol
Ramadan Passover Easter 2024 UN accuses Israel of the 'crime of genocide' in Gaza
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory argues that Israel cannot behave as an apartheid state and face no consequences.
UN expert accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/un-expert-accuses-israel-of-several-acts-of-genocide-in-gaza
Francesca Albanese says there are clear indications that Israel has violated three of five acts listed under UN Genocide Convention.
There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, according to a report issued by a United Nations-appointed expert.
In the report, issued late on Monday, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese said there are clear indications that Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention.
Albanese, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but not an official voice on behalf of the United Nations, said she had found “reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of … acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met”.
“The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group,” she said.
The report was immediately rejected by Israel as an “obscene inversion of reality”.
Entitled Anatomy of a Genocide, the report listed the violating acts as: “killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to the group’s members; and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.
Albanese noted that Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7. A further 12,000 are reported missing, presumed dead under the rubble.
More than 70 percent of the recorded deaths have been women and children and Israel has failed to prove that the remaining 30 percent – adult males – were active Hamas fighters, she said.
Regarding the second violated act, Albanese said Israeli forces have wounded more than 70,000 Palestinians and detained thousands of Palestinian men and boys, subjecting them to torture and mistreatment.
On the third act, Albanese said Israel has destroyed or severely damaged most of Gaza’s life-sustaining infrastructure, including hospitals and agricultural land.
“The incalculable collective trauma will be experienced for generations to come,” Albanese said in a statement.
“Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure,” said said.
Additionally, calls for “violent annihilation” from Israeli high-ranking officials aimed at soldiers on duty on the ground serve as “compelling evidence of explicit and public encouragement to commit genocide,” Albanese added.
MEANWHILE....
Slaves To Rent: UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy
https://tlio.org.uk/slaves-to-rent-uk-housing-is-worst-value-for-money-of-any-advanced-economy/
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Lets put land & money reform top of UK agenda Election '24, Ted Heath, Lembit Opik Tony Gosling TNT
We want to see:
https://tlio.org.uk/slaves-to-rent-uk-housing-is-worst-value-for-money-of-any-advanced-economy/
Provision of suitable free sites for gypsies and travellers, the right to squat disused homes/land
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jfi5m-15bf9ef
Protection of boaters’ rights, with river & canal bank allotments, fair mooring & licence fees
An end to the sell-off of public land to private developers and speculators
https://tlio.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TLIO-leaflet-July-2022.pdf
We want to see
Provision of suitable free sites for gypsies and
travellers, the right to squat disused homes/land
Protection of boaters’ rights, with river & canal
bank allotments, fair mooring & licence fees
No more public land sold to private speculators
All social and private rented housing to include
a secure tenancy, offering better if terminated
Enough government-built quality public housing
to accommodate the entire population
All new homes, including flats, to incorporate at
least a 10 pole allotment immediately adjacent
Maintain, extend and enforce rights of way
Openness about land owned by the monarchy,
an end to crown immunity & FOI exemptions
A 'Use It Or Lose It' programme where empty
buildings are forfeit or put on a tax escalator,
where the owner can lose title after one year
Confiscation of suitable sections of the largest
feudal/commercial estates for public settlement
GM crops, industrial agriculture & mega-farms
banned. Tenant farmers given loans to buy &
build. A new, mandatory public land registry.
Open access to land managed by charities such
as The National Trust and English Heritage
Taxation of luxuries, not necessities; adequate
resources for government to house people
Publicly owned nationalised infrastructure such
as water, gas, NHS, electricity, banking and
railways. With services provided at or near cost
In order to achieve this we will
Take non-violent direct action to contest land
ownership and use peaceful civil disobedience
to support local campaigns
Hold conferences & commission expert reports
Retain a Parliamentary land rights lobby group
to draw up parliamentary bills and legislation to
bring about universal access to land
Lobby to enforce Article 25: 1, of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Establishing
minimum secure legal standards for life.
‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and his family, including food, clothing,
housing, and medical care and necessary social
services, and the right to security in the event of
unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood,
old age or other lack of livelihood, in
circumstances beyond his control.’ 25, UDHR
Study history to promote traditional secure
forms of tenure such as Scottish crofting,
collective land management and common rights
Foster co-operative businesses to provide ethical
land-based employment & volunteer experience
Promote and develop links and exchange
programmes with land rights groups in other
countries where equivalent movements exist
such as Brazil and Indonesia
Contact us
Phone: 07786 952037 - email: mark@tlio.org.uk
comment on blog posts or contact us via our
website tlio.org.uk Snailmail c/o BHAM/PRSC,
17-25 Jamaica St, BRISTOL, BS2 8JP
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Andrew Lownie on his royal biographies: Mountbatten Southampton University; Edward VIII Traitor King
Mountbatten biographer says Government has spied on him during his £450,000 battle to see personal diary of royal who inspired King Charles and 'had perversion for young boys' Andrew Lownie, author of 'The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves', on how he lost £400,000 in a court case trying to get Southampton University to release the Mountbatten diaries they'd purchased. He also wrote 'Traitor King: Edward VIII' which was made in to a C4 documentary. The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves Andrew Lownie (2019) DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the Royal Family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India. EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker loved around the world. From British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie (2021) Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job. Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naïve dupes of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war and peace. It reveals: - the story behind the German attempts to recruit the Duke as a British Pétain in the summer of 1940. - the efforts, by Churchill in particular, to prevent post-war publication of the captured German documents which detailed the Duke's Nazi intrigues. - the reasons why the Duke, as Governor of the Bahamas, tried to shut down the investigation into the 1943 murder of his close friend Harry Oakes. - the full extent of the feud with the British Royal Family, based on his betrayals going back to his dishonesty about his true financial position at the time of the abdication. - that far from a love story, Wallis felt trapped in a marriage she had never wanted with a pathetic and suffocating husband, one of the reasons she took several lovers, including the gay playboy Jimmy Donahue.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58283723-traitor-king
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-182/
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Chris Cole, Drone Wars UK: Autonomy; Ramstein; in Ukraine, Gaza, Red Sea; Swarm Terminator Ethics
PROMO Chris Cole Drone Wars UK Ramstein use in Ukraine Gaza ethics autonomy
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-182/
Chris Cole, from Drone Wars UK, on autonomy coming in for drones. Gaza - Israel hits 100 targets a day The Next Wave: the emergence of drones at sea - In recent months maritime drones have hit the news headlines as they are increasingly deployed in conflict hot-spots around the world’s seas. The war in Ukraine, tensions in the ocean around China, and most recently armed attacks on shipping in the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea have all been characterised by the use of various types of drones – uncrewed aircraft, drone boats, unpowered marine ‘glider’ craft, and underwater vehicles. Our new study, ‘The Next Wave’, investigates the development and use of maritime drones and the likely future implications of their use in combat. While uncrewed boats have long been used in warfare – with the US Navy first using uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) for mine clearance in the 1990’s – today, maritime drones are used by an increasing number of states and non-state groups. This study reviews the reasons why, summarizes developments by the major military powers and the UK, and examines a set of case studies to identify how drones have been used during different types of conflict at sea.
https://dronewars.net/2024/02/19/the-next-wave/
George Galloway, Workers Party, in the House of Commons. George Galloway on the lions of Britain’s armed forces and the donkeys in charge of them. The politicians who are stuck in the 19th century and don’t realise the empire can now strike back. Lord Cameron urged to heed calls to answer questions directly from MPs - Lord Cameron must answer questions directly from MPs about turmoil across the globe, or risk appearing to hold the elected Commons in disregard, ministers have heard. The Foreign Secretary, who sits in the House of Lords, faces regular scrutiny from peers about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza, and other international issues. But MPs from across the Commons have called for him to answer questions directly from them, the elected House of Parliament, rather than unelected peers. George Galloway, the MP for Rochdale, told the Commons: “War everywhere. Foreign Secretary nowhere. Nowhere at least that he can be questioned by the people in this country who are elected to question him. “That is the point. It is our duty to hold ministers to account, but by definition in this situation, we cannot.” While Mr Galloway, who represents the Workers Party of Britain, said he did not doubt Lord Cameron’s diplomatic skills, he added: “Our problem is as a country – who are forever lecturing other people on the quality of their democracy – now have an unelected head of state, an unelected Prime Minister, and an unelected Foreign Secretary, the second most important piece on the Treasury bench.” The Commons Procedure Committee has proposed several ways in which MPs could question Lord Cameron, including via a special committee. A report by the cross-party group of MPs also suggested he could be called to the bar of the House, a line beyond which only MPs are supposed to cross, to answer questions. SNP MP Patrick Grady (Glasgow North), a member of the committee, told MPs it was “particularly important” that the Foreign Secretary answered questions from the elected chamber because “we are living through times of significant global turmoil”.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lord-cameron-urged-heed-calls-190708369.html
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FULL SHOW IDF promises Easter Hell in Holy Land; COP/UN/WEF privatising nature; Sea Drones; Nazi USA
IDF, Easter In Rafah, Holy Land Hell? COP taking ownership of nature; Sea Drones report; Luciferian or Satanist?
Israel's Ron Dermer threatens Rafah Hell in Holy Land over Easter, Passover Ramadan, sacrifice to Molech sea drones Satanic Nazi Thule Soc NTBCFMPS 22Mar24
– Holy Land Hell Easter Massacre? UN Green Lights Israel’s Rafah ‘Human Sacrifice’ This Passover, Easter, Ramadan
– NHS dentist fund underspent by £25m. Dido Harding – track and trace. Steven Hester’s remarks about Diane Abbot. House of Commons Health Select Committee –
– Hedley Rees, Substack, Pharmaceutical Quality Control Consultant – Covax, Welcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gene therapies for cancer serious side effects.
– Marvin Rees acceleratinist final speech finds slave trading Merchant Venturers better than Black Lives Matter and far right Tommy Robinson better than statue toppling Colston 4!
– Bristol in English civil war talk. Sieges of Bristol in the English Civil War 1642-46 – Bristol in the Civil War Bristol was attacked twice during the English Civil War
– Dav, from protest camp outside Elbit HQ, weapons manufacturers, in Bristol, on why he’s there. Genocide in Gaza – UK sells weapons to Israel. Palestine Action blockade
– Chris Cole, from Drone Wars UK, on autonomy coming in for drones. Gaza – Israel hits 100 targets a day The Next Wave: the emergence of drones at sea
– George Galloway MP, Workers Party, in the House of Commons. George Galloway on the lions of Britain’s armed forces and the donkeys in charge of them.
– Plus 972 magazine journalist– systematic censorship in Israel & Gaza by IDF, spiking over 100 and redacting over 1000 articles, means it cannot claim to be a democracy
– Al Jazeera documentary ‘October 7: Forensic analysis shows Hamas abuses, many false Israeli claims Investigation draws up a list of those killed in Hamas attack
– Peter Oborne article on Oct 7th in Middle East Eye – Peter Oborne – War on Gaza: Al Jazeera tells the 7 October story that British media will not
– IMMEDIATELY REMOVED BY FACEBOOK: October 7th Was An Inside Job’ documentary ‘October 7 Was An Inside Job’ – documentary (2024) – by John Hankey
– 2014 ASSASSINATION? Brother to Queen Camilla, Mark Shand, died of head wound. Deaths of those close to the Royal Family.
– Cory Morningstar on The Green ‘New Deal For Nature’, privatising nature, on digitising nature and a plot behind the green mask.
– ‘Climate: The Movie’ new documentary by Martin Durkin, who made ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, which was proved to be controversial
– Lord Bathurst explains why he will now charge for entrance to Cirencester Park. Hundreds gather for mass trespass demo at Lord Bathurst’s Cotswolds estate:
– Russian elections. Kate has cancer – chemo. UN vote for a ceasefire in Gaza – US agrees finally – but Russia and China don’t!
– Netanyahu’s government plan to get all Palestinians out of Gaza. Netanyahu says they will attack Rafah. Israel bombed 400 health facilities
– Palestine’s civil police chief in charge of Aid Convoys covertly assassinated by IDF at Al Shifa hospital
– Russia knocks out power stations in Ukraine. Russia targets Ukraine’s power facilities with wave of missiles, drones.
– 2014 Hampstead SRA scandal – Sabine McNeill, miscarriage of justice? who was jailed for claiming there was a Satanist ring in Hampstead abusing children, gives her version
– 2014 Hampstead SRA scandal – Sabine McNeill, miscarriage of justice? Christ Church Primary School, Hampstead –
– In 2014, a leaked video depicted two children, explaining in detail the horrific abuse that they had been exposed to at Hampstead Christ Church Primary School in London England
– Mountbatten biographer says Government spied on him during his £450k battle to see personal diary of royal who inspired King Charles and ‘had perversion for young boys’
– David Livingstone on the difference between Luciferians and Satanists as well as a critique of Thule Society occult Nazi literature and Benjamin Netanyahu's father.
– NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-182/
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October 7 Was An Inside Job - documentary (2024) by John Hankey #RealHistoryChannel
'October 7 Was An Inside Job' - documentary (2024) - John Hankey #RealHistoryChannel March 2024 - Israel was behind the attacks of October 7.
Hamas is run by Israeli Secret Intelligence, the Mossad. The fact that the Mossad supplied Hamas with billions of dollars in cash is NOT in dispute. ALL sources say that the Israeli military stood down (was completely absent) for 6 hours.
The best evidence indicates that 94% of the civilians were killed by the military, to justify the genocide in Gaza. Israeli veterans say so.
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Dav, Occupation at Israeli Killer Drone Manufacturer, Elbit Systems HQ, Park Ave, Aztec West Bristol
Evicted evening of 21st March 24
UAV TACTICAL SYSTEMS
https://www.palestineaction.org/uav-tactical-systems/
UAV Tactical Systems is an Israeli-French drone company based out of a factory at Unit F, Meridian East, Meridian Business Park, Leicester, LE19 1WZ, U.K. The factory is used for design, testing, and manufacture of drones sold to the British army, Israel and international arms markets.
Watchkeeper Drone
UAV Tactical Systems’ flagship product is the Watchkeeper drone, made for the British Army and Border Force. Having racked up 100,000 hours of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Watchkeeper was originally modelled on Israel’s Elbit-made Hermes drones, which have been extensively deployed in operations against Gaza. By commissioning the Watchkeeper, the British government is thereby buying technology that claims to be ‘field-tested’ on Palestinians, while the Elbit CEO boasted of the ‘collaboration with the Israeli and UK governments‘ made possible through the Watchkeeper programme.
UAV TACTICAL SYSTEMS ARMS ISRAEL
The UAV Tactical Systems factory is directly supplying the Israeli military. Data to 2021 shows that the company holds export licenses for the sale, to Israel, of drones systems, target acquisition/surveillance systems, electronics equipment, and other military technologies. Freedom of Information disclosures show the company supplies Israel with infrared or thermal imaging equipment, and components for military grade ground vehicles.
We also know that the UAV Tactical Systems site has been used for projects operating the Hermes class of drones, on behalf of both the British military and for the United Nations. This drone is notorious for its deployments against Palestinians, used for surveillance, bombings, and targetted assasinations. Having been Israel’s ‘worst kept secret‘ for years, the Israeli military recently admitted that its Hermes drones are outfitted with explosives and munitions, and it is likely that parts for these drones are what comprise the many ML10-categorised exports that UAV Tactical Systems holds for the sale to Israel.
The UAV Tactical Systems site is therefore intimately tied to Israel’s drone warfare operation in two ways. On one hand, it is fuelling Israel’s drone programmes directly through the provision of hardware for Israel’s Hermes. While on the other hand, it further profits from these operations by repackaging and selling Israeli drones under the Watchkeeper brand.
Elbit systems
All of this fits the pattern of Elbit’s British operations: profitting two-fold from Israeli occupation and from the export opportunities from Israeli occupation technologies. Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest arms company, with their broad range of activities generating a broad influence in Israel’s militarised, securitised occupation of Palestine. Elbit supplies the Israeli military with 85% of their drones and 85% of their land-based equipment. The company’s surveillance equipment monitors Palestinians through drone operations, at border points, and across Israel’s apartheid wall. Elbit supplies the IDF with all of its small calibre munitions through subsidiary IMI Systems, while its armed remote-control boats which have attacked Palestinian fishermen. Their Hermes drones have been used for extrajudical killings in foreign countries such as Sudan and operations in Egypt, while enabling the slaughter of Palestinians inside Gaza. They were used extensively in the 2008 and 2014 assaults on Gaza, in which Israel killed 1,417 and 2,202 Palestinians respectively, including four boys killed by a Hermes attack while playing on a beach in Gaza in 2014.
Elbit’s business model is then to sell these technologies on to fuel imperialism elsewhere. Its drones have not only been deployed by British military and border operations, but are employed by the EU’s militarised border agency Frontex. The same technologies outfitting Israel’s apartheid wall run along the US’ border wall with Mexico, and are used for monitoring of indigenous lands. Elbit drones have been puchased in major volumes by India, in turn deploying them in violent military campaigns perpetuating the repression of Kashmiri populations.
The company formerly hosted 10 sites across Britain. As of 2023, with Elbit forced to close its Oldham factory and London headquarters, this has been reduced to 8 sites. Soon they’ll only have 7.
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Shawn Charlwood General Dental Council on New Accelerationist NHS Dentistry Contract 19Mar24
Botched Tory NHS dentist ‘rescue plan’ may end up with fewer patients being seen
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/botched-tory-nhs-dentist-rescue-32385189
Patients and dentists staged a protest over dental treatment at Westminster yesterday, as Dentistry Minister Andrea Leadsom prepares to be grilled by MPs today
The Tory dental recovery plan could lead to fewer patients being seen on the NHS, experts have warned.
No10 claimed it will result in 2.5 million more appointments being delivered yet has refused to publish the modelling behind this. But it was yesterday revealed the botched reforms come with no new funding.
The British Dental Association survey found 43% of dentists said the rescue plan will result in fewer appointments, while just 3% believe it will create more. Patients and dentists staged a protest at Westminster yesterday, as Dentistry Minister Andrea Leadsom prepares to be grilled by MPs today.
The BDA’s Shawn Charlwood, who will also give evidence before the Health Select Committee, said: “Check ups are hard to come by, but it will prove much harder for ministers to find a dentist who backs their outlandish claims. Empty soundbites won’t stop queues outside practices or call time on DIY dentistry.”
Everyone should have access to an NHS dentist
More than 12 million people were unable to access NHS dental care last year – more than 1 in 4 adults in England. At the same time 90% of dental practices are no longer accepting new NHS adult patients. Data from the House of Commons Library showed 40% of children didn't have their recommended annual check-up last year.
Restore funding for dental services and recruit more NHS dentists
The UK spends the smallest proportion of its heath budget on dental care of any European nation. Government spending on dental services in England was cut by a quarter in real terms between 2010 and 2020. The number of NHS dentists is down by more than 500 to 24,151 since the pandemic.
Change the contracts
A Parliamentary report by the Health Select Committee has branded the current NHS dentists' contracts as “not fit for purpose” and described the state of the service as "unacceptable in the 21st century". The system effectively sets quotas on the maximum number of NHS patients a dentist can see as it caps the number of procedures they can perform each year. Dentists also get paid the same for delivering three or 20 fillings, often leaving them out of pocket. The system should be changed so it enables dentists to treat on the basis of patient need.
Have you had to resort to drastic measures because you couldn’t access an NHS dentist? Are you a parent struggling to get an appointment for a child? Email martin.bagot@mirror.co.uk or call 0800 282591
If an NHS dentist treats more patients than their contract target they receive no payment for it, effectively capping the numbers able to access them. If they treat fewer due to lack of staff they can end up returning tens of thousands of pounds.
And the BDA now understands the “additional £200million” pledged by the Tories will actually be reallocated from those “underspends”, from within the existing £3billion budget. With oral health problems on the rise due to a lack of available NHS dentists, campaign group Toothless in England urged No10 to declare a “dental emergency”.
Spokesman Mark Jones said: “The Dental Recovery Plan won’t make one iota of difference in meeting the needs of desperate patients. Many, many thousands of dentists have quit the profession due to the NHS dental contract being not fit for purpose.” Oral surgeon Tom Thayer added: “There’s no new money. There’s so much mouth and gum disease out there, you can’t just recycle a bit of money.”
Labour’s Wes Streeting said: “After 14 years of Tory neglect, patients are pulling their own teeth out and tooth decay is the number one reason for kids going to hospital. Today’s revelation that the Tories’ cobbled together rescue plan comes with no new funding is what we’ve come to expect from this Government.”
The Department of Health and Social Care said: “The Government is developing further recommendations for dental contract reform to reflect the care needed by different patients.” The Mirror launched an online petition to save NHS dentistry on the 38 Degrees platform in partnership with the BDA which has now reached 207,000 signatures.
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Cirencester Park Turnstiles: Lord Bathurst & Right To Roam's John Moses BBC World Tonight 18Mar24
www.righttoroam.org.uk
Don’t put a price on the peaceful enjoyment of England’s green fields
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/15/the-guardian-view-on-genteel-protest-dont-put-a-price-on-the-peaceful-enjoyment-of-englands-green-fields
Charging townspeople to use a beautiful park in the Cotswolds may ignite a wider right to roam movement
A small outcry over the imposition of entrance fees to Cirencester Park is an interesting moment, and it may prove more significant than it first appears. Sir Benjamin Bathurst, a wealthy slave trader, acquired the stunning estate in 1695 and it remains in the family’s hands. The park sits beside the town of Cirencester and, ever since its inception, people have been allowed through the gates for walking, playing and imbibing the scent of lime blossom from its magnificent avenue of mature trees.
The parkland, landscaped in the 18th century, has been the de facto town park: children have climbed trees there, and residents with tiny back yards have enjoyed the many scientifically proven physical and mental health benefits of exercising in a very large green back yard. There are similar arrangements at other estates, such as Blenheim, where the townsfolk of Woodstock – similarly adjacent to estate walls – can wander fairly freely into vast swathes of parkland on their doorstep.
This centuries-old arrangement arises because previous lords recognised a social contract: they needed the town as much as residents benefited from access. Besides, it would be provocative to keep the hoi polloi confined to their grimy little streets when there was so much green space just over the wall. Now that social contract is crumbling. The Bathurst estate is due to activate electronic gates and a ticket booth at Cirencester Park, charging pedestrians £4 for a day pass (locals can pay a £10 deposit for a “free” access card). Lord Bathurst appeals for “help” to run the park; poorer residents will struggle to prioritise paying £10 to enjoy an avenue of limes.
Rarely are land rights questioned in any way in Britain, but this heartfelt outcry from one English town is similar to the Covid lockdowns when, desperately requiring local green space, many people began to question why so much land was out of bounds. Why do we only have a right to roam over 8% of England? And clear rights to swim or paddle in 3% of rivers?
These questions are growing because Lord Bathurst’s charges are part of a bigger trend. Large estates are run on increasingly commercial lines. It’s cash for access. And landowners are shaking down visitors for every penny. Most of us accept that if we drive a car into a grand estate we must pay handsomely for parking (£9 for six hours at Cirencester Park). Fair enough, if we want to purchase a guided tour, a well-priced coffee, or treat our dogs to the Bathurst estate’s special dog-wash. But charges for a walker who seeks nothing more than the peaceful enjoyment of the green fields ofEngland?
Local residents have called in the Right to Roam campaign, which has organised a “mass trespass” in the park this weekend, with speeches and games for children. For many, the fact that many grand estates are built on colonial plunder and slavery adds to the importance of them acknowledging their social obligations today. Labour has already U-turned on its commitment to a Scottish-style right to roam law in England. But it would be in the landed gentry’s own best interests to encourage the next government to take some steps to widen access, and for the grand old estates to restore their pragmatic approach of recent centuries – freely giving the little people a little access. Without such modest compromises, the clamour for more rights to roam will become an irresistible movement.
Hundreds protest at Cirencester Park against first entry fees in 300 years
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/gallery/pictures-hundreds-protest-cirencester-park-9172014
Catherine Forrester, 37, and Tom Jones, 41, moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire, seven years ago and have been coming to the park ever since. They have visited the park with their four-year-old son, Rowan, since he was a baby and the protest was the first time their daughter Rosa, 10 weeks old, visited the park.
Catherine, who runs an organisation offering peer support for mothers, said: "We're down here because we feel the park should be free for everyone. I love being in the open space, it is very close to the open-air swimming pool - it is a lovely place to come after a swim."
The scheme was due to go live on Friday Mar 15 but was postponed because of delivery issues with the passes. Last Wednesday Mar 13 a public meeting was hosted in Cirencester Ashcroft Church regarding the proposed changes.
Bathurst Estate representatives were invited to join the panel at this meeting but decided to send the organiser a written statement instead. The statement said: "We do not receive any public funding for Cirencester Park.
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