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FULL SHOW Bristol Allotment Site Reps Julie and Stephen Resist Sinn Fein Taking Over Soon United Ireland 800 Civil Servants Warn Public of UKUSA Leader Complicity as Biden Menaces Iran for Israel NTBCFMPS 02Feb24 https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/bristol-allotmenteers-resist-mal-sainsbury-allotment-holder-and-campaigner-joins-tony-and-martin-itv-west-country-report-on-bristol-allotment-prices-going-up-sign-petition-to/ July Parks and Steven Hill, allotment holders and site reps, for Metford Rd Allotments, Redland, join Tony and Martin. Why they love having an allotment, and all the benefits it brings. How to manage an allotment. How they found out about the new allotment regulations coming in, very late, so had hardly any time to appeal. Bristol Council needs more money. Local businesses and community groups that benefit from allotments. Ask Bristol - how Council interact with public online. Farmers protests around Europe LINK**. Growing more difficult than it used to be due to climate change. How the proposed new regulations to allotments were handled very badly by Council. Online - Bristol Allotments Resist - WhatsApp groups. Google groups. Millions of Pounds of Council money misspent under Marvin. £5m on Barton House residents moving out. ITV report on Barton House - Council knew about problems in August 2022, but did nothing. After survey, Barton House flat left in a terrible mess LINK**. Novara Media report - Dr. Ernst found no real evidence for Homeopathy working, much to Prince Charles displeasure, and Prince Charles's 'spider letters' giving his opinions to the Government. Steve Hedley, former leader of RMT Union, joins Tony and Martin online. How he was sacked from his job in a school for wearing a Palestinian badge. Creeping authoritarianism. Genocide in Gaza. UNRWA said to have some Hamas members involved - 20 countries withdraw funding. ITV report - Palestinian man with white flag shot dead by IDF - Israel claims footage edited and hoax - ITV release full footage to show they weren't lieing LINK?**. Irish guy speech in ICJ Gaza genocide trial ....LINK?**. Cameron - his two state solution gaff. Netanyahu has made it clear, there will be one state. Question Time heckler about Gaza, Claudia, gives her story of her experience on QT. Northern Ireland Assembly back. 'How to win an election', Matt Chorley show on Times Radio - Mandleson on Northern Ireland. GCHQ Unions march in Cheltenham - speech by Sharon Graham from Unite the Union. Speeches by Dave Prentiss and Mick Lynch LINK**. Members of Unions involved in Palestinian genocide. ' Derry Boy' book by Steve Hedley - about his experiences growing up in Northern Ireland. The Day to Day - comedy about Northern Ireland. Peter Ford, former Ambassador to Syria, and now Workers Party member, joins Tony and Martin online. George Galloway is launching his campaign to become Workers Party MP for Rochdale on Tuesday. Western officials sign statement on their own Governments violations for not going against Israel's behaviour in Gaza LINK**. Mass grave found in Gaza LINK**. Palestinian babies not innocent LINK**. Gaza aid centre attacked LINK **. Beirut barracks bombings. Workers Party website and Twitter X. Part Two Laurent Guyenot, who made film 'Israel and the Assassinations of the Kennedy Brothers', on how he thinks Israel was a major force behind Kennedy assassinations. Bobby Kennedy killed by a Palestinian - patsy. MK Ultra and mind control. Calocane Nottingham schizophrenic killer - he went to MI5 and asked them to arrest him. Laurent Guyenot on how the Byzantium Orthodox church in Constantinople got pushed across to Russia. The Right Reverand Shaun Manchester on Montague Summers believing in demonic influences. Dennis Wheatley having dinner with him and Alistair Crowley.

Prompted by Gillingham-based Claudia Boleyn HECKLING last week Fiona Bruce and BBCQT producers FINALLY discuss the biggest story in the world, the UK/US aided GENOCIDE in Gaza https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vwtl Question: When will the UK call for a ceasefire in Gaza? 1. From the UK Government, Scotland minister, Lord Offord; Hostages must be returned to Israel and Hamas must lay down their arms (echoing the absurd Netanyahu position which denies the 2.5 million Palestinians' right to self defence under international law) 'Cameron is clear 'he wants a ceasefire' but the policy he explained above can never achieve that. 2. Patrick Harvie MSP, from the Scottish Greens, who is also a minister in the Scottish government; British government have added to the Israeli atrocities by withdrawing its funding from the UNRW aid agency, The UK government must recognise call for a ceasefire now, why can't they? 3/4. Audience members: why are the UK government licencing arms to Israel; also... 25-30,000 innocent people murdered, why? 5. Ian Murray MP, who is Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Scotland; its intractable we want to go towards a ceasefire and audience don't think he's being clear 6. audience member labels Palestinians terrorists but Patrick Harvie explains to many civilians are being killed, they are not all terrorists 7. editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson. says this decision will be made in the USA by sleepy Joe Biden, avoids question 8. audience member says its unrealistic to expect Palestinians to give in, Holyrood shouldn't get involved close Scottish government down 6. Scottish National Party, Scotland’s former finance secretary, Kate Forbes MSP; 13,000 children killed, Palestinians must be able to live freely, Ian Murray chips in that both Israel and Palestine are acting in bad faith ie 'what's the point'. Starmer position. BBC Question Time panellist heckled for saying ‘don’t talk Britain down’ as Fiona Bruce forced to intervene https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/bbc-question-time-konstantin-kisin-heckled-b2485224.html During Thursday night’s show (25 January), comedian Konstantin Kisin said he gets "annoyed hearing people talk endlessly about how we're the worst country in the world". As he made his speech, one audience member began shouting "Shame on you". Mr Kisin said: “This is exactly the problem that I’m talking about. You’re saying shame on you for talking up Britain. That is exactly the problem.” The audience member continued to shout. Host Fiona Bruce was forced to intervene as she urged the audience member not to call out. 🇵🇸 Claudia Boleyn MA🌹Sapphic🌹she/her @ClaudiaBoleyn https://twitter.com/ClaudiaBoleyn Writer. Musician. Bisexual. Biracial. BPD + ADHD–haver. Feminist. YouTuber. Art + history lover. 29. (Channel 5's Me and My Mental Illness) https://www.youtube.com/c/ClaudiaBoleyn I am a twenty-three year old musician from Kent, England. (If one believes themselves to be Christian AND Bisexual they are an apostate who has much to learn abut the faith. They can only grow into the faith by renouncing fornication. All sex outside Christian marriage is sin. Both Christianity and Judaism are under attack from these sexual heresies.) I first started songwriting at age eleven in order to make sense of the world and my place in it. I have struggled with mental illness for as long as I can remember, and music has given me an outlet for those intense, explosive emotions. My influences are varied! I write songs based on historical figures, fictional characters, paintings, people I know, and my own life experience. My songs are rarely in my own ‘voice’. My favourite musical artists are Florence + the Machine, Bat for Lashes, Oh Land, Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, Laura Marling, Katie Melua, Joanna Newsom, and Kate Bush. I am currently working on my first album: Mother Maiden Crone, which I hope will be released in 2018. Of that album, the first two tracks, ‘Celestia’, and ‘Mother, Maiden, Crone.’ have already been released and are available to purchase. https://claudiaboleyn.com/home

Bristol Allotmenteers Resist! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429364584643232 Proposed 'petty' changes to allotment rules could be ditched, deputy mayor hints https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/proposed-petty-changes-allotment-rules-9071198 But rent charges are still set to double for many Bristol City Council plotholders Bristol’s deputy mayor has dropped a huge hint that some of the “petty” new rules proposed for allotment holders will be ditched. But Cllr Craig Cheney (Labour, Hillfields) said controversial planned increases to fees for plots were likely to still go ahead because they were needed to improve the service. Public consultation was due to close on Wednesday (January 31) into the city council’s new allotment rents and tenancy policy, which includes a raft of additional charges and changes to what is allowed on the land. Plotholders would be forced to remove fences, hedges, most trees and large play equipment, as well as replace glass in greenhouses with twin-walled plastic and drain water from deeper ponds. New fees include £25 for keeping bees, chickens or rabbits and £15 for a shed, greenhouse, cold frame, fruit cage, pond and to register a co-worker, while the annual cost of having an allotment would double for many. A petition opposing the plans has now topped 6,000 signatures, with tenants saying they will be forced off the land. Bristol City Council, which manages 4,000 plots, with another 1,500 run on its behalf by five associations, has said it needs to increase rents, which were last reviewed in 2018, and that there are 8,000 people on the waiting list, so more space needs to be freed up. The issue came to a head at a council budget scrutiny meeting on Tuesday, January 30. Cllr Gary Hopkins (Knowle Community Party, Knowle) said: “Clearly people are not going to be happy when they’ve got a significant increase in the charges, but what is more concerning and what people are contacting me about is what they regard as petty regulations which are going to cause problems. How are you actually going to effectively check on this stuff when the allotments team can’t check on this now, so how are they going to check if somebody has a few bees or a chicken or whatever? “The cost of billing them for these minor things and then trying to enforce and collect it seems to be completely unrealistic.” Cllr Cheney replied: “The consultation exercise is underway. “Will we introduce many of the things in the consultation? I suspect not. I’ll be kind, the document that was issued was perhaps not something that we would have approved of. “The income lines are different to what you called petty bureaucracy. In terms of income, for a long time people would not have experienced an ideal allotments service. “In order to deliver a better service overall, you need to increase fees, so an inevitable outcome of improving services is to increase fees.” Cllr John Goulandris (Conservative, Stoke Bishop) said: “A lot of allotment holders say they are going to cancel their allotments. “I don’t know how true that is and whether they’re really going to do that. How confident are we that the income from allotments line [in the budget] is robust and we’re not going to suddenly find ourselves with a shortfall?” Interim executive director of growth & regeneration John Smith replied: “We’ve brought forward some changes around how allotments are run but also around the financing. Demand for allotments remains very high so we’re reasonably confident but we obviously need to get through the current process and there will be a paper that comes forward in March [to cabinet].” Cllr Heather Mack (Green, Lockleaze) said site reps were resigning in protest. She asked: “If we don’t have site reps or those onboard for our allotments strategy, how do we maintain allotments without then having to increase the number of staff, which will then cost more money?” Cabinet member for transport Cllr Don Alexander (Labour, Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston), who is an allotments site rep, said: “One of the challenges of being a site rep is you feel a bit like a judge going down to mediate between various parties who are concerned about who’s taken a bit of extra path or who’s doing something they shouldn’t. The really important thing is that you have a clear set of rules and you have the officers to back you up on those rules. “It’s not that we don’t occasionally bend the rules a little bit but we do need officers to back us up when somebody has really gone and done something that’s affecting the safety of other people or affecting the ability of other plotholders to grow stuff because at the end of the day allotments are about food production. We’ve been short of site reps for a long time before any changes were proposed in the rules, and one of the reasons is that they’re not backed up in trying to sort out the very human problems that occur on allotments.” Cabinet member for public health and communities Cllr Ellie King (Labour, Hillfields) said: “Site reps are volunteer posts and we try to entice people in by giving them significant discounts or free plots in some cases, but it will continue to be a challenge. One of the important points to raise is that it is a very open and live consultation, so nothing is set in stone yet and we are still continuing to work on it with people and listen.” She said the proposed new rules “did not come out of nowhere” but were in response to requests from site reps.

Hinkley Point C delayed again and project costs rocket The schedule for the nuclear power plant in Somerset has been hampered By Toby Codd and Hannah Baker South West Business Editor 25 JAN 2024 Somerset's Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed by a further four years, with costs also spiralling to as much as £35bn, French energy giant EDF has admitted. The station, near Bridgwater, is set to be the UK's first new nuclear plant since the 1990s. Construction began in 2016 and the project was originally estimated to cost £18bn to build. But the scheme has struggled with its schedule, first announcing in 2022 that it would be delayed and costs could rise to £26bn. It was hoped Hinkley Point C would be completed in 2027, but France's state-owned energy operator EDF has now said one of the reactors could be finished in 2029 at the earliest - but it could be as late as 2031. In an update, EDF announced the Hinkley Point C project had recently achieved a series of milestones. These include the delivery of 70% of equipment for Unit 1, the finalisation of the detailed design for the next phase of electromechanical work, and the creation of steam generators which are now ready to be delivered. Bosses at Hinkley blamed the delays on "several scenarios" including the impact of inflation, Covid-19 and Brexit. In a letter to staff, Stuart Crooks, the managing director of Hinkley Point C, said substantial design changes, required by British regulations, meant there were 7,000 changes that needed to be made to the site. He explained that 35% more steel and 25% more concrete was needed than originally planned. He said that the dome lift was delayed by 15 months due to the pandemic and construction has been slowed by inflation, and labour and material shortages. Mr Crooks added that increased civil construction costs have made the project run for longer and cost more money. EDF said: "The costs of completing the project are now estimated at between £31bn and £34bn in 2015 values. The cost of civil engineering and the longer duration of the electromechanical phase (and its impact on other work) are the two main reasons for this cost revision. Last year, a report from the Heart of the South West LEP, which analysed the plant's role as a catalyst for growth, job creation, and prosperity, found the project was having a positive impact on local communities, businesses and the economy. And in June 2023 a supply chain programme supporting the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station was found to have helped South West firms to secure £180m worth of contracts and create more than 1,000 jobs. https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/hinkley-point-c-delayed-again-28508257

Bristol mayor Marvin Rees explains decision to attend COP28 in Dubai three weeks after summit in Rwanda https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-mayor-marvin-rees-explains-8924155 "We’re a Premiership city, we’ve got to behave like a Premiership city. If we’re a Premiership city but behave like we’re League Two, we’ll be demoted" The mayor of Bristol has defended his decision to fly 3,500 miles to the COP28 Climate Change summit in Dubai, and said that Bristol ‘is a Premiership city that risks being relegated to League Two’ if he doesn’t go. It will be the second trip abroad in the space of just a three weeks for Marvin Rees, who was in Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last week, at the same time the city council took the decision to evacuate 400 residents of Barton House over building safety concerns. 2024 Majorca Holidays Going For Great Deals (Take A Look)Start Search | In an exclusive interview, when Bristol Live put criticism of his work on the world stage, Mr Rees replied that he ‘gets it’, but added: “I just think it’s part of the job. But I get it. I get it takes a few steps to be able to understand that.” Read next: Evacuated Barton House tower block residents will be out 'for some time but for no reason' says Bristol mayor

UK Secret Services can ORDER Chief Constables NOT to pursue agents of influence, informers or those they are experimenting on and are KNOWN to have experimented with hypnosis, mind-altering drugs, mentally destabilising people in an attempt to create remote-controlled killers etc. They have also achieved IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION from all serious crimes including MURDER Court Rules British MI5 Agents Can Murder, Kidnap andTorture U.K. can authorize agents to operate in criminal groups Security tribunal publishes first dissenting opinion By Jonathan Browning 20 December 2019 at 13:04 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/licensed-to-kill-court-rules-mi5-can-murder-kidnap-torture Nottingham killer went to MI5 HQ pleading to be arrested, court told https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/24/nottingham-killer-went-to-mi5-hq-pleading-to-be-arrested-court-told Valdo Calocane, 32, who has paranoid schizophrenia, believed the agency was controlling him, says defence lawyer Valdo Calocane: Timeline of Nottingham triple killer's contact with mental health services https://www.itv.com/news/2024-01-25/timeline-of-nottingham-triple-killers-contact-with-mental-health-services When did Calocane's mental health problems begin? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-68080872 Defence barrister Peter Joyce KC said his client's mental illness started in 2019. Elias Calocane told police he first became aware his brother was suffering from mental health problems while he was studying for his degree. He apparently believed he was being spied on by his housemates and by MI6, and that his family was under threat. He was prescribed anti-psychotic medication but stopped taking it, which the prosecution said led to a further decline in his mental health. Calocane's family became concerned about his mental health again in May 2021. According to his brother, he had been hearing voices, telling him his family members would die. Mr Joyce told the court that Calocane even travelled to the MI5 headquarters on 31 May 2021 to try to stop them controlling him. "That's not a concoction by him," he said. "There is a photograph taken by their systems at Thames House, saying 'please arrest me' -

Zionism: Manufacturing a State’ explores the intricate ties between religion, ideology, and Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. Featuring Jewish rabbis and scholars, it critiques the impact of Zionism on Judaism. The film traces historical roots, connecting the ideology to today’s Gaza events, and offering a nuanced look at the complex interplay of religion and ideology in Israel’s history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnchYCCSSQ#

– Bristol Allotmenteers Resist! – Mal Sainsbury, Allotment holder and campaigner, joins Tony and Martin. ITV West Country report on Bristol allotment prices going up. – Sign petition to stop prices rising for allotments – Facebook LINK**. Seed swap LINK**. – Boycotting Israeli goods – outside Cabot Sainsbury’s 10am Saturday 27th January. Palestine protest march on ‘boycott tour of Broadmead’ – Barton House residents protest on feeling unsafe in their building. – Roy Pumfrey, from Stop Hinkley, on the spiralling costs and never-ending building project of Hinckley C. Costs doubling to £46bn, with an estimated end date of 2036. – Great Britain (GB) electricity generation or supply is made up of multiple sources and technologies. – UK will need conscription to army to fight wars – Colonel Simon Diggins discusses this on Talk Radio. – Sergei Lavrov translated at an annual press conference – security agreement between UK and Ukraine. West starting wars. Andrei Kelin, Russian Ambassador to London – ICJ judgement on whether Israel conducting genocide in Gaza – fudged answer. Kenneth Roth article Guardian – The ICJ ruling is a repudiation of Israel and its western backers – Al Jazeera report on ICJ judgement in the Hague – Israel given a month to behave. ICJ Rules Against Israel in Gaza Genocide Case – PMQs Steven Flynn – unarmed Palestinian man with white flag shot by IDF. Rishi Sunak on Gaza genocide and ceasefire. SNP asks PM to call Israeli actions a ‘war crime – IDF kill 20+ at UNRWA aid centre – Gaza’s Health Ministry blames Israeli troops for deadly shooting as crowd waited for aid – IDF and UK/USA withdraw funding for UNRWA aid centre – Al Jazeera report – UNRWA Aid centre in Gaza hit by IDF strike. US pauses funding for UNRWA – Fiona Bruce heckled as BBC Question Time AGAIN fails to mention Gaza genocide the UK government is supporting – – Fiona Bruce heckled as BBC Question Time AGAIN fails to mention Gaza genocide the UK government is supporting diplomatically and with arms. – Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s Business Links to the genocidal Israeli government – Lowkey speaking backstage at Birmingham’s biggest demo ever – Tucker Carlson interviews father of Ukraine man in jail ….? US authorities confirm death of reporter Gonzalo Lira in custody in Ukraine “ – Tik Tok – Neturei Karta Rabbi Dovid Feldman, Miko Peled, Steven Sizer – an explanation of Zionism. America’s Christian Zionists: Israel’s strategic weapon? – Iraq War whistleblower Katharine Gun: today’s GCHQ targets British dissidents we should shut it down – GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun on what GCHQ has become….. Iraq War whistleblower Katharine Gun: today’s GCHQ targets British dissidents we should shut it down - – Will Islam’s prophet The Mahdi, be the Antichrist of Revelation? Coming Jewish/Christian Zionist and Muslim conflict with object of bringing in global Luciferian faith: – With all the talk of a Middle East WWIII will Islam’s prophesied ‘Mahdi’ saviour be the Antichrist? – Coming Jewish/Christian Zionist and Muslim conflict with object of bringing in global Luciferian faith – Will Islam’s prophet The Mahdi, be the Antichrist of Revelation? – Ayodhya: India’s PM inaugurates Hindu temple on hotly disputed religious site – India’s Modi opens Ram temple built on site of demolished mosque in Ayodhya – Temple’s consecration marks an unofficial start to the Hindu nationalist leader’s re-election campaign – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-175/

US authorities confirm death of reporter Gonzalo Lira in custody in Ukraine "We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss," the US Department of State said https://www.herald.co.zw/us-govt-allows-ukraine-to-kill-american-journalist-for-criticising-zelensky/ WASHINGTON, January 13. /TASS/. The US Department of State has confirmed the accuracy of data about the death of reporter Gonzalo Lira, a citizen of Chile and the US, in prison in Ukraine. "We can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine. We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss," a representative of the Department of State told a TASS correspondent in response to a request to comment on the information that Lira died in jail. "We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance. Out of respect to the family during this difficult time, we have no further comment," the official added. Earlier US journalist Tucker Carlson said, citing Lira’s father, that the reporter, who was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), has died in prison. Carlson wrote on X (former Twitter) that despite Lira’s American citizenship, the US administration "clearly supported his imprisonment and torture." Earlier, American entrepreneur Elon Musk appealed to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with a request to explain the arrest and detention of Lira. Musk announced his opinion on this topic in response to a publication on the social network X (formerly Twitter) by Tucker Carlson, who stated that Lira was being "tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime criticizing Zelensky." In the spring, Russia urged the global journalist community to speak out in defense of Lira, who was abducted by the SBU, and demand his immediate release. The blogger was detained by the SBU in Kharkov in May. He was accused of supporting Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The SBU insists that the journalist was arrested and given bail but after paying it Lira violated the law and purportedly attempted to flee the country on his own motorcycle via a checkpoint on the border with Hungary. According to the latest data, Lira was at a pre-trial detention facility in the city of Kharkov awaiting trial.

The Antichrist will be a Zionist Kevin Barratt Gaza Zionism Satanism Accelerationism Will Islams Mahdi Be The Antichrist Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie Paperback – Illustrated, 10 July 2007 by Kevin Barrett (Author) 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 5 ratings See all formats and editions Millions of people now know the main arguments for the thesis 9/11 was an inside job, starting from the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center buildings No. 1, 2 and 7. Even a champion of orthodoxy like Time Magazine was obliged to note that the 9/11 Truth Movement is no longer a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream reality. Kevin Barrett takes this now-familiar thesis as a springboard to new territory in this book. Like Jack Kerouac in On the Road, Barrett has written a gospel for a new generation of post - 9/11 sceptics.This ebullient book strikes a confident keynote for this sudden coming of age. It is a tonic draft of courage for millions of disenfranchised 9/11 truthers - and for the uneasy majority who sense that America, once a beacon of ideals for humanity, is no longer on the right track. Truth Jihad is the first 9/11 Truth book that is not primarily tasked with proving 9/11 was an inside job to our fellow humanity. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-Jihad-Epic-Struggle-Against/dp/0930852990

Fiona Bruce heckled as BBC Question Time AGAIN fails to mention Gaza genocide the UK government is supporting diplomatically and with arms The replies to final question: how do we create hope for our young people? 1. Columnist and former Labour party adviser Sonia Sodha: 'build masses of cheap new council housing' 2. Author and satirist Konstantin Kisin: 'talk up Britain as we are the best country in the world' 3. Chatham House private foreign policy think-tank director Bronwen Maddox; 'do something about climate change' 4. Tory cabinet office minister Alex Burghart MP; 'Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing' 5. Labour’s shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth MP: 'Gaza truce, ceasefire and a Palestinian state' BBC Question Time in chaos as audience member heckles 'shame on you' at panellist Question Time host Fiona Bruce was forced to intervene on Thursday when an audience member continued to heckle pundit Konstantin Kisin during a discussion on young people Fiona Bruce was forced to intervene on Question Time Question Time was left in chaos when a guest was repeatedly interrupted by a heckling member of the audience. The awkward moment took place during a discussion into the future of the UK with Fiona Bruce asking the panellists and audience: "How do we create hope for young people in our country?" Host Fiona Bruce was forced to intervene during the fiery exchange in Thursday night's show, which was filmed in Gillingham, Kent. Right-wing pundit Konstantin Kisin said: "I think at a cultural level there's something perhaps even more important which is we've got to stop talking down our country. I'm a first-generation immigrant to this country and I get annoyed hearing people talk endlessly about how we're the worst country in the world, we're the most sexist country in the world, we're the most racist." The audience member continued to shout out and host Fiona stepped in, saying: "There's no point shouting out in the audience because the people at home can't hear you. Let's try not to talk over each other." However, Question Time viewers were disappointed the host didn't give the heckling audience member a chance to speak and explain her point of view. One wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Question time finished at 1139 pm the show had one min left Fiona Bruce the girl saying shame on you should of had her chance to make her point," while another said: "#questiontime @BBCNews @bbclaurak too many guests on the panel the main problem." A third said: "Well done #Questiontime for your obvious bias at the end of the programme, why invite an audience then shut them up because it doesn’t resonate with your agenda shameful!" Another added: "#questiontime wow how depressing. The final question was about hope for the UK and the answers contained none. We really are screwed ! #QT #politics #bbcqt." https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bbc-question-time-chaos-audience-31971414

Hope you enjoy our three way discussion with Mal Sainsbury this evening - plus the ruminations of six or seven allotment holders speaking on Wednesday evening - my take: this is our land, the council are custodians, not private landlords https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-175/ Petition: Objections to Bristol City Council's changes to allotment rules and rent https://www.change.org/p/objections-to-bristol-city-council-s-changes-to-allotment-rules-and-rent Bristol City Council have begun a consultation on proposed changes to rules across their allotment sites, as well as proposing significant rental increases. Full information around these changes and the ability to respond directly to the Council during the consultation are available via this link: https://www.ask.bristol.gov.uk/bristol-allotment Bristol allotment changes could force gardening grandma to destroy trees, pond and playhouse She says she will give up her plot after 20 years, if the council's new allotment rules are approved A grandmother looks set to lose the sanctuary she has created over 20 years of hard work if allotment rule changes go ahead. Eugenia Knight, who is almost 70 years old, is one of thousands to have signed a petition against Bristol City Council’s proposals to implement strict new rules and price hikes across the city’s allotments. She will join hundreds of other allotment holders at City Hall this evening (January 24), all protesting changes which will see some children’s play equipment banned, most trees removed, deeper ponds drained of water and allotment fees doubled. Eugenia, who should be retired, continues to work two days a week because her state pension is not enough for her to live on while supporting family in Bristol and Argentina. But she said if the increase in annual rent was the only change being implemented, she would find a way to pay the money. However Eugenia said she would not be prepared to chop down the trees on her allotment, which bear fruit and provide her with shade in the summer months, or drain her pond of water and kill the newts and frogs as they could no longer survive in the shallow waters. Keeping the allotment has not been easy for Eugenia, who was scared she would lose her allotment during the pandemic when she had to go back to work full-time while still overcoming a recent battle with cancer. But she feels it is important that her grandchildren, who live next to a busy main road, have a space where they can play, grow food and learn about the importance of ecology. Her eldest granddaughter Niyah, who is now 11-years-old, has become a keen gardener and has the skills in food growing that many adults wish they could have learned when they were younger. Eugenia says that if the new rules go ahead then her youngest granddaughter will not be able to learn and play at the allotment, which currently has trees for climbing, a playhouse and a patch of grass which provides a space for resting and having picnics. Niyah, who lives by a by a main road enjoys spending time with her grandma helping out at the allotment. Eugenia started renting her allotment in Fishponds' Thingwall Park around 20 years ago, after separating from her former partner. When she took on the plot it was completely overgrown with brambles but over the years she has worked hard to create a space that not only supports food growth but also has become a space to take her grandchildren, family and friends who enjoy the calmness of being around nature. Eugenia said: “I have a playhouse for my granddaughters but they are saying that no play equipment is allowed. My daughter-in-law put it there when Niyah was two years old and it’s just stayed there and now it’s staying there for her younger sister. “They live on top of a main road with loads of cars and it’s the only place we can take them to get a bit of fresh air and trees. The playhouse gives the children their own little area and they climb up the tree next to it and around the back by the bluebells- it’s like a whole secret garden for them where they can create their imaginary games." The council's proposed rules state that toys that can be stored in a shed are permitted, but some large play equipment will be banned. This includes anything larger "8 ft / 2.1m high x 9 ft / 3m x 6 ft 1.8- 2m" and no more than two large items are permitted. The equipment must have manufacturer's CE certification and banned items include "homemade [play] items, trampolines and water play". https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-allotment-changes-could-force-9054363

Palestinian officials say the people of Gaza suffer from various types of water-borne diseases Palestinian officials have issued a serious warning about health conditions in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying its inhabitants are prone to contracting various types of water-borne diseases. Palestinian officials have issued a serious warning about health conditions in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying its inhabitants are prone to contracting various types of water-borne diseases. According to Palestine's Environmental Quality Authority, 66 percent of people in Gaza suffer from cholera, chronic diarrhea, and intestinal diseases due to the lack of drinkable water. It said Israel's relentless strikes have knocked the territory’s water desalination plants out of service. The authority added that the regime’s bombing of sewage lines has led to an environmental catastrophe in Gaza. Meanwhile, the U-N Humanitarian Coordinator for Palestine says Israel has added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into Gaza. Jamie McGoldrick said a large number of goods and equipment needed to improve the territory’s sanitation have been also banned by Israel.

Petition: Objections to Bristol City Council's changes to allotment rules and rent https://www.change.org/p/objections-to-bristol-city-council-s-changes-to-allotment-rules-and-rent https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159664101117665&set=p.1015966410111766 ‘These proposals will decimate the green lungs of our city’ https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/these-proposals-will-decimate-the-green-lungs-of-our-city/ An unfamiliar site graced City Hall on Wednesday evening as spades, rakes and baskets of vegetables could be spotted among a crowd of protesters outside the building’s entrance. Growers from across Bristol’s council-owned allotments came together to protest proposals to hike allotment fees and change what can and can’t be grown on plots. The council wants to increase fees by more than 75 per cent for some plot holders, and is proposing changes to what can be grown, including the removal of trees and hedgerows above a certain height, and ponds and other wildlife havens that don’t fit the food cultivation criteria. Campaigners from Bristol Allotmenteers Resist want to see the current proposals thrown out, and a new proposal created which works with the growing community to meet their needs, as well as an increase in rent that is in line with inflation. Bristol City Council has yet to respond to multiple requests by Bristol24/7 for a comment. Sarah Venn, from Edible Bristol, has been a vocal opponent of the fee hikes. Speaking at the rally, she said: “The aim of many community groups growing on allotment land in Bristol is to produce affordable, free, health and culturally appropriate food for their communities, and yet these draconian new rules, including the cost of setting up a project will put a stop to those most in need from doing this.” “We need Bristol City Council to rethink this consultation, which is discriminatory, and bring together a citywide consultation from the grassroots that acknowledges Bristol’s opportunity to turn this around.” Holly Wyatt, who launched the online petition, which now has over 5,000 signatures, of which more than 2,500 are from Bristol postcodes, added: “We’ve got so many trees that we would pull down with these rules. “We would move so many wonderful animals that we shared our plots with. We need those ecosystems.” Alina Hibbert, who rents a small plot at Thingwall Park allotments in Eastville said: “My allotment is not just an allotment, it is my garden, it is my safe space, it is my haven and it helps me with my mental health, and I think that applies to a lot of people here, which is why we are so passionate about this.” Green councillors Ani Stafford Townsend and Lorraine Francis attended the protest in solidarity with protesters. Green councillors have vowed to work to get the plans thrown out. Labour councillor Ellie King, who is leading the consultations with Bristol Allotment Forum, a regular meeting of allotmenteers in Bristol, met with growers on Wednesday evening while other protesters remained outside. Growers hope their concerns will be heard at the meeting so that the plans will be thrown out and a new plan drawn up after the May elections....

Iraq War GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, today's GCHQ is increasingly targeting British citizens, we should shut it down 23 Jan 2024 https://www.facebook.com/katharine.gun.79 STATES OF EMERGENCY: Keeping the Global Population in Check - using fear to grease the wheels of global transformation (2022) by by Prof. Kees van der Pijl “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 https://www.claritypress.com/product/states-of-emergency-keeping-the-global-population-in-check/

‘Refuse to fight’: Jewish, Arab activists call for peace in Israel’s Haifa Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis come together to demand an end to the war on Gaza. Palestine Action smash Elbit’s cargo contractors: no transport for genocide! https://www.palestineaction.org/cargo-contractors/ Overnight actions by Palestine Action have targeted the logistics companies servicing the operations of Israel’s arms trade in Britain, disrupting their operations and exposing their role in arming the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Palestine Action targeted logistics companies belonging to Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) and Palletline, as part of a widespread direct action campaign against Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, and the companies which facilitate their weapons manufacturing in Britain and their arms exports to Israel. K+N’s Milton Keynes branch and their subsidiary in London, Nacaro cargo insurance, were targeted overnight. At the company’s Milton Keynes industrial site, which specialises in road transportation, activists sprayed the entire front of the building in blood-red paint and shattered windows. In London, others took similar action against Nacora, leaving the office drenched in paint. In Scotland, activists from Palestine Action struck Palletline’s Glasgow site, breaking their windows and spray painting messages such as “Drop Elbit” and “Free Palestine”. Palletline frequently transport items in and out of Elbit’s drone factory, U-TacS, In Leicester. Peace activists have taken part in a protest in Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa, demanding a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and the exchange of captives and prisoners between Hamas and Israel. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/1/20/refuse-to-fight-jewish-arab-activists-call-for-peace-in-israels-haifa “This is the first time we are seeing this protest happen in the north,” said Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Haifa on Saturday. “It’s a protest with Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis, and it is significant because of the two coming together. “The message here is to end the war and that they can only live peacefully side by side with a political solution for the Palestinians,” she said. Omri Evron, a member of the Communist Party of Israel, who helped organise the anti-war protest, spoke to Al Jazeera about the message the protesters were hoping to convey. “The killing of thousands and thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are innocent civilians, is not only reprehensible, it does not serve the security of the people of Israel. It does not bring us security, it only ensures the next massacre, the next cycle of violence,” he said. “Currently, they [the protestors] are chanting “refuse to kill, refuse to fight, refuse to murder” – this is our call.” Evron admitted there weredifficulties in organising a protest of this kind. “It has been difficult, not because there aren’t Jews and Arabs who want to come together who believe in a joint future of peace and equality and national liberation of both people in two states,” he explained.

Part One- News Review and Investigative Reports https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-174/ Rwanda bill. Jacob Rees Mogg on Peston about the Rwanda bill LINK**. BBC QT - Lawyer Hashi Mohammed on how Israel tried a Rwanda system and it didn't work. Immigration a major election issue this year? Illegal boat migrants economic migrants? Nigel Farage on Peston - Rwanda won't work legally LINK**. Labour Party, Unions and Starmer. Socialised, collectivised, public transport. Ken Livingstone in 1980s. Technical solutions to climate change? Port Talbot steel works shut. James Tweedie's Mum has trouble with her electric car LINK**. Chris Skidmore, Bristol Labour MP, stands down triggering a by election. Will Greens take Bristol central? DAVOS WEF meeting. 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) | Aanirfan | Manna for the Revelation Generation: CONSPIRACY CLASSICS, longer interviews/lectures Part Two- Accelerationist Armageddonist Investigations and Reports Ron Mandel, former Internal Relations lecturer in UK, joins Tony and Martin. How Ron became a teacher and why he came to UK. DAVOS WEF - list of some attendees. Fujitsu is a major sponsor of DAVOS. DAVOS a mixture of business and government - healthy? Bilderberg secret. US Presidential election campaign. Farage on Peston, as part of Reform UK, on Trump. Role of money in US political system. Trump's prosecutions. Will Trump win election? UK elections - much of a choice? DAVOS. Houthis attacking ships in Red Sea, and UK/US attacking them. C4 Gary Gibbon - Yemen attacks discussed in Parliament on Monday. Cameron at DAVOS - justifying UK/US attacks on Yemen - peace in Gaza. Iran proxies? What about US/UK proxies? Imperialism. C4 Defence Minister, James Cartridge asked if UK/US will retaliate again after more Houthi ship attacks. Genocide in Gaza and history of situation there misunderstood. ICJ South Africa - Genocide in Gaza. Dr. Judith Brown on Yemen ship attacks - on Yemen war ending as Ukraine war begins LINK**. Pakistan Iran strikes. Palestine Action tries to target stock exchange in protest over Gaza. LBit 7 trial in Bristol. Nick Georges, from Palestine Action, on how Police hassled his sister for pinning a note to MPs door, and atrocious situation in Gaza. LBit covered in red paint by Palestine Action. Patrizia Opulenza poem on DAVOS. Satanist lady describes what Sataists believe, in themselves but also in the Prince of Darkness, who may be the leader of a coven or lodge, but they do not 'worship' him.

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Major blow for Sunak as two top Tories resign over Rwanda Bill vote https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/major-blow-for-sunak-as-two-top-tories-resign-over-rwanda-bill-vote/ar-AA1n4SNq Lee Anderson & Brendan Clarke-Smith's resignation letter in full Dear Prime Minister, When we were elected in 2019 we promised the public that we would Get Brexit Done and Take Back Control. One of the key issues for the public was our sovereignty and making sure our Parliament and our courts would have supremacy over distant and unaccountable ones abroad. This Conservative Government has taken unprecedented steps to make sure that this is the case. Globally we see the huge impact of migration, both legal and illegal and that is why it has been so important to bring in measures to bring these numbers down. Our returns policy and working together with partners such as Albania is but one example of how this Government has taken up the challenge, alongside our work against criminal networks. TheRwandaplan represents a clear deterrent and it is noteworthy that other countries are now looking at following our lead. The United Kingdom is a welcoming country and we can be very proud of our record taking in refugees and those who wish to contribute to society and make it their home. Indeed, many of those who have done so would be the first to recognise that this system also needs to be robust and supported by the principle of fairness. There are far too many who wish to cheat our system and we continue to witness the scourge of the evil people smuggling gangs, with yet more tragic deaths in the Channel. Whilst we have taken steps to tackle these important issues, we have done so being bound by a Blair-era legal framework and international agreements which are out of date and do not reflect the realities of the twenty first century. Prime Minister, you pledged to do whatever it takes to stop the boats. You have been clear and resolute over theRwandaplan and you have stated that you will not let a foreign court block these flights. You have our 100% support and the support of our constituents. Labour has no plan. They have voted against every single measure we have taken to prevent deaths in the Channel, to crack down on criminal gangs and to return those with no right to be here to their countries of origin. A Labour Government would be a disaster and would lead to an open-door immigration policy. They would scrap theRwandascheme in its entirety, bring around 100,000 extra asylum seekers as part of a deal with the European Union and, as they have already demonstrated and signed letters supporting, take foreign national offenders convicted of some of the most heinous crimes off flights back to their countries of origin. They have no interest whatsoever in tackling this issue and neither do the Liberal Democrats or the SNP. In the past we have signed amendments, voted for ten minute rule bills and spoken on various occasions in the media to argue that safeguards need to (sic) put in place to make sure our legislation is watertight. It is therefore important in terms of credibility that we are consistent with this. We have already had two pieces of legislation thwarted by a system that does not work in favour of the British people. It is for this reason that we have supported the amendments to theRwandaBill. This is not because we are against the legislation, but because like everybody else we want it to work. This task is not an easy one and we appreciate the fine balance that must be struck. As two people who have been on very different political journeys, one as a person who followed the same path many voters did for the first time at the last General Election and another who has been a lifelong Conservative Party supporter, it has been a huge honour for both of us to serve as Deputy Chairmen of the party. CCHQ has an excellent team and the Chairman is doing a tremendous job in making sure we are in good shape to campaign for a historic fifth term and to prevent the unthinkable prospect of a Labour Government, which would damage this country so much. Our support for the party and this Government remains as strong as ever and that is why we are so passionate about making this legislation work. However, we fully appreciate that with such important roles there is also the issue of being bound by collective responsibility. It is with this in mind that we fully appreciate that whilst our main wish is to strengthen the legislation, this means that in order to vote for amendments we will therefore need to offer you our resignations from our roles. We commend your work on illegal migration so far and your commitment to implementing the will of the British people. The last thing either of us wants to do is to distract from this. We both look forward to making this legislation work, to carrying out the will of the British people and to taking on Labour and winning the next General Election. Yours sincerely, Lee Anderson MP Brendan Clarke-Smith MP

Global trust in institutions is eroding, reflected in how 40% of people consistently trust news. So prostitutes gather to justify the lie machine by expressing views from the script acceptable to the Satanic Elite. Schwab's pals, in their turn, are amused by the stupidity of these accursed humans being instruments of their fellow humans' destruction, ditching Abraham, Moses, Jesus, language and learning, the only things that make human beings civilised. Empowering Internet users with media information literacy, advancing information integrity and enhancing transparency are vital for addressing the spread of false information. What actions do stakeholders need to take to preserve a healthy trust ecosystem? The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change. The 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability. This Annual Meeting will welcome over 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets. The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

– Green Party set to control Bristol’s £1bn annual budget from May 2024 – Guy Poultney, Green Councillor, joins Tony and Martin. Bristol councillors approve new constitution but mayor declines to vote – Councillors were voting to decide how the council will be run once there is no Mayor of Bristol – Mayoral system has been difficult to work under as a Councillor. – Allotments in Bristol double in price. Local Councils ‘have no money’. Bristol allotment fees to double as plot holders launch campaign A consultation has been launched – Bristol allotment fees to double as plot holders launch campaign A consultation has been launched into proposed new charges for sheds, ponds, greenhouses and keeping bees, rabbits and chickens – Bristol’s Unique Palestine Museum and Cultural Centre: Walking down one of the most historically recognisable streets in Bristol you might notice a Palestin – Evacuated Barton House residents told they can soon return:. Council ‘U-turn’ over Barton House residents who don’t want to return – – Hecklers cause Bristol councillors to stop debate on calling for ceasefire in Gaza war This was the second full council meeting in a row to be adjourned due to disruption – Projecting of Israeli/Palestinian flag on to Council buildings. Immigration bringing down wages. Social care. Palestinian flag projected on to City Hall in protest – Bristol journalists meeting Palestinians at Bristol Palestine Museum – Gadija Najudga on whether conflict is religious. – Bomb scare at Bristol’s Palestinian Museum in Broad Street Friday night 5/6 January 2024. Bomb threat by email, forty police and explosives sniffer dogs search the building from top to bottom until 14:30 in the morning. – Genocide in Gaza. Does Zionism have a religious aspect, or just a legacy of Empire? – Fujitsu signed a £48million deal in 2022 to maintain the Police National Computer, which stores details of all convictions and cautions, and fingerprint and DNA data. – Fujitsu involved in Bristol Council, and a major overspend.. Patrizia Opulenza poem about Post Office Horizon scandal. Post Office scandal firm Fujitsu’s fraudulent contract – Will Yemen Policing Red Sea/Suez Canal Force UK USA To End Support For Israel’s Gaza Genocide? – US/UK attacking Yemen, after Houthis continue to attack ships in Red Sea. US and UK launch strikes against Yemen; Houthi rebels promise to retaliate – – UK & USA Acts of War on Yemen: Sunak in Ukraine – on the UK being involved in attacks on Yemen. Ships in Red Sea story The rationale by the Houthis – Al Jazeera – South Africa calling Gaza attacks genocide at International Court of Justice. ITV report on this too – white phosphorus being used by IDF in Gaza. – Greg Felton, author of ‘ The Host and the Parasite’, on the South African genocide court case – Israel turning water off in Gaza. 2000 ships chose to go round Cape of Good Hope – Al Jazeera Inside Story deliberate killing of Journalists in Gaza – I’m constantly amazed by the composure of the Gazan journalists as they describe the most heinous conditions. – Bill Nash, British Army, who served in Israel/Palestine in 1947 to 1948, on his experiences. ‘State of Terror’ book. Bill Nash talks about serving as a young officer in Palestine before the creation of the Israeli state – Armageddonism latest: ‘Why Are Millionaires Trying to Destroy the World’ report on Armageddonism by Joe Scott – Accelerationism? This is an ideology gaining in popularity – Rediscovering God in ‘Hell on Earth’ Bethlehem Christmas 2023, ex Virginia Water vicar Stephen Sizer Steven Sizer, Vicar, on Israel being the land God gave to the Jews – Mike Mandel examines the evidence from former cult members that Freemasonry, Witchcraft and Satanic Cults are strikingly similar in their symbolism, language and blood- – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-173/

Gaza Ukraine China Yemen: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Holds Annual Press Conference 2024 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivers his annual address to the international media Establishment of Palestinian state to draw a line under Middle East conflict — Lavrov https://tass.com/politics/1734119 "Russia is very interested to see Israel and the Israelis live in security," the top Russian diplomat stressed MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. The creation of a Palestinian state should draw a line under the Middle East conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on the achievements of Russian diplomacy in 2023. "The main focus of efforts should be the creation of a Palestinian state in full compliance with the UN Security Council resolution. The state that is described in these decisions would be capable and would exist in security and good neighborliness side by side with Israel and other countries in the region," Lavrov said. Without this, he stated, there will be more relapses of the kind of violence currently being seen in Gaza. "Without the establishment of a Palestinian state, the Palestinian people will continue to feel disadvantaged and disfranchised," Lavrov pointed out. "A line is to be drawn and that will be done with the establishment of a Palestinian state." Lavrov hopes that Israel will eventually realize this. "Without the establishment of a Palestinian state, there can be no reliable security for Israel. Russia is very interested to see Israel and the Israelis live in security. That country is our long-standing partner," he concluded. Strategically autonomous Europe not part of US grand plan — top Russian diplomat Lavrov https://tass.com/politics/1734131 French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly stated the need for the European Union to achieve strategic autonomy, implying, among other things, political independence, economic competitiveness and sufficient defense capabilities to ensure its own security without having to rely on the United States MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. The United States, which "calls the tune" for Europe, will simply not allow the continent to exercise any measure of strategic autonomy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at his annual news conference devoted to reviewing Moscow’s main foreign policy achievements in 2023. It is ultimately the US and the UK that "call the tune" in Europe, Lavrov noted. "It’s embarrassing for so-called Continental Europe to hear all this talk from your neighbors in France that the European Union is [allegedly] fighting for strategic autonomy. Let me assure you: Nobody is going to give you this strategic autonomy," the top diplomat said in reply to a question from an Italian journalist. French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly stated the need for the European Union to achieve strategic autonomy, implying, among other things, political independence, economic competitiveness and sufficient defense capabilities to ensure its own security without having to rely on the United States.

8 Jan 2024 #IsraelWar #IsraelHamasWar #Israel Tim Dawson - Deputy General Secretary, International Federation of Journalists; Former President UK Ntional Union of Journalists Jodie Ginsberg: President, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Reuters newsroom leader Ali Abunimah: Co-Founder Electronic Intifada; Author, 'The Battle for Justice in Palestine' It is the latest direct attack by Israeli forces on media workers. Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh and a colleague were killed in an Israeli air strike on Hamza's car. Why is Israel targeting so many journalists? And what's the reaction of the world's media?

Bill Nash talks about serving as a young officer in Palestine before the creation of the Israeli state In his outstanding analysis of the 1948 war, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe notes that a month after the UN resolution, the Jewish leadership embarked on the ‘ethnic cleansing of Palestine’, beginning with a series of attacks on Arab villages following the vandalisation by some Palestinians of buses and shopping centres in protest at the resolution. The same month the Arab League decided to form an Arab volunteer force to ‘liberate’ Palestine. Known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA), and consisting of around 5,000 volunteers from Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan, the force began operations in Palestine against Jewish forces in January 1948. As warfare among Jews and Palestinians increased, the Jewish leaders’ plans culminated in a meeting in March 1948 which decided on a ‘Plan D’, the ‘systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from vast areas of the country’. When the British withdrew from Palestine in May, the Jewish Agency declared independence and the regular armies of the Arab states invaded Palestine; brutal fighting ensued between Jewish forces estimated at around 98,000 and Arab forces with around 50,000. Not all Arab states opposed Israel, however. Transjordan’s King Abdullah, the British-backed monarch still reigning after being installed by London a quarter of a century earlier, entered into a tacit alliance with Israel not to join in any pan-Arab military operations against the Jewish state, and to quietly recognize its existence. In return, Abdullah would be permitted to annex most of the areas allocated to the Arabs under the partition resolution, the lands on the West Bank of the river Jordan. This unwritten agreement, reached in January 1948, resulted in the neutralisation of the Arab world’s most effective fighting force, the British-backed Arab Legion, based in Transjordan and commanded by the British officer, Sir John Bagot Glubb. In May, the same month that the state of Israel was founded, the British ambassador in Transjordan, Sir Alex Kirkbride, wrote to Foreign Secretary Bevin, reporting that ‘there have been negotiations between the Arab Legion and the Hagana [the Jewish paramilitary force] which have been conducted by British officers of the Arab Legion. It is understood that the object of these top secret negotiations is to define the areas of Palestine to be occupied by the two forces’. Bevin replied: ‘I am reluctant to do anything that might prejudice the outcome of these negotiations’. Bevin’s response was typical of the line the British were now taking on Israel-Palestine. In late May 1948, the British supported the Arab states in opposing a ceasefire resolution at the UN accepted by the Israelis, who had by now annexed a large amount of formerly Palestinian territory and were content to consolidate their gains. The reason for British policy was the hope that Abdullah’s forces would soon capture the West Bank; once it became clear in late May that they had annexed the territory, Britain lifted its opposition to the ceasefire (which later broke down). The formal unification of the two banks of the river Jordan occurred two years later, in April 1950; Britain was one of only two states, along with Yemen, which then recognized the enlargement of Abdullah’s kingdom. British support for ‘Greater Transjordan’, now the Foreign Office’s chosen method for solving the Palestine problem, was intended to make Abdullah, London’s closest ally in the Arab world, the heir to Arab Palestine. If Britain was not able to maintain its own presence in the region, it aimed to do so by proxy through its client state – a strategy typical of postwar British foreign policy. http://markcurtis.info/2017/03/16/britains-role-in-the-war-in-palestine-1948/

Nick Davies, award-winning Guardian investigative journalist and author delivers the fourth in this series of annual lectures, hosted by the National Union of Journalists and Arnolfini, which aim to open up a public conversation about the most important media issues of our time. Nick has been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year for his investigations into crime, drugs, poverty and other social issues. A former reporter for World in Action, he won the Martha Gellhorn award for investigative reporting for his work on failing schools. His recent book Flat Earth News lifts the lid off falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media. Producer: Tony Gosling Nick Davies tells MPs of smear threat from newspaper Flat Earth News author tells Commons committee about 'bullying' tactics and attacks former PCC chairman Sir Christopher Meyer The investigative journalist and author Nick Davies told a committee of MPs today that one newspaper had threatened to publish an inaccurate story about his private life after his book Flat Earth News was published last year. Davies, appearing before the Commons culture, media and sport committee, also launched an attack on Sir Christopher Meyer, the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, accusing him of failing to be impartial in the role. Flat Earth News, published last year, was a wide-ranging critique of what Davies sees as declining standards in journalism. Davies said he was called by a journalist from the newspaper in question, which he declined to name, alluding to a "grotesque sexual smear about my wife that was going into the paper". He added that, even though he did not have a wife, he was told by the journalist that the paper was still going to run the story but with his denial in the copy. "I called the editor and told him that I had tape-recorded the conversation with the reporter in which he admitted that it wasn't true and I told the editor if the story was published I would make public that conversation. They backed down," Davies told the committee, which is investigating libel, privacy and press standards. He said that the incident illustrated the problems with the so-called Reynolds defence, which provides a public interest defence for journalists who conduct their investigations responsibly at the time of publication but were later unable to prove that what they had published was true. Davies claimed this meant newspapers could publish inaccurate stories but still claim that they had followed the correct procedure, including offering a right of reply. Speaking after the committee hearing, Davies told MediaGuardian.co.uk that he had been the subject of two attempts by newspapers to smear him following the publication of Flat Earth News. In the same select committee hearing, Davies also said Meyer's six-year tenure as PCC chairman had threatened the principle of self-regulation of the press. He told the committee that Meyer, who stepped down at the end of last month to be replaced by Baroness Buscombe, was "on the side of the newspapers". "I'm glad he [Meyer] is gone. He is a bad man," Davies said. Davies accused the PCC of failing to properly investigate the News of the World over the Clive Goodman case, when the newspaper's former royal correspondent was jailed in early 2007 for illegally obtaining information about the royal family by intercepting private phone messages. He said: "There's lots of hacking [into phone messages] all over Fleet Street but [the PCC] tackled their enquiries in a way in which this never came out." Davies also told the MPs: "They [the PCC] are not there for the readers ... over and over again they are there simply to defend the bad practices of the media. They are not sufficiently independent to do their job properly." Davies claimed that the former News International executive chairman Les Hinton, Telegraph Media Group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan, and Daily Mail editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, met with the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to lobby against introducing custodial sentences for breaches of the Data Protection Act. "You wouldn't ask burglars to come in and shape the law on burglary but they are breaking the law and they are shaping the law," he said. Davies said that when Meyer himself testified at the select committee last month, he showed that he was "on the side of the newspapers" when he commented about the Max Mosley privacy action, in which the formula one boss won compensation from the News of the World last year. "He [Meyer] sat here giggling about his [Mosley's] shaved buttocks," said Davies. Davies compared what he called the "bullying ... feral end of Fleet Street" to the excesses of trade union barons of the 1970s in his evidence, which he gave alongside the MediaGuardian commentator and blogger, Roy Greenslade.