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– 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.

Tony Benn: The Media And The Political Process Arnolfini NUJ 2006 - Reflecting critically on making the news. Have you ever wondered what influence the back room boys, the media owners and managers have over the news we read in the paper every day and see on TV every night? How much is biased or spun, and how much did we never get to hear about at all? The modern media is changing fast. Technological developments such as satellite, WAP and broadband mean that, rather than a handful of channels, we have hundreds of ways to get our news. Media ownership is changing too with the once local ITV stations up for auction in a global marketplace and giant transnational media corporations dominating the market. The inaugural lecture is given Ex Bristol MP Tony Benn who, after being demobbed from the RAF, began his career as a BBC radio producer in the 1940’s. He entered politics and went on to become Postmaster General and Secretary of State for Industry and then Energy, cabinet posts under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. Produced by Tony Gosling at Bristol NUJ

US and UK launch strikes against Yemen; Houthi rebels promise to retaliate https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/12/us-and-uk-launch-strikes-against-houthi-rebels-in-yemen Houthis say all US and British interests are now ‘legitimate targets’. https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-173/ The United States and Britain have launched military strikes in Yemen in response to Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. Hours after the attacks early on Friday, which the rebels said killed five people, the Houthis warned that all US and British assets have now become “legitimate targets”. US President Joe Biden said the strikes followed “unprecedented” attacks by the Houthis on commercial ships in the Red Sea and warned he would “not hesitate” to take further action if necessary. “These targeted strikes are a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation,” Biden said of the attacks by air and sea. The attacks struck nearly 30 locations in Yemen using more than 150 munitions, US Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Staff, said late on Friday. He did not expect a high number of casualties as the targets included those in rural areas. But he said Washington expected the Houthis to attempt to retaliate. In a statement the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council threatened that “all American-British interests have become legitimate targets for the Yemeni armed forces in response to their direct and declared aggression against the Republic of Yemen.” Earlier, the Houthis called the strikes on Yemen “barbaric”, threatened retaliation and also said they will continue targeting ships heading towards Israel for as long as its war on Gaza continues. “The American and British enemy bears full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our Yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered and unpunished,” Yahya Saree, the group’s military spokesperson said. Yemen’s Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government, however, blamed the Houthis for the UK and US strikes on the country, saying the rebels bore responsibility for dragging Yemen into an arena of military confrontation with its attacks in the Red Sea. Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder told Al Jazeera that the US military is closely monitoring the situation and hasn’t seen any retaliatory attacks from the Houthis so far. “Our goal here is to ensure this vital waterway [the Red Sea] is safe and secure for international shipping and mariners,” he said. On Friday, tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in several cities across the country to condemn the US and British strikes and to reaffirm their support for Palestinians in Gaza. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator and spokesperson, described the US and Britain as having “committed foolishness with this treacherous aggression”. “They were wrong if they thought that they would deter Yemen from supporting Palestine and Gaza,” he wrote online. The group’s “targeting will continue to affect Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine”, he added. Al Masirah, a Houthi-run satellite news channel, reported that the strikes hit the al-Dailami air base north of the capital, Sanaa, the airport in the strategic port city of Hodeidah, a camp east of Saada, the airport in the city of Taiz and an airport near Hajjah. The strikes are the first on Yemeni territory since 2016 and also marked the first military intervention by the US in reaction to drone and missile attacks on commercial ships since Israel’s war on Gaza started in October. The Houthi movement, which controls much of Yemen after nearly a decade of war against a Western-backed, Saudi-led coalition, is a strong supporter of Hamas in its war against Israel. The Palestinian group said the US and the UK will bear responsibility for the impact of the strikes on the security of the region. ‘Necessary’ Ryder told Al Jazeera the US has no plans to add additional forces to the region. “As you know, since we did deploy additional amounts of capabilities in the region as part of deterrence efforts, that gives us a wide range of capabilities in order to respond to multiple contingencies should we need it,” he said, referring to US military deployments to the Middle East since Israel’s war in Gaza began. “Since the beginning, our goal has been to ensure that the Israel-Hamas conflict does not turn into a wider conflict. … As of now, we don’t see that conflict has expanded, but we understand the tensions and will continue to stay focused on that,” he added. No further strikes against Houthi targets were currently planned, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office said, adding that the situation will be kept under review.

The Benn Lecture – Andrew Gilligan25 November 2007Shooting the Messenger – Press Freedoms Under Attack Mon 26 Nov 7.00pm £10.00/£5.00 concs (Including NUJ members) Former BBC defence and diplomatic correspondent Andrew Gilligan delivers the second in a series of annual lectures which reflect critically on 21st Century news production and reporting. In May 2003 Gilligan’s report on an intelligence dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction led to a row between the government and the BBC that had far-reaching consequences. In his talk he argues that our freedoms are being subtly eroded as the media is blamed for crimes for which others are responsible Andrew Gilligan: Keynote speaker for the second Bristol NUJ Benn LectureOn Monday 26 November the celebrated investigative journalist Andrew Gilligan gave the second annual Bristol NUJ/Arnolfini Benn lecture on the media and politics in Bristol.In 2003 it was Gilligan who made the famous statement on BBC radio’s Today programme that he had been told by a source that the Government “probably knew that the 45-minute figure [on Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction capability] was wrong even before it decided to put it in”.This was the report which led to Dr David Kelly taking his own life, which led in turn to the Hutton Report in 2004. The report found against the BBC and Andrew. The NUJ, however, supports what Gilligan did, believes that the BBC acted in the public interest, and maintain that it’s vital for the right of journalists to protect the anonymity of confidential sources to be protected in law.Gilligan, working these days at the Evening Standard and Channel 4’s Dispatches, spoke about the ongoing attack on journalism since Wapping in the mid-Eighties and the demise of the printers’ unions, the fact that it has since become possible to make real money out of the media and what media-as-marketable-commodity has meant for quality journalism.He made a passionate argument for the need to stand up for true reporting and impartial analysis – for the dignity of journalism as the fourth estate of the realm.Speaking about the institutions in Britain (“the most centralised and secretive large democracy in the world”) which have both failed, and have failed to acknowledge their failings, Gilligan pointed out that the forces of hostility to journalism are on the increase, with clampdowns on unofficial sources; new difficulties in publishing memoirs; and leaks – and those who report on them – being punished even with jail to no murmurs of protest from the media.So it’s hard times, but important ones. Andrew pointed out that we still ARE a democracy; that it IS possible to roll back state power; and that journalists have the potential to produce an alternative narrative which will hold government to account, inform the public, and defend democratic freedoms. Although the economics are going to become more difficult, he said that in a world full of cacophony the power of focused information is still considerable – and that as journalists, we should aim to supply it.http://www.tjpdesign.co.uk/wordpress/2007/12/08/dialect-8th-dec-2007-studio-guests-tappis-and-james-ladd-trio/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/11/couglin_maverick_gilligan_is_w.html Presenter: Christina Zaba Producer: Tony Gosling

Israeli War on Gaza Could Destabilize Whole Region https://www.businessinsider.com/israels-invasion-of-gaza-could-escalate-into-regional-conflict-experts-2023-10 TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemen warned that tensions could escalate in the region as the United States keeps backing Israel in its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. “The US’s insistence on continuing support for Israel against Gaza could blow up the region,” Spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah Resistance Movement Mohammad Abdul-Salam said in a social media post on Sunday, presstv reported. The United States has offered untrammeled support for Israel since October 7, when the occupying entity waged the bloody war on Gaza following a historic operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group. Since the start of the offensive, Israel has killed at least 22,835 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 58,416 others. In solidarity with the Palestinians in besieged Gaza, the Yemeni armed forces have targeted ships in the Red Sea with owners linked to Israel or those going to and from ports in the occupied territories. In November, they seized the Israel-leased cargo ship Galaxy Leader and turned it into a tourist attraction. The US has formed a multinational military coalition against Yemeni forces in the Red Sea, through which 12 percent of global trade passes. Abdul-Salam said that the US should realize that the militarization of the Red Sea will not prevent Yemen from supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. The US has formed a multinational military coalition against Yemeni forces in the Red Sea, through which 12 percent of global trade passes. Abdul-Salam said that the US should realize that the militarization of the Red Sea will not prevent Yemen from supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. Yemen says US is framing Ansarullah Movement’s operations in the Red Sea as a global threat PressTV Yemen says the United States is framing Ansarullah Movement’s operations in the Red Sea as a global threat to turn attention away from Israeli massacres in Gaza.

Filmed at The Land Is Ours Summer Camp, Devon, August 2013 Is Britain Still a Feudal Country? Discussion with Kevin Cahill & Simon Fairlie YouTube Views:3,239 Category: News & Politics Feudalism (Film Subject) | Land Rights Published on Oct 26, 2013 The Land is a free gift to mankind and there is an acre of Britain for every single person who lives here so why should anybody pay rent, a mortgage or be homeless? Land reform The Diggers, The Chartists, The Crofters, The Irish Land League and today's criminalized squatters have been spoiling for a fight about the iniquity of eviction, landlessness and destitution for hundreds of years. Britain has a land-mass of around 65 million acres and around 65 million people, that's roughly a football pitch per person, or around three acres for the average family. Britain was a free gift to its people, just as the Earth was to mankind. Back in medieval England most land was farmed collectively, few actually owned it but did have the right to a cottage, to stay, and to pass those rights down the generations. But the landowners' parliament instituted 17th- and 18th-century land privatization, enclosure, evicting hundreds of thousands. A vast factory workforce of destitute landless citizens was created, ripe for the dark satanic mills of England's industrial revolution. Across the Irish Sea one million died between 1847 and 1851 in the Irish Famines and a further million were forced to emigrate. So in the late 1800s, with fire in their bellies, the Irish led the way in taking back the land, setting a precedent for today' solution. Figures are hard to come by today but 40,000 'land millionaires', 0.05 percent of the population, now own around half of Britain, most of which they have never set foot on. A further 30 percent is owned by 1 percent of the population, and the remaining 20 percent is owned by banks, corporations and other institutions. Though many have 'bought their own home', actually the bank owns it until they pay off their mortgage. This leaves around 50 percent of the population, or 30 million people, effectively landless, either with a big mortgage, renting or homeless. Britain today too carries the shame of roughly 200,000 homeless people, either overcrowded, sleeping on friends' floors or sofas, squatting or sleeping on the streets. http://rt.com/op-edge/usa-government-shutdown-britain-719/ A Short History of Enclosure in Britain Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals. Currently, in our "property-owning democracy", nearly half the country is owned by 40,000 land millionaires, or 0.06 per cent of the population,1 while most of the rest of us spend half our working lives paying off the debt on a patch of land barely large enough to accommodate a dwelling and a washing line. http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain The great property swindle The myth spun about Britain is that land is scarce. It is not -- landowners are paid to keep it off the market BY KEVIN CAHILL PUBLISHED 11 MARCH 2011 Modern British history, excluding world wars and the loss of empire, is a record of two countervailing changes, one partly understood, one not understood at all. The partly understood change is the urbanisation of society to the point where 90 per cent of us in the United Kingdom live in urban areas. Hidden inside that trans­formation is the shift from a society in which, less than a century and a half ago, all land was owned by 4.5 per cent of the population and the rest owned nothing at all. Now, 70 per cent of the population has a stake in land, and collectively owns most of the 5 per cent of the UK that is urban. But this is a mere three million out of 60 million acres. Through this transformation, the heirs to the disenfranchised of the Victorian era have inverted the relationship between the landed and the landless. This has happened even while huge changes have occurred in the 42 million acres of rural countryside. These account for 70 per cent of the home islands and are the agricultural plot. From being virtually the sole payers of such tax as was levied in 1873 (at fourpence in the 240p pound), the owners of Britain's agricultural plot are now the beneficiaries of an annual subsidy that may run as high as £23,000 each, totalling between £3.5bn and £5bn a year. Urban dwellers, on the other hand, pay about £35bn in land-related taxes. Rural landowners receive a handout of roughly £83 per acre, while urban dwellers pay about £18,000 for each acre they hold, an average of £1,800 per dwelling, the average dwelling standing on one-tenth of an acre. http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2011/03/million-acres-land-ownership

Jill Dando was shot dead on 26th April 1999, Jimmy Savile died twelve years later on 29th October 2011 Jill Dando took her 'Crimewatch list' of BBC paedophiles direct to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon - within weeks she was assassinated in a contract killing - a political murder - via the Home Office and MI5 Gangsters boasted they killed Jill Dando - A WEALTHY engineer has claimed he met a gang of contract hitmen who boasted they ­had assassinated Jill Dando. By JAMES MURRAY Sun, Mar 1, 2009 https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/86969/Gangsters-boasted-they-killed-Jill-Dando Jill had taken a list of establishment & BBC paedophiles, including Jimmy Savile, to the Commissioner of the Met police Sir Paul Condon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LYDiw9j_o Gerry Coulter, 54, said he met the men in Budapest a year after the Crimewatch presenter was killed on the doorstep of her home in ­Fulham, in west London, in 1999. He claimed they contacted him after reading on the internet that he had a series of run-ins with Dorset police and were offering to shoot police officers, for a fee. Mr Coulter said: ‘‘They said they had been given the Dando job as a contract and were bragging about how professional they had been. It is bizarre to think I could have been in the same room as the person who killed her. “They were offering to shoot three Dorset police officers for me at £10,000 a head. “They were u­sing the Dando case as a way of showing what sort of service was on offer.” The meeting took place in 2000 and he says he reported it to ­police at the time but does not ­believe it was pursued as Barry George was at that time serving a life sentence for the murder. Second hour Investigative reports: twenty years on, commemoration Jill Dando murder and subsequent framing of Barry George: MOTIVE, with investigative journalist Don Hale; MEANS and OPPORTUNITY with firearms expert Gerry Coulter; this week’s appalling and insulting BBC1 ‘commemorative’ programme; ‘The Murder of Jill Dando’ – much better amateur documentary: The Jill Dando Web https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-142/ Interview with Don Hale, author of many books and award winning investigative journalist – Don’s original Jill Dando article – he discusses how Jill Dando was accumulating information on a paedophile and sexual abuse ring of about five or six employees within the BBC that included Britain’s most prolific paedophile Jimmy Savile – how senior BBC managers didn’t want to know, and how shortly before her death she and other staff received death threats: senior police at MET didn’t want to know – leads ignored by police; Man with learning difficulties Barry George fitted up by DI Hamish Campbell leading to a miscarriage of justice; this week’s appalling and insulting ’20th anniversary commemoration’ TV documentary ‘The Murder of Jill Dando’; current national VIPaedophile inquiry into child sex abuse (IICSA) once again kicking the investigation of these elite criminals into the long grass – Don Hale gave evidence to IICSA but was cross-examined in what he describes as a ‘hostile environment’; he interviewed whistleblowers from MI5, the MET, and Special Branch requesting immunity from the Official Secrets Act (OSA) – Theresa May did nothing so these whistleblowers have not been able to testify; Northampton police gave false evidence against Don; Don’s KGB source had info on honeytraps but was shocked to find key people weren’t interested in women,they wanted sex with boys and young men, so they spied on the Westminster paedophiles and built up a large file on Westminster VIPaedophiles; Don’s latest book is ‘Murder in the Graveyard’; www.donhale.co.uk; Interview with Gerry Coulter, former engineer and businessman, about how he met a group of mercenaries in Budapest led by a man called Petrokov that offered to kill three Dorset police officers Gerry was in an unresolved legal dispute with and boasted they had killed Jill Dando giving details of the firearm used – allegedly a Tokarev pistol – Gerry reported his evidence to the police in Dorset but they weren’t interested and apparently didn’t pass it on: the type of gun and bullet they would have used; why Barry George couldn’t possibly have done it.

Bristol Unpacked with The Bristolian magazine – The city’s smiter of the high and mighty, or unfair trolls? https://thebristolcable.org/2022/03/listen-bristol-unpacked-with-the-bristolian-magazine-the-citys-smiter-of-the-high-and-mighty-or-unfair-trolls/ www.thebristolian.net The city’s longstanding and self-proclaimed satirical scandal sheet has a reputation for not holding back on attacking local politicians and the great and the good… Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs 3rd March, 2022 Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn Rosa Eaton Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Rosa Eaton The city’s longstanding and self-proclaimed satirical scandal sheet has a reputation for not holding back on attacking local politicians and the great and the good for alleged wrong-doing. As well as taking on high profile interests like the Merchant Venturers, some say they unfairly target people just trying to make the city better. But what is the story behind the anonymously produced publication? Is it still funny? Once nominated for a Paul Foot award, is their approach of journalism mixed with what can be seen as relentless trolling relevant in a changed media environment? Neil Maggs and a long standing contributor to The Bristolian hash it out.

Colin Forse remembers a world of work that has gone forever. A life on the Railway is illustrated with photographs from Colin's own albums and includes a useful glossary of the railway terms he uses and a timeline of BR events that were played out during his career. The book will appeal to anyone interested in social or local history as well as railway enthusiasts. The memoir of a railwayman whose career coincided with the whole period of nationalised railways (1948-1996). Colin Forse began as a lad on the Western Region at Yatton West Signal Box and progressed through being a fireman and driver to end up a traction inspector. He was glad to end his career riding on the footplate of steam locos running over the BR metals. A YATTON man who spent his life working on the railways has written his memoirs in a book to help raise money for a restoration project at the village station. Colin Forse, 76, has worked with Faith Moulin, also of Yatton, to put the book called A Life On The Railway, together. Colin Forse has written his memoirs about life on the railway to raise money for the Yatton station restoration fund The grandfather-of-six started working for British Rail on the Yatton west signal box at the age of 15 in January 1949. A year later, aged 16, he moved on to work in the station engine shed at Yatton, cleaning steam engines which chugged their way up and down the Cheddar Valley Line and the former Clevedon line. Working on the railway proved a real family affair as his dad Albert was a shed man and his brother Roger was a fireman at Yatton. After a spell there, Colin moved to the Bath Road depot in Bristol where he worked as a fireman before joining the Army as a Royal Engineer. His time in the forces was also spent on the railway, working in the Suez Canal base depot in Egypt. In 1954 he left the Army and returned to the Bath Road depot before swapping jobs with a fellow fireman so he could return to his home village of Yatton. By then trains were developing from steam to diesel, so he changed jobs again in 1985 and went back to Bristol as traction inspector before retiring in 1996. Colin moved to Yatton in 1940 after his home in Hotwells, was bombed in World War II raids, and lives with his wife Verbena, 75, at Elborough Avenue. He said: "I met some real characters during my time on the railways. "Someone said to me that I ought to write down my memoirs and over the years I have been putting them together. "I havent got any A-levels or anything like that, because I didnt stay at school long enough, so its a potted history. "The book is not only about my work on the railways over the years, but about the people I worked with and there are some funny stories in there which should raise a few smiles." The book, edited by Mrs Moulin, goes on sale next week, priced at £5.95 and is available from Yatton Books and Prints. The Cheddar Valley line was busy for nearly a century until closing in 1965 and it has since been reclaimed by nature and is now a nature reserve known as the Strawberry Line, managed to protect and enhance a rich variety of wildlife habitats. Work began converting eight miles of the line to a walking and cycling route in 1983 by volunteers from the Cheddar Valley Walk Society. All money raised from the sales will go towards a project to turn a disused waiting room, designed by Isambard Brunel, at Yatton station into the Strawberry Line Community Café. http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Steamy-tales-life-railway/story-12314104-detail/story.html

French Resistance Archive Footage Paris Partisans SOE Charles Bovill View on YouTube YouTube Views before Google 4th Reich removed this along with my entire channel:76,970 Category: News & Politics Special Operations Executive (Organization) | French Resistance (Literature Subject) | Interview | Liberation Of Paris (Event) | Interviews | Nazi | occupation | Footage | Archive Published on Sep 7, 2013 Resistance Movements occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. Resistance movements were the people of the inhabited place trying to stop the Nazi Government. Resistance movements are sometimes also referred to as " the underground". Among the most notable resistance movements were the Yugoslav Partisans (largest in WW2), the Polish Home Army, the Soviet partisans, the French Forces of the interior, the Italian CLN, the Norwegian Resistance, the Greek resistance and the Dutch Resistance. Jean Moulin, de Gaulle's representative in France, tasked with unifying the various French Factions into one French Resistance Movement. Moulin was betrayed in 1943 and was tortured to death by Klaus Barbie (Head of the Gestapo in Lyon), nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon. This served only to strengthen the resolve of the resisters and Moulin is hailed as " a famous son of France ". www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Moulin www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie Many countries had resistance movements dedicated to fighting the Axis invaders and Germany itself also had an anti- Nazi movement. Although Britain didnt suffer the Nazi occupation in WW2, the British made preparations for a British Resistance Movement, called Auxilliary Units, in the event of a German Invasion. Various organisations were also formed to establish foreign resistance cells or support exisiting resistance movements, like the British SOE and the American OSS. There were also resistance movements fighting against the Allies. In Italian East Africa, after the Italian forces were defeated during the East African Campaign, some Italians partcipated in a guerilla war against the British (1941-1943). The German Nazi Resistance movement ("Werwolf") never mounted to much. On the other hand, the " Forest Brothers" of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania included many fighters who fought for the Nazis and operated against the Soviet Occupation . Organisation Organsiation was dangerous, so much resistance was done by individuals. The possibilities depended much on the terrain, where there were large tracts of uninhabited land, especially hills and forests, resistance could more easily get organsied undetected. This favoured in particular the Soviet Partisan in Russia. In the much more densely populated Netherlands, the Biesbosch wilderness could be used to go into hiding. In Northern Italy, both the Alps and Appennines offered shelter to partisan brigades though many groups operated directly inside the major cities. There were many types of groups, ranging in activity from humanitarian aid to armed resistance, sometimes cooperating to a varying degree. Resistance usually arose spontaneously but was encouraged and helped mainly from London and Moscow. Various forms of resistance were 1. Non- violent ie Sabotage where locals, forced to work for the Nazis would work slowly or badly - Strikes and demonstartion - Professional Resistance by churches, students, Doctors or other professionals. 2. Armed ie raids on distribution offices for food or doucuments, temporary liberation of areas such as in Yugoslavia, Paris and Northern Italy occasionally assisted by the Allies- uprisings as in Warsaw in 1943/1944- continuous battle and guerilla warfare, such as partisans in the USSR and Yugoslavia or the Maquis in France 3.Espionage, including sending reports of military importance (eg troop movements, weather etc 4.Illegal press to counter Nazi propaganda 5.Politaical resistance to prepare for the reorganisation after the war 6.Helping people go into hiding (eg to escape froced labour or deportation as took place in the Netherlands 7.Helping Allied military personnel caught behind the Lines http://libertesoe.webs.com/theresistance.htm THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES Secret files reveal 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII As many as 5,000 Nazis went to Argentina Between 1,500 and 2,000 ended up in Brazil Around 500 to 1,000 settled in Chile The rest started new lives in Paraguay and Uruguay http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html

Operation Gladio, NATO secretly worked with Klaus Barbie & SS Generals AFTER WWII, ODESSA YouTube Views:3,162 Category: News & Politics North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (Membership Organization) | Schutzstaffel (Armed Force) | Paul Hausser | HIAG | ODESSA | Russia | NATO | Germany Britain US | OSS | CIA | SOE | MI6 Published on Jun 24, 2014 "SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser (seen here as an Obergruppenfuhrer while commanding the Das Reich division in Russia winter 1941) was unquestionably the ablest military commander in the Waffen SS. After the war he sought to re-establish the reputation of the SS and claimed that the foreign units of the SS were really the precursors of the NATO army." Taken from pages 24/25 of 'Waffen SS at War' by A. J. Barker, Ian Allen Ltd., 1982, ISBN 0 7110 1099 4 http://www.bilderberg.org/nato.htm#hausser Paul Hausser - Part I http://www.bilderberg.org/nato.htm#1 by Theo Fruendt - 24th May 2007 There is a reason for the fact that there are no precise documentations about personalities like Paul Hausser who initiated the military training of the Waffen SS in 1934: In 1959 Hausser became the founder of a organisation called HIAG (Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehoerigen der ehemaligen Waffen SS = the auxiliary community on mutuality of the members of the former weapons SS) . He was at this time already 79 years. This organisation of former members of Waffen SS maintained contacts to all relevant political parties in Germany. Thus for example the Federal Chancellor of Germany, at that time Adenauer, visited condemned war criminals in the prison of Verler and have had a conversation with the former Waffen SS general Kurt Meyer. Meyer, known as „Panzermeyer ", was selected in the year 1959 to become the HIAG spokes person. As a member of the German parliament, the Social Democrat, SPD, Helmut Schmidt reported to HIAG Hamburg in the year 1954 with that to the topic „Soldatentum and social-democracy "with the intention „difficulties from the way to vacate ", which with „the HIAG Fürsorgearbeit still on the part of the SPD meet weapon SS veterans ".Helmut Schmidt became chancellor from 1974 till 1982 and was a strong advocate of re armouring debate for stationing of nuclear short-range missiles. Paul Hausser died in September 1972 in the age of 92 years he was active in the HAIG society to his late 80's and due to his lobbying for the HAIG-society it resulted in remarkable political success, so for example the equalization of pension for former members of Waffen SS with all former members of the regular German Armed Forces. This indicated that the Waffen SS was not illegal anymore. In this consent the society succeeded to accomplish public meetings with up to 20.000 participants in public. NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser Published on December 22, 2004 Published by Frank Cass Publishers Hardback ISBN: 0714656070 Paperback ISBN: 0714685003 http://www.bilderberg.org/nato.htm#Gladio The CIA and the British secret service MI6, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services set up a network of clandestine anticommunist armies in Western Europe after World War II. The secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centers in England and in the United States by the Green Berets and SAS Special Forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns and high-tech communication equipment hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches in forests and mountain meadows. In some countries the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorist who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harrassement of left wing parties, massacres, coup 'Etats and torture. Codenamed "Gladio" ('the sword'), the Italian secret army was exposed in 1990 by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Senate, whereupon the press spoke of "The best kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II" (Observer, 18. November 1990) and observed that "The story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller." (The Times, November 19, 1990). Ever since, so-called 'stay-behind' armies of NATO have also been discovered in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and Turkey. They were internationally coordinated by the Pentagon and NATO and had their last known meeting in the NATO-linked Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in October 1990.

Martin Phillips' Spitfire last aircraft at Filton rebuilt by Aerial Museum's John Hart December 2012 YouTube Views before the 4th Reich removed it:254,780 Category: Education Spitfire | Filton | Aerial Museum | BAe Systems | Bristol PublicEnquiry Published on Feb 4, 2013 Then we go to Filton Airfield which closed at the end of 2012. http://www.savefiltonairfield.org http://www.facebook.com/groups/230405333660236/ Aircraft Engineer John Hart runs the Aerial Museum and restored a wartime 1944 Mark IX Supermarine Spitfire RR232 G-BRSF back to flying condition, the last aircraft to be made at Filton before BAe Systems closed the airfield to sell the land for housing. FILTON - THE HOME OF THE BRISTOL AEROPLANE COMPANY Filton has been synonymous with aviation development since before World War One when the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company set up a flying ground there in 1911. The firm developed the iconic Bristol Fighter and the airfield was used by the Royal Flying Corps during the war. Between the wars, the firm became Bristol Aeroplane Company and built aero engines, while Hurricane fighters were based at Filton. During World War Two, BAC expanded massively, producing the Bristol Blenheim and Beaufighter, two medium-range twin-engine bombers. Spitfires were also based at the grass airfield for a time following heavy bombing of Bristol. After the war, Bristol continued to develop planes, by now branching out into commercial aviation and extending the concrete runway to cater for larger airliners. Filton's crowning glory was arguably its role in the development of Concorde, in the 1960s and 1970s, by now under control of the British Aircraft Corporation. Pictured above is the famous supersonic passenger jet visiting the airfield for the last time in 2003. In 1977 BAE acquired the airfield and it was recently used to produce the Bae 146 small airliner. REACH FOR THE SKIES: THE SPLENDOUR OF THE SPITFIRE More than 20,000 Spitfires were built in 24 different marks. They first flew in the RAF in 1938 and were retired by 1957. One of the proposed names for the fighter was 'The Shrew'. Its designer RJ Mitchell only lived long enough to see the prototype fly in 1937. The Mark I fought during the Battle of Britain, reaching speeds of 400mph - while the Mark IX was used over Normandy. During the mid-1950s, many Mk 22 planes were sold to the Egyptian and Syrian air forces. Making a propeller to fit a restored plane today costs £55,000. Fuel costs £500 an hour and the insurance is £50,000 a year. The only person on the planet who owns a Spitfire with machine guns and cannon that actually fire is Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates who owns a Messerschmidt ME-109 too, also with firing cannon. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250667/Rebuilt-Spitfire-flies-Filton-aerodrome-BAE-closes-home-Concorde.html http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/63363 Exeter businessman Martin Phillips, 51, who owns the Spitfire, said the expensive and painstaking restoration project had been worth it. He said: 'To see her take to the skies today has been extraordinary, and for it to happen at the same time as an A380's final visit to Filton, has made this a sad but historic day. 'I think it's a terrible shame that this famous old airfield is to close.' Former Rolls-Royce engineer John Hart, who has worked as chief engineer on the Spitfire restoration for the last two-and-a-half years, said seeing the Spitfire and the A380 together on the runway that is also still overlooked by Concorde was 'quite a sight' for aviation enthusiasts. He said: 'It's funny to think the last aeroplane to be put together here at Filton has turned out to be a Spitfire.' Filton aerodrome, which has one of the longest and widest runways in the country, witnessed the first test flights of Concorde and was where American soldiers injured in D-Day were taken to before being treated at Bristol's Frenchay hospital. The West Country's aviation industry grew up around the airfield, which developed an international reputation.

Can UK default on national debt? Yes! Only Question Time EVER to discuss. Winner: Germaine Greer YouTube Views:9,640 Category: News & Politics Debt (Quotation Subject) | United Kingdom (Country) | Default | Argentina | Britain | Greece | Government Debt (Literature Subject) | Politics (TV Genre) | BBC | Question Time | Germaine Greer (Author) | money Published on Sep 28, 2015 Skip straight to the best bit from Germaine Greer https://youtu.be/ASjQGhagBgQ?t=4m3s Here's the complete episode from Wrexham - 29th January 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7hgQ4BmizA Sajid Javid MP: Conservative Culture Secretary Peter Hain MP: Former Labour Secretary of State for Wales Rhun ap Iorwerth AM: Plaid Cymru's Economy Spokesman Germaine Greer: Author and Critic Kate Maltby: Telegraph.co.uk Blogger (a diabolical performance) Only mass default will end the world's addiction to debt As global debt rises off the scale, creditors stand to take a huge hit in a threatened tsunami of defaults http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/11448051/Only-mass-default-will-end-the-worlds-addiction-to-debt.html Argentina's Christina Kirshner seems to regard default as a matter of some national pride It will be you next. Argentina's Christina Kirchner seems to regard default as a matter of some national pride Photo: Reuters Jeremy Warner By Jeremy Warner7:04PM GMT 03 Mar 2015 In a valedictory speech at the weekend of characteristically Latin American duration – a mind-numbing three hours – the Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, claimed that her country was the only one in the world to have reduced its national debt over recent years. I doubt she is right about being alone in this “achievement” – there must surely be others - but even if she is, I’m not sure that reduction in the national debt via the mechanism of default is anything to boast of. Only Kirchner could think this a matter of national pride. Nonetheless, where Argentina treads, others will surely soon be following. The world is sinking under a sea of debt, private as well as public, and it is increasingly hard to see how this might end, except in some form of mass default. Greece we already know about, but the coming much wider outbreak of debt repudiation will not be confined to sovereign nations. Last week, there was another foretaste of what’s to come in developments at Austria’s failed Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International. Taxpayers have had enough of paying for the country’s increasingly crisis-ridden banking sector, and have determined to bail in private creditors to the remnants of this financial road crash instead - to the tune of $8.5bn in the specific case of Hypo Alpe-Adria. Finally, creditors are being made to pay for the consequences of their own folly. You might have thought that a financial crisis as serious as that of the past seven years would have ended the world economy’s addiction to debt once and for all. It has not. If anything, the position has grown even worse since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Related Articles Cowardly politicians aren’t up to fixing NHS 27 Feb 2015 Don’t bother to save - there’s no point any more 28 Feb 2015 Jeremy Warner: Greece is on a fast track out of the euro 14 Feb 2015 Jeremy Warner: Despite the boasts, UK is bottom on deficit reduction 07 Feb 2015 According to recent analysis by McKinsey Global Institute, global debt has increased to the tune of $57 trillion, or 17pc, since 2007, with little sign of a slowdown in sight. Much of this growth has been in emerging markets, which were comparatively unaffected by the financial crisis. Yet even in the developed West, private sector deleveraging has been limited and, in any case, more than outweighed by growing public indebtedness. The combined public sector debt of the G7 economies has grown by 40 percentage points to around 120pc of GDP since the crisis began, according to the Bank of International Settlements. There has been no overall deleveraging to speak of. Where the West left off, Asia has taken up the pace, with a credit-induced real estate bubble that makes its pre-crisis Western counterpart look tame by comparison, much of it fuelled, as in Western economies, by growth in the shadow banking sector. China’s total indebtedness has quadrupled since 2007 to $28 trillion, according to estimates by McKinsey. At 282pc of GDP, the debt burden is now bigger, relative to output, that the US. Attempts to rein in this growth have so far proved problematic. The Chinese property market has slowed markedly, which in turn has knocked the stuffing out of the all-important construction sector and its feeder industries. Starved of its regular fix of debt, the Chinese economy seems as incapable of generating decent levels of growth as the mature economies of the West. The addiction to credit has gone global....

Tinkers Bubble Newsnight General Election 2001 YouTube Views before evil empire yanked it:2,101 Category: News & Politics Tinkers | Bubble | Newsnight | BBC | Somerset | general | election | 2001 | ecovillage | uk | Yeovil | England Published on Oct 5, 2011 5th June 2001 to be precise. Two evenings before general election day. Followed by a short extract from contemporary comedy series Brass Eye. The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media. There was little change at all - outside Northern Ireland - with 620 out of 641 seats remaining unchanged. Labour enjoyed its second so-called 'landslide victory' in a row, maintaining its position from the previous election. Tony Blair became the first Labour prime minister to win enough seats to have a full second consecutive term in office. Labour won a majority of 167 overall (previously 179) and 247 over the Conservatives (previously 254). The Conservatives netted a gain of only 1 seat after their crushing defeat of 1997 (gaining a few seats from Labour, but losing to the Liberal Democrats). Conservative leader William Hague resigned immediately, becoming the first Conservative leader since Austen Chamberlain to leave office without becoming Prime Minister. The Liberal Democrats, under Charles Kennedy, made a gain of 6 more seats from their already historical high of 1997. The elections were also marked by voter apathy, with turnout falling to 59%, the lowest since the Coupon Election of 1918. Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day. The election had been expected in May, to coincide with local elections, but both were postponed because of rural movement restrictions imposed in response to a foot and mouth outbreak. One of the more noted events of a quiet campaign was when a countryside protester Craig Evans threw an egg at Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in Rhyl; Prescott then punched him and a struggle ensued, in front of television cameras. The 2001 Election also saw the rare election of an independent. Dr. Richard Taylor of Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (usually now known simply as "Health Concern") unseated a government minister. There was also a high vote for British National Party leader Nick Griffin in Oldham, in the wake of recent race riots in the town

- Sir Kier Starmer in Bristol. Voting systems. Russia. Starmer’s speech in Bristol – ‘Labour can offer a positive future’. Sounds like a TV speech by an alien in the film ‘They Live!’ - The Plot: The key players, she said, were ‘Gove, Cummings, Cain, Dougie Smith Nadine Dorris’s book ‘The Plot’ about taking down of Boris. : The poison plotters in No. 10 - Matt Chorley, Times Radio, interviews Ed Davey, former Post Office Minister, about Horizon scandal and why he didn’t do anything. Private post destroying Post Office.- Bristol Full - - - Council Meeting for December Tom Raynard on complaints against Annie Stafford Townsend, who defends herself. Mayor Marvin on the issues. - £120k of council tax money goes to King Charles for the thin air over a new Temple Island bridge because the River Avon is tidal there! Bristolian story – - £1/2 million to King Charles as owns part of Severn River. Continental shelf owned by Crown. Tampon Charlie. Hamas more popular than ever with Palestinians. - Christmas Message 1st Attempt: King Charles’ Christmas Speech – looking after the earth but Israeli genocide and his statement in parliament that Hamas are terrorists - Christmas Message 2nd Attempt: Stephen Fry – ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ – anti-Semitism rising since October 7th - Christmas Message 3rd SUCESSFUL Attempt: Alexei Sayle’s Alternative Alternative Christmas Message hits the spirit of the season with support for the Palestinians - Vladimir Goldstein, academic in Rhode Island, joins Tony and Martin online. - The history of the Orthodox Church in Russia as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church joins the Catholic church’s calendar over Christmas. - Russia’s founder Prince Vladimir, why did he become Christian but not Jewish or Muslim? Seventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian occupation of Moscow – - The orthodox church arc in Eastern Europe defines the same line of countries which are standing up to the financial intimidation by companies and banks eg. Goldman Sachs - Roots of Russophobia. The Ancient Spiritual Roots Of Russophobia – A 2000 year old dispute Those who believe that the Romans crucified Christ better stop reading here and go - You Trying To Start Something? Anglo-Zionist Empire Acts Of War On Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq – - Anglo-Zionist Empire New Year Act of War on Russia: TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS Ukraine a Western proxy. Russian warship Novocherkassk sunk in Boxing Day - Russian sources also confirmed that it was highly likely Ukraine had used either Storm Shadow or Scalp missiles in the attack - Anglo-Zionist Empire New Year Act of War on Syria: SUNDAY Tehran Declares ‘Countdown’ to Retaliation for Killing of general Seyyed Razi Mousavi - Anglo-Zionist Empire New Year Act of War on Lebanon: TUESDAY Two Commanders of Hamas’ Military Wing Killed in Beirut Blast as Gaza Conflict Escalates - Anglo-Zionist Empire New Year Act of War on Iran: Over 100 Dead in Bomb Explosions Near Iran’s Quds Commander Soleimani’s Tomb General Soleimani - Anglo-Zionist Empire New Year Act of War on Iraq: FRIDAY Who was Abu Taqwa, killed in US Strike in Baghdad? In Iraq, Abu Taqwa Al-Saedi, leader of the “Rocket Battalion” - Disgruntled councillor throws live grenades which explode in local Ukraine Council meeting. One killed, dozens wounded as deputy sets off grenades at Zakarpattia village council - Gaza – will Iran join the war? WW3. October 7th Hamas attack – LIHOP? Is Netanyahu going to jail for bribery after this genocide? - Why Is the Media Ignoring EvidenceSouth Africa claims Gaza war is genocide and wants war crimes trials. - Steven Knight, author of ‘Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution’, [see film interview here, now back on YouTube] on how it was the Freemasons behind the killings - To cover up a Royal’s secret marriage to a Catholic shop girl in Whitechapel. Prostitutes who knew about the heir to the throne’s incognito affair tried to blackmail the royal family! - More evidence Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann was behind the Final Solution for the Jews in WW2. Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann - NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-171/

Filmed at The Land Is Ours Summer Camp, Devon, August 2013 Is Britain Still a Feudal Country? Discussion with Kevin Cahill & Simon Fairlie YouTube Views:3,239 Category: News & Politics Feudalism (Film Subject) | Land Rights Published on Oct 26, 2013 The Land is a free gift to mankind and there is an acre of Britain for every single person who lives here so why should anybody pay rent, a mortgage or be homeless? Land reform The Diggers, The Chartists, The Crofters, The Irish Land League and today's criminalized squatters have been spoiling for a fight about the iniquity of eviction, landlessness and destitution for hundreds of years. Britain has a land-mass of around 65 million acres and around 65 million people, that's roughly a football pitch per person, or around three acres for the average family. Britain was a free gift to its people, just as the Earth was to mankind. Back in medieval England most land was farmed collectively, few actually owned it but did have the right to a cottage, to stay, and to pass those rights down the generations. But the landowners' parliament instituted 17th- and 18th-century land privatization, enclosure, evicting hundreds of thousands. A vast factory workforce of destitute landless citizens was created, ripe for the dark satanic mills of England's industrial revolution. Across the Irish Sea one million died between 1847 and 1851 in the Irish Famines and a further million were forced to emigrate. So in the late 1800s, with fire in their bellies, the Irish led the way in taking back the land, setting a precedent for today' solution. Exploiting the balance of power in London, four laws were forced through delivering interest-free government loans. Penniless Irish tenants could now buy land and build new homes, repayments being far less than those crippling rents. It was one of history's most successful land reform programs to date. Figures are hard to come by today but 40,000 'land millionaires', 0.05 percent of the population, now own around half of Britain, most of which they have never set foot on. A further 30 percent is owned by 1 percent of the population, and the remaining 20 percent is owned by banks, corporations and other institutions. Though many have 'bought their own home', actually the bank owns it until they pay off their mortgage. This leaves around 50 percent of the population, or 30 million people, effectively landless, either with a big mortgage, renting or homeless. Britain today too carries the shame of roughly 200,000 homeless people, either overcrowded, sleeping on friends' floors or sofas, squatting or sleeping on the streets. http://rt.com/op-edge/usa-government-shutdown-britain-719/ A Short History of Enclosure in Britain Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals. Currently, in our "property-owning democracy", nearly half the country is owned by 40,000 land millionaires, or 0.06 per cent of the population,1 while most of the rest of us spend half our working lives paying off the debt on a patch of land barely large enough to accommodate a dwelling and a washing line. http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain The great property swindle The myth spun about Britain is that land is scarce. It is not -- landowners are paid to keep it off the market BY KEVIN CAHILL PUBLISHED 11 MARCH 2011 Modern British history, excluding world wars and the loss of empire, is a record of two countervailing changes, one partly understood, one not understood at all. The partly understood change is the urbanisation of society to the point where 90 per cent of us in the United Kingdom live in urban areas. Hidden inside that trans­formation is the shift from a society in which, less than a century and a half ago, all land was owned by 4.5 per cent of the population and the rest owned nothing at all. Now, 70 per cent of the population has a stake in land, and collectively owns most of the 5 per cent of the UK that is urban. But this is a mere three million out of 60 million acres. Through this transformation, the heirs to the disenfranchised of the Victorian era have inverted the relationship between the landed and the landless. This has happened even while huge changes have occurred in the 42 million acres of rural countryside. These account for 70 per cent of the home islands and are the agricultural plot. From being virtually the sole payers of such tax as was levied in 1873 (at fourpence in the 240p pound), the owners of Britain's agricultural plot are now the beneficiaries of an annual subsidy that may run as high as £23,000 each, totalling between £3.5bn and £5bn a year. Urban dwellers, on the other hand, pay about £35bn in land-related taxes. Rural landowners receive a handout of roughly £83 per acre, while urban dwellers pay about £18,000 for each acre they hold, an average of £1,800 per dwelling, the average dwelling standing on one-tenth of an acre. http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2011/03/million-acres-land-ownership

What makes Stephen Knight's take on this story so credible is its based on a family secret passed down by those involved, who thought they would have been killed if it was revealed in contemporary Victorian London. They were probably right because after this book Knight was inundated by Freemason whistleblowers and subsequently published his classic 'The Brotherhood' but died in 1985 aged 33. Martin Short got Knight's papers and in 1990 published the definitive 700 page 'Inside The Brotherhood', just after his 1989 six part Granada TV documentary SERIES aired on national ITV channel 3. 1: From Kings to Convicts 2: A Firm Within A Firm 3: Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth 4: A Square Deal 5: A State Within A State 6: A Column of Mutual Defence Both Knight, ans subsequently Short's three books and two films are the most brilliant expose of London's home-grown religious cult, showing how the most corrupt and powerful use Masonic witchcraft-type cell networks to do evil and maintain their Godless power. A Victorian serial killer who killed 5 prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888, Jack the Ripper’s identity is as much of a mystery today as it was that bloodsoaked Autumn long ago. Of all these theories, arguably the most enduring was first posited by author Stephen Knight in the 1970s. Knight spun an elaborate tale of conspiracy at the very top of British society — the Royal Family. He claimed the Ripper’s victims were really killed to cover up a scandalous secret marriage between the Queen’s son 24 year old Prince Albert Victor, then second in line to the throne who had been sexually experimenting incognito, and a Catholic prostitute named Annie Elizabeth Crook, who bore Albert’s child. Knight got his leads from Joseph Gorman-Sickert, who claimed to be the illegitimate son of painter Walter Sickert, himself a Ripper suspect. Gorman recounted the story to Knight as told to him by his father. Sir William Gull — a noted physician and purported high-ranking mason, actually committed the murders with the help of accomplices, in order to eliminate everyone who knew of Prince Albert’s secret marriage. Prince Albert Victor died in the 1889 Russian Flu pandemic, aged 28. He was embroiled in the 'Cleveland Street homosexual boarding house scandal and rumours circulated he had several chronic venereal diseases. It is to be noted that feudal children born out of wedlock were often helped by their families 'as a charitable favour' and went on to be expendable intelligence agents and the like. Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grandson, Walter Sickert's self-proclaimed son with Annie's daughter Alice Margaret Crook) Who really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? Or was Jack the Ripper three, two killers and an accomplice? In this work the author investigates all aspects of this strange case shrouded in mystery and misconception. The discovery of the murders is described by the men who were there, and evidence reveals that the hitherto unsolved Ripper murders were in fact a culmination of a full-scale cover-up organized at the highest level of government. Truth concealed by Oligarchy: Rare truth. 33rd degree Freemasons along with the Rothschild Illuminati family have been scheming against humanity since 1649 and the English Revolution. Plan is to destroying humanity. Not convinced? Read William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game. Probably the best book written on the subject ! The mystery is solved at last... I urge everyone to read other books from this author who died too soon... does that have anything to do with what he discovered??? I let you think about it...

Nazi SS officer on trial at Nuremberg boasts of 4th reich after WWII - Idris Francis Published on Oct 18, 2016 The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor Has 3 Words Of Advice: 'Law Not War' October 18, 20164:42 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Nazi officials were prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials in Germany from 1945-49. American Benjamin Ferencz, who was 27 and serving as a prosecutor for the first time, won convictions against all 22 Nazi defendants in his 1947 trial. Courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz When the Nazi leadership was put on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in the wake of World War II, the notion of an international war crimes tribunal was new and controversial. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill proposed a summary execution of Nazi leaders. But it was decided that trials would be more effective, and would set a precedent for prosecuting future war crimes. Thirteen trials were held in Nuremberg from 1945 to 1949, with multiple defendants in the cases. The prosecutor for one trial was Benjamin Ferencz, who was just 27 at the time, and it was his first trial. "We shall establish beyond the realm of doubt facts which, before the dark decade of the Third Reich, would have seemed incredible," Ferencz said at the trial. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/10/18/497938049/the-last-nuremberg-prosecutor-has-3-words-of-advice-law-not-war Idris Francis discusses on the phone his ideas about the EU and the Fourth Reich recounting a story his Uncle told him that a German officer under his guard turned to him, a Major at the time, and said 'you have beaten us twice now but the third time we will win and you won't know anything about it until it's all over'. http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/68925 In late 2005, American popular culture paid homage to one of the greatest journalists of all time. In "Goodnight and Good Luck," the life and work of CBS radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow provided the material for a Hollywood feature film. Paul Manning was arguably the greatest of "Murrow's Boys"—the group of skilled journalists Murrow ran in Europe during World War II. After training as a gunner and flying combat missions in both Europe and over Japan, Manning broadcast the surrenders of both Germany and Japan on the CBS radio network. After the war, Manning undertook an investigation of Hitler's Deputy, Martin Bormann, and the postwar capital network he ran, in considerable measure, at the encouragement of Murrow. Partially underwritten by CBS, the story of the Bormann organization proved too sensitive for the network to report. A decisively powerful network of corporate entities run by hardened SS veterans, the Bormann group constitutes what one veteran banker termed "the greatest concentration of money power under a single control in history." The foundation of the organization's clout is money—lots and lots of money. Controlling German big business and, through investments, much of the rest of the world's economy, the organization was the repository for the stolen wealth of Europe, estimated by British intelligence to have totaled more than $180 billion by the end of 1943 (not including the money taken from Greece and the former Soviet Union, nor that taken after 1943.) [For more on the global economic significance of the Bormann group, see—among other programs—FTR#99.] This organization literally constitutes a postwar "Underground Reich" with (as discussed in FTR#155) a governing hierarchy composed of the sons and daughters of SS men, holding military ranks and titles from the Third Reich.

Death On The Rock, SAS execute IRA cell in Gibraltar, Thames Television (1988) YouTube Views before they killed off my PublicEnquiry channel:872,837 Published on Apr 23, 2011 SEE ALSO: Death On The Rock researcher Alison Cahn: whatever happened to UK investigative journalism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoqnyJHdS3Y PLEASE DO MAKE YOUR POINT IN THE COMMENTS BUT ALL SWEARING OR HATE SPEECH WILL BE DELETED PLEASE SHARE ANYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT TORY DEFENCE SECRETARY LORD CARRINGTON ORANGE ORDER AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS RESPONSIBLE FOR BEGINNING THE TROUBLES LESSONS LEARNED IN NORTHERN IRELAND UNDER THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT THAT CAN HELP SOLVE CONFLICTS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WILL BE PARTICULARLY VALUED Not just the death of British justice but the death of British investigative TV too! The back story with this film is it illustrates how low BBC & UK TV has sunk since 1988. Thames TV lost the London ITV franchise after this film was broadcast. Death on the Rock was the title of a documentary in the current affairs series This Week, made by Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network on 28 April 1988. The programme investigated the incident, on Sunday 6 March 1988, when three members of the IRA, sent to Gibraltar on an active service mission, were shot and killed by members of British special forces. The incident, and subsequently the programme about it, became controversial as a result of uncertainty and conflicting evidence about the manner in which the killing was carried out and the degree to which it was an "execution" with no attempted arrest. The programme interviewed witnesses who claimed to have heard no prior warning given by the SAS troops and to have seen the shooting as one carried out "in cold blood." Furthermore, the defence that the IRA team might, if allowed time, have had the capacity to trigger by remote control a car bomb in the main street, was also subject to criticism, including that from an Army bomb disposal expert. Claiming that its transmission prior to the official inquest was an impediment to justice, the then foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, attempted to stop the programme being broadcast by writing to the chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, Lord Thomson of Monifieth. Lord Thomson refused to prevent transmission noting that "the issues as we see them relate to free speech and free inquiry which underpin individual liberty in a democracy." Following transmission, there was some criticism of the programme's investigative stance in the press (e.g. "Storm at SAS Telly Trial" The Sun; "Fury over SAS 'Trial by TV'," Daily Mail; "TV Slur on the SAS," Daily Star). Subsequently, a number of papers, notably The Sunday Times and The Sun, attempted to show not only that the programme's procedures of inquiry were faulty but that the character of some of its witnesses was dubious (in one case, this latter charge resulted in a successful libel action being brought). Such was the debate which developed around the programme, intensified by one of its witnesses subsequently repudiating his testimony in it, that an independent inquiry was conducted at the behest of Thames Television. Thames

Work In Progress - and other films - British Transport Films (1951) YouTube Views before my PublicEnquiry channel was taken down by YouTube 4thReich:318,328 Published on Apr 23, 2011 see also Somerset Steam Loco Driver Colin Forse Memories RIP ASLEF - Yatton, Strawberry line http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awetFcELrCo YouTube #4thReich vandals removed it, now copied, uploaded elsewhere Work In Progress (1951) 25 minutes - and available to buy here http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Transport-Films-Collection-Reshaping/dp/B000IMVMHU If you enjoyed this do please see this highly recommended page analysing the powers behind the Beeching Cuts - IMO it was the Oil Industry and Tory Transport minister Ernest Marples, as well as an orchestrated rail strike in the run up to the 1955 general election that destroyed Britain's top notch transport system. We have to bite the bullet, grasp the nettle and get Britain back to its pre 1955 Socialist/Capitalist balanced state. To do that we need to nationalise the banks & clean up the Treasury but that's another story. http://www.bilderberg.org/railways.htm Film from the era of true Public Service before the cancer of privatisation had taken hold. These British Transport Films (BTF) were made available, from the British Transport Commission's offices at 25 Savile Row, London W1. for free loan to anyone who wanted to show them. At Woodhead, a century-old tunnel is replaced by a new one. Farther north, Argyllshire is the scene of an experiment in co-ordinated road haulage service. At Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, marshalling of goods wagons is being speeded by radio. In Bristol, bus operators are analysing the problems of congestion that apply to most modern cities. Between Calais and Dover, the Golden Arrow steamer, running into mid-Channel fog, is brought safely into harbour by radar. Photographed by: Ronald Craigen Additional Photography: James Ritchie Assistant Director: James Garrett Assistant Cameraman: Cyril Moorhead Assistant Editor: Margot Fleischner Music by: Temple Abady Conducted by: Frederick Lewis Written and Directed by: Michael Clarke Produced by: Edgar Anstey Followed by other films including: 2. Service For Southend We witness the gradual electrification of the Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria line and the subsequent end of steam. 3. Wash And Brush Up A steam engine spends a day at the depot where it gets its fortnightly maintenance service. 4. A Place In The Team Film about those that work in Rail, Road, Canals, Docks and Ships 5. Let's Go To Birmingham (colour) A speeded up trip from Paddington Station to Birmingham. See also http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/ public money

YouTube Views before YouTube killed off my PublicEnquiry channel :596,200 Category: Science & Technology Published on Apr 23, 2011 Hereby follows the propaganda: When nuclear fuel is sent from Britain's nuclear power stations to Sellafield for reprocessing, a simple procedure is used which now has been carried out more than 14,000 times. The fuel rods are first cooled for at least 90 days at power station by immersing them in ponds. When taken out of storage the heat coming from each rod has dwindled to about 25 watts - roughly equivalent to a small electric light bulb. About 200 rods at a time are loaded into an open top steel skip which is then placed inside a special container called a flask. The flasks are very robust - they weigh around 50 tons and have walls 35 cm thick. 16 bolts, each able to take a load of 150 tons without breaking, secure the lid. The flasks are forged out of two blocks of steel. When finished each flask is worth half a million pounds. Stringent manufacturing and performance standards have to be met. These are drawn up by International Atomic Energy Agency. To meet these standards the industry has developed a comprehensive testing program. Literally hundreds of impact tests have been carried out using scaled models dropping them so that they land from all sorts of different angles. In 1983 to enhance public confidence in the flasks a full scale testing of an actual production flask in real life conditions was begun. A three locomotive train was smashed into a flask going at 100mph. Operation Smash Hit ’84 by Alex Bestwick https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/25694/from-the-archive-operation-smash-hit-84/ British Railways and the Central Electricity Generating Board deliberately destroy a train to prove the safety of nuclear fuel flasks. Close-up of the wrecked train from the rear: the nuclear fuel flask lies on its side to the right of the train, with the ”Flatrol” wagon body across the roof of the first coach. Pieces of locomotive and coach bogies and underframes litter the foreground At lunchtime on Tuesday July 17, class “46” locomotive No. 46 009 and three Mkl coaches. Nos. E25154. M4514 and E25564. crashed at 100 m.p.h. into a derailed “Flatrol” wagon, loaded with a steel flask of of the type used for carrying irradiated fuel rods from nuclear power stations to the works of British Nuclear Fuels Limited in Cumbria. for reprocessing. However, this was no accident. but part of a four—year £4m programme of tests on full—size nuclear fuel flasks undertaken by the Central Electricity Generating Board to allay any public disquiet on the ability of these vessels to stand up to the severest forms of accident. The flask in the test. which was loaded with three tonnes of steel bars to simulate nuclear fuel rods, and filled with water at 100 lb. per sq. in. (though about 15 lb. per sq. in. is the normal service pressure). survived the impact virtually unscathed, apart from a gouge on the lid, and only lost 0.2 lb. per sq. in. pressure as a result of the impact. British Railways has been carrying these flasks safely round the country for some twenty years now, in which time there have been no serious incidents involving them, but persistent fears have been voiced by an anti-nuclear lobby, as a result of which the CEGB embarked on a series of tests with half and quarter-full—size models. However. its critics were not satisfied, saying that models were all very well, but what about the real thing? Would it behave in the same way as the models? This caused the CEGB to undertake full—size tests, which it had up to then resisted, because of the cost. On March 6, 1984, a drop test of a full—size nuclear fuel flask was carried out at the CEGB Structural Test Centre at Cheddar, when a flask was dropped from a height of 29 1/2 ft. (9m) onto concrete and steel anvils and met the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Authority regulations by a large margin. As called for in these regulations, the same flask was used in the rail crash demonstration. The crash was staged on the Edwalton to Melton Mowbray test track used experimentally by British Railways Research Department, near the site of Old Dalby Station. The cost to the CEGB was £1.6m. including the rolling stock and compensation to local landowners (part of this was £2,000 for disturbing the pheasants!). Two trains were chartered from BR by the CEGB, and run from St. Pancras to and from the test site, one carrying press and CEGB and BR officials, the other (which used the set of FOs run by the Steam Locomotive Operators Association while its Pullman cars are having asbestos removed at Carnforth) carrying other invited guests, including observers from most of the nuclear power stations in Britain. Two viewing stands had been arranged, with tiers of seats, one on each side of the track, and a commentary was given over loudspeakers. https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/25694/from-the-archive-operation-smash-hit-84/