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Though the newsletter chapters interrelate, they are divided into six sections and have a common realisation that a cabal of corporate elites have captured global trade, global governance, mainstream and online media, and ultimately many of our minds.
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Interviews with 12 Wwoofers (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) growing at Forbidden Fruit and Veg market garden.
Instead of following a career path shaped by his doctorate in meteorology, 5 years ago our head grower Dr Will Hall PhD, joined the Wwoofer scheme where, at several market gardens, he learnt grow organic fruit and veg until he joined us at Forbidden Fruit and Veg market garden in Badminton, South Glos. After 3 years, he is leaving to fulfil his dream of joining an off-grid community, away from the grip of the so-called ‘developed world’.
Dr Will Hall, former head grower, guides you round our walled garden explaining how he grows the variety of organic Fruit and Veg
His dreams have a strong parallel with Simo Sekam, an indigenous Bidayuh village chief in Sarawak, Malaysia, who I filmed last year. Simo fought and won a ten-year battle against the Malaysian government for his right to rebuild his village in the forest above the hydroelectric dam which was to drown his village. Though he was offered a government house in a new-build town with access to a job, Simo wanted a lifestyle where, as he says; “Everything we do is by ourselves—nobody controls us. We are the boss, and we are the workers.” He wasn’t interested in the kind of jobs on offer for those without a university degree in Sarawak, namely logging their precious rainforest, mining, oil extraction, growing palm oil on once rainforest land, factory farming like this gargantuan pig factory or working as domestic help or labourer in the city.
Chief Simo Sekam pruning his Durian tree in his Nyegol Village above the Bengoh Dam, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The wage and rent economy that Will and Simo have rejected is rigged to serve a moneyed elite, not the people. Democracy is an imagined concept by which politicians obey their corporate masters who demand endless wars to grab resources, and sell their products via ‘free’ markets, destroying local businesses that cannot possibly compete with their economies of scale.
This billionaire elite, their political stooges, and the mainstream media are now ruling our world through Stakeholder Capitalism. Their leaders meet at the WEF (World Economic Forum) to create fear narratives and shape authoritarian solutions with labels such as UN Sustainability Goals, NetZero, Transhumanism, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. These benign sounding systems are sold by sophisticated PR machines and the mainstream media ultimately but surreptitiously to establish a digital system of slavery.
This corporate-led world is rife with so many problems, that even university graduates know that working as wage-slaves for 8 hours a day making money for a bottomless pit of corporate greed, they will forever be in debt, never fulfil their dream to own a home, be free to choose their work, afford to buy healthy food, have the right to resist dangerous medication mandates or spend adequate time with their families.
As you will see in our Wwoof video, many highly educated youngsters reject urban life to live in the countryside, learn to grow food and be self-sufficient so one day they can join a cooperative to pool their savings to buy a small piece of land.
Once free to govern their own lives in a community with like-minded free spirits, they can homeschool their kids, grow their own organic food, build a home from their local forest, escape rent and debt tyranny and enjoy food sovereignty.
Though I had dreams that my beloved head grower, Will and his fabulous grower girlfriend would perhaps start a family in my home with relative security (I am a tenant in a feudal village), he has chosen another path to join a family on a windswept hill in Wales, drive an hour to work in a community veg garden and build a home where he will have relative security to one day grow a family as a free man, like Simo, on his own homestead.
Food & Farming/Inheritance Tax/CO2 tunnel vision/bird flu
The sudden introduction of the Inheritance Tax on farms means that it would be better for their family if an elderly farmer were to die before April 2026 when the tax comes in. If he or she dies after April 2026 the farm could face an impossible tax burden resulting in it having to be sold. This is an example of the callous attitude of this government towards the farmers who feed us every day. Farmer Olly is appealing to all eaters, particularly grandparents, to join the march on pancake day. At 12 the march will leave Whitehall in the direction of Trafalgar Square, before heading back down the Embankment. From 1.30pm onwards – there will be an opportunity for MPs to come out and meet farming families as pancakes are served in Parliament Square. 3.00pm approx finish. See link for details.
Watch; Organiser Olly Harrison; 20 February 2025
‘Following the engagement on Tuesday with Treasury and the lack of positive dialogue, we are asking the government for an amnesty on asset transfer to allow those trapped by the proposals in the budget, to be able to immediately transfer assets without a requirement to adhere to current 7-year rule. This retains government policy and allows humanitarian relief for those in an impossible situation.’
“Did you wake up on 31st October last year and your world got turned upside down? If you are elderly or ill, that is probably the case. That budget was not fair to you. This machinery, the buildings, the livestock, the value in farming is massive.
If you want to eat a pancake that maybe cost 10 pence on Pancake Day, there’s a million pounds worth of investment behind that to make that happen. Westminster does not understand that. Get yourself to London on the 4th of March, it’s the amnesty march. We need them to put in some sort of amendment and amnesty to let you pass that farm over to the next generation without it dying with you.
In my humble opinion, UK Column News is the best place to get your news – it could be described as my perfect echo chamber! Below is a farm event they are participating in, and on April 5, an event they are organising about the Deep State.
Billetto (Event): Supporting Farmers for Food Security (16th March 09:15 – Shurdington Community Centre, GL51 4TB) ticket is £15
‘Join us at the Shurdington Community Centre on Sunday 16th March 2025, for a crucial conference dedicated to “Supporting Farmers for Food Security”. You will hear from passionate speakers who have expert insights into how and why bureaucrats are implementing radical changes in farming and how the bureaucracy being put in place is designed to radically corporatise our food supply. What is the future if we do nothing? We must act now to bolster food security for farmers, and find ways to support them in the future. Our government won’t do it for us. Organised by the Our Free Town volunteers, this gathering promises to spark engaging discussions and network-building among like-minded individuals passionate about doing something about what has brought us to this disconcerting place for our farmers. We will then be looking at some of the great schemes that enable the public to buy directly to support farmers, and how we can help to set these up via existing schemes or by creating new ones that work locally; and how we can assist with the distribution of local goods to local shops. The intention for the day is to hopefully inspire us all to work together to enable our food security now and for future generations. Those that are willing to be a part of this exciting vision can sign up to one of our follow-up hubs that will be organised on the day, to follow through on the critical action required.’
More information and list of speaker go to this link
The destruction of our independent farmers is systemic and Starmer is continuing the corporate takeover, but with Robert Kennedy Jr in charge of the HHS (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), which oversees the Dept of Agriculture in the US, farmers across the world are celebrating. Bobby helped launch my 2009 Channel 4 film about factory pig farming, Pig Business in the US and UK. He is passionate about keeping our small scale farmers to supply healthy food. Interviewed in the film he said ; “In North Carolina today because of these facilities (giant pig factories), you can drive across the state, in rural areas and villages, and see that the villages are now empty of people. The hardware stores are closed, the feed stores are closed, the banks are closed, the churches and schools are now closed, and the rural areas are empty. In fact they can’t produce a pig cheaper than a traditional family farmer without breaking the law”
Farmer, Gareth Wyn Jones’ (2.64 million subscribers on social media) words may resonate in the hearts of our Labour backbenchers to demand an end to their leader’s war against farmers.
Watch; This will not go down well with some in society. But thanks Robert Kennedy jr. Gareth Wyn Jones 21 February 2025
R F Kennedy Jr; ” 70% of the American diet now consists of ultra-processed food. We’re going to change that. We’re going to give farmers an off ramp from the current system that destroys their health, wrecks the soil, makes Americans sick and destroys family farms. We’re going to rewrite the regulations to give US smaller operators a break. We’re going to encourage sustainable regenerative farming that can build soil and replenish aquifers. We’re going to ban the worst agricultural chemicals that are already prohibited in other countries. And we’re going to remove conflicts of interest from the USDA dietary panels and conditions.
I’ve seen some of what America’s most innovative regenerative farmers are doing today. They can literally green deserts. They rebuild depleted soils and wells that have been dry for 30 years start flowing. They heal the land, and some of them make a very good living doing it. But unfortunately, many more have to fight the system in order to do what’s right. It doesn’t have to be this way. And when Donald Trump gets me inside the building I’m standing outside of right now, it won’t be this way anymore. American agriculture will come roaring back and so will American health.”
Gareth Wyn Jones; “We all have the opportunity to fight for what’s right. And I believe this is a global problem. These big corporations are taking over land, taking over the food systems, making people unhealthy, and profiting from it. We need to protect the farmers, the family farms worldwide. And I think Robert Kennedy is doing a great job. Well done, my friend. And hopefully one day we will get the opportunity to sit down and have a chat, and I can congratulate you and just say in Welsh, ‘Diolch yn fawr’. Thank you very much from everybody of family farms worldwide.
We need change. We need support, but it has to start from the top. To come from government, from supermarkets and from local producers. Everybody needs to work together to build a better world on our bellies, making sure everybody’s fed with nutritious, healthy, good food. Thank you.”
Kennedy wants less agro chemicals
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Watch; Oli Fletcher; Farming Explained on James Melville’s X; No Farmers No Food;, 17 February 2025
“I thought it might be worth running through some of the problems facing Britain’s rural communities at the moment. We’re currently in the agricultural transition, where the subsidies for food production put in place after the Second World War and maintained through the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy are being removed. And under the current Labour government, they’re being scaled back much faster than was agreed and have been capped at £7,200. Government ministers keep lying and saying that we currently have the largest ever budget for sustainable agriculture and nature’s recovery. But the agricultural budget has been frozen, shrinking in real terms since 2014. And despite all the boasts of generosity from the government, DEFRA hasn’t even been spending all the money available to it. Over the last three years, agriculture has not received £358 million worth of money. This is partly because they’ve frozen capital grant payments for environmental projects and they’ve also been handing out money for things we’ve already done late, which causes cash flow problems.
The sustainable farming incentive schemes that are replacing the old subsidies disproportionately benefit large landowners over working farmers. The landscape recovery schemes in particular are taxpayers money only available for very large landowners. And if farmers are to actually do stuff through these sustainable farming incentive schemes, the money often disappears in cost. For example, we can get £732 per tonne for winter bird food, but it costs £600 a tonne, plus labour admin costs, fuel, machinery, insurance. There’s nothing left for profit or investment. And everybody knows about the inheritance tax. This is a tax on the value of the land. The assets that our businesses need to function and to employ people and to produce food would be worth it, if we were to sell it, which we haven’t done because we’re still working farmers.
This tax is inherently demanding money that we don’t have. According to DEFRA’s figures, return on capital employed in agriculture is 0.5% a year, whereas a 20% tax spread over 10 years above the threshold is about 2% a year. This tax is four times farm incomes. We cannot afford to pay it. And I think the real kick in the teeth is that the government is trying to change compulsory purchase so they can force us off our land at the current use value, not the market value that we have to pay tax on. The government is sending £536 million abroad to support agricultural projects, which is fine, but it’s exactly the sort of farming they’re trying to stop us doing.
And the treasury thinks that the inheritance tax, breaking up agricultural businesses in Britain is going to raise about £520 million by the end of the decade (correction;The Treasury projects that inheritance tax changes will raise £520 million a year by 2028/29) . So Britain is funding foreign agriculture at the expense of its own. The government has also lied to the NFU and the CLA, our industry representative bodies, and explicitly said they wouldn’t alter the inheritance tax. There was the whole thing when the Conservatives announced money to cover flood damage to farms and then just didn’t release the funds. Farmgate commodity prices haven’t risen with inflation, so on a really basic level, our incomes can’t cover our increasing costs. The Government seem to recognise this because they are telling us to diversify away from food production into other businesses so that we can support food production privately as an act of charity. Steve Reid has explicitly said that he wants an agricultural sector where farm businesses can diversify their income to make a fair profit and remain viable. Civil servants have gone on record saying that we should produce crisps or gin instead of the commodities that we all need to survive.
30% of farms made no money or less in the 2023-24 financial year. This is unsustainable and it matters because 17% of people in this country struggle to afford food already, which is a national embarrassment. We are seeing malnutrition in cities and we, the farmers who are prepared to keep working under the extreme pressures created by the mismanagement of successive governments are a dwindling minority. We have particular cultural attributes that allow us to keep producing food at a loss over long periods of time. That is the benefit of small family farms. We can keep food prices low for the urban working class by not taking a wage. But the people who are prepared to do that, the people who fed Britain during the war, are running out. Help us help you.
And that is why we’re here today. We know our industry, we know our land and we know what’s in the national interest. It is imperative for the security of this nation and for the environment that we save British farming.”
Very interesting big picture graphs showing a reduction in food supplies not least due to diminishing subsidies to farmers and cheap imports.
Watch; Ed Conway’s superb summary of ‘farmageddon’ No Farmers No Food, 17 February 2025
‘It’s not just inheritance tax that is putting farmers into financial jeopardy. The UK farming sector is under risk from a multitude of issues including rising food imports (often unregulated in terms of food standards) from abroad, cuts to countryside flood protection, unfair supermarket purchase prices and diminishing government subsidies for actual food production.’
The government is not only conning but also exploiting our precious farmers.
Watch; How much money does the government make from the alcohol duty on a tonne of barley? No Farmers No Food, 17 February 2025
“So in one tonne of barley, what you will make is you’ll make 400 litres of pure alcohol per tonne. And in that 400 litres, the government charge £31.64 a litre of pure alcohol. For the 400 litres of pure alcohol you can make off of this one tonne of barley at £31.64 per litre, the government made £12,656 off this one tonne of barley of pure alcohol. You then take that to 40% for whisky. That then makes this one tonne. That produces 400 litres at 40% strength, that makes it a thousand litres per tonne. So you add VAT onto that at an average of £40 per tonne of whiskey, that gives you another £8,000 per tonne.
So in total, the Government make just north of £20,000 of duty off of this one tonne of barley and we are selling it for just over £200.”
Unless we shun supermarkets and buy direct from the farmer at farm shops, farmers markets or on line like Big Barn or Riverford Box Scheme, we will lose farmers and thereby access to food that nourishes both our bodies and the soil.
Read; Your Vital Role in the Decorporatisation of the Food Chain; Sir Julian Rose, Global Research, 18 February 2025
‘The reality of what your food choices mean – on the ground – may never have occurred to you. But the reality is that by making supermarket chain stores your first choice for food purchases, you have unwittingly become complicit in the creation of vast desert-like tracts of land heavily sprayed with toxic agrichemicals.
The soils on these superstore supplying farms have been rendered devoid of life. The crops grow only because of heavy applications of synthetic nitrogen salts.
No worms, no insects, no life. No enriching soil borne microorganisms or microflora. They have been wiped-out by the products of Big Pharma and the weapons of the agrichemical corporation war chest.
The farmers using them have been made to believe that they are being ‘progressive’ and ‘efficient’ by adopting this government and corporate led intensive chemical regime, designed to replace time honored benign traditional farming methods.
Exactly the same tragic story prevails in the livestock sector. Unless you are stipulating organic, your pork and poultry purchases originate in animal concentration camps. Vast sunless sheds in which antibiotics and other drugs are prescribed prophylactically to keep their recipients alive for the three to five months which is the maximum duration of their tragically short existence.
No doubt you will also not realise that by shopping in the predatory supermarkets you have become a causative agent in the death of the small and medium sized family farms that still have respect for crop rotations, the use of natural farm animal manures and humane outdoor livestock rearing.
Your mostly selfish ‘consumer convenience’ habits have changed the entire topography of your country; its once natural environment, its living biodiversity, its beauty, fragrant scents and natural productivity.
They have all been sacrificed for the monocultural mass production of foods rendered toxic by chemical and genetic engineered denaturing of the plant kingdom. A process that only enriches those vast corporations that develop and manufacture them – and the supermarkets that sell the vitamin and nutrient depleted end products.’
Supermarkets should be avoided for all food purchases. In competition with the other giant supermarkets they use their vast economies of scale to drive down prices paid to farmers to provide the cheapest food, destroying our health, farmers’ livelihoods and rural economies.
Read; The Great British Food Shortage; Riverford, 21 February 2025
“Once upon a time, a trip to the supermarket was routine,” reads an article in The Independent this week. “You went in, picked up what you needed, paid and left – probably moaning about the price of cheese, but still confident that cheese would be there. Now? Not so much. Butter’s on the endangered list, broccoli has gone into hiding and good luck finding a bottle of orange juice that doesn’t cost the same as a pint in Soho.
“Shelves are bare. Prices are soaring. Food is turning into a luxury rather than a given. But this isn’t some fleeting post-pandemic blip. This is the future. And unless serious action is taken, Britain is staring down the barrel of a food security crisis that will make the Brexit-fuelled tomato shortage look like a minor inconvenience.”
Luke King, Riverford’s Supply and Technical Director, is quoted. “Yes, extreme weather is making growing conditions more unpredictable, but the industrial food system is at the heart of the problem, says Luke. “We need a whole-system shift – one that values the true cost of producing good food and supports the farmers who work with nature, not against it.”
It won’t be news to any of our farmers or growers. Extreme weather conditions and trade challenges post-Brexit have had an impact. But we know that our unfair food system lies at the heart of the difficulties farmers face. When we conducted our own research last year, 61% of the farmers we surveyed said they were likely to give up their farm in the next 18 months. Farmers do not feel supported by supermarkets. 67% of those we spoke to fear being delisted if they speak out against their buying behaviour. Only 1 in 4 farmers believed their claims to support British farming were genuine. And with unethical practices like #farmwashing – misleadingly branding up produce to imply it comes from a small family farm, despite the opposite often being true – farmers need meaningful policy change for our government. Luke sums it up: “fairer pricing, greater transparency and stronger support for sustainable farming. If we want a resilient food system, we must start by choosing to support the farms and food businesses that are building one.”
Steve Reed, Defra secretary, thinks the solution to farmers being unable to compete with cheap imports and rising costs is to invest in more tech!
Listen; Farm Profitability BBC Farming Today, 26 February 2025
Steve Reed, DEFRA Secretary; “Inheritance tax isn’t dominating everything for me at the moment actually. We’ve been talking to the farming sector, the NFU and others, about how we can make the sector become more profitable, how we can protect agricultural land from the demands for putting it to other uses. And we’ve announced the Land Use Framework for dealing with that. Just today, I’ve been announcing things like, how are we going to spend more of the public purse for food procurement on British food. So we put money straight into the pockets of British farmers. How are we going to invest more in technology so that we can give farmers the means to become profitable into the future..
BBC Presenter; And yet, when you come to a farming conference, the questions, the tone, it’s all dominated by this one issue particularly, and it came up again and again today, the older farmers who feel that they don’t have time to plan for a system that has changed under their feet. Is there any plan from you, from the government, to try and mitigate things for those older farmers who fear that unless they die before next April, their families may lose the farm?
Steve Reed; Change from one system to another is always going to be difficult. And I recognise, and I’m very sorry about those individual cases where people are finding things, finding these things difficult, but I would still maintain that underneath all of this, the real problem facing British farming is it’s not profitable.
BBC Presenter; “And indeed, you’ve announced the creation of a farming profitability unit within DEFRA, which. What is that?”
Steve Reed; “What I want to have is a unit that will be working with the sector. They will be intimately involved in the work that we do to make sure that DEFRA is stretching every single limb that we have to make farming profitable.”
Presenter; “Many might think it’s pretty simple for farmers to be profitable, or in some cases more profitable, then supermarkets and probably consumers need to pay more for food.”
Steve Reed; It isn’t just about that. It’s about how we can invest in technology to make farming more productive. You can reduce their costs and that itself gives a profitability boost. The money that we’re putting into the National Biosecurity Centre at Weybridge, so that we’re minimising the likelihood and impact of animal disease, which can be devastating for the sector. That’s about profit. There’s so much we can do, so much more government can do to help farm businesses turn a fair profit.”
BBC Presenter; “One of the other things that came up that I sort of very quickly touch on is cheaper imports, particularly crops grown with chemicals which are not allowed to be used here. Farmers are very keen to be protected from that. Is that on your agenda?”
Steve Reed; “Yeah, it is more the issue of neonics came up during the event. I was asked about that. I’ve long thought it’s a strange situation where neonics are banned, but every year the previous government gave an exemption that’s clearly not sustainable. We’re not giving those exemptions anymore.”
BBC Presenter; “But what farmers will point out is that we’re not allowed to use, for instance, neonics in this country, and yet we happily import crops which have been grown using.
Steve Reed; “Yeah, yes, fair point. No, it’s a fair point and I see it. And that’s why I say we need to move on to look at that next”.
Listen; Farming Today 28 Feb 2025, followed up on what Steve Reed could do if he was serious about stopping products coming to the UK produced to lower standards than we allow our farmers.
BBC Presenter; “Well, that response didn’t exactly cut the mustard for our listener, arable farmer, Frank Dakin, who emailed us about his experiences of farming in Western Australia, where he says Neonicks are widely used along with other products banned in the UK. And he continues, ‘Western Australian cereals and oil seeds come into the UK having had these products applied. They have lower production costs and they suppress our internal markets.’ So what are the options available to DEFRA Secretary of State, Steve Reed, if he does want to grasp this particular trade nettle? Dmitry Grozoubinski is a trade consultant at Explain Trade, an author of “Why Politicians Lie About Trade.”
Dmitry Grozoubinski; “The easiest option doesn’t really apply here because you could simply ban something as dangerous or harmful to human or animal health if the final product itself were harmful. In this case, the scenario is a little bit different and that makes it much harder for the UK to ban it, but it can still do so. You are allowed to, under trade rules, regulate for a legitimate policy purpose. It’s just that governments are generally reticent to start putting in place rules that protect the environment in other places because that potentially opens a whole Pandora’s box of other countries starting to look at the way the UK makes just about anything and saying, okay, well I don’t like what that’s doing to say British Rivers and banning UK products on those grounds.
BBC Presenter; But I mean, it’s the market, isn’t it? That’s what farmers are so worried about. The fact that they feel that they are being undercut is, is there anything that the government could do to change that?
Dmitry Grozoubinski; “It’s quite a difficult issue because if you think about it, this is a source of advantage for farmers and other places in the same way that, for example, a lower cost of living and lower wages might be an advantage. So ordinarily this is something that you might address through tariffs. You might try to rebalance those kind of differences, but it is a difficult thing once you get into, well, there, there are a number of ways you could produce more cheaply in other places depending on all sorts of factors.
BBC Presenter; And once the government starts getting into the business of saying, this kind of form of advantage is legitimate and this isn’t, it becomes very messy very quickly. And because, I mean, we’ve only recently signed trade deals with Australia and New Zealand. I, I mean, it’s not likely that a new government would revisit them over something like this, is it?
Dmitry Grozoubinski; “No. But with that said, those trade deals wouldn’t necessarily preclude something like this. Generally speaking, when a free trade agreement talks about regulations of this sort, it talks about approaches to regulation. So it will say, for example, that if you want to ban something like this, you need to have a scientific basis for why you are doing it. You can’t be arbitrary, you can’t be doing it just to give British farmers an advantage. There would be nothing in any of the free trade agreements that the UK has signed that explicitly says you cannot ban this type of pesticide.”
BBC Presenter; “So, so what are the options then for the Secretary of State? If he says he’s gonna look into what can be done about this, what could he do?”
Dmitry Grozoubinski; “So probably the best example in the world of what he could reach for is something like the EU Deforestation Initiative, which basically says that if you want to send it to the European Union furniture or other things made of wood, you have to demonstrate that they did not come from irresponsibly clear cut forests. This is a direct example of the European Union saying, it’s not that this furniture is dangerous to EU consumers, it’s that we care about the fate of the world’s forests and we want to encourage responsible production and so we are putting in place this measure. The UK could do something similar. It would just have to think very, very carefully about what it would take to prove to the UK government that you don’t use this pesticide and what the potential response from trading partners might be. Who would feel like this is an attack on a legitimate source of comparative advantage for them.”
As James Melville writes, ‘So while the Labour government support plastering solar panels across thousands of acres of prime farmland and hammer family farms with the inheritance tax, they are now giving £2m to a project to save the UK from food shortages. We are being governed by idiots.’ Tech solutions are going to increase the corporate profits but increase the damage to our health. Under the NetZero tunnel vision, our university students will research nutritionally-deficient Frankenstein food made from gene-edited seeds, insect-based meat and lab-grown meat. Instead, these subsidies should be going into revitalising our organic farmers’ livelihoods through protecting them in a global food economy, by shortening the distance between the producer and consumer and ensuring both farmers and consumers get a fair price.
Read; Researchers granted £2m to help prevent food shortages in the UK; Farmers Guide, 29 January 2025
‘The UK’s food system is currently optimised for efficiency rather than resilience, relying heavily on imports, seasonal labour, and just-in-time supply chains.
This makes it particularly susceptible to disruptions that could lead to a collapse, defined as a situation where the public lacks access to affordable food, resulting in economic productivity losses, disease outbreaks, extreme hunger, malnutrition or civil unrest.’
Defra is launching a consultation on its draft Land Use Framework. ffinlo Costain asks how we will produce enough food if so much land is being taken out of food production, and Patrick Holden is concerned that it will mean more land sparing, where agri-chemical farming can carry on with small areas set aside for biodiversity, rather than land sharing where farming co-exists with nature in ecological balance and harmony.
Listen; The Government’s Land use framework Farm Gate, 25 February 2025
ffinlo Costain; “Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust (SFT), says that he is very concerned that this is just a recipe for land sparing over land sharing. And there are just a couple of paragraphs here of his that I’m going to read out. He says,
Patrick Holden ‘The so called land sparers, including by the look of it, the government, have concluded that the best way to reconcile these tensions is to produce as much food as possible on the best agricultural land, grade one and grade two land, which is outside the scope of this consultation anyway, leaving more space for nature, renewable energy generation and recreation. Instead, I believe we should adopt a land sharing approach, producing food in harmony with nature and keeping as much agricultural land in production as possible.’
ffinlo Costain; “Critics of this approach will say that we can never feed the world’s growing population in this way. And yet their report, the SFT report ‘Feeding Britain from the Ground Up’ modelled national application of land sharing, found that it was perfectly possible. And this is just one report in this country. The FFCC (Food Farming and Countryside Commission) has done a similar report in Britain, ISRI has done a similar report at European level showing that agro ecology can more than feed people and feed a larger population. That’s not an issue. The question is what we do with the food that is produced and what food is produced in the first place. And that comes back to allowing or enabling the changing of diets so that people are eating more pulses, more vegetables, more land being used to produce food that’s directly for human consumption rather than to be fed to livestock. And then a lot more good quality meat and dairy coming from pasture land and less meat and dairy being produced in highly intensive systems. And then the other elephant in that particular room is waste. A third of food is wasted. If you then count in obesity and people eating unnecessary calories, it quickly gets up to around half of food being wasted.
So we really could do something to address waste, at which point we can deliver ecology and well-being and climate adaptation and mitigation and good quality food production from the majority of the land that we have. And that’s not to take away from the idea that some land is never going to be particularly productive and there’s no reason why it can’t be a conservation area. We have quite a few of them already and I’m not suggesting for one moment that we shouldn’t have those or shouldn’t have some more of those, but the principle is that most land should be delivering multiple outcomes together, rather than having some land which is just thrashed to produce more and more food.”
With profits going to corporations, quantity not quality is the goal for food producers, processors and retailers.
Read or Listen; How Industrial Dairy Industry Corrupts Health Benefits of Milk; Dr Joseph Mercola, The Defender, 6 February 2025
‘Modern science confirms that dairy fats, which are naturally high in saturated fat and low in polyunsaturated fats, are beneficial to human health. But Big Dairy has developed “rumen-protected fats” that bypass the cow’s natural digestive processes, which increases polyunsaturated fatty acid content and decreases beneficial saturated fats by up to 20%.’
Story at a glance:
– Cows naturally convert plant materials into nutrient-dense milk through their rumen, which contains microorganisms that transform unsaturated fats into stable, saturated fats through a process called biohydrogenation.
– The dairy industry has developed “rumen-protected fats” that bypass the cow’s natural digestive processes, allowing more unsaturated fats to reach the milk and increasing polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content while decreasing beneficial saturated fats by up to 20%.
– For over 7,000 years, dairy products have maintained a specific natural blueprint with higher proportions of saturated fats and modest linoleic acid levels (1% to 2%), but modern industrial practices can triple the linoleic acid content.
– Research shows that natural dairy fats have neutral or positive effects on cardiovascular health, may protect against diabetes, and have been linked to increased lean body mass and reduced body fat.
– Industrial feeding practices using oilseeds like soybean, cottonseed, and canola can overwhelm cows’ natural conversion systems, leading to higher PUFA levels in milk that make it more prone to oxidation and degradation.’
It’s good news that the present SFI (Sustainable Farming Initiative) subsidy system is rewarding farmers who reduce or eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. However, unless we stop importing food that has been produced with chemical pesticides such as Neonicotinoids which are banned in the UK, it will only put nature-friendly UK farmers at an economic disadvantage. It is a shockingly misleading statement by Ben Woodcock, a government advisor that “pesticides are a required component of modern agricultural systems.” it only repeats the agrichemical-sponsored myth. For centuries Organic farming has been producing high yields while nourishing soils and providing a poison-free environment for pollinators, birds, insects, the soil biome, and for consumers who benefit from uncontaminated, nutritious food, free of chemicals that cause cancer and damage the nervous system.
Listen; The global effect of pesticides on nature; BBC Farming Today, 14 February 2025
Dr. Ben Woodcock, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; “If we stop using pesticides tomorrow, it is likely that agricultural production would collapse overnight. Farmer livelihoods would completely disappear. Pesticides are a required component of modern agricultural systems, at least in the foreseeable future. What we’re pointing out here is that there is wide scale evidence that there are potential negative effects and we want to emphasise that movement towards reduced inputs. Now, the UK is a great example of us moving in the right direction of this.
We’ve got the Sustainable Farming Initiative at the moment that is very much promoting that integrated pest management approach, where pesticides are more a last resort rather than the first result in that process. We’ve also got the kind of approaches now where there’s active payments for farmers not to apply insecticides onto the crops. And we’ve also got wider systems within the UK. For example, we’ve now got direct monitoring of ongoing pesticide exposure for honeybees, something that is now being run by DEFRA. This is the kind of thing that is really critical for reducing those inputs. So I would say the UK is very much kind of a leader internationally in this. We are realistic in this. We are not seeing that agriculture will simply stop using pesticides overnight. It’s not viable and it would probably end up being a disaster.”
The number of problems faced by UK farmers leaves no doubt that in the corporate capitalist system that Starmer follows, farmers are dispensable, and the food they produce can be replaced by cheap low-standard imports and Frankenstein food made by scientists in labs.
Read; A Farmers Revolt is Coming; James Rebanks; Unheard; 18th February 2025
‘We believed that the Government would honour their promises and align their other policies, including, vitally, trade agreements. If you hold British farms to a higher environmental standard, you have to then protect them from carefree foreign competitors — otherwise it is all rank hypocrisy.
And above all we had faith that the Government would have our backs as we helped them achieve what would once have been considered the most un-farmer-like of feats — including restoring nature, mitigating climate change and alleviating downstream flooding. Every single one of these promises has been broken in the past four years.
The old schemes have been wound down rapidly — and this month’s Budget sped up the process even further by capping the amount payable, so most farmers won’t get the money they were promised and budgeted for this year.
And worse, the new schemes have been slow to emerge, and due to shortages of staff and expertise at the government agencies, thousands of farmers have not been able to enter them. In the past financial year, the underspend on the new schemes was £358 million, and there is suspicion that that figure may double this year. This means that so far hundreds of farmers have presented their plans for nature restoration and been turned down or excluded from the new schemes. The economics of this farce were horrific, with the income for hill farmers dropping at least 38% because of this botched transition. We’re seeing a staggering squandering of good will and opportunities to restore nature around rural Britain.
It seems that a lot of people who want to set up a land sharing, community owned, local food initiative go to Wales. Look at this Landworkers Alliance film about the Tyddyn Teg Cooperative near Caernarfon.
Watch; Agroecology as a Movement Ep. 2: Anti-Capitalist, Landworkers Alliance
Intro; ‘What do we mean when we say that agroecology is ‘anti-capitalist’? In Episode 2 of our ‘Agroecology as a Movement’ series, we hear from land workers at Tyddyn Teg organic farm and Elwy Working Woods in North Wales about how their land-based projects embody anti-capitalist values – from sharing power through a cooperative model, to sharing infrastructure and tools, saving seed, and changing the way we think about land and land ownership.’
“All of our cultural conditioning is against us succeeding at sharing power and living in community. Because we are raised in an individualistic and competitive culture. Everyone’s gotta make enough to pay their bills, but to me, over that, we really need to put that money into the community.
Tyddyn Teg the Cooperative was founded in 2015. We farm about 10 acres and there’s 14 Co-op members. We run a vegetable scheme, which has about 170 members at the moment, and we also run a farm shop, and we also run a wholesale business. We’re a community farm first and foremost, and we think that by restoring the connection between land, food and people, we can empower ourselves to take back control over our relationship with the environment. The reason that we think that projects like this are explicitly anti-capitalist is because we are not only trying to salvage our relationship with the land and the environment, but we’re also trying to revive our sense of community and connection to each other.
We don’t have a boss. We just try to share power, and no one Co-op member has more power than another. Every year we all sit down together and talk about what work needs to happen and who’s gonna be responsible for doing it. So everyone understands what everyone else’s role is, and everyone has some say over what their role should be, another reason to have it managed in a horizontal way. No one can cut off the head of the Co-op because it doesn’t have one. One thing that I find really interesting is seed saving, and that I find is also a very anti-capitalist way of going about things. If you look at farmers across the globe, even ones that are farming organically, they are so reliant on seed companies. It’s a really powerful feeling just knowing that you’re just closing that loop, because who knows, in 20 years time, that system might not be there, and if you can’t save your seed, you’re gonna have a massive problem in growing food.
We’re doing a community share offer because we think that land is much too important to be left in the hands of a few people. The whole community of people own the land up to a thousand shareholders who own it, maybe even more. It’s reinforcing that relationship of give and take between the farmers and the customers or the owners of the land where the land is held in trust by the community and operated by the Co-op, which grows food for the community. Just get rid of this idea, which is a capitalist idea that land is a commodity for someone to profit from and put it back into the idea that people can make a livelihood from it.That’s one thing. People can enjoy it, that’s another thing, but people shouldn’t be holding it and excluding other people from it, which we have a huge problem with in the UK. We have access to very little of the land. We have very, very concentrated land ownership.
We formed Early Working Wwoods in 2010. We’ve now got about 20, 25 members. We looked at conventional forestry, which is to grow almost entirely Sitkaspruce and to clear fell it after 40, 50 years, we found it wasn’t delivering good timber. Neither was it delivering the environment that we’d expect or want, and looking at the destruction of biodiversity over the last 40 years has been fairly catastrophic. We felt that we really needed to demonstrate a different type of forestry. Really, we formed the cooperative because we realised there were a lot of people who also wanted to work with timber, but didn’t have the resources. Well, we had the resources, we had the land. So we thought, well, we’re trying to link up with as many carpenters starting up on their own who haven’t got a workshop and haven’t got access to that sort of machinery. Well, we have so when we’re not using it, they should be able to use it.”
Gareth Wyn Jones, a farmer in Wales, wants a revolution in farming.
Watch; It’s time to fight back . Good food comes from Farms not Factories. #farming #food, Gareth Wyn Jones (2.64 million subscribers on social media) , 23rd February 2025
A farmer shares his story about the importance of local food production and the challenges faced by farmers. He advocates for a return to traditional farming practices, emphasising the role of animals in soil health and the need for local abattoirs. The farmer calls for a food revolution, urging consumers to support local farmers and challenge the current system.
Thomasina Miers explains why her restaurant chain Wahaca now sources beef from genuinely regenerative farms.
Watch; Sourcing good quality regenerative reared beef has been a long journey thomasina miers, 19 February 2025
“I’m Tommy Miers, I’m here at one of the grassroots farms seeing the real impact of better farming. Regenerative farming is all about repairing the natural environment and our farmland where we produce food, healing it from the damage caused by industrial farming. On grassroots farms, we’re farming in a way that improves the health of the soil, the streams and rivers, hedges and corners where wildlife can thrive. Because it’s only when nature thrives that we can have a hope of producing food. In our changing climate, what we forget about is that human beings rely on the pollinators, on the dung beetles and the earthworms and the bumblebees for our very survival. Without them, we can’t grow food. And at grassroots and farms like this, they’re actually enabling those insects to thrive again. We can pinpoint exactly where those farms are, and we know that they’re doing a much better job for nature. And I really hope that when you come to Wahaca, you’re buying into eating into a better food chain where you’re helping the birds and the bees and the dung beetles and the hedgehog. You’re eating with nature, not against it.”
Julian Rose has been ahead of the game in food and farming for decades, and he sees how the dystopian world described by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley is taking over our lives. The entire talk is brilliant so I wont cut and past any in the hope you will listen to it all.
Listen; Sir Julian Rose interview on UK Column with Charles Malet
Intro; ‘Following the successful conversion of his land into a profitable and chemical-free farm, Julian Rose saw the lure of corporate contracts dismantle the wider organic movement. He has since successfully fought off the introduction of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in Poland (with the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside), and campaigned for land to be used according to the proximity principle: when producers serve a local market.
Among the many threats to the landscape, the environment, the farmer and the consumer, Julian considers the interwoven horrors of transhumanism and artificial intelligence (AI) to be the forerunners. He has a simple and robust vision of how such perversions may be staved off, providing opportunity and excitement in the process. The article which was quoted during the interview is: ‘UK to be Leading Global Test Bed for AI Enforcement – “We are going to push main line AI into the veins of Britain”’.
Julian Rose is the author of several books and countless articles, links to which can be found on his website. He was interviewed previously for UK Column in 2024: ‘Unearthly Interference: The Corruption of the Organic Movement’.
Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) is a special occasion to catch up with colleagues and listen to the latest in food and farming. If you missed anything over the 2 days, all the talks are online.
2025 Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) lectures
Professor Tim Lang warns that the UK food system is far too fragile and is controlled by a few big companies, whereas we need lots of small fruit and veg producers who sell direct to consumers so need no or very little support and zero government control.
Listen; BBC Farming Today Tim Lang, 6 February 2025
Tim Lang; “One of the first things we know that happens in really big crises is people need to have food and the first thing they do is to stockpile. And as people told me, my interviews told me, look, this is a disaster. If people think they can just go and raid the supermarket, well, that creates the crisis. Why?
The whole of the food system of the last 50 years is based around getting rid of storage. It’s the just in time system of logistics, it’s lean, it’s efficient. But now actually you want what resilience theorists call redundancy, a bit of flexibility, you want more variability. And that’s where farming becomes important. We saw in Covid that basically the government closed down everything except the big retailers. And it was actually, to be fair to them, the big food industry people went to the government, said, ‘look, we need to deal with resilience on food’. And they said, ‘okay, we’ll set up a food resilience industry forum’.
There was no public on it, there were no consumer interests. Catering was left out of it. All sorts of pathways that farmers and small producers have to local markets went. So the crunch point of my report is that basically there isn’t good food resilience for the people in Britain. There’s no civil food resilience. We are entirely dependent on very big players and there isn’t the right planning going in at the local level. And yet there could be. So my recommendations are all around that, building civil food resilience, preparing the public, including them.
BBC Presenter; “In discussions, you also talk about the country producing more food, more of our own food. And that’s tricky, isn’t it? I mean, we had the government Land Use Strategy consultation launched last week that was talking about taking 9% of land in England out of production for nature. Do you think we need to rethink all of that?”
Tim Lang; “I don’t think we need to rethink the environmental crisis. It’s not environment versus food production that’s just wrong. The question is what sort of food production? And the great deficit in Britain is horticulture. It’s on its knees, it’s far too small, The Brits don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables anyway. And secondly, a vast amount of British food production is about feeding animals. So, if you look at arable, it sounds great, we’ve got all this arable, but it’s about feeding pigs, poultry and above all, cattle. We’ve got to rethink land use to be good for nature, good for environmental issues, for the coming or indeed unfolding climate change crisis, water sequestration, things like that.
But at the same time, we’ve got to build some diversity of production. So Britain is very complacent. And that goes back to our imperial past. We should know better. After the near disasters of World War II and World War I before it, actually, where we had to learn rapidly, the need to really build up our food production. And we’re not doing it. We’re not addressing that. And the government has an understandable obsession about growth, growth, growth. Well, what’s growth in our sector? Food. It’s growing food.
Actually, it’s good news there. There are lots of people who want to do it, and they’re not being encouraged. There isn’t the infrastructure for it.”
Because so much farming is now monoculture cropping, lonely and exceedingly monotonous with pay that doesn’t sustain a livelihood, the aim of the government is to have robots do the farming. And we have their stooge BBC to promote it. I confess, I would prefer having animals back on the farm to do the work with human colleagues, not robots. If the Amish enjoy the work and the produce, so would we.
Listen; BBC Farming Today 25 February 2025
Intro “Today we dive straight into the future to see a crop of parsnips sown, grown and harvested by robots. Sarah Falkingham joined farmers in North Yorkshire to see how one supermarket chain has grown a veg crop with robots from planting to harvest.
BBC Sarah Falkingham; “I’ve come into a field just south of York and I’ve seen something I’ve never seen in over 20 years of reporting on rural affairs. It’s an autonomous cultivator, so just think of a tractor with the front of it taken off and the cab taken off and you’ve left with the caterpillar tracks and behind it is dragging a cultivator. But there’s no human involved, there’s just Peter Robinson here on the side with like a joystick.
M&S Supermarket’s Peter Robinson; “Basically, you can do all applications of arable farming, from primary cultivations all the way through to seeding and spraying and fertilisation. Modern farming in the UK has all sorts of challenges. Getting availability of tractor drivers and working around the ever changing weather becoming an increasing problem. So these machines can be deployed, work around the clock. The fields are all pre programmed. Once the unit’s been set off, you can then leave the unit unattended completely, completely safely. And you can monitor it from an iPad or a mobile phone from anywhere in the world.”
David Hinchliffe, Farmer; “I think this is absolutely mind blowing, to be honest. From when I started farming a big tractor was 50 horsepower and we employed certain times of the year, maybe 14 or 15 men on the farm. And to see a system now, 60 years later where autonomous machines are doing the same job, it’s quite incredible.”
In an urban world, the reality is that most politicians pay no attention to farming and are indifferent if they go the same way as the miners. So, government and the media would like us to believe the sooner they are stripped of their land, their futures, and their livelihoods the better
Watch and Read; Dear Farmers: 999, Part 1 – How did we get here? – with Roger Meacock and Sandi Adams UK Column, 15 January 2025
‘In light of the recent farmers’ protests, and the announcement of inheritance tax hikes in the Autumn Budget, Consultant Veterinary Surgeon Roger Meacock and globalist agenda researcher Sandi Adams bring you a potted history of why farmers have more to worry about than inheritance tax.
Both Roger and Sandi felt it was a matter of urgency that farmers become aware of a much deeper and darker agenda at play. The agenda will see them stripped of their land, futures, and livelihoods in the not-too-distant future. Does that all seem impossible?
Appreciating that a farmer’s life is far from idle, Roger and Sandi have collaborated to bring you an exclusive two-part presentation.
Part 1 introduces you to the history of Agenda 2030 and the people behind it. What are its implications, who will be affected, and how is it being rolled out and implemented? What is the United Nations (UN), and what is it doing in the background? Farming features on the UN’s agenda; do you know how big the agenda is? Inheritance tax is just the tip of a monstrous iceberg.
Part 2 will focus on ‘farming in the future’ and how the UN’s plan will affect your animals, crops, and business. What is the future of the farm vet? Will there be any animals to treat? Do you know what novel medicines are coming down the veterinary pipeline? What is a 15-minute city? Will there be any crops to pick? Will fields of cows and sheep be replaced with solar panels and wind turbines? Are beef and chicken to be replaced with insects and locusts? How sustainable is the United Kingdom? What is food security? Who are the real turkeys at Christmas? What can the British public do to support you, and how can you supply us directly? We are not sustainable, and without our local farmers, we will have no food.
Other interviews on UK Column featuring Sandi Adams can be found here.
Other interviews on UK Column featuring Roger Meacock can be found here. Roger’s Substack can be found here.’
Bird Flu
I am introducing this section with information on Lyme disease so you are open to consider that the evil behind the military’s bio weapon experiments and pathogen releases continues today with their pals in Big Pharma producing the antidote vaccines.
Watch; EXPOSED: U.S. Bioweapons Program Behind Lyme Disease? Breaking Points, 9 February 2025
Programme presenter, James Li; “The first known cases of Lyme disease were reported in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s. But since then, the disease has exploded into a public health crisis, with the CDC estimating nearly 500,000 cases each year in the United States alone. For decades, the official story has been that Lyme disease was naturally occurring, originating from tick bites in the forest of New England. But emerging evidence suggests something far more sinister. Government experiments, biological warfare, and a potential cover up. So to help us unpack the real story, I’m joined today by Kris Newby, an award winning medical science writer and author of ‘Bitten: the Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons’.
We know for a fact that the US government has had a long history of experimenting with biological weapons. And then Plum island, coincidentally, just a few short miles away from where Lyme disease first appeared, was a top secret bioweapons research lab. So what evidence have you found that suggests that Lyme disease did actually come from a lab? And was it perhaps part of a cold war era bioweapons programme?”
Kris Newby; “Well, it hasn’t been definitively proven that Lyme disease was engineered and weaponised. But what we know for sure is there was a concerted programme almost as large and secretive as the Manhattan Project to weaponise fleas, ticks and mosquitoes and by weaponised, I mean injecting them, inoculating them with some of the most deadly diseases, with the intent of dropping those insects on an enemy population, a city, to weaken that population and tie up their medical resources so it’d be easier for an invasion to happen. So there is definitive, undeniable proof that we were weaponizing those bugs. Whether or not Lyme was engineered, it hasn’t been proven yet, but I wouldn’t rule it out, keeping an open mind, because there’s some very unusual things about the genome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Recent papers that have genetically sequenced the organism show it has a mysterious and rapid evolution. In scientific terms, that means it doesn’t seem like it was a natural evolution to me. That supports the theory that perhaps they were mixing the bacteria with viruses to make something more virulent. And certainly that’s what we saw on the ground in the early 70s in Lyme disease.”
Our psychopath billionaires are investing in these evil bio-weapon games
Read; Bill Gates Quietly Awarded $9.5 Million to University to Make H5N1 Bird Flu Transmissible to Humans; Michael Taylor, Disswire, 12 January 2025
‘The Bill Gates Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison a $9.5 million grant to conduct research on making the H5N1 virus transmissible to humans and other mammals.
The McCullough Foundation, led by Dr. Peter McCullough, shared on X that this funding, directed to UW-Madison and principal investigator Yoshihiro Kawaoka, involves modifying H5N1, potentially using gain-of-function techniques, to ensure it “preferentially recognises human-type receptors and transmits efficiently in mammals.”
Similar to how bat coronaviruses were altered in laboratories to jump from bats to humans, H5N1 naturally infects birds.
Building on prior research by Ron Fouchier, who demonstrated how H5N1 could become airborne in ferrets, the UW-Madison team has identified two additional mutations necessary to make Egyptian H5N1 capable of producing mammalian-transmissible “variants.”
“This reveals that the Gates Foundation has been funding activities akin to bioterrorism by providing the framework for others who might weaponize H5N1,” the McCullough Foundation stated in a tweet addressing the unsettling implications of this research.
In 2006, Kawaoka, along with colleague Taisuke Horimoto, conducted a study focused on creating new vaccines for H5N1 influenza A.’
The noise around bird flu is reminiscent of the noise before the Covid 19 plandemic. Dr Meryl Nass is a biological warfare expert and an outspoken critic of federal COVID-19 policies.
Read; Dr. Meryl Nass: An Extended Presentation on Bird Flu; Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé 23 February 2025.
Intro; ‘No one has got bird flu from cooking or eating cooked chicken. No one has got the virus from eggs. No one has got the virus from milk or dairy products. No one has got the virus from eating beef. The virus was isolated in 1959 but there were no known human cases until 1997. The first cases in 1997 occurred in Hong Kong. Interestingly, a month before Hong Kong was handed over to China by the British. So what is the bird flu and why are they repeatedly trying to start a “pandemic” with it? To answer these questions, last year, Dr. Meryl Nass gave a presentation on 27 years of bird flu narratives and vaccines.
Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published on 7 July 2024.
Dr. Nass is a physician and researcher who proved that the world’s largest anthrax epidemic, in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), was due to biological warfare. She had her license suspended for prescribing Covid medications that worked. She posts invaluable information on her Substack page ‘Meryl’s Covid Newsletter’ and the website ‘Door to Freedom’.
In a presentation through ‘Reality with Bruce de Torres’, Dr. Nass went over the history of bird flu, the many things that don’t make sense in the narrative and how we may already be in another plandemic. Selected quotes below from the presentation are as follows:
“Under 500 humans are said to have died from H5N1 bird flu, around the world, since 1997.”
“US-paid scientists have been making bird flu viruses more contagious, more deadly and more infectious for humans since at least 2011.”
“At least 2 licensed bird flu vaccines may be deadly; what about the rest?”
“Jeremy Farrar has stoked fear of bird flu viruses for 20 years, along with others. This seems to have been part of a plan, for which his projects are now cashing in.”
“Jeremy Farrar is now the Chief Scientist at WHO, pushing for globalising the use of unlicensed, fast-tracked vaccines with no liability, in drafts of the IHR and pandemic treaty.”
Reality with Bruce de Torres 29 Dr Meryl Nass, 5 July 2024 (87 mins)
As requested, Dr. Nass has made the 92 slides from her presentation on bird flu available as a PDF. You can view the slides below.
92-slide Bird Flu Presentation by Maryl Nass
The race is on to identify another ‘pandemic’ and mandate another unsafe and ineffective vaccine to boost Big Pharma profits.
Read; CDC has issued a bulletin requiring hospitals to test for bird flu (H5N1) so they can find human cases and start the vaccine rollout by Meryl Nass 8 February 2025
Was this the idea of Gerald Parker, DVM, former Fort Detrick, One Health proponent, just appointed to head the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy?
CDC posted its alert on the final Thursday before the end of the Biden administration, yet this message was sent yesterday, suggesting that a Trump official was now pushing it. But perhaps not. Scary. The Blob really does want to create another plandemic and we have to stop them.
UK Column looks at bird flu in wild and captive birds and questions why birds on the same farm are killed if they have not got the disease? Surely viruses go through a population until the animal/human develops natural immunity? Or has Big Pharma got a hand in wanting to force our farmers to buy their vaccine?
Listen; The Culling Has Just Begun: Mass Slaughter for Supermarket Cartels and their Fake Food UK Column News, 26 February 2025
Charles Malet, Presenter; “UK Column has covered in great detail the lead-in to what is being described as an epidemic of avian influenza across the UK, and the area that I’m going to focus on today is the mass slaughter of poultry in response. But the question to be asked at the outset is whether this response is proportionate and necessary, even by the Government’s own metrics and legislation. Now, in response to a Freedom of Information request and a media inquiry from the Animal and Plant Health Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs respectively confirmed that over 2 million captive birds have now died.
The language used is to infer this is in large part due to illness. But the most recent statistics from the Government, updated on Monday, confirm that just 41 cases of avian flu have been recorded. If you recall the mass slaughter of 2001 ascribed to the prevention of the spread of foot and mouth, or you’ve watched the UK Column documentary Slaughtered on Suspicion, you may not be quite so surprised to learn that this means the Government is now killing more than 48,000 birds each time they confirm a case via PCR test. In the words of its inventor, Cary Mullis, PCR may not be used as a diagnostic test, posing the very significant question, is the Government cull lawful or does it constitute malfeasance? The extraordinary powers which enable the Government to do this come from Section 5 of Schedule 3 to the Animal Health Act 1981, which I’ll now run through,
‘The Minister may, if he thinks fit, any disease or suspected poultry, any poultry which are or have been in the same field, pen shed or other place as or otherwise in contact with diseased poultry, or which appear to the Minister to have been in any way exposed to the infection or disease, or any poultry the Secretary of State thinks should be slaughtered with a view to preventing the spread of avian influenza or Newcastle disease.’
With regard to the element of risk or threat to public health, Freedom of Information request or the response to it makes clear that this is not even a consideration. Despite holding stocks of 5 million doses of a human vaccine against bird flu, none has been administered to those employed in the process of destroying or handling these birds. Nor has APHA any record at all of anyone expressing any symptoms of a human variant of what they’re calling bird flu. So skewed is the process, Government finds what it wants to find and the Minister may destroy livestock on that basis, and I should reiterate that APHA and DEFRA confirm again that no other tests are conducted, which means that there’s no investigation into the possibility that a toxicity of some other kind has been introduced into the environment. It’s also worth noting that 85% of the birds slaughtered so far have been permanently housed, and as referenced previously, this completely negates biosecurity countermeasures of keeping birds indoors. The video that you’ve just been watching is from a few years back and it’s essentially a propaganda piece from the BBC on how birds love to be kept indoors completely on top of one another. One hardly needs to contrive the existence of a disease such as bird flu in order to explain why birds like those you’ve just seen might not be healthy. And if you are buying poultry meat from a supermarket, this is where it comes from, the average lifespan of a bird there being just 42 days due to the use of growth hormones.”
The superficial arguments against vaccinating birds against bird flu are first, once they are vaxxed they can’t be exported to other countries, and second, it is extremely expensive. The true argument against vaccination is, if there is a virus, herd immunity is the best cure so birds that are not sick should not be killed. We also need more research as to whether the birds are sick because of the unhealthy, overcrowded and stressful conditions in indoor bird factories not so called ‘bird flu’.
Listen; Avian Flu Vaccines BBC Farming Today, 24 February 2025
BBC Presenter; “This is a debate within poultry farming itself. There are some in the industry who want to see vaccination. There are some who are more equivocal about it. A few weeks ago we spoke to a free range egg producer, David Perrone from Norfolk. He told us about the potential cost of vaccinating his flock.”
David Perrone; “I don’t think we’re anywhere near getting a vaccination programme as they have in France. The one in France outwardly appears to be very successful. However, the government is subsidising it. The vaccine is 50p per chicken. I have 25,000 chickens on the farm. I don’t know where the quail would sit in that. And you have to have a veterinary inspection once a month. And the cost of that is rumoured to be £1,500 per shed.
There’s the cost of the vaccine per animal and then there’s the cost of monitoring to see how well the vaccine is performing. It’s also important to realise that there probably isn’t a solution that fits all types of poultry farming. If you’ve got a broiler chicken that’s being farmed for meat, the intrinsic value of one bird is not very much. But the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got high value animals like turkeys made for the Christmas market. On a simple per cost per animal, it’s probably more viable, but then you still have the inspection problem to solve.”
So far most of the upset is the sheer number of cases of alleged bird flu in wild and farm birds. Terrifying overreach of government powers to cull poultry, backed up by BBC scaremongering, all to roll out a new vaccine and yet more mega profits for big pharma.
Read;Poultry farmers in bird flu ‘panic’ call for UK vaccination plan UK Column News, 19 February 2025
“We look to the BBC, as is often the case, and as referenced last week, the state’s scaremongers-in-chief, the previously referenced BBC were promoting alleged calls for a vaccine with which to prevent the spread of so-called avian flu. But this is a false choice, firstly because there’s no substantial evidence for the existence of avian flu and even less to suggest that wild birds can make domesticated birds ill. But secondly, the only thing killing birds in large numbers is the government which has dusted off its slaughter-on-suspicion policy and uplifted its capability for the destruction of perfectly healthy birds. And as reported on by UK Column, the government has pushed all keepers of birds to register them with the government, the only possible consequence of which is to harm the birds either via degrading their environment through keeping them indoors, or by slaughtering them in order that they do not contract a non-existent illness. So the stench of carcasses is really only eclipsed by that of the corruption of government, industry and philanthropy. Just to walk you through it, Section 5 of the Avian Influenza Regulations 2006 prohibits vaccination in birds.
Therefore, it will come as no surprise to learn that section 6 of the same regulations permits vaccination under emergency conditions. The United States has invoked its own protocols in the past few days and granted a conditional licence to Zoetis for the use of its avian influenza vaccine. Zoetis is a former subsidiary of Pfizer and it explains that a conditional licence is used to meet an emergency condition, a limited market, local situation or other special circumstance, and is issued for a finite period of time. Use of such a vaccine in the UK was being promoted by somebody called Professor Ian Brown of the Animal and Plant Health Agency exactly two years ago, despite the standing regulations prohibiting such a development. He is also a Director of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Programme, which, like so many UN initiatives, receives regular funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So it is being, as I say, a former subsidiary of Pfizer also receives funding from the Gates Foundation, most recently to advance sustainable livestock production. Now, in all of this, a significant document to which much corruption can be traced back to was produced by the World Bank in 2010 called People, Pathogens and Our Planet. I would say that this treatise on fear and fiction asserts that pandemics will occur with alarming regularity and that a majority will be zoonotic in origin, though it’s not clear exactly how they were able to predict this with such certainty.
But there’s no doubt that this entire document is doublespeak for the many ways in which the rural environment and its people and animals should be attacked. And it should be noted that it traces the origins of the One Health doctrine back to the supposed outbreak of avian influenza in 2003. The foreword of this document includes the proposition that the risks that zoonotic diseases represent to public health has led to appeals for more horizontal interaction among the disciplines and the sector agencies, departments and ministries that are responsible for public health, medical professions, veterinary services and the environment, which roughly translates as ‘kill all their animals and take all their land.’ I should remind you that according to their own statistics the government have conducted the mass slaughter in this country of millions of birds and put many farmers out of businesses, people out of jobs on the basis of recording just 38 cases of so called avian influenza across the whole of the United Kingdom since 24th of November last year. On a related note, but not too closely related as you might imagine, the Sun reports the pub chain Wetherspoons has removed eggs from its menus due to a shortage. Now it’s likely that this will be believed to be a consequence of what the government is calling avian influenza. But as always there are several factors at play and the capital to be extracted from a shortage is in convincing the public that biosecurity is everybody’s responsibility, a mantra developed by the chief vet Christine Middlemiss while she worked in New South Wales Australia prior to her current job. But in fact it’s the push for improvements to animal welfare in the main which has set the conditions for any perceived shortage in moving from caged to free range birds target for this year there are comparatively fewer barn eggs and keeping poultry indoors in extremely cramped conditions on top of their own faeces is really what makes birds ill, something which is then ascribed to avian influenza because a PCR test finds the one thing it’s been asked to look for. The Grocer magazine reports that the cost of free range eggs has increased more than 20% since the start of this year and their report on the egg market from last month described that increased production costs of over 70% in certain quarters. So as well as price increases in free range eggs which are no longer free range because all these birds are now to be kept indoors due to biosecurity diktats but can still be labelled as free range, there is a relative scarcity of eggs. Now, perversely or intentionally, pursuit of welfare has also seen a reduction in the production of organic eggs by 16%, which looks bad for birds and bad for you.”
Pharma, governments and the media are all busy branding bird flu as the next threat..be afraid, do what you’re told, take the vaccine and shut up.
Watch; Avian flu UK Column News, 21 February 2025
UK Column News presenter; “Bird flu season is apparently coming, we’re told ‘get ready, there’s vaccines being prepared in factories near you’. This is a memo that was circulating here on Instagram, and we have to give credit to Peggy Hall, the Healthy American. She’s got an amazing blog. So she’s saying here that ‘the flu symptoms, fever, aches, chills, cough, fatigue, nausea, stuffy nose, sore throat…Bird flu symptoms, however, are fever, aches, chills, coughing, fatigue, nausea, stuffy nose, sore throat. So it’s hard to tell the difference between the regular lurgy and the new bird lurgy.’ Brian, does this sound familiar to you at all?”
UK Column News presenter; “Well, it all makes sense because it’s more fear, isn’t it? And the population is to be drowned in fear so that we can be more easily controlled. Perhaps we could just end by saying that the UK Column team is very aware that a lot of people finding it very hard to live in a world where this propaganda and fear is being thrown at them every hour of every day.”
Sick birds are tested for bird flu using the PCR test which even the inventor, Kary Mullis, said was not accurate due to the inevitable number of false positives. Instead of just removing sick birds and compensating the farmer, the birds that don’t have bird flu are killed and the farmer is compensated for those only. Is the purpose behind the last 10 years of tormenting our farmers to ultimately destroy small-scale high welfare poultry farmers, leaving only those that have massive intensive indoor sheds to survive? Or is it to force us all to become vegans to eat fake meat?
Call for countrywide bird flu housing order; BBC Farming Today, 6 February 2025
Intro; “Egg producers want the government to order all free range chickens inside to protect them from bird flu. The British Free Range Egg Producers Association (TW- largely representing intensive poultry farmers) has told Farming Today that with rising numbers of cases of the virus, it’s time to protect the national flock. Overall levels of the virus haven’t yet reached the peak of recent years, but stricter biosecurity measures have been brought in for poultry keepers across Great Britain. And there are housing orders in place where outbreaks have taken place across much of eastern England and part of Shropshire where all birds must be kept indoors, including backyard flocks. Gary Ford, policy advisor at the British Free Range Egg Producers Association, told me it’s time to make that countrywide.”
BBC Presenter; “Given the number of cases of bird flu we’ve seen over a number of years now, how do you see the future for free range eggs?”
British Free Range Egg Producers Association;“We’ve had Avian influenza for the last 10 winters, so it is something to a degree poultry farmers are getting used to. It doesn’t lessen the worry and it may cause some of them to leave the industry if they deem the risk is just too high.”
BBC Presenter; “Because the obvious answer is simply to keep birds inside.”
British Free Range Egg Producers Association; “It’s either to keep birds inside, which is what we’re calling for, or to simply not stock the sheds when they become empty. So rather than replace the flock with a new flock of laying hens, just to simply keep the shed empty, which is no good for self-sufficiency production of homegrown eggs, it doesn’t do anything for UK production if sheds are left empty.”
An organic chicken farm had to close because of bird flu. The birds were tested by the notoriously flawed PCR test and thousands of healthy birds were slaughtered and taken out of the food chain.
Read; The worst day has come Orchard Organic Farm, 21 February 2025
“The worst day has come. We had security guards positioned on both entrances to the farm overnight. Yesterday, at least a dozen people in hazmat suits and huge helmets were setting up the cull equipment and Jerry spent hours with the government vet counting every chicken with no signs of disease (those are the ones we get compensation for). I find this slightly ludicrous as we keep meticulous records which clearly show the number of birds in each house with any losses recorded. The chickens also get counted again as they are culled.
Over 4,000 hens show absolutely no signs of disease whatsoever and are positioned well away from the infected house. All birds will still be culled. There is no quarantine option. We cannot restock for 12 months by which time we will have lost all our customers. There is an option to go through a secondary cleaning and disinfection process but this is extraordinarily expensive and out of our reach. Despite trying very hard, it is nigh on impossible to get affordable insurance for avian flu. The cost of insurance would have made our business completely unviable. No-one wants to insure organic laying hens due to the freedom they are afforded and therefore the greater risk of being in contact with wild birds.
We have to shoulder the cost of incinerating £7,000 of eggs which can’t be sold and disposing of £5,000 of chicken feed which has to remain in the farm. Tomorrow we will wake up with empty fields and all our ‘girls’ will be gone. The government has no interest whatsoever in what happens to us now, other than making sure we follow their post cull rules for the year ahead. We have no idea what the future holds for us now. After the most gruelling and haunting week of our lives at Orchard Organic Farm we will be taking some time to decide on the best way forward and Jerry will be looking for a job.
Thank-you to everyone for the wonderful messages of support. We have felt very loved and we are more grateful than you can ever imagine.”
Inheritance Tax
Tony Gosling made a film of all my farmer interviews at the tractor demonstration on Feb 10th and put the photos I took of farmers’ banners over a video of the rant I gave on his program, NOT The BCfm Politics Show. It focused on the need for both farmers and consumers to realise that they are not going to change this Labour government’s mind. The inheritance tax is no miscalculation, it is a calculated land grab. Banks and billionaire corporate leaders will own farmland and monopolise food production in giant chemical intensive industries run by scientists producing nutritionally deficient food.
Whether the climate change is caused by anthropocentric CO2 or not, the government’s alleged solutions actually increase CO2 emissions, not least their agri-tech and solar panels in cloudy UK. If the Labour government is giving the go ahead for another runway at Heathrow and Gatwick, they obviously don’t care about increasing CO2 emissions. AI-tech based growth economies are extremely energy intensive so no surprise that there is no evidence of any decrease in fossil fuel consumption, they just want so-called renewables as well.
The uniparties have been bankrupting independent farmers for the last 80 years, slowly consolidating land into corporate hands. Supermarkets, expensive chemical and machine inputs and government regulations have caught farmers in a corporate stranglehold, and now it is their CO2 tunnel vision, NetZero goals and the land tax that will turbocharge land consolidation into corporate hands. Corporations will control and profit from patented, industrial-scale production of food grown in labs like;GM seeds in vertical farms, insect-based meat, lab grown meat, highly processed 3D printed meat.
Part of the NetZero scam is for corporate stooges in government to grant fast-track planning permission to allow development of vast, solar farms where extremely inefficient solar panels operating in the UK under almost incessant cloud, will cover food growing land for 60 years, and then for the property developers to build 1.5 million houses and smart cities. Rewilding sounds good but how about growing food without chemicals so you can grow in symbiosis with nature – land sharing instead of land sparing?
Supermarkets pretend to care if the inheritance tax bankrupts UK farmers, but in reality the competition between giant supermarkets to source the cheapest food, literally forces their hand to ultimately not care if they have to get all their produce cheaper and to lower standards from abroad and fake food made in a laboratory. The government claims that they need the £500 million annual revenue from the new inheritance tax on farms to pay for the inherited deficit. Really? It is such a tiny fraction of the debt caused by the uniparties idiotic lockdown, endless wars and dystopian policies towards a trans human world, that there are ulterior motives. The starkness of their lies has been a big wake-up call for Farmers and citizens to take back control. To support farmers we must ditch the supermarkets and buy grains, meat, fruit and vegetables direct from farmers via food hubs, farm shops, farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and delivered boxes. The Whitehall demo on March 4 th is for citizens to join the farmers to protest against the new inheritance tax on farms. NO FARMS NO FOOD
This Farm Gate episode exposes the absurd economics behind the new inheritance tax on farms, and though they don’t see the elephant in the room, for me it points to this government wanting to see the farmers go the same way as the miners. They want farms to be in the hands of banks and tech giants like James Dyson who bought up 36,000 acres in the UK, inflating land prices and no doubt tying it up to dodge taxes when he passes it on to his children or when it is incorporated into a business that doesn’t die!
Wheat from the Chaff: 25th feb 2025 farm inheritance tax; ffinlo Costain, is joined by farmer and columnist, Joe Stanley,
ffinlo Costain; “there’s a discussion about whether inheritance tax is a reasonable measure or not, and at which threshold it should be set. But what she said was, ‘no matter what the threshold is, once farmers are brought into that threshold and they are eligible to pay inheritance tax, immediately that inheritance tax becomes unaffordable.’ And so her example was a £6 million farm between a married couple. They’d be looking at installments of £50,000 a year for a decade, completely wiping out any profit, taking them into debt, certainly not allowing them to make any kinds of investment either in new infrastructure to continue farming in the way that they’re farming or to fund this transition that we keep on talking about.
So in either way, it’s just a nonsense of a policy in terms of the impact that it’s going to have on farmers. And I wonder if you could talk to us about the mechanisms that are being proposed by farmers unions. We had a headline that people can find on the site, ‘Farmers Call for Clawback Mechanism from UK Treasury’. Talk me through that clawback mechanism.”
Joe Stanley; “The costed proposal proposed by farming organisations was essentially that inheritance tax becomes payable if land inherited is sold within seven years or potentially a different timeframe. But also the inheritance tax is payable on farmland that’s inherited, which is no longer used for agriculture. For those core reasons for which there is, and again, this isn’t a tax loophole. It is a tax policy to enable family farms to be held together as functional units.
So, this proposal was essentially that people who want to inherit or who do inherit land and continue to farm it and to produce food and to provide for nature, they do not have to pay inheritance tax. But people who are using it as an investment vehicle, as a tax dodge, they do have to pay inheritance tax.
So again, this will protect family farms. It will generate, I believe £625 million per year versus the £500 million Treasury claims their policy will generate. And also it will hopefully reduce the amount of land being bought up by non-farming actors for non-farming and agricultural ends. So it ticks all three boxes. And again, you look at the comments of the people coming out of that room, the CLA president, the NFU president, these are organisations who have no political acts to grind, they are apolitical organisations, they are respected organisations. They’re always very measured in what they say. The comments coming out of that were that they didn’t believe that the Treasury minister understood the basics of running a business. That the Treasury doesn’t understand how the tax system works. A tax whereby the entire possible profit from a business has to go into paying off a death tax. That’s not how the tax system is supposed to work. It’s not the intention of the tax system.The fundamental problem here, isn’t it? That you’ve got a cash tax on an illiquid land asset and that just doesn’t work.’
Joe Stanley; “‘Look at what happened to the communities that were impacted by those events in the eighties (Thatcher closed coal mines) they remain economically incredibly disadvantaged for the most part to this day. Do we want this? see that happen across the whole as the rural landscape? What do they think is going to happen? So farmers are forced to sell land. Who’s goin g to buy that land? The land is not going to be bought up by new entrants just coming fresh into the industry. It’s going to be bought up by investment funds, wealthy individuals, because hell, 20% inheritance tax is still less than 40% inheritance tax. So for those people who are looking to hide financial assets, it’s still a good deal. Farmers aren’t going to buy it because they don’t want to increase their tax liability and they probably wouldn’t have the money to do it anyway. Already less than half the land, which is sold in this country, is bought by farmers. So the outcomes for this policy are not going to be a redistribution of wealth or a redistribution of land. We’ve lost 25% of farms in this country since 2003. We’ve lost a quarter of farms. The consolidation of the sector has been driven by the economics. Farms are having to get bigger in order to survive.
So by fragmenting farms into other smaller units, you’re just making them less economically viable. So it doesn’t work in any way.”
A tax expert offers a common-sense solution to the government’s inheritance tax that would end the tax on family farms, produce more money for the exchequer and stop investors buying land as a tax dodge.
Listen; Inheritance Tax Special BBC Farming Today, 15 February 2025
BBC Presenter; “Aled, you’re an eighth generation, so what has your family been doing?”
Aled Jones, President NFU Cymru; “Yeah, well, I came home from university in 1981, so I remember the period very well. The principles whereby those changes came in 1984 was to stop the breakup of family businesses on death. The vitality of businesses does need that continuity from generation to generation. Now, this issue of being able to plan is perfectly reasonable, but unfortunately, this is where the sadness comes in, the ability to plan has all of a sudden been taken away from a certain section within our society who are older, and these are tragedies.”
BBC Presenter; “So Aled, are you talking here about the older farmers who are maybe 80 or 90 and don’t feel that they have seven years to gift the farm? Is that the people you’re talking about here?”
Aled Jones, President NFU Cymru; “That’s exactly what I’m talking about. And inevitably those people are finding it so difficult now.”
BBC Presenter; “Now let’s move to targeting this tax. We’ve had a number of suggestions on that. For instance, Tim who suggested that any land rented out could be exempt to encourage landowners, he says to make more farms available for new entrants. Peter proposes that commercial farms producing food be exempt, while landowners using their land for instance, he says horses, pay the inheritance tax. Dan, how easy is it to target a tax like that?”
Dan Neidle; “Well, I don’t think that quite does it because who do we want to tax? Or at least who do I want to tax? I want to tax someone who has a million pounds, doesn’t want inheritance tax on it, so buys farmland and rents it out. I don’t think that that person should benefit from inheritance tax relief. They plan to give the farmland to their children who will sell it immediately following the guy’s death and inheritance tax free. That can’t be right. It can’t be right that if I inherit a million cash, there’s no inheritance tax. But if I inherit farmland I turn into cash, there’s no inheritance tax. That’s illogical. So what I would do is I would have a clawback rule that says that if you inherit farmland that is mostly completely free of inheritance tax, but if you then sell it within say 10 years of inheriting it, then you should be in the same position as someone who inherited cash, you should pay the tax.”
BBC Presenter; “That’s something that the farming unions have also mentioned. Would it raise the same amount of money that ministers are talking about?”
Dan Neidle; “It would certainly raise less from farmers, but it would raise more from people who are avoiding tax right now. If that hypothetical tax avoider puts a million into farmland, they will be completely exempt from tax.”
BBC Presenter; “Aled, is that the sort of compromise that you’re looking for at this point?”
Aled Jones, President NFU Cymru; “Well, Dan, it makes perfect sense to be honest with you. If I was to sell the business tomorrow, I’d live quite comfortably and I would be perfectly happy to pay the taxation on the sale of those assets. But when I pass my business to the next generation, they will work hard, they will continue the investment, they will continue to employ people, etc. and you maintain that economic activity.”
Presenter; “Dan, if you were in charge, what would you do with this tax now?”
Dan Neadle; “So I wouldn’t compromise. I’d double down. I would forget the 50% discount. I would have a clawback so that there’s a real bar on people using agricultural relief and business relief just for tax avoidance purposes. And having done that, you can, I think, then afford to not tax small and medium sized farms.”
Interesting to see that voting Reform would end the farm inheritance tax.
Watch; Nigel Farage speaks at farming protest against inheritance tax changes The Times and Sunday Times, 10 February 2025
“Good morning, everybody. The bad weather puts off left wing protesters, but not, I see the farming community. And you’re going to go and give them hell in Westminster today, are you not? Because the MPs need to listen.
Now, look, I have believed right from the very start that provided this campaign was sustained and was taking place all over the country, I actually think there are some wins that we can get from this. Why? Well, normally governments with big parliamentary majorities can do what the hell they like. This government has a big parliamentary majority, but seven months in, how well is it going? They are doing very, very badly indeed and they’re scared out of their lives. They’ve got 100 Labour MPs that are representing rural or semi rural constituencies and from what I can see, Joe Public is getting behind the concept that the family farm should not be driven out of existence. So politically I think we can win this.
And what’s really exciting is other groups are getting on board too, because this IHT, it isn’t just the farms that it hits, it’s family businesses as well. In fact, inheritance tax, when you think about it, it’s on money that we paid tax on already. The whole thing’s monstrous. So I think the country now is going to come together with lots of different groups and let’s just stand up and say no to death taxes, full stop. End death taxes. They’re wrong, they’re immoral. And the way your community is being treated is unbelievable. I think somebody in the Treasury got their sums wrong where they set the financial limits. Or could it be they just want lots of land because they’re planning for another 5 million people to come into the country in the next few years? They want to cover tens of thousands of grade one agricultural land in places like Lincolnshire with solar panels. Could it be that there is an even deeper, more sinister agenda behind what they’re doing? Either way, what they’re doing is wrong.
And I think the one thing the people of this country have is a strong affinity and a strong feeling for the countryside. And that countryside is as beautiful as it is because of families, be it small farms or bigger estates, they have managed this land for centuries and left it as it is. So let’s get the whole country behind this campaign. Apart from the political class in Westminster, who now have no connection or no understanding of what our rural communities are, what they represent. Maybe you’re not diverse enough. Maybe that’s what it is. Although I think, as we can see, DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is dying in America and very soon it’s going to die here too, and we’ll start judging people on who they are, not what they are. And wouldn’t that be a huge improvement? So I promise, that I will go on with my colleagues backing your campaigns here and around the country. I also promise that if we have anything to do with it after the next general election, and you never know, the polls are looking quite good at the moment. If we have anything to do with it after the next election, if this has been done to your community, I promise you, we will reverse it. I make the little promise to you so let’s keep fighting, keep the pressure up here and right around the country. And by the way, you’ve all been behaving impeccably. I know some think more radical action is planned for, but remember, we’re not French, right?
They might set fire to things. That might be their culture. It’s not our culture. And I would urge all of you, despite how much you’ve got on the line, despite how distressing this is, and I know in Clacton itself, I’ve met farming families in tears because they so desperately want to hand this on to the next generations. But please, keep doing it the way you’re doing it, voluble, but peaceful, within the law. And I tell you what, we do that, we’ll get the whole country on side. I wish you all the very best of luck. I promise you, I am right behind you.”
In their cattle pen, two farmers explain how government subsidies incentivise growing trees and bird seed over growing food. A strong reason why everyone who eats, needs to support farmers by attending the farm demo in Westminster from midday on 4th March and buy their food from UK farmers.
Watch; UK Farmers Protest: Fighting for Fair Prices and Food Security Rossett Park Farming, 6 February 2025
“On average, a farmer makes around £96 profit per acre on a crop of wheat and instead of doing this, they can plant trees on 25% of their land, or grow bird food and get paid up to £345 of taxpayers money without having to lift a finger for two years and roughly getting paid £146 more than growing the crop of wheat.
There is mass uptake of these SFI schemes across England and the government reacted this year by changing the regulation on the amount of nitrogen fertiliser that can be applied to a herbal ley, further reducing production and profitability for farmers after many had already put the seed in the ground.
The figures the UK government released stating that only 28% of farmers will be affected by the inheritance tax was another one of their lies and has been heavily criticised by the agricultural industry who conducted their own research and concluded that over 75% of farmers will be affected. How can their figures be so wrong? Farmers are not the wealthy elites and the destroyers in the environment you are led to believe. The majority of us are small business owners fighting each and every day with increased costs, an ever changing climate destroying our crops and price control of the supermarkets in order to keep feeding the nation. The UK population is still increasing and we are only 60% self-sufficient on food production. With wars happening all over the world and highlighted in a food security report in 2022, it is crucial you keep growing food in this country.”
See the list of measures that the government hopes will help farmers forget that they are going to be bankrupted by the new farm inheritance tax. Rather than giving visas to immigrant workers and investing in agri-tech, they should be helping family farmers that employ local people to work on the land and protect them from cheap imports so the speed of picking isn’t the only priority for a day in the life of a farmer.
Read; Government announces raft of new policies and major investment to boost profits for farmers Farming Online, 25 February 2025
‘New reforms to make farming more profitable will be announced today by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Steve Reed, at the NFU conference in Westminster. This includes, extending the Seasonal Worker visa route for five more years; £110 million investment in technology; back British produce; protecting farmers in trade deals, and strengthening Britain’s biosecurity.
Refreshing to hear a politician voice the needs of the people – pity it isn’t a Labour MP breaking Stasi Starma’s ranks.
Watch; Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness delivers a great speech on the parliamentary inheritance tax on family farms debate; No Farmers No Food, 13 February 2025
“We have a really peculiar group of businesspeople in this country; they are called farmers. They take a return on capital—the millions they have invested in their farms—that is typically less than 1%. There is nobody that I am aware of—no business I was ever involved in—that would remotely consider continuing in an industry that paid less than 1%. These farmers take a pittance and get up at 4 o’clock in the morning for the privilege. They look after the animals and it does not matter if they are ill; they cannot carry their employment rights and go, “I’m not well, I shouldn’t have to go out,” because the cows do not care: they have to go out and look after them, and then they get less than 1% return.
Those farmers, the most beneficent public-minded business people in the whole country, then provide excellent food at among the lowest prices in Europe. If ever there were a business that we would not want to go and mess with, it is these—I should not say it, because I will make enemies of them. We must understand how remarkable it is that there is a whole group of business people who take practically nothing from their business, work all the hours God gives, and provide us with some of the finest food in the world at among the lowest prices in Europe. Why would we want to mess with that? Not only do they do that, but they brainwash their children from the earliest age so that they carry on doing it. These people are in indentured service to the nation, providing food while making very little profit. They do it willingly and, in fact, love it: it is their life. To go and mess with them out of some stupid, socialist spite is ridiculous and absurd, and Government Members know that—the hon. Member for North Northumberland certainly does, and he should lead his colleagues to tell the Chancellor to change course, just as we did in 2012 when George Osborne got it wrong.”
Compare the common sense from the MP above with the Starmerbollocks “its either the NHS or the farmers”…more fatuous excuses about the new inheritance tax, when in fact he wants to bankrupt family farmers.
Listen; Prime Minister and a tractor protest BBC Farming Today, 14 February 2025
“We passed a budget in the autumn of last year that had to do two things. The first was to stabilise and balance the books of the economy. And the second was to invest in things like our NHS and in housing. But in order to balance the books, we had to take tough but right decisions on National Insurance contributions and ending the tax break for farmers. And these are political choices, but what you can’t have is interest rates coming down, the growth we need in the economy, your waiting list coming down and maintain the tax break for farmers. And people watching this will understand that that is a choice. They will know which they would prefer. Do they prefer their waiting list to come down?
Do they want their mortgages to come down, the economy to start working for everyone? That’s what we’re trying to achieve. Or do we want to keep a tax break for farmers? But you can’t have both.”
CO2 tunnel vision
— Brother52 (@JBBrown52) February 19, 2025
The Climate Change Committee says farmers must reduce cattle and sheep by 27%, and presumably import the rest of what we consume, or replace the meat with lab meat and insects which have their own carbon footprint. Besides, how exactly does importing frozen meat 13,000 miles from Australia and New Zealand reduce CO2 emissions? The real culprit isn’t meat itself—it’s factory farming. Those industrial setups churn out emissions and wreck the land, no question. Grazing animals can rebuild soil, store carbon, and keep ecosystems humming—without gutting meat from our plates. The article’s got stats, sure, but it sidesteps solutions that don’t demand sacrifice and tick all boxes. Why shrink production when we can just farm smarter?
Listen; Climate Change Committee report BBC Farming Today, 27 February 2025
BBC Presenter; “Well, as I say, in its latest report, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) calls for a transformation in UK agriculture. The CCC advises the UK government on ways to reduce emissions to meet NetZero by 2050. Its seventh report sets out a plan from 2038 to 2042 and it recommends a 27% drop in the number of cattle and sheep and that we all eat less meat. It wants to see more woodlands, more peatlands rewetted and more energy crops like Miscanthus being grown. Now, for this report, the CCC set up an Agricultural Advisory Group and its report argues that well-managed livestock bring multiple benefits, pointing out that meat produced in the UK has lower emissions than that produced in some other countries. It calls for better data and more help for farmers adapting to the realities of climate change, from flooding to disease, while margins are low, and prices and output volatile. Emma Pinchbeck runs the Climate Change Committee.”
Emma Pinchbeck; “Right now, agriculture is not the biggest problem in the economy. What we’re talking about in terms of delivery for the next five to 10 years is really focused on heat and transport and clean power and other areas of the economy. But by the time of this carbon budget, agriculture is a bigger remaining issue in the economy. And so we’re talking about agriculture to sort of get ready for the late 2030s and early 2040s”.
BBC Presenter; “Now, this time around, you had an Agricultural Advisory Group. I think it’s fair to say they’re not quite on board. They talk about the benefits of livestock, that it’s better to produce meat here than in some other places and then export it. You don’t agree, I’m assuming.”
Emma Pinchbeck; “We actually do agree with that. One of the messages in the report, very clearly, having worked with farmers quite closely in the development of the advice, is that we see farmers and landowners as important to providing the solutions of the future. And what we’ve tried to do is look at land use in the round, so that wherever livestock might be coming out of farms, there are alternative revenue streams, whether that’s growing bio-crop, having some role in tree planting in some way, or indeed having renewable energy on your farm. And collectively we think that the net benefit of that farms in the UK is about £1,000 to £1,500 per acre.”
BBC Presenter; “But you are talking about a 27% drop in the number of cattle and sheep, aren’t you? And as the group points out, that transition is difficult.”
Emma Pinchbeck; “We are talking about a change in livestock numbers. Yes. And what’s important about that is the change in livestock numbers actually comes from a change in diets. And some of that change we’ve already seen happening. Over the last five years, there’s been about a 9% reduction in meat eating.”
BBC Presenter; “There has been a fairly furious response from some parts of the farming industry to the Tenants Farmers Association highlighted that agriculture produces 12% of the UK’s emissions, but it uses 70% of the land and it doesn’t think you’ve taken that sort of balance into account enough.”
Emma Pinchbeck; “What I will say is we have really genuinely tried to consider things in balance for livestock, for land use overall, things like crop production, bio-crops, but also crops of food. In our numbers, food production from the UK stays the same, so we’ve tried to keep food security as it is and to keep the same balance of imports and exports.”
BBC Presenter; “I suppose by the time we get to 2038, we’ve done the easy things. So in lots of different sectors of the economy, we’re making difficult decisions at this point?”
Emma Pinchbeck; “Absolutely, and in the report for agriculture and for aviation and shipping and some other sectors of the economy that are trickier, we’re more agnostic about some of the solutions coming forward, because there are things that will emerge that will surprise us, that will help all of this over the next 10 years. What we’ve got to do, though, is come up with at least a credible pathway for being able to say to the government, we’re confident you can get this level of emissions out of the economy. We are trying to, I suppose, help farmers and bits of the economy by offering them a guide to the kinds of things that they might be asked to do.”
BBC Presenter; “Although they hate being lumped in with aviation, as they will no doubt be shouting at the radio right now, you don’t need to fly, but you do need to eat.”
Emma Pinchbeck; “I think a really good change in our analysis is we are specifically not doing that. So we are treating land use as an entire sector and we’re actually saying to the aviation industry they need to clean up their own mess and they should be responsible for investing in expensive offsetting technologies like greenhouse gas removals. Whereas farmers who are stewards of the land should be the people that get to do tree planting, peatland restoration, soil restoration, and they should be the ones rewarded for doing so, because that helps them with the changes to livestock numbers.”
More on the above in The Conversation.
The World Economic Forum globalists have captured both Conservative and Labour party politicians with their Climate Change NetZero scam. UK politicians’ obsession with CO2 and methane causing climate change is in fact following a law introduced by the Conservatives. ‘Theresa May planted a massive bomb before she left office. In May, 2019, she amended the 2008 Climate Change Act and brought in a statutory instrument to that Act encoding climate change into UK law. So we are the only country in the world to have done this. What she implemented in 2019, is the Climate Nature Bill. They’ve obviously worked on it and it’s legally binding and it gives a Secretary of State a duty to implement a strategy to eradicate the UK’s net contribution to climate change by 2050. ’
Symposium; Supporting Farmers for Food Security; No Farmers No Food, 16 March 2025
‘Roger and Sandi are keynote speakers at the day-symposium Supporting Farmers For Food Security, Sunday 16 March, near Cheltenham and chaired by UK Column’s Charles Malet.’
‘UK Column are grateful to two of our regular expert guests who joined Debi Evans in this exclusive interview for farmers everywhere, but particularly here in the United Kingdom. As we head into 2025, we must ask what will be on our dinner tables this year.
In light of the recent farmers’ protests, and the announcement of inheritance tax hikes in the Autumn Budget, Consultant Veterinary Surgeon Roger Meacock and globalist agenda researcher Sandi Adams bring you a potted history of why farmers have more to worry about than inheritance tax.
Both Roger and Sandi felt it was a matter of urgency that farmers become aware of a much deeper and darker agenda at play. The agenda will see them stripped of their land, futures, and livelihood in the not-too-distant future. Does that all seem impossible? The answer is clearly no.
In Part 1, (January newsletter) they introduce you to the history of Agenda 2030 and the people behind it. What are its implications, who will be affected, and how is it being rolled out and implemented? What is the United Nations (UN), and what is it doing in the background? Farming features on the UN’s agenda; do you know how big the agenda is? Inheritance tax is just the tip of a monstrous iceberg.
Part 2 (below) focused on ‘farming in the future’ and how it will affect your animals, crops, and business. What is the future of the farm vet? Will there be any animals to treat? Do you know what novel medicines are coming down the veterinary pipeline? What is a 15-minute city? How is our land being grabbed, and what incentives are farmers being offered in return for their land?
Part 3 In this third and final part, Roger brings us up to date on Bovaer and ARLA. Sandi reveals what to expect in the restaurant of the future; insect carbonara, anyone? And prepare for a jaw-dropping moment or two in this fascinating look into a dystopian future that is racing towards us at lightning speed. Sainsbury’s have a shocking plan for our future food. Find out what AI growth zones are and how they will take up even more of our fields.
And what of our farmers and farm workers themselves? Roger and Sandi discuss the pressures on the farming community and their impact on mental health and suicide. For those who feel they may need help and advice, RABI offer a helpline (0800 188444) and a support service.
Message to farmers: we want your food! The British public will support you and urge you to supply them directly. Please write to your MP; Sandi has kindly prepared a template letter for you to use, which appears below. Update: UK Column recorded this interview before the second reading of the bill was adjourned in the House of Commons on 24 January, 2025. An amended version of this letter will still be useful when it returns to the House Other interviews on UK Column featuring Sandi Adams can be found here. Other interviews on UK Column featuring Roger Meacock can be found here. Roger’s Substack can be found here.’
Extract from part 3 of the above series;
Watch; Dear Farmers: 999, Part 3 – Food of the Future or Perhaps No Food in the Future – with Roger Meacock and Sandi Adams UK Column, 6 February 2025
“The future of food isn’t particularly good in the UK at the moment because we’ve got renewables really taking over the land from food production. Our land is now being populated with wind farms and solar farms and housing and wild rewilding, anything but food.
And this is the worry, our land has been given over to renewables with more planned of up to 6,000 acres each. When the wind doesn’t blow or it blows too hard and the sun doesn’t shine where is the energy? England isn’t the sunniest place in the world, is it? The storage technology hasn’t been developed yet, and there’s large drops throughout the year. In the actual production of any energy at all, Ed Milliband has forced the acceleration of renewable energy saying it will decrease energy bills.
This is actually not true. Far from reducing our bills, it’ll drive energy bills up. Last year, each consumer paid £40 in constraint payments to the owners of wind farms asked to turn off their turbines. This figure is forecast to increase by £150 per household by 2026. The energy secretary claims that thousands of new jobs will be created in wind and solar. But for who? The Chinese are making all these solar panels, who’s actually benefiting from this?
I don’t believe it’s the UK. So really the infrastructure these huge turbines and the solar farms they’re actually quite toxic. Wind turbines kill birds and they only have a lifespan of 12 years. You can’t dispose of them. They have to be buried under the earth. And likewise with the solar panels, they can leach toxins into the farmland. So where will the food come from?
This came to my attention in 2020. It’s a cav Agricultural Profit Productivity Working Group Report.
They focused on new production methods for farming. They talk about autonomous systems becoming widespread and having largely taken the place of people within farms that they’re going to replace farm workers with robotics (the word, robot, was mentioned 26 times in the report!). That’s the kind of future that they see for us. Autonomous soil testing combined with the use of small fleets of robots powered by 5G. And they’re seeing this as 24-7. They’re using a lot of data. Data is central to enabling these new systems to work. They also want the farmers not to be able to pass their farms down. And obviously that’s been evident with the inheritance tax. But also this document is saying that in order to create a centralised professional body for farming and horticulture, you’ll have to actually go through a training process. This professional body will be overlooked by a framework under which all systems will be managed. So I see this is another push in the plan to really get all the data from our farms into the government so that the government can monitor everything. And it’s all about stakeholder capitalism and stakeholder profit and data entry……
They also talk about 3D printed meat. And, and I’ve seen quite a few films from China.They’ve perfected it in China using stem cells. The thing is, stem cells from what? You don’t know what you are eating. Yes, they do have the ability to 3D print meat and on Sainsbury’s Future of Food, there is a big diagram of how food will be in the future. And it’s quite dystopian. They even talk about growing food in space by 2169 and they’ve got illustrations of 3D printed meat and crickets and algae and jellyfish and seaweed and all these different replacement proteins.
They are looking at ways of replacing our farmers and putting it into the hands of big corporations like supermarkets. It could be any corporation. As we know, Bill Gates owns a lot of land in America. The farmers are being pushed into this land grab where they won’t be in control of their land.
It will be big corporations with this kind of dystopian future for food and it’s not good…….
Having looked at the absolute zero document, this is almost giving it the go ahead in my view. So it’s called the Climate in Nature Bill, and it’s an acceleration of the 2008 Climate Change Act. And it’s been brought together by the Climate Change Committee and what they call the JNCC, which is the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Now, what people may not know is way back in 2019, Theresa May planted a massive bomb before she left office in May, 2019, she amended the 2008 Climate Change Act and brought in a statutory instrument to that Act encoding climate change into UK law. So we are the only country in the world to have done this. What she implemented in 2019, is the Climate and Nature Bill. They’ve obviously worked on it and it’s legally binding and it gives a Secretary of State a duty to implement a strategy to eradicate the UK’s net contribution to climate change by 2050.
And it’s basically restoring it to pre-industrial revolution levels. Now, firstly, they will establish a climate and nature assembly to advise the government on that strategy. And then they’ve got 12 months after passing the bill, they will have to lay the strategy before Parliament. Now what is interesting is the Act mentioned significantly reducing CO2 on imports to the UK. And this is where I think The Absolute Zero documented 20 18 – 20 19 really kicks in because they want to get rid of all shipping and all flying in and out of the UK by 2050.
And this is what I think it’s all about, There’s obviously a lot more in that document. People need to look at it. I think we did feature it in the last episode. But in my view, this bill aims to keep us cold, hungry, and poor. At the moment, we are poorer than the poorest state in the United States, which is Mississippi, and under Starmer, unfortunately, we’ll dive deeper into that poverty if we don’t stop it.”
I’m not a scientist but when our entire lives are being dictated on the premise that our excess methane emissions are causing climate change, and the mainstream media won’t publish so called Climate deniers, it is important to hear the debate.
Read; To avoid the US slapping tariffs on Europe; the EU is having to re-think its methane mitigation regulations Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé́, 14 February 2025
‘The final design of Europe’s methane market is still under discussion, making it a potential bargaining chip in tariff negotiations. While the EU wastes time and taxpayers’ money designing a methane trading market that will most likely enrich a select few at the expense of the many, we would like to remind our readers what a fruitless task the EU has set itself.
We know there is no climate emergency and there will not be one. But for those who have been hoodwinked into believing there is a climate change crisis and for those who like to use it as an excuse: will the imminent EU methane regulations make any difference to the global temperature as proclaimed? Absolutely not, according to CFact which published an article in 2022 about the US imposing methane regulations under the Biden Administration; Methane, the molecule CH4, is the main constituent of natural gas. Like water vapour (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O), methane is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas. Methane is present in minute quantities; 0.00017 per cent of the atmosphere.
“Few realise that large increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases cause very small changes in the heat balance of the atmosphere. Doubling the concentration of methane – a 100% increase, which would take about 200 years at the current growth rates – would reduce the heat flow to space by only 0.3%, leading to an average global temperature change of only 0.2 °C,” CFact wrote.
“Even if regulations on US methane emissions could completely stop the increase of atmospheric methane (they can’t), they would likely only lower the average global temperature in the year 2222 by about 0.2 °C, a completely trivial amount given that humans have adapted to a much larger change over the past century,” CFact added.
It’s not only the EU that is failing to grasp the basics. At COP26 in 2023, the EU and the US launched the Global Methane Pledge (“GMP”) for “methane mitigation … to keep the goal of limiting warming to 1.5˚oC.” 150 nations signed the GMP without even bothering to check if the methane was man-made. In her article, Joe Nova explained that the rise in methane in recent years is not due to “fossil fuels” as claimed, but due to a rise in microbes. Quoting a study published in 2024, Nova said that even though the use of hydrocarbon fuel was rising, the atmospheric methane relating to these fuels has been decreasing for 17 years. She pointed to a Phys Org article about the study which said: “Since 2007, scientists have observed microbes playing a significant role in methane emissions, but their contribution has surged to over 90% starting in 2020.” In other words, the increase in atmospheric methane is part of a natural cycle. As of January 2025, regardless of what the reality is, additional countries had signed up to the Global Methane Pledge. The total number of signatories now stands at 160. As the GMP is linked to the same 1.5oC goals as the Paris Climate Agreement, and the US and Argentina have stated their intention to leave the Agreement, we can expect the number of GMP’s signatories to follow the same trajectory as the methane from hydrocarbon fuels – it’s all downhill from here.’
If the authorities install decentralised wave power (in a way that is sensitive to coastal marine life), the UK could both stop putting solar panels on our food growing fields and reduce fossil fuel use.
Read; A leading energy company is preparing to install an innovative system in the U.S. that could change everything Raquel, El Adelantado, 23 February 2025
‘Eco Wave Power has already delivered its energy conversion unit to the project site and is now ready to take the next big step—installing a 100-kilowatt wave energy station. With the final permit secured, the company has the green light to place eight wave energy floaters along sections of a concrete pier.
The system also includes an energy conversion unit, which is made up of two 20-foot shipping containers. Since these containers are already stationed at the wharf, all that’s left to do is connect them to the floaters—kind of like plugging in a giant power strip, but ocean-powered! Eco Wave’s floaters work by turning the movement of waves into usable electricity. The company explains that the system runs automatically and can start generating power from waves as small as 1.6 feet high.’
Read; Labour’s war on the countryside Farmers are being driven off the land by James Rebanks, 11 February 2025
‘Carbon offsetting is when individuals and companies invest in environmental projects elsewhere — often in developing countries — in order to balance out their own carbon footprint. They can then boast about being “carbon neutral”. In theory this system allows growth to happen, while also paying for the damage we do to nature. But it is a terribly flawed idea.
When we agree to the principle of offsetting, we accept that the cost of helping nature in one place is its destruction in another. That means a fossil fuel company can bribe a wildlife trust or NGO into greenwashing what they’re doing by offsetting their carbon credits. In this way, we are all made complicit in the systematic destruction of the natural world.’
‘Offsetting creates vast flows of capital (as “carbon credits” can be traded), but it is inherently dishonest. It is a gold rush fuelled by bullshit — it’s all about creating some numbers to put in a spreadsheet back at HQ so you can claim your airline, powerplant or supermarket is “carbon neutral”. Naturally, some good will be done with some of this offsetting money, and many environmentalists are doing their best. But in the end, it’s a smoke-and-mirrors game, which turns bad guys into heroes, and assuages the guilt and responsibility of the wealthy.
It’s above all a game that plays to the strengths of the rich and powerful. A new kind of feudalism is now emerging in the British countryside. Large landowners, who have always held their tenants and workers in contempt, can now get rid of them, let the land go, and claim vast sums of money for preserving nature and offsetting carbon emissions. You don’t need to be a qualified environmentalist to get your hands on this offset cash, just a plenty of acres, the gift-of-the-gab, some claims about “carbon sequestration” or “biodiversity gain” and a swanky website. These landowners have the scale required to play the game — and they’d far rather have a safari experience outside the back door than some grumpy tenant farmers.
What we’re seeing is a two-tier system of responsibility for the environment, with the powerful and wealthy given a free pass to pollute because they are the miraculous deliverers of “growth”. It has become a giant power play (which is about to get worse because of the vast energy needs of AI), in which the wealthy assuage their guilt by buying out everyone else — including farmers, who can’t possibly compete. Indeed, Britain’s landscapes are being rapidly bought up by wealthy landowners and giant corporations: more than 40% of land purchased last year was by non-farmers. And they seem to have our government in their pockets. They whisper about “growth” and needing deregulation and suddenly Labour becomes their pet. Meanwhile, the rest of us are bribed and cajoled into “offsetting” their mess.
Another problem is that offsetting is rarely a straight swap. A developer might bulldoze an ancient woodland, and pay for a new one to be planted elsewhere. But even if it’s twice the size, this low-quality replica won’t truly offset their damages. The ancient oak tree they felled to clear space for a new road would have taken centuries to grow, and it would have been part of an ancient ecosystem supporting hundreds of species of wild things. The new woodland they plant with plastic tree guards is an entirely false creation that will take decades, if not centuries to remotely resemble what they have destroyed. And given the logic of offsetting, someone else will in time destroy this new wood too. This cycle will repeat itself until nature is pushed to the lowest quality land and everywhere else is tarmac, housing and shopping centres.
The worst thing about offsetting, though, is that it stops us talking honestly about industries that do real damage — burning fossil fuels or using finite natural resources. It allows us to keep polluting under the illusion it’s all OK, and that the debt has been paid. Yet shifting emissions from one place to another, from a factory to a forest, won’t reduce the emissions. It just allows big business to keep on polluting.
The solution is for the state to pay for nature restoration, or mandate it through regulation, so we all pay the real price of pollution and nature destruction. But being broke is making our government desperate and weak. Rachel Reeves’s proposed Heathrow runway threatens to create so many emissions that all the offsetting we’ve done for years will be pointless.’
I see Starmer’s selling our land to Blackrock. Like Ukraine, the UK will be owned and run by his bankster and other Stakeholder Capitalist colleagues in the World Economic Forum. Starmer has already told us that he prefers Davos to Westminster.
All Under One Banner is feeling angry. Nov 2024
Blackrock is launching a £100m hedge fund to buy up farmland across Scotland and throughout the U.K.
Blackrock subsidiaries are instructed not to buy farms that are sold at auction due to the owners’ inability to make debt payments. Which enables them to “aquire” huge land grabs at rock bottom prices well below market value.
Blackrock has invested in wind farms in Grimsby and solar power production in Pembrokeshire, controlling energy and energy prices to 1.8 million homes in the poorest regions of the U.K.
While the exact amount of UK farmland owned by Blackrock is not known, the search results suggest that Blackrock has been significantly expanding its agricultural investments and acquisitions in the UK real estate market.
* #KeirStarmer and #RachelReeves
inheritance tax grab goes hand in hand with Blackrock and Bill Gates visits to 10 Downing Street. What a coincidence!
Blackrock have £100 million to buy up farmland – Property Week
Renewable energy bills will be higher. There’s a pay will but the title says it all.
Read; NetZero will mean higher bills, admit Miliband’s officials Matt Oliver, The Telegraph, 18 February 2025
Households’ energy costs will reach £1,823 a year after price cap rises by £85 in April
Britain’s push towards net zero will temporarily push energy bills higher, Ed Miliband’s officials have admitted in an apparent contradiction of the Energy Secretary’s own claims…
Keir Starmer: A prime minister who betrayed farmers. pic.twitter.com/Yk1GFTrazz
— No Farmers, No Food (@NoFarmsNoFoods) February 18, 2025
Starmer’s promises to farmers were a litany of lies
Read; Keir Starmer: A prime minister who betrayed farmers; No Farmers No Food, 18 February 2025
Well meaning, high achievers accept ambassador roles in NGOs with lofty responsibility for projects that will allegedly save mankind, that they often know nothing about. In the Dandelion Project, Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, believes that anthropogenic climate change is factually proven and, so pampered in terms of privilege and respect, she has failed to question its true intentions.
Listen; From the Group of Thirty to The Elders—Leading to Project Dandelion UK Column News, 17 February 2025
Women’s voices;
“I’m a dandelion. Are you?”
“Our climate is in crisis, but I have hope. I will act.”
“Like a dandelion, I am resilient, I am relentless. I will find any opening in any path to make more dandelions.”
UK Column Ben Ruben; “Very clearly telling you what they’re up to, what they’re about and spreading this message. And obviously it’s a nice analogy because dandelions, they get everywhere. Actually, if they get caught on the right gust of wind, they can travel for thousands of miles. And this is how they’re spreading this climate message through this network, intimately linked to the SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals). So we can actually see, I don’t know if you noticed in the film, that’s Mary Robinson. Again, you can see the dandelion badge on her left lapel. And also on the other lapel, the SDG badge. These things are very, very closely linked. Have to understand symbolism here. These sigils, these brands, these names are how this message gets spread. And that shows that this fascist and this climate agenda are in one place being pushed forward by Mary Robinson in particular. And who is she? Just giving you a little bit more background. So she’s former President of Ireland. She said she was elected by the women of Ireland who, instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. She was then a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, did a lot of time at the UN and now calls herself a climate justice champion, saying we are the first generation to understand how serious the climate crisis is and the last generation to be able to do something about it. She was actually the UN envoy for climate when the SDGs were introduced in 2015. So she’s intimately involved in this whole agenda.
She sends out a personal message on the Project Dandelion website. You should go and read this saying, “we are calling on women of the world to unite in action for a climate safe world.” A climate safe world. I’ll come back to that term in a minute. Just as I say go and read the letter. But importantly, it says that “we will build a chorus of voices that will help us to reach and motivate 2 billion people to act for climate justice united under a single vision”. As is a single vision for delivering what they call climate justice. It’s going to be delivered by 2 billion people, which is basically a quarter of the women on Earth. Right. This is all very much focused on women. It’s a lot of people and they’re going to deliver what they call a climate safe world. Let’s find out a bit more about what that means.
Woman’s voice; “I don’t have to worry anymore. I’m extremely stressed, worried, can’t figure out how we’re going to get there. And if I wake up tomorrow, it’s done. It’s like, what a relief. We would be using the sun for all of its glory and we would have enormous amounts of electricity to power so many things or everything on our planet. We would no longer be using fossil fuels, the asthma rates would be disappearing.
Another woman; “What I would be most excited for is to actually have everyone in our communities access nature and access clean air and access clean water.
Another woman; “I’d be most excited to know that my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren had a future. And I think that says it all. And I think a lot of people would agree.”
UK Column Ben Ruben; “So a lot of this is about fear. As we’ve been talking about the women in this video, some of them, they’ve just been propagandised, frankly, by the people behind this programme. So they’re worried, they’re fearful, they want to change things, but they don’t really know how. There’s a lot of poorly articulated solutions, a lot of it is based on climate tech, regenerative or sustainable energy systems that we know don’t work in most countries on Earth. They are tapping into some very valid concerns that people have about the impact that humanity is having on the natural world. I think they’re very cynically doing this. And also there’s this, what I think about as the weaponisation of the maternal instinct. So the lady at the end there saying she’s worried about her children, her grandchildren and her great grandchildren’s future, as she should be, but it’s being manipulated and hijacked by people behind programmes like this, frankly, in order to deliver this fascist agenda coming down from the UN and elsewhere. So they’ve got a bunch of demands, as you’d expect. I’ll just focus on a couple of these. The first one, top right, number three, pay up to those least responsible but most impacted. So a lot of this is about wealth redistribution. And then number seven there, elevate women led climate solutions. So basically put women in charge of everything and direct a lot of funding towards them. Actually, if I’m being cynical about this, a lot of this is about women seeking high powered jobs, particularly in the upper levels of organisations like this and the ecosystem surrounding them.
They’ve got a bunch of lobbying going on. As I said, every issue is a climate issue. So Mary Robinson is saying that the climate crisis is just unfair. It’s unfair to women and girls so we have to change everything. Another one here sexual and gender based violence is a climate issue, I’m really not sure how that is and then a personal favourite is that extreme weather events impact menstrual justice, and that’s a new one for me, I’ve never heard of menstrual justice before but here we are so they’re getting a lot of high level coverage. So this is Mary Robinson speaking at COP in the Faith Pavilion, there’s a big overlap here with interfaith issues seems to be where they’ve landed it and also indigenous people, the Pope was in on the act, apparently he’s a Dandelion as well. He’s got a badge in his hand there. We spoke about the Vatican last week. As well, a bunch of celebs. So that is actually Donatella Versace on the left and Annie Lennox from the Eurythmics on the right who is calling herself a global feminist these days and she’s got one of those badges on as well.
And they got loads and loads and loads of supporters for all those who choose Hope we choose you. Importantly, just to land back on the symbolism thing again, that’s a Ukraine flag, right? Go, go and look at the website, those colours are Ukrainian colours, very, very clearly. And actually the yellow at the bottom there, where the supporters are, I think that’s important because actually groups using this colour to organise people I just think bear a little bit of scrutiny they might, might be up to no good. So who have we got on the list? A Political Foundation, Gates foundation, The B Team, The Rockefeller Foundation, Skoll Foundation, a lot of the top level philanthropic groups, Vital Voices, which is the US State Department and Hillary Clinton-backed global network of powerful women in commerce and politics. But importantly for today she is going to focus on one of them, which is this organisation which is the Elders. The Elders was founded in 2007 by Nelson Mandela. They call themselves an independent global leaders network, working together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. Climate crisis is a big focus for them. Also multilateralism, gender equality, intergenerational dialogue.
It’s very exclusive. There’s 12 people on the Elders Committee, see them at the bottom there. Founded as I mentioned, in 2007 by Nelson Mandela, who is, as I understand it, a 33rd degree Freemason, he was anyway, he obviously died in 2013. It’s currently chaired by Juan Manuel Santos, who’s that guy just second in from the left who is also known as Blair’s man in Bogota. And he was one of the Global Leader of Tomorrow class of 1993, alongside Blair Brown and Vladimir Putin as well. Actually, as we understand it, there’s a great article from Winter Oak by Paul Cudenec which gives a great background on him. And then Mary Robinson, who was chair of The Elders from 2018 to 2024.
She left in October last year, I’m guessing to focus more on this Dandelions programme. And importantly also an elder is Ernesto Zedillo on the right there, who’s a former president of Mexico. And last summer back in June, Mary Robinson and Ernesto Zodillo and Ban Ki Moon, who is also an elder, former Sec Gen of the UN went to meet Antonio Guterres at the UN to talk about global security issues, Israel, Palestine and how to strengthen multilateralism amid geopolitical tensions. So Zodillo is obviously a close confidant and advisor to Mary Robinson. And he is a senior emeritus member of the group of 30. And the group of 30 is the absolute pinnacle of the global financial system. So they provide oversight of the Bank of International Settlements and the global central banking system. The majority of members of the group of 30 are current or former central bankers.
So people like Mark Carney, who’s currently the chair. Andrew Bailey, who’s the current governor of the bank of England, he’s on the group of 30. And this is right at the top of the pyramid. Let’s have a little look at a few of the other characters. You can see Augustine Carstens there, the general manager of the Bank of International Settlements, Janette Yellen, chair of the Fed, Tim Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Jacob Frankel, former governor of the Bank of Israel, former chair of JP Morgan Chase International. And then on the far right of the picture, you can see Ernesto Zedillo, who is a senior emeritus member of the G30, which connects this group directly down to Project Dandelion. Ernest is also at the G30 and the elders, Mary Robinson at the elders of Project Dandelion. Turning every issue into a climate issue to get 2 billion people, predominantly women, to act for climate justice in order to drive through this totalitarian global system.”
UK Column, Brian Gerrish; “Ben, thank you very much. What can we say to our audience? We hope that you’ll share it with other people so that they can understand that their politicians in Westminster are making none of the decisions. All of the decisions are being made by the World Economic Forum and these agents, and this is the reason that Keir Starmer says he’s got no interest in Westminster. He’d rather do his business in Davos.”
Read; The Green Version of ‘The Law Of Unintended Consequences’ By Nanumaga 15 February, 2025
‘Hundreds of thousands of acres of productive farmland given over to solar panel arrays in this country is an insane exercise in expensive futility unless our Lords and Masters manage to alter the Earth’s current pattern of rotation around the Sun. Investing in solar arrays in the Sahara and sub-Sahel makes more sense, although there’s a huge loss through transmission via inter-connectors. Unlike our legislators, electricity isn’t a dense form of energy. Much like them, the energy dissipates significantly over any distance.
Solar doesn’t work in our latitudes beyond offsetting the bills for people who can afford to put the solar panels on their roof and be able to afford to wait 15 years to see their capital investment being paid off. It’s not unlike the unresolvable dilemma presented to 65% of householders who don’t have off road parking with which they can charge their Electric Vehicles to get the ‘bargain basement’ low-cost home consumer rates, instead of the commercial rates which cost more per mile than petrol and diesel cars.
The wealth of knowledge and experience, science and innovation, at the heart of our farming industry will be diminished and marked for extinction. Our many, and varied breed societies, whether in cattle, sheep or pigs will become even less viable than they are today, and we’ll lose that remarkable excellence of curated and managed diversity of livestock breeds which has taken some two centuries to develop and maintain.
This will impact quite soon, and it will damage this successful and resilient industry beyond measure. There’s absolutely no valid positive financial return to HMRC from this spiteful new rule that could justify the damage which will result.
Lots of lawyers and accountants will make some money from this. The farmers will be the most obvious losers, although I suspect that we’ll all lose from the planned extinction of small to medium-sized family farmers.
Sadly, I don’t think that very many voters will actually notice this, much less give a damn about it. We’ve pretty much lost any, and all, of our roots in the rural parts of our country. The countryside is just a big place to go and enjoy with our cars, bikes, motorbikes, campervans, caravans, and the odd day trip. It’s our ‘right’ to enjoy this whenever we feel like doing so, and our ‘right to roam’ over any field trumps farmers’ rights to keep bulls or cows with calves within fences which we’ll happily climb over and then complain vociferously if it goes wrong.
Over about 100 years or so we’ve almost completely lost touch with farmers and the land, our distant origins and proximity to rural life. This was, for obvious reasons, perfectly understandable and inevitable. There did, however, remain a sense of fond reminiscence and respect for our bucolic origins which many of us still cherish because so much of it is utterly gorgeous.’
The anthropogenic CO2 causing climate change narrative kool-aid has been swallowed by all of our authorities to promote the NetZero policies that are destroying farmers’ livelihoods and ruining our economy and causing the cost of living crisis.
Read; Emissions from UK farming overtake electricity for the first time, Farming UK, 11th Feb 2025
‘Greenhouse gas emissions from farming have now overtaken the UK’s electricity supply for first time, according to new government figures.
The final UK emissions statistics for 1990-2023 reveal that agriculture now accounts for a higher percentage of the UK’s emissions than electricity.
The Department for Net Zero figures [PDF] show that domestic transport is the largest emitting sector in the UK, responsible for over a quarter of all emissions.’
The words below from Starmer about the Treasury needing the estimated £500m that it claims will be raised by the sudden new inheritance tax on farms to help meet their fiscal deficit, are a massive lie. In reality they want to kill 2 birds with one stone, get rid of independent farmers and pay for their forever wars and scam CO2 tunnel vision policies.
See below article about the energy investment required by 2050
Grid £200bn
Offshore wind £115bn
Nuclear £150bn
Carbon capture/storage £70bnRead: PM says public has choice between ‘tax break’ for farmers or driving down NHS waiting lists, Farmers Guardian, 13th February 2025
“Do they prefer their waiting lists to come down, do they want their mortgages to come down and the economy to start working again for everyone – that is what we are trying to achieve – or do we want to keep a tax break for farmers. You cannot have both.”
I rarely agree with corporate capitalists but when they criticise the NetZero scam I am thrilled. Where we differ is that, like the Amish, I also want to reduce the use of fossil fuels. I want small-scale local renewable energy and where the work is meaningful, diverse and enjoyable, using human and animal power over machines, robots and chemicals. The article has a paywall but i like his quote below.
Read; We’re starting to look like loonies on energy; Dominic Lawson, The Times, 16 February 2025
‘The rest of the world still sees the need for gas. The UK is fuelled by hot air’
Read; Tenth Of Uk Farmland To Be Axed For Net Zero… Family Farms Forced Under To Release Land, Plus Bonfire Of Planning Regs; Emma Gatten Telegraph Environment Editor 31 January 2025; Tony Gosling, The Land is Ours, 7 February 2025
‘More than 10 per cent of farmland in England is set to be diverted towards helping to achieve net zero and protecting wildlife by 2050, the Environment Secretary will reveal on Friday.
Swathes of the countryside are on course to be switched to solar farms, tree planting and improving habitats for birds, insects and fish. The move is part of a consultation being launched by Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, on how the competing priorities of food production, net zero and nature should be reconciled in England.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates that 9 per cent of farmland would need to be removed from food production by 2050 to meet green targets, The Telegraph understands. A further 5 per cent is expected to be mostly taken out of production owing to a decreased level of food output, and another 4 per cent will share space with trees.
Mr Reed will insist that his framework will not impose changes on landowners, but the figures are likely to reignite Labour’s row with farmers who expressed concerns that the strategy could lead to the Government telling them what they can grow and where.
The Government will say that the land use framework consultation, which was first promised under the Conservatives, will protect the most productive agricultural land.
In a speech at the Royal Geographic Society in Kensington, Mr Reed will say: “Using the most sophisticated land use data ever published, we will transform how we use our land to deliver on our Plan for Change. That means enabling the protection of prime agricultural land, restoring our natural world and driving economic growth.”
The Government has ambitious targets to increase woodland in England by 20 per cent, or about 265,000 hectares, by 2050, accounting for a third of the change in farm use. It has also set a target to build 1.5 million new homes, install hundreds of square miles of solar panels and onshore wind turbines, and protect 30 per cent of the land for nature.
The UK is committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, meaning as much carbon is removed from the atmosphere as is produced. Tree planting targets are expected to be a major contributor to this, as is the restoration of peatland.
Some 70 per cent of England is farmland, and a 9 per cent reduction would bring this down by 760,000 hectares.
Farming groups have warned of growing threats to food security, expressing concern over the implications in the Government’s analysis. “Whenever the state gets involved, its tendency is to only become ever more prescriptive,” said Victoria Vyvyan, the president of the Country Land and Business Association. “Government must build safeguards into the policy to prevent mission creep, or else it is entirely possible that, in years to come, the man from the ministry will be telling farmers what they are and aren’t allowed to grow, plant and rear on their land.”
Brutal Budget has hurt farming
Tom Bradshaw, president of the NFU, said it was “imperative this framework does not further restrict farmers’ ability to produce the nation’s food”.
“Over the past 18 months, the UK farming industry has taken a battering,” he said. “Volatile input costs, commodity prices on the floor in some sectors, a reduction in direct payments, one of the wettest periods in decades, and a brutal Budget delivered by this Government. All have left their mark and have put homegrown food production under serious pressure.”
The Government believes food production can be largely maintained at current levels by focusing on removing only the least productive land. About 20% of England’s farmed land produces just 3% of total calories, in areas where subsidies have historically accounted for 90 per cent of farm incomes.
Labour’s net zero goals will require £500bn investment
These areas are largely in uplands dominated by sheep farming, one of the most financially precarious sectors of the rural economy. Government targets on restoring nature have already led to a push to reduce sheep farming on Dartmoor, and farmland has been bought up in several parts of the country by charities dedicated to rewilding projects. Maps included with the consultation documents are expected to categorise the country based on suitability for tree planting and habitat restoration. The plan will ultimately be used by local authorities and government departments to inform decisions on new investments and where development should be sited.
Mr Reed will add: “This framework will not tell people what to do. It is about working together to pool our knowledge and resources, to give local and national government, landowners, businesses, farmers and nature groups the data and tools they need to take informed actions that are best for them, best for the land, and best for the country.”
A government spokesman said: “The land use framework will not tell anyone what to do with their land. “Instead, it will be the most sophisticated data ever published on land use options so farmers and landowners can make better decisions for themselves on how to get the most out of their land and boost their profits.”
Investment required by 2050
Grid £200bn
Offshore wind £115bn
Nuclear £150bn
Carbon capture/storage £70bn
Aurora Energy ResearchReaders on axing farmland for net zero:
Robert Canham
“The Government’s plan to reduce farmland for food production and make us dependent on imported food is a plan hatched by enemies of this country.”Richard M.
“To see the UK even consider intentionally eliminating 10pc of their farmland is stunning. I hope it can somehow be stopped.”Peter Hughes
“We need food security and energy security in this country. We need to support and invest in all our farmers to increase food production right now.”David Forcey
“Not only will this madness be an existential threat to our food production, it will also ruin the look of our beautiful countryside.”Malc Mayfield
“The Government should be put on trial for treason. This is sabotage, pure and simple.”Join the conversation.’
Watch; Will blackouts come to Britain? UnHerd, 15 January 2025
‘Did the UK only narrowly avoid a blackout last week? Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.’
Kathryn Porter; “Wednesday last week (8 January) was a cold day and demand ended up being higher both than NESO, the National Energy System Operator had forecast for the day itself, but also higher than it had forecast for the average cold spell weather in the winter. The second part was that it was a low wind day.
There’s a company called Elexon which is involved in managing the energy and electricity market. They issued something called a loss of load probability a LOLP. So loss of load literally means disconnections, so local or national level blackouts. On this occasion it was 29% risk over four hours.
That was the highest that it reached. And again, it’s very unusual to see a loss of load probability that’s not zero. It’s even more unusual to see a loss of load probability that is still not zero once you get to the period it’s talking about and that on the 8th of January it never went to zero. So as we went through the evening peak, there was a non zero loss of load problems probability. So official data say that there was a 29% chance that there would have been at least some people being disconnected.”
Freddie Sayers; “At some point this big perhaps noble political idea, which is to hit net zero, and fast forward our way on that journey, is going to come into contact with reality, or it’s going to come into contact with voter sentiment and something like a blackout, which we just apparently missed. How nearly, though still controversial, would obviously impact how people think about these things, but the economic costs as well. I was talking to a Labour MP recently for somewhere in Scotland where they have lots of these wind farms, and he admitted that they’re incredibly unpopular with voters in his own constituency. So he’s got Ed Miliband, his energy secretary, his boss, talking about how he wants to just absolutely ramp up the wind production. But his voters, the people who are going to keep him in office, are like, we don’t like these. They don’t see the economic benefit to their local area. They feel their foreign technology from far away is just being placed there, they’re ugly and they’re not convinced that they’re very practical.”
Kathryn Porter; “Towards the end of their time in office, the Conservatives started to ask some pretty probing questions of their officials around the costs of energy and cost of different sources of electricity generation. It was just discovered that that work has now been suspended. Now that’s a really bizarre choice to make. Surely we should know what it costs. If we’re saying that renewables are cheap, we ought to have the data to back that up. We should be able to say, yes, renewables are cheap by this amount, more than gas, for example. The unfortunate reality is that renewables are not cheaper.
They take a lot of steel and concrete to build, which is very energy intensive. So their carbon footprint is quite big. And they rely on components that are made using forced labour. In China, under extremely environmentally adverse conditions, there’s a toxic sludge river from the production of rare earth magnets, which are used in wind farms, moving across the Chinese landscape at something like 20 to 25 metres per year towards the Yellow river, which is a major source of drinking water for millions of people. They have huge environmental problems from these activities. The reason that China dominates the rare earth production globally is because it’s the only country willing to. To do these extremely polluting processes because they are just that dirty and horrible.”
Solar is subsidy farming
Watch; Solar Is Completely USELESS In Britain” Tenth Of Farmland To Be Used For Net Zero TalkTV, 31 January 2025
‘The Government has unveiled proposals to ensure England’s land can meet the escalating demands of food security, clean energy, nature restoration and new homes. Under the plans, launched by Environment Secretary Steve Reed, the highest quality agricultural land will remain protected for food production. But ministers will also look into how and where land can be used for other needs such as solar farms, reservoirs, roads, new woodlands and new towns. Talk’s Russell Quirk discusses the story with author of Green Tyranny Rupert Darwall. They react to news that a tenth of farmland could be axed to meet Net Zero targets.’
Russell Quirk; “Let’s move now to NetZero madness shall we, and the prophecy, the reality I’m afraid, under Ed Milliband and Keir Starmer that we are set to lose 10% of Britain’s farmland, I say that again, 10% of Britain’s farmland to solar panels. Quite how we’re going to feed this growing population, that I’ve just rehearsed with Charles actually, I don’t know. Well let’s talk to Rupert Darwall who’s the author of ‘Green Tyranny’. I think we know where you stand on this then Rupert. How mad is this? Are we’re going to get rid of 10% of our farmland that produces wheat barley rape maize carrots potatoes and whatever in favour of solar panels that work some of the time?
Rupert Darwall; “They work very little of the time. Solar is completely useless. In a country like Britain solar is worse than useless, this is essentially a game of subsidy farming, solar is there for the investors not for the good of the country.”
Russell Quirk; “Is it worse than wind Rupert? Which it obviously is, often we’re paying people. I think the last number I saw was £400 million over a particular period which we as a taxpayer are paying wind farm owners to turn wind turbines off because it’s too windy I mean is solar as useless as wind or is it just too…
Rupert Darwall; ” It’s not too close to call at all. Solar is completely useless, I mean because the peak demand for electricity in this country is shortly after sunset on a winter’s evening and of course there’s no sun, so it contributes absolutely nothing to peak demand. Wind is also absurd, it’s not quite as absurd as solar. There’s a case for solar where there’s a lot of demand for air conditioning. Climate change might make that happen but even so we’re so far North we don’t get enough sun, this is essentially subsidy farming.”
‘The amount of energy required by direct air carbon capture proves it is an exercise in futility‘; 14 Sep 2021
Removing CO2 directly from the air requires almost as many joules as those produced by burning the fossil fuel in the first place, writes Leigh Collins
Though the World Bank might be heavily invested in fossil fuels, it is still pressure on Milliband to see that his funders are not onside when the tech makes zero economic sense in a cloudy country.
Read or listen; World Bank report states that solar power has minimal potential to produce electricity in the UK; Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé, 19 February 2025
‘For those in Government and their collaborators such as climate crisis activists who think “green” technology, including solar power, will provide the UK with the power the country needs, a report published by the World Bank in 2020 spells out the basics that climate catastrophists are choosing to ignore.’
‘Why is the UK pursuing expensive solar energy for which it is known that it will not work in the UK? It cannot be ignorance. Government officials cannot be so ignorant as to think the more money it throws at it and the more farmland it acquires to erect solar farms, the more chance the inherent problems with using solar power will magically disappear.
It could be stupidity. But then it would require hundreds of stupid people not just in the Government but also in its advisors, civil service and throughout the House of Commons and House of Lords. Considering the number of stupid people required all “in one place” at the same time, it’s unlikely due to stupidity.
There can be only one conclusion: The energy security of the UK is deliberately being sabotaged and destroyed by the “green” agenda and its climate emergency activists. This is a deliberate plan in line with the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.’
Read; Sandi Adams: The dangers of smart cities and 15-minute cities Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé, 20 February 2025
Intro; ‘Last week, Sandi Adams discussed smart cities and 15-minute cities on the Financial Rebellion podcast with host Catherine Austin Fitts, warning about their dangers and risks. One of the aims is to implement 7 regions of governance in the UK under Metro Mayors. Metro Mayors will have unlimited power over their respective areas to achieve NetZero. They will have more power over their areas than the UK Parliament. We are already beginning to see these 7 regional governments taking shape with the formation of Combined Authorities.
The concept of smart cities and 15-minute cities is about total control and restriction of movement, using technology such as the Internet of Things and surveillance systems.
Coupled with digital currencies which will allow for control of our financial transactions, technologies used in smart cities will give authorities complete control over every aspect of our lives at all times.’
You can watch the Financial Rebellion Video on CHD TV HERE. Sandi Adams discusses smart cities and 15-minute cities between timestamps 9:00 and 46:00 mins. The following is a summary of her discussion with Catherine Austin Fitts.’
1. Smart Cities
2. 15-Minute Cities
3. Smart Cities versus 15-Minute Cities and the Role of Metro Mayors
4. Absolute Zero
5. What Can We Do?
6. Digitising Living Beings and the Push for a Cashless SocietySandi Adams has become a prominent figure in warning people about the dangers and risks of smart cities and 15-minute cities after a presentation she made at a Glastonbury Town Council meeting in 2023 went viral on the internet.
Related: Glastonbury resident schools Council on Agenda 2030
Adam’s journey into understanding the risks of smart cities and 15-minute cities began when she was working in the corporate world, designing live events for big corporations, including Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline and Google, where she met influential people like Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.
She felt a strong sense of unease and disagreement with their values and goals, so much so realised she was working in the wrong environment. “I got a very distinct feeling that these corporations were bad and were doing bad things,” she said.
Her awakening to the potential dangers of these corporations and their agendas started around 2011 when she discovered the work of Rosa Koire, author of ‘Behind the Green Mask’, and James Delingpole who wrote the book ‘Watermelons’ which delves into the Climategate scandal. Delingpole’s book was first published in 2011 and updated and republished in 2024.’
Related:
Rosa Koire: Agenda 21, Open Mind Conference 2013 (video)
Climategate is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
People fighting against the blight of solar panels dominating their once beautiful neighbourhoods are witnessing the greenwash and lies peddled by the developers such as Island Green Power who should be mandated by the government to put the panels on roofs as promised in their manifesto. The “rooftop revolution” was a plan from the Labour party to encourage millions more homes to be fitted with solar panels.
Listen; Land Use and solar development BBC Farming Today, 20 February 2025
Presenter; “Now, a topic familiar to this programme, a row over a solar farm project. But this week we’re considering the Government’s Land Use Framework for England, which is currently out for consultation. So what impact might that have on such disputes? Well, the proposed project, East Pye in South Norfolk, is 2,700 acres in 10 different locations. Local residents who object to the scheme have set up their own group called Block East Pye. They say they’re not Nimbys, but that the current plans will directly impinge on both residents and wildlife. Anna Hill spoke to David Hook, Norfolk trustee of the countryside charity CPRE and chair of one of the local parish councils.”
David Hook; “It’s a landscape at present which is tranquil, rural, attractive, very popular with visitors and locals alike. Footpaths well used, very nice landscape. There will be continuous sections of land covered by solar panels and associated infrastructure for many miles. 22 kilometres of footpaths will have solar panels along one side or both sides, and many more kilometres will have views of solar panels.”
Presenter; “David Hook says local people recognise green energy has to be produced. As a trustee of the countryside charity CPRE, he believes there are better ways of using solar panels on existing buildings rather than farmland.”
David Hook; “No, I’m definitely not a Nimby. Both CPRE and Hempnell Parish Council have a policy that we want to decarbonise energy production, but we believe that there’s a better way of doing it. CPRE has commissioned research with the UCL Energy Institute and they have demonstrated that by 2050, if solar energy production from artificial surfaces, roofs, et cetera, is maximised, we can produce 117 gigawatts from those sources without needing any solar on land. We’re not anti green energy on any level. This is just not the best way to do it. It may be the cheapest and it may be the easiest, but it’s not the best.”
Presenter; “Conservative peer Lord Fuller told me he’s argued in the House of Lords for best and most versatile agricultural land to be legally protected from having any solar panels built on it to maintain food security.”
Lord Fuller; “There’s a national balance here, the appropriate balance between energy security and food security. The government has already told us that under the Land Use Framework, Grades one and two land would be somehow exempted. But they say one thing and do another. The Heckington proposals in Lincolnshire, the Sunnica proposals in Cambridgeshire have significant quantities of Grade one and two land. So this is why I felt it was so important, regardless of what the Land Use Framework may say, which is only ever going to be advisory in any event, that we legislated to require Great British Energy, which is one of the cornerstones of the Labour Party manifesto, to take these delicate issues, the balance between food and energy security into account”.
Presenter; “We contacted the developer of East Pye solar developer Island Green Power. In a statement, they said the development will comply with Biodiversity Net Gain rules to boost biodiversity by a minimum of 10%. They added that they will sow grassland between and under panels with some areas being grazed, restore hedgerow gaps, maintain vegetative buffers, install bird and bat boxes and create new woodland blocks. But David Hook, who chairs Hempnall Parish Council, says even with landscape and wildlife mitigation, the impact of the solar panels themselves, which will be 4.5 metres high at points, will be significant.”
David Hook; “4.5 metres is up to the soffit, the second story height of a two story house, more or less. If they can be hidden behind hedges, I would be very much surprised if that could be the case. And also a few bird boxes here and there, really, it doesn’t do the job. They are not attractive features. They cannot be hidden. Let’s have a proper plan, not just leave it to an individual company to get involved with individual landowners to cook up a scheme. Let’s have some kind of proper land use framework where things are done in the right place, in the right way.”
Though I have yet to listen to this new webinar series Feminine Futures, as it is made by Local Futures so will undoubtedly be excellent. It brings together the voices of seven women with a broad set of expertise – spiritual, psychological, ecological, and economic—to reassess progress from a feminine living-world perspective.
Camilla Moreno’s talk will be excellent as she is an expert on her topic “Climate, Carbon and Technocracy”.
‘Camila shares unparalleled knowledge about global climate governance and its link to digitalisation. She delves into why climate has been reduced to a narrow focus on carbon dioxide and explains how this reductionist approach has derailed a broad environmental movement and led to a focus on corporate-friendly market-based schemes, and the financialisation of nature. Camila´s x-ray analysis helps us to understand what is happening behind the curtains of a largely invisible global technocratic system, and gets us closer to understanding the institutionalised obstacles to human-scale living-economies and feminine futures. After all, we cannot change the system, if we don´t understand how it works.’
Though I don’t support subsidies focusing on the NetZero tunnel vision, until the Reform Party or Workers Party get into power, it is a reality in the UK. This Farm Gate series below is trying to help farmers navigate the subsidy system…….reading it also shows just how utterly ridiculous it is for our precious farmers to have to navigate it. Only the giant farms will be able to afford to pay a subsidy expert with a degree in this bollocks. Meanwhile our precious small scale farmers, who just want to feed us, if they miss out on the subsidies, they will go out of business……unless we open local markets and buy direct from them. Meanwhile find direct purchasing through websites like Big Barn or your local box scheme or community supported agriculture scheme, farm shop, honesty box or farmers market.
Listen; What do I need to do first to access nature payments? ffinlo Costain, Farm Gate; 4th Feb 2024
‘In this programme we’ll ask – what do UK farmers need to do first to access nature payments? With Holly Story, Head of Nature-based Solutions at National Parks Partnerships; Guy Thallon, Head of Natural Environment at Castle Howard; And David Wright, founder and CEO of Ecometric we’ll talk about what can be measured and how – options for payments – actions that can be stacked with food and fibre production – and baselining and outcome measures. Last few minutes transcribed below;
ffinlo Costain; “So David, in summary, what do you think farmers should do first, if they’re considering selling natural capital services?”
David Wright, founder and CEO of Ecometric; “I need to think about their farming system. So in soil carbon terms, we’ve got very clear data to suggest that the conventional high input, high output cultivation system is causing a continued decline in soil carbon stocks. So if that’s your system, you need to convert to a minimised till, minimising the bare soil, maximising organic matter input. And then also you’ve got to understand the legal implications of land’s tenure or ownership. So if you are not an owner occupier, there needs to be a legal agreement between yourself and the landlord on the rights and responsibilities to the claims.”
ffinlo Costain; “Fantastic. Holly, what do you think?”
Holly Story, Head of Nature-based Solutions at National Parks Partnerships; “For me, I think the first thing you have to do is look at what your long term vision and plan is, and then which markets align best with that over the long term. And the second thing I’d say is talk to your park, talk to your neighbors, talk to your farm cluster groups. Look for those opportunities for collaboration. ’cause there can be a lot of benefits in that.”
ffinlo Costain; “And Guy, what do you think farmers should do first?”
Guy Thallon, Head of Natural Environment at Castle Howard; “Firstly, the priority is really to understand your land. And understanding your land means different things to different people. From some people’s perspective, it could be a high tech approach and measuring every measurable and kind of taking that science-based approach. For others, it could be spending time walking out across that land or spending time with those who’ve worked or known that land kind of for their working lives, and know those kinds of wet patches or ponds or hedges that have been removed or lost from the landscape as well. And from there onwards, it’s really a case of sitting down, doing some business planning, thinking about your existing enterprise existing system, how that’s going to perform, especially how that’s going to perform in more extreme years. Extreme climate, extreme weather events, looking at areas that are marginal, considering alternative uses, and then also recognising the synergies that can exist between kind of nature and food production and kind of looking to exploit those. And then from a kind of traditional diversification, what would a more nature friendly farm offer in terms of other opportunities that could open up. So really an expansive business planning exercise. And then from there it’s researching who to work with. And there’s any kind of farm decision that’s, that’s one that’s gonna be a combination of head business numbers and hearts. Who, who can you work with? Who can you have those long-term relationships with?
ffinlo Costain; “And David, just finally, if a farmer has managed to identify an opportunity to sell into the natural capital market, how do they actually go about making that sale? What do they need to do?”
David Wright, founder and CEO of Ecometric; “So it depends on the quality of the data they have gathered to quantify the natural capital they’re selling. And then they need to enter into an accredited, ideally, globally recognised scheme that will take them all the way through the governance and audit process to meet buyer requirements. So farming groups are a very good way to find, so talking to your neighbors, interestingly, we’ve done no sales or marketing formally, it’s all been farmers talking over the fence. That fence is now digital. And we’ve got projects all over the world that have come from customer advocacy in the UK.”
So joining farming collectives, looking at webinars, reading in the press, you should have an awareness about which way the carbon market is moving and a real recognition that this is about a long-term commitment to a system that is gonna preserve carbon stocks because you are gonna be required to meet the permanence requirements that follow the sale. This isn’t a short term arrangement, it’s a long term commitment to change.”
Listen; How do I measure and sell soil carbon? ffinlo Costain, Farm Gate, 11 February 2025
Intro; ‘This is the third episode in our series: Filling the Funding Gap, in which we discuss how particular natural capital markets work and whether they can help farmers to bridge the gap between public payments and the real costs of transition towards resilient and regenerative food production.
Two experts from Regenerate Outcomes: Matt Jordon, Chief Scientific Officer and Tom Dillon, Director.
Farm Gate’s Filling the Funding Gap series is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howdens Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery.’
ffinlo Costain; “First asking the same question again Matt, but in a slightly different way. If a farmer was wanting to reach NetZero and then still be able to sell credits as a sort of separate process of that, but wanted to be able to demonstrate to their own customers, particularly where they have direct sales, that they’re, they’re working to get to NetZero in their own right as well as selling carbon credits. If they want to remain at NetZero, will a farmer need to deliver more draw down every year? And if so, how do they start to factor that kind of thing into decisions about how many credits they can spare early on to sell into third parties?”
Matt Jordon, Chief Scientific Officer; “Yeah, so I think that to fully understand this question, we need to understand the emissions sources that we see on farm. So obviously there are some carbon dioxide emissions from things like diesel and petrol use in farm machinery, but some of the key sources of farm emissions and things like methane from enteric fermentation in livestock, and then also nitrous oxide emissions from soils. And that includes nitrous oxide emissions from legumes in pastures and crop rotations. And it’s recognised by the government’s independent advisors, the climate change committee, that these processes, particularly enteric fermentation in livestock and nitrous oxide emissions from soils, are inevitable features of biological processes. And so emissions from those sources don’t need to be brought to zero or NetZero in the same way as carbon dioxide emissions. As well many of your listeners will be familiar with, the recent updates in how methane from livestock is accounted for and understanding the short atmospheric lifespan of methane, meaning that for a stable or modestly falling population of livestock, you don’t have any further increase in water.
And so NetZero is a really powerful and relevant framework when thinking about carbon and carbon-based emission sources and carbon dioxide. But it doesn’t work as well for short-lived gases like methane, particularly in systems where they’re kind of biologically inevitable features. And so when you look at the UK climate change committee’s carbon budgets, they don’t have farm methane and nitrous oxide emissions fall to zero in that scenario. And so when as farmers we think about NetZero, what do we need to think about? If you think about our emission sources, there’s gonna be some allowance for methane from livestock and nitrous oxide from legumes and soils.
But the things we probably need to be thinking about are nitrous oxide from synthetic fertilisers and then also CO2 from farm machinery. Now clearly there’s been early developments and things like hydrogen tractors or electric tractors or whatever it might be on the fertiliser side in intensive AR systems there are going to be developments in nitrates inhibitors and such like that can again bring down the emissions in those ways.
But we’re just at the start of those innovations being available, and so I think from a farmer’s perspective, we need to think about, okay, what is the emissions trajectory for my farm and how is it going to get there? What technological innovations are coming in the next 10 to 20 years that will make that possible? And then what can I sequester on my farm in terms of soils and trees? I think that there’s a huge mistake in farming at the moment in thinking that what we need to do is fully offset all of the methane from our livestock using sequestered carbon in soils and trees. Because if you do that, you’ll gradually end up going out of farming, because every year, as you described, you’ll have to plant some more trees to sequester some more carbon to offset the methane from your cows. It’s not necessary from a climate perspective, it’s bad climate science and it’s bad farming policy.
And so we need to think separately about emission sources, which ones need to be reduced and which ones don’t. And then how they’ll be reduced through technology and stuff coming down the track. And then think separately about soil carbon sequestration and woodland and so on. Ultimately from the UK’s perspective, the UK economy needs sequestration farm farmland to meet our overall climate targets. On an overall industry level, it’s no use those emissions removals just staying within the farming sector because they’re needed in other parts of the economy. We see it as potentially being quite a missed opportunity for farmers to be banking soil, carbon credits, speculating on the idea that they might be forced at some point in the future to fully offset their methane using carbon based on bad climate science, whereas in reality they’re needed in other parts of the economy now. And so that’s why we think that it’s not only low risk, but advisable for farmers to be making the most of those opportunities to sell verified soil carbon credits.
ffinlo Costain;; “Fantastic summary of the situation on individual farms, particularly livestock farms. That was really interesting and brilliantly articulated. Tom, just finally coming back for a moment to the issue of additionality, if you are already using land to sell soil carbon credits, can you then also use that land to sell biodiversity credits through the voluntary market or through BNG (Biodiversity Net Gain)?”
Tom Dillon, Director; “Yeah, so coming back to that point earlier about double counting, essentially biodiversity outcomes being stacked on top of carbon outcomes arguably sits in that double counting bracket, and currently DEFRA have made that possibility challenging. In the short term, things may well change, but I guess there are a couple of factors to consider here. One is that within the carbon credit, the biodiversity outcomes are prominent for the buyers. So that should be recognised that essentially there is a portion of the carbon credit, which is essentially paying for some of the other outcomes such as the social impact, et cetera, the biodiversity gain, and other outcomes of the project. So in that regard, biodiversity is incorporated within the carbon credit. But within our project we do allow farms to essentially take land out of the project and put it into the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) program, for example. The flexibility of the carbon market we think is more attractive in the longer term. Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) contract is a covenant with the building developer, which you as a farmer locked into for 30 years and that has its own implications for the farm business. So whereas on the carbon side, there’s flexibility to leave the program without any liability or our program at least. We’re obviously interested in monitoring biodiversity within our project, so we’re gonna be innovating in that space as well.”
ffinlo Costain;; “That’s, it’s been so fascinating.”
Listen; What’s a nature credit, what are they worth and how are they sold? ffinlo Costain, Farm Gate, 18 February 2025
Intro; ‘We take a tour of the nature credit market – looking at the differences between voluntary and statutory credits – governance mechanisms – and how the biodiversity net gain market in England actually works.
Featuring: Peter Harker, Partner at Saffery And Emma Toovey, Chief Land and Nature Officer at Environment Bank
Filling the Funding Gap is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howdens Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery.’
ffinlo Costain; “I just wonder if you could, in a few sentences summarise what you think the nature credit opportunity is for farmers and other land stewards.”
Peter Harker, Partner at Saffery; “Absolutely. So in one sense, any form of natural capital ecosystem service is just another form of diversification for a landowner. It could be leisure or renewables or forestry, et cetera. But it’s a really exciting, fairly new sector and I think that when landowners are, are looking at what best to do with their land, both from a financial point of view, but also from a long term responsibility point of view. Looking at how they can use their land in a way that can generate return and pay for itself. But nature positive is really exciting. I think there is still a long way for the nature market to go.
We’ve sort of touched on how early they are in their development, but for all reasons we’ve been discussing, I’m, I’m sort of quite optimistic that actually we, we’ll see some much better opportunities or, or higher value opportunities perhaps for the land owners to access nature credit marketplaces going. So it’s definitely, it’s an exciting time and want to watch.”
ffinlo Costain; “Fantastic.And Emma, just finally, how would you sum up the opportunity?”
Emma Toovey, Chief Land and Nature Officer at Environment Bank; “I would echo everything Peter just said. I think it’s a really exciting time but to tread cautiously. So I’d say the biodiversity net gain is the safer market where there’s a bit more certainty around what the future looks like. All of these other natural capital markets are very nascent, very emerging, but it would be remiss to sort of not keep an eye on those opportunities. ’cause I think landowners need to consider what other revenue streams they can access in as the kind of subsidy landscape changes and the geopolitical landscape changes. There’s a lot going on out there, so it’s an exciting time.”
Even the Telegraph is critical of the NetZero narrative.
Read; Ed Miliband will crucify your savings along with the economy Brian Monteith, The Telegraph, 3 February 2025
‘The ‘high priest of net zero’ is importing hardship and poverty – and not solving climate change.’
Geoengineering
Watch; For everyone who still thinks “cloud seeding” weather modification is just a conspiracy theory; Wall Street Apes, 18 February 2025
‘They’re showing you exactly how it works, custom installed switches in the planes and then showing the chemicals being activated and sprayed into the air. “Look at this. So I flip this to L2. And then I bring this to 1. And fire. Now look at that.”
‘This is the cloud-seeding process in UAE. This process helps increase rainfall by about 10%. So what is actually inside these flares? They contain Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride and Magnesium.’
If you need a break from this sick world, my friend Ian leads the most beautiful tours in Turkey
Join; THE MAGIC OF ANCIENT CARIA With Ian Worrall (Guided Tour) 2-9 November 2025
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Brought up in Istanbul and living and working in Turkey for the past 30 years, Ian has an extensive and deep knowledge of Turkey, its history, culture and archaeology. A fluent Turkish speaker and an indomitable explorer, Ian has discovered many unknown and hidden sites which very few people have ever visited, or even know about.
Turkey is littered with the remains of ancient civilisations from the very first cities and temples, to Lycians, Carians, Greeks, Persians and Romans, not to mention the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires. Many of these sites are in the most stunning locations. Guests are always amazed to discover just how beautiful Turkey is and how welcoming the culture. A Turkish archaeologist friend of Ian’s told him that for every discovery there are a thousand more which will never be excavated. These remote and untouched ruins have a unique and special energy, keeping their secrets and links to the past, slumbering in undisturbed peace awaiting your arrival.
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Censorship/Surveillance/Coercion/Corruption
With the zionists’ wealth having captured UK politicians, it is no longer tolerated for journalists to criticise Israel’s genocide in the Middle East. After a long list of pro Palestine journalists being arrested, the UK police came for David Miller. On Monday, he was detained under the Terrorism Act at Heathrow where he was questioned for three and a half hours before being released.
UK police detain anti-Zionist scholar upon return from Lebanon; Saeed Pourreza; Press TV, LondonThursday, 27 February 2025.
Saeed Pourreza; “It was David Miller’s journalism that took him to Beirut to report on the funeral of Hezbollah slain leaders and to see the aftermath of Israeli bombardment of Southern Lebanon. But the 60-year-old former sociology professor was detained by a mob of British country intelligence police at the airport upon return. And it wasn’t just any detention, he was taken in for questioning under provisions of the UK’s Terrorism Act.
David Miller; “They asked for my passport, and they asked if I’d just come from Istanbul. And I said, no, I’ve come from Beirut, where I have been covering the funeral of Hassan Nasra, because I knew that they knew. So off we went to detention, and I realized as we went along the walkway, that there were other people coming with us. And I looked around and I loudly counted out the number and I said, ‘I’m a big lad, but does it really take eight officers to arrest me?’ And, to their credit, they laughed. I went to detention and was held for three and a half hours. I spoke to my lawyer, they asked me lots of questions about what I was doing in Beirut, how I got there. And they tried to find out if I was a supporter of terrorism, as they would call it, whether I intentionally met with members of illegal organizations, et cetera. And after three and half hours, they let me go.”
Saeed Pourreza; “Hezbollah is a prescribed organization in the UK, but to Professor Miller, it was clear as day who was behind it all”
David Miller; “Tweeted from Beirut that saying that I was there covering the funeral, and there’d be a mass reporting campaign by the Zionists tagging in the Met Police saying, ‘this man is supporting terrorism’. And indeed, the Daily Telegraph on Monday evening reported that I was apparently ‘being openly antisemitic’. And Robert Genrich, the former Tory Minister, said that ‘this is outrageous and he must be arrested’. And some hours later, I’m arrested. So, it was a sign really of the way in which policing operates. It operates under immense pressure from the Zionists, and the police have started to do all sorts of things like we’ve seen over the last 18 months.”
Saeed Pourreza; “This is not the first use of Anti Terror laws to try to silence pro-Palestinian voices in Britain. Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a growing list of British journalists have come under attack, such as freelance journalist Richard Medhurst, activist Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, and Kit Klarenberg of the GrayZone.
David Miller, who’s also the co-producer of Palestine Declassified on Press TV, is a well-known critic of Zionism as a racist ideology and the UK government’s doggett support for the Israeli regime, despite its many crimes. His fearless pro-Palestine activism has come at a huge cost. He lost his professorial position at Bristol University in 2021on spurious Judeophobia allegations. This latest move by British police, the professor says, ‘is an egregious act of intimidation and attempt at censorship.’ Rights groups say the attacks are pattern of harassment, of pro-Palestinian activists, a sinister development with serious implications for civil liberties and freedom of speech.
Despite that threat, not a single national media outlet in the UK has reported on the policing of pro-Palestine journalists. A media blackout that reeks of collusion or cowardice. Cypher is Press TV, London.”
David’s arrest has reached the mainstream media with this article in the Daily Mail.
And another pro Palestine journalist was detained, this time from his home in Austria.
Watch; I was detained this week by the Austrian police and intelligence services Richard Medhurst, 6 February 2025
“My name is Richard Medhurst. I’m an internationally accredited journalist from the UK. On Monday, agents from the Austrian police and intelligence services detained me, raided my home, raided my studio and then interrogated me. They essentially lured me into a trap. So I received a letter from the government last week from immigration summoning me for some interview at my residency. I found that a bit odd because I’ve lived here for a while. I never had any problems. So, having nothing to fear, I went to the meeting by myself.
And then after a few simple questions, they suddenly issued a thinly veiled threat saying they were considering revoking my residency because of my alleged reporting on Palestine and Lebanon. So, my answer was no comment. And as soon as I thought everything was over, I was ambushed by a group of plain clothes agents. They entered the room flashing their badges in my face and they said that they were the Austrian equivalent of MI5 or the FBI. They detained me and then they served me with a warrant from the state prosecutor to search my home, search my studio, take all of my devices. Why? Because they think that I, a Christian Englishman, am a member of Hamas. Yes, you heard that correctly.
They are accusing me of being a member of Hamas, of being part of the Al-Qassam Brigades, of disseminating propaganda, encouraging terrorism, being affiliated with organised crime and a terrorist group. I mean, it’s like reading something out of the Twilight Zone. So they seized my phone, then they drove me to my residence, ransacked the place. They even took devices which I repeatedly told them do not belong to me. Then they drove me to my studio and turned the place upside down. So I had to watch my devices being disassembled before my very eyes by a group of strangers. All these tools that I spent years building and investing in the core of my journalistic profession
Now, as you recall, I was unjustly arrested a few months ago in London. They jailed me for almost 24 hours under the Terrorism Act. Strangely enough, last week the police in England again extended this investigation. And then suddenly, this happens in Vienna. I don’t Think that is mere coincidence? Okay. The first thing I asked the Austrian agents was, did my government put you up to this? And they replied, no, Britain doesn’t talk to us. Well, forgive me, but I find that a bit hard to believe.
I do think that this persecution, this raid, is related to the case in Britain. I think it’s being coordinated with Britain. Now, my colleague Stefania Morizzi, who works on the Snowden Papers with Glenn Greenwald, she reported last month in Il Fatto Quotidiano, that the British police seized a graphene OS device from me and that it was very unlikely that they’d be able to crack it. So I suppose that’s why Britain asked the Austrians to raid me, grab anything they could find, and go on this massive fishing expedition. The warrant even mentions my arrest in London to try and bolster their case. The Austrian agents, they asked me for the passwords to my devices, and I said no, because as a journalist, I have an ethical, a professional obligation to protect my sources. None of them were compromised. During the raid, I spoke briefly with the techs who were extracting my devices from one nerd to another, and they told me that if they can’t crack the devices, they send them outside, sometimes to other countries, to other law enforcement agencies and ask them for help.
So that further indicated to me that this could very well be related to what’s happening in the UK against me. Now. All these devices are work devices. They’re my journalistic tools. I have been left with literally nothing. I mean, just to film. This was a struggle, okay? Believe me.
They are accusing me of being a member of a proscribed organisation. I mean, this is insanity on another level. This is detached from reality and they’re trying to make a snowball out of nothing. So now, because of my reporting, I’m under investigation for quote, unquote, ‘terrorism’ in two countries. I could face up to 14 years in prison in the UK, plus another two to five years if I don’t give them the passwords to my phones, and maybe another 10 years in prison in Austria and my residency potentially being revoked. And why? For what? For journalism, because of my reporting.
I mean, this is insane. This is disproportionate state violence. And it’s not just an attack on me. This is an attack on the entire profession, on freedom of speech, on democracy itself. They are denying me my human right to free speech. I’m being punished and persecuted in my country of origin in the UK and in my country of residence in Austria. I come from a family that worked to establish peace around the world, a family that raised me to stand against and terrorism and injustice. Please help raise awareness.
This is not just an affront on me, but on all of us. Inform your friends, inform your family, your colleagues, write to your representatives in Parliament. And again, I want to stress how the police, they came in here, in this room, they seized all my equipment, all of my gear, they left me with nothing. If you’re able to, please consider contributing on GoFundMe and PayPal so that I can get back up and running. The links are down below. It would really make a difference and go a long way. Thank you so much.”
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Take a look at the present mechanisms of control that have already been unleashed – watch; State of Control, a film made in the Netherlands
‘The pandemic has opened the doors to a new era of increased surveillance and control. The era of biosecurity. With the advent of the green certificate, a mechanism was created for excluding people based on their health status. But now the plans are being extended further into a comprehensive control system to follow, trace, and manipulate citizens to a large extent. In this revealing documentary directed by Benjamin Jonas van den Brink, experts like Catherine Austin Fitts, James Corbett, and Lex Hoogduin give their vision on the arrival of the Digital Identity and the Central Bank Digital Currency. Will we live in a state of control, or can we use this technocratic movement to our advantage?’
Petition; Say NO to the WHO’s Health Dictatorship—Reject the Pandemic Treaty! Citizen Go, February 2025
‘The WHO Pandemic Treaty Must Be Stopped!
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is currently meeting in Geneva to advance its Pandemic Treaty, a sweeping agreement that could give unelected global bureaucrats unprecedented power over our lives. If they succeed, they’ll have the authority to override our national health policies, control what information we see, and dictate personal medical decisions.
If adopted, this treaty would:
Override national health policies: Unelected officials could impose lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and travel restrictions—decisions made for us, not by us.
Silence dissent: The WHO would gain censorship powers to control access to the truth, labelling opposition as “misinformation.”
Declare so-called emergencies at will: A permanent pandemic power grab, granting them unchecked authority to enforce global health measures without democratic accountability.
Divert national funds: Billions of pounds in taxpayer money could be funnelled into an unaccountable bureaucracy, stripping nations of control over health spending and response strategies.
They wanted this treaty signed months ago, but thanks to millions of citizens like you around the world, they’re facing serious resistance. With new U.S. President Donald Trump moving to remove America from the WHO, now is the time to kill this treaty completely.’
Read; The second domino falls: Argentina to leave the WHO; Meryl Nass, 5 February 2025
‘(My translation of the first sentence). The office of the President, Javier Milei has taken the decision to remove Argentina from the WHO.
It is a very nice document, mentioning the lack of science, how it is politically influenced, its awful Covid policies and inability to admit the error of its ways.’
Revealing Starmer’s corporate ties and priorities, he has appointed Tony Blair’s contentious colleague and corporate stooge, Peter Madelson, as UK’s ambassador to the US.
Watch; Starmer, Trump and the Epstein connection exposed; Who is Peter Mandelson, Starmer’s pick for U.S. ambassador? Declassified UK, 4th Feb 2025
Intro; ‘From his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein to amassing a web of corporate interests, can Labour’s “prince of darkness” be trusted in Washington? Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer’s choice for British ambassador to the US, co-owns a business that helps companies “see opportunities in politics, regulation and public policy”. Mandelson, who has a long history of favouring corporations in often scandalous situations, looks set to keep his shares in this company while supposedly representing the UK. He founded his lobbying company, Global Counsel, in 2010, creating a lucrative business from his political contacts built up while a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Mandelson stood down from Global Counsel’s board last year – probably in preparation for a post with Starmer’s government – but remains one of the two largest shareholders of the firm, owning over 25% of the company. According to Companies House he is a “person with significant control” of Global Counsel. I asked the Foreign Office if Mandelson must give up his ownership of Global Counsel to be ambassador.
They did not answer directly, telling me: “There is an established regime in place for the management of interests held by ambassadors or High Commissioners. This ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.”The Foreign Office would not give any more detail of this “regime”.
The Jeffrey Epstein connection. Mandelson had to leave Cabinet twice because of scandals about relations with businessmen. But his most scandalous association with a businessman was revealed long after he left government. US financier Jeffrey Epstein mixed his business dealings with trafficking. Emails between Epstein and US bank JP Morgan show he was close to Mandelson. In 2009 Epstein emailed JP Morgan bankers boasting about their friendship, saying “Well for all intends [sic] and purposes Peter Mandelson is now deputy prime minister.” Mandelson seemed willing to overlook Epstein’s offences to be close to a financial ‘mover and shaker’. Emails suggest Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in 2009, while Epstein was in prison. Epstein also said Mandelson stayed with him in Paris in 2011 – when Epstein was a registered sex offender – and referred to him as “Petie” in emails to JP Morgan bankers.’
Read the full story on Declassified UK by Solomon Hughes
Not content to just support the Gaza genocide Starmer is now telling warmongering lies about Russia to prop up UK arms industry.
Listen; Defence Spending: Whatever Starmer Is Selling, We’re Not Buying It UK Column News, 26 February 2025
Mike Robinson; “And the great double cross of the British people by its own government continues.So, following a statement to the House of Commons yesterday, Keir Starmer made a statement to the press to announce new war spending commitments. And he began by setting out a stall about the danger we all face because of Putin and Russia. So let’s just have, if we can bear it, have a listen to this.
Starmer; “And I believe we must now change our approach to national security, so we are ready to meet the challenges of our volatile world. The reason for this is straightforward. Putin’s aggression does not stop in Ukraine. Russian spy ships menace our waters. Russian planes enter our airspace. Russian Cyber attacks hit our NHS, and just seven years ago, there was a Russian chemical weapons attack in broad daylight on the streets of Salisbury.”
Mike Robinson; “So, I mean, if we can stop laughing for a second, that is an outright pack of lies. And as usual, mainstream press silent on the lies. Look, spy ships menacing our waters, when have they not done that? So just here’s just one example. In 2021, HMS Defender, a Type 45 destroyer from the Royal Navy, went to the Black Sea in what Russia described as, well, Russia described us as a hostile NATO state. So HMS Defender travels 6,000 miles to sail through what Russia considered territorial waters. And what was absolutely, in my opinion, designed to be an act of provocation. But this is part of normal life.
We do it, the United States does it, Russia does it. There’s nothing to see here. And it’s the same for Russian aircraft, which, by the way, never enter UK airspace. So that was just a downright lie from Starmer. But this kind of thing is absolutely routine. Even the BBC acknowledges that this is absolutely routine. As for the cybercrime allegation, again, Starmer is lying because he implies that Russian cyber attacks are state sanctioned. Well, if they are, then the Russian state is carrying out attacks against itself because Russia experiences huge levels of cybercrime by criminals based in Russia.
And the latest stats here from AIG (cyber insurance), or at least AIG have compiled them, the latest stats are from 2022, for example, and they’re saying that in the quarter one of 2022, Russians experienced 42.92 million data breaches. Around 250,000 cases of digital fraud each year in Russia. And in quarter three of 2022, Russia was the top country in the world for cybersecurity breaches. So Russia does have a cybersecurity problem, but Starmer’s implication that it’s state sanctioned is absolutely unevidenced. That’s not to say that there is no state sanctioned cyber operations, but this is known as cyber warfare. And again, every country does it. And this is UK Defence Journal pointing out that Britain is to boost its cyber warfare campaign capabilities. And then finally, the biggest lie of all, the Salisbury poisoning.
And my question once again is where are the Skripals? Because in the recent Don Sturges inquiry hearings, the Skripals were nowhere to be seen. They’ve been nowhere to be seen ever since. But if you want to see once again, I’ll mention just how full of holes the narrative is on this. The Skripal poisonings. Have a read of the Day of the Skripal on the UK column website because this story does not stack up from start to finish”
Paul Cudenec relates the ten-year history of The Acorn which he edits and which reports on protests worldwide against the corruption of global capitalism
Read; A decade of dissent: enemies of progress Paul Cudenec, 10 February 2025
‘In the UK, we reported, authorities had produced propaganda claiming that young people who questioned official state narratives might be “extremists”.
The leaflet, handed to parents in London, claimed danger signs of so-called radicalisation included “showing a mistrust of mainstream media reports and belief in conspiracy theories” and “appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policy”.
We commented: “Numbed slack-jawed conformists gawping apathetically at the TV set are, presumably, the ideal non-extremist citizens of tomorrow”.
In another Acorn we wrote: “While the state is trying to win acceptance for its idea of ‘extremism’ by linking it in the public mind to ‘Islamic terrorism’, it clearly also applies to anyone who dares cock a snoop at the neoliberal corporate megamachine, as we can see from the remit of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit, for instance; “The technique is Orwellian and essentially simple. The system declares itself to be a democracy and therefore anyone who opposes the system is anti-democratic! This is much the same as declaring yourself to be God and that therefore anyone who challenges your absolute authority is working on behalf of Satan!”
We voiced concern about “the future being lined up for us by the industrial prison-system”.
And we sounded the alarm about “smart spies in our homes” as part of a so-called internet of things “where privacy, freedom and, indeed, humanity will be consigned to the past and we will all be reduced to the status of permanently monitored and controlled slaves to a techno-industrial global state that will make Orwell’s nightmare look like a whimsical daydream”.
With police-state repression increasingly being carried out in the name of “anti-terrorism”, we pointed out that this phenomenon was not at all what it claimed to be – “it is in fact the deliberately misleading label given to a global psychological war waged against most of humanity by a controlling elite”. Indeed, we said, terrorism itself is often carried out by the state itself, as was the case in the 20th century with the Gladio network which, while exposed most fully in Italy, operated across Europe, including the UK, where the conflict in the north of Ireland was an ideal training ground.
We stated: “The worrying lack of knowledge and understanding, even in radical circles, of the extent to which terrorism was secretly deployed by the capitalist system from the 1940s to the 1980s sadly means that there is little to stop it using the same techniques again today”.
And we warned that we were up against “a cult of power for the sake of power, growth for the sake of growth, which will do anything – literally anything – to ensure its own preservation and expansion. Murder, lies and hypocrisy are part of its very essence and we would do well never to forget that”.’
Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman from Ohio and two-time candidate for President, lives his life as an advocate for peace and a greener, healthier world.
Read; The Cost of Freedom; Dennis Kucinich, 16 February 2025
‘Our government is drowning in multi-trillion-dollar financial corruption and debt while a fear-peddling national security state has reached deeply into the personal lives of each and every American, justifying its existence through endless wars cooked up by a deep state that has become the most corrupt marching band and chowder society in American history.
That deep state of permanent governance, entrenched media, think tanks, NGOs, and multi-billion-dollar government contractors, notwithstanding elections, has demanded US taxpayers pay additional TRILLIONS for wars, for subsidising conflicts in other countries, for secret and not-so-secret arms deals to “rebels” for regime change, subverting governments through the pretext of foreign aid. The government that we have succeeded most in subverting is our own. There is an undeniable link between fiscal integrity and the preservation of our freedoms as Americans. When the government becomes corrupt, it erodes not only our personal liberties and financial security, but also fosters a culture of lawlessness in both the public and private sectors.
In order to restore our nation’s values, all three branches of government must demonstrate rigorous oversight, discipline, and integrity. Our nation requires an honest media. We must remain vigilant in holding government officials accountable. Government is too important to our lives to be left up to only those who govern. The constitutional crisis in the form of massive federal government financial corruption looms like a giant iceberg about to sink the Ship of State. Unless its course is corrected, and soon, our nation will perish in a sea of deficits as private interests swim shark-like to feast on corpus America.
The corruption has been institutionalised in the federal budget. It has been normalised as standard operating procedure. The waste of taxpayers’ money is ubiquitous — trillions for wars, trillions in waste, fraud, and abuse. Trillions have been lost in an accounting jumble. This has been our government’s system of checks and balances: The Administration writes the checks, and Congress doesn’t know what the balance is. Is it possible that change is coming?
My efforts to root out waste, fraud, and corruption in military spending were often met with harsh criticism from both the mainstream media and political opponents, who characterised my calls for accountability as naive, unrealistic and damaging to national security. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial, called my opposition to military interventions misguided, suggesting that my views were out of touch with the political mainstream. Politico went as far as to label my approach idealistic and impractical.
On the political front, many of my Republican colleagues dismissed my positions as unpatriotic, arguing that scrutinising defense spending would weaken the country’s ability to defend itself. But the problem wasn’t just with Republicans. Democratic leadership, despite campaigning on promises to end wars, repeatedly voted to fund them once in office. Key figures like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton supported the Iraq War authorisation in 2002, and President Obama, despite vows to withdraw, continued the Iraq War and expanded military actions into Syria and Libya.
This hypocrisy—condemning endless wars while funding and escalating wars—allowed the military-industrial complex to thrive, betraying both the promises of peace and the trust of the American people.’
Men are claiming to be women when quite clearly they are not
Watch; Governments are weaponising empathy to take away our rights together declaration, 19 February 2025
Sall Grover; “I created a online platform for women in 2018, 2019, 2020, called Giggle.What came up went under attack, cancel culture, all of that sort of stuff, because men are claiming to be women and if you say, ‘that’s nonsense, they’re not’, all hell breaks loose.
I think free speech is the most important right in the world because it’s the one that protects all of the other ones because you’re able to talk about it. So for example, in Australia, the new laws that have just been passed, these we’ve got, we’re getting hate speech laws with mandatory one year prison sentences. Am I going to go to prison for saying that a man’s a man and not a woman? I don’t know. Someone’s going to have to test this and it’s very, very scary. So without freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom of association, we have nothing. It’s the bedrock of a civilised liberal society and it’s being stolen from us. I mean under the guise of being kind and progressive, but it’s anything but. They’re weaponising empathy to take away our rights.”
After 15 years, 2 Palestinians are still in jail falsely accused of bombing the Israeli embassy in 1994, when in fact it was another false flag attack to serve our zionist masters.
Watch; Two cases of false flag terrorism Annie Machom, 22 February 2025
‘Annie Machon is a former British intelligence officer who gained prominence after she became a whistleblower. She worked for MI5, the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, but left the service in 1997 after discovering serious misconduct within the agency. She is known for her role in exposing covert surveillance operations and other unethical activities by MI5, and for her advocacy on issues related to civil liberties and government accountability. Machon has also written books, including Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers, and has appeared in the media to discuss her experiences and the dangers of state surveillance.’
Annie Machon; “These were the cases that made my ex-partner and I quit (M15) and decide to go public and blow the whistle on MI5. And the first one was a bombing of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994. Now in this case, two Palestinian students were arrested and they were tried and convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, each for conspiring to cause this explosion. And yet, MI5 had information that Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Agency, had actually bombed its own embassy and had done that for two reasons. One was to increase security around all the Israeli assets in London. They were always hassling for it. And MI5 was always saying, no, no, no, there’s not a threat. But they also wanted to shatter a Palestinian political support network, which was operating in London at the time, which these two students belonged to. The lead investigator in MI5, whose code number (was his James Bond number!) was G91, had seen all the evidence and all the intelligence, and he made that official assessment that Mossad had done this.”
Zionist pressure has forced the BBC to remove a film about Palestine.
Read; BBC DELETES DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GAZA FOLLOWING ISRAEL LOBBY INTERVENTION mintpress 22 February 2025
‘The documentary, that is narrated by a child in the Gaza Strip, takes the viewer through a journey on surviving the Israeli onslaught. However, the israel lobby and zionist activists began immediately accusing the BBC of publishing “Hamas” propaganda. In order to appease the powerful lobby, the BBC violated their own standards on journalistic integrity and removed the documentary with the BBC iPlayer.’
More about the above and petition Please write to your MP via this link
https://mailchi.mp/palestinecampaign/bbstopcensoringpalestine?e=071034d1ac
Dear Tracy,
Last week the BBC removed from its platform the documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone”, which followed four young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have been enduring and surviving Israel’s genocidal assault. Will you write to the BBC’s Director General today to demand the BBC stops silencing Palestinian voices via this link?
We know that this is only one example of the BBC contributing to the dehumanisation of Palestinians which includes its failure to adequately platform Palestinian voices and suppression of the contemporary and historical realities of Palestinian life and Israel’s decades long violations of Palestinian rights.
The documentary itself represented one of the very few occasions where the BBC has allowed Palestinians to speak these truths, and it is shameful that the BBC has reached the point that it is now censuring Palestinian children.
As outlined in a detailed investigation by the journalist Owen Jones, the extent of the BBC’s pro-Israel bias has even led to widespread dissent among BBC staff who have said that coverage is skewed by senior figures to “water down everything that’s too critical of Israel”. Staff have complained of the BBC’s persistent promotion of Israeli narratives, highlighting that “Palestinian sources need to be verified, but Israeli sources do not.”
Similarly, the BBC rarely draws attention to the fact that international journalists are banned from entering the Gaza Strip, whilst simultaneously casting doubt on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices, haranguing Palestinian guests, or silencing them completely.
The BBC is a publicly funded state broadcaster and is rightly accountable to you – we need as many people emailing the BBC as possible to demand that the documentary is restored, that it adheres to its own editorial values, and that it resists any further pressure from pro-Israel groups.
Write to the BBC today using our e-action and please share widely with your friends and family to tell the BBC today: stop censoring Palestine.
Thank you for all that you do.
In solidarity,
Celie
PSC Campaigns Officer
I presume the higher priced ticket is because the venue (to be announced) is in the centre of Cheltenham and not organised by volunteers.
Attend; UK Column On Location Cheltenham, 5 April 2025. Tickets are £125.
‘Following the resounding success of UK Column On Location in Bristol last October, the team are heading to Cheltenham on Saturday 5th April. We’d love you to be there. The first UK Column on Location of 2025 will be a day of groundbreaking, thought provoking, discussions and presentations. We will publish the full timetable shortly. We are taking on the British establishment. Holding the event right near the home of UK intelligence and security agency GCHQ. The Deep State is the theme. Our speakers will focus on the shadowy, dark, forces controlling our world and explore what we can do to combat them. As well as lectures and presentations from some of the best experts in the world, there will also be the opportunity to meet the full UK Column team. We’ll also be creating many opportunities for networking and socialising, giving you the chance to properly meet your fellow UK Column audience and chatbox members.’
Trump shake-up
Read or listen; Trump’s Shakeup of USAID Reveals Agency Financed Censorship and Smear Campaigns; Brenda Baletti, Children’s Health Defense, 6 February 2025
‘Recent reporting by journalists Sayer Ji, Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag, and Lee Fang have linked USAID funding to the smearing and censoring of U.S. and global independent journalists and media platforms.’
‘As the Trump administration began reorganising and cutting major funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), revelations emerged that the organization financed groups, including some media outlets, engaged in smear campaigns and censorship against dissident voices.
The agency, known as a front for U.S. intelligence operations, has financed regime change and other American interests worldwide. It also funds news organizations that are aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives.
This includes large international organisations that, in turn, fund smaller media organisations like BBC Media Action and the International Fund for Public Interest Media, chaired by the former head of The New York Times.
USAID also directly funds smaller media organisations and even runs its own media initiatives to undermine regimes the U.S. deems problematic.
Reporters Without Borders, which lamented the Trump cuts to USAID, reported that in 2023 the agency funded 6,200 journalists, 707 non-state news outlets and “supported 279 media-sector civil society organisations dedicated to strengthening independent media.”
Recent reporting by journalists such as Sayer Ji of GreenMedInfo, Lee Fang, and Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag of Public News, has linked that funding to the smearing and censoring of independent journalists and platforms within the U.S. and internationally.
“USAID has long functioned as a geopolitical instrument, using media funding to shape narratives favorable to Western governmental and corporate interests,” Ji told The Defender.
“While it presents itself as a development agency, its deep ties to intelligence operations and state-sponsored influence campaigns are well-documented,” Ji said. “Media organizations receiving USAID funding are not independent — they are extensions of state power, laundering government-sanctioned narratives under the guise of journalism.”
Ji reported on Substack that BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, received substantial funding from USAID — 8% of its 2023-2024 budget, according to a BBC press statement.
He said BBC Media Action has faced accusations of engaging in censorship under the guise of “combating misinformation,” and that it leverages the BBC brand to shape media narratives, including about public health, vaccines and pharmaceutical products.
Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.
Claiming to combat misinformation about COVID-19, TNI’s work has been tied to suppressing viewpoints that contradict the mainstream pharmaceutical and governmental stance on public health, like those of GreenMedInfo and Children’s Health Defense (CHD).
“The revelations regarding USAID’s funding of BBC Media Action and its role in the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) further solidify what many of us have long suspected: Censorship is no longer a covert operation but a fully integrated transnational enterprise designed to suppress dissent and monopolize narratives,” Ji told The Defender.’
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‘CHD is one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit against TNI, alleging the initiative violated antitrust laws and the U.S. Constitution when its members collectively colluded with tech giants to censor online news.
Fang reported on Substack about other “anti-disinformation” groups financed by the “sprawling” USAID that have targeted American journalists and politicians. These include the Zinc Network, which he said targeted reporter Max Blumenthal, politician Vivek Ramaswamy, and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
According to Fang, the USAID also funded v-Fluence, a pesticide industry public relations consultant, which dug up dirt on American food journalists — including Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman — who criticized industrial agriculture.
v-Fluence also ran a campaign to intimidate critics of toxic pesticides, targeting environmentalists Vandana Shiva and Nnimmo Bassey and reporter Carey Gillam as part of its broader effort “to downplay pesticide dangers, discredit opponents, and undermine international policymaking harmful to the pesticide industry,” The New Lede reported.
USAID also financed news outlets in Ukraine, including The New Voice of Ukraine, VoxUkraine, Detector Media, and the Institute of Mass Information, which spread rumors that Americans who favor peace negotiations with Russia are agents of the Kremlin, Fang wrote. The media outlets targeted Jeffrey Sachs, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald and John Mearsheimer, Fang reported.
Fang said the influence of those groups “extends far beyond” Ukraine. VoxUkraine is an official Meta fact-checking partner, he said, and Detector Media produces disinformation reports that circulate widely in Western media.
“Despite branding as independent outlets, these organizations are heavily reliant on USAID,” Fang wrote.
USAID also funds the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a major — if largely unknown – organization that works with dozens of major newspapers to publish major investigative stories.
Drop Site News revealed in an investigative report published in December 2024 that OCCRP, which it called “one of the world’s most influential global investigative news organizations,” has received more than half of its funding from the U.S. government, largely through USAID.
The investigation found that funding gives the U.S. government direct influence over editorial and personnel decisions at the outlet.
Fang also reported that USAID’s sister nonprofit, the National Endowment for Democracy funds Coda Story, an anti-disinformation news outlet in New York.
Shellenberger said in a video posted on X that USAID’s work also extended beyond funding news agencies to promote ideas favorable to U.S. interests. It also included developing intelligence tactics abroad that it then used domestically to counter misinformation.
Shellenberger said:
“To combat alleged misinformation, the censorship industrial complex used counter-terrorism and intelligence tactics developed abroad, including psychological operations and repurposed them to shape domestic opinion and thought. …
“USAID has, in recent years, been funding censorship worldwide through its countering disinformation program, which is part of its consortium for elections and political process strengthening. This work has included funding for so-called fact-checking organizations.”’
Watch; How the U.S. Uses ‘Aid’ as Soft Power to Dominate the World w/Matt Kennard BreakThrough News 15 February 2024
“The Pentagon budget is like a trillion dollars a year. But that’s not just the US military. There’s many, many intelligence parts of that and subversion parts of it. So it’s a whole tapestry. And actually to go to your point about it, the racket. The title comes from a speech by General Smedley Butler who died the most decorated marine in US history and was signed up to the American military in 1898 which is when a lot of historical historians put the start of the external US Empire because they beat the Spanish in this three month war which started in Cuba. And then having won that they took on a bunch of Spanish imperial possessions.
And for the first time there was a big discussion within America about should we become an empire and that’s when the Anti-Imperialist League started, Andrew Carnegie was part of it, it was a very interesting assortment of people. But the discussion was lost and the imperialists won out and, and it continued from that point. Woodrow Wilson’s presidency was extremely idealistic mainly because of his plan during the First World War, but during that period they intervened so many times in Central America, like Honduras, they invaded Haiti in 1915 and took all the gold. It was just to ransack the country, Guatemala.
So he was fighting in all these wars and he fought in the Boxer Rebellion in China. But when he left he had an awakening about what he’d been doing inside the U.S. military. And this is why the passage from his speech that he gave where he describes this is at the start of the book because I think it describes very clearly what he saw and what most of us who look into this can see, which is that he said I wasn’t in these places like Honduras or China fought to protect US national security interests or to protect anything to do with the American people. I was there to protect Brown Brothers Bank in New York. I was a high class muscle man for big business. That’s what he said. Al Capone operated in three districts, I operated in three continents. I was a racketeer for capitalism. And I think that that’s right, I don’t think it’s ever changed. I think that basically the Pentagon budget and the US military and these intelligence services, its wrong to think of them as national security or defence, which is why they call themselves that because they want to put the propaganda out. But the reality is that they are the armed wing of US corporate power and they will come in to enforce US corporate power. The other part of it is geopolitical control, which is important. But those two things obviously chime because you don’t often get a country that is under the geopolitical control of the United States that doesn’t open its economy up to its corporations.
Those things are joint. But the whole edifice is to create states that basically they’re just clients, they’re vassal states, and they have a democratic system that does not allow for liberatory leaders to rise up. And if they do, they will be destroyed. We had an occasion like that in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn. That’s going off on a tangent but interestingly when we started Declassified UK I thought that maybe the UK was outside of this sort of global south programme. But you realise that the reason we haven’t had an anti-imperialist Prime Minister or even Labour leader before Corbyn was because our country is also controlled by these institutions we’re talking about. The National Endowment gives grants to media here. The CIA has a thousand spies at one so called UK base in, in England. The NSA runs GCHQ which is our largest intelligence state agency. It has a site in Cornwall. Half of its upkeep is paid for by the NSA. That came out in Edward Snowden. So you realise that the global north is under the control of the United States as well. So it’s a saturation control.
Like for example, we have 12,000 troops, US troops in this country now. And that figure’s never been in a UK newspaper. You would think maybe once people might be interested to know that there’s like a foreign military occupying us,, but for me the scariest thing about the US empire is the control that they have now, I don’t know if it has got worse in recent decades, but the control over the media and civil society and you see that very clearly. I’ll finish with this but everywhere, but like here we’re having like a major crisis of democracy with attacks on independent journalists like Asa Winstanley, Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson, Natalie Stricker. There’s a whole list of them who are being raided, arrested, charged under terrorism. Those four people I mentioned, and there’s more. Not one single word has ever appeared in the mainstream media about these people getting raided. I’m talking about including in the Guardian, in any paper. And you’re sort of like, for me, that’s scarier than the raids and arrests themselves because the public realm in the UK, and it doubles up for Europe, lies completely undefended. The whole thing, we’re told that civil society, the media will defend these principles of democracy, freedom, oppressed, they don’t exist and they’ve all been captured by the US government, and another example of that was the Julian Assange case here, which basically was memory-hole by the whole media as well.”
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David Miller explains how the shutting down of USAID just means more covert operations by the US State Department and CIA
Watch; How will the new US President Donald Trump impact the Palestinian liberation struggle and the expansionist zionist ambitions for a Greater Israel? Spinwatch.org ; spinwatch instagram; 12 February 2025
David Miller; “The first thing to note, is that almost everyone who’s appointed (into Trump’s Cabinet, Whitehouse staff and other top officials) is a rabid zionist, and that will mean increased support for the zionist entity. But we also see the rhetoric there is about ‘cleaning out the deep state’, and we’ve seen the apparent shutting down of USAID. Now, what we’re actually seeing is not the shutting down of USAID, we’re seeing the folding of USAID into the State Department and the return of covert operations as opposed to overt operations. So it’s a minor dispute within the Deep State. And what that will mean is very, very bad for the Palestinians, because we will see increased support for normalisation in West Asia with the Saudis and with the UAE, and increased support for Greater Israel. Trump said the other day, didn’t he, that Israel wasn’t big enough? ‘See this pen, this wonderful pen, my desk is the Middle East, and this pen, the top of the pen, that’s Israel.’ What that is is a clear signal to Netanyahu that there should be beachfront departments in Gaza, that they should take more of Syria, they should remain in Lebanon, and indeed, they should annex part of Jordan and Egypt. That’s the Greater Israel plan writ large. And clearly, Trump already is on board with that.”
And as scripted, Israel is helping itself to Syria
Read; Israel Launches Major Air Assault on Damascus Murtaza Hussain and Ali Younes, Drop Site News, 26 February 2025
‘Israeli airstrikes and ground incursions threaten to destabilise Syria as it struggles to recover from a decade-plus civil war.’
‘On Tuesday night, Israel launched a massive aerial assault on Syria’s capital of Damascus, as well as other cities in the south of the country. Local media sources reported strikes near Damascus, as well as the cities of Quneitra and Daraa. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz confirmed the attacks, stating that, “[A]ny attempt by the Syrian regime forces and the country’s terrorist organisations to establish themselves in the security zone in southern Syria will be met with fire.”
The “security zone” refers to a large swath of southern Syria that Israel is attempting to effectively annex. Indeed, the attacks came a day after a shocking announcement by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who demanded the “complete demilitarisation” of southern Syria. The demand effectively banned the new government from deploying any troops south of its own capital, while laying the groundwork for an indefinite Israeli military occupation in the area.
“Take note: We will not allow HTS forces or the new Syrian army to enter the area south of Damascus,” Netanyahu said Sunday. “We demand the complete demilitarisation of southern Syria.” On Monday, Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar told a press conference in Brussels that the new Syrian government is “a jihadist Islamist terror group from Idlib that took Damascus by force.”
Journalist Ali Younes and I recently traveled to Syria for a round of interviews in an effort to understand where the new government is headed. The wild card remains Israel, the neighbouring nation the new Syrian government has tried so far in vain to appease. Our dispatch – which turned out to be well timed, unfortunately for those in the region – is below.
Read; President Trump Wants to Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. How? Dennis Kucinich, 17 February 2025
‘It is Presidents’ Day, and President Donald Trump has made a bold statement regarding military spending — one that no other president in modern history has made. He claims he could cut the Pentagon budget by about 50%.
President Trump has suggested a major cut in defense spending, proposing that the United States, Russia and China each reduce their military budgets by 50%. He has also expressed a desire to begin denuclearisation and arms control discussions with both Russia and China to accomplish this objective.
Military contractors poured $4,440,605 into Kamala Harris’s campaign — more than double what they contributed to Donald Trump. Yet, even with the support of establishment figures like Dick Cheney, their favored candidate fell short. The defeat of the military contractor’s candidate may have consequences for the industry.
Now, with President Trump in office and a bold initiative to cut Pentagon spending by 50%, the defense industry faces a challenge unlike any before.
The financial markets are already responding: Major U.S. defense firms are experiencing notable stock declines, while European defense companies surge in anticipation of increased regional military spending. Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman have all seen stocks fall, while companies such as Rheinmetall, BAE Systems, and Saab are benefiting from investors expecting a shift in global defense priorities.
Last week, we examined the staggering costs of U.S. military spending in “The Cost of Freedom: Confronting Military Waste.” This week, we take the conversation further by analysing President Trump’s claim that he could cut Pentagon spending in half — what that actually looks like, and which interests may be affected.
As President Trump pursues negotiations to bring peace to Ukraine, European governments appear to be moving in the opposite direction, increasing military budgets and deepening their involvement in the conflict. European defense firms are thriving as they anticipate further arms sales to governments committed to escalating military engagement rather than seeking diplomatic solutions.
This contrast underscores the significance of Trump’s initiative — challenging the entrenched military-industrial complex, wherever it is located, and seeking to end perpetual warfare.’
The G7 Summits, the WEF and Bilderberg meetings are the organising forums for global government known as Stakeholder Capitalism whose members shape the capitalist economy to according to the interests of the banks, the oil, agri-food, pharmaceutical, technological, armaments, and other large conglomerates. USAID funds their work.
Listen; USAID defunds; UK Column News, 7 February 2025
Patrick Henningsen; “A seismic tremor that’s happened here for whatever reason, and it could be for political reasons. USAID, we’ll bring this up on screen. This is the US International Agency for Aid and Development. They claimed to do food aid and things like that. And certainly they do a bit of that. Founded by John F. Kennedy in 1961 and really it was an influence during the Cold War era influence operations run by USAID here. It’s over for now and this is what we’ll try to explain to you.
So it’s not fully gone, but all the kind of crazy DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion), Woke international LGBT theatrical performances. All of that nested under a $40 billion per year budget at USAID. And that money gets spread around to a lot of places. The biggest recipient is actually under the banner of governance, the most amount of funding. Then you have pro democracy activities and under the civil society banner and then also paying for and subsidising foreign media. This is a big part of it. So if you look at places like Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, all of these places on the cusp of either NATO membership or Western versus Russian influence, they’ll spend a lot more money there.
Plus anything in China’s external orbit, across the Middle East, you name it, they’re there. South America, they’re all over the world. So Romania, a lot of media activity there to make it pro NATO. Same with Bulgaria, Ukraine and so forth. They’ll run defamation operations against Western journalists using Ukrainian cutouts funded by usaid. I was in one of those USAID funded hit lists of journalists. And so it’s a good way to find out who’s doing good independent media work. You just go look at those hit lists.
So that’s what they’ve been doing. They’ve taken a wrecking ball to this. And I think the initial impetus was Samantha Power, was the head of USAID. But she was one of the progenitors of Russiagate. And a lot of the Russiagate stuff was laundered through USAID funded cutout operations. NGOs, media plus the southern border issue was definitely tied into USAID. So those were the initial targets.
But what they found was a lot more once they lifted up the hood and saw what was underneath – this dirty engine of US power and influence. So here’s Samantha Power here. She’s the head of IT here. Notice the Atlantic Council is another one of these NGOs. They’re hosting a forum here. This is Gay Pride Month, I guess. So it’s what USAID is doing for PRIDE around the world.
So they’re really into funding all of these sort of progressive identity politics, trans, LGBT and so forth, feminist stuff and basically everything that the incoming Trump administration and J.D. Vance and everybody, Elon Musk wants to basically take a wrecking ball to. So that’s Mrs. Cass Sunstein there and we’ll go on here. So Marco Rubio is now the appointed USAID acting administrator. So he’s basically taken over. This is the Secretary of State. So what they’ve done here is interesting.
They pulled USAID under the State Department for tighter management. They’ll do culling, they’ll keep the things they want, they’ll get rid of the things they don’t like and they’ll probably add new things. And some of this is also going to get farmed into the new CIA, the new Central Intelligence Agency. And that’s where it was before Kennedy created USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy. All of this regime change, democracy promotion was done through and influence in media was done directly under the CIA’s umbrella. Trump will also take under the executive branch direct control and management of some of these deep state clandestine or whatever you want to call them, influence operations. So that’s just a little bit of it. There’s probably a lot, it’s much more complex than that.”
Through DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Trump and Elon are defunding the World Economic Forum.
Watch; I wonder if DOGE can get a refund of $68 Million from WEF & Schwab?
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Republican Bill Seeks to Defund World Economic Forum and Block ‘Reset On Our Way of Life’; Tom Ozimek; January 22, 2024;
‘A handful of House Republicans have proposed a bill that would prohibit American tax dollars from funding the World Economic Forum (WEF) while criticizing the transnational organization and its goals as misguided, elitist, and “anti-American.”
Called the Defund Davos Act, the measure would prohibit any funds available to the U.S. Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development—or any other department or agency for that matter—from providing funding for the WEF, according to a Jan. 19 press release.
“Forcing American Taxpayers to fund annual ski trips for insular, global elitists is absurd—not to mention reprehensible,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement. “The World Economic Forum doesn’t deserve one cent of American funding, and it’s past time we defund Davos.”
The “reset” is an apparent reference to a set of ideas advanced by WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab in a book he co-authored called “The Great Reset,” which he summarized in an op-ed as a globally coordinated effort to “revamp all aspects of our societies and economies” in which every country, including the United States, “must participate.”’
‘The United States has spent millions of dollars over the years to fund the WEF and its annual conference of global elites, where the Republicans said discussions include “dystopian ideas like global solidarity and eating bugs to solve world hunger.”’
‘The Republican proposal to defund the WEF was introduced on the final day of the organization’s annual conference, which wrapped up on Jan. 19 in Davos, Switzerland.’
Read; The Machine Fights Back EKO, 9 February 2025
‘Inside Treasury’s War Against Its Own Reformers. When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury’s payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism. Simple things were left blank:
Payment categories
Payment rationales
Basic audit controls
The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week. Here’s what Treasury didn’t want exposed: Over $100 billion flowing annually to accounts without Social Security numbers. No temporary ID numbers. No verification. Nothing. When Musk asked Treasury officials how much was “unequivocal and obvious fraud,” the answer revealed decades of corruption: HALF Let that sink in. $50 billion per YEAR. A billion dollars every SINGLE week disappearing into accounts that shouldn’t exist. The kind of fraud that would shut down any bank in America. The kind that would land any business owner in federal prison. But Treasury had perfected its system:
Process payments
Ignore controls
Keep the machine running
Yesterday, something shifted. A judge’s order appeared, ex parte—meaning only one side could speak. No warning. No defense allowed. Just a wall erected between Treasury officials and their own department’s data. Look at the numbers. Really look at them. Treasury bleeds 23.87% of its budget to waste, fraud, and abuse. Almost a quarter, vanishing into what auditors politely call “mismanagement.” More than Labor at 11%. More than Veterans Affairs at 10%. More than Agriculture at 9%. More than Defense Department’s 1.85%. More than Homeland Security’s 0.89%. A pattern emerges. The deeper you go into Treasury’s operations, the more the waste grows. The more controls vanish. The more fraud flourishes Until now.
“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimisation,” Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet. This wasn’t incompetence. This was design. Previous management had built a perfect system: Let the fraudsters complain. Let them threaten. Let them pressure. Easier to process bad payments than face their wrath. The system’s response was swift. Coordinated. Precise.
Nineteen Democratic state attorneys general filed suit. Not about the fraud. Not about the waste. Not about billions vanishing into accounts without SSNs. But about “protecting” the Treasury Department from its own Secretary. A judge in New York responded with something unprecedented: an ex parte order blocking Treasury officials from accessing their own department’s data. No warning. No chance to respond. No opportunity to present evidence. Just a wall between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.
Think about what that means: The Secretary of the Treasury—effectively the CFO of the United States government—legally barred from seeing how money moves through his own department. The people’s appointee was blocked from viewing the people’s accounts. Young coders mapping the missing controls ordered to stop looking.’
Listen; Trump’s tariffs could cause huge global crisis, warns economist Michael Hudson Geopolitical Economy Report, 4 February 2025
‘Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilise the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts.’
Read; Michael Hudson’s article on how Trump’s tariffs threaten the global economy:
Topics 0:00 Trump’s tariff threats 3:10 Highlights of Michael Hudson 5:47 How to pay foreign debt 10:55 Austerity 14:48 Protectionism 17:19 US threats 21:11 Mexico 22:47 Defaulting on debt 25:46 Economic colonialism 28:18 Colombia 29:50 Greenland 30:23 Economic war 31:02 China’s win-win approach 32:24 Trump’s contradictions 35:20 US dollar & re-industrialization 37:06 Finance capitalism 41:00 Dollar exchange rate & inflation 44:34 Trump proposal at WEF/Davos 45:20 Investing in USA 47:18 US imperialism 49:17 Outro
Michael Hudson; “The question is, what are other countries to do if all of a sudden their ability to export to the United States to earn the money to pay their foreign debts is blocked by the United States? They have two choices, one is to sacrifice their economy to impose absolute austerity, to fire, to follow the International Monetary Fund’s direction, to fire and lay off their labour, to begin selling more of their property at distressed prices to US vulture buyers and basically give up their hopes to develop a balanced economy. The alternative is to say, we’re sovereign countries under international law,, we can decide to put our interests before that of foreign countries. After all, voters elect us to represent domestic interests, not foreign interests. So we are suspending our debt service so that we can afford to break even and continue the economic balance that has characterised our economy and to enable us to provide basic needs for the economy. And the basic needs include expanding investment, becoming more self-sufficient. Now, if they do this, the United States is going to impose all sorts of sanctions against them. The US response will be to treat countries that don’t pay their foreign debts like the United States treated Argentina. You try to grab whatever foreign holdings they have, grab their gold stocks that they hold in New York or in the Bank of England.
If they have not taken back their gold stocks, it’ll be grabbed. They will lose whatever foreign assets they have. If they have ships or naval ships that go abroad, those can be grabbed as the creditors of bondholders of Argentina tried to grab its foreign ships. I’ve described all this in my book ‘Killing the Host’. So it’s very difficult for one country to say we’re going to have to suspend our debt, even if that country is as strong as Mexico. In fact, if Mexico were to say that, for all we know, Trump would send an army in and grab its oil fields and say, well, you can’t pay your debts, we’re going to grab your oil resources just like we’ve grabbed the oil resources in Syria. Nothing wrong with that. We grab Syrian oil, we can grab your oil.
So this, essentially is an escalation of U.S. control. Trump has campaigned as a president of peace, unlike Biden, unlike the deep state, he’s trying to clean out the neocons from the US government. That’s good. He’s trying to close down much of the CIA and much of the FBI. That’s good. What Trump realises is normally you don’t need military force to subjugate and colonise another economy. You can use financial warfare and you can use trade warfare, and that’s peaceful. You don’t need to mobilise American troops to invade a country. Vietnam showed you can’t do that anymore. You can simply use trade and financial sanctions. That’s what he’s trying to do.
But Trump tends to think just an American foreign policy tends to think in very segregated, partial equilibrium approaches – it’s called in economics. You assume that whatever you do in trade is not going to have ramifications in the financial sector, the diplomatic sector, even the military sector, such as it’s having now. So the problem is if Mexico, Colombia or other countries are faced with a blockage of their exports and they decide, we’re not going to pay the foreign debts because you prevented us from paying the foreign debts, that makes these debts odious debts.
They have to do it as a group by getting together and saying, Latin American countries, African countries and many Asian countries, along with Canada and Europe, are all in the same boat. We’ve got to suspend debt service. And we know that that’s going to bring down the international financial system, but that’s going to hurt primarily the United States and its English and European satellites. And that’s what their strong point is. They can call Trump’s bluff and they can call the bluffs that any American tries to make by saying, yes, you can wreck the trade system, we can wipe out the financial system. And by doing that, we’re reestablishing, we’re actually helping our balance of payments.
What Trump has done against Colombia, trying to force it to repatriate deportees in a very degrading way on military transports with shackles, this is not all that extraordinary that’s been happening under the Biden administration right along. But the fact that Trump is trying to make a showdown with Colombia by doing this shows what it can do as its modus operandi against other Latin American countries and global south countries and Asian countries and Canada and so forth. So I think this is, in a way, it serves as a wake up call to the rest of the world to decide how are we going to cope with the policies that America is trying to do. It’s a new American aggression policy. And you don’t know how far this can go until other countries begin to press back. And if every time they knuckle under, as Colombia basically did, then it encourages Trump to go on and on and on. And that’s essentially what he’s doing. And even extending it into the military policy when he says we need raw materials, just as we grabbed Syria’s oil, we can grab Greenland because we need raw materials. And we also need military bases so that we can fight against Russia or China planning an international transport system through the Arctic Ocean. We want to control the Arctic Ocean so we have the power to wreck world trade.
That’s America’s strong point. It’s not that it’s going to use the hydrogen bomb. It can wreck world trade, wreck world finance, and try to force the kind of economic relationship that Trump and the deep state wants. And Trump has made it clear that America has to be the winner in any kind of trade agreement that it makes with any other country, from European countries to Russia and China. And this is what makes another characteristic that makes America the exceptional country other countries think usually follow what President Xi of China does. He’s trying to do a win win situation. China is not trying to militarily invade other countries. He’s trying to say, we can invest money in developing your ports and your railroads for internal trade.
So that you don’t have to rely on export trade to achieve the financing to support your government spending. You can trade with your neighbouring countries all together in basically a Eurasian economic unit so that you will not be dependent on the United States. It’s a win win. Well, to Trump, a win win is a loss because a win win means some other country also wins, not only you, the United States. And if some other country also wins, that means the United States has not grabbed everything there is to grab and Trump wants to grab everything that is available, the entire economic surplus. So that is the confrontational characteristic of US diplomacy in the United States today.”
Covid/Vaccines Scam
Very smart and compassionate man. https://t.co/pruXHAjDgo
— Dogs and Politics (@jsarratt) February 7, 2025
Fantastic news – Robert F Kennedy Jr is sworn in as health secretary after Senate confirmation. The Senate vote was 52-48.
Read; Is Kennedy’s HHS Preparing to Shake Up CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee? Brenda Baletti, Children’s Health Defense, 21 February 2025
Intro: ‘HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be preparing to remove members of the committee that advises the CDC on vaccine policy, two anonymous sources told Politico. The committee was supposed to meet next week, but the meeting has been postponed.’
‘Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be preparing to remove members of the committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy, two anonymous sources told Politico.
The report followed the postponement of the regular meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, originally scheduled for Feb 26-28.
ACIP is described as an independent, nonfederal expert body of professionals with clinical, scientific and public health expertise. The committee meets three times a year, typically in February, June and October to decide which vaccines should be recommended to the public, who should take them and how often — recommendations the CDC typically rubber stamps.
Next week’s meeting was to be the first since Kennedy was confirmed as HHS secretary. A CDC spokesperson would only confirm that the ACIP meeting will be “postponed to accommodate public comment in advance of the meeting,” and that ACIP workgroups met and will present as scheduled at the next meeting.
In addition to issuing general recommendations for shots like COVID-19, RSV, flu and others, the committee is responsible for adding vaccines to the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule. Currently, the CDC recommends that by age 18 a child receive at least 76 doses of 18 different vaccines — including the COVID-19 vaccine.
Once a vaccine is included on the childhood schedule, the drugmaker is protected from liability for any injuries associated with the shot. The combination of school vaccine mandates and no liability guarantees a steady revenue stream for vaccine makers.
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“Most ACIP members have a financial conflict of interest with the pharmaceutical companies,” Dr. Meryl Nass, internist, biological warfare expert and long-time ACIP watchdog, said.
“Their decisions almost always appear to reflect pro-industry bias,” she said. “Although they are there to protect the public, few decisions seem to take the public interest into account as the primary concern.”
Kennedy, who has long raised concerns about public health regulators being captured by industry, made eliminating conflicts of interest a key pillar of his platform as HHS secretary. That process may have already begun, although Politico reported the review of committee members has just started and there is no firm timeline for removals.
When HHS postponed the ACIP meeting, mainstream media immediately raised concerns that the postponement signaled a coming shift in national vaccination policies, especially given Kennedy’s criticism of ACIP during his confirmation process.
Politico reported that Kennedy plans to replace members of HHS advisory committees who have conflicts of interest as part of his broader effort to intervene in Big Pharma’s undue influence over regulatory agencies. That effort is “likely to target” ACIP members.
Critics of ACIP told The Defender they were optimistic that the postponement, along with other actions already taken by the CDC such as ending its “Wild to Mild” flu shot campaign, might signal an important shift in vaccine policy and public messaging.
“This postponement raises questions about whether there are internal conflicts or strategic recalibrations underway at the CDC,” said Sayer Ji, founder and editor of GreenMedInfo.
“Given that the outgoing administration stacked ACIP with staunchly pro-vaccine appointees, one could speculate that the postponement is a stalling tactic to ensure continuity of their agenda. Alternatively, it could reflect an effort to re-evaluate and possibly restructure ACIP under new leadership.”
In its final days, the Biden administration quietly stacked ACIP with several new pro-vaccine members, a move intended to “insulate the scientific integrity of the panel from the incoming administration,” STAT News reported.’
Read; Massive Government Purge! RfK Jr. Eradicates 1,300 CdC Deep-State Scientists Who Engineered Bioweapons & Forced Deadly Vaccines On Americans! Kay Pisarek, 22 February 2025
‘RFK Jr. isn’t wasting time. With Trump’s backing and Musk’s logistical firepower, he just fired 1,300 CDC operatives—the very architects of the pandemic fraud. This isn’t restructuring. This is a controlled demolition of the Deep State’s health machine.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)—Bill Gates’ pandemic enforcers—has been completely eradicated. These operatives orchestrated fear campaigns, pushed deadly vaccines, and engineered pandemics for profit. Kennedy shut them down overnight.
The Fall of the CDC’s Medical Cartel
For years, the CDC has acted as Big Pharma’s personal attack dog, manipulating data and silencing dissent. But the EIS was more than just corrupt—it was a biowarfare unit, coordinating with the CIA to deploy engineered pathogens.
Leaked documents reveal direct ties between EIS, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the World Economic Forum—proof of a globalist health dictatorship. These agencies didn’t just push vaccines; they developed sterilisation agents disguised as medicine, tested in secret WHO trials.
A Reckoning Across Government Health Agencies
Kennedy’s purge didn’t stop at the CDC. 5,200 more government operatives were axed from the FDA, NIH, and CMS—agencies that waged war on natural health while funneling billions into Big Pharma’s pockets.
Whistleblowers confirm Operation Viral Gridlock—a black-budget program designed to suppress natural immunity, enforce mandatory shots, and genetically modify populations through vaccines.
Making America Healthy Again—On Our Terms
RFK Jr. is exposing the depopulation agenda, eliminating Big Pharma’s stranglehold, and shattering the medical-industrial complex. His mission:
No more rushed vaccine approvals—Big Pharma won’t dictate health policy.
Banning toxic food additives—globalists have poisoned the food supply for decades.
Investigating eugenics programs—high-level insiders confirm vaccines were used for fertility suppression.
Bill Gates’ Nightmare Has Arrived
Gates’ pandemic empire is crumbling. The EIS was his global enforcement unit—and Kennedy just wiped it out.
The fight for medical freedom has begun. The globalists have lost their grip on the CDC. And they’ll never get it back.’
This article is so brilliant I have to paste the entire thing;
Read; The hidden hand: monstrous conspiracies and the swamp – The trail of evidence almost always leads to the moneylending oligarchies. Alex Krainer; Feb 04, 2025
[This post was originally published at I-System TrendCompass]
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) allegedly said, “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” This statement has been very widely quoted, but what, exactly does it mean? Rothschild’s contemporary Napoleon said that, “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation.” One of the directors of the Bank of England, Josiah Stamp (1880-1941) said, “Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. … if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control credit.”
Are events spontaneous, or is there a hidden hand?
But it is difficult to relate these quotes with day-to-day events. We can observe our leaders’ statements and actions; we can see the activities of corporations and merchants and we can read the news about global events. But if there is a hidden hand secretly directing those events toward certain outcomes, this is not readily discernible and it may only become apparent in patterns of events. Some people believe there’s a hidden hand, but others don’t and the former are usually dismissed as conspiracy theorists by the latter.
Conspiracy theorists are regularly ridiculed for their views and disqualified in serious discussions. But what, then, of the statement made in 1956 by the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who said that, “The individual is handicapped, by coming face-to-face, with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists. The American mind … rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy, which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” Was Hoover also a risible conspiracy theorist?
Spontaneous wars all the time?
Either way, if conspiracies do exist, what are they? Which world events stem from spontaneous developments and which ones are driven by the hidden hand? Somehow, we’re at war all the time: the US started more than 80% of all wars in the world between 1946 and today. This is an empirical fact: a group of American researchers published an article in the American Journal of Public Health and stated that,
“Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Did all those 201+ conflicts erupt spontaneously, perhaps out of desire to rid the world of evil? Remember, Milosevic was very bad. Saddam Hussein was a monster. Ghadaffi was a madman. Chavez was a Communist. Maduro is a Socialist. Bashar al Assad is a brutal dictator. Putin is Hitler. It just never ends.
Xi Jinping is also very, very bad and give it time, we’ll get him too. He made a deadly virus in the Chinese CCP controlled Wuhan lab and attacked us with it out of sheer malice. Or did he? In a recent interview with Alex Jones, Dr. David Martin gave this statement:
“There are 63 gain of function weapons beyond the Coronavirus weapons. There are four that are corona virus specific. But there are 63 other biological weapons currently in production in United States universities right now. And if President Trump were to take an executive action to save humanity, what he would do is, he would actually place a moratorium on every single one of these gain of function programs and shut down all 67 active programs right now. If he was going to do the right thing. Because, what’s the end game? The end game has always been – and Bill Gates said this very clearly in 2011, the World Health Organization has stipulated this from 2011 and they resaid it again in 2018 and 2019 – their end game is the decrease of the population of humanity on this planet. And that’s a polite way of saying that these are sociopathic murderers who are actually building weapons to conveniently turn what we call health care into the front line of the biggest mercenary deployment of mass-murdering psychopaths we’ve ever seen on this planet. And we as a society need to understand that it’s not coming from a foreign adversary. It’s coming from domestic adversaries who are intent on destroying the orderly structure of the United States…”
Was it all for our health and wellness?
As we now know, National Institutes of Health have been funding gain of function research through various organizations including the University of North Carolina, Ecohealth Alliance and dozens, perhaps hundreds of biolabs managed by the US Department of Defense and the Pentagon. The DOD owned up to running 48 biolabs in Ukraine. Former undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed as much explicitly in August 2022 Senate hearings when questioned by Senator Marco Rubio.
Obviously, for any such work to be done, it must be funded. It is equally obvious that the American people are only now learning about covert funding of these projects. If gain of function research is publicly discussed at all, it is discussed under the assumption that its objective is to find cures for diseases, prevent pandemics, etc. It would be monstrous to suggest otherwise. Who would fund tinkering with viruses to make them more deadly and more infections for any nefarious reason?
Clearly, only loopy conspiracy theorists would even entertain such an idea. But then, what to make of the fact that vaccines have been getting less safe and effective over the last 30 years? As I wrote here back in July based on over 30 years of VAERS data analyzed by data scientist Craig Paardekooper, while vaccines are causing more and more adverse reactions, fewer and fewer people recover from these adverse reactions. Here’s what I believe to be perhaps the most important chart in the world:
Consistent “honest errors,” or a hidden hand?
I posted the discussion with further explanations in a July 2024 article titled, “Inject nothing!” One would think that with time and new technological and scientific advancements, vaccines would be getting increasingly safer and more effective. But the data shows that the opposite is true. Is this a 30-year consistent sequence of honest mistakes or is a hidden hand somehow involved? We won’t learn much from courts and the legal discovery process, because vaccine manufacturers enjoy legal immunity from liability suits.However, this does in fact call to mind Bill Gates famous TED presentation about how “we” could reduce world population if we do a “great job” on new vaccines, etc. What if Bill Gates was serious and not just speaking hypothetically? And it’s not just the vaccines: in spite of having the world’s most expensive health care system, more than half of Americans suffer from Chronic diseases, most are overweight or obese, 25% of American women are on antidepressants and 40% of teenagers have a mental health diagnosis. Of course, it doesn’t stop there: one in 36 children have autism and on the whole, children born in the US have a 76% higher risk of death before reaching adulthood compared to 19 other democratic nations.
What if J. Edgar Hoover was right and there really are conspiracies so monstrous that an ordinary person cannot believe that they exist? What if John F. Kennedy wasn’t just being paranoid on 27 April 1961 when he warned us about the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” and about the “very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon” by the conspirators to advance their agenda? What if the narratives about the different madmen and Communists are contrived to seize upon the need for increased security? What if the fear of Russians invading Europe serves the same purpose? How about viruses or climate change?
What’s all that got to do with the bankers?
Even if J. Edgar Hoover and JFK had a point and there really are monstrous, ruthless and monolithic conspiracies out there, how does any of that relate to money and banking? How does Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s statement above figure in that equation? Given that the hidden hand is hidden, and tries had to remain hidden, we can’t expect to find documented evidence or “how to” manuals laying it all out for us. But what we do have episodes of history when important aspects of the truth are revealed.
One such example was when in November 2020, the climate czar and former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney explained how the ruling class would push the “Great Reset” through: “We need a whole economy transition… it’s really about looking for, and at the transition plans from all companies and backing those who are part of the solution and taking capital away from those who are part of the problem.” Another example was the Coronavirus pandemic itself when the IMF offered financing to governments around the world on condition of them implementing the pandemic measures like lockdowns, masking and social distancing. I detailed this story in an August, 2020 article, “Covid 19: the Banking Cartel is Driving the Agenda.”
There are other revealing moments and if we follow the trail of evidence in our search for the hidden hand, the path almost always ultimately leads to the moneylending oligarchies, and then we can begin to appreciate Lord Acton’s warning that, “the issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is, people versus the bankers.”
Will Trump be able to drain the swamp? And what will the pond scum reveal?
Today, it appears that the new administration in Washington has resolved at last to confront some of these ruthless and monstrous conspiracies and evidence about them has started to come to light. With time we’ll know more about how much our recent history has been shaped by spontaneous events and how much by the hidden hand behind the throne of power. Hopefully, we will ultimately learn also about the owners of that hidden hand and about their agenda.’
Watch; There Are 63 Gain-Of-Function Biological Weapons Currently In Production In US Universities Right Now; Alex Jones, 3 February 2025
“There are 63 gain of function weapons beyond the coronavirus weapons. There are four that are coronavirus specific, but there are 63 other biological weapons currently in production in United States universities right now. And if President Trump were to take an executive action to save humanity, what he would do is he would actually place a moratorium on every single one of these gain of function programmes and shut down all 67 active programmes right now if he was going to do the right thing. Because what’s the end game? The end game has always been, and Bill Gates said this very clearly in 2011. The World Health Organisation has stipulated this from 2011 and they recited again in 2018 and 2019. Their end game is the decrease of the population of humanity on this planet. And that’s a polite way of saying that these are sociopathic murderers who are actually building weapons to conveniently turn what we call health care into the front line of the biggest mercenary deployment of mass murdering psychopaths we’ve ever seen on this planet.
And we as a society need to understand it’s not coming from a foreign adversary, it’s coming from domestic adversaries who are intent on destroying the orderly structure of the United States. And every single person who’s been lamenting this action that’s being taken by DOGE and these actions taken by the executive orders that President Trump have issued over the last 14 days, every single person protesting that is actually celebrating the genocide of not only America, but but the values for which this country was first established. You cannot, under any moral justification, come up with an excuse that says it’s acceptable to have a death rate of American citizens. And that’s a quote that has come not only from Moderna, but also from Pfizer. They accept a death rate of American citizens for the purpose of what their own profiteering and the mass murder of Americans.”
Watch; Pfizer whistleblower releases internal documents showing they had received over 158,000 adverse reaction reports within 2 months of it’s release; Dr David Cartland, 5 February 2025
“A Pfizer whistleblower who works inside the company, has released these documents showing that they had received over 158,000 reports of adverse reactions from December 1, 2020, through February 28, 2021. Serious adverse reactions, spontaneous abortions. It is absolutely evil what these people have done. The FDA was well aware, and that is why they wanted these documents hidden for 75 years, because it just proves that this was intentionally released. And they knew all along that it was going to cause massive heart attacks and strokes and deaths and infertility and miscarriages. I mean, it goes on and on and on. Neurological issues. The fact that this thing they call a vaccine is still on the market blows my mind, because they have removed (real) vaccines where 10 cases of a child getting sick occurred. And so this is evil, intentional. And whoever is involved must be held accountable.”
Read or Watch; The Covid Dossier: A record of military and intelligence coordination of the global Covid event Sasha Latypova, 4 February 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
‘The Covid Dossier is a compilation of the evidence we have amassed over the last three years supporting the following claim:
Covid was not a public health event, although it was presented as such to the world’s population. It was a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.
The Dossier contains information regarding the military/intelligence coordination of the Covid biodefense response in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. For some countries we have extensively documented information. For others, we have some documentation of military/intelligence involvement, but not all the details. For as many countries as possible, we list the military/intelligence agencies in charge of their country’s Covid response; dates on which emergency declarations were made in each country; military/intelligence-related agencies and bodies in charge of censorship/propaganda; and top people with military/intelligence jobs who were known or reported to hold leadership positions in the response. We also list connections to global governing bodies, including the EU and UN/WHO, through which the response was coordinated. In the final section, we provide a list of military/intelligence/biodefense alliances that provide multinational frameworks for responding to a bioterror/bioweapons attack.
By providing all of this information in one place, we hope to dispel the notion that Covid was a public health event, managed independently by each country’s public health agencies, with some limited, logistically focused military involvement. We also hope to drive home the shocking realization that not only were military and intelligence agencies in charge of Covid in all of these countries, but the response to what was represented as a public health crisis was coordinated through military alliances, including NATO.
This should be the subject of front-page news everywhere.
We are calling on investigators, whistleblowers, and anyone with information related to this topic to contact us and/or publish the information so that we can continue to construct the full picture of what happened to the world starting in early 2020 and continuing to this day.’
Read or Watch; Transhumanism Agenda of The European Union – Truth, Science and Spirit Ep 48 – Conversation with Dr. Geanina Hagima by Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD.PhD 10 February 2025
Narrator; “Emotionally it is easy to dismiss the work of Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea for it is very disturbing. But her work is shown through scientific testing and backed up by government and NGO documentation. And the evidence shows that humanity has already been infected with cutting edge surveillance nanotechnology. She also points out the important fact that the elastomers being fabricated by Dupont for this soft robot technology are made of the exact same chemicals found when analysing the messagens, a compound that displays liquid crystal properties found in targeted individuals. And they appear to be the same compounds she found in the blood of the vaxxed as well as the blood of the unvaxxed. The building blocks of hydrogels are being found in the COVID vaccine and hydrogels are being found in the blood of both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. They are the so-called blood clots that are being found around the world.
And these hydrogels can now be programmed, encrypted and decrypted. And it’s spreading. Evidence shows that the vaxxed are shedding this to the unvaxxed. A review by the Rand Corporation Brain Computer Interfaces US Military Applications and Implications discuss the convergence of human with machine in an interview with Big Pharma whistleblower Karen Kingston. Kingston discusses this self-assembly nanotechnology and how the spike protein is an engineered device triggered by electromagnetic frequency and how the quantum dots are gene editing technology. This nanotechnology appears to be distributed via chemtrails, the food and water supply, medications and in all of the scheduled vaccines for children.’
Ana Maria Mihalcea; These transhumanists who have literally a satanic hate for humanity, the creation of God, want to digitise every cell on Earth, every microbe, and track it as well as again upload it into what’s called the metaverse. I am a certified chelation practitioner (Chelation therapy is a medical procedure that involves the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body) and the amount that I’m pulling out of people is extraordinary. So we have been systematically poisoned, but not just us, but all life forms on Earth. The rain is filled with this poison. The trees are sucking it up into their root system. So their agenda ultimately is number one, to fuse biology with technology. The ultimate end result is that machines will take over all biology. This is an evolutionary step that we must fight at all costs, for they want to exterminate all natural humans. When you synthetically alter the human DNA that has a very specific vibratory frequency that is also frequency specific with all of nature. We are all interconnected with the oneness of creation. That harmony is being disturbed and is out of sync when we are fusing with technology. So they’re creating, literally, a Borg Hive Mind (The Borg Hive Mind, also known as the Collective, is a group consciousness that links all Borg drones together. It allows the Borg to share thoughts, memories, and functions) in which there are no free thinkers, there is no free will. You’re just simply following the programme. So we all must stand up and insist that the creation of God and the diversity of our biosphere is so beautiful, so evolutionarily magnificent. I have seen the same blood changes of these filamental self- assembly structures that are literally replacing the blood and are using the blood as a substrate to create these blood clots. And I’ve seen extraordinary blood clots in the unvaccinated as well. This movement is really about the final destruction of the divine human being and we must resist at all costs at this point. It’s the fight for our survival. And I believe that denial kills people. If they are not aware of this and they don’t want to do anything about it, they don’t want to hear it. They have this stuff growing in them like a cancer and eventually they will succumb to it.”
Watch; Pfizer knew their COVID shots were killing babies and rendering women infertile, but the @CDCgov STILL recommended them for pregnant women; Children’s Health Defense, 10 February 2025
Naomi Wolf; “There’s a chart of this many babies are vomiting, this many babies are having fever, this many babies have swollen flesh which is oedema. One baby died of multi organ system failure from nursing a vaccinated mom and two babies died in utero. And Pfizer concluded that this was due to maternal exposure to the vaccine. But the reports of the damage to women and babies went in a kind of summarised format, easy to follow summarised format. Eight pages to Dr. Walensky in the White House in April of 2021. Three days later, April 23, 2021, Dr. Walensky gives a White House press conference telling the women of America and the fathers to be there’s no bad time to get your Covid shot before you get pregnant, during your pregnancy or after your baby is born. And she had this record in her hand, the baby she was going to kill and the women she was going to render infertile by giving them this information.”
As usual the Amish got it right – this time it’s by not being vaccinated and the resulting zero rates of autism.
Watch; RFK Jr: A researcher named Dan Olmsted “was very curious about unvaccinated populations; Wide Awake Media, 22 February 2025
R F Kennedy Jr; “There was a researcher, a writer named Dan Olmsted, and he was very curious about unvaccinated populations. And the Amish are one of those populations. He went and he did a study of the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. If it was following the national trends, there should have been about 2,000 autism cases. And they were able to find three. And all of them were children who had been adopted by the Amish after receiving their vaccines. Of the Amish in general, they could not find any. And this is true in other places around the world.
I do not believe that autism is just caused by vaccines. I think there’s very strong evidence that it is one of the major causative factors. But all of these diseases are linked. They all operate along the same biological pathways, and they’re caused by stress to our mitochondria. And we’re stressing the mitochondria through many, many factors with the air we breathe mainly through the foods we eat, but also some of the medications that our kids take are contributing to it.”
Watch; RFK Jr was RIGHT? Groundbreaking New Study; EONutrition, 4 February 2025
“Its time to apologise to RFK Jr. A brand new study looked at the prevalence of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders in V’d and un-V’d children.”
Question to Kennedy; “You’ve Compared the CDCs work to Nazi death camps, you’ve compared it to sexual abusers in the Catholic church.”
Presenter; “It’s just a coincidence that the politicians who have been the most vocal opponents to RFK are also the largest recipients of money coming directly from pharmaceutical companies. They did not like it when RFK pointed out this very clear conflict of interest for everyone else to see.”
R F Kennedy; “The problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it is in Congress too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. And protecting their Interests.”
Presenter; “But despite continual attacks from industry shields and corrupt politicians, there is a recent study which was published and goes a long way to vindicate RFK, and the results paint an extremely disturbing picture. Okay, so this study looked at the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders found in 47,000 children and nine years of age on the Florida’s Medicaid program. These disorders included autism spectrum disorder, hyperkinetic syndrome, epilepsy or seizures, learning disorders, encephalopathy and tick disorders.
Lo and behold, it found that children who were given this specific medical procedure were significantly more likely to develop every single one of these conditions compared with the children who were not. But it gets much worse for the children who were born prematurely. These kids. Well, their risk of developing at least one of these disorders was four times higher. But here’s the real kicker. The more shots a child had, the higher their risk of developing autism.
Children with one shot had a 1.7 times increased risk, whereas those with 11 shots or more, which is really quite common, had a 4.4 times increased risk. This is huge. And why is this study so pivotal? Well, because for decades, the narrative has been a certain medical procedure is universally safe and effective with minimal side effects. For those of us who are already familiar with this concept it just confirms what we already know.
But for those on the fence, it can act as a really useful stepping stone to investigating this further.”
Provoked war with Russia
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The UK is clearly itching for a war so I have pasted a large chunk of today’s decision about Macron and Starmer’s meeting with Trump in America, Starmers wanting UK troops on the ground in Ukraine and an extraordinary US/Ukraine trade deal that gives the US half of all of Ukraine’s resources for ever!
Watch; Starmer and Macron FAIL to trick Trump into war with Russia; The Duran; 28 Feb 2025
Alex Christoforou; “Talk about the meetings between Macron and Trump and Starmer and Trump. The peacekeeper meetings, or actually I should probably say the reassurance force meetings, a plan hatched by Starmer, which Macron is going along with. But Macron doesn’t seem so invested into this as Starmer. The UK’s really invested. Starmer, at least it is really invested in Project Ukraine. And actually the conservatives as well, the entire political elite in the UK is very invested in Ukraine and they’re itching for a fight.
They’re itching for the US to fight on their behalf. That’s what they would ultimately like US to fight on the British establishment’s behalf. But, the goal of the meetings, both Macron and Starmer, is to convince Trump to provide a backstop, security and support guarantees. A backstop so that the UK, France, and other European countries can send their soldiers to Ukraine. Which the Russians have said is a no go.
Anyway. What are your thoughts on, on this?
Alexander Mercouris; “The starting point in this should really be what the Russians are saying. The Russians have spoken about this many times. They say that this is supposed to all happen at the conclusion of negotiations and that they’re supposed to agree to this. The Russians have said that they’re not going to agree to this, that there is no way that this can happen. Lavrov has made some very, very strong comments about this recently. So have other Russian officials. Lavrov’s latest comments suggested to me that he’s actually getting angry that this whole topic is still getting discussed and that the British and the French are talking about this as being something that might happen and which might happen even though the Russians are saying that it won’t happen.
And the Russians have also said that if you’re talking about peacekeeping forces or anything like that, the only international body that has the right to authorise peacekeeping forces is the UN Security Council.
And of course that comes with all kinds of provisions and restrictions, which the British and the French wouldn’t agree to. And it gives the Russians rights of veto. And the Russians have said that unless a peacekeeping force is authorised by the Security Council, they will see any European forces deployed in Ukraine as combatants and will treat them accordingly. In other words, they will attack them. So that’s what the Russians are saying. It is very weird that this discussion nonetheless, continues with the pretence that this is something that might happen.
Even Trump is going along with this. He’s claiming, I think, absolutely falsely that when he spoke about this with Putin, Putin said that he had no problem with it. Now, that is so contrary to everything that the Russians are saying that I cannot believe that Putin said that. So Trump here, and I have to say this, and I said this with sorrow, is clearly making this up. So why is this discussion even taking place? Well, I think that on the British and French side, it’s not difficult to understand what they’re trying to do.
They’re talking about a peacekeeping force to monitor the cease fire. Now they’re talking about it being a reassurance force. They want to distribute these forces right across all the key places in Ukraine; Odessa, all the major cities that kind of thing in other words it’s basically a tripwire force, the intention ultimately is to try to get a situation where there is a conflict with the Russians. There’s a back stop provided by the Americans when the conflict with the Russians happens the Americans if they’re going to honor the back stop, are going to have to become involved that will prolong the war. It’s that kind of thinking and I think that the British and French, at the back of their minds, are saying to themselves ‘look even if the Russians don’t agree if we can manage a ceasefire we just go round the Russians and agree this directly with Zelensky.’ So I think this is what the British and the French want to do. They want the Americans to provide the back stop the guarantee now when Macron went to Washington he was trying to get Trump to agree to a guarantee and he didn’t. Trump basically ran rings around him. Trump is saying that he won’t give the guarantee but he did this in a very complicated way. Sometimes he says well we won’t give a guarantee but we’ll give a very little guarantee Ukraine could forget about joining NATO, that’s never going to happen which is the ultimate guarantee that the Ukrainians were looking for but we have to be alive to the possibility that sooner or later. the British and the French will try to do this if there is some kind of end of hostilities and they will use whatever vague words Trump comes up with and they will claim that that is a guarantee so that is what Trump needs to be careful about now. What Trump and the Americans are trying to do is they’re trying to offload this whole problem of Ukraine ultimately to the Europeans. Trump is saying the guarantees to Ukraine should be provided by the Europeans not by the United States it should be European troops who are responsible for Ukrainian protection not American troops that they want to shuffle responsibility onto the Europeans.”
UK Column 28th February has more on the Trump Starmer meeting in the White House – not least that Starmer’s reply to Trump’s question wasn’t that we would fight Russia alone.
UK Column presenter, Mike Robinson; “On Ukraine, gone is the Ukraine must win, Russia must lose rhetoric and in its place, we must win the peace. But let’s just have a look at one example of what Starmer was saying yesterday.
“That is why this is the greatest alliance for prosperity and security I think the world has ever seen. Whenever necessary, we absolutely backed each other up. And that’s at the core.”
Trump; “Could you take on Russia by yourselves?
Starmer; “Well, [laugh]”
Mike Robinson; “So while the British press are putting a brave face on it, undoubtedly there was quite a bit of Mickey taking from Trump’s side and really treating Starmar with somewhat contempt.”
With a war monger prime minister, we live in terrifying times. We must all take to the streets to stop this madness and so our youngsters refuse to be conscripted to fight their war to grab Russia and Ukraine’s resources.
Watch; Starmer Stuns Trump With Ukraine Bombshell: ‘Will Put British Boots On Ground & Jets In Air’ Times Of India; 28 Feb 2025
Intro; ‘UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared that Britain is ready to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” to support a peace deal for Ukraine. Starmer emphasised the need for a “tough and fair” resolution, ensuring that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not return for more aggression.
Watch; Terrible deal. Zelensky gives Ukraine resources to US; The Duran 28 Feb 2025
Alex Christoforou; “….the rare Earth mineral deal but it’s actually a mineral resources deal if you can even call it a deal but it covers RareEarth okay but it also covers oil gas and Logistics ports so it’s pretty much covering all of Ukraine’s resources and so we’re most likely most likely going to get a signature from from Zelenski. He wants to do it in Trump’s presence and Trump is saying that this mineral deal is going to be good for Ukraine – no security guarantees but it provides security in the fact that according to Trump according to his statements, the fact that US business will be in Ukraine, no one’s going to mess with Ukraine if US investment and business is in Ukraine. So that’s the security guarantee that’s implied in this arrangement.
Alexander Mercouris; “ Zelensky is giving Ukraine away to the Americans for nothing. He’s getting nothing back. Whether the Americans will get anything out of is a completely different matter because this is so vague and difficult to understand. None of the institutions that have been set out there in this fund, who’s gonna operate this fund, where’s it going to be based? Is it going to be based in Kiev in Washington, where is it? This deal gives the whole of Ukraine well, half of its resources, in perpetuity to the United States in return for nothing.”
Listen; US Knew of Gonzalo Lira’s Torture and Murder, Yet Allowed Him to Suffer in Silence; UK Column News, 21 February 2025
Brian Gerrish; “Now we are talking about people standing up to be counted. Some immensely brave people across the world who’ve literally risked their life in order to tell us what is happening and to get the truth out.”
Patrick Henningsen; “One of those people, Brian, is an American video blogger who became a citizen journalist during this Ukraine conflict. His name is Gonzalo Lira. Very popular on YouTube with a lot of people. And he found himself in the middle of a war. And thanks to our Ukrainian contacts for alerting this and what we’ve done is translated this from Ukrainian. A top whistleblower who Zelensky had thrown in prison and charged with treason. His name is Alexander Dubinsky. While he was in the hearing he managed to get access to his YouTube channel with his lawyers and uploaded a video with evidence of the torture and the extortion of US$70,000 from Gonzalo before he was beaten and eventually died from the injuries from those beatings in custody.
The U.S. State Department had full knowledge of this. Tony Blinken had knowledge of this. Everybody in the Biden administration who should have known knew about this before the worst happened to Gonzalo. He could have been released in a matter of 24 hours and basically taken out of the country.
But he (Zelensky) has locked up a lot of these political prisoners, Brian, including journalists. Including journalists we know are still in prison because they criticised Zelensky during this conflict. And so this is an incredible story. It’s very sad, very tragic, but the truth has come out. The question is who’s going to be held accountable for it? That’s the question.”
Brian Gerrish; “That is the key question, because it seems that there are rules for some parts of society, some countries, and very different rules for others. But we can be sure the BBC is not going to be reporting that story in any real detail at all.”
Listen to this deranged ex-army officer trying to make us believe that Russia threatens Europe and so we need conscription! Also the new German leader says, ‘My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can achieve independence from the United States’. Great, but does this mean he and a few other war-addicted leaders like Starmer might antagonise Russia by arming Ukraine, or worse still by sending troops?
Watch; Is the UK next? UK Column News, 24 February 2025
“It’s very apparent to the UK Column team that many people are really struggling to understand the news, all of the various reports that are being thrown at them, and much of what people receive is to do with a fear factor. And one of those big fear factors is to do with everything around the Ukrainian conflict and the fact that Russia apparently is going to invade Western Europe. This is how the BBC is certainly trying to reframe our minds. So today I thought we’d take a little bit of a look at how things are going in Europe and no better place to start than Germany’s new chancellor because he’s been making some pretty strong statements.
The BBC likes this, ‘ New German Leader Signals Solid Seismic Shift in Transatlantic Relations’. Well, one of the key things that he said was this. ‘My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that step by step we can achieve independence from the United States‘. So that’s a pretty powerful statement. Obviously, Trump has ruffled a lot of feathers because he’s talking about the need for the European nations to get on and do things themselves, particularly if they believe that they need a credible defence against the Russians. And Germany, which is in a really pitiful position at the moment economically, as a result of its own sanctions against Russia and the loss of cheap energy, is now suddenly saying, well, we need to increase our game, we need to strengthen Germany and we need to strengthen the European Union. And the implication is that that strengthening has got to be around defence. Now, I’d like to say to our audience that if you go to the UK Column website and search for EU military unification, you can find many articles. UK Column has been warning and warning about the dangers of the European Union attempting to create its own unified military structure. And although the UK has supposedly left the European Union, something else that the UK Column team have talked about on many occasions is Brexit without the exit. And that is a warning that although the population of the UK has been led to believe that we’re clear of the European Union, in the background no such thing has happened. And we now see Keir Starmer almost tripping over himself to get back into bed with the European Union. And that also means with that, European military unification. So how does this translate? For the population in the UK, we’re now to believe we’re nearly at war with the Russians. And that means ‘we need troops and that means conscription.’ Let’s have a look at how Good. Morning Britain dealt with the issue”
Good Morning Britain Presenter; ; “Former British army officer Sir Richard Sheriff has said this morning that Donald Trump has left Britain with simply no choice but to plan for conscription. But adults in Gen Z, that’s 18 to 27 year olds, seem reluctant to be part of the efforts. With a recent YouGov poll finding only 11% would fight for Britain. We asked some of them for their thoughts on joining the front line.”
“I’m not trained.”
“I can’t even walk up the stairs.”
“If it was a man’s story, obviously I’d go.”
“I mean, the fact that you can die for your country before you can vote, there’s no incentive for young people to participate. I don’t think I’d be very useful.”
“It’s just not my vibe.”
“Yeah, I probably would come from a family of people that have served in the Royal Air Force and Army as well. “
“I don’t think I have a good enough reason to want to give back to this country in that sense. Just doesn’t seem like something I would enjoy.”
“But is the matter out of our hands? Is it actually time perforce to make national service mandatory? Former Defence Minister and Army Captain Tobias Elwood served in Northern Ireland, in Cyprus, Kuwait and Bosnia, and he says that we simply have no option but to make national service mandatory. But senior lecturer in Sociology Dr. Lisa McKenzie here says that forcing somebody to do anything never works, and that includes conscription. All right let’s come to you first, Tobias. Mr. Elwood, do you feel that the time for debate has actually passed? Is that what you’re saying, that it’s not really a question of opinion now, it’s simply a matter of we have to get boots on the ground and therefore we have to have conscription.”
Tobias Ellwood, Former Defence Minister; “Yes. The backdrop to this is that we’ve entered a new era of insecurity. Our world is getting more dangerous, not less. Russia’s aggression is rising. It’s increasingly backed by China. The United States is actually dialling back from its interests in Europe. And we are increasingly vulnerable and we must prepare. There’s been a big debate about increasing defence spending to 2.5%. We can’t afford to keep a large standing army. So this is all about increasing our national readiness, this latent capability that we can tap into at any time.”
Watch; He Just ADMITTED It!” Zelensky’s SHOCKING Confession GB News, 5 February 2025
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that over $100 billion in U.S. aid, that’s taxpayers’ money, has vanished into thin air. So surprise, surprise, it turns out that this proxy war with the West was indeed the most murderous, indefensible, biggest money laundering operation in history. So these revelations about a mystery missing $100 billion comes straight from Zelenskyy himself”
Watch; Ukraine Kursk collapse. UK wants US backstop, The Duran 23 February 2025
Alexander Mercouris; “If there’s a disaster in Kursk, the panic is going to be magnitudes greater than it was after the fall of Avdiivka because as I said, this is going to be impossible to conceal. At which point the political dynamic is going to be completely different because the Americans will say, ‘we told you so’. This war is lost. There’s no point in pretending that it can be won. What Hegseth said, ‘look at the realities of the actual situation. The only way forward is to deal with the Russians’ Whereas the Europeans, who continue to resist that logic, I could see that the hysteria will get even greater and there’ll be talk about sending expeditionary forces to Ukraine and will get even more pleas to the Americans to give what staff would call the backstop and guarantees for those forces.
And the Americans would probably say no. And the quarrels and arguments between the Europeans and the Americans would get bigger and bigger, and the Americans would become even more frustrated and exasperated. So you can see how it could all turn out very, very messy and very, very, very difficult. And then there’s the Ukrainians themselves to consider, because if there’s this disaster, how do the Ukrainians themselves react? Do they continue the war? Do they try to keep fighting? Even if the army disintegrates, there will always be some nationalist brigades that will probably want to keep fighting.
What do the Ukrainians themselves do in that situation? Does Zelensky finally begin peace talks? I cannot believe that, by the way, I think that Zelenskyy’s whole position there is that he will basically never negotiate. And I don’t think he will ever change his stance. I don’t think he can change his stance. I think emotionally probably by now he can’t change his stance. That’s where we could start, perhaps to see coups in Kiev and all kinds of things. So we are close to the end game militarily, and that is going to drive the geopolitical end game as well.
That’s why it’s so important, finally, that the Americans and the Russians are talking again. The Americans and the Russians weren’t talking. And we found ourselves in the kind of military position that we are in. If Biden was still in the White House or Kamala Harris was, if Blinken and Sullivan were still making the decisions, then God help us. Who knows what they might do in a situation like this.
Alex Christoforou; “All right, a final question. What’s going on with the British Typhoon fighter jets that are going to be patrolling the skies for the UK? The 3,000 UK troops that was to be sent to Ukraine. And what’s going on with the EU and their plan to rush out, I believe the number is 6 billion euros. I believe that’s the number to rush that out to Zelensky for support, for weapons as well as one and a half million artillery shells?”
Alexander Mercouris; “Well, first of all, the 3,000 troops is about the maximum that the British can send. And those troops would not be well trained and well organised or any of that kind of thing. Now, the Typhoon fighter jet idea is an incredibly dangerous one and the Americans need to be alive to what the British are trying to do because those fighter jets, those British fighter jets, which would be patrolling the skies over Ukraine, would be based in Poland, which is NATO territory. So the Russians have always said that they will not accept any kind of peacekeeping force from any NATO country. And I think we could take that as red. I mean they will not change their position about this. That will be an absolute red line for the Russians in the negotiations. Lavrov has made that crystal clear.
Now that logically should mean that this Typhoon jets idea will never see the light of day. But I would not be surprised if at some point Zelensky and Starmer come to an agreement by themselves, cutting out the Russians for something like this to happen. And if we then get a situation, where despite Russian opposition, British fighter jets start patrolling Ukrainian skies, trying to impose some kind of no fly zone. Well, the Russians will shoot aircraft down and quite plausibly they will do what they have warned they have they would do before ,which is that they would launch attacks on the bases in Poland from which the British jets would be operating. And with the Oreshnica Missiles that are now coming off the production lines from midsummer, the Russians will be able to do that. so this is the British, I suspect actually the ground plan that they’re preparing, they would say to the Americans, ‘look, we understand that you are not giving a backstop or guarantees for peacekeeping forces from NATO in Ukraine. You said that you will not be part of that but the Russians are now attacking NATO bases in Poland. Those are covered by Article 5. So you must act, you must get into direct confrontation with the Russians to prevent that happening’.
So that is the trap that has been laid for the Americans. Again, not so different from the trap that Macron was trying to lay for the Americans last year when he was talking about sending French troops to Ukraine. I hope the Americans are aware of all of this. And when Starmer comes to Washington and presents these ideas to them, the Americans should say an absolute clear no.”
Read; Trump Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ Who Has Done a ‘Terrible Job’ Scheerpost, 20 February 2025
‘On Wednesday, President Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” who has done a “terrible job” as the two leaders are trading barbs amid renewed US diplomacy with Russia.
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the US and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The post came after Zelensky said Trump was living in a “disinformation space” in response to his criticism of Ukraine not holding elections and for not reaching a deal with Russia earlier in the war or before the invasion. “I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,” Zelensky said.
Trump also brought up the lack of elections in Ukraine in his post on Truth Social. “On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is ‘MISSING.’ He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle.’ A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” he said.
Trump said his administration was currently “successfully negotiating an end” to the war in Ukraine. US and Russian officials agreed on Tuesday during talks in Saudi Arabia to work to normalize diplomatic relations and toward an end to the war.
“Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues,” Trump said.’
Watch; War party meets in Paris, The Duran 18 February 2025
Alexander Mercouris; “Shocked and horrified they see project Ukraine collapsing, they see the Americans and the Russians preparing to come together and to reach not just understandings about Ukraine with each other but understandings on many other matters also, and they’re saying to each other we’ve got to stop this, we’ve got to stop this process in its tracks before it develops, we’ve got to come up with all kinds of ideas that are going to wreck negotiations that peacekeepers, NATO membership for Ukraine, more sanctions, I’ve heard reports of stories about war crimes tribunals to prosecute Putin himself, all of this sort of thing is going to be pushed by the Europeans with even more frenetic energy over the the next couple of weeks, for one purpose ultimately, to prevent these talks, these negotiations taking place, and the concern is not just Ukraine and keeping the war going and keeping project Ukraine going, but to prevent the Americans and the Russians coming to an understanding, an understanding which might make it possible for the Americans to leave, because this is to leave Europe, because this is the ultimate European nightmare”
“They’ve always been able to to say to themselves and to others we have the Americans behind us, so because the United States is a great power, because recently it was the American hyperpower during the unipolar moment, it meant that British foreign secretaries and French foreign ministers were able to stride around the world pretending that they were important and at the same time being treated by third parties in Riyadh and Beijing and wherever as if they actually were important. Now the Americans are going or at least they say they want to go and that whole pretense is going to be pulled away, and if the Americans do go the world will see Britain, France, Germany as what they really are: exhausted, middle rank countries.”
Watch; The lights are going out all over Europe George Galloway, 17 February 2025
“Foreign Napoleon Emmanuel Macron has called a summit of the ‘important’ EU leaders in Paris tomorrow. The fallout continues from the extraordinary performance of the US Vice President J.D. Vance, who slayed them all in his speech in Munich. He slayed them on multiple levels. He told them to stop complaining about Russia and China. Your main enemy is at home, he said. Your leaders who have destroyed the European spirit, who have destroyed European civilisation, who have destroyed freedom of speech and destroyed democracy. You are European, your own worst enemies, said J.D. Vance, and how right he was. The people of Europe were cheering from the rafters, but the leaders of Europe went into what can only be described as a collective nervous breakdown.
And perhaps particularly worst of all, as you might have expected, was Keir Starmer, the sub-Churchillian mutt who runs the United Kingdom. I say runs, but the only thing that’s running in the United Kingdom is us running into the ground. The only person less popular on the entire European electoral and political stage would be Macron and Schultz. But between the three of them, they could barely muster 30% of public opinion behind them. And that’s all three of them put together. The truth is that Keir Starmer’s vainglorious pledge that Britain will ensure that Ukraine joins NATO after the leader and mainstay of NATO, the United States, has declared that Ukraine will never join NATO is an indication that Keir Starmer has taken leave of his senses.
He has declared war not only on Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation, but Donald Trump and the United States of America. This, in a country rapidly going bankrupt. This, in a country facing an almighty recession. This, in a country whose old people are shivering through a cold winter without even the minimal benefit of the cold weather allowance that they were formerly paid, which was axed to give the entire money and more to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Everybody now knows that the United States is on its way out of Europe. And the cacophony of complaints from European leaders almost took the form of a European uprising against American hegemony. I’ve been waiting for it all of my life. The only problem is the Europeans are wrong and the Americans are right.
The idea that Russia can be defeated by Ukraine was always a blatant self-serving lie. Yet every politician in Western countries and every journalist and broadcaster repeated that lie ad nauseam, almost as if they themselves believed it. And maybe they did. That’s the class of journalists and broadcasters and politicians that we have in our countries today. But the anti-American uprising is an uprising in favour of more and more and more war. The anti-American uprising in Europe today is an uprising against peace. Can you believe it?
Trump went on to say he had proposed in his phone call to Putin, a cut in the nuclear arsenals of America, Russia and China of 50%. Did you see CND celebrating? Did you see Stop the War waving their flags? Did you see anybody recognisably on the centre left or from the old peace movement as it was called? Did you see any of them hail Trump’s idea? Trump said that he wanted new agreements, new treaties, a cut of 50% in nuclear weapons and significant drawdown in forces on both sides of the divide in Europe. What’s wrong with that? How could anybody be against that?
Well, they are against it all over Europe. They’re holding a summit in Paris tomorrow to try and block it, but they cannot block it because as again, as I’ve said to you so often, the European Union and Britain are in exactly the same place as Mussolini used to be in the 1930s, going around the world threatening people with Germany’s army. We go around the world threatening people with America’s army, but America’s army isn’t coming. In fact, it’s leaving the European theatre. Hallelujah.. Isn’t that a wonderful thing?”
Watch; Full Speech: JD Vance Shames Europe Leaders To Their Faces, Leaves Room Stunned| Munich| USA| Trump Hindustan Times, 15 February 2025
“This conference is to discuss security. And normally we mean threats to our external security. I see many great military leaders gathered here today, but while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defence. The threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany, too.
I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of quote combating misogyny on the Internet. A day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I’m quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British Government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 metres from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the Government’s new buffer zones law which criminalises silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision when within 200 metres of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.
Where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so called misinformation, misinformation like for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China, our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. So I come here today, not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds. So the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope that we can work together on that in Washington. There is a new sheriff in town and under Donald Trump’s leadership. We may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square. Agree or disagree, this is how to get in shape fast.
Now, we’re at the point where the situation has gotten so bad that this December Romania straight up cancelled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbours. Now, as I understand it, the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections. But I’d ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage, even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.”
Listen; NATO’s Next Puppet? Rumours Swirl Over Zelenskyy’s Potential Replacement UK Column News, 7 February 2025
Mike Robinson; “This is from the Russian intelligence agencies through a media release. Let’s do a quick translation of it. It says; ‘ NATO members are preparing a campaign to discredit Zelensky’. So this is the 3rd of February. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service published this press release stating that they quote, ‘according to information received by the SVR, NATO headquarters is increasingly thinking about a change of power in Ukraine’. They’re saying that ‘NATO at all costs wants to maintain what remains of Ukraine as an anti Russian enclave’. And they want to, quote,’ freeze the conflict by bringing everyone to the table for what the Russians claim NATO is calling the beginning of a settlement.’
So Russia claims NATO views the only impediment to this scenario is Zelensky himself. And they say that ‘NATO wants him gone’. And, and they’re saying ‘in the run up to the election campaign, NATO headquarters is preparing a large-scale operation to discredit Zelensky’. One of the things they say that’ NATO will eventually release is Zelensky and his close associates have misappropriated $1.5 billion that was intended to be used to buy ammunition for the war’. And the Russians are also saying that ‘NATO will reveal that Zelensky and his crew will have withdrawn the salaries of 130,000 dead Ukrainian servicemen to foreign bank accounts by listing them as alive, when in fact they were already dead’. Now, around the same time that the Russians published that press release, Politico carried this article reporting that ‘Russia was getting behind US calls for an election in Ukraine. So suddenly the US is calling for elections in Ukraine, which seems to fit with what the Russians were saying in that press release. And this call was made by US Special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg.
In most democracies, elections taking place even during wartime. I think it’s important. I believe it’s good for democracy. The beauty of a strong democracy is having more than one potential candidate. So Politico quotes voters as saying that Kellogg and other White House officials have floated the idea of ‘pushing Ukraine to agree to elections as part of an initial truce with Russia’. But Politico is also reporting that Ukraine currently can’t hold legal elections because the constitution doesn’t allow elections during wartime and while Ukraine is under martial law. And Zelenskyy put martial law in place at the time the Russian special operation began.
But even Zelenskyy’s political rivals are apparently against the idea, at least according to the Kiev Post. And who do you think they quote? Well, no one other than Petro Poroshenko. So do you think he means it, Patrick?”
Patrick Henningsen; “Absolutely not. So what? Petro Poroshenko is such a political animal, so what he’s doing is very clever. To the Ukrainian audience, he’s saying, basically, ‘no, we don’t want elections’. Because if he says, we want elections, the Azov battalions and the Nazi factions will absolutely flatten him, possibly even chase him out of the country or kill him. Okay, so to the international audience, Poroshenko is basically saying that we will not negotiate with the Russians and there will be no peace until we recover all of our territory, including Crimea, 1991 borders. So he’s talking to the British government and to Washington. So externally, he’s putting himself out as a candidate for the election, a hardliner that is not going to take anything from the Russians. You see how clever. Petro Poroshenko has turned into quite a skilled politician over the years.”
Watch; It’s official: Elon Musk says US politicians are receiving “kickbacks” from Ukraine funding WallStreetApes, 19 February 2025
Matt Gaetz; “I think that the reason we are as involved in Ukraine as we are is because Afghanistan wound down. If we still had Afghanistan to launder money through, there probably wouldn’t be the need for this type of excessive involvement in Ukraine. But I think we can look at Afghanistan and we can look at what’s going on here and say, what a lot of these defence contractors are pushing toward is how to have an extended kind of low yield war. Like if there’s a way to stretch this thing out, turn it into a 20, 30 year kind of thing where there’s a whole lot of money moving around and unaccountable pots and a lot of weapons getting bought and then all the stockpiles well we got to spend more money to reload those”
American Wars are looking for Longterm Unaccountable Money Laundering. US Politicians take their kickbacks from their lobbyists and through scams like FTX (collapsed cryptocurrency) to keep the taxpayer money laundering going.”
Jens Stolenburg, head of NATO, admitted in 2023 that the war in Ukraine started in 2014 when the CIA and the State Department, with help from the UK, activated the Maidan coup to overthrow the elected government of Victor Yanukovych and to replace him with a pro-western stooge. Once again, criminal activities by western agents result in another tragic, avoidable and pointless war.
Watch; You’re fired The Grayzone Live, Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Maté, 22 February 2025
“War was inevitable. I’ve been warning about this since 2014. I’m one of those few Americans who saw this coming from my little corner of the Internet. But you know who else said the war started in 2014? Not John Mearsheimer. It’s not Jeffrey Sachs or any of our friends that are on Judge Napolitano, it was Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO in 2013. “The war started in 2014. And since 2014, NATO allies have provided support to Ukraine with training, with equipment. So Ukrainian armed forces were much stronger in 2022 than they were in 2020, in 2014. And that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine.”
Obviously Stoltenberg is speaking from an alternate opposite angle to Trump, but there he is. He’s saying the war started in 2014. The war started with the Maidan coup and which led to the annexation of Crimea, because which country is going to allow a hostile foreign power in Washington to control the government and hand selected, as Victoria Nuland in the Obama administration was doing in Ukraine and then deprive a whole part of the population in the east, the Russophone population, of their national rights? They’re not going to allow it to happen. Crimea was annexed and that really was the beginning of the war. And then Ukraine was aggressively NATOized, which made the full scale war inevitable. So Trump landed on a very forbidden truth, which I think is the essential truth that Americans need to understand to know why this war needs to be ended and that the US has all the power to do it.
“He went to war to prevent more NATO across his borders”. That’s from Jens Stoltenberg, not from Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. And basically saying the same thing now and abandoning that policy of trying to expand NATO into Ukraine. He’s now being pilloried for just saying out loud what everyone has been denying for so long, even though people like Jens Stoltenberg admitted it, that that’s what this war is about. And the freak out. I’ve got to say, it’s pretty wonderful to see because these are people who have pushed not just, a policy that has threatened the world, because we’re talking about tensions between the world’s top nuclear powers, but has destroyed Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. It’s not Ukrainian society across the board that feels the impact. It’s lower class Ukrainians who are dying on the battlefield, who are being pulled into these vans by Ukrainian military kidnappers basically, to go fight off and die. People who can afford it, can afford to flee the country or bribe their way out of being enlisted. So for the sake of Western proxy warriors, young Ukrainians from the lower classes have been dying. And if Donald Trump puts an end to that, that’s a wonderful thing.
Zelensky has been acting dictatorial since well before Russia invaded. So this is, for example, a headline from February 2021. ‘A year before Russia invaded, Ukraine shuts TV channels it accuses of spreading Russian disinformation’. And that was when Zelensky, again, a year before Russia invaded, shut down three television networks that were linked to political rival Medvedchuk, who was close to Putin.
And what this sent, this sent the message to ethnic Russians inside Ukraine and to Moscow that basically Zelensky was going to cut off the ethnic Russian component of Ukraine to the point where he wasn’t going to allow their TV networks to exist. And the US sent the message that it was on board with this because it cheered what Ukraine did, what lens he did. This is February 2021. The US supports Ukraine’s efforts to counter Russia’s malign influence in line with Ukrainian law in defence of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Okay, so speaking of sovereignty, this crackdown on free speech, the shutting down of three opposition TV networks, this was not done just with Zelensky acting on his own volition. Zelensky’s aide later admitted to Time magazine that this was, quote, ‘a welcome gift to the Biden administration.’ This is from Simon Schuster, who is basically embedded with the Zelensky team. He wrote a whole book about Zelensky called the Showman. And this is what Schuster writes. This is from February 2022. ‘Shutting down these TV networks, quote, was also conceived as a welcome gift to the Biden administration, which had made the fight against international corruption a pillar of its foreign policy.’ As one Zelensky aide put it, that the decision to go after Putin’s friend Medvedchuk, who was tied to these TV networks, was calculated to fit in with the US agenda. And that’s why the US cheered Zelensky shutting down these TV networks, because the US, the Biden administration, wanted Zelensky to crack down on his opposition because at the time, Medvedchuk, who’s close to Putin, was actually in some polls leading Zelensky, and they didn’t want to have Medvedchuk’s TV stations on the air. And so. But Russia took this as basically a sign that Zelensky had no interest in basically allowing the ethnic Russian component of Ukraine, which is sizable, concentrated in the east, to exist.
It’s so disgusting to see the way that he and his party are portrayed in US media. It’s as if they’re just this Russian foreign implant. When Ukraine was constructed as a country like many other countries, it’s an invented country like so many countries that had like 35 to 40% of the population with deep ties to Russia on their border that spoke Russian. Then you have in the west the population of Galicia and Carpathia from Lviv who embody the Ukrainian nationalism that has dominated the government since the Maidan coup and which denied national rights to 35 to 40% of the whole population. If you look back at the past Ukrainian election, see who voted for Medvedchuk and who voted for the nationalist candidate. It was the last Ukrainian election before Maidan. What was it, 2011, that tells you what kind of country Ukraine is and it sets the stage for a kind of civil war.
And that’s what was happening in the Donbas when Russia intervened. This war was really about the Donbas. It wasn’t about taking over Ukraine and then moving on to Poland and the Baltic states and the West. The West couldn’t understand that. But the West was complicit if not actively involved in the denial of rights to an entire like, almost half of the Ukrainian population, starting with its leadership, Medvedchuk, who after having his TV stations banned was captured and tortured by the Ukrainian SBU. He’s now in Russia thanks to a prisoner exchange deal. This is part of the truth that Trump landed on when he accused Zelensky of being a dictator. Zelensky effectively is a western backed dictator at this point and like so many other western backed dictators he could pay the ultimate price. Saddam Hussein backed by the CIA and the Reagan administration against Iran. Manuel Noriega, former CIA asset backed by Carter, CIA taken out by George H.W. Bush who and whose son took out Saddam Hussein. I mean there are so many of these western puppets who paid the ultimate price..
Americans are waking up from the war propaganda. They’re not going to do it. And Zelensky expected them to do this indefinitely. Without the US he’s nothing. So here’s Zelensky’s response to Donald Trump. He accuses him of living in a disinformation space a day after the President accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. So now Zelensky has basically turned into a counter disinformation researcher, and he’s trying to fact check Trump, which is one of the most fruitless activities ever. It’s like the CNN fact checker who comes in anytime Trump lies. So it really seems to be coming to a crashing end. I don’t know how much longer I’ll give Zelensky to remain in power. But there’s also the threat of the ultra-nationalists or the neo-Nazis in Ukraine who will blame Zelensky for this loss, accuse him of stabbing them in the back if he does negotiate, which he may just have to do and that could further destabilise Ukraine.
He’s faced their threats all along and even one powerful leader threatened to kill him, he said that Zelensky would hang from a tree if he made peace with Russia and implemented the Minsk Accords. This was before Russia invaded. So Zelensky, he’s not just a sellout, corrupt, a sellout to the US. He’s also been boxed in by genuine threats to his life. Literally that was the threat that he will lose his life if he makes peace with Russia and implements the Minsk Accords. I’d be curious to find out one day. Did the US encourage Zelensky to increase the shelling of the Donbas right before Russia invaded three years ago? Pretty much to the day. Three years ago today, Zelensky’s government massively increased shelling of the Donbas. Zelensky did start the war by massively violating the ceasefire in Ukraine according to OSCE before Russia invaded.
If we look at the map of violations tracked by the OSCE which was monitoring situation on the ground and in the days before the amount of shelling coming from the government side to the Donbas side was just massive and the bulk of the shelling was happening, was falling on the Donbas side, meaning it came from the government controlled territory. And that happened right before Russia invaded. This is at the peak of tensions. This is as also Zelensky simultaneously saying that we’re not going to implement the Minsk accords and refusing to rule out NATO membership even though Germany and France tried at the last minute to get Zelensky to do that. So Zelensky refuses to rule out NATO, he increases shelling of the Donbas. He’s at the Munich Security Conference talking about reacquiring nuclear weapons. And his top aides are saying we’re never going to implement the Minsk Accords because it’s effectively surrender to Russia.
But the overall thrust that Russia was provoked massively and that were the U.S. in Russia’s position. the only difference is the U.S. would have gone to war long before Russia did, long before Russia did. And the Minsk Accords were basically a compromise between all sides. The Minsk Accords are basically Russia accepting a coup government in Ukraine that the US had helped install.
And what Russia was saying is, okay, fine, if you’re going to have a coup government and if you’re going to have a government that is now effectively run by the US where Joe Biden can get your top prosecutor fired if he wants to, and have his son get a fancy gas company board seat. And where American advisors are embedded inside the US inside the Ukrainian government basically telling Ukrainian officials what to do, which was what was going on, then fine, we’re going to have a say in Ukraine as well, and that’s going to come through. You’re going to recognise the autonomy of the Donbas, grant ethnic Russians their rights, and through that, you’re not going to be able to join NATO because the Donbas will effectively have autonomy over that. It was a compromise, just like declaring neutrality in a divided country is a compromise. So we’re not going to join NATO, but we’re also not going to join a Russian led military bloc. That’s what you do in deeply divided countries, if you’re sensible. You don’t want to have conflict. What the US did because they saw an opportunity is they exploited that divide to their advantage, and in the process Ukraine’s been left destroyed and now Zelensky is being thrown under the bus, as was always going to happen once he became expendable.
The issue of why the British are so fanatical about this proxy war I think differs from the rest of Europe. But overall, the kind of transatlantic pro NATO faction in Europe will completely lose credibility if they lose. And there’s a negotiation here. And the populist, populist right, since the populist left has been killed by the pro NATO faction over the past decades, will gain power and gain steam and will gain credibility. That’s one principal fear. The domestic reaction will be strong. They’ll have to take in more Ukrainian migrants. After denying Ukraine EU membership, Russia may seek the over $350 billion of assets stolen from it and stolen from its own citizens by Europe just basically pillaged and given to Ukraine. It could seek it through legal action and NATO will have been stymied. So it goes back to the issue of sovereignty. European countries will seek sovereignty instead of depending on the protective umbrella of NATO, which has been exposed fully by the Trump administration is nothing more than a cat’s paw for American hard power and a cypher for defence industry profits. And then there’s the gravy train. The gravy train will dry up. Where will it go next? Afghanistan was a major gravy train, a major money laundering operation. Money went through Afghanistan, didn’t stay there, went back to the arms industry, went back to tech contractors.
Same thing was happening in Ukraine. When that comes to an end a lot of transatlantic elites will be hurt by that. So I’m just hitting on a few reasons, but I think this is one of the key questions is; what are they so afraid of? And then there’s the hysterical ideological perspective of Democrats, that Putin actually wants to take over the world and create this authoritarian ultra conservative Christian orthodox global patriarchate and ban gay pride parades and things like that. He’ll collaborate with Trump to take over the world and maybe divide it up with China. That’s their fear, and beyond that, the real fear of a multipolar world.”
Wikipedia; Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development. I don’t understand why there are so few enlightened, peace loving people like him in positions of power.
Watch; Jeffrey Sachs Roaring Ukraine Speech At EU Parliament; Blasts U.S., Says ‘Not Putin’s Puppet’ Times of India, 24 February 2025
“I believe if the world looked more like Europe, it’d be a happier, more peaceful, safer world with longevity ……and better food, by the way. Europe has a tradition that is rather different from the American tradition and frankly from the Anglo Saxon tradition, because it’s been 200 years of Anglo Saxon hegemony, or aspirational hegemony. The British still believe they run the world. It’s amazing what nostalgia means. It’s almost like a Monty Python skit. I’m thinking of Monty Python when the knight gets all his limbs cut off and says everything’s fine, I’m victorious.
We could do so many wonderful things right now. And so what do we need to do? In my view, we need peace. Most importantly, and my basic point is, there are no deep reasons for conflict anywhere, as every conflict I study is just a mistake. We are not struggling for Lebensraum. That idea that came from Malthus and that became a Nazi idea was always a wrong idea. It was a mistake. A fundamental intellectual mistake. An intellectual mistake, by the way, because leading scientists adopted the idea that we had race wars, we had national wars, we had wars of survival because we don’t have enough on the planet. As an economist, I can tell you we have plenty on the planet for everybody’s development. Plenty. We’re not in a conflict with China, we’re not in a conflict with Russia. If we calm down. If you ask about the long term, the long term is very good, thank you, if we don’t blow ourselves up, is very good. And so this is what we should aim for, a positive shared vision.”
Read; Trump’s diplomacy won’t bring peace European hawks are escalating tensions Thomas Fazi, UnHerd, 13 February 2025
‘So now we know. Washington is intent on decoupling from Europe and reconnecting with Russia. America’s stance was reaffirmed yesterday, in Brussels, by the newly minted Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was there primarily to discuss the Ukraine conflict. We already knew the top lines: Nato membership for Ukraine is “unrealistic”, he said, and the war “must end” through diplomacy. Kyiv must abandon aspirations of reclaiming pre-2014 borders — that includes Crimea — and prepare for a negotiated settlement with Russia.
But Hegseth’s message extended beyond Ukraine. “Stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe,” he continued, stating that European forces should assume responsibility for providing post-war security guarantees for Ukraine, explicitly ruling out US troop involvement. This aligns with Trump’s broader push for Nato allies to increase their defence spending. He clarified that these troops would not be part of a Nato-led mission and would not be covered under the alliance’s Article 5 guarantee, underscoring America’s disengagement from European security affairs.
While these statements didn’t come as much of a surprise to European leaders, given Trump’s previous rhetoric, they did reinforce a fundamental shift in US Ukraine policy, one which prioritises diplomacy over continued military engagement. While this represents a welcome departure from Biden’s more confrontational stance, the path to peace remains fraught with obstacles.
Beyond the EU, the UK is equally belligerent and is doubling down on its military support for Ukraine. On January 16, Starmer signed a bilateral defence partnership in Kyiv, pledging an additional £3 billion in annual military aid, on top of the £12.8 billion already provided. The deal also reaffirms Britain’s backing for Ukraine’s Nato membership.
Underlying this growing military buildup is the belief that Russia poses an existential threat to Europe, despite Moscow lacking both the capability and intent to attack Nato. What might be dismissed as European posturing in response to US disengagement actually represents a significant obstacle to peace. As long as European leaders continue to escalate militarily, the chances of a diplomatic resolution to the Ukraine war diminish.’
Zionism is a Colonial State Project/Gaza, Syria, Lebanon & Iran
A thorough update on the ceasefire, hostage exchanges and western media misrepresenting the facts.
Read; Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide Jonathan Cook, 26 February 2025
‘Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable.’
‘Israel sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass rape, for which no evidence has ever been produced. Conversely, it played down its own, even graver war crimes in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel. With Hamas’ October 2023 crimes ever-more distant in the rear-view mirror, and Israeli crimes still all too visible in Gaza’s complete destruction – amounting to a “plausible” genocide, according to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – Israeli leaders have been desperately trying to shift attention to a fresh narrative battleground.
They need a new set of lies to justify resuming the slaughter. And as ever, the western establishment media are actively assisting. Both Hamas and Israel are playing a predictable propaganda game, using the regular exchanges of Israeli and Palestinian hostages in the ceasefire’s first phase to seize the moral high ground.
Israel once again has all the cards, care of rock-solid western support, and yet once again it is failing to win the public relations war.
Which explains why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw another of his temper tantrums at the weekend, this time blaming Hamas for stage-managing the release of Israelis in what he called “demeaning” and “humiliating ceremonies”.
Israel and its supporters were particularly incensed, it seems, by one of the captives, released on Saturday, beaming on stage as he warmly kissed two of his captors on the forehead.
On his walk to the handover with Red Cross staff, he put his arm around one of the captors’ shoulders in another moment of apparent affection.
Two other Israelis – up for release in the next round – were filmed watching from a car nearby, excited at the prospect of freedom and pleading with Netanyahu not to sabotage their release.
Blow up ceasefire
Predictably, western media, including the BBC, echoed Israel in suggesting these were somehow far more serious violations than Israel killing over 130 Palestinians since 19 January, when the ceasefire began, in hundreds of attacks on Gaza.
The media have similarly given fleeting coverage to Israel’s new wave of destruction, this time in the Occupied West Bank. Thousands of homes have been demolished, ethnically cleansing entire communities. Western outlets have signally failed to note that these war crimes are also gross violations of the ceasefire agreement. Now Netanyahu has exploited the apparent cosy relations between some of the Israeli captives and Hamas as a pretext to blow up the ceasefire before the second phase can begin next week. That is when Israel is expected to fully withdraw from Gaza and allow its reconstruction.
Buses carrying hundreds of Palestinian hostages due for release on Saturday were forced to turn back, returning them to their prisons. Even according to Israel’s own assessments, the vast majority of these Palestinians have not been “involved in combat”. Many, including medical personnel, were seized off Gaza’s streets following the 7 October Hamas attack. They have been held without charge, tortured and subjected to barbaric conditions that Israeli human rights groups have compared to “hell”.
Genocidal slogans
It would be nice to imagine that Israel and its supporters were genuinely concerned that, in parading its captives in public, Hamas had violated their rights to dignity under international humanitarian law. But don’t be fooled – or foolish. Even before Israel reneged on the hostage exchange, it had vowed that Palestinians would be subjected to their own forms of degrading treatment. They would be forced to wear T-shirts emblazoned with slogans supporting Israel’s genocidal actions against the people of Gaza. And Israel’s supporters appeared none too concerned about the sensitivities of the 600 Palestinian hostages due for release on Saturday whose buses returned them to their torture camps in Israel just as they could scent freedom. But in any case, Israel’s own hostages have been a low priority for Netanyahu from the outset.
If Israel really cared so much about them, it would not have carpet-bombed Gaza for 15 months. Instead it would have grabbed the chance for a ceasefire and prisoner swap not last month – as it was forced to do under heavy pressure from incoming US President Donald Trump – but last May, when it was offered a deal on exactly the same terms.
If Israel cared so much for the captives, it would not have used US-supplied, 2,000lb bunker-buster bombs that not only destroyed huge swaths of Gaza indiscriminately but flooded the tunnels where many of the Israelis were being held with toxic gases.
If Israel cared so much for the captives, it would not have set up undeclared “kill zones” across Gaza, where Israeli soldiers shot anyone and anything that moved.
Three shirtless Israelis waving white flags of surrender were gunned down by Israeli troops in precisely such circumstances in December 2023.
Doing as it pleases
The Israeli captives are useful to Netanyahu and his slimy apologists only in so far as they help prop up a narrative that justifies genocide. Cornered by Trump, the Israeli prime minister had calculated that securing the return of at least some of them was the price he had to pay – to placate the new US president and much of his own public – before he could resume the mass murder of Gaza’s children. He has repeatedly made clear that he has no intention of moving towards a permanent ceasefire after phase one, the main prisoner exchanges. For Netanyahu, the importance of the Israeli captives is solely in providing him with a route back to the genocide. Hamas, on the other hand, has every incentive to use the small window provided by the release of the captives to suggest it is not the bogeyman of Israeli-engineered and western-enforced dogma. It hopes its carefully managed releases show how much it is still in charge of Gaza, despite Israel’s destructive rampage. And Hamas has reason to cultivate reasonable relations with the Israeli captives – not least to soften its image with foreign publics, and make it harder for Netanyahu to return to the genocide.
Israel has no such reciprocal incentive. As the far stronger party – one that, even before 7 October 2023, had been holding the entire population of Gaza hostage through a 17-year siege of the enclave – it can do as it pleases, secure in the knowledge that its claims will never be subjected to proper scrutiny by the western media. Freed Palestinian prisoners testifying to their torture, sexual assault and rape – confirmed by international human rights monitors – have been simply ignored.
‘Stockholm syndrome’
Despite the odds being stacked in Israel’s favour, the differential realities are so stark that Israel is losing the propaganda war, nonetheless. Which is why Netanyahu has no interest in continuing the prisoner exchanges a day longer than he is required to. The problem is that the captives released by Hamas are mostly not helping his cause. They are hindering it. There was brief relief from Israel’s genocide apologists – noisily echoed by the western media – that one group of Israeli hostages released earlier this month looked nearly as pale and emaciated as the hundreds of Palestinian hostages released by Israel. There was wall-to-wall outrage at the condition of this small group of Israelis, when there has been utter indifference to the even more wretched condition of freed Palestinians. But in most cases, the released Israelis have looked reasonably healthy, especially given that Israel has been denying the entry of food and water into Gaza for 15 months and that most of the captives have had to be held deep underground to keep them safe from the Israeli bombing campaigns that have levelled almost all of Gaza.
Of even more concern to Israel, however, the captives have emerged mostly looking relaxed around their captors. On the defensive, Israel’s supporters have dismissed these scenes as staged for the cameras or argued that the captives are suffering from severe “Stockholm syndrome” – a psychological condition in which hostages are said to identify with their captors. Possible though this may be, it is difficult not to ponder why we have seen no Palestinian captives looking or sounding similarly affectionate towards their Israeli prison guards.
‘Little time left’
However western publics weigh the evidence before their eyes, it offers little in the way of succour for Israel. These scenes between Hamas and the captives are hard to square with the still-dominant, and evidence-free, narrative presented by Israel – and recycled by western establishments – that Hamas are barbarians who behead babies and conduct mass rape. In reducing Hamas simply to monsters, Israel’s goal was to dehumanise the entire population of Gaza – to justify its genocidal crimes. And yet the scenes of the captives demonstrating a human connection to their Hamas captors make that idea harder to sustain.
If Hamas might not be quite as evil as western publics have been led to believe – if its members’ behaviour might be no worse than, or even better than, that of Israel’s soldiers and prison guards – what does that say about the reliability of western media coverage of the preceding 15 months of genocide? And even more to the point, what does it say of our own western barbarism that our elected leaders have so casually accepted the murder of many tens of thousands – and possibly hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in supposed revenge for Hamas’ 2023 attack? What are we to make of Israel’s claim to the moral high ground when its leaders have explicitly declared their genocidal intent towards Gaza’s children – telling us the entire population is implicated in Hamas’ attack and are therefore legitimate targets? What moral high ground can Israel occupy when, even during a supposed ceasefire, it has violated the terms of the agreement more than 250 times and refused to actually cease fire? What moral high ground is Israel occupying when it drops notices over Gaza, as it did last week, restating its genocidal intent if Palestinians there fail to submit to Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse the entire population?
The leaflet, issued by the “Israeli Security Agency”, warns: “If all the people of Gaza cease to exist… No one will feel for you, and no one will ask about you… There is little time left – the game is almost over.” It ends by urging Palestinians to collaborate: “Whoever wishes to save themselves before it is too late, we are here, remaining until the end of time.”
Racist calculus
Similarly, Israel has been seeking to exploit high emotions over the deaths in Gaza of the Bibas family – an Israeli mother and her two small children taken hostage on 7 October – by engaging in wholesale disinformation. After their bodies were returned at the weekend, Israel immediately claimed that they had been killed by their captors – in their case, not Hamas but a criminal gang, known as Lords of the Desert, that seized the family after also managing to break out of Gaza in October 2023. Let us assume for a moment that Israel’s story of the family’s murder “in cold blood” is factually correct. Whereas it might be understandable – if monstrous nationalism – for Israelis to care more about those three deaths than the slaughter and maiming by the Israeli military of tens of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza, why are western politicians and media adopting the same racist calculus? Why are the deaths of three Israeli innocents so much more significant, so much more newsworthy, so much more painful than the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian innocents?
But in fact, there are very good reasons to believe that Israel is lying once again, and that this is just a reheating of its “beheaded babies” fiction that originally whipped up the mood for genocide. The Bibas family were widely reported killed by Israeli carpet bombing in November 2023, early on in Israel’s genocide. Hamas offered to return their bodies – along with the still-alive father – shortly after their deaths. Entirely cynically, as pointed out by Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada, Israel rejected the offer so it could “deliberately pretend they were still alive and capitalize on the narrative of Palestinian ‘monsters’ holding a baby hostage”. Now the Bibas family’s suffering is being exploited by Israel and its supporters – aided by the media – to whip up support for a return to murdering Palestinian babies in cold blood. The likelihood is that the Bibas family, like many thousands of Palestinian families, were torn apart by US-supplied bombs. That might explain the initial mix-up of body parts that led to a Palestinian woman rather than Shiri Bibas, the mother, being returned to Israel before Hamas was able to correct the mistake. In a sign of how little credibility Israeli officials have on this matter, the surviving members of the Bibas family barred government ministers from attending the funerals on Tuesday.
Avalanche of complaints
The western media’s complicity in these all-too-obvious manipulations has been fully on show once again. An investigation by Declassified UK last week found staff from the BBC, Sky News, ITN, the Guardian and Times all testifying that Israeli propaganda “reigned supreme” at their outlets. Disgruntled staff at the Guardian had compiled a spreadsheet with a “mountain of examples” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda… or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”. A Sky journalist said the channel had imposed a whole set of unwritten rules that applied exclusively to coverage of Israel: “It’s a continuous battle to report the truth.” Any time Palestinians were humanised, or Israeli spokespeople scrutinised, the channel would face an “avalanche of phone calls and complaints”. Threats to withdraw Sky’s access to senior Israeli officials or to bar the channel’s correspondents from the region had the desired effect, impacting “what was and wasn’t said on air”. BBC staff once again spoke of a culture at the state broadcaster in which Palestinians were routinely dehumanised, in stark contrast to the treatment of Israelis. One of its journalists noted that “the use of the word genocide is effectively banned, and any contributor who uses this word is immediately shut down”. Which is the context for understanding the BBC’s decision at the weekend to remove a documentary on Gaza briefly available on its streaming service iplayer. Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, a largely child’s eye view of the destruction of Gaza, was the first effort by the state broadcaster to properly humanise Palestinians – a full 16 months after Israel began its “plausible” genocide. Watch it here.
Cowardly media
Pro-Israel groups, which have ghoulishly rationalised the slaughter of Gaza’s children every step of the way, were inevitably going to throw a hissy fit. And the BBC, equally predictably, was bound to cave at the slightest pressure. But even by the dismal standards of establishment media cowardice, this was a low. Pro-Israel lobbyists accused the BBC of supporting terrorism and peddling disinformation because the film’s main narrator, 14-year-old Abdullah, is the son of a Hamas government deputy minister. Ayman al-Yazouri is termed a “terrorist leader” in an official complaint to the BBC penned by 45 Jewish journalists and media executives.The lobby’s objections, however, are the real disinformation – depending on the central premise of Israeli-inspired, draconian UK legislation that conflates any relationship to Hamas, Gaza’s government, with terrorism. Israel has taken hundreds of medical personnel in Gaza captive, and then tortured them, on precisely the grounds that they are associated with terrorism because they work in public hospitals overseen by the Hamas administration.
Similarly, al-Yazouri, who studied his PhD in environmental chemistry at a UK university and then worked at the United Arab Emirates’ education ministry helping to devise its science curriculum, was recruited on his return to Gaza to the education and agriculture ministries. That was for his specialist skills, not because he is a member of Hamas.
His son Abdullah, who was educated at the one English-speaking school in Gaza, was presumably selected for no more sinister reason than that he was one of the few children in Gaza who could fluently narrate to BBC audiences in their native tongue.
In any case, Abdullah’s narration is entirely unremarkable: it simply introduces the characters as they struggle through a humanitarian catastrophe engineered by Israel that the audience can see for themselves on the screen.
Extraordinary pressures
The children whose stories are told – and have now been deleted – were selected for clearly journalistic reasons: because they are doing compelling things under extraordinary pressures, from becoming a superstar chef on Tiktok, despite an Israeli-imposed food blockade, to volunteering at a hospital to ferry those maimed in Israeli attacks from ambulances to waiting doctors. Otherwise, the documentary’s framing is entirely Israel-friendly: Hamas is cursed by a suffering population more than Israel; what the world’s highest court suspects is a genocide in Gaza is described simply as a “war”; and the Israelis taken captive by Hamas, even soldiers, are uniformly referred to as “hostages”.
The documentary poses a danger for Israel not because of its politics but because of its humanising of Gaza’s children, who have been slaughtered in such enormous numbers.
What pro-Israel lobby groups fear – apart from a final segment in which an ambulance crew is attacked by Israeli Apache helicopters – is any portrait of Palestinians that contradicts Israeli propaganda: that every person in Gaza, even the children, are terrorists who have brought death and destruction down on their own heads.
That is an argument that should resonate only with psychopaths. And yet our broadcasters accept it unquestioningly, as does the government of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Make no mistake: it is an argument justifying genocide. That is something western leaders and media ought to be working strenuously to avert. Instead they are helping craft a propaganda narrative that makes the resumption of genocide all but inevitable.’
Watch; Trump’s plan for Gaza Palestine Declassified, 22 February 2025
Chris Williamson; “But, Dan, I mean, surely Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is unworkable, isn’t it?”
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer; “Well, it’s not only unworkable but that plan is immoral, it’s illegal, and frankly, it’s likely to start a regional war, in particular between Israel and Egypt and possibly Israel and Jordan. It’s very dangerous, this plan, to empty Gaza of all of its people, which is ethnic cleansing and really it’s genocidal because it’s part of the overall genocidal plan, and to remove them to places like Egypt and Jordan and other places. It’s very apparent. Again, it’s illegal, it’s immoral, and, yeah, it’s unworkable. The people of Gaza are not going to leave. That’s their homeland. The only way that that could happen is through mass extermination and violence, which has to be opposed. So it’s an insane plan. If it is a real plan, I don’t know. Is it bluster? I don’t know if it is a real plan. It’s crazy.”
Chris Williamson; “Dan, I mean what do you expect for the West Bank then in the coming months?”
Dan Kovalik; “Well, sadly, I don’t expect good things to happen there. Bad things are happening right now. Mass expulsions of Palestinians, destruction of housing, killing of Palestinians, mass arrests. And sadly, I think that’s the order of the day. I think that that will continue into the foreseeable future, sadly.”
Chris Williamson; “Well, our next report highlights the extensive list of committed zionists who contributed to Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign fund.”
Palestine Declassified Report; “Looking down the list of funders for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, it’s very difficult to spot non-zionist sources of funds. Even the donors, who on the surface seem to be at least indifferent, are actually hardcore zionists when exposed to the most elementary level of investigation. For example, a key donor to his campaign was the Elliott Management investment firm. This organisation is the brainchild and instrument of its president, Paul E. Singer. He has not only funded the Birthright Israel project, but also the Israeli military and the Israel Independence Fund. He also is responsible for setting the Startup Nation Central initiative alongside key Netanyahu loyalists. The stated purpose of the organisation is to combat BDS by feeding big tech jobs into Israel, but also by feeding Israeli workers into big tech companies.
It is through organisations like Startup Nation Central that you have a huge mass of former Israeli intelligence agents working inside Google today. Another low profile source of zionist funds for the Trump campaign came from Book Capital Enterprises, founded by Robert H. Book. He is described in his biography at Access Capital as a major philanthropist in support of Israel and previously met Trump at the Alameinor Gala held by the staunch zionist website. Trump’s campaign for re election as president also received funds from the Primerica Insurance Company. The firm has a history of funding the Israeli spy agency, the ADL. The true extent of Trump’s loyalty to zionist expansion is yet to be fully revealed.”
Chris Williamson; “Now then, David, Paul E Singer was identified in that report as another key donor to Donald Trump. What do you know about him?”
David Miller; “This is yet another mega rich zionist American donor to Trump and to zionist causes. He has a foundation and he gives money to the friends of the Israel Defence Forces which does what it says on the tin, and to the ADL and to Birthright foundation which tries to convince young Jews that they have a birthright to steal Palestinian land, when of course there is no such right, so he’s a carbon copy of many of them in some respects, but in other respects he’s not. He’s also involved with this startup nation central thing, which is a really very interesting thing because it illustrates another aspect of the way in which zionism operates. So people think there’s the Israel lobby and they investigate and they try and pressure governments to change their policies. And that’s true. But there’s another aspect to what the zionists do, and this startup nation thing is a key example. They try and encourage Israeli tech startups in Israel and then to invest in the US and the UK and many others. There are hundreds of them involved in activity in the UK today. And so what that then does is it brings people from Unit 8200, the cyber surveillance intelligence agency of the Israeli state, into these tech companies. So you have tech companies, for example, in the US having huge ranges of people from Israeli intelligence working in the higher echelons of Twitter, X as it is now called, and Google and all the other tech companies. And you also have these tech companies investing directly in Israel so that they’re more and more invested in zionism. So that’s another way in which zionism infiltrates the social media companies in the high tech industry, which people don’t really understand.”
David Miller reel; 17 feb 2025
The idea that Turkey or Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or the Syrian National Army or any of the factions who have collapsed the Assad government will take on the Israeli is a fiction, is a fantasy, is a joke. Jellani has been saying that they will not take on Israel. And at the same time, they’ve allowed Israel to remove all the capability of Syria as a nation to defend itself. And of course, the so-called rebels have even been taking Syrian Arab army guns and giving them to the IDF for “destruction”. You couldn’t have more of an indication that these are collaborators with the Zionists and not enemies of the Zionists. They will never be enemies of the Zionists.
Jeffrey sachs reel ; 14 jan 2025
Netanyahu has a different idea. His idea is, we captured the Palestinian lands in 1967 and we’re never going to give them back. So we’re just going to rule over the Palestinians. He says we’re going to keep the land. There will be resistance, Hamas, Hezbollah, other militant resistance. What will we do about it? You can’t really fight the terrorists, he says, you have to fight the states that back the terrorists. Interestingly for Netanyahu, he lays out one by one. Iran is the central one in his mind. But so too is Iraq under Saddam, he supported Hamas. So too is Bashar Asad in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. And you know what the plan was? Seven wars in five years. The US using Israel, no, no, no. This is Israel using the US as if our military is in their hands, which in effect it is. You take Wolfowitz and you take Fyth and you take these neocons and you take Netanyahu, they game planned the whole thing out. Well, I regard Netanyahu as having been our greatest disastrous President of the 21st century. Because he ran American foreign policy for 20 years and he cost us trillions of dollars and where is the Middle East today? War in Syria, war in Lebanon, war in Palestine, unrest in Iraq, war in Yemen, chaos in Sudan, chaos in Somalia, chaos in Libya. Great job, Bebe. You did a terrific job.
Watch; Why is Starmer SPYING on Gaza ceasefire? Declassified UK 20 February 2025
‘The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all six days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other days of the ceasefire. The planes take off from Britain’s air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, and head in the direction of Gaza, when they turn their transponders off. Prior to the ceasefire, such flights were an almost daily occurrence with the UK government claiming they were helping Israel find hostages. Campaigners in Cyprus have questioned the UK government’s motives for the ongoing surveillance flights.
Melanie Steliou, a Cypriot actress and activist, told Declassified: “The explanation given that the flights being sent from RAF Akrotiri are only for rescuing hostages is not convincing. “Why are these flights being continued during a ceasefire? Why are these flights near Gaza during hostage releases? What intelligence is RAF Akrotiri sharing with Israel?”
A spokesperson for Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Declassified: “The UK’s operational mandate has been narrowly defined to focus on securing the release of the hostages only.” They claimed that RAF flights in the Eastern Mediterranean during the truce “did not enter Gazan airspace and at all times operated in accordance with the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas”.
Read more by Mark Curtis and Phil Miller: IS THE UK SPYING ON HAMAS FOR ISRAEL?’
Listen; With Crisis Comes Opportunity – A New Regional Order in the Middle East; Vanessa Beeley; UK Column News, 19 February 2025
“This is newly formed, since October 7, The Coalition for Regional Security, and basically this was established about a year after October 7th and represents a wide and diverse group of public figures and opinion leaders in the security, diplomacy, business, high tech and research field who joined together to ensure the security of the State of Israel through the promotion of the Abraham Shield plan.”
“This document is quite shocking in how clearly it lays out the plans of the Abraham Alliance, which is headed by the US and Israel. And clearly Trump has been brought in to carry this plan through. So the state of Israel has been dealing with seven different fronts that form the Iranian, no other, (no one else has any problem with the state of Israel in the region at all!), the Iranian ring of fire that seeks to destroy Israel. Moving on, we have also the New Regional Order and this is why Iran turned Gaza into Hamas, southern Lebanon into Hezbollah, Stan built militias in Iraq and Syria and strengthened the Houthis, aka Ansar Allah in Yemen. That is why Iran is trying to infiltrate Jordan, the West bank and Egypt.’ And I’ve paraphrased a little bit there, ‘while at the same time implementing its nuclear programme.’ So this is the nub of the matter. It’s always been the biggest problem for Israel that Iran may develop some kind of nuclear capability, while Israel has clandestinely been producing its own nuclear capability for decades without the knowledge even of the United States. So if we actually go through the plan itself, as I said, it lays it out very clearly. This is part one, those six steps to the plan; closing the front in Gaza, which is very much what we said when Trump was elected, when the so-called ceasefire was brought in, it was very clear that that was the closing of this file and pivot to the next stage. Returning all hostages, establishing a technocratic transitional government in Gaza and a regionally led de Hamasification. Try and say that quickly, you’re getting the idea of the actual lexicon used in this plan, which for me is absolutely disgusting, it’s reducing the Palestinians, the political national identity of the Palestinians, down to these derogatory terms. And so part one again, closing the front in Gaza, returning all hostages. Arab police forces, Western reconstruction package.
So it’s harnessing the normalised Arab states under the Abraham Accords to police Gaza and have military presence in Gaza and the US and the west to actually rebuild Gaza. And we know that the vision for that is this free trade zone, this kind of bifurcation of Gaza and of Palestine and the theft of Palestinian gas. This has already pretty much been approved by the UAE, the envoy to Washington claims no alternative to ethnic cleansing of Gaza. So he’s already put his stamp on the Trump fake Gaza plan. But Saudi Arabia is also sort of a little bit coming forward now. About a year ago, even while Palestinians were being genocided by the zionists, the Saudi Crown Prince said publicly that he personally doesn’t care about the Palestinian issue. And back in, I think it was 2023, so one year before that, on September 11, 2023, he publicly stated, ‘this is Saudi’s war. This is my war. I am not going to die until I see the Middle East at the forefront of the world.’
So the battle lines are being very clearly drawn. And within this document that is made even clearer to a large extent. Now, this is fascinating.. We’ve been talking about the correlation between what the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians for years and what has been happening in the west with CBDC central digital surveillance and so on. And guess what? It’s actually now included in the Abraham Shield still under the section; Cash in the Gaza Strip will be Abolished. Zero cash. We now have zero cash. And an advanced mechanism of monetary supervision will be implemented. So you can guess what that is. If you’re not going to submit to occupation, if you’re not going to accept Israeli oppression, if you’re not going to accept living in a concentration camp reduced even further down from what Gaza already is, then you won’t receive any cash.”
As mentioned in Jonathan Cook’s article above
BBC removed film How to Survive a War Zone 19 February 2025 at 23:35 GMT
A BBC documentary, featuring the son of Gaza’s former agriculture minister, that the BBC themselves took down shortly after they posted it under political pressure from the zionist lobby, who also made sure it was blocked from ‘legacy media’ at YouTube.
More on the above
Read; 500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary by Middle East Monitor 27 February 2025
‘Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 500 film, TV and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza
The media professionals, including nine BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s Director-General Tim Davie, Chair of the Board Samir Shah, Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore, and head of news and current affairs Deborah Turness today. The letter condemned a “racist” and “dehumanising” campaign targeting the film ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’, which the BBC removed from its iPlayer streaming service after pressure from supporters of Israel. The BBC’s board is set to discuss the documentary tomorrow.’
A brave Israeli hostage writes that on his freedom, he will join the Axis of Resistance to free Palestinians from zionist oppression. Surely he must escape from Israel. I must write a disclaimer on the words below in case the authorities say I am supporting a prescribed group!
Read; “If I return it will only be as a Mujaheed in your ranks” Alex Turbanov, 24 February 2025
The statements of Alexander Turbanov, an Israeli prisoner released today by Hamas, shocked the rogue state of Israel and the world.
Turbanov said; “Your kindness is engraved on my conscience. During the 498 days I lived among you, despite the aggression and crimes you were subjected to, I learned the meaning of true manhood. Pure heroism and respect for humanity and values.
You were the free beleaguered ones. I was the captive, and you were the guardians of my life. You cared for me as a caring father cares for his children. You protected my health, my dignity, my grace and did not let hunger or humiliation touch me even though I was in the clutches of men fighting for their land and their usurped rights, and even though they committed the most, her heinous genocide against a people besieged by the government of my country. I did not know the meaning of manhood until I saw it in your eyes. I did not realize the value of sacrifice until I lived amongst you, until you met death with a smile and resisted with your naked body, the enemy who had the means to kill and destroy.
No matter how eloquent and outspoken I may be, I will not be able to find words to reflect your worth, to express my admiration and admiration for your lofty morality. Is this how your religion teaches you to treat your captives? How great is this religion that it elevates you to such an exalted status that all man made human rights laws collapse before it, all protocols for dealing with enemies collapse before it. In the most difficult moments, you showed justice and mercy, not with full slogans, but with the facts we lived and you did not abandon your principles even in the darkest conditions.
Believe me, if I return here one day, it’ll only be as a muhajahid in your ranks, right? Because I learned the truth from your people and I realized you are the owners, not only of the land, but also the principle and just cause.’
Read or Listen; Palestinian Hostage Released With Obvious Torture Scars; Western Press Ignores Him
If an Israeli hostage were returned with these signs of torture the entire western political-media class would demand that everyone in Gaza be exterminated with poison gas. Caitlin Johnstone; February 28, 2025
‘A Palestinian man who was held captive by Israel for over a year has been released with horrific scarring all over his body. The man, Mohammed Abu Tawila, told local media that the marks came from his captors pouring acid and other chemicals onto his skin in order to torture him. One of his eyes was also destroyed, reportedly in a savage beating. You think you’ve seen the worst thing you can possibly see in this ever-unfolding nightmare, and then you see something like this.’
David Miller Refutes the Sunni sectarianism that paints Assad as a traitor to the axis of resistance
Watch; What was the relationship between former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the wider Axis of Resistance? Spinwatch, 26 February 2025
“There’s another section of people, and especially in the Muslim community, who have displayed through this process a really rather unpleasant, let’s call it Sunni sectarianism, such that they believe that Assad, because he was Alawite, because of his alleged crimes, was actually not actually part of the Axis of Resistance, was actually a betrayer of the Palestinians. Something which is actually completely false, completely contrary to everything that we know about what happened. Indeed, we know that two weeks before he exited to Moscow, he was offered by the UAE large sums of money to betray the Axis of Resistance, and he refused. He refused. I mean, he was being advised to do it, but he refused. There’s a sort of segment of opinion in the UK, it’s represented, I suppose, by people like Dil Hussein from Five Pillars or Mohamed Jalal, the Thinking Muslim, or actually Cage, an organisation I’ve had a lot of time for. I’ve been in that position as well, that totally misunderstands what was actually going on with the Axis of Resistance.”
Watch; My existence as an Israeli is only possible because of the oppression of the Palestinians israelis film, 25 February 2025
“My existence is possible only because of their oppression. Until the age of, I can say 23, I’ve never met Palestinians. All the system is completely separated, segregated. So in my school, inside Israel, only Jewish students, in my village, only Jews. And it was like a Jewish bubble. And the intention is to prepare the students to the army. So only after the army service I started to learn, actually on a personal level, what it means to be Palestinian. Two years after I finished the army service, I travelled to Germany to participate in a dialogue project with Palestinians from the West Bank. And my bubble exploded as if, like, I started to hear their narrative for the first time in my life. The Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, the massacres, everything.
And I’m shocked. How come I have never heard about it before? I’m 23 years old, I live just next to them. I can take my car, in half an hour I cross the checkpoint. I will visit these refugee camps in Bethlehem, in Jenin, in Nablus. All these places are so close to my home. And I start to understand that the way this place was established from the beginning was dependent on their ethnic cleansing.
After coming back from Germany, I could see the bigger picture. And the more I dived into Arabic and relationships with Palestinians, the more I felt the urge to speak up and to be more outspoken because I started to see how they see us and how they feel from their eyes. So I wrote on social media a lot and the reactions were not very supportive. Many Israelis, it was too much for them, especially when I started to criticise zionism as an ideology. We travelled to Germany on the 16th of October and we just realised, like, there is a need. And people kept inviting us to speak and to share our stories and it just unfolded this way. And we found ourselves travelling around Germany and the United States, giving these talks and we had over, I think, 150 events where we share our transformation and speak about the reality on the ground and what is needed, because people in the west, they don’t understand what’s happening here. I was raised in a militarised society, a society that made me believe that the only way to be safe on this land is by going to serve in the army and be part of this collective effort.
And my last message to the Americans, please, please, please stop sending us weapons. It doesn’t protect when people don’t feel safe and when there is so much dehumanisation from the top, then things that weren’t justified before starting to be justified. It’s horrific to just see how they sit there and speak as if it is normal to say that 2 million people will just be forced to live. To where? To what? Like, what are you talking about? It’s so absurd. It’s not going to happen because people will fight. But I’m also sometimes hopeless because it is scary to imagine what’s coming. And it’s very sad to think that we couldn’t stop it again, like in the 40s, it might happen again and we are in the same loops as humanity, as if nothing changed. As if we couldn’t learn from history.”
Read; Bibas Family Threatens to Sue Israeli Govt as Official Propaganda on Hostage Killings Unravels by Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal The Grayzone 27 February 2025
‘The relatives of an Israeli family killed while in Hamas captivity in Gaza have demanded the government stop making statements attributing blame for the killings of their loved ones, threatening to “take all legal measures at their disposal” if the Netanyahu administration refuses to comply. The request came three days after a declaration by Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari that Palestinian “terrorists” had “deliberately” killed two young members of the Bibas family “with their bare hands.”
Lawyers representing surviving members of the Bibas family have accused government ministries of seeking to exploit their plight for propaganda purposes, complaining “the family continues to receive, surprisingly, repeated inquiries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Information System… with the aim of satisfying the public’s voyeuristic instinct.”
The Bibas family demands the Israeli government cease exploiting the deaths of their family members for propaganda purposes as layers of evidence support claims an Israeli airstrike killed them.’
Another Israel false flag
Listen; Same Playbook: Problem, Reaction, Solution — A Path Toward a Greater Israel? UK Column News, 21 February 2025
Patrick Henningsen; “Well, we have to show you this one because this really just takes the biscuit, Brian. Here, this is what happened in Israel just yesterday here. Multiple bus explosions in Israel put the country on, quote, terrorism alert. Now there’s the picture there. An exploded bus. Brian, what do we have here? Five explosive devices, three empty buses. Right. An unidentifiable body. And what does Netanyahu do after the explosions? President Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that he had instructed the military to carry out a massive operation in the West Bank targeting, quote, militant hubs and has ordered the police intelligence force to step up preventive measures in Israeli cities to thwart any subsequent attempted attacks. Now, Brian, is it just me or are you getting false flag vibes here?”
Brian Gerrish; “It’s always too easy. An event takes place and then the reaction to that event, you, you look at it and you say, yeah, this is very convenient because was the agenda in the first place. So I must say I am highly suspicious of this sort of thing. And if bombs go off, we had bombs being let off in the UK when we had problems in Northern Ireland and with the IRA. And the result was not a massive operation targeting people across Northern Ireland. It was a measured response to try and calm the situation and deal with the people who were the terrorists. So these massive operations, this says to me that the agenda is really to carry out something strategic. And the bomb is a very convenient initiator of that policy.”
Patrick Henningsen; “Three buses in a parking lot, empty, Brian. I mean, come on. And they’ve wanted to expand military operations to push Palestinians out of the West Bank, to turn it into a new Gaza. Why? What is the agenda behind this? Well, it can only be this, which is what’s known as the Greater Israel Project. This is no longer a conspiracy theory, ladies and gentlemen, this is actual spoken policy by some of the leading cabinet members in Netanyahu’s far right, when I say far right , I mean very very far right, Likud coalition.”
David Miller describes how zionist propaganda penetrates every aspect of our lives.
Watch; What is the Impact of zionism in the UK? David Miller, Spinwatch, 7 February 2025
‘The zionist movement in the UK operates through a vast network of institutions which play an instrumental role in providing ideological, financial, and diplomatic cover for the apartheid state of Israel’s actions, including its genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza. This is achieved by penetrating policymaking spaces and securing influence within British political, media, financial, and academic institutions, ensuring unwavering support for the Israeli regime within all under its influence, while working to suppress pro-Palestinian activism.’
David Miller; “So obviously the zionists are involved in trying to justify the genocide in Palestine. And so of course they send their lobby groups to try and do that, to influence policy, and that’s a key element of zionist power in the society. But the zionists are doing more than that. They’re also trying to penetrate policy making circles, media, the financial industry, so that when the tap comes on the shoulder from the relevant zionist person, they will know what’s the right thing to do in the circumstances. They will know to take the right pro-Israel policy measure. But even more significant than that is the fact that the zionist movement has a strong role in attempting to radicalise young Jews into believing in and helping to enact the genocide in Gaza. And they do this through nurseries, and I do mean nurseries under the age of four, in schools, in youth groups, in student groups, and of course also in a large number of synagogues.
So these are organisations which eventually help to take young kids over to Israel. Sometimes the schools take kids over to Israel on propaganda tours and that’s part of the process of queuing them up to potentially join the Israel Defence Forces when they get to the age of 17 or 18 and to then directly partake in the genocide. That’s what zionists are attempting to do.”
Watch; Army ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October, defense minister confirms, with Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada; 17 February 2025
‘Associate editor Asa Winstanley brings us up to date on the latest revelations of how Israel applied the Hannibal Doctrine on 7 October 2023 – deliberately killing its own people rather than letting them be taken captive and return home alive in a prisoner exchange.
This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s livestream on day 26 of the Gaza ceasefire. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by Abubaker Abed live from the Gaza Strip.’
Asa Winstanley; “Last week there was the highest level public Israeli admission about the Hannibal Directive so far and it was aired on Israeli television. So we can watch that clip. First of all, the journalist says, when you see the convoys crossing the border with Israeli hostages, what crosses your mind? Is the Hannibal Directive something you are thinking about at that moment. And then the second journalist chimes in just to explain, the Hannibal Directive says to shoot to kill when there is a vehicle containing an Israeli hostage. And Gallant, the former Defence Minister says, ,I want you to understand that the ability of the Defence Minister to give timely operative instructions when everything is happening is very limited., And then the second journalist, whose name is Amit Sagal, chimes in, was the order given for the Hannibal Directive? And Yoav Gallant replies, “I think that tactically in various places it was given and in other places it was not given. And that is a problem.”
So as you heard, like that was, it’s a really striking admission there it was that the Hannibal Directive was used and that in it was used in his words, quote, tactically and in various places. So for any new EI viewers who may not have been following this story with us since October 2023, the Israeli journalist explained what the Hannibal Directive is quite succinctly. Quote, ‘the Hannibal Directive says to shoot to kill when there is a vehicle containing an Israeli hostage’, end of quote. So the Hannibal Directive is an Israeli military doctrine which was first established in secret by Israeli generals in 1986. And they were determined to stop Israeli soldiers being captured alive by Lebanese and Palestinian resistance fighters. The capture of Israeli prisoners of war like this has in the past successfully led to prisoner exchanges. And as we’ve seen illustrated over the past Several weeks, these exchanges have led to the successful liberation of hundreds of Palestinians from Israeli jails.
So the Hannibal Directive was in some ways nothing new on October 7, 2023, but what really was new was how it was extended from Israeli soldiers to Israeli civilians and the sheer scale that it was used on. By now, multiple eyewitness statements and several senior Israeli military sources have confirmed that the Hannibal Directive was used indiscriminately all over the so-called Gaza envelope region on that day. The key eyewitnesses have included Yasmin Porat, a former Israeli captive who narrowly survived a deliberately calculated Israeli tank shelling of the building where a group of Hamas fighters were holed up with 11 other Israeli captives in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th. The dead included the 12 year old Israeli twins, Yanai and Liel Hetzroni, the girl you can see on the screen here, whose image was later used in official Israeli propaganda falsely alleging she had been burned to death by Hamas.
But in fact, by now we can pretty definitively say she was burned to death by Israeli tank shelling. A Hannibal strike by an Israeli tank fired on the orders of this man, Brigadier General Barak Hiram, who since then has actually been promoted to the head of the Gaza division. The Gallant interview with Channel 12 last week was significant, this new interview. It was the first time that a contemporary Israeli minister has publicly confirmed the use of the Hannibal directive on October 7th.
Let’s, let’s bring the others on now. Ali, you followed this story very closely and you’ve done a lot of the reporting on it, often with David Sheen. What did you make of Gallant’s admission in this interview?”
Ali Abunimah; “I was stunned that he would say it so openly. I mean, the thing is that watching that interview, they don’t treat it as this great revelation. They treat it as a given. And that’s very telling to me that it’s sort of taken for granted that the Hannibal directive is used and that this still hasn’t penetrated at all the mainstream Western media who still talk about that Hamas killed 1,200 people on October 7, which is very clearly not the case. And the reporting that you’ve done, Asa, and we’ve done over the past 16 months shows that we don’t have the exact number, but Israel almost certainly killed hundreds of its own people on October 7th. And they’re still blocking any sort of independent, in Israeli terms, commission of inquiry that might reveal what happened.”
Watch; Embedding Zionism in Switzerland; Palestine Declassified, 15 February 2025
In today’s show we’ll be delving into why the director of the Electronic Intifada was arrested when he arrived in Zurich for a speaking engagement.
Chris Williamson; “David, the guy who ordered the arrest of Ali Abunimah seems to be a zionist partisan, doesn’t he?”
David Miller; “Yes, he does. I mean, the way it’s been reported is that you would think that he was a security official, but he’s not a security official, he’s an elected politician. And what they have in Switzerland is a federal system, so he’s an elected politician in security in Zurich. So he made the order. And yes you can see the image here. This is a speech he gave in October 2023, just after the launch of Al-Aqsa Flood, effectively calling for genocide against the Palestinians. He’s a fully paid up, genocidal zionist. And that’s how politics in Switzerland is infiltrated by the zionists, even at the level of people who are in charge of national security are paid up zionists and are engaged in this kind of activity.”
Chris Williamson; “Is that unusual, though, do you think, compared to other European countries?”
David Miller; “Well, no, it’s not. That’s the problem, isn’t it? All across Europe you have infiltration of the zionists, but Switzerland is a special case, as perhaps we’ll touch on in a minute. It has a long, long history of involvement with the zionist movement. Yeah, this is an actual problem across the whole of Europe.”
Chris Williamson; “Right, okay. Well, Patrick what do you make of this emerging pattern of arrests and intimidation of journalists all across Europe?”
Patrick Henningsen; “This is a very disturbing trend. Certainly the signs are worrying. What you’re starting to see here are Western governments that are displaying fascist tendencies. And what you have really is a clear pattern of intimidation. This is essentially a foreign government, a foreign entity working through lobbyist organisations, working through the Israeli embassy in host countries in order to give blacklists or hit lists about journalists or activists that the Israeli government doesn’t want to see platformed either at a live event or in television or social media or anything like this. So in a way, you can look at this as an attack on the actual national sovereignty of individual countries. How could a foreign entity be given that much influence in determining what’s legal, what’s illegal, who can be arrested, who won’t be arrested. Clearly done very specifically and very targeted, this campaign.”
Chris Williamson; “David, the zionist movement seems to be well entrenched in Switzerland, doesn’t it? I mean, just explain how it’s organised”
David Miller; “Well, the zionist movement is organised in Switzerland in the same way as it’s organised in every other country that has organisations. So the top organisation is the World Zionist Organisation based in Jerusalem in the same building as all the other parts of the zionist movement; the Jewish National Fund, the Foundation Fund and the Jewish Agency which together organised to bring settlers to Palestine to raise the money to bring them and to steal the land on which to settle them. That’s what the zionist movement’s for. And every country which has organised it has branches of those four organisations. And Switzerland is no exception to that. It has a Zionist Federation which is the local member of the World Zionist Organisation. It has a Jewish National Fund, a land theft agency, has an office for the Jewish Agency which finds settlers to come to Palestine and has an office for the Foundation Fund, Keren Hazeld, which raises the money to pay for it all. So that’s how it’s organised everywhere. People should pay more attention to this. It’s a structural relationship between the zionist movement in every single country in which it’s organised. Something like 40 or 45 countries and around that we find the Israel Lobby organised. But the structure is always the same.”
Chris Williamson; “As we’ve said on this show on a number of occasions, there’s a real disconnect between the attitude of the political class and the wider general public. I mean, how is it, do you think the zionist lobby is able to curry such favour from the political class when clearly they’re not actually winning the hearts and minds of the general public?”
David Miller; “Well, it’s because they are embedded in the political system. They’ve been organising for a long, long time. The zionist movement was set up incidentally, first congress of the zionist movement in 1897 was in Switzerland. And so it’s been organising for a long, long time and it’s been able to embed itself in a way which, which Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians, certainly have not been able to.”
Chris Williamson; “No, no indeed. But I hope for the future given that clearly what the general public, as we were saying, are not conned by the zionist movement in the way in which they seem to be able to do with the political class. But Patrick what’s your thoughts on the so-called Jewish National Fund?”
Patrick Henningsen; “Well, this is, this is one of the biggest charities, really one the granddaddy of all Israeli charities, the JNF and their public facing persona is save the Children of Israel. This is what they lead with to make it look like it’s a charitable organisation. But in reality what the JNF is, is collecting money for settlements and getting money put into investment endowments and so forth to fund the illegal building of settlements in places like the West Bank, in East Jerusalem and also in Gaza as well. In the past this has been done. So what, what they do is they’ll come and woo and fete Western politicians, even former US Presidents. Bill Clinton was a big proponent and speaker at the biggest JNF events after he left the US presidency. And so they use these big cachet names, big celebrity names in order to bring in the big Jewish donors so they can open up their cheque books and give generously to the cause of building illegal settlements.”
Watch; Francesca Albanese: Keir Starmer must be investigated over Gaza genocide Declassified UK, 6 February 2025
‘How complicit is Britain in the Gaza genocide? Could British ministers and military officials end up at the International Criminal Court?
One of the world’s leading human rights lawyers, Francesca Albanese – who is also the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine – spoke to Declassified co-founder Mark Curtis about Britain’s role in the Gaza genocide.’
Francesca Albanese; “The UK has done nothing to prevent the destruction of Gaza militarily. It has continued to supply Israel in violations of its obligations. And again, the UK has incredible lawyers and I cannot believe that the government was not advised on what it was doing. It was clear that Israel was violating. Again, left aside the genocide assessment, but it was clear that Israel was committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. I’ve heard UK politicians denying that and to an extent even justifying this. Therefore they should be investigated, their responsibility should be investigated by UK authorities. And the extent to which this might lead to responsibility I cannot establish right now because again, there should be an investigation looking at their level of knowledge, what they have authorised as people. Because there is individual liability, there’s criminal liability for complicity with international crimes there.”
Mark Curtis; “I wanted to ask you a question about the UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, because you’ve called David Lammy on several occasions a genocide denier. I wonder what you think the consequences for him as a minister, as the Foreign Secretary should be for being a denier of genocide.”
Francesca Albanese; “I find it interesting that he has really dismissed the evidence, why Israel has committed genocide. I do understand why he has done it, why he might have done it to deflect responsibility both of Israel and possibly the UK government but he, as a foreign Minister, he’s obliged to sit down and respond. Why does he think that? My arguments, my legal assessment, the assessment of Amnesty Internationals and now dozens of organisations and Israeli historians, what are the arguments that he uses to dismiss what we have brought to the fore as evidence? So very specific questions need to be asked. How it’s possible that Israel has hit humanitarian zones over 200 times . How is it possible that Israel has considered the evacuation of 1.1 million people under the threat that they would be considered an affiliate with terrorism. How does he comment on the Amalek language that has been used and relaunched by Israeli political leaders and soldiers on the ground.
Does he understand what Amalek is in Israeli society, which is a genocidal call? I’m not interested in Devin Lammy’s opinion per se. He’s a foreign Minister. Therefore he needs to respond in an articulate way on very specific questions. How does he dismiss the claims that Israel has committed acts of genocide? And if not, how does he qualify that Israel has committed war crimes? So how does he justify, in the face of the commission of war crimes, the UK’s continuous support to the state of Israel? These are the very specific questions that David Lammy needs to be asked and needs to answer.”
Mark Curtis; “One final question, Francesca, if I may, about international law, I was wondering what you think the consequences will be for the international legal system going forward when states can’t even bring themselves to even identify violations of international law in the context of a genocide? I mean what does that mean for the future of protecting international law? The next time a state conducts an aggression against another state or a set of people, has the international system been set up to fail”
Francesca Albanese; “Yes, and it’s already failing because look at what has happened to the civilian population in Lebanon. I can’t even use the past tense because Israel has resumed the bombardment of southern Lebanon. I said one year ago, Israel has definitely created or has introduced us brutally, violently to a world without civilians, where, everything is targetable, everyone is killable, everything is destroyable, and without evidence, without justification, without respect for the principle of distinction, proportionalities, precautions, which are the biggest basic tenets of modern post World War II international law. International law applicable to armed conflict. Israel and the United States, or with the support of the United States, with the cover of the United States, has been attacking other Arab countries and capitals with impunity, the same impunity they have enjoyed in slaughtering Palestinians and imposing an apartheid regime over the Palestinians, the same impunity they are enjoying as they attack other countries. So international law is proving more and more ineffective by the day.
And this is a situation in which everyone loses because we are embracing or we have entered a lawless world. And especially for us in the West, it’s going to bring incredibly negative consequences because we are those who have benefited the most from the international legal system that was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. So we should be more careful, and we are not.”
The whole world condemns the racist apartheid state in Palestine, just as it did with South Africa. If the US stopped arming Israel, the war in the MIddle East would stop. Without the weapons, the Israelis racist ideology would have to cease and surely many/most (?) would be content to live between the river and the sea with equal rights for all. A single state in historic Palestine would include the millions of Palestinians expelled from their homes and living in refugee camps.
Watch; How Israel serves US imperialism in the Middle East with Sami Ramadani; Empire Watch; 13 February 2025 Global Majority for Peace Podcast
“Iraqi-born sociologist and anti-war activist, Sami Ramadani joins Ileana Chan and Fiona Edwards for Episode 19 of the Global Majority For Peace podcast.
On the 15th of January after 15 months of a US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, a three phase ceasefire was finally announced. Sami breaks down the realities of each proposed phase and its implications for the Palestinian through the lens of U.S.-led imperialism and Israel’s role as its strategic outpost.
We also analyse the resistance movements, the dynamics of multipolarity, and the global call for justice for Palestine as well as the lessons learnt from Iraq, twenty years after the US invasion.”
Watch; Peter Beinart on “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” & Trump’s Call for Ethnic Cleansing Democracy Now! 5 February 2025
“I was raised in a family where Israel was central and where we thought about Israel in terms of what it meant for Jewish safety, a state for Jews where Jews could be safe after the Holocaust. And that was a source of great psychological security, especially for my grandmother, for older people in my generation who themselves had experienced a lot of trauma in their lives. I’m embarrassed to say It was really not until my 30s, when I went to spend time with Palestinians in the West Bank, that I began to really face what Israel and zionism had meant for Palestinians. And you’re exactly right. Every American media discussion of Gaza should start with the fact that people in Gaza, most of them, are not from Gaza. They are people who are from families that were forcibly expelled from what is now Israel. Many of them can see the lands from which their parents and grandparents were expelled from Gaza. They can see these fertile, relatively uncrowded territories while they live crowded into a ghetto half the size of New York City that the UN called unliveable for human beings before October 7th. And so, yes, if Gaza is unliveable because Israel and the United States have made it catastrophically unliveable, then people should be allowed to return to the places from which, not to expel Israeli Jews, but to live in equality alongside Israeli Jews, a principle that is considered unfathomable in Israel Palestine, even though it’s the principle that we supposedly believe in in the United States.”
David Miller and Ammar Kazmi uncover the ‘Axis of Assistance’, of neighbouring countries providing support for Israel
Watch; Islamic Revolution: Tehran to Gaza; Palestine Declassified, 9 February 2025
‘This episode looks at the impact of the Islamic Revolution of Iran on the struggle for liberation of Palestine.’
Chris Williamson; “Ammar, most Muslims around the world support Palestine. So how on earth does an Axis of Assistance that was mentioned in the film even exist?”
Ammar Kazmi; “Unfortunately, most of the Muslim world is governed by people who don’t represent their sentiments and feelings. Muslims around the world overwhelmingly support Palestine. They are deeply opposed to zionism, but their leaders are often US- backed zionist-supporting dictators and royal families who run incredibly repressive states that even imprison people simply for protesting in support of Palestine. And some of those countries, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, try to pacify their populations by giving a tokenistic nod to Palestine with a little bit of aid from time to time. But the Axis of Assistance exists with the support of the United States and large scale repression.”
Chris Williamson; “Well, David, the previous Trump presidency saw an emphasis on Arab normalisation, didn’t it? Arab normalisation with Israel, that is. And he’s at it again, isn’t he? I saw a report from the Atlantic Council recently that said ‘normalisation between Saudi Arabia and Israel is within reach’ was the headline.”
David Miller; “Yes, well, I mean, they’ve been developing normalisation for many years now. The UAE has been in the lead of this, and we’ve written about this extensively about the UAE lobby and its pushing of normalisation. And in Saudi, the normalisation process has been underway for many years too, but it’s been covert and it’s been directed by the UAE. The Saudis have been involved, but they haven’t wanted to announce it publicly. And so they’re just working up to finding a way to do that. And the involvement of Kushner and Trump is a key element of that. And, they will try and spread that process around the whole of the region, involving Qatar as well, which pretends to be supportive of the Palestinians. And Turkey is in there as well, in the mix, even, although they, again, pretending to be pro- Palestinian.”
Chris Williamson; “Ammar, can you elaborate on Turkey’s dual approach of criticising Israel rhetorically on one hand, while maintaining diplomatic and trade links on the other?”
Ammar Kazmi; “Turkey is trying clearly to position itself as the next major regional power in West Asia. And President Erdogan is wanting to present this neo-Ottoman sultan aesthetic as a supposed defender of the global muslim community. But the reality is that Turkey is part of the Western NATO military alliance. Erdogan is a stooge of the United States, and privately he supports the zionist regime. But publicly, in order to fool Muslims, Turkey poses as this militantly pro-Palestine country. But if that were the case with one of the largest militaries in the region, Erdogan could have actually done something to stop the zionists genocidal campaign, but instead he was supplying 40% of their oil and directly fueling the Israeli war machine. So I don’t think anybody buys that, really.”
Chris Williamson; “Well, David just elaborate, will you, for us on Jared Kushner’s role in the Axis of Assistance.”
David Miller; “Well, as you heard in the film there was a very big investment, two affinity partners and affinity partners into Phoenix holdings, which owns Elbit, the largest Israeli arms firm. The money comes from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and also some money from Qatar and from the UAE. So there’s a very strong financial motive there. And just before Trump was brought in as president, Kushner was involved in investing, upping his investment in this company, which is involved in building settlements substantially. So obviously there’s a push there to have the beachfront apartments in Gaza, and that’s their aim. Now, Kushner is an ultra zionist. It’s not just Kushner who is an ultra zionist in the Trump administration, as we know, but he is. He goes to a show in DC which is run by Habad, the genocidal cult, which we’ve talked about, indeed shown on many occasions. One of his foundations has sent large sums of money to Habad, indeed even Donald Trump has sent money to Habad in the past. So what we’re seeing here is a coalition of interests who are trying to push towards a Greater Israel and to do that by using allies in the normalisation process.”
Watch; Arab Regimes and the Betrayal of Palestine (w/ Farah El-Sharif) The Chris Hedges Report, 5 February 2025
‘Farah El-Sharif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim world is so broken, corrupt and full of contradictions, El Sherif joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.’
“The systemic repression that Muslim communities worldwide experience is inextricably linked to the interventionist, expansionist, supremacist American-Israeli Western project,” El Sharif says. Though the region has grown to have perceived independence from its former colonial states, El Sharif explains that the imperial agenda and the manufacturing of a Muslim menace continues.
The psychological and physical damage runs so deep that many give in to their oppressors in hope of selfish prosperity, while others look at themselves as less than deserving of a dignified existence. The genocide in Gaza proves to be the most crucial litmus test, as the leaders of fellow Muslim countries stand by and witness the slaughter of their own people in exchange for “petty crumbs” from Western powers and the zionist state.
“A lot of Muslims even internalise this war on terror rhetoric and they themselves start being apologetic and say, Islam is peaceful, Islam is this, Islam is compatible with democracy, Islam is compatible with civility,” El Sharif explains. “I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double consciousness. They don’t know their own faith, they don’t know their own history, and so they start being apologetic about it, and that is a position of weakness.”
Watch; Never-Before-Seen OCCUPIED Bonus Footage! Ken O’Keefe, 11 January 2025
“My favourite quote of all time and I say it all the time, almost daily because I feel it’s something that needs to be shared daily, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Jesus, a man from Nazareth, a place called Historic Palestine, said those words and stood for things. And I look at my fellow Christians today and what I see is hypocrisy on steroids. I see an absolute abject ignorance of the facts and a reversal of truth in favour of propaganda built on a Jewish controlled media with a Hollywood controlled by the Jews, with politicians, finance, everything. And that explains the dumbing down and the stupidity of my fellow Americans.
I have been ashamed of my American brethren for a long time and at the same time I love America and I know that the enemy that is inside the gate is the one that has mind controlled them to believe that the Palestinians are terrorists, that they’re the evil ones. I also understood in my early years after I came out of the Marine Corps and got hard done by for being a damn good marine, I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder and I realised I was wrong about the Marine Corps and I was ready to kill or be killed for that as a machine gunner, infantry grunt in combat.
So when you realise that you are giving up your freedom, signing away, when you enlist, you become government property. When I did that, I thought it was about honour, integrity, leadership by example, defending your nation, being a man. Little did I know that in truth I was nothing more than a mercenary for the banksters. That’s a fact and Henry Kissinger said it all too well. I’m very grateful to Henry for this honest statement. ‘The military are nothing but dumb animals to be used.’ Thank you for the honesty. And when I hear statements like ‘thank you for your service’, I know the people of America, they mean it, they mean it with a good heart.
So I don’t take any offence at it, but I see the irony. You’re thanking me for my service in implying that I did some service to you. I didn’t. I served the enemy who will enslave you and yet you’re thanking me for my service. You should be thanking me for refusing the unlawful order. Instead I’m the guy who didn’t get my good conduct honourable discharge and blah blah, blah. They branded me wrong. Theyreally did me wrong.
But rather than play the victim, which is a big issue to me, get over yourself. Everyone has been traumatised. The only question is to what degree? So if you’re going to sit there and play victim? You want reparations because your fucking grandfathers were enslaved? Get the fuck over yourself. All right? We’ve all been victimised, If you want to choose the victim path there’s a great, great audience for that. But I’ll tell you what, that ain’t going to get us nowhere. You could take that victimisation that you experienced and this is what I’ve done. Rather than be a victim and be bitter towards my nation, I took that oath that I took seriously and I’ve honoured that oath. The honour and integrity that I was not treated with fairly. The honour and integrity that was absent in the way that I was dealt with. I chose to reverse that trend and take on honour and integrity and be the man that I thought the Marine Corps was about. So I already was the beauty of the Marine Corps. We all know the scene in the Matrix, the red pill, blue pill. And when Neo is getting ready to take that red pill, Morpheus says, remember, all I’m offering is the truth. And it’s a metaphor for life, is it not? Because the truth is not pleasant. The truth will turn your whole worldview upside down, literally. Most people don’t have the strength to acknowledge that they’ve been dead wrong. Worse yet, maybe they encourage their kid to go off to Iraq or Afghanistan. Like my brother Marcus, who lost his legs. Didn’t lose his. They got blown off. He knows what I know. We were cannon fodder. We were tools. We did no service to America. The only service we could give as military people would be to refuse the orders when they get you to go fight their Jewish war. Right now, here, we got an aircraft carrier group over there right now off the coast of Gaza, of Palestine. So the Jews can instigate the war and us dumbass goyim can go fight once again for them. All the while they’re laughing. I have to give the bastards credit. In all honesty, if you’re gonna be a man, fucking A, you guys are first class. You going to do it? Do it right. They definitely do it right.”
Fundraiser; A pilgrimage for Palestine Peter and Alice Oswald
‘Poet/Playwright Peter Oswald will walk from Bristol to London over ten days, supported by the Bristol Palestine Alliance and the Hands Up Project. In solidarity with the Palestinians and in respect for Muslims worldwide, I will fast between sunrise and sunset on these ten days, which coincide with Ramadan. In my stopping places I’ll take part in poetry performances with local poets, speaking a mixture of my own work about Palestine and poetry by young Palestinians. I wish to march in celebration of Islamic culture and against Islamophobia. This is a peace march, I believe peace cannot come until all voices are heard. I will call through the soles of my feet to the soul of Britain, which I believe can be a force for freedom. Funds raised will go to The Hands Up project, an educational charity that links volunteer teachers around the world with school children in Gaza. Below is the itinerary:’
Bristol-Bath Tues 18th March
Bradford on Avon 19th
Devizes 20th
Pewsey 21st
Hungerford 22nd
Newbury 23rd
Aldermaston 24th
Reading 25th
Hurley 26th
Maidenhead 27th
Stockleigh 28th
Alperton 29th
Parliament square 30th
Watch; Why this leading Israeli Holocaust scholar says it’s a genocide in Gaza TRT World, 10 February 2025
‘Omer Bartov, a renowned Israeli-American scholar of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, says that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza meets the criteria for genocide, demonstrating a clear intent for ethnic cleansing, fueled by dehumanising rhetoric.
While Germany faced its holocaust guilt with deep introspection, the question remains: can Israeli society ever do the same for the suffering it has inflicted on Palestinians? Bartov tells Imran Garda that only a political process within Israel can pave the way for genuine regret and meaningful change.
On this episode of The InnerView, Imran Garda asks Bartov whether a recent ceasefire is a step toward lasting peace or just a fleeting pause.’
00:00 Meet Omer Bartov
01:08 Bartov’s piece in The Guardian
01:40 The US support for Israel
03:33 Comparing the US in World War II to Netanyahu’s actions in the Gaza war
05:15 Why does Bartov believe Israel’s committing genocide?
07:23 The use and misuse of Holocaust analogies
09:28 The October 7 Hamas attack
10:50 How Israeli society has changed since the Holocaust
14:42 Insights from the Ehud Olmert interview
15:07 “I am not optimistic”: The Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
17:08 On why accountability for international crimes is crucial
19:12 Western guilt: A look at Germany and the US
21:35 Will Israelis one day feel the collective guilt?
24:27 “Israel must archive zionism as state policy”
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