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SOS Farmers in Peril: Farmers Tractor Rally, London 11th Dec 2024
700 Tractors, One Powerful Message: Save British Farming
On 11th December, I joined the huge crowd outside Downing Street and interviewed farmers who had driven to London from all corners of the UK to park their tractors in Westminster before heading off in convoy round the city. This was more than just a farmer’s protest—it was a fight for all of us who care about real food, food security, and the future of British farming.
Farmers are under attack. The Labour government’s latest budget threatens to destroy family farms, risking our food security and paving the way for cheap, substandard imports and unregulated corporate products.
Liz Webster, Save British Farming:
“For decades, farmers have faced a hammering on prices from supermarkets. Now, the Labour government’s budget spells the death of farming as we know it.”
Geoff Gibson, Fairness for Farmers:
“The threat to British farming is massive. This government is risking our food security and pushing farmers out of business. This isn’t just policy—it’s a vengeful attack on farmers.”
This isn’t just a farmers’ fight. Unless you want to eat insects and highly processed hydroponically grown vegan fake meat, it’s YOUR fight too. If you care about fresh, local, high-welfare food and protecting the farmers who produce it, you need to join these protests. The survival of our food systems depends on your support.
Get involved:
Follow Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers to stay updated on upcoming protests.
Contact savebritishfarming@gmail.com if you can orchestrate your contacts to join a demonstration.
Together, we can fight for a food system that works for farmers, the environment, and future generations. Don’t just watch—join the movement.
Wise Farmers: Rachel’s Farm
Though my beloved sister Rachel lives 10,000 miles away in Australia, we live and breathe local food from real farms. I founded and run an organic Fruit & Veg venture called Forbidden Fruit and Veg (We’re looking for a new Head Grower for the 2025 season!) and I also run Farms Not Factories to support independent farmers via my laptop while Rachel is outside physically working on her cattle farm.
From directing and starring in numerous films including The Thornbirds, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, she turned to farming, and has made the documentary Rachel’s Farm to be aired on BBC4 on 26 Jan. The film has won Australian Critics choice Award 2023!
Via the Film’s website you can watch the trailer and her letter to readers pasted below.
‘My inspiration for the film came from personally experiencing the Australian Black Summer bushfires in 2019 and subsequently reading Charles Massey’s book Call of the Reed Warbler which details the challenges and accomplishments of many early adopters of the regenerative way of farming. This was the catalyst for me to understand the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on my own rural property and embrace more regenerative practices.’
‘In the short time that I have been farming regeneratively, and doing my homework, I have come to understand that the competition (and consequent pressure on retailers) to push prices lower and lower, is only made possible when the health of our food and the health of the environment is not factored into the price. Perhaps you already understand this, but I shudder at how ignorant I was and how many still are; unwittingly playing a part in the degeneration of our health, landscapes, and polluting our waterways.
Of course, many, many farmers do their best. They don’t want to see their soil degraded, their water tables shrinking and their rivers polluted with chemicals but, to stay both domestically and internationally competitive, what choice do they have? To put it into context, we are still living in a farming era that began in the 1970’s when President Nixon’s agricultural minister, Earl Butz, said ‘Get big or get out’.
Today, it is almost impossible for small farms to compete with industrial scale farms, even without taking the environment into consideration. The decline of the small family farm is evident everywhere.
Is this the progress we want? Are we okay for our health, and the health of our landscapes, to take on the inevitable impact of cheap food? Are we okay with the city-country divide getting wider and wider and keeping us ignorant long enough for economic forces to do their mischief until it’s too late; our soils are blown away, our food empty of nutrition, and our rural towns hollowed out?
It’s this fear for the imminent future that has galvanised me to make a documentary about farming. I wanted to bring the experience of running a small farm and its multiple trials and tribulations back from obscurity. My farming story is just one but I have gathered some brilliant minds into the mix – farmers that can see and articulate a way forward for small farms to exist productively while healing our wounded country, caring humanely for animals, and delivering the kind of healthy, tasty, produce that our grandparents once enjoyed.
My hope is that the film will fill in the void between the food that sits on our plate and all the processes by which it got there and that it will illuminate the impact of different approaches to farming, and allow consumers to connect their food with their values.
Call me an idealist, a dope, deluded, grandiose, but I believe that it is only a question of filling in that blank behind the plate and many consumers will make the choice for their health, their taste buds, their children, their environment and their rural communities. And, of course, once they demand it in louder and louder voices, the retailers will provide it and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief as the planet takes a gentle shift towards hopefulness.
Food & Farming/Inheritance Tax/CO2 tunnel vision
Inheritance Tax
The result of the new farm inheritance tax is that many independent farmers will have to sell their farms as they will not be able to afford to pass them on to their children. Farmers did not exactly thrive under the Tories, but this Labour government seems determined to exterminate them.
Proposing a motion in parliament to repeal the tax, Victoria Atkins, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said,
“This government has driven farmers to despair. The hike in national insurance, the acceleration of delinked payments (which will reduce farm subsidies), the fertiliser tax, the double cab tax, the stalling of capital grants, the scrapping of the rural services delivery grant and the slowing down of applications to farming schemes are all conspiring against our rural economy and the survival of British farms. Yet they’ve added a death tax to this, the family farm tax which is seeing families across the United Kingdom worry about whether they will be able to hand on their farms to their children, as generations before them have done.”
The government says the tax is designed to prevent people from buying land just to avoid inheritance tax, but because the new tax on farms is at a lower rate (20% rather than 40%), buying land will still be a way for wealthy people to reduce their IHT. While the Starmer government is bent on destroying small, independent farmers, we can help them survive by buying direct from farm shops, farmer’s markets, box schemes or via the web like Big Barn where you put in your post code to find a local vendor.
Watch; MPs Why didn’t Treasury abolish business rollover relief rather than put inheritance tax on farmers? Peter Borenius, 15 December 2024
Intro; ‘Dr Advani, director of Centre for the Analysis of Taxation, told the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA), “At 20%, the inheritance tax rate still made it attractive for the wealthy to buy up agricultural land, pushing up prices for genuine smaller family farmers who want to work the land themselves.” Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser at Central Association for Agricultural Valuers, added that the tax changes would not discourage companies from snapping-up farmland, adding, “It is only individuals who die.” Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers’ Union, claimed Ms Reeves had refused to meet him. He told the committee, “We have written to the Prime Minister asking for a pause to consult.” Mr Bradshaw became emotional at one stage as he warned some ill or older farmers may take their own lives to avoid their estates being hit with inheritance tax. Country Land and Business Association claims 70,000 farms could be affected annually but the government puts it at just 500.’
MP; “A fairly well documented route for people wishing to avoid inheritance tax is the purchase of land, not necessarily even for food production purposes. To what extent do you feel that these changes are going to catch these people? Do you think it will discourage them from making these investments in the future? And who else might be caught up in the net?”
Dr Advani; “I think the concern with the way the reform has been done is that it still leaves a 20% effective rate. That’s not quite how it works, but roughly a 20% effective rate above the threshold that’s been set. One reason for doing that is because there are farmers, who you might be concerned about, who are earning, who have wealth a bit above the current tax free threshold, who you want to give a lower rate because of the well documented concerns about incomes for farmers. But the downside is it still means that if you have say 100 billion pounds or a billion pounds that you want to put into farmland, 20% rate is still much more attractive than other sorts of assets. And so what you will still have in this world is people who want to buy up agricultural land, competing with genuine farmers who are trying to expand their farm, who are really actually wanting to work on the land. They’re still going to have to compete with much better off people.
One other thing to add is that this came in a budget in which there were other reforms removing some of the relief around pensions and also bringing former non- doms into inheritance tax. And so there are actually more people now who will be looking for ways to reduce their inheritance tax bill which might, if anything, drive up the amount of demand for agricultural land that’s still relatively tax privileged.”
MP; “So some of the possible implications or consequences of this that we’ve heard spoken about, such as the lowering of the slowing of land price inflation. I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but I get the suggestion that you think that’s unlikely.”
Dr Advani; “The 20% tax rate for agriculture on its own would probably slow it slightly, but not as much as it could do if it had been 40% after some threshold, but other changes made at the same time. I mean, I think overall the net effect of the budget is probably not going to be that significant.”
MP; “John, could I just ask you about business rollover relief? I think there’s a wide consensus that people that sell businesses can avoid or defer capital gains tax by buying large tracts of land. So the people that most people feel should be dealt with, could it not have been more effective and more targeted to use business rollover relief to actually tackle those people who were getting massive relief from capital gains tax. And wouldn’t that have yielded more than actually using this mechanism, which allegedly risks bringing in practising farmers who will be more troubled by the outcome?”
Dr Advani; “So for the benefit of the committee, in case not everyone follows up the tax details, it’s the case that if you sell assets that are normally liable to capital gains tax, but you purchase agricultural land, then you do not have to pay capital gains tax. So to get a relief while you’re buying that, and a fairly standard planning strategy, would be to sell those assets, get your large gain, purchase agricultural property, and if you hold that until you die, then you are relieved of inheritance tax. You’ve also relieved them of the capital gains tax, because you don’t pay capital gains tax on assets you hold till death.”
So I think something that hasn’t seemed to have been looked at at this budget, but that certainly should be scrutinised because it causes this exact problem, is the fact that relief for any asset I’m selling, if I’m using it to buy agricultural land, is a way in which I can avoid the capital gains and currently inheritance tax. And that creates demand for agricultural land from people who have no desire to farm the land, but want to buy it because they’re getting it for a tax minimisation perspective.”
MP“; That would be a change that would not have the impact on those who are currently using the land for agricultural purposes.”
Dr Advani; That reform in itself food production wouldn’t affect the people who are currently using the land for agricultural food production.
MP; Why do you think that wouldn’t have been looked at? Because it would have clearly saved the government lots of challenges presentationally.
Dr Advani; I can’t really speculate on what the government does. Hopefully through the select, you can ask the ministers about that. I have no idea.”!”
It is no accident that the inheritance tax on farmers doesn’t make economic sense. The point of the tax is to get rid of farmers. Without the healthy and diverse food that small farms provide, we will be forced to eat government-sponsored, corporate-owned, ultra-processed frankenstein food.
Read; Reeves’s inheritance tax raid ‘to cost more than it makes’ Hit to Exchequer from lower investment and job losses will outweigh revenue uplift, warn economists; 16 December 2024
‘Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on family businesses and farms will backfire by costing the Treasury over £1bn more than it makes, economists have said.’
CO2 tunnel vision
Watch; It’s a false flag and we fell for it! Richard Vobes, 5 December 2024
“Seems to me we might well have been fooled. I’m talking about this milk business, this Arla Foods and the Bovaer. We’ve all jumped on it, haven’t we? We’ve all gone, oh, my goodness, we don’t want additives added to our milk, we don’t want poisons in there. We’ve seen the TikTok videos of people pouring the milk down the toilet and people taking branded butters and creams and all those sort of dairy things, shoving them in the bin. But I’m just wondering whether we’ve actually been had, whether this has been manipulated, that this is actually a false flag, that it’s all part of getting rid of cows, animals and indeed dairy altogether, and that we’ve fallen for it, thinking, oh, what nasty people they were to add additives to it, when in actual fact we’re helping, we’re doing the devil’s work in getting rid of cows ourselves. Let me give you my thinking.
So imagine the story this way, instead of what we’ve been led to believe and how it’s played out. Maybe it went like this, that in the deep, dark layers of the globalists and the dark forces, they’re sitting there going, “hmm, we need to get rid of the cows, we need to get rid of the dairy industry. How are we going to do this? And some bright wag said, well, why don’t we run a story that a certain company is going to put an additive into cows to stop them farting?”
“It’s just that what they will remember is that milk is bad, that milk and dairy is bad because of this, with this outrage that the public have gone to. And they will think, oh, yeah, we can’t buy milk, we’ll have to go and find an alternative milk, like porridge milk, you know, oat milk. We’ll do that, or we’ll go to the smaller suppliers who do things like raw milk and all the smaller milk companies that are managing to do milk.
But the problem there is they’re not geared up for the millions of people who are ditching the Sainsbury’s and the Tesco and the other supermarkets’ milk, they’re not geared up for it. So people will be marching up to little farm shops going, I want some proper, real milk. And they say, I’m sorry, we’re sold out. You swines, you’ve sold out.
But I want milk. I can’t go to the supermarket and I can’t go to the farm shop. What am I going to do? I’ll have to go and get that oat milk.”
Dairy-free milk substitutes are marketed as being healthier and more environment friendly than real milk, but guess what, they have dodgy additives, use pesticides and herbicides, and use huge amounts of water and land.
Listen; The true cost of plant-based milk; TheStory 11 December 2024
Libby Galvin (The Times); “Nearly all plant-based milks that you’ll find on the shelf are fortified because a lot of people use them as a direct replacement for dairy. They are fortified with the same number of vitamins as cow’s milk naturally has.
You have to check the label of every one of these things because all of them are different and there isn’t some kind of set standard to which they have to subscribe. But a lot of them will have will be fortified with the same sort of things as milk has in naturally. However, they are highly likely if they’re fortified in that way also to be ultra processed foods.
If you eat, drink an unfortified non UPF (Ultra Processed Food) version, you’re getting just water, just almonds, maybe a sprinkle of salt. It’s certainly not unhealthy, it’s not packed with vitamins, it’s fine. But if you’re having a fortified one, you’re then going into the question of what stabilisers am I getting, what gums are in there? Are there any numbers?
So I would suggest if you’re worried about health, you want to spend a lot more time in that aisle looking at the back of the almond milk, whereas you know what you’re getting with a bottle of cow’s milk.
So environmentally it’s fallen quite short there as well. It’s got one star for the environment in great part because of this new research. Water is the real problem with almonds. That’s the problem. It’s a very, very thirsty nut. It takes an awful lot to make it and it takes even more to turn it from the almond into the almond milk. Also not mentioned in the studies is the impact almond orchards have on bees. And again, particularly in the US, apparently US farmers, they lose a third of their colonies of bees to almond farming every year.This is down, I think, to some of the pesticides that they use. So it’s really hard on bees. And if you’re an environmentalist, you probably have quite an affinity for bees.
“Take us on to oat milk because it feels that’s very, very, very prevalent at the moment, you know, wherever you go.”
“So we’ve given it a 2 for health. Now, the main reason it has the two for health is because very similar to almond milk, it’s going to be fortified. Well, it’s probably going to be fortified, it’s probably going to be a UPF, and it also tends to include seed oils, grapeseed oil, canola oil or maybe even sunflower oil. Now, these aren’t terrible for you in and of themselves, but a lot of people, a lot of health conscious people want to avoid them. They have these omega 6 fatty acids in them, which if we have too many omega 6s and not enough omega 3s in our diet, it’s shown that this can increase inflammation in our bodies, increase ageing and various different problems like that. It’s not that you should never have any of them, it’s just that you don’t want the balance to tip in favour of them. And the reason it has these sunflower oils and so on is actually one of the reasons it’s so popular, because that’s what makes it taste so creamy and so nice and such a good replacement for dairy.
More than 90% of our oats contain an awful lot of pesticides, unless it’s organic, which few of the oat milks on our shelves are, and they’re likely to have a lot of pesticides being used in their production, which is really, really hard on the earth and biodiversity.”
Of course BBC Farming Today 7 Dec program is here to tell us that Bovaer is safe as houses! I won’t be transcribing their words cos I don’t believe a word of it but you can listen for yourselves
Small and medium scale independent dairy farmers, especially with pasture fed cows as opposed to indoor mega dairies, are already on their last legs.
Listen; Dairy Farmers BBC Farming Today, 11 December 2024
Presenter; “While milk production has been maintained across the UK, the number of individual dairy farms has fallen. Figures from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board show nearly 6% of dairy producers across the UK left the industry in the last year. And in Wales, the figure is even higher, down 17%, according to NFU Cymru. Mary Claire Carey Jones has been to meet dairy farmer Abi Reader at her farm in Wenvo in the Vale of Glamorgan to find out why.”
NFU Cymru Deputy President Abi Reader; “We’re stood in our cow sheds. We invested in this about five years ago. There’s about 120 cows in here, they’ve just finished milking. These cows have been with us and in my history for 100 years. It’s very much a part of who I am.”
Presenter; “What’s it like, though, being a dairy farmer in this day and age?”
NFU Cymru Deputy President Abi Reader; “It seems to get more and more complicated every year and there’s increasing demands of what dairy farms have to do. There’s research all the time about how we can make these cows be fitter and healthier and we need to make sure we keep up with all of this research and it’s just about invest, invest, invest.”
Presenter; “What do you find are the biggest challenges on a day to day basis?”
NFU Cymru Deputy President Abi Reader; “Really it’s trying to deal with this ever increasing legislation. It’s not just a case of you feed the cow, you get the milk and you sell the milk. It’s, gosh, I now need to do this and this and this, and it’s going to cost me this much money this year and how do I afford that? And yeah, it’s massive challenges.”
Presenter; “And for more traditional family farms like yours has been how do they fare when they’re trying to get the milking contracts compared to maybe bigger farms?”
NFU Cymru Deputy President Abi Reader; “So milk contracts are largely dictated by your postcode. If you live close to an amp to a motorway, you’re likely to supply what we call a liquid milk market, will go into your bottles. If you live a long way from those chimney pots, then you’re probably going to supply the cheese market, which will be lower volumes of milk. And for small farms and farms that live out of the way, it is really challenging to get these contracts now.”
Bovaer is about as safe and effective as the Covid jab!
Read or Listen; Climate alarmists score an own goal: Bovaer’s major route of excretion is CO2; Rhoda Wilson, 8 December 2024
‘The drug Bovaer which is described as a feed additive for dairy cows to “reduce emissions” has been disclosed as consisting of three ingredients: silicon dioxide, propylene glycol and 3-nitrooxypropanol (“3-NOP”).’
Writing for UK Column, Dr. Mike Williams takes a brief look at the studies done on 3-NOP to establish if it is “safe and effective.”
‘The European Food Safety Authority’s (“EFSA’s”) Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (“FEEDAP”) concludes that the genotoxicity potential of 3-NOP cannot be ruled out, indicating a potential to cause cancer, he writes. 3-NOP’s impact on humans is unknown as it remains untested.
3-NOP was found to induce chromosome damage and gene mutations and an increase in benign gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumours in studies on female rats. Adverse effects on fertility and reproduction were also seen in rats, including severe reduction of spermatogenesis in males and failure to become pregnant in females at high doses.
Although studies show that 3-NOP does not transmit in dosed animals’ milk, the breakdown product of 3-NOP, 3-nitrooxypropionic acid (“NOPA”), was detected in cow’s plasma and milk, and is assumed to be responsible for testicular toxicity.
In a twist which shows climate alarmists’ plans to be self-defeating, the use of 3-NOP in cows also results in increased hydrogen emissions and the major route of excretion is as carbon dioxide (CO2).’
The Daily Mail article on Bovaer lists the supermarkets and the products so you know what to avoid. Bottom line, to avoid Bovaer go to your farm shop and buy real milk or buy organic milk from supermarkets.The government is to make money for the Bovaer drug companies and their shareholders on the road to eradicating independent farmers.
New Bovaer fears: UK Government ‘commits’ to giving ALL cows in England controversial feed by 2030 – amid ongoing dairy boycott over ‘toxic’ additive
READ MORE: Expert’s verdict on Arla Foods’ Bovaer following alarming claims; JOHN ELY DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE; 6 December 2024
This Christmas supermarkets will be on steroids again competing to sell the cheapest veg, spelling disaster for small independent shops who can’t afford to play the loss leader game. Supermarkets have created the centralised food economy and, if independent farmers disappear; they will just source the next generation of toxic junk food from highly centralised, tech food conglomerates in line with the frankenstein food promoted in Sainsbury’s Future of Food Report.
Listen; Christmas veg price wars BBC Farming Today, 19 December 2024
Intro; ‘Carrot and sprout discount wars are in full swing as the supermarkets vie to be the best value for Christmas. While growers acknowledge what’s becoming an annual pricing competition can be helpful for hard-up shoppers, they’re worried that this sends the wrong messages to consumers.
An invaluable interview for anyone interested in how our veg growers, large scale and small, are going to survive or disappear;
Listen; Bea Laughton,the Landworkers Alliance Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator: The Organic Grower Podcast; James Butterworth; 19 Dec 2024
Intro; ‘James speaks to researcher, policy expert and campaigner, Bea Laughton. Much of the conversation focuses on her work for the Landworkers Alliance. We discuss the latest Horticulture Across Four Nations Report, including addressing import substitution, increasing supply and consumption of UK-grown vegetables, price challenges and the true cost of production. We also discuss public sector procurement of organic veg, particularly attempts to get more organic veg into schools in Wales. We move onto identifying and overcoming the barriers to the growth of agroecology, matters of scale, including building appropriate skills, knowledge and funding for new entrants on medium and larger scales. Towards the end, we focus on the opportunities opening up in the current political context and what individual growers can do to effect change.’
Rebecca Laughton; “I don’t think it’s really possible to do the buying of the land with bank loans for the income that you get from selling vegetables. It’s essentially a bit like a reverse of the situation that is coming up with this whole row about inheritance tax. Farmers are saying, ‘it’s all very well to value all our assets and say that we’ve got to pay inheritance tax on them, but actually the assets are essential for production and if you don’t have those assets, then you can’t produce. But the return on that investment, if you were to buy it again, is really, really small. So once it’s lost, it’s gone.”
James Butterworth; “Why would you take out hundreds of thousands of pounds of loan to buy an asset that’s not going to have a great return on investment unless you sell the land, which is probably not what most people going into it are looking to do”.
Rebecca Laughton; “Exactly. A lot of growers, and I’ve really just found this out or become much more aware of it in the last two or three years with running Growing Goods. But a lot of the large scale growers are tenants and they’re reliant on renting land around a whole region of the country, sometimes literally the entire of the north. There’ll be a grower driving between different plots of land in the north of England in order to secure high quality land and they’re having to pay top dollar in order to rent that land because land is good quality horticultural land. You’re paying rents of upwards of £800 a hectare per year. And so you’ve then got to make sure that you’re generating significantly over that. And that’s why they’re really, really struggling at the moment, because the costs of production are only just being covered by the costs, by the price that they’re receiving from supermarkets.
The margins are so tight, tiny, and sometimes they’re having to actually take a hit. If they’ve had a crop loss due to poor weather or pest attack, then they’re actually making a loss on that. So for the really, really large scale growers, it’s actually not making very much money at all, let alone smaller scale growers. So there’s struggle throughout the system and I think it’s something that’s quite salutary to remember when small scale growers might be feeling slightly embarrassed or ashamed that they’re not generating more of an income from their business, actually these struggles are going on throughout the system.
It’s the food system that’s making this true, rather than that the growers are bad growers. Everyone is stuck in the system where food prices are really suppressed. And a lot of this is being driven by the supermarkets. Which is why I’m a huge advocate of the Riverford Get Fair About Farming campaign. And I personally feel it’s been a really generous thing that Riverford have launched this campaign, because clearly none of their farmers are selling to supermarkets, or maybe some of them are selling some food to supermarkets.
But Riverford is independent of the supermarkets. But they’re really pushing home the point that supermarkets need to be paying a price that actually covers the cost of production and gives growers enough to reinvest in their farm. One of the stories I’ve heard from several of the larger growers in growing goods is that they might be able to keep going for, say, five years, but they’re not reinvesting in machinery. And gradually their machinery is going to need to be replaced. And when it needs to be replaced, then they simply won’t be able to afford to replace it.
And we simply can’t afford to be in that situation as a country. In the countries that we import vegetables from, for example, Spain and Morocco are already experiencing climate change. They’re experiencing drought, they’re experiencing floods, they’re experiencing colder winters sometimes and hotter summers. And we can’t continue to rely on them having a supply of vegetables for the UK market, especially if the UK market isn’t willing to pay enough to secure those vegetables. So we need to be building our resilience in this country, rather than letting our horticulture sector just gradually dwindle through lack of investment.”
What does Milliband mean when he writes that it is essential to ‘reverse Britain’s exposure to global energy markets’ and ‘protect people from the ravages of global energy markets’? Is it that carbon trading has become the new game forcing countries to sell their carbon or face penalties? How absurd. Time to vote for the party that exposes the lies. My favourite, The Workers Party, led by the brilliant George Galloway, would scrap the Clean Energy Action Plan, but he won’t win. The Reform party, which is against the NetZero scam and the farm inheritance tax, and rightly says that the West provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ….. however they support zionist Israel! Democracy is f***ed, so let’s join the farmers and take to the streets.
Read; Where Ed Miliband is plotting to build one billion solar panels across Britain; Jonathan Leake, Dec 14 2024
Middle England will be worst hit under the Energy Secretary’s NetZero blitz
‘In a foreword to the Clean Energy 2030 Action Plan, published on Thursday, Mr Miliband said massive expansions in solar, wind and other renewable energies were essential to reverse Britain’s exposure to global energy markets.
He said: “In an increasingly unstable world, our dependence on fossil fuels leaves us deeply vulnerable as a country … The age of clean electricity is about harnessing the power of Britain’s natural resources so we can protect people from the ravages of global energy markets.
“Our plan will provide the foundation for the UK to build an energy system that can bring down bills for households and businesses for good.”’
‘Mr Miliband’s plans are strongly opposed by Reform, which plans to make Labour’s plans for solar farms, onshore wind turbines and pylons across the countryside its top campaigning issue.
Richard Tice, the party’s energy spokesman, said: “Mr Miliband wants to carpet British farmland with solar panels roughly the size of Greater London.
“This absurd proposal will mean bigger energy bills and decimate food production. It is utterly wrong and a Reform government would stop this immediately if we win the next general election.”
‘New wind farm – Rate how well we’ve ignored your opinions’
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The Government talks about a black hole in the country’s finances, but where has the money gone?
Read the thread on David Turver’s twitter site to see how he arrived at this figure.
‘Not too long ago, the Government launched the Subsidy Control Transparency Database. Last week it was updated with figures from renewables auction AR6. I counted £328bn of energy/Net Zero subsidies.’
Just for starters; David Turver
Dec 8
‘First up, there’s energy generation subsidies. £45bn for AR6, £5bn for AR5 (no offshore wind), £15bn for AR4 & £15bn for earlier rounds. An extra £3.4bn for Hornsea wind farm, £2.1bn for Walney & £1.9bn for Beatrice. £15bn for remote island wind & £31bn on FiTs. (2/n)
Dec 8
That’s a total of £87.4bn on CfDs, £15bn for remote island wind and £15bn for FiTs. Strangely, they only record ROC subsidies at £1 (yes one pound), even though they cost us over £7bn per year. (3/n)
Dec 8
Renewables are intermittent, so we need extra subsidies to compensate. Government estimates the capacity market will cost £16bn. This is below OBR estimates of >£19bn out to 2029/30. There’s even a £14m subsidy to mitigate the impact of offshore wind on UK Air Defence. (4/n)’
etc…
Italy has broken ranks and is putting 2 fingers up to ground-mounted solar panels on farmland. Sunny days in the UK compared to Rome begs the question why is the UK investing in this ‘solar’ industry?
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— No Farmers, No Food (@NoFarmsNoFoods) December 14, 2024
ITALY BANS GROUND-MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS ON AGRICULTURAL LAND
AFP Staff Writers; Rome May 6, 2024
Italy’s rightwing government on Monday banned the installation of ground-based solar panels on agricultural land, just days after Rome committed to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2030.
“We put an end to the wild installation of ground-mounted photovoltaic panels,” Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said at a press conference following the cabinet meeting.
The ban covers photovoltaic systems placed on the ground in areas classified as agricultural, but does not refer to agrivoltaic projects, where solar panels are installed above fields of crops, Lollobrigida said.
Projects benefiting from EU funds, such as energy communities, are exempt.
Coordinamento Free, an umbrella group for renewable energy businesses and environmental associations, warned earlier on Monday that such a ban would “block many photovoltaic projects”.
“As a result, Italy will fail to meet the 2030 decarbonisation targets,” it said.
Clean energy is essential to reduce emissions from burning fossil fuels and for any hope of keeping the international target of restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Italy last week committed, along with fellow G7 nations, to triple renewables by 2030.
Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said the ban on ground-mounted panels on agricultural land would not stop the government installing some 38 GW through photovoltaic plants by that date.
Monday’s ban is part of a draft law that must be approved by parliament and may be modified before that.
And yet: The increased sunshine in Italy at the latitude of Rome compared to the UK at the latitude of London significantly impacts solar panel electricity production. Here’s a detailed analysis:
Sunshine Difference:
- Rome: ~2,400–2,900 annual sunshine hours.
- London: ~1,400–1,600 annual sunshine hours. Increase:
- Rome receives ~70–100% more sunshine annually than London.
Effect on Solar Panel Efficiency:
The amount of solar energy produced depends on sunshine duration and solar irradiance (sunlight intensity). In general:
- Solar irradiance in Rome is about 30–50% higher than in London due to clearer skies and higher sun angles.
- Combining sunshine hours and irradiance, Rome can generate ~70–90% more solar energy annually compared to London, depending on system efficiency and local conditions.
Comparing Solar Electricity Production:
If London is the baseline at 100% solar production, then:
- Rome would produce ~170–190% of London’s solar energy output due to its higher sunshine hours and better solar conditions.
Practical Implications:
- Solar panels in Rome would recover installation costs much faster due to higher annual output.
- A solar installation in Rome would offset significantly more carbon emissions compared to one in London.
3. Energy Dependence:
- Regions like Italy can rely more heavily on solar energy for sustainable power generation.
Food & Farming external costs
Therese Coffey (former Conservative Deputy PM) described Glyphosate as ‘a very very potent herbicide, that is integral to regenerative agriculture’. The new progressive farm buzzword, ‘regenerative farming’ has no definition or standards, so when it is applied to farms that use Glyphosate in their rotation, it should be called chemical regen. This could clear up the confusion caused by the co-option of the word regen by farmers that use chemicals. Farmers that follow organic standards could define their farming methods as organic regen.
Watch; UK Column News, Glyphosate 11 December 2024
Charles Malet “Something that the European Commission is not going to be considering anytime soon, but one of the very widespread chemicals used in agriculture is glyphosate, more commonly known as Roundup, but that’s the active ingredient. And just to remind you that it’s currently approved by the European Commission up until December 2033. And of course in many cases we take our lead from such edicts, notably Therese Coffey, when she was involved with DEFRA describing glyphosate, ‘which is a very, very potent herbicide, as being integral to regenerative agriculture’, which took some beating as a statement to make in that position. But we’ll just have a look now at a video produced by Zach Bush”.
Zach Bush; “And so these farmers started using it and it became a revolution for them. And it was actually called the green revolution of the 1960s. And so the green revolution was actually use of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium or NPK fertilisers. And the NPK fertiliser did turn plants green because nitrogen and phosphorus do that. But what was lacking in the those plants for the first time in human history was the nutrients and the medicine that should always have been in that food. And so the plants became weak. Just like a human being who lacks nutrients, their immune system goes down. And when a plant’s immune system goes down, it becomes prone to viruses, pests, and it can’t excrete the stuff from the root system that would keep weeds at bay. And so now the plants are getting, attacked from the outside, if you will. And the chemical industry says, ‘no problem, here’s a new chemical weed killer, here’s a pesticide’. And so the farmers got themselves locked into this co-dependent relationship with chemical fertilisers. Then chemical drugs for the plants to keep them alive despite a failing biology underneath the surface.”
Charles Malet; “Now this coincides with the publication yesterday of the health and safety executive analysis in terms of risk assessment with regard to the chemicals that may end up in the food chain or indeed in your body, depending on what it is you decide to eat. Now, they say that this work checks that dietary intakes of residues are within acceptable limits.
So at no point here are the health and safety executives suggesting that part of their role is to ensure that chemicals do not make it into your food. Absolutely not. All they’re saying is that they will design levels below which they think it is acceptable. And I should point out that the levels that they choose are median levels. They don’t look at the highest levels that they would find of concentrations of particular herbicides or pesticides, let’s say. So in effect, their very measuring system is completely broken, of course, notwithstanding the fact that they don’t mind at all if these things are going to get through the system and be in your body and therefore take the sort of effect that Zach Bush describes there in his video. We’ll go and have a look a bit more at what they say in their document talking about the exposure to pesticides going back to this idea that they do not pose an unacceptable risk to humans with a wide range of investigations. But the point to make here is that the tests they make for humans are blood and urine, but they’re not done with humans. They use animals in order to conduct those tests.”
My dear pig farmer friend and social media communications colleague at Farms not Factories, Helen Freeman and her husband Matt, have lost their battle to save their very small, free range pig farm due to the vindictiveness of locals who don’t want a farm to interrupt their view of the countryside. Farmers are seen as the enemy not just by the newbies to the countryside but by the government right through to the judiciary and local councils. Fundamentally, our ‘powers that shouldn’t be’ want to get rid of farmers.
The Final Stand, A Battle for Our Farm’s Future – Part 1: High Court; Helen Freeman; Dec 03, 2024
‘I hadn’t planned to write about our struggles so soon after starting this Substack. Truthfully, it has taken me a long time to put this post together because every time I revisit it, my emotions shift—anger, heartbreak, determination, and hope all competing for control.
For two gruelling years, we fought to save our farm from the clutches of our local planning authority. Those years culminated in a week in the High Court, facing allegations of breaching an injunction order, followed by a draining planning inspectorate hearing to appeal a planning enforcement notice. This is the story of that battle—the fight to save our farm, our livelihood, and our home but it’s also a window into the systemic challenges farmers face across the UK.
A wake up call for all conventional farmers to change from toxic agriculture methods to methods that work in symbiosis with nature. After his child was brain damaged after being kicked by a pony he lost all will to live…
Listen; A Life-changing experience BBC Farming Today, 6 December 2024
Farmer Ben Taylor Davies; “I realised that as a farmer I was killing so much stuff with fungicides, pesticides, with all these things I was a killer. How do you get your passion back for this farming? The thing that healed my whole life and my brain and put me stood here talking to you with a smile on my face is this regenerative agriculture. It regenerates everything and including your mind and it was only eventually when Helen said you need to pull yourself together really. You’ve talked about doing a Nuffield Scholarship in the past. You need to get a bit of passion back for something. Why don’t you apply for one?”
BBC Presenter; “So for people who don’t know a Nuffield Scholarship is where the organisation Nuffield will give you some money to go and travel and look at whatever farming subject it is you want to do all around the world so that you can learn something, bring something back.”
Farmer Ben Taylor Davies; “I wrote an application then I just hastened to add I didn’t actually want the Nuffield at the time. I was hoping they’d get rejected. I thought I couldn’t barely leave the house and there I was applying to travel the world, you know, big problems. Anyway, I got it and I decided to go to America and spend six weeks travelling zigzagging the whole country. It just so happened I met some of the most inspirational people almost immediately by accident, fate or whatever you call it. And the first person I happened to meet was Gabe Brown. He showed me around his farm. I learned about what I called from then on opposite farming. Gabe was doing the opposite of everything I was doing. First and foremost he didn’t talk about yields, he didn’t talk about anything in particular other than soil. He said you look after your soil and everything will come right. And he wasn’t using any fertilisers and he wasn’t using any pesticides and he kept talking about covering the soil and feeding the biology of your soul. And the soul should be alive. And yeah, just found it absolutely inspirational what he was saying. A little chink of light changed everything.”
Interesting that Feedback quotes the finding by Henry Dimbleby that Australian beef produced more CO2 than beef produced in the UK as their reason for campaigning against the Australian trade deal. Putting to one side the carbon cost of transporting beef 10,000 miles, according to the Sustainable Food Trust Australia is still involved in converting natural forest to agriculture. That means that at least some beef and lamb produced in Australia will have a carbon footprint ten, twenty, perhaps even thirty times higher than beef and lamb produced in the UK! Outside of the carbon bollocks, the reason not to import Australian beef is because it will undermine UK beef farmers. Liz Webster, Farmer and Founder of Save British Farming, said at the Tractor Protest in Westminster on 11 December.
“Feedback Global has applied for a judicial review to challenge the Australia trade deal. This government promised that they wouldn’t allow Tory trade deals to undercut farmers. They lied. They are actually aggressively trying to stop this judicial review by challenging their right to a cost capping order, which means they’re trying to bankrupt them so they can’t do the judicial review. So it’s absolutely essential that everybody gets behind the NGO Feedback Global. They need money, they’re a non government association. The judicial review has the potential to derail all of these really bad trade deals and get rid of this very unhealthy food that is coming in full of chemicals using methods that are banned here”.
Read; Application filed for Judicial Review of the Australian Free Trade Agreement over its inadequate environmental impact assessment; Christina O’Sullivan, 7th July 2023
‘The fundamental issue in the claim is whether the government acted lawfully in deciding not to assess the relative carbon intensities of beef produced in the UK and Australia, for the stated reason that the available evidence was inconclusive and too variable.
The government must ensure all trade deals work towards our emissions reduction targets rather than towards further catastrophic heating.
The legal challenge will test whether the government has adequately assessed the impact of this trade agreement. This has important implications for future trade deals.’
Yet another insane trade deal undercuts farmers in Europe and diverts money to giant global corporations, their CEOs and their shareholders.
Read; Europe’s farmers promise biggest protests yet in response to globalist Mercosur deal; Carnivore UK, 18 December 2024
Intro; ‘While delusional remainers continue to blame Brexit for the woes of British farming, the EU has just agreed to sell its agricultural sector down the river.’
‘Spanish farmers gather in Madrid to protest the incoming EU-Mercosur deal, Monday 16th December 2024.
After 25 years of negotiations, Ursula von der Leyen has gleefully announced that a free-trade agreement has been reached between the EU and Mercosur, an economic bloc consisting of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia. All that remains is for the deal to be ratified by 15 of the 27 European Union member states representing 65% of the EU population.
If successful, the European Commission will adopt a zero tariff rate for 99,000 tonnes of beef and 180,000 tonnes of poultry, which risks displacing up to 18% of EU beef output and driving prices down across the continent.
It is difficult to see how this can be portrayed as a good deal for European farmers. It seems instead that the real winners, as in most cases, are the big multinational conglomerates and their representatives in Brussels, as the deal marks yet another step towards the globalisation of the world economy, something which is opposed by significant numbers of ordinary voters.
Perhaps this explains why countries such as France, Poland, Austria and Ireland have all voiced their concerns over how the Mercosur deal will impact their domestic agricultural industries. Italy, too, are rumoured to have serious misgivings about the agreement, and will only acquiesce if safeguards are given to their farmers, including increased cash subsidies.
But for many farmers across the continent, this new deal will prove the final straw. They have faced a tumultuous few years dealing with the effects of ruinous lockdown policies, rising energy prices and the prioritisation of Ukrainian goods. Add to this an impending influx of cheaper Mercosur produce, it would appear that policymakers in Brussels are seeking to deliberately destroy their own farming communities.
But Europe’s farmers are not going to take this lying down. Protests are already being planned by the major European farming organisations. Bart Dickens, president of the Farmers Defence Force Belgium, has warned that anti-Mercosur protests will be far bigger than those seen in Brussels earlier this year which witnessed dramatic scenes of tyre fires and government buildings being sprayed with livestock muck.’
Banksters and corporate bosses write the free trade treaties to obliterate restrictions, allowing global corporations to comb the globe for the cheapest produce, thereby flooding markets with cheap imports, undermining farmers’ livelihoods and citizens’ food security the world over.’
Read; EU-Mercosur conclusion of the negotiations: The masks fall, the European Commission president claims to be listening to farmers, but she does not care about us 6 December 2024
‘ECVC (Via Campesina) condemns the decision of the European Commission and Mercosur leaders to conclude the negotiations of the EU-Mercosur FTA which is opposed by all farmers and farm workers organisations for its social impact and the negation of the need for sustainable food systems it represents. It also fully contradicts all the blocs’ national governments’ commitments regarding the fight against climate change.
Morgan Ody: “As European farmers we don’t want to compete with farmers from Mercosur. Our job is not to be in a worldwide competition but to produce healthy food for Europeans.”
Andoni Garcia adds: “We will now watch carefully what governments and political groups who claimed during famers’ historical mobilisation at the beginning of this year to be close to the farmers will actually do. They have to take a stance against it and this antidemocratic way of negotiating trade agreements.”
Achieving food sovereignty and respecting peasants’ rights should be the basis for a new framework for international food exchanges, so that the trade system is fair and contributes to justice and peace.
Farmers will continue to mobilise against this FTA and will, in a way or another, put an end to it.’
Typically the government’s mouthpiece, the BBC, chose to interview a neo-liberal economist who criticised Trump’s policies to protect US trade. Imposing protective tariffs would help UK farmers survive cheap low standard imports that undermine our farmers’ ability to survive, and thereby threaten our food quality and security. But first how to get rid of corporate stooge Starmer?
Listen; International Trade BBC Farming Today, 11 December 2024
BBC’s intro; ‘Donald Trump may not become President until next year but he’s already indicated clearly his approach to trade: he’s talked about increasing tariffs on imports into the US and protecting American farmers. At the same time, the UK government is drawing up closer ties with the European Union. With war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East, it’s a challenging time for global trade. So how will the UK’s food producers be affected, and how do we make ourselves competitive in such a disrupted global market?’
Anyone trying to make a living by growing veg to sell to local markets will be inspired and enlightened by this visionary veg grower.
Listen Adam Payne Adam Payne and Awen Organics, Pembrokeshire The Organic Grower Podcast, 5 December 2024
“James speaks to Adam Payne of Awen Organics in Pembrokeshire. Adam is no novice and is now putting his experience to work in a relatively new venture in West Wales, where he has been leading in establishing a 25-acre organic veg farm from the ground up.
Adam Payne; “We’re probably doing about 10 or so acres of actual cropping, but it’s amazing how much land is used up by the edges, there’s a little bit of woodland and a little bit of pasture. The farm is kind of runs on three main systems.
We have a field scale system which is divided into 10, 3/4 of an acre blocks of 100 metre beds where we do field crops that’s quite mechanised and that’s separated with apple trees into an agroforestry system. We have a kind of market garden scale section of 20 metre beds where we have a much faster turnover of crops, denser sowings, higher successions and then we have at the moment eight tunnels for summer winter crops. We supply three main markets. We do a local kind of direct wholesale round to restaurants and farm shops and things like that.
Yeah, very beautiful, very beautiful little farm which we’re excited to be growing on.”
To escape the upside down world shaped by psychopaths, an increasing number of highly educated people are buying land and forming largely self sufficient communities.
Watch; Create a community farm; Wild Minds
“It’s no coincidence that everyone that begins to take responsibility for their own life turns into a conspiracy theorist because you can’t help but look around and think why the f*** is everything so backwards? Why is everything upside down? You begin to look around, like I wonder why modern medicine is based around symptom suppressing pharmaceuticals that will literally never help you get healthy. That’s weird. And I wonder why we have to pay extra for food that doesn’t have poison on it. Shouldn’t all the food just be organic as standard and the food with poison on it have a label? Yeah, that doesn’t seem right.
And it’s kind of weird that we send our kids to school to get an education, but instead what they really get taught is that there’s only a single source of knowledge, truth and information and it comes from institutional authority. And if you don’t submit to it, you are a bad kid. Right, okay, so I’m supposed to work a job I hate for 40 plus years to pay for a house I don’t actually own so that once I’m utterly defeated by life and I retire, I can die confused and purposeless.
If all of this seems wrong to you, you’re not alone. People are waking up to the illusion of mainstream society and looking for another way. It’s why I sold my home and business and started an off grid community farm where I have access to real food and clean water. A like minded community and I can live a life of connection and purpose while my children grow up free and healthy. And I want to help others do the same.
So if you want to get out of the system, comment yes to grab my book that will teach you how.”
Tech food continues to be rolled out by the uniparty.
Read; UK government raises the GMO stakes: open trials of gene edited crops; Beyond GM, 10 October 2024
New plans for seed multiplication trials of gene-edited crops in England have been announced.
‘Three experimental gene-edited crops – two varieties of wheat and one variety of barley – are due to be planted in open trials on commercial farms in England. This is a first in terms of trials of genetically modified crops and a serious escalation of the government’s plans to push genetically modified gene-edited (so called “precision-bred”) crops onto the marketplace.
The project has reportedly received £2.2 million from Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, which is delivered by Innovate UK (a division of UK Research and Innovation, or UKRI) and is funded primarily through taxes. It will be ongoing from 2024 to 2026 with a goal of producing enough gene-edited seed to start commercial planting at the end of that period.
The project will operate under the title of PROBITY (a Platform to Rate Organisms Bred for Improved Traits and Yield) which is (probably unintentionally) ironic given that public money is being spent but the public has been given no say in the decision and there is, as yet, no publicly available information on the trial except for what can be found on organiser’s website.’
‘We are awaiting a response from the government to a whole range of questions about the trial, including:
Public money is being spent on these trials so why are there no documents available for the public to scrutinise?
What provision has been made for MPs (particularly in rural areas) to examine details of the trial to better understand how it might affect their constituents?
What measures are in place to ensure that no seeds find their way into the food chain or are fed to animals?
What measures are in place to ensure that once the trial has ended no trace of genetically modified precision-bred seed remains on the farms?
What training and what checks will be in place for commercial farmers taking part in the trials with regard to biosecurity and reducing the risk of cross-contamination?
Are any of the trial sites on or near organic farms? If so, how close are they?
Will non-GM farmers in the local area receive notification that there are trials of genetically modified precision-bred crops taking place in their area?
What is the scientific basis for the 20-metre separation distance stipulated in the Deliberate Release Amendment?
Supermarkets and food producers who will be expected to accept this gene-edited produce have been eerily quiet about the trial. So too has the government. Indeed the lack of clarity and transparency under which these trials are going ahead is the kind of thing Labour proposed should change, when it was in opposition.
Enquiries to Food Security Minister Daniel Zeichner have yielded no useful information – though the government’s commitment to technological farming and food production has been made plain. Recently, Minister Zeichner told a conference full of biotech developers that he would be “introducing legislation to unlock precision breeding to boost Britain’s food security, support nature’s recovery and protect farmers from climate shocks” and that “with these measures, our agriculture sector will be at the forefront of innovation across the world.”
Help keep the pressure on government and supermarkets in the UK. Use the contact information below to write and let them know that genetically modified “precision bred” organisms must be labelled and traceable at every step along the food chain.
We challenge the Minister to provide any evidence that these statements are true. The cold fact is that genetic modification has not lived up to its outlandish promises and the continued hyperbole damages attempts to create real and lasting sustainability. As researchers writing in the journal Nature note, it also damages the integrity of the science of genetics. According to the scientists: “Especially in the context of climate change and a growing human population, the growth of misleading claims around yields has become a cause of concern to us.”
For thousands of years people grew food in the soil, taking care to nourish it with organic matter to feed the microbes and soil biome that all life on earth depends on. Now, in their relentless pursuit of profit, control and ownership, Big Ag companies have plans to genetically modify, and thus take ownership of, the living organisms that provide fertility, and with psychotic disregard for the sanctity of the living soil, desecrate Nature and try to steal the ground from beneath our feet.
Watch; Soil microbes are the unsung heroes of agriculture Crucialfourfarms, 18 November 2024
‘Soil microbes are the unsung heroes of agriculture—critical players in making nutrients accessible to plants and maintaining the delicate balance of ecosystems. For millennia, these microbes have worked in harmony with the soil, creating the foundation for life as we know it.
Now, with the agricultural biologicals market booming (projected to double to $28B by 2028), Big Ag is rushing to stake a claim. But here’s the catch: genetically engineering soil microbiomes might promise innovation, yet it comes with risks we’re only beginning to understand.’
“We freak out when someone talks about editing germline genes in people, these are the genes in the reproductive cells that make sperm and eggs. Essentially a la carte designing of people. Everybody seems to be able to see that’s problematic ethically and otherwise.
Yet right under our noses, Big Ag is genetically engineering soil microbes. Why is the dirt that’s been on this earth for millennia not good enough? Genetically modifying organisms in the dirt will have far reaching effects that could be disastrous. The arrogance of biochemical engineers astounds me.
The usual Ag giants like Bayer, Syngenta and BASF are manipulating yet another aspect of agriculture. They’ve packaged up these new biologicals with super herbicides like glyphosate and atrazine, with genetically modified seeds, put a bow on it and called it regenerative agriculture. Well, I like the old regenerative agriculture with seed saving, crop rotation, livestock innovation, crop overlay. People can argue about the safety of glyphosate and atrazine, but one thing’s for sure, Big Ag is going to have a proprietary lock on the whole of farming.
At the rate they’re going, you’re going to need the new GE microbes to nourish the GE seeds. Two live GE microbes are currently being used on millions of acres of US farms, and the EPA’s website states they’ve registered eight more. These are organisms like bacteria, fungi, viruses, algae, protozoa. Genetic modifications can move between species and national boundaries on the wind.
When these are released into the environment, you can’t gather them back up again. The regulatory agencies that oversee their use have no monitoring protocols on the spread and environmental effects. We don’t know what genes have been modified. That’s trade secret information that’s redacted from most of the application documents.
Experience tells us that monsters can emerge when you mess with microbiome balance, especially their genes. The EPA and the USDA need to step up regulatory review on biologicals. Here’s another good reason to buy organic.”
Ecocide
Marine Wildlife conservationist and activist Captain Paul Watson has been freed from prison in Greenland where he was facing extradition to Japan for throwing a stink bomb onto the deck of a Japanese whaler in the Antarctic.
Read; Paul Watson free, Denmark Stands Firm Paul Watson Foundation UK, 17 December 2024
‘In a huge win for the whales and ocean conservation – Captain Paul Watson has been freed from jail after being held for 150 days on flimsy accusations levelled by Japan in relation to Paul’s Antarctic campaign of 2010 against Japan’s illegal whaling fleet.
Japan was so determined to extradite Paul and convict him with the maximum sentencing – that they had sought his arrest for over 14 years, had sent a delegation to Copenhagen to push for his extradition, and today it was revealed by the Danish Ministry of Justice that Japan would not even agree to deduct the time served in Greenland from any sentencing in Japan.
Paul can now spend Christmas with his wife and two young boys – and can continue his lifelong mission to end whaling forever.’
Geoengineering
It took me some time to accept that our authorities were allowing something as stupid as geoengineering, seeding the skies with toxic substances to abate climate change, but now enough officials have come clean. Though our mainstream media is still silent, you don’t have to dig very deep to find out that it is to be used as a weather-modifying weapon.
Watch; This is HAARP on steroids” Whistleblower reveals MASSIVE weather machine at South Pole; Redacted 9 November 2024
Clayton Morris; “So yesterday I had a chance to sit down with Eric Hecker. He worked at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and he’s one of only a handful of people. He used to actually work for Raytheon (a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons), and then he saw what they were doing at the South Pole Station.
And you won’t believe what he discovered. He then became a whistleblower. He testified in front of the United States Senate under threat of perjury. And what he saw was astonishing.
And so he was flabbergasted when people are sitting there saying there’s no such thing as weather modification. What he worked on at the South Pole Station makes the HAARP project up in Alaska look like a baby project. There are machines that are at the South Pole Station that are able to control earthquakes and the weather.
And not only that, there is a giant UFO control tower, which is a neutrino control tower. So I had a chance to speak with Eric, but we specifically talked about the weather modification tools.”
Eric Hecker; “If you can wirelessly transmit energy from a power supply somewhere on earth, deliver it to another location, the end result is quite simply an earthquake. Wireless transmission of energy is something that Nikola Tesla brought up a hundred some odd years ago now, so the state of the union is that Nikola Tesla discovered this stuff. The powers that be absconded his information, they they cordoned it off away from the mass population and have been monopolising the use of these types of technologies for many decades now.
We the people are are suffering under this monopoly of technology by our oppressors, it’s literally just that simple, and that would be the motive for them to have agents, for lack of a better term, flooding the disclosure community with BS to muddy the waters and confuse us, we the people, so that we can continue to be wholly oppressed and well-managed.”
Clayton Morris; “When you were at the South Pole station, you witnessed this ice cube neutrino machine in action, so it goes deep and it’s much larger than HAARP, and I guess just walk us through, what they would be using this for, how would they be manipulating the weather, how would they be manipulating and targeting earthquakes around the world, why would they be doing this and who is in control of the South Pole station at this point, is it the United States government? You were a contractor with Raytheon when you were there, is it private enterprise, who is controlling it?”
Eric Hecker; “Great questions, first and foremost one of the things that the former crew members had emphasised to me to try to get people to understand as I’m trying to get this information out there is that you you have to understand it’s just very easy now to deliver that energy anywhere on the planet, it’s not challenging.”
Clayton Morris; “They can pick a spot in Iran and they can just dial it in on the computer and launch an earthquake… “
Eric Hecker; “…deliver the energy that instigates it, the term that people should become familiar with is earthquake induction or earthquake inducing so similar to like when you go on the internet and you Google chemtrails right you’re going to get a whole bunch of baloney that says chemtrails are garbage blah blah but if you Google the term stratospheric aerosol injection you’ll start to find all the science of what’s really going on when they crisscross our skies.
If you look up inducing earthquakes or earthquake induction you will become privy to a sea of information and science that supports the existence of this technology. It’s just that available. People just need to start paying attention to what’s going on in the world around them.”
Richard Vobes comments on the sham arguments for geoengineering put forward by brainwashed Jim Haywood, Research Fellow at the Met Office.
Watch; Met Office admits spraying skies Richard Vobes, June 2024
Jim Harwood, Met Office Spokesperson; “Geoengineering is a method to counterbalance the effects of global warming, owing to the increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases.”
Richard Vobes; “So, first of all, he’s making this the erroneous conclusion that CO2 is the problem.”
Jim Harwood; “Geoengineering, or climate engineering generally falls into two specific categories. The first of which is called carbon dioxide removal, which as the name suggests is basically capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it.”
Richard Vobes; “That’s not a sensible policy. Seeing as CO2 is the gas of life, we need that to grow plants and animals need to eat the plants and we obviously eat both. I’m not sure that is a very sensible policy. You’re mucking about there with the atmosphere. This is not good.”
Jim Harwood; “The second method is what’s known as solar radiation management. What you’re trying to do is reflect an additional amount of sunlight back out to space. So solar radiation management is basically trying to reflect sunlight back out to space, leading to a cooling to counterbalance the increases in greenhouse gases.”
Richard Vobes; “The idea of reflecting the sun back out, the sunlight is the energy of life. CO2 and sunlight are two of the most important aspects that we want. If you start mucking about by taking the sun out of the equation, you are effectively destroying life. And this is so basic, you cannot believe how ignorant and how stupid these people must be. And these are people in positions of so called knowledge and power and just peddling the same old rubbish that everybody knows is rubbish that they’ve been told and are paid to do.”
Jim Haywood; “There’s been various different solar radiation management schemes that have been mooted as being possible, all of which are basically trying to reflect sunlight back out to space.”
Richard Vobes; “Why would you do that? Why would you not use some common sense and go, ‘this is barking?’ This planet has been around for millions of years and a few people on it running around like ants have somehow caused this warming. Really? And it’s all our fault. So what we’re going to do is interfere with the planet by reflecting away the sunlight and potentially kill us. You are mad”
Jim Haywood; “One of the most popular is to inject some reflective material into the stratosphere. This mimics really the impact of volcanic eruptions. There’s another method which is artificial brightening of low lying stratocumulus clouds. If you inject some aerosol into these low lying stratocumulus clouds, you can brighten them. And of course, when you get a brightening of the planet, you’re reflecting more sunlight back out to space.”
Richard Vobes; “Yeah. And you’re decimating life on the Earth. I mean, it’s bonkers, isn’t it?”
This is a short film about the planes and equipment that have been used for spraying our skies, beginning in the 1960s.
Watch; Geoengineering deardanny11, 29 November 2024
‘Somehow, some way, the turnip heads will still call this a conspiracy…
Look up for fuck’s sake, its staring you in the face.’
Watch; Map reveals locations of controversial ‘geoengineering’ experiments to alter climate standup.x, 5 December 2024
‘Across the Atlantic, a Bill Gates-backed project aims to block the sun and prevent global warming, halting climate change in its tracks. While this sounds like pure sci-fi, it’s in fact one of hundreds of different plans to ‘geoengineer’ the Earth.
Geoengineering is the large-scale manipulation of environmental processes that affect Earth’s climate, in an attempt to halt global warming. Globally, geoengineering projects include injecting chemical aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and sucking carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air with giant fans.’
Censorship/Surveillance/Coercion/Corruption
Who is dictating the rules of the game;
Read; There’s only one global mafia! Paul Cudenec; 9 December 2024
‘I have noticed that some people, even those generally receptive to my point of view, beg to differ when it comes to the existence of a single global mafia – the entity I have taken to calling the criminocracy or even demonocracy.
Surely, they say, it’s more a question of the world being dominated by a number of competing powerful groups, which together constitute the phenomenon termed “capitalism” or “crony capitalism”.
And they are not necessarily convinced when I assert that my own research, over recent years, has proved to my satisfaction that this global empire has been manufactured by, and is headed by, the Rothschilds. “It’s not just them”, they say. “There are other families involved. Like the Rockefellers”.’
Bernie Sanders speaks about The Oligarchy and its tentacles extracting wealth, power and control across the globe.
Watch; Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA Senator Bernie Sanders, 13 December 2024
“You know, it is kind of funny when politicians, the media, talk about Russia and Vladimir Putin, they often use the word oligarchy. They talk about how the oligarchs of Russia have enormous power under Putin. But strangely enough, the term oligarchy is very rarely used to describe what’s happening in the United States or in fact, what’s happening around the world. But guess what? Oligarchy is a global phenomenon, and it is headquartered right here in the United States. The fact of the matter is, and we don’t talk about it very much, but this is the reality. A small number of incredibly wealthy billionaires own and control much of the global economy. Period. End of discussion. And increasingly, they own and control our government through a corrupt campaign finance system. Since 2025, five billion people all over the world have become poorer, while the world’s five richest billionaires have more than doubled their fortunes at a rate of $14 million per hour. And listen to this.
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, has added $120 billion to his fortune just since election day, got that? $120 billion since election day. While Jeff Bezos, number two guy, he only became $67 billion richer in the last month. And Mark Zuckerberg, he became $90 billion richer this year alone.
In other words, the people on top who are already phenomenally rich, are becoming incredibly richer. Over the past decade, the wealthiest 1% of the global population amassed $42 trillion in new wealth, while the wealth of the bottom half of society barely budged. In fact, as of today, the top 1% own more wealth than 95% of the people on this earth. Outrageously, the wealthiest people in the world are stashing up to $32 trillion in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes to governments all over the world.
In other words, governments are underfunded and these people stash trillions in tax havens. Meanwhile, the uber rich do spend money to protect their incredible wealth. They do it by buying influence and increasingly by buying our elections.
Billionaires in the United States are.0005% of the population. That ain’t a lot of people. Yet they accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending. Tiny number of people spending huge amounts of money to buy elections. Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to buy our recent elections. Elon Musk alone spent at least $277 million to back Donald Trump. How’s that one guy? $277 million. And we saw the results of that investment working pretty good for him.
The major defence contractors spent over $38 million this election cycle. And you know what? They’re going to have a trillion dollar military budget with enormous amounts of waste and fraud in it. And AIPAC, a billionaire-funded Super PAC, spent over $100 million to defeat members of Congress who are critical of the extremist right wing Netanyahu government in Israel and the horrific war they are waging in Gaza.
My friends, you don’t have to be a PhD in Political Science to understand that this is not democracy. This is not one person, one vote. This is not all of us coming together to decide our future. This is oligarchy.”
Stalin Starmer, the PM from hell, is ignoring public opinion and destroying any traces of democracy.
Watch; Starmer CANCELS elections as Labour TANKS in the polls: ‘Acting like a third world DICTATOR!’ GBNews; 17 December 2024
“Some local elections due to take place in May next year might now be delayed until 2027. Labour says that they want to postpone them because they’re restructuring the councils. Some might not exist in a couple of years time, but this excuse doesn’t really wash. So these local elections were seen as a referendum on Keir Starmer’s government.
He’s currently the most unpopular prime minister of modern times in an approval rating and somewhere in the region of minus 61. And this graph actually shows just how quickly his popularity has nosedived. He is sinking like the Titanic and Labour are fearful of a monumental kicking in May. Angela Rayner has tried to spin this. She says this is all part of devolution and she’s giving power back to the communities.
Well, Reform MP Rupert Low struck back, stating the bleeding obvious, you don’t give power back to communities by cancelling elections, Angela.”’
Below is a follow up letter to the Chancellor from economist Justin Walker. A link to a brilliant series shows how 0.01% of the population have a strategic plan underway to undemocratically impose ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ onto the entire world via the World Economic Forum (WEF).
‘It is not now my intention, Chancellor, to go over again all my concerns and findings – they are all here for you and your Treasury team to read. However, since publishing my Open Letter, an excellent forty-minute video has emerged that proves beyond all reasonable doubt that our country, with all its ancient freedoms and traditions, is now under attack like never before. This well researched video clearly shows that very powerful outside and vested techno-interests have been unleashed and that the source for this strategic plan to undemocratically impose ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ over the entire world is the World Economic Forum (WEF), an elitist Swiss-based organisation renowned for its annual high-level meetings at Davos and for its love of cutting-edge and extremely invasive technologies.
We only have to look at China – the WEF’s actual blueprint for what they have planned for all of us – where the Communist Party there strives to have increasing digital control over the bulk of its massive population. The Chinese government now has a Central Bank Digital Currency that has been deliberately merged and programmed with a highly detailed and AI operated Social Credit System. This, coupled with cutting-edge surveillance technologies, means that you are monitored 24/7 whether in your workplace, on the streets or in your home.
With China becoming an increasingly cashless society, it’s safe to say that if you do not do the bidding of the Communist Party and you attempt to question how you are being governed, your life becomes progressively more and more difficult to lead as the state decides what you can and cannot buy. Good luck in buying a ticket to travel if you’ve criticised your unelected ‘betters’! We have all been warned! But the real question has to be this, Chancellor, are you yourself at all concerned about the advance of this extremely undemocratic and fascist ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’, or are you like your boss, the Prime Minister, happy to play your part to bring it all in?
The Rt. Hon. Sir Keir Starmer MP is on record that he prefers to be involved with the undemocratic machinations going on in Davos rather than being put under close scrutiny by his fellow MPs in Parliament. This, I’m afraid, does put you, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a very difficult position indeed! And simply ignoring this Open Letter again is now no longer a realistic option open to you – the truth genie about money creation and money supply is now well and truly out of the bottle and people in their droves are finally waking up as to how we’ve all been continuously scammed by those political servants that we elected and placed in positions of trust!
Richard Vobes interviews Richard Jeffs who describes how we are living in a dystopian world, defined by Mussolini as ‘Corporate Fascism’, where corporations and governments conspire to dictate the rules of the game.
Watch; The transition to Stakeholder Capitalism is happening Richard Vobes, 18 December 2024
Richard Jeffs; “Stakeholder capitalism is the political system that was enacted in 2020, and we reach full stakeholder capitalism by 2030. And stakeholder capitalism is the root cause of all the strange events that we’ve seen since 2020 and will continue to see over the next five years. It’s a political system that essentially replaces the two political systems that are in use around the world, and they are shareholder capitalism that we have here in the West, and state capitalism that’s used in places like China. So state capitalism is also known as communism. And shareholder capitalism, the system that we had before 2020, is also known as free market capitalism.
Artificial intelligence is going to disrupt the workplace again by having machines take our jobs. And that’s a very different scenario than the third and the second and the first industrial revolutions. But essentially what’s happened is that these organisations that are forming these monopolies, the heads or the executives have all have all become members of the World Economic Forum, and they call themselves stakeholders. And it’s not just companies, it’s also the heads of NGOs and governments. An interesting fact though, the World Economic Forum was founded 50 years ago for the purpose of transitioning the world to stakeholder capitalism, that’s explained by Klaus Schwab himself.
It’s a very sophisticated plan and they are harnessing the fourth Industrial revolution. So it’s a time in the future when AI takes our jobs. They’re accelerating that or they’re bringing it forward. So in 2020 the World Economic Forum released a document called the Future of Jobs Report, and in that they explained that the lockdowns have accelerated our transition to the fourth industrial revolution, already by 2020, by five years. And there are several other mechanisms that they put in place that will further accelerate it. They plan to harness this fourth industrial revolution where our jobs are disrupted, we lose a lot of our jobs, and then we become dependent on them for our basic living needs, our house, our food. And when that happens, when we’re dependent on the state, that’s when they have the ability to inflict tyranny that’s far more extreme than any previous totalitarian regime.
It’s not just Labour it was Conservative too. Rishi Sunak was also a World Economic Forum stakeholder, as is Starmer, so in the elections it doesn’t matter who you’re voting for. The stakeholders, who after being indoctrinated by Klaus Schwab with his inclusive and sustainable ideas, they are placed into positions of power, and most of our government leaders, if you go through history they’ve all been World Economic Forum members and placed into those positions to almost like portray this illusion of a democracy where there’s the two heads of the same coin, you’ve got two different parties both driving the same agenda and as I say it doesn’t matter who you vote for, you’re going to get stakeholder capitalism. But ultimately Starmer is a very prominent World Economic Forum member who is driving Klaus Schwab’s policies to transition us to full stakeholder capitalism by 2030.”
How come UK politicians are obediently following our WEF- loving Starmer? Dominic Cummings reveals how our elected politicians have to stick to script at meetings to stay in line with the PM. ‘The Cabinet is just a kind of stage theatre, and actually specific officials in the Cabinet Office have already made the decisions.’
Watch; Lammy and Cummings Herald the End of the UK’s Hard and Soft Power: It’s All Coming Out Now; UK Column News, 2 December 2024
Brian Gerrish; “Well, I didn’t think in 2024. I’d be thanking Dominic Cummings for telling us something about how the system works. Let’s listen to what he said. Incredible.”
Dominic Cummings; “So if you think of two roles, the Foreign Secretary in Great Britain and the Private secretary in the PM’s office, responsible for foreign affairs, an official whose name has never been in the newspapers, that person was like 10 times more powerful and important than the Secretary of State was. And I think this is something which people just don’t really realise and it’s part of how the whole system has become fake. So you have fake meritocracy, fake responsibility and then fake cabinet government.
So they all walk up Downing street, the cameras are there, they pose, they smile, ha ha, I’m going into the most powerful meeting, aren’t I great? But it’s all nonsense. The Cabinet is just a kind of stage theatre. And actually officials in the Cabinet Office have already decided it all.
When you sit in Whitehall now in meetings, they are literally scripted. So when the Prime Minister has a meeting with ministers, what happens is that before the Prime Minister has that meeting, officials go into the Prime Minister’s study and they give them a folder. And in the folder at the front is a thing called chairman’s notes, and that’s the script and that’s what the Prime Minister reads out. And the conclusions of the meeting are in the chairman’s notes drafted before the meeting happens, right?
So the Prime Minister says, hello, Secretary of State. Then all these officials sit around the sides on chairs, around the corner, around the edge of the room. And then the MP, the Secretary of State all look down at their folders because they’ve all got their scripts, right? And this is why I use the NPC (Non-Playable Character in a video game) meme, right, because then the Prime Minister reads out, well, we’re here to discuss blah, blah.
Then he goes around the room and then Secretary of State for Justice or the Foreign Secretary reads out his bullet points and then he reads out their bullet points and they read. If anyone goes off script, you see the officials look over at the other officials on the other side of the room. That means we’ll come back to that after the meeting and make sure that that doesn’t happen. And then at the end, it was a fascinating, great discussion. Thank you so much for your wonderful, insightful, original contributions. And then he reads out the conclusions that were all drafted in advance. And it sounds like a parody, but it is literally how the British state functions.
And the MPs are happy with that, Right? Well, how does the psychology of it work? The officials are happy because they have almost all the real power. The Cabinet secretary is now 100 times more powerful than any Cabinet minister apart from the PM, and the MPs are happy because this whole system pretends that they’re in charge. So both sides are basically happy with the fake version of the government.”
Another brave warrior persecuted by zionist Starmer’s thought police for speaking out for Palestine.
Watch; Outside Tony Greenstein’s court hearing; The Crispin Flintoff Show; Outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court.19 Dec 2024
‘In the early hours of 20th December last year, police raided Tony Greenstein’s home in Brighton. His phone and laptop was taken and he was charged under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000.
What was his offence? The Police referred to a tweet he had posted a month before in which he expressed support for Palestinian Resistance in its fight against Israel’s genocidal occupation of Gaza.
On Thursday 19th December from 10am at Westminster Magistrates Court (181 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5BR) Tony’s released on bail and to appear at the Old Bailey on the 31st January and he could face 14 years in prison.’
“They’re charging me with, I think it’s inviting support for Hamas. So it’s an interesting one, a proscribed organisation. So I do hope the police charge people inviting support for HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham). Basically I’m released on bail. And it’s the Old Bailey on 31 January. The struggle goes on.
And as I said, well, I’m supposed to be there for 9:30. I think you can be there for 10:00. But really, it’s a very simple argument about freedom of speech on Palestine. We know very well that if it was any other issue, they wouldn’t be bothered about it at all. But let’s keep fighting for a free Palestine.”
Forget the idea that we live in a free society; the Stroud screening of Andrew Wakefield’s movie was cancelled because it challenges the mainstream vaccine narrative.
Read: Andy Wakefield Movie Screening – World Council for Health Deplatformed by Venue World Council for Health, 2 December 2024
‘World Council for Health is deeply concerned following a decision made by Lansdown Hall, Stroud to pull the screening of Protocol 7, a film produced and
directed by Andy Wakefield that explores the topic of autism and its potential links to vaccines. This act of censorship is yet another troubling development in a society that should value free speech and open dialogue. On 2 December 2024 an email was received from Penny de Lotz, Venue Manager of Lansdown Hall which read: ‘At the last board meeting the Trustees discussed the film screening and took the decision not to allow it to be shown here at the hall.’ No reason was given.
This is not the first time World Council for Health has been deplatformed. In May 2022 Bath and Northeast Somerset Council failed to honour its contract with the World Council for Health to host a 1,000 attendee conference in the heart of Bath, stating that the conference would bring their ‘name and reputation’ into ‘disrepute’. However, the Better Way Conference took place as planned at an alternative venue. In July of the same year, X (then Twitter) permanently banned WCH two days before World Ivermectin Day.
By cancelling this event, Lansdown Hall has silenced an important conversation about the ongoing debates surrounding vaccines, autism, and public health. While we acknowledge that the film may challenge long-held views, it is essential that society upholds the principles of freedom of expression, and freedom of information especially when it involves discussions that may be uncomfortable. The ability to engage with diverse perspectives is critical for fostering a society that values transparency, critical thinking, and informed consent.
Censorship, whether it occurs through the suppression of films, books, or public forums, undermines the fundamental right to seek and share information. This is especially concerning at a time when it is more important than ever to ensure that all voices can be heard, regardless of whether they align with the mainstream narrative or not. In order to preserve a democratic and open society, we must resist censorship and support the free flow of ideas. The decision to pull Protocol 7 is a step backward, and it is our collective responsibility to stand up for the right to express differing opinions without fear of silencing or reprisals. In the end, open dialogue, no matter how difficult, is the foundation upon which a just and informed society is built.’
With a smart meter “your personal, private life goes straight out through your electric meter to the power company, to the government, to the police, to the insurance company, to anyone who cuts a deal with your power company to look at your life under a microscope.”
Watch; Smart Meters are not what you think they are Illuminatibot, X, 6 December 2024
“Your electric meter will do so much more than just show how much electricity you use. The new smart metres are watching you. They sense all kinds of goings on.
They see when you turn something on or off. They see how many watts your electric toothbrush pulls. They send the record of that little event over wireless networks, bouncing through your neighbour’s smart meter all the way to the power company where they keep record of all your electric consumption, volumes and patterns every minute of every day. And store that data forever on computers that you will never get to see.
That data shows when you are at home, shows when you’re sleeping, shows when you’re on vacation, when you have visitors, when you use a lamp, a power tool, some extra computers. And if you look like you’re running a business out of your home, it even senses when you bootleg energy off the grid. Your smart meter data shows a vivid profile of your personal living patterns and whether or not you were at home on the night of the murder. This is not electrical metering.
This is personal surveillance. This is a search without a warrant every day. This is your personal, private life going straight out through your electric meter to the power company, to the government, to the police, to the insurance company, to anyone who cuts a deal with your power company to look at your life under a microscope.”
The Guardian is ‘controlled opposition’, defined by what they conveniently don’t say.
Read or Listen; The Guardian is not our friend, as the strike by its staff highlights Jonathan Cook, 7 December 2024
‘Guardian journalists have probably the strongest chapel of the main journalist union in Britain. Strong enough that they were able to organise a strike this past week over the sale of the Guardian’s sister Sunday paper, the Observer, to Tortoise Media.
And yet the Guardian chapel of the National Union of Journalists has not gone on strike over the recent raid by counter-terrorism police on a fellow journalist, Asa Winstanley, with threats to lock him up for 14 years for writing against the genocide in Gaza.
Maybe in our current era that is too much to expect. But the same chapel has not even issued a statement condemning the hounding of Winstanley and other journalists under counter-terrorism laws, in what amounts to a massive assault by the British state on press freedom.
Nor has the chapel insisted that its own newspaper, the Guardian, run a single story about the persecution of Winstanley and other journalists as supposed “supporters of terror”. There has been complete silence.
The Guardian is not our friend. Whatever individual journalists there may feel, the paper as an institution doesn’t care about journalism or press freedom. And if it doesn’t really care about press freedom, it doesn’t really care about any other freedoms. Because all those other freedoms are contingent on a free, critical press.
There is, however, one freedom the corporation that owns the Guardian cares about: the freedom to make money, to market the paper as “on the left” to win over customers who identify with the brand of a left-liberal newspaper.
That doesn’t mean the paper always needs to be commercially profitable – though that is doubtless a nice bonus. But the Guardian does need to profit the much bigger corporation, the Guardian Media Group, it is embedded in.
It does that by exclusively occupying a space in the marketplace – appealing to a liberal-left demographic – so no real leftwing publication, run by journalists rather than a media corporation, can take its place and properly inform its readers about the state of the world.
The Guardian occupies a key part of the media space – our modern town square – so that no one better qualified to occupy it can get a look in.
It is there to kill real dissident journalism, to kill truly independent journalism from the likes of Asa Winstanley. It is there to make sure “mainstream” left journalism mirrors closely the “mainstream” political left: Keir Starmer’s Labour party, with all its authoritarian, City of London-pandering, Nato-worshipping instincts.
The Guardian is not our friend. It is time we stopped sleeping with the enemy.’
‘Starmer has already said that they’re going to introduce a clause into the new law, the Online Safety Act, to make the spreading of misinformation or disinformation illegal. So the government’s going to decide what’s true and what’s not true.’ The Skripal saga is one of the many false flag lies amplified in mainstream media to stoke fear of the Russian bear and goad us into war.
Watch; Craig Murray on new Skripal saga developments; The Grayzone; 1 December 2024
‘Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan and whistleblower Craig Murray joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to address revealing new developments in the strange Skripal poisoning saga that helped send Britain into a new Cold War frenzy.’
Craig Murray; “And of course the official story, which is unbelievable, is that they touched the Novichok on their door handle, then they went shopping, then they went to a restaurant and ate a three course meal. And then only after that did they both simultaneously and instantaneously pass out from Novichok. So they were both too sick instantaneously for either of them to call for help. You know, it’s plainly complete and utter nonsense.
If they had been poisoned with Novichok, it certainly doesn’t take four hours to take effect and then knock you out instantly. That’s just ludicrous. And the other thing, of course, is that the first person on the scene just happened, by chance, to be the chief nurse of the British army, which I thought was lovely.
And the interesting thing on this is that in the public inquiry into it, which was being held this week, evidence was given by the police which gave the evidence of the doctor who questioned Julia Skripal when she first became conscious again. And she replied to him by blinking her eyes once or twice for yes or no.
So he asked her whether she had been sprayed with the poison and she responded ‘yes’. And then he asked her where she had been spayed with the poison and she answered ‘yes’, in Zizzi restaurant. And he asked her again and she answered ‘yes’ again, that she had been sprayed with poison in Zizzi restaurant. Which of course makes much more sense because she staggered out of the restaurant and collapsed.
All that evidence was given in public and it was then ruled out of order by the judge heading the inquiry as being hearsay, even though they had the doctor’s transcript of it. They had the transcript, the written transcript of it the doctor made at the time was submitted, but it was decided that was hearsay.
Starmer has already said that they’re going to introduce a clause into the new law, the Online Safety Act, to make the spreading of misinformation or disinformation illegal. So the government’s going to decide what’s true and what’s not true.
And if they believe that you’re spreading disinformation, for example, just exactly the kind of thing we’ve just been saying about the Skripal case is going to become illegal. It’s going to become illegal to challenge the government narrative. And I fear we really are heading into that kind of dystopia, possibly faster in the UK than you are in the US, but I think you’re heading in the same direction as well.”
Learn about the true cause of 9/11 in 36 minutes.
Watch; The “Official” Narrative of 9/11 Explained Ken O’Keiff, 13 December 2024
Covid/Vaccines Scam
Another heroic Doctor struck off for standing up and sharing the truth about the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 jab. We all need to stand together and support these doctors build a healthy healthcare service.
Read; Senior NHS doctor who shared ‘scaremongering’ Covid vaccine conspiracy theories and told people not to take them is struck off and branded a risk to patients; Mail on Line by LES ROOPANARINE; 17 Dec 2024,
‘A senior NHS doctor who raised concerns about the safety of Covid vaccines has been struck off the medical register for misconduct after a tribunal described his comments as ‘scaremongering’.
A hearing in Manchester concluded that Daniel Armstrong, a 35-year-old consultant psychiatrist, had undermined public health information and confidence in the medical profession after branding pharmaceutical companies ‘evil’.
The decision comes after concerns were raised about a film Armstrong, who was based at Northumbria specialist emergency care hospital in Cramlington, published on BitChute.
In the footage the consultant identified himself as a doctor before questioning the safety and effectiveness of Covid vaccines, which he claimed were at the heart of a grand deception.
‘I am using my doctor title, my registration under the GMC in the UK, to bring you this message about what the truth is, but also highlight the deception,’ Armstrong said in a near two-hour video entitled Navigating the Truth-Deception Reality.
‘We are being lied to on a cosmic scale, a global scale, and there is a huge agenda why they are lying to us. In essence, you know that you were lied to.
‘Whether you took the jab or not, they lied to us all. They said it was safe and effective, and they couldn’t have known whether it was safe or effective.
‘They couldn’t have known after three months.
‘My message is clear to everyone: don’t take any more. You’ve a doctor here, he’s got his licence on the line – given it up. Don’t take any more of the injections. These guys are evil.’
Beware we have another plannedemic on the horizon
Watch; Bird Flu Hoax: UK Secures Contract for 5 Million Human Bird Flu Vaccines UK Column, 4 December 2024
Charles Mallet Presenter; “First of all, they say that the influenza A H5N1 virus has been causing a prolonged global outbreak, primarily in birds, and it is only if this virus were to start spreading among humans, (of which there is no evidence at this stage), that the human H5 influenza vaccine would be used. And yet, of course, they have just bought 5 million doses of it, which is what they’re announcing. The procurement will strengthen the UK’s preparedness for an influenza originated pandemic by ensuring that vaccines are immediately available while a pandemic specific vaccine is made ready. And this is the point they’re trying to make, which came out of the sort of ludicrous premise that the COVID vaccine was a vaccine and was meaningful and could be produced in such a short space of time. Effectively, it opened the door for this sort of tailoring business to be done immediately once the specific strain had been identified.”
So the government is now preparing the ground for what is being rolled out now, which is effectively the suggestion that humans can indeed get a disease that has apparently been identified in birds and then in mammals. But of course, the identification is where this all hangs. Now, the UK Health Security Agency has said, what is bird flu and how are we protecting people against it in the uk? And this is really the nub of it. They say that the concern is that these changes in the virus may at some point allow it to spread readily between people. So they are running a surveillance program in order to improve what they call a scientific understanding of the threat of avian influenza to human humans. They run a zoonotic influenza surveillance program in humans. Now, what they mean by that is the use of the PCR test. Rather than taking my word for it, let’s listen to Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, who died in 2019.”
“With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else right? I mean, because if you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there’s very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of them in your body, okay? So that could be thought of as a misuse of it just to claim that it’s meaningful.”
“So I would say that there’s absolutely no doubt that if APhA and the UK HSA set out to find what they’re calling bird flu in humans, they will undoubtedly find it with the use of the PCR test. Now, that does not suggest that such a thing as bird flu in humans exists. But as Carey Mullis says, you only need to find the specific molecule that you’re testing for and that you’re going to amplify in order to confirm the bias that you insert into the system. So that’s how we look at it at the moment. As I said, the contract for this has gone to CSL Sekirus, and their share chart is worth looking at, I think, at the moment, because, of course, there’s not really any change to it.
This is the last year’s worth of their stock price. But one might expect that to change depending on how the optics on this situation pan out.
Kary Mullis, the Nobel prize winning biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, insisted it should not be used to test for a disease.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that he died in 2019, 2 months before the Covid-9 scam when the PCR test was rolled out, producing the required false positive results to restrict our lives and coerce us into having a vaccine. How many domestic birds have been culled due to the flawed PCR test?
Watch; What the Vet Saw: Question Everything—with Roger Meacock, Consultant Veterinary Surgeon UK Column, 29 November 2024
Roger Meacock; People also need to understand the PCR test because obviously what I’m saying for animals is equally applicable for people as well.
Not that we’re under risk of a cull order, but obviously people are going to be potentially restricting themselves on the basis of a back of a PCR test without fully understanding that if they haven’t got clinical disease symptoms, the chances of them being infectious and having that disease actually, without knowing the false positive rate of the PCR test, is highly dubious. They’re talking about this whole mRNA platform being something where you can then develop a vaccine very quickly. We can see potentially how, if PCR tests are being used, as they were during Covid, to amplify and ramp up the scaremongering and the warning over something we can talk about it in terms of Covid, but it might be something completely different. We know that they’re developing an mRNA vaccine for people, for norovirus. So you can imagine a situation where any person who had a bit of diarrhea suddenly and got had a PCR test done on that sample and it suddenly came up norovirus, (not that they need it, it will self limit in a couple of days anyway). It will be used as leverage to encourage them, or to make them have the appropriate mRNA jab.
So I think we need to understand PCR testing and understand its limitations because, if we’re not careful, it’ll potentially be one of the leverages which will be used to push what we know they’re trying to do, which is to really develop this whole mRNA platform across a whole myriad of different diseases. Although we’re early days now and there’s only a few of them on the market, we certainly know that there are others intended. The last UK government invested so much money in Moderna to produce so many millions of pounds a year contract that they will want to be using those jabs. They want to position the UK as the lead country in the whole mRNA platform. So we’ve got to be aware of how that pressure could be brought to bear on people, and for themselves, but also for their animals, for using these products, which we know actually as a whole platform is inherently unsafe.”
The Kary Mullis quote below is from a 1996 interview
Watch; Kary Mullis, creator of the PCR test, on Anthony Fauci Illuminatibot, 5 December 2024
Kary Mullis; “these guys like Fauci get up there and start talking. He doesn’t know anything really about anything. And I’d say that to his face, nothing. The man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope, and if it’s got a virus in there, you’ll know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine.
He should not be in a position like he’s in. Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people, and they don’t know anything about what’s going on on the bottom. You know, those guys have got an agenda which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They’ve got a personal kind of agenda. They make up their own rules as they go, they change them when they want to.
And they smugly, like Tony Fauci, do not mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera.”
The BBC, the Government mouthpiece, pushes the narrative that bird flu is transferred from animals to humans and could cause a pandemic, even though even the government admits there has never been a case of the disease passing between people, but you never know, best to scare people and get them used to the idea of being forced to take another round of deadly mRNA vaccines, producing huge profits for the government and Big Pharma.
Listen; The Government is buying more than 5 million doses of a vaccine to protect against bird flu spreading in humans BBC Farming Today, 4 December 2024
“The Government is buying more than 5 million doses of a vaccine to protect against bird flu spreading in humans. The H5N1 flu virus has killed millions of birds across the world over the last few years. And in the USA, it has been passed on to dairy cows and some people.
Heather Simons has more.
Bird flu is obviously something we’ve covered a lot on this programme. Over the last two years, farmers have lost whole flocks of chickens, turkeys and ducks, and wild bird populations have also been badly affected. Meanwhile, as you mentioned, the H5N1 virus has infected dairy cows on nearly 500 farms in the USA, and a number of humans, mainly farm workers, have also got it. So far, the people infected in the US have only had mild symptoms, things like conjunctivitis. But there have been a few people in Cambodia and Canada who’ve had more severe illness. At the moment, the Government says there is no evidence of the virus being spread from human to human. But the concern is that it could evolve and change so that it could be spread between people and, in the worst case scenario, cause a pandemic.
These vaccines that the Government is buying would only be used if the virus did start passing between humans. In the meantime, the UK Health Security Agency is running a surveillance programme to see whether people are catching the virus here in the UK. People who are exposed to infected birds, like poultry workers and people involved in culling birds on infected premises, are being tested. And of course, the Animal and Plant Health Agency is testing for the virus in wild and captive birds.”
Pater McCullough, an American cardiologist, has a prescription to remove dangerous spike proteins that have been deposited in people’s bodies by the COVID 19 vaccines.
Watch; Exposing the system we live in greenwalkers clinic, 17 August 2024
“The biggest response is, ‘Oh my God, I took the vaccine, I took the shot, what do I do to protect myself from the aftermath?’ You just gave a programme that you’re suggesting to people. Can you say it again, please?”
Dr Peter McCullough, Cardiologist; “We have a major paper that is accepted now for publication and will come out. Base spike detox means it’s a base of therapy. You can add other things to it, but we think it’s necessary in everybody. We need two ways to degrade the spike protein, get it out of the body. First is nattokinase, N A T T O K I N A S E, 2,000 units twice a day. The second is bromelain, 500 milligrammes once a day. They both degrade the spike protein different ways. They accelerate the clearance of it together. And the last is something to reduce inflammation and spike protein damage, that is curcumin, either in the nanoliposomal form is fine curcumin, 500 milligrammes twice a day.
All of these are available over the counter. They are readily available and I can tell you people ought to get going on this because these syndromes, as we’re finding out, are bad. Look at these cardiac arrests, major blood clots, people going down. It’s because the spike protein is not being cleared out of the body. People can take control of their own bodies and get after this.”
Sign the Petition to bring help to those suffering side effects from the Covid-19 jab.
Do your own research; your doctor is too often wrong, or misinformed, or afraid to speak out for fear of being struck off. It’s now been proven that the Covid vaccine was not only not safe and not effective, but deadly.
Read; Big Pharma’s “License to Kill” Richard Gale, and Dr Gary Null, Global Research, 27 November 2024
‘Over the past 50 years, the leading pharmaceutical companies in the United States have caused the injuries and deaths of millions of Americans. This troubling reality has reached such widespread acknowledgment that iatrogenic harm—injuries and deaths caused by medical treatment and erroneous diagnoses—now ranks as the third leading cause of death. There is growing consensus that our federal health agencies, which are meant to protect public health, have failed to address this crisis in any meaningful way. In fact, these agencies have often undermined efforts to confront the serious flaws in our healthcare system and in fact enable systemic corruption to thrive within the industry.
Studies over the years have consistently placed iatrogenic deaths as one of the leading causes of mortality with some analyses labeling it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. However, there is increasing evidence that the actual numbers may be significantly higher than what current estimates suggest, revealing a deep and pervasive crisis within the healthcare system.
The most frequently cited research on iatrogenic deaths comes from a Johns Hopkins study, which estimated that approximately 250,000 Americans die annually due to preventable medical errors. Published in BMJ in 2016, the study highlighted systemic issues such as misdiagnoses, medication errors, and inefficiencies in healthcare systems as major contributors to these deaths.
However, an even more alarming estimate comes from the British Medical Journal and places the figure at 400,000 deaths per year, arguing that the Johns Hopkins study failed to include broader systemic failures and unnecessary medical interventions. Both studies firmly position iatrogenic deaths as a leading cause of mortality, but neither captures the entirety of the problem.
Iatrogenic deaths encompass a wide array of causes; conservative figures include but are by no means limited to:
- Medication Errors: Accounting for an estimated 70,000 deaths annually, these errors range from incorrect prescriptions and dosages to harmful drug interactions.
- Surgical Complications: Surgical errors and postoperative complications lead to 60,000 deaths per year, including issues such as infections and unintended organ damage.
- Diagnostic Errors: Misdiagnoses and delayed diagnoses contribute to 100,000 deaths annually, often preventing timely and effective treatment.
- Nosocomial (Hospital-Acquired) Infections: These infections, often due to resistant bacteria or lapses in hygiene, result in 100,000 deaths per year.
- Systemic failures such as inadequate staffing, human error, mistakes in electronic medical records, and communication breakdowns account for another 80,000 deaths annually. These numbers, while staggering, only scratch the surface.
The grim reality is that the true toll of iatrogenic deaths may far exceed even the highest estimates. The current data is largely based on hospital records, which means deaths occurring outside the hospital setting often go unreported. For example, a patient discharged after treatment may succumb to complications caused by medical errors, but such cases rarely make it into official statistics. Similarly, misdiagnoses leading to deaths at home or in long-term care facilities are often not recognised as iatrogenic.
The Covid-19 pandemic added new dimensions to iatrogenic risks. Treatments such as mechanical ventilation, poorly tested experimental vaccines and emergency use drugs like remdesivir have now been proven to cause enormous harm. Overuse of ventilators, for instance, was linked to lung injuries and ventilator-associated pneumonia, contributing to thousands of deaths globally. Remdesivir was associated with higher than expected rates of adverse effects such as kidney and liver damage. Vaccines are implicated in a wide variety of serious adverse events including myocarditis and pericarditis, thrombosis, neurological conditions, encephalomyelitis, transverse myelitis, Bell’s Palsy, exacerbation of autoimmune diseases, miscarriages, and very likely turbo cancers
The silent epidemic of iatrogenic deaths is a stark reminder of the fragility of even the most advanced healthcare systems. Modern medicine is riddled with preventable errors that cost hundreds of thousands of lives each year and private corporate interests exacerbate the problem.’
Unelected, misinformed, delusional megalomaniac Gates thinks his wealth gives him the right to control people across the globe.
Read; Bill Gates Calls for ‘Vaccine Misinformation’ to be Censored in Real-Time by AI. Bill Gates Accused of “Medical Malpractice” and “Crimes against Humanity” By Frank Bergman and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, 30 October 2024
‘An online petition is calling on the White House to investigate Bill Gates and Melinda Gates for “crimes against humanity” and “medical malpractice”. The petition received more than 500,000 signatures as of 11th May 2020.
By Muslim Mirror Web Desk
The petition accuses the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of “medical malpractice” for citing an accusation of “intentionally sterilising Kenyan children through the use of a hidden HCG antigen in tetanus vaccines.” The petition also quoted Bill Gates’ when talking about his interest in “reducing population growth” by means of vaccinations.
In Y2014, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Kenya conducted a study on the 5-injection, 2 yr vaccination project performed on female Kenyans aged 14-49, in a South African laboratory and concluded that “all 6 samples tested positive for the HCG antigen.’
Watch; Bad News For Bill Gates As High Court Suspends Immunity In Kenya Africa Diaspora News Channel, 8 December 2024
‘Wongel Zelalem reports on the High Court issuing a conservatory order temporarily suspending the privileges and immunities granted to the Gates Foundation.’
‘The Law Society of Kenya CEO Florence Muturi accused the (Bill and Melinda Gates) Foundation of using its privileges to avoid scrutiny of its activities especially its financial dealings and influence on public policy. Well I’m pretty sure a lot of people are going to be celebrating this move by the High Court because some people were skeptical like they didn’t understand why Bill Gates Foundation gets this immunity and privilege that others can’t get, what are they trying to hide what are they going to do in Kenya that needs immunity or why are they being prioritised to be given these privileges?
Presenter 2; Kenya has granted the Gates Foundation a privileged special status that includes special privileges and immunity for its expatriate officials. This raises a very uncomfortable question, why? What could the Foundation be planning that requires such immunity? The past of this philanthropic powerhouse is far from rosy, and it’s time to confront the harsh reality behind the shiny facade of its opposed altruism.
The Gates Foundation has been pushing hazardous agricultural technologies across Africa under the guise of feeding the continent, yet behind this benevolent- sounding mission is a deeply concerning agenda. The Foundation has invested more than $6 billion into Agri business giants like Bayer and Syngenta corporations that are infamous for promoting GMOs, toxic pesticides and other industrial agri-technologies that are poisoning African lives, bodies and lungs
Presenter 3; Hello guys, there’s an article I was reading and I was so shocked, guys, at now Bill Gates wants to buy immunity, guys. What is this we are doing to our country? How can you buy immunity? That is so wrong. I was reading an article, the staff who will be there will be exempted from legal action and from paying direct taxes from their salaries. Who does that? We are equal and so long as someone is in our country you should protect our Constitution and do the right thing. There’s no person who is superior. Now Bill Gates wants to come here and he starts controlling us.
If you want to read about, as opposed to watch the above;
Read; High Court Strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its Legal Immunities and Tax Exemptions in Kenya by Paul Anthony Taylor Global Research, 29 November 2024
Slowly but surely the truth about the vaccine is coming out – hopefully in time to stop a repeat pandemic and more scam vaccines.
Read; FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward; US Oversight Committee, 2 December 2024;
COVID-19 ORIGIN: COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The FIVE strongest arguments in favor of the “lab leak” theory include:
- The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
- Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
- Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.
- Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
- By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.
PROXIMAL ORIGIN PUBLICATION: “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.
GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH: A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE INC. (ECOHEALTH): EcoHealth — under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak — used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. After the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commenced official debarment proceedings and suspended all funding to EcoHealth.
– New evidence also shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.
NIH FAILURES: NIH’s procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable, and pose a serious threat to both public health and national security. Further, NIH fostered an environment that promoted evading federal record keeping laws — as seen through the actions of Dr. David Morens and “FOIA Lady” Marge Moore.’
Yup, it turns out the Covid response and vaccine rollout in the US was overseen by the Department of Defense, meaning that the vaccine was correctly re-defined as a bio-weapon. Now a doctor in Florida has applied for a court injunction against the mRNA jab on the grounds that ‘they are biological and technological weapons of mass destruction.’
Watch, Read; COVID “Vaccines” Hit By New Bombshell The Vigilant Fox’s Media Blackout, 8 December 2024
‘COVID “Vaccines” Hit By New Bombshell. First, a court ruled that the COVID shots aren’t vaccines after all. Now, a new Florida lawsuit takes it even further, calling them “weapons of mass destruction.” “It is my expert opinion that ‘COVID-19 nanoparticle injections’ or ‘mRNA nanoparticle injections’ or ‘COVID-19 injections meet the criteria of biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction according to Biological Weapons 18 USC § 175; Weapons and Firearms § 790.166 Fla.Stat. (2023),”
Dr. Boyle’s words hold tremendous weight because he is the architect of the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act. The lawsuit, filed on December 1, demands an immediate BAN on COVID-19 injections in Florida, claiming they violate multiple laws, including Florida’s Weapons of Mass Destruction statute, Fraud statute, and Medical Consent Law. The lawsuit also argues the shots are classified as bioweapons under state and federal definitions. Leading the charge is Dr. Joseph Sansone, joined by a team of experts: Dr. Francis Boyle, Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Dr. Rima Laibow, Dr. Marivic Villa, Dr. Andrew Zywiec, Karen Kingston, and Dr. Avery Brinkley. This lawsuit comes as a new study has just confirmed alarming levels of DNA contamination in the COVID-19 injection vials. Dr. Sansone, the mastermind behind the lawsuit, adds that the COVID shots are a “threat to the human genome” and, therefore, a threat to “the future existence of our species.” He joins the show to discuss. This is a jaw-dropping conversation.’
Presenter; “This week we have heard rumors of potential pre-emptive pardons from Biden for covert criminals such as Fauci and Peter Daszak. Why is this all happening now? Well, we’re not sure how many people missed this, but this week, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded its two year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic and released a final report titled After Action review of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lessons Learned and a Path Forward. The report concludes that Covid was man-made, implicating the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the same one that Fauci and Peter Daszak were involved in funding Gain of Function research in.
With a potential looming pardon for what can only be described as crimes against humanity, the media and government have worked hand in hand for years now to try to scapegoat key figures. But Fauci isn’t the only one responsible here. It’s everyone in the media who lied to the public. It’s government officials who mandated these biological weapons on the populace. It’s doctors who administered these injections without issuing informed consent. The crime is so colossal that we don’t have prisons big enough for all of them. But that doesn’t mean we give up on demanding accountability, however, or that we give up on demanding these lethal injections are pulled off the market. Well, that is exactly what Dr. Joseph Sansone is doing.
Breaking; ‘Florida Lawsuit seeks injunction to prohibit mRNA nanoparticle injections because they are bioweapons.’ On December 1, 2024, psychotherapist Dr. Joseph Sansone filed a new case in Second Judicial Circuit in and for Leon County, Florida, seeking an injunction to prohibit Governor DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody from allowing the continued distribution of mRNA nanoparticle injections because they are biological and technological weapons of mass destruction. The complaint also seeks declaratory judgments that the COVID-19 injections and all mRNA injections violate weapons of mass destruction statutes and clearly violate Florida medical consent law.
In official bulletins, the Florida Department of Health has previously called for a halt to the mRNA injections, advising that they are unsafe for humans and a threat to the human genome. Surgeon-General Ladapo has publicly described the mRNA injections as the antichrist of drugs.’
Dr Cartland has posted Dr David E Martin’s interview about how the Covid response and vaccine rollout was really an assault on people across the globe. Dr David E Martin is the main protagonist in the documentary Planet Lockdown 2022.
Watch Twitter post; Say it straight, mate! Dr David Cartland; BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (2014), Health/well-being coach, Promotor of safe, evidenced medicine medical ethics, 13 December 2024
Dr David E Martin; “Let’s get all the facts on the table. Coronavirus, Covid-19, the whole thing was premeditated. It was murder. It was active terrorism by a state against the world. Let’s call it what it is. And let’s not pretend like maybe there’s a more complex explanation for, I don’t know, the facts.
And the facts are, here’s the bad news. For 58 years, the United States, the UK, in collaboration with researchers around the world, planned to use coronavirus to instill the most tyrannical reform of society that this generation has ever seen. And they did it, purely premeditated, to make sure that we were cowed into submission. And the bad news for them is there’s a lot of people that didn’t take the knee.
In the EU Parliament speech, I actually put every single reference in. There’s not a single thing I said that’s not referenced with the source document behind it. So you can read it, do it yourself, go read it, read the document, draw a different conclusion.”
See Dr Martin’s Speech at the EU Parliament at 2h 17m 26s part of a 3h 12m presentation by EU politicians debunking the Covid-19 scam
Provoked War with Russia/China
The war in Ukraine is not to help Ukrainians but to grab Russia’s land and resources.
Watch; Thatcher explains why London, and now the EU, hate Russia nikola3, 12 December 2024
‘Thatcher explains why London, and now the EU, hate Russia – because Russia has all the resources and because Russians have refused to be colonised by the West since the 1700s.The most creative description of the desire to steal.
Europe exhausted its resources by the early 1800s and then drained the world of its resources.The root cause of globalism and colonialism is the need to plunder. No wonder the average European has no idea what’s going on, they are told it’s all about protecting democracy and freedom.That’s why it’s so stupid when Anglo-Saxons say Russia is trying to invade Europe. Russia is not trying to invade Europe any more than it is trying to invade Morocco. Russia has never had any desire to invade resource-poor Europe. Why? According to Thatcher, Russia is the richest country in the world, and that’s the real reason they hate Russia’
Margaret Thatcher; “If you were to make a table of countries in proportion to the natural resources they have, the top one would almost certainly be Russia. She has everything, oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, all the industrial metals, marvelous standing timber, a wonderfully rich soil. But countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources. Countries are rich whose governments have policies which encourage the essential creativity, initiative and enterprise of man and recognise his desire to do better for his family.”
Russia is on the right side of history in both consistently trying to broker peace, protect and enhance culture and live with civility not debauchery as is rife in elite cicles in the West.
Watch; Russia Intercepts Israeli Jet Trafficking Adrenochrome Victims to Hollywood The People’s Voice, 21 November 2024
Intro; ‘ Russian special forces have liberated scores of trafficked children from an Israeli-registered private jet, as President Putin’s war against the global adrenochrome industry shifts into overdrive. The recent election of Donald Trump has sent shock waves through the international trafficking networks. With Trump poised to end the war in Ukraine by January, child traffickers and adrenochrome merchants are desperately scrambling to move as many victims as possible before their operations are shut down. Putin understands the desperation of the adrenochrome merchants will lead to recklessness and mistakes, and he is using this moment to strike at the heart of the industry.’
“That’s what I think adrenochrome is. I think that’s the purpose of it, is that they’re seeking a different perception of time.
Whether they use it to alter the perception of time or provide the ultimate high. Paedophile politicians and celebrities around the world can no longer rest assured that their crimes against children will be swept under the carpet like they’ve been for decades. Thanks to Putin’s adrenochrome task force, all bets are off and the paedophile elite are running scared.
What is the relationship, it’s my question, between the child trafficking, adrenochrome manufacture, and how this is used to blackmail and to control, you know, Wall street and also politics and judges.
Let me start by giving the credit to the president, very high marks. He did two executive orders, one in December 2017, one in January 2020, that are hugely significant on human trafficking. Human trafficking, and particularly child trafficking underlies every other great crime in this country. Children are now more valuable than drugs for criminal transactions.”
Sergey Lavrov, who has been the Russian Foreign Minister for twenty years, patiently explains the history behind Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Honesty, reason and history are on his side, while as ever the West relies on spin, duplicity, propaganda and lies.
Watch; Russia’s longtime foreign minister describes the war with the United States and how to end it Tucker Carlson, X, 5 December 2024
Tucker Carlson; I want to go back to what you said a moment ago about the introduction or the unveiling of the hypersonic weapons system that you said was a signal to the West. What signal exactly? I think many Americans are not even aware that this happened. What message were you sending by showing it to the world?
Sergey Lavrov; Well, the message is that you, I mean you, the United States, and the allies of the United States, who also provide this long range weapons to the Kyiv regime, they must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call ‘strategic defeat of Russia’. They fight for keeping the hegemony over the world on any country, any region, any continent. We fight for our legitimate security interests.
Lindsey Graham, who visited Zelensky some time ago, for another talk, he bluntly, in presence of Zelensky, I think, said that Ukraine is very rich with rare earth metals. And we cannot leave this richness to the Russians. We must take it. We fight.
So they fight for the regime which is ready to sell or to give to the West all the natural and human resources. We fight for the people who have been living on these lands, whose ancestors were actually developing those lands, building cities, building factories for centuries and centuries. We care about people, not about natural resources which somebody in the United States would like to keep and to have Ukrainians just as servants sitting on these natural resources. So the message which we wanted to sell by testing in real action this hypersonic system, is that we will be ready to do anything to defend our legitimate interest.
We hate even to think about war with the United States, which will take nuclear character. Our military doctrine says that the most important thing is to avoid a nuclear war. And it was us, by the way, who initiated in January 2022, the joint statement by the leaders of the five permanent members of the Security Council saying that we will do anything to avoid confrontation between us, acknowledging and respecting each other’s security interests and concerns. This was our initiative. Security interests of Russia were totally ignored when they were rejected. About the same time when they rejected the proposal to conclude a treaty on security guarantees for Russia, for Ukraine, in the context of coexistence and in the context when Ukraine would not be ever member of NATO or any other military bloc.
Read; Why the United States Will Lose a War with Russia Mike Whitney, Global Research, 28 November 2024
‘I never cease to be amazed by the pervasive belief that the US military is superior to any other on the planet. Upon what basis is this faith founded? The US has not engaged in a real war since Korea. No one in the US military has ANY experience with high-intensity conflict. —Will Schryver, military analyst
If the United States launches a nuclear “decapitation” strike on Russia that kills President Putin and his Generals, Russia has a backup system in place that will automatically retaliate. The Dead Hand system is designed to collect data from sensors scattered across Russia on radiation, heat and seismic activity confirming a nuclear strike. If the system does not receive instructions from Moscow’s Command Center with a given period of time, the system will autonomously launch 4,000 tactical and strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States ensuring the complete destruction of the country and the incineration of hundreds of millions of Americans. Moscow’s message is simple: “Even if a preemptive strike takes out our leaders, our ‘dead hand’ will still kill you all.” —Dead Hand, Planet Report’
Piers Morgan debate on Russia-Ukraine conflict is interesting to hear opposing views. From my side of the divide, he has the brilliant Scott Horton who has recently published, ‘How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine’
Watch; This Is SUICIDAL!” US Missiles Fired As Putin Threatens Nukes Piers Morgan Uncensored, 21 November 2024
‘In this explosive debate, Piers Morgan brings together host of ‘The Benny Show’ Benny Johnson, former United States Air Force veteran and YouTuber Jake Broe, author of ‘Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine’ Scott Horton and Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt.
More intriguing debate about the war in Ukraine;
Watch; “Are You DONE With The Russian Propaganda?!” Debate on Trump, Putin and WW3 Piers Morgan Uncensored, 5 December 2024
‘In another explosive debate, author of ‘Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine’ Scott Horton, former Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden, Rob O’Neill, host and founder of The Young Turks Cenk Uygur, Ukrainian streamer and YouTuber Anastasiya Paraskevova and former NATO Supreme allied Commander General Wesley Clark.’
CHINA
I visited China earlier this year and two big impressions were the number of people who live in high rise cities, and work long hours. I also got the impression that a newsletter like this might not be tolerated by the powers that be. However, how many wars have they started compared to the US with the support of its satellite countries?
Read; Trump Win 2.0 Vis-à-vis China & His Role in End-Stage Hyper-Capitalism Richard Soloman, The Unz Review, 10 December 2024
‘Barring human civilisation-wrecking nuclear or biological war, I am confident of China’s ultimate victory. It doesn’t take an AI computer war games simulation program to figure out who wins when a smaller collectively dumber population with degenerate leaders and a rentier economy takes on a larger collectively smarter population with gifted leaders and an industrial production economy. Like Sun Tzu said, “The battle is won before it is fought.”
Hot war with China is a last-ditch suicide charge- not the preferred game. The war against China is indirect, but still dangerous. As demonstrated in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, the US military no longer fights wars to achieve traditional territorial victory. It fights for international banker monetary control, debt-usury, MIC profits, Israeli security and expansion, petrodollar hegemony, stock market insider trading scams, BlackRock acquisitions and mergers, ruined-society Bechtel reconstruction projects, natural resource theft, destruction of competitor markets, weaponised war refugee population transfers, orphan creation for twisted billionaires, organised Jewry revenge genocides (e.g., Palestinian, Ukrainian), and CIA drug trafficking routes.
For the first time, there exists a rational counterforce capable of challenging international Jewish finance and its war machine. That force is China and trinity allies, Russia and Iran. The covalent bonds between China, Russia, and Iran must remain unbreakable. External foes and internal traitors know the value of the trinity alliance and will stop at nothing to weaken it. Assad’s overthrow hurts BRICS and trinity prestige. “People go with the strong horse.” Trinity needs a win.
Beyond economic warfare, China should also expect:
- CIA- color revolution attempts in China’s minority regions as well as CIA-Mossad coordinated terrorist attacks against Chinese civilians.
- Increased China Sea provocations using Asian vassals and the US military.
- Enhanced Taiwan provocations.
- Nord Stream 2 type attacks against energy routes and BRI projects using CIA-funded “freedom-fighter” proxy armies to create implausible deniability.
- BRI agreements crumble if China’s partners fear US retaliation. Win-win cooperation sometimes requires a sword.
The “War with China” Rothschild zionist long game entails squeezing China through nuclear and biological weapons threats, NGO revolts, economic warfare, terrorist attacks, proxy wars, and low-grade chest-puff military encounters. Through this pressure, they hope China either suffers internal collapse or relents to international Jewish finance gaining a foothold in the Middle Kingdom. The international bankers snuck into the United States through Civil War borrowing. Fifty years later they implemented the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, effectively turning the US economy over to global finance. The international bankers want a Chinese Federal Reserve. If China agrees to behind-the-scenes Sassoon-rule hostilities end.
The battle for primary global influencer is between China and international Jewish finance.’
The West continues to molest and de-stabilise China, by funding Uyghur separatists. This group has joined the militants that have taken power in Syria.
Listen; Israel colonizes Syrian territory, and anti-Assad rebels allow it, seeking more Western support Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, 16 December 2024
“The Washington Post reported that the CIA programme to arm and train the Syrian rebels, which was called Operation Timber Sycamore, cost a billion dollars a year and it represented one out of every $15 in the CIA’s overall budget. So now that the US and its allies have succeeded in overthrowing the Syrian government after a decade of proxy war, these rebranded Al Qaeda rebels in Syria are hilariously following the same neoliberal playbook that Washington has imposed on countries around the world after regime change operations and CIA sponsored coups. In fact, leaders of this rebranded Al Qaeda group told Reuters in an exclusive interview that they plan on creating a free market economy.
That’s the language they used, so this very neoliberal rhetoric. And they criticised the previous government of Assad, which was ruled by the Ba’ath Party, which is an Arab nationalist movement that was influenced by socialism. And they criticised the previous state led public oriented economy under the Ba’athist party and said that instead they’re going to have a neoliberal free market system. They’re going to privatise all of the state owned companies that haven’t been completely destroyed and looted.
They’re going to cut social programmes, cut health care, cut education, they’re going to sell off everything to Western corporations, including their natural resources, which again, the oil reserves have been occupied by the US military. So what we’re seeing is a complete looting of Syria by the US and its allies, by foreign corporations. And speaking of CIA operations, one of the groups involved in Syria and overthrowing the Assad government were extremist Salafi jihadists from western China, from the Uyghur community. And they published a video from this extremist group linked to Al Qaeda, which is called the Turkestan Islamic Party, which is directly affiliated with Al Qaeda.
They published a video in Syria in which they vowed to attack China to try to carve up the western part of China, to break it off of China. This was reported by the British conservative newspaper the Telegraph, boasting, quote, ‘Uighur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next’. And they were quoting a video from the so called Turkestan Islamic Party. Now, the US government has spent billions of dollars over decades supporting separatist groups to try to break up China in various different provinces.
And in recent years there’s been a lot of propaganda about Western China and the Uyghurs. And in 2020, the Trump administration, the State Department of Mike Pompeo, removed the terror designation for the separatist extremist group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which rebranded as the Turkestan Islamic Party , which again is affiliated with Al Qaeda and has been active in Syria. They were fighting against the Assad government and helped to overthrow it in alliance with the US and Israel. And in 2020, when the Trump administration ended the terrorist designation, they claimed that there was no evidence that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement existed anymore.
They claimed that it was no longer a real group and that China was exaggerating. But now we can see Western newspapers boasting, publishing videos of the Salafi jihadist extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda in Syria vowing to wage war against China. And they’re happy about it because the Western colonial powers have done this for decades, especially the US but also some European countries have supported these extremist far right groups inside China to try to break up Chinese territory to destabilise the country.”
Zionism is a Colonial State Project/Gaza, Syria, Lebanon
I implicitly trust David Miller’s Tracking_Power social media sites, particularly his instagram for information on the Israeli Project
On January 17, 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a power base he called the ‘military-industrial complex.’ Now the zionists control the US, they are syphoning money from US and EU tax payers to fund their never-ending wars and theft of land and resources in the Middle East.
Watch; Netanyahu has used America; Jeffrey Sachs – University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Judging Freedom, Khalissee, 1 December 2024
Jeffrey Sachs; “Netanyahu has done more damage to America than any of our miserable presidents have done in all of their failed policies. Because Netanyahu has misused America repeatedly. Because the zionist lobby is so powerful that Netanyahu basically has had control over the Pentagon to fight wars on behalf of Israeli extremism. And the war in Iraq in 2003 is a Netanyahu war. The attempt to overthrow Bashar Al Assad in Syria starting in 2011 and continuing 14 more years of war is a Netanyahu war. The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, unleashing instability not only in Libya but across Africa, is a Netanyahu war.
Netanyahu and his friends in the US Government, these arch zionists, so called, have had effective control over the US Military. They have cost you and me and the rest of us as taxpayers trillions of dollars. It’s quite a dandy deal that the Israel lobby or the zionist lobby puts in, say, $100 million into campaigns and it gets trillions, trillions out, not billions, trillions out. And so when Netanyahu speaks, it’s bizarre to me.
It’s not who Trump is appointing or naming. It’s that the United States of America has let itself be used by a band of extremists on serial wars that have been disastrous for America’s interests. Fighting Israel’s wars so that Israel can maintain its extremism and its occupation of Palestinian lands and its apartheid rule over Palestinian lands is not in America’s interest. And President Trump, who speaks for America, should be saying to Netanyahu, first day, “I am President of the United States, you no longer run our country” that’s what I hope.
Syria
Everyday things change in Syria so I will add the very latest just before publication. Vanessa Beeley lived in Syria and even she was taken by surprise.
Read; Safe while Syria Burns; Vanessa Beeley, 10 December 2024
‘After a rather turbulent 48 hours I am safe and will be writing and broadcasting as normal very shortly. I had one hour to pack one suitcase, take one dog and get through a border swarming with armed thugs looting and fighting amongst themselves over the spoils. The night before was spent besieged by armed groups firing in the air to celebrate their “victory” while Israel started using bunker buster bombs on Syrian military sites and air defence close to the house. The house shook from top to bottom. At 10am truckloads of armed thieves arrived and battered at my front gate. I was on the phone to a friend who begged me to find a weapon – clearly I don’t have any. I yelled at them from inside and the dogs went crazy. After three batterings they left.’
‘I don’t blame any of the ordinary people for adopting the new era. People in Syria are isolated and afraid, some are terrified.
The mainstream media vultures are flooding in to claw at the corpse of one of the oldest civilisations in the world. History will be revised as it always is – by the Victor. If only the Victor were genuinely Syrian and grass roots, not a terrorist force incubated in #CIA black sites and empowered by Israel and the collective Western alliance of callous hegemony.
Syria will become a toothless melting pot of foreign interests, resource looting and expanding zionist land grab. A nation without an army and without any military infrastructure is not a nation. It’s a playing field for the predators.’
The zionists and western imperialists are in lockstep in their crusade to steal land and resources by systematically destroying countries whose leaders challenge their hegemony in the Middle East. This is just one example ‘In March 2011, following Syrian President Assad’s refusal two years earlier to allow US-ally Qatar to build a pipeline through his country, citing his relationship with Russia as a factor, a plan was put into action to remove him from power.’
Read; “7 Countries in 5 Years” – Regime Change in Iran Coming Soon? Gavin O’Reilly, Global Research, 17 December 2024
As the militants subsequently began to close in on the capital Damascus, it soon became apparent that Assad’s fate was sealed. Leaving the country alongside his family on a chartered flight shortly afterwards, the former Syrian President would be granted asylum in Moscow, bringing to an end a 13-year coordinated attempt by various powers to topple his government.
In March 2011, following Assad’s refusal two years prior to allow US-ally Qatar to build a pipeline through his country, citing his relationship with Russia as a factor, a plan was put into action to remove the Syrian President from power. Amidst the wider Arab Spring protests taking place at the time, the CIA and MI6 began a covert operation to arm and train Salafist militants opposed to Assad’s secular rule. Joining Washington and London in this endeavour would be Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who would have been the starting points for the proposed pipeline, Turkey, who would have been its entry point to Europe, and Israel, owing to Syria’s membership of the Axis of Resistance and its key role as a conduit between Iran and Hezbollah.
Indeed, two years into the proxy war on Syria, both Iran and Hezbollah would launch a requested intervention in the hopes of preserving Assad’s government, as would Russia another two years later, again at the request of Damascus. Though both interventions undoubtedly played a key role in extending Assad’s regime far longer than had he acted in isolation amidst the beginnings of the conflict, it would ultimately be the militants, centred in a stronghold in the northwest city of Idlib, who would claim victory last Sunday, leading to a situation that historically does not bode well for either Syria or the wider region.
In 2003, following the US-Anglo invasion of Iraq and subsequent overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the country would be plunged into chaos, creating a power vacuum that, combined with the subsequent destabilisation of neighbouring Syria, would ultimately lead to the emergence of ISIS in 2013. In 2011, at the same time as the Syrian regime-change operation, a similar operation would occur in Libya, owing to Muammar Gaddafi’s proposed Gold Dinar currency. On top of the similar Western support for militant groups vying to remove Gadaffi’s rule, a No Fly Zone would also be imposed by NATO against Tripoli, causing the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, once the most prosperous nations in Africa, to collapse within eight months. Like Iraq, Libya would also be plunged into chaos, with the refugee crisis greatly exacerbated as a result. Syria, another Arab state now joining the list of having its ruler forcibly removed by Western interests, now looks set to suffer a similar fate of extreme instability and sectarian strife. The only noticeable difference being that Assad did not suffer a similar fate as his Iraqi and Libyan counterparts – Hussein being hanged in Baghdad in December 2006, and Gaddafi being lynched on a Libyan street in October 2011.
The removal of Assad from power now also signifies that a dramatic push from the West and Israel to enact regime-change in another long-time target may now be imminent – that target being Iran.
In a 2007 interview with independent media outlet Democracy Now! retired four-star General Wesley Clark would recount how on a visit to the Pentagon in the days following 9/11, an unnamed General informed him that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq in response, despite there being no evidence to link Saddam Hussein’s government to the attacks.’
‘Turkey and the Gulf states accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a greater Israel in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world.’
Watch; Imperialism is Winning Craig Murray, 16 December 2024
“I’m here in Beirut, Lebanon, and I’m thinking back on the six weeks we’ve spent here and what a revolution it has seen in power structures and fortunes in that period of six weeks, which I think will prove to be historically important. And it’s been a tremendous loss for Hezbollah, for Iran, for the axis of resistance in support of Palestine, and it’s been a tremendous gain for Israel and the big step towards the creation of Greater Israel. Of course, we have seen the astonishing continuation of the genocide in the Gaza Strip. We’ve seen the horrific ethnic clearing of north Gaza simply by massacring the entire population there.
And we’ve seen it being made very obvious that Israel does plan annexation of the Gaza Strip. At the same time, we’ve seen the ceasefire here in Lebanon, which Hezbollah tried to portray as a victory, but frankly, that just doesn’t hold water. It was a defeat, a substantial defeat. Hezbollah lost their entire command structure to bombing, assassinations.
Of course, before that we had the pager terrorist attack by Israel. And Lebanon suffered horrific bombing over a long period with three and a half thousand people killed. Israel is doing its normal trick of targeting doctors, targeting hospitals, targeting ambulances. Over two hundred and twenty medical personnel killed among those three and a half thousand people, and of course, a substantial number of children killed.
Hezbollah were able to prevent Israel making progress on the ground. Israel’s ground offensive didn’t make much progress at all. But then in a sense, they didn’t have to. They pummelling Lebanon into submission by undefended airstrikes.
And the ceasefire agreement gives them two months to leave Lebanese territory, which they’re showing very little sign of doing. And in fact they’re consolidating their positions and taking new territory, for example, on the Lebanese side of Mount Hermon. We then, of course, also have events in Syria, and that has been a further disaster for Hezbollah and the axis of resistance. The coup in Damascus started, of course, the day of the ceasefire.
And there’s no doubt that that was planned by the Americans and the Israelis to enable them to concentrate on Syria. They’ve been able relentlessly to bomb Syria for the last fortnight without having to worry about fighting on a frontier in Lebanon. And Israel, of course, has also taken a massive amount of Syrian land, equivalent to three times the size of a Gaza Strip, which is the Eastern border of Lebanon. So Israel now occupies a lot of southern Lebanon.
That’s a major strategic change, but an even greater one is the fact that the new Salafist extremist government in Damascus views Hezbollah as its enemy. These are people, Isis, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, who’ve been fighting Hezbollah for a decade. And they have announced that their leader, Al Julani, said that Israel is not their enemy, they want good relations with Israel, and that their opponents are Iran, Hezbollah and the Alawites, that is the Shia and Alawite sectarian, different strands of religious belief. And what is happening has happened already is that Damascus has now cut off the supply of arms firm Iran through Syria to Hezbollah. So Hezbollah cannot rearm in this ceasefire period.”
Vanessa Beeley exposes the BBC’s shameful, extremely biassed reporting in Syria that demonises all Asad affiliates and whitewashes the brutality inflicted on them and people of other religions by HTS.
Watch; HTS in Syria: “Moderate Rebel” Realities UK Column, 18 December 2024
Interview with Julani (Head of HTS); “Now, in Syria in the past you have talked about strict Islamic rule. Is that still the plan?”
Julani; “People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly. We are talking about something that aligns with the traditions and nature of the region.”
Vanessa Beeley;” Does it really? Because if we look at the history of HTS rule in Idlib going way back, we see articles from Syrian human rights groups, another wave of summary executions by HTS in Idlib, which took place between December 2019 and late April 2020 on charges of adultery and cursing God. However, those executions included women and they included people that were considered to have relations with the then Syrian government.
This is from one activist against HTS rule inside Idlib saying that they began to exert significant pressure on the city’s residents who opposed their control, such as arresting revolutionary figures who challenged their presence and authority depriving bakeries of flour supplies, controlling the city’s drinking water by cutting allocations to neighbourhoods and homes inhabited by opponents, and shutting down revolutionary institutions that were established after the city was liberated from Syrian government forces whose goal was providing services to the residents. Additionally, they closed the University of Human Medicine, where which had around 600 students, due to its alleged affiliation with the Syrian interim government and many others.
Now, of course, this is completely being whitewashed by the Western media agencies, while of course, the U.S. department of State description of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a dangerous regime and one where the Iranian people, according to the US State Department, are largely pro Western, but are brutally subjugated by an anti Western religious theocracy. So I’m just trying to demonstrate here the absolute hypocrisy of Western reporting, both by government agencies and by media agencies. And then let’s move on to what HTS are actually bringing in to curtail any opposition inside Syria itself.
So this was a few days ago, the Information Ministry of Syria’s transitional government announced that war correspondents who worked under the former regime, under President Assad’s government would face trial. The announcement follows a pledge by Hayat, a dominant faction in the region, that it would not prosecute journalists operating inside Syria. This kind of crackdown is obviously still going to be an element of HTS’s governance, despite all of the media’s attempts to present it as otherwise. And this was reported in Le Monde on the executions that we showed last week on UK Column video shows summary execution of an Assad regime ‘henchman’.
It’s quite extraordinary how this is being framed, almost as if it’s absolutely acceptable that anyone that is summarily and arbitrarily decided is a henchman of the Assad government is to be legitimately executed or tortured. And again, we’re back to the description of Iran. The shadow of the gallows looms over Iran, but no mention of the gallows that are being established in cities like Homs and Hamar in Syria to execute the Assad henchmen.
And I want to play this report or a section of the report by Jeremy Bowen when he’s covering the potential summary execution of an Assad henchman in Damascus. Let’s just play this.”
Jeremy Bowen; “The man they wanted hanged had been the local boss, a thief as well as a killer. Somehow they decided the execution was happening down the street and stampeded. If Syria’s new rulers do not want change to be measured in blood, they will need to control the desire for revenge. There’s a real strong sense of excitement, expectation, anger as well. They want to see this man dead. They don’t just want justice to be done. They want to see it being done not just because of his crimes, but because of the boundless cruelty of the Assad regime.”
Vanessa Beeley; “I mean, this is simply not journalism. This is jingoism on behalf of HTS and the overthrow of the Syrian government, which of course the BBC was heavily involved with through BBC Media Action from 2004 onwards. There is absolutely no evidence that the individual that Bowen is talking about is a killer. He hasn’t gone through any kind of trial or prosecution process. And Bowen is literally, in my opinion, in that video, advocating for the execution of former government officials.”
A number of prominent journalists previously worked as spooks for the zionist entity.
Watch; Zionist infiltration of the media Palestine Declassified, 3 December 2024
Chris Williamson; “Well, David, tell us about the cases unearthed by Mint Press of zionist activists going on to be appointed to media jobs.”
David Miller; “So there’s a whole variety of different zionist organisations, you have; Stand With Us or the Anti Defamation League, a laundry list of all the well known zionist organisations provide people who then go on to become journalists. Of course they couldn’t possibly be journalists and if they were journalists they should be held to the same standards as other journalists and should be declaring their conflict of interest. None of them do of course.
And so that’s part of the issue. So we’ve got, yes, we’ve got intelligence people, yes, we’ve got people from the occupation forces, but also we’ve got people from these massive range of zionist organisations in the US all of which will have either directly or indirectly coordination with the zionist entity and the strategies of the Ministry of Strategic affairs or the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all of which have been involved in running foreign assets overseas. So this is a massive operation. You know, it’s perfectly clear that the attempt is to infiltrate the media and to make sure that it’s impossible for people to espouse reasonable views about the question of Palestine.”
Read; Exposed: How the corporate media in West is suborned by zionist influence by David Miller, Press TV, 30 June 2024
On May 30, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei published a letter addressed to students on US campuses protesting against the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.
The title of the letter was “As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.”
Among his words of advice was a statement about the role of the media: The global zionist elite – who own most US and European media corporations or influence them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as “terrorism.”
To Western ears, this may sound like an exaggerated or simplistic account of how the media works. But let us examine the various elements of the media system and how it is influenced.
The first thing to note is that perhaps the most important element setting the tone of coverage in the Western media is the role of official sources in defining what is legitimate and illegitimate violence.
Thus, in the case of Palestine, zionist regime sources have a built-in advantage over those of the resistance or even of Palestinians in general.’
Michael Higgins, a poet and an honest and principled politician, and President of Ireland since 2011, responds to Israel’s foreign minister calling Irish people anti-semitic because Ireland supports South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the ICJ. ‘Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law’, Taoiseach Simon Harris says, putting cowardly, complicit Starmer and his zionist cronies to shame for their collaboration with Israeli genocide.
Read; President Michael D Higgins accuses Israel of ‘deep slander’ over anti-Semitic claims The Irish Times, 17 December 2024
‘President Michael D Higgins has said it is a “gross defamation” and “deep slander” for the Israeli government to describe the Irish people as anti-Semitic. “I think it is very important as President of Ireland to say that [for Israel to say] the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a deep slander,” he said.
The President was responding to comments by Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar who on Monday accused Ireland of delegitimising and dehumanising Israel, and applying double standards in its response to its war against Hamas in Gaza.
President Higgins said: “It is a very serious business to actually brand a people because of the fact they disagree with Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu who is in breach of so many bits of international law and has breached the sovereignty of Lebanon, Syria and would like to have settlement in each of them. “To suggest that because one criticises Prime Minister Netanyahu one is anti-Semitic is such a gross defamation and slander,” he said.
President Higgins was speaking at a ceremony for the Ambassador of the State of Palestine Jilan Abdaljamid and Ambassador of Italy Nicola Faganello, both of whom presented their credentials. He said he had initially put down the comments to a lack of experience but had then realised it was part of a pattern to damage Ireland in the eyes of the world. He said that like Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Taoiseach Simon Harris had said on Monday, he wanted to assure the Irish people that the State would not be deflected.
“I do want to say how strongly I support the statements from [Mr Harris and Mr Martin],” he said, adding they were right in asserting that Ireland was a country that offered principled support to international law. “Over the years I think it is the Irish psyche that we understand the words ‘dispossession’, ‘occupation’ and so on. “That why we stress the importance of international law and also particularly in relation to the rights obligations of those who are in occupation on what is occupied territory,” he said.’
Reporting from Beirut during the recent Israeli assault on Lebanon, Craig Murray has a grandstand view of the ‘fascist, racial supremacist, and genocidal entity’ that is Israel today. He predicts that Israel’s evil bloodthirstiness will lead to the abolition of Israel and a radical political change in the Western so-called ‘democracies’.
Read; What’s happening in Lebanon: interview with former British Ambassador Craig Murray, 11 December 2024
Intro; ‘The current situation in Lebanon is more delicate than ever. Despite the entry into force of the fragile cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, the Jewish state continues to violate the terms of the agreement, claiming that it is only conducting defensive operations. At the same time, in Syria, the opposition front to Assad has conquered Damascus, bringing down a dynasty that lasted over half a century without its ally Hezbollah being able to do anything. Against this backdrop of uncertainty, Craig Murray travelled to Beirut to report on what is happening from the ground.
Craig Murray is a former British diplomat, writer and human rights activist. He served as UK ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004, exposing human rights abuses in that country, and dedicated his post-diplomatic career to global justice issues. At the top of the list was the Palestinian cause, for which – in the current climate of repression in the UK – he was detained by the police, as has happened to other journalists.’
Presenter; “A final question, perhaps the most trivial and at the same time due to be asked in this turbulent context. What is the future of the Middle East? Can there be a peaceful future for the region?”
Craig Murray; “Right now, the future of the Middle East looks very bleak. Syria looks like it will regress into a failed state, as happened with Libya. Should the Turks increase their repression of the Kurds and deprive them of their territories, it will be the US and Turkey who will run the oil fields there, exactly as happened in Iraq. The rest of Syria will see a continued attempt by the Salafists to impose very strict legislation, which will increase in intensity in this culturally diverse country. All I see with the fall of the Assad dictatorship is the lack of control from the centre, and this could lead to massacres and repression. For the Palestinians, of course, the situation at the moment is just as bleak.
However, I do not think that Israel can survive for long. I think Israel has now proven itself to be essentially a fascist, racial supremacist, and genocidal entity. People around the world are forming an ever stronger idea of what Israel is: a pariah state, an illegitimate entity. Eventually, through moral suasion, Israel will disappear because people will want to have nothing to do with it, and a large part of the world will promote an enormous economic boycott.”
Presenter; “What are the possible repercussions in the Western world?”
Craig Murray; “Senior politicians in Western countries, if they do not change, will share a similar fate, because people will, at last, find a way to get rid of them. Indeed, it is interesting to note that the situation in the Middle East has made the people around the world realise that politicians do not serve the interests of their electorates and do not respond to their needs. One way or another, the Middle East scenario will help trigger a revolutionary change in the West. The consequences of what the Israeli genocide will have brought about, should be fascinating for future historians. Its effects will be seen in the decades to come. The probable end result will be the abolition of the State of Israel, leading to a radical political change in our so-called ‘democratic systems’ here in the West.”
[by Dario Lucisano translation Patrick Boylan].
The overthrow of Assad by the US-Israel axis of evil leaves only Iran to defend the Middle East against the relentless aggression of western-backed zionist militarism to secure hegemony and steal land and resources.
Watch or read; Syria: will it prove to be the empire’s final quagmire? Alex Krainer, 14 December 2024
‘The West’s long descent from the 1993 Wolfowitz Doctrine, one Pyrrhic victory after another.’
‘But even if our moral compass is irreparably broken, at least some vestige of practical common sense and a sensitivity to historical patterns should survive in sober minds. The U.S. once triumphantly entered Kabul, deposed the terrible, horrible, no good Taliban regime and took Afghanistan from them. Twenty years and $4 trillion later the invincible hegemon had to withdraw from there and surrender Afghanistan to the same terrible Taliban again.
In 2003 the U.S. triumphantly walked into Baghdad. Two decades later, U.S. troops are holed up in their bases like sitting ducks at the mercy of Iran and its proxies. Capturing and executing Saddam Hussein was also celebrated as some great milestone in the democratic transformation of the Middle East. In effect, the great hegemon handed Iraq over to the Iranians. Then in 2013 we celebrated the fall of the terrible, horrible, no good madman Ghaddafi in Libya. Yet another brilliant triumph of Western forces of democracy and freedom. Only, it blew back spectacularly.
Recall, one of the main sponsors of that project in addition to Lord David Cameron was French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Decapitating Libya was supposed to help secure French hegemony over her dependencies in north and west Africa. Today France barely has any dependencies there and now even Chad and Senegal are kicking them out. And let’s not forget Ukraine! In February 2014 we overthrew Ukraine’s president Yanukovich, installed a proto-fascist junta, coerced them to launch the brutal Anti-Terror Operation against the Eastern oblasts and strung the Russians along with Minsk Agreements to gain time to weaponise the whole country for the coming war against Russia. So, so clever. So brilliantly cunning!
Sadly, a good chunk of the western audiences have come to regard bad faith craftiness, double-dealing and dirty tricks that score these short-term Pyrrhic victories as evidence of great strategic sophistication among the Western foreign policy establishments’ ruling circles. Every uptick in geopolitics triggers loud cheering, trash talking and chest thumping while the long-term trendline is being conveniently ignored.
The long descent from our unipolar moment
So, what does that long-term trendline look like? Let’s remember that in 1993 – more than 30 years ago – the U.S. adopted the Wolfowitz Doctrine named after its brilliant author, Paul Wolfowitz. The Doctrine was meant to enshrine and cement Western empire’s unipolar moment, secure its “full spectrum dominance” and prevent any rival from emerging. It also inspired the “Project For the New American Century,” (PNAC) which put forth essentially the same geopolitical objective: total dominance.
In 2004, another one of PNAC’s brilliant alumni, Michael Ledeen suggested that, “every now and again the United States has to pick up a crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to prove we are serious.” Lovely, but how’d that unipolar moment work out over the last 30 years? For all the crafty cunning, double dealing and dirty tricks, for all the cheating on NATO expansion, regime changes, Minsk Agreement deception, for all the invincibility of the finest fighting force in the history of the universe, and all the blinding brilliance of the West’s strategic leadership, things didn’t seem to work out all that good.
The unipolar moment is no more, and Western powers have devolved to relying on certified terrorists to help them achieve their short-term Pyrrhic victories. Even while the loud cheering is still echoing, there is no reason to believe that the misadventure in Syria will be worth celebrating any more than Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Ukraine are. Sadly, rivers of blood will be spilled, all for opposite outcomes and unintended consequences.’
If Israel has the right to defend itself, why doesn’t Russia?
Listen; Judging Freedom; Ray McGovern; 14 December 2024
Judge Napolitano; Ray, as we speak. Are the Israelis stealing Syrian real estate?
Ray McGovern; “Yeah, but they have every right to defend themselves, Judge, come on. Look, you know, they feel threatened by Syria. That’s traditionally why they have helped to inculcate total chaos in Syria, not only to prevent the delivery of arms to Hezbollah, but also just to have chaos, because as was explained to Americans and appeared in the New York Times, their wished-for outcome in Syria back in 2013 and today is total chaos with the Shia and the Sunnis and the other rabid or moderate or really bad rebels fighting with each other to the point where they provide no threat to Israel, that was explicitly stated, on September 6th, 2013, in a lead article in the New York Times, Look it up.
Now what about now? Well, now they are expanding not only their control over the Golan Heights, which by all international law belongs to Syria, they’re going into Syria proper and bombing the hell out of every military facility they see in Syria. Now, the defense, of course, is… ‘Oh, wait a second, Syria is a threat to Israel’. And so every country has the right to defend themselves. Right?
Well, let me just make a kind of a noxious comparison. There was another country that went into Ukraine, right? And they felt very threatened by the establishment of NATO infrastructure, NATO-trained troops for the past seven years, armed troops, and they tried to get out of it by creating a treaty. And they had no takers for the treaty. They went into Ukraine because every country has the right to defend themselves. Now, the comparison is not exact, but the principle is; when one country feels a real threat and it’s a superpower, it’s going to bash the other country if it feels threatened by it. We didn’t recognise that. We thought the Russians were bluffing, okay? And so they went in. That’s the story of Ukraine.
That’s what’s now being used as a subterfuge to justify, in quotes, Israel taking still more territory from Syria.”
Watch; Partitioning Syria. HTS is a shadow The Duran, 14 December 2024
Alex Christoforou; “We have Israel taking a lot of land in Syria. There were reports that they were 20 kilometres from Damascus. The IDF refutes these reports, they say that they’re not moving in on Damascus, they say they’re creating a security zone or something like that. We have Turkey taking much of the North part of Syria, and of course, as expected, Erdogan is focusing in on the Kurdish forces in Syria which are backed by the United States.
HTS is also starting their interim government and they’ve got an interim prime minister, But Al Julani has stated that he’s not going to go to war, fight the Israelis or deal with anything that’s happening in Aleppo, Idlib and Manbij where the fighting is taking place between the Turkish-backed Syrian forces and the US-backed Kurdish forces.”
Alexander Mercouris; “It’s a collapse. I mean the whole country is completely disintegrating. There is no administration, there is no police force, apparently the bureaucracy has ceased to function. There were claims that the central bank was still functioning, but apparently it isn’t any longer. So I mean everything has stopped and has fallen apart, and Julani is saying that HTS isn’t going to fight the Israelis or the Americans or the Turks. The reason they are not going to fight anybody is that, putting aside the fact that they are controlled by these people, they’re funded by these people, it’s become pretty obvious to me over the last couple of days that HTS is a shadow. I mean there are some fighters, but this is not an army that is in any condition to fight anybody. They’re certainly not in a position to fight the Israelis. They’re not in a position to fight the Russians.
We have convoys of Russian troops moving from across Syria to the Russian bases in Latakia, in Khmeimim and Tartus, and HTS is there and they’re just driving past. And this was never a war, it was not a military campaign. There was a small cadre of Turkish trained fighters, which I think we both heard were basically run by Turkish intelligence, but there was no big jihadi army fighting the Syrian army. Nothing like that happened, there was no real fighting at all. HTS has no real organisation, no real military force to back it. It’s basically a fiction, and what you see right across Syria is a progressive collapse of state institutions, of the economy, of the way in which any country functions, and the country’s being looted and everything is being broken down, and we see that the four powers that have armed presence in Syria appear to be digging in and are partitioning the country between each other.
So the Americans are still there in eastern Syria trying to protect their Kurdish proxies. I understand the Turkish army is physically present now in Aleppo City, and I mean actual regular units of the Turkish army, not HTS or militia or anything of that kind. And they’re also fighting the Kurds and pushing them out of Manbij. And the Americans have agreed that the Kurds must leave Manbij with every iteration of this crisis. By the way, the area where the Kurdish people in Syria used to live is being reduced, it’s actually shrinking because Erdogan is determined ultimately to crush the Kurds and they’re being pushed out of significant areas of Syria, and Manbij is just another one.
Israel is establishing what it calls its security zone, which means the entire Golan Heights and some areas further inside Syria itself. Again, they’re meeting no resistance. Netanyahu says that the Israelis are in the Golan Heights to stay. I expect that at some point in the next few months, year maybe, Israel will announce the formal annexation of the entire Golan Heights. And the Russians still have their bases. And there is an enigma about this, because it seems that instead of withdrawing from the bases, the Russians are reinforcing them. Now, I still believe that the Russians deep down are saying to themselves that these bases are untenable, and after they’ve done their own deal with Erdogan they will probably decide to go. But for the moment at least, they’re digging in. They’re sending more of their people to Syria, and again, HTS is not interfering with them because it can’t.
So you have a carve up of Syria. The country itself is collapsing. And across most of Syria, no one is in control. The only places where there is control is where the foreign armies are. It’s a tragic picture. And it’s the partitioning of what used to be a proud country.”
Alex Christoforou; “What is Blinken trying to accomplish in his meeting with Turkish officials in Ankara? Does he want to keep the U.S. in Syria, as well as keep the backing of the Kurds going? He can’t push for a Kurdish state or anything like that, because that would be crossing Erdogan’s reddest of red lines. So, I mean, I’m just trying to figure out what is Blinken actually trying to accomplish, can Blinken accomplish anything?”
Alexander Mercouris; “If we take a logical view, I think that in this situation where Syria is being just divided up, partitioned, in effect, what Blinken ought to be trying to do…. it’s terribly cynical and I don’t want to give the impression I agree with this or approve this at all, but what Blinken ought to be trying to do is to agree with the Turks spheres of influence. I’ve also received this information that the Americans are trying to buy ex Syrian military material in Syria, ie tanks, armoured vehicles, shells, that kind of thing, in order to send them to Ukraine.”
Alex Christoforou; “But do the Turks tell Blinken ‘look, do you want these weapons to go to Ukraine? We know that you’re completely obsessed with Project Ukraine, we’ll help get these weapons to Ukraine. Fine. But the Kurds have to go’. Even spheres of influence still doesn’t resolve the Kurdish issue, which Erdogan has said many times it’s existential for Turkey, he said, it’s absolutely his red line.”
Alexander Mercouris; “The other thing is happening is that it’s becoming increasingly clear to me that Erdogan and the Turks, for the moment at least, want the Russians to stay. They want them to stay in the bases in Eastern Syria. And the reason they want them to stay is because they think, probably rightly, that that gives them leverage over the Americans.
So there’s all these intricate games that are being played out, and it’s purely now a game between the great powers. Syria itself as a state, has ceased to exist. Damascus is where HTS is going to form its government. It’s not going to have any real control. It cannot do. Damascus is the oldest inhabited city in the world, that has been the capital of a country longer than any other city in human history, its fate is going to be dark. It’s probably going to become a no man’s land eventually, perhaps we’re going to have some kind of shadow government set up there, but it’s going to go the way of Mogadishu and places like that, Libya, all of these sort of places run by warlords and that kind of thing. I mean, it’s utterly tragic situation. And the museums there are going to be looted and the architecture is going to be destroyed and the archaeological sites nearby are going to be ransacked. If one spends time dwelling on it, it does make you want to cry.”
For decades the zionists have worked towards regime change in Syria, and the spin that was used by the western media to smear Assad for the last 14 years was riddled with lies.
Read; Evaluating Bashar al-Assad’s Human Rights Record in Syria The Anti Empire Project and Joe Emersberger, 15 December 2024
‘President Bashar al-Assad of Syria also fought, but in his case ultimately lost, a civil war that he was fully justified in waging. Since 2011 until his ouster weeks ago, Assad fought to prevent his country from being conquered and partitioned by the greatest evil in the world today: the US Empire. Assad fought armed rebels backed by the US and its top clients in the region: Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The case for depicting Assad as a monster is based on the premise that Assad had no right to defend his country against the US and its allies. Sometimes Assad’s detractors denied the significance of the US role in the war. Always absurd, their denial became downright farcical once the US occupied part of Syria in 2014.
With the help of Russia and other allies (Iran and Hezbollah), Assad was able to achieve a stalemate in the war for years. But it was a stalemate that allowed the US and its proxies to occupy resource-rich areas of the country. The US occupation magnified the impact of sanctions that Washington used to ruthlessly bleed Syria economically. Neither Assad nor his foreign allies were willing to take the enormous risks required to kick the US out of Syria, or to stop Israel’s constant bombing of Syria. The economic bleeding eventually paid off dramatically for the US-backed rebels. Assad was overthrown mere days after rebels launched an offensive to break the 2020 stalemate that had been negotiated by Russia and Iran with Turkey.
The civil war to oust Assad was a US project executed for the benefit of Israel. The genocidal zionst state has already bombed hundreds of sites in Syria to destroy any military capacity for the new government. At the same time Israel has done this, Syria’s new government has clearly signalled its submissiveness towards Israel, and expressed hatred for Israeli enemies Iran and Hezbollah. Israel is occupying Syrian villages, issuing deportation orders to Syrian citizens, and bringing in Jewish settlers. Israel now has better military options for attacking Lebanon and for cutting off armed support to Hezbollah. So those hailing Assad’s ouster on “human rights” grounds must ignore that his ouster has provided the Israelis state with greater power and impunity to crush the human rights of Syrians, Palestinians and Lebanese.
When we declare the US Empire to be the world’s greatest evil, our case is overwhelming. Before October 7, 2023 one could point to countless military coups the US has sponsored in the Americas; its slaughter of millions in Indochina during the 1960s and 70s; the millions of deaths it caused in Iraq since 1990; economic policies that consigned hundreds of millions to misery and premature death; its sponsorship of Israeli atrocities for several decades. The case was already irrefutable, but today it is even more stunningly so.
The US government has sponsored a Holocaust in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Its horrors have been live-streamed around the world so continuously that even outfits with proven track record of subservience to the US have been forced into damage control. In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant. Days ago, Amnesty International belatedly concluded that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza. But both the ICC and Amnesty international, still insisted on parroting the genocidal Israeli (and US) take on the Palestinian armed resistance of October.’
An exceptional panel including former UK ambassador Craig Murray, Syria-born independent journalist Richard Medhurst and Spinwatch and Palestine Declassified Producer/Director spokesman, David Miller, discuss what’s really happening in Syria, who the rebels are and how this ties in with Israel, Turkey and NATO.
Watch; Syria rebels are a tool of NATO, Israel and Turkey The Crispin Flintoff Show, 9 December 2024
Craig Murray; “It’s important to understand that what is happening now is entirely about breaking the lines of supply and communication between Iran through Syria and the resistance to Israel. That’s what this is about and that’s why the Americans were yesterday attacking reinforcements coming to help the Syrian government. That’s why the Israelis were bombing along the Lebanese Syrian frontier yesterday as well, to prevent reinforcements from Hezbollah getting into Syria. This is a NATO Israel backed venture and it’s entirely dependent on NATO and Israel support for armaments and for finance.
And the jihadists are the tools of NATO and Israel in this and NATO includes Turkey in this instance. Turkey is a prominent and important NATO member in this scenario. So the two things are inextricably linked and it’s no coincidence that this new attack started on the day of the Israeli Lebanese ceasefire. It’s all one theatre and this is basically an attempt to deal a major blow to the Palestinian resistance.
And what we’re seeing is because it has the support not only of NATO and Israel, it has the support of Saudi Arabia, it has the support of Qatar, it has the support of Turkey. Sadly this does go to the sectarian divide in Islam and there’s no way of pretending that it doesn’t go to the sectarian divide in Islam. Sadly the Sunni powers are much more interested in eliminating the Shia Muslim presence in Syria and Lebanon than they are in saving the Palestinians and they’re quite happy to cooperate with the extermination of the Palestinians and the formation of a Greater Israel that enables them to support the ethnic cleansing of Shia and the extermination of Shia in Lebanon and Syria. And that’s what I believe we are seeing.
The corrupt leadership of nearly all the Sunni Arab states doesn’t do anything for Palestinians but the people have an automatic support for the Palestinians. That is true except for the tremendous anti-Shia indoctrination. Unfortunately I’m sorry to say that this sectarian hatred is extremely strong in the populations. This use of sectarianism, which is deliberately inculcated through all those Saudi-funded and Qatar-funded mosques across the Muslim world including among Muslims in the United Kingdom. This inculcation of sectarian hatred is used by the West as a divide and conquer tactic, and you’re seeing the fruits of that now with the Americans and the British seeking to benefit from the Sunni-Shia divide in order to press home these sectarian Salafist rebels to the benefit of Israel and to the benefit of colonialism in the Middle East.”
Richard Medhurst; “…you can put on a random video from these rebels and you don’t know what language you’re going to hear. You might have Uyghurs speaking, you know, Eastern Turkic or Chechens.You might have Ukrainians. It’s completely random. So I think a big problem with this whole rebel movement is that a lot of them aren’t even Syrians. So, you can’t call it a grassroots, legitimate uprising because they’ve brought in a bunch of foreign mercenaries and even those that do speak Arabic, they’re not necessarily Syrians either. But the ones that have power on the battlefield, they are the extremists there. A military group, that of moderate opposition, as they call them, doesn’t exist. They’re extinct. If they did exist for a while they’re long gone.
So, you know, you have a choice between a bunch of foreign mercenaries backed by NATO, backed by Turkey, backed by Israel, who are basically Al Qaeda. They’ve just changed their name, they’ve rebranded it to HTS, and the Syrian Army. That’s the choice. So, I think it’s really incredible that people can hear them speaking different languages on video and they still can’t grasp that it’s not grassroots.
Turkey is a NATO member, one one of the largest armies in NATO. So you have to look at them from the point of view that they, to a certain extent, represent U.S. interests, not entirely, because they have their own goals as well, but they are a NATO member, and they have a border with Syria. A lot of these foreign fighters that we were just talking about, they were coming in through Turkey. Turkey opened the border to Syria and just turned a blind eye for many, many, many years, allowing these fighters to go in. And they’ve effectively annexed northern Syria, particularly Idlib. And if you go there, you’ll find people are not even using Syrian currency anymore. They’re using Turkish currency and Turkish lira. And Erdogan has made no secret, as a matter of fact, he just gave a statement a few hours ago saying that he’s behind all of this, because he says he extended his hand to Al Assad, and Al Assad wasn’t interested.
You actually have Turkish troops inside of Syria from the Turkish army, in addition to these proxy groups. So a lot of them, all of the groups that were kicked out of Damascus, like Jaish al-Islam, basically defeated throughout the war, they were put in green buses and sent up to Idlib, and that became their new base. So Turkey wasn’t supporting all of them, but it was definitely supporting HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), which is the largest one, which had administrative control over Idlib. In addition to that, you have to ask yourself, where was Turkey during the last 14 months when it comes to Palestine? You know, Erdogan is always talking about supporting the Palestinians. He hasn’t done anything. He’s spent more energy on attacking Syria then he’s done anything to combat Israel. As a matter of fact, he’s the one that’s shipping fuel to the Israelis from Azerbaijan. All of the fuel that goes into Israeli tanks, into Israeli jets is facilitated through Turkish infrastructure. He’s serving Israeli interests by keeping the oil going to the Israeli war machine and now attacking Syria from the North. So that’s going to relieve pressure on Israel and basically cripple the Palestinian resistance even more. And of course, Turkey is interested in combating the Kurdish presence in the northeast because it has a problem with the Kurds. It considers the Kurdish Workers Party to be a terrorist group.
It’s basically persecuting Kurds. That’s what it is. By calling them terrorists, it’s persecuted them inside of Turkey and it’s trying to extend that persecution inside of Syria by attacking them in Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor, but for the time being, they’re protected by the US because the US is working with those Kurdish forces to take Syria’s oil and wheat.
So it’s a very complex situation. But to cut it short, Turkey is expanding inside of Syria for its own interests and it’s helping Israel and also it’s going to persecute the Kurds.”
David Miller; “Within a week of this starting, they’re right back to their position in 2011, 12, 13 and 14 on Syria. Now, what they saw in Syria, this is how (Owen) Jones sees it, is that there was an uprising in Syria which was just part of the Arab Spring, and it was ruthlessly put down by the Assad regime. They call it a regime, and after that, revolution. Now, in my view, there was no revolution, there was no meaningful uprising. In fact, when they tried to start an uprising in early 2011, February and March, nobody turned up. And what happened very soon thereafter was a large number of killings of security personnel, that state personnel by well, by who? Obviously by people who had brought weapons into the country in order to start an armed rebellion. And that’s what this was.
It was an armed rebellion for the purpose of regime change. Part of the process of regime change, you know, rolled out after 9/11 with those famous memos saying that they would do seven countries in five years. Syria and Iran were, of course, the last ones. This was the attempt to remove the Assad government and they did a massive covert operation to do it.
Back in 2011, 12 and 13, this was a massive covert operation run initially through MI6 because the CIA couldn’t be seen to be doing it. So the CIA ran it through MI6. And in fact, all the way through this period, MI6 was in charge of the propaganda strategy on the Syrian Dirty War. So they had hundreds of organisations, independent journalists, citizen journalists, human rights organisations, organisations to set up to collect evidence of chemical attacks, to bring to book ‘the terrible tortures of the Assad regime’. All of these people were working directly for MI6.
We know this then because many of the papers and documents on this have been leaked online. Many of the contracts for the PR firms in Turkey and all around Syria have been leaked. We know that that’s what was happening. We know that that’s what one of the key organisations at the time was an organisation called ARC, from which a guy called James Le Mesurier worked. And then he spun off from that organisation ARC, an organisation called Media Rescue, better known as the White Helmets in action, as we speak in Syria. White Helmets were a propaganda front for MI6, and of course they were involved, as were a number of other MI6 front groups, in pretending that there had been chemical attacks by the Assad government in Syria, in Khan Sheikhoun, in Ghouta and in Douma. Many others they alleged as well, all of which were fabrications, some of which included significant war crimes, the killing of civilians in order that their bodies could be placed artfully for the cameras in order to show that the Assad government had killed its own people. Now, this was a massive propaganda campaign.
So there was a regime change operation. But all the people who we’ve just been talking about, they don’t see it as a regime change operation. They see it as the plucky Syrian people rising up against a dictatorial government. But as Craig’s been saying, what was going on there, the reason why they wanted to get rid of Assad was because he was part of the axis of resistance.”
Listen to the wise and knowledgeable words of Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi about Turkish President Erdogan’s deceitful intrigues to overthrow Assad and take control over huge areas of Syria. Professor Marandi is a lecturer in English Literature & Orientalism at the University of Tehran, and frequently appears on CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.
Watch; Prof. Mohammad Marandi: Syria Has FALLEN! Dialogue Works, 8 December 2024
“I’ve always been concerned that this may happen to Syria, at some point. Of course so swiftly, was a surprise. But the United States has crushed Syria, basically, the Europeans and Americans, they’ve destroyed the economy, they’re stealing the oil and the agricultural products that are in the heartland in northeastern Syria, where the Americans have occupied that area with its proxies, and they’ve imposed extraordinary sanctions on the people, so people are living in misery and life is very tough. And, you know, you have Americans occupying the northeast, but also occupying the southeast. Then you have the Israelis constantly bombing Syria, both through the Mediterranean, through Jordan and through the occupied Golan, regularly bombing Syria.
Then you have these terrorists in Idlib constantly causing trouble for a government that has no money. Then, of course, Hezbollah was focused on the war in Syria, Iran was focused in Lebanon, on the border with Palestine, and Iran was focused there as well. And so a very difficult situation became catastrophic because no one expected Mr. Erdogan to suddenly strike this way.
There are a number of things that I should point out, and that is that people are much more politically aware nowadays and they recognise what the dirty war in Syria was all about. And there’s no justification for what Erdogan did, the hundreds of thousands of Syrians that have died since 2011, Erdogan bears more responsibility than any other person on this planet. He carried out this operation, an operation led by the United States, and the rise of ISIS and Al Qaeda. In fact, I don’t remember if it’s in 2012 or 13, but a young reporter, Serena Sheen, your viewers could look her up, she was reporting on the Turkish border with Syria and near Ayn al-Arab or Kobani as it’s also called, and she was reporting for Press TV, she was saying and she was reporting for Press TV and YouTube removed Press TV, she was saying that Isis is being supported through World Food Organization trucks, they were putting weapons inside them and sending them inside Syria, and troops for ISIS. And then Turkish intelligence said she was a spy. She went on television, live television, saying that they called me a spy, but that’s not true, I’m very worried. And later she died in an accident and there was never an investigation. But we all believe that she was murdered by Turkish intelligence for revealing the truth.
So your audience is politically aware. But for those who support President Erdogan, my question is, if President Assad is so bad, and I think Erdogan is much worse because bears primary responsibility. But if he’s so bad, then why did President Erdogan want to have rapprochement with him and why did he try to improve relations? Why, if he’s so principled, then why did he do that? And then why did he suddenly turn against him again? The reason why former President Assad did not accept Erdogan was because he wanted to stay inside Syria and negotiate. And that would have legitimised occupation. No leader would accept that. In any case, the misery that we see in Syria today was because of the sanctions, because of the dirty war.
Syria, which was a prosperous country in 2011, is a country that is broken. And today we’ve seen scenes that are similar to when the Americans occupied Baghdad. All of the government buildings, all their assets are being stolen, everything is being taken away. There’s no security, there’s no government. The only difference is that Iraq has oil and Syria is under American occupation. And the Americans are not going to remove the sanctions. They’ll provide conditions that they will not be able to meet, as we’ve experienced in Iran. Why would the Americans remove sanctions? Have they removed sanctions in Cuba? And by the way, this is what’s going to, this is what they’re doing in Cuba, too. They’re creating massive dissatisfaction through crushing sanctions. And Venezuela and Nicaragua and elsewhere. So the tools of sanctions are something that the Americans are using to crush the people and then take over.
The important point here is that I don’t think this is going to end well for Turkey. It’s not going to end well for anyone. Al Qaeda is not an organisation that is controllable. Even if Julani, who was a member of ISIS, who is a member of Al Qaeda, even when they broke away from Al Qaeda, it was a show, in fact, when he announced his separation from Al Qaeda, they invited senior members of Al Qaeda there to sit with him. And he announced the separation. It was just a show for PR, for improving relations with the West.
So it was a dirty war and this is the result. This may be good for Erdogan personally, but it’s not going to be good for Turkey. It’s not going to be good for anyone and perhaps, and it’ll be good for Netanyahu. But this, you know, these terrorists, they could create unrest now that they’re gloating in their victory. It could create unrest in Saudi Arabia, it could create unrest across the region, it could create unrest in Central Asia. They have thousands of terrorists from Central Asia. I think the Americans, of course would be happy for these terrorists to go and destabilise Central Asia and China. Three to five thousand Chinese terrorists and many from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and elsewhere in Central Asia, some from Afghanistan, some from Iran and many from Turkey and elsewhere. These are people who are now drunk in their victory and they will be very dangerous in the future for global security and stability. And this may not end well.
Turkey is a country which can be impacted by extremism. So can others. So I don’t expect this to end well for anyone. And Iran, as the Foreign Minister said yesterday, we, and as we Iran has always said, Iran supported, supports opposition, but not Al Qaeda and ISIS and these, and these crazy extremists who cut off people’s heads and slaughter. And they’re not people who can be reformed. Would you trust anyone who in the past who would carry out these sort of killings? Of course not. So the legitimate opposition is something that everyone supports outside of Syria, or at least Iran always did. The Syrian government, though of course definitely was not an ideal government, but overthrowing it was not in the interest of the people of Syria. They did to Syria what they did to Libya. Was he an ideal leader? Definitely not. But of course no worse than Western leaders. Look at what they did to Gaza and so on, or with ISIS and Al Qaeda, or Saddam Hussein, which we Iranians despise. But we never accepted the legitimacy of the US invasion of Iraq because the West has no legitimate right to overthrow governments.
So Syria is much worse off today due to Erdogan, due to NATO, due to oil rich dictatorships in the Persian Gulf and gas rich dictatorships that have been supporting ISIS and Al Qaeda and other such groups. So Syria is much worse off. The region will be worse off. Who is going to fix Syria? Who’s going to pay for all this especially with all the looting that we’ve been seeing in the last few hours and the terror and the fear that we now see who is going to fix the country?”
Wise words about Syria’s future from Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.
Watch; Russia Foreign Minister Deciphers The Latest Syrian War In An Interview National Defence, 8 December 2024
Presenter; I’d like your reaction to things that have happened in the last 10 days.
Sergey Lavrov; “The reaction has been publicly, repeatedly stated. It’s inadmissible to allow the terrorist group to take control of the lands in violation of agreements which exist, starting with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254, which strongly reiterated sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity of the Syrian Arab Republic, which condemned any attempts by terrorists to disturb the life of Syrians and which called for direct dialogue between the government and the opposition. And the opposition groups were listed in that resolution. If we speak about Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham specifically in 2018 and 2020, in the framework of Astana format, two agreements were signed, clearly solidifying the common resolve not to allow Hay’at Tahrir to rule in Idlib – to be thrown out of Idlib. And these agreements have not been implemented.”
In 2013 Susan Abulhawa, who is a Palestinian-American writer and human rights campaigner, joined an Intelligence Squared debate about Western intervention in Syria. She narrates a very interesting history of zionist-led violence and duplicity in the Middle East.
Watch; Susan Abulhawa Instagram, 8 December 2024
Susan Abulhawa; “In 1944 the U.S. State Department said that Middle Eastern oil was, quote, ‘a stupendous source of strategic power and one of the greatest material prizes in world history’. That same year President Roosevelt said to the British ambassador that, quote, ‘Persian oil is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait as our Saudi Arabian oil. It’s ours.’
Of course, no Arab or Persian was invited to that conversation. All US relationships and interventions in the Middle East since then have revolved around this Western sense of entitlement to other people’s natural resources which also exists towards other regions such as Latin America and Africa.
Ensuring the free flow of cheap oil meant that Western interventions were driven not by the promotion of freedom, democracy or human rights, but by the ruthless ethos of dominance and empire, including the removal or assassination of leaders, installation of client regimes, the suppression of nationalist struggles, the propagation of internecine fighting and the manipulation of nations with threats, aid and duplicity. The first overthrow of an elected leader by the US in the Middle East as in fact in Syria in 1949. A CIA-backed coup then installed Colonel Husni Za’im whose first order of business was to approve a previously blocked US oil pipeline project through Syrian territory from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean. When Mohammad Mosaddegh, the elected leader of Iran, nationalised his country’s oil, deciding that Iranian oil in fact was for the Iranian people, not the British, the United States, at the behest of Britain, engineered a coup in 1953 to oust Mosaddegh and replaced him with the Shah whose reign of terror over his people lasted for 25 years.
Likewise, when a popular uprising in Iraq replaced the puppet monarchy with a nationalist government government to 1958 headed by Abdul Karim Qasim. The response of the West was not to encourage this move towards self determination in Iraq. Instead the US instigated another coup that would allow the Ba’ath party to consolidate power, kill the backbone of Iraqi society, including a long list of individuals compiled by the CIA of intellectuals, progressives, nationalists, doctors, scientists, teachers and ultimately would bring Saddam Hussein to power, who would brutalise his people with the blessing of the United States and who would attack Iran also with the blessing, and many would say encouragement of the United States.
The US first armed Iraq and then turned around and gave support and arms to Iran to ensure that neither gained the upper hand in the fighting. The murder and the inhumanity would continue as long as possible. Then the US switched sides again, arming Saddam once more. They gave him the chemical weapons that were used to kill tens of thousands of Kurds and Iranians, and which would later be used as a pretext called WMDs, to attack Iraq in the second Gulf War.
Over 1 million people were killed in the Iran-Iraq war, and far, far more than that perished in both Gulf wars that were spaced out with 10 years of crippling sanctions. US intervention in Iraq did not just target military installations, but the infrastructure of life, including roadways, nearly all electrical plants, sewage treatment and water installations, such that Iraqi society continued to die of rampant disease and malnutrition long after falling bombs stopped killing them. An estimated 500,000 children under the age of five died as a result of sanctions alone. And in the vulgar arrogance we have come to know well, Madeleine Albright said that the death of those small lives was, quote, ‘worth it’.
That arrogance was echoed recently by Hillary Clinton when she described the devastation of Libya and the murder of Gaddafi with an infantile soundbite of ‘we came, we saw, he died’, and she laughed. In fact, unlike the rosy narrative my opponent hinted at in his opening talk, intervention in Libya had nothing to do with humanitarian reasons. The ongoing killing, executions and tribal infighting in Libya gives a lie to the notion that NATO intervened to prevent slaughter. Libya is now a NATO outpost plagued with tribal infighting, deteriorating basic services which had been among the best in Africa.
With free education, free health care, zero national debt, home ownership as human rights, free electricity, high literacy rate, high life expectancy, and with the largest oil reserves in Africa, Libya is now primed for rampant corporate looting. And what of Western intervention in Palestine? What does one call Western intervention when it allows a political movement born in Europe, supposedly under the auspices of none other than God, that proceeds to rape, pillage, murder and steal home and heritage of the indigenous people of Palestine, and a long standing campaign to erase Palestine from the map and destroy our ancient society as if it never was? This brief sampling of recent interventions in the Middle East by Western powers does not encapsulate the staggering human cost.
Across our tortured region, one nation after another lay in tatters and ruin every time the West intervenes. Once high functioning societies have been reduced to striving for mere survival, why then would any Arab or Persian invite such a force into our midst? Are we so stripped of agency? The best we can imagine is to be saved by this power that so clearly holds our lives and our cultures in such contempt and such disrespect.
Revolution must be one that ends the imperialist or colonial relationship between the native population and the oppressor or the exploiter. We have not run out of options in Syria and these can be discussed in the Q and A session in the interest of time. But we should remember that the so called international community is not merely the West. The world is full of nations and peoples with a kind of moral capital that comes from having fought and triumphed in anti-imperialist struggles who can be asked to intervene with agendas of national reconciliation in deadlock situations where we might need outside help.
The West and their clients are bereft of such moral capital and their agenda has been proven repeatedly to always be counter to local nationalist aspirations.”
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Chris Hedges interviews Alastair Crooke, a former British diplomat and MI6 officer who was sacked for becoming too friendly with militant Islamist groups, and then founded Conflicts Forum that works to improve relations between blacklisted resistance groups and western governments.
Watch; Is Israel on the Brink of Collapse? Alastair Crooke interviewed by Chris Hedges, 17 December 2024
Alastair Crooke; “It’s been very tense in this period because of what’s been happening in the West Bank and in Gaza, and Jordan is terrified that Israel will eventually push the Palestinians out of the West Bank and describe Jordan as a new Palestinian state. The push on Palestinians in the West Bank is intense, and they are leaving and they are moving.
There is a big army of settlers, 10,000 strong now, armed by Ben Gvir and what I hear from inside Israel is there’s going to be an attempt by Ben Gvir, who’s in charge of the police, coordinated with Smotrich to clear the Palestinians out of area C. Area C is an area in the West Bank where there is supposedly joint security responsibility between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
I think they envisage south Lebanon to be another area C that they will sort of take over in the same way. Meanwhile, the tensions in Israel are growing. Netanyahu goes to court I think this week. There are big divisions. The Attorney General says that Ben Gvir is an illegal cabinet member, she says that you cannot delay this court case, Ben Gvir and the cabinet say the Attorney General must be sacked.
There’s deep divisions within the army, who say, ‘there’s no plan, there’s no blueprint, we’re getting killed, the Orthodox don’t get killed. Why do our sons have to bear the loss of life and the Orthodox are free to study in yeshivas? Why is all this happening?’
And so many of those Israelis, even former national security members, feel that Israel is on the brink of a collapse, not in the sense of just a military one, but of a institutional collapse because all of the structures of law and how the army work, because it is becoming, in brief, I use this as a shorthand, but it’s becoming a war between the Kingdom of Judea and the State of Israel.
Ben Gvir has a mini army of 10,000 settlers, all armed, all who obey his particular radical rabbis, very radical people who talk about the oral Talmud, and not just the Talmud, and then the rather secular Europeanised state of Israel who want to bring everything under a judicial process and to have the army being, if you like, a neutral element. And this clash is profound. And what will come out of it, Israelis don’t know. So, I mean, it’s not the victory that Netanyahu is proclaiming. It’s very tentative. And as I say, it’s all based on the sort of magical thinking that we’re on our path to Armageddon with Iran and then everything will be resolved, Gaza will be resolved, Lebanon will be resolved, Syria, Iraq, all done because we will have defeated the head of the octopus.”
A movie already nominated for an Oscar, ‘The Bibi Files is an inside look into the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through leaked police interrogation videos.’
Watch trailer; The Bibi Files. Director, Alexis Bloom and Producer, Alex Gibney
Featured Review;
‘Just watched this. What can I say, if you want something enjoyable, don’t watch. If on the other hand you want to understand what’s happening in Gaza and why it’s happening, this documentary is a must watch. It has leaked scenes of never before seen footage, showing credible evidence of people who were really close to him. Poor Bibi can only respond in one or two ways: I don’t remember or lies! This man, together with other war criminals, should be behind bars for the rest of his life. But he still had friends in the US who got his back. It makes you wonder why.. go watch it, it’s a must see! May peace return to our planet!’
As major players in the axis of resistance and targeted to be taken down by the US/zionist project, the Houthis bombed Tel Aviv.
Watch; Yemen’s Houthis Major Attacks On Israel’s Tel Aviv; Dec 19 2024
Houthis fired a ballistic missile at central Israel, with the projectile being intercepted after 2:30 am, causing serious damage to infrastructure. Israel, meanwhile, retaliated with deadly strikes in Sana’a and Hodeidah, in an apparent bid to target Houthis’ military infrastructure and ports
Lowkey lists so many extreme zionists in Trump’s cabinet that his mantra ‘America First’ is in reality ‘Israel first’.
Watch; Lowkey Exposes Donald Trump Double Down News, 27 November 2024
Lowkey; “Donald Trump has assembled the most pro- Israel cabinet in the history of the United States. I’ve investigated his funders. It’s not looking good. Donald Trump will repeat the mantra America first, but when you look down his list of funders it seems like it might just be Israel first. Donald Trump selected Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defence. Pete Hegseth called for Trump to bomb Iranian energy and nuclear facilities.”
Pete Hegseth; “What better time than now to say, we’re starting the clock? You’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities, we take out key infrastructure, we take out your missile sites, we take out nuclear development, we take a nuclear capabilities.”
Lowkey; “And here Hegseth is advocating for Israel replacing Al Aqsa with what he calls the third temple.”
Pete Hegseth; “1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital was a miracle. And there’s no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.”
Lowkey; “And what about Trumps Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee? He has publicly claimed there is no occupation of the west bank and he refuses to refer to the west bank as anything but Judea and Samaria.”
Mike Huckabee; “There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. Their communities, their neighbourhoods, their cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”
Lowkey; “Trump has also selected Elise Stefanik as his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She’s someone who has gone on record as saying that nothing Israel ever does could cause the United States to remove funding from it.”
Elise Stefanik; “There is no excuse for an American president to block aid to Israel. No excuse, full stop. That’s why I’m proud to have sponsored or backed every measure to aid Israel that has come before the United States Congress. Every single one.”
Lowkey; “They say, follow the money. So I did, to start with Sheldon Adelson bankrolled Donald Trump’s first election as President of the United States. Sheldon Adelson very publicly supported the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.”
Sheldon Adelson; “You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, okay, let it go. So there’s an atomic weapon goes over ballistic missiles in the middle of the desert. That doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever. And then you. And then you say, see, the next one is in the middle of Tehran.”
Lowkey; “His request from Trump prior to the election was that If Trump arrived in the White House, he would recognise occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the Israeli occupied Jolan Heights of Syria as part of Israel. Trump did that.”
Donald Trump; “I gave them Golan Heights. I gave them the Abraham Accords, I recognised the capital of Israel and opened the embassy in Jerusalem. And most importantly of all, I terminated the Iran nuclear deal. I was there four years, gave them billions and billions of dollars.I was the best friend Israel ever had.”
Lowkey; Today, one of Trump’s largest funders giving him $100 million is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, Miriam Adelson.
Miriam Adelson; He promised to recognise Jerusalem and to move the Embassy to Jerusalem. Promise kept. He promised to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal. Promised kept in Golan Heights. That was a big gift. He promised Golan Heights and he recognised.”
Lowkey; “Adelson requested from Trump prior to this election that once he was in the White House, he would recognise, quote, unquote, Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank. Donald Trump has given the signal that he will support this move to annex the West Bank and establish Israeli sovereignty over it. Smotrich, the Israeli Finance Minister, has come out and stated very clearly that 2025 will be the year of sovereignty for Israel over Judea and Samaria. The word that he uses to refer to the West Bank.”
In UN General Assembly, Palestinian Ambassador says to Israel; We Recognise the state of Israel it is you who are not recognising the state of Palestine
Watch; Gabor Maté: What Leads a People to Violent Resistance The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel, 16 December 2024
Chris Hedges; “Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one of the co-founders of Hamas, who I knew, who was assassinated in 2004 with his son by the Israelis. And he was in Khan Yunis in 1956. He was a 10 year old boy and he watched the Israelis line up hundreds of people against the wall, including his uncle, and execute them. And that set him on a life of armed militant resistance against the zionists.
I used to argue with him about suicide bombings. This was when suicide bombings were happening in Jerusalem and other places, which I covered. I was there and he would always answer me with statistics. He was a doctor, graduated first in his class from the University of Alexandria. I mean, he was extremely intelligent and well spoken. He seemed incapable o grappling with the moral dimensions of suicide bombing, which I found frustrating. My argument to him was that he was surrendering the moral superiority of the Palestinian cause by engaging in indiscriminate killing of civilians. And you brought up October 7th and linked it to trauma. We have to acknowledge that on October 7th there were atrocities that were clearly committed by armed Palestinian factions. Not systematic rape, not beheading of babies. This was all hasbara – Israeli propaganda. But there were real atrocities.
Gabor Maté; Well, a couple of things come to mind. One is there was a very famous leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Mark Edelman was the second in command and became the first in command of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Needless to say, nobody talks about him in Israel because he was a supporter of Palestinian freedom. But he would criticise the Palestinian resistance for their suicide bombings and their attacks on civilians, so he could make a distinction between the justness of their cause and the inhumanity of some of their methods.
The other doctor that comes into mind is a Palestinian psychiatrist, El-Siraj, who talks about these children who watch their parents being incapable of protecting them and their parents being humiliated by the Israeli soldiers, which the Israeli army, they just humiliate parents in front of their kids so that these kids then gravitate towards a movement that says we’re going to fight back. So you can understand the appeal to these kids whose parents are powerless to support a force that at least says they’re going to fight back. No matter what something happens in their heart, their hearts get shut down.
When your heart is closed, you don’t see the humanity of the other. And this has happened in a big way in Israel. Now, no matter how we look at it, there are some horrible things that were done by the Palestinians on October 7th because they were full of hate, because they were so traumatised. But if you look the Washington Post had an article showing the videos shared by Israeli soldiers and you’ve seen some of this. The viciousness, the vindictiveness, the hatred, the inhumanity. And these are people who had not been traumatised in the same ways that the Palestinians had been.
The event in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, what the Western press did not report is one of these soccer hooligans from the Maccabee football team who have been notoriously racist forever. The night before the so-called pogrom, they were chanting in Amsterdam, “There are no schools in Palestine because we’ve killed all the kids”. And they were chanting this with glee, not justifying anything. But if the Israelis, who haven’t suffered anything compared to what the Palestinians have suffered, in fact they’ve perpetrated it. If their hearts can be so embittered and closed and shut, can we understand why some of the Palestinians might have responded the same way? I’m not favouring it, I’m not justifying it. I’m saying ‘is the doctor you’re talking to who could not get your logic on the inhumanity of suicide bombings, his heart was closed and that’s a trauma response.”
Powerful film about psycho-zionist Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian villagers and stealing their farmland in the West Bank
Watch documentary Rooted in the West Bank 25 years of defying settler violence
‘Atta remains steadfast on his farm in the occupied West Bank as he faces violence and intimidation from settlers. Atta Jaber’s family has farmed the Baqa’a Valley in the illegally occupied West Bank for hundreds of years, but since Israel’s 1967 occupation, their land has been confiscated piecemeal by Israeli settlers, and their homes and ancient farming terraces attacked and demolished. “The sound of the bulldozer is the music of the occupation,” says Atta – yet he preaches love and peace. Uniquely spanning 25 years in a farmer’s struggle to stay steadfast, this film is a moving testimony to the depth of one man’s humanity in the face of intensifying settler violence and intimidation. Rooted in the West Bank is a documentary by Bruno Sorrentino and Uri Fruchtmann.’
Francesca Albanese on Double Down News. An Italian international lawyer and academic, on 1 May 2022, she was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for a three-year term
Francesca Albanese; “What’s happening in Gaza is the shame of the century. Gaza has been erased. There is almost nothing left other than the despair of people who continue to perish there. Look at the acts of torture. Look at who’s been killed.
Doctors, nurses, students, mothers, children. 17,000 children. Look at what the soldiers have done and said and then have the courage to say that this is not genocide. This genocide would have not been possible without the shocking, shocking cover up by the media. The role that corporate media played in justifying crimes, in spreading misinformation like the 40 beheaded babies.”
Corporate media; “We have some really disturbing new information out of Israel. The Israeli Prime Minister spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found with their heads decapitated in Kafar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas attacks in the kibbutz over the weekend.”
Francesca Albanese; “The basic ethical principles governing their profession”.
Piers Morgan; “I choked up earlier reading this new revelation about 40 babies being killed”.
Joan Collins: “Oh my God”.
Piers Morgan; “And some of them being beheaded. And I was like, how can any human, human being do that to a baby?”
Francesca Albanese; “The role of international media, of Western media in acting in defense of the acts of a genocidal state. This is unprecedented. But it’s also revealing of the global situation we are facing. The fact, and this is not just the genocide of the Palestinians committed by Israel. A number of Western countries are complicit. And so this is an opportunity to interrogate the system we live in, the checks and balances we have as a global community. How people in the west trying to stop the genocide have been repressed. There is momentum and goodwill to make a change. And people feel at loss because they look at their politicians who are in bad faith, especially those who claim to be human rights lawyers”.
Question to Keir Starmer; “A siege is appropriate?. Cutting off power, cutting off water?.
Keir Starmer; “I think that Israel does have that right.”
Francesca Albanese; “They know that you cannot advocate for starvation. They know that you cannot doubt that a genocide is ongoing. When international court of justice has recognized the plausibility of genocide, you should act upon the recognition of that plausibility.”
Keir Starmer; “I’m well aware of the definition of genocide and that is why I’ve never described this and referred to it as genocide.”
Francesca Albanese; “This genocide is also the consequence of the enduring impunity that Israel has been granted since its foundation. Israel has been allowed to violate hundreds of UN resolutions and this is the result; a state that behaves as if it was above the law and the states that becomes repressive against those who are trying to hold it accountable. Let me be clear. I have nothing against the state of Israel. The state of Israel is a recognised member of the United Nations. And because of this, I’ve always respectfully, since the beginning of my mandate, trying to engage with the state of Israel.
However, I cannot tolerate that the only modus operandi and the only way of existing of this state is by dispossessing, oppressing and repressing another people. If the only way of Israel to exist is by being an apartheid state, well, we have a problem here, and this is where the conflict is. And Israel could be led by Buddhist, atheist, Muslim, Christians, it wouldn’t change. The problem is not with the religious underpinning that Israel maintains, it’s with the abhorrent human rights records that Israel has.”
Piers Morgan’s passionate debates have insightful and interesting speakers on both sides of the political divide in the Middle East, leaving the viewer to decide where the truth and biases lie.
Watch; “SHAME On You!” ICC Arrest Warrants Debate With Alan Dershowtiz & Francesca Albanese; Piers Morgan Uncensored 26 November 2024
Intro; ‘The International Criminal Court, or ICC, has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sacked defense minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif, in a move that is simultaneously being called unprecedented and long overdue.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has been a powerful force in bringing about these warrants and speaks to Piers Morgan about what they mean. Albanese has nothing but venomous condemnation for how these men have prosecuted their war against Hamas.
Then Piers turns to his panel, comprised of former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus, author of ‘The Racket’ Matt Kennard, US defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz and host of ‘The Katie Halper Show’ and ‘A Jew for a Ceasefire Now’ Katie Halper.
Watch; “Gaza Is NO MORE” Norman Finkelstein vs Fleur Hassan | Israel Showdown, Piers Morgan Uncensored, 28 November 2024
Norman Finkelstein; “If I need psychoanalysis, I wouldn’t go to a representative of a lunatic state. I would go to a rational person. Number two, Israel never left Gaza. Who goes into Gaza? Who goes out of Gaza? The airspace, the water, everything was controlled by Israel. The guardian of the fourth Geneva Convention is the International Committee of the Red Cross. The opinion of the Red Cross from 2006 to the present is that Israel remains the occupying power in Gaza. That’s the opinion of the United Nations. It’s the opinion of all human rights organisations.
The money that went into Gaza, mostly from European countries and other international organisations, they monitored where the money went very carefully. They weren’t about to endow Hamas. There’s no evidence. European governments and many of the international economic organisations, the International Monetary Fund, the World bank, UNCTAD, (UN Conference for Trade and Development), they all put out on probably a quarterly basis, very precise reports on Gaza. I’ve read all the reports over 10 or 20 years now, 17 years. None of the reports have claimed that the catastrophe, the economic catastrophe in Gaza has been caused by Hamas. None. Now, if you claim that you have more expertise in the subject than the IMF and the World bank and UNTAD. Well, you can believe that. I personally don’t believe that the claim of all of these international respected organisations is the main source, the root cause of the catastrophe in Gaza prior to October 7th.
The root cause has been the mediaeval blockade that Israel imposed on it and which Human Rights Watch just in November 2024, a month ago, Human Rights Watch described as, quote, ‘a crime against humanity’.
Let me ask you a simple question, okay. If you’re at war with Gaza, why are you shooting children in the skull and in the chest? The New York Times published an article on that, it came under a lot of flack because they published that article. They said we can’t refute the evidence. We have the X rays in front of us. They’re shooting children in the head, in the skull and in the chest. If you’re engaged in the war in Gaza, why are you killing journalists? Why are you killing medics? Why are you killing UN workers? If you’re engaged in the war with Hamas, why is it the Human Rights Watch just this past week put out a report, they tell people where to flee. They say go to the safe zones. Human Rights Watch says when the people are directed, they’re being shot at, at the roads.
Does that sound like a war?
There’s a very simple answer to that question, Piers, because I know you’re not allowed to say it, but since I know the topic very well, take the case of the Nazis. The Nazis needed the cover of a war in order to carry out the final solution. Now Hitler had plans earlier on, but it required a certain amount of cover propaganda and all sorts of other devices in order to carry it out.
Piers Morgan; Do you believe Israel had a right to defend itself after October 7th?
Norman Finkelstein; I’ll quote Giora Eiland, the former head of Israel’s National Security Council. Israel created, I’m quoting him now, in 2004, he said Gaza is quote, ‘a huge concentration camp’. Israel created a huge concentration camp in Gaza.
Israel imposed a mediaeval blockade on Gaza which has been characterised as a crime against humanity. Israel periodically went into Gaza on its high tech killing sprees, what it called operations. I would say Israel created. I think I’m quoting now, the British economist called Gaza ‘a toxic dump’. Israel created a situation where… you have children, I understand how old are your children?
Piers Morgan; From 31 down to 12.
Norman Finkelstein; Okay, fine. Imagine if your child. You’re a father. Your child was born into what Giora Eiland called a concentration camp. Your child was left to languish in that concentration camp. So your child was destined to be born into languishing and die in a concentration camp. So my view is Israel forfeited its right of self defence based on its criminal abuse of the population of Gaza for 20 years.”
Watch; Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see; The Electronic Intifada 2 November 2018
Update: On 6 November, The Electronic Intifada published the final two episodes of The Lobby – USA. You can watch episodes three and four here.
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States.
We are releasing the leaked film simultaneously with France’s Orient XXI and Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar, which have respectively subtitled the episodes in French and Arabic.
The film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed in October 2017.
But it was censored after Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under intense Israel lobby pressure not to air the film.
Although Al Jazeera’s director-general claimed last month that there were outstanding legal issues with the film, his assertions have been flatly contradicted by his own journalists.
In March, The Electronic Intifada was the first to report on any of the film’s specific content. We followed this in August by publishing the first extract of the film, and shortly after Max Blumenthal at the Grayzone Project released others.
Since then, The Electronic Intifada has released three other extracts, and several other journalists have watched the entire film and written about it – including Alain Gresh and Antony Loewenstein.
Now The Electronic Intifada can reveal for the first time that it has obtained all four parts of the film.
One way to take the wealth away from the Israelis is to boycott their products – starting with River Island
Read; Meet the genocidaires of the Lewis family; River Island, the billionaire Lewis Family and the genocide in Gaza: How they are related. David Miller; Dec 16, 2024
To end the genocide all of these charities must be shut down. We can begin to make that happen if we boycott River Island. Source: Al Mayadeen English; 12 Oct 2024
‘In every British high street there is a branch of River Island, the clothing and fashion retailer. As we shall see, some of the voluminous profits from this venture help to fund ethnic cleansing, land theft and genocide in Palestine. River Island was created by two brothers, David and Bernard Lewis. Born in London in the 1920s their surname was Pokrasse. Their forbears were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine on their father’s side and Romania on their mother’s. The family changed its name to Lewis in 1933. They created the Chelsea Girl chain of shops in 1965.’
Every Mosque needs you to do this…..
Watch instagram; The Law is on our Side; rahim.jung, 10 December 2024
“This is what every mosque in the country needs to be thinking seriously about doing. I’m in the masjid in Carshalton. They’re getting signatures here for a petition going to the local authority in Sutton demanding that they divest from support for Israel. This has worked, my brothers and sisters around the country. Now, what we’ve got to remember is investing in Israel while they are accused of genocide, while they are occupying occupied territories is illegal. It’s illegal what Israel are doing. So all we’re doing here is asking our local authority to stop supporting something that is illegal in international law.
So get your brothers and sisters together in your masjid, get those petitions, get them into the local authorities, and together we can stop billions being invested in weapons that are killing our brothers and sisters in Gaza. This is what you do. Bismillah.”
The Israelis have been indoctrinated to become truly demonic. Just as head hunters in Sarawak eventually ended the practice, I hope one day these racist killers will become humane.
Watch; “They Identified Themselves!” Israeli Forces Proudly Exhibit Their War Crimes | Richard Sanders Palestine Deep Dive, 12 December 2024
‘A groundbreaking new Al Jazeera documentary exposes the horrific war crimes and sadistic activities carried out by Israeli soldiers during its ongoing genocide in Gaza over the last year and reveals the identities of the perpetrators. But director Richard Sanders says finding information about the soldiers was not difficult because “they identified themselves” – many of the soldiers had actually uploaded the footage to their personal social media pages and sometimes even to their online dating profiles.’
Richard Sanders; “You see an awful lot of wanton destruction, of smashing up people’s houses, rifling through women’s underwear, making stupid jokes. The thing that you see less often is killing people, and there’s one video we highlight, which I noticed has disappeared today from YouTube, and it’s the sort of commemorative video, it’s the souvenir video if you like of the 202nd paratroopers battalion, and there in the middle of it on three occasions you have unarmed men being shot by snipers, and in in all three instances the men are clearly unarmed and they’ve stuck this on YouTube you know I mean the the the astonishing sense of impunity.
No one could say they didn’t know. And we’re doing it in a way that Western media can’t, certainly British media can’t. It’s trapped in this sort of rather ludicrous bogus two-sides ism and the evidence of war crimes is absolutely overwhelming, yet the BBC will insist on this sort of two-side system and giving huge weight to Israeli denial.
I would point people towards this enormous trove of evidence. The Israeli soldiers’ own videos which they reveal contempt for the civilian population. They reveal the most appalling, disrespectful, racist behaviour as well as potential war crimes. What they don’t reveal is combat. You almost never see them actually fighting Hamas. Every now and then you see them all firing their guns off, but they’re sort of standing up and there’s nothing coming back the other way.
So, you know, there have been certainly periods in this war and I think we’re in one at the moment where it’s very hard to see the Israeli actions as anything other than punitive slaughter and ethnic cleansing. I mean, at the moment, they are quite clearly doing the final ethnic cleansing of the area north of the Wadi Ghazi. It’s blindingly obvious. And you would never get that watching the BBC.
We don’t grasp that that’s what it is, that it’s a racist ethnostate. It’s a settler colonial enterprise rooted in dispossession, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. It is, for some reason, seen in the West as a complicated issue rather than those things. In Europe, inevitably perhaps, we can’t help but see Israel through the prism of the holocaust. Support for Israel is paying off our own historic guilt, it’s franchising out our guilt to the Palestinians. And of course, quite obviously, Israel serves Western interests, it is an American aircraft carrier in the Eastern Mediterranean.
I think the BBC and ITV and so on would regard themselves as neutral. And you watch the way the BBC reports it, they report it as, ‘it’s complicated, there’s two sides to this’. Now, for them, that is neutrality, whereas until we’re blue in the face, we point out there is no equivalence between an all powerful occupying military power backed by the world’s only superpower illegally occupying land, illegally under international law, on the one hand, and on the other hand, a prostrate, powerless, occupied, oppressed, dispossessed people.”
Read; Why Ilan Pappe’s new book on the Israel lobby is a must-read Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye, 24 June 2024. Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist.
‘No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan Pappe’s magnificent and passionate new book on the zionist lobby. This silence is no surprise. Even a passing reference to the lobby is liable to lead to charges of antisemitism and potential career destruction.
Faiza Shaheen was dropped like a stone last month as Labour candidate for the London seat of Chingford and Woodford Green. “There have been complaints, allegedly, about her ‘liking’ a tweet that referred to the ‘Israel lobby’ – widely considered an anti-Semitic trope,” reported the New Statesman’s associate political editor, Rachel Cunliffe.
On a now-infamous Newsnight appearance following her defenestration, a tearful Shaheen apologised for liking the tweet and accepted it was a “trope”.
She didn’t have much choice. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the statutory regulator, agrees. In 2020, it cited a claim that the “Israel lobby” was behind antisemitism complaints as evidence supporting a finding of unlawful antisemitic harassment.
Pappe has entered perilous territory. Few are better qualified to challenge the official orthodoxy that discussion of the Israel lobby is out of bounds. None are more battle-hardened.
One of the most eminent of the “new historians” who retold Israel’s foundation story, Pappe was denounced in the Knesset after publication in 2006 of his controversial book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Israel’s education minister called on the University of Haifa to sack him, and one of Israel’s best-selling newspapers pictured him at the centre of a target, next to which a columnist had written: “I’m not telling you to kill this person, but I shouldn’t be surprised if someone did.”
After a slew of death threats, he left Israel, and was lucky to be able to find a billet at the University of Exeter.’
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