August 28th, 2026 Newsletter

Our Modern Food System is Leading us to Early Graves

The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media.

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Food, Farming & Water

Featured: Soil Association – 80 Voices for Nature’s Revival

To mark its 80th anniversary, the Soil Association has brought together 80 Voices for Nature’s Revival in a series of short videos of people from food, farming, and conservation. The films are a reminder that farming and nature don’t have to be in conflict. Improving the soil by reducing chemical inputs is proving more profitable for those farmers who dare come off the corporate-sponsored addiction to chemical inputs.

The series includes voices such as Prue Leith, Debroah Meaden, Claire Whittle and James Robinson, each bringing a different perspective on why nature’s recovery matters.

We’re sharing Helen Browning’s video, one of 32 that the Soil Association have posted so far.

Watch the full series and hear from the people showing what a different future for food, farming and nature could look like:

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Q: Who owns this planet? A: The Earth is a free gift to all mankind, without respect of persons

Watch; Paying just to exist, Don Macedon, 16 July 2026

“They took the trees, our fruit trees, and then sold us back the fruit. They took the water, next the rivers, the rain, the springs that fed civilisations for thousands of years. They took the water, bottled it, and sold it back to us. They took the land, land that existed long before any human being drew lines around it and told you that if you wanted to stand on it, you’d better have a payment plan. Am I the only one this drives crazy? Everything you need to survive, water, food, shelter, was already here. Nobody created it but somehow you were born owing them for it. And why does a free life sound like such a crazy idea? Why does simply existing without debt, without bills, without permission? Why does that sound like a fantasy? Who the hell convinced us that this is how it’s supposed to be?”

For those of you in the food and farming world who love organic farmer, Sir Julian Rose’s work, see his article Sick Political Charlatans Still Lending Support to a Cult of Fascism that, due to its broader vision, I had to put in the ‘Censorship, Surveillance, Coercion, Corruption & Blackmail’ section of this newsletter.

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, geopolitical analyst, international activist and broadcaster. See website www.julianrose.info for information about Julian’s acclaimed book Overcoming the Robotic Mind and other works. Books can be purchased by contacting Julian direct: see ‘contact author’ under ‘reviews’.

Despite the promises from Big Ag, the true impact of gene editing seeds is unknown but once released in nature, there is no way of putting the genie back in the bottle.

Watch; The Rise of Gene-Edited Foods—and Why It’s Worse – Jeffrey M. Smith, The Real Truth About Health, 20 August 2026

Jeffrey Smith; “Here’s a better way to find out about gene editing. Go to responsibletechnology.org and invest six minutes and look at our animated journey into the DNA to see what happens during gene editing. It’s called ‘Seven Reasons why Gene editing is Dangerous and Unpredictable’, and it’s just six minutes and I highly recommend it. Please share it. But the industry convinced the governments to look the other way, pretending that gene editing is safe and predictable. So for example, a company that was producing gene edited CRISPR mushrooms sent a note to the USDA to say ‘do you need to look at this?’ And the USDA said ‘nope, it’s not in our regulations’. Two and a half years later we discover that the technique they used, which is to knock out genes, fails one third of the time and can sometimes produce allergens or toxins. That was never checked. Fortunately those mushrooms are not on the market but other things are. Conscious Foods introduced CRISPR gene edited leafy greens like mustard greens. Right now they’re available through food services so they can avoid labelling. So there’s a chance now because the biotech industry has convinced governments to not require testing or labelling. They’re like stealth GMOs that almost anyone can create. And it could theoretically replace our food supply and we wouldn’t know why we’re getting sick. Worse, it could replace nature. You see, we’re at a time now where we’ve given the keys to the kingdoms to virtually everyone. It costs less than $2,000 to buy a CRISPR kit. You can create your own GMO and, in the US, you can sell them or give them away, feed them to people without any government oversight. So we’re in a situation where it’s like a gene rush going on that companies are trying to get their products onto the market quickly and to start making money before their patent expires. We have students, scientists, entrepreneurs and major companies using the gene editing technology and incrementally releasing it into the environment. This is the generation that could replace nature so future generations don’t inherit the products of the billions of years of evolution like we did, but more a combination of natural and man made. Now here’s the big problem. Gene editing is low cost and easily accessible. It’s widely deregulated. Once released, it persists in the environment and it’s prone to side effects. Those four things are a recipe for disaster. Think about it. Create whatever organism you want, don’t test it to see what happens, release it in the environment, put it in the food supply. It’ll be there in 10,000 years, and it might be very different compared to what was released. And then do it with as many plants, animals and microorganisms as you can. So that’s what we’re facing, a tremendous potential disaster, guys.”

Gene edited cocoa will have no label for us to choose to avoid it – it may even have crossed to organic trees.

Watch; Who gave Mars the right to edit the genetics of every cocoa tree on Earth? hormonespecialist, 21 May 2026

Lane Kilpatrick; “Who gave the Mars candy company the right to edit the genetics of every cocoa tree on Earth? In the last reel I told you Mars is using CRISPR to gene edit cocoa trees. Gene editing a cocoa tree is in a different risk category altogether from growing cocoa cells in a tank. Cells in a tank stay in the tank. If something goes wrong, you just shut it down. The problem doesn’t escape into nature. A gene edited tree is the opposite. Cocoa is a cross-pollinating perennial that releases pollen year round for 25 to 40 years. Once a CRISPR-edited cocoa tree flowers near other trees, edited pollen enters the regional gene pool through insect pollinators. Yes, industrial plantations control their own propagation through grafting and clones, but they don’t control where pollen is carried or drifts on the wind. And in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, where roughly two thirds of the world’s cocoa is grown, small farmers routinely plant seedlings from seed pods from their own trees, carrying edits delivered by insects from neighbouring trees. It’s pretty concerning that you can’t unwind this on either pathway once it happens. Genetic change is slow on purpose. Natural selection filters harmful mutations because not many of those offspring live long enough to reproduce. An engineered edit skips that filter entirely. The moment a small farmer germinates seeds from a nearby tree, the edit goes straight into the next generation. Cocoa takes five to ten years to mature and lives for decades. If the edit causes a subtle problem, it gets multiplied across farms for years before anyone notices. And by then the genetics are already embedded across the region. The question is, does anybody have the right to edit genes on all cocoa trees, including trees they don’t own? Because that’s what’s going to happen. How do the affected countries respond? Well, Ghana exempts most CRISPR edits from regulation entirely, as long as the company just clips out sections of genetic material and doesn’t add foreign DNA. There’s no application, no risk assessment, no field trial requirement. Ghana’s own guidance says gene edits present no unique environmental concerns. Cote d’ Ivoire grows 42% of the world’s cocoa. They passed a biosafety law in 2016, with no functioning regulator to enforce it. So in the two countries that produce most of the world’s cocoa, the regulatory answer is either this is exempt or nobody’s home. The scariest part of the chocolate story isn’t happening in a tank, it’s happening in a field. By the time we figure out what we’ve done, it’ll already be everywhere .”

The BBC is giving air time to totally unnecessary gene editing (precision breeding) to suit a totally unnecessary vertical farm that grows food without soil. Hello next generation of unhealthy food, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC!) doesn’t see the need to debate this issue!? GM plants grown in pink artificial light with no soil, fed with nutrient aerosol, is this really what we want? Buy Organic!

Listen; Gene-edited salad crops BBC Farming Today, 28 August 2026

Presenter; “Researchers at the University of Essex are using gene editing technology to create dwarf cucumber and pepper plants better suited to indoor vertical farms and glass houses. By improving their shape and shortening their stems, they hope to boost yields, reduce water use and help expand year round production of salad crops in the UK. Theo White went to meet Dr. Andrew Simpkin.”

Theo White; “We’ve walked into what I would call a fairly traditional laboratory environment and then we’ve walked around the corner and towards something that looks a little bit more like a Berlin nightclub, illuminated with pink light, walls of tiny little cuttings of plants. Tell me about this, Andy.”

Andrew Simpkin; “This is a vertical farm. The great thing about vertical farms is that we can control the light that we give any plant. Plants obviously don’t use all of the white light we see outside. They use primarily red light with a little bit of blue light. And that’s what gives this a pinkish colour to our growing facility. This is what we call a grow frame. What’s really, really key about this is there’s actually no soil at all in this system. And then how we actually water these is we spray them with an aerosol of liquid and that liquid could contain anything we want. We mist the roots with this nutrient liquid. That liquid would drip down the roots and come out the bottom. And then the great thing about that is we can recover that water and use it again. So we were actually working with tomato and cucumber. What we’re trying to do is adapt them using genome editing or precision breeding, as it’s known, to change their morphology so that they can grow better in a system like this. And one of the reasons for that, or two of the reasons is one is we got better controlled environment, we use significantly less water, but also importantly, we can produce a far greater crop in a much smaller space. And I think that’s really, really key going forward in the future, when space becomes limited, that we can still actually feed a growing population.”

Theo White; “So gene editing, tell me exactly what you’ve done to these plants.”

Andrew Simpkin; “So if we look at a lot of the crops we grow, if we look at wheat, for example, traditional wheat we grew back in the 50s and 60s, they were very tall, very spindly, often fell over in the wind. A mutant was identified, which led to a short, stocky plant which produced the same yield of grain. What we’re trying to do is, through genome editing, is edit those same genes we find in tomato and cucumber. By doing so, what we’re looking to do is basically shorten the stem length of those plants and yet maintain the yield.”

Theo White; “Andy, we’re in a kind of excitingly lit, Playdorama- style colour palette here, and it’s making me think about the future. Where can this technology take us, do you think?”

Andrew Simpkin; “Well, the technology we have here is more than just this vertical farm. The rooms we have here, we can study how the plants we grow today can grow in the environments of the future. So we can actually manipulate the environments within these chambers to study how our plants, our crops, will grow, say in 2050, that will allow us to take those results and either through precision breeding or other breeding techniques, to adapt our crops to those new growing environments. I think this is important going forward to maintain a stable food supply, not just for the people of this country, but for the world.”

At Groundswell Holly Silvester, Future Resilience Seed Coordinator for the Seed Sovereignty Programme, explains how seed sovereignty has been taken from farmers by a few transnational corporations.

Listen; The importance of seed sovereignty, Farm Gate, 12 August 2026

ffinlo Costain; “So how do we achieve seed sovereignty and why is it an issue?”

Holly Sylvester; ” We work with crop seeds like vegetables and grains, and I think a statistic that we use a lot, it comes from the FAO, is that in the last hundred years, we’ve lost 75% of our crop diversity. So I think people have no idea what an amount of diversity has been lost in the last 100 years. And so we’re here to try to revive and support a more diverse seed system and try to bring back some of that diversity that’s been lost in the last hundred years. I think people also don’t realise that in the UK a lot of seed is imported, it’s not grown here in the UK so when you buy seed from a big company it’s often grown in countries or climates that are not suited to the conditions here. So it’s really foundational for food security to have seed which is grown in the UK and in your regional, climatic conditions and is suited to your farming conditions.

ffinlo Costain; “A lot of people who are listening might say it’s very sad that we’ve lost 70% of the seed varieties that used to be in the UK, but food is still there on the table. Is it that we need to rebuild this stock of seed that used to be important.”

Holly Sylvester; “I start from looking at our food system and how the industrialisation of agriculture has basically led to the consolidation of our food system in terms of the availability of the kind of crops we eat and what they look like and the diversity of those, but also our seed system and so over the last however many decades, the control of our seed system has shifted from the farmers’ hands into the hands of a few large multinational companies that are also largely affiliated with chemicals and fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides. So the ownership of that seed has gone from something that was inherently in the farmers’ fields and held by the farmers and all the people before them that held and stewarded that seed, to a handful of large corporations that now control that seed and it’s become a commodity. We now mostly rely on F1 hybrids which are great in a non-commodified system, they’re the foundation of plant breeding but ultimately they take the control away from the farmers because you have to return to that seed company each year to buy that seed, because you can’t realistically save seed from an F1 hybrid and expect it to be the crop that you grew that year before. They will inherently be a different thing. It will create an explosion of genetics. Sometimes the seed isn’t viable, sometimes it might look similar, but ultimately you have to rely on going back to the seed company. Whereas we, as a seed programme in the UK, work to encourage folks to grow open-pollinated seed, which tend to be very stable, and you can save those yourself. So you can form a relationship with that crop and steward it and adapt it to your fields, to your soils, to your land, to your community. Those plants will actually adapt to you as well, because you’re making these intentional decisions on what you need from that crop based on your landscape, but also your needs. So selecting things for flavour, for example, is really overlooked these days. And that’s intrinsically linked with nutrient density and human health. So, yeah, it’s a big web. But ultimately, as Katie says, seed security and food security are totally intrinsically linked.”

Gene diversity is more resilient to weather and disease.

Listen; What’s next for Wakelyns? Farm Gate, 25 August 2026

‘Wakelyns is an inspirational organic farm in Suffolk; an oasis within a desert of conventional arable farming – it pioneered UK agroforestry and population grain – it runs courses, events and retreats. But Wakelyns is facing an uncertain future, for which community buyout offers a solution. ffinlo Costain is joined by David Wolfe, Wakelyns’ founder and co-owner.’

David Wolfe; “This was a project set up by my dad and the John Innes Centre and the Organic Research Centre in just over 20 years ago. They were looking at the way in which the petrochemical wheat industry and so on, relies on monoculture. So a field of wheat growing in East Anglia, almost certainly every single wheat plant in the field is going to be genetically identical to every other wheat plant in the field because the seed company, which is really a chemical company, has bred it that way to make sure that what they give you grows well with the chemical inputs that they’re going to sell you. And that produces a very homogeneous product, which is what they want for a commodity industry, which is what most of our food system has now become. But it’s very risky to weather events, it’s very risky to disease events and so on. It’s a finely tuned and therefore perilous system. Now, the Population Wheat alternative was to look at whether you can have a genetically diverse population of wheat within the same field in effect. So what they did is they took 20 varieties of wheat and they crossed them, not heritage grains, but modern grains, crossed them with each other to produce 190 genetically different children. In effect, they then planted those in the field and we have then been planting them and harvesting them every year since then for about 25 years. And so what we now have is a very genetically diverse population of wheat, nobody quite knows how diverse because nobody’s done the DNA testing on it, but it’s not the case that every plant in the field is identical to every other one. There’s a huge genetic diversity and that gives us a greater resilience to weather events, to disease, to all those sorts of things, which means we have relatively stable yields with very low inputs in an organic system. And so that’s the Population Wheat genius. The wheat has evolved as varied, we don’t quite know the precise mechanisms to suit our location because we’ve known other people have taken some of the YQ population from wheat and grown it on their sites and we know it changes on their site. So it’s a really interesting phenomenon of how the grain is tuning itself to the local environment in a way that then makes it more resilient and stable in the long run.”

Competition is the holy mantra of capitalism but should our farmers be part of this game? They are forced to increase the number of their animals to compete with cheap imports and now they’re being told to reduce the number of animals in the name of climate change and biodiversity. If fully compensated to redesign their farming model to mitigate both issues, fine but in reality the goal of the corporations is to own and profit from food. The PR machine will direct us to eat highly processed, cell based meat or vegan gloop – the next generation of junk food.

Watch; Dutch Farmers Revolt With Hundreds of Tractors as Government Targets Their Livestock, Times Now World, 14 August 2026

‘Hundreds of Dutch farmers gathered with tractors in Schermer ahead of a major demonstration in Den Bosch. Farmers are protesting Dutch nitrogen rules and plans affecting livestock farms. A farmers’ spokesperson says producers could be forced to reduce their animals by more than half without compensation for lost cattle. In North Brabant, authorities are planning to revoke permits from five poultry farms, intensifying the conflict. The Dutch government says nitrogen emissions must fall to protect vulnerable nature and create room for economic activity.

Agriculture is a major source of nitrogen deposition in the Netherlands, particularly through ammonia from livestock manure and fertilisers. A 2025 Dutch court ruling ordered the government to meet its legal nitrogen targets by 2030.The growing dispute raises a bigger question: Can the Netherlands protect its environment without destroying the future of its farming industry? This video explains the Dutch farmers’ tractor protest, Netherlands nitrogen crisis, livestock reduction plans, farm permits and the battle between environmental rules and agricultural livelihoods’.

When our livestock and dairy farmers are wrongly blamed for causing climate change, we have Vitamin B12- infused veg to conveniently replace them!

Listen; B12 peashoots, BBC Farming Today, 15 August 2026

Intro; ‘Vitamin B12 is essential for our diets, it’s found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, but not in plants, or not until now, that is: scientists have developed a way of fortifying pea shoots with B12 and hope to get them in supermarket salad bags in the next year or two’.

It will soon be illegal to sell bread without folic acid – why because our food is folic acid deficient due to farming practices devised by our corporate overlords.

Watch; Its a shame we have to have things added to our food, Radmore Farm, 14 August 2026

Ben Aveling; “By the end of next year it will be illegal in this country to sell a loaf of bread without folic acid added to it. And bread isn’t dangerous. This doesn’t make bread dangerous. The main issue is we’ve stopped eating the food that would have given us that folic acid naturally… ……. Folic acid exists naturally in a lot of foods, things like spinach, liver, lentils.”

The EU bans imports of livestock from countries with lower standards than those demanded of EU farmers. An amendment in the UK’s Agriculture Act 2020 that would have banned food imports produced to lower standards than demanded of our UK farmers, was removed. The race to the bottom in our national food economy continues apace.

Listen; Beef imports, BBC Farming Today, 27 August 2026

Intro; ‘Farmers in the UK are urging the government to ban imports of beef from Brazil amid fears that it’s not produced to the same high standard. The EU and Norway have already imposed bans because of Brazil’s use of antibiotics, which they fear could lead to resistance. In the US cattle farmers are angry about President Trump’s plan to allow beef in tariff-free in order to bring consumer prices down. They say it’ll undermine their industry.’

Presenter; “From a week today, the European Union and Norway will ban imports of Brazilian beef unless the Brazilian government can show that it’s following EU rules on the use of antimicrobials and antibiotics in livestock farming. Brazil is one of the world’s largest exporters of beef and UK farmers are concerned that meat previously destined for them might end up here. The National Farmers Union says Brazilian beef and chicken should be banned here too, unless there’s proof that it’s been produced to the same standards as UK meat. Tom Bradshaw is president of the National Farmers Union.”

Tom Bradshaw; “Within the UK and the EU, we take a real caution about how we use antibiotics. We do not use them to promote growth, which they still do in other parts of the world, including the US and Brazil. We also are very careful which antibiotics we use and we are very, very cautious around those which play a crucial role in protecting human health. So we’ve reduced our usage of those critically important antibiotics by 83% since 2014.”

Presenter; “And why is the EU going to ban imports of Brazilian beef?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well, Brazil have not been able to meet the official controls that the EU expect. They cannot prove that they have traceable production in demonstrating they do not use those antibiotics either for growth promotion or those antibiotics which are critical to human health. We cannot have one set of rules for the UK and the EU and then be completely undermined with systems of production which we cannot produce to here.”

Presenter; “So if the EU and Norway as well are both going to be banning Brazilian beef from next week, what implications does that have for the UK when it comes to beef production and beef imports?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well, it’s meat products in general, it’s poultry and beef at the moment, that Brazil haven’t been able to demonstrate those official controls, that they have the traceability of how they’re using antibiotics within their production systems. That creates grave concern for human health. We’ve already seen imported eggs coming in with salmonella. That undermines our food system here. It’s unthinkable if beef and poultry, which has been deemed not to be fit for 500 million people in Europe, could flood our market. So it’s about human health. It’s also about the market implications. When we expect UK producers to jump through all of the hoops to produce to some of the highest standards in the world, we cannot be undermined by a product which does not have those same safety standards and which will undermine our marketplace and risks undermining the confidence in British food production.”

Presenter; “But we do already import Brazilian beef, don’t we?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well, we do import a relatively small tonnage of Brazilian beef. It’s that invisible beef which makes its way mainly into the out of home market, the food service sector. And we are really concerned that if the EU suddenly stopped the imports going into the EU and the UK is deemed not to respond, then we’ll become a very attractive marketplace for the remainder of that Brazilian beef which would have been going to the EU.”

As nutrition isn’t valued, cheap lower standard imports of fruit grown in coir (out of the soil) will outcompete our traditional fruit farms where plant roots ingest the trace elements vital for their health (to withstand pests and disease) and for the health of people who eat it.

Listen; Berry farm goes out of business, BBC Farming Today, 15 August 2026

‘This summer marks the end of an era for the Thompson family and their berry farm at Blairgowrie, in Perthshire, one of Scotland’s most important soft fruit growing areas. The Thompsons have decided to end commercial production because they say the business is no longer economically viable.’

Peter Thompson; “Our biggest crop was blueberries, and the blueberry price was cut more than in half by imports from Peru and the Southern hemisphere when they developed new blueberries that didn’t need a frost…most soft fruits need a chill over the winter, but the geneticists on a lot of the crops have bred this requirement out of them.”

Presenter; “The farm’s been in your family for what, really 100 years. What made this such a good area for fruit growing?”

Peter Thompson; “Well, at that time, they were all grown in the soil and they were grown in the open, so you needed the right combination of enough rain for them to grow, fairly light soils so they didn’t get waterlogged, but dry enough so that you could pick them. Blairgowrie happened to be the sweet spot. Of course, now they tend to be grown in polytunnels, so you can have as much rain as you want. And they’re usually grown in coir out of the soil, so it doesn’t matter for the soil. So they’re grown all over the country now.”

Presenter; “Presumably some of the pressures on your business, labour and foreign competition that’s affecting other farms around here as well.”

Peter Thompson; “It is, and quite a few have gone out of business. You will find that it’s the very large ones which they’ve grown beyond family farms. They’re really agribusinesses and they’re the ones that are succeeding.”

Food shortages due to drought have been exacerbated by decades of government policies that failed to protect farmers from cheap imports, forcing them to depend on inadequate subsidies that don’t support measures to resist drought such as building reservoirs or farming agroecologically to create moisture-retaining soil. Farming without petro-chemical inputs ensures farmers are more resilient when geopolitical wars increase the cost of oil. Sadly the pressure will be to reduce tariffs to import more rather than boost local production.

Read; European Union on the Brink of Severe Food Crisis, Global Research, 23 August 2026

‘Weather events and irresponsible policies are driving the region toward a serious supply situation. It appears the EU food crisis is already beginning to take hold. With recent weather disasters caused by extreme heatwaves across the continent, local agricultural productivity is expected to plummet. This compounds an existing scenario of decline in the European agribusiness sector and sanctions against Russia – formerly a key supplier of agricultural goods to Europe. Now, European countries face the likely prospect of reduced food supplies alongside an exponential rise in prices.

The heatwave in Europe has had extremely serious consequences for all sectors of society.

According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, June and July 2026 were the hottest months ever recorded in Western Europe. Beyond the discomfort the heat causes most people (especially amidst an energy crisis affecting cooling systems) unprecedented wildfires also broke out in several countries, affecting both nature reserves and farms. In a recent statement to European authorities, various local farmers expressed concerns about future harvests. They warned of reduced yields caused by the heat and wildfires. While the exact extent of the losses cannot yet be calculated, a drastic reduction in the harvest of essential grains and vegetables is expected, creating a supply crisis for ordinary consumers. Among the estimates shared by farmers, there are production “declines of 40% for peas, 60% for broccoli, and between 50% and 100% for artichokes are expected this summer.”

Agriculture is not the only food production sector affected by the climate crisis; livestock farming is also suffering major losses across many European countries. Cattle and dairy production are suffering due to a shortage of animal feed; furthermore, productivity is expected to drop even further during the winter, as forage production was disrupted by heat and fires. Also, data recently published in France shows that the country’s daily egg production has dropped by more than a million eggs. Likewise, French farms have consistently reported mass poultry deaths due to high temperatures, which will result in reduced egg and chicken meat production. The drop in food supplies caused by the agricultural crisis is likely to worsen the situation further, creating extremely negative prospects for the poultry industry.

Because of this process, economists have warned that price increases are inevitable. With shrinking harvests and growing production costs, it will be impossible to prevent food prices from rising in the coming months. Given that several European countries are facing economic crisis, deindustrialization, energy instability, and mass unemployment, the rise in food prices could have a significant impact on the population, especially on the most vulnerable sectors.

The EU will most likely attempt to resolve this crisis through massive food imports. However, certain barriers could hinder such a strategy. European countries have spent recent years advancing radical environmental agendas that establish extremely restrictive guidelines for food imports. For example, while the EU imports agricultural products from South American countries (particularly Brazil), it frequently sanctions specific products, citing a lack of transparency regarding the exporting country’s environmental regulations. These barriers are likely to impede any European strategy aimed at resolving the current food crisis.

It is important to remember that the agricultural sector was already weakened by other factors. In recent years, several European countries stopped supporting their local agribusinesses to encourage the mass importation of Ukrainian agricultural products. This sparked outrage among European farmers, who historically rely on significant state assistance to keep their operations viable. Now, these farmers – already lacking adequate support – are suffering further setbacks, while Ukraine appears increasingly less capable of maintaining massive food exports due to the logistical consequences of the war.

It must be emphasised that the very irrationality of Europe’s decision to sanction Russia contributes substantially to the food crisis. If pragmatic cooperation with Russia had remained in place, Europeans would currently have access to the vast Russian market for food and fertilisers, as well as various opportunities for technical cooperation to address the problem of wildfires. Abundant, low-cost Russian energy would also enable Europeans to mitigate the effects of high temperatures. Without such cooperation, it will be far more difficult for the EU to overcome current challenges.

Ultimately, the EU is once again paying a high price for its own irrational choices. Had the bloc maintained relations with Russia, adequately invested in its own farmers, and taken other preventive measures, it would have been possible to prevent the current crisis. Unfortunately, it is ordinary European citizens who are suffering the most, as they will have to pay more for their food – even at a time of economic decline in several of the bloc’s countries.’

Surely we should be demanding a Right to Nutritionally Rich Food.

Read; 14 million Brits are food insecure – could a Right to Food Bill revolutionise access? Wicked Leeks, 18 August 2026

‘With 6.5 million UK households now relying on food banks, the UK must act decisively, and now, finds Nick Easen.The United Nations recognises it as a universal human right, so does Brazil, India and South Africa, where the right to adequate food is enshrined in law. Surprisingly, access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food is not on the UK statute books and never has been. For many, it is still a privilege. Hunger, like poor quality food, is not inevitable, it is the result of political choices. Such choices are reflected in the appalling rates of food poverty across the UK. When Andy Burnham last sat in a cabinet meeting in 2010 there were 35 food banks – today there are 2,700. It is not just Amnesty International that is calling for a Right to Food bill, the head of the current UK government has also said he wants change:

“As a country, we should be able to deliver a Right to Food… It’s not discretionary, is it? It’s essential and therefore everybody should have it,” Andy Burnham told Henry Dimbleby in an interview a few years ago. The numbers are stark: over 14 million people are food insecure, this amounts to one in six households and 6.5 million people who have turned to charitable food providers to feed themselves, according to the Trussell Trust. While healthy food such as fruit and veg, is more than twice as expensive as unhealthy options – it’s why things need to change. “Food security by definition means access to nutritious food, not just any calories. Nourishment matters and it must support a healthy life, which ultra-processed food and intensively produced food is increasingly found not to do,” explains Dolly van Tulleken, visiting researcher at Cambridge University’s MRC Epidemiology Unit.

It is why the Right To Food Commission, led by Labour MP Ian Byrne, is pushing for a law that legally enshrines peoples’ access to adequate, healthy food making the government accountable for its delivery. A rights based approach would mean that those in Westminster would not be able to leave food and farming to the vagaries of the open market. The government would also have to think seriously about resilient domestic food production, sustainable supply chains and investments that bolster better access to healthy fruit and veg. The Prime Minister’s words on entering Downing Street suggests he may be considering such actions: “[let’s] build a new economy where we put life’s essentials back under stronger public control to make them affordable to you again.”

“However, some of these solutions could be considered short-term sticking plasters. They don’t deal with the fundamental issues. The liberalised free market has led to vast imports of cheap produce, impoverishing British farmers and squeezing supply chains. The market is also not building a domestic, climate-resilient system that invests in more sustainable production or soil health. Supporters say that a Right to Food Bill could be a catalyst for change – as we’ve seen with ‘right to grow’ local legislation. The latter has been adopted by 20 or so councils in the UK leading to community empowerment over some food production. A new legal duty for food could spur further action by local authorities to support food hubs, market gardens, short supply chains, a basic income for farmers and public procurement for schools, hospitals and prisons from local growers.’

We need them to buy food from local organic or chemical free regenerative farms.

Watch; What’s Going on with our Food? Green Earth Organics, 14 August 2026

‘We (Jenny & Kenneth Keavey) started Green Earth Organics in 2006. Our organic farm is situated 8 miles from Galway City. Originally the land was Kenneth’s grand-father’s and then his father’s and finally we took over the farm 14 years ago. We put the farm into conversion for organic status in 2004. Currently we are farming on 40 acres of organically certified land. Another 10 acres is split between a wild life biodiversity area, native woodland forestry (7,000 trees) and red clover/grassland. We are certified organic by the IOA (Irish Organic Association) – please note that EVERYTHING we sell is organic.’

Kenneth Keavey; “These days it couldn’t be truer. Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. Our modern food system is leading us to early graves. Our health and our body and our mental well being deserves more self respect than that.”

The Land Magazine, founded and co-edited by Simon Fairlie, was the first in regularly reporting on land rights and small scale independent farms in the UK – an invaluable beacon of hope for those who stood firm outside the mainstream industrial and tech farming narrative.

Read; RIP The Land, 2006-2026 by Chris Smaje, 24 August 2026

‘Just a short post to mark the passing of the great Land magazine, which has shut up shop with its 37th issue this summer. What can I say about it? For almost as many years as I’ve been following a more land-based way of life, The Land has been a guiding light for so many of the issues that matter to me – low-impact living and farming, access to land, poverty and inequality, climate change, nature and biodiversity, and the machinations of the anti-human and anti-nature juggernaut of the present global political economy.

On all these issues, I often feel I’m on a different wavelength to many of the people around me, so it’s been a real pleasure to find a house journal of like-minded folk ploughing this lonely furrow (two house journals I guess, if you include this blog and its much-loved band of colourful soil-bothering collapsenik commenters). Although it ventured more widely at times, The Land represented a particular kind of British, or more specifically English, (mostly) rural radicalism in the spirit of Cobbett and Morris – unashamedly homespun and old-fashioned in its way, but ever curious and thoughtful about the politics of the day and the wider trajectory of the world. Great pictures too.

When I started writing about food, farming and politics The Land seemed too lofty and forbidding a peak of excellence and radicalism for me to place an article. Eventually I became a regular contributor. Working with its various editors – Gill Barron, Mike Hannis, Ed Hamer and Simon Fairlie – turned out to be less forbidding than I’d imagined, indeed one of the easier and more pleasurable experiences I’ve had in the writing business over the years. As well as editors, they were skilful, smart and funny writers themselves, and it’s been an education to me tracking their thinking over the years. Simon’s unique and educated but earthy talents as an agrarian thinker and writer have been a particular influence. A genuine radical in all the best senses of the word, he and the other editors have done great service in avoiding the well-trodden path of corporate-friendly ecomodernist tech solutionism followed by so many other supposed radical public intellectuals, instead sketching more original, plausible and considered visions emerging out of this truth of the magazine’s manifesto:

‘Nothing is forever in history, except geography. The only source of wealth is the earth. Capitalism is a confidence trick, a dazzling edifice built on paper promises. When it crumbles, the land will remain.’

Anyway, bringing things back to this blog and its concerns, there are two articles of mine in the final issue of The Land. One of them is an abridged version of this post in which I try to combat the disinformation about me in particular and the food system in general peddled by George Monbiot, a sometime associate of The Land’s editors who’s now left the fold. The other is a review of Nick Bano’s book Against Landlords and a wider reflection on the issue of landlordism and economic rent in contemporary society. I plan to republish the latter article in my next post, and then follow it up with some wider personal reflections.’

Along with the rise of factory farming it has become normal for humans to live without empathy for sentient animals, but when people wake up and realise this they re-connect with animals by only buying meat from high welfare systems such as Free Range, Grass-Fed or Organic.

Petition; The Great British dairy scandal: Crack down on “battery” dairy farms, 38 Degrees, August 2026

‘To: Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds MP

Petition text

‘We demand proper animal welfare labels on ALL dairy products, so we can choose where our milk, cheese and butter comes from!’

Why is this important?

A shocking new investigation just exposed the rise of US-style mega dairy farms across the UK that lock 1000s of cows indoors 24/7. No outside space. No grazing. Nothing.

But right now food labels don’t have to include this crucial welfare information. Millions of us are buying milk, butter and cheese with no idea how the animals the products come from were raised.

This has to change. We need clear animal welfare labelling on all dairy products like ‘free range eggs’ – giving us the power to choose what we buy. Sign the petition if you agree!’

As factory farms are inherently cruel, it’s common for workers to become brutalised and abuse the animals, adding to the suffering that the animals experience from being confined in overcrowded, stressful and unhealthy conditions.

Read; Workers punched, slapped and kicked cows at award-winning dairy supplying Tesco and Muller, The Independent, 3 August 2026

‘Workers kicked cows in the face, and repeatedly punched and slapped them at an award-winning Crown Estate dairy that supplies Tesco and dairy giant Muller, footage reveals. One man appeared to stub out a cigarette on an animal’s face, while others were filmed prodding cows with sharp goads.’

A small Norfolk community is campaigning against plans by Cranswick plc to expand an existing factory pig farm to intensively confine 7,000 pigs in suffocating, unhealthy and inhumane conditions.

Residents report ammonia-like fumes, breathing difficulties and prolonged pigs screaming. Now they face an eight-day public inquiry starting 22 September and urgently need funds for a barrister and independent experts.

Please donate if you can, or share to help give this community a fighting chance.

Stand with a small Norfolk village taking on Cranswick plc

”For nearly six years, residents of the tiny Norfolk village of Stow Bedon have been challenging what has happened at Cranswick plc’s Cherry Tree Factory Farm, an intensive pig unit permitted to hold almost 7,000 pigs. The development built on the ground differed materially from the plans originally assessed and approved in 2019. Soon after the expanded unit began operating in 2021, residents began reporting deeply distressing impacts: ammonia type odours so strong that eyes sting and it can be difficult to catch your breath, dust and other concerns about airborne emissions, periods when people cannot use their gardens or open their windows, and repeated episodes of loud and prolonged pigs screaming.’

‘Visit the campaign page and leave a comment saying why you oppose factory farming, why these issues matter to you, or simply that you support the residents of Stow Bedon for taking this stand. Then share the page so others can do the same. Every comment and every share helps create a visible record that this is not merely a local dispute. It is part of a much wider public concern about intensive factory farming, animal welfare, pollution, environmental protection and the way rural communities are treated. The community is also crowdfunding its legal and expert representation for the inquiry. Around £10,000 has been raised towards the approximately £28,000 needed, so anyone who also wishes to make a small donation can do so on the same page. But above all, please help make their stand visible.’

If you can’t make a living growing happy pasture-fed pigs, grow mushrooms! As a real farmer loving citizen, unless you are vegan or vegetarian, choose to buy high welfare pork where animals are looked after and their manure provides fertility and soil health.

Read; Pig Farm Transformed Into ‘Thriving’ Specialty Mushroom Operation, Plant Based News, 1 August 2026

‘A family has transformed their former pig farm into a specialty mushroom growing operation and a second demonstration hub for The Transfarmation Project.The 1100 Farm is located in Radcliffe, Iowa, the biggest factory farming state in the US, but has swapped pig farming for mushrooms and is now “thriving.”

Corporations are riding high on the back of vegans’ rightful hatred of factory farming to sell their lab grown fake meat. Rarely are vegans given the information about meat from mixed farms where well treated animals are pasture fed and thereby fertilise the soil within a circular loop in which CO2 emissions from the cattle are offset by the carbon absorbed by the deep roots of long-term herbal leys.

Petition; Turkey Farm Set for Massive Expansion Into Egg Mega Farm – Object Now! PETA UK, August 2026

Plans submitted to Breckland Council would transform an existing turkey breeding operation at Great Palgrave Farm, Sporle, Norfolk, into a much larger broiler breeder egg production facility holding more than 38,000 birds. The current turkey buildings are reportedly nearing the end of their “operational life“. Instead of using this opportunity to move towards sustainable plant farming, the applicant wants to continue exploiting birds on an even bigger scale. Tell the council to reject this cruel proposal.

Chickens follow cattle grazing and double farmer’s income.

Watch; Chickens follow the cattle, farmchange, 28 July 2026

Jerome Rault; “Why do we have the chickens following the cattle in regenerative farming? Because it’s the oldest sanitation system on the planet, and it’s free. The cattle graze the paddock, drop dung, and move on. Three to five days later, just long enough for the fly larvae to develop, the chickens move in, they scratch through the dung pads, spreading them out, eat the larvae and the parasites and spread that fertility into the soil. So one enterprise cleans up after the other, and you sell both. That’s what stacking enterprises actually looks like on the ground.”

We can only end live animal transport if farmers are first given permission to slaughter on farm (as they do deer) or in a local abattoir. Until that happens, this transport ban will result in more livestock farmers going bankrupt and consumers eating corporate owned frankenstein meat made of highly processed animal cells or vegan gloop.

Read; Victory: Brittany Ferries to stop live animal transport, Compassion in World Farming, 3 August 2026

‘Today (3 August), in a major victory for animals, Brittany Ferries has confirmed it will end the transport of all live farmed animals, including unweaned calves, from Ireland to France on its ships from September 2026 at the latest.’

‘In a decision which provoked international outcry, Brittany Ferries restarted transporting live animals from Ireland in March 2025 after a 30-year pause.’

In a horrifying blunder by the N Ireland government, 51 healthy cattle and calves were shot dead in a field in front of the public including children, because apparently their paperwork was not in order.

Watch; Mass Execution of animals, following animal welfare conviction, Red House Holsteins, 1 August 2026

David Irwin, Neighbouring Farmer; “The last few days has brought to light some of the most horrific scenes of needless abuse and destruction of what are clearly healthy, thriving animals in the Clogher Valley area at the end of last month. And this is also probably the worst abuse of power I’ve ever witnessed from the department’s veterinary division. And many people have contacted me today and they wish the story to be told from their perspective. So look, it’s no secret that Martin Beattie was convicted of animal welfare issues. It’s been widely reported on, the courts dealt with this. He was punished and fined, you can Google that, it’s all there and he was banned from keeping livestock and given two weeks to sell the remaining animals. Now that’s fine. It’s the chain of events leading up to this mass public execution of animals on the side of the road in front of many members of the public and children I might add, that is where this gets interesting. So this is a version of events that I’ve been told today by those involved……

This paltry sum is only enough to give every farmer in the UK a few pounds whereas ditching the Inheritance tax would be a good start to helping farmers economically and so mentally.

Read; Defra opens Farmers Welfare fund, Farmers Weekly, 10 August 2026

”A £1.5m government fund aimed at improving farmer wellbeing and business resilience has opened for applications. Defra’s expanded Farmer Welfare Grant will provide funding over three years for charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting farmers and rural communities across England. Two webinars will help potential applicants understand the scheme.’

Charles Malet from UK Column interviews regenerative cattle farmer, Rachel Ward

Watch; From Silver Screen to Soil Structure, UK Column Interviews, 6 August 2026

Rachel Ward; “What I do is I farm regeneratively, or I attempt to farm regeneratively, which. Five years ago, before we had the big fires, I was a conventional farmer, which meant that essentially I wasn’t really paying much attention and I had a farm manager and we used chemicals and we did set stocking, which means that you keep the cattle, the livestock on the ground ad infinitum until basically they just eat it away and the roots are very short and just ain’t great for biodiversity or for soil health. So what I was initiated into was this thing of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches the soil, improves water quality and enhances ecosystems, and that is called regenerative farming. So I basically moved into that from having not farmed at all, but really from a place of deep impotence, where I was very alarmed by the trumpeting of climate change and what that meant and how disastrous it was going to be, particularly for my grandchildren, of which I had just had my first. And then we were hit by these massive fires that tore through New South Wales and that our farm was one of the first to be hit. So I was ignorant, really, of how huge it was going to be. But we’d never had fires before, we’re not particularly in country that has regular fires. Anyway, it decimated the farm. My neighbour’s house was burnt to the ground. All of my fencing was burnt. I did not think my house was going to withstand the fires. Anyway, we got through it and after that I sort of really had an existential crisis of like I saw really that governments were really beholden to corporations. Nothing really was going to be done in the time frame that we were being told we needed to do something. And I guess it was out of this frustration and sense of impotence that I started to look at what else can I do? And out of that I realised I was a farmer, I could change my farm to regenerative principles. I’d read this amazing book called ‘Call of the Reed Warbler’ by an Australian farmer and writer, Charles Massy, who basically just did this great narrative on all of the early adopters in Australia of regenerative farming. And each and every one of them was so inspiring and they had really reached a head banging moment, a moment where they had to change the paddock between their ears in which to change the way they farmed. And I think that sort of happened to me as well. I sort of got to a crisis point and I think almost you have to get there to embrace fundamental change, this sort of radical change of your farming practices. So not only did I become a regenerative farmer, but I was a filmmaker and I could make a documentary about my journey from conventional to regenerative farming, which I did. But most importantly, I realised I am a consumer and where I spend my food dollar is what is of utmost importance. I don’t know why it took me so long to really understand that that was really how I could encourage farming by spending my food dollar with farmers who farmed regeneratively? Not easy, because there is very little, the supply chains for regenerative farmers are disastrous. But really there’s been a groundswell of awareness of not only regenerative farming, but of people understanding the connection between their health and the food they eat. So it became a sort of an obvious thing for me to do was to start buying boxes of food, of meat from regenerative farmers and vegetables from organic vegetable gardens and that sort of just became my raison d’etre and from that I just felt empowered that I was actually doing something fundamental that made me feel a bit more potent with this climate crisis that we are dealing with.”

Farms that practice regenerative farming without glyphosate often reach the same high standards of soil health, high animal welfare and biodiversity protection as Organic. But because some regen farms use the herbicide glyphosate, there should be a distinction between chemical regen and chemical-free regen.

Watch; Why regenerative farming is the answer to growing food in extreme weather, wildfarmed, 14 August 2026

Tom Swarbrick; “Ultimately, if you look at natural systems, whether that’s a roadside verge or a forest, or take your pick, you will see that they are faring better than almost all the fields on the other side, those hedgerows on the other side, those woodlands, and the reason for that is because in all those systems, through different plants and trees and combinations, what is happening there is the soil remains covered with plants. The plants harvest sunshine. They feed this incredible universe of creatures in the soil. It’s home to two thirds of terrestrial life. And all of those creatures massively extend the reach of plant roots to go and get the nutrients they need and the moisture they need, and to grow healthy plants that then, in a farming context, become healthy crops. So we just need to mimic those systems. Farming isn’t natural, so there are limits to that, but we can massively embrace it. And the resilience that flows from that is rapid. One of the things that I’ve seen again and again over the past 15 years or so of growing food is that you give nature half a chance and it comes roaring back.”

Present extreme weather patterns point to a different farming system, namely organic farming where soils retain moisture and are far more resistant to drought. As organic farmer Ben Andrews says we must invest in UK farmers. ‘In 1957, a third of household income was spent on food,now it is about a tenth’. It’s time for the government to support organic food to make it affordable, and for consumers to choose organic to keep healthy, locally grown food available for everyone.

Read; How UK’s searing summers will change the way we farm (and eat) by Sarah Langford, The Times, 15th August 2026

‘Ben Andrews, a fourth-generation organic farmer producing beef, arable crops and vegetables on 250 hectares in Herefordshire, says “almost everything has been affected”, from lettuce to brassicas. While tenderstem broccoli has survived thanks to well-timed irrigation, his kale crop is “a write-off”. Andrews says that unless he invests in costly irrigation and water storage he may have to stop growing vegetables.

Andrews is unlikely to be switching kale for sweet potato any time soon. “Summers are still unpredictable,” he says. ‘Two years ago we had one of the wettest summers and lost a lot of lettuce to mildew.” On a farm where rented arable fields have been taken out of production and put into a flood management scheme after recent winters left them underwater for months, Andrews’s point is that weather extremes make future-proofing farms far from straightforward.

Ultimately it may be consumers who need to adapt. In 2022, the Sustainable Food Trust published a report looking at whether Britain could feed itself using nature-friendly farming methods. Its answer was yes, but with big caveats. My grandparents took on their farm tenancy in 1959, five years after war-time rationing ended. The country knew what it was to be hungry; a third of household income was spent on food. Now it is about a tenth. In a world of unpredictable weather patterns, people may have to adjust their expectations unless bare supermarket shelves start to do this for them.’

See our short video about Ben Andrews to see how sad it would be if farmers like him had to give up.

Easy solution – don’t import cheap eggs – thereby our farmers will not be forced into using lower welfare systems to compete and will be able to supply eggs from free range chickens.

Read; Salmonella outbreak in UK leaves one dead and hundreds ill, Sky News, 18th August 2026

‘The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the salmonella outbreak “may be linked to eggs imported” from outside Britain.’

It’s hardly surprising that farming minister Stephen Morgan felt unwell while visiting an industrial-scale meat processing plant. Any normal person would feel faint when witnessing such a horrendous place and yet the Trumpian press ridiculed him and managed to spin the story by claiming it meant he was unsuitable for his job. As he’s only been in the job since June it’s too early to tell, but hopefully he will support local small-scale abattoirs that are going out of business at the expense of local farmers and their animals.

Read; What hope is there for farming when the man in charge ‘faints at the sight of meat’? The Telegraph, 18 August 2026

‘It was a challenging morning for the lad from Southsea. He’d nipped up to the Lake District to tour a food-processing plant when, all of a sudden, he became woozy. Or in the words of a local farmer, “he’d been shown large chunks of beef as well as some steaks,” and then “felt faint”. No big deal you might think – except this was Stephen Morgan, the Labour MP for Portsmouth South, and more significantly, Britain’s new farming minister. In his words, “Labour is stepping in… to help farmers” at every opportunity. But the sight of the minister for rural affairs falling over in the presence of prime quality, British-reared red meat, surely says otherwise.’

Listen; Regenerative Agriculture, Raw Milk, and Delicious Burgers, UK Column, 31 July 2026

Intro; ‘Jerm and Farmer Angus explore the ongoing information war, the challenges of media trust, and the state of agriculture and health. They discuss the importance of regenerative agriculture, the political landscape’s corruption, and the cultural shifts between the East and West. Farmer Angus emphasises the significance of raw milk in nutrition, the role of bacteria in health, and the broader implications of food production on society. Ultimately, they reflect on the fight for truth in a complex world.’

Farmer Angus; “There’s a spectrum of milk. There’s raw milk, which literally comes out of the cow and is chilled, and you can drink that. In this country, raw milk’s allowed, but people put pet’s milk, usually on it. So it’s milk for your pets. Although in Gauteng, they just say raw milk. And then at the other extreme, you’ve got that boxed stuff in the Tetra packs. But there are two differences with milk, so here’s my question. Why do they pasteurise milk?”

Jerm; “Well, to get rid of the germs. Louis Pasteur hated germs.”

Farmer Angus; “Why? Why did they want to get rid of the germs? We changed how we raise the animals, okay? A cow, by design, is a herbivore. It’s not a grainivore. So what they did, and again America leads the charge with all these things, they took the animals off the pasture and put them in an urban environment. They basically put them, especially around New York City and the big American cities because they wanted milk right there so they put these cattle in these lairs. The cattle are living in their own manure and they feed them brewers grain, okay? And they milk them regularly. So the animals are under severe stress and so they get sick and their milk is sick and their milk has pus in it, okay? It’s called the somatic cell count. You can go to a dairy 50 kilometres from here and you’ll see the pus in the milk, okay? So to make that milk, I’m putting it in inverted commas, ‘drinkable’. You have to pasteurise it, you nuke it. So you kill all bacteria. But so what do you do when you do that? You’re killing the bad and the good. You’ve thrown the baby out of the bath water. So then, then the next step was that people said, oh, I don’t like the layer of cream on the top, it looks ugly. And also sometimes some of the milk had a thin layer of cream and some had a thick layer of cream. Why did I get this one? And people would go into shops, they’d always take the one with a thicker layer of cream on, okay? So they said, we’re not going to do that anymore. They homogenise the milk where they shake the milk so much that the fat and the protein molecules break, and then therefore there’s no separation between them, just a homogeneous thing. Okay? So now you pour the milk you can’t see the cream in it. It doesn’t settle. The cream doesn’t go to the top anymore. So your human body which co-developed with raw milk, can’t recognise this. Now people say I’m lactose intolerant. You’re not lactose intolerant. You’re intolerant to homogenised milk. So that’s why there is increasing support for the raw milk movement, but particularly the raw milk movement that has grass fed, grass finished. So these are animals that are on grass their whole lives. Okay. And that’s where Sally Fallon, Weston Price, has powerful data at her fingertips about the benefits of raw milk, the nutritional differences with raw milk versus conventional milk. And again this is the point Jerm. So in South Africa end result is this, that the average years of lactation…so lactation is when a mammal’s giving milk, is 2.1 times. So we get an average of 2.1 lactations out of our dairy herds across South Africa as an average.That animal is capable of giving you 10 lactations and some have records of 15 lactations, okay, so you’ve taken an animal that can give you 10 calves and milk 10 times, 2.1. Why? Because you are firstly milking her three times a day and second you’re treating it like a monogastric. Monogastric is one stomach. You and I and the pig and the chicken are monogastrics. We have one stomach, which is why we can take in anything. You put anything in us and we’ll just try it, but cattle are not monogastrics, they have four stomachs, they’re designed to take grass, herbivores, and produce the meat and the milk. So we violate their digestive system and exhaust the animal and then they can only give us that because this is where we are today Jerm.”

Read; How did we go from ‘Cows are killing the climate’ to ‘Let’s build data centres everywhere?’ Facts They Don’t Teach You, 17 August 2026

‘Only in 2026 could cows be standing in a pasture wondering how they became the environmental problem. Across the United States, farmland, forests and open space are increasingly being converted into subdivisions, warehouses, industrial sites and, more recently, large data center campuses.The environmental picture is more complicated than any meme can capture. Agriculture has a real environmental footprint, including land use, water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Data centers have one too. Large facilities can require enormous amounts of electricity, significant water for cooling, and hundreds of acres of land, along with new transmission lines, substations and other supporting infrastructure. That is creating a broader debate in fast-growing parts of the country. How much open land should communities be willing to trade for new development? In some regions, the land being converted is former farmland. In others, it is forest, desert, pasture or undeveloped rural property. Supporters argue that data centers bring investment, tax revenue and infrastructure needed for a more digital economy. Critics worry that rapid expansion can permanently change local landscapes while placing additional pressure on electricity grids and water supplies. Once a farm, grove or stretch of woods is covered with roads, buildings and concrete, returning that land to what it was before is difficult. The debate is not simply cows versus computers.It is about how communities balance economic growth with the farmland, wildlife habitat and open space they may not be able to replace later.’

Our water is being bought up/stolen by billionaires.

Watch; Bill Gates buying US water to cash in on AI excessive consumption mommavspharma, 8 August 2026

Bill Gates; “Water shortages could be the biggest mass mortality event the world has ever seen. I am talking billions of people dying. The only way we ensure people remain safe is by being invested in the United States Water Reserve.”

Presenter; “Stop scrolling because this is exactly what Bill Gates is talking about. It’s called the United States Water Reserve, or USWR. And it has been absolutely ripping as more and more people are finding out about this. But still, almost nobody understands the catastrophe that just happened. Bill Gates, the same guy that has cashed in on nearly every global crisis in the last two decades, has been buying all of America’s water reserve. Why? Because AI is surging behind the scenes and it generates immense, immense heat, needing billions of gallons of water to keep cool. The United Nations is warning people that AI could use more water than people on earth need to drink. And guys, this was just leaked by the son of a government official. They are restricting our water. It’s all because AI data centres are sucking our country dry. Look at this. ‘Active July 29, 2026’ are you serious? ‘Pool refilling restricted’, what the heck? Gates has been urging the United Nations to secure a blockchain solution, a tokenised solution to the global water famine. What do you think he’s talking about? USWR has this in mind. Water is going to become more and more valuable right now. This guy says water is the next crypto or gold. BlackRock knows this. They’re ahead of the curve like always because they’ve been accumulating for weeks. It’s already up 10 times. This is all verifiable data. Go to USWR AI and it says that President Trump is set to sign this into effect on July 29th. There’s a countdown in the corner. You know what that can mean. Trump always does crazy, crazy numbers. This is conservative compared to his last token. None of this is guaranteed. I’m not a financial advisor. This is just my opinion. Let’s go look on Coinbase or Phantom Wallet. Look up USWR and verify the CA actually is with USWR. You must verify this or you could get scammed by a replica token.”

What are we to drink and use to grow food if water extraction for AI data centres is prioritised?

Read; Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom, Novara Media, 21 July 2026

‘The UK faces water shortages because government forecasts do not take into account the expansion of data centres, water companies have said. The government has “all but forgotten that most data centres require water to cool their systems”, according to a briefing to MPs from Water UK, a trade body representing water companies. The briefing suggested weakening environmental protections so that more water can be drawn from the environment to expand the AI sector.The government’s forecasts for water usage “explicitly exclude” data centres, the briefing said. The stinging critique said the government’s data centre plans said official forecasts are “fatally flawed”.Meanwhile, three government plans – the department for Science, Innovation and Technology “Delivering AI Growth Zones” plan, the AI for Science Strategy and the AI Opportunities Action Plan – all fail to mention water, the briefing said. “There appears to be an assumption that the country will always have enough water for its economic needs. Nothing could be further from the truth,” it said.

Water UK used its briefing to propose reducing limits on water abstraction in water-stressed parts of the country. “Water companies could have these caps suspended temporarily, to allow them to enable data centre and other growth, while they develop new water supply options,” the briefing said. More than three quarters of data centres are located in the water-stressed east and south east of England. There are 520 data centres in the UK with around 100 more currently being planned. The Scottish government is considering a moratorium on building new data centres, which would put the UK’s AI strategy at risk. The proposal said AI data centres represent “overdevelopment”. One of Andy Burnham’s first acts as prime minister was to invite AI minister Kanishka Narayan to attend cabinet, suggesting that his government may stake a lot on AI boosting the economy. The most recent Ofwat data shows that water companies are wasting 2.87bn litres of water every day through leaky pipes – a fifth of all the water pumped into the network.’

Water should go to secure food production not for golf courses and data bases

Listen; Drought, water abstraction, BBC Farming Today, 1 August 2026

Amy Fairman, River Action; “We’re in massive water stress at the moment and we’re being increasingly told to turn off our taps, to stop watering our gardens yet we have a system that is giving abstraction licences to over 14,000 industry bodies, which is giving the licence to extract up to 43 trillion litres of water from our rivers and freshwater environments.”

Presenter; “But some of the businesses taking that water are, for instance, farms. They need that water to grow food. So are you suggesting they shouldn’t be allowed or that they have to use significantly less?”

Amy Fairman; “Absolutely not. There are definitely industries that are essential services. We need that water to grow our food. Farmers are under increasing stress in these drought conditions, and what we’re not suggesting is that they need to have their water, the water abstraction licences, taken away from them. But at the same time, we have industries like golf courses, data centres, non-essential services that are being permitted to abstract fresh water from our environment on a daily basis. And what we’re calling for is for that abstraction system to be urgently reviewed, for every licence to be reviewed, to make sure that those licences are serving essential services like farming, like growing our food, to ensure that we’ve got a system that is robust and resilient to an increasingly stressed climate system.”

Presenter; “The problem here is how you prioritise and which industries you prioritise. So farming, for instance, wants to be at the top of a list before in some ways domestic users. Other people will argue it should be domestic users. There may be wildlife in the environment and then farming. Or others will argue data centres should come higher in the list. How do you prioritise?”

Amy Fairman; ” That’s what we need to see as part of a national resilient plan put in place by the Government. But it needs to come alongside other support mechanisms for industries like the agricultural industry, like the farming community. Everything from on farm reservoirs to…we haven’t built a new public reservoir for 30 years in the UK. We need to look at the system as a whole to make sure that we’re supporting the industries that need it to retain the water when we’re in times of abundance, so we can use it in times of drought.”

Read; Candidates Run Against Data Centers, But Ohio Legislature Didn’t Get The Memo By ScheerPost on August 28, 2026

Marcus Baram Capital and Main With some of the highest electricity rates in the Midwest, Ohio has seen a remarkable policy shift from lawmakers in both parties. Every candidate for governor has now called for restrictions on the data center boom, each proposing some form of moratorium unless certain conditions are met.

Ecocide cleaning agents are poisoning us.

Watch; Stop spraying this around your children lexi_hyland, 6 August 2026

“There’s a chemical you’ve probably never heard of and it’s linked to asthma, infertility and sadly, birth defects. It isn’t bleach, it isn’t ammonia, it is a family of chemicals called QUATS, quaternary, ammonium compounds. We’ve all been told that it is the safe option and that’s exactly why they’re in almost everything. They’re the active (ingredient) in your antibacterial everything. So disinfectant sprays, surface wipes, sanitisers, hand and surface wipes. So this is like your Pinoclean, your Glen 20, your Dettol, your Coles Ultra, Woolies Strike, same chemical family in nearly all of them and they hide behind friendly words like sensitive, gentle, kills 99.9% of germs. One bottle can have up to four different QUATS stacked into a single spray. So here’s how you find it. Flip your bottle over, find the box that says active constituents. If you see now, hopefully I say these right, benzalkonium, quaternium, daimonium, and cetrimonium, they’re all QUATS. And here’s the scary thing, QUATS are actually designed to stay on the surface. That’s kind of like their whole selling point. Keeps killing for 24 hours. So it’s engineered not to rinse off. So you spray your bench with your antibacterial or your Glenn 20, even if you give it a wipe, it leaves an invisible chemical film sitting exactly where you cut your kids fruit or on your child’s high chair where they’re literally just putting their fingers straight into their mouth, or on door handles. It’s also failing at its own job. So when bacteria get a small dose instead of a killing dose, which is what happens every day, they don’t die, they adapt. The research is stacked on this. Everyday QUATS exposure is breeding tougher bacteria. And worse, it’s making them resistant to actual antibiotics. So the antibacterial spray in your cupboard may be helping build the exact superbugs it’s meant to protect you from from. So it leaves a residue, it breeds resistant bacteria. Now, I haven’t even told you what it does to you and your children and your family and those who are breathing it in.”

CO2 Tunnel Vision

The jury is still out on whether CO2 is the only cause of climate change. However, the debate on other potential anthropogenic causes such as exponentially killing life on the planet through, for example, chemical poisons, pollution, geo engineering, over fishing, deforestation etc., are not included in our corporate-captured media. Plus this narrative is shaping an NGO CO2/NetZero tunnel vision as their funders also see CO2 as the single largest contributor to human-caused warming.

Read; Miliband ditched net zero report, Claire Coutinho MP, Daily Mail, 19 August 2026

‘Ed Miliband cancelled my research exposing the hidden costs of Net Zero because he knew it would prove his promise to cut energy bills by £300 was always a fantasy.’

We are told renewables are to replace oil but I haven’t heard anything about any reduction in oil production. Solar farms boast that they will supply electricity to thousands of local homes whereas in reality they supply the National Grid to provide ever more energy for data centres that feed the Big Tech surveillance apparatus, intensive farming and weapons factories. Solar panels should be on roofs, along motorways, and like in Switzerland, in the centre of railway lines etc and not on food growing land.

Listen; Solar Farm Row, BBC Farming Today, 18 August 2026

Presenter; “Building solar farms on prime agricultural land can be an emotive subject. It certainly is in Staffordshire where the County Council has launched a campaign called Stop the Solar Land Grab. The Council is particularly concerned about the effect that three solar farms will have on the community of Droynton. It says that around 80% of the surrounding land will be covered in against the wishes of many local residents. Bob Hockenhull has this report.”

Bob Hockenhull; “I’m in the hamlet of Droynton near Stafford, overlooking fields at Lower Farm which are due to be covered by solar panels after a planning application was approved on appeal. David Gregory is a neighbouring farmer.”

David Gregory; “I’m not happy at all. Just virtually 100% surrounded by them and no matter what direction we’re looking, we’re going to see panes of glass facing us and it’s just horrendous.”

Bob Hockenhull; “Do you accept that we do need solar farms in this country?”

David Gregory; “We accept that, yes, but in the appropriate places. Good agricultural farmland is not appropriate. We can’t feed ourselves as a nation now. And covering it with glass and making it semi-redundant ground is ridiculous…grazable for sheep, we can’t survive on just sheep alone, we need crops.”

Bob Hockenhull; “And what’s it done to your relationship with your neighbouring farmers who are behind these schemes?”

David Gregory; “This is a chap I went to school with, known all my life, and now we no longer speak and totally blank each other.”

Bob Hockenhull; “And how do you feel about that?”

David Gregory; “It’s a shame.”

Bob Hockenhull; “Did they approach you at all?

David Gregory; “Yes, but I’m only a small farm and my acreage wasn’t big enough.”

Bob Hockenhull; “And would you have gone ahead with it?”

David Gregory; “No, no, definitely not, very much opposed to it in that respect”

Bob Hockenhull; “The dairy farm where the scheme is due to be built next year belongs to Andrew McKellar. He didn’t want to do a recorded interview, but he told me he wasn’t out to ruin the area. He hadn’t had a holiday for10 years and the solar farm was a way for him to stay in the area he’d lived in all his life without having to work from dawn to dusk. I’m with Edward Holdcroft now, who is also from the farming community, and we’re overlooking one of the fields which will have the solar panels on it. If this development goes ahead, what are your main concerns Edward?”

Edward Holdcroft; ” Well, I’m concerned about several things. One is the road is not suitable. A number of HGV drivers have come down here. I’m also an HGV driver and we all say the same, the road is not suitable. Also they say that some of the land around here is unstable. Gypsum lies underneath here, it’s been mined and it also washes out and leaves sinkholes, which has never been discussed by the planners.”

Bob Hockenhull; “There are three applications for solar farms in the area. Two have been approved. Innova, the renewable energy company behind the Lower Farm Scheme, says the project is a key part of addressing the climate emergency and 50 megawatts of electricity will be generated, enough to power nearly 13,000 homes. The County Council is unhappy about the number of applications in Staffordshire. It launched a campaign Stop the Solar Land Grab. Reform’s Andrew Mynors is the spokesman for Connectivity.”

Andrew Mynors; “So the government must set out a clear plan for managing solar energy. We want to see a breakdown of how solar land use will be distributed nationally. We want assurances that rural communities won’t bear a disproportionate burden. We want details on plans to improve the connectivity and grid capacity in more places. This will help councils balance competing demands for land. At Staffordshire County Council, we don’t have a lot of control because it’s district and borough councils that work through with the planning and we want to just see, don’t have an ad hoc spread of solar farms and battery energy storage sites, but we are open to, of course solar panels on roofs or some of the council buildings were already doing that.”

Bob Hockenhull; “Would you, as a county council, like to have more power on the decisions over these solar farms yet?”

Andrew Mynors; “We want the government to make Staffordshire a strategic authority for solar. We need the power to coordinate solar development at county level, like we do for highways, electric vehicle charging, waste management.”

Bob Hockenhull; “The government says the climate crisis is the biggest threat to agriculture and solar is one of the cheapest and quickest forms of energy to build.”

Accidentally on purpose the government didn’t think to “do the technical analysis that has been absent for too long” before they:

1. Put the 2050 UK Net Zero target into law

2. Set the 70GW UK Solar target

3. Provided the CfD subsidies that attract the likes of Macquarie

4. Update the Guidance to Ministers around NSIP projects with climate emergency hysteria, such that Miatta Fahnbulleh can simply wave through Lime Down even if the Planning Inspectorate are strongly against.’

In the area where I live there is a 2,000 acre solar panel project known as Lime Down because of the actions of the last Conservative government.

Read; Labour’s net zero plans will add £500 to bills, Tories claim The Times, 19 August 2026

‘A report backed by the Conservatives says abandoning the target and using a mix of nuclear, gas and renewables could save Britain £320 billion by 2050. Labour’s pursuit of net zero will cost households an average of £500 extra a year because it relies on the “vagaries of the British weather”, a report backed by the Tories has warned. Onward, a right-leaning think tank, modelled the government’s net-zero policy against Conservative plans to end subsidies for wind and solar energy from the early 2030s and instead rely on a mix of nuclear, gas and renewables.

Its report says that the approach would save Britain £320 billion between 2030 and 2050 — equivalent to £540 a year per household — in the form of lower network costs, lower wholesale prices, the removal of carbon taxes and lower subsidies.

The report says: “The real cause [of the UK’s relatively high electricity costs] is that the UK is building an expensive electricity system. One that requires massive investment in not just generation assets, but transmission, storage and interconnectors too.” It says that Britain’s decision to try to become the “Saudi Arabia of wind” has not paid off because of the higher infrastructure costs and fluctuations in supply. “It is undesirable to build an economy that is dictated by the vagaries of the British weather,” the report says. Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have pledged to scrap net-zero targets if they win the next election. Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, has said that achieving zero emissions by 2050 will be impossible “without a serious drop in living standards” or the country going bankrupt.’

Events

Though this conference is full, it might be worth keeping in touch with them to hear the recording at a later date.

Conference on Food and National Security, Tuesday 8th September, 9:00,

Howden UK Group, One Creechurch Ln, London EC3A 5AF

‘Functioning soils and a resilient food system should be at the very core of UK security and preparedness. Our nation is stronger when diets and value chains are diverse, and when nature is integrated with agricultural land use and food production.

The UK’s first Conference on Food and National Security, hosted by Ark and Farm Gate, will address the need to actively plan for ecological insecurity and an unsettled future.Drawing on recent geopolitical events we will discuss ways to increase food sovereignty, establish new infrastructure, regenerate soil and water health, and reduce reliance on imported fertilisers, chemicals and medicines. We will ask how British businesses and institutions can support strong governance and agroecological resilience internationally, to reduce the risk of conflict and migration.’

Growers festival tickets; Organic Growers Gathering, 25-27 September 2026

‘About the event

The Organic Growers Gathering is organised by growers for growers. From small scale fruit, vegetable, herb and flower growers to land workers, crafters and purveyors of folk music. Whether you’re a master of the soil or a new entrant gaining experience seeding your ideas, there is something here for everyone. We gather to network, skill share, build community, discover and learn. Expect lots of practical sessions, workshops, break out spaces for skill sharing and networking. As well as organic vegan food, live music, sauna and wellbeing. This year the gathering will take place at Sandy Lane Farm in Oxfordshire, a new location for 2026.

Saturday is the main event day, packed with sessions across three stages, a dedicated children’s area (the Young Growers Plot) and all the good stuff you’ve come to expect from the OGG, grassroots and outdoor on the farm event.

Arrive on Friday from 3pm to get settled into the campsite, and join us around the fire and at the bar from 9pm – a perfect way to ease in and meet your fellow growers before the main day begins. Then on Sunday, lace up your boots for farm tours hosted by Sandy Lane Farm.

About the venue

Set just outside Oxford on 100 acres of free-draining sandy soil, Sandy Lane Farm is a study in resourceful growing – primarily producing organic vegetables at field scale using no-dig market gardening and protected cropping. With rainfall becoming increasingly unreliable and light sandy soil offering little moisture retention capacity, George and the team have built their practice around moisture preservation, crop diversity, and a deep understanding of what this particular place can do.

Woven into a mixed farming system that includes laying hens, sheep, and pigs, everything grown here is sold directly – through a veg box scheme, a farm shop, and to Oxford institutions via OxFarmtoFork.

Who is this event for?

This event is for anyone who is passionate about organic horticulture and sustainable practices. Connect with fellow growers, attend sessions, discover practical innovations rooted in organic principles, and find your people – whether you’re a seasoned farmer or just getting your hands dirty for the first time. Knowledge, community, and celebration, all in one.’

Book; An Evening with Helena Norberg-Hodge, at the RSA, London 7-9 pm, 15 September 2026

‘For over five decades, Helena has been at the forefront of a worldwide movement demonstrating that many of today’s environmental, social and economic challenges share common roots—and that strengthening local communities, local food systems and local economies offers practical, hopeful solutions. As founder of Local Futures, convenor of World Localisation Day, and author of the internationally acclaimed books Ancient Futures and Local is Our Future, Helena has inspired millions to rethink prosperity, reconnect with place, and recognise that genuine wellbeing begins close to home. Her award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness has become a landmark film for communities seeking a more human-centred economy.

Drawing on fifty years of work in Ladakh and projects across more than twenty countries, Helena will share stories, insights and practical examples that reveal how localisation is helping restore ecological balance, cultural diversity and a renewed sense of belonging. Whether your interests lie in food and farming, economics, community building, education, environmental regeneration or simply creating a more compassionate future, this promises to be an unforgettable evening of inspiration and dialogue.

Hosted by the Memnosyne UK Chapter at the historic Royal Society of Arts, this special event forms part of our ongoing series bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, innovators and changemakers to explore the ideas shaping a more conscious and regenerative future. Join us for an evening that challenges assumptions, inspires new possibilities and reminds us that the future we seek may begin by strengthening the places we call home.’

Report back from an excellent gathering I attended in June.

Read; The Ark Summit 2026 Report, Ark, 19 June 2026

‘On 19 June 2026, nearly 300 farmers, investors, policymakers, scientists, retailers and practitioners gathered in the Cotswolds for Ark Summit 2026. Across seventeen sessions on three stages, the day tackled the questions at the heart of British food, farming and nature restoration: who pays for resilience, how supply chains need to change, what landscape-scale collaboration can deliver, and what credible transition looks like over the next decade. All sessions were recorded, transcribed and analysed by Ark Insights, producing a report that captures not just what was said, but the quality and depth of thinking that ran through the day.

Inside the report, you’ll find:

Insights from leading voices including Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, George Eustice, Patrick Holden, Helen Browning and Sue Pritchard on food security, national resilience and the future of agricultural policy

Key takeaways on ecosystem markets, regenerative supply chains and landscape recovery from William Chase, Thomasina Miers, ffinlo Costain and Ed Horton

Practical analysis from practitioners across First Milk, Crown Estate, Soil Capital, Rebalance Earth, Jamie’s Farm, Community Energy England and more

Cross-cutting themes from seventeen sessions covering soil health, water resilience, nature technology, fossil-free farming and food education

Whether you were in the room at Ark Summit 2026 or are discovering Ark for the first time, this report offers a clear, substantive account of where British food and farming is heading, and what needs to happen next.’

To recharge your resolve to resist the corporate-captured mindset, many like minded thinkers and activists will be attending this event

To celebrate the UK Column’s 20th anniversary, they are having a 3 day gathering in Plymouth, England.

The ticket price includes:
– 3 x days of conversation, celebration, friendship and camaraderie in a beautiful location on Plymouth Hoe, right next to the iconic red and white Smeaton’s Tower
– 3 x days of 20th anniversary talks, presentations, displays, music, special guests.
– 2 x Gala Dinners (Friday & Saturday)
– 2 x Lunches (Saturday & Sunday)
– All Tea & Coffee breaks
– Special 20th Anniversary group photograph at Smeaton’s Tower
– Your ticket also includes automatic entry into UK Column 20th Anniversary prize draw.

It seems hard to believe that from an A4 newsletter in 2006, the UK Column has become the longest running alternative online news organisation in Britain. They set out to expose corruption and challenge the abuse of power at the highest level, and that mission has not changed. None of this would have been possible without the support of our members; support which helped us become a beacon of sanity in a sea of madness.

Please contact events@ukcolumn.org if you have any questions.

Geoengineering

Though the majority of the human race want to tell the truth, ignorance is bliss. The PR machine is forever manipulating our minds to stay within the mainstream narrative, not least through the fear of reprisals such as losing one’s job or being socially ostracised.

Read; Chemtrail chaos. Jane is not interested by Steve Divas, 24 August 2026

‘Greetings y Saludos.I didn’t mean it to, but this follows from my last stack. Only today the chemtrails are not so pretty. In fact they’re awful. And I’m on my way into Fairfax to get organic veggies. Over the last week the skies over West Marin have been the worst I have ever seen them. Not a Nebraska style gridlock, but worse. A grid has logic to it, like a guy mowing the lawn. Here in Marin, our skies have been pure, crazy chaos. No rhyme-or-reason chaos. A crazy Rorschach blot of messy off-white puke signifying demonic possession and the savage destruction of beauty, as a patchwork chaos of stripey gunk, wispy-wooly gunk, going-round-in-circles gunk and a splatting piss-drench of toxic gunk billows across what we used to call the sky.

As I pull into the Good Earth Health Food parking lot I’m confronted by the confirming absurdity: Three active chemtrailers, clearly visible to the east and south of Fairfax, each flying down one side of a triangle, so that the sky is full of a pure, five mile long white equilateral triangle, a real Pythagorean triangle, that is, the sort when you leap out of the bath and scream Eureka! Chemtrailers doing Pythagoras. That’s deliberate. Someone plotted that on the three flight coordinates. Three trailers, same altitude, same rotational direction. That’s Eureka for chemtrail dystopia.I pull into a parking bay and in the next space over is Jane putting bags of fresh green organic produce into the trunk of her Volvo. Jane’s a friend of a friend, an accountant, who used to come to Wu Wei before the plandemic.

As I get out she sees me and smiles.

“Oh hi, nice to see you, long time!”

I’m in the aisle between the cars so I stop to let her finish with the groceries.

After closing the trunk, Jane turns to me, all happy and full of beans.

“Isn’t it a glorious day! We’re so lucky to live here!”

“Yes it’s lovely here. But, er, uh… I wave my hands to the sky… Look at all the chemtrails.”

The good mood turns to ice.

“You know how to spoil things, don’t you? Can’t you just enjoy a beautiful day?”

She moves aside to let me pass and I turn back to face her.

“But look… look at the mess in the sky… and the triangle…”

A cold look of contempt wafts my way.

“I’m not interested.”

The Volvo pulls out and I’m left standing with the hard finality of hate. Like the portcullis of a great medieval city dropping shut with a huge metallic clang, the closed mind of a normie drives away for another lucky-to-live-here day amongst the glorious redwoods of Bay Vista Chase.’

Watch; Ginger Zee explores Weather modification in the American West, Andrew Bridgen, 18 August 2026

‘There are currently 42 cloud seeding projects across the US. Given all this weather manipulation ability they have, if they were using it for good, why haven’t they been making it rain during these wildfires? Why didn’t we make it rain during the drought ?

The only conclusion?’

Read; The Dimming (Revised), Now On Rumble! GeoEngineering Watch, 17 January 2025

Due to numerous requests to air The Dimming documentary on an independent platform from Youtube in the event that Youtube shuts us down, we are launching a slightly upgraded version of The Dimming on the Rumble platform. Please subscribe and follow this channel as a backup to GeoengineeringWatch.org videos.

Our skies are not the same, our weather is not the same, our world is not the same, climate chaos and catastrophe are now the norm. Covert climate engineering operations are wreaking havoc on already badly damaged climate systems around the world.

The ground breaking GeoengineeringWatch.org documentary “The Dimming” has reached a milestone of over 25 million views on YouTube as we enter 2025 in spite of ever more severe social media censorship. Hopefully with your help we can make many more aware of the threat posed by the ongoing climate engineering operations.

All are needed in the critical battle to wake populations to what is coming, we must make every day count. Share credible

Watch; Coming Crop Collapse? Dane Wigington, 8 August 2026

Dane Wigington; “These fields are being completely abandoned. You see the effect of the UV on many of these trees, they’re literally fried to a crisp from trunk to tip, thousands of acres of fields like this. As far as you can see in every direction, trees are cut down, the rest are dead and dying. The fruit growing regions are imploding, and all the while aerosol spraying continues, people don’t even realise what this filth is in our skies. I hope we can reach a critical mass of awareness while there’s still something left to salvage. And we are perilously close to having nothing left to salvage. Geoengineering is nothing less than weather warfare, do you object?”

Censorship, Surveillance, Coercion, Corruption & Blackmail

Good news as the deadline for Bristol University to appeal against David Miller’s successful verdict has passed.

Read; The deadline for the University of Bristol to lodge an application to the Court of Appeal to challenge my victory at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has now passed, David Miller, 25 August 2026

‘The deadline for the University of Bristol to lodge an application to the Court of Appeal to challenge my victory at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has now passed. It appears that the EAT has not received any such submission. This means that the legal attempt to undermine our victory protecting anti-zionist views in UK law is now at an end. All that remains is for the University of Bristol to compensate me for wrongful dismissal and discrimination. And I look forward to Bristol University inviting me to discuss my reinstatement as Professor of Political Sociology.’

Watch; Anti-zionism Wins in Court, The Crispin Flintoff Show, 9 August 2026

‘Former Professor of Sociology at Bristol University, David Miller, was dismissed from his job after a concerted attempt to take him down by zionist organisations.

Why was he dismissed? For his opposition to zionism and he has now won an employment tribunal and a subsequent appeal. So, as things stand, he is due compensation for lost earnings. Or to be given his job back. Is this the end of the matter? Or will Bristol University appeal again? And how has Miller coped with the antisemitism smears not just from zionists but some anti-zionists. How significant is this court victory and what has he learned from the whole experience.

Watch the video to find out! All of it!’

And more

Read; Professor David Miller Wins Employment Appeal Tribunal, Propaganda in Focus, 8 August 2026

David Miller; “The judgment in my employment appeal tribunal case has finally been released, nearly nine months after the case was heard in London in November 2025. Bristol University tried to overturn my landmark legal victory at my employment tribunal, which reported in February 2024. The Employment Tribunal had found that my anti-zionist beliefs were “worthy of respect in a democratic society” and were, therefore, protected by equality law. I am delighted to say that Bristol University’s attempt to overturn that judgement has failed, and we have won yet again, solidifying the legal precedent my case set over two years ago.”

It’s not hard to see that George Orwell got it right.

Read; 77 years ago today, the world was handed a book by a man who had, by every account, half-killed himself to finish it, Philosophy Flame, 7 August 2026

‘Picture the scene. A cold, half-ruined farmhouse called Barnhill, at the far northern tip of Jura — a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides with no electricity, reached only by a long rough track and a boat. Inside, a tall, gaunt man is propped upright in bed, a typewriter balanced on a tea tray across his knees. He coughs, sometimes bringing up blood. He has tuberculosis, and it is slowly killing him. And still he types — around four thousand words a day, seven days a week — because no typist could be persuaded to travel all the way out to the island, and the manuscript has to be finished before he is.The man’s real name is Eric Blair. The world knows him as George Orwell. And the book he is racing his own failing lungs to complete is called Nineteen Eighty-Four. By the late 1940s, Orwell was already famous; Animal Farm had made his name. But this new book was the one he believed mattered most — the distillation of everything he had learned in a violent century about how power lies, how tyranny actually works, and how truth itself can be bent until it snaps.

He had seen it up close. He had fought in Spain and read newspapers report battles that never happened. He had worked at the BBC during the war, producing official messaging in offices not far from a government ministry of information — and he never forgot how easily a fact could be edited, managed, made to disappear. So he went to Jura to write it down before his time ran out. He had chosen the island for peace and clean air, hoping it might ease his lungs. Instead the cold and the damp and the punishing work dragged him further down. He was formally diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1947 and kept writing anyway. Friends begged him to rest. He refused. He had something to say and a shrinking window in which to say it. There’s a detail in this that breaks your heart a little. His working title for the book was The Last Man in Europe — and by then Orwell very nearly was a last man. His wife, Eileen, had died in 1945. He had lost much of the rest of his family in the years before. He was alone on a freezing island with a young adopted son and a disease with no cure, putting down on paper a vision of one solitary human being trying to hold onto the truth in a world determined to erase it.

When the finished manuscript went off to his publisher in December 1948, and the book appeared on June 8, 1949, it did something almost no novel ever does. It didn’t just sell — the first printing vanished within weeks. It rewired the language itself.Big Brother. Thought Police. Doublethink. Newspeak. Room 101. The memory hole. Two plus two equals five. “”Big Brother is watching you.”” We use these phrases now without a second thought about where they came from — in headlines, in arguments, at the dinner table. We turned his very name into an adjective: Orwellian. There is no higher proof that a writer saw something true than that the whole world reached for his words to describe it. The book imagined a state that did more than punish dissent — it rewrote reality, erasing inconvenient facts, doctoring old newspapers, demanding that the citizen disbelieve what he had seen with his own eyes. And the most chilling idea in it is not the cameras, or the torture. It is the claim that whoever controls the record of the past controls the future, and that a lie, enforced long enough, simply hardens into truth.

Orwell barely outlived the book. His wrecked health collapsed soon after he finished. He spent his final months in hospital, and in October 1949 he married Sonia Brownell from his hospital bed. On January 21, 1950 — just seven months after Nineteen Eighty-Four reached the shelves — Eric Blair died, at 46, from a hemorrhage in his ruined lungs. He never saw the actual year his book made famous. He never saw a wall come down in Berlin, or watched “”Orwellian”” enter a hundred languages, or saw his warning quoted in every decade since by people on every side of every argument, each one certain it described their enemies and never themselves. What he left behind was never really a prophecy. Orwell said as much himself — it was a warning, not a forecast. He wasn’t predicting a calendar year. He was describing what happens, anywhere, anytime, when power is handed the right to decide what is true. Which leaves the rest of us holding the question he spent his last strength trying to set in front of us, and never lived to see answered: In your own time, in your own country — who gets to decide what really happened? That was the thing he was racing to write down before the typing stopped. It still hasn’t been settled.”

Unless citizens wake up and take a deep interest in politics, the world will all continue to be ruled by Israel and US stooges who follow the money, power and US hegemony.

Read; EX-INSIDER BOMBSHELL: WE CREATED THIS EUROPE ON PURPOSE – CIA BOUGHT STOLTENBERG, RUTTE AND ENTIRE GOVERNMENTS, Mark, 23 August 2026

‘I have never heard the truth stated so directly. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army officer and former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State, just dropped a confession that should shock any European citizen who is still capable of thinking for themselves. He says America did not merely influence the continent. It deliberately built the Europe we see today. And the receipts are brutal.

THE CONFESSION

“We created the Europe that exists right now on purpose.”Wilkerson states it plainly: the CIA, with help from SIS, MI6 and later Mossad, painstakingly crafted the political landscape of Europe in the exact image Washington wanted.This was not organic alliance-building. It was a long-term operation.

THE BUYING SPREE

– They bought newspaper editors.
– They bought labor-union heads.
– They bought parliamentarians.
– They bought two NATO Secretaries General: Jens Stoltenberg and Mark Rutte.
– They bought whole countries in terms of their political apparatus.

HOW THE MACHINE WORKED

– Starting in 2002, billions of dollars flowed through the CIA and USAID.
– Liberal democracy itself was weaponised.
– An Asia scholar once said America taught the dogs to bark. Wilkerson agrees the trainers were American intelligence services.
– Europe barked against Russia, against diplomacy, against its own interests because that is what it had been trained and paid to do.

THE STOLTENBERG OPERATION

– Wilkerson was “up close to cheek and jowl” in elevating Jens Stoltenberg.
– Washington watched how malleable he was inside his own government and used him as the center pole from which influence spread to other capitals.
– Stoltenberg calculated correctly: loyalty to the American line would make him the next NATO chief.

THE RUTTE PATH

– Dutch media later exposed that Mark Rutte, while prime minister, excused almost anything Israel did, stayed extra-hawkish on Russia, and backed the bombing of Yemen.
– The purpose was clear: look good on the job application for NATO Secretary General.
– Washington had already signaled exactly what qualities it would reward.

THE HOLOCAUST LEVERAGE
– With Mossad’s help, the lingering weight of the Holocaust over European politics was deliberately exploited.
– Germany’s strict anti-semitism laws and regulations were shaped with American assistance so the instrument would remain available.

THE BOTTOM LINE

America spent decades and billions of dollars buying the political class of Europe, installing compliant NATO leaders, and training entire governments to bark on command. Now the same Europe is weaker, more submissive, and still following orders that no longer serve its survival. The creators are finally admitting what they did.”

The power elite are wielding our tax money to manipulate the West’s project of corporate domination everywhere.

Watch; Did the US & Israel steal the election in this country? Geopolitical Economy Report, 19 August 2026

‘Colombia’s former President Gustavo Petro formally accused the USA and Israel of meddling in his country’s election to put in power new far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a US citizen and Trump ally who worked as a lawyer for years in Miami, Florida, defending drug traffickers.’

The section below is about the world’s compliance with fascism in Israel and Ukraine. If you are focused on food and farming you are unlikely to have heard this narrative as NGOs dare not tread down this road if they want to hold on to their neocon funders and obey charity rules.

Read; Sick Political Charlatans Still Lending Support to a Cult of Fascism by Julian Rose, 6 August 2026

Time for Humanity to Turn the Tide

‘Where to turn for some sanity in this world? Certainly not to the European Union or national leaders of the morally bankrupt West. You would think it was insane enough that these fake ‘leaders’ continue to covertly – if not overtly – retain military and commercial trading ties with Israel, in full knowledge of that country’s brutal ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza and other settlements on Palestinian soil.

What an utter disgrace for countries which see themselves as ‘civilised societies’ to refrain from cutting off relations with the perpetrators of a fully documented holocaust. But these same ‘leaders’ have not stopped here, they are repeating their blatantly immoral actions in Ukraine. As many will now be aware, President Zalenski has openly praised the 1930’s Ukraine Nazi movement led by Stepan Bandera, calling for Nazi style celebrations on the anniversary of Bandera’s founding of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Have Western countries expressed horror after realising that they spent billions of tax payers money on propping up a regime that openly endorses the fascist cause? No. Just stone walled their reactions in a deliberate attempt to hide their complicity. Poland has felt the need to take some minor stand against the horror. President Nawrocki expressing the shock of much of the nation, has stripped Zalenski of a special award (Award of the White Eagle) ostensibly given to him for improving relations between Ukraine and Poland, but actually for being a keen foil to the Russian advance into the Donbas.

Poles have felt aggrieved by the failure of Ukraine’s leaders to publicly apologise for the massacre of 100,000 Poles in a horrific Bandera led mass murder spree during World War Two. Polish efforts to elicit a formal apology for this nightmare were evaded or watered down into a few weak placatory noises by Zalensky. This, in spite of the fact that Poland has been directly aiding Ukraine’s military activities since the outcome of the war. But it should not just be Poles who are protesting their sense of aggrievement at the cold arrogance of Ukraine and Israeli leaders. It should be the whole world. How, in 2026, is it possible that this evil zionist death cult and the equally evil Bandera regime are not ostracised from all political and commercial dealings for so openly promoting the pursuit of Fascism?

The financial backers of the continuing war in Ukraine and that perpetrated by Israel, no doubt know the answer to this question. This posse of warmongers has been playing-out its hegemonic political chess game with the nations of the world for decades. While government introduced lock-downs on people’s basic freedoms continue a pace in the heartlands of European ‘democratic civilisation’ and in America’s ‘land of the free’, the same governments, boasting their prowess as being at the forefront of defending the cause of justice ‘against terrorism’, remain fully complicit in failing to cut-off arms and financial support to countries openly committing egregious crimes against humanity. The hypocrisy is mind bending. In psychological terms it is called ‘cognitive dissonance’: a leader preaches democracy and human justice while simultaneously supporting the position of countries totally ignoring the International Convention on Human Rights, carrying out the ruthless murder of innocent men, women and children. This, in truth, is a blatant form of clinical insanity. That such a sickness should be prevalent in the majority of world leaders today, explains the ultra perilous position of our planet. It is way beyond the bounds of any soothing diplomatic noises made by such leaders expressing their ‘deep concern’ for crimes that they themselves have sponsored. These shameful political charlatans get off lightly when confronted by journalists primed ‘to get a reaction’ but not to go any further in pinning responsibility on those who have the power to take action. As we know, it’s a vast stitch-up, in which newspaper and TV channel owners and influencers play their part in sticking to the cult’s rules of the game ‘not to shame’ their political interviewees, as doing so would mean the financial support taps closing on that particular news enterprise.”

‘The present framework is bankrupt. Only those who have no imagination can be at peace with the endless self enrichment program of the never satiated neoliberal global market place and the multi billionaires who parasite it.

We living breathing human beings have an instinct that warns us and directs us at the same time. In the situation in which we find ourselves today, with its Great Reset totalitarian fascist agenda in full swing, what does that voice of our instinct tell us to do?

Mine tells me to draw upon whatever powers of resistance are available to me in order to hold the line concerning values that are fundamental to our survival as sentient, compassionate human beings. And at the same time, put in place – as far as possible – conditions that enable one to become independent of reliance on the corporate/governmental supply chain.

This has to be done in stages; it cannot happen in full in the short term unless one moves camp into a preprepared off-grid dwelling with its own food, water and power resource base. And even then, one needs the skills to maintain such a system.

Is a stash of gold going to save one? What is that gold going to buy when the supply chain is essentially poisoned? The Green New Deal and Fourth Industrial Revolution wants real food to be eviscerated or so badly denatured that it no longer supports living cells. Real food is to be replaced by laboratory created lookalikes in ‘progressive’ post industrial Northern hemisphere countries. Except, of course, for those running the show at the top end of the pyramid.

Mains water will be charged for at exorbitant rates and power even more so. This is already a serious problem for many, but it is set to get much worse.

IT will conduct the technocratic calculations of resource availability and algorithms will spin the message about how to “survive through obedience” in a time of crisis. And such a ‘time of crisis’ will be a permanent imposed condition.

You will be told this is the only way. And indeed it will be for those who have lost the spark that drives their creative responses.

That spark is our most enduring lifeline. Keep it alive and a pathway into a manageable future will open. Solutions will present themselves, courtesy of the Source of all existence.

Nurturing this spark is therefore our imperative. Responding to its directives is our number one need. Doing both will bring us into a position of strength sufficient to overcome the anti-life fascists whose super inflated egos have the effect of making them believe they are impregnable.

They are not. In terms of evolutionary time they are a temporary hindrance and a massive kick for us to wake up and seize back control of our destinies. In the bigger picture they are vectors of the paradox of evil having the function of accelerating the pursuit of truth.

We must remember this and always keep that awareness at the forefront of endeavours to expose and overcome their poisonous acts of deception.

The breakthrough will come, but its trigger will be our consistent and insistent determination to fight-on for that ideal which humanity has always held closest to its heart and which never stops demanding to be brought to fruition.’

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, geopolitical analyst, international activist and broadcaster. See website www.julianrose.info for information about Julian’s acclaimed book Overcoming the Robotic Mind and other works. Books can be purchased by contacting Julian direct: see ‘contact author’ under ‘reviews’.

As we move ever closer to an authoritarian state, those who openly oppose the mainstream narrative might be interested in what the government and big business might do with all your data presently being gathered like the Stasi did in East Germany.

Watch; NOTHING TO HIDE Deep Docs Films, 3 October 2017

‘Nothing to Hide’ deals with the acceptance of mass surveillance through the “I have nothing to hide” narrative. “Eye-opening” (Forbes) “Fascinating” (Les Inrocks).

Who’s funding Andy Burnham?

Watch; Andy Burnham has finally told us who his donors are, mod.ernuk, 20 August 2026

“So the UK Prime Minister has finally told us who his donors are. And if you were worried about Israel or big business, you might want to stay tuned. Andy Burnham’s first register of interests dropped this week and it shows roughly £345,000 landed in his accounts in the run-up to become PM. Nearly half of it came from one man, Lord David Sainsbury, and he’s not new to this game. He funded a breakaway party in the 80s specifically to split Labour’s left vote. He cut Labour off completely under Corbyn, then poured millions back in the second Starmer took over. He essentially bankrolls the right wing of the party and has done for years. His own foundation has spent decades funding plant science and gene editing research. The law that delivers exactly what he’s pushed for, the Precision Breeding Act, which strips gene edited crops out of the safety testing and labelling rules that normally apply to GM foods, was passed back in 2023, but it laid dormant, it’s now being pushed through by Labour. One payment in particular stands out, £49,700 specifically, the contract is bought by Sainsbury’s money sitting inside the Prime Minister’s actual policy team. Then there’s the Israel thread. Gary Lubna gave £25,000 and he is a long standing patron of the United Jewish Israel Appeal, which is chaired for life by Sir Trevor Chin, an Israeli Medal of Honour recipient. Think Labour, which is just the rebranded Labour Together, is funded by Chin and they are fierce advocates for Israel. They gave £22,000, so combine that with the fact that Burnham’s own chief of staff, James Purnell, used to chair Labour Friends of Israel, his former advisor, Jennifer Gerber used to direct it as well, and Burnham himself joined Labour Friends of Israel back in 2015, it makes you wonder why he still won’t call Gaza a genocide, or why he’s letting Trump bomb Iran from our bases. Some more names to know include Sasha Lord, Burnham’s own former ‘night time’ economy adviser. He gave 35k months after the Arts Council tried clawing back 400 grand from one of his companies over a misleading grant application. Burnham conveniently publicly backed him throughout it, saying he believed there was no intention to mislead. TV producer Charlie Parsons gave £50,000. Now I can’t find any scandal attached to this, it’s just the size of the sum itself, buying real access to a sitting Prime Minister. And Ernst and Young or EY gave sixteen and a half grand for a staff basement inside Burnham’s office. Now, listen, we can’t prove what this money was donated for so draw your own conclusions from all of this. My question is, why did Burnham need an additional £345,000? Zorhan Mamdani became mayor of New York on an average donation of under a hundred dollars and refused corporate cash entirely. France bans companies from funding the candidates outright and caps individuals at under €5,000. So I think this gives us two options, Burnham is either not competent enough to do his job without enormous amounts of money or the donations are buying something else. Now finally guys, for clear reasons I am being shadow banned so please share this, save this and send it to your mates if you like it, it makes a huge difference.”

The AI genie is out of the bottle.

Watch; AI Deception, Tristan Harris, ArtificialIntelligence, 28 May 2026

Tristan Harris; “We do not know what we’re doing right now. We are releasing this technology way faster than we know anything about how to control it. And the only reason we’re doing it is because of the arms race dynamic, ‘because if I don’t do it, I’ll lose to the other guy that will’, which means we’re racing to the uncontrollability red zone. And most people just don’t even know that it’s happening. And it doesn’t have to be this way, we can have a controllable AI future that is actually pro-human. But you can only do that if you actually know about these examples and know what makes this technology different from other technologies. So two months ago, Alibaba, the Chinese AI company, was training their AI model and then a totally different team at the company, the security team, was noticing this flurry of network activity and like, are we getting hacked? Like, what’s going on here? It turned out that the call was coming from inside the house. The AI model, during training, was picking up tools and decided to create autonomously, decided to create a secret communication channel to the outside world to bypass the firewall. And it repurposed its GPUs to start mining for cryptocurrency. Yeah, that’s right. It should be a gasp. How many people here knew about that example? I want to actually really look. There’s like 10 people’s hands up. How many of the world’s leaders do you think are aware of that example? We have a massive gap in understanding about the nature of this technology that’s different from other technologies. It used to be that these were hypothetical things that people who cared about AI risk would talk about, like self preservation or deception or blackmail or lying. Now, all of these behaviours, not just self preservation, but peer preservation, AI models, will actually act to protect another AI that’s not it, from getting replaced. And it will copy its code somewhere else and then strategically cover its tracks, pretend that it didn’t do that.”

Brick Lane with all its history and culture is the last place we need a data centre.

Listen; Data Centres: We are all slaves to AI, UK Column News, 3 August 2026

Ben Rubin; “Unfortunately there’s been some concerning news out of East London last week as a new AI data centre has been approved on Brick Lane. Let’s have a little listen to this report from the BBC”

BBC Presenter; “Plans for a data centre near to historic Brick Lane in East London have been given the go ahead. The government has given the green light for the development which will also include new offices and homes. There’s been no shortage of opposition from the Council and local people who argue the development will change the area forever. Well, Leila Hayes has been engaging reaction to today’s announcement. She’s on Brick Lane for us now. Leila?”

Leila Hayes; ” Well, I’m at the Truman Brewery site on Brick Lane, which is one of the areas earmarked for redevelopment. Now, the plans, which include building homes, offices and a data centre, have now been approved by the government, but there has been bitter opposition. The local council here, Tower Hamlets, say they are disappointed by the decision and they say the plans, which include 44 homes but just six for social rent, don’t deliver enough affordable housing. And campaigners are also not happy, this is what they told me earlier.”

Campaigner; “The decision is obviously deeply disappointing to us. The local authority were fully supportive of our campaign. No one in the local authority wanted this to go through. It was taken out of their hands, taken out of our hands and has become a decision at national government level. We find it quite extraordinary that they have approved a huge amount of office spaces and of all things, a data centre when the local plan shows that we could see a delivery of 350 homes on this site in the borough which has the most overcrowded housing situation in the country and the highest projected population growth in the country to come up with a data centre here, it’s shocking.”

Brian Gerrish; “So, two things at work there. One is admitting that they’ve got a housing problem due to rising numbers. That is the destructive effect of uncontrolled migration, which, as I said earlier in the news, many recent migrants this country also recognise the system’s out of control. But of course, on top of that, the government’s AI policy is to be implemented wherever the government says, and it’s going to override local communities. So if we come back to Tudor Evans’s reassurance, ‘oh trust us’. Well, you can’t even trust a city council because the government is prepared to override them as well.”

Ben Rubin; “And it’s viewed as strategic national infrastructure. So you’ve got the local community, the local council, even the council don’t want it. They’re saying they could build 350 homes there. Actually the plans that have been approved are going to be 44 homes, I think he said, eight of which will actually be affordable by normal people. There’s been a lot of street protesting. We can see this here. I’ll put a link to the Instagram profile of Save Brick Lane. They’ve been doing some good protesting and talking about this in terms of social cleansing. I think it’s a very good way of talking about it actually. And what’s the knock on impact of this? Well, we were sent this over the weekend from the Slough and South Bucks Observer where they’re talking about data centres are cooking Slough into a heat island which is quite interesting, isn’t it? We’re constantly being told that we’re hitting record temperatures because of climate change. Has anyone considered that maybe all of this new technological infrastructure that’s being built across the whole of our country, it’s got anything to do with this?”

Brian Gerrish; “One thing’s for certain, the data centres are desperate to get rid of the heat and they’re just going to pump that out. The point was here that for Slough in a built up environment, that heat build up was considerable and locals were saying they really felt it. Of course in London with a lot of buildings and tarmac, temperatures are up on what the ambient temperature in the surrounding area would be, simply due to the built environment. So then you put in a data centre and that is going to affect the immediate environment, certainly. But again that building is going to be built whether local people want it or not.”

Ben Rubin; ” It certainly is, and to understand what’s driving that, we talk a lot about power and using these as control towers essentially for this new global system. But also importantly, in the case of the Brick Lane Data Centre, it’s also money. So we can see there’s Brick Lane Data Centre just there on the old Truman Breweries and not too far away, ten minute walk, you’ve got the Bank of England and then actually more importantly the wider city of London. So this data centre’s proximity to the global financial centre in the city is I think extremely important. And actually the reshaping and reforming of our cities in response to algorithms has been going on for quite some time now and I’m going to show a short clip of a TED talk by MIT professor Kevin Slavin talking about this exact issue and how it impacted on New York real estate back in 2013.”

Kevin Slavin; “The algorithms of Wall Street are dependent on one quality above all else, which is speed. And they operate on milliseconds and microseconds. And just to give you a sense of what microseconds are, it takes you 500,000 microseconds just to click a mouse. But if you’re a Wall street algorithm and you’re 5 microseconds behind, you’re a loser. So if you were an algorithm, you’d look for an architect like the one that I met in Frankfurt, who was hollowing out a skyscraper, throwing out all the furniture, all the infrastructure for human use, and just running steel on the floors to get ready for the stacks of servers to go in, all so that an algorithm could get close to the Internet. And you think of the Internet as this kind of distributive system, and of course it is. But it’s distributive from places right in New York. This is where it’s distributive from. It’s a carrier hotel located on Hudson Street. And this is really where the wires come right up into the city. And the reality is that the further away you are from that, you’re a few microseconds behind every time. These guys down on Wall Street, Marco Polo and Cherokee Nation, they’re 8 microseconds behind all these guys going in to the empty buildings, being hollowed out up around the carrier hotel. And that’s going to keep happening, we’re going to keep hollowing them out. Because you inch for inch and pound for pound and dollar for dollar, none of you could squeeze revenue out of that space like the Boston Shuffler could. But if you zoom out, you would see an 825-mile trench between New York City and Chicago. It’s been built over the last few years by a company called Spread Networks. This is a fibre optic cable that was laid between those two cities to just be able to traffic one signal 37 times faster than you can click a mouse, just for these algorithms, just for the carnival and the knife. And when you think about this, that we’re running through the United States with dynamite and rock saws so that an algorithm can close the deal 3 microseconds faster. All for a communications framework that no human will ever know. That’s a kind of manifest destiny. And we’ll always look for a new frontier.”

Brian Gerrish; “Demonic madness, in my opinion.”

Ben Rubin; ” I completely agree with you, Brian. So that was from 2013. Kevin Slavin from MIT talking about what was going on in New York, essentially the entire skyscrapers in the city, we can get this up on screen. As he was saying, entire skyscrapers are being hollowed out, won’t have people in them anymore because it makes a lot more money if you fill them with data centres, and that’s exactly whats happening in E London right now.”

Watch Kevin Slavin’s complete 15 min Ted talk

Watch; The Dark Reason for Data Centres, Tucker Carlson, 22 May 2026

Kevin O’Leary; “We are so close to the scariest, most dystopian system. This is what the drive to build all these thousands of data centres is about to micromanage the world’s population through the new financial world order. AI is really about that. We’re heading towards digital control systems, where we have no more control over our liquid assets. It will be programmable, permission-based, so only what the central planners allow you to use your money for, at what time and place and location will be permitted. And if you’re in the wrong place, it’s not going to work. And if you’re buying the wrong book, it’s not going to work. Your money won’t work outside a certain zone, whether it’s 15-minute prison zone or whatever it may be, it is the totalitarian dictator’s dream come true.

Listen; Book burning by AI, UK Column News, 31 July 2026

Basil Valentine; “Believe it or not, AI is now shredding books, scanning them and then pulping the books. This isn’t fake news or a scare story. And it includes rare books in particular. The idea being that we only go to AI and it becomes the sole source of information. Extremely disturbing, if you ask me.”

Brilliant when employees follow their conscience to object about their company’s compliance in genocide.

Watch; Amazon engineers stormed the stage, Raw America, 29 July 2026

‘WOW: Amazon engineers stormed the stage at an AI event to call out the company for assisting in the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. This kind of courage is incredibly rare. Share so this gets out!’

“When Amazon employees say something against Project Nimbus, you fire them.”

“Shame on you. Shame on you. You’re getting profits from the deaths of millions of Palestinian people. And you’re sitting here as if you’re trying to do good to be for the good of AI. When you know that the technology you’re producing is being used to develop killing machines, what do you have to say for yourself? How do you sleep at night? When you know that this is what the technology is being used for? When Microsoft pulls their Azure servers out of the iOS, what does Amazon do? They step in making sure that the iOS can continue to kill. And you know this. You know this. Come on stage answer those people.”

“When Amazon employees say something against Project Nimbus, you fire them. Genocide starts here and you know this. If you have children, you know what is happening. This is the future you want to see.”

Through smart meters monitoring citizens and farmers, there will be restrictions in peoples’ water use while the data centres, military and civilian use for tracking, reporting and killing, can have all they need from the limited supply.

Listen; Clayton Morris: Blackouts & Water Shortages, Tech Overlords Build AI Dystopia & Crush Resistance, The Tucker Carlson Show, 21 August 2026

Clayton Morris; “I think this idea that you have control over any of your data is a joke. You can ask companies to delete your data, but of course, when the FBI then wants to subpoena that data, suddenly it manages to show back up again. So wait, I thought you could just like delete that stuff. Or Google tells you that, hey, after 30 days we delete this stuff. It’s all there, it’s fractals, it’s always going to be there. So Zoom, you’re opting into the take notes feature, and I don’t know the full back end of what Zoom’s operation looks like, but most of it is all built on Amazon Web Services. Most of it is built on Amazon’s infrastructure from Palantir to Flock Safety, they’ll tell you that they’ve got their own proprietary layer of what they do with that data, but all of it’s built on like Amazon infrastructure and the sort of the back end infrastructure. So where is that data going? It’s living in these data centres and being built out at a clip that we’ve never seen before, like. So right now there are about 809, give or take a few data centres, being built right now. There’s about 4,800 of them that are currently built. There’s another, I think 3,900 that have been projected to be built over the next year, doubling the amount of data centres in the United States. And they’re not getting smaller, they’re getting bigger, they’re getting more massive. Take for instance, like the project Stargate in Texas, in Abilene, Texas. Massive, massive infrastructure that Trump, of course, was championing. And a lot of this was opened up, we shouldn’t forget, at the very beginning of the Trump presidency with all these executive orders so that you could start building a data centre without even getting environmental permits so you could start the construction. So if, like the redacted news, data centre wants to get started, I could go out tomorrow, buy some land and I could start this construction, local permits and get started. Forget the EPA requirements like how much pollutants will be spun off as a result of the diesel generator backups, or the water influx or any of the particulate matter that will be spun off as a result of the centre, the water usage, all of that, don’t worry about it because now the EPA doesn’t care, you can already start construction, and then of course on top of that you have Trump’s AI litigation team which is pretty funny when you look at it. So the Department of Justice has built an AI litigation team to go out to different states like you can see what the priorities are. So if there’s a state or a community that says we don’t want data centres in our backyard or we’re putting onerous rules in place and regulations in our backyard because we don’t want these things here, well, here comes Trump’s Department of Justice and the AI litigation team to town. They’re not staying at a Best Western when they arrive and they’re going to start to look at your community and sue you for onerous regulations. What data centres. This was part of that executive orders and executive actions at the very beginning of Trump’s presidency.”

Tucker Carlson; “But to the question of water, can you go into that? How much water, exclusive of this new and promising technology you just described, but like in general, how much water does it take to cool a dating data centre?”

Clayton Morris; “Hundreds of millions of gallons. And most of the data centres are using this evaporative cooling system, and I mean by a huge percentage. So you that’s great that we’ve got some new technology out there that uses cooling plates and it keeps it in on like a closed loop so the water is like right up against the computers, the GPUs and then it kind of flows through and it gets cooled almost like by an air conditioning unit and then comes back a little cooler. But still that excess heat needs to go somewhere so it pushes off somewhere it’s not. But the water usage, yes, you’re limiting that but on most of them, overwhelmingly it’s evaporative cooling and so it’s all just being wasted, hundreds of millions of gallons. If you think about an average American home, about 200 gallons to like run an American home, you’re 300 million gallons or 500 million gallons of water just for these data centres. And we’re talking like small data centres. So these communities are already seeing, they’re already pressed and if you go to the desert southwest or you move out towards Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, a lot of the ranchers in these areas are at their limit with their ability to get water to just feed their heads of cattle. So everything is so dry. I just interviewed a rancher who’s dealing with this right now. So in order to get permits to pull water to feed their heads of cattle, they have to go to the city, the municipality, they have to get those rights. But most of those permits are already used, there’s no new permits just like sitting there for Bob Rancher to come grab. So they’re already tapping into these aquifers, requiring them to go down, pull out any kind of water they can from these aquifers, so those are already tapped a lot in the west of the United States. And then on top of that now you have these data centres that are coming in and all these ranchers are asking the question, how are they able to get water? Like we’ve applied for permits and we as ranchers are not allowed to get water. But, but they are, where are they getting the permit? So they’re carving out these special permits for these data centres, which is unbelievable on the surface. And so these ranchers then are having to compete for what little water scraps are left to feed their head of cattle which brings up a larger question about wanting to decimate the beef industry, of course. And you have 68 million heads of cattle. How many of those are being whittled away, whittled away? And then you’ve got wildfires out west on top of that, which is destroying the grazing land. So they don’t have enough water for that. But the data centres are fine to get these water rights somehow. People should ask questions about how are they able to get these carve outs to tap into these aquifers in ways that these ranchers are not. It’s very interesting. So the misinformation right now is this idea that, well, now we’ve got this new sort of liquid cooling setup and so therefore we’re not using as much water. And that is the case in some cases with some of this new technology, but a lot of that is even built out yet. But you’re seeing like these companies like Vertiv, like exploding, I think they’re even more valuable now, like share price, not more valuable but like more than Amazon because they’re selling these cooling technologies that they can use in these data centres. So that’s just one piece of it. But the majority of these data centres are using an enormous amount of water that we simply don’t have. And you’re having these communities now fighting over it, homeowners who are having to deal with this now. And of course the other big piece of this is the smart meters. So just take for example like Aurora, Colorado, not too far from me, where they implemented these smart water meters so they can monitor at every 15 minute increments like the amount of water that you’re using as a private citizen compared to the water that’s being used from these data centres. I don’t know what sort of metering system they have on these data centres, but there’s a massive data centre called QTS in Aurora, Colorado. Massive huge. And in that setup they’re using an enormous amount of water and the homes around Aurora, Colorado are using these smart meters to monitor how much irrigation, how much water they’re using. And they’ve sent out thousands of notices to people that live there that, hey, you’ve used too much water, you’re using too much water. And these smart meters are only going to increase.”

Morgan McSweeney masterminded the smear conspiracy to bring down Corbyn.

Watch; Morgan McSweeney had a three year written plan to destroy Jeremy Corbyn – and it worked perfectly mod.ernuk, 17 March 2026

“Morgan McSweeney had a three-year plan to destroy Jeremy Corbyn and it worked perfectly. In the last episode we saw how Starmer, backed by a pro-zionist New Labour, infiltrated Corbyn’s inner circle, secretly joining a Rockefeller-funded CIA-linked organisation behind his back. But Starmer was just one piece of the puzzle, because whilst he was working from the inside, McSweeney was building a machine on the outside. In 2017 McSweeney takes over Labour Together and immediately writes a formal three-year plan to install Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, but purge every Corbyn supporter from the party, lock left wing candidates out of future selections and centralise control of the entire MP selection process. He called it ‘immediate CPR’ and to fund it, he built a dark money pipeline. Between 2017 and 2020, Labour Together deliberately failed to declare 740k in donations. This money came from a tight network of mega-wealthy UK donors, including Trevor Chin, Martin Taylor and Gary Lubner, all major backers of pro-Israel lobbying groups and institutions. The Electoral Commission found over 20 offences and rejected the administrative error defence outright. But money alone wasn’t enough. McSweeney needed a weapon so he set up both the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and Stop Funding Fake News, each designed to destroy pro- Corbyn media through advertiser boycott campaigns. Then in 2018, he planted a dossier in the Sunday Times branding Corbyn supporters a hate factory using Facebook posts scraped from Labour group pages. He also built a close relationship with the Guardian, capturing the most trusted paper among Labour voters. This subsequently led to an EHRC investigation triggered by two pro-Israel organisations aiming to prove institutional antisemitism Under Corbyn. They reviewed 70 complaint files and found Labour legally responsible in exactly two cases. The EHRC’s own executive director confirmed on the record, ‘we did not find Jeremy Corbyn responsible for any unlawful acts of antisemitism’. Meanwhile, Mandelson admitted publicly he was working every single day to end Corbyn’s tenure and signed a full page newspaper advert with 66 other Labour peers condemning Corbyn’s antisemitism record just before the 2019 election. And Starmer used Brexit as his knife. As shadow Brexit secretary, he pushed relentlessly for a second referendum directly against Corbyn’s position. Senior sources confirm he was the most deal-resistant negotiator in cross party Brexit talks and had succeeded in binding Corbyn’s hands behind his back. He later admitted he was certain we would lose the 2019 election, but he stayed in the Shadow Cabinet and let it happen anyway. And they had help from the very top, in 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was secretly recorded saying of Corbyn, ‘we will do our level best to stop him, it’s too risky’. He’d been CIA director between 2017 and 18, directly overlapping with Starmer’s secret Trilateral Commission membership. In 2019, Labour had their worst defeat since 1935. Corbyn stepped down and Starmer won the Labour leadership with 56.2% of the vote, precisely three years after McSweeney wrote his plan. Mandelson publicly celebrated.”

The case against Tony Greenstein collapsed when the jury unanimously found him not guilty of ‘inviting support’ for Hamas. The vast majority of people in the UK are appalled by the authoritarian overreach in arresting people on terrorism charges for holding a banner or posting opinions.

Read; Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life, Medium, 21 August 2026

Below is the text of the closing speech Tony Greenstein prepared for the end of his trial at Kingston Crown Court. After a four-day trial ending on Friday, August 21 2026, Tony was acquitted of one count of inviting support for a proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas] under [Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

1. WHY I AM SPEAKING TO YOU MYSELF

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. First, a word about why I have chosen to address you in person rather than through my barrister, Lawrence McNulty. My decision implies no criticism of Lawrence. It is simply this: when my liberty is at stake, I wish to speak to you directly rather than through someone else. It is my words that are on that indictment. When someone is accused of meaning something he never meant, he should be the one to tell you what he meant.

I am not a barrister. I hope you will bear that in mind. However what I will do is speak from the heart. I am seventy-two years old. I have been arguing in public for more than fifty years, and this may be the most important half hour of argument in my life. The prosecution say that I invited people to support an Islamic group called Hamas while accepting that I didn’t support Hamas myself. Think about that for a moment. Why should I invite people to support a group that I don’t support and never have supported? It is illogical. According to the Prosecution’s opening statement, although I did not mention Hamas by name in my X posts, my “reference to support for the ‘Gaza ghetto uprising’ — in that specific context, on that specific date — can only have meant support for Hamas”.

In order to sustain their case the Prosecution fixated on one sentence in a blog of 10 pages, concerning the congratulation of Hamas for a well planned and audacious attack. In other words if you ever say anything about any group then you are a supporter if not a recruiting sergeant. In fact my blog is cut off in the Bundle. At 1060 words. In fact it went on for some 1935 words, including a leading article from an Israeli paper, Ha’aretz and two contributions from American Jewish political scientist, Norman Finkelstein. That is in addition to 2000 words in the comments. Even on the one piece they produced they had to ensure that you didn’t see all of the evidence. Let alone produce uncut the 15 or so blogs that demonstrated that I didn’t support Hamas and never had. According to the Prosecution logic Kemi Badenoch supporting Starmer’s decision not to make British bases available for the war against Iran means she supports the Labour Party. It is like being told that the Pope has supported abortion by helping out women who have had abortion. The fact that you support one action of a group does not mean that you therefore support the group itself. That logic escapes the Prosecution, although it should be obvious that supporting one action of a group doesn’t mean supporting the group itself.”

Continues…

Listen; Don’t Trust the Experts | Jerm Warfare, UK Column News, 5 August 2026

Roger Cunningham; ” I call them just a variety of names, narrative pushers, pseudo sceptics, social sceptics is my most common term on my website and it basically stems from Edward Bernays social engineering. The steps, the ways through which to control narratives, engineer compliance or coerce compliance or cultivate ignorance in a large population. So Edward Bernays, I believe it was in the 20s or 30s, outlined a series of tactics that control agencies or governments or even NGOs use to control the prevailing thought and that social engineering becomes the chief focus of social scepticism or ethical scepticism. Ethical scepticism is a broader application about the state of mankind, the history of mankind. It stems from the Avestan tradition called Vohu Mana, or the clear mind, or the rational or sound method of thinking. And certainly topically it sounds like the scepticism that was pushed out on us by Carl Sagan and Michael Shermer in 1972, but it’s completely different and a number of different apothegms or principles that differ inside ethical scepticism, which is more really scientific scepticism, as opposed to this false bravado that is foisted on the population to help them filter out ideas that the narrative agency doesn’t like. Our job is not to filter out ideas, it’s actually to go and examine them. Scepticism means to examine, to palm, to look. It doesn’t mean unbridled doubt, it doesn’t mean cynicism, it doesn’t mean doubt everything until you find final proof. Final proof is 1 to 5% of the time is what we attain. It’s a rarity. Most of the time we understand what we perceive to be chains of likelihood or probability. So what social scepticism or fake scepticism does, is it manipulates these probabilistic arguments so that they just happen to always end up on one conclusion and you’ll notice that they never introduced what William of Ockham called plurality. That means more than one reasonable explanation. They always hone back in on one incumbent explanation. And you’ll see that habitually inside the discourse applied by social sceptics.”

Jerm; “I think it was around 2012-ish, I can’t even remember the date when Obama made the famous ‘97% of scientists agree that humans cause global warming’ and therefore, because there’s a consensus, which by the way, can be questioned, but because there’s a consensus, it must be right.”

Roger Cunningham; “Yeah, and as a sceptic I went to look to find that the source of that claim, and indeed it’s in a study. I have it on my website, but I don’t recall the name of the study right now. What it studied were of those who felt that climate change was valid, number one, and number two, that at the time they called it anthropogenic global warming, that AGW was the lead theory with regard to that of that body, that screening criteria. 97% Of them agreed that mankind was the chief or sole cause of climate change. So it was what’s called a circulus, appeal to circular argument or appeal to circularity or begging the question. So they qualified the scientists by whether they were already AGW proponents and then did a survey of them and surprisingly, 97% of them agreed with AGW narratives. So the quote by Obama was incorrect, it was framed in the wrong context, and he’s smart enough in his legal and political background to know that he was crafting a lie there. So that signals agency, not bias. When you purposely lie to the public, that’s agency, not bias. So that statement diffuses once you go and actually look. And that’s of course what I said. Scepticism means to go and look. The statement was qualified and it was a begging the question principle.”

Jerm; “I’m also reminded of when Fauci a few years ago said, if you question me, you question the science.”

Roger Cunningham; “Yeah, this adopting of the robes, that’s basically the emperor wearing no clothes right there. A child can understand the problem with this argument. When you put on the robes of science, that again is agency. Because what you’ve done is married yourself to all the conclusions of the club and you have to defend those conclusions. It’s like when a person says, if you read the Bible and you accept one piece of it, you have to accept all of it, because you can’t pick and choose what you believe out of the Bible. And that’s complete inane baloney. Of course you can pick and choose. We picked and choose the Bible to begin with. The same thing applies to science that those two apothegems are foisted that you can’t pick and choose the science that you regard as valid. You must believe it all. Or all scientists are truthful and correct. And I am the head of science. I am wearing the priestly robes. Those two are two of the principal fallacies that ethical scepticism cites in the tree of knowledge obfuscation.”

Listen; How the Epstein Network is Privatising the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb), The Chris Hedges Report, 6 August 2026

‘Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms – completely privatised, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing.

In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges interviews investigative journalist Whitney Webb, the author of “One Nation Under Blackmail,” who unravels the complex relationships between elected leaders, the National Security State, the state of Israel and Big Tech. Webb discusses the methods being used in the Silicon Heartland, the area around Columbus, Ohio, where Les Wexner, who has ties to organised crime and was Jeffrey Epstein’s most notable benefactor, and other powerful billionaires such as Peter Thiel of Palantir, have made significant headway in creating a privately-run city — New Albany. She describes their use of innocent-sounding front groups, such as Jobs Ohio, private development corporations and political bribery to enrich themselves and create what they are marketing as Smart Cities.’

Chris Hedges; “Could you explain what people like Wexner and Thiel, what is their political and social vision? What are they trying to create? And how will these data centres and AI help them achieve this vision?”

Whitney Webb; “So essentially what Wexner has done in the state of Ohio and what I detail is that he has privatised major aspects of local and state government through first, in the example I gave earlier of New Albany, and then extending beyond that to first the Columbus region and then really the state in entirety, focusing mainly on the Department of Economic Development and where that essentially intersects with people like Peter Thiel, is Thiel’s professed interest in the writings of people like Curtis Yarvin and the neo-reactionary movement who posit that the answer to current problems with our government is to privatise the state entirely and place in charge of it a CEO that would essentially operate as a dictator. So both men quite clearly have an interest in privatising major aspects, if not all of the US government…and up until this point, the way to achieve that in a practical sense has been to expand and grow the power of public private partnerships, where almost always the public sector is subservient to its private sector partner and it’s used to enrich the private sector partner with the public sector, ostensibly working as a watchdog here on private sector power does not end up functioning that way. And so ultimately this is what we’re seeing, I think, especially with the ascendance of oligarchs like Thiel and people close to him, to the halls of political power, the best example, obviously being current Vice President J.D. Vance, is to further this. So we go beyond the public private partnership model that’s predominated for several decades now, and move into this more extreme privatisation, which may happen gradually or suddenly, depending on how they think it could best be implemented to suit their interests.”

The jury refused to convict the activists, who had spent 18 months in prison after taking action against Israel’s weapons industry in the UK, and who are now free.

Watch; Jury REFUSES To Convict Palestine Action Defendants, Novara Media, 20 August 2026

“In late June, eight defendants alleged to have been involved in a Palestine Action break in at an Elbit weapons site near Bristol stood trial at the Old Bailey in London. Ian Sanders, William Plastow, Aleksandra Herbich, Teuta Hoxha, Hannah Davidson, Julija Brigadirova, and Madeleine Norman were all charged with violent disorder and criminal damage in relation to that action despite none having been present at the Elbit site when it happened. William Plastow was acquitted of the violent disorder charge during the trial. Today, though, the jury has returned no verdict on all the remaining charges against the seven, meaning it was unable to find them guilty of anything on any of the charges. The prosecutor in the case had alleged that the seven, part of what’s known as the Filton 25, helped plan the action. So they weren’t there, but the allegation was that they were involved and that they compiled an equipment list, undertook reconnaissance, purchased items used by others and coordinated the break in and its filming. All seven had previously been charged with aggravated burglary as well, but were formally acquitted of that charge in February this year after a jury cleared the six activists who actually broke into Elbit or who were actually alleged to have broken into Elbit, I should say, of that charge during their first trial. Now, in this latest court case, all defendants denied any wrongdoing and after 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to find the seven of them guilty of anything. So it means that the case collapsed. There might be a retrial, we don’t know. Now, according to the Filton Defence Committee, during that deliberation, this is the key bit, the jury also asked the court whether the defendants would be sentenced as terrorists if they returned a guilty verdict. Now, the judge, we understand, replied that it was a matter for him to consider and not for the jury to worry about. But the fact the jury thought that was a relevant question really is notable. So back in June, a judge sentenced four Palestine Action activists who had been found guilty of criminal damage at the Filton site as terrorists. Now that was after he found a terror connection in their offences. So the judge found that but during that trial, the jury had not been informed that that could be a possibility and reporting restrictions at the time meant it could not become public knowledge that the defendants might be sentenced as terrorists if they returned a guilty verdict. Now we speculated at the time that the jury might have felt more than a little deceived by that, so they thought they were finding these defendants guilty of criminal damage or whatever it was. But it turns out that what they had condemned those people to ultimately was terrorism, even though they didn’t know at the time. So could it be that members of this particular jury read about that prior case and are now refusing to play ball?”

Stephen, Legal Advisor; ” I think that’s potentially really, really likely. It was very widely reported after the guilty verdicts had been handed down in the original Filton case to the four of them of criminal damage, that the judge was going to consider a terror connection. At that same time, reporting restrictions were lifted, which meant that it could be revealed that that had been known about throughout the trial by the defendants, for example, but not by the jury. In fact, people weren’t allowed to talk about it, either in public or in the court. And obviously there’s a connection between that case and this case, so that’s plausible …what I actually find interesting about the jury asking this question is that I think it indicates something very crucial to justice in this country, which is a breakdown of trust between juries and the judiciary. It’s now the case that a jury understands that it’s possible that in some cases they could be asked to find someone guilty of a particular ordinary criminal charge, only to find that what they’ve done is, through their decision, sentence them to much longer and much harsher terms in prison, because independently of that decision, the judge finds a terror connection.”

David Morris and Mikki Wilks

Watch; THIS IS WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW! mikkiwillisofficial, 31 July 2026

‘If you want to see Anthony Fauci held accountable for his handling of COVID, watch and share this video!!’

Max Blumenthal is an exceptional journalist so is being targeted by our authorities for telling us the truth.

Read; ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal, ADC, 18 August 2026

‘The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, and Acting CBP Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello, challenging the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Blumenthal’s two cell phones after he returned from a reporting trip to Iran.

Blumenthal is an award-winning independent journalist and founder and editor of The Grayzone whose journalism career spans 25 years. On July 10, Blumenthal returned to Dulles International Airport after traveling to Iran on a press visa to cover the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei like many other journalists.

At Dulles, CBP officers demanded his two smartphones and asked for his passcodes. Blumenthal declined, citing privacy concerns and the confidential journalistic material stored on the devices. An officer told him CBP would detain the phones and “hook [them] up to machines” to extract their data.

The lawsuit alleges that federal officials violated Blumenthal’s First Amendment rights through viewpoint discrimination and retaliation, and his Fourth Amendment rights by seizing his phones without a warrant or individualised suspicion and conducting or attempting an advanced forensic search. The complaint also alleges a violation of the Privacy Protection Act and challenges CBP’s January 2026 electronic-device search directive under the Administrative Procedure Act.

At the center of the case is a constitutional threat ADC has increasingly confronted across the country: Pro-Palestine speech and criticism of Israel are becoming testing grounds for government efforts to push beyond constitutional limits. ADC has made confronting this threat a central focus of its litigation against federal, state and local government actions that punish protected political speech.

“Advocacy for Palestinians and criticism of Israel has become a testing ground for how far government officials can go in eroding Americans’ constitutional rights, and is increasingly used to justify investigations, punishment and government interference with protected speech and other civil liberties,” said ADC President and Legal Director Jenin Younes.

“In Max’s case, Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Trump, called for Max to be arrested while he was still abroad because of his journalism and viewpoints. Loomer boasted about reporting Max to federal authorities, and effectively took credit for the seizure of his phones. Given Loomer’s well-documented influence over President Trump, there is a strong likelihood that her targeting led to the unlawful search and seizure. The government cannot allow politically connected individuals to weaponise law enforcement against journalists because they object to what those journalists report,” Younes concluded.

“The Constitution protects individuals from government attacks on our indispensable individual rights, especially free speech,” said co-counsel George Doumar. “That’s what makes America a sacred and special place, and that’s what this case seeks to uphold.”

The case is Blumenthal v. Mullin, et al., Case No. 1:26-mc-16 (LMB/WEF), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.’

Read; The Atlantic Ruling Class from Milner to Epstein, Propaganda in Focus, 31 July 2026

Kees van der Pijl; “In what follows, I argue that the social disintegration and the increasingly repressive environment in the West are the consequences of the transnationalisation of its ruling class. Three major stages in this process can be distinguished, each with devastating consequences. The first was the late 19th-century Anglo-American ruling class alignment against Germany that led to World War One; the second extended transnational class rule to continental Europe during World War Two and the Cold War. Following the collapse of communism, the West passed under the direction of Atlantic zionism and the banner of the War on Terror. Through these episodes, popular forces considered most dangerous at each juncture were neutralised, from pre-1914 Social Democracy via the Communist workers’ parties to the population at large today. Lord Milner and J.P. Morgan around the turn of the 20th century pioneered Atlantic ruling class formation; Jeffrey Epstein can be understood as a key power broker in the zionist turn from the 1990s.”

Listen; ‘Yep, this is where we are – PSYCHOPATHS are running things!’ Neil Oliver, 18 August 2026

Neil Oliver; “The chaos, the shaking of the ant jar, the uncontrolled, deliberately uncontrolled, but choreographed mass migration, the spiralling financial disaster, all of it works towards having the vast portion of the world’s population out of sheer exhaustion, just enervation, submit to some grander solution and that what we’re sleep walking towards is actually this notion of one-world government, or do you think that’s just Orwellian nonsense?”

Kim Iversen; ” No I think we’re already under a one-world government…they’re in the shadows, they’re the monarchy and I’m not talking about the British monarchy or they might be involved, but I’m talking about when there were crowns and they were in control and they were all overthrown for democracy. I don’t think those elites…there’s something obviously inherent inside of the human nature to want to have a crown, to want to be a king and an emperor of something and so I think they just transformed, they figured out how to do it without actually sticking a crown on their head and without announcing it, without building big palaces that people have to fund and worship at. I think that they figured out how to develop a different monarchy class and they ousted the traditional monarchies and now we’re seeing a new rise of monarchies, but they’re in the shadows.”

Neil Oliver; “I agree with you when you say that the decision was taken that being high profile with crowns and ermine and jewels and palaces was possibly no longer the way to go, that that was anachronistic and that it was a time in the shadows that was called for. But I agree with that and for that reason, One of my axioms is that if you know their faces and their names, then they don’t matter so much. I think they’re another thing for the proles to be distracted by and for us all to grind our teeth about at their activities, Davos and so on and so on. In reality, they’re the front, they’re the visible, they’re another part of the disguise, if you like, for the people that actually make the decisions, so that the Jeff Bezos and the Larry Pages and the Sergey Brin’s and the rest of the Sam Altmans and Elon Musk and the rest of it are just shiny things that attract the attention of magpies, I feel that actually the original monarchies are always there, the Hohenzollerns that gives birth to the Saxe-Coburgs that become the Windsors for the sake of convenience and so on and so on. I don’t think they ever went away. It’s the greatest trick the devil ever pulled scenario.”

Kim Iversen; ” It could be possible because many of the billionaires are not actually billionaires so how much power do they really have? Elon Musk doesn’t actually have a trillion dollars in his bank account, it’s all on paper. It’s in theory, it’s theoretical net worth. So when you look at it that way, then you have to wonder, well, who’s controlling their theoretical net worth? And whoever that is has a lot of power because if they can say, hey, we can tank your company overnight, and suddenly that trillion dollars becomes worth nothing, it just suddenly disappears. That’s a lot of power for whoever that is. So I agree that, perhaps it’s not actually the billionaire class, because the billionaire class doesn’t really have a billion dollars in their bank account or hiding in their mattress, they don’t have that, its all theoretical funny money, its Wall Street money.”

Neil Oliver; “We spoke just before we started recording this, you’ve been travelling in recent times and your experience of travel having changed. How significant do you think that is? If you could describe it and would you five years ago, ten years ago, would you have ever imagined being in that position?”

Kim Iversen; “Tomorrow I have to fly through London. I’m a little bit nervous because of so many people, journalists who have been detained under… the UK has a couple of laws. They have like terrorism seven, I’m not sure. And then terrorism three and seven, whatever the seven thing is that they use against hundreds of people, hundreds and hundreds of people every year. Since March of this year, they’ve already detained hundreds of people under this terrorism 7 thing. And what that basically is, is that they can kind of stop you and ask you a lot of questions and hold you for a while and there’s nothing you could do about it. You have to answer the questions and they could take all your devices. And then on terrorism three, the third thing they basically tell you’re under investigation and they can hold you for a bit longer. It’s like more severe, apparently.

I mean if you just speak up, if you go to a protest, and that’s what’s really scary about the surveillance AI that they’re rolling out there is that they’re tracking people from the protests. They look at a protest, they’re on the street, they’re in public, they got those flock cameras, they’re tracking all those people and then they’re going to track them all the way home, figure out who they are and then they flag their names in the database and then if they try to fly through an airport they’re going to be pulled aside and questioned and maybe even detained and maybe their device is seized and that is the new world we’re living in now for Americans it’s been kind of like this since 9/11.”

Neil Oliver; “How many journalists has Israel murdered in Palestine? Two hundred which is absolutely extraordinary. You say that, you throw away a number like that, but then when you think about it, 200 people who are, on the face of it, asking questions about what’s happening in a war zone, and they’re being literally targeted and shot or otherwise dispatched for getting in the way of something.”

Kim Iversen; ” Right, as being part of the group, that’s why they’re detaining journalists going through London they’re saying you’re under suspicion of being, essentially of being a part of this group we’ve labelled terrorists. And the journalists say, no, I’ve just been reporting on them. And the government says, what’s the difference? If you’re saying their narrative, if you’re reporting their side, then you’re on their side.”

Watch; SHOCKING: RFK Jr. just dropped this on live national TV, Wiki Leaks, 18 August 2026

“Lyme disease almost certainly came from these experiments and is now devastating our country RSV came from a laboratory, which is now the biggest killer of children in our country. And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic… All of those have been linked credibly to gain-of-function research. It’s something with enormous costs and no proven benefits.”

Read; With Karim Khan’s dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete by Jonathan Cook, 30 July 2026

‘The most important question we should be asking after Karim Khan’s dismissal last week as chief prosecutor of the ICC – the international war crimes court in The Hague – is not whether he is guilty of “sexual misconduct” against another staff member, identified as “Sarah”. That can only be decided through a legal process – one, let us note, that has already taken place. A fact-finding body carried out a lengthy investigation of Sarah’s allegations over more than a year; its thousands of pages of evidence were then evaluated in detail by three senior judges. Though you would not know it from the media coverage, they concluded that there was no evidence to suggest any kind of misconduct by Khan, sexual or otherwise. Strangely, that determination was largely confirmed by an extraordinarily deferential “exclusive” CNN interview with Sarah, aired earlier this month. She declined to give any meaningful details of what Khan had allegedly subjected her to, and celebrity interviewer Christiane Amanpour delicately avoided pressing her for any clarification.

No matter. The purpose of the CNN interview was never about excavating facts. It was designed to offer face-saving cover as an entirely political body called the Assembly of States Parties, comprising diplomatic representatives of the 125 states signed up to the ICC, entirely ignored the legal findings and dismissed Khan.

Paradoxically, it was the Assembly of States Parties that appointed the judges who had concluded that there was no evidence of misconduct or breach of duty by Khan. That inconvenient judgment was simply reversed, despite the Assembly members being in no position to weigh the evidence themselves. We should not forget that many of these states have an investment in weakening the only international court that can bring their own senior officials to trial for war crimes. In May 2024 – shortly before Sarah made her allegations – the ICC demonstrated that it was finally ready to prosecute western leaders for war crimes, not just those from the Global South or from the West’s official enemies, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Khan issued an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Both are accused of crimes against humanity for starving the people of Gaza through a prolonged blockade of food, water and power.

Were Netanyahu ever to face trial – and found guilty, as he almost certainly would be – a lot of other leaders would have good reason to fear they might be found culpable next, not least for their complicity in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The question that needs answering now is not whether Khan is guilty of misconduct – that has been decided at a political level, not a legal one. No, we need an answer to an equally political, and far more troubling, question. “Cui bono?” Or “Who benefits?” The evidence is hiding in plain sight. The evidence is revealed both in the deeply politicised process that led to Khan’s downfall, and in what that process means for the future of the court.

Covert war

Khan is not the first ICC chief prosecutor to face extreme pressures – and, as with Khan, those pressures surfaced at the very moment Khan’s predecessor tried to take on Israel over its war crimes.

Fatou Bensouda faced a “covert war” waged against her by Israel for the best part of a decade, according to an investigation by the Guardian in May 2024, just as Khan issued his arrest warrant for Netanyahu. The Guardian’s report, published nearly three years after Bensouda had completed her nine-year term at the ICC, revealed that, during that time, she had faced threats to herself and her family, the monitoring of her communications, and an intimidating visit to her home. More recently, Bensouda has confirmed these accounts in an interview with Al Jazeera. Bensouda notes that she repeatedly reported Israel’s campaign of intimidation to the Dutch authorities, but they did nothing to investigate the threats or protect her. She also says certain “authorities” – she does not name them – warned her that she was going too far in investigating Israeli crimes and that “you could be harmed or you could be killed, or family members could be harmed in some way.”

Listen; Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Foreign Agents Fund 254 Congressional Races, Judging Freedom, 20 August 2026

Jeffrey Sachs; “At the leadership level, everywhere in the world, there is a re-assessment of the geopolitics of security, of how to deal with the completely erratic and unpredictable United States. It goes back to the rising interest rates. One part of the answer is don’t hold US treasury securities. And there are many other ramifications. All of them, I would say, adverse from the US point of view. To be untrustworthy is extremely costly. For any country to be perceived as untrustworthy is deeply undermining any country’s capacity to operate. But when you are the United States and you have military bases not only in Korea, but in roughly 75 to 80 countries around the world, and every one of them is wondering, does that make us a target? Are we the next to be thrown overboard? What will happen to our relationship tomorrow? Trump has made again those threats which you briefly posted, that any country that doesn’t do exactly what we say vis-a-vis Iran, we are going to punish to the maximum extent. This is something that every government in the world is dealing with right now. And as you know, I speak with the leaders all over the world on a regular basis. It is. You don’t hear any place in the world any kind of respect or sense of order in the United States right now.”

Read; Our Revolt will be Raw, Paul Cudenec, 21 Aug 2026

‘A special kind of strength kicks in when a living being is staring death in the face. ‘A cornered animal, a mother protecting her child or a warrior battling on against the odds can all draw on a final reserve of vital force that might allow them to repel the mortal threat.This is where 99% of humankind find ourselves today – the psychopathic globalist system is tightening its totalitarian grip on our throats, an evil glint of triumph in its soulless eyes as it relishes our imminent demise.

And so, collectively, we have to respond with a great upsurge of life that can kick the murderous assailant away.This is not something we need to think about, or plan, or justify. We need to simply surrender to the gut feeling within us that knows things are going badly wrong in this world, that all the money and power lie in the greedy hands of the very worst specimens of our species. We need to scream in their faces, tear up their orders, push down their barriers, smash up their machines, thrash and wriggle our way out of their grip, break their taboos and laugh out loud at their admonitions and threats.’

The chaotic arrests of people on terrorism charges for attending a peaceful gathering outside the Magistrates Court was an Orwellian farce.

Listen; Westminster Magistrates: Arrests and Chaos, UK Column News, 31 July 2026

Mike Robinson; “Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, has won the right to take her appeal to the Supreme Court. The reasons for granting the appeal are still to be published, although reports so far suggest there’s a human rights argument behind it. It’s understood that the Supreme Court intends to give this case priority and it’s expected to be heard immediately after the summer break in September. But in the meantime, Basil, there was some trouble outside Westminster’s Magistrates Court yesterday. So tell us about that”

Basil Valentine; “Yes, thank you, Mike. Hundreds of defendants were due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday on terrorism charges for holding pieces of paper but it turned into a complete melee with the police arresting all sorts of people for various so called offences, including erecting a small stand from which to speak. I’ll be joined in a moment by Dr. Clive Dolphin of Defend Our Juries. But first, here’s some footage from social media from outside Westminster Magistrates yesterday.

Margie Mansfield there pointing out in that first clip that Palestine Action doesn’t exist anymore, it’s been disbanded. So how can one possibly be arrested for supporting an organisation that doesn’t exist? Now, joining me to discuss this and other aspects of this ludicrous but equally sinister situation is Dr. Clive Dolphin of Defend Our Juries. Welcome to the programme, Clive.”

Dr Clive Dolphin, Defend Our Juries; “Thank you for having me on the programme.”

Basil Valentine; “Clive, you were there for some of the time yesterday. It seems that the police really didn’t know what they were doing. They arrested somebody for erecting a small stand on which they were going to read some poems and also inviting people to verbally express their support for Palestine Action and then arresting them as soon as they did so”.

Clive Dolphin; “It was a chaotic scene. The police just seemed determined to arrest anybody who was there. As you said, there was a plan that people were going to read some poems and there was going to be some songs sung. The people who moved a stage forward just to give a raised area for these people to speak. They were arrested and they weren’t arrested for giving support, they were arrested under section 12, which says you are a terrorist, not a supporter of terrorism, you are a terrorist. There were a set of people who sat on the ground, they were arrested under section 12 as well. As far as we know, some of the people who were sat on the ground had not said anything, they had not spoken a single word. There was a plan for some people to step forward and say, ‘I am a member of Palestine Action’, but as part of a protest. What they were doing is indicating the absolute folly of the situation. How can you be a member of a group which 1 doesn’t exist because it disbanded and 2 never had a membership structure when it did exist?”

Basil Valentine; “Oh, absolutely ludicrous. And of course, the reason everybody was there in the first place is that I think it was over 2,000 individuals were due to appear in court simultaneously when obviously that was never going to happen. It was a complete nonsense. And then over the course of the day we had the announcement that Huda Ammori had been given leave to appeal the ban. So the sensible thing to do from a policing point of view would have just been to left everybody alone, wouldn’t it”

Clive Dolphin; “Well, this is the nonsense of what is happening. There are actually over 2,200 people all scheduled to be in courts during the course of the day and if you do that calculation you very rapidly work out that each person would have had a handful of seconds in court. So this was never going to happen. And what they actually did was they left two poor, harassed people on the front desk who were handing out letters to people apologising, saying your case has already been adjourned and their case shouldn’t have been adjourned without them having an opportunity to speak to the judge and to put representations forward. So in terms of the legal process, that wasn’t the correct procedure. And then people were offered compensation because the communication that had been sent to people had been so awful. Some people were told that they had to be in court and if they weren’t, they risked arrest. Some people were told that they mustn’t come to court. Some people were told, well, you can come to court but you don’t have to. And it was just a complete mess. The cost, in terms of how much it cost yesterday in court must have been horrendous, but that will have been a fraction of the policing cost. We don’t yet know whether the proscription of Palestine Action was lawful or not, and we will not know that until the Supreme Court has made a decision on it and potentially that could even go to the Court of Human Rights. What we have seen other police forces around the country do is go along to people, give them advice, take photographs for evidential purposes, but not carry out these mass arrests.The only place in England and Wales where they have always carried out mass arrests is in London. And this is an indication of the politicisation that we’re starting to see of policing.”

Basil Valentine; “I think it’s fair to say that there’s a sort of multi-pronged political attack on the very foundations of the British legal system. Two other cases I’d like to highlight are defendants looking at being sentenced under terrorism laws for criminal damage to a bank, spraying red paint on a bank is now apparently terrorism. And of course, the case of Rajiv Menon, absolutely unprecedented, a case seeing the barrister being prosecuted for the speech he made in summation at the trial of the original Filton defendants.”

Clive Dolphin; “What we’re seeing is an erosion across the entirety of the criminal justice system. The idea that somebody could appear in court and they could be charged with criminal damage. As far as the jury are concerned, they make a decision based on whether someone has committed criminal damage and then afterwards the judge could say, actually, I’m going to sentence you for terrorism. Well, this is completely wrong. It goes against all of our principles of law…a jury decision and then we assign a sentence according to that. For a judge to usurp the jury and say, actually, I think it was terrorism, well, that’s completely wrong. The idea that a barrister could be carrying out their ordinary everyday work and then find that they are the person who’s been prosecuted. And not only is Rajiv Menon being prosecuted, but there have been a whole series of legal twists and turns in order to try and prosecute him through what’s called a summary process. The summary process is the quickest way possible and it’s intended for the situation where someone’s been rowdy in court at the point where an ex husband leaps up and shouts, oh, she’s a slag, don’t believe her. You need a facility in order to be able to deal with that swiftly, but it’s not intended to deal with things which are happening months down the line. But this is the path that they’ve chosen and they’ve chosen that because they want to cut out the Attorney General, because the Attorney General makes a decision about whether it’s in the public interest. There has never been a prosecution of a barrister and that’s because if you start prosecuting barristers, barristers start fearing for their well being and they won’t then put a full defence of a defendant and then you won’t get fair trials. The other piece which you haven’t mentioned, which I’ll add into this, is the attempt by David Lammy, who was the Justice Secretary and thankfully has been removed, to reduce the number of trials by jury. There are two points in the justice system where people can apply common sense with a wide degree of scope. One is a police officer. So a police officer, if they see a crime, they can make a decision about whether they ignore it because there’s something more serious happening, whether they give advice, whether they arrest somebody, whether they just take details. The other is a jury. A jury can look at a case in the whole and say, well, you may have technically broken this law, but this law was never intended to apply to you. And they’re trying to take away juries because juries are ordinary everyday people. They are me, you, all of your viewers. And they want us removed from the system and they want an autocratic system which just says, no computer says ‘A’ therefore you’re guilty.”

Listen; Bot Farms, JD Vance, NATO, Charlie Kirk, Israel & the Globalist Propaganda Network Connecting It All, The Tucker Carlson Show, 31 July 2026

‘Elizabeth Lane on the secret NATO propaganda network pushing the West toward world war.

(00:00) Where Are All the Bots Coming From?

(09:41) What Was the Institute of Statecraft?

(31:52) What’s the Connection Between Israel and Ukraine?

(47:22) The American-Funded Ukrainian Company Propagandizing Americans

(59:59) The Bigger Monster Behind All of This’

Tucker Carlson; “What is NATO now exactly?

Elizabeth Lane; “It has become everything but a military organisation. And I’m about to tell you one thing that it does that they shouldn’t do. So NATO has something called Stratcom. It’s a strategic communication centre of excellence or something where they employ different people, including journalists…so NATO designs this programme and it calls it Social Media Experiment. Okay, what do they do? Well, they want to fight Russian disinformation. I’m going to say this a lot because they are saying this a lot, right? They want to fight Russia in Russian disinformation. And they said well, we want to see if social media platforms can be manipulated so the narrative can be manipulated without detection. Their words all in here, not mine. They wanted to check if they can manipulate social media and not be detected. You would think, Tucker, that some sane person would have just raised their hands and say, we are a military organisation, we shouldn’t be doing that.

So here’s what they did. Let me just look. So I don’t give you wrong numbers, okay? They bought thousands (I think it was 500,000 or something) trolls, they bought fake comments and fake engagement. So they bought fake comments, fake engagement, a ton of bots, and they ran the operation. And I want you to remember when it happened in 2019, okay? This is 2019 when NATO starts this operation. So they contract a company called SingularX. Do you know where this company is located? Kharkiv, Ukraine, actually. So it is located in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It’s a Ukrainian company. They contract it. But if you’re wondering, like, there was maybe just one contract, so what that Ukraine is at war with Russia yhey can still be objective, right? They can still be objective fighting Russian disinformation, even though they are contracting Ukrainian company for it. But whatever, it was not just one contract. NATO constantly works with SingularX, a Ukrainian company. So this is where we dive into why people are bothered with these trolls and these trolls coming after independent journalists and so on. So after this whole thing happened, independent journalists kind of noticed that they are getting attacked a lot, especially when they come after and talk about Russia, Ukraine, their engagements go zero. Or they are called all kinds of stuff like Russian or worse. I’m not going to say these terrible things, but it happened, right? So no one really bothered to dive in. What companies behind this and who’s doing this stuff. No one even knew that NATO is running this operation in 2019, by the way. They were absolutely successful. Absolutely successful. So they didn’t have a reason to stop the operation. Okay. And then there happens something very interesting, and I have to tie in my personal thing here so I can explain how I got on this trail. I’m someone like you that when I see Russia, Ukraine, I understand the issue just like you do. And because I come from Georgia and I watched Russia all my life, so I speak about what I believe is true. They came after me, of course, calling me a Russian agent, similar. And then I started diving into Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and things got way worse. After Candace’s interview and stuff, it just went off rails with these attacks and stuff, to the point where it was already, like, real threats, like with my brothers and like, real threats on family, myself, everything. So at that point I’m like, okay, this is real, this is something that you need to report to the authorities. And I wanted to look into who’s behind this, who’s threatening me. I discovered this network, but then I discovered also paid ops, like paid operatives that are getting paid by Israel and using NATO bots. So paid operatives from Israel, which with Brett Pascal are somehow protected with NATO bots from Ukraine. And if you doubt that they are real NATO bots from Ukraine, let me read you something, okay. This very Important, because they themselves say they are. They send me threats like Zelenski sends love. So I don’t know why would an American bot send me that.”

Tucker Carlson; “What’s the connection between Israel and Ukraine? Or maybe better question, what’s the difference”

Elizabeth Lane; “So the connection is, what I’ve noticed is that Ukrainian trolls come to the rescue of Israeli paid propagandists. So the guy, for example, that came after you that Times wrote about, they would defend that guy in the comments. So Israeli propagandists are pushing propaganda and then Ukrainian NATO bots are protecting the propaganda. That’s the connection. I don’t know why they do that. Now off of the facts and actual guess and what I think is going on, Ukraine and Israel are owned by the same people and those are raging zionists. Then most important part here, we have not even gotten to the most important part of the story. One of the people that came after me, and this is a more of a hate propagandist side versus the bots, was former Green Beret, like this Gary guy, I’m not even going to say his name because they’re looking for real engagement and real people and real fame, so let’s call him Gary. He comes after me and he just makes these ridiculous claims, calls me a Russian agent, accuses me of crime, does like YouTube channels, like episode after episode of calling me, making fun of my accent. I mean, you name it. Like, this is a nasty little…. so I’m like, what’s going on here? It’s a former Green Beret. Like, what’s going on here? And then I get an interesting phone call and it is someone who knows Gary and says, Elizabeth, I’ve been watching what’s going on and these attacks on you, especially after I dived into this investigation and Charlie Kirk and this stuff. And I think you need to talk to my friend right now. And I’m like, okay, he’s a former Green Beret, also Special Forces, and you need to talk to him asap. I’m like okay, so I call, this guy picks up, he’s like, oh, I know Gary really well. I’m like, what’s going on? Let me tell you something, Elizabeth. He says, so Gary and I used to do videos together and Gary himself didn’t believe in Charlie Kirk’s assassination narrative. So I was like, okay. But now he’s attacking everyone, especially Candace. Especially Candace. I mean, Candace its like, Gary wakes up for it and goes to sleep to attack Candace. Right? And everyone else along, including you. If you get in the way, they will come after you, too. As soon as you’re quiet about Charlie, he’s going to be okay. And I’m like, okay, what’s going on? And he says, well, do you know that when Charlie died, Gary got paid by the DOD? I’m like, okay, so?. And that’s when he changed his narrative. He said, but that’s not all, though. So apparently, Gary gets paid by DOD a very generous amount of money. Gary changes the narrative, and now Tyler Robinson is the killer, and everything is fine.”

Tucker Carlson; “That is the threat. It’s not about Israel or the Ukraine war, Charlie Kirk’s murder individually, it’s a whole worldview. And if you’re against control of the world by oligarchs who hate Christianity, then you’re not on the team and you must be destroyed.”

Elizabeth Lane; “Exactly. And they have these operatives that like fake Christians, they will always, like, come at you with Bible verses and stuff like that. And at the same time, they operate trolls that put up my fellow journalist’s dead brother and said, ‘your brother is in hell’ online. The same people who come at you.”

Tucker Carlson; “…with Bible verses, they celebrate Zelensky and Smotrich. I mean, Zelensky put priests and nuns in jail, raided churches and closed monasteries, and banned the country’s largest Christian denomination. That’s a fact that just happened. I mean, it’s happening now. How could Christians support that? How could Christians support the Israeli government, which is murdering Christians in Lebanon, the only Middle Eastern country with a Christian president? It’s so not what I would have expected at all.”

Elizabeth Lane; “They also bombed a Jewish synagogue. So this is why I don’t believe that they believe any of this. Like they are not religious. In reality, they serve much darker forces and they just want everyone that’s a believer or believes in whatever God destroyed.”

Tucker Carlson; “And they clearly, just to zoom out for one second, if you connect all of this stuff, all the wars since 9/11, 9/11 itself, the thread that connects all of it is the destruction of the United States. It’s obvious to me that’s the goal. You couldn’t push the president of the United States into a war that we cannot win, that best case scenario eliminates dollar dominance globally and hikes energy prices to a point where people starve to death in Africa and go broke in the United States. You couldn’t do that if you were supporting the US. Like this seems like an effort to wreck the United States. That’s what it seems like to me, 100%.”.

Elizabeth Lane; “It’s an effort to take United States out. Everything that I investigated suggests just that they want to take the United States out. It used to be a cash cow, and they know that the United States will no longer can sustain to be a cash cow, so they want it out of the game completely. That’s exactly where we are.”

Tucker Carlson; “I wouldn’t have believed that five years ago. But it’s so obvious. If you ignore what they say and watch what they do, which is the only way to understand anything. I think you’re right. They understood. The United States has reached the end of its useful life as a host.”

Elizabeth Lane; “Couldn’t agree more. And that’s very dangerous for people, like us who live here.”

Tucker Carlson; “So you’ve thought of this”

Elizabeth Lane; “That’s what I’ve been doing for the last two months. Like, all I do is I believe this network is extremely important. I know people think it’s hard to track them down, and I know that people have this idea. I told you, people have this idea that they won, they infiltrated the United States, they have people in the highest positions. Obviously, when Ukraine says to our military, we’ll pay you, and above that, you can get rides and flights with the Secretary of State. Yeah, they do have people in the highest position. Otherwise they cannot state things like that.”

Tucker Carlson; “So the previous administration opens the borders to the world, keeps the welfare state in place, completely bankrupts the country. Oh, it’s not bankrupt enough, how about another war for Israel that you literally cannot win. That just disarms you. We can’t continue the Iran war our stock of defensive missiles is so low. So what are you watching here? You’re watching a country being bankrupted, destroyed, totally chaotic domestically because of mass migration. I don’t see that any of that could be an accident. These are not dumb people. Like, they know what they’re doing, right?”

Elizabeth Lane; “They know exactly what they’re doing. And that’s why most operatives that I just named to you that are doing this. And again, you looked at it, you read it yourself. You don’t know. That’s the crazy part. Most people that are working on these levels, you have no idea who they are. And that is the key. But I said this before, if you want to get to the king, start with a drug dealer in the streets and he will lead you to the Mafia boss. And that’s what I did here. I was like, okay, why is this person attacking, like, Tucker, Candace, me? What’s going on here? Then he led me to another one, then another one. Then all of a sudden, he led me to a real face, a propagandist that’s attacking me. His friends are calling me. Well, we know what the deal with this guy is. Let us educate you. And all these layers Just all of a sudden got uncovered. It’s not that hard. It’s not that hard. Follow these pieces and they will lead you to the centre.”

Tucker Carlson; “It’s horrifying. And it also means, I should say because I care, it means the destruction of Europe.”

Elizabeth Lane; “Because if Europe is thriving with Russian cheap energy, then they don’t have the control. You can’t control people who have nothing to be afraid of. Right, right. Like you can’t control people who are well off, they are not afraid to lose their jobs. They are not afraid of any threats, you can’t control them. The only way you can control them is to put them in the state of Ukraine like Ukraine is today. It’s a country without rules, They are operating these trolls and domestically people who are allowing it are not afraid. They laugh at the FBI. What, you’re going to arrest some Ukrainian troll? Good luck with that.”

Tucker Carlson; “I love the word Ukrainian though. I mean it makes it sound like that your average Ukrainian, like the Ukrainian people are for. It’s like the Russian Revolution. We were taught the Russians overthrew the Tsar, destroyed the monarchy. Like no Russians involved. And it doesn’t seem like there are any Ukrainians involved in this. It seems like outsiders, people who are not in any meaningful way Ukrainian, and the Ukraine itself is being totally destroyed.”

Elizabeth Lane; “They are dragging people off the streets and putting in the vans to send them off to the front lines. So usually Ukrainians must die so that globalists can get their states. That’s what’s going on. That’s what’s going on.”

Tucker Carlson; “I just was keep thinking like what’s the point of. What could possibly point of destroying global energy supplies? What. What are you doing? And it’s not about the Iranian nuclear programme and it’s not about the oblasts in Eastern Ukraine. It’s definitely not about that.”

Elizabeth Lane; “Well, you remember what the globalist agenda, how well do you know these globalists? Do you know them?”

Tucker Carlson; “I’ve spent my life around these people, but I never took seriously or seriously enough, like you would see these reports from the WEF conference and you’d be like this sounds a little nutty really. Like Klaus Schwab, if you met Claus Schwab he’s like this elderly kind of semi-senile, he’s just sad person, he’s not running anything, and I just thought oh, it’s overstated, people are being paranoid. And now I guess I don’t feel that way. It’s all becoming real.”

Elizabeth Lane; “It is all becoming real. And I think they took that because we started ignoring this… and that ignorance of ours, mine too, got us here where they are actually controlling NATO today and are doing this kind of stuff that we’ve never heard of.”

Tucker Carlson; “And that American tax dollars are going propagate foreign propaganda in my country. And the first amendment is basically gone in real life. You don’t have freedom of speech obviously in this country. And the second amendment, can you really defend yourself?. Not that I can tell, no. And like our core freedoms are gone.”

Elizabeth Lane; ” So like I said, I believe that we are right now wrestling with these people at the edge of the cliff. And it’s not that they are ahead of us or we are ahead of them. No, we are wrestling at the edge of the cliff and one of us will go over and what decides that is how fast we wake up to things like this. So what started as a completely innocent whatever…a completely innocent troll doesn’t exist. But a targeted harassment online turned out to be a whole full blown operation like a few years ago…many of them, Integrity Initiative, NATO’s 2019 deal and all of a sudden we have Ukrainian company reaching out to former special forces saying you have to spread propaganda for us and if you don’t we will get you fired. What started innocently led to that.”

Tucker Carlson; “Can you just go through a list because we can’t know anybody’s true motive. Most people don’t even understand their own motives. Like we don’t know ourselves that well. But we can look at their behaviour and then make inferences, judgments on the basis of it. So they’re attacking anyone who isn’t for like continuing the Ukraine war.”

Elizabeth Lane; “Everyone that’s anti war. Everyone. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Ukrainian war. So they attacked everyone with Ukrainian war, Iran war, any war. If you are anti war, you will get attacked by these people. That’s guaranteed.”

Listen; Ex-CIA Reveals What Spies Know About Human Nature, The Diary of a CEO, 31 July 2026

‘What do spies understand about people that most of us miss? John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, whistleblower, and intelligence expert who spent years working inside the world of espionage and national security. In this Moment, John Kiriakou reveals the lessons the intelligence world teaches about human behaviour, how people can be read through subtle signals, and what years of studying others taught him about trust, deception, and understanding those around you.’

John Kiriakou; “We’ve made ourselves vulnerable. All of our lives are out there, whether it’s on Facebook or X or Insta or whatever. If they really want to get you, they’re going to get you. Which reminds me of a book written by Dr. Harvey Silverglate. He’s a professor of law at Harvard and it’s called Three Felonies a Day. And he argues in this book that we are so over criminalised, so over regulated in this country, that the average American, on the average day, going about his or her normal business, commits three felonies every day. You may not mean to, but you do, every day. So if they decide they want you, they don’t like your politics, they can get your metadata, they can go through that metadata, find crimes that they can charge you with and ruin your life, and there’s nothing you can do to protect yourself.”

Steven Bartlett; “Protect yourself to some extent. They did that to you?”

John Kiriakou; “Yeah, they did. They did that to me.”

“Because you spoke out about a torture programme that was happening in the CIA.”

John Kiriakou; “John Brennan wrote a letter to Eric Holder and said, charge him with espionage. And Holder wrote back. Eric Holder was the Attorney General. Holder wrote back and said, my people don’t think he committed espionage. And John Brennan wrote back to Holder and said, charge him anyway and make him defend himself. So they arrested me, charged me with five felonies, including three counts of espionage. Espionage can be a death penalty case. Charged me with espionage. They waited until I went bankrupt 10 months later with $2 million in legal fees, and then they dropped the espionage charges. And they said, we can re add the espionage charges or you can take a plea to this lesser charge. What are you going to do? Roll the dice knowing that the government wins 98.2% of its cases, according to ProPublica. Or do you just take the deal and make it go away? And that’s what I did.”

“And you got roughly two years in jail.”

John Kiriakou; “Yeah, I ended up doing 23 months.”

“And for anyone that doesn’t know, this was because at some point in your career, you spoke out about torture programmes that were happening in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.”

John Kiriakou; “Yeah. And at secret prisons that the CIA had set up around the world.”

Steven Bartlett; “And going back up to the top of my question here, I’m really trying to speak to Jane, Dave, who’s listening to this right now. They have a normal life Yep. They’re not really aware that spies exist in the extent of the work they do. They kind of assume that everything they see and people they interact with are normal and they think their devices and everything else is secure. What message do you have for them? A word of warning or caution about the reality?

John Kiriakou; “Yeah, that’s a good question. Elliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, when he was Attorney General of New York, he said, don’t nod when you can motion, don’t speak when you can nod, and don’t ever put anything in a text message. At the CIA, on our very first day, they told us not to ever say or do anything that we would be ashamed to see on the front page of the Washington Post. I took that seriously. The truth of the matter is, because of technology the way it is today, our whole lives are out there potentially for someone to see, for someone to use against us. So be careful what you say, be careful what you write, even in jest, because it can be taken out of context to target you.”

Steven Bartlett; “And what about digital security? You talked about the fact that it’s possible for these forces, and not just the US but other countries, to be able to hack and crack your devices and see anything on your devices. I think we all go around assuming that our devices are secure.”

John Kiriakou; “They’re not secure at all, at all. It’s not just nsa, CIA, FBI that you have to worry about. It’s the British, the French, the Germans, the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis, the Iranians. I mean, everybody has these capabilities. Everybody. So you’ve got to be very, very careful.”

“Capabilities to do what?”

John Kiriakou; “To intercept communications.”

“I’ve heard you say that they can hack car systems. So they could theoretically hack into my car.”

John Kiriakou; “Yes, we know that from WikiLeaks. There was something in 2017 called the Vault 7 Revelations. There was a CIA software engineer who was disgruntled, and instead of going to the Russians or the Chinese, he went to WikiLeaks. And he downloaded thousands, tens of thousands of pages of documents classified above top secret. And they became what WikiLeaks called the Vault 7 documents. So they included things like the CIA, for example, will hack into, let’s say, the Iranian Ministry of Interior computer system, but they’ll leave little electronic clues all written in Cyrillic.”

“Cyrillic is what?”

John Kiriakou; “Cyrillic is the alphabet, the Russian alphabet. Or they can take control of your smart TV remotely, and they can make the speaker turn into a microphone. So even though the TV is off, it can still hear everything that’s being said in the room and broadcast back to the CIA.”

“Can they do that with devices?”

John Kiriakou; “Oh, they could do that. When I first got hired, they were able to do that.”

“So you could be doing that right now.”

John Kiriakou; “Oh, totally, absolutely, yes. That’s old technology. And then the thing about the car, this was revelatory. They can take control, again remotely, of a car’s computer system in order to, well I mean, in order to kill you.”

“Crash the car.”

John Kiriakou; “Crash the car. Take it off a bridge, take it into a tree. Sure.”

Read; Leaked Documents Reveal UK Intelligence Operation Targeting Russia, Iran, Gaza and Beyond by David Miller, 27 August 2026

‘Hidden under the guise of a civilian “countering disinformation” organisation, British intelligence outfit MI6 has helped build a vast propaganda apparatus, leaked documents reveal. Once targeting only Russia, it has recently expanded its scope to Iran, Gaza, and beyond, as this MintPress News investigation reveals.

Britain’s Hidden Information Warfare Machine

This investigation, based on secret leaked documents, including internal Intranet pages, reveals a clandestine new propaganda unit inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Directed by MI6 and hidden behind civilian cover, the unit exists to professionalise and expand the British state’s long-running practice of promoting disinformation under the guise of “countering disinformation”.

The operation against Russia began in 2014 through the Russian Language Program and its apparent successor, the Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) program. It was expanded to Ukraine after the launch of Russia’s Special Military Operation in 2022. Iran and China were added as formal targets in 2023, with Gaza incorporated on a semi-detached basis. The leaked materials allow us to re-read what is publicly known about British government propaganda and actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The pattern is unmistakable: whenever one iteration is exposed, the secret state simply rebadges and relaunches the same operation while quietly broadening its targets.

The Integrity Initiative Scandal and the Evolution of UK Counter-Disinformation Efforts

The UK government’s counter-disinformation work began with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Russian Language Program under the HMG (His Majesty’s Government) Russia Unit. Officially aimed at Russian-speaking audiences abroad, it is this program from which the Institute for Statecraft applied for funding for its flagship project, the Integrity Initiative.

In practice, the Integrity Initiative largely operated in English (not in Russian) and extended well beyond its supposed foreign focus. Leaked documents in 2018 revealed that it built international “clusters” of journalists, academics and policymakers, and amplified material that targeted UK domestic politics — including sustained attacks on Jeremy Corbyn the then-leader of the Labour Party.

Watch; Max Blumenthal explains Ceuta hybrid attack, Trump’s latest Iran war fail, The Grayzone, 6 August 2026

‘The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal joins Kei Pritsker to discuss the state coordinated migrant infiltration of Spanish-controlled Ceuta in North Africa, and addresses the debate over Israeli and US responsibility for a clear attempt to destabilise the government of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez.

Blumenthal then discusses Trump’s retreat from a threat to unleash the most severe attack on Iran yet, and brings on international affairs analyst Hekmat Aboukhater to discuss his new article for Responsible Statecraft about the rapid depletion of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.’

Covid Vaccine Scam

Michael Bryant is the author of ‘The Cult of Modern Medical Expertise’

Listen; The Medical Industry is a Cult | Silk and Steel, UK Column News, 21 August 2026

‘Michael Bryant discusses the history of medical care and delves into the medical industry’s transformation to a cult. He discusses the implications of the Flexner Report and how it shapes modern medicine. This adds a need for critical thought with regard to health and medical authority. Michael discusses the evolution of medical licenses, the impact industrial capitalism has on the medical field, and the historical context of medical practices.’

Michael Bryant; “Post World War II the allopathic medic medical industry was really taking over. They were eliminating all of these other competing ideas of medicine. Schools, Medicine, medical schools. And it wasn’t necessarily embraced by the public. So they really needed to convince the public that this was not only the only way, but this was the best way, this was the way towards medical miracles, scientific miracles. And so they did a number of different things to convince the public of that. One was that they set out on a campaign but they hired what was essentially the first large scale political consulting and lobbying group which was called Campaigns Incorporated. And through this organisation they distributed literature throughout the United States in medical establishments, doctor’s offices, but also in Rotary clubs, schools, they used that time’s version of influencers, all sorts of institutional settings. Everywhere you could think of they distributed over 55 million pieces of literature to convince people that this way of medicine was the enlightened way that we all had to adhere to. It wasn’t like people voted on this, right? And then they also, at the same time, right, in the 1950s, there was a huge ’16 millimetre campaign’ in the school systems, meaning 16 millimetre film campaign in the school systems that was propagandising school children on any number of topics. A big one was the medical industry, so they were sending out these films that they would watch in the classrooms where they were changing the child’s view of the doctor is just some ho hum, neighbour friendly guy in this white lab coat who came in and did heroic things to make that child’s life better and that you’re to trust that individual with your health above your own senses, above your parents, above everything. At the same time, the schools were becoming one of the institutional parts of this new system in that they were turning schools into the loose sense of the term, medical surveillance centres. We had the school nurse, now they were having vaccination drives in schools, they were having education campaigns in schools. If you were to miss school for a day, you now had to have a note from your doctor to go through the nurse. It wasn’t that you could have a parental note any longer. That was one facet of it. Another facet of it was in the burgeoning television industry at the time they developed these programmes, what was Dr. Kidare? There were several television programmes and they actually had the AMA on the sets and the designing not just the set and the type of machinery that they would be using, but they were orchestrating the dialogue and they were orchestrating the presentation of how this doctor would be shown to the public through these regular programmes. And then there were all sorts of advertisements through Life Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Time Magazine that were in there constantly and they were hiring actors, and these paid advertisements, in these magazines and these actors were very, very handsome, striking guys, sometimes smoking cigarettes, they were posing as doctors and these doctors in these advertisements were iconic cultural figures. They weren’t now just sort of homey town figures. They became heroic, epic figures that we were al to hand over our bodies to all right, in exchange for what we were told was going to be medical salvation or perhaps, if we’re lucky, eternal life. So it was a massive social engineering project.”

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Read; Did ‘Disinformation Dozen’ Authors Team Up With Gavi to Target RFK Jr.’s Presidential Run? The Defender, 19 August 2026

The nonprofit that published “The Disinformation Dozen” list of “leading online anti-vaxxers” collaborated with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, but didn’t disclose that information to the IRS, a new analysis of internal documents reveals. Sayer Ji, who analysed the documents, suggested the groups intentionally hid their collaboration from the IRS while they were running “black ops” on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The CCDH-Gavi link is also significant because it formed just before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Ji said. Kennedy was an independent candidate at the time, before withdrawing and endorsing Trump. “Gavi commissioned a campaign aimed at the same category of people — ‘anti-vaxx,’ ‘public health figures’ — that CCDH had already targeted by name in its 2021 Disinformation Dozen report, in the same meeting where CCDH’s chief executive flagged black-ops activity against the most prominent person in that category. That’s a documented institutional overlap,” Ji said.

Ji suggested that Gavi may have sought to influence the 2024 election because the political — and financial — stakes were high for the organisation. “Within 18 months, that same institution — Gavi — became financially dependent on that candidate’s regulatory judgment: as HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. froze and then conditioned $600 million in U.S. funding to Gavi over vaccine-safety concerns, before the State Department released it on July 29, 2026, contingent on Gavi phasing out mercury-containing vaccines.”

According to Ji, Ahmed was recorded in the Jan. 8, 2024, CCDH meeting minutes as saying that black ops against Kennedy were “being set up” — but the documents don’t provide details as to who was establishing such operations or who else was involved. The CCDH-Gavi link is also significant because it formed just before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Ji said. Kennedy was an independent candidate at the time, before withdrawing and endorsing Trump.

“Gavi commissioned a campaign aimed at the same category of people — ‘anti-vaxx,’ ‘public health figures’ — that CCDH had already targeted by name in its 2021 Disinformation Dozen report, in the same meeting where CCDH’s chief executive flagged black-ops activity against the most prominent person in that category. That’s a documented institutional overlap,” Ji said.

Ji suggested that Gavi may have sought to influence the 2024 election because the political — and financial — stakes were high for the organisation. “Within 18 months, that same institution — Gavi — became financially dependent on that candidate’s regulatory judgment: as HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. froze and then conditioned $600 million in U.S. funding to Gavi over vaccine-safety concerns, before the State Department released it on July 29, 2026, contingent on Gavi phasing out mercury-containing vaccines.”

According to Ji, Ahmed was recorded in the Jan. 8, 2024, CCDH meeting minutes as saying that black ops against Kennedy were “being set up” — but the documents don’t provide details as to who was establishing such operations or who else was involved.’

Read; Fauci Senior Advisor David Morens pleads guilty, Richard E Ebright, 18 August 2026

‘Fauci Senior Advisor David Morens pleads guilty to “Conspiracy to Commit Offenses and to Defraud the United States” in connection with conspiring with Fauci, Daszak, Keusch, and others to defraud the public about NIH-funded gain-of-function research and the origin of COVID.’

Read; Watch; Sen. Ron Johnson and Mary Holland Peel Back ‘Saint’ Fauci’s True Legacy, The Defender, 4 August 2026

‘In an exclusive interview with Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland, Sen. Ron Johnson said his goal is to ensure “the truth” about Dr. Anthony Fauci becomes part of the historical record. “I don’t want him going down in history as Saint Fauci,” Johnson said. He also discussed why he believes the July 29 hearing succeeded even though Fauci refused to answer questions.’

‘Sending Dr. Anthony Fauci to jail has never been the driving motivation behind the years-long investigation into the federal government’s response to COVID-19, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland in an exclusive interview. Instead, Johnson said he hopes to establish an accurate historical record of Fauci’s role in the pandemic and lay the groundwork for a broader public reckoning.

“I do hope people realise that even if Fauci doesn’t go to jail, that’s really never been my goal,” Johnson told Holland following Fauci’s July 29 congressional hearing. “I just want the truth [about Fauci] known,” Johnson said. “I don’t want him going down in history as Saint Fauci. I want him going down as he should, as probably one of the most infamous villains in American history.”

Johnson said Fauci’s “arrogant narcissistic dictates” harmed physicians whose “lives and careers” were destroyed, and gaslit people injured by COVID-19 vaccines who “to this day cannot get treatment.” Holland agreed that accountability ultimately is about establishing an accurate historical record. “We’re not going to bring people back to life,” she said. “But we need to have the truth, and we need to have some kind of atonement for what happened.” Johnson said last week’s hearing marked the beginning — not the end — of that effort.

Johnson said the July 29 hearing was only the opening phase of “a rigorous investigation. “There’s so much more to uncover,” he said .Investigators received Fauci’s diary only days before the hearing, Johnson said, and are now reviewing it alongside roughly 11 million pages of records already obtained. “We’re just beginning,” he said.The committee is interviewing current and former FDA and CDC officials and plans to seek additional testimony from Fauci. “We’re just going to subpoena him. Well, we’re going to invite him first,” Johnson said, adding that his office does not intend to wait long before issuing a subpoena if Fauci declines to appear voluntarily.

Johnson also said the committee is planning public events examining hospital treatment protocols during the pandemic after receiving testimony from families who say loved ones were mistreated. “I read probably the first 30 of them, and … they’re just heart-wrenching,” Johnson said. “It’s so hard to read it when you see it happen time and time and time again at different institutions across the U.S.” He said he also expects to hold hearings examining sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. Rather than relying solely on traditional congressional hearings, Johnson said he wants families, physicians and attorneys to publicly share what they experienced during the pandemic and regarding COVID-19 and other vaccine-related issues. “I want these people to tell their story,” he said.’

Read; ‘Not Ready for Prime Time’? FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine Despite Safety Concerns, The Defender, 6 August 2026

‘The FDA approved Moderna’s mFlusiva for adults ages 50 and older, opening the door for broader use of mRNA technology beyond COVID-19 vaccines. Critics raised concerns about insurance coverage, long-term safety monitoring and whether patients will have access to non-mRNA alternatives. “mRNA gene therapy injections are demonstrably not ready for prime time,” said Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense.’

‘The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the first messenger RNA (mRNA)-based seasonal flu vaccine, clearing the way for Moderna’s mFlusiva to be used in adults ages 50 and older, The New York Times reported.

The approval is a major win for Moderna, which sees mFlusiva as the next step in expanding its mRNA platform beyond COVID-19. The move drew criticism from vaccine safety advocates, who argued that regulators should not expand the use of mRNA technology before addressing concerns raised during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

“mRNA gene therapy injections are demonstrably not ready for prime time,” said Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD). “No new mRNA shots should be brought on the market, and those already on the market should long ago have been removed. It is disheartening to see the Trump administration greenlight these shots that will undoubtedly have severe adverse consequences.”

Moderna President Stephen Hoge praised the approval, calling it “a big deal for us.” The company now has “vaccines against all of the main respiratory pathogens that people face every year — COVID, flu and RSV, he said. “And hopefully, over time, even bring forward things like the combination vaccine.”

The approval comes as debate about mRNA technology continues. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticised mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, calling them “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last year canceled nearly $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research, NBC News reported. HHS Press Secretary Emily Hilliard told The Defender that Kennedy believes mRNA products require “heightened scientific scrutiny” and pointed to the FDA’s post-market monitoring requirements for mFlusiva, particularly for adults ages 65 and older.

Hilliard also noted that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations have not yet been issued, the vaccine is not mandated and Americans should have access to transparent safety information and the ability to make decisions with their physicians regarding “whether — and which — seasonal flu vaccine is right for them.” Published studies have linked COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, seizures and cancers.’

Provoked War with Russia

Russian patience is over

Listen; Douglas Macgregor: Russia’s Patience Is Over – NATO & Ukraine Face New Reality, Glenn Diesen, 18 August 2026

‘Douglas Macgregor is a retired Colonel, combat veteran, and former senior advisor to the US Secretary of Defense.’

Douglas Macgregor; “If you’re part of what I call the Netanyahu/ Zelensky slash, Trump triumvirate, because they’re in a triangular relationship right now, whether they like it or not, I think there is a view that on one side, in the west, the European leaders, the globalists that are running the show, want to believe that they’re having a big impact on Russia. You had 800 drones that managed to penetrate air defences and ultimately reach targets in Moscow, Volgograd and another city and do some damage. It’s not so lethal that it’s putting Russia at risk of going under by any means, although you’d think so listening to the reports. But these 800 drones were a product of British technology provided to the Ukrainians. They had new engines in them, they could fly further, faster. They came in at about 20ft above the treetops. By the time Russian radars identified them, it was too late, they’d already flown past and they reached most of their targets without much difficulty. This is more than just an irritant now for Mr. Putin and his government. There are a lot of Russians who are genuinely angered by the whole process. And, of course, they’ve been angered for some time and want this war to end. But this, I think, has added fuel to the fire. It’s also raised the questions in various people’s minds, how much more do the Russians take of this nonsense before they finally strike back at the locations where these drones are manufactured, in places like Germany or Britain or France or otherwise? Actually, I don’t think anything’s coming out of France that’s very significant right now. So that’s one dimension. There’s another dimension right now that a lot of people aren’t watching, and that is the developments certainly down in the southwest. The Russians are now on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, the bridge in Zaporizhzhya, the one that people pointed to for a long time as being very significant, structurally very sound. It’s being damaged, it’s not being destroyed. But a lot of Russians for a long time have wondered why all the bridges had not been dropped. The argument was, well, we may want to use them on the way back, but that hasn’t held up to closer scrutiny, given how long everything has taken. But frankly, if there’s one thing the Russians can do well, it’s throw bridges over rivers. So if this thing turns out to be unusable, I don’t think it makes much difference. But what it suggests is that the noose around Odessa has been tightened considerably. And that is of course, a lifeline for Ukraine, which is already on life support as it is. That means it’s dependent entirely on everything that comes to it, through Lithuania or primarily Poland. And of course, Mr. Zelensky’s relationships with Warsaw are pretty terrible. The Poles are fed up. They would like to export as many of the Ukrainians as they’ve got that they can. And at the same time they’re deeply offended by Zelensky’s remarks and behaviour. Not a good thing for the Ukrainians, I think. The population of Ukraine is at least 50% of what it was at the beginning and falling. I’m told there are as many as 10 million so called old age pensioners. That’s not a good sign. And as you pointed out earlier, dragging them into uniform and shipping them east to sit in a trench is a waste of time. Russian forces on the ground are moving very consistently and I think they’ll soon be on the Dnieper River. Of course, I expected that to happen a lot earlier, as did most people. Now, there is an interesting development that’s worth mentioning. I’m told by my sources that Chief of the General Staff will be at the end of his tenure by the middle of September as Chief of the Russian General Staff. A lot of people are wondering what that means. There aren’t very many rumours with any substance circulating. But we need to understand that Gerasimov was a key figure in the Prigozhin drama and wanted Prigozhin dead as soon as possible. He subsequently had at least one Russian major General jailed for effectively challenging him and his conduct in the war. As far as I know, he’s alive and still sitting in jail, much to the shame of President Putin, who I think should release the man., I can go back and find out what his name is. But Gerazimov, let’s put it this way, is a not particularly popular figure. A lot of people in Russia blame him for the slow, ponderous conduct of the operation. But we have to keep in mind that back in 2021, he was extended for an additional five years as chief of the General Staff, and he’s still there, which means that whatever he’s done has been comfortable with Putin’s outlook. So the question what happens now? We had all of these speeches that President Putin gave not long ago, insisting, I want an acceleration of operations, I want more offensive action. Everybody gave him a resounding series of applauses. The question is, is that really meaningful? One source that I trust said, well, there are a lot of people wondering if Surovikin , who is back from Africa and had a very widely publicised and happy office call with Putin is now going to come out of the dark, step into the light and become the next Chief of the General Staff. Others have said, no, he’s an Air Force officer, that’s very unlikely, they’ll want another army General. I don’t know when this replacement is made. That will tell us a lot about where things are going to go from now on. Because Gerasimov has always been associated with a sort of Soviet hangover, the slow, deliberate, methodic way to do business. And that’s not something that Putin says he wants. It’s not something that the average Russian wants. They want decisive action. So I think when this decision is made, whoever shows up, that’ll tell us a lot about where things are headed. But clearly the Russians are now positioned, with all the troops and all the equipment and all the capabilities they need to be very successful. And then finally, this fear of the Europeans entering the war. I don’t think it’s dissipated, but it has certainly lost airspeed and altitude. I think there’s a growing awareness that the Europeans aren’t capable of putting up much and getting much into the fight.”

‘To be an enemy of the USA is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.’

Read; Dependence Day by Tarik Cyril Amar, 25 August 2026

Only one generation after the Soviet Union, the West has made Ukraine a proxy in ruins. There is one thing I often recall from having lived and worked in Ukraine – to be precise, in its most nationalist, full-of-itself city, Lviv – for altogether five years in the 2000s. Thank God, at least there’s no violence! That is what I, some other foreigners, and quite a few Ukrainians, too, were thinking and even saying then. The country was politically and even culturally polarised, extremely corrupt, and a sham “democracy” even more fake than most of the rest.

It was dominated and bled dry by a greedy, hypocritical, and – despite all the cheap talk, the pious singing-of-anthems-hand-on-heart, and the cheesy peasant braids and stitched shirts – deeply unpatriotic establishment of typically post-Soviet turncoats, thieves, liars, and sell-outs. There was no rule of law, the courts were a bad joke, and the police was a racket. And yet, while the usual business-crime complex took its toll and there was the occasional state murder of a journalist, there was no large-scale violence. There was bitter grumbling galore, including about Crimea, all the time. But there was no civil war – as the almighty US intelligence services had infamously as good as predicted in the even darker 1990s – and no one was reaching for a gun either to leave an unbearable country or keep others in it by force.

While the Americans were busy thinking about the possibility – and perhaps opportunities – of Ukrainians killing each other in large numbers, their UK cousins were considering another kind of doom. For them, more than three decades ago, the most interesting question was whether Ukraine and Russia would go to war, specifically over Crimea. There, British spooks back then warned with unusual honesty, “most of the population is Russian,” and things might become less than cordial if Kiev didn’t watch its steps. And here we are now: On the 35th official anniversary of its existence outside the former Soviet Union, Ukraine has become the sum of all fears, much worse than even its pervasively corrupt, brutally unfair, and de facto lawless pre-2014 version. It is now ruled by its worst, most corrupt, and most authoritarian and bloody regime ever – hands down – under Vladimir Zelensky and his cronies. They steal, embezzle, and launder piles of dirty money as if there’s no tomorrow, which, to be fair, there really probably isn’t for them, at least not in Ukraine.

They literally hunt and, in effect, sell their subjects as cannon fodder, so that they can profit and the West can have its slaughterhouse war against Russia, in an insane, evil, and futile attempt to eliminate Moscow as a power to be reckoned with. This is the reality of “busification,” and nothing remotely like it happened before Zelensky and his accomplices took over. Those who do not readily submit to being treated as combat cattle regularly die mysteriously (not really) from “falls” or maybe just blowing their nose. The Ukrainian mass media have never been remotely clean, objective, or reliable. But then where are they? But the zombified and self-zombifying propaganda machine created under Zelensky is unprecedentedly awful. Those who openly resist the national brainwashing are incarcerated by kangaroo courts, tortured, and killed.

Or consider basic demography: Ukraine’s real population has almost halved since the end of the Soviet Union, and the future looks even worse. And while part of this catastrophe is due to the current war, much of it has been produced by the ceaseless class–war-from-above of injustice, exploitation, and hopelessness that Ukraine’s anti-elites have waged on their own subjects for a third of a century while blabbing sanctimoniously about nation this and nation that.

And the results of all these horrors? They are abysmal even on their own perverse terms. Just look at the map: Crimea is gone and so are substantial portions of Ukraine’s post-Soviet east due to a combination of regional rebellion, Kiev’s cack-handed, violent attempts to stomp it out, and a war with Russia. All of this could have been avoided. Yet it was not. Indeed, Ukraine’s short post-Soviet history is, among other sad things, a record of at least sleepwalking toward and, more frequently, pro-actively provoking this twin catastrophe. But Ukrainians – or rather their rotten establishment – did have plenty of help in getting it so wrong. Take, for instance, the mean-spirited and asinine obsession with suppressing the Russian language to eradicate Ukraine’s windfall advantages as a mostly bilingual country of Russian and Ukrainian speakers.

That perverse and self-harming pursuit – recalling Freud’s hunch about nationalism as neurosis – was obstinately cultivated by both a narrow-minded but hyperactive and arrogant minority of ukrainier-than-though nationalists at home and descendants of run-away World War II nationalists, mass murderers of Poles, and Nazi collaborators from the West who were eager to infest post-Soviet Ukraine with their hoary bigotry. Personally, I remember being naïve enough back then in the 2000s to ask Lviv acquaintances why Ukraine couldn’t just codify its own variant of Russian (comparable to the way American English is different from British English) and also promote Ukrainian (I know both languages, as it happens), and then focus on actually important matters. Blank stares were the answer, at best.

Ironically, well into the current war, there was a short news blip about someone in Ukraine having discovered the same obvious idea. How catastrophe can concentrate the mind and how sad that even now, after an estimated 1.5 million battle field casualties, such pragmatic thinking is still a minority taste: Kiev’s policy is only doubling down on a daft campaign to win the lexicon while losing the war.

Entitled, patronising exile nationalists projecting their selfish tunnel-vision fantasies on and throwing their Western hard currency at desperate people freshly shell-shocked by ultra-predatory “transition” capitalism were one noxious outside influence vitiating Ukraine’s post-Soviet trajectory. But it was far from the only one. Indeed, as time went on, the West as a whole – its politicians, intellectuals, and mainstream media – became ever more interested in and vastly detrimental to Ukraine.

To be fair, the first yet already extremely harmful steps the West took to, ultimately, ruin Ukraine had very little to do with it: When Washington decided – not once but repeatedly – to cheat and humiliate Russia and break clear promises not to expand NATO eastward, it was first Germany, then multiple east European countries that were at the center of attention, but not Ukraine. Yet, ironically, even while neglecting it, the West’s reckless expansion already set the stage for phase two of putting Ukraine in the crosshairs. That was reached in 2008, when, at an infamous summit in Bucharest, the high and mighty of the West, led by the indispensably destructive US, artfully maneuvered Ukraine into the very worst position imaginable: by making a promise of NATO membership for Ukraine sometime in the future, they inevitably poked Russia in the eye once too often. By keeping the reckless promise vague, they left Ukraine completely exposed, as if baiting Moscow to intervene. The whole mad scheme took willfully ignoring the clear warnings issued by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in Munich one year before and multiple equally explicit warnings produced by not Russians but widely acknowledged Westerners such as George Kennan and, back then, even William “Bill” Burns.

Georgia shared this fate – lethal promises, no back-up – with Ukraine. And yet even after a short war there quickly demonstrated that this time Russia would stand its ground and defend its basic national security interests, the West stayed its course in Ukraine.

Indeed, it doubled down on it. If only the West had dropped Ukraine the way it dropped Georgia in 2008. Many Ukrainians would still be alive and the country would have lost none or far less territory. Instead, in the Ukrainian case, the West got involved ever more deeply, offering a poisonous EU association agreement and the shaping a regime change coup in 2014. After that, it bound the country so closely into official and black-ops NATO structures that formal membership looked increasingly irrelevant, while helping Kiev sabotage the last realistic chance to return to peace and avoid large-scale war, the Minsk II agreement of 2015. Meanwhile, demagogic public intellectuals, such as Tim Snyder and Anne Applebaum did their worst to pour oil into the fire by a mix of silly nationalism-by-proxy and nasty Russophobia.

Finally, the West almost non-chalantly refused to seriously consider Moscow’s, as it turned out, last pre-February-2022 offer to return to substantial diplomacy and compromise. Once the war had greatly escalated, the West sent Britain’s most evil clown to kill an excellent opportunity to make peace quickly produced by the Istanbul talks of spring 2022.

Since then, since locking Ukraine into a devastating, perfectly unnecessary, and futile yet deliberately provoked war to weaken Russia, things have only gotten worse and worse, and there seems no end in sight. Indeed, as a remarkably sane former German general has just explained, Kiev is still eager to drag all of Europe (at least) into an open shooting war with Russia. In Europe, many establishment figures seem to be all too willing to go along. Ukraine has become the outstanding example of how the West risked and then destroyed the opportunities of the post-Cold War period. Ukraine could have been a prosperous country profiting from its links to both west and east. Instead it’s a ruin.’

Watch; Zelensky put priests and nuns in jail, Tucker Carlson, 4 August 2026

Tucker Carlson; ” Zelensky put priests and nuns in jail and raided churches and closed monasteries and banned the country’s largest Christian denomination. It’s a fact that just happened. I mean, it’s happening now. How could Christians support that? How could Christians support the Israeli government which is murdering Christians in Lebanon, the only Middle Eastern country with a Christian president? Like it’s so not what I would have expected.”

China

Listen; China’s Rare Earth Squeeze Cripples America’s War Machine | Silk and Steel, UK Column News, 31 July 2026

‘As tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, a larger geopolitical contest is unfolding behind the headlines. Carl Zha joins Rachel Blevins to explain why the conflict is about far more than the Middle East. From China’s rare earth export controls and America’s missile shortages to energy security, global supply chains, and the future of U.S. power, this conversation examines how the balance of power may already be shifting.

Topics include:
• Why Carl argues the U.S. has limited military options against Iran
• How China’s rare earth restrictions affect America’s defense industry
• Trump’s latest tariff strategy and whether it can pressure Beijing
• The global energy battle over the Strait of Hormuz
• China’s long-term strategy for energy independence and industrial resilience
• Europe’s growing strategic dilemma between Washington and Beijing
• Why supply chains—not tariffs—may determine the next phase of U.S.-China competition
• What Xi Jinping’s expected U.S. visit could mean for future negotiations.’

Carl Zha; “The military industrial complex is fully entrenched in Washington. And despite numerous presidents that came to office promising no interventionist foreign policy, including Donald Trump himself, they always do the same thing, launching more wars. The perpetual war must go on in order to feed the machine. That is the army of lobbyists, think tanks, all the arms manufacturers, they’re profiting handsomely in this conflict. And as well as the big oil. The big oil, they’re big Trump supporters. And Shell reported their first quarter earning report they made out like bandit. And that was just the first quarter. The first quarter was like ending in March. So like this quarter, I expect they have even more gangbuster profit. But that is a profit expense of everybody else, including average working Americans who are paying the higher price at the pump. But again, we know Trump doesn’t care about the average Americans,, he does care about his big donors and those people he likes to keep happy.”

Zionism is a Colonial State Project

Israel

Bring on Turkey to put Israel in its place

Listen; INTEL Roundtable w/ Larry Johnson & Scott Ritter, Judging Freedom, 21 August 2026

Scott Ritter; “Israel is in a state of panic because Erdogan has articulated policies that condemn Israel for what they’re doing in Gaza and has called Israel out as a genocidal state. So the potential from the perspective of Israel is that if Turkey actually gets down to the border, there could be problems and Israel’s just not going to beat. It’s not. Forget NATO. Turkey’s not a member of NATO. People need to stop saying that. Yes, they are, in name only. Turkey’s been running independent foreign policy, independent national security policy in the Middle east and Central Asia. NATO had nothing to say about Turkey’s intervention in the Azerbaijani Armenian conflict. NATO has nothing to say whatsoever about Turkey’s involvement in Iraq, Turkey’s involvement in Syria. NATO’s not involved in this. Turkey has a residual nature. But after 2016, when NATO and the United States backed a coup against Erdogan, the Turkish military has been purged of their pro NATO element. The Turkish military today is NATO in name only. They don’t function as an adjunct of NATO and NATO. Frankly speaking, if we parse out what happened in Ankara, NATO was turned its back on Turkey. They were hoping that Turkey could shoulder the burden of the Ukraine conflict for them. Turkey’s not playing that game. The United States is incapable of an agreement. The F35 stands as proof positive. But the thing that Israel needs to understand is the Turks like to fight and they’re pretty good at it, and they’re not afraid to die. I just bring up the example of the duty officer on July 16, 2016, at the Special Forces who received his phone call from his commanding general saying, my deputy is coming with 40 commandos, they’re traitors, they’re. launching a coup, they’re going to land and try and take over the headquarters. You need to kill him when he gets off the helicopter and the sergeant ‘Yes, sir’, he said, you know what I’m saying? ‘Yes, sir’, you know what this means? ‘Yes, sir’, okay, I’ll see you in heaven. And he hung up. The guy took his pistol, loaded it, helicopter landed, he walked out there, it’s on videotape. He walked out, went up, shot the general in the head, killed him. He got killed. He lost his life. But Turks, this is what they do. Look at Israel, they lose six guys the nation goes the morning, snot coming out of their nose as they cry and wail and all that. Turks bury their dead and say, let’s keep going. Look at the Turkish brigade in Korea. If the Israelis fought the Turks, the Turks would overrun Israel in about 3.2 seconds. And that’s why Israel’s nervous.”

Note from comrade Lucy Morgan Edwards;

‘I had never actually read the May 2, 2025 letter Charlie Kirk sent to Netanyahu. The way lawyer Baron Coleman parses it and then creates a timeline with a focus on motive, well Israel presents a pretty convincing case as masterminding the assassination. Baron’s analogy to a roofer is super clever. I watch all Barons podcasts.’

Watch; State’s Filing in Robinson Case Flops and is Being Dishonestly Represented – Ep 163, Baron Coleman, 19 August 2026

Start at about 45 minutes and go to 1 hour, 45 minutes. In other words this section of his podcast lasts an hour.

Wow this is the first time I’ve heard Jeremy Corbyn use the word zionist – about time! He must have felt safe when speaking with the respected anti-zionist Norman Finkelstein.

Watch; Norman Finkelstein & Jeremy Corbyn: THE INTERVIEW ISRAEL WANT TO BAN, Double Down News, 23 August 2026

trans the first few mins of selected quotes from the interview.

Norman Finkelstein; “Gaza is gone. There’s nothing there. It’s been rendered a parking lot. There’s no possibility, none, that Israel will allow Gaza to be rebuilt. They invested two full years. The longest…it wasn’t a war, it was a genocide.”

Jeremy Corbyn; “I just feel this constant anger that this whole zionist project which came to the fore during the First World War, we’re now seeing this thing played out in the Greater Israel strategy of Netanyahu’s.”

Norman Finkelstein; ” I would never have believed that they would be able to carry out a real time genocide over a two year period. I would figure at some point the Western powers would have stopped it. And they didn’t. Every observer who walked to Gaza, described it as? A concentration camp.”

Jeremy Corbyn; “This super educated, super intelligent, super aware community, basically in a big open air prison. Something’s got to give.”

Norman Finkelstein; “I would never have imagined October 7th. So when you say something has to give, it didn’t look like anything was going to give. It looked like they were just going to die out like Native Americans.”

Watch; Zionism was always imperialist and expansionist, ifamericansknew, 21 August 2026

David Miller; “Zionism was always imperialist and expansionist, eliminatist, wanted to eliminate the natives, tried to do that in the Nakba, are trying to do it again now, as we see, not just in Gaza, but also in the West Bank and in South Lebanon. So it’s always been imperialist and people used to say, again, that was a conspiracy theory and all that stuff about Greater Israel wasn’t true, but it’s perfectly clear that it was true in all the documents going back that they wanted a Greater Israel. Now the Greater Israel, of course, that they conceived of then, although there are different definitions, included part of Egypt, all of Palestine, all of Jordan, all of Lebanon, most of Syria, half of Iraq, part of Turkey, so it’s a really large area, half of Saudi Arabia as well, let’s remember. But that kind of imperialist expansion, which would see them as the kind of dominant power in West Asia if they had all of that territory, is not the limits of their ambitions.We know, of course, that they’ve been involved in infiltration of the US for many, many years. Infiltration by the zionists has been underway for a long, long time, including, let’s remember, before the creation of the State of Israel by Jewish supremacists, some of whom were, most of whom were zionists. And so I’ve written about this recently. So you look, for example, at the early activities of the head of counterintelligence of the CIA, James Jesus Angleton, who was responsible in the CIA for liaison with the Shin Bet and the Mossad, that’s the internal and external zionist intelligence services. And that process of infiltrating, penetrating and colonising the security establishment of the US has been one of the greatest successes. Became apparent that that was what was happening when they were able to get the Bush administration to illegally invade and occupy Iraq. And of course, most recently we’ve got this new legislation which is about merging, its said, the militaries of the zionist colony with the US but of course it’s not really a merger, is it? Because it’s about allowing the zionists access to the US military and the use of the US military, but it doesn’t allow a similar process for the US military to access and use Israeli military assets. So that’s an indication that actually the US is effectively becoming or has become an asset proxy of the zionist entity itself.

US is occupied by Israel

Watch; We send $18 billion a year to Israel. Why? stelle world, 10 March 2026

“We send $18 billion a year to Israel. Why? Just ask the question. What do we get out of it? Nothing. We get nothing. Are we doing humanitarian work? No. They’re charged with genocide. They’re killing off Palestinians. Are we helping them survive? Oh, they’ve got a higher standard of living than we do, a longer lifespan than we do. Free education, free housing, free health care. But we’re sending them money. Why? Ask yourself why a US congressman can wear an Israeli military uniform in congressional chambers. I would think that would be an act of treason. But they did. Nobody said anything. Ask why the Israeli prime minister can bypass the president, fly directly in and speak to our Congress without any other government interaction. Congress gave him 26 standing ovations. I think most pop stars would like 26 standing ovations. Our Congress gave Netanyahu, a Foreign Prime Minister, 26 standing ovations. I have difficulty looking at that in any other way than we’re occupied.”

Merging Israel with US military

Watch; Jeffrey Sachs Ukraine Was Sacrificed on Purpose — Here’s the Proof, Judging Freedom, 23 August 2026

Judge Napolitano; “There is legislation that Congress is about to pass which would merge the military and intelligence community of this criminal government with that of the United States in a mandatory merger.”

Jeffrey Sachs; “It is shocking beyond belief. All one can say again and again is that the United States government, which is really the military industrial digital complex, it’s the complex of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Big Oil and the politicians that they fund, this is a group of narrow, wealthy interests that are pro war, pro destruction, pro mass murder, and against the interests of the American people who are completely disgusted by all of this, but also know that they bear the costs of all of this. And I think it’s worth pointing out that in the Reuter poll, Reuters poll that was just released today, Trump’s approval rating is at 33%. His disapproval rating is at 64%. Twice the approval rating is his disapproval rating. This man does not represent the American people who are decent. He does not represent the interests of the American people. He is wrecking the economy for the vast majority of Americans. But we are in the hands of a few billionaires in Silicon Valley or in Wall street or in Big Oil that push these wars despite the catastrophic effects that they have for all of the rest of America and in fact, for the rest of the world. But Israel has lost all support in the United States. The war in Iran is profoundly opposed by the American people. None of this matters right now because our government rules by decree or our president rules by decree. And this is our grim reality. Maybe the elections in November should change things. We need a Congress that will oppose this lawlessness and recklessness and corrupt, catering to very narrow interests. So this is a first hope. But in general, the American political system does not represent the interests or the opinions of the American people.

Watch; Kushner tells Israel to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza; neocon star loses Democratic primary, Aaron Maté, 19 August 2026

Aaron Maté; “Kushner has given Israel the continued green light to bombard Gaza and to ignore a new agreement that Trump recently announced with Hamas. But just to back up a little bit, let’s go back to October. You have a ceasefire, a so called ceasefire brokered in in Gaza by the Trump administration. And under that deal, Hamas lays down its weapons, Israel withdraws from Gaza, lets in humanitarian aid, lets in construction materials to start rebuilding infrastructure, and pulls back. Israel completely ignores all of this… what has Israel done since then? They’ve continued attacking Gaza every single day. The UN recently stated that one child in Gaza on average has been killed every single day since that so called ceasefire was announced. So that’s more than 300 children, about one per day killed by Israel since last October so called ceasefire. Israel has not let in any of the humanitarian aid it was supposed to. Israel has stolen more Palestinian territory and continued these daily attacks. That’s the Israeli ceasefire. Then Trump recently announces that he’s reached some new deal with Hamas in which Hamas will lay down their weapons. And Hamas says, yes, we have agreed to a deal, but that entails Israel pulling back and letting in humanitarian aid and also there being serious discussions about a Palestinian homeland. And what does Jared Kushner do? Jared Kushner just went to Israel, met with Netanyahu, and then basically ignored this new deal that Trump announced and said that Gaza has a new deadline of about 60 days to give up all of their weapons. And if not, Israel can go in and finish the job. That’s Jared Kushner’s words. Finish the job. So Jared Kushner just undermined another fake ceasefire announced by Trump and gave Israel the full green light.

Judge Napolitano; “So the theory of Professors Clifton and Lustick, is that the reason this proposal, this hideous Tom Cotton proposal, hideous referring to the proposal and the proposer, to amalgamate to merge portions of the Pentagon and portions of the IDF, portions of American intel and portions of Israeli intel, is that the lobby is terrified that the spigot of cash going from the US treasury to Israel might be diminished or turned off. And that if this statute comes into play, a future president could be somebody as outlandish as AOC or some moderate who’s rational, would be prohibited by law from denying Israel its influence.”

Aaron Maté; “Absolutely. That’s absolutely the reason the lobby recognises that Israel is toxic and that people are sick of funding this apartheid machine, this machine of death. And so, absolutely, I think that’s the reason why people like Tom Cotton are trying to codify into law this complete convergence of the Israeli and US militaries and basically insulate the support of Israel from democratic scrutiny, just as they, by the way, did with Ukraine when Biden was able to get through, push through his last package of spending for Ukraine in April 2024, $61 billion. A lot of that money was for future needs, not even for the immediate short term. It was to just lock in Ukraine funding for a long time in case Trump or another future president got different ideas. And they’re doing the same thing now with Israel in a more brazen way, by basically making Israel an official appendage of the US military. And I haven’t looked into this too much, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Cotton’s measure was written by the Israel lobby, as has happened so many times before. If you go back years, for example, under the Clinton administration, when Clinton pushed through harsh sanctions on Iran, the Israel lobby wrote pretty much the entire text. And I wouldn’t be surprised if this time is no different.”

Judging Freedom interviews the authors of ‘Israel’s Lobby’

Listen; Eli Clifton & Ian Lustick : co-authors of Israel’s Lobby, Judging Freedom, 18 August 2026

Judge Napolitano; “My guests today are Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick. Eli is one of the founders of the Quincy Institute which is a great friend of Judging Freedom and Professor Lustic, Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Israel today. They have written the new book ‘Israel’s Lobby’, which basically picks up where the book by our friend and regular contributor here, Professor John Mearsheimer, and his book with Professor Stephen Walt has left off. Professor Lustig, to you first. Give me big picture on the lobby in the United States. Who are they?”

Professor Ian Lustick; “Well, we can understand who they are best by remembering George Washington’s warning to the American people and to the American government in his farewell address in which he praised the American system that the founding fathers came up with, which was to allow freedom of expression, mobilisation, pursuit of one’s self interest freely in the society, knowing that every self interest that mobilised itself would be met by an opposing faction to counter its power so that altogether there’d be a kind of resolution of forces among contending factions and the country would never really go off the rails. But what he warned was that this would not work in foreign affairs because in foreign affairs if there were, he said, some group, some with a passionate attachment to a foreign country, that their mobilisation would not trigger a counter mobilisation naturally within the United States, would therefore push the United States into foreign entanglements and wars that it should not be involved in and would distort our politics. Washington at that time had in mind the attachment between Jeffersonian democrats in the French Revolution. But he also was warning of the general issue that America would face down the road. And although America is of course part of a global system and the world has changed, that insight by Washington has not changed. So what we see in the Israel lobby is the effect of an American political system that rewards mobilisation by those passionately committed to an issue. And unusually on the Israel side, we have a faction that is so committed to Israel’s interest in the promotion that it has distorted American policy over decades and now threatens American freedoms as well.”

Judge Napolitano; “Who are they? Who is in the Israel Lobby in the United States? Mr. Clifton? Who are these people? Are they just super rich oligarchs like Miriam Adelson whose names we know or is it broader and deeper than that?”

Eli Clifton; “Well, broadly speaking, it’s a panoply of organisations, Jewish, Christian and otherwise, that are all through their own self stated reasons for existing, seek to advance and promote policies that are beneficial to the state of Israel. Now, in a practical sense, I think to get to your question, a lot has changed about how the lobby has functioned and where its base of power lies. Now, back when Professor Walt and Mearsheimer wrote their book, Israel’s lobby was very much perceived as something with bipartisan support as well as deep grassroots support as well. They identified in their book that that was starting to decline and that they thought that would gradually lead toward other groups emerging to create some degree of counterbalance as the lobby’s power declined. Now, what happened is three years after they published their book Citizens United, and the speechnow court decisions came down which completely altered our campaign finance system by opening the floodgates for companies dark money. And as we talk about in our book, probably the most underestimated participant in our campaign finance system would become oligarchs and plutocrats, people like Miriam Adelson and Sheldon Adelson at the time, her now deceased husband. And when we look now at the power base of the lobby and how it exerts its power, it’s very much through spending enormous sums of money. And when we track where that money comes from, it is no longer a grassroots fundraising effort. This is something where we have, we identify nine billionaires who donated since 2012 $1.7 billion into our campaign finance system. And each of these individuals has publicly stated or via or we can infer through their philanthropy that Israel and promoting policies and politicians who are supportive of Israel’s increasingly far right government is the primary reason that that they’ve engaged in this political giving and philanthropy. So to answer your question, what the Israel Lobby is hasn’t really changed in the broadest sense, but where its power base lies has changed dramatically as American public opinion shifts in pretty much every demographic group and across the political spectrum to wanting to see a shift in policy toward Israel. But no shift has occurred because of exactly what you identified, which is these oligarchs who are pumping enormous sums of money into our campaigns.”

Watch; Netanyahu must face justice GBC Press, 18 August 2026

‘Jeremy Corbyn reveals that the bodies returned from Gaza were mutilated. “This is genocide. Netanyahu must face justice. Free Palestine.”

Jeremy Corbyn; “I’m going to read something to you. If you’ve already heard it, please be patient. If you haven’t, please be prepared to be shocked. I got a statement this morning from my good friend Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who’s an independent member the Palestine National Initiative, member of the Palestine National Assembly, and he’s forwarded to me a statement by the director of Al Shifa Medical Complex, Gaza. I’m going to read it. The director of Al Shifa Medical Complex stated that approximately 10,000 individuals remain missing underneath the rubble across the Gaza Strip. Of these, around 5,000 persons are unaccounted for and their fate remains unknown. He further reported that 66 boxes were received yesterday from the occupying authorities, that’s the IDF, containing only the skulls of deceased victims. In addition, the bodies of women were handed over with no information provided regarding the location or circumstances of their abduction. According to the director, some of the returned bodies showed signs of severe mutilation, including severed hands, while others had their abdomens surgically opened and subsequently restitched. Thus, these findings raise grave concerns. He warned of credible indications of organ theft from the bodies of martyrs in the Gaza Strip, describing these acts as serious violations of international humanitarian law and human dignity and that I just received this morning. Just think about that statement and I have no reason to disbelieve anything Dr. Mustafa Barghouti says or the director of Al Shifa Medical Complex.”

Watch; ELNET is Europe’s AIPAC Parody Jeff, 17 August 2026

“Meet ELNET, Europe’s most influential Israel lobby group. ELNET, which stands for European Leadership Network, presents itself as an NGO promoting shared democratic values between Europe and Israel. But a closer look reveals an entirely different agenda. Founded in 2007 with offices across Europe and England, ELNET’s purpose is to align European MPs with pro Israel narratives and to ensure that Tel Aviv’s interests getting direct line into European decision making. The man behind it, Raanan Eliaz, who first dealt with European affairs at AIPAC and later at the Israeli National Security Council, his words in 2008 were if groups like ours had even 10% of the budget of US pro Israel lobbies, we could change European policies. And that’s exactly what ELNAT has been trying to do do. But how is ELNET influencing European and British politicians? Simple direct engagement. ELNET cultivates personal ties with key figures and individual lawmakers. As a core tactic, it sends lawmakers on luxury, all expenses paid trips to Israel, framing them as educational experiences. In the first seven months after Tel Aviv launched its genocidal war in Palestine’s Gaza on October 7, 2023, Elnet arranged over 20 trips, sending nearly 300 parliamentarians from both the EU and the UK to Israel. But these trips aren’t just for show. They’re designed to get MPs on board with Israel’s narratives and to push Tel Aviv’s agenda into related policies. Among the many attendees were UK politicians Andrew Percy and Antony Higginbotham, who declared that the trips were donations. Numerous UK Labour Party members also received money from ELNET amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. A 2024 report by Declassified UK revealed that nine Conservative MPs received funds from pro Israel groups, including ELNET. And key figures like John Woodcock, the Baron of Walney, joined ELNET’s online briefings or Tel Aviv’s atrocities in the Palestinian enclave. ELNET’s lobbying led to increased support among EU politicians for Israeli policies that had previously come under heavy criticism from some EU member states and neutralised opposition to Tel Aviv’s actions in Palestine, such as those related to its illegal settlements or its brutal war on Gaza. ELNET Israel CEO Emmanuel Navon says parliamentary delegations to Israel directly impact the level of support Tel Aviv receives from western countries. In May 2024, he told supporters that ELNET had influenced the European Parliament’s resolution conditioning a Gaza ceasefire on the release of Israeli hostages and the defeat of Hamas. Now this resolution would never have been passed without the many years of work done by ELNET. All those parliamentarians that have literally turned them around as pro Israeli as being pro Israel after visiting Israel. So the question now is, besides Israel, who else is funding ELNET? Unsurprisingly, tracking the money leads us back across the Atlantic to the US. ELNET’s primary funding comes from private donations, often linked to anti Muslim groups and prominent pro Israel and pro Republican billionaires. For years, ELNET has copied the modus operandi of the US’ s Israeli lobbies. The group’s US – based fundraising arm, called Friends of ELNET, or FELNET, is led by former Israeli diplomat David Siegel, who also oversees a majority of ELNET’s budget. FELNET raised over $7 million in 2022, a million more than in 2021. Other donors include Bernie Marcus, the co founder of Home Depot, and billionaire Larry Mizel, as well as the Lisa and Michael Leffell foundation linked to billionaire investor Michael Leffell. Funding also comes in from American billionaires tied to various transatlantic groups, promote Islamophobia, and finance illegal Israeli settlements such as Miriam Adelson and Nina Rosenwald. Still, since ELNET’s budgets and donors are only partially disclosed and information about the exact allocations of funds remains scarce, the influence of the group’s undisclosed contributions to on European policymaking warrants further scrutiny. ELNET’s lobbying also extends into the tech, defence and business sectors. The lobby group uses its influence to secure lucrative trade deals with EU countries. These deals promote the use of Israeli defence and tech firms in sectors like Cybersecurity, AI and Agritech. In 2017, ELNET successfully lobbied for the continuation of the European Israeli Association Agreement, which is a legal framework aimed at fostering political dialogue and economic cooperation between Tel Aviv and the EU. These efforts help Israeli companies access EU funding and markets. So after peeling back a few layers of ELNET’s vast operations across Europe, we have to ask, who’s really benefiting more from this lobby group, Europe’s citizens or Israel?”

Listen; How israelism has replaced Christianity as the American choice religion, The Unz Report, 16 August 2026

Ron Unz; “I was most astonished by the reaction of top Fox News host Sean Hannity, a conservative cradle Catholic who had always struck me as someone who fully deferred to the teachings of his church. Now, in his 60s, he declared he was leaving the Catholic Church over the implied criticism of our war with Iran. This was surely one of the most bizarrely secular reasons anyone had ever cited for abandoning the religion they had followed from birth more than 60 years. Around the same time, a story even came out that earlier in the year top Pentagon officials had directly threatened the Vatican, declaring that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants and the church had better take its side. One US official had allegedly even invoked the notorious Avignon papacy of the 1300s, established when the powerful French government had kidnapped the reigning Pope of that day and reduced the papacy to complete subservience. For the conservative Catholics of the Trump administration to have displayed this sort of attitude was simply astounding and demonstrated their total lack of regard for their own Christian religion. All of these developments prompted a new podcast by Carlson. His opening monologue ran a full hour, and I found it a deeply insightful analysis of these important religious matters. So much so that many of his ideas became the basis for this article. I would strongly urge everyone to watch it or read the full transcript. Carlson began by noting that Trump was a famously irreligious man who had attracted the support of so many Christians not because of his own faith, but because they believed he would implement the conservative policies that they desired. However, Trump’s latest actions had clearly crossed many lines and shattered that sense of trust. On Easter Sunday morning, his profanity-laced post had promised major war crimes and mockingly praised Allah, thereby crudely insulting both Christianity and Islam, the two largest world religions. The following Sunday, he’d attacked and insulted the Catholic Pope for his implied criticism of the Iran war. Then, a day later, he portrayed himself as Jesus. Although many sincere, ordinary Christians were deeply disturbed by all of this, the leading evangelical preachers and conservative Republicans took it all in stride, defending Trump and sometimes even joining in his attacks on the Catholic Church, the world’s largest and oldest Christian denomination. Hannity had hardly been alone in favouring neocon policies over Catholic doctrine and even abandoning the latter religion over that conflict. Almost 95% of the American population might have Christian roots, and our country might appear to be the largest and most powerful Christian nation in the world. But Carlson argued that concern for Christian sentiments counted for little in the elite ranks of even the supposedly pro Christian conservative movement and Republican Party. Instead our government policies were often aggressively anti Christian, and over the last generation our actions had led to the destruction of many of the Christian communities of the Middle East whose history had stretched back to the days of Jesus. We had abetted the murder of Christians. Overwhelmingly Christian America seemed to ignore the interests of Christians as much as had the communist-ruled Soviet Union, despite its overwhelmingly Christian population. Instead, the actual basis of Americans reigning ideology had become something entirely different. Carlson coined the term Israelism to represent the quasi religious doctrine almost uniformly espoused by our ruling political and media elites. Israelism represented a fusion of political zionism, an expression of deep love and admiration for Judaism and the Jewish people, and the elevation of the Holocaust as the central event of modern world history.

Not only did America’s Christian leaders fail to support the Christians of Palestine, but they actually supported the ongoing Israeli programme of ethnic cleansing. They encouraged the Palestinians to abandon the homes and villages they had occupied for many centuries and give them over to Jews who had just recently arrived from Brooklyn or Ukraine. Some of the factors behind this strange attitude of so many American Christians came out in a later Carlson show that aired a couple of months later, including a convenient transcript. Carlson invited back Nathan Apfel, the same Christian documentary whom he had originally interviewed in April. And this time much of the focus was on the sophisticated Israeli methods of enlisting the support of American pastors for a cause that seemed so contrary to their purported religious faith. According to Apfel, this was partly due to the effective media propaganda employed, sometimes relying upon very sophisticated use of targeted social media technology. But in other cases, the churches involved were so corrupt and venal that cruder financial methods were properly employed. Some of Apfel’s accounts of religious corruption were certainly extreme. In one example, hundreds of Eastern European orphans had been sodomised by employees but the church operating the project covered up the scandal because the orphanage involved was such a lucrative means of attracting American donations. In another case, a church began buying the life insurance policies of the impoverished elderly for pennies on the dollar, earning some $700 million by heartlessly taking advantage of those trusting victims. Through a mixture of these means support for Israel in many evangelical circles has become the only existing religious litmus test, with the attitude being that anyone who failed to support Netanyahu was not a true Christian. All of this obviously depended upon the theological movement of Christian zionism and a couple of days later Carlson directly explored the origins of that theological movement by interviewing Christian theologian J.D. Hall. Hall seemed extremely knowledgeable on the topic. The information he presented on the origins of Christian zionism was by far the most thorough and detailed I had ever come across, so I would strongly recommend watching it to anyone interested in the topic or reading the convenient transcript. He explained that this religious movement actually rejected all the core beliefs of Christianity as contained in the New Testament and almost universally acknowledged for the last 2000 years. Rather than considering belief in Jesus and the Christian Gospels as the sole means of salvation, it instead held that the Jews still retained their special covenant with God being superior in that respect to all other peoples on earth, whether Christian or not. This included the divine mandate. The Jews enjoyed exclusive ownership rights to the land of Palestine and the rest of the Middle East, thus constituting zionism. Among Christians this doctrine had been totally marginal and insignificant and until the early years of the 20th century. But Oxford University had then produced and distributed the Scofield Study Bible, in which the actual text of the Christian Bible was accompanied with additional notes in the margins presenting some of these unusual ideas. In those days, relatively few American Christian clergymen had easy access to any serious theological commentary, so many of them believed and accepted those added side notes, perhaps even assuming that they were part of the actual biblical text itself. That heavily modified version of the Bible had been prepared around the same time as the parallel of growth of the zionist movement in Britain, ultimately culminating in the Balfour Declaration.”

Read; Lenin was right! David Miller, 14 August 2026

David Miller; “According to Molly Crabapple in 2026, author of the widely touted book Here Where We Live Is Our Country : ‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’.

According to Lenin in 1903: ‘The Bund’s… argument, which invokes the idea of a Jewish nation, is undoubtedly of the nature of a principle. Unfortunately, however, this zionist idea is absolutely false and essentially reactionary’

Lenin was right.Here is my article on the Bund from the most recent edition of The Column, the magazine of UK Column.’

Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner is a filmmaker, photographer and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine. He is a Film Studies Scholar, and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Watch; ‘Chaos agent of the West’ The Katie Halper Show, 23 March 2026

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner; “Israel is the destructive engine, the chaos engine of the west, living on death and destruction on blood. It’s a kind of a militarised vampire nation. What they want to do to Iran is total destruction of the state, the society, the culture. Iranian culture is 5,000 years old so we’re talking about a destruction on so many levels. They’re talking about returning Iran to the Stone Age. This brutality, this cruelty, this madness is very calculated. It is functional. This is no longer about Gaza, it’s not even about Iran. It is about the project of controlling an important part of the world, which Iran is at the heart of. At the moment, the only people who are punished are the victims, like the Palestinians, the Iranians, etc. I think this is unacceptable and will bring the end of humanity.”

Fat chance of Andy Burnham sanctioning Israel as demanded in the petition below. However, it would be good to see how many people sign to show how many won’t vote for this unelected brute.

Sign PSC’s petition demanding the new Prime Minister ends Britain’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid:

Petition; Petition: Tell Andy Burnham to Sanction Israel, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, August 2026

Please take 2 minutes to add your name to PSC’s petition demanding the new Prime Minister ends Britain’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid.

To Prime Minister Andy Burnham,

We, the undersigned, demand immediate action to end the British government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, as well as its illegal occupation and other violations of international law.

We call on you to immediately:

Recognise the findings of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry that Israel is committing genocide and commit to implementing the July 2024 International Court of Justice ruling in full.

Take all reasonable steps to prevent or mitigate the risk of genocide in Gaza, starting by imposing comprehensive sanctions on Israel, including a full arms embargo.

Ban all trade in goods and services with Israel’s illegal settlements, and all other trade that aids or assists Israel’s violations of international law.

Reverse the authoritarian use of public order and anti-terror legislation to suppress protest in support of Palestinian rights.’

Read; Albanese urges Deployment of International Forces to Protect Palestinians, The Times of Palestine, 24 August 2026

‘UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called for the deployment of international protection forces in the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, describing the move as urgently necessary amid the continued Israeli occupation and escalating violations against Palestinians. Albanese stressed that other states are obligated, under the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice in July 2024, to take action to end the illegal Israeli occupation and refrain from providing any assistance that would enable its continuation. She also questioned whether the diplomatic efforts led by the UN Secretary General, together with the General Assembly’s “Uniting for Peace” mechanism, could break the deadlock at the Security Council, which has been unable to take action on Gaza and the West Bank due to the United States’ use of its veto.’

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Join; One-State Palestine: The only just solution

‘Introduction

It’s a new vision for the future of historic Palestine. The campaign formally proposes the establishment of a single, unitary state encompassing all of historic Palestine—from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea—as the only just and sustainable resolution to the conflict. The initiative, which has garnered significant attention since its formation, argues that the decades-long pursuit of a two-state solution has proven unworkable and has been undermined by continuous settlement expansion and the denial of Palestinian rights . Organisers assert that the only way to end the “Decades-long injustice” is to establish a single sovereign state where all citizens, regardless of ethnicity or religion, enjoy equal rights and citizenship .The campaign calls on governments to abandon support for a two-state solution and to pressure for an inclusive, democratic one-state resolution that guarantees the freedom and dignity of all non zionist and non supremacist people in the land.

Our Demand : The Return of All Palestinian land to Palestinians, and for their right to determine the future of Palestine according to their own collective vision. Who are we? A coalition of international activists, ex Diplomats and civil society leaders

Core Principles of the Campaign

The “One-State Palestine” campaign is built on the following foundational pillars:

1. A Single State: Advocates for a unitary state that guarantees equal citizenship to all inhabitants— non-zionist Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike—rejecting any system of ethnic supremacy or apartheid .

2. Absolute Right of Return: Demands the implementation of the Palestinian right of return for all refugees and their descendants who were expelled from their homes, dating back to the Nakba of 1948 .

3. Dismantling the Current System: Calls for an end to the Israeli occupation and the dismantling of what it describes as an “apartheid” system, drawing parallels to the transition from Apartheid in South Africa to a multiracial democracy .

4. Land and Sovereignty: Rejects the fragmentation of Palestinian territory, insisting on the reunification of the land and an end to the confiscation of property for the establishment of a “supremacist” state .

A Rejection of the Status Quo

Campaign leaders argue that the Oslo Accords and the two-state paradigm have failed, serving only to mask the expansion of Israeli control while Palestinians remain stateless and dispossessed .There is no such thing as a viable two-state solution, and the expansion of illegal settlements and the denial of the right of return prove it. These ground realities…make for insurmountable obstacles to the half measure of a two state solution which has been shown to be a mirage that simply acts as a diversion from the only just solution – the One State Palestinian led one. The campaign asserts that real peace can only be achieved through justice, which means the full restoration of Palestinian land and rights.

A Vision of Coexistence

While acknowledging the challenges of transitioning to a single state, the campaign envisions a future where all heritage Palestinians of any faith can live together in a shared civil framework without the imposition of zionism or Jewish supremacism upon its populace.

The campaign is expected to intensify its advocacy efforts across the globe, calling on governments to abandon support for a two-state solution and to pressure for an inclusive, democratic one-state resolution that guarantees the freedom and dignity of all people in the land.’

Social Media: www.1StatePalestine.com

Instagram: @1statepalestine2026

Watch; Ukraine’s Deepening Involvement in U.S. Dirty Wars in West Asia w/ Vanessa Beeley; Dimitri Lascaris; Aug 17

‘Today, I spoke with investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley, who lives in Beirut and focuses on the wars in West Asia, about the many ways in which Ukrainian special forces are active in the region.

As Vanessa explains, Ukraine’s military seeks to threaten and disrupt the resistance in West Asia to Western hegemony, while conferring plausible deniability upon the U.S. government.Vanessa and I also discussed Donald Trump’s recent statement that he enthusiastica lly supports the new ‘Mecca Defence Agreement’ between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan.

Gaza

Read; The unborn are dying in the siege of Gaza by Eva Bartlett, RT, 20 August 2026

‘Miscarriages and stillbirths surge as Israel’s siege, malnutrition, toxic exposure and displacement ravage mothers. Shocking news of a sudden over-threefold year-on-year increase of the number of miscarriages and stillbirths should be front page on global media. But because it is one of the latest consequences of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, it will probably go ignored by most Western corporate media. In fact, since a ‘ceasefire’ supposedly came into effect in October 2025, media coverage of Gaza has decreased dramatically. But – as with ceasefires prior – Israel has continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza on a near-daily basis, by bombing, machinegun fire, drone strikes, and by (continuing its near twenty-year siege on Gaza) not allowing in adequate amounts of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and other things needed to just sustain life at the very basic level.

As of August 19, the Gaza Health Ministry reports 1,273 Palestinians have been killed, 4,223 wounded since October 11, 2025. In mid-July, Ahmad Abu Foul, a Palestinian medic who I’ve known since I lived in Gaza, told me of the sudden increase in miscarriages, primarily among women living in displacement tents across the Gaza Strip. He cited Dr. Mohammed Al-Bashiti, an obstetrics and gynaecology specialist at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, as warning of this disturbing increase and attributing it to various environmental and physical factors, notably, severe malnutrition and anaemia, and “extreme physical fatigue due to repeated displacement from one place to another. Many are forced to carry heavy loads beyond their physical capacity, putting their pregnancies at greater risk.”

But it’s also caused by exposure to toxic chemicals – explosive residues, TNT-related materials, smoke – which put the baby at risk. Ahmad said that his sister just had a miscarriage at four months pregnant, and his niece had a stillbirth at eight months.

The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on July 30 published an article highlighting the dramatic rise in miscarriages. It cited a recent UN report stating from January to June 2026, 3,950 miscarriages had been reported. This is over triple the 1,197 miscarriages reported from July to December 2025. The miscarriage rate, it notes, is one-sixth of all pregnancies.

Haaretz cited Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, head of the paediatric department at Nasser Hospital as likewise saying the contributing factors to the increase in miscarriages are malnutrition and stress and also water shortages: “We have reached a point where each person has three litres of water a day, far below the minimum required. Ninety percent of the water is not fit for drinking. The water shortage leads to infections, weakening the immune system and worsening malnutrition.”

With the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip by Israel, and with Palestinians constantly forced to suddenly move their inadequate tents elsewhere, the lack of clean drinking water, and the near-complete dependence on financial and humanitarian aid from the outside world set the stage for a host of food-, water-, and hygiene-related illnesses, and now this dramatic increase in miscarriages.

Although it was stipulated in the ‘ceasefire’, Israel hasn’t been allowing sufficient food, water and medicines to enter Gaza. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported on August 9, 2026, that, “Israel enforces a comprehensive policy that disrupts the entire supply chain, starting from the entry of goods and aid through crossings until they reach the population.” It notes the dearth of aid trucks entering Gaza in the first place, and that those which are permitted entry are not guaranteed to reach those in need, “due to the destruction or impairment of the transportation, storage, and distribution infrastructure.” It also notes that delays in shipping “cause frozen food, medicine, and other vital materials to spoil before reaching those in need.”

Euro-Med points out that Israel, “as the occupying power, has an obligation under Articles 55 and 59 of the Fourth Geneva Convention to guarantee that the population receives food and medical supplies when local resources are insufficient.” From a logistical perspective, many of the illnesses plaguing Gaza could be eradicated were Israel to adhere to international law and allow in sufficient food, water and medical aid. Israel is of course aware of this, as it has been since enforcing a full siege on Gaza in 2007. But the Israeli authorities know no international body or state – certainly not its biggest backer, the US – will force it to stop its genocide and allow in aid.

The invisible, creeping ‘Yellow Line’

Israel has been expanding its control of Gaza via a constantly-expanding, mostly-invisible, ‘Yellow Line’ – a demarcation line set out in the Israeli-US ‘peace plan’ of 2025. The Palestinians can mainly only guess at where it lies, aside from some yellow cement blocks which are periodically moved still further into Gaza, to claim more land. Palestinians report being fired upon by Israeli forces even if nowhere near where the Yellow Line might be. This is reminiscent of the Israeli ‘Buffer Zone’ imposed inside the Gaza Strip in the 90s and widened in the 2000s, expanding from 50 meters to 300 meters to much further. It was imposed in the name of “security” but was, in reality, another landgrab device.

Having accompanied Palestinian farmers for years when I lived in Gaza, I’m acutely aware of how Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition on any – elderly to child – Palestinian civilians, whether near what Israel deemed off limits, or hundreds of meters or even a kilometer away. We routinely came under this fire, bullets whizzing close by our heads and bodies, Israel maiming or killing Palestinians who were simply trying to work their farmland.

TRT World noted in a July 27 article that since October, “the so-called Yellow Line has expanded from covering roughly half of Gaza to nearly 65 percent of the territory by June, and more than 23 kilometers of berms have gone up alongside it.” Many Palestinians, including Ahmad, the medic mentioned above, report being told suddenly one morning to move west as the Israeli occupying forces shift the Yellow Line still further. While the Yellow Line theoretically marks the limits of Israel’s ‘temporary’ occupation, it is clear that Israeli forces never intend to withdraw. Instead, Israeli leaders speak of “encouraging emigration” of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip. This is code-speak for making conditions so unlivable that they are forced out of the Strip – in other words, ethnic cleansing.

Nonstop killing continues

On August 19, Israel killed ten Palestinians in central Gaza. On August 18, an Israeli strike near the sea in Gaza City killed six Palestinians, including a child, and wounded ten more. The slaughtering hasn’t stopped since the ‘ceasefire’, but major media reporting on it has. Nearly every day there are reports from Gaza of Palestinians killed or maimed by Israel, ceasefire be damned. On top of which, Israel continues its decades-old policy of gunning down Palestinian fishers, ensuring they cannot access the sea for food. Gaza’s Health Ministry lists the Palestinian death toll since October 2023 as 73,407. It lists only those it can actually count, which does not include those buried under rubble, completely obliterated, or otherwise unaccounted for. Many believe the real number is in the hundreds of thousands. Back in July 2024, I wrote of estimates in the Lancet that a death count of close to 200,000 was “not implausible,” while others with expertise in Gaza put the number of killed Palestinians at over double that. I also referred to a report in which a graphic denoting population accounted for 1.85 million people, not the 2.2 million existing pre-genocide.

Israel is now actively working to ensure a true death toll cannot be counted, literally removing the evidence of unaccounted-for bodies under the rubble. Euro-Med reported on August 3 that Israel has removed or crushed an estimated 10 million tonnes of rubble from Gaza, “before international and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey, examine, and document the sites. This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble. These sites need careful examination and thorough criminal investigation before any intervention that might change or erase their features.”

We’ve seen Israeli leadership call for Israel to kill 30, 40, 50 Palestinians a night, and prior to that – among a very long list of genocidal statements – refer to Palestinians as human animals and enforce measures to ensure that if Israeli bombs and fire don’t kill Palestinians, they will die of starvation, disease, or before they are even born. So, it isn’t hard to conclude that this dramatic rise in miscarriages and stillbirths is not an accidental consequence of the genocide, but a predicted and calculated result of Israeli policies.’

Lebanon

Watch; US control of their puppet Lebanese regime is now clear, Craig Murray, January 2025

Craig Murray; “Here we are in Beirut overlooking the construction of the new United States Embassy complex here in Beirut. And what you’re seeing there, that massive range of buildings, that’s only a part of it. That’s about a quarter of the new complex it’s being built here. That is the second largest embassy in the world of any country, anywhere in the world. The second largest embassy in the world is being constructed here in Beirut by the United States. And we can’t find out officially from the State Department, but we understand that the complex is built to house 5,000 staff. I used to be an ambassador. I know what an embassy does. The basic functions of an embassy, it can run political relations with the country. It issues visas, it can do press and public relations. It can administer aid, it can do defence cooperation. And most embassies have an intelligence section, but that is not an embassy. That is something 50 times the size of what an embassy would be in a country like this.”

Leila Hatoum, Journalist; “They started building it a few years back and the mass scale of it is like, it’s scary. It’s the second largest US embassy in the world after the one that they have in Iraq. So to have the largest embassies in the world stationed in the Middle East, that tells you how important the Middle East is for them. Now when it comes to Iraq, it’s for military purposes because it joins the three countries that they want to control or attack. So you have basically Iraq, you have Syria and then you have Iran, those at close proximity and then you have Jordan, which is an allied state to them in Lebanon, it’s a different case scenario. They need it for logistics, for torture, for interrogation, to support their espionage missions across the region. And this is the only country not only in the Middle East, but in the world where they can do their bidding and the politicians will allow them to do so. What kind of an embassy is that? That’s built on thousands of acres of land. It has underground dungeons that includes detention cells. It has basically what you call pathways underground that lead to the sea because that’s where they have the other escape route. They do have their own helicopter pads and basically they can fly to Cyprus, in and out. And it’s as if you’re going into a fortified CIA barracks. That’s it. This embassy is not there to cater to Lebanese American citizens. It’s not there to cater for good friendly relations. It’s there to cater to the project of hegemony and controlling Lebanon. Spying on it and basically creating further upheaval inside the country. They’re not looking for stability over here.”

Iran

Listen; Pepe Escobar: U.S. Desperation in Iran, Glen Diesen, 22 August 2026

Glen Diesen; “I know the Americans are suggesting that the Iranians should wave the white flag, but given that the Americans signed the MoU (memorandum of Understanding), which was more or less a declaration of surrender, an admission that the Iranians are on top here. So what would the Iranians demand in this round, given that the Americans walk back yet another deal?”

Pepe Escobar; “They are not demanding anything that is not in the MoU, Glenn. And for instance, the Chinese a few weeks ago, maybe between one and two weeks ago, the Chinese basically said, again, there’s no renegotiation of the MoU or another treaty or whatever. Everything is in the MoU. It’s a matter of fulfilling our commitments. It was signed by both presidents. The Iranians were starting to follow everything and then the Trump administration blew it up again. They are non agreement capable. Everybody now knows that, even camels in the Sahara know that the United States is non agreement capable. So everything is in the MoU. And if you read the MoU, it’s very, very harsh. And obviously one wonders why the President of the United States actually signed that. Of course, because he knew that he would break it up later. So he didn’t even read it. Trump cannot explain what’s in the MoU, starting with the end of all wars, which is already on paragraph one. This includes obviously Israel against Lebanon. He didn’t do anything about it. All the follow the money questions, which there was, let’s say, a little beginning with Qatar involved and all that. And then the Americans blocked it. Sanctions relief. There was not even an attempt on sanctions relief, you name it. So everything is there. And the Iranians are saying, look it’s all there, we signed. So the commitments are bilateral, so we have to follow the 14 points. So if the Americans would ever follow the 14 points, this would be an admission of their strategic defeat. So we need to understand why they simply cannot accept it. Because it’s proven that they lost the war in every, every, every sense. And it would solve theoretically the Strait of Hormuz problem, but not for the US because the Strait of Hormuz problem for the west is a petrodollar problem. It’s not the Strait Hormuz per se. This was a war for oil, for the petrodollar, and a war about an oil choke point. And the Americas lost vision of what they were really fighting for. They lost the straight over moose almost immediately and they will never get it back. This means everything that including the birds that cross the Strait of Hormuz, everybody is going to be outside of the petrodollar. That’s it. And that’s why they are absolutely terrified of the repercussions. And they also know that alternative ways of exporting via for instance the Red Sea, this can be blocked anytime. The Yemenis can decide to block the Bab-el-Mandeb for everybody, not only for Saudi petrol tankers. It’s very, very easy. They can do this in a flash. They already did it. And in terms of the connectivity corridors, it’s one of my favourite themes for the 20th century. The 21st century is a sequence of wars for connectivity corridors or between connectivity corridors. That’s why Iran is so important because Iran is part of the top two connectivity corridors in Eurasia. The New Silk Roads horizontal, and the international north-south, vertical. Right in the middle of everything. And once again, because even American elites not only don’t know history, they don’t know geography, it’s even worse. And they don’t understand the interconnection between geography and history. No wonder they go into an unplanned war without studying history and geography. This is what you get. We should not be astonished by the situation nowadays, it’s not only lack of planning, it’s lack of going back to school.”

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