Alongside Richard Medhurst I had the chance to state rather more truth than is generally heard inside the United Nations in Geneva:
“Not only is the West complicit in the Genocide in Palestine, the ruling class of the West is so scared of its own citizens that it is now prepared to persecute its own citizens in support of a genocide”.
Richard Medhurst followed up on the same theme:
Our appearance at the UN was organised by Justice for All International, an admirable Geneva based NGO with which I am proud to be associated. If you can donate to their continuing crowdfunder I should be grateful. Please note that neither Richard nor I stand to receive anything from this other than (hopefully) travel expenses. Their crowdfunder is here.
On an apparently unrelated note, the scandal of the day is Keir Starmer receiving money from wealthy donors for designer clothes and accessories for his wife and himself. In the video above I am wearing the second-hand suit I bought in the Hague when I pitched up for the ICJ South Africa/Israel Genocide case. It doesn’t appear to detract from my words at all.
In the video I state that the reason the western ruling class support Israel is that they are bought.
UK civil servants are not allowed to receive gifts above a very small monetary value, in case they are influenced. I cannot understand why elected politicians are not subject to the same rule. They are in receipt of perfectly adequate public salaries and administrative and policy support from the public purse.
Why are any donors allowed to pay to influence them?
I would say the same for political parties. Individual donations over £1,000 should be banned, from people or organisations. If that shrank party machines, that would be entirely a good thing.
If the West is ever to return to meaningful democracy, these are a small but essential proportion of the changes required in our corrupt systems.
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On explosions in Lebanon, todays article in the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html
“B.A.C. Consulting …in fact, it was part of an Israeli front, according to three intelligence officers briefed on the operation. They said at least two other shell companies were created as well to mask the real identities of the people creating the pagers: Israeli intelligence officers.
B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the three intelligence officers.
…in Israel, intelligence officers referred to the pagers as “buttons” that could be pushed when the time seemed ripe.
…on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would do whatever was necessary to enable more than 70,000 Israelis driven away by the fighting with Hezbollah to return home
…On Tuesday, the order was given to activate the pagers.
To set off the explosions, according to three intelligence and defense officials, Israel triggered the pagers to beep and sent a message to them in Arabic that appeared as though it had come from Hezbollah’s senior leadership.
Seconds later, Lebanon was in chaos.”
you can only cry over the canting behaviour.
Comparing RU society and the ever-sickening racist views in Israel.
But who is being pestered by sanctions?
Sometimes I have this dark feeling it would be really good for them to rot in their idiotic Israel being ignored by the whole world, boycotted on every conceivable issue, an outlaw people. Just isolated 100% for 50 years on the world stage with zero sympathy by anyone.
Subject to water-proof cancel culture.
p.s. problem: Too many Arabs live there who would have to pay the price.
British Aircraft Corporation – BAC, now known as BAE Systems, heavily involved in ‘intelligence’, and manufacturing death and destruction for the UK and USA.
Just saying … 🙂
I wonder whether there is independent evidence that the explosions did come from pagers? Clearly, those responsible for the explosions are going to pretend to have great technical expertise while at the same time covering their tracks. Taking the words of the intelligence officers at face value, peddled by the media, therefore, seems naive.
Occam’s razor: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Guardian reports:
A report in the New York Times, based on intelligence briefing, said the exploding pagers were manufactured by an Israeli front company, which even went to the trouble of shipping normal pagers to other clients.
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Which is even more outrageous and problematic; would you be happy owning a device like that, or want to be sat next to someone on a flight with one of those ‘normal’ pagers? What if a politician is unknowingly using one? No one seems to be posing the questions as to the ethics of doing that safely.
Another inescapable truth bomb is that whereas Mr Johnson (ex-PM) was born in New York, Sucker Starmer (let’s bomb Moscow!), UK’s PM, was bought in Washington DC, many years ago.
Al Jazeera have published a brief history refresher of the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/hezbollah-and-israel-a-timeline-of-conflict
Hezbollah were established to repel Israel, who’d invaded Lebanon. Israel weren’t friendly invaders – right-wing Lebanese militia, in coordination with the Israeli army, killed between 2,000 and 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians in two days, in the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacres.
Pro-Israel bias in our media, mass ignorance and propaganda are a huge part of the problem, when trying to discuss events in the ME.
excellent
just what I have been looking for!
Read Robert Fisk for accurate info on the massacres.
am going to
Another Truth Bomb … ?
Increase in foreign aid budget: £1.4billion.
Proposed savings from the Winter Fuel Payment: £1.4billion.
‘Foreign aid’, yes…
Like BBC Media Action, which doesn’t come from the licence fee but from the foreign aid budget.
Good article about it (by Kit Klarenberg) here:
https://www.sott.net/article/455756-Shocking-leaked-files-once-again-expose-BBC-as-insidious-UK-foreign-policy-tool