As 320 Palestinians were massacred last night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that Trump2 is genocidally Zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so.
In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential US politicians to be genocidally Zionist too.
This is Western democracy.
My previous article demonstrated how the argument – now used against Mahmoud Khalil – that the First Amendment only applies to US citizens, was also employed by the Biden administration in extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.
It surprises me how very often the Assange case proves revealing of the internal workings of power in the USA.
When the CIA wished to bug Julian Assange on Ecuadorean diplomatic premises in London, and to look into the possibility of kidnapping or murdering him there, they decided to operate through a cutout for such a diplomatically fraught move.
That CIA cutout was Sheldon Adelson, multi-billionaire late husband of Miriam Adelson. Adelson’s fortune had come from a Las Vegas casino and property empire.
You are probably aware this is not, in general, the most respectable and free-from-organised-crime area of economic activity.
US President Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Doctor Miriam Adelson at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2018. – The Medal is the highest civilian award of the United States. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
There is a lazy stereotype that the control over crime in Las Vegas lies with the Italian mafia.
In fact from the days of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, Las Vegas organised crime has had close ties to Israel from its very establishment as a state, and in recent times Israeli mobster gangs have controlled narcotic distribution in Las Vegas.
Allow me to point out that the first of those two links is to the Jewish publication The Tablet, and the second is to an American Jewish magazine called Forward, and not the British far-right publication of the same name.
Adelson hired a private security company named UC Global, headed by a former Spanish marine named David Morales, to conduct the illegal surveillance for the CIA. As one of subjects of the illegal surveillance, I gave evidence last year to the court case in Madrid in which David Morales, head of UC Global, is criminally charged.
This case seems to ramble on forever, but last week there was a new development as David Morales was charged with forging documents in the case, for which a new trial is opening. He allegedly fabricated emails from the Ecuadorean Ambassador commissioning the spying.
The CIA commissioned the activity from Adelson during the first Trump presidency, but notably the Biden administration condoned this and defended it during the Assange extradition proceedings.
It is yet a further example of the meaningless nature of democracy in uniparty America, of the power and reach of the ultra-wealthy, and of the fascist links between big business and secret state agencies.
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It’s often difficult to connect the dots when dealing with the machinations of devious deceitful underhand and totally evil inhuman beings, and we’re really fortunate to have so many perceptive people on our side, not that we can do much about it, but it’s good to be enlightened and have clarity. The following is from an article Caitlin Johnstone posted yesterday:
Israel Lied About Murdered Children To Justify Murdering Children
Israel is not even pretending that Hamas violated the ceasefire agreement it signed on to in January, saying instead that the decision to resume the onslaught was made because Hamas had been rejecting a significantly altered new agreement put forward by the Trump administration which would have allowed Israel to postpone moving toward a lasting peace.
“This follows Hamas’s repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received from US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators,” reads a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,” Netanyahu said.
Of course we all know Israel is not really acting against Hamas; Israel is acting against the entire population of the Gaza Strip. The plan to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza has been openly confessed to by the president of the United States…
And this was all planned in advance. As soon as the Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced, the Netanyahu-aligned pundits in Israeli media were already saying they knew for a fact that the prime minister wasn’t going to allow the deal to move on to its second phase. After Netanyahu visited Washington and stayed for nearly a week, the Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that the prime minister was planning to sabotage the ceasefire deal upon his return. Now here we are, watching Netanyahu completely torch the ceasefire after weeks of actively sabotaging it.
Not only was this all planned in advance — it was also propagandized for in advance. Israel and the western political-media class spent days pushing the atrocity propaganda narrative that Hamas had murdered child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas in the early weeks of the Gaza onslaught — not just murdered them, but murdered them with their bare hands [and then mutilated their bodies].
Public outrage was deliberately drummed up around this narrative, despite no evidence ever being presented to the public that it was true. Western landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower were lit orange at night… Israel supporters brayed for Palestinian blood as this babies-on-bayonets atrocity propaganda was pushed into their minds to manufacture consent for future atrocities.
And it was all a psyop. Zeteo’s Muhammad Shehada reported a month and a half ago — weeks before the Bibas narrative was unfurled — that Israel’s narrative managers appeared to be gearing up to use the Bibas kids to justify future bloodshed by pretending they didn’t know whether the children were alive or not, swearing vengeance if they were dead. Hamas reported back in November 2023 that the Bibas children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike along with their mother. In December 2023 it was reported in the mainstream press that Hamas had offered to return their bodies to Israel but Israel refused, telling the press that “Israel will not address propaganda-based reports coming from Hamas”.
Lo and behold, the atrocity propaganda narrative about the Bibas children was rolled out a few weeks later when their bodies were returned by Hamas as part of the ceasefire agreement, just as Shehada had anticipated….
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/israel-lied-about-murdered-children-to-justify-murdering-children-8f41902de3f9
JfC, Times Radio have posted yet a another video with another general calling for armageddon:
How Europe can make war untenable for Putin | General Sir Richard Barrons (19 Mar 2025) – YouTube, 15m 38s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktKHDH53i28 (15mins 38secs)
Meanwhile Trump wants the US to take over Europe’s largest nuclear power station, Zaporozhe, which is in one of the six territories, also called Zaporozhe, which joined Russia after a referendum in 2022. More than that, it is in a part of that territory which is under Russian control, close to the front line.
Funny how the nappy wearing failed casino owner asks Zelensky whether he can have the nuclear power station. He doesn’t ask Putin. It’s almost as if his masters have told him to do stuff that moves the world further towards a megacull.
Meanwhile it’s triple witching day (which happens four times a year) on the derivatives markets tomorrow. For those who don’t know already, that’s when those who have the power to cause volatility on financial markets AND the money to benefit from it can make biggest profits.
Of course, for arguments sake, if the USA took control of a Ukrainian power station then they would need American troops to protect the technicians. Oh dear didn’t think that one through, nice try by the nazis though.
I notice you keep dropping comments suggesting climate change denialism, SB.
Would you like to put your understandings of the subject to the test?
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/climate-change-denialists-who-get-all-shy/
Or are you one of the bashful variety of denialist, who get all coy when asked to discuss or at least try to substantiate your claims?
Trump (or more likely, US defence apparatus) wants to have the NPPs because after hundreds of unhinged terrorist acts of Kiev regime, dozens of threats of making dirty (or worse, actual nuke) bomb, and recent unleashing of nazi militia terror in Kursk, rest of eastern “Ukraine” (aka Noworosja/Newrussia which was given to Galizian hohols by succession of “Ukrainian” soviet leaders despite said area being 100% linguistically, ethnically, and spiritually Russian), terrorist bombing of Moscow akin to WW2 vengeance V1 civilian bombing campaign, and dozens of broken US truce attempts by Kiev no one is going to tolerate nazi regime that has broken off the leash to have ANY access to fissile materials. That is #1 reason, and is also the reason why USA wanted leftover Soviet nukes gone from Ukro territory in the 90s, and back then it was “merely” ultra corrupt, failed territory, not openly siegheiling one. Why take any risk of rabid dog doing anything that might hurt you down the road?
important:
Jeremy Scahill video on the latest on Khalil, icluding conversation with Khalil´s attorney
16 hours ago
“Exclusive: Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney on Breaking Developments in Detained Columbia Graduate’s Case
The judge rebuked the Trump administration Wednesday, and Khalil expanded his civil suit against Columbia University to name Attorney General Pam Bondi, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and others.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-attorney-interview-lawsuit-trump-pam-bondi-linda-mcmahon
OMG, Times Radio are just churning out war-type propaganda almost hourly, acting – and that is what it is of course – like the country is on a war-footing with Russia, and that Russia is an imminent threat to Britain (and the rest of Europe). Here are two MORE vids they’ve posted in the past twenty-four hours (on top of the two I already posted):
Putin will be ‘stopped in his tracks’ by a unified Europe
The military might of the coalition of the willing will stop Putin “in his tracks” as long as it is unified in its defence of Ukraine, says former British Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zQd_gS6xGE (14mins 50secs 19.03.2025)
And this one was posted some three hours ago:
Europe to bolster military aid to Ukraine after Trump-Putin talks | Prof Vlad Mykhnenko
“Do you think there is a realistic prospect that Friedrich Merz may be prepared to give Ukraine the long-range Taurus missiles.”
“I suspect that will happen.”
Europe is set to ramp up military supplies to Ukraine after Trump and Putin’s meeting, says Prof Vlad Mykhnenko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtXhopGBYI
TR appear to have a constant stream of generals and colonels on there war-mongering, and like Fascist Talk TV and GB News, I have no doubt whatsoever that their shills are churning out lots of the comments, and they are being kept near the top with lots of Likes. But that’s what you get with Murdoch… propaganda, propaganda, propaganda. This is from the wikipedia entry:
Times Radio is a British digital radio station owned by News UK, part of the Murdoch media empire. It is jointly operated by News Broadcasting (which News UK acquired in 2016, when it was known as Wireless Group), The Times and The Sunday Times.[1][2]
As of June 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 478,000, according to RAJAR.[3]
The launch of Times Radio was first announced on 28 January 2020.[4] Unusually for a commercial radio station, it was conceived with the specific purpose of increasing take-up of the digital subscription package for The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers. The focus of the station was outlined in a webcast on 18 May 2020, where the tone was described as “measured, well-informed and non-adversarial”.[5] The station announced its full schedule on 2 June, and launched at 6 am on 29 June.[6]
On its first day on air, the station broadcast interviews with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Chancellors George Osborne and Alistair Darling….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Radio
Thanks for this. Pretty clear what TR is about, then!
Back in the day, when people from outside Britain asked me about the British newspapers, and which parties the different papers supported, I’d say weellll, yeah, sure, the Daily Mirror is quite Labour, and the Murdoch press supports Thatcher at the moment, but that’s not really a great way of looking at it, and you’ll get much further if you start with the hypothesis that the Guardian is a tool of Big Pharma whereas the Times group (insert ref to the Sunday Times and thalidomide here) is a tool of Big Weapons.
With so many big stories – once your eyes are open, you can see they’re basically PR for this or that big bunch of contracts.
Of course one could say the same about the political positions of the different political parties – see for example the green crap and whatever crap they’re saying about “education” or “health”.
Then there is the question about how world wars start, which is kinda above and beyond dashes for profits from rearmament.
As usual, no money for the poor, disabled or pensioners but plenty for war, covid, climate, HS2, etfukincetra.
Dark silver lining:
The USA isn’t going to provide troops or backstops for Ukraine, the risks now outweigh any potential benefits. Particularly as Ukraine is losing the war.
The rearmament will go about as well *as* H2H, net zero erc. So Starmer will never have an army, to start WW3 with.
However much he ponces about in camo.
Absolutely correct.
Allan Howard
True and the BBC is doing its bit for Dear Old Blighty as well.
Their Moral Compass must be spinning faster than the atoms in The Hadron Collider these days.
They don’t like Trump ( they preferred Biden ) but they are sanguine vis: the Israeli and US policy on Palestine.
Kirsty Wark was happy to call Biden ‘ Our Commander in Chief ‘ once on TV but may well have adjusted her position in the light of current events.
They don’t like Trump liking Putin but, back continuing the vainglorious War in Ukraine by the hope of this as yet arranged EU Army.
ISIL were terrible terrorists but they may do good in Syria – eventually.
They don’t like Romanians choosing their own candidates.
They can’t understand why Georgians won’t volunteer to be NATO’s next proxy war country or maybe Romania.
Perhaps underneath they don’t like Starmer but, to do that would undermine the mythical War Effort against the Evil Russians.
They are going have to dislike Iran even more in a bit if Trump is crazy enough to attack.
Being as they like Israel and won’t say a word against them guarantees they will fall in line if it happens.
Basically the BBC don’t like Trump and they wish it was The Democrats doing all the not liking and Warmongering rather than Disruptive Donald.
He’s not just rocking the World Boat but the BBC’s too.
p.s If the EU and Sir Kier Starkers genuinely believe that The Russians are Coming ! he and his dim mates in the EU had better build weapons factories a week last Monday.
If left to 2030 to get your military Ducks in a row then the sneaky Russians might invade Europe in Summer 2025.
Which isn’t cricket Old Boy.
I certainly believe that they believe what they are saying but , the main thing is to get us to believe that what they are saying is true.
That suggests another agenda as yet to be revealed.
Perhaps the suppression of free speech etc leading to the suppression of Democracy because there might be War on.
Or it could just be down to good old capitalist greed as there’s lots of money to be made here and as usual the ordinary people will pay for it all.
Democracy has served the idiots, bigots and racists very well so far. Most voters hate Russia, blame immigrants for the woes caused by neoliberalism, despise people on benefits, think the old should just go and die somewhere (preferably an assisted dying chamber), think poor people should not have children and should be forced to do any work however ill suited they might be. Democracy would bring back the Workhouse (the brainchild of the Liberals back in the 1830s, by the way) next week if it could.
“If left to 2030 to get your military Ducks in a row then the sneaky Russians might invade Europe in Summer 2025.”
Which is the bonkers bit about “rearmament”. If Russia is going to attack west through Europe, there is no better time for them to do it than this year, when NATO is in disarray, the US is getting cold feet and much of the NATO countries’ stocks of weapons and ammunition have already been given to and expended by Ukraine. Also Russia has a cohesive battle-hardened army and NATO has a disparate one inexperienced in war against a peer adversary. In that case, there won’t be time to rearm. If Russia is not going to attack west through Europe, there is no need to rearm, so rearmament is either useless or pointless, unless the point is just to, once again divert a large stream of public money into private pockets.
War against Russia.
Good luck with that Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (that´s a fake name right?)
For starters:
On the general inferiority of NATO equipment:
“The State of Western Warcraft”
by Lee Slusher
Jan. 13, 2025
https://deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/p/the-state-of-western-warcraft
“Right now NATO could not win a war with Russia
Are the allied forces helping or hurting the prospects of a sustainable peace? This retired Royal Navy commodore has some thoughts.”
by Steve Jermy
Jan. 29, 2025
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-war-with-russia/
On the F-35´s catastrophic performance:
“The Weakling Wunderwaffe”
by William Schryver
Dec. 20, 2024
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-weakling-wunderwaffe
Only 60% of US Air Force ready:
“Air Force Mission Capability Rates Reach Lowest Levels in Years”
by John A. Tirpak
Feb. 18, 2025
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-mission-capable-rates-fiscal-2024/
Additionally to massage numbers instead of “full capability rates” “limited capability rates” are used.
Failure of Tomahakws:
“Syria – Pentagon Hides Attack Failure – 70+ Cruise Missiles Shot Down”
Moon of Alabama
April 16, 2018
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/04/syria-pentagon-hides-attack-failure-70-cruise-missiles-shot-down-.html
“The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis”
The ranks of the American armed forces are depleted. Is the problem the military or the country?
By Dexter Filkins in THE NEW YORKER
February 3, 2025
https://archive.is/A7RIn
U.S. Army War College on problems of US Armed Forces (not to mention European armed forces)
“A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force”
by Katie Crombe, John A. Nagl
July 27, 2023
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/4/
excerpt:
“(…)The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities”
in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace
casualties.
(…)
For context, the United States sustained
about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience that same
number of casualties in two weeks”.
(…)
recruiting shortfall
(…)
The Individual Ready Reserve, which stood at 700,000 in 1973 and 450,000 in 1994, now stands at 76,000.
These numbers cannot fill the existing gaps in the active force, let alone
any casualty replacement or expansion during a large-scale combat operation
(…)”
On backwardness of US officer corps training – not adequate against peer-adversaries after doing 20 years of anti-insurgency warfare:
INFANTRY ONLINE, US ARMY Magazine
“What Should the Brigade Be Doing Right Now?
Deconstructing the ‘Brigade Fight’”
2018 issue Oct/Nov.
https://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2018/
As was warned by US Army officers
“(…)
17 Years of Conditioning
“Today, nearly every mid-grade leader in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps has significant experience battling insurgents and conducting combat operations in complex and demanding irregular warfare environments. Yet, virtually none of those leaders have been under massive, sustained artillery, mortar, or rocket fire. None have been attacked with precision strikes from guided missiles or bombs. No Army or Marine unit was struck with chemical weapons during the recent wars, or faced fallout from a nuclear blast. Few have dealt with jamming or serious disruption of tactical communications networks, and none have faced air attacks from enemy fighters, cruise missiles, or drones.”
(…)”
Less so European conscript armies. Besides 18% of German youth is willing to defend the country.
on grenade shell production:
“In Europe, if you’re sitting in the “slop bucket” – don’t gurgle! On the subject of triumphalism.”
by Marat Khairullin
Dec 02, 2024
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/in-europe-if-youre-sitting-in-the
excerpt:
“(…)
Before the war, the US and Europe produced 14,000 of the most popular shells (155 mm) for howitzers per month. More than three million have already been sent to Ukraine. To fill the gap, they increased production. First, to 36,000 per month. At the second stage, they threatened to increase it to 66,000. It is not known whether the second stage was launched or not (there were no reports as of November), but by the end of the year, the Pentagon planned to produce 1 million 300 thousand shells. This is slightly more than 100 thousand per month.
(…)
Why is 100 thousand Western shells per month most likely a hoax? Because 1 million 300 thousand shells is approximately 33 thousand tons of TNT. All Western production of TNT is estimated at no more than 50 thousand. (Most will be used for other purposes.)
(…)”
None of this is quoted for fun. To attempt counter these issues European (German) elites are willing to destroy our civil societies.
“Good luck with that Army Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (that´s a fake name right?)”
Amazingly, it appears not to be.
50% is the name. The other 50% is boastfulness, arrogance and what used to be called “dashing”.
Not to mention the jackets.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image//methode/times/prod/web/bin/cd1e4e38-ec64-11ea-b18a-4606a344c407.jpg?crop=7360%2C4140%2C0%2C383&resize=1200
Israel Katz must surely be added to the ICC war crimes indictments of his fellow psychopaths, one must also add Starmer and Lammy, what the Israelis are doing is inhumanity in the extreme, what puzzles me is because Israel is intent on slaughtering anyone who stands in the way of its greater Israel plans, nobody seems able to stop them, they (7 million Israelis) are surrounded by approx 400 million Muslims, unfortunately only Ansar Allah (the Houthis) have the bottle to do anything about the Genocide, they happen to be over 2000 Kilometers away. Surely the Arab states must realize they are next for the Israel/US big stick treatment. What’s up with them or do they have no self respect?
Israeli ‘defence’ minister Israel Katz – successor to wanted war criminal Yoav Gallant – has issued a chilling Holocaust-reminiscent threat to Gaza’s surviving Palestinian civilians in yet another open expression of genocidal intent by the Israeli occupation regime.
Residents of Gaza, this is your final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza, and the second Sinwar will bring upon it total ruin. The Israeli Air Force’s attack against Hamas terrorists was only the first step. What follows will be far harsher, and you will bear the full cost.
Evacuation of the population from combat zones will soon resume. If all Israeli hostages are not released and Hamas is not kicked out of Gaza, Israel will act with force you have not known before.
Take the advice of the U.S. President: return the hostages and kick out Hamas, and new options will open up for you – including relocation to other parts of the world for those who choose. The alternative is destruction and total devastation.“
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/20/video-israeli-defence-minister-threatens-palestinian-civilians-with-total-devastation/
More than most other commentators, Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov knows perfectly well how ROTTEN our countries are. And when there’s rot somewhere, what are you supposed to do ?
Disinfect, use powerful repellents. That’s exactly what is about to happen. And the Donald is the first to agree. To the extent that from now on, we should realize the USA is no longer a Western Country. The West may be evil, but not America thanks to its new leadership.
Sharing assets of the former Ukraine is obviously a first step. The art of the deal is meant to be global, and provide satisfactory arrangements for all issues where profits are involved.
By now, Donald & Elon have given the green light to Netanyahou so he can “finish the job” in Palestine. Soon, it may extend to neighboring countries…
A 4-year term is so short. In America, greedy politicians need to go-fast, unlike what’s possible in more unified countries where leaders remain in charge for 20+ years.
The next developments will surely be fascinating…
It feels like the western world increasingly turning into a fascist or/and a dictatorship, if rich people could buy this or that policy from the president, what is the purpose to vote for people then?
For decades there have been a distinct “left” and right political parties in the western culture but past 2-3 decade these parties have become more and more similar and share the same views on almost every topic and instead of battling each other, they try to curb any third party/contender threatening their power. It has become sort of a corporatism in every other western nation. Adding to this is the breakdown of western journalism, journalists that is supposed to scrutinize politicians and people in power instead target third party candidates and their views and even target regular people trying to silence them. Just like in a dictatorship, the journalists is not a independent force but a group that ultimately work for the government and their interest. And instead of dealing with domestic problems caused by the politicians the journalists increasingly frame foreign topics as the most important of topic for the populace should obsess about, often using scare and fear tactics regarding “the Other” (Russia, Muslims etc) fueling paranoia, xenophobia and draining the welfare state for the military.
Another fascist trait in the west is the culture of pro -war – strength – militarism while softer traits like compassion, peace, diplomacy, disarmament is looked down upon.
And as if the domestic democratic deficit was not enough we have an ever expanding EU and their murky grand geopolitical warmongering interests with close to zero accountability and zero transparency, lead by people that have no connection, understanding,sympathy for the common man/woman that lives within the European Union.
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In other news, the arab leaders fight with each other over Gaza. What a horrid bunch of people, not even when Israel/West slaughter arabs right in front of them in Gaza the arab world could unite against the perpetrators:
“UAE lobbying Trump administration to reject Arab League Gaza plan, officials say
Egyptian and US officials say the spectre of military aid cuts to Egypt comes from Emirati lobbying”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-lobbying-trump-administration-reject-arab-league-gaza-plan-officials-say
I imagine that Adelson must have phoned Trump and said: “OK Donny, you’ve done well in Gaza and the West bank is progressing well, but what about Iran ?”
‘US President Donald Trump has allegedly set a two-month deadline for Iran to strike a new deal on its nuclear program with Washington, multiple US outlets including CNN and Axios have reported. Washington is also ready to resort to other measures should the “diplomatic” approach fail, US Deputy National Security Adviser Brian Hughes has also told media outlets.’
https://www.rt.com/news/614546-trump-set-iran-deal-deadline/
It’s kinda worrying that Trump is being very nuke-oriented right now, with both Ukraine and Iran.
In Ukraine, as well as the nuclear plant at Zaporozhe that he’s told Zelensky (sic) that he wants, there’s another one at Khmelnitsky. Goodness knows how this is being reported in the Israeli media. Anything done by Ukrainians or Russians that they didn’t like, they often used to slate as “Khmelnitskyist”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising
Another consideration is that, apart from electricity and heat these nuclear power stations also produce fissile material for nuclear arms.
Thought I’d just quickly check Al Jazeera’s website before I switch off, and came across the following, posted yesterday:
Georgetown researcher arrest escalates Trump speech crackdown, scholars say
Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, was targeted over his personal views on Palestine, supporters say.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/20/georgetown-researcher-arrest-escalates-trump-speech-crackdown-scholars-say
I’ll explain another time what I was searching for just prior to checking out Al Jazeera – except to say that it’s in relation to something some Israeli minister or whatever said in an interview on Channel 4 News on Wednesday evening, which I have no doubt was yet another nazi-type big lie – but I saved several articles to new tabs that looked like they might be relevant, and just now opened one to have a quick gander, which was posted late Wednesday night, and lo-and-behold…
Unveiling October 7: UK report details Hamas brutality and fight against denial
Despite no state inquiry in Israel, British lawmakers release 315-page report on Hamas attack, detailing planning, massacre data and new findings on ‘sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937’ and warns against subsequent swift denial [my emphasis]
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjz09wuhye
Ah, I just checked, and I see the report was quite widely covered by the MSM (and Jewish newspapers) in the past couple of days. The full report can be downloaded here:
https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/
My apologies if someone has already posted a link to it.
I haven’t been on Jonathan Cook’s website for a few days, so I just went on there to see if he’s posted any new articles since I last checked, and he has, three days ago, entitled ‘Israel doesn’t care about the captives. It always planned to reboot the genocide’, and he says this:
2. Israel claims Hamas was re-arming and planning a new attack.
As ever, Israel is inverting the truth. It was Israel that was re-armed by the Trump administration with the bombs now tearing apart Gaza’s children. Hamas – isolated from the outside world – had no obvious route to re-arming.
And as for plans for another October 7, both Hamas and the world were shocked its fighters managed to break out of the tiny, besieged territory of Gaza the first time. Hamas assumed it would be a suicide mission. It succeeded only because Israel had grown so complacent in its 17-year siege of the enclave, it imagined the 2.3 million people there were permanently entombed.
Israel’s assumption was the Palestinians would never manage to find a way out of the giant concentration camp Israel had built for them. Israel will not likely drop its guard again any time soon.
In other words, Israel is flat-out lying about its reasons for renewing the slaughter. It is lying as it has done over and over again, throughout the past 18 months.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-18/israel-captives-reboot-genocide/
In my post a bit earlier I mentioned, in passing, about an Israeli minister being interviewed on Channel 4 News on Wednesday evening, and THAT is precisely what SHE said – ie that Hamas were planning another big attack. I actually recorded the interview and what she said when Channel 4 News was on again on Channel 4+1, and then transcribed that part of the interview, with the intention of posting it on here (and skwawkbox and JVL), and doing it on my phone using the microphone thingy, but when I got to Hamas, it would either come up with hammers, or hummus, so I gave up in frustration, and thought OK, I’ll just have to type it all out (on my laptop) on here. So here it is (her name was Sharon Haskell… make that Sharren, and she’s the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs):
Hamas demanded a surrender deal, where Israel surrendered to Hamas, and in that way wanted to end the war. And I have to say we cannot accept Hamas five hundred meters away from Arab towns [I listened to that bit several times or more, and I’m sure she says Arab towns, and obviously did so inadvertently] and wanting to commit another massacre like the one before. I cannot accept the fact that maybe in three or four weeks they will attack, and try and abduct another three hundred, or four hundred, of my community, my children, our grandparents…this is something Israel cannot accept. And I have to say that you need to understand that we have evidence, a full plan of Islamic Jihad actually attempting two days ago to go out and commit another massacre of four communities in the south.
Needless to say I knew straight away that it was all a complete and utter B/S big nazi-type lie/falsehood, and that it was obviously the very last thing Hamas – or Islamic Jihad or whatever – would do, as apart from anything else, they would be mown down before they even got to the fence, and of course give Israel the justification to carpet bomb Gaza en masse and kill thousands and thousands of Palestinians in one massive big attack, and quite probably tens of thousands. Oh right, and how fortuitous that Israel just happened to somehow find out about it, and have evidence/proof.
Anyway, I just did a search re >hamas were planning another attack< and came across this Sun article (and several others) from a couple of days ago (updated some eighteen hours later??). Here are some clips from it:
Israeli troops launch new ground operation in Gaza after Hamas feared to be ‘using ceasefire as cover for another Oct 7’
THE IDF has launched a new ground operation in Gaza after reports emerged revealing Hamas allegedly used the ceasefire to plan a new attack on Israel….
It comes after Hamas used the ceasefire as a cover to plan a new October 7-style invasion before Israel’s massive wave of strikes, reports claim.
The Israeli security cabinet held an emergency meeting to discuss a number of alerts that point to preparations for invasion from the terror group….
Security forces have identified a steep increase in Hamas’s efforts to carry out attacks against the IDF in Gaza, potentially suggesting an aim to prepare for an assault, N12 reports.
And separately, Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz raised in a meeting that despite a ceasefire reached earlier this year, Hamas hasn’t stopped plotting attacks.
Katz said: “There are constant preparations being made by Hamas for an invasion [into Israel], similar to October 7.
All total B/S lies of course. But, somewhat surprisingly, the article then goes on to give Hamas’s response to the claim(s):
But Hamas has slammed the claims, calling the accusations “baseless and false” in a statement on Tuesday.
It read: “The occupation’s claims that the resistance had made preparations to attack its troops are baseless and false pretexts to justify its return to the war and escalation of its bloody aggression.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33928414/hamas-ceasefire-cover-plan-october-invasion/
If you think about it, which I just this minute did, if Hamas/Islamic Jihad were REALLY gonna attack Israel again – or these ‘four communities’ which Sharren Haskell referred to – then why wouldn’t you let them go ahead and then gun them all down with tanks and drones etc before they even get to the fence. One assumes it would at least be a few hundred, and quite possibly several thousand.
Anyhow, I came across this at some point whilst putting this post together, which is complete news to me, from January last year:
Hamas planned Oct. 7 from before 2014, with final decision made by 5 leaders – report
Sources close to leadership of terror group’s armed wing describe planning and execution of devastating onslaught; training briefly frozen after 2014 war, okay given in 2021
The October 7 onslaught began with 70 terrorists who carried out a surprise assault at several points along the border of the Gaza Strip, according to sources close to the leadership of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades military wing.
The sources told the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper in a report published Wednesday that the terrorists involved in the devastating attack were selected from among hundreds of elite commandos from all over Gaza, and underwent training for a number of years, along with continuous testing to gauge their skills…
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-planned-oct-7-from-before-2014-with-final-decision-made-by-5-leaders-report/
The enablers.
“On Mar. 18, Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion. The acquisition will mark the single largest transfer of former Israeli spies into an American company. This is because Wiz is run and staffed by dozens of ex Unit 8200 members, the specialist cyber-spying arm of the IDF.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/20/google-imports-ex-israeli-spies-genocide/
A few quotes about Syria’s new ‘democracy’ currently (via Rojava Info Centre)
Bediya Arabo, a demonstrator at the march from Darbasiyah, told RIC: “Thousands of women sacrificed themselves to gain rights for women. The fight women have waged in North and East Syria was also to protect the land and people here. But still today, we see that a mentality that excludes and oppresses women is continually perpetuated. It is like the old regime repeated. We want to discuss with the new authority in Damascus.
“While the constitution stipulates that freedom of belief is inviolable, and instructs the state to respect all religions and their associated practices, it also states that the Syrian president must be a Muslim, and that Islamic jurisprudence is “the main source of legislation.” This is a slight change to the old constitution, in which it was pointed to as “a main source of legislation”.”
Kurdish political activist and writer, Polat Can, who also served in NE Syria’s military forces and was one of the founding members of the YPG, described the transitional constitution as “a blueprint for authoritarianism, sectarianism, and ethnic exclusion.” Can argued that the door to authoritarianism is opened because while the transition period is set at five years, it can be extended indefinitely according to “security and political conditions”.
You can’t expect Kurdish propaganda to be telling the truth, government propagandas never do. Complaints about the Damascus regime have to be balanced against the fact that their SDF forces have now been integrated into the new regime’s military. Former enemies together in one force! A greater sign that the whole thing is being run from the US and Israel could not be imagined.
How is that a sign that USA or Israel are in charge?
It’s also historic that half a million officially stateless Kurdish have been given back their citizenship, per the Rojava Info Center. Though that could presumably also be regarded as a symptom of the colonisation of Kurdistan region.
“the fascist links between big business and secret state agencies.”
Agreed. The most obvious example being how compromised with unethical powers all current donations outlets are, and possibly worse crypto accounts.
How do you think people track you, and threaten you with scam Pegasus blackmail? They’re just nerds who still need to grow up…
Politicians are more like gate keepers for organised crime, taxevasion and split tongue justice.Your well written journalism points to it and shows the crooks connective tissues and how they work.
I hope that your wishes for truth and equality come to fruition one day soon. Thank you Craig, I will keep my meagre contributions up until whenever, take care mate.
No news really but the arab world keep selling out palestinians to appease Israel
Jordan proposes exiling Hamas leaders from Gaza and for Mahmoud Abbas to take over Gaza and Egypt recently floated the idea of temporarily relocating half a million Palestinians from Gaza to northern Sinai. Cairo has denied that it was discussing any resettlement plans
https://swentr.site/news/614679-jordan-hamas-exile-proposal/
In the best of worlds, EU/US and arab nations complicity in this genocide should be dealt with at the Hague.
Egypt was also the country that sold cement to TORIP (The Occupation Regime in Palestine) for its separation wall. Most of the Fatah leadership had a piece of that action too. This is why Hamas was elected.
The Egyptian government denies that it proposed to deport 0.5m Palestinians to Sinai “temporarily”. It admits that it has proposed a plan to have three “safe zones” (i.e. high-surveillance refugee camps) within Gaza to put Palestinians in temporarily during a “recovery period” of six months.
To analyse this, we need to bear in mind that
1. The Egyptian government is in a weak position. It has little influence over TORIP and does not expect to be given lengthy notice of TORIP actions.
2. the Egyptian government are a bunch of profiteering crooks (rather like every other government) and they will be seeking to make a profit wherever possible, whether in camps or not and whether in Gaza or Sinai. See the propaganda photo of an Egyptian surveyor with a tripod and a bulldozer flying the Egyptian flag:
https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2025/02/19/egyptian-firms-can-rebuild-gaza-in-3-years-without-any-displacements-madbouly/
Polls show that the Democratic party is going down:
An NBC News poll found 27% of registered voters say they view the party favorably − the lowest favorability rating for Democrats in NBC polls going back to 1990. Only 7% of survey respondents said they said they have a “very positive” view of the party.
Another poll released by CNN similarly found 29% of voters view Democrats in a positive light, a low in CNN’s polling since 1992
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/16/democrats-record-low-favorability-republicans-trump/82471412007/
This just proves that the DNC are rotten to the core, because, they could easily have transformed their party to a real opposition party in response to the many wicked policies of Trump but they do nothing.
Just take the recent attacks on universities, where a majority of students support progressive causes but when Trump recently threatened Harvard because pro-palestinian protests and got his way, there was no response by the Democratic party:
Norman Finkelstein recently spoke about the Democratic party and their failure to take a stance on this issue:
Video: https://youtu.be/M0ZnnjQ3tAQ?t=82
It seems the Trump government is being undermined, and kept on its toes:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
Gotta wonder whether Trump might say something about Zionists that Zionists (not limited to the ADL) don’t like and that’s it – finito Donito. Okay he’s always held his tongue before, and much of what he does is an act for wrestling fans, but…
One scenario would be get him to launch the first tactical nuke and the bin him.
His interest in Zaporozhe nuclear power station is noted.
I won’t be surprised if Russian negotiators walk out of talks with the US in Riyadh.
Whilst no one who is sane would wish these casualties on anyone, the question must be asked: why are so many women and children being killed? In the Blitz, women and children suffered disproportionally because the men were at the front, fighting. However, there has been no call-up in Gaza, yet men are dying, too. Can we say that many, if not most of them, will be Hamas fighters? These young men have been added to the Gazan death toll without any explanation as to what happened to them. Are we to believe that no Hamas fighters have died? Where is the break-down of population? In Ukraine, we are given combatant deaths and civilians deaths separately, and we know that the norm for civilian casualties will be mainly women and children, while the horrific numbers of young men being killed are killed on the front line. Even the Russians offer combatant death tolls and separate civilian ones. I’m not trying to minimise the death toll in Gaza, but how many Hamas fighters have died, separately from the civilian casualties?